Salvation Belongs to Our God - Lyrics

Song by: Crystal Lewis
Music By : Dharshan Keba
Vocals : • Salvation Belongs To O...
Salvation belongs to God, initiated by his grace, achieved by his power, offered on his terms, secured by his promises, guaranteed by his sovereignty. God is the subject of the act of saving us. He is not the object of our attempts to gain salvation. Salvation is the result of no action of ours other than that of asking and accepting it from God.
In the Bible there are, of course, many instances when salvation comes through human agency, but even then the source of the power to save still lies with God. The judges all illustrate this principle. Gideon is told to go and deliver Israel-he would be the deliverer, but only because God would be with him (Judg. 6:14- 15). But when he assembles his army, it is systematically decimated before he can begin his campaign, explicitly to ensure that God is seen to be the true source of the victory, not the size of the army (Judg. 7:2, 7; contrast the ironic refusal of God to save them in Judg. 10:11-14). Similarly, David’s victory over Goliath shows the world who really is the God with power to save (1 Sam. 17:47).
Only Yahweh, then, can save. This is the message especially of the prophets. Yahweh saves when nobody else can or does (Isa. 59:15-17). Astrologers cannot save (Isa. 47:13-14). Kings, mere mortals that they are, cannot save (Psa. 146:3). Military power cannot save (Psa. 33:16- 17). And other gods are most commonly characterized as contemptibly unable to save (Isa. 43:11-13; 45:20- 21). So salvation is clearly not something you can “get” from religion considered as a set of human activities or aspirations. The very question sometimes asked in the debate over other faiths, “Is there salvation in other religions?” is highly misleading, since it embodies a false premise-namely, that salvation is something you get from any religion. But according to the Bible, religion saves nobody. God does.
🌟GOD BLESS YOU 🌟