Face the Mirror - James 4:1-13 (8.1.21)
Selfishness and submission are mutually exclusive.
ICE BREAKER: What is one thing where you know you are selfish? (For example, the remote control, restaurant choice, etc.)
Read: James 4:1-2
How does selfishness destroy relationships?
Verse 2 says “so you kill.” We may not commit murder, but what are some of the ways selfishness can cause us to “kill” in a figurative sense?
Read: James 4:2-6
How does selfishness impact your faith? Your relationship with God?
God equates friendship with “the world” with adultery. What do you think that means? Why does James use such powerful imagery?
How do you cultivate humility?
Read: James 4:7-10
James details some ways we can resist the devil. What are they, and how do we practice them with persistence?
What is the relationship between humility and submission and intentionally purifying one’s self?
Prayer: Pray this week’s memory verse, James 4:7 – “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”