Talk

You Adulterous People

Ben Stuart
November 10, 2019

“The issue is not the issue; it’s how you respond to the issue that is the issue.”

Godly wisdom brings order out of chaos, and wisdom is shown in good conduct and humility. Ben Stuart continues our study through the book of James by contrasting the pursuit of selfish ambition with the humble pursuit of Christ.

Scripture References

1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?
2You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
3When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
5Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?
6But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

“God opposes the proud

but shows favor to the humble.”

7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
20But like a woman unfaithful to her husband,

so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,”

declares the

Lord
.

5For your Maker is your husband—

the

Lord
Almighty is his name—

the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;

he is called the God of all the earth.

Ben Stuart
Ben Stuart
Ben Stuart is the pastor of Passion City Church D.C. Prior to joining Passion City Church, Ben served as the executive director of Breakaway Ministries on the campus of Texas A&M. He also earned a master’s degree in historical theology from Dallas Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Donna, live to inspire and equip people to walk with God for a lifetime.