Why do we keep asking God for things and coming up empty?
In this message from James 4:1-6, Pastor Dennis finishes what he started last week and walks the church through James's diagnosis of a divided heart. The conflict we experience isn't coming from the culture outside. It's coming from the desires at war inside each of us. And James doesn't stop at naming the problem. He carries us all the way to the one word that changes everything: but.
In this message:
- Why some prayers go unanswered, and the two reasons James gives
- What it means that James calls the church adulterous, and why only a covenant partner can commit that particular betrayal
- How to be genuinely involved in culture without being wooed away by it
- Why the Scriptures, not the pastor or the denomination, are the final authority
- The difference between the Spirit of God in you and the self-will that never stopped fighting Him
- Why the holiness of a church rests on submission rather than performance
"The holiness of this church is not dependent upon our performance, but it's dependent upon our submission to the perfection of His holiness at work in us."
