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Faith and Corresponding Action !

  • Writer: Evangelist/Bobby Lewis
    Evangelist/Bobby Lewis
  • Apr 11, 2020
  • 5 min read

FAITH AND CORRESPONDING ACTION : James is not talking about a need that you have prayed about. He is not talking about a note on your house, or the rent payment when he says, "faith without works (corresponding actions is dead." He is talking about and individual who came saying, "I don't even have any food or clothes. Can you help me ?" James said faith with God actions to meet that man's or that woman's need would be dead faith . In other words, you wouldn't have help that man at that woman at all if you said, "Go, brother or sister, and be warmed and be fed or God bless you. I have faith that you will be fed. I have faith that your need will be supplied. God bless you, my brother or my sister." James said faith without some action to give that woman or man some clothing, or food to help them in their need, that faith is there. That man a woman didn't want faith, he or she wanted food. They needed corresponding action to fill that need. They didn't need someone to say, "I believe," they needed someone to say, "I will help by giving." James goes further by saying, "Yes a man may say, thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works." (James 2:18) . Remember, he is still talking about this individual who will come and say, "I have need of clothing, and I have need of food." Someone might say, "I'm going to show you what great faith I have. I will believe God for you, brother, or sister and God will supply your need." James says, "if you're going to show me your faith by not doing anything but believing, I'll show you my faith by what I do for them. In other words, our give them some food and clothes. Then I will believe God to supply my needs." The kind of faith that says, "Oh, brother or sister, I believe that your needs will be supplied. I believe it will all work out," without some action, is dead faith, as far as that man or woman is concerned. That man a woman will go off cold and hungry you had the necessities that they needed, and your faith hasn't help him or her unless there is some action on your part to supply the need. James said, "if you could show me your faith without works, what I'm going to do is show you my faith by my works [corresponding action]." Then James admonished us to be doers, not just hearers. "But be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hero of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgettteth what manner of man he was." (James 1:22-- 24). That is what a man would do, or vice versa what a woman would do. If he or she is only a herarer of the Word. They hears what the Word said about them. They sees what manner of person God says they is. The mirror he is referring to is the Word of God, for the word of God accurately reflects to us what God says we are. That's why so many saints a runaround, there are sinners saved by grace. You either a saint or center, you can't be both. A hearer of the Word is like a man who looked into the Word and said, "Thank God, I'm redeemed from the curse of the law. I'm also delivered from the authority of darkness, and I have world-- overcoming faith demon overcoming faith residing on the inside of me. Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world." Oh yes, faith speaks, fear also speak. Then he forgot it all when things go wrong. When the storms of life come up against you. He or she is only a hearer. They saw they had authority. They saw that faith could remove problem areas (mountains). But when they goes out to face the everyday circumstances of life, they quickly forgets what they saw and they has no corresponding actions toward what the word said they was. They falls back into the negative stream and just says what the world says. "Well, I knew it, nothing ever works out for me. Or I can do this I can't do that, the devil always throws a monkey wrench in my deals. Nothing works out for me. That's the way the cookie crumbles." They are defeated by their attitude of hearing only. But if he or she is a doer of the Word, when he or she faces the heart situations in life and it looks like the devil has the upper hand, he or she begins to quote God's Word and say what God said about them. You see your identity is in the Word itself your life is hid in Christ not in the world. He or she says, "I proclaim that I am delivered from the authority of darkness. In the name of Jesus whose I am an in whose I serve, I'm an overcomer. I overcame evil with good. Thank God, no weapon formed against me will prosper. Whatever I do will prosper." Then would be corresponding actions toward that situation, not cowering in fear, medicating or on drugs and alcohol. These are the things hearers do. That is not resisting the devil. They would be resisting the devil with God's Word. Some say, "Oh, yes, I believe the Word when I see it happen." James has something to say to you. "Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead ? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar ?" (James- 2:19--21). Keep in mind, when the Bible uses the word works, it is talking about corresponding actions. Abraham wasn't justified because he said, "I believe you, God." It was because Abraham acted on what God said. He had corresponding action. Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way ? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." (James 2:25--26)

 
 
 

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