The Blue Letter Bible - KJV, alternate versions, Greek text with concordance, commentaries. C. Lees, D. D.)The devil to be resistedA gentleman, who has spent many years of his life in capturing wild animals, says of the wolf, that, when attacked, he will first note the earnestness with which the enemy presses the attack, and, if he shows great determination, he scampers away. James 4:7-10 MSG. Instead of submission here, our constant watchword is to be resistance — uncompromising, unceasing, growing resistance. 4. It is a blessed mourning of which the text speaks; and they that mourn thus "shall be comforted." The earth has no fatal fear, and no insupportable sorrow in it after you have come to this; you are free in a boundless liberty, strong in immortal strength, and at peace in a peace too deep for the understanding to explain, or any sufferings to disturb.(Bp. Tried weapons. If the sanctified are said to be "filled with the Holy Ghost," "why," said Peter to Ananias, "hath Satan filled thy heart?" John Piper Jan 1, 1989 334 Shares Sermon. South.)ResistJ. If the sanctified are said to be "filled with the Holy Ghost," "why," said Peter to Ananias, "hath Satan filled thy heart?" only from heaven.5. Self-loathing should possess us when we realize our covetousness and double-mindedness, our divided affections and unstable spiritual purposes. He seeks to subvert the allegiance of people to himself and is an enemy to God. And, as his temptations are often sudden — meant to take us at unawares — this vigilance over our own hearts must be constant and unremitting — "lest he find us off our guard."3. Now go your way.' Out of this thought comes also what might be called the hopefulness of morality. (5) You must also surrender yourself at discretion to His method of operating upon you. To live ignobly is, therefore, to live unworthy of your clearest possibilities. The contest, as waged by every man and woman against evil, is no longer a heavy, dragging spiritless contest, but a brave and hopeful one. A. Yet once more, we must resist the devil watchfully and prayerfully.(A. If, on the contrary, we "stand up against" Satan, "he will flee" from us. )Submission to GodBp. Now Satan is the assassin, and not the open enemy; how, then, is he to be resisted?1. "I tell him," replied the boy, "whether I am a Christian or not is none of his business. The one I may overcome, but the other nothing can shield me from but the all-watchful providence of my God. To live ignobly is, therefore, to live unworthy of your clearest possibilities. A Christian's life is no easy one.2. A. We must come near to God. He must visit and quicken us before we turn our faces, or take a single step Zionward. But constant resistance, while it strengthens the Christian, weakens the adversary.2. This is a rational and sober-minded process right through. It was evinced by king Hezekiah, who, when the prophet announced the impending destruction of the monarch and his throne, replied to the terrible intelligence — "Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken." (3)Be united. 'Stop! And, as his temptations are often sudden — meant to take us at unawares — this vigilance over our own hearts must be constant and unremitting — "lest he find us off our guard."3. And, as his temptations are often sudden — meant to take us at unawares — this vigilance over our own hearts must be constant and unremitting — "lest he find us off our guard.". And when we — convinced of our morally diseased condition, which makes it impossible for us to enter into a full and hearty appropriation of salvation — yield ourselves up in self-despair, that God may work in us to will and do, the spirit of our action is precisely that of the physician. We are to submit to God with respect to His providential dispensations towards us. 1. The assurance, "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you," is a blessed and needed one. All other resistance is utterly vain: we have no power in ourselves.4. James 4:7, KJV: "Submit yourselves therefore to God.Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." A man is not saved until he bows before the supreme majesty of God. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. Let sin weigh heavily upon you, making you sad, miserable in spirit. When you cease trying to serve two masters, and submit yourselves unto God, He will bless you, but not till then. that the customer PoV communicates the most emotion and is therefore the most memorable. Previous article Parenting your bio kids with foster kids Next article Overwhelmed. (2)Past experience. )Resistance of evilW. His decision is his decision, and against God, in whom all which is assailable by vice finds expression. Here’s a team-by-team list, including the reasons for some of their choices "I tell him," replied the boy, "whether I am a Christian or not is none of his business. A Christian's life is no easy one.2. Scripture: James 4:13–16. Is there no voice from that new-made grave to you? We must not "give place" to him (Ephesians 4:27) by cherishing covetousness or envy; for, if we allow him any place at all, he may speedily take possession of the entire area of the heart. If the sanctified are said to be "filled with the Holy Ghost," "why," said Peter to Ananias, "hath Satan filled thy heart?" A Christian's life is a most blessed one.(R. Now go your way.' The most effectual resistance we can make to him, therefore, is a constant and strenuous opposition to these — whichsoever of them we are conscious, from our experience, have most power within us. "Answer to the devilNew Cycle. There must be no parleying with him, no yielding to him even in the slightest thing, no shrinking from his attack: to shrink from him is only to make him more bold, while to resist him, resting simply on the atonement of Jesus, is to drive him from us, vanquished and overcome.2. (2)Be vigilant. It represents the highest form of courage which to them is possible — the power to say "No" to every form of temptation.(J. James general resources. If repulsed a hundred times, he tries again.3. Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 22, 2011 (message contributor) based on 1 rating (rate this sermon illustration) | 2,599 views. It represents the highest form of courage which to them is possible — the power to say "No" to every form of temptation.(J. I confess it. says one: "To what shall I submit, and in what respects?". To live ignobly is, therefore, to live unworthy of your clearest possibilities. To parley with him is to be conquered.1. Mark again, whence is this armour to be obtained? Drawing Near to God 6 But He gives us more grace. (2)Past experience. )The Christian championA. South.)ResistJ. We can resist evil. It represents the highest form of courage which to them is possible — the power to say "No" to every form of temptation.(J. The race is slowly but surely forging ahead. The one I may overcome, but the other nothing can shield me from but the all-watchful providence of my God. As a fleet of great merchant-men, impelled by the steady trade winds — their yards like bars of gold, their ropes like lines of ruby — go sailing at morning towards the east and the rising sun; so the race, in all its powers and motives, will be grandly luminous as it moves on into the light of the millennium. Call in all your allies. The resistance must be made in the strength of God.(R. Does any one ask for illustration? Mentally. Upon the edge of this terrible ability to resist God plant yourself, and behold the abyss at your feet.2. If they were in a right state of heart they would thank the Lord for their sharp trials, and consent to His will, as being assuredly right. The Light that has come into the world, and shined upon so many hearts, is quickening the germinal capacities of man for virtue. Mark again, whence is this armour to be obtained? South.He who would fight the devil with his own weapons must not wonder if he finds him an over match.(R. When a man comes to God and says, "I am willing and anxious to be saved, and I trust Christ to save me," and yet he keeps his dirty, black hands exercised in filthy actions, doing what he knows is wrong, does he expect God to hear him? 1. You are provided with armour before which he must flee.2. 10), giving you always "more grace" in this life, and a rich reversion of glory in the life to come. If there is any word I could use to describe James, I think that would be sin. The photographer's plates are rendered sensitive by a peculiar process: you shall take another sheet of glass and your friend shall stand before it as long as ever he likes, and there will be no impression produced, at least none which will be visible to the eye; but the sensitive plate will reveal every little wrinkle of the face and perpetuate every hair of the head. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. James 4:7-17. "I tell him," replied the boy, "whether I am a Christian or not is none of his business. That is not good reasoning. But there is no reason why, by care and effort — a careful placing of the feet, and keeping our powers well collected — we cannot make headway against it. So let God work his will in you. We are to be willing to receive evil as well as good at his hand. Submission to our Lord and Saviour will be manifested by ready obedience: delays are essentially insubordinations, and neglects are a form of rebellion. There must be no parleying with him, no yielding to him even in the slightest thing, no shrinking from his attack: to shrink from him is only to make him more bold, while to resist him, resting simply on the atonement of Jesus, is to drive him from us, vanquished and overcome.2. There must be no parleying with him, no yielding to him even in the slightest thing, no shrinking from his attack: to shrink from him is only to make him more bold, while to resist him, resting simply on the atonement of Jesus, is to drive him from us, vanquished and overcome.2. We must submit, because we can make no resistance to any of His appointments. To parley with him is to be conquered. I confess it. The Spirit of God has hard work with many Christians to lead them in the right way; they are as the horse and the mule which have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle. Physically. This promise imports temporary flight. This is a rational and sober-minded process right through. "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up" (ver. Upon the edge of this terrible ability to resist God plant yourself, and behold the abyss at your feet.2. Between this and some other course there is no election; you must fight, or die. This promise imports temporary flight. only from heaven.5. Scripture References: James 4:7-10 More Messages from Robb Rexilius | Download Audio. (Ver. But the submission particularly intended here, has respect to the discipline of God. The authoritative message of Scripture (James 4:5a) c. The divine response to the worldly (James 4:5b–6) (1) The yearning of the Spirit (James 4:5b–6a) (2) The verification from Scripture (James 4:6b) B. And, among other reasons for so doing, I will mention, first, this — our ability to do it. And as those dispositions, perhaps from the comparative perfection of our moral nature, could not have been exercised in a world of unmixed gratification, so neither would they have found their proper office or object in a state of strict and evident retribution — that is, in which we had no sufferings to submit to but what were evidently and manifestly the punishment of our sins. The same way with old Satan: he tempts us by first placing some trivial thing in our path; and if we offer no resistance, he suddenly attacks us with all his force, and overcomes us.LinksJames 4:7 NIVJames 4:7 NLTJames 4:7 ESVJames 4:7 NASBJames 4:7 KJVJames 4:7 Bible AppsJames 4:7 ParallelJames 4:7 Biblia ParalelaJames 4:7 Chinese BibleJames 4:7 French BibleJames 4:7 German BibleJames 4:7 CommentariesBible Hub, (1)Word of God. James 4:7 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] James 4:7, NIV: "Submit yourselves, then, to God.Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." 3. It keeps them unsaved, and as I have already said, necessarily so, because a man who is not submissive to God is not saved; he is not saved from rebellion, he is not saved from pride, he is still evidently an unsaved man, let him "think whatever he will of himself. You are provided with armour before which he must flee.2. I wish each of you, in whatever you may purpose of evil, to feel this. "Resist" — not dispute. It is true I am a great sinner, but it is written, "Jesus Christ came to save sinners"; therefore I shall be saved! He has the universe as the witness to his conduct. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 2. 'Stop! "I tell him," replied the boy, "whether I am a Christian or not is none of his business. 2. If the sanctified are said to be "filled with the Holy Ghost," "why," said Peter to Ananias, "hath Satan filled thy heart?" It will go well with you when you make a full capitulation, an unconditional surrender. 1. His time is always ready. In this life, he flees only to rally his forces and return. You must also submit yourselves to God's way of saving you through an atoning sacrifice and by means of your personal faith in that sacrifice. Dec 06, 2020. What next? Invincible armour (Ephesians 6:10-18).III. C. Lees, D. D.In an old tower on the Continent they show you, graven again and again on the stones of one of the dungeons, the word "Resist." A famous passage is on the Power of the Tongue (3:1-12). If you say, "He calls me to account for idle words, and even for sins of ignorance, and this is hard," what is this but to call your Lord unjust? The waters behind are white with the freshening breeze; and the purposes of God, like a mighty wind, will put an increasing pressure upon the sails, and blow them grandly along. Out of this thought comes also what might be called the hopefulness of morality. Nothing brings out so sharply the personality of man as some act of sin. His decision is his decision, and against God, in whom all which is assailable by vice finds expression. The current we stand in is deep, swift, and hissing; and who of us, at times, is not swayed and staggered by it? If you have submitted, do so yet more completely, for so shall you be known to be Christians when you submit yourselves unto God. South.)ResistJ. Mark it well, it is not a part, but the whole armour which is to be put on; not one part of that armour must be missing, or we at once expose a point of attack to our adversary. South.He who would fight the devil with his own weapons must not wonder if he finds him an over match.(R. of Illustrations.A minister asked a little converted boy, "Does not the devil tell you that you are not a Christian?" Continually going about as roaring lion. Between this and some other course there is no election; you must fight, or die. We must beware of resisting him in one or more, and making this a kind of compensation for yielding to him in others.2. If the sanctified are said to be "filled with the Holy Ghost," "why," said Peter to Ananias, "hath Satan filled thy heart?" Get down on your knees before the Master; it’s the only way you’ll get o Special Messages. He shall honour you here and hereafter, conferring on you, as His children, present grace and future glory — now the foretastes, then the full fruition of heavenly blessedness. 4. Between this and some other course there is no election; you must fight, or die. )Temptation sometimes subtleJeremy Taylor, D. D.If any temptation to spoil your purposes happens in a religious duty, do not presently omit the action, but rather strive to rectify your intention and to mortify the temptation. "(Jeremy Taylor, D. D.)Fighting the devilR. The statement of the basic demand (James 4:7) "He will flee from you."1. Upon the edge of this terrible ability to resist God plant yourself, and behold the abyss at your feet.2. H. H. (Ver. His power. But constant resistance, while it strengthens the Christian, weakens the adversary.2. H. H. Murray.Nothing is more plainly taught in the Scriptures than that men are exposed to Satanic influence. Apr 9, 2000. In this life, he flees only to rally his forces and return. There must be no parleying with him, no yielding to him even in the slightest thing, no shrinking from his attack: to shrink from him is only to make him more bold, while to resist him, resting simply on the atonement of Jesus, is to drive him from us, vanquished and overcome.2. Being the child of an Aggie, I … 1. 1. We cannot put this evil thing away without grieving over it, feeling how bitter and dreadful it is, how dishonouring to God and destructive to ourselves. On some streams you can drift; but, in the rapids which plunge hellward, no man can lie on his back, and float; he must keep in quick nervous action, or sink. But again: the wisdom of this injunction, "Resist the devil," is seen when you reflect that in resistance, and resistance alone, is safety. (1) when we pray, for prayer is just the converse of the soul with God; (2) when our deepest soul-longings go out towards him, who alone can be our Portion; and. That an operation is necessary if he would regain health. Only "resist evil," only stand firm, only try, and whatever of good you in your better moments crave will come to you, and abide with you, as the light of the sun to-day comes to the earth, elicting its manifold fruitage, and illuminating it from pole to pole. His power. He applies his temptations to those lusts and passions of the old nature which remain in us, and especially to those which, by the study of our character, he knows to be the strongest, and most apt to yield — those which "most easily beset us." (3) when, along with our supplications and our heart-yearnings, we live a pure and godly life. 2. If God "worketh in Christians to will and to do," Satan is the" spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience." And before a man can have peace with God he must submit himself to the sentence of the law. A. THE FOE.1. (3)Earnest prayer.3. Scripture References: James 4:7-10 More Messages from Robb Rexilius | Download Audio. 4. Presently we waken up to the first glad consciousness of faith, to the joy of surrender, to the dawning realisation of a new life — begotten to a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.Resist the devil, and he will flee.The right warfareHomilist.I. The exhortation to the worldly (James 4:7–12) 1. He took away a beloved object, and they not only thought Him unkind and cruel at the time, but they think so still. Murray. God is in charge of deciding human destiny. ELEMENTS OF CHARACTER WHICH ENTER INTO THIS SUBMISSION. HERE YOU HAVE AMPLE SCOPE FOR YOUR FIGHTING INSTINCTS. The author identifies himself as "James, a servant [or slave] of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ" who is writing to "the twelve tribes scattered abroad". In the next place, we must resist Satan clad in the whole armour of God (Ephesians 6:11, 13). Wardlaw, D. D.1. 2. 7-9). In the next place, we must resist Satan clad in the whole armour of God (Ephesians 6:11, 13). I am to resist the secret spirit of evil as well as its outward acts. His experience. As a fleet of great merchant-men, impelled by the steady trade winds — their yards like bars of gold, their ropes like lines of ruby — go sailing at morning towards the east and the rising sun; so the race, in all its powers and motives, will be grandly luminous as it moves on into the light of the millennium. His power. James 4:7 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] James 4:7, NIV: "Submit yourselves, then, to God.Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." stop!' Can a child span with its little fingers the vast expanse of the heavens? The waters behind are white with the freshening breeze; and the purposes of God, like a mighty wind, will put an increasing pressure upon the sails, and blow them grandly along. He bids you trust His Son Jesus; will you do so or not? said I; one thing at a time; I am a great sinner, it is true, though you have no right to tell me it. H. H. 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