Faith Vs Works or Faith Equals Works?
Miles Seaborn
James 2:14-26
Introduction: James has challenged us to welcome the Word into every area of our lives. I wonder where the blue beard's closet is in your daily Christian life?
ILL. You remember the story, Bluebeard says to his young wife, ''Here are the keys to every room in the castle. Open them all but this one!''
If you fail to welcome God's Word into every room and closet of your life you are a lawbreaker!
Verse 10 (read) Stumble at one point, you are guilty of all !
Everyone of us has at least one area of our lives where we justify our sin (stumbling).
Bitterness - Look what they did/didn't do. Anger - I have every right to be angry. Lust - I can't help myself. God made me this way.
Keeping vows and promises - After all, God forgives and everyone else, even good Christians are doing it or aren't doing it.
I'm not a legalist - I live under grace.
Verse 12--challenge through the law of So if you stumbled at snobbery you are a lawbreaker and guilty of all. 2
So James says you can't just talk a good fight in welcoming obeying the Word into your life. You must demonstrate your faith in relationship to God and to man.
(Quote from Chad Walsh)
' Chad Walsh wrote an intriguing book entitled Early Christians of the Twenty-First Century, in which he placed a burr under my mental saddle with these words, ''Millions of Christians live in a sentimental haze of vague piety with soft organ music trembling in-the lovely light from stained-glass windows. Their religion is a pleasant thing of emotional quivers, divorced from the intellect, divorced from the will, and demanding little except lip-service to a few harmless platitudes. I suspect,'' he said, ''that Satan can call off his attempt to convert people to agnosticism. After all, if a person travels far enough away from Christianity, he's always in danger of seeing it in perspective and deciding that it is true. It's much safer from ...
Miles Seaborn
James 2:14-26
Introduction: James has challenged us to welcome the Word into every area of our lives. I wonder where the blue beard's closet is in your daily Christian life?
ILL. You remember the story, Bluebeard says to his young wife, ''Here are the keys to every room in the castle. Open them all but this one!''
If you fail to welcome God's Word into every room and closet of your life you are a lawbreaker!
Verse 10 (read) Stumble at one point, you are guilty of all !
Everyone of us has at least one area of our lives where we justify our sin (stumbling).
Bitterness - Look what they did/didn't do. Anger - I have every right to be angry. Lust - I can't help myself. God made me this way.
Keeping vows and promises - After all, God forgives and everyone else, even good Christians are doing it or aren't doing it.
I'm not a legalist - I live under grace.
Verse 12--challenge through the law of So if you stumbled at snobbery you are a lawbreaker and guilty of all. 2
So James says you can't just talk a good fight in welcoming obeying the Word into your life. You must demonstrate your faith in relationship to God and to man.
(Quote from Chad Walsh)
' Chad Walsh wrote an intriguing book entitled Early Christians of the Twenty-First Century, in which he placed a burr under my mental saddle with these words, ''Millions of Christians live in a sentimental haze of vague piety with soft organ music trembling in-the lovely light from stained-glass windows. Their religion is a pleasant thing of emotional quivers, divorced from the intellect, divorced from the will, and demanding little except lip-service to a few harmless platitudes. I suspect,'' he said, ''that Satan can call off his attempt to convert people to agnosticism. After all, if a person travels far enough away from Christianity, he's always in danger of seeing it in perspective and deciding that it is true. It's much safer from ...
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