Evidences of True Saving Faith Pt. 2 If someone thinks he is religious yet does not bridle his tongue, and so deceives his heart, his religion is futile. Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world. James 1:26-27 (NET) What are evidences of true saving faith? As mentioned previously, one of James’ major themes is genuine faith. The Jewish Christians James wrote to were being scattered by persecution, and trials tend to show what is truly in someone’s heart. Some were accusing God of evil (Jam 1:13) and beginning to follow the world (4:4); others were fighting with one another and some
Evidences of True Saving Faith Pt. 1 But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves. For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror. For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was. But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out—he will be blessed in what he does. James 1:22-25 (NET) What are evidences of true saving faith? One of James’ major themes of the book is genuine faith. The Jewish Christians James wrote to wer
