JAMES 4:13-14
Adapted from R. L. Sumner by Pastor Rick Jackson
God uses James to ask us, “What is your life?” We would do well to take inventory of our lives. Where am I going? What am I accomplishing? What are my plans… hopes… aims? What am I achieving for God? As we focus on our lives let us look at three specific areas.
I. WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF YOUR LIFE?
1. God - Acts 17:24-28, Jonah 2:9
2. Bible - 1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
3. Local Church - Acts 2:42, Heb. 10:25, 1 Timothy 3:15
II. WHAT IS THE COURSE OF YOUR LIFE?
2 Timothy 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
1. Is it Primarily for Self or the Saviour? [I Cor. 10:31, Eph. 5:11, 15-17]
2. Is it Primarily for Time of Eternity? [Mt. 6:19-21, 33; Proverbs 13:7]
There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.
3. Is it Primarily for Waste or Wealth? [I Cor. 3:11-15]
III. WHAT IS THE FORCE OF YOUR LIFE?
1. Is it Powerful Convictions? [Dan. 1:8, 3:16-18]
1 Samuel 17:29 And David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?
2 Timothy 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
Acts 5:29 …We ought to obey God rather than men.
2. Is it Providential Compassion? [Ps. 126:5-6, Jude 22-23]
3. Is it the Personal Comforter? [Jn. 14:16-26, Eph. 5:17-20]
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