We must understand how to separate our “who” from our “do.” What we do does not gain us God’s affection. Who we are by virtue of His unconditional love constrains us through the power of our gratitude to obey Him. If we ever invert these relationships (as is the instinctive, natural impulse of all humanity) by assuming that who we are before God is a consequence of what we do for Him, then we make God’s love conditional and our security questionable.
Bryan Chapell

TEMPTATION

TEMPTATION

TEMPTATION

  1. God cannot be the subject of # Jas 1:13
  2. Does not come from God # Jas 1:13
  3. COMES FROM 3a) Lusts

    # Jas 1:14

3b) Covetousness # Pr 28:20 1Ti 6:9,10 4) The devil is the author of # 1Ch 21:1 Mt 4:1 Joh 13:2 1Th 3:5 5) Evil associates, the instruments of # Pr 1:10 7:6 16:29 6) OFTEN ARISES THROUGH 6a) Poverty # Pr 30:9 Mt 4:2,3 6b) Prosperity # Pr 30:9 Mt 4:8 6c) Worldly glory # Nu 22:17 Da 4:30 5:2 Mt 4:8 7) To distrust of God’s providence # Mt 4:3 8) To presumption # Mt 4:6 9) To worshipping the god of this world # Mt 4:9 10) Often strengthened by the perversion of God’s word # Mt 4:6 11) PERMITTED AS A TRIAL OF 11a) Faith # 1Pe 1:7 Jas 1:2,3 11b) Disinterestedness # Job 1:9-12 12) Always conformable to the nature of man # 1Co 10:13 13) Often ends in sin and perdition # 1Ti 6:9 Jas 1:15 14) CHRIST 14a) Endured, from the devil # Mr 1:13 14b) Endured, from the wicked # Mt 16:1 22:18 Lu 10:25 14c) Resisted by the word of God # Mt 4:4,7,10 14d) Overcame # Mt 4:11 14e) Sympathises with those under # Heb 4:15 14f) Is able to help those under # Heb 2:18 14g) Intercedes for his people under # Lu 22:31,32 Joh 17:15 15) God will not suffer saints to be exposed to, beyond their powers to bear # 1Co 10:13 16) God will make a way for saints to escape out of # 1Co 10:13 17) God enables the saints to bear # 1Co 10:13 18) God knows how to deliver saints out of # 2Pe 2:9 19) Christ keeps faithful saints from the hour of # Re 3:10 20) Saints may be in heaviness through # 1Pe 1:6 21) SAINTS SHOULD 21a) Resist, in faith # Eph 6:16 1Pe 5:9 21b) Watch against # Mt 26:41 1Pe 5:8 21c) Pray to be kept from # Mt 6:13 26:41 21d) Not to occasion, to others # Ro 14:13 21e) Restore those overcome by # Ga 6:1 21f) Avoid the way of # Pr 4:14,15 22) The devil will renew # Lu 4:13 23) Has strength through the weakness of the flesh # Mt 26:41 24) Mere professors fall away in time of # Lu 8:13 25) Blessedness of those who meet and overcome # Jas 1:2-4,12 26) Exemplified 26a) Eve # Ge 3:1,4,5 26b) Joseph # Ge 39:7 26c) Balaam # Nu 22:17 26d) Achan # Jos 7:21 26e) David # 2Sa 11:2 26f) Jeroboam # 1Ki 15:30 26g) Peter # Mr 14:67-71 26h) Paul # 2Co 12:7 Ga 4:14

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