Sunday Notes: James 2:14-20

• (Jas 2:14 ESV) What good is it, my ____________, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
  • What good is it my brothers
    • Still talking to the ____________ here
      • Brothers – brethren – the ____________.
      • James 2:14-26, Ephesians 4:11-14
      • The idea working here is that we know these truths that define our faith
        • We know the things that we believe in
    • If then we know them
      • We must ____________ something 
  • We are to be known by what we do
    • By our ____________
    • By what we ____________.
    • And whether that aligns with what we claim to be try
      • With our words.
  • Matthew 7:15-27
    • We can measure someone’s faith in the Lord
      • By the results they produce.
    • Like growing ____________
      • Healthy plants
      • Make healthy ____________
    • Titus 1:15-16
      • See faith without works is not faith at all
• (Jas 2:15 ESV) If a brother or sister is poorly ____________ and lacking in ____________ food,
• (Jas 2:16 ESV) and one of you says to them, “Go in ____________, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the ____________, what good is that?
  • These are the basic ____________ we have to live
    • Clothing to cover our bodies
    • ____________ to fill our stomachs
    • Matthew 25:31-46
      • There are two groups here certainly
        • There are those on the right
        • And those on the ____________.
        • There are the ____________
        • And there are the unrighteous
      • Proverbs 3:27-28
      • As the people of God
        • We are called to service
• (Jas 2:17 ESV) So also ____________ by itself, if it does not have ____________, is dead.
• (Jas 2:18 ESV) 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.
  • This is the argument
  • And much the culture we live in
    • Different strokes for different folks
  • Like a tree that bears ____________
    • What our lives produce is the measure of our faith in Christ
    • And not in the material standard of the world.
      • Matthew 25:40, James 2:15-16
• (Jas 2:19 ESV) You believe that God is ____________; you do well. Even the ____________ believe–and shudder!
  • Deuteronomy 6:4, Exodus 20:3-7
  • Even the demons believe – and ____________
    • Luke 4:34-35 and also in Mark 1:24 and Matthew 8:29
    • Luke 4:41, Matthew 17:18, Mark 3:11-12
  • Remember that demons are the same beings as angels
    • But they are ____________
    • They were ____________ out of heaven
  • Satan himself was a very high ranking angel in God’s court
    • And when he sought to obtain the glory due God
      • ____________ threw him out.
• (Jas 2:20 ESV) Do you want to be shown, you ____________ person, that faith apart from ____________ is useless?
  • Romans 1:19-25
    • We live in a world full of this.
    • Full of those who will claim they know God
      • But they will not ____________ His name
    • And the time of judgment will come on us all
  • Matthew 7:21-27