James Series Faith that Moves from Head to Heart to Hands—2:14-26
Tom Sorensen Lesson 5 2/26/06
1. Introduction: Understanding how Jews could defend a do-nothing faith in reaction to their horrible experience with Pharisaic legalism.
2. James uses “faith” as his opponents used the term to show that that kind of faith cannot produce salvation, vv. 14-17
a. True faith encompasses “content:, “assent”, “trust/obedience” b. Salvation by faith alone, but never a faith which is alone.
3. James likens his opponents “faith” to being comparable to the faith of demons and therefore wrong-headed, vv. 18, 19
4. James gives two examples of how faith triggers both justification and good works in the lives of two believers with very dissimilar backgrounds: The Jew's “George Washington” and a prostitute, vv. 20-26
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Tom Sorensen is one of the elders at Littleton Bible Chapel. He has a background in retail management in the home furnishings industry for 24 years. In the late 1990's he moved out of retail management and into semi-retirement and does product sourcing work in Asia. He has a...
