{"id":36976,"date":"2022-09-13T13:18:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-explain-ephesians-28-10-by-grace-are-ye-saved-through-faithnot-of-worksfor-we-are-his-workmanship-created-in-christ-jesus-unto-good-works\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T13:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:18:45","slug":"please-explain-ephesians-28-10-by-grace-are-ye-saved-through-faithnot-of-worksfor-we-are-his-workmanship-created-in-christ-jesus-unto-good-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-explain-ephesians-28-10-by-grace-are-ye-saved-through-faithnot-of-worksfor-we-are-his-workmanship-created-in-christ-jesus-unto-good-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Please explain Ephesians 2:8-10, \u201c\u2026by grace are ye saved through faith\u2026not of works\u2026for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>In reading the context of this passage, we see in the 11th verse, that Paul is speaking to Gentiles who have converted to Christianity.&nbsp; It is by God&#039;s gift of grace and not through our personal merit that salvation is offered to us (verse nine).&nbsp; No one will ever be saved except as he accepts God&#039;s favor through Jesus Christ and cooperates with the divine arrangements and blessings.<\/p>\n<p>NIV&nbsp;translates the tenth verse as follows:&nbsp; &quot;For we are God&#039;s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.&rdquo; We are <strong>not saved by our works<\/strong>, but God is pleased when we strive to <strong>glorify Him through our works.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In reading the context of this passage, we see in the 11th verse, that Paul is speaking to Gentiles who have converted to Christianity.&nbsp; It is by God&#039;s gift of grace and not through our personal merit that salvation is offered to us (verse nine).&nbsp; No one will ever be saved except as he accepts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/please-explain-ephesians-28-10-by-grace-are-ye-saved-through-faithnot-of-worksfor-we-are-his-workmanship-created-in-christ-jesus-unto-good-works\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Please explain Ephesians 2:8-10, \u201c\u2026by grace are ye saved through faith\u2026not of works\u2026for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works\u2026\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}