Mr. Wilson, you did not explain the faith that God's elect are saved thru. If you skip everything that the apostle Paul said before, you can be guilty of making faith what you want it to be.

Are you really evangelizing after the Gospel of Christ that Paul preached? I have yet to see Paul's Gospel in any of SPSE's writings.

Paul preached the full deliverance of all those God chose in Him before the foundation of the world when their sins were imputed to His account and when His earned righteousness (perfect works under the Law) were imputed to their accounts. At that moment in time God the Father declared all for whom Christ shed His perfect blood righteous, justified in His sight. That singular event was at the cross of Jesus Christ according to the apostle Paul (Rom 4:25; 5:1; 5:9).

The Gospel of Christ cannot be preached apart from God's sovereign definite election of some out of the mass of fallen humanity to salvation (Eph 1:4).

Justification by "faith" is an invention of the Roman catholic church and was the sole soteriological doctrine accepted by Luther and Calvin and sanctioned by protestants to this day. Justification by so-called faith is THE universal doctrine of global chrisendom.

But that is not the soteriology of the Christ of the Scriptures. He alone by Himself justified and saved all the elect God chose in Him and no others. "I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom thou hast given me, for they are thine;" [Jhn 17:9 RSV]

After I learned Paul's true Gospel according to the Scriptures that salvation was in the obedience unto death of the Lord Jesus Christ alone, I was faced with a choice. Do I continue in the Roman catholic religion I was born into, baptized as an infant, catechized, partook of the eucharist, confessed my sins to the priest, was confirmed as a teen, was an altar server, received the sacrement of matrimony, building up work after work? Or do I believe the Gospel that Paul so eloquently, clearly, and plainly laid out in his letter to the elect at Rome that they were fully saved by Christ alone?

I am thankful to God that He enabled me to understand and embrace the scriptural Gospel of Christ that Paul declared. That Gospel of God's sovereign grace in the justification and salvation of all the souls of His choosing at and by His cross alone.

Not the false gospel of salvation by faith plus works.

But faith and works because He saved me.

"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them." [Eph 2:10 RSV]

All of false christendom confounds Paul's true point of cause and effect here.

Paul declared salvation by Christ alone as the cause.

Later His workmanship to good works. The effect of Christ's finished work.