Why do good works if they can't save us?
Many people have been deceived into thinking that we have to do good works in order to earn and or confirm our salvation.
However, the Bible proves conclusively that salvation is by faith in Jesus alone at the exclusion of our deeds.
So what's the point?
Well, the Bible teaches that doing good works not only benefits others according to James 2 and Titus 3.8, but it also earns us an eternal reward.
1 Corinthians 3, when talking about the judgment seat of Christ, where the Lord distributes rewards into his servants, states in verse 12,
But if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, and stubble, every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare,
because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
If any man's work abide what he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
But if any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.
Eternal life is a gift that costs us nothing, but a reward necessitates us putting in the work.