Cedar Rapids Christian Church
JAMES: Judgment to Mercy
June 7, 2020
JAMES: Judgment to Mercy
June 7, 2020
SERMON NOTES:
James 2:1-13
James is going to teach us today is;
If we only love people based on their external appearance, our is not genuine!
What does genuine faith look like?
James 1:27
Tim Keller, Gospel in Life: “A merely religious person, who believes God will favor him because of his morality and respectability, will ordinarily have contempt for the outcast. ’I worked hard to get where I am, and so can anyone else!’ That is the language of the moralist’s heart. ’I am only where I am by the sheer and unmerited mercy of God. I am completely equal with all other people.’ That is the language of the Christian’s heart. A sensitive social conscience and a life poured out in deeds of mercy to the needy is the inevitable sign of a person who has grasped the doctrine of God’s grace.”
James 2:1-13
THE WHAT… Don’t show !
Do not withhold or give glory, love, affection, hospitality, friendship, mercy, kindness, or service to people based upon their
THE WHY… You God and you don’t understand the !
1 Corinthians 1:26-27
You not only dishonor God but we dishonor our !
THE BETTER WAY… Do the !
Our Truth:
Faith without toward others, is not genuine faith!