"For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2: 10).
WHAT IS THIS GIFT OF GOD WHICH BRINGS SALVATION TO MAN?
It is the atonement made by Jesus Christ, by which He took away the sin of the world.
"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God." (I Peter 3: 18).
"Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." (John 1: 29).
FROM WHAT IS MAN SAVED BY CHRIST'S ATONEMENT?
First, from the effects of Adam's fall, which is death.
"For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." (I Corinthians 15: 21, 22).
Second, from the sins man himself commits, provided he accepts the grace which Christ offers.
"And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." (I John 2: 2).