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Verse 7. _SUBMIT - TO GOD_] Continue to bow to all his decisions, and
to all his dispensations.
_RESIST THE DEVIL_] He cannot conquer you if you continue to resist.
Strong as he is, God never permit...
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SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD - That is, in his arrangements for
obtaining his favor. Yield to what he has judged necessary for your
welfare in the life that is, and your salvation in the life to...
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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...
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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...
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MAN'S PLEASURE OR GOD'S WILL? (James 4:1-3)...
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Renegades to your vows, do you not know that love for this world is
enmity to God? Whoever makes it his aim to be the friend of this world
thereby becomes the enemy of God. Do you think that the sayin...
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_Submit yourselves therefore to God_ The forms of the Greek verbs
express a somewhat sharper antithesis than the English. God SETTETH
HIMSELF against the proud, therefore, SET YOURSELVES AS UNDER God....
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ὙΠΟΤΆΓΗΤΕ ΟΥ̓͂Ν ΤΩ͂Ι ΘΕΩ͂Ι. Therefore, in this
warfare, take God’s side, place yourself under Him as Captain.
Polyb. uses οἱ ὑποταττόμενοι or
ὑποτεταγμένοι for ‘subjects.’
The passage which follows i...
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CH.
4:1–12. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE DESIRES OF THE FLESH WHICH ARE THE
CAUSE OF EVIL CONTENTION...
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_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:...
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SUBMIT YOURSELVES— _"Subject yourselves therefore to God,_ and,
being listed in his army, keep the rank which he hath assigned you."
Thus much is implied by the word υποταγητε....
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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...
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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...
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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will
flee from you.
SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD - so ye shall be among "the
humble" (; also ; ).
RESIST THE DEVIL. Under his ba...
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VERSE 7 SUBMIT YOURSELVES, THEREFORE, UNTO GOD.
From the foregoing considerations James would say to the brethren
addressed: It is plain to you that the course that you have been
pursuing is wrong, an...
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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...
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4:7 patience, (a-1) 'Have it done,' not 'be doing it;' the aorist
tense. All the imperatives (ten) from vers. 7 to 10 are in the aorist....
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DENUNCIATION OF GREED AND LOVE OF PLEASURE
1. Lusts] better, 'pleasures.'...
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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...
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SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD. (_But_) RESIST THE DEVIL. — The
hardest advice of all, to a man reliant on himself, is submission to
any, more especially to the Unknown. But, as a correlative to t...
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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...
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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...
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ὑποτάγητε οὖν τῷ θεῷ : _Cf._ Hebrews 12:9, οὐ
πολὺ μᾶλλον ὑποταγησόμεθα τῷ πατρὶ
τῶν πνευμάτων καὶ ζήσομεν. It is not a
question of subjection either to God or the devil, but rather one of
the choice...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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(5) Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will
flee from you.
(5) The conclusion: We must set the positive virtues against those
vices, and therefore whereas we obeyed the sugg...
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_Be subject therefore to God; humble yourselves in his sight,
considering your own nothing. (Witham)_...
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(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...
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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...
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_THE COMBAT WITH EVIL_
‘Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.’
James 4:7
Temptation is the root of sin: if you want to fight against sin you
must look to the root of it, and you must resist...
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7_Submit yourselves_. The submission which he recommends is that of
humility; for he does not exhort us generally to obey God, but
requires submission; for the Spirit of God rests on the humble and th...
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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...
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Ver. 7 SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD,.... To the will of God,
with respect to worldly things, and be content with such things as are
enjoyed, and be satisfied with the portion that is allotted; i...
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Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee
from you.
Ver. 7. _Submit yourselves therefore to God_] Gr. υποταγητε,
set yourselves under him, not above him; as the proud per...
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_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...
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SUBMIT-TO GOD; be resigned to his will, be content with the allotments
of his providence, and lay aside all envious desires.
RESIST THE DEVIL; by refusing to do wrong, for the accomplishment of
any o...
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A humble state of mind demanded of Christians:...
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SUBMIT YOURSELVES, THEREFORE, TO GOD. RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL
FLEE FROM YOU....
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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...
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What does it mean to submit? Explain - how we submit to: Authority,
law, government Husband, head of house Christ, head of church What
power does Satan have? Can we resist the devil? How can we resist...
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"Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from
you"."Submit therefore" -In view of the grace available to the humble
child of God, submission to God makes all the sense in the world....
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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...
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SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD; viz. voluntarily and freely, and
that not only in a way of obedience to all his commands, but (which is
chiefly meant here) in a way of humility, and sense of your...
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James 4:7 Therefore G3767 submit G5293 (G5649) God G2316 Resist G436
(G5628) devil G1228 and G2532 flee...
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‘Be subject therefore to God.'
The phrase is possibly based on Psalms 37:7 LXX. ‘Submit yourself to
YHWH'. They are therefore to subject themselves humbly to God, as
Joshua the High Priest had done be...
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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...
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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...
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James 4:7. Now follow several exhortations to enforce humility and the
subjection of the passions.
SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD. Because God resisteth the proud,
therefore submit yourselves to...
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BE SUBJECT THEREFORE UNTO GOD
(υποταγητε ουν τω θεω). Second aorist (ingressive)
passive imperative of υποτασσω, old verb, to range under
(military term also). Same form in 1 Peter 2:23; 1 Peter 5:5...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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SO THEN. "Submit yourselves to God, especially when you try to convert
the pagans!" RESIST THE DEVIL, who by filling you with pride and
anger, seduces you to use unholy methods to spread your religion...
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_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...
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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)....
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_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...
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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....
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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,...
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1 Peter 2:13; 1 Peter 5:8; 1 Peter 5:9; 1 Samuel 3:18; 2 Chronicles
30:
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Submit yourselves [υ π ο τ α γ η τ ε]. Rev., be subject. The
verb means to place or arrange under; as resist (ver. 6) is to array
against. God sets himself in array against the proud; therefore, array...
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Therefore by humbly submitting yourselves to God, resist the devil —
The father of pride and envy....
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That is, "Submit to his government and authority, to his preceptive
and commanding will, and to his providential and disposing will:
submit yourselves to the guidance of his word, to the direction of...