PASSAGE: God's Faithfulness, No One Is Righteous, Righteousness Through Faith
MEMORY VERSE: "You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God." James 4:2
NOTES: (v.1-8)"But if our unrighteousness brings out God's righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?" God's righteousness does not give us excuse to continue sinning.
-(v.9-20) "therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin." Through God we see the reality of ourselves in Him, and how we absolutely pale in comparison to Him. Thus implying growth--that by seeing our faults by God's power, we are convicted to be molded and transformed by the Holy Spirit (James 1:23-25)
-(v.21-31) Righteousness comes from faith in Jesus Christ, for "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus....where, then, is boasting? It is excluded."
ACT OF LOVE: Today I went with my parents to visit a family friend near San Diego. The family had three adopted children, ages 5 and 6. My act of love was watching over them and playing with them while my parents talked (although this wasn't a particularly difficult act of love, since it's fun playing with kids).
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