Why has God delated his promise/heavenlyword

Summary

The sermon focuses on James 1:12: the person who endures trials will be approved and receive the crown of life promised to those who love God. The preacher centers the message on the phrase “when he has been approved” and asks how God prepares someone to be approved.

Main Ideas

• Trials can develop spiritual steadiness. Drawing on James 1:2–3, the preacher says that the testing of faith produces patience. He describes patience as firmness, stability, and the ability to remain faithful rather than waver.
• God’s approval is not measured by visible blessings or miracles. In the preacher’s view, trials—not success or spectacular signs—are a means by which God tests and establishes a person.
• God may establish someone before entrusting them with greater responsibility. The sermon argues that spiritual authority, ministry, and leadership require maturity, humility, and self-control. God may delay an assignment until a person is prepared to carry it responsibly.
• Delay does not necessarily mean rejection or punishment. The preacher encourages listeners who feel uncertain or overlooked to consider that a difficult season may be strengthening them rather than indicating that God has abandoned them.

Moses as an Example of Preparation

The preacher uses Moses’ life to illustrate this idea. In his interpretation, Moses spent a long period in the wilderness before God called him at Horeb and later used his staff at the Red Sea.

• The staff was in Moses’ possession before its purpose was fully revealed.
• The preacher treats the gap between receiving the staff and using it as a picture of a calling or gift whose significance may become clear later.
• He imagines that Moses’ earlier impulsiveness and forcefulness made him unready to lead the people. The wilderness period, in this reading, helped prepare him to exercise leadership with greater steadiness and restraint.
• The Red Sea becomes an image of a lonely, pressured moment in which God may reveal what was not yet clear in earlier seasons of spiritual intensity.
• The preacher urges listeners to remain firm through periods of isolation, criticism, waiting, and uncertainty.

Guidance and Encouragement

• Seek patience and steadiness during trials rather than reacting impulsively.
• Do not assume that a delay means God has forgotten a promise or calling.
• Treat a season of hardship as a possible period of preparation while remaining faithful.
• Recognize that leadership calls for humility, gentleness, and self-control.
• Trust that a purpose or gift may be present before its full use or meaning is revealed.

The preacher says that he has identified three hurdles involved in being approved, but the subtitles develop only the first: spiritual patience and stability. The other two are not specified in the supplied excerpt.

Speakers and Sources

• Speaker: One preacher or pastor delivers the sermon. The subtitles do not identify the speaker by name.
• Congregation: Members are heard responding with expressions such as “amen” and praise; individual members are not identified.
• Biblical sources cited or discussed: James 1:12 and James 1:2–3, along with the account of Moses—including Horeb, the staff, and the Red Sea—from the Exodus narrative.