The Book of James 10: The Causes of Temptation and Wrongdoing
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1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
I. Lust: The passion for pleasure and gratification that rages within the body and its members. v.1
I. Lust: The passion for pleasure and gratification that rages within the body and its members. v.1
II. Distrust: Seeking something and never trusting God or asking God for it. v.2
II. Distrust: Seeking something and never trusting God or asking God for it. v.2
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
26 He that laboureth laboureth for himself; For his mouth craveth it of him.
10 The soul of the wicked desireth evil: His neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
III. Praying amiss: Praying with the wrong motive. v.3
III. Praying amiss: Praying with the wrong motive. v.3
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
6 That ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:
12 That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole.
IV. Worldliness: Friendship with the world. v.4
IV. Worldliness: Friendship with the world. v.4
3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so.
25 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, And their staff declareth unto them: For the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, And they have gone a whoring from under their God.
V. Conclusion: The cure. v.5-6
V. Conclusion: The cure. v.5-6
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
16 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations provoked they him to anger.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
19 Quench not the Spirit.
A. Knowing that the Spirit of God yearns over us with jealousy.
A. Knowing that the Spirit of God yearns over us with jealousy.
B. Knowing that God gives the humble believer grace and more grace, but God resists the proud.
B. Knowing that God gives the humble believer grace and more grace, but God resists the proud.
11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
6 Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: But the proud he knoweth afar off.
