If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you

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If you were arrested for being a Christian, would
there be enough evidence to convict you?

• A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love
  one another as I have loved you, that ye also
  love one another.
  By this shall all men know that ye are my
  disciples, if ye have love one to another. Jn.
  1334-35
• Love is our identifying characteristic

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James 127

• Pure religion and undefiled
  before God and the Father is this, To
  visit the fatherless and widows in their
  affliction,
  and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
• Far from world, Close to the needy
• What we avoid and what we embrace

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James 117-27

• 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
  above, and cometh down from the Father of lights,
  with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of
  turning.
• 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of
  truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of
  his creatures.
• God is pure and undefiled in His giving to us
• Through obedient faith in the Bible we have
  become His children (imitate His character)
• 1 Jn. 316-18

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James 119-20

• 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man
  be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath
• 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the
  righteousness of God.
• Swift to hear Gods Word and mans needs
• Slow to speak (learn facts first, control
  emotions)
• Slow to wrath (What are you angry about? Will
  your anger lead to righteous works pure
  religion)?

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James 121

• 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and
  superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with
  meekness the engrafted word, which is able to
  save your souls.
• Unspotted from world (rid yourself of worldly
  behavior like wrath and evil speech)
• Receive engrafted (implanted) Word of God
• Swift to hear, then embrace the doing of it in
  order to save your soul (Love others)

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James 122-25

• Are we doers or deceivers of ourselves? 22
• What is the message in the mirror? 23-24
• Hearing the Word (seeing in the mirror)
• Doing the Word (correcting the flaws)
• 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of
  liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a
  forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work,
  this man shall be blessed in his deed.
  (Loving)

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James 126

• If any man among you seem to be religious,
  and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his
  own heart, this man's religion is vain.
• Not pure and undefiled religion
• Deceived not doing what the mirror revealed
• Uncontrolled tongue is not slow to speak
• Unbridled tongue is spotted by the world
• Unbridled tongue is not helping the afflicted