My Poem - If Your Good Works Could Save You...

I have listed Bible

verses below my poem

to back up what I have

said in the poem. See

the footnote numbers

in pink in the stanzas

that refer to that

Bible verse in the

footnotes.

If Your Good Works

Could Save You

by Pamala Gayle Rudolph,  

Copyright 2016-2023

If your good works

could save you,

Then Jesus died in

vain.1

If your good works

could save you,

Then He suffered for

no gain.

If your good works

could save you,

Then John 3:16’s a lie!2

If your good works

could save you,

Then Jesus didn’t

have to die!

If your good works

could save you,

How many must you

do?3

To gain entrance into

heaven

You do not know

do you?

The Bible says

God can’t stand sin,4

Unless we’re perfect,

we won’t get in!5

God also says our

good deeds

Are filthy rags to Him!6

God’s Word says

many times

That we cannot

save ourselves,

Because we are

sinners...all

Ever since Adam’s

fateful fall.

But God made Jesus

The Way

That we could be

with Him.

He sent His Sinless

Son to die for us,

And raised Him

Home again!

God loved us all so

very much

He made salvation

free.

He sacrificed His

Precious Son

To die for you and

me.

Salvation is God’s

free Gift,

Jesus paid for all

our sin!

He bled and died,

And three days later

rose to life again!

To have His free

salvation,

Ask God’s

forgiveness of your sin,7

Admit Jesus died

and rose for you

And God will adopt

you as His kin!8

1 Galatians 2:21 I

do not frustrate the

grace of God: for if

righteousness come

by the law [good

works], then Christ

is dead in vain.

2 John 3:16 Jesus

Christ said: For God

so loved the world,

that he gave his only

begotten Son, that

whosoever believeth

in him should not

perish, but have

everlasting life.

3 Ephesians 2:8-2:9

For by grace are ye

saved through faith;

and that not of

yourselves: it is

the gift of God: Not

of works, lest any

man should boast.

4 Habbakuk 1:13(a)

Thou [God] art of

purer eyes than to

behold evil, and

canst not look on

iniquity [sin]:

5 Revelation 21:27

And there shall in no

wise [way] enter into

it [heaven] any thing

that defileth, neither

whatsoever worketh

abomination, or

maketh a lie: but

they which are

written in the Lamb's

book of life.

6 Isaiah 64:6(a) But

we are all as an

unclean thing, and all

our righteousnesses

are as filthy rags;

7 Romans 10:9 That

if thou shalt confess

[to God in heaven] with

thy mouth the Lord

Jesus, and shalt

believe in thine heart

that God hath raised

him from the dead,

thou shalt be saved.

8 Galatians 3:26 For

ye are all the children

of God by faith in

Christ Jesus.

And if you would like to

have your sins forgiven

and know you are going

to heaven when you die

here is how. Link here.