What Does Genuine Faith Really Look Life? (TMF:1999)

Thursday, January 05, 2023
Peace to Live By: What Does Genuine Faith Really Look Life? (TMF:1999) - Daniel Litton
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       So, the good work is done out of obligation and not from the heart. This, of course, isn’t pleasing to God. The person feels if they stay true to a rule then they will make God happy. Their salvation has become about works (which is really trying to keep God happy). We need to understand something here, and I think this point often gets lost when coming to this passage. What James is saying is that if we have a genuine faith, that faith will manifest itself in works which come from our hearts. Do you see? There are a lot of people who have faith and works. The problem is that those works don’t come from the right place. But we don’t believe that someone who tries to come to the real God from a God-absent perspective is really righteous before God. Jesus Christ is needed for true righteousness. So, it’s not a matter of doing this or that to try to prove that we know God. If we are trying to prove that we are righteous, then something is wrong. Righteousness will manifest itself in our outward actions naturally.