How Shall the YoungSecure their hearts?

• Psalms 119:9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his ways? By taking heed

• Thereto according to thy word.”

Young People Needto know the Truth!

• John 8:32 And ye shall know the truth,

• And the truth shall make you free!

Young People Need toRemember:

• Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed

• For lack of knowledge.

Why – Faith without WorksIS DEAD!

James 2:14-26

•   There are always people that listen at the message from extreme point-of-views. – 1.      Preach on baptism and some think the

messenger is against faith in Christ. – 2.      Preach on faith in Christ and others think the

messenger doesn’t believe in baptism. – 3.      Preach on law keeping and some think the

messenger minimizes God’s grace. – 4.      Preach on grace and others think the

messenger minimizes the need for law keeping.

Demonstration of a living faith in loving action

• True faith will be accompanied by action

• James 2: 14

• What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him?

Can that kind of faith save him?

• Illustration : James 2:15,16

•  If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

•Nothing….that kind of ‘faith’ is void,

•Useless,

•of no profit.

• James 2: 17

•  Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

A Test:• James 2: 18

• 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith,

and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and

.. I will shew thee my faith by my works.

Examples:

• James 2:19  Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

• 1. The devils believe…and they tremble!

• 2. Do you believe there is one God?

• Great…How is your faith demonstrated.

Something That We AllKNOW!

•James 2: 20 • But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

IT IS VAIN,USELESS

• IT PROFITS NOTHING

• IT DOES NOT AVAIL ANYTHING

• IT WON’T HELP YOU OR ANYONE

• FAITH WITHOUT WORKS –

• IS DEAD!

James Gives 2 Examples

• ABRAHAM..our father!. • James 2:21-23  Was not Abraham our

father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? 22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

What did Abraham do?

• …He was justified by works…he demonstrated his FAITH!

• V. 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

• ‘faith wrought with his works’ v.22

•

The Scripture was fulfilled!

• V.23 “And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, • Abraham believed God, and it was imputed

unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.

• You see…you understand..you comprehend v.24 “Ye see then how that by works a man is justified,and

• not by• faith Only”

You cannot be Justified by‘faith only’

• And,

• You cannot be justified by

• ‘works only”

Obedience to the Faith

• Hebrews 11:1-40 –

–(4) “By faith Abel offered to God a

more excellent sacrifice than Cain”

Obedience to the Faith

• Hebrews 11:1-40 –

–(7) “By faith Noah, being divinely

warned of things not yet seen,

moved with godly fear, prepared an

ark for the saving of his household”

Obedience to the Faith

• Hebrews 11:1-40 –

–(8) “By faith Abraham obeyed

when he was called to go out to the

place he would receive as an

inheritance. And he went out, not

knowing where he was going.”

Obedience to the Faith

• Hebrews 11:1-40 –

–(9) “By faith Abraham dwelt in the

land of promise as in a foreign

country”

Obedience to the Faith

• Hebrews 11:1-40 –

–(17) “By faith Abraham, when he

was tested, offered up Isaac”

Obedience to the Faith

• Hebrews 11:1-40 –

–(20) “By faith Isaac blessed Jacob

and Esau concerning things to

come.”

Obedience to the Faith

• Hebrews 11:1-40 –

–(21) “By faith Jacob, when he was

dying, blessed each of the sons of

Joseph, and worshiped, leaning on

the top of his staff”

Obedience to the Faith

• Hebrews 11:1-40 –

–(22) “By faith Joseph, when he

was dying, made mention of the

departure of the children of Israel,

and gave instructions concerning

his bones”

Obedience to the Faith

• Hebrews 11:1-40 –

–(23) “By faith Moses, when he was

born, was hidden three month by

his parents”

Obedience to the Faith

• Hebrews 11:1-40 –

–(24-25) “By faith Moses, when he

become of age, refused to be called

the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

choosing to suffer affliction with the

people of God than to enjoy the passing

pleasures of sin”

Obedience to the Faith

• Hebrews 11:1-40 –

–(27) “By faith he (Moses) forsook

Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the

king; for he endured as seeing Him

who is invisible”

Obedience to the Faith

• Hebrews 11:1-40 –

– (28) “By faith ( he , Moses ) kept

the Passover and the sprinkling of

blood”

Obedience to the Faith

• Hebrews 11:1-40 –

– (29) “By faith they passed through

the Red Sea as by dry land”

Example 2

• James 2:25 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

• Justified: Declared such as she should be! She did that which was righteous!

Example of Obedience to the Faith What they did to show their faith!

• Abraham Offering Isaac–Genesis 22:1-3; 9-12 –

• (2) God “said, ‘Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you”

Example of Obedience to the Faith

• Abraham Offering Isaac–Hebrews 11:17-19 –

• (17) “By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac”

• (19) “concluding that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead”

Example of Obedience to the Faith..What they did!

• Joshua & The Destruction of Jericho– Joshua 6:1-20

• (3-4) “You shall march around the city… once. This you shall do six days… but the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times”

• (20) “And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat”

Example of Obedience to the Faith

• Joshua & The Destruction of Jericho–Hebrews 11:30 –

• (30) “By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days”

Example of Obedience to the Faith

• Isaiah Walking Naked Three Years

– Isaiah 20:1-6 –

• (3) “Then the Lord said, “Just as My

servant Isaiah has walked naked and

barefoot three years for a sign and a

wonder against Egypt and Ethiopia”

Example of Obedience to the Faith

• Isaiah Walking Naked Three Years

– Isaiah 6:8 –

• (8) “Also I heard the voice of the Lord,

saying ‘Whom shall I send, and who will

go for us?’ Then I said, ‘Here am I! Send

me.’”

Conclusion

• James 1:22 –– “Be doers of the word, and not hearers

only, deceiving yourselves”

• James 2:22 – –“Do you see that faith was working

together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect”

Showing our Faith…

• 1. Young People… you believe in God. Demonstrate it: Wear clothing that shows you “Believe God”…Don’t dress immodestly!

• I Tim. 2:9  In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; 10 but (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.

• 2. Men..I Tim. 2: 8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. Demonstrate it…

• 3. Be different I John 2:15-17• Don’t be like the world!• 4. Be kind. You can do that. Don’t be

sasy, don’t be sarcastic , don’t act • Inappropriately. • Eph.4: 32 and be ye kind one to

another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you

• 5. Show proper respect. Give honor.• Rom. 13: 7 Render therefore to all their

dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

• 6. Seek for peace.• Rom. 12:18 If it be possible, as much

as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

• 7 Put Off Filthy Communication.

• Col. 3: 8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Don’t just say you have faith…prove it…Show!

• Naaman..2 Kings 5:13 ..”Wash and be clean”.

• 2 Kings 5: 14 Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

A Red Heifer offered for Purification.

• Numbers 19:1-5 A red heifer was to be • Brought and offered as an offering for• Purification. • Numbers 19: 2 This [is] the ordinance of the law

which the LORD hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein [is] no blemish, [and] upon which never came yoke:

Joshua Marching around the walls of Jericho

• Joshua 6:12-16 …v. 14 Marched around the city once for 6 days, and then on the 7th day, they marched around 7 times…

• Faith—demonstrated!

The Old Law: No work on the Sabbath Day..

• Exodus 20:• 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six

days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

• ..

A Man picked up sticks onthe Sabbath Day!

• Numbers 15:32-35, “And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.”

• Faith is to be demonstrated by obedience to God!

Let’s put Philippians 4 connected to James 2

• 1. Face life by investing yourself in others.

• 2. Face life by turning yourself to God.

• 3. Face life by struggling alongside others in need.

• 4. Face life by rejoicing in the Lord at all times. Phil. 4:4

• 5. Face life by remembering the Lord is by your side.

• 6. Face life by expressing gratitude to God for his help.

• 7. Face life by letting God’s peace protect you.• 8. Face life by thinking God’s thoughts.• 9. Face life by noticing the example of others.• 10. Face life by accepting the help of friends.• 11. Face life by being content to tell others about

Christ.

• 12. Face life by accepting the reality of each situation.

• 13. Face life by being ready when God calls.

• 14. Face life by enjoying God’s supplementary gifts.

• 15. Face life by encouraing someone in God’s work.

• 16. Face life by helping those who help others.• 17. Face life by investing in the preaching of the

gospel.• 18. Face life by offering up to God every good

thing received.• 19. Face life by telling others how God has

helped you.• 20. Face life by recognizing the greatness of

God.

• 21. Face life by befriending every Christian.

• 22. Face life by acknowledging special friends.

• 23. Face life by passing God’s blessings on to others.

Face Life with CHRISTor you do not face life at all!

• Christ is the source of Life”

• Christ is life!!

• Demonstrate your faith.• Show your faith• Let others see your faith.

• Believe in God…• and show it!!!!

Faith demonstrated!

Sunday morning: 10:00 a.m. Bible Study… What time will you get here? Will you even come for Bible Study? Sunday morning : 10:45 a.m. Worship. What time will you get here? Will you

even come? Will you worship?

• # 1 Singing. Are you ready for singing?

• Will you participate…or will people next

• To you not hear a sound of your voice?

• #2 Praying. Will you listen carefully to the words that are chosen by the one that is

• Praying and join in. I Cor. 14:15

• #3 Preaching. Same old thing. The Sweet story of Jesus…not interested..

• #4 Giving. Ashamed to let anyone see you put anything in the contribution. What

• You are putting in is between you and God. Don’t be ashamed if someone else sees you put in ‘all that you have’…

• #5 Eating the Lord’s Supper. You are thinking about the suffering of Jesus.

• The bread…his body• The Fruit of the vine..his blood…• He is standing right there by you…• He is observing you.

• Have you read the Bible a single time• This week!

• No one has seen you read God’s Word…• Because you haven’t.

• Faith---without works…deeds done…is dead!.

• The opposite of this is true:

•Works without faith is dead also! I Cor. 13