During the Korean War, communist North Korea, the communist forces have overran a number of villages in South Korea.

One of those villages that they overran, they, as always, have a policy of gathering all the community leaders first, and they kill them first.

But in one particular village, among those leaders, there was a Christian man who ran an orphanage in that village.

And when the communist commandant, the officer, learned that this Christian man ran an orphanage,

he decided to spare his life.

But in order to instill fear, he forced that man, that Christian man, to watch him the communists kill his son, the Christian

man's son, who was 19 years old in cold blood. At the end of the Korean War, the communist

officer was captured and tried for crimes, atrocities that he has committed. And he was tried before a United

Nations tribunal. He was convicted, and just before a sentence was imposed on him, the very man

who was the head of that Christian orphanage went in front of the tribunal and pleaded with him to spare this man's life.

The man who killed his son.

He said, give him to me, and I'll train him.

And sure enough, the tribunal released the prisoner to the custody of the orphanage director. And true to his word,

the Christian man trained him, shared Christ with him. Then he disciples him. That communist officer later on went on to be one of South Koreans' most prominent pastors.

If you are anything like me when you hear these stories or read about them, and you're bound to ask a question, Could I have done that? It's a great question.

To ponder, could I have loved that man who killed my son? Thankfully and mercifully, I don't have to

answer the question. We have started talking about the 12 evidence of faith that James

talks about in his epistle. Please turn in your Bibles to James Chapter 2. James, like all of the

writers of the epistles, that Paul and Peter and Jude and all the others, John, believe that salvation is by faith

alone. But James uniquely goes on in his epistle to say that if you claim that you know Jesus

by faith alone, that you believe in Jesus by faith alone, you have to prove it. James, the half

brother of Jesus, who denied him, who mocked him, as we saw from John chapter 7, at some point,

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