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  WE ARE HIS WORKMANSHIP
  by A.B. Simpson
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Summary: We are God's workmanship, created for good works that He has
prepared for us, and we can receive them by faith and go forward in His
power and provision.

Topics: "Faith in Action", "God's Empowerment"
Scripture References: Hosea 2:14, Ephesians 2:10

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A.B. Simpson emphasizes that we are God's workmanship, created for good
works that He has prepared for us. He encourages believers to serve not
in their own strength but by relying on Christ's resources and might.
Simpson highlights the importance of faith in our work, even when we
feel weak and helpless, assuring that God will provide the power and
fruits of our labor. He draws on the metaphor of working in the
wilderness, where true fruitfulness often emerges from barrenness.
Ultimately, he calls us to walk and work by faith, leading to the
salvation of souls and eternal fruitfulness.

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Christ sends us to serve Him, not in our own strength, but in His
resources and might. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
unto good works, which God hath before [prepared] that we should walk in
them (Ephesians 2:10). We do not have to prepare them but to wear them
as garments made to order for every occasion of our lives. We must
receive them by faith and go forth in His work, believing that He is
with us and in us as our all-sufficiency for wisdom, faith, love,
prayer, power and every grace and gift that our work requires. In this
work of faith we shall have to feel weak and helpless and even have
little consciousness of power.

But if we believe and go forward, He will be the power and He will send
the fruits.

The most useful services we render are those which, like the sweet
fruits of the wilderness, spring from hours of barrenness. [I] will
bring her into the wilderness, . . . And I will give her vineyards from
thence (Hosea 2:14-15). Let us learn to work as well as walk by faith.
Then we shall receive the end of our faith, the salvation of precious
souls, and our lives will bear fruit which shall be manifest throughout
all eternity.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/ab-simpson/we-are-his-workmanship/
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