God bless you and welcome. You can be seated. I want to wish you mothers a blessed and happy

Mother's Day. God bless you so glad you're here. And those of you joining us online,

happy Mother's Day to you as well. Well, second service, we're in a verse by verse study

through the book of James, and today

we're going to pick it up where we left off last week in chapter 2, verse 14.

Lord willing, we'll finish the chapter today.

So for those of you that are here, if you're able, I'll ask you to stand.

You can follow along as I read. If not, where you're seated is just fine. James, by the Holy Spirit, is writing, and says

verse 14, what good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds.

Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, go in peace, keep warm and

well fed, but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way,

verse 17, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

But verse 18, someone will say, you have faith, I have deeds. Show me your faith without deeds and I will show you my faith by my

deeds. You believe that there is one God good. Even the demons believe that and

shudder.

You foolish person.

You gotta love James, yeah.

Do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?

Was not our Father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac

on the altar?

You see that his faith and his actions were working together and his faith was made complete by what he did.

And the scripture, verse 23, was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God and it was credited

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