Class 4 from this series was used in GCT Episode 300.<\/p>\n
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\nOur general theme for this week
\nis Next Year in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is Class 2 from our brother
\nBob Lloyd. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the title of his class is
\nturning trials into triumph. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Bob.
\nGood afternoon, everybody. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, you’re still awake right now
\nanyway, huh? <\/p>\n
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\nThis is a tough class right
\nafter lunch. <\/p>\n
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\nYou.
\nIt’s nap time. <\/p>\n
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\nI know it, so if you want to go
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\nI want to bring the greetings of
\nour home ecclesia. <\/p>\n
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\nMy wife and I are so pleased to
\nbe back with you again. <\/p>\n
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\nWe were here in 1993 and it’s
\nnice that you invite us back. <\/p>\n
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\nWe thank you for that.
\nAnd my home ecclesia is known as<\/p>\n
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\nthe Verdugo Hills Ecclesia.
\nBut when on our way, people <\/p>\n
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\noften announce me as being from
\nVerdigo Hills, which means Dizzy<\/p>\n
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\nit must be dizzy.
\nBut when they were sending me <\/p>\n
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\nI remember when he was little
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\nBut they sent me information
\nabout the camp. <\/p>\n
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\nThey had a history of the camp,
\nof the speakers and they <\/p>\n
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\nremember what the speakers
\ntalked about the year before. <\/p>\n
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\nI was here in 93 and the year
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\nNobody knows what I said back in
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\nIn fact, the brother, I think, I
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\narrange your brother.
\nPlease review the above record <\/p>\n
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\nand fill in, provide the missing
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\nLloyd.
\nWell, I don’t know if anybody’s <\/p>\n
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\nfigured out what I said or not,
\nbut you know, I don’t remember <\/p>\n
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\nI think there’s a lesson in that<\/p>\n
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\nwe’re it’s so easy for us to
\nforget. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have better forgetters than
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\nwork at remembering something
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\ncan’t use.
\nSo when we go home from this <\/p>\n
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\nBible school, let’s hope we’ll
\nhave a few thoughts that we’ve <\/p>\n
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\ntaken from the various classes
\nthat we can put into our <\/p>\n
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\neveryday or work of day lives
\ntest time. <\/p>\n
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\nI won’t ask you to speak up, but
\nlast year, 1997, you had three <\/p>\n
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\nreally great speakers.
\nCan you remember them? <\/p>\n
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\nOne was David Lawrence, Portrait
\nof a St. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Stan Isabel, open ye the
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\nBrother Harry Tennant, Elijah,
\nMan of Fire. <\/p>\n
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\nHarry is the only speaker that’s
\nbeen to three of your Bible <\/p>\n
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\nschools.
\nI was checking the different <\/p>\n
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\npeople out.
\nAnd he’s worth having over and <\/p>\n
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\nover again, as we all know.
\nBut we’re glad to be with you <\/p>\n
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\nthis afternoon.
\nAnd our subject is the book of <\/p>\n
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\nJames.
\nAnd the title for this one is <\/p>\n
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\nTurning Triumph, Turning trials
\ninto triumph. <\/p>\n
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\nDon’t really get that backwards.
\nIf you want to open your Bibles <\/p>\n
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\nto James chapter one, we’re
\ngoing to find that the book of <\/p>\n
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\nJames is one of the most
\npractical books in the entire <\/p>\n
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\nNew Testament.
\nAnd this brief letter was <\/p>\n
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\nwritten by the half brother of
\nJames. <\/p>\n
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\nMost of us believe a few don’t
\nagree with that, but and his <\/p>\n
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\nname was James.
\nAnd we won’t argue with that. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you’re going to tell us how
\nwe ought to live. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was written to the believers
\nof the 1st century. <\/p>\n
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\nThe book of James is a letter of
\nencouragement as well as <\/p>\n
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\ninstruction to those who stood
\nin the very midst of conflict. <\/p>\n
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\nSo the first thing to do is kind
\nof give you an overview of the <\/p>\n
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\nbook of James so that you get an
\noverview of it. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then we’re going to 0 in on
\ndifferent things. <\/p>\n
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\nIt starts off chapter one, verse
\none with a greeting. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then, then it has trials and
\ntemptations, the testing of <\/p>\n
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\nfaith, the source of temptation.
\nNumber three, listening and <\/p>\n
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\ndoing #4 favoritism, forbidden
\n#5 faith and deeds. <\/p>\n
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\nNumber six, taming the tongue #7
\ntwo kinds of wisdom #8 warning <\/p>\n
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\nagainst worldliness.
\nAnd that comes breaks down into <\/p>\n
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\nquarrelsomeness, spiritual
\nunfaithfulness, pride, slander, <\/p>\n
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\nand boasting.
\nThen at #10 we have warnings to <\/p>\n
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\nthe rich oppressors.
\nAnd I’ll move it up because I <\/p>\n
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\ndon’t think you can see the
\nbottom and #10 miscellaneous <\/p>\n
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\nexhortation concerning patience
\nand suffering, concerning oath, <\/p>\n
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\nconcerning the prayer of faith,
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\nthe truth.
\nSo that that’s just a quick <\/p>\n
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\nThere are 5 themes in the book
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\nI don’t know which ways,
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\nspeech, humility and prayer.
\nAnd these are woven right <\/p>\n
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\nthrough the book and though are
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\nat as we study the book of
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\nNow there’s a remarkable feature
\nabout the book of James and that<\/p>\n
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\nis that he does not directly,
\nbut indirectly, he quotes the <\/p>\n
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\nLord Jesus Christ, who is, who
\nhad said some of the things that<\/p>\n
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\nJames is going to say.
\nHe doesn’t quote exactly, but he<\/p>\n
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\nAnd we’ll look at some of these <\/p>\n
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\nin just a second.
\nJF Mayer, who wrote a book on <\/p>\n
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\nthe epistle of James, said there
\nwere 70 to 80 of these and <\/p>\n
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\nnearly half of them are
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\nsomething that Jesus said and
\nthen look at what James said. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus said swear not and all
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\nJames said swear not neither by <\/p>\n
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\nyourselves treasures upon the
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\nJames said, Murmur not brethren,<\/p>\n
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\none against another, that ye be
\nnot judged. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus said, Whosoever heareth
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\nJames said, but be doers of the <\/p>\n
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\nword, and not hearers only.
\nJesus said Blessed be poor for <\/p>\n
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\nyears, as the Kingdom of God.
\nJames said, hath not God chosen <\/p>\n
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\nthe poor of this world, rich in
\nfaith and heirs of the Kingdom? <\/p>\n
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\nJesus said You know that by your
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\nthem by their fruits.
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\nor figs of, or thistles?
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\nforth good fruit, but a corrupt
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\nfruit.
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\nWherefore by their fruits ye
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\nJames said.
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\nblessings and cursings.
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\nnot so to be can the fig tree my
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\neither a vine figs so can no
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\nyield salt water and fresh.
\nBlessed are the peacemakers, so <\/p>\n
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\nthey should be called the throne
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\nrighteousness is sown in peace
\nto them that make peace. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he was thoroughly familiar
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\nJames, who wrote first Peter was
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\nJames said, and so we’re gonna
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\nconversation and works.
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\nand good works.
\nJames said your lust, that war <\/p>\n
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\non your members.
\nPeter said abstain from fleshly,<\/p>\n
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\nfleshly lust, which war against
\nthe soul. <\/p>\n
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\nJames said, Let him know that he
\nwhich converteth the Sinner from<\/p>\n
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\nthe heir of his way shall save a
\nsoul from death, and shall hide <\/p>\n
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\na multitude of sins.
\nPeter says for charity shall <\/p>\n
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\ncover a multitude of sins.
\nJames said, Count it all joy <\/p>\n
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\nwhen you fall in the divers
\ntemptations. <\/p>\n
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\nPeter said, wherein ye greatly
\nrejoice, though now for a season<\/p>\n
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\nif need be, or you are in
\nheaviness through manifold <\/p>\n
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\ntemptations.
\nJames said of his own will begat<\/p>\n
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\nhe us with the word of truth.
\nPeter said Seeing ye have <\/p>\n
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\npurified your souls in a bane,
\nthe truth, James says humble <\/p>\n
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\nyourselves in the sight of the
\nLord and he will lift you up. <\/p>\n
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\nPeter says humble yourselves
\ntherefore into the mighty hand <\/p>\n
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\nof God and he may exalt you in
\ndue time. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we see that James quoted
\nJesus and Peter quoted James, <\/p>\n
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\nand it’s OK to repeat yourself
\nbecause they they did. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s also OK to borrow good
\nideas from others. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you steal one good idea, it’s
\ncalled plagiarism. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you steal lots of good ideas,
\nit’s called research. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so in our study of the book
\nof James, we’ve done a lot of <\/p>\n
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\nresearch.
\nI would rather give you a good <\/p>\n
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\nidea I stole from somebody else
\nand give you a lousy one of my <\/p>\n
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\nSo I’ve drawn my thoughts from <\/p>\n
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\nthe Book of James, but I’ve gone
\nto other sources. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Neville Smart wrote a
\nbook on the Book of James, and <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Don Stiles quoted from
\nthat in his study of the Book of<\/p>\n
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\nJames.
\nBrother Dick Stone has taught <\/p>\n
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\nBible school classes on the Book
\nof James. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so I’m not, I’m not ashamed
\nto quote someone else to share <\/p>\n
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\nan idea that I think is is is
\nworth hearing. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if you have your Bibles open
\nto James chapter one, verse one,<\/p>\n
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\nand I’ll be reading this from
\nthe new King James Version. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m with brother Peter.
\nMy favorite version is the King <\/p>\n
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\nJames Version, but I like them
\nall. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd sometimes it’s interesting
\nto compare one with the other. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I think of all the new ones,
\nthe new King James is probably <\/p>\n
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\nthe best.
\nI use the Nivi, use Phillips a <\/p>\n
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\nlot.
\nPhillips is like the little girl<\/p>\n
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\nwho had a curl in the middle of
\nher forehead. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen she was good, she was very,
\nvery good. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen she was bad, she was
\nhorrid. <\/p>\n
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\nBut my computer at home has four
\nversions right side by side. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so you put it up, put a
\nverse up and you can compare the<\/p>\n
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\nfour at once and then you can
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\nIt’s, it’s wonderful these new
\nthings that people, I don’t <\/p>\n
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\nunderstand computers, I can’t
\neven spell it, but they sure are<\/p>\n
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\nwonderful to have.
\nSo James, a Bond servant of God <\/p>\n
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\nand the Lord Jesus Christ to the
\n12 tribes scattered abroad. <\/p>\n
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\nGreetings.
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\nNow, brother Neville Smart says
\nthe word greetings there can be <\/p>\n
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\ntranslated wisheth Joy, and
\nthat’s nice. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I wish you Joy.
\nI have a granddaughter here <\/p>\n
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\nnamed Joy.
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\neach other.
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\nsomebody that you really want to
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\nme to speak and you know, I and
\nsome people, you know, they oh, <\/p>\n
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\nBob, how are you?
\nAnd, and they’re looking away. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, that’s great. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you don’t want to know how <\/p>\n
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\nSee, you’re looking great.
\nIt’s nice to see you. <\/p>\n
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\nSome people, their only pleasure
\nthey have in life is telling you<\/p>\n
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\nabout their aches and pains.
\nAnd so if they want to tell you <\/p>\n
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\nabout them, listen.
\nIt’s an act of kindness. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if you don’t believe most <\/p>\n
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\npeople are, most people can’t
\ncare less about your troubles. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, they say never tell a
\nperson your troubles. <\/p>\n
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\nMost people couldn’t care less,
\nand the others are glad of it. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I went to lunch with a
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\nI found out he wasn’t, but we
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\nand the wait, waitress comes up,
\nyou know, we got our menus and <\/p>\n
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\nshe comes and she says, well,
\nhow are you? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he starts telling her about
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\nI’ll, if you’re not ready, I’ll.
\nHe says, wait a minute, I <\/p>\n
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\nhaven’t finished telling you
\nyet. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this poor girl with a whole
\nkind of, he made her stand there<\/p>\n
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\nand he told her all about his
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\nI was embarrassed for him and
\nfor her. <\/p>\n
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\nBut the the point is that it’s a
\nnice thing to say. <\/p>\n
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\nHow are you if you really mean
\nit, But if you don’t mean it, <\/p>\n
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\nthen change your greeting and
\ncare about people because we <\/p>\n
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\nshould be interested in each
\nother. <\/p>\n
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\nSo, James, one verse two, my
\nbrethren, count it all joy when <\/p>\n
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\nyou fall into various trials.
\nWait, wait, wait a minute, <\/p>\n
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\nJames, I got problems.
\nYou tell me to count it joy when<\/p>\n
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\nI got problems.
\nHow can you count problems? <\/p>\n
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\nA joy sounds like a
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\nNow no, chastening for the <\/p>\n
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\ngrievous nevertheless. <\/p>\n
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\nAfterward it yieldeth the
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\nHappy are they? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd yet, he said, when you fall
\ninto trouble, when you have <\/p>\n
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\ncounted to joy, well, how can <\/p>\n
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\nyou do that?
\nThat’s what we’re going to talk <\/p>\n
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\nThis is our subject. <\/p>\n
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\nHow can we turn our trials into
\njoy? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause the only people who have
\nno troubles at all are. <\/p>\n
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\nDead.
\nSo I got a few problems that <\/p>\n
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\nshows you’re alive.
\nSo we’re going to find a way to <\/p>\n
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\nhandle, cope, get through of the
\ntrials which we have because we <\/p>\n
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\nall have some.
\nAnd Hebrews 12\/2 tells us we’re <\/p>\n
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\nto look to Jesus.
\nWell, of course we know we’re to<\/p>\n
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\nlook to Jesus.
\nWell here. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is how you look to Jesus in
\nHebrews 12 and two. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s the author and finisher of
\nour faith. <\/p>\n
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\nWho, for the joy that was set
\nbefore him, endured the cross, <\/p>\n
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\ndespising the shame, and is set
\ndown on the right hand of the <\/p>\n
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\nthrone of God?
\nNow I’m going to make up a <\/p>\n
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\nlittle illustration here to try
\nto drive this point home. <\/p>\n
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\nIt doesn’t pay to sit too close,
\ndoes it? <\/p>\n
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\nI think any of you would be a
\nfool to volunteer to come up and<\/p>\n
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\nlet me whip you a 39 times.
\nPaul was whipped 39 times on <\/p>\n
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\nthree different occasions.
\nHe says of the Jews, no, five <\/p>\n
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\ntimes.
\nOf the Jews, five times I <\/p>\n
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\nreceived I-40 stripes -1 Now he
\ngot that came from the <\/p>\n
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\nDeuteronomy.
\nAnd in Deuteronomy God allowed <\/p>\n
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\nthem to hit a man 40 times.
\nNow the Romans and people like <\/p>\n
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\nthat had no limits.
\nSo when Paul was beaten by rods <\/p>\n
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\nby the Romans, you have no idea
\nhow many times he was in. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen he was beaten in Philippi
\nand thrown into jail with his <\/p>\n
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\nblack back all bloody, It could
\nhave gone on and on. <\/p>\n
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\nBut God in his mercy said only
\n40 times. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he says 40 strikes he may
\ngive him, and no more, lest he <\/p>\n
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\nexceed this and beat him with
\nmany blows. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd above these and your brother
\nbe humiliated in your sight. <\/p>\n
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\nSo since I think I’m going to
\nhave trouble getting a volunteer<\/p>\n
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\njust to come up and let me hit
\nhim, I’m going to sweeten the <\/p>\n
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\npot a little bit.
\nThis is just pretend. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, let’s pretend that ioffer
\n$1 million to a volunteer who <\/p>\n
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\nwill come up and let me hit him
\n39 times. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, do I have a volunteer, $1
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\nCome on up.
\nWynton. <\/p>\n
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\nDid you raise your hand?
\nI’d love to come here. <\/p>\n
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\nI knew when and when.
\nCome on up here. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m.
\nI’m serious. <\/p>\n
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\nCome on up.
\nI couldn’t. <\/p>\n
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\nShe’s a brave one.
\nOh, thank you. <\/p>\n
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\nThank you, Ruth.
\nSee, she’s braver than you now. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m glad that you volunteered.
\nI met this young man in New <\/p>\n
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\nBack when? <\/p>\n
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\nfairly bright and he’s already
\nfigured out that $1,000,000.39 <\/p>\n
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\nstripes.
\nEach stripe is worth $25,641.03.<\/p>\n
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\nDid you have that figured out?
\nI’ll take one stripe. <\/p>\n
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\nOh just what?
\nSo 2 stripes and you get 52,010 <\/p>\n
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\nstripes in your quarter of a
\nmillion? <\/p>\n
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\nOK, no worries.
\nNow now why are you willing to <\/p>\n
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\nvolunteer now?
\nAnd you weren’t before because I<\/p>\n
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\nsee freedom at the end of
\nstripes. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see money at the end of
\nstripes, and you think money <\/p>\n
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\nwill buy freedom.
\nThanks for coming up. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’re a good sport.
\nNow, why did I do that? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause the point was this.
\nIf you can look forward to being<\/p>\n
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\na millionaire after receiving 39
\nstripes each time I hit with it,<\/p>\n
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\n25,641 twenty 5641, he would
\ncount him up as he went by. <\/p>\n
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\nHe I only wanted one strike.
\nHe’s he’s kind of low aim. <\/p>\n
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\nHe only won 25,000.
\nBut even for 25,000, you see <\/p>\n
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\nwhat what, what, what Witwin was
\ndoing. <\/p>\n
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\nHe wasn’t going to be thinking
\nabout how much it hurt. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s going to think about the
\nreward at the end for the hurt, <\/p>\n
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\nand that’s exactly what Hebrew
\nsays. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus, for the joy that was set
\nbefore him, endured the cross, <\/p>\n
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\ndespising the shame, and he’s
\nnow sat down on the right hand <\/p>\n
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\nof God.
\nSo as Jesus hung on the cross in<\/p>\n
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\nthe most excruciating pain, I
\nthink you can probably put a a <\/p>\n
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\nhuman being through, he was not
\nthinking about how much it hurt,<\/p>\n
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\nHe was thinking.
\nAbout. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Kingdom and because he was
\nthinking about the Kingdom, he <\/p>\n
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\ncould endure the cross.
\nAnd that’s the key to our <\/p>\n
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\nsuccess in our trials.
\nDon’t think about the problem. <\/p>\n
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\nDon’t think about the hurt.
\nThink past the problem. <\/p>\n
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\nThink past the hurt to the
\nKenyan. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause this trial, this problem
\nis preparing me for bigger and <\/p>\n
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\nbetter things.
\nYes, I can take it. <\/p>\n
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\nThank you God.
\nBecause again, Hebrew says if <\/p>\n
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\nGod doesn’t chasten you, he
\ndoesn’t love you from the Lord <\/p>\n
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\nchastens he loves, He chases and
\nencourages every son whom he <\/p>\n
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\nreceives.
\nAnd so we need to get this <\/p>\n
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\nmental attitude that we can take
\nit because everything that’s <\/p>\n
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\nhappening in our life is
\npreparing us for the Kingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if this is the way God wants
\nus to be prepared, thank you, <\/p>\n
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\nFather, for the trials and
\ntroubles you’re giving me. <\/p>\n
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\n6, Jesus has got to talk about <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I apologize to Brother <\/p>\n
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\nI know that he’s doing Luke. <\/p>\n
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\nAllow me to quote Luke once in a<\/p>\n
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\nwhile and I’ll let you to quote
\nJames all you want. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t, I don’t want to see, I
\ndon’t know what he’s going to <\/p>\n
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\nsay, but I hope this verse
\nwasn’t in it. <\/p>\n
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\nLuke 6 verse 22, he’s talking
\nabout troubles. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus says blessed are you when
\nmen will hate you. <\/p>\n
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\nWait a minute.
\nI want I want people to like me,<\/p>\n
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\nright?
\nJesus, blessed are you when they<\/p>\n
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\nhate you, when they exclude you
\nand revile you and cast you out <\/p>\n
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\nyour name as evil for the son of
\nman’s sake. <\/p>\n
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\nwith young people who who want <\/p>\n
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\nand reviled and say you can’t be
\nin our group and you can’t come <\/p>\n
337
\n00:21:47,640 –> 00:21:51,760
\nto our things, kids are crushed
\nby this Jesus saying that’s OK <\/p>\n
338
\n00:21:52,600 –> 00:21:56,280
\nbecause you to be a friend of
\nthe world, you have to be the <\/p>\n
339
\n00:21:56,280 –> 00:21:57,680
\nenemy of God.
\nYou want to be the friend of <\/p>\n
340
\n00:21:57,680 –> 00:21:59,120
\nGod, you have to be the enemy of
\nthe world. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:21:59,480 –> 00:22:01,120
\nSo now we’ll come down to verse
\n23. <\/p>\n
342
\n00:22:01,120 –> 00:22:03,360
\nWe’re looking at Luke 6, verse
\n23. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:22:03,680 –> 00:22:10,400
\nJesus says rejoice in that day.
\nAnd did you hear I didn’t read <\/p>\n
344
\n00:22:10,400 –> 00:22:12,680
\nyet Leap for joy.
\nNo, no. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:22:12,680 –> 00:22:16,000
\nOh.
\nNo, wait a minute, that was <\/p>\n
346
\n00:22:16,000 –> 00:22:18,360
\nsilly to do that one.
\nJesus didn’t really mean that. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:22:18,360 –> 00:22:20,640
\nI mean, I mean, Jesus said it,
\nbut he didn’t mean what he said,<\/p>\n
348
\n00:22:20,640 –> 00:22:22,480
\nright?
\nYou think Jesus ever said <\/p>\n
349
\n00:22:22,480 –> 00:22:26,840
\nanything he didn’t mean?
\nIf Jesus said leap for joy, you <\/p>\n
350
\n00:22:26,840 –> 00:22:28,840
\nthink he meant it?
\nI think he really meant it. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:22:29,600 –> 00:22:31,920
\nIn fact, it’s a marvelous
\ntherapy. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:22:32,640 –> 00:22:34,400
\nNow you want get up and and you
\nleave if you want to. <\/p>\n
353
\n00:22:34,400 –> 00:22:39,560
\nRuth, it’s OK.
\nWe have a Bible class at our <\/p>\n
354
\n00:22:39,560 –> 00:22:42,840
\nhouse Tuesday nights.
\nWell, this is one of my pet <\/p>\n
355
\n00:22:42,840 –> 00:22:44,200
\nsubjects.
\nSo some of you heard this <\/p>\n
356
\n00:22:44,200 –> 00:22:47,880
\nbefore, but we have a young
\ncouple there come to our Bible <\/p>\n
357
\n00:22:47,880 –> 00:22:50,000
\nclass and he’s got a lot of
\nproblems to work. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:22:50,000 –> 00:22:54,040
\nAnd so he has to get up at 4:00
\nin the morning to to go to work.<\/p>\n
359
\n00:22:54,040 –> 00:22:56,440
\nSo as soon as the class is over,
\nhe’s out right away. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:22:56,440 –> 00:22:59,080
\nWe serve refreshments and the
\nrest of people sit around and <\/p>\n
361
\n00:22:59,080 –> 00:23:00,840
\ntalk a while.
\nBut this brother has to get up <\/p>\n
362
\n00:23:00,840 –> 00:23:02,360
\nso early.
\nHe leaves right away, but we’re <\/p>\n
363
\n00:23:02,360 –> 00:23:05,800
\njust by when he can come.
\nBut we talked about leaping for <\/p>\n
364
\n00:23:05,800 –> 00:23:09,040
\njoy.
\nSo later on, his wife said that <\/p>\n
365
\n00:23:09,040 –> 00:23:11,360
\nas they walked down the
\ndriveway, he was leaping all the<\/p>\n
366
\n00:23:11,360 –> 00:23:15,160
\nway down the driveway because he
\nhad so many problems. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:23:19,600 –> 00:23:22,160
\nBut you ought to try this.
\nIt works. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:23:22,320 –> 00:23:26,080
\nJesus meant what he said.
\nThis isn’t silly talk. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:23:26,840 –> 00:23:30,640
\nJesus says when you really have
\nproblems and trials, leap for <\/p>\n
370
\n00:23:30,640 –> 00:23:33,720
\njoy.
\nNow, I did this at Wessex Camp <\/p>\n
371
\n00:23:33,760 –> 00:23:36,680
\nand, and Peter’s taught at
\nWessex Camp a number of times <\/p>\n
372
\n00:23:36,680 –> 00:23:39,120
\nand everybody camps there and a
\nlot of people come in, they call<\/p>\n
373
\n00:23:39,120 –> 00:23:40,800
\nthem caravans, we call them
\ntrailers. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:23:41,360 –> 00:23:43,800
\nAnd one sister came to me later
\nand she had a headache. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:23:44,400 –> 00:23:46,480
\nShe’s Bob.
\nAfter your talk, I went back to <\/p>\n
376
\n00:23:46,480 –> 00:23:49,200
\nmy trailer and she said I I was
\nstanding in the doorway and I <\/p>\n
377
\n00:23:49,200 –> 00:23:50,720
\nleaped for a joint and I hit my
\nhead. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:23:54,200 –> 00:23:57,080
\nSo I think, you know,
\nparticularly if you’re tall, us <\/p>\n
379
\n00:23:57,080 –> 00:23:59,520
\nshort guys don’t need to worry.
\nWe don’t hit our heads so much. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:24:00,040 –> 00:24:03,600
\nBut a medical doctor in in
\nEngland came to me. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:24:03,600 –> 00:24:05,360
\nLater he said Oh.
\nNo, I’m gonna try that. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:24:05,360 –> 00:24:09,160
\nIt works.
\nYou see, Jesus is telling us how<\/p>\n
383
\n00:24:09,400 –> 00:24:12,880
\nto solve our problems, not how
\nto solve how to live with them, <\/p>\n
384
\n00:24:12,880 –> 00:24:18,600
\nhow to cope with them.
\nAnd so yes, when you are really,<\/p>\n
385
\n00:24:18,680 –> 00:24:21,000
\nand if you can’t leap
\nphysically, try to do it <\/p>\n
386
\n00:24:21,000 –> 00:24:22,600
\nmentally just, you know, if
\nyou’re lying in bed. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:24:24,800 –> 00:24:36,880
\nBut physical exercise helps
\nrelieve tension. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:24:36,960 –> 00:24:39,000
\nThey, they, the doctors all
\nprove that. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:24:40,000 –> 00:24:44,720
\nAnd Jesus is saying leaping for
\njoy when you’ve got troubles, it<\/p>\n
390
\n00:24:44,720 –> 00:24:47,320
\nhelps you to take cope with
\nthem. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:24:48,560 –> 00:24:50,880
\nNow we know we’re all going to
\nbe tried. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:24:50,880 –> 00:24:54,800
\nOne of my favorite verses in all
\nthe Bible is 1 Corinthians 10\/13<\/p>\n
393
\n00:24:54,840 –> 00:24:57,320
\nand it’s one I think everyone
\nshould know and memorize. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:24:58,000 –> 00:25:01,840
\nBut there is no temptation.
\nI changed the words says no, no <\/p>\n
395
\n00:25:01,840 –> 00:25:04,080
\ntemptation taken you.
\nBut I said no temptation taken <\/p>\n
396
\n00:25:04,080 –> 00:25:06,440
\nme.
\nBut such as is common to man, <\/p>\n
397
\n00:25:06,440 –> 00:25:10,880
\nbut God is faithful who will not
\nallow me to be tempted above <\/p>\n
398
\n00:25:10,880 –> 00:25:13,320
\nthat I am able, but well with
\nthe temptation make a way of <\/p>\n
399
\n00:25:13,320 –> 00:25:15,440
\nescape, then I may be able to
\nbear it. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:25:16,560 –> 00:25:20,000
\nAnd that verse is the verse I
\nquote to myself when I’m having <\/p>\n
401
\n00:25:20,000 –> 00:25:23,480
\na problem.
\nAnd then I try to leap for joy. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:25:24,720 –> 00:25:26,960
\nAnd it will help us live through
\nit. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:25:27,440 –> 00:25:30,720
\nYou see, you can’t put our
\nthought. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:25:30,720 –> 00:25:32,920
\nYou don’t want to think out by
\nthinking the thought. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:25:32,960 –> 00:25:36,800
\nYou don’t want to think.
\nIf a gorgeous girl walks by <\/p>\n
406
\n00:25:36,800 –> 00:25:40,720
\nhere, is she pretty and I think
\nI don’t want to think about her.<\/p>\n
407
\n00:25:41,320 –> 00:25:42,840
\nWell, I’m not going to think
\nabout that pretty girl. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:25:42,840 –> 00:25:43,880
\nI’m just not going to think
\nabout it. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:25:43,880 –> 00:25:44,800
\nBut I am thinking about it,
\nright. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:25:45,800 –> 00:25:47,960
\nSo I just say this verse,
\nthere’s no temptation taking me <\/p>\n
411
\n00:25:47,960 –> 00:25:50,200
\nbesides coming to mind.
\nAnd she’s when I’m saying that <\/p>\n
412
\n00:25:50,200 –> 00:25:52,800
\nverse, she’s out of mind.
\nShe comes back again. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:25:52,800 –> 00:25:55,640
\nThere’s no temptation.
\nAnd sometimes I have to say it <\/p>\n
414
\n00:25:55,640 –> 00:26:00,480
\nverse a lot of times.
\nBut the point is you can’t think<\/p>\n
415
\n00:26:00,480 –> 00:26:03,640
\nof two things at once.
\nAnd when you’re putting a Bible <\/p>\n
416
\n00:26:03,640 –> 00:26:06,040
\nverse in your mind, you’re
\ncrowding out a worldly thought <\/p>\n
417
\n00:26:06,040 –> 00:26:08,800
\nthat you don’t want to think.
\nBut when you decide I won’t <\/p>\n
418
\n00:26:08,800 –> 00:26:10,400
\nthink the thought I don’t want
\nto think, you’re thinking the <\/p>\n
419
\n00:26:10,400 –> 00:26:11,640
\nthought you said you wouldn’t
\nthink about. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:26:13,200 –> 00:26:18,040
\nSo it’s thought substitution.
\nAnd so there are ways for us to <\/p>\n
421
\n00:26:18,040 –> 00:26:20,400
\novercome our trials and our
\ntemptations. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:26:21,560 –> 00:26:24,240
\nSo because of this, we really do
\nbelieve, don’t we? <\/p>\n
423
\n00:26:24,720 –> 00:26:29,240
\nWe really this is not think or
\nmaybe, but we really do believe <\/p>\n
424
\n00:26:29,240 –> 00:26:35,920
\nthat all things work together
\nfor good, not some things and <\/p>\n
425
\n00:26:35,920 –> 00:26:38,480
\nnot sometimes all things all the
\ntime work together for good for <\/p>\n
426
\n00:26:38,480 –> 00:26:41,400
\neverybody.
\nOh no, just for those who are <\/p>\n
427
\n00:26:41,400 –> 00:26:43,120
\nthe call according to his
\npurpose. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:26:43,960 –> 00:26:46,800
\nIf God be for me, who can be
\nagainst me? <\/p>\n
429
\n00:26:47,920 –> 00:26:50,640
\nI can do all things through
\nChrist with strength with me. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:26:51,840 –> 00:26:54,560
\nAnd oh, this next verse, I’ve
\ngot a note already from my <\/p>\n
431
\n00:26:54,560 –> 00:26:58,520
\nsecret pal and the person that
\nmust know me because this next <\/p>\n
432
\n00:26:58,520 –> 00:27:00,720
\nverse was written on the note
\nthat they sent me. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:27:00,720 –> 00:27:06,120
\nProverbs 3\/5 and. 6.
\nTrust in the Lord with all thine<\/p>\n
434
\n00:27:06,120 –> 00:27:08,800
\nheart and lean not unto thine
\nown understanding and all thy <\/p>\n
435
\n00:27:08,800 –> 00:27:11,840
\nways acknowledge him and he will
\ndirect your paths. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:27:12,600 –> 00:27:14,400
\nSo thank you, secret pal,
\nwhoever you are. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:27:16,000 –> 00:27:19,240
\nBut if you had those verses in
\nyour mind and you’re up against <\/p>\n
438
\n00:27:19,240 –> 00:27:21,560
\nit, you don’t know what to do.
\nTrust in the Lord with all your <\/p>\n
439
\n00:27:21,680 –> 00:27:25,600
\nhe’s going to direct your steps
\nthough he slay me yet while I <\/p>\n
440
\n00:27:26,120 –> 00:27:30,280
\ntrust in him, said Job.
\nAnd so we’re back to James one <\/p>\n
441
\n00:27:32,280 –> 00:27:38,040
\nverse 3, knowing that the
\ntesting of your faith produces <\/p>\n
442
\n00:27:38,040 –> 00:27:43,120
\npatience, knowing this is not a
\nmaybe thing. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:27:44,840 –> 00:27:48,760
\nThe trying of our faith helps
\nus, though at the present time <\/p>\n
444
\n00:27:48,760 –> 00:27:52,120
\nit may hurt.
\nNow in first Peter one and <\/p>\n
445
\n00:27:52,120 –> 00:27:57,720
\nseven, the word testing there is
\nthe same word as is is in in <\/p>\n
446
\n00:27:57,720 –> 00:28:01,440
\nJames one and three.
\nAnd Peter says in first Peter <\/p>\n
447
\n00:28:01,440 –> 00:28:04,840
\n1:00 and 7:00 that the
\ngenuineness of your faith, being<\/p>\n
448
\n00:28:04,840 –> 00:28:10,720
\nmuch more precious than gold
\nthat perishes, though it is <\/p>\n
449
\n00:28:10,720 –> 00:28:17,640
\ntested by fire, may be found to
\npraise, honor, and glory at the <\/p>\n
450
\n00:28:17,640 –> 00:28:21,280
\nrevelation of Jesus Christ.
\nSo, so there’s a, there’s a <\/p>\n
451
\n00:28:21,280 –> 00:28:29,720
\npicture coming through that
\ntrials are difficult, but <\/p>\n
452
\n00:28:29,720 –> 00:28:32,960
\nthey’re for purpose.
\nAnd because they are helping us,<\/p>\n
453
\n00:28:32,960 –> 00:28:35,680
\nwe look past them.
\nWe don’t think about how much it<\/p>\n
454
\n00:28:35,680 –> 00:28:37,600
\nhurts.
\nWe think about the fact that <\/p>\n
455
\n00:28:37,600 –> 00:28:40,440
\nwe’re being prepared for
\nsomething better and greater. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:28:40,760 –> 00:28:44,960
\nNow if gold could talk, even
\nwhen they go go dig gold out of <\/p>\n
457
\n00:28:44,960 –> 00:28:47,240
\nthe out of the earth, it’s, it’s
\nnot very pretty. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:28:47,480 –> 00:28:49,520
\nIt’s all mixed in with a bunch
\nof rock and stuff. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:28:49,760 –> 00:28:53,400
\nThere’s lots of gold mines in
\nCalifornia and we visited some <\/p>\n
460
\n00:28:53,400 –> 00:28:56,920
\nof them just just with, with
\nCycs and climbed down inside of <\/p>\n
461
\n00:28:56,920 –> 00:28:59,560
\nsome of them and looked at all
\nthe abandoned equipment that’s <\/p>\n
462
\n00:28:59,560 –> 00:29:00,640
\nrusting.
\nBy the way. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:29:01,120 –> 00:29:03,280
\nYou wonder how they ever found
\nthem out in the middle of no <\/p>\n
464
\n00:29:03,280 –> 00:29:06,840
\nplace in the desert.
\nBut when they get it out, they <\/p>\n
465
\n00:29:06,840 –> 00:29:10,320
\nget a chunk of gold out.
\nNobody would want it like it <\/p>\n
466
\n00:29:10,320 –> 00:29:12,760
\nwas.
\nSee, God doesn’t want us. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:29:13,000 –> 00:29:14,440
\nThis is a song in the in the
\nchurch. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:29:14,440 –> 00:29:19,600
\nJust as I am.
\nIt’s just just just God just <\/p>\n
469
\n00:29:19,600 –> 00:29:20,960
\nwants you, just as you.
\nAre. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:29:21,680 –> 00:29:24,360
\nNo, He wants you to change from
\nwhat you are. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:29:24,800 –> 00:29:27,440
\nTo what he wants you to be and
\nhe’s got to test you and he’s <\/p>\n
472
\n00:29:27,440 –> 00:29:31,600
\ngot to try you and he’s got to
\nhelp you get rid of those <\/p>\n
473
\n00:29:31,600 –> 00:29:33,160
\nimpurities.
\nAnd that’s what they do with <\/p>\n
474
\n00:29:33,160 –> 00:29:36,080
\ngold.
\nSo they take a big pot and they <\/p>\n
475
\n00:29:36,080 –> 00:29:39,080
\nput up these these gold things,
\nthese stuff in it and they put a<\/p>\n
476
\n00:29:39,080 –> 00:29:43,800
\nfire under it and and this it
\nwhen it starts to the gold melts<\/p>\n
477
\n00:29:44,120 –> 00:29:46,920
\nand all this other stuff come
\nbubbles up to the top. <\/p>\n
478
\n00:29:47,120 –> 00:29:50,120
\nAnd the Goldsmith, he has a
\nladle and he, he skims off all <\/p>\n
479
\n00:29:50,120 –> 00:29:55,840
\nthe crud stuff and he throws it
\naway and he keeps skimming off <\/p>\n
480
\n00:29:56,160 –> 00:29:59,760
\nall the impurities till he looks
\ndown in the pot of gold. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:30:00,120 –> 00:30:03,600
\nAnd when he can see his face
\nreflected up, when he sees <\/p>\n
482
\n00:30:03,600 –> 00:30:11,560
\nhimself in the gold, it’s pure.
\nAnd when the Lord Jesus Christ <\/p>\n
483
\n00:30:11,560 –> 00:30:17,200
\ncan see his face reflected in
\nyour life, because the trials <\/p>\n
484
\n00:30:17,400 –> 00:30:19,960
\nand the problems have helped
\npurge. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:30:19,960 –> 00:30:23,720
\nOut of you, the things which
\nwould keep you out of the <\/p>\n
486
\n00:30:23,720 –> 00:30:27,320
\nKingdom, you.
\nSo yes, you’re thankful for <\/p>\n
487
\n00:30:27,320 –> 00:30:29,560
\nthem.
\nIf gold could talk, it would say<\/p>\n
488
\n00:30:29,560 –> 00:30:34,480
\nit’s sure hot in here, but it’s
\nworth it to become pure and <\/p>\n
489
\n00:30:34,480 –> 00:30:35,920
\nthat’s true.
\nIt is. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:30:36,960 –> 00:30:41,840
\nSo back to James one verse 3.
\nKnowing that the testing of your<\/p>\n
491
\n00:30:41,840 –> 00:30:45,000
\nfaith produces patience.
\nWe know it. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:30:45,000 –> 00:30:49,680
\nWe don’t doubt this.
\nLater on in James 5 and 10, he’s<\/p>\n
493
\n00:30:49,680 –> 00:30:52,880
\ngoing to say, take my brethren,
\nthe prophets who has spoken in <\/p>\n
494
\n00:30:52,880 –> 00:30:56,920
\nthe name of the Lord for an
\nexample of suffering, affliction<\/p>\n
495
\n00:30:56,920 –> 00:31:00,480
\nand of patience.
\nBehold, we count them happy <\/p>\n
496
\n00:31:00,920 –> 00:31:04,240
\nwhich endure.
\nYe have heard of the patience of<\/p>\n
497
\n00:31:04,240 –> 00:31:08,640
\nJob and have seen the end of the
\nLord, that he is very pitiful <\/p>\n
498
\n00:31:09,280 –> 00:31:14,560
\nand of tender mercy.
\nSo take examples of people in <\/p>\n
499
\n00:31:14,560 –> 00:31:18,440
\nthe Bible who have been patient
\nand certainly Job went through <\/p>\n
500
\n00:31:18,640 –> 00:31:20,960
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ is the
\nbest example of all. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:31:21,120 –> 00:31:24,200
\nBut throughout Scripture we have
\nexamples of people who’ve been <\/p>\n
502
\n00:31:24,200 –> 00:31:28,160
\ntested and come through like
\ngold tried in the fire. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:31:29,760 –> 00:31:34,640
\nPaul says rejoice in hope,
\npatient and tribulation, <\/p>\n
504
\n00:31:35,320 –> 00:31:38,520
\ncontinuing steadfastly in
\nprayer. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:31:40,240 –> 00:31:44,960
\nHebrews, we have need of
\npatience that after you have <\/p>\n
506
\n00:31:44,960 –> 00:31:48,240
\ndone the will of God, you might
\nreceive the promise. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:31:49,800 –> 00:31:53,720
\nSo there’s a secret in being
\nable to rejoice in tribulation. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:31:54,400 –> 00:32:00,240
\nAnd those who know this secret
\nare happy and unperturbed and <\/p>\n
509
\n00:32:00,240 –> 00:32:03,000
\nserene in, in face of all the
\nproblems that they have. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:32:04,640 –> 00:32:06,600
\nI’m sure you’ve, you’ve, you’ve
\nknow people. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:32:08,200 –> 00:32:10,800
\nI’ll tell you an example of a,
\nof a little girl that I know. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:32:11,400 –> 00:32:13,920
\nHer name is Diane Grandchamp.
\nHave you ever heard of Diane <\/p>\n
513
\n00:32:13,920 –> 00:32:16,120
\nGrandchamp?
\nShe’s about this long. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:32:16,600 –> 00:32:19,960
\nShe’s 47 years old and she’s got
\na a, a disease no one’s ever <\/p>\n
515
\n00:32:19,960 –> 00:32:22,000
\nlived as long as she has lived
\nwith this disease. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:32:22,280 –> 00:32:26,440
\nShe’s on a breathing machine.
\nAnd she lives across the street <\/p>\n
517
\n00:32:26,440 –> 00:32:30,080
\nfrom the Cranston, RI ecclesia
\nand she’s on a machine. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:32:30,080 –> 00:32:33,320
\nShe never gets out of her house.
\nShe never gets out of her bed. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:32:33,720 –> 00:32:36,520
\nShe’s totally bed fast.
\nAnd you go there to cheer her <\/p>\n
520
\n00:32:36,520 –> 00:32:37,400
\nup.
\nAnd you know what you do? <\/p>\n
521
\n00:32:37,680 –> 00:32:41,600
\nShe cheers you out and all the
\ntrouble she’s got. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:32:41,720 –> 00:32:45,560
\nShe is the most sparkling
\npersonality I, I have ever known<\/p>\n
523
\n00:32:45,560 –> 00:32:48,480
\nwith all those problems.
\nShe calls me on the phone. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:32:48,600 –> 00:32:50,240
\nShe has to talk.
\nShe’s not supposed to be. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:32:50,240 –> 00:32:53,280
\nAble to talk because she’s got a
\ntrach and a thing going and she.<\/p>\n
526
\n00:32:53,640 –> 00:32:55,920
\nBut when she calls, you can know
\nit’s Diane, you know, and she’s <\/p>\n
527
\n00:32:56,080 –> 00:32:59,760
\nBA, you know.
\nAnd I said Diane, you know. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:33:00,040 –> 00:33:02,000
\nAnd she heard I was going to
\nEngland one first time I went to<\/p>\n
529
\n00:33:02,000 –> 00:33:04,440
\nEngland.
\nShe says she’s never seen me <\/p>\n
530
\n00:33:04,440 –> 00:33:07,400
\nspeak except on videos because
\nshe can’t leave her room. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:33:09,280 –> 00:33:11,840
\nBut she’s they get they, she
\ngets my videos. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:33:11,840 –> 00:33:13,880
\nSo she she says.
\nBob, do you think? <\/p>\n
533
\n00:33:13,880 –> 00:33:20,200
\nEngland is ready for you yet.
\nAnd the answer was they weren’t,<\/p>\n
534
\n00:33:20,200 –> 00:33:26,200
\nbut I went anyway.
\nBut but there are people with <\/p>\n
535
\n00:33:26,200 –> 00:33:33,280
\nlots more serious problems than
\nyou’ve got, and many of them are<\/p>\n
536
\n00:33:33,280 –> 00:33:35,560
\nconquering them by looking past
\nthem. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:33:36,520 –> 00:33:39,600
\nAnd so if your problems have
\nbeen getting you down, Brother <\/p>\n
538
\n00:33:39,600 –> 00:33:42,960
\nHardy mentioned in his prayer,
\nhe prayed that this class would <\/p>\n
539
\n00:33:43,040 –> 00:33:44,320
\nhelp us do this.
\nAnd that’s the. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:33:44,320 –> 00:33:47,240
\nGoal of this class.
\nBecause we’re talking to people <\/p>\n
541
\n00:33:47,240 –> 00:33:51,160
\nwho have problems, you get a
\nroom this full of people. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:33:51,160 –> 00:33:53,840
\nBrothers and sisters.
\nAnd and that you’ve got lots of <\/p>\n
543
\n00:33:53,840 –> 00:33:56,840
\nproblems.
\nLife has problems. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:33:57,040 –> 00:34:00,840
\nGod sends us problems.
\nHe allows them to, doesn’t <\/p>\n
545
\n00:34:00,840 –> 00:34:03,400
\nalways cause them.
\nSometimes we bring on our own. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:34:03,720 –> 00:34:05,840
\nBut he, he certainly.
\nKnows what fake problems we’re <\/p>\n
547
\n00:34:05,840 –> 00:34:09,320
\nfacing.
\nAnd so Paul, Paul, he had a <\/p>\n
548
\n00:34:09,320 –> 00:34:13,040
\nproblem.
\nHe he had been given a a <\/p>\n
549
\n00:34:13,040 –> 00:34:16,719
\nmarvelous vision of the Kingdom.
\nHe was caught up into the third <\/p>\n
550
\n00:34:16,719 –> 00:34:19,560
\nheavens in paradise to see
\nthings that he couldn’t even <\/p>\n
551
\n00:34:19,560 –> 00:34:20,639
\nutter.
\nIt was so wonderful. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:34:21,400 –> 00:34:24,400
\nI don’t know of any other man in
\nScripture that that saw what <\/p>\n
553
\n00:34:24,400 –> 00:34:27,840
\nPaul saw on that occasion.
\nWe have never seen that. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:34:28,159 –> 00:34:33,280
\nAnd it was so wonderful that
\nGod, in his mercy and in his <\/p>\n
555
\n00:34:33,440 –> 00:34:37,600
\nloving kindness, believed that
\nPaul needed a thorn in the <\/p>\n
556
\n00:34:37,600 –> 00:34:39,400
\nflesh.
\nJust kind of hold him. <\/p>\n
557
\n00:34:39,400 –> 00:34:44,320
\nDown and so Paul doesn’t like
\nthe thorns in the flesh. <\/p>\n
558
\n00:34:44,320 –> 00:34:47,239
\nYou don’t like him.
\nSo he said God three times he <\/p>\n
559
\n00:34:47,239 –> 00:34:51,880
\nsays take this away from me.
\nGod said no, my grace is <\/p>\n
560
\n00:34:51,880 –> 00:35:01,320
\nsufficient for you.
\nSo Paul, knowing that God was <\/p>\n
561
\n00:35:01,320 –> 00:35:07,520
\ngiving him this problem on
\npurpose, lest he should be <\/p>\n
562
\n00:35:07,520 –> 00:35:10,960
\nexalted above measure through
\nthe abundance of the revelation <\/p>\n
563
\n00:35:10,960 –> 00:35:14,120
\nthat was given to me.
\nHe gave me a thorn in the flesh <\/p>\n
564
\n00:35:14,840 –> 00:35:16,840
\nto buffet me.
\nLest I should be exalted above. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:35:16,840 –> 00:35:27,640
\nMeasure as a result of that,
\nPaul says I glory in my <\/p>\n
566
\n00:35:27,640 –> 00:35:29,120
\ninfirmities.
\nDo you? <\/p>\n
567
\n00:35:29,880 –> 00:35:32,400
\nYou got you got infirmities, do
\nyou glory in them? <\/p>\n
568
\n00:35:34,440 –> 00:35:37,800
\nMost people don’t, but maybe we
\nought to. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:35:38,560 –> 00:35:44,160
\nI glory in reproaches.
\nYou’ve been reproached. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:35:45,120 –> 00:35:53,760
\nYou glory in that all says too.
\nHe says, I glory in my <\/p>\n
571
\n00:35:54,040 –> 00:35:56,400
\nfirmities.
\nThe power of Christ may rest <\/p>\n
572
\n00:35:56,400 –> 00:35:59,000
\nupon me in my persecutions and
\ndistresses. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:35:59,240 –> 00:36:03,120
\nWhen I am weak, then I’m strong.
\nNow that seems a contradiction <\/p>\n
574
\n00:36:03,120 –> 00:36:08,160
\nof terms, doesn’t it?
\nBut you see, physical strength <\/p>\n
575
\n00:36:08,160 –> 00:36:10,760
\nis not what’s important.
\nBodily exercise profiteth a <\/p>\n
576
\n00:36:10,760 –> 00:36:13,520
\nlittle bit.
\nGodliness is profitable into all<\/p>\n
577
\n00:36:13,520 –> 00:36:16,520
\nthings, having a promise of the
\nlife that now isn’t that which <\/p>\n
578
\n00:36:16,520 –> 00:36:19,680
\nis to come.
\nSo it’s not wrong to keep your <\/p>\n
579
\n00:36:19,680 –> 00:36:21,080
\nbody as healthy as you can keep
\nit. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:36:21,600 –> 00:36:25,480
\nBut the the people who devote
\ntheir whole life to just <\/p>\n
581
\n00:36:25,800 –> 00:36:28,920
\nphysical fitness are totally
\nmissing the point. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:36:31,400 –> 00:36:33,680
\nNow the children of this world
\nare in their generation wiser <\/p>\n
583
\n00:36:33,680 –> 00:36:35,240
\nthan the children of light, said
\nJesus. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:36:36,400 –> 00:36:39,800
\nAnd he’s right about that.
\nThis bugs me a little bit, but <\/p>\n
585
\n00:36:39,800 –> 00:36:41,920
\nit’s true.
\nWhat what? <\/p>\n
586
\n00:36:41,920 –> 00:36:45,280
\nWhat Jesus is saying here is
\nthat people who don’t even know <\/p>\n
587
\n00:36:45,280 –> 00:36:49,800
\nthe truth use the principles of
\nthe truth to be successful in <\/p>\n
588
\n00:36:49,800 –> 00:36:51,160
\nwhatever they want to be
\nsuccessful in. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:36:51,840 –> 00:36:54,880
\nAnd we here we are the Christian
\nDelphians and we know the truth <\/p>\n
590
\n00:36:55,280 –> 00:36:56,520
\nand we should know the
\nprinciple. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:36:56,800 –> 00:36:58,880
\nAnd we’re not using the
\nprinciple to be successful in <\/p>\n
592
\n00:36:58,880 –> 00:37:01,960
\nthe truth as worldly people are
\nusing the same principle to be <\/p>\n
593
\n00:37:01,960 –> 00:37:06,280
\nsuccessful in life.
\nThe the principles of the Bible <\/p>\n
594
\n00:37:06,280 –> 00:37:08,200
\nare just true principles and
\nthey work. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:37:08,800 –> 00:37:10,440
\nThe law of gravity works for
\neverybody. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:37:11,120 –> 00:37:13,600
\nYou’re sitting in death row and
\nyou drop a pencil and it falls <\/p>\n
597
\n00:37:13,600 –> 00:37:16,200
\nto the ground.
\nAnd if you drop a pencil it <\/p>\n
598
\n00:37:16,200 –> 00:37:18,400
\nfalls to the ground.
\nBecause that’s the way nobody <\/p>\n
599
\n00:37:18,400 –> 00:37:22,720
\never repeals that law.
\nNow these laws that God has put <\/p>\n
600
\n00:37:22,720 –> 00:37:26,520
\nin, in effect, people who don’t
\nknow the truth sometimes use <\/p>\n
601
\n00:37:26,520 –> 00:37:29,720
\nthem to success in their
\nendeavours. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:37:30,000 –> 00:37:32,640
\nCertainly this was true.
\nIf you’ve done any reading about<\/p>\n
603
\n00:37:32,640 –> 00:37:35,600
\nany of the people who were in
\nthe concentration camps in <\/p>\n
604
\n00:37:35,600 –> 00:37:40,160
\nGermany, what they went through
\nand, and it broke a lot of <\/p>\n
605
\n00:37:40,160 –> 00:37:46,920
\npeople and some people survived
\nbecause they looked past the <\/p>\n
606
\n00:37:46,920 –> 00:37:51,120
\nproblem.
\nThere was an officer who was in <\/p>\n
607
\n00:37:51,120 –> 00:37:55,200
\nthe Hanoi Hilton.
\nIt was a concentration camp in <\/p>\n
608
\n00:37:55,200 –> 00:37:57,560
\nVietnam.
\nThey, they nicknamed it the <\/p>\n
609
\n00:37:57,560 –> 00:38:00,000
\nHanoi Hilton.
\nIt was such a terrible place. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:38:00,600 –> 00:38:04,680
\nThis guy was a golfer.
\nSo what he did, he was in <\/p>\n
611
\n00:38:04,680 –> 00:38:07,320
\nsolitary confinement in a little
\ncell. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:38:07,320 –> 00:38:09,760
\nHe couldn’t stand up.
\nHe couldn’t lie down. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:38:10,600 –> 00:38:13,480
\nIt was very small.
\nHe he could only sit kind of <\/p>\n
614
\n00:38:13,720 –> 00:38:19,760
\nsquatty and and he was kept that
\nway in darkness for days and <\/p>\n
615
\n00:38:19,760 –> 00:38:22,040
\ndays and days.
\nNow a Leicester man would have <\/p>\n
616
\n00:38:22,040 –> 00:38:26,080
\ngone crazy.
\nThis man visualized in his mind <\/p>\n
617
\n00:38:26,400 –> 00:38:31,240
\ngolf and in his mind he played
\nthe courses that he had played <\/p>\n
618
\n00:38:32,120 –> 00:38:36,560
\nwhen he was a free man.
\nAnd when he finally got out and <\/p>\n
619
\n00:38:36,560 –> 00:38:41,240
\nhe went back to those golf
\ncourses, his score was almost as<\/p>\n
620
\n00:38:41,240 –> 00:38:45,720
\ngood as it had been when he was
\nin the top form because he had <\/p>\n
621
\n00:38:45,720 –> 00:38:48,480
\nmentally played the course over
\nand over. <\/p>\n
622
\n00:38:48,600 –> 00:38:51,320
\nSo what was he doing?
\nHe wasn’t thinking about his <\/p>\n
623
\n00:38:51,320 –> 00:38:53,520
\nproblem.
\nHe was thinking about golf <\/p>\n
624
\n00:38:53,520 –> 00:38:55,600
\ncourses.
\nNow, I think you can think about<\/p>\n
625
\n00:38:55,600 –> 00:38:57,160
\nbetter things than a golf
\ncourse. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:38:57,680 –> 00:39:02,520
\nBut the point is, this idea
\nworks, but it doesn’t work if <\/p>\n
627
\n00:39:02,520 –> 00:39:07,400
\nyou don’t work it.
\nAnd so James is telling us here <\/p>\n
628
\n00:39:07,680 –> 00:39:11,320
\nto count it all joy when we fall
\ninto divers temptation. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:39:14,000 –> 00:39:19,680
\nJesus has said children of this
\nworld is their generation wiser <\/p>\n
630
\n00:39:19,680 –> 00:39:22,320
\nthan the children of light.
\nLet’s don’t let the people that <\/p>\n
631
\n00:39:22,320 –> 00:39:25,880
\ndon’t know the truth be more
\nefficient in using the <\/p>\n
632
\n00:39:25,880 –> 00:39:31,160
\nprinciples of God than we are as
\nwe try to strive for the Kingdom<\/p>\n
633
\n00:39:31,160 –> 00:39:37,080
\nof God.
\nSo back to James one verse two <\/p>\n
634
\n00:39:37,080 –> 00:39:39,120
\nagain.
\nCount it all joy when you fall <\/p>\n
635
\n00:39:39,120 –> 00:39:42,560
\ninto divers temptations.
\nWe ought to be the happiest. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:39:42,560 –> 00:39:46,760
\nPeople on Earth, aren’t we?
\nNobody has the future we’ve got.<\/p>\n
637
\n00:39:48,360 –> 00:39:51,920
\nWe, we, of all people in the
\nworld, ought to be the happiest.<\/p>\n
638
\n00:39:52,200 –> 00:39:53,480
\nAre you as happy as you ought to
\nbe? <\/p>\n
639
\n00:39:54,480 –> 00:39:55,880
\nWell, you’ve got a glorious
\nfuture. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:39:56,800 –> 00:40:00,600
\nWe know the truth.
\nYou know, I don’t don’t think we<\/p>\n
641
\n00:40:00,680 –> 00:40:01,920
\nmust never take this for
\ngranted. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:40:01,920 –> 00:40:06,360
\nBut Jesus says no man.
\nMankind means women too. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:40:06,360 –> 00:40:11,480
\nNo one can come to me.
\nExcept the father which has sent<\/p>\n
644
\n00:40:11,480 –> 00:40:15,960
\nme draw him.
\nSo you’re a hand picked group of<\/p>\n
645
\n00:40:15,960 –> 00:40:19,240
\npeople in this?
\nWorld, you’ve been called. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:40:20,520 –> 00:40:22,560
\nSome of you may not have
\nresponded yet if you’re not <\/p>\n
647
\n00:40:22,560 –> 00:40:25,080
\nbaptized, but you have you’ve
\nbeen called, you just haven’t <\/p>\n
648
\n00:40:25,080 –> 00:40:28,440
\nsaid yes yet.
\nOf course, if you turn God down <\/p>\n
649
\n00:40:28,440 –> 00:40:31,520
\non his initial call, you can’t
\npossibly please him, can you? <\/p>\n
650
\n00:40:33,000 –> 00:40:40,120
\nBut God wants us in his Kingdom,
\nand it’s my Father’s good <\/p>\n
651
\n00:40:40,120 –> 00:40:43,080
\npleasure to give you the
\nKingdom, said Jesus. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:40:43,440 –> 00:40:46,600
\nYou can’t earn it, but he wants
\nyou to have it. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:40:48,400 –> 00:40:51,400
\nAnd so in Acts 5 and 40, when
\nthey were the apostles were <\/p>\n
654
\n00:40:51,400 –> 00:40:57,520
\nbeaten, Jesus had promised them
\nthat they would be beaten, and <\/p>\n
655
\n00:40:57,520 –> 00:41:00,320
\nthey were beaten.
\nAnd when they had called the <\/p>\n
656
\n00:41:00,320 –> 00:41:02,680
\napostles and beaten them, they
\ncommanded that they should not <\/p>\n
657
\n00:41:02,680 –> 00:41:05,600
\nspeak in the name of the Lord
\nJesus, and they let them go. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:41:07,240 –> 00:41:09,080
\nThat’s the time not to obey the
\nauthorities. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:41:09,080 –> 00:41:10,520
\nWhen they tell you to leave the
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:41:10,960 –> 00:41:12,360
\nDon’t tell people about your
\nhope. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:41:12,720 –> 00:41:17,840
\nThat’s what you don’t obey.
\nMost of the laws of countries <\/p>\n
662
\n00:41:17,840 –> 00:41:22,160
\nwhere we live you can obey
\nwithout breaking the law of <\/p>\n
663
\n00:41:22,160 –> 00:41:25,440
\nChrist.
\nBut if you’re told to do <\/p>\n
664
\n00:41:25,440 –> 00:41:28,160
\nsomething other than what Christ
\nhas said, we ought to obey God <\/p>\n
665
\n00:41:28,160 –> 00:41:32,200
\nrather than man.
\nBut after they had been beaten <\/p>\n
666
\n00:41:32,200 –> 00:41:36,480
\nup and let go, and they didn’t
\nget $1,000,000 win, they just <\/p>\n
667
\n00:41:36,480 –> 00:41:40,760
\ngot a sore back, they departed
\nfrom the presence of the <\/p>\n
668
\n00:41:40,760 –> 00:41:44,560
\ncouncil, rejoicing.
\nOh, wait a minute, That’s what <\/p>\n
669
\n00:41:44,560 –> 00:41:47,480
\nJames said to do, right?
\nThat’s what they did do, <\/p>\n
670
\n00:41:47,800 –> 00:41:52,360
\nrejoicing that they were counted
\nworthy to suffer shame for his <\/p>\n
671
\n00:41:52,360 –> 00:41:55,760
\nname.
\nNow, isn’t it wonderful that God<\/p>\n
672
\n00:41:55,760 –> 00:42:00,640
\nhas called you to suffer shame
\nfor his name? <\/p>\n
673
\n00:42:01,560 –> 00:42:02,880
\nAnd so you’re rejoicing, aren’t
\nyou? <\/p>\n
674
\n00:42:03,600 –> 00:42:05,920
\nAnd you’re happy in spite of
\nyour problems. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:42:07,160 –> 00:42:09,880
\nJesus says be of good cheer,
\nyou’re going to have problems. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:42:09,880 –> 00:42:12,560
\nBe of good cheer.
\nWhat? <\/p>\n
677
\n00:42:12,560 –> 00:42:17,880
\nWait a minute, Jesus, you tell
\nme to be cheerful and I’m going <\/p>\n
678
\n00:42:17,880 –> 00:42:20,200
\nto have problems.
\nYes, that’s what Jesus said. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:42:20,880 –> 00:42:23,800
\nThese things that I’ve spoken to
\nyou, that you may have peace in <\/p>\n
680
\n00:42:23,800 –> 00:42:26,120
\nthe world, you will have
\ntribulation, but be of good <\/p>\n
681
\n00:42:26,120 –> 00:42:28,920
\ncheer.
\nI have overcome the world. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:42:30,360 –> 00:42:33,720
\nAnd because He did, He wants you
\nto also. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:42:35,800 –> 00:42:42,520
\nRevelations 225 They that have
\nalready hold fast, but hold fast<\/p>\n
684
\n00:42:42,520 –> 00:42:43,720
\nat what you have.
\nTill I come. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:42:43,960 –> 00:42:49,440
\nHe that overcometh and keepeth
\nmy works unto the end will I <\/p>\n
686
\n00:42:49,440 –> 00:42:54,520
\ngive power over the nations.
\nYou have to have something to <\/p>\n
687
\n00:42:54,520 –> 00:42:59,680
\novercome, or you can’t overcome.
\nSo be thankful for the problems <\/p>\n
688
\n00:42:59,680 –> 00:43:03,360
\nyou have.
\nThey are allowed by a loving <\/p>\n
689
\n00:43:03,360 –> 00:43:10,120
\nFather to help you prepare for
\nthe Kingdom, and if things were <\/p>\n
690
\n00:43:10,120 –> 00:43:12,440
\ntoo rosy in this world, maybe
\nyou wouldn’t want to be in the <\/p>\n
691
\n00:43:12,440 –> 00:43:17,120
\nKingdom.
\nI know some people, particularly<\/p>\n
692
\n00:43:17,120 –> 00:43:20,280
\nthe young people, when life is a
\nbowl of cherries. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:43:20,280 –> 00:43:26,000
\nThey think they don’t know about
\nthe pits, but you have one of <\/p>\n
694
\n00:43:26,000 –> 00:43:28,440
\nthem get sick with leukemia or
\nsomething and you go visit them <\/p>\n
695
\n00:43:28,440 –> 00:43:30,440
\nin the hospital when they’re
\nbald headed because they’ve been<\/p>\n
696
\n00:43:30,680 –> 00:43:33,440
\nhave lost all their hair and
\nthey’re ready for Jesus to come.<\/p>\n
697
\n00:43:35,160 –> 00:43:38,760
\nSo sometimes it takes trouble
\nfor us to want to be in the <\/p>\n
698
\n00:43:38,760 –> 00:43:44,120
\nKingdom.
\nAnd so our final verse in James <\/p>\n
699
\n00:43:44,120 –> 00:43:46,800
\nis going to be verse four,
\nchapter one. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:43:47,120 –> 00:43:49,960
\nBut let patience have our
\nperfect work that ye may be <\/p>\n
701
\n00:43:49,960 –> 00:43:55,400
\nperfect and entire, wanting
\nnothing in the NIV. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:43:55,520 –> 00:43:59,800
\nPerseverance must finish its
\nwork so that you may be mature <\/p>\n
703
\n00:43:59,800 –> 00:44:03,760
\nand complete.
\nFor not lacking anything. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:44:04,600 –> 00:44:07,640
\nAnother version, my brothers.
\nWhenever you have to face trials<\/p>\n
705
\n00:44:07,640 –> 00:44:11,800
\nof many kinds, count yourself
\nsupremely happy. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:44:12,360 –> 00:44:16,880
\nIn the knowledge that such
\ntesting of your faith breeds <\/p>\n
707
\n00:44:17,200 –> 00:44:21,760
\nFortitude, and if you give
\nFortitude full play, you will go<\/p>\n
708
\n00:44:21,760 –> 00:44:25,160
\non to complete a balanced
\ncharacter that will fall short <\/p>\n
709
\n00:44:25,720 –> 00:44:28,920
\nin nothing.
\nAnother version. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:44:29,320 –> 00:44:33,600
\nLet your endurance come to its
\nperfect product so that you may <\/p>\n
711
\n00:44:33,600 –> 00:44:39,040
\nbe fully developed and perfectly
\nequipped without any defects. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:44:42,600 –> 00:44:47,560
\nI don’t know if any of you know
\na, a test pilot, but test pilots<\/p>\n
713
\n00:44:47,720 –> 00:44:52,400
\ntake airplanes up to put them
\nthrough their Pacers and they, <\/p>\n
714
\n00:44:52,400 –> 00:44:55,080
\nthey, they, they make that plane
\ndive and they pull it out of a <\/p>\n
715
\n00:44:55,080 –> 00:44:57,800
\ndive and they, they make it do
\ntwists and turns and everything.<\/p>\n
716
\n00:44:58,520 –> 00:45:01,680
\nAny passenger plane has gone
\nthrough all kinds of tests <\/p>\n
717
\n00:45:01,680 –> 00:45:05,560
\nbefore it’s ever allowed to have
\npassengers on it. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:45:06,520 –> 00:45:10,080
\nNow, why is a test pilot putting
\nthat plane through all that? <\/p>\n
719
\n00:45:10,880 –> 00:45:12,200
\nWell, he wants to ruin it,
\nright? <\/p>\n
720
\n00:45:12,760 –> 00:45:14,440
\nNo, he doesn’t.
\nHe’s inside. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:45:15,480 –> 00:45:17,000
\nHe doesn’t want that plane to
\ncrash. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:45:17,000 –> 00:45:20,680
\nHe wants to make sure that plane
\nwill do what it ought to do. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:45:21,880 –> 00:45:23,640
\nThat’s what God is doing with
\nus. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:45:23,640 –> 00:45:27,640
\nIf you can just realize this,
\nthe tests we’re having, the <\/p>\n
725
\n00:45:27,640 –> 00:45:30,160
\nproblems we’re facing are.
\nLied by a. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:45:30,160 –> 00:45:33,320
\nHeavenly Father to prepare us
\nfor bigger and better things. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:45:34,920 –> 00:45:38,840
\nI feel so sorry when I see
\nparents and a little child <\/p>\n
728
\n00:45:39,480 –> 00:45:42,320
\nthat’s defective.
\nWhat do I mean by that? <\/p>\n
729
\n00:45:43,280 –> 00:45:46,320
\nWell, now and then you will see
\na child who rules the parents. <\/p>\n
730
\n00:45:47,160 –> 00:45:50,440
\nThey are the boss and whatever
\nthey want they get. <\/p>\n
731
\n00:45:51,200 –> 00:45:53,000
\nIf they don’t get it, they think
\nthey have. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:45:53,000 –> 00:45:54,920
\nThey throw themselves on the
\nground and kick and scream. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:45:54,920 –> 00:45:56,480
\nAnd then the mother or father
\ngives it to them. <\/p>\n
734
\n00:45:57,440 –> 00:46:01,200
\nAnd the father and mother think
\nthat they’re being kind to the <\/p>\n
735
\n00:46:01,200 –> 00:46:04,080
\nchild.
\nAnd unfortunately they’re being <\/p>\n
736
\n00:46:04,080 –> 00:46:09,200
\ncruel to the child because
\nthey’re letting the child rule. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:46:10,120 –> 00:46:13,240
\nThey’re letting the child be the
\nboss. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:46:14,360 –> 00:46:19,520
\nNow we all like to be the boss,
\nbut in God’s sight we’re all <\/p>\n
739
\n00:46:19,520 –> 00:46:24,200
\nlittle children.
\nAll of us are little children. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:46:25,880 –> 00:46:30,320
\nDid you know that Methuselah
\nnever lived today one a day is <\/p>\n
741
\n00:46:30,320 –> 00:46:32,840
\nwhen the Lord’s 1000 years, 1000
\nyears of the day, he only lived <\/p>\n
742
\n00:46:32,840 –> 00:46:35,200
\n9 or 69 years.
\nHe never got through the first <\/p>\n
743
\n00:46:35,200 –> 00:46:37,240
\nday.
\nJust a kid. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:46:38,120 –> 00:46:40,680
\nGod’s eyes.
\nWe think that’s a pretty long <\/p>\n
745
\n00:46:40,680 –> 00:46:46,840
\ntime, but if you can just
\nrealize that we are all children<\/p>\n
746
\n00:46:46,840 –> 00:46:51,320
\nin God’s eyes and and he is the
\nboss. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:46:52,560 –> 00:46:54,520
\nAnd it’s not good for us to be
\nthe boss. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:46:55,280 –> 00:46:58,480
\nIt’s not good for us to have our
\nown way and do what we want to <\/p>\n
749
\n00:46:58,480 –> 00:47:01,880
\ndo when we want to do it.
\nAnd so God allows us to have <\/p>\n
750
\n00:47:01,880 –> 00:47:09,800
\ntrials and temptations and
\nproblems to help us realize that<\/p>\n
751
\n00:47:09,800 –> 00:47:13,160
\nthe Kingdom is bigger than any
\nproblem that you’ll ever face, <\/p>\n
752
\n00:47:14,320 –> 00:47:17,880
\nthat you’ve given a thorn in the
\nflesh, unless you should be <\/p>\n
753
\n00:47:17,880 –> 00:47:23,360
\nexalted above major, said Paul.
\nAnd so how do we turn our trials<\/p>\n
754
\n00:47:23,360 –> 00:47:26,840
\ninto triumphs?
\nIt’s all done between the ears. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:47:27,840 –> 00:47:31,760
\nIt’s what we think about our
\nproblem that decides whether <\/p>\n
756
\n00:47:31,760 –> 00:47:35,000
\nit’s going to beat us or we’re
\ngoing to defeat it. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:47:36,880 –> 00:47:41,640
\nAnd so God doesn’t want to
\ndestroy us any more than a test <\/p>\n
758
\n00:47:41,640 –> 00:47:43,120
\npilot wants to destroy the
\nplane. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:47:43,120 –> 00:47:44,560
\nAnd he’s putting through its
\npaces. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:47:45,840 –> 00:47:51,120
\nHe wants it to succeed.
\nGod wants you to succeed. <\/p>\n
761
\n00:47:53,200 –> 00:47:56,480
\nHe sent his son to die so you
\ncould. <\/p>\n
762
\n00:47:58,000 –> 00:48:05,920
\nHe’s called you to his Kingdom.
\nAnd now what are you going to do<\/p>\n
763
\n00:48:05,920 –> 00:48:09,280
\nabout it?
\nIt’s only through tribulation <\/p>\n
764
\n00:48:09,280 –> 00:48:12,280
\nthat we’ll get there.
\nThat’s our promise. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:48:12,280 –> 00:48:13,800
\nThat’s not, that’s, that’s a
\ncertainty. <\/p>\n
766
\n00:48:13,800 –> 00:48:19,240
\nWe’re going to be trying.
\nAnd so let’s not be defective <\/p>\n
767
\n00:48:19,240 –> 00:48:23,280
\nchildren getting our own way and
\ndoing what we want to do and <\/p>\n
768
\n00:48:23,440 –> 00:48:26,280
\nbeing mad at God because he
\nwon’t let us do what we want to <\/p>\n
769
\n00:48:26,280 –> 00:48:28,120
\ndo.
\nI, I know people are angry with <\/p>\n
770
\n00:48:28,120 –> 00:48:30,920
\nGod.
\nWe were working with a lady who <\/p>\n
771
\n00:48:30,920 –> 00:48:35,560
\ncame to our class once a week.
\nShe came from a, from a lecture,<\/p>\n
772
\n00:48:35,800 –> 00:48:40,000
\nFrank Abel lecture, and she came
\nto our class once a week and she<\/p>\n
773
\n00:48:40,000 –> 00:48:41,960
\nwas getting ready for bad time
\nto be bad time. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:48:42,200 –> 00:48:44,320
\nShe even went out and bought her
\ndress. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:48:45,440 –> 00:48:48,320
\nI mean, she had to have a
\nspecial dress to be, she wasn’t <\/p>\n
776
\n00:48:48,320 –> 00:48:49,960
\ngoing to be baptized.
\nShe was going to wear it as soon<\/p>\n
777
\n00:48:49,960 –> 00:48:54,120
\nas the baptism was over.
\nBut she was all wrapped up in <\/p>\n
778
\n00:48:54,120 –> 00:49:00,920
\nthe things of that kind.
\nAnd then she got sick and she <\/p>\n
779
\n00:49:00,920 –> 00:49:03,560
\ncouldn’t sleep and she, I guess
\nshe went through a lot of <\/p>\n
780
\n00:49:03,560 –> 00:49:08,000
\ntorment and she said, God, I was
\ngoing to get baptized. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:49:09,000 –> 00:49:10,800
\nIf you’re going to treat me this
\nway, I’ll fix you. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:49:10,800 –> 00:49:15,560
\nI’m not going to get baptized.
\nShe didn’t. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:49:16,960 –> 00:49:20,680
\nShe totally went away.
\nShe she didn’t understand. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:49:22,160 –> 00:49:23,440
\nIt didn’t.
\nIt didn’t sink in. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:49:24,680 –> 00:49:29,000
\nGod, even though she was ill,
\nshe survived the illness and <\/p>\n
786
\n00:49:29,000 –> 00:49:32,080
\nshe’s all right now.
\nBut she was so angry that God <\/p>\n
787
\n00:49:32,080 –> 00:49:35,520
\nwould let her get I’ll become
\nI’ll just before she was getting<\/p>\n
788
\n00:49:35,520 –> 00:49:39,720
\nbaptized, she says, I’ll show
\nyou who’s the boss. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:49:41,040 –> 00:49:45,360
\nJust like a little child who
\ntried to tell his parents that <\/p>\n
790
\n00:49:45,360 –> 00:49:51,280
\nhe’s the boss and you’re not the
\nboss, God’s the boss. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:49:52,320 –> 00:49:55,640
\nAnd if he’s in charge, you know
\nwhat that means, means you’re <\/p>\n
792
\n00:49:55,640 –> 00:49:58,360
\nnot in charge.
\nYou can’t be in charge if God’s <\/p>\n
793
\n00:49:58,360 –> 00:49:59,680
\nin charge.
\nAnd if he’s in charge, you’re <\/p>\n
794
\n00:49:59,680 –> 00:50:02,880
\nnot in charge.
\nSo we have to humble ourselves <\/p>\n
795
\n00:50:02,880 –> 00:50:05,240
\nbefore the under the mighty hand
\nof God that he may exalt us in <\/p>\n
796
\n00:50:05,240 –> 00:50:09,520
\ndue time.
\nAnd so we’ll just read as we <\/p>\n
797
\n00:50:09,520 –> 00:50:14,600
\nclose James chapter one, verses
\n2-3 and four. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:50:16,280 –> 00:50:20,520
\nConsider it pure joy, my
\nbrothers, whenever you face <\/p>\n
799
\n00:50:20,520 –> 00:50:26,760
\ntrials of many kinds because you
\nknow that the testing of your <\/p>\n
800
\n00:50:26,760 –> 00:50:33,160
\nfaith develops perseverance.
\nPerseverance must finish its <\/p>\n
801
\n00:50:33,160 –> 00:50:39,720
\nwork so that you may be mature
\nand complete and not lacking <\/p>\n
802
\n00:50:40,000 –> 00:50:52,520
\nanything.
\nIt’s the Bible verse. <\/p>\n
803
\n00:50:54,240 –> 00:50:56,920
\nYoung people, I’m going to ask
\nthem to memorize it, but you <\/p>\n
804
\n00:50:56,920 –> 00:51:00,960
\nknow you can too.
\nIt’s OK to memorize Bible verses<\/p>\n
805
\n00:51:01,120 –> 00:51:02,520
\nno matter how old you are.
\nIt’s OK. <\/p>\n
806
\n00:51:02,520 –> 00:51:05,040
\nBut when you’re memorizing your
\nBible verse, you’re filling your<\/p>\n
807
\n00:51:05,040 –> 00:51:06,200
\nbrains with the right kind of
\nstuff. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:51:06,680 –> 00:51:09,480
\nSo be sure and get your little
\nBible verse before you leave. <\/p>\n
809
\n00:51:09,720 –> 00:51:13,240
\nHarley Wilson went and you can
\nhelp us pass these out. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:51:14,720 –> 00:51:16,200
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