Submitting to God (Part 2 of 3)

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Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Breaking a bad habit isn't a simple decision to stop the behavior; it's a continual battle. Similarly, following God requires sustained resistance to Satan's lies, deceits, and temptations. Find out how to do that on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.

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0:00.0	Any one who has ever tried to break a bad habit knows it takes more than willpower, more
0:29.7	than simply deciding to stop the behavior. It's an ongoing battle. Well, in the same way, when we
0:36.6	determine to turn from sin and follow God, that requires continual resistance to the devil's
0:44.3	lies, his deceit, and his temptation. So how do we do that? We'll find out today on Truth for Life.
0:51.7	Alistair Begg is teaching from James chapter 4, we're studying verses 7 through 10.
1:02.8	How do we resist the devil so that he might flee from us? Well, we could say many things in response
1:09.0	to this, but let's just say three and briefly. Number one, we resist him humbly, humbly, in the
1:16.6	awareness of the fact that we can't resist him apart from the strength that God provides.
1:23.6	That's the significance of verse 6. He gives more grace. Submit to God, resist the devil. How am I
1:31.2	going to do that? He gives more grace. The hymn writer says, I have no strength but thine to lean
1:37.0	upon. When Paul attacks the issue of the Christian warfare in Ephesians chapter 6, he starts in exactly
1:45.1	the same way. When he says, finally, be strong and put on the full armor of God. What's missing?
1:56.4	Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. It's to say, come on, now be strong,
2:04.3	is an invitation to disappointment and despair because we're not strong. And we collapse with
2:11.2	relative ease. So the exhortation is aligned with the encouragement. Be strong in the Lord and in his
2:21.3	mighty power. Now go ahead and do this. But we need to be humble enough to say, I have no strength.
2:27.3	I've said the strength that you provide, which is hard for most of us who feel that we can handle
2:32.4	most things. The starting point is I can't. And until we say I can't, we'll never really be able to
2:40.5	say I can. It seems so obvious, doesn't it? So if we come to resist him humbly, we may do so also
2:50.0	confidently. Confidently, how can we say that? Because of the promise, resist the devil. That's
2:55.0	what we're supposed to do. And he will flee from you. The two great dangers in relationship to
3:00.7	the devil and Satan and so on are either to become totally preoccupied with him, so that we
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