The Belgic Confession

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Reverend Michael Voytek | Dickinson, North Dakota

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The Belgic Confession

Series: Lord's Day · 92 of 133

7/14/2013 (SUN)

| Bible: Matthew 7:17-18; Hebrews 11:6

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Belgic Confession of Faith (1561)
Article XXIV (Part 1)

Man’s Sanctification and Good Works

Leader: We believe that this true faith, being wrought in man by the hearing of the Word of God and the operation of the Holy Spirit, sanctifies him and makes him a new man, causing him to live a new life, and freeing him from the bondage of sin. Therefore it is so far from being true that this justifying faith makes men remiss in a pious and holy life, that on the contrary without it they would never do anything out of love to God, but only out of self-love or fear of damnation.

People: Therefore it is impossible that this holy faith can be unfruitful in man; for we do not speak of a vain faith, but of such a faith which is called in Scripture a faith working through love, which excites man to the practice of those works which God has commanded in His Word.

Leader: These works, as they proceed from the good root of faith, are good and acceptable in the sight of God, forasmuch as they are all sanctified by His grace. Nevertheless they are of no account towards our justification, for it is by faith in Christ that we are justified, even before we do good works; otherwise they could not be good works, any more than the fruit of a tree can be good before the tree itself is good.

2 Cor. 5:17; Col. 2:13, 3:1-10
Gal. 5:6
John 15:5-6; Matt. 7:17-18; Heb. 11:6

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