Good works are a fruit of our life in Christ. They are most certainly not the root by which our righteousness is established or maintained! Christ is the Vine. We are the branches of the vine. The LIFE is in the Vine, and the fruit grows not as the branches struggle and strive to produce fruit for the Vine, but as the LIFE of the vine flows into the branches as the branches abide - rest - in the Vine. The branches have no life in and of themselves to produce anything anyway! "Abide in Me," Jesus says, "and you will bear fruit."
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Yep! All Christ, all the time! And only Christ all the time!
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1 comment:
Thanks for the link. It's amazing how quickly we turn from grace to self-effort, and from self-contrived fruit to the real thing!
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