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Well, if you have your Bible, 
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James chapter 5 is where we'll 
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there. 
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Providence of God in expository 
preaching, which is where we 

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just pick a book. 
And we go verse by verse through

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it, I am never disappointed by 
how the Lord orders his word and

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what falls on what weeks and how
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So Faithfully, the word truly is
living and active. 

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Amen, as Hebrews 4 says, After 
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chose to break from our series 
that I had begun on worship and 

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they elected to preach through 
the book of James. and today 11 

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weeks from that day, I stand 
Here, prepared to preach James 

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chapter, 5 verses 7 and 12. 
A text, that is encouraging. 

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The dispersed Christians, 
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have immovable patients in 
suffering, It's really 

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incredible. 
The Lord truly writes. 

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The best stories, doesn't he? 
he does, he orchestrates amazing

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things and I have never 
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weight of such suffering. 
I don't even know really how 

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this is going to go. 
But it is my eager expectation. 

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It is my hope today to be able 
to edify, you all my brothers 

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and my sisters with God's word 
today. 

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The main point of today's 
passage, as I at least have 

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written it out, is this? 
And you can encourage you to 

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take notes today. 
I think it's going to be 

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helpful, but if you've got your 
notes in front of you and write 

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this down a fixed, a fixed Gaze 
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Is that the key to immovable 
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A fixed Gaze on. 
Eternity is the key to immovable

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patience in suffering. 
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teaching, these Christians and 
us today. 

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I believe he also lays out a 
blueprint through giving five 

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commands to the people that we 
see in the passage today for how

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we also can develop, how we also
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and our own lives. 
I hope to show you those this 

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morning. 
I will go ahead and read them to

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you just so you're aware and 
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One of them in a moment, the 
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Command he gives his be patient.
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establish your heart. 
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Go ahead and prepare your toes 
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That's that one's hard number 
for consider your examples. 

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And number five, do not swear. 
I'm excited to be in front of 

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you today and to preach these 
things, if you're able, would 

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you please stand to your feet 
and honor of the reading of the 

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Lord's word? 
When I finish this reading, I'll

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say this is the word of the 
Lord, and I would like, for you 

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to respond. 
Thanks be to God. 

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Let me read to you. 
James 5 verse 7, through 12, Be 

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patient. 
Therefore Brothers until the 

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coming of the Lord see how the 
farmer waits for the precious 

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fruit of the Earth being patient
about it until it receives the 

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early, and the late rains. 
You also be patients, establish 

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your hearts for the coming of 
the Lord is at hand. 

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Do not Grumble against one, 
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may not be judged behold. 
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door. 
As an example of suffering. 

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And patience Brothers. 
Take the prophets. 

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Who spoke in the name of the 
Lord behold, we consider those 

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blessed Who Remain steadfast you
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of job. 
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the Lord, how the Lord is 
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But above all my brothers, do 
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by Earth, or, by any other But 
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And your no be no. 
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condemnation. 
This is the word of the Lord. 

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Thanks be to God. 
Let me pray for us. 

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Heavenly Father. 
We thank you that we are 

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gathered together today to hear 
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Lord, would you open our hearts?
Open our minds, what would you 

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Enlighten Us by the power of 
your spirit today to see your 

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word to understand it to believe
it with all of our hearts? 

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Lord we come today, I come today
with a heavy heart, a heart that

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is simultaneously filled with 
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And I asked for your help this 
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Each time we open your word 
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We are dependent upon your 
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And so, I ask that your spirit 
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Lord, I intend to plant. 
I intend to water today. 

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But I'm trusting you for the 
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We pray these things in the Name
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Our Lord, amen. 
Amen. 

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You may have a seat It's, it's 
been well-documented through the

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series through the series and as
each man has taught so well each

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Elder Elder, Canada has come and
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So, Faithfully that James is 
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Christian audience. 
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was called the diaspora or the 
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Jerusalem is all that means, 
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why they could be outside of 
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settled there. 
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forced out of Jerusalem during 
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church. 
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we know is that they're 
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know that they are suffering 
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made a point throughout the 
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in their trials. 
Telling them things. 

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Like, consider it all joy. 
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tribulations come upon you. 
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really picking up his 
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For their trials. 
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sins of the wealthy unbelievers 
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was wealthy unbelievers were 
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Were robbing them were starving 
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Literally They were contributing
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And James wants these Believers 
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and suffering. 
Immovable patience in suffering.

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It seems so unnatural, doesn't 
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suffering and therefore, I must 
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It really is unnatural typically
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in the face of suffering. 
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to do. 
It's the last thing, our heart 

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desires, we would much rather 
our situation be changed in a 

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moment. 
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go back to when things were the 
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We want the situation to be 
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And that's regardless of 
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Brothers and sisters, my family 
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By the Providence of God, into 
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of suffering. 
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it came in an instance, there 
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There was no build up. 
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standing on our doorstep 
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And we were forced to open the 
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And you all by your love and 
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my daughter. 
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as well. 
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don't stand here, naive. 
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Arrogant enough to think that 
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My suffering is also your 
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I recognize that you all have 
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have your own trials, you all 
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faced possibly in the past, 
maybe things you're going 

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through immediately or things 
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But I do appreciate you being 
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It has meant so much to us. 
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kind that the key to making it 
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This is what I'm I'm being 
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this is what we're finding out 
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only way to make it through it, 
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God will be glorified in, you is
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immovable, patience. 
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must ask the question that I 
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The question underneath the text
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patience in suffering? 
How can we be marked by this 

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And James is just going to shoot
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letter. 
He's not going to beat around 

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the bush. 
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because the last thing you want 
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sugar-coated truth. 
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for hard facts. 
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know exactly what you need to do
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And that's what James is doing 
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And so he just begins with Verse
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Therefore Brothers until the 
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He goes on. 
See how the farmer waits for the

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precious fruit of the Earth 
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receives the early and the late 
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So again if you're taking notes 
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So how can we develop a movable 
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And suffering. 
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Commit yourself to patients the 
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The first command for developing
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until the coming of the Lord. 
But James isn't, he isn't being?

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He isn't being rude isn't being 
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He's not neglecting their 
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their afflictions. 
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talked to them about their 
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The things that have caused 
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them from outside of them. 
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of their own their own lustful 
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Their selfish desires, Right, 
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that there are backbiting one, 
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tongue for evil. 
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10, that blessing and cursing 
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My brothers and sisters think 
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And so he's acknowledged their 
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them and how to get out of their
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afflictions that are caused by 
our sinfulness, Or a bit easier 

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to deal with. 
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repent of your sin and turn and 
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to be made right now. 
There's consequences and there's

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a spider web of those that can 
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But typically, if you've wronged
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go to your brother and say I was
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I recognize that. 
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And your brother will offer 
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you caused her, there's pain, 
there's those things but you've 

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moved on. 
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from outside of you when 
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step and it's the kind of 
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You couldn't prevent you 
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of suffering comes to you. 
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patience is required in all 
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suffering that is outside of 
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Requires patience. 
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their afflictions in the 
previous verses and now he turns

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to direct their response. 
Be patient Brothers. 

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Wait on the Lord. 
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bear your afflictions without 
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going to say in just a couple of
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Bear your injuries without 
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Wait on God. 
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Wait on God, let your patience. 
Be lengthened out until it 

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becomes long-suffering. 
Now you and I we don't like long

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suffering, this is a fruit of 
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We would rather not know But yet
it is a fruit of the spirit that

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you would become patient, or as 
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long-suffering that you would be
able to suffer long that your 

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suffering would be drawn out, 
but that you would be patient in

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it. 
Let your patience be lengthened 

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out until it becomes 
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James of saying, how can it 
become long-suffering because 

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your gaze is fixed on the day of
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Be patient Brothers until the 
coming of the Lord. 

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Be patient brothers, because 
there is a surety that lies 

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ahead of you that will create in
you long-suffering be patient in

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your suffering because what lies
ahead is the Redemption of your 

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body's the Redemption of your 
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world, the time, when all things
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The moment where weeping ceases 
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anymore. 
The moment where sin does not 

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control, you any longer, the 
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Amen. 
So be patient until the coming 

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of the Lord, let it be 
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long-suffering. 
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days patience for us. 
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I guess I will bear this. 
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couldn't change it anyway. 
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patients. 
That is barely veiled grumbling.

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Biblical patience. 
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get you through your suffering. 
Through your Affliction, is 

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nothing less than a humble 
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will of God That kind of 
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edge, you might say and that 
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Biblical patients does not say. 
I guess I will bear this. 

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Because what choice do I have 
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Patient says this Affliction has
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perfect wisdom and will for my 
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Therefore I will hope in him. 
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We must cultivate is the ability
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eye, toward our future, glorious
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That nothing is wasted. 
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Recognizes that nothing Falls by
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especially not your sufferings 
all of it. 

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All of it is building for you an
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all comparison. 
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encouraging the Saints at 
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So we do not lose heart though. 
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Our inner self is being renewed,
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Okay, so everything is coming 
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our bodies even are wasting 
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But inwardly, the spirit of God 
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And he goes on to write for this
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know I've said this before but 
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momentary Affliction he's not 
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little moment. 
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say that a life of suffering? 
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momentary? 
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is when you consider what lies 
beyond what lies ahead waiting 

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on the return of the Lord. 
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it to, for the slight momentary,
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an eternal weight of Glory 
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look not to the things that are 
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So, we don't look at our 
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simply to the loss of my 
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And the difficulty of holidays 
without her, the difficulty of 

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waking up and sitting. 
At my table, eating my 

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breakfast, drinking my coffee. 
And wondering is when he Kate 

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going to come around the corner 
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I can't look to what see have to
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unseen. 
For the things that are unseen. 

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Sorry, the things that are 
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They're changing, but the things
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And here's what I know about my 
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current existence, My life is 
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My life is full of things that 
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Blow to, and fro. 
The Lord will order our steps 

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will endure, all sorts of 
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Well, under a Joyce and gladness
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Not a tear in the world. 
Not a, not a question about what

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am I missing on Earth? 
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She sees Christ in fool. 
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And Lord willing, Lord willin. 
I'll go to her one day. 

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And it'll be a beautiful 
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cannot look back at Egypt at my 
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And want to stay there. 
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things that are unseen those 
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Those are Eternal, amen. 
That's my reality. 

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And so James gives a beautiful 
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waits for the precious fruit of 
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You and I are these days we just
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shelf for us. 
We get mad when they think 

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they're right, we're upset. 
I know they didn't leave this 

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out of my pickup today, right? 
I see y'all on Facebook. 

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I Know Who You Are. 
That's called grumbling. 

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By the way, we'll get to it in a
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See how the farmer waits for the
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Being patient about it until it 
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And the late rains, I love what 
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It it's beautiful and it stings 
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Consider the farmer who awaits a
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He might say he depends on the 
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Who controls the rain, God? 
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Who controls the storms? 
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when he's waiting for rain God. 
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rewards him with a new crop, 
doesn't it? 

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And the question then has to be 
as I look at the farmer who 

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waits for the precious fruit of 
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Just merely something to be 
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life. 
A gift. 

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No doubt. 
Will we not patiently waits for 

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a Crown of Glory? 
And Will we not endure the 

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storms of life? 
These providential afflictions 

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with patients, as we await our 
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Eternal reward that goes with 
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Will we not wait? 
What else then is worthy of such

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patients? 
Will a farmer show more patience

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than God's people. 
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Brothers and sisters, I urge 
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To join me in patients, waiting 
on the coming of the Lord and 

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the Eternal reward that he will 
bring to us. 

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Amen. 
A fixed Gaze on. 

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Eternity is the key to immovable
patience and suffering. 

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The second command that we see 
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In verse 8, James writes, you 
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farmer was UV patients. 
How establish your hearts for 

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the coming of the Lord is at 
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You see? 
He grounds it again and you're 

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looking forward to the coming of
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Establish your heart in faith 
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coming of the Lord. 
And that coming of the Lord is a

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doctrine that if you'll believe 
it, if you, if you'll truly 

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believe that Christ is going to 
return as king of kings and Lord

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of lords. 
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on your outlook during 
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And so we now adds to it be 
patient, establish your hearts 

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for the coming of the Lord is at
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And patience. 
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establish your heart. 
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commentator Pastor said this, in
his commentary says let your 

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faith be firm without wavering. 
Your patient of sorry. 

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Your practice of what is good 
constant and continued without 

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tiring and your resolutions for 
God and Heaven fixed in spite of

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all sufferings. 
Isaiah 50 verse 7. 

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Says this as but the Lord, God 
helps me. 

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Therefore, I have not been 
disgraced. 

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Therefore, I have set my face 
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And I know that I shall not be 
put to shame. 

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This is what it means to be 
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In Matthew chapter 7, is Jesus. 
Jesus finishing up his Sermon on

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the Mount. 
He raises a warning for his 

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listeners there. 
At the end of his sermon. 

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It's really his call to action. 
In verse 24, he he says this, he

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says everyone then who hears 
these words of mine and does 

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them will be like a wise man who
built his house on the rock and 

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the rain fell and the floods 
came, and the winds blew and 

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beat on that house, but it did 
not fall because it had been 

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founded on the rock. 
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everyone who hears these words 
of mine and does not do them 

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will be like a foolish man who 
built his house on the sand and 

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the rain fell and the floods 
came, and the winds blew and 

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beat against that house. 
And it fell and great was the 

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fall of it. 
This is what it means to 

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establish your hearts. 
It means that you are making a 

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conscious decision to build your
house, on the rock of Christ 

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Jesus, on his word that you are 
choosing in your suffering to 

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erect a base of foundation for 
your home. 

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That is the word of God Alone. 
You're not looking for worldly 

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wisdom, you're not looking for 
quaint sayings, you're not 

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looking for any of that 
nonsense. 

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You are saying that the only 
thing that will stand the test 

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of time. 
The only thing that will never 

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be undone, the only thing that 
will last forever is the word of

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Christ and I'm going to stand on
it. 

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Going to stand there. and let me
tell you, when the rains come, 

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And the flood Rises and the 
wind's beat against your faith. 

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You will topple some you move, 
you'll sway back and forth at 

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times you'll feel robbed. 
Much like a fighter who gets 

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knocked around a bit in the 
early rounds. 

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But if you'll stand on the word 
of God, you will not fall, you 

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will not fall. 
This is about living a life of 

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Readiness and not laziness. 
It's about proactively saying 

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each day. 
I'm going to establish my heart 

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on the word of God today. 
I'm going to live it, I'm going 

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too fast from everything. 
I'm going to get rid of things. 

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I'm going to take things out of 
my life until I know that I have

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firmly planted myself on Christ 
and then I might add some things

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here and there. 
I strongly encourage you to 

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stablish your hearts on the word
of Christ. 

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Before suffering comes and 
knocks at your door. 

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So that during your suffering, 
you have already formed good 

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habits, you've already built up 
some Faith. 

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You've already walked through 
some struggles and come out on 

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the other side. 
You are like David and saying, 

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wait saw? 
You don't understand. 

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I've beat a lion and the bear 
and no one. 

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Is going to mock Our God. 
I'll fight him. 

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You stand with faith. 
Tricia and I recognize now I 

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think. 
We've had some conversations 

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around this anyway, over the 
last several weeks. 

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But we recognize that the Lord 
has been preparing us over the 

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last 14 years will be married, 
14 years and a couple of weeks. 

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He's been preparing us over this
time for the day that he would 

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take when he Cates. 
We didn't fully know the 

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importance. 
Of building a habit of daily 

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Bible reading. 
Or prayer for one another, with 

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one another prayer with our 
children. 

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Prayer on our own. 
What? 

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I just called dependent prayer, 
praying like a child who is 

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dependent upon the father. 
We didn't recognize. 

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How our growth and our knowledge
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Through reading his words, 
studying his word, over the last

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14 years, how it would impact 
our lives so much as we endure 

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such heartache. 
I'll tell you this, it became 

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crystal clear to me. 
That I married correctly. in the

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first moments of, when he's 
passing, The Lord comforted us 

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with scriptures with all these 
Spirit would bring to our 

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remembrance songs prayers 
memories of his goodness in 

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those six years with her and 
this wasn't preacher cow 

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pleading, with his wife to 
behave, we gotta have faith. 

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You just got a hold on, you 
know, like when none of that, I 

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don't stand before you even 
today as like preacher Kyle, you

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know, trying to say all the 
right things to you today. 

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One, I don't want to be phony. 
The to do you. 

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No good. 
But as I'm sitting there holding

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the Trish's hand and praise God 
for Daniel and Morgan. 

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We were on a trip with them and 
We learned all this and Daniel 

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drove us home. 
We were in New Orleans when it 

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all happened. 
Daniel drove us home. 

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And so I'm just sitting in the 
backseat and crying. 

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Pleading with the Lord. 
And Patricia just looks up at me

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through tears. 
She says. 

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It's that verse in job. 
And she goes on to say it, the 

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Lord gives and the Lord takes 
away. 

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Blessed, be the name of the 
Lord. 

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And this isn't to celebrate 
Patricia. 

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It's really not. 
I'm she's worthy of my 

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celebration. 
I promise you. 

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This is what proverbs 31 says, 
when her husband Rises and calls

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her blessed, I'll do it every 
day to celebrate What the Lord 

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Has Done in our lives, through 
all of this. 

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And I just can't think of a 
better reason. 

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To establish your heart and 
faith. 

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And patients. 
And to know that suffering is 

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coming. 
And we say it all the time that 

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one out of one dies unless your 
name is Enoch or Elijah. 

455
00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:17,600
And even if it was your name, 
you're probably not getting out 

456
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,100
like they did so still going to 
die. 

457
00:35:23,700 --> 00:35:26,500
Unless we're fortunate enough to
see The Return of Christ. 

458
00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:37,000
But one out of one people suffer
also, One out of every one 

459
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:43,400
suffers, even Enoch and Elijah. 
You're not getting out of life 

460
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:46,300
in a fallen world without 
experiencing suffering. 

461
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,300
You're not going to serve Christ
as your lord, without going 

462
00:35:50,300 --> 00:35:53,600
through suffering. 
She's not going to happen. 

463
00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:56,700
You will suffer for the name of 
the Lord. 

464
00:35:58,300 --> 00:36:04,600
Either in persecution or by some
other aspect of the Providence 

465
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:09,400
of God. 
Because in your suffering, your 

466
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,000
faith is tested. 
In the tested genuineness of 

467
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:18,100
your faith is like gold going 
through a refiner, Peter says, 

468
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:27,200
And so the Lord has kinds of us.
In providentially granting us 

469
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,200
suffering. 
At the end of Philippians 1, 

470
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,400
Paul tells the Believers, this 
he says, it has been granted to 

471
00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:38,100
us, that we will both suffer and
Belize. 

472
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:43,800
Granted to us from the Lord that
you will suffer and believe. 

473
00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:50,400
But even if you haven't yet 
faced suffering, even if 

474
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:55,100
suffering comes first, even if 
you haven't yet, established 

475
00:36:55,100 --> 00:37:01,000
yourself and suffering hits, you
that thing whatever it is, maybe

476
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:04,800
the thing that finally hurls you
over the edge of self-reliance 

477
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,900
maybe you've constructed a 
sandcastle and now the winds and

478
00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:16,200
The Rains of suffering, 
according to the Providence of 

479
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:24,000
God have demolished Is it too 
late to establish your heart on 

480
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,900
Christ? 
And that moment not a chance. 

481
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,300
Not a chance that maybe its 
intended purpose. 

482
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,400
Maybe the grace of the Lord 
coming to you. 

483
00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:45,700
I've had many people come to me 
and say my sin blank was found 

484
00:37:45,700 --> 00:37:49,300
out. 
I'm embarrassed hurt. 

485
00:37:51,900 --> 00:37:55,600
And I've learned to look, those 
mostly, it's men in the eye and 

486
00:37:55,600 --> 00:38:00,000
say. 
I know you can't see it yet. 

487
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:04,000
It's hard to understand in this 
moment, but this is the grace of

488
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:10,300
the Lord on your life. 
He's bringing you back. 

489
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,600
If you humble yourself, if you 
will not Harden your heart, if 

490
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,600
you will humble yourself, and 
submit to him. 

491
00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:22,500
Make him Lord of your life. 
You'll know his peace. 

492
00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:28,900
Is joy. 
And so crying out to him and 

493
00:38:28,900 --> 00:38:32,700
your despair may be the 
beginning of establishing your 

494
00:38:32,700 --> 00:38:35,600
heart, on his word, in Psalm 
121. 

495
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,200
The psalmist says, I lift up my 
eyes to the hills from. 

496
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:43,100
Where does my help come my help 
comes from the Lord who made 

497
00:38:43,100 --> 00:38:46,000
Heaven and Earth and Psalm 109 
26. 

498
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:51,200
The psalmist writes help me O. 
Lord my God save me according to

499
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:58,100
your steadfast love and Psalm 
44. 26 rise up come to our Help.

500
00:38:58,100 --> 00:39:03,300
He says to God redeem us for the
sake of your steadfast love. 

501
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:09,100
I have gone back to such prayers
time and time again in the last 

502
00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:12,300
11 weeks, when despair rises in 
my heart. 

503
00:39:12,300 --> 00:39:17,500
And in my mind, when Agony takes
my breath away, I have called to

504
00:39:17,500 --> 00:39:23,700
God. 
Lord help me save me according 

505
00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:27,700
to your steadfast love. 
The Lord has been so kind to 

506
00:39:27,700 --> 00:39:33,100
show new depths of his love, his
care, his Mercy, his grace, his 

507
00:39:33,100 --> 00:39:37,900
peace, his hope, through all of 
this as we've called to him. 

508
00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:44,900
He always answers are Christ. 
I do not want anyone to know the

509
00:39:44,900 --> 00:39:49,200
Pains of suffering, though. 
It is inevitable in this world. 

510
00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:53,800
But what I do want every 
believer to know what I want, 

511
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:58,600
every believer to experience is 
the depths of the love of God in

512
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:03,300
the midst of your suffering. 
To find yourself in suffering 

513
00:40:03,300 --> 00:40:06,200
and be able to trust that God is
there. 

514
00:40:06,900 --> 00:40:10,300
It's in comprehensible at times 
and it's incomparable to 

515
00:40:10,300 --> 00:40:14,100
anything else in the world. 
His love transcends, your 

516
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,200
suffering. 
He is near to you in the midst 

517
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:21,000
of it. 
Psalm 23:4 even though I walk 

518
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,400
through the valley of the shadow
of death, I will fear no evil 

519
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:30,200
for you are with me, your rod 
and your staff, they comfort me 

520
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:36,800
for you are with me, David 
writes, Your Rod and your staff,

521
00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:42,500
they comfort me That's what 
awaits the one who will 

522
00:40:42,500 --> 00:40:49,000
establish his heart in the Lord.
The comfort of God in the middle

523
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,600
of your suffering. 
A fixed Gaze on. 

524
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:58,000
Eternity is the key to immovable
patience in suffering. 

525
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,400
All right, let's at least get 
the three verses in here. 

526
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:06,000
James 59, do not Grumble third 
command. 

527
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,300
We see. 
Do not Grumble against one 

528
00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:13,400
another Brothers. 
So that you may not be judged 

529
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,100
behold. 
The judge is standing at the 

530
00:41:16,100 --> 00:41:19,500
door. 
Grumbling, in the middle of 

531
00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:25,100
suffering is a huge temptation. 
And the kind of grumbling that 

532
00:41:25,100 --> 00:41:27,700
goes against your neighbor is to
fold here. 

533
00:41:27,700 --> 00:41:31,200
When he says, do not Grumble 
against one another on one hand,

534
00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:35,100
it might be malicious, grumbling
it may be outright grumbling 

535
00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:37,100
against your brother or sister 
in the Lord. 

536
00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:39,700
They've done something and 
you're letting everybody know 

537
00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:42,000
about it, maybe they didn't do 
anything, but you're letting 

538
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,900
everybody know about it. 
On the other hand it may be that

539
00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:50,800
your grumbling causes a brother 
or sister to stumble in their 

540
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:55,200
faith and so therefore it goes 
against them in that way though 

541
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,800
you were not intentionally 
malicious. 

542
00:41:58,300 --> 00:42:01,800
This is the kind of grumbling 
that were not usually aware of. 

543
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:08,600
We don't typically understand or
even think through the effects 

544
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:12,400
of getting on Facebook and going
on a rant. 

545
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:17,300
About parenting. 
Shopping experience. 

546
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:27,400
Marriage struggle. 
Problem in your job. 

547
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,800
We don't think about the effects
of that on our own faith in 

548
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:36,300
Christ, as well as the effects 
of that on others, potential 

549
00:42:36,300 --> 00:42:41,500
faith in Christ. 
And in so doing you're tearing 

550
00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:48,200
one another down. 
Whether your grumbling is 

551
00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:52,100
perfectly, sorry purposefully 
against your neighbor or merely 

552
00:42:52,100 --> 00:42:55,300
causing them to stumble. 
James is saying You must not 

553
00:42:55,300 --> 00:42:58,800
Grumble at all. 
Don't be a grumbler. 

554
00:43:01,100 --> 00:43:04,800
You will receive God's judgment 
for your grumbling against 

555
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:09,300
others. 
Now, I think there's various 

556
00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:11,700
kinds of grumbling that you must
avoid like to. 

557
00:43:11,700 --> 00:43:14,500
So let's just bring this into a 
bit of a clearer picture. 

558
00:43:14,500 --> 00:43:18,100
So that we understand what we 
mean, there are murmuring 

559
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:22,600
grumbles which is where you 
complain about, what happens to 

560
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:29,400
you. 
And so, it's important for you 

561
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,400
to remember that. 
Nothing comes to you apart from 

562
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:37,400
God's Providence. 
So, do not Grumble about the 

563
00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:43,200
events of your life. so, what 
the pickup took longer than you 

564
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:52,800
thought, So, what the fast food 
employee didn't get your order, 

565
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,900
right? 
The lady ahead of you in line. 

566
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,400
Wanted to write a check and it 
took a while. 

567
00:44:07,500 --> 00:44:10,100
Some of the ones that are the 
hardest to hear, especially now.

568
00:44:11,500 --> 00:44:13,600
Just parents grumbling about 
their children. 

569
00:44:15,300 --> 00:44:23,900
That's hard. 
You need to be careful. 

570
00:44:25,900 --> 00:44:27,300
That's how you think about your 
children. 

571
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:36,900
You need to be careful. 
Of the things you say. 

572
00:44:38,500 --> 00:44:41,800
Of expressing all of your 
feelings just because we feel 

573
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,900
something doesn't mean it's 
right to express it sometimes. 

574
00:44:45,900 --> 00:44:50,000
It's sinful to express it. 
Oftentimes it's sinful. 

575
00:44:52,900 --> 00:44:54,200
This isn't the guilt trip 
anyone. 

576
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:55,900
I promise. 
It's just that one. 

577
00:44:55,900 --> 00:44:57,400
Stings. 
A little extra right now. 

578
00:44:57,400 --> 00:45:00,300
It's something Patricia. 
I've always said, Lord, help us 

579
00:45:00,300 --> 00:45:02,500
not to be grumblers about our 
children. 

580
00:45:07,700 --> 00:45:09,900
Your children are a gift from 
the Lord. 

581
00:45:09,900 --> 00:45:13,000
The Bible literally calls them a
Heritage from God. 

582
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,200
They're an incredible 
opportunity. 

583
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:21,600
For you to leave a legacy of 
christlikeness. 

584
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:28,500
If you'll take the job, 
seriously. if you commit 

585
00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:33,900
yourself to, if you give up 
worldly Pursuits to be with your

586
00:45:33,900 --> 00:45:39,800
children, Where are the time 
calls for it and it's right. 

587
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:45,000
that's something for you and 
your your family to decide. 

588
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,700
But murmuring grumbles are 
really bad. 

589
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:52,600
This is what the Israelites were
guilty of. 

590
00:45:53,700 --> 00:45:55,000
God. 
We're hungry. 

591
00:45:55,500 --> 00:45:56,900
No God. 
We don't want Mana. 

592
00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,300
We want meat? 
No God not that meat. 

593
00:45:59,300 --> 00:46:02,400
That's too much meat. 
God, can we just go back to 

594
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:03,500
Egypt? 
Please? 

595
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:13,100
Don't be a murmur. 
James is literally saying that. 

596
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:18,800
You may be judged in the judge 
is standing at the door. 

597
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:23,700
The Israelites were judged for 
their murmuring and we're left 

598
00:46:23,700 --> 00:46:25,600
out of the promised land because
of it. 

599
00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:29,400
So I encourage you strongly be 
very careful about your 

600
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:33,500
murmuring. 
Distrustful grumbles are another

601
00:46:33,500 --> 00:46:35,800
kind. 
And if you're the kind of person

602
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,500
who grumbles about the events of
your life, your murmuring about 

603
00:46:38,500 --> 00:46:41,500
things that happen to you, 
you're very quickly going to 

604
00:46:41,500 --> 00:46:44,400
become the kind of person who 
grumbles about what might happen

605
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,500
as well. 
And in so doing you show a 

606
00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:54,300
distrust for the Lord, I'll be 
honest with you in this I have a

607
00:46:54,308 --> 00:47:07,400
new fear of God. and I, Find 
myself wondering what else might

608
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:14,800
the hand of Providence? 
Bring to my life. and then, that

609
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:19,000
way, I fear Him, and a healthy 
way. 

610
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:25,000
In a way that causes me to love 
him more in a way that draws me 

611
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,400
to him and rather than turns me 
away from him. 

612
00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:32,700
But I do have a new healthy fear
for the Lord. 

613
00:47:33,700 --> 00:47:39,300
There are revengeful grumbles 
This may show up in threats 

614
00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:41,600
against the ones who have caused
your sufferings. 

615
00:47:43,300 --> 00:47:46,200
If he cuts me off again in line,
I'll tell you what I'm gonna 

616
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,800
write, be careful, not to take 
Vengeance into your own hands. 

617
00:47:51,900 --> 00:47:55,200
It looks great in movies, right?
When we loved the movie of the 

618
00:47:55,207 --> 00:47:59,500
guy who's exacting Revenge, he's
taking judgment into his own 

619
00:47:59,500 --> 00:48:04,700
hands. 
What is unbiblical at times? 

620
00:48:08,500 --> 00:48:10,500
Be careful, not to take 
Vengeance into your hands. 

621
00:48:10,500 --> 00:48:12,600
Vengeance. 
Belongs to the Lord alone. 

622
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:17,200
We're reminded in Romans, 12. 
remember the judge stands at the

623
00:48:17,207 --> 00:48:26,100
door, he's coming soon, he sees 
all evil and it will pay He'll 

624
00:48:26,100 --> 00:48:28,800
punish the wicked. 
He will redeem the righteous. 

625
00:48:28,900 --> 00:48:33,500
Be found among the righteous. 
There are envious grumbles as 

626
00:48:33,500 --> 00:48:37,200
well as you look around and see 
others who are not suffering. 

627
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:41,100
Like you are, you may be tempted
to Grumble from Envy. 

628
00:48:41,700 --> 00:48:45,100
Why has this happened to me 
while the wicked seem to 

629
00:48:45,100 --> 00:48:48,900
prosper? 
Be careful of that, sort of 

630
00:48:48,900 --> 00:48:54,200
heart. 
Learn to accept what the Lord 

631
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:58,000
brings to your life to be 
content in it and to follow him.

632
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,800
The point that James is making 
is that you are to be patient to

633
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,200
establish your heart, not to 
Grumble against one another. 

634
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:10,000
Do not make one another uneasy 
by your groaning, which brings 

635
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:14,000
grief to those around you and do
your hardship, with an eye to 

636
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,900
heaven await, the return of 
Christ, trust God's Providence. 

637
00:49:18,300 --> 00:49:22,500
Believe that the God of all 
Comforts Will Comfort you in the

638
00:49:22,500 --> 00:49:27,100
meantime, Remember the Lord, the
judge is at the door. 

639
00:49:27,100 --> 00:49:31,500
Consider him who sets all things
rights by his righteous 

640
00:49:31,500 --> 00:49:34,700
judgments and Redemption be 
patience. 

641
00:49:34,900 --> 00:49:39,900
Therefore, establish your heart.
We only bring more problems on 

642
00:49:39,900 --> 00:49:42,200
ourselves when we become 
grumblers. 

643
00:49:44,700 --> 00:49:48,900
If we will avoid these evils, if
we will be patience, then God 

644
00:49:48,900 --> 00:49:55,300
will not condemn us. 
But such considerations as I've 

645
00:49:55,500 --> 00:49:59,800
given you today examine cause 
you to examine your affections, 

646
00:49:59,800 --> 00:50:03,300
your thoughts, your actions. 
Commit yourself to live 

647
00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:07,100
according to Philippians, 2:14 
where Paul writes do all things 

648
00:50:07,100 --> 00:50:15,900
without grumbling or disputing? 
Is everybody, okay? 

649
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:31,700
I'm really at a Crossroads here.
I, I want to keep going. 

650
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:47,700
And I probably should. 
Can I finish with consider your 

651
00:50:47,700 --> 00:50:53,200
examples? 
I love that three of you feel 

652
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:55,200
that way, but there's a lot more
of you in here. 

653
00:50:57,900 --> 00:51:00,700
Some of you might not be as 
vocal as others, I'll give that.

654
00:51:00,700 --> 00:51:03,500
So maybe half of you want to 
keep going, half of you're like 

655
00:51:03,500 --> 00:51:04,900
no I'm really hungry. 
I just came to watch. 

656
00:51:04,900 --> 00:51:08,600
The baptism. 
Can I go home and know what I 

657
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:10,700
was signing up for today? 
I apologize. 

658
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,500
You know, it's the old bait and 
switch. 

659
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:21,100
Let me finish with consider your
examples. 

660
00:51:23,500 --> 00:51:27,600
Thank you. 
My wife. 

661
00:51:38,300 --> 00:51:40,600
Scarlett, you're usually so 
supportive. 

662
00:51:47,900 --> 00:51:49,200
I don't even know what to do 
now. 

663
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:59,300
The fourth command, he gives the
fourth command, he gives us 

664
00:51:59,300 --> 00:52:03,600
consider your examples. 
Consider your examples. 

665
00:52:04,900 --> 00:52:08,300
And this is for me, this is the,
the icing. 

666
00:52:08,300 --> 00:52:15,500
I mean, this is this is gold. 
James 5, 10 through 11 as an 

667
00:52:15,500 --> 00:52:17,700
example of suffering. 
And patience Brothers. 

668
00:52:17,700 --> 00:52:20,400
Take the prophets. 
Who spoke in the name of the 

669
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:26,200
Lord behold, we consider those 
blessed Who Remain steadfast you

670
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,400
have heard of the steadfastness 
of job. 

671
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:31,400
And you have seen the purpose of
the Lord, how the Lord is 

672
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:38,900
compassionate and merciful. so 
James is saying, listen, do you 

673
00:52:38,900 --> 00:52:46,500
want health and your sufferings 
Do you want encouragement and 

674
00:52:46,500 --> 00:52:52,600
your sufferings, do you want? 
Hope that transcends all 

675
00:52:53,100 --> 00:52:58,800
momentary affliction. 
And they're saying, uh-huh. 

676
00:53:01,300 --> 00:53:05,200
He says consider those faithful 
Christians who have gone before 

677
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,700
you. 
I am. 

678
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:15,100
The scriptures pour forth with 
story, after Story of men and 

679
00:53:15,100 --> 00:53:20,000
women who endured great 
suffering unto the glory of God 

680
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:27,700
and the good of others. 
Throughout history, we celebrate

681
00:53:28,100 --> 00:53:32,500
those men and women who have 
remained steadfast during their 

682
00:53:32,500 --> 00:53:37,500
sufferings. 
We consider them blessed those 

683
00:53:37,500 --> 00:53:40,500
who Suffer. 
Well, become are examples of 

684
00:53:40,500 --> 00:53:42,400
immovable patience and 
suffering. 

685
00:53:42,900 --> 00:53:47,600
We look to them and we say 
sometimes, we'll just say, wow. 

686
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:55,300
James encourages the Saints to 
look back. 

687
00:53:56,400 --> 00:54:01,000
And the beauty of this is, is 
having been 2000 dish years 

688
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:02,800
removed from when this was 
written. 

689
00:54:04,300 --> 00:54:11,900
We have 2,000 years of more 
history to look back upon. and 

690
00:54:11,900 --> 00:54:17,400
another beauty is, when we look 
back through years of History, 

691
00:54:17,500 --> 00:54:20,700
we're simply reading the stories
that have been written down for 

692
00:54:20,700 --> 00:54:28,000
us to see, but I can look around
this room and could call out 

693
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:32,800
story after Story of men and 
women in this room who have 

694
00:54:32,800 --> 00:54:35,700
stood faithful in their 
suffering. 

695
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:45,200
And so what we have are 
thousands if not Millions, even 

696
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:50,400
of Stories We Could Read. 
But beyond that. 

697
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:55,400
We have the stories that we're 
never even written down that 

698
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:59,600
were fortunate to see because 
we're near to those and they're 

699
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:04,800
suffering. 
Like I said, everyone suffers. 

700
00:55:06,500 --> 00:55:09,400
and so there's a lot of stories 
of steadfastness and suffering 

701
00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:13,300
that you can look at And you 
consider those people blessed 

702
00:55:13,300 --> 00:55:14,900
and so, he's encouraging the 
Saints, the same. 

703
00:55:14,900 --> 00:55:18,100
Look, back to the prophets, look
back to job. 

704
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:22,500
See those who stood for the name
of the Lord, see their suffering

705
00:55:22,700 --> 00:55:27,400
and their patience and be 
encouraged to remain steadfast 

706
00:55:27,500 --> 00:55:30,000
just as they did. 
Now, what's happening here is 

707
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:33,000
really two things are going on 
on one level. 

708
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,400
And I would say, it's more of 
the surface level thing. 

709
00:55:35,500 --> 00:55:39,900
James is saying Beach, steadfast
like those who have gone before.

710
00:55:41,300 --> 00:55:44,700
Because the steadfast are 
considered blessed. 

711
00:55:46,700 --> 00:55:49,400
It's the whole when you see a 
model of something that you want

712
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:52,300
to be you try to emulate it 
right. 

713
00:55:52,700 --> 00:55:57,700
Try to become like that. 
And this is what he's saying. 

714
00:55:57,700 --> 00:56:00,800
Look at those who have stood 
steadfast, we consider them 

715
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:05,500
blessed, be like them. 
And that's a real motivating 

716
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:07,600
factor in suffering to run the 
race. 

717
00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:11,000
Well, Time and time again. 
I've just poured over the 

718
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:14,300
scriptures at my Bible reading 
has for the year has had me in 

719
00:56:14,300 --> 00:56:17,600
the prophets and so I've just 
seen one after another the 

720
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:20,600
steadfastness of the prophets in
the last 11 weeks. 

721
00:56:21,900 --> 00:56:26,700
And it's encouraged. 
We should want to be considered 

722
00:56:26,700 --> 00:56:32,400
blessed by the Saints around us 
as well as by our God and our 

723
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:37,700
Saviour Christ. 
However, on another level, and 

724
00:56:37,700 --> 00:56:40,200
this is where I think the anchor
lies. 

725
00:56:41,300 --> 00:56:44,000
Like I think I'm one hand. 
It's pursue this because this is

726
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:48,300
what it means to be blessed and 
on the other hand he anchors it 

727
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:51,600
in truth, it's not just look to 
them. 

728
00:56:52,700 --> 00:56:54,900
It's again, he's saying look to 
God. 

729
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,500
There's an encouragement here to
remain steadfast because of the 

730
00:57:01,500 --> 00:57:03,700
purpose and the character of the
Lord, what'd he say? 

731
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:05,900
You have heard of the 
steadfastness of job, but don't 

732
00:57:05,900 --> 00:57:10,000
miss this part, and you have 
seen the purpose of the Lord, 

733
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:12,800
how the Lord is compassionate 
and merciful. 

734
00:57:12,900 --> 00:57:15,800
There it is. 
That's the anchor. 

735
00:57:17,700 --> 00:57:23,000
That's the anchor for your soul 
in the midst of stormy waters. 

736
00:57:25,500 --> 00:57:29,800
I hope that you see it. 
Clearly James is anchoring his 

737
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:35,300
motivation for steadfastness, 
not only in the examples, but to

738
00:57:35,300 --> 00:57:40,800
remember the anchor that the 
examples had themselves That is 

739
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:47,100
the Providence of God. 
A Providence is just simply the 

740
00:57:47,100 --> 00:57:53,000
purposes of the Lord, which are 
always good. 

741
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:58,100
They're full of mercy and 
compassion. 

742
00:58:00,900 --> 00:58:03,600
And other words. 
What he's saying is that nothing

743
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:08,400
happens apart from God's. 
Merciful and compassionate, Rule

744
00:58:09,100 --> 00:58:13,600
and job. 1:21 job says this at 
the beginning of his suffering, 

745
00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:16,800
Naked. 
I came from my mother's womb and

746
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:20,500
naked shall I return? 
The lord gave and the Lord has 

747
00:58:20,500 --> 00:58:23,800
taken away blessed. 
Be the name of the Lord. 

748
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:29,700
Job, 2 verse 10. 
But he said the heard his wife 

749
00:58:29,700 --> 00:58:31,700
you speak. 
As one of the foolish women 

750
00:58:31,700 --> 00:58:34,200
would speak. 
I praise God, I don't have jobs 

751
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:41,400
wife, I've got basically job for
my wife, a lot prettier and 

752
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:46,700
female, but, but he says to his 
wife because she was telling him

753
00:58:46,700 --> 00:58:50,200
Curse God and die. 
You speak as one of the foolish 

754
00:58:50,200 --> 00:58:54,000
women would speak. 
Shall we receive good from God 

755
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:58,600
and shall we not receive evil? 
Also, And then it says, this of 

756
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:01,500
job, in all this job did not sin
with his lips. 

757
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,800
And Proverbs 16:4. 
We read this. 

758
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:11,200
The Lord has made everything for
its purpose. 

759
00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:14,300
Even the wicked for the day of 
trouble. 

760
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,000
Now, there are naysayers out 
there concerning God's 

761
00:59:20,100 --> 00:59:26,100
Providence, believe it or not, 
they will accuse people like 

762
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:28,900
myself. 
And like you, if you are a 

763
00:59:28,908 --> 00:59:31,600
believer in the Providence of 
God, they will accuse you of 

764
00:59:31,600 --> 00:59:34,800
succumbing to. 
Typically they use the words 

765
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:39,700
fatalism or determinism. 
And I don't have much time to 

766
00:59:39,700 --> 00:59:42,400
get into all of those things. 
I don't really have any time 

767
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:44,300
we've already established that, 
right Scarlett. 

768
00:59:48,900 --> 00:59:51,400
But but here's some quick 
definitions. 

769
00:59:52,500 --> 00:59:57,500
Determinism. 
Says that everything happens by 

770
00:59:57,500 --> 01:00:02,100
some impersonal force in nature 
and that that cannot be 

771
01:00:02,100 --> 01:00:04,600
overcome. 
So everything comes to us by 

772
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:08,300
some impersonal force of Nature 
and there's nothing you can do 

773
01:00:08,300 --> 01:00:13,600
to stop it. 
Nature causes a response which 

774
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:18,100
we would call an effect. 
T' and therefore nature rules 

775
01:00:18,100 --> 01:00:20,200
and we can't do anything to stop
it. 

776
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:25,300
That view. 
Is a form of idolatry. 

777
01:00:25,500 --> 01:00:35,300
Nature is God, nature is God. 
Fatalism says that all things 

778
01:00:35,300 --> 01:00:39,600
are predetermined by blind 
irrational forces. 

779
01:00:40,500 --> 01:00:44,200
So there is no point in human 
effort to change anything. 

780
01:00:46,900 --> 01:00:51,200
This view results in the 
creation of a somewhat similar 

781
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:54,600
false god, but a bit different. 
And we would call that God 

782
01:00:54,900 --> 01:00:59,800
faith. 
You hear phrases like as fate 

783
01:00:59,800 --> 01:01:03,400
would have it? 
Or fate brought this person to 

784
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:10,100
my life. 
Both views fatalism determinism 

785
01:01:10,300 --> 01:01:15,800
are satanic counterfeits to the 
revealed truth of God's word 

786
01:01:15,900 --> 01:01:18,500
that are all-knowing 
all-powerful all present. 

787
01:01:18,500 --> 01:01:21,600
God has planned all things 
according to the counsel of his 

788
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:26,700
own wisdom and his own will 
which James says here is 

789
01:01:26,900 --> 01:01:30,100
merciful and compassionate 
toward his people. 

790
01:01:30,500 --> 01:01:33,900
Psalm 100 verse 5 says that the 
Lord is good. 

791
01:01:35,500 --> 01:01:38,600
And his love endures to all 
generations. 

792
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:43,800
Romans 8:28. 
And we know that for those who 

793
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:47,800
love God, all things work 
together for good. 

794
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:51,700
For those who are called 
according to his purpose. 

795
01:01:53,100 --> 01:01:56,100
Genesis 50:20 Joseph. 
Looking at his brothers after 

796
01:01:56,100 --> 01:01:58,800
all that, he had gone through. 
If you've been in Sunday school,

797
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:00,700
you know what I'm talking about 
and he says this them. 

798
01:02:00,700 --> 01:02:04,500
As for you, you meant evil 
against me, but God meant it for

799
01:02:04,500 --> 01:02:08,700
good to bring it about that. 
Many people should be kept alive

800
01:02:08,700 --> 01:02:13,200
as they are today. 
And then he James here, just use

801
01:02:13,200 --> 01:02:17,200
his job considered Joe, 
steadfastness of job. 

802
01:02:20,100 --> 01:02:22,900
I love when the text gives me my
illustrations and I don't have 

803
01:02:22,900 --> 01:02:27,600
to come up with terrible at it. 
Job. 

804
01:02:27,600 --> 01:02:30,700
Endured great loss at the hand 
of God. 

805
01:02:32,700 --> 01:02:34,700
He went to God with his 
questions. 

806
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:42,200
And he got some responses. 
He wasn't quite ready for When 

807
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:47,400
God says to you dress for Action
like a man, You know, you're in 

808
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:51,900
for it. 
But God was merciful and 

809
01:02:51,900 --> 01:02:56,400
compassionate in his response. 
This wasn't one of those like 

810
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:58,800
come to Jesus meetings. 
Like your parents had with you 

811
01:02:58,800 --> 01:03:00,700
when you her child, you know, 
and Jesus was never even in the 

812
01:03:00,707 --> 01:03:04,700
conversation correctly. 
It was just you almost got to 

813
01:03:04,700 --> 01:03:08,600
meet Jesus, right? 
This wasn't one of those 

814
01:03:08,600 --> 01:03:14,300
moments. 
In their exchange, he walks away

815
01:03:14,600 --> 01:03:18,000
having seen the merciful and 
compassionate. 

816
01:03:18,100 --> 01:03:21,200
Purposes of God, love when 
Patricia was up here earlier and

817
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:25,400
she just said, I have known 
about him before but now I have 

818
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:26,700
seen him. 
I've known about his goodness 

819
01:03:26,700 --> 01:03:29,500
before, but now I have seen his 
goodness. 

820
01:03:30,300 --> 01:03:36,000
What a testimony And joke, 42 
job site and says this in job, 

821
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:38,600
answered the Lord. 
And if Godly, if you haven't 

822
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:42,300
read the end of job, you have 
your assignment for today. 

823
01:03:43,100 --> 01:03:46,000
I know that you can do all 
things and that no purpose of 

824
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:51,700
yours can be thwarted. 
So I've had to remind myself of 

825
01:03:51,700 --> 01:03:56,200
often that when he Cates passing
was, not in, some way, God being

826
01:03:56,200 --> 01:04:00,200
thwarted in a moment. 
It wasn't a lapse of his 

827
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:04,800
goodness. 
Be easy to think that. 

828
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:08,000
It'd be easy to think that God 
got busy. 

829
01:04:09,700 --> 01:04:12,300
That he forgot that he's all 
presents. 

830
01:04:13,500 --> 01:04:16,100
He decided he wasn't going to be
all powerful in a moment that he

831
01:04:16,107 --> 01:04:19,800
wasn't going to be all-knowing 
and he just missed on Winnie, 

832
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:24,300
Kate. 
God didn't miss on me. 

833
01:04:25,900 --> 01:04:28,800
Just like he doesn't miss and 
you were suffering and then you 

834
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:31,600
were paying and in your trial 
your struggle. 

835
01:04:32,700 --> 01:04:36,700
Those things come to you. 
As a result of the goodness of 

836
01:04:36,700 --> 01:04:40,900
God, he means for something good
to come out of it. 

837
01:04:41,400 --> 01:04:43,800
And that's what job saying. 
I know that there is no purpose 

838
01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:46,900
of yours which can be ordered. 
Who is this? 

839
01:04:46,900 --> 01:04:49,100
That hides counsel without 
knowledge? 

840
01:04:49,100 --> 01:04:50,500
Therefore I have uttered. 
What? 

841
01:04:50,500 --> 01:04:55,200
I did not understand things too.
Wonderful for me which I did not

842
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:59,300
new here and I will speak. 
I will question you and you make

843
01:04:59,300 --> 01:05:03,500
it known to me. that's what God 
had said to job and now jobs 

844
01:05:03,500 --> 01:05:07,600
repeating it back and he's 
saying I had heard of you by the

845
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:12,400
hearing of the ear, but now my 
eyes, see you Therefore, I 

846
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:16,400
despise myself and repent in 
dust and Ashes. 

847
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:22,400
Job suffered well and the Lord 
proved he is compassionate and 

848
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:27,900
merciful, he allowed job to see 
new depths to God. 

849
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:33,300
And then after that, he returns 
everything to job even doubling 

850
01:05:33,300 --> 01:05:35,400
it. 
But let's not forget that job 

851
01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:39,600
still. 
I mean, if I had lost 

852
01:05:39,600 --> 01:05:43,500
possessions, that's one thing 
and job lost a lot of 

853
01:05:43,508 --> 01:05:47,700
possessions But losing a 
daughter is a completely 

854
01:05:47,700 --> 01:05:50,100
different job loss, multiple 
children. 

855
01:05:51,900 --> 01:05:55,600
And though things were doubled, 
he still dealt with the loss of 

856
01:05:55,607 --> 01:06:01,000
his children. 
But he was still able to say 

857
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:05,000
that the Lord is compassionate 
and merciful before I had heard 

858
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,000
of you. 
But now my eyes have seen you. 

859
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:14,400
This is what providence does. 
We could recall the names of 

860
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:16,900
many men and women in our 
Bibles, examine their stories. 

861
01:06:16,900 --> 01:06:19,900
We would see that they endured 
suffering for the glory of the 

862
01:06:19,900 --> 01:06:23,400
Lord and the good of others, and
we call them blessed for it. 

863
01:06:25,100 --> 01:06:27,400
Well, the scripture speak highly
of those men and women you can 

864
01:06:27,408 --> 01:06:29,900
read Hebrews 11 if you're 
curious. 

865
01:06:31,500 --> 01:06:38,000
There is one greater. 
There's one greater to whom we 

866
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:43,200
must look to as our example. 
Hebrews 11, we call the Hall of 

867
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:46,600
Faith. 
The writer of Hebrews takes us, 

868
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:50,700
through example, after example, 
of those who endured hardship 

869
01:06:50,700 --> 01:06:55,500
and exercised faith, He Praises 
them and he even mentions. 

870
01:06:55,500 --> 01:06:57,800
There's so many we could name 
and we're not naming them all 

871
01:06:58,600 --> 01:06:59,700
because he was running out of 
time. 

872
01:06:59,700 --> 01:07:07,300
Also, and then in chapter 12, 
immediately after he says that 

873
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:13,400
he says, therefore Therefore 
since we are surrounded by so 

874
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:17,300
great, a cloud of witnesses. 
Let us also lay aside every 

875
01:07:17,300 --> 01:07:21,900
weight and every sin, which 
clings so closely and let us run

876
01:07:21,900 --> 01:07:25,500
with endurance, the race that is
set before us. 

877
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:34,200
Looking to Jesus, the founder 
and the Perfecter of our faith, 

878
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:39,000
who for the joy, that was set 
before him, endured the cross 

879
01:07:39,300 --> 01:07:42,600
despising, the shame, and is 
seated. 

880
01:07:42,600 --> 01:07:49,300
At the right hand of the Throne 
of God, the only perfect, Man to

881
01:07:49,300 --> 01:07:56,000
ever live endured suffering was 
well acquainted with grief. 

882
01:07:57,900 --> 01:08:02,100
You're not alone in it look to 
Christ looked across the best 

883
01:08:02,100 --> 01:08:05,400
way to suffer with a movable 
patients is to look to Christ 

884
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:09,100
into the end of your sufferings,
once God's purposes for your 

885
01:08:09,100 --> 01:08:12,700
suffering or answered. 
He brings an end to them. 

886
01:08:14,700 --> 01:08:18,800
And his Mercy is such that he 
carries with him and abundant 

887
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:24,500
reward for all their sufferings 
that is an unfading Crown of 

888
01:08:24,500 --> 01:08:27,899
Glory for all who call on the 
name of Christ. 

889
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:32,700
Matthew Henry said this, he said
God's bowels, that is his inward

890
01:08:32,700 --> 01:08:34,300
Parts. 
They wrote different back then, 

891
01:08:34,300 --> 01:08:38,500
right God's bowels are moved for
them while suffering. 

892
01:08:41,300 --> 01:08:45,100
You're like my removed every 
time I eat Mexican but God's 

893
01:08:45,100 --> 01:08:48,899
Bowser mood for them while 
suffering, his Bounty is 

894
01:08:48,899 --> 01:08:57,399
manifested afterwards. 
John 11:33, Jesus is responding 

895
01:08:57,399 --> 01:09:02,000
to a call to come because 
Lazarus has passed. it says when

896
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:05,700
Jesus saw her weeping, The 
sister of Lazarus. 

897
01:09:05,700 --> 01:09:08,399
He saw her weeping and the Jews 
who had come with her also 

898
01:09:08,399 --> 01:09:10,899
weeping. 
So there's a throng of weeping 

899
01:09:10,899 --> 01:09:17,500
going on. 
Listen to how he was moved, says

900
01:09:17,500 --> 01:09:22,600
he was deeply moved in his 
spirit and greatly troubled. 

901
01:09:24,500 --> 01:09:29,600
Greatly trouble. 
And then in verse 35, two verses

902
01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:31,100
later. 
We read shortest. 

903
01:09:31,100 --> 01:09:33,600
Verse in all scripture. 
Jesus wept. 

904
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Short verse massive impact. 
What are we? 

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What are we saying? 
Christ looks on death. 

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And weeps Christ looks on death 
and said, this is not the way 

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things are supposed to be. 
And now you know a little bit 

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more about the joy that was set 
before him. 

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It was the Redemption of his 
people, it was the Redemption of

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the world. 
It was to set all things, right.

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One day when Christ returns and 
so the only way brothers and 

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sisters that you're going to 
have immovable. 

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Patients is to fix your Gaze on 
eternity. 

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Fix your gaze. 
There look to Christ be patient.

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Establish your hearts. 
Do not Grumble. 

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Consider your examples. 
See them, see their stories. 

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See their God who abounds in 
steadfast love and faithfulness.

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Let their example, and their 
character that you see in God, 

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let that character spur you, on 
during your sufferings, his 

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purposes are always 
compassionate and merciful even 

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if you cannot yet, see that way,
hold on, be patience. 

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Remember that? 
The hope of Christ is with you. 

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And it will not put you to 
shame. 

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Just as it did not put our 
examples in scripture to shame 

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either. 
So brothers and sisters, I'll 

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leave you with this. 
Let us serve our God, let us 

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endure our trials, as those who 
believe that the end of all 

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things will Crown, all of God's 
people. 

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Amen, let me pray for you. 
Heavenly Father Joy to be in 

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your house today. 
I praise you for the patience of

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this people today. 
Their encouragement. 

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They're allowing me to preach 
your word today. 

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It is my hope, Lord. 
That we will know in movable 

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patients in our time of 
suffering. 

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Lord, I Thank you for the grace 
and the mercy that you have 

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shown to my wife and our boys 
and myself. 

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To when his grandparents and 
family members to her church 

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family and her friends. 
Lord, we would be lost without 

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you. 
I thank you, Lord, that we get 

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to grieve as people with hope. 
You get to look to Christ always

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we get to trust the Lord that 
your providential hand orders. 

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All things for our good, Even if
we can't quite see it. 

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We trust that it's true because 
your word has spoken and your 

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word is true. 
Lord made the Saints here today.

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Be edified encouraged 
strengthened by Your Word. 

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May we go from this place now. 
Into the world to proclaim the 

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gospel of Christ to live for you
to love you and to love others 

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as you show us. 
And we honor your name and all 

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that we say and do forgive us of
our sins, Lord help us to be 

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honest. 
Today in our evaluation of 

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ourselves to be repentance if we
have failed, you if we have 

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failed to obey your word, Lord, 
we thank you that you are 

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faithful even when we are not. 
Praise you father, in Christ's 

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name, we pray. 
Amen.