2. for Grace through Humility
James 4:6-10
10 Commands
for Grace through Humility

3. James 4:1-6 Recap:
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Our internal struggle leads to external struggles resulting in quarrels and fights.
Outline:
The Cause: Our sinful desires (4:1-3)
Uncontrolled desires (4:1)
Unmet desires (4:2)
Ungodly desires (4:3)
The Verdict: We have committed spiritual adultery (4:4-5)
The Solution: Grace through humility (4:6)
You can be a friend of the world or you can be a friend of God. You cannot be both. Choose your friends carefully.

4. James 4:6-10
6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”  7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

5. 10 COMMANDS
Submit to God: To actively arrange under. To accept or yield to a superior. To obey. In the military to line up under or come in line with a superior.

6. 10 COMMANDS
Submit to God
Resist the devil: Set oneself against. Take a stand against the devil. To oppose or be on the defensive.

7. 1 Peter 5:5-9 
God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. 6Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. 8Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 9Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

8. 10 COMMANDS Submit to God Resist the devil
Draw near to God: To move closer to a reference point. Seek to know, adore, commune with, and worship the one true God.

9. 10 COMMANDS Submit to God Resist the devil Draw near to God
Cleanse your hands you sinners: Outward actions or deed: καθαρίζω katarizo cleanse from ritual contamination or impurity—‘to cleanse, to purify, purification.’

10. 10 COMMANDS Submit to God Resist the devil Draw near to God
Cleanse your hands you sinners
Purify your hearts you double minded: Inward motives or disposition: a desire to remove contaminants from or make pure.

11. Isaiah 55:6-9
6Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; 7let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. 9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

12. Cleanse your hands you sinners Purify your hearts you double minded
Submit to God
Resist the devil
Draw near to God
Cleanse your hands you sinners
Purify your hearts you double minded
Be wretched: be depressed, feel miserable, lament over your sins. Deeply penitent over sins. Godly sorrow that leads to repentance and not just sorry that you were caught.
2 Corinthians 7:10, “For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death. (NKJV)” .

13. Submit to God
Resist the devil
Draw near to God
Cleanse your hands you sinners
Purify your hearts you double minded
Be wretched
And mourn: an expression of grief over death.

15. Submit to God
Resist the devil
Draw near to God
Cleanse your hands you sinners
Purify your hearts you double minded
Be wretched
And Mourn
Weep: to shed tears, lament, or wail. The inner sorrow working its way out to physical expression.

16. Submit to God
Resist the devil
Draw near to God
Cleanse your hands you sinners
Purify your hearts you double minded
Be wretched
And mourn
Weep
Let your laughter be turned to mourning and joy to heaviness: This text speaks of foolish laughter, which has no place in the presence of God.

17. Submit to God
Resist the devil
Draw near to God
Cleanse your hands you sinners
Purify your hearts you double minded
Be wretched
And Mourn
Weep
Let your laughter be turned to mourning and joy to heaviness
Humble yourselves: before the Lord, and He will exalt you. The great spiritual paradox…to be exalted, you must humble yourself.

18. Application Questions:
Do I submit my will to God’s?
Do I resist the devil by constantly being on guard against temptation?
Do I draw near to God by desiring to know, commune with and worship Him?
Do I seek to cleanse my hands through repentance of sins?
Do I seek to purify my heart so that my meditations are pleasing to God?
Does my sin cause me to feel wretched, to mourn, and to weep?
Do I flippantly laugh at my sinfulness or in mourning do I contemplate a holy God?
Do I humble myself before God?