It’s been my pleasure these past few weeks to bring you the Word of God as expressed through the Book of James. Today’s message is Part V: “Faith and Deeds: Working Together Works.” James is simply reminding us that you really do not believe something until it shapes and forms what you do and how you live. Our passage begins by asking two pointed- questions: “What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such a faith save him? He then answers his own question by asking us to consider a certain scenario. Then finally, he draws a conclusion: faith and deeds – working together works. Active faith releases God’s power. Even so, faith, if it hath not deeds, is dead, being alone. Amen

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As your pastor, I want you to be the kind of person who reads the Word of God, understands it, applies it, and reap the rewards of doing it. I want you to be blessed in your life. I want you to experience God’s blessings that come from obedience in your home, in your marriage, in your finances, at work, at school and where life takes you. What God wants is that when He looks at us, we look like the WORD! James talks about this connection between God’s Word and our obedience to it that results in blessings. The question of today’s text is: what are you going to do with what you hear. Thus, our text gives us three things to consider. Four things that if you take these seriously will be transformational to your life. First, God Wants You to Investigate His Word. Second, God Wants You to Apply His Word. Third, God Wants You to Remember His Word. Fourth, God Wants You to be Rewarded by His Word. Are you a hearer only or a doer of God’s Word? If you do what it says and do not forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it. AMEN

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The reception of God’s Word is an absolute necessity for Christian growth. In other words, you will never be a growing Chrisitan without a knowledge of the Word of God. In today’s message, Pastor Wallace teaches from James 1:21 about how to receive the implanted Word of God with meekness. Thus, we are to “open ourselves up to ‘this word,” maintain a continual openness toward it, so that its’ power might be continually at work within us. The same word by which we were brought to a new birth is the same word by which we grow and by which we finally will be delivered. We are to welcome the implanted Word with: A Repentant Heart; and 2) A Receptive Heart. Amen

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