{"id":4683,"date":"2019-09-30T03:46:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/having-faith-in-yourself\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:46:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:46:44","slug":"having-faith-in-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/having-faith-in-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Faith In Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on genuine faith vs. easy-believism.               James 2:19-24<\/p>\n<p>                           ========================<br \/>\n                           HAVING FAITH IN YOURSELF<br \/>\n                           ========================<\/p>\n<p>     I. Easy-believism.<\/p>\n<p>    II. It begins with faith.<br \/>\n         A. Tension with James and Paul.        Romans 4:1-5 \/ James 2:21-24<br \/>\n         B. God accepts us moment we believe.<\/p>\n<p>   III. Genuine faith works.<br \/>\n         A. Salvation doesn&#8217;t stop with a beginning.<br \/>\n         B. Faith that doesn&#8217;t work, isn&#8217;t real.                 Jam 2:21,24<\/p>\n<p>    IV. Evidence your faith is baloney.<br \/>\n         A. Lack of interest in spiritual matters.<br \/>\n         B. Habitual sin.                                        Gal 5:19-24<br \/>\n         C. Do you want to go to heaven?<\/p>\n<p>     V. Evidence your faith stands the test.<br \/>\n         A. Personal encounter with God.<br \/>\n         B. Fruit of the Spirit.                                 Gal 5:22-23<br \/>\n         C. Passing the ultimate test.                           2 Cor 13:5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on genuine faith vs. easy-believism. James 2:19-24 ======================== HAVING FAITH IN YOURSELF ======================== I. Easy-believism. II. It begins with faith. A. Tension with James and Paul. Romans 4:1-5 \/ James 2:21-24 B. God accepts us moment we believe. III. Genuine faith works. A. Salvation doesn&#8217;t stop with a beginning. B. Faith that doesn&#8217;t work, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1277,144],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}