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James 1:16–18 · BSB
1:16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.
1:17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
1:18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of His creation.
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…to hear those real quick. Raise your hand. Yeah, sir. The idea of taking time to move into whatever it is that you're facing, and I would go toJames chapter 1. Wherefore, my brethren, let every man be swift to hear. Slow to speak, and slow to wrath, for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of…
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…that they receive. That's another kind of crown. So we have an imperishable crown, a crown of righteousness. Now here's the next one. Go over toJames chapter 1. This is called the crown of life. This crown is given, is said to be given to those who are steadfast under trial, those who keep the faith in the…
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…to get a break. Learn how to keep your words on assignment. Proverbs 18, 21 says, Death and life are in the power, the direction of the tongue.James chapter 1teaches this. Chapter 4, he says that your tongue, he compares it to two things. He compares the tongue to the bit that we put in a horse's mouth…
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…produces bondage. It promotes freedom, but produces slavery. It promises satisfaction but produces emptiness. It promises life but produces death.James chapter 1gives us a great picture of this. He said, a man is drawn away of his own desires, his own lust when he is tempted. And then he gives into that…
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…want to come back, we'll have a chair here waiting for you. Uh, Romans 12. Let's hop into this. And um we're gonna finish off our passage in James.James chapter 1is where we've been lingering, where we've been hanging out. So, James 1, but before we get to James 1, here's Romans 12 in the New Living…
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…That's what it means to keep the commandment, to keep his word. It's acting in obedience to do what Jesus has said. Or maybe you're familiar withJames chapter 1. Not being a hearer of the word only, but being a doer of the word. We are to do, to keep the commands that Jesus has given. Earlier in John 13,…
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…This is a trial. It's very important that we understand that, right? God isn't tempting Abraham, because remember what the Apostle James says inJames chapter 1. He says, When tempted, no one should say, God is tempting me, for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone. So we've got to…
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…at James chapter number one now. James chapter number one, verse number 22. There's a lot of a lot of times people are living in self-deception.James chapter 1, verse number 17. Look what he says here. He's uh not 17, James chapter 1, verse number 22. Be doers of the word, not hearers only. What's the next…
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…I'll let you see that. I want you to see that. And so when we say we're striving for perfection, we're striving to be complete and entire. Give meJames chapter 1. I think it's about the third verse. Maybe the fourth. Real quick, I don't want to open my mouth. But if any of you lack wisdom, I was quoting it,…
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…thing we got words here and not pictures. And he's telling you something here about your trials that you're to consider them all joy, right? InJames chapter 1? And how they work for endurance when you're going through a trial, God, you you should know this about your trial. Why? Because it's in the book.…
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…sense that it makes progress, but that it grows and it metastasizes and it moves from where it begins. James lines that out for us. You remember inJames chapter 1and verse 13 when he says, let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God does not tempt man of evil, neither is he himself…
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…caused us a problem. But that's okay. We're going to look at election. We're going to look at the other things that God has ordained as well. Go toJames chapter 1. James chapter 1. You know the Bible question, you know, why did God allow evil? Well, that that says that, you know, God could have prevented it.…
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…you actually have godly character that you ought to have. How do you respond under pressure? Is what He's producing growing in your life? You know,James chapter 1tells us this. He says, My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into diverse temptations, knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh…
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…we come up to the next level in God. Amen. And so that's what's happening. And so we were created to resemble God. And so uh, if we'll just turn toJames chapter 1, um, I'm just gonna start at the beginning, and I'm doing something kind of confusing I've never done. I want to read it out of the Amplified, but…
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…he said unto them, Why are you so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith? Now, in the reading of this text, if you consider Ephesians chapter 4,James chapter 1, you can at least find a devotional point here regarding the type of trial that the disciples were going through on this ship. It is that of…
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…needs to know about sin is that sin is chosen. We choose to rebel, to defy, and to transgress God's law and his Word. Turn in your Bible toJames chapter 1, and this is the place where Robert read for us from the scripture reading. And James in James 1, really 13 down through 16, unpacks where sin…
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…or as a noun, translated as grace or favour, or in some other ways. So what does it mean that God is gracious? Well, to borrow an expression fromJames chapter 1, that God is gracious means that he gives generously without finding fault. It's in God's nature to give. He's inclined to be generous. He's…
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…necessary because when the two rhythms work together, SOMETHING POWERFUL HAPPENS. It produces spiritual maturity in our lives. Now, watch this,James chapter 1, verse number 4, says, let patience or endurance have its perfect work that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. Patience or…
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…verse 18. He says, But we are with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror, are the glory of the Lord. The mirror is the word of God. If you read inJames chapter 1, he talks about how that the word of God, he says, the word of God is the mirror of God. You see, so the more we look into the mirror of God, which…
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…our past experiences, our past hardships, and answer the moments already packaged with those presuppositions. Listen to how James talks about it inJames chapter 1. When you experience various troubles, what are you to do? Well, just two days, two verses later, he says, Ask the Father for wisdom. When you go…
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