“The Truth About Double-Mindedness!”

James 4:1-10 James 4:1-10

(Truth Matters)

An artist’s depiction of what

the skeletal structure of the

Scottish Brothers must have looked…

The double-minded human…

Purpose:to better learn the truth concerning

double-mindedness

I Double-Minded is the Man (vv 1-6)

A. Who is Motivated for Self

James makes clear this is what makes the double-minded tick… This picture

entitled “The Narcissist”

illustrates well where self-

centeredness leads!

Willis Webb (director of Sleep Laboratory at University of Florida):

“Americans don’t sleep enough because they put pleasure above their

need for rest.”

I Double-Minded is the Man (vv 1-6)

A. Who is Motivated for Self

B. Who is a Friend to the World

Jeremiah 3:8

“And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her

away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did

not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.”

Jeremiah 5:7Jeremiah 5:7

“Why should is pardon you? Your sons have forsaken Me and sworn by those who are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery and trooped to the harlot’s

house.”

Matthew 12:39

“… an evil and adulterous generation…”

I Double-Minded is the Man (vv 1-6)

A. Who is Motivated for Self

B. Who is a Friend to the World

C. Who is Blinded by Pride

Robert Fondessy, conducted his

annual safety class for employees. He

did it from a wheelchair because his foot was broken from an accident.

II Single-Minded is the Man (vv 7-10)

A.A. Who Submits to GodWho Submits to God

B. Who Resists Satan

California marine biologist Dan Miller says the best thing to do when a shark

attacks is to…

II Single-Minded is the Man (vv 7-10)

A. Who Submits to God

B. Who Resists Satan

C. Who Draws Near to God

D. Who Humbles Himself

Conclusion and Summary

Remember our reference to the great oddity of the 15th century, the Scottish

Brothers? They lived to be 28 years old. One died five days before the other died. I read the surviving twin walked around mourning those five days “half

dead and half alive.”…