Nov. 24, 2024

James 1:19-27 A New Interpretation Pt 5

James 1:19-27 A New Interpretation Pt 5

We conclude our work on a new interpretation of James 1:19-27

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We conclude our work on a new interpretation of James 1:19-27

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All right, back to the Book of James. For those

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who aren't here in the first hour, it's going to

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be a quick review, and then we're going to see

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if we can wrap this up to some level of satisfaction.

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All right. All of this week on the podcast, it's

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been James one nineteen through twenty seven. I mean, there's

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been a lot of other things, but James one nineteen

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through twenty seven has been the passage that we have

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been focusing on. And I have been working all week

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to come up with a brand new interpretation of James

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one nineteen through twenty seven because I disagree with every

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interpretation that's been given since the second century all the

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way to today, all right, because none of them make

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literally any sense at all to me. So if you

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look at the entire Book of James, basically, if you

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go with a non Catholic interpretation to the Book of James,

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if you've got any Protestant church, non Catholic church, they're

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basically going to say the Book of James is about

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proving whether you were saved or not saved based off

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what you do or don't do. Don't look to what

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Christ did, look to what you do. And if you

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don't do it enough, they can't really tell you how

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much is enough, then you're not saved. And I have

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a major problem with that. Not only that their entire

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premise is based off the fact that basically we can

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be almost perfect. Right they'll say, well, you can't be perfect,

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but you can keep the law. Well, if I can

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keep the law that I should be perfect, it all

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falls apart. So all of it drives me crazy. Right, So,

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because I know that their interpretation contradicts reality, Well, then

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either of you've got to change reality. Are you going

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to say, we've been interpreting this text the wrong way forever? Right?

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So the text is James chapter one Versus nineteen through

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twenty seven. Let me just read it for those who

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weren't here in the first hour James one, nineteen through

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

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

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wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore

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I lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and

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received with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to

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

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and not hearers, only deceiving your own selves. For if

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any man be a hero of the word and not

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a doer, he's likened to a man beholding his natural

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face in a glass, For he beholdeth himself, goeth his

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way and straightway, forgetteth what manner of man he was.

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But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty and

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continueth therein him, being not a forgetful hearer, but a

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doer of the work, this man should be blessed in

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his deed. If any man among you seem to be

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religious and brobdleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart,

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this man's religion is vain, pure religion, and undefalled before

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God and the Father. Is this to visit the Father,

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listen widow in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted

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from the world. If you go to any church, listen

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to any sermons, they almost constantly turn this entire section

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into what don't be a hero of the word, be

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a doer of the word, Because if you're not a

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doer of the word, you prove that you're not saved.

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That's where a sermon after sermon after sermon after sermon

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is taught everyone where every church you go to. In fact,

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I taught it that way for a very very very

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long time, right because I bought into lordship salvation. And so,

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as I stated in the first start, let me state

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it again. The reality of Christianity is this. Nobody wants

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to admit this. The reality of Christianity is this. The

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Bible is not interpreted based off what the text says.

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The Bible is interpreted based on whatever theological school of

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thought you have adopted. You buy into a certain system

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of theology. That's how you interpret the Bible because you

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interpret it consistent with the theology which you believe, meaning

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that your theology is interpreting the Bible. The Bible is

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not the authority. Your theology is the authority, and you

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become the authority, which is a major problem, is an issue.

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But if you try to deal with the text alone,

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you will find yourself in conflict with every system of theology.

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And I was asking Ai about this this morning and

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AI basically said, if you just care about the text,

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you will not be welcomed in the church. And I'm like, well,

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that's comforting, thank you. AI. Basically, it's like if you

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care about the text, just don't go to church because

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nobody in the church is going to accept that the

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church is just there to reinforce whatever they believe, and

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they preach the text based off what they believe. And

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everyone pretends that they're studying the Bible, but nobody's really

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studying the Bible. That's kind of sad that that's the reality,

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but that is the reality. So I've set out to

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set up a new interpretation of nineteen to twenty seven,

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and that's what we worked on in the first hour.

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So we're going to go through this quick. Everybody ready,

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all right, here we go. For those who are here,

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they can answer all the review. The core framework for

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my entire interpretation comes down basically to two main concepts.

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Two main concepts that is verse twenty one, how we

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interpreted the ungrafted word? How do we interpret the ungrafted word?

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Almost to everyone throughout church history has interpreted it. I

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could go through all the different ways they interpreted, but

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the bottom line and is they believe it gives you

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some kind of power or ability to now basically do

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what God tells you to do. Here is my interpretation

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of the ungrafted word. Everybody ready, The ungrafted word refers

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to the moral law written on our heart. That's Romans

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two fourteen through fifteen. It's engrafted, it's implanted, it is

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put inside of us.

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And what does that ingrafted word do.

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It convicts, it condemns, It shows us something is not

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right in us. It's they're constantly saying, you do this wrong,

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you do this wrong, you do this wrong, you do

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this wrong, you do this wrong. That is the ingrafted word.

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Everybody got that. What is the law of liberty mentioned

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in verse twenty five? I believe the law of liberty

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is the moral law fulfilled in Christ. It is the

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law of liberty because when we look into it, we

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see that it's been fulfilled. Therefore we are set free

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from condemnation. We are not set free from the power.

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We are set free from condemnation. Right, it is the

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perfect law because it reflects Christ's perfect fulfillment of the law.

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And then number three, we are to try to live

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out positionally. What we're trying to live out practically what

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is true positionally? And we'll talk about that, right, But

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the main thing I want you to get is the

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law of the agrafted word of the law of liberty.

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How I interpret those which goes against everyone. Right, there's

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some agreement in early Church history a little bit. Okay,

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when I say that I'm going against everyone, My ultimate

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conclusions go against everyone. There is some agreement throughout church

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history that the ingrafted word were first of the law,

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and the law of liberty is Christ fulfilling it. But

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they say the law of liberty is Christ fulfilling it

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so that now you can fulfill it. That's where the

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problem gets. I'm completely disagree with that, all right. So

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now most Christians today say the ungrafted word is the

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Gospel or Jesus or something along those lines. Okay, I

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completely reject that. So I'm more in line with early

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Church history. I don't have time to go through all

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the history. I went through it all on the podcast,

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all right. So the ungrafted word is what, according to

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my interpretation, the law, the moral law written on our hearts.

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The law of liberty is the law fulfilled in Christ.

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Everybody got that, all right? So then how do we

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understand this? Well, if you look at verses nineteen twenty

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and twenty one, we have.

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The reality of our heart.

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We have the reality of our sin, and how is

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it expressed? Look at verse nineteen. My beloved brethren, let

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every man be swift to hear.

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Slow to speak, slow to wrath. That's the way we

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should be.

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Right. Do we have a tendency to be swift to hear? No,

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we tend to be swift to what.

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To talk, to speak?

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Right, we are not slow to speak. We we are

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uh we we are not slow to wrath. And that

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the wrath worketh not the righteousness of God lay apart.

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All filthiness, superfluity of naughtiness, All of that is our sin.

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That's all true of us. We're guilty of all of that.

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How do we know we're guilty of all of that?

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The ingrafted word, which is what flows right, is next?

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Do you see that? So the first thing we see

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in the text is the reality of our sin. If

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we want to, if we want to break this down,

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we have the reality of our sin, which then points

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us to the ingrafted word. The ingrafted word is the

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thing that reveals the reality of our sin. And what

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are we to do with this ingrafted word? Well, what

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does the text say?

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Receive it with meekness? What does that mean.

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To humbly that it's saying you're right, I'm guilty I'm guilty,

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I am morally corrupt. I don't listen. I speak when

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I should not speak. I get angry. I'm self seeking,

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I'm self centered. I'm focused on me. I want people

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to hear me. I don't want to hear others. And

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what is the thing that tells us that it's the

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ingrafted word? We are to receive it humbly? Why what

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does the text say it's able to save our souls?

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How does the ingrafted word save our souls? Because the law,

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if we receive it, tells us to go to Christ,

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for which we get saved. All right, So let's make

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sure we have this down all right, everybody, make sure

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we have this down right, a brand new interpretation of

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this entire section. All right, everybody ready? Okay? So what

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is the ungrafted word in James one, verse twenty one?

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The warl law?

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All right, when we go to James one, nineteen twenty

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and twenty one, we see the reality of our sin

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by looking at Let every man be swift to hear.

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We're not swift to hear, are we not? We're swift

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to what we want people to hear us before we

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hear them. Slow to speak, we're fast to speak, slow

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to wrath. We're quick to wrath. The wrath of God work.

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It's not the rightstistance of God. Lay apart all filthiness,

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superfluity of naughtiness. That's moral corruption. We're morally corrupt. We're

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self centered. We want everyone to listen to us, and

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we get ticked off when things don't go our way.

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Can we all say amen to that? Yes? What reveals

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all of that? The ungrafted word? What is the ungrafted word?

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That is the law written on our hearts? What are

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we to do with the law that's written on our hearts?

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We are too humbly accept it? Why because when we

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humbly accept it, it gets us to face the reality

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that we are a sinner.

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Why do we do that?

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Because it can save our souls?

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How does it save our souls?

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Not that we keep it, but it saves our soul

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because the law as a tutor to take me straight

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to Jesus Christ. So I'm to humbly receive it. So

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we have the condition of the heart. We have the

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ungrafted word right now?

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What do we have?

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In verse twenty two to twenty four. This is where

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all preachers go and they mess this completely up. We're

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not to be hearers but doers. Now, when it says

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here and doers, it's referring to the ingrafted word.

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Can everyone see that textually?

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That's not that nobody can take say that I'm wrong

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on that that I will argue to the death. The

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word that I am to hear is the ingrafted word.

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What is the ingrafted word the moral law? So to

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hear it and do it? What is that referring to

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I hear that I am guilty to do it? We

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interpret that is, oh, I need to obey the law.

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We can't obey the law. So hearing and doing is

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this I hear the ungrafted word which says I'm guilty,

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and to do it means I allow that word to

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fulfill its purpose, which is what to drive me to Christ.

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drive me to Christ, which is Galatians chapter three, which

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says the law serves as what a tutor to bring

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me to Christ, so that can be saved by faith.

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So there is the doing. Everyone misinterprets that. What's the

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next part from the doing to the mirror? Everybody see

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the mirror. If I'm a hero of the word and

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not a doer. I'm like a man beholding his natural

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face in a glass, for he beholdeth himself, goeth his

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way straight, and forget what manner of man he was.

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If I will, if I will, if I humbly receive

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the ungrafted word, then I'm going to do it. I'm

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going to look into it, and I'm going to let

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it take me to Christ. If I don't humbly receive it,

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then what am I going to do. I may hear it,

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I may look into it, but I am not going

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to go to Christ. Therefore I will not be saved.

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Does everybody get that? All? Right? So all of that,

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now there's a progression in my interpretation nineteen twenty and

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twenty one. A. There's the condition of us we're sinners.

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do with the ungrafted word? Receive it meekly? Okay?

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looks like, or we can see the actions of receiving

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the word meekly, which is what allowing it to drive

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me to Christ. I do it, I look into it,

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I allow it to get me there. Then that all

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progressively leads me to verse twenty Is it I think

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twenty five? Now we looked at twenty two through twenty four.

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To look into the uh the perfect law of liberty?

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get driven to Christ and I look into the law

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of liberty, well, now, what is the law of liberty?

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The law fulfilled in Christ? Now I am to look

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into the law of liberty?

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And what do I see?

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When I look into the law of liberty? I see

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that the law has been fulfilled in Christ? Right? Does

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everybody see that? All? Right?

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I look?

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The law of liberty is the moral law fulfilled in Christ.

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It provides freedom from condemnation. It does not provide freedom

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from power? Has everybody got that? If I look into it?

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It's to see Christ's perfect fulfillment and to live continually

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dependent upon His grace. Now do you see what it

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says here? But whoever look at them the perfect law

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of liberty and continue therein him being not a forgetful

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here but a doer of the work.

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How am I not a forgetful here?

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I need hear? What do I need to hear? Every

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single day? I need to hear that Christ has fulfilled

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the law for me every single day? Do I not

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need to hear that as a believer? Why do I

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need to hear that Christ has fulfilled the law for

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me every single day? Because I know that I have

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failed it every single day. Right, so I constantly have

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to hear it. But then it says not just to

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be a hearer, but a doer of the work. Now

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that's where everybody loses their mind. Say, see, your interpretation

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falls apart. No, it doesn't go to John six twenty nine.

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I believe it's twenty nine. It's a number. I got

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it wrong in the first hour, probably get it wrong

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in the second hour. John six twenty nine tells us

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the work that God tells us to do. What is

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the work God tells us to do in John six

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twenty nine, when everyone else said, I don't want to

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read it to you, I want you to see it

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John six nine.

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Yeah, the work is for to believe.

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I look into the law liberty, I see that Christ

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has fulfilled it, and my work is to believe what

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He has done. Everybody see that. That's the work. Everybody

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thinks about work. That's the work that we are called

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to do, and we believe that we can't even do

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that work unless God grants us faith. But that gets

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into a whole different issue. And what happens once I

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do this? This man shall be blessed in his deed?

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How are we blessed in Christ Jesus with all spiritual blessings?

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And what because of what he has done? Not because

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of what we do? Does everybody see that? And then

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that leads us to verses twenty six through twenty seven.

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What is twenty six and twenty seven? Remember the progression

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of thought? What does it start with? Nineteen twenty and

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twenty one?

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A our sin?

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Right? Then we have the ungrafted word. The ungrafted word

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is the thing that reveals our sin. It condemns us.

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What are we to do with the ungrafted word? To

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receive it with meekness humbly? Then what are we to

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do with this received word? Where we are to take it?

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To follow where it it calls us to go, which

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is to the to the cross. We are to follow it.

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We're to look into it. Then when we get there,

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we're to look into the liberty. And we are at

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the law of liberty, and we're to believe that Christ

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has fulfilled it.

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On our behalf.

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Then what flows from that It should be a sense

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of gratitude, right, a sense of love and appreciation for

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what Christ has done. That should then lead us to

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attempt to live out practically what is true positionally, and

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that is verse twenty six to twenty seven. Will we

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do twenty six and twenty seven perfectly? No? So then

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what does that do? We then continue to listen to

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the law inside of us it says we're guilty, and

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then go back and do what do what it says,

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look into it, go back to the law of liberty

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and constantly look into the law of liberty that says,

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even though we have failed, Christ has done it for us.

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It's a continual circle. Does everyone see that.

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It never stops.

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Now that's my interpretation of nineteen through twenty seven. So

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I gave all of my interpretation to AI. Right, I

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here's my interpretation. It broke it down. Now some of

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the ways that broke it down. I read some of

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the ways that broke it down. I didn't completely agree

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with every way it broke it down. But okay, it's

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trying to understand what I'm trying to say. So there's

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a little back and forth. But then I'm like, okay,

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here's my interpretation. I want you to analyze it, and

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I want you to critique it. Right, So here's how

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AI broke down my interpretation. All right, you ready? All right?

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First it looked at it based on textual and contextual accuracy.

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It says, okay, you gave me your interpretation. Is it

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textual and is it contextually accurate? So first it looked

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at my textual faithfulness. This is what it said. This

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interpretation aligns closely with the flow of James's argument, the

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progression from receiving the ingrafted word to responding to it

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and living it out. So receiving the ingrafted word is

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in verse twenty one, responding to it is verse twenty

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two through twenty five, and living it out is verse

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twenty six through twenty seven. The mirror metaphor and the

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description of the law as perfect and liberating are handled

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consistently with James's emphasis on conviction and transformation. So it says,

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at least I'm faithful to the text. I'm not doing

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anything to the text that's not faithful to the That's important, right,

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because it could be argued, well, wait a minute, you're

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just interpreting it according to your theology. Because you reject

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lordship salvation, you're doing this, and that could be argued.

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I believe my motivation is if I go with everyone

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else's interpretations, its premise is that I can actually obey

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the law and do it, which I can't. So therefore,

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then if I can't keep the law, you can't look

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to my actions to prove that I'm saved, because I'm

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perpetually in a state of what sin. Therefore, looking to

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my actions to prove salvation makes no sense. That's what

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motivated me to come up with a new interpretation, all right.

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Not my rejection of lordship salvation. My rejection of lordship

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people telling me that I can keep the law, which

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is just absolutely fraudulent. That's not true, all right, So

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at least they say I'm being textually consistent, all right,

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how about contextual sensitivity, so they'll look They first looked

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at it for my textual faithfulness, and I said that

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I follow the progression. And does everyone see the progression

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in the text. I think the progression goes more than

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AI breaks down. It shows us our condition. We're sinners.

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What is the thing that shows us our condition? The

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ungrafted word now I have two choices. Whenever someone points

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out your guilt, you have two choices. What's your choices?

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You can either say I don't nope, nope, nope, or

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you can be like, man, you're right, I did it.

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It's on me. Well, it says, to do what with

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our guilt? To receive the word meekly? Why, that's the

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only thing that's gonna save me. I got to receive

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what the word is saying, which is saying you're guilty.

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You're guilty of guilt. Nobody likes to hear how bad

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we are, nobody, But if I receive it, then I

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can be saved. Well, what do I do to How

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do I receive it? By doing, not just hearing, and

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by looking into and responding. That all points me to

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looking into the law of liberty and seeing that crisis

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fulfilled it and then believing it right the progression, and

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then what flows from all of that then hopefully a

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desire to attempt to live according to it.

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Am I gonna do it perfectly?

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No?

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And this is what ticks me off.

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Anytime I go against the lordship, you're immediately accused of

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being an Antiinomian. I'm so sick of that, you're not

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an antignomian because you simply acknowledge that you can't keep

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the law. That's not an antiinnomian. An antignomian would be

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like someone who says I don't even care if I

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have to keep the law because I don't have to.

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I'm saying you can't. There's a difference, and people should

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be forbidden to use theological terms. They do not understand.

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That drives me crazy. We just throw accusations out. We

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don't even know what we're talking about. So it's a progression.

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I think if you look at it as a progression,

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it makes far more sense. Most pastors just go in

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and want to make a sermon about what doing it,

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doing it, doing it. That's not what the passage is

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a does everybody see the progression? All right? So what

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about my contextual sensitivity? This interpretation respects james Jewish Christian audience,

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for whom the moral law and its fulfillment in Christ

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would have been central. The emphasis on practical obedience fits

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james broader theme of faith expressed in action. So it

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says I'm being sensitive to the context, which is who

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does he write to? Look at James Chapter one verse

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one the Twelve Tribes. It's written around forty four, forty five,

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forty seven eighties, one of the earliest New Testament writings,

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meaning it would have had much more connection with Old Testament.

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There's not even a New Testament canon when James is writing,

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so it uses language. It sounds very much what Old Testament.

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It sounds Old Testament all day. That's why it's all

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law law, law, law, law, law, law, which is why

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Luther was like, just to burn this thing. I don't

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know what to do with it because it's confusing, is

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it not?

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But it's law based.

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Now, if it's law based, we should know what to

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do with that, all right, So it says my textual

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and contextual accuracy. It gives me thumbs up. Okay, good.

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How about my philological accuracy? Uh oh, here we go.

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Number one. I acknowledge in my interpretation human and ability. Okay,

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I think I acknowledge that all the time. Do I not?

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The constant need to look into the law of liberty?

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Is that not what it says to do in James

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one twenty five looketh into the perfect law of liberty

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and continue with therein? Does everybody see that? All right?

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The constant need to look into the law of liberty

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reflects the ongoing reality of sin, aligning with biblical teaching

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of Roman seven, which says, what the things I want

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to do I don't. Things I don't want to do

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I do. First John one says, if we we have

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no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not

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in us. It says that I call that my interpretation

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strongly acknowledges human inability. It says, my interpretation avoids legalism

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by grounding all practical obedience and Christ's fulfillment of the

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law and the believer's positional righteousness. Yes, thank you. At

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least AI understands what I'm trying to do. Guess what,

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AI didn't accuse me of an antinomian in that? Amazing? Okay,

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Maybe maybe that's why I can only hang out with Ai,

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because you know, anywhere else I'd be in trouble. All right. Oh,

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guess what else it does? According to AI, I have

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a good balance between law and gospel. Oh wow. Oh,

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I've been accused of not doing that all the time.

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I don't know why I accused it. It says the

465
00:25:50.799 --> 00:25:56.160
law's role in condemnation and conviction is maintained without suggesting

466
00:25:56.400 --> 00:26:02.160
that it can justify. The law is fulfilled, but the

467
00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:05.680
law doesn't justify me. Christ's fulfillment of the law. Right, Okay,

468
00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:14.160
It's ultimate purpose of driving sinners to Christ is emphasized. Right,

469
00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:17.680
you present so it says that I bounce a long Gospel.

470
00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:21.920
It says you presented the idea that sanctification is imperfect,

471
00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:28.440
requiring continual dependence on grace, while I implied that sanctification

472
00:26:28.599 --> 00:26:29.359
is imperfect.

473
00:26:29.599 --> 00:26:31.559
Who could have ever thought that?

474
00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:37.039
Anyone with a brain, anyone who will acknowledge reality, will

475
00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:40.839
see that. Right now, lordship will say, well, sanctification is

476
00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:45.279
never perfect, But they contradict themselves. Right, sanctification is never perfect.

477
00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:49.000
But how do I know I'm saved based off my sanctification?

478
00:26:49.319 --> 00:26:52.519
So imperfect sanctification is supposed to prove I'm saved, but

479
00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:58.559
God demands so the standard is perfection, But my imperfection

480
00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:01.279
can prove that I'm saved. That is just the Do

481
00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:06.480
you see the logical fallacy? That's just foolishness, all right?

482
00:27:06.599 --> 00:27:10.319
At least it says, hey, you've got to you acknowledge

483
00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:15.160
youman inability, You balance long Gospel? All right? And then

484
00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:22.599
it says, this you acknowledge the sinfulness of Christians. It says,

485
00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:29.400
this interpretation explicitly addresses the reality that believers sin daily,

486
00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:33.079
even after salvation. It frames this as a reason to

487
00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:36.319
continually return to Christ and the law of liberty. That's

488
00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:39.319
my whole point why. That's why I believe the law

489
00:27:39.359 --> 00:27:42.920
of liberty is not the ungrafted word. Now. The reason

490
00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:46.000
I have to stress that is Pastor after pastor says,

491
00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:48.559
the ungrafted word is the law of liberty is the

492
00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:50.799
most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life. It's

493
00:27:50.839 --> 00:27:55.599
two separate things. The ungrafted word is what condemns me.

494
00:27:56.559 --> 00:27:59.119
The law of liberty is that Christ has done it

495
00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:03.160
for me, all right. That's the They're two separate things,

496
00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:05.920
all right. So we have to continually go back to

497
00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:10.440
the to thell. Practical obedience is presented as an aspirational

498
00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:16.039
response to grace, not a measure of worthiness or achievement.

499
00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:20.559
And I just believe that practical obedience isn't something we

500
00:28:20.559 --> 00:28:25.200
should aspire to, is something we should want. It's not

501
00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:29.759
a measure of my salvation. If you want to measure

502
00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:34.240
my salvation by obedience, then guess what I'm gonna point

503
00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:40.720
you to Christ and I then back off. If someone says,

504
00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:44.319
if you're a Christian, you're gonna do this, I'm like,

505
00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:46.200
you know what, if I'm a Christian, it's.

506
00:28:46.119 --> 00:28:49.279
Already been done for me. So you back off.

507
00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:51.720
You go to your little church and set around circles

508
00:28:51.839 --> 00:28:54.559
talking about how godly you all are, because you're all

509
00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:57.160
a bunch of liars and hypocrites, because when you pull

510
00:28:57.240 --> 00:28:59.599
back the curtain, you're just as much as a sinner

511
00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:01.759
as every everyone else, even though you won't admit it.

512
00:29:01.799 --> 00:29:02.839
And how many.

513
00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:06.599
Times does that happen where it gets exposed over and

514
00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:11.240
over and over two thousand years of church history. What

515
00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:15.200
does everyone in the world know about Christians? They're sinners?

516
00:29:16.119 --> 00:29:17.480
They know it well.

517
00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:20.319
We all sit in little semi circle, singing Kumbaya, having

518
00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:22.960
a pot luck, telling ourselves that we're better than those

519
00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:27.599
people out there. No, and we and we shouldn't even

520
00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:30.559
be comparing ourselves to the people out there. We should

521
00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:34.000
be comparing ourselves to the Law of God, which would

522
00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:38.079
tell us what we're sinners. It's not that complicated if

523
00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:43.200
we do that, all right. Next, it says that my

524
00:29:43.319 --> 00:29:48.319
interpretation focuses on humility and perseverance. The call to persevere

525
00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:50.880
and is looking into the law of liberty reflects the

526
00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:55.000
ongoing tension between sin and sanctification. This prevents the idea

527
00:29:55.079 --> 00:29:59.480
that we can accomplish anything, but it also prevents despair

528
00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:05.880
because we don't accomplish everything. So this idea of hey,

529
00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:13.480
we are more than conquerors positionally, So my position is, hey,

530
00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:16.559
we should be humble and we should persevere. Why do

531
00:30:16.599 --> 00:30:19.599
I persevere Because I keep looking into the law of liberty,

532
00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:22.240
which says it's all been taken care of. So I

533
00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:25.000
persevere so I can attempt to do the right thing,

534
00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:28.759
knowing that no matter how many times I fail, Christ

535
00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:31.720
has already done it for me. So this keeps me

536
00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:34.799
from saying I can do it. But it also keeps

537
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:39.079
me from saying I'm going to hell because I have

538
00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:42.000
the Law of liberty. So it says I balance those

539
00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:47.759
two out. Now. It has some critiques and suggestions. It

540
00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:52.759
says my interpretation is textually grounded and maintains theological consistency.

541
00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:57.680
It avoids the pitfall of legalism emphasizing human effort.

542
00:30:58.160 --> 00:31:06.279
Oh, look at this. It avoids antinomianism.

543
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:11.880
Can you believe that AI says that I avoid antiinomianism.

544
00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:14.200
I thought that that's what I was.

545
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:20.839
Well, if you know what antiinomianism is, you know that

546
00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:25.279
I'm not an antiinnomian. Okay, Oh it drives me crazy.

547
00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:30.359
But so those are some of my strengths. It's textually grounded,

548
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:35.240
it maintains the logically consistent, It avoids legalism and antiinomianism.

549
00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:36.039
That sounds like.

550
00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:40.799
Really good, all right, but here's my weakness. Of course,

551
00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:46.160
this is where it's gonna go. This interpretation could more

552
00:31:46.359 --> 00:31:52.119
explicitly highlight the role of the Holy Spirit in enambling

553
00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:58.200
believers to respond to the law of liberty. Now I

554
00:31:58.319 --> 00:32:08.200
reject that outright, Okay. This interpretation could more explicitly highlight

555
00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:13.640
the role of the Holy Spirit and enabling believers to

556
00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:17.680
respond to the law of liberty. Now it depends on

557
00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:24.200
what they mean by respond. Now, if the Holy Spirit

558
00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:28.079
is the thing that convicts me and gives me faith,

559
00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:32.039
because I believe faith is a gift from God, repentance

560
00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:35.440
is a gift from God that I cannot do that,

561
00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:40.039
then I will agree. If it's saying respond to it

562
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:45.079
and my actions, then I disagree, because well then I

563
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:47.359
should be able to then keep it. So that's where

564
00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:49.799
the only problem, Like, Okay, I agree, but then I

565
00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.000
can disagree because it does it. I didn't ask it

566
00:32:52.240 --> 00:32:55.240
to clarify what it means. But over and over and over,

567
00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:58.559
AI does revert back to how most Christians look at

568
00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:01.279
it because it's pulling from most Christian literature, right, so

569
00:33:01.359 --> 00:33:03.799
I can understand that. So it always has problems when

570
00:33:03.799 --> 00:33:06.359
I come in with these new interpretations because it's like, well,

571
00:33:06.559 --> 00:33:09.079
you do realize nobody in Christianity agrees with you. Well,

572
00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:11.400
I know that, and I don't care. I don't care

573
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:15.039
that nobody I'm I don't care, right, why should I care?

574
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:18.480
Like it doesn't I'm not We're not Catholics. If I

575
00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:20.119
was not. If I was a Catholic, i'd be like,

576
00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:23.240
oh no, I'm going against the magisterium. Father, forgive me

577
00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:25.960
for I have sinned. Right, it's been six months since

578
00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:30.000
my last confession. But we if Protestants want us not

579
00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:33.039
to have a magisterium, then who get Then I have

580
00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:34.720
just as much right as you to come up with

581
00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:37.160
an interpretation and you can tell me I'm wrong, and

582
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.000
I don't really care. Now it sounds like, well that

583
00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:45.960
sounds rebellious. That's the whole Protestant spirit. Right, Luther told

584
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:50.160
the entire Catholic church that they were wrong, and then

585
00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:53.559
then everyone told Luther he was wrong, and then they

586
00:33:53.640 --> 00:33:56.720
told okay, right, So then if that's the way it

587
00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:58.720
can be, then everyone can get out of my face

588
00:33:58.720 --> 00:34:00.200
for telling me I can't be that way.

589
00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:01.519
I'll be that way on crack.

590
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:03.960
Okay, I'll take it to the fifteen I'll take it

591
00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:07.240
to the hundredth level, because that's the way we want

592
00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:09.000
it to be in the Protestant world. And I guess

593
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:10.639
that's the way it can be. Now. Of course it

594
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:12.880
won't be very good for having a church, but okay,

595
00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:13.960
all right.

596
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:15.480
So it says.

597
00:34:16.719 --> 00:34:20.039
It says this would provide a fuller theilological framework for

598
00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:23.639
practical obedience, and that that makes me worry. So they

599
00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:26.400
talk about the Holy Spirit's response and said this, if

600
00:34:26.440 --> 00:34:30.280
I did this, it would provide a thiological framework for

601
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:34.320
practical obedience. Seemilarly to infer that it's saying that the

602
00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:36.639
Holy Spirit is the thing that gives me power for

603
00:34:36.679 --> 00:34:39.480
practical obedience. And you see the problem with that. If

604
00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:42.239
the Holy Spirit and if I challenge AI on this,

605
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:44.639
because I've had this back and forth with AI constantly.

606
00:34:44.880 --> 00:34:46.679
If I say, well, wait a minute, if the Holy

607
00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:49.039
Spirit's will one empowering me to obey, then I should

608
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:53.039
be able to obey perfectly. It will admit, well, you're right, logically,

609
00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:57.840
it says, logically, that will not work. However, Christianity teaches

610
00:34:57.920 --> 00:34:59.400
that it does. And I'm like, I don't care what

611
00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:00.400
Christianity is teaches.

612
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:03.079
It's just not true.

613
00:35:03.159 --> 00:35:06.199
All right. If the Holy Spirit empowers me to obedience,

614
00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:09.760
I should be what perfect because the Holy Spirit is

615
00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:12.480
perfect and the Holy Spirit is God.

616
00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:16.280
Therefore he has all power.

617
00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:18.519
So he can't say, well, he can only power me

618
00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:21.199
to be fifty percent better. That is the most ridiculous

619
00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:25.440
thing I've ever heard in my life. Right, simple behavioral

620
00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:31.760
modification techniques can get me to fifty percent. Right, there's

621
00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:35.239
all kinds of programs out there how to change your behavior.

622
00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:39.039
If Christianity just gets us to fifty percent better, then

623
00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:42.960
the Holy Spirit is pretty weak. All right, that's my interpretation,

624
00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:48.679
all right. Now, so they summarize it this way, Oh okay, yeah,

625
00:35:48.679 --> 00:35:50.840
we may be able to pull this off. It says,

626
00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:56.599
my interpretation provides a thiologically sound and textually faithfully faithful framework.

627
00:35:57.039 --> 00:36:00.880
It emphasizes the moral's law, the moral laws, convicting role,

628
00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:04.239
the ungrafted word, it's fulfillment in Christ, the law of liberty,

629
00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:07.800
and the believer's ongoing struggle to live out practical love

630
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:12.400
in humility. By maintaining a balance between long Gospel and

631
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:15.920
acknowledging the reality of daily sin, it offers a realistic

632
00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:21.760
and grace filled understanding of Christian sanctification. So it sounds

633
00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:25.079
like overall it likes what I do. But I'm like, well,

634
00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:28.719
I got a problem. So then I was like, okay,

635
00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:31.760
that's nineteen to twenty seven. If we just leave nineteen

636
00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:34.320
to twenty seven, it looks really nice, doesn't it. Right,

637
00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:38.159
we have a good starting point, how sinful we are.

638
00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:41.440
We got the ungrafted word, which tells us how sinful

639
00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:44.719
we are. We're to receive that message with meekness because

640
00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:46.880
it will save us. And what are we to do.

641
00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:49.880
We're to do what it's supposed to do, bring me

642
00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:52.280
to Christ. I'm to look into it, see my sin

643
00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:54.119
and go to Christ. Then I look into the law

644
00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:57.360
of liberty. I see that Christ has fulfilled it, and

645
00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:00.280
I'm to believe it. Then, flowing from that, I'm to

646
00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:02.760
constantly look into the law of liberty as I attempt

647
00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:06.199
to do what live out and practice what is true

648
00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:09.360
positionally that if I just take nineteen to twenty seven,

649
00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:13.000
it's nice, it's packaged together. I can put a ribbon

650
00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:16.840
around it and like who and everybody can be like, wow,

651
00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:18.679
that's really good. Well, I don't know if anybody will

652
00:37:18.719 --> 00:37:21.119
be like wow, that's really good. Most people probably won't

653
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:24.840
be that impressed. But my concern was, well, wait a minute,

654
00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:29.159
if we interpret nineteen to twenty seven that way, that's

655
00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:33.440
going to have profound impact on what the rest of

656
00:37:33.480 --> 00:37:37.840
the book. So then I was like, what do I do?

657
00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:40.880
What do I do? What do I do? What do

658
00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:43.280
I do? So I started trying to work on I'm like,

659
00:37:43.320 --> 00:37:45.280
this is going to take forever, right, It's going to

660
00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:47.920
take me forever to try to understand the practical implications.

661
00:37:48.039 --> 00:37:50.360
There are how many chapters in the Book of James.

662
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:55.960
Five is there five? Or six? Five? Right? Five? All right,

663
00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:58.599
that's five chapters. I got to figure out how that

664
00:37:58.639 --> 00:38:01.079
one section will impact all of it. So I'm like, okay,

665
00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:03.280
I'm gonna have to do a little I'm gonna need

666
00:38:03.320 --> 00:38:05.119
the help of AI to help me out here, right,

667
00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:08.559
So first I just asked the question, hey, AI, will

668
00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:12.440
my interpretation impact the rest of James? And this is

669
00:38:12.480 --> 00:38:16.800
what it said. It will indeed influence the interpretation of

670
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:20.119
the rest of the chapter, as the section functions as

671
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:23.599
a culmination of the earlier themes and sets the tones

672
00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:28.159
for james overarching argument. Here's how your interpretation and packs

673
00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:31.679
the rest of James one and the broader themes in

674
00:38:31.760 --> 00:38:34.199
the letter. So what it's gonna do is gonna show

675
00:38:34.199 --> 00:38:37.800
it how it fits within that chapter and then look

676
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:40.360
at the broader themes. I could ask it to do more,

677
00:38:40.639 --> 00:38:43.039
but I knew I wouldn't have time this morning to

678
00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:46.039
go through everything. So you're ready. So it starts with

679
00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:51.360
James one one through eighteen, James one one through eighteen

680
00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:56.239
because our section begins where nineteen, So one through one eighteen.

681
00:38:56.280 --> 00:38:59.960
This is what it tells me happens. The opening verse

682
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:05.119
in James Chapter one, verses one through eighteen, includes are

683
00:39:05.239 --> 00:39:13.639
introduces key themes trials, endurance, wisdom, and temptation. Can we

684
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:15.679
agree that all of those themes show up in verses

685
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:23.199
one through eighteen. Trials, endurance, wisdom, and temptation says, This

686
00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:28.000
leads naturally into the focus on the ungrafted word and

687
00:39:28.039 --> 00:39:30.679
the law of liberty in nineteen to twenty seven, it

688
00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:35.280
says it flows naturally. Right, Hey, we got trials, we

689
00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:38.760
got temptation, we need wisdom, we have temptation, we have

690
00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:41.159
all of these issues. Okay, now we're going to talk

691
00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:43.159
about the ingrafted word and the law of liberty. So

692
00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:46.480
it thinks the ingrafted word in law liberty becomes key

693
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:49.480
to understanding this. I think that there's some truth to that,

694
00:39:49.679 --> 00:39:51.920
at least I at least I believe so.

695
00:39:51.920 --> 00:39:54.000
So it starts with trials and endurance.

696
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:59.719
Trials are presented as opportunities to grow in perseverance, leading

697
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:05.440
to spiritual maturity. With your interpretation, the believer sees trials

698
00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:12.920
as an occasion for the ingrafted word to expose our

699
00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:17.119
inadequacies and point to deeper dependence on Christ. So, in

700
00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:19.960
other words, they say, my interpretation would say, we've got

701
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:23.199
the ungrafted word. I receive it meekly. When I go

702
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:28.599
through a trial. What will the ungrafted word expose? It

703
00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:33.840
may expose my attitude, It may expose what I'm thinking,

704
00:40:33.880 --> 00:40:35.280
even if I'm not saying it.

705
00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:38.599
I may be saying, hey, how are you doing? Praise God?

706
00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:41.760
God is with me? Going great. Inside, I may be thinking,

707
00:40:42.719 --> 00:40:44.960
I hate this, Why is God doing this to me?

708
00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:47.719
I can't stand this? And I'm sick of all these

709
00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:50.400
people with their lives are so nice and pretty, and

710
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:53.239
I'm going through this. I can't stand anybody. I hate

711
00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:56.320
my life, I hate God, I hate everything. That may

712
00:40:56.360 --> 00:41:00.000
be what you're feeling on the inside. Right on the outside.

713
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:03.400
We are pretty good at doing what praise God, doing

714
00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:05.800
better than I deserve. We know all the little cliches

715
00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:08.800
we're supposed to say. What will reveal our true attitude?

716
00:41:10.960 --> 00:41:14.280
The word will reveal what we're really thinking. So then

717
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:16.400
what am I to do when the word reveals it?

718
00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:21.800
Humbly receive it and then do what it tells me

719
00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:24.519
to do. You better go to Christ because if you're

720
00:41:24.559 --> 00:41:27.239
going to attempt to do it, you're going to end

721
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:31.480
up you're going to fall short. Right, So it says

722
00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:33.880
that's how that would be interpreted if we go with mind.

723
00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:37.400
The call to perseverance aligns with continually need to look

724
00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:40.199
into the law of liberty, sustaining humility and faith at

725
00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:43.360
mid trials. So what do I do in trials? According

726
00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:47.039
to my interpretation, look into the law of liberty because

727
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:49.440
the law liberty gives me some because I'm going to

728
00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:54.400
be constantly confronted that I don't probably handle trials always correctly.

729
00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:56.599
I look into the law of liberty and who handled

730
00:41:56.760 --> 00:42:02.320
trials correctly? Christ is fulfillment. Then you see how that

731
00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:05.960
that helps? All right? How about wisdom that says so

732
00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:09.840
Verses two through four deals with trials and endurance. Wisdom

733
00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:12.320
and faith is mentioned in five through eight. Can everybody

734
00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:20.519
agree that it's there? All right? It says wisdom is

735
00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:23.519
to be sought from God in faith. The believer's response

736
00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:26.480
to trials should flow from understanding their position in Christ

737
00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:31.079
and trusting in His fulfillment of the law. This interpretation

738
00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:34.000
would emphasize that the law of liberty grants freedom from

739
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:37.559
condemnation and provides the confidence to approach God in faith

740
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:42.280
even amidst failure. So it says, basically, according to my interpretation,

741
00:42:42.519 --> 00:42:45.239
our wisdom flows from looking into the law of liberty

742
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:49.039
because it gives us a correct perspective on everything. Right,

743
00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:51.639
Christ is the one who fulfills it. Christ is my

744
00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:55.599
only hope. So that it says that that's how it

745
00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:58.519
would be handled. Now, what is verse thirteen and fifteen

746
00:42:58.519 --> 00:43:08.199
about temptation? This is what it says, sin originates within,

747
00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:13.400
not from God. Where does that originate? It from inside

748
00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:16.960
of us? The ungrafted word, the moral law and the

749
00:43:16.960 --> 00:43:21.559
heart highlights the internal source, convicting the believer and pointing

750
00:43:21.559 --> 00:43:24.840
them to Christ for forgiveness and transformation. What does the law?

751
00:43:25.000 --> 00:43:27.239
What does the law do? Inside of us? It shows

752
00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:29.960
us where the problem is. The problem is where it's

753
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:34.320
coming from inside the house. Okay? Does that make sense?

754
00:43:36.039 --> 00:43:40.079
All right? And it recognizes the ongoing struggle with sin

755
00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:43.320
and reinforces the humility needed to continually reflect on the

756
00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:46.400
law of liberty and rely on grace. So the internal,

757
00:43:46.599 --> 00:43:50.360
the ingrafted word says, sin is inside of you, and

758
00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:53.000
you've got to go to where the law of liberty

759
00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:55.360
the law of liberty? All right? Then what was verse

760
00:43:55.400 --> 00:44:06.679
sixteen through eighteen? About sixteen through eighteen? All right, God's

761
00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:10.039
goodness and his word is what AI says it's about.

762
00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:14.159
We agree at least in part with that the word

763
00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:17.239
of truth. See that he begat us with the word

764
00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:21.840
of truth. Right, all right. So God's goodness is demonstrated

765
00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:24.480
in giving of the Word of truth, which brings life.

766
00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:27.639
With your interpretation, this ties the word of truth the

767
00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:31.000
Gospel directly to the ungrafted Word and law of liberty.

768
00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:34.400
There is not a conflict, but work together. The law convicts,

769
00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:37.519
the Gospel saves. Believers are seen as first fruits of

770
00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:40.960
God's work, striving to reflect his character while relying on

771
00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:45.679
Christ's complete work. So it says that I'm not in conflict.

772
00:44:45.679 --> 00:44:48.960
That it all works perfectly together. We got the Gospel,

773
00:44:49.199 --> 00:44:51.360
we got the moral law, and we got the law

774
00:44:51.400 --> 00:44:55.400
of liberty, which is Christ fulfilling it all right, So

775
00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:58.320
it says, how then does this impact the rest of

776
00:44:58.360 --> 00:45:02.320
the Book of James. It says that my interpretation fits

777
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:05.239
perfectly with everything that comes before. I'm not in conflict.

778
00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:08.000
That was good to hear because I was worried, right,

779
00:45:08.360 --> 00:45:10.599
because I was so focused on nineteen to twenty seven.

780
00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:13.719
I didn't even think about one through eighteen. So how

781
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:16.559
does it impact the rest of the book? Oh now,

782
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:20.199
now we've got some possible problems? Right? Okay? So what

783
00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:26.239
is James two fourteen through twenty six about? Faith without

784
00:45:26.320 --> 00:45:29.519
works is dead? Can never one agree that that's what

785
00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:32.760
that's about. I know we don't have time to read everything. Okay,

786
00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:36.840
but here we go. Oh boy, are you ready for this?

787
00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:40.639
Are the wills about to come off the train, right,

788
00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:47.239
I don't know. Here we go, your interpretation sets the

789
00:45:47.400 --> 00:45:53.360
stage for james discussion of faith and works. So, according

790
00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:56.239
to AI, is that if we go with my interpretation,

791
00:45:56.639 --> 00:46:00.519
it is setting the stage for it's to come. All right.

792
00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:02.119
That could be a good thing, that could be a

793
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:10.559
bad thing. Right here we go. Faith without works is dead.

794
00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:15.480
Not because work save here we go, this is what

795
00:46:17.079 --> 00:46:27.639
but because genuine faith produces action. See I disagree with this?

796
00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:30.280
All right? What is it going to say? All right?

797
00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:35.159
Here we go. The ingrafted word convicts believers to respond

798
00:46:35.199 --> 00:46:40.000
to their sin by turning to Christ. This response naturally

799
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:43.679
leads to a life marked by gratitude and practical love,

800
00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:47.000
as expressed in caring for others and controlling spece. Now,

801
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:49.559
I got no problem saying the ingrafted word convicts me

802
00:46:49.760 --> 00:46:52.320
and points me to Christ, and then from there I

803
00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:57.400
should pursue the right things out of gratitude. Okay, I'm

804
00:46:57.440 --> 00:46:59.840
okay with that. I don't know how this really is

805
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:04.199
the problem, it says. The law of liberty emphasizes Christ's

806
00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:07.840
fulfillment of the law, which motivates believers to live out

807
00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:13.000
their positional righteousness practically. While acknowledging they're imperfection. That doesn't

808
00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:15.360
really help me that. I don't think AI knows what

809
00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:18.400
to do with my interpretation here. So when we get

810
00:47:18.440 --> 00:47:25.360
to faith without works is dead, this is just an

811
00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:30.360
additional bonus here. How should we understand that? When it

812
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:33.800
says faith without works is dead? How should we understand this?

813
00:47:34.199 --> 00:47:37.559
And light of I think good biblical theology, how should

814
00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:47.480
it be understood? What do you guys think, Yeah, that

815
00:47:47.800 --> 00:47:51.119
entire section faith without works is dead? How should it

816
00:47:51.119 --> 00:48:12.239
be understood? Okay? When it says our faith is dead?

817
00:48:12.280 --> 00:48:15.960
How should we interpret our faith is dead without works?

818
00:48:16.159 --> 00:48:27.480
What does it mean to have dead faith? Okay? How

819
00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:30.679
does almost every Christian you know interprets if faith without

820
00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:34.880
works is dead lack of salvation? All right? So then

821
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:38.480
this is the question we should ask. Is it possible

822
00:48:40.519 --> 00:48:44.159
that when many see your faith is dead, they immediately

823
00:48:44.159 --> 00:48:48.039
see that as saying someone isn't saved. Couldn't it simply

824
00:48:48.119 --> 00:48:50.159
mean your faith is dead in the sense of it

825
00:48:50.280 --> 00:48:54.639
not doing anything practically. It is not speaking of dead

826
00:48:54.840 --> 00:49:02.559
as far as not being saved? Right? So I then

827
00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:05.719
challenged AI on this point, I'm like, well, how could

828
00:49:05.719 --> 00:49:08.599
we possibly do with it? Because if we say that

829
00:49:08.639 --> 00:49:11.639
faith without works is dead, meaning you're not saved, well,

830
00:49:11.679 --> 00:49:15.239
then we're right back to the problem here. Right, We're right,

831
00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:19.360
because then this would be the issue. All right, what

832
00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:21.320
is the work I'm supposed to do? I'm supposed to

833
00:49:21.320 --> 00:49:24.480
be holy as God is holy? Do I do that? No?

834
00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:27.599
Within my faith is? All right, then I'm not saved.

835
00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:30.239
See now what we do is we'll go apply it

836
00:49:30.280 --> 00:49:33.840
to something else, right, We'll apply it to you say

837
00:49:33.920 --> 00:49:36.280
bad words, or there's something about sex.

838
00:49:36.400 --> 00:49:37.079
We'll apply it to.

839
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:39.480
We won't apply it to be holy as God is holy,

840
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:42.159
because we know we can't do that. So we then said,

841
00:49:42.159 --> 00:49:45.639
the whole thing falls apart. So this is what AI said.

842
00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:51.360
It says it is entirely possible and likely that when

843
00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:56.119
James describes faith as dead, he is not declaring someone unsaved,

844
00:49:56.320 --> 00:50:00.960
but rather pointing out that their faith is ineffective or

845
00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:09.039
inactive in a practical sense. This interpretation aligns with the

846
00:50:09.039 --> 00:50:14.000
context of james argument and avoids equating dead faith with

847
00:50:14.079 --> 00:50:16.400
a definitive statement about one salvation.

848
00:50:17.079 --> 00:50:19.039
All right, I was like, okay, well that sounds good.

849
00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:21.480
I need it. We need to see if this actually works,

850
00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:24.280
all right, So look at If you look at James

851
00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:26.920
two seventeen and verse twenty six, I think both of

852
00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:32.119
them says faith with that works is dead, right. I

853
00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:34.280
think in verse twenty six he compares faith with that

854
00:50:34.400 --> 00:50:38.800
works to a body without the spirit, lifeless all right, Now,

855
00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:48.440
the metaphor seems to be suggesting uselessness or inactivity, rather

856
00:50:48.519 --> 00:50:52.039
than a definitive pronouncement that a person lacks saving faith.

857
00:50:54.719 --> 00:50:59.000
James concern is not about salvation in a judicial sense.

858
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:03.639
What about the practical outworking of faith in daily life?

859
00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:09.360
Faith that lacks action fails to accomplish its intended purpose

860
00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:13.400
to glorify God, serving others, and demonstrating love of Christ.

861
00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:16.199
So, it says James here may not even before we.

862
00:51:16.679 --> 00:51:19.639
Are reading into it, Oh, he is teaching that people

863
00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:24.679
are James is just saying it's ineffective, it's useless, it's

864
00:51:24.679 --> 00:51:30.000
not doing anything. And to make the argument, James offers

865
00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:31.920
some examples of ineffective faith.

866
00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:34.360
James gives examples.

867
00:51:33.719 --> 00:51:36.000
Of someone seeing a brother or sister in need, but

868
00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:38.000
failing to provide for them. Do you see that in

869
00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:42.840
James two fifteen through sixteen. This type of faith may

870
00:51:42.880 --> 00:51:47.599
be sincere, but it's useless and doing what meeting those needs.

871
00:51:48.639 --> 00:51:52.000
If someone comes to you and needs something and you're like, well,

872
00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:55.039
go with God bless you brother, I'll pray for you.

873
00:51:55.679 --> 00:51:57.239
They may have sincere faith.

874
00:51:57.000 --> 00:51:59.679
As far as salvation is concerned, but it was utterly

875
00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:04.119
and useless in what way and providing for that person?

876
00:52:04.320 --> 00:52:05.159
Does that make sense?

877
00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:08.920
In this sense? Dead faith does not mean that the

878
00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:13.920
absence of faith, but the failure of faith to act.

879
00:52:14.519 --> 00:52:18.760
Does that make sense? Dead faith dan is seen as

880
00:52:18.760 --> 00:52:21.599
more as a dormant faith. Dead faith could refer to

881
00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:24.519
a faith that is genuine but dormant, present in the

882
00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:29.880
heart but not actively producing works. This interpretation aligns with

883
00:52:29.960 --> 00:52:33.159
james practical focus, urging believers to live out their faith,

884
00:52:34.039 --> 00:52:36.559
not questioning its existence.

885
00:52:36.719 --> 00:52:37.519
James is not.

886
00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:40.239
Trying to question the existence of it, He's trying to

887
00:52:40.280 --> 00:52:44.079
describe the practicality of it. Hey, what good does it

888
00:52:44.199 --> 00:52:46.440
have to walk around saying I've got faith, I got faith,

889
00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:50.440
or you're stepping over someone who's suffering. What good does

890
00:52:50.480 --> 00:52:51.880
it say to have for faith and you're like, oh,

891
00:52:51.920 --> 00:52:53.119
I'm not going to help you, and I don't care

892
00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:55.000
about you, and I don't care about you, and I'm

893
00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:56.880
just gonna do whatever I want. To do. Then that

894
00:52:56.960 --> 00:53:03.039
faith is of no value practically does not mean that

895
00:53:03.039 --> 00:53:06.719
that faith does it save, because then it becomes about

896
00:53:06.719 --> 00:53:09.320
this subjective way and how you then measure it again.

897
00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:12.039
And if the measuring stick is be holy as God

898
00:53:12.119 --> 00:53:14.400
is holy, then I would want to see your faith

899
00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:19.639
do what produce true holiness? Does it ever produce true holiness? No,

900
00:53:19.960 --> 00:53:23.199
then nobody would be saved. You see that that, You've

901
00:53:23.199 --> 00:53:25.239
got to have a different way of interpreting it, or

902
00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:29.800
you just lead to what conclusion, Everyone's going to hell?

903
00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:34.280
Does that make some kind of sense? All right?

904
00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:37.199
It says Paul emphasizes.

905
00:53:36.639 --> 00:53:39.960
Salvation by faith alone Romans three twenty eight, and there

906
00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:43.199
is no indication in James that he is contradicting this.

907
00:53:43.840 --> 00:53:46.840
James addresses believers who already have faith but are not

908
00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:50.559
living it out effectively. Dead faith in this sense is

909
00:53:50.599 --> 00:53:55.840
ineffective for sanctification. It is ineffective for being a witness.

910
00:53:57.079 --> 00:54:01.559
It is not invalid for justification. It is of no

911
00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:07.719
value in sanctification. It's no value before people. Does not

912
00:54:07.920 --> 00:54:13.159
mean it's not valuable to save. That's where we always

913
00:54:13.199 --> 00:54:17.400
want to lead it to. Now, it says, is there

914
00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:20.800
any because then I asked well, is there any textual

915
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:24.039
or contextual evidence to support that. That's a good claim, right,

916
00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:30.239
But is there can we prove this textually? Well? Ai said, well,

917
00:54:30.280 --> 00:54:36.599
consider James's audience. Who's the audience? Well, if we know

918
00:54:36.679 --> 00:54:40.559
they're Jews and James one two and one nineteen, he

919
00:54:40.639 --> 00:54:43.760
calls them brothers. Now we could argue are they brothers

920
00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:46.840
only because they're Jews? Are they brothers because they are

921
00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:51.679
fellow believers? If we assume his audience has faith but

922
00:54:51.800 --> 00:54:54.960
exhorts them to demonstrate it practically, his concern then is

923
00:54:54.960 --> 00:54:57.280
not with whether they are saved, but whether their faith

924
00:54:57.320 --> 00:54:59.639
is living inactive. If he's already referring to them as

925
00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:03.719
believe brothers, then he's not saying, well, then you're not saved,

926
00:55:03.760 --> 00:55:06.559
because he already said they are. This is the same

927
00:55:06.559 --> 00:55:10.039
thing that happens in Corinthians, Right, Paul refers to them

928
00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:15.519
as saints even though they're doing everything possibly wrong, Right,

929
00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:17.960
even though he says that they could stand before God

930
00:55:17.960 --> 00:55:20.639
and all of their works burn up, but yet they

931
00:55:20.679 --> 00:55:24.800
are saved. He calls them carnal, he calls them fleshly,

932
00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:28.039
but he still refers to them as babes in Christ.

933
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:32.159
So it could be hey, your believers, but your faith

934
00:55:32.760 --> 00:55:35.440
your faith is dead in the sense that it is

935
00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:38.440
there is no works for anyone to see it. It's

936
00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:43.039
not practically alive. Doesn't mean it doesn't save. Right. The

937
00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:51.639
Greek word for dead can mean lifeless inactive, depending on context,

938
00:55:52.280 --> 00:55:55.000
so it could be lifeless or it could be inactive,

939
00:55:56.079 --> 00:56:01.679
and James it possibly means and a effective or fruitless,

940
00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:06.440
as the faith lacks action making it meaningful and daily life.

941
00:56:06.639 --> 00:56:09.840
A similar idea is found in First Corinthians, where Paul says,

942
00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:13.599
if I have all faith but I do not have love,

943
00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:15.719
I am nothing.

944
00:56:16.880 --> 00:56:20.239
I got faith, but I don't have love.

945
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:26.519
Right, that's the concept, right, Faith without love or action

946
00:56:26.679 --> 00:56:30.960
is ineffective. It does not mean it doesn't exist. And

947
00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:35.920
then it compares Abraham and Rehab. James uses Abraham and

948
00:56:35.960 --> 00:56:39.760
Rehab as examples of faith demonstrated through action. Their works

949
00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:42.719
do not establish their faith, but make visible and effective

950
00:56:42.760 --> 00:56:46.519
God's purpose. A believer with dead faith still has faith,

951
00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:49.840
but failing to live in a way that reflects it perfectly.

952
00:56:50.199 --> 00:56:55.039
All right, so it does argue that there is some

953
00:56:55.280 --> 00:56:59.920
that my interpretation then would say what my interpretation would

954
00:57:00.199 --> 00:57:02.039
to the faith without works and just say well, we'll

955
00:57:02.039 --> 00:57:05.880
wait a minute, Wait a minute, Okay, the r the

956
00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:10.119
moral law inside of us should convict us. When our

957
00:57:10.559 --> 00:57:14.400
faith is only have dead works, we should be convicted

958
00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:17.559
by that. Now what should we do? Most churches will say, well,

959
00:57:17.599 --> 00:57:19.719
then we need to do something. No, we need to

960
00:57:19.719 --> 00:57:22.119
do something by taking that conviction and going to Christ,

961
00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:25.199
looking to the law liberty and go My faith may

962
00:57:25.239 --> 00:57:29.119
have dead works, but my faith is in someone who

963
00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:34.679
has all works right, and now that should then hopefully

964
00:57:34.719 --> 00:57:39.159
motivate me that I will then begin to pursue works

965
00:57:39.559 --> 00:57:42.800
in a visible way. I don't think dead faith means

966
00:57:42.920 --> 00:57:45.559
you're not saved. I think it's meaning your faith is

967
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:49.280
dead from doing anything in a practical way because everything

968
00:57:49.280 --> 00:57:53.280
else falls apart. Everything else just falls or it becomes

969
00:57:53.320 --> 00:57:56.519
subjective in how you measure it. So does that make sense?

970
00:57:57.360 --> 00:58:02.519
All right? So that's the faith in work argument. AI

971
00:58:02.599 --> 00:58:04.880
didn't really know what to do with my interpretation, but

972
00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:08.960
I think that my interpretation works better that way, all right? Now?

973
00:58:09.239 --> 00:58:13.199
And James two one through thirteen, we have partiality and love.

974
00:58:13.280 --> 00:58:16.880
Does everybody see that the law of liberty provides the

975
00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:20.599
standard for loving others without partiality? Believers are called to

976
00:58:20.599 --> 00:58:23.639
reflect Christ's love even as they recognize their inability to

977
00:58:23.679 --> 00:58:26.639
do so perfectly. When we look into the law of liberty,

978
00:58:26.679 --> 00:58:31.599
what do we see Christ loving his neighbor, loving his enemy,

979
00:58:32.039 --> 00:58:36.960
loving everyone? All right, So humility and grace central to

980
00:58:37.000 --> 00:58:42.360
your interpretation temper the temptation towards judgmentalism. Just as believers

981
00:58:42.400 --> 00:58:44.599
receive mercy through Christ, they are called to extend it

982
00:58:44.639 --> 00:58:47.920
to others. Because we have received the ungrafted word. We've

983
00:58:47.960 --> 00:58:51.480
acknowledged what how sinful we are, So then we should

984
00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:55.840
show mercy to those who are guilty, because we ourselves

985
00:58:55.920 --> 00:59:01.960
are guilty. Everybody see that? In James three one through twelve,

986
00:59:03.480 --> 00:59:11.440
what is this about the tongue and holiness? Does everybody

987
00:59:11.480 --> 00:59:16.679
see that? Now? Ai says that my interpretation identify already

988
00:59:16.679 --> 00:59:19.440
identifies the tongue as an area of struggle where believers

989
00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:22.079
are called to strive for control but must rely on grace.

990
00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:26.360
James warning about the destructive power of the tongue reinforces

991
00:59:26.360 --> 00:59:28.559
the need to continually look into the law of liberty,

992
00:59:28.880 --> 00:59:32.880
recognizing failure and returning to Christ for forgiveness, because that's

993
00:59:32.920 --> 00:59:34.960
all that's all we can do. So basically, when you

994
00:59:35.000 --> 00:59:37.840
look to the tongue and holiness. What does the ingrafted

995
00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:43.199
word tell us? Man? Your speech is messed up? You're guilty?

996
00:59:43.480 --> 00:59:47.920
What am I to do? Do what it says? Look

997
00:59:47.960 --> 00:59:50.159
in the mirror, See how messed up I am. Go

998
00:59:50.239 --> 00:59:52.960
to Christ, Look into the law liberty and go at

999
00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:57.400
least Christ's tongue was perfect. Now that should then hopefully

1000
00:59:57.440 --> 01:00:01.360
motivate me to do what to do better, But at

1001
01:00:01.360 --> 01:00:04.320
the same time remembering that I'm never going to do

1002
01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:07.840
it perfectly? Which from den does? What? Have me? Listen

1003
01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:11.480
to the law? Go to Christ? It's continual circle. Does

1004
01:00:11.480 --> 01:00:14.079
everybody see that? All right? What is James four one

1005
01:00:14.119 --> 01:00:24.079
through ten about wordliness and submission? Is it not? For

1006
01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:37.480
one through ten? Submit myself to God? Humble yourself? See

1007
01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:39.559
all of those things in chapter four one through ten,

1008
01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:43.079
all right? James one twenty one through twenty five introduces

1009
01:00:43.079 --> 01:00:45.679
the themes of humility and submission to God. They are

1010
01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:48.119
expanded in James Chapter four, where the believer is called

1011
01:00:48.119 --> 01:00:52.519
to resist wordliness and draw near to God. My interpretation emphasizes,

1012
01:00:53.079 --> 01:00:57.320
emphasizes human inability and reliance on Christ prevents these calls

1013
01:00:57.360 --> 01:01:01.119
from becoming legalistic burdens and said, there's as invitations to

1014
01:01:01.199 --> 01:01:04.000
live out the freedom found in Christ. In other words,

1015
01:01:04.079 --> 01:01:06.320
what is saying is that my interpretation will do. Why

1016
01:01:06.679 --> 01:01:09.159
we look at this and we allow the law inside

1017
01:01:09.199 --> 01:01:11.960
of us to do? What tell us? Where we're guilty

1018
01:01:12.280 --> 01:01:15.599
and we are humbly receive that guilt, What do we

1019
01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:18.280
do with that guilt? We're not be hearers of it,

1020
01:01:18.320 --> 01:01:21.239
but doers of it. Look into the mirror, go to Christ,

1021
01:01:21.280 --> 01:01:23.599
look into the law liberty, see that He fulfills it

1022
01:01:23.639 --> 01:01:24.480
for us, and then what.

1023
01:01:24.559 --> 01:01:25.239
Do we do with that?

1024
01:01:25.559 --> 01:01:29.199
Hopefully we're motivated to act differently? Right, So then, in

1025
01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:30.960
other words, the aggrafted word in the law of liberty

1026
01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:38.280
becomes the guiding interpretive principle for every single section. Does

1027
01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:41.400
everybody see how this is kind of playing out? Now?

1028
01:01:41.400 --> 01:01:49.320
What's James five seven through eleven? Does it once again

1029
01:01:49.320 --> 01:01:53.079
talk about suffering and perseverance? And five seven through eleven

1030
01:01:58.679 --> 01:02:01.800
patience and suffering? All right? The need to persevere in trials,

1031
01:02:01.880 --> 01:02:03.800
which goes all the way back to James one two

1032
01:02:03.800 --> 01:02:06.519
through four and is connected to looking into the law

1033
01:02:06.559 --> 01:02:09.760
of liberty ties directly to James closing call to endurance.

1034
01:02:09.920 --> 01:02:13.159
Your interpretation reinforces the idea that perseverance is not about

1035
01:02:13.199 --> 01:02:17.159
self reliance, but about continually returning to Christ, the fulfillment

1036
01:02:17.199 --> 01:02:23.239
of the Law for strength and hope. All right, everybody

1037
01:02:23.239 --> 01:02:27.039
see that? All right? So then it wants to critique

1038
01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:30.000
my interpretation and how it impacts all of this. You're

1039
01:02:30.039 --> 01:02:35.880
ready textual and contextual accuracy. The interpretation aligns with james

1040
01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:40.719
overarching theme of practical faith while maintaining a clear piological

1041
01:02:40.800 --> 01:02:45.880
foundation and grace. It respects the Jewish Christian audience familiar

1042
01:02:45.880 --> 01:02:49.239
with the Law while showing its fulfillment in Christ. So

1043
01:02:49.400 --> 01:02:54.599
saying I'm trying to be accurate and got that my consistency.

1044
01:02:54.960 --> 01:02:58.679
Your interpretation harmonizes well with the broader New Testament teaching

1045
01:02:58.760 --> 01:03:04.719
the law, law and grace, particularly in Romans, Galatians, and Hebrews.

1046
01:03:05.320 --> 01:03:10.199
And please note Galatians, they were dealing with Judaism, the Judaizers.

1047
01:03:10.360 --> 01:03:14.519
Hebrews was written to Jews, and they're interesting that that's

1048
01:03:14.599 --> 01:03:17.719
kind of where I'm finding some of this. But I

1049
01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:21.079
also mention Romans because we have a better understanding of

1050
01:03:21.119 --> 01:03:24.679
the Gospel. So I emphasized the ongoing role of the

1051
01:03:24.760 --> 01:03:29.559
Law in convicting us and sanctification without suggesting it as

1052
01:03:29.559 --> 01:03:32.559
a mean of justification. So I'm like, the law convicts,

1053
01:03:33.239 --> 01:03:35.599
the law tells us this is what we're supposed to do.

1054
01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:40.239
But I do not mix it with justification, because justification

1055
01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:43.239
is based on what Christ did, not by what I do.

1056
01:03:43.480 --> 01:03:47.880
All right, So that seems good. I acknowledge the reality

1057
01:03:47.920 --> 01:03:51.159
of sin by highlighting the need for continual reflection on

1058
01:03:51.199 --> 01:03:55.320
the law of liberty, I realistically address the daily struggle

1059
01:03:55.320 --> 01:04:00.360
with sin and the end perfection of practical obedience. All right,

1060
01:04:00.480 --> 01:04:08.000
So here's my weaknesses. All right. Now, the second one

1061
01:04:08.039 --> 01:04:10.039
everyone already knows what they're going to say, because this

1062
01:04:10.119 --> 01:04:12.800
is what everyone will accuse me of. But the first one,

1063
01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:18.440
it says, while your interpretation avoids legalism, it's heavy focus

1064
01:04:18.599 --> 01:04:25.639
on the law as the ungrafted word could risk overshadowing

1065
01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:31.519
the Gospel's transformative power. This might lead to an overemphasis

1066
01:04:31.559 --> 01:04:36.079
on conviction at the expense of well transformation. Well, you know,

1067
01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:40.079
I'm just gonna disagree with that. I know, AI just

1068
01:04:40.159 --> 01:04:43.760
cannot stop itself from going with that, because everything it's

1069
01:04:43.760 --> 01:04:44.880
pulling from says what.

1070
01:04:46.280 --> 01:04:48.880
We're changed, We're changed, We're changed, We're changed.

1071
01:04:49.079 --> 01:04:52.280
If I question it and say, but are we really change,

1072
01:04:52.360 --> 01:04:56.400
it will say, well, not really.

1073
01:04:56.719 --> 01:04:58.440
I'm like, well, then stop telling me it.

1074
01:04:58.519 --> 01:05:00.440
But I don't want it to stop telling me because

1075
01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:02.559
I want to be confronted with the other position, right,

1076
01:05:02.639 --> 01:05:04.639
I don't want it to conform to me. I wanted

1077
01:05:04.719 --> 01:05:08.760
to say, what does Christianity say. Christianity is going to say,

1078
01:05:08.840 --> 01:05:15.159
we're changed, We're changed, We're changed, we are changed positionally,

1079
01:05:16.440 --> 01:05:20.480
practically we are sinners. We fall short to deny that.

1080
01:05:20.599 --> 01:05:24.320
It's just it's ridiculous. So that's the first weekness, and

1081
01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:26.039
then you know what it's going to talk about the second,

1082
01:05:26.079 --> 01:05:31.679
the second weakness. Are you ready? You fail to mention

1083
01:05:31.840 --> 01:05:36.440
the Holy Spirit's role in enabling us to keep the law.

1084
01:05:38.760 --> 01:05:40.920
But now I didn't fail to mention it because it's

1085
01:05:40.960 --> 01:05:46.599
not true. It's not true. It's not true. It's not true.

1086
01:05:46.639 --> 01:05:51.000
It's not true. All right, Oh that drives me crazy.

1087
01:05:51.159 --> 01:05:55.039
So there is my interpretation of James one nineteen through

1088
01:05:55.039 --> 01:05:57.079
twenty seven. So if we're to walk through it, what

1089
01:05:57.239 --> 01:06:00.760
is James one nineteen versus nineteen twenty and twenty one? A?

1090
01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:04.400
What does it begin with the reality of our sin?

1091
01:06:05.320 --> 01:06:08.159
Does see? Does everyone see? Can you see yourself? In

1092
01:06:08.239 --> 01:06:12.239
nineteen twenty and twenty one? Does everyone see themselves. Right.

1093
01:06:13.119 --> 01:06:22.320
Some of you are fast to speak, very slow to listen, right, okay,

1094
01:06:22.920 --> 01:06:25.280
very quick to get upset. I'm not reflecting me and

1095
01:06:25.440 --> 01:06:27.920
all in any of this, right, some of you are

1096
01:06:27.960 --> 01:06:35.800
morally corrupt. We see ourselves? No, how do we see ourselves?

1097
01:06:36.199 --> 01:06:38.920
How do we know deep down that that is all

1098
01:06:38.960 --> 01:06:42.800
true of us? Because of the ingrafted word? What is

1099
01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:46.440
the ingrafted word? The moral law that's put on our hearts?

1100
01:06:46.639 --> 01:06:50.039
And I emphasize it's ingrafted because that means it's not

1101
01:06:50.079 --> 01:06:52.840
something that's outside of us, it's something inside of us.

1102
01:06:53.039 --> 01:06:57.280
That's how come people struggle with feelings of guilt shame. Now.

1103
01:06:57.320 --> 01:07:00.159
They may blame it on their Christian parents, and they

1104
01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:02.519
may blame it on the Puritans, they may blame it

1105
01:07:02.519 --> 01:07:03.119
on it.

1106
01:07:03.119 --> 01:07:04.199
It's because there's.

1107
01:07:03.960 --> 01:07:05.880
Something inside of you telling you you're wrong.

1108
01:07:06.000 --> 01:07:06.840
Don't get mad at me.

1109
01:07:08.880 --> 01:07:13.840
They go to counselors to help free them from that guilt, right,

1110
01:07:14.079 --> 01:07:16.920
and which basically says, don't listen to it. That's a

1111
01:07:16.920 --> 01:07:19.960
social construct that's been placed upon you. Throw it away,

1112
01:07:20.239 --> 01:07:22.719
don't listen to it. And you can try that, but

1113
01:07:22.800 --> 01:07:25.280
you never truly get away from the fact that it's there.

1114
01:07:25.400 --> 01:07:27.840
You can, maybe some people do better than others. But

1115
01:07:27.920 --> 01:07:30.360
it's inside of you, so you can either deny it

1116
01:07:30.519 --> 01:07:31.280
not listen to it.

1117
01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:33.440
But what does God say we should do with it?

1118
01:07:34.519 --> 01:07:41.159
Humble ourselves and meekly receive it, meaning that I am

1119
01:07:41.280 --> 01:07:46.159
accepting what it says. And once I accept what it says,

1120
01:07:46.639 --> 01:07:50.599
then what I do what it's intended to I let

1121
01:07:50.639 --> 01:07:52.079
it do what it's intended to do.

1122
01:07:52.400 --> 01:07:54.800
I follow through with it. I don't just hear it.

1123
01:07:54.840 --> 01:07:57.880
I do something with it, which is what it takes

1124
01:07:58.000 --> 01:08:02.519
me by the hand, and it takes me to Christ.

1125
01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:06.159
I look into it, and I'm just not to just

1126
01:08:06.199 --> 01:08:07.960
walk away and forget it. I'm to look into it

1127
01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:11.719
and go, WHOA, I'm messed up? And so then what

1128
01:08:11.760 --> 01:08:14.719
do I do? The doing and the looking leads me

1129
01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:19.640
to look where no longer into the ungrafted word. What's

1130
01:08:19.680 --> 01:08:23.479
the verse twenty five? Now I look into the law

1131
01:08:23.520 --> 01:08:26.119
of liberty? And what do I do when I look there?

1132
01:08:26.439 --> 01:08:30.239
Who It's all been fulfilled, It's all been taken care

1133
01:08:30.279 --> 01:08:32.000
of me. Then I'm like, and I need to look

1134
01:08:32.039 --> 01:08:34.039
into it continually.

1135
01:08:34.239 --> 01:08:35.760
And when I look into it, what do I do?

1136
01:08:36.600 --> 01:08:41.560
I believe? And what Jesus Christ has done, which leads

1137
01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:46.039
to blessing. That's all right there in twenty five I

1138
01:08:46.119 --> 01:08:49.399
do the work. What is the work to believe? I

1139
01:08:49.439 --> 01:08:52.760
am blessed because of that finished work of Christ.

1140
01:08:53.399 --> 01:08:54.960
Then what flows from that.

1141
01:08:58.079 --> 01:09:03.920
An attempt to live out possitionally practically what is true?

1142
01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:07.920
Positionally out of gratitude and get as I live it out?

1143
01:09:07.920 --> 01:09:13.920
How do I live it out constantly admitting that I

1144
01:09:14.039 --> 01:09:17.840
don't do it? And then with that conviction leads me

1145
01:09:17.920 --> 01:09:20.800
to wear to do what the conviction tells me to do.

1146
01:09:21.079 --> 01:09:23.720
Go back to Christ, look back into the law of liberty.

1147
01:09:23.840 --> 01:09:30.319
It's a continual circle. It's a continual circle. And that

1148
01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:34.680
interprets really the entire book of James. Does James call

1149
01:09:34.760 --> 01:09:39.119
for a practical living it out? Yes, absolutely, it calls

1150
01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:41.079
for a practical living it out. It says, if I

1151
01:09:41.119 --> 01:09:43.319
don't live it out, then then my faith is dead.

1152
01:09:43.479 --> 01:09:46.720
And sometimes our faith is dead in so many different ways. Right,

1153
01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:50.600
and it's dead, and it's what it's doing. It's not

1154
01:09:50.760 --> 01:09:54.479
dead before God. Right before God. I just believe on

1155
01:09:54.520 --> 01:09:58.159
the Lord Jesus Christ, and I am saved. But it

1156
01:09:58.199 --> 01:10:00.840
can be dead and what it does and so many

1157
01:10:01.039 --> 01:10:05.039
and it look, the deadness of our faith shows up constantly, right,

1158
01:10:05.119 --> 01:10:07.319
I mean I can just give us some scriptures, right,

1159
01:10:07.680 --> 01:10:10.439
I mean, be holy as God, as holy My faith

1160
01:10:10.479 --> 01:10:12.600
is dead to that because I've never been holy as

1161
01:10:13.840 --> 01:10:15.800
Love God with all your heart, mind, body, and soul.

1162
01:10:16.760 --> 01:10:22.600
Do all things without complaining, grumbling or murmuring. Rejoice, always

1163
01:10:23.039 --> 01:10:27.199
love your enemy, turn the other cheek, resist not evil.

1164
01:10:27.439 --> 01:10:30.840
Submit to authority. I mean where husbands love your wife

1165
01:10:30.880 --> 01:10:34.199
as Christ love the church. Women submit to your husband

1166
01:10:34.199 --> 01:10:38.359
as unto the Lord. Does anybody feel convicted yet? Well,

1167
01:10:38.399 --> 01:10:40.640
since we never do that, then we could say our

1168
01:10:40.680 --> 01:10:44.880
faith is and it is dead practically and so many

1169
01:10:44.880 --> 01:10:48.439
different areas. Now you can try to get subjective and say,

1170
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well it'll be you get just stop because you either

1171
01:10:53.760 --> 01:10:57.760
either water it down that it means nothing or you

1172
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throw everyone into hell. And I think it just makes

1173
01:11:00.920 --> 01:11:04.399
sense that, man, sometimes my faith is dead. So what

1174
01:11:04.479 --> 01:11:11.279
do I do? I meekly accept the deadness that sometimes

1175
01:11:11.359 --> 01:11:15.800
is revealed in my life. Go to do don't be

1176
01:11:15.840 --> 01:11:19.319
a hearer, be a doer, Go to Christ. Don't look

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01:11:19.319 --> 01:11:21.920
into the mirror. Oh man, I'm messed up. Look into

1178
01:11:21.960 --> 01:11:24.000
the law of liberty. And then what do I find?

1179
01:11:25.159 --> 01:11:28.239
Christ has fulfilled it for me? Then out of that gratitude,

1180
01:11:28.319 --> 01:11:32.560
I then should move that. Hopefully my faith will be

1181
01:11:32.720 --> 01:11:37.199
more evident in different ways. But just remember, if my

1182
01:11:37.279 --> 01:11:42.199
faith is evident in fifty ways, it's still going to

1183
01:11:42.239 --> 01:11:48.239
be dead probably one hundred other ways. Does that make sense?

1184
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That's the interpretation. Now, let me make it very clear.

1185
01:11:51.880 --> 01:11:53.960
Whenever I give a new interpretation, I always call it

1186
01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:59.000
what hypotheses, right, because I'm not going to be dogmatic

1187
01:11:59.039 --> 01:12:01.600
and declared that it's that's the way I just think

1188
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my I just make sure we know what motivates my

1189
01:12:04.720 --> 01:12:07.319
interpretation to interpret the entire Book of James this way.

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What motivates it the fact that I have to acknowledge

1191
01:12:12.920 --> 01:12:16.159
the reality of sin? Does that make sense? Like? It's

1192
01:12:16.239 --> 01:12:20.760
not because I don't like lordship salvation. My issue with

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01:12:20.800 --> 01:12:25.800
lordship salvation is denial of reality. Right. I know I've

1194
01:12:25.840 --> 01:12:28.680
been a Christian long enough. I've been around Christians long

1195
01:12:28.800 --> 01:12:32.520
enough to know that we're nothing the way. We don't

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01:12:32.560 --> 01:12:35.840
come close to what we pretend to be. If we're

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01:12:35.920 --> 01:12:38.920
just open up, we know how messed up we are.

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And if it and the good I mean, I can look.

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I can bring study after study, article after article after

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article that shows this has happened, and this has happened,

1201
01:12:48.119 --> 01:12:50.000
and this sin has happened, and this happens, and this

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01:12:50.079 --> 01:12:53.479
pastor and this church and this leader and this and this,

1203
01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:56.680
and Christians do this, and Christians think this. I mean

1204
01:12:56.920 --> 01:12:59.840
how many studies before, I mean even the world looks

1205
01:12:59.840 --> 01:13:02.840
at it and says Christians are a bunch of hypocrites,

1206
01:13:03.800 --> 01:13:06.399
and that what we always get accused of. Well, you

1207
01:13:06.399 --> 01:13:13.800
know what, we are hypocrites. Now you know what, Well,

1208
01:13:15.119 --> 01:13:23.039
what is the quickest way to cure hypocrisy? To acknowledge

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01:13:23.439 --> 01:13:26.600
your sin. So you're not a hypocrite if you acknowledge it.

1210
01:13:26.760 --> 01:13:30.399
You're a hypocrite when you pretend to be something you're not. Well,

1211
01:13:30.439 --> 01:13:33.439
we pretend that we have the power of God to

1212
01:13:33.560 --> 01:13:36.000
keep the law and we've been set free and we

1213
01:13:36.039 --> 01:13:39.159
can do it. That makes us a hypocrite. It's not

1214
01:13:39.239 --> 01:13:46.159
a hypocrite to say positionally I am perfect, holy and righteous. Practically, man,

1215
01:13:46.239 --> 01:13:50.439
I'm just like you. I'm a sinner. Do I believe

1216
01:13:50.800 --> 01:13:54.199
that the difference between us. You may justify those things

1217
01:13:54.319 --> 01:13:58.319
and I will have to admit they're wrong. I may

1218
01:13:58.399 --> 01:14:00.760
do them as much as you, but I'm going to

1219
01:14:00.760 --> 01:14:04.720
at least acknowledge that they're wrong. That that changes us

1220
01:14:04.720 --> 01:14:07.760
from being a hypocrite to just being like, well, man,

1221
01:14:07.960 --> 01:14:11.399
do better. Well, okay, you're I should do better? Thank you?

1222
01:14:11.920 --> 01:14:15.399
I want to do better. Oh doesn't everyone want.

1223
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To do better?

1224
01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:19.119
When you Wouldn't it be great to wake up and

1225
01:14:19.159 --> 01:14:26.319
have a better attitude? Right? Be so loving, love your enemy,

1226
01:14:26.520 --> 01:14:30.239
turn the other cheek, not want to kill your kids. Right,

1227
01:14:30.760 --> 01:14:33.319
we're going to be better to be like everything. But

1228
01:14:33.680 --> 01:14:35.960
we know we've wait. We've been a Christian long enough

1229
01:14:36.000 --> 01:14:38.079
that we've woken up day after day after day. And

1230
01:14:38.079 --> 01:14:39.680
guess what we find when we wake up and look

1231
01:14:39.720 --> 01:14:42.199
in the mirror, the actual mirror, we see a sinner.

1232
01:14:42.800 --> 01:14:45.640
And when we look into the mirror of the ingrafted word,

1233
01:14:45.680 --> 01:14:50.119
what do we find? A sinner? Now? We can either

1234
01:14:50.239 --> 01:14:53.039
deny it and just listen to it, or I can say,

1235
01:14:53.079 --> 01:14:55.439
I'm okay, what does the ungrafted word tell me to do?

1236
01:14:59.279 --> 01:15:01.399
Look in the mirror? Oh man, I'm messed up? Okay, good,

1237
01:15:01.479 --> 01:15:03.560
now you realize it. Now look into the law liberty.

1238
01:15:03.560 --> 01:15:06.720
What do you see? Christ did it for me? So

1239
01:15:06.800 --> 01:15:11.720
then what can I say? Praise God? Right? And so

1240
01:15:12.039 --> 01:15:15.479
then as I live it out, it maintains meekness. It

1241
01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:19.680
maintains humility, it maintains perspective, and guess what else, it

1242
01:15:19.760 --> 01:15:26.199
maintains reality. That's better than coming to church telling everyone, hey, guys,

1243
01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:31.199
leave here, be doers of the word, not hearers, because

1244
01:15:31.239 --> 01:15:33.800
if you're only doers, you're going to If you're only

1245
01:15:33.840 --> 01:15:36.760
hearers and not doers, you're going to hell. That doesn't

1246
01:15:36.800 --> 01:15:41.720
help anybody except it convinces everyone, Well, I'm the doer.

1247
01:15:42.840 --> 01:15:45.600
But did you see that so and so? For rose Back,

1248
01:15:45.800 --> 01:15:49.079
I hope they heard that sermon because you know, we

1249
01:15:49.199 --> 01:15:53.239
know the things she's doing, and that what it leads

1250
01:15:53.279 --> 01:15:56.960
to in church, because I got to find someone I

1251
01:15:56.960 --> 01:15:59.680
can point to that I'm doing more than them so

1252
01:15:59.720 --> 01:16:01.800
that I can believe I'm a doer and not a hearer.

1253
01:16:02.359 --> 01:16:06.479
But that'sally because you're focusing on But if you'll simply

1254
01:16:06.520 --> 01:16:09.000
take your doing and compare it to God's standard, what

1255
01:16:09.000 --> 01:16:11.159
are you going to find out you're not a doer

1256
01:16:11.199 --> 01:16:13.640
of the word. See that it all depends on where

1257
01:16:13.680 --> 01:16:16.880
you look. If I look to someone like man, they

1258
01:16:16.920 --> 01:16:20.239
sell drugs and have had five abortions, I could be

1259
01:16:20.319 --> 01:16:25.640
like I'm a doer. If I look to God, be

1260
01:16:25.760 --> 01:16:29.359
perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. I'm not a doer.

1261
01:16:29.880 --> 01:16:32.239
You see, it's all depend on where you look. We

1262
01:16:32.479 --> 01:16:35.079
have convinced ourselves. We just look at the worst people

1263
01:16:35.119 --> 01:16:37.399
in the world and then pat ourselves on the back.

1264
01:16:37.640 --> 01:16:40.640
I think the God that I'm not like those people.

1265
01:16:41.800 --> 01:16:44.760
I think the God that I'm not gay. I thank

1266
01:16:44.800 --> 01:16:48.119
you Lord that I'm not transgender. I'm so much better

1267
01:16:48.159 --> 01:16:52.039
than everyone else. Well, congratulations that you're not gay or transgender.

1268
01:16:52.079 --> 01:16:57.600
Congratulations yours. You are the apple of God's eye when

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01:16:57.640 --> 01:16:59.520
God says, well, wait a minute, Wait a minute, there's

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01:16:59.560 --> 01:17:02.520
more to life than just not being gay or transgender.

1271
01:17:03.000 --> 01:17:07.159
You're supposed to be holy as and you've never done that.

1272
01:17:07.680 --> 01:17:09.880
So maybe instead of looking at them, you look at

1273
01:17:09.920 --> 01:17:13.039
yourself and you listen to that law that's inside of you,

1274
01:17:13.119 --> 01:17:16.840
that keeps telling you what You're a sinner. So then

1275
01:17:16.880 --> 01:17:20.039
what do I do again, not just to hear I'm

1276
01:17:20.079 --> 01:17:24.840
a doer. I go with it. I look in the mirror.

1277
01:17:25.239 --> 01:17:28.039
I can walk away from the mirror, or I'm like, man,

1278
01:17:28.399 --> 01:17:30.279
what do I do? Look into the law of liberty?

1279
01:17:30.399 --> 01:17:32.119
And then when I look into the law liberty, then

1280
01:17:32.159 --> 01:17:35.840
I find hope and I find salvation. Does that make sense?

1281
01:17:37.399 --> 01:17:42.199
All right? Does that make James easier to understand. I'm

1282
01:17:42.239 --> 01:17:44.760
not saying it makes it easier to understand. Right, there

1283
01:17:44.840 --> 01:17:48.640
is no interpretation that answers all the questions. Does everybody

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01:17:48.680 --> 01:17:52.119
understand that there is no interpretation it answers all the questions?

1285
01:17:52.760 --> 01:17:56.640
But what should an interpretation at least do be able

1286
01:17:56.680 --> 01:18:05.119
to be consistent with reality? Right? When your interpretation contradicts reality,

1287
01:18:05.560 --> 01:18:09.560
that's usually when you've got to go, hmm, we may

1288
01:18:09.600 --> 01:18:13.640
have a problem here, right, especially when it's something as

1289
01:18:13.720 --> 01:18:17.119
obvious as we all sin, or it's obvious that God

1290
01:18:17.199 --> 01:18:20.159
is not healing everywhere. There's some things that are just obvious.

1291
01:18:21.960 --> 01:18:24.920
All right, there we go, there's a new interpretation. Now

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01:18:25.279 --> 01:18:28.279
next week we'll get back to Isaiah forty. But I

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01:18:28.319 --> 01:18:31.279
had to finish that because that's a lot of work.

1294
01:18:31.359 --> 01:18:33.800
All right, let's pray, Lord God, we come before you

1295
01:18:33.880 --> 01:18:37.600
this afternoon. Lord, we come before you this afternoon, acknowledging

1296
01:18:38.479 --> 01:18:42.199
the thing that we've arrived here, acknowledging everyone in this

1297
01:18:42.279 --> 01:18:46.079
room is a sinner. I'm a sinner. Everyone is a sinner, Lord,

1298
01:18:46.119 --> 01:18:49.560
And we can, we hopefully will never stop hearing that

1299
01:18:49.640 --> 01:18:53.239
word that's been implanted in us, which reveals our sin.

1300
01:18:53.920 --> 01:18:56.199
And hopefully we will always do what it tells us

1301
01:18:56.239 --> 01:18:59.239
to do. And that's come to you. And to trust

1302
01:18:59.319 --> 01:19:01.560
in the Sun, whom you sent, who kept the law

1303
01:19:01.640 --> 01:19:04.000
for us and died for us. And it's in him

1304
01:19:04.079 --> 01:19:08.960
we have salvation forgive us. Help us constantly trust in

1305
01:19:09.000 --> 01:19:12.800
your son, and help that motivate us to attempt to

1306
01:19:12.840 --> 01:19:16.319
at least live out what is true. And we asked

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01:19:16.319 --> 01:19:19.880
this in Jesus name, and God's people said