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 
 
 ###### 1
 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 
 
 ###### 1
 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?
+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 
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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 
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-> [!bible]- James 4:1-10
-> ![[Jas 4#1..10]]
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-Fence sitters are on shaky ground that will fall to one side or the other!
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-Your passions are sin and love with the world.
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-hating your brother is the same as murder. See sermon on the mount and in 1 john
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-When we are hostile to others it shows that we are showing hostility to God!
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-v4: James it making a point about spiritual faithfulness. See also Ephesians.
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-jerm 3:20
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-There more we conform to this world the more we are committing adultery to God.
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-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.
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-v8-10 are all here to show us how to draw near to God
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-- 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. 
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-<span style='font-size: 25px'>***What we do in life echos into eternity!***</span>
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-
-> [!bible]- Psalms 51
-> ![[Ps 51]]
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Sermon Notes/05-04-21.md

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-#James 
-#Speaker/Ray 
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-> [!bible]- James 4:11-13
-> ![[Jas 4#11..13]]
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-One of the most known bible verses is about not judging, this could be its source. 
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-But there are times and things we should judge.
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-How do we talk about people that we don't like? 
-How do we speak about someone who has hurt us
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-Luke 6:45? ~13min mark
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-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.
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-We judge others bases on how we feel they are inferior to us!
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-
-![[Rom 1#29..31]]
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-Look where gossip and slander fall. Right after murders. This is serious!
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-James connects slander to judgment. 
-To judge is to condemn!
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-![[Jas 2#8..8]]
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-24 min mark quote
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-There is only One who can judge.
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-Matt 7:1-6
-![[Matt 7#1..6]]
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-When I am riddled in sin why am I trying to correct someone else sin.
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-***But God if rich in grace and mercy!***
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-We should look inward first before we confront someone!
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-***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.
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-This is the good way to judge! 
-![[Gal 6#1..2]]
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-We love God and we love others!