S2 E85 James about Faith and Thinking Celestial Leading to Works part 2 (week of Nov. 13, second episode)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
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🗓️ 12 November 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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In this episode, Kerry and Lamar discuss what it means to ask in faith and not have wavering faith and having your heart straight and right and sincere before God. They also explore the relationship between thinking celestial and faith. They also grapple with the balance of faith and works in our lives and how those notions should interact with each other rather than be considered as opposing principles. They discuss the “superfluity of naughtiness” and how both faith and works tie into the pure religion of helping the afflicted. Then they go through how what we say and how we treat others is important and affects us and them, and is related to being double minded or not. Finally, the highlight the important principle of friendship with the world being enmity with God.
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| 0:00.0 | And now for part two. |
| 0:06.4 | In chapter three, now here's where we get that kind of wisdom sort of literature, |
| 0:12.6 | where he makes a lot of James makes or Yakovas, whatever we want to say, makes some of these things. |
| 0:20.4 | He starts in verse two, for many things we, in many things we offend all. |
| 0:25.6 | If not, if any man offend not word. |
| 0:29.8 | Oh, man, I read that all weird. |
| 0:31.3 | If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man. |
| 0:34.7 | Okay, so there's our word perfect again. |
| 0:36.9 | So if anybody isn't offended word, if you're able to control your, your, your offenses |
| 0:42.9 | towards others, you're doing good. |
| 0:45.4 | And also be able to bridle the whole body. |
| 0:48.0 | Behold, we put bits in horse's mouth and they obey us and we turn about their whole body. |
| 0:52.7 | So, you know, you think of a bit, you put it in the horse's mouth. You can really stop their whole body so you know you think of a bit you put it in |
| 0:54.6 | the horse's mouth you can really stop a horse dead if you know how to bend them right they call on |
| 0:59.5 | your cowboying out there you bend that horse but he's really out of control you turn the mouth and |
| 1:03.6 | that he can't run forward he's got to stop so you can affect their whole body behold we put built some horse |
| 1:09.5 | mouth okay so then verse four behold also the ships, which though they be so great and they are driven |
| 1:16.3 | by fear, driven of fierce winds, yet they are turned about with a very small helm, |
| 1:20.9 | whither so over the governor, governor listed or the captain. |
| 1:23.6 | So we're talking about that, that rudder there. |
| 1:25.8 | That rudder and the overall size of the ship is much smaller than the whole ship, but that little rudder can do a lot. |
| 1:33.3 | Even so, the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things, behold how great a matter a little fire kindleeth. |
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