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James Dynamic Faith


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DYNAMIC Faith!
 
Dynamic means forceful or powerful. It can also mean changing. Dynamic power is power that changes and transforms.
 
Many people are looking for something that will make a real difference in their lives. People are looking for answers that will truly make a change in their lives.
 
So many people today feel Burned Out and Exhausted. What we need is something from God that will make a true and lasting difference in our lives.
 
James talks to us about something authentic that has the power to change our lives and has worked for thousands of years.
 
See what James says about "DYNAMIC Faith."
James 2:20-26
20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?
22 You see that faith was working with his works, and as a result of the works, faith was perfected;
23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God.
24 You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
25 In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.  (NASB)
Dynamic Faith is the third type of Faith James mentions in chapter 2.
3rd    Type of Faith is   Divine / Demonstrative Faith    James 2:20-26
It is Genuine Faith.  Real Faith Acts on what it claims to Believe.
There is evidence to support the claims that Faith makes.  James calls that evidence, works.  Works do not produce faith.  Faith produces works.  Works demonstrate that the faith we claim to have is really real.
James brings 2 illustrations from the Old Testament that everyone in his audience would be very familiar with.  They were 2 very different people with 2 very different resumes.  One is a man, one is a woman.  One was the father of faith, the other came by it as an outsider.  One is Abraham.  The other is Rahab.  Both possessed a Dynamic Faith that changed them and was visible and demonstrable to others.
Dr. Kelly Carr, Pastor, New Hope Community Church, 3849 FM 1827, McKinney, TX 75071,  4 miles north west of Princeton, Texas.
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Higher Purpose MinistriesBy Kelly Carr