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Hello everybody, it's MrTol23 back with another video. This video I want to continue this series defending the new IFB against the slanderous attacks and lies and false accusations and denial of clear scriptures by many heretics and fools who don't like us, or even from brothers in Christ who just for some reason just hate what we preach for whatever reason, I don't know. But in this video I want to talk about the subject of evidence or results of salvation. There's this false doctrine that is very common today, it's a subtle works type salvation where people will say, well, works don't save you, but if you're really saved you're going to do the works. Like they'll say, well, works don't lead to salvation. I'm not saying you have to do works to get saved, but if you're really saved you're going to show it. You're going to have a change in your life, right? You're going to repent of your sins, you're going to start serving God, you're going to really have the fruits of the spirit in your life and live a good life and start changing things. This is a very common doctrine today, right, that people just think that God controls saved people like a robot and just automatically makes them to do a bunch of good things and get the sin out of their life. This is not true, and the Bible teaches that those who believe in Jesus, even if they don't have any works, that doesn't mean that they're not saved, because works have absolutely nothing to do with salvation. Works are commanded to believers, but if a believer doesn't do works that doesn't mean that they're not saved, it just means that they're lazy and they're not a good Christian. This doctrine is a false doctrine, and people will attack my church, and people have attacked me on my channel, and will attack the new IFB, and other Baptist churches who teach that a changed life is not evidence of salvation, because it's not, because the Bible doesn't teach this anywhere. Somebody, if they say that they believe in Jesus, and then you look at their life, and they're living a life of sin, and they're super ungodly, I'm still going to take their word for it. I'm going to say that if they believe, and they told me they believe, then I'm going to believe them. We can't examine whether people are saved or not based on the life that they live, because salvation is not about the life that you live, it's about the faith that you have in your heart. I'm going to explain today in this video why this doctrine of works are a result of salvation, which is just a subtle, you know, works-type salvation. I'm going to show why this is wrong, and prove this from the Bible. Now probably the only, there's only a couple scriptures which they really use and twist to try to teach this false doctrine. Probably one of the most common ones is James 2, I'm going to talk about that in a second, but another one that I hear very often, and it just baffles me how people can't understand what this means, and nobody who ever quotes this ever understands what it means, or ever has read the context, is the phrase, by their fruits you shall know them, or wherefore by their fruits you shall know them, right, in Matthew chapter 7. If I had a nickel for every single time somebody has told me that, to say that if you're really saved you're going to have fruits, and by fruits they incorrectly define it as doing works, then I would be a rich man if I had a nickel for every time somebody told me that, right? Because this is something I've come across recently, very often, because I've been going soul-winning on a Christian university in the Phoenix area, on the campus of that university, and I've met a lot of people who believe this. They'll say, well yeah, we're only saved by faith, but if you really believe you're going to do the works, and they'll say by their fruits you shall know them, and they'll just like parrot this, without even understanding what the context is, okay? Just get out your Bible, and read what it's talking about, where that scripture is, and it doesn't take very long to realize that 99% of people who quote this verse incorrectly apply it, because it's not talking about believers at all, okay? Who is the them? When it says by their fruits you shall know them, or you shall know them by their fruits, who is the them? Is it believers? No. Matthew 7 verse 15, beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but immorally they're ravening wolves. You shall know them by their fruits. So who does Jesus say you'll know by their fruits? Does he say you'll know who's a believer by their fruits? No, he says you'll know who's a false prophet by their fruits. So number one, it's only talking about people who are prophets, that's people who are preaching the word of God, and it's only talking about people who are false prophets, so these are people who aren't even believers to begin with. So the people who try to use this verse, which is actually just half a verse, right, verse 16 and then they also use verse 20, to apply that to, well if you're really saved you're going to have fruit, which they think means doing good works, is foolish because it's not even talking about people who are believers in the first place, it's talking about false prophets, it's talking about people who are damned to hell according to 2 Peter chapter 2. He's warning us about false prophets and he says how do you identify false prophets? By their fruits. What does this mean? Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles? Even so, every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits you shall know them. So it's not talking about the amount of fruit or whether it bears fruit or not, it's talking about the type of fruit. He says if you have a good tree it's going to bring forth good fruit, if you have a corrupt tree it's going to bring forth evil fruit. So how do you know that something is a corrupt tree, meaning a false prophet, by the fact that they bring forth evil fruit? How do you know that somebody is a good tree, meaning they're a good prophet, because they bring forth good fruit? But if somebody doesn't have any fruit, does that mean that they're not saved? No. It just means that you can't identify whether they're a good tree or a corrupt tree. Because there are Christians who don't bring forth good fruit according to the parable of the sower. I'll talk about that a little bit in a second, but just because somebody doesn't have fruit doesn't mean that they're not saved, it just means that you can't identify who they are based on their fruit because they have no fruit. He's just saying, how are you going to know that somebody is a false prophet unless you examine their fruit? And this principle is taught all the way back in Genesis chapter 1. Genesis chapter 1 verse 11, and it's also just common sense also if you know what the word fruit means, so Genesis chapter 1 verse 11, and God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was so. So what does the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind mean? It means that if there is a lemon tree, you can identify the lemon tree by the fact that it has lemons on it. If there is an apple tree, you can identify that apple tree by the fact that it has apples on it. If there is an orange tree, you can identify the fact that it's an orange tree based on the fact that it has oranges on it, because everything brings forth after its own kind. So the lemon tree is going to bring forth lemons, and in that lemon is the seed which you can plant to grow another lemon tree, which will have more lemons, and then you can get more seeds to plant more lemon trees, et cetera, et cetera, okay? So how is a Christian bringing forth fruit equivalent to, well, if you're really saved, if you're really a Christian, then you're going to do good work, because you're going to help the poor, you're going to preach the gospel, you're going to get the sin out of your life. How is that fruit? Fruit is when you bring forth after your own kind. Like in Psalm 127, where it says the fruit of the womb is his reward, right, talking about children, right? We know that the Bible says, you know, a man who has many children, I'm paraphrasing, you know, it's a blessing, right? That's what Psalm 127 is teaching. So the child of that man is called the fruit of the womb, right? When a woman brings forth a son, that son or daughter, that child is another human being, and the Bible calls that the fruit of that woman, the fruit of the womb, right? Just like a lemon tree is going to have lemons on it, and an apple tree is going to have apples on it. So what is a Christian going to bring forth? What is the fruit of a Christian? Another Christian. The Bible says in Proverbs 11 30, the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he that win his souls is wise. So somebody who is justified, if they bring forth fruit, then that fruit is going to be another tree of life, okay? It doesn't make any sense to say, well, if you're really saved, you're going to have fruit, that means that you're going to repent of your sins and live a good life and do a bunch of good works. That's not what fruit means. Fruit is when you bring forth after your own kind, okay? So a Christian is going to bring forth other Christians, okay? That is the fruit of a Christian. But this isn't even the case for every Christian either, because of the fact that the Bible teaches in the parable of the sower, I don't have the scripture here in my notes, but basically there's four different people it talks about, the sower sowing the word, and it's falling on different types of ground, and only one of them, it says that the word snatches the word out of their heart so that they don't believe. But the other one that says that they believe and they receive the word of God with gladness. So three of these people in the parable of the sower get saved, but only one of them, the last one that sowed on good ground, actually brings forth fruit, and it's a numerical value. He says some 30, some 60, some 100. Now how would you measure that if that has to do with repenting of your sins and giving to the poor and being a good person? It would only make sense if it's talking about bringing forth fruit, meaning a Christian getting other people saved, right? You can measure that if it's, you preach the word of God and you lead 30 people to Christ, or you lead 60 people to Christ, or you lead 100 people to Christ, that actually makes sense, right, when it comes to the parable of the sower. So that's a fruit of a Christian, right, when a believer gets somebody else saved. And so what is Matthew 7 talking about? It's talking about you know somebody's a false prophet by their fruit. So if a preacher of the Bible, all of their followers, all of the people in their church or in their group or whatever who are following them, who are listening to them, all the people who they converted, they end up themselves being heretics, false prophets, reprobates, etc. Then you know that the person who is preaching to them, the person who is their leader, is a false prophet. That's how you identify false prophets. That's what it's talking about. You examine the tree by the type of fruit that's on the tree, not whether it has fruit or not. That doesn't make any sense. That's not what this is talking about at all. So that's one completely misinterpreted passage where they just take like two or one verse and then half of a verse out of context about false prophets and then they completely misunderstand what the word fruit means. Then also the obvious one would be James chapter 2 where people just parrot this phrase, faith without works is dead, faith without works is dead, faith without works is dead. And again the people who say this, 99% of the time they have not even read the whole passage. And even if they have, most of them aren't saved so they can't understand it anyway. So it literally says, as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. It gives an example of how we can compare dead faith to a dead person. If somebody dies, that means that their spirit has left their body according to the Bible. The body without the spirit is dead. So faith without works is dead also. This is a comparison, this is a simile. So if somebody were to die, if I were to die right now, according to the Bible that means my spirit left my body. My spirit would go to heaven, my body would slump in this chair, fall to the ground, whatever. Does that mean that my body doesn't exist? Does that mean that my body will never be alive or never was alive? No. That doesn't mean that the body isn't there because the body and the spirit are two different things. The body without the spirit means that the body is dead. So faith without works is dead also. So people will say, well if you don't have works then you don't have real faith. Or faith without works is dead, that means that if you really have faith then you're going to do the works. This doesn't make any sense because that would be like going to a graveyard and saying, well there's no bodies in this graveyard because all of them are dead. This doesn't make any sense. The fact that they're dead just means that they don't have any life in them. It just means that they're not able to do anything. They're inactive. They don't have a spirit. So in the same way, faith without works is dead proves that there is such a thing as faith without works, otherwise that would be a meaningless statement. Not only this, but it literally gives a particular example of how faith without works is dead. It says, if a brother or sister be naked and destitute of daily food and one of you say to him, depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled, notwithstanding you provide not the things which are needful for the body, what doth it profit? Even so, faith if it hath not works is dead, being alone. So the example that is given in this passage is a brother or sister doesn't have what they need. They don't have clothes. They don't have food. If you, in faith, you say, depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled, but you don't actually give to them yourself, you're not helping them, you're not profiting them. What does this have to do with believing that Jesus died for your sins and rose again? Absolutely nothing. Because according to the Bible, faith in Jesus is what saves you. You have to believe in eternal life. You have to believe the record that God gave of his son. That's salvation from hell. That's eternal life. Where in James chapter 2 does it say anything about that? Nowhere. It's talking about faith in other aspects of life. If you have the faith that your brother will be provided for, but you don't actually provide for them yourself, it's saying that your faith is not profiting them. It's not helping them. That's the example that's actually given. So what is it saying? It's saying your faith that they will be provided for, it's dead, meaning it's inactive, it's not doing anything for them. It's not profiting them. That's what faith without works is dead means. It doesn't mean that faith without works equals no salvation. The Bible says, to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness, Romans 4-5. So according to the Bible, it is possible for somebody to work not, but to believe, and according to the Bible, that person's faith is counted for righteousness. So if somebody believes, they aren't necessarily going to have the works. Otherwise Romans 4-5 would make absolutely no sense. Why would it say, to him that worketh not, but believeth, if every single person who believed just automatically had the works? So again, these people are just completely taking James 2 out of context, or just that one phrase in James 2, just like Matthew 7, just this one phrase, right? Faith without works is dead. You should know that, Mother Fruits. It's like, read the whole passage, buddy, and even if they did read it, they wouldn't understand it because they don't have the Holy Spirit, but the point is, it literally gives an example of the body without the Spirit. Saying that real faith equals having works, or produces works, would be just as foolish as saying, well, it's only a real body if it has a spirit. No, because there's a lot of dead bodies. That doesn't mean that they're not bodies. It doesn't mean that they were never alive, or that they never can be alive. This is foolishness to think this. So in the same way, it's foolish to think that somebody who really believes is just always going to do the works. According to the Bible, it's possible to believe and not have works. It says that in Romans 4-5, if you don't believe that, you don't believe the Bible, so just deal with it. Another proof that somebody who believes is not necessarily going to do good works is 1 Corinthians 3. It says in 1 Corinthians 3 verse 12, Now if any man build upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble, every man's work shall be made manifest, for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved, yet so is by fire. So the Bible is talking about the giving out of rewards at the judgment seat of Christ. It says if your work that you do in this life, if it's found to be wood, hay, and stubble, then it's going to be burned up, and it says that man will suffer loss, meaning he won't receive a reward, but it says he himself shall be saved, yet so is by fire. Now these people who believe that salvation just automatically results in doing good works, if that were true, then that would mean that every single Christian who believed, just automatically, if they just automatically did the good works as a result of their belief, which is what they're saying, then that means that everybody will receive a reward in heaven. Because according to the Bible, if we do works, we receive rewards. Jesus said in Matthew 16, I'm paraphrasing, but when the son of man shall come in the glory of his father, he shall reward to every man according to his work. And it says this several times in Revelation, it says he that overcometh and keepeth my works to the end, to him will I give power over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron. So according to the Bible, we will have power over the nations, we will have a reward in the kingdom of heaven if we serve God, if we keep his works until the end. Now these people who believe that works are a result of salvation, they believe that every true believer will do works. So that means they must believe that every true believer will receive rewards in heaven. Yet according to 1 Corinthians chapter 3, there are some people who in the last day, any work that they, all the work they did in this life will be burned up and they will suffer loss, they won't have a reward, but it says he himself shall be saved. So it looks to me like somebody can be saved and not receive rewards in heaven. What does that mean? It means that somebody can be saved and not do good works, works of eternal value, and they're still saved. Because salvation has absolutely nothing to do with works whatsoever. Now another thing they like to pull out is 2 Corinthians 5.17, where it says therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, all things are passed away, behold all things are become new. And again, this is something that I'm just baffled by how people don't understand this, that people will quote this and say, see that means that there has to be some change in your life if you're really saved. It doesn't say some change, it says all things are passed away, or I'm sorry, all things are passed away, all things are become new, all things. So if this were talking about your lifestyle, which is what they try to apply it to, then that would have to mean that every person who is saved has everything in their life changed. No. And it's so funny how they'll try to be wishy-washy or be on a gray area with this, where they'll say well yeah there has to be some change, so like a sin that you're really into before you're saved, you have to turn from that sin or whatever. If this were talking about lifestyle, then that would have to mean that every single person who's born again lives sinlessly perfect. But we know that's not true because the Bible says if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. So if this were talking about our lifestyle or repenting of our sin, then that means that every Christian would be a completely different person than they were before. But that's obviously not the case, we can observe that with our eyes, and we can even see that in the Bible. So what is this talking about? What is the new creature? The new creature is also called the new man, which is the spirit within the born again Christian. Jesus said that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the spirit is spirit. And this is a very important doctrine to understand, and the lack of understanding and lack of belief in this doctrine of the new man and the old man, the spirit and the flesh, is a big cause of all the confusion on work salvation today, that people don't understand and can't rightly divide between the spirit and the flesh. Because the Bible teaches that the result of being born of the spirit is spirit. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the spirit is spirit. So I was born once physically of my parents, so I have a flesh and blood body, just like my parents have a flesh and blood body. Then I was born again of the spirit. Being born of the spirit means that I have a new spirit. But my flesh didn't change when I got saved, nothing happened to my physical body when I got saved. I still have the same body that I had before I was saved. And it will remain this way until Jesus Christ comes back, and that is why the Bible says we are still waiting for the redemption of the body, waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of the body, Romans 8.23, where the Bible says that Christ will change our vile bodies to be fashioned like unto a glorious body, Philippians chapter 3 verse 21, or 1 Corinthians chapter 15 where it says that flesh and blood doth not inherit the kingdom of God, and then it tells us that we shall be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump. That hasn't happened yet. When Jesus Christ comes back, that's when he'll give us a new body. But right now our bodies are exactly the same. So the result of being born again is not a change to the flesh, it's not a change to our lifestyle, it's not a change to what's outward, it's a change to the heart, it's a change to the inward man, to the spirit. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 21, the Bible says, If so be that ye have heard him, and have been part of him, as the truth is in Jesus, that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. So this is what the new creature is, that which is created in God after righteousness and true holiness. The Bible calls this the new man, it calls it in other scriptures the inward man. But notice how it also says that you have to put off the old man. So the old man is still here, the flesh is still here, and that's why Paul says in Romans chapter 7, It is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me, for that is in my flesh. I know that in me that is in my flesh dwell with no good thing. So according to the Bible, the flesh is still sinful, and he says, I myself with the flesh serve the law of sin, but with the mind I myself serve the law of God. So the flesh is still sinful, the flesh is still weak, the flesh is still unregenerate. It's the spirit, it's the new man, it's the inward man that has been born of God. That is the new creature. So when it says old things are passed away, all things become new, this is not talking about our lifestyle. If it were, then we'd be sinlessly perfect. It's talking about the heart. The heart of a Christian, the spirit of a Christian, the mind of a Christian has been saved. But the body, the flesh is still sinful, is still corrupt, can still die. So that's not what it's talking about. It's not talking about your lifestyle or your body. So it's another very clear proof that somebody who is saved will not automatically start doing the right thing because of the fact that it literally tells us to put off the old man and put on the new man. Ephesians is not the only place where it says this, it says this also in Colossians. It says to mortify your members which are upon the earth, and to put on the new man. Colossians chapter 3 also. So again, it's not just automatic, it's not just something that happens to every believer, it's something that we have to do. And it says this also in Galatians. Again, this is in the context of the scripture that people will take out of context about the fruits of the spirit. They'll say, well, the fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, etc. So that means if you're really saved, you're going to show those things. The Bible doesn't say that at all, it just says these are the fruits of the spirit. You as a Christian are not the spirit of God. The spirit of God is God who dwells within you. But the Bible says in order to not fulfill the lust of the flesh and to show the fruits of the spirit, you actually have to walk in the spirit. It says in Galatians chapter 5 verse 16, this I say then, walk in the spirit and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. So according to the Bible, there is a battle between the flesh and the spirit. So it looks to me that a changed life is not just automatic, because according to the Bible, the flesh and the spirit are lusting against each other. And it says the only way that you're going to overcome the flesh is if you walk in the spirit. Now again, if that was automatic, why would he have to tell them to do that? Why would he say, this I say, walk in the spirit, if that's just automatic for every believer? Because it's not automatic for every believer. And then he says later, if we live in the spirit, let us also be light of the spirit. I think that's what it says, something like that, at the end of the chapter of Galatians chapter 5. So again, this is not just an automatic change, this is something that we actually have to do. We have to make the choice to put off the old man and put on the new man. We have to make the choice to put off the flesh and walk in the spirit. That is the only way you're going to be able to overcome sin in your life, but that just doesn't automatically come with salvation. Now the ability to do this comes with salvation, but that doesn't mean that every Christian is going to be in the spirit. That means some Christians are going to live in the flesh and they're going to commit the works of the flesh. This is a fact. If it wasn't a fact, then half the New Testament shouldn't even be there, because the Apostle Paul constantly rebuking churches for their sin and saying, stop doing these things, start doing the right things. Again, if salvation just automatically caused the believer to change their life and start doing right, then there would be no point for him to say, don't do this, do this instead. So it looks to me like it's not automatic. You actually have to make the choice to follow God. Another clear scripture about this, there's so many clear scriptures to show that the change life and evidence of salvation, you're going to repent of your sins if you really say, do works, have fruit, all that kind of stuff. This is just complete hogwash. Another proof of this, 2 Peter chapter 1, verses 5 to 9, and beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity. So if faith just automatically results in these things, which is what these people are saying, well if you really have faith you're going to do the works, if you really believe then you're going to have the fruit, then why would he have to tell them to add to your faith all these things? If faith just leads to these things, why does he say add to your faith virtue, knowledge, temperance, brotherly kindness, charity, godliness, all this stuff, why does he say add it if it's just something that's a result of faith? That doesn't make any sense. And then let's continue. Verse 8, for if these things be in you and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Be he that lacketh these things, so he that doesn't have these things that are listed like temperance, patience, godliness, kindness, charity, etc., he that lacketh these things is blind and cannot see afar off and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Now, according to the Bible, somebody who doesn't have these things has been purged from their old sins. So you can't say, well somebody's not saved because they're not living a charitable, godly life. According to the Bible, somebody can lack these things and still have their old sins purged, meaning they're saved, meaning they've been forgiven, meaning they've been justified. Because faith is what justifies you. It says, now that you have faith, add these things to your faith. If you don't add these things, if you lack these things, then you've forgotten that you were purged from your old sins. But that implies that the person who doesn't have these things, but they believe, they still were purged from their old sins, meaning they're still saved. So no, godliness, charity, a changed life, fruits of the Spirit is not evidence of salvation. Another clear proof is that the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians literally constantly rebukes and constantly is just correcting all these mistakes and all these sins in the Corinthian church, and yet he says several times throughout the book that he knows that the people in the church of Corinth are saved. 1 Corinthians chapter 1, he never doubts their salvation either, any time in 1 Corinthians. 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 2, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours. We saw in the last video that calling on the name of the Lord means somebody is saved. If you don't believe that, then too bad, that's what the Bible says. But he says they're saints, he says they're sanctified, he said they call on the name of the Lord, right? Then it says in 1 Corinthians chapter 6, verse 9, know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves of mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. The work of salvation is loved to just stop reading here, but then they just completely ignore verse 11 where it says, and such were some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God. So according to the Bible, these people in the Corinthian church, they are washed, they are sanctified, and they are justified, meaning they're forgiven of their sins, meaning he says, well, the people who are all these things, they won't inherit the kingdom of God, but because you're forgiven, you're fine, you're saints, you're sanctified, because you called the name of the Lord, as he said in chapter 1. But if you read the epistle of 1 Corinthians, the whole thing is just him correcting all their mistakes, right? I mean, chapter, the first few chapters he's talking about how one says they're of Paul and they're of Apollos, and they have all these factions, and they're, you know, they're being carnal. He literally calls them babes in Christ, and he says they're carnal in 1 Corinthians chapter 3. In 1 Corinthians chapter 5, he talks about a man in the church who commits fornication with his father's wife, right? In 1 Corinthians chapter 6, he talks about people going to law against one another. In 1 Corinthians chapter 11, he talks about people unworthily taking the Lord's Supper. He constantly talks, you know, rebukes him for fornication, for false doctrine in the church, like in chapter 15, and also disorder in the church in chapter 14. All sorts of things. So according to the epistle of 1 Corinthians, the Corinthian church had a lot of sin, and a lot of ungodliness in their church, yet he says they're sanctified, they're washed, they're justified. So all this to say that salvation does not automatically produce good works. Good works are commanded to every believer. That's what the Bible teaches, that believers should do good works, but does this mean that every believer is going to do good works? No. Because otherwise, half these scriptures I just read wouldn't make any sense, okay? And all the verses that people will try to apply to teach that if you really believe you're going to have works are completely taken out of context, because they can't even quote a verse, they quote like half a verse, you know, you shun all them by their fruits, faith without works is dead, they quote half a verse, and they say, see, that means that if you really believe you're going to do works. No. To him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. If somebody has no works whatsoever, but they believe, according to the Bible, they're righteous, they're justified, they're going to heaven, they're saved, they have eternal life, because salvation is by faith alone, and works do not get you saved, neither do they prove that you're saved, neither are they an automatic result of salvation. It's what the Bible says, if you don't like it, too bad, I'm wrong, I'm sorry, I'm right, you're wrong. This is what the Bible says, so deal with it. So thank you everybody for watching, I hope this was pretty clear, I mean, I don't know how much clearer I can get, there's, I mean, I could probably talk about a whole bunch of other verses, especially talking about the flesh and the spirit and those sort of things, but, I mean, it's just, again, why would half the New Testament even be there? If somebody who believes just automatically turns from their sin and shows fruits in their life and all this kind of stuff, why would Paul have to say in 1 Corinthians to, you know, get all this sin out of their church, and why would he say in Ephesians to put off the old man, put on the new man, and tell them not to let corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, and to not lie, and to not, to be angry and sinned not, and why would he have to say in Colossians to set your affection on things above, and to mortify the deeds which are on this earth, and to not let your mind be corrupted by philosophy and vain deceit? Why would he have to tell all these Christians to do righteousness if righteousness was just an automatic result of salvation? Even the book of Romans, right, he says, let not therefore sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof, so that shows to me that, you know, not letting sin reign in your mortal body is not a result of salvation because he commands you to do it. He wouldn't have to command us to do it if somebody who believes just does it as an automatic result of being saved. So the point is, somebody can believe and never do any good work because they're still going to have it because they believe, and if you don't like that, if you don't believe that, you don't believe the Bible, so too bad, you're wrong. Thank you very much for watching, bye.