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JAMES

JAMES. Marks. of. Maturity. James: Marks of Maturity. Faith and Works James 2:14-26. James 2:14: What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him ?. James: Marks of Maturity. Faith and Works James 2:14-26.

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JAMES

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  1. JAMES Marks of Maturity

  2. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 • James 2:14: • What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

  3. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26

  4. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 Salvation Defined…

  5. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 There is a difference between the works I do before salvation and the works I do after.

  6. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 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? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 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. You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!(2:14-19)

  7. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 • Faith Defined… • Greek: • pistis (faith) / pisteuo (believe) = moral conviction, to credit, put trust in, commit to, constant reliance, assurance • Hebrew: • emunah = literally firmness; figuratively security: - faith (-ful, -ly, -ness), stability, steady, truly, truth, verily.

  8. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 • Faith Defined… • Faith is the assurance/substance of things hoped for, the conviction/evidence of things not seen. (Heb 11:1)

  9. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 Jonathan Edwards

  10. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 "The principle evidence of life is motion; so the principle evidence of saving grace is holy motion." Jonathan Edwards

  11. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; 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. You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 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? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead. (2:20-26)

  12. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 Works Defined…

  13. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 Works to attain salvation vs. Works because of salvation WORKS/DEEDS Pre-Salvation My strength My efforts My ideas My vision My purpose/results Post-Salvation H.S. strength H.S. power H.S. direction H.S. vision H.S. purpose/results

  14. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 FAITH WORKS

  15. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 • Works Defined… • And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. (Eze36:26-27)

  16. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 • Works Defined… • Eph2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast….

  17. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 • Works Defined… • Eph 2:8-9: For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast…. (10) for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

  18. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 • Contradiction between Paul and James? • 1Co 1:22-24 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

  19. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 • Contradiction between Paul and James? • 2Co 3:16-18 “When one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed… and we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.”

  20. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 • Contradiction between Paul and James? • Joh10:27-28 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

  21. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26

  22. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 1:22: “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”

  23. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 • The full comprehension of this passage: • Working for salvation vs. working from salvation • The context is about self-inventory, not judging others’ salvation

  24. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 What is the state of your relationship with God today?

  25. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26

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  27. James: Marks of Maturity Faith and Works James 2:14-26 Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. (Phil 2:12-13)

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