DEV18TWO TYPES OF WORKS IN KINGDOM DEV19NOT UNDER THE LAW BUT NOT IN LAWLESSNESS

Ephesians 2:8-10Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

8 I mean that you have been saved by grace because you believed. You did not save yourselves; it was a gift from God. 9 You are not saved by the things you have done, so there is nothing to boast about. 10 God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us new people so that we would spend our lives doing the good things he had already planned for us to do.

Ephesians 2:8-10The Message (MSG)

7-10 Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

Romans 6:15Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)

Slaves of Goodness

15 So what should we do? Should we sin because we are under grace and not under law? Certainly not!

Romans 6:15The Message (MSG)

What Is True Freedom?

15So, since we’re out from under the old tyranny, does that mean we can live any old way we want? Since we’re free in the freedom of God, can we do anything that comes to mind? Hardly.