Thank you so much for joining us today on hashtag SDR ask.

All right, Greg, this first question comes from Krista.

Okay.

First Corinthians 315 talks about someone's works being burned up in judgment. Excuse me.

But he himself being saved.

Does this mean that a person can be saved but have nothing to show for it, no fruit bearing, in the way they live?

How does this fit with passages like James

2, Faith Without Works is Dead, and John 15? Oh, okay. James is talking about evidence for salvation,

justification, and actually uses the word in a different way that Paul uses it.

But notice that I'm just trying to think how I want to position this because this is an important question.

James' discussion is a question about can a't know how I want to put this, he's comparing

two different people, okay?

He's comparing a person who says they have faith, but there is no evidence of it, but

there are no works.

There are no subsequent visual consequences in their behaviors

in virtue of their claim to have faith. And he says, can that faith save you? In other words,

can the kind of faith that is mere profession, but is not inner transformation that manifests itself

on the outside.

And he says, no.

When he uses the word justification, but he's using it different than Paul.

Paul is using it in Romans 4 as a term that describes imputation.

We are justified by faith and not by our works. We are made

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