JAMES [6 - 10 DECEMBER DAY 341 - 345]

INTRODUCTION

You might have heard, I find Some pre-believers are worst behaved than believers. Here is a practical book for Christians living. Faith that is productive and useful is evidenced in our lives through living it out. Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. (James

Written by James the half brother of Jesus. James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad: Greetings. (James 1:1) He was the leading elder of the church in Jerusalem. (Galatians1:19; Acts 15).

It was probably written about A.D. 45 to Jewish Christians. These were scattered as they faced persecution. They wondered how should they now live as they would not be under the law.

Chapter 1The perseverance of faith through trails. In facing trails; count it joy and ask for wisdom. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. (James 1:5-6)

Chapter 2 The proof of faith through work. It is work that will show one is not just hearer but productive in faith. What doth it profits, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him?... Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith. (James

Chapter 3 The perfection of faith is the control of ones tongue. For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. (James 3:2ASV)

Chapter 4 The purity of faith through separation. Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God. (James

Chapter 5 The prayer of faith through perseverance. Prayer is the key to healing, forgiveness and divine intervention as James mentioned the example of Elijah.