Make no mistake, living faith evidences itself—faith works, faith purifies, and faith overcomes (Acts 15:9; Gal. 5:6; 1 John 5:4). Living faith is active faith. It purifies the heart from the love and practice of sin; it works by love to the Lord Jesus Christ, his ordinances, ways, and people; and it enables the professor to overcome the world, to stand fast against its frowns, and to resist the more pleasing but not less dangerous influence of its smiles. Each of these effects is beyond the power, and contrary to the inclination, of the natural man.30
