Big Idea: The Faith Gifted to You by Jesus Saves You. This Saving Faith is Busy and not Lonely.

James 2.14-26

[14] What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can such faith save him?

[15] If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food [16] and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,” but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it? [17] In the same way faith, if it does not have works, is dead by itself.

[18] But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without works, and I will show you faith by my works. [19] You believe that God is one. Good! Even the demons believe—and they shudder.

[20] Senseless person! Are you willing to learn that faith without works is useless? [21] Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works in offering Isaac his son on the altar? [22] You see that faith was active together with his works, and by works, faith was made complete, [23] and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness (Genesis 15.6), and he was called God’s friend. [24] You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. [25] In the same way, wasn’t Rahab the prostitute also justified by works in receiving the messengers and sending them out by a different route? [26] For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.