050: Jeff Gelineau – This & That

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Welcome to the good Christian
talks podcast.

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I’m Levi and I’m Chris.
Thank you so much for joining us

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this week on this podcast.
We select one taco week to help

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each one of us get the Bible in
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We post at the start of each
week for you to listen with a

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short intro before hand to kind
of set the stage for the talk.

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You’re about to hear and now
let’s hear more about this

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week’s talk.
This class is called this and

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that bye brother Jeff Delano and
dad my dad gave gave it at the

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2007 Florida Bible school.
It is funny posting a class by

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my own father, but I was not at
this Bible school and really

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enjoyed listening to it.
Now in 2007 is already 12 years

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ago.
So it’s a it was really really

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encouraging it is the last class
in his series on James.

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He uses title this and that is
kind.

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A catch-all to touch on a couple
other things that he misses or

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does not pick up on an earlier
in the series and he mentions he

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kind of Recaps the points at the
beginning from the series on

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James, but then this class ends
up being very challenging as I

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think safely to say the Book of
James is just very challenging

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hard to understand hard to let
you may be easy to understand

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but hard to apply directly to
our lives.

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It is pretty extreme and dad
does a good job.

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I think of highlighting that
just how wow, I guess extreme or

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Intense or You know serious are
calling to live a life that are

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that are father would want our
Father God would want is you

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can’t be a high calling and so
he makes them very strong

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points.
Especially the clothes you’ll

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see in the end is a very
powerfully impactful point that

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he may choose some specific
words for that.

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So anyways, I hope you really
enjoyed.

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This is Classics from 2007,
Florida Bible.

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Of this and that by her brother
Jeff gelineau, but I hope that

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we’ve been able to see this
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Is that sometimes facing the
message of the truth?

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Requires us to look at our
beliefs in a radical and

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different way.
The while we are grateful to

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those that went before us.
We do not base.

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Our beliefs on the traditions of
men are doctrines are founded

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and based on solid scriptural
Concepts, and we do well to

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protect them with vigor.
We need to be sure that we’re

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not becoming entrenched. or
dogmatic or legalistic and our

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dealings with the members of
Arc.

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Lygia Christ radical and
different message was a message

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of Grace. of forgiveness and
inclusion and working through

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these Concepts in a messy flawed
human life is hard.

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And sometimes very
uncomfortable.

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That’s what we’re called to do.
That is the message of James.

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I hope we’ve seen that a correct
understanding of faith and works

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can be a motivating and
inspiring factor in our

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spiritual eyes.
We don’t believe like like many

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modern day Christians at all we
have to do is is believe and

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we’re saved.
But we also don’t fall into the

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natural human tendency to
somehow start thinking that we

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can earn our salvation by
checking the boxes and some

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Eternal checklist of Good Deeds.
Neither extreme is correct and

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both are dangerous.
We need to understand that our

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lives need to be full of good
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But not because we think that
we’re unfavorable in God’s sight

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unless we do.
We didn’t understand that God

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chose us and loved us as
Sinners.

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And even though we were Sinners,
he loved us so much he gave his

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only son to die for us.
Understanding and believing and

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actually having faith and that
simple fact is what will

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motivate our life motivate us to
fill our lives with good deeds.

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I also hope that we’ve come to
look at rules and regulations in

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a little different way.
The scriptures are abundantly

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clear that rules really have no
value in checking the

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indulgences of the flesh.
Although it’s a natural reaction

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for us to want to set rules.
We can’t regulate righteousness

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and regardless of how many rules
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And for others.
The rules themselves will never

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stop us from sinning.
I hope that we’ve shown there’s

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only one really true way to
control sinful Behavior by

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transforming yourself from the
inside out by connecting with

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God in an intimate and personal
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The only hope we ever have of
controlling ourselves.

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And it’s only through effectual
and fervent prayer that we can

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really change things in our
lives only by confessing our

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sins to a person that we see is
acting righteous in an area that

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we are having problems with
would be able to feel God’s

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power changing us for the
better.

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God’s willing and able to
perform miracles.

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In the lives of Believers, but
we have to ask believing we’ve

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received for him to act.
And even the effectual fervent

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prayer of a righteous man isn’t
always answered the way we want.

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We have to remember that God is
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transforming us through our
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Then he is concerned about
transformed transporting us out

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of our problems.
It’s hard for us not to receive

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the healing or the answer that
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But the eye of Faith sees that
God knows best and he is active

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in our life.
I hope we’ve been reminded that

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out of the same mouth comes
forth bitter and sweet and these

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things ought not to be.
We talked about how the tongue

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is a small member, but the rude
and the source of many terrible

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and wicked sins.
My brother said to me yesterday.

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And it’s a medical fact that the
tongue has more germs.

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It’s the most foul part of the
whole body.

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And that’s true in the spiritual
sense isn’t and also the ton has

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a great potential to condemn us,
but if you can control the

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tongue.
Through the assistance of her of

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God, if you control the greatest
sinner in your body then by by

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virtue of controlling the
greater, you can gain control

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over the Lesser.
The tongue is wild and untamed

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and Savage uncivilized
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So we need to turn to God for
help and controlling our tongue

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True Believers speak with a
tongue that is under control

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under the control of a loving
God that wants the best for us.

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So we looked at some of these
these wonderful themes and

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James.
We have one more class together.

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I have about 10 more things to
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There are so many different
topics.

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I wanted to explore James talks
quite a bit about favoritism and

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discrimination.
So I want to spend a moment

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today looking at that.
Another topic that James teach

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treats with much importance as
the concept of rich and poor.

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We really can’t ignore that
message either.

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James speaks of worldliness and
godliness and chapter 4 and want

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to touch on that too.
And I love the section on today

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and tomorrow we’ll go into such
and such a city.

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I want to talk about that.
And we’ll end up with the same

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verse we started out with James
discussion on how we’re supposed

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to treat the fatherless and the
widows.

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So now you understand why I have
such an enigmatic title as this

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and that because James is often
referred to as the Proverbs of

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the New Testament as full of
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That just can’t be left
untouched.

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I don’t think I’ll probably do
any of them justice, but I’m

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tempted to try not to leave
anything undone.

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So let’s begin our discussion on
the idea of favoritism and

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discrimination.
James begins chapter 2 with this

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important topic.
He says in verse 1 my brother’s

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as Believers in the Glorious
Lord, Jesus Christ.

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Don’t show favoritism suppose a
man comes into your meeting

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wearing a gold ring in fine
clothes and a poor man in shabby

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clothes also comes in.
If you show special attention to

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the man wearing fine clothes and
say here here’s a good seat for

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you.
But send the poor man, you stand

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there or sit on the floor by my
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Have you not discriminated among
yourselves and become judges

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with evil thoughts?
The message that James points

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out in several places through
his book is is the importance of

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applying the word of God to your
everyday life.

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Remember?
He said whoso looketh into the

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perfect perfect law of Liberty
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He being not a forgetful hearer
but a doer of the work this man

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shall be blessed in his deed.
A great place I think for us to

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apply the word of God in our
lives is in his area of

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favoritism.
As the leader of the Ecclesia

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and Jerusalem James argument is
directed towards the special

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treatment being received by the
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James admonished the church to
avoid the divisive distinctions

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of social class.
Which can destroy True

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Fellowship when one group won’t
associate with another group

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because they’re not of the same
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How can you ever have real
Fellowship?

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Those social distinctions aren’t
as readily apparent today and

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our middle class Society but
this concept of favoritism still

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exists and I want to look at
four different ways that we show

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favoritism today first.
We show favoritism strictly

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because of a person’s
appearance. we often

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discriminate simply because the
way someone looks beauty is very

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important in our society and
it’s very natural.

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That doesn’t make it right.
The tendency is true, even from

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an early age studies show that
that infants respond more

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positively to Attractive people
than they do to those that are

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considered homely.
But we’re no longer children,

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right?
As we mature we have to learn

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not to respond with our natural
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We have to learn not to respond
the way we would naturally react

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but to respond in a Godly Manner
and we know that God doesn’t

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look at the features of the
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God looks at the heart not the
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Not the shape of the body.
The second reason we show

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favoritism is because of
ancestry. the Dred Scott

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decision of 1856 Reeves But it
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That the African race was not
intended to be included and

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forms.
No part of the people who framed

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and adopted the Declaration of
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It’s been a hundred and fifty
years and fortunately a lot of

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that kind of reasoning has
eventually changed. but a lot of

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it Still Remains today doesn’t
There’s still discrimination in

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our country even after the Civil
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And they’re still discrimination
or a kaliesha.

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On paper, we believe and teach
and confess that everyone of

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every race deserves to hear the
saving message of Christ.

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But in reality doesn’t work out
that way does it?

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13% of the United States is
black. 14% Hispanic 5% is Asian

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of the 5,000 christadelphians Do
you think there are 650 black

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brother and sisters?
700 Hispanic 250 Asians There’s

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a there’s a sociological
principle called homogeneity.

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The says were drawn naturally to
associate with people who are

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like us.
It’s a fact it’s a it’s a

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physical law.
But we don’t leave physical

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lives.
Do we were supposed to live

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spiritual lives?
It’s natural to gravitate

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towards those you have a
cultural Affinity with but we’re

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called to do something spiritual
with these 80 years.

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Not not something natural.
A life that we’re called to

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live.
Is in many ways opposite of what

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comes natural so as we mature
and Christ, let’s Reach Out

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beyond our comfort zone and try
to include people of all Races

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because we know that God doesn’t
look at the color of the skin.

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We also show favoritism because
of people’s age.

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I can tell you right now that in
the business World many

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companies discriminate against
older workers because they

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usually cost more to pay and
they have less years of

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productivity left off of the
company.

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And don’t even get me started
you, you know enough about the

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cost of health insurance on
older workers.

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In our society in general there
just seems to be a waning level

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of regard for the elderly.
Respect for our elders seems to

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have been lost on younger
Generations.

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And the Ecclesia it almost seems
like it’s the opposite.

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Of course, there are there are
no statistics and

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christadelphians.
We don’t know how many there

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are.
But I can say that in Mainline

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denominations the average age of
members in churches and United

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States.
Today is over 60.

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And we all know many occasions
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that and that same situation.
Since brothers and sisters since

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human beings tend to cater to
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And their own interest in in
worship style and church

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activities.
The needs of the interest of the

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youth especially those that they
currently don’t even go to

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meeting are neglected. in
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needs to be sensitive that
they’re not discriminating

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against their older members
simply because of their age But

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it cleans your full of older
people also needs to be aware of

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the same peril.
We might feel more comfortable

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wearing suits and ties and and
singing hymns that were written

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in the 1800s.
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entire generations of
potentially new brothers and

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sisters.
You see age discrimination goes

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both ways and it’s it’s wrong
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God doesn’t look at the age of a
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And the fourth thing I think
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is affluence the Jews believed
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wealth righteousness.
If you’re wealthy then that must

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mean that God has blessed you
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So therefore being wealthy is a
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That’s why it was so hard for
them to understand why a rich

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man would have a hard time
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A rich man a righteous man can’t
do it.

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How can we and that has thinking
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and the Puritans and it forms
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I think of the formation of our
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formed on the belief that that
working hard no matter whether

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the job is digging ditches or
building a business by engaging

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in self discipline sacrifice and
obedience by depriving yourself

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of indulgent Pleasures by
enduring hardship by Saving what

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you make by reinvesting your
profits you can increase your

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wealth and in do so you’re
acting virtuously are acting

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righteously and godly.
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true.
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true.
Those who have not succeeded by

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the world’s Financial standards
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We all know many wealthy people
who give no thought to pleasing

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the god that created them.
Don’t we also know many who are

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dirt poor.
But thank God daily for

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everything.
He’s given them.

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God doesn’t look at a person’s
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He doesn’t look good to the
model of import.

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They drive or the cut of the
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And we shouldn’t either. because
favoritism and discrimination

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are not a part of a servant of
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Thanks a good segue.
I think into her the next topic

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that James spends time with the
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Continue reading in Chapter 2.
He says Harkin my beloved

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Brethren has not God chosen the
poor of this world rich in faith

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and Heirs of the Kingdom, which
he has promised to them that

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love him.
You despise the poor?

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Do not rich men oppress you and
draw you before the Judgment

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seats.
Do not they blaspheme that

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worthy Name by which you are
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If you fulfill the Royal law
according to the scripture Thou

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shalt love thy Neighbour as
thyself, thou do well, but if

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you have respect of persons You
commit sin and are convinced of

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the law as transgressors.
God has blessed me with a great

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job a job that provides me more
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So I have a special interest in
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verse is saying to me.
I had to think long and hard

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about it and I honestly do not
believe that James is saying

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that God dislikes rich people.
Abraham the patriarch of Israel

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and chosen of God was incredibly
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David a man after God’s Own
Heart was also in a position of

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wealth and not even Bill Gates
Compares with David’s son

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Solomon.
My favorite example that was

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always job a perfect example of
man whose whose Faith was not

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tied to his purse strings.
But wealth can be an impediment

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to Faith.
Well, it’s buys things like like

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good Medical Care find Food
Services and comfortable homes

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and all of these can tend to
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From the turmoil and the hunger
and the disease that is the lot

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of the majority of human race.
Wealth makes it easier for us to

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delude ourselves. and deem
ourselves self-sufficient the

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poor have no such illusions.
And therefore they’re more open

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to God and to his power working
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So I don’t think that God
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They do think that God prefers
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Our God is a god of the poor a
god of the underdog a god of

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those who are trodden Under
Foot.

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People that rely on their money
think of themselves of wise.

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But the Bible teaches that God
has chosen chosen the foolish

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things of this world to confound
the wise.

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God has chosen the weak things
of the world to confound the

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things which are mighty.
Those without status and wealth

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seem to be the very ones that
respond more readily.

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And Faith towards the gospel.
We live in a society here in

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North America that even the
poorest are wealthy by

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third-world standards.
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it’s fairly easy to become
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We have to remember that the
purpose of working is not to

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obtain wealth for your own
personal gratification. purpose

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of working is to obtain wealth
so that you can help out those

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who are less fortunate than
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James warns about those who
obtain wealth and then exploit

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the poor taking advantage of
them for the purpose of

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increasing their own personal
wealth and it doesn’t sound

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pretty the things that he says
now listen you rich people weep

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and wail because of the misery
that is coming upon you your

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wealth has rotted and moths of
eating your clothes your gold

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and silver of corroded their
corrosion will testify against

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you and eat your flesh like
fire.

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You have hoarded wealth in the
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He says look the wages you
failed to pay the workmen who

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mowed your fields are crying out
against you.

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The cries of the Harvesters have
reached the ears of the Lord

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Almighty you have lived on Earth
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You have fattened yourselves in
the day of Slaughter.

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You’ve condemned and murdered
innocent men who are not

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opposing you.
Now sure maybe none of us are

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guilty of murdering innocent
men, but the exhortation I think

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to those of us who’ve been
blessed with more than we need

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is clear that we shouldn’t
horror cord it to the hurt of

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those around us.
Need to be generous and give to

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those that we come across who
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It’s a it’s a liberating and and
freeing concept that took me. 25

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years to realize that we’re not
limited in our giving you’re not

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limited to a tithe like every
other the Commandments of the

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law 10% was just the minimum
required of a servant of God,

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not the maximum allowed.
I’ve heard a couple stories

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recently of people I know who
the year.

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They were married Gabe decided
to give 10% and they decided to

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increase it one percent every
year a couple that just

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celebrated their 50th
anniversary and giveaway 60% of

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all their money.
Give until it hurts.

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Not just until you’ve met your
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You’re also not limited to a
tax-deductible donation this I

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didn’t figure this out till
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Can you buy means literally it’s
a blessing that we live in such

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a wonderful Christian country
that they encourage good works

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by giving us a tax deduction for
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But that doesn’t mean that you
can’t help out someone who’s in

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need even when it’s not
convenient to funnel it through

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a charity.
And you’re not limited to

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brothers and sisters either.
Do good until almond do good

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unto all men.
Especially those who are of the

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household of faith if we run
across brothers and sisters who

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are in need then it’s Our
obligation to help them out.

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But if everyone else in your
Ecclesia is has more than enough

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just like you do then you’re not
restricted from from giving it

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to those in your community who
are truly needy.

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Or looking out for other
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We’re brothers and sisters need
help.

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God loves both the rich and the
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And he wants all of us in his
kingdom the rich have more

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challenges.
But they can overcome.

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And the poor have more
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But God wants to help them.
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worldliness and godliness.
Here’s a verse that our young

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people have heard many times.
But I believe that this little

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gem of a verse shouldn’t be
limited just to those in their

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teams think we can all learn
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You adulterous people don’t you
know that friendship with the

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world is hatred toward God.
Anyone who chooses to be a

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friend of the world becomes an
enemy of God one of the beauties

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that income James writing one of
the things that appealed to me

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so much about is his ability to
stay clearly.

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What should be obvious to all of
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Such as the truth that if we get
too friendly with the world, we

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will increasingly distance
herself from God.

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Spending our life and pursuit of
possessions and and Pleasures is

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a sure recipe to becoming
Haggard and stressed and

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Restless.
Experiencing a kind of

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frustration that no teenager
would ever comprehend.

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You cannot be a friend of God
and a friend of this world and

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all of its Fallen values you’re
cheating on God is what he says

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you’re acting like an adulterer
and adulteress if you try to

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maintain a relationship with the
world while you’re being

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espoused to Christ.
God is a jealous.

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God verse 5 says that God cares
about the spirit we serve him

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with and look at verse 6.
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That is why the scripture says
God opposes the proud but gives

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grace to the humble.
It takes humility to approach

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God.
The only way to break this cycle

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of double mindedness has is
total submission of oneself to

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God continue reading in verses 7
through 10 submit yourself, then

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to God resist the devil and he
will flee from you come near to

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God and he will come near to you
wash your hands you Sinners and

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purify your hearts you
double-minded grieve moan and

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wail change your laughter to
mourning and your joy to Gloom

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humble yourselves before the
Lord and He will lift you up.

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You see self helpers is not
going to take you as far as you

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need to go.
We need to come near to God for

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him to come near to us.
Purify your hearts and your mind

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will become centered on
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We sometimes call this this
double mindedness by a different

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name.
Sometimes call it fence sitting

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straddling a fence allows a
person to keep a foot in both

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places at the same time and in a
culture that insist on having a

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multitude of choices.
It fence straddling has never

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been more popular.
But the downside is it

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absolutely paralyzes you for
making a concrete choice.

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Anyone who chooses to have one
foot mired in the worldliness,

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but wants to have one foot
standing firm in godliness will

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surely fall.
Lord willing if I have time, I

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want to continue on the subject
of today and tomorrow.

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You know why we always say Lord
willing.

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It comes right there from James.
Look at it chapter 4 go to now

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ye that say today or tomorrow.
We will go into such and such a

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city and continue their a year
and buy and sell and get game

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whereas, you know, not what
shall be on the morrow for what

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is your life?
It’s even a vapor that appears

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for a little time and then
vanishes away for you ought to

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say if the Lord will we shall
live and do this or do that?

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It’s an interesting set of
versus James is is speaking to

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people who are making a plan.
Look at the plan.

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They’re making right.
He says they’re planning a Time.

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Today or tomorrow?
They’re planning the location.

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Oh can we’ll go into such a
city.

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They’re planning the duration
continue their a year.

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They’re planning a course of
action will buy and sell and

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they’re planning an outcome. to
get game looks like a pretty

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good plan to me.
I do I do a lot of planning in

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my life.
I’m and I do all the long-term

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planning on my business and
we’re currently on on year three

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of our existing 10-year plan.
Plan 2015 is referred to their

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replaced plan 2005 which was a
five year plan and that replaced

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plan 2000 which was a ten year
plan.

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Plan 2015 comes to its
conclusion on December 31st 2015

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and and we’re already have
Vision plans for the years after

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that 20 25 and 20 35.
Is planning wrong is this is

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00:31:17,500 –> 00:31:19,500
this another topic?
I’m going to have to feel guilty

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00:31:19,500 –> 00:31:26,100
about after having read James.
No, no, no verse verse 15 clears

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00:31:26,100 –> 00:31:30,400
that up right as long as you
just say if the Lord Wills.

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Then everything’s okay with the
plans that you make right?

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00:31:37,200 –> 00:31:40,400
No.
Now it’s a little deeper than

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that.
I think saying saying Lord

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willing isn’t some kind of magic
Talisman that makes all of your

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planning, okay?
Take a look at the verse in the

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middle of verse 14.
He says we’re has you know, what

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shall be on the morrow for what
is your life?

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It’s nothing but a vapor that
appears for a little while then

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00:32:02,300 –> 00:32:05,400
vanish away.
In other words in all of your

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planning.
You have to take God’s view of

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life into account.
If you take a true view of life

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00:32:13,600 –> 00:32:17,100
into account and that is that
your life is a vapor.

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00:32:17,800 –> 00:32:21,000
The question you really need to
consider is what practical

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difference does it make in your
planning?

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00:32:24,200 –> 00:32:26,800
Whether or not you believe that
your life is a vapor.

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00:32:27,600 –> 00:32:31,700
That’s the real question.
Do we stop planning altogether

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00:32:31,700 –> 00:32:35,600
because simply you don’t know
that your what your life is

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00:32:35,600 –> 00:32:40,200
going to happen your life may be
short or uncertain so you

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00:32:40,208 –> 00:32:43,000
shouldn’t bother to plan.
I don’t think so.

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You’ve all heard the saying
before and I think it’s true.

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He the fails to plan plans to
fail.

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I don’t think the James is
saying you should stop planning.

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James is an encouraging us to
drop out of society to become a

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Hermit just sit around waiting
for a little Vapor of life to

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00:32:58,800 –> 00:33:02,800
disappear.
For James and for God though, it

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00:33:02,800 –> 00:33:07,000
matters whether or not a true
view of life and forms and

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00:33:07,000 –> 00:33:12,700
shapes the way you think and how
you speak about your plans your

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00:33:12,700 –> 00:33:15,800
mindset matters.
How do you talk about your

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00:33:15,800 –> 00:33:18,900
plans?
Why why does it matter because

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God created us not just to do
things and go places with our

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bodies, but to have certain
attitudes and convictions and

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00:33:27,000 –> 00:33:31,900
verbal descriptions that reflect
the truth. a true view of life

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00:33:34,000 –> 00:33:38,000
God means for the truth about
him and about life to be known

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and felt and spoken part of your
reasoning and part of your plan.

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00:33:45,700 –> 00:33:48,700
God wants you to keep in mind
that we really have no forms

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00:33:48,700 –> 00:33:52,700
substance here on Earth.
We’re as fragile as missed

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fragile is a vapor.
Keep in mind you have no no

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00:33:56,900 –> 00:33:58,900
durability you appear just for a
little while.

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00:33:58,900 –> 00:34:01,600
Your time is short.
You will disappear.

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00:34:03,600 –> 00:34:07,100
Not trying to depress you.
Probably succeeding.

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00:34:07,100 –> 00:34:10,500
I’m not trying to press you, but
it does matter.

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00:34:11,900 –> 00:34:14,699
God says that we have to keep
this view of life in mind and

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verse 15, he tells us that the
true view of life that we have

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in our minds and our mouths have
we should have this true view as

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we plan for the future?
God tells us to very important

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things about himself in verse 15
and pay attention to him one is

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contained in the words if the
Lord Wills we will live.

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The others contained in the rest
of that sentence have Lord

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00:34:37,600 –> 00:34:42,900
Wills.
We will do this or that the

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duration of our lives are in the
hands of God.

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00:34:48,600 –> 00:34:52,000
God governs how long we’re going
to live.

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We may not know how long our
Vapor like life will linger in

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the air.
But God does.

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00:34:59,700 –> 00:35:01,700
Because God designs how long we
live.

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00:35:03,000 –> 00:35:06,400
James is trying to tell us that
if this is a true view of life

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00:35:06,400 –> 00:35:10,100
than it would it should shape
our mindset and shape our way of

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00:35:10,100 –> 00:35:12,500
thinking if we truly believe
that our lives are in the hands

505
00:35:12,500 –> 00:35:17,600
of God and God will decide how
long we live and when we die And

506
00:35:17,600 –> 00:35:19,900
doesn’t that change our
impression of death?

507
00:35:21,900 –> 00:35:27,000
worry and stress about death
should decrease as our faith in

508
00:35:27,000 –> 00:35:31,900
this in this belief increases
because not only is our life in

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00:35:31,900 –> 00:35:37,200
God’s hands but God is good.
God wants the best for us.

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00:35:37,600 –> 00:35:40,300
He controls every part of our
Lives including this most

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00:35:40,300 –> 00:35:43,500
important part.
Turn that over to him.

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00:35:45,100 –> 00:35:48,800
Rest in the faith to his love
the other truth about God and

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00:35:48,800 –> 00:35:52,200
verse 15 is that the activities
and the accomplishments of our

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00:35:52,200 –> 00:35:57,900
lives are also in God’s hands
God governs what we accomplished

515
00:35:59,100 –> 00:36:03,000
not only are alive themselves in
God’s hands, but our success is

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00:36:03,000 –> 00:36:06,800
in his hands as well.
If the Lord does not will we

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00:36:06,800 –> 00:36:12,100
will not do this or that we will
not buy or sell or get game.

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00:36:13,200 –> 00:36:17,400
And the stress of success and
failure and what we do should

519
00:36:17,400 –> 00:36:21,300
also decrease.
When we come to really believe

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00:36:21,500 –> 00:36:24,800
that truth.
This doesn’t give us permission

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00:36:24,800 –> 00:36:28,100
to be lazy, but it should remove
some of our worries.

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00:36:29,300 –> 00:36:34,700
Because God is good.
God wants to bless his children

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00:36:34,700 –> 00:36:38,300
with good things.
He wants to see us happy and

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00:36:38,300 –> 00:36:41,500
he’s in a position to do so as
he controls whether or not our

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00:36:41,500 –> 00:36:46,700
plans succeed or fail.
So in simple terms God wants to

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00:36:46,707 –> 00:36:48,600
make sure that we understand
these two things.

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00:36:49,000 –> 00:36:53,600
God governs how long you live
and what you accomplished?

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00:36:55,500 –> 00:36:57,300
But there’s more of the issue
than just that the look at the

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next verse for a 16 but now you
rejoice in your boastings and

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00:37:01,800 –> 00:37:06,200
such rejoicing is evil.
Why does James bring up boasting

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00:37:06,200 –> 00:37:08,900
all of a sudden the root problem
at play here?

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00:37:08,900 –> 00:37:13,300
I think is arrogance and pride.
And that is what causes us not

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00:37:13,300 –> 00:37:17,000
to look at our life with the
trueview boasting is simply the

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00:37:17,000 –> 00:37:20,900
expression of that arrogance
when you don’t look at life of

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00:37:20,900 –> 00:37:25,100
the truth view, then you begin
to think that you are the one

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00:37:25,500 –> 00:37:27,200
that’s in control over your
life.

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00:37:27,200 –> 00:37:29,100
You are the one that’s
responsible for your own

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00:37:29,100 –> 00:37:31,700
successes.
It’s through your hard work.

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00:37:31,700 –> 00:37:35,400
So in your efforts that you’ve
succeeded You gave me start

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00:37:35,400 –> 00:37:38,100
thinking if you take your
vitamins and exercise and eat

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00:37:38,100 –> 00:37:40,000
right?
You can somehow control how long

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00:37:40,000 –> 00:37:44,000
you live.
You can start to get arrogant

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00:37:44,700 –> 00:37:49,500
and the face of God the one who
really controls those things.

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00:37:51,000 –> 00:37:53,700
So when we talk about today and
tomorrow when we say Lord

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00:37:53,700 –> 00:37:55,800
willing, it’s not just a nice
thing to say.

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00:37:56,900 –> 00:37:59,500
It’s the acknowledgement of an
important and valuable truth

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00:37:59,500 –> 00:38:04,800
about who God is and the faith
that we have that he’s in

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00:38:04,800 –> 00:38:08,800
control of Our Lives that god
holds our entire life in his

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00:38:08,800 –> 00:38:10,900
hand.
He decides how long we live he

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00:38:10,900 –> 00:38:17,200
decides how we succeed or fail.
I want to close by going back to

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that verse who began the week
with.

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Want to close our thoughts on a
discussion of the fatherless and

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00:38:24,400 –> 00:38:41,000
the widows. pure religion stuff
that really matters Is visiting

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00:38:41,000 –> 00:38:44,100
the fatherless and the widows in
their affliction?

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00:38:45,500 –> 00:38:47,600
You keeping yourself unspotted
from the world.

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00:38:50,200 –> 00:38:53,000
I want to first kind of Define
what James means by pure

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00:38:53,000 –> 00:38:55,700
religion?
I think that by seeing using the

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word religion usually talking
about our faith our faith in

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00:39:00,200 –> 00:39:03,700
Christ.
This word religion is the same

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00:39:03,900 –> 00:39:05,200
word.
They use is in the previous

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00:39:05,200 –> 00:39:08,500
version you back up to verse 26.
He says if any man among you

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seem to be religious and Bridal
if not his tongue but deceiveth

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00:39:12,400 –> 00:39:15,100
his own heart.
This man’s religion is vain.

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The reason I think that James
means faith in Jesus when he

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00:39:19,300 –> 00:39:23,300
uses the word religion is what
comes in the next verse.

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See, there’s no break in the
floe here between 26 and 27 and

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00:39:29,500 –> 00:39:33,400
chapter 2 verse 1.
Look what the first verse of the

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00:39:33,400 –> 00:39:37,900
next the next chapter says my
brethren have not the Faith of

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00:39:37,900 –> 00:39:40,900
Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The lord of Glory with respect

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00:39:40,900 –> 00:39:43,700
of persons think what he’s
trying to say is if you’re

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religious or if you say you have
the faith of Jesus, then don’t

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00:39:47,200 –> 00:39:51,300
Bridal an unloving lying
gossiping cursing tongue.

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And your faith and your religion
is worthless.

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00:39:58,900 –> 00:40:01,900
We talked about it already.
It’s the it’s the faith that

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00:40:01,900 –> 00:40:06,000
saves us.
But whether our faith our our

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00:40:06,000 –> 00:40:11,400
religion is real or not as shown
by the change, it brings about

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in our hearts and our lives.
Now in verse 27 James gives us

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00:40:16,600 –> 00:40:22,100
another very concrete example of
that same point. notice the two

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00:40:22,100 –> 00:40:25,900
kind of effects that pure
religion and your and your life

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00:40:25,900 –> 00:40:32,600
has First one is practical
compassion. towards orphans and

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00:40:32,600 –> 00:40:39,900
widows and personal purity
Personal purity of your own life

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00:40:40,600 –> 00:40:44,600
like like Christ’s instruction
to the Pharisees of his day.

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00:40:45,900 –> 00:40:49,400
We need to do the one without
leaving the other undone.

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Too often.
I’m afraid that we fall off the

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horse on one side of the other.
Some fall off by saying what

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00:41:00,500 –> 00:41:05,100
matters is personal purity.
Sexual Purity Financial

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00:41:05,100 –> 00:41:10,200
Integrity a clean thought life
and and on and on but they’re

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00:41:10,200 –> 00:41:15,300
weak and the Practical Deeds of
compassion for the poor and the

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00:41:15,308 –> 00:41:19,000
helpless.
In some fall off the horse on

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00:41:19,000 –> 00:41:22,200
the other side.
By saying what matters is

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00:41:22,200 –> 00:41:24,700
reaching out and having
compassion and helping people

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00:41:24,900 –> 00:41:27,900
and what you do with your mind
and your body are in your

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00:41:27,900 –> 00:41:30,200
private personal life is not
really significant.

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But James says that pure and
undefiled religion true faith in

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the Lord.
Jesus Christ stays on the horse.

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Pure religion is to visit the
orphans and widows in their

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00:41:43,500 –> 00:41:48,100
distress and to keep oneself
unspotted from the world, not

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00:41:48,100 –> 00:41:55,300
either or but both public
compassion and personal Purity

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00:41:56,700 –> 00:42:02,200
proactive steps of kindness and
love and grace to those around

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00:42:02,200 –> 00:42:07,600
us and protective vigilance
against sin in our life.

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00:42:08,800 –> 00:42:13,000
There were two thousand verses
in the Bible that deal with

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00:42:13,000 –> 00:42:16,000
protecting the poor and the
oppressed.

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Clearly this is an issue.
It’s important to God.

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00:42:22,700 –> 00:42:25,500
I’m afraid we spent too much
time thinking about the ladder

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00:42:26,200 –> 00:42:30,400
and not the former.
I fear we’ve been too concerned

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00:42:30,400 –> 00:42:34,000
about personal Purity that we’ve
neglected this important

607
00:42:34,000 –> 00:42:38,000
instruction from God.
We’ve been too concerned about

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00:42:38,000 –> 00:42:41,200
keeping ourselves unspotted from
the world that we’ve neglected

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00:42:41,200 –> 00:42:44,500
the requirement to go out there
and help people for fear that

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00:42:44,500 –> 00:42:46,800
somehow we might get dirty in
the process.

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00:42:47,900 –> 00:42:50,800
I fear we’ve become so concerned
about not sinning.

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00:42:51,300 –> 00:42:53,100
We haven’t done enough good
works.

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00:42:54,100 –> 00:43:01,500
I think I can prove it and three
simple statements. first before

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00:43:01,500 –> 00:43:07,300
we go to sleep last tonight.
30,000 children will die of

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00:43:07,300 –> 00:43:13,900
starvation. second most of us
don’t give a damn.

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00:43:15,600 –> 00:43:18,300
And third and what’s worse is it
right?

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00:43:18,300 –> 00:43:19,900
Now?
You’re more uncomfortable with

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00:43:19,900 –> 00:43:23,300
the fact that I swore.
Then the fact that 30,000 kids

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are going to die tonight.
Do the one and don’t leave the

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00:43:27,700 –> 00:43:30,800
other undone.
If I religion is real if our

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00:43:30,800 –> 00:43:34,200
faith is alive we need to do
something about the suffering

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00:43:34,200 –> 00:43:36,400
and the pain that goes on around
us.

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00:43:37,600 –> 00:43:40,700
I don’t need to remind you about
the millions of children in

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00:43:40,700 –> 00:43:45,200
sub-Saharan Africa who are made
orphans each year by the rampant

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00:43:45,200 –> 00:43:48,700
spread of AIDS in that country.
I don’t need to remind you about

626
00:43:48,700 –> 00:43:51,800
the millions of children in
Eastern Europe who are abandoned

627
00:43:51,800 –> 00:43:54,900
due to poverty.
It’s easy.

628
00:43:55,200 –> 00:43:58,400
It’s easy to see where you can
help once you start looking.

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I just want us to try looking.
God has been concerned about the

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00:44:05,800 –> 00:44:08,800
fatherless and the widows since
the beginning of time.

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Although his methods have
changed over the years his his

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00:44:13,200 –> 00:44:18,000
message is still the same.
That’s what he says and an exit

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00:44:18,000 –> 00:44:21,500
as he said You shall not afflict
and he he widowed her father’s

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00:44:21,500 –> 00:44:24,900
child if that will flick them in
any wise and they cried on to

635
00:44:24,900 –> 00:44:26,900
me.
I will surely hear their cry.

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00:44:28,700 –> 00:44:33,000
My wrath shall wax Wax Hot and I
will kill you with the sword and

637
00:44:33,000 –> 00:44:36,300
your wife shall be widows and
your children fatherless.

638
00:44:38,700 –> 00:44:42,900
The law of Moses simply punished
you for not doing what’s right.

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00:44:44,500 –> 00:44:48,100
The law of Christ encourages us
to be righteous.

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00:44:49,100 –> 00:44:52,800
Which one’s going to work?
God’s tried the stick.

641
00:44:54,100 –> 00:44:57,600
He’s now trying the carrot.
But if we don’t respond better

642
00:44:57,600 –> 00:45:00,500
than the Israelites did who
knows what he’s going to try

643
00:45:00,500 –> 00:45:07,300
next?
I’ve brought up a lot of things

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00:45:07,300 –> 00:45:09,300
this morning.
I’ve lectured you about trying

645
00:45:09,300 –> 00:45:14,100
harder to live this life that
James describes my goal was to

646
00:45:14,100 –> 00:45:18,300
try to push you try to push
myself out of our comfort zones

647
00:45:18,800 –> 00:45:23,600
into the kind of service that
James calls us to If I’ve

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00:45:23,600 –> 00:45:27,000
offended you I I pray you’ll get
over it quickly, but don’t

649
00:45:27,000 –> 00:45:29,900
forget the message quite as
quickly.

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I want to leave you with one
simple suggestion about how to

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care for the fatherless and the
widows.

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It’s a verse that Jesus spoke in
Luke 14.

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00:45:41,200 –> 00:45:43,500
It’s really captured my
attention lately and it’s

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convicted my soul.
I hope this verse moves you as

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much as it did me.
Jesus said to his host.

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00:45:53,000 –> 00:45:54,300
When you give a luncheon or
dinner?

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00:45:56,000 –> 00:46:00,700
Don’t invite your friends.
So what about your brothers?

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Don’t invite your relatives or
your Rich Neighbors.

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If you do they may invite you
back and tell you’ll be repaid.

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when you give a banquet invite
the poor the crippled the lame

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the blind and you will be
blessed.

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Although they cannot repay.
You will be repaid at the

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resurrection of the righteous.
So you can see this class really

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wasn’t about this and that.
This whole week has really been

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more about God. and you the
father who has called us to live

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lives of faith.
And James gives us pretty of

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plenty of practical examples of
what it means to live lives of

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faith.
My prayer will continue that

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these classes have helped us all
see James message a little

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clearer.
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more motivated to follow that
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