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This is the first episode in a 5 part series. I share my experience as a high school teacher using the book of James. I will go verse by verse through James to see if he can help me to "count it all joy" which is his first requirement. He gives me the promise in this first chapter telling me what I must do so that "this man shall be blessed in his deed". He focuses me on what I should be investigating and on "the perfect work" that I am to do. I hope to be true to James in showing you my faith by my works.
Reviewer 1 — It states clearly that it's written to the twelve tribes, not you us, or 2000 years up the road, when the tribes are lost, but maybe can still help us deal with life challenges today. But James was clearly a practicing Hebrew.
Reviewer 2 — [In response] yes indeed James writes to the scattered Jews, but his message is not to return to Moses and the Jewish traditions, but to a holy life before God in the context of that diaspora. As such, James has a broader message to all NT believers, and that's why it was included in the canon of scripture.
My response — I get to help people’s lives with what I do, and I love it. That has not changed in 2,000 years. Showing your faith by your works hasn’t changed. Being a doer of the word and not a hearer only, deceiving yourselves, has also not changed. Faith without works is dead is still true today. It does state clearly in the first verse that it is written to the 12 tribes scattered in the world, but the last verse says just as clearly “if anyone among you wanders from the truth”. This is the gospel. For God so loved the world that He gave us His own son that whoever believes would be saved. We are all one, there is no Jew or Gentile, we begin the book seeing 12 tribes, at the end of the book we see it is to anyone who wanders from the truth. For a very long time I have heard other people tell me that the Bible doesn't say that, to me that is just the waves washing across the boat as you sail into the wind. The Lord said that if you have a little faith you will say to this mountain to be taken up and cast into the sea. That is what I want to experience and I don't care if others think that this was 2,000 years ago, that He was talking to Jews, or whatever excuse they give.
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By StuartThis is the first episode in a 5 part series. I share my experience as a high school teacher using the book of James. I will go verse by verse through James to see if he can help me to "count it all joy" which is his first requirement. He gives me the promise in this first chapter telling me what I must do so that "this man shall be blessed in his deed". He focuses me on what I should be investigating and on "the perfect work" that I am to do. I hope to be true to James in showing you my faith by my works.
Reviewer 1 — It states clearly that it's written to the twelve tribes, not you us, or 2000 years up the road, when the tribes are lost, but maybe can still help us deal with life challenges today. But James was clearly a practicing Hebrew.
Reviewer 2 — [In response] yes indeed James writes to the scattered Jews, but his message is not to return to Moses and the Jewish traditions, but to a holy life before God in the context of that diaspora. As such, James has a broader message to all NT believers, and that's why it was included in the canon of scripture.
My response — I get to help people’s lives with what I do, and I love it. That has not changed in 2,000 years. Showing your faith by your works hasn’t changed. Being a doer of the word and not a hearer only, deceiving yourselves, has also not changed. Faith without works is dead is still true today. It does state clearly in the first verse that it is written to the 12 tribes scattered in the world, but the last verse says just as clearly “if anyone among you wanders from the truth”. This is the gospel. For God so loved the world that He gave us His own son that whoever believes would be saved. We are all one, there is no Jew or Gentile, we begin the book seeing 12 tribes, at the end of the book we see it is to anyone who wanders from the truth. For a very long time I have heard other people tell me that the Bible doesn't say that, to me that is just the waves washing across the boat as you sail into the wind. The Lord said that if you have a little faith you will say to this mountain to be taken up and cast into the sea. That is what I want to experience and I don't care if others think that this was 2,000 years ago, that He was talking to Jews, or whatever excuse they give.