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[571.10 --> 571.96] from that faith.
[572.46 --> 574.00] Good deeds act as a signal
[574.00 --> 575.08] to true faith.
[576.68 --> 577.90] Saved through faith,
[578.46 --> 578.84] alone.
[579.30 --> 580.30] But a faith that saves
[580.30 --> 581.10] is never alone.
[581.10 --> 584.62] In verse 18 to 19,
[585.28 --> 586.12] James proposes
[586.12 --> 587.44] a hypothetical response
[587.44 --> 588.58] from someone who disagrees
[588.58 --> 590.10] with his teaching so far.
[591.94 --> 593.04] But someone will say,
[593.22 --> 593.84] you have faith,
[594.10 --> 594.90] I have deeds.
[595.96 --> 596.90] Show me your faith
[596.90 --> 597.40] without deeds,
[597.46 --> 598.02] and I will show you
[598.02 --> 599.18] my faith by what I do.
[599.74 --> 600.52] You believe there is
[600.52 --> 601.34] one God, good.
[601.94 --> 603.26] Even the demons believe that
[603.26 --> 604.14] and shudder.
[608.18 --> 609.68] This opponent is supposing
[609.68 --> 611.08] that the two can be separated.
[611.46 --> 612.62] That you can have faith
[612.62 --> 613.30] without deeds.
[614.44 --> 615.40] But as we've seen,
[615.50 --> 616.38] James makes this case
[616.38 --> 617.12] over and over again
[617.12 --> 617.82] that if you separate
[617.82 --> 618.52] faith and deeds,
[618.60 --> 619.28] then you have a faith
[619.28 --> 619.90] that is alone.
[620.96 --> 621.86] A faith that doesn't
[621.86 --> 622.36] do anything,
[622.44 --> 623.26] and a faith like that
[623.26 --> 623.96] is dead.
[625.56 --> 627.10] So he hits the same point again
[627.10 --> 628.50] by expressing what
[628.50 --> 629.88] the second kind of faith is.
[630.40 --> 631.74] I will show you my faith
[631.74 --> 632.90] by what I do.
[633.82 --> 635.56] Deeds following faith.
[637.06 --> 637.94] Deeds are an expression
[637.94 --> 638.78] of a true faith
[638.78 --> 639.52] in the same way
[639.52 --> 640.66] that an apple on a tree
[640.66 --> 641.32] tells you,
[641.92 --> 643.04] you have an apple tree.
[645.40 --> 646.08] James goes on
[646.08 --> 646.80] to hit the point home
[646.80 --> 647.92] by invoking a fundamental
[647.92 --> 649.02] belief to both Jews
[649.02 --> 649.68] and the church.
[650.76 --> 651.38] James writes,
[651.48 --> 652.22] you believe there is
[652.22 --> 653.48] one God, good.
[654.32 --> 654.96] Even the demons
[654.96 --> 655.98] believe that and shudder.
[657.06 --> 657.76] The phrase,
[657.94 --> 658.84] believe God is one,
[659.38 --> 660.04] that James here
[660.04 --> 660.74] is referring to
[660.74 --> 661.98] is one of the core features
[661.98 --> 663.18] of the Jewish faith.
[663.30 --> 664.14] This idea of God
[664.14 --> 664.68] being one
[664.68 --> 666.74] comes from Deuteronomy 6.4.
[668.04 --> 669.02] Hear, O Israel,
[669.52 --> 670.54] the Lord our God,
[670.94 --> 672.56] the Lord is one.
[675.28 --> 676.02] God commanded
[676.02 --> 676.70] the Israelite people
[676.70 --> 677.92] to keep these words
[677.92 --> 678.38] to heart,
[679.06 --> 679.74] to say them
[679.74 --> 680.94] every single day,
[681.28 --> 681.84] to write them
[681.84 --> 682.46] on their walls,
[682.54 --> 683.10] on their houses,
[683.10 --> 683.98] and to teach them
[683.98 --> 685.30] every chance they get.
[686.58 --> 687.28] James brings up
[687.28 --> 687.90] this specifically
[687.90 --> 688.64] because of something
[688.64 --> 690.26] so clearly commanded
[690.26 --> 691.24] by God to be memorized
[691.24 --> 692.52] and recited
[692.52 --> 693.98] every chance they get
[693.98 --> 695.14] meant it was important
[695.14 --> 695.76] to believe.
[696.30 --> 696.64] In fact,
[696.68 --> 697.32] it was central
[697.32 --> 698.00] to their faith.
[699.64 --> 700.62] He states that
[700.62 --> 702.06] demons believe this as well.
[703.08 --> 703.90] He means that as demons
[703.90 --> 705.04] they know God.
[705.70 --> 706.62] They believe in him.