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As I try and live for Christ…
What will I face?
• Entice: As I try and live for Christ…What will I face?
What choices must I make?
Which loyalties must change?
As I try and live for Christ…What will I face?
What choices must I make?
Which loyalties must change?
What choices must I make?
What must change?
We all have
We all have
• Gifts & Abilities
Gifts & Abilities
• Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths & weaknesses
• Opportunities & threats
Opportunities & threats
The issue…
• The issue…we often can't tell which is which!
What I think is a tremendous opportunity may in fact show itself to be a profound threat.
we often can't tell which is which!
What I think is a tremendous opportunity
may in fact show itself to be a profound threat.
• Engage:
Engage: One of the great internal tensions in the Bible is the gap that often appears between our knowing and understanding and our obediently doing.
• Expand: For an author whose reputation is for down-to-earth practicality James is both biblical and theological.
Like all good pastors his theological and biblical
For an author whose reputation is for down-to-earth practicality James is both biblical and theological.
Like all good pastors his theological and biblical instruction has the virtue of being direct and simple.
instruction has the virtue of being direct, simple and oblique.
• In reality, what makes a train is not the powerful locomotive nor the variety of freight and passenger cars.
It is the connections which make a train a train.
James is a
Think about it like this.
In reality, what makes a train work is not the powerful locomotive nor the variety of freight and passenger cars.
It is the connections which make a train a train.
James is a master of his material because he knows how to connect a few esential concepts in such a way that he constructs a profound yet practical theology.
master of his material because he knows how to connect a few simple concepts in such a way that he constructs a profound yet practical theology.
Change comes about when what we love and who we love motivates us to act.
• Excite:
Explore: Change comes about when what we love and who we love motivates us to act drastically
• Explore: Change comes about when what we love and who we love motivates us to act drastically
Explain: James recognizes that our Christian lives will involve a
• Explain: James recognizes that our Christian lives will involve a
▾ Body of Sermon:
1 Conflict of Passions.
▾ 1 Conflict of Passions.
4.1-3
1.1 Divisive
• 1.1 Divisive
1.2 Destructive
• 1.2 Destructive
1.3 Distracting
• 1.3 Distracting
2 Choice of Relationship.
▾ 2 Choice of Relationship.
4.4-6
2.1 Because there is no neutral ground.
4
• 2.1 Because there is no neutral ground.
4
2.2 Because God's Spirit is zealous, jealous and benevolent.
5-6
• 2.2 Because God's Spirit is zealous, jealous and benevolent.
5-6
3 Challenge of Repentance.
▾ 3 Challenge of Repentance.
4.7-10
James provides not only an message about repentance but a means to facilitate it.
• 3.1 James provides not only an message about repentance but a means to facilitate it.
James gives neither a:
▾ 3.2 James gives neither a:
Definition of Repentance…
• 3.2.1 Definition of Repentance…nor a
nor a
Theology of Repentance
• 3.2.2
Theology of Repentance
he outlines a
• 3.3 He outlines a process for repentance
process of repentance
With
clear & dynamic behaviors
With clear, dynamic behaviors
Submit/Draw near to God
Submit/Draw near to God
Resist the Devil
Purify within & Without
Resist the Devil
Sorrow for Sin
Draw
Purity within & Without
Be Humble
Sorrow for Sin
Humility
That yield predictable results:
That yield predictable results
the Devil Flees...
the Devil will Flee...
Shut Down:
▾ Shut Down:
Shut Down:
God will draw near...
Response
God will draw near...
God will exalt
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