Title: The Way to Overcome Trials and Trials
Contents
Text: James 1:13-18
Title: The Way to Overcome Trials and Tests
Introduction
I wish you a happy new year.
So how can we be blessed?
You must overcome the test to receive blessings.
Example) Job, the righteous man in the East
I lost all my property in one day, lost 10 children,
I was so itchy with sores all over my body, I scratched all night
His wife cursed and left, and four of his friends took turns scolding him.
Explained, questioned, rebuked
I was put to a great test.
Even if I lose one child I love, my heart breaks
In one morning, 10 children died.
I lost my beautiful youngest daughter, 17 years old, in a car accident.
I haven't been able to write for months after I finished my future.
The God I believed in, the Bible I believed in,
Even the heaven I believed in was shaken.
So Job, who lost all his wealth, his ten children, and even his health, and his wife and friends at once due to illness, would have received it.
How much stress do you have?
Nevertheless, Job never once blamed God and prayed.
I prayed for my friends who were making it hard for me.
Job was double blessed by passing the test well.
Therefore, if you pass the test, you will receive double blessings.
### Then who put Job to the test?
The devil.
The devil is giving you a test.
What, then, is the devil's test?
Alcohol, Tobacco, Obscene Books, Immoral Sex, Power, Honor, Wealth
Then why does the devil give this kind of test to the people of the world?
Leading the broad road, the road of destruction
It is a test that leads to hell, where eternity will suffer.
“Yeah, when I die, a beautiful flower stalk comes down.
So I picked it up in the flower pot. As I was picking it in the flower pot, I thought.
Now I'm on my way to paradise
But after walking for a while, I noticed that the flower stalk had changed into a bale.
Then he threw me into this fiery hellfire.”
Preacher Chul Park's mother is Buddhist
He was deceived by the devil and served idols.
If you fall into this temptation given by the devil,
Eventually, the soul will be thrown into Hellfire.
Therefore, we must overcome the temptation the devil gives us.
### So what should I do to win the exam?
1. Avoid
There are tests that come by sight and by touch.
When such a test comes, you must immediately avoid it.
In Genesis 39
Joseph meets Potiphar's wife.
Joseph who met such a test
Avoid that place.
Seeing Joseph fleeing the temptation that came by sight
God said, “It is. With that kind of faith, I can train him.”
Send them to prison schools for more thorough training.
After he had been thoroughly trained, God gave him the time
You attach people to use it.
Those people are the servants of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
In order for God to meet Pharaoh's servants in Egypt,
Send Pharaoh's servants to prison,
By providing for him to meet Joseph in that prison.
Eventually, Joseph left prison school and became prime minister in Egypt.
Save the lives of thousands of people in Egypt
He will save the Hebrews who are the roots of the Israelites.
So Joseph confesses:
It wasn't that my brothers sold me into Egypt as a slave.
God sent me to Egypt
Potiphar's wife didn't send me to prison
God sent me to jail
make Egypt prime minister
Save the lives of thousands of people in Egypt
He saved the Hebrews, who were the roots of the people of Israel.
We came to the mountains not because we wanted to come.
He sent us to save the souls of the mountains, who are more precious than the world
Realizing this amazing fact, he was thoroughly trained and received from God.
We should all be of great use.
In this way, if you successfully pass the test of the devil who gives you with your eyes and your sense of touch,
You will be greatly used before God.
But if you fall into temptation by the devil who gives with your eyes and touch,
You will suffer more than 14 kinds of pain.
Ex) Look at King David
King David succumbed to the temptation of the devil
She committed adultery with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah who was bathing.
It was too short to drive Bathsheba's husband Uriah to death.
His son, who was healed of his relationship with Bathsheba, was slain.
Absalom's son Absalom's concubines were mistreated in broad daylight.
Cast out by his son, lose the throne, weeping and running barefoot in the middle of the night
More than 14 kinds of suffering.
Therefore, deceived by the temptation of the devil, who gives with the eye and the sense of touch
In order not to suffer this kind of pain, you must avoid it.
Ex) The elders of the parent church are corrupting the management of the company
What's going to hurt you when you're old?
Sending all the family who pushed for business immigration to Keneda
health checkup
A test of sight and touch in Hong Kong
“Who sees it in Hong Kong!” Syphilis STD
After 15 years, syphilis was detected in the blood of the health checkup
That's scary.
So, avoid tests that come with your eyes and touch.
2. Fight and win with the Word
If you cannot avoid the temptation that the devil gives you, you just have to fight and overcome it with the Word.
In Matthew 4, Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit to be tempted by the devil.
Who won that test?
Jesus
With what weapon did Jesus fight and win?
We fought with the word and won.
That is why we too must fight and overcome the temptations of the devil.
We must fight and win with the Word.
Then, what must we do to win the fight with the Word?
You have to recite a lot.
By reciting the word of God many times in the heart,
when the devil tempts
Immediately think of the words of the Bible to fight against and overcome the temptation,
For example, if you want to fight and win the test that comes with your eyes and touch,
Proverbs 7 must be memorized.
“Engrave this on the tablet of your heart”
“It is like an ox going to a butcher, as is common with a fool going to chains for punishment.
If you recite the Word in this way, you can respond quickly with the Word in any situation.
For example, on the battlefield, like a soldier disassembling, cleaning, and lubricating a gun so that it fires instantly.
The most powerful personal session in spiritual warfare
The temptation to the devil must be destroyed before the first time.
3. Let go of greed
“Let’s look at verse 14.”
“But each one is tempted, because he is drawn away and deceived by his own lust.”
Greed is sin.
How did sin come in?
I came in because I was drawn and deceived by greed.
The representative figures Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve were deceived by the devil
Unsatisfied with the present life
can't thank you
even compared to God.
Excessive desire leads to sin
The result was death.
So, after Adam, when sin enters into each person,
Let us not be content with the present grace God has given us
don't let me thank you
to compare with others
Slowly causing complaints to arise from within
In the end, too much desire
Ultimately, it leads to destruction and death.
Ex) Look at King Saul
“If you look at 1 Samuel 15:3,
God struck the Amalekites and destroyed all their possessions without leaving any.
Kill men and women, children, suckling children, cattle, camels, and donkeys.”
Why did God say to kill them all?
Unless you kill them all, the descendants of Amalek will rise again.
Finally, the people of Israel
He knew that he would torment the descendants of King Saul.
You said kill them all.
But King Saul does not obey this command.
In verse 15, verse 9
“Saul and the people took the best of Achan and his sheep and oxen.
or leaving the fat and the lamb and all good
Those who do not enjoy the key to annihilation and to destroy things that are worthless and low in value”
Because of his greed, he was eventually killed in battle with the Philistines.
Ex) Look at Joshua
I must obey to the end.
He saved the Gibeonites and saved the Gath and Gazaites in the last remaining land.
Delilah, a family member of the household, who eventually removed the eyes of Samson.
Goliath Gath
What do you say?
Maybe it's this kind of greed
But in the end, it becomes a snare and the descendants suffer greatly.
Even the appearance of sin must be cast away.
4. Desire for something better
Let's look at verse 17.
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and from the Father of lights.”
All kinds of good gifts and perfect gifts come from God the Holy Spirit.
Receiving such a good gift and perfect gift
Temptations from the devil can only seem trivial.
Even small children throw away trivial things if you give them something better.
If you lay your hands on your hands and pray, if you experience sick people giving birth and demons being cast out.
Is there any worldly temptation that can be compared to that joy?
There will be none.
Therefore, long for the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which the world cannot give.
So, by using the gift appropriately,
Experience the joy the world cannot give
Then you will overcome the temptations the devil gives you.
God who gives gifts
father of lights
light that saves all living things
Animals and humans that feed on those creatures
source of life
There is no change
unchanging love
There are no rotating shadows.
always good
conclusion
I will conclude
Dear saints, do you want to receive many blessings this year?
Then conquer sin
win the test
to win the exam
1. Avoid
2. If you can't avoid it, fight with the word and win.
3. Let go of greed
4. Desire for a better gift
“Be careful to hear the word of the LORD your God
If you keep and do all these commands I am giving you today
The LORD your God will set you above all the nations of the world.”