Bob Lloyd – James – Unspotted from the World – Class 5 – Patience Amidst Conflict

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This is Winfield Bible Camp
1998, day five.

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Our general theme is Next year
in Jerusalem.

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Our speaker for this class is
Brother Bob Lloyd.

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His topic Unspotted from the
world, His subtopic Patience

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amid conflict.
Sorry about Brother Bob.

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Well, good morning, my beloved
brothers and sisters.

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Of the Lord Jesus Christ, That
was a little slow.

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I guess we’re all ready to go,
aren’t we?

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It’s our it’s our last class
together, the last class of the

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1998 Winfield Bible School.
And so we come here with relief

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as well as sadness.
Been wonderful to have been with

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all of you this week.
It’s great to have seen those we

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know and love from the past and
to have made good contact love

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for those which we’ve only met
for the first time.

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I have a little problem this
morning.

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I got way more stuff than I can
ever get in.

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I’ve been going through trying
to hear what I can leave out,

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but I’ll try not to abuse the
time very much.

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Will Rogers was a homespun
cowboy philosopher, and he liked

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to talk about his dog.
He called his dog a Christian

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dog.
He was like, well.

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Why do you call your mutt a
Christian dog?

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He says.
Well, because he loves his

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enemies and he bites his
friends.

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Now Will Rogers was gently
poking fun at those who call

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themselves Christians, who seem
to love their enemies and

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mistreat their friends.
Of course, our brother James was

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not familiar with Will Rogers.
He lived 2000 years before he

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did.
But James is really saying the

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same thing to us as we look into
his lovely little letter he’s

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writing to those who were loving
to show respect for the rich.

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James reminds them that it was
the rich who oppressed them and

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draw them before the judgment
seat.

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It was the rich who were
blaspheming that worthy name by

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which we are called.
So in a sense, those he was

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writing to, they were loving
their enemies, the rich, and

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then they were biting their four
brothers and sisters, those

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living in poverty for whom
Christ died.

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We all believe that prejudice is
wrong, and yet we all, if we’re

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honest, have to admit that we
have some prejudices.

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Mark Twain has said prejudice is
the ink with which all history

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is written.
Now there’s a dogmatic statement

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I’m just going to make.
I’m going to, I have to, I’m

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going to have to insert a word.
And when you make it about

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yourself, you can insert a word,
whatever you want.

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But since I was born in Texas,
I’m going to put in Texas.

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I, I can poke fun at Texas
because I, I are, I are one,

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This fellow says there’s two
things in this world that I hate

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and will not accept.
One is prejudice and the other

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are Texans.
And so I think we’re all like

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this.
There’s, there’s an

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inconsistency in US.
It’s ridiculous to think that

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you could be against prejudice
and then be against Texans.

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That’s especially being a Texan.
I think that’s the height of

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being ridiculous.
But we all have some prejudices

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and we’re not to have, and James
is going to tell us not to.

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Now prejudice is not new, but
the Chris has been showing us in

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Class One how the the world has
been prejudice against the Jews

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for eons.
Of course the Jews you want to

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be be honest, they’re prejudice
against us too.

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I went to a convention once and
I was the only Gentile there and

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they made me very uncomfortable.
I mean they weren’t mean to me,

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they didn’t persecute me, but
they let me know that I wasn’t

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one of them.
Jonah was prejudice against the

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inhabitants of Nineveh.
Peter had to be taught in a

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vision that what God had
cleansed that he was not to call

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common.
Peter opened his mouth and said

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ever truth.
I perceive that God is no

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respecter of persons, but in
every nation he that feareth God

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and worketh righteousness is
accepted with Him.

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Now the way to solve our
prejudices is to come in at

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James chapter 2, and we’ll look
to come in at James two and

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verse 8, because it’s the royal
law as Paul, as James tells it.

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If he fulfill the royal law,
according to the Scripture, thou

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shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself, ye do well.

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But if you have respected
persons, you commit sin and are

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convinced of the law, as
transgressors, we’re not at

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liberty to pick who we want to
show kindness to and and who we

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want to ignore.
We we have to love the unlovely.

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Even James 2 verse 10 For
whomsoever shall keep the whole

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law and yet offend at one point
he’s guilty of all.

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For he that said, do not commit
adultery said also do not kill.

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Now, if thou commit no adultery,
yet if thou kill, thou become a

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transgressor of the law.
Now I think again, if we’re

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honest, we’re we don’t put all
sins in the same category.

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You have a grade A sins and
grade B sins and grade C sins,

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some not as bad as others.
Personally, I would rate murder

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worse than adultery, and I would
say adultery is worse than

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lying.
And I would think that anything

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is not quite as bad as lying.
And yet all of these, all of

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them are going to keep us out of
the Kingdom.

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It’s not that.
It’s just what James said.

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You don’t.
We don’t kill, but we can.

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We do not kill now.
We commit no adultery yet if we

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do one, we do the other.
They’re all.

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If we break the law, the law is
broke by us, whatever

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commandment we broke.
Verses you’re familiar with in

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Galatians 5.
I know you know these words, but

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it’s the, the works of the
flesh.

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And James, Paul tells us what
they are.

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He says they’re adultery and
fornication and uncleanness and

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lewdness and idolatry and
sorcery and hatred and

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contentions and jealousies.
Outbursts of wrath.

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Oh, wait a minute, outbursts of
wrath, right in there with

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adultery and uncleanness.
I’m sure I get angry, but of

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course everybody gets angry.
Well, he, he’s putting it all in

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the same category, selfish
ambition, dissensions, heresies,

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envy, murders, drunkenness,
revelers and the like, of which

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I tell you beforehand, just as I
tell you in time past, that

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those who practice such things
will not inherit the Kingdom.

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So we have to realize that sin
is sin is sin is sin, and we are

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all sinners.
We may not have done some of the

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more horrendous sins, but we
have all been guilty of sins

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that are serious enough to keep
us out of the Kingdom.

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But the good news is we can be
forgiven for those sins, and

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that’s what it’s all about.
So let’s make sure that we get

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down on our knees at night and
ask God to wipe our sins that

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we’ve committed that day out and
cast them behind His back.

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Any promises He will.
We need to be very strict with

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ourselves in trying to uphold
the commandments, but at the

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same time we need to be merciful
with others who may not be

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living up to what we think they
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James 2 verse 13.
For judgement is without mercy.

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To the one who has shown no
mercy, Mercy triumphs over

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judgement.
Another version, the man who

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makes no allowance for others
will find none made for him, so

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there will be no mercy to those
who have shown no mercy.

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So the mercy of God is really
very limited.

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That that may sound, it may
sound like heresy.

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Say that the mercy of God is
limited.

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And you would argue with me, and
I imagine you would take me to

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Psalm one, O 3.
That’s where I would take you if

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I was arguing with you on the
subject.

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And God says in Psalm One, O 3,
the Lord is merciful and

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gracious, and slow to anger, and
abounding in mercy.

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For as the heavens are high
above the earth, so great is His

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mercy toward us who fear Him.
For as far as the east is from

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the West, so far has He removed
our transgressions from us.

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And aren’t you glad that God,
who inspired David to write

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this, knew the earth was round
because everybody then thought

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it was flat.
But you see, if, if if God had

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said as far as the north is from
the South, so far has he removed

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our transgressions from us?
There is a limit.

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You start at the North Pole and
you just keep going South and

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pretty soon you’re out of South,
you’re going north, You keep

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going north and you run out of
north and you’re going South

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again, there is a limit.
But when God said this, he said

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as far as the east is from the
West, and you can start east and

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go forever and you’ll never run
in the West.

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Go West forever, you’ll never
run into E.

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That’s how far he’s removed our
transgressions from us.

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And yet, in spite of that, the
man who makes no allowance for

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others, says James, will find
none made for him.

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For there will be no mercy to
those who have shown no mercy.

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And that’s frightening when we
sometimes see Christadelphians

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so harsh in dealing with other
Christadelphians and saying this

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is the way it is and you’re out.
And I fear for them because we

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need to be showing mercy,
doesn’t we water down the truth.

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We stand up for the truth.
We don’t we don’t condone sin.

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We’re very forgiving of sinners.
Now, everything that were to do

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hinges on this royal law that
James is talking about.

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The first time we hear about the
royal law, it wasn’t called the

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royal law back in Leviticus, but
God said you shall not take

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vengeance nor bear any grudge
against the children of your

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people, but you shall love your
neighbor as yourself.

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I am the Lord.
Jesus then takes that same

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thought and he he turns it into
the second commandment.

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In Matthew 22 Jesus said to him
and Matthew 22 and verse 37 you,

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you shall love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all

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your soul, with all your mind.
This is the first and great

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commandment and the 2nd is
likened to it.

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You shall love your neighbor as
yourself.

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On these two commandments hang
all the law and the prophets.

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Now Paul begins to build on this
in Romans 13 verse eight.

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Oh, no man anything except to
love one another, For he who

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loves another has fulfilled the
law, and he’s back down to the

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sins.
For the commandment, you shall

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not commit adultery, you shall
not murder, you shall not steal,

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you shall not bear false
witness, you shall not covet.

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If there be any of the
commandment, all are summed up

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in this saying, namely, you
shall love your neighbor as

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yourself.
Love does no harm to a neighbor.

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Therefore love is the
fulfillment of the law.

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You couldn’t do these things to
somebody you love.

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You couldn’t steal.
You couldn’t lie about them, you

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couldn’t bear false witness
against them.

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Love does no harm.
So when we are being harmful in

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our dealings with one another,
it’s because there’s not enough

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love there.
Some of those people want to

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accuse people who believe in
love.

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If you don’t believe in love,
you don’t believe in the Bible

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because God is love.
And yet they’ll, they, they,

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they, some of these very harsh,
austere, stern people, if you

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talk about love, they accuse you
of being wishy washy.

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And I’m more wishy than I am
washy.

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I wish we could get more love in
that kind of person.

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So back to James 2, verse 8.
If you really fulfill the royal

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law, according to the scripture,
you shall love your neighbor as

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yourself and you do well.
But if you show.

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Partiality.
You commit sin and are convicted

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by the law as transgressors.
For whoever shall keep the whole

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law and yet stumble in one
point, you’re guilty of all.

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For he who said do not commit
adultery, I said also do not

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murder.
Now if you commit, do not commit

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adultery, but you do murder you.
You’re transcripts of the whole

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law, so speak, and so do as
those who will be judged by the

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law of liberty.
For judgement is without mercy

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to the one who has shown no
mercy.

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Mercy triumphs over judgement.
Now the world has all this back

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to front.
We hear a lot of lip service

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given to loving our neighbor,
but very much, very little is

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said about loving God.
And the first commandment is to

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love the Lord our God with every
fiber of our being.

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And that’s more important than
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Although they on these two
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the law and the prophets, but
the second commandment is we are

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to love our neighbor as our
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And it’s a well known fact that
a great many people have no

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respect for themselves.
They are not living right.

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They know this and
subconsciously they hate

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themselves for it.
Although they certainly don’t

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show it on the outside.
This kind of person finds it

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impossible to respect others
when they have absolutely no

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respect for themselves.
This is a this is a delicate

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point that’s being made here.
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misunderstood.
We are not to be proud and we’re

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not to be puffed up.
We did not make ourselves.

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God made us and God has never
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So you, you got to be careful
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Because when you talk down, you
dumb idiot, you stupid jerk,

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what a kind of a Nutter.
You you’re talking about

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somebody God made.
You don’t really have the

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liberty to speak ill and degrade
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creation.
We we when when you say those

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things, you know who hears it,
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Now Psalm 100 verse three says
know that the Lord he is God.

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It is he that hath made us and
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You’re not a self-made person.
We are his people and the sheep

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of his pasture.
Now you’re in in a group this

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morning with a that a special
group in the world of called out

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ones.
God has chosen all of us.

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It means we’ve got to get along
with each other because God

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picked the rest of us.
And I can be totally honest with

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you and saying I have some
people that I know in business

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that I wish God had called and
obviously he didn’t.

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We’ve talked the truth to them.
We’re blue in the face and they

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won’t come.
But yet they’re fine people as

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the world goes.
They’re good living, moral

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people.
But they haven’t been called,

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evidently, or else they’ve been
called and said no.

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We don’t know that.
But this group has been called.

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Now, if I have to be honest with
you, I would have to tell you

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that some of the people God
called, I wouldn’t have.

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But God didn’t make a mistake
and he’s called us and that

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tells us something.
That means you and I, we’ve got

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to get along with each other.
We don’t, we don’t all we do

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sometimes have personalities
that clash that we got to work

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at that we got to work through
that because that person you’re

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working with is a called out one
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And even if they’re abrasive to
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better love the ones God loves.
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And God is not willing that any
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come to repentance.
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fulfilling this royal law of
loving each other as much as we

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love ourselves.
So we better be careful what we

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say about God’s creation.
In first Corinthians 316, Paul

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says, do you not know this?
No, you’re not that.

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You’re the temple of God and the
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If anyone defiles the temple of
God, God will destroy him, for

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the temple of God is holy.
Which temple you are?

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You see, we’re not our own.
We’re not free people.

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We, we were slaves to sin.
Everybody’s born.

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Everyone’s a slave to something.
We were born into slavery to

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sin.
We couldn’t help it.

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It wasn’t our fault, but it was
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And Christ came and gave his
life for us, and we were

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baptized into Christ.
And so as much as you’ve been

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baptized into Christ, you’ve put
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And we, we, we, we are now the
slave of Christ instead of the

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slave of sin.
But we’ve been bought with a

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price.
The price was the blood of the

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Lord Jesus and that’s what Paul
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But you were bought at a price.
Wherefore glorify God in your

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body and in your spirit, which
are gods.

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So we need to have a, a proper
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as toward each other.
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We’re we’re not to be puffed up
anything man thinks he knoweth

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anything.
He doesn’t know anything like he

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ought to know, but it’s an it’s
a healthy respect for God’s good

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judgement in having seen in us
something to call.

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So be careful that you don’t
always knock yourself down.

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Certainly don’t go knocking
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If you can’t say something good,
don’t say anything even about

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yourself.
The Jews that James was writing

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to felt secure in their faith.
They.

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They, like us, realize that Paul
was telling the truth when he

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said without faith it’s
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So if James says what does it
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If someone says he has faith and
does not have work, can faith

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save him?
And the answer is no.

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Now it’s easy to deceive
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James wants to make sure that we
don’t.

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As Christopher, we do place a
great weight on right doctrine

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and it’s just as it should be.
But one of the problems of the

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Jews of their his day was they
thought they had a lock on

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salvation because they were the
natural seed of Abraham.

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Well, we take comfort that we
are the spiritual seed of

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Abraham, and this is comforting.
But being baptized into Christ

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Jesus is no guarantee of our
salvation, any more than being

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born a Jew was a guarantee of
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The plain truth is we cannot be
saved by our works, but we also

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cannot be saved without them.
So a verse which we’ve read many

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times be doers of the word and
not hearers only because he said

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you can actually deceive
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What does it profit, my
brethren, if someone says he has

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faith and does not have words?
Can faith save him?

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And the answer is no, it can’t.
So we must have faith.

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Without faith it’s impossible to
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And yet what?
I don’t want you to make a list

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of your words.
I, I went to a home once in

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Texas and the sister I had on
her wall, a framed picture

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wasn’t a picture and she had
listed on all the people she had

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taught the truth to was she was
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And so she she had this on her
wall.

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Now, I don’t, I don’t recommend
that, but but the point is when

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we leave Bible school, we have
to make sure that we’re going to

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leave different than we came and
that we’re going to resolve in

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our own minds that we’re we’re
going to change.

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You see, we came here a week ago
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We’ve sat through three classes
a day, and if we go home just

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the same kind of person that
came, then Chris and Peter and I

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have failed you.
But if we as gods, just his

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servants have opened up
scriptures to cause you to say,

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I’m going to do better now than
I did before.

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I am going to make a list of
things that I want to do.

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I am going to be more faithful
in doing my Bible readings.

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Now, if you never miss ever,
ever, ever, you can’t be more

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faithful than that.
Well, yes you can, as you can

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read the chapter before the
chapter after you.

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Sometimes you can get so
involved in in, in your reading

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that you don’t stop at the day’s
reading it just you get caught

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up in it and you can read some
more.

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And then when you close the book
up, you don’t forget what you

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don’t like the mirror.
You look yourself in the mirror,

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you walk away, you forget what
you look like.

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All that we’re doing is going to
have an effect on us and we’re

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we’re going to resolve, God
willing, that we will be sure

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that we have some good works for
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Remember Me, Oh my God for good
was the saying of Nehemiah over

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and over again.
And so let’s make sure that we

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plan to do things and and pure
religion undefiled before God

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and the Father exists was to
visit fatherless and widows in

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their affliction and keeping
ourselves unspotted from the

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world.
So we we’ve got things to do.

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We just heard the news now of
Michelle’s father not in the

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truth and she’s suffering
obviously, young girl having

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come in from outside surrounded
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No doubt they’re they’re all
going to tell her, well, your

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daddy’s going straight to heaven
and they’ll she will know better

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than that.
So just being surrounded by

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people who don’t share our hope
as her situation is is is hard

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for her.
And then Matthew being almost

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robbed on or was he robbed?
You don’t even know the details.

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I heard that what you heard.
But see, we’re all just a a

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moment from death.
We’ve all had to stop and buy

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gasoline quite a few times.
Well, maybe some of you only

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have to do it once to get here.
But you pull up your gas

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station, you don’t expect that
it’s being robbed at the time,

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do you?
So we’re we’re going to go home

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with a better attitude because
of our studies in Luke, which I

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didn’t hear.
I got, I have not got a thing

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out of Peter’s classes all week,
but I know the rest of you have

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and I’m looking forward to
driving through the Rockies with

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Peter King.
Our tapes will be ready when we

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leave this afternoon, God
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And we’re going to drive along
the beautiful scenery and Peter

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is going to talk to us all the
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People from Missouri say show
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They call it the show me stage
and James is going to say show

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me almost like I dare you.
How can you prove that you have

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faith if you’re not doing
anything?

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Ask James.
James 2 verse 18.

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Someone will say you have faith.
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Show me.
Show me your faith without your

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works.
I’ll show you my faith by my

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works.
And it almost seems that the

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person next to James says, well,
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It’s strange how it pops out
here and he well, he said, I’m

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glad you don’t believe in the
Trinity.

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There’s only one God you believe
in.

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There’s God, one God that’s you
do.

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Well, even the even crazy people
believe that.

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But don’t change the subject on
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Almost.
James is saying he he’s talking

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along about works and faith, and
somebody brings up the point.

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Well, I don’t believe in the
Trinity.

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Well, that’s good.
You don’t because that’s false.

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But in spite of all our, our
correct doctrines, we have to be

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doers of the word.
Do you want to know, O foolish

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man, that faith without works is
dead?

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So now James is going to give us
some spiritual examples.

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He’s going to cite two people.
I want if I were to say to you

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and you hadn’t had read, read
the book of James, give me two

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examples in Scripture of people
who had real faith.

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And you, you know this, you can
pick all kinds.

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Interesting who James picked.
He picked Abraham.

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Well, you might have picked him
too, but he picked Rahab and you

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might not have picked Rahab.
These are the two that James is

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going to direct our attention to
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James Chapter 2.
Verse 21 Now we know that

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Abraham was a friend of God.
He was the father of the

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faithful, the one to whom the
promises were made that his seed

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was to be Christ who would
inherit all things.

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And so I don’t think being him
picking Abraham surprises.

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US.
Picking Rahab, a prostitute, a

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Gentile prostitute was a quite a
contrast, but these are the two

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that James is going to use to
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James chapter 2, verse 21.
Was not Abraham our father

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justified by works when he
offered Isaac his son on the

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altar?
Do you not see that faith was

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working together with his works
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perfect and the Scripture was
fulfilled, which says Abraham

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believed God and it was
accounted to him for

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righteousness and he was called
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You see then, that a man is
justified by works and not by

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faith.
Only Abraham was justified by

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works.
He was declared by God a right

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and good man, because he did
something.

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You see, that faith was working.
His faith was at work.

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His faith was important, but at
one point it was untried.

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00:29:07,480 –> 00:29:11,080
But it was his faith that caused
him to, and he was asked to do

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something which made no sense to
him.

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He could not understand.
After waiting all those years

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for a promised son, then to go
and kill him when he was when he

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was, he’s had no seed.
Everything was bound up in this

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00:29:24,920 –> 00:29:30,640
boy Isaac.
God really does ask for blind

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00:29:30,640 –> 00:29:32,680
faith.
Now, faith is the substance of

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00:29:32,680 –> 00:29:34,840
things hoped for, the evidence
of things not seen.

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00:29:35,480 –> 00:29:38,040
So we do have evidence for our
faith.

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00:29:38,480 –> 00:29:42,200
But if you don’t see the
evidence and you know what

441
00:29:42,200 –> 00:29:47,160
you’re supposed to do, then do
it anyway, because we do see

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00:29:47,160 –> 00:29:50,800
through a glass darkly.
There’s a day coming when the

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things which we do not now
understand will all make sense

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00:29:53,680 –> 00:29:58,640
to us, and the things that we
couldn’t explain that happened,

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00:29:59,520 –> 00:30:01,720
seeming to us for no reason at
all.

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00:30:02,360 –> 00:30:07,520
And yet from God’s viewpoint, He
has a plan and it’s a perfect

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00:30:07,520 –> 00:30:10,840
plan and it’s all going
according to His plan.

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00:30:11,680 –> 00:30:15,000
And so if we don’t understand
it, we just have to say, though

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he slay me, yet will I trust in
him?

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00:30:18,080 –> 00:30:23,080
That’s what Job said.
Abraham’s faith was incomplete

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00:30:23,080 –> 00:30:27,520
so long as it only existed in
his mind by works.

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His faith was made perfect.
So the conclusion is

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inescapable.
Faith is essential yes, but it’s

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not a real living faith unless
it’s a a do something faith.

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Now you don’t want to think put
your names of the people you

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00:30:46,760 –> 00:30:49,560
taught the truth on the wall.
I think I I don’t like that

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00:30:49,560 –> 00:30:57,480
idea, but if you can’t think of
what you’ve done in the last 30

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00:30:57,480 –> 00:31:02,520
days simply because you love the
Lord and you didn’t want to do

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00:31:02,520 –> 00:31:05,960
it do it and you did it anyway.
I’m not doing asking you to

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00:31:05,960 –> 00:31:07,800
think of this, to pat yourself
on the back.

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00:31:08,440 –> 00:31:10,760
Just Remember Me.
Oh my God, for good.

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00:31:10,880 –> 00:31:13,880
What, what if you can’t think of
anything?

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00:31:14,680 –> 00:31:18,960
There’s a message in that
because if you can’t think of

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anything, you think the Lord
can.

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00:31:22,920 –> 00:31:27,000
So, so when we leave here, we’re
going to resolve to go out and,

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00:31:27,120 –> 00:31:32,080
and, and give God lots of things
to remember us for, for good.

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00:31:32,480 –> 00:31:35,840
We’re, we’re going to make this
in the world.

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00:31:35,840 –> 00:31:38,920
If you want to be successful,
you, you plan, you work and you

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00:31:38,920 –> 00:31:42,280
work your plan.
And the people who have no plan

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00:31:42,800 –> 00:31:45,160
just drift through life.
And that’s what happens to a lot

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of retired people.
They, they worked hard during

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00:31:47,560 –> 00:31:50,320
their life and they retire and
they, they don’t have anything

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00:31:50,320 –> 00:31:52,280
to do.
And so the, the, the, the time

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expands to fit the work, you
know, and you, you, you get up

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00:31:56,000 –> 00:31:59,880
in the morning and you, you,
it’s noon already.

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00:32:00,440 –> 00:32:03,920
You haven’t done anything just
and then well, what we do is

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00:32:04,720 –> 00:32:07,600
it’s bedtime and you’re tired.
I don’t I don’t why I’m so

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00:32:07,600 –> 00:32:09,880
tired.
But you can’t think of what

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00:32:09,880 –> 00:32:12,960
you’ve done for that.
So let’s make a list of things.

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00:32:12,960 –> 00:32:15,520
You know, I think it’s a good
idea to put it on paper.

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00:32:15,520 –> 00:32:17,640
I think I’ll tell you a little
story about that.

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00:32:17,800 –> 00:32:21,720
This is I threw out a little
story that’s worth well, it’s

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00:32:21,720 –> 00:32:23,480
worth $25,000 is what it’s
worth.

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00:32:24,080 –> 00:32:28,320
The man who who got this message
paid $25,000 for it back in the

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00:32:28,600 –> 00:32:32,240
early 30s, what, 25,000 was
worth a quarter of a million or

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00:32:32,240 –> 00:32:35,200
more today.
But an efficiency expert went to

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00:32:35,240 –> 00:32:39,080
Charles Schwab and he said to
Charles Schwab, I’d like to help

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00:32:39,080 –> 00:32:42,280
your company, US Steel, to be
more efficient.

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00:32:42,640 –> 00:32:46,280
And I have ideas that can help
you make, make your company run

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00:32:46,280 –> 00:32:48,600
smoother.
And Charlie Schwab said to this

491
00:32:48,600 –> 00:32:52,360
efficiency expert, he says, Sir,
he’s, I’ve got so much to do

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00:32:52,560 –> 00:32:56,120
that I don’t have time to do.
I don’t need you to tell me what

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00:32:56,120 –> 00:32:57,640
to do.
I already know I don’t have time

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00:32:57,640 –> 00:33:02,640
to do what I want to know to do.
So the man leaned across the

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00:33:02,640 –> 00:33:04,840
table to Miss Schwab.
He says, OK, well, I’ll give you

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00:33:04,840 –> 00:33:09,600
one idea.
You try it for 30 days just

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00:33:09,600 –> 00:33:12,920
yourself.
And if it works, I give it to

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00:33:12,920 –> 00:33:16,440
your top vice presidents for
another 30 days.

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00:33:17,440 –> 00:33:19,840
And if you think it’s
worthwhile, at the end of 60

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00:33:19,840 –> 00:33:21,960
days, send me a check for
whatever you think the idea was

501
00:33:21,960 –> 00:33:24,560
worth.
You don’t like the idea, you owe

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00:33:24,560 –> 00:33:26,360
me nothing, he says.
You’re on.

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00:33:27,520 –> 00:33:30,440
So the fishing expert says get
out a piece of paper and a

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00:33:30,440 –> 00:33:33,880
pencil.
No ballpoint pens in those days.

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00:33:34,840 –> 00:33:37,280
So he gets out a piece of paper
and a pencil and he says OK,

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00:33:37,440 –> 00:33:39,480
just start writing down.
You said you had lots of things,

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00:33:39,680 –> 00:33:42,320
Start writing down.
Just just one line of all the

508
00:33:42,320 –> 00:33:43,200
things you want to get done
today.

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00:33:43,200 –> 00:33:44,760
Just write it aside.
Don’t worry about the order,

510
00:33:44,760 –> 00:33:45,840
just write them down as fast as
you can.

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00:33:45,840 –> 00:33:48,120
Oh boy, he was right like that.
He says OK, done.

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00:33:48,120 –> 00:33:50,920
He says, Yep, is.
Now go back and go down to the

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00:33:50,920 –> 00:33:52,480
list and pick out which is
number one.

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00:33:53,160 –> 00:33:54,360
One that you think is the
moment.

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00:33:54,360 –> 00:33:56,600
Put a one by.
It may not be the first one you

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00:33:56,600 –> 00:33:58,720
thought of.
The next most important, put a

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00:33:58,720 –> 00:34:00,640
2.
He says go all the way down your

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00:34:00,640 –> 00:34:03,600
list so they’re all numbered.
Now he’s going to start with the

519
00:34:03,600 –> 00:34:07,680
number one on that list and
don’t let anything get in your

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00:34:07,680 –> 00:34:13,000
way until it’s done.
And then cross it off and then

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00:34:13,000 –> 00:34:18,040
go to number 2 and do it and
cross it off and go.

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00:34:18,199 –> 00:34:20,400
He says you may not get
everything on your list done,

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00:34:21,280 –> 00:34:24,040
but you will get more done with
a list like that than if you

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00:34:24,040 –> 00:34:26,800
didn’t have one.
And Charlie Schwab says, well,

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00:34:26,800 –> 00:34:30,360
thanks a lot.
The man left 60 days later.

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00:34:30,360 –> 00:34:33,639
This man got a check in the mail
for $25,000.

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00:34:33,639 –> 00:34:38,760
This is a true story.
Now, if we want God to have some

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00:34:38,760 –> 00:34:42,239
good things to remember about
us, let’s make a list of good

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00:34:42,239 –> 00:34:44,360
things we think we ought to be
doing.

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00:34:44,760 –> 00:34:47,920
Let’s go visit so and so.
Write a card to so and so,

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00:34:48,159 –> 00:34:52,440
telephone so and so.
Put your Bible readings on your

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00:34:52,440 –> 00:34:55,480
list every day.
Make sure you have prayer time

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00:34:55,480 –> 00:34:58,800
on your list.
If you have time to pray, God

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00:34:58,800 –> 00:35:02,840
has time to listen.
Can you imagine being too busy

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00:35:02,920 –> 00:35:06,320
to pray?
God is waiting for you to pray

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00:35:06,320 –> 00:35:10,640
and you don’t have time to pray.
Of course, Solomon’s told us if

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00:35:10,640 –> 00:35:12,520
you don’t bother doing your
readings, don’t bother to pray.

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00:35:13,320 –> 00:35:15,760
We looked at that the other day.
It’s quite a quite a little

539
00:35:15,760 –> 00:35:17,520
revelation if you haven’t seen
it before.

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00:35:18,280 –> 00:35:20,320
So we are going to have our
Bible readings on that list.

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00:35:20,320 –> 00:35:24,880
We’re going to have prayer on
that list, but but we need to

542
00:35:24,880 –> 00:35:27,120
organize our time.
Retired or unretired?

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00:35:27,760 –> 00:35:38,360
I’m retired, New word.
But make sure your day has

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00:35:38,360 –> 00:35:42,320
things for you to do for the
Lord.

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00:35:43,880 –> 00:35:46,040
And if you get to the end of the
day and you haven’t done

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00:35:46,040 –> 00:35:49,520
anything that you wouldn’t have
done if you hadn’t been to

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00:35:49,520 –> 00:35:52,640
Christianity and things just
would have been the same, that’s

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00:35:52,640 –> 00:35:56,560
a message, very loud message to
you.

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00:35:57,000 –> 00:36:06,040
To time to change and so verse
25 James two likewise was Rahad

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00:36:06,040 –> 00:36:09,720
the harlot also justified by
works when she received the

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00:36:09,720 –> 00:36:12,160
messengers and sent them out
another way.

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00:36:17,240 –> 00:36:21,240
This woman who became one of the
grandmothers of the Lord Jesus

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00:36:21,240 –> 00:36:28,760
Christ changed, Totally changed.
And that’s the good news, that

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00:36:28,760 –> 00:36:32,160
God will forget our past.
And there’s hardly a more

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00:36:32,160 –> 00:36:35,760
checkered past you can can dream
up than that of a prostitute.

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00:36:36,560 –> 00:36:40,560
A gentile prostitute in a
heathen city that did not know

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00:36:40,560 –> 00:36:43,760
God and she was different than
everyone else.

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00:36:44,440 –> 00:36:48,560
And The thing is, we have to be
different than everyone else

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00:36:48,560 –> 00:36:52,440
around us.
Now come to verse 26 of James

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00:36:52,440 –> 00:36:56,320
two, because James is going to
sight a corpse to prove his

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00:36:56,320 –> 00:36:59,840
point.
For as the body without the

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00:36:59,840 –> 00:37:02,040
spirit is dead, so faith without
works is dead.

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00:37:02,040 –> 00:37:06,320
Also, there are people walking
around who are dead.

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00:37:07,120 –> 00:37:14,320
And they don’t know it.
Jesus wrote to the Ecclesia and

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00:37:14,320 –> 00:37:19,760
Sardis in Revelation 3.
He says to the Angel of the

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00:37:19,760 –> 00:37:23,360
Ecclesia and Sardis right these
things, says he who has the

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00:37:23,360 –> 00:37:28,440
seven spirits, It is the spirits
of God and the seven, seven

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00:37:28,440 –> 00:37:30,840
stars.
I know your works.

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00:37:31,760 –> 00:37:36,480
You have a name that you’re
alive, but you’re dead.

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00:37:38,160 –> 00:37:40,800
Now do we believe?
We have faith, but we’re not

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00:37:40,800 –> 00:37:45,240
doing anything.
We’re dead, dead and don’t know

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00:37:45,240 –> 00:37:49,200
it.
Now we believe in resurrection.

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00:37:50,840 –> 00:37:54,360
We believe in resurrection from
the dead for those who have

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00:37:54,360 –> 00:37:58,480
fallen asleep in Christ, but we
believe that it’s possible to be

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00:37:58,480 –> 00:38:05,000
raised from being spiritually
dead and not knowing it back to

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00:38:05,000 –> 00:38:07,360
being spiritually alive and
well.

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00:38:07,360 –> 00:38:11,320
And that’s what we hope Bible
School have done for us, that we

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00:38:11,320 –> 00:38:18,040
will be resurrected to be filled
with good works so that our

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00:38:18,040 –> 00:38:25,960
faith is not dead and that we.
Are not dead and so continuing

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00:38:25,960 –> 00:38:30,360
in revelations 3, Jesus says be
watchful and strengthen the

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00:38:30,360 –> 00:38:33,080
things which remain that are
ready to die.

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00:38:33,560 –> 00:38:36,360
For I have not found your works
perfect before gone.

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00:38:37,480 –> 00:38:39,320
Their works were not the right
kind of.

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00:38:39,320 –> 00:38:42,240
Works, or they didn’t have any.
Remember therefore, how you have

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00:38:42,240 –> 00:38:45,320
received and heard.
Hold fast and repent.

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00:38:45,680 –> 00:38:49,160
Therefore, if you will not
watch, I will come upon you as a

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00:38:49,160 –> 00:38:51,520
thief.
You will not know one hour I

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00:38:51,520 –> 00:38:56,680
come upon you now.
The good news is, in Sardis

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00:38:57,400 –> 00:39:00,680
there are even a few who have
not defiled their garments.

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00:39:01,160 –> 00:39:02,680
They shall walk with me in
white.

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00:39:03,600 –> 00:39:08,720
For they are worthy.
So even in this ecclesia that

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00:39:08,720 –> 00:39:11,440
was dead and didn’t know it, not
everybody was dead.

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00:39:12,960 –> 00:39:16,960
So when you get back to your
ecclesia, make sure you’re one

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00:39:16,960 –> 00:39:20,440
of those that is not dead in
your ecclesia.

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00:39:20,440 –> 00:39:23,600
And then what you can do, you
can infect the others with this,

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00:39:24,480 –> 00:39:26,040
this zeal.
It’s catching.

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00:39:26,840 –> 00:39:31,600
Enthusiasm is catching, but it
isn’t catching if you don’t have

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00:39:31,600 –> 00:39:34,520
any of it.
The word enthusiasm comes from

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00:39:34,520 –> 00:39:37,480
the Greek in Theos.
It means to have God in you.

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00:39:37,480 –> 00:39:41,000
And if God is in US, other
people all know it.

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00:39:42,200 –> 00:39:45,800
And, and let your people, in
your opinion, see the difference

602
00:39:45,800 –> 00:39:48,760
in you when you come back from
Bible school that you’re glowing

603
00:39:48,760 –> 00:39:52,760
from having been here, and try
to get them infected and try to

604
00:39:52,760 –> 00:39:56,160
get your Eclesia going so that
the Eclesia that you belong to

605
00:39:56,160 –> 00:39:59,800
will not be dead and not even
know it.

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00:40:01,000 –> 00:40:03,680
So let’s decide that as Bible
school comes to an end, that

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00:40:03,680 –> 00:40:07,280
we’re going to be watchful and
strengthen the things which

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00:40:07,280 –> 00:40:11,000
remain.
We’re going to hold fast and

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00:40:11,000 –> 00:40:14,040
we’re going to repent.
Let’s get up and get moving.

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00:40:14,920 –> 00:40:20,240
Even in Sardis there was some
who had not defiled their

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00:40:20,240 –> 00:40:26,520
garments.
Now James is going to ask a

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00:40:26,520 –> 00:40:30,200
different question, and both
questions have the same answer.

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00:40:30,200 –> 00:40:33,680
James 214, what does it profit,
my brethren, if someone says he

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00:40:33,680 –> 00:40:35,320
has faith but does not have
works?

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00:40:35,560 –> 00:40:37,200
Can faith save him?
The answer was no.

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00:40:37,600 –> 00:40:41,720
Now James 313, who is a wise man
and a dude with knowledge among

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00:40:41,720 –> 00:40:45,240
you, let him show out of a good
conversation his works with

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00:40:45,240 –> 00:40:48,320
meekness of wisdom.
Who is wise and dude with

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00:40:48,320 –> 00:40:50,520
knowledge.
Does that show too?

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00:40:50,880 –> 00:40:55,120
We’d better be showing our
knowledge should have given.

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We should be given wisdom, and
the wisdom should be causing us

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00:40:59,280 –> 00:41:05,480
to have works.
Now we’ve been looking at the

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00:41:05,480 –> 00:41:09,280
book of James, and we haven’t
come to chapter 5 yet, so we’re

624
00:41:09,280 –> 00:41:13,240
going to jump ahead to the fifth
chapter and make our last

625
00:41:13,240 –> 00:41:21,400
thought.
His exhortation on patience,

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00:41:22,840 –> 00:41:26,680
James chapter 5, and we’re going
at verse 7.

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00:41:29,160 –> 00:41:33,600
Therefore, be patient, brethren,
until the coming of the Lord.

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00:41:35,520 –> 00:41:39,120
See how the farmer waits for the
precious fruit of the earth,

629
00:41:40,000 –> 00:41:44,360
waiting patiently for it until
it receives the early and latter

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00:41:44,360 –> 00:41:47,200
rain.
You also be patient.

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Establish your hearts, for the
coming of the Lord is at hand.

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00:41:53,320 –> 00:41:56,880
Do not grumble against one
another, brethren, unless you be

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00:41:56,880 –> 00:41:59,600
condemned.
Behold, the judge is standing at

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00:41:59,600 –> 00:42:01,880
the door.
My brethren, take the prophets

635
00:42:02,240 –> 00:42:05,400
who spoke in the name of the
Lord, as an example of suffering

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00:42:05,440 –> 00:42:10,040
and of patience.
Indeed, we count them blessed

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00:42:10,520 –> 00:42:12,120
who endure.
You have heard of the

638
00:42:12,120 –> 00:42:14,160
perseverance and the patience of
Job.

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00:42:14,520 –> 00:42:17,760
You’ve seen the end intended by
the Lord that the Lord is very

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00:42:17,760 –> 00:42:22,240
compassionate and merciful.
Now James is is making an

641
00:42:22,240 –> 00:42:25,760
analogy here and we want to want
to dissect it and look at the

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00:42:25,760 –> 00:42:31,200
various parts.
The the the husbandman is God.

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Jesus said I am the true vine
and my father is the husbandman.

644
00:42:37,800 –> 00:42:44,800
Now the precious fruit is the
obedient St. of his own will,

645
00:42:44,800 –> 00:42:47,320
says James in chapter one verse
18.

646
00:42:47,920 –> 00:42:51,240
He brought us forth by the word
of truth, that we might be a

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00:42:51,480 –> 00:42:54,400
kind of first fruits of his
creatures.

648
00:42:55,080 –> 00:42:58,880
So God is a husbandman.
The fruit is us.

649
00:42:59,560 –> 00:43:05,000
The rain is the word of God.
And we get that from Isaiah 55,

650
00:43:05,240 –> 00:43:09,960
as far as the rain comes down,
and the snow from heaven, and

651
00:43:10,080 –> 00:43:14,640
does not return, but waters the
earth makes it bring forth and

652
00:43:14,640 –> 00:43:17,600
bud, that it may give seed to
the sower, and bread to the

653
00:43:17,600 –> 00:43:21,480
eater.
So shall my word be that goes

654
00:43:21,480 –> 00:43:24,280
forth from my mouth.
It shall not return to me void,

655
00:43:24,560 –> 00:43:28,440
but it shall accomplish that
which I please, and it shall

656
00:43:28,440 –> 00:43:30,440
prosper in the thing for which I
send it.

657
00:43:31,200 –> 00:43:37,760
So the early rain raining on us
is the blessing of the Word, and

658
00:43:37,760 –> 00:43:40,960
the latter rain would be the
divine nature given to the

659
00:43:40,960 –> 00:43:44,520
Saints at the setting up of His
Kingdom.

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00:43:45,960 –> 00:43:50,320
The lesson that God wants to
exercise great patience with us

661
00:43:50,320 –> 00:43:55,120
as we receive this Word, the
early rain, and slowly reproduce

662
00:43:55,120 –> 00:43:58,600
the fruits of obedience.
Despite our weaknesses and our

663
00:43:58,600 –> 00:44:02,200
doubts and our failures, He
continues to wait with long

664
00:44:02,200 –> 00:44:07,240
patience until we are fit to be
among the precious fruit of His

665
00:44:07,240 –> 00:44:10,160
harvest.
And then we received the

666
00:44:10,640 –> 00:44:14,480
blessing of immortality, which
is the latter rain.

667
00:44:18,360 –> 00:44:24,760
God is patient with us.
We need to be patient with each

668
00:44:24,760 –> 00:44:29,080
other and with ourselves.
One of the little things you’re

669
00:44:29,080 –> 00:44:31,360
going to be given today is, is a
handout.

670
00:44:31,880 –> 00:44:34,320
And it’s, it’s, it has, Please
be patient with me.

671
00:44:34,320 –> 00:44:35,880
God has not finished with me
yet.

672
00:44:37,520 –> 00:44:40,280
And I think this is a nice thing
to say to other people if

673
00:44:40,280 –> 00:44:42,920
they’re angry with you because
we’ve all failed somebody.

674
00:44:42,920 –> 00:44:44,960
Please be patient with me.
God’s not finished with me yet.

675
00:44:45,240 –> 00:44:48,440
I’m still trying to do better.
And then if, if the rest of it,

676
00:44:48,440 –> 00:44:50,840
you can read it, I realize I
have to change.

677
00:44:51,560 –> 00:44:55,360
If you don’t think you need to
change, well, then we’ve failed

678
00:44:55,360 –> 00:44:56,600
you this week.
That’s for sure.

679
00:44:58,520 –> 00:45:03,320
Because Jesus wants to change
our vile body when he comes.

680
00:45:03,320 –> 00:45:06,440
He doesn’t say our vile mind.
You’re supposed to be changing

681
00:45:06,440 –> 00:45:12,600
your mind now by having studies
in in Luke and in James and the

682
00:45:12,640 –> 00:45:15,040
history of Jerusalem.
These things should be changing

683
00:45:15,040 –> 00:45:18,680
our vile mind, breaking us
realize the good things that are

684
00:45:18,680 –> 00:45:20,920
going to come.
We want to be part of that new

685
00:45:20,920 –> 00:45:23,080
Jerusalem that Chris has talked
about.

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00:45:23,280 –> 00:45:26,800
We want to be there.
And if we aren’t changing our

687
00:45:26,800 –> 00:45:33,840
mind now, then he won’t change
our body then, and we shall be

688
00:45:33,840 –> 00:45:36,280
like him.
For this is a promise that he

689
00:45:36,280 –> 00:45:38,360
has promised me even eternal
life.

690
00:45:39,080 –> 00:45:41,600
And so I’m asking you to, to
sign a promise.

691
00:45:42,200 –> 00:45:45,360
I promise to try every day to be
conformed to the image of his

692
00:45:45,360 –> 00:45:47,480
Son.
And I hope you will sign that.

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00:45:48,240 –> 00:45:53,480
Because we need to be patient
with each other and with

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00:45:53,560 –> 00:45:56,920
ourselves that we are.
We are working at changing.

695
00:45:57,280 –> 00:46:03,360
We’re trying to do better.
We’re gonna resolved to have

696
00:46:03,360 –> 00:46:10,760
more works for God to remember
when Jesus comes and right in

697
00:46:10,760 –> 00:46:13,640
the middle of this exhortation
that we’re reading was was was

698
00:46:13,640 –> 00:46:19,120
was verse nine.
And don’t grumble against each

699
00:46:19,120 –> 00:46:22,240
other, brothers, right, right in
the middle of all this about

700
00:46:22,240 –> 00:46:25,200
being patient with each other.
He’s saying don’t grumble.

701
00:46:26,560 –> 00:46:31,880
The judges standing at the door
do do we grumble?

702
00:46:33,480 –> 00:46:42,400
Jesus said, murmur not among
yourselves, He said, stop

703
00:46:42,400 –> 00:46:47,640
grumbling among yourself.
These are words of Jesus in John

704
00:46:47,640 –> 00:46:53,360
843 John 643 John several
places.

705
00:46:54,360 –> 00:46:56,720
The children of Israel were
classic examples of of

706
00:46:56,760 –> 00:47:00,160
grumbling.
They were always complaining,

707
00:47:00,160 –> 00:47:04,040
weren’t they?
And that you know that the

708
00:47:04,800 –> 00:47:10,120
persecution they brought on
themselves because of that he

709
00:47:10,240 –> 00:47:13,040
promised them in Exodus 16 and
7:00 in the morning you shall

710
00:47:13,040 –> 00:47:15,840
see the glory of the Lord, for
he hears your complaints against

711
00:47:15,840 –> 00:47:18,480
the Lord.
For what are we that you

712
00:47:18,480 –> 00:47:22,400
complain against us?
How long shall I bear with this

713
00:47:22,400 –> 00:47:24,880
evil congregation?
Said God, who complained against

714
00:47:24,880 –> 00:47:27,360
me?
I have heard the complaints

715
00:47:27,360 –> 00:47:29,880
which the children of Israel
made against me.

716
00:47:31,000 –> 00:47:35,720
They were fed angels food and
complained about it.

717
00:47:37,440 –> 00:47:42,360
We’ve been well fed this week,
both naturally and spiritually.

718
00:47:42,920 –> 00:47:45,440
Let’s hope that we’ve not
allowed ourselves to complain

719
00:47:45,440 –> 00:47:50,000
about the food after we’ve given
thanks for it and do the same

720
00:47:50,000 –> 00:47:54,120
thing at home.
Let’s stop complaining about so

721
00:47:54,120 –> 00:47:59,840
many things.
Remember when Miriam and Aaron

722
00:48:00,080 –> 00:48:04,600
complained against Moses and
they they said, has the Lord

723
00:48:04,600 –> 00:48:06,920
spoken only through Moses?
He’s spoken through us too, you

724
00:48:06,920 –> 00:48:09,720
know.
And God was very angry.

725
00:48:10,920 –> 00:48:14,440
So remember the story of
Corodathan and a Byron.

726
00:48:15,840 –> 00:48:18,760
And they rose up and they said
we’re all holy.

727
00:48:18,800 –> 00:48:22,920
Who do you think you are?
So many people who were are

728
00:48:22,920 –> 00:48:28,240
sinning exalt themselves in
God’s they to themselves.

729
00:48:28,240 –> 00:48:31,800
They exalt themselves in God’s
eyes doesn’t work God don’t

730
00:48:31,880 –> 00:48:34,760
doesn’t see them exalted.
But you take too much upon

731
00:48:34,760 –> 00:48:36,240
yourselves.
They said of Moses.

732
00:48:36,560 –> 00:48:39,560
The whole congregation is holy.
All of us are holy.

733
00:48:40,720 –> 00:48:44,040
Why then do you exalt yourself
against the the Assembly of God

734
00:48:45,000 –> 00:48:48,840
grumbling.
It blows me away.

735
00:48:48,840 –> 00:48:53,840
What happened then when, when
Moses prayed that if a new thing

736
00:48:53,840 –> 00:48:56,960
happened and the earth opened up
and swallowed them up, then God

737
00:48:56,960 –> 00:48:59,840
would be with Moses.
And that’s exactly what

738
00:48:59,840 –> 00:49:01,680
happened.
And the next day they said,

739
00:49:01,680 –> 00:49:03,400
you’ve killed the Lords of the
people.

740
00:49:03,400 –> 00:49:07,680
As if Moses could have done that
without God’s help.

741
00:49:07,880 –> 00:49:12,280
I, I, we have to be careful.
We have a heart that can be

742
00:49:12,280 –> 00:49:14,360
hard.
Jeremiah says it’s desperately

743
00:49:14,360 –> 00:49:18,240
wicked, and who can know it?
So the whole point of James’s

744
00:49:18,240 –> 00:49:22,080
expectation is don’t squabble
amongst ourselves because the

745
00:49:22,080 –> 00:49:24,000
judge stands at the door.
This means we’ve got to get

746
00:49:24,000 –> 00:49:27,640
along with each other in our
homes.

747
00:49:27,920 –> 00:49:30,800
We need to, we need to have a, a
happy home.

748
00:49:32,400 –> 00:49:38,240
The 12 words will help.
We, we need to show love in that

749
00:49:38,240 –> 00:49:43,360
home because a home should be a,
a, a, a, a type of, of Christ

750
00:49:43,360 –> 00:49:46,520
and his bride.
And there are a lot of homes

751
00:49:46,520 –> 00:49:49,520
which look happy on the outside.
But if you were in there, you’d

752
00:49:49,520 –> 00:49:52,120
know different.
But when we go home, we can be

753
00:49:52,120 –> 00:49:57,040
different, we can change, we can
be a resurrection of us from

754
00:49:57,040 –> 00:50:01,440
being spiritually dead to be
spiritually live, but we have to

755
00:50:01,440 –> 00:50:04,880
do something different than we
have been doing or nothing will

756
00:50:04,880 –> 00:50:06,000
happen.
That’s good.

757
00:50:08,360 –> 00:50:13,760
And so let’s be patient with
each other.

758
00:50:15,560 –> 00:50:20,240
Let’s realize that Jesus is
almost here.

759
00:50:20,640 –> 00:50:24,480
We we need to hang on until he
comes.

760
00:50:24,760 –> 00:50:27,040
Occupy.
Let’s be ready.

761
00:50:27,240 –> 00:50:30,400
Let’s don’t throw away salvation
at the 11th hour.

762
00:50:31,160 –> 00:50:36,440
We can do that by by not being
the kind of person we should be

763
00:50:37,320 –> 00:50:43,400
in our own home or with our own
children and with our own

764
00:50:43,480 –> 00:50:47,680
workmates or wherever we are.
The study of James should have

765
00:50:47,680 –> 00:50:50,360
helped us to prepare for the
coming of the Lord.

766
00:50:50,360 –> 00:50:53,080
We hope it has.
We hope it will help us to be

767
00:50:53,080 –> 00:50:56,400
more patient to establish our
hearts for truly the coming of

768
00:50:56,400 –> 00:51:01,320
the Lord is drawing nigh.
So let’s remember, if we

769
00:51:01,320 –> 00:51:04,800
possibly can, the practical
lessons that James has taught us

770
00:51:05,680 –> 00:51:10,680
to be doers of the word and not
hearers only be doers of the

771
00:51:10,680 –> 00:51:12,880
word and not hearers only.
Deceiving yourselves.

772
00:51:13,360 –> 00:51:17,080
For if anyone is a hear of the
word and not a doer, he’s like a

773
00:51:17,080 –> 00:51:19,840
man observing his natural face
in a mirror.

774
00:51:20,480 –> 00:51:23,040
For he observes himself, goes
away, and he immediately forgets

775
00:51:23,040 –> 00:51:26,160
what kind of a man he was.
But he who looks into the

776
00:51:26,160 –> 00:51:30,400
perfect law of liberty and
continues in it, and is not a

777
00:51:30,400 –> 00:51:33,680
forgetful here, but a doer of
the work, this one will be

778
00:51:33,680 –> 00:51:37,800
blessed in what he does.
If any one of you thinks he is

779
00:51:37,800 –> 00:51:41,400
religious does not bridle his
tongue, but he sees his own

780
00:51:41,400 –> 00:51:43,200
heart.
That man’s religion is vain.

781
00:51:43,200 –> 00:51:47,400
So if we’re talking.
In the wrong way doesn’t make a

782
00:51:47,400 –> 00:51:51,040
difference what our faith is
pure religion, undefiled before

783
00:51:51,040 –> 00:51:55,680
God and the Father exists to
visit the orphans and the widows

784
00:51:55,680 –> 00:51:57,760
in their affliction and keep
himself unspotted from the

785
00:51:57,760 –> 00:52:01,280
world.
Confess your trespasses. 1 to

786
00:52:01,280 –> 00:52:07,080
another, said James.
Pray for one another that you

787
00:52:07,080 –> 00:52:10,000
may be healed.
The effectual fervent prayer of

788
00:52:10,000 –> 00:52:13,320
a righteous man available.
So your second hand out this

789
00:52:13,320 –> 00:52:18,680
morning is a is a prayer list.
It’s a list of just 12 spots for

790
00:52:18,680 –> 00:52:22,280
you to fill in.
But, but do you have a prayer

791
00:52:22,280 –> 00:52:24,840
list?
When you hear of someone that’s

792
00:52:24,840 –> 00:52:26,880
suffering, do you add them to
your list?

793
00:52:28,960 –> 00:52:32,600
Sometimes I have to take a
person off my list because they

794
00:52:32,600 –> 00:52:35,760
have died.
I prayed so fervently for some

795
00:52:35,760 –> 00:52:39,920
people to live that God’s will
was for them to fall asleep.

796
00:52:41,000 –> 00:52:42,560
Don’t believe in praying for the
dead.

797
00:52:42,920 –> 00:52:47,320
We know that once you’re dead,
that’s, that’s your, your record

798
00:52:47,320 –> 00:52:49,000
is sealed.
And I don’t think it’s right to

799
00:52:49,000 –> 00:52:53,000
pray for people who have died.
We pray for the the mourners and

800
00:52:53,000 –> 00:52:56,880
those who are are are suffering
and missing the loved one.

801
00:52:56,880 –> 00:52:59,160
But we don’t pray for someone
dead.

802
00:53:00,000 –> 00:53:05,560
But so put them on your list
now, because if you don’t and

803
00:53:05,560 –> 00:53:08,920
prayer changes things, confess
your faults 1 to another and

804
00:53:08,920 –> 00:53:11,280
pray one for another that you
may be healed.

805
00:53:11,560 –> 00:53:14,800
The effectual fervent prayer of
a righteous man availeth much.

806
00:53:15,640 –> 00:53:18,040
And so this little prayer is our
Father in heaven.

807
00:53:18,520 –> 00:53:21,600
Hallowed be thy name I come to
thee in prayer for.

808
00:53:22,040 –> 00:53:23,640
And we’ve got a place for 12
names.

809
00:53:23,640 –> 00:53:25,640
You turn on the back and put as
many as you want.

810
00:53:26,200 –> 00:53:28,600
But make a list of people to
pray for.

811
00:53:29,720 –> 00:53:31,480
Certainly pray for your
families.

812
00:53:31,880 –> 00:53:35,480
Certainly pray for those that
you know are suffering.

813
00:53:36,160 –> 00:53:39,480
And pray for your enemies.
If you have an enemy, someone

814
00:53:39,480 –> 00:53:47,200
that’s hurt you, someone that
has has affected your faith

815
00:53:47,200 –> 00:53:51,480
even, pray for them.
Ask God to help you forgive

816
00:53:51,480 –> 00:53:53,120
them, ask God to help you love
them.

817
00:53:53,320 –> 00:53:55,640
Some people think they have an
enemy that’s so bad it would be

818
00:53:55,640 –> 00:53:58,120
wrong to pray for them, and that
can’t be right.

819
00:53:59,240 –> 00:54:00,840
Jesus prayed for those who
crucified him.

820
00:54:01,520 –> 00:54:03,320
Stephen prayed for those who
stoned him.

821
00:54:04,000 –> 00:54:07,600
So if you have an enemy, put
them on your list and pray for

822
00:54:07,600 –> 00:54:11,520
them until you no longer feel
I’ll toward that person.

823
00:54:13,040 –> 00:54:16,240
If anyone of you wonders from
the truth and someone turns him

824
00:54:16,240 –> 00:54:19,440
back, let him know that he who
turns a Sinner from the error of

825
00:54:19,440 –> 00:54:23,240
his way shall save a soul from
death and shall cover a

826
00:54:23,240 –> 00:54:27,840
multitude of sins.
So we need to go out now and

827
00:54:27,840 –> 00:54:31,760
look for people that we can help
teach the truth to, to bring

828
00:54:31,760 –> 00:54:34,240
back people who may have
wandered away.

829
00:54:34,760 –> 00:54:39,200
Remember the story of, of the,
the, the 99 sheep, the one sheep

830
00:54:39,200 –> 00:54:41,400
was the one that, that Jesus
went after.

831
00:54:42,440 –> 00:54:44,720
People like that need to be
prayed for.

832
00:54:45,880 –> 00:54:48,440
I think it’s OK to let people
know you’re praying for them

833
00:54:49,640 –> 00:54:52,400
because just the fact that a lot
of people are praying for

834
00:54:52,400 –> 00:54:57,720
someone changes things.
It helps helps them bear their

835
00:54:57,880 –> 00:55:02,520
problems and sometimes it helps
them to solve their problem.

836
00:55:03,600 –> 00:55:06,360
So we’ve come to the end of our
classes.

837
00:55:08,160 –> 00:55:14,560
It’s been great.
So we commend you to God and to

838
00:55:14,560 –> 00:55:19,440
the word of His grace, who is
able to build you up and to give

839
00:55:19,440 –> 00:55:23,160
you an inheritance among all
them that are sanctified.