How We Face the Many Trials of Life! James 1:2-8
James 1:2-8 – We Let Joy Lead Us Expecting Great Outcomes!

We Let Joy Lead Us! –
Expecting Great Outcomes! “Let Endurance have its perfect result so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing”

⎫ Jesus Did this! And Accomplished Salvation, Deliverance, Redemption, Transformation, Freedom! Hebrews 12:1-3

⎫ Paul and Silas Did This – The Church in Philippi Was Birthed! Acts 16:22-34

Job Did This! And Had a Great Outcome! Job 1 and 2

The Testing, The Temptations and Trials of Job!

If you believe that Satan has free reign and rule without the absolute permission of God then you have a high view of Satan and Low view of our Great God! It all goes through His Hands.

1st Job Worshipped Immediately! 20

⎫ He Took His Eyes Off His Incredible Loss of Children, Wealth and Health and He Worshipped His Great God! 21

2nd Job Responded Appropriately!
What Is This?

• An Appropriate, Life Changing Grief! 1 Thessalonians 4:13
• A Giving Oneself Over to the Sovereign Rule and Reign of God!
• Not Sinning or Blaming God! 22
• God being Lord and No One Controls Him!
• God being Right About Job! Verse 1 and 2:

Blameless, Upright, Fearing God and Turning from Evil! Verse 8

No One Like him on the earth, blameless, and uprightly and turning from evil. And He still holds fast his integrity! 2:1-3

And then He Loses His Health!

• He Struggles With His Wife!
• His 3 Friends Come Accusing Him of Great Sin, and Giving Horrible Advice!
• He Does Not Sin With His Mouth!

3rd Job Believed in A Great Outcome!

Job 19:23-27 I Know My Redeemer Lives and at the Last He will take my stand on the earth!
Job 23:10 Even After My Skin is Destroyed yet from m flesh I will see God! But He knows the way I take. When He has tried me, I shall come forth as Gold!

The Eventual Outcome! Great Joy! Job 42:10-17

James 5:11 We count Those blessed who endured. You have heard the endurance of Job and have seen the Lord’s dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.

Always Ask With Faith For Wisdom!

Understand the True Meaning of Wisdom! James 3:13-18

Ephesians 5:15 Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, 16 making the most of your time, because the days are evil. 17 So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Matthew 7:24 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Min and does them, may be compared to a wise man who built his house on the rock…

We Do This and We Receive Endurance That Leads Maturity, Completeness and Lacking Nothing in Christ!

Christ-likeness! Romans 8:28-30

2 Corinthians 4:17 For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal.