propresenter-auto-notes/tests/notes/Slides - James - Part 10.rtf

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\f0\b\fs54 \cf2 \cb3 James - Part 10\
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\f1\i\fs32 \cf2 Planning the Future with God in Mind\
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\f0\i0\fs28 \cf4 James 4:13-17\
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\f2 \cf5 James 4:10 ESV
\f3\b0  Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.\
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\f2\b\fs30 \cf7 Let\'92s stand and read James 4:13-17\
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\f0\fs36 \cf2 Point 1: Identify my OVERCONFIDENCE.\
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\f2\fs28 \cf5 James 4:13 ESV 
\f3\b0 Come now, you who say, \'93Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit\'94\
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\f0\b\fs34 \cf2 The ultimate OVERCONFIDENCE is planning as if God doesn\'92t EXIST. \
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\f2\fs28 \cf5 Proverbs 21:5 ESV 
\f3\b0 The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.\
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\f2\b \cf8 Luke 14:28-30 ESV
\f3\b0  For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, \'91This man began to build and was not able to finish.\'92\
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\f0\b\fs36 \cf2 Point 2: Acknowledge my VULNERABILITY.\
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\f2\fs28 \cf5 James 4:14 ESV 
\f3\b0 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring.\
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\f0\b\fs34 \cf2 3 areas of VULNERABILITY:\
A. I have no GUARANTEE of TOMORROW. \
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\f2\fs28 \cf8 Luke 12:18\'9621 ESV 
\f3\b0 \'91I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, \'93Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.\'94\'a0\'92 20 But God said to him, \'91Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?\'92 21 So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.\'94\
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\f2\b \cf5 Proverbs 27:1 ESV 
\f3\b0 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.\
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\f0\b\fs34 \cf2 B. I\'92m not the CENTER of the WORLD. \
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\f2\fs28 \cf5 James 4:14b ESV
\f3\b0  What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.\
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\f0\b\fs34 \cf2 C. I\'92m PRONE to cause PROBLEMS.\
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\f2\fs28 \cf5 James 4:16 ESV
\f3\b0  As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is 
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\f2\b James 4:17 ESV
\f3\b0  So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is 
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\f0\b\fs36 \cf2 Point 3: EMBRACE God\'92s AGREEABILITY.\
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\f2\fs28 \cf5 James 4:15 ESV 
\f3\b0 Instead you ought to say, \'93If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.\'94\
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\f2\b \cf8 John 5:30 ESV
\f3\b0  \'93I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because
\f2\b  I seek not my own will but the will of Him who sent me.\
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John 10:10 ESV 
\f3\b0 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.\
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\f0\b\fs34 \cf2 Confession 1: God\'92s will is a GOOD thing.\
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\f3\b0\fs28 \cf4 \'93If the Lord wills\'94 
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\f2\fs28 \cf5 Jeremiah 32:41 ESV 
\f3\b0 I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul.\
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\f0\b\fs34 \cf2 Confession 2: If God\'92s not IN IT, I won\'92t WANT IT.\
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\f3\b0\fs28 \cf4 \'93we will live\'94\
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\f2\b \cf5 Colossians 1:17 ESV 
\f3\b0 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.\
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\f2\b Hebrews 1:3 ESV 
\f3\b0 He upholds the universe by the word of His power. \
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\f0\b\fs34 \cf2 Confession 3: When God IS IN IT, I will ultimately ENJOY it.\
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\f2\fs28 \cf4 James 4:15
\f3\b0  \'93\'85and do this or that.\'94\
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\f2\b \cf5 1 Peter 4:1\'962 ESV 
\f3\b0 Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.\
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\f0\b\fs34 \cf2 God\'92s will is not a BARRIER to your SUCCESS; it\'92s the BRIDGE to BLESSING.\
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\fs36 \cf2 Point 4: Move FORWARD with ACCOUNTABILITY.\
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\f2\fs28 \cf5 James 4:17 ESV 
\f3\b0 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.\
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\f2\fs28 \cf5 Hebrews 13:20\'9621 ESV
\f3\b0  Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, 21
\f2\b  equip you with everything good that you may do His will
\f3\b0 , working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.\
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\f2\fs28 \cf2 Sermon in a sentence:\
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\f0\fs34 \cf2 Plan with HUMILITY, trust God\'92s SOVEREIGNTY, and enjoy the reality that JESUS is LORD.\
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