Evil Communication By Boasting of Self-Will

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James 4:13Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14Whereas 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. 15For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. 16But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. 17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Proverbs 16: 9A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

2 Thessalonians 3:5And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

Hebrews 10:38Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

Luke 14:15And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. 16Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: 17And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. 18And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. 19And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused. 20And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. 21So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. 22And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. 23And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

Seems rediculous for anyone to draw back because of prior commitments... or does it? Can any believer find themselves not saying..."One moment Lord.. I have to do this?" Then asked yourselves if you ever said this to others: "Sorry. I am committed to doing this right now. I cannot come."
 
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Lu 14:17And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.Lu 14:18And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.Lu 14:19And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.Lu 14:20And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.


This is a parable about Lu 14:15And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

This shows us that there is three things that people trust in that will keep them from entering into the Kingdom.
First was the one that had bought a piece of Ground, Ground/ land will represent riches or possessions:
Mt 6:24No man can serve TWO MASTERS: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.


the second had just bought oxen and needed to go prove them how do you prove oxen, you work them in the fields, so the second proving oxen will represent labor/works :
Tit 3:4But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,Tit 3:5Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;Tit 3:6Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;Tit 3:7That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.


the last one claimed that he just had got married, and could not come. he was not henpecked like alot of preachers will preach here and say that his wife wouldn't let him come, neither was he in a hurry to get home to his new bride, But we have to go back to the old testament to get the last but not least thing that will keep us out. He was keeping the law, thus trusting in the law and putting that before God's calling can also keep us out
De 24:5When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
Ro 3:28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of THE LAW.


so trusting in our possessions, our works or even the law before the calling/invitation of God the His supper, will keep us out of the Knigdom of God
 
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