Hello, my name
is Marquis Johns and
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our subject today
is Proposition 13:10.
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But before we
get into our subject
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let us just bow our heads
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and have a word of prayer.
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Father in heaven,
Lord we thank you and
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we thank you, and
we thank you again.
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Lord we could stand here and say
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we thank you until
next year and still
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would be unable
to put into words
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the thanks that
we feel for giving
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us your dear
son Jesus Christ and
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the Cross of Calvary that we may
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some day enjoy
the company of angels
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as well as the
company of yourself
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and your son. Please Lord,
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help no one including myself
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under the sound of my voice
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to be excluded from
such a grand festivity.
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I ask that you would
bless us as we study your
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word in Jesus
Christ name. Amen, amen.
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Today, we're gonna
talk about a proposition.
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Now, I grew up in
Los Angeles, California
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and propositions come along,
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you know in
November where there's
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new election
and they're laws and
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when I got to the
age where I could vote
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I'd see these propositions
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and I'd go in, and
I just start checking
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whatever I wanted
to check. You know,
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I'd see these laws
or these bills that they
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wanted to pass and
just started checking
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things yes no, yes
no, yes no, yes no.
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and unfortunately
sometimes what happens
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is you end up
voting for something that
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you don't actually
stand for or voting
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against something
that you actually do
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stand for, the
key is reading exactly
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what it says.
And today we're gonna
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talk about a
proposition or an ideal
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that all too often
people don't really
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understand what is being said or
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what's behind a certain text.
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A mathematician
once said and this
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is a very interesting statement,
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every proposition
that we could understand
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must be composed
Holy of constituents
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with which we are acquainted.
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Well, what are the components?
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What are the constituents of
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this proposition?
The first proposition
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or statement that
I'd like us to go through
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and whether you
agree with it or not,
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this is just
what the Bible says.
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I like to think of
it this way, the Bible
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says it, I believe
it, that settles it.
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As a matter of fact,
the Bible says it that
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settles it whether
I believe it or not.
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However turn with
me in your Bibles to
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James chapter
2, James chapter 2,
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and we'll be
begin reading verse 8,
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we'll read verse 8
and skip over verse
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9 for now and go to verse 10,
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the Bible says this,
"If ye fulfill the royal law
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according to the
scripture, thou shalt
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love they neighbor
as thyself, ye do well."
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Verse 10 says, "for
whosoever shall keep
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the whole law and
yet offend in one point,
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is guilty of all."
Now, I like to look at
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a couple of
statements in this verse.
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The first thing
that we saw as if ye
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fulfill the royal
law, now what does the
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word royal imply?
It implies that this
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is the law of a
King or of a Ruler.
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The royal law
here is the law of God,
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but what is that
law? Well, the text goes
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on to explain
itself. We need not ask
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ourselves these
questions when if you
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ask the right
question the text will give
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the right answer.
All too often we ask
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questions that
have nothing to do
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with the text or we look for the
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answers in another
text. What we should
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do before we jump
around to other places
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in the Bible is try
and understand it first
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from the text. If
we can't understand it
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from the text
then we should go to
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the chapter, if we
can't understand it
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from the chapter
then stay within the
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book first, lets
look around the book and
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see if the book has
anything to say about
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this text or it has
language that is similar
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to this language
and then if we can't
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understand it from
the book then lets go
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to a sister book
or a book that was
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written by the same author.
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Let's go to the
book written by the same
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author first and
as James is the only
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book written by
James then we have
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to look for
books that have similar
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thoughts and
similar ideas as the
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book of James. In my study the
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book of James has opened up and
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showed me something beautiful,
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something
wonderful. The book of James
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or the word James
is a Greek word and
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the Greek word is Yakobus.
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Yakobus means
Jacob, this is the book
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of Jacob, now who was Jacob?
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Jacob was the patriot of what we
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know today as the
12 tribes of Israel,
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so this book is a
book that has some
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thing to do
quite possibly with the
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12 tribes of
Israel. And as a matter of
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fact the Bible
tells us in James chapter,
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in James chapter 1,
verse 1, that this is
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written by the servant of Christ
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to the 12 tribes
scattered abroad.
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This book does
have something to do
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with the 12 tribes.
Now, I just like us to
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keep that in mind
because what we're gonna
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read has
everything to do with those
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of us who expect
to be a part of that
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number as the old
song goes and when
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the saints go
marching in, how I want
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to be a part of
that number. Well,
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if we want to be a
part of that number
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I think we should
pay special attention
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to what we're
gonna be studying today.
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What proposition
are we speaking of?
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Well, we first
found out that the royal
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law is the law of the King and
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what was that
law? It was that you
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love one another.
You love your neighbor.
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As a matter of fact
the text said you love
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your neighbor as
you love yourself and
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if you do that, you do
well. And the next thing
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that the text says
when we went on to verse
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10 it says
"Whosoever shall keep this
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whole law yet
offend in one point
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is guilty of them
all." Now, what I notice
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happened is that
there are discrepancies
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between certain denominations.
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And what happens
is this text is used,
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it's singled out
and used to tell other
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people that they
aren't keeping certain
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aspects of the law
that they think they
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should be keeping.
Now, believe you me
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I believe in
keeping every single one of
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God's law, specifically
his Ten Commandments,
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because they are
a transcript of his
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character, they tell
us exactly who He is,
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as with their
rules, as with the rules of
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your parents,
when you were in your
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parents' house. If
your mother said you
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had to be in bed
at a certain time that
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meant she priced
sleep, that told you
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something about her character.
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As does God's law
tells us about his character.
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Now, it said if you
offend in one point,
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now today I wanna explore what
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is that one
point and in order to
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understand that
one point we must take
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James chapter
2, verses 8 and 10,
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in the context of the chapter,
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that's important.
Contextually reading
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this text as opposed
to isolating the text
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and then using it
for our own benefit.
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This isn't what we should do,
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we shouldn't do
this, now I'm not saying
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that we can't
prove text and this text
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won't line up with another text.
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However I'm saying that what we
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should do also is
read it in its context.
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Now, in order for us
to do that let's first
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look at James
chapter 2, and verse 1.
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James chapter 2
and verse 1, the Bible
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says this, "My
brethren, have not the
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faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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the Lord of glory,
with respect of persons."
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You can have respect to persons.
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You know as a matter of fact I'm
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an abide student of
the King James Version
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but I love the
way that NIV puts it.
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Let's look at how
it reads in the NIV,
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James chapter 2
verse 1 from the NIV says
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this, "My
brothers, as believers in our
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glorious Lord
Jesus Christ, don't show
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favoritism."
Don't show favoritism.
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So what, what James
is saying to us here
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is that we should
not have favorites,
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we should not be
respecters of persons.
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We should esteem
others better than ourselves.
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What is this have to
do with the law? Well,
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the Bible tells us
in Leviticus chapter 19,
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Leviticus chapter
19 verse 15 because
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this isn't the
first time that we saw
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something like
this, God is telling us
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or via Moses in
the book Leviticus,
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the word Leviticus
means legislation and
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it is full of laws it says,
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"Ye shall do no unrighteousness
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in judgment; thou
shall not respect the
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person of the poor
nor honor the person
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of the mighty, but
in righteousness shall
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thou judge thy neighbor."
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So, here God is
telling us that we should
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not have respect
of persons whether
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it's poor or whether it's rich,
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a rich person. We should look at
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every body
equally as someone that
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Jesus Christ
died for, when you do
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this it makes it
very easy to witness
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to people,
because I believe that one
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of the chief
reasons why God called us
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to be Christians is
to tell other people
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about Christianity
and specifically about
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Jesus Christ who
is soon to return.
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And so if that is
the case if we are here
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to witness the
first thing that we must
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do to witness
effectively is to see
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everyone as someone that Jesus
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Christ died for.
Not look at someone
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and see Jew, not look at someone
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and see Hindu,
not look at someone
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and see Black or
White or Hispanic,
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look at every person as someone
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who Jesus Christ died for.
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And if we look at
that we can witness
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to anybody
irrespective of what we feel
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they should be
wearing or what we think
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they should be
eating or drinking or not
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drinking or any of those thing,
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it doesn't matter
because when we look
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at them we look at
them as a precious soul
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for whom Jesus Christ died for.
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And we won't
respect that person,
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we'll just see
them as a child of God.
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Leviticus 19 verse
15 coincides perfectly
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with the theme of
what James chapter 2
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was gonna be about. Let us go to
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our next text.
Our next text will be
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Romans chapter 2 and verse 11
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because not only
did, was this preserved
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in the Old
Testament, it was also spoke
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of in the New
Testament by the Apostle Paul,
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Romans chapter 2 and verse 11,
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the Bible says
this, "For there is no
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respect of persons with God.
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For as many as
have sinned without
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the law also
perish without the law,
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and as many as
have sinned in the law
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shall be judged by the law."
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So what God is
saying here through Paul
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is that he is not
respecter of persons,
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he looks down
and he sees everyone
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as a potential
candidate for heaven because
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that's the reason
why his son Jesus Christ
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came down here and
died. So that everyone
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of us could have
the potential or could
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possibly inherit heaven. What a
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beautiful thought.
What a beautiful thought
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that if we were to see
with the eyes of Christ
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we would see
everyone as a potential
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next door neighbor in heaven.
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And the Bible tells
us in James chapter 2,
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let's continue
reading contextually
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James chapter
2, I just wanted us
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to see that
when James chapter 2,
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or when James is
talking about not
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showing favoritism
that, that's not brand new,
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the beauty about
the book of the Bible
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is that even
though it has these 40
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different authors,
these 66 books over
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2000 year period
of time it harmonizes
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better than books
written by a single
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person. The reason
why is because this book,
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the Bible, was
written by a single person
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and he is
called the Holy Spirit,
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the Bible tells us
that all of the scripture
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is given under
the inspiration of God
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and it's profitable for reproof,
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doctrine and
correction and instruction
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in righteousness.
So if all of this is
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inspired by the Holy Spirit,
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by the Holy
Spirit, there is no wonder
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why it has this
continuity to it that
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is unparallel
then any other book
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in the whole wide
world. So, let us go back
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to James chapter 2
and pick up in verse 2,
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because we've
found thus far that you
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cannot show
favoritism, you need not be
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a respecter of
persons. The Bible says this,
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in verse 2 it says
this in King James Version
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for if they come
unto you assembly,
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now this is very
important, so let's
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look at it
carefully "If they come unto
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your assembly, a
man with a gold ring
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in goodly
apparel, and there come in
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also a poor man in vile raiment,
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And ye have
respect to him that weareth
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the gay clothing
and say unto him sit
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thou here in a
good place; and say to
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the poor, stand
out there, or sit there
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under my
footstool: Are ye not then
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partial in
yourselves, and are become
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judges of evil
thought?" Verse 5,
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"Hearken, my beloved brethren,
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Hath not God chosen
the poor of this world,
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rich in faith, and
heirs of the kingdom
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which he hath
promised to them that
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love him? But ye
have despised the poor.
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Do not rich men
oppress you, and draw you
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before the
judgment seats? Do not they
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blaspheme, do not
they blaspheme that
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worthy name by the
which ye are called?"
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Brothers and
sisters, I am telling you that
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this is an awesome,
this is an awesome verse
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and the Bible is
basically telling
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us here that we
cannot be respecters
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of persons. There
is a couple of things
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I like to key in on,
first of all in verse 4
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it says "Are ye
not then partially
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yourselves and are become judges
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of evil thoughts?"
You know in Genesis
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chapter 3 when
our fore parent Eve
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found herself by
the tree of acknowledge
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of good and evil
and the serpent began
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to whisper to her
it said, he said God
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knows that you
shall be as Gods and
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that word there God, Eloheem,
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Eloheem is also
interpreted in the
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original Hebrew
as judges. God never
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intended for us to
know evil, only good
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and good
continually but when we are
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partial to
someone else over another,
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to one person
over another, then we
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take ourselves
right back to standing
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at the foot of
the knowledge of good
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and evil and
are becoming judges.
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What a solemn
thought. We are then
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become judges.
Now the next thing
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I like to key in on here is in,
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in verse five
where it says, that the
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poor of this
world are rich in faith,
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and God has
intended that they become
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heirs of the
kingdom which he promised
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to them that love
him. So, here we see that
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this thing is
based on again love and
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loving everybody
equally. Not looking or again
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not looking at
anybody as less than you
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but looking at
people or esteeming
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others better than
yourself as the Bible
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says in Philippians chapter 2,
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looking not on
the things of others
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but on the things.
Not looking on the things
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of yourself but on
the things of others,
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seeing how you can help someone
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who is in a less
fortunate positioning
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than you yourself might be in.
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The Bible then
goes on and says do not,
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they blaspheme
that worthy name by
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which ye are
called. How was it that we
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blaspheme the
worthy name by which
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we are called. Well, the book of
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Revelations
chapter 2 tells us that
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blasphemy is
claiming to be something
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you're not
because it says I know the
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blasphemy of the
Jews who claim to be
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Jews but are not and
are the synagogue of Satan,
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they are claiming to
be something they are not.
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Revelation chapter
2 verse 9 tells us,
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so when the Bible says here,
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if you are a
respecter of person,
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if when you see a
person comes in who
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has a nice tie on
and a nice suit and
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you say hey you
come and sit next to me,
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but when that
person who straggles
00:14:40.17\00:14:42.40
in off the street,
who's poor, who's not
00:14:42.41\00:14:44.87
dressed so nicely
attempts to sit by you
00:14:44.88\00:14:47.43
and you say move or oh!
I can't stand that smell,
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then you are
claiming to be something
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you're not if you profess to be
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a Christian. You are blaspheming
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the worthy name by
which you are called.
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You are not living
up to the character
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that a Christian should have.
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I'm reminded of a story,
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a story about
Alexander the Great,
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Alexander the
Great we know from the
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Bible as well as
from history conquered
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the world faster
than anyone else before
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him or up to his
time. However there was
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a soldier in a
particular battalion and this
00:15:19.71\00:15:22.21
soldier was
disruptive and wouldn't listen
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to orders, wouldn't
follow orders the way
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he was told to and
before, because when
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you did this out
on the battlefield the
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penalty could
very well be death,
00:15:29.95\00:15:31.17
but the
commanding officer liked this
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particular soldier
and didn't kill him
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and he got word
that one day Alexander
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the Great would be
visiting their camp.
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So, he decided that
what he would do was,
00:15:39.86\00:15:42.69
he asks Alexander
the Great to deal with
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this young man
and watch how he dealt
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with it, so that he
would know how to deal
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with it in the
future. So, lo and behold
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Alexander the
Great comes to the camp
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and one night the
commanding officer
00:15:55.73\00:15:58.40
sends for the
young man to be brought
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to Alexander the Great's tent,
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upon coming into
Alexander's tent,
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Alexander with
his back turned to the
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young man says, young man,
00:16:06.19\00:16:07.46
what is your
name and the young man
00:16:07.47\00:16:11.30
trembling says
Alexander sir, Alexander
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the Great becomes
livid, he turns around
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to him and he
approaches him, he says,
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young man I tell
you today either you
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change your name or
you change your behavior.
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Brothers and sisters,
some of us must either
00:16:27.85\00:16:30.59
change our name
and stop professing
00:16:30.60\00:16:32.52
to be Christians
or just simply change
00:16:32.53\00:16:34.43
your behavior,
because otherwise we are
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blaspheming the worthy name by
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which we are called. When
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we called
ourselves Christians but we
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look down on our
fellow man who is really
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our brother or
sister. The Bible goes on and
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tells us now. I
would like to turn our
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attention to the
propositions in question
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in James chapter 2, and verse 8,
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the Bible says in
James chapter 2 and
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verse 8 again, "If
ye fulfill the royal law
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according to the
scripture, Thou shalt
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love thy neighbor as thyself,
00:17:02.40\00:17:03.83
ye do well." "But
if ye have respect to
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persons," verse 9
says "If ye have respect
00:17:08.40\00:17:10.92
to persons ye
commit sin, and are
00:17:10.93\00:17:13.19
convinced of the
law as transgressors,
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for whosoever
shall keep the whole law
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and offend in one
point is guilty of all."
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Now look at that
text now that we have
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verse 9 in there,
now that we're not
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just cherry
picking verse 8 putting it
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with verse 10 and
then coordinate to people
00:17:25.38\00:17:27.12
saying if you
keep the whole law yet
00:17:27.13\00:17:28.79
offending one
point you're guilty of
00:17:28.80\00:17:29.97
them all. If we
look at the whole text
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in context, what
we find is that that
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point is being a
respecter of persons.
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And God says here
through James that
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if you are a
respecter of persons, you
00:17:43.23\00:17:44.89
are a sinner. Wow!
Do you mean it to tell
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me if I will loan
money to my brother
00:17:50.35\00:17:52.97
yet not to a
stranger on the street,
00:17:52.98\00:17:54.92
I am sinning? Do
you mean it to tell me
00:17:54.93\00:17:59.29
if I am brothers
and sisters and I can
00:17:59.30\00:18:00.93
hobnob with those
of my own denomination
00:18:00.94\00:18:02.91
but can speak to
someone who is outside
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of my
denomination, I am a sinner.
00:18:04.97\00:18:07.18
Is that what the
Bible just said? Absolutely.
00:18:07.19\00:18:13.20
James makes it
clear. You have to love
00:18:14.72\00:18:16.82
your neighbor as
yourself, that's how
00:18:16.83\00:18:18.85
you do well, but
if you are a respecter
00:18:18.86\00:18:21.33
of persons ye commit
sin and our convinced
00:18:21.34\00:18:24.59
of the law as transgressors. So,
00:18:24.60\00:18:26.96
therefore if you
keep all of the law,
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now and this is,
this is, this is special
00:18:28.94\00:18:31.01
because we like
to use this text,
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some of us like to
single out this text
00:18:32.96\00:18:34.46
and say you
know what, I keep the
00:18:34.47\00:18:36.95
whole law but you
don't keep one part
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of the law, so you
are guilty of them all.
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Guess what, I
submit to you today
00:18:41.20\00:18:43.11
that God wasn't
talking to those who
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might keep nine Commandments,
00:18:45.10\00:18:46.68
they don't profess
to keep the whole law.
00:18:46.69\00:18:49.15
He wasn't
talking to those who keep
00:18:49.16\00:18:51.00
two commandments,
they don't profess
00:18:51.01\00:18:53.05
to keep the whole
law, he wasn't talking
00:18:53.06\00:18:54.83
to those who even only keep one
00:18:54.84\00:18:56.16
of the
commandments they don't profess
00:18:56.17\00:18:57.57
to keep the whole
law, he was talking
00:18:57.58\00:18:59.57
to those of us who
profess to keep the
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whole law yet are offending in a
00:19:02.15\00:19:04.85
particular point
and that point is being
00:19:04.86\00:19:07.26
a respecter of persons.
What a sobering thought,
00:19:07.27\00:19:11.21
here we use this
text, we use this text
00:19:11.22\00:19:14.45
to get people
to subscribe to our
00:19:14.46\00:19:16.19
particular
denominational believes
00:19:16.20\00:19:17.74
however what
God is saying is not
00:19:17.75\00:19:19.69
discounting that,
don't get me wrong,
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I'm not
discounting that, if you keep
00:19:21.25\00:19:23.16
the whole law yet are
offending in one point
00:19:23.17\00:19:25.06
you're guilty of them
all, don't get me wrong,
00:19:25.07\00:19:26.49
if you keep all
nine commandments but
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you're still lying
well you're guilty of
00:19:28.77\00:19:30.45
them all. If you
keep eight commandments
00:19:30.46\00:19:33.65
yet you murder and you covet,
00:19:33.66\00:19:35.11
you're guilty of them all.
00:19:35.12\00:19:36.30
However what God
is saying through
00:19:36.31\00:19:37.98
James in this text
that if you keep all
00:19:37.99\00:19:41.40
of the law yet are
a respecter of persons
00:19:41.41\00:19:44.08
in actuality you
are still sinning.
00:19:44.09\00:19:46.91
Do you know why you are sinning?
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Because you do
not have perfectly
00:19:49.38\00:19:51.24
reproduced in
you the transcript of
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God's character.
And God wants us to
00:19:53.55\00:19:56.45
have His
character in order to dwell
00:19:56.46\00:19:58.67
in heaven with
Him because anybody
00:19:58.68\00:20:00.38
in heaven with
Him must be like Him.
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Brothers and
sisters I tell you today
00:20:04.41\00:20:05.94
that we need to
look at these text and
00:20:05.95\00:20:08.24
stop cherry
picking them and using them
00:20:08.25\00:20:10.72
for our own
game. We need to look
00:20:10.73\00:20:13.43
at the totality of
what God is trying to say
00:20:13.44\00:20:15.98
and understand
how it might pertain
00:20:15.99\00:20:18.05
to us not how we
can use it against
00:20:18.06\00:20:20.30
someone else. The
Bible is telling us
00:20:20.31\00:20:23.19
right here, we
can not be respecters
00:20:23.20\00:20:25.70
of persons because if
we are, we are sinning.
00:20:25.71\00:20:28.06
We cannot section
ourselves off into
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some group, who
believe we believe
00:20:30.58\00:20:32.02
in all of the law
and all of the prophets.
00:20:32.03\00:20:34.82
Yet, those people
over there who only
00:20:34.83\00:20:37.80
want to keep the
law but don't want
00:20:37.81\00:20:39.43
to listen to the
prophet well there's something
00:20:39.44\00:20:41.65
wrong with them. No, no, no, no,
00:20:41.66\00:20:44.31
likewise if
you're a person who says
00:20:44.32\00:20:47.41
well you know
what, I believe in the
00:20:47.42\00:20:49.31
love of God I
believe in the love but
00:20:49.32\00:20:50.93
you know those doctrines, that's
00:20:50.94\00:20:52.70
not that
important no, no, no, no and
00:20:52.71\00:20:54.77
the people who
keep the doctrines
00:20:54.78\00:20:56.00
well they're phonetics.
No, you're a respecter
00:20:56.01\00:21:00.06
of persons. If you
can only fellowship
00:21:00.07\00:21:03.08
with those who
believe like you believe,
00:21:03.09\00:21:05.41
you are being a
respecter of persons
00:21:05.42\00:21:07.72
and if you are being
a respecter of persons,
00:21:07.73\00:21:09.68
brothers and sisters,
the Bible just told us
00:21:09.69\00:21:11.56
in James chapter 2
that you are a sinner
00:21:11.57\00:21:14.60
and are convinced of the law as
00:21:14.61\00:21:16.38
a transgressor.
Which commandment
00:21:16.39\00:21:20.36
is the greatest commandment?
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I can't speak on
this enough because
00:21:21.42\00:21:23.89
we have
forgotten what the essence
00:21:23.90\00:21:27.33
of the law is? What
the essence of doctrine is.
00:21:27.34\00:21:30.03
The way that
doctrine must be shared,
00:21:30.04\00:21:31.79
doctrine must be shared in love.
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You can't, you know
I have this idea you
00:21:33.42\00:21:35.44
know before I went
off and learned how
00:21:35.45\00:21:37.25
to do evangelism and
how to do Bible work.
00:21:37.26\00:21:41.01
You know I had the
idea that what I would do,
00:21:41.02\00:21:43.00
because I felt I like
I had all the truth as
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what I would do
was I would club people
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over the head
with the truth because
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I had an
intellectual message and drag
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their lifeless
body in the church.
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You know I
learned that you can't get
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people into the
church by being a brain
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surgeon, you have
to learn to be a heart
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surgeon. You have
to deal with the heart,
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Jesus Christ was
able to come and meet
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the people where they were.
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He was able to deal
with their heart needs,
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not prove that he was
smarter than they were.
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He very rarely
had to do so and when
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he did it, He did
it very simply and He
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did it in love.
One of my favorite,
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one of my favorite
lessons is when the
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Pharisees and the
scribes and the elders
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as they were always
following Jesus Christ
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around. They single
them out, they find him
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at the temple and
they ask him a question.
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They say hey, by
what authority do you run
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around cleansing
the temple? This is
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basically what they were saying,
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I'm paraphrasing.
And Jesus said well,
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let me ask you a
question, the baptism
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of John, who was
that of, all of a sudden
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they were backed up into a wall,
00:22:49.56\00:22:51.26
they had to
confronted with one and
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another in private
and so they just started,
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well, what do we
say, I don't know,
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if we say this, oh
no, we can't say that,
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then we must say
this, they out and say,
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I don't know who authorized the
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baptism of John
and Jesus Christ says
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very simply, then neither will
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I answer you.
You know it's simple,
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he didn't have
to beat them down.
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He didn't have to be one of the,
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boy and I guess,
the sons of thunder,
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he wasn't ready
to call thunder down
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on people when
they didn't do what
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he thought they should
do. He still love them.
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As a matter of fact,
he told James and John
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when the came and they said hey,
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we saw somebody over there doing
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things in your name
but he's not one of us,
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should we call
down fire from heaven
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as did Elias, what
did Jesus Christ say,
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you don't know
what spirit you're of?
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You don't need to
call down fire on people
00:23:35.22\00:23:37.92
because they're
not doing what you
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want them to do,
you'll never know
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where God is working with them.
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We never know
where the Holy Spirit
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is working with
them, it is not your job
00:23:44.76\00:23:46.38
or my job to convict
of sin, righteousness
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and judgment, that is the job of
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the Holy ghost. And
if we let the Holy ghost
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do his job he will
bring people into the church
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that will be ready
to spread the message
00:23:54.94\00:23:56.99
of love. They
will spread the message
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of the doctrines in
love. Brothers and sisters,
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what we need, what we need today
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is to be able to deal
with people as Christ dealt
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with them and not be
respecters of persons,
00:24:08.98\00:24:11.45
not go out with
one of our person,
00:24:11.46\00:24:14.92
that's in our
denomination and be
00:24:14.93\00:24:16.46
ready to pounce on
anybody who doesn't
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know what we
know or believe what
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we believe. We
need to go and meet
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them as Christ
would have met them.
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Do you think
Christ would have ran upto
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somebody and had his Bible ready
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to just beat them down when they
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didn't
understand a particular set
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of doctrines?
No, I don't think so.
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I don't think so.
As a matter of fact
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what I think Jesus
did was I think that
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Jesus would have
loved them just the same.
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Look at Zacchaeus,
look at Mary Magdalene,
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look at Peter even.
He could have told Peter,
00:24:43.34\00:24:46.80
Peter, you are
wrong. But he loved Peter,
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he looked at him
with love in His eyes.
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And even after
that came to Peter and
00:24:51.31\00:24:53.99
gave him another
chance. Peter, rise, kill and
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eat, not so Lord. He
could have said listen,
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I told you to eat,
but that's not what
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He did, He
continued to speak to him
00:25:01.24\00:25:05.89
of love and to give
him the chance that he
00:25:06.90\00:25:10.24
need to
understand in his mind that
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he was being a
respecter of persons.
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You know a lot of
times I hear people
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tell me about that
story where Jesus Christ
00:25:20.54\00:25:23.00
comes and tells
Peter to rise, kill and eat
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and they think
that it's about diet,
00:25:24.65\00:25:26.38
they thing that God
is sanctioning eating
00:25:26.39\00:25:29.26
whatever you want to
eat, but in actuality
00:25:29.27\00:25:32.02
He's teaching
Peter, that Peter was still
00:25:32.03\00:25:34.96
harboring feelings
of racism, of racism.
00:25:34.97\00:25:39.44
That Peter still in
his heart was a racist,
00:25:40.86\00:25:44.00
and that's, it
didn't stop there.
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As a matter of
fact the Bible tells us
00:25:46.27\00:25:47.79
in Galatians
chapter 2, that Paul had to
00:25:47.80\00:25:49.99
withstand Him to
the faith for the exact
00:25:50.00\00:25:51.65
same reason. Did
God cut him off? No,
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we have half of the
Book of Acts dedicated
00:25:54.51\00:25:57.28
to what Peter did in
ministry. The Bible says
00:25:57.29\00:25:59.41
in acts chapter 1
that when after Christ died
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that Peter stood up
and if you study that
00:26:01.78\00:26:03.41
word stood up it
says that he is in charge,
00:26:03.42\00:26:05.49
he took charge and
he began to be leader
00:26:05.50\00:26:07.45
of the disciples
and tell them what they
00:26:07.46\00:26:09.36
should do and
how they should move.
00:26:09.37\00:26:10.79
But he didn't do
it from his own mind,
00:26:10.80\00:26:12.43
he did it from
the unction of the
00:26:12.44\00:26:14.05
Holy ghost and as
the Holy ghost moved him,
00:26:14.06\00:26:16.34
he was able to
do it and not be a
00:26:16.35\00:26:17.99
respecter of
persons. Ultimately,
00:26:18.00\00:26:20.01
brothers and
sisters, we need to really
00:26:21.96\00:26:24.33
look in ourselves
and see, are we respecter
00:26:24.34\00:26:28.30
of persons? Because if so,
00:26:28.31\00:26:30.56
we need not
worry about which day
00:26:30.57\00:26:32.71
we keep, we need not worry about
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if we murder or
not, we're still sinning.
00:26:34.95\00:26:38.78
We must not murder, we must keep
00:26:38.79\00:26:42.77
the Sabbath
Holy, but we must not
00:26:42.78\00:26:47.06
be respecters of
persons. You know,
00:26:47.07\00:26:50.64
the Bible tells
us in Matthew chapter
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22 and verse 36, "Master,
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which is the great
commandment in the law?
00:26:55.05\00:26:57.23
Jesus said unto
Him, thou shalt love
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the Lord thy God
with all thy heart
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and with all thy soul
and with all thy mind.
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This is the first
and great commandments
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and the second is like unto it,
00:27:05.17\00:27:06.43
thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself,
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on these two
hang all the law and
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the prophet." All
love, all love and in
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conclusion here is
the ultimate proposition,
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here is the ultimate law.
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The Bible says in Romans 13:10,
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in Romans 13:10 as we bring this
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to a close, the
Bible says in Romans
00:27:23.70\00:27:25.43
13:10 that "Love worketh no ill
00:27:25.44\00:27:28.28
to his neighbor,
therefore love is
00:27:28.29\00:27:31.63
actually the
fulfilling of the law."
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Brothers and
sisters, are you a respecter
00:27:34.47\00:27:36.08
of persons? Do you
think you're keeping
00:27:36.09\00:27:38.14
the law, yet you have favorites?
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Then the Bible
says, you blaspheme
00:27:40.36\00:27:42.90
the worthy name by
which you were called.
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The Bible says you
are convinced of the
00:27:44.80\00:27:46.31
law as a
transgressor. God loves you and
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He wants you to keep the
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law but in love. God bless you.
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