Your comment:”It is commanded. Being obedient is not a good work, it is the expected of His family members”
So Not being obedient to God’s laws are not evil works (sin)? Do we have free will to either follow the commandments of God or not?
You must be confused: Work (definition Webster’s Dictionary) n. activity in which one exerts strength or faculties to do or perform something; sustaining physical or mental effort to overcome obstacles and achieve an objective.
No. We are either slaves to sin or slaves to God. We are not our own. We are bought with a price.
When we commit to Christ, we cede the right to our own lives to Him. HE owns us now and we no longer have a choice about how to run our lives. That comes with the ownership part of something.
It's a lie of the enemy that we are our own persons and have the right to do what we choose.
Surrendering to Christ means giving HIM control to do as He wills with us.
And it's a lie of the enemy that we ever had *free will* in the first place.
A will? Yes.
Free? No.