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My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Amplified Bible Chapter 1
2 Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations.
3 Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience.
The New American Commentary: James (1) Joy for Maturity (1:2–4)
1:2 James began with pure encouragement, commending to believers the “pure [lit. “all”; NRSV “nothing but”] joy” that was theirs in the face of “trials of many kinds.” Being brothers in Christ means sharing in the testing of their faith. James encouraged them to embrace their trials not for what they were but for what God could accomplish through them.
The New American Commentary: James (1) Joy for Maturity (1:2–4)
James here teaches that trials serve as a test for genuine faith. Earthly hardships and losses put believers on display.
The New American Commentary: James (1) Joy for Maturity (1:2–4)
What exactly did James mean by “trials”? Although the word periasmos can be understood in other contexts to mean a leading into evil, that is, “temptation” in the passive sense (cf. peirazo, “tempt,” in 1:13), this is not the case here.
The New American Commentary: James (1) Joy for Maturity (1:2–4)
These are testings in the active sense of experiences that prove a person’s intentions. James’s hearers were undergoing trials in the permissive will of God to prove the genuineness of their faith.
Faithlife Study Bible Chapter 1
various trials The Greek word here, peirasmos, refers to an unwelcome or unexpected experience.
The New International Version Chapter 1
Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Wait a minute, don't miss it and let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete not lacking anything. For my note-takers sometimes God Waits to work on it because he's using it to work on us. Because you don't learn patience and perseverance in church. You don't learn patience and perseverance from learning the Greek word for patience and perseverance. You don't learn patience and perseverance by writing down the definition of patience and perseverance. You only learn patience and perseverance when God drops you in the middle of a season and situation and says even though you're ready for me to take you out I'm going to make you wait this out because the only way that you learn patience and perseverance is if I put you in a situation that you want to get out and I make you stay in it. I want to know is there anybody here that knows what I'm talking about there that there's some things God could have moved swiftly on.
00:13don't miss it
00:13:35and let perseverance
00:13:38finish its work
00:13:42so that you may be mature and complete not lacking anything it is for my note-takers sometimes God Waits
00:13:49to work on it
00:13:52because he's using it to work on us
00:13:59because you don't learn patience and perseverance in church
00you don't learn patience and perseverance from learning the Greek word for patience and perseverance you don't learn patience and perseverance by writing down the definition of patience and perseverance you only learn patience and perseverance when God drops you in the middle of a season and situation and says even though you're ready for me to take you out I'm going to make you wait this out because the only way that you learn patience and perseverance is if I put you in a situation that you want to get out and I make you stay in it I want to know is there anybody here that knows what I'm talkin about there that there's some things God could have moved swiftly on
I guess for everybody else got just always comes through as quickly as you want him to. Okay same text to you in the Message version of the Bible this is probably the version of the Bible that many of you should read if you just started to read the Bible because it puts it in contemporary language listen to what Eugene Peterson says in the message translation of the Bible:
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.
So instead of resisting let it do its work so that you become mature, well developed and not deficient in any way.
00:17:00well developed
00:17:03and not deficient in any way
Why would God say that the testing of my faith produces perseverance unless he's trying to teach me that he test my faith with time?
That the test of faith is not always how big I can believe but how long I can believe.
Can I Keep On Believing? Can I wake up Monday believe for it to happen all day and did not happen and then wake up Tuesday and check your faith tank and say it's still in there.
00:17:37can I wake up Monday believe for it to happen all day and did not happen and then wake up Tuesday and check your fake tank and say it's still in there
I wish you would help me preach this.
And then believe all day for it to happen on Tuesday and it not happened on Tuesday and then check your faith tank and say it's still in there and believe for it to happen on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I did not happen and you open up that Faith tank and you check it and you say it's still in there and believe for it to happen Saturday and did not happen and you check that faith tanks and it's still in there trying to wake up on Sunday after you believe all week and nothing has happened and you look at Sunday and say this is the day the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in it just might be my day can your faith last?
The woman with the issue of blood would have kept bleeding if a faith didn't last 12 years. The woman that was bent over would have stayed in her condition if her faith didn't last 18 years. The man at the pool of Bethesda in John would have stayed in his condition if it's faith didn't last 38 years. The man who have been blind since birth did not Outlast the blindness unless he had long faith. Long Faith looks at the trial and say one of us going to quit first and it will not be me.
Everybody say, “My faith, he's he's making it long.”
00:19:43it's a listening
00:19:52he's he's making it long
God teaches relevant lessons. If he's teaching me something is something I need to learn.
I don't know about you but I've heard about strong faith, but I have not heard about long faith. People tell me to be strong but I don't hear believe long.
00:20:16but I have not heard
00:20:20about long face
00:20:25people tell me to be strong
but I don't hear
00:20:34believe long
00:20:37Keep On Believing
00:20:40the text says we read it when Peter saw the wind
00:20:47he got filled with fear and begin to sing do y'all see where I'm going with this
00:20:54he saw the wind and the wind gave him fear
00:20:59okay tell Mystic Jesus told him come
00:21:06he came
00:21:08but then when he saw
00:21:11what he saw influence them more than what her
00:21:16turn up
00:21:19what Jesus said in the beginning got him out of the boat
00:21:25but what he saw in the middle cause him to sink in the sea and is there anybody here that's honest enough to say that it is one thing to hear God at the beginning and jump out of the boat it's another thing to that what you heard have more influence than what you see Peters like Jesus I know I heard you say come but I see some things in the middle of this and what I see has more influence over me than what you said but if you're going to be a water-walker you cannot allow what you see to cause you to disbelieve what you heard
00:22:11if you heard him say come it doesn't matter what you see if you heard him say leap it doesn't matter what you see if you heard him say go it doesn't matter what you see if you heard him say it's yours it doesn't matter what you see you cannot allow what you see in the middle to influence you more
00:22:33then what you heard at the beginning
00:22:39I got some rest this week
00:22:42I got some fire
00:22:46I want somebody to say it like you mean it say I heard something
00:22:52Hallelujah. That's why I'm here cuz I heard something and that's why I refuse to quit because I heard something and that's why I won't let you talk me out of it because I heard something and that's why I will not be defeated because I heard something that's why I'm going to get up every time I fall down because I heard something that's why I'm going to walk with tears in my eyes cuz I heard something that's why I put doesn't work, try it again because I heard something and I will not allow what I see to cause me to question what I heard because what I see doesn't change what he said but what he said will change what I see if something is there anybody here that heard something if you heard some pause for a minute and give him a praise for what you heard
How many want long faith?
What the same text teaches us how God lengthens our faith.
00:23:57faith fertilizes every now and then I need God to sprinkle of fertilizer
00:24:05on my face I need it I need it to leaping
Here it is if I want faith that outlasts the trial, number one I must increase my intimacy. A 17th Century theologian name Martin Luther, some historians suggest that the great Doctor Martin Luther King was named after this fella. In his Treatise on faith Martin Luther says that the strength of a person's faith is only as strong as the credibility of the person they put it in.
Did you hear what I just said? That the strength of a person's faith is only as strong as the person they put it in. Let me put it to you this way, there are some situations we get in we know who not to call.
00:25:09there are some situations we get in
00:25:12we know who not to call
00:25:16is that too honest
I know who number not to call. Sometimes, we may not even know who to call but we know who not to call.
00:25:22I can call you number one you're not going to call me back I'm calling you you going to text me and ask me what I want that's number one
00:25:32you know who not to call that's not making a judgment on that person that's not saying that's a bad person is just saying you know
00:25:41I know who number not to call something we may not even know who to call but we know who not to call
It's not that you believe that help is not possible for you you just don't believe they have the credibility to help you.
There's something in their track record that says to you they are not credible.
00:26:29Jesus teaches this principle of No Return by the fruit it Bears this is important you can't even manage relationships properly without fruit inspection
00:26:44you don't know who to go to for what
00:26:47without fruit inspection
00:26:50it's not judgment to say it's apples on this tree I like oranges
00:26:59so some trees have
00:27:02a track record of not being credible
So the more I know a person the easier it is to believe in their reliability and credibility.
00:27:11the easier it is
00:27:14to believe in their reliability and credibility
Because you don't have peace giving something that matters to you to a stranger and the reason sometimes we can give stuff to God and leave it there is because you giving it to a stranger.
00:27:28and the reason sometimes we can give stuff to God and leave it there is because you giving it to a stranger
Just because I come to church doesn't mean he's not a stranger. Just because I believe in his existence doesn't mean he's not a stranger. It doesn't mean I know him intimately see intimacy increases accuracy. Because when you know somebody you can speak confidently about them, you know their ways. The Bible says in the Book of Psalms that God made his acts known to the children of Israel but he made his ways known to Moses. When you know his ways his behavior becomes predictable you can say things like he may not come when I want him but he's always on time because I know his ways.
00:27:46just because I believe in his existence doesn't mean he's not a stranger it doesn't mean I know him intimately see intimacy increases accuracy so someone can say someone can say to my wife to take a second and he was eating vegetables and salad
00:28:07we had on the same shirt he had on Sunday she said I don't care what that fella had on you said he was eating salad and vegetables that was not my husband because when you know somebody you can speak confidently about them in the apps in the app says watch this you can predict their ex because you know their ways
00:28:27and the Bible says in the Book of Psalms that God made his acts known to the children of Israel but he made his ways known to Moses when you know his ways his behavior becomes predictable you can say things like he may not come when I want him but he's always on time because I know it's ways
Am I making sense?
And what happens is people want intimacy without investment. Intimacy requires an investment. The currency that must be exchanged for intimacy it's time you will not have intimacy if you're not willing to pay the price. It cost time, it cost intentionality and in any relationship when the intimacy leaves very often there is not the investment of time required to obtain it or maintain. You got to pay the price. Intimacy requires time.
00:28:59it
00:29:01intimacy requires an investment
00:29:07the currency that must be exchanged for intimacy it's time you will not have intimacy if you're not willing to pay the price
00:29:20it cost time it cost intentionality and in any relationship when the intimacy leaves very often there is not the investment of time required to obtain it or maintain it when you look at the it Factor leaving relationships not all the time but you can trace it back to the leaving of the behaviors that actually created it in the first place we used to talk now we have discussions
00:29:54we used to talk about each other now we talked about life and bills and the kids and work don't hear anybody I don't hear anybody talking to me and we we we we we we used to engage one another and get a post on each other's feelings but we we no longer make that investment and because we don't make that investment we don't see The Return of intimacy and if a person is not intentional about being consistent in walking in unity with a person once they knew them in one season they will assume they the same person in all seasons and they will be in relationship with a person you used to be
00:30:45because you are evolving and you are growing and your needs are different and you'll want a different and if a person is not constantly in-tune with who you are becoming you hit a season in the relationship but they will be irrelevant to your present because they stuck in your past
00:31:06you got to pay the price
00:31:11intimacy requires time
Time with God In Prayer in the quiet time. The worship in the car. It requires an investment, intimacy and God responds to intimacy. Investment of time, Jeremiah says God says if you seek me you will find me if you seek me with your whole heart. There are times where that you experienced this Divine absence when God removes the awareness of his presence from the level that you are on in an attempt for that absence to create an appetite for you to go to another level and you're like where is God and God's like I'm on the level I'm trying to pull you too and if you won't get to this level two you will get me again but if I didn't move from where you were you would not be motivated to go to where you used to be and you're wondering why isn't producing the results because God's like I'm on another level on till you raise your level to the level that I am on.
00:32:15producing the results because God's like I'm on another level on till you raise your level to the level that I am on
Intimacy gives you a confidence God's got this, he's with me, he's for me.
00:32:28intimacy
00:32:30intimacy gives you a confidence God's got this he's with me
00:32:37he's for me
00:32:39are you hitting on him saying it's agonizing to be on the cross and have to ask why have you forsaken me
00:32:48the cross is hard enough it becomes unbearable when I got to do it alone
00:32:54intimacy is that alright can I give you a number to okay number two is this number two is improve our accuracy
00:33:06this is a tough one right here improve my accuracy here is going to have 5 minutes alright okay somebody said I got three of y'all to safe I'll let me hurry up okay I love the honesty no okay all right here it is
Some people struggle with long faith because their faith is in a god they created.
00:33:25struggle with long face
00:33:28cuz their faith is in a god they created
00:33:38God
00:33:55Saint Francis of Assisi said this he said
00:34:00God made human beings In His Image and unfortunately human beings have tried to return the favor
If your God likes everybody you likes but dislikes everyone you dislike that's not the god that made you that's the god you made. If the god that you serve loves your strengths, love the areas that you strong in but hates the areas somebody else's week in. That's not the god that made you that's the God's you made. If your enemies are the enemies of your God, that's the god you make, not the god that made you. Because some people you don't like God fine with. Just because you fell out don't mean God fell out with them.
if the got that
00:34:27that you serve is the god that loves your strength love the areas that you strong in but hates the areas somebody else's weekend
00:34:40that's not the god that made you that's the God's you make
00:34:48if if your enemies are the enemies of your God
00:34:55that's the god you may not the god that made you
00:34:58cuz some people you don't like God fine with
00:35:06just cuz you fell out don't may God fill out with them
God don’t fall out with everybody you fell out with. Very often people don't realize that the god they serve is a God they created, it's a construct about own imagination.
00:35:29and very often people don't realize that the god they serve is a God that created it's a construct about own imagination
00:35:41and the Bible says in the Book of John chapter number 1 in the beginning was the word and the Word was God and the Word was the word was with God and the Word was God the logos Jesus the word of God so God knows it but he's invisible he's intentional everybody's going to say God is like this and guys like that guy told me this guy told me that God says imma give you a way to differentiate their God from the god of the Bible, give you the Bible and whatever your concept of God is put it through the filter of the Bible and if your idea of God lines up with that filter and makes it through the filter then that's truth if not your idea of God issue
00:36:25that makes sense
00:36:28ISO bet there times when we have to ask myself is the god in my head the god of the Bible
00:36:37and if it's not that's not the guy that made me that's the god I made
00:36:45the one that lets me does every that lets me do everything by my own rules
00:36:53you know that that guy.
00:36:55Church attendance don't matter that God
00:36:58that whole don't forsake the assembling of yourselves thing that don't matter that not that my God
00:37:05but if you put that through the filter of scripture
00:37:10you guys not like that I'm cool with that I just don't know where you got that from
00:37:19that's all I just want to know where it came from I'm not even judging where it came from I just want to know
00:37:27the Bible was written by man so that book you got on the corner
00:37:35the book that somebody sold you outside the store so was that book
00:37:41The Bible was written by man man tainted that tells your history book
00:37:47that boggles revisionist history so it's your history book
00:37:53but this book The Bible has way more credibility
00:37:58written by 40 different authors over a. Of 1500 years
00:38:051500 years is a long time to create a conspiracy theory
00:38:11at some point somebody go say forget it 58 whatever just forget it
00:38:17but while scientists thought the Earth was flat the Bible said the Earth was a circle and sits on nothing
00:38:28what about people coming up with ideas and Concepts to explain the disintegration the Bible taught that man was made from the dust of the ground into the dust back to the dirt that it will return
00:38:44but hundreds of years before Jesus was born that was a minor Prophet named Micah who said where he would be born down to the city
00:38:56he's got way more credibility
00:38:59and look books you gay
00:39:01chocolate from my face
00:39:05like everybody else just dumb we just dumb all us reading the Bible we just stopped here we missed it but somehow you got it
00:39:15we just come to church and we are I'm sorry I don't know where that can't we just come to church and we don't use our brains we just stopped
00:39:22we just doing this and it's not working for us
00:39:29you made a mistake with this all these years and it's not working for me but devil is a liar I'm stronger I'm a wiser I'm healthier I'm better I'm more
00:39:45you can't tell me what works for me this Bible is true because I tried it
00:39:55good talk to me weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning and I didn't know if that was true until I had to cross into tears when I was hurt so bad and I didn't know if not stopped crying but I know I got some witnesses in here. I'll tell you he'll wipe away every tear from your ass this book is true
00:40:29yes I trust it more than your book
00:40:38so sometimes we have this inactive you a God because I wanted God that don't touch stuff I don't want to change
00:40:52I want a guy that don't want me to adjust something
00:40:57but I don't want to adjust I want
00:41:03when I want a God that think like I do I want a god that is limited to the inferiority of my own reasoning
00:41:12I don't want to God that think like me
00:41:16if everything God does make sense to me it means that his level of reasoning is on par with mine I want a. With Superior reason it
00:41:27I don't have to understand all the instruction and every parent should be saying a man that's because there are some things you and shut up your children if they do not have the capacity to understand you can say all you want to do not hang with them I don't care what they mama said I said do not hang with you can't go you are 13 you don't get this day off until 1 I don't care what your friend's mother's do
00:41:59they don't understand it
00:42:06but you don't command them to understand you tell him obey until your understanding catch up
00:42:15cuz I'm not trying to control you I'm trying to protect you I'm not trying to inhibit your freedom trying to preserve your freedom I'm not trying to ruin your life I'm trying to save your life because you don't understand the danger of being in the wrong car at the wrong time with the wrong person you don't understand it only takes one night because you don't ruin your whole life listen to what I say even if you don't understand
00:42:42what I preach too long
00:42:47option I feel that right back expanded God is trying to tell us listen even when you don't understand so if I say stop stop don't touch it don't touch it if I say don't do it don't do it if I say forget it forget don't wait until you understand that okay and then let your understanding catch up cuz I'm trying to change your life
00:43:14I feel the power of God breaking out in this home somebody needs to release appraised right here
00:43:23cuz God is speaking to us on this Sunday
00:43:30come on and play Jerry I preach too long
00:43:34Hallelujah
00:43:37and you know some
00:43:40some concepts of God a concept we created
00:43:45that's some other Concepts that were given to us
00:43:49my sincere but wrong teacher
00:43:54so that we have a view of God because that's a Buell God that's been given to you through and through a religious tradition by people you trust in love who mean well but whose theology is still developing
00:44:09or should be still developing and it's not
00:44:13I said that some people who are holding God Hostage to promises he didn't make
00:44:23and they're mad because they're following Jesus and they had to cry sometimes because their God is a God that prevents them from crying that's not the god of the Bible
That God said you will shed some tears but I count your tears and I'll put your tears in a bottle and if you sow in tears you'll reap in joy. But God didn’t say you'll never go through trouble The god of the Bible says weapons will form against you but they will not Prosper.
00:44:37but I count your tears and I'll put your tears in a bottle and if you sow in tears you'll reap in joy
but their God says you'll never go through trouble
00:44:50the god the Bible says weapons will form against you
00:44:55but they will not Prosper what's my promise they won't prosper
00:45:00that's the god of the Bible
00:45:04and so people are disappointed chronically disappointed
00:45:09so they can experience movement because they're in a Perpetual state of mending cuz God's got to keep killing their heart from disappointment cuz they believe in stuff God never said and it was handed to them by people they trust and people that love them but it was bad theology
00:45:27you're mean and vengeful God
00:45:30was handed to you but that's not the god of the Bible
00:45:33the guy that cares more about your clothes and your souls that was handed to you but that's not the god of the Bible
00:45:42the god of legalism
00:45:45was handed to you but that's not the god of the Bible who writes the law on your heart
00:45:52the god of Truth was handed to you but that's not the god of the Bible that got a Bible full of grace and truth Grace's first
00:46:01because you need
00:46:05Jesus in John chapter 8 when that woman was about to be stoned Jesus gave her grace first which made her receptor to truth
00:46:16right David Gray said she says he said she said
00:46:27so we're trying to give truth to people and culture without giving any price
00:46:32I don't want to hear your truth when they feel judged
00:46:37this is too much
00:46:41so this was happening during bible days and God spoke to a proper name Ezekiel and it tells Ezekiel something that's really scary and Ezekiel chapter number to he says this chapter 13 verse 2 he says son of man prophesy against the prophets of Israel going now prophesied
00:47:00he says you got people in Israel prophesied he say prophesy against them
00:47:05fate of those who prophesy out of their own imagination
00:47:12this is not even mean to say imagination you're the word of the Lord this is what the Sovereign Lord says who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing
00:47:23he said you promised Israel like jackals and Monroe and you have not going up to the breaches in the wall to repair it for the people of Israel so that it will stand firm in the day of Battle of the Lord their Visions are false
00:47:40the Divination July and even though the Lord has not sent them they say the Lord declares and they expect him to fulfill their workers
00:47:54he says
00:47:58step people that are speaking on my behalf that are feeding you candy
00:48:05the sounds good going that feels good going down but it's not repairing the vulnerable places in your life so because the week places are not being strengthened when you hit the day and you're in the seasoning you're like where the wind blows you have not been built up enough to withstand the wind because the teaching you got tickled your ears but it did not change your life
00:48:35I don't want to put my faith in a God I created
00:48:41I don't want to make a God I want to believe in a God that made me
00:48:50last point is I'm out of time evaluate your environment
You can't have a long faith if you're around people that keeps sucking the Faith Out of You. I can't tell you how many people don't get this.
00:49:06I can't tell you how many people don't get this
There are some seasons of your life that affect sensitive. Every season requires faith but there's some seasons you will need a little more. And there's some people who really love you but you got to know when you in a season is faith sensitive how to set boundaries between you and them. Because every time you engage them you don't leave full of life. You know some people you call that you ready you ready to unload your heart and you can't even get halfway through your conversation they going to intercept and interject themselves into it but let me tell you about me.
00:49:14that's some seasons of your life that affect sensitive
00:49:18every season requires fake but there's some Caesars will you need a little more
00:49:23and there's some people who really love you
And if you're going to outlast the trials in your life, these things are necessary to fertilize your face so he gets long.
00:49:26but you got to know when you in a season is fake sensitive how to set boundaries between you and them
00:49:33because every time you engage them you don't leave them full of life
00:49:40you know some people you call that you ready you ready to unload your heart and you can't even get halfway through your conversation they going to intercept and interject themselves into it but let me tell you about me
00:49:57and if you're going to walk on water
00:50:00these three things are necessary to fertilize your face so he gets along
Because most of everything God has done in my life has taken much longer than I thought.
00:50:15what you look at and say this happened fast if they'll loan to me
00:50:21you might look at me preaching into some of you for some of your mold to some of you I'm young
00:50:27but it's always you who think I'm young I've been preaching 20 years
00:50:3220 years I've been reading my Bible cuz I was 15 I put my Bible in the backpack with my sneakers on high school basketball game and when everybody else was in the locker room we had something called walkmans back then
00:50:50cassette tapes
00:50:54at the rewind
00:50:59why they were listening to what bus I will read scripture since I've been 15
00:51:0639 it's taking me 24 years
00:51:14to get a command of scripture
00:51:19be sure to you is loan to me
Some stuff in your life is going to take longer than you think, the question is is your faith long enough to keep trusting?
Father I pray in the name of Jesus, lengthen our faith. Many of us have spent all our life praying for stronger Faith but in this season we pray for longer Faith. Give Me Faith that Outlast the storm, so that I may walk on water and be who you called me to be in Jesus name, Amen
00:51:40I don't know how y'all sit on the preaching this long
00:51:46that's a law service
00:51:50where was alone sermon
00:51:53wow
00:51:59father I pray in the name of Jesus
00:52:03lengthen our faith
00:52:06many of us have spent all last praying for stronger Faith but in this season we pray for longer Faith Give Me Faith that Outlast the win
00:52:16so that I may walk on water and be who you called me to be in Jesus name, Amen
00:52:24you glad you came to church today give God one more price
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