The Lie of "Initial Justification" Exposed – Pastor Patrick Hines (Reformed Christian Podcast)
The Lie of "Initial Justification" Exposed – Pastor Patrick Hines (Reformed Christian Podcast) There is NO such thing as “initial justification” that you finish with your own works. Salvation is not a cooperative effort. We who were dead in sin are made alive by the power of God alone — just like a resurrection. Good works are the fruit and evidence of true living faith, never the cause of our justification. Pastor Hines unpacks this straight from the Westminster Confession of Faith (Chapter 16) and Scripture, exposing errors in Roman Catholic and Federal Vision theology.
“We are saved by faith in Jesus Christ and not by anything that we do.”
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Good Works & Getting Into Heaven - Pastor Patrick Hines Reformed Christian Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P83JwF4s2Iw&list=PLzOwqed_gET1N1JMQBXRoGgLeUHGpRW7o&index=1
We are going to walk through this masterpiece of theology from the Westminster Confession of Faith - Chapter 16 - "Of Good Works"
Chapter 16. Of Good Works.
I. Good works are only such as God hath commanded in His holy Word,(a) and not such as, without the warrant thereof, are devised by men, out of blind zeal, or upon any pretence of good intention.(b)
(a) Micah 6:8; Rom. 12:2; Heb. 13:21.
(b) Matt. 15:9; Isa. 29:13; I Pet. 1:18; Rom. 10:2; John 16:2; I Sam. 15:21, 22, 23.
II. These good works, done in obedience to God’s commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith:(c) and by them believers manifest their thankfulness,(d) strengthen their assurance,(e) edify their brethren,(f) adorn the profession of the Gospel,(g) stop the mouths of the adversaries,(h) and glorify God,(i) whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus thereunto;(k) that, having their fruit unto holiness, they may have the end, eternal life.(l)
(c) James 2:18, 22.
(d) Ps. 116:12, 13; I Pet. 2:9.
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