FAITH AND OBEDIENCE
Tonight I am going to write on a subject that I feel many of us don’t clearly understand, faith and obedience. Faith and obedience is one subject, not two. The reason why I say that faith and obedience is one subject is simple. How can you separate the last name from the first name of an individual and get the same individual or the same result? Faith and work go together. Work or obedience is the evidence of faith. Faith without work is incomplete or dead. Saul of Tarsus has a different idea. He wrote, “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 only person in the Bible that Jesus saved by grace and no work was the thief on the cross. He did no work because he is hanging on the cross. He's dying . Or does Saul believe that everyone is saved by faith, grace, and no work? What did Jesus say? "Not everyone who says to Me, `Lord, Lord,' shall enter the ...