Walking and Talking With God


Since we have been delivered from our misery by grace alone through Christ, without any merit of our own, why must we yet do good works? 
  • Because Christ, having redeemed us by His blood, 
  • also renews us by His Holy Spirit to be His image, 
  • so that with our whole life we may show ourselves thankful to God for His benefits, 
  • and He may be praised by us.
For the Bible Tells Me So...

Romans 6:13 
  • And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 
Romans 12:1-2 
  • I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 
  • And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 
1 Peter 2:5-10 
  • you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 
  • Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion A chief cornerstone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.” 
  • Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone,” 
  • and “A stone of stumbling And a rock of offense.” They stumble, being disobedient to the word, to which they also were appointed. 
  • But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 
  • who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.
Matthew 5:16 
  • Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 
  • Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 
  • For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
The Heidelberg Catechism Lord's Day 32

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