Filled With Good Works

Introduction

Greetings…

Ephesians 2:10 ESV

10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Full Of Good Works

Complete In Every Particular.

Acts 9:36 ESV

36 Now there was in Joppa a disciple named Tabitha, which, translated, means Dorcas. She was full of good works and acts of charity.

The word full here in the original means “complete in extent or degree and in every particular.”

When it comes Tabitha’s works, they were “complete in every particular way.”

In other words she personally was “filled to the brim with good works.”

What can we learn from this passage concerning Tabitha and how her life can relate to us?

It’s from this passage we see the importance God places on Tabitha’s time management, as it is pointed out that “her whole time was filled up with works…” 1

Summary

Like Tabitha we must evaluate our lives and make certain we are striving to fill our life with good works we were created for.

We must balance our personal spiritual needs with helping others physically and spiritually.

We also learn in scripture that being full of good works isn’t enough we must also…

Abound In Good Works

Growth

2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV

8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

In Christianity it isn’t good enough to level off.

As God’s children, those transferred from the domain of darkness and into the kingdom of Christ (Colossians 1:13), we have a responsibility to not just be “full of good works” but to abound in them.

Now to be clear this isn’t possible of our own accord but because of God’s grace abounding in us making us all sufficient at all times.

In other words God allows us to keep going and keep growing “abounding” in those works we were created for.

Summary

When we think we can’t go any further, help any more, or do good any longer, remember God’s grace is sufficient to keep us going.

We put our trust and hope in our Creator to sustain us even when we don’t think we can go any further.

Conclusion

To be full of good works and abounding in such it takes perseverance and dedication.

It isn’t an easy road to travel but it is a worthy road to take.

Invitation

Isaiah 59:1–2 ESV

1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Philippians 2:6–7 ESV

6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.

Romans 10:17 ESV

17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV

6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Acts 17:30 ESV

30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Matthew 10:32 NKJV

32 “Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess before My Father who is in heaven.

2 Thessalonians 1:8 ESV

8 in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

1 Corinthians 15:1–4 ESV

1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

Romans 6:3–5 ESV

3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.

1 John 1:7 ESV

7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Endnotes

Clarke, Adam. The Holy Bible with a Commentary and Critical Notes. New Edition. Vol. I–VI. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife Corporation, 2014.