<TITLE>09. Par 35-37</TITLE>L-35 Now, I want to read some Scripture right away so that if... My words will fail. I'm a man. But these Words won't fail. This is God's Word, It can't fail.
Now, how many in here have faith in Jesus, let's see your hands? Oh, wonderful. All right. How many believes He's the same today as He was yesterday and every day? Oh, that's fine. I want... Now, that's your faith.
Now, I want to show you what else I want you to have tonight. The 14th verse of the 2nd chapter of Saint James. And I will read even the 26th inclusive. Listen close to the reading now.
 What does it profit, my brethren, though a man say that he has faith, and have not works? can faith save him?... (It can't. If you believe God will save you, you've got to believe it and then confess it that He has done it, before it will come... And then it works righteousness. You see?)
If a brother or sister be naked, and--and destitute of daily food,
And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them those things which are needful to the body; what does it profit?
Even so faith, if it has not works, it's dead, being alone.
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I'll show thee my faith by my works.
Thou believest there is one God; thou believest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
But will thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
What... Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
Seest thou how faith wrought with works, and by works was faith made perfect?
And the scriptures was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?... (Now, the last verse, listen closely.)
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

L-36 Now, all you with faith, and you're afraid to put it to work, it won't do any good. Why not--why not just lay aside everything that's unlike faith. Believe and act on what you believe; not what you--what you feel, or what the senses bear witness of, but what your faith bears witness of. Is that right? You have faith in God, and then act like you have faith in God.
Now, if Abraham says, "I got faith in God," but was afraid to offer his son Isaac, then his faith was no good. Paul justified Abraham by faith. Paul was talking about what God seen in Abraham. But James justified him by works. James was talking about what man seen in Abraham. See? God sees your faith; man sees your works.
And if you say you have faith and are afraid to step out and make works out of it, then it don't do no good. It will never do you any good. You've got to believe it. You've got to accept it, and you've got to act like it, haven't you?

L-37 Now then, you think it was a easy thing for me to come when that Angel came to me. And nothing like that, as I knowed of, since the days of the apostles, had ever happened. For me to step out before thousands, and sometimes as many as twenty-five and thirty thousand people in a single meeting, and say... and make a challenge of that type, when there sets "Look, Life, Times, Colliers," critics, doctors and everything trying to find one flaw with it. You think that was easy?
But brother and sister, I believe God, just what He told me, and it would be that way.
And when I stood there and said kings and monarchs of the country will be calling for me to pray for them, was that... I believed it because He told me so.
And the greatest king in the world sent me cablegrams to go pray for him, with King George of England, and different ones like that. And great men all over the country...


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