James 4:1-10 Session #7
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James 4:1-10 addresses internal battles that come from earthly desires and a friendship with the world rather than God. It warns that having worldly desires leads to envy and quarrels as people do not receive what they want from God by asking for selfish reasons. The passage reminds readers that friendship with the world means hostility towards God and that God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
James 4:1-10 Session #7
- 1. James 4v1 – 4v10
- 2. 1 Where do the internal battles and infightings come from? Is it not from the sensual desires within you that wage war within you? 2 You want things and can’t get them. You even kill and covet and still don’t get what you want and so you quarrel and fight. 3 You do not have things because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive because you are asking for the wrong things – all you want to do is to indulge your own self - gratifying desires. 4 This is a form of adultery. Don’t you realize that if friendship with this world means hostility toward God? If you intend to be a friend of the world you will treat God as your enemy. 5 What do you think the Scripture means when it says, “The Spirit he has caused to live in us has a jealous regard for us?” 6 Still he gives even more grace, therefore he says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
- 3. Some historical background Why would James need to write the things he does about internal rivalry and worldliness?
- 4. Do you have problems living with other people?
- 5. The battles that rage within - What causes them?