{"id":38247,"date":"2025-11-23T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38247"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:09:01","slug":"251124-hedid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251124-hedid\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s What He Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38249 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251124_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251124_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251124_1-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How would you fill in this blank: a person is made right with God through\u2026what? A person is made right with God through\u2026being good. Pay your taxes. Give sandwiches to the poor. Don\u2019t drink too much, or drink at all. Christian conduct, that\u2019s the secret. Suffering, there\u2019s the answer. Doctrine, that\u2019s how to be made right with God.<\/p>\n<p>No, no, no. All of the above are tried, all are taught, but none are from God. In fact, that\u2019s the problem \u2013 none are from God. Who does the saving, you or him?<\/p>\n<p>Romans 3:28 says, \u201cA person is made right with God through faith.\u201d Not through good works, suffering, or doctrine. They may be the result of salvation, but they\u2019re not the cause of it. Faith in God\u2019s sacrifice, in the gift of his Son. It\u2019s not what you do; it\u2019s what he did.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NYaAHCKALpHywaTtzrm8NxFrxMSf4vLZycr9MOW3N7OwMNLXb9ITHXPIvJaDKJKe_9zlqnFArPXwyEqmwjHAWBQM3iFmGqGMmOc3Krq_KYAgEVPXmZD1tmWW853tyVE=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/maxlucado.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LucadoInspirationalReader_L1.jpg\" alt=\"The Lucado Inspirational Reader\" width=\"100\" height=\"132.87037037\" border=\"0\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"The Lucado Inspirational Reader\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=2b48502b75&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D2b48502b75%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762998269695000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1217jxyrNhljQ5visk7aC7\"><em>The Lucado Inspirational Reader<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How would you fill in this blank: a person is made right with God through\u2026what? A person is made right with God through\u2026being good. Pay your taxes. Give sandwiches to the poor. Don\u2019t drink too much, or drink at all. Christian conduct, that\u2019s the secret. Suffering, there\u2019s the answer. Doctrine, that\u2019s how to be made right with God.<\/p>\n<p>No, no, no. All of the above are tried, all are taught, but none are from God. In fact, that\u2019s the problem \u2013 none are from God. Who does the saving, you or him?<\/p>\n<p>Romans 3:28 says, \u201cA person is made right with God through faith.\u201d Not through good works, suffering, or doctrine. They may be the result of salvation, but they\u2019re not the cause of it. Faith in God\u2019s sacrifice, in the gift of his Son. It\u2019s not what you do; it\u2019s what he did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38250,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38247\/revisions\/38250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}