FAITH OR WORK?
"For by grace, you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; [it is] the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast” Ephesians 2:8-9. The apostle Paul says that we have been saved through faith and not works . Jesus however says, "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. ” Matthew 7:21. Readers, is doing the will of Jesus’ Father faith or work ? It is work, not faith. The disciple James says, “ What [does it] profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what [does it] profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, "You have faith, and I have work....