DISCOURSE: 2352 THE DUTY OF PATIENCE James 1:2. _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_. WE at this time are scarcel... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2353 THE WAY TO OBTAIN TRUE WISDOM James 1:5. _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_. WISDOM is necessary for the due discharge of every office of life: b... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2354 THE DOUBLE-MINDED MAN EXPOSED James 1:8. _A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways_. IT is a generally-acknowledged truth, that the mind constitutes the man. In human friendships, an insincere profession of regard will not stand a severe trial; but will fail us, when we most... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2355 THE EFFECTS OF RELIGION ON THE DIFFERENT ORDERS OF SOCIETY James 1:9. _Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: but the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away_. RELIGION certainly appears in some respects adverse to th... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2356 THE TESTIMONY OF GOD RESPECTING HIS TEMPTED PEOPLE James 1:12. _Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him_. UNDER the afflictions with which we are visited in this vale of... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2357 SIN THE OFFSPRING OF OUR OWN HEARTS James 1:13. _Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2358 GOD THE ONLY SOURCE OF ALL GOOD James 1:16. _Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning_. THERE is much evil in the world. But people are li... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2359 REGENERATION—ITS AUTHOR, MEANS, AND END James 1:18. _Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures_. THERE is an evil in the world so monstrous and so horrible, that one can scarcely conceive how it should ever be commi... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2360 THE REWARD OF OBEYING THE GOSPEL James 1:25. _Whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed_. A PROFESSION of religion without the practice of it will avail us li... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2361 SELF-DECEIT EXPOSED James 1:26. _If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this mans religion is vain_. IF there be persons in the present day who pervert the doctrines of the Gospel, and take occasion from them to depreciat... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2362 PURE AND UNDEFILED RELIGION DESCRIBED James 1:27. _Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world_. ERRORS of the most fatal kind were early found in the Christian Ch... [ Continue Reading ]