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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.

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.

James here teaches that trials serve as a test for genuine faith.

Earthly hardships and losses put believers on display.

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.

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.

various trials The Greek word here, peirasmos, refers to an unwelcome or unexpected experience.

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.