1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:04,080 Amen. Good to see your faces today in 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,400 the House of the Lord. Amen. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:10,160 On this Sunday morning, he in God's house and be able to 4 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:13,920 gather ourself around his word. And I think it's in order today 5 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:16,720 to say thank you to all the many hands that was involved this 6 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,760 past week with Sister Sharon's funeral and preparing food and 7 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:22,840 meal. I know you was a great help to 8 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:26,240 my wife and myself, being that we were traveling back from 9 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:29,160 Mississippi and I know there were some announcements made 10 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:34,200 here last Sunday and people just came and stood for the task of 11 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:37,280 making sure food was prepared. There were people that took some 12 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:40,360 time off work and other things like that in order to help 13 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,200 facilitate everything that took place here at the church. 14 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:44,760 And we thank you and appreciate you for that. 15 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,080 Thank you for being of encouragement and support to the 16 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:51,600 family during that time, Amen, Of their need and no doubt 17 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,120 surely still yet days to come, Amen. 18 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,960 And so we appreciate you for that. 19 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,400 Appreciate Bishop and but rather Mason filling in than last 20 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:02,440 weekend as well. I in my absence, I haven't had 21 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,920 the chance to listen to both of those messages yet, but I assure 22 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:07,560 you I will. I usually always do. 23 00:01:07,960 --> 00:01:09,960 Whether I'm mowing the lawn or something. 24 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:13,200 It's going to I'm going to get to it eventually. 25 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:15,600 What what was said and spoken here? 26 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:17,960 And I know that you were blessed by that, encouraged by that. 27 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:19,880 And then we're. Going to look turn to the book. 28 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:24,200 Of James this morning, James chapter #1 and I'm going to kind 29 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:25,840 of be in teaching mode here today. 30 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:28,320 I just tell him Bishop, he asked me if I was all right, said 31 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:31,280 yeah, I'm just a little tired. Seems like whenever we left to 32 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:33,560 go to Mississippi then with the funeral, it just been like, 33 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:36,360 boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom ever 34 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,960 since then. But that's OK, that's all right. 35 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:41,640 I told you the Reese said this is just my physical body, you 36 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:45,320 know, so I'm thinking about that song someday. 37 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:46,600 Praise the. Lord, I have a new body. 38 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,960 I have a new life, you know. But anyway, someday it will 39 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:51,040 happen. Amen. 40 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,720 But until then, James chapter #1 I'm going to start reading the 41 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:57,320 verse #17 and again, I kind of do some teaching here this 42 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,040 morning. Tonight, though, Bishop is 43 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,080 ministering. The summer months are kind of 44 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:03,200 crazy months as far as with people's schedules here and 45 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:05,640 there. But prior to the summer months, 46 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:08,080 we were a little bit in the mode of that. 47 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:11,160 The 2nd, the 4th Sunday nights that we were using people in the 48 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:14,640 church and we still using Brother Alex in the 4th, but 49 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,880 trying to use Bishop and Brother Mason then on that second. 50 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,080 And so he's going to be ministering to us again tonight 51 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:23,280 and going to try to continue with that here. 52 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:26,560 Routine starting up again. School's back in session. 53 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,720 Everybody's getting more fixed to routine of life and you know, 54 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,160 vacation settled down a little bit typically and such. 55 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:36,280 So we're just going to get into a routine of life here, not in a 56 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:40,480 bad way, but in a good way. James chapter #1 and verse #17 57 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,680 you're probably there by now. The Bible says every good gift, 58 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:50,240 and every perfect gift is from above cometh down from the 59 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:55,040 Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, and neither 60 00:02:55,040 --> 00:03:01,040 shadow of turning of his own will begat he us with the. 61 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:05,640 Word of truth. That we should be a kind of 62 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:10,320 firstfruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, 63 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:15,800 let every man be swift to hear solo, to speak solo to wrath. 64 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,920 For the wrath. Of man worketh not the 65 00:03:18,920 --> 00:03:22,160 righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all 66 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:26,600 filthiness and superfluity of knightiness, and receive with 67 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:32,960 meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls 68 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,000 for a little while. This morning I want to talk to 69 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,200 us about the power of the engrafted word. 70 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:44,240 The power of the engrafted word. Can we talk to the Lord one more 71 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,840 time as He'd help us. Father, we need you this 72 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,000 morning, God. We're appreciative, Lord, for 73 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:50,440 this day. We're appreciative, God, for 74 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:51,840 those that have gathered together. 75 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:55,040 I pray, O Lord, you have to touch our hearts and minds, God, 76 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,360 as we turn our attention to your word today, God, for it is a 77 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,600 lamp and to our feet, and a light and to our pathway, God. 78 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:04,040 Help it, O Lord, today to establish our goings. 79 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:06,280 And we've not failed to praise you, God. 80 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:08,840 And thank you, Lord, for what you accomplished in this place 81 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:11,240 today. In the name of Jesus Christ, we 82 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:15,040 pray Amen of the church say Amen, Amen. 83 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:18,360 You may be seated today, Amen, in Jesus name. 84 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,120 Also, just as a side note, we just have three more Wednesdays 85 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,680 here in the month of August that connect groups will be 86 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:29,000 happening. We've been divided between men 87 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:31,520 and women and of course, than the youth through the summer 88 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:32,920 months. So there's just three more 89 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,320 Wednesdays to participate in that until we go back to a more 90 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,440 of a corporate teaching type of format on Wednesdays. 91 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,360 But when we do starting off in Wednesdays in the month of 92 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:47,640 September, we'll be starting off with a series on a self worth 93 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,200 for about a month's time. And so that's going to be in the 94 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,760 month of September. And so just something to, I 95 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:56,720 don't know, I want to say look forward to it. 96 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:58,320 Maybe someone's like, no, I'm not looking forward to it. 97 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:00,040 Well, I'm just going to say look forward to it. 98 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,000 All right. So nonetheless, so the power, 99 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:07,440 the power of the engrafted word James here, the epistle of 100 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,200 James, he begins. He's speaking to the 12 tribes 101 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:15,320 of Israel and the 12 tribes of Israel at this particular time 102 00:05:15,320 --> 00:05:17,640 are are scattered here and there. 103 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:22,680 The church had went through a a major time of persecution. 104 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:27,480 They were centrally located by and large in Jerusalem. 105 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:31,400 But due to the persecution that the church underwent, people 106 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,280 begin then to spread out and move away from Jerusalem and 107 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:37,920 there was a dispersing of the tribes and the people here in 108 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:40,080 Yonder. And so it's one of those 109 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,560 scenarios, what the enemy meant for bad, you know, God used for 110 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:47,000 good, because what that meant is that their message and their 111 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,680 gospel that they had. 12 times preached in Jerusalem now is 112 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,840 going to the far reaches of the world, to these different places 113 00:05:53,840 --> 00:05:58,320 that the people have scattered to all, all across Asia and 114 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:00,920 otherwise. So James is speaking to the 115 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,760 scatter group because no doubt it could feel a little 116 00:06:04,120 --> 00:06:07,840 overwhelming for them now to be separated from Jerusalem here 117 00:06:07,840 --> 00:06:10,040 and beyond. And so they're going through 118 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:13,440 times, no doubt, of difficulty and persecution and troublous 119 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,480 times. And so James takes a moment to 120 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:21,760 call their attention back to a gift in particular that God has 121 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:23,960 given them. And he, of course, is referring 122 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:27,880 to their new birth experience of being born again. 123 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:32,120 So while all of this, this very much so confusion is happening 124 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:34,920 in their land and among them, he's calling them back to 125 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,000 something a very good gift, Amen, for them to remember. 126 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,320 And that is being born again. And, and, and with that, that, 127 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,240 that no matter where you are, right, no matter where you are 128 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,800 or what your circumstance or a situation may be, nobody can 129 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:51,920 take that experience away from you. 130 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,640 Nobody can remove that fact away from you, regardless of the 131 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:00,200 persecution that you may face. And so James begins to tell us 132 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,880 in just this short little section of the passage, although 133 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,840 we could look at the overall, but in this short section, 134 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,920 basically letting us know that that if God begat us with the 135 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:14,080 word of truth, then he also wanted them to know that that 136 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:18,760 same word of truth can maintain and keep them right. 137 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:22,800 Our God is he don't just save and then like abandoned this 138 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:24,640 over here to some field and say OK. 139 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:26,720 You're on your own. Good luck. 140 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:29,920 Great. No, that the same word that that 141 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,800 was used for our new birth experience is also the same word 142 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:38,400 that disciples us, the same word that even keeps us. 143 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,680 And so he tells us, even starting out when he's going to 144 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,400 talk about every good and every perfect gift coming from above 145 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:48,800 all of this. All of this follows James 146 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:51,520 talking about there's going to be temptations and there's going 147 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,040 to be testings. And no man can say when he is 148 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:55,720 tempted. He is tempted of God. 149 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,840 For every man that is tempted is drawn away of his own lust and 150 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:01,360 entice. And he, he goes through and 151 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,600 talks about that when this happened, that that whenever we 152 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,280 have temptation, if if, whenever it's finished, there's 153 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:10,120 conception of sin and sin bringing forth death, all of 154 00:08:10,120 --> 00:08:12,880 this stuff. And he says then in verse #16 155 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:17,320 then do not error, my, my beloved brethren, do not air. 156 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:21,120 And so he already told them about tempting and testing and 157 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:25,320 the reason that God is doing what he is doing or not doing 158 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,720 what he is doing. Then he comes to the fact of 159 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,720 this. He says, you, you now understand 160 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,280 you have temptation and test, and you're scattered here and 161 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,000 brought. And that all seems very, very 162 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,440 negative. He says, So now let's shift the 163 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:40,760 focus and see what is good. And he wanted them to relate 164 00:08:40,919 --> 00:08:43,960 that every good gift and every perfect gift truly, though, 165 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:47,920 comes from above. He wants them to understand that 166 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:53,360 God is ultimately the giver of the good and the perfect gifts. 167 00:08:53,680 --> 00:08:56,840 There's, there's a spot in the Gospels that Jesus relays this 168 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,400 to us even once more. He basically said, and some of 169 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:02,800 you will remember the scripture. I think it's in Luke, but it's 170 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,120 it probably more than one of the other gospels as well. 171 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:10,840 But he said that if, if a child would come to you and ask of of 172 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:15,920 bread, would his father give him a stone or would he ask of fish, 173 00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:21,160 would he give him a, a, a Viper? Or if he asked of him an egg, I 174 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:23,600 believe the other one is would he give him a scorpion? 175 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,520 Of course, it's a rhetorical question, but the answer in our 176 00:09:26,520 --> 00:09:29,320 minds like absolutely not, a father wouldn't do that. 177 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,880 And he says, well, if a natural earthly father would give, you 178 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:38,760 know, appropriate gifts to his Son, then how much the more 179 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:43,720 shall your heavenly Father give you the gift of the spirit or 180 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:47,960 the gift of the Holy Ghost and want to give you a good gift? 181 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,840 And so when we talk about every good and every perfect gift, and 182 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,040 we're talking about gift, we're absolutely speaking about the 183 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:57,520 act of giving and the act of receiving. 184 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:02,880 James is telling us that all of the good acts of giving, 185 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:07,840 particularly humans, can do good in their giving, but the good 186 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,880 and the perfect, the whole and the complete, Our gift sometimes 187 00:10:11,880 --> 00:10:16,720 can be marred by ourselves, our hands, or our own personalities. 188 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,400 But he said every good and perfect gift truly comes from 189 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,360 from above. And he says it cometh down. 190 00:10:24,680 --> 00:10:28,840 And that means that it doesn't just come down once, but it 191 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,240 comes and it continues to come. Those good and perfect gifts 192 00:10:32,240 --> 00:10:36,360 come down and continue to come. Amen to men and women. 193 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:39,040 And so we're on one side. He told him about the testing, 194 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,560 the temptation. Now he's trying to even out the 195 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:44,400 scale, so to speak, and talk about the good things. 196 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:46,840 One thing was negative. He's trying to talk about the 197 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,200 positive things. And the positive thing is this, 198 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,920 no matter how hard you're testing and trial and you're 199 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:55,960 scattering persecution is right now, don't forget how good your 200 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,680 God is. Don't forget how good he is and 201 00:10:59,680 --> 00:11:04,200 how good he has been and it's still coming how good he's going 202 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:07,880 to be to you amid everything that you're facing. 203 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,280 The Bible says, the psalmist said in Psalms 18 and verse 30, 204 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:16,520 it says As for God, his way is perfect. 205 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:24,440 The word of the Lord is tried. He is a buckler to all those 206 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:29,320 that trust in him. David, or the Psalmist rather 207 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:33,040 pin these words after his deliverance from the hand of 208 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:36,440 Saul. No testament Saul was he felt 209 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:40,440 intimidated by David somewhat jealous by David and he forms a 210 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,440 conspiracy to try to get David's life and at different times 211 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,560 attempted to take David's life. It's after all of this 212 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:52,280 deliverance that David wrote these words that God his way is 213 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:56,160 perfect and the word of the Lord is tried David. 214 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,960 How can you say this You've been going through a very hard trial. 215 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:03,160 You went through a very distressing time, darkness and 216 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:04,960 difficulty. There were people that were 217 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:06,720 looking for your for life. There was a lot of 218 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:10,400 misunderstandings and misery that you were enduring. 219 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,800 And yet David backs up and says, well, God's way is perfect. 220 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:16,920 Amen. He wasn't necessarily saying, 221 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:19,720 oh, it was perfect that I was being used up for for life. 222 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:22,760 But you know what David is saying is that God just has 223 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:27,000 every all things work together. All things work together for the 224 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:30,760 good to them that love the Lord and are the called according to 225 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:32,840 his purpose. He didn't say all things are 226 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,520 good. He just says whatever it is, God 227 00:12:35,520 --> 00:12:39,560 can use that to work towards something that is positive or 228 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:43,000 furthering in your life. And so David says the way of the 229 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,160 Lord is perfect. And no doubt he would probably 230 00:12:46,160 --> 00:12:48,560 said if I could have traded running for my life from Saul 231 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:51,680 for, you know, being able just to be in one spot, not having to 232 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:53,200 be a fugitive, I would have done that. 233 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:57,720 But he says in spite of that not happening, God's used all of 234 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:00,800 this in my favor. God's used all of this in my 235 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,120 favor. And as he's describing God, 236 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:06,680 these gifts that come down from the Father of lights, he says in 237 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:12,760 whom is no variableness, right? Neither is there any shadow of 238 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:14,840 turning. It's not even is no 239 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,240 variableness. The literal can be, can be no 240 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:20,600 variableness. He's talking about your God. 241 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,760 He's talking about your God. He's immutable. 242 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:29,000 He does not change. The God of David and the God of 243 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,080 Moses is the God of Paul McGee and the God of Re Singer. 244 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,440 He does not change. He doesn't change with culture, 245 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,840 He doesn't change with race, He doesn't change with time. 246 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:43,320 He's a immutable God. The there, there cannot be any 247 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,800 variableness to our God. Amen. 248 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:51,200 And not just that, but there is no shadow of turning. 249 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:55,120 To have to have a changeable variable God is almost a 250 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,920 contradiction in terms because God speaks about his 251 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:01,640 immutability, his his ability to not change. 252 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,800 We read in scripture even of Christ that Jesus Christ the 253 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:08,480 same yesterday, today and forever. 254 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:11,520 And if that if every good and perfect gift then comes from 255 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:17,680 that type of God, then the gifts that come have a a element of 256 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,080 not being able to change as well because they come from an end 257 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,680 changing God. The gift is going to be good. 258 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:26,720 The gift is going to be from above. 259 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,040 And we need to take consolation this morning. 260 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,320 And the fact that we have a God that does not change wouldn't be 261 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:34,800 horrible. It would almost be like if you 262 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,920 ever had a employer that are constantly changing the rules or 263 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,080 their mind about what they want you to do or not doing it. 264 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:43,640 It changes every day and it's like you're walking into a new 265 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:45,800 world every day because you don't know what their 266 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,680 expectation is. I'm ministering to somebody 267 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:52,160 right now. It would it be like every day 268 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,720 you just don't know. Could you imagine serving God 269 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:56,680 like that? Well, today this is OK for that. 270 00:14:56,680 --> 00:14:59,280 And then it flip flops the next day and then and you're just 271 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:02,080 constantly in a whirlwind because you can't live life like 272 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:04,560 that, right? You can't live life without some 273 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:07,640 type of consistency. We have a God that does not 274 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:11,800 change, not just in his expectations, but also in how he 275 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:15,880 pours out then upon us, right, and how he treats us. 276 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:19,960 There's no shadow of turning concerning our God. 277 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,600 Look at verse 18. Now this is important of his. 278 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:30,880 His will, His own will He begat, or he gave birth to us with 279 00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:34,680 what? The word of truth. 280 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:42,600 The word of truth this is important because God gave birth 281 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:46,040 to us with the tool of the word of his truth. 282 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:50,120 The Bible says in other places of the gospel that we are 283 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:55,960 begotten by the word. The Bible speaks of it being the 284 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:00,120 incorruptible seed. Again, there's something that's 285 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,240 not prone to change or prone to corruption. 286 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:07,760 It's the incorruptible seed. And so James shares with us that 287 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:11,640 the good part, the perfect part of the gift from God above is 288 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:17,040 primarily that we've been begotten by the word of truth. 289 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:22,360 Sin before this He said sin bringing forth death, bringing 290 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:24,480 forth death. But when we're talking about 291 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:28,840 God, God and his gift is bringing forth life, more 292 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,440 importantly spiritual life to us. 293 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:35,600 And so the whole verse really hinges on those 3 words that he 294 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:40,120 begat or begat he us. It is the work of God, Amen. 295 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:44,000 The work of the Spirit in our life is the work of God, Amen. 296 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:49,440 He accomplishes something in US, and He does so by using the Word 297 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:54,600 of truth to accomplish it. God uses His Word to bring about 298 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:59,280 new birth, new life, and our discipline of life after we've 299 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:01,200 come to know the Lord. What's that mean? 300 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:06,200 We can be touched by a song in service and that's great, but we 301 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:11,720 were not begotten by a song. We were not begun by song or 302 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:15,880 some gimmick or or or. No, it's the word, the word of 303 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,880 truth that does the beginning. And so there might be other 304 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,760 things in a service that draw us near into God, but ultimately 305 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:26,760 when we ultimately, when we are born of God, it's going to be 306 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,080 the word. And the word takes, takes a 307 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:35,000 prominent place in the Bible. It's spoken of very, very lifted 308 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:36,280 up. It's exalted. 309 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:39,560 The psalmist said, for thou Speaking of God, thou hast 310 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:44,000 magnified thy word above thy name. 311 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:47,680 You've magnified your word above your name. 312 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:52,880 That's how much even God esteems the word that he shares with 313 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:55,120 you. And I the Bible says in Acts 314 00:17:55,120 --> 00:18:01,600 chapter 6 and verse #7 it says in the word of God increase and 315 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:06,120 the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly. 316 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:10,520 A great company of priests were obedient to the faith. 317 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,760 Word increases number of disciples, which mean pupils or 318 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:19,440 learners, people that are continuing with a maintenance of 319 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:22,800 growth after they've received the Spirit of the Lord said they 320 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,600 multiplied because the word is not just important for your new 321 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,840 birth. The word is important for your 322 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:34,160 new life, not just your new birth, but your new life. 323 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:38,960 The Word of God will tutor you. That's the reason why later in 324 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,520 the same chapter it begins to talk to us about not being just 325 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:47,040 hearers of the Word only, but doers of the Word. 326 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:51,720 The same word of truth that he begat us by will also teach us 327 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:58,120 and instruct us and disciple us. Amen into the ways of life. 328 00:18:58,320 --> 00:18:59,600 Amen. It will do that. 329 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:03,040 And so here are these, these, these 12 tribes that are 330 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:07,760 scattered, and the word of life even brings some, some revival, 331 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:11,160 if you will, to them. The psalmist said in Psalms 119 332 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,400 and verse #50 he says that this is my comfort. 333 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:18,000 Look at this, this is my comfort in my affliction. 334 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:23,600 For thy word hath quickened me, said in my affliction, I don't 335 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,000 tell you my comfort. He said, This has been my 336 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:30,280 comfort, your word. How many times have you ever 337 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,920 sought consolation through the word? 338 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:38,800 Something said, something spoken, a story read, something 339 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:42,160 you could identify, something that that that would say. 340 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:44,880 When the enemy comes in like a flood, the. 341 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,360 Spirit of the Lord will. Upraise a standard against him 342 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,880 that comforts me and my. Affliction to read that there's 343 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:55,520 no weapon formed against me that shall prosper brings me comfort 344 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:59,200 in my affliction right all of these type of things it's 345 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:03,640 bringing comfort and so David or rather James is speaking the 346 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,400 epistle of James is speaking to those that are in deep times of 347 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:10,120 affliction and he says hey that word begot you but that word is 348 00:20:10,120 --> 00:20:13,760 not just for your birth. That word is for your life and I 349 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,880 know your infliction David is relaying he says but that word 350 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:21,480 can even be your comfort Amen during any time of your life. 351 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,280 Amen. It wasn't just the midwife that. 352 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,200 Brought you and help supple you and salt you. 353 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,760 It's the one that's helping you grow and mature and get strength 354 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,240 and it'll lift up your head when it's falling down. 355 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:38,320 But if you allow it, the word will will quicken you, it will 356 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:41,600 revive you, if you will, when you've been beaten down by 357 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,800 circumstances, folks I know been, you know, doing this thing 358 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,040 called life for a few years now. There are times I you know, the 359 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,080 song is if you walk in, you know, whatever sick you're going 360 00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,000 to walk out, he'll well, there's sometimes I've walked in 361 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,640 depressed, I've walked in down, I've walked in tired, but just a 362 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:01,400 little bit of time in that service. 363 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:05,080 And those lyrics have have the word of God in them, and 364 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:08,040 somebody's testimony has the word of God in that. 365 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,560 And then that preacher teaches or whatever the word of God. 366 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:15,840 And before I've left, I've got a Band-Aid of his word upon my 367 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:24,360 affliction, and I feel comfort in my soul because of that word. 368 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,280 Amen. The Word has resurrection power. 369 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:33,000 John said it right, that in the beginning was the Word, and the 370 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,840 Word was with God, and the Word was God. 371 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:40,240 And verse 14 tells us that that Word became flesh and walked 372 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,720 among us, and we declared His glory as the only begotten of 373 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:47,160 the Father, full of grace and truth, Speaking of Jesus Christ. 374 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:50,360 If that's so, Jesus got about the grave. 375 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:53,760 If all of that parallels, then this Word has resurrection 376 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:58,160 power. Resurrection power. 377 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,480 So it's a word of encouragement to each and everyone of us. 378 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:05,640 Doesn't matter you're a walk or station in life, Amen. 379 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,720 You're a handler of the word or you're a receiver of the word, 380 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:10,800 Amen. It's going to minister to you. 381 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,640 Jeremiah said in Jeremiah 5 and verse 14. 382 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,000 Wherefore thus saith the. Lord God of hosts, because ye 383 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,600 speak this word, behold, I will make my words, and by mouth 384 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:27,400 fire. And this people would, and yet 385 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,160 Speaking of the word shall devour them. 386 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:34,480 Jeremiah was in a situation, he had some opposers, right? 387 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:37,760 Some adversaries. He said if you speak this word, 388 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,480 he said it, it will be fired. They will be wood. 389 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,640 It won't be able to stand before you. 390 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,480 But that ain't going to happen just with some literature book, 391 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:48,680 right? That's not going to happen with 392 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:50,840 the concoction of your own brain and mind. 393 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:57,520 But if you speak this word, you speak this word, the word works. 394 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,000 John Blanchard said this, He said we must never evacuate the 395 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:08,960 message in order to accommodate the method, right? 396 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:15,560 This, this, this is this is the the guide book, so to speak, the 397 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:21,280 handbook for life. And if the writer said it as so, 398 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:25,640 and he did, that faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word 399 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:30,960 of God, and that without faith it's impossible to please God, 400 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:37,440 then I need the Word in affliction, out affliction, good 401 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:41,600 time, bad time, everything well, everything in turmoil. 402 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:50,040 I need the Word and I need to educate myself about God just as 403 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,800 much as I do the trial. That's what James is doing. 404 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Don't forget the gift that's been given to you and this gift 405 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,120 that we, you've gotten you. I've begotten you by the word of 406 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:03,840 truth in such a way that you've become a kind of first fruits 407 00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:07,880 of, of his creatures, first fruits of his creatures. 408 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:11,720 It's it's kind of similar when you talk about the first born of 409 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,120 the Old Testament, whether it was a child or whether it was 410 00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:17,560 cattle, it was the first born, It was the first product of the 411 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:21,840 reproduction or it was the first fruit that came from a harvest. 412 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,960 All of those things, first fruit, first born, all those 413 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:27,160 things were consequent to the Lord. 414 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,640 No one else got any part of that God did, he said so when I have 415 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:36,960 begotten you become kind of like a first, a first fruits of of my 416 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:38,640 creature. You know what that means? 417 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:43,560 That means my life therefore is consecrated or should be 418 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:47,560 consecrated or dedicated unto the Lord. 419 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:53,360 My life is not my own. My life is not my own. 420 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:58,000 I belong unto the Lord. And in that fact, then if it's 421 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:02,400 per Southeast a trial I face, it's really not my trial, it's 422 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,000 His trial. I'm your. 423 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,920 I'm yours, Lord. You, you, you own me now. 424 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,200 With all this, James gives us some other, gives us some other 425 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:17,800 wisdom about hearing and speaking in wrath. 426 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,560 He says since we are these. Creatures firstfruits of his 427 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:26,760 creation and since you are going through some troubling times. 428 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:30,000 This is good for Satan center alike all right, but 429 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,520 particularly to those that have been born again of the water and 430 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,000 the spirit. He says here's the wisdom of 431 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:40,440 James. Be swift to hear, slow to speak, 432 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,440 slow to wrath. Now we need to wake up in the 433 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,200 morning. Repeat that five times before we 434 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:51,200 start our day. Swift to hear, slow to speak, 435 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,800 slow to wrath. What are you saying? 436 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,680 What are you saying, James? Here it is. 437 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,200 You've begotten us for a new life. 438 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:06,120 Now new life will impact behavior. 439 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,320 You just got new creature in Christ Jesus, right? 440 00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:17,800 Romans talks about putting off the old man and putting on the 441 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:22,480 new, new Minecraft. He says so, so new birth brings 442 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:28,320 about new life, new life. So he begins, he begins to 443 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:33,320 reason with them that that their belief in their behavior or what 444 00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:36,680 has occurred in them and their behavior goes hand in hand. 445 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:43,200 So he says be swift to hear Jesus himself in the Gospels, 446 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,880 Jesus said to take heed what you hear. 447 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,760 He said that Mark four, he said take heed to what you hear. 448 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:54,880 But he also told us in Luke chapter 8 to take heed how we 449 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,240 hear. That's interesting. 450 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,960 It wasn't just take heed to to the what, but to the how. 451 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:08,240 Sometimes we have this predisposed mindset that a. 452 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,480 Person could be saying something, but we're only 453 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:14,400 hearing what we want to hear. Because we've already got it 454 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,400 filtered through a mind that's made in a certain direction or 455 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,120 way or a preconceived notion or idea. 456 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,640 So it's not just what you hear, but it's even. 457 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:26,000 How you hear. And so it's evident even through 458 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,200 scripture that that we we should guard what comes into our ears, 459 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:34,360 what what we listen to, what we give attention to, right? 460 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:37,040 He says. So in this new life, with this 461 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,680 gift that's God-given you. Be careful what you give your 462 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,760 full attention to. Listen, listen, ladies and 463 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,680 gentlemen, there are some things that is undeserving of your 464 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,360 attention. There are some things that are 465 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:58,160 sad that are just undeserving of your attention, right #1 because 466 00:27:58,360 --> 00:28:00,400 you're not the person you used to be. 467 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,720 You're not the same old whatever and the same old whatever. 468 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,320 I know you look, you might, you know, your voice has the same 469 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,360 tempo and, and cadence and all that, but you're not the same 470 00:28:12,360 --> 00:28:16,520 person that that you used to be. Amen. 471 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,960 And so you don't have to give ear to everything that is trying 472 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,160 to penetrate your ears. Matter of fact, I advise you, 473 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,400 you probably shouldn't give ear to everything that's trying to 474 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,800 penetrate your ears. Some of it needs to go directly 475 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,120 to file 13. You know, it needs to hit the 476 00:28:31,120 --> 00:28:35,000 spot or whatever you call your trash can, it needs to hit. 477 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,480 Amen. Sometimes we're like the couple 478 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,080 who were in with some friends in the subject of marriage 479 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:46,240 counseling came up and Mary said, Oh, TomTom and I will 480 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,080 never need counseling. We have a great relationship. 481 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:53,200 He has a communications major in college and I majored in drama. 482 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,360 He communicates real well and I just act like I'm listening. 483 00:28:56,360 --> 00:29:02,240 She said so you you got to watch what you give your give heed to 484 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:08,000 hear and how that you hear. Proverbs 1813 advises US 1813 485 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:10,520 says he that answereth the matter before he heareth. 486 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:12,400 Have you ever been guilty of that? 487 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,080 I'll raise my hand. You ever answered the matter 488 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,800 before you heard it? I mean like totally heard it. 489 00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:23,800 It is falling shame to him now. Like just kind of get in on like 490 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,800 a little bit of a conversation and then think you know the 491 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:32,360 whole ball of wax, right or just hear one side of a conversation. 492 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,600 Think you know everything there is know the know the matter when 493 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,200 I haven't really heard it right or maybe I have preconceived 494 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:41,800 notions about whatever they're talking about. 495 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,160 And so it's translate. They're saying stuff, but it's 496 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,960 translating differently whenever it hits me because I already got 497 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:51,520 my ideas right. And so he says new birth gonna 498 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:54,320 go help new life. So it's not just being being 499 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:58,680 slow to or swift to hear. It's being slow to speak. 500 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:05,120 Oh, God help us, the engrafted word slow to speak. 501 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,240 They say biologically, God was telling us something when he 502 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:13,400 gave us two ears and one mouth. We should listen twice as much 503 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,040 as we talk. Amen. 504 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,600 Remind us to listen more than we speak. 505 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,600 Matthew 1236 my grandpa Weisenberger. 506 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,040 My grandpa Weisenberger would bring this verse up from time to 507 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,960 time and it's quite penetrating, honestly. 508 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,520 He says. But I say to you that everybody 509 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,560 say every idle. Word. 510 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,680 That men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day 511 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,160 of judgement. Let that settle in for a moment. 512 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,240 Grandpa would bring this up sometimes to me. 513 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,360 I'd be. Foolish or whatever you know be, 514 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,200 and he'd tell me Paul Junior, every idle. 515 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:52,760 Word. Yes, Sir. 516 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:56,840 Yeah, that graph voice. Paul Junior. 517 00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,840 You know every idle word. She'll give an account. 518 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:03,920 She'll give an account of idle words. 519 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:09,040 Slow to speak, slow to speak and slow to wrath. 520 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,720 Proverbs 14 verse 29. He that is slow to wrath is of 521 00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:14,400 great understanding. Wow. 522 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,440 But he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. 523 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,600 He that has slowed the wrath not, you know, it's not a 524 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:26,680 compliment for someone to tell you got a short Wick. 525 00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:30,320 It's not a compliment. I know some people think it is, 526 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,240 you know, I'll just give them a piece of my mind. 527 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:33,960 I always tell people, if you keep that up, you won't have a 528 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:39,960 mind left. The thing is, in a many of those 529 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,160 scenarios, we all could. It's not like no one doesn't 530 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,760 have the ability to do that, but it shows a sense of temperance 531 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:53,360 and self-control not to right. And so there's, there's, there's 532 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,680 sometimes can be a fine line between like quote, UN quote, 533 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,080 righteous anger and just personal irritation. 534 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,800 Some people go with their sword. Well, I'm just, you know, this 535 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:06,440 is right, Righteous in the nation. 536 00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,880 Is it really, or is it personal exploitation? 537 00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,240 You know, whatever is going on here, there's a fine line. 538 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,520 So it doesn't say that we would be without wrath, but we would 539 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:21,160 be slow to wrath. I'm not saying we'd never get 540 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:24,480 upset or never angry or none of that, but that it will take us a 541 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:30,320 little bit to get there, right? And hopefully it will take a lot 542 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:35,080 to get us to that point. The Bible says that we can be 543 00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:39,480 angry and sin not right. So that God gave us these 544 00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,400 emotions of our bodies, whether it's happiness or sadness or 545 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:46,280 anger, all these things to to be experienced, but they're also in 546 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,480 check by his spirit. And so then the next verse tells 547 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:55,000 us why we must be slow to wrath because man's wrath does not 548 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,600 produce the righteousness of God. 549 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:00,640 Again, I'm still talking about the ingraphic word. 550 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:03,600 We're begotten by this, but this word then continues to disciple 551 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,240 us. I've already this morning in 552 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,360 just our little short setting thrown several at times, little 553 00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:13,960 verses your way about, you know, listening and and about how we 554 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,680 speak. What is that I'm using this word 555 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:21,000 that begot us to again to secure us in our discipline with the 556 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,240 Lord. He said then in verse 21. 557 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:27,160 So wherefore? As a result of as a result of 558 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,680 this gift you received and all of these things, wherefore lay 559 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,520 apart all filthiness. Here it is this word of truth 560 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,800 that helped us get saved. It's going to help us with this 561 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,800 filthiness, superfluity of naughtiness received with 562 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:43,000 meekness, the engrafted, the engrafted word which is able to 563 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,440 save your soul. So there's a few things that 564 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:47,800 need to. Here's the thing with the 565 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,000 Christian experience, there's some things that need to be 566 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,360 removed and there's other things that need to be adopted. 567 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,640 There's things that need to be displaced, and there's things 568 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,520 that need to be adopted. All right? 569 00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:00,880 According to the Scripture, we're laying apart some things 570 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,960 in verse 21 and we are receiving some things in verse 21. 571 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,680 And so he's linking this with everything that he's already 572 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:13,199 said. Filthiness, right whenever 573 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:15,600 you're, whenever you're unwilling to to hear and you're 574 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,480 swift to speak out of terms and you're becoming soon angered. 575 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,800 So you got to lay these things aside again. 576 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,920 I I referred to earlier that some of the other epistles spoke 577 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:25,760 about us taking off some things here. 578 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:29,159 Here are some of those verses of Scripture, Colossians chapter #3 579 00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:34,280 and verse #8. But now ye also put off all 580 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:42,080 these anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication. 581 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,800 Out of your mouth. Put off, put off those Hebrews 582 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,159 12 and one. It tells us many are familiar 583 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:51,280 with this one. Wherefore sin we also are 584 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,400 compassionate. So great a cloud of witnesses. 585 00:34:53,639 --> 00:34:56,960 Let us lay aside right every weight. 586 00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,960 A weight may not be a sin, but it can become a sin. 587 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:10,240 A weight loads you down may impede your progress. 588 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,800 May not be a sin, but it may lead to that. 589 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,440 It could be that a wait for one may not be a wait for another. 590 00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:25,400 But but you got to know yourself and what you have a propensity 591 00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:29,320 for or toward. And he says, and the sins we're 592 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,800 laying side weight and the sin which does so easily beset us. 593 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,040 And let us run with patience the race that is set before us. 594 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,960 Amen. And so there there are some 595 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:44,720 black and white precepts in God's word of yes, do or no 596 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:47,800 don't do. There are then principles also 597 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:51,360 in God's Word that is this overarching principle then that 598 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,080 we gather some of our guidance in life from. 599 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,560 And then there are things as you read God's word that his Spirit 600 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,400 may bring conviction in your heart about certain weights that 601 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,160 that may not fall under the category of per southeast of sin 602 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:07,720 for all, but maybe a weight to you that you need to lay a 603 00:36:07,720 --> 00:36:11,120 aside. Amen, for your discipline and 604 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:15,640 growth in the Lord there. I've told you about this 1000 of 605 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,960 times. The Scripture tells us that all 606 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:22,280 things that all things are are basically, you know, for us, we 607 00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:23,720 have the liberality of all things. 608 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:27,120 But if any of those things come to a place where it becomes the 609 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,680 master and you become a slave to it. 610 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:33,440 If you, if it, if it becomes between you and God, then that 611 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,680 thing for you needs to go because it's hindering your 612 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:39,160 walk, it's hindering your experience, it's hindering your 613 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:42,040 growth in the Lord. He said in first Peter chapter 2 614 00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:46,360 and verse #1 again, he says, wherefore laying aside all 615 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:52,680 malice and all dial and hypocrisies and envies and all 616 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,440 evil speakings. So here's a lot of stuff here in 617 00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,840 just a few verses that we need to lay aside and the terminology 618 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:06,400 and many of these is is every or all listen sin or things that 619 00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:10,040 stand in the way of our relationship with God are not 620 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:13,960 things that need to be taken lightly with our new birth 621 00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:16,080 experience. Huh. 622 00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,360 And the analogy may not be perfect, but if you were told 623 00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,160 today, I'm sorry we. Found a mass in your body. 624 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:25,880 We did the test and the biopsy came back. 625 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:29,160 It's malignant. So we're going to take 50% of 626 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,160 that out of your body. We're just going to take 50% of 627 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,040 it, but we're going to leave the other 50%. 628 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,840 Now you might be OK, That's fine. 629 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:44,400 Personally, I'd be like, no, if it's malignant, any trace of it, 630 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,560 get it out. Because if you just leave 50% of 631 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:53,320 it there, what type of impact is that going to have up on me just 632 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,160 with 50% of it there? You understand what I'm saying? 633 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:02,960 And so all in every, we can't just be casual right with with 634 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:07,200 with sin and weights that are impacting our relationship with 635 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,320 the God Proverbs. Proverbs is the one that said he 636 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:13,160 said that fools make a mark at sin. 637 00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:18,520 It's foolish to to not treat it with the gravity that it is and 638 00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:21,000 the and the seriousness that it is. 639 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:22,880 All right. And so when we talk about this, 640 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,280 when we talk about filthiness, the word filthiness, it comes 641 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,840 from a Greek word which when it was used medically, meant wax in 642 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:33,040 the ear, wax in the ear. And that, that that interests 643 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:41,880 me, but because you can't be even swift to hear, it doesn't 644 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,360 always translate well. You ever talk to somebody that 645 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:46,160 had built up wax in their ear, huh? 646 00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,560 What? That's kind of gets frustrating, 647 00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:52,960 don't it? The message that is sent is not 648 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:56,800 the message that's received. Amen. 649 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,040 And so. These things got to be. 650 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,560 Laid aside and then he says so that you can receive the 651 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,720 engrafted word because I can be speaking to you truth. 652 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,360 I can be sharing with you life. But if you have the filthiness 653 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,800 as it was used medically, wax in the ear again, the message that 654 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:21,440 sent isn't the message that's received there. 655 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:25,560 There is, if you will, something that stands between that is 656 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:29,240 muddling the message. That's muddling what should be 657 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:31,400 received. And so then it tells us then, 658 00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:34,160 though, once we've laid aside some of these things, right, 659 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,840 laid these things aside, then we're to receive the word with 660 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,520 meekness and a willingness to hear what, what, what is God 661 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,800 trying to say? I'm going to lay aside my 662 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,640 thoughts and my feelings and I'm saying, God, what, what do you 663 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:48,760 have to say through your word? And it's important when you 664 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,440 approach the word, approach it with a teachable spirit. 665 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:56,360 Teach me Lord, let your word teach me, because this is the 666 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,160 engrafted or the. The implanted word. 667 00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,200 I looked this up this morning just to look it up a little bit. 668 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,080 Talking about engrafting or drafting. 669 00:40:05,080 --> 00:40:07,920 Whenever you talk about like engrafting or drafting a branch 670 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:12,120 that's into a tree, the purpose of that is that you what the 671 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:16,000 ultimate purpose is. You want the good qualities of 672 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,280 both to succeed. All right. 673 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,440 So I'm gonna take a branch and they're gonna cause an incision 674 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,080 with the branch, and there's an incision that they're gonna make 675 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:27,800 on the tree and they're gonna put that in there. 676 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,960 And what's happening is in that moment, they're giving that 677 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,720 branch a. Root source. 678 00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:38,640 You hear me giving that branch a root source and I read there's 679 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,360 layers, I don't remember the name of them, but there's layers 680 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:44,640 on that branch and tree that are known as growth layers. 681 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,200 And when they insert that branch into the tree, they try to put 682 00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:52,080 as perfectly as possible in alignment those growth layers 683 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,680 because that's going to help the overall production of that 684 00:40:55,680 --> 00:41:00,160 branch that's been grafted in. But whenever it gets grafted in, 685 00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:04,120 then there is the melding of the pieces in the parts and the 686 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,680 overall is hope is what they're going for is the good, the 687 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,720 productive parts of both. Then going forward, when we come 688 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:12,600 to God, listen. There, there are some, you know, 689 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,960 decent areas of our life, but there are some others that's 690 00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:16,680 kind of shady. You know what I'm just saying? 691 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:21,160 But when we receive the engrafted word into our lives, 692 00:41:21,360 --> 00:41:23,920 we are being attached to something that's going to grow, 693 00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:27,400 and that's not just listen, it's not as though it just lays on 694 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,360 the surface. It's engrafted in our lives, 695 00:41:30,720 --> 00:41:31,480 right? It's engrafted. 696 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,320 That's the reason why, the psalmist said by. 697 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:39,480 Word have I hid in my? Heart that I might not sin 698 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:42,320 against thee. And so there's a process that 699 00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,640 starts that the word that begot me. 700 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,440 That same word then continues to train to teach, write me and 701 00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,320 instruct me because it's that engrafted word. 702 00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:57,400 It's a on board, it's on board GPS system that's guiding and 703 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,040 directing my life if I'll allow it to do so. 704 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,800 It's not just laying there, it's available. 705 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,080 It's there on demand if I need it. 706 00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,360 Amen. And so there's a process that 707 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,160 was started and it's going to continue until we reach glory 708 00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,960 someday. I'm hoping that this onboard 709 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,840 engrafted Word of my life challenges me from day-to-day. 710 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,480 It leads me from day-to-day. It's the engrafted word. 711 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:25,600 And so as I remove some things, that allows me for the reception 712 00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:29,280 of some other things. As I create vacancies Amen with 713 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,840 things that was in my life, it allows other areas for God's 714 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:37,560 Word and His purpose to feel and to come in to to my life. 715 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,680 I tell always told Dawn when we traveled with the travel 716 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,240 trailer. You know, like 3536 foot travel 717 00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:47,200 trailer, you know, you only have so much space and she want to 718 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:50,800 get something, you know. Off times whenever we went 719 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,160 somewhere I studied and this was before like real cell phone days 720 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:57,560 even for us. We had like AI even remember it 721 00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,040 was flip phone or something, something I don't know. 722 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,680 It wasn't a bag phone. We didn't go that far back, but 723 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:06,680 nonetheless, what she would do, she would like phone book. 724 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,920 If it was a hotel or something, she'd look up Goodwills. 725 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,680 So she'd go to the Goodwills as I was trying to find the will of 726 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:19,000 God and Sister Cock. She'd come back, you know, with 727 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:24,200 a bag or two or whatever. And I'd say, dear, there's only 728 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,400 so much square footage in this travel trailer. 729 00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:28,200 Not only that, that's more weight. 730 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,120 I got to pull behind the truck, got tires to think of, you know, 731 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:32,680 stuff. I said it's going to have to be 732 00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:34,960 the product of replacement. That's what we've always lived 733 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,800 by, the product of replacement. If something's coming in, 734 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,400 something's got to go out. Amen. 735 00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,000 Something's got you got something's got to create the 736 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,120 vacancy for for what's coming in. 737 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,760 And our lives in many ways has to be like that. 738 00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:51,760 Amen. Sometimes in order for there to 739 00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,240 be growth, then we got to cut off the other parts of life that 740 00:43:55,240 --> 00:43:59,200 may be hampering growth, right? That maybe, you know, they come, 741 00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,120 those little sucker shoots, sometimes on trees. 742 00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:03,000 Sometimes you got to get rid of those because they're still in 743 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,680 the life. They're still in the life from 744 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,680 where it needs to go right and so you got to got to remove some 745 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:13,280 of those other portions. Amen in order to receive and 746 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:16,920 primarily respond to the word. That's what James is going to 747 00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,360 get into when he talks about not just being a hearer but a doer 748 00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,400 right. We'd sit here all day. 749 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:24,200 It's like go and receive instruction. 750 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,600 But if we never get from there to application from there to the 751 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:30,680 actual doing or the responding to the word, then it's not 752 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:33,160 really profited us in the way that it needed to profit. 753 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,720 So I need today. This is the reason why we show 754 00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:39,280 up on Sundays and Wednesdays and, and we, we in and we, we, 755 00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:42,920 we converse with the Bible throughout the week because that 756 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:47,160 engrafted word that that saved us as also the word that will 757 00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:49,920 keep us and if we'll allow it, help grow. 758 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,760 Us in our lives, how many wants to grow? 759 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:57,000 Don't you want to grow? Listen folks, and you can stand 760 00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,120 with me. I've read this Bible through I 761 00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,640 don't know how many times, and every time I read it through 762 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,160 again, you know what? I find something that challenges 763 00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,800 me in growth every time. And it's the same thing that I 764 00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:12,480 read before, but it challenges me in the area of growth. 765 00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:16,840 And so that constant intermingling with the Word will 766 00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:21,160 do that. It will affect not just a one 767 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,960 time, what happened when you receive the Spirit of God, but 768 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:27,880 it will affect your life. That's important. 769 00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:33,120 It will affect your life as long as you remain open to it. 770 00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:35,920 God, God's a gentleman. He doesn't force himself upon 771 00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,240 anybody. He's a gentleman. 772 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,520 God, God's not going to come down for a hammer fist and say 773 00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:43,760 this. And so, but whenever you fall in 774 00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:47,800 love with him, when you truly fall in love with the Lord, 775 00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:52,120 anything's game because you're in love with him. 776 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:57,360 When I fell in love with my wife, I would wear suits out of 777 00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:01,120 my rotation that wasn't coming up in my rotation to match her 778 00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:04,000 right. I I would go to things maybe 779 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,240 that she liked that I didn't necessarily like because I love 780 00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:12,240 her to this day, almost usually if it's a I'm not a sports 781 00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:13,880 person whatsoever, I could care less. 782 00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:15,320 I don't care what's going on in any of it. 783 00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:19,960 It just just that's just me and if you otherwise that's fine. 784 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,040 We're like polar opposites when it comes to male and female 785 00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,120 stereotypical things. She's the one yelling at games. 786 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:27,560 I'm. Reading a book right? 787 00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,440 I'm doing something else. It don't it don't really matter 788 00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,000 to me. Could care less. 789 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,920 And so typically, usually, not always, but usually around our 790 00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:38,280 anniversary time, we're usually in Tennessee around then. 791 00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:40,520 And you know what she wants to do at least one of the weekends 792 00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,960 before, after go to a Tennessee football game. 793 00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:46,280 I could care less really about going, but I'm going to go. 794 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,880 You know why? I just love being with her. 795 00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:59,280 So everything that you do in your Christian experience might 796 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:03,480 not always be hoorah, but you know why you walk some of those 797 00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,720 paths? You're just in love with Him. 798 00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:14,360 And it's about relationship. It's about when you love his 799 00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:20,320 Word, you're loving Him. These are the word of life, the 800 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:24,120 Scripture says. And they're not there to hurt us 801 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:29,040 or to infringe upon us. It's his love letter to us. 802 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,520 Amen. And I need it engrafted. 803 00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,240 I need it implanted. I need it. 804 00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:39,360 I don't need it just a a coffee table ornament. 805 00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:43,240 Everybody has a Bible. It's a best seller. 806 00:47:43,240 --> 00:47:45,280 Has been for years. Bible's been the best seller for 807 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,400 years. Everybody has a Bible makes 808 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,440 makes the coffee table look nice, makes the bookshelf look 809 00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:56,120 complete, Right. But is it engrafted? 810 00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:02,480 Is it implanted? If you're truly allowed to be 811 00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:05,120 there, it will impact the way you live. 812 00:48:05,120 --> 00:48:08,720 It will impact the way that you live. 813 00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,280 That's about our heads in this place today. 814 00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:16,960 God, I need your engrafted word. I challenge you this morning. 815 00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:20,880 A man that when everything is as is, that you would concentrate 816 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:25,240 upon that particular gift, the gift of his spirit that he has 817 00:48:25,240 --> 00:48:30,680 begotten men, a man with, with the tool of his word. 818 00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,800 I pray, O God, today, can you just make a prayer to the Lord 819 00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:38,200 right now and just say, Lord, I, I want to allow that word. 820 00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,440 I want to allow that word to be implanted in my life. 821 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,400 I want to allow that word to be implanted in my heart. 822 00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:49,080 God help me, Lord, with anything that anything that may be 823 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:52,160 skewing the message. God, anything that may be 824 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:56,120 skewing the message in my life or slanting the message or God 825 00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:59,440 being an interruption, Lord, of the signal of the message that I 826 00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:02,560 sent, what I'm receiving. I, I pray, Oh Lord, God, let 827 00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,840 those things be put off and let those things be laid aside and 828 00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:09,040 let those things take second chair and help me Lord, to 829 00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:11,080 concentrate. Lord, your words wanting to do 830 00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,840 something in me. Your word is wanting to do 831 00:49:13,840 --> 00:49:16,840 something through me. Your word is wanting to impact 832 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:18,920 my behavior. God, I don't want to be a hearer 833 00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:22,080 of it only, but God, a doer of it as well. 834 00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,880 I wanted to challenge some spots in my life. 835 00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,560 I wanted to sure up some spots in my life. 836 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:30,560 I, I need your word to come and fill some of the voids and 837 00:49:30,560 --> 00:49:34,800 vacancies of what used to be me and what what one time was me, 838 00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,920 but no longer me. I God with the anger, Lord, the 839 00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:41,000 quickness to anger was I want there to be a peaceable spirit 840 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:44,680 if at all possible. I I need your word today got to 841 00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:48,520 perform a work upon my life. God, it started to work, but God 842 00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:50,880 I'm a incomplete work. It's still working. 843 00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,880 It's still coming down. It's a gift that's still coming 844 00:49:53,880 --> 00:49:55,280 down. It's coming down. 845 00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:59,640 It's coming down. Hallelujah, Jesus, Hallelujah, 846 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:05,000 Jesus, oh word of God, speak of my heart, Word of God, speak of 847 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,360 my life, word of God, speak of my circumstance. 848 00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:12,440 Good Pat Lord Mountain Valley word of God, help me Lord, to 849 00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:15,960 get my direction from you. Let me do look at your word. 850 00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,040 God, I know I can confide Lord and people and things of that 851 00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,960 nature, but God, I need to know what, what does your word say? 852 00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:24,720 What's the application of the word concerning that? 853 00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:27,840 I need it implanted. I need it engrafted today. 854 00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:31,600 Oh, can we talk to the Lord right now and worship him? 855 00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:34,680 I need your word. It begot me and it will maintain 856 00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:38,240 me and disciple me. Hallelujah, Jesus. 857 00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:44,960 Oh yes, Jesus, word of God. I need you, Jesus.