1 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:08,500 I want to once again, welcome everyone here this morning. 2 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:12,000 Thank you for being here. Thank you for always being 3 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:20,000 faithful to attend support. support each other, you not 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:30,400 supporting building you not supporting, you know, the not 5 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:36,000 even really supporting. You know, the leaders you're 6 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,500 supporting each other and as you're supporting each other, 7 00:00:40,500 --> 00:00:43,200 you are supporting the leaders as well. 8 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,700 So I thank you for always being faithful to attend. 9 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:55,400 This morning, before we dive into the word, we once again be 10 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:00,900 in book of James obviously, being once again, we'll be 11 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:07,000 finishing chapter 1 of James's morning before we dive into the 12 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:10,200 ministry. And this morning, I wanted to 13 00:01:10,900 --> 00:01:15,200 force to pray together. I want us to pray for Kyle and 14 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,900 Patricia and I want us to pray for a Jasper and Sherry. 15 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:27,100 obviously, we Still love grieve for competition. 16 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:34,300 Their family. They are Currently out, on their 17 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:38,200 way out of town, there had a trip planned and they decided to 18 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:43,900 go ahead and to go on the trip. So let's pray for them for one 19 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:48,700 safety on the road. But to that, this would be a 20 00:01:48,700 --> 00:01:56,300 time of refreshing for them and for Sherry and Jasper that I 21 00:01:56,308 --> 00:01:58,700 know that they both hate being away. 22 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:08,600 I to I spoke with Jasper this morning and he said he'll be 23 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:11,600 back next week he'll be he'll be back in the Pulpit next week. 24 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:16,300 Preaching, I know it's hard and difficult for them to be away as 25 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:21,300 well. So, let's just let's just take a 26 00:02:21,308 --> 00:02:25,800 moment and pray for for Kyle and for Jasper and their families. 27 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:27,500 I meant. Let's pray. 28 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:30,900 Father, I praise you. I magnify your name. 29 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:38,200 Father I pray for Kyle Patricia. For Wales for mayor for hadn't 30 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:45,000 father, I pray father for for the trip today while they're on 31 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,300 the road that you would father. Keep your hand, a protection 32 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:49,700 upon them. Father. 33 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:54,200 I pray that this would be a time of refreshing for them. 34 00:02:55,600 --> 00:03:03,400 Father, help them in the midst of their grief to find solace. 35 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:10,300 Father, help them. To find enjoyment in this trip, 36 00:03:10,300 --> 00:03:17,200 father continued to undergird them continue to lift them 37 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,700 continue to comfort them. Holy Spirit. 38 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:25,200 And help us all to continue to lift them up every day in 39 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,900 prayer. And father, I pray for Jasper 40 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:34,000 and for sharing father's, they're still still away is as 41 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,500 Sherry is undergoing medical treatment. 42 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:40,300 Father, I pray that Lord your strengthen them. 43 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,800 I know that they both hate being away. 44 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:48,500 Father, I just ask that you would be with them, strengthen 45 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:52,200 them. I pray, father for, you know, 46 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:57,000 the separation time, father that you would help. 47 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:05,200 Help them to stay upbeat, not to let you know, doubt or any kind 48 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:09,300 of depression. Father to be in the equation. 49 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:13,000 Father, for, you know, this this being away this distance father 50 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,399 and fill in like, you know, they need to be here, the father, 51 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:18,399 they're doing what they need to do right now. 52 00:04:18,500 --> 00:04:22,400 So father, I just ask that you be with them and comfort them. 53 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,400 Continue to lead in God, Sherry's treatment, father I 54 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:28,800 pray. And we just give you all are and 55 00:04:28,808 --> 00:04:30,600 go and praise. Amen. 56 00:04:32,900 --> 00:04:40,100 Well, this morning, we are going to dive into the last section of 57 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:45,000 the Book of James chapter 1 and the title of today's lesson is 58 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,100 hearing and during the word hearing and during the word. 59 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:59,000 So, As we as we dive in, we're going to be in starting in verse 60 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:06,800 19, 19, through 27. And before before we get in, I 61 00:05:06,808 --> 00:05:10,700 want to check your Echo Steve sentiment from last Sunday. 62 00:05:12,900 --> 00:05:21,400 Thank you for your support during actually over the past 63 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:27,100 past year or so as Steve and I have Went went through and is 64 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:31,100 still continued her to go through the eldership candidate 65 00:05:31,100 --> 00:05:35,100 process. It's been humbling. 66 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:44,900 It's been encouraging. Its Ben I don't know if I need 67 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:59,300 to be doing this. It's Ben. very, Very heavy, very 68 00:05:59,300 --> 00:06:04,400 heavy. So so thank you for standing 69 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,600 with us and thank you for standing with each other during 70 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:15,100 this time. When both Kyle and Jasper are 71 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:19,800 not here, thank you for continuing to be faithful to our 72 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,500 church. Continue to be faithful to Alan, 73 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,400 and Steve and myself. So, Thank you for that. 74 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:32,000 If you're able this morning, if you're stand for the reading of 75 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,400 God's word, will once again be in the Book of James chapter 1. 76 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:53,500 And we will begin in verse 19. What our God says? 77 00:06:54,300 --> 00:07:00,000 No this my beloved Brothers let every person be quick to hear 78 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,100 slow to speak. Slow to anger. 79 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:05,400 For the anger of man. Does not produce the 80 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:10,100 righteousness of God, therefore put away all filthiness and 81 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:15,000 Rapid wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted 82 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,500 word, which is able to save your souls. 83 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,800 But be doers of the word and not hearers only deceiving 84 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:27,000 yourselves for if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a 85 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,300 doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in 86 00:07:31,300 --> 00:07:35,700 a mirror for he looks at himself and goes away and at once 87 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,800 forgets, what he was like, but the one who looks into the 88 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:44,700 perfect law, the law of Liberty and perseveres being no here, 89 00:07:44,700 --> 00:07:48,100 who forgets, but a doer who acts, he will be. 90 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:52,600 His doing. If anyone thinks he is religious 91 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:57,100 and does not Bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this 92 00:07:57,100 --> 00:08:04,800 person's religion is worthless religion. 93 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,800 That is pure and undefiled before God, the father, is this 94 00:08:09,300 --> 00:08:13,900 to visit orphans and widows in their Affliction and to keep 95 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:17,200 oneself unstained from the world. 96 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:20,600 Let's once again, pray this morning, Father I thank Thank 97 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:28,000 you, and I magnify your name. Father, as we began to expound 98 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:33,500 to open your word to unpack. Everything that says in these 99 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:37,700 verses in this in this chapter of James chapter one, father, I 100 00:08:37,708 --> 00:08:42,200 just ask that you will move Upon Our Hearts and move on our 101 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:45,400 minds. Father, may we hear? 102 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:52,800 With ears and see with eyes of the spirit this morning, not 103 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:57,600 with the flesh. Father, help us to receive. 104 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:02,800 Eagerly. Followed this morning, your word 105 00:09:03,700 --> 00:09:07,500 and I father, I ask that you will give me the words to say, 106 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,700 allow them to hear you and not me this morning, I pray. 107 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:21,600 Amen, maybe see, thank you. what the main idea of this morning, 108 00:09:22,500 --> 00:09:27,700 that I want to present before you Is by doing it by being a 109 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:33,000 doer of God's implanted word, we work together with the Holy 110 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,900 Spirit. To live out the sanctification 111 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:42,700 process. By being a doer of God's 112 00:09:42,700 --> 00:09:47,200 implanted word. We work together with the Holy 113 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:51,400 Spirit to live out the sanctification process. 114 00:09:57,300 --> 00:10:03,100 In 1:19 James turns, to the main point, he wants to make in his 115 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:06,300 letter that create Christianity is not. 116 00:10:06,300 --> 00:10:09,200 Just about believing certain things or claiming to have 117 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,800 faith. It is having your life 118 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:16,100 transformed by the gospel. In other words, being a 119 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:19,800 Christian is not just about hearing God's word but also 120 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:22,500 doing it. Of course, that doesn't mean 121 00:10:22,500 --> 00:10:26,100 that here in the word isn't important, a mind that is 122 00:10:26,300 --> 00:10:30,800 Discontent full of its own opinions and not ready to 123 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,900 listen. We're not be able to receive 124 00:10:33,900 --> 00:10:38,600 God's word, but once the word is received, it must be put into 125 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,000 action. That finally is the mark of a 126 00:10:42,008 --> 00:10:45,800 Christian as Christians. We should not only hear the word 127 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,100 of God but also put it in practice. 128 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:56,100 So this is the main point, we finally get to the main point. 129 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:00,200 Point of what James is wanting to speak to us here in his book 130 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:11,000 that that we need to be transformed by the gospel. 131 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,000 And this. And if you recognize, if you 132 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,100 recognize what a just read, this is from our study in the Book of 133 00:11:21,100 --> 00:11:23,200 James. If you are on in home groups, 134 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,900 you may recognize what I just read that. 135 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,500 When it says, a mind that is discontent full of its own 136 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:33,300 opinions and not ready to listen. 137 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:35,800 Will not be able to receive God's word. 138 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:44,700 In the book of. Book of Proverbs, that tells us 139 00:11:44,700 --> 00:11:52,200 that A full only wants to hear his own opinions. 140 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:57,200 A full will only speak the out. He is, he doesn't want to 141 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,200 listen. He only wants to speak what his 142 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:05,500 own opinions. So for us to be able to receive 143 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:11,600 the word of God, To receive that implanted word of God, we must 144 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:17,000 be able to receive that without our opinions, getting in the 145 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,100 way. When we read God's word. 146 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:34,300 Our opinion doesn't matter. God's word. 147 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:36,800 God's word says what God's word says? 148 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:40,500 It doesn't matter what our opinion says. 149 00:12:43,500 --> 00:12:48,600 Sometimes people, you know, find scriptures and I've joked about 150 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,700 this before. But sometimes people find 151 00:12:50,700 --> 00:12:53,200 scriptures they call black marks. 152 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:57,100 A lot scriptures where they want to get a black permanent marker 153 00:12:57,100 --> 00:12:59,100 and write through that scripture. 154 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:03,200 And they want to they like everything else they read, but 155 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,900 they didn't like that, so they just going to mark it out. 156 00:13:06,300 --> 00:13:10,100 Well, you know that won't work. We have to receive it all. 157 00:13:10,100 --> 00:13:14,200 Amen. So our opinion doesn't matter. 158 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,800 Only thing that matters is God's word. 159 00:13:18,900 --> 00:13:23,000 Our opinion isn't worth a hill of beans. 160 00:13:25,300 --> 00:13:28,600 That's why we have to look into that mirror, amen. 161 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:36,000 So we have to receive here, receive the word of God and then 162 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,300 we put it into practice. Now. 163 00:13:41,900 --> 00:13:44,900 Let's take a few minutes to review what we've already 164 00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:46,700 learned in here in the book of James. 165 00:13:47,900 --> 00:13:51,100 The first week, Alan did a wonderful job of T in this 166 00:13:51,100 --> 00:13:59,300 series up here in the first part of James we read and we learned 167 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:04,400 about the process of steadfastness And how does this 168 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,300 happen in during trials with joy? 169 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:13,500 According to James 1:2, how many knows that phrase in during 170 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:16,800 trials? With joy, is what I call an 171 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:22,800 oxymoron, they don't go together, trials and joy. 172 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:29,200 No trials is one of the Christian dirty words, trials 173 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:37,600 suffering, you know, those are you know dirty words sometimes 174 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:41,400 to a lot of people because I don't want it they want to hear 175 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:45,900 about God's love and God's grace which is that's all that's true. 176 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,200 But they don't want to know about. 177 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:54,100 They don't want to think about the process of getting to that 178 00:14:54,100 --> 00:14:57,400 better place. Wednesday night at home groups, 179 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:05,300 I've mentioned a message, I heard a long time ago and the 180 00:15:05,300 --> 00:15:08,400 title of the message was a city called good. 181 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,100 And in the message, the pastor that I had at the time was 182 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:18,000 preaching this message of how that lots of Tom's Walking with 183 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:23,000 God, we get to a really good place, a place of comfort 184 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:28,000 oblate, place of contentment. And what happens is, lots of 185 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,400 times. We want to settle right there, 186 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:34,800 but God is always pushing us. God is always pushing us to go 187 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:38,400 farther, and he has a better place for us to go. 188 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:42,700 But lots of times we as Christians, we don't want to go 189 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,700 to that better place because of our content where we're at. 190 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:50,700 We're in a good place. Why miss something good up to 191 00:15:50,700 --> 00:15:54,600 take a step of faith. We feel God's leading. 192 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:59,100 We feel God's direction to go to that better place, but we're 193 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:02,600 hey, we're content. I'm, I'm content. 194 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,500 There were there were two and a half tribes that decided they 195 00:16:06,508 --> 00:16:09,200 didn't want to go into the promised land because they were 196 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:13,800 content where they were at on on their side of Jordan. 197 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:20,000 They they had they went they had to go and and help the other 198 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,600 tribes, clear the lamb. But after it was done they came 199 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:24,300 back. They made a deal with Moses. 200 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:28,600 They didn't want to go, they play they pleaded with him, you 201 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,800 read the scriptures. They said basically They begged 202 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:36,400 them not to make us go across the Jordan said we found this. 203 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,200 This good land or cattle is here. 204 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:40,300 Where content? Yeah. 205 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:43,800 God has this Promised Land over there, but we don't want to go 206 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,800 there. We want to stay where we're Rat 207 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:50,000 and they did. They got their good place but 208 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,900 they didn't get the better place and lots of times. 209 00:16:52,900 --> 00:16:58,300 We as Christians we're in that same process that we can be at a 210 00:16:58,300 --> 00:17:03,400 good place, but God wants to push us further into that better 211 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:12,400 place. and one of the things he uses his trials, So in during 212 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:17,099 trials with joy, how is this accomplished accomplished 213 00:17:17,099 --> 00:17:21,900 through faith? A tested Faith produces. 214 00:17:23,300 --> 00:17:26,800 Steadfastness. That's the only thing that will 215 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,900 produce that fastens on life is a tested Faith. 216 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:37,100 This word steadfastness here in James means to Terry behind to 217 00:17:37,100 --> 00:17:41,600 remain, or to abide. Means to persevere under 218 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:46,200 misfortunes and trials and to hold fast to one's faith in 219 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:50,900 Christ. So are tested faith. 220 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:56,400 Produces steadfastness. So there's one of those things. 221 00:17:56,500 --> 00:18:00,000 Be careful what you pray for, you want to, you want to, you 222 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:08,200 want to Jesus said, In John 10:10. 223 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:14,000 He gave he gave to mission statements. 224 00:18:14,500 --> 00:18:17,200 He gave the mission statement of our adversary the devil. 225 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:19,600 Then he gave his own mission statement. 226 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:24,500 He said, the Devil Comes, the thief comes only to steal kill 227 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:27,900 and destroy. And then, he said, I have come 228 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:33,500 to give you life and life, abundantly, our life to the full 229 00:18:34,100 --> 00:18:38,800 two, distinct promises, He came to give us life. 230 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:45,200 He came to give us salvation, but he also came so that in that 231 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:50,100 life of Salvation, we can live. Abundantly, we can live to the 232 00:18:50,100 --> 00:18:55,500 full in him. So, we have the choice, we can 233 00:18:55,600 --> 00:19:01,800 either live. We can be saved and lived. 234 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:07,100 Beautiful lives. Always struggling with something 235 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:13,000 or we can live in an abundant life in a life to the full, but 236 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:18,000 it's up to us. We have to allow God to push us 237 00:19:18,500 --> 00:19:28,300 into that better place. and then we find out that says, if any 238 00:19:28,300 --> 00:19:32,000 lacks wisdom, Let a mass. What? 239 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,400 Why do we need that wisdom? We need that wisdom to endure 240 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:39,300 those trials. How do you? 241 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:41,800 What comes about the steadfastness? 242 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:47,000 The wisdom is that we remain and we abide in Christ. 243 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:51,700 John 15 verses 1 through 5 says this. 244 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:55,600 I am the True Vine and my father is the vinedresser. 245 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,600 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit. 246 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:03,000 He takes away and every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes 247 00:20:04,300 --> 00:20:09,900 this prune prunes in this pruning is the trial that that 248 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:14,500 trials that we go through that, it may bear more fruit. 249 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,500 Already, you are clean. I get this already. 250 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:21,100 Are you clean? Because of the word. 251 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:27,300 I have spoken to you. So, the pruning process isn't 252 00:20:27,300 --> 00:20:30,400 salvation. You've already cling. 253 00:20:31,300 --> 00:20:34,400 The pruning process is getting this to that better place. 254 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,600 Abide in me and I in you as the branch cannot bear fruit by 255 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,600 itself. Unless it abides in the vine, 256 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:45,100 neither, can you unless you abide in me? 257 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,600 I am the vine. You are the branches, whoever 258 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:53,700 abides in me and I in him he is it that bears much fruit for 259 00:20:53,700 --> 00:20:56,600 apart from me, you can do nothing. 260 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:02,300 So when we seek wisdom by abiding in Christ, We produce 261 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:05,000 fruit. And one of those fruits is 262 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:09,000 steadfastness under trial. So count it all joy. 263 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:10,900 That's why we can count it all joy. 264 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:18,700 Amen. it says in verse 4, that when we endure trials that that 265 00:21:19,300 --> 00:21:26,700 the stet, the steadfastness produces three things, That we 266 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:31,300 will be perfect complete. Lacking nothing. 267 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,100 This word perfect means brought to its end or finished or 268 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:38,100 full-grown. It's mature. 269 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:43,400 The word complete means complete in all its parts. 270 00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:48,500 A body without blemish in the phrase, lacking nothing. 271 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:57,700 Means to lag or be inferior. So, the steadfast is under trial 272 00:21:57,700 --> 00:22:04,000 produces in US of maturity. A body that was that's without 273 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,900 blemish and we're not inferior. We are superior. 274 00:22:08,900 --> 00:22:11,300 Amen. I've said this before. 275 00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:17,000 A room should be better when we walk into it because we take 276 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:22,900 Christ with us a man. So a room should be better if 277 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:27,000 you walk into that room. Some, you know, I've said this 278 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:31,100 before to some rooms are better when someone leaves but we are 279 00:22:31,100 --> 00:22:33,900 room should be better for us walking into that room. 280 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,900 Amen. Because we crack, we carry 281 00:22:36,900 --> 00:22:38,600 Christ with us. Everywhere we go. 282 00:22:40,100 --> 00:22:46,200 And then last week, Steve. also, did a wonderful job of teaching 283 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:53,200 about How the man who stand steadfast as blessed according 284 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,400 to James 1:12? And why? 285 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:02,000 Because of his endurance? He were not be lured Away by 286 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:07,700 temptation. By abiding in Christ his abiding 287 00:23:07,700 --> 00:23:10,500 in Christ. Allows him not to fall prey to 288 00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:15,000 his own desire to look for help in something else. 289 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:21,900 Other than God, James chapter 1, verses 14, and 15 says that each 290 00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:26,300 man, each one of us has drawn away and enticed by our own 291 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:30,800 desire and then When sin when that when that enticement we 292 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:36,000 give in and bring it brings forth the sin and then When sin 293 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000 is finished, it brings forth death. 294 00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:42,700 How do we resist that? We resist that bastard being 295 00:23:42,700 --> 00:23:46,900 steadfast so blessed and happy is the man who remains steadfast 296 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:53,200 under trial and does not take the temptation to give in to 297 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,500 something else, to help him. Feel better about his trials, 298 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:02,900 whatever that temptation is. Lots of times, we think of, you 299 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:07,800 know, alcohol and drugs. It could be, you know, a sport. 300 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,500 It could be a hobby. It could be a relationship. 301 00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:16,200 Anything that you, you, you go to that. 302 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,900 That's your piece. And you, you seek that because 303 00:24:19,900 --> 00:24:22,000 it gives you a peace that rely on. 304 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:26,400 God, doesn't give you you make that Temptation. 305 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,700 You make that your God. Thus. 306 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,100 You're worshiping another God, which is idolatry. 307 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:42,700 So anything we put above God that we look to that to give us 308 00:24:42,700 --> 00:24:46,100 peace and Tranquility that rely on. 309 00:24:46,100 --> 00:24:51,400 God doesn't give us is a sin. And we need that was of the 310 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:56,000 things that according to Hebrews 12:1, we need to lay down a man. 311 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,800 when you are joyful During trials and remain steadfast to 312 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:07,400 not be lured into sin for Action, you are being a doer of 313 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:12,200 the implanted word of God, so count it all joy. 314 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:16,900 When we, when we go through various trials, because it makes 315 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:20,500 us complete, perfect complete, and lacking, nothing. 316 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:24,500 We're blessed as we heard last week. 317 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:30,800 Because we are steadfast and we don't succumb to those 318 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:37,700 Temptations. so, this week, I posed the question. 319 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:45,000 How does my trials help me to be a doer of God's word? 320 00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:48,700 Remember you have to you have to take this all in constant 321 00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:52,800 content in context that this is not separate from what we've 322 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:57,600 already read in James chapter 1. This is all in context. 323 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,600 So how does my trials when she to think about this morning? 324 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:07,700 How does your trials help you to be a doer of God's word? 325 00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:13,400 Well let's let's once again read here in James chapter 1 verses 326 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:19,200 19 to 27. It says, no, this my beloved 327 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:23,800 Brothers, let every person be quick to hear slow to speak, 328 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:28,000 slow to anger for the anger of man does not produce the 329 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:32,800 righteousness of God, therefore put away all filthiness and 330 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,800 rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted 331 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,100 word, which is able to save your souls. 332 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:45,500 But being, but be doers of the word and not hearers only 333 00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:49,200 deceiving yourselves. For anyone is a hearer of the 334 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,200 word and not a doer. He is like a man who looks 335 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:58,600 intently at his natural face. Looks intently at his natural 336 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:02,000 face in a mirror for. He looks at himself and goes 337 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,100 away and at once forgets what he was like. 338 00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:13,000 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of Liberty 339 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:17,600 and perseveres being no here, who forgets. 340 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,200 But a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. 341 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,900 If anyone thinks he is religious and does not Bridle his tongue 342 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,300 but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless 343 00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:33,400 religion. That is pure and undefiled 344 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:37,800 before God, the father is this To visit orphans and widows in 345 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:42,900 their Affliction and to keep oneself unstained from the 346 00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:47,300 world. So what do we what do our 347 00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:51,600 trials, teach us. So what do I do, trials? 348 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:55,800 Teach us. The first thing is to be quick 349 00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:04,000 to hear This this phrase quick to hear means to consider what 350 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:08,600 is being said. And the word consider means to 351 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,900 think about carefully. So it's it's not just hearing, 352 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,500 but you think about what you're hearing? 353 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:22,800 You're slow to speak. I can say my mouth gets me in 354 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,000 trouble. Sometimes, amen. 355 00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:29,800 Anybody else have that problem that we speak before we pour, we 356 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:34,800 think. We say it, and we'd like thing 357 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:41,200 is once it comes out, you can never take it back a man, slow 358 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:46,500 to speak and slow to anger. This is a process of enduring 359 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:53,100 trials. We didn't during the trials, 360 00:28:53,100 --> 00:28:57,000 create steadfastness in a steadfastness of what abiding in 361 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,100 Christ. and through that state passed since we become perfect 362 00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:07,400 complete and lacking nothing, And in that process this is what 363 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:12,200 we're being taught quick to hear slow to speak, slow to anger. 364 00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:18,300 So we should be When we hear we should be hearing to consider 365 00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:24,000 and think carefully about what we're hearing before we speak. 366 00:29:26,700 --> 00:29:31,200 And then slow to anger. And this this anger here in this 367 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:36,900 this text means a violent passion and implies punishment. 368 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,800 So man, this this anger is violent. 369 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:45,200 And we want to punish because of our anger and lots of times, 370 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:50,500 we're here something someone wrote, you know, ruffle are 371 00:29:50,500 --> 00:29:56,300 feathers and we want to react We want to say something. 372 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:07,800 You man. I remember a Tom. and me, and my 373 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:13,200 wife were sitting in with pastor, we had our town, Across 374 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:21,600 the table with another couple. That the husband was. 375 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:30,700 He was a very deceitful man. and he had done some things that was 376 00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:37,600 very hurting and the pastor we had, he had in Good Intentions 377 00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:43,600 after after some time, he realized his You know. 378 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:53,000 His wrongness in the situation, but he was wanting us to 379 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:59,700 reconcile. And, you know, I can, honestly 380 00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:08,500 say sitting there, I was very choosy with my words. 381 00:31:10,900 --> 00:31:15,100 But what I wanted to do was take a shovel on, hit him upside the 382 00:31:15,108 --> 00:31:18,900 head and bury the body. That's what I would want to do 383 00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:28,700 at that moment. and, But God used that. 384 00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:35,000 In my wife and I was life. That whole circus that happened. 385 00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:38,100 He used us. He used that. 386 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,500 God made it good. According to Romans chapter 8, 387 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,400 it wasn't good in the moment. There's things that we go 388 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,200 through in life, that they're not good at the moment. 389 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:57,000 That's not what the verse says. But God uses it for good. 390 00:31:57,100 --> 00:32:03,300 Amen. So quick to hear slow to speak, 391 00:32:03,300 --> 00:32:05,800 slow to anger. And why? 392 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,500 Because the scripture says man's anger does not produce the 393 00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:14,700 righteousness of God. Man's anger does not produce the 394 00:32:14,700 --> 00:32:19,900 righteousness of God. So, what does being a doer of 395 00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:24,100 God's word will produce the righteousness of God? 396 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:30,900 So how do we do this? We put away all filthiness and 397 00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:35,900 Rapid wickedness. This rampant wickedness. 398 00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:41,600 Is a spreading unchecked wickedness by, not abiding. 399 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:43,800 In Christ. We're not, we're not being 400 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:48,900 steadfast. We want to react, we want to do. 401 00:32:48,900 --> 00:32:54,900 We want to, we want to punish We've been we've been hurt. 402 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:59,500 We've been wronged. and we want to, we want to lash out, we want 403 00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:07,800 to react but learning steadfastness under trial. 404 00:33:12,300 --> 00:33:19,100 We learn what Proverbs says and and the James Jones version says 405 00:33:19,100 --> 00:33:22,500 yes, A wise man knows when to keep his mouth shut. 406 00:33:24,500 --> 00:33:27,400 A wise man, knowest, when to keep his mouth shut. 407 00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:32,400 And we need to learn when to keep her mouth shut. 408 00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:41,900 And I believe that this is what its reference in here in a 409 00:33:41,908 --> 00:33:47,000 double-minded man, earlier on in James because the scripture says 410 00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:51,600 that he should not think that he will see receive anything from 411 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:56,900 God. James chapter 1, verses 5 6, 7 & 412 00:33:56,900 --> 00:34:00,700 8, speaks of the unstable, man when you ask for wisdom. 413 00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:03,100 But don't you have to ask without doubting? 414 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:07,800 Because a man who doubts is double-minded, he's tossed to 415 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,000 and fro and he'll and he's in the Bible. 416 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:13,000 The scripture says that man. Shouldn't think he will receive 417 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,699 anything from God. So, we cannot be double-minded 418 00:34:17,699 --> 00:34:22,800 and we have to be steadfast. It says that we have to receive 419 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,600 with meekness the implanted word of God. 420 00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,500 And it's implanted word of God Saves your. 421 00:34:31,500 --> 00:34:33,699 So let's let's look back at this. 422 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:38,500 We often we talked about this at home groups, we talked about it 423 00:34:39,500 --> 00:34:44,699 in the past, past weeks, that James lots of times. 424 00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:49,199 People will say James is all about Works talks about save 425 00:34:49,199 --> 00:34:56,800 salvation by works. he says here in verse Let's see. 426 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:09,000 Now, I can't find it. Diverse first 21, therefore put 427 00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:12,500 away all filthiness and Rapid wickedness and receive with 428 00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:19,000 meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your 429 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,000 souls. This blows the concept that 430 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,300 James teaches salvation by works out of the water. 431 00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:35,700 The implanted word James says, Is what saves your soul? 432 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,500 And it's through the sanctification brought to us and 433 00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:46,500 in Us, by the holy spirit, being a doer of God's word is us 434 00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:52,400 working with the Holy Spirit. John 15 verse verse 2. 435 00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:56,300 We just read. It says every branch in me that 436 00:35:56,300 --> 00:35:59,600 does not bear fruit, he takes away and every branch that does 437 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,800 bear fruit, he prunes that it may bear more fruit. 438 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:09,300 So as we work with the Holy Spirit in the sanctification 439 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:14,800 process, remember we are justified by Christ. 440 00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:20,700 We are we are saved but the sanctification process that can 441 00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:29,000 take us into life to the full. Is a is a daily for a lifespan 442 00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:34,400 of allowing the Holy Spirit. To sanctifies. 443 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:41,400 If we bear fruit, as we are being Sanctified, we go through 444 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:45,800 the pruning process. So, trials, prune, us and make 445 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:51,000 us more christ-like. We bear more fruit. 446 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,500 We look more like the image of Jesus in the mirror. 447 00:36:56,300 --> 00:36:57,900 Let's speak of let's look at that. 448 00:36:57,900 --> 00:37:04,000 Mirror says one, when we look into that mirror Calls it, the 449 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,100 perfect law, that's what James calls. 450 00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:11,300 It the law of Liberty. In the ESV Study Bible. 451 00:37:12,100 --> 00:37:16,500 It says this, that in James, the law and the word are two 452 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:20,700 different ways of describing the same reality earlier. 453 00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:26,300 The word of Truth in verse 18, is the gospel of Christ and the 454 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:28,800 law here refers to the Old Testament law. 455 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:33,700 As it has been interpreted in fulfilled in Christ though, the 456 00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:36,800 Old Testament law did not liberate God's people but 457 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:40,700 enslaved them. As Paul tall, but the law is one 458 00:37:40,700 --> 00:37:43,100 of Liberty. When it comes along with the 459 00:37:43,100 --> 00:37:48,900 word of word of the gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit to 460 00:37:48,900 --> 00:37:54,400 change Hearts. Matthew Henry says this the 461 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,100 rider shows that the proper use of the word of God is. 462 00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:03,700 Excuse me, the rider shows what the proper use of the word of 463 00:38:03,700 --> 00:38:07,700 God is who they are, who do not use it as they should. 464 00:38:07,700 --> 00:38:11,600 And Who they are, who make right use of it. 465 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:17,000 The use we are to make of God's word maybe learn from it's being 466 00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:21,200 compared to a mirror in which someone looks at their face. 467 00:38:22,100 --> 00:38:26,400 Just as a mirror shows us the spots and blemishes on our face. 468 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,300 So the word of God shows us our sins. 469 00:38:30,100 --> 00:38:34,300 It shows us what is wrong. So it may be be put, right? 470 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,000 When we give our attention to the word of God. 471 00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:42,700 So as to see are true, State and condition, and dress ourselves 472 00:38:42,700 --> 00:38:47,800 are fresh by the mirror of God's word, we make proper use of it. 473 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,300 He continues here. He says, we have here. 474 00:38:52,300 --> 00:38:56,300 An account of those who do not use the mirror of the word of 475 00:38:56,300 --> 00:39:00,300 they should, we hear God's word and look into the gospel mirror 476 00:39:00,300 --> 00:39:02,900 in vain. If we go away and forget our 477 00:39:02,900 --> 00:39:07,500 blemishes and forget the remedy which is the Gospel of Jesus 478 00:39:07,500 --> 00:39:11,800 Christ, this is the case of those who do not listen to the 479 00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:19,000 word as they should. He continues again, the law, the 480 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:24,700 gospel is a law of Freedom, the law of Liberation, whereas the 481 00:39:24,700 --> 00:39:30,300 ceremonial law was a burden of slavery, it is a perfect law. 482 00:39:30,300 --> 00:39:34,700 And in here in the word we look into this perfect law. 483 00:39:35,500 --> 00:39:40,000 We look into the law Freedom as we should only, when we continue 484 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:46,100 their in those who do this, who continue in the law and word of 485 00:39:46,100 --> 00:39:49,600 God. You are and shall be blessed in 486 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:53,000 their deed. This blessedness does not lie 487 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:57,200 knowing the will of God but enduring it. 488 00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:05,100 He says this is ending. It is not talking but walking It 489 00:40:05,100 --> 00:40:10,700 is not talking, but walking. Is walking out our Salvation, 490 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:19,500 amen. And then let's look at the last 491 00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:24,600 two verses here in James chapter, 1 verses 26 and 27. 492 00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:38,600 Says that if anyone thinks he is religious and does not Bridle 493 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:41,600 his tongue. But deceives his heart, this 494 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:45,800 person's religion religion is worthless religion. 495 00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:49,400 That is pure and undefiled before God, the father, is this 496 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:53,600 to visit orphans and widows in their Affliction and to keep 497 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,300 oneself unstained from the world. 498 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,700 So James is summary here, is that? 499 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:09,500 We are to be living out that the blessed life, he once again. 500 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:14,700 Talks about our tongue. He says, Bridle your tongue. 501 00:41:16,700 --> 00:41:21,400 This means to God, to hold in, check to restrain your words, 502 00:41:21,900 --> 00:41:26,500 which takes us back to being slow to hear, and slow to speak. 503 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:36,200 He mentions a worthless religion which means the void of forced 504 00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:44,100 devoid of Truth, useless of no power to be a doer of the word. 505 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:54,600 A doer received, the implanted word of God here did not and 506 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:58,800 it's a heart. Truth that we receive. 507 00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:05,300 He finishes up here talking about pure religion, religion, 508 00:42:05,300 --> 00:42:08,900 that is pure and undefiled before God, the father, is this, 509 00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:12,300 to visit orphans and widows in their Affliction and to keep 510 00:42:12,300 --> 00:42:21,200 oneself unstained from the world. in the Old Testament, it 511 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:29,700 was a huge part of God's Direction on caring for the 512 00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:35,300 fatherless and caring for the widows and exodus 22:22. 513 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:38,600 You can read. You shall not mistreat any widow 514 00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:43,600 or fatherless child. Isaiah chapter 1, verse 17 says 515 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,800 learn to do good seek Justice, correct. 516 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:51,700 Depression bring Justice to the fatherless plead, the Widow's 517 00:42:51,700 --> 00:42:56,100 calls. Psalm 146 verse 9 says this, the 518 00:42:56,100 --> 00:43:00,200 Lord watches over the serger nur's, he upholds, the Widow and 519 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:04,100 the fatherless but the Way of the Wicked he brings to ruin. 520 00:43:11,700 --> 00:43:15,000 And now wanted to read something out of our study book in the 521 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:16,900 Book of James. That once again we're doing at 522 00:43:16,900 --> 00:43:20,000 home groups, if you're not a part of Home groups I encourage 523 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,900 you to do so if you're not in you would like more information. 524 00:43:23,900 --> 00:43:26,400 Get with Alan. Get with Steve you with myself 525 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:30,100 and we will help you plug into our home group that we meet 526 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,100 every every week on Wednesday nights and someone's home, we 527 00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:38,100 eat a meal together and then we discuss God's word. 528 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,100 You are fine. This in our study book on page 529 00:43:43,100 --> 00:43:45,700 32. It says, one of God's most 530 00:43:45,700 --> 00:43:49,300 celebrated characteristics in the Old Testament is his 531 00:43:49,300 --> 00:43:54,900 particular concern for those who are the most helpless moreover. 532 00:43:54,900 --> 00:43:59,500 Because he shows that kind of concern, he expects his people 533 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,400 to do the same. We can see this very clearly in 534 00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,100 Deuteronomy chapter 10 verse 18 and 19. 535 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:11,900 Speaking of God, Moses says he executes judgment Justice for 536 00:44:11,908 --> 00:44:16,200 the fatherless and the Widow. He loves the surgenor given him 537 00:44:16,200 --> 00:44:20,500 food and clothing. And that description of God is 538 00:44:20,500 --> 00:44:22,900 followed immediately by this command. 539 00:44:23,300 --> 00:44:27,600 Love the serger. Nur therefore, For You Were 540 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:32,100 Strangers in the land of Egypt. The point is simple, but 541 00:44:32,100 --> 00:44:36,600 crucial, the people of God should be like God. 542 00:44:41,300 --> 00:44:47,200 So our goal as we have studied have studied and continue to 543 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:52,200 study here. In the Book of James is to Start 544 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:57,100 off. Understanding what trials do for 545 00:44:57,100 --> 00:45:02,500 us. And if we understand that, then 546 00:45:02,500 --> 00:45:06,500 we can look at it with the with the Outlook of we can count it 547 00:45:06,500 --> 00:45:11,400 all joy because we know that somehow God is going to make it 548 00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:18,600 for good. So our goal should be God's goal 549 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:22,500 for our lives, and that goal is to be changed into His Image. 550 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:27,800 Second Corinthians chapter 3, verse 17 and 18 says this Now, 551 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,900 the Lord is the spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there 552 00:45:31,900 --> 00:45:36,000 is freedom. And we all with unveiled face 553 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,300 beholding, the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the 554 00:45:39,300 --> 00:45:44,300 same image from one degree of Glory to another. 555 00:45:44,900 --> 00:45:50,200 For this comes from the Lord, who is the spirit Trials, 556 00:45:50,500 --> 00:45:56,800 coupled with abiding in Christ and his word, the implanted word 557 00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:01,800 of God helps us to live out the sanctification process of the 558 00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:06,900 Holy Spirit. So I want to encourage everyone. 559 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,400 When you go through your trials and we all know as a church 560 00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:16,500 body, we're going through a massive trial right now with the 561 00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:17,800 passing weenie. Kate. 562 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,200 That we suffer and we grieve with Colin Patricia and their 563 00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:27,100 family. I want to encourage you to stand 564 00:46:27,100 --> 00:46:39,100 firm, just an absolute. and as Paul wrote in Ephesians chapter 565 00:46:39,100 --> 00:46:46,200 6, verse 13 and 14, there's a phrase that says And having done 566 00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:49,300 all to stand. You stand. 567 00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:56,500 You stand there for girded with the armor of God. 568 00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:03,500 So sometimes all we can do is all we can do and then we stand 569 00:47:03,900 --> 00:47:06,400 upon the word of God. Amen, we endure. 570 00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:12,600 We stead we stay steadfast We Stand, we don't allow trials to 571 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:16,300 move us. We don't allow the situations in 572 00:47:16,308 --> 00:47:20,800 our life to cause us to give in to Temptation. 573 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:27,900 We live that blessed life of hearing God's word. 574 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,400 And see in it. And the longer we look into that 575 00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:36,700 mirror as we ran this morning, We are changed into that image, 576 00:47:36,700 --> 00:47:40,000 the image of Christ. That's what that's what it were 577 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,000 is. Ritz representing the image of 578 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,700 Christ. So the more we look into that 579 00:47:44,700 --> 00:47:48,400 mirror and look intently into his law. 580 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:53,600 His word we are being changed. Little bit by little bit 581 00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:57,000 According to second Corinthians 3 into that image. 582 00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:00,200 Amen. Let's stand and let, lets let's 583 00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:12,900 pray this morning. Father, I thank you for this 584 00:48:12,900 --> 00:48:15,000 day. I thank you for your word. 585 00:48:16,100 --> 00:48:18,600 I thank you for the people that are here this morning. 586 00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:24,100 Father, I know that whoever is here. 587 00:48:24,500 --> 00:48:34,100 Our is not here by accident. so father, I just asked father, 588 00:48:34,100 --> 00:48:42,600 that you are help us. To look into your word to stay 589 00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:48,900 steadfast in you to abide in you to not. 590 00:48:48,900 --> 00:48:54,100 Let trials. Move us. 591 00:48:58,500 --> 00:49:05,200 Follow that word there and James 1:14 lured means to be lured 592 00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:11,700 away from a safe place. Father, the Temptation that we 593 00:49:11,700 --> 00:49:16,300 all suffer won't when we go through, trials is to be moved 594 00:49:16,300 --> 00:49:19,100 away from our rightful place with you. 595 00:49:22,100 --> 00:49:29,500 To be lured away. So that we will not experience 596 00:49:29,500 --> 00:49:37,100 that. the life that you intended for us to experience, father, 597 00:49:37,100 --> 00:49:41,000 you have a life of joy and peace. 598 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:46,400 Help us father to remain steadfast. 599 00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:56,700 Help us father to look into your word, help us work with the Holy 600 00:49:56,700 --> 00:50:03,700 Spirit to be changed into that image that image of Christ that 601 00:50:03,700 --> 00:50:13,100 we see through an in your word. Father help us not be content to 602 00:50:13,100 --> 00:50:16,800 stay at a place just because it's a good place. 603 00:50:18,100 --> 00:50:20,400 Cuz father, you have a better place for us. 604 00:50:21,100 --> 00:50:23,200 Help us. Always be working with the Holy 605 00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:25,100 Spirit. Holy Spirit. 606 00:50:25,100 --> 00:50:29,700 I asked that you would just lead and guide and direct us in our 607 00:50:29,700 --> 00:50:33,600 lives. For Christ said, you are a 608 00:50:33,607 --> 00:50:36,400 teacher. You are a God that you would 609 00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:43,300 teach us all trees. Help us to hear and receive 610 00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,100 those truth help us to set aside our own opinions. 611 00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:51,600 And only trust in God's implanted word. 612 00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,100 This morning. I just want to. 613 00:50:56,700 --> 00:50:59,600 I just want to say that there is anyone here? 614 00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:07,800 That you've heard. The truth of God's word, but 615 00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:11,100 you're not doing it. You haven't received that 616 00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:14,400 implanted word that saves your soul. 617 00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:18,600 I encourage you to accept Christ this morning. 618 00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,300 And if you want to talk this morning, you find you find me 619 00:51:27,300 --> 00:51:32,200 after service. And I will, I will talk, I would 620 00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:42,300 discuss with you. Jesus, we just praise you. 621 00:51:42,300 --> 00:51:44,600 We honor you we magnify your name. 622 00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:53,500 We just love you this morning. Amen. 623 00:51:53,008 --> 00:51:53,500 Amen.