Description: Is all judging wrong? Can we just make that blanket statement and say, “Well, that is what the Bible says?” But is that true? Are there times when it is necessary?
Description: “WHERE DO WARS AND FIGHTS COME FROM AMONG YOU? DO THEY NOT COME FROM YOUR DESIRES FOR PLEASURE THAT WAR IN YOUR MEMBERS?” James 4:1. Could it be that our biggest struggle in life is that you are fighting against God?
Description: “For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.” James 01:23-25
Description:JAS 1:2 (NKJV) MY BRETHREN, COUNT IT ALL JOY WHEN YOU FALL INTO VARIOUS TRIALS.
That is a lot easier said than done! Joy is not usually our first emotional response when we are in the middle of a trial.
Description:How many of us can say that we have shed blood in resisting sin and temptation? Probably none of us. Chapter 12 exhorts us to “bow” under the discipline of the Lord in our lives because He means it for good.
Description:”By faith, by faith, by faith” – the repeated clarion call of this chapter and not just this chapter, it is the call of the Christian faith. For we walk by faith, not by sight!