November 3, 2024 James: Building a Faith that Works

Part 8 | Reclaiming Unity in a Conflicted World

From James 4

comes standard in the human .

I own 50% of the in every .

The Cause of Conflict:

1. I .

📖 James 4:1 ESV What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

📖 James 4:2 ESV You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.

📖 James 4:3 ESV You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

The Cause of Conflict:

2. I .

📖 James 4:4 ESV You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

4 of a Christian:

1. Continual . “you quarrel and fight, you murder”

2. what have. “you covet and do not have”

3. discontentment. “You do not have”

4. prayers. “you ask with wrong motives”

📖 James 4:4b ESV whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

📖 James 4:5 (ESV) Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?

The Solution to Conflict:

3. God me to .

📖 James 4:6 ESV But He gives more grace.

📖 James 4:6b ESV Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

📖 James 4:7 ESV Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

What are we when we the Devil?

The Devil aims at you from the .
Satan wants you from God.
The Father wants you to Him.

📖 James 4:8a ESV Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.

Satan is resisted when we to the .

The Solution to Conflict:

4. I in spiritual .

📖 James 4:8–9 ESV Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

📖 James 4:10 ESV Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.