Faith is the substance of things or as the Amp says "Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation)
of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their
reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses]." So that "work" is
knowing what God said already happened.
John says the command of God is "believe on the name of God's Son AND love one another" :
a) "love one another" is one with, and, yet, separate from, "believe on the name of God's Son"
b) "faith, which works by love", and "love is the fulfillment of the Law", mean that walking in
faith is walking in the convictions created by love, and only those who walk by faith/serve in
newness of the spirit can "fulfill the righteous requirement of the Law".
We have choices--either we walk after the spirit, whereby we will not fulfill the desires of the
flesh, which will result in life (for the righteousness), or else we walk after the flesh, resulting in
death (for unrighteousness) according to Paul in Ro 8:12,13.
I take what he says seriously, I don't brush it off.
