Title: Show Me Your Work of Faith!
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Sunday day sermon
Text: James 2:14-26
Title: Show Me Your Deeds of Faith!
The Bible emphasizes living by faith from Genesis to Revelation, which begins with faith and ends with Revelation. Unless you accept by faith the fact that this world was created by God, nothing can progress further in your relationship with God. So, evolutionists try to study various physics and geology to find out how this world was born, but you can see it failing every time. In fact, it is not so easy for humans to believe and live in an invisible God. So, it is the Bible that God revealed Himself in order to make people more likely to believe in Him. So, only when you see the Bible with the eyes of faith, receive it with your heart, and experience it yourself, can your faith fully establish itself as your own. In this way, faith is divided into two major categories, and only when these two are completely harmonized, a complete faith can be reached.
Now let's look at the second belief! The second belief is faith from the heart. The first is faith that is seen and believed outwardly, while the second is faith that is convinced from the heart, as seen with the hands. Confident faith is the same as saying “I have” or “I have”. In the first belief, the future cannot be guaranteed, but in the second belief, it is something that I have touched with my hands, so that I can be sure of the future. So, the second faith, starting with the first, is the second faith that I have touched (experienced) with my own hands. I will let you down.” And they lowered their nets, but they said, “I saw and believed many fish until the nets were torn.” This is a confident belief. Faith is the kind of faith that is gained when you hear the word of the Lord and put it into action immediately. This is a faith that can never be changed.
As we saw above, the first belief is a belief that anyone can have. It's so easy because it's almost a belief in words, and anyone can do such a life of faith if they put their minds to it. Also, as easy as it is, no life is guaranteed there. However, the second faith is a valuable faith that cannot be obtained without sacrificing myself because it is only obtained by putting me into the given Word. The fact that Abraham was able to become the father of faith was obtained as a result of sacrificing himself. Also, Rahab, a foreign prostitute, had only heard rumors that God was omnipotent, but had never actually seen any miracles with her own eyes. Nevertheless, he was able to enter the genealogy of Jesus by boldly changing his actions even after hearing the rumors.
You are more blessed than anyone in this world. Of course, in order to receive such a blessing, he suffered the most severe hardships along with it. Still, by calling first among the Gentiles, the Lord is speaking innumerable words through the pulpit. But how gratefully are you accepting those words and putting them into action? If you hear 100% of what you hear, when you say that your life to put into practice is less than 10%, all the rest is disobedience. Even if you do that, you can't help but doubt whether you believe you can become whole. From the pulpit once again, I say clearly, now you have to show yourselves the works of faith clearly before the Lord. Now you need to know that time is not given indefinitely as it has been. Now, if you believe the word of the pulpit as the word of the Lord and follow it as it is, your faith will grow. But even this is no guarantee for those who become disobedient. Any responsibility that comes with this will also fall on you.