Naked Bible 213: Do Good Works Contribute to Salvation?

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

What is the proper biblical relationship between faith and works? Do good works contribute to salvation? If not, then why should we care about the way we live? Personal holiness is something taught in Scripture, but the desire to please God in our lives often leaves Christians guilty when they fail. Believers begin to suspect God doesn’t love them any longer—or at least not as much. The result is that the clarity of the gospel gets muddled. This episode of the podcast aims to help us think clearly about grace, faith, and works in the Christian life.

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0:26.3	Welcome to the Naked BiblePodcast.com.
0:28.3	To the NakedBibletpodcast, episode 213, do good works to attribute the salvation on the
0:32.6	layman, Tray Strickland.
0:34.1	He's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heizer.
0:36.4	Well today, talking about salvation, I guess it's the number one topic.
0:42.2	If there is a number one topic, it's kind of a big deal here.
0:47.1	We've touched on good works several times, so I'm interested to see what you add to the
0:51.3	conversation.
0:52.6	Yeah, I mean, this keeps coming up and I remember in our, this kind of grows out of the
0:57.3	Q&A episode that we had after the Book of Hebrews because the Book of Hebrews is just
1:03.2	really so focused on believers staying in the faith.
1:10.2	We often talked in our series in Hebrews and then of course in the Q&A about the emphasis
1:16.2	there is to keep believing.
1:18.2	That's not to do X number of works and then you sort of cross the finish line, you break
1:23.3	the tape and then you're in.
1:25.1	There's just the subject matter in Hebrews often lent itself to this conversation about
1:31.5	faith and works and lapsing in faith.
1:34.7	Does that mean I sinned?
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