The Journey 2009
Paster Adam Bailie
Key Text: James 1:2-8
"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effects, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. but let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like the wave of the sea that us driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his way."
The Big Idea in this passage: Christians must respond to trials in a Christian way.
1. Think rightly about your trials (vs. 2)
**How do you think about trials with joy?
- Look at trials through God's eyes.
- The product if refining through trials is steadfastness and endurance.
2. Respond rightly about your trials (vs. 4)
-Let the endurance of faith take its full effect in trials.
- God, in His sovereign grace, will remove a trial when He is finished refining a believer through that trial.
- The end goal of a trial is spiritual maturity.
**Wisdom: knowing the Truth and knowing how to live it out.
- Do trials reveal the power of grace working in you or expose the fraud of your faith?
- Will you be marked as a single-minded Christian or double-minded and unstable?
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