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Today's talk comes from pastor Ben Stewart.

Well, we've been in the book of James

and James have been talking about trials, difficult circumstances

in life.

And he said it in verse two, when you face trials, not if you face them, but when.

He's saying everybody is going to go through difficult moments in life challenges

even to our very faith and so he said but you can rejoice in the midst of those trials to the

degree that you understand that all of our problems have potential in them to make

us better people, to build into us perseverance and to give us perspective, that God uses trials

to make us better people if you'll allow him.

And so that was last time talking about how trials are used by God,

but they're coming for us.

And now today he's going to warn us about a reality within the trials that we must anticipate and respond to accordingly.

And you saw in verse 13, he says, when you are tempted, that when we face a difficult moment, a trial, thoughts will be solicited to our mind, that

will present to us options, ways of responding, that if we were in neutral territory taking a quiz on morality we

would say that's an inappropriate course of action not best not good and yet in

the midst of that trial we might say you know what that feels

justified that feels appropriate that feels good and so we need to understand that

every trial will bring with it a temptation. So for example let's say you're at the

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