Covenant Baptist Church
Sermon Guide for August 26, 2018
James 3:13-18 NASB
How many of us, if we were asked, would say we feel like we have life figured out?
James 3:13 ESV
True wisdom is more visible than verbal.
James 3:14 NASB
If the real condition of our hearts is full of jealousy and selfishness we couldn’t be further from the true wisdom of God and the life He has for us.
James 3:15 NASB
Living with a driving desire to serve and please yourself may have the appearance of some kind of wisdom but it is not the wisdom of God
James 3:16 NASB
The danger of living life with an ultimate desire to please yourself is that it is the one sure way to never find the satisfaction, contentment, peace and joy you may believe is found by living this way.
James 3:17 NASB
Living life by God’s wisdom leads very different experience of life. Instead of instability and evil it is a life marked by every kind of good
James 3:18 NASB
The ones who live in and promote the kingdom of God sow the seeds of this new life in peace and they will see righteousness advance peacefully and spread far and wide.
Life with God doesn’t avoid hardship and pain. It is, however, a life that allows us to have all the qualities James described even when pain, suffering, sadness or hardship comes our way.
1 Peter 5:8 NASB
Satan most often attacks when we are most vulnerable- when life has gotten hard and we are most prone to believe the lies He tells us.
1 Peter 5:9 NASB
We resist Satan by refusing the temptation to believe His lies.
Matthew 11:28-30 NASB
Matthew 28:20 NASB
Linger longer with Jesus in the Gospels when life leaves you most vulnerable to Satan’s lies
Christianity is not about inviting Jesus into our lives. Christianity is about Jesus inviting us into His. We need truth to stay there.
John 8:32 NASB
