The faith that saves is not a historical faith, not a faith that simply
believes a creed and certain facts.
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Saving faith is active.
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Galatians 2:16
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James 2:24
Faith That Saves
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Repentance
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Secret Piety
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Works of Obedience
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Separating Works
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Love
Repentance
There must be fruits meet for repentance, works of repentance.
Secret Piety
Private prayer.
Reading the Bible.
Secretly seeking the Lord’s guidance.
Works of Obedience
When a man trusts in Jesus, he accepts Jesus as his Master.
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He says, “Show me what you would have me to do.”
A duty may be neglected, and yet a man may be saved, but a duty persistently
and willfully neglected may be the leak that will sink the ship.
When a man believes in Jesus, he is not what he was, nor will he consort
with those who were once his friends.
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they
are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. John 17:14
Jesus was not an ascetic; he ate and drank as other men do so that they
even said of him, a gluttonous man and a winebibber, because he mingled
with the rest of mankind.
But there was never a more unearthly life than the life of Christ.
Love
He who loves Christ allows the love of Christ constrains him; he endeavors
to spread abroad the knowledge of Christ; he longs to win jewels for Christ’s
crown; he endeavors to extend the boundaries of Christ’s and Messiah’s
kingdom.
If you love Christ, you cannot help serving him.
If you believe in him, there is such potency in what you believe, such
power in the grace which comes with believing, that you must serve Christ.
If you do not serve him, you are not his.
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Romans 8:9
A tree is been planted in the ground.
The source of life to that tree is at the root.
Whether it has apples on it or not; the apples would not give it life,
but the whole of the life of the tree will come from its root.
So that tree stands in the orchard and, when the springtime comes there
is no bud, and when the summer comes there is no leafing, and no fruit.
If it is the same the next year, and the next, it stands there without
bud, without blossom, without leaf, and without fruit, you would say it
is dead, and you are correct; it is dead.
It is not that the leaves could have made it live, but that the absence
of the leaves is a proof that it is dead.
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Do ut des [L]…I give that you may give.
John 15:1-10
