Sunday Notes: James 2:21-26
- (Jas 2:21 ESV) Was not ____________ our father justified by ____________ when he offered up his ____________ Isaac on the altar?
- Abraham was the father of the nation ____________
- A ____________ called out by God to go to a foreign land
- Genesis 22:1-19
- Genesis chapters 15-18
- Genesis 21:1-5
- It did not start with that test.
- Hebrews 11:8-19
- That is faith
- To believe on God’s instruction even when all else seems to be counter
- (Jas 2:22 ESV) You see that ____________ was active along with his ____________, and faith was completed by his works;
- (Jas 2:23 ESV) and the ____________ was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”–and he was called a friend of ____________.
- Genesis 15:6, Genesis 22:16-18
- How much this story would be different
- If Abraham had not ____________
- We cannot ____________ these beliefs
- We cannot say we have ____________ in God
- And yet do nothing to exercise that.
- That is ____________ ____________
- (Jas 2:24 ESV) You see that a person is ____________ by works and not by faith ____________.
- This is one link in the golden ____________ of our salvation
- First we are ____________ – set apart
- This is our sanctification
- Then we are justified
- Made ____________ before God
- And in the ____________ we will be glorified
- With God in ____________ for eternity
- We sit in the middle right now
- Romans 8:29-30, James 2:15-18
- (Jas 2:25 ESV) And in the same way was not also ____________ the prostitute justified by ____________ when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
- Hebrews 11:30-31
- Joshua 2:1-15
- In between here the ____________ return to Joshua
- They report on the certainty of victory
- They march around according to ____________ instructions
- And the city collapses in disarray
- Joshua 6:20-25
- First, Rahab ____________
- She had ____________ that the God of these Israelites would bring the victory for them.
- And she ____________ on that
- Second, the spies and Joshua ____________.
- They believed God’s promise
- And they ____________ on that.
- Belief here coupled with action
- ____________ with deeds that match
- (Jas 2:26 ESV) For as the ____________ apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from ____________ is dead.
- For as the body apart from the spirit is dead
- Two pictures of this from Scripture
- First, Jesus when we was crucified and Stephen the first martyr in Acts
- If we have ____________ in God
- But that does not drive us to ____________
- John 8:31-45
