The War Within and Without was a sermon given on July 24, 2022 at the North Penn Church of Christ. The outline is below the video.
James 4:1-12
The “without” is obvious….
- Consider the spring, the fig, the olive, and the grape – 3:11
- We are constantly looking for motive….
- Is serious….
- War, fighting, envy, murder, lust… Matthew 5:21-22
- Is inside us….
- Consider the tongue in James 3:6
- Romans 7:21-23
- Does not want help…
- Do you pray?
- Marriage language… v. 4.
- Must choose, but choosing God is exclusive….
- Matthew 6:24, John 14:6
- “The Spirit which He made dwell in us yearns for us jealously.”
- Yet we are given the grace to resist in resources if we will take advantage of them – submission and humility are key – v. 7-10
- Returning to the untamable tongue – boasting (3:5) or humility?
- This is not judging sin here… I Corinthians 5:12
- Context here is in setting ourselves up as superior. “Others don’t measure up to me.”
- We are looking at the law to love one another – James 2:8