Our scripture text for this morning is James Chapter 4 verses 13 through 16.

Come now you who say today or tomorrow we shall go to such and such a city and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.

You are just a vapor that appears for a little

while and then vanishes away. Instead, you ought to say, if the Lord wills we shall live and also do this or that but as it is you

boast in your arrogance All such boasting is evil.

Lord, we don't want to boast and we don't want to be arrogant and we don't want to be accused of evil.

And so we ask that now as we've humbled ourselves before you in these songs, you would humble us before your word and that we would be childlike and

our readiness to hear from our Heavenly Father, from your inspired word.

Protect me from misleading these people.

Grant that I would be faithful to these straightforward teachings here in James

and that the application that you designed for us this morning would be made with a spiritual anointing that would be life-changing even saving and that all the purposes

you have for us as a church and the decades and perhaps centuries to come would be fulfilled according to your

great mercy which we ask for now in every way, every mercy, Lord we ask for in

Jesus' name, in man. This is now my 10th and final message on the theme of education for exultation as we move into our pledging this morning.

And we began on January 30th with God, and we end today with God. And we end today with God.

The text is James 4.

Keep your Bibles open, please.

13 to 16, and what I'd like to do with you is assist you in, together with me

humbling ourselves as a people under the glorious sovereignty of God over all things.

I want to walk with you through these verses. We'll begin in verse 13.

Come now, you who say, today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city and spend a year there and engage in business and make

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