This is a very important piece of scripture because it relates to the exercising of our faith. Let’s take a look:
17- If faith has no works, it is dead. How true. If we turn that into anything else, it makes perfect sense. Let’s say, if “labor without accomplishment is wasted labor” or “love without affection is never felt’’. You get the point. Our faith is the confident expectation of what we believe in. But if we truly believe it, and we confidently expect it, shouldn’t we walk in that expectation? Shouldn’t there be evidence in our lives of what we say we believe?
18- I will show you my faith by my works. Jesus said that a good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Then He said we would be known by our fruits. Either way, good or bad, a tree should produce fruit. Remember, Jesus also told us that a tree that didn’t produce fruit at all wasn’t worthy of the ground it used and should be cut down and thrown into the fire. Faith is the very base of our relationship with God, and if it is real, it will produce fruit. If it is empty, it is useless.
Let us exercise our faith, maybe it will get stronger…
17- If faith has no works, it is dead. How true. If we turn that into anything else, it makes perfect sense. Let’s say, if “labor without accomplishment is wasted labor” or “love without affection is never felt’’. You get the point. Our faith is the confident expectation of what we believe in. But if we truly believe it, and we confidently expect it, shouldn’t we walk in that expectation? Shouldn’t there be evidence in our lives of what we say we believe?
18- I will show you my faith by my works. Jesus said that a good tree cannot bear bad fruit and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. Then He said we would be known by our fruits. Either way, good or bad, a tree should produce fruit. Remember, Jesus also told us that a tree that didn’t produce fruit at all wasn’t worthy of the ground it used and should be cut down and thrown into the fire. Faith is the very base of our relationship with God, and if it is real, it will produce fruit. If it is empty, it is useless.
Let us exercise our faith, maybe it will get stronger…
-Todd Bagley
Editor's Note: Todd teaches a 4pm Sundays Worship and In-Depth Bible Study at Gadsden Vineyard. Come on by and sit in.
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