September 30, 2018

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Real Faith Gets Involved With People

1. The root of salvation is faith alone - justified by faith

2. Make Christianity a relationship not a religion

3. Action are evidence of faith - are you bearing good fruit?

4. What good is intention without action

5. Faith without works is a dead faith

6. Action without faith is hollow - empty professions are useless

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Main Verse:

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James 2:14-26

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What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him?

15 If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way faith, if it doesn’t have works, is dead by itself.

18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith by my works. 19 You believe that God is one. Good! Even the demons believe—and they shudder.

20 Senseless person! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless? 21 Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works in offering Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was made complete, 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was called God’s friend. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works in receiving the messengers and sending them out by a different route? 26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

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Supporting Verses:

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Romans 3:28

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For we conclude that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

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Galatians 5:22

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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,goodness, faithfulness,

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John 10:26-30

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But you don’t believe because you are not of my sheep. 27 My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are one.”

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2 Corinthians 5:17

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 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!

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Matthew 7:23

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Then I will announce to them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you lawbreakers!’