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“I will dwell in them

And walk among them.

I will be their God,

And they shall be My people.”

17 Therefore

“Come out from among them

And be separate, says the Lord.

Do not touch what is unclean,

And I will receive you.”

18 “I will be a Father to you,

and you shall be My sons and daughters,

says the Lord Almighty.”

7 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. (2 Corinthians 6:16–7:1, NKJV)

REFLECT

Because of these amazing promises: 

Dwelling of God is inside

He Walks with me

He is my Father, I am His daughter 

He is the Lord Almighty that receives me if I am separate and don’t touch the unclean. (This is the choice He gives us all). 

I am beloved and should cleanse myself (my choice) from all filthiness in my flesh and Spirit. This will perfect me in His holiness. I do this because I fear losing my only hope, God and His indwelling!

How do I cleanse my flesh and spirit? I surrender my will and desires and decisions to Him who knows better than I do (His power). I stop reasoning and planning, I let God be the controller of my life since He knows all things and the best way to live, my thinking is faulty due to the fall. What I think sometimes leads to disaster like Eve’s decision. I must live by Faith and Trust. 

PRAY

Father, I have control ISSUES!! I want to do my way because I am always thinking I’m right. Jesus, please wash my heart, soul, mind, body, and spirit in your blood. Please renew me in your way. Help me hear, see, believe, and do YOUR WILL not mine. Help me kill my fleshly soul and live for you. I want YOU. I fear losing you!! Save me from myself! Come Holy Spirit!!Amen. 

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2Corinth 6:4-10

Ministers of God

In: all things

By: knowledge, suffering, Holy Spirit, Word, Armor of Righteousness, Love, & Truth

As: unknown, dying, chastened, & poor yet full of joy & posses all things

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You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. (2 Corinthians 6:12, NKJV)

16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

“I will dwell in them

And walk among them.

I will be their God,

And they shall be My people.”

17 Therefore

“Come out from among them

And be separate, says the Lord.

Do not touch what is unclean,

And I will receive you.”

18 “I will be a Father to you,

and you shall be My sons and daughters,

says the Lord Almighty.” (2 Corinthians 6:16–18, NKJV)

REFLECT

I am called to be holy

I am restricted not by church or law but by my own inner desires that war against the new divine nature. 

I am now a temple of my God. 

God is in me, He walks through life with me. He is my God, I am His child. 

I am to separate myself from those who are not His children and do what my God has chosen for me to do. If I hang out with unbelievers I may succumb to their ways instead of my God’s ways. 

God wants to receive me and be my Father. I can’t walk in His ways when I’m following the my old flesh desires from inside and other people that are not His…

PRAY

Father, please help me surrender to you who live inside me. Thank you for making me your child and letting me become your temple. Thank you for wanting to walk through life with me. Help me put my flesh desires to death so I can live by your Spirit. Help me to separate myself from unbelievers so I am not tempted in my weak flesh to follow the old ways. I need your divine nature to override my flesh and if I hang out in the wrong crowd I can easily fall. No offense against them, but I am weak and need to strengthen myself in You. I need you to be my Father and I thank you for letting me become your daughter. Amen!!

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15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

16 Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. (2 Corinthians 5:15–16, NKJV)

that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:19, NKJV)

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2 Corinthians 5:21, NKJV)

REFLECT

Jesus died for all men. 

No one is in the flesh anymore. God reconciled all men in Jesus not imputing their sin to them. Jesus was made sin for us so all men are now righteous in Jesus. 

We are reconciled to God and should live for Jesus who died and rose for me since I am no longer imputed with sin I am made righteous. I should share that information with all. They too are reconciled and righteous. 

CHURCH TEACHING

This is not an automatic declaration erasing personal responsibility but an offer of mercy extended universally, breaking sin's dominion while calling us out of the flesh—our sinful inclinations—to live in the Spirit.

This gift demands our response: to be reconciled to God, receiving justifying grace through faith and the sacraments, particularly Baptism, which confers forgiveness, sanctification, and new life in Christ. 

All are invited to share in Christ's righteousness, but it is conferred as an interior renewal: "Justification has been merited for us by the Passion of Christ... It conforms us to the righteousness of God, who makes us inwardly just by the power of his mercy." Justification is "not only forgiveness of sin, but also sanctification and renovation of the interior man by means of the voluntary acceptation of sanctifying grace." We receive faith, hope, and love, becoming children of God—not by our merits, but by grace alone in Baptism, which unites us to Christ's death and Resurrection. Infants receive it sacramentally without personal act, but all must persevere. 

Salvation is merited for all in Christ, offered through grace, but received only by those who freely respond in faith, repentance, and sacraments—or implicit desire. Not all are "already saved"; all need conversion. Live gratefully in this grace, urging others: "Be reconciled to God. 

This new life flows from reconciliation, urging works of love, obedience, and evangelization.

Evangelization—personal witness, preaching, and sacraments—is essential, as the Church exists to evangelize. 

Salvation's gift—merited unconditionally by Christ's Passion—is gratuitously offered to all without prior merit on our part, but it must be personally received through faith (informed by charity) and the sacraments, especially Baptism, and worked out through obedient cooperation with grace. It is not "unconditional" in the sense of automatic possession, lest universalism follow; rather, God respects free will, enabling response while pouring virtues to sustain it. 

Were it imposed without consent, it would violate freedom; instead, it invites transformation. Without reception, one remains unjustified, despite the objective reconciliation offered in Christ. If unconditional possession without response, all would be saved irrevocably—but Scripture and Tradition affirm possible final impenitence

Good works flow not as merit-earning but as fruit. The Holy Spirit "renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works." This cooperation is empowered by grace, avoiding Pelagianism: humans are "incapable before God of doing any good thing" alone, yet "when empowered by God's Word... cooperate by faith.

The Joint Declaration achieves substantial agreement: Both Catholics and Protestants reject works-righteousness, affirm grace-alone for justification, and works as obligation/fruits.

Salvation is secure in perseverance, not presumption. 

PRAY

God, I surrender to Grace and ask to receive in faith, repentance and sacraments. I have been baptized into you! I ask for justification by the blood of Christ, sanctification by walking in the Spirit, and perseverance! Holy Spirit, please come and cleanse my mind and heart to be willing to obey the Father’s will. Thank you Jesus for meriting this unconditional gift. Help me receive and live it in cooperation by grace. Nothing good is in me, I accept and ask for you to live it out in me. Thank you Holy Trinity for your amazing LOVE!! Amen. 

Good works flow not as merit-earning but as fruit. That is what protestants explain. 

While Protestants and Catholics agree that good works are fruits of justifying faith and grace—not earning initial justification—bridging old divides as in the 1997 Joint Declaration

Catholic teaching further holds that these grace-enabled works possess a meritorious character for growth in holiness, perseverance, and eternal reward, as Scripture promises (e.g., Mt 25:34-40).1 2 3 This emphasizes human responsibility within divine initiative, 

Protestants, especially Lutherans and Calvinists, reject good works as "sources or conditions of justification," viewing them instead as "necessary fruits of faith, and evidence of justification."6 Luther taught justification "by faith alone," with works following spontaneously but contributing nothing to salvation: "Good works are a spontaneous consequence of justifying faith, without being of any avail for life eternal."1 They flow from faith but hold no meritorious value before God, lest glory be shared with Christ.7

"Protestantism does not depreciate good works; but it denies their value as sources or conditions of justification, and insists on them as the necessary fruits of faith."

This avoids "trust in one's own works," seeing eternal life as promise alone.

Catholics affirm works as fruits of grace: "Good works - a Christian life lived in faith, hope and love - follow justification and are its fruits."5 Initial justification is "by grace alone... not because of any merit on our part."4 Yet, empowered by the Holy Spirit, these works "contribute to growth in grace, so that the righteousness that comes from God is preserved and communion with Christ is deepened." The meritoriousness is clarified: When Catholics speak of works as "meritorious," it means "a reward in heaven is promised to these works," stressing responsibility without denying their gifted nature. 

The Joint Declaration achieves substantial agreement: Both reject works-righteousness, affirm grace-alone for justification, and works as obligation/fruits.4 Differences persist—Catholics emphasize infused righteousness and sacramental merit; Protestants, forensic imputation—but "do not destroy the consensus regarding basic truths."2Recent sources prioritize this unity over 16th-century anathemas.

In Summary: Protestants rightly stress works as non-merit-earning fruits for initial salvation; 

Catholics extend this to meritorious growth/reward by grace, fulfilling biblical calls to obedience (Jas 2:24). Both glorify Christ, urging holy lives. 

sanctification is not a subsequent fruit of justification but its formal cause and essence: 

justification is the infusion of sanctifying grace that remits sin and renders the soul inherently holy before God in a single divine act. Justification transforms the sinner "from the state of unrighteousness to the state of holiness and sonship of God" through sanctifying grace, which "makes [the soul] permanently holy before God. 

While initial sanctification inheres in justification, it admits increase through cooperation: the justified, renewed "from day to day," grow by "faith cooperating with good works," mortifying sin and observing commandments.6 Good works are fruits and instruments of this progression unto fuller holiness. 

Fruits Flow from Grace, Not Vice Versa

Grace precedes and produces fruits (good works, virtues); poor baptized lives show lack of cooperation or retention, not grace's invalidity. Baptism plants the seed; free will cultivates or uproots it.1 3

In Summary: Baptism's sanctifying grace is objectively real, habitual, and sanctifying—permanent while preserved—but free will explains why not all retain or manifest it fully. It is the divine life-root, not subsequent fruit, calling for lifelong fidelity to bear abundant holiness

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4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:4–8, NKJV)

REFLECT

I am burdened in this mortal body because of sin. I do not want to get rid of my body, but actually want the eternal body instead so I can have real life. God has given me His Spirit as a guarantee that I will get the new body. So I can be confident knowing that while I am in this body I must walk by Faith not sight (believe what is coming, so much so, that anything I have to do to get there, is nothing compared to what will be). I am confident and pleased that when I am absent of the mortal body I will be present with the Lord in my new eternal body. 

PRAY

Father, I forget the plan and start to focus on the here, and all that is wrong. Instead, You want me so focused on what’s coming that this earthly life is nothing compared to what will be. I am to be confident and joyful to be a messenger here about what is to come to those who want to love you. The Spirit is the guarantee that I will get the new body. Help me surrender to Him so I can keep the finish line in focus and run the race before me. Thank you Jesus for cleansing me with the your blood, so I can be in the presence of You Holy Trinity. Save me! Amen 

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2026 DECISIONS & REMINDERS

2026 decisions: I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR MY DECISIONS NOT THE CHURCH!! I must choosebased on my beliefs. FAITH IS A CHOICE TO BELIEVE & TRUST GOD AND HIS PROMISES BASED ON WHO HE IS. 

BIBLE: NKJV 

(most correct like Duay and older truer not watered language) can Gods word really be wrong for 2000 years?? I think it should be the Jewish Scripture since Salvation is from the Jews.  

Just because we find older manuscripts does not mean they are the rule…we find older documents all the time - we do not do away with the Bible because we find more…

LSB is possible (but it is based on Septuagint) has older language but has Gods name, no audio, and possible bias. 

NASB is out! Too watered. 

ESVCE and RSV2CE are both watered down. I don’t like them. 

Cling to RELATIONSHIP and WORD of God!

No more living through the church. I must cling to the Almighty and what THE WORD says not tradition teaching. I AM RESPONSIBLE TO GOD NOT THE CHURCH!! Catholic teach tradition and dabble in the Word. I need to KNOW Christ and that comes through knowing scripture. Tradition is fine but I am weak and need more protein food not side dishes. 

Pray

Prayer is how I am being the presence of God. I must learn to have silence and specific times of it, to cultivate presence. 

LEARNING:

Mass is for: Worship, Praise, Communion, Sacrifice, Glory to God

Preaching is for: Conviction, Teaching, Revelation, Prophecy, Study

Audio Apps:

1. Dwell: OT/NT Bible in a year, Catholic Daily
2. Pocketcasts: daily Mass, Preachers, couple Homily’s 
3. Audible: Study
4. NKJV
5. Possibly Preaching
6. Fiction
7. Music (praise or chant)

Prayer Apps:

1. Silence
2. Youversion: am: Daily Refresh, Afternoon: chosen Book, Night: OT/NT in a year
3. Psalms: are the prayers of the people of God, morning, afternoon, night
4. Lectio: morning, afternoon, night

I must Know the Scriptures as my rule of life and covenant relationship, Believe Christ is the Only Way, that He wants to Justify (blood) me and Sanctify (transformation) me by surrendering (my part) and following His plan, ask for the grace and faith to obey in His Power, for the Glory of God Almighty. 

HOW I AM SAVED:

I walk out salvation in surrender to Grace, by Faith in the completion of Christ’s atonement, being Justified by the blood of Christ, using Scripture as the path of Christ for the Glory of God!

Sanctification takes place through fruit of faith and grace as I surrender. I am not able to save myself. God saves. 

• Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone): The Bible is the sole infallible source of divine revelation and the highest authority for Christian faith and practice, above church tradition or leaders.

• Sola Fide (Faith Alone): Justification (being declared righteous) is received solely through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works or deeds. 

Sanctification is part of justification. So without works or deeds Faith is dead faith. By definition Faith has works in it-God prepared for us to do. 

• Sola Gratia (Grace Alone): Salvation is a free gift from God's undeserved favor, not something earned by human effort, beginning, and completion. We have a choice to say yes or not surrendering to Him. 

• Solus Christus (Christ Alone): Jesus Christ is the only mediator and the basis for salvation, the only one who can reconcile humanity to God.

• Soli Deo Gloria (Glory to God Alone): The ultimate purpose of salvation and all of life is to bring glory to God alone, as He is the source of all. 

Preach the Gospel to Yourself:

God you are here. You are always loving me and giving me grace to be alive, calling me to be yours.

The Gospel is to Repent and Believe.

I am to repent of going my own way and destroying myself and others. I am to Believe that Jesus came to save me from my sin. Sin is destructive and God wants me to learn to live in with and through HIM, fighting my sin, learning to live following Him in obedience, by the power given to me from the Holy Spirit, as His own Blood washes away my sin, so I can be One with the HIM. Thank you, Holy Trinity, for your amazing Love!

Father, You love me so much you gave me Jesus. 

Jesus, thank you for loving me so much you came and lived the perfect life for me so I can be reconciled with the Father. By your sacrifice of love, and with your own blood, you purchased me back for God, washing all my sin away. You sent me the Holy Spirit as a down payment and a helper, that fills me, sanctifies me, and empowers me with grace, to live in this world, doing the work you prepared in advance for me (I surrender to your plan). You will come to bring me home to heaven to get my new body and inheritance in eternal life, seeing your face for eternity!

Thank you, Holy Spirit, for loving me so much you are willing to live inside me on this journey as I fight sin from within, by your guidance. 

Thank you, My God, for your amazing Love, Mercy, Grace, Provision, and Empowerment! I Believe, Love, Surrender, and Trust you! AMEN.

FAITH IS A CHOICE TO BELIEVE & TRUST GOD AND HIS PROMISES BASED ON WHO HE IS. 

What to do with pleasure & pain:

God and Satan both have a purpose in Pleasure and Pain.

I Choose which reaction I will choose to go.

I cannot necessarily choose my circumstances, but I can always choose my reaction.

 

God's purpose for:

Pleasure: Gratitude for the blessings He has given me. 

Pain: Trusting HIM, no matter what you see think or feel, He is working it for Good and Glory! Remember Job, Joseph, & Jesus

 

Satan's purpose for: 

Pleasure: God is unnecessary (you got all this yourself and don’t need him) 

Pain: God is powerless and hostile to you (he is mad at you and punishing, he will not help you)

What Jesus Taught Me

Trust God

He Reigns over ALL creation

His Will, will be done

 

Everyday - Every Moment Enjoy being with Him

I am never alone

God is all I need

Only God Satisfies

 

Trust God

He Loves Me

He Wants to take care of me

His ways are higher than our ways

 

God Knows the Way

Don’t Worry

Don't Figure

Don't Think (too much)

 

Rest In Him

Focus on Jesus

Stay in His arms - He carries me

He Takes care of everything

 

Let the Spirit Be In Control

His power not mine

Mind, mouth, heart, soul, and body are His

I do not change things, Only GOD changes things.

Kill your flesh.

 

God is working everything together for my good

Journey - He is not in a hurry

Embrace my cross, this too shall pass

Cross makes you stronger and brings glory to God

 

Go with the Flow

Let Go and Let God

God IS in Control

Others are working out their own salvation with Him

What's it to you? - You follow Me.

 

Don't Give up Peace, Joy, or Hope

Refocus: God loves me and takes care of me

I am in Christ: by his sacrifice not by my works.

I am seen as righteous, justified, complete and whole

I have Peace with God, he sees me in Jesus

I have Joy, God is taking care of my needs

I have Hope, my life's journey is getting better and better

Don’t let go of your Peace, it passes understanding.

 

My Heart

Broken

Submissive

Humble

Dependent

 

My Attitude

Trust Him

Accept Circumstances

Deposit myself

 

Pray for

Strength

Courage

Peace

 

In Covenant

Won't Change

I am crucified

Jesus lives through me

 

LIFE IS A GIFT, THE GIFT IS GOD HIMSELF.

YES I want to LIVE for YOUR GLORY!

Some choose: No, I don’t want to live for your Glory, but to do what I want with my life (that you gave me, that you have authority over, that you have given commandments to life fruitfully – which I am rejecting)

How I came to CHRIST

Something has gone terribly wrong with humanity, with life, and with reality. Things are not as they should be. Something is bent, wrong, broken. Not just others, me too. (lack of integrity, selfishness, habitual sin)

How to make it through this life: (Hedonist, Stoic, Nihilist) or CHRISTIANITY

 

We were created good by God, who is provident, and who loves you. Good Nature and Graces. It is possible for you to have communion with him. He wants that.

It hangs on a condition. We were Created for God. We are from God and for God. But will we do it the way that God wills? We have to embrace our dependency. Life is a gift that we have to live on his terms. Be reconciled and embrace this true reality.

 

We originally said no (collectively in Adam) Now we have devastation. Because their choice is our choice. There is no way out of this choice in the human realm. We are held perpetually responsible for our sin and the world has become a trap and a torture chamber with our thoughts and feelings riddled with lies and deception.

 

We cannot fix ourselves; we cannot save ourselves. We lack the means to be made for God again in our humanity. We feel the disconnect, there are good things in this world, but we know deep in our soul, there must be more to this life. We want to be God’s again (walking with Him in the garden together again.) His Sons and Daughters!

 

We are ALL Guilty, we all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God. We, even now still continue to choose against God.

 

BUT We do not have to be left to ourselves. WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE:

God has chosen to meet us. He has chosen to meet us in our catastrophe. We can be justified by Grace as a GIFT through the redemption in Christ who God put as an expiation by his Blood to be received by FAITH. He justifies he who has faith. We don’t have a right to it. 

How do we do it? BEG! We boast only in our lowliness, our misery.

Call upon the Mercy of the ONLY ONE who can save us. 

And we don’t do it alone, Jesus has assumed our condition. He has done it from top to bottom, the entire life. And he did not need or have to!

JESUS took on our human body, our human mind, our emotions, our human soul, our heart, and even our human sin. HE CALLS UPON THE MERCY OF GOD with Us and For Us!

He begs for your heart and your heart begs for Christ! Bring all your experience (bewilderment, dissatisfaction, imperfection, even SIN) God Makes all things work for Good for those who love him, EVEN YOUR SIN.

Ask FOR Him! He Intends to Give you himself!

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7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death is working in us, but life in you.

13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak, 14 knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. (2 Corinthians 4:7–14, NKJV)

REFLECT

The treasure in earthen vessels is God’s own life inside my human body. The power I live in is no longer my human strength but God’s Grace. 

I am hard pressed on every side by evil in the world (the entire system apart from Christ), my own flesh (internal disordered desires), and demons (attack my thoughts), but I am not crushed because God’s grace is in me. I am perplexed because I don’t like this conflict all the time, but I am not in despair because God is with me and will deliver me. I am persecuted because the world does not understand the treasure I have and they hate it because it convicts their soul, but I am not forsaken, I must be courageous and stand firm in my faith. I may be struck down but I will not be destroyed, even if death I am delivered to my new eternal body. 

It seems I am like Jesus, being crucified in the flesh so that the life of grace is manifested in me. This is so the Glory of Jesus is shown in my mortal flesh. 

Because I believe God in the Spirit of this Faith, He will raise up my body from the fleshy one to a new immortal one just like God did in Jesus. Therefore I tell the truth of these things so others may believe and together we can be raised to life with Jesus. 

PRAY

God, you have come to live inside me. You are giving me grace to live by your view, instead of living from a human point of view. I see I am definitely hard pressed from all areas around and even internally. Please deliver me! 

The world (the entire system apart from Christ), my own flesh (internal disordered desires), and demons (attack my thoughts) are a constant barrage attacking me. But your grace is stronger. I am weak and get tired of the battle. I even sometimes am in denial and think it’s not that bad…then I succumb to doing things I don’t want to do. 

Please my God, pick me up, dust me off from the dirt that has clung to me and help me stand strong in YOU! I cannot get through this life even one second without you. Help me pick up my cross and be courageous and joyful that you are giving me the grace to be like Jesus. I am to be conformed to his likeness. Save me, I give myself to you my LORD! No matter what I go through, even in death I will be delivered! Amen. 

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Solas Applied

Mass is for:

Worship, Praise, Communion, Sacrifice, Glory to God

Preaching is for:

Conviction, Teaching, Revelation, Prophecy, Study

We must Know the Scriptures as our rule of life and covenant relationship, Believe Christ is the Only Way, that He wants to Justify (blood) us and Sanctify (transformation) us by surrendering (my part) and following His plan, ask for the grace and faith to obey in His Power, for the Glory of God Almighty. 

The Five Solas Explained:

• Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone): The Bible is the sole infallible source of divine revelation and the highest authority for Christian faith and practice, above church tradition or leaders.

• Sola Fide (Faith Alone): Justification (being declared righteous) is received solely through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works or deeds. 

Sanctification is part of justification. So without works or deeds Faith is dead faith. By definition Faith has works in it-God prepared for us to do. 

• Sola Gratia (Grace Alone): Salvation is a free gift from God's undeserved favor, not something earned by human effort, beginning, and completion. We have a choice to say yes or not surrendering to Him. 

• Solus Christus (Christ Alone): Jesus Christ is the only mediator and the basis for salvation, the only one who can reconcile humanity to God.

• Soli Deo Gloria (Glory to God Alone): The ultimate purpose of salvation and all of life is to bring glory to God alone, as He is the source of all. 

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