a community of peace james 4:1-10 sugarhill gang
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A Community of PeaceJames 4:1-10
Sugarhill Gang
Run D.M.C
The Beastie Boys
Salt ‘N’ Peppa
Urban “Hip Hop” Dictionary• Word up | wərd əp • Phat | fat • Slammin’ | slam-in• No diggity | nō dig-i-tee • Keepin’ it real | kēp in it ‘rē(ə)l • Jiggy | ‘jig-ee
Tupac Shakur
The SourceThe Scandal
Solution to Conflicts
Big IdeaUnresolved conflict tears down a community; following God’s word sustains and flourishes it
Source of Conflicts — James 4:1-3
What causes fights and quarrels among you?
(James 4:1a)
Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? (James 4:1)
You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. (James 4:2)
You do not have because you do not ask God. (cont’d James 4:2)
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. (James 4:3)
We want our own way
Source of Conflicts
You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? (James 4:4)
Scandal of Conflicts
When we fight each other, we fight against God
Solution to Conflicts
But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
“God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
(James 4:6)
Solution to Conflicts
Submit yourselves, then to God (James 4:7a)
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (James 4:7)
Solution to Conflicts
Come near to God and he will come near to you. (James 4:8a)
Solution to Conflicts
Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. (James 4:8b-9)
Solution to Conflicts
Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. (cont’d James 4:8b-9)
Solution to Conflicts
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. (James 4:10)
Solution to Conflicts
Have a relationship with Jesus
Solution to Conflicts
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. (1 John 4:7)
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. (1 John 4:8)