Bible Question: will the act of treating people with kindness and doing good work help save us referring to Ephesians 2:8-9 |
Bible Answer: Nae-Nae, Jesus saves, of course, but we must be obedient to do good works in loving faith. Some verses: What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?.. Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself. (James 2:14,17) NAS Jesus Christ, ...through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for His name's sake, (Rom 1:5) NAS ...commands us to love God and one another and to demonstrate our love with works in faithful obedience; otherwise that faith is useless (Jam 2:20) NAS. We are justified by faith through a confessed belief in Christ, a faith that is itself a gift received from God. ...God has allotted to each a measure of faith. (Rom 12:3) NAS and ...Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. (Mat 16:17) NAS By faith we enter God's covenant family as children of God; and, like children we have to be disciplined and raised by our Father. In this way we mature as Abraham, the father of our faith, matured. And in this way our justification, like Abraham's, is progressive and contingent on our contined loving obedience to our Father. "And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him." (Act 5:32) NAS Faith is as faith does. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love. (Gal 5:6) NAS What saves us is a loving, active, obedient faith in Jesus Christ. Colin |