So don't receive the grace of God in vain,
but rather give no offense in anything
that the ministry be not blamed,
but in all things approving ourselves
as the ministers of God.
What does that mean, approving ourselves?
You know, we're constantly showing
that we're doing the right thing.
We're constantly approving ourselves.
We're constantly letting our light shine before men
that they may see our good works
and glorify our Father which is in heaven.
So when we preach a salvation that's free
by grace through faith plus nothing minus nothing,
not of works as any man should boast,
we're not giving people a license to sin, okay?
Should we continue in sin that grace may abound?
God forbid.
Now obviously where sin abounds,
grace much more abounds.
But what we ought to do with that free gift,
what we ought to do with the grace of God
is to turn around and work hard and serve God.
Not because we're earning our salvation, that's done.
He already heard us in the day of salvation,
but because we don't want the ministry to be blamed,
because we want to be a good testimony
and we want our light to shine before men
because we want other people to be saved, okay?
So works are important.
The Bible says, let ours also learn to maintain good works
for necessary uses that they be not unfruitful.
What's that say?
If you don't have good works, you may be unfruitful, right?
The more works you have, the better life you're leading,
the more you're following Christ's commandments,
you're gonna be more fruitful, okay?
So it is important that we follow God's commandments
and live a clean life and do right.