List some ways we can draw nearer to God. How does God become nearer to us? Discuss the song I come to the garden alone - “He walks with me and talks with me” Discuss the song My God and I. How do we cleanse our hands? How can we purify our hearts? Explain how we can be double-minded. Is this the same as the double-minded man in James 1:8 ?
Verse 8. _DRAW NIGH TO GOD_] Approach HIM, in the name of Jesus, by faith and prayer, and _he will draw nigh to you_-he will _meet_ you at your coming. When a soul sets out to seek God, God sets out t...
DRAW NIGH TO GOD, AND HE WILL DRAW NIGH TO YOU - Compare 2 Chronicles 15:2. This declaration contains a great and important principle in religion. If we wish the favor of God, we must come to him; nor...
IV. FURTHER EXHORTATIONS TO RIGHT LIVING CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Fightings and worldliness rebuked (James 4:1)_ 2. The Godly walk (James 4:7) James 4:1 A strong rebuke follows the statements concerning the...
The climax of the last paragraph leads to a diagnosis of the disease that poisoned quarrelsome Jewish communities. Faction fights were the logical outcome of unbridled passions; they campaign against...
Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to sorrow, and your joy to gloom. Humble yourself before God an...
MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
PURIFY. Greek. _hagnizo._ See Acts 21:24. Used of Levitical purifying four times. Used here, 1Pe 1:22. 1 John 3:3, in. spiritual sense. DOUBLE MINDED. See James 1:8....
The Call to Repentance 8. _Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you_ The "nearness to God," to which the promise is attached, is primarily that which is involved in all true and earnest prayer,...
ΚΑΘΑΡΊΣΑΤΕ ΧΕΙ͂ΡΑΣ κ.τ.λ. Comp. Psalms 24:4 ἀθῶος χερσὶ καὶ καθαρὸς τῇ καρδίᾳ κ.τ.λ. and 1 Peter 1:22 τὰς ψυχὰς ὑμῶν ἡγνικότες ἐν τῇ ὑπακοῇ τῆς�. ἉΜΑΡΤΩΛΟΊ … ΔΊΨΥΧΟΙ. Those addressed in this paragraph...
CH. 4:1–12. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH WHICH ARE THE CAUSE OF EVIL CONTENTION...
_DO NOT BE GUILTY OF WORLDLINESS-- JAMES 4:6-10:_ James said, "God resisteth the proud." Pride is the great hindrance to righteousness. Pride leads the list of the seven things God hates. (Proverbs 6:...
ΈΓΓΊΣΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΈΓΓΊΖΩ (G152)) приближаться, подходить, ΈΓΓΙΕΪ́ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΈΓΓΊΖΩ. Об обороте с _imper._ и последующим FUT., как типе _conj._, _см._ James 4:7. ΚΑΘΑΡΊΣΑΤΕ _a...
DISCOURSE: 2371 REPENTANCE URGED [Note: For Ash-Wednesday.] James 4:8. _Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double-minded. Be af...
DRAW NIGH TO GOD,— This seems to be an allusion to the manner in which the Jews in general, or rather the priests, drew nigh to God, by going to the temple, while the _Shechinah,_ the glorious emblem...
CHAPTER VIII _CAUSE AND REMEDY OF STRIFE_ James 4:1-12 _Introduction_ Can it be possible that the church of Jesus Christ could descend to the sins mentioned here so soon after Pentecost? In less th...
FROM WHERE WE ARE TO WHERE WE SHOULD BE _Text 4:8b-10_ James 4:8 b. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded. James 4:9. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your...
DEDICATION TO GOD ALONE IS THE ONLY ANSWER _Text 4:4-8a_ James 4:4. Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the wo...
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. DRAW NIGH TO GOD - so "cleave unto Him" (Deuteronomy 30:20): namely, by pra...
VERSE 8 DRAW NIGH TO GOD, AND HE WILL DRAW NIGH TO YOU. Like the former, this is a most urgent exhortation. The duty is plainly and strongly stated. Draw nigh to God. How? In the way he has so plainl...
5 This passage has puzzled the commentators, and there are many and various explanations offered to solve what seems to be one of the most difficult passages in the Scriptures. A simple explanation, w...
4:8 near (a-2) Cleanse (a-12) 'Have it done,' not 'be doing it;' the aorist tense. All the imperatives (ten) from vers. 7 to 10 are in the aorist....
DENUNCIATION OF GREED AND LOVE OF PLEASURE 1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'...
DOUBLE MINDED] Notice the recurrence of the keynote struck in James 1:8....
WHAT *FAITH SHOULD DO JAMES _IAN MACKERVOY_ The word list at the end explains words with a *star by them. CHAPTER 4 DESIRES AND DIVISIONS 4:1-10 V1 You know where all the fights and quarrels...
DRAW NIGH TO GOD... — God waiteth to be gracious (Isaiah 30:18). Like the father of the prodigal son (Luke 15), He beholds us while we are “yet a great way off,” and runs, as it were, to hasten our re...
CHAPTER 18 ST. JAMES AND PLATO ON LUSTS AS THE CAUSES OF STRIFE; THEIR EFFECT ON PRAYER. James 4:1 THE change from the close of the third chapter to the beginning of the fourth is startling. St. Jam...
CHAPTER 20 THE POWER OF SATAN AND ITS LIMITS-HUMILITY THE FOUNDATION OF PENITENCE AND OF HOLINESS. James 4:7 SUBMISSION to God is the beginning, middle, and end of the prodigal's return from disastr...
ἐγγίσατε τῷ θεῷ, καὶ ἐγγίσει ὑμῖν : here, again, we have what to Christian ears sounds rather like a reversal of the order of things; we should expect the order to be that expressed in such words as,...
“DRAW NIGH TO GOD” James 4:1 The Apostle returns to “the jealousy and faction” of the previous chapter, James 3:14, and says that these evils are traceable to _lust_, that is, to inordinate desire. T...
The writer now dealt with the effect of faith on character. Everything depends on desire. To attempt to satisfy a natural desire without reference to God is futile, and issues in internal conflict and...
THE MEANS OF OVERCOMING FLESHLY DESIRE God, in his great grace, provides a means of overcoming the fleshly desire that is the source of war and strife. He has promised to provide a way of escape from...
_Purify your heart from the love of creatures, so that your affections be not divided betwixt God and this world, like persons of two minds [3] or two souls. (Witham)_ [BIBLIOGRAPHY] Duplices animo,...
(7) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (8) Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doub...
To the reader who enters on the consideration of the epistle of James from the epistles of Paul, the change is great and sudden, and by no means least of all from the epistle to the Hebrews, which, in...
8_Draw nigh to God_. He again reminds us that the aid of God will not be wanting to us, provided we give place to him. For when he bids us to draw nigh to God, that we may know him to be near to us, h...
In all that follows we have still the judgment of unbridled nature, of will in its different forms: contentions that arise from the lusts of the natural heart; request made to God proceeding from the...
DRAW NIGH TO GOD, AND HE WILL DRAW NIGH TO YOU,.... This must be understood consistently with the perfection of God's immensity and omnipresence: the saints draw nigh to God when they present their bo...
Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse _your_ hands, _ye_ sinners; and purify _your_ hearts, _ye_ double minded. Ver. 8. _Draw nigh to God_] viz. In duty, and he will draw nigh to yo...
_But he_ God, _giveth more grace_ To all those who, while they shun those tempers, sincerely and earnestly pray for it. _Wherefore he saith_, [see the margins] _God, resisteth the proud_ The unhumbled...
DRAW NIGH TO GOD; in prayer for all needed wisdom and strength to resist temptation and to persevere, whatever be the consequences, in doing right. HE WILL DRAW NIGH TO YOU; to sustain, comfort, and...
A humble state of mind demanded of Christians:...
DRAW NIGH TO GOD, AND HE WILL DRAW NIGH TO YOU. CLEANSE YOUR HANDS, YE SINNERS; AND PURIFY YOUR HEARTS, YE DOUBLE MINDED....
This chapter, to the end of v.6, continues the subject begun in Ch.3:13. Sensual. devilish wisdom was accompanied by wars and fightings: but this proceeded from the lusts of the flesh active within th...
"Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded."Draw near to God" -"come near, approach" (Thayer p. 164). Be impressed that...
1-10 Since all wars and fightings come from the corruptions of our own hearts, it is right to mortify those lusts that war in the members. Wordly and fleshly lusts are distempers, which will not allo...
DRAW NIGH TO GOD; by faith, which is a coming to God, HEBREWS 7:25; by true repentance, which is a returning to God, HOSEA 14:1 ZECHARIAH 3:7; and by fervent prayer to him for the help of his grace,...
James 4:8 near G1448 (G5657) God G2316 and G2532 near G1448 (G5692) you G5213 Cleanse G2511 ...
‘Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.' Then they can once more approach God, and He will draw near to them. He will welcome them in friendship. Then they will be able to ask and He will giv...
AS A CONSEQUENCE THEY ARE TO SUBJECT THEMSELVES TO GOD, RESIST THE DEVIL, AND DRAW NEAR TO GOD BY PURIFYING THEMSELVES AND TRULY REPENTING (JAMES 4:6). The condition of some of God's professed people...
James 4:8. DRAW NIGH TO GOD: not to be limited to prayer, but to be understood of our intercourse with God generally. AND HE WILL DRAW NIGH TO YOU. Compare the words of Zechariah: ‘Turn ye unto me,...
James 4:1-12. St. James warns his readers against those evil passions which gave rise to wars and fightings among them. They must moderate their desires, and guard against self-gratification. If they...
DRAW NIGH TO GOD (εγγισατε τω θεω). First aorist active imperative of εγγιζω, late verb from εγγυς (near) as in Matthew 3:2. With dative case again of personal relation. The priests in the sanctuar...
SINNERS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
James 4:1. _From whence come wars and fightings among you?_ Whether between nations, or parties or individuals,-if there be wars and fightings, whence do they come? James 4:1. _Come they not hence,...
CONTENTS: Rebuke of worldliness and exhortation to humility before God. CHARACTERS: God, Satan. CONCLUSION: Worldly and fleshly lusts are the distemper which will not allow contentment or satisfacti...
James 4:1. _From whence come wars and fightings among you?_ St. James saw in the Spirit the bloody and cruel wars which would rise among christian powers, much the same as among the heathen. He had a...
COME NEAR TO GOD. "Worship God with your life, with a deep sense of his holiness and justice, deal with others as he deals with you, and he will bless and assist you in your efforts to serve him! _Joh...
_Submit yourselves therefore to God_ SUBMITTING OURSELVES TO GOD I. THE DUTY OF SUBMITTING OURSELVES TO GOD. This submission has its commencement and abiding root in the reception of Christ as a Savi...
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 4:7 The only way to RESIST THE DEVIL is by submitting and drawing near to God (compare 1 Corinthians 10:13)....
JAMES—NOTE ON JAMES 4:8 CLEANSE and PURIFY are OT terms for ritual purity and ethical purity. LAUGHTER shows how casually James’s readers were treating their sin. The only proper reaction
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ James 4:5.—The precise rendering is doubtful. There is no passage either in the Canonical or Apocryphal Scriptures that is here referred to. The _Revised Version_ gives...
EXPOSITION JAMES 4:1 REBUKE OF QUARRELS ARISING FROM PRIDE AND GREED. A terribly sadden transition from the "peace" with which James 3:1. closed....
This chapter could be entitled how to win friends and influence people. Guard your tongue, bring your tongue under control, use it for good, use it to encourage to build up, don't use it to tear down,...
1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 John 3:3; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Peter 3:21; 1 Timothy 2
Purify [α γ ν ι σ α τ ε]. One of the three instances in the New Testament in which the word is not used of ceremonial purification. The others are 1 Peter 1:22; 1 John 3:3. Double minded [δ ι ψ υ χ ο...
Then draw nigh to God in prayer, and he will draw nigh unto you, will hear you; which that nothing may hinder, cleanse your hands — Cease from doing evil. And purify your hearts — From all spiritual a...
Observe here, 1. Man by nature, since his fall, is afar off from God, not barely by. natural distance as. creature, but also by. moral distance as. sinner; God made man near him, but when man sinned,...