James 2:11-13
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2:11-13
2:11-13
Read 2:8-13
Read 2:8-13
James closes out this section on the sin of partiality with using two of the commandments that from the law the penalty was death, adultery and murder as an example and comparison to the sin of partiality.
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Even though James uses two of the most socially egregious offences against the law, the point is that the law is not ten individual components that make a whole. It is one law with ten listed sections. You cannot run afoul of one of the laws and still say you have not broken it. It is one pane of glass upon which the ten laws are written, breaking one of them shatters the whole pane.
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The law of liberty is the new covenant in Christ, in contrast to the royal law mentioned by James in verse 8. So we are to act and speak in a manner consistent and reflecting our status of being covered in Christ’s blood and robed in his righteousness. Christ came to fulfill, and did fulfill the royal law, and as we are in Christ, we are no longer under the royal law and condemned by it. But we are not to, as Paul says, to continue to sin so that grace may abound. We are to model our lives after Christ and his perfect fulfilment of the royal law.
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Those who have shown no mercy, the unrepentant and lost, like the merciless servant in Matthew 18 who had been shown mercy, just as all humanity has been the beneficiary of God’s common grace, but did not show mercy himself. Those with out mercy will be judged by God on the last day without mercy. But mercy does triumph over judgement, everyone has fallen short of the glory of God and we are dead in our trespasses, rightfully due eternal punishment in Hell, but God has shown us unearned grace, while we were at war with God, by sending Jesus Christ to take the punishment for his chosen and elect people.
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