A Fool At Heart

Looking at a life lived like there is no God.
James 4:13-17

James 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Psalms 14:1
The fool has said in his heart, there is no God.

HIS ARROGANCE

  • This man thought he knew WHEN he was going.

James 4:13
Come now, you who say, today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city.

  • He thought he knew WHERE he was going.

James 4:13
We will go to such and such a city.

  • He thought he knew WHO was going with Him.

James 4:13
WE WILL GO to such and such a city.

  • He thought he knew WHAT he was going to be doing.

James 4:13
“…we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell and make a profit.

  • He thought he knew HOW LONG he would be there.

James 4:13
“…we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell and make a profit.

James 4:15-16
Instead you ought to say; If the Lord wills we shall live and do this or that but now you boast in your arrogance all such boasting is evil.

HIS IGNORANCE

James 4:14a
“Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow…

Proverbs 27:1
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.

James 4:14b
…for what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

1 Chronicles 29:15
Our days on the earth are as a shadow.

Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle.

Job 7:7
My life is a breath…

Psalm 102:11
My days are like a shadow that lengthens and I wither away like grass.

HIS DISOBEDIENCE

James 4:17
Therefore to him who knows to do good, and DOES NOT DO IT, to him IT IS SIN.

John 3:18
He who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God.

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