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We've already seen in these
programs that James is writing
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to a group of believers
that are really suffering.
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Their problem is identified in James 1:1
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where he describes his readers as those
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that have been scattered
abroad, which is a translation
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of the Greek word, diaspora.
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The word diaspora, describes a particular kind
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of planting of seed.
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There were two ways to plant seed.
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You could methodically plant
one seed in a nice, neat,
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orderly row, one after another.
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That's not the word that James uses.
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He uses the word diaspora,
which means scattered abroad.
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This is the second method
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of planting seed when you
put your hand into a satchel
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of seed and just grabbed a whole handful
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and then just randomly with no rhyme
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or reason, just begin to
scatter it all over the field.
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That is the word that is
used in James 1:1.
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And it tells us that the
believers he is addressing
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who are Jewish believers,
they have been ripped out
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of their homes like
seeds scattered abroad.
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They've been scattered
all over the eastern lands
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of the Mediterranean Sea.
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They've lost their homes,
they've lost their businesses,
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they've lost their finances.
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They can't even find all
of their family members
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because they were so
abruptly scattered abroad due
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to persecution.
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And the persecution began in Acts 8.
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And now Pastor James is getting letters from these Jewish
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believers all over those lands
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and they're expressing
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to him their frustrations,
their struggles.
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They feel like their lives are
being crushed and destroyed.
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When you come to chapter 5, you find that whereas
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before they were business owners
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and they were prosperous, now
they're seeking employment
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and getting very low level paying jobs.
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And they are so frustrated
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and they're wondering, when is
all of this going to change?
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And by the way, when is
Jesus ever going to come?
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And they're also thinking
about just giving up
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or possibly just taking
matters into their own hands
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to fix things by themself.
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They're just experiencing
a lot of frustration,
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and many believers experience
frustration in their life
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because of spiritual attacks or
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because they're waiting
for something to happen,
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just frustration on so
many different levels.
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And that's what these
believers were experiencing.
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So when you come to James 5,
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and reach for your Bible,
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where I always use the Bible
in this program, James says
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to these struggling believers in James 5:
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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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But when you read this in the Greek text,
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it's a little bit different.
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At the very first of the
verse, it uses the Greek word,
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hupodeigma, which would be better translated,
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take for an example. The word hupodeigma,
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was used to picture a student who's learning
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to copy the letters of the alphabet.
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I remember when I was learning to write,
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my teacher would gimme the alphabet
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and I could see how she had
beautifully written every
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letter of the alphabet.
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And I would sit with my
pencil and my pad of paper
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and I would try to copy those letters.
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Every little curl, every little swirl,
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I would diligently try to
copy every single letter.
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That is the word that
is used here and here.
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James says, when you're
going through a rough time,
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it would be very good for
you to remember how those
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who have been through
hard times in the past,
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how they did it and how they did it well,
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and copy what they did: study
them, study how they forgave,
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study how they stayed in faith, study them
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and copy them, take them as an example.
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And he says, my brethren, again, we come
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to the word brethren,
which appears over and over
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and over in the book of James,
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the Greek word adelphos from delphps, which is the word
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for the womb of a woman,
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but you put an 'a' on the front: it's two
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or more born out of a womb of a woman,
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hence it describes brothers
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or sisters that it was
used in a military sense
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to describe comrades in a fight
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or soldiers that were faithfully
slugging it out together.
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So he carries the idea of
comradery or brotherhood.
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And again, we find that James
crawls into the trenches
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and looks into the eyes of
these Christian fighters,
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eyeball the eyeball, and
he begins to address them.
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And he says, take my brethren, the prophets
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who spoken in the name of
the Lord for an example.
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Here's what you should copy
of the way that they dealt
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with suffering affliction and of patience. Suffering
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affliction is a compound word,
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kakopatheia. The word ka-kos
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The word ka-kos depicts something that is foul.
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The word pathos usually describes a suffering connected
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to the mind or to the emotions.
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But when you put the two words
together, it means to put up
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with a lot mentally and emotionally or to be emotionally
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and mentally tough.
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And here he says, the
prophets of the past, they had
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to put up with a lot and they
had to be mentally tough.
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And he said, patience.
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The word patience here
is so very important.
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You'll see why in just a moment.
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Then he goes on
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and in verse 11, he says,
behold, we count them happy,
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which endure.
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And the word behold is the Greek word, idou.
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It carries a sense of
wonderment. Wow, look at this.
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Look what happens to those who endure.
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And he says, we count them happy. Makaridzo
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is the Greek word.
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It literally means to count
supremely blessed, happy,
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and blessed with all kinds of benefits.
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Why? Because they didn't give up.
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They endured all the way to the end.
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And when you endure all the way to the end
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and press through everything
you're dealing with,
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when you get to the end,
you become a possessor
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of everything that
belongs to you in Christ.
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And he says, we count
them happy that endure.
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And my friends, sometimes
you have to endure
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to get to the blessing.
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What does the word endure, mean?
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Well, you're gonna find
out it appears several
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times in these verses.
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So it's pretty important. The word endures,
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the Greek word, hupomeno:
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listen to this. It means to stay or to abide.
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We count them happy
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that stayed or abide. It means to remain in one spot.
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We count them happy, that
stayed in their spot.
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They refused to surrender.
It means to keep a position.
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We count them happy that kept their position.
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It means to resolve to maintain territory
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that has already been gained.
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So we count them happy.
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That resolved they were going
to maintain their territory.
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And in a military sense, this Greek word hupomeno, pictures,
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soldiers order to maintain their positions even in the face
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of opposition:
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to defiantly stick it out regardless
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of pressures mounted against it.
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One man calls it staying power.
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Another expositor calls
it hang in their power.
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It is the attitude that
holds out holds on outlasts,
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perseveres, hangs in there
never giving up, refusing
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to surrender to obstacles
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and turning down every
opportunity to quit. It
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pictures one who is under a
heavy load, doesn't deny the
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fact that the load is there.
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He's under a heavy load, but
he refuses to bend, break,
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or surrender because he is convinced
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that the territory promise
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or principle under assault
belongs rightly to him.
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Wow. That's what the word, endure, means.
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And it says, we count
them happy that endure.
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And of course you understand,
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they've decided they're not going to bend,
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they're not going to break.
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They're gonna go all the way to the end.
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And then he gives us
an example in verse 11.
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You've heard of the patience of Job.
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Well, everybody's heard of
Job, but it goes on to say
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and have seen the end of the Lord,
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that the Lord is very
pitiful and a tender mercy.
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But notice it says the patience of Job.
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You know, if you listen to
the most religious people,
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they think that Job was a man that was just the victim
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of his circumstances.
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He just lost everything.
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He was just the victim of everything
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that was happening to him.
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But hey, this verse gives us a new insight
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to the story of Job.
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It describes the patience of Job
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that's not just waiting it out
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and waiting for everything to end.
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The word patience is the
same word we just saw,
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which previously is
translated as the word endure.
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The endurance of Job would
be a far better translation.
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And because James repeats it
immediately in the same verse,
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it must be important.
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So let's look at the meaning
of this word, patience.
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The Greek word hupomeno, one more time.
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It means to stay
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or to abide, to remain in
one spot, to keep a position
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to resolve, to maintain territory gained in a military,
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sends a picture, soldiers ordered,
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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.
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This adds such a new
flavor to the story of Job
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because most people
think Job was just a man
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that was a victim of his circumstances.
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But here, James uses the word patience,
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which means Job internally
had made a decision,
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I know my spot, I know where I am.
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I know it belongs to me.
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I'm going to defiantly stick it out.
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He had the attitude that
he would not surrender.
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And it goes on to mean the
attitude that holds out,
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holds on outlast, perseveres,
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and hangs in there never giving up, refusing to surrender
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to obstacles and turning down every opportunity to quit it.
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Pictures one under a heavy load, but refuses to bend, break,
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or surrender because he is convinced
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that the territory promise
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or principle under assault
rightly belongs to him.
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And the very fact that James
would use this word means
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Job was just not lingering and holding on.
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He was holding on, hanging in
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And it goes on to say,
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and we have seen the end of the Lord.
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The word seen, the Greek word horao, which means to see,
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to behold, to perceive, to comprehend by observation.
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How can you comprehend by
observation the story of Job
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by reading the Book of Job.
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And it says the end
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of the Lord. The word end, the Greek word
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telos: the outcome, the conclusion, how it's all going
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to end, that the Lord is very pitiful
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and of tender mercy.
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The word that, in Greek is the word hoti,
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it's pointing to something very important.
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Here's the conclusion.
The Lord is very pitiful.
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And here you have the most interesting word:
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the Greek word polusplagchagnos.
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It's a compound of two words.
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The word polus describes something great in number
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or something that is plentious.
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And the word splagchna,
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which interestingly is the Greek word
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for the intestines or the bowels,
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but it's where we get the word compassion.
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When you put the two words together,
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it means the Lord
internally is deeply moved.
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He's plentious in mercy.
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He deeply feels there's no
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for his people, and he is of
tender mercy: the Greek word
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oiktirmos, which means when God sees his people in trouble,
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he doesn't abandon them.
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He has tender mercy, oiktirmos
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describes a compassion that acts.
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God moves, God acts.
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And now James is reminding his readers
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and us, if you're struggling,
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never forget God will
be deeply moved for you
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and he will act on your behalf.
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Wow. Then he says in verse 12,
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but above all things, my
brethren swear, not neither
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by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath,
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but let your yea be yea
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and your nay be nay lest
you fall into condemnation.
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Why does he say this?
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Well, let's begin at the first
of verse 12, where he says,
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but; and the word but, in Greek is the word de.
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It is an exclamation mark.
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It means categorically, emphatically
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above all things.
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And then he says, again, my
brethren above all things,
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and Greek says, pro panton - above all else
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my brethren.
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Now this word brethren is used again.
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He's crawling into the trenches, he's speaking to them face
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to face, brother to brother,
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and he says, swear not.
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And the word swear is a Greek
word, which means to swear,
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to make an oath.
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Or even better, it pictures
a rash or threatening oath,
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or it pictures one who is
swearing that he's going
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to take matters into his own hands.
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This person is tired of the injustice,
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that he's feeling tired of waiting
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for things to turn around.
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And the temptation is
to say, you know what?
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I'm just gonna take
matters into my own hand.
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And James says, don't do it. Don't do it.
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Above all else: the word,
but, the Greek word, de
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an exclamation mark, categorically,
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emphatically don't do this,
he says, neither swear
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by heaven, neither by earth, neither
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by any other oath. The word neither,
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in every case in this verse
is the Greek word mete,
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which means neither, never, ever keep it
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beyond the realm of possibility.
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Don't even go there. Don't even go there.
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Don't swear by heaven.
Don't even go there.
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Don't swear by the earth.
Don't even go there.
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Just keep it out of the
realm of possibility.
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Neither swear by any other oath,
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any other oath in Greek means
by any other pledge, oath
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or threatening statement.
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And I have to tell you that
this reminds me of the words
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of Jesus who was the
half-brother of James.
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They had the same mother, but
they had different fathers.
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James father was Joseph,
Jesus father was God.
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But in Matthew 5:34, Jesus said,
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But I say unto you swear, not at all, neither by heaven,
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for it is God's throne,
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nor by the earth for it
is his footstool, neither
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by Jerusalem, for it is
the city of the great king.
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Neither shall thou swear by thy ahead,
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because thou canst not make one har white or black.
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Verse 37: but let your communication be yay, yay, nay, nay
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for whatsoever is more
than these cometh of evil.
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It's evil. It's gonna get you
in trouble when you get into a
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threatening mode and decide
you're gonna take matters into
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your own hands and set
things right by yourself.
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So now let's go back to James 5:12,
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where James continues;
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But above all things, my brethren sweare not, neither
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by heaven, neither by earth,
neither by any other oath,
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don't go there, don't do it.
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Keep it beyond the realm of possibility.
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But let your yea be yea
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and your nay, nay, lest you fall into condemnation.
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And when he says, but remarkably it again is the Greek word
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de, which is an exclamation marker.
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It means categorically,
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emphatically rather than
make threats, he says,
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emphatically, let your yea be yea.
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Let your nay be nay. What does that mean?
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It means live simply and
stay out of the retribution
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and vengeance business.
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Remember, the Bible tells us in Romans 12,
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vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.
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And when you enter into the retribution
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and vengeance business, it's not yours.
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That is not your business.
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It clearly says in Romans 12,
I will repay, says the Lord.
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Don't get into that business.
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And remember the law of sowing
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and reaping what you dole out
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to others is what's going
to come back to you.
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And so James says - Hey, keep it simple.
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Stay out of the retribution
and vengeance business.
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Just let your yea be yea, your nay be nay,
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and then he adds lest you fall into condemnation:
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fall into condemnation.
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The word fall is a translation
of the Greek word pipto.
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The word pipto is a
well-established word used all
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over the New Testament.
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Here's what it means.
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It means to fall, it
depicts a downward plummet.
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In other words, you're not
just kind of following,
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you're plummeting downward:
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to fall into a terrible predicament
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or into a worse state
than you were in before.
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Someone who falls into
some type of failure.
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And now James warns us
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that when we get into a threatening mode
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and say, we're gonna take retribution in vengeance into our
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own hands and settle the score
by ourselves, we're going
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to fall into a situation
that is worse than the one
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that we're currently in.
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He says, don't do it. Don't go there.
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Keep it beyond the realm of possibility.
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He says, you will fall into condemnation.
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And the word into, it's really
not a very good translation
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because it is a Greek word hupo,
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which means under. You're going to fall under: you're going
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to fall under,
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he says, condemnation.
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And listen to the Greek word condemnation.
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It is literally pronounced crisis.
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And it is where we get the
word for a crisis situation.
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It depicts judgment.
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It could be judgment
passed on to you by others.
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It could be a self-inflicted judgment.
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And really that's what
he's talking about here.
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This will be a self-inflicted judgment.
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If you get into the flesh
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and try to solve everything by yourself
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and begin to make a bunch
of threatening statements,
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I'm gonna settle the score.
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You're going to have some
problems in your life.
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It's where we get the word crisis, hence,
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to fall into a crisis situation.
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And it pictures one who makes
matters worse by himself
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and creates a worse crisis.
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Hence, it depicts self inflicted troubles.
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So rather than say, I'm
tired of this injustice
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and I'm gonna settle the score
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and begin to make a bunch
of threatening statements,
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it's better to consider the story of job
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and the prophets of old, to
study them to see how they got
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through their hard times.
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And you will see in all of their cases, they had endurance.
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They kept their eyes fixed on the Lord,
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and the Lord was filled
with tender mercies
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and he acted on their behalf.
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And that's what the Lord
will do with you too,
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if you'll stay in faith
and keep a right attitude.
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I'll be back in just a moment,
and I want to pray for you.
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Someone asked the question, What is the RIV?
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Well, that's a very good question
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and I would like to answer it.
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The letters RIV stand
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for the Renner Interpretive Version .
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And yes, I'm doing my own
version of the New Testament.
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I think you know that I've spent a lot
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of years studying the Greek New Testament,
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and I'm doing my own version,
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which I call the Renner Interpretive Version,
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not a translation,
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but an Interpretive Version,
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which means I'm taking the Greek
words in the New Testament,
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which are just loaded.
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And I'm pulling all the concepts of all
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of those words into a
new Interpretive Version
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to give a fuller meaning
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of the Greek words in the
original text to those
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that are hungry to dive
deeper into the wonderful
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word of God.
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So my friends, that is what is the RIV,
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The Renner Interpretive Version of the New Testament.
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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 nations
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and unleash unprecedented deception
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and destruction on the earth.
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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 that 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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Wow, today has been so rich
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and we're barely getting started.
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So tomorrow we're gonna come back
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and continue in James 5
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and learn about the power
of praying for one another.
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And by the way, if you need
prayer right now, call us.
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We're waiting to pray for you.
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Just ring our phone or send us an email.
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And the moment we hear from
you, we'll begin to pray
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with you for God to do something so wonderful in your life.
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But remember that we're offering you my brand new series,
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which is called Getting the Basics Right.
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Is this an amazing
series? It's 5 parts.
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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 dealing with wayward believers, friends or loved ones.
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And as I always tell you,
it comes with a study guide.
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And we're also offering you this week my book called, Signs
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You'll See Just Before Jesus Comes,
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but you can order this also by going online
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or by giving us a call.
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But Father, we thank you that those who endure
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to the end are the ones
that are supremely blessed.
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Help us to grab hold of the
power of the Holy Spirit
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and the word of God and endure to the end
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and push through every obstacle.
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In Jesus' name, Amen. I'll see you tomorrow.
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But remember Ecclesiastes 8:4, "Where the word
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of a king is there really 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. Wash 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.
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Thank you for joining
Rick Renner today.
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For more information
about Renner Ministries
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and product resources, visit renner org.
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This program was made
possible by the giving
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of the God called Partners of Renner Ministries.