New Testament (1704)
  1. God’s promise never to separate us from the love of Jesus means that our security, and our confidence, and our forgiveness—even for our part in past divisions—depends entirely on His faithfulness and not ours.
  2. James makes it sound like prayer is actually effective, that God listens, God answers in line with our requests. Does James realize the questions he is raising?
  3. You cannot “be what you want to be” and follow Jesus. Jesus has a higher calling for you, a calling which is more personal.
  4. Give to Caesar and believe in the resurrection.
  5. It is from this God, the Wisdom from Heaven who came down in our flesh to befriend sinners, you will learn true wisdom.
  6. Jesus takes that which is overlooked and unappreciated and celebrates this child as the place where God is at work.
  7. Jesus rides in to clear the temple out.
  8. A famous saying of Augustine (echoing Jesus in Luke 24:44) perhaps puts it best, “The New Testament lies concealed in the Old, the Old lies revealed in the New.”
  9. The beauty of our gospel reading today is how it reveals Jesus as the One who comes not only for the strong in faith but also for those who are weak and walking away.
  10. James’ concern today is false doctrine. This week he is directing his gaze at the preachers who deliver a false gospel.
  11. The right and left hand of God’s glory.
  12. To act according to a “theology of glory” that exalts in money and status at the cost of your brothers and sisters who are hurting or suffering in any way is to act in the opposite way of Christ.
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