Pastor Ron Roddey
"How To Be Close To God"
Cornerstone Baptist Church
Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
From
James Chapter 4
4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence,
even of your lusts that war in your members?
4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot
obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume
it upon your lusts.
4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of
the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of
the world is the enemy of God.
4:5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that
dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the
proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will
flee from you.
4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands,
ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to
mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you
up.
4:11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of
his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and
judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the
law, but a judge.
4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art
thou that judgest another?
4:13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a
city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your
life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then
vanisheth away.
4:15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do
this, or that.
4:16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
4:17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him
it is sin.
