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b'Welcome to Day 2127 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me. This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom James \\u2013 Wisdom is Faith in Action 9 \\u2013 Starting and Stopping Fights \\u2013 Daily Wisdom Putnam Church message \\u2013 11/07/2021 James: Wisdom is Faith In Action \\u2013 Starting and Stopping Fights We are continuing our series today on the Proverbs of the New Testament, better known as the letter of James. \\xa0Two weeks ago, we looked at persons who are Wise, Unwise, and Otherwise. \\xa0One sign of wisdom is understanding what causes fights and how to avoid or stop fights.\\xa0 So join me on page 1885 in the pew bibles as I read the Scripture for today. I would recommend keeping this passage open as we go throughout the message today: James 4:1-10 What causes fights and quarrels\\xa0among you? Don\\u2019t they come from your desires that battle\\xa0within you?\\xa02\\xa0You desire but do not have, so you kill.\\xa0You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.\\xa03\\xa0When you ask, you do not receive,\\xa0because you ask with wrong motives,\\xa0that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4\\xa0You adulterous\\xa0people,[a]\\xa0don\\u2019t you know that friendship with the world\\xa0means enmity against God?\\xa0Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.\\xa05\\xa0Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us[b]?\\xa06\\xa0But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: \\u201cGod opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.\\u201d[c] 7\\xa0Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil,\\xa0and he will flee from you.\\xa08\\xa0Come near to God and he will come near to you.\\xa0Wash your hands,\\xa0you sinners, and purify your hearts,\\xa0you double-minded.\\xa09\\xa0Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.\\xa010\\xa0Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. \\xa0 As I grew up in a large family with ten kids, we often fought each other. There was sibling rivalry as we competed for attention. I am sure our squabbles were mostly unimportant, but that did not prevent us from fighting. Growing up in an apple orchard gave us the perfect weapon, especially when they were rotten.\\xa0 They were nasty to get hit with but never did any real damage.\\xa0 (Apples) \\xa0 Unfortunately, as adults, too often, we still seem to work arguments and fights into our lives.\\xa0 Fighting comes naturally to most people, especially men. Why? Because we\\u2019re each born with a scrappy nature that prefers going for the jugular instead of giving in. It all started after the Fall (Genesis 3). The first'