Subject: Mark 16:16 what does it say? |
Bible Note: Hello Hank, You write,"what are good works anyway?" Observing the Lords Supper for one. This is work that we are commanded to do.(1 Cor 11:24-25) But some might say that we do this at certain times of the year. Thats not when the first church did it though. It says they did it on the first day of the week. (Acts 2:42) Further more it goes on and says the disciples did it on the first day of the week.(Acts 20:7) Another example is singing. Ephesians 5 19speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, Also Colossians 3:16 teaches us to sing with grace in our hearts to the Lord. Again some might say we do that. Yes but do you include mechanical instruments? Some might say that the Old Testament shows instruments being used in worship. But it also says, Amos 6 5Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments, And invent for yourselves musical instruments like David; Like I have stated before we are under the New Testament now, and anywhere you look in the New Testament it says to sing, or they sung. Proper worship is a work that must be taken seriously, 1 Timothy 3 15but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. And more but for time and space I think you get the picture. You also wrote, "And what connection do our good works have with Christ's atoning work on the cross?" These things that I have listed including baptism show God our reverence for Him as our Almighty and our love for His son who died on the cross for the sins of the world. You write,"If baptism and other good works save, what's the point of Christ's death and resurrection?" 1 John 2 says, The Test of Knowing Christ 1 My little children, these things I write to you, SO THAT YOU "MAY NOT SIN." And "IF" anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2And He Himself is the PROPITIATION for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world. We have to have that gateway to enter Heaven and Jesus said John 14 "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. Raven |