Works of Faith

Good morning or good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present here in Maipu, Chile, Republic of Chile. It is a great blessing to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God and His Program pertaining to this end time.

Greetings also to those who are connected by the internet or satellite, or any other means of communication; and may God also greatly bless all of you who are in other nations.

For this occasion, let’s read in the Letter of James, chapter 2 of the Letter to James, or of James; James chapter 2, verses 14 to 26, where it tells us:

“What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

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?

Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

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.

Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

And the scripture 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?

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.”

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.

Our subject for this occasion is: “WORK OF FAITH” or “WORKS OF FAITH.”

In order to comprehend, to understand and see the works of faith, we must know what faith is.

The Scripture also tells us that faith is not ours, it is a gift of God.¹ Just as the life we have is not ours, it is a gift of God.

The Scripture says that “the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”²

See? Eternal Life is a gift of God given to us. How? Through Jesus Christ.

And faith is also a gift of God given to us. Where do we find it? In Christ. It is the faith of Christ.

And now, faith is revelation.

As we receive the Word, just as the faith of Christ was born here, upon hearing the Word (because faith comes by hearing the Word),³ then faith grows: as you continue to hear the Word.

Therefore, we already know how faith is born, and then how faith grows in a person.

And as the person’s faith grows, it’s like what happens with a child: once he is born, in order for him to grow, he must eat. See?

And now, in order for the child to grow, we find that he eats the food relevant to him according to the stage in which he is living. They can’t give him a piece of meat when he is less than a month old; he still has to wait (how long?) about six 6 months, for most children, because their digestive system still isn’t in the condition to eat meat or things like that. In other words, he has to wait a certain amount of time. In some places it may be six months, in others perhaps a little less; it all depends on the doctor as well, the pediatrician who sees him.

Now, we find that as the child grows, we start seeing his arms, his muscles, getting a little bigger, a little stronger every day; we touch him and we say: “He is already steady.” Once he crawls (see?) he exercises, and his little arms get stronger, his little legs get stronger; and the child keeps eating.

He can’t stop eating, because the day he stops eating… if he stops eating for a day or two or three days or a week, he stops growing already; and he also stops being strong. Why? Because he dies.

Now, we find that as the children in the Kingdom of God, once they are born… once their faith is born here in their heart, in their soul, and they are born in the Kingdom of God, then they grow: their faith grows and they grow spiritually, because they hear the Word of God; and they continue to follow Christ, and their faith keeps growing.

And then, we find some people, who have a lot of faith muscles. See? Why? Because they have been eating the revealed Word for their time.

And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the same way. As the Church in each age receives the Word: the Church grows, and Her muscles get stronger.

Now, we also find that we can’t just keep saying that we have faith; because faith without works is dead.

We have to work based on what we believe; based on the faith, the revelation we have. We must work according to what we have received from God, according to the revelation we have obtained.

Notice, Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness;⁴ but we find that God saw Abraham’s faith here in his soul, but then he had to work. If he did not work, that faith of Abraham remained inactive; he had to work upon what he believed.

It’s because faith is like the human being and like God. God is triune: Father, Son and Holy Spirit; and the human being is: soul, spirit and body; and faith is also triune.

Therefore, faith must have those three parts in order for it to be in action.

For example, if a person doesn’t have a body, well, he is dead to this earthly life. If a person who lived here on Earth died, he no longer has life here on Earth; his life here on Earth ended. He can go to Paradise if he was a believer in Christ; and if he was not a believer in Christ, well, then he goes to another dimension, to the dimension where the unbelievers to Christ are, the ones who will not see Eternal Life; that is the fifth dimension, called hell.

And who is the one who should be sorry that the person, a person, goes to hell? Well, the person himself, who didn’t believe. In other words, we can’t feel sorry for the person who didn’t believe and went to hell; he went to the place he wanted to go.

Now, yes, we feel sad when they are our family members; but the person chose that place.

They had years here on Earth (many people) to decide where they wanted to go; and they didn’t add the faith of Christ to their life. They didn’t open their heart to go and listen to the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, and for the faith of Christ to be born in their soul, in order to receive Christ as their only and sufficient Savior; and therefore, they didn’t have the faith of Christ here in their soul; and therefore, the faith of Christ didn’t work in their soul, and it didn’t work (to what?) to receive Christ as Savior.

When a person receives Christ as his Savior, what is that? the Work of the faith of Christ that he received here in his soul.

All these outward manifestations of people are works of faith. But there are also works of unbelief.

He who doesn’t believe in Christ (notice what happens): he refused to believe in Christ, and well, he faces the consequences. The one who will feel sorry will be the person himself when his days here on Earth end and he finds himself like the rich man there in hell, in the fifth dimension; and then he wants an opportunity, or he wants benefits of Paradise, of Heaven, which don’t exist in that place; not even a glass of fresh water, not even a finger dipped in water.

The rich man asked Abraham to send Lazarus to hell with his finger dipped in water;⁵ in other words, there isn’t even water in that place.

And notice, he wanted Abraham to send Lazarus to hell, when the ones who go to hell are the ones who earn it.

And Lazarus the beggar had earned Paradise, because he was a believer in God despite all the health problems he had.

The most important thing is not health, as some people think (physical health), the most important thing is the health of the soul: Eternal Life, here in the soul.

The rich man perhaps had no health problems and was very well off financially, and he had feasts every day; but here in his soul he had leprosy: the leprosy of sin.

And that leprosy led him to spiritual death, the death of the soul; and he went to the cemetery of the spiritually dead, which is the fifth dimension, hell; and then he will go where? (To the crematorium, right?) To the crematorium, which will be the lake of fire. See?

And the righteous, the Scripture says, will walk on the ashes of the wicked; and that is mentioned there in Malachi chapter 4, for the Millennial Kingdom. When we come back with Christ for the Millennial Kingdom, we will walk on the ashes of those who will be burned during the Great Tribulation.

And after the Millennial Kingdom will come Judgment Day, and the wicked will be burned, because they will be judged and brought before the Throne of God; and they will be judged, condemned, and cast into the lake of fire, which is the second death.

And as for the second death, whoever is cast there will never appear again in the history of the new race that will exist after the Millennial Kingdom; therefore, the person will cease to exist in body, spirit, and soul.

But the ones who had faith, the faith of Christ, and the works of their faith were expressed (by receiving Christ as their only and sufficient Savior, being baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and receiving the Spirit of Christ), those people obtained salvation and Eternal Life; those people will live eternally with Christ. Those people had the works of the faith of Christ manifested in their lives.

And also when they worked in the Work of Christ in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, all the work that they do or used to do, and the work that is done by those of our time, all the work that is done in the Work of Christ are works of faith.

Everything you do humanly, go to work and so on, those are everyday works in your daily life. But the things you do for Christ in His Kingdom, in His Church, are works of faith, based on the Word of God; they are not made-up works, but works based on the Word of God; therefore, they are none other than the manifestation of the faith of Christ in your lives and in my life.

That is or those are works with a foundation. They are not baseless works, but works with a foundation.

Works are the body of faith; and the revealed Word, the Word of Christ, is the spirit. Christ said: “My words are Spirit, and they are Life.”⁶ And the soul of faith is Christ, God.

Therefore, we have God; and therefore we have the soul of faith: God, Christ, here inside of us.

And we have the spirit of faith: the Word of God, the Word of Christ, revealed to us through the Gospel of Christ.

And we have the works of faith, of the faith of Christ that we have here, which are the fulfillment of God’s Will, the fulfillment of what God has established in His Word.

Therefore, we have what kind of faith? Living faith.

Faith without works is dead.

It’s like a person who makes a lot of plans; he says: “I have the formula to become the richest millionaire on Earth,” and he makes all these plans, see? “If you do this, and this other thing, and this other thing: you make this much income. If you do this other thing: you make this much income. And five years later, you’re already a multimillionaire.”

He has something there that is real, but it’s in another dimension: it’s in the dimension of the person’s mind here. Then he writes it down and it’s still something abstract.

And if the person doesn’t do anything, what happens? He is a rich man in his imagination; but he is such a poor man physically, because he doesn’t have the works that must accompany all those things he thought of.

And such is the person who doesn’t work according to the Word of God pertaining to the time in which he lives, the revealed Word of God.

He must work according to God’s Program for the time in which he lives, and in the age relevant to him, and in the dispensation relevant to him at that time; and then he will have the works of faith; Christ speaks about those works in Revelation.

Let’s see in which passage we find these works of faith in the Book of Revelation. Chapter 2, verse 19, Christ says…let’s see from verse 18 to 19, He says:

“And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;

I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.”

See? Christ doesn’t miss anything we believe or anything we do in His Kingdom; He knows everything we believe and everything we do. And He eulogizes those who believe and work.

He who believes and doesn’t work: ends up without the body of faith, which are the works.

And now, we find that it is a great blessing to work, as believers in Christ, the works relevant to the time in which we are given to live, based on the Word of God; it must have the foundation of the Word of God.

That is why God has sent His messengers throughout all times, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament; and through those messengers He has revealed His Word to His people. And the people who have received that Word and each believer as an individual has—they have moved and they have worked, and the works of faith have been produced.

Notice, for example the case of Abraham offering God his son Isaac:⁷ those are works of faith, the work of faith of what he believed.

And what was that work of faith based on? On what God revealed to him: He told him to offer his son Isaac to God. See? It was based on the Word of God that was revealed to him.

Likewise, we find Moses going to Egypt to make known that the God of the Hebrews had appeared to him and told him that God had come down to deliver them, to bring them out of bondage, and take them to a good land flowing with milk and honey; and He told them which land that was: the land of Canaan, the land of the different nations that inhabited that territory.

And Moses didn’t want to go. In other words, Moses already had the revelation, God gave it to him, but he didn’t want to work upon that revelation. But God told him: “Go.”

He tells Him: “I go to them and tell them: The God of our fathers appeared to me. If they ask me: What is His Name? What shall I say to them?” And God revealed His Name to him.⁸

There are few people identified in the Bible who came to know the Name of God; and the Prophet Moses is one [of them]; the other is Jesus Christ; and probably the Prophet Elijah as well; and who knows if the Prophet Samuel too.

And notice, I heard that Joshua too. Most likely Joshua, as well; because Moses, according to the revelation he received, named his servant… who had been serving Moses since he was young.

What was his name? Oshea was the name of Moses’ servant, who was always there working in the tabernacle. And he later became the general of the army of the children of Israel; and we find him then with a new name that Moses gave him.⁹

Joshua means ‘Savior,’ ‘Redeemer.’ And with that name, they would enter into the promised land.

That was a good name for Moses too (right, Miguel?). A name change for Moses; but Moses had certain problems, and he only stayed with the name that had to do with the Hebrew people’s exodus from Egypt.

What does Moses mean, Miguel? ‘Taken out of the water.’

And what did God do with the Hebrew people? He took them out of the waters of the Egyptian people; because waters represent peoples, nations, and tongues; and he brought Israel out of Egypt, out of the Egyptian waters, out of the Egyptian nation. See?

And so, the messenger had a name that had to do with the Work that God was going to do.

And now, the one who would enter with the children of Israel into the promised land had to have a name related to the Hebrew people’s entrance into the promised land.

Joshua means ‘Savior,’ ‘Redeemer.’

And to redeem is ‘to bring back to the original place,’ to be brought back to the original place.

And therefore, the one who was going to take them to the promised land, to put them in the original place; the one who was going to be the instrument of the Holy Spirit (who is the One that would do the Work, but He would use a veil of flesh)… Therefore, in the veil of flesh would be the name relevant for that work, which is Joshua.

And now, later on, in the New Testament God would deliver His people from the kingdom of darkness; and therefore, the instrument through which He would deliver us from the kingdom of darkness would have the Name of Redeemer, Savior.

And ‘Redeemer,’ ‘Savior,’ is Jesus.

Jesus is the same Name as Joshua: Joshua in Hebrew and Jesus in Greek. Let’s say: Joshua in Hebrew and Jesus in Gentile.

Now, we find that this Name, notice, has to do with the Work that God would do.

God through Christ brought us out of the spiritual Egypt, out of the kingdom of darkness, and put us in His Kingdom; because Jesus was obedient to God in everything, He didn’t have the problem that Moses had.

But now our Joshua, meaning, our Jesus, now He will take us, He will bring us out of this world, out of this earthly life, out of this earthly dimension, and He will put us in Eternal Life. How will He do it? In His Second Coming.

And in His Second Coming He comes with a Name that no man knows but he that receives It.¹⁰

That Name is related to the Work that Christ will do at this end time: to raise the believers in Him who have died and change us who are alive; and take us with Him… bring us out of this world, out of this earthly dimension, and take us with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb to Heaven, to the eternal dimension.

Now, we can see that Jesus Christ is our Joshua, our Savior, our Redeemer. Therefore, in His Second Coming He will redeem us physically.

This is what Ephesians chapter 4, verse 30 speaks to us about; there Saint Paul says:

“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”

But didn’t Christ already carry out the Redemption? Of course He did. But in His Second Coming, He will physically redeem all those who are sealed with the Holy Spirit, all those who are born again.

And what is the physical redemption? In Romans chapter 8, it tells us what that physical redemption is. Romans chapter 8, verses 18 and on, says:

“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”

In other words, the glory that shall be revealed in us when we receive the eternal body; it will all be glory then.

But while we are in this physical body, there are physical sufferings. And that is normal; because when the human being sinned, he lost Eternal Life and the right to Eternal Life, and he lost all of God’s blessings; and then all the problems came upon him.

He goes on to say:

“For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God,” (in other words, it waits for the manifestation of the children of God in eternal bodies, in glorified bodies).

“For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption…”

It will be delivered from what? From the bondage of corruption; it will be delivered from temporal or temporary life. And if it will be delivered from temporal or temporary life, then it will come into Eternal Life.

“… because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”

What is the adoption? The redemption of the body: our transformation, where we will obtain the immortal, incorruptible, and glorified body, like the glorified body of Jesus Christ, and young like the glorified body of Jesus Christ; and for the dead in Christ: their resurrection in glorified bodies, in eternal and young bodies for all eternity. That is the glorious liberty of the children of God, that is the redemption of the body, that is the adoption.

And now, this will be for whom? For those born-again believers in Christ, those sealed with the Seal of the living God. In plain words: for the wise virgins, who had Oil in their lamps.

The foolish virgins, who had no Oil in their lamps: will not be changed, rather, they will go through the Great Tribulation; those who are living on this Earth.

And those who lived in other ages and died, those people are not going to rise in glorified bodies at this end time when Christ raises His elect; those people will be left for the second resurrection, which will be after the Millennial Kingdom ends.

At the end of the Millennial Kingdom, the general resurrection will happen; and that is when all the Christians will rise, all the believers in Christ who didn’t obtain the new birth because they didn’t receive the Holy Spirit.

They will not perish, but they will not belong to the first resurrection; and therefore, they will not be kings and priests and judges in the Millennial Kingdom of Christ and then in eternity.

Therefore, the ones who will rise in glorified bodies will be those who received the new birth: who were born of the Water and of the Spirit; they obtained the new birth, they obtained the Holy Spirit, and therefore, they entered into the Kingdom of God.

Those people are sealed with the Seal of the living God, with the Holy Spirit, until the Day of Redemption; until the day when Christ will raise in immortal and glorified bodies His believers who died, who had the Holy Spirit, who were sealed with the Holy Spirit; in other words, who obtained the new birth. And He will change us who are alive at this end time.

Therefore, we can see that there is a Divine Program for all those believers in Christ who have not only said that they have faith, but who also have the works of faith.

Therefore, it is important to have the works of faith, the works of the faith of Christ; not only in words but also in deeds.

Therefore, onward working in the Work of Christ, expressing the works of the faith of Christ.

May the works of the faith of Christ be expressed through each one of you and also through me; and may Christ accompany us all the days of our lives; and use us greatly in His Work at this end time. Always having the manifestation of the works of faith in our life, showing that we have a living faith; because a living faith is a faith that has works.

May God continue to bless you all, and onward serving our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, we all need to have faith expressed, we need to have faith with works. That is faith in action, living faith, faith that shows its works, faith that produces Divine works.

Not believing is negative faith, unbelief is negative faith. And believing in Christ is positive faith.

Therefore, whoever has negative faith, well, everything he will receive will be negative. Whoever has positive faith, faith in Christ, everything he will receive will be positive: Eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom to live with Him, young for all eternity, as kings and priests and judges too; so that we belong to the Cabinet of Christ, of that Kingdom that He will establish on this planet Earth.

That is why the Scripture says that we have been washed in the Blood of Christ, Christ has cleansed us with His Blood, He has cleansed us from all sin, and has made us unto our God kings and priests; and we shall reign on the Earth. That is in Revelation chapter 1, verses 5 to 7; and also in Revelation chapter 5, verses 8 to 11; and chapter 20 of Revelation, verses 4 to 6.

This is how we have a living faith, a faith with works.

“WORKS OF FAITH.”

It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about our subject: “WORK OF FAITH” or “WORKS OF FAITH.”

We have seen what works of faith are, and we have seen that without works faith is dead; but with works of faith, faith is alive: it is a living faith here, in our soul.

Thank you very much for your kind attention, kind friends and brethren present here, and those who are in other nations.

May God bless you and keep you all.

And with us Rev. Robert Clark to continue.

“WORKS OF FAITH.”