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 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 got to 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 to him as righteousness. and he was called God's friend.

You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.

In the same way, was not even the Rahab, the prostitute considered righteous for what

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