The most unbelieved 10 letters in the Bible

Some of you are expecting something like six-day-creation, aren’t you? Or a literal, historical Adam? Or something related to the Trinity or the divinity of Christ? Or maybe the exclusivity of Christ as the only way to God?

But it’s none of these things. It’s 10 letters found in Ephesians 2:9.

N…O…T…O…F…W…O…R…K….S

The hardest words for unbelievers to believe.

Often the hardest words for believers to keep on believing.

I’ve asked hundreds of seniors about their hope for heaven, and despite listening to thousands of  N…O…T…O…F…W…O…R…K….S sermons their entire lives, many still answer, “I’ve done my best…I’ve gone to church…I raised my children to go to church…I pray and read my Bible…etc.”

Ask even your own children, your own regularly evangelized children, “What’s a Christian?” and you’ll be stunned at how often they’ll give child versions of the seniors’ answers.

And though most Christians will be able to give you the “salvation by grace apart from works” answer in a theology exam, their personal daily spiritual experience too often defaults to various versions of “salvation by works.”

It’s as if W…O…R…K…S is tattooed on our hearts from birth.

Regular Gospel preaching is the only laser that removes this deadly tattoo.

Or, perhaps it would be better to say that regular Gospel preaching tattoos these five life-giving letters N…O…T…O…F in front of the five killers.

How our lives would be transformed if we could really believe and keep on believing these 10 unbelievable letters!