James was the first book written in the New Testament about AD 50 for Jewish Christians. James was the half-brother of Jesus and was head of the Jerusalem Church. Paul hadn’t yet been converted, and the believers only had the Old Testament and what they knew about the risen Jesus.

James talked about the law of love, Christians are to be as totally committed to the law of love as the Jews were to the Mosaic law. Those were staunch Jews who had no blueprint on how to be Christ-followers. They couldn’t imagine no longer being under the law and having to now surrender to the Royal Law of Christ. Jesus fulfilled the law.

James is a book of grace and is not a book about works and the law. It was written to encourage the believers to have faith in Christ and fulfill the Royal Law by allowing their faith to build their trust in God.

“Love your neighbor as yourself.”


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