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To: annalex; Alamo-Girl; Quix; Dr. Eckleburg; MarkBsnr; Natural Law; MHGinTN
If the Protestants begin to realize that we are not saved by faith alone, but by faith embodied in good works done out of our onw free will, it is time for them to come home and stop protesting.

Tut..tut...not this Protestant. Our good works are only the accomplishments of Christ working through us. He is the vine. We are the branches. We can do nothing without Him.

I will not stand before God and say, "Look at all the things I have done for you." All I can do is stand before God and say how much more I could have done had I been more submissive to His will. I thank Him that He is merciful and understanding of my limitations.

752 posted on 07/14/2010 5:24:22 PM PDT by HarleyD
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To: HarleyD
I will not stand before God and say, "Look at all the things I have done for you." All I can do is stand before God and say how much more I could have done had I been more submissive to His will. I thank Him that He is merciful and understanding of my limitations.

I don't really see that anywhere in Scripture. I do see the Judgement of the individual. What is that Judgement? On what the individuals have done. What are they to do? The Two Commandments of Jesus; the Sermon on the Mount; the parables of Matthew 25. The belief, acceptance and great awe in the Incarnation, Passion, Resurrection and Ascendence into Heaven of Our Lord. I think that your attitude is laudable, please don't misunderstand me, but it is not Scriptural.

Phillippians 3: 11 Join with others in being imitators of me, 12 brothers, and observe those who thus conduct themselves according to the model you have in us. 18 For many, as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears, conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their "shame." Their minds are occupied with earthly things. 20 But our citizenship 13 is in heaven, and from it we also await a savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. 21 He will change our lowly body to conform with his glorified body by the power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself.

Jesus Judges all by their conduct and all things will be subject to Him.

758 posted on 07/14/2010 6:09:07 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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To: HarleyD; Alamo-Girl; Quix; Dr. Eckleburg; MarkBsnr; Natural Law; MHGinTN
Our good works are only the accomplishments of Christ working through us

If you don't choose to do the works God prepared for you to do, Christ will not do them for you. "God hath prepared [the good works] that we should walk in them" (Eph 2:10).

772 posted on 07/14/2010 7:29:41 PM PDT by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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