06/04/24 BEING RIGHT INCLUDES DOING RIGHT

06/04/24 BEING RIGHT INCLUDES DOING RIGHT

You can't be right with God if you don't do what is right.

Here are the right things that God enables and expects us to do. (yes, DOING is part of the Christian experience and life). 

Believe that Christ died and rose again for your sins in order to reconcile you to God, forgive you, regenerate you. 

Confess to God (confess your sins to Christ with contrition and confess your need for His salvation). 

Repent of (turn from) your sins (sinful life). This includes changing your mind and changing your direction. 

Follow Christ (this is the active, obedient faith of salvation). 

Confess to other people (confess Christ as your only Savior). 

This is Biblical and Historic Christianity. God initiates, provides, enables, empowers and requires human response. God is not dependent on our obedience. God will do His will. He will convert those who submit to God's will through faith or He will condemn those who reject God's will. 

Doing the will of God is the response of those who surrender to the will of God. Remember, we were saved in order to do the will of God.
(I placed an asterisk * in order to draw your attention to specific phrases).
Ephesians 2:8-10
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 *For we are his workmanship, *created in Christ Jesus unto good works, *which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them. 

By God's grace we can do that which is pleasing in His sight.
Paul prayed (as he was led by the Holy Spirit) the following prayer for believers.
(I placed an asterisk * in order to draw your attention to specific phrases).
Colossians 1:10-14
10 *That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, *being fruitful in every good work, and *increasing in the knowledge of God;
11 *Strengthened with all might, *according to his glorious power, *unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;
12 *Giving thanks unto the Father, *which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
13 *Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, *and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
14 *In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins: 

John tells us (through the Holy Spirit's leading) that a right relationship with God includes faith that does the will of God.
(I placed an asterisk * in order to draw your attention to specific phrases).
1 John 3:18-24
18 My little children, *let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
19 And *hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
20 For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
21 Beloved, *if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
22 *And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because *we keep his commandments, and *do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23 *And this is his commandment, *That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, *and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
24 *And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. *And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.