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The meaning is this: just as faith without works is dead, (James 2) so faith without love is idle and worthless. Love is the means by which faith displays its power and its energy. Love is the servant of faith. Love is the fruit of faith. But love is no part of the ground of our justification. Faith
James tells us to show our faith by our works. The same is true of our love. If our love is out of a true faith, it will be genuine love. As we live one with another, let us love one another in word and deed. Sing Psalter 369. November 24 Read 1 John 4 The first verse of this chapter exhorts and ad
Genuine faith also bears the fruit of "brotherly kindness." Arising out of faith's relationship with God and Christ is a relationship with others who have the same relationship. A right relationship with Jesus leads to a sincere desire to be useful and beneficial to our spiritual siblings. He who do
We can confess that we do indeed love Jesus, and that we are born again. But this is a dead faith unless it expresses itself in a true life and in true Christian activities. James 2:17, 18, and 20. “Even so faith, if it hath not works is dead being alone. Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I h
Only by faith can love be nourished. Believe that God loves you still. Believe in the mighty power of Christ towards sinners and trust yourself with him. And then his love will come flooding in our hearts. Dwell upon the love of God to you, so you may feel intense love to God! ______________________
Only by faith can love be nourished. Believe that God loves you still. Believe in the mighty power of Christ towards sinners and trust yourself with Him. And then His love will come flooding in our hearts. Dwell upon the love of God to you, so you may feel intense love to God! By the way, there are
Very closely connected with this is the last part of the paragraph quoted from the Communion Form which speaks of our walk in relation to our neighbor. Though this "upright walk" is before God, it is lived in the midst of this world and concerns our relationship to one another. To be an upright walk
The faith that knows all of the Word of God, speaks the Word of God, and is confident about the Word of God, that it's true not only for others, but for me. And when we witness, that's what we want to say. That's how faith works. Christ lives in me. And I want you to know about the Lord Jesus C