Acts 15:10 - 11 "Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? (11.) But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they."
The single most wish in my life is that everyone everywhere would be saved. Even those who hate me most I would to God, He would save every one of them. But all the wishing in the world cannot save a single lost soul. There is noting we can do to change what a lost sinner is except to preach the gospel and pray that the Holy Spirit brings salvation to them. These Israelites were recycling old ways of salvation that had not worked, ever! Salvation is not in us to be had unless the Holy Spirit convicts our depraved hearts and delivers salvation to us. Jesus Christ is our Saviour and salvation is in Him alone. God said there is not salvation in any other but only Jesus Christ Acts 4:12. His blood and it alone is Gods source of forgiving our sin. I could teach lies and hope that man makes false choices or does some false change or false work but all that does is to create a lost sinner remaining a lost sinner. These are old unworkable ideas that never saved a single sinner from the lake of eternal fire. Nothing can replace Jesus Christ as Saviour. Faith in God is what made Abraham righteous and faith in Gods Saviour is what make us in New Testament times saved. Paul spent the first seven chapters of Romans trying to convince people that works was an unworkable salvation. Here we are in the 21st Century still battling old worn-out resurrected unworkable ideas for salvation. Jesus Christ is Saviour and nothing else. John 3:36 "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
