James #8: Trouble with People 

James #8: Trouble with People 
Pastor Blake Hanson | James 4:1-12 | 7.28.24

How does my faith work when I have conflict with people? 

The source of my begins within. 

James 4:1–3 (NIV)

1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 

2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 

3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

Galatians 5:17 (NIV)

17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.

Jeremiah 2:13 (NIV) 

13 “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

I’m either a friend of the or a friend of . 

James 4:4–5 (NIV)

4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 

5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?

Whatever friendship you choose, friend of the world or of God, you will model that friendship with each relationship you have. 

More grace is given to the . 

James 4:6–10 (NIV)

6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” 

7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 

8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 

9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 

10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

My words conflict. 

James 4:11–12 (NIV)

11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 

12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?

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