Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

What do you really want from God? What do you really want from the people whom God has placed in your life?

In today's episode, we continue through Paul's series, street-level Christianity from the

book of James, and in this sermon, Paul examines James four to discover what causes quarrels and

fights among us. Here's Paul. It was one of those questions of the ages. The kind of question that everybody asked at some time, asked by dear Rodney

King as Los Angeles had exploded into horrible riots in 1992.

Rodney King, who had been accosted by four Los Angeles Police Department officers on videotape,

officers who had been acquitted of their beating.

And as a result of that, Los Angeles had exploded into violence. Rodney King said, why can't we all just get along?

Not far from the question that James asked,

if you want to turn there to James 4 again in your bulletin

or in your Bible.

You experience it all the time.

It doesn't take a whole lot.

It doesn't take much to reflect.

You don't have to go too many days.

You don't have to look very far, there's conflict in your life.

I wish I could stand before you and say, my life is remarkably marked by peace.

My life is fundamentally free of conflict, but I can't.

It doesn't take me long to reflect on many, many incidents.

I was thinking as I was reading James of incidents of yesteryear, you sort of do that when

you're at a place where your children are gone and you're more

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