***What happens if you don’t do good works? What happens to your bad works? Does it really matter to the Reformed?***
If you have no desire to do good works, I would question your faith. God gives us the desire to do good works, the ability to do good works, and the command to do good works. Not for salvation, but in thanksgiving.
Your bad works, I assume, are sins. They are already forgiven by Jesus Christ.
Yes, it really matters to the Reformed.
***If you have no desire to do good works, I would question your faith. God gives us the desire to do good works, the ability to do good works, and the command to do good works.***
Intriguing. Hypothetically, what happens to the Reformed if they resist this desire?
***Your bad works, I assume, are sins. They are already forgiven by Jesus Christ.***
So therefore, there would be no reason to avoid committing future sins, since they are already forgiven. Therefore Martin Luther’s exhortation that future sinfulness is of no importance still holds?