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Welcome to the Word of the Lord Endures Forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

A friend, of course, is someone who knows something of what you're going through.

And Abraham on Mount Moriah at the sacrifice of Isaac got to experience something akin

to what the Heavenly Father did when he allowed his beloved and only son to be sacrificed upon Gogethah.

The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church, past and present.

Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of James.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit,

be with you all. Amen. Greetings, people, loved by God. So in our previous study, we just

dipped our toes into the deep water of James 2, verse 14, and following, where he begins to treat

the question of faith and works.

He asks what good it possibly could be for someone to say that he has faith, but not to have

any evidence of that faith in his life. That is, no works of love. He asks, can that faith save him?

And clearly the answer is no. He illustrated with a drastic example.

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