Blessed Is The Man That Endures Temptation For When he Is Tried, he Shall Receive the Crown of Life, Which The Lord Hath Promised To Them That Love Him - Part 1816

"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith works patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all men liberally, and upbraided not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. " (James 1:1-6)

As believers in the Lord Jesus the Christ by faith, having been enlightened by the truth of the gospel and His Word, we should no longer desire the whims of this world, because the Lord Jesus has become in our hearts our all in all. He is the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the ending. the King of kings and Lord of lords. 

Indeed, in this current dispensation of grace (the time in which we live) God has given us His Name -- the Name of JESUS, for He shall save us from our sins. Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited His people. (Luke 1:78) He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own and His own received Him not. (John 1:10-11; I Timothy 3:16; Isaiah 9:6)

Mary, the mother of Jesus, heartily rejoiced in God her Saviour. "And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For He hath regarded the low estate of His handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For He that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is His Name." (Luke 1:47-49)

Indeed, holy is His Name! The precious Name of the Lord Jesus. The ONLY Name whereby we must be saved in this dispensation of grace. (Acts 4:12) The Name which was given to us for this time in which we live -- which is above every other other Name, including those names assigned to and by God Almighty in times past. (Philippians 2:9) 

How do we know? Because the angel of the Lord declared, "and ye shall call His Name JESUS for He shall save His people from their sins ... Emmanuel, which being interpreted, God with us!" (Matthew 1:21-23)

But the world does not like the Name of JESUS, except as a name to curse. And, as Jesus instructed -- we can expect to be separated from those in the world because the world hated Him first. Nevertheless, we know from whence comes our salvation, and in whom we trust. And when we love Him -- our Lord God and Saviour Jesus the Christ with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, He dwells within as the Comforter -- the resurrected Spirit of our Lord Jesus -- the Holy Ghost, leading and guiding us into all truth. (John 14:26; John 15:26; Acts 1:2-3; II John 1:9; I Timothy 3:16; Isaiah 9:6; Titus 2:13; Titus 3:4-7)

He is the King of kings and Lord of lords. (Revelation 1, 8, 11)

However, conversely, as the scriptures also declare, "... he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted: but the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower thereof fall, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways." (James 1:8-11)

But the promise to them that believe -- "Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love Him." (James 1:12)

Therefore, let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts He any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it brings forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, brings forth death. But our hope is in the Lord God who has already paid the price for our sins and transgressions. He paid the ultimate price with His shed blood on a cross, beaten and whipped, and wearing a crown of thorns, so that we might have abundant life in Him.

Thus, "do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of His own will begat He us with the Word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of His creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted Word, which is able to save your souls.

Be ye doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves, for if any be a hearer of the Word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholds himself, and goes his way, and straightway forgets what manner of man he was. But whoso looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

And just in case there are some of you who believe Jesus is akin to organized man-made religion / traditions of men, James writes -- "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain [for] 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." (James 1:13-27)

Stand in the offering plate.