FAITH – 2 SIDES OF A COIN

 

Many people think, faith is just believing. But faith has two sides like a coin. One side is belief  and the other behaviour. The one without the other is not faith.

The apostle James in his letter writes,

¹⁴ What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? ¹⁵ If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, ¹⁶ and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? ¹⁷ Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
¹⁸ But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your^[a] works, and I will show you my faith by my^[b] works. ¹⁹ You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! ²⁰ But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?^[c] 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? ²² Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? ²³ And the Scripture was fulfilled which says,“Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”^[d]And he was called the friend of God. James 2.

This passage is quite clear ,isn’t it ?

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.   -A.W .Tozer

Consider your idea of faith. Is it biblically accurate?

 

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