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James 4
James 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not
hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
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Lusts, even of your pleasures that war in your
members
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain:
ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
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Because on account of your not asking.
3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it
upon your lusts.
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the
world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the
world is the enemy of God.
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Is constituted, or constitutes himself
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth
in us lusteth to envy?
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This can only refer to the general testimony of
Scripture that the natural man is prone to
selfish desires, leading to envy of others who
possess the things desired.
6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud,
but giveth grace unto the humble.
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Humble = lowly as in James 1:9 Let the
brother of low degree rejoice in that he is
exalted:
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Grace, This has reference to the now nature,
compare to 1 Corinthians 2:12 Now we have
received, not the spirit of the world, but the
spirit which is of God; that we might know the
things that are freely given to us of God.
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee
from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye
sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
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James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable
in all his ways.
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Purify, Used of Levitical purifying four times.
Used here, in a spiritual sense.
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1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your
souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit
unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that
ye love one another with a pure heart
fervently:
9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to
mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
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Heaviness Only here. It means casting down the
eyes.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
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2 Corinthians 11:7 Have I committed an
offence in abasing myself that ye might be
exalted, because I have preached to you the
gospel of God freely?
11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his
brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth
the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but
a judge.
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Speak . . . evil, Speak against, or
backbite.
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art
thou that judgest another?
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Another, The texts read "neighbour", as in James
2:8 If ye fulfill the royal law according
to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour
as thyself, ye do well:
13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a
city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
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John 2:13 And the Jews Passover
was at hand, and Jesus went up to
Jerusalem,
14 And found in the temple
those that sold oxen and sheep and
doves, and the changers of money sitting:
15 And when he had made a scourge
of small cords, he drove them all out of
the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and
poured out the changers' money, and overthrew
the tables;
16 And said unto them that sold doves,
Take these things hence; make not my Father's
house an house of merchandise.
17 And his disciples remembered that it
was written, The zeal of thine
house hath eaten me up.
18 Then answered the Jews and said unto
him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that
thou doest these things?
14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your
life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then
vanisheth away.
15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do
this, or that.
16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it
is sin.
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And not to be confident in the good success of
worldly business, but mindful ever of the
uncertainty of this life, to commit ourselves
and all our affairs to God's providence.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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