| 2025 NBA Finals
1. Submit to God, James 4:7a – A constant daily choice to hear and submit to what God wants from His Word.
2. Resist the Devil, James 4:7b – A daily choice to say no to the world, my sin, my flesh, and the Devil who stirs them all up.
3. Draw near to God, James 4:8a – A personal choice to chase after God in prayer, thoughts, meditation, and through His Word.
4. Cleanse your hands, James 4:8b – A conscious changing of our mind about any known sin, which leads to a change of behavior (this is repenting);
5. Purify your hearts, James 4:8c – As we seek the constant cleansing of Christ’s blood;
6. Lament, James 4:9a – We begin to practice (talaiporein) is a word for an army without food and shelter exposed to the ravages of stormy weather. James uses it as a call for voluntary abstinence from the luxuries of life. Much like the concentration of study that makes a scholar, the rigorous training that produces the athlete, this is the chosen way of life under the Holy Spirit’s fruit of self-discipline that produces the spiritual giants to live for Christ in a wicked world.
7. Mourn, James 4:9b – James says to his 1st century luxury living, unconcerned and unmoved church goers – let God rend your hearts until you mourn over your sins.
8. Weep, James 4:9c – These are the tears of sympathy that move us to action, welling up from a compassion-filled heart. No longer unmoved and uncaring, the heart mourning before a Holy God soon becomes filled with the compassion of Christ.
9. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom, James 4:9d – James tells them to sorrow as often over the gravity of their sinfulness as they were able to rejoice over the greatness of their pleasures and happiness.
10. Humble yourselves, James 4:10 – An internal awareness that all that matters is God, not me. Choosing to put on a humble mind about life.
Un-Friending Worldliness.
James 4:4 Whoever, therefore, wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
From BAR-2011-05e – Supply Me So I Can See Your Hand In My Life (110530AM)
Join the LAND OF THE BOOK channel to get access to weekly video releases over the next year, totaling 50+ EXCLUSIVE VIDEOS that feature weekly in-depth Bible Study lessons with John & Bonnie. Clips are taken at just one of the places where we are taking our virtual journey through all the Lands of the Bible & Great Museums of the Bible on the Paul’s Life & Letters Course. Plus all the assigned HOLY LAND, Paul’s Life & Letters Course STUDY RESOURCES, and John’s two most loved books–David’s Spiritual Secret & Living Hope for the End of Days at:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVK6dN-9kLDnQhYBFuES09A/join
Follow Discover the Book Ministries to stay up to date:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverthebook/
DTBM Academy Courses:
https://dtbmonline.org/all-video-courses/
Purchase John’s Books, MP3 & DVD resources:
E-Books: https://tinyurl.com/y3wbhlxy
Here are links to our Amazon Pages–
https://www.amazon.com/shop/dtbm
Donate to the ministry: https://dtbm.org/donations/partnership/
For more of Dr. John Barnett’s Bible teaching messages, go to: https://dtbm.org/
https://youtu.be/pPox6tcq5r4