January 30, 2005

I Can't Get No Satisfaction
Xealot Series, Part 5
Speaker: Adam Edgerly

Sins of the Have-Nots:
Symptoms: Murder, Coveting, Fighting
Root cause: Pleasure

Sins of the Haves:
Symptoms: Illusion of Self-Sufficiency, Boasting Oppression
Root cause: Arrogance

The diagnosis: Love of the World, which is Spiritual Adultery & Hatred towards God

Treatment: The Grace of God
Applied through: Humility & Submission to God
Drawing Near to God
Resistance of the Devil

Spiritual Hygiene & Intense Repentance

Results: Sense God's Presence, Devil will flee, & God will lift you up

Treat yourself , not your neighbor

James 4
¹ What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? ²You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. ³When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

    ⁴You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. ⁵Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? ⁶But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

    ⁷Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you doubleminded. ⁹Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

    ¹¹Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. ¹²There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you–who are you to judge your neighbor?

¹³ Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” ¹⁴Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ¹⁵Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

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