Lie Not Against The Truth!
“Who is a wise man and endued
with knowledge among you? Let him show out of a good conversation
his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and
strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
This wisdom decendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual,
devilish. For where envying and strife is there is confusion and
every evil work.” James 3: 13-16
Dear friends, one of the methods
that Satan uses to try to destroy us and to ruin our testimony as a
christian is to cause us to harbor bitter envying and strife in our
heart. Satan knows the effect that bitterness and strife can have on
our mind and our bodies. It can cause an imbalance in the chemical
make up in our bodies, eventually causing breakdown and illness, and
it can cause our thinking process to be irrational and perverted;
also , it can cause our thoughts to be turned away from our blessed
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. My friend, if there is any trace of
bitterness or strife in your heart this morning as you begin this new
day, glory not, but confess it to God and lie not against the truth.
Jealousy, envy and covetousness
are all grievous sins and displeasing to God our Father who has
promised to be generous to his children and to provide for all our
needs. Bitterness, envy, strife, jealousy and covetousness are the
elements which lead to war.
“From whence come wars and
fighting among you? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war
in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have,
and can not obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not because ye ask
not. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may
consume it upon your lusts.” James 4: 1-3
Dear friend in Christ, turn to
your Lord, our Savior Jesus Christ this morning, and to the written
word which he has given us, and allow the Holy Spirit, through the
word of God to wash away all this bitterness, and to cleanse us and
make us fit vessels for the master's use. Get into the word of God,
and by the washing of the word, be clean.
“For where envying and strife
is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that is
from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be
entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and
without hypocrisy, and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of
them that make peace” James 3: 16-18
“But he giveth more grace,
wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto
the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil,
and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh
to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye
double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter
be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves
in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.” James 4: 6-10
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