Teaching on James (Page 2)
To emphasize to a Jewish audience in the Diaspora that saving faith is evidenced by tangible works of righteousness. It complements Paul’s emphasis on justification by faith alone by adding that such saving faith is never seen alone. It expresses itself through good works.
A Faith Diagnostic
James 2:18-26 If you turn in your Bibles to James chapter 2, James chapter 2:18-26, that’s going to be what we look at today. Last week we started into this section beginning in verse 14 of James 2. It is one of the most famous sections of the book of James and probably one of the more famous sections in all of Scripture. And though there is a sense in which the entirety of the book of James has to…
The Loving Response of Living Faith
James 2:14-17 James Chapter 2 is where we will be today. Today we’re going to be looking at one of the more well known texts in Scripture. But as we get into this, I don’t want to go through the entirety of the background of James in, in, a review because it would be so easy for me to take up way too much time with that and we do have a communion service later. So for now, let me…
The Serious Nature of Sinful Partiality
James 2:8-13 Turn in your Bibles to James, chapter 2, James, chapter 2. And this morning we’re going to be finishing up this fairly long section of James’ instruction when it comes to the sin of partiality. This will be the third sermon that I’ve done, the third sermon from this section; and if you remember, in the first one we just kind of introduced the issue. We just looked at verse 1. We defined what sinful partiality is a…
Correcting our Perspective on Partiality
James 2:2-7 Today we come to a section that would maybe be a little odd normally for a one-off sermon, but it is in the kind providence of God, it actually fits quite nicely with where Travis was last week at the end of Luke 20 and the beginning of Luke 21, in that excellent sermon that you should go listen to if you have not heard it yet. But if you remember, last week Travis talked about in his…
The Gospel Rebukes our Sinful Partiality
James 2:1 If you’d open your Bibles to James chapter 2, James chapter 2, today we’re going to begin to make our way into the main body of the letter of James by looking at the first verse in James chapter 2. So up to this point in the book of James, we’ve spent quite a bit of time going through what most understand to be the introduction of James, verses 1-18 of chapter 1. They kind of serve to…
Rightly Practicing the Word
James 1:26-27 Well, so we’re gonna be in James chapter 1, the last two verses, verses 26 through 27, continuing in our study through the book of James. Today we come to the end of chapter 1. We’re in that final, the final section that I kinda laid out, the final, the kinda concluding section of verses 19 through 27. It’s a section which kinda works together as, as an appropriate, uh, conclusion to the introduction of the book in…
Rightly Responding to the Word
James 1:22-25 Turn in your Bibles to James 1, as we are almost through with the first chapter. Today we’re going to be looking specifically at one of the more famous portions of the entire book, verses 22-25. And as we have gone through this chapter, we’ve drawn attention to the various linking words and clever ways that James has linked verses and ideas together. The reason we’ve drawn attention to that is so that we can be confident that…
Rightly Receiving the Word
James 1:19-21 If you would open your Bibles to the first chapter of the book of James, that’s where we’re going to be this morning. This week and next week really does flow well out of what, what Bret was talking about, the end of Psalm 19 last week. So it’ll be good for us. And in, in preparation, trying to get to the communion service on time, I just shredded up my introduction really small for you all. So…
Comfort in the Character of a Giving God
James 1:16-18Our sermon again today is going to be in the book of James, James, chapter 1. But we once again turn to the book of James and we continue to look at the first chapter, which as we have said before, needs to be seen in the context of trials. It’s a context of trials throughout the entirety of chapter 1. We’ve already talked at length about God’s good intention for the believer in trials, as, as we have…
Understanding Temptation for Our Sanctification
James 1:13-15 If you would turn in your Bible to James, the book of James, we will be continuing on in our study of the book of James. We’re still in chapter 1. Today we’re gonna look at verses 13 through 15. Verses 13 through 15 of James chapter 1. And as we do that, we do need to once again remind ourselves about the context in which James is a delivering this letter. James is speaking to a group…