Being Justified by Works and Being Justified by Faith
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Let's Pray:
Lord, what You have shown us is so much and so high, yet we have to admit before You that what we have practically entered into is very short. Lord, grant us again Your visitation.
You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith only.
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To be justified by faith is for the (receiving) of the divine life (Rom. 5:18); to be justified by works is through (living) the divine life. Since the living is the issue of life, to be justified by works is the (issue) of being justified by faith. Abraham's offering of Isaac and Rahab's receiving of the messengers and sending them out are works that issued from their (living) faith. A (living) tree surely brings forth fruit. Being justified by works is not inconsistent with being justified by faith. The latter is the cause, bringing forth the former; the former is the effect, the outcome and proof, of the latter. (See James 2:24 note 1)
Tomorrow: Be Subject therefore to God; but Withstand the Devil