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I. Introduction
We have heard many sermons on the attributes of God.
By attributes I mean Characteristics.
Omnipotence - God is all powerful.
He has the power to do all things.
He has power over Nature, Sickness and disease, Death, Power to forgive sins.
Omnipresent - He is everywhere at one time in full power.
Omniscient - He knows all things at all times.
He never forgets.
He cannot learn anything knew.
All loving.
perfectly loving and perfect just - HE is perfectly HOLY.
However, one attribute of God we talk very little about is the attribute of impartiality.
God has no favorites.
James opens a new idea in Chapter 2. Most of the time we James gets ready to begin a new idea, he begins with My Brothers.
Read with me beginning in Chapter 2
This attribute of God is found from beginning to end in the scriptures.
Old Testament.
Prov
New Testament
It is clear God is an impartial God.
God does not have favorites.
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Message
God shows no favoritism based off
1. Economics.
James 2
The idea behind a Gold ring literally means Gold Fingered.
It was a common practice among well to do jews and gentiles to wear rings on all their fingers to show off wealth and social status.
There were actually stores to where when they really wanted to show off they would go and rent rings to where to show off their wealth and social status.
It would turn the heads of those around them.
God is not impressed with your wallet.
A Fat wallet will not turn God’s Head.
A fat tithe check will not turn God’s head.
It is easy for church’s to show favoritism to those who tithe much.
Let me teach you something about tithing.
Tithing is never a case of equal giving but equal sacrifice.
There are some giving 10% that is sinning just as much as those who are giving 5%.
It is not equal giving but equal sacrifice.
We do not live under the law but under grace.
Where this idea of when I reach giving 10%, I am doing good came from I have no clue.
It is not scriptural.
God loves a cheerful giver.
Mark 14:
God is partial toward those who tithes more than you do.
Your wallet does not turn my God’s head.
The sin in this verse is not one being rich and one being poor the sin is in the distinction of them.
Treating one different than the other.
2. Sin.
James 2:8-
I do not know anyone who does not struggle with this.
Satan has many of us convinced that our past has some how created this wall that cannot be broken down to have a close access with God.
Many are haunted and bogged down in their past.
Their past is like a weight that ensnares them or chains them and limits them to certain access to God.
We say jokingly but in our hearts we mean it.
People will call the pastor and say things like this, Preacher you have better access to God than I do, will you please pray for me and my family.
Or Preacher I know God listens to you, will you please pray for me.
Sin has created a barrier between mankind and God.
All of us have been separated from God. James tells in verse 10 if you fail the law in one area you become guilty of the entire law.
This means the murderer, adulterer, the drug dealer, prostitute, is no worse or no better off than the self righteous church member who does not have a relationship with Jesus.
When I was growing up, I never tasted alcohol, drugs, had no addictions other than hunting and fishing, but I want you to know because sin has caused me to be dead.
And once you are dead you cannot get more dead.
Dead is dead.
In God’s eyes I was the same as the murderer in the jail house.
You see we like to class people according to their sins but God does not.
You are either dead or alive.
We get bogged down in good deeds and bad deeds when we need to get bogged down in dead people and alive in Christ.
Sin has caused us to be dead.
Christ brings us alive.
Dead is dead.
I want you to know, God does not care what sin you have committed, what your past looks like.
You cannot get anymore dead than dead but I also want you to know you cannot get anymore righteous than the righteousness of Christ.
The bible reads:
Therefore when a soul in the attitude of their heart repents and trust in the cross as their forgiveness of sins then they exchange lives with Jesus Christ.
Positionally that person becomes as righteous as Jesus.
You cannot get anymore righteous than Jesus.
There are two kinds of people
Dead people
Alive People.
We need to see the Gospel as bringing dead people alive.
It is just as a new birth as if you were to enter mother’s womb and be born again.
Micah 7:19
III.
Conclusion.
Do not let Satan convince you that your past is to sinful to be forgiven or even to sinful to be used by God.
You hold on to this.
Your sin has not caused you to be dead more than anyone else in this world and the cross has not made one alive more than anyone else in this world.
You cannot have a sin greater than the cross.
The cross is always greater than your sin.
You are important to God.
He can make you alive.
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