JESUS’CONFLITS,

YOUR CONFLICTS

JAMES 4: 1 - 12

(1) What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

(2) You 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.

JAMES 4: 1 - 12

(3) You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

(4) You 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.

JAMES 4: 1 - 12(5) Or 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"?

(6) But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

JAMES 4: 1 - 12(7) Submit yourselves therefore to God.

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

(8) Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

JAMES 4: 1 - 12(9) Be wretched and mourn and weep.

Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

(10)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

JAMES 4: 1 - 12(11)Do not speak evil against one

another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

JAMES 4: 1 - 12(12)There is only one lawgiver and judge,

he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

THERE MIGHT BE A FIGHT!

You’re going to have conflict…..

Somebody’s going to get hurt,Somebody’s going to fail, Somebody’s going tomisunderstand, Somebody’s going to get bitter, Somebody’s going to get angry

WORLDLY

CONFLICT

“Worldly” means that things are put together in

a way that Satan likes. This is our natural desires, our

natural proclivities.

THREE ASPECTS OF WORDLY CONFLICTS

1. IT BEGINS WITH PASSIONS

Your emotions become untethered. You’re hurt, you’re angry, you’re upset, you’re frustrated, you’re scared.

2. IT EXPLODES INTO FIGHTING

There are some ways that we contribute to fighting, quarreling, and warring. One is questioning the motives of another. We can see people’s actions, but sometimes their motives are only seen by God.

2. IT EXPLODES INTO FIGHTING

Sometimes the fighting and the quarreling contributed to by speculation. We know part of the story, and we feel free to write the rest of the story. Sometimes the warring is contributed to through exaggeration.

3. IT INVOLVES HALF-TRUTHS AND GOSSIP

Sometimes we contribute to the warring through half-truths. We tell half the story, not the whole story. In addition, what contributes to fighting and quarreling is gossip.

SPEARING(Story of Galman)

CONFLICT CAN’T BE AVOIDED

Anybody else guilty of it in your life? Is there an option? Well, there’s worldly conflict and there’s godly conflict. We’re all sinners. Everybody we meet is a sinner. We’re in a fallen, sinful world. There’s going to be conflict. Some of you, in an effort to not have conflict, what you will do is you’ll retreat and you’ll isolate.

Friendship equals conflict, equals pain. The result is, we withdraw emotionally, we withdraw relationally. This is where someone was hurt in a church, and all of a sudden, they leave and they never go to church again—no church. The only way to avoid conflict is to avoid relationship.

Part of the cost of a relationship is conflict. This is true with coworkers, this is true with spouse, this is true with friends, this is true with people in your Faith Group. This is inevitable, and the more relationships you have, the more conflict you will have.

GODLY

CONFLICT

The goal is not to avoid all conflict, but to have godly conflict, if and

when that opportunity is set before you. Worldly conflict is natural; godly

conflict is supernatural. Worldly conflict is easy; supernatural conflict

is hard.

JAMES 4: 5 - 10(5) Or 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"?

(6) But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

JAMES 4: 5 - 10(7) Submit yourselves therefore to God.

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

(8) Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

JAMES 4: 5 - 10(9) Be wretched and mourn and weep.

Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

(10)Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

HOW DID JESUS DEAL WITH CONFLICT?

1. By the power of the Holy Spirit.God became a man. In addition to his divinity, he added humanity, and he walked humbly on the earth. He walked as wemust walk. He didn’t cheat, leaning into his divinity. Instead, he lived by the power of the Holy Spirit.

2. God gives more grace to the humble.

When people are having a conflict, they want grace, but they’re prone not to give grace, and God’s not like that.

PROVERBS 3: 34

(34)Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.

NINE THINGS HUMILITY ALLOWS

US TO DO

1. SEE OUR SIN

2. GET QUIETER,

NOT LOUDER

3. LISTEN MORE,

SPEAK LESS

4. SUBMIT TO GODLY

AUTHORITY

5. RESIST THE

DEVIL

6. DRAW NEAR TO

GOD

7. GET CLEANED UP

8. BE PATIENT

9. REFRAIN FROM

JUDGING

FAMILY, NOT ENEMY

FAITHWORKS CHRISTIAN CHURCH GLOBAL

Presented By:

Ptr. Joven C. SoroFCC Main, San Mateo Rizal, PH

6:30PM Evening ServiceMay 22, 2016

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