{"id":2884,"date":"2013-04-06T09:12:51","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T13:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2013-04-18T09:19:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T13:19:25","slug":"no-saving-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2884","title":{"rendered":"No saving faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.\u00a0\u00a0All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.\u00a0<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.\u00a0<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>Then the King will say to those on His right hand, \u2018Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:\u00a0for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;\u00a0<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 Matthew 25:31-36<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This scripture gives me pause.\u00a0 When the Lord separates the sheep from the goats on that great day, He will do so based on\u00a0works&#8212;what each has done.\u00a0 This does not mean that we are saved by good works.\u00a0 But it might mean that if good works do not follow after our faith, it is no faith at all; no saving faith at least.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.\u00a0\u00a0All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.\u00a0\u00a0And He will set the sheep &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=2884\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No saving faith&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}