A Faith That Works: James 2:14-26
Welcome to Timeless Truth with Pastor Jim Thomas. In this episode, we continue our study with James 2:14-26
James uses four illustrations to help us grasp the difference between false faith and authentic faith.
- False faith ignores a brother or sister in need (vv. 15–16)
- False faith is like the theism of demons (vv. 18–19)
- Authentic faith in Abraham—the friend of God (vv. 21–23)
- Authentic faith in Rahab—the helper of God’s people (v. 25)
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.”
Matthew 7:21
“It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.”
John Calvin
“But whoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.”
1 John 3:17–18
“So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.”
Galatians 6:10
“Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion… There may be right opinion about God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is proof of this.”
A.W. Tozer
“The life of faith is more than a private (long past) transaction of the heart with God. It is the life of active consecration seen in the obedience which holds nothing back from God, and the concern which holds nothing back from human need.”
J. A. Motyer
“Dead religion has all too often become the mainstay of the status quo and of oppression, but a living faith in God is the automatic refusal to accept the world as it is and a restless quest to make it what it should be under God and one day will be again.”
Os Guinness, Carpe Diem Redeemed
“Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.”
Matthew 5:16
“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
Ephesians 2:10
