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James 1:17 · BSB
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.
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…Life brings God glory. Just look at Psalm 139. Look at James 1 and all the pictures. And when you look at James 1, that every perfect gift comes,James 1:17, every perfect gift comes from God. Notice this. Apparently, more life means more blessing to God and creation because God wants lots of life. He…
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…23:5-6. Every good and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there's no variation or shadow due to change,James 1:17. Balak's wrong about this. He says basically, hey, following God is what's ultimately messing up your life. And it's here we learn this lesson: you…
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…write them down. Malachi chapter 3 and verse 6. For I, the Lord, do not change. Psalm 102 verse 27. You are the same. And your years have no end.James 1 verse 17. We've just read it, hasn't it? He is the father of lights. With whom there is no variation. Or shadow. There's no dimmer switch. No change. So do…
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…change. My covenants do not change. Therefore, you're not going to be destroyed. Because I'll keep my promises. You're not faithful, but I am.James 1:17every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.…
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…start keeping score of everything we lack, to look at our lives through a scarcity mindset and lose sight of how much we've actually been given. InJames 1:17, he directs our eyes back up. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change…
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…IS THE LORD'S AND EVERYTHING IN IT." THE LIVING BIBLE, WHICH I ALSO LIKE, SAYS, "THE EARTH BELONGS TO GOD. EVERYTHING IN ALL THE WORLD IS HIS." ANDJAMES 1:17TELLS US, "EVERY GOOD GIFT AND EVERY PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE AND COMES DOWN FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHTS WITH WHOM THERE IS NO VARIATION OR SHADOW…
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…gave you his favor in your life, and here he deserves all the glory, all the honor, and all the praise all the time in his appropriate attribution.James 1:17says, Every good and perfect gift comes down to us from the Father of heavenly lights. We are so quick to blame God when things aren't going the…
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…good, why did that look, if I'm preaching just to Me, that's fine. But I suspect other people have had this challenge and have asked this question.James 1:17says, Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. God is…
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…come from God. Psalm 24:1, "The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein." The earth is the Lord's.James 1:17, "Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights." God can, in other words. And so because God can, David brings…
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…that's from him, which there is nothing bad in him. He's pure. He's perfect. He's light. Everything that's from him is good. It's good. That's whyJames chapter 1 verse 17says, every good and perfect gift is from above. From above. Somebody say from above. From above. Meaning what? Heaven is wanting to come down to…
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…in the other direction, but the good shepherd stays. Jesus is never more than an arm's length away because we're the only ones that can push him.James chapter 1, verse 17says, There is no turning with him. He will not turn away. Hebrews 13, verse 5 reminds us that God won't fail us or abandon us. The psalmist writes…
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…is talking about what we believe men of faith to be. And so I've assigned each one of these men a portion of that. But this applies to everybody.James 1, verse 17is kind of our covering scripture. And it says this, And every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. And comes down from the Father of…
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…God is the Lord. He's the ruler and the sovereign one. And then secondly, he acknowledges that there's no good apart from God. He understood, asJames chapter 1, verse 17says, that every good and perfect gift comes down from heaven. It comes from God. He understood that he deserved hell. That he wasn't entitled to…
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…us of God's goodness. Psalm 145:9 was a verse that came to mind where it says, the Lord is good to all, he has compassion on all he's made.James 1:17says, Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like the shifting shadows.…
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…us of God's goodness. Psalm 145:9 was a verse that came to mind where it says, the Lord is good to all, he has compassion on all he's made.James 1:17says, Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like the shifting shadows.…
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…created things for myself. I. I'm tempted to think that I've earned something good. The Bible says that every good gift comes down from God. That'sJames 1:17. He says, the plan of the Gospel, the plan of redemption, the plan of salvation, comes of Him. Nobody else came up with it. I could not come up…
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…short of the glory of God and deserve nothing in, in spite of that, God has extended grace to us and given us salvation and given us Blessing. AndJames 1:17says that every good thing that comes down as a gift is coming down from God and is a blessing from God. And when we see it that way, every little…
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…series on the book of James and we've got to keep marching. Otherwise we'll be doing this for about four years. And so today we are going to be inJames chapter 1 verses 12 through 18. If you want to go there and hold that if your Bibles and your phones, that'd be great. We're going to walk through that text. But I'm going to ask…
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…just jump right into scripture tonight. We want proof that God wants us to be happy, that he wants us to be abundant. So we're going to start withJames 1, verses 17. It says, Every good work, every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like…
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…you on a daily basis, God does not lie. And God is not capricious. He does not change His mind. He does not vacillate. He does not change. Think ofJames 1, verse 17. Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above. Coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shifting…
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