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So you see, properly understanding the word necessary is important for us to understand the place of good works in our lives as gratitude. Our good works are not our own doing and contribute nothing to our salvation, and this keeps us humble. Yet, because our good works are not our own doing, we rej
Lord's Day 32 Q. 86. Since then we are delivered from our misery merely of grace, through Christ, without any merit of ours, why must we still do good works? A. Because Christ, having redeemed and delivered us by His blood, also renews us by His Holy Spirit after His own image; that so we may test
The Question of the Necessity of Good Works (3): A Real Necessity The Question of the Necessity of Good Works (4): The Renewal of the Sinner The Question of the Necessity of Good Works (5): Testimony of Gratitude Next article in series: The Question of the Necessity of Good Works (7): Losing the
This very question, the way it's put, merely of grace through Christ without any merits of ours, that's taking a weight off of our shoulders. It's unburdening us from ever thinking that I need to do enough in order to get my way to heaven, in order to be right with my God. This is good news. But
God demands good works of us. Certainly, God does. Nevertheless, Good works are inevitable. They are inevitable. They will spontaneously spring forth out of the life of the child of God. Good works do not have to be forced or beat out of us. The must of good works is not the must of an iron-like
Why are good works necessary? Because in the doing of them, we express to God our gratitude. Number two, praise. Number one, gratitude. Number two, praise. Why? Praise. and that He may be praised by us. Unholy acts of disobedience to the law dishonors God, while good works of obedience to the la
The question that begins Lord's Day 32 on the necessity of good works, the question that broaches this whole subject of the necessity of good works must be considered and considered closely. The question itself contains important teaching about the necessity of good works. That question reads, s
You continue on in slander. And you cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. But the gratitude from beginning to end is the gift of God to His chosen, His redeemed, and His regenerated people. The Catechism, therefore, opens this section on gratitude with an extremely important question. Why is it nec
And the child of God, by virtue of God's grace alone, desires to do good works, can do good works, must do good works, and will do good works. Our firm rejection of antinomianism that says good works are unnecessary or the law does not abide in its authority over us is only made on the basis of
We begin with the necessity. Good works are not necessary. So this is the negative. Good works are not necessary because doing them gets us out of hell. That's important to see because many around us think that their supposed good works do get them out of hell. And we were reminded of that rece