0432. They Showed Their Deeds

They Showed Their Deeds

"And they showed their deeds" (Act_19:18).

Just so. How else could it be? When any one is saved, they will of natural sequence show their salvation by their deeds. Salvation is manifested to others not so much in the words that we say, as in the deeds which we do.

The greatest sermon that any one can preach, is a life filled with Christian deeds.

Follow the results of every truly saved life, and you will find that there was a marked change. Even little children when they are born again, manifest it in the way they live. We do not mean that they never fuss or that they never do wrong but we do mean that a new spirit is in them, a spirit easily detected by those who know and love them.

1. The Ephesians showed their deeds by bringing their "curious arts" and their "books" and by burning them before all men. They counted the prices of these things, and found it to be, in our money, something around $10,000.

Illustration: The first person we ever baptized was an elderly woman, in South America, who had many images of saints. When she followed the Lord into the water her face shone as an angel’s. She brought her saints and idols, valued at some one hundred and fifty dollars, and delivered them to us.

To believe in Christ is to confess Christ by putting into the bonfire, so to speak, everything that dares to raise its head against Him.

2. But we can show our deeds not alone in putting away the old, but in walking in the new. In the Epistle to the Ephesians, the Apostle sets forth the need of manifesting Christ in the daily walk. He urged them to "Walk worthy of the vocation whereunto they were called," to "walk in love," and to "walk as children of the light."

3. How the Apostle did plead with the saints at Ephesus to guard their conversation and to keep their integrity in life. He told them to "put off the old man," and "to put on the new man;" he pled with them not to grieve the Spirit, that all bitterness and wrath and clamor and evil speaking should be put away from them; that fornication and uncleanness and covetousness should not once be named among them, as becometh saints. Thus are the saved to "show forth their deeds."

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR