NOT OF WORKS.

Hoa Maori, Issue 17, 1 July 1890, Page 4

NOT OF WORKS.

3je?POTHING can be plainer in the Word 'TJjjif? of God than that we are saved apart

from our works altogether. There are four kinds of works spoken of in Scripture, and manifest on all hands, which all alike shut out from God. viz.: "Wicked Works Self-righteous Works (Col. 1, 21). (Titus 3,5). Law Works Dead Wokks (Gal. 2, 21). • (Heb. 9, 14). Ephcsians 2, 9 distinctly tells us that it is "Not of Works, lest any man should boast." Again, in Romans 4, 3-6, we read, "For what snith the Scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But 'To him that Wobketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness "Without Works." And again in Titus 3,4, "But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by Works of Righteousness which we have done, . but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.". We are not saved by works, but by one work, and that The finished Work of Christ. " This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent" John 6, 29. Neither are we' saved by our works and Christ, nor by Christ and our works, but by Christ alone. Good works, acceptable to God, are the fruit and evidence of faith in Him.. "Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone" James 2, 17. Faith produces good works to the glory of God.