Introduction
Advice on living.
Questions
1. What are the effects of tests to our faith?
v 3 and 4 ... the testing of your faith produces endurance. Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
2. How are we tempted and what does it lead to?
v 14 and 15 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.
3. How can we avoid deluding ourselves?
v 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.
Summary Points
- v 1 to 8 Problems in life can shape our characters. God will help us to become wise if we ask in faith
- v 9 to 15 We will all fade away like grass, but will receive a crown of life if we are approved. Bad thoughts and actions lead to sin and death. They come from within ourselves and we cannot blame God
- v 16 to 27 The word of God will help us to live good lives. It will save us if we try to do what it says