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Fight! Fight!
Fight!
War, fights, conflicts are a way of life.
Life under the sun, life in this fallen world.
Fights, wars, conflicts can come from within, even within the pages of the Bible.
From world wars to gas wars, from battles to conflicts James starts to address how to end wars, today we look at the causes of the war within.
We know what scripture says about dwelling in unity (Ps133:1) and peace (Rom12:18) with one another.
and then
But still you can find wars, battles, conflicts within the pages of the Bible:
Lot quarreled with Abraham (Gen13)
quarrel that lead to division
Absolom warred with his father David (2Sam13-18)
War in trying to usurp the throne and kill his father
Disciples even disputed with one another (Lk9:46-48)
disputes over who will be the greatest in the kingdom
Early church conflicts
Corinthian church warring, suing one another (1Cor6:1-8; 14:23-40)
Galatian church devouring one another (Gal5:15)
Ephesian church needed to be reminded of unity (Eph4:1-16)
And the bickering women of church of Philippi (Php4:1-3)
Wars within book of James noted
I know I have mentioned lot’s of scripture thus far and have not given you, read any thus far.
So I will give you some now from James, but I encourage you to read the others.
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Class wars (Jm2:1-9)
Employment wars (Jm5:1-6)
Church fights (Jm1:19-20; 3:13-18)
And finally, personal wars (Jm4:11-12) more on this next week
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Class wars (Jm2:1-9)
I think you can get the jest of the passage here.
a battle, war between the have and the have nots, the rich and the poor.
Class wars (Jm2:1-9)
Employment wars (Jm5:1-6)
Here is a passage where the workers work but the employers hold back the wages for work done.
The ones who need it the most are not provided what was due to them.
Class wars (Jm2:1-9)
Employment wars (Jm5:1-6)
Church fights (Jm1:19-20; 3:13-18)
Seems that the the believers that James is addressing, the disbursed, displaced were at battle with each other for position within the church eve
and then a passage we recently looked at
Class wars (Jm2:1-9)
Employment wars (Jm5:1-6)
Church fights (Jm1:19-20; 3:13-18)
And finally, personal wars (Jm4:11-12) more on this next week
James is admonishing, teaching, correcting, so not to war with one another, or to war within.
Church fights can be bitter, hateful, divisive and oftentimes they come from envy of worldly wisdom that is not from above that is not peaceable and perfect (Jm3:17-18)
Now our passage then will get into the causes of the war within.
War Within
As Christians we are not immune to battles, spiritual battles (Eph6:12); tembtation battles (Jm1:13-15; 1Cor10:13) but there can be battles within the church too.
They can cause dissent, disunity and even dis-fellowship and church splits.
James addresses this issue in our passage and how it impacts our prayer life too.
He does not hold back.
What was the source of the problem?
Source of quarrels - your pleasure (self pleasure) (Jm4:1; 2Cor7:5; Tit3:9)
wages war against your members.
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When we think of ourselves before we think of others.
Quarrels that want to take the wisdom and the peace from us (Jm3:17-18 as read before)
As Christians who live in the flesh that wages war against the spirit (Gal:5:17-21
Look at that list, how much of that list comes from within can wage war within as well as division and dissension and disunity as well as dis-fellowship?
Here is another term used in Greek (Hedonism) (Lk8:14; Rom7:14-25)
Philosophy of self-gratification, (mad dash for immediate pleasure).
Jesus even addressed the issue (Lk8:14); Paul displayed and defined the issue (Rom7:14-25)
choked out by the flesh and the desires, pleasures of the flesh, this like.
You can read more about Paul’s struggles in Rom7, but in spirit of respecting your time, I will press on.
Fleshly desires, evil influences, even when they may be subtle, in the world, we cannot be freed from them while in the flesh, but by God’s grace we can escape their domination of our lives.
What we do, or do not do with the war within impacts our prayer life and the effectiveness of our prayer life.
May we remember that prayer is the biggest way we communicate with God and we don’t want to hinder that.
Results of war
With some very strong words used, James gives a picture of the results of the war within.
let me rephrase it for emphatic purposes
“You want something but do not get it so you kill.
You covet but cannot have what you want so you quarrel and fight.
Can frustrated, envious desire lead to murder (Gen4:2-8; 2Sam11; Mt27:18)?
Envy caused Cain to kill Able (Gen4:2-8)
Envious desire caused Uriah’s death (2Sam11)
Envy, pride is what killed Jesus (Mt27:18)
Can frustrated, envious desire lead to spiritual murder (Mt5:21-22; 1Jn3:12-15)
You do not have because you do not ask, ask the one who wants to give liberally (Jm1:17; Mt7:7-8)
and add to that what Jesus says
We need to ask, seek knock, but there is a condition.
You do not have for you ask with wrong motives, heart (Jm4:3)
Ask with wrong motives, like for self pleasure as noted in (v.1).
How do we ask God?
We ask in prayer.
I once read
“Prayer is not magical or mechanical, it is relational”
Asking is praying and prayers are heard (Ps34:15; 1Jn3:21-22) when asked with the right heart.
Rigtheous, let me go one step further on that
It is knowing, it is asking, it is doing the right thing, things that are pleasing in His sight.
Only way we can do that is relational, we need to know Him and He makes Himself known through His Word.
He gives us the tools needed for handle the war within.
Right tools for battling the war within
Tools, not only does God provide them, He provides instructions to use them.
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Tool of fleeing, pursing (2Tim2:22-23)
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