Just checking on something - what do you mean by "free grace" when you say "I realized that Free Grace isn't sound doctrine"? Here in the UK, when Christians talk about free grace, they mean the undeserved favour of God by which He saves sinners. This grace is absolutely free to us, though of course Jesus Christ paid a tremendous price for it, shedding His blood on the cross. That sort of free grace is certainly biblical, sound doctrine, for it is by that grace we are saved:
“4 ¶ But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in the heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus, 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in [His] kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; [it is] the gift of God,” (Eph 2:4-8 NKJV)
Free grace is not a sound doctrine! it is why James said faith without works is dead!!!!
it is because of these false doctrine that people are discouraged and are lost.
Faith Without Works Is Dead
14 What
does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what
does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without [
a]your works, and I will show you my faith by [
b]my works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is [
c]dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made [
d]perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was [
e]accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent
them out another way?
26
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Footnotes
- James 2:18 NU omits your
- James 2:18 NU omits my
- James 2:20 NU useless
- James 2:22 complete
- James 2:23 credited
