Ephesians 2:10

I. God’s Masterpiece (2 Cor. 5:17; John 3:8; Psalm 100:3)
"men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the season, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering." Augustine

II. Good Works are the result (Consequence) of Salvation (James 2:17; Titus 2:14)
“In order, therefore, to secure the gospel from so fatal a charge, God has made a special provision that good works shall occupy in it a high and honorable place. That good works should save is one thing, that they should be wholly set aside is another. Not only, then, shall they, according to God's appointment, not be set aside, but they shall be raised in worth and value. They shall be made a means of glorifying God—which sets on them a higher and nobler stamp than if they merely effected or concurred in the salvation of man. They shall be done from higher, better, and purer motives—they shall be wrought by the blessed Spirit—they shall be accepted by and approved of God as fruits of righteousness, which grow upon and manifest the living branches of the only true Vine.” J. C. Philpot


III. Good Works are Pre-ordained (Rom. 9:23; Heb. 12:14; Eph. 2:2; Matt. 12:33)

IV. Exhortations to Good Works and God’s Pre-ordination do not Conflict (Titus 3:8; Matt. 5:16; 2 Tim. 3:17; Phil. 2:12-13)