OT/ the law of Moses prohibits (Deut 5:7-21)
NT/ the law of Christ encourages to do good works thru “FAITH THAT WORKETH IN LOVE”(gal 5:6)
yes, according to the work of Christ’s faith, the anointing Holy Spirit of God we therefore can hear God and believe him to the salvation of our soul as he gives us
His faith to make it possible to believe Him.
That work of faith according to Christ's three day labor of love is not of our own selves lest and men boast. So it’s the faith of God that works to both will and do the good pleasure of Christ who works in us.
Can’t separate works of God from the faith of God, that is an
impossibility. It will come up dead every time and give the illusion that Christ’s faith can be separate from His works that provide the grace needed for us to have eternal life.
We are saved by Christ’s work of faith according to His labor of love.
One of the problems from my experience is that many do not think God needs faith or has it.
It is the only way it can be truly worked out as imputed not of us therefore...James being in perfect harmony with Ephesians. No difference, connect the right person in regard to faith and the right kind of work is revealed..
Jam 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
Who is accredited to those works?
So works are required it just that the faith needed to work them out is not of us.
Seest thou how (Christ’s)
faith wrought (worked) with his (Christ’s)
works, and by (Christ’s)
works was (Christ’s)
faith (belief)
made perfect? And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God,(as God gave Abraham His faith)
and it (Christ’s work of faith)
was imputed unto him (Abraham)
for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Jam 2:22
If we would replace the faith of Christ with the faith of Abraham then Abraham was saved by his own faith (work )coming from the imagination of his heart. (The fallen human faith)
That would be Blaspheming the Holy name by which we are called. That could never work out. Reconciling Ephesian and James would be impossible if we would accredit the perfect(complete) faith to a sinful human.Abraham)
Seest thou how
(Abraham’s) faith wrought with his
(Abraham’s) works, and by
(Abraham’s) works was
(Abraham’s)faith made perfect?And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham
believed God, and it
(believing God)was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God. Jam 2:22
