The Way to God and How to Find It · Question
How does The Way to God and How to Find It develop the theme of Human Inability and Divine Grace?
Answer
The Way to God and How to Find It by D. L. Moody develops Human Inability and Divine Grace across the chapters the companion marks for this theme.
The book emphasizes that humans cannot save themselves or overcome sin through their own strength, and that salvation is entirely a gift of God's grace.
Highlights the contrast between human love, which is conditional and often fails, and divine grace, which is offered freely to sinners despite their unworthiness.
Human effort cannot achieve salvation; it is a work of the Spirit.
All have sinned and fall short of God's glory, but grace is available through faith in Christ.
Evidence in the book
- I: “Love That Passeth Knowledge”
Highlights the contrast between human love, which is conditional and often fails, and divine grace, which is offered freely to sinners despite their unworthiness.
- II: The Gateway Into the Kingdom
Human effort cannot achieve salvation; it is a work of the Spirit.
- The Two Classes
All have sinned and fall short of God's glory, but grace is available through faith in Christ.
- Words of Counsel
Moody addresses the feeling of having no strength, pointing to Romans 5:6 that Christ died for the ungodly, and emphasizes that salvation is a gift received by grace.
- Repentance and Restitution
Moody emphasizes that it is God's goodness, not our badness, that leads to repentance, and that restitution is necessary before receiving forgiveness.
- Assurance of Salvation
God has made provision for believers' sins through Christ the Advocate, and forgiveness is complete.
- Christ All and in All
Highlights that deliverance and redemption come solely through Christ's grace, not human effort.
- IX: Backsliding
Highlights that humans cannot save themselves and must rely on God's grace to restore them.
