Faith in Action- 5

Faith without Works:

James 2:14–26 ESV

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Faith is action- Acts 17:28

Acts 17:28 ESV

for “ ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “ ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

Faith is a confession that is lived out in our actions

What are works?

Action-

Vine’s Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words Deed, Deeds

1. ergon (ἔργον, 2041) denotes “a work” (Eng., “work” is etymologically akin), “deed, act.” When used in the sense of a “deed or act,” the idea of “working” is stressed

FAITH without proof to back it up

“Can that faith save Him?

Working in Faith- or the Working of Faith

When we work our faith

Faith becomes active

James 2:22 ESV

You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;

It was the actions of Abraham that we look at and it should challenge us to action

“Abraham believed”- this made Abraham act