Work Out Your Salvation – A Kingdom Catechism

Work Out Your Salvation

A Kingdom Catechism

The Law of God is an integral component in the sanctification of God’s people.

Q 36: How do we as believers learn to work out our salvation in this way?

A 36: As believers we work out our salvation by meditating in God’s Law, hiding it—and all God’s Word—in our hearts, and living in obedience to its teaching. (Ps. 1; Ps. 119:9-11; Matt. 22:34-40)

Jesus prayed that His followers might be sanctified by the Word of God (John 17:17). But we must apply ourselves to this task. The Word of God is living and powerful, but it is not magic. Merely possessing a Bible, or even just reading it, will not help us to realize the goal of our salvation, which is to be increasingly transformed into the image of Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 3:12-18; 2 Pet. 3:18). We must delight in God’s Law, so that we “feed” on it faithfully and well, in a diet grounded in the Law of God. If we neglect reading, meditation, and study in God’s Law, we cannot hope to be sanctified for the difficult but joyous daily work of loving God and our neighbors (Matt. 22:34-40). If we would walk the path of righteousness that Jesus walked, we must read and study His Word, beginning with His Law.

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In the Gates is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore, editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001, 2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.