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I'll also give you another hint. It is faith without works. It doesn't say people without faith. It's faith that works, not people. I hope you understand what I am saying here. It's not me producing faith that produces works, because if I have to produce it, then it's works.
That's in all of Paul's arguments, is that faith, a fruit of God's Spirit, without activity is a dead faith because God's Spirit is active. So, if a person doesn't have that activity in their life, they have a dead faith, and they're not saved!
Interesting too that James, like the writer of Hebrews, is speaking to Jewish people who are displaced from their homeland, and they're going through hard times. And later on, James is going to tell them, you're going through the most difficult times that a human being could go through, yet you're going through it which proves you're saved. You're trusting the Lord even though you are hurting, and you are suffering, and you can only do that because God is in your life sustaining you.
So, you are of the faith. You're listening to God's Spirit encourage you, whom you can't see, and you can't feel, yet He's ministering to you and encouraging you. Yet you have all these feelings and all these circumstances around you that you can see and feel and know as a human being. And yet you've got to trust that still small voice that says I'm with you, I will never leave you nor forsake you. Trust me!
And of course, the characteristic, according to the bible in Matthew Chapter 24, and we'll also see it in James that the characteristic of someone who is saved is enduring till the end. That's not a human effort. That's a guarantee. If you have God's Spirit, you're going to make it till the end. He didn't say how. Some of us might crawl over the finish line, but God's going to get us there. That's His promise!
I'll also give you another hint. It is faith without works. It doesn't say people without faith. It's faith that works, not people. I hope you understand what I am saying here. It's not me producing faith that produces works, because if I have to produce it, then it's works.
That's in all of Paul's arguments, is that faith, a fruit of God's Spirit, without activity is a dead faith because God's Spirit is active. So, if a person doesn't have that activity in their life, they have a dead faith, and they're not saved!
Interesting too that James, like the writer of Hebrews, is speaking to Jewish people who are displaced from their homeland, and they're going through hard times. And later on, James is going to tell them, you're going through the most difficult times that a human being could go through, yet you're going through it which proves you're saved. You're trusting the Lord even though you are hurting, and you are suffering, and you can only do that because God is in your life sustaining you.
So, you are of the faith. You're listening to God's Spirit encourage you, whom you can't see, and you can't feel, yet He's ministering to you and encouraging you. Yet you have all these feelings and all these circumstances around you that you can see and feel and know as a human being. And yet you've got to trust that still small voice that says I'm with you, I will never leave you nor forsake you. Trust me!
And of course, the characteristic, according to the bible in Matthew Chapter 24, and we'll also see it in James that the characteristic of someone who is saved is enduring till the end. That's not a human effort. That's a guarantee. If you have God's Spirit, you're going to make it till the end. He didn't say how. Some of us might crawl over the finish line, but God's going to get us there. That's His promise!
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