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But now that you have been saved, you have plenty to live for. This is kind
of like buying a car. It's a gift that God has given to you after you've been
saved, a package plan called salvation. And in there, Friends (it's all part of
the plan), is the opportunity for you to do something for God. That's the
grace of God again in your behalf.
The final power word (verse 10): "For we are His workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should
walk in them." Peripateo—walk. Walk around. Make your way around life.
Making your way through life today isn't easy, Friends, unless you're a part
of the bigger plan, unless you're living according to a bigger plan.
God has big ideas for you. Making your way through life, working for Him—
that's a part of His big idea, His big plan for you. There are a lot of Christians
who are doing nothing, but there are no Christians who have nothing to do.
It's just like buying a car. God puts together a deal and He gives it to you as
a gift. All you have to do is receive that gift.
If someone gave you a new car, all the features listed on the sticker price in
the window would come with the gift of that car. Salvation is like that. Not
only is being adopted into God's family on the sticker, and receiving God's
inheritance and a whole lot more, but having a purpose to live is on the
sticker as well.
When you receive the gift of salvation, my Friend, you also receive meaning.
You receive purpose and direction for life. That's true because that's just the
kind of God He is.
Tami Weissert: Wood, this is so important but easy to be confused about.
Can you read that whole passage just one more time?
Woodrow Kroll: Sure. Listen to this: "For by grace you have been saved
through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a
result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that
we should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV).
Tami Weissert: Before we're saved, don't worry about works. What we do
has nothing to do with salvation. But once we're saved, it's then that works
matter.
Woodrow Kroll: Right. We don't work to be saved, but when we're saved,
we're created to work. And this work simply means to serve the Lord Jesus.
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