EPC Australia

Should Christians expect health, wealth and happiness in this life? Is that what God promises them?

That is the way some professing Christians talk. But it is not true to the Bible or experience.

God’s answer is utterly amazing! It is this: “Man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law” (Romans 3:28.) We cannot earn God’s acceptance by trying to be good and doing good deeds. God’s way of salvation is from beginning to end a free gift in Jesus Christ – it cannot be earned by us.

God, in the Bible, gives a very clear answer: “Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward Jesus Christ,” (Acts 20:21.) God’s way of salvation is through faith and repentance.

He is the only REDEEMER of God’s elect. “In the fullness of time, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children",(Gal. 4: 4-5).