Sermon Tone Analysis

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Misdirected desires leads to:
Desire!
Covet!
Ask God Instead
You don’t get what you want because
Your motives are wrong: You don’t really want what you think you want.
You invest in your pleasures
Worldy Friendship
Friends with world=enemy of God.
We are looking to fill, but God JEALOUSLY longs to fill us with his Spirit.
Resist the devil and he will flee
Come near to God and he will come near to you.
Wash your hands
Purify your hearts
Grieve, mourn, wail.
Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom
Humble yourselves and He will lift you up.
Not funny!
War
Peacemakers so in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
Peace begets Righteousness
But the church can be all out warfare!
Misdirected desires leads to:
Misdirected desires leads to:
War with another: 1-3
Kills and Quarrels: “James chooses the vocabulary of war to express controversies and quarrels, animosities and bad feeling among Christians” Motyer
Literal Kills: Spanish Inquisition
Reformed against Mennonites: Dutch
War with another
War with God: 4-7
Prayers aren’t answered: Indulgence of ‘pleasures’
War with God
Adulterous Spirituality (Gomer)
Chaos!
Directed Desire Leads to: 7-10
Surrender to God
Submit is too passive, resist too active: “Manning the defense” Motyer
Submit yourself!
“The verb (hypotassō) speaks of a subordinate’s readiness to await commands and to do the will of the superior.
Francis Schaeffer aptly uses the phrase ‘active passivity’ to cover this important idea.”
the verb (hypotassō) speaks of a subordinate’s readiness to await commands and to do the will of the superior.
Francis Schaeffer aptly uses the phrase ‘active passivity’ to cover this important idea.
Resist the devil and he will flee
Come near to God and he will come near to you.
Wash your hands
Purify your hearts
Be wretched and mourn and weep.
Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom
Humble yourselves and He will lift you up.
Conclusion: God the Hunter
Verse 4-6: “Out of jealousy he longs for the spirit that he made to live in us.”
Conclusion: God the Hunter
“In any case, the point is, plainly, that God desires with all of his heart for us to come home and to live with and in him, for us to ask for his wisdom.
Instead, we follow the wisdom of the world, whether knowingly or unwittingly, and by following that errant path we can never achieve what we truly seek.”
In any case, the point is, plainly, that God desires with all of his heart for us to come home and to live with and in him, for us to ask for his wisdom.
Instead, we follow the wisdom of the world, whether knowingly or unwittingly, and by following that errant path we can never achieve what we truly seek.
“What causes fights and quarrels among you?
Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill.”
“What causes fights and quarrels among you?
Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill.”
All out warfare:
What causes fights and quarrels among you?
Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill.
controversies and quarrels, animosities and bad feeling among Christians
All out warfare: Early church and Sapphira
Not funny!
“The human price is the destruction of relationships; the spiritual price is a breach with God.” Motyer
Not funny!
“The human price is the destruction of relationships; the spiritual price is a breach with God.” Motyer
War.
“The human price is the destruction of relationships; the spiritual price is a breach with God.” Motyer
The human price is the destruction of relationships; the spiritual price is a breach with God.
War with God
You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight.
You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Hedonism vs. hedone
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