BOY,HAVE I GOT PROBLEMS

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BOY,HAVE I GOT PROBLEMS!
New Book

• Inductive Bible Study
• Special assignment for you as a advice columnist
  to help those teenagers who write in to the
  newspaper regarding their problems?

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Review of Memory Verse
James 12-4 NASB 2 Consider it all joy, my
brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3
knowing that the testing of your faith produces
endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect
result, so that you may be perfect and complete,
lacking in nothing.
James 12-4 KJV 2 My brethren, count it all joy
when ye fall into divers temptations 3 Knowing
this, that the trying of your faith worketh
patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect
work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting
nothing.
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Review of Memory Verse
James 12-4 NASB 2 Consider it all ___, my
________, when you encounter various _____, 3
knowing that the _______ of your _____ produces
_________. 4 And let _________ have its _______
result, so that you may be _______ and ________,
lacking in _______.
joy
brethren
trials
testing
faith
endurance
perfect
endurance
perfect
nothing
complete
James 12-4 KJV 2 My brethren, count it all joy
when ye fall into divers temptations 3 Knowing
this, that the trying of your faith worketh
patience. 4 But let patience have her perfect
work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting
nothing.
P
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Review of Lesson 1 James 11-11

• Gods Word holds the answers to lifes problems.
• God loves us and He uses trials in our life to
  see how we are trusting Him and growing in our
  faith.

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Cross Reference to another passage
Rom 53-6 3 And not only so, but we glory in
tribulations also knowing that tribulation
worketh patience 4 And patience, experience
and experience, hope 5 And hope maketh not
ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad
in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given
unto us. 6 For when we were yet without
strength, in due time Christ died for the
ungodly.
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Lesson 2 James 112-27

• Verse 12 is still on same theme how we should
  handle trials in our lives.
• James calls the person who endures trials blessed
  and he will receive the crown of life.

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Greek Word for persevere is hupomeno

• God is using trials to test us and make us
  perfect and complete.
• Meaning of the Greek word is to stay, to remain
  under the load or pressure.

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What are we to do when we are under a trial?

• Stay right where God has us to be and to trust in
  Him.
• James 112 A man who perseveres under trial is
  WHAT?
• Blessed approved/accepted by God.
• What will he receive?
• The ____________which the Lord has promised to
  those who ____ ___.

Crown of Life
love Him
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New Memory Verse
KJV James 122 But be ye doers of the word,
and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
NASB James 122 But prove yourselves doers
of the word, and not merely hearers who delude
themselves.
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Greek Word for tempted is peirazo
meaning to entice, lure or entrap
pictoral eg in the book 1 Pt. 58, Be
self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil
prowls around like a roaring lion looking for
someone to devour. Here are the questions to
ask yourselves When am I most tempted? (Day,
time of day, etc.) Where am I most tempted?
(home, school, work, out of town, where?) How
do I feel just before I am tempted? (tired,
frustrated, bored, etc.)
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Some of the things that I can do to avoid
temptations
WE MUST REQUEST HELPListen to what the Lord
says to us in Psalm 5015, Call upon me in the
day of your trouble I will deliver you and you
will honor me. All the strength, wisdom, power,
and assistance we need for conquering temptation
are just a prayer away! God is waiting to help
you conquer your temptations! WE MUST
REALIZE OUR VULNERABILITY WE MUST RESIST THE
DEVIL Jas 47 Submit yourselves therefore
to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from
you.
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New Memory Verse
KJV James 122 But be ye doers of the word,
and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
NASB James 122 But prove yourselves doers
of the word, and not merely hearers who delude
themselves.
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New Memory Verse
KJV James 122 But be ye ____ of the ____,
and not _______ only, deceiving your own _____.
NASB James 122 But prove yourselves doers
of the word, and not merely hearers who delude
themselves.
doers
word
hearers
self