Overview
Who was the Book of James written to?
First century Jewish Christians
12 Tribes scattered abroad
The Jews
What is the relationship between James and Jesus
brothers
James says that true wisdom comes from where?
and if we lack wisdom we must
Above or God
Ask
What is the best motive for resisting temptation according to James?
Love for God?
We should receive the implanted word with a spirit of?
Meekness
How many verses are there in chapter 1
27
James says God will give us wisdom liberally "What does this mean?"
Should a man say he is tempted by God?
No
James encourages the believers to be ___________ of the Word
doers and not hearers only
How did James describe himself?
bondservant of God
What does trials produce in us?
patience
Who or what is responsible for temptation?
Each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed:
What two things James encourage us to do to stand firm against unrighteous anger?
swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath
What type of writing or book is James?
A Letter,
Epistle
According to James when we let patience have its perfect work in us we will be?
Perfect, complete, lacking nothing
What happens when sin is finished with you?
you die
In order to stand firm against the lusts of the flesh, James encourages us to lay aside these things.
Vs 21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
The Book of James could be a considered a guide to _____________ Christian living?
Practical
Who is another James mentioned in the bible?
James, brother of John and son of Zebedee (Matthew 10:2, Mark 15:40, Acts 12:2).·
James the son of Alphaeus, one of the twelve disciples (Matthew 10:3).
James, the father of the “other” apostle Judas (Luke 6:16).
What did James say about a double-minded man?
He is unstable in all his ways
Finish this verse James 1 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is_____________, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither _____________________.
from above, shadow of turning
What did James say about pure religion?
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.