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James 4 ERV · ERV Bible Reading

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  SPEAKER_00: James 4, give yourselves to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you know where your fights and arguments come from?
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  SPEAKER_00: They come from the selfish desires that make war inside you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want things, but you don't get them.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you kill and are jealous of others, but still you cannot get what you want.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you argue and fight.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't get what you want because you don't ask God or when you ask, you don't receive anything because the reason you ask is wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: You only want to use it for your own pleasure.
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  SPEAKER_00: You people are not faithful to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: You should know that loving what the world has is the same as hating God.
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  SPEAKER_00: So anyone who wants to be friends with this evil world becomes God's enemy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you think the scriptures mean nothing?
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  SPEAKER_00: The scriptures say the Spirit God made to live in us wants us only for Himself, but the kindness God shows is greater.
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  SPEAKER_00: As the scripture says, God is against the proud, but he is kind to the humble.
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  SPEAKER_00: So give yourselves to God, stand against the devil and he will run away from you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Come near to God and He will come near to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are sinners, so clean sin out of your lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Make your thinking pure.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be sad, be sorry and cry.
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  SPEAKER_00: Change your laughter into crying.
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  SPEAKER_00: Change your joy into sadness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be humble before the Lord, and he will make you great.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are not the judge.
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  SPEAKER_00: Brothers and sisters, don't say anything against each other.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you criticize your brother or sister in Christ or judge them, you are criticizing and judging the law.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when you are judging the law, you are not a follower of the law.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have become a judge.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is the one who gave us the law and he is the judge.
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  SPEAKER_00: He is the only one who can save and destroy.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it is not right for you to judge anyone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let God plan your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of you say today or tomorrow we will go to some city, we'll stay there a year, do business and make money.
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  SPEAKER_00: Listen, think about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't know what is going to happen tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your life is like a fog.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can see it for a short time, but then it goes away.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you should say if the Lord wants, we will live and do this or that, but now you are proud and boast about yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: All such boasting is wrong.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you fail to do what you know is right, you are sinning.