Why You So Judgy? | James: Surviving the Challenges of Life Week 7 | Pastor Chad Fagundes

• Stage 1: The Problem

“What causes fights and quarrels among you?”

James 4:1-4: What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

• Stage 2: The Solution

“Submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil. Come near to God…”

James 4:7-10: Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

• Stage 3: The Result

“But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?”

James 4:11-12: Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

 

 

1. . “Submit yourselves, then, to God.”

Three challenges we face: 

• • • Submission is a in our culture
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• • • Blame-shifting is an out.
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• • • Submission .
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2. . “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

Two main tactics of the Devil: 

• • • He truth by using half-truths (Luke 4)
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• • • • “It is written”

• • • He sin by making it look spiritual and/or logical (2 Cor.10:5)
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• • • • “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

3. . “Come near to God and he will come near to you.”

Three parts to coming near: 

“Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”

• • • — Outer Court
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• • • — The Holy Place
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• • • — The Holy of Holies
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