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Sep 24, 2026
David VandercookGUEST
And the proper order of justification and sanctification plays a role in that as well.
David VandercookGUEST
You know, what's the place of good works, and what is their purpose?
Timothy AppelHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Timothy AppelHOST
So I mean, like you said, the verdict has already been given and rendered, and now we're going to hear the evidence for that verdict.
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David VandercookGUEST
I'm just throwing something out there.
David VandercookGUEST
it's good to volunteer at food pantries.
David VandercookGUEST
I'm not trying to say anything about that, but I mean, you know, they're, they're going to point to those, those good works.
David VandercookGUEST
And, and that is often how the, the world defines or, or makes a determination if one will be saved or not, if one is in heaven or not, they'll say, well, that person did a lot of good things, you know, and here, there needs to be one specific person that the good things are done for, and that's that they are done for Christ.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
The first one is Philippians 2, where St. Paul says, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
So whenever we are doing any good works, we're responding to what God has done.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
Now, there's actually more I'd like to say.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
If you would, stick around during this break, and I'll tell you more about how we should properly understand this in ways that will hopefully make sense to your doctors.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
Jesus is born son of God.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
We're adopted as sons and daughters of God.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
And we can't do anything to earn that, but we can absolutely do things based on that, that we are called to and even required to do good works as sons and daughters of God.
Joe HeschmeyerGUEST
But we no more earn our status that way than she earns the status of being your daughter by doing a bunch of chores.
Lanre OlubajiGUEST
It doesn't end there.
Lanre OlubajiGUEST
10 now says, For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works.
Lanre OlubajiGUEST
So now that you are saved by grace, you are saved unto good works.
Lanre OlubajiGUEST
Do you see that? So the Bible instructs us to walk in good works.
Lanre OlubajiGUEST
It doesn't just say, we are saved, we are saved.
Lanre OlubajiGUEST
After you are saved, what's next? Walk in what? Good works.
Lanre OlubajiGUEST
So there's an instruction of unrighteousness to walk in good works.
Lanre OlubajiGUEST
You see what I'm saying now? And we learned also last week that how we can actually walk in this thing is by depending on the ability of God.
Tumi MorabaHOST
Verse 23, let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, since he who promised is faithful.
Tumi MorabaHOST
And let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good works, not neglecting to gather together as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching.
Tumi MorabaHOST
First distinction, or first distinctive, is that we are a family that draws near.
Tumi MorabaHOST
From verses 19 to 22, the writer of Hebrews encourages us to draw near to God.
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Tumi MorabaHOST
so you don't lose the confidence that we have in Jesus.
Tumi MorabaHOST
Number three, we are a family that provokes or that agitates.
Tumi MorabaHOST
And let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good works.
Tumi MorabaHOST
We don't normally think of provoking in good terms, eh? Right? I'm sure, as I said, the word provoke, you're thinking of two siblings fighting.
Peter C. BenderHOST
Already there you've got two of the three estates.
Peter C. BenderHOST
The third section, Article 20 On Good Works, which flow out of Christians who are believers in Jesus and part of the church, and such good works direct us to civil government and society at large, and to the family in particular.
Peter C. BenderHOST
And then on the next page, not from the Augsburg Confession, but from the Large Catechism, The Fourth Commandment, Honor Your Father and Your Mother, the estate of the family is particularly articulated, uh, from the Lutheran Confessions, out of which then the estate of s- of, um, civil government also is derived.
Peter C. BenderHOST
So I take you back to the Augsburg Confession on the first page, and then we have some bullet observations there on the basis of that text.
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Peter C. BenderHOST
I think you might find this interesting, and this, this article, not that you don't find the others interesting, okay [laughs].
Peter C. BenderHOST
This article especially touches upon the unique, um, insight of the Reformation not to abolish civil government, but to support it as Paul does in Romans 13 and elsewhere, over against the radical reformers that wanted to abolish civil government.
Peter C. BenderHOST
So the Augsburg Confession says, "Our churches teach that lawful civil regulations are good works of God," that He's behind them, He's instituted them, He's granted them their authority.
Peter C. BenderHOST
Uh, Pilate said to Jesus, "Do you not know that I have power to crucify you or power to release you?" That was actually true, and Jesus affirmed it by saying, "You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above," which is to say, "The power you have over me has been given you from above." That's why we say in the creed that He was crucified under Pontius Pilate.
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Having thus finished all these things, he approved them, and blessed them, and said, Increase and multiply.
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We see then how all righteous men have been adorned with good works, and how the Lord himself, adorning himself with his works, rejoiced.
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Having therefore such an example, let us without delay accede to his will, and let us work the work of righteousness with our whole strength.
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The good servant receives the bread of his labor with confidence.
Mark FinleyHOST
Well, read verse 10.
Mark FinleyHOST
For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Mark FinleyHOST
We are his what? Workmanship.
Mark FinleyHOST
Grace not only pardons my past, but grace empowers my present.
Mark FinleyHOST
What do good works do? Good works reveal the authenticity of my faith in Christ and my reception of his grace.
Mark FinleyHOST
Good works reveal that the faith that I have, that reaches up to receive God's grace, that that faith is authentic.
Mark FinleyHOST
So throughout scripture, grace is the means of our salvation.
Mark FinleyHOST
Good works are the result of our salvation.
Wilson PruittHOST
Luther also has a high view of the communion table, but his heirs in the Moravian tradition, which wasn't universally Lutheran, but paired Lutheran pietism with the Hussite traditions that predated Luther.
Wilson PruittHOST
Beyond his issue with Luther's account of reason, what troubles Wesley specifically is Luther's description of good works and the law.
Wilson PruittHOST
Quote, Again, how blasphemously does he speak of good works and of the law of God, constantly coupling the law with sin, death, hell, or the devil.
Wilson PruittHOST
and teaching that Christ delivers us from them all alike.
Wilson PruittHOST
Whereas it can no more be proved by Scripture that Christ delivers us from the law of God than that he delivers us from holiness or from heaven.
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His work became the standard for the theological defense of the faith across all of Europe.
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Topics included Scripture and Tradition, Christ, the Pope and Church, the Sacraments, Sin, Grace, Free Will, and Good Works.
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Not only did he present the Catholic faith well, he also addressed the errors of Luther, Calvin, Zwigli, and others who were sowing confusion within the Protestant Reformation.
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Unquestionably, he was the holy hero that was sorely needed in the Church at that time.
Mike MajlakHOST
You know what I'm saying? Like, so, so the Bible would say that there's
Bryce CrawfordGUEST
not, there's not an amount of good works that we can do to, to get into heaven.
Bryce CrawfordGUEST
It's like, so, so let me, I think I asked you this as well.
Bryce CrawfordGUEST
And I'm not speaking for myself right now.
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