Real Faith

Robby Pollard, Lead Pastor

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Real faith works.

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James 2:14

¹⁴What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

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Proverbs 4:23

²³Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

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2 Corinthians 13:5

⁵Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

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James 2:14

¹⁴What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

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James 2:14

¹⁴What good is it, my brothers, if ________ says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

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James 2:14-26

¹⁴What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? ¹⁵If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, ¹⁶and 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? ¹⁷So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. ¹⁸But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ¹⁹You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! ²⁰Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? ²¹Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? ²²You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; ²³and 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.  ²⁴You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. ²⁵And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? ²⁶For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

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Real faith is active.

James 2:15-16

¹⁵If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, ¹⁶and 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?

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1 John 3:17

¹⁷But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?

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James 2:15-16

¹⁵If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, ¹⁶and 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?

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Dead faith is all talk, no action. Living faith is active.

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James 2:17

¹⁷So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

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Real faith is shown through good works.

James 2:18

¹⁸But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

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Luke 6:43-45

⁴³“For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, ⁴⁴for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. ⁴⁵The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

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James 2:19-20

¹⁹You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! ²⁰Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

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Deuteronomy 6:4

⁴“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.

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James 2:19-20

¹⁹You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! ²⁰Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

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Real faith is living, not dead.

James 2:26

²⁶For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

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James 2:20

²⁰Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

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James 2:21-23

²¹Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? ²²You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; ²³and 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.

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James 2:21 (CEV)

²¹Now you see how Abraham’s faith and deeds worked together. He proved that his faith was real by what he did.

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Hebrews 11:8-10

⁸By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. ⁹By faith he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God.

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James 2:23

²³and 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.

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James 2:24

²⁴You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

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James 2:25

²⁵And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?

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Joshua 2:9-11

⁹and said to the men, “I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. ¹⁰For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction. ¹¹And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the LORD your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.

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Hebrews 11:31

³¹By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.

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James 2:26

²⁶For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

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Real faith is active.

Real faith is shown through good works.

Real faith is living, not dead.

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