Quotations from Sermons on James

• "Christianity is more than believing, it is also behaving.  Proper behavior grows out of true faith."
• "Trials, temptation and testing are a part of the Christian's Life, they are unavoidable, universal and inevitable."
• "Trials are sent of God to cause us to stand; temptation to sin is sent of the Devil to cause us to stumble.  The first is meant for our maturity, the other is meant for our misery."
• "The Christian must always be ready at his average moment to meet anything the Devil will throw at us at his selected moment."
• "Jesus in His manhood and humanity faced the temptations that you face.  He is therefore able to sympathize and empathize with you because he knows what you feel."
• "Being tempted to sin is not a sin, and testing and trial are not necessarily because of your sin."
• "The trials and test of life give us endurance and keeps us going, praying, trusting and leaning upon His everlasting arms."
• "In the midst of our trials, we must understand that God has a plan.  He is not working against us, but for us.  He wants to enrich us."

In last Sunday's lesson entitled "The Anatomy of a Sin", we gleaned the following quotations.

• "The Devil has laid plans to sabotage your life if you are a Christian.  He will bombard you with unbelievable temptations.  It is imperative that we know this so we can be aware and alert."
• "Satan aims his biggest guns at the ministers of Christ and he has often been successful."
• "Pride is a prelude to disaster.  When we think we cannot fall we are in for a fall."
• "Man makes excuse for his sin.  Adam said it wasn't his fault, "the woman you gave me," she gave to me and I did eat.  Man is still blaming God, or circumstances or others.  "The parents you gave me", or "the genes in my body", or the place where I grew up.  But, God won't buy our neat alibi's - we are responsible."
• "The Devil tries to hook us by using certain kinds of bait.  Even on Jesus, he used the bait of appetite, the bait of pride and the bait of materialism, but Jesus refused the bait."
• "In the anatomy of a sin, there is first the courtship, when we are drawn away of our own lusts.  Then comes the consent when we say "I will."  From this consent an unholy marriage of lusts and the will brings forth the conception of an unholy child called sin.  But the "sin when it is finished brings forth death."  That is the completion of the process.  The reason many don't fear sin is they don't look far enough ahead."
• "The only answer to the sin problem is our Lord Jesus Christ.  He who knew no sin became sin for us, and through His blood a propitiation (satisfaction) was made for sin."

Clarence DeLoach