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\f0\b\fs54 \cf2 \cb3 James - Part 8\
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\f1\i\fs32 \cf2 Reclaiming Unity in a Conflicted World\
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\fs34 \cf2 CONFLICT comes standard in the human CONDITION.\
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\f2\fs28 \cf2 The Cause of Conflict:\
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\f0\i0\fs36 \cf2 1. I CRAVE.\
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\f3\fs28 \cf5 James 4:1 ESV
\f4\b0 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
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\f4\b0 You desire and do not have, so you
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\f4\b0 . You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.\
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\f3\b \cf7 Matthew 5:21\'9622 ESV
\f4\b0 \'93You have heard that it was said to those of old, \'91You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.\'92 22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment\'85\
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\f3\b \cf5 James 4:3 ESV
\f4\b0 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
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\f2\i \cf2 The Cause of Conflict:\
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\f0\i0\fs36 \cf2 2. I COMPROMISE. \
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\f3\fs28 \cf5 James 4:4 ESV
\f4\b0 You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.\
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\fs32 \cf2 1. Continual CONFLICT.
\f1\i\b0 \cf4 \'93you quarrel and fight, you murder\'94\
\f0\i0\b \cf2 2. COVETING what OTHERS have.
\f1\i\b0 \cf4 \'93you covet and do not have\'94
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3. CONSISTENT discontentment.
\f1\i\b0 \cf4 \'93You do not have\'94
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4. CORRUPTED prayers.
\f1\i\b0 \cf4 \'93you ask with wrong motives\'94\
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\f3\i0\b\fs28 \cf5 James 4:4b ESV
\f4\b0 whoever wishes to be a
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\f2\b\fs28 \cf2 The Solution to Conflict:\
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\f0\i0\fs36 \cf2 3. God CALLS me to SURRENDER.\
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\f3\fs28 \cf5 James 4:6 ESV
\f4\b0 But He gives more grace.
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\f3\i0\b\fs28 \cf5 James 4:6b ESV
\f4\b0 Therefore it says, \'93God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.\'94
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\f3\i0\b\fs28 \cf5 James 4:7 ESV
\f4\b0 Submit yourselves therefore to God.
\f3\b Resist the devil
\f4\b0 , and he will flee from you.
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\f0\i0\b\fs34 \cf2 What are we RESISTING when we RESIST the Devil?\
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\f0\i0\b\fs34 \cf2 The Devil aims at SEPARATING you from the FATHER.
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\f0\i0\b\fs34 \cf2 Satan wants you SEPARATED from God.\
The Father wants you CONNECTED to Him.\
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\f3\i0\b\fs28 \cf5 James 4:8a ESV
\f4\b0 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.
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\f0\i0\b\fs34 \cf2 Satan is FULLY resisted when we DRAW CLOSE to the FATHER.\
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\f2\b\fs28 \cf2 The Solution to Conflict:\
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\f0\i0\fs36 \cf2 4. I COOPERATE in spiritual CLEANSING.\
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\f3\fs28 \cf5 James 4:8\'969 ESV
\f4\b0 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.\
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\f3\i0\b\fs28 \cf5 James 4:10 ESV
\f4\b0 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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