FAITH IS AN ACTION

Faith That Works

Scott Young ~ Pastor of Hope

FAITH RECEIVES GOD’S WORD

1. We Need To Listen To Receive

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger. - James 1:19 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. We Need To Have Peace To Receive

For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. - James 1:20

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3. We Need Humility To Receive

So get rid of all uncleanness and all that remains of wickedness, and with a humble spirit receive the word [of God] which is implanted [actually rooted in your heart], which is able to save your souls. - James 1:21 (AMP) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

FAITH BELIEVES GOD’S WORD

1. When Faith Works You Will Be Transformed

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. - James 1:22

For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. - James 1:23-24

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. - James 1:25 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. When Faith Works Hurting People Receive Help

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world. - James 1:27

If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. - James 2:15-17 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. When Faith Works You Become A Friend Of God

You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. - James 2:22-23 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________