going to be a james chapter four we're going to go over through verses one and ten i'm use an american standard bible you can use any version watch as long as it is truly a bible version we're going to reverse this one to ten and then we're going to break it down what is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members you lust and do not have so you commit murder your envious they cannot obtain see a fighting call you do not have because you do not ask you ask and do not receive because you ask what's wrong motives so that you may spend it on your own pleasures you adulteresses so you do not know that friendship with the role is hostility towards god therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of god or  you think that the scripture speaks to no purpose he jealously desire as a spare which is made to dwell in us but he gives us a greater grace to first says god as opposed to the proud but gives grace to the humble submit therefore to god resist the devil and he will flee from you draw near to god any will draw near to you cleanse your hands you centers and purify your hearts you double minded be miserable and we let your laughter be turned into morning and your joy to gloom humble yourselves to the present the lord and he will exalt you this pray tell me father i pray that we will learn a principle of how we can walk in victory as we take some of the steps that it talks about in this passage james for one to ten victor with the bible i'm going to work at james one through ten through a start of verse ten to work our way up that's weird but actually what i want to teach you if you apply the principles from verse ten up you have more much more he's talking to christians he says you're living in the world and he says you're going to have these conflicts you have these cross because you're living in the world and then he gives us some steps but again i want to look at the steps i want to go backwards on the steps i'm going to find out why i'm going to go backwards so if you start a first how many christians want to brag about how good they are about this that or everything else and they want to get more glory than god gets the glory i'm a guy wants to get to glory says his humble yourselves the present lord and he will exalt you or build you up he will lift you in the days of this room and i'm a christian and i'm living in that way and then i start trying to resist what the devil's due to my life i mean no the devil's going to act as jollies off to you to tell me what to do you claim to be a christian you're doing this you're doing that who are you were yourself you know what he says that you say who am i am a nobody but i know who jesus is in me you see the difference sa many christians are trying to fight the battle themselves to try to quit a certain sent a certain bad habit they're trying to do all these different things they're doing on their own strength the very first day is humble yourself before god of that god lift you up that let him remind you who you are in christ i'm more than a conqueror in christ jesus but if i'm is that what is talkin about that's the most time but you know us talking about is talking about repent is talking about being sorrowful for the sins of your life is talking about you know how many know that in the i don't judge much the load the last because i think the last people do a lost people do the last people do they see it right anybody know that they sin they don't even at the get up in the morning know that we struggle with them how many know some struggle more than others how many know that sometimes yet to fight the good fight of faith and by faith you're going to get through this ok we're i have a problem with is when there are christians who are in the midst of know who was joking about getting drunk and trying to get another pastor never drank to get drunk he never drank before what you need to do is get drunk and find out what it's like that makes me angry it makes my god much a god i need you to change my heart i need to change my way of thinking i need you to do surgery on me because i'm having this battle in this war was sin and the problem is i still like this then why do you think some drug addicts never stop they like it no matter what they tell you they like it they're lying to you i don't really like doing this really if you really don't like doing what you're not fine help what you find a way out what about that that that that that christian that all they do is they gossip about everybody all they do is gossip and talk about everybody else how many know that some people like to gossip this so this is an example my wife does not gossip has anybody ever heard my wife gossip knows so this is an example because i want to pick on somebody else ok i get away with her would have my wife is a gossiper in the church that's one problem but you know what the next problem is is there by that goes to the gossip or to hear the gossip the listener that's the bigger problem because the should be if she's known as the gossip everybody says i'm staying away from her one day i grew to listen to her i know someone else has to listen about me to later on because she's not just talking about this person she's talking about everybody in the in that in the church because she's the gossiper and what really bothers me is when a person who has that kind of a the gossiper that's going to put the guts of her brows that i know i don't i don't see that problem this church a great thing for that and you know what is your responsibility congregation make sure that cost up stops so if we get somebody new that comes in the church they become the gossip it's your job to walk and say you know well in this church we just don't talk about each other now there's these that we talk i mean obviously talk to me as a struggle we may say something you know i do have the difference right ok and so out of it is that is says here be visible so a gossiper sh to you cleanse your hands you sinners appear for hearts your double mine and we're going backwards so the next thing we should do is take care of a double bind and this no double minded means wishy washy i might i'm not sure if i want to ser but what a double minded person is one day they're serving god the next day they're not one day i you know this pick some sin that nobody has that should be this if i could pick a sin that nobody has i'm not going to double mine it is they say i want to control my eating but when and then when they guess what them in their home you see how far do i go i know you don't touch ice cream you don't touch ice cream no you don't touch my cher because i can't stop with a little bit so i don't eat it whole at church but i'm and home of my secret closet i eat a gallon would that be double minded yes i don't do that my wife will testify to that i don't by the way because i keep bringing up the ice cream and you people want to bring up the ice cream you know your gossipers bring up ice cream problem ok i forgive you for gossiping but i'll just have you know there has been a pint of some of the best ice cream there is this in the refrigerator i ate my half or my two third whatever it is and karma has been there and it ice cream is going bad because it's been there a week and a half and she hasn't touched it it is going to go bad someday i'll have to rescue it before it goes bad but as of now i have not touched that ok because i don't want to be double minded now in the midst of the joking again is just ice cream but it's called self control it's called what god tells you to do not do you see i'd think i can't preach about stop doing drugs if i can't stop doing ice cream that a good thing you know to be absent from ice cream ok and if i eat ice cream guess what it won't destroy my marriage now if i eat twenty gallons of it and i get to be big that might destroy my marriage i don't know but out of that ice cream is much different than drugs as much different than still and from your ploy is much different than committed adultery is all those things but the principle still the same is called self control is that the right princip harbor yourselves your knowledge of fact i need to have self control just as much as anybody else does but what does this say your double mind is so we don't want to be double minded so then we turn around no no no no guess what do you have to do you have to keep saying what no no no no no no i'm not going to i'm not going to i'm not going to i think it's funny you did it was i'm not thinking it was and here dentist says i remember going backwards cleanse your hands you sinners who see writing to christians and he saying cleanse your heart you sinners are christians still hands is god the closer hands we are to cleanse your hands so it's as clear as your hands what does that mean cleanse your hands you sinners soul how many know that when we sin we eithe right how do you think you display it if i stand here am i saying trick question because what if this is a bar and i walked in and i'm an alcoholic did i sin so i'm not just standing there in the bar do i get there i walk so this is close your hand says what is talking about is cleanse the things that you do change the behavior that you do what kind of behavior do you have you need to change it you need to change it not the holy spirit change it you need to change it by the power of the holy spirit why because if i'm a sinner and i say i please your hands so i take my hands i like stealing but i'm really good because i only still from places like north from that can afford it i want to still at the mom and pop shop they can afford it so i'm a good street fight old i don't i'm a respectable thief so i turn around i still for nordstrom's i'm using my hands the sin he says cleanse your hands  what not still is a choice that i make if i still are not all the devil made me do it can the devil chitter chatter is that it has to be a choice that you say i wouldn't cleanse my hands i'm not going to do what i'm going to do anymore as a choice you make so now this look at it is as clear as your hands you sinners purify your hearts you double minded so i clear my hands by what i got to change the way i think and i need to be don't draw near to god and god doesn't draw near to you is that true well this think about it if i'm in the midst of willful ongoing sin does god just show up and say hey i just want to join in with you does he draw  all praises as i thank you so much i pass i'm able to tie it because of the drugs i sold absolutely i might still be sinning but i think god i need your help is he then obligated come back to you absolutely absolutely so we draw near to god god draws near to us so if we're not drawing near to god and we expect  you have to do submit to god then resist the devil how many people resist the devil but they're not submitted to god so if we go backwards look at it again  before god first nine re pent verse eight we changed the way we do think we make sure god changes our heart that we allow him to change our heart that we stop doing what we're doing we change our behavior then we draw near to god and god draws near to us then we resist the submit until you humble and i think that if we're not careful or try to submit to god when we have it become home will be for god yet and our submission is not going to be very good and so this minute therefore to god resist the devil and if the from you draw near to god and he will draw near to you cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts you double minded be miserable mourn and weep let your laughter be turned into morning and your joy t that way said to be a lot of people that are in recovery and this is a church and some people should be in recovery because i think there's some christians that can be in recovery too i don't think this to do it just drugs it could be anything and everything but it says to some people recovery and we hear about the twelve step step one is is how i live is affecting my relationship with others respect to my relationship with god and are you hombre enough to say this thing has power over me and then are you able to say this is also make my life unmanageable because guess what if there's a certain sin bad habit whatever game you want to call it if it's having some power over you it is making your life a manageable because it becomes rears its ugly head winds become unmanageable because it wants attention sin satisfied for just to be pleased for the moment no sin wants attention and why is my life become unmanageable because i'm trying to control the sin and trying to control the other part of my life and i'm but just to try to control and manage everything in my life and it's all fall in omnipresent he's everywhere when we know that god that means that god knows my situation us or whatever i'm struggling with whatever it is i'm dealing with god knows about it god is aware of it god has a solution to a because he is all powerful and then guess what i i myself before him i say god i give this to you i need you to deal with this issue in my life i need your help i am crying out to you lord i am weeping because of the consequences of this sin are if i don't stop this then what happens to me i'll die all experience a loss loss of a relationship loss of finances whatever it may be lost a relationship with god that should be the most important thing and so out of then this step three is i turn myself over to th higher power to myself over to god and what that means i draw near to god i draw near to god god i just want more of you listen if when we struggle to  we more of god as did the sin we do have the victory but how many know that as christians the devil if you have sin in your life and your christian the devil tells you you can't get close to god how dare you try to get close to god you claim to be a christian look how you're living anybody ever hear that he's a liar and what does it need to be say satan you're a liar but in the midst of sin the devil wants us to draw nearer to him  say god here i am take me god do it you got to do in my life god change whatever you gotta change lord i was saying here i am large change the way i think change my heart lord change my actions change everything about me lord god make me a new creation in christ jesus lord i know you've made me a new creation this is this a billard now and this there i need you to make me a new creation this area has a lot here i am and i just give it to you that should be our prayer this should be our heart this should be our call so how about you is there something you're struggling with there's something that you can't get the victory in is it time to draw near to god it is a time to humble yourself before almighty god is it time to say god i need your grace i need your power and if you have that got a heart god can do something amazing how much closer prayer don't open up the altar to that if you want to come up to this altar and there's something that you need to give to god that you want to say i have i want to give this to god i want god led god to have this then i ask that you to come up you have been listening to me there is so with pastor richard over through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle open door church located in period committed to loving god loving people and loving an open door church once you are known but regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you there doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven seattle open door church is located at six twenty five south west one hundred forty ninth street in period next to the southwest courthouse