JESUS CHRIST

WORKS OF THE FAITH

© Carlos Padilla, February 2008

The subject of the justification or the salvation of the soul of the man, is, has been and will be fundamental in the spiritual relation with God. Nevertheless the debate between two expositions opposed in which the bases of all the religions until now known are identified, including the Catholic branch within the Christianity, as it is the personal justification by works, efforts or merits, and the Protestant bases based on the Gospel is not new where the salvation is only by the faith without works neither before nor after receiving the faith.

Before this situation before God, the individual that it looks for the Truth must become the following question: It has the man who to make some work to be accepted by God, or is God the one that makes the work by us?

The different works from which the Bible speaks can be the origin or the consequence of a life of friendship with God, and are part of the way of the Salvation when being moved by same El Salvador.

Nevertheless the Bible teaches a work nonunderstood until now within these expositions, the unique necessary work for the salvation of the man.

In order to understand that work it is necessary to read in the Bible different works from which speaks to us and as they influence in the relation between God, the man and his fellow.

We see next the difference between Works of the Law of God, good Works and Works of Faith, to face them Obra de Christ. The consequence of the study of this subject will clarify in one go for always the relation of the reader with God as far as this vitally important subject for brings back to consciousness, leaving the soul in La Paz of Christ, if the Word of God is obeyed, of course.

The man looks for the form to reconcile with God, for this reason strives willingly and often of heart in pleasing to God by means of his works and personal efforts, but God requests to us that we created in Obra of Its Son Jesus Christ, which is impregnates the rest of this study.

Works of the Law of God

In this section of works of Law like way of Justification, we found to all the religions, but we will take Bean, since she is the one that contains the Law given by God by means of angels, and does not stop to teach that the 613 rules of her are fulfilled, but to teach according to Jesus Christ who makes us understand that the end of the Law is the love, love of God, love to God and love to the fellow according to God. Like peculiar data if we added 6+1+3=10 that is the 10 Orders in which the Law is transformed, but is more. Of the 10, six are for the man of the fifth a tenth, inclusively, one is the one that reconciles to the man with God, the Saturday that is the quarter, and the three first are as far as God. Léalos in 20 Exodus or Deuteronomio 5. Finally the Teacher, the Son of God remembers to us that all the Law and the prophets summary in two: You will love the Gentleman your God yet your heart, with all your soul, all your mind and all forces and to your fellow like same.

The monks who use the Law of God to justify themselves before Him, cannot please to God, in the first place because there is nobody, excluding the Son of God that fulfills the 613 orders “the one that is free of sin, throws the first stone�?, and secondly because God provides to us with a Salvador, He makes the work of the salvation and the justification by the faith in his Sacrifice. The 10 orders are then for their fulfillment without the rules of the animal sacrifice to the being Christ the Lamb of God that clears the sin of the world, the rules, in many cases take spiritual character.

In these versicles we will see the conclusion of the justification by works of the religion, and this bond for all of them, since they preach justification in his fulfillment. Jesus Christ obeyed the Law, the man cannot but who by the faith in the Mesías:

Mateo 23

^5Antes, makes all works to be seen by the men.

Romans 3

^19Pero we know that everything what the law says he says, it to which is under the law, so that all mouth is closed and everybody is under the judgment of God; ^20ya that by works of the law no human being will be justified in front of him; because by means of the law it is the knowledge of the sin.

²⁷Where, then, it is the boastfulness? It is excluded. By which law? By the one of works? No, but by the law of the faith. ^28Concluimos, then, that the man is justified by faith without works of the law.

Good works

When reading these versicles You will reach the conclusion that the people who make good works of sincere heart by love to the fellow, people of all time, culture and religion, that has not known the Gospel de Christ, is souls touched by God and that in the resurrection will find mercy, and that if they had been preached, would have received to El Salvador that is provided God.

Genesis 3

²³ and it removed Yahweh to it from the orchard of the Edén, so that the Earth worked of which was taken. ²⁴ Echó, then, go to the man, and put to the east of the orchard of Edén querubines, and an ignited sword that revolvía by all sides, to keep the way from the tree of the life.

Deuteronomio 28

¹ Acontecerá that if you will hear the voice of Yahweh kindly your God, to keep and implement all orders that I prescribe to you today, also Yahweh your God will raise to you on all the Earth nations. 2 and these blessings will come on you all, and they will reach to you if you will hear the voice of Yahweh your God.

¹⁵ But it will occur, if you do not hear the voice of Yahweh your God, to try to fulfill all orders and their statutes that I you intimate today, whom these curses will come on you all, and they will reach to you…

Job 34

¹⁰ Therefore, men of intelligence, oídme: Far it is of God the impiedad, and Omnipotent iniquity. ¹¹ because he will pay to the man according to his work, and will repay to him according to their way.

²¹ Because their eyes are on the ways of the man, and it sees all steps. ²² there is darknesses nor shade of no death where those hide that make badness. ^{23 non}load, then, he to the man more of enough, so that it goes with God in opinion. ²⁴ it will break to the forts without investigation, and will make be to others in his place. ²⁵ Therefore, he will make works well-known of them, he upsets when them at night, and are broken.

Psalm 62

¹¹ Once God spoke; Twice I have heard this: That of God it is the power, ¹² and yours, oh Sir, is the mercy; Because you pay to each according to his work.

Proverb 10

^{16 the} work of just is for life; But the fruit of impío is for sin.

Eclesiastés 12

^14Porque God will bring all work in opinion, together with all concealed thing, is good that is bad.

Mateo 5

^{The 7} Fortunate merciful ones, because they will reach mercy.

Here we can see that the attitude of love to the fellow is a gift of God, and by them the mercy comes that takes to even believe in God and its Salvation without knowing the Gospel, much people have lived in hope of the justice of God and these will be satiated.

^16Así alum your light in front of the men, so that they see your good works, and glorifies your Father who is in skies.

Mateo 16

^{27Porque the} Son of the Man will come in the glory of its Father with its angels, and then it will pay to each according to his works.

Facts 9

then ^36Había in Jope a called disciple Tabita, who translated means, Dorcas. This abounded in good works and alms that did.

1Timoteo 6

^17The rich ones of this century commands that they are not arrogant, nor put the hope in the wealth, which are uncertain, but in the alive God, that gives all the things us in abundance we enjoy so that them. ^18Que makes, that is rich in good works, generous, generous well; ^19atesorando for himself good foundation for by coming, that make use of the eternal life.

In these passages we can see that to remain in good works, if they are not used to justify itself, they are a signal that one is near the God heart, since uses to the fellow and God.

But this type of works, that is of great blessing for it receives which them, those that nevertheless produces a super development of the ego of the man who does, either of individual moral, or of religious moral, fomented by the society first, or its religion the second, having like result the vainglory in its own justice, being understood for that reason this individual, just, santo, justified before safe God and; this it is the case of Job. This situation separates to the man from the faith, in which Jesus Christ has had to also pay by the right calls “by his works�? that also have to be saved by God, since nobody is right neither perfect nor has accepted to God totally to obey to him and to love to him as He deserves, and all this is the work of the sin. There is for this an impressive versicle: … and all that one that loves and makes lie… Apocalypse 22:15, speaks Jesus Christ talking about to one of the characteristics of which they will not enter the new Jerusalem.

Works of faith

These are the last ones of the works that the Bible shows to us; they are the turn out to look for the Spirit of God.

Marks 14

^4Y were some got angry within himself, and said: Why has been made this waste of perfume? ^5Porque could have sold by more than three hundred denary ones, and to have given the poor men. And they murmured against her. ^6Pero Jesus said: Dejadla, you bother why it? Good work has done to me. ^7Siempre you will have to the poor men with you, and when you want them you will be able to do well; but not always you will have to me.

In this text we began to see another work concept, which Christ approves in the spiritual plane. This work, that is for God, is spiritual, and deals with the relation enters the individual and God, although for the men he is not comprehensible and until not as praiseworthy as the aid to the fellow.

Juan 6

^28Entonces said to him: What we must make to put in practice works of God? ^29Respondió Jesus and said to them: This is the work of God, that you create in that he has sent.

This is the question that all man and woman must themselves raise, and this is the forceful answer of Jesus Christ to our mind. For God this it is the fundamental step that the man must give. Something that although it seems easy to which already we create in Him, is in fact and seen with impossible the human mind. Since the faith is a gift of God not a mental deduction.

Juan 10

^38Mas I do if them, although you do not create to me, you believe to works, so that you know and you create that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

This is the key so that we recognize Christ and which is his, by the works that are done,… by to its you will know them fruits… The one of Christ in the salvation occurring in the Cross and reviving to the third day. In addition, it healed, patients, physicists and spiritual, it revived dead and so many other spiritual and physical works.

Facts 13

⁴¹ Mirad, oh scornful, and asombraos, and you disappear; Because I make a work in your days, work that you will not believe, if somebody will tell it to you.

… I will give eyes Them that do not see… Again the mind of which they do not become humble before God and they leave of side its good works that are, or rather, they would only have to be by love to which it is done to them. These ego-centrists cannot understand the work of God.

Romans 4

^6Como also David speaks of the well-being of the man to whom God attributes justice without works, ^7diciendo: Fortunate those whose iniquities are pardoned, and whose sins are covered.

And the mercy, prevails on the judgment. These sagradas words, are the key of the heart of God, and the heart that we must adopt.

Romans 11

^5Así also in this time has even been a surplus selected by grace. ^6Y if by grace, no longer is by works; of another way the grace no longer is grace. And if by works, no longer it is grace; of another way the work no longer is work.

The surplus selected by grace without works of the law or good works, by the work to only have the heart prepared to God.

Gálatas 2

^15Nosotros, Jews of birth, and nonsinful among the gentile ones, ^16sabiendo that the man is not justified by works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, we also have believed in Jesus Christ, to be justified by the faith of Christ and not by works of the law, inasmuch as by works of the law nobody will be justified.

This is passage definitive as far as works of Law of God, which not save to man, because not rules can to fulfill 613 including, since this Law, call in Scriptures… the ministry of the condemnation and the 2Corintios death… 3:9 serves to perfect the man teaching that if it wants to him to be right and moral, is not going to be able to be it around God. … the one that is free of sin, throws the first stone… Juan 8:7.

Efesios 2

^8Porque by grace you are safe by means of the faith; and this not of you, because it is gift of God; ^9no by works, so that nobody gloríe. ^10Porque we are form hers, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we walked in them.

Neither by good works, nor by works of the law. Only by faith, which has to take to us to realize (if it is physically and/or psychically possible to us) good works, of good Samaritan, which God has preparation of before hand, so that we take fruit of lips that confess Their name, and as well make Obra de God, to take the seed of the Gospel. Double result: Aid physical to needed, aid spiritual for soul, for salvation, and testimony of which we are form of God, that Jesus Christ can feel proud of us, and glorified by our will to raise to Him like the alive stone and the Spiritual solid foundation to him.

Filipenses 1

^21Porque for me living is Christ, and dying is gain. ^22Mas if living in the meat it is for me to the benefit of the work, I do not know then what to choose. ^23Porque of both things I am put in Straits, having desire to start off and to be with Christ, which is very many better; ^24pero to be in the meat is more necessary because of you.

This work to which Pablo talks about, is not for him, but for us and of God, the Gospel of the Salvation.

Tito 3

^8Palabra faithful is this, and in these things I want that you insist with firmness, so that those that create in God try to take care in good works. These things are good and useful to the men. ^9Pero avoids the foolish questions, and genealogies, and containments, and discussions about the law; because they are vain and without benefit.

This is the conclusion of the state of the believers who have been born again, of the stop, that takes care in good works and the Gospel, for confirmation, to one same one besides for the others.

Santiago 2

^14Hermanos mine, what it will be useful if some says that it has faith, and does not have works? Will be able the faith to save to him? ^15Y if a brother or a sister is naked, and has necessity of the maintenance of every day, ^16y some of you says to them: You go peacefully, calentaos and saciaos, but you do not give them to the things that are necessary for the body, what it is useful? ^17Así also the faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself. ^18Pero some will say: You have faith, and I have works. Muéstrame your faith without your works, and I will show my faith to you by my works.

²²You do not see that the faith acted together with its works, and that the faith was perfected by works? ^23Y complied with the Scripture that says: Abraham believed God, and he was to him counted by justice, and was called friend of God. ^24Vosotros you see, then, that the man is justified by works, and not only by the faith.

And to conclude I have selected these two texts that are controversiales preaches with it Protestant and Catholic, since they confirm that if there are no works after the faith declaration, if are not seen facts, as a result of that God has touched our then heart: muéstrame your faith without your works (which is not possible) and I will show my faith to you by my works. Not that the works are those that save, but are the seal and the letter of presentation in our lives, the consequence of to have believed God.

Apocalypse 14

^{13Oí a} voice that from the sky said to me: It writes: Fortunate from now on the deads that die in the Gentleman. Yes, the Spirit says, will rest of his works, because their works with them follow.

^12He I come here soon, and my award with me, to compensate to each according to is their work.

Those that dies in the Gentleman, already have the Gentleman, although it would be at the moment previous to the death, and God there is not one that deceives to Him. God cannot be deceived.

CONCLUSION:

The salvation of the soul of the man, is therefore the work of God, a gift of God, as well as the faith is a gift of God, and that faith is the key to believe first in the work of the Spirit Santo whom it includes to convince to the world of sin, justice and judgment, Juan 16:8, because we needed to be saved of the eternal death in suffering and sections the presence of God, as Jesus Christ announces, El Salvador, to think that there is life after the death of the physical body, to think that God changes the vulgar mind to us manipulated by the society of every time, by a new mind like hers, able to receive the wisdom of the things of God, through the new intelligence of the new mind, to understand science of God.

The work to grant to the man the gift of the faith, which is opposite to our natural mind, but causes that we see the light of the Spirit of God, is a work or miracle of God, that faith which we received in its Son Jesus Christ, is in the sacrifice of its life in the Cross in our place to pay by all the sins of which they create in Him. The result of this work of God is that we began the work of the preaching of the Gospel, the good works by love to the fellow knowing that they will not be told us like justification, as they either make works of the fulfillment of the religion, not even of the fulfillment of the 613 statutes of the Torá.

The work of the man is therefore to love God, loving our fellow like same, by love, and without we justify ourselves before our own one it brings back to consciousness by the good thing that we are, but to replace the deficiencies of the other, as it would like us that they replaced them to us lacks if us, and the best thing than can be taken to our fellow, which we know that it changes the life here and for the eternity, is firstly to bring the message to them of the good news of the Gospel, that they understand that God is not watching its errors and their works to see if with they compensate the other, that God releases to us with Liberator, of the slavery of the load of the necessity to be able to be accepted by our efforts, the efforts of the religion, the practices and good works to the others.

Nevertheless the good works and the works of preaching are the result, and the call of which they are saved, therefore,… by their fruits you will know… Mateo 7:16. In Santiago we see that to think that somebody has accepted to God and the Mesías, is necessary that it has works that they testify of his faith, and not it faith without soon they do nothing, as is happening with recently call gospel of prosperity, where it preaches Christ so that all it goes to us or, like any God idol of mythologies, or the santoral. It is not taught to live with Him, but by convenience, not by love, as God must to us, because it has made the major of works, give its life by us, being God.

Santiago 3

¹³Who wise and is understood between you? It shows by good behavior his works in wise meekness.

^18Pero some will say: You have faith, and I have works. Muéstrame your faith without your works, and I will show my faith to you by my works.

3 1Juan

^16En this we have known the love, in which it put his life by us; also we must put our lives by the brothers. ^17Pero the one that has goods of this world and sees its brother have necessity, and closes against him its heart, how dwells the love of God in him? ^18Hijitos mine, we do not love language nor word, but in fact and in truth.

Therefore if You have received the Salvation of unique El Salvador, for all nationality, of all time and all race, Jesus Christ, the provision of God, He himself that has occurred and revived, lives their life doing the two necessary works so that You never fall of the faith until the coming of the Kingdom of God: The work of the preaching accompanied by the oration by the fellow, and the work of physical aid to the fellow, and those works along with the education of the Virtue in 2Pedro, will maintain to him in the way of Christ, Who will give love him of God to have a brotherly relation with his brothers of faith, to make the work provide to the body of Christ, has Him in all work that You do. Our Mr. Jesus Christ blesses his life and he puts to him in the works that He is preparation for You beforehand, his reward is not to lose itself in the Way of God, Jesus Christ.