SERMON SCRIPTURE QUOTATIONS

PENTECOST 17
"If we are faithless, he remains faithful, because he cannot deny
himself” (2 TIMOTHY 2:13).
I. Sermon Text: JAMES 1:13-18
“If you do good, will you not be lifted up? If you do not do good, sin
is crouching at the door. It has a strong desire for you, but you must 13
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being
rule over it" (GENESIS 4:7).
tempted by God,” because God cannot be tempted by
"All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14 But each person
acts are like a filthy cloth. All of us have withered like a leaf, and our is tempted when he is dragged away and enticed by his
guilt carries us away like the wind" (ISAIAH 64:6).
own desire. 15 Then when desire has conceived, it gives
"Indeed, all souls are mine. The soul of the father is mine just like birth to sin. And sin, when it is full grown, gives birth
the soul of the son. The soul who sins is the one who will die” to death.
(EZEKIEL 18:4).
II.
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Do not be deceived, my dear brothers. 17 Every
good act of giving and every perfect gift is from above,
"For you have been born again, not from perishable seed but
coming down from the Father of the lights, who does
from imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God"
(1 PETER 1:23). not change or shift like a shadow. 18 Just as he planned,
he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would
“But the gracious gift is not like Adam’s trespass. For if the many
died by the trespass of this one man, it is even more certain that
be a kind of firstfruits of his creations. (EHV)
God’s grace, and the gift given by the grace of the one man Jesus
Christ, overflowed to the many!” (ROMANS 5:15).

“He did this so that you would know that the LORD your God, yes, OUR FATHER’S FAITHFULNESS
he is God, the faithful God who maintains both his covenant and his DOES NOT CHANGE
mercy for those who love him and keep his commandments, to a I. Our desires: imperfect, deadly
thousand generations” (DEUTERONOMY 7:9). II. God’s gifts always perfect, good

"The Spirit is the one who gives life. The flesh does not help at all.
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The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life." Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church, McCook, NE
(JOHN 6:63). Norton Correctional Facility (Min/Sat & Med/Sun)