• STUDY IN THE BOOK OF JAMES WEEK 13 - JAMES 4:1-8a Pt. 2 - The Attitude of Humility

  • Feb 9 2025
  • Length: 33 mins
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STUDY IN THE BOOK OF JAMES WEEK 13 - JAMES 4:1-8a Pt. 2 - The Attitude of Humility

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  • Who needs grace today? Who really wants grace? Grace awaits - but notice to whom God gives grace… to the deserving? to the famous? No. It's very likely that those people miss the fact that they have NEED of grace. After all, why receive grace if you haven't done anything wrong?

    So then, God gives grace to…the low-down dirty rotten scoundrels of this life?

    Be careful before you give the church answer to that one. When we sing Amazing Grace, we DO sing the phrase "that saved a wretch like me." Grace DOES seem to be for those who NEED grace, those who are NOT perfect; the ones who do NOT have it all together. And that's what we celebrate when we sing that song - the fact that grace is available to the low-down dirty rotten scoundrels.

    But I say be careful even with THAT sort of thinking, because something is missing in that equation. I'm sure that, like me, you know people who NEED grace, but won't receive it – ironically for the same reason that those who think they are deserving won't receive it.

    James says it's all about HUMILITY. And you can be a pious do-gooder relying on your own moral behavior to make you right with God, or you can be an unrepentant sinner that doesn't care to have a connection with God because you don't want to ch



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