Is Your Faith Alive? Series

- Rahab: A Canaanite from Jericho – a prostitute – Risked her life by protecting Israelite spies.

- Both had faith that was alive & radical.

God calls us to do radical things for Him so others can see our faith, be curious about our reason living such a radical life for Christ, so we can then lead them to Jesus. David Platt in his book, Radical: “We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.”

It's a convicting moment when we ask ourselves: How radical is my faith?

FAITH THAT IS ALIVE IS LIVING – v. 26 – May sound redundant but needs to be reemphasized. Each of you is alive today. You are breathing, have a heartbeat, brain activity, able to move around even if w/ difficulty, able to accomplish many of the tasks that are before you.

But there will come a day when you won’t be breathing, your heart won’t be beating, & your brain activity will have ceased. Your body will be a corpse b/c your spirit will have departed from you, either to heaven or hell. The element that makes it a corpse is the absence of a living spirit w/in you. In the same way, faith that is not accompanied by active, obvious, radical works is dead.

How do you make that faith come alive? Do you go out & start doing a bunch of good works hoping that life will come? No, that would be like digging up a corpse & giving it a job at a grocery store in hopes that would bring it back to life.

There is only One who can raise the dead. There is only One who can give spiritual life. There is only One who can make your faith alive. You go to Him. He will give you life.

CONCLUSION – Ask questions:

- Have I truly placed my faith in Jesus Christ as my Savior & Lord?

- If so, is my faith active?

- Is my faith obvious?

- Is my faith radical?

- Is my faith living?