1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:05,560 Devices is both are James chapter 4 your team are saying 2 00:00:05,560 --> 00:00:09,120 going to James there's someone maybe wondering isn't it the 3 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:12,840 last Sunday before Christmas? Why are we not going to 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,440 Christmas sermon and I never take the perspective of John 5 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:19,680 Calvin. So which is every Sunday is 6 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:23,640 Christmas and every Sunday is Easter and John Calvin for 7 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:26,200 decades. He just reads through the almost 8 00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:29,200 render he and ever reads the Christmas sermon or Easter 9 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:34,280 sermon and I just think I'd say perspective. 10 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,440 So we're going to continue in our study of the book of James 11 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,560 this morning James chapter 4 verses one to four. 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,320 That's the index Hope is in a word prayer and then we will 13 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:48,920 jump to concern this morning James one meeting in verse one. 14 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,520 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? 15 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:04,800 Is it not this that your passions are war within you? 16 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:09,440 You desire to not have, so you hurt. 17 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:17,680 You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight in war you do not have 18 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:24,840 because you do not. You ask and do not receive 19 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:29,080 because you ask wrongly to spend it on your mouth. 20 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:35,840 You adulterers, do you not know that friendship with the world, 21 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:39,960 his enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be 22 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:43,800 a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 23 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:58,240 On this morning, as we prepare our hearts to celebrate the week 24 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:05,040 to celebrate the Church of Christ plan Salvation, look at 25 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:12,320 this text that deals with our interactions with the church and 26 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:17,000 our interactions with the world. Got it correct that he would 27 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:23,120 help us consider both of these contexts that the relationship 28 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,280 we have with other Christians and church or that we would not 29 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:31,440 be want to go or like that our relationships with the world as 30 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:36,040 we interact probably with friends and family this week 31 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,560 that there would be a decision that we would make spend 32 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:44,320 Christmas with them. We may go to events, parties and 33 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:53,920 so forth that these are our not our friends in the same way, in 34 00:02:55,160 --> 00:03:00,360 the same context that we are currently and their friends. 35 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:18,920 Imagine if there were millions of people swimming in the ocean 36 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,440 and it's just a matter of time before they ground and die. 37 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,360 What should we do in our attempt to save them? 38 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:35,680 Here's what we should do. Get in a boat and try to go pick 39 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:42,600 them up. Here's what we shouldn't do in 40 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:48,400 the water. Our job is to be on the water, 41 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:56,520 but not in the water. I am to spend my time on the 42 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:01,120 water. You are to spend your time on 43 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:04,240 the water. But I shouldn't be invent. 44 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,040 I should look different than those in the water. 45 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:15,680 There should be a clear distinction between those in the 46 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:25,320 water and on the water. Can we be friends with the lost 47 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:30,240 world? Sure, we can certainly be 48 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:38,080 knowledgeable friends. But not swimming, Not swimming 49 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:44,240 water. And in those kids this morning, 50 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,160 as we look at our texts, let's start with expedition. 51 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,840 I'll bring it down section by section and then we'll get into 52 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:52,760 the application. So let's tell them we have a lot 53 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:56,560 to do this morning. Those are in verse 4, chapter 4, 54 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,320 verse one a, where James asks this question, what causes 55 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,520 corals and what causes spikes among you? 56 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:06,840 So they started off our past this morning by asking the 57 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:11,040 churches a question. What causes quarrels and what 58 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:15,000 causes fights among you? Now this question by Gaines 59 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,880 raises itself Greek questions. So on what is the difference 60 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,440 between a quarrel and a fight? Is there a difference? 61 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,160 The Greek word for quarrel is usually translated to me. 62 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:30,000 Well, that is typically used on a military conflict, but it can 63 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,480 also mean a standing of hostility or factorism. 64 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:35,920 Strike for conflict and the Greek word for fights. 65 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:39,280 This means squirrels are strive for their speeds. 66 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:41,840 So I don't think there's much other difference between these 67 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,440 two terms. I don't think it's kind of more 68 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:45,520 is a difference between that. I think it's called the 69 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,720 anxieties. Second question, what were the 70 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:53,200 terms formally dividing about? James says, you know, what 71 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,520 causes the schools divide for what were they formally about? 72 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,960 What were they divided by? You know, James never tells us. 73 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,760 He never gives us any necessarily clues as to what 74 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:05,480 this was that was specific. And then the question of the 75 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,600 reading is that is this real or is this happened? 76 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:13,720 In other words, is James just supposing this is happening or 77 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:15,960 is he anticipating this happening or does he know that 78 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,640 this is happening? From verse 2, it appears that 79 00:06:19,640 --> 00:06:22,080 this is real and this is actually happening in the 80 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:24,160 church. Now, we're not told how James 81 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,760 knows about this, right? Somehow he does. 82 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:28,840 But it appears that these churches that he's writing to, 83 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:32,000 these churches are in the dispersion that they are 84 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,920 fighting. They are quarreling with one 85 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:41,960 another for the one being, is it not this that your passions are 86 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:45,640 at war within you? So James that asked the 87 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:48,800 question, what causes these fights in these worlds? 88 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,280 And James answers his own question. 89 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:58,320 He says, is it not this that your passions are at war within 90 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:00,800 you? In the Greek it's literally your 91 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,600 pleasures are at war within your members. 92 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:08,040 That's our reason 3 The Greek world of passions is to that 93 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:13,240 giggling. For hedonist, it means a state 94 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,920 or condition of experiencing pleasure for any reason, 95 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,520 delights, enjoyment or pleasantness. 96 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:27,120 So what does it mean that their passions, their their pleasures 97 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:30,200 are at war within them? What does that mean? 98 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:34,880 This is very similar to what the apostle Paul wrote in Romans 99 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:41,480 72223 where all says rise of light and the law of God in my 100 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:46,000 inner being. But I see in my fenders, I mean 101 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:52,400 my body, another law waging war against the law of my mind. 102 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:59,000 What Paul is saying there is that there are two delights in 103 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,760 all Christians. There is a delight in God. 104 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:10,920 There's a delight in place. We all have those delights, a 105 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:16,800 delight in God and a delight in sin, said we're not enjoyable, 106 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:21,920 we couldn't do it. And these two delights, these 107 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:30,360 two pleasures, these two passions, they are for the first 108 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:34,440 two days you desire and do not have. 109 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:40,320 So you murder, James says. You desire Freeport and desire. 110 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:44,039 It's not always a bad usage. You can use it in a positive 111 00:08:44,039 --> 00:08:45,600 sense. You just use it in a positive 112 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,560 sense. You said I am purposely desire 113 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:51,520 to just pass up over to you. Now what desire is the same word 114 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:54,880 as desire here, no different. But it can also be used in a 115 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,040 negative sense where Paul uses it and take commandments. 116 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:00,720 When Paul quotes to take commandments in his letters, the 117 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:02,840 word for covet, he says you shall not covet. 118 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:05,560 It's the same word as desire here. 119 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:12,040 So be positive or negative. But notice James says you desire 120 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:16,480 and you do not have which should be taken to me. 121 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:23,680 You desire what you do. You desire something that you 122 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:26,880 don't have, and then as a result, what are they doing? 123 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:31,160 He says. So you hurt me. 124 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,840 Now we understand this. There are three possibilities. 125 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:38,240 This is either literal, This is either figurative or it's 126 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:43,120 prophetic. If it is literal, double smooth. 127 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,760 Who's going to mark another complicator like this? 128 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:50,120 Some of the believers may well have been former zealots and 129 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,400 granted this that taking it on others. 130 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,840 Life is not out of around the possibility for church members 131 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:00,720 as response to this. In other words, it may very well 132 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,640 be possible that these so-called zealots were so passionate that 133 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,480 when they disagreed with someone in the church they actually took 134 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:10,680 their time. That would be a little Turkish. 135 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:15,200 It could be figurative given the wisdom nature of the letter 136 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,680 James. James is the closest New 137 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:21,400 Testament to the Proverbs. Is there a wisdom nature? 138 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:26,840 Wisdom life in its nature? Murder could have a figured 139 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,840 meaning the same way that murder has a figure meaning from the 140 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,400 Proverbs, right? We say death and life are in the 141 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,600 power of God. That's figured it. 142 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,480 That's not the girl. It could also be prophetic. 143 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:44,680 James could be saying that if you let these desires go 144 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:47,760 unchecked, this is where it's standing. 145 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,360 You let these desires just rub rampant in your soul. 146 00:10:53,640 --> 00:10:58,640 This is the logical. Now what do these things should 147 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:00,560 we say? Need that change? 148 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:04,760 Just moves on without talking about this anymore, I think. 149 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:08,720 Is that a figurative or perfect? In other words, if there was 150 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:12,720 literal murder called Doctor, I think James might want more 151 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:14,920 about that. But the fact that he just moves 152 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,680 on I think perhaps is to figure it in more. 153 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:28,200 What did you mean? You covet and cannot obtain? 154 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:34,320 So you fight in war. So notice you desire and 155 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:39,000 therefore murder you. Covet without word covered means 156 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,200 to be positively and intensely interested in something. 157 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:47,360 Describe or desire something. Again there's 3 words used for 158 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:52,200 covet used in a popular context. All says but earnestly desire 159 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:55,360 the higher gifts that would desire there same word for 160 00:11:55,480 --> 00:12:00,000 coming here we can also use in a negative sense and the 161 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:05,360 patriarchs jealous of Joseph sold in Egypt Act 7 on that work 162 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,360 with jealousy and act 7 on same word as other here. 163 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:13,640 So it depends on the context. The nuance here though, is that 164 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:18,400 a person is jealous or envious of something or someone. 165 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,240 When he says you covet, this person is jealous or they're 166 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:28,480 envious of something or someone but they can't obtain. 167 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:32,600 They won it so badly. But no matter what, they can't 168 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:37,800 get what they desire. So instead of being content when 169 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:41,520 you desire something and you can't get it, you have one or 170 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:44,520 two options. You can either be content when 171 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:53,880 you fight before the words for fighting the world. 172 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:57,440 And this is the third form of the now, and now is the first 173 00:12:57,440 --> 00:13:02,080 one. So notice James has answered his 174 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,800 own questions. He asked them what causes 175 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:11,400 quarrels and fights among you. And he says there's this tigers. 176 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:26,000 And it is you you do not have because you do not have this. 177 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,080 This is such a short and simple and it carries massively. 178 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:36,640 James tells the church that the part of the reason that they do 179 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:50,520 not have what they desire. Now why would they not ask? 180 00:13:52,920 --> 00:14:03,000 Why would they not ask? You ask and do not receive 181 00:14:03,680 --> 00:14:08,400 because you asked wrongly to spend it on your passions. 182 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:11,920 It's almost as if James anticipates their Republic. 183 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,880 It's almost as if James says you do not have it. 184 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:17,680 Yes, you do not ask. I mean, it just makes somebody 185 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:21,480 say, Oh no, no, no, no, no. I have asked, Yes, I have. 186 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:27,360 And I still have not received. I have asked many times and I 187 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,800 have got to see which James responds to the reason he asked 188 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:46,210 and yet still don't see it. Now how are they asking you? 189 00:14:46,210 --> 00:14:48,610 How do you ask God for something wrong? 190 00:14:49,210 --> 00:14:54,050 Then he says this, he writes. You ask to spend it on your 191 00:14:54,250 --> 00:14:57,050 passions. For the passions, they're the 192 00:14:57,050 --> 00:15:03,160 same. In other words, when they ask 193 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,240 God for these things, they're asking God for something. 194 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,080 When they ask God for these things, the purpose of their 195 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:12,760 asking is not glorified. It is not to build a church. 196 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:18,480 It is not to advance the people. It is not to bless others. 197 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:25,960 The purpose of their asking is to spend what they get on their. 198 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:35,160 There is a soft center in the forehead. 199 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:42,280 You adulterous people. Literally you adulterous. 200 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:50,160 That is the feminine form. Now James has called that 201 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:54,840 brother since not this one. Whether he's already called him 202 00:15:54,880 --> 00:16:01,360 brother six sides, he's called him five dear brothers 3 times. 203 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:18,000 He says you all like his covetousness to idolatry. 204 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,040 It says that covetousness is idolatry. 205 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,760 Philosophy revive of death was urinating, sexual immorality and 206 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:31,840 purity, passion and desire and covetousness which is idolatry. 207 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:38,760 Paul tells us that the church is the bride of Christ. 208 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:42,800 Second Eve 11/2. I returned you to one husband to 209 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:46,840 present you as a pure urgent to Christ. 210 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,360 So we put those two things together. 211 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,440 The church is the bride of Christ. 212 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:59,280 Our Community Church is an idolatrous church, and an 213 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,280 idolatrous church is an adult church. 214 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:07,480 That's the first question. 10 questions. 215 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:09,480 Is James be an unnecessary questioner? 216 00:17:12,920 --> 00:17:23,200 Imagine my all you guys, you adulterers, James being 217 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:29,120 unnecessarily large, you must remember that the Old Testament, 218 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:32,880 the prophet referred the people of God's horse or harvest 219 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:38,320 something many times the prophet is called the people of God 220 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:45,920 forms hearts something being Jesus. 221 00:18:01,840 --> 00:18:13,490 You do not know that friendship with the world is enmity with 222 00:18:13,610 --> 00:18:16,570 God. You know, we were talking about 223 00:18:16,570 --> 00:18:18,210 this. I guess I just spoke to you back 224 00:18:19,570 --> 00:18:23,920 about whether we've been friends with the world, and this is one 225 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:27,040 of those verses that needs clarification and needs 226 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:29,600 qualification. It needs clarification and 227 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,440 qualification. Questions that we need to answer 228 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:38,480 with this verse #1 how is change define friendship #2 who is the 229 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:42,120 world #3 What does enmity with God mean? 230 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:48,120 And #4 why is this the case? Listen to one other time #1 how 231 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:52,240 is change define friendship, right? 232 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:56,680 There's one question, right? Because you come to 4th of July, 233 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:00,480 you bring someone to the party, to the barbecue, and you're 234 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:02,880 like, hey, this is my friend Tom. 235 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:07,960 And I'm like, oh, and then after where I'm like, hey, who's Tom? 236 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:23,600 He's not Christian. How is James you're flying 237 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,720 friendship. You must understand that 238 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:31,080 friendship in the ancient theories is not how we very 239 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,920 good. We often use the word friend to 240 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:38,320 refer to acquaintances or work associates or maybe just even 241 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,880 someone we know in certain contexts, right? 242 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:45,520 We need to determine very, very, but the word friend in the New 243 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:50,600 Testament was used of those who shared common interests, common 244 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,600 purposes, common desires. There was an attachment there. 245 00:19:54,800 --> 00:20:00,720 There's a unity there. You said John 1514, you are my 246 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:08,560 friends if you do what I am. So Dave is using the word 247 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,560 friends very difficult. Number one. 248 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,840 Number two, who is the world in the vast majority of the uses of 249 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:17,080 the springs in the New Testament? 250 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,000 The world almost always averse to the law school. 251 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,440 But it also been referred to the philosophies of this world 252 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:27,880 versus the values of this world, the spirit of this age. 253 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:33,440 You've heard that number three, What does enmity with God mean? 254 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,680 Said that if you're a friend of the world, you're an enmity with 255 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:37,520 God. What does that mean? 256 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:39,560 Enmity means hostility or entirely. 257 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:43,240 It needs to be an enemy of them. So in this case, it needs to be 258 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:49,680 an enemy of God. Now #4 why is this the case? 259 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:56,480 Why is it that friendship with the world meets being an enemy 260 00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:58,040 of God? Why is that the case? 261 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:02,720 Jesus said no one can search messages. 262 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:09,080 Either you hate the one and love the other, or even others. 263 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:20,920 The one slides the other. In the same way that I can't be 264 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:27,520 friends with another woman as James is dividing friends. 265 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:31,600 In other words, if you ask that you have any women in your life 266 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:40,680 that are good friends, I would say as James is dividing 267 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:47,440 friends. If I did, if I had a woman in my 268 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:52,200 life I was friends with, as James is inviting friends, you 269 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:53,120 know what? That was great. 270 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:09,120 I'm still in my life. I cannot be friends. 271 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:21,360 Likewise, a Christian cannot attach themselves to the world 272 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:29,960 in the same way that we attach ourselves to God, and cannot 273 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,280 attach ourselves to the world in the same way that we attach 274 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:41,640 ourselves to the God. Therefore, whoever wishes to be 275 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:46,000 a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 276 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:52,280 Now James here is addressing the fact that some of the church may 277 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,720 actually wish to be friends with the world. 278 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:58,920 In other words, James is saying that, you know, some of you may 279 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:02,360 say, look, I enjoy being with the wall more than the church. 280 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:09,040 I have known many Christians who said I enjoy my lost friends 281 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:13,000 more than my Christian friends never understood. 282 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:18,360 Perhaps they have more fun with the world than the church. 283 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,800 Perhaps they find that their their life is more successful 284 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,120 when they are friends with the world. 285 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:28,760 Perhaps they feel more at home with the world. 286 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:32,960 And James says whoever wishes to be a friend of the world, 287 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:38,360 whoever desires to be a friend of the world, the way that James 288 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:42,080 find the word friend. James says you make yourself 289 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:44,760 notice. You make yourself. 290 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,560 This is the name. There is no little grand. 291 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,720 A person is either a friend of God or an epinity. 292 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,960 There is no little grand. You are either a friend of God 293 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:07,240 or not. Case of the tennis. 294 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:15,520 I have 8:00 next auditions #1 One of the devil's primary 295 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,640 strategies in the fight is to give us a fight. 296 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:26,800 One of the devil's primary strategies in the fight is to 297 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:32,160 give us the Christian life is a fight. 298 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,480 Let's say you know what to say about Christian life is a fight. 299 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:42,440 The apostle Paul writes fight the good fight on the page for 300 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:45,160 7612. Later he writes I have thoughts. 301 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:49,280 The good fights. The Christian life is a fight 302 00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:54,640 and one of the devil's primary strategies in this fight is to 303 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:59,560 get us the fight. You see, the devil's mission is 304 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:03,160 eternity to 612 on his head. Devil loves to do this. 305 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:06,760 He takes a verse, he turns it on his head, and he loves to take 306 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,240 Ephesians 612 and turn it on his head. 307 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:13,920 Here's how the devil or righteous do not wrestle against 308 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,240 rulers, against authorities, against positive powers. 309 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,840 Open the stretch of darkness against spiritual forces of evil 310 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:26,040 in the heavenly places, but instead wrestle against flesh. 311 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,960 Seems safe and get us to stop fighting everything outside 312 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,000 these walls. Start fighting everything inside 313 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:45,720 these walls. This is a very effective 314 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,440 strategy. It's very effective. 315 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:52,840 We see that we see fighting in corn people. 316 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:57,040 Your mom lawsuits each other. Also the fact that you should 317 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,040 have lawsuits and love yourself. You've already been defeated. 318 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,040 They feel like Gioia and Syndicate are having some kind 319 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,160 of relational conflict with one of them. 320 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,240 These two women are not in the grievance. 321 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:16,160 Even Paul and Marvelous had a sharp disagreement, so much so 322 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:22,800 that they parted place. Yeah, I've been in another 323 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,160 church most of my life, as long as I've been in my church. 324 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:40,000 The whole life and I've heard quite a few stories of fights. 325 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:46,560 I've heard stories of deacons going out in the parking lot. 326 00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:56,320 This fights over church finances shares the environment of 327 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,840 business meeting over the desire to remove a pastor. 328 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,120 How have you talked to someone the other day about it? 329 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:09,080 You 2 got married that there are many that are made about church 330 00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:15,680 conference in mystery. The 17th century Jewish 331 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,640 philosopher Spinoza wrote this. I have often wondered that 332 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,600 persons who make the most of professing the Christian 333 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:26,680 religion, namely, Bob George Peace and British Cherokee all 334 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:31,160 things, should quarrel with such strength Chris animosity and 335 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:37,000 display dating or one of such bitter hatred that this, rather 336 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:40,040 than the virtue of state profess, is the greatest 337 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:56,280 criterion our positions. We may have, we may have 338 00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:00,000 conflict. We cannot have contention. 339 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:20,150 Our battle is never. Every day that we wake up, the 340 00:28:20,230 --> 00:28:28,670 flesh and spirit are at war, and one of them, all of them. 341 00:28:28,670 --> 00:28:35,110 Every day we wake up, the flesh and the spirit are at war, and 342 00:28:35,110 --> 00:28:36,270 one of them. All of them. 343 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,120 If, if, if the church is made-up of people who are defined by 344 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,280 Lovejoy, peace, patience, time and goodness, neighbleness and 345 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,160 gentleness, self-control. If that's true, then where do 346 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,240 the world advice come from? You heard about that. 347 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,120 Like if what defines us? What identifies us? 348 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:00,720 That we are people who are defined by love and joy and 349 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:05,080 peace and patience and goodness and faithfulness and generous 350 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:07,480 and self-control. Peace define us. 351 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,880 Where do church flights and distributors come from? 352 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:29,740 Why do they exist when we step into a church or 353 00:29:29,740 --> 00:29:42,340 when we step into a marriage? Why? 354 00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,840 You sent the marriage, you sent the church, the house. 355 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:56,720 Housemates, we do not simply have the Spirit living inside of 356 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,040 us. We often have flesh. 357 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:07,480 These two housemates live in this temple and they are always 358 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:14,440 all arts are like this for the desires of the flesh are against 359 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:17,880 the spirit and the desires of the spirit are against the flesh 360 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,080 and these are opposed to each other. 361 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:26,440 James works like this. Your passions are at war within 362 00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:33,280 you and the reality is is that many of us at our church be 363 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,000 pretty laid back. If somebody asked me, you know, 364 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,680 like paint with a very broad struck very wrong right. 365 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,960 Describe the personality of the real church. 366 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:53,250 We're free, hang back, chill, easygoing, agreeable people. 367 00:30:55,930 --> 00:31:00,690 But when we want something, as all of us do, there is a 368 00:31:00,690 --> 00:31:05,570 pleasure that we earnestly desire flesh inside of us and 369 00:31:05,810 --> 00:31:15,640 steer inside of us. And one of them will always, I 370 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:20,760 have heard stories, multiple stories in the church, born in 371 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:25,160 marriages, in the Church of Howard struggles, financial 372 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:29,520 struggles and the serial struggles, vision struggles, 373 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:34,200 marriage struggles. And there is a common theme in 374 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:53,400 all of them. We may not murder to get what we 375 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:58,480 want, but be careful we don't kill ourselves while others. 376 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:06,920 We may not murder to get what we want, but be careful you don't 377 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:13,360 kill yourself or others, James writes. 378 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,680 You desire and do not have, so you murder. 379 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,560 Now, as I mentioned, the activist, this is being taken 380 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,640 literally. Figuratively or prophetically. 381 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,640 I think it should be understood figuratively or prophetically. 382 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,080 I doubt that anybody in this room has ever murdered anybody 383 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:40,480 because they lost. Yeah, burn yourself in, but be 384 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,640 careful that we don't kill ourselves. 385 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:52,160 Be careful that we don't emotionally or racially kill 386 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:58,640 others. Have you ever wanted something 387 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,440 so bad? I mean, you want, have you ever 388 00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:06,880 wanted, just want them so bad that you felt like you would 389 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:13,080 dodge it and you would sacrifice everything to do this? 390 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:34,400 Power control, security thing, health, success, speed, 391 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:40,400 academics, a relationship validation, affirmation, sex 392 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:44,880 approval, your body, manage safety, a better life for your 393 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:49,480 kids, revenge, the avoidance of shame, the avoidance of failure. 394 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:57,480 I have seen many people through the years sacrifice their 395 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:01,920 health, sacrifice their tongue, sacrifice their emotional 396 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,640 well-being, sacrifice their mental well-being, sacrifice 397 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,400 their friendships, sacrifice their love life, sacrifice their 398 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:14,600 family, sacrifice their church involvement, all in. 399 00:34:23,580 --> 00:34:24,620 And you know that the life is just. 400 00:34:24,620 --> 00:34:29,739 Got to get through this for a season. 401 00:34:29,739 --> 00:34:46,600 Once you get it, relax. You desire what you do not have 402 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:57,280 so and often those that you love become. 403 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:34,280 Covetousness, envy, and jealousy will always keep us in the rain. 404 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:42,320 Covetousness, envy, and jealousy will always keep us in the rain, 405 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,720 Tim writes. You covet and cannot obtain, so 406 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:47,960 you fight a war. Now this has been true since the 407 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:51,640 beginning of time. Evident King was jealous of his 408 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,480 brother's approval, So what did he do? 409 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:57,240 He murdered his brother. Joseph's brothers were jealous 410 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,680 of Jacob's love and approval for what they do, sold Joseph and 411 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,560 slavery. Cor was jealous of Moses's 412 00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:07,000 leadership so we better rebellion against Moses. 413 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:12,160 Saul was jealous of David's praises so we tried to kill 414 00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:14,880 David. The Pharisees were jealous of 415 00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:19,360 Jesus so they crucified them. The Corinthians were jealous of 416 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:22,400 power and received in the church, so they created 417 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:29,000 divisions in the church. Covetousness, envy, and jealousy 418 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:35,240 will always keep us in the ring. It's sometimes that ring, it's 419 00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:39,240 simply an eternal right. And there's going to be a ring 420 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,960 where it's it's you against somebody else in the church or 421 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,240 you against somebody else in your family. 422 00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,480 Sometimes it's simply an eternal ring where it's you in the ring 423 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:50,560 against yourself. It's just you against you. 424 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:57,720 It all starts with does it on an individual level. 425 00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:03,280 You compare yourself to someone else, right? 426 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,240 You look, you're like moms. You're right. 427 00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:14,320 You're the same, you're the same, you're the same school and 428 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:27,720 then not one pursuit this job. On a family run, certain parent 429 00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:31,600 families, Why does their family seem happier than ours? 430 00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:36,520 Why do their kids behave better than us? 431 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:46,560 Why do they travel more than us? Or on a church run. 432 00:37:54,880 --> 00:38:01,160 This search has no facilities. This search has more programs 433 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:07,600 for kids than. You know what happens when you 434 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:21,960 go down this, even if it's an eternal 435 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,760 fight, an eternal spell, we fight and we quarrel with 436 00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:31,920 somebody, consciousness and jealousy and all. 437 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:42,120 Could be that the reason I don't have what I want is because I 438 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:46,920 have not asked. Could it be that the reason I 439 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:51,200 don't have what I want is because because I have not asked 440 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,080 for now there's a tension in prayer? 441 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,120 On the one hand, Jesus told us your Father knows what you need 442 00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,920 before you ask him, not you 6 days. 443 00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:05,600 So that's true, right? God knows what we need before we 444 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:06,840 ask him. That's the ones I've been. 445 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:10,360 But then on the other side, on the other hand, how many times 446 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,680 did Jesus command us to ask and ask? 447 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,000 And it will be given to you after 7/7. 448 00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:21,360 How much will your Father who is in heaven get good things of who 449 00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:26,720 ask in 19711 And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive 450 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,800 192122. Whatever you ask in prayer, you 451 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,880 believe that you have received in Art. 1124 whatever you ask in 452 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:39,320 my name, this I will do. John 1430 Ask whatever you wish 453 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:43,640 and it will be done for you. John 15 says ask and you will 454 00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,320 ever see that your joy may be full. 455 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,320 John 1624 And these are not all these terrorists. 456 00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:55,360 So here's the thing. If Jesus commanded us over and 457 00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:59,600 over again to ask him over and over again he says ask, ask, 458 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:03,360 ask, ask. Why don't we ask? 459 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:12,440 We're all filthy of this. James Rice you do not have 460 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:19,800 because you do not ask so why don't we ask about time reasons 461 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,440 a laughing we don't need to ask for how to be different. 462 00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:35,600 All these politics lives 3 self-reliance. 463 00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,920 We have grown so accustomed to being self reliant in other 464 00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:46,520 areas of our life that we have see fear of disappointment. 465 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:51,360 We don't want to hear no, my subject is they won't ask me. 466 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:55,400 This is right. I'd rather not hear no, it's an 467 00:40:55,400 --> 00:41:00,520 emotional defense thing. The overestimation our 468 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,720 companies. Jesus said apart from me you can 469 00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:10,320 do nothing, but we wrongly believe I can do something. 470 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,960 DA wrong view of God's heart. We don't believe God will teach 471 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,280 us. We don't believe that God wants 472 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,280 us. Yeah, false humility. 473 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:27,320 We mistakenly believe that it is actually coupled to not us, 474 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:44,880 wrong to a divine sovereignty. So why page a misunderstanding 475 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:57,840 of contingencies? You should and I a wrong view of 476 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,360 the righteousness of drugs. I'll have to be in a certain 477 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:05,640 conspiracy of the forehouse I sing today in their forecast. 478 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:20,660 There's never been. Could it be that the reason we 479 00:42:21,460 --> 00:42:37,780 don't have what we want, since prayer is not enough, we must 480 00:42:37,780 --> 00:42:43,740 pray with the right motive and the right prayer is not enough. 481 00:42:45,100 --> 00:42:47,700 We must pray with the right motive and right objective. 482 00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:51,080 Now some of you, some of the church here included, it may 483 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,720 give her a bottle of the previous point by saying I don't 484 00:42:53,720 --> 00:42:59,080 have any Paul asking. I ask not every single day to 485 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,960 raise. I have no problem asking God. 486 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:06,040 My problem is not the master, you know, my problem is master. 487 00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:09,960 My problem is that God rarely hits me what I ask. 488 00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:17,880 So what's up with that? It's all time. 489 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:20,600 You don't give it to me. What's up with that? 490 00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:27,320 James says it could be you're the word could it could be asked 491 00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:31,000 and you do not understand because you asked wrong. 492 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:35,920 And what does that mean? Let me give an example. 493 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,080 Earlier, James said that if any of you watch this, what should 494 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:44,400 be doing? That's that's that is generously 495 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:49,400 all about first now that perceived to imply that if we 496 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:53,280 ever needed wisdom, we could just ask God and he'll give us 497 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:54,480 wisdom. He says he'll give him 498 00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:56,040 Jefferson. He'll give him without approach. 499 00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:00,360 It seems as though there's no qualification of that of that 500 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:02,560 promise, but we know that's not to be true. 501 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,280 This is not going to be the whole counsel of God's heart 502 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,840 because James here gives us qualification. 503 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,720 He says we must pass with the right motives and the right 504 00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:17,000 objective. This if someone asked God for 505 00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:19,760 wisdom, let's say I, I asked God for wisdom. 506 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:25,400 But suppose I asked for wisdom because I wanted you to think 507 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:31,680 that I would want this. You know, maybe I'm, I'm single 508 00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:34,480 and I'm like this girl. I know that she likes wise guys 509 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:38,600 that kind of wise guys. I'm like, and I asked for wisdom 510 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:40,440 because I want her to think that I'm wise. 511 00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:44,920 Or perhaps that's the reason to get rich. 512 00:44:44,920 --> 00:45:00,150 That's the money and get rich. Or they used to give listen to 513 00:45:00,150 --> 00:45:04,910 get power. James is suggesting that such a 514 00:45:04,950 --> 00:45:11,710 person should not expect that the motivation for what you're 515 00:45:11,710 --> 00:45:16,080 asking for is to use it for yourself, for your own glory and 516 00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:18,520 your own purposes. You should not accept to God 517 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,440 prayer is not enough. We must ask for the right motive 518 00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:26,400 and right objective, and that motive, that objective, the 519 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:30,040 ultimate level, ultimate level must be this. 520 00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,160 There may be multiple motives and multiple objectives, but at 521 00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:40,560 the alternate level it must be the glory of God. 522 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,600 The Bible actually gives us several qualifications of our 523 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,440 period. You're father and look with hey. 524 00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,920 It must be in Jesus name, which means it must be aligned with 525 00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:52,560 the heart and the teaching of Jesus. 526 00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,680 B It must be asked to pay with conservative name. 527 00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,040 C It must be according to God's will. 528 00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,880 Becoming a multi millionaire is probably not God thrill. 529 00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,040 C It must be with a striving for obedience. 530 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:10,120 We should not accept that God will give us something if we are 531 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:14,920 living in unrepentant sins, and He must be with perseverance. 532 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,920 Sometimes God won't give it to us until we persist in prayer 533 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:24,920 and F we must ask the right voters and the right objectives 534 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:33,560 to warp by God to build. The church said spiritual 535 00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:37,920 adultery doesn't require consummation, but sin. 536 00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:44,920 Spiritual adultery doesn't require consummation but simply 537 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:47,960 change. What's interesting about first 538 00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:53,960 form is that change doesn't say that idolatry of the world is 539 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:55,920 empty. He doesn't. 540 00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,240 He doesn't say idolatry of the world. 541 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:08,320 He says friendship. In other words, for us to be 542 00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:13,880 guilty of spiritual adultery, it doesn't require us to engage in 543 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:18,400 consummation where we become full blown idolaters. 544 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,920 We just need to become full blown friends in the world. 545 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:30,960 Let me give another example. Often you guys know that we go 546 00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:34,120 workout. We go workout in one time. 547 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,960 Often I'll see people again and we're working out and I wonder 548 00:47:37,960 --> 00:47:40,680 what is the nature of the relationship as I'm sitting 549 00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:56,200 there and I wonder what is the nature of the friends, boyfriend 550 00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:01,360 and girlfriend or husband and wife. 551 00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,920 It's all about you. But if you watch them 552 00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,360 consistently over time, it will usually become evidence. 553 00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:13,000 Watch them consists of time and usually as to what the nature is 554 00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:19,040 saying to us. In other words, if people were 555 00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:26,000 to come to our work parties, to our college parties, to our 556 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:33,520 sports games, to our playmates, to our neighborhoods as they 557 00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:39,120 watch us interact with the world, does it look like we are 558 00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:49,960 acquaintances, we are Navy, or we are here? 559 00:48:49,960 --> 00:48:55,560 Is it clear that we may be at the same gym or the same party 560 00:48:55,960 --> 00:49:05,400 or the same playground or we're not on the same We're not We're 561 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,600 together, but we're not together. 562 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:24,880 That should be evident. A Christian's joy will be found 563 00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:30,120 and the type of people who share their A christian's joy will be 564 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:33,840 found in the type of people who share their joy, James says. 565 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,960 Whoever wishes to be a friend of the world, why would anybody 566 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,360 wish to be a friend of the world? 567 00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:46,360 Why would a Christian say, I wish, I want, I desire to be a 568 00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,320 friend of the world here's why. If they find joy. 569 00:49:54,680 --> 00:50:01,040 That Christians joy found the type of people share their joy. 570 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,280 You see, the reason we don't desire to be friends with the 571 00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:06,520 world, the way that changes dividing friends is because the 572 00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,400 world does not share the same kind of joy that we have. 573 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,800 They don't share. Let me give you a very simple 574 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:18,600 example. I really don't like that. 575 00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:26,880 Sorry, I don't think if you do. I'm not a cat person, but 576 00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,960 suppose I had to be friends with someone who loved cats. 577 00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:33,960 I mean loved them. Like every time I asked them to 578 00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:38,840 hang out and wonder if I'm going to a cat cafe, they keep sending 579 00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:44,120 cat videos. I don't want to do that. 580 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:48,320 I don't want to go cat cafe. I don't want to watch a cat 581 00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,560 video. Why? 582 00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:54,960 Because I don't share your joy, I don't share it. 583 00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,000 I don't think this friendship is going to work out. 584 00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:08,510 The only reason that any Christian would become friends 585 00:51:08,510 --> 00:51:13,870 with the lost world again as James is finding friends is if 586 00:51:13,990 --> 00:51:24,390 they have the life and the same things as Christians are. 587 00:51:24,390 --> 00:51:30,230 Greatest joy. Is that not true? 588 00:51:30,230 --> 00:51:31,470 You are a Christian. Greatest joy. 589 00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:36,200 So how can we possibly be friend? 590 00:51:41,780 --> 00:51:55,680 How can that work? Our friendship is beyond the 591 00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:56,000 wall.