SUBMIT AND RESIST

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Text : James 4:7

Therefore, submit to God. But resist the Devil, and he will flee from you. 

Every sane person will love the devil to flee from him. But it does not just happen, you have a role to play. 

First,  you must submit to God. And then,  you must resist the devil. 

We established yesterday that a natural man cannot submit to God.

A person who always lets his own human thoughts rule him will be God’s enemy. A person like that does not obey what God has said. A person who thinks like that is not even able to obey God.Rom 8:7 EasyEnglish.

To submit to God is to willfully surrender yourself to His tutelage.That is, you must be ready to be ruled by the Spirit of God. But you are not living by your own human power. Instead, you are obeying God’s Spirit, if his Spirit is really living in you. If anyone does not have Christ’s Spirit in them, that person does not belong to Christ.Rom 8:9 EasyEnglish.

Invariably, without submitting to the leading of the Holy Spirit, you can't submit to God. For all who are led by God’s Spirit are God’s children.Rom 8:14 ISV 

Submission to God comes by following the leadings of the Holy Spirit. For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:2Co 10:3, 

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, *who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.Rom 8:1.* 

Bible reading: James 4: 1-17.

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