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Sermon Notes/05-04-21.md

Announcements.md

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+mothers day: lake wheeler park normal time. both groups will be there!
+june 29th, Everatt's moms house, yard work and painting

Bible/James/Jas 3.md

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-The Tongue Is a Fire 
+## The Tongue Is a Fire 
 
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 Do not, many _of you_, become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive a stricter judgment. 

Bible/James/Jas 4.md

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-Draw Near to God 
+## Draw Near to God 
 
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 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? 
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 Do not slander one another, brothers. He who slanders a brother or judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge _of it_. 
 
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-There is _only_ one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you who judge your neighbor?Life Is a Vapor 
+There is _only_ one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you who judge your neighbor?
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+## Life Is a Vapor 
 
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 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit." 

Sermon Notes/04-28-24.md

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+#James 
+#Speaker/Ray 
+
+
+> [!bible]- James 4:1-10
+> ![[Jas 4#1..10]]
+
+
+Fence sitters are on shaky ground that will fall to one side or the other!
+
+Your passions are sin and love with the world.
+
+hating your brother is the same as murder. See sermon on the mount and in 1 john
+
+When we are hostile to others it shows that we are showing hostility to God!
+
+v4: James it making a point about spiritual faithfulness. See also Ephesians.
+
+jerm 3:20
+
+There more we conform to this world the more we are committing adultery to God.
+
+There is a danger when you cheat on God. James is using vivid imagery to show that fence sitting is not actually that. It causes great pain to the Lord. 
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+v5: See exodus, God says he is a jealous for us.
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+God's jealousy is one the is like a husband's longing for his wife's affection.
+
+v8-10 are all here to show us how to draw near to God
+
+- Resist the devil
+	- Stop trusting in worldly wisdom
+	- Resit forceably!
+- Draw near and he will draw near to you
+	- seek God repentantly!
+	- Psalm 51!
+- Pursue purity!
+	- Do the right thing but also with the right heart.
+		- Hands and mind!
+- Mourn
+	- Take your sin ***very*** seriously!
+	- the world does not see sin as a big deal
+	- Our sin should bring us sorrow
+		- when was the last time we grieved over our sin to God?
+- Humble
+	- When you are humble God will lift you up.
+	- We dont have to worry about making ourselves feel better.
+	- We wont see the approval of the world. 
+
+<span style='font-size: 25px'>***What we do in life echos into eternity!***</span>
+
+
+> [!bible]- Psalms 51
+> ![[Ps 51]]
+
+

Sermon Notes/05-04-21.md

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+#James 
+#Speaker/Ray 
+
+
+> [!bible]- James 4:11-13
+> ![[Jas 4#11..13]]
+
+
+One of the most known bible verses is about not judging, this could be its source. 
+
+But there are times and things we should judge.
+
+
+How do we talk about people that we don't like? 
+How do we speak about someone who has hurt us
+
+Luke 6:45? ~13min mark
+
+When we speak negatively about someone it usually stays. How so? No matter what they do they will be tainted by what we say. We call someone a moron once. But when they mess up again in our mind they are just a moron.
+
+We judge others bases on how we feel they are inferior to us!
+
+
+![[Rom 1#29..31]]
+
+Look where gossip and slander fall. Right after murders. This is serious!
+
+James connects slander to judgment. 
+To judge is to condemn!
+
+![[Jas 2#8..8]]
+
+24 min mark quote
+
+There is only One who can judge.
+
+Matt 7:1-6
+![[Matt 7#1..6]]
+
+
+When I am riddled in sin why am I trying to correct someone else sin.
+
+***But God if rich in grace and mercy!***
+
+We should look inward first before we confront someone!
+
+***Things to think about:***
+1. What captures more of our hearts wonder; God's mercy towards us, or other peoples specks of sin?
+2. We will practice repentance more that talking about other peoples sin, when we receive the gospel fully.
+	2. [[1John 1#9| 1 John 1:9]]
+3. No we can gently and lovingly come alone to our brothers and help then deal with their speck.
+
+This is the good way to judge! 
+![[Gal 6#1..2]]
+
+We love God and we love others!