Bob Lloyd – James – Unspotted from the World – Class 3 – Faith that is Real and Works

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This is Winfield Bible School
1998.

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Our overall theme for the week
is Next Year in Jerusalem.

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This is class #2 with brother
Bob Lloyd.

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His class title is Faith that is
Real and Works.

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The reading for this class was
taken from James chapter one

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from verse 12 to the end of the
chapter.

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It’s ending is made sets of
these overheads and two dear

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sweet sisters have correlated
them into into sets, so anyone

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who wants one of those may come
up and have it at the end.

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Did I say Don?
Did I say David?

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They look alike.
You can’t Don did it.

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Thank you.
I didn’t know that I just they

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both begin with D too.
Oscar Wilde, a famous British

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writer, is reported to have said
I can resist anything in the

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world except temptation.
Unfortunately, resisting

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temptation is not in style
anymore.

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Doing what comes naturally has
become the end thing.

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Jesus told us to watch and pray
lest you enter into temptation.

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The Spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak now, just

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like the rain which falls on the
just and the unjust, temptation

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falls on all of us.
Ever since Eve had her fatal

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conversation with that serpent,
mankind has been tempted.

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Someone has said they that think
they.

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Cannot Wander will be the first.
To lose their way, the convicted

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embezzler who never dreamed that
the temptation of greed would

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overcome him and land him in
prison.

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The loving husband, the ideal
wife, would have laughed in

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unbelief if they had been told
earlier that they would yield to

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the lust that destroyed their
marriage.

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A young student at the Lions
Academy named Napoleon wrote an

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essay on the dangers of ambition
in his latter years.

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It was his ambition and his
greed that destroyed him.

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Now it’s not a sin to be
tempted.

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We’re all tempted.
The Lord Jesus Christ was

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tempted, we read in Hebrews
chapter 2 in verse 17.

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Wherefore in all things it
behooved Jesus to be made

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likened to his brethren, that he
might be a merciful and faithful

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high priest in things pertaining
to God, to make reconciliation

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for the sins of the people.
For in that He Himself hath

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suffered being tempted, he is
able to succor them that are

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tempted.
And then the most famous verse

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about Jesus being tempted is in
the chapter 4 verse 15.

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For we have not an high priest
which cannot be tempted with the

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feeling of our infirmities, but
was in all points tempted like

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as we are yet without sin.
So we’re going to be tempted.

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That’s that’s a sure thing.
The problem is we must not yield

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to temptation.
The purpose of our trials and

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our temptations is to perfect
us, not to destroy us.

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And they do, one or the other.
They make or they break.

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God doesn’t want to break, He
wants to make.

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He wants to make us better by
overcoming our temptations.

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God tempted Abraham and a
temptation was very severe.

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I know none of us have ever been
put to a temptation as Abraham

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was to slay his own son, and he
passed that temptation, that

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testing with flying colors,
Jesus said to the Ecclesia and

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Thyatira, he who overcomes.
And.

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Keeps my works until the end.
To him will I give power over

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the nations?
You have to have something to

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overcome it.
You can’t overcome it.

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You may not think that you like
to have problems.

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You may not believe that.
That trials and obstacles and

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hurdles are good.
So maybe I can I try to prove to

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you that they are.
We went to a great ball game the

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other night.
It was a wonderful game.

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The score was 100 and nothing.
That’s not a good game.

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You want a close game.
You want them to to to vie with

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each other and and then your
team always wins in the end,

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whether it’s the last quarter or
the 9th inning or whatever it

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is.
We have a tennis court out here.

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Any of you want to come out and
play tennis with me?

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We’re going to have a lovely
time.

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My score will be love.
You will serve to me and the

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ball will go that right by.
I will serve to you and you’ll

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hit it back and it’ll go right
by and you’re going to say

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you’re no fun to play tennis
with.

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You can’t even return my serve.
So you want someone who can

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return your serve at least
sometimes.

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You you want someone that can
oppose you.

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In fact, I was talking to one of
my friends at work whose

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grandson is ranked 6th in his
age group in Texas as a tennis

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player, just a young teenager.
But he and he came out to visit

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his grandfather and he wanted to
play tennis, but he didn’t want

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to play tennis with people who
weren’t very good because they

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would weaken his game.
He wanted someone who could

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nearly beat him.
He wants to win.

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But you see, you want opposition
in tennis.

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It’s no fun if you just hit the
ball over and you never, it

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never comes back.
You go to a play and you enjoy

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the play because there’s the
villain and there’s a hero and

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all they vie back and forth and
finally, in the last act, the

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hero overcomes the villain.
You see, interesting plays,

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sports, all these things require
opposition.

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Well, life requires opposition.
If, if if you didn’t have any

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challenges, life would be
boring.

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Sometimes it’s we might like
like it be a little bit more

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boring than it is when we think
of some of the opposition’s we

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we have to face.
But let’s try to look at our

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problems and our trials as
something that God is allowing

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us to have to overcome so that
we can be victorious for the

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Lord.
Now we need to take

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responsibility for our lives,
and that’s another problem in.

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In the world today.
Everyone blamed someone else.

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Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed
the serpent, and he’s called.

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Passing the buck and tell you a
little story about a a governor

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down in one of the southern
states of the United States, I

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think it was Georgia.
He went to the state

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penitentiary to visit some of
the prisoners.

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Hawaii went there.
I don’t know, I guess they vote

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too.
But anyway, he he, he talked to

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a prisoner and he says, oh, what
are you in here for?

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He says, oh, I got a bum rap.
He says the judge was again me.

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He said I couldn’t get a fair
trial.

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Talked to another, why are you
in here?

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He says, oh, if you had my
family, my mother was no good.

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My father was a drug.
It wasn’t my fault.

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It was my parents fault.
Everyone he talked to was

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blaming someone else.
Then he talked to George.

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He said, what are you in?
Why are you in here, George?

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And George says, well, governor,
he says, I, I committed a crime

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and I got caught.
He says I’ve really learned my

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lesson.
And he says I’m paying the

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price.
He says, I hope when I get out

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of here I can prove to society
that I have learned from my

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mistake, but I sure was guilty.
The governor went back to his

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governor’s mansion and he wrote
out a full pardon for George and

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he sent it to the warden of the
prison.

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He says, I want you to release
George from prison.

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I want to get that guilty man
away from all those innocent

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prisoners.
If we don’t confess our sins, we

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still have them.
And so James gives us a step by

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step description of just how sin
takes place.

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It’s in James one verse 14.
I’m I’m using the NIV new King

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James.
Pardon me at this point, but

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each one is tempted when he is
drawn away of his own lusts or

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desires and enticed any sin yet
Nope, no sin.

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Jesus was tempted at all points
like as we are.

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He certainly had desires and he
had lusts when he was starving,

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not having eaten for 40 days
before now, I don’t think any of

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us have ever been as hungry as
he was.

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He certainly had the desire to
eat.

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Not a sin.
You can tell by the way we do it

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here.
There’s no sins being committed,

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I don’t think, at lunchtime.
But we sure consume it, don’t

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we?
I think the food here is very

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good.
I hope you appreciate the, the

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hard work.
These people are not Chris

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Adelphia’s, but they’re, they’re
working hard to serve us.

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And sometimes we ought to
recognize them.

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Do we do that Good?
Good.

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So every man is tempting when
he’s drawn away of his own lust

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and entice you.
You see something that you want,

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that you shouldn’t have no sin
yet.

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And then you keep looking at it.
It sure would be nice to have

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that, wouldn’t it?
Yeah.

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Yeah.
I need it worth more than he

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needs it.
And then when desire has

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conceived.
It gives birth to sin, and sin,

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when it’s full grown brings
forth death.

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I think I’m going to tell you a
story here.

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It’s a made-up story.
You you’ll be able to appreciate

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the fact it’s made-up.
I made it up myself and I’ve

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never heard anybody else to tell
this one.

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Now I really prefer to steal
other stories because this, this

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is an original one that’s kind
of crazy, but you have balls.

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You, you, I know ladies love to
shop in malls.

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Well, when you go down to the,
the, the downtown and there’s a

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big mall and I know Edmonton has
the biggest mall, I guess in the

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whole world.
And you’re walking down the

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center of the mall and, and you
come to a store and you look

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inside and boy, it’s busy.
Lots of people in there.

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And there’s a sign over the top
of the store.

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It says sin store.
Oh, that looks interesting,

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doesn’t it?
So you look in, you say, well,

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I’ll just go in and win the
shop.

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You know, I won’t buy anything.
I’ll, I’ll just see what’s going

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on.
So you go into the store and a

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lot of people in the and, and
you go look around the shelves

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and you see all these sins
beautifully packaged and, and

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very attractively displayed.
And he said, oh, look at that

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sin.
Oh, that sure looks like a good

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sin to me, you know, as if sin
could be good.

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Oh, I wonder how much it costs.
So you, you take it down off the

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shelf and oh boy, this is good.
Oh, and you look at the prize

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death.
So, so you go around a little

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bit further and you see on the
other side of the story there’s

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another sin.
Oh, I would like that.

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You see, sin is fun.
God, God’s very honest with us.

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Sin is fun, but it doesn’t last
very long.

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Moses chose to suffer affliction
with the people of God rather

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than to enjoy the pleasures of
sin for a season.

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So yes, it’s appealing.
Otherwise we wouldn’t be doing

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it.
And you see another thing?

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Oh wow, wee, oh wow.
Just see how much that would

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cost.
And you take it down death, you

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put it back.
Can you?

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You walk up to the manager and
you say, are you the manager of

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this store?
And Harrell says yes.

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And I say, don’t you ever have a
sale around here?

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And Harrell says, Harrell says,
we never mark down the price of

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sin.
It’s always death.

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But we will often throw in 20
years of misery as a bonus.

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So no sin got my umbilical cord
following me.

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No sin has come when we’re
tempted as long as you put the

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sins back.
Now that what’s the moral of

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that story?
Don’t go shopping in the sin

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store.
Don’t even get near it.

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Stay as far away as possible
because what happens so often?

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We we don’t think we would do
something.

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We just, you know, that
represents sin.

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You know, I’ll never do that.
I’ll never do.

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I’ll just get as close as I can,
But you know, I won’t get over

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the edge.
And we get too close to the edge

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and we go over the edge.
And if I was going to tell

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another story, it’d be the
chauffeur story and plug.

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It in there because that’s the
one you all heard.

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So the way to resist temptation
is to cut it off at the.

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Pass to push the temptation
right out and replace it with

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scripture.
And we talked about that the

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other day.
My favorite verse to.

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Get rid of sin is 1 Corinthians
10/13 because I know I’m being

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tempted.
There’s no temptation taking me

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but such as this common demand.
So I other people been through

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this.
Lord Jesus Christ has been

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through every temptation that
all of us have ever had.

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But God is faithful, it will not
allow me to be tied, tempted

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more than I can bear.
So if you got a big temptation,

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God really trusts you, and so
you’ll provide the way of

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escape.
That you may be able to bear it.

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Now come down to verse 19 of the
first chapter of James, please.

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He proceeds to give us some wise
advice.

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So then, my beloved brethren,
let every man be swift to hear,

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slow to speak, and slow to
wrath, for the wrath of man does

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not produce the righteousness of
God.

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Now Paul in Hebrews, I believe
Paul wrote Hebrews, but in

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Hebrews 5 we’re told of whom we
have much to say and hard to

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explain.
Since you are, you become dull

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of hearing.
James says to be swift to hear,

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and Paul says you’re dull of
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So let’s try not to be dull in
hearing, but swift to hear.

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Now.
Listening is an art.

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It’s a skill.
A good listener.

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Is A and you have to work at it.
And it’s been said that those

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who will not read have no
advantage over those who cannot

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read.
I’m going to just borrow that

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saying, lift it over to to
hearing.

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Those who will not hear have no
advantage over those who cannot

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hear.
We were at the Shippensburg

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Bible School this summer and we
had two, two ladies there who

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were signing.
I understand it’s Sherry teaches

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signing.
I I think that’s a wonderful

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thing.
We have a deaf brother out our

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way, brother Robert Devine, and
he’s off the air without someone

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to sign for him.
So if you whenever you’re he,

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I’m going to be giving a talk
someplace and he’s going to go.

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He knows I have complete notes.
He always calls me and I make a

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set of notes for him because
usually we don’t have signers

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out our way for him.
But we should not take for

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granted our hearing.
But the fact you can hear

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doesn’t mean you always hear.
There are people who can hear

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who who don’t hear because they
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And so much heartache could be
avoided if we learn to be good

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listeners.
Most problems that happen

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between husbands and wives are
caused because they’re not

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communicating.
They speak the same language.

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But they don’t talk.
Most problems that occur between

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parents and their children occur
because there’s no good

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communication.
Most problems that occur between

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brothers and sisters in an
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good communication going on.
Most problems that occur between

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ecclesias and ecclesias because
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Going on to.
Communicate is a skill, and the

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part of it that’s so important
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We we need to be able to open up
and talk to each other and

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listen.
And some people never listen.

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They just talk and then they
wait while you talk, but while

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you’re talking, they’re thinking
what they’re going to say next.

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As soon as you’re through, then
they start in and they never

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heard a thing that you said.
So one of the ways to avoid that

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problem is by asking questions.
And that’s the way Jesus taught.

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He asked questions.
If if you talk to a Jehovah’s

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Witness, they’re talk, not told
they’re teeth, they’re taught

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not to listen.
They will talk and then they

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will stop a minute and let you
sit.

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But they’re not thinking.
They don’t pay attention to what

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you’re saying.
And then they then no matter

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what you’ve said and all the
good proofs, you, they, they

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said, well, that’s nice.
And they go right in again on

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there.
So the way you can keep those

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people listening to you is keep
asking questions.

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What’s your name?
You Jehovah’s Witness.

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Do you believe in Pastor
Russell?

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Oh, yeah.
He was a good guy.

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He won 144,000.
And do you believe the Jews have

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any hope now?
Oh, no.

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Which was right, Pastor Russell
Or you, you know, But you you

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keep asking them questions
rather than just telling him,

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you know.
Well, you believe the wrong

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thing because you you think the
Jews have no hope.

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What about Pastor Russell?
Oh, yeah, He had hope.

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He won the 44.
You imagine that Pastor Russell

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made it and John the Baptist
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That blows me away.
But when we’re talking with each

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other, listen, whenever.
Oh, I’m glad I don’t see this

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right now.
But well, I do see it, Harley,

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whenever I see somebody sitting
like this, you know what?

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It’s body language.
That means I’m trying not to

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listen to what you’re saying.
He’s heard.

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He’s heard it before.
It’s OK then.

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But really, if, if you want to
really listen to people, even

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use your body, open up and
listen and lean forward.

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What is that you said?
Is that right?

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Wow, you know I’m off the air.
You sure?

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Are I’m coming apart?
But when you’re talking to your

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husband or your wife, you and
when you’re talking to your

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kids, don’t talk down to them.
Get down on the floor and talk

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to them.
What water, honey?

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What come to daddy or mommy, you
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It’s wonderful how communication
gets better when we we just work

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at it.
And that’s what that’s what

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that’s what James is saying
Swift to hear.

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If you want to be a good
conversationalist, just learn to

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listen and you ask people
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Boy, he’s a great
conversationalist.

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If you, all you did is just
listen to him.

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In fact, if people don’t want to
hear from you, they want you to

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hear from them.
And so the first point of

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James’s vegetation here is to be
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Thanks, Harley.
I could pick on him because I’ve

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known him since he was a baby.
Let’s back again.

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It just seems comfortable,
doesn’t it?

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Yeah.
You ever fold your arms the

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wrong way?
It doesn’t seem to comfortable.

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Slow to speak is next.
Some people engage their mouth

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before they put their brain in
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They’re swift to speak and slow
to hear.

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Just the opposite of what James
is telling us.

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And how many times have we
blurted out something and wish

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we could have reached out and
pulled it back?

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It’s too late.
It’s already been said, and

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somebody’s been.
Hurt so often in families, we we

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say cunning remarks to each
other we wouldn’t dare say these

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things to to people in the
store, certainly to our boss and

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yet we say these are the very.
People we love, we say mean

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things just if we could just
bite her tongue and not blurt

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out something that will hurt.
Is this helpful to the

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situation?
Solomon says there is a time to

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keep silence and a time to
speak.

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He put silence ahead of
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Abraham Lincoln is credit to of
having said this.

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It’s better to remain silent and
be thought a fool than to open

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your mouth and remove all doubt.
Now when he said that, you know

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he was a he was a Bible student.
Abraham Lincoln was in fact, he

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attended Bible classes in the
city of Washington, DC when he

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was the president.
But what Abe Lincoln was saying

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was really a a kind of a loose
paraphrase of what Solomon said.

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Even a fool is counted wise when
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When he shuts his lips, he is
considered perceptive.

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So James is saying, be slow to
speak and swift to hear.

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And then the third one of those
was slow to wrath, and wrath was

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always in a hurry.
Slow down.

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The old adage to count to 10 is
is always good advice.

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Never, never, never, never
punish a child when you’re

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angry.
If the child is misbehaved, send

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them to their room and cool off
yourself.

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Get control of yourself.
Before you go in and do whatever

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you feel is appropriate, never
strike a a a child in anger.

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You be in control before you
administer the punishment.

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Alexander the Great was a truly
great general, and on one

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occasion they were having a big
party and Cletus was one of his

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generals.
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And during this drunken party he
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And Alexander went into a rage
and he grabbed a a javelin from

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a soldier and he just tossed it
at Cletus.

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But Alexander was a real good
aim.

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He didn’t mean to, but that went
right through the man’s heart

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and he fell down dead.
And Alexander was overcome with

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grief.
He he tried to grab the gavelin

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and kill himself.
He felt so terrible to have

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killed his best friend.
And he say he’s laid in bed for

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three days just moaning and
groaning and saying, oh, Cletus,

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my friend, my friend Cletus.
Now all it would have taken was

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a few seconds of delay and that
man would have lived instead of

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died.
Many people have died because

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we’re swift to wrath instead of
slow.

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To wrath.
We can think of many Bible

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examples.
One I’m sure that comes to your

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mind is Moses.
Moses, the meekest man on the

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earth, yet they angered him with
at the waters of strife that he

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went I’ll with Moses for their
sakes, because they provoked his

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spirit.
So he spoke unadvisedly with his

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lips.
Slow to wrath.

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Slow to speak.
James is giving us very

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practical advice that we need to
take home with us and apply in

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our own families.
I wonder how many people will be

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kept out of the Kingdom because
they have been quick to wrath

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and quick to say things and
sometimes because of pride they

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then later won’t recant what
they said.

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I think that’s terribly sad.
I think I’ll tell you my 12

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magic words.
It’s not in the stalk here, but

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it just fits because it’s on the
subject of, of of we have to be

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willing to, to ask for
forgiveness or we won’t be

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forgiven.
James says forgive, confess our

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sins one to another.
And so the story behind this

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talk took place in New Zealand.
We was at a Bible school in New

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Zealand.
And they, the, the parents of

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teenagers came to me one day, a
couple of parents.

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They said, would you be willing
to give a talk to the parents

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just of teenagers after
everything was over one evening?

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And I said yes, yes, sure.
So they set up a room for us.

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And it was, it was not quite
this many, but there was quite a

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few.
There was, there may be 50 to 75

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people in this room, all parents
of teenagers.

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Well, of course, I didn’t know I
was going to do this.

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So I’m grappling and what am I
going to say?

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So I, I thought I’ll tell them
about my 12 magic words and I’ll

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tell them with you.
And so I told them what they

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are.
And they are, they are worth

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remembering and then worth
using.

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They were, I was wrong.
I’m sorry.

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Please forgive me.
I love you.

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Now I think that husbands and
wives should say those words to

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each other almost every day
because we are wrong and we

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should be sorry.
We should ask to be forgiven,

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and we certainly should love our
spouse.

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But also during the talk, I, I,
I told about a little plaque

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that was on the wall of a home.
And the, the plaque, the wall,

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the rules, the plaque says the
rules of this house rule #1

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father is always right.
Rule #2 when father is wrong,

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rule #1 applies.
So after the class was over,

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this one sister turned to her
husband and she said, what do

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you think of this talk?
He says, I like the rules of

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this house.
She came to me a little later in

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the evening with tears in her
eyes.

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She said, we’ve been married 23
years.

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00:28:23,720 –> 00:28:26,560
My husband has never once said
he was wrong.

436
00:28:28,080 –> 00:28:30,920
He has never once said he was
sorry.

437
00:28:31,960 –> 00:28:33,960
He’s never once asked to be
forgiven.

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00:28:36,160 –> 00:28:37,760
Now I hope he said he loved her.
He didn’t.

439
00:28:37,760 –> 00:28:43,120
She didn’t go into that.
And this is the fellow who liked

440
00:28:43,120 –> 00:28:46,320
the rules of this house Now,
either she was married to the

441
00:28:46,320 –> 00:28:50,560
one of the most remarkable men
I’ve ever heard of who for 23

442
00:28:50,560 –> 00:28:52,960
and eight years was never wrong,
never sorry, and never had

443
00:28:52,960 –> 00:28:56,400
needed to be forgiven.
Or she had a problem husband.

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00:28:57,640 –> 00:29:00,840
And I don’t think it takes a
rocket science genius to figure

445
00:29:00,840 –> 00:29:03,920
out which it is.
Because you see, all of us,

446
00:29:04,480 –> 00:29:08,720
every one of you is wrong.
There’s none, none righteous.

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00:29:08,720 –> 00:29:11,160
No, not one.
So you are wrong in your

448
00:29:11,160 –> 00:29:13,520
marriage, you’ve been wrong.
With your kids, you’ve been

449
00:29:13,520 –> 00:29:15,160
wrong.
With your bosses, you’ve been

450
00:29:15,160 –> 00:29:17,320
wrong with your clients.
You’ve been, we’ve all been

451
00:29:17,320 –> 00:29:24,600
wrong.
We ought to be big enough to say

452
00:29:24,680 –> 00:29:28,360
to others, but especially to
God.

453
00:29:30,960 –> 00:29:34,640
I was wrong.
I I’m sorry.

454
00:29:34,640 –> 00:29:36,240
Please forgive me.
I love you.

455
00:29:36,400 –> 00:29:37,960
I think you can weave that into
your.

456
00:29:37,960 –> 00:29:41,480
Prayers to God.
You know it’s possible to go to

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00:29:41,560 –> 00:29:45,120
bed every night sinless.
Isn’t that a wonderful thing to

458
00:29:45,120 –> 00:29:46,920
realize?
That every night you can fall

459
00:29:46,920 –> 00:29:50,160
asleep with no sins?
Not because you didn’t do any,

460
00:29:50,240 –> 00:29:53,800
because we all do.
Because God is willing to blot

461
00:29:53,800 –> 00:29:56,280
them out and cast them behind
his back.

462
00:29:56,520 –> 00:30:02,960
If you, if you confess them, if
you don’t confess them, you

463
00:30:02,960 –> 00:30:07,440
still got them.
And the sins that are going to

464
00:30:07,440 –> 00:30:10,880
keep us out of the Kingdom are
going to be the sins that we

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00:30:10,880 –> 00:30:14,320
weren’t forgiven for.
Because God is not going to

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00:30:15,440 –> 00:30:19,040
bring up at the judgment seat
the sins that we have committed

467
00:30:19,040 –> 00:30:22,840
that he forgave.
Now, if God is willing to

468
00:30:22,840 –> 00:30:25,600
forgive.
Our sins like that why won’t we

469
00:30:25,600 –> 00:30:30,840
forgive each other and so I
think every husband and.

470
00:30:31,040 –> 00:30:36,200
Every wife should say almost
every day I was wrong.

471
00:30:36,400 –> 00:30:37,960
I’m sorry.
Please forgive me.

472
00:30:37,960 –> 00:30:41,520
I love you.
We did this at A at a Florida

473
00:30:41,520 –> 00:30:45,320
Bible school years ago.
And the next Sunday we were

474
00:30:45,720 –> 00:30:49,200
Jordanian in Ecclesia.
They their, their, their Bible

475
00:30:49,200 –> 00:30:50,960
school ends like yours does, a
little bit early.

476
00:30:51,120 –> 00:30:52,880
And then you go to an ecclesia
on the Sunday.

477
00:30:53,400 –> 00:30:55,920
And I went to the ecclesia on
the Sunday and there was a dear

478
00:30:55,920 –> 00:30:58,480
old couple there.
They think they both have since

479
00:30:58,480 –> 00:31:01,160
fallen asleep.
They were both way up in their

480
00:31:01,160 –> 00:31:05,600
80s and just a dearer, genteel,
loving couple.

481
00:31:06,240 –> 00:31:09,160
And they came to me and said,
Bob, it works.

482
00:31:09,160 –> 00:31:12,240
I said, what works?
He says, your 12 words.

483
00:31:12,800 –> 00:31:16,320
She says, yes, they do.
And I said, well, let’s tell you

484
00:31:16,320 –> 00:31:18,200
the story.
She said we got home from the

485
00:31:18,200 –> 00:31:23,720
Bible school and our smoke
detector was going.

486
00:31:24,560 –> 00:31:27,640
It somehow set it off.
You know, they go like that.

487
00:31:27,640 –> 00:31:28,920
It just drives you crazy, you
know.

488
00:31:29,880 –> 00:31:34,040
And so he gets on a chair to, to
get it off.

489
00:31:34,600 –> 00:31:37,400
And he’s he’s not too nimble and
he’s working on it.

490
00:31:37,560 –> 00:31:40,000
And she says, hurry up.
And he says, I am hurrying, you

491
00:31:40,000 –> 00:31:41,600
know, and they’re yelling at
each other.

492
00:31:41,640 –> 00:31:44,800
Finally, you know, the, the,
this, this noise would grate

493
00:31:44,800 –> 00:31:48,080
your nerves.
Finally he gets it off and he

494
00:31:48,080 –> 00:31:50,600
kisses that off the stair.
And they look at each other and

495
00:31:50,600 –> 00:31:52,520
they both start saying together,
I was wrong.

496
00:31:52,520 –> 00:31:54,160
I’m sorry, please forgive me.
I love you.

497
00:31:55,560 –> 00:31:58,440
And so there was a they, they
had to share that story with me

498
00:31:58,680 –> 00:32:04,880
about two days later.
But it, it works, it doesn’t

499
00:32:04,880 –> 00:32:07,200
work.
If you don’t work it.

500
00:32:09,400 –> 00:32:18,320
So let’s decide that we’re going
to be slow to speak, swift to

501
00:32:18,320 –> 00:32:24,480
hear, and slow to wrath coming
on down to James chapter.

502
00:32:24,840 –> 00:32:27,680
One verse 22.
But be doers of the word, and

503
00:32:27,680 –> 00:32:30,920
not hearers only deceiving
yourselves.

504
00:32:31,600 –> 00:32:34,240
For if anyone is a hearer of the
word and not a doer, he’s like a

505
00:32:34,240 –> 00:32:38,840
man observing his natural face
in a mirror, For he observes.

506
00:32:39,320 –> 00:32:41,920
Himself goes away and
immediately forgets what kind of

507
00:32:41,920 –> 00:32:44,840
man he was.
He looks in a mirror and he

508
00:32:44,880 –> 00:32:47,320
forgets what he looks like.
But he who looks into the

509
00:32:47,320 –> 00:32:50,080
perfect law of liberty and
continues in it and does not

510
00:32:50,440 –> 00:32:52,920
forgetful hear but a doer of the
work.

511
00:32:53,280 –> 00:32:55,680
This one will be blessed in what
he does.

512
00:32:57,320 –> 00:33:00,920
There are a lot of people in the
world that hear and never do

513
00:33:01,440 –> 00:33:03,520
there there.
It’s in fact, colleges are

514
00:33:03,520 –> 00:33:07,200
famous for graduating a bunch of
people with with theories and no

515
00:33:07,200 –> 00:33:11,120
practical knowledge.
And but we’re talking here about

516
00:33:11,960 –> 00:33:14,960
spiritual application and not of
the world.

517
00:33:15,520 –> 00:33:19,960
But there are there are people
who know the truth and don’t get

518
00:33:19,960 –> 00:33:23,920
baptized.
They, they, why would anyone

519
00:33:24,160 –> 00:33:27,800
want to rule themselves
ineligible for salvation when

520
00:33:29,160 –> 00:33:32,400
when they know the truth.
In fact, dear little Michelle,

521
00:33:32,400 –> 00:33:35,120
who’s flying back this morning
just to be with her father,

522
00:33:35,120 –> 00:33:38,680
who’s very near death.
He’s not a Christian Alpian, but

523
00:33:38,680 –> 00:33:42,200
she’s told.
Us this morning how that he

524
00:33:42,600 –> 00:33:44,720
would.
Defend the truth and talk the

525
00:33:44,720 –> 00:33:50,400
truth to his friends She’s come
in from outside and and she her

526
00:33:50,400 –> 00:33:55,560
hope was that he might obey the
truth before he died his life as

527
00:33:55,560 –> 00:33:59,080
all our lives are in God’s hands
and we we just pray for Michelle

528
00:33:59,080 –> 00:34:02,240
and her on her journey homeward
and that things will work out

529
00:34:04,160 –> 00:34:10,520
but.
If you know and you don’t do

530
00:34:10,520 –> 00:34:14,920
what you know.
What good is it to know?

531
00:34:16,159 –> 00:34:18,000
In fact, Peter says you’re worse
off.

532
00:34:19,239 –> 00:34:21,800
You’re worse off knowing the
truth and not obeying it than if

533
00:34:21,800 –> 00:34:28,679
you never even knew the truth.
To know and not to do is not to

534
00:34:28,679 –> 00:34:31,239
know.
So we better be doers of this

535
00:34:31,239 –> 00:34:36,960
and not just hearers only.
Because if we if we know the

536
00:34:36,960 –> 00:34:41,080
truth and we’re not obeying it.
Baptized or unbaptized?

537
00:34:41,520 –> 00:34:46,000
We’re a lot worse off than than
those who that don’t even know

538
00:34:46,000 –> 00:34:47,760
it.
It’s been better for them not to

539
00:34:47,760 –> 00:34:49,760
have known the way of
righteousness than after they’ve

540
00:34:49,760 –> 00:34:57,080
known it to turn away.
So we, we must be doers of the

541
00:34:57,080 –> 00:35:03,560
word and not hearers only.
So James has been building up a

542
00:35:03,560 –> 00:35:07,200
sequence of thought here, verse
18.

543
00:35:07,200 –> 00:35:09,720
He tells us that we are begotten
by the word of truth.

544
00:35:10,800 –> 00:35:13,800
By being begotten, we are the
first fruits of a new creation.

545
00:35:14,840 –> 00:35:17,760
In verse 21, we are to receive
with meekness the engrafted

546
00:35:17,760 –> 00:35:20,800
Word.
In verse 2, any two, we now were

547
00:35:20,800 –> 00:35:24,280
to be doers of the Word.
In every instance.

548
00:35:24,280 –> 00:35:28,160
It’s the Word, the word that
begets us, the word that we are

549
00:35:28,160 –> 00:35:30,920
to receive and the Word that we
are to do.

550
00:35:30,960 –> 00:35:36,400
It is the word of truth as verse
18 says by His own will begat He

551
00:35:36,400 –> 00:35:41,600
asked with the word of truth.
Now compare this with what his

552
00:35:41,600 –> 00:35:48,800
older brother Jesus Christ, his
his Savior too said so Matthew

553
00:35:48,800 –> 00:35:52,160
Chapter 7 and again, these are
words I’m only.

554
00:35:52,160 –> 00:35:54,120
Stirring up your pure minds by
way of remembrance.

555
00:35:54,120 –> 00:35:57,320
You know all of this.
It’s that we know, but we don’t

556
00:35:57,320 –> 00:36:01,760
always do what we know to do.
And so the whole thing is, once

557
00:36:01,760 –> 00:36:07,560
we know to do it, let’s do it.
So Matthew 721 not everyone who

558
00:36:07,560 –> 00:36:11,080
says to me, Lord, Lord will
enter the Kingdom, but he who

559
00:36:11,080 –> 00:36:17,880
does the will of my Father.
So if we know the will of God

560
00:36:17,880 –> 00:36:19,880
and we’re not doing it, we’re
not going to be in the Kingdom,

561
00:36:19,880 –> 00:36:22,440
says Jesus.
Oh, many are going to come to me

562
00:36:22,440 –> 00:36:25,560
on the day of judgement.
He says, Lindsey, oh Lord, Lord,

563
00:36:26,200 –> 00:36:29,320
have we not prophesied in thy
name and cast out demons in thy

564
00:36:29,320 –> 00:36:31,040
name and done many wonders in
thy name?

565
00:36:32,200 –> 00:36:34,560
So these people must have had
the Holy Spirit, which we don’t

566
00:36:34,560 –> 00:36:36,480
have.
We don’t have the power to cast

567
00:36:36,480 –> 00:36:39,240
out demons.
These people did do some things.

568
00:36:39,440 –> 00:36:45,640
But they didn’t do enough.
I will declare unto them, I

569
00:36:45,640 –> 00:36:49,960
never knew you depart from me,
you who practice lawlessness.

570
00:36:50,560 –> 00:36:54,200
Therefore, whoever hears these
things of mine and does.

571
00:36:54,200 –> 00:36:57,480
Them.
I will liken him unto a wise man

572
00:36:57,480 –> 00:37:01,240
who built his house on the rock.
You know the story.

573
00:37:01,240 –> 00:37:03,720
The rain descended and the
floods came and the winds blew

574
00:37:03,720 –> 00:37:05,640
and beat on that house and it
did not fall.

575
00:37:06,160 –> 00:37:11,640
It was founded on a rock.
And the those who built their

576
00:37:11,640 –> 00:37:16,720
house on the sand, it collapsed.
The whole point of the story is

577
00:37:17,320 –> 00:37:21,960
to be doers of the word.
Not only is it important that we

578
00:37:21,960 –> 00:37:25,040
have the knowledge of the truth,
and that’s terribly important,

579
00:37:26,120 –> 00:37:31,200
but now that we know it, we are
obligated to do it.

580
00:37:32,520 –> 00:37:35,120
A good man out of the good
treasure of his heart brings

581
00:37:35,120 –> 00:37:38,640
forth good things, said Jesus.
An evil man out of the evil

582
00:37:38,640 –> 00:37:41,120
treasure of his heart brings
forth evil things.

583
00:37:41,320 –> 00:37:44,600
For out of the abundance of his
heart his mouth speaks.

584
00:37:46,320 –> 00:37:48,960
But why do you call me Lord?
Lord, and do not do the things

585
00:37:48,960 –> 00:37:52,280
which I say, If you love me,
keep my commandments, said

586
00:37:52,280 –> 00:37:53,920
Jesus.
There’s no use, I say.

587
00:37:53,920 –> 00:37:55,400
Oh, the truth.
Is the most wonderful thing in

588
00:37:55,400 –> 00:37:56,800
the world.
Oh, I love the truth.

589
00:37:56,920 –> 00:37:59,240
I love the brothers and sisters.
And I go.

590
00:37:59,280 –> 00:38:02,960
I go to meeting most Sundays,
well maybe every Sunday here we

591
00:38:02,960 –> 00:38:08,920
have we have down in certain
areas of this in the lower part

592
00:38:08,920 –> 00:38:14,680
of the of the old Canada 1
applies you calls them once sirs

593
00:38:16,560 –> 00:38:18,520
and a once.
Sir is a person who comes to

594
00:38:18,520 –> 00:38:24,200
meeting every Sunday, but you’ll
never see them at a Bible class,

595
00:38:24,200 –> 00:38:26,920
you’ll never see them at a
lecture, you’ll never see them

596
00:38:27,600 –> 00:38:30,640
at a Sunday school.
They show up for meeting.

597
00:38:31,440 –> 00:38:34,640
We have a young man in our
meeting who who comes in during

598
00:38:34,640 –> 00:38:36,640
the first team and leaves during
the last team.

599
00:38:37,640 –> 00:38:41,640
And if you don’t preside or
exhort, you never will know he’s

600
00:38:41,640 –> 00:38:47,200
there because unless you turn
around and look, I’m glad he

601
00:38:47,200 –> 00:38:51,040
does that.
I’m glad he hasn’t totally

602
00:38:51,040 –> 00:38:57,680
stopped.
But I fear for one, sirs, I fear

603
00:38:57,680 –> 00:39:01,760
for those that are trying to get
along on the minimum.

604
00:39:03,640 –> 00:39:07,400
We have to go all out for the
Lord.

605
00:39:08,880 –> 00:39:12,440
If you keep my commandments, you
shall abide in my love, just as

606
00:39:12,440 –> 00:39:14,720
I have kept my Father’s
commandments and abide in His

607
00:39:14,720 –> 00:39:19,560
love.
You are my friends if you do

608
00:39:19,560 –> 00:39:30,280
whatsoever I command you.
Are we doing what we know we

609
00:39:30,280 –> 00:39:35,080
ought to do?
James is going to tell us how

610
00:39:35,080 –> 00:39:37,880
foolish it is to say one thing
and do something else.

611
00:39:40,240 –> 00:39:43,560
When Jesus did his first
miracle, it was at a wedding, as

612
00:39:43,560 –> 00:39:46,920
you know, in Ken of Galilee.
And, and his mother said to the

613
00:39:46,920 –> 00:39:53,280
servants, whatsoever he saith
unto you, do it.

614
00:39:55,360 –> 00:39:58,520
Whatsoever Jesus had said unto
you, do it.

615
00:39:58,520 –> 00:40:00,680
If you’re not baptized, that’s
the first thing you do, right?

616
00:40:01,160 –> 00:40:03,840
But once we’re baptized, that’s
not a lock on salvation.

617
00:40:03,840 –> 00:40:06,120
We, we, we just entered the
race.

618
00:40:06,120 –> 00:40:09,080
We now must continue in good
works.

619
00:40:10,520 –> 00:40:14,200
Ezekiel come to Ezekiel 33
because Ezekiel talks about

620
00:40:14,280 –> 00:40:16,400
people who came to Bible school.
Well, it was.

621
00:40:16,480 –> 00:40:20,440
Didn’t say it’s a Bible school.
But they they got together and

622
00:40:20,440 –> 00:40:22,560
they enjoyed, enjoyed what they
heard.

623
00:40:23,840 –> 00:40:26,200
Ezekiel 33 coming in at verse
30.

624
00:40:26,280 –> 00:40:29,000
As for you, son of man, the
children of your people.

625
00:40:29,680 –> 00:40:32,840
Are talking about you beside the
walls and in the doors of the

626
00:40:32,840 –> 00:40:35,360
houses and they speak to one
another saying everyone to his

627
00:40:35,360 –> 00:40:38,120
brother.
Please come and hear what the

628
00:40:38,120 –> 00:40:41,520
word is that comes from the Lord
would would you all please come

629
00:40:41,520 –> 00:40:44,200
to Winfield and and let’s hear
the word of God.

630
00:40:44,200 –> 00:40:47,240
It’s going to be preached all
day long three classes a day.

631
00:40:47,680 –> 00:40:51,400
Let’s come and hear.
So they come, verse 31, as my,

632
00:40:51,720 –> 00:40:54,600
as thy people.
They come and they sit just like

633
00:40:54,600 –> 00:40:58,640
you’re doing, and they sit as my
people and they hear just as you

634
00:40:58,640 –> 00:41:06,960
are now hearing.
But they do not do them.

635
00:41:09,240 –> 00:41:13,440
That’s the problem.
We’ve got to do more than just

636
00:41:13,440 –> 00:41:16,360
hear.
We’ve got to do more than just

637
00:41:16,440 –> 00:41:19,880
be here.
We’ve got to put our beliefs

638
00:41:19,880 –> 00:41:23,360
into actions and deeds.
So he goes.

639
00:41:23,360 –> 00:41:29,520
On and says, For with their
mouth they show much love, but

640
00:41:29,520 –> 00:41:32,880
their hearts pursue their own
gain.

641
00:41:33,760 –> 00:41:38,680
Indeed you are to them as a very
lovely song of one who has a

642
00:41:38,680 –> 00:41:40,560
pleasant.
Voice and can play well on an

643
00:41:40,560 –> 00:41:44,560
instrument, for they hear your
words, but they do not do them.

644
00:41:44,560 –> 00:41:48,120
Oh, I enjoyed that exhortation.
Wasn’t that a wonderful talk he

645
00:41:48,120 –> 00:41:52,680
gave.
But I, I’ve got, I’ve got a golf

646
00:41:52,680 –> 00:41:55,160
game.
It’s our bowling night.

647
00:41:55,720 –> 00:41:59,200
This is the day we get together
with the do this or we do that

648
00:41:59,200 –> 00:42:02,480
with, with our people at work or
school or whatever it might be.

649
00:42:04,240 –> 00:42:07,120
How many Christadelphians come
to meeting on Sunday and talk

650
00:42:07,120 –> 00:42:09,560
about the beauty of the truth
and how much they love the

651
00:42:09,560 –> 00:42:14,040
brothers and sisters and then go
out and live a different kind of

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00:42:14,040 –> 00:42:17,000
life?
During the week, it’s important

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00:42:17,000 –> 00:42:21,760
that we practice what we preach.
What you are is hollering so

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00:42:21,760 –> 00:42:23,520
loud I can’t hear what you’re
saying.

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00:42:24,800 –> 00:42:31,080
Doers are busy doing so James is
going to give you an example of

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00:42:31,080 –> 00:42:35,880
just how foolish it is to talk
good and do nothing about it.

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00:42:36,320 –> 00:42:39,160
It’s in James chapter 2 verse
15.

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00:42:39,360 –> 00:42:43,160
If a brother or sister is naked
and destitute of daily food, we

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have brothers and sisters who
are in one.

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00:42:46,320 –> 00:42:48,800
Not so much in these countries,
but even here there are those

661
00:42:48,800 –> 00:42:52,520
that that have need, have needs
and and you know about their

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00:42:52,520 –> 00:42:55,000
need.
And one of you says to them, oh,

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00:42:55,640 –> 00:42:59,320
depart in peace, be warmed and
filled.

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But you do not give them the
things that they are needed for

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00:43:02,840 –> 00:43:04,520
the body.
What does, what good does that

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00:43:04,520 –> 00:43:05,360
do?
Says James.

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00:43:05,720 –> 00:43:08,840
What does that profit?
If you know somebody is needing

668
00:43:08,840 –> 00:43:11,320
something and they don’t have it
and you got the wherewithal to

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00:43:11,320 –> 00:43:15,880
help them, don’t just say good
luck.

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00:43:16,640 –> 00:43:17,960
Hope everything will work out
all right.

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00:43:17,960 –> 00:43:19,960
In fact, I want to want to read
you a little poem.

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00:43:19,960 –> 00:43:22,720
It’s not a Christadelphian, not
exactly a poem.

673
00:43:22,720 –> 00:43:25,520
It’s I don’t know what you call
it, but this is how it goes.

674
00:43:26,480 –> 00:43:30,880
I was hungry and you formed a
humanities club and discussed my

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00:43:30,880 –> 00:43:32,680
hunger.
Thank you.

676
00:43:35,040 –> 00:43:36,280
I was imprisoned.
And you?

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00:43:36,280 –> 00:43:37,000
Crept.
Off.

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00:43:37,000 –> 00:43:40,320
Quietly to your Chapel in the
cellar to pray for my release.

679
00:43:41,880 –> 00:43:44,720
Thank you.
I was naked.

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00:43:45,440 –> 00:43:48,160
And in your mind, you debated
the morality of my appearance.

681
00:43:49,240 –> 00:43:53,760
I was sick, and you knelt in
prayer to God for your health.

682
00:43:55,120 –> 00:43:58,920
I was homeless, and you preached
to me of the spiritual shelter

683
00:43:58,920 –> 00:44:01,600
of God’s love.
I was.

684
00:44:01,600 –> 00:44:04,680
Lonely and you left me alone to
pray for me.

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00:44:06,440 –> 00:44:12,960
You seem so holy, so close to
God, but I’m still very hungry

686
00:44:14,080 –> 00:44:20,280
and lonely.
And coal, We can be like that.

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00:44:20,800 –> 00:44:26,560
Even with our brothers and.
Sisters, this book is being

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00:44:26,560 –> 00:44:32,040
doers and not just hearers.
James chapter 2 verse 17.

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00:44:32,040 –> 00:44:36,840
Thus also faith by itself, if it
does not have works.

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00:44:36,840 –> 00:44:40,920
It’s dead, but someone will say,
well, you have faith and I have

691
00:44:40,920 –> 00:44:43,080
works.
Show me your faith without your

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00:44:43,080 –> 00:44:44,160
works.
I’ll show you my faith.

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00:44:44,520 –> 00:44:50,640
By my works verse 20.
But do you want to know, O

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00:44:50,640 –> 00:44:54,160
foolish man, that faith without
works is dead?

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00:44:55,560 –> 00:44:58,240
You see then that a man is
justified by works and not by

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00:44:58,240 –> 00:45:01,920
faith only, for as a body
without the Spirit is.

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00:45:01,920 –> 00:45:03,400
Dead.
So faith without works.

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00:45:03,400 –> 00:45:08,960
Is dead.
Also, we’re not going to be

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00:45:08,960 –> 00:45:11,200
getting the Kingdom by our
works.

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00:45:12,200 –> 00:45:14,520
But we’re not going to get into
our Kingdom without our works.

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00:45:16,520 –> 00:45:21,400
Faith and works balance.
Faith produces works, and the

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00:45:21,400 –> 00:45:23,360
more we work, the more faith we
can have.

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00:45:24,280 –> 00:45:27,440
Chapter 3, verse 13 Who is?
Wise and understanding among

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00:45:27,440 –> 00:45:32,480
you, let Him show by good
conduct that His works are done

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00:45:32,600 –> 00:45:45,640
in the meekness of wisdom.
Verse 20 of chapter 5.

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00:45:45,640 –> 00:45:49,440
Let him know that he who turns a
Sinner from the air of his way

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00:45:50,160 –> 00:45:54,800
shall save a soul from death and
cover a multitude of sins.

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00:45:56,120 –> 00:45:59,400
James is telling us that the man
who hears and does not do it,

709
00:45:59,400 –> 00:46:03,040
like a man looking at his self
in a mirror, and he forgets what

710
00:46:03,040 –> 00:46:12,480
he looks like.
The Bible is compared by James

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00:46:12,480 –> 00:46:16,520
compares it to a mirror in Psalm
119 verse one O 5.

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00:46:16,520 –> 00:46:20,040
The Bible is compared to a lamp
in Jeremiah 2329.

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00:46:20,040 –> 00:46:22,120
The Bible is likened to fire and
a hammer.

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00:46:22,880 –> 00:46:25,600
James speaks of the washing of
the water by the word in

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00:46:25,600 –> 00:46:28,760
Ephesians and Hebrews.
Describes the word of God as

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00:46:28,760 –> 00:46:31,960
quick and powerful and sharper
than any two edged sword.

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00:46:32,960 –> 00:46:39,720
James says it’s a mirror, and
the mirror reflects what it

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00:46:39,720 –> 00:46:45,760
sees.
I want to read you a little poem

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00:46:45,760 –> 00:46:48,640
that I have it typed into my
Bible.

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00:46:49,440 –> 00:46:53,040
It’s by a man named Edgar, a
guest.

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00:46:54,920 –> 00:46:59,360
The name of the poem is myself.
Here’s part of the poem.

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00:47:00,320 –> 00:47:04,600
I have to live with myself.
And so I want to be fit for

723
00:47:04,600 –> 00:47:08,960
myself, to know.
I want to be able, as the days

724
00:47:08,960 –> 00:47:13,920
go by, always to look myself
straight in the eye.

725
00:47:15,040 –> 00:47:19,080
I don’t want to stand with the
setting sun and hate myself for

726
00:47:19,080 –> 00:47:25,880
the things I have done.
Edgar a guest was capturing the

727
00:47:25,880 –> 00:47:30,120
same thought that James had when
he told us not to look in a

728
00:47:30,120 –> 00:47:33,720
mirror and then to go away and
forget what we saw.

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00:47:35,320 –> 00:47:38,480
So Edgar, A Guest says, I want
to look myself in the eye.

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00:47:39,400 –> 00:47:43,800
You know how to do that?
There’s only one way you can

731
00:47:43,800 –> 00:47:46,640
look yourself in the eye and
that’s in the mirror.

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00:47:48,000 –> 00:47:52,200
Because even with cross eyes,
with dozes in the way, you

733
00:47:52,200 –> 00:47:56,040
cannot look yourself in the eye
except when you look in the

734
00:47:56,040 –> 00:47:57,160
mirror.
Do you ever look at yourself

735
00:47:57,240 –> 00:48:01,000
right in the mirror and say,
God, you called me.

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00:48:01,440 –> 00:48:03,720
I’m sure glad you did.
You didn’t do it because I’m so

737
00:48:03,720 –> 00:48:09,960
good looking.
I know that and and you see a

738
00:48:09,960 –> 00:48:12,760
photographer will take our
picture and he’ll touch it up

739
00:48:12,760 –> 00:48:16,360
and and with angles and lights
and touch up, he can make you

740
00:48:16,360 –> 00:48:19,040
look like you don’t even look.
And that’s what.

741
00:48:19,200 –> 00:48:21,960
That’s what people want.
You see but a mirror just to

742
00:48:21,960 –> 00:48:24,360
tell you what it just reflects
back what’s there.

743
00:48:24,360 –> 00:48:27,080
It’s it’s a very truthful
reflection of you.

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00:48:27,080 –> 00:48:32,520
And so the last verse of his
poem is goes like this.

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00:48:32,720 –> 00:48:34,640
I tell you, I modified it just a
little bit.

746
00:48:34,840 –> 00:48:36,600
He’s dead.
So I didn’t get his permission.

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00:48:38,160 –> 00:48:43,680
I can never hide myself from me.
I see what others may never see.

748
00:48:45,240 –> 00:48:47,240
I know what others may never
know.

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00:48:48,040 –> 00:48:52,400
I can never.
Fool myself, and so whatever

750
00:48:52,400 –> 00:48:58,600
happens, I want to be forgiven
by God and conscience free.

751
00:49:03,660 –> 00:49:07,580
James is telling us it is
possible for us to deceive

752
00:49:07,660 –> 00:49:10,920
ourselves.
James 126 If any man among you

753
00:49:10,920 –> 00:49:13,880
thinks he is religious and does
not bridle his tongue, but

754
00:49:13,880 –> 00:49:18,520
deceives his own heart, this
man’s religion is useless.

755
00:49:18,960 –> 00:49:22,120
It’s possible for us to actually
deceive ourselves.

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00:49:24,280 –> 00:49:29,040
The way we do it is we look in
the glass and go away and forget

757
00:49:29,040 –> 00:49:32,720
what we saw.
The correct approach is to look

758
00:49:32,720 –> 00:49:36,200
ourselves straight in the eye.
Acknowledge that we are made by

759
00:49:36,200 –> 00:49:39,280
God, not our.
Natural appearance is important,

760
00:49:39,280 –> 00:49:41,600
it’s what’s inside and God sees
them.

761
00:49:43,000 –> 00:49:45,200
God knows what no one else
knows.

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00:49:46,840 –> 00:49:50,920
Confess your faults then to God.
You might as well tell him about

763
00:49:50,920 –> 00:49:53,200
him.
He knows them anyway, and as

764
00:49:53,200 –> 00:49:55,520
long as you, he knows them and
you know them and you don’t

765
00:49:55,520 –> 00:50:00,160
confess them, you got them.
And all he’s asking you to do is

766
00:50:00,160 –> 00:50:01,760
confess them, and he’ll take
them away.

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00:50:02,840 –> 00:50:06,840
If we confess our sins, He is
faithful and just to forgive.

768
00:50:06,840 –> 00:50:09,440
Us our sins and to cleans us
from all our righteousness.

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00:50:10,040 –> 00:50:15,080
We don’t ever have to go to bed
with a sin on our conscience.

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00:50:18,000 –> 00:50:20,440
And that’s what Paul says about
husbands and wives of each

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00:50:20,440 –> 00:50:21,880
other.
Don’t go to bed angry.

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00:50:23,320 –> 00:50:26,920
Make up before you go to sleep.
Don’t let the sun go down on

773
00:50:26,920 –> 00:50:33,600
your wrath.
Get forgiven and so remember

774
00:50:34,760 –> 00:50:41,000
that you are wrong.
That you should be sorry.

775
00:50:41,880 –> 00:50:43,200
Can you imagine?
Saying yeah I’m wrong, but I’m

776
00:50:43,200 –> 00:50:45,920
glad I’m wrong I.
Mean, that’s the height of

777
00:50:46,320 –> 00:50:53,800
something, isn’t it?
That we should ask to be

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00:50:53,800 –> 00:50:59,320
forgiven and we should tell
those we love that we love them.

779
00:51:00,720 –> 00:51:06,600
Some husbands and wives don’t
say I love you 3 words I love

780
00:51:06,600 –> 00:51:09,840
you.
I say them to God.

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00:51:11,360 –> 00:51:13,960
God knows my heart, He knows
whether I love him or not.

782
00:51:14,680 –> 00:51:20,520
But I have found that when I say
them, I hear them as well as God

783
00:51:20,520 –> 00:51:24,480
hears them.
And when I say them to someone

784
00:51:24,480 –> 00:51:28,880
that I love, I hear what I say
as well as the one I’m saying it

785
00:51:28,880 –> 00:51:33,560
to hears it.
And my love for others grow as I

786
00:51:33,560 –> 00:51:38,440
tell them that I love them.
And there are people who can’t

787
00:51:38,440 –> 00:51:40,240
say those 3 words.
I love you.

788
00:51:41,200 –> 00:51:44,400
If you can’t see them right
away, get in the front of that

789
00:51:44,400 –> 00:51:48,080
mirror and say I love you.
Work at it.

790
00:51:50,200 –> 00:51:52,320
Your salvation could be involved
in this.

791
00:51:53,200 –> 00:51:56,040
Certainly the happiness in your
home could be involved in this.

792
00:51:58,560 –> 00:52:06,640
So James chapter one, verse 25,
he who looks into the perfect

793
00:52:06,640 –> 00:52:11,240
law of liberty and continues in
it is not a forgetful hearer,

794
00:52:11,240 –> 00:52:16,440
but a doer of the work.
This one will be blessed in what

795
00:52:16,440 –> 00:52:19,000
he does.
So the steps.

796
00:52:19,000 –> 00:52:22,760
To take to being blessed are
look into the perfect law of

797
00:52:22,760 –> 00:52:25,880
liberty continue in it.
Don’t forget what you heard.

798
00:52:26,000 –> 00:52:32,240
Be a doer of the work.
And the whole point of our Bible

799
00:52:32,240 –> 00:52:38,480
studies is to go from this Bible
school and put into practice

800
00:52:38,480 –> 00:52:43,720
what we’re learning here so that
we will be doers of the Word and

801
00:52:44,040 –> 00:52:48,200
not hearers only.
So I’ve got five questions to

802
00:52:48,200 –> 00:52:52,520
ask you as we close.
These are questions I want you

803
00:52:52,520 –> 00:52:57,880
to ask yourself and might as
well be honest with yourself.

804
00:52:57,880 –> 00:53:03,400
You, you know, if you’re telling
your the truth, how is my life

805
00:53:03,400 –> 00:53:06,080
different because I’m a
Christadelphian?

806
00:53:08,640 –> 00:53:11,800
I mean, is your life different?
If your life is not different

807
00:53:12,560 –> 00:53:16,960
because you’re Christadelphian,
then is Christadelphian faith

808
00:53:18,200 –> 00:53:22,520
having an effect on you?
If we’re not different because

809
00:53:22,520 –> 00:53:27,600
we have committed our life to
God, then we’re really just in

810
00:53:27,600 –> 00:53:30,120
name only, aren’t we?
So question #1 how is my life

811
00:53:30,120 –> 00:53:34,280
different because of Mccrystal
Jefferson #2 What effect does my

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00:53:34,280 –> 00:53:37,000
study of God’s Word have on my
everyday life?

813
00:53:38,440 –> 00:53:41,840
See, the things we’re learning
are to be applied and lived out.

814
00:53:42,800 –> 00:53:48,720
Number three, when I do my Bible
readings, not if when I do do my

815
00:53:48,720 –> 00:53:52,920
Bible readings, don’t I?
When I do my Bible readings,

816
00:53:52,920 –> 00:53:56,280
when do I shut up the book and
forget what I just read?

817
00:53:57,880 –> 00:53:59,600
Start look at yourself in the
mirror and walk it away.

818
00:53:59,600 –> 00:54:01,800
Forget what you, what you saw
do.

819
00:54:01,800 –> 00:54:08,320
Do we think about what we read
after we read it #4 what am I

820
00:54:08,320 –> 00:54:13,080
doing today that I would not
have done today if I had not

821
00:54:13,080 –> 00:54:16,200
read the Bible today?
Or you can all say, well, I came

822
00:54:16,200 –> 00:54:18,080
to Bible school because of this.
That’s right.

823
00:54:18,800 –> 00:54:20,520
These are questions you can ask
yourself.

824
00:54:20,520 –> 00:54:25,560
Maybe when you’re home, what
effect is what you’re doing

825
00:54:28,640 –> 00:54:33,000
caused by your faith?
And the last question, what am I

826
00:54:33,000 –> 00:54:38,840
refraining from doing today that
I might have done had it not

827
00:54:38,840 –> 00:54:42,640
been for the fact that I did my
Bible readings today?

828
00:54:44,440 –> 00:54:51,400
So James is a very practical man
and he’s given us practical

829
00:54:51,480 –> 00:54:59,280
things to do.
And let’s resolve in our own

830
00:54:59,280 –> 00:55:09,840
mind that we are going to be
doers of the word and not

831
00:55:09,840 –> 00:55:17,920
hearers only.
Sure that Brother Bob is a.