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February 25th 2021

David_Orr • February 25, 2021
Faith that Works!
J. Ronald Blue in John Walvoord’s “The Bible Knowledge Commentary” published by the Dallas Baptist Theological Seminary begins his entry on James confronting the controversy over canonicity. ---------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION Few books of the Bible have been more maligned than the little Book of James. Controversy is waged over it’s authorship, its date, it’s recipients, its cannonicity and its unity. It is well known that Martin Luther had problems with this book. He called it “A Right Strawy Epistle.” But it is only “Strawy” to the degree it is “Sticky”. There enough needles in this haystack to prick the conscience of every dull, defeated and degenerated Christian in the world. Here is a “Right Stirring Epistle” designed to exhort and encourage, to challenge and convict, to rebuke and revive, to describe practical holiness and drive believers toward the goal of a “FAITH THAT WORKS.” James is severely ethical and refreshingly practical. Considered one of the General Epistles, James, like the Epistles of Peter, John and Jude, is an encyclical (letter – epistle) addressed not to individual churches or persons but a larger sphere of believers. The teaching in these general letters complements the doctrines of Paul. Paul emphasized faith; James stressed conduct; Peter, hope; John, love and Jude, purity. * Paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 page 815 – The Bible knowledge Commentary – New Testament* ----------------------------------------------------------- Martin Luther’s words on James is where I got the title of this series “FAITH THAT WORKS”. What is strange is the fact that if you look up this on the Lutheran Church Website they have compromised their founder’s words to the point that they selected the word strawy and said that referred to the book’s integrity and that it “OPPOSES GRACE” and shouldn’t be in the Bible… except Luther Himself translated it and put it in the Lutheran Bible. Compromise is easy but Martin Luther struggled with this and determined James was merely stating the fact that real Grace shows itself to be real. What Martin Luther did in standing up against the opposition of the Catholic Church was the truest historical picture I can think of that testifies what James wrote to be real and true. “Here I stand, and I can do no other.”

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