What does Submission to God look like James 4:112

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What does Submission to God look like?James
41-12

• Forest Hills Bible Chapel
• 11 June 2006

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James 41-12

• 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you?
  Dont they come from your desires that battle
  within you? 2 You want something but dont get
  it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what
  you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have,
  because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you
  do not receive, because you ask with wrong
  motives, that you may spend what you get on your
  pleasures.

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James 41-12

• 4 You adulterous people, dont you know that
  friendship with the world is hatred toward God?
  Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world
  becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think
  Scripture says without reason that the spirit he
  caused to live in us envies intensely? 6 But he
  gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says
• God opposes the proud
• but gives grace to the humble.

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James 41-12

• 7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the
  devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to
  God and he will come near to you. Wash your
  hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you
  double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change
  your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
  10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will
  lift you up.

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James 41-12

• 11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone
  who speaks against his brother or judges him
  speaks against the law and judges it. When you
  judge the law, you are not keeping it, but
  sitting in judgment on it. 12 There is only one
  Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save
  and destroy. But youwho are you to judge your
  neighbor?

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Lessons from James 4

• Gods people are at war with one another
  41-2a.
• James is concerned with fights, quarrels, killing
  (!), and coveting among the people of God.
• Class wars James 21-9
• Employment wars James 51-6
• Church wars James 119-20 313-18
• Personal wars James 411-12

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Lessons from James 4

• What are some FHBC wars?
• To PB or not to PB? That is the question.
• Generational wars.
• Worship wars.
• Leadership wars.
• Ministry wars.

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Lessons from James 4

• Gods people are at war within themselves
  42b-3.
• Selfishness leads to no prayer, or to the wrong
  kind of prayer .

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Lessons from James 4

• Gods people are at war with God Himself
  44-10.
• Often the Devil is most at work within the
  community of the people of God. We war with
• The world 44
• The flesh 41, 5
• The devil 46-7

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Lessons from James 4

• The Cure 47-10
• Submit yourselves to God
• Resist the devil
• Come near to God
• Wash your hands purify your hearts
• Grieve, mourn, and wail
• Change laughter to mourning, and joy to gloom
• Humble yourselves before the Lord

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Lessons from James 4

• War against a fellow believer Improper Judgment
  411-12.
• To judge your fellow believer is to judge the law
  of God.
• When you judge the law of God, you make yourself
  a judge of the God of the Law.