hello everybody it's minister tall 23 back with another video once again I
apologize if there's audio issues or the video sounds weird my microphone is not
perfect but anyway in this video I want to talk about the subject of faith and
what it means to have faith and what connection faith has with obedience or
with doing works or keeping the commandments and the reason for this
video is for those people who believe that works are evidence of faith or that
anybody who believes just always automatically does the works or starts
obeying God or believes that faith means obedience or faith means having works or
doing good things because this is a false doctrine which is out there where
people will say well yes it you only have to have faith in Christ but faith
in Christ means doing you know what God said to do or having obedience and I've
talked to people out this whole morning preaching the gospel who say well if you
really believe aren't you going to follow God's commandments aren't you
going to obey him you know why would somebody believe in Jesus but not obey
him right now here's the thing obviously you should obey God and you should
submit on to his word and everything he says in the Bible but the Bible is very
clear that it is possible to believe and to do absolutely nothing for God to
not live for God it did not keep the commandments and if you do that you will
still go to heaven because faith in Jesus is the only thing that could save
you from hell is the only thing that could give you eternal life so I'm going
to talk about that in this video now there are some verses in the Bible which
seem to indicate and would be twisted by people who don't understand what the
word faith means that faith is associated with obedience and a perfect
example of this is in 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 7 where it says we walk by faith
not by sight and so people will say well look you know faith has to do with the
way that you walk the way that you live the way the things that you do right
because it's walk by faith not by sight or Galatians 5 6 is another example it
says for Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything nor
uncircumcision but faith which worketh by love so people will use this to teach
that well if your faith does not work by love that it's not real faith or you
know it's not genuine faith or you're not really saved or whatever but let's
further examine examples of faith that leads to obedience in the Bible and show
that these have nothing to do with salvation whatsoever and a perfect
example this would be Hebrews chapter 11 another scripture which connects faith
with obedience now notice how I'm saying faith but it's not faith in Jesus and
I'll explain this more later but basically faith is not always faith in
Jesus somebody can have faith in God for other things besides going to heaven
besides being saved from your sins or having your sins forgiven faith is a
general term for trust for relying on for belief in it's not always belief in
Jesus so the Bible will use the word faith there are talking about having
faith in God or belief in God but it's not talking about the faith that will
save you and I'll get to that what you have to believe in order to be saved
later in this video but let's read Hebrews chapter 11 because more than any
other chapter in the Bible this chapter talks about faith so I want to start in
verse 4 the chapter is kind of long so I won't read all of it but I'll show some
particular examples of characters that talks about in the Old Testament as it
gives a good example of faith in these characters so Hebrews chapter 11 verse 4
it says by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain by
which he obtained witness that he was righteous God testifying of his gifts
and by it he being dead yet speaketh so because of faith it says Abel offered
this sacrifice to God right so again people who don't understand the gospel
and don't understand how to be saved they might twist this and say well that
means that if you're really saved if you really have faith in Jesus then
you're going to offer sacrifices to God right Hebrews 11 verse 7 to 13 it gives
the example of Noah by faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet
moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving of his house by the which he
condemned the world and being and became heir of the righteousness which is by
faith and then it goes on to talk about Abraham and I want to stop here and talk
about Noah right so it says that by faith he prepared this ark right so
again he trusted what God had told him that he would destroy the world by water
so what did he do he prepared this ark you know to save his family to the
saving of his house now it says in verse 8 by faith Abraham when he was called to
go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance obeyed
and he went out not knowing whether he went so again if I look at that and say
well see because Abraham you know believed he had the faith he obeyed so
that's just automatically or part of faith okay let's continue by faith he
sojourned in the land of promise as in a strange country against something that
Abraham did dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob the heirs with him on
the same promise for he looked for a city which hath foundations whose
builder and maker is God through faith also Sarah herself received strength
that could sieve seed and was deliberate of a child when she was past age because
she judged him faithful who had promised therefore spring there even of
one in him as good as dead so many as the stars of the sky and multitude and
as the sandwich by the seashore innumerable these all died in faith not
having received the promises but having seen them afar off and were persuaded
of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on
the earth this is in verse 17 by faith Abraham when he was tried offered up
Isaac so again it's something that he's doing in obedience to God right God told
him to offer up Isaac right and it said he that had received the promises
offered up his only begotten son of whom it was said that in Isaac shall they see
be called accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead from
whence also he received him in a figure it says in verse 21 by faith Jacob when
he was a dying blessed both the sons of Joseph and worshiped leaning upon the
top of his staff by faith Joseph when he died made mention of the departing of
the children of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones by
faith Moses when he was born was hid three months of his parents because they
saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the King's commandment by
faith Moses when he was come to years refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's
daughter choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than
to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season so you know Abraham I'm sorry not
Abraham Moses forsook Egypt and he didn't want to enjoy the pleasures of
sin for a season so you know Abraham because of his faith he repented of his
sins right let's go on again I'll come to this later but we see that because of
you know these people's faith it talks about what they did in response to that
faith by faith they did these things right so it says in verse 26 is steaming
the reproach of Christ greater riches and the treasures in Egypt for he had
respect under the recompense of the reward by faith he forsook Egypt against
something he did not fearing the wrath of the king for he endured as being
seeing him who is invisible through faith he kept the Passover in the
sprinkling of blood so again he's obeying God's commandments right lest he
that destroyed the firstborn should touch them by faith they passed through
the Red Sea as by dry land which the Egyptians is saying to do were drowned
by faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were compassed about seven
days by faith the harlot Rahab perished not with him that believed not when she
had received the spies with peace and what shall I more say for the time would
fail me to tell of Gideon and of Barak and a Samson and of Jephthah of David
also and Samuel and of the prophets who through faith subdued kingdoms wrought
righteousness obtain promises stop the mouth of lions quench the violence of
fire escape the edge of the sword out of weakness were made strong wax valiant
and fight turned to flight the armies of the aliens women received their dead
raised to life again and others were tortured not accepting deliverance that
they might obtain a better resurrection and others had trial of cruel mockings
and scourgings yea moreover of bonds and imprisonment they were stoned they
were saunas under were tempted were slain with the sword they wondered about
in sheepskins and goatskins being destitute afflicted tormented of whom
the world was not worthy they wondered in deserts and in mountains and in dens
and caves of the earth and these all having obtained a good report through
faith received not the promise God having provided some better thing for us
that they without us should not be made perfect so in this chapter Hebrews
chapter 11 it gives a whole slew of examples of characters in the Old
Testament and it tells us what they did and the fact that they did these things
by faith right by faith they you know wrought all this righteousness and they
offer these sacrifices and they you know Moses kept the Passover by faith and it
gives all these examples right and then we look at James chapter 2 another
chapter which is misunderstood very commonly by Christians today or so-called
Christians it says in James chapter 2 verses 14 to 24 again I want you to pay
attention to what it says in connection with the faith in this chapter it says
in verse 14 what does it profit my brethren though a man say he hath faith
and have not works can faith save him if a brother or sister be naked and
destitute of daily food and one of you say unto them be part in peace be he
warmed and filled notwithstanding you give them not those things which are
needful to the body what does it profit even so faith of a half not works is
dead being alone yea a man may say thou has faith and I have works show me thy
faith without thy works I will show thee my faith by my works thou believeth that
there is one God thou doest well the devil's also believe and tremble but
wilt thou know all vain man that faith without works is dead was not Abraham
our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the
altar seeest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made
perfect and notice that this is also an example that is given in Hebrews 11 I
read this earlier right now it talks about how by faith he offered up Isaac
right verse 23 it says in the scripture was fulfilled which saith Abraham
believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness and he was called the
friend of God you say then how that by works a man is justified and not by
faith only right so people will look at this and usually only quote you know the
faith of that works is dead part or verse 24 and ignore the rest of the
whole context and say see if somebody doesn't have works that means they don't
really have faith which number one is not what it says it just says the faith
is dead it doesn't say that they don't have faith but another verse before I go
on and explain these things I want to give more examples of where the Bible
talks about faith in connection with obedience and works James chapter 5
verses 15 to 16 and the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall
raise him up and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him confess
your faults one to another and pray one for another that you may be healed the
effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much 1st Timothy chapter 6
verse 17 says charge them that are rich in this world that they be not
high-minded nor trust in uncertain riches but in the living God which
giveth us richly all things to enjoy right so all of these verses I read they
all have to do with faith and trust in God and all of them are connected with
some sort of obedience of doing something as a result of that faith and
we of course read all these examples in Hebrews chapter 11 of these Old
Testament characters who did these good things and obey God because of the faith
that they had in his word but I want you to notice that every single example
that I just read has nothing to do with faith that Jesus Christ died for your
sins and was buried and rose again from the dead which is what you have to
believe in the New Testament according to in order to have eternal life again
I'll explain that more in a second but notice the things that it tells us in
these verses notice what it says that their faith is James chapter 2 it gives
the example in verse 15 if a brother or sister be naked and be destitute of
daily food and one of you say unto them depart in peace be he warmed and filled
notwithstanding you give them not those things which are needful for the body
what doth it profit even so faith if it has has not works is dead being alone so
he's saying that faith without works is dead because in this example you know if
you had a brother or sister who did not have what they need their their
bodily needs provided for you know they didn't have food they didn't have
clothes and you just had the faith that they would have those needs provided for
but you don't actually yourself give those things to them you're not
profiting them you're not helping them okay so that's what it means that faith
without works is dead your faith cannot help that person if you do not actually
do the works yourself but what in at all does this have to do with believing in
Jesus Christ does it say anything about Jesus and what Jesus did no it just
says you know if a brother or sister be naked you say depart in peace be you
warmly filled that's the faith but what does that have to do with Jesus what
does that have to do with eternal life what does that have to do with salvation
absolutely nothing James chapter 2 is just telling us that if you have faith
that God will provide for your needs or the needs of your brethren but you don't
actually get to work and do what he told you to do then you're not really helping
anybody that's all it's saying but this has nothing to do with faith in Jesus
Christ for your salvation just like these other examples given in Hebrews
11 these examples had to do with other things like Noah building the Ark that
was because God told him in Genesis chapter 6 that he would flood the world
so you know Noah believed that he would do that so he built the Ark right so
that's his faith working right but that does is not the faith that got him to
heaven that's not the faith that justified him in the sight of God that
just justified him to us because we saw what he did in response to what God's
word said or Abraham offering Isaac upon the altar you know according to the
Bible in Genesis chapter 15 verse 6 when Abraham believed God his faith was
counted for righteousness okay that happened decades before he offered Isaac
upon the altar okay so he was not it's not that he got saved you know when he
offered Isaac upon the altar he got saved when he believed God okay it's
just that because he knew God's promise that his of Isaac would his seed you
know be as the stars of the sky that's why he was willing to obey God and offer
up Isaac on the altar because he knew that God would rise from the dead
because God already gave him the promise but that's not what saved him from hell
that's not what gave him eternal life right what does the Bible say that you
have to believe what does the Bible say that you have to have your faith in in
order to be saved first Corinthians chapter 15 verses 1 to 4 the Bible says
moreover brethren I declare unto you the gospel by which I'm sorry the gospel
which I preached unto you which also ye have received and wherein ye stand by
which also ye are saved if he keep in memory what I preached unto you unless
he had believed in vain for I delivered unto you first of all that which I also
received how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures and
that he was buried and that he rose again the third day according to the
scriptures so the Bible says the gospel by which you're saved is that Christ
died for our sins according to the scriptures that he was buried and that
he rose again the third day right Romans 1 verse 16 says for I am not ashamed of
the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that
believeth to the Jew first and also to the Greek so what saves you believing
the gospel right not believing that God will provide food and clothing for you
not believing other parts of the Bible or believing that God will guide you or
believing that God will answer your prayers or heal you of sickness like in
the example of James 5 believing that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your
sins was buried and rose again that's the faith that saves you from hell
according to the Bible another clear verse on this Romans chapter 10 verse 9
that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe
in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved so
again the gospel the fact that Jesus Christ rose from the dead another clear
scripture on this first let's learn is chapter 4 verses 14 and 15 for if we
believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus
will God bring with him for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we
which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent
them which are asleep so the Bible says if you believe that Jesus died arose
again that you will be taken up in the rapture you will be resurrected from the
dead you will rise from the dead because of your faith just like Jesus
said this is the will of him that sent me that everyone would see at the Sun
and believeth on him may have everlasting life and I will raise him up
at the last day John 640 it also tells us in 1st John 5 verses 10 to 11 he that
believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself he that believeth not
God hath made him a liar because he believeth not the record that God give
of his son so what is the record that you're supposed to believe it says in
verse 11 and this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life and
this life is in his son it also says in 1st John chapter 5 verses 4 to 5 for
whatsoever is born of God over cometh the world and this is the victory that
over cometh the world even our faith who is he that over cometh the world but he
that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God so the Bible says that in order to
overcome the world you need to have faith and it defines this faith as
believing that Jesus is the Son of God so when we're talking about the fact
that faith alone saves us faith alone justifies us it's only faith in Jesus
Christ that will take you to heaven what we mean by that and what the Bible means
by that is to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God that he died for your
sins was buried and rose again the third day and to believe that through him God
has given you eternal life this is what you have to believe in order to be safe
this is the definition of saving faith of the faith that will justify you in
the sight of God and give you eternal life that's what you have to believe but
there's other things in your life that you could believe in God for that you
could trust in God for that you could have faith for and we see many examples
of that in the verses that I read in James 5 you could trust in God to heal
you of sickness in 1st Timothy chapter 6 you could trust in God for your needs to
be provided for so you don't trust in riches you trust in God in James chapter
2 you could also trust in God for your brethren to have their their food and
their their clothing given but the Bible tells us that that faith should work by
love that we should you know provide for the needs ourselves but we also ought to
have faith in God because the Bible says whatsoever is not a faith is sin right
but none of these things trusting in God for your daily provision trusting in God
for your food trusting in God for for wealth for finances trusting in God to
heal you of sickness trusting in God to give you wisdom trusting in God that he
will help you in other ways in your life or trusting in God that his commandments
will cause you to be blessed that's not what saves you okay that's not what gets
you to heaven okay faith in Jesus Christ means you believe he died for your sins
on the cross he was buried and he rose again the third day you believe is the
son of God and that through him you could have eternal life okay if that's
what you believe in your heart and you trust that in your heart then you will
be saved you will go to heaven you will never see hell you will never perish
because that's what the Bible says so these other verses that talk about
obedience to God and doing good works and serving and obeying and doing what
God said none of these verses although they do talk about faith none of them
talk about faith in Jesus Christ or faith in the gospel they're all faith in
God for other things okay faith in Jesus Christ and the gospel is what saves you
from hell faith in God for these other things is what comes after salvation
because everything single thing you do in your life should be you know in faith
as I quoted earlier whatsoever is not a faith is sin and without faith that is
impossible to please him right so if you simply you know do all the you know the
things that the Bible says to do but you don't believe you know the promises
and blessings that God has associated with it then you won't please God right
but those things these other things of obeying what God says has nothing to do
with going to heaven and believing in Jesus has nothing to do with your works
at all either okay and we know this because the Bible clearly says this many
times Romans chapter 4 verse 5 to 6 okay I don't know why people don't understand
this is like one of the clearest verses ever about this subject it says
but to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the
ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness even as David also
describeth the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputed righteousness
without works saying blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose
sins are covered blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin the
Bible says if you want to have their sins forgiven if you want to not have
sin imputed unto you but you want to be declared as righteous you want to be
justified in the sight of God you have to believe in Jesus you have to have
your faith in him but it says to him that worketh not so is it possible for
somebody to believe in Jesus and to do no works absolutely because how do you
express that faith in Jesus by works that doesn't even make any sense I
believe Jesus died for my sins arose again that's something that's already
done that's something that already happened how does that translate into me
obeying God because a lot of people will say well if you really believe in Jesus
then you're going to keep his commandments number one the Bible
doesn't say that anywhere again you can't find a single verse that says that
number two in what way are those two things connected okay because the Bible
clearly says in Galatians chapter 3 verse 12 the law is not a faith okay so
keeping God's commandments doing the law and having faith are two entirely
different things these things are not connected at all okay it is possible to
believe in Jesus and not to follow the law because the believing in Jesus just
means you believe he died for your sins on the cross was buried rose again you
believe is the Son of God and that he will save you okay what does that have
to do with following God's commandments absolutely nothing and that's why the
Bible says in Romans chapter 3 verses 20 to 22 therefore by the deeds of the law
shall there shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by the law is a
knowledge of sin now notice how it says in his sight because to be justified in
the sight of God the Bible is very clear that it's by faith but as we saw earlier
in James chapter 2 it talks about being justified in the sight of other men
because it says yea a man may say not God but a man may say thou has faith and
I have works show me thy faith by thy works and I will show thee I'm sorry
show me thy faith without thy works and I will show thee my faith by my works
right so that is a man talking to another man because I can't read your
mind I don't know your faith unless I can see your works right but God knows
your heart God doesn't care about your works your works will not justify you in
the sight of God the deeds of law will not justify you in the sight of God
faith in Jesus and the gospel will justify you in the sight of God so it
says in Romans 3 21 but now the righteousness of God without the laws
manifested being witnessed by the law and the prophets even the righteousness
of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all of them to believe
therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of
the law that's verse 28 right so again we've justified by faith without the
deeds of the law you know these these these foolish people like Roman
Catholics will say well the Bible never says anywhere that you're only justified
by faith that it's faith alone well the Bible says faith without the deeds of
the law the Bible says faith him that worketh not okay so your works do not
justify you the Bible is very clear the deeds of the law do not justify you the
Bible is very clear and just in case you try to twist the definition of deeds of
the law the Bible says in Galatians 3 10 for as many as are of the works of the
law are under a curse for it is written cursed is everyone that continueth not
in all things written the book of the law to do them so the works of the law
would be to do all things in the book of the law okay so I would be keeping God's
commandments if you think that keeping God's commandments will justify you the
Bible says you are under a curse okay it says in verse 11 but that no man is
justified by the law in the sight of God it is evident for the just shall live by
faith so we're not justified by the law the Bible says that expressly we're not
justified by our works we're not saved by our works Ephesians chapter 2 the
Bible is very clear about that how are you saved by faith in Jesus Christ the
Bible's very clear for my grace are you saved through faith and then not of
yourself it is the gift of God not of worksless any man suppose right so what
is the point I'm trying to make that people will always associate faith and
obedience and faith and works and say that they're in the same category they
say well you don't really have faith if you don't have work because faith without
works is dead now it does not say faith without works doesn't exist number one
number two I just proved to you from Romans 4 5 that faith without works yes
it's dead but that dead faith will still justify you in the sight of God okay
faith without works is dead simply means that your faith without works will not
profit anybody else but according to the Bible if you work not but you believe
you're justified in the sight of God your faith is counted for righteousness
that's what the Bible says very clear okay if you don't believe that then
you're just telling me you don't believe the Bible is the Word of God and you
just want to believe whatever you want to believe what your religion tells you
but the Bible says to him that worketh not but believeth on him to justify at
the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness okay I don't care if you
don't like that that's what the Bible says so if you don't if you choose not
to believe that that's your fault you will go to hell when you die because he
that is of God hereth God's words ye therefore hear them not because you're
not of God so the point I'm trying to make is that faith and obedience are
yes they are connected in the Bible but faith that God will bless us faith that
God will you know give us our daily needs faith that God will heal us of
sickness faith that God will help us in just a decision or whatever faith in
just anything else of whatever is going on in your life it's not what saves you
only the faith that Jesus Christ died on the cross for your sins was buried rose
again that he is the son of God that he would give you eternal life only that is
what safety that's what the Bible says you have to believe to be saved somebody
can have a lot of faith in God you know believe that God will provide them with
everything that they need you know pray every single day and actually believe
that prayer in their heart you know they can pray to God every single day on
their knees have you know real faith that God will you know provide for
their needs help them at their job help them in the relationship with other
people provide their financial needs protect them from disease protect them
from sickness protect them from injury they'll pray to God for wisdom for
decision-making everything you know they have great faith in God for everything
that they do but if they don't believe that Jesus died for their sins arose
again that person will still go to hell so when you say faith alone says it's
faith in Jesus Christ it's not just faith in whatever you want it's not just
faith in God in general or faith that God will help you in whatever it's
particularly faith in the gospel of what Jesus already did that does not
translate to works in any way because the gospel is what Jesus already did the
gospel is not what you do now it's what Jesus already did and that's also why
baptism won't save you or justify you because the Bible says in 1st Corinthians
chapter 1 Paul says God sent me not to baptize but to preach the gospel so
baptism is not the gospel okay getting baptized does not save you according to
Bible the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that
believeth believing in the gospel is how you are saved is how you have eternal
life is how you're justified not getting baptized not doing works not proving
your faith as if you need to prove anything to God when God knows your
heart not proving your faith that does not save you the Bible just says believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and somebody can believe in
Jesus and do absolutely nothing for God do no works keep none of the commandments
never you know lift a finger for God and they'll still go to heaven if they
believe it truly in their heart because that's what the Bible says and again if
you don't like that why are you even listening to a video about the Bible if
you don't care what the Bible has to say because this is not my own opinion I
just proved it to you with you know two dozen verses or whatever so how is it
then that somebody obeys the gospel right because notice how at the
beginning I showed you well here's what all these characters did in Hebrew
chapter 11 when they had faith they did such-and-such because of their faith
right but how is it that we show our faith or express our faith does the
Bible say do works keep the commandments get baptized repent of your sins in
order to show your faith no it says that nowhere and I prove that that doesn't
that's not an expression of faith by all these verses I just read in Galatians
and Romans etc but rather the Bible tells us in John chapter 4 verse 10 Jesus
answered and said unto her this is the woman at the well if thou knewest the
gift of God and who it is that saith to thee give me to drink thou wouldest have
asked him him and he would have given thee living water right so the way that
we express the faith that we have in the gospel is to ask Jesus for that living
water which represents eternal life it says in Romans chapter 10 verse 9 that
if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in thy
heart that God has raised from the dead thou shalt be saved for with the heart
man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation for the scripture saith whosoever believeth on him shall not be
ashamed for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the
same Lord overall is rich unto all that call upon him for whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved how then shall they call on him in whom
they've not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not
heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach
except they be sent as it is written how beautiful are the feet of them that
preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of good things but they
have not all obeyed the gospel for as I have saith Lord who had believed our
report so how is it that you obey the gospel by believing that report and the
Bible associates this belief with calling upon the name of the Lord right
so faith in Jesus is you believe that Jesus will save you because he's
already paid for your sins he's already shed his blood on the cross he already
grows from the dead he already gives you eternal life simply by faith in him
that's what the Bible promises so if you believe that promise in your heart the
Bible says whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved so if
you believe in Jesus Christ based on the Bible that he will save you forever all
you have to do is just call upon Jesus just confess that with your mouth and
that's when you're saved right with the heart man believeth on the righteousness
and with the mouth confession made unto the salvation so faith is not expressed
by good deeds faith is not expressed or proven by good works or by some kind of
you know fruits as people will mislabel them although the Bible clearly tells us
that a fruit of a Christian is a tree of life proverbs 11 30 but bringing forth
other Christians getting people saved preaching the gospel you know submitting
unto God making the Lord of your life keeping God's commandments repenting of
your sins getting baptized going to church reading the Bible those things do
not prove your faith those are all good things to do God commands you to do
those things and you should do those things with faith because again
whatsoever is not a faith is sin so you should do all those things with faith
but doing those things with faith does not get you to heaven what gets you to
heaven is having the faith that Jesus will save you now because he died for
your sins arose again and that he is the Son of God and that he will give you
eternal life so if you believe that simply ask Jesus to give you that gift
of eternal life and he will give it to you because that's his promise in his
word right so hopefully this made sense of the connection of faith with
obedience the way to obey the gospel is simply to call him the name of the Lord
right when you believe it in your heart has nothing to do with keeping God's
commandments and your works will not save you and that's very clear if you
still don't believe that after this video then I don't really know what to
do with you because I mean damn the work if not how much clearer can it get thank
you ready for watching and God bless you and goodbye