But Jesus answers to them that it is not enough to be saved by God!
Listen, my beloved brethren:
Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?
Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture,
�You shall love your neighbor as yourself,� you do well;
but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet stumble in one point, he is guilty of all.
For He who said, �Do not commit adultery,� also said, �Do not murder.�
]Now if you do not commit adultery, but you do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so do as those who will be judged by the law of liberty.
For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy.
Mercy triumphs over judgment.
What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can faith save him?
If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them,
�Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,� but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?
Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
But someone will say, �You have faith, and I have works.�
Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
You believe that there is one God.
You do well.
Even the demons believe�and tremble!
But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works,
and by works faith was made perfect?
And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, �Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.�
And he was called the friend of God.
You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.
Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way?
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
James 2
What do we see here in this Holy Scripture?
We should respect each other and love each other.
God is going to judge us for every idle word and our intentions/motives.
That's why let's judge ourselves now to avoid God's judgment because we all will stand in front of God at the dreadful Judgment Day. He will judge us. We can get rewards for LOVE toward each other because LOVE is a manifestation of our FAITH.
If there is no love, there is no faith!!!!!!
If there is no love toward people, there is no faith!!!!!!
Faith in this case is dead.
That's why build each other up! Love each other and be the TRUE sons of God. Those who do not love each other, live in sins and God's wrath is aproaching them!
Should we fight? Yes, but ONLY in love and prayers.
We fight not with weapons of Iran or Israel.
We fight against demons who are evil spirits and against the kingdom of the satan.
We are living in the world where the prince of this world is the satan!
But God is going to give us His World where He is the King and Prince and God.
If we want to enjoy the pleasures of this temporally world then we should know that it is stupid! We should use our money to help people in this world! We should invest our money to reconstruct their lives! To build the schools and hospitals.
We are able to invest in reconstruction of human lives on this planet earth and thus we will get the treasures in the Kingdom of God.
God�s justice chose to give His Kingdom to the poor.
They do not have food in Cairo.
They lie down on their bed and die.
They do not ask for help because no one gives them help.
This is your duty and call of God to share with them what you have!
My friend in the USA gives to God a half of his salary!
He said what he does in his service to God:
And so a car ministry is one of the few ways to witness with God's Word to 58% of the women and 72% of the men who are completely out of touch with God's Word. Another way is to give out children's tracts in flea markets and malls with the help of my 2 evangelical birds (parrots).
With the help of 4 Jesus cars; each with over 1,000 letters of Scripture; over 3 million people have read God's Word off of my Jesus Cars in the last 16 years.
Which is a miracle in my life since I was not a very good missionary in Israel. I also write Bible studies which are posted in over 100 Web Sites on the Internet. My critics say my writing style is only fair since my Bible studies are over 90% Scripture but I am very good at bringing all of God's Word together in an interesting way on each specific topic.
He is not rich. But he becomes poor to give to God and people what he has!
He gives to God and people his heart, bread, life, money!
But our intentions should always be RECONSTRUCTION/RESTORATION of lives and ENCOURAGEMENT and showing the sins of each other. Why? To make us perfect as God's is perfect. To make us holy, as God's is holy!
2 Corinthians 6:4-10:
As servants of God we commend ourselves in every way:
in great endurance, in troubles, hardships and distresses, in beatings, imprisonments;
in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love,
in truthful speech and in the power of God;
genuine, yet regarded as impostors;
dying, and yet we live on;
beaten and yet not killed;
*POOR*, yet making many rich;
*HAVING NOTHING*; and yet possessing everything.�
This should be our life style when we commit our hearts to God and people. Because this is the true faith. The true faith in the TRUE God. So, even demons believe that Jesus is God and they tremble. Our love to Jesus and our faith in Him is evident only of we love other people!
I saw such Arab in Cairo.
I told you about him before.
He was an old man in the train (about 80 years old). And in the train he started to talk to Arabs that Jesus is God. All Arabs listened to him. He hardly moved because of his age. But he was not afraid to testify to his dieying brothers that Jesus is God and the only salvation from the hell for every Muslim and Arab! Why? Because soon he himself should face the Judgment Day and during this day he should give account to God for his life...how he spent his life time on this planet earth. Did he love his brothers Arab in Cairo? Yes. Did he share with them the way of salvation or did he keep it in secret? No. He risked much to tell them the truth. In this we can see his love toward his people and God. This is the way of God He calls us to: LOVE for God and LOVE for people.
Praise the Lord Bahira that you are witnessing to Muslims. The Muslims respect Jesus as a prophet but do no believe Jesus is God or that He died on a cross.
However, *ALL* Muslims are really scared that they might go to hell since *ONLY* Muslim martyrs are guaranteed to make it to heaven. The Muslim god can change his mind on anyone but martyrs and send them to hell.
Also The Muslim god is not a god of love and there are over 100 passages in the last part of the Koran which commands Muslims to kill the infidels {Jews Christians etc} if they don't believe in Allah and convert. Whereas Jesus commands us to love all our enemies and to offer up the other cheek.
And so one of the best ways to witness to Muslims is to show them that if they trust Jesus as their Savior they are guaranteed entrance to eternal life in heaven for most Muslims are really frightened that they may go to hell even if they are a good Muslim.
Ephesians 3:16-19: "I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you:rolleyes: with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established IN LOVE, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God!~!":angel:
Good post Bahira, G-d bless and keep all the dear brothers and sisters in Christ who are serving on the mission field, and we pray a hedge a protection over them and all the persecuted brethren throughout the world.:prayingm:
