Living Out of Good Works (3)

The question is: Are good works the condition to our salvation or the fruit of our salvation? Again we will use faith as an illustration to keep the issue clearly before us. There are in particular two ways that faith is spoken of as a condition to salvation. The first is that our salvation in the full sense of the word is contingent upon our act of believing. We must believe first, and then, and only then will God save us. This means that while we are yet in darkness and far from the light,...