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A Call To Reflection
A Call To Reflection
Not Your Neighbor, but you!
What Is the Structure of Your life?
Call to account your life!
How do you live?
What are the attitudes of your heart?
We must contemplate ourselves if we are to live rightly.
An Action Condemned
The Prudent Businessman Picture
James was not condemning planning, but presumptuous planning.
He was confident in his own abilities and his own doings.
He had the finances, the resources, the knowledge, the will to get things done, and yet he was foolish.
He was confident in the outcome of his life.
Confident Without God
They were planning, living without any thought for God.
“We will go,” “we will spend,” “we will do business, “we will profit.”
They were living like they were the ones determining the course of their life.
This is the Course of Natural Men
Men naturally proceed down this course.
They live, they act, and they proceed like there is no God.
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They Knew God but did not honor him.
They became “wise” without him and exchanged him for other things.
They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, eventually they didn’t see fit to acknowledge God.
This is a temptation for Christians
Though not the norm, this can be a trap for Christians.
Falling into decision making, living like practical atheists.
Making decisions without praying, only considering the earthly outcome of business decisions.
Living for the moment.
The Problem Accessed
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A Failure To Consider vs. 14
Life is short and unpredictable.
Placing your confidence in the future is like gambling, eventually you will loose it all.
We Cannot Take life for granted!
I don't know about tomorrow
I just live from day to day
I don't borrow from its sunshine
For its skies may turn to gray
I don't worry o'er the future
For I know what Jesus said
And today I'll walk beside Him
For He knows what is ahead
Chorus:
Many things about tomorrow
I don't seem to understand
But I know who holds tomorrow
And I know who holds my hand
I don't know about tomorrow
It may bring me poverty
But the one who feeds the sparrow
Is the one who stands by me
And the path that be my portion
May be through the flame or flood
But His presence goes before me
And I'm covered with His blood
Repeat Chorus
Questions to Diagnose Symptoms
Do you ever think:
I have plenty of time to do what I should.
(Pray, Read the Bible, witness, spend time with family, etc.)
I have plenty of time to do what I could.
(Tomorrow I can get done that project, or learn that skill)
I know what I’m doing is wrong, but I can make up for it later.
My life is mine to live, I can do what I want.
James says, “You don’t know what tomorrow will bring!”
I don't know about tomorrow
I just live from day to day
I don't borrow from its sunshine
For its skies may turn to gray
I don't worry o'er the future
For I know what Jesus said
And today I'll walk beside Him
For He knows what is ahead
Chorus:
Many things about tomorrow
I don't seem to understand
But I know who holds tomorrow
And I know who holds my hand
I don't know about tomorrow
It may bring me poverty
But the one who feeds the sparrow
Is the one who stands by me
And the path that be my portion
May be through the flame or flood
But His presence goes before me
And I'm covered with His blood
Repeat Chorus
2. A Failure to Act vs. 15
(Disregarding God) Failure to Trust Him, to give our life to him.
Pride and arrogant assumption.
Encouraged By The Dangers of Prosperity
A Merchant= Wealthy Man
It Distracts A Person
It consumes their energies and distracts their attention.
Gives false confidence
“An affluent culture turns our hearts towards fleeting satisfactions and away from God,” while “unprecedented prosperity has left our lives full but not necessarily fulfilled.”
Simon concludes that “the problem is not that we’ve tried faith and found it wanting, but that we’ve tried mammon and found it addictive, and as a result find following Christ inconvenient.”
It’s A Matter of The Heart
Not merely a passing statement
Empty boasting, vain confidence, disregarding God.
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