Motivation for Good Works

What is Christian Ethics?
-In general, Christian ethics is the attempt to understand what it means to live and to think like a Christian.

8 Distinctions of Christian Ethics
-Built upon a objective theistic worldview
-Affirms that there are moral absolutes
-Are obligatory (they are not suggestions but mandates for followers of Christ)
-Perfectly modeled by Jesus Christ
-Recognize and seeks to participate in God's moral order already present in created order
-Ultimately Universal
-Attainable for Spirit-indwelled believers (not tempted beyond what you can handle)

Not the means of earning merit w/ God but rather your natural result of merit given to you when you were saved

Read that last one again. The rules and morals and laws that are found in scripture are not there for you to try to work you way into heave or try to earn God's favor. We are born in sin with a sinful nature and when we become saved, our new nature is in constantly battle with our old sinful nature. I wanted to make not of this final distinction of Christian Ethics because I believe that sometime we fail to see what God has ALREADY done for us.

When you become saved, something is suppose to change in you. You should act, talk, and live differently so the laws and rules found in scripture should no longer feel like a burden but should feel easy (Matthew 11:30 For My Yoke Is Easy But My Burden Is Light) the reason it is light because that is why you were created. You were created in the image of God and were created to live out these good works not because they save you but because they prove you are saved, that something inside of you has changed.

So I leave with you this thought.

What do you feel of the rules and regulations given for you to live that are found in scripture? Are you trying to work you way in heaven?

Are they hard and burdensome for you?

Or are they enjoyable because God has radially changed you life?

Think About It...What Is Your Motivation For Good Works