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by First Baptist Church Beebe on Nov 05, 2023
1. "So many times we are guilty of taking things into our own hands and trying to do God's work our way rather than doing God's work God's way." - 27:27
2. "Listen Church, the Battle Is Over, the victory has been won. Jesus has already won the war. We need to learn to appropriate what has already been applied in our hearts and life." - 30:21
3. "We are at war with one another and the reason that we are at war with one another is because we are at war with ourselves." - 53:44
4. "We make it ridiculous because we fight at our own strength. You can't defeat Satan, you've been in this business thousands of years. You can't defeat him by yourself but I tell you he's already been defeated by the blood of Jesus Christ." - 59:38
5. "The reason that we're at fight we're fighting one another is because we're at War inside. The war that is within our own Arts causes Wars that we have with one another." - 43:37
Thank you, Brother Nick, for leading us today. Several of you have asked this morning, "Pastor, are you going to stomp on our toes today?" I'll be honest with you; I'm going to stomp on mine. That's the reason I wore these soft-soled shoes today.
In my 40 years of pastoral ministry, I don't think that I have prepared a sermon that is more for me than it is for you. I guess that's the reason God allowed me to work on this sermon for three weeks before I could bring it to you today. There have been many times that I have fallen on my face before God in my office, saying, "Dear God, I'm sorry."
So many times, we are guilty of taking things into our own hands and trying to do God's work our way rather than doing God's work God's way. I told you when I began our study in the Book of James, chapter 4, that our outline basically is going to come from John MacArthur. He gives 13 tests in James to see whether we are born-again believers or not.
If you look in John MacArthur's book, this is the eighth test, and he calls it the test of worldly indulgence. John Warren Wiersbe, another one of my favorite authors, calls it "the war that will end all wars." I'm going to combine the two thoughts, and I want to talk about the test of war.
You know as well as I do, if you're a born-again child of God, if you're a follower of Jesus Christ, we are in an everyday war. Romans chapter 7 talks about that. It says that the flesh lusts against the spirit; the flesh is warring against the spirit, and the spirit is warring against the flesh. We are in a real war.
This made me think, and I typed in on my computer "wars," and I began to read about different wars that have been fought in the world. Have any of you ever heard of the Pig War? Or maybe have any of you ever heard of the War of the Stray Dog? None? Have any of you ever heard of the Pastry War? I could think of that one, though it should be worth fighting for.
But have you ever heard of the Pastry War? You may think that I'm kidding; you may think that I'm just trying to come up with something to introduce the sermon. But you go on the internet and type in "six wars fought for ridiculous reasons," and these are three of the wars.
But I want to talk to you about another ridiculous war—a war that we are fighting every single day that we need to understand and know. Listen, church, the battle is over; the victory has been won. Jesus has already won the war. We need to learn to appropriate what has already been applied in our hearts and lives.
Paul writes about this ridiculous war, but it is a very real war. It is a war that we fight every day; it is the war between our flesh and our spirit. When you begin to read about this text, and when we begin to read in just a few moments, he writes about three different wars that we fight every single day.
I have to be honest with you; when I first began studying this text and when I first began to write my sermon on this text, I thought, "Well, I'm going to rearrange the wars that James talks about here in James chapter 4." So I began to write, I began at the top, and I rearranged the wars until the Holy Spirit of God gripped my heart and said, "I've got them in that order for a reason. I think it would be wise for you, if you're going to learn and teach your people to fight the war, to do it my way rather than yours."
Look what James says. Begin reading with verse 1: "Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your own pleasures."
"Adulterers and adulteresses!" I want you to see that verse 4. I'm not trying to take away, but literally, it's "adulteresses." That is, you and I as a church, when we begin to do our thing our way, we are committing adultery on God. He calls all of us adulteresses.
"Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God." Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns for jealousy"? But He gives more grace. Therefore, He says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
"Therefore, submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up."
"Do not speak evil of anyone." Oh me! Look what he says: "Do not speak evil of anyone, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is one lawgiver who is able to save and destroy. Who are you to judge another?"
I want you to follow this. I want to give you my basic outline. I want you to see, because I'm not sure that we're going to get completely through with this sermon. But when we begin to look at this text and dissect it, we find in the first phrase of verse 1 and then in verses 11 and 12, James wrote about us being at war with one another.
Then in the second part of verse 1 through verse 3, he talks about us being at war with ourselves. Then in the last part, he talks about us being at war with God. We are at war with one another, we are at war with ourselves, and we are at war with God.
I want you to know that I'm longing for a day that war will cease. I'm not talking about worldwide wars, like the war between Ukraine and Russia. I'm talking about the war that you and I are fighting every single day.
Many of you remember, I know some of our older people will remember the old Southern Gospel song entitled "King Jesus." It says, "All the armies of the world will someday gather, and they'll pass before that great reviewing stand, and they'll beat their swords and weapons into plowshares, and the Prince of Peace will give His last command. When
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