What you must do is believe, that gives you the change in heart and mind. So actually believing is doing something. It's accepting what Jesus did on the cross. It becomes real to you. You can accept the gift of salvation.
Take a good look at acts 16:30
30 And he brought them out [of the dungeon] and said, Men, what is it necessary for me to do that I may be saved?
31 And they answered, Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ [give yourself up to Him, take yourself out of your own keeping and entrust yourself into His keeping] and you will be saved, [and this applies both to] you and your household as well.
Acts 16:30–31.
Salvation is not apart from obedience.
The doing is believing the gospel.
Biblical faith always includes obedience in order to be saved and to stay saved.
Thus true Biblical faith always obeys.
One without the other is not the faith Paul, James teaches justifies man.
Faith only salvation requires no obedience to Gods commandments except, the commandment to believe.
Did you know faith in Christ is commanded?
This proves faith is a work for works must be obeyed.
Commandments are obeyed.
1John 3:23-24,
- and this is Gods
commandment that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another as He gave us commandment
To believe in Christ is to obey the commandment of God, 1John 3:23-24.
Obeying commandments is working righteousness.
Therefore true saving faith cannot be void of good works.
Examples of works by commandment keeping,
Faith in Christ, 1John 3:23-24,
John 6:28-29,
- then they said to Jesus, what shall we
do that we may work the works of God
Jesus answered and said to them
this is the work of God that you believe in Him whom He sent
We must work the works of God by working the commandment to believe in Christ.
More examples of faith working obedience,
Acts 10:47-48,
- can anyone forbid water that these should be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit as we have
- and he
commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord
Two commandments so far,
1 The commandment to believe in Jesus, 1John 3:23-24.
2 The commandment to be water baptized in the name of Jesus, Acts 10:47-48.
Faith alone salvation teaches no works to be saved only works after one is saved.
Yet the Scriptures teach to be saved one must obey Gods commandments like belief, 1John 3:23-24, John 6:28-29.
If we must obey the work of belief to be saved.
Can I disobey the commandment to be baptized and be saved?
If so the gospel of Jesus Christ saves not by obedience to God but by disobedience to His commandments.
Therefore salvation by faith alone apart from works is a gospel of salvation through disobedience to Gods commandments,
Notice again the commandment to be baptized taught by Jesus,
Mark 16:15-16,
- go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, he that believeth and is baptized will be saved; he that believeth not will be condemned
Taught by Peter, repentance and baptism,
Acts 2:38-39.
Acts 17:30 repentance a commandment in Jesus' new testament gospel,
- truly these times of ignorance God overlooked but now
commands all men everywhere to repent
Faith only salvation demands one must believe but contradicts by teaching one can disobey the commandment to be baptized.
Now the conversion of the Philipian Jailerl
Did Paul teach the Jailer was saved by only obeying the commandme to believe?
There is more to the story in Acts 16,
Acts 16:30-31,
- and he brought them out and said Sirs what must I do to be saved,
- so they said Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved you and your household
- Then
they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house
Paul must have taught baptism into Christ when he spoke the word of the Lord to the Jailer as the next verse proves,
33,
- and he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes and immediately he and all his household were
baptized
What did the believing of Jesus' gospel include when Paul taught the word to him?
The commandment to be baptized.
The true story of the Philippian Jailer is he believed and was baptized.
Could faith alone have saved the Jalier if he refused to obey Gods commandment and be baptized?
Salvation through disobedience to Gods commandments?