{"id":582,"date":"2025-01-17T05:17:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T05:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newcreationcity.org\/?p=582"},"modified":"2025-01-17T05:26:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T05:26:53","slug":"the-believers-factory-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newcreationcity.org\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"The Believer&#8217;s Factory Settings"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"582\" class=\"elementor elementor-582\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-28eaddc1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"28eaddc1\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-324b17f7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"324b17f7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Discipleship Devotional, January 17th, 2025<\/strong><\/p><p>For we are God\u2019s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.<br \/>\u2013 Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)<\/p><p>As believers, our factory setting is to do good works. The Apostle Paul writes in our anchor text that God created us in Christ Jesus for this very purpose. Although in the previous verse he clearly states that our salvation is not by our good works, he emphasizes that we have been born again in Christ for the purpose of doing good works.<\/p><p>God is not indifferent to good works. There\u2019s a kind of &#8220;grace message&#8221; that implies God doesn\u2019t care about what we do. This is absolutely untrue. The very purpose of redemption was because God cared that we were lost in sin. In fact, the reason we were lost in the first place is that God cares that sin should not thrive in His presence. Therefore, any sermon that makes you comfortable in sin is not from God.<\/p><p>In his letter to Titus, the Apostle Paul affirms this truth: the believer is redeemed unto good works, showing us the mind of God.<\/p><p>For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say \u201cNo\u201d to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope\u2014the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.<br \/>\u2013 Titus 2:11-14 (NIV)<\/p><p>Here, Paul emphasizes what the true grace message should do in people\u2019s lives. It should teach them to say &#8220;No&#8221; to ungodliness and to live for God. In verse 14, he explains that Christ died to purify us and make us a people eager for good works. The King James Version describes us as being \u201czealous\u201d for good works. This is our factory setting.<\/p><p>One clear sign of a believer is an eagerness to live for God. We are zealous for good works, not zealous to make people comfortable in sin. 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