Faith That Works Series
Where True Faith Meets Real Life

Sunday June 15, 2025 - Pastor Wungreiso Valui

James 2

Faith That Shows - Loving Without Limits

Main Message: Real faith treats everyone with dignity and backs up belief with action.

Big Idea: Faith is visible, it treats people right, and meets real needs. Real faith bears real fruit

"My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with partiality." - James 2:1

1. Partiality: To receive according to the face. Favoring one person over another based on status, wealth, race, popularity, appearance, or power.
2. Partiality contradicts God's character: For there is no partiality with God. - Romans 2:11. When we show favoritism, we misrepresent God. We sin against God.

Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?- James 1:5

1. Poor: One who is crouching or begging

   God doesn't choose the poor because they're poor, but because their poverty often places them in a posture of dependence and humility. The poor have nothing to rely on but God.

2. Ask yourself: What do I seek first in my day, decisions, or desires? Do I rely on God?

   If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well; but if you show partiality, you commit sin- James 2:8-9

3. Love sees the image of God in everyone. Partiality sees what it can gain.

   If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?-James 5:15-16

4. Naked-poorly clothed or vulnerable, not just hungry, but in survival mode.
5. Being warmed and filled sounds caring, but it is detached from real help.
6. It's like saying, "God bless you, hope you find food and it works out," while doing nothing practical.

   You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe, and tremble!- James 5:19

7. Mere acknowledgment of God's existence doesn't equate to genuine faith. Faith must move beyond the head to the heart and hands- If your faith doesn't produce good works, it's no better than the faith of the demon.

God-faith work: It feeds the hungry, clothes the poor, and lives out the Gospel.

Demon-faith talks: It claims to believe, but remains inactive and unloving.

Summary: Verses 1-13-Reject Favoritism: James condemns showing partiality

Summary: Verses 14-26 - Faith Without Works Is Dead. James challenges our faith.

Faith that saves is faith that works.

1. Faith is not just believing in your head, but trusting God with your life.
2. Real faith results in a life of love, obedience, mercy, and action.
3. Faith that doesn't move is dead and deceptive.

Is your life (Faith) producing fruit that shows Jesus lives in you?

"For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also." - James 2:26