“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).
As a faithful Christian, you can’t work to BE saved, but you work BECAUSE God saves you. He prescribes your work!
“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our wrongdoings, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:4-6).
“For by GRACE you have been saved through faith; and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8).
No one can earn God’s grace because no one is worthy!
Some people have tried, and many still try to work to secure God’s grace. Grace means receiving what you don’t deserve.
“But the righteous one will live by faith” (Romans 1:17). This faith trusts in God to save, because it is impossible for your personal works to save you!
God shows you mercy, meaning you do not receive what you deserve, which is punishment for your sins! Please read Romans 4:2-6 and Romans 4:711.
Jesus…said, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent” (John 6:29).
“Faith without works is dead” ( James 2:17). Faith alone cannot save anyone, just as works without faith cannot make you right with God.
“Therefore produce fruits that are consistent with repentance, and do not start saying to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I say to you that from these stones God is able to raise up children for Abraham” (Luke 3:8).
All people have sinned in God’s eyes, and all deserve death (Romans 3:23; 6:23). No one can do enough to be forgiven of sin. Only God in Christ Jesus has the power to remove sin.
Let’s do as the apostle Paul said, “Change your lives and do good things. This will show that you have truly changed your hearts” (Acts 26:20). Let’s do as the apostle Peter said, “Change your hearts…and be immersed by the authority of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven” (Acts 2:38).