1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,200 Faith is certainly an essential element in the Christian Life. 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:09,100 The Bible says that without faith it is impossible to, 3 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:14,200 please God, and Hebrews chapter 11 and verse number 6, The 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,900 Inspired writer. And I as you know, believe it to 5 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:20,700 be the Apostle Paul said, but without faith, it is impossible 6 00:00:20,700 --> 00:00:24,700 to please him. For he that cometh to God must 7 00:00:24,700 --> 00:00:29,000 believe that he is, and that he is, a rewarder of them that 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000 diligently. We seek him. 9 00:00:31,500 --> 00:00:35,600 Also, we find a Bible definition for the word faith by the same 10 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,800 author in the 11th chapter of the book of Hebrews. 11 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:43,000 And in verse 1, where it says now, Faith is the substance of 12 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,900 things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. 13 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,100 You know, this is also very important and we find that the 14 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:53,400 Apostle Paul. Once again, the same author 15 00:00:53,700 --> 00:00:57,300 talked about the fact that faith is imperative in the Christian 16 00:00:57,300 --> 00:01:02,100 Life for it is faith that saves. Us in Ephesians, chapter 2 and 17 00:01:02,100 --> 00:01:05,000 verse 8. Paul said, for by grace are you 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:09,600 saved through faith and not of yourselves, it is the gift of 19 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,700 God. We also find in God's word that 20 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:17,800 the Bible declares that a Christian is to walk or live by 21 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,500 faith. We are even told by the Apostle 22 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:24,500 Paul in the 14th chapter of the book of Romans and in verse 23, 23 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:29,600 that whatever we do that is separate and apart from faith is 24 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:31,600 sin. In very interesting. 25 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:34,300 What Paul was pointing out in the fourteenth chapter of the 26 00:01:34,300 --> 00:01:39,800 book of Romans, it's a chapter that we often refer to as the 27 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,300 things in life that are out there that we are allowed to do, 28 00:01:43,300 --> 00:01:47,900 Liberty wise, that are not infringing upon law. 29 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000 And there are things that we can do along that line that the 30 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Bible does not discuss or declare and it would not tell 31 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,600 us. That a particular thing is 32 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,900 wrong, then when we look at that particular thing that we might 33 00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:04,700 Do we find that the it does not infringe upon law, and 34 00:02:04,700 --> 00:02:08,400 therefore, it is not sin but very interesting though. 35 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:13,200 Paul said that if your conscience is against it or that 36 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,200 particular thing is going to go against your conscience because 37 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,200 you feel it's wrong. Even though the Bible does not 38 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:24,000 declare it's wrong, it is a sin to you. 39 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:30,100 And so anything that is apart from faith is sin, but you no, 40 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:33,400 an understanding faith. It is important to realize that 41 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:38,200 there are three different kinds of faith that James describes in 42 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:41,500 the second chapter of his letter there. 43 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:45,300 And the only one kind of Faith though, is good. 44 00:02:45,300 --> 00:02:50,900 Only one kind of faith is truly saving faith in the passage 45 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:53,200 that's before us in James chapter 2. 46 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:57,900 And in verses 14 through 26, we find James is discussing the 47 00:02:57,900 --> 00:03:02,700 different kinds of Faith with Emphasis upon the one that will 48 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:05,700 work toward the saving of the Soul. 49 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:09,000 You know, the Bible already said and we already quoted that the 50 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,400 Apostle Paul by divine. Inspiration says that without 51 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,600 faith, it is impossible to please him. 52 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,100 We know that he gave a Bible definition and Hebrews chapter 53 00:03:19,100 --> 00:03:22,900 11 and verse 1. So you and I know and he also 54 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:27,700 mentioned in Ephesians 2 and 8 that we are saved by this Faith. 55 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,300 So, the question comes up, what What faith is going to be 56 00:03:31,300 --> 00:03:34,800 acceptable. In the eyes of God, James deals 57 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,700 with three kinds in James 2 so we need to ask ourselves the 58 00:03:38,700 --> 00:03:42,400 question. What are the three and which one 59 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,000 is going to help me go to heaven? 60 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:47,400 One day. That's the only one that I'm 61 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:50,200 concerned about. But let's notice a couple of 62 00:03:50,200 --> 00:03:55,200 others that he dealt with. First of all, he said there is a 63 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:59,500 dead Faith. A dead faith. 64 00:03:59,900 --> 00:04:04,900 Yes, it is impossible to have a type of Faith but have it be of 65 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:09,400 no benefit to you at all. And that is a dead one. 66 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:15,000 A dead faith is one who substitutes words for Deeds, 67 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:17,700 very important. You know, I couldn't come up 68 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:21,600 with a greater example of this than James did himself in verse 69 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:25,800 15. Notice what he says If a brother 70 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:31,400 or sister be naked and destitute of daily food and one of you say 71 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,200 unto them depart in peace, be warmed and filled 72 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,300 notwithstanding. Ye give them not those things 73 00:04:38,300 --> 00:04:41,500 which are needful to the body. What does it profit? 74 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:46,400 This is a person that is sympathizing with his speech but 75 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,000 doing nothing with his actions to help the need. 76 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,300 It be like this if my brother Terry was starving and he came 77 00:04:54,500 --> 00:05:01,800 Um to me destitute of daily food and I say go in peace brother be 78 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:07,100 ye warmed and filled, I'm feeling for you, go ahead and be 79 00:05:07,100 --> 00:05:12,000 warmed and filled depart from this place right now and so on, 80 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:18,200 what have I done for him? I've done absolutely nothing now 81 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,500 that might seem like an extreme example but that's what James is 82 00:05:21,500 --> 00:05:25,100 saying. An example is of a man, And who 83 00:05:25,100 --> 00:05:29,600 has a dead Faith. This is a person that has some 84 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,300 knowledge though. They have some knowledge about 85 00:05:32,300 --> 00:05:36,500 what the Bible teaches on the subject of Salvation. 86 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:40,400 This is a person that has some knowledge regarding the specific 87 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:44,800 things that are outlined regarding faith in God's word. 88 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:47,700 So we're not talking about a person that is ignorant. 89 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,700 We are talking about a person that has been educated in God's 90 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:56,000 word at least to the extent regarding God his son, Jesus 91 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,000 Christ, the Lord's church, and how we must live. 92 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:03,900 This is a person that has an understanding of those things. 93 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:07,600 Let me just give you one more example before we press on an 94 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:11,200 example that Jesus dealt with. You remember in one of his 95 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:16,200 Parables, Jesus dealt with the parable of the two sons and what 96 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,900 he says to the first one is he says going in my opinion, heard 97 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:23,700 and labor there? The first son says, no probably 98 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:26,100 says well. He said the first one says, I'm 99 00:06:26,100 --> 00:06:28,400 not going. I'm not going to go in your 100 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,700 Vineyard, but the Bible says later, he repented. 101 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:37,700 And then he went, but the second son immediately said no problem. 102 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,900 I'll go sure you can count on me. 103 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,900 You ever known somebody like that, man? 104 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:48,100 Their long long, telling you that they're going to be there? 105 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:51,500 They're long on saying they're going to be right there with 106 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:55,600 you, but when it comes down to it, they are nowhere to be 107 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,400 found. Could it be that even among 108 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:00,600 God's people? We have folks like that? 109 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:03,600 Well, here it is. The second son Jesus said, which 110 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,200 one did the father's will what else could they answer? 111 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:12,100 But well, the first he repented and then he went to see his 112 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:15,800 actions and his deeds and his obedience was what was in 113 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:19,600 question and that was the only thing that the Father, would 114 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,200 deem acceptable, here's my point. 115 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:27,600 What Jesus was pointing out is the fact that we live in a 116 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:33,200 generation of sailors and not doers, could it be though that 117 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:38,300 even among God's people, we are Sayers but not doers one that 118 00:07:38,300 --> 00:07:41,500 has a dead. Faith is one who number one 119 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:46,700 knows the correct vocabulary for prayer and sound Doctrine. 120 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:50,300 This is a person that perhaps can even quote the right verses 121 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:54,800 of scripture that are found in God's word but there Talk does 122 00:07:54,800 --> 00:08:00,000 not measure up with their talk, so what it is, it's a man who 123 00:08:00,900 --> 00:08:08,000 substitutes words for works but secondly, this is one who has 124 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,800 only an intellectual faith in one's mind, he or she knows the 125 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,700 doctrine of salvation, but they have never submitted themselves 126 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:21,400 to God and trusted in Jesus Christ for their salvation. 127 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:25,200 They know all the right words to say, Say, but they don't back up 128 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,700 their words with their obedient works. 129 00:08:28,700 --> 00:08:33,600 The question is before us, can this Faith save a man? 130 00:08:33,799 --> 00:08:37,100 The answer is quite simply. No, it cannot. 131 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:41,500 It is impossible for this one to have a saving Faith because 132 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:45,800 three times. Once in verse 17 verse 20 and 133 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:51,000 verse 26, James declares and describes that faith without 134 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,000 works is dead. So, We are not working. 135 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:58,900 If we are not doing anything, if we are not going Beyond 136 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:02,900 intellectual faith, we have a dead faith. 137 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:08,000 And that faith cannot save more on that. 138 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:13,100 As one man said, also any Declaration of faith that does 139 00:09:13,100 --> 00:09:19,600 not result in a changed life. And good works, is a false 140 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:25,100 declaration or a dead faith. Other said that dead. 141 00:09:25,100 --> 00:09:28,200 Faith is a counterfeit Faith now. 142 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:32,100 What's So Scary? About a counterfeit dead Faith? 143 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:37,300 Unfortunately it lows a person into a false confidence of 144 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:41,200 eternal life, it loans. The person to sleep spiritually 145 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:46,800 as it were and that he is lowing himself and he is misguided. 146 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:53,700 And he has confidence in that, which is not real false sense of 147 00:09:53,900 --> 00:09:59,800 Security, and a false confidence in Eternal salvation. 148 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:03,100 Well, all of this being said, we need to ask ourselves the 149 00:10:03,108 --> 00:10:05,900 question. Do we have a dead faith? 150 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:11,000 If we examine these things thus far, do the things that we have 151 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,300 said, do they compare to our life and match up? 152 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:19,500 Well, let's answer it this way. We have a dead faith. 153 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:25,400 If Our walk does not measure up to our talk and our works do not 154 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:30,400 measure up to our words, but you know, there's another type of 155 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:33,900 faith that James describes believe it or not. 156 00:10:34,300 --> 00:10:39,200 And it's the faith that the Devils have would just call it 157 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:46,600 demonic faith today. Demonic Faith. 158 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:50,100 The faith of the devil's. You know, what's very 159 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:54,800 interesting about this is we might look at the first one and 160 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,900 say, well, I'm not guilty of a dead Faith, but then, when we 161 00:10:58,900 --> 00:11:03,500 compare it to demonic Faith, or the, the faith that the devil's 162 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:08,300 possessed, according to James, 22, be careful because we might 163 00:11:08,300 --> 00:11:12,000 fall under that category. Can you imagine if all of a 164 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:16,200 sudden one day coming to Idea or coming to the knowledge that we 165 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:19,400 have, the same faith that the devil's had. 166 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,300 Let me ask you this. I would just imagine that I can 167 00:11:22,300 --> 00:11:25,700 go into the entire world and I can ask people to question. 168 00:11:25,900 --> 00:11:29,600 Do you believe that Satan and the angels of heaven that were 169 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:33,400 cast out of Heaven down in the pits or chains of Darkness? 170 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:37,600 Awaiting the resurrection to be cast into the place that was 171 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,900 prepared for them. Incidentally, that's gehenna. 172 00:11:40,900 --> 00:11:43,000 Hell. And that's the place that we 173 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,000 will go. Go. 174 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:48,700 If we don't have the faith, that the Bible teaches we must have 175 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:53,500 therefore understanding that we can go out and ask anyone in the 176 00:11:53,500 --> 00:11:57,200 world not even amongst those religious folks in than end of 177 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,500 the nominations all around us. And ask the question. 178 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,400 Do you believe that Satan is going to go to heaven? 179 00:12:04,500 --> 00:12:07,200 I would imagine everyone would say, we're surely not. 180 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:12,500 Surely not. We need to be careful. 181 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:15,100 We don't possess the same type of Faith. 182 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:18,800 Beginning in verse 18, James says, yeah, man may say thou 183 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,700 Hast faith and I have Works. Show me, thy faith without thy 184 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:26,600 works and I will show you my faith by my works now, believe 185 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:28,500 is that there is one God thou doest. 186 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:34,200 Well, the devil's also believe and tremble. 187 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:40,300 Notice, this particular faith is one step above a dead Faith. 188 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:44,600 Notice there was Other man in a conversion story that failed in 189 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,000 God's word and that is Governor Felix. 190 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:49,600 You remember that? Governor Felix did the same 191 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,000 thing that the devil's do. What are the devil's? 192 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:55,500 Do they believe and they tremble. 193 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,400 What did Felix do with the Bible says that the Apostle Paul was 194 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,800 preaching to him and what exactly word for word? 195 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,500 We don't know, just exactly what he said. 196 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:10,800 All we know is that Paul reason with him of righteousness, 197 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:16,600 Temperance and judgment to come. now, I'll tell you this, 198 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:22,000 whatever he said, It caused him to tremble. 199 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,500 It caused his emotions to be involved. 200 00:13:26,500 --> 00:13:28,600 It wasn't just intellectual Faith. 201 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,000 Oh, no. He believed that to the only way 202 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,200 that he would be moved to tremble. 203 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:38,300 Was that he believed in electorally to the things that 204 00:13:38,300 --> 00:13:41,300 Paul had said? If he had not he would have cast 205 00:13:41,300 --> 00:13:44,800 that aside as not important. I don't believe it. 206 00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:47,700 I don't agree with it and so long and so he had an 207 00:13:47,700 --> 00:13:50,500 intellectual knowledge or intellectual Faith. 208 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:55,600 He had also emotional faith Cause it cars came to be moved 209 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:59,600 to tremble. The question is, did it do him 210 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:03,000 any good? Now, we know that James is 211 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:05,400 declaring that it didn't do the devil's. 212 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:07,800 Any good? What about Felix? 213 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,100 What did he say? Was it enough? 214 00:14:10,300 --> 00:14:13,200 Absolutely not. The Bible says that he trembled 215 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:17,700 and he said these horrible words, go thy way for now. 216 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,800 And when I have a more convenient season, I will call 217 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,300 for thee. When we look at his life, we 218 00:14:24,300 --> 00:14:26,500 don't find one passage of scripture. 219 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,900 After that time, when this man feel makes had another 220 00:14:29,900 --> 00:14:33,100 opportunity to obey the gospel and did it. 221 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,900 I would just imagine it is my opinion that if this man would 222 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:40,600 have repented and this man would have come and been converted 223 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,100 later on. I would just imagine that it 224 00:14:43,100 --> 00:14:46,400 would be found in divine inspiration for our knowledge 225 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:49,100 and for us to see that, just my opinion. 226 00:14:49,100 --> 00:14:51,800 Now let's talk about something that it's not my opinion. 227 00:14:51,900 --> 00:14:54,500 It is the fact of Felix in his case. 228 00:14:54,700 --> 00:14:57,700 What did he do? He believed intellectually. 229 00:14:57,700 --> 00:15:00,800 He trembled showing that he believed and he had Faith 230 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:04,500 emotionally, but he said go by way. 231 00:15:04,700 --> 00:15:09,000 And he rejected the most important thing and that's 232 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:13,700 obedience to the gospel, call, notice a couple more things 233 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:17,200 about these demons, you know, perhaps to shock and he 234 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:20,400 complacent reader. James reminds us that even the 235 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,600 demons tremble They have a kind of Faith. 236 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:28,200 Yes, indeed, those that are demons believe. 237 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,400 In God, we're not talking about an atheist or an agnostic, we're 238 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:37,300 talking about people that know or beings that know that there 239 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:41,400 is a God in heaven. But, let's notice what else. 240 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:43,800 The demons know. I thought this was rather. 241 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,400 Interesting, hopefully, you will too, but first of all, you know, 242 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:51,000 that the demons believe in the deity of Christ. 243 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:53,900 Oh, that's a wonderful thing. Believe isn't it? 244 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:56,900 We want to believe in the deity of Jesus Christ. 245 00:15:56,900 --> 00:15:59,800 Hear the words that are found in Mark the third chapter beginning 246 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,100 in verse 11, where it says and unclean spirits. 247 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:08,000 When they saw him fell down before him and cried saying, 248 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:13,000 Thou Art the Son of God and straitly, charged them that they 249 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:18,100 should not make him known. Yes, they believe in the deity 250 00:16:18,100 --> 00:16:21,800 of Jesus Christ. Secondly, they believed in the 251 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:26,200 existence of A place of condemnation, Luke chapter 8 and 252 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,300 verse number 31, but not only that. 253 00:16:29,300 --> 00:16:35,100 They also believed that Jesus Christ will be the judge in that 254 00:16:35,100 --> 00:16:39,500 last and final day. Can you imagine that? 255 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:45,500 These are lost beings that believe in the existence of God, 256 00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:49,700 the deity of Christ, a place of condemnation. 257 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,700 And that Jesus Christ will be the great magistrate that day. 258 00:16:53,900 --> 00:16:58,400 That we'll all be before that Throne, when Jesus passes formal 259 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,500 sit-ins on the wicked and rewards. 260 00:17:01,500 --> 00:17:05,700 Those that have done the things that are found in God's word. 261 00:17:05,900 --> 00:17:09,599 Listen, folks, the devil's believe that too. 262 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:12,500 How do I know? That look at a very interesting 263 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:16,400 passage of scripture found in Matthew chapter, 8 and verses 28 264 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,300 and 29. And when he was come to the 265 00:17:19,300 --> 00:17:23,200 other side into the country of the gurgles scenes, there met 266 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,800 him, two possessed with Devils coming out of the tombs 267 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:30,900 exceeding Fierce so that no man might pass by thy way. 268 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:34,700 And behold they cried out saying what have we to do with thee? 269 00:17:34,700 --> 00:17:39,100 Listen Jesus, thou Son of God, here it comes. 270 00:17:39,300 --> 00:17:44,700 And thou come Come hither to torment us before the time. 271 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:50,200 Yeah, they know that Jesus is going to take care of them and 272 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,900 cast them from Shane's or pits of Darkness into the into the 273 00:17:54,900 --> 00:17:58,400 Lake of Fire one day. They knew that they know it 274 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,400 today also. But they said, what are you 275 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,500 doing? Jesus, thou Son of God. 276 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:08,700 Recognizing God and the deity of Christ. 277 00:18:09,100 --> 00:18:14,800 Why are you come here? Here now to torment us before it 278 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,900 is time. Yeah, they believe that they 279 00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:20,500 know that Jesus will be the judge. 280 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:24,600 On that day. What kind of faith of the demons 281 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,100 have? Well, let's look back. 282 00:18:27,100 --> 00:18:30,200 We saw that, a dead faith is one who has touched by his 283 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:33,800 intellect, only the death, are the, Demonic Faith. 284 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,800 Or those that had this kind of Faith were those? 285 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:42,200 That had an intellectual and an emotional Faith, only. 286 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:45,100 And the question, can this Faith save us? 287 00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:48,900 Well, certainly, not because a person can be enlightened in his 288 00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:53,300 own mind, and a person can even be Stirred in his own heart and 289 00:18:53,300 --> 00:18:57,700 still be lost in a devil's hell for all eternity. 290 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,100 True saving Faith. Involves something that is more 291 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,500 something that can be seen and recognized. 292 00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:08,300 That is so important because the world does not believe that the 293 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:11,800 religious World, especially does not believe that there needs to 294 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:16,100 be something that people can see regarding your faith. 295 00:19:16,100 --> 00:19:19,300 But that is the case, though, a person that is going to have the 296 00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:22,800 saving faith of the Bible. To have something that can be 297 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:29,500 seen by others and recognized by others as different, and that, 298 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:34,000 ladies and gentlemen, is a changed life. 299 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:38,800 If your faith does not change your life, then you don't have 300 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:43,200 the faith that can save. You going back to verse 18. 301 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:46,900 Notice what James says, he says, yeah, man may say thou Hast 302 00:19:46,900 --> 00:19:50,400 faith and I have Works. Show me, thy faith without thy 303 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:53,300 works. And I I'll show thee my faith by 304 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:56,400 my Works. A Christian involves are being a 305 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,400 Christian involves, two things trusting and coming to in 306 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:05,100 obedience to the gospel, coming to Jesus, but secondly, it 307 00:20:05,100 --> 00:20:09,900 involves living for Jesus. We must also understand that in 308 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,300 becoming a Christian. We understand that we receive 309 00:20:13,300 --> 00:20:16,100 something that the world does not have. 310 00:20:16,100 --> 00:20:19,400 When we talk about life and death, and we're not talking 311 00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:23,100 about physical life and death, We are talking about spiritual 312 00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:26,600 life and death. Everyone that is not a Christian 313 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,500 is at that time. Spiritually dead. 314 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:33,100 They have to receive what they have to receive life. 315 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:37,500 The Bible says in Romans chapter 6, beginning in verse 3, no, he 316 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:39,100 not. There's so many of us as were 317 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:42,400 baptized into Jesus. Christ were baptized into his 318 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,600 death. Therefore we are buried with him 319 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:48,500 by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the 320 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:52,500 dead by the glory of the father. Even so we We also should walk 321 00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:59,100 in newness of life. That's what we get when we come 322 00:20:59,100 --> 00:21:02,100 to Christ. You know, the religious world 323 00:21:02,100 --> 00:21:06,800 would say that you can have that and that'll save you one time 324 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:11,300 and you have nothing else to do. That's not what James teaches 325 00:21:11,300 --> 00:21:15,100 here. Because once you receive this, 326 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:22,000 your life has to reveal this, the things that you do have to 327 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,300 reveal the life that you've been given as a Christian. 328 00:21:27,100 --> 00:21:30,000 Well, do we have the kind of faith that we talked about today 329 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,400 as demonic? Faith. 330 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:36,100 Well, we do, if we believe the right things and feel the right, 331 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:41,300 things only, we also do if our Seer, if our service to God does 332 00:21:41,300 --> 00:21:46,100 not go beyond intellectually adhering to the right doctrines. 333 00:21:46,300 --> 00:21:51,100 And secondly, if it does not go beyond emotional experiences. 334 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:58,200 While we attend Services, it must go farther and beyond that 335 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:00,700 in summary, thus far, James introduced. 336 00:22:00,900 --> 00:22:05,500 Us to these two kinds of faith that can never save dead faith 337 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,700 and demonic Faith. But there's another one though. 338 00:22:11,100 --> 00:22:13,300 And this will just called Dynamic faith. 339 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:23,300 Dynamic faith. This is the kind of faith that 340 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:27,700 will save your soul without this kind. 341 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,400 It is not good enough because it is lacking. 342 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:34,000 We're so grateful that James gives us in the next section of 343 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,400 scriptures and verses 20 through 26. 344 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:42,700 He describes what we have to do to have that beginning in verse 345 00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:47,000 20 James says but wilt thou know o vain man that faith without 346 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:50,400 works is dead was not Abraham Our Father Justified. 347 00:22:50,500 --> 00:22:53,000 I'd by works. When he had offered Isaac, his 348 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:57,000 son upon the altar, seest thou how Faith wrought with this 349 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,100 works. And by faith was Faith made 350 00:22:59,100 --> 00:23:02,000 perfect by works. Was Faith made perfect, and the 351 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,900 scripture was fulfilled, which saith Abraham believed God, and 352 00:23:05,900 --> 00:23:09,700 it was imputed unto him for righteousness, and he was called 353 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:13,100 the friend of God. Ye see, then how that by works. 354 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:16,000 A man is Justified and not by faith. 355 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,200 Only notice the examples and I think this is very interesting. 356 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,300 I'll spend just a few minutes on this and just a moment, but 357 00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:28,600 notice he gives an example of those that have a dynamic 358 00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:35,200 working saving Faith. He says, Abraham and Rahab. 359 00:23:35,900 --> 00:23:39,600 I'll tell you. Can you imagine two people that 360 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:46,600 are any more different than Abraham and Rahab more on that 361 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,300 in a minute. So the question is, what kind of 362 00:23:49,300 --> 00:23:54,000 faith is Make Faith. First of all, we know from other 363 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,200 passages of scripture that such faith is based on the word of 364 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:02,200 God in Romans chapter 10 and verse 17, the Bible says, so 365 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:07,600 then Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God. 366 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:12,300 Dynamic faith is different from dead and demonic Faith because 367 00:24:12,300 --> 00:24:17,100 this is the one that involves the whole man dead. 368 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:20,800 Faith touches only the intellect demonic faith is the intellect 369 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,300 And the emotions, but the dynamic is the intellect 370 00:24:24,300 --> 00:24:35,400 emotions and the most important part of all the will, it's got 371 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:42,200 to affect that. you know, sometimes folks think that 372 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,100 there's a whole lot of gray in this world, I think there's a 373 00:24:46,108 --> 00:24:49,500 lot of black and white, I really do especially when it comes to 374 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:53,800 obedience to God's work. I think sometimes people need to 375 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:56,600 realize that our decisions are plotting out the course and 376 00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:57,900 where we're going to spend eternity. 377 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,200 I believe that with all my heart because it doesn't matter what 378 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:05,200 your circumstances have been in days gone by that doesn't 379 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,600 matter. So, it causes Us in the flesh to 380 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:13,600 be sympathetic and so on. But at the end of the day, when 381 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:19,000 we stand before our maker, when Jesus is on that judgment bar, 382 00:25:19,900 --> 00:25:23,200 It's not going to matter the circumstances in our life. 383 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,300 What's going to matter is the choices that we made? 384 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:30,100 What's going to matter is this we've been given the free will 385 00:25:30,100 --> 00:25:34,200 to obey or disobey and what's going to be before us is, did we 386 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,000 do it? Or did we not? 387 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:41,500 That's a simple as that folks. That's what James says. 388 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:46,300 Did we do it? Or did we not it leads us to 389 00:25:46,300 --> 00:25:48,800 action? It's not intellectual 390 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,900 contemplation. It is not simple emotionalism, 391 00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:59,100 but it is that which leads to obedience in doing good works 392 00:25:59,500 --> 00:26:01,900 now, very briefly. Let's look at the two examples 393 00:26:01,900 --> 00:26:05,300 that James gives and as I mentioned, just a moment ago, 394 00:26:05,300 --> 00:26:08,400 you really cannot go into the pages of divine inspiration and 395 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:14,100 find two people that Clash together as a character of Faith 396 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:17,300 or who has been listed in the eleventh chapter in the Hall of 397 00:26:17,300 --> 00:26:21,100 Fame of Faith recorded, their of all of those Heroes that stand 398 00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:24,500 as an example to you. And I that have gone by in days 399 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:28,600 gone by you will not find two people that are anymore 400 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:33,000 different or opposite than Abraham and Rahab. 401 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:38,700 And yet James pictures them together with a certain 402 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:40,200 likeness. This. 403 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:45,900 Notice Abraham as we compare them, Abraham was the father of 404 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:49,500 the Jews. Rahab was a gentile. 405 00:26:50,100 --> 00:26:54,600 Abraham was a godly man, but Rahab was a harlot. 406 00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:00,800 Abraham was the friend of God, Rahab belonged to the enemies of 407 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,600 God. What did they have in common? 408 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:09,600 Then they had the saving Faith demonstrated by their obedient. 409 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,700 X Abraham demonstrated, this Faith James says, when he 410 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:16,500 offered Isaac upon the Altar and I'll just say this, we know the 411 00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:19,900 story, I'll not go into, great detail on either one of the 412 00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:23,800 stories, regarding their faith, a briefly brushed by them and 413 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,200 I'll just say this. Can you imagine what it would 414 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:32,900 have been like to be Abraham? What if God said to you, take 415 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:37,100 thy son, thine only son, Isaac, whom thou lovest, and you offer 416 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:40,500 him, you take him to a place that I will tell thee and the 417 00:27:40,500 --> 00:27:44,600 offering as a sacrifice unto me, I would just imagine that if a 418 00:27:44,608 --> 00:27:48,900 person by his faith is going to be a working obedient Faith or 419 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:51,100 is going to actually do what God says. 420 00:27:51,300 --> 00:27:55,300 Chances are he's going to at least question God and ask God 421 00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:02,300 Why is that? No, the Bible says he rose up 422 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,500 early. I'm going to tell you something. 423 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,200 He stood over his boy that day. I can't fathom such a horrible 424 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:17,300 thing. And he was going to take his 425 00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:21,400 life. How much did a been to hear in 426 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,200 the ears of Abraham, the words of the Sun? 427 00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:27,300 It says, behold the wood in the fire. 428 00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:32,500 So where's the letter? The faith of Abraham was 429 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:38,900 described in his response, he says my son God shall provide a 430 00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:41,900 ladder. That's Faith. 431 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,600 That's Dynamic to working. Obedient faith. 432 00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:50,400 What about rehab? This is a harlot. 433 00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:54,000 You remember, very briefly when Joshua had sent out those 434 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,400 Messengers to spy the land, even Jericho. 435 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,800 He wanted some information that was inside those, that walled 436 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,900 City, he wanted to find out about perhaps the number of 437 00:29:03,900 --> 00:29:07,000 inhabitants that were there. I don't know, maybe the size of 438 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:10,000 their army, or the state of their preparation and 439 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,500 preparedness, because he wanted to know that because he was 440 00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:17,600 going to go in and destroy it. Very interesting though, these 441 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,800 two Messengers find a very unlikely Ally. 442 00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:26,600 In a harlot named Rahab, that's what he uses uses Rahab as an 443 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,500 example, these men are hidden and these men had tried. 444 00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:34,600 I would just imagine to remain undetected but in all of their 445 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:39,100 attempts, they failed and we're gets back to the king that were 446 00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:43,800 over at rahab's house those two spies, those two Messengers are 447 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,200 there. What's the king? 448 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,900 Do he sends out soldiers? He set him straight to rahab's 449 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:51,300 house. I would just imagine that Rahab 450 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,400 all the strength Must have been for her to muster up within 451 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:58,800 herself to stand there and have these soldiers pressing upon her 452 00:29:58,900 --> 00:30:02,100 and coming out her with threats and whatever it was that they 453 00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:04,500 said. And all of a sudden she has an 454 00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:07,700 opportunity now to be looked on not down. 455 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:10,600 Like she's always been looked upon but now she could actually 456 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:15,600 look, be looked upon in the eyes of the king the soldiers and all 457 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:20,400 of those fellow people that lived in that City in a positive 458 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:25,000 and wonderful way. By doing her patriotic duty, but 459 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,100 she doesn't, she doesn't she strong. 460 00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:30,900 She says, well, when it was dark, they left, I don't know 461 00:30:30,900 --> 00:30:34,600 where they went. Then she says go quick hurry up 462 00:30:35,500 --> 00:30:38,800 that you might overtake them. Here's the question. 463 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,200 Why did she do it? Well, she answers just exactly 464 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,700 why she did it when she got back to the roof, where the 465 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:52,600 messengers were, and I want you to hear what she said to them. 466 00:30:52,900 --> 00:30:56,500 This is why What you got to that roof? 467 00:30:56,500 --> 00:31:02,400 She said, I know the Lord hath. Given you, this land passed 468 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:07,200 10th, it's already done. I know that and your terror is 469 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:11,400 Fallen upon us and that all the inhabitants of the land faint 470 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,700 because of you, what we know the story, she lets them down by a 471 00:31:15,700 --> 00:31:18,800 cord through the window out, the window and tells them to go into 472 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,800 the mountains and for three days hide their into the pursuers be 473 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,400 returned, we know that. At and then she says as I've 474 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:31,500 shown you this kindness show also under me, kindness as well, 475 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,800 and spare me and my house. Well, this is what they said, 476 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,800 they said that's a deal. Basically, our life for yours. 477 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:44,500 Only upon the condition that you don't tell anybody and secondly 478 00:31:44,500 --> 00:31:47,800 upon the condition, you take that, that court of scarlet 479 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,700 thread and you bind it in the window. 480 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:53,500 And whoever is in the house behind that Scarlet line when 481 00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:56,200 Israel comes Things will be spared. 482 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:02,700 She was spared because of her Dynamic. 483 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:07,700 Working obedient. Faith. 484 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:13,600 It's so important. In conclusion today that each 485 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:20,000 professing Christian sit down and examine his or her life and 486 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:25,700 his or her heart. We need to make sure that we all 487 00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:29,300 possess the true saving faith that James describes in this 488 00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:32,500 chapter. But I think it's also important 489 00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:35,400 that we must understand that, sometimes being honest with 490 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,300 ourself is the most difficult challenge of all. 491 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:42,700 But remember that Satan is The Great Deceiver. 492 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,700 And one of his devices is imitation. 493 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,600 If he can convince us that counterfeit faith is true Faith, 494 00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:55,100 then he's got that person in his power. 495 00:32:56,100 --> 00:32:59,100 Well. Here are some questions that we 496 00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:03,200 can ask ourselves very briefly as we examine our faith today. 497 00:33:04,300 --> 00:33:06,900 Was there a time when I honestly realized that? 498 00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:12,100 I was a sinner and admitted this to myself and to God was there a 499 00:33:12,100 --> 00:33:16,200 time when my heart stirred me to flee from the Wrath to come? 500 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,300 Have I ever been seriously worked up over my sins? 501 00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:24,900 Do I truly understand? The gospel that Jesus Christ, 502 00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:27,600 died for my sins and then rose again. 503 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:33,400 Do I understand and confess that I will, I cannot save myself. 504 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:36,000 Did I sincerely? Repent of my sins? 505 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,000 Making the decision to turn from them? 506 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:46,100 And listen, do I now as a result hates sin and fear God, or do, I 507 00:33:46,100 --> 00:33:51,000 seek really love sin and wish to enjoy it from time to time? 508 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,900 Have I trusted Jesus Christ and him alone for my salvation by 509 00:33:55,900 --> 00:33:58,500 responding to the commands that he has given me. 510 00:33:58,900 --> 00:34:02,500 Have I confess my name or my faith in Jesus Christ? 511 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:06,200 And then been baptized for the remission of my sins and do the 512 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:11,100 things that Jesus and his Apostles commanded has. 513 00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:15,199 There been a change in my life? Do I maintain? 514 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:19,800 Good works for our. My good works occasional and 515 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,699 week. Do I seek to Grow in the things 516 00:34:22,699 --> 00:34:26,000 of the Lord. Can others tell that I have been 517 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,900 with Jesus. Do I have a desire to share 518 00:34:28,900 --> 00:34:32,000 Christ with others or am I ashamed? 519 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,300 Do I enjoy the fellowship of God's people? 520 00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:37,900 Or would I rather hang out with the world? 521 00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:42,199 Is worship a delight to me? Or is it just a burden? 522 00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:45,000 And something? I would rather not do. 523 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:47,300 Am I ready for the Lord's return? 524 00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:51,600 Am I eagerly waiting for it? Or will I be ashamed when he 525 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:57,100 Comes for me. you know, far too many people even among God's 526 00:34:57,100 --> 00:35:03,500 people especially They've quit serving God because of 527 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:08,300 circumstances, you know, it's sad to me is when somebody 528 00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:12,700 leaves the church. And they say we talk to him 529 00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:16,600 well, brother so-and-so really hurt my feelings. 530 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,100 Or sometimes people say, well, you know, I'm just angry right 531 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:27,900 now, I'm just angry. I'm discouraged. 532 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:32,300 Circumstances in my life have caused me to be. 533 00:35:32,300 --> 00:35:38,900 So sometimes folks say I just can't do more and I can't have a 534 00:35:38,908 --> 00:35:43,500 dynamic working Faith, because I just don't have the ability that 535 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:47,400 others have. Some say, you know, I'd like to 536 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:50,400 do more. I'm just too tired. 537 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,200 I don't feel good. Let me just leave you with a 538 00:35:55,207 --> 00:35:58,300 little story. It's a true story and maybe, you 539 00:35:58,308 --> 00:36:02,700 know it, perhaps you do. I think the movie was made after 540 00:36:02,700 --> 00:36:06,500 this man's life quite recently. What is the meaning, Bill 541 00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:08,900 Porter? I want you to think about this 542 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:13,000 when you think you're too tired. Bill Porter was born with 543 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:15,500 Cerebral. Palsy now we know what all that 544 00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:19,600 entails. He could barely walk, he could 545 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:24,000 barely speak. He went from job to job trying 546 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,900 to find someone that would employ him. 547 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:32,800 But Social Services said, no, you will never be fit to work 548 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:36,000 any day of your life. You will be on government 549 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:39,100 assistance, all the days of your life. 550 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,800 But you know, this fellow didn't let that happen. 551 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,900 He didn't let that occur where he would take government 552 00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:48,900 assistance, you know what he did, he kept going out until 553 00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:50,700 finally. Somebody hired him. 554 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,400 And finally, that company was the Watkins company a sales 555 00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,400 company and they hired him as a Salesman. 556 00:36:57,500 --> 00:36:59,600 Now that sounds like a Triumph, doesn't it? 557 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,000 It sounds like he's finally got his chance, doesn't it? 558 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,900 Here are the conditions though his employment. 559 00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:08,100 Anybody that's ever sold anything. 560 00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:09,300 You'll know exactly what I'm saying. 561 00:37:09,300 --> 00:37:13,900 Right here, you got to take the territory that nobody wants. 562 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:20,500 And no celery. No, training, salarino, 563 00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:24,900 training, bonus. Oh no, you're on your own in 564 00:37:24,900 --> 00:37:29,000 that territory. Door-to-door with yourself and 565 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,000 nope and no salary just commission's only. 566 00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:35,300 I understand that this crippled man. 567 00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:39,600 Walk 10 miles every day. He knocked on door after door 568 00:37:40,100 --> 00:37:45,000 after door. when he got an order, he had to ask the 569 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:49,200 customer to fill out the order form because he's right-handed 570 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,700 and work. He could barely speak things 571 00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:58,500 that you and I take for granted. He struggled with what happened 572 00:37:58,500 --> 00:38:01,100 to this man? How could a man like that ever 573 00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:03,300 succeed? You know what happened to him? 574 00:38:03,500 --> 00:38:06,200 He became the number one salesman in the country. 575 00:38:07,500 --> 00:38:10,300 That's amazing to me. You know why? 576 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:15,400 That's the best part? Reason why he never had sidered 577 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:20,700 himself, nor branded himself as one that had a handicap. 578 00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:28,200 He never branded himself as one who had these challenges around 579 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:32,400 him, he never gave himself a disability. 580 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,600 You know, what's even better when he became extremely 581 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,100 successful. He never considered himself to 582 00:38:39,100 --> 00:38:42,300 be special, either. You know what he did is what he 583 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:47,500 I hear he got up every day. And he went to work. 584 00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:50,300 He was interviewed one time. You know what he said? 585 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,200 He said people ask him. How could you do it? 586 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,100 What drove yet? He said, oh nothing special. 587 00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:02,200 I had a job to do and I had to do it with her. 588 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,800 I felt like it or whether I did it. 589 00:39:06,300 --> 00:39:10,900 Could it be that the Christian today can learn from that 590 00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:13,400 attitude? I got a job to do. 591 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:18,300 I have a job to do and living my life with my Dynamic, working 592 00:39:18,300 --> 00:39:21,100 faith. And I don't care how I feel 593 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:23,300 about it. I don't care if I feel sick 594 00:39:23,300 --> 00:39:24,900 today, I don't care. If I'm tired. 595 00:39:25,300 --> 00:39:28,800 I'm going to get up and do it and I might suffer in this life. 596 00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,400 Physically, I might have elements and problems. 597 00:39:32,300 --> 00:39:34,700 I'm going to tell you something. You get to heaven. 598 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:38,500 You get all the rest. You'll ever need. 599 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,900 Well it all the rest. That's what heavens for. 600 00:39:42,700 --> 00:39:45,800 Let's not rest. Now let's work now. 601 00:39:47,100 --> 00:39:50,500 And wrestling. We thank you for listening to 602 00:39:50,500 --> 00:39:55,300 our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 603 00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:58,800 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 604 00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,100 information, or you would like to receive a free Bible 605 00:40:02,100 --> 00:40:07,600 correspondence, course by mail. Please email us at info at her 606 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:10,000 Church of Christ Bakersfield.com. 607 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:15,900 Our service times are on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and 608 00:40:15,900 --> 00:40:20,300 Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Please make plans to join us. 609 00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:23,100 We would love for you to be our honored guest.