Faith and Works

An exposition of Eph 2:9-10
Outline:
Introduction
What is so different about Christianity?
What is the relationship between faith and works?

1. Not of works (v. 9)
2. For good works (v. 10)
3. God prepared [them] beforehand that we should walk in them (v. 10)

Conclusion

Spurgeon: “Love to Christ burns like a fire in the breast that has conceived it; and, as it burns, it makes the heart to glow, and to become transformed to its own nature. You have seen a piece of iron put into the fire, all black or rusty, and in the fire it has gradually become red with heat; and, as it has reddened, it has thrown off the scales of rust, until at last it has looked to be itself a mass of fire. The effect of the love of God, shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost, is to burn off the rust and scales of sin and depravity, and we become pure love to God through the force of the love of God, which takes possession of our being.”