Faith Transforms Actions
Hebrews 11 is the Hall of Fame of Faith. But every one of the faithful listed here manifested how faith changed their lives. "By faith Abel offered..." "By faith Enoch was translated..." "By faith Noah... moved..." "By faith Abraham... went..." It is always thus with the faithful.
James can say that faith without works is dead because faith always works. If there are no works, there is no faith. And any faith that cannot keep you from the curse of sinning today will be equally ineffective in keeping you from the curse of eternal death in the Judgment. "He who has not sufficient faith in Christ to believe that he can keep him from sinning, has not the faith that will give him an entrance into the kingdom of God." {RH, March 10, 1904 par. 26}
James can say that faith without works is dead because faith always works. If there are no works, there is no faith. And any faith that cannot keep you from the curse of sinning today will be equally ineffective in keeping you from the curse of eternal death in the Judgment. "He who has not sufficient faith in Christ to believe that he can keep him from sinning, has not the faith that will give him an entrance into the kingdom of God." {RH, March 10, 1904 par. 26}