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Well, again, good morning.

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I appreciate you being here.

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We're going to start chapter
five of the book in the book of James.

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It'll take us three weeks
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this being the first of those three weeks.

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The before I jump into that,

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I want to address the events of yesterday.

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and, give an understanding

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of the events of the world

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through a biblical worldview.

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and not a worldly worldview.

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I think it's important for us to be able

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to keep a biblical worldview

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as we see things happen.

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especially,

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in the events of yesterday.

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And I want us to be mindful

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of the voices we listen to

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and the things we say and repeat,

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the things we end up believing.

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I want to encourage us
not to confuse patriotism with godliness.

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To be very careful.

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And the voices that we listen to,
whether it's

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CNN or Alex Jones,
both those and the myriad of others.

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We do nothing but lead people astray.

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So I want to encourage
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about the voices
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the primary voice

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has got to be the voice of God.

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And as I watched what happened yesterday

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and the intent behind it,

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the thing I thought was this

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when hatred and fear
are the motivation, destruction

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and death are always the outcome.

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and of course, we can all agree
in the tragedy of yesterday.

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Not in the attempt, necessarily,

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but in the innocent ones
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And the families
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spurred on

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by hatred

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on both sides.

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And as I watched what happened, I

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in my mind,

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I thought, I know why.

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I know why the bullet missed.

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Because I want to read Scripture in second
Peter three nine.

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You know what that says.

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This is why it's so important
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and have a biblical worldview.

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When I, when I, when I,

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when I, when I saw that the bullet missed,
I thought, second Peter three nine

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and here's why it missed,

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because Scripture tells us

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that the Lord is not wanting anyone

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to perish,
but wants all to to come to repentance.

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Actually, it starts with these words.

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The low is not the Lord,
not slow in keeping his promise,

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but is patient with everyone,
not wanting anyone to come to repent.

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not want anyone to perish,
wants all to come to repentance.

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And when?

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When I saw what happened yesterday,
I thought, okay, Donald,

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you've got the opportunity again

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to come to Christ.

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Praise God the bullet missed.

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Not for his presidency
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before his eternity.

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You understand?

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We're not.

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Not political allies.

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Our faith.

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And the same goes for Joe.

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The reason why both those men are still
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to do with the presidency.

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And the office has more to do
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That they would come to Christ
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and children to Christ.

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Now wants to be very careful

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about the rhetoric that we listen to
in times like this.

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I've said it for a while now

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that this election season
is going to get crazy.

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It's apparent it is right.

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And I don't want to be lectured by either

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side of the aisle talking about civility
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They've they've ruined that already.

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I want us to make sure

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that we view the events of this world

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through a biblical worldview.

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That we, as Scripture instructions,

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pray for those in leadership.

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That we trust God to set up and depose

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at his discretion.

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We live quiet lives.

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Seeking the best for our nation

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so that it might go well with us

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is what the Bible says.

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I do not want

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this church

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to sacrifice our biblical worldview

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for the events of the political arena.

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You've got to be very careful.

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My clear.

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My clear. Yes.

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Father, I thank you

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that you are patient with all of us,
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but want all to come to repentance.

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I thank you for President Biden's life.

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I thank you for former
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I think that you continue
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not wanting them to

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perish,
but want them to come to repentance

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and their families as well.

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For you continue to put people around him

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who will speak truth,
the truth of your word, into their lives.

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As you put people around us to speak truth

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into our lives.

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Father,
you guard us from turning patriotism

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into a false sense of godliness.

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It's just not biblical.

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Father, we pray that we honor

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you first and honor each other.

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All up and down the political spectrum.

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And, father, we collectively

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thank you for the lives that were spared.

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But lift up to you the families
of those of the lives that were lost.

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And when we see the outcome
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as this, it.

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We just pray for those who are

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who have

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to live in the aftermath of it. Now.

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And God,
I pray that you would raise up your people

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around those hurt and families
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Through them you bring comfort

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and the peace that passes understanding

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as they align their lives
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Father,
I pray you help your people not get stupid

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in this election cycle.

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Did you give us a mind of

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clarity and a faith?

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And of a worldview

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that reflects your kingdom first.

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Oh, God.

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Now, as always, may
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on earth as it is in heaven.

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It's a different kingdom.

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And it's so vastly different

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than anything we've seen.

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May it come, Lord.

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In your name I pray. Amen.

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In James chapter four,

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he ended that, that portion of scripture

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with the warning against independence
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in in the theme of making plans
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without submitting them to God's
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Lord, your will first.

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Here's what I like,
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I submit my plans to you.

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And he says it's arrogant of us

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to make our plans without first
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And it was it, it was.

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It's really geared, to all of you
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Right?

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Did any of you

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remember that message from Scripture
during this week?

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Any of you?

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Not many of you.

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Some of you. Did any of you.

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Are you married to someone who wished
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this week?

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and so James develops
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dependance upon God as he begins
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Chapter five continues that theme of
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and he addresses it in the issue
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to entice the individual
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that entices us to live independent

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from God are riches,

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wealth.

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When one has plenty of money
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well, I don't fall into this one,
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I'm plenty of money.

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It's just not having money.

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make more, hoard more.

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It presents a unique difficulty
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to a life of discipleship
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This is what he

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says in James chapter
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Now listen, you rich people weep and wail

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because of the misery
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Your wealth has rotted
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Your gold and silver are corroded.

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Their corrosion will testify against you.

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And eat your flesh like fire.

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You have hoarded wealth in the last days.

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Pretty strong warning here. Yeah.

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Very Old Testament sounding.

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Let me be very clear.

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James is going to talk about the wealthy

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and those who hoard the
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But the Bible does not condemn Rich.

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The Bible does not condemn riches.

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The Bible does not condemn wealth.

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Riches and wealth and abundance can be.

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But it's not necessarily
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It can be evidence of God's favor,
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The Bible says that God makes the
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and the unjust alike.

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He pours out his he. He allows both

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on the on the just and the unjust.

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just because someone has great wealth
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Right? Right.

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Some of them even on islands.

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God's favor.

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And so we have to be very careful

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to assume that because there is

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financial monetary abundance.

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It's the proof of the favor of God.

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That's not it.

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The Bible doesn't necessarily condemn
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but it makes a very clear
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on what God God does
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And what the Bible condemns is not wealth.

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What the Bible condemns
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It's being selfish with finances.

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It's seeking a life of ease rather
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That's what the Bible condemns.

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Jesus had poor followers
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You think about Zacchaeus.

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Joseph of Arimathea.

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Barnabas. Very wealthy. Lydia.

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Very wealthy individuals
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with their wealth.

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that the Bible doesn't condemn riches,

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but it condemns how we.

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How we use and invest our riches.

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When it's selfish hoarding
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when it's an investment in the Kingdom
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That's why it's given.

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And we have to acknowledge
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a significant
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We have to acknowledge this.

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It may be a blessing from God.

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Oftentimes, it is.

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But when that blessing is in place,
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actually presents a very unique difficulty
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The Bible is pretty clear about this.

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Matthew 19

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Jesus said to his disciples, truly
I tell you, it's hard for someone

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who is rich to
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For why?

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Because they think that their security
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and not in God's sovereignty.

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And they put the kingdom

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of this world
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Again, I tell you, it's easier for a camel
to go through the eye of a needle

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than for someone of the rich
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So you gotta be very careful

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in our pursuit of financial security,

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stability and wealth.

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First Timothy six

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for the love of money
is a root of all kinds of evil.

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Some people, eager for money have wandered

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from the faith
and pierced themselves with many griefs.

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Notice
he's not talking about people with money.

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He's talking about people who love money.

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And isn't it true that you can be poor
and be in love with money?

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Right? Right.

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And you can be
rich and be in love with money.

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He says it's that heart's love.

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And when that heart's love is is

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is financial gain, is is hoarding it

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to your comfort

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at the expense of the kingdom
and those without.

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Then it becomes a real issue
and very difficult

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to live as a disciple of Christ.

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I want us to notice.

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So in in this passage, you're James.

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James is addressing people with money.

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James is addressing
wicked people with money.

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He's addressing the wicked rich,
not just the rich.

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Does that make sense?

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See, here's what money is.

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I've said this before.

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Money is. Money is is amoral.

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It has no morals.

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Money is not ethical.

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All money does

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is illuminate the heart of the possessor.

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It's all it does.

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It just. It just exemplifies it.

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It expands it.

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It shows it.

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In other words, if I am stingy and poor

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when I'm rich, I'm just more stingy.

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Does it make sense?

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It doesn't change anything.

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It just exempt. It just elevates it.

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If I'm generous with the little I have,

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if God gives me more, I'm just going to be

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really generous.

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Does it make sense?

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And so James
isn't talking about people with money.

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He's talking about
when money makes you wicked.

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You start hoarding it

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and the abuse of other people
because you have it.

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He's talking about when

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you put your earthly kingdom ahead

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of the heavenly kingdom financially.

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Become prideful and arrogant,

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seeking luxury and ease.

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And he says to you,

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following this camp,
he says, weep and will.

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Very Old Testament
prophet stuff weeping, wail

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because he says,

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in the kingdom that's coming.

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What he says is all that wealth
that you've worked for,

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that you stored out for yourselves,
that you saved and hoarded for yourself.

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All of that will be revealed as corrupted,

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eaten by moths, and corroded.

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And what he's doing is he's using he's

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using the riches of his day
to say it's all passing away.

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Now, the riches of today
might look different than what they looked

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at James's day,
but his point is this all those things

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that we
that we try to hoard for ourselves,

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to create a life of security
and ease for ourselves

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at the at the expense of the kingdom
and others,

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without all that stuff
is going to be destroyed one day.

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You can't take it with you,
is what he says.

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Now the three areas of wealth
in James's day

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was food, clothes and gold and silver.

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Gold and silver, we understand.

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But food and clothes.

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Yet those were signs of extreme wealth
in James's day.

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And what James is saying is, wherever
you're wherever that treasure is,

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it's all going to pass away
in the next kingdom.

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So he says,
all those food that you've stored up.

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I mean, back in the day,
these were the original preppers, right?

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Like they were ready for anything.

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And he says all that hoarding
that you're doing

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is all going to be corrupted and rotted.

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It's going to do you no good.

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Even though you've

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hoarded it,
thinking that that was your security,

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he says.

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And secondly, those close
rich people had a lot close back there.

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I don't know if you're old enough
to remember Imelda Marcos

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with her 7000 pairs of shoes,
or however many they had.

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I don't know who who has a lot of clothes.

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These who were.

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I don't know who that would be.

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Maybe it's you. I don't know, hoard.

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Have you ever seen, by the way,
just look through your closet and think.

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What don't I wear anymore?

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I get rid of it and you're like,
oh, I can't get rid of it.

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You know,
like, we've got way too much stuff.

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And he says all those clothes

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that you have, those that you've hoarded,
moths are going to eat them.

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What good is that? Do you.

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And then
he says this, which is just amazes me.

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He says that gold and silver
is going to be corroded.

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Gold doesn't corrode.

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Does gold corrode?

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What he get
what he's saying is that we saved.

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He saved even those things that you are
convinced are never going to be

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destroyed, can never be devalued.

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Even that is going to be corroded
in the coming kingdom.

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And the more you seek in this life
to build that and to hoard that

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at the expense of the investment
of the Kingdom and the help of the poor,

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the more you are going to be revealed
as a wicked heart

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in the last days and the coming kingdom.

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Essentially,

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every sign of wealth

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will pass away and will be worth nothing

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in the coming kingdom.

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And he says there is such severe judgment

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for these people

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who hoard wealth, who live their lives
to build wealth in this world.

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He says one.

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There's such severe judgment on those

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who take advantage of others
in order to build their personal wealth,

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and two, who ignore the poor

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to protect and hoard their own wealth.

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Severe judgment.

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So we've got to be very careful
about our desire

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for more.

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I just note the horror that's coming.

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The judgment

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over greed.

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Verse three.

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There, corrosion will testify against you
and eat your flesh

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like fire.

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You have hoarded wealth in the last days.

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That sounds like why?

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Like that's the fire was reserved

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for, like, the really evil people.

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And at this point, you're reading the
book of James, like, okay,

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I want to get back to the other Jesus,

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like, who loves me
and has a wonderful plan for my life.

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I want to go back to the Jesus
that that I've come

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that might have life
and a life in all its fullness.

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I want to get back to that. Jesus.

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We got to deal with this.

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This, this this is important

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for people want to be disciples of Jesus.

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For those who are bound by greed
and bound by gains,

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realize what's coming.

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Charles Spurgeon, one of the greatest
preachers to ever grace this planet.

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He said this.

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I've kind of translated
some of his old words into words.

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We understand a little bit better.

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But he said this better to weep here,
where tears are wiped

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by the grace of God,
than to have eyes wiped out in hell.

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And what James is saying is,

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all these riches that you store up
for yourselves tend to neglect

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to the kingdom of the neglect of of
of other people will testify against you

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because you've stored up treasure on earth

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rather than in heaven.

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He's talking about a biblical worldview,

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and it's so easy to slip

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into a worldly worldview.

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On the day of Judgment.

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What we have hoarded

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will reveal that we've lived lives

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of arrogant independence from God,

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and he warns us.

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James addresses are storing up
wealth on earth

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rather than storing up treasure in heaven.

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And it's a very Old Testament theme

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these last days.

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And in the Old Testament,
the idea of the last days,

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it created two things.

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And in people one.

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It was a threat to the rich.

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The last days.

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But two,

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it was joy and consolation for the poor.

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The poor thought, I can't
wait for the day of God

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like finally joy and consolation

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and place in my misery on this planet.

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The rich had a very different view
of the last day,

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because they knew they'd be called
to account for their hoarding

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and their neglect of people and kingdom.

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And he goes on verses 4 or 5 and six.

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Can I keep going? Yes, sure.

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All right.

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You're ready.

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Look,

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the wages
you failed to pay the workers who mowed

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your fields are crying out against you.

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The cries of the harvesters

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have reached
the ears of the Lord Almighty.

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This should make sense to us
in the Central Valley. But.

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You have lived on earth in luxury
and self-indulgence.

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You have fattened yourselves
in the day of slaughter.

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You have condemned and murdered
the innocent one

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who was not opposing you.

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In our vernacular,

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he said, it is very, very, very important

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to pay your bills on time.

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Don't keep money

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owed to others in your account
so you can build your personal wealth.

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Pay them what they're due.

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Don't look for loopholes

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to get out of your bills.

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If you've received service from someone,

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pay them fairly.

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Understand?

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Pay what you owe.

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Pay for the work that's been done.

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Don't look for ways to get out of it.

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Don't look for loopholes
for the government to pay your debts.

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Pay your bills.

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Don't withhold timely payment

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so you can keep the money in your account
to build your wealth a little bit longer.

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When it's due.

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Pay your bill.

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God takes money

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and the use of money very seriously.

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You understand?

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Okay, based on that response,
I think I need to start over

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because I don't think you got
what I'm saying.

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So, James, four ends.

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Do you understand what he's saying here?

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Yes, yes.

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Listen, this is why it is so difficult.

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And the road is so narrow

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for those
who want to be apprentices of Jesus.

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Because we are not let off the hook
easily.

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You understand?

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I'm so thankful for God's

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mercy and grace, for the times
I've got it wrong

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that he is patient with me,
not wanting me to perish,

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but want me to come to repentance.

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I'm so grateful for his mercy and grace,

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but this is the expectation.

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And then
in between 6 and 7, James refocuses

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like he kind of makes a shift here,
and he shifts from warning

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to encouragement,
which is what every great leader does.

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A great leader can lower
the boom and can give a correction

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and the discipline, and then followed
that up with some encouragement.

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Every great leader can do this,
and James does.

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And so he he says, okay, so here
that was the warning.

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And now I want to give you some hope.
Okay.

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And so in verses seven, eight and nine
he moves the focus from this earth

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to, to, to that kingdom,
to that world, to that eternity.

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And this is what he says now be patient
then, brothers and sisters,

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until the Lord's coming.

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So he assumes Jesus is coming back.

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See how the

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farmer waits for the land
to yield its valuable crop,

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patiently
waiting for the autumn and spring rains.

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You to be patient and stand firm
because the Lord's coming is near.

517
00:27:44,466 --> 00:27:47,433
Don't grumble against one another,
brothers and sisters,

518
00:27:47,433 --> 00:27:49,933
or you will be judged.

519
00:27:49,933 --> 00:27:52,366
The judge is standing at the door.

520
00:27:52,366 --> 00:27:55,366
He's close.

521
00:27:55,566 --> 00:27:58,866
He shifts from the immediate world
to the coming kingdom,

522
00:28:00,266 --> 00:28:02,700
and he challenges us.

523
00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:05,966
He challenges those who have been focused
only on this world

524
00:28:06,033 --> 00:28:08,466
and only on our personal kingdom.

525
00:28:08,466 --> 00:28:11,466
In this world, to change our focus.

526
00:28:12,933 --> 00:28:15,933
To the coming of Christ again.

527
00:28:16,466 --> 00:28:18,966
That gives hope.

528
00:28:18,966 --> 00:28:23,233
And I know,
I know what what some would say.

529
00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:26,133
Like you get a call about
Jesus coming back to him in 2000 years.

530
00:28:26,133 --> 00:28:28,633
How long are you going away right?

531
00:28:28,633 --> 00:28:31,600
Like 2000 years. But.

532
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:32,133
But that's you.

533
00:28:32,133 --> 00:28:33,233
That's a worldly worldview.

534
00:28:33,233 --> 00:28:34,400
It's not a biblical worldview

535
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:35,833
because a biblical worldview says

536
00:28:35,833 --> 00:28:38,266
the Bible says that a thousand years
was like a day to God.

537
00:28:38,266 --> 00:28:39,200
So it's been like two days

538
00:28:40,833 --> 00:28:43,833
and God's coming even two days.

539
00:28:43,966 --> 00:28:46,966
It's not two days
isn't a long time to wait.

540
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:49,200
There's a just keep it patient.

541
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:50,133
You've waited two days.

542
00:28:50,133 --> 00:28:53,133
Big deal.

543
00:28:53,333 --> 00:28:56,333
And he uses a farmer
as the example of patience.

544
00:28:57,300 --> 00:28:58,500
This ought to make us again.

545
00:28:58,500 --> 00:28:59,866
We're the Central Valley, California.

546
00:28:59,866 --> 00:29:02,966
It ought to make sense to us, since to us
there's farmers all around.

547
00:29:04,466 --> 00:29:07,466
But think about what James is suggesting.

548
00:29:07,733 --> 00:29:08,666
He says, be patient.

549
00:29:08,666 --> 00:29:10,033
Now, wait.

550
00:29:10,033 --> 00:29:13,033
When you go through trials, tribulations,
difficulties, hardships,

551
00:29:13,833 --> 00:29:16,866
when stuff isn't happening, just wait.

552
00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:19,866
Like the farmer, here's
what the farmer does.

553
00:29:19,866 --> 00:29:21,966
The farmer doesn't give up.

554
00:29:21,966 --> 00:29:25,300
Just because he's planted a crop and
doesn't see the harvest in the next day.

555
00:29:26,566 --> 00:29:29,566
Like what kind of farmer would they be

556
00:29:29,766 --> 00:29:30,866
if they expected the harvest?

557
00:29:30,866 --> 00:29:31,566
The very next day?

558
00:29:32,933 --> 00:29:34,200
Not a very good farmer, right?

559
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:34,933
They'd be out of business.

560
00:29:34,933 --> 00:29:38,233
And I mean, how many of you would like me
when when we were little.

561
00:29:38,366 --> 00:29:41,600
How many of you actually planted seeds
in a little pot or in a garden outside?

562
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,500
Any of you plant little seeds?

563
00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:44,900
Yeah. It was it was amazing.

564
00:29:44,900 --> 00:29:47,633
Like you knew something
magical was happening somewhere.

565
00:29:47,633 --> 00:29:50,266
You planted the seed in the pot,
and you covered it

566
00:29:50,266 --> 00:29:53,300
with the, you know,
the little the little potting soil.

567
00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:56,933
And he didn't press it down too hard, but
firm enough so it felt secure and snug.

568
00:29:57,133 --> 00:29:58,500
And then you watered it a little bit, too,

569
00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:00,533
but didn't want to overwater
because it might drown to sea.

570
00:30:00,533 --> 00:30:01,866
But you really didn't understand

571
00:30:01,866 --> 00:30:04,233
how a sea would drown
because not like an animal or something.

572
00:30:04,233 --> 00:30:06,666
But you just just can't drown the sea.
And so.

573
00:30:06,666 --> 00:30:11,066
And you did all that, and then you walked
away, and two hours later, you did what?

574
00:30:12,533 --> 00:30:13,966
You went back to look right, like,

575
00:30:13,966 --> 00:30:17,000
oh, did not turn right

576
00:30:17,833 --> 00:30:20,833
because you knew it was coming,

577
00:30:20,833 --> 00:30:23,400
but it didn't happen right away.

578
00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:24,900
You go back the next day, nothing.

579
00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:27,433
The next day, nothing.

580
00:30:27,433 --> 00:30:30,433
And you just had to wait.

581
00:30:31,166 --> 00:30:32,400
See, what he's saying?

582
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,400
Here is when we were going through it

583
00:30:35,933 --> 00:30:38,933
and some of us are going through it,

584
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,666
you have to wait and be patient

585
00:30:41,666 --> 00:30:44,500
like a farmer

586
00:30:44,500 --> 00:30:47,500
and keep working.

587
00:30:47,533 --> 00:30:50,466
In your affliction, in your difficulty,
in your disappointment,

588
00:30:50,466 --> 00:30:54,300
in your loneliness, in your trouble, in
your singleness, in your hopes and dreams

589
00:30:54,366 --> 00:30:56,600
that aren't
coming to fruition, in your fears.

590
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,400
You just have to wait.

591
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,033
And you have to do the long, hard

592
00:31:01,033 --> 00:31:04,033
work of waiting patiently,

593
00:31:04,233 --> 00:31:07,200
even when the harvest
seems a long way away.

594
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:11,200
Just like the farmer,

595
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,333
it's Isaiah 4031.

596
00:31:13,333 --> 00:31:14,966
Those who hope in the Lord
renew their strength.

597
00:31:14,966 --> 00:31:17,033
They'll strong wings like eagles.
They'll run or not.

598
00:31:17,033 --> 00:31:18,500
Grow weary their walk and not faint.

599
00:31:18,500 --> 00:31:21,200
Notice the longevity of this.

600
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,200
There are times when we are sworn
through life. Man,

601
00:31:24,866 --> 00:31:26,800
just on the thermals of the sky.

602
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,800
And just loving it and going fast

603
00:31:30,166 --> 00:31:33,166
until we can't fly anymore.

604
00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:35,766
But we run

605
00:31:35,766 --> 00:31:38,766
and we run and we run fast or run hard

606
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,400
and cover a lot of ground
until we can't run anymore.

607
00:31:43,633 --> 00:31:45,233
And we're forced to plod

608
00:31:45,233 --> 00:31:48,533
along, step after step, right,

609
00:31:48,533 --> 00:31:51,533
then left and right and left.

610
00:31:52,566 --> 00:31:55,566
And it's a long, hard road.

611
00:31:56,033 --> 00:31:58,333
The Bible says
when you adjust your perspective

612
00:31:58,333 --> 00:32:02,400
and are patient waiting on Lord,
you can walk and never faint.

613
00:32:04,666 --> 00:32:07,066
The idea is to wait on

614
00:32:07,066 --> 00:32:10,500
God and do not lose
heart to be strong in patience.

615
00:32:11,133 --> 00:32:13,600
The correlation of a farmer

616
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,200
to the life of faith.

617
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,900
The farmer waits with the reasonable

618
00:32:18,900 --> 00:32:21,900
hope and expectation
of a great harvest right?

619
00:32:22,666 --> 00:32:25,666
Just like the person of faith,

620
00:32:26,133 --> 00:32:29,033
the farmer, which a long time

621
00:32:29,033 --> 00:32:32,033
and continues working
while he's waiting right?

622
00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:35,700
Just like the person of faith.

623
00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:39,933
The farmer is dependent upon things

624
00:32:39,933 --> 00:32:42,933
that are outside of his control
and power, right?

625
00:32:44,066 --> 00:32:47,066
Just like the person of faith,

626
00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:49,533
the farmer has to wait in the midst

627
00:32:49,533 --> 00:32:53,066
of changing circumstances and conditions,

628
00:32:54,333 --> 00:32:57,333
just like the person of faith.

629
00:33:00,233 --> 00:33:04,300
The farmer has to stay encouraged
and continue waiting

630
00:33:05,100 --> 00:33:08,100
because he knows what he's waiting for
is worth it.

631
00:33:10,566 --> 00:33:11,900
Just like the person of faith.

632
00:33:16,066 --> 00:33:17,400
The farmer has to wait

633
00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:20,400
because the farmer has no other option
but to wait.

634
00:33:24,300 --> 00:33:27,300
Just like the person of faith.

635
00:33:27,733 --> 00:33:28,633
What's your option?

636
00:33:28,633 --> 00:33:30,100
To rush God's hand?

637
00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:32,733
Good luck

638
00:33:32,733 --> 00:33:35,733
here.

639
00:33:36,666 --> 00:33:37,600
The farmer waits

640
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,600
because it doesn't do him
any good to give up.

641
00:33:42,233 --> 00:33:45,233
Just like the person of faith.

642
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,600
The disciples said, Lord, to
whom will we go?

643
00:33:49,833 --> 00:33:52,433
You have the words of eternal life.

644
00:33:52,433 --> 00:33:55,433
It doesn't do me any good to give up. Now.

645
00:33:58,166 --> 00:34:00,933
The farmer, which, because he knows

646
00:34:00,933 --> 00:34:03,933
how seasons and harvests work,

647
00:34:04,533 --> 00:34:06,700
and the person of faith

648
00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:09,933
has got to know how the seasons

649
00:34:09,933 --> 00:34:12,933
and harvest of God work.

650
00:34:14,466 --> 00:34:17,166
The lesson is when you have to wait.

651
00:34:17,166 --> 00:34:17,566
Wait?

652
00:34:17,566 --> 00:34:20,566
Well.

653
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,466
James says, don't grumble.

654
00:34:23,466 --> 00:34:23,866
Don't.

655
00:34:23,866 --> 00:34:25,766
When you're waiting.

656
00:34:25,766 --> 00:34:27,600
Don't grumble.

657
00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,633
Do you know what he means
when he says, don't grumble?

658
00:34:32,100 --> 00:34:35,100
Yeah, he means don't grumble.

659
00:34:35,533 --> 00:34:38,533
You don't gotta get into the deep
Greek here

660
00:34:39,066 --> 00:34:42,066
when you're waiting.

661
00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:43,866
For the harvest.

662
00:34:43,866 --> 00:34:45,200
And it ain't showing up.

663
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,200
Don't grumble. You.

664
00:34:48,366 --> 00:34:51,366
And isn't this our default,

665
00:34:53,100 --> 00:34:53,433
Yeah.

666
00:34:53,433 --> 00:34:54,466
Let me just give.

667
00:34:54,466 --> 00:34:57,266
Especially you married people or parents
sitting next to kids.

668
00:34:57,266 --> 00:34:57,700
A piece of.

669
00:34:57,700 --> 00:35:00,700
I sure don't start doing this to them.

670
00:35:02,166 --> 00:35:03,066
Don't start like.

671
00:35:03,066 --> 00:35:06,066
Are you listening?

672
00:35:06,366 --> 00:35:09,366
This is our default.

673
00:35:10,266 --> 00:35:12,733
When things don't go
our way, we're in a waiting pattern.

674
00:35:12,733 --> 00:35:14,366
We grumble naturally.

675
00:35:14,366 --> 00:35:16,300
We grumble against the circumstances.

676
00:35:16,300 --> 00:35:19,400
We grumble about other people,
and sometimes we grumble

677
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:22,400
about God.

678
00:35:24,733 --> 00:35:25,500
Don't grumble.

679
00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:28,500
And don't be around people who do grumble.

680
00:35:30,266 --> 00:35:31,533
Don't return their phone calls.

681
00:35:31,533 --> 00:35:34,466
Don't return their text.
Unfollow them on social media.

682
00:35:34,466 --> 00:35:39,066
Get away from them because when you are
around grumbling, you will become a.

683
00:35:44,766 --> 00:35:46,500
It. Life has become so much better.

684
00:35:46,500 --> 00:35:47,666
When I.

685
00:35:47,666 --> 00:35:50,666
I drafted my life.

686
00:35:52,733 --> 00:35:55,466
Some of you needed the drama,

687
00:35:55,466 --> 00:35:58,533
your life with people and social media.

688
00:36:01,366 --> 00:36:04,366
A whole nother message.

689
00:36:05,933 --> 00:36:08,200
While you're in the holding pattern,

690
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:11,766
whatever holding pattern or sowing season
you may be in currently.

691
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,800
Imagine when God
finally brings in the harvest.

692
00:36:15,466 --> 00:36:17,300
Just imagine.

693
00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:18,666
I know it's tough right now.

694
00:36:18,666 --> 00:36:20,433
I know you're in a waiting pattern
right now.

695
00:36:20,433 --> 00:36:21,766
I know you're in a holding pattern.

696
00:36:21,766 --> 00:36:24,233
I know you've planted your wait
and wait and wait.

697
00:36:24,233 --> 00:36:27,566
Just imagine when God brings the harvest.

698
00:36:31,066 --> 00:36:32,700
You're when he comes in.

699
00:36:32,700 --> 00:36:36,133
And some of you may not ever read
that harvest until eternity.

700
00:36:36,166 --> 00:36:38,100
But imagine for a moment.

701
00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:39,733
Imagine what God delivers.

702
00:36:39,733 --> 00:36:41,400
Imagine when God shows up.

703
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:43,233
Imagine when God brings the harvest.

704
00:36:43,233 --> 00:36:44,800
Imagine for a moment

705
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,266
when that day happens,

706
00:36:49,266 --> 00:36:52,533
how embarrassed and ashamed
you will be for having ever

707
00:36:52,533 --> 00:36:55,533
doubted him.

708
00:36:56,933 --> 00:36:59,933
Just wait patiently.

709
00:37:01,666 --> 00:37:04,666
I know I am well past my time,

710
00:37:04,966 --> 00:37:06,800
but I said it in the first service
of Satan.

711
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,800
The second service is David White's fault.

712
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,200
Because he took over ten minutes
to do communion.

713
00:37:15,100 --> 00:37:18,100
I had him on my stopwatch, on my phone.

714
00:37:18,100 --> 00:37:21,100
And so it's his fault
that you're going to get out late.

715
00:37:21,300 --> 00:37:22,666
You understand?

716
00:37:22,666 --> 00:37:24,333
Great job with communion, by the way.

717
00:37:24,333 --> 00:37:27,533
Dave loved it, but he's never met

718
00:37:27,533 --> 00:37:30,600
a mic or a platform
he didn't take to, and so on.

719
00:37:31,033 --> 00:37:35,400
And so so I'm gonna I'm
not I'm not grumbling, John.

720
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,400
I'm speaking the truth in love. And so.

721
00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:43,200
And I'm just warning you not to grumble
against me because he went long.

722
00:37:43,333 --> 00:37:44,133
That's all I'm saying.

723
00:37:50,366 --> 00:37:51,566
Brothers and sisters, as an

724
00:37:51,566 --> 00:37:54,566
example of patience
in the face of suffering.

725
00:37:54,566 --> 00:37:57,566
Take the prophets
who spoke in the name of the Lord.

726
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,066
As you know, we can't just bless those
who have persevered.

727
00:38:03,366 --> 00:38:05,933
You've heard of Joe's perseverance

728
00:38:05,933 --> 00:38:09,300
and have seen
what the Lord finally brought about.

729
00:38:10,700 --> 00:38:13,700
The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

730
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:19,800
James
reminds us of our spiritual heritage.

731
00:38:20,033 --> 00:38:23,200
Says, this is the cloth
from which your faith has been cut.

732
00:38:24,300 --> 00:38:28,133
And God so honored the Old Testament
prophets of old and even.

733
00:38:28,133 --> 00:38:30,400
They suffered and had to wait.

734
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:33,400
And if they did, why not us as well?

735
00:38:34,900 --> 00:38:37,900
Yeah.

736
00:38:37,966 --> 00:38:39,566
And he's he says

737
00:38:39,566 --> 00:38:42,766
you've seen
what the Lord finally brought about.

738
00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:46,333
Not immediately,

739
00:38:46,333 --> 00:38:48,566
because he's full of compassion and mercy,

740
00:38:48,566 --> 00:38:52,366
and he uses job as the example of any
Bible since, you know, job,

741
00:38:53,700 --> 00:38:55,933
man of incredible wealth

742
00:38:55,933 --> 00:38:59,966
and ease and comfort, lots of huge family
and all this family members.

743
00:38:59,966 --> 00:39:02,366
But his wife died

744
00:39:02,366 --> 00:39:05,766
and all of his riches, everything was
stripped away and taken away.

745
00:39:05,933 --> 00:39:08,400
Even his own health.

746
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,400
And he was just left there to suffer.

747
00:39:13,866 --> 00:39:16,866
And God's compassion and mercy

748
00:39:17,333 --> 00:39:21,233
were not immediately
apparent in the beginning of job's story.

749
00:39:23,100 --> 00:39:25,566
And in fact,
the only thing that seemed to be apparent

750
00:39:25,566 --> 00:39:29,233
at the beginning of job's story
was the cruelty of God.

751
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,100
And it's the same in yours.

752
00:39:32,100 --> 00:39:35,266
In my life, we've all been through
those seasons where we start

753
00:39:35,266 --> 00:39:38,900
the journey
and we think, why God, why don't you?

754
00:39:38,933 --> 00:39:40,100
Where were you?

755
00:39:40,100 --> 00:39:42,900
Why did you allow. Why didn't you change?

756
00:39:42,900 --> 00:39:44,433
Why didn't you intervene?

757
00:39:44,433 --> 00:39:46,266
What's going on? Right.

758
00:39:46,266 --> 00:39:49,500
You don't see his mercy and compassion
at the end of the story.

759
00:39:49,633 --> 00:39:52,666
The only thing you perceive
at the beginning of the story of

760
00:39:52,666 --> 00:39:55,933
is what looks very
cruel to you in your eyes.

761
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,133
Right?

762
00:40:00,133 --> 00:40:02,966
And yet, James says, be patient,

763
00:40:02,966 --> 00:40:05,966
because our God is a God of compassion

764
00:40:05,966 --> 00:40:08,966
and mercy.

765
00:40:10,066 --> 00:40:12,333
And when we understand

766
00:40:12,333 --> 00:40:15,766
that God is a God of compassion and mercy,
he has a good purpose in mind.

767
00:40:15,900 --> 00:40:19,366
It changes our perspective
while we painfully

768
00:40:19,366 --> 00:40:22,366
wait.

769
00:40:23,133 --> 00:40:26,133
Right.

770
00:40:28,066 --> 00:40:30,800
Even with Joe

771
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,800
went through hell.

772
00:40:34,166 --> 00:40:37,166
Because of the forces of hell

773
00:40:37,633 --> 00:40:40,633
at the allowance of God.

774
00:40:41,266 --> 00:40:44,266
Yet he was a better man after than before.

775
00:40:44,933 --> 00:40:47,500
Yeah.

776
00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:49,933
He was good at the beginning,

777
00:40:49,933 --> 00:40:52,933
but he was better after

778
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,000
a better character, more humble,

779
00:40:56,966 --> 00:41:00,000
more generous, more gracious,

780
00:41:00,366 --> 00:41:03,366
more grateful, more blessed.

781
00:41:05,100 --> 00:41:08,100
And when we know what
the beginning of the trial,

782
00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:11,200
the tribulation,
the winning, that God has a good purpose

783
00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:15,000
in mind, at the end,
we can endure it patiently.

784
00:41:15,066 --> 00:41:18,066
How did James start his letter? Remember?

785
00:41:18,133 --> 00:41:19,466
Recall it.

786
00:41:19,466 --> 00:41:24,300
Consider pure joy, my brothers
and sisters, when you endure troubles,

787
00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:28,200
tribulations, and trials, because you know
God's doing something good.

788
00:41:29,933 --> 00:41:30,266
And when

789
00:41:30,266 --> 00:41:33,266
I know that up front, I can wait
patiently.

790
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,233
May not be fun.

791
00:41:37,233 --> 00:41:39,733
Most time it's not.

792
00:41:39,733 --> 00:41:42,733
But we can be patient because we know

793
00:41:43,066 --> 00:41:45,700
that God has good purpose in mind.

794
00:41:45,700 --> 00:41:50,233
And this, my friends, this my church, this

795
00:41:50,566 --> 00:41:55,366
my brothers and sisters,
is where faith must be put into action.

796
00:41:55,500 --> 00:41:58,833
Because we can say that we have faith
that God is doing something good

797
00:41:58,966 --> 00:42:00,200
and will bring about a harvest.

798
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:03,500
We can say that all I want, but
until we put it into practice by waiting

799
00:42:03,500 --> 00:42:06,500
patiently without grumbling,
we have dead faith.

800
00:42:10,333 --> 00:42:12,033
You understand?

801
00:42:12,033 --> 00:42:15,933
And this is why James tells us faith
without works is dead.

802
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,400
Doesn't matter
if you say we believe, we have faith

803
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:20,766
that God will bring about something good

804
00:42:20,766 --> 00:42:23,533
unless we're able to wait
patiently without grumbling,

805
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,200
we prove ourselves to have that faith.

806
00:42:29,533 --> 00:42:33,866
We can't just say we believe God
is working together for a good purpose.

807
00:42:33,900 --> 00:42:36,166
Unless we wait
patiently during the process.

808
00:42:36,166 --> 00:42:38,300
The faith we profess is dead.

809
00:42:38,300 --> 00:42:41,300
Faith.

810
00:42:45,566 --> 00:42:47,966
Listen,

811
00:42:47,966 --> 00:42:49,500
this is part of what it means

812
00:42:49,500 --> 00:42:52,500
to be an apprentice of Jesus.

813
00:42:55,466 --> 00:42:58,466
And it flies in the face

814
00:42:58,900 --> 00:43:00,700
and it runs counter and contrary.

815
00:43:00,700 --> 00:43:03,200
It is the flip side

816
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,066
of everything we've been raised

817
00:43:05,066 --> 00:43:08,066
to believe and do.

818
00:43:09,333 --> 00:43:10,333
And it requires

819
00:43:10,333 --> 00:43:14,033
this incredible, persistent, patient faith

820
00:43:14,233 --> 00:43:17,966
in a good, good God who is a good, good

821
00:43:17,966 --> 00:43:22,233
father who is full of compassion
and mercy and grace

822
00:43:22,233 --> 00:43:25,966
for those who will simply submit
and place their lives at his disposal.

823
00:43:34,633 --> 00:43:37,633
James, a pretty good book, isn't it?

824
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:40,933
The Bible's a pretty good book, isn't it?

825
00:43:40,933 --> 00:43:41,166
Yeah.

826
00:43:43,933 --> 00:43:46,933
If any of us dare say we believe it,

827
00:43:46,966 --> 00:43:49,966
we're compelled to practice it.

828
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:52,533
Why don't you pray with me, father?

829
00:43:52,533 --> 00:43:55,066
Thank you.

830
00:43:55,066 --> 00:43:57,300
You are a good, good father.

831
00:43:57,300 --> 00:44:00,300
We are full of compassion and mercy.

832
00:44:00,333 --> 00:44:01,433
You are trustworthy.

833
00:44:01,433 --> 00:44:03,933
You're liable.

834
00:44:03,933 --> 00:44:06,933
You are profoundly powerful and sovereign.

835
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,800
You have put some of us in holding
patterns.

836
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,800
You've asked
some of us to wait a long, long time.

837
00:44:16,466 --> 00:44:19,866
And some are getting very weary
and very tired

838
00:44:20,533 --> 00:44:23,033
and waiting and waiting and waiting.

839
00:44:23,033 --> 00:44:26,033
Father, help us to wait longer

840
00:44:26,700 --> 00:44:29,733
patiently, because we know

841
00:44:30,900 --> 00:44:33,900
that you're doing something good

842
00:44:33,900 --> 00:44:36,900
and the harvest is on the way.

843
00:44:36,933 --> 00:44:39,600
We know that.

844
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:42,600
And even if you choose to withhold

845
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:47,033
the harvest till eternity,
we will rejoice still.

846
00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:50,500
And having received it, there,

847
00:44:50,666 --> 00:44:52,633
as all the prophets of old did,

848
00:44:54,266 --> 00:44:57,266
of many of the saints in Hebrews 11 have

849
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,800
they were better than this world?

850
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,133
You gave them their reward in eternity.

851
00:45:04,133 --> 00:45:07,133
Thank you that that's our promise.

852
00:45:08,066 --> 00:45:10,500
Friends, some of you

853
00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:11,900
have been waiting and our waiting.

854
00:45:11,900 --> 00:45:15,300
I want to challenge you to place yourself

855
00:45:15,300 --> 00:45:18,300
as an apprentice of Jesus right now, in.

856
00:45:19,566 --> 00:45:22,566
And just tell Father.

857
00:45:23,633 --> 00:45:26,633
Father, I'm tired of waiting.

858
00:45:29,033 --> 00:45:32,033
But I will continue to wait.

859
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:34,166
Give me strength so I can soar,

860
00:45:34,166 --> 00:45:37,366
run and walk and not faint. I'm.

861
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,833
My hope is in you.

862
00:45:40,833 --> 00:45:44,333
And I will wait patiently
without grumbling.

863
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,233
I will not only speak my faith,

864
00:45:50,233 --> 00:45:53,233
I will live my faith.

865
00:45:54,166 --> 00:45:55,533
Give me to ask him.

866
00:45:55,533 --> 00:46:00,300
Say, father, give me a vision
of the harvest that's coming.

867
00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:04,500
Give me a vision of when you deliver.

868
00:46:04,500 --> 00:46:07,333
Of when you step in, of
when you intervene.

869
00:46:07,333 --> 00:46:08,733
Of when you move your hand.

870
00:46:08,733 --> 00:46:10,566
Give me a vision of it.

871
00:46:10,566 --> 00:46:15,333
Because right
now, God, all I see is the weight.

872
00:46:17,233 --> 00:46:19,633
And I need to be pulled

873
00:46:19,633 --> 00:46:22,633
to a higher vision.

874
00:46:25,633 --> 00:46:28,633
Give me a vision of what your harvest will
look at, like

875
00:46:29,366 --> 00:46:32,366
because of your mercy and compassion.

876
00:46:33,700 --> 00:46:34,633
Give me that vision

877
00:46:34,633 --> 00:46:37,633
so I can wait with patience

878
00:46:37,666 --> 00:46:40,666
without grumbling.

879
00:46:40,933 --> 00:46:43,933
God, I speak over this church

880
00:46:44,566 --> 00:46:47,200
that you would give us a vision

881
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:51,466
of the harvest that's coming
for those of us who are waiting,

882
00:46:51,466 --> 00:46:53,600
give us a vision of the harvest
that we had.

883
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:56,600
Wait patiently with great expectation.

884
00:46:57,733 --> 00:46:59,033
God, I pray over this church

885
00:46:59,033 --> 00:47:02,033
that we not grow weary.

886
00:47:02,166 --> 00:47:04,700
There are so many who are ready
just to cash in the chips.

887
00:47:04,700 --> 00:47:07,700
I pray they wouldn't do that.

888
00:47:07,900 --> 00:47:08,833
You give them a vision

889
00:47:08,833 --> 00:47:11,833
of when you step in and intervene.

890
00:47:12,900 --> 00:47:14,533
That we would wait without grumbling.

891
00:47:17,233 --> 00:47:18,566
Father, I thank you.

892
00:47:18,566 --> 00:47:20,500
Thank you

893
00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:23,033
that what you do
and allow is motivated by your mercy.

894
00:47:23,033 --> 00:47:23,633
Compassion.

895
00:47:23,633 --> 00:47:26,633
Help us to trust you here.

896
00:47:27,366 --> 00:47:30,000
And live lives are so contrary.

897
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,000
And counter
and flip side to the culture around us

898
00:47:34,333 --> 00:47:36,433
that your name would be great.

899
00:47:36,433 --> 00:47:40,066
In the name of Jesus we pray these things.

900
00:47:41,100 --> 00:47:44,100
Amen.

901
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:45,400
I love you,

902
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,400
and I love the chance
we have to go through the Bible together.

903
00:47:48,566 --> 00:47:51,600
The last section of James five is going
to take us two weeks to get through,

904
00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:54,900
and so read through it and see what
the Holy Spirit prompts in you.

905
00:47:54,900 --> 00:47:57,900
And then let's we'll talk about it
together next couple Sundays.

906
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,500
I'm preparing right now for the next year
are going to go through.

907
00:48:01,500 --> 00:48:04,500
And I'm super excited about it because
you're going to see in this next series

908
00:48:04,566 --> 00:48:07,733
the cycle that every one of us goes
through, every one of us.

909
00:48:11,100 --> 00:48:11,466
We're going to go

910
00:48:11,466 --> 00:48:14,466
through the book of judges.

911
00:48:14,533 --> 00:48:16,966
There's a lot of stories
in the Book of Judges.

912
00:48:16,966 --> 00:48:21,333
It's like a rated R book,
but I promise to preach

913
00:48:21,333 --> 00:48:24,333
it is PG 13.

914
00:48:24,833 --> 00:48:26,533
Most of the time.

915
00:48:26,533 --> 00:48:28,466
Right.

916
00:48:28,466 --> 00:48:31,300
But let me leave you with this.

917
00:48:31,300 --> 00:48:33,133
The Lord God loves you

918
00:48:33,133 --> 00:48:35,600
and sent His son for you.

919
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,933
He is so in love with you and all he asks
is that you love him back

920
00:48:40,100 --> 00:48:42,433
and you respond to him in the freedom

921
00:48:42,433 --> 00:48:45,433
of the expression of that love.

922
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:47,733
He is a good God

923
00:48:47,733 --> 00:48:50,300
and you can trust him.

924
00:48:50,300 --> 00:48:50,600
Hallelu.