Class 4 from this series was used in GCT Episode 300.<\/p>\n
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\nOur overall theme for the week
\nis Next Year in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is class #2 with brother
\nBob Lloyd. <\/p>\n
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\nHis class title is Faith that is
\nReal and Works. <\/p>\n
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\nThe reading for this class was
\ntaken from James chapter one <\/p>\n
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\nfrom verse 12 to the end of the
\nchapter. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s ending is made sets of
\nthese overheads and two dear <\/p>\n
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\nsweet sisters have correlated
\nthem into into sets, so anyone <\/p>\n
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\nwho wants one of those may come
\nup and have it at the end. <\/p>\n
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\nDid I say Don?
\nDid I say David? <\/p>\n
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\nThey look alike.
\nYou can’t Don did it. <\/p>\n
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\nThank you.
\nI didn’t know that I just they <\/p>\n
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\nboth begin with D too.
\nOscar Wilde, a famous British <\/p>\n
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\nwriter, is reported to have said
\nI can resist anything in the <\/p>\n
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\nworld except temptation.
\nUnfortunately, resisting <\/p>\n
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\ntemptation is not in style
\nanymore. <\/p>\n
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\nDoing what comes naturally has
\nbecome the end thing. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus told us to watch and pray
\nlest you enter into temptation. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Spirit indeed is willing,
\nbut the flesh is weak now, just <\/p>\n
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\nlike the rain which falls on the
\njust and the unjust, temptation <\/p>\n
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\nfalls on all of us.
\nEver since Eve had her fatal <\/p>\n
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\nconversation with that serpent,
\nmankind has been tempted. <\/p>\n
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\nSomeone has said they that think
\nthey. <\/p>\n
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\nCannot Wander will be the first.
\nTo lose their way, the convicted<\/p>\n
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\nembezzler who never dreamed that
\nthe temptation of greed would <\/p>\n
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\novercome him and land him in
\nprison. <\/p>\n
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\nThe loving husband, the ideal
\nwife, would have laughed in <\/p>\n
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\nunbelief if they had been told
\nearlier that they would yield to<\/p>\n
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\nthe lust that destroyed their
\nmarriage. <\/p>\n
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\nA young student at the Lions
\nAcademy named Napoleon wrote an <\/p>\n
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\nessay on the dangers of ambition
\nin his latter years. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was his ambition and his
\ngreed that destroyed him. <\/p>\n
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\nNow it’s not a sin to be
\ntempted. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re all tempted.
\nThe Lord Jesus Christ was <\/p>\n
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\ntempted, we read in Hebrews
\nchapter 2 in verse 17. <\/p>\n
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\nWherefore in all things it
\nbehooved Jesus to be made <\/p>\n
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\nlikened to his brethren, that he
\nmight be a merciful and faithful<\/p>\n
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\nhigh priest in things pertaining
\nto God, to make reconciliation <\/p>\n
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\nfor the sins of the people.
\nFor in that He Himself hath <\/p>\n
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\nsuffered being tempted, he is
\nable to succor them that are <\/p>\n
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\ntempted.
\nAnd then the most famous verse <\/p>\n
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\nabout Jesus being tempted is in
\nthe chapter 4 verse 15. <\/p>\n
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\nFor we have not an high priest
\nwhich cannot be tempted with the<\/p>\n
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\nfeeling of our infirmities, but
\nwas in all points tempted like <\/p>\n
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\nas we are yet without sin.
\nSo we’re going to be tempted. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s that’s a sure thing.
\nThe problem is we must not yield<\/p>\n
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\nto temptation.
\nThe purpose of our trials and <\/p>\n
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\nour temptations is to perfect
\nus, not to destroy us. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they do, one or the other.
\nThey make or they break. <\/p>\n
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\nGod doesn’t want to break, He
\nwants to make. <\/p>\n
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\nHe wants to make us better by
\novercoming our temptations. <\/p>\n
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\nGod tempted Abraham and a
\ntemptation was very severe. <\/p>\n
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\nI know none of us have ever been
\nput to a temptation as Abraham <\/p>\n
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\nwas to slay his own son, and he
\npassed that temptation, that <\/p>\n
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\ntesting with flying colors,
\nJesus said to the Ecclesia and <\/p>\n
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\nThyatira, he who overcomes.
\nAnd. <\/p>\n
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\nKeeps my works until the end.
\nTo him will I give power over <\/p>\n
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\nthe nations?
\nYou have to have something to <\/p>\n
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\novercome it.
\nYou can’t overcome it. <\/p>\n
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\nYou may not think that you like
\nto have problems. <\/p>\n
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\nYou may not believe that.
\nThat trials and obstacles and <\/p>\n
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\nhurdles are good.
\nSo maybe I can I try to prove to<\/p>\n
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\nyou that they are.
\nWe went to a great ball game the<\/p>\n
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\nother night.
\nIt was a wonderful game. <\/p>\n
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\nThe score was 100 and nothing.
\nThat’s not a good game. <\/p>\n
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\nYou want a close game.
\nYou want them to to to vie with <\/p>\n
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\neach other and and then your
\nteam always wins in the end, <\/p>\n
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\nwhether it’s the last quarter or
\nthe 9th inning or whatever it <\/p>\n
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\nis.
\nWe have a tennis court out here.<\/p>\n
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\nAny of you want to come out and
\nplay tennis with me? <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re going to have a lovely
\ntime. <\/p>\n
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\nMy score will be love.
\nYou will serve to me and the <\/p>\n
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\nball will go that right by.
\nI will serve to you and you’ll <\/p>\n
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\nhit it back and it’ll go right
\nby and you’re going to say <\/p>\n
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\nyou’re no fun to play tennis
\nwith. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can’t even return my serve.
\nSo you want someone who can <\/p>\n
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\nreturn your serve at least
\nsometimes. <\/p>\n
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\nYou you want someone that can
\noppose you. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, I was talking to one of
\nmy friends at work whose <\/p>\n
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\ngrandson is ranked 6th in his
\nage group in Texas as a tennis <\/p>\n
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\nplayer, just a young teenager.
\nBut he and he came out to visit <\/p>\n
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\nhis grandfather and he wanted to
\nplay tennis, but he didn’t want <\/p>\n
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\nto play tennis with people who
\nweren’t very good because they <\/p>\n
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\nwould weaken his game.
\nHe wanted someone who could <\/p>\n
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\nnearly beat him.
\nHe wants to win. <\/p>\n
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\nBut you see, you want opposition
\nin tennis. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s no fun if you just hit the
\nball over and you never, it <\/p>\n
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\nnever comes back.
\nYou go to a play and you enjoy <\/p>\n
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\nthe play because there’s the
\nvillain and there’s a hero and <\/p>\n
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\nall they vie back and forth and
\nfinally, in the last act, the <\/p>\n
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\nhero overcomes the villain.
\nYou see, interesting plays, <\/p>\n
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\nsports, all these things require
\nopposition. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, life requires opposition.
\nIf, if if you didn’t have any <\/p>\n
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\nchallenges, life would be
\nboring. <\/p>\n
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\nSometimes it’s we might like
\nlike it be a little bit more <\/p>\n
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\nboring than it is when we think
\nof some of the opposition’s we <\/p>\n
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\nwe have to face.
\nBut let’s try to look at our <\/p>\n
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\nproblems and our trials as
\nsomething that God is allowing <\/p>\n
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\nus to have to overcome so that
\nwe can be victorious for the <\/p>\n
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\nLord.
\nNow we need to take <\/p>\n
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\nresponsibility for our lives,
\nand that’s another problem in. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the world today.
\nEveryone blamed someone else. <\/p>\n
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\nAdam blamed Eve and Eve blamed
\nthe serpent, and he’s called. <\/p>\n
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\nPassing the buck and tell you a
\nlittle story about a a governor <\/p>\n
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\ndown in one of the southern
\nstates of the United States, I <\/p>\n
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\nthink it was Georgia.
\nHe went to the state <\/p>\n
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\npenitentiary to visit some of
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\nHawaii went there.
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\ntoo.
\nBut anyway, he he, he talked to <\/p>\n
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\na prisoner and he says, oh, what
\nare you in here for? <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, oh, I got a bum rap.
\nHe says the judge was again me. <\/p>\n
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\nHe said I couldn’t get a fair
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\nTalked to another, why are you
\nin here? <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, oh, if you had my
\nfamily, my mother was no good. <\/p>\n
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\nMy father was a drug.
\nIt wasn’t my fault. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was my parents fault.
\nEveryone he talked to was <\/p>\n
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\nblaming someone else.
\nThen he talked to George. <\/p>\n
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\nHe said, what are you in?
\nWhy are you in here, George? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd George says, well, governor,
\nhe says, I, I committed a crime <\/p>\n
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\nand I got caught.
\nHe says I’ve really learned my <\/p>\n
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\nlesson.
\nAnd he says I’m paying the <\/p>\n
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\nprice.
\nHe says, I hope when I get out <\/p>\n
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\nof here I can prove to society
\nthat I have learned from my <\/p>\n
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\nmistake, but I sure was guilty.
\nThe governor went back to his <\/p>\n
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\ngovernor’s mansion and he wrote
\nout a full pardon for George and<\/p>\n
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\nhe sent it to the warden of the
\nprison. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, I want you to release
\nGeorge from prison. <\/p>\n
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\nI want to get that guilty man
\naway from all those innocent <\/p>\n
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\nprisoners.
\nIf we don’t confess our sins, we<\/p>\n
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\nstill have them.
\nAnd so James gives us a step by <\/p>\n
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\nstep description of just how sin
\ntakes place. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s in James one verse 14.
\nI’m I’m using the NIV new King <\/p>\n
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\nJames.
\nPardon me at this point, but <\/p>\n
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\neach one is tempted when he is
\ndrawn away of his own lusts or <\/p>\n
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\ndesires and enticed any sin yet
\nNope, no sin. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus was tempted at all points
\nlike as we are. <\/p>\n
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\nHe certainly had desires and he
\nhad lusts when he was starving, <\/p>\n
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\nnot having eaten for 40 days
\nbefore now, I don’t think any of<\/p>\n
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\nus have ever been as hungry as
\nhe was. <\/p>\n
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\nHe certainly had the desire to
\neat. <\/p>\n
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\nNot a sin.
\nYou can tell by the way we do it<\/p>\n
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\nhere.
\nThere’s no sins being committed,<\/p>\n
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\nI don’t think, at lunchtime.
\nBut we sure consume it, don’t <\/p>\n
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\nwe?
\nI think the food here is very <\/p>\n
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\ngood.
\nI hope you appreciate the, the <\/p>\n
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\nhard work.
\nThese people are not Chris <\/p>\n
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\nAdelphia’s, but they’re, they’re
\nworking hard to serve us. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd sometimes we ought to
\nrecognize them. <\/p>\n
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\nDo we do that Good?
\nGood. <\/p>\n
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\nSo every man is tempting when
\nhe’s drawn away of his own lust <\/p>\n
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\nand entice you.
\nYou see something that you want,<\/p>\n
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\nthat you shouldn’t have no sin
\nyet. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then you keep looking at it.
\nIt sure would be nice to have <\/p>\n
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\nthat, wouldn’t it?
\nYeah. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah.
\nI need it worth more than he <\/p>\n
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\nneeds it.
\nAnd then when desire has <\/p>\n
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\nconceived.
\nIt gives birth to sin, and sin, <\/p>\n
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\nwhen it’s full grown brings
\nforth death. <\/p>\n
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\nI think I’m going to tell you a
\nstory here. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a made-up story.
\nYou you’ll be able to appreciate<\/p>\n
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\nthe fact it’s made-up.
\nI made it up myself and I’ve <\/p>\n
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\nnever heard anybody else to tell
\nthis one. <\/p>\n
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\nNow I really prefer to steal
\nother stories because this, this<\/p>\n
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\nis an original one that’s kind
\nof crazy, but you have balls. <\/p>\n
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\nYou, you, I know ladies love to
\nshop in malls. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, when you go down to the,
\nthe, the downtown and there’s a <\/p>\n
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\nbig mall and I know Edmonton has
\nthe biggest mall, I guess in the<\/p>\n
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\nwhole world.
\nAnd you’re walking down the <\/p>\n
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\ncenter of the mall and, and you
\ncome to a store and you look <\/p>\n
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\nbit further and you see on the
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\nYou see, sin is fun.
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\nMoses chose to suffer affliction
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\nthan to enjoy the pleasures of
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\nfollowing me. <\/p>\n
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\nNo sin has come when we’re
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\nthat story?
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\nanother story, it’d be the
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\nIt in there because that’s the
\none you all heard. <\/p>\n
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\nNow come down to verse 19 of the
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\nSo then, my beloved brethren,
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\nslow to speak, and slow to
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\nnot produce the righteousness of
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\nway, brother Robert Devine, and
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\nIf if you talk to a Jehovah’s <\/p>\n
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\nThey will talk and then they <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then they then no matter <\/p>\n
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\nSo the way you can keep those <\/p>\n
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\nasking questions. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat’s your name?
\nYou Jehovah’s Witness. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you believe in Pastor
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\nHe was a good guy. <\/p>\n
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\nrather than just telling him, <\/p>\n
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\nWell, you believe the wrong <\/p>\n
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\nJews have no hope. <\/p>\n
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\nYou imagine that Pastor Russell <\/p>\n
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\nmade it and John the Baptist
\ndidn’t. <\/p>\n
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\nThat blows me away.
\nBut when we’re talking with each<\/p>\n
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\nOh, I’m glad I don’t see this <\/p>\n
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\nBut well, I do see it, Harley, <\/p>\n
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\nThat means I’m trying not to <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s heard. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s OK then. <\/p>\n
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\nAre I’m coming apart?
\nBut when you’re talking to your <\/p>\n
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\nwhen you’re talking to your <\/p>\n
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\nWhat water, honey? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat come to daddy or mommy, you
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\nThanks, Harley.
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\nYou ever fold your arms the <\/p>\n
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\nbefore they put their brain in
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\nThey’re swift to speak and slow
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\nAnd how many times have we
\nblurted out something and wish <\/p>\n
338
\n00:21:55,200 –> 00:21:57,160
\nwe could have reached out and
\npulled it back? <\/p>\n
339
\n00:21:58,440 –> 00:22:01,320
\nIt’s too late.
\nIt’s already been said, and <\/p>\n
340
\n00:22:02,560 –> 00:22:06,080
\nsomebody’s been.
\nHurt so often in families, we we<\/p>\n
341
\n00:22:06,080 –> 00:22:09,480
\nsay cunning remarks to each
\nother we wouldn’t dare say these<\/p>\n
342
\n00:22:09,480 –> 00:22:13,320
\nthings to to people in the
\nstore, certainly to our boss and<\/p>\n
343
\n00:22:13,320 –> 00:22:17,480
\nyet we say these are the very.
\nPeople we love, we say mean <\/p>\n
344
\n00:22:17,480 –> 00:22:24,960
\nthings just if we could just
\nbite her tongue and not blurt <\/p>\n
345
\n00:22:24,960 –> 00:22:28,880
\nout something that will hurt.
\nIs this helpful to the <\/p>\n
346
\n00:22:28,880 –> 00:22:31,960
\nsituation?
\nSolomon says there is a time to <\/p>\n
347
\n00:22:31,960 –> 00:22:33,800
\nkeep silence and a time to
\nspeak. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:22:34,880 –> 00:22:38,200
\nHe put silence ahead of
\nspeaking. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:22:39,640 –> 00:22:42,360
\nAbraham Lincoln is credit to of
\nhaving said this. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:22:42,960 –> 00:22:47,360
\nIt’s better to remain silent and
\nbe thought a fool than to open <\/p>\n
351
\n00:22:47,360 –> 00:22:52,280
\nyour mouth and remove all doubt.
\nNow when he said that, you know <\/p>\n
352
\n00:22:52,280 –> 00:22:55,320
\nhe was a he was a Bible student.
\nAbraham Lincoln was in fact, he <\/p>\n
353
\n00:22:55,320 –> 00:22:59,080
\nattended Bible classes in the
\ncity of Washington, DC when he <\/p>\n
354
\n00:22:59,080 –> 00:23:02,800
\nwas the president.
\nBut what Abe Lincoln was saying <\/p>\n
355
\n00:23:02,800 –> 00:23:06,480
\nwas really a a kind of a loose
\nparaphrase of what Solomon said.<\/p>\n
356
\n00:23:07,760 –> 00:23:11,800
\nEven a fool is counted wise when
\nhe holds his peace. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:23:12,760 –> 00:23:16,920
\nWhen he shuts his lips, he is
\nconsidered perceptive. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:23:18,680 –> 00:23:25,520
\nSo James is saying, be slow to
\nspeak and swift to hear. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:23:25,520 –> 00:23:30,880
\nAnd then the third one of those
\nwas slow to wrath, and wrath was<\/p>\n
360
\n00:23:30,880 –> 00:23:33,720
\nalways in a hurry.
\nSlow down. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:23:33,800 –> 00:23:37,480
\nThe old adage to count to 10 is
\nis always good advice. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:23:37,960 –> 00:23:40,920
\nNever, never, never, never
\npunish a child when you’re <\/p>\n
363
\n00:23:40,920 –> 00:23:44,880
\nangry.
\nIf the child is misbehaved, send<\/p>\n
364
\n00:23:44,880 –> 00:23:47,040
\nthem to their room and cool off
\nyourself. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:23:47,040 –> 00:23:50,480
\nGet control of yourself.
\nBefore you go in and do whatever<\/p>\n
366
\n00:23:50,560 –> 00:23:56,320
\nyou feel is appropriate, never
\nstrike a a a child in anger. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:23:57,000 –> 00:24:02,960
\nYou be in control before you
\nadminister the punishment. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:24:03,640 –> 00:24:07,320
\nAlexander the Great was a truly
\ngreat general, and on one <\/p>\n
369
\n00:24:07,320 –> 00:24:12,400
\noccasion they were having a big
\nparty and Cletus was one of his <\/p>\n
370
\n00:24:13,040 –> 00:24:15,320
\ngenerals.
\nAnd Cletus was drunk. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:24:16,040 –> 00:24:21,600
\nAnd during this drunken party he
\nbegan to make fun of Alexander. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:24:22,680 –> 00:24:26,960
\nAnd Alexander went into a rage
\nand he grabbed a a javelin from <\/p>\n
373
\n00:24:26,960 –> 00:24:30,000
\na soldier and he just tossed it
\nat Cletus. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:24:30,520 –> 00:24:33,320
\nBut Alexander was a real good
\naim. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:24:33,320 –> 00:24:36,040
\nHe didn’t mean to, but that went
\nright through the man’s heart <\/p>\n
376
\n00:24:36,040 –> 00:24:41,240
\nand he fell down dead.
\nAnd Alexander was overcome with <\/p>\n
377
\n00:24:41,280 –> 00:24:44,280
\ngrief.
\nHe he tried to grab the gavelin <\/p>\n
378
\n00:24:44,280 –> 00:24:46,800
\nand kill himself.
\nHe felt so terrible to have <\/p>\n
379
\n00:24:46,800 –> 00:24:50,880
\nkilled his best friend.
\nAnd he say he’s laid in bed for <\/p>\n
380
\n00:24:50,880 –> 00:24:53,600
\nthree days just moaning and
\ngroaning and saying, oh, Cletus,<\/p>\n
381
\n00:24:53,600 –> 00:24:58,560
\nmy friend, my friend Cletus.
\nNow all it would have taken was <\/p>\n
382
\n00:24:58,680 –> 00:25:03,760
\na few seconds of delay and that
\nman would have lived instead of <\/p>\n
383
\n00:25:03,760 –> 00:25:07,600
\ndied.
\nMany people have died because <\/p>\n
384
\n00:25:07,600 –> 00:25:10,960
\nwe’re swift to wrath instead of
\nslow. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:25:11,680 –> 00:25:14,400
\nTo wrath.
\nWe can think of many Bible <\/p>\n
386
\n00:25:14,400 –> 00:25:16,000
\nexamples.
\nOne I’m sure that comes to your <\/p>\n
387
\n00:25:16,000 –> 00:25:22,600
\nmind is Moses.
\nMoses, the meekest man on the <\/p>\n
388
\n00:25:22,600 –> 00:25:28,000
\nearth, yet they angered him with
\nat the waters of strife that he <\/p>\n
389
\n00:25:28,000 –> 00:25:32,920
\nwent I’ll with Moses for their
\nsakes, because they provoked his<\/p>\n
390
\n00:25:32,920 –> 00:25:37,960
\nspirit.
\nSo he spoke unadvisedly with his<\/p>\n
391
\n00:25:37,960 –> 00:25:40,800
\nlips.
\nSlow to wrath. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:25:41,360 –> 00:25:46,200
\nSlow to speak.
\nJames is giving us very <\/p>\n
393
\n00:25:46,200 –> 00:25:50,520
\npractical advice that we need to
\ntake home with us and apply in <\/p>\n
394
\n00:25:50,520 –> 00:25:53,760
\nour own families.
\nI wonder how many people will be<\/p>\n
395
\n00:25:53,760 –> 00:26:00,960
\nkept out of the Kingdom because
\nthey have been quick to wrath <\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:02,160 –> 00:26:06,880
\nand quick to say things and
\nsometimes because of pride they <\/p>\n
397
\n00:26:06,880 –> 00:26:09,440
\nthen later won’t recant what
\nthey said. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:26:11,280 –> 00:26:15,240
\nI think that’s terribly sad.
\nI think I’ll tell you my 12 <\/p>\n
399
\n00:26:15,240 –> 00:26:17,240
\nmagic words.
\nIt’s not in the stalk here, but <\/p>\n
400
\n00:26:17,240 –> 00:26:22,520
\nit just fits because it’s on the
\nsubject of, of of we have to be <\/p>\n
401
\n00:26:22,520 –> 00:26:26,680
\nwilling to, to ask for
\nforgiveness or we won’t be <\/p>\n
402
\n00:26:26,680 –> 00:26:29,480
\nforgiven.
\nJames says forgive, confess our <\/p>\n
403
\n00:26:29,480 –> 00:26:34,520
\nsins one to another.
\nAnd so the story behind this <\/p>\n
404
\n00:26:34,520 –> 00:26:38,680
\ntalk took place in New Zealand.
\nWe was at a Bible school in New <\/p>\n
405
\n00:26:38,680 –> 00:26:40,760
\nZealand.
\nAnd they, the, the parents of <\/p>\n
406
\n00:26:40,760 –> 00:26:43,200
\nteenagers came to me one day, a
\ncouple of parents. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:26:43,200 –> 00:26:45,720
\nThey said, would you be willing
\nto give a talk to the parents <\/p>\n
408
\n00:26:45,720 –> 00:26:48,640
\njust of teenagers after
\neverything was over one evening?<\/p>\n
409
\n00:26:48,880 –> 00:26:52,800
\nAnd I said yes, yes, sure.
\nSo they set up a room for us. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:26:52,800 –> 00:26:57,240
\nAnd it was, it was not quite
\nthis many, but there was quite a<\/p>\n
411
\n00:26:57,240 –> 00:27:00,800
\nfew.
\nThere was, there may be 50 to 75<\/p>\n
412
\n00:27:00,800 –> 00:27:04,720
\npeople in this room, all parents
\nof teenagers. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:27:05,520 –> 00:27:07,040
\nWell, of course, I didn’t know I
\nwas going to do this. <\/p>\n
414
\n00:27:07,040 –> 00:27:08,800
\nSo I’m grappling and what am I
\ngoing to say? <\/p>\n
415
\n00:27:08,800 –> 00:27:11,520
\nSo I, I thought I’ll tell them
\nabout my 12 magic words and I’ll<\/p>\n
416
\n00:27:11,520 –> 00:27:13,520
\ntell them with you.
\nAnd so I told them what they <\/p>\n
417
\n00:27:13,520 –> 00:27:15,640
\nare.
\nAnd they are, they are worth <\/p>\n
418
\n00:27:15,720 –> 00:27:17,440
\nremembering and then worth
\nusing. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:27:17,440 –> 00:27:21,440
\nThey were, I was wrong.
\nI’m sorry. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:27:23,200 –> 00:27:26,400
\nPlease forgive me.
\nI love you. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:27:28,720 –> 00:27:32,040
\nNow I think that husbands and
\nwives should say those words to <\/p>\n
422
\n00:27:32,080 –> 00:27:37,480
\neach other almost every day
\nbecause we are wrong and we <\/p>\n
423
\n00:27:37,480 –> 00:27:39,800
\nshould be sorry.
\nWe should ask to be forgiven, <\/p>\n
424
\n00:27:39,800 –> 00:27:41,640
\nand we certainly should love our
\nspouse. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:27:43,600 –> 00:27:47,000
\nBut also during the talk, I, I,
\nI told about a little plaque <\/p>\n
426
\n00:27:47,000 –> 00:27:50,680
\nthat was on the wall of a home.
\nAnd the, the plaque, the wall, <\/p>\n
427
\n00:27:50,680 –> 00:27:55,600
\nthe rules, the plaque says the
\nrules of this house rule #1 <\/p>\n
428
\n00:27:56,040 –> 00:28:02,880
\nfather is always right.
\nRule #2 when father is wrong, <\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:03,160 –> 00:28:08,000
\nrule #1 applies.
\nSo after the class was over, <\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:08,000 –> 00:28:11,680
\nthis one sister turned to her
\nhusband and she said, what do <\/p>\n
431
\n00:28:11,680 –> 00:28:14,000
\nyou think of this talk?
\nHe says, I like the rules of <\/p>\n
432
\n00:28:14,000 –> 00:28:18,440
\nthis house.
\nShe came to me a little later in<\/p>\n
433
\n00:28:18,440 –> 00:28:19,840
\nthe evening with tears in her
\neyes. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:28:19,840 –> 00:28:21,800
\nShe said, we’ve been married 23
\nyears. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:28:23,720 –> 00:28:26,560
\nMy husband has never once said
\nhe was wrong. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:28:28,080 –> 00:28:30,920
\nHe has never once said he was
\nsorry. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:28:31,960 –> 00:28:33,960
\nHe’s never once asked to be
\nforgiven. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:28:36,160 –> 00:28:37,760
\nNow I hope he said he loved her.
\nHe didn’t. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:28:37,760 –> 00:28:43,120
\nShe didn’t go into that.
\nAnd this is the fellow who liked<\/p>\n
440
\n00:28:43,120 –> 00:28:46,320
\nthe rules of this house Now,
\neither she was married to the <\/p>\n
441
\n00:28:46,320 –> 00:28:50,560
\none of the most remarkable men
\nI’ve ever heard of who for 23 <\/p>\n
442
\n00:28:50,560 –> 00:28:52,960
\nand eight years was never wrong,
\nnever sorry, and never had <\/p>\n
443
\n00:28:52,960 –> 00:28:56,400
\nneeded to be forgiven.
\nOr she had a problem husband. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:28:57,640 –> 00:29:00,840
\nAnd I don’t think it takes a
\nrocket science genius to figure <\/p>\n
445
\n00:29:00,840 –> 00:29:03,920
\nout which it is.
\nBecause you see, all of us, <\/p>\n
446
\n00:29:04,480 –> 00:29:08,720
\nevery one of you is wrong.
\nThere’s none, none righteous. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:29:08,720 –> 00:29:11,160
\nNo, not one.
\nSo you are wrong in your <\/p>\n
448
\n00:29:11,160 –> 00:29:13,520
\nmarriage, you’ve been wrong.
\nWith your kids, you’ve been <\/p>\n
449
\n00:29:13,520 –> 00:29:15,160
\nwrong.
\nWith your bosses, you’ve been <\/p>\n
450
\n00:29:15,160 –> 00:29:17,320
\nwrong with your clients.
\nYou’ve been, we’ve all been <\/p>\n
451
\n00:29:17,320 –> 00:29:24,600
\nwrong.
\nWe ought to be big enough to say<\/p>\n
452
\n00:29:24,680 –> 00:29:28,360
\nto others, but especially to
\nGod. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:29:30,960 –> 00:29:34,640
\nI was wrong.
\nI I’m sorry. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:29:34,640 –> 00:29:36,240
\nPlease forgive me.
\nI love you. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:29:36,400 –> 00:29:37,960
\nI think you can weave that into
\nyour. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:29:37,960 –> 00:29:41,480
\nPrayers to God.
\nYou know it’s possible to go to <\/p>\n
457
\n00:29:41,560 –> 00:29:45,120
\nbed every night sinless.
\nIsn’t that a wonderful thing to <\/p>\n
458
\n00:29:45,120 –> 00:29:46,920
\nrealize?
\nThat every night you can fall <\/p>\n
459
\n00:29:46,920 –> 00:29:50,160
\nasleep with no sins?
\nNot because you didn’t do any, <\/p>\n
460
\n00:29:50,240 –> 00:29:53,800
\nbecause we all do.
\nBecause God is willing to blot <\/p>\n
461
\n00:29:53,800 –> 00:29:56,280
\nthem out and cast them behind
\nhis back. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:29:56,520 –> 00:30:02,960
\nIf you, if you confess them, if
\nyou don’t confess them, you <\/p>\n
463
\n00:30:02,960 –> 00:30:07,440
\nstill got them.
\nAnd the sins that are going to <\/p>\n
464
\n00:30:07,440 –> 00:30:10,880
\nkeep us out of the Kingdom are
\ngoing to be the sins that we <\/p>\n
465
\n00:30:10,880 –> 00:30:14,320
\nweren’t forgiven for.
\nBecause God is not going to <\/p>\n
466
\n00:30:15,440 –> 00:30:19,040
\nbring up at the judgment seat
\nthe sins that we have committed <\/p>\n
467
\n00:30:19,040 –> 00:30:22,840
\nthat he forgave.
\nNow, if God is willing to <\/p>\n
468
\n00:30:22,840 –> 00:30:25,600
\nforgive.
\nOur sins like that why won’t we <\/p>\n
469
\n00:30:25,600 –> 00:30:30,840
\nforgive each other and so I
\nthink every husband and. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:30:31,040 –> 00:30:36,200
\nEvery wife should say almost
\nevery day I was wrong. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:30:36,400 –> 00:30:37,960
\nI’m sorry.
\nPlease forgive me. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:30:37,960 –> 00:30:41,520
\nI love you.
\nWe did this at A at a Florida <\/p>\n
473
\n00:30:41,520 –> 00:30:45,320
\nBible school years ago.
\nAnd the next Sunday we were <\/p>\n
474
\n00:30:45,720 –> 00:30:49,200
\nJordanian in Ecclesia.
\nThey their, their, their Bible <\/p>\n
475
\n00:30:49,200 –> 00:30:50,960
\nschool ends like yours does, a
\nlittle bit early. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:30:51,120 –> 00:30:52,880
\nAnd then you go to an ecclesia
\non the Sunday. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:30:53,400 –> 00:30:55,920
\nAnd I went to the ecclesia on
\nthe Sunday and there was a dear <\/p>\n
478
\n00:30:55,920 –> 00:30:58,480
\nold couple there.
\nThey think they both have since <\/p>\n
479
\n00:30:58,480 –> 00:31:01,160
\nfallen asleep.
\nThey were both way up in their <\/p>\n
480
\n00:31:01,160 –> 00:31:05,600
\n80s and just a dearer, genteel,
\nloving couple. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:31:06,240 –> 00:31:09,160
\nAnd they came to me and said,
\nBob, it works. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:31:09,160 –> 00:31:12,240
\nI said, what works?
\nHe says, your 12 words. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:31:12,800 –> 00:31:16,320
\nShe says, yes, they do.
\nAnd I said, well, let’s tell you<\/p>\n
484
\n00:31:16,320 –> 00:31:18,200
\nthe story.
\nShe said we got home from the <\/p>\n
485
\n00:31:18,200 –> 00:31:23,720
\nBible school and our smoke
\ndetector was going. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:31:24,560 –> 00:31:27,640
\nIt somehow set it off.
\nYou know, they go like that. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:31:27,640 –> 00:31:28,920
\nIt just drives you crazy, you
\nknow. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:31:29,880 –> 00:31:34,040
\nAnd so he gets on a chair to, to
\nget it off. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:31:34,600 –> 00:31:37,400
\nAnd he’s he’s not too nimble and
\nhe’s working on it. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:31:37,560 –> 00:31:40,000
\nAnd she says, hurry up.
\nAnd he says, I am hurrying, you <\/p>\n
491
\n00:31:40,000 –> 00:31:41,600
\nknow, and they’re yelling at
\neach other. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:31:41,640 –> 00:31:44,800
\nFinally, you know, the, the,
\nthis, this noise would grate <\/p>\n
493
\n00:31:44,800 –> 00:31:48,080
\nyour nerves.
\nFinally he gets it off and he <\/p>\n
494
\n00:31:48,080 –> 00:31:50,600
\nkisses that off the stair.
\nAnd they look at each other and <\/p>\n
495
\n00:31:50,600 –> 00:31:52,520
\nthey both start saying together,
\nI was wrong. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:31:52,520 –> 00:31:54,160
\nI’m sorry, please forgive me.
\nI love you. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:31:55,560 –> 00:31:58,440
\nAnd so there was a they, they
\nhad to share that story with me <\/p>\n
498
\n00:31:58,680 –> 00:32:04,880
\nabout two days later.
\nBut it, it works, it doesn’t <\/p>\n
499
\n00:32:04,880 –> 00:32:07,200
\nwork.
\nIf you don’t work it. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:32:09,400 –> 00:32:18,320
\nSo let’s decide that we’re going
\nto be slow to speak, swift to <\/p>\n
501
\n00:32:18,320 –> 00:32:24,480
\nhear, and slow to wrath coming
\non down to James chapter. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:32:24,840 –> 00:32:27,680
\nOne verse 22.
\nBut be doers of the word, and <\/p>\n
503
\n00:32:27,680 –> 00:32:30,920
\nnot hearers only deceiving
\nyourselves. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:32:31,600 –> 00:32:34,240
\nFor if anyone is a hearer of the
\nword and not a doer, he’s like a<\/p>\n
505
\n00:32:34,240 –> 00:32:38,840
\nman observing his natural face
\nin a mirror, For he observes. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:32:39,320 –> 00:32:41,920
\nHimself goes away and
\nimmediately forgets what kind of<\/p>\n
507
\n00:32:41,920 –> 00:32:44,840
\nman he was.
\nHe looks in a mirror and he <\/p>\n
508
\n00:32:44,880 –> 00:32:47,320
\nforgets what he looks like.
\nBut he who looks into the <\/p>\n
509
\n00:32:47,320 –> 00:32:50,080
\nperfect law of liberty and
\ncontinues in it and does not <\/p>\n
510
\n00:32:50,440 –> 00:32:52,920
\nforgetful hear but a doer of the
\nwork. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:32:53,280 –> 00:32:55,680
\nThis one will be blessed in what
\nhe does. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:32:57,320 –> 00:33:00,920
\nThere are a lot of people in the
\nworld that hear and never do <\/p>\n
513
\n00:33:01,440 –> 00:33:03,520
\nthere there.
\nIt’s in fact, colleges are <\/p>\n
514
\n00:33:03,520 –> 00:33:07,200
\nfamous for graduating a bunch of
\npeople with with theories and no<\/p>\n
515
\n00:33:07,200 –> 00:33:11,120
\npractical knowledge.
\nAnd but we’re talking here about<\/p>\n
516
\n00:33:11,960 –> 00:33:14,960
\nspiritual application and not of
\nthe world. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:33:15,520 –> 00:33:19,960
\nBut there are there are people
\nwho know the truth and don’t get<\/p>\n
518
\n00:33:19,960 –> 00:33:23,920
\nbaptized.
\nThey, they, why would anyone <\/p>\n
519
\n00:33:24,160 –> 00:33:27,800
\nwant to rule themselves
\nineligible for salvation when <\/p>\n
520
\n00:33:29,160 –> 00:33:32,400
\nwhen they know the truth.
\nIn fact, dear little Michelle, <\/p>\n
521
\n00:33:32,400 –> 00:33:35,120
\nwho’s flying back this morning
\njust to be with her father, <\/p>\n
522
\n00:33:35,120 –> 00:33:38,680
\nwho’s very near death.
\nHe’s not a Christian Alpian, but<\/p>\n
523
\n00:33:38,680 –> 00:33:42,200
\nshe’s told.
\nUs this morning how that he <\/p>\n
524
\n00:33:42,600 –> 00:33:44,720
\nwould.
\nDefend the truth and talk the <\/p>\n
525
\n00:33:44,720 –> 00:33:50,400
\ntruth to his friends She’s come
\nin from outside and and she her <\/p>\n
526
\n00:33:50,400 –> 00:33:55,560
\nhope was that he might obey the
\ntruth before he died his life as<\/p>\n
527
\n00:33:55,560 –> 00:33:59,080
\nall our lives are in God’s hands
\nand we we just pray for Michelle<\/p>\n
528
\n00:33:59,080 –> 00:34:02,240
\nand her on her journey homeward
\nand that things will work out <\/p>\n
529
\n00:34:04,160 –> 00:34:10,520
\nbut.
\nIf you know and you don’t do <\/p>\n
530
\n00:34:10,520 –> 00:34:14,920
\nwhat you know.
\nWhat good is it to know? <\/p>\n
531
\n00:34:16,159 –> 00:34:18,000
\nIn fact, Peter says you’re worse
\noff. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:34:19,239 –> 00:34:21,800
\nYou’re worse off knowing the
\ntruth and not obeying it than if<\/p>\n
533
\n00:34:21,800 –> 00:34:28,679
\nyou never even knew the truth.
\nTo know and not to do is not to <\/p>\n
534
\n00:34:28,679 –> 00:34:31,239
\nknow.
\nSo we better be doers of this <\/p>\n
535
\n00:34:31,239 –> 00:34:36,960
\nand not just hearers only.
\nBecause if we if we know the <\/p>\n
536
\n00:34:36,960 –> 00:34:41,080
\ntruth and we’re not obeying it.
\nBaptized or unbaptized? <\/p>\n
537
\n00:34:41,520 –> 00:34:46,000
\nWe’re a lot worse off than than
\nthose who that don’t even know <\/p>\n
538
\n00:34:46,000 –> 00:34:47,760
\nit.
\nIt’s been better for them not to<\/p>\n
539
\n00:34:47,760 –> 00:34:49,760
\nhave known the way of
\nrighteousness than after they’ve<\/p>\n
540
\n00:34:49,760 –> 00:34:57,080
\nknown it to turn away.
\nSo we, we must be doers of the <\/p>\n
541
\n00:34:57,080 –> 00:35:03,560
\nword and not hearers only.
\nSo James has been building up a <\/p>\n
542
\n00:35:03,560 –> 00:35:07,200
\nsequence of thought here, verse
\n18. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:35:07,200 –> 00:35:09,720
\nHe tells us that we are begotten
\nby the word of truth. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:35:10,800 –> 00:35:13,800
\nBy being begotten, we are the
\nfirst fruits of a new creation. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:35:14,840 –> 00:35:17,760
\nIn verse 21, we are to receive
\nwith meekness the engrafted <\/p>\n
546
\n00:35:17,760 –> 00:35:20,800
\nWord.
\nIn verse 2, any two, we now were<\/p>\n
547
\n00:35:20,800 –> 00:35:24,280
\nto be doers of the Word.
\nIn every instance. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:35:24,280 –> 00:35:28,160
\nIt’s the Word, the word that
\nbegets us, the word that we are <\/p>\n
549
\n00:35:28,160 –> 00:35:30,920
\nto receive and the Word that we
\nare to do. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:35:30,960 –> 00:35:36,400
\nIt is the word of truth as verse
\n18 says by His own will begat He<\/p>\n
551
\n00:35:36,400 –> 00:35:41,600
\nasked with the word of truth.
\nNow compare this with what his <\/p>\n
552
\n00:35:41,600 –> 00:35:48,800
\nolder brother Jesus Christ, his
\nhis Savior too said so Matthew <\/p>\n
553
\n00:35:48,800 –> 00:35:52,160
\nChapter 7 and again, these are
\nwords I’m only. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:35:52,160 –> 00:35:54,120
\nStirring up your pure minds by
\nway of remembrance. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:35:54,120 –> 00:35:57,320
\nYou know all of this.
\nIt’s that we know, but we don’t <\/p>\n
556
\n00:35:57,320 –> 00:36:01,760
\nalways do what we know to do.
\nAnd so the whole thing is, once <\/p>\n
557
\n00:36:01,760 –> 00:36:07,560
\nwe know to do it, let’s do it.
\nSo Matthew 721 not everyone who <\/p>\n
558
\n00:36:07,560 –> 00:36:11,080
\nsays to me, Lord, Lord will
\nenter the Kingdom, but he who <\/p>\n
559
\n00:36:11,080 –> 00:36:17,880
\ndoes the will of my Father.
\nSo if we know the will of God <\/p>\n
560
\n00:36:17,880 –> 00:36:19,880
\nand we’re not doing it, we’re
\nnot going to be in the Kingdom, <\/p>\n
561
\n00:36:19,880 –> 00:36:22,440
\nsays Jesus.
\nOh, many are going to come to me<\/p>\n
562
\n00:36:22,440 –> 00:36:25,560
\non the day of judgement.
\nHe says, Lindsey, oh Lord, Lord,<\/p>\n
563
\n00:36:26,200 –> 00:36:29,320
\nhave we not prophesied in thy
\nname and cast out demons in thy <\/p>\n
564
\n00:36:29,320 –> 00:36:31,040
\nname and done many wonders in
\nthy name? <\/p>\n
565
\n00:36:32,200 –> 00:36:34,560
\nSo these people must have had
\nthe Holy Spirit, which we don’t <\/p>\n
566
\n00:36:34,560 –> 00:36:36,480
\nhave.
\nWe don’t have the power to cast <\/p>\n
567
\n00:36:36,480 –> 00:36:39,240
\nout demons.
\nThese people did do some things.<\/p>\n
568
\n00:36:39,440 –> 00:36:45,640
\nBut they didn’t do enough.
\nI will declare unto them, I <\/p>\n
569
\n00:36:45,640 –> 00:36:49,960
\nnever knew you depart from me,
\nyou who practice lawlessness. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:36:50,560 –> 00:36:54,200
\nTherefore, whoever hears these
\nthings of mine and does. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:36:54,200 –> 00:36:57,480
\nThem.
\nI will liken him unto a wise man<\/p>\n
572
\n00:36:57,480 –> 00:37:01,240
\nwho built his house on the rock.
\nYou know the story. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:37:01,240 –> 00:37:03,720
\nThe rain descended and the
\nfloods came and the winds blew <\/p>\n
574
\n00:37:03,720 –> 00:37:05,640
\nand beat on that house and it
\ndid not fall. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:37:06,160 –> 00:37:11,640
\nIt was founded on a rock.
\nAnd the those who built their <\/p>\n
576
\n00:37:11,640 –> 00:37:16,720
\nhouse on the sand, it collapsed.
\nThe whole point of the story is <\/p>\n
577
\n00:37:17,320 –> 00:37:21,960
\nto be doers of the word.
\nNot only is it important that we<\/p>\n
578
\n00:37:21,960 –> 00:37:25,040
\nhave the knowledge of the truth,
\nand that’s terribly important, <\/p>\n
579
\n00:37:26,120 –> 00:37:31,200
\nbut now that we know it, we are
\nobligated to do it. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:37:32,520 –> 00:37:35,120
\nA good man out of the good
\ntreasure of his heart brings <\/p>\n
581
\n00:37:35,120 –> 00:37:38,640
\nforth good things, said Jesus.
\nAn evil man out of the evil <\/p>\n
582
\n00:37:38,640 –> 00:37:41,120
\ntreasure of his heart brings
\nforth evil things. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:37:41,320 –> 00:37:44,600
\nFor out of the abundance of his
\nheart his mouth speaks. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:37:46,320 –> 00:37:48,960
\nBut why do you call me Lord?
\nLord, and do not do the things <\/p>\n
585
\n00:37:48,960 –> 00:37:52,280
\nwhich I say, If you love me,
\nkeep my commandments, said <\/p>\n
586
\n00:37:52,280 –> 00:37:53,920
\nJesus.
\nThere’s no use, I say. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:37:53,920 –> 00:37:55,400
\nOh, the truth.
\nIs the most wonderful thing in <\/p>\n
588
\n00:37:55,400 –> 00:37:56,800
\nthe world.
\nOh, I love the truth. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:37:56,920 –> 00:37:59,240
\nI love the brothers and sisters.
\nAnd I go. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:37:59,280 –> 00:38:02,960
\nI go to meeting most Sundays,
\nwell maybe every Sunday here we <\/p>\n
591
\n00:38:02,960 –> 00:38:08,920
\nhave we have down in certain
\nareas of this in the lower part <\/p>\n
592
\n00:38:08,920 –> 00:38:14,680
\nof the of the old Canada 1
\napplies you calls them once sirs<\/p>\n
593
\n00:38:16,560 –> 00:38:18,520
\nand a once.
\nSir is a person who comes to <\/p>\n
594
\n00:38:18,520 –> 00:38:24,200
\nmeeting every Sunday, but you’ll
\nnever see them at a Bible class,<\/p>\n
595
\n00:38:24,200 –> 00:38:26,920
\nyou’ll never see them at a
\nlecture, you’ll never see them <\/p>\n
596
\n00:38:27,600 –> 00:38:30,640
\nat a Sunday school.
\nThey show up for meeting. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:38:31,440 –> 00:38:34,640
\nWe have a young man in our
\nmeeting who who comes in during <\/p>\n
598
\n00:38:34,640 –> 00:38:36,640
\nthe first team and leaves during
\nthe last team. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:38:37,640 –> 00:38:41,640
\nAnd if you don’t preside or
\nexhort, you never will know he’s<\/p>\n
600
\n00:38:41,640 –> 00:38:47,200
\nthere because unless you turn
\naround and look, I’m glad he <\/p>\n
601
\n00:38:47,200 –> 00:38:51,040
\ndoes that.
\nI’m glad he hasn’t totally <\/p>\n
602
\n00:38:51,040 –> 00:38:57,680
\nstopped.
\nBut I fear for one, sirs, I fear<\/p>\n
603
\n00:38:57,680 –> 00:39:01,760
\nfor those that are trying to get
\nalong on the minimum. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:39:03,640 –> 00:39:07,400
\nWe have to go all out for the
\nLord. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:39:08,880 –> 00:39:12,440
\nIf you keep my commandments, you
\nshall abide in my love, just as <\/p>\n
606
\n00:39:12,440 –> 00:39:14,720
\nI have kept my Father’s
\ncommandments and abide in His <\/p>\n
607
\n00:39:14,720 –> 00:39:19,560
\nlove.
\nYou are my friends if you do <\/p>\n
608
\n00:39:19,560 –> 00:39:30,280
\nwhatsoever I command you.
\nAre we doing what we know we <\/p>\n
609
\n00:39:30,280 –> 00:39:35,080
\nought to do?
\nJames is going to tell us how <\/p>\n
610
\n00:39:35,080 –> 00:39:37,880
\nfoolish it is to say one thing
\nand do something else. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:39:40,240 –> 00:39:43,560
\nWhen Jesus did his first
\nmiracle, it was at a wedding, as<\/p>\n
612
\n00:39:43,560 –> 00:39:46,920
\nyou know, in Ken of Galilee.
\nAnd, and his mother said to the <\/p>\n
613
\n00:39:46,920 –> 00:39:53,280
\nservants, whatsoever he saith
\nunto you, do it. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:39:55,360 –> 00:39:58,520
\nWhatsoever Jesus had said unto
\nyou, do it. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:39:58,520 –> 00:40:00,680
\nIf you’re not baptized, that’s
\nthe first thing you do, right? <\/p>\n
616
\n00:40:01,160 –> 00:40:03,840
\nBut once we’re baptized, that’s
\nnot a lock on salvation. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:40:03,840 –> 00:40:06,120
\nWe, we, we just entered the
\nrace. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:40:06,120 –> 00:40:09,080
\nWe now must continue in good
\nworks. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:40:10,520 –> 00:40:14,200
\nEzekiel come to Ezekiel 33
\nbecause Ezekiel talks about <\/p>\n
620
\n00:40:14,280 –> 00:40:16,400
\npeople who came to Bible school.
\nWell, it was. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:40:16,480 –> 00:40:20,440
\nDidn’t say it’s a Bible school.
\nBut they they got together and <\/p>\n
622
\n00:40:20,440 –> 00:40:22,560
\nthey enjoyed, enjoyed what they
\nheard. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:40:23,840 –> 00:40:26,200
\nEzekiel 33 coming in at verse
\n30. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:40:26,280 –> 00:40:29,000
\nAs for you, son of man, the
\nchildren of your people. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:40:29,680 –> 00:40:32,840
\nAre talking about you beside the
\nwalls and in the doors of the <\/p>\n
626
\n00:40:32,840 –> 00:40:35,360
\nhouses and they speak to one
\nanother saying everyone to his <\/p>\n
627
\n00:40:35,360 –> 00:40:38,120
\nbrother.
\nPlease come and hear what the <\/p>\n
628
\n00:40:38,120 –> 00:40:41,520
\nword is that comes from the Lord
\nwould would you all please come <\/p>\n
629
\n00:40:41,520 –> 00:40:44,200
\nto Winfield and and let’s hear
\nthe word of God. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:40:44,200 –> 00:40:47,240
\nIt’s going to be preached all
\nday long three classes a day. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:40:47,680 –> 00:40:51,400
\nLet’s come and hear.
\nSo they come, verse 31, as my, <\/p>\n
632
\n00:40:51,720 –> 00:40:54,600
\nas thy people.
\nThey come and they sit just like<\/p>\n
633
\n00:40:54,600 –> 00:40:58,640
\nyou’re doing, and they sit as my
\npeople and they hear just as you<\/p>\n
634
\n00:40:58,640 –> 00:41:06,960
\nare now hearing.
\nBut they do not do them. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:41:09,240 –> 00:41:13,440
\nThat’s the problem.
\nWe’ve got to do more than just <\/p>\n
636
\n00:41:13,440 –> 00:41:16,360
\nhear.
\nWe’ve got to do more than just <\/p>\n
637
\n00:41:16,440 –> 00:41:19,880
\nbe here.
\nWe’ve got to put our beliefs <\/p>\n
638
\n00:41:19,880 –> 00:41:23,360
\ninto actions and deeds.
\nSo he goes. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:41:23,360 –> 00:41:29,520
\nOn and says, For with their
\nmouth they show much love, but <\/p>\n
640
\n00:41:29,520 –> 00:41:32,880
\ntheir hearts pursue their own
\ngain. <\/p>\n
641
\n00:41:33,760 –> 00:41:38,680
\nIndeed you are to them as a very
\nlovely song of one who has a <\/p>\n
642
\n00:41:38,680 –> 00:41:40,560
\npleasant.
\nVoice and can play well on an <\/p>\n
643
\n00:41:40,560 –> 00:41:44,560
\ninstrument, for they hear your
\nwords, but they do not do them. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:41:44,560 –> 00:41:48,120
\nOh, I enjoyed that exhortation.
\nWasn’t that a wonderful talk he <\/p>\n
645
\n00:41:48,120 –> 00:41:52,680
\ngave.
\nBut I, I’ve got, I’ve got a golf<\/p>\n
646
\n00:41:52,680 –> 00:41:55,160
\ngame.
\nIt’s our bowling night. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:41:55,720 –> 00:41:59,200
\nThis is the day we get together
\nwith the do this or we do that <\/p>\n
648
\n00:41:59,200 –> 00:42:02,480
\nwith, with our people at work or
\nschool or whatever it might be. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:42:04,240 –> 00:42:07,120
\nHow many Christadelphians come
\nto meeting on Sunday and talk <\/p>\n
650
\n00:42:07,120 –> 00:42:09,560
\nabout the beauty of the truth
\nand how much they love the <\/p>\n
651
\n00:42:09,560 –> 00:42:14,040
\nbrothers and sisters and then go
\nout and live a different kind of<\/p>\n
652
\n00:42:14,040 –> 00:42:17,000
\nlife?
\nDuring the week, it’s important <\/p>\n
653
\n00:42:17,000 –> 00:42:21,760
\nthat we practice what we preach.
\nWhat you are is hollering so <\/p>\n
654
\n00:42:21,760 –> 00:42:23,520
\nloud I can’t hear what you’re
\nsaying. <\/p>\n
655
\n00:42:24,800 –> 00:42:31,080
\nDoers are busy doing so James is
\ngoing to give you an example of <\/p>\n
656
\n00:42:31,080 –> 00:42:35,880
\njust how foolish it is to talk
\ngood and do nothing about it. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:42:36,320 –> 00:42:39,160
\nIt’s in James chapter 2 verse
\n15. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:42:39,360 –> 00:42:43,160
\nIf a brother or sister is naked
\nand destitute of daily food, we <\/p>\n
659
\n00:42:43,160 –> 00:42:45,040
\nhave brothers and sisters who
\nare in one. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:42:46,320 –> 00:42:48,800
\nNot so much in these countries,
\nbut even here there are those <\/p>\n
661
\n00:42:48,800 –> 00:42:52,520
\nthat that have need, have needs
\nand and you know about their <\/p>\n
662
\n00:42:52,520 –> 00:42:55,000
\nneed.
\nAnd one of you says to them, oh,<\/p>\n
663
\n00:42:55,640 –> 00:42:59,320
\ndepart in peace, be warmed and
\nfilled. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:43:00,360 –> 00:43:02,840
\nBut you do not give them the
\nthings that they are needed for <\/p>\n
665
\n00:43:02,840 –> 00:43:04,520
\nthe body.
\nWhat does, what good does that <\/p>\n
666
\n00:43:04,520 –> 00:43:05,360
\ndo?
\nSays James. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:43:05,720 –> 00:43:08,840
\nWhat does that profit?
\nIf you know somebody is needing <\/p>\n
668
\n00:43:08,840 –> 00:43:11,320
\nsomething and they don’t have it
\nand you got the wherewithal to <\/p>\n
669
\n00:43:11,320 –> 00:43:15,880
\nhelp them, don’t just say good
\nluck. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:43:16,640 –> 00:43:17,960
\nHope everything will work out
\nall right. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:43:17,960 –> 00:43:19,960
\nIn fact, I want to want to read
\nyou a little poem. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:43:19,960 –> 00:43:22,720
\nIt’s not a Christadelphian, not
\nexactly a poem. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:43:22,720 –> 00:43:25,520
\nIt’s I don’t know what you call
\nit, but this is how it goes. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:43:26,480 –> 00:43:30,880
\nI was hungry and you formed a
\nhumanities club and discussed my<\/p>\n
675
\n00:43:30,880 –> 00:43:32,680
\nhunger.
\nThank you. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:43:35,040 –> 00:43:36,280
\nI was imprisoned.
\nAnd you? <\/p>\n
677
\n00:43:36,280 –> 00:43:37,000
\nCrept.
\nOff. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:43:37,000 –> 00:43:40,320
\nQuietly to your Chapel in the
\ncellar to pray for my release. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:43:41,880 –> 00:43:44,720
\nThank you.
\nI was naked. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:43:45,440 –> 00:43:48,160
\nAnd in your mind, you debated
\nthe morality of my appearance. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:43:49,240 –> 00:43:53,760
\nI was sick, and you knelt in
\nprayer to God for your health. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:43:55,120 –> 00:43:58,920
\nI was homeless, and you preached
\nto me of the spiritual shelter <\/p>\n
683
\n00:43:58,920 –> 00:44:01,600
\nof God’s love.
\nI was. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:44:01,600 –> 00:44:04,680
\nLonely and you left me alone to
\npray for me. <\/p>\n
685
\n00:44:06,440 –> 00:44:12,960
\nYou seem so holy, so close to
\nGod, but I’m still very hungry <\/p>\n
686
\n00:44:14,080 –> 00:44:20,280
\nand lonely.
\nAnd coal, We can be like that. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:44:20,800 –> 00:44:26,560
\nEven with our brothers and.
\nSisters, this book is being <\/p>\n
688
\n00:44:26,560 –> 00:44:32,040
\ndoers and not just hearers.
\nJames chapter 2 verse 17. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:44:32,040 –> 00:44:36,840
\nThus also faith by itself, if it
\ndoes not have works. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:44:36,840 –> 00:44:40,920
\nIt’s dead, but someone will say,
\nwell, you have faith and I have <\/p>\n
691
\n00:44:40,920 –> 00:44:43,080
\nworks.
\nShow me your faith without your <\/p>\n
692
\n00:44:43,080 –> 00:44:44,160
\nworks.
\nI’ll show you my faith. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:44:44,520 –> 00:44:50,640
\nBy my works verse 20.
\nBut do you want to know, O <\/p>\n
694
\n00:44:50,640 –> 00:44:54,160
\nfoolish man, that faith without
\nworks is dead? <\/p>\n
695
\n00:44:55,560 –> 00:44:58,240
\nYou see then that a man is
\njustified by works and not by <\/p>\n
696
\n00:44:58,240 –> 00:45:01,920
\nfaith only, for as a body
\nwithout the Spirit is. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:45:01,920 –> 00:45:03,400
\nDead.
\nSo faith without works. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:45:03,400 –> 00:45:08,960
\nIs dead.
\nAlso, we’re not going to be <\/p>\n
699
\n00:45:08,960 –> 00:45:11,200
\ngetting the Kingdom by our
\nworks. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:45:12,200 –> 00:45:14,520
\nBut we’re not going to get into
\nour Kingdom without our works. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:45:16,520 –> 00:45:21,400
\nFaith and works balance.
\nFaith produces works, and the <\/p>\n
702
\n00:45:21,400 –> 00:45:23,360
\nmore we work, the more faith we
\ncan have. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:45:24,280 –> 00:45:27,440
\nChapter 3, verse 13 Who is?
\nWise and understanding among <\/p>\n
704
\n00:45:27,440 –> 00:45:32,480
\nyou, let Him show by good
\nconduct that His works are done <\/p>\n
705
\n00:45:32,600 –> 00:45:45,640
\nin the meekness of wisdom.
\nVerse 20 of chapter 5. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:45:45,640 –> 00:45:49,440
\nLet him know that he who turns a
\nSinner from the air of his way <\/p>\n
707
\n00:45:50,160 –> 00:45:54,800
\nshall save a soul from death and
\ncover a multitude of sins. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:45:56,120 –> 00:45:59,400
\nJames is telling us that the man
\nwho hears and does not do it, <\/p>\n
709
\n00:45:59,400 –> 00:46:03,040
\nlike a man looking at his self
\nin a mirror, and he forgets what<\/p>\n
710
\n00:46:03,040 –> 00:46:12,480
\nhe looks like.
\nThe Bible is compared by James <\/p>\n
711
\n00:46:12,480 –> 00:46:16,520
\ncompares it to a mirror in Psalm
\n119 verse one O 5. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:46:16,520 –> 00:46:20,040
\nThe Bible is compared to a lamp
\nin Jeremiah 2329. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:46:20,040 –> 00:46:22,120
\nThe Bible is likened to fire and
\na hammer. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:46:22,880 –> 00:46:25,600
\nJames speaks of the washing of
\nthe water by the word in <\/p>\n
715
\n00:46:25,600 –> 00:46:28,760
\nEphesians and Hebrews.
\nDescribes the word of God as <\/p>\n
716
\n00:46:28,760 –> 00:46:31,960
\nquick and powerful and sharper
\nthan any two edged sword. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:46:32,960 –> 00:46:39,720
\nJames says it’s a mirror, and
\nthe mirror reflects what it <\/p>\n
718
\n00:46:39,720 –> 00:46:45,760
\nsees.
\nI want to read you a little poem<\/p>\n
719
\n00:46:45,760 –> 00:46:48,640
\nthat I have it typed into my
\nBible. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:46:49,440 –> 00:46:53,040
\nIt’s by a man named Edgar, a
\nguest. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:46:54,920 –> 00:46:59,360
\nThe name of the poem is myself.
\nHere’s part of the poem. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:47:00,320 –> 00:47:04,600
\nI have to live with myself.
\nAnd so I want to be fit for <\/p>\n
723
\n00:47:04,600 –> 00:47:08,960
\nmyself, to know.
\nI want to be able, as the days <\/p>\n
724
\n00:47:08,960 –> 00:47:13,920
\ngo by, always to look myself
\nstraight in the eye. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:47:15,040 –> 00:47:19,080
\nI don’t want to stand with the
\nsetting sun and hate myself for <\/p>\n
726
\n00:47:19,080 –> 00:47:25,880
\nthe things I have done.
\nEdgar a guest was capturing the <\/p>\n
727
\n00:47:25,880 –> 00:47:30,120
\nsame thought that James had when
\nhe told us not to look in a <\/p>\n
728
\n00:47:30,120 –> 00:47:33,720
\nmirror and then to go away and
\nforget what we saw. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:47:35,320 –> 00:47:38,480
\nSo Edgar, A Guest says, I want
\nto look myself in the eye. <\/p>\n
730
\n00:47:39,400 –> 00:47:43,800
\nYou know how to do that?
\nThere’s only one way you can <\/p>\n
731
\n00:47:43,800 –> 00:47:46,640
\nlook yourself in the eye and
\nthat’s in the mirror. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:47:48,000 –> 00:47:52,200
\nBecause even with cross eyes,
\nwith dozes in the way, you <\/p>\n
733
\n00:47:52,200 –> 00:47:56,040
\ncannot look yourself in the eye
\nexcept when you look in the <\/p>\n
734
\n00:47:56,040 –> 00:47:57,160
\nmirror.
\nDo you ever look at yourself <\/p>\n
735
\n00:47:57,240 –> 00:48:01,000
\nright in the mirror and say,
\nGod, you called me. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:48:01,440 –> 00:48:03,720
\nI’m sure glad you did.
\nYou didn’t do it because I’m so <\/p>\n
737
\n00:48:03,720 –> 00:48:09,960
\ngood looking.
\nI know that and and you see a <\/p>\n
738
\n00:48:09,960 –> 00:48:12,760
\nphotographer will take our
\npicture and he’ll touch it up <\/p>\n
739
\n00:48:12,760 –> 00:48:16,360
\nand and with angles and lights
\nand touch up, he can make you <\/p>\n
740
\n00:48:16,360 –> 00:48:19,040
\nlook like you don’t even look.
\nAnd that’s what. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:48:19,200 –> 00:48:21,960
\nThat’s what people want.
\nYou see but a mirror just to <\/p>\n
742
\n00:48:21,960 –> 00:48:24,360
\ntell you what it just reflects
\nback what’s there. <\/p>\n
743
\n00:48:24,360 –> 00:48:27,080
\nIt’s it’s a very truthful
\nreflection of you. <\/p>\n
744
\n00:48:27,080 –> 00:48:32,520
\nAnd so the last verse of his
\npoem is goes like this. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:48:32,720 –> 00:48:34,640
\nI tell you, I modified it just a
\nlittle bit. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:48:34,840 –> 00:48:36,600
\nHe’s dead.
\nSo I didn’t get his permission. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:48:38,160 –> 00:48:43,680
\nI can never hide myself from me.
\nI see what others may never see.<\/p>\n
748
\n00:48:45,240 –> 00:48:47,240
\nI know what others may never
\nknow. <\/p>\n
749
\n00:48:48,040 –> 00:48:52,400
\nI can never.
\nFool myself, and so whatever <\/p>\n
750
\n00:48:52,400 –> 00:48:58,600
\nhappens, I want to be forgiven
\nby God and conscience free. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:49:03,660 –> 00:49:07,580
\nJames is telling us it is
\npossible for us to deceive <\/p>\n
752
\n00:49:07,660 –> 00:49:10,920
\nourselves.
\nJames 126 If any man among you <\/p>\n
753
\n00:49:10,920 –> 00:49:13,880
\nthinks he is religious and does
\nnot bridle his tongue, but <\/p>\n
754
\n00:49:13,880 –> 00:49:18,520
\ndeceives his own heart, this
\nman’s religion is useless. <\/p>\n
755
\n00:49:18,960 –> 00:49:22,120
\nIt’s possible for us to actually
\ndeceive ourselves. <\/p>\n
756
\n00:49:24,280 –> 00:49:29,040
\nThe way we do it is we look in
\nthe glass and go away and forget<\/p>\n
757
\n00:49:29,040 –> 00:49:32,720
\nwhat we saw.
\nThe correct approach is to look <\/p>\n
758
\n00:49:32,720 –> 00:49:36,200
\nourselves straight in the eye.
\nAcknowledge that we are made by <\/p>\n
759
\n00:49:36,200 –> 00:49:39,280
\nGod, not our.
\nNatural appearance is important,<\/p>\n
760
\n00:49:39,280 –> 00:49:41,600
\nit’s what’s inside and God sees
\nthem. <\/p>\n
761
\n00:49:43,000 –> 00:49:45,200
\nGod knows what no one else
\nknows. <\/p>\n
762
\n00:49:46,840 –> 00:49:50,920
\nConfess your faults then to God.
\nYou might as well tell him about<\/p>\n
763
\n00:49:50,920 –> 00:49:53,200
\nhim.
\nHe knows them anyway, and as <\/p>\n
764
\n00:49:53,200 –> 00:49:55,520
\nlong as you, he knows them and
\nyou know them and you don’t <\/p>\n
765
\n00:49:55,520 –> 00:50:00,160
\nconfess them, you got them.
\nAnd all he’s asking you to do is<\/p>\n
766
\n00:50:00,160 –> 00:50:01,760
\nconfess them, and he’ll take
\nthem away. <\/p>\n
767
\n00:50:02,840 –> 00:50:06,840
\nIf we confess our sins, He is
\nfaithful and just to forgive. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:50:06,840 –> 00:50:09,440
\nUs our sins and to cleans us
\nfrom all our righteousness. <\/p>\n
769
\n00:50:10,040 –> 00:50:15,080
\nWe don’t ever have to go to bed
\nwith a sin on our conscience. <\/p>\n
770
\n00:50:18,000 –> 00:50:20,440
\nAnd that’s what Paul says about
\nhusbands and wives of each <\/p>\n
771
\n00:50:20,440 –> 00:50:21,880
\nother.
\nDon’t go to bed angry. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:50:23,320 –> 00:50:26,920
\nMake up before you go to sleep.
\nDon’t let the sun go down on <\/p>\n
773
\n00:50:26,920 –> 00:50:33,600
\nyour wrath.
\nGet forgiven and so remember <\/p>\n
774
\n00:50:34,760 –> 00:50:41,000
\nthat you are wrong.
\nThat you should be sorry. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:50:41,880 –> 00:50:43,200
\nCan you imagine?
\nSaying yeah I’m wrong, but I’m <\/p>\n
776
\n00:50:43,200 –> 00:50:45,920
\nglad I’m wrong I.
\nMean, that’s the height of <\/p>\n
777
\n00:50:46,320 –> 00:50:53,800
\nsomething, isn’t it?
\nThat we should ask to be <\/p>\n
778
\n00:50:53,800 –> 00:50:59,320
\nforgiven and we should tell
\nthose we love that we love them.<\/p>\n
779
\n00:51:00,720 –> 00:51:06,600
\nSome husbands and wives don’t
\nsay I love you 3 words I love <\/p>\n
780
\n00:51:06,600 –> 00:51:09,840
\nyou.
\nI say them to God. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:51:11,360 –> 00:51:13,960
\nGod knows my heart, He knows
\nwhether I love him or not. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:51:14,680 –> 00:51:20,520
\nBut I have found that when I say
\nthem, I hear them as well as God<\/p>\n
783
\n00:51:20,520 –> 00:51:24,480
\nhears them.
\nAnd when I say them to someone <\/p>\n
784
\n00:51:24,480 –> 00:51:28,880
\nthat I love, I hear what I say
\nas well as the one I’m saying it<\/p>\n
785
\n00:51:28,880 –> 00:51:33,560
\nto hears it.
\nAnd my love for others grow as I<\/p>\n
786
\n00:51:33,560 –> 00:51:38,440
\ntell them that I love them.
\nAnd there are people who can’t <\/p>\n
787
\n00:51:38,440 –> 00:51:40,240
\nsay those 3 words.
\nI love you. <\/p>\n
788
\n00:51:41,200 –> 00:51:44,400
\nIf you can’t see them right
\naway, get in the front of that <\/p>\n
789
\n00:51:44,400 –> 00:51:48,080
\nmirror and say I love you.
\nWork at it. <\/p>\n
790
\n00:51:50,200 –> 00:51:52,320
\nYour salvation could be involved
\nin this. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:51:53,200 –> 00:51:56,040
\nCertainly the happiness in your
\nhome could be involved in this. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:51:58,560 –> 00:52:06,640
\nSo James chapter one, verse 25,
\nhe who looks into the perfect <\/p>\n
793
\n00:52:06,640 –> 00:52:11,240
\nlaw of liberty and continues in
\nit is not a forgetful hearer, <\/p>\n
794
\n00:52:11,240 –> 00:52:16,440
\nbut a doer of the work.
\nThis one will be blessed in what<\/p>\n
795
\n00:52:16,440 –> 00:52:19,000
\nhe does.
\nSo the steps. <\/p>\n
796
\n00:52:19,000 –> 00:52:22,760
\nTo take to being blessed are
\nlook into the perfect law of <\/p>\n
797
\n00:52:22,760 –> 00:52:25,880
\nliberty continue in it.
\nDon’t forget what you heard. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:52:26,000 –> 00:52:32,240
\nBe a doer of the work.
\nAnd the whole point of our Bible<\/p>\n
799
\n00:52:32,240 –> 00:52:38,480
\nstudies is to go from this Bible
\nschool and put into practice <\/p>\n
800
\n00:52:38,480 –> 00:52:43,720
\nwhat we’re learning here so that
\nwe will be doers of the Word and<\/p>\n
801
\n00:52:44,040 –> 00:52:48,200
\nnot hearers only.
\nSo I’ve got five questions to <\/p>\n
802
\n00:52:48,200 –> 00:52:52,520
\nask you as we close.
\nThese are questions I want you <\/p>\n
803
\n00:52:52,520 –> 00:52:57,880
\nto ask yourself and might as
\nwell be honest with yourself. <\/p>\n
804
\n00:52:57,880 –> 00:53:03,400
\nYou, you know, if you’re telling
\nyour the truth, how is my life <\/p>\n
805
\n00:53:03,400 –> 00:53:06,080
\ndifferent because I’m a
\nChristadelphian? <\/p>\n
806
\n00:53:08,640 –> 00:53:11,800
\nI mean, is your life different?
\nIf your life is not different <\/p>\n
807
\n00:53:12,560 –> 00:53:16,960
\nbecause you’re Christadelphian,
\nthen is Christadelphian faith <\/p>\n
808
\n00:53:18,200 –> 00:53:22,520
\nhaving an effect on you?
\nIf we’re not different because <\/p>\n
809
\n00:53:22,520 –> 00:53:27,600
\nwe have committed our life to
\nGod, then we’re really just in <\/p>\n
810
\n00:53:27,600 –> 00:53:30,120
\nname only, aren’t we?
\nSo question #1 how is my life <\/p>\n
811
\n00:53:30,120 –> 00:53:34,280
\ndifferent because of Mccrystal
\nJefferson #2 What effect does my<\/p>\n
812
\n00:53:34,280 –> 00:53:37,000
\nstudy of God’s Word have on my
\neveryday life? <\/p>\n
813
\n00:53:38,440 –> 00:53:41,840
\nSee, the things we’re learning
\nare to be applied and lived out.<\/p>\n
814
\n00:53:42,800 –> 00:53:48,720
\nNumber three, when I do my Bible
\nreadings, not if when I do do my<\/p>\n
815
\n00:53:48,720 –> 00:53:52,920
\nBible readings, don’t I?
\nWhen I do my Bible readings, <\/p>\n
816
\n00:53:52,920 –> 00:53:56,280
\nwhen do I shut up the book and
\nforget what I just read? <\/p>\n
817
\n00:53:57,880 –> 00:53:59,600
\nStart look at yourself in the
\nmirror and walk it away. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:53:59,600 –> 00:54:01,800
\nForget what you, what you saw
\ndo. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:54:01,800 –> 00:54:08,320
\nDo we think about what we read
\nafter we read it #4 what am I <\/p>\n
820
\n00:54:08,320 –> 00:54:13,080
\ndoing today that I would not
\nhave done today if I had not <\/p>\n
821
\n00:54:13,080 –> 00:54:16,200
\nread the Bible today?
\nOr you can all say, well, I came<\/p>\n
822
\n00:54:16,200 –> 00:54:18,080
\nto Bible school because of this.
\nThat’s right. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:54:18,800 –> 00:54:20,520
\nThese are questions you can ask
\nyourself. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:54:20,520 –> 00:54:25,560
\nMaybe when you’re home, what
\neffect is what you’re doing <\/p>\n
825
\n00:54:28,640 –> 00:54:33,000
\ncaused by your faith?
\nAnd the last question, what am I<\/p>\n
826
\n00:54:33,000 –> 00:54:38,840
\nrefraining from doing today that
\nI might have done had it not <\/p>\n
827
\n00:54:38,840 –> 00:54:42,640
\nbeen for the fact that I did my
\nBible readings today? <\/p>\n
828
\n00:54:44,440 –> 00:54:51,400
\nSo James is a very practical man
\nand he’s given us practical <\/p>\n
829
\n00:54:51,480 –> 00:54:59,280
\nthings to do.
\nAnd let’s resolve in our own <\/p>\n
830
\n00:54:59,280 –> 00:55:09,840
\nmind that we are going to be
\ndoers of the word and not <\/p>\n
831
\n00:55:09,840 –> 00:55:17,920
\nhearers only.
\nSure that Brother Bob is a.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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