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Those who struggle with the law/gospel distinction remind me of a person I met shortly after my brother passed away.

I was volunteering in the church office and a man who was waiting in the lobby struck up a conversation with me.

I shared the news regarding my brother’s passing. He looked at me directly and told me that my brother died because we “did not have enough faith.”

The first thought that went through my mind was, “How much is enough?”

It was this question, a common notion in Charismaticism, which drove me into the Scriptures and in turn to the Reformed faith.

If good works are the cause/ground, rather than result/fruit of justification and sanctification, how much is enough?

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it? Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? (Romans 6:1-3, NASB)

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship,

created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. (Ephesians 2:8-10, NASB)