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Can an unbeliever please God?
Can a Christian please God?
Does everything that we do please God?
When it comes to sanctification, we tend to focus on works.
But would like to help us with this a little bit.
The focus of justification is faith, but the focus on sanctification is also faith.
So I ask…
Do we believe that the same message that saved us is the same message that sustains us?
Let’s have some fun today.
Definition of Sanctification
Dr. Wayne Grudem - Sanctification is a progressive work of God and man that makes us more and more free from sin and like Christ in our actual lives.
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The Two Thieves on either side of Christ - Tertullian said, “Just as Christ was crucified between two thieves, so this doctrine of justification is ever crucified between two opposite errors.”
A. Legalism
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An easy way... one is saved by embracing Christ in faith and obedience.
2.
Obedience is a condition, even subtle, for our justification.
This is the pressure put in us in our sanctification.
No performance in sanctification then no justification.
Making our position with Christ conditional on our works is a direct attack on our justification.
3. We are not saved by works, but we are sustained by good works.
We are saved by both faith and good works.
Like Screw tape letters... Christianity And.
Instead of beings saved by grace through faith and works being a fruit of faith.
It is faith and works.
Our Roman Catholic friends and … surprise, Wesley.
*A plain account of Christian Perfection – John Wesley.
Many will say that I misunderstand him, but after reading this little book.
I don’t think I am.
He really seems to be urging sinless perfection as the evidence of a true Christian.
But this is where the reformers departed from Rome.
Yet it remains in today’s evangelicals.
You might be surprised of how many.
B. The other extreme.
Antinomianism.
This is what I am accused of
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Which remember… Martin Lloyd Jones said if you are preaching the gospel correctly, people will accuse you of being antinomian.
No more law.
Some dispy’s.
1. Saved by grace alone... not by works... and works according to the law have no place in our lives at all.
2. When we become Christians, we are released of any obligations to uphold any of the moral laws of God.
3.
I got friends who are antinomians... this is for real.
But, today we will focus more on the legalism stuff.
Why?
Because if you are an antinomian then you are not supposed to care about what I say next.
II.
What are Good Works?
Heidelburg Catechism: Question 91 - what are good works?
Only those which proceed from a true faith, are performed according to the law of God, and to His glory; and not founded on our imaginations or the institution of men.
A. You gotta actually have faith true faith in Christ.
This is made clear in Cain and Abel.
According to Hebrews Cain was rejected because of lack of faith not because of his sacrifice (Grain offerings).
Without faith it is impossible to please Him.
Sadly, salvation is many times justified by Works not Faith.
- But moreover…anything that does not come from faith is sin.
Dr. John Piper - The most penetrating and devastating definition of sin that I am aware of in Scripture is the last part of : "Whatever is not from faith is sin."
The reason it is penetrating is that it goes to the root of all sinful actions and attitudes, namely, the failure to trust God.
And the reason it is devastating is that it sweeps away all our lists of dos and don'ts and makes anything, from preaching to house-painting, a candidate for sin.
In the original language, this is stressed even more than in our versions: it says, "Everything which is not from faith is sin."
Anything, absolutely any act or attitude which is owing to a lack of trust in God is sin, no matter how moral it may appear to men.
God looks on the heart.
Hebrews
So do you now see why I keep pressing the issue.
FAITH FAITH FAITH.
But the premium for the church today is WORKS WORKS WORKS.
No matter what your work… no belief no way.
B. It actually has to be for His glory and not our benefit.
God will not help us to live a holy life unless you use the means that He has given us to live that life.
Why?
Because God has chosen the means of sanctification that will bring Him alone glory.
C.
It actually has to be those that God required.
Jesus summarized them in the Great Commandment.
These are the good works.
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On the legalism side.
If we do not know what good works are then we will continue to create new laws.
This is what we have been doing for years.
2.
My confession... the 1689 LBC with the Westminster Confession.
We are not bound to any inventions of man’s zeal... no matter how good the intentions may be.
Secular music.
Christian music.
The way we were to dress at church.
Drinking alcohol.
Many good intentions and good ideas, but we are binding the conscience of the people to laws invented by men.
And people feel like they are under condemnation before God because they break men’s laws.
Ezekiel 18
- Some may be very good, but we cannot bind them as laws of God.
They are the laws of men.
The 10 commandments
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On the antinomian side – who cares.
C.
But we need to have these laws to keep people from breaking the real laws.
People will then fear the laws of man more than the laws of God.
And we will punish for the laws of men and not for the laws of God.
People will fear man more than God.
will then fear the laws of man more than the laws of God.
D. But more interesting... this is where we are more susceptible.
We make new laws we can keep because we know that we can’t keep the 10 commandments.
We bind our people’s consciences to laws that are not God’s.
Easier and so they believe that they are doing good, when they are not.
Sermon on the mount.
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