Understanding Faith & Works Together, Part 1 (TMF:2018)

Wednesday, February 01, 2023
Peace to Live By: Understanding Faith & Works Together, Part 1 (TMF:2018) - Daniel Litton
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       ““Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"—and he was called a friend of God. You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone” (James 2:20-24, ESV). First, I want to address of whom it is that James is talking to here. Who is the foolish person that James is so clearly pointing out of the crowd. Well, the foolish person is the one who thinks that he or she can just have faith, say, be a Christian in name only, and not have any kind of works (outward demonstrations) to back it up. James is continuing to tell us today that our faith needs to be real. It needs to be authentic. I mean, this is beneficial to us anyway. Don’t we want our faith to be genuine? Certainly a lot of us do. We’re not the foolish person. We are the wise person.