Markers to Evaluate the Authenticity of Our Faith

• Prejudiced or Biased Attitude

• Engaging in Good Works

• Orphans & Widows

Markers to Evaluate the Authenticity of Our Faith

• Being Doers of the Word

• Responding Correctly to Trials and

Temptations

James 1

Vs. 2 Trial – Outward

Vs. 13 Temptation - Inward

Confronting Temptation

James 1:12-15

James 1:12-14

6 x’s some form of the

word, “tempt”

Temptation

everywhere

~~ everybody

The Anatomy of My Sin

Courtship

Consent

Conception

Completion

James 1:13

God is NEVER the

source of temptation

Matthew 4:3 (NKJV)

3 Now when the tempter came to

Him, he said, “If You are the Son of

God, command that these stones

become bread.”

James 1:14

Drawn Away and Enticed

by Own Lust.

Lust = strong inner longing

“The power of all temptation is the prospect that it will

make me happier.”

- Erwin Lutzer

Survey From Journal

1. Idolatry – Independence from God

2. Materialism – Money

3. Pride – Arrogance

4. Self-Centeredness

5. Apathy - Indifference

Survey From Journal

6. Lust – Pornography

7. Anger/Bitterness

8. Worry – Anxiety

9. Gluttony

10. Lying - Deception

3 Stages of Temptation

1. Desire

2. Sin

3. Death

The Facts of Temptation

Temptation is Not Sin

Satan is the Tempter

Facing Temptation

Hebrews 2:18 (NKJV)

18 For in that He Himself has suffered,

being [a]tempted, He is able to aid

those who are tempted.

Hebrews 4:15 (NKJV)

15 For we do not have a High Priest

who cannot sympathize with our

weaknesses, but was in all points

tempted as we are, yet without sin.

2 Peter 2:9 (NKJV)

9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the

godly out of temptations and to reserve the

unjust under punishment for the day of

judgment,

Matthew 26:41

Watch and pray that you might enter temptation.

James 4:7

• Submit to God

• Resist the Devil

• He will Flee

John 2:1-3 (NIV)

2 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 1:8-9 (NIV)

8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.