Sunday Smash (Faith & Actions) S3E27

State Of Mind With Jb

There is a saying stating, "put your money where your mouth is," and there is another saying, "Actions speak loud than words." Even when it comes to faith if you can't prove your faith by your actions it is pointless to tell people that you have faith. The book of James chapter 2 verses 14-26 says the following about faith and actions, "14. My friends, what is it for one of you to say that you have faith if your actions do not prove it? Can that faith save you? 15. Suppose there are brothers or sisters who need clothes and don't have enough to eat. 16. What good is there in your saying to them, "God bless you! Keep warm and eat well!" - if you don't give them the necessities of life? 17. So it is with faith: if it is alone and includes no actions, then it is dead. 18. But someone will say, "One person has faith, another has actions." My answer is, "Show me how anyone can have faith without actions. I will show you my faith by my actions." 19. Do you believe that there is only one God? Good! The demons also believe - and tremble with fear. 20. You fool! Do you want to be shown that faith without actions is useless? 21. How was our ancestor Abraham put right with God? It was through his actions, when he offered his son Isaac on the altar. 22. Can't you see? His faith and his actions worked together; his faith made perfect through his actions. 23. And the scripture came true that said, "Abraham believed God, and because of his faith God accepted him as righteous." And so Abraham was called the God's friend. 24. You see, then, that faith it is by our actions that we are put right with God, and not by our faith alone. 25. It was the same with the prostitute Rahab. She was put right with God through her actions, by welcoming the Israelite spies and helping them to escape by a different road. 26. So then, as the body without the spirit is dead, also faith without actions is dead."