Saved Unto Good Works
Titus 3:8 This is a trustworthy saying. And I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone.
While those of a "salvation by works" mentality tend to add the phrase "in order to be saved" at the end of every command and instruction in the New Testament, the Apostles teaches us that we should do good not in order to be saved, but rather because we are saved and thus we do because we are, rather than we are because we do. Doing what is right is characteristic of our new nature. It is what we were made to be. "For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Eph 2:10
Indeed this is the identifying mark of those born of God. "This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother." 1John 3:10
Therefore identify what good things the Holy Spirit is leading you to do. Get in the habit of doing good. Find some good things to devote yourself to. For having been saved and made an heir to eternal life, this is now your purpose in Christ Jesus. "And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again." 2Cor 5:15
Titus 3:8 This is a trustworthy saying. And I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone.
While those of a "salvation by works" mentality tend to add the phrase "in order to be saved" at the end of every command and instruction in the New Testament, the Apostles teaches us that we should do good not in order to be saved, but rather because we are saved and thus we do because we are, rather than we are because we do. Doing what is right is characteristic of our new nature. It is what we were made to be. "For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Eph 2:10
Indeed this is the identifying mark of those born of God. "This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother." 1John 3:10
Therefore identify what good things the Holy Spirit is leading you to do. Get in the habit of doing good. Find some good things to devote yourself to. For having been saved and made an heir to eternal life, this is now your purpose in Christ Jesus. "And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again." 2Cor 5:15
