Works support the reality of saving faith.

Where you have a man who has imputed righteousness,

you have a man who has manifest righteousness.

Where you have a man who is made just before God,

you have a man who will be made just before men.

Where you have a man who has received righteousness,

you have a man who will show that righteousness.

Welcome to Grace to You with the Bible teaching of John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

It shocks society whenever it happens, a parent taking the life of

his or her child. Nothing seems more horrific. Yet there was one man in Scripture who was willing

to sacrifice his son, and it turned out not only to be a great act of love, but perhaps the

greatest example of complete trust in God in Scripture. We'll still be a great act of love, but perhaps the greatest example of complete trust in God

in Scripture. We'll study that man, Abraham, today as John MacArthur looks at the difference

between living faith and dead faith. John's current study is titled, Show Me Your Faith.

And now with a lesson, here's John. It is possible to believe in God,

to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, to affirm the cross and the resurrection, and never be delivered

from sin, and never be given eternal life. That is what James would call dead faith.

James has shown us what dead faith is.

Now he wants to show us, by contrast, what living faith is.

Now, to make his point of what really constitutes living faith, he uses three illustrations.

Number one is Abraham.

And this goes from verse 21 to 24. Let's begin at verse 21. Was not Abraham, our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon

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