[TRY ONE]

"God’s people are not those who feel compassion; God’s people are those who act on it."

Doing and "acting" alone do not make you God's people.
Salvation is not a reward for services rendered!
To be "God's people" one must believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior!

[avenir]

"Doing and "acting" alone do not make you God's people.
Salvation is not a reward for services rendered!
To be "God's people" one must believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior!"

You're right. "To the man who doesn't work, but who trusts God who justifies the wicked..." I think Satan concentrates much deceptive energy around this central issue, sowing lies into the world based on truths, but not THE TRUTH.

Moralism isn't just a shabby substitute for Christianity, it's demonic with its phony goodness and its attempt to earn from God what He declares to be a gift! Cain tried to offer God the product of his own sweat, but Abel knew that "without the shedding of blood their is no forgiveness of sin", and brought what God had created for sacrifice.

We'll never do the "work" of God if we don't first accept the unearnable Gift, from which all true work flows. Like Cain this seems to offend us, since we have it ingrained in our minds that everything must be paid for!

Everything must be paid for, but it is GOD WHO HAS PAID!