But God gives more grace (James 4:1-6)
Mark Barnes, January 27, 2008Part of the James series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
| Earlier: | Same day: | Later: |
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| « 1 Samuel | Remembering God's Covenant | Victory through humility » |
James 4:1–6 (Listen)
4:1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? 6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
(ESV)