SUNDAY TEACHING NOTES
MARCH 1, 2026 (Sunday Worship @ 9:00am and 11:15am)
JAMES | PART 8: PRIDE & HUMILITY
(James 4:1-12)
MAIN POINT: SUBMISSION FIXES PRIDE'S BROKEN POSTURE.
SUBMISSION...
SUBMISSION...
NOT
- Being a doormat
- Enduring abuse
- Blaming others for your choices
IS
- Choosing God's way over your way
- Choosing the right action over your real emotions
- Choosing love over hate
THREE WAYS SUBMISSION OVERCOMES PRIDE
1. Submission overcomes ________________________________________
2. Submission overcomes ________________________________________
3. Submission overcomes ________________________________________
1. Submission overcomes ________________________________________
- 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. (v.1-3)
- Point: Fights and quarrels among you come from the battle within you.
- Selfishness shapes our prayers.
- Generosity is the antidote to selfishness.
- Observations: ________________________________________
2. Submission overcomes ________________________________________
- 4You 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. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” (v.4-6)
- “Adultery” refers to sin because God describes our relationship with Him as a marriage.
- “Jealousy” isn’t God’s insecurity; it’s His covenantly love.
- Observations: ________________________________________
- 11Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor? (v.11-12)
- “Slander” includes false statements and dishonoring words.
- Observations: ________________________________________
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