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• Jesus' sacrifice on the cross is essential for salvation, and it's a gift of God's undeserved grace. |
• Salvation is not earned through human effort or good deeds but by God's sheer grace alone. |
• The Bible's catechism encapsulates James' teaching on true faith and its fruit |
• True faith is a deep-rooted assurance created in believers by the Holy Spirit through the Gospel |
• Those with true faith produce fruits of gratitude, including good deeds |
• Good deeds follow faith and are a result of being made like Christ through sanctification |
• The Holy Spirit works out salvation in believers to make them more like Christ every day |
• Good deeds are done because of God's strength, goodness, faithfulness, and Spirit working in us |
• Gratitude and obedience signify true faith |
• Members of the church should act like Christ and do good deeds with God's strength |
• Prayer for salvation, thanksgiving, and appreciation for God's Word and truth |
• Acknowledgment of sinful nature and need for God's grace and love |
• Request to be made more like Christ through truer faith and sanctification by the Spirit |
[0.00 --> 3.36] Hey everyone, welcome. |
[4.36 --> 6.30] I hope you're having a good Sunday so far. |
[7.12 --> 9.38] It's been a while since the last time I did this, |
[9.60 --> 13.84] but I remember more people being here the last time I preached. |
[15.48 --> 18.86] Anyways, I hope everyone's having a good Sunday, like I said already. |
[19.44 --> 22.20] I want to encourage you to bring out your Bibles in any format |
[22.20 --> 25.80] and open the word to James 2, 14-19. |
[30.00 --> 31.46] Read with me. |
[31.46 --> 37.28] What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? |
[38.00 --> 39.34] Can such faith save him? |
[40.38 --> 43.80] Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. |
[44.60 --> 46.68] One of you says to him, Go, I wish you well. |
[47.50 --> 51.22] Keep warm and well-fed, but does nothing about his physical needs. |
[51.30 --> 52.02] What good is it? |
[53.16 --> 57.22] In the same way, faith by itself, if it's not accompanied by actions, is dead. |
[57.22 --> 60.70] But someone will say, You have faith, I have deeds. |
[61.54 --> 65.02] Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do. |
[65.86 --> 67.80] You believe that there is one God good. |
[68.42 --> 70.66] Even the demons believe that and shudder. |
[70.66 --> 81.60] When I was in school, I read the book, The Life of Pi. |
[82.20 --> 84.84] If you haven't read the book, you may have watched the movie, |
[84.92 --> 88.34] When Our Church Borrowed the Cloverdale Cinema for a Mexico fundraiser in 2012. |
[89.64 --> 92.94] It's a fictional story of a boy from India who's the son of a zookeeper. |
[92.94 --> 99.02] On a move from India to Canada, he gets lost at sea due to a storm |
[99.02 --> 104.02] and gets stranded on a small rescue boat with a tiger as his only companion. |
[104.96 --> 106.46] I highly recommend this book. |
[109.20 --> 113.40] But there's a traumatic scene in the book where Pi goes to see the tiger at the zoo alone. |
[114.52 --> 116.58] Now to preface, when I say that this scene is traumatic, |
[117.38 --> 121.70] I mean that this story presents a very gruesome scene of a tiger killing an animal |
[121.70 --> 125.80] and an example of horrible parenting technique that should never be replicated. |
[128.32 --> 129.74] But that's not why I'm telling this story. |
[129.92 --> 133.26] I'm telling this story because it says something about faith and deeds |
[133.26 --> 135.30] in a practical and easy way. |
[136.14 --> 138.58] As I said before, Pi goes to the cage of the tiger |
[138.58 --> 142.10] because he wants to see the most dangerous animal in the zoo. |
[143.12 --> 144.56] He knows what a tiger can do. |
[145.04 --> 147.94] Its power, its teeth, its claws. |
[149.10 --> 150.74] So Pi goes to the cage to see it. |
[151.70 --> 155.42] When Pi gets there, the tiger sees him and goes to meet Pi at the cage. |
[156.62 --> 159.02] Pi was amazed at the tiger's beauty and power. |
[159.86 --> 163.34] However, right before the tiger reached the cage wall where Pi was, |
[163.70 --> 165.54] Pi's father pulls him from the cage |
[165.54 --> 169.18] and saves his life as the tiger's swipe narrowly misses. |
[169.18 --> 172.14] Now here's the traumatic part. |
[176.22 --> 179.52] To make sure Pi never goes to the cage ever again, |
[180.60 --> 184.56] Pi's father makes Pi watch the tiger kill and eat a goat. |
[185.82 --> 188.14] His father's questionable technique works, |
[188.66 --> 191.10] and Pi never goes close to the cage ever again. |
[191.10 --> 192.10] Pi's father's father's father. |
[192.10 --> 195.42] The reason I told you this story is, as I said before, |
[195.58 --> 199.02] it says something about faith and deeds in a practical and easy way. |
[199.98 --> 202.98] Now, of course, this story isn't actually talking about faith and deeds. |
[204.14 --> 206.80] Pi's story here is talking about knowledge and action. |
[207.70 --> 211.24] But the relationship between knowledge and action is analogous to faith and deeds. |
[211.24 --> 215.86] That analogy is, if you believe that a tiger is dangerous, |
[216.54 --> 218.04] and you still walk up to a cage, |
[218.56 --> 220.06] then your belief doesn't work. |
[220.70 --> 221.86] It doesn't change you. |
[222.60 --> 223.22] It's useless. |
[223.72 --> 225.78] And as James would say, it's dead. |
[228.08 --> 230.08] But if you believe that a tiger is dangerous, |
[230.48 --> 231.76] and don't walk up to a cage, |
[232.34 --> 233.48] don't walk up to a cage, |
[234.06 --> 237.38] it means that as a result of your faith, you did something. |
[238.42 --> 240.38] It means your faith works, it's effective, |
[240.38 --> 242.08] and your faith is alive. |
[243.40 --> 246.02] In the passage today, James has been getting at this point |
[246.02 --> 248.10] that the life of Pi also expresses. |
[249.50 --> 251.68] It's this idea of two types of faith. |
[253.20 --> 254.48] A faith that is alone, |
[255.10 --> 256.24] and a faith that works. |
[258.00 --> 260.36] Faith that is alone is a faith that's isolated. |
[260.94 --> 262.60] Faith that only lives in the mind. |
[263.30 --> 265.94] A faith that doesn't have any effect on a person's actions, |
[266.60 --> 267.86] attitudes, or habits. |
[267.86 --> 270.86] Faith that doesn't affect the person's reality. |
[272.04 --> 274.64] The other type of faith is a faith that works. |
[275.34 --> 276.42] A faith with deeds. |
[277.18 --> 278.52] A faith that does something. |
[279.08 --> 280.66] A faith that changes a person. |
[281.26 --> 283.72] Or as Chris and Kevin have been preaching every Sunday. |
[284.50 --> 286.10] A faith that seeks wisdom. |
[286.78 --> 289.04] A faith that is steadfast in the trial. |
[289.90 --> 292.58] A faith that is slow to anger and quick to listen. |
[292.58 --> 294.88] A faith that does what it hears. |
[295.88 --> 298.04] A faith that visits the orphan and the widow. |
[298.34 --> 301.40] And a faith that is not partial to the rich over the poor. |
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