Living Stones James 4_11_12 3_15_2015b.pdf
Did you hear about… James 4:11-12; Romans 1:28 – 32; Romans 10:14-15;Psalm 50:20;
Did you hear about… • James 4:11-12 (NET Bible) • 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. 12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge —the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?
Did you hear about…
• Each is a form of Idolatry-of-Self wherein the subjective reigns over the objective.
Did you hear about… • Romans 1:28 - 32 (NET Bible) • 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. 29 They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,
Did you hear about… • Romans 1:28-32 (NET Bible) • 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless. 32 Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.
Did you hear about… • James 4:11-12 (NET Bible) • 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. 12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge —the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?
Did you hear about…
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Psalm 50:20 (HCSB) 20 You sit, maligning your brother, slandering your mother’s son. 1 Peter 2:1 (KJV) 2 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Did you hear about… • James 4:11-12 (NET Bible) • 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. 12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge —the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?
Did you hear about… • Romans 10:14-15 (NET Bible) • 14 How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How timely is the arrival of those who proclaim the good news.”
Did you hear about… • James 4:11-12 (NET Bible) • 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. 12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge —the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?
Did you hear about… • James 4:11-12 (NET Bible) • 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. 12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge —the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?
Now What?
Now What? • Have you heard about… • Being kind with your words • Helping others • Sharing life • Everyday this week, speak a positive into a life that needs it.
Now What?
Did you hear about… • James 4:11-12 (NET Bible) • 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. 12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge —the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?
Did you hear about…
• Each is a form of Idolatry-of-Self wherein the subjective reigns over the objective.
Did you hear about… • Romans 1:28 - 32 (NET Bible) • 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. 29 They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,
Did you hear about… • Romans 1:28-32 (NET Bible) • 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, contrivers of all sorts of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless. 32 Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.
Did you hear about… • James 4:11-12 (NET Bible) • 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. 12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge —the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?
Did you hear about…
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Psalm 50:20 (HCSB) 20 You sit, maligning your brother, slandering your mother’s son. 1 Peter 2:1 (KJV) 2 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Did you hear about… • James 4:11-12 (NET Bible) • 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. 12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge —the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?
Did you hear about… • Romans 10:14-15 (NET Bible) • 14 How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How timely is the arrival of those who proclaim the good news.”
Did you hear about… • James 4:11-12 (NET Bible) • 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. 12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge —the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?
Did you hear about… • James 4:11-12 (NET Bible) • 11 Do not speak against one another, brothers and sisters. He who speaks against a fellow believer or judges a fellow believer speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but its judge. 12 But there is only one who is lawgiver and judge —the one who is able to save and destroy. On the other hand, who are you to judge your neighbor?
Now What?
Now What? • Have you heard about… • Being kind with your words • Helping others • Sharing life • Everyday this week, speak a positive into a life that needs it.
Now What?
