There are rewards for good works. They are called crowns and they are given for works done by the Holy Spirit working through us in which they were pure and not flesh driven. Those crowns are given at the Judgment Seat of Christ to only believers. This is also called the Bema seat judgements because they are alikened to the rewards given after a race to those who finished. Those crowns are then thrown at Jesus Christ's feet at the coronation of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb because it is He and He alone who all honor and glory is due.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1162851I disagree, we are not robots. We choose. God would not
have it any other way. He wants us to choose freely for
Him. Our love of Him would mean nothing if this weren't
true. Read the below and blessings, you are dear....Ac 11628..
Oh I forgot. You don't have the Holy Spirit within you and you have never felt what this was like. Surely I choose to walk after the Spirit of God, A Choice but when the Holy Spirit is doing it through you after you are obedient to do the work it is unbelievable what happens and how things are supernaturally accomplished. It is wholesale different than things done in the flesh. It is not a tingly feeling. It is a power that you understand is not of yourself. But sadly you won't ever get to experience that until the Holy Spirit comes into you and you are baptized by Him at your salvation. Until that happens these things are just foreign to you.
Ac 11628..,
Don't be uspet with me, I am not arguing about the presence
of God the Holy Spirit in a person. I was trying to clarify
that false belief, it is God alone that does all the good
works through us. No, we cooperate with His grace and
choose to do a good work.
Let me paste again someone explaining it better than I can.
There's the Scripture to back it up if you're Bible Alone.
It will be a mystery until we die how God's grace and Him
not interfering with our free will choice to cooperate
with this grace...happens.
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"Some Protestants insist that it is the faith that does the work in us not we ourselves.Faith (God's gift to man through His Word - Eph 2:8; Rom 10: 17) is a necessary motivation for us to obey
but it does not make us obey. Man has a choice to resist or yield, therefore the obedience is our responsibility. It is our obedience in response to faith that brings justification (and Eternal Life). Justification then brings "perfect" or "complete" faith, the proof we have that Eternal Life (See John 3:36!). Further, Eternal Life is something we possess in degrees and that corresponds to how close we have grown to Christ. It is Eternal Life we are given not a promise of the eternal possession of that life. That Life, however, is so powerful that nothing in all the universe, but one's own self will and sin, can remove us from Christ's hand (Romans 8:35-39)."
