Ken Williams Ministries

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I had the opportunity to be on my good friend Janet Boynes’s podcast. Hope you enjoy…

‎Healing and Made Free with Janet Boynes: Healing and Made Free with Ken Williams on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Healing and Made Free with Janet Boynes, Ep Healing and Made Free with Ken Williams - Feb 6, 2024

From Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph. D.

So gooooood!

“There is so much confusion about Paul's view on faith and good works. Once more, the terminology Paul used to characterize the Christian's relationship to the law makes clear Paul did not think Christians were under the jurisdiction of the Law of Moses​. Christians are no longer …​

"under the law" or its curse​

within its "lordship" ​

"bound" and "held down" by it​

"enclosed" or "kept under guard" or "imprisoned" under it​

"enslaved" to it​

"held accountable" or "liable" to its judgment

This does not mean that Paul believed that obedience to God's will was optional. It means that the Law of Moses given at Sinai is no longer in force (which includes many ritual and civil commands whose application was limited to Israel in the period prior to Christ when a theocracy was in place). But since the God who gave the Law to Moses is the same God of Jesus Christ, there is obviously a lot of continuity in what God still expects in "the law of Christ." ​

No persons can merit or deserve salvation based on what they do. Salvation is based on what God does. God alone gets the credit. No human can boast that he has deserved salvation from God.

Nevertheless, obedience to God's will is a necessary byproduct of true saving faith, since justifying faith is a "yes" to the indwelling Christ being the controlling influence of our lives. "I no longer live but Christ lives in me and the life that I now live I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me so much that he handed himself over for me" (Gal 2:20). Those who don't bear the fruit of obedience demonstrate that they lack saving or justifying faith.

When James 2 states that we are not justified by faith alone, the author is using faith in the sense of mere intellectual assent to the truth. This is not what Paul means by faith. Paul means a holistic reorientation of one's life toward the truth of the gospel, a real trust in Christ. In the sense that Paul uses the word "faith," we are justified by faith, not by the deeds stipulated in the law to be done ("the works of the law"), through the atoning death of Christ, which salvation God graciously made available at greatest cost to himself to those who deserved and merited nothing. For that reason we boast in God alone.

A transformed life in obedience to God's commands is a necessary byproduct of one's faith in Christ. It's not optional. But that doesn't mean that one in any way earns, merits, or deserves one's salvation.

Salvation is made possible by Christ's atoning death, which Jesus himself made clear when he declared that he came to give his life as a "ransom (price of release from slavery or captivity) for many" (Mark 10:45), and when he announced at the Last Supper that his "blood of the covenant" was being "poured out for the many" echoing the Suffering Servant text in Isaiah 53:12. Without Christ's amends-making death and gift of his own Spirit, we are toast. Our obedience is a necessary but undeserved response to God's prevenient grace.

Professed Christians can get it wrong at both ends. They can get it wrong by thinking that they have done something that merits (deserves, earns) their salvation. They can also get it wrong by thinking that since salvation is God's doing (which it is) their obedience to God is optional. Both of these erroneous views are heretical.”