Mike Schrock...Windsor Baptist Church...April 13, 2015
James 1:3-4, 15
Knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience, but let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
DIVERS - all different kinds / types
Count it all joy --- because trials grow our spiritual muscles.
(V. 3) Every hardship in my life is a 2-sided coin. 1) It grows my faith. 2) It is an opportunity to do wrong / sin.
Hardships are tests that God wants us to pass.
(V. 4) Own - they are tailor-made.
Drawn away - bait your prey
Enticed - a worm covered hook desirous and tempting
Lust endeavors to hook us. Satan knows our weaknesses and those areas where we are prone to struggle.
The book of James is warning us that LIFE is a fight...a battle.
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