1) HOW SERIOUS IS SHOWING PARTIALITY?
A. 2:1 - JESUS IS A GLORIOUS LORD AND WE WEAR HIS NAME. WHEN WE WEAR THAT WE ARE SAYING TO THE WORLD THAT WE ARE PATTERNING OURSELVES IN HIS LIKENESS, AND WHEN WE SHOW PARTIALITY WE ARE HYPOCRITICAL
B. 2:4 - OUR THOUGHTS ARE NOT RIGHT
C. 2:5 - WE ARE REJECTING THE ONES THE GOSPEL WAS INTENDED FOR! LUKE 7:22, 1 COR 1: 26-29. WE ARE TO HONOR ALL MEN.
D. 2:6-7 - WE RUN THE RISK OF HONORING THOSE MOST WILLING TO OPPRESS US
E. 2: 8-11 - WE BREAK THE "ROYAL LAW".
1. WHEN A PERSON OFFENDS IN ONE THING, HE IS GUILTY IN ALL BY BEING A LAWBREAKER JUST AS IF HE
HAD BROKEN ALL. ONE OFFENSE CONDEMNS HIM. THE IMMEDIATE IDEA WAS THAT, EVEN THOUGH
THESE CHRISTIANS WERE DOING MUCH, BY SHOWING PARTIALITY THEY WERE SINNING IN ONE POINT.
IN DOING SO WERE UNDER CONDEMNATION AS IF THEY HAD NOT KEPT ANY OF THE LAW.
A. MATT 19: 16-22 - THE RICH YOUNG RULER
B. MATT 7: 21-24 - THE "MANY"
C. GALATIANS 5:4
D. REV 2:4 THE EPHESIANS WHO LEFT THEIR FIRST LOVE.
E. REV 3: 1-6 CHRISTIANS AT SARDIS
F. REV 3:14- THE LAODECIANS
G. JOHN 12:43 - THE JEWS
2) DO WE EVER SHOW "PARTIALITY" REGARDING THE SINS THAT WE COMMIT?
A. THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT ALL SINS ARE SERIOUS!
B. WE CAN'T HAVE THE ATTITUDE OF "I CAN GET BY WITH ONLY ONE OR TWO BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT THAT
SERIOUS"
1. AS A REMINDER WHAT DID JESUS SAY IN MATT 22: 36-40 AND WHAT DID PAUL WRITE IN ROMANS 13:8-10?
2. AGAIN, JAMES EMPHASIZES THAT BY BREAKING ONE LAW WE BECOME GUILTY OF ALL THE LAW.
3. TO SHOW PARTIALITY IS AS SERIOUS AS MURDER AND ADULTERY. THIS SHOWS HOW SERIOUS ANY SIN IS!
3) WHAT WILL WE BE JUDGED BY? 2: 12-13. THE LAW OF LIBERTY.
A. WHAT IS THE LAW OF LIBERTY? THE LAW OF CHRIST, THE GOSPEL. SET FREE FROM THE BONDAGE OF SIN.
JOHN 8:31-36, COL 2: 20-22 (FREE FROM MAN-MADE RESTRICTIONS)
B. IF WE SHOW NO MERCY, THEN NO MERCY WILL BE SHOWN US