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  SAVING FAITH
  by Thomas Brooks
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Summary: Saving faith is demonstrated by a working faith that leads to
practical obedience and a deepening relationship with God.

Topics: "Active Faith", "Saving Faith"
Scripture References: Zechariah 12:10, Ephesians 2:8, James 2:17

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DESCRIPTION
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Thomas Brooks emphasizes that saving faith is an active and
transformative force in a believer's life, compelling them to grieve,
combat, and resist sin while fostering a deep relationship with God.
This faith leads to a life of diligent service, joy in pious duties, and
a serious commitment to God's work. Brooks warns that any faith that
does not produce action is dead and ultimately deceptive, leaving
individuals short of salvation. He asserts that true saving faith is
characterized by its liveliness and effectiveness in producing good
works.

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CONTENT
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Saving faith puts the soul upon grieving for sin, upon combating with
sin, upon weeping over sin, upon trembling at the occasions of sin, upon
resisting temptations that lead to sin, upon fighting it out to the
death with sin, Zech. 12:10. Saving faith puts a man upon walking with
God, upon waiting on God, upon working for God, upon wrestling with God,
upon bearing for God, and upon parting with anything for God. Faith
makes pious duties to be easy to the soul, to be delightful to the soul,
to be profitable to the soul. Faith makes the soul to be serious and
conscientious in doing, to be careful and faithful in doing, to be
delightful and cheerful in doing, to be diligent and faithful in doing.

That faith which is not a working faith is not saving faith; that faith
which is not a working faith is a dead faith; that faith which is not a
working faith is a deluding faith; that faith which is not a working
faith is a worthless faith; that faith that is not a working faith will
leave a man short of heaven and happiness in the latter day.

That faith which accompanies salvation is a working faith, a lively
faith, and not such a dead faith as most please and deceive themselves
with forever.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/thomas-brooks/saving-faith/
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