BUILT DIFFERENT – BUILT THROUGH HUMILITY

BUILT DIFFERENT – BUILT THROUGH HUMILITY

What is causing the quarrels and fights among you?

James 4:1

BIG IDEA: God resists because it weakens what He’s trying to .

BUILT DIFFERENT: God resists what’s and rebuilds what’s .

I’ve heard it said distance makes the heart grow , but James tells us distance makes the heart grow .

creates distance in the relationships that

Distance doesn’t just make you , it makes you .

1. your .

What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong you want only what will give you pleasure.

James 4:1-3

Pride says:

• I this
• I this.
• I’ll be okay, once I .

Humility says:

• God, You .
• God, You .
• God, You’re .

Unchecked pride always produces .

Pride doesn’t just make you want , it makes you want the things most.

Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.

I Thessalonians 5:16-18

Focus on what you do have and .

         2.  your .

You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. Do you think the Scriptures have no meaning? They say that God is passionate that the spirit he has placed within us should be faithful to him.

James 4:4-5

The Christian life is never ; you have to sides.

You can’t be loyal to God and with everything that Him.

         3. your .

Don’t speak evil against each other, dear brothers and sisters. If you criticize and judge each other, then you are criticizing and judging God’s law. But your job is to obey the law, not to judge whether it applies to you. God alone, who gave the law, is the Judge. He alone has the power to save or to destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor?

James 4:11-12

Speaking against others = stepping into God’s .

Pride often shows up in how we about other .

         4. God’s .

Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin?

Romans 2:4

Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.

James 4:17

Pride makes God feel like an enemy when He’s actually our .

CLOSING CHALLENGE: Will you commit to ending each day with ?