James 1:1 | James, a Servant

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Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
James 1:1

1. WHO IS JAMES?
2. TO WHOM IS JAMES WRITTEN?
3. WHAT IS FAITH IN JAMES?
4. JAMES, THE SERVANT
5. JESUS IN JAMES

Deuteronomy 32:4 (ESV)
The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.

Mark 6:2–3 (ESV)
And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.

1 Corinthians 15:7 (ESV)
Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles.

Thomas Manton
how to bear afflictions, to hear the word, to mortify vile affections, to bridle the tongue, to conceive rightly of the nature of God, to adorn our profession with a good conversation, with meekness, and peace, and charity; finally, how to behave ourselves in the time of approaching misery

James 2:14 (ESV)
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

James 2:23 (ESV)
and 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.

Romans 3:28 (ESV)
one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Romans 2:9–10 (ESV)
There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.

Matthew 12:48–49 (ESV)
But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

Matthew 28:20 (ESV)
… teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.

Trials and Perseverance
Mark 13:13 (ESV)
And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Hearing and Doing
Matthew 7:24 (ESV)
Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Partiality and Judgement
Luke 14:12–14 (ESV)
He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

Faith that is Alive
Matthew 7:16–17 (ESV)
You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.

John 14:15 (ESV)
If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Speech and Integrity
Matthew 12:34–35 (ESV)
How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

Pure Wisdom
Matthew 11:19 (ESV)
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.”

Humility and Dependance
Matthew 6:33–34 (ESV)
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Riches and Poverty
Matthew 6:19–24
ESV
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Prayer & Restoration
Luke 11:9–10 (ESV)
And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

John 14:6 (ESV)
I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 10:9 (ESV)
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
Listen to the Apostles

Acts 4:12 (ESV)
And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.

Ephesians 2:18 (ESV)
For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

Romans 5:1–2 (ESV)
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.