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A) Archimedes / Hiero Non-destructive Gold Laurel Wreath Test
1) God’s tests are similarly designed… reveal the truth of our faith; meant to grown us, not destroy us.
2) How Grow?
Seek God’s wisdom.
Meek (quick to hear / slow to speak [interesting allusion to Moses] Who am I? I will be with you.) and not Angry.
3) Doers
(+1:27) introduce continues tests, focusing on DOING… the fruits of faithfully seeking God.
James 1:27
Gold standard (for a Jew)
Deut 10:17-
partial = "to lift up the face on a person"
Children of God bear the image of God.
[see above]
[testing our fidelity to the image]
James 1:27
In society:
- We tend to judge people on the basis of external appearance and stereotype groupings.
- We are impressed by riches and professional success and social standing.
James 2
Presents as a progression:
character trait: Partiality (takes no bribe…[ looking for advantage, benefit])…
making distinctions.... (noticing differences)
judging… (evaluating)
harboring evil thoughts.
(assigning worth to people).
1 Sam
[Describes alternate reality… the reality of God; truth of God.]
describes specific traits of wealth that are opposed to God.
James 2:
[poor in the world: those whose hope is in the promises of God; the blood of Christ.]
describes specific traits of wealth that are opposed to God.
Lincoln: "God must love the common people because He made so many of them."
"in the society which James inhabited the rich oppressed the poor.
They dragged them to the law courts.
No doubt this was for debt.
At the bottom end of the social scale men were so poor that they could hardly live, and moneylenders were plentiful and extortion was reality; In the ancient world there was a custom of summary arrest.
If a creditor met a debtor on the street, he could seize him by the neck of his robe, and literally drag him to the law courts.
That is what the rich did to the poor.
They had no sympathy; all they wanted was the last farthing.
It is not riches that James is condemning.
It is the conduct of riches without sympathy."
Revisits Sermon on the Mount, to define again “love thy neighbor.”
Check your heart.
Your motives.
Fruit follows.
James 2:8
They didn’t really fulfill the law.
Matthew
Matthew 5
Reminding them that the kingdom of heaven is “upside down” and of the Heart; not of the Flesh.
Not checklist-based; but fruit-based.
Col
by faith; response of faith.
Transformation of the mind.
By God’s wisdom.
Col 2:
We are alive in Christ.
James 2:1
perfect law / law of liberty
law of christ
"The religious experts in Christ's day judged Him by their human standards, and they rejected Him.
He came from the wrong city, Nazareth of Galilee.
He was not a graduate of their accepted schools.
He did not have the official approval of the people in power.
He had no wealth.
His followers were a nondescript mob and included publicans and sinners.
Yet He was the very glory of God!
No wonder Jesus warned the religious leaders, 'Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment' (, NIV)."
and so:
"But the Church must be the one place where all distinctions are wiped out.
There can be no distinctions of rank and place and prestige, when men meet in the presence of the God who is the King of glory.
There can be no distinctions of merit and worth, when men meet in the presence of the supreme holiness of God.
In the presence of that glory all earthly distinctions are less than the dust, and all earthly righteousness are as filthy rags.
In the presence of God all men are one."
Conclusion: - People are all the same; some good, some bad … etc.
"The religious experts in Christ's day judged Him by their human standards, and they rejected Him.
He came from the wrong city, Nazareth of Galilee.
He was not a graduate of their accepted schools.
He did not have the official approval of the people in power.
He had no wealth.
His followers were a nondescript mob and included publicans and sinners.
Yet He was the very glory of God!
No wonder Jesus warned the religious leaders, 'Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment' (, NIV)."
- Don’t rush to partial judgment;
- Are we marked by kindness and mercy towards all?
- Our heart must be open to each person God brings into our lives;
- Goal: how can I minister appropriately to that person?
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