1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:11,640 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Well, how do you a good morning, friends 2 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: and faithful listeners, and welcome to the Book of James today. 3 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: I am so excited to delve into today's topic because 4 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: I think it is such a relevant problem in the church. 5 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: In fact, I think you guys can tell that I'm 6 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 1: kind of on a war path right now when it 7 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: comes to the church. And it's not just Western churches. 8 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is a worldwide problem. And James 9 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:37,520 Speaker 1: calls it a demonic problem because the enemy of God 10 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:41,199 Speaker 1: hates the church and does not want the church to succeed. 11 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: So we are going to get into this topic today 12 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 1: right after this first sponsored ad. Hopefully while that was playing, 13 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 1: you got a chance to grab your Bible to read 14 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,680 Speaker 1: with me this morning, and also your a delicious cup 15 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: of coffee or your cup of tea for you crazy 16 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: tea drinkers. I'm telling you, I have had teas that 17 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: genuinely taste like grass. I don't think I can ever 18 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 1: really get into tea all that much. Sometimes sometimes I'll 19 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,679 Speaker 1: drink a cup of tea, you know, like in the 20 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: evening when I can't drink coffee because it'll keep me 21 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,120 Speaker 1: up all night. But yeah, tea is just not my 22 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 1: cup of tea. Let's read James four one through ten today. 23 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about factions. And I'm not talking 24 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:25,759 Speaker 1: about the factions between you coffee and tea drinkers. I'm 25 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: talking about like church splits. So let's go ahead and 26 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: read this together and give reverence to God's word. I'll 27 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 1: be reading, as usual from the web. Where do wars 28 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from 29 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: your pleasures? That war within your members? You lust and 30 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: don't have. You murder and covet and can't obtain. You 31 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,200 Speaker 1: fight and make war. You don't have because you don't ask, 32 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: And you ask and don't receive because you ask with 33 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures, 34 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: you adulterers and adulteresses. Don't you know that friendship with 35 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:02,720 Speaker 1: the world is hostile toward God? Whoever, therefore wants to 36 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: be a friend of the world, makes himself an enemy 37 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: of God? Or do you think that the scripture says 38 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,239 Speaker 1: in vain, the spirit who lives in us yearns jealously, 39 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,440 Speaker 1: but he gives more grace. Therefore, it says God resists 40 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: the proud, but gives grace to the humble, be subject 41 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee 42 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 1: from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw 43 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,959 Speaker 1: near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, Purify your hearts. 44 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: You double minded lament and mourn and weep. Let your 45 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 1: laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy to gloom. 46 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 1: Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he 47 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:41,919 Speaker 1: will exalt you. So what we just read there is 48 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: a continuation actually from James chapter three. So let's read 49 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: James three to get a good idea of what James 50 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,720 Speaker 1: is talking about here in our passage for today, Starting 51 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: in James three, verse fourteen, if you have bitter jealousy 52 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,360 Speaker 1: and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't 53 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,720 Speaker 1: lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which 54 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual and demonic. 55 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:12,000 Speaker 1: For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there's confusion in 56 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: every evil deed. So that is what James is talking about. 57 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: As we move into the passage we just read, which 58 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: starts out in verse one by saying, where do wars 59 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from 60 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: your pleasures? That war in your members so he is 61 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,840 Speaker 1: still talking about selfish ambition in the church and how 62 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:35,600 Speaker 1: damaging this can be. It causes fights and divisions, and 63 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:40,400 Speaker 1: it causes wars in the church factions. It causes a 64 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: lot of problems. And you can see that with how 65 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,040 Speaker 1: many church denominations there are out there, because a lot 66 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 1: of times the churches would split over some of the 67 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: silliest things. I don't remember which denomination it was, but 68 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: one of them split because they didn't like the fact 69 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: that the church leaders start using grape juice instead of 70 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:00,880 Speaker 1: wine for the communion. And I think there is another 71 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: church split over incorporating English into the services instead of Latin. 72 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: So I mean, there's been a lot of really interesting 73 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: church splits out there. But even if a church doesn't 74 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:16,559 Speaker 1: split into another denomination, we hear about church splits happening 75 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 1: all the time, churches shutting their doors, or schisms happening. 76 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,600 Speaker 1: We hear about these things all the time. And apparently 77 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:26,480 Speaker 1: this was happening way back in James's day. Remember who 78 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 1: he's writing to. He is not writing to the non 79 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:31,840 Speaker 1: Christians here, He is writing to the churches. That's what 80 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 1: it says in James Chapter one when he addresses the 81 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 1: Letter to the Twelve Tribes. This is the believing Jews 82 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: that he was speaking to, not to the non believers. 83 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:46,279 Speaker 1: He is talking specifically about factions and fightings and wars 84 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 1: happening within the church. And it happens all the time. 85 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:54,440 Speaker 1: And here is why, because of the pleasures that war 86 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: within your members. So, in other words, the jealousy, the envy, 87 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: the selfish ambition that causes them to tear each other up. 88 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: In verse two, here's what it says, You lust and 89 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:09,839 Speaker 1: you don't have. You murder and covet and can't obtain. 90 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 1: You fight and make war. You don't have because you 91 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 1: don't ask. And likely James was not talking about physical murder, 92 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: but the type of murder that Jesus mentions in the 93 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: Sermon on the Mount in Matthew five twenty one through 94 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: twenty two, where Jesus says, you've heard that it was 95 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,919 Speaker 1: said to the ancient ones, you shall not murder, and 96 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,960 Speaker 1: whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment. But 97 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 1: I tell you that everyone who is angry with his 98 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. 99 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,799 Speaker 1: Whoever says to his brother raca will be in danger 100 00:05:42,839 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: of the council, and whoever says you fool will be 101 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: in danger of the fire of Gehennah. So Jesus was 102 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: essentially saying that undue anger and hatred towards your brother 103 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 1: is essentially the same thing as murder, because it all 104 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: starts in the same place. When you have a premeditated murder, 105 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,719 Speaker 1: you are thinking about it in your heart. You have 106 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: already murdered that person in your heart, is what Jesus 107 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: is saying here, and James mentions that exact same thing 108 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 1: in James chapter four. You murder and cove it. Not 109 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,440 Speaker 1: physically murder somebody, but you murder them in your heart, 110 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:21,600 Speaker 1: and you covet and you still can't obtain You fight 111 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,679 Speaker 1: and make war. And here's what James says. The problem 112 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 1: is not just the selfish ambition, but also because you're 113 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:31,160 Speaker 1: not taking these problems that you have to God. You 114 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: are not saying to God, Hey, God, you know I 115 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaker 1: really want such and such, I really want this thing, 116 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,760 Speaker 1: and you know I need you to come through for me. 117 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 1: We aren't taking our problems to God. And if you 118 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: guys listen to the episode that I did on Thursday 119 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:51,280 Speaker 1: on James chapter three regarding selfish ambition. These pastors a 120 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: lot of times will do politics and manipulation to get 121 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: what they want from the sheep. And sometimes their goals 122 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:03,760 Speaker 1: aren't necessarily bad. It's not necessarily bad to want more 123 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,160 Speaker 1: people to come to your church, it's not necessarily bad 124 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 1: to want a bigger building. But it becomes a problem 125 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: when it is for selfish ambition. And James calls selfish 126 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 1: ambition demonic, a demonic kind of wisdom that is not 127 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:25,040 Speaker 1: from the Holy Spirit. So if these pastors and just 128 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: church congregants in general went to God first with all 129 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 1: of their issues, a lot of these problems would disappear. 130 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:37,560 Speaker 1: But here's another problem. Even when you are taking these 131 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: issues to God, you're not doing it with the right heart. So, 132 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: for example, let's say a pastor really wants a bigger church, 133 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 1: and he prays to God and he says, God, I 134 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: really want you to bring me more congregants. I really 135 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 1: want a bigger church. Well, that pastor if he's doing 136 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: it with the wrong motive of just wanting to be 137 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: the best pastor in the area, not actually wanting to 138 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 1: feed the sheep, and maybe even hoping for a little 139 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: bit of money that comes through the door. God knows 140 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 1: that motive, and he's not going to necessarily grant that 141 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: pastor with what he's asking for because the motive is incorrect. 142 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: And this doesn't just go for pastors, you know. Again, 143 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:18,120 Speaker 1: pastors are an easy target because they're the leaders of 144 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 1: the church. But this could be any member, any single 145 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: individual in the church that is working with selfish ambition 146 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: instead of working with the spirit. James calls these people 147 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: adulterers and adulteresses. In verse four, he says, you adulterers 148 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: and adulteresses. Don't you know that friendship with the world 149 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: is hostility toward God. Whoever therefore wants to be a 150 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,360 Speaker 1: friend of the world, makes himself an enemy of God. 151 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:49,720 Speaker 1: This reminds me of a verse actually from First Corinthians 152 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: ten twenty one through twenty two, which says this, you 153 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,440 Speaker 1: can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the 154 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table 155 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,040 Speaker 1: of the Lord and the table of demons. Or do 156 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 1: we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? So? 157 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:10,280 Speaker 1: In other words, you cannot have friendship with God while 158 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: also having friendship with the enemy. James calls the selfish 159 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:21,440 Speaker 1: ambition a demonic kind of wisdom that is not of God. 160 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: So if somebody is acting with this selfish ambition but 161 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,439 Speaker 1: still going to church and still taking the communion and 162 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 1: still professing the name of Jesus, they are essentially drinking 163 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: the cup of the Lord and also the cup of demons. 164 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:41,600 Speaker 1: They are both partaking the table of the Lord and 165 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 1: also the table of demons. You cannot be a friend 166 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: of both. That's called having a divided heart. That's what 167 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: James says right here. Don't you know that friendship with 168 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,360 Speaker 1: the world is hostility toward God. Whoever therefore wants to 169 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 1: be friends of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Now, 170 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 1: some Christians have taken this verse to an extreme where 171 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 1: they say that they can't have any friends that aren't Christians. 172 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: They can't go to the movies, they can't go have 173 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 1: a drink at a restaurant, because those things are all 174 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: of the world. And if you become friends with those things, 175 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: and that means that you have a divided heart toward God. 176 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: But I don't believe that's what James is talking about here. 177 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: James is talking about a condition of the heart where 178 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 1: you are claiming Christ and yet you are living a 179 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 1: double life, and it might not be a double life 180 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 1: that anybody can see. It could be a double life 181 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 1: within your heart alone, where you are saying outwardly, I 182 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,400 Speaker 1: am a Christian, I love Jesus, I go to church 183 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: every single week, I donate to charity, I do this, 184 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: I do that. But internally, their hearts are as far 185 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 1: away from God as you can get, because all they 186 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 1: want are things for themselves. This is why the prosperity 187 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:00,239 Speaker 1: gospel specifically is so incredibly dangerous, because it is teaching 188 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 1: people that if you follow God, you are going to 189 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 1: be blessed with all sorts of wonderful things on this earth, 190 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: whether it's health or peace, or prosperity, or wealth or love, romance, 191 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: anything you can gain for yourself, anything you can imagine, 192 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,520 Speaker 1: you can manifest it just by believing in Jesus. And 193 00:11:21,559 --> 00:11:25,239 Speaker 1: this is extremely prevalent in the church. This is everywhere 194 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:28,160 Speaker 1: You're going to find this in probably the majority of 195 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,199 Speaker 1: churches across America, that if you believe in Jesus, you're 196 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,160 Speaker 1: going to gain a whole lot of stuff for yourself. 197 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: But that is essentially doing exactly what James warns against 198 00:11:36,640 --> 00:11:39,240 Speaker 1: right here, because these people are teaching that you can 199 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: become both a friend of God and also a friend 200 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:44,719 Speaker 1: of the world. You know, I just went onto Bethel's 201 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:48,080 Speaker 1: Bethel Church's website, and I saw something that raised like 202 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:53,199 Speaker 1: a million red flags on their mission statement, and I quote, 203 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: here's what it says. I pulled it up right now. 204 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 1: It says, we joyfully give our time, affection, talents, and 205 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 1: money to a tract God's attention, draw Heaven's blessings, produce transformation, 206 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: and enable him to trust us with the true riches 207 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: of the kingdom. So by giving our money to him, 208 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: that enables him somehow to trust us with all of 209 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: this wonderful stuff. You know, the God of the universe 210 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,720 Speaker 1: has to be enabled by our giving to trust us 211 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 1: with all of these riches. Okay, that's on Bethel's mission statement. 212 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: In fact, here's another thing actually that Bethel says on 213 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: their mission statement, and I quote, while anticipating Christ's glorious return, 214 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: we simply do not know when he will come, which 215 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: should inspire us to have a long term earthly vision. 216 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 1: You know, it never says anywhere in scripture that we 217 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: have to have a long term earthly vision. It actually 218 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,160 Speaker 1: says that we are to store up our treasures in 219 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 1: heaven and look forward to the heavenly treasures, not the 220 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: things of this earth. So there are plenty of churches 221 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:01,439 Speaker 1: out there with huge names and huge amounts of influence, 222 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: like Bethel that are saying stuff like this, essentially pushing 223 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:09,679 Speaker 1: the prosperity gospel, saying that when we do X, Y, 224 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: and Z for God, he is going to bless us 225 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 1: with all this wonderful stuff. And here's what James says 226 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: in verse five. Do you think that the scripture says 227 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:24,199 Speaker 1: in vain the spirit who lives in us yearns jealously. 228 00:13:25,960 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: This is from Exodus chapter thirty four. Here's what God 229 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: himself says in verse fourteen. You shall worship no other God. 230 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:39,080 Speaker 1: For Yahweh, whose name is jealous, is a jealous God. 231 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 1: God is jealous for our attention, and he does not 232 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 1: want us to worship anything else. And a lot of 233 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 1: the other idols that we see in the church today 234 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 1: are things like money and numbers and prestige. We see 235 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 1: this all the time, and it's not just in the 236 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: big megachurches. It is in the little church that is 237 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 1: down the road from your house. This is a huge, 238 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 1: massive problem that Jesus warns against actually in the Sermon 239 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:06,760 Speaker 1: on the Mount, he says in Matthew six twenty four, 240 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:09,680 Speaker 1: no one can serve two masters, for either he will 241 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: hate the one and love the other, or else he 242 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 1: will be devoted to one and despise the other. You 243 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:18,400 Speaker 1: can't serve both God and mammon, which is just an 244 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: old fashioned word for money or wealth. You can't serve 245 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:27,280 Speaker 1: both God and wealth. God's spirit longs for us, and 246 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: he is jealous for us, jealous for our entire attention, 247 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: not for our divided attention. However, in spite of all 248 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: of these problems that the churches across the world have, 249 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: there is hope because James four to six says he 250 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: gives more grace. Therefore, it says God resists the proud, 251 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: but he gives grace to the humble. God is a 252 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: gracious God. He understands our weak nature. He has struggled 253 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 1: in every single way that we struggle here on earth. 254 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: He has been tempted in every way that we have 255 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,440 Speaker 1: been tempted, except Jesus went through life in perfection and 256 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: did not cave to those temptations and to those struggles 257 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: that he had. So God gives us grace, and he 258 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,520 Speaker 1: is eager for us to turn to him once again. 259 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: I mean, just look at the Old Testament. God is 260 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: the same yesterday, today, and forever. In the Old Testament. 261 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:19,920 Speaker 1: What was God always doing. He was warning his people, 262 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: turn back to me, get rid of this idolatry, get 263 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,160 Speaker 1: rid of the divided heart. Stop worshiping this God and 264 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: also worshiping me, just worship Me alone. And God would 265 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,640 Speaker 1: send his prophets time and again saying, please turn back 266 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 1: to me. Find yourselves a brand new heart. That's what 267 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 1: he says in the Book of Ezekiel. Find yourselves a heart. 268 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: Why should you perish? Do not perish, Do not live 269 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,760 Speaker 1: in this idolatry. It is bad for you. I am 270 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 1: jealous for you. I want you to be mine. God 271 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 1: was constantly offering grace and mercy to his people, but 272 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: they were rejecting it time and again. But God still 273 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: offers grace to his people. And here in America and 274 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: across the world, we are in desperate need of God's 275 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 1: grace because the church is not doing what they should 276 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:07,680 Speaker 1: be doing. They are doing exactly what James warns us 277 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:11,720 Speaker 1: against right here. Pretty much every church is guilty of 278 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:15,600 Speaker 1: this in some extent. But God is still offering his 279 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: grace to us. His grace is not over yet, so 280 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 1: we need to take hold of that grace and not 281 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: be like the Israelites in the Old Testament that rejected 282 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:29,720 Speaker 1: God's offer of grace time and again. He gives us grace. Therefore, 283 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 1: it says verse six. God resists the proud, but he 284 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: gives grace to the humble. So be subject therefore to God. 285 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,840 Speaker 1: Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. What 286 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: is James calling all of this selfish ambition demonic? He 287 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:48,960 Speaker 1: is calling this stuff demonic in nature. So we need 288 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 1: to resist this personally. We need to call others to 289 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,520 Speaker 1: account that are doing these kinds of things, especially if 290 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,200 Speaker 1: we see it as a blatant sin in our church. 291 00:16:57,680 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: We need to call people to account. We need to 292 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: resist the devil, and he will flee from our churches. 293 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 1: A lot of times people take this verse and use 294 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 1: it personally, and yes, it can certainly be applied personally, 295 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 1: but think about it in the context that James is 296 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: talking about here. He is talking about the collective church body, 297 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 1: and Satan is really good at it because he's not 298 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: going to do it in a blatantly obvious way. He's 299 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,879 Speaker 1: going to do it by encouraging somebody who is a 300 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 1: false prophet to claim the name of Jesus to come 301 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 1: in and seem super kind, super respectful, super loving towards 302 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: other people, who then starts leading people astray very subtly. 303 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: That is how Satan sneaks into the church, very very subtly. 304 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:45,399 Speaker 1: It says that he's the father of lies, meaning he 305 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,440 Speaker 1: is the best at it. He is so good at 306 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,320 Speaker 1: lying because he spreads a tiny, tiny bit of truth 307 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,840 Speaker 1: in there. In fact, he can quote the Bible quite well, 308 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: because when he was tempting Jesus in the wilderness, he 309 00:17:56,720 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: was quoting from the Bible. Satan can quote the Bible. 310 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: That's why we cannot trust every single person that walks 311 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 1: through our door is claiming to be a Christian, that's 312 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,440 Speaker 1: quoting Bible up on the stage. We can't trust them. 313 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 1: Anybody can quote the Bible because it's a public book. 314 00:18:11,480 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: Anybody can read it. Anybody can claim to be a Christian. 315 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,359 Speaker 1: You have to test the spirits. That is why there 316 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 1: is so much in the Bible that talks about false 317 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,880 Speaker 1: prophecy and false teachers. It is like the main thing 318 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: that all of the authors in scripture are constantly warning about. 319 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:32,880 Speaker 1: Is the false prophets with sheep's clothing, trying to lead 320 00:18:33,040 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: people astray down the wrong paths. All of these letters 321 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: to the churches are addressing some sort of issue that 322 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:44,679 Speaker 1: seemed good on the surface but was actually demonic in nature. 323 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:48,879 Speaker 1: Everything from the Judaizers that Paul was constantly fighting against 324 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 1: to the nickelations we're going to read about in the 325 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: Book of Revelation and everything in between, like the Prosperity 326 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: Gospel and the false prophets and everything else. So we 327 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,840 Speaker 1: need to resist the devil, Okay, resist these tactics of 328 00:19:02,880 --> 00:19:06,159 Speaker 1: the devil, and he will flee from our churches and 329 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:10,440 Speaker 1: our church will actually become strong and unified for real. 330 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:14,560 Speaker 1: I just heard a sermon today that was not a 331 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 1: very good sermon, quite honestly, and the pastor was talking 332 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: about unity in the church, and he was saying that 333 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: in order to be unified in the church, we all 334 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: have to be like a lego. Right, Individually, a lego 335 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,639 Speaker 1: can't really do much on its own. It is just 336 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: a piece of plastic. But once you put all the 337 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 1: legos together, then you form something really beautiful. But then 338 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: the sermons started going off the deep end because the 339 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,679 Speaker 1: pastor started saying stuff like grace does not allow exclusion. Instead, 340 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:44,959 Speaker 1: it brings us together in unity. And that is a 341 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: direct quote. Quite honestly, that quote is anti biblical. Grace 342 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:52,200 Speaker 1: does allow exclusion. You are not to bring bad teaching 343 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:56,679 Speaker 1: into the church under any circumstance whatsoever. You have to 344 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 1: exclude certain things from the church in order to have 345 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 1: a truly unified church. But unfortunately, this stuff that James 346 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: is warning about here is not taken seriously enough in 347 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,240 Speaker 1: today's churches. We fall way too much into the overly 348 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: tolerant kind of church so that we don't hurt feelings. 349 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: But when we get into the Book of Revelation not 350 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:19,719 Speaker 1: too long here, we're going to talk about what Jesus 351 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 1: thinks about the overly tolerant church. Spoiler alert, it's not 352 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:27,800 Speaker 1: that good. So we need to resist the devil, and 353 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: he will flee from us. And while we're resisting the 354 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 1: devil verse eight, we need to draw near to God, 355 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:37,200 Speaker 1: and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, 356 00:20:37,280 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 1: you sinners, purify your hearts. You double minded. So this 357 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,600 Speaker 1: is a direct call to repentance for anybody in the 358 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: church who is double minded. Essentially, doing what Jesus tells 359 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,719 Speaker 1: us not to do by serving two masters. We need 360 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:55,439 Speaker 1: to cleanse our hands from these things together. And James 361 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: even goes so far to say that we need to lament, 362 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:01,000 Speaker 1: mourn and weep over these things. We need to have 363 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,440 Speaker 1: our laughter be turned into mourning and our joy into gloom. 364 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,560 Speaker 1: So this is a big issue for James to go 365 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: that far and be like, you better be beating your 366 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: chests you churches. You need to turn your laughter into 367 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: mourning over what you are doing because God thinks of 368 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:24,439 Speaker 1: this as idolatry and demonic in nature. And guess what, 369 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: the church is not taking this seriously at all. They're 370 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: just going about their days week to week, having the 371 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:36,280 Speaker 1: congregants come into the church singing fruit frou songs, listening 372 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 1: to incorrect sermons like the one that I heard today 373 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 1: with the lego pieces, and then sending everybody home and 374 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:45,399 Speaker 1: not seeing them for another week. If that that is 375 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,359 Speaker 1: the sorry state that our churches are in. And James 376 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:51,960 Speaker 1: is essentially going on a warpath to correct this issue 377 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: because he knows how bad this can be. He says 378 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: in verse ten, humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, 379 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,680 Speaker 1: and he will exalt you. So to conclude, there's only 380 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,640 Speaker 1: two paths the church can take. Either they can continue 381 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: with the path that they are going and be humbled 382 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:14,120 Speaker 1: by God, or they can humble themselves and God will 383 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 1: then truly exalt them. I know it's church I want 384 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,720 Speaker 1: to be a part of. I want to be a 385 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 1: part of the second Church, where God offers grace, where 386 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 1: we turn our hearts truly to God and stop being 387 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,840 Speaker 1: double minded, where we have true unity with God, removing 388 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 1: the demonic practices out of our churches, and truly living 389 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: in the spiritual wisdom that God commands us to live in, 390 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,880 Speaker 1: which again is this James three, verse seventeen and eighteen. 391 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 1: The wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, 392 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 1: full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 393 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,120 Speaker 1: Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by 394 00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:01,760 Speaker 1: those who make peace listeners. Before I close out with 395 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: a call to action for all of you guys, please 396 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 1: listen to one last sponsored advertisement for today. You know what, 397 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: Here's the thing. It starts with each one of us. 398 00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 1: I can guarantee that the majority of you faithful listeners 399 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,360 Speaker 1: that are tuning into this episode have the same sentiment 400 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: that I had at the end, where you want to 401 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:25,439 Speaker 1: attend a church full of non hypocritical, peaceful, gentle and 402 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,919 Speaker 1: reasonable people that are listening to the wisdom of the 403 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:31,639 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. I would guess that almost all of you 404 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:34,399 Speaker 1: can relate with that, And maybe many of you have 405 00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 1: gone to a church that James is warning about. Maybe 406 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: some of you are in a church like that right 407 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:43,480 Speaker 1: now where you see warning signs of divided hearts and minds. 408 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 1: But as Christians, we have to remember, and this is 409 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:50,919 Speaker 1: very difficult, that we can't change someone else's heart, but 410 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 1: we can change our own hearts. In the passage we 411 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 1: read today, verse seven says, be subject therefore to God 412 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,360 Speaker 1: resists the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw 413 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,320 Speaker 1: near to God, and he will draw near to you. 414 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 1: Cleanse your hands, you sinners, purify your hearts. You double minded. 415 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 1: This is really cliche. But we can be the change 416 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,919 Speaker 1: that we want to see in our own churches. We 417 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: can be people that draw near to God, that cleanse 418 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,919 Speaker 1: our hands, that are basically saying to God, God, I 419 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:20,040 Speaker 1: am not going to be double minded anymore. I reject 420 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:22,679 Speaker 1: the idols that I've made in my life. And I 421 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,439 Speaker 1: am going to serve you and you only because you 422 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: are my God and you are jealous for me. And 423 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,840 Speaker 1: so that is my call to action to every one 424 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 1: of you, faithful listeners. Have a prayer where you rededicate 425 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: your heart to God. A lot of times. We got 426 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,360 Speaker 1: to do that daily. We got to say to God, God, 427 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:42,080 Speaker 1: I send today, I did this wrong today. I had 428 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 1: an idol in my heart today. But when we come 429 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,719 Speaker 1: before God, what does it say here? Our God gives 430 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,919 Speaker 1: more grace. But we have the choice to take that 431 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:54,960 Speaker 1: grace or to completely reject it. So let's take the 432 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 1: gift of grace that Jesus is offering us today, and 433 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,960 Speaker 1: we can pray for our churches at the same time. 434 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 1: So that's my call to action for all of you 435 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: faithful listeners, And I hope that you all enjoyed today's episode. 436 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:08,879 Speaker 1: Hope to see you guys tomorrow on the Old Testament 437 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,160 Speaker 1: side of stuff for an episode from Nehemiah. We are 438 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: coming to a close in that book pretty soon here, 439 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: so I'm looking forward to moving into the Book of 440 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 1: Esther and also season twelve of the podcast. But I 441 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,959 Speaker 1: am deeply looking forward to the Book of Esther. It's 442 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:25,359 Speaker 1: going to be a fun, fun book to talk about. 443 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 1: And we're also going to be out of the Book 444 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,439 Speaker 1: of James very soon here as well. We only have 445 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: one more chapter to go after James four. So there's 446 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 1: exciting things coming up on the podcast, and I hope 447 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: to see all of you faithful listeners there tomorrow six 448 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,720 Speaker 1: am or whenever you choose to wake up and listen. 449 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: Happy listening, and God bless. I just want to take 450 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,320 Speaker 1: a second to thank the team at Life Audio for 451 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,560 Speaker 1: their partnership with me on the Bible Explain podcast. 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