BY THE POWER OF GOD
"For we are H is workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." - EPHESIANS 2:10 [KJV] Good works, properly so called, spring out of the inward operation of God's grace. By making the tree good He makes the fruit good [MATTHEW 12:33 ] . He works in us first the will to do that which is good, and then He gives us the power. He thus works in us both to will and to do of His good pleasure [PHILIPPIANS 2:13 ] . Under the operations of His grace we are transformed by the renewing of our mind to prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God [ROMANS 12:2 ] ; and as this will is sought after to be known and done, good works follow as the necessary fruit. All those acts of love and affection, of kindness, sympathy, and liberality towards the Lord's people; all those instances of self-denial and willingness rather to suffer than to do wrong; all those proofs of disinteres...