{"id":6468,"date":"2024-04-29T20:44:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T20:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/joshuajenkins\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2024-04-29T20:44:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T20:44:22","slug":"the-father-of-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themajestysmen.com\/joshuajenkins\/the-father-of-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"The Father of Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sermonaudio.com\/sermoninfo.asp?SID=429242038516816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click HERE for sermon audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span id=\"en-ESV-30263\" class=\"text Jas-1-13\">Let no one say when he is tempted, \u201cI am being tempted by God,\u201d for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-30264\" class=\"text Jas-1-14\"><sup class=\"versenum\">14\u00a0<\/sup>But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-30265\" class=\"text Jas-1-15\"><sup class=\"versenum\">15\u00a0<\/sup>Then desire\u00a0when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and\u00a0sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span id=\"en-ESV-30266\" class=\"text Jas-1-16\"><sup class=\"versenum\">16\u00a0<\/sup>Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers.<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-30267\" class=\"text Jas-1-17\"><sup class=\"versenum\">17\u00a0<\/sup>Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from\u00a0the Father of lights,\u00a0with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.<sup class=\"footnote\" style=\"font-size: 0.625em;line-height: normal;position: relative;vertical-align: text-top;top: auto\" data-fn=\"#fen-ESV-30267a\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-ESV-30267a&quot; title=&quot;See footnote a&quot;&gt;a&lt;\/a&gt;]\">[<a title=\"See footnote a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=James+1%3A13-18&amp;version=ESV#fen-ESV-30267a\">a<\/a>]<\/sup><\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-ESV-30268\" class=\"text Jas-1-18\"><sup class=\"versenum\">18\u00a0<\/sup>Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 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