A Confessing Church
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Introduction
Introduction
Another moral failure.
Why isn’t the church more different from the world?
All the same issues.
1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 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. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4 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. 5 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”? 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
The church doesn’t have take sin serious.
James lays out a proper approach to sin for Christians.
Submission
Submission
vv. 7-8a
Submit = “Place or arrange under”
Submit = “Post in the shelter of” or “Post behind”
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Practical tips to invest in relationship with God.
Preparation
Preparation
v. 8b
External & Internal Cleansing.
Band-aid Theology.
Requires admission of sin.
Repentance
Repentance
v. 9
Responses to sin: Oh well, Humor, Downplay. Christ died!
Why nerves are important. Spiritual nerve endings.
Humility
Humility
v. 10
Teaching a child to walk.
Confession is on-going. Still need the Gospel.
A promise of exaltation. Lifted up in grace.
Conclusion
Conclusion
Pictures of foxes
Pictures of foxes
Pictures of foxes
Pictures of foxes
15 Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in blossom.”
Destructive!
Our attitude towards sin.
This is why we spend time in confession.