Corresponding Actions of Faith Part 1

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Today's Lesson:
Actions That Correspond With Faith part 1


The actions of a doer of the Word coincide with his confession.
One of the greatest mistakes many believers make is to confess their faith in the Word of God and at the same time contradict their confession by wrong actions. We say that we are trusting God to provide for our financial needs, but at the same time we are worrying about how we're going to pay our bills. There is no corresponding action there. One minute we confess that the Word of God is true, and the very next moment we repudiate everything we say by wrong actions. Our actions have to correspond with our believing if we are to receive from God. Faith must have corresponding action or it is not Bible faith. I learn that faith will work if I have solid corresponding actions. I told you about how I have walked in health for so many years. One thing I endeavor to do is to act like I am healed no matter what comes my way. Many have more faith in medicine than they do in God's medicine, the Bible. Please don't go off saying Bernard does not believe in medicine. I did not say that. I believe that the God that made us has provided healing through His Son!


I first learned healing from the teaching ministry of the late Dr. Kenneth Hagin. In this article I will share great portions of his teaching from the audio message Corresponding Actions! It is all God's truth so I am not seeking the credit, nor would brother Hagin if he were still on earth.
Faith Made Perfect


James 2:14-22
14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19 Thou believest that there is but one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect.
Weymouth's translation of verses 14 and 22 reads, "What good is it my brethren, if a man professes to have faith and yet his actions do not correspond? ... You notice that his faith was cooperating with his actions, and by his actions his faith was perfected."
Some have thought that the Book of James is written about salvation. However, James was not writing to the unsaved, but to believers. He said, "What doth it profit, my brethren ..." He was writing to his brothers and sisters in Christ, pointing out that faith without corresponding actions won't work for them, even though they are believers.
James also said, (James 1:22). Another translation reads, "... deluding your own selves." There are many self-deluded people who blame their problems on the devil or on some individual when really they have deluded themselves. This is because they are not doers of the Word. The actions of a doer of the Word coincide with his confession.

The Storms of Life
Matthew 7:24-27
24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: 25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
26 And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: 27 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

When the storms of life come, we see some people going down. Their problem is that they are not doers of the Word. They are not practicing the teaching of the Word. The same wind and storm came upon both of these houses. The reason one was destroyed and the other wasn't was that the wise man was a doer of the Word and the foolish one wasn't. It isn't the storms of life that defeat us. If the storm defeated us, it would defeat all of us. Some people face a storm and are not defeated. Yet others who face the same storm are destroyed. Those who are not defeated act upon God's Word. The defeated ones may be truly saved, yet their actions do not correspond with their faith.
When the test of sickness comes, some are laid low while others stand their ground and refuse to accept it. The storms of life come upon all of us. They may be sickness, financial difficulty, family problems, or some other test. The winds blow and the floods come, but he who is a doer of the Word will hold fast to his confession of faith, for he knows that God cannot fail.
Many who profess Christ and who declare that they believe the Bible from Genesis to Revelation are not doers of the Word. They are talkers about the Word. There is a difference between talkers about the Word and doers of the Word. They have mentally assented that the Word of God is true, but it doesn't do them any good because they are not making it their own. They are not claiming its promises.


Live Well,
Bernard



Reference: Corresponding Actions - Kenneth E. Hagin