05-26: Faith and Works
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Thank you for joining us for worship today! We take a little rabbit trail to see what James has to say in chapter 2 about the relationship between faith and work in relation to what we have been seeing in the book of Hebrews.
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: The Bible Project :: https://www.bibleproject.com
: YouVersion Bible App :: https://www.bible.com
James 2:14-26
Faith Without Works Is Dead
[14] What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? [15] If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, [16] and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? [17] So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
[18] But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. [19] You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! [20] Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? [21] Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? [22] You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; [23] and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. [24] You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. [25] And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? [26] For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Notes:
Information from Sunday’s slides
James 2:24
James 2:5
Faith without works and works without faith do not work:
Experientially (vs. 14-17)
James 2:14-17
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Doctrinally (vs. 18-19)
James 2:18-19
Evidentially (vs. 20-26)
James 2:20-26
