Sermons on James (Page 2)
Receiving Everything You Want From God
Introduction James 4:1-3 ESV What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? (2) You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. (3) You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. James 4:2 ESV You desire and do not have,…
Contrasting Wisdom: Finding a Harvest of Righteousness
Introduction James 3:13-18 ESV Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. (14) But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. (15) This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. (16) For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. (17) …
These Things Ought Not To Be SO (How We Ought to Use Our Tongue)
Introduction James 3:9-12 ESV With it [our tongue] we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. (10) From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. (11) Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? (12) Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond…
Bless Yourself: Stop Running Your Mouth
Introduction James 3:4-8 ESV Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. (5) So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! (6) And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members,…
Living Faith – Part Two: The Works of Living Faith
Introduction James 2:20-26 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…
Living Faith – Part One: Faith WIthout Works is Dead
Introduction James 2:14-19 ESV What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? (15) 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,…
Mercy Triumphs Over Judgment
Introduction James 2:13 ESV For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. James 2:13 ESVa For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. 1. The law of mercy (Matthew 5:7) 2. Law of forgiveness (Matthew 6:14-15) 3. Law of sowing and reaping (Galatians 6:7-8) Matthew 5:7 ESV “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Matthew 6:14-15 ESV For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also…
Christians are Under the Law (Of Liberty)
Introduction James 2:12 ESV So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. James 2:9 ESV But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. James 2:12 ESV So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. Galatians 5:1 ESV For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to…
Guilty of the Whole Law
Introduction James 2:10-11 ESV For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. (11) For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. (12) So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. James 2:1 ESV My brothers, show no partiality as…
Can We Just Be a Christian church?
Introduction James 2:1-9 ESV My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. (2) For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, (3) and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You…
Pure, Undefiled Religion
Introduction James 1:27 ESV Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. Point One – God Has Not Forgotten the Widows and the Orphans James 1:27 ESV Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. Acts 6:1-3 ESV Now in…