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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
2 Corinthians 9:8, “And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:”
We need to appreciate the relationship between grace and good works.
It is very simple.
Good works are just grace abounding (2 Cor. 9:8).
And grace abounding is grace bulging.
Do you know what it is to bulge?
To bulge is to expand.
When grace bulges, it becomes good works.
Good works are the bulging, the expansion, of grace.
They are not something different from grace.
They are the coming out of grace.
Good works are the issue, the fruit, the result of grace.
They prove that the grace in us is genuine.
They are an extension of our enjoyment of grace.
So when we are enjoying God’s life and following that life, what comes out are good works.
Our experience of grace in a genuine and practical way is a testimony of the kingdom on this earth.
For example, Matthew 5:16 says, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”
Let your good works be seen.
But do not forget that our good works are just the outshining of this life that we are enjoying.
So when we are enjoying Christ as our light, the issue will be good works.
John 1:4 says, “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.”
To let our light so shine before men is to let the inner life of Christ as our light come out of us.
It is not to hold a little candle out for men to see.
It is to let the shining from our inner enjoyment of Christ beam out of us in the form of good works.
Thus, good works are another form of grace.
Ephesians 5:8 tells us that we are now “light in the Lord.”
When I enjoy the light and stay in the light, I let it shine.
Then there is an outflowing.
That outflowing is called good works.
These are practical deeds and actions particularly in relation to others.
Good works are Christ applied in a specific way to meet the needs of others.
Until Tomorrow,
With A Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Daniel Ford – Recovering
Dan Haines – Surgery Yesterday
Jim Mabe – Surgery Yesterday
Scotty Nix – Surgery Yesterday
Bill Moody – Hospice
James Burnette
Easton Fielder
Ellen Boyd
Dan Wohey
Amy Garner’s Mom & Dad
Brandon’s Dad
Denise Hulsey – Jordan’s G’Mother
Dr. Don Davis
Freddie May’s Mom
George Alexander
Jane Hick’s Mom
Joan Cronan’s Sister
John McClain
Linda Hodges’ Sister
Michael Stanley
Ricky Gipson – Ashley’s Brother
Ronnie Palmer
Rusty Turner
Tom Witcher
Tony Breedlove
James Garner’s Friend
Kim McClain’s Mother
Lonzo Christian
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Pastor & Mrs. Driskell
Ricky Stubbs
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmon’s Cousin
Tammy Shellnut’s Mother/Dad