Daily Bread Bible Study
The General Epistle of James
Chapter 4
Resisting the Devil Quest
Submit Yourselves to God
Resist the Devil and He Will Flee From You
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The General Epistle of James
Chapter 4
Resisting the Devil Discussion
Submit Yourselves to God Completely
Resist the Devil and He Will Flee From You Now
It's a delight to have you back again to share more Daily Bread
together. So far in our study of James' letter, he's brought our
attention to several things:
- Trials and temptations will challenge you. Be glad. Persevere.
- Ask God for wisdom.
- Don't doubt.
- Desire/lust/covetousness is sin.
- Good comes from God.
- Act on your faith, and do good works with a meek and humble heart.
- Don't have respect of persons (prejudice).
- Keep the law - Love one another and love your neighbor as yourself.
- The tongue is a fire. Learn to control it.
- Rid yourself of jealousy and bitterness, with peace.
James continues now with more about lust, desire, envy, covetousness
... No matter what you call it, it comes from the world, and the
devil is the prince of this world. Listen to what James writes.
We're supposed to be fighting for the same cause (Jesus), not
fighting with one another, so why are there so many disagreements
among you? It stems from a war inside of your own selves.
You want, but you don't have. You even kill (spiritually ... you
envy), because you want so badly, but you cannot obtain. You fight
and go to war, and still you don't get, because you don't ask. You
ask, and are not given, because your heart is in the wrong place.
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Submit Yourselves to God in Hope
Why Resist the Devil and He Will Flee From You
The things you want are to satisfy your own lusts. By doing this,
you're being unfaithful to God, because the things you seek, are of
the world, fleshly and material. If your happiness comes from worldly
things, you're an enemy of God.
Do you think that the scripture says in vain, The spirit that lives
in us lusts to envy?
What does this mean? It means that there is a spirit in us that
desires to want things. It's a carnal thing ... Human nature, if you
will, to be covetous. Well, you fight, but not with one another. You
fight against that natural desire to want things. When you get rid of
that hunger for "things" you will be more at peace with yourself, and
then you will get along with others easier as well.
But, James continues:
God gives an even higher degree of Grace.
That's why the Proverb (3:34)
says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. You see,
God understands our human behaviors and that's why He brought in the
New Testament with Jesus.
Now here's a very valuable thing to know. James says:
Submit yourself to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from
you.
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Submit Yourselves to God Asap
Resist the Devil and He Will Flee From You Vow
That's right! The devil doesn't want to hang out with ya if he's
gotta deal with God all the time. Don't get this wrong now, as long
as you're wavering, he's gonna mess with ya to see if you'll jump
over to his side of the fence, but try this. Every morning, surrender
your life to the Holy
Spirit and walk in submission to, and dependent on His guidance,
totally and completely. With that kind of submission to God, evil
will keep it's distance from you. Now, back to James.
Get close to God, and He will get close to you. Cleanse your hands,
you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double minded (doubters). Be
concerned, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to
mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves in the sight
of the Lord, and He will lift you up. Don't talk badly of one
another, friends. He who speaks evil of his brother, and judges his
brother, speaks evil of the law, and judges the law: but if you judge
the law, you aren't a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one
lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judges
another?
You'll see in the letters from Peter and John, that they're also very
zealous about what Jesus said is the greatest commandment as well,
Love one another, and love thy neighbor as thy self. Here, James
is pointing out that judging one another is a consequence of the war
we are fighting within ourselves.
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Resist the Devil and He Will Flee From You Tips
More good advice:
Come now, those of you who say: Today or tomorrow we'll go into a
certain city and stay there a year, and buy and sell and make a
profit. But you don't know what will happen tomorrow. What is your
life anyway? It's like a mist that appears for a while, and then
vanishes. Instead you ought to say, If the Lord will, (If it's God's
Will) we shall live, and do this, or that. But now you boast in your
arrogance and all this kind of rejoicing is evil. So, to him that
knows to do good, and does not do it, to him, it is sin.
Have you always wondered that? If you didn't know something was a
sin, and you did it, is it counted as a sin? The answer is no. You
have to know you are sinning, in order for it to be sin. However, be
careful of what you say you know and don't know. If you aren't sure
of something and you do it anyway ... I'd put that in the sin column
and ask forgiveness. If you have a little feeeeeeling that it may be
wrong ... Chances are, you're dabbling in the sin area. Don't take
chances. Ask for forgiveness. And next time, make it your business to
know before you do something. Always remember that your sin
can't outdo God's Grace.
Resisting the Devil Conclusion
Submit Yourselves to God Summary
Resist the Devil and He Will Flee From You!
As you can see, James does write with a different point of view than
Paul. Their experiences were different. And we're all different too.
My advice is to squeeze the grape. Here's a little Daily Bread Crumb
for ya. Squeezing the grape is taking something and extracting all
the greatness that you can get out of it and putting it to good use.
Come and join in again next time and we'll do some more extracting
from the last chapter of James' letter together, right here at Daily
Bread.
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