James 1b

James 1b

Shawn Bumpers / General

James

Introduction

Romans 8:28 NKJV

And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

v9-11

James 1:2 NKJV

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,

James 1:6 NKJV

But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.

Proverbs 27:24 NKJV

For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations.

Proverbs 11:4 NKJV

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death.

In the Old Testament and repeated in the New Testament.

The condition of poverty – another trial.

ἀδελφός adelphos: brother

Matthew 5:10 NKJV

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

v12

Like a beatitude.

δόκιμος dokimos: being tested

ἀγαπάω agapaō: love (faithful)

v13-16

πειράζω peirazō: tempted

• Desire.

• Deception.

• Disobedience.

• Death.

ἐπιθυμία epithymia: desire, craving

Desires are not sinful. 

Hebrews 13:4 NKJV

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Deception.

Disobedience gives birth to death, not life. 

Ezekiel 18:23 NKJV

Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord God, “and not that he should turn from his ways and live?

Genesis 3:5 NKJV

For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

Genesis 3:6 NKJV

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

2 Corinthians 11:3 NKJV

But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Satan is the deceiver.

Genesis 2:17 NKJV

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

1 Timothy 2:14 NKJV

And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

Romans 5:12 NKJV

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—

1 Corinthians 15:21–22 NKJV

For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

Revelation 20:15 NKJV

And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

v17

Deuteronomy 8:11 NKJV

“Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today,

4 facts about the goodness of God:

God alone gives good gifts.

Every gift of God is perfect.

He gives good gifts perfectly … and He also gives constantly.

God is immutable.

2 Timothy 2:13 NKJV

If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.

Hebrews 6:18 NKJV

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.

Titus 1:2 NKJV

in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began,

Psalm 90:2 NKJV

Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

2 Samuel 12:7–8 NKJV

Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more!

Genesis 39:8–9 NKJV

But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has committed all that he has to my hand. There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

“God’s gifts are always better than Satan’s bargains.” – Tozer

Proverbs 10:22 Brenton LXX En

The blessing of the Lord is upon the head of the righteous; it enriches him, and grief of heart shall not be added to it.

v18

Conception and birth

Victory over temptation and sin

1 John 3:9 NKJV

Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.

Born of God.

It is the gracious work of God.

“by the Word of truth.”

Proverbs 3:9 NKJV

Honor the Lord with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase;

Matthew 4:4 NKJV

But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”