Bob Lloyd – James – Unspotted from the World – Class 4 – Friendship with the World

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This is Winfield Bible Camp
1998.

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

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This is day four, second period
class with our brother Bob

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Lloyd, and his overall theme for
the week has been Unspotted from

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the World, A study of James.
Today’s class is entitled

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Friendship.
With the world and our reading

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was James chapter 3, verses 1:00
to 12:00.

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Of the Bob.
Brother Peter to thank me.

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He’s giving me signals from the
audience what to do.

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Just remember when I forget
something to tell me what I’m

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supposed to say.
It is a good morning.

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We’re glad to see so many of you
here.

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Glad to see our brother Barley
who’s been able to come after

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having taken his parents to the
Calvary.

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And we welcome him this morning.
If anyone was to ask you this

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question, are you religious or
what would you say?

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Well, of course I’m religious.
I’m a Christadelphian.

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I go to meeting on Sundays, I do
my Bible readings.

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I always give thanks before I I
eat.

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Of course I’m religious.
Well, I’m going to ask it again.

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Are you religious?
You really haven’t answered the

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question the way James is going
to ask us to answer it.

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We believe that we are Bible
students and I believe we are.

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But James is going to give us a
different definition than

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anything that we would have ever
come up with had we been on our

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had we not had his help.
And it’s in James chapter one.

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We’re going to be looking at
verse 26, if any man among you

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seem to be religious.
So I could certainly say, are

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you religious?
And you could certainly say,

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yes, I seem to be religious.
But James says, well, you might

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seem to be religious and you may
not be religious if you don’t

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bridle your tongue, but you
deceive your own heart.

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He says this man’s religion is
vain.

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Now, those are very strong
words.

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I wouldn’t dare come all the way
from California up to talk to

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you.
Wonderful brothers and sisters

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who mostly are from Canada and
some from other places in the

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world and tell you this if it
weren’t inspired by God.

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So we may seem to be religious
and not be religious if we do

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not bridle our tongue.
And then he goes on and gives us

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the definition of pure religion
in verse 27.

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Pure religion is undefiled
before God, and the Father

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exists to visit the fatherless
and the widows and their

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affliction, and to keep himself
unspotted.

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From the world.
Now of all the things that we

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would cite to make us feel we’re
religious, we would certainly

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mention the fact that we are
Christadelphians, that we beat

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on the meet, on the Birmingham
Amended Statement of Faith.

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We are particularly who we
fellowship.

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We call a spade a spade.
We don’t mince words.

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We stand for purity, the
doctrine, and yet all that being

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true.
All that being important, not in

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any way minimizing one of those
things, we still could not.

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Be religious because we do not
watch what we say if we bridle,

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if we don’t bridle our tongue,
if we just have.

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Running off of the mouth.
And we just say, whatever comes

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into our hearts and minds we
could have.

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All the truth could be vain.
All the wonderful things we

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stand for and believe and and
defend to others could all be in

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vain if we don’t bridle the
tongue.

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It was that serpent’s tongue in
the garden that first planted

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the rebellious thought in the
mind of Eve.

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As a result of that, we know he
was accursed by God.

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Now David tells us in the
Psalms, Deliver me, O Lord, from

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evil men, preserve me from
violent men who plan evil

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things.
In their hearts they continually

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gather together for war.
They sharpen their tongues like

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a serpent.
The poison of Aspen is under

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their lips.
Well, that’s not us, of course,

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but that’s.
We’re who we’re being warned

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about, but this little.
Tongue of Ours is an amazing

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instrument.
It’s quite small.

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I don’t know if you ever see New
Zealanders, but in the New

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Zealand war dances, the New
Zealander warriors, they stick

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their tongues out at you and I
guess they practice it.

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Their tongue comes all the way
down here.

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They must.
I don’t know, it may just New

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Zealanders have all new.
Zealanders have long tongues,

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but when you go.
To a doctor, what does he do?

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He says, well, stick out your
tongue and he looks at it and he

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can tell pretty much your
condition of your health by

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looking at your tongue.
James Gesell say you we can

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determine the determine.
We can determine the condition

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of your spiritual health with
that same.

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Little instrument, Jesus said.
Out of the abundance of the

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heart, the mouth speaks and 1st.
Peter, Peter, of course, we’ve

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looked at this before.
Peter and and James are on the

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same wavelength, and he says for
he who would love life and see

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good days, let him refrain his
tongue from evil and his lips

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from speaking to see.
But when he said that, he’s

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quoting Psalm 34, which is back
to David again.

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And of course, if you in verse
26 of James one any among you

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thinks he is religious and does
not bide his tongue, you’re

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deceiving.
Your own heart.

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And your religion is useless
according to the new King James.

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Now we just read chapter 3 of
James and we’re going to look at

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some of those verses again
because the word tongue is all

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the way through of those verses.
Turning to chapter 3, coming in

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at verse 2.
For we all stumble in many ways.

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If anyone does not stumble in
Word, he is a perfect man, able

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also to bridle the whole bottle
body.

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Indeed, we put in horses mouths,
we put bits in horses mouths

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that they may obey us.
We turn their whole body, look

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out at the ships.
Although they are so large and

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driven by such fierce winds,
they are turned by a very small

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rudder wherever the pilot
desires.

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Even so, the tongue is a.
Little member and boasts great

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things.
See how great a forest a little

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fire Kindles, and the tongue is
a fire of iniquity.

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The tongue is so set among our
members that it defiles the the

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whole.
Body.

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Your whole body can be destroyed
by your tongue, James says.

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For verse 7, Every kind of beast
and bird and reptile and

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creature of the sea is tamed and
has been tamed by mankind, but

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no man can tame the tongue.
It is an unruly evil full of

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deadly poison.
With our tongue we bless our God

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and Father, and with our tongue
we curse men who have been made

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in the similitude of God.
Out of the same mouth proceed

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blessings and cursings.
My brethren, these things ought

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not so to be.
Does the spring bring forth

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fresh water and bitter from the
same opening?

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Can a fig tree, my brother, and
bare olives or grape figs?

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No spring yields both salt water
and fresh.

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Just think of the the damage
that can be done to us by our

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tongue.
James compares it to a fire we

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know we live in a We’re in a
beautiful area where forest

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fires could be devastating.
With one little match, you can

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start a fire that can destroy
thousands of acres and many

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homes and much wildlife and
sometimes people.

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Missus O’leary’s cow kicked over
a Lantern, and the whole city of

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Chicago burnt down as a result.
So the tongue is like that, says

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James.
He can start something that it

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cannot stop.
He says no man has ever been

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able to tame the tongue.
But the good news is that God

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cares.
You remember on one occasion

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Jesus met a Wildman and he dwelt
among the tombs and he wore no

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clothes and he cried out to
Jesus.

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What am I to do with you?
Jesus, our Son of God, Most

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High, I beseech you to torment
me not.

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Jesus tamed the untamable, and
we next see him sitting and

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clothed and in his right mind.
We see the young man Saul

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breathing out threatenings and
slaughters against the disciple,

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and through Jesus his tongue is
tamed.

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And he says, Lord, what wilt
thou have me to do?

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David has a lot to say about the
tongue.

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Let the words of my mouth and
the meditation of my heart be

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acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord,
my strength and my Redeemer.

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Set a guard, O Lord, over my
mouth.

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Keep watch over the door of my
lips.

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This is David asking God’s help
in taming his tongue.

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I said I will guard my ways lest
I sin with my tongue.

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I will restrain my mouth with a
muzzle.

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All the wicked are before me.
So coming back to James, we have

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James telling us that no man can
tame the tongue without God’s

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help.
We we are hopeless, no matter

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how faithful we might be, at all
the things which we consider

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important to be a good
Christianalphian if we talk.

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Too much if we gossip, if we
betray the confidence of those

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who have confided in.
US.

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If we spread rumors, not just
rumors, if we spread the truth

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that ought not be told, well, it
was true.

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Well, it might be true, but it
might not be kind.

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It might not.
Edify it might not help.

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So out of our same mouth we come
to meeting and we talk about the

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truth and how wonderful it is,
and then we say things to and

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about.
Others that hurt and wound and

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destroy, James says.
You might be a Christadelphian,

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but you’re religion is in vain.
So this is this is the kind of

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thing we need to take home with
us because it’s so important

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that we think before we speak
that we consider will this help

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or hurt some in in in Paul’s
day, those that lived in Athens,

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they they only wanted to learn,
hear and tell some new things.

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And I don’t know if you have the
Christadelphian Grapevine up

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here as we do down our way,
something can happen and it

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spreads all over so fast.
Now we have a Christadelphian

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tree in our ecclesia.
We call it a tree because in

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order to get word out.
But if someone hears something

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that they should be told, they
tell these and these tell these

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and pretty soon they’ll hold
ecclesias.

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They’ve it’s been said this is
not true that the fastest

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communication or.
Telephone, Telegraph and tell a

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woman I already said it wasn’t
true.

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Hebrews 11.
I mean Hymn 111, One of my

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favorite hymns.
The second verse goes like this.

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Take my voice and let me sing.
Always only for my king.

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Take my lips and let them be
filled with messages from Thee.

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So let’s watch what we say.
We are responsible for what we

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say.
We talked yesterday about Moses

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when he spoke unadvisedly with
his lips, and as a result he was

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kept out of the Promised Land.
We must be careful what we say.

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If we just learn, just stop
before we speak, take a moment

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to say, will this help?
Will this encourage or

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discourage?
Will it?

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Will it send someone away or
bring them closer to God?

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And don’t take comfort in
telling something just because

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it’s true.
There are a lot of true things

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that are terrible, and if we
know something that won’t help,

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let it stay with us.
So James is now bringing us to

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this definition of pure
religion.

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We’ve just learned that the
person who does not control his

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tongue, his religion is vain.
Now he’s going to turn to

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something positive.
We talk about the negative, and

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now we’re going to talk about
the positive.

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Again, this is not the
definition that Christadepherns

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would give.
I won’t give you a definition of

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pure religion.
And we would immediately bring

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up the Birmingham Mental
Statement of Faith.

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We would talk.
About the exceeding great and

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precious promises made to the
Father, to the to the

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patriarchs, we would condemn the
false creeds of Christendom that

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contradict the true teachings.
And we would be right in all of

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that.
But that’s not what James talks

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about.
He doesn’t say that at all.

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Not that we’re minimizing those
things.

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Please don’t misunderstand this.
And I don’t believe these are

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important.
I believe they are important.

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But if we don’t do what he’s
going to say next, it doesn’t

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matter what you believe.
It doesn’t matter how pure your

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doctrine is and how straight
your fellowship is, if we’re not

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doing what he next says to do,
he’s going to say.

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Pure.
Religion and undefiled before

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God and the Father.
Is this to visit orphans and

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widows in their trouble?
And keep himself unspotted from

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the world.
We would never come up with that

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definition if James didn’t help
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Now brother Neville Smart wrote
a book on the book of James.

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And I’m going to quote a little
bit from his book because he

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talked about the word visit.
And when we we might have a

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different definition of visit
than the one he’s going to share

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with us.
I mean, sometimes we go to visit

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somebody and we pop in and say,
how are you?

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And they, they say, I’m
terrible.

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And he says, that’s good.
And you’re gone again.

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You know, visit, it takes some
time.

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Visits takes a part of you.
You you can’t visit without

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making a personal sacrifice to
do so.

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And so Brother Smart quotes 333
places in Luke.

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Pardon through our brother
Peter.

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Luke 1 and 68.
Blessed is the Lord God of

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Israel, for he has visited and
redeemed His people, Luke 178.

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Through the tender mercy of our
God, with which the dayspring

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from on high has visited us, and
Luke 7, verse 16.

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Then fear came on all upon all,
and they glorified God, saying,

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a great prophet has risen up
among us and God has visited his

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people.
So Brother Smart comments on

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that.
And he says this visiting was a

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testimony to the interest and
the sympathy and the love of God

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in regard to man.
So when James exhorts his

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readers to visit, he’s
suggesting much more than a mere

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visit in our modern sense of the
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He implies we must manifest a a
lively interest in the needs of

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others and earnest, warm hearted
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Only by such an attitude do we
show ourselves to be children,

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indeed of the Father who visited
us in our own need.

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Other virgins say take care of
orphans and widows, go to the

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help of orphans and widows, look
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The only picture we have of the
judgment seat of Christ has this

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subject, and we all know this.
It’s in Matthew 25 and I, I, I

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only stir up your pure minds by
way of remembrance, but.

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This is a picture of the
judgment seat.

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My brother says you’re going to
be there, you’re going to be

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there.
You’re going to be there if

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you’re ready or not.
You’re going to be there if you

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want to be there or not.
We’re all going to be there.

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And this is what the King will
say to you and to me.

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We already have the script.
Then shall the King say unto

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them on his right hand, Come,
come, ye blessed of my Father,

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inherit the Kingdom prepared for
you.

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From the foundation of the.
World.

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And those are the words we long
to hear.

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But he’s going to tell us why
we’re on the right hand and

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others, you’re going to tell him
why he’s on their left eye when

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he says depart from me.
I don’t even know who you are.

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And and the same reason is why
you’re on this side or you’re on

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that.
Side and so he goes on to say,

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For I was and hungered.
You gave me meat, I was thirsty

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and you gave me drink.
I was a stranger when you took

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me in naked and you clothed me.
I was sick and you visited me.

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I was in prison and you came in.
We don’t remember doing that for

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you, Jesus, inasmuch you just
done it until one of the least

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of these my brethren, you’ve
done it unto me.

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So James and Jesus are in
agreement that this is pure

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religion and we’d better listen.
No, we’d better do more than

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listen.
We’re to be doers of the Word

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and not hearers.
Only Apostle John agrees with

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this.
Whoso hath this world’s good,

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and see if his brother have
need, and shut up with his

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bowels of compassion from him,
how dwelleth the love of God in

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him?
You, you know a brother or

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sister that’s having a tough
time and you’re not doing

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anything about it.
How can the love of God dwell in

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you?
Says James.

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John, my little children, let us
not love in Word, neither in

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tongue, but in deed and in
truth.

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James, when he comes to compare
faith in works, uses the same

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example in James 214.
What does it profit, my

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brethren?
The old man say he hath faith

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and hath not works.
Can faith save me?

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Save him?
Have my brother or sister be

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naked or destitute of daily
food.

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One of you say unto him,
departed peace be warmed and

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filled.
It’s going to be all right.

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Don’t worry about it.
You don’t do.

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Anything.
He said.

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What does that profit?
So so how how, how are we

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measuring up to pure religion
and undefiled before gone the

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sisters that are busy helping
other sisters in rest homes,

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visiting the sick.
The visiting committee on

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Anastasia is probably one of the
most important, we think.

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Oh, the exhorting brethren.
Visiting is more important.

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We.
Need to care about each other in

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in very real ways.
When was the last time that you

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visited one of those, we call
them convalescent hospitals over

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our way?
It’s pitiful to go to them.

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There’s so many people in there
that are they, they send you

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there to die.
Most of them never come out

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alive.
And while a lot of them were out

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of their mind, we stopped at a
convalescent hospital halfway

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here in Medford, OR to visit
somebody that won’t even know we

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were there because his mind is
gone.

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But the sister wife was saying
some members of that eclisher

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won’t visit this man because
he’s out of his head anyway.

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What does he, what will he know?
And then I don’t think they

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realize how much she’s hurting
because they won’t visit her

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husband who is out of his mind.
He does smile.

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You don’t know.
You don’t know what’s going on

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when you talk to somebody like
that, the subconscious mind,

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some things get through.
I think sometimes we don’t

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realize how how important it is
just just to sit and hold a hand

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and say a prayer over someone
who who could even be in a coma.

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They say people in comas can
hear a little Side Story on

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this.
A family had a had a had a

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father that was dying.
And the family.

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All gathered at the bedside and
they they, they knew that he had

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very short time to live.
And they said to the doctor,

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well, what, what do we see?
What do we do?

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You know, and he was in a coma.
And the the doctor said, why

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don’t you just stand around his
bedside and talk about

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experiences that that you all
remember together as a family.

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And I guess this man was
somewhat of a character.

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And so all the children started
recalling different things that

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Daddy had done over the years.
And as they were were telling

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you, remember when Daddy did
this and they would all be

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laughing.
And then we had, well, you know,

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Dad did that and they were all
laughing and, and they looked

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down and he was laughing and he
died, true story.

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He died laughing at the happy
things that his family were

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recalling about his life.
And nobody thought he, they,

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they didn’t know he was here
listening.

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It went through until he in that
subconscious mind, he was

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laughing and that they as he
laughed, he breathed his laughs.

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So what a nice way to go, isn’t
it?

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But you see, you’re needed
there.

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You can say, well, why should I
go see them?

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You’re in a coma.
I don’t think very many of us

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enjoy visiting people in some of
these places.

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I know my own mother was in one
for years and years and years.

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And I went to see her every day.
I went to see her just a few

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hours before she died.
But I didn’t know she was going

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to die.
I wouldn’t have left because she

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was in that same situation for,
for, for for months.

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And I went to see her and I left
and I went to calling the

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customer.
When I got there they, they

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phoned and rang and they said
you have a message, your mother

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just died.
And I went right back to the

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home and there she was.
She just just as I’d left her.

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They hadn’t even come to take
her away yet.

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Of course, I felt terrible to
think that I had left and not be

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with her at the time of it, but
no one knows.

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But when Peggy’s father was
going to die, he, he lived there

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almost 102.
They said he’s not going to live

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through the night.
So we decided we were going to

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stake out.
We, we stayed with him all

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night.
They said he will not live till

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morning.
And so because he was totally

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deaf, we knew that he couldn’t
hear.

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So we kept physical contact with
him.

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We took turns holding his hand,
rubbing him and and kissing him

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and that kind of thing.
He didn’t die till 6:00 in the

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morning.
He lasted all night.

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We watched him die, but we were
there.

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That’s what God wants us to do
is to be there with others when

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they need us.
And you can’t do it by remote

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control.
It is good to phone.

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That is good.
And and when you when you know

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someone is not well and you can
reach him by phone, you can talk

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to him.
I’ve, I’ve prayed and cried on

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the phone with people.
I had a phone call one night.

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It was about 11:00 at night and
it was a sister.

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She says you don’t.
Know who I am but I’m going to

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kill myself tonight.
It’s 2:00 in the morning where I

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live so I figured out she was
somewhere on the East Coast, 3

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hours from me.
She said my husband is already

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asleep and she says when he
wakes up in the morning I’ll be

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dead.
But I had to tell somebody.

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I thought I’d call you.
So we, I thought, can’t hang up

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on this lady.
We just kept talking.

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We talked and we prayed and we
cried together.

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And the happy thing is she
didn’t do it that night.

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I think she was just reaching
out.

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She probably was needed someone
to talk to.

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Sometimes that’s all you need to
do is just be there to to

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someone to talk to.
Abraham Lincoln was president of

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the United States and he was at
war with the South.

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And there was a it was a
terrible war.

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More Americans were killed in
the Civil War than all of the

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wars that America has ever been
involved in because they were

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killing each other.
And he was up against him, and

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he sent a telegram to Illinois,
to a friend of.

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His.
He said.

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You’ve got to come to
Washington.

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I’ve got to see you.
So this man got on a train.

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It wasn’t no planes in those
days.

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And he travelled a distance from
Illinois to Washington, DC And

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the president had a coach and
and a horse and carriage meet

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him at the station.
And they brought him to the

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White House.
They ushered him into the White

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House and the president was
waiting for him.

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And when he when he got there,
the president walked up and he

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said, I am so glad to see you.
Thank you for coming.

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Sit down.
I’ve got to talk to you.

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And then the president began to
walk, and he talked, and he

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paced, and he told his.
Friend, all of these problems

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and if I do this, the cabinet’s
after me.

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If I do that, the Congress is
going to get me.

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The troops are losing here.
And he talked and he, he did

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this for about 3 hours.
This one just sat there.

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He never, he never said any more
than hello, right, Abe.

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And for three hours, Abe Lincoln
poured his heart out to this.

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Friend at the end he said it’s
so nice for you to come, you’ve

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helped me greatly.
And the man got on a train and

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went back home, but he had to be
there to be of help.

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You wouldn’t say what will I
say, just be there.

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Just care.
There’s pure religion,

435
00:29:11,480 –> 00:29:14,400
underfiled, says James.
James knew what he was talking

436
00:29:14,400 –> 00:29:21,640
about.
We have to care enough to go

437
00:29:21,640 –> 00:29:25,920
where we’re needed to be and be
with those who need us.

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00:29:27,520 –> 00:29:30,960
Telephones are wonderful,
letters are great, e-mail is

439
00:29:30,960 –> 00:29:32,840
fantastic.
I don’t understand it, but it

440
00:29:32,840 –> 00:29:37,360
works.
But there’s nothing that takes

441
00:29:37,360 –> 00:29:46,720
the place of being there.
And so if you know someone that

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00:29:46,720 –> 00:29:50,880
would be helped by your visit,
be there.

443
00:29:52,080 –> 00:29:56,080
And it’s more than just popping
in you.

444
00:29:56,120 –> 00:29:59,360
You just have to stay a while.
My mother in her her weak

445
00:29:59,360 –> 00:30:03,840
condition, she said, I wish we
could get an extra bed and put

446
00:30:03,840 –> 00:30:06,720
it in here beside me and you can
sleep here.

447
00:30:08,680 –> 00:30:13,440
I was an only child and spoiled
rotten and that was not

448
00:30:13,440 –> 00:30:16,520
possible.
But yeah, you can’t just pop in

449
00:30:17,280 –> 00:30:19,720
you, you, you just have to be
there.

450
00:30:21,000 –> 00:30:23,760
We went to see a brother, Bill
Robinson, who’s had a stroke up

451
00:30:23,760 –> 00:30:26,720
in Brantford, and he has to be
fed.

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00:30:26,920 –> 00:30:30,680
We have time to, so we could be
there to feed him.

453
00:30:30,680 –> 00:30:33,960
And the nurses let us feed him.
And he’s a he’s a dear brother

454
00:30:33,960 –> 00:30:38,160
that we love very much.
But it’s so pitiful to see

455
00:30:38,160 –> 00:30:42,400
someone who’s so full of life
just a few days before and and

456
00:30:42,400 –> 00:30:47,720
now, thanks to a stroke, as
totally incapacitated.

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00:30:47,720 –> 00:30:54,320
But he could talk and he he, he
gave us some good words of

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00:30:54,320 –> 00:30:56,000
wisdom.
In fact, we’ve written a

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00:30:56,000 –> 00:31:00,520
meditation about our visit with
him because he said good enough

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00:31:01,720 –> 00:31:06,800
is not good enough.
And that’s true, isn’t it?

461
00:31:06,800 –> 00:31:10,200
And that was a, a Pearl of, of,
of a jewel that he shared with

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00:31:10,200 –> 00:31:12,240
me.
And the more I think about it,

463
00:31:12,240 –> 00:31:14,200
the more true it is.
So in, in our life, in the

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00:31:14,200 –> 00:31:17,800
service and the truth, good
enough is not good enough.

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00:31:17,920 –> 00:31:20,320
Are you just doing enough to get
by?

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00:31:20,440 –> 00:31:23,040
I think if I do this much at
all, I ought to be enough for

467
00:31:23,040 –> 00:31:25,920
God.
If I just do my Bible readings.

468
00:31:25,920 –> 00:31:27,520
Well, thank, I’ve done that,
God.

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00:31:28,600 –> 00:31:32,080
I think sometimes we think that
doing the Bible readings is sort

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00:31:32,080 –> 00:31:35,560
of like a debt we owe Jesus.
OK, I’m supposed to do the Bible

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00:31:35,560 –> 00:31:36,840
readings now.
I’ve done that now.

472
00:31:36,840 –> 00:31:41,840
Now the rest of the day is mine.
It’s wonderful to do the Bible.

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00:31:41,840 –> 00:31:43,960
Please don’t think I’m not
putting that down.

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00:31:44,000 –> 00:31:46,640
I am not.
But would you say that’s the

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00:31:46,640 –> 00:31:52,040
maximum or the very minimum that
you do for the Lord?

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00:31:53,800 –> 00:31:59,000
Good enough is not good enough.
And I wouldn’t have been able to

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00:31:59,000 –> 00:32:01,240
to have shared that with you if
I hadn’t bothered.

478
00:32:01,240 –> 00:32:06,560
It was no bother.
But go to see a a brother, very

479
00:32:06,560 –> 00:32:10,720
dear brother in the hospital.
So who benefits?

480
00:32:10,960 –> 00:32:13,040
I’ve already talked about Diane
Grandchamp.

481
00:32:13,320 –> 00:32:17,320
Those who see her benefit from
visiting her because she is such

482
00:32:17,320 –> 00:32:19,640
a wonderful personality and
she’s so cheerful.

483
00:32:19,880 –> 00:32:21,880
You got to cheer her up and she
cheers you up.

484
00:32:21,880 –> 00:32:23,960
But you got to stay a while.
You don’t just pop in.

485
00:32:23,960 –> 00:32:25,480
Hi, Diane.
And I see you gone.

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00:32:26,000 –> 00:32:27,000
Think.
Well, I did that.

487
00:32:28,760 –> 00:32:30,320
I mean, I think that’s the way
some doctors.

488
00:32:30,320 –> 00:32:33,720
Make their rounds.
And of course you can.

489
00:32:33,720 –> 00:32:38,720
You can always be misunderstood
in trying to do good.

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00:32:40,560 –> 00:32:44,960
There was a sister who had
several little children and an

491
00:32:44,960 –> 00:32:48,480
old sister Jones lived down the
street, 3 or 4 doors down South.

492
00:32:48,480 –> 00:32:51,120
One morning she said to her
children, would you, would you

493
00:32:51,120 –> 00:32:53,840
run over and see how old sister
Jones is today?

494
00:32:54,760 –> 00:32:56,200
She was wanting to be
thoughtful.

495
00:32:56,200 –> 00:32:59,440
Of how this so the Kitty said
sure mom and they ran off and

496
00:33:00,040 –> 00:33:01,640
they came back in a few minutes
and they.

497
00:33:02,440 –> 00:33:04,960
He said, she says it’s none of
your business how old she is

498
00:33:04,960 –> 00:33:18,280
today.
So sometimes in doing good, you

499
00:33:18,280 –> 00:33:24,080
can be misunderstood.
And so sometimes people who have

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00:33:24,080 –> 00:33:28,360
been misunderstood for the good
they wanted to do said, well,

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00:33:28,360 –> 00:33:30,240
that’s the last time I’m ever
going to do good.

502
00:33:31,320 –> 00:33:34,240
And so we have to keep on doing
good, whether we’re

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00:33:34,240 –> 00:33:39,760
misunderstood or not.
If you turn to Second Samuel 10,

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00:33:39,760 –> 00:33:43,800
you’ll see a a wonderful example
of a person who tried to do good

505
00:33:43,800 –> 00:33:47,720
and was misunderstood for it.
And as a result, many thousands

506
00:33:47,720 –> 00:33:58,240
and thousands of people died.
Second Samuel 10 And a king has

507
00:33:58,240 –> 00:34:03,080
died, a king has died who had
been kind to David.

508
00:34:04,880 –> 00:34:07,920
And as a result David said, I
will show kindness unto Hainan.

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00:34:07,920 –> 00:34:12,800
This is verse 2.
The son of Nahash, as his father

510
00:34:12,800 –> 00:34:16,080
showed kindness to me.
And David sent to comfort him by

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00:34:16,080 –> 00:34:18,480
the hand of his servants for his
father.

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00:34:18,960 –> 00:34:21,360
And David’s servants came into
the land of the children of

513
00:34:21,360 –> 00:34:23,560
Ammon.
And the Princess of the children

514
00:34:23,560 –> 00:34:27,320
of Ammon said unto Haman, Hainan
their Lord, think us thou that

515
00:34:27,320 –> 00:34:30,320
David doth honor thy father,
that he sent comforters unto

516
00:34:30,320 –> 00:34:31,920
thee?
Hath not David rather send his

517
00:34:31,920 –> 00:34:34,880
servants unto thee to search the
city, and to spy it on and

518
00:34:34,880 –> 00:34:38,440
overthrow it?
Wherefore Hayden took David’s

519
00:34:38,440 –> 00:34:42,719
servants, shaved off half of
their beards, and cut off their

520
00:34:42,719 –> 00:34:45,159
garments in the middle, and even
to their buttocks, and sent them

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00:34:45,159 –> 00:34:50,360
away.
And you know the story as a

522
00:34:50,360 –> 00:34:58,840
result of that. 700 Chariots,
40,000 horsemen and show back

523
00:34:58,880 –> 00:35:05,440
the campton died 40,701 people
died as a result of a

524
00:35:05,440 –> 00:35:10,640
misunderstanding so.
But David didn’t stop doing good

525
00:35:10,680 –> 00:35:14,200
just because one person
misunderstood his good actions.

526
00:35:14,920 –> 00:35:17,080
And sometimes.
You can go to visit someone and

527
00:35:18,320 –> 00:35:21,720
you can tell that they they
weren’t prepared for you to

528
00:35:21,720 –> 00:35:24,440
come.
So it’s an act of kindness if

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00:35:24,440 –> 00:35:27,640
you’re going to people’s homes
to to call them and say, you

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00:35:27,640 –> 00:35:31,800
said, Lord, if I if I stop over,
you can kill.

531
00:35:31,800 –> 00:35:34,560
Some people with kindness,
certainly when you go to

532
00:35:34,560 –> 00:35:37,400
hospitals, if they’re really
desperately I’ll you don’t sit

533
00:35:37,400 –> 00:35:41,120
by their bed too long because
company wears people out when

534
00:35:41,120 –> 00:35:43,840
they’re sick.
So then you say, well then I

535
00:35:43,840 –> 00:35:46,320
won’t go at all.
You see, it takes takes a little

536
00:35:46,320 –> 00:35:50,280
bit of common sense to know what
type of visit and how much of A

537
00:35:50,280 –> 00:35:54,400
visit is required.
But the point is, if we’re not

538
00:35:54,400 –> 00:35:57,640
doing this according to James
and our religion is in vain.

539
00:35:59,640 –> 00:36:05,200
And so let’s remember to think
of others instead of ourselves.

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00:36:06,160 –> 00:36:11,240
Who can I write to today?
Who can I telephone today?

541
00:36:12,120 –> 00:36:19,040
Who can I visit today?
The second part of the test is

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00:36:20,160 –> 00:36:24,480
keep yourself unspotted from the
world.

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00:36:27,360 –> 00:36:29,920
Now this is easier said than
done.

544
00:36:31,880 –> 00:36:35,040
It was hard to do this when
James wrote it.

545
00:36:36,520 –> 00:36:41,320
It’s a lot harder now because
when James said don’t get

546
00:36:41,320 –> 00:36:45,000
spotted by the things of the
world and there were no daily

547
00:36:45,000 –> 00:36:47,440
newspapers, printing had not
been invented.

548
00:36:48,000 –> 00:36:51,120
There were no magazines to be
delivered into your mailbox.

549
00:36:51,800 –> 00:36:55,160
There was no radio and there was
no television to pipe the world

550
00:36:55,160 –> 00:36:58,640
right into the your home where
you could see and hear all the

551
00:36:58,640 –> 00:37:01,000
sounds of the world that are
going on all around you.

552
00:37:03,160 –> 00:37:06,080
You probably have gone, you
ladies love to go shopping.

553
00:37:06,880 –> 00:37:10,480
You probably have gone to a
store and you saw piles of

554
00:37:10,480 –> 00:37:13,280
clothes of bargain basement kind
of thing.

555
00:37:13,280 –> 00:37:15,480
And there’ll be sign up, it says
slightly.

556
00:37:15,480 –> 00:37:25,600
Soiled greatly reduced.
And getting spotted by the world

557
00:37:27,240 –> 00:37:32,240
greatly reduces our value to
God.

558
00:37:35,720 –> 00:37:41,720
How thankful we are that as
Isaiah spoke to us in Isaiah

559
00:37:41,720 –> 00:37:44,240
118.
Come now, and let us reason

560
00:37:44,240 –> 00:37:49,360
together, saith the Lord.
Though your sins be as scarlet,

561
00:37:50,120 –> 00:37:54,520
they shall be as white as snow.
Though they be red like Crimson,

562
00:37:54,880 –> 00:37:59,520
they shall be as wool.
Friendship with the world causes

563
00:37:59,520 –> 00:38:06,680
stains and spots.
Paul makes a a whole long list

564
00:38:06,680 –> 00:38:11,440
of very serious sins, and then
proceeds to tell us that none of

565
00:38:11,440 –> 00:38:13,760
those who do these things will
be in the Kingdom.

566
00:38:14,000 –> 00:38:16,960
And he adds, Such were some of
you.

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00:38:18,200 –> 00:38:22,120
It’s in one Corinthians 69.
Don’t you know that the

568
00:38:22,120 –> 00:38:24,560
unrighteous will not inherit the
Kingdom of God?

569
00:38:25,680 –> 00:38:29,800
Don’t be deceived.
Neither fornicators, nor

570
00:38:29,800 –> 00:38:36,520
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor

571
00:38:36,520 –> 00:38:40,440
thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor

572
00:38:40,440 –> 00:38:42,920
extortioners will inherit the
Kingdom of God.

573
00:38:44,200 –> 00:38:50,080
And such were some of you, but
you are washed, but you are

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00:38:50,080 –> 00:38:54,320
sanctified, but you are
justified in the name of the

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00:38:54,320 –> 00:38:57,360
Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of
our God.

576
00:39:00,400 –> 00:39:06,360
So all of us have received
spots, James says, to keep

577
00:39:06,360 –> 00:39:08,520
ourselves unspotted from the
world.

578
00:39:09,440 –> 00:39:15,840
And we all have gotten spots on
us, and the spots greatly reduce

579
00:39:15,840 –> 00:39:19,240
our value.
But thanks to forgiveness, we

580
00:39:19,240 –> 00:39:24,080
can have all the spots removed.
We don’t have to stand before

581
00:39:24,080 –> 00:39:29,440
the judgment seat with dirty
garments unless we want to be

582
00:39:29,440 –> 00:39:37,240
that way.
John to the Seminole Cleesians,

583
00:39:37,240 –> 00:39:43,000
mature in Asia, grace be to you,
and peace from him who is and

584
00:39:43,000 –> 00:39:46,400
who was and who is to come, and
from the seven spirits which are

585
00:39:46,400 –> 00:39:50,680
before his throne, and from
Jesus Christ, the faithful

586
00:39:50,680 –> 00:39:53,160
witness, the first born from the
dead, and the ruler over the

587
00:39:53,400 –> 00:39:59,840
kings of the earth, to Him who
loved us and washed us from our

588
00:39:59,840 –> 00:40:08,440
sins in his own blood.
If it were not for Jesus, we

589
00:40:08,440 –> 00:40:10,720
could not keep ourselves
unspotted from the world,

590
00:40:10,720 –> 00:40:13,440
because we could not.
Be forgiven.

591
00:40:13,480 –> 00:40:19,960
It’s only through him that we
have washed our robes and made

592
00:40:19,960 –> 00:40:26,600
them white by his blood.
So just how do we keep ourselves

593
00:40:26,600 –> 00:40:30,720
unspotted from the world?
Well, James is going to give us

594
00:40:30,720 –> 00:40:35,280
a whole list of things that spot
you up, defile you, make you

595
00:40:35,280 –> 00:40:39,360
dirty.
And so these things are spots

596
00:40:39,360 –> 00:40:43,840
that we want to avoid.
There is a wishy washy, double

597
00:40:43,840 –> 00:40:47,640
minded person who is easily
influenced to do wrong.

598
00:40:48,440 –> 00:40:52,200
This person is soon spotted by
the world.

599
00:40:53,720 –> 00:40:57,800
James one verse six.
But let him ask in faith with no

600
00:40:57,800 –> 00:41:00,720
doubt.
For he who doubts is like a wave

601
00:41:00,720 –> 00:41:03,560
of the sea, driven by the wind
and tossed.

602
00:41:04,000 –> 00:41:06,840
Do not let that man think that
he will receive anything from

603
00:41:06,840 –> 00:41:10,080
the Lord.
He’s double minded and he’s

604
00:41:10,080 –> 00:41:12,640
unstable in all his ways.
So we have to be single minded.

605
00:41:12,640 –> 00:41:15,960
We have to be focused, otherwise
we’re going to get spots on us

606
00:41:17,400 –> 00:41:21,600
there.
There was in James’s day and in

607
00:41:21,600 –> 00:41:28,280
our day those who respected the
rich and despised the poor and

608
00:41:28,280 –> 00:41:32,280
this was a spot.
James 2 verse one.

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00:41:33,440 –> 00:41:37,960
My brethren, do not hold the
faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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00:41:38,800 –> 00:41:41,000
the Lord of glory, with
partiality.

611
00:41:42,160 –> 00:41:45,160
For if there come into your
assembly a man with gold rings

612
00:41:45,160 –> 00:41:49,520
and fine apparel, and there
should also come in a poor man

613
00:41:49,520 –> 00:41:54,000
in filthy clothes, and you pay
attention to the one wearing the

614
00:41:54,000 –> 00:41:57,040
fine clothes, and say to you,
Oh, sit here in a good place,

615
00:41:57,600 –> 00:42:00,640
and say to the poor man, you
stand over there, or sit here at

616
00:42:00,640 –> 00:42:03,960
my footstool.
Have you not shown partiality

617
00:42:04,520 –> 00:42:06,880
among yourself?
You become judges with evil

618
00:42:06,880 –> 00:42:10,080
thoughts.
Listen, my brothers and sisters,

619
00:42:10,200 –> 00:42:14,160
has God not chosen the poor of
this world to be rich in faith

620
00:42:14,440 –> 00:42:16,960
and heirs of the Kingdom which
he has promised to those that

621
00:42:16,960 –> 00:42:19,560
love him?
But you have dishonored the

622
00:42:19,560 –> 00:42:22,520
poor.
Do not the rich oppress you and

623
00:42:22,520 –> 00:42:25,520
drag you into the courts?
It’s still true today.

624
00:42:25,520 –> 00:42:29,800
We must not respect riches.
We look up to people who may be

625
00:42:29,800 –> 00:42:32,840
rich and look down on people who
may be poor.

626
00:42:33,320 –> 00:42:35,480
And we’re, we’re the poor of
this world.

627
00:42:35,480 –> 00:42:38,080
God has not chosen the rich
people, the faint, the famous,

628
00:42:38,080 –> 00:42:39,360
the mighty.
He God on.

629
00:42:39,360 –> 00:42:44,080
Purpose has chosen us, and then
for us to respect someone higher

630
00:42:44,080 –> 00:42:47,960
up and not show respect to our
brothers and sisters who who may

631
00:42:47,960 –> 00:42:53,360
not have very much.
It’s a spot we’re supposed to

632
00:42:53,360 –> 00:43:00,160
keep ourselves.
Unspotted from the world, there

633
00:43:00,720 –> 00:43:08,080
are spots.
Caused by envy and strife James

634
00:43:08,080 –> 00:43:14,000
31416 But if you have bitter
envy and self seeking in your

635
00:43:14,000 –> 00:43:17,080
hearts, do not boast and lie
against the truth.

636
00:43:17,920 –> 00:43:21,000
This wisdom does not descend
from above, but is earthly,

637
00:43:21,280 –> 00:43:26,400
sensual, demonic.
For where envy and self seeking

638
00:43:26,400 –> 00:43:31,320
exist, confusion and every evil
thing are there.

639
00:43:33,000 –> 00:43:37,640
Are we envious of others?
Are we full of strife?

640
00:43:41,840 –> 00:43:44,880
You know, there are, there are
Christian Alpians that wherever

641
00:43:44,880 –> 00:43:49,600
they go, there is their strife.
I I like to tell the story about

642
00:43:49,640 –> 00:43:55,400
a a realtor who was showing a
home to prospective buyers as

643
00:43:55,400 –> 00:43:58,480
they showed this home in the
morning to a family and they the

644
00:43:58,480 –> 00:44:00,360
family said to the realtor, what
kind of neighbors?

645
00:44:00,360 –> 00:44:04,280
Will I have here and the realtor
says what kind of neighbors do

646
00:44:04,280 –> 00:44:07,840
you have where you are now they
say, oh we have lovely neighbors

647
00:44:07,840 –> 00:44:10,480
they’re they’re really nice we
get along they they water our

648
00:44:10,480 –> 00:44:13,640
flowers when we’re gone we feed
their cat when we get along just

649
00:44:13,640 –> 00:44:15,720
great she says you’re going to
have the very.

650
00:44:15,720 –> 00:44:19,800
Same kind of neighbors here.
In the afternoon, she showed the

651
00:44:19,800 –> 00:44:23,920
same house to another family and
they said, they said, what kind

652
00:44:23,920 –> 00:44:25,920
of neighbors will I have here?
She says, what kind of neighbors

653
00:44:25,920 –> 00:44:27,920
do you have at home?
She’s they’re terrible.

654
00:44:28,520 –> 00:44:30,400
Oh, we go get along.
We don’t even speak.

655
00:44:31,440 –> 00:44:34,120
They, they don’t want our dog on
their yard and their kids.

656
00:44:34,480 –> 00:44:35,960
We chase them off for them.
Whoa.

657
00:44:35,960 –> 00:44:38,920
It’s terrible.
You’re going to have the same

658
00:44:39,200 –> 00:44:44,440
kind of neighbors here.
See, wherever we go, there we

659
00:44:44,440 –> 00:44:49,200
are.
And if, if there’s always strife

660
00:44:49,280 –> 00:44:54,520
and confusion and bitterness and
problems around you, you have

661
00:44:54,520 –> 00:44:59,760
sighted the enemy and it is me.
We are the one.

662
00:45:00,680 –> 00:45:02,920
There are some people who are
everybody’s out of step but

663
00:45:02,920 –> 00:45:06,840
them.
That’s a spot, the big spot.

664
00:45:07,600 –> 00:45:09,760
We need to look ourselves in the
mirror, says James.

665
00:45:09,760 –> 00:45:12,120
And realizes that we’re the
problem.

666
00:45:12,560 –> 00:45:16,480
You know, you could never, ever,
ever, ever belong to an occasion

667
00:45:16,480 –> 00:45:25,280
that’s pure because when you
join it, it won’t be we are the

668
00:45:25,280 –> 00:45:35,320
problem.
Allow other people to have

669
00:45:36,440 –> 00:45:39,400
problems, not to allow them to
have the problem, but allow be

670
00:45:39,800 –> 00:45:42,520
be compassionate about their
problems.

671
00:45:43,640 –> 00:45:46,640
So often we have a double
standard.

672
00:45:47,920 –> 00:45:59,160
We we want justice for other.
People and mercy for ourselves.

673
00:46:00,680 –> 00:46:03,720
I like the story about the stop
sign that that illustrates this

674
00:46:03,720 –> 00:46:04,840
one too.
You may have heard it before,

675
00:46:04,840 –> 00:46:10,960
but I want to hear it again.
You’re driving down the street

676
00:46:11,960 –> 00:46:15,880
and you come to a four way stop
and you make a good solid stop

677
00:46:15,880 –> 00:46:18,120
and you’re just about to start
up and all of a sudden here’s

678
00:46:18,120 –> 00:46:22,640
comes a car and you can see he
is really barreling woo wee and

679
00:46:22,640 –> 00:46:25,320
he goes flat and you turn to the
people in your car.

680
00:46:25,320 –> 00:46:26,520
You know, we could have been
killed.

681
00:46:27,160 –> 00:46:29,480
I was there first.
It was my turn to go.

682
00:46:29,680 –> 00:46:32,560
And had I gone when I should
have gone, he would have hit us

683
00:46:32,560 –> 00:46:33,720
broadside.
Nobody.

684
00:46:33,880 –> 00:46:36,520
We could have all been killed.
I wish he was a cop here to get

685
00:46:36,520 –> 00:46:38,800
that guy.
Oh, he’s a Minnesota highway.

686
00:46:40,280 –> 00:46:44,480
You want justice for him?
You’re same.

687
00:46:44,560 –> 00:46:47,440
Same car, same day, same same,
same occupants.

688
00:46:47,440 –> 00:46:50,840
You’re driving along and you’re
now in the neighborhood where

689
00:46:50,840 –> 00:46:52,440
you’re not.
Don’t normally drive.

690
00:46:52,440 –> 00:46:54,880
And you’re, you’re driving along
and you’re having a really good

691
00:46:54,880 –> 00:46:57,280
conversation on the truth.
And you, you go through an

692
00:46:57,280 –> 00:46:59,520
intersection and as you get
through, everybody said, did you

693
00:46:59,520 –> 00:47:00,760
know there was a stop sign back
there?

694
00:47:00,880 –> 00:47:03,760
There was, oh, I hope there’s no
cop around here.

695
00:47:06,320 –> 00:47:09,560
You see, we when we do something
wrong, we don’t want to get

696
00:47:09,560 –> 00:47:11,040
caught.
As somebody else says, we want

697
00:47:11,040 –> 00:47:15,200
them to pay.
So if we’re like that, it’s a

698
00:47:15,200 –> 00:47:19,520
spot.
We need to realize it’s a spot

699
00:47:19,560 –> 00:47:26,040
and the more merciful of the
other fellow, and perhaps be

700
00:47:26,040 –> 00:47:31,400
more hard on ourselves by being
a friend of the world.

701
00:47:31,400 –> 00:47:36,640
We get spotted James, four and
four, adulterers and

702
00:47:36,640 –> 00:47:38,800
adulteresses.
Do you not know that friendship

703
00:47:38,800 –> 00:47:40,400
with the world is empathy with
God?

704
00:47:41,280 –> 00:47:43,640
Whosoever, therefore wants to be
a friend of the world makes

705
00:47:43,640 –> 00:47:48,840
himself an enemy of God.
But we want to be friendly with

706
00:47:48,840 –> 00:47:51,520
the world, don’t we?
We like to have worldly friends.

707
00:47:52,560 –> 00:47:57,160
If all your friends are worldly,
you go to a meeting on Sunday.

708
00:47:57,280 –> 00:48:00,720
But when you want to really have
a good time, you you choose to

709
00:48:01,040 –> 00:48:03,560
to spend your time with people
who are not in the truth.

710
00:48:05,160 –> 00:48:11,840
It’s a spot.
Recognize it as a spot and

711
00:48:11,840 –> 00:48:14,360
realize that you can’t serve God
and mammon.

712
00:48:15,080 –> 00:48:17,280
If you’re trying to teach these
people the truth, that’s one

713
00:48:17,280 –> 00:48:19,960
thing.
But if you’re doing the worldly

714
00:48:19,960 –> 00:48:25,560
things that they do with them,
then you’re mixing too much with

715
00:48:25,560 –> 00:48:28,280
the world.
You’re spending too much time

716
00:48:28,320 –> 00:48:33,920
with those who don’t love Jesus
and recognizes as that and do

717
00:48:33,920 –> 00:48:37,960
something about it.
If we speak.

718
00:48:37,960 –> 00:48:41,080
Evil of one another we become
spotted.

719
00:48:42,440 –> 00:48:47,360
James 411 Do not speak evil of
one another, brethren.

720
00:48:48,720 –> 00:48:51,520
He who speaks evil of his
brother and judges his brother

721
00:48:52,000 –> 00:48:54,000
speaks evil of the law and
judges the law.

722
00:48:54,920 –> 00:48:57,800
But if you judge the law, you’re
not a doer of the law, but a

723
00:48:57,800 –> 00:49:02,920
judge.
So bite your tongue.

724
00:49:04,360 –> 00:49:06,760
Don’t say anything bad about
anyone.

725
00:49:08,080 –> 00:49:10,520
That’s that’s a very good rule.
There’s a saying, if I can’t say

726
00:49:10,560 –> 00:49:12,800
something good about a person, I
won’t say anything about them at

727
00:49:12,800 –> 00:49:15,040
all.
Then somebody said, what do you

728
00:49:15,040 –> 00:49:16,400
think about him?
He says I have nothing to say

729
00:49:16,400 –> 00:49:20,920
about him.
So you can, you can.

730
00:49:21,200 –> 00:49:25,720
Even in a roundabout way, try to
say something unkind without,

731
00:49:25,760 –> 00:49:26,920
well, I didn’t say anything, did
I?

732
00:49:28,040 –> 00:49:30,960
But you led them to know.
What you feel?

733
00:49:33,240 –> 00:49:36,400
We there’s so much good in the
My mother taught me this poem.

734
00:49:36,400 –> 00:49:38,200
I hope I can get it out now.
There’s so much good and the

735
00:49:38,200 –> 00:49:39,880
worst of us and so much bad and
the best of us.

736
00:49:39,880 –> 00:49:42,600
It doesn’t behold any of us to
speak I’ll of the rest of us.

737
00:49:43,920 –> 00:49:46,680
And so when I point my finger at
you through your pointing at me,

738
00:49:46,680 –> 00:49:48,640
I’ve got so many problems.
I don’t have to be talking about

739
00:49:48,640 –> 00:49:51,680
yours.
If, if, if it’s a ranging

740
00:49:51,680 –> 00:49:53,720
brothers meeting, we’re we’re
dealing with the situation.

741
00:49:53,920 –> 00:49:57,920
That’s, that’s not gossip, but
don’t let it get outside that

742
00:49:57,920 –> 00:50:01,120
meeting either.
I mean, sometimes something

743
00:50:01,120 –> 00:50:03,160
comes up in the ranging brothers
meeting and before you know it,

744
00:50:03,160 –> 00:50:04,440
the whole occasion is the word
of something.

745
00:50:04,480 –> 00:50:07,160
You thought only a few knew.
Somebody sinned.

746
00:50:07,960 –> 00:50:09,520
That kind of thing happened.
Somebody sinned.

747
00:50:10,800 –> 00:50:12,560
We have to be careful.
Now that’s a spot.

748
00:50:13,320 –> 00:50:14,560
Spots can keep you out of the
Kingdom.

749
00:50:15,840 –> 00:50:17,480
So let’s don’t speak evil of
each other.

750
00:50:18,000 –> 00:50:22,720
Try to only say good things.
We get caught up too much in

751
00:50:22,720 –> 00:50:26,240
this world’s mad rush to get
things.

752
00:50:26,840 –> 00:50:31,200
We get spotted.
James 4 verse 13.

753
00:50:31,360 –> 00:50:35,560
Come now, you who say today or
tomorrow we will go into such a

754
00:50:35,560 –> 00:50:39,240
city and spend a year there and
buy and sell and get a profit,

755
00:50:39,600 –> 00:50:41,680
whereas you do not know what
will happen tomorrow.

756
00:50:42,320 –> 00:50:44,680
For what is your life?
It is even a vapor that appears

757
00:50:44,680 –> 00:50:46,800
for a little time and then
vanishes away.

758
00:50:47,320 –> 00:50:49,280
Instead, you ought to say if the
Lord.

759
00:50:49,280 –> 00:50:53,600
Will we will do this or that?
You, you put the Lord will in

760
00:50:53,600 –> 00:50:55,240
front of all the things you’re
going to do.

761
00:50:56,360 –> 00:50:58,760
And if and then do you do
something you don’t think the

762
00:50:58,760 –> 00:51:02,240
Lord would, will you do?
You can’t say Lord willing.

763
00:51:02,240 –> 00:51:05,360
I’m going to go to the racetrack
and bet on Sleepy Sullivan on

764
00:51:05,360 –> 00:51:09,000
the fifth race.
There’s no Lord willing in that

765
00:51:09,000 –> 00:51:12,120
thing.
I mean, let’s be careful that we

766
00:51:12,120 –> 00:51:15,560
don’t say Lord willing to do
something that we think the Lord

767
00:51:15,560 –> 00:51:20,200
would not will us to do.
We can simply be too interested

768
00:51:20,200 –> 00:51:24,640
in having a good time and
therefore have no time for God.

769
00:51:26,120 –> 00:51:30,720
This is a real spot.
James 55.

770
00:51:31,560 –> 00:51:33,960
You have lived on the earth in
pleasure and luxury.

771
00:51:34,680 –> 00:51:39,360
You have fattened your hearts.
As in the day of slaughter, we

772
00:51:39,360 –> 00:51:42,400
must spend our time just having
fun.

773
00:51:43,440 –> 00:51:45,920
We can begin to boast and to be
cuffed up.

774
00:51:46,360 –> 00:51:50,760
And this is certainly a spot.
1st chapter 4 verse 16.

775
00:51:51,440 –> 00:51:53,320
But now you boast in your
arrogance.

776
00:51:53,320 –> 00:51:57,440
Such boasting is evil.
We should be humbling ourselves.

777
00:51:57,440 –> 00:51:59,240
Humble yourselves in the sight
of the Lord.

778
00:51:59,680 –> 00:52:04,880
He will lift you up.
Verse 10 of chapter 4, all the

779
00:52:04,880 –> 00:52:08,480
things that the world considers
to be with pride.

780
00:52:08,480 –> 00:52:11,000
And they, they say pride is a
virtue and we know it’s a sin.

781
00:52:12,040 –> 00:52:17,720
And so Jeremiah 923 God says,
let not the wise man glory in

782
00:52:17,720 –> 00:52:20,680
his wisdom.
And yet people say, well, you

783
00:52:20,680 –> 00:52:26,600
know, I’m a PhD or call me
doctor or whatever.

784
00:52:26,640 –> 00:52:31,160
And, and I, I, you know, some
real smart people who, who just

785
00:52:31,160 –> 00:52:33,840
use big words that I don’t
understand just to make me feel

786
00:52:34,000 –> 00:52:36,560
stupid.
It’s too hard to make me feel

787
00:52:36,560 –> 00:52:38,240
stupid.
I already know I am.

788
00:52:38,920 –> 00:52:45,080
But if you have, if you’re wise,
don’t flaunt it.

789
00:52:45,160 –> 00:52:50,720
This is what Jeremiah is saying.
Nor let not the mighty man glory

790
00:52:50,720 –> 00:52:54,000
in his might.
We have a beach down our way,

791
00:52:54,000 –> 00:52:56,360
Santa Monica, called Muscle
Beach.

792
00:52:57,320 –> 00:53:00,080
And the people with big muscles
go there and they flex them, you

793
00:53:00,080 –> 00:53:02,320
know, and the girls go, oh, and
all.

794
00:53:03,760 –> 00:53:07,520
And he says, if you’re strong,
use it for the Lord.

795
00:53:07,520 –> 00:53:10,320
I mean, there’s too many people
willing to carry the bench when

796
00:53:10,320 –> 00:53:17,320
a piano needs to be moved.
If you’re strong, help us move

797
00:53:17,320 –> 00:53:20,240
the piano, but don’t wear tight
sleeves.

798
00:53:20,240 –> 00:53:25,120
Let us know how strong you are
and nor let the rich man glory

799
00:53:25,120 –> 00:53:27,640
in his riches.
Well, what a rich is for if you

800
00:53:27,640 –> 00:53:30,040
can’t flaunt them.
That’s what the world.

801
00:53:30,040 –> 00:53:33,520
Thinks, But let him make glory,
says Jeremiah.

802
00:53:33,520 –> 00:53:40,240
Glory in this that he
understands me that I am the

803
00:53:40,240 –> 00:53:50,200
Lord exercising loving kindness,
judgement and righteousness than

804
00:53:50,200 –> 00:53:52,720
the earth for in this I delight
says the Lord.

805
00:53:54,960 –> 00:53:59,160
So there are all kinds of spots,
brothers and sisters, that we

806
00:53:59,160 –> 00:54:03,440
can, we can have.
And pure religion is to keep

807
00:54:03,440 –> 00:54:05,200
yourself unspotted from the
world.

808
00:54:06,440 –> 00:54:12,040
And so let’s try to get rid of
our spots by first asking for

809
00:54:12,040 –> 00:54:14,080
forgiveness and God will wipe
them out.

810
00:54:15,480 –> 00:54:19,520
And then by knowing how it’s so
easy to get them.

811
00:54:19,600 –> 00:54:23,080
What what little things we do
that end up with a spot on us

812
00:54:23,640 –> 00:54:26,000
that we shouldn’t have.
So we’re just going to close

813
00:54:27,200 –> 00:54:30,720
with some beautiful words from
Isaiah chapter one.

814
00:54:33,200 –> 00:54:35,720
Wash yourselves and make
yourselves clean.

815
00:54:37,040 –> 00:54:39,840
Put away the evil of your doings
from before my eyes.

816
00:54:40,320 –> 00:54:44,200
Cease to do evil, learn to do
good.

817
00:54:44,760 –> 00:54:47,920
Seek justice.
Rebuke the oppressor, Defend the

818
00:54:47,920 –> 00:54:50,880
fatherless, plead for the widow.
Come now and.

819
00:54:50,920 –> 00:54:53,760
Let us reason together, says the
Lord.

820
00:54:55,000 –> 00:54:59,520
Though your sins be like
scarlet, they shall be as white

821
00:55:00,000 –> 00:55:04,600
as snow.
Though they be red like Crimson,

822
00:55:05,320 –> 00:55:07,840
they shall be as wolf.