What's going on, guys? Question number 33 in the catechism, and it says, should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works or anywhere else? Should we seek our own salvation through our own works? The answer is no, they should not, as everything necessary to salvation is found in Christ.

Everything that you need to be saved is found in Christ.

To seek salvation through good works is a denial that Christ is the only Redeemer and Savior.

It's to deny Christ to say, by being good enough, which is what every other religion

says, by doing enough things, by being moral enough, by trying to outweigh my bad with my good,

what you're doing is you're denying Christ as the only redeemer and save it.

You're saying there can be another redeemer, that I can redeem myself, that I can save

myself.

And by saying that, and by living that out, you are denying Christ.

Galatians chapter 2, 16, says, yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law,

but through faith in Jesus Christ.

So the law, we've talked about this before, was never meant to save us.

You're trying to obey the Ten Commandments perfectly can never save you because you can't do it.

And so we're not justified or made right with God

by the works of the law, but through faith in Jesus Christ. So we also have believed in Christ

in Jesus in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law because by works

of the law, no one will be justified.

This can be a big shot to the ego because it says you can't save yourself, you can't be good enough,

you can't put God in your debt, it's only by faith alone. But it also can be a great resting place.

To say that, God, I can hang up this heavy apron of works that I'm wearing. And I could just trust in Jesus to save me.

And through that trust in Jesus,

I can walk in obedience because I know he loves me

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