Peninsula Covenant Church
10/30/22 Message Notes
Message Title: Submit Yourself Date: October 30, 2022
Locations & Times
Peninsula Covenant Church
3560 Farm Hill Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94061, USA
Sunday 10:30 AM
Faith That Works - Submit Yourself
October 30, 2022
October 30, 2022
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Faith That Works
James 4:1-12
This series:
Learning from James how to make our faith work in real life & helping others do the same.
Recap:
Week 1 - Trials
Week 2 - Temptation
Week 3 - Treatment of Others: Attitude & Action
Week 4 - Treatment of Others: Favoritism
Week 5 - Treatment of Others: Faith & Works
Week 6 - Taming the Tongue
Week 7 - Wisdom
Week 8 - Submit Yourself
James 4:1-12
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.
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? 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.
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?
Choose Your Battlelines
--World vs God
--Active vs Passive
--Internal vs External
--Captive vs Freedom
--Flesh vs Spirit
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 4:5 (NLT)
Choose LIGHT (James 4:7-10)
--Resist
--Come Near
--Wash
--Purify
--Grieve
--Change
--Humble Yourself
Choose LIFE
Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birthto sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first-fruits of all he created. James 1:15, 18
Choose LOVE
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? James 4:12
Our LIGHT is
Individual & Communal
James 4:1-12
This series:
Learning from James how to make our faith work in real life & helping others do the same.
Recap:
Week 1 - Trials
Week 2 - Temptation
Week 3 - Treatment of Others: Attitude & Action
Week 4 - Treatment of Others: Favoritism
Week 5 - Treatment of Others: Faith & Works
Week 6 - Taming the Tongue
Week 7 - Wisdom
Week 8 - Submit Yourself
James 4:1-12
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.
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? 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.
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?
Choose Your Battlelines
--World vs God
--Active vs Passive
--Internal vs External
--Captive vs Freedom
--Flesh vs Spirit
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 4:5 (NLT)
Choose LIGHT (James 4:7-10)
--Resist
--Come Near
--Wash
--Purify
--Grieve
--Change
--Humble Yourself
Choose LIFE
Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birthto sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first-fruits of all he created. James 1:15, 18
Choose LOVE
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? James 4:12
Our LIGHT is
Individual & Communal
PCC Benediction
May you jump into the arms of Jesus.
And may He push you out into the world.
May you be healed as you participate in the healing of others.
Not because you must, but because you may.
This is why we were born!
May you jump into the arms of Jesus.
And may He push you out into the world.
May you be healed as you participate in the healing of others.
Not because you must, but because you may.
This is why we were born!
Beyond Sunday
Our Beyond Sunday for the James series, Faith That Works, will use the resource of videos on RightNow Media. See the link below to use the videos and handouts.
Resources (see links below)
--RightNow Media series on James by Francis Chan
--Sign up to RightNow Media if you need a free account
Our Beyond Sunday for the James series, Faith That Works, will use the resource of videos on RightNow Media. See the link below to use the videos and handouts.
Resources (see links below)
--RightNow Media series on James by Francis Chan
--Sign up to RightNow Media if you need a free account
RightNow Media
Francis Chan takes us on a study of James to go along with our message series on Sundays. The link below has all the videos and handouts. The Handouts are also available in the back of the Worship Center.
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(June 1, 2022 through May 31, 2023)
Annual Budget: $3,000,000
Giving Update (as of 10/25/22)
Needed to Date: $1,250,000
Giving to Date: $ 931,213
Shortfall to Date: $ 318,787
(June 1, 2022 through May 31, 2023)
Annual Budget: $3,000,000
Giving Update (as of 10/25/22)
Needed to Date: $1,250,000
Giving to Date: $ 931,213
Shortfall to Date: $ 318,787