James 1:1-4

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James 11-4
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James

• James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus
  Christ- James 11
• Servant doulos- slave
• Camel Knees/ Martyred for the faith
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• Key Verse But be doers of the word, and not
  hearers only, deceiving yourselves- James 122
  (NKJ)

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James

• Sovereignty- in control. Nothing happens unless
  God causes or allows it to happen. Or has
  allowed the circumstances that permit it to
  happen
• Reconcile- to settle or resolve, to accept

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James

• To the 12 tribes scattered abroad, Greetings!
  Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you
  face trials of many kinds, because you know that
  the testing of your faith develops perseverance.
  Perseverance must finish its work so that you may
  be mature and complete, not lacking anything-
  James 12-4

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James

• Trials- same word as temptations. External
  rather than internal

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James

• Joy- Why? Sovereignty
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• A trial is evidence that God is at work in my
  life
• Look beyond the trial to God
• Look beyond the trial to the gift
• God redeems trials for those who belong to him

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James

• To escape the trial or curse the trial is to miss
  the purpose of the trial

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James

• I have to reconcile myself to the trial, knowing
  that God has a purpose in it
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• Testing- purifying
• Airplanes that are produced will not be bought,
  until

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James

• Perseverance- to remain under
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• Every trial contains a gift that can only be
  received if I remain under
• Enterprise, Alabama

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James

• Doubt puts the circumstance between me and God
• Faith puts God between me and the circumstance