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This is an extract from chapter 42 of Communion With God titled Put on Love, by Herman Hoeksema, pages...

Depravity and Regeneration (8): "Created in Christ Jesus Unto Good Works"

Sanctified sinner: are you able to do works that are good, works with which God is pleased? Mind you, I am not asking whether these works justify you. I am not asking whether these works merit anything in God’s sight. I am simply asking you if you are able to do works that are good? The answer to this question is, according to Scripture: yes! Ephesians 2:10: “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” Or again, Titus 2:14: “Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.” These good works the sanctified believer performs. God does not perform them for us. The Spirit of Christ that works in the hearts of his people does not perform them for us. That Spirit who has cleansed us in the blood of Christ and who restores to us the image of God has renewed our minds and wills in order that we are able to perform good works.

Herman Hoeksema on 2 Peter 1:10

Oh, certainly, blessed it is to know that once we were called from darkness into light, that the Lord did break our hard heart, that he did bend our stiff knees, that he downed the pride of our natural existence and taught us to bow in contrition and humiliation of heart and mind before him, until we were assured that our sins were washed away in the blood of the Lamb and that we might be called the children of the Most High. But that calling in the past, if it were genuine indeed, could be only the beginning of a constant struggle to walk as children of light.

Only by bearing constantly the fruit of our calling can we make our calling and election sure.

For, brethren, he who called us is holy; and unto holiness we are called!

Depravity and Regeneration (7): Good Works

What follows is the seventh entry of a series of articles written by Rev. Wilbur Bruinsma....

When You Pray

“Because prayer is rooted in and flows out of Scripture, Bible reading and meditation are essential for a life of prayer. In our personal and private devotions, when we are alone with our God in prayer, poring over and meditating on God’s holy word makes prayer easier and richer. When we pray in the company of our families at mealtime, or with God’s people in fellowship and in public worship, God’s word is at the center of such devotions.When our lives are ones of conscious fellowship with God in the hours of the day or night, such fellowship is possible only because we have hid God’s word in our hearts, loving it, recalling it, confessing it, living by it. The relation between meditation on God’s word and prayer is reciprocal. We need to pray for the Spirit to be able to understand God’s word; we need to understand God’s word to pray by the power of the Spirit.” - Page 12-13.

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«Oh, say not that you love him when you walk in darkness. For he who loves me keeps my words. And say not that the Father in Christ came to you and made his abode with you, if you do not walk in that active love. If you do, you are a liar. For if a man love me and keep my words, then the Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him. But what then? How shall these things be? Must we, then, love him first, in order that we may make ourselves worthy of his love or receptive to his love? Must we first prepare our hearts as a suitable abode for him, before he will come and receive us into his home? God forbid! Love is always of God. He loves us first. Our love is but the return to him of his own love. He loved us in the blood of the cross, while we were still enemies. Yet the sphere of love, created within us by himself in our hearts, is the only sphere in which he will dwell with us. And in the way of keeping his word we taste his blessed fellowship. Here in small beginning. Soon in heavenly fullness. Blessed hope!» ~ Pages 14-15.