Bulletin outline:
...You ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."
James 4:15
"Biblical Wisdom for the New Year"
James 4:13-17
I. These verses remind us that:
1) No one knows what the future holds (14a; Ecclesiastes 8:7)
2) Our lives are very brief, a "mist" (14b)
II. Therefore:
1) All plans must be made subject to God's will (13-15)
2) We are not to boast about our future plans (13, 16), but "let him
who boasts, boast in the Lord" (1 Cor. 1:31; Jer. 9:23-24)
3) In the brief span of our lives we are to actively do good, otherwise
we commit sins of omission, "for whoever knows the right thing to
do and fails to do it, for him it is sin" (17) |
