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Today we're gonna go back to James 4,
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and today we're gonna really focus on our partnership
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with the Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit is a divine lover.
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He wants to possess us and to fill us.
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But we saw yesterday that
when we begin any project,
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it's important that we pray.
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James was writing to believers
who are in the middle
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of a big fight and they forgot to pray.
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He says, my friends, you
have not because you ask not.
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And then when they finally
did get around to asking
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and they asked for all the
wrong reasons, he said,
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now you ask and receive, not because you ask
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amiss. If you missed yesterday's program,
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you need to go back and look at it in the archives
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If things are not going
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Maybe we're not asking right.
Maybe we're asking amiss.
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These are very important
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But today I'm gonna talk to you about how
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to partner with the Holy Spirit.
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He knows how to pray.
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He knows what to do, he
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And if you'll partner
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And my friend, I'm telling you,
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people all over the world are tuning in
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to hear this teaching of the Bible.
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But also remember that if you need prayer,
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we're waiting for the phone to ring.
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Just ring us right now
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And the moment the phone rings
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we're gonna release our faith
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and belief for Jesus to do something marvelous in your life.
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And he will, because he said,
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if you ask anything in my name, I'll do it.
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We'll ask in the name of Jesus with faith
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and belief for God to do something marvelous in your life,
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but we need to know how to pray.
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So give us a call or send us your email
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and I'll be back in just a moment.
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Get ready for a teaching
that feeds your spirit
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and your mind where the
word is the anchor in
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uncertain times,
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and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
truth that strengthens us,
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a love that emboldens
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner,
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Reach for your Bible,
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and today we're going to return to James 4.
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And I want to begin reading again in verse 1
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where James is addressing believers
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that are really struggling and
they're behaving very poorly.
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Listen to what he says in James 4:1.
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from when come wars
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and fighting among you come they not hence even
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of your lust
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that war in your members.
You lust and you have not.
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You kill and you desire
to have and cannot obtain.
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You fight and war and you
have not because you ask not.
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And finally he says in verse 4, when you finally get
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around to asking, you ask and receive, not
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because you ask amiss. That word,
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amiss, the Greek word kakos,
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which means you're asking badly, you're asking incorrectly,
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with wrong motivation.
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And then he explains
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that you may consume it upon your lusts.
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If you didn't see yesterday's
program, please go back
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to the archives and see
it or order the series
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because it is so important
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that we do not deteriorate
into this low level behavior.
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In fact, it is so terrible.
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Listen to what James says
to them in the next verse,
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James 4:4; Ye adulterers
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and adulteress, know you not that the friendship
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of the world is enmity with God; whosoever
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therefore will be a friend of the world,
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is the enemy of God.
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Then he says in verse 5,
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do you think the scripture
sayeth in vain, the spirit
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that dwells in us lusteth to envy?
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But notice at the very
beginning of verse four,
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James calls his Jewish readers adulterers
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and adulteresses.
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When they read those words,
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it must have been like a slap
up the side of their face
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because they'd never
been called adulterers
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and adulteresses in their life even
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before they came to Christ.
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They were godly moral Jews
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and they would not have
committed adultery.
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In fact, according to Jewish law,
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if they committed adultery,
they could be stoned
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to death for it.
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And so when James calls them adulterers
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and adulterers says, there
is no more outlandish term he
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could have used to shock them.
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But when you read this in the Greek text,
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there's something very interesting.
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It does not say adulterers and adulterer.
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It simply says adulterer. Listen to this.
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It is the feminine form
of the Greek word MoCAs,
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just the feminine form it
depicts one who violates another,
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one who violates another
to take something illegally
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to seduce another person's spouse, one
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who violates a marital commitment
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by having a sexual relationship
outside the covenant
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of marriage, an adulterer
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or an adulteresses one who is guilty
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of indecent sexual behavior.
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Why in the world would
James use a word like this
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when addressing these Jewish believers?
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And again, in Greek,
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it's just the feminine form you adulteresses.
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Well, first of all, he
was speaking to the church
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who is the bride of Christ,
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and this particular part of the church
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that he was addressing had violated their
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commitment with the Lord.
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And James says, in the view of God,
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you guys are behaving so bad.
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You're behaving so worldly,
you have crossed a line,
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you should not cross.
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And in the mind of God,
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you have committed spiritual adultery.
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They've done something terrible.
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They have violated their
commitment to the Lord.
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They're sharing their lives with someone
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or something else in a
way that they should not.
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They're sharing their
affections with someone else.
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They are suddenly obsessed
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with something else more
than they are with the Lord.
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And James says, you guys have
crossed a very important line
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and you are adulteresses.
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He's speaking to the whole church. And he says, Know ye not.
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The Greek says, ouk oidate. The word ouk is emphatic.
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The word oidate, means to know, to comprehend.
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Do you guys not understand
what you're doing?
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Have you not comprehended
what your actions mean?
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He is appealing to them
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in the strongest of words. He says, you adulteresses, know
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ye not that - even the word that, is very important
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because now he's bringing
them to a conclusion.
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No, you not. Have you not comprehended?
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Have you not yet grasped that?
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That what? The friendship
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of the world is enmity with God.
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What does that mean? The
friendship of the world.
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We live in the world, we
wanna be friends with people.
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But what does friendship with the world?
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Well, the word friendship
that is used here
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is the Greek word philia.
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And listen to what it means:
friendship, affection.
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So you could translate
friendship with the world
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or affection with the world: fondness.
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It's the word for love.
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It depicts an intense
fondness that's developed
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between people who are getting closer
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and closer to each other: two
who are fond of each other,
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who are going more deeply
involved in each other's
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life progressively.
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And James says, you guys
have crossed a line.
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You are sharing your devotion,
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your affection with the world.
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This is a devotion
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and an affection that belongs
only to the Lord himself,
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but yet you're taking
it away from the Lord.
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You're giving it to somebody else.
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And we know from the previous 3 verses,
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they were struggling with materialism.
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They were dealing with
their own desires, fighting
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to regain what they had lost.
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They were really behaving like the world.
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James says, you're a bunch of adulteresses.
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Have you not got it?
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Have you not comprehended
the sharing your affection
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and your fondness with the
world is enmity with God.
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And the word world that
is used here is the Greek
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word kosmos.
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It's not talking about
the earth, the word earth
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and Greek would've been the Greek word ge. The word world,
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the Greek word kosmos describes society,
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the ordered system, it could
describe money, fashion,
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entertainment, business,
the things of the world.
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They were giving their affection
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and their fondness to
those things more than
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they were giving them to the Lord.
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I'm sure they didn't
do this intentionally,
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but whether intentional or not, that is what they had done.
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And now James says, you're adulteresses, the affection
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and fondness, which belongs only
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to the Lord is now being misdirected
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and you are reconnecting
with the world in a way
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that you should not.
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And in the mind of God,
this is spiritual adultery.
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In fact, he says it is
enmity, enmity with God.
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The word enmity is a Greek word echthra:
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even sounds terrible.
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The word echthra describes hatred, hostility, animosity,
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antagonism, enmity, hostile enemies.
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This is hostile with God.
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When a believer, a believer who's been washed in the blood,
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in dwelt by the Holy
Spirit, who is to be in love
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with Christ, begins to take the fondness
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and the affection that belongs to Christ
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and misdirects it to the old world
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that he was delivered with.
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This creates an antagonistic
with God himself.
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In fact, verse 4 goes on to say - whosoever
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therefore will be a friend of the world,
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is the enemy of God.
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Those words, will be, are
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so very important in the Greek text.
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It is the Greek word, boulomai.
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The word boulomai means, I counsel or I advise.
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You could literally translate it.
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Whosoever therefore counsels
himself to be a friend
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of the world is the enemy of God.
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And here we find how people
drift, how people begin
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to shift their fondness
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and their affection, how people backslide.
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Most Christians who are deeply in love
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with Jesus don't wake up one day
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and say, you know today I'm gonna backslide: today I'm going
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to divert my love, my affection, my fondness for Jesus
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and give it to the world.
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No, a person who really
loves Jesus doesn't do that.
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But instead, very slowly, step by step, boulomai they begin
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to counsel themselves, speak to themself.
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It's a lot of self-talk.
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Well, I know that I shouldn't do this.
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This is not entirely appropriate,
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but maybe one time won't hurt.
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I'll just make one little exception
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and one little exception at a time,
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their position begins to change.
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They begin to move from
thinking about the Lord
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and being in love with the Lord
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and being red hot on fire with the Lord.
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Until very slowly their thoughts
begin to be misdirected.
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They begin to think about the world
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and they begin to think about
things more than they think
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about the Lord and find themselves
connecting with the world
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and connecting with the system
more than they're connecting
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with the spirit of God.
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And they move very slowly,
progressively from a position
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to be madly in love with Jesus,
red, hot in love with Jesus
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until step by step, boulomai, they begin
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to counsel themself
through a lot of self-talk.
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Well, I know I shouldn't,
but just once won't hurt.
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I won't do it again.
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But when you do it once, it's
easier to do it the next time.
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And when you do it the
next time, it's easier
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to do it the next time
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because in the process of taking one step
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after another in the
wrong direction, you begin
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to harden yourself spiritually
so you don't feel the pain
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of what you are doing.
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But the Lord feels the pain of it.
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I'm gonna show that to
you in just a moment.
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He feels very betrayed by this.
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In fact, he calls it adultery.
He calls it adultery.
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So many believers today
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or in a position that they didn't used to be in. They use
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to be red hot, on fire,
they walked in holiness.
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But little by little, step by step,
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they've counseled themself
to become more neutral
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and more tolerant of other things.
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For example, believers
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who at one time would've
never attended a movie filled
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with foul language and sexual situations,
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now they go to those movies, they listen to that trashy talk
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and those sexual situations
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and don't even think twice about it.
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How can go from one position
of being so separated
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and so consecrated till now they can set
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and watch that filth and it
doesn't even bother them.
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It happens one little step at a time.
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They didn't wake up and say,
I'm gonna harden my heart,
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but boulomai: self-talk, self counsel, ah,
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just one time won't hurt and
my friends are gonna be there
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and I hear that it's a good movie.
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That's just an example.
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So they make one little
exception and they go
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and they watch those things
that they shouldn't watch
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and they harden themselves
or they callous themselves.
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I have a callous on my finger right here.
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I have a callous because
when I was a little boy
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and I was learning to
write, I would press so hard
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with my pencil until finally I
built a callous on my finger.
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And when I was a little boy,
I had fun with my callous
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because a callous has no feeling.
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It has no feeling.
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So I would bring a straight pen
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to school when I was a
child in elementary school
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and I would stick it through the call
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and would show people that I could put a
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pen through my finger.
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And I experienced no pain.
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Of course, people were squeamish when
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they would see me do that.
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But how is it that I could
put a pin through my finger
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and feel no pain
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because that part of my
finger was calloused.
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And when you make 1 exception for yourself and another,
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and another and another
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and another, over a period
of time you harden yourself,
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which by the way, that word hard
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and hard hearted in Greek really
means you callous yourself
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so you don't feel what you used to feel.
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You used to feel that this was wrong.
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Now you don't feel anything.
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You used to feel that you can't watch this
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because this is not for my eyes.
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But now you can see it
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and you don't even think twice about it.
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Why? Because one little exception
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and another little exception
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and another little exception,
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you've walked from one position
all the way into another
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position and you don't
realize what has happened
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because you're still going to church,
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but your spiritual
temperature has changed.
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You're not the same.
You've changed positions.
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You've become more connected to the world.
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Now, you may not think this
is serious, but it is serious.
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In fact, listen to what James says.
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Whosoever therefore will
be the Greek word, boulomai.
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Whosoever permits himself
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or talks himself into being
the friend of the world.
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Another word friend is a Greek word philos.
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And the word, philos means
a companion of the world,
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an associate of the world,
a partner with the world,
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not bothered by the world anymore -
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wow - is the enemy of God.
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And the word is, is a Greek word
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which means renders himself to be:
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or constitutes himself to be
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the enemy of God.
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One time someone asked me, is
it possible for a Christian
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to be the enemy of God?
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Well, what does this verse say? It's speaking to Christians.
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Whosoever therefore will be
our friend of the world, is
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the enemy of God.
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When you reconnect with the
world and give your fondness
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and your devotion to the world,
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you just placed yourself on
the wrong side of the line.
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You have constituted yourself.
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You have rendered yourself
to be in a position
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that is an enemy with God.
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And in fact, the word enemy
that is used here, again,
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the Greek word echthros, means an enemy
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or an opponent. My friends,
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you're not supposed to behave like that.
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It depicts animosity, antagonism.
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Enmity describes those
who are irreconcilable God
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and the world is not reconcilable.
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It depicts enemies in a military conflict
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or hostile enemies.
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And it's not that God has
turned you into an enemy,
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you constituted yourself
to be an opposition to God
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because you crossed the line;
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you crossed the line. You're
on the wrong side of the line.
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And then in James 4:5, James says,
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Do you think the scripture says in vain,
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do you think the scripture
says in vain that the spirit
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that dwells in us lusteth to envy, he's appealing
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to every one of us?
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The word vain, the Greek word kenos, means does the
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scripture say in vain, does the scripture say to no purpose,
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the word kenos describes something that's empty,
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hollow, or worthless?
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Do you think the scripture
says, for no reason
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or for nothing, that the
spirit that dwells in us,
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lustust to envy?
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This series is about partnering with the Holy Spirit.
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We need to understand who dwells in us.
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And that's now what James says in verse 5:
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Do you not understand?
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It's not just about you,
it's about who lives in you.
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The Holy Spirit dwelleth in us; and the word dwelleth,
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the Greek word katoikeo: a compound of the word kata,
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which means down. The word oikos,
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which is the word for house.
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You compound the two words together: one
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that has settled down into a residence.
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I say he's laid his own rugs on the floor.
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He is brought his own
easy chair into the house.
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He's settled down. He's become a permanent in dweller
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or a permanent resident.
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James says, the Holy Spirit lives in us.
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And when we go into the world
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and behave like the world,
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we're carrying the
precious Holy Spirit into
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that situation with us.
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It is a defilement to the Lord.
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And in fact, James says,
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he dwells in us,
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the Greek word - in - which locates the presence
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of the Holy Spirit right here - he is in us.
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And James says, he lusteth to envy.
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The word lusteth, the Greek word epipotheo.
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The word epi, is an intensifier. It means over.
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The word pothe means to yearn or to hanker after something.
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When you compound the two words together,
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it depicts an intense desire, a craving, a hunger,
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a yearning or a hankering
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after something: a pining for something.
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And we find that the Holy Spirit in me
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and the Holy Spirit in
you is yearning for us.
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He wants us and he wants us completely.
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He wants to fill us.
He wants to possess us.
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He wants to sanctify us.
That's his desire in us.
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And it goes on to say, he lusteth to envy. The word envy,
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the Greek word phthonos: a very important word.
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It depicts a hostile feeling towards someone else
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because of an advantage, benefit,
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or position that another person has gained;
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a deeply felt grudge due to someone possessing
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what one wishes was his own.
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It pictures a lover that is irate,
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that his love has given his
or her love to somebody else.
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He feels envy and he doesn't
just sit there and feel envy,
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he puts into motion a plan
to get that person back.
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Hey, that person belongs to me.
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They do not belong to you,
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and I'm going to do whatever
I have to do to get them back.
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And here we find the Holy
Spirit that dwells in us;
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he lives in us - in us: lusteth.
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He is yearning to have us and to have all of us
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and to share us with no one else.
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And if we cross the line
and share our devotion
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and our affection and our fondness
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with something else more
than we do with him,
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than he puts into plan a rescue operation
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to bring us back to himself.
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And in fact, James 4:5 literally means - The Spirit
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who has come to settle down to permanently dwell
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and to make his home in us,
has an all-consuming,
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ever-growing passionate
desire to possess us.
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He's envious and filled
with malice toward anything
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or anyone that tries
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to take his place in our lives.
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So let me ask you today, does
Jesus have your fondness,
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your devotion and your affection,
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or have you taken what belongs to him?
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And little by little through self-talk
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and self counseling, you've
walked away from where you used
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to be until now you've lost
your spiritual temperature.
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Maybe you're still going to church
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and you still have Christian friends,
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but you know you don't have
the flame that you once have.
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Have you reconnected
with the world in a way
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that when the Lord looks at you, he says - adultery?
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How could you give all of that
time, all that devotion, all
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that affection to the world
that I delivered you from,
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when all of that should belong only to me?
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The believers that James was writing
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to in James 4, they were behaving like the world,
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acting the world, reconnecting with the world.
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And James said to them, adulteresses;
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they had violated their
relationship with the Lord.
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Don't let that be you.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I'm going to pray for you.
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Someone has asked the important question -
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How do I get started reading the Bible every day?
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Well, it's most important
that you get started,
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but I would advise you to begin
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with the New Testament
in the book of Matthew.
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Begin reading about the life of Jesus.
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Read Matthew, Mark, Luke & John and read the Book of Acts
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because the book of Acts
really gives you a picture of
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what your Christian life should be like.
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And I would also advise you every day
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to read something from the Book of Psalms
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because the Book of Psalms is filled
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with advice and counsel.
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It is strengthening.
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It is so healing, and I personally derive so much strength
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and comfort from the Book of Psalms.
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But if you're just getting started
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and you feel like you
need help, reach out to us
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and we will provide you with
a daily Bible reading plan.
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My friends, it's not difficult, just follow the plan.
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But what's important is - that you get started.
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Do you know how to
partner with the Holy Spirit
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and work with God?
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Do you know what to do
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to make the Holy Spirit feel
comfortable in your life?
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And how to throw open the door for him
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to do powerful work in your life?
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In this 5-part series, Partnering with the Holy Spirit
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and Planning for the Future, Rick Renner teaches you: How
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to roll out the red carpet
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to welcome the Holy Spirit's
Partnership in your life -
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What to do if you grieve the Holy Spirit
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and feel you've lost something spiritually along the way -
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How the grace of God can change everything in your life -
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In addition to this teaching series,
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you can also get the book,
the Holy Spirit in You.
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In this book, Rick will bring you
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to an intimate relationship
with the Holy Spirit
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and show you how to
operate in spiritual gifts.
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You can know the Holy Spirit intimately
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and be better equipped to
partner with him in every area
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and You - call the number on your screen now
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This program has been packed,
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but when we come back tomorrow,
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we're gonna continue in James 4.
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But I'm teaching a brand
new series called, Partnering
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with the Holy Spirit and Planning for Tomorrow
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and the Future: my friends, we don't need
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to grieve the Holy Spirit,
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we need to partner with the Holy Spirit.
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And this series will help you know how
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to develop your partnership
with the spirit of God,
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and that is why I want you to have it.
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And it comes with a study guide.
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And we're also offering you my
very hands-on practical book
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about how to develop your relationship
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with the Holy Spirit called, The Holy Spirit and You,
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Working together as Heaven's Dynamic Duo.
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You can order all of these by going online
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or by giving us a call and let
us know how to pray for you.
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But Father, we thank you
that you speak to our heart
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and you're wooing us
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into the relationship we
need to have with you.
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Forgive us if we've given our devotion
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and our affection to anything else.
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Lord, we're coming home in Jesus' name - Amen.
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I'll see you tomorrow.
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But remember Ecclesiastes 8:4, "Where the word
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of a king is there's power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now; Lord,
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I repent of my sin and
receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen. This program was made possible
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by the giving of the God called Partners
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of Renner Ministries.