MEDITATION NOTES ON EPHESIANS 2:10 (GOOD WORKS PART 9) - CONCLUSION

What are these Good Works?

A. Industry: Good service towards an employer (or client)/master/leader (1Sam 19:4, Eph 4:28, Rom 12:11, Col 3:22-25)

-Your 9 to 5, your side gig, your business or your trade can be a good work if you do it the way God wants it done!

B. Holy living:

-1Pet 2:12 explains the good works in Mt 5:16 as those relating to our conduct before God & man.

-James 3:13 shows that wise and knowledgeable men live holy.

C. Ministry:

-Works done for the sake of God's people and God's name/house (Neh 5:19 &13:14).

-The office of a Bishop is a good work (1Tim 3:1), and the Bishop ought to represent good works in doctrine & all things (Titus 2:7)

D. Purpose:

-God's specific assignment for an individual (Eph 2:10, Jer 1:5, Acts 26:18, Mt 1:21)

-Helping/enhancing another person's assignment. (Mk 14:6-8 & Mt 26:10-12). This woman could not do a lot of things, but did the "little" she could, then Jesus showed us how powerful that "little" was. What CAN you do?

E. Power: Works of power done in the name of Jesus, exactly as Jesus did them, done now in His stead (Jn 10:32, Acts 10:38 & Jn 14:12, Mk 16:17-18).

F. Giving & hospitality:

-Readiness to distribute & willingness to communicate wealth. It's implication is that we're laying up a good foundation against the time to come & laying hold on eternal life (1Tim 6:18).

-Raising children, lodging strangers, washing the saints' feet & relieving the afflicted (1Tim 5:10).

-Good works & almsdeeds, taking care of widows (Acts 9:36&39).

-Pure & undefiled religion before God & the Father is to exercise oneself in good works (visit the fatherless & widows in their affliction, keep self unspotted from the world & bridle own tongue).

It simply is time to go be, time to go do, all that the Father has ordained!