“Not just good works but God’s work”

Examples of Good Works

Matthew 25:35-36 For I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you welcomed me into your house. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you went to see me.

Matthew 26: 7-10 A woman came up to Him carrying a precious jar of expensive perfume, and she poured it on Jesus’ head. Seeing this the disciples became indignant, protesting, “What a useless waste! The perfume could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor. But Jesus was aware of this, so he said to them, “Why are you troubling this woman? What she has just done for me is indeed a good work.

Acts 9:36 There was a disciple in Joppa named Tabitha, which means Dorcas or Gazelle. She was always doing good works and helping the poor.

1 Thessalonians 1:3 We constantly recall before God our Father the work of your faith, the labours of your love and and your endurance and waiting for Christ Jesus our Lord.

Revelations 2:2 I know your works, your difficulties and your patient suffering. I know you cannot tolerate evil-doers but have tested those who call themselves apostles and have proved them to be liars.

Acts 20:35 In every way I have shown you that by so working hard one must help the weak, remembering the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, “Happiness lies more in giving than in receiving.”

Sirach 4:31 Do not open your hand to receive and keep it closed when you should give.

God’s Work

John 9:4 While it is day we must do the work of the One who sent me; for the night will come when no one can work.

John 10:25 Jesus answered, “I have already told you but you do not believe.” John 10:38 But if I do them, even though you don’t put faith in me, believe me because of the works I do, and know that the Father is in me and I in the Father.”

John 14:11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the father in me; at least believe it on the evidence of these works that I do.

Faith and Works

James 2 : What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them,

“Go in peace, be warmed and be filled," and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself.

But someone may well say, "You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works." You believe that God is one You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder.

But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected; and the Scripture was fulfilled which says,

"AND ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS RECKONED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS," and he was called the friend of God. You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

Love of ENEMIES Matthew 5:43-48 Luke 6 : 27-36

Matthew PERFECT (19:21) = Luke MERCIFUL(6:36)

1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-3 w/out LOVE --- I AM NOTHING --- I GAIN NOTHING

PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, Let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born To eternal life.