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The Book of James

Christianity: IRL (In Real Life). The Book of James. Christianity : IRL James 1:1-12. The War to End All Wars?. What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members ? James 4:1 NAS B.

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The Book of James

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  1. Christianity: IRL (In Real Life) The Book of James

  2. Christianity: IRL James 1:1-12 The War to End All Wars?

  3. What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? James 4:1 NASB

  4. Christianity: IRL James 1:1-12 The Battlefield: Your Passions

  5. You lust and do not have… You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures. James 4:2-3

  6. Do not let sin reign in your mortal body that you should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Romans 6:12-13

  7. Christianity: IRL James 1:1-12 The War Zone: The World

  8. Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? James 3:14

  9. Friendship with the World, leads to loving the World (1 Jn. 2:15) Loving the World, leads to becoming like the World (Rm. 12:2) Conforming to the World, leads to being Condemned with it. (1 Cor. 11:32)

  10. Christianity: IRL James 1:1-12 The Christian Strategy: Submit to God’s Grace

  11. But He gives a greater grace. James 4:6

  12. Resist the Devil He will flee Draw near to God He will draw near to you Cleanse your hands Purify your hearts Mourn & Weep Humble yourselves

  13. For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 1 John 4:4

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