James 2:26

Verse 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Your own observation shows you, and you never doubt it for a moment, that the human body is dead when the spirit is separated from it; your life's experience assures you of this fact. You regard it as simply certain, a fixed and an unalterable fact. So it is in the matter of faith as separated from works; it is equally and absolutely dead. Be assured, and let your minds be forever at rest on this point. As death ensues to the body on the separation of the spirit from it in the material world, so in the moral world faith is dead without works. Faith and works are joined together in an indissoluble wedlock by infinite wisdom. This is the appointment of Him who said, "Let there be light, and light was," and that should be the end of all controversy by every intelligent creature.