Faith Works: A Call From Home
10/05/08
Dr. Phil Wilkes, James 4:4-10
James continues his focus on the source of our internal discontent and reason that we get into fights and quarrels with this passage. He uses strong language to describe one who chooses to live for themselves and try to also love God. Just as a husband who is unfaithful to his wife because of an affair with another woman is called an adulterer, James says that is how God looks at one of his children who is unfaithful to Him. It is powerful and strong language. The purpose is not to condemn but to call God’s people to repentance before God.
In this passage James outlines how one returns to God. There is a clear turning from living for oneself to again focusing your life on God. It is an intentional choice to no longer have one foot in God’s kingdom and one foot in the world. James urges Christians to return to their first love for God and by doing so experience the abundant life that is promised through Jesus Christ.
Podcast
James continues his focus on the source of our internal discontent and reason that we get into fights and quarrels with this passage. He uses strong language to describe one who chooses to live for themselves and try to also love God. Just as a husband who is unfaithful to his wife because of an affair with another woman is called an adulterer, James says that is how God looks at one of his children who is unfaithful to Him. It is powerful and strong language. The purpose is not to condemn but to call God’s people to repentance before God.
In this passage James outlines how one returns to God. There is a clear turning from living for oneself to again focusing your life on God. It is an intentional choice to no longer have one foot in God’s kingdom and one foot in the world. James urges Christians to return to their first love for God and by doing so experience the abundant life that is promised through Jesus Christ.
Podcast