Faith Submits
Radical with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Some Christians say that the way to be a light to the world is to look more like the world. However, the book of James has a very different message. We’re told to live by a wisdom that is very different from the world’s wisdom, and we’re told that friendship with the world and its sinful ways is rebellion against God. It’s by humbling ourselves before God and receiving his grace that we are enabled to live lives that please God. In this message from James 3:13–4:12, David Platt points us to the kind of faith and wisdom that submits to God’s good ways rather than the sinful ways of the world.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to Radical with David Platt, a weekly podcast with sermons and messages |
| 0:05.5 | from pastor, author and teacher David Platt. |
| 0:09.4 | James chapter 3 verse 13. |
| 0:14.3 | Who is wise and understanding among you? |
| 0:17.4 | Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. |
| 0:23.1 | But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about |
| 0:27.9 | it or deny the truth. |
| 0:30.1 | Such wisdom does not come down from heaven but as earthly, unspiritual of the devil. |
| 0:36.3 | For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder in every evil practice. |
| 0:41.9 | But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace loving, consider |
| 0:48.1 | it, submiss, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. |
| 0:55.4 | Peace makers who sow and peace raise a harvest of righteousness. |
| 0:59.8 | What causes fights and quarrels among you don't they come from your desires that battle |
| 1:04.3 | within you? |
| 1:05.9 | You want something but don't get it. |
| 1:08.2 | You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. |
| 1:12.9 | You quarrel and fight. |
| 1:14.8 | You do not have because you do not ask God. |
| 1:17.9 | When you ask you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives that you may spend |
| 1:21.6 | what you get on your pleasures. |
| 1:24.8 | To adulterous people, don't you know that friendship of the world is hatred toward God? |
| 1:31.5 | Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. |
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