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There have been some great articles/posts about merit in the Covenant of Works lately. Here’s some older stuff that is related…

Matt Colvin – Merit

Matt Colvin – What Sort of Merit?

Andrew Sandlin – We need Jesus, not Merit

Phil Hodson’s comments on Warfield

Mark Horne – Presbytermark rises from the grave (temporarily)

Publishing is a lot faster today. That’s nice.

We are saved because the gospel grabs us, not because we grab the gospel. God reaches us. This is the message: God Saves Sinners. Not, sinners save themselves with God’s help, or sinners reach up to God.

How many of the propositions of the gospel – Jesus died on the cross, He was buried, He rose again on the third day. Can an infant, a child that dies in infancy be saved? Yes, absolutely. Can they articulate those propositions? No. The child is saved not because he articulates those propositions, but because those propositions are true! Do you see that? The propositions are true, and therefore a kid who doesn’t understand them can be saved. But we always want to turn everything into some stinking work. “Here’s the proposition, and kid, can you say it? And if you can’t say it then we have our doubts about you because there was something that you couldn’t do. And we all know, deep in our bones, that we go to heaven by what we do, what we understand, what we think, what we say.” Which is false. It’s wrong. God hates it. We must repent of it, because God’s grace is offered to us. We appropriate it by faith.

The gospel was put this way: “Through Abraham all the nations would be blessed.” We are not saved because we believe that’s true. All right? We are saved because its true. We are not saved by our work in understanding. We are saved because of God’s work, and God’s understanding.
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We are not saved because we understand justification by faith alone from beginning to end… We are saved, because we believe God.

-Douglas Wilson, Galatians X