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Once you turn to James chapter
three and again we're going to if James has been stinging the
last few weeks guess what? It's only five chapters right?
We're in chapter three so we'll get done around August and we
move on to the next one praise the Lord. But as we've studied
through James again we look at chapter one and again the Bible
tells us we're to be doers of the word not hearers only. And
the Bible, James dealt with partiality, last week he dealt with the tongue,
and this week he deals really with the sin of the mind. And
in James chapter 3 beginning down in verse number 13, The
Bible said, who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among
you? And again, remember, he's talking to the church. He's talking
to Christians. And he said, let him show out
of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But
if ye have bitter envying and strife, notice in your hearts,
glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth
not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where
envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
I'd probably circle that whole verse. For where envying and
strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the
wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle,
easy to be entreated, full of mercy. good fruits without partiality
and without hypocrisy and the fruit of righteousness is sown
in peace of them that make peace. And so he's really dealing with
the sin of the heart or the mind and you know it's interesting
because when you think about it Everything starts with the mind.
You look at all the inventions, right? You think about electricity. It starts with the mind. Someone
has an idea and tries to figure out a solution to a problem.
And that's why, honestly, we have a lot of what we have today,
businesses and relationships. But not everything that comes
out of the mind is good. I mean, let's be honest, everything
begins in the mind. And Satan, I'd say this, probably
the biggest problem most Christians have is the space between your
ears. Right? I mean, how many of us,
just to be honest, because, and Brother Russell, I've done this,
and someone who is usually nice and, you know, hey, how you doing?
Shake your hand. And all of a sudden, one day,
they're not nice to you. And first thing your mind says
is, what's wrong with him? Right? When it may just be they're
having a bad day or maybe they didn't even hear you, but the
mind plays tricks on us. Right? I mean, if you, one thing
that happens, if you're sleep deprived, I promise you the mind
will play tricks on you. And so, uh, again, we know the
Bible tells us that we are to have our thoughts. under control,
right? A lot of times we think, well,
I can't help what I think, but the Bible says we're to have
even our thoughts under control, right? Under submission. And
so what comes out of the mouth usually starts in the mind. And
so desires of the heart begin in your mind. We say, well, the
desires of my heart, where do they come from? They come from
the mind. And so we look at our actions and see the sinfulness.
I mean, if someone, we talk about these that are incarcerated.
They're incarcerated not from what they think, but from what
they do. But we have to understand there's a deeper, deeper thing
that takes place and their actions started somewhere and it started
in the mind. And so we'll say, well, you know,
they're getting, but here's what I want to ask you. If you were
incarcerated for what goes through your mind, where would we be
tonight? So we look at our actions. We see that, but you can't see
what's in the mind. May I say this? The Lord knows
what's going on in the mind. And so if our motivation or what
drives us starts in the mind, right? We, our actions are, are
done because of some kind of motivation, good actions or have
good motivation and wrong actions, bad motivation. And so what is
a sin starts out in our mind. And again, all we can see is
the action. So James is saying, listen, if we, and we say this
brother Johnny, we'll say, well, the outward man should reflect
the change that takes place with the inward man. Right. And we'll
say, well, uh, man, man, well, people say, well, man looks on
the outside. God looks on the inside. You're
exactly right. And that ought to scare us, shouldn't
it? I mean, the fact is you can't see what goes on inside of me,
but God can. And so what I'm doing and what
a Christian should do and what you do is we want the world to
know that we serve God. And so the only way they can
figure that out is how we act or our love for Christ should
be manifested in action. And that's what he's dealing
with. And so he says in verse 13, Who is a wise man and endued
with knowledge among you? Now we understand this. There's
a premium placed on knowledge. And you can get it anywhere.
I mean, good knowledge, bad knowledge, it's available to everyone. Wisdom
is understanding how to apply that knowledge so that it glorifies
God. That's true wisdom, right? So
what he's dealing with, he's saying in verse 13, who is a
wise man and dude with knowledge? Here's what he says. It's a question,
he said, let him show out of a good conversation his works
with meekness and wisdom, or meekness of wisdom. So there's
two things in this scripture I want to share with you. One
is wisdom in its course, and in verse 13, James is dealing
with the wise behavior. In other words, what he's saying
is we don't have to boast in verse 13. How often do people
tell you all that they can do and all that they know and boast
and brag about themselves? And what he's saying in verse
13 is that let him show out of a good conversation. So what
we're looking at, that word conversation means lifestyle and everyday
behavior. It's not how we speak, it's how
we act. The Bible is telling us through
the inspiration of the Holy Spirit that who we say we are should
be manifested in the way we act every day. It's not enough to
act that way on Sunday morning. Let's be honest, a lot of Christians
have an issue acting that way when they're at church. So if
we can't even act that way at the house of God, who knows how
we're acting outside the house of God. But here the wise man
who has wise behavior is saying this God saying listen you don't
have to boast about your good works you just need to do it
every day. Your everyday life if you and
I will look at our lives as anything that we do whatsoever we do it
should glorify God. We put an emphasis, Brother Jimmy,
on what we do at the house of God. We'll say, well, we're serving
God. We're involved in ministry. We
sing in the choir. We play an instrument. We teach.
We preach. We run a bus route, whatever
it is. And that's wonderful. We should do that. But all this
is training ground for what we should be out there. And so Jesus
exemplifies all of these. So that phrase, endued with knowledge
means skill and understanding. Do you realize as long as you're
drawing breath, you should be learning? How many of you don't
raise your hand? I'll raise mine. Be honest. When
you graduate a high school or college, you're like done with
that, right? Man, I don't have to read another
book, don't have to do another outline, don't have to listen
to another lecture. But the fact is we should always
be learning and whether it be music or teaching Sunday school,
you that are in the bus ministry, you ought to be looking at reason.
Well, I don't need it. I'll just do it the way I think
is best. Well, guess what? You'll mess up. So everything
we do, we should be trying to get more knowledge because listen,
the media guys back there, I know nothing about it. If something
happens to Paul Heaton and Lee Corbett and Jeff Hart, we in
trouble. If something happens to our media
guys, we in trouble. So I don't know anything about
that stuff. I'd hit buttons and you'll hear squealing and screeching,
I promise you. But everything changes. You look
at the technology that changes with that. Everything changes. And so we have to learn, right? Now, I know God doesn't change
and the Bible doesn't change, but I'm saying when it comes
to ministry, we have to constantly be sharpening our skills. Well,
you ought to learn, as he was saying, even about leading somebody
to the Lord. People say, I know how to do that. Yeah, but every
situation's different. So why would you, and you need
to learn more of the Bible and more of the principles of the
word of God because there will be situations that take place
today that people will ask you they didn't ask you 10 years
ago. So that's why we're to study,
show ourselves approved. We should constantly be studying
the word of God, but we should constantly be getting knowledge
in other areas as well. And so Jesus exemplified all
of these things and the people in the church who profess to
be wise should show it. I'm thankful that he mentioned
the hospitality. I had some guests here Sunday
and I thanked them for coming. He said, man, everybody was so
kind to us. That's the way it should be, right? It shouldn't
be a front. When people come to church, they
ought to be welcomed. Now, they may not ever come back,
but while they're here, they ought to be an honored guest.
And that's why, again, we have to constantly, Brother Jimmy,
we have to constantly remind people, listen, when we do fellowship
time, don't run to somebody you talk to every week. Find somebody
new and show them some hospitality, right? Show them kindness. Show
them the love of God because it may be the only time. in the
children's ministry, show them the love of God. Who cares about
the games? Who cares about the snack? The
main emphasis, even with our bus kids, has got to be that
they see the love of God. And by the way, if we're fighting
and bickering and not showing the love of Christ at the house
of God, we're missing the opportunity to show them Christ. So he deals
with the wise behavior, but then in verse 14 he deals with wicked
behavior. The Bible said, but if ye have
bitter envying and strife. Notice what it said, in your
hearts. Glory not and lie not against. Well, that's interesting
to me because if he's saying glory not, then it must mean
that somebody thought it was okay. Right? I mean, you know, when they put
the warning stickers on something, Most of the time they do that
because somebody did something that would warrant putting a
warning sticker. I mean, who would have ever thought we'd
have to tell people not to eat laundry pods? But, you know, that's obviously
a big thing. Don't eat laundry pods. It's
not good. It does not clean your insides, right? That's for laundry.
But we have to constantly warn people because they did something
that was dangerous. So I feel like James is dealing
with an issue because really when you look at the first two
chapters going into chapter three, kind of the tone of the letter,
It was not really an encouraging letter. James is writing to deal
with some issues going on in that church among those people.
And so here he's saying in verse 14, if ye have bitter envy and
strife in your hearts, glory not. Well, I'm just thinking,
and I'm sure you are. Why would you even have to say
that? Because let's be honest, we still
live in this flesh. And if we're not careful in this
flesh, we will allow sensual carnal things to control us.
And the world says envy and strife is okay. And so if the world
thinks it's okay, then it must be okay. And I'm, I'm just human
and I can't help it. And I know God may not be that
way. And he, that may not be the ideal,
but what, here's what we do. We try to find the acceptable
line, right? What's acceptable. Well, society,
I'll give you an example. When we look at things, right,
and here's what I want you to think about. If the law says
it's okay, but the Bible says it's not okay, which do you follow? You always follow the higher
authority. Right? So what people say, well, you
know, give me an example, right? Well, the law says that I can
get away with this, but what's the Bible say? Right? No, obviously, brother Matt,
our mind goes to certain areas of life, but look at it across
the board, right? If it's okay, if it's lawful
to Not pay your taxes, right? Or to find loopholes, but it's biblical that you do.
Which one do you do? Just a few months ago, right?
Just a few months ago. It's like, okay, well, the law
says that I have to do, you know, I have to, I have to do this.
But my conscience tells me not to, which do you do? See what
I'm saying? You have to go with the higher
authority. So the world says it's okay that if someone does
this to you, that it's okay for you to do it to them. Our flesh
says that brother Foy, right? The Bible says do unto others
as you would have them do unto you. So we cannot embrace worldly
philosophy and make it scriptural and be okay with it, right? All
right, prime example, right? Let's say you're at work and
you get 15 minutes for your break, but everybody takes 20 minutes,
but they don't say anything to you, right? But what the rule
is, is 15 minutes. Is it okay to take 20? No, because
you're cheating the company. Well, that's kind of nitpicky,
preacher. But see what I'm saying is you
have to guard your testimony and your character even outside
the house of God. So while I know so and so and
he's a Christian and he does it, well, who's James talking
to? He's not talking to a lost world,
he's talking to people in the church who profess to know Christ.
See, so we have to always go to the higher authority. So James
is dealing with this envy and let's be honest, we see that
in the house of God. I've been doing this a little
while and I've seen people well you know I've been here longer
than brother Shane and he's teaching Sunday school and I feel like
I should be teaching Sunday school or I should be doing this or
I should be whatever happened to just serving God where you're
at. So James gives us four things
that snuff out wisdom. One is a bitter spirit. Jealousy
makes a person bitter. When you're jealous, it makes
you bitter, right? And so bitter envying toward
one wiser or more gifted and more successful, it leads people
to say mean-spirited things. For instance, listen, I remember
a pastor telling me years ago, he said, as I started pastoring,
he said, now listen, and I was naive, I just thought, man, everybody,
you know all the preachers around your area you're the new guy
in town they're going to take you out to lunch and hey brother
we're glad to have you my phone never rang and I believe brother Jarrett
might have been brother Fry told me he said well sons let me tell
you something he said when your church is smaller than theirs
you're insignificant when your church is the same size they're
a little afraid when your church gets to be bigger you're a compromiser
Right? And I'm just naive enough to
think, man, I thought we was all doing this for the same reason.
Right? But it's that way in every area
of life. You see it even among your children. If one thinks
like one gets something, the other doesn't, well, that's not
fair. Why do they get this and I don't? You see that in the
workplace. Why'd brother Johnny get a raise
and I didn't? Well, maybe he shows up, right? So what happens
is we're not grateful or thankful. We feel like we're owed things.
We feel entitled and we feel like we're cheated, which leads
to envying, right? I mean, I'll be honest with you.
I listen to Miss Susan play and I'm like, we'll say things like,
I wish I could play like that, but you won't put the time in
that she put to learn to do that. So if we're not careful, we'll
look at things and we'll say, well, why do they get to do that?
Or, you know, even preachers, Brother Bushy will say, well,
why does God allow them to preach all over the country and I don't
get to preach all over the country? Or why are they getting to preach
at this conference and I'm not getting? Well, it's not your
business. See, if you'll just stay where you're at and do what
God's called you to do, maybe he'll open doors. But even if
he doesn't, who cares? And so this flesh gets bitter
and jealous because you think you're being treated unfairly.
It's entitlement. And then there's a belligerent
spirit, strife, which means self-seeking ambition. Why are you doing what
you're doing? James said, why are you doing
what you're doing? Well, if you're doing it for your glory and to
get a pat on the back, you're doing it for the wrong reason.
If you're doing it for recognition, you're doing it for the wrong
reason. If we're doing it to glorify God, then we don't really
care who gets the recognition as long as He does. So, when
we have a belligerent spirit, self is on the throne. Then there's a boastful spirit.
Then there's a blind spirit. Wisdom never parts company with
truth. See, all these thinking heads, everybody thinks they're
wise. But you cannot separate truth
from wisdom. And we find truth in the Word
of God. Amen? I don't care how smart and intelligent
someone is, when you deny God and you deny the Bible, then
what you're doing is showing you're not wise. And so in verse 13, 14, he deals
with wisdom and its course. And then verse 15, 17, he deals
with wisdom and its source. Where's it come from? So in verse
15, he said this wisdom descendeth not from above talking about,
uh, verse 14. Right. But his earthly sensual
devilish. For where envying and strife
is, there is confusion and every evil work. But the wisdom that
is from above is first pure. So the first part, verse 15-16,
he talks about the source of human wisdom. And that's where
we are today. This humanistic mindset that
elevates man and his thinking to say, listen, we don't need
God. We can determine what we want to and what's right. NPR,
many of you have probably heard National Public Radio, which
is being funded by you. And all the slant, right? And so they interviewed the CEO. I saw she said this, well, we
all have our own truth. And again, what we're saying
is there's no authority. I'm the authority. I get to determine
what truth is in my life. Well, the problem with that is
there is a single truth and that truth is God. Whether you accept
it or not, that's a different subject. But when you separate
wisdom from truth, you don't have true wisdom. You have sensual
wisdom and the source of that is human wisdom. The human mind
is amazing. But the problem with it is it's
limited. Right? And the Bible tells us our ways
are not his ways and our thoughts are not his thoughts. He's much
higher than we are. So wherever we are, brother Sean,
we have to understand that God is much more intelligent and
wiser than we are. And so therefore he's the higher
authority, which I must submit to the higher authority. And
the source of human wisdom is secular source. In other words,
it's phony wisdom. And that's where we live today.
All human psychology, philosophy, and human religion is secular. Anything that when you look and
see, and here's the problem. So we mix up philosophy with
principle. Well, I have this biblical philosophy. No, you either have a biblical
principle or you have a human philosophy of the Bible. You
can't have biblical philosophy. You say, well, you know, I have
a human psychology. Well, the psychology, who created
the mind? God did. And so what we've allowed,
listen to what I'm saying, we've allowed the world to hijack all
the things about us and we'll listen to them more than we will
God doctor says something well he's
a doctor he's got all this education right education see God put something
inside of you called the Holy Spirit of God and you have to
realize that God has given you some wisdom and he ain't always right you wanna
you wanna just Bamboozle the doctor when he goes in there,
and you know now used to when you went the doctor They knew
you from the time you're born, and you know how you been and
now it's like well I got to get to the next one to pay the bills,
right So like what's your what's your symptoms? Oh here take that
that doesn't work come back. We'll give you something else,
right? Well Problem is All that. Then you say, well,
Doc, it fixed that, but now I got something else. Oh, well, here's
something for that. Well, here, it fixed that, but got something
else. Well, here's something for that. Before you know it, you're carrying
around a briefcase full of stuff with you that the wise doctor
told you to take. Now, I'm not saying there, don't
get me wrong, I'm not anti-doctor. Somebody looking at me like,
are you saying we shouldn't go to the doctor? I don't care if you go to the
doctor or which doctor, what you do. But I'm saying you ought to ask
some questions. And if you really want to bamboozle them when they
start in all that mess, you say, well, explain to me why I need
it. I don't have time to explain
it to you. I got to get on to the next one because we got to
see 47 patients or we can't pay our dues. Right? I'm just saying you ought to
have enough wisdom to know that God created this body to heal
itself. And we do need doctors. But I
think sometimes we think they are the creators. And we do that in every area
of life. Well, this professional said this, this professional
said this, this professional said this. Well, what makes them
a professional? Well, they went to college for
it. Oh, I got you. The same ones that we're having
all the issues with now. See what I'm saying? The source
of human wisdom is secular. The source of godly wisdom is
God. And so the philosophy and the
psychology, even religion brother Jimmy, I mean let's be honest.
Why in the world do we have 49,000 religions? Well because we don't, for that
matter why do we have 47,000 different denominations? Why do we have to have 98,000
different Baptists? Because we don't care what the
Bible says. We want to figure out what fits in our life and
put the Bible in there somehow. Right? So all human psychology,
philosophy, and religion are secular. So there has been an
attempt in every field to bypass God and wisdom. We don't need
God. We'll do it ourselves. Right?
Creation. Well, we can explain that away.
The experts say, so there's also the sensual source. Notice the Bible said, but it
is earthly sensual devilish. So the sensual source of wisdom
is a corrupt desire from the natural man. Well, I feel like I have an appetite for. My emotions
say, my intellect says, so we find ways to rationalize our
lawless indulgences. Right? And now I mentioned it
Sunday, what we do is everything's a sickness. We got hooked on drugs, well
it's a sickness. What you're saying is it's not
my fault, I couldn't help it. Right? Got hooked on alcohol. He knows this, you can't go into
prison and say listen it's not your fault. You can't get saved until you
take accountability of being a sinner. For all have sinned
to come to the shore of the glory of God. So we have to come to
the realization, a heavenly wisdom is that there is a perfect God
there's an imperfect man and when you separate imperfect man
from perfect God then you have all this human wisdom and it's
all devilish, it's secular and so therefore it leads to satanic
sources, sources that are anti-God and even among churches when
it is anti-God when you're not preaching the whole counsel of
God when we're not preaching sin and salvation when we're
not preaching heaven and hell Then it's a man made religion
that is just hey I go to church and I go to be encouraged. We
don't need pep talks we need Bible preaching. See, because
if we don't have Bible preaching, what it leads to is an anemic,
shallow Christianity that is anything that does not meet our
physical need. And this sinful man that needs
to be encouraged all the time, we go, well, I don't want to
go there. I want to go somewhere where I leave and feel good.
Well, I'll say this. Well, when you're living in sin,
you shouldn't feel good about it. That's called conviction. So I'm thankful the Holy Spirit
through His Word. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing
by the Word of God. God uses His Word to convict
us or convince us of our sin. That's how you got saved. And
if you're out in sin and you get right with God, that's how
you get right with God. Well, I felt like I was away from God.
Well, that's not a natural feeling for the natural man. That is
a God feeling that God gives you because of His Word. And so all of this is the result
in unrest and ungodliness. Is that not where we are today?
Everywhere you turn, there's chaos. Well, 1 Corinthians 14,
God's not the author of what? Confusion. Where there's confusion,
it's not God. The house of God, when you're
in church, there's confusion. It's not God doing that. Here's
what we do. Sometimes we blame it on God.
God's not the author of confusion. So there's the source of human
wisdom. Then there's the source of heavenly
wisdom, verse 17, 18. The Bible said, but the wisdom
that is from above is first, what pure then peaceable. Now, do you notice the contrast?
So the worldly wisdom is divisive, right? Verse 14, if you have
bitter envy and strife in your heart, glory not, lie not against
the truth. The wisdom sent from above is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying strife is,
there is confusion in every evil work. That's what your Bible
says. But, so there's a contrast. Here's the one, verse 17 says,
but here's the other. The wisdom that is from above
is first pure. then peaceable, gentle, easy
to be entreated, full of mercy, good fruits, without partiality
and without hypocrisy. That's where we ought to be living.
Right? I mean, if we're saved, some
folks say they're saved. So here's what he's saying. Ready?
Hang on. He's saying what you say you
got on the inside should flow to the outside and here's what
it looks like. Now you can argue with me all
you want to but you can't argue with that book. The first verse
14-15 are those that do not have the witness of the Spirit. Right? Can we agree? So we get to verse
17 he's saying if you're saved If you're born again, if you
are who you say you are, this is what it looks like. Here's
what I want you to do. Don't look at your wife or your
husband or your neighbor. I want you to take just a minute
and I want you to look in you. And then I want you to think
if these actions line up with what you say you have. Because
here's what he said. The basic character of God's
wisdom is pure, right? Not confusion, pure, truth. So
it will never suggest or condone any unclean thing. This, where
we live at today, it's like, well, you know, now this is how
God created us, and He's a merciful God, and He's a God of grace,
and so therefore, He's okay with us living like the world. We're
free. Chains are gone, hallelujah. The problem is, The chains that
are gone should cause you to live for Christ. The sins that
are gone are the bondage of sin, not the bondage of separation.
And see, we live in a world where everybody talks about the chains
are gone, the bondage, but what they're saying, brother, is the
bondage of sanctification is gone. Then I don't have to live
for God. Cause he's renewed the inner
man. Well, James saying, if he's renewed the inner man, it should
show on the outer man. That's why brother four, we got
all this confusion today. Cause we don't want, we, the
inner man has not been regenerated. And so therefore we're people
that try to live in a way that a regenerated man would live
without being regenerated on the inside. Can't do it. So it
becomes bondage to them. It's where it is. James talked
to the church, he said some of y'all in here you're trying to
live the Christian life but you're not really born again you're
not filled with the spirit of God and so therefore what's coming
out of you is verse 14-15 bitter, envying, strife but if you are who you say you
are the wisdom from above is pure right? well then he says
peaceable what's that mean? ready for this? Loves peace. Look it up. That's what it means. Peace loving.
Is that you? Most Baptists I know are not
peace loving. They'd rather fight. You don't believe it? All you
got to do is type F-A-C-E-B-O-O-K and you'll see Baptist preachers
arguing on social media. You'll see Christians arguing
on social media. That don't look like peace-loving to me. Remember
this? Was it the church at Corinth?
Paul said, listen, if a brother is going to take you to court,
He said, you ought to just take the hit or bring it in the church. He said, you don't need, the
outside world don't even know what's going on. That's what
he said. I've seen people sue the church.
You tell me where that, well, the law says, oh, which one? You mean the one that King James
Bible, that's not what the law says. You with me? So what he's saying
is, for the cause of Christ, you ought to be a peacemaker,
and you ought to be willing to take the hit if you have to.
Well, that ain't right. I'm not going to let anybody
walk over me. I know. Because you're the first kind. We shouting now? You're the first
kind. You say, I don't know anywhere
where the Bible says that I have to be a doormat. You want to
be used of God, you're going to be used by people. That's
right. That's what he said, right? Well,
I just don't agree with that because what you're saying is
that your wisdom is sensual. It doesn't agree with your flesh. Are you peace-loving? Go ahead and get an altar call,
I guess. What we need, right? Are you peace-loving? You love
peace. Well, no, no. Are you gentle? That word means
to forbear. Remember what forbear means?
To put up with each other. God's people ought to put up
with each other. I just don't like them. Somebody
probably don't like you. mercy an outward manifestation
of pity good fruit means good deeds without
partiality completely unbiased that's God's wisdom now here's
what I want to ask you what would happen if God's people in God's
church acted with God's wisdom. So James is saying, listen, you
say this is what you've got, it ought to show. Yeah, but what
if? See, there's a problem. But Johnny,
we like all that right there when it's everybody else but
me. When it comes to me, I got my own set of rules that James
doesn't know anything about. Right? James is writing everybody
else, not me. I got my own book that I've written.
It's called The Gospel According to Me. The Epistle to the Church of
Me. And I'm gonna cherry pick verses
I like, put it right in that book of the Bible. To where everybody
else is wrong, and I'm the one that's right. Right? James is saying if you are who
you say you are and you got what you say you got it should show. And if it doesn't show then you
have to examine the inner man and see if you've got what you
say you got. I told you before we started
James this would not be a Lovey-dovey, let's walk out of here shouting
the victory. That's what we need. God's people ought to be working
people and should show their faith by their works. And that's
not just handing out tracks. That's how we treat people in
our everyday life. I was talking to a young man
this week. And he works for a man who says
he's a Christian. And he told me, he said, he's
cheated me out of money. He said he cusses like a sailor
and he drinks. And here's what he said. He said,
if that's a Christian, I don't want to be one. Brother Bart, I asked him, I
said, well, I said, let me ask you this. I said, have you seen
me doing any of those things? He said, no. I said, well, I'm
a Christian, but they're always going to go
to the lowest common denominator. They're going to, why? Because
it gives them ammunition to say, if that's what it is, I don't
need it. That's why James is saying that the outward man. should show what the inward man
professes to be. And that's what he's telling
us. That's what God's telling us. We need to be who we say
we are out there. Let's pray. Let's get around
the altar and pray
The Sin Of The Mind
Series Epistle Of James
| Sermon ID | 4324233217477 |
| Duration | 40:06 |
| Date | |
| Category | Midweek Service |
| Bible Text | James 3:13-18 |
| Language | English |
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