James 1:2-8 | Joy in Trials

Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
James 1:2-8

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1. COUNT IT
2. ALL JOY
3. ASK GOD
4. TWO EXAMPLES

Matthew 5:12 (ESV)
Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Mark 13:13 (ESV)
And you will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.

Thomas Manton
Spiritual things are worthy in themselves, other things depend upon our opinion and valuation of them.

John 11:14–15 (ESV)
Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

2 Corinthians 7:4 (ESV)
In all our affliction, I am overflowing with joy.

Romans 5:3–5 (ESV)
… we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Matthew 5:3 (ESV)
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:5 (ESV)
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Hebrews 12:1–2 (ESV)
… let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.