Bob Lloyd – James – Unspotted from the World – Class 1 – Turning Trials into Triumph

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This is Winfield Bible Camp
1998.

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Our general theme for this week
is Next Year in Jerusalem.

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This is Class 2 from our brother
Bob Lloyd.

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And the title of his class is
turning trials into triumph.

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Brother Bob.
Good afternoon, everybody.

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Oh, you’re still awake right now
anyway, huh?

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This is a tough class right
after lunch.

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You.
It’s nap time.

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I know it, so if you want to go
to sleep, it’s OK.

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I want to bring the greetings of
our home ecclesia.

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My wife and I are so pleased to
be back with you again.

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We were here in 1993 and it’s
nice that you invite us back.

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We thank you for that.
And my home ecclesia is known as

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the Verdugo Hills Ecclesia.
But when on our way, people

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often announce me as being from
Verdigo Hills, which means Dizzy

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and Father.
They just look at me and think

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it must be dizzy.
But when they were sending me

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information about the camp.
Oh oh.

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OK, yeah.
You’re tall and I’m little.

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I remember when he was little
and I was taller.

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But they sent me information
about the camp.

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They had a history of the camp,
of the speakers and they

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remember what the speakers
talked about the year before.

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I was here in 93 and the year
after.

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Nobody knows what I said back in
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In fact, the brother, I think, I
think this brother Harold says

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arrange your brother.
Please review the above record

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and fill in, provide the missing
information request of our

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Lloyd.
Well, I don’t know if anybody’s

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figured out what I said or not,
but you know, I don’t remember

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what I said.
I think there’s a lesson in that

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we’re it’s so easy for us to
forget.

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We have better forgetters than
we have memories, but we need to

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work at remembering something
because what you forget you

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can’t use.
So when we go home from this

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Bible school, let’s hope we’ll
have a few thoughts that we’ve

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taken from the various classes
that we can put into our

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everyday or work of day lives
test time.

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I won’t ask you to speak up, but
last year, 1997, you had three

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really great speakers.
Can you remember them?

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One was David Lawrence, Portrait
of a St.

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Brother Stan Isabel, open ye the
gates.

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Brother Harry Tennant, Elijah,
Man of Fire.

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Harry is the only speaker that’s
been to three of your Bible

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schools.
I was checking the different

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people out.
And he’s worth having over and

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over again, as we all know.
But we’re glad to be with you

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this afternoon.
And our subject is the book of

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James.
And the title for this one is

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Turning Triumph, Turning trials
into triumph.

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Don’t really get that backwards.
If you want to open your Bibles

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to James chapter one, we’re
going to find that the book of

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James is one of the most
practical books in the entire

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New Testament.
And this brief letter was

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written by the half brother of
James.

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Most of us believe a few don’t
agree with that, but and his

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name was James.
And we won’t argue with that.

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And you’re going to tell us how
we ought to live.

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It was written to the believers
of the 1st century.

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The book of James is a letter of
encouragement as well as

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instruction to those who stood
in the very midst of conflict.

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So the first thing to do is kind
of give you an overview of the

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book of James so that you get an
overview of it.

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And then we’re going to 0 in on
different things.

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It starts off chapter one, verse
one with a greeting.

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And then, then it has trials and
temptations, the testing of

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faith, the source of temptation.
Number three, listening and

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doing #4 favoritism, forbidden
#5 faith and deeds.

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Number six, taming the tongue #7
two kinds of wisdom #8 warning

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against worldliness.
And that comes breaks down into

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quarrelsomeness, spiritual
unfaithfulness, pride, slander,

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and boasting.
Then at #10 we have warnings to

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the rich oppressors.
And I’ll move it up because I

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don’t think you can see the
bottom and #10 miscellaneous

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exhortation concerning patience
and suffering, concerning oath,

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concerning the prayer of faith,
concerning those who wander from

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the truth.
So that that’s just a quick

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overview of the, the book.
Then we’ll, we’re going to 0 in

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on, on some of the things that
he said.

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There are 5 themes in the book
of James.

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I don’t know which ways,
service, impartiality, careful

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speech, humility and prayer.
And these are woven right

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through the book and though are
the themes that we’ll be looking

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at as we study the book of
James.

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Now there’s a remarkable feature
about the book of James and that

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is that he does not directly,
but indirectly, he quotes the

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Lord Jesus Christ, who is, who
had said some of the things that

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James is going to say.
He doesn’t quote exactly, but he

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alludes to it.
And we’ll look at some of these

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in just a second.
JF Mayer, who wrote a book on

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the epistle of James, said there
were 70 to 80 of these and

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nearly half of them are
associated with a Sermon on the

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Mount.
So here’s here’s what we’re

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going to look at.
Now we’re going to look at

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something that Jesus said and
then look at what James said.

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Jesus said swear not and all
neither by heaven, for is God’s

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throne and so forth.
James said swear not neither by

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heaven nor by earth.
So you could see that very

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similar.
Jesus said lay not up for

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yourselves treasures upon the
earth.

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James says your riches are
corrupted, your garments are

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moth eaten.
Jesus said judge not that ye be

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not judged.
James said, Murmur not brethren,

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one against another, that ye be
not judged.

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Jesus said, Whosoever heareth
these sayings of mine, and do

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with them.
James said, but be doers of the

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word, and not hearers only.
Jesus said Blessed be poor for

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years, as the Kingdom of God.
James said, hath not God chosen

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the poor of this world, rich in
faith and heirs of the Kingdom?

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Jesus said You know that by your
by their fruits you shall know

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them by their fruits.
Do men gather grapes of thorns,

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or figs of, or thistles?
Even so every good tree bringeth

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forth good fruit, but a corrupt
tree bringeth not forth good

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fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth

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evil fruit, neither can a
corrupt tree bring forth good

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fruit.
Every tree that bringeth not

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forth good fruit is hewn down
and cast into the fire.

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Wherefore by their fruits ye
shall know them.

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James said.
Out of the same mouth proceedeth

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blessings and cursings.
My brother, these things ought

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not so to be can the fig tree my
brother and bear Ollie berries

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either a vine figs so can no
fountain bring fountain both

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yield salt water and fresh.
Blessed are the peacemakers, so

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they should be called the throne
of God and the fruit of

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righteousness is sown in peace
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So he was thoroughly familiar
with his elder brother and he

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quoted him.
Now we’re going to see that

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James, who wrote first Peter was
thoroughly familiar with what

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James said, and so we’re gonna
see that Peter and James have a

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lot of things in common.
James says refers to good

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conversation and works.
Peter says conversation honest

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and good works.
James said your lust, that war

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on your members.
Peter said abstain from fleshly,

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fleshly lust, which war against
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James said, Let him know that he
which converteth the Sinner from

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the heir of his way shall save a
soul from death, and shall hide

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a multitude of sins.
Peter says for charity shall

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cover a multitude of sins.
James said, Count it all joy

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when you fall in the divers
temptations.

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Peter said, wherein ye greatly
rejoice, though now for a season

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if need be, or you are in
heaviness through manifold

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temptations.
James said of his own will begat

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he us with the word of truth.
Peter said Seeing ye have

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purified your souls in a bane,
the truth, James says humble

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yourselves in the sight of the
Lord and he will lift you up.

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Peter says humble yourselves
therefore into the mighty hand

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of God and he may exalt you in
due time.

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So we see that James quoted
Jesus and Peter quoted James,

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and it’s OK to repeat yourself
because they they did.

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It’s also OK to borrow good
ideas from others.

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If you steal one good idea, it’s
called plagiarism.

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If you steal lots of good ideas,
it’s called research.

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And so in our study of the book
of James, we’ve done a lot of

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research.
I would rather give you a good

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idea I stole from somebody else
and give you a lousy one of my

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own.
So I’ve drawn my thoughts from

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the Book of James, but I’ve gone
to other sources.

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Brother Neville Smart wrote a
book on the Book of James, and

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Brother Don Stiles quoted from
that in his study of the Book of

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James.
Brother Dick Stone has taught

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Bible school classes on the Book
of James.

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And so I’m not, I’m not ashamed
to quote someone else to share

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an idea that I think is is is
worth hearing.

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So if you have your Bibles open
to James chapter one, verse one,

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and I’ll be reading this from
the new King James Version.

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I’m with brother Peter.
My favorite version is the King

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James Version, but I like them
all.

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And sometimes it’s interesting
to compare one with the other.

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And I think of all the new ones,
the new King James is probably

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the best.
I use the Nivi, use Phillips a

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lot.
Phillips is like the little girl

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who had a curl in the middle of
her forehead.

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When she was good, she was very,
very good.

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When she was bad, she was
horrid.

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But my computer at home has four
versions right side by side.

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And so you put it up, put a
verse up and you can compare the

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four at once and then you can
copy it right into your notes.

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It’s, it’s wonderful these new
things that people, I don’t

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understand computers, I can’t
even spell it, but they sure are

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wonderful to have.
So James, a Bond servant of God

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and the Lord Jesus Christ to the
12 tribes scattered abroad.

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Greetings.
He’s saying greetings.

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Now, brother Neville Smart says
the word greetings there can be

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translated wisheth Joy, and
that’s nice.

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And I wish you Joy.
I have a granddaughter here

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named Joy.
But it’s nice for us to greet

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each other.
We do this all the time, don’t

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we?
Well, how are you when you ask

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somebody that you really want to
know, when somebody comes up to

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me to speak and you know, I and
some people, you know, they oh,

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Bob, how are you?
And, and they’re looking away.

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I said, I’m dying.
You know, that’s great.

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You go on to the next guy.
If you don’t want to know how

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they are, don’t use that as a
greeting.

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See, you’re looking great.
It’s nice to see you.

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Some people, their only pleasure
they have in life is telling you

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about their aches and pains.
And so if they want to tell you

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about them, listen.
It’s an act of kindness.

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It’s it’s caring.
And if you don’t believe most

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people are, most people can’t
care less about your troubles.

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You know, they say never tell a
person your troubles.

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Most people couldn’t care less,
and the others are glad of it.

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But I went to lunch with a
fellow once.

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I thought he was an important
client.

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I found out he wasn’t, but we
went to a real swanky restaurant

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and the wait, waitress comes up,
you know, we got our menus and

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she comes and she says, well,
how are you?

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And he starts telling her about
his long bagel and she’s ready

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to take her.
And she says she’s, well, I’ll,

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I’ll, if you’re not ready, I’ll.
He says, wait a minute, I

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haven’t finished telling you
yet.

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And this poor girl with a whole
kind of, he made her stand there

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and he told her all about his
aches and pains.

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I was embarrassed for him and
for her.

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But the the point is that it’s a
nice thing to say.

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How are you if you really mean
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then change your greeting and
care about people because we

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should be interested in each
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So, James, one verse two, my
brethren, count it all joy when

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you fall into various trials.
Wait, wait, wait a minute,

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James, I got problems.
You tell me to count it joy when

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I got problems.
How can you count problems?

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A joy sounds like a
contradiction of terms, doesn’t

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it?
Especially when you’re familiar

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with Hebrews 12 and verse 11.
Now no, chastening for the

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present seems to be joyous, but
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Afterward it yieldeth the
peaceable fruits of

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righteousness unto those who are
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So obviously troubles are not.
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And yet, he said, when you fall
into trouble, when you have

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various trials, temptations
counted to joy, well, how can

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you do that?
That’s what we’re going to talk

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about this.
This is our subject.

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How can we turn our trials into
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Because the only people who have
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Dead.
So I got a few problems that

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shows you’re alive.
So we’re going to find a way to

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handle, cope, get through of the
trials which we have because we

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all have some.
And Hebrews 12/2 tells us we’re

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to look to Jesus.
Well, of course we know we’re to

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look to Jesus.
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This is how you look to Jesus in
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He’s the author and finisher of
our faith.

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Who, for the joy that was set
before him, endured the cross,

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despising the shame, and is set
down on the right hand of the

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throne of God?
Now I’m going to make up a

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little illustration here to try
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It doesn’t pay to sit too close,
does it?

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I think any of you would be a
fool to volunteer to come up and

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let me whip you a 39 times.
Paul was whipped 39 times on

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three different occasions.
He says of the Jews, no, five

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times.
Of the Jews, five times I

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received I-40 stripes -1 Now he
got that came from the

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Deuteronomy.
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them to hit a man 40 times.
Now the Romans and people like

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that had no limits.
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by the Romans, you have no idea
how many times he was in.

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When he was beaten in Philippi
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black back all bloody, It could
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But God in his mercy said only
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And he says 40 strikes he may
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exceed this and beat him with
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And above these and your brother
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So since I think I’m going to
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just to come up and let me hit
him, I’m going to sweeten the

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pot a little bit.
This is just pretend.

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Now, let’s pretend that ioffer
$1 million to a volunteer who

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will come up and let me hit him
39 times.

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Now, do I have a volunteer, $1
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Come on up.
Wynton.

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Did you raise your hand?
I’d love to come here.

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I knew when and when.
Come on up here.

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I’m.
I’m serious.

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Come on up.
I couldn’t.

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She’s a brave one.
Oh, thank you.

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Thank you, Ruth.
See, she’s braver than you now.

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I’m glad that you volunteered.
I met this young man in New

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Zealand.
Back when?

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Yes.
Well now I know this fella is

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fairly bright and he’s already
figured out that $1,000,000.39

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stripes.
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Did you have that figured out?
I’ll take one stripe.

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Oh just what?
So 2 stripes and you get 52,010

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stripes in your quarter of a
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OK, no worries.
Now now why are you willing to

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volunteer now?
And you weren’t before because I

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see freedom at the end of
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You see money at the end of
stripes, and you think money

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will buy freedom.
Thanks for coming up.

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You’re a good sport.
Now, why did I do that?

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Because the point was this.
If you can look forward to being

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a millionaire after receiving 39
stripes each time I hit with it,

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25,641 twenty 5641, he would
count him up as he went by.

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He I only wanted one strike.
He’s he’s kind of low aim.

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He only won 25,000.
But even for 25,000, you see

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what what, what, what Witwin was
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He wasn’t going to be thinking
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He’s going to think about the
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and that’s exactly what Hebrew
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Jesus, for the joy that was set
before him, endured the cross,

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despising the shame, and he’s
now sat down on the right hand

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of God.
So as Jesus hung on the cross in

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the most excruciating pain, I
think you can probably put a a

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human being through, he was not
thinking about how much it hurt,

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He was thinking.
About.

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The Kingdom and because he was
thinking about the Kingdom, he

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could endure the cross.
And that’s the key to our

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success in our trials.
Don’t think about the problem.

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Don’t think about the hurt.
Think past the problem.

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Think past the hurt to the
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Because this trial, this problem
is preparing me for bigger and

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better things.
Yes, I can take it.

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Thank you God.
Because again, Hebrew says if

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God doesn’t chasten you, he
doesn’t love you from the Lord

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chastens he loves, He chases and
encourages every son whom he

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receives.
And so we need to get this

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mental attitude that we can take
it because everything that’s

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happening in our life is
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And if this is the way God wants
us to be prepared, thank you,

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Father, for the trials and
troubles you’re giving me.

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Now, if you come to Luke chapter
6, Jesus has got to talk about

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the same thing.
And I apologize to Brother

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Peter.
I know that he’s doing Luke.

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I’ll make a deal with you.
Allow me to quote Luke once in a

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while and I’ll let you to quote
James all you want.

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I don’t, I don’t want to see, I
don’t know what he’s going to

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say, but I hope this verse
wasn’t in it.

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Luke 6 verse 22, he’s talking
about troubles.

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Jesus says blessed are you when
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Wait a minute.
I want I want people to like me,

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right?
Jesus, blessed are you when they

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hate you, when they exclude you
and revile you and cast you out

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your name as evil for the son of
man’s sake.

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And this is really troublesome
with young people who who want

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to be accepted by their peer
groups and when they’re excluded

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and reviled and say you can’t be
in our group and you can’t come

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to our things, kids are crushed
by this Jesus saying that’s OK

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because you to be a friend of
the world, you have to be the

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enemy of God.
You want to be the friend of

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God, you have to be the enemy of
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So now we’ll come down to verse
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We’re looking at Luke 6, verse
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Jesus says rejoice in that day.
And did you hear I didn’t read

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yet Leap for joy.
No, no.

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Oh.
No, wait a minute, that was

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silly to do that one.
Jesus didn’t really mean that.

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I mean, I mean, Jesus said it,
but he didn’t mean what he said,

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right?
You think Jesus ever said

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anything he didn’t mean?
If Jesus said leap for joy, you

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think he meant it?
I think he really meant it.

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In fact, it’s a marvelous
therapy.

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Now you want get up and and you
leave if you want to.

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Ruth, it’s OK.
We have a Bible class at our

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house Tuesday nights.
Well, this is one of my pet

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subjects.
So some of you heard this

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before, but we have a young
couple there come to our Bible

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class and he’s got a lot of
problems to work.

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And so he has to get up at 4:00
in the morning to to go to work.

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So as soon as the class is over,
he’s out right away.

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We serve refreshments and the
rest of people sit around and

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talk a while.
But this brother has to get up

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so early.
He leaves right away, but we’re

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just by when he can come.
But we talked about leaping for

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joy.
So later on, his wife said that

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as they walked down the
driveway, he was leaping all the

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way down the driveway because he
had so many problems.

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But you ought to try this.
It works.

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Jesus meant what he said.
This isn’t silly talk.

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Jesus says when you really have
problems and trials, leap for

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joy.
Now, I did this at Wessex Camp

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and, and Peter’s taught at
Wessex Camp a number of times

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and everybody camps there and a
lot of people come in, they call

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them caravans, we call them
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And one sister came to me later
and she had a headache.

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She’s Bob.
After your talk, I went back to

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my trailer and she said I I was
standing in the doorway and I

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leaped for a joint and I hit my
head.

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So I think, you know,
particularly if you’re tall, us

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short guys don’t need to worry.
We don’t hit our heads so much.

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But a medical doctor in in
England came to me.

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Later he said Oh.
No, I’m gonna try that.

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It works.
You see, Jesus is telling us how

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to solve our problems, not how
to solve how to live with them,

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how to cope with them.
And so yes, when you are really,

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and if you can’t leap
physically, try to do it

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mentally just, you know, if
you’re lying in bed.

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But physical exercise helps
relieve tension.

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They, they, the doctors all
prove that.

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And Jesus is saying leaping for
joy when you’ve got troubles, it

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helps you to take cope with
them.

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Now we know we’re all going to
be tried.

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One of my favorite verses in all
the Bible is 1 Corinthians 10/13

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and it’s one I think everyone
should know and memorize.

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But there is no temptation.
I changed the words says no, no

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temptation taken you.
But I said no temptation taken

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me.
But such as is common to man,

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but God is faithful who will not
allow me to be tempted above

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that I am able, but well with
the temptation make a way of

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escape, then I may be able to
bear it.

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And that verse is the verse I
quote to myself when I’m having

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a problem.
And then I try to leap for joy.

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And it will help us live through
it.

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You see, you can’t put our
thought.

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You don’t want to think out by
thinking the thought.

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You don’t want to think.
If a gorgeous girl walks by

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here, is she pretty and I think
I don’t want to think about her.

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Well, I’m not going to think
about that pretty girl.

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I’m just not going to think
about it.

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But I am thinking about it,
right.

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So I just say this verse,
there’s no temptation taking me

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besides coming to mind.
And she’s when I’m saying that

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verse, she’s out of mind.
She comes back again.

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There’s no temptation.
And sometimes I have to say it

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verse a lot of times.
But the point is you can’t think

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of two things at once.
And when you’re putting a Bible

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verse in your mind, you’re
crowding out a worldly thought

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that you don’t want to think.
But when you decide I won’t

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think the thought I don’t want
to think, you’re thinking the

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thought you said you wouldn’t
think about.

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So it’s thought substitution.
And so there are ways for us to

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overcome our trials and our
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So because of this, we really do
believe, don’t we?

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We really this is not think or
maybe, but we really do believe

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that all things work together
for good, not some things and

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not sometimes all things all the
time work together for good for

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everybody.
Oh no, just for those who are

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the call according to his
purpose.

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If God be for me, who can be
against me?

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I can do all things through
Christ with strength with me.

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And oh, this next verse, I’ve
got a note already from my

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secret pal and the person that
must know me because this next

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verse was written on the note
that they sent me.

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Proverbs 3/5 and. 6.
Trust in the Lord with all thine

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heart and lean not unto thine
own understanding and all thy

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ways acknowledge him and he will
direct your paths.

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So thank you, secret pal,
whoever you are.

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But if you had those verses in
your mind and you’re up against

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it, you don’t know what to do.
Trust in the Lord with all your

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he’s going to direct your steps
though he slay me yet while I

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trust in him, said Job.
And so we’re back to James one

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verse 3, knowing that the
testing of your faith produces

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patience, knowing this is not a
maybe thing.

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The trying of our faith helps
us, though at the present time

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it may hurt.
Now in first Peter one and

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seven, the word testing there is
the same word as is is in in

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James one and three.
And Peter says in first Peter

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1:00 and 7:00 that the
genuineness of your faith, being

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much more precious than gold
that perishes, though it is

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tested by fire, may be found to
praise, honor, and glory at the

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revelation of Jesus Christ.
So, so there’s a, there’s a

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picture coming through that
trials are difficult, but

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they’re for purpose.
And because they are helping us,

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we look past them.
We don’t think about how much it

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hurts.
We think about the fact that

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we’re being prepared for
something better and greater.

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Now if gold could talk, even
when they go go dig gold out of

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the out of the earth, it’s, it’s
not very pretty.

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It’s all mixed in with a bunch
of rock and stuff.

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There’s lots of gold mines in
California and we visited some

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of them just just with, with
Cycs and climbed down inside of

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some of them and looked at all
the abandoned equipment that’s

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rusting.
By the way.

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You wonder how they ever found
them out in the middle of no

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place in the desert.
But when they get it out, they

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get a chunk of gold out.
Nobody would want it like it

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was.
See, God doesn’t want us.

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This is a song in the in the
church.

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Just as I am.
It’s just just just God just

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wants you, just as you.
Are.

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No, He wants you to change from
what you are.

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To what he wants you to be and
he’s got to test you and he’s

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got to try you and he’s got to
help you get rid of those

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impurities.
And that’s what they do with

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gold.
So they take a big pot and they

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put up these these gold things,
these stuff in it and they put a

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fire under it and and this it
when it starts to the gold melts

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00:29:44,120 –> 00:29:46,920
and all this other stuff come
bubbles up to the top.

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And the Goldsmith, he has a
ladle and he, he skims off all

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the crud stuff and he throws it
away and he keeps skimming off

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00:29:56,160 –> 00:29:59,760
all the impurities till he looks
down in the pot of gold.

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And when he can see his face
reflected up, when he sees

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himself in the gold, it’s pure.
And when the Lord Jesus Christ

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can see his face reflected in
your life, because the trials

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and the problems have helped
purge.

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Out of you, the things which
would keep you out of the

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Kingdom, you.
So yes, you’re thankful for

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them.
If gold could talk, it would say

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it’s sure hot in here, but it’s
worth it to become pure and

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that’s true.
It is.

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So back to James one verse 3.
Knowing that the testing of your

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faith produces patience.
We know it.

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We don’t doubt this.
Later on in James 5 and 10, he’s

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going to say, take my brethren,
the prophets who has spoken in

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the name of the Lord for an
example of suffering, affliction

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and of patience.
Behold, we count them happy

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00:31:00,920 –> 00:31:04,240
which endure.
Ye have heard of the patience of

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Job and have seen the end of the
Lord, that he is very pitiful

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and of tender mercy.
So take examples of people in

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the Bible who have been patient
and certainly Job went through

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the Lord Jesus Christ is the
best example of all.

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But throughout Scripture we have
examples of people who’ve been

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tested and come through like
gold tried in the fire.

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Paul says rejoice in hope,
patient and tribulation,

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00:31:35,320 –> 00:31:38,520
continuing steadfastly in
prayer.

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00:31:40,240 –> 00:31:44,960
Hebrews, we have need of
patience that after you have

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done the will of God, you might
receive the promise.

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So there’s a secret in being
able to rejoice in tribulation.

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And those who know this secret
are happy and unperturbed and

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00:32:00,240 –> 00:32:03,000
serene in, in face of all the
problems that they have.

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00:32:04,640 –> 00:32:06,600
I’m sure you’ve, you’ve, you’ve
know people.

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I’ll tell you an example of a,
of a little girl that I know.

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Her name is Diane Grandchamp.
Have you ever heard of Diane

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00:32:13,920 –> 00:32:16,120
Grandchamp?
She’s about this long.

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00:32:16,600 –> 00:32:19,960
She’s 47 years old and she’s got
a a, a disease no one’s ever

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00:32:19,960 –> 00:32:22,000
lived as long as she has lived
with this disease.

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She’s on a breathing machine.
And she lives across the street

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00:32:26,440 –> 00:32:30,080
from the Cranston, RI ecclesia
and she’s on a machine.

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She never gets out of her house.
She never gets out of her bed.

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00:32:33,720 –> 00:32:36,520
She’s totally bed fast.
And you go there to cheer her

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00:32:36,520 –> 00:32:37,400
up.
And you know what you do?

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00:32:37,680 –> 00:32:41,600
She cheers you out and all the
trouble she’s got.

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00:32:41,720 –> 00:32:45,560
She is the most sparkling
personality I, I have ever known

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00:32:45,560 –> 00:32:48,480
with all those problems.
She calls me on the phone.

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00:32:48,600 –> 00:32:50,240
She has to talk.
She’s not supposed to be.

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00:32:50,240 –> 00:32:53,280
Able to talk because she’s got a
trach and a thing going and she.

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00:32:53,640 –> 00:32:55,920
But when she calls, you can know
it’s Diane, you know, and she’s

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00:32:56,080 –> 00:32:59,760
BA, you know.
And I said Diane, you know.

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00:33:00,040 –> 00:33:02,000
And she heard I was going to
England one first time I went to

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00:33:02,000 –> 00:33:04,440
England.
She says she’s never seen me

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00:33:04,440 –> 00:33:07,400
speak except on videos because
she can’t leave her room.

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00:33:09,280 –> 00:33:11,840
But she’s they get they, she
gets my videos.

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00:33:11,840 –> 00:33:13,880
So she she says.
Bob, do you think?

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00:33:13,880 –> 00:33:20,200
England is ready for you yet.
And the answer was they weren’t,

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00:33:20,200 –> 00:33:26,200
but I went anyway.
But but there are people with

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00:33:26,200 –> 00:33:33,280
lots more serious problems than
you’ve got, and many of them are

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00:33:33,280 –> 00:33:35,560
conquering them by looking past
them.

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00:33:36,520 –> 00:33:39,600
And so if your problems have
been getting you down, Brother

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00:33:39,600 –> 00:33:42,960
Hardy mentioned in his prayer,
he prayed that this class would

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00:33:43,040 –> 00:33:44,320
help us do this.
And that’s the.

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00:33:44,320 –> 00:33:47,240
Goal of this class.
Because we’re talking to people

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00:33:47,240 –> 00:33:51,160
who have problems, you get a
room this full of people.

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00:33:51,160 –> 00:33:53,840
Brothers and sisters.
And and that you’ve got lots of

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00:33:53,840 –> 00:33:56,840
problems.
Life has problems.

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00:33:57,040 –> 00:34:00,840
God sends us problems.
He allows them to, doesn’t

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00:34:00,840 –> 00:34:03,400
always cause them.
Sometimes we bring on our own.

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00:34:03,720 –> 00:34:05,840
But he, he certainly.
Knows what fake problems we’re

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00:34:05,840 –> 00:34:09,320
facing.
And so Paul, Paul, he had a

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00:34:09,320 –> 00:34:13,040
problem.
He he had been given a a

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00:34:13,040 –> 00:34:16,719
marvelous vision of the Kingdom.
He was caught up into the third

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00:34:16,719 –> 00:34:19,560
heavens in paradise to see
things that he couldn’t even

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00:34:19,560 –> 00:34:20,639
utter.
It was so wonderful.

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00:34:21,400 –> 00:34:24,400
I don’t know of any other man in
Scripture that that saw what

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00:34:24,400 –> 00:34:27,840
Paul saw on that occasion.
We have never seen that.

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00:34:28,159 –> 00:34:33,280
And it was so wonderful that
God, in his mercy and in his

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00:34:33,440 –> 00:34:37,600
loving kindness, believed that
Paul needed a thorn in the

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00:34:37,600 –> 00:34:39,400
flesh.
Just kind of hold him.

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00:34:39,400 –> 00:34:44,320
Down and so Paul doesn’t like
the thorns in the flesh.

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You don’t like him.
So he said God three times he

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00:34:47,239 –> 00:34:51,880
says take this away from me.
God said no, my grace is

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00:34:51,880 –> 00:35:01,320
sufficient for you.
So Paul, knowing that God was

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00:35:01,320 –> 00:35:07,520
giving him this problem on
purpose, lest he should be

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00:35:07,520 –> 00:35:10,960
exalted above measure through
the abundance of the revelation

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00:35:10,960 –> 00:35:14,120
that was given to me.
He gave me a thorn in the flesh

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00:35:14,840 –> 00:35:16,840
to buffet me.
Lest I should be exalted above.

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Measure as a result of that,
Paul says I glory in my

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00:35:27,640 –> 00:35:29,120
infirmities.
Do you?

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00:35:29,880 –> 00:35:32,400
You got you got infirmities, do
you glory in them?

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00:35:34,440 –> 00:35:37,800
Most people don’t, but maybe we
ought to.

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00:35:38,560 –> 00:35:44,160
I glory in reproaches.
You’ve been reproached.

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00:35:45,120 –> 00:35:53,760
You glory in that all says too.
He says, I glory in my

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00:35:54,040 –> 00:35:56,400
firmities.
The power of Christ may rest

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00:35:56,400 –> 00:35:59,000
upon me in my persecutions and
distresses.

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When I am weak, then I’m strong.
Now that seems a contradiction

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00:36:03,120 –> 00:36:08,160
of terms, doesn’t it?
But you see, physical strength

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00:36:08,160 –> 00:36:10,760
is not what’s important.
Bodily exercise profiteth a

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00:36:10,760 –> 00:36:13,520
little bit.
Godliness is profitable into all

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00:36:13,520 –> 00:36:16,520
things, having a promise of the
life that now isn’t that which

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00:36:16,520 –> 00:36:19,680
is to come.
So it’s not wrong to keep your

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00:36:19,680 –> 00:36:21,080
body as healthy as you can keep
it.

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00:36:21,600 –> 00:36:25,480
But the the people who devote
their whole life to just

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00:36:25,800 –> 00:36:28,920
physical fitness are totally
missing the point.

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00:36:31,400 –> 00:36:33,680
Now the children of this world
are in their generation wiser

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00:36:33,680 –> 00:36:35,240
than the children of light, said
Jesus.

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00:36:36,400 –> 00:36:39,800
And he’s right about that.
This bugs me a little bit, but

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00:36:39,800 –> 00:36:41,920
it’s true.
What what?

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00:36:41,920 –> 00:36:45,280
What Jesus is saying here is
that people who don’t even know

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00:36:45,280 –> 00:36:49,800
the truth use the principles of
the truth to be successful in

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00:36:49,800 –> 00:36:51,160
whatever they want to be
successful in.

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00:36:51,840 –> 00:36:54,880
And we here we are the Christian
Delphians and we know the truth

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00:36:55,280 –> 00:36:56,520
and we should know the
principle.

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00:36:56,800 –> 00:36:58,880
And we’re not using the
principle to be successful in

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00:36:58,880 –> 00:37:01,960
the truth as worldly people are
using the same principle to be

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00:37:01,960 –> 00:37:06,280
successful in life.
The the principles of the Bible

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are just true principles and
they work.

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00:37:08,800 –> 00:37:10,440
The law of gravity works for
everybody.

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00:37:11,120 –> 00:37:13,600
You’re sitting in death row and
you drop a pencil and it falls

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00:37:13,600 –> 00:37:16,200
to the ground.
And if you drop a pencil it

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00:37:16,200 –> 00:37:18,400
falls to the ground.
Because that’s the way nobody

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00:37:18,400 –> 00:37:22,720
ever repeals that law.
Now these laws that God has put

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00:37:22,720 –> 00:37:26,520
in, in effect, people who don’t
know the truth sometimes use

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00:37:26,520 –> 00:37:29,720
them to success in their
endeavours.

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00:37:30,000 –> 00:37:32,640
Certainly this was true.
If you’ve done any reading about

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00:37:32,640 –> 00:37:35,600
any of the people who were in
the concentration camps in

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00:37:35,600 –> 00:37:40,160
Germany, what they went through
and, and it broke a lot of

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00:37:40,160 –> 00:37:46,920
people and some people survived
because they looked past the

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00:37:46,920 –> 00:37:51,120
problem.
There was an officer who was in

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00:37:51,120 –> 00:37:55,200
the Hanoi Hilton.
It was a concentration camp in

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00:37:55,200 –> 00:37:57,560
Vietnam.
They, they nicknamed it the

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00:37:57,560 –> 00:38:00,000
Hanoi Hilton.
It was such a terrible place.

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00:38:00,600 –> 00:38:04,680
This guy was a golfer.
So what he did, he was in

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00:38:04,680 –> 00:38:07,320
solitary confinement in a little
cell.

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00:38:07,320 –> 00:38:09,760
He couldn’t stand up.
He couldn’t lie down.

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00:38:10,600 –> 00:38:13,480
It was very small.
He he could only sit kind of

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00:38:13,720 –> 00:38:19,760
squatty and and he was kept that
way in darkness for days and

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00:38:19,760 –> 00:38:22,040
days and days.
Now a Leicester man would have

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00:38:22,040 –> 00:38:26,080
gone crazy.
This man visualized in his mind

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00:38:26,400 –> 00:38:31,240
golf and in his mind he played
the courses that he had played

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00:38:32,120 –> 00:38:36,560
when he was a free man.
And when he finally got out and

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00:38:36,560 –> 00:38:41,240
he went back to those golf
courses, his score was almost as

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00:38:41,240 –> 00:38:45,720
good as it had been when he was
in the top form because he had

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00:38:45,720 –> 00:38:48,480
mentally played the course over
and over.

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00:38:48,600 –> 00:38:51,320
So what was he doing?
He wasn’t thinking about his

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00:38:51,320 –> 00:38:53,520
problem.
He was thinking about golf

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00:38:53,520 –> 00:38:55,600
courses.
Now, I think you can think about

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00:38:55,600 –> 00:38:57,160
better things than a golf
course.

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00:38:57,680 –> 00:39:02,520
But the point is, this idea
works, but it doesn’t work if

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00:39:02,520 –> 00:39:07,400
you don’t work it.
And so James is telling us here

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00:39:07,680 –> 00:39:11,320
to count it all joy when we fall
into divers temptation.

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Jesus has said children of this
world is their generation wiser

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00:39:19,680 –> 00:39:22,320
than the children of light.
Let’s don’t let the people that

631
00:39:22,320 –> 00:39:25,880
don’t know the truth be more
efficient in using the

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00:39:25,880 –> 00:39:31,160
principles of God than we are as
we try to strive for the Kingdom

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00:39:31,160 –> 00:39:37,080
of God.
So back to James one verse two

634
00:39:37,080 –> 00:39:39,120
again.
Count it all joy when you fall

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00:39:39,120 –> 00:39:42,560
into divers temptations.
We ought to be the happiest.

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00:39:42,560 –> 00:39:46,760
People on Earth, aren’t we?
Nobody has the future we’ve got.

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00:39:48,360 –> 00:39:51,920
We, we, of all people in the
world, ought to be the happiest.

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00:39:52,200 –> 00:39:53,480
Are you as happy as you ought to
be?

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00:39:54,480 –> 00:39:55,880
Well, you’ve got a glorious
future.

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00:39:56,800 –> 00:40:00,600
We know the truth.
You know, I don’t don’t think we

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00:40:00,680 –> 00:40:01,920
must never take this for
granted.

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00:40:01,920 –> 00:40:06,360
But Jesus says no man.
Mankind means women too.

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00:40:06,360 –> 00:40:11,480
No one can come to me.
Except the father which has sent

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00:40:11,480 –> 00:40:15,960
me draw him.
So you’re a hand picked group of

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00:40:15,960 –> 00:40:19,240
people in this?
World, you’ve been called.

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Some of you may not have
responded yet if you’re not

647
00:40:22,560 –> 00:40:25,080
baptized, but you have you’ve
been called, you just haven’t

648
00:40:25,080 –> 00:40:28,440
said yes yet.
Of course, if you turn God down

649
00:40:28,440 –> 00:40:31,520
on his initial call, you can’t
possibly please him, can you?

650
00:40:33,000 –> 00:40:40,120
But God wants us in his Kingdom,
and it’s my Father’s good

651
00:40:40,120 –> 00:40:43,080
pleasure to give you the
Kingdom, said Jesus.

652
00:40:43,440 –> 00:40:46,600
You can’t earn it, but he wants
you to have it.

653
00:40:48,400 –> 00:40:51,400
And so in Acts 5 and 40, when
they were the apostles were

654
00:40:51,400 –> 00:40:57,520
beaten, Jesus had promised them
that they would be beaten, and

655
00:40:57,520 –> 00:41:00,320
they were beaten.
And when they had called the

656
00:41:00,320 –> 00:41:02,680
apostles and beaten them, they
commanded that they should not

657
00:41:02,680 –> 00:41:05,600
speak in the name of the Lord
Jesus, and they let them go.

658
00:41:07,240 –> 00:41:09,080
That’s the time not to obey the
authorities.

659
00:41:09,080 –> 00:41:10,520
When they tell you to leave the
truth.

660
00:41:10,960 –> 00:41:12,360
Don’t tell people about your
hope.

661
00:41:12,720 –> 00:41:17,840
That’s what you don’t obey.
Most of the laws of countries

662
00:41:17,840 –> 00:41:22,160
where we live you can obey
without breaking the law of

663
00:41:22,160 –> 00:41:25,440
Christ.
But if you’re told to do

664
00:41:25,440 –> 00:41:28,160
something other than what Christ
has said, we ought to obey God

665
00:41:28,160 –> 00:41:32,200
rather than man.
But after they had been beaten

666
00:41:32,200 –> 00:41:36,480
up and let go, and they didn’t
get $1,000,000 win, they just

667
00:41:36,480 –> 00:41:40,760
got a sore back, they departed
from the presence of the

668
00:41:40,760 –> 00:41:44,560
council, rejoicing.
Oh, wait a minute, That’s what

669
00:41:44,560 –> 00:41:47,480
James said to do, right?
That’s what they did do,

670
00:41:47,800 –> 00:41:52,360
rejoicing that they were counted
worthy to suffer shame for his

671
00:41:52,360 –> 00:41:55,760
name.
Now, isn’t it wonderful that God

672
00:41:55,760 –> 00:42:00,640
has called you to suffer shame
for his name?

673
00:42:01,560 –> 00:42:02,880
And so you’re rejoicing, aren’t
you?

674
00:42:03,600 –> 00:42:05,920
And you’re happy in spite of
your problems.

675
00:42:07,160 –> 00:42:09,880
Jesus says be of good cheer,
you’re going to have problems.

676
00:42:09,880 –> 00:42:12,560
Be of good cheer.
What?

677
00:42:12,560 –> 00:42:17,880
Wait a minute, Jesus, you tell
me to be cheerful and I’m going

678
00:42:17,880 –> 00:42:20,200
to have problems.
Yes, that’s what Jesus said.

679
00:42:20,880 –> 00:42:23,800
These things that I’ve spoken to
you, that you may have peace in

680
00:42:23,800 –> 00:42:26,120
the world, you will have
tribulation, but be of good

681
00:42:26,120 –> 00:42:28,920
cheer.
I have overcome the world.

682
00:42:30,360 –> 00:42:33,720
And because He did, He wants you
to also.

683
00:42:35,800 –> 00:42:42,520
Revelations 225 They that have
already hold fast, but hold fast

684
00:42:42,520 –> 00:42:43,720
at what you have.
Till I come.

685
00:42:43,960 –> 00:42:49,440
He that overcometh and keepeth
my works unto the end will I

686
00:42:49,440 –> 00:42:54,520
give power over the nations.
You have to have something to

687
00:42:54,520 –> 00:42:59,680
overcome, or you can’t overcome.
So be thankful for the problems

688
00:42:59,680 –> 00:43:03,360
you have.
They are allowed by a loving

689
00:43:03,360 –> 00:43:10,120
Father to help you prepare for
the Kingdom, and if things were

690
00:43:10,120 –> 00:43:12,440
too rosy in this world, maybe
you wouldn’t want to be in the

691
00:43:12,440 –> 00:43:17,120
Kingdom.
I know some people, particularly

692
00:43:17,120 –> 00:43:20,280
the young people, when life is a
bowl of cherries.

693
00:43:20,280 –> 00:43:26,000
They think they don’t know about
the pits, but you have one of

694
00:43:26,000 –> 00:43:28,440
them get sick with leukemia or
something and you go visit them

695
00:43:28,440 –> 00:43:30,440
in the hospital when they’re
bald headed because they’ve been

696
00:43:30,680 –> 00:43:33,440
have lost all their hair and
they’re ready for Jesus to come.

697
00:43:35,160 –> 00:43:38,760
So sometimes it takes trouble
for us to want to be in the

698
00:43:38,760 –> 00:43:44,120
Kingdom.
And so our final verse in James

699
00:43:44,120 –> 00:43:46,800
is going to be verse four,
chapter one.

700
00:43:47,120 –> 00:43:49,960
But let patience have our
perfect work that ye may be

701
00:43:49,960 –> 00:43:55,400
perfect and entire, wanting
nothing in the NIV.

702
00:43:55,520 –> 00:43:59,800
Perseverance must finish its
work so that you may be mature

703
00:43:59,800 –> 00:44:03,760
and complete.
For not lacking anything.

704
00:44:04,600 –> 00:44:07,640
Another version, my brothers.
Whenever you have to face trials

705
00:44:07,640 –> 00:44:11,800
of many kinds, count yourself
supremely happy.

706
00:44:12,360 –> 00:44:16,880
In the knowledge that such
testing of your faith breeds

707
00:44:17,200 –> 00:44:21,760
Fortitude, and if you give
Fortitude full play, you will go

708
00:44:21,760 –> 00:44:25,160
on to complete a balanced
character that will fall short

709
00:44:25,720 –> 00:44:28,920
in nothing.
Another version.

710
00:44:29,320 –> 00:44:33,600
Let your endurance come to its
perfect product so that you may

711
00:44:33,600 –> 00:44:39,040
be fully developed and perfectly
equipped without any defects.

712
00:44:42,600 –> 00:44:47,560
I don’t know if any of you know
a, a test pilot, but test pilots

713
00:44:47,720 –> 00:44:52,400
take airplanes up to put them
through their Pacers and they,

714
00:44:52,400 –> 00:44:55,080
they, they, they make that plane
dive and they pull it out of a

715
00:44:55,080 –> 00:44:57,800
dive and they, they make it do
twists and turns and everything.

716
00:44:58,520 –> 00:45:01,680
Any passenger plane has gone
through all kinds of tests

717
00:45:01,680 –> 00:45:05,560
before it’s ever allowed to have
passengers on it.

718
00:45:06,520 –> 00:45:10,080
Now, why is a test pilot putting
that plane through all that?

719
00:45:10,880 –> 00:45:12,200
Well, he wants to ruin it,
right?

720
00:45:12,760 –> 00:45:14,440
No, he doesn’t.
He’s inside.

721
00:45:15,480 –> 00:45:17,000
He doesn’t want that plane to
crash.

722
00:45:17,000 –> 00:45:20,680
He wants to make sure that plane
will do what it ought to do.

723
00:45:21,880 –> 00:45:23,640
That’s what God is doing with
us.

724
00:45:23,640 –> 00:45:27,640
If you can just realize this,
the tests we’re having, the

725
00:45:27,640 –> 00:45:30,160
problems we’re facing are.
Lied by a.

726
00:45:30,160 –> 00:45:33,320
Heavenly Father to prepare us
for bigger and better things.

727
00:45:34,920 –> 00:45:38,840
I feel so sorry when I see
parents and a little child

728
00:45:39,480 –> 00:45:42,320
that’s defective.
What do I mean by that?

729
00:45:43,280 –> 00:45:46,320
Well, now and then you will see
a child who rules the parents.

730
00:45:47,160 –> 00:45:50,440
They are the boss and whatever
they want they get.

731
00:45:51,200 –> 00:45:53,000
If they don’t get it, they think
they have.

732
00:45:53,000 –> 00:45:54,920
They throw themselves on the
ground and kick and scream.

733
00:45:54,920 –> 00:45:56,480
And then the mother or father
gives it to them.

734
00:45:57,440 –> 00:46:01,200
And the father and mother think
that they’re being kind to the

735
00:46:01,200 –> 00:46:04,080
child.
And unfortunately they’re being

736
00:46:04,080 –> 00:46:09,200
cruel to the child because
they’re letting the child rule.

737
00:46:10,120 –> 00:46:13,240
They’re letting the child be the
boss.

738
00:46:14,360 –> 00:46:19,520
Now we all like to be the boss,
but in God’s sight we’re all

739
00:46:19,520 –> 00:46:24,200
little children.
All of us are little children.

740
00:46:25,880 –> 00:46:30,320
Did you know that Methuselah
never lived today one a day is

741
00:46:30,320 –> 00:46:32,840
when the Lord’s 1000 years, 1000
years of the day, he only lived

742
00:46:32,840 –> 00:46:35,200
9 or 69 years.
He never got through the first

743
00:46:35,200 –> 00:46:37,240
day.
Just a kid.

744
00:46:38,120 –> 00:46:40,680
God’s eyes.
We think that’s a pretty long

745
00:46:40,680 –> 00:46:46,840
time, but if you can just
realize that we are all children

746
00:46:46,840 –> 00:46:51,320
in God’s eyes and and he is the
boss.

747
00:46:52,560 –> 00:46:54,520
And it’s not good for us to be
the boss.

748
00:46:55,280 –> 00:46:58,480
It’s not good for us to have our
own way and do what we want to

749
00:46:58,480 –> 00:47:01,880
do when we want to do it.
And so God allows us to have

750
00:47:01,880 –> 00:47:09,800
trials and temptations and
problems to help us realize that

751
00:47:09,800 –> 00:47:13,160
the Kingdom is bigger than any
problem that you’ll ever face,

752
00:47:14,320 –> 00:47:17,880
that you’ve given a thorn in the
flesh, unless you should be

753
00:47:17,880 –> 00:47:23,360
exalted above major, said Paul.
And so how do we turn our trials

754
00:47:23,360 –> 00:47:26,840
into triumphs?
It’s all done between the ears.

755
00:47:27,840 –> 00:47:31,760
It’s what we think about our
problem that decides whether

756
00:47:31,760 –> 00:47:35,000
it’s going to beat us or we’re
going to defeat it.

757
00:47:36,880 –> 00:47:41,640
And so God doesn’t want to
destroy us any more than a test

758
00:47:41,640 –> 00:47:43,120
pilot wants to destroy the
plane.

759
00:47:43,120 –> 00:47:44,560
And he’s putting through its
paces.

760
00:47:45,840 –> 00:47:51,120
He wants it to succeed.
God wants you to succeed.

761
00:47:53,200 –> 00:47:56,480
He sent his son to die so you
could.

762
00:47:58,000 –> 00:48:05,920
He’s called you to his Kingdom.
And now what are you going to do

763
00:48:05,920 –> 00:48:09,280
about it?
It’s only through tribulation

764
00:48:09,280 –> 00:48:12,280
that we’ll get there.
That’s our promise.

765
00:48:12,280 –> 00:48:13,800
That’s not, that’s, that’s a
certainty.

766
00:48:13,800 –> 00:48:19,240
We’re going to be trying.
And so let’s not be defective

767
00:48:19,240 –> 00:48:23,280
children getting our own way and
doing what we want to do and

768
00:48:23,440 –> 00:48:26,280
being mad at God because he
won’t let us do what we want to

769
00:48:26,280 –> 00:48:28,120
do.
I, I know people are angry with

770
00:48:28,120 –> 00:48:30,920
God.
We were working with a lady who

771
00:48:30,920 –> 00:48:35,560
came to our class once a week.
She came from a, from a lecture,

772
00:48:35,800 –> 00:48:40,000
Frank Abel lecture, and she came
to our class once a week and she

773
00:48:40,000 –> 00:48:41,960
was getting ready for bad time
to be bad time.

774
00:48:42,200 –> 00:48:44,320
She even went out and bought her
dress.

775
00:48:45,440 –> 00:48:48,320
I mean, she had to have a
special dress to be, she wasn’t

776
00:48:48,320 –> 00:48:49,960
going to be baptized.
She was going to wear it as soon

777
00:48:49,960 –> 00:48:54,120
as the baptism was over.
But she was all wrapped up in

778
00:48:54,120 –> 00:49:00,920
the things of that kind.
And then she got sick and she

779
00:49:00,920 –> 00:49:03,560
couldn’t sleep and she, I guess
she went through a lot of

780
00:49:03,560 –> 00:49:08,000
torment and she said, God, I was
going to get baptized.

781
00:49:09,000 –> 00:49:10,800
If you’re going to treat me this
way, I’ll fix you.

782
00:49:10,800 –> 00:49:15,560
I’m not going to get baptized.
She didn’t.

783
00:49:16,960 –> 00:49:20,680
She totally went away.
She she didn’t understand.

784
00:49:22,160 –> 00:49:23,440
It didn’t.
It didn’t sink in.

785
00:49:24,680 –> 00:49:29,000
God, even though she was ill,
she survived the illness and

786
00:49:29,000 –> 00:49:32,080
she’s all right now.
But she was so angry that God

787
00:49:32,080 –> 00:49:35,520
would let her get I’ll become
I’ll just before she was getting

788
00:49:35,520 –> 00:49:39,720
baptized, she says, I’ll show
you who’s the boss.

789
00:49:41,040 –> 00:49:45,360
Just like a little child who
tried to tell his parents that

790
00:49:45,360 –> 00:49:51,280
he’s the boss and you’re not the
boss, God’s the boss.

791
00:49:52,320 –> 00:49:55,640
And if he’s in charge, you know
what that means, means you’re

792
00:49:55,640 –> 00:49:58,360
not in charge.
You can’t be in charge if God’s

793
00:49:58,360 –> 00:49:59,680
in charge.
And if he’s in charge, you’re

794
00:49:59,680 –> 00:50:02,880
not in charge.
So we have to humble ourselves

795
00:50:02,880 –> 00:50:05,240
before the under the mighty hand
of God that he may exalt us in

796
00:50:05,240 –> 00:50:09,520
due time.
And so we’ll just read as we

797
00:50:09,520 –> 00:50:14,600
close James chapter one, verses
2-3 and four.

798
00:50:16,280 –> 00:50:20,520
Consider it pure joy, my
brothers, whenever you face

799
00:50:20,520 –> 00:50:26,760
trials of many kinds because you
know that the testing of your

800
00:50:26,760 –> 00:50:33,160
faith develops perseverance.
Perseverance must finish its

801
00:50:33,160 –> 00:50:39,720
work so that you may be mature
and complete and not lacking

802
00:50:40,000 –> 00:50:52,520
anything.
It’s the Bible verse.

803
00:50:54,240 –> 00:50:56,920
Young people, I’m going to ask
them to memorize it, but you

804
00:50:56,920 –> 00:51:00,960
know you can too.
It’s OK to memorize Bible verses

805
00:51:01,120 –> 00:51:02,520
no matter how old you are.
It’s OK.

806
00:51:02,520 –> 00:51:05,040
But when you’re memorizing your
Bible verse, you’re filling your

807
00:51:05,040 –> 00:51:06,200
brains with the right kind of
stuff.

808
00:51:06,680 –> 00:51:09,480
So be sure and get your little
Bible verse before you leave.

809
00:51:09,720 –> 00:51:13,240
Harley Wilson went and you can
help us pass these out.

810
00:51:14,720 –> 00:51:16,200
Put that guy that was beaten to
a word.