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This passage in James is all about submission and resistance.
When a person receives Jesus and their Lord and savior.
he gets a new savior and a new enemy.
Pride is Satan’s great sin and one of his chief weapons in his warfare against Christians.
Paul warned Timothy of the dangers of pride.
I Timothy
God wants us to be humble, Satan wants us to be proud.
Submit: Is a military term which means to place under orders.
It is a choice that one makes to come under the authority of God.
Means to arrange under; to take position under; to subordinate yourself.
To submit yourself to God, is to humble yourself.
Resit the devil: To many times, people (believers) are resisting God ans submitting to the devil.
a.
To resit the devil means to resit his temptations.
His temptations of pride, envy, etc.......
b.
We have to resist by submitting to God.
“He will flee from you”
a.
This is a promise from God.
But remember he will come back.
Luke 4:
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you:
AMP “Come close to God (With a contrite heart)
If we will come draw close to God, he will draw close to us, to more we will know His comfort, support, and power, and the easier it will be to resist the devil.
2. Submission to God involves purity in life, James issues the command to cleanse your hands.
“Purify your hands, ye sinner and purify your hearts”
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In O.T times the washing of hands wands was a ritual required of the priest as a part of the process by which they were fitted the perform their ceremonial duties.
Ex
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Clean hands; its an outward instrument of action.
None but clean hands can ascend into the hills of the Lord.
(We are made so through Jesus)
Purify hearts: Not just an outward cleansing that James is concerned about, but an inward as well.
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When the heart is cleaned, it will result in obedience to the truth of the gospel.
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The Christian life must be one of constant purification;
a. Keeping ourselves pure is important.
“Ye double minded”
a.Here it is speaking of ones love for God, and pleasure for the world at the same time.
Be afflicted (miserable) and morn and weep;
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To be afflicted James means that sin is to weigh heavily upon the believer.
Romans
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When Paul cried Paul out this, he used an objective to describe himself.
2. The word “Mourn” expresses grief and sorrow.
3. “weep” denotes the outward manifestation of the feeling of sorrow.
Laughter:
“turned into mourning”
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The situation in which James readers found themselves called for sadness and concern, not joy and happiness.
This verse returns to the idea of submission.
a. James closes this section with the assurance that if we humble ourselves before God he shall lift you up.
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This means a moral and spiritual elevation our life.
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