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NASB | James 2:14 ¶ What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 2:14 ¶ What is the benefit, my fellow believers, if someone claims to have faith but has no [good] works [as evidence]? Can that [kind of] faith save him? [No, a mere claim of faith is not sufficient--genuine faith produces good works.] |
Subject: What is Faith Without Works - Part 2 |
Bible Note: Aristarchus I agree with nearly everything you write here except the second from the last paragraph where you said, "Now I ask again, what works are we performing? Are they the works of Jesus? Are they "greater works than this" because he "went to be with the father"? Here is the ministry of Jesus. He healed. He preached (gospel of salvation through Him alone). He fed the hungry. We could go into further detail but that mostly covers His ministry." The signs of healing and feeding the hungry were really not the works of Jesus, his work was revealing the Father to the world and to provide the perfect sacrifice. The signs were validations of who he was, of His divinity. For us to do greater works is not to (physically) heal more people, or to (physically)feed more hungry people but rather to tell more people about the availability of salvation through Jesus Christ. So that they are spiritually healed and spiritually feed. If we are faithfully proclaiming the gospel in the market places then we are faithfully about the Father's work. EdB |