Reading
Pure
religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the
fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted
from the world.
Commentary
Jesus said, "If ye love Me, keep My
commandments." Likewise First John
3:8 says, "My
little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in
truth." When there is thus true
faith, we know there will also be good works.
True faith cannot exist without obedience to God's commandments. If then a person is living wickedly against
God's commandments, and they yet at the same time claim to be Christian, such
cannot be. "Even so faith, if it
hath not works, is dead, being alone."
Likewise, "Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn
down, and cast into the fire." Thus
when we see the widow or fatherless in true need, let us do what we can out of
faith and love. "Love thy neighbor
as thyself." Let every believer
likewise keep himself (by God's strength) unspotted from this world, namely
resist temptation, not giving in.
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