Steadfast Joy in Suffering

Part 01:

James 1:1-18
‘Steadfast Joy in Suffering'
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First Things First… Who Wrote What When? And to Whom?
[:1]

1. Your Trials Should Be Your Joy
[:2-3]

--- a. Why?

2. Why Should We Want Steadfastness?
[:4-12]

--- a. It Makes You Perfect and Complete

--- b. It's the Seed and Fruit of Wisdom

--- c. It Transcends Your Bank Account

--- d. It Ends in Life

3. If God Sends Trials, Does That Mean He Tempts?
[:13-18]

4. What is Our Response?

--- a. Testing -> joy -> steadfastness/perfection -> life;

--- b. Temptation -> desire -> sin/inconsistency -> death.