Today,
the reply is on works that are dead and vain because they have no
content of divine faith. We are more likely to realize another
person’s
works have spiritual importance, meaning, substance and value, where
their conduct clearly displays spirit substance imparted from the
makeup of GOD has been infused within their own work by heartfelt
care and effort. In addition to commitment, conviction and
discernment, longsuffering, unselfishness, and zeal should appear.
Admonitions to believers of the early church that were delivered by
the Apostle Paul come to mind, once again: Galatians 3: 1-7, King
James Version (KJV): 1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you,
that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ
hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only
would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law,
or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the
Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have ye suffered so
many things in vain? if it be
yet in vain. 5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and
worketh miracles among you, doeth
he it by the works of the
law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and
it was accounted to him for righteousness. 7 Know ye therefore that
they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. Also,
Galatians 4: 11, KJV: 11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed
upon you labour in vain. A writer in the “Yahoo! Answers” public
forum on Religion and Spirituality who uses the ID “David” (Level
7 with 172,651 points, a member since September 05, 2009) posted the
following:
Christians,
We Know Faith Without Works is Dead. But What is Works Without Faith?
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD,
Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my
servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants
shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed: Behold, my servants shall
sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and
shall howl for vexation of spirit. And ye shall leave your name for
a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall
slay thee, and call his servants by another name: That he who
blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of
truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of
truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they
are hid from mine eyes. For, behold, I create new heavens and a new
earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create:
for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice
of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that
hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years
old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build,
and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as
the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect
shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labour in
vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of
the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with
them. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will
answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. The wolf and
the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the
bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s
meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith
the LORD. (Isaiah 65: 13-25, King James
Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Doing The Devil's Work? (02/21/2019); Faith
Throughout the Scriptures? (01/04/2019); Known By His Fruit
(11/04/2018); Claiming To Know
GOD? (09/14/2018); Deeds Of The Law? (09/10/2017); Blessed In Our
Deeds (05/29/2018); Achieving Feats of Righteousness? (05/05/2017);
Operations of Christian Faith (04/28/2017)
“David”,
developing Christian believers are encouraged to examine the sacred
process and substance of their own actions and works. Using the
spirit content they have received from the makeup of divinity, they
are to recognize and respond to events, possibilities, proclamations,
prophecies, the holy writings, etc. Where spirit substance is
lacking, activity is labeled as “self-promotion”, “vain”,
“vainglory”, and “vanity” (i.e., empty; impotent; pointless;
unfruitful; a waste of time). Consider the following that uses
language from the Bible:
1.
Psalms 127: 1, King James Version (KJV): 1 Except the LORD
build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD
keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
2.
2nd Chronicles 25: 1-2, KJV: 1 Amaziah was
twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s
name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. 2 And he did that which
was right in the sight of the LORD, but not
with a perfect heart.
3.
Hebrews 11: 6, KJV: 6 But without faith it is impossible to
please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he
is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 4. 2nd Peter 1: 2-10, KJV:
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of
God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 According as his divine power hath
given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises:
that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having
escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 5 And
beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to
virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance
patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly
kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 8 For if these things
be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren
nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 But he
that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath
forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. 10 Wherefore the
rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election
sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:) Even so, I
trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your
faith.
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