DEAD
WORKS ARE OVER: WE SHOULD GO ON WITH GOOD WORKS.
. Heb 6:1 ¶ Therefore leaving the principles of
the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; NOT LAYING AGAIN THE
FOUNDATION OF REPENTANCE FROM DEAD WORKS, and of faith toward God.
Dead works
are works based on the knowledge of sin that brings condemnation and eventually
death. The knowledge of sin is the knowledge of the dead and it is a dead
knowledge .A dead knowledge cannot give birth to good works. Dead works are
product of dead faith which is based on the righteousness that comes by the law
which gives the knowledge of sin unto condemnation. Rom 3:20 Therefore by the deeds
of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is
the knowledge of sin.
Jasmes2:17 Even SO FAITH, IF IT HATH NOT
WORKS, IS DEAD, being alone .Since our faith is not based on the righteousness that comes
by the law but through grace in Christ the works here is not based on the law
but grace in the finished works of Christ.
God works spring
from the heart that knows that righteousness has been imputed on our spirit to
serve God as sons unlike before that sin was imputed on man unto death. . 2Tim 1:9 Who hath saved us, and
called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to
his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world
began. We have to recognize that God had purged our consciences from
dead works so that we could serve Him by grace through Jesus Christ.( Heb 9: 13-14) For if the blood of
bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the
flesh:14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without spot to God, PURGE YOUR CONSCIENCE FROM DEAD
WORKS to serve the living God The knowledge of the significance of
Christ’s death, burial and resurrection is the bedrock for good works because
good works are not based on the knowledge of sin and death. Good works are
based on love. It is based on what God did for man through Christ. (Heb
10:24 )And LET US CONSIDER ONE ANOTHER TO PROVOKE UNTO LOVE AND TO GOOD WORKS
We should
not let our conscience condemn us when we talk about the grace of God. That is
the Good News. Sin is dead so the knowledge of sin cannot give life .Christ is
life and the knowledge of Christ gives life.
Comments