God the Father is the supreme source of all good works, as He initiates and energizes the process of salvation within us. His creative efforts are the cause, and our good works are the effect, a direct result of His divine workmanship. As the ultimate Ruler, He controls and manipulates circumstances, guiding both nations and individuals toward His purpose, much like an artist or craftsman shapes their creation to fulfill their vision. It is God who works in us, energizing us to both will and do according to His good pleasure, ensuring that our salvation and the works that follow are not our own doing but His. Salvation itself is a work of God, a process of divine creation that begins with His call and continues as He draws us to Him. He leads us to repentance, grants forgiveness, provides His Spirit, and reveals truth, creating circumstances that prompt us to choose and act in accordance with His will. Our good works are merely reactions to His initiative, responses to the desires and power He instills in us. Without being in union with Christ Jesus, drawing spiritual nourishment from Him, no true good works as defined by God are possible, for they only begin when He lives in us. God, as the perfect Creator, knows precisely where each of us fits into His grand design, molding and shaping us for specific roles in His Kingdom. He places us in the body of Christ as He sees fit, gifting us to carry out and exhibit our salvation through good works, which are the fruit of His labor in us. His purpose is to create sons in His image, a family of beings who can live in eternal harmony, and He works tirelessly to achieve this, providing everything needed—His Spirit, vision, hope, and power—to overcome human nature, though He preserves our choice to yield to Him. Thus, salvation is synonymous with the new creation, a process that God considers already completed in His confidence, yet one we must continue to work out with fear and trembling, cooperating with His purpose. Good works are not the cause of salvation but the effect of His creative efforts, a manifestation of His nature within us as we respond to His love by living as He does.

God the Father is the Source of all works, orchestrating events and shaping lives according to His divine purpose. He manipulated the circumstances that led Joseph to Egypt, ensuring His desired outcome, though not necessarily forcing the actions of Joseph's brothers. It was God who preserved Moses' life during the slaughter of the children, miraculously delivering him into Pharaoh's household and providing his mother, Jochebed, to care for him. God prepared Moses for eighty years to be Israel's deliverer, equipping him with the wisdom of Egypt. It was God who raised up Pharaoh, hardened his heart, brought plagues upon Egypt, and separated Israel after the third plague. He chose the exact date for Israel's departure from Egypt to fulfill the promise made to Abraham. God determined the path Israel would follow to the Promised Land, deliberately leading them into a box canyon to display His power by parting the Red Sea. His command directs the movements of His people, as they move forward, stop, are dispersed, or brought together by His will. God raises up and puts down leaders in the church, and He is the Creator and Designer of all things on earth and of His Family, shaping each individual physically and spiritually. He decided where Israel would camp, how long they would remain, and the path they would take next. When the church scattered, it was by God's doing, using instruments as He saw fit for His reasons. Growth and conversion are the fruit of yielding to God's creative manipulations, and without Him, no spiritual fruit can be produced, as Jesus declared that apart from Him, nothing can be done. God is reproducing Himself, creating new beings in His image, initiating this process with calling and revelation through His Spirit, transforming the outlook of the called. All things pertaining to the new creation are of God, who reconciles us to Himself, establishing peace through Jesus Christ. His initiative brings us into a new fellowship, providing the means of reconciliation even before the foundation of the world by preparing a Savior. God is a hands-on Creator, not distant, but in a close Family relationship with us, acting first to enable our responses. If He had not called us, sent His Spirit, granted repentance, or empowered belief in the gospel, we would not be transformed. His actions open doors for us to follow, and our works are simply yielding to the pressures of His manipulations. God starts and sustains the entire process from beginning to end, making possible what we become through His grace, which is favor in action. Salvation is not accomplished by our works but by His workmanship, as we are created in Christ Jesus for good works that He prepared beforehand. God infuses us with His life and character as the Head of the body, fitting us into His spiritual organism to be in perfect agreement with Him. He places each of us in the body as it pleases Him, designing and creating with infinite care for specific functions in His Family government. It is the Father who has the vision of what He is creating, forming us to fit within that vision, continually revealing Himself and His purpose to guide our conformity. God works in us both to will and to do, giving the desire, resolve, and drive to perform and accomplish His good works. He gifts us to choose the right and good, masterfully working until we make the correct choices, building character through repeated testing. All glory belongs to Him for bringing us this far, as we did not choose Him as our spiritual Parent; He initiated the relationship, favoring us by revealing Himself and placing us in His Family, making us more blessed and responsible to yield to His creative efforts.