Faith AND works = righteousness

Hebrews 10:36 For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you might receive the promise.
This states that patience (a fruit of the Spirit) is needed, as well as doing things (the will of God), to receive the promise... Sounds like receiving the promise is based of doing... so why do people say that we are meant to be human BEINGS (being in Gods presence - Mary) instead of being human DOINGS (doing stuff, busy - Martha)??? If to receive the promise we are to DO?!

The dog (church) has died because the dog (church) is not doing! For so long we (the church) swung our lopsided pendulum towards law based works (getting our butts into heaven based on our own filthy menstral rag self-righteousness), and now, the pendulum is swinging the other way... lets do faith without works and ignore where it says that faith without works is DEAD! No wonder it is such a struggle to get this dead dog on its feet... its point blank stubborn and somewhat sinful refusal to be obedient! Apparently sin is not sin, and we don't have to do anything about it! No wonder the world is confused - we're playing at being a camileion! We have blended into the background, being the world... because we refuse to do the will of God! We refuse to look after the widows and the orphans, we refuse to preach the good news (of Jesus Christ of Nazareth), we'd reather be sour face lemon sucking bitter christians. Dead, is dead! Cant do anything with dead, except to go and bury it! UNLESS... UNLESS we care a whole aweful lot! Unless we be faithful - which is a two-fold thing - trust and trustworthiness. Holding someone (God) to be credible, and being credible! Hmmm... the only thing a dead dog is credible for/with is well, being dead and becoming fertiliser!

Here's a thought... Abraham takes his son up the mountain to go sacrifice him, in spite of the promise - and God credits his ACTIONS (faith and obedience) as righteousness! Abraham had faith AND he had works and he was called righteous! Go figure!! Abraham believed/trusted/obeyed God and it was counted to him for righteousness... There is more to this faith thing than simply hoping/believing/trusting for things unseen! Technically speaking, you could call Abraham a human DOING, not a human BEING!!

May Gods blessings shower down upon you. And may you be coated in the dust of your Rabbi!

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