October 13, 2024 James: Building a Faith that Works

Part 5 | How Faith Comes Alive

From James 2

📖 James 1:22 ESV But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

If faith works is , faith works is .

1. Faith comes when it me.

📖 James 2:14 ESV What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

📖 Philippians 2:12–13 ESV …work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

of that me:
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C. the of the Word
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2. Faith comes when it people than .

📖 James 2:15-17 ESV 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.

of that others:
A.
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📖 James 2:18 NLT Now someone may argue, “Some people have faith; others have good deeds.” But I say, “How can you show me your faith if you don’t have good deeds? I will show you my faith by my good deeds.”

3. Faith comes when I my to God.

📖 James 2:19 ESV You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe— and shudder!

📖 James 2:20-23 ESV 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.

📖 Hebrews 11:19 ESV He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from

📖 James 2:24 ESV You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

📖 Romans 3:28 ESV For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of thelaw.

Two Axis of :

justification: God it, we it.

justification: We it, people it.

📖 Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 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.

I’m saved by grace through faith , not of the , but
from .

4. Faith comes when I from what’s .

📖 James 2:25 ESV And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified byworks when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

📖 James 2:26 ESV For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.