Faith Risks
Radical with David Platt
David Platt
4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Most Christians can understand looking to Abraham as an example of what it means to live by faith. But it’s surprising to hear of a notoriously sinful lady named Rahab get mentioned alongside one of the heroes of the faith. What makes Rahab like Abraham, and how does Rahab’s story give us hope? In this message from James 2:25–26, David Platt helps us see the faith of Rahab—a faith that risks everything out of trust in God’s sovereign lordship. Regardless of our background or the sin in our lives, we can be declared righteous by trusting in Christ, and this trust changes the way we live.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a weekly podcast with sermons and |
| 0:05.0 | messages from pastor, author and teacher David Platt. |
| 0:09.0 | If you have a Bible, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me to |
| 0:13.0 | James chapter 2. I want to start in verse 14 where we started this journey two |
| 0:19.0 | weeks ago looking at faith and action, particularly as it relates to caring |
| 0:24.0 | for the poor. And I want us to start in verse 14, get to verse 25 and 26, which is |
| 0:29.0 | where we're going to camp out today in these last two verses of James chapter 2. |
| 0:33.0 | I'll start in verse 14. What good is it, my brothers? If a man claims to have |
| 0:39.0 | faith but has no deeds, can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is |
| 0:45.0 | without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, go, I wish you well, |
| 0:50.0 | keep warm and well fed, but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is |
| 0:55.0 | it? In the same way faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action is dead. |
| 1:02.0 | But someone will say, you have faith, I have deeds. Show me your faith without deeds. |
| 1:08.0 | And I will show you my faith by what I do. You believe that there is one God? |
| 1:13.0 | Good, even the demons believe that and shudder. You foolish man, do you want |
| 1:19.0 | evidence that faith without deeds is useless? It was not our ancestor Abraham |
| 1:23.0 | considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar. |
| 1:28.0 | You see that his faith and his actions were working together and his faith was |
| 1:33.0 | made complete by what he did. And the scripture was fulfilled that says Abraham |
| 1:38.0 | believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness and he was called |
| 1:43.0 | God's friend. You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by |
| 1:49.0 | faith alone. In the same way was not even Ray have the prostitute considered |
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