P3 THERE IS POWER IN UNITY WHICH MAKES US GREATER THAN ONEs

P3 THERE IS POWER IN UNITY WHICH MAKES US GREATER THAN ONE

Greater Than One, Part 3 – March 6, 2022
Intro: Peanuts
John 17:20-21 (NIV2011)
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Christians must not show favoritism
Christians must not show favoritism
Christians must master their words
James 4:1-4 (NIV2011)
1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
Christians must not show favoritism
Christians must master their words
Christians must overcome their carnal desires
Carnal desire creates conflict with others
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? (James 4:1)
Application: Pursuit of pleasure at the cost of relationship
Carnal desire creates conflict with God
…anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. (James 4:4)
Example: Married couple
Carnal desire can be overcome
3 ways James describes:
James 4:7 (NIV2011)
7  Submit yourselves, then, to God.
Carnal desire can be overcome
Submit to God
Example: Doctor and operation
Application: Creates unity
Example: Marching band
Application: Unity at Redeemer
8  Come near to God and he will come near to you.
Carnal desire can be overcome
Submit to God
Draw near to God
Example: Stain on clothes
Application: There is none righteous, no not one
James 4:8 (NIV2011)
Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:10 (NIV2011)
10  Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Carnal desire can be overcome
Submit to God
Draw near to God
Humble yourself before God
Application: Vs. culture
John 15:5 (NIV2011)
5  “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Example: Lamborghini at gas station