Nov. 24, 2024

James 1:19-27 A New Interpretation Pt 4

James 1:19-27 A New Interpretation Pt 4

We continue the work on a new interpretation of James 1:19-27

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We continue the work on a new interpretation of James 1:19-27

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All right, Book of James, we have a lot to

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do today. I know we need to be in Isaiah forty.

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The goal this morning for Isaiah forty was I was

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going to step back a little bit, do an observational

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outline of the entire chapter, and then just kind of

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start going through the sections instead of I mean, I

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think we've dealt with all the controversy and the false

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comfort and all of that stuff. I think we've dealt

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with that, so I wanted to do that.

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Well.

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Also, desperately need to get back to Romans chapter four.

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But this week everything ended up in the Book of James.

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So I need to try to bring all of this

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week's focus to some kind of hopefully satisfying conclusion. Beneficial

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conclusion we will see. But go to James chapter two,

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verse twenty four. James chapter two, verse twenty four. This

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is not the key text for today, but James two

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twenty four is a good place to start.

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James two twenty four. We read these words.

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Ye see then, how that by works a man is

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justified and not by faith only everybody see that. James

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two twenty four. We read it again. Ye see then,

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how that by works a man is justified and not

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by faith only.

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Now anyone who.

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Is not a Catholic, that raises some questions, right, because

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what's one of the key things we believe as a

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non Catholic Christian justified by faith alone? And what does

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this verse say? We're not justified by faith alone? So

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that creates problems. Now, throughout church history, there's a lot

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of people who did not necessarily like the Book of James. Right,

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Luther was obviously one of them, because it it poses

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lots of problems. Now, if you take probably most non

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Catholic Christian pastors and teachers, especially in certain evangelical and

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especially in Reformed traditions, they typically interpret James as presenting

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a framework to test the validity of one salvation through

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outward actions. That's almost every church, any Christian you know,

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if they go to church, that's how they hear the Book.

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Of James taught.

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The Book of James is going to test the validity

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of someone's salvation, and that test is based off what

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not on Christ, but on your outward actions. This interpretation

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is often summarized in the idea that good works serve

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as evidence of genuine faith. This is the predominant non

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Catholic interpretation of James. All right, and so they'll quote

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like James two fourteen through twenty six, this entire section

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where basically it says faith without works as what dead

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and they understand dead to be what Now you're not saved? Right,

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That's the way they interpret it. This passage is commonly

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cited to argue that true faith must produce good works,

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implying that a lack of works calls one salvation into question.

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And this view the commands and James controlling the tongue,

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caring for the poor, resisting worldliness are seen as a

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criteria for evaluating whether someone possesses saving faith.

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That's typically how it is viewed.

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Others that will go on to say things like many

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pastors interpret James as a way to distinguish between a

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true believer and a false professor. And then the proof

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comes through what your performance?

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This is the idea? Now, what would be a critique

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of this approach?

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Well, it has potential theological issues because it makes it

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confuses justification with what sanctification. It confuses it, it messes

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these up and so it and guess what else it does?

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It undermines the imputed righteousness of Christ.

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So there's major theological imphasis.

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Problems when you look at this, and it possibly is

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a misreading of the entire Book of James. It could

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possibly be an entire misreading. So there's major problems when

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it comes to the Book of James. If you walk

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into any church and you do not go along with

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their teaching that James is a book that will prove

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and test someone salvation, you will find yourself what in

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conflict with it. If you stand behind a pulpit and

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say that reading and that interpretation of James is wrong,

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you will find yourself in conflict with whom most Christians,

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and you definitely won't have a job in most churches

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very long.

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You're you're gonna be let go because.

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They demand that you understand it from a particular theological perspective.

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So what we're gonna be doing today is we're gonna

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be I'm gonna come up with a completely unique and

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new interpretation of a specific section in the Book of James.

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All Right, I'm gonna tell you how we got there,

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and I'm going to explain all of that in a minute,

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But let me stress this, all right. I wanted to

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have like I've got like five pages of notes.

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I could discuss this, but let me just state this.

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It's an emphatic, dogmatic assertion, and I believe I can

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prove it. Most of hermeneutics, most Bible interpretation, and most

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churches interpret the Bible based off a thiological system. They

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do not let the text speak for itself. They have

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a philological belief. They interpret the Bible that way, and

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so preaching is not about working on the text. Preaching

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is about simply reinforcing whatever one already believes.

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Because if you step.

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Behind the pulpit and you actually deal with the text,

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what will be the end result. You will find yourself

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not in agreement with any philological system. If you stay

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true to the text, you will find yourself in conflict

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with every philological system. That's why the corporate church does

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not want this. They're liars. They don't want to study

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the Bible. They don't because if you really wanted to

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study the Bible, you're gonna be uncomfortable. Why because you're

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gonna be confronted with things like what apparent contradictions, things

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that make no sense, things that possibly I don't even

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know if we have good answers for nobody wants that.

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Everybody wants it to come to church and get a nice,

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little canned presentation that makes them feel like they did

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a little bit of spiritual something and they get to

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go home feeling better about themselves.

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But they don't want to.

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Actually study the text, because if you study the text,

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it's not going to be nice and neat.

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It's gonna be ugly.

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It's gonna be messy, and guess what we're gonna have

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to say. Many times we don't have the answers. We

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don't know because sometimes we don't know, all right, So

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let's just get that out of the way, right. So

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when I try to interpret the text, I've stated this

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pretty I've tried to state this my whole life.

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I don't know if people here.

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I think a lot of people have attended this church

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but never believed me.

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But I do not.

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Care at all about philological allegiance. I have no allegiance

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to a philological system. I don't care if I offend

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the Amillennial, the pre millennial, the Covenant, theology dispensational.

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I don't care if it's the reform non reform.

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I don't steaking care who gets offended, because it's irrelevant

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that you are committed to your little philological team. I

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don't wear your jersey, I don't represent your team.

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Don't care, I don't care.

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And that's the way every Christian should be. We should

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Our allegiance should not be to a thiological system. Now,

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if we're Catholics, our allegiance should be to a theological system, right,

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But if we're not Catholics, what do we claim that

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our allegiance is to Scripture and to Christ? But nobody

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really believes that it's the same thing. When we say

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the Scriptures are the final authority? What is the final authority?

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And every and all of Protestant Christianity, the individual right,

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the Bible is not the final authority. Anybody who says

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the Bibles of final authority is a liar. You're making

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that up right, You are the final authority based off

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what your interpretation of scripture.

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So look, we just have to be honest with that. Now.

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I say all of that because I'm about to offer

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an interpretation that goes against everyone. Everyone nobody agrees with me.

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And I've already spent on the podcast. I went from

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this second century all the way to modern times. Okay,

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and nobody agrees with me at all. But I've worked

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on it, and worked on it, and worked on this.

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Are you ready all right?

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The section is James chapter one, starting in verse nineteen.

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James Chapter one, starting in verse nineteen. Everyone ready, okay?

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Someone say yes, okay, all right? James Chapter one, in

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verse nineteen. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be

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swift to here, slow to speak, slow to wrath, For

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the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore,

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lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive

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with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save

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your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and

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not hearers, only deceiving.

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Your own selves.

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For if any man be a hero of the word

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and not a doer, he's like unto a man beholding

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his natural face and a glass, For he beholdeth himself,

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goeth his way and straightway, forgetteth what manner of man

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he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of

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liberty and continueth therein him, being not a forgetful hearer,

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but a doer of the work, this man shall be.

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Blessed in his deed. If any man among.

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You seem to be religious and bridleth not his tongue,

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but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain,

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pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father. Is

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this to visit the fatherless and widow in their affliction,

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and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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Right, that's the section.

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Now, when you read that section, what do you think

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the emphasis is in most Christians mind? What is the

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emphasis in that section in your own mind? How would

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most Christians approach this passage? Okay, separation from the world, focus

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on works.

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Most sermons are going to be about what right?

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I think most sermons are going to focus on don't

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be a hearer of the word, be a doer of

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the word. And if you if you are not a

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doer of the word, what are you going to walk

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away when you leave church? If you're not a doer

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of the word, you're not safe. That's going to be

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the focus in almost everything here. Okay, And there's major

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problems with this.

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So here's what happened.

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I chose a random sermon to review for the podcast,

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and the sermon was entitled the Law of Liberty. Right,

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And so they attempted to define what the law of

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liberty was.

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And then look at verse James Chapter one. Look at

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verse twenty one.

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There's a phrase in verse twenty one that it's in

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the two words are ingrafted word?

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See that? All right?

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So dis Sermon tried to identify or define what the

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law of liberty was, which is in what verse.

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No. Twenty five.

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They tried to define what the law of liberty was,

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which is in verse twenty five, and they tried to

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define what the ungrafted word was in verse twenty one.

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All right, so they.

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Put forth their idea, This is what the ungrafted word is,

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this is what the law of liberty is. Right, they

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put forth their idea. I then went through the entire

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history of Christendom from the second century to modern times

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to see how they define what the ungrafted word is

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and what the law of liberty is. And then I

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had Ai give me its definition of what the ungrafted

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word is and law of liberty was. And when I

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was done with all of it, I said, everyone is wrong, right,

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because none of it made any sense. So in your

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Christian life, how have you defined the ungrafted word?

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What have you thought the ingrafted word was in your

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Christian life.

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I mean, you've read James A Brazilian Times, so you've

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had to do something with it. Okay, the Gospel, that's

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the that's almost everyone goes. Okay, the Gospel, all right,

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how about the law of liberty? Okay, all right, okay,

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So the gospel is what some people say. Now if

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you go back in church history, they kind of like

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know that it wouldn't be the Gospel would be the

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law because okay, right, well, I'm saying the ungrafted word

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they would say was the law.

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everybody does in church history, whatever the raft.

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I spent probably six hours already doing all of this.

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The ungrafted word, the law of liberty.

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these things will transform you, change you. And the way

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you know you've received the ungrafted word, the way you

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know you've looked into the law liberty is because you

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do the right things, you've been transformed, you've been changed.

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You can keep the law, you can obey God, you

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can do it. That's basically what it all turns into,

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which I emphatically would deny because reality says it's not true.

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So even when I got into a discussion when AI,

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I'm like, well, if you claim that all these changes

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are true, do Christians keep the law? Well no, A,

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I has to admit, well, does it that that interpretation

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does not fit reality? I'm like, okay, Well, if the

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interpretation doesn't fit reality, either I've got to change reality

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or I got to say this interpretation is wrong. So

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I'm like, boom, I'm going to work on it. So

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I spent I don't know an hour writing my own interpretation,

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and then I gave it to AI and the mean A.

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argument forever on my interpretation, and so it gave me

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an analysis, a critique, and it gave all of my ideas.

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I've already kind of given a basic understanding of what

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it is. But now I need to take my interpretation

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and make it work from verse nineteen to twenty seven,

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and then I have to try to determine if my

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interpretation of nineteen through twenty seven fits with the totality

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of the book. So are you ready to work on it?

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Here is my core framework.

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Are you ready?

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Here's the core framework for my interpretation. My interpretation number

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one starts with verse twenty one, which is the ungrafted word.

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I interpret the a grafted word differently than everyone else did.

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I believe the ingrafted word refers to something that is

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mentioned in Romans chapter two, verses fourteen through fifteen.

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Romans chapter two, verses fourteen through fifteen, Romans two, fourteen

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through fifteen, tell me if you find it.

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Okay, what how do I interpret it? Then? Okay?

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Verse fifteen would show the work of the law written

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in their hearts. I believe that the ungrafted word refers

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to something that is implanted in every single person, whether

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Jew are gentile, and that is the law of God

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written on our hearts. Why do I believe it's that, Well,

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it says it's the ungrafted word, right if it's ingrafted,

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meaning what.

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It's implanted inside of us? Okay?

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So I believe that this refers to the law written

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on the heart. I believe this is the thing that

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condemns us and it brings guilt.

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Does everybody see that? And what does it say we're

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supposed to do with this ingrafted word? And James two

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twenty one we must receive it with meekness. Now, when

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we receive it with meekness, then this law will fulfill

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its purpose. And what is the purpose of the law

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written in our hearts? To lead us to what will

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save us? The law does not save us? Need us

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to Christ for salvation? For salvation?

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So what what is my How do I interpret the law,

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the ingrafted word, the law that is written inside of us?

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What is our responsibility then, per se to receive it

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with magnus? And when we say receive it with magnus,

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what are we simply doing accepting and acknowledging that we

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are guilty?

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And what it says it is true?

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And then it does, then we allow it to fulfill

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its purpose, which to lead us to the to Christ.

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That's that's foundational point number one. Everybody got that all right?

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Number two? The law of liberty James one twenty five.

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What are we supposed to do with the law of liberty?

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To look into it continuously?

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Does everybody see that we are to continue to look

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into the law liberty? How do you think I define

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the law liberty. I believe the law of liberty refers

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to the moral law fulfilled in Christ, which frees us

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from condemnation.

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From sin. All right.

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When we look into the law liberty, it shows us

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that the law that condemns us has been filled.

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So then it sets us free.

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What does it set us free from? No, it does

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not set us free from the power of sin. So

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that's where I completely disagree with all of christiandoms what.

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Guilt? Guilt? It frees us from guilt from condemnation. Right,

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because when.

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We look into the law of liberty, what do we see?

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Christ has fulfilled that law? So we're no longer condemned

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by it does not free us from the power power

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of it, or then we could be perfect?

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This perfect law is that not referred to perfect, reflects

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both Christ's perfect fulfillment of the law and his example

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of love. So again, here are these are my foundational points,

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my core framework. What's number one, the ingrafted word is

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what the law right in our hearts? The law of

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liberty is what that law fulfilled in Christ? And then

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number three, this is a third key point, living positionally

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and true love Practically, this command the commands in this passage.

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All the commands in this passage are calls to live

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out practically what is already positionally true in Christ with

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a humble awareness of human inability. This necessitates a constant

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reflection on and dependence upon the law of liberty. When

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we see, we're supposed to try to live out what

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is true positionally, but we have to cont you to

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look to the law of liberty. Why because when we

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try to do these things, what are we going to find?

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going to find that we don't do it? So we

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have to go back and continually look into the law

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of liberty for us.

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To have any hope. Right? Does everybody got that? So?

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What are my three key points? Basically, the a grafted

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word is the moral law. The law of liberty is

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the law fulfilled in Christ. And then number three, we

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have to understand the idea of living positionally versus practical living.

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That's kind of a best way to describe that. I

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still could work on number three a little bit more.

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I think I would change that now, but that's okay.

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For now, we'll just go along with what I originally stated.

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Those are the key that's the key found that's the foundation.

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Everybody got the foundation, that's the key.

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Framework, the core framework.

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Now, let's start with a detailed interpretation of verse nineteen

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all the way.

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To twenty seven. Everybody ready sounds good? All right? What

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do we have in verse nineteen to twenty? Look nineteen

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to twenty. What do we have?

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We do have a wherefore, and we'll have to get

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to that when we connect this to the rest of

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the book. But let every person be quick to hear,

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slow to speak, slow to anger, for the anger of

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man does not produce the righteousness of God.

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Everybody see that? What do we have in verse twenty? Okay,

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I already got that for the wrath?

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Okay, I was already jumping to twenty one. But nineteen

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to twenty. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be

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swifty here, slow to speak, slow to wrath, for the

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wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Now,

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this seems to be dealing with practical way of living,

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practical something.

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Like what do we do with this?

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Well, we could handle this way right, We could possibly

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see this is kind of dealing with the problem that

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we're going to have to find a solution for right.

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So this maybe we could Some may.

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Try to refer to this as the preparing of the heart.

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I think maybe this is more of a revealing of

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the heart, but it's revealing something about us, right, so

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it deals with Could we agree that this kind of

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deals with anger, possibly pride, maybe self justification? These days

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would hinder the ability to receive the ungrafted word with meekness.

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To allow the law to do its work, believers must

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approach it with humility, acknowledging its authority and their sinfulness.

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I think what we can say this.

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Is demonstrating the wrong kinds of attitude. In fact, if

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you go nineteen twenty even the first part of twenty one,

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look at all the things we have here. Right, so

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we need to be what swift to hear, slow.

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To speak, and slow to wrath? Everybody hear that? Right?

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For why?

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Because the wrath of God worketh not the right. The

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wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. I

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think wrath anger is something every person is experienced to

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some level.

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Yes, okay, wherefore lay.

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Apart all filthiness, superfluity of naughtiness, right, these are all

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these This is kind of revealing the heart that we've

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got this problem. Can everybody see that the righteousness of

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God that anger cannot produce is only found in Christ.

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So I think this is all demonstrating or revealing the heart.

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Here's some of the issues we deal with, right, we've

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got look at all the things that are listed here.

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Do we have a tendency not to do we have

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a tendency not to listen? Can we agree that we

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have a tendency not to listen? So it says we

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need to be swift to hear.

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Right. Do we have a tendency to be fast to speak? Yes?

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We do have a tendency to be fast to get upset? Yes?

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And all of that really indicates what a self centered attitude.

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I want to be heard, I don't want to listen.

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To you, and I have a tendency to get ticked

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off when things don't go my way. Right, I think

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we can all agree that. And the next what do

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we have lay apart all filthiness? That filthiness is translated

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in different ways, in different translations, how.

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Is it in the NIV.

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All moral filth Okay, now where everyone's getting involved in this, right?

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What else? And the evil that is so prevalent, right

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is this is? Now?

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What is this outlining in this first section? I'm gonna

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say it's revealing the condition of the heart. Some some

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may AI wanted me to call this preparing of the heart,

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but I don't like calling it the preparing of the heart.

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I think it's revealing the problem. Yes, that describes us.

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We are self centered, we will get agree when things

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don't go our way, and we're morally corrupt.

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That is who we are. I think it's revealing that.

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Does that make sense? So then what are we to

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do in regards to all of this?

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Well, it says we got to put this aside, right,

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but then what does it tell us to do Verse

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twenty one, Receive with meekness the ingrafted word. Receive with

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meekness the ingrafted word. Everybody see that. So I don't

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necessarily like saying that this prepares the heart. What I

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would like to show you is that this reveals the

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condition of the heart, and the heart's messed up, and

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we need to receive with meekness something that's different from

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the condition of our heart. Right, what are we to

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receive the ungrafted word? And how are we to receive it? Humbly, meekly? Now,

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what is that giving you the idea of it's the

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opposite of pride and self centered?

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Right?

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In other words, if you receive it meekly, what are

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you going to do? You're going to accept what it says?

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And what does the ingrafted word say? The ingrafted word

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is going to show you all the things that was

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just stated in the text, right, that you are a

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self centered person who only wants to be heard, You

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don't want to listen to anyone, you get ticked off,

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and you're morally corrupt. You have to receive the truth

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of the condition of your heart humbly. Not because what

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do we have a tendency to do when we hear

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all of those bad things about us? Do we tend

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to justify ourselves, defend ourselves, or excuse ourselves?

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They say, we must humbly receive it.

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So I think what we have here is at the

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beginning of here we have the condition of her heart

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that should should that should that speaks to the truth

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of the ingrafted word that's inside of us. It's the

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ingrafted word that speaks to this. Does that everyone follow that?

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All? Right?

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So the ungrafted word, if it's understood as the moral

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00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:19.279
law as I interpret it.

478
00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:23.359
Then it's written on the heart. That's where it is.

479
00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:27.759
It exposes sin and it leads to guilt.

480
00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:34.440
When it is received humbly, it fulfills its purpose and

481
00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:39.279
it points us to Christ for salvation. Because what does

482
00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:42.319
it say, receive with meekness the ingrafted word which is

483
00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:46.160
able to save your souls. How does the ingrafted word

484
00:28:46.240 --> 00:28:49.000
save your soul? Because it points to you to Christ.

485
00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:52.039
It takes you to Christ. But you've got to be

486
00:28:52.079 --> 00:28:56.480
able to receive it, all right, And look at Galatians

487
00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:15.000
three twenty four. Galatians three twenty four. Tell me what

488
00:29:15.039 --> 00:29:22.759
you find when you get to Glatians three twenty four. Oh, DC,

489
00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:25.519
that it's our schoolmaster which brings us to Christ, that

490
00:29:25.559 --> 00:29:27.440
we may be justified by faith.

491
00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:29.920
The law saving.

492
00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:34.680
Power is not in obedience to it, but its role

493
00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:37.359
as a tutor to drive us to Christ.

494
00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:38.960
It's continual.

495
00:29:39.079 --> 00:29:45.960
It's continual conviction sustains dependence on Christ even after salvation.

496
00:29:46.839 --> 00:29:51.039
The law's power is not in our obeying it. The

497
00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:54.440
law's power is in driving us to Christ. Because we

498
00:29:54.640 --> 00:29:58.880
cannot obey it, and I cannot. I want I want

499
00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:06.079
you to hear this again, it's continual conviction, the continual conviction.

500
00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:06.359
Of the law.

501
00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:13.640
It sustains your dependence on grace even after salvation. Somehow,

502
00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:16.359
as Christians were no longer convicted by the law because

503
00:30:16.359 --> 00:30:18.799
we look at the law as something that we can do. No,

504
00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:22.359
the law inside of you should make you constantly dependent

505
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:25.359
upon grace because it's a constant reminder that you want

506
00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:26.759
cannot do it.

507
00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:31.440
So all of these things, it's kind of a circle.

508
00:30:31.680 --> 00:30:34.759
Right, Hey, we get a we all of these things

509
00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:39.039
that it mentions our pride are not listening, wrath, moral corruption,

510
00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:44.799
All of these things are the are the the The

511
00:30:45.119 --> 00:30:48.640
ingrafted word points to all of those things, and all

512
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:51.559
of those things point to our need to listen to

513
00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:55.400
the ungrafted word. Right If I look at my life

514
00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:59.440
and I see selfishness, self centered, pride, moral corruption, what

515
00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:02.559
should it do. Well, I've got to listen to someone, Right, Well,

516
00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:04.920
I should listen to the thing inside of me saying.

517
00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:07.960
You're guilty, You're guilty, You're guilty, You're guilty.

518
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:11.359
If I will receive the truth of that ingrafted word,

519
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:13.519
which points out all of those things that are listed,

520
00:31:13.839 --> 00:31:16.680
then what will I be driven to to.

521
00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:18.200
Christ, which is salvation?

522
00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:20.960
Do. So everybody see how that kind of all works

523
00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:23.440
together on one sense. I've got to be able to

524
00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:25.599
put that aside. But I put it aside in what

525
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:29.480
way I put it aside? Simply to listen.

526
00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:31.519
To the word? Does that make sense?

527
00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:35.640
I am turning from it to turn to the word

528
00:31:35.640 --> 00:31:39.160
which says you are guilty of these things. Now follow

529
00:31:39.240 --> 00:31:42.960
me to Christ? Does that make sense there?

530
00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:47.039
All? Right? So then with that, so that.

531
00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:49.319
Gets us from nineteen to twenty one, right, It kind

532
00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:52.079
of reveals the condition of the heart, and it points

533
00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:54.319
us that we have to listen to the word that's

534
00:31:54.359 --> 00:31:57.240
inside of us. However, we would like to break that down. Okay,

535
00:31:58.279 --> 00:32:03.559
Now that brings us then to what twenty two to

536
00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:06.400
twenty four, which is where most pastors run to you.

537
00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:08.880
But they run to twenty two to twenty four and

538
00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:12.400
separate it from the part that comes before. Right, So

539
00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:15.799
this is how most pastors handle it. Hey, you need

540
00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:18.440
to stop doing bad stuff. You need to receive the

541
00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:21.319
word that's inside of you, which they'll quote is the Gospel.

542
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:22.400
That's how they'll handle it.

543
00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:24.960
And then how do you know you've received the Gospel

544
00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:25.960
that's inside of you?

545
00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:34.680
What is verse twenty two to twenty four. Say, all right.

546
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:36.759
So the way that way they would interpret that is,

547
00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:39.400
how do you know you've received the ingrafted word because

548
00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:42.720
of what you do? And the ungrafted word is the gospel?

549
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:45.960
The ungrafted word is not the gospel. The ingrafted word

550
00:32:46.359 --> 00:32:48.319
is the moral law written on a right Is the

551
00:32:48.720 --> 00:32:50.720
gospel just written in everyone's heart?

552
00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:51.920
No, it's all.

553
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:55.240
There's all kinds of problems with this interpretation. So then

554
00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:57.880
how should we handle verse twenty two to twenty four

555
00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:04.000
in light of what how I interpret the grafted word?

556
00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:09.119
What do you think according to what I have given you?

557
00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:10.039
How would you interpret?

558
00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:10.319
Now?

559
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:24.480
Being a doer of the word, Christ does not enable us.

560
00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:34.000
If he enables us, we could be perfect.

561
00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:38.400
Okay, Well, when we receive the word with meekness, what

562
00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:39.400
does it tell us to do?

563
00:33:41.759 --> 00:33:42.319
Go to Christ?

564
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:44.720
We just looked at Galatians three, right, So to be

565
00:33:44.799 --> 00:33:47.519
a doer of the word is to do what. To

566
00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:50.720
listen to the word that's inside of us, and do

567
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:53.559
what let him fulfill its purpose, which is to.

568
00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:58.039
Take us where. Don't anybody can hear that you're guilty?

569
00:33:58.279 --> 00:33:58.480
Right?

570
00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:01.559
Will?

571
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:04.559
Everyone'll agree with that? Can anyone hear that they are guilty?

572
00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:05.400
Yes?

573
00:34:05.799 --> 00:34:08.239
But it's different to hear that you're guilty versus doing

574
00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:11.719
what allowing that guilt to drive you to Christ for salvation?

575
00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:15.280
Anyone can hear it, Is it of any value if

576
00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:23.079
you just hear that you're guilty, not for salvation? Right,

577
00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:24.920
It's got to do more than just hear it. You've

578
00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:26.920
got to do it in a sense of what is

579
00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:29.320
the law? What is that internal law telling you to do?

580
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:33.280
You gotta flee to what to something that can save you?

581
00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:39.480
Does that make sense? So being a doer means responding

582
00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:42.239
to the condemnation of the law, not by ignoring it,

583
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:45.760
but by allowing it to drive one to Christ. Does

584
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:50.760
everyone see that? But be doers of the word and

585
00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:53.880
not hearers? Only deceiving your own selves. If all you

586
00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:56.920
do is hear it and you don't do anything about it,

587
00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:58.280
you're just you.

588
00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:01.280
It's not doing you any value. It's not doing you

589
00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:05.840
any good to do it.

590
00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:08.800
We are so programmed to immediately interpret that versus what

591
00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:13.039
about obedia about I gotta do this and don't listen

592
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:15.039
to rock and roll and don't watch Netflix, and don't

593
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:16.920
do this, and don't do this, And that's not what the.

594
00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:18.159
Verse is talking about.

595
00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:21.440
It's talking about doing what the ungrafted word tells you.

596
00:35:21.599 --> 00:35:25.079
What is the ingrafted word? It is the law written

597
00:35:25.159 --> 00:35:27.679
on your heart. What does that law tell you? You

598
00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:30.920
are guilty? You're guilty, You're guilty. We want to interpret that. Well,

599
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:36.760
then I'll just do better. You can't do better, so

600
00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:39.039
then you have to be driven to Christ. Now what

601
00:35:39.320 --> 00:35:42.159
it goes from the hearing and doing? What happens in

602
00:35:42.239 --> 00:35:58.440
verse twenty three and twenty four. Yeah, the mirror, right,

603
00:35:58.719 --> 00:36:03.280
So the mirror of the ingrafted word reveals in perfections.

604
00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:04.800
Right when you look in the mirror. When you look

605
00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:10.480
at the mirror, what do you typically do? Okay, this

606
00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:12.280
is not a true question. When you look in a mirror,

607
00:36:12.280 --> 00:36:15.360
what do you typically do? You? You know, just look

608
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:17.320
in the mirror. Go okay, never mind, everything's perfect.

609
00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:19.440
Now you look at a mirror and typically do well, oh,

610
00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:21.079
let me fix this, let me fix this, let me

611
00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:21.360
do this.

612
00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:23.679
You do something correct.

613
00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:25.679
And it says if all you do is look into

614
00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:28.800
the mirror and just walk away and forget it, then

615
00:36:28.840 --> 00:36:32.119
there's of no practical value. Right, Well, what do we

616
00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:34.880
to do when we look to the law, the ungrafted

617
00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:40.280
word inside of us, what do we see are imperfections.

618
00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:43.440
Right now, What most preachers will do is say, well,

619
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:45.360
then this means you have to try to do better.

620
00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:49.400
But that's not what it's talking. The mirror reveals the

621
00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:53.559
imperfection and calls us to go to Christ. It does

622
00:36:53.639 --> 00:36:58.320
not call for self self righteous action. We interpret that

623
00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:00.639
that means, oh, I got to fix myself. I can't

624
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:04.840
fix myself. Everything about the ingrafted word tells me to

625
00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:09.320
go where to Christ? So if I'm gonna do it

626
00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:11.480
and I'm going to look in the mirror, I can

627
00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:13.360
either look in the mirror and go, well, give man,

628
00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:16.760
you're right, I'm guilty, all right, see you later. Or

629
00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:18.440
I can be like, man, I'm guilty. What do I

630
00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:20.719
do here? Well, I gotta go to the one who

631
00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:21.239
can fix it.

632
00:37:21.320 --> 00:37:23.440
Correct. That's the whole point.

633
00:37:23.599 --> 00:37:29.559
Yes, right, So ignoring the law's conviction is self deceptive.

634
00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:35.559
A true response involves recognizing one sin, turning to Christ.

635
00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:38.760
That's what we are called to do. Now.

636
00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:42.880
There may be a call here to some practical action,

637
00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:46.440
but in this immediate context, I think the practical action

638
00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:52.760
comes later. This is all about what hey, guys, do

639
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:55.920
you see this in yourself? Is our heart revealed in

640
00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:58.760
all of those things that's described. It reveals it. How

641
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.559
is it revealed by the ingrafted word inside of you?

642
00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:04.960
What should you do? Receive the ungrafted word inside of

643
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:06.559
you so it will take you to Christ.

644
00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:08.960
So, then, guys, don't just be a.

645
00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:11.800
Hearer of it, be a doer of it. Look into

646
00:38:11.840 --> 00:38:14.679
the mirror and allow it to do what it's purpose.

647
00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:18.880
The ungrafted word's purpose is to do what bring you

648
00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:21.840
to Christ. You can either just hear it and not

649
00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:24.480
do it, or you can just look into it and

650
00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:25.639
not do anything about it.

651
00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:29.239
And the doing is not about our ability.

652
00:38:28.760 --> 00:38:31.639
To keep it. It's about us going to Christ for

653
00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:37.239
forgiveness from it. Does that make sense? It's the only

654
00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:40.840
way this passage will work, all right? So then then

655
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:43.960
what does that bring us to? All of that brings

656
00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:49.840
us to then what but whoso looketh into the perfect

657
00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:52.719
law of liberty? Now we're to the law of liberty.

658
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:57.800
Now what is the law of liberty? The law of

659
00:38:57.840 --> 00:39:01.880
liberty is the moral law fulfilled in Christ provides freedom

660
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:07.239
from condemnation. To look into it is to see Christ's

661
00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:12.360
perfect fulfillment and to live in continual dependence on His grace.

662
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:18.159
Now this, if you follow my.

663
00:39:18.320 --> 00:39:23.480
Interpretation from nineteen to twenty seven is a progression.

664
00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:26.400
It flows perfectly.

665
00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:30.760
What are we confronted with at the beginning of nineteen

666
00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:35.960
twenty verses nineteen twenty and twenty one A. What are

667
00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:40.199
we confronted with in those first that first section the

668
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:42.920
reality of our heart right, the reality of our sin.

669
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:46.639
We're morally corrupt, we're self seeking, we get angry, we

670
00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:50.519
don't listen right, and then we are But then we're

671
00:39:50.519 --> 00:39:53.800
given a kind of a solution. What is that solution? Hey,

672
00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:57.039
listen to the very thing that points out all of

673
00:39:57.079 --> 00:40:00.639
that moral corruption, which is the and grafted way. Now

674
00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:02.239
what are you to do with the grafted word? You

675
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:04.039
to do what it says, which is to take you

676
00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:04.519
to Christ.

677
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:08.239
Look into it. Do what it says, go to Christ.

678
00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:12.480
Once I get to Christ, then what am I to do?

679
00:40:12.519 --> 00:40:16.199
You see the progression? Now we're up to look into

680
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:19.239
the law of liberty? Because when I look into the

681
00:40:19.280 --> 00:40:25.320
law of liberty? What do I see? I see that

682
00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:29.079
Christ has fulfilled the law. All that stuff that condemns me,

683
00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:30.920
Christ has fulfilled it.

684
00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:33.920
So it provides me freedom from condemnation.

685
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:37.840
To look into is to see Christ's perfect fulfillment and

686
00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:42.199
to live continually independence of grace, blessing and doing. Blessing

687
00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:47.719
comes not from achieving perfection, but from preserving and humble.

688
00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:51.000
Dependence upon what Christ has done.

689
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:58.519
I am relying on his completed work. Does everybody see that?

690
00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:01.480
For whosoever looketh into the law of liberty and continue

691
00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:04.280
with there in him being not a forgetful here. Don't

692
00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:08.000
be a forgetful hearer of what There's two things we

693
00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:11.960
cannot forget. We cannot forget that the moral law, that

694
00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:14.519
the law written on our hearts condemns us. And we

695
00:41:14.559 --> 00:41:17.719
cannot forget that Christ has fulfilled it for us.

696
00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:20.000
Do you hear that? Don't be just a hear be

697
00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:21.079
a doer? Right?

698
00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:23.119
You got to get to Christ. When I get there?

699
00:41:23.199 --> 00:41:25.000
What do I have to do? I look into the

700
00:41:25.079 --> 00:41:27.039
law of liberty? How long do I look into it?

701
00:41:28.199 --> 00:41:29.480
Forever? Continually?

702
00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:32.440
And I don't forget what it says, which says what

703
00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:34.360
your sins are forgiven?

704
00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:37.519
You have been said free. What does it say? Don't

705
00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:39.079
be a forgetful here? Do you see that?

706
00:41:40.159 --> 00:41:42.840
But be a doer of the work. This man shall

707
00:41:42.920 --> 00:41:45.920
be blessed in his deed. Now it says, be a

708
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:46.840
doer of the work.

709
00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:50.000
Now that can confuse. A lot of people, wait, wait,

710
00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:51.320
what work? What work?

711
00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:53.800
What work are we called to do? Us a work?

712
00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:57.679
Look to the Gospel of John. I believe it's chapter six.

713
00:42:03.920 --> 00:42:08.000
I believe it's John chapter six. Everyone should know this verse?

714
00:42:17.239 --> 00:42:18.239
Uh see here?

715
00:42:18.559 --> 00:42:19.960
I mean, oh, I don't know if.

716
00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:24.760
I I should have written the reference down.

717
00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:31.440
Oh? Yeah, which verse? Okay?

718
00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:33.920
I thought, see it's a number, So my mind said

719
00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:36.079
it's thirty nine. Okay, all right, all right, here we go,

720
00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:40.079
uh twenty nine, Yeah, here we go. Everybody ready, look

721
00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:43.800
at first twenty eight John six twenty eight then said,

722
00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:46.480
they unto him, what shall we do that we might

723
00:42:46.559 --> 00:42:48.119
work the works of God?

724
00:42:48.519 --> 00:42:53.280
Oh it's a work. Oh, everybody loves to talk about work. Well,

725
00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:54.440
what is the work we are to do?

726
00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:58.119
Jesus answered and said it to him, this is the

727
00:42:58.159 --> 00:42:59.800
work of God that you believe.

728
00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:03.039
On him whom he hath sent. You want to talk

729
00:43:03.079 --> 00:43:07.360
about work, that's the work. Believe. So when we look

730
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:09.639
into the law of liberty, what's the work that I'm

731
00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:10.000
to do?

732
00:43:10.800 --> 00:43:14.880
Believe in that law that says Christ has fulfilled it.

733
00:43:17.440 --> 00:43:18.719
That's the only thing that works.

734
00:43:18.760 --> 00:43:21.199
Because if I have to work, well, it's not going

735
00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:27.760
to work all right, does that make sense? Okay, now

736
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:36.800
that brings us where go back to James one, and

737
00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:39.119
then it says this man should be blessed in his

738
00:43:39.199 --> 00:43:41.840
deed see the end of verse twenty five. Well, we

739
00:43:41.880 --> 00:43:47.960
are blessed in Christ with what all spiritual blessings according

740
00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:51.559
to Ephesians chapter one. Right when we look at Matthew

741
00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:54.000
five and it says blessed is to him blessed? Who's

742
00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:57.760
this blessed? Is this the beatitudes? Most every church you

743
00:43:57.800 --> 00:43:59.360
go to will tell you how do you get those

744
00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:01.519
beatitudes blessings of those beatitudes?

745
00:44:02.920 --> 00:44:06.119
By what you do? It's this dumbest thing, oh man, that.

746
00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:09.679
Drives me crazy. You can't do the beatitudes? How do

747
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:12.440
I receive the blessings from the beattitudes? Because the entire

748
00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:15.440
Sermon on the Mount is law that shows me I cannot,

749
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:19.199
but Christ did, and in Christ I have all spiritual

750
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:21.400
It's not that complicated.

751
00:44:21.639 --> 00:44:23.639
But we want to make it all about what we do,

752
00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:25.400
and then we want to believe that we can do it.

753
00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:28.239
We can't do it. Christ did.

754
00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:32.400
So then from so we have the ingrafted word, which

755
00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:35.239
is the law that reveals all of this problem. We

756
00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:38.400
are to receive it. We are to do it. We

757
00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:41.039
are to look into it, we are to follow it, right,

758
00:44:41.119 --> 00:44:43.239
and that is to lead us to Christ. Then when

759
00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:45.480
once we get there, we look into the law of liberty,

760
00:44:45.559 --> 00:44:48.679
and what do we see? It's all been done for us.

761
00:44:48.719 --> 00:44:50.360
So then what do we do with verse twenty six

762
00:44:50.400 --> 00:45:09.280
and twenty seven? What do we do with twenty six

763
00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:09.880
and twenty seven?

764
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:24.000
Then? Well, remember everything is progressive here, right?

765
00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:28.719
Where did everything start with the condition of us as sinners?

766
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:31.320
Right? Where does that?

767
00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:34.760
Where do we get that information from the word that's

768
00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:37.519
inside of us? It shows us our sin that's the

769
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:40.360
ingrafted word. What are we to do? Humbly receive that

770
00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:42.920
message and be condemned by it? Then we are to

771
00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:45.639
do what it says and look into it and follow it,

772
00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:47.880
which will drive us to Christ, which is the law

773
00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:50.000
of liberty. When I look into the law liberty, what

774
00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:56.239
do I discover? Christ has fulfilled it all for me? Right,

775
00:45:56.440 --> 00:45:59.800
and so that I'm blessing him. So then there's a progression. Right,

776
00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:05.079
we go from basically the guilt, the condemnation the law

777
00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:09.360
Christ Christ fulfilled it. Now we have verse twenty six

778
00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:11.960
and twenty seven. What is verse twenty six and twenty

779
00:46:11.960 --> 00:46:26.519
seven and that progression of thought. Okay, how can I

780
00:46:26.519 --> 00:46:27.079
put this all?

781
00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:27.320
Right?

782
00:46:28.519 --> 00:46:34.639
What should flow from guilt the law inside of us,

783
00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:38.480
driving us to Christ? And then seeing that Christ has

784
00:46:38.480 --> 00:46:39.639
fulfilled the law for us?

785
00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:44.880
What should flow from that? Okay? It should?

786
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:49.360
We should respond to that in a way that's different

787
00:46:49.719 --> 00:46:54.239
because of gratitude for what has been done for us.

788
00:46:54.960 --> 00:46:57.760
True religion, isn't that The whole point that he describes

789
00:46:57.800 --> 00:46:59.039
here is true religion?

790
00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:01.119
Yes?

791
00:47:01.719 --> 00:47:07.280
Right, if any of you seem to be religious, right,

792
00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:12.880
A man's religion is named pure religion.

793
00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:13.880
It's all about.

794
00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:19.519
A legitimate religion, a true religion. A true religion should

795
00:47:19.559 --> 00:47:23.960
flow from what a heart of gratitude for what Christ

796
00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:32.559
has done for us, practical love for others, and pursuit

797
00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:35.639
of purity should be a response to the law of

798
00:47:35.679 --> 00:47:37.800
liberty reflecting Christ's character.

799
00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:40.519
What do we always say?

800
00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:42.199
What is the Christian What is the goal of the

801
00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:47.519
Christian life?

802
00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:49.360
To live out practically?

803
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:51.360
What is true? Positionally? When I look into the law

804
00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:54.679
of liberty? What do I see my positional standing? I'm pure,

805
00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:57.400
I'm perfect, I'm holy. Now what should flow from that?

806
00:47:57.840 --> 00:47:59.840
A desire to live it out?

807
00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:01.079
This is where.

808
00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:02.800
Somehow people get confused whenever I preach you.

809
00:48:02.760 --> 00:48:04.639
About this life, you're just saying you can do whatever

810
00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:05.000
you want.

811
00:48:05.079 --> 00:48:09.360
I have never said that. Anyone who says that is

812
00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:15.039
a liar. They don't bother to listen. These actions, now

813
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:22.199
this is important, are undertaken with a constant acknowledgement of

814
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:24.760
what when we attempt to do the things mentioned in

815
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:27.119
twenty six and twenty seven, what do we have to

816
00:48:27.239 --> 00:48:32.559
constantly acknowledge we are never going to do these anywhere

817
00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:35.440
close to the right way. Has anybody here figured out

818
00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:37.639
how to bridle his tongue?

819
00:48:38.159 --> 00:48:46.920
I'm not the only one who has right. Okay, right,

820
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:48.800
what does she know? Okay? Right?

821
00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:53.960
All right, keep ourselves unspoted from ladies and gentlemen. We're

822
00:48:54.039 --> 00:48:56.599
still guilty of this. We pursue it, but with a

823
00:48:56.639 --> 00:49:01.079
constant awareness of what we can't do it and what

824
00:49:01.159 --> 00:49:05.519
constantly tells us that we're not doing it perfectly. The

825
00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:10.280
ungrafted word constantly says, hey, you're guilty, you're guilty, you're guilty,

826
00:49:10.400 --> 00:49:14.159
you're guilty, you're guilty, you're guilty, and which then constantly,

827
00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:17.440
then what are we to do with that guilt? We

828
00:49:17.480 --> 00:49:19.760
are to be not hearers of it, but doers of it.

829
00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:21.880
We're to look in the mirror and be taken right

830
00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:23.679
back to the law of liberty. So we have to

831
00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:26.519
continually look into the law of liberty, which then hopefully

832
00:49:26.519 --> 00:49:29.480
will continually to motivate us to pursue this, even though

833
00:49:29.519 --> 00:49:37.639
we know we cannot do this all right, as so,

834
00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:40.239
I asked AI to explain. This is what AI says.

835
00:49:40.519 --> 00:49:46.360
These commands are calls to live out love positionally. These

836
00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:50.599
commands are calls to live out love positionally true in Christ.

837
00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:56.079
They require humility as believers recognize our inability to perfectly

838
00:49:56.199 --> 00:49:59.599
fulfill them and continually return to the law of liberty.

839
00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:03.360
Circle we try to live it out. But when we

840
00:50:03.400 --> 00:50:06.719
live it out, the ingrafted word says, what you can't?

841
00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:08.880
What do we do? Were either going to be hearers

842
00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:11.920
or doers? The doers will then we'll go right back

843
00:50:11.960 --> 00:50:13.840
to Christ. We look into the mirror, What does it

844
00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:18.400
lead us back to Christ? Does everybody see that we

845
00:50:18.440 --> 00:50:20.440
look into the law of liberty and then we should

846
00:50:20.519 --> 00:50:24.039
move forward to try to do more? Does that make

847
00:50:24.079 --> 00:50:24.719
any sense?

848
00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:32.960
All right? Now? I want to do an analysis of this.

849
00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:34.800
There's a lot more I want to do here, but

850
00:50:34.840 --> 00:50:37.159
I want to make sure we just have this down right?

851
00:50:37.480 --> 00:50:40.679
Is anybody confused by any part of that? Please ask

852
00:50:40.719 --> 00:50:43.320
the question, because if you'll ask the question, will save

853
00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:49.000
people from emailing me asking the questions. Now, just please

854
00:50:49.079 --> 00:50:51.679
note that may make it very clear. Whenever I give

855
00:50:51.719 --> 00:50:53.480
a new interpretation, I always refer to it as a

856
00:50:53.559 --> 00:50:57.760
hypothesis because I know there's no one on earth that's

857
00:50:57.800 --> 00:51:01.079
going to agree with us. Right. Every church will say

858
00:51:01.159 --> 00:51:04.480
we are wrong. They would say we're heretical. We'd probably

859
00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:07.320
be accused of being an anti nomian, we'd be called

860
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:10.480
cheap grace, we'd be thrown into the eighteenth level of

861
00:51:10.519 --> 00:51:13.519
hell and say we're all gonna burn because we're not

862
00:51:13.559 --> 00:51:17.199
truly saved. Okay, I don't really care what anybody else thinks,

863
00:51:17.400 --> 00:51:19.239
but I just want you to know that if you

864
00:51:19.480 --> 00:51:22.960
share that interpretation with anybody else, you're gonna be condemned

865
00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:24.039
as being a heretic.

866
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:28.280
All right, but why what do you think?

867
00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:31.800
Is my guiding reason we're trying to reinterpret this because

868
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:35.599
every interpretation says, oh, the ungrafted word, it gives us power.

869
00:51:35.679 --> 00:51:37.800
The law of liberty gives us power. We can go

870
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:40.840
do all of these things. Well, guess what nobody who

871
00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:43.320
says we can do these things can do those things,

872
00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:46.079
so then it's a lie and I cannot have an

873
00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:48.519
interpretation that denies reality.

874
00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:56.679
Let's see. I Well, if you.

875
00:51:56.639 --> 00:52:00.159
Go with their interpretation, it makes perfect sense. Right, Hey,

876
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:02.400
do it or you're not saved. Do it, or you're

877
00:52:02.440 --> 00:52:04.320
not saved. Do it or you're not that's all they're

878
00:52:04.360 --> 00:52:04.880
gonna say.

879
00:52:05.559 --> 00:52:05.880
Do it.

880
00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:07.719
They can't tell you how much you have to do

881
00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:09.400
to be saved, but you've got to do a certain

882
00:52:09.400 --> 00:52:11.760
amount in order to be saved. Right now, I think

883
00:52:11.840 --> 00:52:14.519
there's I think they misinterpret James two twenty six, and

884
00:52:14.559 --> 00:52:16.199
I don't even know how to read it because they're

885
00:52:16.199 --> 00:52:20.159
misinterpreting it completely. All right, But now why would I

886
00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:24.519
go with the the engrafted word is the law and

887
00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:27.320
not the Gospel. Well, I'll just throw this out. James

888
00:52:27.360 --> 00:52:30.599
is the earliest New Testament writing we have. It's like

889
00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:34.639
forty four a d. There's not even a New Testament

890
00:52:34.679 --> 00:52:38.199
canon at the time he's writing. He's writing to Jews

891
00:52:39.360 --> 00:52:42.719
right to twelve scattered tribes in verse one? Is it

892
00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:45.480
verse one that says that I think it's James one one?

893
00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:48.960
You can verify if I'm right. Okay, then he's writing

894
00:52:48.960 --> 00:52:51.639
to Jews how are they gonna understand it?

895
00:52:54.440 --> 00:52:55.519
They're gonna understand it.

896
00:52:55.480 --> 00:52:58.639
As law, right, because over and over and over, guess

897
00:52:58.639 --> 00:53:02.400
what is used interchange Like in some one nineteen the

898
00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:08.719
word and law are interchangeable. Right, So they're going to

899
00:53:08.800 --> 00:53:12.360
understand the ungrafted word as law to some level. Right,

900
00:53:12.440 --> 00:53:15.000
to some level, they're going to understand it. Now, law

901
00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:17.559
of liberty may be confusing to them because they would

902
00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:20.239
not have ever understood the law bringing too much liberty.

903
00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:26.679
So that's a new concept. So I think, I think

904
00:53:26.719 --> 00:53:27.480
it holds.

905
00:53:27.199 --> 00:53:32.320
Water, but it's it's you've basically got two options.

906
00:53:33.280 --> 00:53:34.079
Well, let's do this.

907
00:53:34.480 --> 00:53:36.679
Can we agree that the way it's written is somewhat

908
00:53:36.719 --> 00:53:42.039
complicated to try to understand the way James one nineteen

909
00:53:42.079 --> 00:53:44.119
through twenty seven. The way it's written its somewhat complicated

910
00:53:44.159 --> 00:53:49.199
to understand. That's why most preachers focus on why be

911
00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:50.239
doers of the word?

912
00:53:50.320 --> 00:53:51.039
Not here is only?

913
00:53:51.079 --> 00:53:53.199
And it turns into an entire sermon and how we

914
00:53:53.239 --> 00:53:55.079
hear the Bible preach, but we don't do what the

915
00:53:55.119 --> 00:53:57.519
Bible says, And this proves that some people aren't safe.

916
00:53:57.639 --> 00:54:01.039
That's that's just because that's like, come on, anybody.

917
00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:03.519
Can write that sermon that's not even difficult. You don't

918
00:54:03.559 --> 00:54:05.760
even need to go to Bible College to write that sermon.

919
00:54:06.519 --> 00:54:09.719
And it turns into moralism, and it turns into works.

920
00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:13.440
It destroys the Gospel of grace, and everything is about.

921
00:54:13.320 --> 00:54:15.440
Do this, do this, do this, do this, do this,

922
00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:18.800
do this. That is a problem. But what is the

923
00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:20.880
implied concept?

924
00:54:21.400 --> 00:54:24.039
And the first sermon that I reviewed to start all

925
00:54:24.039 --> 00:54:27.079
of this, the implied concept of that entire sermon was

926
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:34.400
what you can keep the law? Well, any preacher that

927
00:54:34.480 --> 00:54:38.679
implies that I can keep the law is a complete liar.

928
00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:43.480
You know what I'm gonna say. The Bible says be

929
00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:46.679
holy as God is holy. If you don't do that,

930
00:54:47.119 --> 00:54:50.400
you cannot keep the law. If you don't follow that

931
00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:53.559
one scripture, be holy as God is holy? What does

932
00:54:53.599 --> 00:55:01.800
that make you a perpetual sinner? Because every day, every

933
00:55:02.000 --> 00:55:04.239
hour you're not as holy as God as holy.

934
00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:05.599
You are in what.

935
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:11.679
You are a sinner because you're not obeying that one command.

936
00:55:11.920 --> 00:55:13.360
That's one command.

937
00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:17.280
Then I could go to Matthew five, be perfect as

938
00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:19.760
your heavenly Father is perfect? Are you perfect as God

939
00:55:19.840 --> 00:55:22.920
is perfect? So those are two commands that you don't do.

940
00:55:23.239 --> 00:55:25.519
I can add to it, So we're in a perpetual

941
00:55:25.559 --> 00:55:29.000
state to understand James. The way everyone understands it is

942
00:55:29.079 --> 00:55:32.760
flawed and completely wrong. So this is the best interpretation

943
00:55:32.880 --> 00:55:35.320
we can come up with as of right now. We'll

944
00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:37.800
analyze it in the next hour and see what we

945
00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:38.480
can do with it.

946
00:55:38.679 --> 00:55:41.480
All right, does that make some sense? All right, we'll

947
00:55:41.480 --> 00:55:42.199
stop right there.

948
00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:45.119
Well, God, we come before you this morning or we

949
00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:47.000
thank you for an opportunity to be in a place

950
00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:50.840
where we can try to work on interpreting your word,

951
00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:54.440
even if it goes against everyone else. We pray that

952
00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:56.760
you will help us continue to think about this passage,

953
00:55:57.119 --> 00:56:00.519
give it much attention, and see if we can come

954
00:56:00.599 --> 00:56:04.000
to even better understanding. We asked this in Jesus name,

955
00:56:04.000 --> 00:56:09.800
and God's people said Amen. M