These are some of my favorite edifications and verses. They give me peace.
We will hear “Well done, good and faithful servant”, because we are in Christ, who is the good and faithful servant.
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Go, eat your bread with pleasure, and drink your wine with a cheerful heart, for God has already accepted your works. Ecclesiastes 9:7
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John 6:28 “What can we do to perform the works of God? ” they asked.
29 Jesus replied, “This is the work of God — that you believe in the one he has sent.”
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Matthew 3:16-17 When Jesus was baptized, he went up immediately from the water. The heavens suddenly opened for him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on him. And a voice from heaven said: “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased.” What the Father says of the Son, He says of us. This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased: Christ’s baptism sanctifies our baptism.
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A Paradox
We live under the new covenant law, the law of faith. We are righteous and holy as a gift, apart from what we do. Under the law of faith, we do not sin. We do break the whole law of Moses all day everyday, but we don’t live under that law. If righteousness comes through the law, Christ died for no reason, Galatians 2:21.
1 John 2:9 Everyone who has been born of God does not sin, because his seed remains in him; he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God.
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Isaiah 26:12 Lord, you will establish peace for us,
for you have also done all our work for us.
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Ecclesiastes 7:16 Don’t be excessively righteous, and don’t be overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself? 17 Don’t be excessively wicked, and don’t be foolish. Why should you die before your time?
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Our Priestly Role
2 Corinthians 5:16 From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective (from the perspective of the good and holy law). Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective (from the worldly perspective of the good and holy law), yet now we no longer know him in this way. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come! 18 Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. 19 That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.
20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf: “Be reconciled to God.” 21 He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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