The understand the harmful nature of prejudice and the value of keeping the Royal Law which is to love your neighbor as yourself.

1. JAMES 2:1-13

2. JAMES 2:1
“PARTIALITY”-
“Favoritism, preference; significance due
to rank, influence or desirability.”
“PREJUDICE”-
“To prejudge or forming an opinion on
someone before knowing the facts.”
Prosopolepteo:
An Old-English word

3. 1 Samuel 16:7
“Man looks at the outward appearance,
but the Lord looks at the heart.”
A HUMAN-NATURE PROBLEM

4. “…TO JUDGE WITH EVIL THOUGHTS.”

6. Hamidian Massacre
1894-96
Arminian Genocide
1915-17
Nazi Death Camps
1939-45
Rwanda Genocide
1994
Cambodian Killing Fields
1975-79

7. JAMES 2:8-9
“THE ROYAL LAW”- Basilikos:
“Kingly; that which is befitting royalty.”

8. “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS
YOURSELF.”
Jesus Christ
THE ROYAL LAW

9. “BELOVED, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER,
FOR LOVE IS OF GOD, AND EVERYONE
WHO LOVES IS BORN OF GOD…
Apostle John
THE ROYAL LAW

10. “AND KNOW GOD. HE WHO DOES NOT
LOVE, DOES NOT KNOW GOD. FOR GOD
IS LOVE.”
Apostle John
1 John 4:7-8
THE ROYAL LAW

11. JAMES 2:1-13