FAITH'S CORRESPONDING ACTION !

FAITH'S CORRESPONDING ACTION ! Remember, he is still talking about this individual who would come and say, "I have need of close, 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, 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." This kind of faith that God says, "Oh, brother or sister, I believe that your need 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 all cold and hungry, and your faith hasn't helped 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 the you doers of the word, 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 goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was." (James 1:22--24). That is what a man or woman would do, if they are only a hearer of the Word. They hears what the words say about him are her. They sees what manner of man or woman of God says he a she 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. A hearer of the Word is like a man or woman who looks 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 residing on the inside of me. Greater is He that is in need than he that is in the world." Then he or she forgets it all when things go wrong. Our when they feel a certain way; He Or She is only a hearer. He or she saw they had authority. They saw that faith could remove mountains. But when it goes out to face the everyday circumstances of life, they quickly forget what they saw and they had 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. The devil always throws the monkey wrench in my deals. Nothing works out for me. That's the way the cookie,." He or she is defeated by their attitude of hearing only.