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Good morning everybody. 
Good morning. 

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It's a good morning. 
They'll send a great this 

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morning. 
Singing, nice, especially you, 

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Daniel, good job. 
Good job. 

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Good job. 
My son just prayed for me. 

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Sounds pretty cool. 
Thanks buddy. 

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I don't know where he went. 
Here we go. 

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He go, there. 
He is. 

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Hey bud. 
I'm pretty sure. 

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Did you say Lord, please help 
him remember the things. 

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So he doesn't forget. 
Thank you because he knows me. 

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Most forget everything. 
Well, my name is Allen. 

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Hello. 
Thanks, good morning, Jasper. 

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It's good to have you back, man.
For those that don't know. 

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He's one of my good friends and 
so him and cheery. 

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So, it's good job back. 
All right, well, today we are 

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going to continue in James. 
But before we do, I want to say,

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if you're new here, welcome. 
I know you've already seen and 

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probably heard too much from me 
already, but I don't get up here

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and preach a whole lot. 
But I'm glad that I get the 

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opportunity to today. 
So, my name is Alan. 

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I am one of the elders pastors 
here. 

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Help play guitar. 
Help have some other dealings 

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with, you know, making sure 
things work up here and kind of 

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just do whatever. 
Whatever people tell me to do 

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usually, but the purpose that I 
want to clearly establish today 

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before we get started, we've 
already sing about it. 

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Is that and we've already said 
our call to Worship. 

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Is We Gather here each and every
week to Worship the Lord. 

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And we do that through a couple 
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So we do that through 
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when we're just talking with 
each other beforehand, or that's

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the goal. 
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So when we sing, we're not just 
trying to sing really cool 

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songs. 
We're trying to sing songs that 

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that are that are honoring to 
the Lord, that help us Worship 

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the Lord, through our singing. 
I'm going to attempt to preach. 

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So really, I would just want to 
worship the word, the Lord 

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through his word and then we'll 
end with another song. 

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And then we want to Worship the 
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This place throughout the week. 
So the whole point of this is 

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it's not just to come to church 
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to church. 
This is a place where as as most

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of you are believers in the Lord
Jesus that we come and we get to

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encourage one another and we 
worship the father son, Holy 

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Spirit, three and one, like we 
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So to get to sing with you all 
that, we believe these things 

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together is really encouraging 
to me, but that's my point of 

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when we continue to go through 
James here is for it to continue

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to be a god-honoring. 
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near to the Lord. 
And I don't forget things as 

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Ethan said. 
So even even through me, it's 

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his word is faithful. 
His word is faithful. 

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So I want to give a recap. 
We have been in James for a 

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while. 
Jasper just gave a great update 

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update last week. 
Dustin Meadows was here with 

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Disciple of the nation, so we 
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But we've been in James going 
through, and in our home groups 

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were going through James. 
Bring my little book here. 

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So, we're going through and 
homegroups. 

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We're going walking through the 
Book of James, and then we're 

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trying to recap what we're 
studying in home groups, every 

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Sunday and expounding on it a 
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So, I want to give a brief recap
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Before we get to chapter 4, you 
go ahead and turn your Bibles to

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chapter 40. 
James is the brother of Jesus. 

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He was not a Believer until 
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And his brothers did not really 
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later and James ends up being a 
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So he ends up being having a 
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teacher a leader, Paul goes to 
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Some of these great great 
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been inspired and that we read 
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This is a big part of that. 
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Paul goes, and he goes to the 
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James is there. 
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case for Christ in this book. 
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why you should believe upon the 
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James is, is talking to Jewish 
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So much, like most of you, we've
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of why we should believe in 
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James is stating some practical 
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Say you're a Christian, 
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XYZ. doing these things and then
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you're not doing these things 
but you say that your Christian,

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there's some kind of disconnect 
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correct, these things, okay? 
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some things like this. 
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Jewish Christians, he tells us 
to count it all is Joy even 

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through tribulation. 
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times, that we're going through,
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Christ. 
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even tells us how he's like, how
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the Lord, the Lord gives wisdom.
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wisdom. 
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humble yourself. 
Self, he tells us to remain 

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steadfast. 
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when you're tempted, and when 
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your own desires, your own 
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Temptation comes and he reminds 
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That God is not the one tempting
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governor The Giver of good 
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He goes on and he says that he 
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who gives us the word of Truth 
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speak, slow to anger and he 
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trying to do some of these other
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religion, but pure religion is 
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widows. 
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our character. 
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And I mess up a bunch of those 
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All the time, he goes to chapter
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Again, this is a practical book 
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He states that we should show no
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So he equates that, as if 
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assembly and we sit them in a 
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somebody that looks less 
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He really harps on that. 
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god of partiality. 
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you fail on one part, The law 
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You failed all of the law. 
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triumphs over judgment. 
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help people in need what he 
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example of somebody comes and 
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we just go home man. 
I'm sorry, I'll pray for you see

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ya, he harps on that and he's 
like actually help people very 

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practical. 
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without works, is dead. 
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guess what? 
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And he's making the case here 
that these people are saying 

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that they believe in there not 
even shuddering and we'll get 

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into some more of that today. 
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here. 
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works and not faith alone. 
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that we're clear. 
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faith, not of our works. 
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Works matter. 
They are very important. 

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You cannot just say that you 
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anything. 
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These have to go hand-in-hand. 
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And then finally says, faith 
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So if you have no works there, 
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You are deceiving yourself. 
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This is a bunch we're almost 
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pages chapter 3. 
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Gospel will be judged more. 
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get up here somewhere. 
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then he goes through our tongue 
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though it is small boast, a very
great things and he he gives 

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different illustrations like a 
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Small at steers. 

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The Entire ship and he says that
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hell. 
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everything and Mankind that we 
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everything can be tamed, we can 
manage all things but yet not 

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one of us are able to tame our 
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And he talks about how terrible 
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He says that out of the same 
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then we curse people, this is 
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not be. 
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to boast in our own selfish 
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things that we should be asking 
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He says true wisdom is that that
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Gentle open to reason full of 
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and sincere. 
So James is hitting some very 

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pointed straight forward things 
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Christian, we need to take heed 
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And so what today we'll get into
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view of Christianity and our 
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there and get there many times 
and hit that again today with 

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sin and Is this casual view of 
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Grace abounds, yeah, I know I 
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says that we all stumble Is it 
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But the Bible continually harps 
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That we don't boast in ourselves
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So in chapter 4, James is going 
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He's going to get straight to 
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So that's kind of my recap that 
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understand what I want to talk 
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So if you can turn to James for 
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4, verses 1 through 12. 
I'll put my pin down because 

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when I have a pen, I tend to 
point at people. 

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And I don't mean to and one of 
your I had a water bottle and my

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wife graciously told me, don't 
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their kit. 
That's point, the water bottle. 

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Right 4:1 says, what causes 
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among you? 
Is it not this that your 

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passions are at War within you, 
you desire, and you do not have.

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So you murder, you covet and 
cannot obtain. 

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So you fight and quarrel you do 
not have because you do not ask 

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you ask and do not receive 
because you ask wrongly to spend

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it on your passions. 
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Do you not know that friendship 
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God? 
For whoever wishes to be a 

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friend of the world makes 
himself an enemy of God or do 

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you suppose it is? 
The no purpose at the scripture 

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says he yearns jealously over 
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dwell within us or to dwell in 
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But he gives more grace. 
Therefore it says God opposes 

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the proud, but gives grace to 
the humble submit yourselves 

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therefore to God resist the 
devil and he will flee from you 

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draw near to God and He will 
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You cleanse your hands, you 
Sinners, and purify your Your 

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hearts you double-minded be 
wretched and mourn. 

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And weep. 
Let your laughter be turned to 

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mourning and your joy to Gloom 
humble yourselves before the 

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Lord, and He will exalt you Do 
not speak evil against one, 

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another brother's, the one who 
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judges, his brother speaks evil 
against the law and judges the 

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law. 
But if you judge the law, you 

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are not a doer of the law but a 
judge there is only one lawgiver

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and judge he who is able to save
and to destroy but who are you 

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to judge your neighbor? 
Let's pray. 

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God, thank you for your word. 
Pass that. 

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As we as we study your word 
today, that you help us 

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understand it. 
I ask that you help us actually 

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put into practice what your word
says and that as we leave here 

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today, God, that we are obedient
to you. 

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That we submit to you. 
As the one lawgiver and the one 

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judge. 
For, we know that your ways are 

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much higher than ours in your 
goodness is far more than what 

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we can comprehend. 
In Jesus precious name. 

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Amen. 
All right. 

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So a quick funny story. 
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says, what causes corals, I 
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In my notes, I put two l's It's 
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causes quarrels and fights among
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This is the very first thing 
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the word coral immediately went 
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and like fighting and and it can
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out. 
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like bullying. 
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dislike each other. 
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I don't like that person and we 
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and I can't stand to be around 
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That's not a coral of coral is 
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difference, the difference 
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So a coral is like, but probably
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probably more on my side. 
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for her but we have these these 
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It's not like some people were 
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with them. 
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to Jewish Christians here. 
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the same page. 
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it's all over the people remain 
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division, it causes this and 
it's not good. 

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And so I wanted to put point 
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immediately went of like don't 
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this is it not this that your 
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So I'll take my loving Bride. 
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that is welled up inside of me 
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these these, these brothers were
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themselves and having such 
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divisive. 
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it, you're quarreling is 
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desires within you, your 
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within you that are wrong with 
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We'll talk about in a second and
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to tell somebody what's going on
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division. 
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that your passions are at War 
within you? 

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Like that's that is the Heat or 
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Right there. 
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have so you murder. 
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an idea or whatever, and we 
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And so, it says we murdered and 
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murdering if we go to Matthew 
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about being in anger, and even 
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sin, this is this is not good, 
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of passions that Well up within 
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equating that he's equating that
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He's already in previous 
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think you're this big follower 
of the law but once you fill one

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of them, guess what? 
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He says you covet and cannot 
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you want something and you can't
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fight and you Coral? 
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with my wife is because I don't 
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I see something one way. 
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really matter who's right or 
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it. 
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It does. 
This doesn't it? 

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It's not good for our 
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Since you do not have because 
you do not ask. 

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He says, and you ask and do not 
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Because you ask wrongly to spend
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This is all a self. 
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he's addressing here. 
Who has a hard time not getting 

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their way. 
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I tend to I don't like to say 
that. 

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I tend to you raised your hand 
to hi Bobby. 

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He's like me. 
It's true. 

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It's true though. 
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continue to say? 
And I know we laugh and we joke 

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about it but this is stuff that 
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This is stuff that he will talk 
about in a minute. 

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This casual sin of and I'm as 
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Yeah, I know. 
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It's hard, not to be like that. 
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going to hit and he's saying, 
don't do that. 

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It's not just okay. 
That maybe you're like that 

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change. 
You can change. 

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You can humble yourself before 
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He can help you change. 
This is this is the whole point 

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of this. 
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He calls it out verse 4 so after
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receive wine because you spend 
it on. 

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You spend it wrongly on your own
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adulterous people He calls us 
adulterous for this, who's 

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calling adulterous for it. 
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yet we love our own Passions. 
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For adultery with it. 
We are seeking something else. 

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Apart from the Lord. 
Matthew 6:24 says this. 

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Says, no, this is Jesus talking 
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He says, no one can serve two 
masters for you will either hate

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one and love the other or he 
will be devoted to one and 

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despise the other. 
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ourselves and we're seeking 
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adulterous people and then he 
goes on and says, do you not 

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know that friendship with the 
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ever? 
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a friend of the world makes 
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He is hitting this point, we 
have to love the Lord, humble 

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ourselves seek the Lord, And the
whole book beforehand when he's 

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talking to these. 
These people again he's not 

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trying to make a case of why we 
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He is making the case of you 
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yet you're doing all of these 
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And so this is a book that is 
full of just practical 

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correction. 
So very practical way, if you're

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always quarreling, you need to 
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This is something within you. 
It may not always be that other 

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person. 
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within us. 
I was saying you can't ever 

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disagree but this is a 
dissension type Coral that is 

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happening. 
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of those people, let this be a 
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Okay. 
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you're hurting other people, 
you're hurting your relationship

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with God because you are, 
ultimately saying, I love my 

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desires and my passions more 
than I love you. 

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Lord. 
I'm going to continue to follow 

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myself and we'll see how he 
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Verse 5, he says, or do you 
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the scripture says he yearns 
jealously over the spirit that 

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he has made to dwell in US. 
little note on this verse, So 

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this vert, this is not a your if
you go to try to Google that 

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that exact quotation, you're 
not, you're not going to find 

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it. 
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quote but we can go all the way 
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We've been studying in Sunday 
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months. 
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in Exodus, we have the Lord that
the states in Exodus, 34 

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believe, it's, I've got it 34:14
when he states that he is a 

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jealous. 
God, he caught he consistently 

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throughout the Old Testament, 
establishes himself and says you

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shall have no other gods before 
me. 

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And he States himself as a 
jealous God saying I desire and 

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command attention of your heart.
There were to be no other gods. 

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You can't, you can't do both. 
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you've got to love me full-on. 
And so, when we get to this 

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verse where God is where he 
says, where the scripture says 

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he yearns jealously over the 
spirit that he has made to dwell

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within us, it's still addressing
that heart issue. 

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If you are a believer in his 
Spirit, dwells in you, we've 

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already sang father, son. 
Holy Spirit. 

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The this is the Lord dwells with
inside of you. 

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He is a jealous God and commands
and desires your heart. 

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So you can't fight that with 
just the things that you want to

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do and then after that, he says,
but he gives more grace for this

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and therefore, it says, and he's
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starting with some Proverbs 3 
here, James kind of used a lot 

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of Proverbs 334 says God, 
opposes the proud, but gives 

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grace to the humble. 
He opposes the proud and gives 

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grace to the humble. 
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And we see this in scripture all
the time God continually he will

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humble us, no doubt about it but
he always humbles us when we 

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exalt ourselves. 
So when we start really 

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believing in ourselves and he 
says this back in chapter 1, you

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know, he says, let the lowly 
exalt in their humiliation, let 

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the ones that seem like they've 
got it all going humble 

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themselves and exalting the 
Lord, because if we exalt 

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ourselves, he will humble us. 
His word says it time and time 

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again. 
He is opposed to the proud. 

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He is opposed to prideful 
selfish. 

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Ambition selfish desires. 
He's opposed to it. 

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So, we must strive daily to 
Humble ourselves. 

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There's a song that we sing. 
We didn't sing at this morning, 

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but it's called. 
Yes, I will. 

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And one of the reasons that I 
really like that song is because

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it states in the bridge, it 
says, I choose to praise to 

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glorify the name of all names. 
And that's something that I have

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to try to remind myself of each 
day of to choose to praise the 

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Lord. 
To choose to humble myself and I

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fail at this all the time and to
choose to submit to the Lord 

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daily and say Lord have your way
as we've studied in Exodus and 

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Sunday school. 
He has provided for us daily 

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provided for Amana daily 
everything they needed and they 

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grumbled against him. 
It wasn't good enough. and I do 

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that in my day-to-day, I want 
like this whole life, life plan 

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on everything kind of Figured 
out, you know, five year plan or

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whatever and things constantly 
change. 

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And so what I want in order to 
humble myself and what I think 

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the Lord desires for me is each 
day to wake up and say God thank

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you for a new day. 
Thank you for the grace. 

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You have given me today. 
Help me serve you today. 

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And when Jesus prays that he 
prays, When you pray as the 

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father, give us this day, our 
daily bread. 

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But yet as a selfish person, I 
don't like to do that. 

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I like to try to plan out things
like to get up and act as if you

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got it all figured out act as if
I'm going to make today happen. 

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Let's do it. 
Walking work all the time and 

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I'm just like, let's do it. 
Which is nothing, that's a bad 

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attitude to have. 
But usually my mentality, if I'm

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honest with myself, isn't Lord, 
just help me get through today, 

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whatever you present it, your 
way, help me, help me. 

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Navigate it is feeling good. 
I'm going to make it happen, and

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I make a lot of corals happen. 
What end up doing? 

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So if we're going to submit, if 
we're going to Humble ourselves 

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before the Lord, if we're going 
to submit to the Lord, that 

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sounds like a really big task. 
It's like, oh man. 

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Well how do we do this? 
Well James is going to, he's 

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going to lay it right out. 
So he tells Us. 

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God, opposes the proud. 
So if that is you He opposes 

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that but he will give Grace when
you humble yourself. 

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And so he tells us how he says 
submit yourselves therefore to 

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00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,600
the Lord submit to the Lord. 
He says to resist the devil. 

449
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,700
It is important for us to 
remember, that is a true 

450
00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:08,600
statement. 
There are forces at play. 

451
00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:13,800
I want to go off too big in that
rabbit hole but we serve a king 

452
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:23,200
that his overthrown Satan. 
But we still need to resist and 

453
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:28,700
flee from these Temptations. 
We need to seek the Lord. 

454
00:28:28,700 --> 00:28:33,000
We need to run towards the Lord.
We are not just to stay stagnant

455
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,800
or not just a sit and go. 
Hey, I'm a child of the King. 

456
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,400
Today is just going to be okay. 
We were to wake up and we were 

457
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,800
to strive toward the lord, to 
resist the devil and flee. 

458
00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:45,100
This is how we also humble 
ourselves. 

459
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,600
He says draw near to God. 
And what does he say? 

460
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,000
After that? 
He says, and He will draw near 

461
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,300
to you. 
So, in order to Humble 

462
00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:57,000
ourselves, if we feel like we're
prideful, we've got all this 

463
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,700
pry. 
We are to submit to the Lord. 

464
00:29:00,700 --> 00:29:03,100
Resist the devil and draw near 
to God. 

465
00:29:04,300 --> 00:29:07,600
You can do that through his 
word, he says cleanse your hands

466
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:14,400
and purify your hearts. 
And then it gets into where I to

467
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,300
me. 
Anyway, it all kind of it all 

468
00:29:16,300 --> 00:29:23,700
ties itself together. 
We're going to go to verse 9. 

469
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,400
This ties it together for me 
that really makes it all hit me 

470
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:33,900
like a ton of bricks. 
He says be wretched and mourn 

471
00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:36,900
and weep. 
Let your laughter be turned to 

472
00:29:36,900 --> 00:29:44,400
mourning and your joy to Gloom. 
And that's not a very uplifting 

473
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:51,700
verse. it's not as not like the 
happiest of all versus But he 

474
00:29:51,700 --> 00:29:58,100
means that verse. 
You see so these the Christians 

475
00:29:58,100 --> 00:30:01,300
that he's talking to from all of
this other stuff that we've read

476
00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:04,300
first three chapters. 
And then when it gets here and 

477
00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:08,400
he's talking about corals, there
is an obvious just casualness 

478
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,400
about their quarrels that they 
have accepted and that they just

479
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:19,800
keep doing. 
And as Christians, I think we I 

480
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:26,200
know I do this a lot. 
It's a casualness about my sin. 

481
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:27,800
That's really not that big of a 
deal. 

482
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,300
It's not that big of a deal 
because I've got Grace it's not 

483
00:30:33,300 --> 00:30:37,300
that big of a deal because most 
of you don't know, it's not that

484
00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:40,800
big of a deal because maybe I'm 
not out stealing or actually 

485
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:42,800
murdering people, right? 
It's just my own sin. 

486
00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:46,400
You do you I'll do me. 
It's all okay, keep things 

487
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:51,500
hidden. 
That's a lot easier for us to 

488
00:30:51,500 --> 00:30:54,600
say, here in South Arkansas 
where there's a church, right? 

489
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:56,400
There's a, you know, I'm 
probably step outside. 

490
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:57,900
There's a church literally right
there. 

491
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,300
We can see that church. 
There are churches all over the 

492
00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:02,600
place. 
And so I've got some friends, I 

493
00:31:02,608 --> 00:31:06,300
want to kind of try to bring out
a couple of contrast that I 

494
00:31:06,300 --> 00:31:09,700
think really hit on this. 
This idea of casual sin being, 

495
00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:13,500
okay? 
In our, in our, in our minds, 

496
00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:16,300
and our selfishness, we think 
it's okay, but the Lord is not. 

497
00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:18,100
Okay? 
And James is calling this out 

498
00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:20,900
and he is, he is calling it out 
enough to say be wretched and 

499
00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:23,700
mourn. 
Let this laughter that you think

500
00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:27,400
is kind of funny. 
Ha ha let it turn to morning. 

501
00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:32,100
It is a big deal. 
So, I've got some friends that 

502
00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:34,000
live and I think they just 
moved, but they lived up in 

503
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,500
Idaho, anybody from Idaho 
probably not. 

504
00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:43,500
Didn't think so wanted to ask. 
Idaho is a much different 

505
00:31:43,500 --> 00:31:47,000
culture than we are. 
That's very north of the states 

506
00:31:47,300 --> 00:31:51,600
and Washington up there by and 
large least a lot more than what

507
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,000
we are here in the Bible Belt. 
If someone claims to be a 

508
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,800
Christian, it means they follow 
Jesus. 

509
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:02,300
And not just they go to church. 
Like it means that their life 

510
00:32:02,300 --> 00:32:05,300
looks different. 
But that pin back down it means 

511
00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:07,800
their life looks different from 
most of the other people that 

512
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,200
they know, because there is a 
huge population of people that 

513
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:16,700
openly say, I reject, Jesus am 
not a Christian, I'm fine with 

514
00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:18,600
that. 
I'm going to do my life this way

515
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,800
and so those that say, Hey, I am
a Christian means something. 

516
00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:29,500
It doesn't mean that much here 
because By and large it is 

517
00:32:29,500 --> 00:32:32,200
widely accepted that if you're 
Christian that's fine. 

518
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:39,200
Most people around our area 
would claim to be a Christian 

519
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:43,100
even if they don't go to church,
even if they don't obey God and 

520
00:32:43,100 --> 00:32:46,800
hardly any commands even if they
don't read their Bibles. 

521
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,700
Even if they don't know much of 
what the Bible says, because 

522
00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:54,300
they believe in Jesus, that he 
is who he said he is like James 

523
00:32:54,300 --> 00:32:56,300
points out that even the demons 
believe that because they 

524
00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:59,400
believe that they think. 
Yeah, I'm Christian, it's fine. 

525
00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:05,000
Which also causes this casual 
something. 

526
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,100
So, I went to one more example 
of this. 

527
00:33:07,100 --> 00:33:11,200
I went to Africa a few weeks 
ago, and it was a, that's a long

528
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,600
ways away. 
I'm glad to be back. 

529
00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:17,600
I missed everybody. 
And so, when I went to Africa 

530
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,900
and Dustin talked about this 
last week, he said, one of the 

531
00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:24,800
biggest problems when you go 
overseas and we'll take Africa, 

532
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,100
I went to Tanzania Tanzania is, 
how I've learned that they say 

533
00:33:28,100 --> 00:33:30,100
it. 
They don't, they don't say at 

534
00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:33,200
the Southern Arkansas, Tanzania.
Believe it or not. 

535
00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:39,200
You would think they would but 
they don't is, it's not that 

536
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:43,500
they need just the gospel 
because they've heard the 

537
00:33:43,508 --> 00:33:45,300
gospel. 
Here's the problem. 

538
00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:48,100
And doesn't put great when he 
said only, that sounds exactly. 

539
00:33:48,100 --> 00:33:49,700
Right. 
They've heard a false gospel. 

540
00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:54,500
They have heard people coming 
over and Proclaim Christ, but 

541
00:33:54,500 --> 00:33:57,700
it's really not the Christ of 
the Bible. 

542
00:33:59,300 --> 00:34:04,900
And so, when we were over there 
trying to kind of navigate that 

543
00:34:04,900 --> 00:34:07,200
of like, if you say you're a 
Believer, it means this, which 

544
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:08,800
is again, kind of what James has
hit that. 

545
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,100
If you say your believer, it 
actually means this, this, this 

546
00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:16,500
this, this not just this kind of
global thing, and they also deal

547
00:34:16,500 --> 00:34:19,600
with. 
It's so casual that I think I 

548
00:34:19,607 --> 00:34:21,300
was talking to Mandy about this 
the other night. 

549
00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:25,199
So, in Tanzania their president,
if the president's Christian, 

550
00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:28,300
it's a country that's kind of 
split Christian and Muslim. 

551
00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:33,699
If the president's Christian, 
the vice president has to be 

552
00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:38,900
Muslim and vice versa and they 
do this with a good heart. 

553
00:34:38,900 --> 00:34:41,400
So that everybody gets along. 
But here's where the problem 

554
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,800
comes in is that that you also 
have a lot of Christians. 

555
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,100
Marry Muslims and Muslims 
married Christians because 

556
00:34:48,100 --> 00:34:50,699
there's really no distinction. 
It's just kind of like let's 

557
00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:53,400
just let's just not disagree too
much. 

558
00:34:56,699 --> 00:35:00,900
Because to actually follow the 
Bible, if you're Muslim and you 

559
00:35:00,900 --> 00:35:07,700
turn to be a Christian. 
It costs everything like you 

560
00:35:07,700 --> 00:35:11,300
lose your family over this 
because you are denouncing. 

561
00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:14,200
Something that is incredibly big
deal. 

562
00:35:14,300 --> 00:35:16,500
And so how to how do we kind of 
avoid that as well? 

563
00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:18,300
They just go, well, there's not 
going to talk about a lot of 

564
00:35:18,300 --> 00:35:20,900
that stuff and we'll just kind 
of let it play out. 

565
00:35:20,900 --> 00:35:25,800
But to actually say there I am a
Christian means I follow the 

566
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,400
lord means you lose 
relationships. 

567
00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:31,300
And it means some people might 
try to murder you. 

568
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,700
It's a really big deal and it's 
something that I'm not going to 

569
00:35:36,700 --> 00:35:39,000
pretend that I really understand
because here, it's not that big 

570
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,800
of a deal. 
I have never felt my life 

571
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:43,500
threatened for proclaiming 
Christ here. 

572
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:48,700
I haven't So the danger in that 
is what James is addressing, is 

573
00:35:48,700 --> 00:35:54,100
this casualness of my own Pride 
can get so overwhelming that 

574
00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:57,800
it's okay, it's not that big of 
a deal. 

575
00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:04,300
And James is saying be wretched,
your sin is evil, your sin is 

576
00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:10,000
evil, we serve a good jealous 
God, that deserves and desires 

577
00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:14,700
and commands our hearts and for 
us to serve him and him alone. 

578
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,500
Loan. 
There are to be no other gods 

579
00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:22,200
yourself included. 
We serve him and him alone Be 

580
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,500
wretched and let that that 
laughter, that you've got that, 

581
00:36:25,500 --> 00:36:29,800
that that casualness about it, 
let it be turned to weeping and 

582
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,600
mourning. 
It is that big of a deal? 

583
00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:36,500
And I'd usually don't view it 
that way. 

584
00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:39,300
I view it in other ways and so 
when I'm reading this James, I'm

585
00:36:39,300 --> 00:36:42,300
like, oh my goodness. 
And then he says, humble, humble

586
00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:46,700
yourselves before the Lord and 
He will exalt you Then we're 

587
00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:47,900
going to end with this last 
part. 

588
00:36:47,900 --> 00:36:56,500
That is really in the same vein.
Verse 11. 

589
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,800
He says, do not speak evil and 
again he still talking. 

590
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:01,400
This is all kind of within the 
same context. 

591
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,100
He says, do not speak evil 
against one. 

592
00:37:03,700 --> 00:37:06,600
One another brother's, the one 
who speaks against a brother or 

593
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:10,900
judges, his brother speaks evil 
against the law and judges the 

594
00:37:10,900 --> 00:37:15,200
law. 
You might have heard, you know? 

595
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,100
I asked questions, We Shouldn't 
Judge, right? 

596
00:37:17,100 --> 00:37:19,500
We've heard this. 
But, you know, there's a 

597
00:37:19,508 --> 00:37:22,800
difference between making a 
judgment and actually judging so

598
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,700
we all make judgments every 
single day. 

599
00:37:27,300 --> 00:37:29,500
We can make judgments on right 
or wrong based on what the Bible

600
00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:33,300
tells us we can make judgments 
on, you know, a bunch of 

601
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,400
different things. 
This is not saying don't ever 

602
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:43,900
make a judgment ever, so, some 
of the Some of the back and 

603
00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:47,200
forth between that would be 
well, but we don't ever want to 

604
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,600
get to this casualness of. 
As you do you, I'm going to do 

605
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,500
me, whatever you want to do is 
fine, doesn't affect me, it's 

606
00:37:54,500 --> 00:37:56,900
fine. 
It's not real love, it's 

607
00:37:56,900 --> 00:38:00,200
actually very unloving if you 
really care about somebody and 

608
00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,100
they're doing something that is 
very harmful or if they say 

609
00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:05,300
they're a Christian and yet, 
they are opposing all of these 

610
00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:09,500
things and they're an ambassador
for Christ that reflects all of 

611
00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:11,200
us really bad as we say, 
Christian. 

612
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,400
So is Not saying don't ever say 
anything when we make any 

613
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:16,500
judgments, don't have anything 
that you stick with that. 

614
00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:17,900
That's not what this is getting 
it. 

615
00:38:18,100 --> 00:38:22,400
This is getting it actually 
judging people from a prideful 

616
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:28,100
stance So when we actually judge
somebody, so way that my brain 

617
00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:29,600
helps with it. 
So hopefully it's helpful with 

618
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,200
you. 
Well, we're really judging 

619
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,600
somebody what we're kind of 
ultimately getting at is, I 

620
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:36,500
can't believe they would do 
that. 

621
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,300
I can't believe they would do 
that. 

622
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:43,800
I would never allow that. 
It's just despicable. 

623
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,600
I would never allow if I were 
the Lord, I wouldn't let them. 

624
00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:51,300
I wouldn't allow that. 
And our brain doesn't run 

625
00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:54,100
through all of those but that's 
really kind of the nastiness 

626
00:38:54,100 --> 00:38:57,700
that gets in judging. 
I wouldn't do it. 

627
00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:01,400
I can't believe the Lord will 
allow that to happen. 

628
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,300
I just, I wouldn't do that. 
And we make these really nasty 

629
00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:07,600
judgments. 
That makes sense. 

630
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:14,000
It all stems, from it, from 
Pride, it all stems from there's

631
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:16,900
something within me that says, I
can't believe that and therefore

632
00:39:17,700 --> 00:39:23,600
wrong, Bad Evil. 
I can do it better. 

633
00:39:24,900 --> 00:39:31,400
I would do it better, the Lord 
should have done it better and 

634
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:37,200
so he gets down and he says but 
if you judge the law, you are 

635
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:44,100
not a doer of the law, but a 
judge and then he says there is 

636
00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:52,300
only one lawgiver and judge and 
it's not you He who is able to 

637
00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:57,800
save and to destroy. 
But who are you to judge your 

638
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,000
neighbor? 
So we are to love, we are to 

639
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,500
live in love. 
We are to live in truth and of 

640
00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:05,800
all the different things that he
is. 

641
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:10,500
That he is that he is brought 
out again, back in James 3 says,

642
00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:14,400
but the wisdom from above is 
first pure Peaceable. 

643
00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:18,600
Gentle open to reason full of 
mercy and good fruits impartial 

644
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,200
and sincere and have a harvest 
of righteousness and a harvest 

645
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,300
of righteousness is sown in 
Peace by. 

646
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:27,600
Those who make pieces is how we 
are to live. 

647
00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:30,600
We say weird Christian, let's 
take it serious. 

648
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,200
We all really glad you're here. 
I'm super glad you're here. 

649
00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:40,200
I want you to keep coming here 
but not just so that we can come

650
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,500
here and gather and say, all 
right, we made it to church and 

651
00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:46,700
so that when we leave here, we 
were a group of people set apart

652
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,500
from other people. 
We were a group of people that 

653
00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:52,600
that actually follow the lord 
and obey, the Lord and love one 

654
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,200
another well, and don't judge 
the world. 

655
00:40:55,700 --> 00:40:57,500
And we're not selfish about our 
Ambitions. 

656
00:40:57,500 --> 00:41:02,000
And we seek after him, And that 
means something. 

657
00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:04,900
We want we want it to mean 
something. 

658
00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:07,400
We had a membership class this 
morning and that's some of the 

659
00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,100
things that we try to, we try to
put in is when you're saying 

660
00:41:10,100 --> 00:41:13,600
that you joining us we're not 
you're not just saying yeah, 

661
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,300
joining just going to check a 
box because I think I need to 

662
00:41:16,300 --> 00:41:19,700
join a church. 
We are trying to say, we are 

663
00:41:19,700 --> 00:41:24,900
committing to help you follow 
the lord and in return, we're 

664
00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:28,700
asking for your commitment to 
help all of us as well seek 

665
00:41:28,700 --> 00:41:31,500
after the Lord, so that we can 
do these things that James says,

666
00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:35,400
So that this isn't just lip 
service and so that it's not 

667
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:39,100
just the place that we come so 
we can actually follow and obey 

668
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:40,400
the Lord. 
Why? 

669
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:44,500
Because he saves, he is the 
lawgiver. 

670
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:49,200
He is the judge. 
We are not His blood is 

671
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sufficient. 
And so, just got a couple other 

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things. 
I don't want to, don't want to 

673
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ramble, but there is only one 
and it is him. 

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It is not us. 
And in his gospel we sing about 

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this earlier in his gospel, we 
can stand firm because there is 

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just this one gospel that we 
preach. 

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And that is Christ. 
It's Christ is sufficient. 

678
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In Christ Alone saves. 
And so, what do we do now? 

679
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How do we, how do we humble 
ourselves? 

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We're one of the first things I 
say would be, will me to repent 

681
00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:30,800
of any sin and submit yourself 
to the Lord. 

682
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:35,100
This is a daily thing. 
Is a daily thing that we can go 

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to. 
Repent is a complete turnaround.

684
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Not be casual about it and 
repent of our sin and turn to 

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the Lord for his blood is 
sufficient. 

686
00:42:44,900 --> 00:42:46,200
I want to read one other 
scripture. 

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This is from 1st Timothy. 
It says this morning, not having

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work. 
I don't have it work. 

689
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Give me a second. so, 1st 
Timothy Chapter 2. 

690
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Where's three through six? 
He's praying for all people, and

691
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for kings and either people in 
high positions. 

692
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:22,800
And then he says, this is good 
and it is pleasing. 

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In the sight of God, our savior,
who desires all people to be 

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saved. 
And to come to the knowledge of 

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Truth for there is one God, and 
there is one mediator between 

696
00:43:32,500 --> 00:43:35,900
God and Men. 
The man Christ Jesus, who gave 

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himself as a ransom for all, 
which is the testimony given. 

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At the proper time. 
So we're going to pray in just a

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second. 
I just, I want to encourage you 

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to seek to seek the Lord, if 
you're a Believer, seek the 

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Lord. 
If you're a believer in any of 

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these things, run true, repent 
and submit to the Lord. 

703
00:43:59,100 --> 00:44:01,100
If you're not a Believer and 
you're here today and you're 

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like okay all that sounds like a
lot. 

705
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,300
I don't know, even where to 
start. 

706
00:44:10,900 --> 00:44:13,200
Come talk to me. 
Come talk to Jasper. 

707
00:44:13,700 --> 00:44:15,100
Talk to Kyle. 
Steve. 

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00:44:15,100 --> 00:44:19,100
James ask somebody because we 
fully believe. 

709
00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:23,600
That the only way of Salvation 
is through Christ. 

710
00:44:26,100 --> 00:44:28,400
The only way of Salvation is 
through Christ and you're here 

711
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:32,100
and you're hearing the gospel. 
So, the first step is to 

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acknowledge number one. 
Yes, you are a sinner. 

713
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,500
You have failed. 
I have failed. 

714
00:44:37,500 --> 00:44:40,800
I failed a lie. 
You can't be good enough on your

715
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,900
own. 
You can't fix this mess that 

716
00:44:42,900 --> 00:44:46,500
you've created. 
You need Christ. 

717
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,700
Need Christ. 
So seek the Lord, the feel free.

718
00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:53,900
If you want to come talk with 
me. 

719
00:44:53,900 --> 00:44:55,200
We're going to sing a song in a 
second. 

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That just says, the goodness of 
is called the goodness of Jesus 

721
00:44:58,300 --> 00:45:01,700
and it starts by just saying, 
come you weary Hearts. 

722
00:45:01,900 --> 00:45:04,800
Now to Jesus is cry out to the 
Lord. 

723
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,200
He alone saves and he alone is 
good. 

724
00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:20,800
Let's pray. 
Gotta thank you for your word. 

725
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:26,700
I thank you for your goodness. 
I ask that you draw us to 

726
00:45:26,700 --> 00:45:34,800
yourself. 
Ask that you help us be obedient

727
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:40,000
to your word. 
And that starting right here in 

728
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:44,700
our church, that Lord, you cut 
to the heart of all of our pride

729
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:49,300
and selfish ambition. 
Help us seek. 

730
00:45:49,300 --> 00:45:52,600
You help us acknowledge that you
are sufficient. 

731
00:45:54,100 --> 00:45:59,500
Help us submit to your grace. 
For we are unworthy. 

732
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,100
Of being saved, but in your 
goodness. 

733
00:46:06,100 --> 00:46:10,900
In your mercy. 
You have laid down your life so 

734
00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:14,700
that your blood will be 
sufficient, blood is sufficient.

735
00:46:20,500 --> 00:46:23,700
Let's be encouraged by your work
that the things that you have 

736
00:46:23,700 --> 00:46:28,400
listed for us are for our good. 
There are 4 other people's good.

737
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:37,200
They are honoring to you. 
And they helped us know, you 

738
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:46,200
more and more or thank you so 
much for your goodness. 

739
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,800
In Jesus Christ name. 
Amen. 

740
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,800
In Jesus Christ name. 
Amen.