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Welcome to today's program.
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My name is Rick Renner,
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and today we're going to see that we need
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to never forget the Lord is
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coming soon.
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Say Amen. Jesus really is coming
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and that's what we're going
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to cover today in James 5.
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But I'm speaking to you
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or loved ones.
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This is just jam packed with practical,
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Jesus enumerated, especially in Matthew 24,
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in Luke 21 that he said we would see just
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before he comes again.
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What are those signs?
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and if you know the signs,
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to answer that explicit prayer request
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and he will really do it.
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Jesus said, if two of you would agree
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as touching anything
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and we'll get into agreement with you.
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times and doctrine doesn't bend to culture.
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We keep it simple,
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but dive deep revealing a
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and a mission that touches the world.
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Let's join Rick Renner.
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Hey my friend. I want
you to reach for your Bible
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because we always use
the Bible in this program
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and we're believing for a
revival of the Bible to come
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to the body of Christ.
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We need the word of God
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and the verse by verse
teaching of the Bible.
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But today we're gonna go back to James 5
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and we're going to dwell today on verses 7-11.
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And we saw in yesterday's
program that James was writing
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to a group of believers who
were just exasperated with
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what they were experiencing
in life due to persecution.
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They've been scattered
all over the eastern lands
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of the Roman Empire.
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And when they were scattered
abroad, they lost their homes,
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they lost their businesses,
they lost their income.
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Many of them can't even find
all of their family members
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because they were uprooted
and abruptly scattered abroad.
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And before this scattering
abroad took place,
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they were very prosperous
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and many of them were business owners,
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but now they found jobs
and they are employees.
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Some of them are nearly
serving like slaves
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and they're not being compensated very well for their work
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and they're upset about it.
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In fact, they're saying,
God, when are you going
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to avenge us for the way
that we are being treated?
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And James tells us in James 5
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that when people are paid unjustly,
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that unjust compensation goes
into the ears of the Lord.
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And the Lord responds to those
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that are being treated unjustly.
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But rather than take matters into their own hands, listen to
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what James tells them in James 5:
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7: Be patient
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therefore brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.
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Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit
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of the earth and hath long patience for it
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until he received the early and latter rain.
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Verse 8: Be ye also patient.
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Establish your heart for the coming of the Lord
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draweth nigh.
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Verse 9: Grudge not against one another
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brethren, lest you be condemned.
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Behold the judge standeth before the door.
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Verse 10: Take my brethren, the prophets
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who have spoken in the name
of the Lord for an example
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of suffering, affliction and patience.
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Verse 11: Behold we count them happy, which endure.
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You've heard of the patience of Job
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and have seen the end of the Lord,
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that the Lord is very pitiful
and full of tender mercy.
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But let's go back to verse 7 and begin.
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When James says, be patient
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therefore brethren. The word patient,
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that is used here is the Greek word, makrothumeo.
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It's a compound of 2 words; the word makroth,
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which describes something very, very long.
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It's where we get the word for it macaroni
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something very long.
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The Greek word makros. The 2nd part of the word is thumas,
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which is a word which describes passion.
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But when you compound the two words together, it depicts -
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listen to this - the patient restraint of anger and
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therefore denotes long suffering.
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It can be translated words
like forbearance and patience.
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Its actions.
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The actions of patience
are lack unto a candle
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with a very long wick.
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It can burn a long time.
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It has the ability to
forebear, to wait patient
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to be long suffering as it
patiently waits for an event
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or for a result to transpire.
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He's telling them, my friends
burn long like a candle
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with a very long wick.
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Don't be impatient,
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therefore, brethren. The word
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therefore, in Greek is the word oun.
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It is a conjunction.
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It means accordingly or consequently
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because my brethren, the
coming of the Lord draws near.
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But notice he calls them brethren.
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He uses this word brethren over and over
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and over in the book of James.
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And every time it is the Greek word,
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adelphos: from the word delphos, which is the Greek word
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for a woman's womb.
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But when you put an 'a' on the front, it's two
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or more born out of the same womb.
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And James uses this word, Paul uses this word,
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John uses this word,
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Peter uses this word to describe all children of God
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because we are all adelphos, born out of the womb of God.
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And this means we are related in Christ.
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It was a very endearing term used to describe those
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of one's own family.
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We have a very large
spiritual family, my friends,
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but it was later used
in a militaristic sense
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to depict brothers in battle.
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It could be translated as the
word comrade or brotherhood.
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He's speaking to people
that are in a fight.
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He says, brothers comrades.
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He jumps into the trench with them.
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He's speaking directly to
them and he says, be patient,
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therefore my brethren unto
the coming of the Lord.
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The word unto means as far as
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or right up unto the coming of the Lord.
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And while the word coming is the Greek word parousia,
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and listen to what it means: it is a technical expression
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for the royal visit of a king or an emperor.
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The arrival of one who alone, the arrival of one
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who alone can deal with the situation.
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And here it is used to
denote the coming of Christ.
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And by using this word parousia, James is saying
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to his readers, and to us guys,
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it might seem like things
are not good right now,
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but when Jesus comes, parousia, he's going to come
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with the power to set everything straight
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and make everything right. Say - Amen.
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And notice he calls it
the coming of the Lord,
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the word Lord, the Greek word
Ria, which means the Lord
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or the supreme master.
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He reminds all of us that in spite of
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what we're experiencing
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or the exasperation we may feel with life,
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Jesus really is Lord.
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He is the supreme master. He is in charge.
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And one of these days,
very soon when he shows up,
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he's gonna bring everything under control
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and make everything right.
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And then James continues in verse 7
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and says, Behold the husbandman waited
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for the precious fruit of the earth
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and hath long patience for it.
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The word behold is the Greek word, idou.
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A better translation would be - Wow, it is amazing.
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The husbandman. The word husbandman, the Greek word georgos:
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if your name is George, that's
where your name comes from,
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from the Greek word georgos.
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It describes a farmer who tills
the soil, plants the seed,
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pulls the weed and
eventually reaps the harvest.
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But my friends, that's a very long process
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and you may want the harvest
to come very quickly,
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but the harvest doesn't come quickly.
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First you have to till
the soil, then you have
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to plant the seed, then
you have to pull the weeds,
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and eventually you get
around to the harvest.
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But there's a process of
waiting for the harvest.
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And James is writing to people
who are tired of the process
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and they're exasperated.
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And now he reminds them that
even farmers have to wait
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for the precious fruit of the earth.
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The word wait, in Greek is echdechomai. Eck means out.
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The word dechomai means to receive with great anticipation.
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It describes people
all strung out, waiting
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and longing for something to happen.
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They're throwing open their arms,
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rolling out the red
carpet, wanting to receive
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the precious fruit of the earth
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and have long patience for it.
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And guess what? Long patience is a repeat
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of this Greek word makrothumeo.
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So we're gonna cover it again"
a compound of two words,
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makros - something long, something
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that's really strung out. The word thumos, the Greek word
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for passion. Compound the two words together.
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And again, it is the patient
restraint of anger and
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therefore denotes long suffering.
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Rather than being exasperated,
you need to have a wick
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that burns a long, long time.
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It can be translated as
forbearance and patience.
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And as I said, its actions are like unto a candle
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with a very long wick,
it can burn a long time,
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which means it's not short wick.
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It can burn and burn and burn and burn.
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It is ready to forebear, to await patient
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to be long suffering as
it waits for an event
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or for a result to transpire.
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The Bible here tells us
that farmers have to wait.
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They don't get the harvest right up front.
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They have to be very patient
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and they have to have a
very long wick as they wait
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for the season of harvest to arrive.
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And then he adds in verse 7,
Until he received the early
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and latter rains. The word,
until, the Greek word heos,
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it means till as far as up to
until he received the early
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and the latter reigns.
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There were two seasons of
rain which came to Israel.
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There was the early rain,
there was the latter rain.
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The early rain was always exciting.
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It got the crops growing
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that the crops could not reap maturity
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until they received the latter rain.
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So you can't reap after the first rain.
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You have to wait for the latter rain.
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You have to go through the whole season,
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which may feel like it's very prolonged,
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but you have to wait for the
first rain and the latter rain
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before you can be in
the season of reaping.
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And then he says - Until he receive.
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And by the way, the word
receive is very important
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because it is a form of
the Greek word lambano,
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which describes a giving and a taking.
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Listen to what it means.
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Lambano means to lay hold
of something in order
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to make it your very
own, almost like a person
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who reaches out to grab, to capture
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and to take possession of something.
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And in some cases it means
to violently lay hold
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of something in order to seize it
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and take it as your very own.
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who graciously receives
something that is freely
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and easily given.
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There's a give and a take.
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God gives us what we desire
that we have to take it,
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but the farmer has to
wait for the right season
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for his taking.
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And then he says in verse 8: be also patient.
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Oh, there's that word patient.
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That's the one thing
none of us want to be,
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but you have to be patient
for the manifestation
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that you're waiting for.
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You may be exasperated
right now, but be patient.
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He says, be also patient.
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Establish your hearts for
the coming of the Lord
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draweth nigh. And guess what?
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The word patient it is the 3rd time in these few verses
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that he uses the word makrothumeo, the same word again
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from makros,
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which describes something long or something all strung out.
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The word patient, the word thumas, which describes passion,
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compound the two words together.
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And again, it describes
forbearance, patience,
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actions like under a candle
with a very long wick
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that burns a long, long time as it waits
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for something to happen.
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He says, be ye also
patient, have a long wick.
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Hmm. And then he says,
establish your hearts.
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Well, this is very good.
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If you're impatient,
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you're probably looking
at your circumstances,
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you're impatient with your circumstances, you're exasperated
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with what's happening and
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what you think should
happen is not happening.
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But rather than focus on
all the things around you
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that you don't like, which
probably is not going
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to change anything, he says,
Hey guys, get your eyes off
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of all of these events and all of your circumstances
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and put your eyes on your heart.
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Do something with your heart: establish it. The word
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establish the Greek word steridzo
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and listen to what it means.
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It describes something fixed and solid.
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Make sure your heart is fixed
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and solid, like a column
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that holds up our roof of a house.
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This word establish, the Greek word steridzo means to brace,
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to shore up, to bolster,
to support or to uphold.
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It fundamentally describes
the act of adding strength
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and support to something already existing.
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He's saying, Hey, get your
eyes off of your circumstances
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and put your eyes on your heart.
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Why? Because if we bolster our heart,
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if we reinforce our heart,
which really is what the words
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steridzo means, here translated stablish,
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we can deal with anything.
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We can deal with anything
if we've given the strength
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and the support to our
hearts that is needed.
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So he tells them to focus on their hearts.
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Then he adds for the coming
of the Lord, draweth nigh.
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And that word coming again, the Greek word parousia,
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the technical expression for the royal visit
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of a king or an emperor.
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The king is coming, the emperor is coming,
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but it also depicts the arrival of one who alone can deal
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with the situation or put things in order.
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And here it is used to denote
the coming of the Lord.
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The king is coming, the emperor is coming.
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He's gonna put everything in order,
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bring everything under his control.
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But until that time you
deal with your heart.
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And notice he says the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
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the word draweth nigh, in Greek means it's so very close.
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It's approaching even now.
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Then in James 5:9, he adds,
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Grudge not one against another
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brethren less he be condemned.
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Behold, the judge standeth before the door.
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Why did he tell them to judge not?
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Well we've seen in previous programs that there was a lot
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of bickering going on
among these believers.
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They were upset that some
were getting more than others,
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some were more blessed than others.
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Why are you being paid
more than I'm being paid?
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Why is your prayer being
answered quicker than my
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prayer is being answered?
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And there was a lot of
grudging going on back
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and forth between these believers.
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And here he says, grudge
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not. In Greek, it is the word, me, which is a negative.
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And the word stenadzete, which means to moan,
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to groan, to sigh.
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It is an expression of
deeply felt emotion to vent
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or to aspirate or to blow your top.
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But in this verse he says,
do not negatively moan,
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groan, or sigh.
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Do not negatively blow your top
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against one another.
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And the word against is a
form of the Greek kata,
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which means literally against
depicting them as being upset
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with one another.
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They are not rejoicing in
other people's victories
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and other people's blessings,
but they really hold a grudge
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because other people are
getting more than I got their
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prayers being answered before mine.
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And he says, my brethren don't do this,
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but he goes on to say; Grudge not against another, another.
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The word another, the Greek word allelon:
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it describes something
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that is reciprocal.
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And remember that what you
dole out will come back to you.
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It's called the law of sowing and reaping.
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If you give a grudge, a grudge
is gonna be returned to you.
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Don't get involved in this
reciprocal bad behavior.
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My brethren, he calls
them brethren, again,
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the Greek word at aldophas,
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which in a militaristic sense
described comrades in a fight:
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he's jumped down into the trenches and like a commander
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and a brother, he's speaking to him
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and saying, Hey guys, this
is not what you need to do.
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He says, last you be condemned.
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Condemned, the Greek word krino, condemned.
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Again, this is reciprocal activity.
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If you judge, you're going to be judged.
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Jesus said that in Matthew 7:1, stay out
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of the judgment business.
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And then he adds in verse 9, behold, behold,
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the judge standeth before the door.
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You know why he said that?
Because they were tempted
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to think, but how long is this going to go on?
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How long is this unjustice -
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injustice going to be carried out in my life?
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And now James says, Hey, hold on, hold on,
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behold. The word behold, the Greek word iduo, it's amazing.
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Look at this,
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The judge.
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And the word judge is the Greek word crease,
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a Greek word which pictures
Christ as a judge, a magistrate
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or a ruler, one who passes judgment.
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The judge who's gonna set
everything in order, standeth
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before the door. The word
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before, the Greek word pro, right in front of the door.
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The word door is the Greek word thuran,
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which usually describes something that is slammed
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and locked shut.
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But Jesus is about to open the
door. He's about to arrive.
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And then he says in verse 10: Take my brethren,
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the prophets who've spoken to
you in the name of the Lord
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for an example of suffering,
affliction and patience.
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But when you read this in the Greek text, it says, take
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for an example.
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And it is the Greek word, hupodeigma. The word
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hupodeigma. And the word hupodeigma.
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could be used
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to describe a child
who's learning to write.
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And when he is learning to write,
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he looks at the alphabet which
his teacher has given him.
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And with his hand, he begins
to copy the letters given
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to him by his teacher, very
carefully copying the A,
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every line, every little
curl, then the B, then the C.
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And now James says, Hey, study those
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who have preceded you and copy them.
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And particularly he refers
to the prophets who've spoken
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to you in the name of the
Lord who suffered affliction
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and patience. Suffered
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affliction is a compound of the word kakos and pathos.
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In Greek, it is the word kakopatheia,
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But kakos describes something foul, something vile.
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The word pathos especially describes mental
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or emotional suffering.
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But when you compound the
two words together, it means
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to put up with a lot of mental hardness.
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Mental hardness, or be mentally tough.
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He said, look at the prophets
in the past; all they put up
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with, but they were mentally tough,
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they were mentally strong,
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and they also had a lot of patience.
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And then he says in
verse 11, behold, behold,
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we count them happy, which
endure. Count them happy,
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in Greek means, ridiculously happy.
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They're blessed with
all kinds of benefits.
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We count them happy, ridiculously happy, that endure.
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And the word endure, is the Greek word, hupomone.
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And listen to this: it means to abide
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or to stay in one spot: to keep your position to resolve,
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to maintain territory that you've gained.
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And in a military sense,
it pictures, soldiers order
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to maintain their positions even in the face of opposition:
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to defiantly stick it out regardless
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of pressures mounted against it: staying power,
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it is hanging their power.
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It is the attitude that holds out, holds on, outlast,
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perseveres, hangs in there, never giving up
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and refusing to surrender to obstacles
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and turning down every
opportunity to quit.
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Wow! That is powerful.
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And because they refuse to
surrender even in the face
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of exasperating circumstances,
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they ended up ridiculously blessed.
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That is what James says.
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And he tells us to take
them for an example
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and that we are to study
the way they did it
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and do it like they did it.
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We are to be mentally tough.
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And my friends never forget
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that Jesus really is coming soon.
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And when he shows up,
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he's gonna bring everything
under his command.
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He's gonna put everything in order.
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Jesus really is coming soon.
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I'll be back in just a moment
and I'm going to pray for you.
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Are you ready for what's coming next?
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The Bible warns of a
moment coming soon suddenly
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and without warning,
when Jesus will return
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to rapture his church. Right
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after that, the antichrist will rise, deceive the nation's
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and unleash unprecedented deception
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and destruction on the earth.
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Also, order the 5-part series, Getting the Basics Right,
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starting at just $11, a foundational guide
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that will help you stay encouraged
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and grounded in your faith.
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And don't miss the book. Signs
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You'll See Just Before Jesus
Comes, which can be yours
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for only $17.
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Call the number on your screen
or visit renner.org to order.
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Call or go online now.
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Hey, this is Rick Renner,
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and right now I'm standing
in the reception area
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of the Tulsa Ministry Headquarters.
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And this building is just so wonderful.
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You know, the Bible tells us
in Proverbs 10:21, The lips
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of the Righteous feed many.
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And I know that is our assignment.
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God has called us to feed many
people the trusted teaching
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of the Bible.
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And together with you
and all of our partners,
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we really are taking the trusted teaching of the word of God
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to the very ends of the earth.
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But this is the reception
part of the Tulsa building.
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And every day thousands
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of phone calls come into
this facility from people
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that are watching the program
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and who are reaching out for prayer.
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Right now we've paid off
about 78% of this facility
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and that is just wonderful.
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But now we need to knock
it out of the ballpark.
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We need to finish this
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because when we're finished
paying off this facility,
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that frees up finances,
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so we can take the teaching of the Bible
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to more places across
the face of the earth
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where people are crying out for someone
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to feed them the word of God.
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And so today, if you're not already a part
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of our giving team to pay off
this facility, I'm asking you
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to join us as a part of our
Ministry Expansion Project
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to pay off this facility and
we can say, done, finished,
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and give glory to God and my friends.
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We can only do it with your help.
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So thank you if you're
already part of the team.
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And if not yet part of the
team, please join us as a part
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of the Giving team to
pay off this facility
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so we can be finished with it
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and use these funds to
take the gospel further
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to other places across the world.
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Today we've covered so much material
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and that's why I want you
to order the entire series,
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which is called, Getting The Basics Right.
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We need to get the basics right.
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It's 5-parts and it comes in multiple formats.
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The subtitle says, Biblical Guidelines for Money,
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Relationships, Prayer,
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and for Dealing with Way Word Believers, Friends,
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or Loved ones.
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And it comes with a wonderful study guide.
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And please remember
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that right now we're also
offering you my book,
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which is called Signs
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You'll See Just
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Before Jesus Comes. Order yours today.
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I know you'll devour it and order a couple
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because you're gonna wanna
share this with somebody else.
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But Father, we thank you in
the name of Jesus that you are
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so aware of our circumstance.
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Help us Lord not to get exasperated when we don't like the
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way things are going.
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And to remember that you really are coming
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and you have the power
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to set everything in order and you will.
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And we thank you for
this in Jesus name - Amen.
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I'll see you tomorrow. But remember Ecclesiastes 8:
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4, 'Where the word of a king is there is power."
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If you've never received
Jesus as your Savior
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and Lord, now is the time for
you to experience a new life
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Jesus has to give you.
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Pray this prayer with me right now: Lord.
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I repent of my sin and
receive you as my Savior
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and Lord, Sash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
right to lay claim on me.
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen. This program was
made possible by the giving
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of the God called Partners of Renner Ministries.