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Good morning, Calvary Chapel. 
Well, we are the US, right? 

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We are, That's right. 
We are the US that's here this 

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morning. 
Thank God for all of you guys 

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who were able to make it and 
judge through the weather and 

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elements to get here. 
For those of you who are at home

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and you're listening by way of 
whatever platform, Facebook, 

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listening by way of YouTube or 
whatever way, we just thank you 

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for being here. 
Those of you who are listening 

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to us behind prison walls, we 
want to thank you for joining us

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this morning. 
Also. 

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You guys are a blessing to us 
every week. 

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But I have to thank you guys who
were were able to come out this 

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morning and, and, and come 
through the snow and everything 

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else in order to get here. 
I thank God for you. 

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We appreciate you coming and for
those who weren't able to make 

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it, we appreciate making that 
decision. 

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If it doesn't feel the right 
thing to do, then feel safe. 

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Please. 
It makes sense not to be here. 

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Our guest speaker and I have to 
apologize ahead of time because 

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we were some of you are probably
here because you're expecting to

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hear this guest speaker, which 
would have been worth it. 

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He has a really amazing 
testimony. 

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He wasn't able to make it this 
morning. 

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He's coming in from Pittsburgh. 
Don't know what's between here 

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and Pittsburgh and him trying to
get through here. 

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He has young family members, 
young kids, and he wanted to 

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keep them safe, you know, But 
his attitude, you know, I call 

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him Drew. 
His name is Andrew, but his 

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attitude is, hey, you know me, 
brother, how you know I'm a 

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savage man. 
I'd have been there. 

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I know you would have, brother, 
but it was the right move to 

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make to not put your family in 
jeopardy if you felt that it was

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not safe. 
So we thank God for that. 

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I also want to mention before we
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morning that we have lost a very
dear sister who was a part of 

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this Calvary Chapel family, our 
sister Joyce Miskovich, who went

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home to be with the Lord. 
In fact, it was on Friday when 

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Pastor Clark was did that 
service for them. 

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And she's going to be missed. 
She is going to be seriously 

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missed. 
I, you know, there's certain 

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people that come into your life 
and they don't have to be in 

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your life long in order for you 
to be able to recognize the gift

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of God that they are and they 
make an impact on you. 

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You just, you don't have to be 
in your life long in order to do

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that. 
She was one of those people for 

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me. 
She's the most real sister that 

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I've met in a long time. 
You know, whatever's on her 

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mind, you ain't got to wonder. 
She'll let you know. 

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Yes, she will let you know but 
thank God for her and she's now 

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with Jesus and I know that she 
is in the arms of our Savior and

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she just would not be happier. 
So also want to why we do have a

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little bit of time. 
I want to thank those of you who

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came out with my sister-in-law 
and brother-in-law is here this 

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morning a friend from Indiana 
came She's in town with us this 

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morning and my three BS family 
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our 3B family is here as well. 
I won't embarrass nobody by 

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making them raise their hands or
stand up and give a testimony or

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anything like that, but I did 
just want to acknowledge that I 

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do thank God for you guys coming
today and being with us on this 

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beautiful Sunday morning. 
So having said that, let's get 

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into the word now. 
I'm going to say it up front. 

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It's going to be a little 
shorter, OK, So we can get you 

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guys out of here and be home. 
Yeah, I know. 

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I know some people who know me a
lot pretty well on there. 

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Yeah. 
Yeah, right. 

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We know we, we want to get 
people out of here and, and, and

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not have to be snowed in. 
So we want to make it a little, 

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a little more abbreviated this 
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But we are going to ask you to 
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would. 
We are going to go to the Word 

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of God. 
Let's go to James. 

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And we're going to pick it up at
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So we're going to pray and we 
want to go into the word of God.

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OK, And it's chapter, I'm sorry,
verse 11, actually chapter 4. 

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Thank you, honey. 
Thank you. 

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See, you know, Pastor Clark and 
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will we be without our wives? 
Right, Pastor? 

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Will we be without our wives? 
So thank you. 

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Yeah, it is James chapter 4 and 
we're in verse 11. 

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OK, let's pray and let's go into
the word of Godfather. 

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We do. 
Thank you once again for your 

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grace. 
We thank you for your, your 

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loving kindness even this 
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Lord, you're traveling. 
You're, you're safe traveling 

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mercies that you bestowed upon 
us to get us here without any 

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hurt, harm or danger. 
Father, we thank you, Lord, that

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you were in control of 
everything, even in this 

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situation. 
Lord, you knew who it was that 

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would be here this morning. 
So, Father, I just pray, as we 

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do all the Time, Lord, that You 
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this morning, that You would 
just use my mind and use my body

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and speak through my lips. 
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you. 
Let this teaching be directly 

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from your heart. 
Lord, execute the thoughts of 

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Your heart this morning through 
your servant. 

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And I pray that Your spirit will
be manifested in here. 

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I pray that today would be the 
last day that someone who did 

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not know you, someone who did 
not give their lives to you, for

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someone who may not have been 
trusting you for their 

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salvation. 
Let this be the last day that 

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they're not aware or not sure of
their eternity. 

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But today, Lord, I pray that 
they would believe on the Lord 

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Jesus Christ and that you would 
be their Savior and that they 

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would be able to escape the 
wrath to come because of the 

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blood that you shed on Calvary 
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We ask these things in the name 
of our Savior and our Lord in 

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Jesus name we pray, Amen. 
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this morning, just as a short 
recap, one of the things that we

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want to just emphasizes the fact
that James, as we've said many 

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times, James the brother, the 
half brother of Jesus, who 

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himself was a non believer at 
one time until the to the 

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resurrection of Jesus Christ. 
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only did he believe, but he 
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He was zealous about the things 
of the law before Jesus, but now

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he's zealous about the things of
Jesus Christ, even to the point 

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where he gave his own life for 
the Gospel. 

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James is, you know, he is one of
those nuts and bolts Christians.

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He just gives it to you the, 
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Christianity. 
He doesn't cut corners about it.

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He doesn't sugarcoat anything. 
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with Jesus. 
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say to Jesus, man, you, you, you
just think you, you're just too 

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good. 
You know, you, you just don't 

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get in trouble. 
You don't do nothing, man. 

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You mom's, your mom's pet. 
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say something like that, but at 
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righteousness. 
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even to the point where he gave 
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He doesn't even refer to him as 
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He refers to him as his Savior, 
his Lord, as we should refer to 

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Jesus Christ. 
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he says to us some very direct 
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And even though it's direct, it 
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walk in this Christian faith. 
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understand what is Jesus's heart
for us as Christians living in 

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this world that we're living, 
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And that's really what we're 
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We're looking for the heart of 
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Jesus gives his heart with the 
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You know, he says, look, you 
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before that you know, you know a
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But I say to you, if you look 
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lust in your heart, you've 
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You know, you, you, you should 
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brother, you have already 
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So Jesus is giving, Jesus gives 
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And as we go through the 
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always pray that the Lord Jesus 
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concerning these things. 
Not just what we read on the 

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paper. 
It can be very superficial just 

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reading the Bible itself, but 
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what it is Jesus is saying, not 
what I want to say, not what I 

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want to say, not what I think is
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things, but what is Jesus's 
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What does he want us to leave 
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So in this particular scripture,
as he tells us, this is about 

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the backdrop of this is about 
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wisdom. 
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this entire chapter. 
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says that it's worldly wisdom to
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That means to be spiritually 
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going after ungodly things and 
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That's a that's like committing 
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That means compromising. 
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lower, he says, listen, we can 
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If this is something that we've 
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do is humble ourselves. 
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That means acknowledge that 
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authority to acknowledge that we
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To acknowledge that we have 
broken His heart with going 

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after strange gods and doing 
things that are of the world and

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not things according to His 
word, and humbling ourselves and

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admitting our weaknesses 
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crying out to Him and asking 
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Lord, help me, help me. 
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So he says in order to do that, 
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yourself to God, submit to his 
word, submit to his will, which 

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also means to surrender. 
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surrendering, it means to 
basically just give up your 

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will, give up your ways for his.
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That's why when we worship, we 
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in a position of surrender to 
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Lord, this is your, this is your
life, this is your body, this is

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your will. 
Have your will and not let me 

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have my will. 
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ourselves to God. 
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devil. 
We're able to resist the things 

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that the devil wants us to do 
with our with our hands, the 

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sins that he wants us to commit 
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We resist him when we submit to 
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And how do we draw near to God? 
What's important for us to draw 

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near to God? 
Well, first of all, we have to 

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cleanse our hands. 
That means we have to cease from

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doing the sinful things with our
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If we were stealing, steal no 
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If you were, if you're out there
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were into and and and 
fornicating, which means having 

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sex outside of marriage, do it 
no more. 

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If you're participating in idle 
gods and things of that nature, 

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put down those idle gods. 
Do it no more. 

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That's what he's talking about. 
Cleanse your hands, you sinners,

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is what he is what James says. 
And then he says purify your 

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hearts, you double minded. 
How do we purify our hearts? 

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We get rid of those ungodly 
things that's in our heart. 

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Hatred, lust, anger, 
dissensions, deceive, 

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deceitfulness. 
Get rid of those ugly, ungodly 

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things that's in our heart that 
causes us to have problems with 

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other people. 
He says get rid of those things,

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cleanse ourselves with those 
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And we cannot do that without 
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because we can't do it on our 
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We can't do it on our own, no 
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can't. 
So once we do that, and then he 

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says over in verse on verse 9, 
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Mourn and weep and let your 
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and your joy to gloom. 
After you realize the life that 

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we have lived, as opposed to 
celebrating those things and as 

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opposed to, you know, being 
proud of the things that we have

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done, we should weep and and 
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How could I spend so much time 
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the months, the years, 
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spending my time looking at 
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worthless things, participating 
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things, that we should lament 
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hearts to break before God so 
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He can take over through His 
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things of righteousness, Help us
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lift you up. 
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verses 7 to 9 to 10 are ways 
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the rest of our time, we're 
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is to have fellowship one with 
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change of fellowship with the 
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when we cleanse our hands and we
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near to us, when we when we 
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humility, then we can have a 
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see it is through a change in 
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So we start to hear verse 11 and
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consider that, you know, this is
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we as the church, as believers 
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separate from the world because 
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message is through our speech. 
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behavior, but our speech, the 
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other, that is one of the sure 
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are in Christ Jesus. 
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talk? 
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we sound like we're separated 
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that. 
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in the wisdom of God and not the
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should be light and salt and 
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sought with our actions but also
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He really drives that home. 
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verse 14. 
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complaining, without disputing, 
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and harmless children of God 
without fault in the midst of a 

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crooked and perverse generation 
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in the world. 
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world? 
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all the time, if we talk evil of
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complain about each other and to
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sound more like the world than 
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He wants us to shine his lights 
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the sermon in the mountain, He 
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light in the world. 
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We stand out. 
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Peter chapter 2, he says to us 
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but you are a chosen generation,
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nation, his own special people 
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This is why he chose us out. 
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that we may be those who 
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We proclaim his praises. 
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and into his marvelous light? 
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should glorify Jesus. 
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always run around saying, look, 
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Look at me, I believe in Jesus. 
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I believe in Jesus. 
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That really means nothing. 
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the devils believe. 
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tremble. 
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Does our lights have? 
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Is our life a light in a Dark 
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That's what he's looking for. 
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He says do not speak evil, 
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He who speaks evil over of the 
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speaks evil of the law and 
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But if you judge the law, you 
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judge. 
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giver who was able to save and 
to destroy. 

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Who were you to judge another? 
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book of James, he talks about 
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He, you know, he, he talks about
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over in chapter 1, verse 19. 
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He says be swift to hear and 
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wrath. 
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26 and he says anyone who thinks
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bridle or cannot control their 
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their hearts and their religion 
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It's a useless religion. 
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spiritual, we're self-righteous 
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We're we're we're better than 
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for Jesus, and yet we can't even
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He said. 
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Then your religion is useless 
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own heart. 
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about the tongue that are very 
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He says the tongue in chapter 3,
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entirely about the tongue. 
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tongue is a small member, but it
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deadly poison. 
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iniquity. 
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that same section, he makes a 
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And it's one that I still think 
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man can control and they can 
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creature on the face of the 
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Almost every deadly creature on 
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tamed by man. 
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I've seen men tame killer 
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point that they can get in the 
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didn't go right. 
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get in there with them. 
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They, they, they, they change 
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ferocious beasts. 
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contain the tongue. 
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We can't control our own tongues
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are usually controlled by our 
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That's why we need the Holy 
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teach us and help us to control 
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Because left up to us without 
the Holy Spirit, who knows what 

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we'll say and when we'll say it 
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emotions. 
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here, he says do not speak evil,
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Well, most of it I think like 
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Why do you talk so much about 
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And what I've heard people say 
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actually like a New Testament 
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to the New Testament book of 
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So I went back and I looked at 
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like what it is that James wants
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tongue versus other things. 
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find out. 
When you go to Proverbs chapter 

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6, which gives us 7 things, the 
Bible says that they are 

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abominable to God. 
Six things he hates, but seven 

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things are abominable to God. 
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deal with the tongue. 
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deal with the tongue. 
It talks about the tongue, sins 

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of the tongue. 
It's a lying tongue. 

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He said He hates a lying tongue.
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spreads lies, and he hates the 
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usually done by the tongue 
whispering over here about 

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somebody that's over there and 
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So there's three out of those 
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the book of Proverbs. 
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Proverbs that God hates. 
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We see that James talk a lot 
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that the tongue can cause. 
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if you change, if you give your 
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saved and you are transformed. 
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are transformed, but your heart 
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means that your tongue will 
change. 

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Also, what comes out of your 
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And there's several things, 
there's several verses that that

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talk about that. 
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important for us to not speak 
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In Ephesians 4, he he talks 
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putting on the new man. 
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old worldly lust, the old 
worldly flesh. 

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It's the old man. 
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saved, you take off the old man,
you put on the new man, you put 

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on Christ Jesus. 
So we should speak like Christ 

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Jesus. 
We should act like Christ Jesus 

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because we put him on and he 
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he says, let all bitterness, 
wrath, anger, clamor and evil 

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speaking be put away from you. 
That should be away from you. 

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That should go away from you. 
That should be off, set off far 

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from you. 
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one, Peter says to us, he says 
that we should lay aside malice,

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we should lay aside all deceit, 
lay aside hypocrisy. 

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Envy, which is one of the things
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having that bitter envy in our 
hearts and that selfish 

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ambition. 
And what those things 'cause 

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they bring about confusion and 
they bring about every evil 

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thing, yes, even evil speaking. 
So he says here that we put all 

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those things away, all deceit, 
all hypocrisy, all envy, and all

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evil speaking. 
So what is evil speaking? 

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When I start to slander my 
brother or sister? 

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That's evil speaking. 
That's evil speaking. 

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And what's involved in, in 
slandering and well, first of 

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all, speaking unkind either to 
or about my brother or sister. 

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When I speak unkind to or about 
my brother and sister, that is 

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not godly wisdom. 
That is the wisdom of the world.

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That's being influenced by the 
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It's it. 
And it's certainly, it's not a 

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heart of humility. 
So we speak unkind, we speak 

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unhelpful words. 
I'd like that, that, that phrase

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of speaking unhelpful words. 
We are to encourage each other, 

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to love each other, to build 
each other up. 

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So the words that we speak to 
each other, even if we're 

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helping you to see something 
about you that you don't see in 

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a loving way, I should be able 
to share things with you that 

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help you. 
It doesn't help me if you're 

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speaking to someone else about 
me and you're just tearing me 

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down. 
And I know there's a lot that 

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you can say about me to tear me 
down. 

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But if you're speaking those 
things, that doesn't help me. 

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That doesn't help me. 
So he says you're speaking words

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that are unhelpful, words that 
don't edify. 

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That means you're not building 
anybody up. 

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You're just tearing down. 
James is warning us of these 

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things. 
He said it spreads hurtful lies.

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And we just talked about the 
fact that, you know, over in 

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Proverbs, he said that when you 
have when you have a false 

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witness or you speak lies about 
others, God hates that. 

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So when we speak evil and we 
slander one another, that's 

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usually involved. 
And the other thing is that he 

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talks about having evil 
thoughts. 

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If I have an evil thought about 
you, eventually I'll start 

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speaking evil about you because 
that's what's in my heart. 

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The Bible says out of the 
abundance of the heart, the 

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mouth speaks. 
So if I have evil thoughts about

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you in my heart, eventually, 
eventually I will begin to speak

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evil about you eventually. 
So speaking evil really, you 

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know, it really reveals the 
heart. 

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And there are certain times in 
the Old Testament that we we get

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this example of people who spoke
evil about another and God dealt

447
00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:38,600
with them. 
For example, Miriam and Aaron, 

448
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,680
they spoke evil about Moses 
behind his back. 

449
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:46,400
Moses didn't know it, but God 
did and he dealt with them about

450
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:49,320
it. 
There were people who spoke evil

451
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,320
about Jesus and they even lied 
on him and, you know, put 

452
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:58,440
together a kangaroo court, 
totally, totally illegal court 

453
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,880
that they put together to try to
condemn him. 

454
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,200
They spoke evil against him. 
They spoke evil against Stephen.

455
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:13,400
David even said in Psalm 41, 
five, he said my enemies speak 

456
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:22,000
evil of me, my enemies. 
So before we speak about 

457
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,960
someone, if I'm holding a 
conversation, this is a good 

458
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,680
example. 
I learned this years ago. 

459
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,040
If I'm holding a conversation 
with someone and if I feel like 

460
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:35,760
I need to speak about someone 
else, there are three things I 

461
00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,720
need to ask myself before I 
start speaking about that 

462
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,880
person. 
The first thing I need to ask 

463
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,200
myself is what I'm about to say 
about this person. 

464
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:49,640
First of all, is it true? 
Is what I'm about to say true 

465
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,120
and do I know that it's true? 
Or am I just saying what 

466
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:57,080
somebody else told me and 
because it's negative, I like 

467
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,800
it, so I want to share it with 
somebody else because I really 

468
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:05,280
don't care much for this person.
So I need to ask myself, is it 

469
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,720
true? 
And even if it is true, there's 

470
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,760
a second question that I need to
ask myself. 

471
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:16,560
And that question is, even if 
it's true, but is it necessary 

472
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,960
to talk about with someone else?
Is this something that I, if I 

473
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,160
really cared about this person, 
rather than talking about this 

474
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,840
with someone else, is this 
something I should be going to 

475
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,880
that person myself and talking 
about with them in person 

476
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:35,920
between me and them? 
Was it really necessary for me 

477
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:40,760
to share this with someone else?
Is it necessary? 

478
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,840
Then the third thing is, will it
edify? 

479
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,760
What kind of light, what kind of
picture am I drawing of you? 

480
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,000
When I say what I'm about to say
to someone else, What kind of 

481
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,040
picture am I drawing? 
What kind of impression am I 

482
00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,480
giving this person of who you 
are? 

483
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,600
Does it edify you? 
Does it build you up or does it 

484
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,640
make you look like a villain? 
Does it make you look like 

485
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,040
someone that they don't want to 
be associated with? 

486
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,920
Do I paint you in a negative 
picture? 

487
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:15,440
Because see, whoever got the mic
is the one that can control it, 

488
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:18,120
right? 
And if I'm talking to someone 

489
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,560
else away from them, then I got 
the mic. 

490
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,160
I can say what I want to say and
I can make them look any kind of

491
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,840
way I want them to look. 
So those are three questions 

492
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,960
that we need to ask ourselves 
before we talk about somebody #1

493
00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:36,640
is it true? 
Bible says we speak the truth in

494
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,920
love. 
Number 2, Is it necessary? 

495
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,520
Well, we know that the Bible 
talks about that because over in

496
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:48,120
Ephesians 429 he says, let no 
corrupt word proceed out of your

497
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:52,200
mouth. 
But what is good for necessary 

498
00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:57,200
edification, that it may impart 
grace to the hearers. 

499
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,560
So is it necessary? 
And of course, the third one, 

500
00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:05,600
will it edify? 
We're supposed to edify each 

501
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:11,600
other, build up one another, 
love that's loving one another, 

502
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,360
Edify. 
Then he also says that even when

503
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:20,920
you when you speak evil people 
and you're judging them, you're 

504
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,520
judging them. 
You're putting yourself in a 

505
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,680
position of judging. 
Now I noted that word judging 

506
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:30,240
can be really controversial in 
some aspects because you know, 

507
00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:34,600
when people don't want you to 
share truth about them, you 

508
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,360
know, or, or share something 
that you see about them. 

509
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,480
Even if you're doing the loving 
way, you know, people like say 

510
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:42,520
don't judge me, don't judge me. 
You judge me. 

511
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,480
You judge me, right? 
Who you judge me? 

512
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:50,120
Well, not all judging is 
actually created equal. 

513
00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,400
What James is referring to here,
when he talks about judging, 

514
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:59,640
he's saying that you are 
criticizing or condemning the 

515
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,040
brother, which actually goes 
against the law. 

516
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,720
It goes against the law. 
You're judging them according to

517
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,240
the law, but yet you are the one
that's breaking the law by 

518
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:14,320
judging them. 
By judging them, the person who 

519
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:16,640
judges actually disobeys the 
law. 

520
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,920
What law? 
The law To love our brother and 

521
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:23,880
our sister. 
And if I'm always trying to find

522
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,840
fault with you, if I'm always 
condemning you to somebody else,

523
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,800
that's not loving you, that's 
not sharing love with you, 

524
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,720
that's not really caring about 
you. 

525
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,680
But we know that Jesus cares 
about us. 

526
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,960
And the way he speaks to us, he 
says, you know, he speaks to us 

527
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,920
like we are one of his chickens,
like one of his little chicks. 

528
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:49,240
And he covers us with his wings 
and he speaks kindly with us. 

529
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:53,280
Even when Jesus confronted 
someone about their sin, he 

530
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:57,680
spoke kindly to them. 
He didn't compromise and, and, 

531
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:03,720
and and allow themselves to to 
continue to keep the sin, but he

532
00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:05,680
spoke kindly to him. 
The woman he caught in the dog 

533
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:07,360
tree. 
Where are your accusers? 

534
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:09,000
Where are are those who condemn 
you? 

535
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:10,360
He said, Lord, there there are 
none. 

536
00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:12,440
He said, I don't condemn you 
either. 

537
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:16,719
Go and sin no more. 
His love, his compassion. 

538
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,679
It was evident when he would 
talk to the woman at the well, 

539
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:26,440
although he called out her sin, 
but he spoke to her in a 

540
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:33,159
compassionate way, in a loving 
way to let her know that the one

541
00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:39,600
that you were looking for, the 
Messiah, He's here, I'm him, I'm

542
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,360
him. 
So he does in a loving way. 

543
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,159
And even the way he deals with 
us, I mean, think about it, the 

544
00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:51,360
things that we do when he speaks
to our heart, it's never in a 

545
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,679
condemning way. 
It's in a very loving and 

546
00:34:54,679 --> 00:35:00,560
gracious way, he said by with 
loving kindness, I've drawn you.

547
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:05,960
I didn't draw you by condemning 
you and by complaining about you

548
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:09,480
and, and by putting you down. 
That's not how he drew us. 

549
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:16,360
He said with by loving kindness,
I've drawn you loving kindness. 

550
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,960
So he says that the judge and 
somebody puts us in a position 

551
00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:25,480
of authority almost over that 
person. 

552
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:29,760
To think that I'm so righteous 
that I can judge someone who is 

553
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:33,440
dealing with multiple problems, 
that may be dealing with 

554
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:38,680
multiple problems, but instead 
of being a doer of the law, 

555
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:41,880
we're a judge of it. 
And he tells us very clearly 

556
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,520
over in James chapter, James 
chapter one, that we are to be a

557
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:49,320
doer of the law. 
And if all I'm doing is judging 

558
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:50,600
you, I'm not being a doer of the
law. 

559
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,280
In fact, I'm breaking the law, 
but I'm not being a doer of the 

560
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,320
law. 
We're not to judge the motives 

561
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,040
and the thoughts of other 
people. 

562
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,120
Only God can do that. 
Only God can do that. 

563
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,280
We look at the heart, we try to 
look at the harp. 

564
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,520
Only God really sees the heart. 
We look at what we see on the 

565
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,520
outside, but only God truly sees
the heart. 

566
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,560
We can't judge another one's 
motives. 

567
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:19,560
And when we try to do that 
again, we put ourselves in the 

568
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:23,120
position of God. 
So if I'm criticizing and 

569
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,880
condemning, then I'm not 
unifying. 

570
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,240
I can't both criticize and 
condemn you and unify at the 

571
00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:31,520
same time. 
It doesn't happen. 

572
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,080
And if I'm judging you, then I'm
not loving you. 

573
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,960
So it was over in Chapter 7 of 
Matthew when Jesus himself 

574
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,280
talked about judging. 
And this is where people refer 

575
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,400
to when they talk about judging.
Look, what does Matthew 7 say? 

576
00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:51,400
Judge not, lest you be judged. 
You're right, it does say that. 

577
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:56,920
It does say that, but what he's 
talking about is US judging the 

578
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:01,880
most minute, the little small 
details, just just really paying

579
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:06,840
attention to every single little
small thing and being critical 

580
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,800
of every little small thing 
about somebody and judging them 

581
00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:15,720
about those things. 
So what he's saying here is that

582
00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:18,720
you know you're, you're, you're 
judging everyone else's issues, 

583
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,760
but yet the most, the most 
glaring things about yourself, 

584
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:27,280
you don't see. 
And that's what he's talking 

585
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:33,200
about when he says, how can you 
remove the speck that's in my 

586
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,800
eye, that little small speck 
that's in my eye? 

587
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:41,000
How can you remove that? 
If you have a big log in your 

588
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,480
own eye, a big plank in your own
eye? 

589
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:48,440
There's something about you that
is so obvious that you have to 

590
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,120
be able to see it. 
But yet you look past those 

591
00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:56,120
things about yourself and we 
judge someone else on the little

592
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,920
minor details. 
And these are just things that 

593
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:04,840
Jesus said that we should not do
because that's not loving each 

594
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,320
other. 
It's not loving each other. 

595
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:13,320
But when we do judge it should 
be a according to the word of 

596
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,840
God. 
Can we judge sin whether 

597
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:18,160
something is a sin or not? 
Yes, absolutely. 

598
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,800
But not judging someone's 
motives or judging someone's 

599
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,880
appearance. 
Jesus even talks about that 

600
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:30,120
judging with limited information
over in John Chapter 7 verse 24.

601
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,480
He warns us, he said, do not 
judge according to appearance. 

602
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,640
We judge one person to be 
faithful and to be and to be 

603
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,560
good and to be helpful to the 
church because they may come in 

604
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,440
and have the appearance of 
someone who was righteous and 

605
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,920
holy, haven't seen no fruit. 
We just look at them from the 

606
00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:51,680
outside and we make all these 
decisions about who we think 

607
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:55,320
they are. 
And because someone comes in and

608
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,320
they have on tattered clothes, 
just like he talks about, you 

609
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:03,320
know, not not being not serving 
the Lord with partiality, 

610
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,920
looking at someone who has maybe
tattered clothes on or maybe 

611
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,480
someone who doesn't look like 
there's well off. 

612
00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:13,680
And we just assume that this 
person is not a, you know, he 

613
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,400
can't, he can't be a righteous 
person. 

614
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,480
He can't be a good Christian. 
He's not going to be good for 

615
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,360
this particular ministry or that
particular ministry that's 

616
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,000
judging according to 
appearances. 

617
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:28,360
And Jesus said that's wrong. 
That's wrong, but we were to do 

618
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:32,360
be righteous judges. 
That means we judge based on the

619
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:37,160
word of God. 
Isn't it funny? 

620
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:45,720
Back in Genesis, back in 
Genesis, the Bible tells us very

621
00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:48,400
clearly. 
Back in chapter 2, He tells us 

622
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:52,800
how we are actually created. 
Every one of us, every one of 

623
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,160
us. 
We are created of the dust of 

624
00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:01,000
the earth. 
That's how we're created of the 

625
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,800
dust of the earth. 
I am a pile of dust. 

626
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:11,360
You are a pile of dust. 
That's all we are. 

627
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:18,840
So imagine complaining and 
judging one pile of dust. 

628
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,080
Complaining and judging another 
pile of dust. 

629
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:27,360
It's basically what we're doing.
One pile of dust speaking evil 

630
00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:31,680
on another pile of dust. 
We're all dust. 

631
00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:38,400
We're just dust. 
And not had it be not for the 

632
00:40:38,400 --> 00:40:44,920
breath of God that he blew into 
our nostrils, we would be 

633
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,640
nothing. 
We would be nothing. 

634
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:53,800
So in verse 12 here he says, 
look, there's one lawgiver. 

635
00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:56,040
There's only one Lawgiver and 
we're not it. 

636
00:40:57,720 --> 00:40:59,880
The only lawgiver is God 
himself. 

637
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:03,760
He's the one. 
That's why he can say how we do 

638
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:08,360
the things in this world, how we
do marriage, how we do family, 

639
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:14,160
how what we do with our bodies. 
As far as abortion is concerned,

640
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,880
we're not our own. 
Bible tells us that we've been 

641
00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:22,880
bought with a price and we were 
not our own. 

642
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,480
But both our bodies and our 
spirit belong to him. 

643
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:32,760
Both belong to him. 
So it's not a legitimate 

644
00:41:32,760 --> 00:41:35,440
argument to say it's my body and
I can do whatever I want to do 

645
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:36,840
with it. 
No, sorry, you can't. 

646
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,720
You didn't give yourself your 
own body and you can't tell us. 

647
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,320
You can't be the one to say what
you do with it. 

648
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:49,680
God says the Bible says that he 
is the one who bought us with a 

649
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:53,360
price and we are not our own. 
It's very clearly in the Word of

650
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:59,080
God. 
Very clearly not everybody likes

651
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:00,360
it, but it is in the Word of 
God. 

652
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,480
Now I also want to say, now I 
didn't write it, I didn't say 

653
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:10,400
it, OK, so don't get mad at me. 
But it is true nonetheless. 

654
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,600
So he says, who are you to judge
another? 

655
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:18,800
Who are you to judge another 
over in Romans chapter 414 

656
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,920
rather and verse four, he says 
who are you to judge another 

657
00:42:22,240 --> 00:42:29,680
servant to his own master? 
He will stand or fall, and he 

658
00:42:29,680 --> 00:42:33,960
will stand because God is able 
to make him stand. 

659
00:42:34,520 --> 00:42:38,280
So who are we to judge whether 
someone is truly called to do 

660
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,240
this or whether someone should 
be in this ministry or whether 

661
00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:44,600
someone should be overcharged of
that, or rather someone you know

662
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,720
is qualified for this or 
qualified for that. 

663
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:54,640
It is God who qualifies the 
unqualified and we can't judge 

664
00:42:54,640 --> 00:43:01,880
another manservant and he tells 
us that he is able to make a 

665
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:05,800
stand. 
So let's go on to the next 

666
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:11,320
section here as we get ready to 
come in from 13 down to 16, He 

667
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:17,440
says this come now you who say 
tomorrow, today or tomorrow, we 

668
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:23,120
will go to such a such a city, 
spend a year there, buy and sell

669
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:27,240
and make a profit. 
Whereas you do not know what 

670
00:43:27,240 --> 00:43:31,560
will happen tomorrow, for what 
is your life? 

671
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:37,120
It is even a vapor that appears 
for a little time and then it 

672
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:41,840
vanishes away. 
Instead you ought to say, if the

673
00:43:41,840 --> 00:43:45,480
Lord wills, we shall live to do 
this or that. 

674
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:51,040
But now you're you boast in your
arrogance, and all such boasting

675
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:55,440
is evil. 
Now for context purposes, this 

676
00:43:55,440 --> 00:44:00,240
is James talking about those, 
those scattered believers who 

677
00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:03,320
some of them obviously make 
their living by trade. 

678
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,240
You know, they will go, they 
buy, they sell, you know, 

679
00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:09,160
getting shipments, they ship 
out, they do all these things. 

680
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:13,080
They travel to different places 
and trade and and and and 

681
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:17,400
whatnot so that they can make 
money just like traveling 

682
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:19,200
salesman that we have today, 
right. 

683
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,040
But what James is saying here, 
So you, you make these plans, 

684
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,800
Yeah, today or tomorrow I'm 
going to go to such and such a 

685
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:33,040
place and I'm going to do such a
such a thing or such and such or

686
00:44:33,040 --> 00:44:36,960
go to such and such a city. 
And I'm even going to tell you 

687
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:38,680
how long I'm going to spend 
there. 

688
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:42,680
I'm going to spend about a year 
there and I'm going to buy and 

689
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,360
I'm going to sell and I'm going 
to make a profit. 

690
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:50,920
So this is all about what your 
plans may be. 

691
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:54,080
I mean, we all do this, right? 
We all make plans. 

692
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,680
We all have calendars. 
We all have things that we plan 

693
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:01,520
many days and many weeks out. 
But the reality of the situation

694
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,960
is as a believer, we have to 
understand something. 

695
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:11,040
Every single moment, every 
single movement is subject to 

696
00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:16,280
the grace and the will and the 
goodness of God. 

697
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,480
It's all in His plans. 
I can't. 

698
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:27,240
I have so many examples of 
people that I know had planned 

699
00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:33,720
to be here at a certain time or 
plans to be there or to do that,

700
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,880
and then they go to bed at night
and don't wake up in the 

701
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,760
morning. 
I can't tell you how many times 

702
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:41,520
I've seen that happen. 
It happened to my own mother 

703
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,920
with me, and I've shared this 
story before. 

704
00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:47,200
I just left my mother on a 
Tuesday. 

705
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,040
I was coming back the following 
week and we were going to do 

706
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,240
this and we were going to do 
that when I left her in 

707
00:45:53,240 --> 00:45:55,960
Harrisburg and kissed her and 
told her I loved her goodbye. 

708
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:59,080
I'll see you next week. 
That night she passed in her 

709
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,800
sleep. 
I never got to see her again on 

710
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:06,160
this side. 
So I know how quick things can 

711
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,440
change in our lives. 
So we really should be careful 

712
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,920
about what we say to people. 
We should be careful about what 

713
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:18,640
we say to people because we 
never know what tomorrow may 

714
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,480
bring. 
We never know. 

715
00:46:24,240 --> 00:46:28,120
We never know. 
There are people that I know. 

716
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,480
I had a friend when I was in 
college and we had just left 

717
00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:34,480
Duquesne's campus. 
We just walked off that campus. 

718
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,640
We had plans. 
We want to get together that 

719
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:40,520
evening, go grab some some some 
fries and a hamburger somewhere 

720
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,440
and just, you know, have 
fellowship with each other. 

721
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:47,960
And I never heard from them 
again. 

722
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:54,080
I'm calling them nothing calling
nothing. 

723
00:46:55,200 --> 00:47:00,560
It was the following Monday. 
That was on a Friday. 

724
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:05,320
It was a Monday when I saw a 
mutual friend who said, did you 

725
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:12,280
hear about what happened? 
And I said, no, we what we're 

726
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:16,840
talking about. 
He said his brother killed him 

727
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,880
Friday night. 
They got into an argument in the

728
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:21,440
kitchen. 
His brother stabbed him to 

729
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:25,920
death. 
Just like that, it changed his 

730
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:28,480
life, changed his parents life 
changed just like that. 

731
00:47:29,240 --> 00:47:32,080
We don't know what's going to 
happen. 

732
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:35,840
So James is saying, we make all 
these plans and we say we're 

733
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:37,800
going to do this, we're going to
do that and we want to go here, 

734
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:41,160
we're going to go there. 
What if you don't make it till 

735
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:46,440
then? 
But what we should say, And 

736
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:51,120
since studying this, I've become
a lot more conscious of this and

737
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:53,920
I need to be doing it more 
because I don't. 

738
00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:03,080
We need to say if the Lord will,
I'll do this or that. 

739
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:09,000
If the Lord will, I'll be here 
next Sunday again, if the Lord 

740
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,320
will after service, we'll go out
and we'll do this through that. 

741
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,280
Because we used to say, you 
know, here today and go on 

742
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,240
tomorrow. 
That's not always true. 

743
00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:21,040
You can be here today and gone 
today. 

744
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,480
You see, the next 5 minutes is 
really not promised to us. 

745
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:32,040
And there have been people who 
have left just that quick 5 

746
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,000
minutes. 
They've been gone. 

747
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:36,360
What is your life? 
Your life is like a vapor. 

748
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:40,880
The Lord refers to the to a 
vapor several times, you know, 

749
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:46,120
or or a mist or a dream or a 
sleep in the night. 

750
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:49,680
The Lord refers to those to 
those things and he talks about 

751
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,400
us being vapors. 
And you know, when I wanted to 

752
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:56,840
mention that, you know, Paul 
eventually got that idea. 

753
00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:00,480
Paul got the idea that, you 
know, I can't make plans 

754
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:04,040
thinking that I know that I'm in
control of everything. 

755
00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:06,760
That's kind of a worldly 
humanistic thought to think that

756
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:10,880
they're control of everything. 
In fact, I read 1 context of a 

757
00:49:10,880 --> 00:49:14,040
of a preacher, Jonathan Edwards,
who says that when, when, when 

758
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:17,200
people even talk about hell, 
people who are not saved and who

759
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:21,280
hate God actually think that 
they can escape even a wrath to 

760
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:25,640
come by their own doing. 
It's amazing. 

761
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:30,080
But Paul understands that 
everything that we do in Christ 

762
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:34,680
Jesus, everything that we do is 
really subject to God's will. 

763
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:39,040
So he says in Acts chapter 18 
and verse 21, he says I will 

764
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:43,320
return again to you speaking to 
the those Corinthians at that 

765
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:45,520
particular time in the Ephesians
he was talking to. 

766
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:51,040
He said, I will return to you, 
God willing over in first 

767
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:55,280
Corinthians chapter 4 verse 19, 
he says, but I will come to you 

768
00:49:55,280 --> 00:50:02,160
shortly if the Lord wills. 1st 
Corinthians 16, seven. 

769
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:07,280
He says, I hope to stay a while 
with you if the Lord permits. 

770
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:11,480
So he understood that everything
that he did was in subject was 

771
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:16,200
subject to the will of God than 
the plans that we have. 

772
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:20,600
So we have to be at his mercy 
all the time. 

773
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:24,040
So it's not saying that we 
shouldn't make plans, not saying

774
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,560
that you shouldn't schedule 
things, but we should schedule 

775
00:50:26,560 --> 00:50:31,440
them not with the the pride that
we can control whether we'll 

776
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:35,080
complete those things or not. 
We shouldn't schedule them with 

777
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:39,520
the pride that we are in control
of whether or not I see you next

778
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:43,240
week or not, but we should 
schedule it with the with the 

779
00:50:43,240 --> 00:50:48,600
understanding and the humility 
that God is in control. 

780
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,960
And we have to be. 
Subject to whatever it is that 

781
00:50:51,960 --> 00:50:55,760
he wills. 
Even Jesus was subject to what 

782
00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:58,800
God wills in the garden. 
He said, you know, he said, 

783
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:00,880
Lord, look, take this cup from 
me. 

784
00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:05,040
But he understood. 
That it was up to God whether he

785
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,280
would do. 
That or not so he said, 

786
00:51:08,240 --> 00:51:12,000
nevertheless, not your will, but
my. 

787
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,040
Not my will, but your will be 
done nevertheless. 

788
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,960
If it's my will, yeah, I'm not 
going through this. 

789
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,280
I'm not hanging on that, on that
cross. 

790
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,440
I'm not having those nails go 
through my hands. 

791
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:27,240
If it's my will. 
But if it's God's will, yeah, 

792
00:51:27,240 --> 00:51:32,600
Lord, have your will. 
Do what you will the way that 

793
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,440
you will. 
We have to understand we only 

794
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:40,720
see 2A corner. 
God sees around it, so when he 

795
00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:43,960
makes a decision based on his 
will. 

796
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:47,600
It's also based on. 
His foreknowledge of knowing 

797
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,760
things that we don't have Privy 
to, things that we don't know. 

798
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,440
So that's why we trust him. 
Even though things don't come 

799
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,680
out our way, we trust him. 
We trust him. 

800
00:51:58,200 --> 00:52:00,480
Even when we you know this. 
Is the way I wanted to do it, 

801
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,160
Lord. 
Well, Lord, say we're going to 

802
00:52:02,160 --> 00:52:05,000
do it this way. 
We got to trust him that he's 

803
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:06,120
doing. 
It the right way we. 

804
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:10,040
Know he is not think he is. 
We know he is because he has 

805
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:12,080
knowledge that we don't know. 
Just like kids got to trust 

806
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:14,680
parents, right? 
If a parent says no, they said 

807
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:18,000
no because they know something. 
It's not just because they want 

808
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:19,320
to be mean. 
I'm talking to all the kids in 

809
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:20,680
here now. 
It's not because they're just 

810
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:22,400
trying to be mean. 
It's not because they're trying 

811
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:24,600
to keep you from, you know, 
having fun. 

812
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,640
It's because they know something
and they're protecting you. 

813
00:52:29,160 --> 00:52:34,320
That's how they love you. 
That's how God loves us, by when

814
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:42,720
it's necessary tells us no, no. 
And then he says there's no, no 

815
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:43,800
you. 
You boast in these. 

816
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:45,920
Things and it's not good to 
boast in those things. 

817
00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:49,440
That's evil. 
Boasting in what you think you 

818
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:50,880
can control. 
It's all evil. 

819
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:53,280
And then in verse 17, and we're 
going to come to a close here, 

820
00:52:53,280 --> 00:52:54,520
praise and worship team, you can
come forward. 

821
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:55,640
We're going to come to a close 
here. 

822
00:52:55,720 --> 00:52:59,360
And he just simply says here, he
says therefore to him who knows 

823
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:03,480
to do good and does not do it, 
it is sin. 

824
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:07,680
You know, I never thought a 
whole lot about the sin of 

825
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,920
omission and the sin of 
Commission. 

826
00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:14,600
You know, I, I just looked at 
sin and sin, sin and sin and, 

827
00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:17,520
and, and quite honestly, most of
us, I think we pay more 

828
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:20,800
attention. 
We pay more attention to the, 

829
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:23,200
the sins that we just shouldn't 
do. 

830
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:27,600
You know the the sin of 
Commission is doing what we 

831
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:31,680
should not do. 
OK, so it you know but but 

832
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:38,360
Christianity is not just about 
the thou shall not do you know 

833
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,040
when you. 
When you look at the the 10 

834
00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,080
commandments. 
It's a bunch of thou shall not 

835
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,640
do, but then there's other 
places that there's things that 

836
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:49,640
we are to do. 
So Christianity is just as much 

837
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:54,960
about what it is that we 
shouldn't do as it is what it is

838
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:56,520
that we. 
Should do that. 

839
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,440
We don't. 
That's a sin as well, and that's

840
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:03,600
what James is talking about when
he says when you know to do good

841
00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:09,160
and you don't do it, that's sin 
in Romans chapter, You know, in 

842
00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:14,000
Romans Chapter 7, Paul admits to
committing both. 

843
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:19,200
He admits to committing the sin 
of Commission and the sin of 

844
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:23,640
omission, because he says here. 
You know. 

845
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:31,680
That which I should do, I don't,
and that which I should not do 

846
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:35,440
that I do. 
So that's what I'm supposed to. 

847
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:40,160
Do, but I also commit. 
The sin of Commission because I 

848
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:44,000
do what I shouldn't do. 
So those are the things that. 

849
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:47,280
James is looking at. 
Here, what sins of omission do 

850
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:49,520
we have? 
I mean, you know, it's easy to 

851
00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:53,080
look at the sins that we have of
Commission because we know it's 

852
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:54,400
very clear, right? 
You shouldn't do this. 

853
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:56,920
You shouldn't do that. 
You shouldn't do this, but what 

854
00:54:56,920 --> 00:55:02,160
about the sins of omission that 
we do when the Lord says go help

855
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:03,080
that? 
Person and you. 

856
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:11,200
Don't over in Matthew 25 is a 
clear picture of a sin of 

857
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,680
omission when he separate the 
goats from the sheep. 

858
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:17,400
Well, it was the goats that he 
separated who committed the sin 

859
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:20,800
of omission. 
Because the Bible said very 

860
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:26,240
clearly, you know, he said that 
when you were hungry, you gave 

861
00:55:26,240 --> 00:55:28,880
me something to eat. 
But then when he talked about 

862
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:30,880
the goats, he said when you were
hungry, you didn't feed me. 

863
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:32,160
When I was hungry, you didn't 
feed me. 

864
00:55:32,400 --> 00:55:34,520
When I was thirsty, you didn't 
give me anything to drink. 

865
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,200
When I was naked, you didn't 
clothe me. 

866
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:40,920
So he's talking about. 
Omission. 

867
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:44,160
Things that we should have done 
that we didn't, so we should 

868
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:46,640
concentrate on those things as 
well. 

869
00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:49,520
And we concentrate on that. 
But understand something. 

870
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:52,680
Even if we don't understand 
something. 

871
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:57,120
The grace of God is there for 
you just like it's there for me 

872
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:00,000
to say, Lord, I have not been 
doing. 

873
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:03,160
For example, I don't always pray
for my leaders. 

874
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,960
The Bible tells us that to do 
that and I don't always do it. 

875
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:10,400
That's a sin of omission. 
That's a sin of omission 

876
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:14,120
regardless of who the leader is,
regardless of whether I voted 

877
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:16,040
for them or not. 
The Bible didn't say just vote 

878
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:17,960
for the ones that you pray. 
That's just pray for the ones 

879
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:19,680
you vote for. 
That's not what it says. 

880
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:23,800
It says vote for your leaders. 
And some of those things are 

881
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,960
hard. 
Sometimes it's hard to do what 

882
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:27,680
it. 
Is that you? 

883
00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:31,320
Don't want to do, Bible tells 
us, he said. 

884
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:35,280
Listen, go and and and. 
And love your. 

885
00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:37,320
Enemies. 
It's hard to love your enemy, 

886
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:42,400
but the Bible tells us to do it.
Sins. 

887
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:46,120
Of omission versus sins of. 
Commission, let's pray. 

888
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:50,400
Father, we thank. 
You for your word, Lord. 

889
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:54,800
That you give us strength, you 
give us wisdom to be able to 

890
00:56:54,800 --> 00:56:58,720
understand your Word, and you 
help us, O God, to be able to 

891
00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:03,360
just put it into. 
Our lives and to do it. 

892
00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:06,000
Not just to hear it, but to be 
doors of it. 

893
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:09,560
That's what you challenge 
yourself every time we open your

894
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:11,960
Word, Lord, and this is Your 
word. 

895
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:13,920
It's not the word of who's 
teaching it. 

896
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:17,040
It's the word of the one who 
wrote it, the one who's who 

897
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:20,880
inspired it. 
You are the creator of God. 

898
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:27,200
You are the God of this Bible, 
Lord, and we thank you that your

899
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:31,200
word is available to us so that 
we do know what it is that you 

900
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,960
have for us to do. 
And Father not only did. 

901
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:37,440
You give it to. 
Us in written form, but even 

902
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:41,320
before that, Lord, you gave it 
to us in the form of your Son 

903
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:46,320
Jesus Christ, who came and lived
these things out, all these 

904
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:50,560
things that we're talking about 
the one who. 

905
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:54,280
Never. 
Committed a sin of omission or 

906
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:57,920
Commission. 
He never speak evil, a word of 

907
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:00,680
evil about anybody. 
He didn't even revile when 

908
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:05,040
people reviled against him. 
And even when he was persecuted,

909
00:58:05,040 --> 00:58:11,280
the Bible says that he didn't 
threaten, but instead he 

910
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:15,840
committed himself to the one who
judges righteously. 

911
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:21,200
So we thank you, Lord, for that 
sacrifice, the sacrifice, Lord, 

912
00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:25,480
that gives us eternal life, the 
sacrifice that through your 

913
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:30,440
broken body, in the shedding of 
your blood, gave us salvation. 

914
00:58:31,280 --> 00:58:35,000
It gave us redemption. 
The. 

915
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:41,400
Forgiveness of our sins. 
So today, Lord, we honor you, we

916
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:46,320
honor what you've done for us, 
Lord, and we honor who we are in

917
00:58:46,320 --> 00:58:51,080
you, and we ask. 
O God, that you will receive. 

918
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:55,320
This service that you will 
receive, Lord, our worship, our 

919
00:58:55,320 --> 00:58:58,840
praise. 
Receive it, Lord, as a sweet. 

920
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:02,440
Smelling savour in. 
Your nostrils that you would be 

921
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:06,960
pleased with us Lord, and you 
will show us what to do to be 

922
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:10,400
pleased of you, Lord, we thank 
you for that in Jesus name. 

923
00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:14,000
So the night in which Jesus was.
Betrayed, he took the. 

924
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,640
Bread, and when he had given. 
Thanks. 

925
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:19,800
He broke it and he said. 
Take and eat. 

926
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:22,960
This is my body which is broken 
for you. 

927
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:32,120
Eat this in remembrance of me. 
In the same manner, he also took

928
00:59:32,120 --> 00:59:35,400
the cup. 
And after supper. 

929
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:40,320
He said this cup. 
Is the new covenant in my blood 

930
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:44,960
which is shed for the? 
Forgiveness of sins of many. 

931
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:48,680
Drink this and as. 
Often as you drink it. 

932
00:59:49,040 --> 01:00:01,480
Drinking and remembrance of me. 
So when you drink this cup and 

933
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:04,200
you eat. 
This bread we do show the Lord's

934
01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:05,920
death till he come. 
Amen. 

935
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:12,200
If anybody would like to ask for
forgiveness for sins of omission

936
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:15,760
or Commission, the altar is open
and you're welcome to come.