James 513 Faithfulness It is for FREEDOM that Christ has set us free James 51 Faithfulness But the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace forbearance patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and selfcontrol ID: 577953
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You
, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free.
James 5:13
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It
is for FREEDOM that Christ has set us free
!
James 5:1
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance
(patience
), kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
James 5:22-23
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What human beings need is not more religion or morality, but rather what is needed is a divine intervention and that is exactly what God has done in sending His Son and the Spirit of His Son into the world.
Dr. Robert Dean
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You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather,
serve
one another humbly in love.
James 5:13
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For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor
uncircumcision
has any value. The only thing that counts is
faith expressing itself through love
.
James 5:6
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ELIJAH … (#
Godsdude
)
9
th century BC
“my God is Yahweh”
idolatrous time in Israel
Ahab + Jezebel = Phoenician
Baalism
slaughtered God’s prophets
Baal & Asherah – deities of rain & fertility
Elijah’s calling: turn people’s hearts to
God
victory at Mt. Carmel
the people return to God
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Elijah was a human being even as we are.
James 5:17a
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Now Elijah the
Tishbite
, from
Tishbe
in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel, lives, whom I serve, there will be neither dew nor rain in the next few years except at my word.”
1 Kings 17:1
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Elijah was a human being even as we are.
He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
James 5:17
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Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah
: “
Leave here, turn eastward and hide in the
Kerith
Ravine, east of the Jordan. You will drink from the brook, and I have directed the ravens to supply you with food there.”So
he did what the Lord had told him. He went to the Kerith
Ravine, east of the Jordan, and stayed there. The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook
.
1 Kings 17:2-6
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Some time later the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the
land.
1 Kings 17:7
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Then the word of the Lord came to him: “Go at once to
Zarephath
in the region of Sidon and stay there. I have directed a widow there to supply you with food.”
1 Kings 17:8-9
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So he went to
Zarephath
. When he came to the town gate, a widow was there gathering
sticks
. He called to her and asked, “Would you bring me a little water in a jar so I may have a drink?” As she was going to get it, he called, “And bring me, please, a piece of bread.”
1 Kings 17:10-11
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“As surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”
1 Kings 17:12
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“Don’t be afraid. Go home and do as you have said. But first make a small loaf of bread for me from what you have and bring it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.’”
1 Kings 17:13-14
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She went away and did as Elijah had told her. So there was food every day for Elijah and for the woman and her family.
1 Kings 17:15
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“Give me your son,” Elijah replied. He took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his bed. Then he cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, have you brought tragedy even on this widow I am staying with, by causing her son to die?” Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the Lord, “Lord my God, let this boy’s life return to
him!”
1 Kings 17:19-21
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The Lord heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived. Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, “Look, your son is alive!”
Then
the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord from your mouth is the truth.”
1 Kings 17:22-24
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God surrounds himself with incompetents. The people God uses have rarely been great people, nor have great people been the people God uses. God looks for misfits and shmucks. It’s not that he has to make-do with them. He
chooses
them.
’
David Roper
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