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The book of James could be considered the Proverbs of the New Testament. He writes to challenge them to live according to the wisdom that comes from above, to have the word of God implanted in your heart and to abide by it so that you will be blessed in all you do.
He writes to challenge us to have faith that’s authentic, sincere, and genuine; faith that’s alive. Faith that genuine and real is living and active and will be seen in how you live your life. In other words, we should live according to our faith.
Those words come out of Habakkuk 2:4 and are quoted several times in the New Testament, “Behold, as for the proud one, his soul is not right within them; but the righteous will live by his faith.” That’s what James is calling us to, to live according to our faith.
Faith will direct your steps. In fact, Paul wrote in Romans 14:23 that anything that is not of faith is sin. How important is faith? Without faith it is impossible to please God, and He wants us to live according to our faith. In other words, if you have faith, then you have something to live by, it doesn’t make sense to have faith and then not live according to it.
It’s like having a GPS and not using it. How did people find their way before GPS? It was called a ‘spouse,’ and it usually ended in an argument. Just think how many marriages have been helped by having GPS. But what’s the point of having one if you don’t use it?
Before we had GPS on our phones, I had one of those GPS units that you attach to the inside of the windshield. You could download different voices so I thought it would be fun to download Yosemite Sam, Looney Tunes character and arch enemy of Bugs Bunny, to give directions. Every time you missed a turn he would get bossy, “Turn around you lily-livered muley varmit before you get us both lost.”
If you have faith, and it’s sincere and genuine, you should live according to it. The evidence of genuine faith is the good works that result from it. You can’t have one without the other, they work together.
Maybe a good illustration would be a bicycle. Although bicycles are not as popular as when I was a kid. Things have changed. When I was a kid, bicycles were for traveling. I could go anywhere I wanted as long as I was home for dinner. Although with some of the dumb stuff we did, it’s amazing we survived. If you’re out on an adventure and lose a pedal, that’s a tragedy. You try riding a bike with just one pedal and you realize it was never meant to be used that way.
The same is true with faith, it was never meant to be by itself, it was meant to be combined with works, with a good life and those things that come from a good heart. That’s the theme of our verses today.

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