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and sin, when it is full-grown,\u00a0brings forth death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup><strong>16<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.\u00a0<sup><strong>17<\/strong>\u00a0<\/sup>Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights,\u00a0with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.\u00a0<sup>18\u00a0<\/sup>Of His own will He brought us forth by the\u00a0word of truth,\u00a0that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3438,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"inline_featured_image":false},"class_list":["post-3436","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Perseverance and the Promise of Life - Union Baptist Church<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Perseverance and the Promise of Life - Union Baptist Church\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"James 1:12-18 | NKJV Loving God Under Trials 12\u00a0Blessed\u00a0is\u00a0the man who endures temptation; 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