Faith and Works - Jeremiah: Week 38

Friends, in other words, God basically is saying here, don't play games with me. Don't think that you can that you can make some half hearted oath and then try to appear all pious and righteous, like you are all of a sudden trying to follow me, yet your heart is far from me, which is evident by your turning away from your oath and your lack of obedience to what I say. [00:24:15] (30 seconds)  #NoPlayingGamesWithGod

And that's why God used this example in chapter 35 of the Recobites to teach them a valuable lesson, friends, and that is that God values obedience. Why? Because obedience is the evidence of genuine faith and genuine trust in him. As I said in point two, true faith produces obedience to the Lord. Works or obedience is a result of faith, not the means to it. [00:43:00] (36 seconds)  #ObedienceShowsTrueFaith

You know, we would we would say, we would agree that we are saved by grace alone through faith alone. Amen? Amen. That's what that's how we would describe it. But what if a person's faith produces no fruit? What if their faith produces no works, no obedience in their life? What about that? Is that kind of faith then enough to save them? [00:02:30] (32 seconds)  #FaithWithoutFruitQuestioned

If we truly believe what God says, then we will live our lives according to what he said. Amen? Now that doesn't mean that we're perfect. We're gonna mess up. We're gonna sin. Right? We're not always gonna be obedient as we should. But here's the thing, and we talked about this in our class this morning. If we have trusted in Christ as our savior and we understand the depth of our sin and the magnitude of what he's done for us in doing that, then we're gonna want to obey him. Amen? And the overarching trajectory of our life ought to be obedience. [00:43:35] (39 seconds)  #TrustLeadsToObedience

Profession. That is just saying that you believe. Friends, just saying, oh, I love Jesus. Yeah. I'm a Christian. I trust him. Profession without follow through and without action, without putting your faith into practice, without actually doing what God says is neither faith nor obedience. Profession without follow through is neither faith nor obedience. [00:24:50] (32 seconds)  #ProfessionWithoutPracticeIsEmpty

And so your life is, from that point forward, eternal life. And so your life should be a life filled with obedience and learning how to follow Jesus and what he wants how he wants us to live. Amen? So my question for you this morning is this, does your life demonstrate that you are trusting him? And if not, what do you need to change today? Would you stop playing games with God, and would you surrender your heart and your life to him? Let's pray. [00:49:02] (36 seconds)  #LiveOutEternalObedience

So we ask we started out this morning asking the question, how do these two faith and works, works and faith? How do these two things relate to each other? Do we need works to get faith or whatever? Listen. Here's how it is. True faith, genuine faith, when we've trusted in Christ as our savior and been saved, will produce obedience to the lord. [00:25:40] (21 seconds)  #TrueFaithProducesObedience

Hebrews chapter 11 would say, so Abraham believed God and trusted in him, and Moses believed God and trusted in him, and Noah believed God and trusted in him, and Jacob believed God and trusted in him. You would think that would kinda be the hall of faith. That's not that's not all what it says. You know what it says? It does say that they believe. It says, by faith, they but after that, it tells also some action usually that they were known for that proved their faith. [00:46:06] (32 seconds)  #FaithProvedByActions