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JAMES 4
1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
2You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.
3You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
4You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Ephesians 4:1-4 New Living Translation (NLT)
Unity in the Body
4 Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God. 2 Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. 3 Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace. 4 For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future.
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Conclusion:
(Colossians 3:14 NKJV) (14) But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection.
(1 Peter 4:8 NKJV) (8) And above all things have fervent love for one another, for "love will cover a multitude of sins."
(John 13:34-35 NKJV) (34) "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. (35) "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
(1 Thessalonians 4:9-10 NKJV) (9) But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; (10) and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more;
(1 Thessalonians 3:12-13 NKJV) (12) And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you, (13) so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and F
D. Love As Related to Its Source
(1 John 4:7-19 NKJV)
(7) Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. (8) He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
(9) In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. (10) In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
(11) Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (12) No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
(13) By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. (14) And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. (15) Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
(16) And we have known and believ
C. Love As Related to Faith and Hope
(1 Corinthians 13:13 NKJV) (13) And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
FAITH
(Galatians 2:16 NKJV) (16) "knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
(Hebrews 11:6 NKJV) (6) But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
(2 Corinthians 5:7 NKJV) (7) For we walk by faith, not by sight.
(1 John 5:4-5 NKJV) (4) For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith. (5) Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
(1 Peter 1:5 NKJV) (5) who are kept by the power of God through
A. Love As Related to Gifts
(1 Corinthians 12:31 NKJV) (31) But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.
(1 Corinthians 13:1-3 NKJV) (1) Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. (2) And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. (3) And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
(Galatians 5:22 NKJV) (22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
(Matthew 7:22 NKJV) (22) "Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'
(John 15:8, 16 NKJV) (8) "By this My Father is glorified, that you bear
(Zechariah 4:6-7 NKJV) (6) So he answered and said to me: "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: 'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' Says the LORD of hosts. (7) 'Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! And he shall bring forth the capstone With shouts of "Grace, grace to it!" ' "
(2 Peter 1:2-3 NKJV) (2) Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, (3) as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue...
(Acts 14:26-27 NKJV) (26) From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work which they had completed. (27) Now when they had come and gathered the church together, they reported all that God had done with them, and that He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
(1 Corinthians 15:10 NKJV) (10) But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
(2 Corinthians 9:8 NKJV) (8) And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.
Romans 7:4, Philippians 1:11, Acts 4:33
[Rom 7:4 NKJV] 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another--to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God.
[Phl 1:11 NKJV] 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which [are] by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
[Act 4:33 NKJV] 33 And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all.
(James 4:6 NKJV) (6) But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: "God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble."
(2 Corinthians 3:3-5 NKJV) (3) clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. (4) And we have such trust through Christ toward God. (5) Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,
(Romans 5:2 NKJV) (2) through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
(Romans 1:17 NKJV) (17) For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
(Hebrews 12:2 NKJV) (2) looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of
(2 Timothy 2:1-7 NKJV) (1) You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. (2) And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. (3) You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. (4) No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. (5) And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. (6) The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops. (7) Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.
(Hebrews 13:9 NKJV) (9) Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
Grace is for New Birth and Grace is for Growing and Maturing! Ephesians 1:7, 2:7,8 Romans 5:1,2
John 1:14 "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. ... 16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, [but] grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."
Results of Being Filled with the Spirit in Acts: • Acts 1:8
• Acts 2:1-4, 7-8, 11
• Acts 2:14+, 22-24
• Acts 4:8+
• Acts 4:31
• Acts 9:17-22
• Acts 10:44, 46
• Acts 19:5-6
The Empowering of the Spirit
Synonymous Terms: “with” and “in” (John 14:17) and “upon” (Acts 1:8) Acts 1:5 and 1:8 and 2:4
Results of Being Filled with the Spirit in Acts: Acts 1:8 Acts 2:1-4, 7-8, 11
The Transforming Work of the Spirit (Continued...)
• Romans 8:5-6
• Galatians 5:16
• Galatians 5:25
• Galatians 6:8
New Birth (Continued...) • 2 Corinthians 5:17
The Indwelling of the Spirit • John 14:16-17; John 20:22
• Ezekiel 36:27
• Romans 8:9
• John 15:26
John 16:13
• 1 Corinthians 3:16
• 1 Corinthians 2:12
"...As it is written, "He who glories (or boasts), let him glory in the LORD." 1 Corinthians 1:31
The Preeminence of Christ Luke 10:38-42 John 5:39, 40 1 Corinthians 1:23,24 Galatians 2:20 Philippians 1:21 Philippians 4:13 Hebrews 12:2