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Introduction
Hurricane Katrina - Sitting in a restaurant making plans for a new season while people were evacuating for Katrina - Attitude of many “It will blow over.”
It didn’t.
Life can change in a moment - if so, how are you going to live?
How are you going to make the most of life when you don’t know what’s around the corner?
Question most often asked as a pastor: “How do I know God’s will?”
You want to know - Where does God want me to go to college?
Who does He want me to marry?
Does He want me to take that job in another city?
What does God want me to do?
Perhaps the more important question: “How do I live God’s will?” Especially when you know that life can change in a moment?
Significant question, but the more important question: “How do I live God’s will?” Especially when you know that life can change in a moment?
James gives us wisdom for living in God’s will.
When it comes to living in God’s we have 2 options:
Option 1: You can ignore God’s will.
Review:
False wisdom - “I’m the point of life, and I’m going to live for my enjoyment.”
True wisdom - “God is the point of everything, and I’m going to live for His glory and His pleasure.”
Business men - a display of false wisdom.
Not wrong to work hard or make money: “The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.”
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However, it is sinful to work and make money while ignoring the will of God.
God did not create you and save you for you to live out your plans to pursue your dreams!
He created you and saved you for His plans and purposes!
God did not create you and save you for you to live out your plans.
He created you and saved you for His plans and purposes!
But, this was not the attitude of some Christian businessmen.
They wanted to live out the Jewish dream.
(2 BMW chariots in the garage) In the first century, there was money to be made!
Season of economic boom, so their plan was to move to the coastal cities for a year to make a profit.
Not a bad thing to make money - but failed to ask the question, “Is this God’s plan?
How would God have me spend the next year of my life?
Their problem: They chose the time, the place, the duration, the task, but they didn’t choose God.
They chose the time, the place, the duration, the task, but they didn’t choose God.
You have plans - plans for your future, plans for next week, plans for what you are going to do once you leave worship, but how much time have you spent considering God’s plan?
Are you choosing God?
God’s revealed will: He has m
God’s revealed will: God has made it clear what He wants from us.
(Staci: Missionaries helping people find God.
Hudson: It’s not hard to find God, he’s everywhere.)
What is God’s will?
God’s revealed will: God has made it clear what He wants from us.
(Staci: Missionaries helping people find God.
Hudson: It’s not hard to find God, he’s everywhere.)
God’s will not hard to find.
He wants you to spend your days living to know Him and helping others to know Him.
There may be a million ways that He allows you to live out that plan, but that’s the plan!
God has given us all 24 hours a day to live out His will.
Problem: we see time as belong to us to spend for ourselves rather than seeing time as a gift from God to steward for His Kingdom plan.
Problem: we see time as belong to us to spend for ourselves rather than seeing time as a gift from God to steward for His Kingdom plan.
You don’t know what tomorrow will bring.
() You have plans for tomorrow, but you may not even have tomorrow.
You’re so focused on what you don’t even have!
Ignoring God’s will = functional atheism - Claiming Christ but living as if He doesn’t exist.
Your life is a mist.
James sounds like Solomon.
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Every second is precious!
And you’re going to spend your precious time leaving behind your family to go try to get wealthy?
There’s so much more!”
Ignoring God’s will = functional atheism - Claiming Christ but living as if He doesn’t exist.
Not sinful to plan.
It’s sinful to be consumed with your plans rather than God’s plan.
(Parents: pushing plans on our kids.
Get the right grades so you can get into the right school so you can get the right job so you can live comfortably.
What if God doesn’t want your children to live comfortably?
Adoniram Judson letter to future father-in-law.)
What if God has something more for you than a comfortable life?
James isn’t done.
Vs. 16 - “You boast in your arrogance.”
You talk more about what you’re going to accomplish or what you have accomplished than what God has accomplished.
Arrogance = setting yourself up as the ruler of your life instead of God.
When you came to Christ, you proclaimed that He was king, but how many of us are still sitting on the thrones of our lives?
To ignore God’s will is a practice of prideful arrogance that fails to realize:
God is in charge of the duration of my life.
God is in charge of the direction of my life.
Arrogance!
Not to daily admit that every detail of your life is in the hands of a sovereign God who rules and reigns over all of creation!
When you ignore God’s plan, you are rebelling.
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- Headphones - choosing what I want to listen to instead of listening to those I love.
Hudson, “I’m wearing headphones.
I can’t hear you.) vs. 17 - Sin of omission - Not doing what God said to do.
You know what God wants, you’re just choosing to tell Him no.
(Jonah)
You don’t know about tomorrow, but you do know about today.
You have this moment to invest in your relationship with God and in the lives of people.
How do I know if I’m ignoring God’s will?
Look at your calendar.
How much time does God get?
What are you spending your days pursuing?
Look at your financial resources.
How much does God get?
A good indicator of where your heart really lies.
Look at your abilities.
How much does God get? Do you give everything else your best efforts but not God?
Ignoring God’s will = functional atheism - Claiming Christ but living as if He doesn’t exist.
Look at what you talk about.
Do you talk more about your schedule, your plans, and what you have to do than you talk about God and what He desires for you?
You can choose to ignore God’s will.
You can choose to disobey God’s will.
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