Obeying Gods commands are good works.
Try to read with an open mind, and not your closed heart and you would understand.
but you said a work is a work is a work.....
I obey Gods commands because I love him, and TRUST HIM, and am GRATEFUL for what he did for me.
Not to save me
it is the same thing...because ...he did ..he is doing ...and he will do....he will save you....so in essence you are doing it to ensure salvation....
that is what separates a person with faith in God. and a legalist.
that is how
you make someone a legalist
A legalist may claim he does good for those reasons, but the soul power behind it is to save self, or not lose salvation, thus it is all self motivated works, also known as carnal deeds, and not for God.
you know the reason why everyone does everything....did you respond to God's call to be saved? Didn't God call you to save you...you mean to say you don't want to be saved?....that is why Peter said... [SUP]40 [/SUP]And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
If you don't put yourself in the position to be saved you cannot be saved....
Originally Posted by
eternally-gratefull
I agree with everything said, except would translate the law differently, it is more than the ten commands, it is any command God ever gave in scripture. Including the laws of the mosaic covenant, and the laws of the new covenant.
Adding some or all to the gift of grace, is doing what Paul spoke against, Preaching a different gospel.
you confuse even yourself...you condemn a man because he obeys Christ/do good works... telling him he is a legalist...that he must not obey Christ because he does not love Christ .....because you say so.....
1 John 3:10
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
1 John 2:29
If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
John 14:14-16King James Version (KJV)
[SUP]14 [/SUP]If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
[SUP]15 [/SUP]
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
[SUP]16 [/SUP]And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
John 14:21
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
John 14:23
Jesus answered and said unto him,
If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Acts 5:32
And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to
them that obey him.
Hebrews 5:9
And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all
them that obey him;
those who obey him loves him....
those who obey him gets HS.....
those who obey him gets salvation.....