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Now in Romans 4 and 5 we learn this, that it is possible to have faith without works. I mean it says to him that work is not, but believe it. And you know I want to give you a theology of works and we're going to go to probably every major passage regarding works in the Bible and one that I'm just going to quickly mention and we're not going to go there and go through it just because it would take too long. But the one you always hear is James chapter 2, right? Faith without works is dead. When people try to tell you this they'll say, well faith without works is dead. And then they'll interpret that for you by saying, therefore you cannot have faith without works. Well wait a minute, that's not what Paul believed, Romans 4 and 5. He believed that someone could worketh not, but believe it. He believed that somebody could have no works and yet believe. So therefore you must be misinterpreting James chapter 2 in order to teach that you can't have faith without works. They'll say you must have works if you're going to have faith and they'll say because faith without works is dead. But is that what that means? I mean does faith without works means that faith is inexistent, inexistent without works? I mean think about the terminology, dead. What if I was dead? What if I died? Does that mean I never existed? Does that mean that I'm no longer here? What does it mean? It means that I'm not alive. It means that I'm not active. I'm still here if I drop dead right now. I'm not just going to disappear. Someone's going to have to pick me up and take me somewhere, put me in a box and bury me somewhere. Hopefully you'll come and cry a little bit. But I'll still be here, I just won't be preaching anymore. I just won't be active anymore. Faith without works is dead means that if you don't have works that comes along with your faith, then your faith is dead. It's inactive. It's not alive. It's not going to accomplish anything. It's not going to do anything. Does that mean that you cannot have faith without works? Well, number one, you're adding that interpretation to that phrase. And number two, Romans 4-5 clearly teaches, but to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. According to the Bible, yes, you can have faith without works.