- (Jas 2:1 ESV) My ____________, show no ____________ as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of ____________.
- My brothers – The ____________ – This is written to the church
- Partiality
- Romans 2:9-13, Ephesians 6:5-9, Colossians 3:23-25
- No matter who you are
- We are each one called to ____________ as ____________
- We are each one commanded by Christ to live lives that ____________ Him.
- As He does not look at the status of man
- We, His people, are to do the same.
- (Jas 2:2 ESV) For if a man wearing a ____________ ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a ____________ man in shabby ____________ also comes in,
- (Jas 2:3 ESV) and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a ____________ place,” while you say to the poor man, “You ____________ over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,”
- (Jas 2:4 ESV) have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become ____________ with ____________ thoughts?
- Judging these two on their ____________
- On what the ____________ classifies as higher or lower
- We do this at some level whether we mean to or not
- We look at where someone lives
- What they drive
- The clothes they wear
- Instead of judging by ____________ we should be looking at the heart
- Matthew 11:7-11
- It is interesting to this of ____________ ____________ ____________
- This forerunner of Christ
- Who was nothing in the standards of the world
- Our calling in James
- As individual ____________
- And as a church
- Is to look at the fruit of ____________
- (Jas 2:5 ESV) Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God ____________ those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the ____________, which he has promised to those who love him?
- It is interesting that the ____________ historically is rarely visited by the wealthy.
- True Biblical Christianity
- That calls us to meekness
- To ____________
- To mercy
- To ____________
- Those are not attractive to the material world.
- And we know that God chooses His church
- He elects His people
- He has chosen those whom He desires
- To be ____________ in faith
- The very gift of faith in Christ
- Matthew 5:1-16
- As His people, as His church
- We are called to walk in this way
- Called to walk in a manner that brings glory to ____________
- And more, we are called to treat others as God does
- Without ____________ on the world’s standards
- Seeing the ____________ of people
- (Jas 2:6 ESV) But you have ____________ the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who ____________ you into court?
- (Jas 2:7 ESV) Are they not the ones who ____________ the honorable name by which you were called?
- Is it not those who seem to have the most that also make things the most difficult for us?
- Those who take things to ____________
- Those who ____________ and cause trouble?
- The ____________ do not to that
- The ____________ do not do that
- (Jas 2:8 ESV) If you really fulfill the royal law according to the ____________, “You shall love your ____________ as yourself,” you are doing well.
- (Jas 2:9 ESV) But if you show partiality, you are committing ____________ and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
- If we are living lives in the mold of ____________
- Loving those who need it as ourselves
- Like the good Samaritan?
- Luke 10:25-37
- We are to be the ____________.
- We are to be the ones who show ____________.
- Mercy is this:
- mercy: kindness or good will towards the ____________ and the afflicted, joined with a desire to help them
- It is not being kind and helpful to those who might give is more back
- It is not doing something nice for ____________
- It is not being kind for your benefit, so they will like you
- Mercy is showing kindness, ____________, to those who are miserable.
- And this is hard to do consistently.
- But yet our calling to do so.
- (Jas 2:10 ESV) For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in ____________ point has become guilty of ____________ of it.
- (Jas 2:11 ESV) For he who said, “Do not commit ____________,” also said, “Do not ____________.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the ____________.
- Which is all of us
- Thanks be to God for His ____________ toward us
- Thanks be to God for His ____________ toward us.
- Maybe you can say you have never murdered anyone
- You have never committed adultery
- But we know those are extreme examples
- Have you ____________ what someone else has?
- Have you ____________ your father or mother?
- We don’t have to list them all.
- (Jas 2:12 ESV) So speak and so act as those who are to be ____________ under the law of liberty.
- (Jas 2:13 ESV) For judgment is without ____________ to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
- (Mat 5:7 ESV) “Blessed are the ____________, for they shall receive mercy.
- Let us be the people who show ____________
- Let us recognize the mercy of ____________
- Given to us by a God who is good
- And a God who is great
- Let us recognize the calling of God on His people
- That He ____________ us before the foundations of the world
