SUNDAY TEACHING NOTES
JANUARY 11, 2026 (Sunday Worship @ 9:00am and 11:15am)
JAMES | PART 1: TEMPTED AND TRIED
(JAMES 1:1-16)
MAIN POINT: TRIALS AND TEMPTATION ARE A PART OF LIFE
TRIALS:
- Trials happen to us
- We want to get out of trials
- Can mature us
TEMPTATIONS
- Come from within us
- We want to give in to temptation
- Can destroy us
FIVE WAYS TO FIGHT TEMPTATION
1. Take __________________________________________
2. Take __________________________________________
3. Take __________________________________________
4. Take a __________________________________________
5. Take __________________________________________
1. Take __________________________________________
- ...each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desires and enticed. (v.14)
- It is more often a decision not the devil.
- You can't be free from what you won't own.
- Observations: __________________________________________
2. Take __________________________________________
- Above all else, guard your heart. (Proverbs 4:23)
- Protection = wise boundaries.
- Observations: __________________________________________
- Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed.. (James 5:16)
- You can't fight temptation in isolation.
- Healing happens in community.
- Observations: __________________________________________
4. Take a __________________________________________
- ...the sword of the Spirit. (Ephesians 6:17)
- Jesus answered [Satan], "It is written..." (Matthew 4:4,7,10)
- God's Word is your weapon.
- Observations: __________________________________________
5. Take __________________________________________
- They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles." (Isaiah 40:31)
- The Hebrew word for "Wait" (qava) means to "braid together, to twist, or to bind tightly."
- When you "wait on the Lord," you are intertwining your life with God's strength.
- Wrap your life around something strong enough to pull you out of the temptation and keep you secure in the trial.
- Observations: __________________________________________
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