Wednesday | 11 February 2026
Everyone must personally meet and acknowledge Christ as Lord and King. The mark of meeting and knowing Him in this way is learning the fear of the Lord. We learn and demonstrate the fear of the Lord by embracing and obeying the commands of Christ that are proclaimed by His messengers.
It is the word of the King that produces, or births, His faith in us. Evidently, receiving, and responding to, Christ’s indignation and majesty is foundational to truly believing beyond our own expectations of Him and the Christian life. Faith, enabling us to believe, is demonstrated by obedience in the fellowship of Christ’s offering and sufferings. These are the works of faith. James, the brother of Jesus, emphasised the importance of these works, saying, ‘I will show you my faith by my works’, and ‘faith without works is dead’. Jas 2:18,20.
The works of faith are the works that Christ has already accomplished for us. He did these works by faith as the King on the cross. As we meet Him as King, and acknowledge that we are crucified with Him, we receive His life and faith to do the works that He accomplished for us. Gal 2:20. This is what it means to be a slave of righteousness. Rom 6:16,18. We begin to add virtue to our faith, ‘to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love’. 2Pe 1:5-7. This demonstrates that we are receiving the power, or strength, of El Shaddai to walk blamelessly.
Jesus said that if we live blamelessly as slaves of righteousness, He no longer calls us slaves but friends. Specifically, He said, ‘No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.’ Joh 15:15.
Further Study:
Matthew 8
References:
Jas 2:18
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.
Jas 2:20
But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?
Gal 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Rom 6:16
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
Rom 6:18
And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.
2Pe 1:5-7
But also, for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love.
Joh 15:15
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.