13Come now, you who say,"Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"— 14yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15Instead you ought to say,"If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." 16As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
1Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. 2Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. 4Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you.
A Community of Justice II - Dr. Keller
7th Sermon in Series : The Gospel in Community - The Book of James
- What is our problem? We boast about our plans and our lives.
- Life Control Illusion - We need to recognize that success or failures in our lives are beyond our control
- Jeremiah 9
- Why is this a problem? Assumes that we know enough about the future to control it which can lead to anxiety and overconfidence
- Acts 2 - Everything is set, but its still our fault for killing Jesus
- Americans have a hard time dealing with tragedies in general because we think we know how things should be
- Life is like a transient puff of air in the cold; receiving the holy spirit means receiving God's breath.
- 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
- Jesus gave the ultimate sacrifice of control when he died on the cross because he could have stopped it but took one for the team (us).
- Romans 8:28
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