Ambassador Bible Fellowship

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

I. Internal Humility: Essential Attitude to Repent (4:5-6) II. External Fruit of Humility: Repentance in Action (4:7-9) III. Rewards of Humility: Exalted by Christ (4:10)

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

I. Sinful desires—that wage war within the heart—cause church conflicts (1-3) * Question: What is causing all the quarrels and fights among you? * Answer: Isn’t it your desires battling inside you? (4:1) 1. 1st sinful heart desire that can cause conflict within the church is uncontrolled desires 2. 2nd sinful heart desire that can cause conflict within the church is unfulfilled desires 3. 3rd sinful heart desire that can cause conflict within the church is selfish desires II. Spiritual adultery—choosing to befriend the world instead of God—is why Pretenders desire sinful pleasures (4-5) * Implied Question: As professing believers, why are you choosing to gratify your sinful desires and cause conflict in the church? * Implied Answer: You have chosen to befriend the World, become an enemy of God 1. To become a friend of God [Christian], a genuine believer must forsake his previous friendship with the world 2. The Scriptures have always taught that the natural man—

I. Believers prove they fear God by their righteous, gentle lifestyle (3:13) II. Holy Seed: Believers Embrace God’s Holy Wisdom (3:17) III. Transformed Heart: Genuine Believers will Reflect God as They Bless Others (3:17b) IV. Righteous Fruit: Righteousness is the Harvest of Peacemakers (3:18) V. Challenge: Which Source of Wisdom Have You Embraced? Need to Embrace?

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

I. Genuine Believers fear God and turn away from evil (13) 1. Job (28:12, 23, 28) a. Wisdom = fear the Lord b. Understanding = know and avoid evil 2. Moses (Deut. 4:5-6, 32:28-29) a. If keep God’s statutes, then your wisdom, understanding observed by watching Gentiles 3. Solomon (Prov. 4:13-26) a. Wise, Understanding man will be blessed: long life, riches, honor, peace, eternal life, happiness II. Pretenders deceive themselves and others that they are Christians (14-16); 1. Bad Seed: Pretenders embrace earthly, fleshly and demonic wisdom (15) 2. Corrupt Root: Pretender’s heart will be motivated by bitter jealousy, selfish ambition (14) 3. Rotten Fruit: Pretenders will reap a life of disorder, every evil thing (16)

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.

Listen to one of the sermons from our Sunday morning services.