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The spiritual new birth is something Jesus does for us (John 3:14-16; 2 Corinthians 5:17). The gift of eternal life is a gift. But God delegates to each believer the responsibility to make choices to live in the reality of their new birth. Each person controls three things: 1) who or what they trust, 2) their perspective, and 3) their actions.
(1) The principle established. My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality. a. Do not hold the faith: The glorious faith we have, the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, should never be associated with partiality (discrimination).
30 gru 2022 · It’s Not Enough to Verbally Believe (James 2:14-17) First, in James 2:14-17, he tells us that it’s not enough just to claim that we believe: What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? There’s the principle—it’s not enough just to claim that we believe.
30 cze 2017 · The passage I just quoted, James 2:14-17, is often used to prove that good works are necessary for a person to have what they call final salvation before God. But what James is actually doing is calling for born-again people to apply what we believe.
“As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is also dead” (James 2:26). James doesn’t command Christians to work for the benefit of others in need instead of placing faith in Christ, or even in addition to placing faith in Christ.
(James 2:18-19) A living faith cannot be separated from works. But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
The gospel is in his view a Law, but it is no mere system of rules, "Touch not, taste not, handle not;" it is no hard bondage, for it is a law of liberty, which is in exact accordance with the teaching of St. Paul, that "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty" (2 Corinthians 3:17). But: (5) The question now arises. Granting that St ...
