Sermon: The Heart of Conflict

“The Heart of Conflict” James 4:1-6 June 4, 2023 Pastor Nathan Currey   ----more---- James 4:1 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. 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. 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.”     God's grace gets to the heart of our conflicts by rescuing us from our selfish desires and granting us Christlike humility.      ∙ The Fight Behind the Fight      ∙ Battlefield Praying      ∙ Choosing Sides       ∙ God's Desires and Our Desires