James 4

The King James Version, with what the brothers preached on each verse.

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¹From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

2 sermons on James 4:1

“They go not in the way of Cain and do not follow Jas 4:1-3 (which we read), but rather, they follow Rom 8:6.”
Future Home #12Lee Vayle, June 5, 1988
“We go to Jas 4:1-10.”
Seed of Discrepancy #22Lee Vayle, December 31, 1995

²Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

³Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

3 sermons on James 4:3

“It's the same rotten lustful praying, as James said, "You ask amiss to consume upon your lust."[Jas 4:3]”
Faith Series #5 (God is a Good God)Lee Vayle, October 21, 1965
“It would be better to put it into the proper context and that is: every promise which is in the Book and is available to us, considering our condition, and that would mean; why we wanted it; what we would do with it when we got the answer.”
Perfect Faith #15Lee Vayle, September 27, 1987

⁴Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

3 sermons on James 4:4

“Nonsense.”
Presence #17Lee Vayle, October 31, 1981
“Let’s go to Jas 4:4 and see what James has to say about this very same thing.”
Christ & the CrossLee Vayle, March 29, 1986
“Now, Jas 4:4, and I’m going to skip a couple of places here, hoping I’ll still have continuity.”
Stewardship #14Lee Vayle, August 31, 1997

⁵Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

2 sermons on James 4:5

“James 4:5-7.”
Loathing or Loving 3182BLee Vayle, November 24, 1982
“Now, into Jas 4:5.”
Stewardship #14Lee Vayle, August 31, 1997

⁶But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

2 sermons on James 4:7

“We are taught in James 4:7…I don’t have time to read it.”
The Greatest Battle Ever FoughtWilliam Branham, March 11, 1962. Names it 2 times.
“We are taught in James 4:7 (I don’t have time to read it.)”
Greatest Battle Ever Fought #19 NLVLee Vayle, December 23, 1987. Names it 2 times.

⁸Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

⁹Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

¹⁰Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

1 sermon on James 4:10

“And He also said, "To confess our faults."”
The Prayer of Abraham (Part 3) -Lee Vayle, October 1966

¹¹Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

¹²There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

¹³Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

¹⁴Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

¹⁵For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

¹⁶But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

1 sermon on James 4:16

“Without reading these Scriptures is also James 4:16-17 and 5:1-7. 2 Timothy 4:1-4, but I'm going to read to you out of Malachi, because I don't want to leave that go, because I want to explain It.”
Former & Latter RainLee Vayle, November 2, 1970

¹⁷Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

1 sermon on James 4:17

“And whatsoever is not of faith is sin.”
Q&A#14_PastorsLee Vayle, March 20, 1988

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