- 1. Over ComingTemptation James1: 1-27 Text: Jas 1:12
Blessedisthe man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he
shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to
them that love him.
2. Quotations OVERCOMING TEMPTATION and persevering during
trials are true marks of God's children 3. Quotations TEMPTATION
PROVOKES ME to look upward to God ---John Bunyan 4. Quotations
TEMPATATIONS THAT FIND us dwelling in God are to our faith like
winds that more firmly root the tree. 5. Lesson Outline:1. PATIENCE
IN TEMPTATION A. Maturing in Our TrialB. TheBlessing for
Faithfulness 2. PICTURE OF TEMPTATION A. The Source of
TemptationB.The Word of Truth 3. POWER OVER TEMPTATION A. Doers of
the WordB. Pure Religon 6. Scripture Jas 1:2 My brethren, count it
all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;Jas 1:3
Knowingthis,that the trying of your faith worketh patience.Jas 1:4
But let patience haveherperfect work, that ye may be perfect and
entire, wanting nothing. 7. Scripture Jas 1:12 Blessedisthe man
that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive
the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love
him.Jas 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of
God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any
man:Jas 1:14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his
own lust, and enticed. 8. Scripture Jas 1:22 But be ye doers of the
word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.Jas 1:23 For
if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a
man beholding his natural face in a glass:Jas 1:24 For he beholdeth
himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner
of man he was.Jas 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of
liberty, and continueththerein,he being not a forgetful hearer, but
a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 9.
1.Patience In Temptation A. Maturing in Our Trials vs. 2-8 James
begins by greeting his brothers with the word joy. The last word of
verse 1 is translated greeting.It is also the same root word used
in verse 2 to describe the life of the believer: a life of joy. 10.
1.Patience In Temptation A. Maturing in Our Trials vs. 2-8 Thus we
see that Christian joy is founded and established in God, not in
the experiences of life.So he says count it all joy when we fall
into or encounter, trials.The word for trials is also used in
1:13,14. 11. 1.Patience In Temptation A. Maturing in Our Trials vs.
2-8 temptations not in the limited sense of allurements to sin,
buttrialsor distresses of any kind which test and purify the
Christian character. Compare tempt, that is, try,Gen_22:1 . Some of
those to whom James writes were sick, or otherwise afflicted (
Jam_5:13 ). Every possible trial to the child of God is a
masterpiece of strategy of the Captain of his salvation for his
good. 12. 1.Patience In Temptation A. Maturing in Our Trials vs.
2-8 Thus, the temptation in itself becomes a source ofall joy
because we know that God is going to use that temptation to bring
us to full maturity in Him (Colossians 1:28). 13. 1.Patience In
Temptation A. Maturing in Our Trials vs. 2-8 Note thatdivers
(various) trials are used to accomplish this work of God. God is
not the originator of these trials and He does not allow Satan to
take advantage of Hischildren through these trials.
