Gods Will and the Brevity of Life James 4:1317

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Gods Will and the Brevity of LifeJames 413-17

• Forest Hills Bible Chapel
• 4 June 2006

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James 413-17

• Now listen, you who say, Today or tomorrow we
  will go to this or that city, spend a year there,
  carry on business and make money.
• Why, you do not even know what will happen
  tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist
  that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

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• Instead, you ought to say, If it is the Lords
  will, we will live and do this or that.
• As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting
  is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he
  ought to do and doesnt do it, sins.

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Lessons from James

• Lesson 1 Our lives, even in their entirety, are
  brief they are a mist, a vapor.
• What is your life? You are a mist that appears
  for a little while and then vanishes. James
  414b
• Anyone here 15? 10? 20? 22? 33? 45? 50? (half
  time!) 67? 99? 100?

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100 Years Five for Fighting

• Im 15 for a moment, caught in between 10 and
  20, and Im just dreaming, counting the ways to
  where you are.
• Im 22 for a moment. She feels better than
  ever, and were on fire, making our way back from
  Mars.

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• 15, theres still time for you time to buy and
  time to lose.
  15, theres never a wish better
  than this, when you only got 100 years to live.

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• Im 33 for a momentStill the man, but you see
  Im a they, a kid on the way a family on my
  mind.
• Im 45 for a moment. The sea is high, and Im
  heading into a crisis,chasing the years of my
  life.

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• 15, theres still time for you Time to buy,
  Time to lose yourself within a morning star.
• 15, Im all right with you. 15, theres never a
  wish better than this, when you only got 100
  years to live.

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• Half time goes by. Suddenly youre wise.
  Another blink of an eye,67 is gone. The sun is
  getting highWere moving on...

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• Im 99 for a moment, dying for just another
  moment, and Im just dreaming, counting the ways
  to where you are.
• 15, theres still time for you. 22, I
  feel her, too.33, youre on your way.Every
  days a new day...

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• 15, theres still time for youtime to buy and
  time to choose.
• Hey 15, theres never a wish better than this,
  when you only got 100 years to live.

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Lessons from James

• Lesson 2 Both the quantity, as well as the
  quality, of our lives are in the hand of
  sovereign, holy, often inscrutable, yet always
  loving, God.
• Instead, you ought to say, If it is the Lords
  will, we will live and do this or that. James
  415
• We serve at the will of a loving, covenant
  making, covenant keeping God.

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I Know by Darrell Evans

• Though Im walking through the valley of
  the darkest hour Ive known,
• Lord, dont you leave me all alone.
  
• When Im surrounded by the shadows that seem to
  feed my fear,
• I will trust you, though I may not feel you here.

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• But I know that Your love is unfailing.
• Oh, I know Your grace is so amazing.
• Oh, I know even though my faith be shaken,
• Oh, I still know that Ill never be forsaken,
• Cause youre always faithful I know.

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• When my bed has been floating
• On the flood of all my tears,
• Seems as though my joy has disappeared.
• Still I will not put my hope in what I feel or
  see.
• I will cling to you and trust Youre holding me.

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• Cause I know that Your love is unfailing.
• Oh, I know Your grace is so amazing.
• Oh, I know even though my faith be shaken,
• Oh, I still know Ill never be forsaken,
• Cause youre always faithful I know.

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• I worship you.
• I look to you.
• I trust you with my life.
• I worship you.
• I look to you.
• Come lift my head up high.

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• Lord, I dont know where Im walking
• But Ill take it day by day.
• And Ill hold your hand,
• And You will lead the way.

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• And I know that Your love is unfailing.
• Oh, I know Your grace is so amazing.
• Oh, I know even though my faith be shaken,
• Oh, I still know that Ill never be forsaken,
• Cause youre always faithful, I know.