Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given by our priest in charge Rev’ Nick Mwandia on the 5/9/21 on the 14th Sunday after Trinity. This sermon is called ‘Faith and Favouritism’. Sermon starts at 2:30 Download Mp3 HERE! … Continue reading →
Sermon from St Andrews Church, Slip End, UK. Sermon given by our priest in charge Rev’ Nick Mwandia on the 5/9/21 on the 14th Sunday after Trinity. This sermon is called ‘Faith and Favouritism’.
Sermon starts at 2:30
Download Mp3 HERE!
James 2.1-13
1 My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show
favouritism.
2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine
clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in.
3 If you show special
attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but
say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,”
4 have you
not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in
the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those
who love him?
6 But you have dishonoured the poor. Is it not the rich who are
exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?
7 Are they
not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to whom you belong?
8 If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your neighbour as
yourself,” you are doing right.
9 But if you show favouritism, you sin and are
convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet
stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
11 For he who said, “You shall
not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not murder.” If you do not commit
adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives
freedom,
13 because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not
been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.