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The Big Deal
We have been looking at what I called the do’s and don’t of the fourth chapter of James.
The Apostle begins the chapter with the pressing question to us as believers.
the main point of this question is “What are you doing”?
We are believers who are acting as if we have no part in Christendom.
We are quarrelling.
We are murdering!
You are lusting for what you do not have!
You ask and you don’t have.
You ask with the wrong motives!
And we are doing this in the church.
This is a huge problem.
In order to help us Apostle James tells us what to do.
Submit Yourselves
Resist the Devil
Draw Nigh to God
Cleanse your Hands
Purify Your Hearts
James 4:9
So in developing my hermeneutic here, my question is, why “lift you up in honor”?
Who would want to be lifted?
Someone who realizes, they cannot lift themselves up.
When you come to terms with the weight of your behavior, by ‘letting there be sadness instead of laughter”, it suggest that you realize the wretched sinner that you are.
You realize that you are a hot mess and have nothing to brag about in the sight of God.
This is why, no matter what mess we find ourselves in, or how bad things are, you open your mouth and praise your God.
This is humility.
When you understand that you have made a mess in your life, but the only one who can fix you is the God you have offended.
When you take a proper look at who you are, gloom is the appropriate emotion.
But the Apostle is telling us, if we humble ourselves.
If we bow before our God and acknowledge that we are nothing before him, then he will change us.
He will change our position.
He will lift you up in honor.
So the Apostle instructs us to be humble!
So the purpose of our attention this morning then is to consider the last verse.
He, the Apostle has given us instruction.
And he ends the chapter by saying:
Beloved, we are all now, put on notice.
We are all to be held to account.
None of can say, “we didn’t know what was or is good”.
So we are as the Apostle Paul says, ‘without excuse’.
If we find ourselves in a position where we did not do what we knew is good, to us, it is sin.
What is Sin?
Westminster Shorter Catechism!
Q: What is sin?
A: Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
GK G281 | S G266 ἁμαρτία hamartia 173x
error; offence, sin, ; a principle or cause of sin, ; proneness to sin, sinful propensity, , ; guilt or imputation of sin, ; ; a guilty subject, sin-offering, expiatory victim, → sin.
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