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Lord’s Day 24 · Faith & Good Works
Are We Rewarded for Good Works?
Taught by
Jeremy SegstroYarrow, British Columbia- Q62
Why can’t our good works be our righteousness before God, or at least a part of our righteousness?
Because the righteousness which can pass God’s judgment must be entirely perfect and must in every way measure up to the divine law. But even our best works in this life are all imperfect and stained with sin.
- Q63
How can our good works be said to merit nothing when God promises to reward them in this life and the next? (1)
This reward is not merited; it is a gift of grace.
- Q64
But doesn’t this teaching make people indifferent and wicked?
No. It is impossible for those grafted into Christ by true faith not to produce fruits of gratitude.
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Pastor Jeremy Segstro was born 30 minutes from the center of Canada, in Winnipeg Manitoba, where he spent his formative years. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Providence University College in Otterburne Manitoba, before travelling East to receive a Masters of Divinity from the Canadian Reformed Theological College. God decided that he should experience all of Canada, from East to West, and he has been pastoring in British Columbia since October 2019, first in Cloverdale, and now in Yarrow.
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