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God Gives Us Grace to Do Good Works ㅡ

 “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:”

 (2 Corinthians 9:8)

 In his divine arrangement, through his unmerited favor, the Lord has ordained that good works shall be rewarded.

We are accepted through Christ’s merit alone; and the acts of mercy, the deeds of charity, which we perform, are the fruits of faith; and they become a blessing to us; for men are to be rewarded according to their works.

It is the fragrance of the merit of Christ that makes our good works acceptable to God, and it is grace that enables us to do the works for which he rewards us.

Our works in and of themselves have no merit.

When we have done all that it is possible for us to do, we are to count ourselves as unprofitable servants.

We deserve no thanks from God.

We have only done what it was our duty to do, and our works could not have been performed in the strength of our own sinful natures.

 (Selected Messages Book 3 200)

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