Feb 17 - We Are Not Like The World
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James 4:1-13

John 6:40 – Believe. Repentance and Faith (Belief) happens at the same time.

Some say repentance comes before faith because if faith came first, you would be repenting of your faith. (Faith not to be repented of). Others say Faith is believing what God said, therefore without faith you would not believe what God said concerning your sinfulness and you wouldn’t repent.

The world bites and devours each other – it’s a dog eat dog world.

James 4:1 – We have not because we ask not.

II Peter 1:4 – God gives his children exceedingly great and precious promises so they can be partakers of the divine nature.

Romans 6:1-7 – We are to live like Christ, not like the world.

I Cor. 6:20 – "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."

We should suffer wrong if/when it comes our way.

I Peter 2:19 – "For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully."

I Cor. 6:7 – "Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?"

God will take care of us if we will let him.

I Chronicles 16:21-22 – "He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes, 22 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm."

Psalms 105:14 – "He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes; 15 Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm."

God said it twice because he means it and wants us to know he means it.

Romans 8:28 – "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."

Everything that happens to us happens for a reason.

Do you fight what God is doing to you through men? Or do you yield yourself to God – you don’t have to yield to men. But men need to see that you are yielded to God, regardless of what they do to you.

Sanctification is not getting better and better. It is being set aside more and more. We set aside one thing, then God shows us another thing he wants us to set aside for him. So one life goes. Until finally the only thing that counts is what we do for God. The only thing that matters is what we can do for God. The glitter and glory of this life is passed away and heaven grows sweeter and sweeter. We cannot take pleasure in this life as we once did. Our joy is in Christ, in eternal things. We long for heaven and home.