6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
James 4:6-10
James declares we need to come near to God, through obedience and repentance, without which we are not acceptable.
Some who reject this use these words below:-
"Something I will never worry or fear. Is God kicking me out of his family. For he has not given me a spirit of fear. But of sound mind, Whereby I can even enter in, and call him my Abba!"
Sadly if in their hearts they have never entered into the Kingdom, they are not in Gods family, they have not been cleansed and purified, none of the promises hold true and their faith is no faith at all. In their lives their walk needs to testify of Gods word, His love, His grace, His power. If it is thorns and thistles, anger and conflict, then there has never been entering in and no Abba, only rejection, because they have never known Jesus.
Jesus says simply we must be written in the Lambs book of Life. It is He who writes us in, so you would think people would listen to Him and His definition of love of Him, to obey and follow His words and path, His encouragements and His love.
15 "If you love me, you will obey what I command.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever--
17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
John 14:15-17
But no, that is all sarcastic failure of the impossibility of walking in love and truth 24/7 so you must just believe Jesus has sorted it, and carry on being a sinner, with no pretence of righteousness or freedom or victory or change.
4 You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
James 4:4
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
James 4:6-10
James declares we need to come near to God, through obedience and repentance, without which we are not acceptable.
Some who reject this use these words below:-
"Something I will never worry or fear. Is God kicking me out of his family. For he has not given me a spirit of fear. But of sound mind, Whereby I can even enter in, and call him my Abba!"
Sadly if in their hearts they have never entered into the Kingdom, they are not in Gods family, they have not been cleansed and purified, none of the promises hold true and their faith is no faith at all. In their lives their walk needs to testify of Gods word, His love, His grace, His power. If it is thorns and thistles, anger and conflict, then there has never been entering in and no Abba, only rejection, because they have never known Jesus.
Jesus says simply we must be written in the Lambs book of Life. It is He who writes us in, so you would think people would listen to Him and His definition of love of Him, to obey and follow His words and path, His encouragements and His love.
15 "If you love me, you will obey what I command.
16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever--
17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
John 14:15-17
But no, that is all sarcastic failure of the impossibility of walking in love and truth 24/7 so you must just believe Jesus has sorted it, and carry on being a sinner, with no pretence of righteousness or freedom or victory or change.
4 You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
James 4:4