Praise God for people who have a passion for Christ. How true that we have the freedom and grace to live our lives for the glory of God!  Our standing with God is secure spiritually and no amount of good works can add to that standing. Knowing Christ is only possible by Christ living in us. We can not simply know Christ on our own. Even satan knows and believes who God is, and yet he is still at war with God. It is when we are drawn by the Holy Spirit and we have received, and allowed Christ into our lives that we truly know him. When this occurs we can know that we are Christians by our love one to another.  The greatest commandment of all, is that we Love the Lord our God, and the second greatest command is to love one another.  I think that we always need to be careful, like Paul in Galatians says, that we examine ourselves. It is true that no works will save us, and works are like filthy rags in comparison to his grace and Love for us, but we will by the empowering of the holy spirit produce good works.  If we have no fruit, then the question we should be asking is "Are we branches that are attached to the true vine"? Faith without Works is Dead.  You cannot show faith to non believers without works. Same way with your spirit. Your spirit is only visible to others by your body. Eg.breathing,moving arms etc.  Jesus said that we were going to be his witnesses,  We need our earthly bodies to actually be a witness to non believers.  The bible teaches us how to live, act,treat others,what to stay away from etc.  These are all "works of service".  Is this what saves me?  Of course not, but because I love my God so much and the Holy Spirit is continually working its work in me it moves me to good works. 

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