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There are two different kinds of obedience (works).
There is....
#1. True Obedience - Where a believer yields to God and allows Him to do the good work in you.
#2. False Obedience - Where it is the believer merely obeying an outward commandment so as to earn salvation.
#1 Type Obedience is based on the foundation of Jesus Christ where they had repented of their sins and accepted Jesus as their Savior. They trust in His grace for salvation as a free gift and not by anything that they have done in the past. They then trust Christ to continue to work in their lives with His goodness. For there is none good but God. For God is love. For I am nothing. Christ is everything. For a believer that has Christ living within them has eternal life and salvation. Then the good fruit of the Spirit will flow within their lives. They will be moved by the God (living within them) to walk after the Spirit. Works are the fruit or result of a genuine saving faith. All glory, honor, and power goes to Jesus Christ for the "good work" God does witin our lives. If a believer stumbles or sins, they have God's grace to fall back upon (For if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins - 1 John 1:9). This promise in 1 John 1:9 that we can bank on is not a license to sin, but it is a promise so as to overcome sin (And be a slave to righteousness instead of a slave to sin).
#2. Type Obedience is merely an outward obedience to a certain set of laws or rules in order to be saved. It does not emphasize the importance of Jesus Christ and what He has done for us. Nor does it suggest that Christ is the One who is doing the good work in you. It emphasizes "self" and what you do to try and save yourself, versus trusting in God to do the good work in you. It is an outward obedience to the letter. But there is no life within the person. This is Works Salvationism. Many in this camp believe you have to obey both the Old Law and the New in order to be right with God. But this is wrong. We cannot be justified by merely just keeping the Law of Moses. For the Law has changed (Hebrews 7:12).
There is....
#1. True Obedience - Where a believer yields to God and allows Him to do the good work in you.
#2. False Obedience - Where it is the believer merely obeying an outward commandment so as to earn salvation.
#1 Type Obedience is based on the foundation of Jesus Christ where they had repented of their sins and accepted Jesus as their Savior. They trust in His grace for salvation as a free gift and not by anything that they have done in the past. They then trust Christ to continue to work in their lives with His goodness. For there is none good but God. For God is love. For I am nothing. Christ is everything. For a believer that has Christ living within them has eternal life and salvation. Then the good fruit of the Spirit will flow within their lives. They will be moved by the God (living within them) to walk after the Spirit. Works are the fruit or result of a genuine saving faith. All glory, honor, and power goes to Jesus Christ for the "good work" God does witin our lives. If a believer stumbles or sins, they have God's grace to fall back upon (For if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins - 1 John 1:9). This promise in 1 John 1:9 that we can bank on is not a license to sin, but it is a promise so as to overcome sin (And be a slave to righteousness instead of a slave to sin).
#2. Type Obedience is merely an outward obedience to a certain set of laws or rules in order to be saved. It does not emphasize the importance of Jesus Christ and what He has done for us. Nor does it suggest that Christ is the One who is doing the good work in you. It emphasizes "self" and what you do to try and save yourself, versus trusting in God to do the good work in you. It is an outward obedience to the letter. But there is no life within the person. This is Works Salvationism. Many in this camp believe you have to obey both the Old Law and the New in order to be right with God. But this is wrong. We cannot be justified by merely just keeping the Law of Moses. For the Law has changed (Hebrews 7:12).
Well I would add to point #1 is that the bible shows we do this obedience out of love for Him, as Jesus and Paul both made this evident that by love fulfills and upholds the commands and teachings of the Lord.
But yes I see what you are saying and my point was that those of the OSAS or eternal security doctrines badly do is falsely toss that label of works salvationists on all who instruct on the fruits of the Spirit which is the walk in the faith.
They want to take away from the active side of a true saving faith through Christ that those of us who have that true saving faith it will show in our actions and speech. We are called to reprove, rebuke, and then edify others by His word.
I see some on here try to claim they are rebuking but in their attempt they are using very little word of God, and are just mainly belittling and demeaning the other person instead. There is one on here that I have seen others constantly agree with who he 95% of time never uses scripture, and does not give book, epistle, chapter, or verse in his responses. That I am sorry is not the sign of sound teaching in the word to others.
For the sword is the word of God, not our own opinions or man taught understandings !!!