Divine Gifts & Abundant Grace!
The Epistle of James: Faith in Action! • Sermon • Submitted
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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James 1:17-18
James 1:17-18
Divine Gifts
Divine Gifts
The Magnitude
The Magnitude
Good Gift-“act of giving the gift; a gift freely given.”
Good Gift-“act of giving the gift; a gift freely given.”
Perfect Gift-“the result of the act, the gift itself.”
Perfect Gift-“the result of the act, the gift itself.”
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
The Source
The Source
All-Powerful God
All-Powerful God
Unchanging God
Unchanging God
For I am the Lord, I change not;
Therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
O taste and see that the Lord is good:
Blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield:
The Lord will give grace and glory:
No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
Abundant Grace
Abundant Grace
The Plan of God
The Plan of God
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
The Mercy of God
The Mercy of God
mercy
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
The Transformation in God
The Transformation in God
What should be our response?
What should be our response?
Serve and Honor Him!
Serve and Honor Him!