November 22, 2015
ReAlign Conference
Session 4
GET BACK ON TRACK WITH GOD
James 4:7-10
7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
I. FULLY SURRENDER TO GOD.
James 4:7a
7 Submit therefore to God.
“The gospel call to faith presupposes that sinners must repent of their sin and yield to Christ’s authority.” - Dr. John Macarthur, The Gospel According to Jesus
II. BATTLE PRIDE
James 4:7b-10
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. Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord,
James 4:6
But He gives a greater grace. Therefore, it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
Isaiah 14:12-14
12 “How you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
13 You said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far reaches of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’
Genesis 3:3
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
James 4:7b
resist the devil and he will flee from you.
James 4:8
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.
James 4:9-10a
Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you doubleminded. Be miserable and mourn and weep; let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord
“We must mourn over our sins because they rob us of true joy. The devil, ever the liar, tells us that keeping God’s laws brings misery, and breaking them brings happiness. But the long history of mankind shows us again and again that sinful living destroys and wrecks. It can destroy our health. It can destroy our homes. It can destroy our churches. It can even destroy life.Where is the joy in all of that? Yes, sin brings pleasure for a season, but the season is always short, and the consequences are always great.” - Roger Elsworth, Opening up James
Ephesians 1:3-7
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love 5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace!
John 15:5
"I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.”
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.!
