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Pastor Dan explanation
Bad advice: Dusty going spear fishing
Drawing near to God helps us to resist the devil (4:7)
Understand this
Have you ever been tempted by Satan?
He sure puts it on thick, right?
Fasting - Bernie’s Chili when selling Kookies for Kenya
We’re going into a fight!
We’ve got to be suited up...
I love the way the Bible interacts with itself...
Story in the Bible talks about the devil tempting
He tries to entice the needs of His body
God gives us limits on our body
No sex before marriage, don’t worship money, we are to work hard, even fasting!
BTW, have you ever fasted?
Jesus expects us to do that - and when you fast ()
Satan says, “Nah, just eat, just sleep with that woman, just steal your co workers lunch...”
Doesn’t work, so the devil tries another tactic
He tries to get Him to test God
Satan does that in your weakness: when it gets hard we doubt Him...
We look for the easy way out, and get mad when it doesn’t work!
Doesn’t work, so the devil tries another tactic
Matthew 4:5-
Offers power, wealth and glory
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Matthew 4:1-11
Flat out throws the biggest at the end
Money and power are Satan’s best tools
Those can be used for good, but when they’re bad you get things like the Third Reich
You will either serve God or mammon…
Doesn’t work!
So what happens?
The devil left him!
Key point: Jesus uses Scripture to respond to Satan’s tempting
Likewise, James says, if you resist the devil, he will flee from you!
Martin Luther - Who lives here?!
“Used to be Martin Luther, but he moved out.
It’s Jesus now!
Gotta go…!”
But you’ve got to take a stand
If you don’t know Scripture, you’re like a knight without his sword...
Hermas wrote, “The devil can wrestle against the Christian, but he cannot pin him.”
But James goes further...
MAIN POINT: It is this drawing near to God, that allows for everything else this passage says...
Drawing near to God helps us to become pure (4:8)
God wants your holiness
God wants your holiness
Most of us get that - it’s why we place so much emphasis on behaving...
But God also wants a relationship with you, and some os us have a hard time accepting that
Kevin/Nick with Aaron Barrett
Aaron wants a certain behavior (album, mosh pit, t-shirt, cheering)
But that’s it, no further
God wants us to behave, but He wants to know you too!
After that reminder, James says to cleanse your hands
“You sinners”
Sinners is hamartolos (ham-are-toe-loss) and means “hardened sinner”
Think of the sins your hands have committed...
I think of the pack of baseball cards I swiped from Target at 5
I think of hitting my brother and sister as kids
I think of burning my report cards so my parents wouldn’t see them
I think of burning my report cards so my parents wouldn’t see them
I think of the work I’ve done because I put my job in front of my family
MORE THAN HANDS, HE CARES ABOUT THE HEART
Matthew 5:21-22
Drawing near to God helps us to resist the devil (4:7)
God wants your hands pure, but He cares just as much about your heart
Why?
Because thoughts of the heart usually do translate to the hands...
That’s why we cannot let sinful thoughts into our mind
Drawing near to God helps us to find sorrow for our sin (4:9-10)
Last week Matt read:
To receive grace, we have to be honest about who we are
Isaiah’s instant reaction to the presence of God is a realization that he is terrible!
Isaiah 6
The word “woe” means “judgement”
If you draw near to God and begin to see His holiness, you start to see your horribleness
That’s when His grace is the most clear...
Isiah 6:6
Drawing near to God helps us to speak well of other people (4:11-12)
If you ask any non-Christian the biggest problem with Christians, it’s judgemen
James is again speaking toward humility
When you first heard about hiring me, I wonder what you thought...
When you first heard about hiring me, I wonder what you thought...
What do you think of in a typical Californian?
This guy is awfully pale, fat and poorly dressed to be from California...
Instead you got a pale, overweight slob
The human mind categorizes things
Let me show you what I mean...
VIDEO: Asking for directions with a mirror
Your brain is wired by God to process what it needs, when it needs it
To understand what it means to be a Californian, you categorize what Californian’s are
We do the same with race, gender, age, and so on
Problem is we are so used to making judgments
Every time you go to a store “Take a survey and tell us how we did”
Every you order from Amazon you click “sort by highest rating”
You’re looking at the draft order for your fantasy football team
That’s great for hotels and TV shows but NOT for sin!
This passage tells us that judging other people’s sin isn’t your business!
He asks this question: Who are YOU to judge your neighbor
Illustration: You look like a foreman standing there
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