Weekend What Up - Service Flow and Sermon Notes
Sermon Notes
Windmill
NOPE| Nope to favoritism
NOPE TO FAVORITISM
James 2:1 (NIV) My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus
Christ must not show favoritism.
prosopolepsia
“must not turn their faces up to people”
James 2:2-4 (NIV) 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?
Affluence
Appearance
Accent
Age
Ancestry
Achievement
Alliteration
PLACING VALUE ON PEOPLE BASED ON SOMETHING GOD DOES NOT
VALUE
James 2:5-7 (NIV) 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 dishonored 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?
1 Corinthians 1:26-29 (NIV) Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when
you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were
influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the
world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the
strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and
the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast
before him.
James 2:8-10 (NIV) If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your
neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. 9 But if you show favoritism, 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.
James 2:11 (NIV) 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.
It dishonors God and dishonors people
James 1:12-13 (NIV) 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.
Who do you tend to look down on?
Who is God calling you to show mercy for?
In what way is God calling your mercy to triumph over judgement?
Philippians 2:9-11 (NIV) Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and
gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every
tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
James 2:1 (NIV) My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus
Christ must not show favoritism.
prosopolepsia
“must not turn their faces up to people”
James 2:2-4 (NIV) 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?
Affluence
Appearance
Accent
Age
Ancestry
Achievement
Alliteration
PLACING VALUE ON PEOPLE BASED ON SOMETHING GOD DOES NOT
VALUE
James 2:5-7 (NIV) 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 dishonored 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?
1 Corinthians 1:26-29 (NIV) Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when
you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were
influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the
world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the
strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and
the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast
before him.
James 2:8-10 (NIV) If you really keep the royal law found in Scripture, “Love your
neighbor as yourself,” you are doing right. 9 But if you show favoritism, 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.
James 2:11 (NIV) 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.
It dishonors God and dishonors people
James 1:12-13 (NIV) 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.
Who do you tend to look down on?
Who is God calling you to show mercy for?
In what way is God calling your mercy to triumph over judgement?
Philippians 2:9-11 (NIV) Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and
gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every
tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.