Sunday Notes: James 4:1-12

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Sunday Notes: James 4:1-12

  • (Jas 4:1 ESV) What causes ____________ and what causes ____________ among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
  • (Jas 4:2 ESV) You ____________ and do not have, so you ____________. You covet and cannot ____________, so you fight and ____________. You do not have, because you do not ____________.
    • There are the believers in the ____________
      • Those who are redeemed and seek the heart of Christ
      • And those who are not and seek their own ____________.
      • Galatians 5:14-17
        • The war of the ____________ vs the spirit
          • Is real in each of us
          • It is also real in the body corporately, the ____________
    • This is not asking for ____________ things
      • Rather for spiritual things
        • Galatians 5:22-26
      • As His people we can and we should be seeking things pleasing to ____________
        • If we are reborn into His Spirit we should be ____________ by that Spirit
        • 1 Peter 2:9-11
  • (Jas 4:3 ESV) You ask and do not ____________, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your ____________.
    • If someone gave you a million bucks what would you do with it?

      ______________________________________________

      ______________________________________________
    • What would you do if you had enough money to never work again and you would spend all day every day doing something else?

      ______________________________________________

      ______________________________________________

      • The way we spend what we have now is probably a good indicator of how we would spend more.
  • (Jas 4:4 ESV) You adulterous ____________! Do you not know that friendship with the world is ____________ with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an ____________ of God.
    • Here is one of those hard hitting verses
      • It should be a reset point for us.
      • Look to the story of ____________
        • The people of God called out to Him alone
        • Yet the keep falling in with other religions over and over
      • You think about ____________
        • And in that period it says that everyone was only ____________ all the time
      • 1 John 2:15-17
        • Enmity – ____________. 
        • ____________ – To live, to remain
      • Romans 8:5-9
        • As the people of ____________
          • Called to His name
            • We are a people who ____________.
            • Who seek ____________ in unison with God
          • Not hostility with God
  • (Jas 4:5 ESV) Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the ____________ says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to ____________ in us”?
  • (Jas 4:6 ESV) But he gives more ____________. Therefore it says, “God opposes the ____________ but gives grace to the ____________.”
  • (Jas 4:7 ESV) ____________ yourselves therefore to God. ____________ the devil, and he will flee from you.
    • This grace of God is our only hope
      • He made our souls to be devoted to Him
      • He made this universe to ring out His glory
      • And in this fallen state those things are broken
    • The only hope that lost, fallen humanity has of restoration is this grace of God.
      • Matthew 23:11-12
    • Submit yourselves therefore to God
    • To submit is to put yourself under the authority of someone else.
      • Like a soldier
      • Like a citizen of a government.
    • Resist the devil
      • This is the opposite of submitting.
      • It is to stand up against.
        • 1 Peter 5:8-9
  • (Jas 4:8 ESV) Draw near to ____________, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your ____________, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
    • The idea here is a joining together
      • You draw near to God
      • God draws near to you
    • Two related pieces here
      • The ____________ are external
      • The heart is ____________
  • (Jas 4:9 ESV) Be ____________ and ____________ and ____________. Let your ____________ be turned to mourning and your ____________ to gloom.
    • Wretched – Miserable, ____________
      • This word only appears here in the NT
        • This is how we feel over the ____________ state we are in
        • Whether our own sin
        • Or that of those around us
      • We feel the weight of it
    • ____________ is internal
    • Weeping is ____________
  • (Jas 4:10 ESV) ____________ yourselves before the Lord, and he will ____________ you.
    • Put yourself ____________
    • And God ____________ you up.
      • Luke 14:7-11
  • (Jas 4:11 ESV) Do not speak ____________ against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the ____________ and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a ____________ of the law but a judge.
    • The idea being that you see yourself higher than the law
      • Sitting above the law
    • Luke 6:36-38
  • (Jas 4:12 ESV) There is only one ____________ and judge, he who is able to ____________ and to destroy. But who are you to judge your ____________?
    • ____________ alone is the giver of the law
      • And the judge of the law
      • And the one who can either forgive or ____________.
    • Romans 7:14-25
      • Take that last verse with you this week.
        • Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

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