Windber First Assembly of God's Current Sermon by David McGee
Jun 29, 2025
God Longs for Closeness with You (33:19)
Referenced Scriptures: James 4:1-10; 1 Kings 3:16-28; Matthew 6:24-24
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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
James 4:1-10
1) Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don‘t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
2) You lust, and don‘t have. You kill, covet, and can‘t obtain. You fight and make war. Yet you don‘t have, because you don‘t ask.
3) You ask, and don‘t receive, because you ask amiss, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
4) You adulterers and adulteresses, don‘t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5) Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
6) But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
7) Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8) Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9) Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
10) Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
1 Kings 3:16-28
16) Then there came two women who were prostitutes, to the king, and stood before him.
17) The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.
18) It happened the third day after I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also; and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
19) This woman‘s child died in the night, because she lay on it.
20) She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.
21) When I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore.
22) The other woman said, No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son. This said, No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king.
23) Then said the king, The one says, This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead: and the other says, No; but your son is the dead, and my son is the living.
24) The king said, Get me a sword. They brought a sword before the king.
25) The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
26) Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it.
27) Then the king answered, Give her the living child, and in no way kill it: she is the mother of it.
28) All Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do justice.
Matthew 6:24-24
24) "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one, and despise the other. You can‘t serve both God and Mammon.
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