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Warning Against Worldliness
*Introduction*:
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What did the first 3 chapters of James deal with?
Let them answer…
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The first 3 chapters of James deals with how a Mature Christian can be recognized.
a. Chap.
1 “*You can recognize them by their attitude toward suffering*.”
i.
*“*Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.*”*
James 1.2-3
b. Chap.
2 “*You can recognize them by their obedience (Works) for God*.”
i.
*“*In the same way, faith by itself, if it is *NOT* accompanied by action, is dead.*”*
James 2.17
1. *“CAN SUCH FAITH SAVE YOU???”*
c. Chap.
3 “*You can recognize them by their Speech*.”
i.
“With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.
Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing.
My brothers, this should not be”James 3.9-10
1. *“CAN GRAPEVINES BEAR FIGS???”*
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Now in the 4th chapter we are going to look at warnings against WORLDLINESS
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Read James 4:1-17
In this passage I see three “D’s”: We have…
Deadly enemies, Desire to usurp God, Distortion of reality.
*Outline*:
I Our */Deadly/* Enemies (Vs.
1-10) There are three Deadly Enemies!!!
· (The Flesh, The World, And The Devil)
A The /Flesh/ (Vs.
1-3)
1 Lets turn to *Romans 7:21-25*
a In these verses Paul is telling us about a battle that he faces with his own flesh and how it makes him feel inferior.
b But this battle is very real and prevalent in our daily lives.
c Our old man (sin nature) is still there and pops it head out now and again.
d Paul is a slave to God in his mind but…
i In his sinful nature he is a slave to sin.
2 Some of your translation may say lusts.
(Vs. 1)
a This does not mean Sensual Passion it simply means “/desires/.”
3 The Greek word used here for Desires is (/Hedonon/), which means (/Pleasures/)
a This gives us the image of the flesh demanding satisfaction.
4 The flesh will do whatever it can to get that satisfaction (Vs.
2)
a Including waging war.
b This would be the “…fights and quarrels among you…”
i *Galatians 5.14-15* “The entire law is summed up in a single command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
15 If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.”
c Let’s just say that you actually ask God to fulfill your “desires”
i It won’t work because you are asking with the wrong intentions.
a) You are *Not* trying to please God but trying to gain your own desires.
b) What is the chief purpose of Man???
1) To get all you can out of this life, after all we are only here but a short time, so Live it up!!!
2) Of course not.
The Chief purpose of man is to “*Glorify God and enjoy him forever.*”
c) Even the flesh can encourage someone to pray but those prayers are answered with a *strong no* because their intentions are Selfish.
5 That is the flesh (our sinful nature)
B The /World/ (Vs.
4-5)
1 Are you guilty of Spiritual adultery???
a You may ask what does that mean?
b It means being married to CHRIST and Loving The WORLD…
i 1 Corinthians 11:2-3 “I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy.
I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.
But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.”
ii Matthew 6:24 “No one can serve two masters.
Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
You cannot serve both God and Money.”
a) This is talking about God and money but you can make the relation to God and the world.
b) If you love sin you are trying to serve two masters and it says right here that you cannot serve two masters
c /“Simple People’s Idols” Dr. F. B. Meyer tells of going to a meeting of the Salvation Army where it was announced an exhibition of idols was to be displayed.
He said, “I expected to see idols from India, Africa, and the South Seas.
But instead of that eight young men stepped to the rear of the platform and returned, each bearing a large sheet of cardboard.
One card was covered with pipes, cigars, and tobacco; another with sham jewelry, feathers, ribbons and things of that sort.
There were eight cards, each covered with things that had been idols to some.
“A man behind me pointed and said, “That was my pipe.”
A woman said, “See my bow of ribbon?”
These simple people felt that these things had become idols to them and they had given them up.”—Sunday
Companion/
d What has become an idol in your life?
e Is there something that this world offers that you are holding on to that you need to give up?
2 Lot was an example of this worldly thinking…
a He loved the world so that he didn’t want to leave his home.
He was comfortable.
b His wife actually looked back, Longingly, and was turned to a pillar of salt
c We need to be willing to give up the world for Christ and follow him wholeheartedly.
d The world will drag us down but Christ will lift us up.
C The /Devil/ (Vs.
6-10)
1 Christians who live for the flesh and the world become proud, and the devil will take advantage of this situation.
2 Pride is what causes us to hold onto the things of this world.
a We think that they are good and maybe even better than the things of God.
3 We don’t want to give them up…
4 Lets look at verse 6…
a He loves the humble, and hates the proud.
b Which side do you want to be on???
c This verse is a good summary of the whole book of James up to this point.
i LIVING YOUR LIFE HUMBLY BEFORE GOD!!!
5 Verse 7 goes on to say… “Submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you…”
a The Christian must use the Word of God to resist the devil.
i Just take Christ’s example… how did he resist the Devil during his temptation in the wilderness?
a) He quoted Scripture and the devil left him.
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