A FAITH THAT CAN’T SEE THE FUTURE

TVCC July 19, 2020
Josh Simmons

If you have an intimate connection to

it should change you. It changes the way you

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, it changes the way you treat people created in his image, it changes the way you spend money, changes how you spend time. Today James is going to say, it should radically change the way you make

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.

James will generalize his language in VS.13 to anybody in these 5 groups.

1 . Today or tomorrow we will go (we plan to

)
2 . Into such a town (they plan to

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)
3 . Spend a year there. (they plan to spend some

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)
4 . Trade (they plan to do

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)
5 . They plan to profit (The plan for

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to have a certain result)

His issue isn’t words, it’s our

.

James is saying we are missing 2 key pieces of data.

1 . About

2 . About

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I. “…you don’t know what tomorrow will bring…” (James 4:14a)

A. Proverbs 27:1 “Do not boast about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring.”

B. Our limited

should give us

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II. “What is your life?” (James 4:14b)

A. “You are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.” (James4:14b)

B. Luke 12:13-21

C. The fact of your

should have impacted your

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D. Psalm 90:6 “Like grass that is renewed in the morning… by evening it fades away.”
Psalm 90:12 “So teach us to number our days that we may present to you a heart of wisdom.”

III. There is a

(James 4:15)

A.

becomes a plague and it has become a plague to our generation

B. Just because you understand the process doesn’t remove the need for