WHY DID GOD CHOOSE THE POOR OF THIS WORLD?James 2:5: Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? 6: But ye have despised the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
MERCY REJOICETH AGAINST JUDGMENT James 2: 1-13 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. 2: For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
MORE THAN THE USUAL RELIGIOUS BARGAINActs 3: 5: And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. Many spiritually lame sinners have grown accustomed to the usual religious bargain. Sinners are brought by their friends to a place...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
PURE RELIGION AND UNDEFILEDJames 1: 27: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.The Son of God who took upon him the form...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
A SIGN OF VAIN RELIGION OR(A WARNING AGAINST VAIN RELIGION)James 1: 26: If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. A man may appear religious, yet, an unbridled...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THOSE WHO HEAR AND DO James 1: 25: But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.Those who are "doers of the Word" look...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
WHY WILL YE DIE?Eze 33:11:...As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?Every one will...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
HOW HARD IS THE NATURAL HEART?Acts 3:1: Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.Most who continued worshipping in the temple had seen and heard Christ the Lord with the natural eye and ear....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
James 1: 22: But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23: For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
James 1: 21: Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. The Spirit of God summarizes all that went before. The only thing that exists in man's...[ abbreviated | read entire ]