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Speaker 2How you feeling after losing an hour? You're okay. Right? Everybody's alright? We better fake it till we make it then.
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Why don't we stand up and, we'll sing together?
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Speaker 1Amen. That's a fun one. Y'all can have a seat. I've got a few announcements. There's a clicker back there, Renzy.
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We have a lot going on. It's always something going on it seems. The time change was a big one. I'm glad my my phone remembered it even though I didn't. The weekly announcements.
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The connect hours between services and that's right down the hall. It is coffee and donuts and that sort of thing. I did not smell any coffee this morning but I guarantee by the time that this service is over, there will be some back there. So, that's the kind of get to know the folks coming in for the next service and just a place to hang out, connect. Middle school youth group has resumed tonight at 06:30PM.
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It also will be actually they spread out. They're all over this whole place but they usually start in the Fellowship hall about 06:30. Awana is tomorrow night at 06:00 right here in this room. That's why we have the big circle, the game circle on the floor in here. This is multi purpose and the kids, this some, this is something that's going to come up in the sermon.
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Probably the last slide will be reminiscent of Awana. What we are doing here at Awana is pouring scripture into the minds at least and hopefully hearts of kids and that's something that God can use for the rest of their lives. So, we're pouring into scripture in the kids, Awana because kids matter to God. That happens simultaneously with Monday nights at First B which is down the hall in the fellowship hall and that is a meal, music, and message. This month, it's meal music in Matthew, right?
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Carl is preaching through Matthew or parts of it at selected passages and so you'll always get a good meal, pretty good music, and a good message and we've got one more that's happening at the same time but I'll get to that. Men's fraternity is still going on at 6AM. Also, usually it's in this room. If they're not in here, they'll be in there but there that is good breakfast. We eat a lot.
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Good breakfast and winning at work and at home study for men. Wednesday morning prayer meeting follows that at 07:30. That's usually in my office down the hall and then there's a lady study and they're studying the book of James which we happen to be studying on Sunday mornings too. So, if you want to double dose, ladies, you're welcome to come to the Wednesday morning study at 09:30 in the morning or there's another version of it, the same study. It's also happening on a Monday night.
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So Monday nights are hopping time around here. That's downstairs in the library. Jerilyn Areola is leading that study. Precepts study is on Thursday mornings at 09:00, sharp, and they're doing the Hosea study, but they're going to take spring break off. And then the high school breakfast feeding frenzy with Renzy at 07:30 is happening again this Friday.
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It's a great time to be here. If you are youth or could possibly consider yourself to be youth and you're up and you want breakfast and just to hang out with the high school crowd. Seven: 3zero am here on Friday and that's it. Would you stand up and we'll bring you back together with a song. Greet each other warmly.
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Wake each other up.
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Speaker 2Let's pray together. God, thank you. Thank you that no power of hell and no scheme of man can ever pluck us from your hand, that there is security in you, that once we have put our faith and trust in you, that we are yours. But Lord, it's that walk. It's that walk with you to continue to be with you, to to fellowship with you, to to to follow you, to learn from you.
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And I pray that that would describe us, that we would be your followers, that we would seek your kingdom first, that we would desire you above all things. And, God, along the way, you fill us up. You give us joy. You give us peace. You give us hope.
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You give us so much more. And so for that, we give you thanks for that. We wanna praise you this morning. God, thank you for your blood that has washed away our sins, and that, through our faith and through that blood, we are made right. We are justified and I thank you for that God.
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I thank you that we can be secure in that. Amen.
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Speaker 3Paul has written Paul has written to Timothy, command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way, they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life. Let's pray. Lord, you've given us a lot.
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We give a portion of it back to you in honor of that and to help each other so that other folks can come to know you as well. In Jesus name. Amen.
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Speaker 1We've got James before us again today. Now, we started off. I started off in a unusual manner last week with that six and a half minute minute song in Spanish. Maybe not the thing that you'd expect from a pretty white church in in Jackson Hole, Wyoming but it was something Jesus is a verb, not a noun. It's what he kept saying over and over.
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Jesus says and I've been thinking about that all week. Still couldn't get away from it. It'll probably come back up towards the end of this because Jesus is the word of God. He is the divine and living logos. He is God's expression of himself towards us.
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He is our hope. He is our redeemer. He is our strength and we're studying this morning a book that was written by his little brother. His younger brother, James, half brother, son of Mary, James, and I imagine that James growing up in the house with Jesus probably heard a lot of Jesus's teaching and was like, oh brother, rolling his eyes about it, hearing it, and going, yeah, sounds great. No way to live like that.
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No other author in the New Testament sounds as much like Jesus as James does and this week has been a tough one for me because this is straight up bare knuckles stuff. It's hard stuff. It's not easy. Last week, I went through the count it all joy, brothers. When you fall into various trials or temptations, I said.
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When you fall into those things and we looked at it about counting something that's not joyful as joy because in the end, he strung together a bunch of pearls of wisdom. In the end, there's hope. In the end, there will be joy. There is more of that this morning but I want to look at something. This is what we'll be going over today.
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These are the three points unnecessarily alliterative as they are, real riches responding to temptation and receiving the word. This is the order in which it's presented. I kind of got used to doing that in Acts because Acts is narrative and it goes from one place to another, and I really really enjoyed the preaching of Acts. But preaching, I was talking to Carl, this straight didactic instructional moral teaching without a story is a much more difficult task for me. It tends to be, instead of drawing out of it and seeing spiritual application in people's lives, he's already done the work for me.
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I just have to have the guts to stand up here and say it. So if any of the sermons in the next five weeks come up fifteen minutes short of the hour, it's because he is plain spoken. There's no more clarity necessary. Although, I do want to show you this. My pearls of wisdom that I ended with last week, I've been reading all week and looking and everybody mentions that.
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How he starts off in one one he says, rejoice, joy, endurance, endurance, lacking, lack, ask, ask, bounty, doubting. If you know James, all of these words are mentioned at least twice, some of them multiple times, trial, tempted, tempted, tempted, tempted, desire, desire, sense in. They're all right there together because you string in together these concepts. And you think, well, yeah, it's a rhetorical device. It's really helpful for memorizing.
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I've talked to a couple of you who took Beth Moore's challenge to memorize this book, and you've gotten your way through the first chapter or so, and it does help you to memorize this because it's an easy flow from one to the other. But I want you to also look at this, this is from the same report. It's it's called toward a grammatical analysis of the book of James. Y'all can barely see that, but these are the concepts over here listed a through what? S, I think.
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A through S, blessing, boasting, crying, destroy, doing, endurance, faith, friends from God, all these. And this is the overlapping web, webbing structure in the book of James. I'm not this much of a grammarian people. I have been bested. These people actually sat down and they took concept for concept, what he went to from what else.
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And it looks like, you know, it looks like something hanging on a grandmother's wall. This webbing, it's the whole book and I was wondering how James can sound so forceful because y'all heard me say last week, there's so many imperatives, so many commands, so many verbs that are in the command form. You do this or you don't do this. That's why it sounds forceful to us. In fact, out of a 108 verses, 108 verses in James.
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There are 54 imperative commands. So, every other verse has one. That's why it sounds like there's a lack of hope because he's saying, do this and don't do that and he's not talking about the theological significance of the blood of Christ. He barely mentions it. He doesn't talk about the abiding spirit of God much at all.
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He only mentions it once. Maybe. Maybe and that's in the fourth chapter But he is talking about a life of Christian service. There's no doubt about whether or not he believes that his anticipated hearers will be Christians. They are Christians.
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So, if you're here today and you're not a believer in Christ, you just happened in here. Praise God. He loves you, but you're not gonna hear it from James. Okay? We are responsible for letting you know that God loves you.
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James says it's up to us to show God to the world, and I think that that's a good and true thing. Going on from there, I won't spend a whole lot of time on this one because he doubles back around like that webbing structure showed. He doubles back around on real riches at least two more times, and he hits them harder the next two times. James one nine through 11 says, that's interesting because that's blacked out. It says, and that's blacked out there too.
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Anybody got it? I'm so glad y'all bring your Bibles to church. I didn't hear one thing you said but I'm glad you glad you have one. It gave me time. Thank you very much.
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Thank you, Peter. Let the, thank you, Peter. Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation. But the rich in his humiliation because as a flower of the field, he will pass away. For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass.
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Its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So, the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits. He will fade away in his pursuits. That's ridiculous. Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation.
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This sounds a lot like his brother, his older brother, Jesus. And then he looked up at his disciples and he said, blessed are you. Blessed, happy are you. Who are poor for yours is the kingdom of God. He was saying it as if as if it were a fact.
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They're not experiencing it monetarily or financially but he's saying this, blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. I think we get it. There are many times in the New Testament where Jesus talks about this.
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His first sermon in Nazareth, he goes and he stands up to read the scroll from Isaiah and what he reads is Isaiah 61. He doesn't read it all but what he reads is this, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He sent me to heal the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. He doesn't stop just talking about poor though. He goes on to talk about the rich and the poor.
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All flesh is grass and its loveliness is like the flower of the field. This is also from Isaiah. The grass withers, the flower fades because the breath of the Lord blows upon it. Surely, the people all are like grass. Job says the same thing.
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He comes forth like a flower and then he fades away. Our life is a beautiful thing while it's here but it's ephemeral. James will cover this again too. He flees like a shadow does not continue. Real riches from Matthew, Sermon on the Mount.
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Jesus says, don't lay up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust destroys, where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. A lot of commentaries make a point, and I and I picked up on it the first time through that let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation. Let the lowly or poor brother, the one who is low, the one who has little glory in his exaltation. That God has lifted him up.
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His treasure is in heaven. And they mentioned, and I and I will mention that the lowly brother, it says brother. There's no doubt this guy is a Christian, but the rich guy, it's harder to tell. He says, but let the rich. He doesn't say let the rich brother.
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It's not supplied. There are couple of translations that supply it. Grammatically, it's okay to do that, but I think it was intentionally ambiguous because it's harder to tell. Jesus had the whole teaching about the camel and the eye of the needle. It's harder for a rich man.
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He didn't say it was impossible. Just said it was harder. So, it's harder to tell but let the lowly brother. Alright. So, the webbing structure.
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We've covered the rich. We'll come back to them again. Responding to temptation. This one's probably one of the most famous in James. The most famous one in James and it's because it's such a good word picture and it's so practical.
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None of us live our lives without being tempted. None of us. Doesn't matter how long you've been a Christian, doesn't matter, you will be tempted in this life. James one twelve through 16 reads, blessed is the man who endures temptation, endures temptation, withstands, endures temptation. It's the same word for trials.
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Count it all joy, brothers, when you fall into various trials. Trials and temptations are the same word right there. So, I want you to be thinking about that. We'll come back to it. We'll web up back to it.
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Blessed is the man who endures trials and temptation. For when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him. Let no one say when he is tempted. I'm tempted by God. For God cannot be tempted by evil nor does he himself tempt anyone.
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That opens a profound theological question. Lot of people read that and they go, but Jesus is God and Jesus was tempted by the devil in the desert. Yeah, that's difficult. Who was doing the tempting first of all? The devil was doing the tempting.
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Jesus was fully God and fully man. The devil was tempting the humanity of Jesus. He knew he had no chance with God. God cannot be tempted by evil. He's not going to do something wrong or bad.
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What good is is defined by who God is. Does that make sense? Now Jesus being God fully and being man fully, what the devil was tempting was his humanity. If I'm going to get him, I'm going to get him on that. Does that make sense?
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Lots of commentators write volumes about that, but it comes down to being, we are human. We are not God and human, we are human. We have our walking around man as Bob Wells likes to call it. Our walking around man will always be tempted by sin but let's get to that next verse. The next verse kind of tells us who's doing the tempting.
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Each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desire and enticed. Oh, so the devil didn't make me do it. He might have put the lure out there. But it's our own desires This is a fishing term. Each one is tempted when he is the drawn away right here.
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The drawn away is lured. It's used everywhere else. It's used in the New Testament. It's like it's about a fishing lure of some sort. Some sort of bait.
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Something is out there and it's something that coincides with our desires. Why do fish go after bait? Because they want to eat. Typically, it's about bait. Whatever our hungers may be as people, those hungers will be co opted by the enemy to get us to be lured or drawn away.
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Drawn away, lured by our own desires and enticed. Not just, hey, look over there. That's kind of nice but entice. It would be really nice if I could catch up with it. You just swim closer and further and faster to it and then, when the desire has conceived, when we finally caught up with whatever it is, it gives birth to sin.
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And sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death. You see the pearls that I'm talking about? He he strings us along that way. And then he says, do not be deceived, drawn away, enticed, lured, enticed. Now if they really took time to look at that lure, what in the world is it doing with all those hooks on it?
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What in what in the world does it have that little plastic fan in the back that spins? That's crazy. That's not natural. There are lots of things like that. We can recognize temptation.
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And we certainly can recognize it by the time that we are enticed by it and going after it. James is saying, don't be deceived. Look before you leave. Pay attention to what's going on. Realize that you have desires, but be honest about them.
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Don't be lured away. He's webbing again. In fact, over and over and over I've been reading this all week, I've been reading it for a couple weeks before I finished the ACT study, and I've been trying to figure out some sort of structure. That's why I find this sort of diagram on the Internet with this 27 page paper that was ridiculously grammatical. They didn't include this.
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I see this. And that's a Led Zeppelin lyric. I couldn't help it. Yes, there are two paths you can go by. One of them is the way of joy.
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The way of joy is that first part. So the way that he's webbing things, he's webbing them by saying, you can take each individual verse and microscopically look at it and you can focus on this or you can back up and say, take this as a whole. Remember I told you last week that my favorite sermon the whole time was not a sermon someone made up but it was just a guy reciting the book of James. It's because it's got everything, and if you listen to it all at once, I'd recommend listening to it. There are lots of different apps for your phone, and you can just read it out loud to one another.
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These slides are driving me nuts, Renzi. The way of joy let me just read up to this point, and the reason I'm doing that is because I think that there are two paths that James has outlined so far in this section. And one is the way of joy, and one is the way of death. The way of joy is this, my brethren, count it all as joy. Esteem it all as joy when you fall into various trials or temptations, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.
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And patience, let patience have its perfect work that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. And if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God who gives all liberally and without reproaching it will be given to him. Let him ask in faith. And then down below, blessed is the man who endures temptation, withstands it, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him. So that's the way of joy.
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He covers that first, positive example, typical Hebrew teaching is positive example first, negative example next. So he does a positive example, he throws a couple of introductory notes about rich and poor in there, and then he comes back and he outlines the way of death. You're drawn away by your selfish desire, desire gives birth to sin, sin reaches its maturity in death. It's a lot shorter path. Do you see that?
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Not a whole lot of joy in the journey that way. Sin drawn away, lured away, enticed, and as soon as it takes place, what is the wages of sin? Every Iwana kid downstairs, the wages of sin is death. That's what follows. Enduring trial and temptation, which his hearers originally were absolutely heaven.
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They were up under a severe sense of trial, probably oppressed by wealthy folks around them. Blessed is the man who endures temptation for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him. First Peter goes into this and says that it is that blessed hope, the blessed hope. He is looking forward to future glory. Let no one say when he's tempted, I'm tempted by God.
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I think I already covered that. God cannot be tempted by evil nor does he himself tempt anyone. Even the the theologians and you some of you might be thinking, what about Job? What about Job? God let that happen.
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God did, but he was not the one who tempted Job and he knew Job wouldn't turn. Refined by fire. Refined through trials will eventually get you to that place of joy and there is that eventual sense of hope. Now, I could I could leaven this and I could bring in lots of Paul, and I'm going stick with James for now. Bring in Paul gives more hope.
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There's a lot more light in the books of Paul, but James is just telling him straight up like it is, and part of that is his Jewish heritage. He just gonna bam, hit you with it. Each one is tempted when he's drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Let me see. Don't know why I put that in there again.
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That's it. Receiving the word. Receiving the word and I think that this is what it all comes down to and I've never seen this portion as a central passage of James because I remember sound bite and the sound bite bite I remember from James, be you doers of the word and not hearers only and that's hard but I want to do something about it. If I learn something new, I want to try to put it in my life and into practice. That's what I think.
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That's the sound bite But there's something that precedes that. In fact, I'm not even going to get to be you doers of the word. That's just a few verses away, but I'm not going to get there this week. I'll concentrate on that next week. I want to concentrate on the the the predecessor to being a doer of the word.
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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. He's talking about the goodness of God. All of these revelations that he's bringing forth from Isaiah and Job in different places. He's talking about a very very good and loving God. He calls him here the father of lights.
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Remember Job when he starts to question God, one of the first things out of God's mouth when he listens to Job's 40 something questions. He says, where were you when I hung the stars in place? You little man. Where were you? These good and perfect gifts come down from the father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
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He hasn't changed. He won't change. He's still the good God that he has always been. Every good and perfect gift is from above. You know what that's going back to web up against?
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It's webbing back to that. Each one of us is drawn away by our own evil desires. No, God has given us good desires. They can be co opted and you can be tempted to use them in ways that God did not design. Every good and perfect gift is from above and should be enjoyed, I think we could add, and comes down from the Father of Lights with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
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Of his own will, because of his goodness, because of his godness, of his own will, he brought us forth by the word of truth. This is showing you again that the people who are hearing this are Christians. He's saying, God's already called you out of darkness into marvelous light. I'm saying that to you. If God has already called you out of darkness and into marvelous light, think about this, it was his choice to do so.
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He brought you forth by what? The word of truth. That's why this is so important. That what we might be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. So then, because of that, because of his own free will, he has drawn you to himself because of he has brought you by his word of truth.
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So then, my beloved brother, pastor James, as hard as he is, he keeps on calling beloved. Brothers and sisters, let every man, woman, let everyone of us be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. For the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. This week has been hard hard for me. Reading this over and over and over and over and over over again, I have seen how slow I am to hear, swift I am to speak, and how I get angry, even if I don't show it, I get angry.
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And it's it's he goes on in a few more verses. He goes on to talk about a man looking in the mirror. I'm looking in the mirror, right here, in this verse, and I'm asking all of you beloved brethren to look in that mirror with me and see, are you swift to hear? Are you always listening and given the benefit of the doubt until you are absolutely certain that you've got to say something? Are you slow to speak or do you just wait for the other person to finish or do you not even wait for the other person to finish So that you can get what you want said, Are you slow to wrath?
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And he follows that up with this, for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Have you ever, in your anger, forced someone to do something and then it been a good thing? Almost never. Almost never happens that if you're in your anger and you go, ah, you're gonna do this. Maybe a football coach.
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Occasionally, parent with a disgruntled little child, maybe, maybe, but typically, if you're swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath, that's a much better format for showing God's glory. The wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. You cannot force someone into doing the right thing. You just can't do it. And this is the last verse we're going to go through today and this is the one for me that's the center of it all and we're doing communion today and so during communion today, this one to me has become even more important because I have looked in the mirror and I have seen myself and I want to lay aside all filthiness.
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I want to lay aside any overflow of wickedness, anything that's driven by ego or self, image, and receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your souls. The implanted word is, Paul would say, it's the power of God unto salvation for all who believe. Does that make sense? The word is really really really important. It is the way that we come to know God.
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It's by his word, his expression of himself towards us. We find that in the form of the Bible. Yes, the written truth of God. This is the truth. We also find that in Jesus.
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Jesus, Es Verbos. This is why it keeps coming back. Jesus is the word. The divine logos, the word of God. He is God's expression towards mankind of himself, of his love.
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He is all God and all man, the perfect representation of God and he gave himself sacrificially. He had the right because he was right and righteous. He had the right and could have stood up in his wrath and slain everyone and not going to the cross. At that point, he still had that right. Satan tempted him with all the kingdoms of the world.
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Satan tempted him with a lot of different things when he was tempted in the wilderness but he's withstood the test and because he withstood the test, Paul would say, his name is exalted higher than any other. Was Jesus poor? He's born in a stable, placed in a manger, grew up dirt poor but his name is above every name. Highly exalted because he did exactly what his little brother James is telling us. We should be doing.
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Can we do it on our own? No. We can only do it by the indwelling spirit of God that's within us that we receive out of faith by receiving the implanted word with meekness. We have to come before him and say, we are destitute. We have nothing, we cannot do it, we accept it with meekness.
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Now the implanted word, I listened to I read a lot about this this week and everybody's got a different opinion of it. I'll listen to Piper after I've finished. I listen to John Piper talk about and he talked a whole lot about this, about the Bible and receiving with meekness, the implanted word but I don't I don't see this implanted so much. I see this as an external thing. Now, God said he would write our law, his law in our hearts.
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He illumines the scripture as we read it. Piper saw it as like oxygen. He's saying, receive it like, keep on breathing in. Yes, you've got oxygen in your lungs. It's what allows you to breathe.
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It's implanted, but you need to keep on bringing it in. I think James says, yeah, pay attention to what this says. Absolutely. But I also think since he's writing to Christians, what he's saying is, God has written his law in your hearts. He you know him.
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He knows you. You know what to do. Back down off of your pride and with meekness. Just receive what it is he's told you to do. That makes sense?
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You know this stuff. It's intuitive. The reason that he can go over it and web it over and over and over again is because it's something that we already know. Receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. Lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness.
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Jesus is the word. I'm stretching this metaphor just a bit. I realized that. I'm stretching it because I'm thinking about this. Jesus prayed to the father as his divine word.
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He knows how important it is to hang on every word in the scripture. Everything that comes out of God's mouth. He says, sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. Can I get the frontline team to come on up forward and Kale, if you would come up and play something pretty?
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Thank you. We're going to go into a time where we're receiving the word but I always like to give a chance beforehand for you to pray. Paul says that you should not come unworthily to take the Lord's Supper. This is a symbol. I'm not saying that we're receiving it literally, taking it literally into our mouth and having it go down into our system, but I'm saying figuratively that's what we want to do.
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Receive it with meekness. Lord, would you please bless this time together, these elements? Would you bring out for us right now individually, each one of us, Lord? Would you bring out as we lay our filthiness and our any hint of wickedness or any selfishness or ego that's gotten out of place, Lord? Would you take those things from us and just cleanse them?
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Replace it with your righteousness, Lord. Would you give us unbroken fellowship and communion with you? And, Lord, we're gonna do this in remembrance of you. Ask that you allow us to receive this with meekness, Lord. Thank you for the fact that you've already done the work to save our souls.
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Thank you that it requires no more than belief. But thank you lord that after we believe, you can work through us. In Jesus name, would you please bless this bread. Amen. He was betrayed.
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He took bread after supper and he after giving thanks, he said, this is my body that's been broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me. Thank you lord for your broken body. I thank you that you, the perfect expression of God, the word of God. That you walked in it every single day.
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You lived that perfect life. You died that perfect sacrificial death. Thank you that you've made it clear before us what it is that we are to do through the book of James. God, I pray your blessing on this cup that we would remember the blood that washes us clean from all inequity, transgression, sin, lord. Makes us white as snow.
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Would you please bless him? Amen. Amen. And on the same night, the same time just after supper, the same way that he did with the bread, he did the same with the cup and he said, this is the new covenant in my blood. The new covenant that Jeremiah Jeremiah writes about is where, God will write his law and his word on your hearts.
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Praise God. He's done that as we take this together. Do it in remembrance of Jesus. Amen. Carl, would y'all come on back up here?
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I have one more quick story. There were couple of times. James, James is tough and I know that and I thought of two of our church members were out hunting elk one time. This is not a joke. One of them said, I'm not feeling all that good.
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I don't know exactly how this is going to go. I don't know if I can drag this thing out of the woods, and the other one looked at him, kinda said, toughen up buttercup. It was something just about like that. Toughen up buttercup. Turns out he had appendicitis and stayed in the hospital for three weeks.
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It's tough to hear anyway, but if there's something really going on with you, it's gonna be even tougher. But I want you to know that after three weeks in the hospital, that young man can say, praise God. That's the best thing that's ever happened to me. Spiritually speaking. Amen?
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Amen. Alright. Let's build your kingdom here. Would you stand? We're gonna sing one more song.
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Amen. May God bless and keep you and make his face to shine upon you and give you peace. Amen.
