Jim Styles – Class 2: Mercy Triumps over Judgement

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Well, we got a few things from
chapter one, to still finish up,

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but hopefully, this will be the
ketchup class.

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The background information from
chapter 1.

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Hope you don’t mind.
I went back into some of that, a

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bit.
I didn’t spend a lot of time in

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the background, but I really do
think it helps to have a bit of

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that background in our minds.
As to, why James wrote the

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letter, what was happening in
the Ecclesia at that time, just

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in case we did miss it, I do
want to make sure we got

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straight what?
This is all built on the whole

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premise of this letter really
comes in the first eight verses

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of the book so you want to go At
some point in box, those in or

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whatever, at least make a note
there, that really, this whole

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issue is a is built on the
concept of believing that God is

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in our trials.
And these trials are being used

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by God in order to develop
patience and kindness and

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perseverance in us so that we
might learn the character of

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God.
And if we don’t follow that, if

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we don’t believe that’s the
case.

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And Trust the things that God’s
bring in our life, then in

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James’s perspective, or like
somebody who’s out there and

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were driven.
And by the waves of the sea and

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we go up one day and down
another, where his floating with

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the waves and we’re not
consistently realizing that God

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is working in our life.
And he calls that the double

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minded man.
Got two minds and how we look at

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life, and we’re constantly
fighting back and forth our own

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head as, to whether gods in it
or isn’t in it.

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And what that leads to then is a
lot of occlusal trouble, family

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problems, and strife and us
doing things our way.

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And then the rest of this letter
is going to look at all those

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different issues.
So what that’s actually, I think

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what James is headed at, if any
of you are interested in ever

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listening to him again, probably
once through the north, but if

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you are, if you want to listen
to him again or, you know,

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somebody else, it wants to, I’ll
try to put the classes either

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tomorrow or when I get home
tomorrow, probably in a power

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points out on that website.
My son Andrew who I have to

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thank and of course he’s my tech
man.

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Who I’m not, I don’t have today,
or he’d be doing all this.

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He’s the one that said, all this
stuff up and it’s great.

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He’s got a wonderful website set
up.

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For our kaliesha and he took all
the cassette tapes I used to

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have at home and he’s pilot,
he’s put them all in MP3, format

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out on that website that lets
www.atlona.com l in there

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Livonia tapes.com.
And he’s literally got probably,

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I don’t know.
It’s 1,300 classes out there

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right now.
In MP3 format, you can just

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download them, put them on your
mp3 player and listen to them.

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So, if you happen to be like a,
so he likes to listen to

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classes.
Like me, you’ll like that

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website.
It’s got a lot of good stuff

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there.
Back, if you don’t like my

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classes on James, we’ve got that
John almonds classes around

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everything John Knowles.
We got John Martin.

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There’s a bunch of different
people.

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So if you don’t like what I have
to say, you can listen to

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there’s instead, that might even
be better.

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Anyways, that’s Livonia tips.com
to finish up the chipper one,

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just so you can see where we’re
at at the end of chapter 1

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because it is a lead-in and to
chapter 2 and really, what James

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does at the end of chapter one?
Is he stood a whet?

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Your appetite for all the rest
of the letter?

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He just give you little bits and
pieces of them.

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Like this issue about the father
being every perfect gift coming

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down from the father and verse
17 and said, he’s a, he’s a, the

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Father of Lights with whom there
is no variableness, neither,

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shadow of turning that concept
about out in nature that this is

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the way the planets are set up
and this is the way God runs.

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He’s going to use that as the
basis for chapter 2 that we

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can’t show partiality.
That’s that’s how he brings up

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the issue he touches on it and
chapter 1 and deals with it

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again in Chapter 2, if the end
of chapter one year, Seeing this

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little section here from verses
19 to 27, that he goes into The

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Godly characteristics that we
need to have in order for us to

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approach our trials, the right
way, if we don’t have these

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Godly characteristics and what
God’s trying to do is develop

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them and us and that’s what he’s
using these trials for.

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So if we’re single minded, then
if we have this concept straight

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in our head, that God is in our
troubles and he’s trying to help

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us through them so that we can
learn to live forever and have

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immortality, and he can
introduce Just us with that.

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Then we approach these trials
the right way.

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We respond the right way
ourselves with our God.

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And we also treat each other the
right way.

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And this was one of the big
problems.

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James was having people that
have conflict in life.

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It’s a lot of the times it’s
because we’re not settled with

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our God.
We don’t realize what our God’s

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doing and we get frustrated, we
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We take it out on somebody else.
So we say things we should have

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never said he’s going to deal
with the tongue and chapter 3

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when we get to that about.
We got to learn to control that

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tongue.
We can’t just lash out at each

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other and single-minded people
won’t do that because they’ll

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understand that God is in it.
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like a philosophy of life that
we have to have.

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It’s what God’s doing with all
of his family members.

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It’s part of the family of God
is that we trust and believe

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that he’s in all these things
and he’s doing it for our good,

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that we might share his
Holiness.

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So he goes in and verses 19
through the end of the chapter.

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Then it looks at some of these
things and we’ll just look

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through a few of them real
quickly and then go into chapter

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2.
So, the lesson for us in verse

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19 was you see, therefore, he
says my brethren because this is

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the kind of God, that we have at
the end of verse 18 there that

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of his own will.
He’s brought us forth by the

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word of truth, that we would be
a kind of firstfruits.

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He’s like, he’s like planted us
and he’s got, we’re growing up

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for him, hoping that we’re going
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We’re going to produce.
So we’re going to produce fruit

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and it will be firstfruits of
his creatures.

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This is the new creation that
James is looking at not that the

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creation that we are.
By birth, see the creation that

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we are by birth and the natural
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What we do is we see with our
eyes and we desire it and then

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it’s in conceives in our heart
and we go after it, you see.

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And then it goes through this
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That’s the natural man.
But what God’s trying to do is

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develop something different in
his creatures in his family

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members so that instead of
responding, like that will

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receive this implanted word that
he’s going to put in us and he’s

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going to grow something that
will produce fruit.

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To him that for which he can
grant immortality forever.

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So, verse 19, he says, look,
what we need to do is we got to

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be swift to hear.
So be quick to listen and slow

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to speak and slow to wrath slow
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Because all of this other stuff,
the wrath of man in verse 20

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does not produce the
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So, this is something we can
work at.

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And this is typical James
because otherwise, you could

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just listen to me today.
Talk about lessons in life

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things.
We To do great, High sandal,

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doctrinal issues or whatever and
go home and think, well, you

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know, that’s fine.
I believe all that stuff.

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Great.
But when James gets to the

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Practical things, it says all
right.

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Now, how you doing on this?
Are you the kind of person

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that’s quick to hear when
somebody wants to talk about

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something?
Are we willing to listen?

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I mean really listen and
understand what the person is

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thinking, that’s what we need to
do.

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We need to understand and so we
can jump into their perspective

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and repeat back and we really
understand where they’re coming

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from, let’s be quick to hear and
that That will make the slow to

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speak so that will help zip that
that mouth up a little bit.

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So we don’t react the wrong way
and we don’t just jump on

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somebody because what we think
what we think they think we’re

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going to listen instead and then
we’re going to be slow to wrath

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let’s not get angry right away
at people because it doesn’t

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produce the righteousness of
God, that’s the problem.

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It when we’re trying to live,
like godly people.

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So we don’t want to be like
that.

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We want to learn to overcome
those things so that we can

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really be single-minded and
believe that God is in it.

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Even when somebody comes to us
in on a Sunday or there during

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the week, somebody calls us up
and they say something they

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shouldn’t say and they get us
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We have to realize that God is
aware of all that he knows

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what’s going on.
And this could be just one of

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those is one of those situations
in life where he’s waiting to

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see, how are we going to
respond?

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No, not what did they do wrong?
What am I going to respond to on

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this?
This is an opportunity for me to

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find out whether I’m growing in
the truth, whether I’m going to

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respond the right way.
See, that’s a different

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perspective.
What single-mindedness does as

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opposed to the double minded man
just ago.

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They should have said it to me
and we lash out at them.

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I’m going to get there.
We going to find some way to get

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back at that and correct that
problem and all that, that’s

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what double mindedness does.
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that and single-mindedness
brings peace and Harmony and it

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just it’s a different
perspective and it brings the

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righteousness of God.
I mean, that’s the problem.

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The wrath of man is not going to
do that.

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It’s not going to turn us into
people that are going to go out

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there and work.
Work for others, and James is

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going to give us some specifics
on what the righteousness of God

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is.
And it’s not just having a bunch

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of doctrinal issues that we
believe the right doctrines and

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we belong to the right Church.
The righteousness of God is when

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we get out there and we visit
people that are sick, we go out

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and look for the orphans, we
help the older folks that need

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help and occlusal life.
We do whatever is needed in

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ackley’s whole life to help
other people.

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That’s James is perspective of
the righteousness of God.

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It’s the right way of living,
where we learn to help other

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people out.
His point is that the way this

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is accomplished in verse 21 of
chapter one, the way we’re going

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to do this is we’re going to lay
aside all this filthiness and

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overflow of wickedness.
We’re going to put that stuff

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out of us that we are by nature
and instead we’re going to

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receive the implanted word.
See this is not something that

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comes from inside our heads.
This is something that we have

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to take into us.
It’s implanted into us.

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And this is why, when we leave
this place this weekend, we have

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to be more committed.
The Young Apple and the parents

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that are here and the older
ones, we all know, we have to be

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receiving the word daily, you
have to be reading our Bibles

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otherwise we’re going to see all
these other things coming out in

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us and we’re going to we’re
going to use our tongue the

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wrong way.
And we’re going to say things we

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shouldn’t have said and think
things we’re going to be really

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fast to respond to somebody and
we’re going to do the wrath of

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man.
But if we receive the word and

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it’s like having an operation in
US wear something, literally we

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get cut open and the word gets
put into us, it’s implanted.

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In to us because it’s foreign to
our thinking.

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If we get that word into us,
that implanted word is able to

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save your souls and we’ve got to
be committed to doing that more

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often.
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were sick if we do, you know
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and we knew for sure, there was
a magic pill at home.

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And the doctors said, look, take
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you’ll feel you’re going to feel
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All this illness it’s in you is
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We’d all take A whole bottle of
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would take them every day but
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It’s that’s it.
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be willing to do it.
It’s it takes some effort on our

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part but it’s just like heaven,
the magic pill and it is going

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to change our life.
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into examples of the Lord Jesus
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steps of our heavenly father.
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when you do this and you receive
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able to save your souls, what
this is going to do is it’ll

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turn you into Doer of the word
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not going to be able to just sit
there anymore and watch other

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because this is what the word
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When you read your Bibles in
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these active people did and how
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able to sit there anymore and
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need and they need food or
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because we’re involved in the
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examples, there’s Interesting
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wasn’t too long ago back in
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these classes or something else
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And I thought, that’s, that’s
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And it took scientists years to
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People do all kinds of studies
about money and money and does

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money bring happiness.
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find over years is that a lot of
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money doesn’t bring happiness.
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all the sudden they got a
million dollars and they track

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him through life and find out.
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to them or you track some of
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It get millions of Isn’t you
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That their bodies are worn out
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money and they wasted their
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It really didn’t bring
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looked at I guess, until this
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money and much to, everybody’s
surprise, what the Bible had

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said all along, is if you really
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can bring happiness, but they’ll
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that’s what really brings
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Gnu, when you help other people.
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all along.
You’ve found that out just by

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reading your Bible that we don’t
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What’s what’s working for us?
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else, it’s spend the money on
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other people are taken care of.
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gives it to us in verse 23
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the word and not a doer, he is
like a man observing his natural

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face in the mirror and he
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for immediately forgets.
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He was.
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practical.
James he gives us the little

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mirror test, he says, look if we
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and we do our Bible readings or
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we read and we listen to these
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other.
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motivation, it’s like the mirror
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See the natural man looks at
himself in the mirror sees what

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he sees and walks away and in
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at sometimes that’s all it
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remember being a young person,

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you go.
Sometimes the class was like

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this to the weekend and you hear
all these things that we can do

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when we Get home, you know, the
commitment to do the Bible

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ratings, get out to meeting
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People look around in a
collegial, life of what we can

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do in 10 minutes down the road.
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it’s on the school back to work
and all the different things

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come back into our life.
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it’s like wow where we ever
really there and by Monday

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morning and you’re back at work
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you’re back into those classes.
You doing all that stuff you

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wanted like, did I really go
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like gone and that’s the problem
with the natural man it’s just

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gone like that.
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out again on Monday and getting
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lost in all the effort of coming
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Walk away and not come back and
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Again, we’ve got to come back
and look again or once in a

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while.
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that what they see in the mirror
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other side and see that happens
to sometimes, we sort of deceive

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ourselves as James says in here.
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isn’t really what’s on the other
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So we’ve got to be honest with
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looking at ourselves in the
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These are the issues we need to
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Nobody here, has am all figured
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Everyone of us, myself included,
and we work on these issues next

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week.
That’s what we’re here for.

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So he says, in verse 25, them in
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what kind of man that he was the
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man does is he who looks into
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Then continues in, it is not a
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the work and this one will be
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So the law of Liberty, the law
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James’s writings, it also comes
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another one of these issues
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Paul are on the same wavelength.
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the law of Liberty and you might
not like, how could they both do

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that when they’re coming from
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One of them’s, coming from the
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I like work, work, work, work,
work, and the other, Coming from

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the perspective, James here of
the people that were like just

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sitting back and watching and
joining the grace of God and

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they weren’t involved.
But see in both cases in both

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cases, the law of Liberty is the
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The freedom to not be bound
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Like Paul would stay to a
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That says you got to do this.
This this this is but you don’t

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want to help out in those that
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notice.
You don’t have to help out in

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that because all you do is
follow this, this is this and go

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through these checklists.
List and Paul says, you’ve been

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freed from that, we’ve been
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serve one another through love.
That’s the freedom that Paul

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says, we have in James, on the
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law of Liberty and he says, look
this law of Liberty is now going

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to free you.
Not so that you can sit there

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and sit back in our chair and do
all of our things.

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And you know, go home and watch
our TVs and be involved in all

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the things of this life that we
want to do and not be involved

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in a collegial.
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You free from that to become
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become real workers.
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a, like a ray AB was, and he’s
going to give us some specific

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examples of how this actually
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So you got to look into that law
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Liberty.
Its entry calls it, the law

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because of course, the Jews
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law.
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from the limits of the law of
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It frees you to become an active
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living out the character of God
and all the different things

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that you do.
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law of Liberty, phrase is picked
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Testament.
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our freedom.
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that he calls it, the freedom
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that’s part of the law of
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the different foods.
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chapter 1.
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don’t misuse your Liberty.
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See if the Liberties that we
have But you can, it’s not just

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the freedom to be free from all
the work, and now we’re free

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from everything.
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It’s a freedom to be free to do
what we should have been doing

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all along.
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do.
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would say, you’re free from
being slaves of sin to where now

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you are slaves of God, that
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crisis, our freedom is just
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Now, we were free, we don’t have
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In life, that isn’t what the
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tall, Paul refers to it in,
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talks about the law of the
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the, the law of the spirit of
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law of sin and death.
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Galatians.
Here, he says that we are freed

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to serve one another through
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That’s the freedom that we’ve
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So notice because this is such a
problem, James three times three

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times.
At the end of chapter one, did

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you catch those three times?
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That is see when that happens,
you know, that’s a warning to

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every one of us here that we can
listen to these classes, we can

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read our Bibles.
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We can read quickly through
James chapter 1, and we could

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miss the fact that James warns
us that this is not going to be

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something.
The old man wants to hear.

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I mean, our fleshly thinking
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he three times he points out in
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When he talks that verse 16,
don’t be deceived my brethren

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and he’s talking about every
good and Gift coming down from

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God.
We leads into this issue of

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partiality that God loves you
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so should you.
He brought he mentioned up again

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about being deceived down in
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the doers of, but the doers of
the word and not hearers only

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deceiving yourselves, you see.
Our natural mind is so good at

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this.
We can go home and we can go

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back to everything the way it
was Monday morning and we can

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deceive our minds into Aching
word, just fine and dandy and

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we’re living the truth.
The way we had been before and

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we don’t make any change.
We don’t really, we’re not

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really doing it.
We’re not really involved in a

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collegial life or not, really
helping other people out.

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Some of us could do that.
We can deceive ourselves, we

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think.
Well, we’re okay, because we’ve

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got the right religion, we
believe the truth, we understand

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the statement of faith and we
have all the doctrines to see,

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that’s, that’s mental,
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Brothers and sisters.
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If we lash out at people in the
way we talk, and we ate, we have

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evil.
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We’re just deceiving ourselves,
our natural model do that.

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And in verse 26, he mentions it
again.

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For anyone among you thinks he’s
religious and does not Bridle

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his tongue but deceives his own
heart.

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This one’s religion is useless.
We talked about putting it out

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on the table that can anybody
missed that?

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James doesn’t miss the words, he
just calls a spade.

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A spade and says, if you think
you’ve got the right religion

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and your religion isn’t strong
enough to control your tongue

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and what you say to each other.
Other what you say to your

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parents and what the parents say
to their kids and what you say

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to your spouse’s in your own
homes, when nobody else is there

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to here?
If your religion isn’t an isn’t

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strong enough to control that
your religions useless, Useless.

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So what if you have the right
doctrines, it’s not impacting

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your life.
You’re not becoming a child of

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God children of God’s just don’t
have the right religion, have

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the right way of life.
And that’s what they’re after.

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This would have been what Jesus
had been trying, to convince

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James of all of his early life.
And James would have been a good

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Pharisee.
Probably growing up, following

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the law, doing all those things,
going through the checklist.

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And he would have heard Jesus
say this over and over and over

448
00:21:14,300 –> 00:21:16,400
again.
It’s all about how you live.

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It’s The Sermon on the Mount.
It’s all about your way of life

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and so, you know, James now is
just coming back and hitting the

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same issues with these people.
That had the right bullies, they

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had the right religion, but the
religion had no power, no power

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to change their life.
So be careful.

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It shows when he uses that three
times, that’s a warning to

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ourselves, we’re really good at
deceiving ourselves.

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We look in the mirror, we see a
face and we walk away in a few

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minutes and we forget what we
heard today.

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Are we forget what James had to
say?

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And we go home and we just go
back to our old ways.

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Of life.
We got to be careful that we

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don’t do those things as well.
Don’t be deceived because pure

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and undefiled religion.
You see what James does?

463
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Not as he gives you a practical
example to say, all right, how

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are you doing on this?
Have you deceived yourself and

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is practical?
Example is to take some cases

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right here of people who can’t
pay back you.

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So he talks about the widows and
the orphans as your religion,

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strong enough to make you do
something for somebody else.

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Knowing that Never going to be
able to give you anything back

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in return.
I mean like Jesus said, I mean

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even the Gentiles to do, those
kind of things if you take care

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of the Rich and they have you
back over and you expect a bad

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kind of thing, even the Gentiles
do that.

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But if your, if your religion is
strong enough to change your

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life to where you do things for
God and you help people out, you

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see a need in a collegial life
and somebody has a need, they

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need something, whatever it is,
economics food, anything,

478
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somebody do a Bible class with
them.

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Somebody come over and visit
that.

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Whatever it is.
And realize you’re never going

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to get payback from that person.
If your religion is doing that

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and it’s motivating you to help
other people like that, then

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your religion has power.
But if it doesn’t it’s useless

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because it’s not changing your
life.

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And you look at the young people
that are here.

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Look at how many young people
need you.

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When you go back home, all I of
people are struggling.

488
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They’re going through troubles
at school, they have family

489
00:23:11,100 –> 00:23:13,600
problems.
Is your religion strong enough

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00:23:13,600 –> 00:23:16,400
to take another young person and
call him up every day.

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Cinnamon emails, A text message
and keep in contact with a

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person and help them through
their troubled.

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Times is the truth strong enough
in your life to do that?

494
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Is it worth that kind of effort
or are we just here so that, you

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00:23:29,808 –> 00:23:31,600
know, we can hear, you know,
we’re here for our families

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there were here.
Just because, you know, it’s a

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nice place to come, you know,
nice place to be here.

498
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They feed us good, they take
care of us and it’s a good

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social Gathering.
You see?

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This is the kind of stuff.
James is trying to get us to

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00:23:42,900 –> 00:23:45,000
Think Through.
Is this going to change your

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00:23:45,000 –> 00:23:46,600
life?
Or are we just going to keep

503
00:23:46,600 –> 00:23:49,800
going the same old way?
And so it’s a very practical

504
00:23:49,800 –> 00:23:52,600
thing to bring up the widows and
the orphans in their trouble

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00:23:52,600 –> 00:23:55,900
because they can’t help us.
And the other thing that he

506
00:23:55,900 –> 00:23:58,800
balances that with at, this is
perfect James right here.

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He brings up two things and he
mentions, first of all, the

508
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widows and the orphans.
There’s there’s a test and

509
00:24:04,400 –> 00:24:07,900
secondly is the truth strong
enough to keep you unspotted

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from the world.
Is this changing your life to

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00:24:10,700 –> 00:24:13,500
make decisions so that you don’t
become involved in the things of

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this world that we shouldn’t be
involved in?

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So it’s a great balance between
the the Things of the of the

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occlusal life for people that
need our help and then those

515
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things that we need to work on
about ourselves to keep

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00:24:24,700 –> 00:24:26,900
ourselves unspotted from the
world.

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And that’s why I like James,
he’s very practical.

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He doesn’t just throw an issue
out there.

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00:24:30,300 –> 00:24:33,600
He throws an issue out there and
then gives us a measuring stick

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00:24:33,700 –> 00:24:35,800
as to.
How are we doing now?

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You see when you go home it may
not be the widows and the

522
00:24:38,600 –> 00:24:42,000
orphans in eurycleia it might be
somebody else, but that’s what

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you have to think about here.
Today.

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00:24:43,400 –> 00:24:46,800
We all have to be thinking about
what can we do to help?

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Maybe it’s Sunday.
A school, maybe it’s in cyc,

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whatever it happens to be it.
Maybe it’s something like Hall

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00:24:53,100 –> 00:24:55,600
cleaning, you need somebody to
clean the hall, and there’s not

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00:24:55,600 –> 00:24:58,700
enough people to do.
It is our religion strong enough

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to help us do things for others.
Realizing there’s no payback.

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Right now, the payback is in the
fact that we’re part of God’s

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family and he loves us and he’s
going to give us eternal life.

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00:25:08,400 –> 00:25:10,700
That’s the payback, not
something that we get right now

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00:25:10,700 –> 00:25:13,500
in this world.
So what kind of religion do we

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00:25:13,500 –> 00:25:15,700
have brother and sisters?
If it went and young people is

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it one that just looks good from
the outside.

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We tell our friends that we just
don’t have, we believe the

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00:25:19,900 –> 00:25:22,300
truth, we have the truth.
Or is it a religion?

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00:25:22,300 –> 00:25:25,300
That’s changing our life and
that’s I think really that’s

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00:25:25,300 –> 00:25:28,800
what James is going to try to do
now in chapters 2, 3 & 4 is,

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00:25:28,800 –> 00:25:30,600
he’s going to look at it and 5
as well.

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He’s going to look at some
specific issues that we can

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00:25:33,500 –> 00:25:36,900
examine our own lives and find
out how we doing, how are we

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00:25:36,900 –> 00:25:39,700
really doing and changing our
lives to learn to live for God.

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Now, what happens then in the
next four chapters in 2 3 4 5 is

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that James brings up most of
these same issues.

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He’s touched on at the end here
in chapter one and he’s going to

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deal with that with some
specific cases of how you can

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00:25:53,800 –> 00:25:56,800
find out how you’re doing and
areas that they all need to

549
00:25:56,800 –> 00:25:59,400
change.
So, the issue of partiality

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comes up in chapter two, right
off the bat as you saw in the

551
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reading and that was from back
in chapter 18 verse 17.

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We got the doers of the word
that he mentioned here in

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chapter one at verse 22 and
that’s going to come up again

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00:26:11,900 –> 00:26:16,500
and 2:14 the tongue, the idea of
like controlling your tongue and

555
00:26:16,500 –> 00:26:20,300
verse 26 of chapter Is going to
come up again in chapter 3 and

556
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verse 5, the wisdom that is from
above.

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He’s going to touch on it again
in chapter 38 verse 13.

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The fighting’s and the wars that
were going on is to you know

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whether you can control the
wrath of man that the

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righteousness of God is not done
by the wrath of man is going to

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00:26:34,908 –> 00:26:37,800
come up and check her for
humbling yourselves.

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Came up in chapter one.
You look at 1:21, it’s going to

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be again in chapter 4 and the
rich in their Pursuits is going

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to be all over the place in this
book.

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Patience comes up again in
helping the sick.

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So the rest of the letter, what
James does is he lays out the

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basic framework and now he’s
going to give all these specific

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things to help us.
Understand how are we doing?

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How we doing these issues?
Now, for some of you you might

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00:27:01,600 –> 00:27:04,100
look at Jeffers 2, 3, 4 and 5.
And you say well you don’t have

571
00:27:04,100 –> 00:27:07,200
any problem with those specific
issues but what they are is

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00:27:07,200 –> 00:27:09,700
they’re like they’re like
specific cases.

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That the Ecclesia was having
trouble with at that time and

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00:27:13,200 –> 00:27:15,800
what we have to do today is look
at well, how are we doing on

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00:27:15,800 –> 00:27:19,500
those issues and what Other
issues have crept into our

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00:27:19,500 –> 00:27:22,700
ecclesial or our family life
that we can take the same

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00:27:22,700 –> 00:27:26,100
lessons as James, and then apply
those in our Ecclesia and our

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lives.
So, in Chapter 2, here’s what he

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does.
He sets out to find out.

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Are you a doer?
Are you a doer of the word?

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Because when most people read
chapter one and they say, well,

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you got to be a doer of the word
but be a doer of the word and

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00:27:39,500 –> 00:27:42,400
not hearers only deceiving
yourselves, most of us, read

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00:27:42,400 –> 00:27:44,100
that we all go away thinking.
Oh I’m a doer.

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00:27:45,300 –> 00:27:47,800
I mean, let’s face it hands up.
Who thought they weren’t to do

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00:27:47,800 –> 00:27:50,300
her.
I mean, most of us all do.

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00:27:50,300 –> 00:27:53,700
We all think we’re a doer.
So what James does now is he

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00:27:53,700 –> 00:27:57,900
says, all right, here’s what
doers of the word really do and

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00:27:57,900 –> 00:27:59,900
then he gives you specifics to
find out.

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00:27:59,900 –> 00:28:03,200
Well, are you really a doer or
did you just deceive yourself

591
00:28:03,200 –> 00:28:06,400
and you thought you were a doer
or maybe you had a few items

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00:28:06,400 –> 00:28:08,600
over here that you’re a good
doer in but oh you got a whole

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00:28:08,600 –> 00:28:10,700
bunch of over here that on
Annika.

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Do that.
I’m going to do that.

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00:28:13,000 –> 00:28:15,000
I didn’t know.
God expected me to do that.

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And so he gives the specifics
about what was causing the

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00:28:18,400 –> 00:28:20,500
trouble.
Then in a lot of these things

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00:28:20,500 –> 00:28:24,000
are still causing trouble now.
So one of them is favoritism

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00:28:24,200 –> 00:28:27,600
Prejudice, so we might think
we’re a doer of the word but

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00:28:27,600 –> 00:28:31,100
then when it comes time to
really treating everybody equal

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00:28:31,100 –> 00:28:34,400
in a collegial life, do we
really loved everybody and the

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00:28:34,400 –> 00:28:36,600
Ecclesia?
Do we really treat them all the

603
00:28:36,600 –> 00:28:40,200
same or do we have little
rankings based on, you know,

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00:28:40,200 –> 00:28:43,200
their family names based on
where they came from.

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00:28:43,600 –> 00:28:44,900
You look back in the first
century.

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00:28:45,100 –> 00:28:47,600
Look at the Jewish Gentile.
We have even got to that yet.

607
00:28:47,600 –> 00:28:50,100
And that was going to become the
big Prejudice issue later on

608
00:28:50,100 –> 00:28:53,000
this issue.
Really, never did get salt and

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00:28:53,000 –> 00:28:55,300
Paul had to pick it up and keep
working at it.

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00:28:55,300 –> 00:28:58,100
And so, is it any big surprise
that it’s still a problem today.

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And what happens when we
prejudge each other, is it?

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00:29:01,400 –> 00:29:05,600
We judge we start to become
judgers based on how somebody

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00:29:05,600 –> 00:29:09,100
dresses and based on what kind
of car they drive and all those

614
00:29:09,100 –> 00:29:12,500
kind of things are based on
their economic status or what

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00:29:12,500 –> 00:29:15,200
Bible version that they use.
You see, we still You’re

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00:29:15,200 –> 00:29:18,200
thinking why don’t do that?
Well I don’t do that but do we

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00:29:18,700 –> 00:29:21,600
if you really look at all the
cases of prejudice and

618
00:29:21,600 –> 00:29:24,400
prejudging that goes on, maybe
do a little more of it than we

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thought and that’s one of the
areas that we can work on.

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So James is going to look at
that and then he’s going to look

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at the rest of chapter 2.
With whether we have an active

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00:29:31,500 –> 00:29:34,900
Faith, an Act of Faith, that’s
expressed and works of Faith.

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Or is our faith, just a very
passive one where?

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Oh yeah.
I believe the truth.

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I believe the truth.
So the Lord Of Glory comes up.

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00:29:41,900 –> 00:29:44,200
Ready to be getting in verse 1
and for any of you that like to

627
00:29:44,200 –> 00:29:46,700
do any Bible, King and James
chapter 28 verse 1.

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Don’t hold the faith, he says of
the Lord, Jesus Christ, the lord

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of Glory with partiality.
So he’s going to get right off

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00:29:53,200 –> 00:29:56,700
into this issue of partiality.
Now, he may have mentioned this

631
00:29:56,700 –> 00:29:59,100
phrase, the Lord Of Glory that
comes up.

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00:29:59,400 –> 00:30:01,400
The Apostle.
Paul uses it as well in First

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00:30:01,400 –> 00:30:05,700
Corinthians 2 and when Paul uses
that phrase, the Lord Of Glory,

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00:30:05,800 –> 00:30:09,000
he’s using it from the concept
of the glory going out, like,

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00:30:09,000 –> 00:30:12,300
the father of lights.
And when the glory goes out, you

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00:30:12,300 –> 00:30:14,900
say, when Paul uses that phrase
and call him, the Lord of,

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00:30:15,100 –> 00:30:18,200
Laurie and First Corinthians 2,
Paul is now dealing with the Jew

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and Gentile issue, he’s trying
to get them to see that.

639
00:30:20,900 –> 00:30:24,700
Look, we only have one God and
he shines, his glory on the Jews

640
00:30:24,700 –> 00:30:28,800
and on the Gentiles and he’s
Paul is later on from James

641
00:30:28,800 –> 00:30:31,600
constantly, trying to deal with
it, with the Jew, Gentile issue,

642
00:30:31,800 –> 00:30:34,400
James may bring it up in this
case because he’s trying to get

643
00:30:34,400 –> 00:30:38,600
them to see that they can’t show
partiality The Lord Of Glory

644
00:30:38,600 –> 00:30:40,900
Shines on them all.
And we’ve got to learn to

645
00:30:40,900 –> 00:30:44,600
reflect that just like God.
So you can’t claim that you’re a

646
00:30:44,608 –> 00:30:46,800
follower.
Lower that you have the faith of

647
00:30:46,800 –> 00:30:51,300
Jesus Christ, the lord of glory
and then decide who you want to

648
00:30:51,308 –> 00:30:53,900
let that Glory China Sea, we
can’t do that.

649
00:30:53,900 –> 00:30:56,900
That’s that’s God’s choice, not
ours and that may be why he

650
00:30:56,900 –> 00:31:00,200
brings it up in this chapter and
it looking back at that issue of

651
00:31:00,200 –> 00:31:02,100
the Father of Lights, like the
stars.

652
00:31:02,500 –> 00:31:05,700
So favoritism, when you look at
how this works, this whole first

653
00:31:05,700 –> 00:31:09,200
section in Chapter 2, verses 1
all the way down to 13 really is

654
00:31:09,200 –> 00:31:12,400
connected with this issue.
Of favoritism favoritism are

655
00:31:12,400 –> 00:31:14,300
partiality.
It’s based on outward

656
00:31:14,300 –> 00:31:17,000
appearance.
We find some external thing

657
00:31:17,000 –> 00:31:19,600
about our brothers and sisters
or our family members or our

658
00:31:19,600 –> 00:31:22,900
parents, or our children, that
makes us make decisions about

659
00:31:22,900 –> 00:31:25,500
whether or not, they’re really,
really legitimate members of the

660
00:31:25,500 –> 00:31:27,900
Ecclesia are members of the
family of God.

661
00:31:28,200 –> 00:31:31,100
And then, what we do, you see in
our little Minds, what we do is

662
00:31:31,100 –> 00:31:35,100
we spay, we pay special, special
attention to the ones who fit

663
00:31:35,100 –> 00:31:37,700
our categories.
You see, we give them extra

664
00:31:37,700 –> 00:31:40,700
special attention, and for the
people that don’t, we sort of

665
00:31:40,700 –> 00:31:43,600
subtly, it was just still
pretend, they’re not there, or

666
00:31:43,600 –> 00:31:46,600
we sort of give them The
Leftovers kind of thing.

667
00:31:46,700 –> 00:31:48,900
Now, you know, we may not
realize that we’re doing that

668
00:31:48,900 –> 00:31:51,500
sometimes, but if you think
about it in a collegial life, I

669
00:31:51,508 –> 00:31:53,200
think most of us with human
nature.

670
00:31:53,400 –> 00:31:56,400
In our families.
We do we have mechanisms that

671
00:31:56,400 –> 00:32:00,500
have been set up where we have
our favorites, our fave five,

672
00:32:00,500 –> 00:32:03,800
you see that on our little
occlusal phone and that’s what

673
00:32:03,800 –> 00:32:06,300
we do.
And our problem is, when we

674
00:32:06,300 –> 00:32:10,100
establish that we established on
the basis of what we like, what

675
00:32:10,100 –> 00:32:13,100
we Rank and all that kind of
thing, not on the basis of who’s

676
00:32:13,100 –> 00:32:14,900
really, a member of the family
of God.

677
00:32:15,100 –> 00:32:17,300
Does God?
Look at them and what James is

678
00:32:17,300 –> 00:32:20,100
trying to get them do is get out
of the box for a minute and

679
00:32:20,100 –> 00:32:23,100
realize, God loves them all.
There are no fave fives.

680
00:32:23,100 –> 00:32:25,600
There are no special cases in a
collegial life.

681
00:32:25,700 –> 00:32:28,900
There is nobody up here and
somebody down there, they’re all

682
00:32:28,900 –> 00:32:32,400
members of the family of God and
we have to treat them that way.

683
00:32:32,600 –> 00:32:34,500
We can’t give special seats to
people.

684
00:32:34,500 –> 00:32:36,500
We can’t give them special
treatment.

685
00:32:36,500 –> 00:32:38,600
I mean that’s that’s what he’s
really after.

686
00:32:38,600 –> 00:32:41,900
It’s not a good idea to do that
and a collegial life.

687
00:32:42,000 –> 00:32:44,600
If anything you know you want to
try try to help the ones who

688
00:32:44,600 –> 00:32:48,100
have the Greatest needs not to
just bend over and backwards and

689
00:32:48,100 –> 00:32:51,600
help the people at already
already had the needs satisfied.

690
00:32:51,800 –> 00:32:54,300
And what James says about this
whole concept of paying

691
00:32:54,300 –> 00:32:56,000
attention to you?
No, he what he does.

692
00:32:56,000 –> 00:32:58,800
He says, look the man in verse
2, he comes into your assembly

693
00:32:58,900 –> 00:33:01,800
and he’s got the gold rings and
the fine apparel and he comes

694
00:33:01,800 –> 00:33:03,200
in.
Then there’s the poor man in the

695
00:33:03,200 –> 00:33:05,100
filthy clothes.
We were just having this

696
00:33:05,100 –> 00:33:07,200
discussion at breakfast over
there, this morning about

697
00:33:07,200 –> 00:33:10,400
whether or not close matter.
You see in a collegial life and

698
00:33:10,400 –> 00:33:14,000
see christadelphians are good at
putting a real emphasis on the

699
00:33:14,000 –> 00:33:16,200
clothes.
Big on that.

700
00:33:16,400 –> 00:33:20,000
But if you had been alive in
James’s Ecclesia at this time

701
00:33:20,000 –> 00:33:23,000
and you were a member of the
family of God back here, this

702
00:33:23,000 –> 00:33:26,100
this is a problem back then too.
And the tendency is to look at

703
00:33:26,100 –> 00:33:28,600
people coming in the doors, look
at how they’re dressed and make

704
00:33:28,600 –> 00:33:31,400
a decision about them and we
can’t do that brothers and

705
00:33:31,400 –> 00:33:35,100
sisters or young people.
We have no idea how God views

706
00:33:35,100 –> 00:33:37,400
that person.
We don’t know that based on

707
00:33:37,400 –> 00:33:40,300
their clothes, we don’t know
their economic situation and

708
00:33:40,300 –> 00:33:42,700
what they’re really doing.
You don’t know that about a

709
00:33:42,708 –> 00:33:46,200
person and God doesn’t care
about the Close like we do.

710
00:33:46,400 –> 00:33:50,500
He looks upon the heart now.
That doesn’t mean we purposely

711
00:33:50,500 –> 00:33:53,200
dress up in rags.
That’s not what I’m getting at.

712
00:33:53,300 –> 00:33:56,700
What we got to do is put the
blinders on and quit, looking at

713
00:33:56,700 –> 00:33:59,900
the externals.
Don’t judge people by the cars.

714
00:33:59,900 –> 00:34:03,500
They drive by the clothes, they
wear and all those externals.

715
00:34:03,800 –> 00:34:08,500
We if we do that we will become
as he says here at the end of

716
00:34:08,500 –> 00:34:11,900
verse 4, he says look you’ve
shown partiality, amongst

717
00:34:11,900 –> 00:34:17,100
yourselves and you become judges
with evil I thought that’s not

718
00:34:17,199 –> 00:34:19,300
judges of evil thoughts.
You see.

719
00:34:19,500 –> 00:34:23,300
It’s judges with evil thoughts.
Most of the modern versions fix

720
00:34:23,300 –> 00:34:25,400
that up.
You’ve got evil thoughts in your

721
00:34:25,400 –> 00:34:27,500
head.
You’re not like God, you’re not

722
00:34:27,500 –> 00:34:30,300
like one of God’s children
you’re judging people on the

723
00:34:30,300 –> 00:34:33,000
basis of external appearance
now.

724
00:34:33,000 –> 00:34:36,699
And I was the issue with Saul
and David When God says you know

725
00:34:36,699 –> 00:34:39,699
God could I wouldn’t win.
Single said God doesn’t look on

726
00:34:39,699 –> 00:34:43,400
the outward appearance.
He looks on the heart and we

727
00:34:43,400 –> 00:34:46,600
read the passages Brothers.
And sisters but we read them.

728
00:34:46,600 –> 00:34:48,400
We look in the mirror and we
walk away.

729
00:34:48,400 –> 00:34:50,699
And in five minutes we forget
them and then we go back to

730
00:34:50,699 –> 00:34:54,000
showing partiality.
We can’t do that, not not if

731
00:34:54,000 –> 00:34:56,000
we’re really children of God,
that’s an issue.

732
00:34:56,000 –> 00:34:58,000
We got to work on and we got a
value.

733
00:34:58,000 –> 00:35:02,100
What every person brings to the
Ecclesia and sometimes those

734
00:35:02,100 –> 00:35:04,400
people that don’t dress the way
that we think they ought to

735
00:35:04,408 –> 00:35:07,200
dress.
Sometimes those are the people

736
00:35:07,400 –> 00:35:11,400
that have the greatest care and
they see the greatest way of

737
00:35:11,400 –> 00:35:13,300
empathy and sympathy to other
people.

738
00:35:13,500 –> 00:35:16,600
And they can reach out to People
that those of us that are

739
00:35:16,607 –> 00:35:19,600
dressed up in our suits and our
fancy clothes, we can’t reach

740
00:35:19,600 –> 00:35:23,600
them and those other people can
and it’s important to realize

741
00:35:23,600 –> 00:35:26,300
that brothers and sisters, and
not worry so much about that,

742
00:35:26,300 –> 00:35:29,000
external appearance.
And I want to make sure you’re

743
00:35:29,000 –> 00:35:30,100
real.
I’m not saying everybody just

744
00:35:30,100 –> 00:35:32,500
goes home and down dresses or we
all show up in our eggs.

745
00:35:32,500 –> 00:35:34,300
Tomorrow that’s that’s not what
I’m after.

746
00:35:34,500 –> 00:35:38,200
I’m just saying, let’s not let
that become such a big issue and

747
00:35:38,200 –> 00:35:40,600
personally don’t let that become
the basis.

748
00:35:40,600 –> 00:35:43,400
Upon what I look at.
Other people and make decisions

749
00:35:43,400 –> 00:35:46,600
about whether they’re really
God’s children, we can’t do

750
00:35:46,600 –> 00:35:49,200
that.
That showing partiality, that’s

751
00:35:49,200 –> 00:35:52,700
judging with evil thoughts and
boy, if nothing else.

752
00:35:52,700 –> 00:35:54,300
That’s an area, we can all work
on.

753
00:35:54,500 –> 00:35:56,900
See that’s why I say James’s.
Letter could have been written.

754
00:35:56,900 –> 00:36:00,300
Last week, we have the same
problems today that James was

755
00:36:00,300 –> 00:36:03,400
dealing with back.
Then you see God doesn’t show

756
00:36:03,400 –> 00:36:06,600
those kind of favoritism God
looked at people through all

757
00:36:06,600 –> 00:36:10,000
different ages who had all
different forms of life, and

758
00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:12,800
their dress and everything and
God was willing to take them

759
00:36:12,800 –> 00:36:16,100
all, take them all, no matter.
How they dressed in their in

760
00:36:16,100 –> 00:36:19,100
their day and age and whatever
they had, he wanted people that

761
00:36:19,100 –> 00:36:21,500
wanted to live like him and
valued his family.

762
00:36:21,700 –> 00:36:24,300
And if you showed up in robes
and you had bare feet, that was

763
00:36:24,300 –> 00:36:28,600
okay and gods family because you
came and and that’s that’s the

764
00:36:28,600 –> 00:36:31,200
way God dealt with people.
All through the years, he never

765
00:36:31,200 –> 00:36:34,700
set a dress standard in the
Bible and there’s a good reason

766
00:36:34,700 –> 00:36:36,500
for that.
Because we’d all look at that

767
00:36:36,500 –> 00:36:38,300
and say, well, there it is,
there’s what we got to do and

768
00:36:38,300 –> 00:36:41,400
everybody who comes in as to be
like that, and he doesn’t do

769
00:36:41,400 –> 00:36:44,800
that because he’s so bigger than
that, and he’s trying to reach.

770
00:36:44,900 –> 00:36:47,100
Shout out to all the different
cultures, all the different

771
00:36:47,100 –> 00:36:49,800
groups of this world and he
wants to keep that door open for

772
00:36:49,800 –> 00:36:52,500
everybody.
And to do that over thousands of

773
00:36:52,500 –> 00:36:54,100
years.
You can’t set that kind of

774
00:36:54,100 –> 00:36:57,100
standard and we can’t either.
We’ve got to be much more

775
00:36:57,100 –> 00:36:59,500
flexible.
He’s the Father of Lights.

776
00:36:59,500 –> 00:37:01,800
You see, there’s no Shadow due
to Turning with him.

777
00:37:01,900 –> 00:37:04,500
He just keeps shining it out on
everybody.

778
00:37:04,500 –> 00:37:08,000
He sends his rain on the just
and the unjust in Timothy.

779
00:37:08,000 –> 00:37:11,200
It says he desires all men to be
saved, you know, we quote that

780
00:37:11,200 –> 00:37:14,000
passage, I remember using it.
Bible passage for years is

781
00:37:14,000 –> 00:37:16,500
arrested scripture.
And I’ve used that to fight the

782
00:37:16,508 –> 00:37:19,200
Trinity and think there it is.
First Timothy, you know to and

783
00:37:19,200 –> 00:37:21,200
for God, desires all men to be
saved.

784
00:37:21,300 –> 00:37:24,300
And then in chapter in verse in
verse 2, it says there’s one

785
00:37:24,300 –> 00:37:26,700
mediator, there’s one God.
And one mediator between God and

786
00:37:26,700 –> 00:37:30,000
Men, the man Jesus Christ and we
use that as a rested scripture

787
00:37:30,000 –> 00:37:32,500
to defeat the Trinity.
You know, it took me years and

788
00:37:32,500 –> 00:37:35,600
years to my embarrassment to
realize what that Bible verse

789
00:37:35,600 –> 00:37:38,500
was actually tried to tell us.
That’s not a Bible verse in

790
00:37:38,500 –> 00:37:41,900
there to tell you that there’s
no Trinity what Paul was at

791
00:37:41,900 –> 00:37:44,400
pains to get.
The Timothy is his same old

792
00:37:44,400 –> 00:37:46,200
issue.
We’re Going at here in James, is

793
00:37:46,200 –> 00:37:48,700
that our God does not show
favoritism.

794
00:37:49,000 –> 00:37:52,900
There is no God of the Jews and
a god of the Gentiles.

795
00:37:53,400 –> 00:37:55,400
There’s no God of some
christadelphians.

796
00:37:55,400 –> 00:37:57,400
And another God of other
christadelphians.

797
00:37:57,700 –> 00:38:01,600
There is one God.
And there’s one mediator between

798
00:38:01,600 –> 00:38:04,200
God and Men.
We’re supposed to all be looking

799
00:38:04,200 –> 00:38:07,400
at the same God, he’s the one
God of all, it was supposed to

800
00:38:07,400 –> 00:38:10,300
bring unity in the Ecclesia.
That’s what Paul’s fighting for.

801
00:38:10,600 –> 00:38:14,700
There is only one God, we don’t
each group have our own God, the

802
00:38:14,700 –> 00:38:18,300
only One and there’s one
mediator and were all United in

803
00:38:18,300 –> 00:38:22,200
him and Paul brings it up twice
and in the concept of unity not

804
00:38:22,200 –> 00:38:24,900
not about although we use it
against the trinitarian today

805
00:38:24,900 –> 00:38:27,700
that really isn’t what it was
about or are you see all over

806
00:38:27,700 –> 00:38:31,000
Paul’s writings that this issue
a partiality it comes up in X

807
00:38:31,000 –> 00:38:33,900
and Romans and Ephesians and
Colossians and also in Peters

808
00:38:33,900 –> 00:38:37,300
writings as well.
So there’s this this problem of

809
00:38:37,300 –> 00:38:40,200
partiality has been a human
issue all along and it’s one of

810
00:38:40,200 –> 00:38:42,000
those issues we can work on
today.

811
00:38:42,800 –> 00:38:44,500
You look at what he says to
counter this.

812
00:38:44,900 –> 00:38:48,300
And what James says here, he
says look hasn’t God right

813
00:38:48,300 –> 00:38:50,700
there.
In verse 5, has God not chosen

814
00:38:50,700 –> 00:38:53,800
the poor of this world to be
rich in faith and Heirs of the

815
00:38:53,800 –> 00:38:55,600
Kingdom, which he promised to
those who love him.

816
00:38:55,900 –> 00:38:59,200
That’s what God’s done.
He chose the poor, they’re part

817
00:38:59,200 –> 00:39:02,900
of his family because they’re
rich in faith and their Heirs of

818
00:39:02,900 –> 00:39:05,300
that Kingdom.
You can’t look at those people

819
00:39:05,300 –> 00:39:08,800
and say they’re not part of
God’s family, he chose them

820
00:39:09,200 –> 00:39:11,800
underlie that has not God.
Chosen.

821
00:39:11,900 –> 00:39:14,700
That’s not maybe what you would
have chose or what I would have

822
00:39:14,700 –> 00:39:17,400
chosen.
Those but God chose them and

823
00:39:17,400 –> 00:39:20,800
that’s why we can’t show
partiality God picked them

824
00:39:20,900 –> 00:39:23,500
because they’re rich in faith,
and they’re going to be Heirs of

825
00:39:23,500 –> 00:39:27,000
the Kingdom, which he promised
to those who love him.

826
00:39:27,200 –> 00:39:29,600
And that’s the aspect that we
don’t know about people.

827
00:39:29,600 –> 00:39:32,000
We just don’t know.
And he says, look at the

828
00:39:32,000 –> 00:39:34,700
behavior of the rich.
These people, it probably what

829
00:39:34,700 –> 00:39:36,200
happened in the occlusal life is
this.

830
00:39:36,200 –> 00:39:38,800
The rich people had their rich
friends, and their Rich, Jewish

831
00:39:38,800 –> 00:39:40,900
friends, and they’d bring some
of the men and their meetings,

832
00:39:41,000 –> 00:39:42,600
people from the synagogues and
everything.

833
00:39:42,600 –> 00:39:44,700
And so, there was quite a
mixture of the rich.

834
00:39:45,100 –> 00:39:48,300
And he says look how can you
possibly take the rich person

835
00:39:48,300 –> 00:39:49,800
who walks in the door back
there?

836
00:39:49,800 –> 00:39:52,600
Who’s a friend of this Richford?
They come into your Ecclesia?

837
00:39:52,600 –> 00:39:55,500
He oh, come on up here and you
give them the best seats.

838
00:39:55,600 –> 00:39:57,600
And you’ve just given just all
over them.

839
00:39:57,600 –> 00:40:00,400
You’re just like, trying to keep
them happy because they’re rich

840
00:40:00,400 –> 00:40:02,100
and they have money.
He Paul says, look there.

841
00:40:02,100 –> 00:40:05,200
Peter James says, look, aren’t
they the ones that are

842
00:40:05,200 –> 00:40:06,400
oppressing?
The Believers?

843
00:40:06,700 –> 00:40:09,700
Those are the ones that drag you
into court and they blaspheme

844
00:40:09,700 –> 00:40:12,000
the lord’s name.
How in the world?

845
00:40:12,000 –> 00:40:14,400
Can we take those people and
show favoritism to them?

846
00:40:14,900 –> 00:40:17,100
That’s maybe an extreme case.
But this is what they were

847
00:40:17,100 –> 00:40:19,800
living with.
The rich Jews were doing that to

848
00:40:19,800 –> 00:40:22,800
their Jewish community and they
were actually picking on each

849
00:40:22,800 –> 00:40:25,600
other there.
So what James does next is he

850
00:40:25,600 –> 00:40:27,300
realizes?
He says, look deep people.

851
00:40:27,300 –> 00:40:29,000
They know their Bibles.
I know what they’re going to

852
00:40:29,000 –> 00:40:32,100
think that he knows the Jewish
mind the same way that Paul does

853
00:40:32,100 –> 00:40:34,600
when he writes his letters.
So he anticipates what they’re

854
00:40:34,600 –> 00:40:36,900
going to think?
He said he goes on in this

855
00:40:36,900 –> 00:40:40,600
militant next section, there in
verse 18, if you are verse 8, if

856
00:40:40,600 –> 00:40:43,500
you really fulfill the Royal
law, according to the scripture,

857
00:40:43,600 –> 00:40:46,600
you shall love your neighbor.
Neighbor as yourself you do well

858
00:40:46,900 –> 00:40:50,100
because he knew what they would
be thinking is well look James

859
00:40:50,200 –> 00:40:53,300
back in Leviticus 19, it says
you shall love your neighbor as

860
00:40:53,300 –> 00:40:56,300
yourself and those rich people
you see there my neighbor.

861
00:40:56,600 –> 00:40:59,300
So those are the ones I’m going
to love them as myself.

862
00:40:59,300 –> 00:41:00,900
I’m going to give them the best
seats.

863
00:41:00,900 –> 00:41:02,400
I’m going to take good care of
them.

864
00:41:02,700 –> 00:41:06,100
And so James says, look if you
really did that if that’s really

865
00:41:06,100 –> 00:41:10,200
what you’re thinking that you do
well, but if you show

866
00:41:10,200 –> 00:41:13,000
partiality, while you’re doing
that, if you visit to one

867
00:41:13,000 –> 00:41:14,700
neighbor and you don’t do it to
the other one.

868
00:41:15,100 –> 00:41:18,000
Then you commit sin and you’re
convicted by the law as

869
00:41:18,000 –> 00:41:20,400
transgressors.
The see, that’s the beauty of

870
00:41:20,400 –> 00:41:22,300
James.
He lays it all out on the table

871
00:41:22,300 –> 00:41:23,600
and he knows what they’re
thinking.

872
00:41:23,800 –> 00:41:25,500
So he says, I know what you’re
going to think on that.

873
00:41:25,500 –> 00:41:26,700
You’re going to think that
you’re OK.

874
00:41:26,700 –> 00:41:28,300
You’re going to justify it with
your Bible.

875
00:41:28,300 –> 00:41:29,900
As you’re going to get your
Bibles out, look at the passages

876
00:41:29,900 –> 00:41:32,400
and say, oh, it’s okay if I do
this and James says, well,

877
00:41:32,400 –> 00:41:34,300
that’s if that’s the case.
That’s great that you’re doing

878
00:41:34,300 –> 00:41:37,600
it for those people, but if you
show partiality while you’re

879
00:41:37,600 –> 00:41:40,300
doing it, oh boy, that’s a whole
different thing.

880
00:41:40,500 –> 00:41:43,200
If you don’t do that for
everybody then you’re not really

881
00:41:43,200 –> 00:41:45,500
loving your neighbor and that’s
the same Isn’t that what

882
00:41:45,500 –> 00:41:47,000
happened when Jesus gave the
parable?

883
00:41:47,200 –> 00:41:49,100
And the fellows will, who is my
neighbor?

884
00:41:49,700 –> 00:41:52,800
And so right away we want to
show partiality and about, who’s

885
00:41:52,800 –> 00:41:55,400
the neighbor, who is it?
It’s just human nature.

886
00:41:55,400 –> 00:41:58,100
That’s the way we are brothers
and sisters and young people.

887
00:41:58,300 –> 00:42:00,200
Young people, you’re like that
as well too.

888
00:42:00,300 –> 00:42:01,700
Yeah, I watched the Visions in
the young.

889
00:42:01,700 –> 00:42:04,400
People certain select groups you
know you like some groups that

890
00:42:04,400 –> 00:42:06,400
are in other groups.
This isn’t just something that

891
00:42:06,400 –> 00:42:07,900
comes on.
I believe it or not when you’re

892
00:42:07,900 –> 00:42:10,200
25 years old or 30 or this is
missing.

893
00:42:10,200 –> 00:42:12,900
Just Mom and Dad’s problem.
I remember what it’s like when

894
00:42:12,900 –> 00:42:14,000
you’re young, I remember see
you.

895
00:42:14,000 –> 00:42:17,500
I see and watch Divisions that
were there, all of us have this

896
00:42:17,500 –> 00:42:20,400
problem.
This tendency to show favoritism

897
00:42:20,400 –> 00:42:23,000
to certain groups of people,
whatever it is, that we use, is

898
00:42:23,000 –> 00:42:24,900
are dividing line.
And whoever it is, we set up

899
00:42:24,900 –> 00:42:27,400
with our standards.
We’re very good at showing

900
00:42:27,400 –> 00:42:30,700
partiality and not giving
everybody the same treatment and

901
00:42:30,700 –> 00:42:33,700
the benefit of the doubt and
what ends up happening is he

902
00:42:33,700 –> 00:42:36,400
says you become judges with evil
thoughts.

903
00:42:36,800 –> 00:42:40,100
So what James doesn’t is he
takes the Jewish thinking right

904
00:42:40,100 –> 00:42:40,500
here.
He says.

905
00:42:40,500 –> 00:42:43,400
All right, if you really did
that, then if you want to go

906
00:42:43,400 –> 00:42:45,800
back to that law and you think
You’re loving your neighbor as

907
00:42:45,800 –> 00:42:48,600
yourself and be, if you’re
showing partiality, then you

908
00:42:48,600 –> 00:42:52,400
commit sin because you can’t
just aim at certain laws and

909
00:42:52,400 –> 00:42:53,700
say, well, I’ll keep this that
out.

910
00:42:53,700 –> 00:42:56,500
Keep this, I’ll keep this and
you leave all the rest of them

911
00:42:56,500 –> 00:42:58,800
out.
So what do you then does is

912
00:42:58,800 –> 00:43:01,400
he’ll go back and look at that?
I think we’ll skip the section.

913
00:43:01,400 –> 00:43:03,300
Leviticus 19.
Actually, if you get a chance at

914
00:43:03,300 –> 00:43:05,900
some point to go back and look
at where that came from, it is

915
00:43:05,900 –> 00:43:10,100
fun to see that only three
verses earlier in Leviticus 19

916
00:43:10,100 –> 00:43:12,100
where it said, You shall love
your neighbor as yourself,

917
00:43:12,400 –> 00:43:14,700
right?
In that same section, you know,

918
00:43:14,900 –> 00:43:18,300
God put right in there for us
that you shall not do Injustice

919
00:43:18,300 –> 00:43:20,700
and judgment.
You shall not be partial to the

920
00:43:20,700 –> 00:43:23,900
poor nor honor the person of the
mighty in righteousness.

921
00:43:23,900 –> 00:43:27,600
You shall judge your neighbor
because that was a problem and

922
00:43:27,600 –> 00:43:30,800
see God was so balanced in
Leviticus 19.

923
00:43:30,800 –> 00:43:34,100
He said, look those of you that
have sympathetic Tendencies and

924
00:43:34,100 –> 00:43:36,500
you want to like give the poor,
the benefit of the doubt and

925
00:43:36,500 –> 00:43:40,100
treat them better than the rich,
you can’t do that either.

926
00:43:40,300 –> 00:43:43,900
This is a balance to the judges.
When they go to judge you have

927
00:43:43,900 –> 00:43:45,800
to show, right?
Aegis judgment.

928
00:43:45,800 –> 00:43:47,800
So, you know some of us are
balanced One Way.

929
00:43:47,800 –> 00:43:50,500
Some of us are more on the other
side but when God put it in

930
00:43:50,500 –> 00:43:53,300
there, he said, look, you’ve got
to be balanced on both sides.

931
00:43:53,300 –> 00:43:55,200
You can’t show either one of
them.

932
00:43:55,400 –> 00:43:59,200
Partiality, we have to be equal
in that judgment and take care

933
00:43:59,200 –> 00:44:02,300
of both groups.
So, the thinking of Judaism,

934
00:44:02,300 –> 00:44:05,000
then what that James is going to
anticipate right now, is look

935
00:44:05,100 –> 00:44:07,900
the laws, the way to earn
salvation, as some of these Jews

936
00:44:07,900 –> 00:44:09,600
thought they can’t keep the
whole law.

937
00:44:09,600 –> 00:44:13,200
So what the Jews would do, what
Paul came to fight in Judaism.

938
00:44:13,300 –> 00:44:16,300
Was that you rank the law?
You know, some of us are the

939
00:44:16,300 –> 00:44:18,500
same way.
We take God’s laws and we rank

940
00:44:18,500 –> 00:44:21,400
them, take the Ten Commandments
and do the same thing and we say

941
00:44:21,400 –> 00:44:23,900
out of all those Commandments in
the Bible, I’m going to try to

942
00:44:23,900 –> 00:44:25,800
do this one.
This one, this one, this one and

943
00:44:25,800 –> 00:44:28,900
we rank them out, the ones that
probably the easiest ones for me

944
00:44:28,900 –> 00:44:30,200
to do.
Those are the ones I ranked the

945
00:44:30,200 –> 00:44:32,800
highest and then I try to follow
all those things.

946
00:44:32,800 –> 00:44:35,900
And then when you fail on one of
those things that I put up on my

947
00:44:36,000 –> 00:44:39,100
my top five that I look at you
and say, well, you’re failing,

948
00:44:39,200 –> 00:44:41,600
you see because you didn’t do
that, you didn’t keep that one

949
00:44:41,600 –> 00:44:44,400
up there and that’s one of the
big ones and this is human

950
00:44:44,400 –> 00:44:46,300
nature.
This is the way we are.

951
00:44:46,400 –> 00:44:50,200
We all rank the laws by Nature.
We want to put them up there and

952
00:44:50,200 –> 00:44:53,100
say, well, this is what God
really wants out of us, we rank

953
00:44:53,100 –> 00:44:56,300
these laws like that and then
and if somebody else doesn’t

954
00:44:56,300 –> 00:44:58,700
follow those, you see then we
just figure.

955
00:44:58,700 –> 00:45:02,800
Well, you know, they’re not
following God’s laws must be

956
00:45:02,800 –> 00:45:03,900
Spirit Week here.
You know?

957
00:45:03,900 –> 00:45:06,200
Like at school said, they have
those Spirit weeks, you know,

958
00:45:06,500 –> 00:45:08,400
every time they happen to
school, that’s what we figure.

959
00:45:08,400 –> 00:45:12,300
It’s a bank.
That’s what I do mind is to keep

960
00:45:12,300 –> 00:45:14,400
one who’s come in and maybe
that’s the Bell for lunch to

961
00:45:14,400 –> 00:45:16,100
see.
Obviously got two minutes, it’s

962
00:45:16,100 –> 00:45:17,700
close, but that we’re getting
there.

963
00:45:17,700 –> 00:45:21,900
So, yeah, anyways, that’s that’s
a human weakness problem.

964
00:45:22,400 –> 00:45:27,000
Thanks Ed breaking those laws.
So let’s go home this weekend

965
00:45:27,000 –> 00:45:28,800
being careful.
That were not one of those

966
00:45:28,800 –> 00:45:33,200
people that ranks the laws.
And we show partiality based on

967
00:45:33,200 –> 00:45:36,700
how we rank the laws, you know?
And the fact that can

968
00:45:36,700 –> 00:45:39,200
Deuteronomy, you’ve got that
pretty clear that cursed is the

969
00:45:39,200 –> 00:45:41,500
one who does not confirm all the
words of the law and all the

970
00:45:41,508 –> 00:45:42,800
people shall say.
Amen.

971
00:45:43,200 –> 00:45:44,800
You know, Paul would deal with
this later on.

972
00:45:45,000 –> 00:45:49,000
Nations 5 that he testified in
verse 3, there’s that everyone

973
00:45:49,000 –> 00:45:51,600
who become circumcised.
If you want to go back to this

974
00:45:51,600 –> 00:45:53,000
law, think that’s going to save
you.

975
00:45:53,200 –> 00:45:55,100
You’re a debtor to keep the
whole law.

976
00:45:55,200 –> 00:45:57,500
So if you think you’re going to
follow the law like that by

977
00:45:57,500 –> 00:46:00,400
picking and choosing James wants
to make it very clear to

978
00:46:00,400 –> 00:46:03,000
everybody, you can’t pick and
choose the laws.

979
00:46:03,200 –> 00:46:05,700
You can’t just say, I’m going to
pick the rich people and show

980
00:46:05,700 –> 00:46:08,900
kindness to them and leave the
poor people out when you do the

981
00:46:08,900 –> 00:46:11,700
laws and you can’t rank the
laws, you have to try to keep

982
00:46:11,700 –> 00:46:13,800
them all.
So he brings that up here in

983
00:46:13,800 –> 00:46:16,000
this section.
He Says why bring you know when

984
00:46:16,000 –> 00:46:18,500
you look when you look at this
little section here verse 11,

985
00:46:18,800 –> 00:46:21,900
you see, he said, whoever in
verse 10 there, whoever shall

986
00:46:21,900 –> 00:46:24,900
keep the whole law.
And yet stumbles in one point

987
00:46:24,900 –> 00:46:28,000
you’re guilty of it all.
So you can’t do that ranking

988
00:46:28,000 –> 00:46:30,900
thing and think you’re okay
because that’s not the way it

989
00:46:30,900 –> 00:46:32,500
works.
If you’re going to go back to

990
00:46:32,508 –> 00:46:34,800
that and think you’re keeping
the law, you’ve got to try to

991
00:46:34,800 –> 00:46:38,900
keep it all and so he brings up
the example now of adultery and

992
00:46:38,900 –> 00:46:41,800
murder and you know why bring
those up other than the fact,

993
00:46:41,800 –> 00:46:43,800
he’s trying to remind them about
King David.

994
00:46:43,900 –> 00:46:47,000
Because remember what, And with
David and that God knows the

995
00:46:47,000 –> 00:46:49,000
thoughts and the intents of the
heart.

996
00:46:49,200 –> 00:46:52,600
Now, when you look at this issue
of why he calls it, the Royal

997
00:46:52,600 –> 00:46:56,300
law because he does.
He think he uses a 12 Here Again

998
00:46:56,300 –> 00:47:00,100
by The Law of Liberty but he
refers here to the Royal law as

999
00:47:00,100 –> 00:47:04,100
to why he calls it.
Debt, it may be because on those

1000
00:47:04,100 –> 00:47:07,700
two Commandments you see on the
idea of the loving God and

1001
00:47:07,700 –> 00:47:11,000
loving the neighbor that as
Jesus made it very clear.

1002
00:47:11,000 –> 00:47:15,000
The whole law hangs on that.
So I think in calling it The

1003
00:47:15,000 –> 00:47:16,900
Royal law.
He’s like saying that though

1004
00:47:16,900 –> 00:47:19,500
these this is the whole broad
aspect.

1005
00:47:19,500 –> 00:47:22,200
It’s just like Phil’s like like
The Royal Concept of the

1006
00:47:22,200 –> 00:47:24,600
kingdom.
And the top laws that are up

1007
00:47:24,600 –> 00:47:29,000
there, here are the top royal
laws of God and the Royal law is

1008
00:47:29,000 –> 00:47:31,500
that you love your neighbor as
yourself and that you love the

1009
00:47:31,500 –> 00:47:33,800
Lord your God and it may be
that.

1010
00:47:33,800 –> 00:47:35,700
That’s why James refers to it
that way.

1011
00:47:35,700 –> 00:47:39,600
Back in verse 8 if you really
fulfill the Royal law.

1012
00:47:39,600 –> 00:47:42,900
According to the scripture, then
you’re going to do all these

1013
00:47:42,900 –> 00:47:44,800
different things and you’re
going to show them without

1014
00:47:44,900 –> 00:47:47,300
Reality.
So we got to be careful brother

1015
00:47:47,300 –> 00:47:50,100
and sisters because here’s our
problems today, we show

1016
00:47:50,100 –> 00:47:53,100
favoritism today based on way
people dress, let’s face it.

1017
00:47:53,100 –> 00:47:56,900
We do that’s human nature to do
that and that’s an area we got

1018
00:47:56,900 –> 00:47:59,000
to work on.
We look at the cars that people

1019
00:47:59,000 –> 00:48:01,500
drive somebody comes up in a
beater car with think all, you

1020
00:48:01,500 –> 00:48:03,500
know, there’s just a beater car,
what are they?

1021
00:48:03,600 –> 00:48:07,100
Somebody drives in and some nice
car and already we’re making

1022
00:48:07,100 –> 00:48:10,000
decisions about the people
before we ever see him, get out

1023
00:48:10,000 –> 00:48:13,200
of the car, just based on the
kind of car that they drive, we

1024
00:48:13,200 –> 00:48:15,700
make decisions about skin color.
And let’s face it.

1025
00:48:15,700 –> 00:48:18,300
That’s human nature and we got
to work on that.

1026
00:48:18,300 –> 00:48:20,200
That’s an area that we have to
work on.

1027
00:48:20,200 –> 00:48:22,900
They have to fight the
Tendencies to show favoritism.

1028
00:48:23,100 –> 00:48:25,600
We do it based on the country.
Somebody’s from, you know, they

1029
00:48:25,600 –> 00:48:29,300
accept that they speak from the
Ecclesia that they’re from the

1030
00:48:29,300 –> 00:48:31,900
family name, that they might
happen to have the amount of

1031
00:48:31,900 –> 00:48:34,700
money that they have is we even
do it with gender.

1032
00:48:34,900 –> 00:48:39,000
We have favoritism shown for
guys and girls based on gender

1033
00:48:39,200 –> 00:48:41,200
and that there was an issue that
Paul had to deal with.

1034
00:48:41,200 –> 00:48:44,700
Neither male nor female, you’re
all one in Christ, Jesus.

1035
00:48:45,200 –> 00:48:48,200
We do it based on somebody’s
education, somebody has a degree

1036
00:48:48,200 –> 00:48:50,600
in college and a masters and we
rank them up there and somebody

1037
00:48:50,600 –> 00:48:52,600
else just as a high school
degree and we put them down

1038
00:48:52,600 –> 00:48:55,500
there and we don’t realize that
God loves them both and they’re

1039
00:48:55,500 –> 00:48:58,700
both assets to the Ecclesia
because they bring strength in

1040
00:48:58,700 –> 00:49:00,800
different areas that one can see
that.

1041
00:49:00,800 –> 00:49:04,400
The other can’t we do just, we
got to fight the tendency to do

1042
00:49:04,400 –> 00:49:07,400
those rankings.
We we show favoritism based on

1043
00:49:07,400 –> 00:49:10,500
people’s Age, based on the Bible
version that they use.

1044
00:49:10,500 –> 00:49:12,700
If you don’t have the right
Bible version, you see your

1045
00:49:12,700 –> 00:49:16,100
really your can’t read or, you
know, you You’re not viewed as a

1046
00:49:16,100 –> 00:49:18,300
legitimate christadelphians or
something because you got the

1047
00:49:18,300 –> 00:49:20,600
wrong version.
We have folks in our community

1048
00:49:20,600 –> 00:49:23,700
who do that over the Yahweh name
and they think that boy don’t

1049
00:49:23,700 –> 00:49:25,700
use the Yahweh name or so he
does use it.

1050
00:49:25,700 –> 00:49:28,100
What Yahweh.
It works on both sides that

1051
00:49:28,100 –> 00:49:31,600
people treat that as a dividing
line and look at showing

1052
00:49:31,600 –> 00:49:34,600
favorites, we can’t be that way
brothers and sisters.

1053
00:49:34,600 –> 00:49:38,000
That’s not godliness.
That’s not single-mindedness,

1054
00:49:38,200 –> 00:49:43,000
that’s not like our God who does
not show favoritism, he doesn’t

1055
00:49:43,000 –> 00:49:46,700
do that on these little issues.
What he shows favoritism towards

1056
00:49:46,700 –> 00:49:50,600
is those who love him and those
who love one another that’s

1057
00:49:50,600 –> 00:49:53,800
God’s Royal law.
That’s the top thing that we

1058
00:49:53,800 –> 00:49:56,800
have to aim for not on these
other little issues that you

1059
00:49:56,800 –> 00:50:00,400
know, we tend to put as big
issues today so where he ends up

1060
00:50:00,400 –> 00:50:02,800
at the end of verse 13 and maybe
we’ll leave it at that and break

1061
00:50:02,800 –> 00:50:08,100
for lunch is that look verse 12?
He said so speak and so do so

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now he’s getting into the
Practical.

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So when he leaves us he says now
what we want to do is when we

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talk and we use our tongues, And
when we got there, we do things

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in our political life and we
treat people the way we treat

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them and we go to set people and
we go to talk to people when

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you’re to put them in their
seats.

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Let’s do it as those who we will
be judged by the law of Liberty

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the law of Liberty which has set
us free to serve one another not

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based on the rankings of the
law.

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The little rankings that we have
but the law of Liberty brothers

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and sisters from which we all
been set free to serve one

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another in love because Does
mercy triumphs over judgment if

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nothing else when we leave this
weekend brothers and sisters and

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young people?
Let’s keep that in mind because

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in our community we have those
who have the tendency to swing

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on the Judgment side.
We have those who swing on the

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merseyside and what the Apostle
Paul knew about human nature

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with James here knew about human
nature and Paul does as well

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because Paul’s know different
later on when he deals with the

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same issue our tendency as human
people is that we go towards the

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Judgment side.
That’s the way we are by nature

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and you see it all the time.
We’re just natural judges of one

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another.
And so what we have to fight on

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that brothers and sisters as we
have to constantly be pushing

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ourselves.
The other way of giving people

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some slack, cutting them, some
slack in life and realizing that

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these issues that we’ve ranked
up there as being so big and

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high, maybe they’re really not
as important as we thought they

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were.
And what really matters is

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whether somebody loves God and
whether they love their neighbor

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also.
And so what we do then is we

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learn to show Show Mercy to our
brothers and sisters to our

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young people who may not have
been.

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Oh follow the law like we think
our do the rankings as we think

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we show them kindness and mercy
and we cut them some slack

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because in the end of Mercy,
will triumphs over judgment.

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That’s the thing.
We have to aim for that South

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and the new King James puts it.
That Mercy triumphs over.

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Judgment it.
See it defeats it in the end and

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it provides a much more peaceful
happy family life.

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And a Usual life.
If we can treat one another,

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00:52:17,200 –> 00:52:20,200
with a little more Mercy, cut
each other a little bit more

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slack because, you know, in your
heart that when you show up to

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the Judgment seat, you know,
which side you’re going to want

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to be on.
Who’s going to want to be on the

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side with judgment out there
when we’re standing before the

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judge, we’re all going to hope
for mercy.

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So why brothers sisters can’t we
show that Mercy today to each

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other and the way we treat one
another and how we talk to each

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other and the things that we do
in our family life and Ecclesia

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life And with that, we’re off to
lunch.