THE EVILS OF FAVORISTISM James 2:1-13

I. FAVORITISM IS WHEN WE TREAT SOME PEOPLE

DIFFERENTLYJames 2:1-4 My brothers, hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ without showing favoritism. For suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring, dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in. If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes so that you say, "Sit here in a good place," and yet you say to the poor man, "Stand over there," or, "Sit here on the floor by my footstool," haven't you discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

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II. FAVORITISM SHOWS YOU ARE A JUDGE WITH EVIL THOUGHTS

James 2:4 haven't you

discriminated among yourselves

and become judges with evil

thoughts? HCSB

III. FAVORITISM DISHONORS THOSE WHOM GOD HAS CHOSEN

James 2:5-6 Listen, my dear brothers: Didn't

God choose the poor in this world to be rich

in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has

promised to those who love Him? Yet you

dishonored that poor man. Don't the rich

oppress you and drag you into the courts?

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IV. FAVORITISM DOES NOT WORK

James 2:5-7 Listen, my dear brothers: Didn't

God choose the poor in this world to be rich

in faith and heirs of the kingdom that He has

promised to those who love Him? Yet you

dishonored that poor man. Don't the rich

oppress you and drag you into the courts?

Don't they blaspheme the noble name that

you bear? HCSB

V. FAVORITISM IS DISOBEYING GOD’S 2ND GREATEST

COMMANDMENTJames 2:8-9 If you really carry out the

royal law prescribed in Scripture, You

shall love your neighbor as yourself, you

are doing well. But if you show

favoritism, you commit sin and are

convicted by the law as transgressors.

HCSBFavoritism is a sin!

VI. FAVORITISM BRINGS JUDGMENT

James 2:9-11 But if you show favoritism, you

commit sin and are convicted by the law as

transgressors. For whoever keeps the entire

law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of

breaking it all. For He who said, Do not

commit adultery, also said, Do not murder.

So if you do not commit adultery, but you do

murder, you are a lawbreaker.

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VI. LET US LOVE ALL OUR

NEIGHBORS

James 2:8 If you really carry out

the royal law prescribed in

Scripture, You shall love your

neighbor as yourself, you are doing

well. HCSB

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