{"id":1244,"date":"2010-10-04T00:14:53","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T00:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2010-10-04T00:14:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T00:14:53","slug":"past-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/1244\/past-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/works.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Hey John,<\/span><\/p>\n

A question came to mind over the weekend regarding our past works. When we’re born again and our sins are washed away, what happens to the good? works we performed as a sinner? Are they washed away as well? We do have a new past, all things being made new :), but I think we all listened to that little voice that guided and convicted us to do good things for people even as sinners. Thanks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jim K<\/span><\/p>\n

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Good works that we may do before being born again are wiped away at our new birth. “All things become new.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Those good works are rewarded by God in this life (remember Cornelius’ alms?), but our records start out empty when we become “new creatures in Christ”.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Hey again,<\/span><\/p>\n

I just read 2 Cor, 5:10 and Rev 20: 11-13. (from the tract on “WORKS”). Whatever we have done in this body will be accounted for, good or bad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jim<\/span><\/p>\n

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But those two verses do not apply to dead men. It is whatever “we” have done, not “they” (those people we once were, before being “baptized into his death”).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Great question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

—<\/em><\/span>
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