James Episode 3

My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. (James 1:2-7 [KJV])

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Transcript

Speaker 2 (00:13)
Well, welcome to the podcast, everyone.

Speaker 1 (00:19)
This is Brother Jason, and you are listening to the Apostolic Bible Study Time podcast. This is episode 3 in our James series. We're still in chapter one. Let's go ahead and pick up here. As usual, if you'd like to reach us for any reason, our email is apostolicbiblestudytime@gmail. Com. Again, that's apostolicbiblestudytime@gmail. Com. We're on Facebook at Facebook. Com/apostolicbiblesstudytime. Once again, that is Facebook. Com/apostolicbiblestudy. Com. Bible Study Time. If you enjoy what you're hearing, I would appreciate you to follow us on Facebook, follow us on YouTube, and subscribe on Apple podcast. Wherever you are listening, I would appreciate the momentum to be carried. Let's go ahead and get started here. James 1. We made it through verse one last episode, so we're picking up in verse two. He says, My Breothren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. That's James 1: 2. The King James version. Temptations. Strong's number 3986. That would be G 3986. You have to remember the King James Bible was translated, well, 1611. It's been, excuse my math, I guess 414 years ago. So some of the words they use are not quite up to the way we speak now, but it's a very easy thing to clear up.

Speaker 1 (02:19)
But when we think about temptations, we think about, I don't know, a suitcase, and you know it's got a million dollars sitting in front of it and it belongs to some crook anyway. Why not just pick it up and walk away with it? Temptation. Temptations of that sort, or you're doing a low carb diet and somebody puts banana pudding in front of your face. It's a temptation to go ahead and do what you should not do. But that's not what we're dealing with here. Strong's G 39: 86, A pudding to proof by experiment of good, experience of evil, soliciting Temptation, Discipline or Provocation, by implication, Adversity, Temptation. Thiers, Greek, though. I like number one. It says an experiment. Well, okay. Attempt, trial. Now, trial is what makes sense to us in the way that we speak English in our time. Excuse me, one second. But a trial is the way we think of this. The N-A-S-B NASB. I know some people consider it dry reading, but the NASB uses this particular word. It says, Consider it all joy, my Brethren, when you encounter various trials. So they're the NASB translators. Instead of temptations, they are using the word trials, which in our day-to-day English, that is what we consider, I remember the old Southern gospel song, God will make this trial a blessing.

Speaker 1 (04:00)
Blessing. That's how we look at adversity in our modern English language. But why would we rejoice when we are going through a trial? James, this doesn't make any sense here. I know he was the half brother of the Messiah, but he was known as James the Wise, James the Just. But why would we rejoice when we are going through a trial. It doesn't make sense to us. Many things don't make sense to us. Well, he says, Knowing this, this is verses three and four, Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. So this gives us an idea that maybe through these trials that we are going through, God is using these things to mold us into another thing that we are not currently. He's trying to mold us into what he wants us to be. So Paul, he says something very similar in Romans, the fifth chapter, verses three and four. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also. Knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope. This is the reason why when Paul is laying out the qualifications, I believe it was the qualifications of a bishop and then the qualifications of a deacon, first Timothy, if memory serves correctly, but he says not a novice.

Speaker 1 (05:55)
Well, okay, that seems a bit harsh. Sometimes the more seasoned saints really do not want to take a mantle of leadership upon them, but not a novice. Well, why not, Paul? Well, he's easily trapped. He's easily going to be full of himself, and he's also easily not going to really know how to help people because he's not been through anything walking for God yet. Now, it's unfortunate, but truthfully, there's some people that have been filled with the Holy Ghost and supposedly walking for God for the last 50 years, but they're still a novice. Then there's others that have been in for five years, and they've experienced so many things because of their desire to please God, that They're no longer a novice. They're a seasoned saint. So your time in your predicament, your time in your trials, your time in your life, your time in the church does not necessarily decide what trials you have been through. It's one of those times when I'm speaking, and I hope I'm making sense to those that are listening. You can't have somebody have the Holy Ghost for two or three months, get up behind the pulpit and preach and know what they are talking about.

Speaker 1 (07:26)
That is a novice. But when you've been through things, when you have been through things, when God has allowed you to go through things. Remember Job, when we're reading about Job, Satan couldn't do anything to Job until God gave him permission. Remember that when you're going through your trials, whatever your trials may be. But Peter also says something very similar. Now, this is the NASB. This is 1 Peter 1: 5-7. Who are protected by the power of God through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. In this, you greatly rejoiced, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials so that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold, which is perishable, even though tested by fire, may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Now, there's things that we go through. We're all scratching our heads. We don't understand why God is allowing this, but there are times you are being tested. In the generation that we live in, the video game generation, your children would tell you, you're getting ready to level up.

Speaker 1 (09:12)
You're getting ready to level up in the kingdom. That is what you are being ready to do when you go through a trial. I mean, it might be something terrible, but we have to have, again, the mentality of Job, though he slay me, yet will I trust him. Abraham in the 11th chapter of the Book of Hebrews, it sheds light on what Abraham was thinking when God said, You go take Isaac and you take him up on a mountain where I'm going to tell you and you sacrifice him to me. Well, okay, we can't imagine what poor Abraham is thinking, Lord, you promised me this child, and you promised me through this child that my seed would inherit.