Created For Good Works

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Ephesians 2:8-10• 8For by grace you have been saved

through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

• 9not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

• 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

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Created for Good WorksSalvation is by grace through faith

not by works

Grace is God’s undeserved favour.

Faith is a response to grace. That faith itself is a gift from God as we were spiritually dead when God made us alive. (Eph 2:5)

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Exhortations to good worksTitus 2:7 (ESV) • 7Show yourself in all respects to be a model of

good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,

1 Timothy 5:9–11 (ESV) • 9Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than

sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband,

• 10and having a reputation for good works: if she has brought up children, has shown hospitality, has washed the feet of the saints, has cared for the afflicted, and has devoted herself to every good work.

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Exhortations to good works• 1 Timothy 6:17–18 (ESV) • 17As for the rich in this present age, charge them

not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.

• 18They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share,

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We are the Workmanship of GodEach is unique fashioned by

the Master’s Hands

The Master deals with the flaws in our lives.

The function is different and so there is no need to compare or to be jealous or to be boastful.

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CREATED IN CHRIST JESUS Faith is a LIVING faith in union with Christ not just a

SAVING faith

We are a new creation. Not patched up. (2 Cor 5:17)

Example of Jesus of a life in doing good– Acts 10:38 (ESV) – 38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy

Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

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NEW PURPOSE

Created for good works that God has prepared long ago

The works God has prepared are priceless