Is Works Important? What do you think?

Posted : 3 Feb, 2010 10:56 AM

The apostle Paul declared: �Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but

now much more in my absence, Work OUT YOUR OWN SALVATION, WITH FEAR AND TREMBLING; for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure�

(Phil.2:12-13, NKJV)..So if Jesus lives in you He will do good works through you!

What should we do? Jesus said of God, �Your word is truth� (John 17:17). Yeshua added,

�Man shall not live by bread alone, but by EVERY WORD that proceeds from the mouth of

God� (Matt.4:4; Luke 4:4). Let us strive and �contend for the faith that was once for all

entrusted to the saints� (Jude 3).

The apostle James, the brother of Christ, made it about as plain as a person could make it. He proclaimed, �Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

But the man who looks intently into the PERFECT LAW that gives freedom [God�s true Law,which guarantees everybody�s freedom from slavery and bondage!], and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it �he will be blessed in what he does� (James 1:22-25).

James goes even further. He wrote: �If you really keep

the royal law found in Scripture, �Love your neighbor as yourself,� you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. For whoever keeps the WHOLE LAW and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking ALL of it. For he who said, �Do not commit adultery,� also said, �Do not murder.� If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become A LAWBREAKER. Speak and act as those who are going to be JUDGED by the law that gives freedom� (James 2:8-12).

Clearly, God�s Law is eternal. David the prophet and king of Israel wrote in the Psalms,

�The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure. They stand fast FOR EVER AND EVER, and are done in truth and uprightness� (Psalm 111:7-8) .By the way that also includes The Sabbath,Which is holy time ordained by God from the beginning!

Any Minister who says to you and claims that �God�s Law is done away with,� is merely

repeating that age-old lie of Satan the devil when he told Eve in the Garden of Eden, in effect,Saying to her,

�Salvation is a free gift. No obedience or�works� are involved at all. Just eat the fruit of the nice-looking tree

of knowledge of good and evil. It will make you wise like God, and you will easily and quickly

become as God is. See how simple it is? Here, have a taste of this delicious, beautiful,

delectable fruit!�

But the tree Satan manipulated and seduced Eve to eat of was the tree of the �knowledge

[i.e., �experience�] of good and evil� � a mixture of good and evil, good mixed with lethal

poison � in other words, the tree of DEATH!

And Eve fell for his sucker line of super-salesmanship -- she listened to the snake -- just

like generations of mankind have done ever since.What did John The Baptist tell those coming to him for baptism? Luke 3: 8, Produce fruit in keeping for repentance, In other words prove you have changed.{New Internation Version}

{New Living Translation},

Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God. Don't just say to each other, 'We're safe, for we are descendants of Abraham.' That means nothing, for I tell you, God can create children of Abraham from these very stones.

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