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As to the obligation we are under, and that is threefold. There is yet another sense I would give to this expression: there is a royal will which we would seek to fulfil. (b) Men cannot without sin omit the doing those duties which their places do require from them. A. they looked upon the future as a dead certainty, and upon themselves as people who were sure to win, whatever might become of others. Is it not reason, then, that we should yield ourselves under His will?(R. 2. These great truths, which are spending thousands of pounds to preach among the heathen; we who live in the full sunshine of that light, do we practise them? 2. Roberts. They forget that after death comes the judgment. RELIGION IS TO BE A GOVERNING POWER IN BUSINESS LIFE. Only God knows the future. The children of God use them frequently (1 Corinthians 4:19; 1 Corinthians 16:7; Romans 1:10; Philippians 2:19). They bare never seen our first principle — that life itself is a gift, the outgoing of God's heart of love, and therefore a something to be used in His service and for His glory. It is whilst we regard the eternal meaning of life that all the discipline of this world develops greatness and purity of spirit (2 Corinthians 4:17, 18). Commentary on James 3:13—4:3, 7-8a View Bible Text After several chapters of warnings and vivid illustrations of the consequences of living contrary to the plan of God, James moves in this passage to describe the good life and give some positive guidance for pursuing it. The God of life has a will. The mother does not look upon her fairest children with more pride than the heart of man is prone to feel in looking at the works of its own service and contemplating the fruits of its own goodness. They make no deliberate, serious calculation upon giving up friends, possessions, comforts, occupations, and pleasures. Sermon – James 3:1-12 Tongues of Fire Eagle Rock Presbyterian Church September 13, 2009 Listen to this sermon. James asks: “What causes fights and quarrels among you?” (verse 1). Your favorite Scriptures and sermon ideas, 30 themed church media sets for church services, Confident answers to the toughest questions. "The wicked boasteth of his heart's desire." The confident expectation of worldly success. It teaches us to live in an habitual dependence on God, not only for life, but also for activity and prudence to carry our lawful designs into execution. Since He is with us, we are content to leave the ordering of our lives to His unerring wisdom. As to the nature of our duties. We are called to a kingly mission. Subject Yourselves To God. What treasures these swift ships take! "If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that." Why, then, is it that we are always counting upon what we are going to do? 2. Jas 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss. The highest purpose is to serve God and benefit our fellow-men. He prescribes a wiser way — inculcating a habitual sense of dependence on Divine Providence, and a devout recognition and acknowledgment of that Providence, with respect both to the events, and to the termination, of life. II. What have we received?" Abortion: You Desire and Do Not Have, So You Kill Sanctity of Life Sunday. Love is active, exists, indeed, in virtue of its exercise. "I've lost a day l" said a great sovereign, of whom a poet has written that he "had been a king without his crown." "If the Lord will." But when I saw my sins, and realised the love of God, I could not refrain from weeping like a child." Rains, having fallen, are bound to find their way to the sea; and, whether on this side of the rock or the other, all the same they create the great Father of Waters. All real thought and feeling is action to God. Where is it? But, while the apostle does not exclude from the uncertainty the various engagements of business which the boastfully confident character he here introduces anticipates, he evidently has special reference to life itself — on the continuance of which all else depends. Ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Rather than attempting it alone ask God. Have we ever really considered the power of my personal prayer life? When we look at the scheme of life they draw out, it is all planned and purposed as if they had absolute control over events, over other men, over themselves, almost over God. Further, we are benefited by our ignorance of the future. NO life is well planned which despises small things, or neglects every opportunity to strike. We don’t hear much about that plural noun lately. These are the principles of the gospel. These little arrogant words, "we will," thrust Him out at once and occupy His place. On the geese expressing their willingness to do so if a means of conveyance could be devised, the frog produced a stalk of long grass, got the two geese to take it one by each end, while he clung to it by his mouth in the middle. What you are now you will in all probability be for ever, only on a larger scale. 3. The sinfulness of all such proud confidence as they had been exhibiting — "But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil." This is that which is commonly called the love of God, and is opposed to the love of sin. Bruce Stanley Sermon text and audio available for download at www.waitara.anglican.asn.au Ill – Tongue twisters… (Picture – tongue) The human tongue. 1. the hope for humanity lies here. Take another branch of Christian duty. "To be spiritually minded is life and peace." Discipline is a test of character. What worse boastfulness could there be? THE REMEDY FOR STRIFE. Christian/Church Of Christ. We possess life, but not less certainly are we losing it. RELIGION SHOULD BE A CONSECRATING POWER. Mr. Whitefield said that he would not go to bed unless he had put even his gloves in their right place. They have some part they must give, as they fancy, to their own aggrandisement. I ought to visit among the poor, and the sick, and the afflicted; I ought to try and comfort them more than I have been doing. There they not only "war against' the regenerated nature (1 Peter 2:11), and against one another, but against one's neighbor, - clamouring for gratification at the expense of his rights and his welfare. We should become entirely reconciled to it. The case in hand fell under this principle: it was one of the exemplifications of the maxim. No harm can come to you if you bow to God's sovereign sway. And how all-happy is that soul that finds the true source of strength, and passes through all the wilderness of this world, and comes up out of it at last "leaning upon her beloved.". In the first place, it is sinful to defer obedience to the gospel. It is good to accustom the tongue to holy forms of speech; it is a great help; the heart is best where there are such explicit and express exceptions of Providence — "If the Lord please," "If the Lord will," "If it please the Lord that I live." I read where a loving mother purchased a prayer book for her son. We know it is: no one attempts to deny it. John Piper Jan 25, 1998 22 Shares Sermon. As to its reason. He proceeds to explain his own symbol in a sentence which is full of meaning. Some are ready to say, "I have been leading a very selfish life. Yet even when you do pray, your prayers are not answered, because you pray just for selfish reasons. The confident expectation of prolonged existence. Christian nations go to war with one another. Hence they expressed themselves in language of the kind which James is here condemning. It is protracted by the compassion of God for this very purpose. It is the wild and selfish passions of the natural heart that stir up the animosities and conflicts of private life. "Born to trouble" is the world's cradle inscription. III. )Boastful gloryingC. I would not here set forth doing, in the narrow mechanical sense, as opposed to speaking, or thinking, or feeling. IT IS A CONFLICT. Or you have marked a cloud in the western sky, illuminated with those marvellous lights which glowed during those extraordinary sunsets, the like of which none of our fathers had seen. I ought to visit among the poor, and the sick, and the afflicted; I ought to try and comfort them more than I have been doing. 1. WHAT IS MY PRAYER PHILOSOPHY? A vapour may also be a cloud — dense, dark, and forbidding. 2. You hear of some one who has been an invalid for twenty-five years, and he always departs suddenly. "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof." Is time so short? It announced to her the great problem of life. The legend of the American Indians declares that as the flowers fade in forest and prairie their lost beauty is gathered into the rainbow, and thus they glow again in richer colour than before. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. It is a hollow life; void of all that is exalting and ennobling, and truly unsubstantial as it regards all that is most worthy of the pursuit of an immortal being. It is a shadow without substance; like a statue, which, though it may be a true and correct likeness of a human being, is void of life and energy, and therefore only the representation of the human being. If the uncertainty and shortness of life make those unhappy who are negligent of the will of God, in the same proportion will it give peace and comfort to the minds of those who do set themselves to live according to His holy will: for the troubles of life will appear trifling to him who thinks of himself as a traveller on his road home; a person on a journey will put up with many inconveniences, because he says they cannot last long, and h-me will appear even pleasanter after a rough journey. Would you not be arrayed for that call in bridal garments which shall "smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces"? Our life is struck through with uncertainty. In the next place, it is sinful to neglect the common duties of life, under the idea that we shall do something more by and by. and that as soon as ever a man's spirit has become sufficiently assimilated to its final state — be that state which it may — then the word is spoken — the thread is cut — the ripe saint and the ripe sinner are both cut down! J. Macleane, M. A.It will be profitable for us to consider carefully, and to examine ourselves after reviewing them, some of the principal grounds of boasting prevalent amongst us, the vanity of which God has exposed in His Word and in the daily experience of mankind.I. (a) That the measures of duty in this case are very different, according to the different circumstances and conditions of persons. What we want in life is a supreme purpose worthy of our powers. And well he might, on the ground of the very truths which he here propounds. Plummer, D. D.Rules are given that they may be observed literally. What answer does our daily life afford? We arrange that this is going to be done, and the other thing; but God puts forth His little finger, and removes some friend, or changes some circumstance, and all our propositions fail to the ground.5. H. It is well that he does not know it, for now he can enjoy the present good. When you’re perfect in every way How it opens the heaven of light in the midst of the world's darkness to ejaculate a prayer to God! it is royal pride, or the lust of power, or sometimes the mischievous impatience of an idle army, that "lets slip the dogs of war" between nations. Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God." He has been giving me time, He has been giving me money, or He has been giving me leisure, and I have just been using these things for my own enjoyment and pleasure and profit, forgetting that I must use them as committed to me as a steward who shall have to give account to God. As to the nature of our duties. Sermon Title: Pleasure Mad Living Scripture Reference: James 4:1-3 Media: .  (view less). Nay, more, it surrounds these spirits with every influence that can evoke their love and satisfy their yearnings. The power of flight, or the power of invisibility? Life is AN IMPULSE — ever pushed forward by some dominant motive, as of selfishness, or benevolence, avarice, ambition, pride, vanity, love of pleasure, &c. (2 Corinthians 5:14; Galatians 2:20). Then James tells us that there is one problem with this solution. Yet how small were its beginnings! They have some part they must give, as they fancy, to their own aggrandisement. The fact of frail, feeble man so proudly ordering his own life and forgetting God seems to the Apostle James so preposterous that he scarcely deems it worth while to argue the point; he only says, "Go to now!" That is right. He is not to be consulted. 4. Since life is so uncertain, oh, haste thee, Christian, to serve thy God while the opportunity is given thee: be diligent to-day to do those works which perfect saints above and holy angels cannot do. Can anything be more transitory than that? It is likely that, for many years, we, most of us, carry about with us the seeds of our own dissolution. If life is to be noble and blessed it must not be hurtful, not neutral, but beneficent. THE REASONS FOR THIS FRAME OF MIND.1. It is avarice and envy that foment the social strife between capital and labor. I. So many turns of an, electric cylinder, and the accumulating force, no longer to be pent up, flashes forth in an electric spark. There is no question but when the authority of God and man contradict each other, God is to be obeyed rather than man. This is a poor withering life at the best, for we all do fade as a leaf. If God permit, I will do this; but if the Lord will, I will stop, and do nothing. He then says, "Even so faith, if it has Every Christian man must have a soul above his business. As to its purpose. ...read more, Scripture: THE GOOD WHICH WE ARE OBLIGED TO DO.1. He contrasts it; with the "irony" which deliberately, with good or bad motive, understates its claim. J. All is material, secular, temporal. Thankful for the success of;3. The happiness of self-denial! It creates worlds, and peoples them with happy spirits. Our friends change, our associations change, our circumstances change, our health changes. now I now!" Such heresy ignores the teaching of our text that —. Life is AN ACT, i.e., characterised by things done; either what ought to be done, or what ought not to be done. From childhood to youth, from youth to manhood, from manhood to grey old age we march onward in serried ranks from which no man can retire. ...read more, Scripture: Are your preferences toward the good? Life is even as a vapour. Ignorance does not excuse disobedience, but knowledge greatly aggravates its guilt. That is what we are to say at all times, but with emphasis at the beginning of a year.3. )The responsibility of knowledgeF. If you could reach yon fleecy cloud, you would scarcely know that you had entered it, for it would possibly appear to be the thinnest of mist. Isn't the record a pretty meagre one, after all, even with some of us who have thought that we were living quite rationally and worthily? The life of the formalist is an enchanted life. So unstable is our life that the apostle says, What is it? "Ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we," &c. Whenever men conceive their plans and toils and life too insignificant for the control of the Divine will, they limit the Holy One. That is a question which remains to a large degree unanswered and unanswerable. This is Part 14 in a 14-part series of studies I call “The Christian Character” in the “Sermon on the Mount.” This part deals with Jesus' assurance - Ask, seek, and knock; the narrow gate; false prophets; and building on the rock. The formalist has a standard, and to keep up this standard much carnal and bodily exercise are necessary. There are two great certainties about things that shall come to pass — one is that God knows, and the other is that we do not know. And then comes the dreary season when if grace does not take possession of the soul vexation and sorrow are born, uneasiness begins to disturb the heart's unspiritual peace, the weary life-struggle commences, the struggle for progress without hope, for work without strength, for comfort without faith, for the refreshment of love without the power to give it, for the rewards of the world when the soul has acknowledged its vanity and respect for the world has departed.V. 2. She sought a fitting answer to it, and not many weeks later she could say, "I am living for Christ and for heaven." Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. The Bible makes it clear that there are hinderances to our prayers – things that will cripple our prayers. It is nothing. (2) Of Christianity, which supposes and enforces that of nature, and superadds many other duties which we are bound to perform as Christians. What do we now possess? Enjoy them as you do a beautiful sunset. Be ready for your removal hence. It is no arbitrary visitation or sudden accident. By their "boastings" we are to understand the manifold workings of that self-sufficient and vainglorious spirit by which they were animated. Think of its security "hid with Christ in God" — hid with Christ's life; just as secure as Christ's life is; the perfections of Jehovah encircling it, and that continually. To have a well-disciplined soul is a good thing. All such rejoicings are evil. Men should accustom themselves to feel God with and within them at all times and places. I am afraid that there is a kind of mortgage on some Christians. It is well that he does not know it, for now he can enjoy the present good. The world in different senses and under different characters is the idol of the worldly-minded man; and to this idol he offers body and soul, devotes time and talents, and sacrifices earthly ease and heavenly happiness. Is it an oyster or a man? "Whence" comes it? They converse. For what is your life? The main duty of this kind which I shall insist upon is the laying aside all animosities and distinctions of parties, and carrying on that which is the undoubted common interest of us all. First comes a distinct realisation and acknowledgment of God. Yet he rejoices in it; and the Word of God is true of such a one: "All such rejoicing is evil." He is under a rule which he has willingly accepted; not because society approves it, or because it may seem on the whole to be most conducive to his personal interests, but because it is the law of Christ. But how apt we are to rest satisfied with this miserable notional religion — seeing, believing, attending, listening, hearing, and nothing come of it after all. How do we know what will be on the morrow? You cannot say whether the morrow shall be fair or foul, or bring good or ill fortune. What says our text?" 3. III. As to the former, we are under great obligations from God and nature and Christianity to do the duties which belong to us in them. All in fancy stands already accomplished before him. We boast, and we rejoice in our boasting, that we can do this and that and the other thing. What good would it do us? There are two great certainties about things that shall come to pass — one is that God knows, and the other is that we do not know.2. But do you really mean it? They are a sort of moral flotsam and jetsam, at the mercy of every wave or eddy of circumstance, devoid of stability, and, therefore, devoid of all noble effort or attainment. It is well to accumulate what will be for our own or others' comfort. The weakness or strength of character is seen in how it meets the Divine test. It is likewise a fleshly life. At the same time, I always had the most implicit faith in a superior wisdom, and none of my plans ever miscarried without a better result than if they had been fulfilled. A vapour is an exhalation from the earth. The mechanical way. As to the former, we are under great obligations from God and nature and Christianity to do the duties which belong to us in them. Is it an accession to sudden fortune? The things that we ask must be what we need for the Lord's service; and we must honestly purpose so to use them. The answer to our heart's pain is to be found here — God gives us life, therefore He loves us. Every act of charity, every deed of grace, every observance of religious duty, the very emotions of religious faith or sentiment, all are turned into food for pride and the strength of a security most insecure. It is whilst we regard these fleeting days in their relation to the will of God that we penetrate their grandeur and become conscious of exaltation (Deuteronomy 30:20; 1 John 2:16, 17). If our purpose is to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God, our whole nature will be moved to its best exertions, and will produce its best effects. "What is your life?" That is what we are to say at all times, but with emphasis at the beginning of a year.3. Purposes and plans of usefulness for ourselves and for the benefit of others we make most liberally; and how many of them come to anything after all? IX. How can we reckon upon anything in a world like this, where nothing is certain but uncertainty? For the thoughts of God keep up a vigorous sense of religion, inflame our devotion, calm our passions, and are the most powerful check against the force of temptations. The mother does not look upon her fairest children with more pride than the heart of man is prone to feel in looking at the works of its own service and contemplating the fruits of its own goodness. We cannot e.g. He’s II. There are two great certainties about things that shall come to pass — one is that God knows, and the other is that we do not know.2. What is there respecting which we can Say we know what shall be on the morrow? Our life may be wind, yet may it be one with that mighty rushing wind which came down at Pentecost, sweetening the world. 1. Are you really His, or have you kept back a bit of yourself from the surrender? He who despises business despises the Lord and His ordinances. In a little time you look from the same window, and the vapour has all vanished. The heart is proud of its idols and is content to worship them; the happy mother boasts of her children and rejoices without trembling over the frailest gift of God; the fond wife clings to her husband and in the strength of her proud reverence and love rests the confidence of her soul if trouble comes to try it. Is not this an important part of our life work? There is a certain being a day of whose existence may be thus described. 2 Peter 1 John 2 John 3 John Jude Revelation. If you live upon an eminence, from which you can look down upon a stretch of country, you see in the early morning a mist covering all the valleys. Are you really His, or have you kept back a bit of yourself from the surrender? Job has many of these metaphors. 1. Are we armed? A great, wise man, a few years ago, chanced to be present at a winter-evening party where a company of lively young people were enjoying themselves after an innocent fashion. In this manner the three were making their journey successfully when they were noticed from below by some men, who loudly expressed their admiration of the device, and wondered who had been clever enough to discover it. Plummer, D. D.)Ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.BoastingA. A new power and principle of "life" is in him: new affections breathe; new energies spring up; and so there comes a certain secret, hidden "life," which consists in communion with God — is fed by hidden manna — exercising itself in hidden thoughts, in hidden places. Sometimes those vapours, especially at the time of sunset, are exceedingly brilliant. Witness Paul's catalogue (2 Corinthians 6:4, 5; 2 Corinthians 11:23-27). (2) I now proceed to the good which we are to do with respect to others of the same nature and in a worse condition than ourselves, and therefore need our help and assistance. Sermon illustrations by Mary Austin and Tom Willadsen. We have not been buying and selling, or losing, or getting gain only. If we receive Him into our hearts, He will engift us with a kingly power by emancipating us from selfish aims, and degrading fears, and petty motives, that make life such a mean and commonplace thing. This even reason itself, besides the Word of God, teacheth us; for is it not reason that we should say, by His leave we will do this or that, from whom we have our life, our moving, and being? Scripture James 4 Sort Bible Verse. Though we know nothing in an exhaustive and perfect manner, yet we are not shut up to the unhappiness that would result from such a sense of ignorance if unrelieved by other considerations. Not the lightning-bolt, but the forces of his man. Business life has been purposely arranged to be a training-school for this virtue. Life so strangels sad in itself kindles into rapture as it drinks the light of the Throne. There is nothing higher than this; it is the force of all forces. Seeing that these things are so, we should remember the brevity, the frailty, and the end of life. V. "Boast not thyself of to-morrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." The Scriptures have thrown around human life a marvellous imagery to intimate this evanescence. Make nothing that can perish the foundation of your hope. Here is DISSUASION FROM PRESUMPTION — from thoughtless, reckless confidence in the immediate future, in the year that is thought about, and in the self that is to make it so and so. The instant we yield the point, and submit to our Maker, we are at rest. And the third, and perhaps the most important reason why a life wasted in shadowy hopes is a folly, is, that thereby we lose what we might perhaps have had of present happiness. A Methuselah, what is he? As we face the trials and temptations in this life, we are all too often finding ourselves yielding and doing wrong. And those of us for whom the Catholic religion, the word “passion” stirs up thoughts of the torture Jesus had to undergo One thing more we notice as in some sort belonging to this passage — this, namely, that life can be great and good, and according to the will of God, not only, yet best, by things done, by a series of activities. Stillingfleet. Biblical Commentary (Bible Study) James 3:13 - 4:3, 7-8a EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: In 2:14-26, James emphasized works as an essential outgrowth of faith. And we make a calculation that we are sure is correct! We know, I believe, pretty well in this congregation. Dear friends, have some of us begun the New Year with this feeling, that we really ought this year to be far more diligent in the keeping of our hearts. this night shall thy soul be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?"IV. If it be so insecure and evanescent, so much the more reason for making the most of it. Judged from the ordinary standpoint, you may be all that is morally beautiful and amiable; but, if you know you ought to lead this useful life, and if you are leading a useless and indulgent life — "To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin."(F. But how apt we are to rest satisfied with this miserable notional religion — seeing, believing, attending, listening, hearing, and nothing come of it after all. Martin Luther had it in his soul to serve God and truth, or no companion's death could have made him a religious leader. "Be zealous," not so much of good intentions and of good frames, as of "good works.". The man, then, who would show loyalty to Christ must pay great heed to this principle of justice. And this is not only true in walking after the law of God, and directing our lives according to His will, which without His special grace cannot be, but of the whole course of our life, which is altogether directed by His providence, wherefore in all things men ought to prefer the will of God. and the man who was bound no whither would be a prodigy of folly. VI. I would ask him to pause and consider his life in a more serious vein: "All such rejoicing is evil. Plato bringeth in Alcibiades asking Socrates how he should speak; he answereth, "Before every work thou must say, ' If God will.'"4. It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away." Our lives are so brief in the light of eternity. Raleigh, D. D.)Holy forms of speechT. 1. James 4:3, KJV: "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts." We cannot be here long. 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