Genuine Gifts (IV)
(James 1:12-15)
Warring Wishes
Wanton Wishes
Wicked Wishes
Review
Wonderful woes
James 1:1-4
Winning wisdom
James 1:5-8
Withering wealth
James 1:9-11
Warring wishes
James 1:12-15
I. Blessing, 12
Blessed Endurance
 James
1:3-4 . . . 5:11
 Job: curse God?
 World (like Job’s friends): enduring
trial is not happiness
 Rv.2:10
Blessed Endurance
Temptation (Trial)
James 1:2 (13)
 Rv.3:10, endurance rewarded

Because you have kept My command to persevere, I also will keep
you from the hour of trial which
shall come upon the whole world,
to test those who dwell on the earth.

Mt.6:13
Blessed Endurance
Temptation (Trial)
Proved

‘Approved’ (2 Tim.2:15)
Blessed Endurance
Temptation (Trial)
When he has been proved
Crown of life
Crown is eternal life
 Conditional: love Him

I.
Blessing, 12
II. Beware, 13-15
13: transition from
outer to inner trials

To entice to sin
Explanation:
Error:
God cannot be
blame God.
tempted w. evil;
(No one...anyone)
He cannot tempt
Absolute immunity
others
from temptation…
1. Jews: God created everything…
including the ‘evil impulse’
2. U.S.: God made me the way I am…
14: blame our own lust (desire)
[Not God, devil, wife…]
Drawn away, lured:
hunting/fishing:
game is lured from
its covert… so man
by lust is allured…


Enticed:
lure by use of bait:
lead astray, lure
into sin… to make
sin look attractive
2 Pt.2:14, 18
Satan can dangle the bait before us,
but cannot make us take it
15: the fatal chain
lust

sin
death
Lust (evil desire) arises in the mind


Pr.4:23 – Mk.7:21 – Mk.12:30
1 Jn.2:15
Love
3x
World
3x
Lust
3x
15: the fatal chain
lust

sin
death
Lust (evil desire) arises in the mind
 Lust conceives, gives birth to sin
15: the fatal chain
lust
sin
death

Lust (evil desire) arises in the mind
 Lust conceives, gives birth to sin
 Sin grows up, gives birth to death
Summary:
Lust has baby named Sin, who grows,
has baby named Death
I.
Blessing, 12
II. Beware, 13-15
III. Benefits
(of this warning)
1. Trials
can make us strong,
but avoid all temptation

Different responses to temptations –
Pulled punches war. Ep.4:26-27
Play with temptation. Fire? Pr.7:5-27
Prolong temptation. Justify sin. Mt.5
Pulverize temptation. 1 Co.9:27 (10:13)
1. Trials
can make us strong, but avoid all temptation
2. Take
personal responsibility
Do not blame –
a. Society.
Noah
Judges
Rome
b. God. Mt.4:1
No desire in Christ that satan’s
charms could entice
Food?
Full Cup
Fall, Gn.3
1. Trials
can make us strong, but avoid all temptation
2. Take personal responsibility
3. God
allows temptation to
consume the wicked
a.
Balaam, Nu.22. 2 Pt.2:15
b.
Israel, Jg.2:22
c.
Amnon, 2 Sm.13
d.
Ahab, 1 K.22
e.
Lovers of error, 2 T.4:2-4
Summary: Lust – Sin – Death
2.
Adam & Eve, Gn.3 “Evil concupiscence
Achan, Josh.7
is, at the beginning,
3.
David & Bathsheba, like
2 Sm.11-12
. . .of a
the thread
4.
web;
Ahab, 1 K.21 (Naboth’sspider’s
vineyard)
5.
Herod, Mk.6
6.
Judas, Mt.26-27
1.
afterward it is like a
cart-rope”