FAITH AND CORRESPONING ACTIONS !

FAITH AND CORRESPONING ACTIONS ! There is a balance in every Scripture. The key to balance is keeping the truth of the Scripture in context of all that is being said about that particular situation. James is not talking about a need that you have prayed about. He is not talking about a note on your house, or the sicknesses that you are experiencing in your body; or the rent payment when he says, "Faith without corresponding action is dead." He is talking about an individual who came saying, "I don't even have any food or clothes. Can you help me ? James said faith without action to me that man's are that woman's need would be dead faith. In other words, you wouldn't have helped that man or woman at all if you said, "Go, brother or sister, and be warmed and be fed and God bless you. I have faith that you will be fed and clothed. 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, our food to help him or her in their need, that faith is dead. That man a woman didn't want faith, he or she wanted food and clothing. They needed corresponding actions to fill that need. He or She didn't need someone to say, "I believe, God will move on your situation," They needed someone to say, "I will help by giving." James goes further by saying, "Yes, a man may say, you have faith, and I have works: show me your faith without your works, and I will show the my faith by my works." (James 2:18). Remember, he is still talking about this individual who would come and say, "I have need of clothing and 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 him or her. In other words, I'll give him or her some food and clothes. Then I will believe God to supply my needs." You understand the scope of the Scripture, it is essentially about trusting God for your provision. The kind of faith that says, "Oh, brother or sister, I believe that your knee 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 or woman will go off cold and hungry, 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." Then James admonishes us to be doers, not just hearers. "But be you doers the words, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer 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 go his way, and straightway forget what manner of man he was." (James 1:22-24)