2. The Foolishness of
Favoritism
James 2:1-13

3. JAMES 2:1
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.

4. JAMES 2:1
Don’t ever attempt, my brothers, to combine snobbery with faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ!
(Phillips)

5. JAMES 2:1
My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.

6. Favoritism
The practice of giving unfair preferential treatment to one person or group at the expense of another

7. Prejudice
an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge

8. Unfair bias in favour of one person or thing; favouritism.
Partiality
Unfair bias in favour of one person or thing; favouritism.

9. JAMES 2:2-4
For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, "You sit here in a good place,“…

10. JAMES 2:2-4
while you say to the poor man, "You stand over there," or, "Sit down at my feet," have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

11. JAMES 2:2-4
while you say to the poor man, "You stand over there," or, "Sit down at my feet," have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

12. Galatians 2:27-28
For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus

13. John 7:24
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."

14. 1 Corinthians 5:4
Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God

15. JAMES 2:5-7
– Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor man…

16. JAMES 2:5-7
…Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court? Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?

17. 1 Corinthians 1:26
For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world…

18. Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes no bribe

19. JAMES 1:12:8-13
– If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it…

20. JAMES 1:12:8-13
…. For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty…

21. JAMES 1:12:8-13
…For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment

22. If it Looks Good, Feels Good,
LIE #3
If it Looks Good, Feels Good,
& Brings Me Pleasure…
it Must Be Good!

23. JAMES 1:15
desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death

24. JAMES 1:17-18
– Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

25. Matthew 22:35-40
And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind…

26. Matthew 22:35-40
…This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."