Please follow the link and pick up there sermon at minute 25:00-37:00 today( Sermon entitled "Faith in the World"). Hopefully the notes/outline will help you write/journal/study/respond to the passage today <3
Rev. 18:19 - World system described as 'Babylon," God does away with it.
- Why would we chose to be sympathetic to a world and ways that are anti-God? Are there areas in our lives that we do this?
-Jesus took on our spiritual adultery on the cross- we are able to be reconciled to God because of this.
V5- Do you think....
-Original Greek very difficult. In context the best understanding would be considering also Exodus 20:5
God is jealous for His people. James contrasts bitter envy (chapters 3 and 4) to what we read as seeing God is envious for us. He is the faithful husband who wants our hearts, His bride.
-Oh that we would yearn for Him the way we do for the temporal things of this world.
*Worldliness is the heart set on anything but God...What is my heart set upon???
#2) V6 Understand Grace
-He gives greater grace. Hod is not stingy. He does not hoard His resources. James says this repeatedly. Consider 1:5; 1:17.
*Grace- us getting what we do not deserve. -Eternal life, forgiveness, His righteousness, adoption, heaven, Himself!
-God gives greater grace- continually!
-Goal of Christianity is not to be great people but to love our great God.
-Grace is not just the way in but how we experience our relationship with God. By Grace through Faith in Christ!!!
Examples: Forgiveness of repeated sin, giving of self and time, brink of temptation
-Let us develop lives soaked in the Greater Grace
-Gospel fuels and empowers our lives
God resist the proud by gives grace to the humble.
--Who are the proud? Those who think like the world. The "self" seekers, thinkers, etc.
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