I've always liked that hymn. Hard to beat the old standard. All right, back to James chapter
one. I'm quite certain this portion of God's word will be very profitable
and helpful to you. But then all scripture, which
is given by inspiration of God, is profitable. Wherever we turn
is profitable. But the Apostle James deals in
this chapter, as you noticed, he deals with trials, he deals
with patience, he deals with wisdom and maturity, things that
we certainly want to learn, don't we? Verse seventeen is what caught
my attention. Someone was preaching, I don't
know if it was Brother Don here or Someone in Ashland, when we
were there, I don't know, but someone merely quoted verse seventeen,
and it caught my attention, and it stayed with me ever since. I loved that when that happened.
So I wanted us to deal with that, but I began reading this, and
we need to look at all of these verses leading up to that. There's a reason he said that.
All right, let's read it. Verse 1, James, a servant of
God and of the Lord Jesus Christ to the twelve tribes which are
scattered abroad. Now, that's us. We are the Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Yes, we are. We're also, I thought of it,
we're Jehovah's Witnesses, the Church of God, the Church of
Christ, aren't we? Yes, we are. My brethren, verse
two, count it all joy when you fall into different temptations.
Count it a blessing. Consider it a blessing, a gift
from God. Rejoice when you are tried and
tempted. Now, that may be hard to understand,
but think of it this way. To an unbeliever There are no
temptation. Nothing is a temptation. It's
a way of life. Do you follow me? I remember
that nothing bothered me. Nothing was a so-called temptation. If I wanted to do it, I did it
without the slightest pang of conscience. So if you are tempted
if you are try if something is. A temptation to you which you are
struggling with good. Rejoice. Because unbelievers
don't have those struggles. Rejoice. Because God is trying
what he. Has given faith faith to get
God and he will try it And that it might be for his glory and
for your good that you might know this is good. Because you
don't know if you really have faith until it's tried. And this
is for you to. Verse three, knowing this, you
need to know this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. Know this, that your faith will
be tested or tried and it brings patience. Now, we need patience
as bad as anything, don't we? Patience, because isn't it impatience
that gets us in all the trouble we get into? Huh? Impatience
is what gets us in all our trouble. And so, we need patience. Well,
how does it come? The trying of your faith. What
is patience? Patience is waiting. Waiting. Waiting on the Lord. Waiting to know his will before
you act, before you move, before you make a decision. Waiting. Turn with me to Psalm 40. I love
this. In the Old Testament, it quite
often gives these double Additives or adverbs, whatever they are. Psalm 40, look at this, this
jumped out at me when we were reading this recently together. Psalm 40, verse 1 says, David
says, I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto
me and heard my cry. Do you have a marginal reference
there where it says, I waited, what does it say? in waiting
I waited. Now that's good waiting. Because the fact of the matter
is you're going to have to wait. You've got you're going to have
to wait on the law no matter what. The Lord work at all things that
the council is on where you're going to have to wait on the
law. And so while you're waiting. Why don't you just wait. Now
we're going to be so impatient. You don't have to wait anyway.
So does that. I'm not making that clear waiting.
I had to wait anyway. So I might as well just wait.
Does that make sense to anybody? It did to me. Oh well. Waiting,
I waited. Waited patiently. If you're truly
waiting, that's what you're doing. You're being patient. So go back
to the text. So what we need is patient and
what how we get patients is a trying or trial test of your faith it
work of patients it causes you to wait but let patient first
for let patients have her perfect work. That you may be that you
may be perfect and entire wanting nothing other words let it go
on wait to be patient like David said. so that you might be complete,
not lacking anything. And the one thing needful that
he's going to tell us about here, the one thing that we're really
going to have to wait on is wisdom. And this is what we're talking
about, needing answers, needing to know what the Lord's will
is. This one thing needful is wisdom. Scripture is so full
of passages that talk about wisdom. And if you know yourself, you
know that you need that. We're also foolish. We're also
ignorant in our understanding by nature. We need wisdom, and
it comes from above. We'll see that in a moment. As
I said, most of our problems come from making hasty decisions. And most of our decisions are
selfish ones. Not seeking God's will, not seeking
God's word. Most of our decisions are unwise
ones. So we need wisdom. And there's
only one place to get true wisdom, and that's from above. So read
on. Verses 5 through 8. If any of you lack wisdom, anyone Is anyone who does not
lack wisdom? Starting with me, if any of you
lack wisdom, let him ask of God, let her ask of God that giveth
to all men or women or young people liberally. If your children
want to be wise, would you not instruct them? Would you not
carefully and patiently teach them and do all necessary for
that? That's a good request, isn't it? That's a wonderful
thing to ask for. Dad, I don't want to make the
wrong decision. Would you teach me? Why, certainly,
son. And you'd even be more patient
if they would ask. He gives liberally. That means
he delights to give a lot of it. Wisdom. And upbraideth not,
meaning that he doesn't rebuke you for what he taught you that
you forgot. He doesn't say, I taught you
that lesson recently. Have you forgot so soon? What's
wrong with you? No, he doesn't upbraid like that,
but he keeps teaching as a truly patient father. And it shall be given him. Let
him ask and it shall be given. This is a promise from the Lord.
Wisdom. We need wisdom. Oh, we need wisdom
every day. on the very outset of the day
we need wisdom to make decisions to know where to go and what
to do and so forth and it shall be given him. But now verse six
let him or her ask in faith nothing wavering. So he says want to know what
to do in any given situation and ask the Lord. A couple of ways we ask the Lord.
One, we ask in prayer. We ask in prayer. And we're also,
all of us are so lacking in this area. James goes on to say, chapter
4, you have not, because you ask not. But we ask the Lord
in prayer. That's pretty obvious. But we also, where are we going
to get our answers from the Lord? Where are we going to get all
of our answers from the Lord a voice out of the sky a miracle
some kind of drastic. So we ask the Lord and we're
going to get our answer from his work. We seek him we're asking
him as we look into his word or teachment. There's a principle
in God's word for everything you will face. There's a principle. There's
a precedent. There's an example. There's an illustration of everything. There's nothing you have gone
through or will go through, but is common to all of God's people. Nothing. It may be 2004, but
God hasn't changed, and men and women haven't changed, and the
problems haven't changed. All the problems are the same.
Our chariots just look a little different, and so do our palaces.
It's the same as old Rome. O'Connor fill up. So exactly
the same had changed. Got the exact same problem. Young
people in school. Parents at work and on and on
it goes. Same exact problem. You'll get
your answers right here from learning from the experiences
of the same. So we ask in prayer, we ask in
reading, ask and it shall be given you. But now, and this is what he's
going to go on to say. Now turn to Proverbs 24. Proverbs
24. He's going to go on to say that,
are you willing to abide by the answer that you receive? And you're going to get an answer.
God doesn't leave his children. Are you willing to abide by the
answer that you get. Ask in faith. Nothing worse. Ask in faith. Ask in faith. That means believe
you will receive an answer and believe what you receive. Listen
to that carefully again. Believe you will receive. You
will. And believe what you receive.
Are you catching that? All right, there's another way
to ask, too, and that's by hearty counsel. Verse 6, Proverbs 24,
by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war, that is, thy struggles
that wage battle. And that's what we're in, the
warfare. And in multitude of counselors,
there is safety. Why not ask others, other believers? And a multitude of counselors.
We don't have a corner on wisdom, none of it. I ask my pastor more now than
ever before. I've talked to him more than
ever before. I consult with other men more now than ever before. And so, and a multitude of counselors. They're safety. They're safety. All right, go back to the text.
Asking faith, nothing wavering, verse 6, he that wavereth, he
that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with wind and
tossed, read on. For let not that man think that
he shall receive anything of the Lord. A double-minded man
is unstable in all his ways. Asking faith without a not with
a double mind, but ask believing you will receive and then believe
or or that is receive what you get. And not with a double minded,
ask in faith that Lord teach me, would you teach me, would
you show me, would you show me what I'm to do? And then when
the answer come and say, that's what I'm going to do, that's
what I'm going to do. Lord, show me the way I walk. He's talking
now here about trials. And a brother of low degree meaning
someone who. May be materially poor or someone
who's in a lowly state. Someone who is troubled going
through difficulties and all that he says rejoice. Rejoice. You're a child of the king. He's
exalted you. He that is abased will be exalted. Count on that. Rejoice. You're
a child of the king. This won't last long. But the
rich, verse 10 and 11, the rich, those who are rich in this world's
goods, and that's most of us in this room, the rich rejoice
also in that he is made low. That is, convicted by your own
sinfulness, convicted by your own selfishness and so forth, imperialistic. Attitude and world innocence,
because, read on, as the flower of the grass, he shall pass away,
the rich man. The sun is no sooner risen with
a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower thereof,
Paula, the grace of the fashion of it, perishes. So also shall
the rich man fade away in his way. Now, you've heard the scriptures
that say things like this, how hardly shall a rich man enter
the kingdom of heaven. You've heard those. Our Lord said that.
And the disciples were. They were taken back when the
Lord said it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
when a rich man and the disciples. They weren't poor people. We've looked together at the
disciples. They had fishing businesses and
Matthew was a tax collector and so on and so forth. They weren't poor men per se. And when the Lord said that.
Now it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than a rich man if they were. They said then who can be. And it's. And it's certainly. So applicable to our generation
we live in this America is the most affluent society in the
history of the world. This land is rich and increased
with goods and sure doesn't need God. I know they've got a form
of government. I know everybody's religious
but they're not. And this this society we live
in is. I am now you've got some place
to go and something to do and some new thing to play with every
waking hour of the day. And so how hardly how difficult
how impossible it is for a rich person to be interested in the
unsearchable riches. When they got so many toys with
man it is impossible. But you rejoice now everybody
in here nearly everybody in here is rich. That's right. You might owe more money than
some people, but you've got everything, don't you? Rejoice, then, if
you really know Christ and you realize that these things are
fake, that there's nothing to these things. Rejoice. The world
doesn't know that. The world doesn't believe that.
They're going after it with all the gusto they can get. But you
know that these things are just vanity. And fading away. Every
choice in that. Because it's impossible for a
rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. But it's not impossible.
You're living example. I am. Living example. Abraham. Rich man. Idolater. The Lord revealed himself to
him. David, a rich man. Very rich. Richest king on earth. Yet he
said, I'm poor. All right, he says in verse twelve,
go down to verse twelve, blessed is the man that endureth temptation. Truly happy, the word blessed
means truly happy, is the man or the woman that endureth temptation. Read on, for when he or she is
tried, tested, and endure it. He or she shall receive the crown
of life which the Lord had promised to them that love him. The one
who endure it the one who holds up under. The one who continues
in the faith that person shall receive the crown of life now
as we say all faith will be tried. Whether or not it's true or false.
What is true faith? So the essence of faith is Christ. But how do you know true faith? How do you know true faith? How
do you know someone really believes Christ? How do you know someone
really loves the Lord Jesus Christ? How do you know someone really
believes that all of this is vanity and Christ is all? How
do you know someone really believes that they have here no continuing
city, but they look for one which is to come, which the whole chapter
11 of Hebrews talks about. A great cloud of witnesses, you
know, that said they weren't looking at things, but they were
looking. How do you know? Well this sort of thing happens
all the time and all faith so-called will be tested. Here's a professing
believer or someone with an apparent interest in the things of God
and they're faced with a trial. A trial comes up, a temptation,
some kind of test. And that person doesn't handle
it too well and they eventually reject God's word, it's so very
clear. And they choose rather what they
want. And they end up leaving the gulf. Whether it be whatever it be
a person a job place thing whatever it may be some kind of test some
kind of trial. And or. Some kind of deprivation
sickness death or something to remove from them and they think
and they can't endure it and they leave. They fall away. Well they didn't have true faith.
Christ wasn't all of them. Something or someone else was.
Or they didn't really believe that God sent them. They didn't
really believe that God did that and they got angry and so on
and so forth. But all faith will be tried.
Brother Scott Richardson said this, I've quoted this to you
before, and he knows he has been through some difficulty, severe
difficulty. He's going through it right now.
I can't, if I told you some of his... But he said, from experience,
he said most believers We'll have one real opportunity. One severe difficult test. To in which to. For it to be
revealed that they're one of God's. Most believers will have. One of. God is merciful most
have. One great and it's he called
it an opportunity to glorify God because that's what enduring
trials does it glorify God. A person believes God takes him
at his word endures the trial believing that it's good and
for the best and no no difficult. And it will all turn out well
according to God's good and perfect will and it does and they endure
and that glorifies God. You see what God said and glorify
God and it strengthens that person. It strengthens that true faith. Well now listen to me listen
to me carefully for your comfort. We're talking about temptation. We can a person can fall. Or give in to a temptation without
finally falling away. Remember that for your comfort.
All of us at some point in time will or we have or we will fall
under some temptation, give in to some temptation. But that
doesn't mean we have to fall away finally. There are so many
examples in the scriptures of that and I'm so thankful for
them aren't you? But that doesn't mean that they
won't cause you great grief and trouble. Nevertheless, faith
will be tried. It will be tried. Read verse
13 and 14. Let no man say when he is tempted,
I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted with
evil. neither tempteth he any man,
but every man or woman or young person is tempted when he is
drawn away of his own lust and enticed." We're tempted, he says,
by our own selfish desires. This is the greatest trouble
that we all face all the time. This is the greatest test that
we're all put to all the time. our own selfish desire. Right? This is an ongoing trial
and test. It comes from our own selfish
desire. This is human nature that we
still have a great deal of. What I want, what I want, what
I want, and it is a source of so much of our trouble, maybe
all of it. But yeah, it is all of it. What
I want what I want what I want not what God what will you have
me to do or have or be with or whatever what I want so that's
what he says that every man or woman is a young person is tempted
or tried and tested when he's drawn away of his own Selfish
desires and enticed read on verse fifteen and here's what happens
when lust have conceived. Or that is a desire a particular
desire that something you or we want and when it when we. Grab hold of it. You can't help
thoughts that come in your head. You can't do it. You can't help
it. Satan, the world, everything
suggests evil to us. The old man does it. You can't
help it. But when you go after it, when
you lay hold of it, That's what conceived means. Conceived like
a seed and the egg join. And there you have conception.
And unless conceived, read on. When less conceived, it brings
forth sin, the actual committal. Can't help thoughts that come
into your head. You hate them, don't you? You
hate them. But what's worse is when you indulge them. And even worse than that, And
when you go ahead and carry it out, read on. And when lust, or when lust conceives
and it brings forth sin, the actual committal of it, and sin,
when it is finished, if it's carried on, if it's carried through,
if it's not checked, if it's not stopped, if God doesn't deal
with it, death. Death. Or if they're a believer and
that person remains in that, God will, might just remove them. But they're good, and I can give
you some examples of that. Now I might. Do not err. This
is why it says in verse 16, Do not err, my beloved brethren. Do not err in your understanding
here of these things. There is no little thing called
sin. And we need wisdom, don't we? That comes from above. We need
patience. We need these things. Where are
we going to get it at? We're going to have to go through
trials. All of us. Oh, my. Ask that you might endure
them for God's glory. Do not err, he said. Do not err.
Go quickly over to James chapter 4. Look at this. He deals with
this a little more later on, James chapter 4. And we've already
said this, our biggest problem is our wants. He says in James
4, verses 1 and 2, from whence come wars and fighting or these
struggles. These inward wars, and it is
a struggle, it is a battle that goes on in your mind with these
temptations. Come they not hence even of your
lust, that is desires at war in your memories, you lust and
have not and kill and desire. This is what I want. This is
what. Inward struggles. And they come
from, James says, our selfish desires, self-love, and we don't
have what we want. We'll do anything to obtain it.
That's what he means by killed. We'll do anything to obtain it.
But the fact is, it won't, it won't suffice us. We have not.
We have not what we're looking for, truly. Because you ask not. Verse 3, you ask and receive
not because you ask amiss, consume it upon your love. Now, what
do we need to ask for? This is the way we started out.
What do we really need? What is that one thing need for?
What do we really need? Not more things and not this
or that and the other, you know, that we're all so taken up with.
What do we really need? This life is so fleeting, so
short, isn't it? Time is short. Buy the truth. We need the truth. We need wisdom.
We need these things. Go back to our text. So he says,
this is what we need, and I'll tell you where it comes from.
Are you with me? Verse 17. You see, you're struggling
right now to pay attention. I know you are I know everyone
in here too well. I know you too well. I know the
flesh too. I'm the same way. I look into
your faces. I know when you're struggling
and when you're not. Why is that? What are we thinking
about? What is taking up our thoughts? What? Would somebody tell me what is
it that we're thinking about? When we might die in 30 minutes. Yeah, you name it. Anything trivial, you name it,
somebody in here is crossing their mind. It's on their mind. Whatever it may be. That's how
weak we are. That's how weak we are. What
do we need? We need the gifts that come from
above. We need these Every good gift. Verse 17 every good gift and
every perfect gift. We're talking about being mature
and being true believers. I said we might die in 30 minutes
and we just might. We really just might. We don't
know what tomorrow may bring do we? We've met in here before
and the next time we met somebody was missing. Just unexpectedly. And it's going to happen again.
It's going to happen again. It could be me. This whole life, what we're doing
is preparation for eternity. What we're doing right here tonight
is vital. It is life and death. It really
is. And the things that happened
to us out there in the world, Temptations and trials and all
that put us to the test to see whether or not that's where we're
bound. So every good and perfect gift
comes from above. It's from above. Solomon said, vanity of vanities,
all flesh is vanity. So there's no good thing, really
good thing on this earth. What do you think is good down
here? Now, I enjoy things as much as the next person. I do. I enjoy my family. I enjoy good
food. I enjoy the outdoors. I enjoy this and that and the
other just as much as the next man, right? So when you're talking
about something really profitable, something really good for you,
you name something that really brings you peace, real lasting
enjoyment, happiness, something that really
makes you happy. I tell you what things generally
do, they make you sad because you get a bunch of them and things
start happening to them. Somebody steals them or a scratch,
you get a big scratch. You buy a new truck and the next
day you put it in the shop, like I just did. You name it, whatever it is.
It just won't last. Name me something that's really
good down here. You fall in love with somebody and they die. Every really good, every really
profitable, every really lasting, every really enduring, everything
that is truly good is spiritual. It comes from above. Every perfect that which perfects
we're talking about being made it being made me. For the inheritance of the same. If we find all our enjoyment
down here we won't want to be there. Anybody who loves this
place and doesn't want to leave it would be miserable that they're
not going to be. But a person who truly finds
their enjoyment in things of God, you can't fake this one
bit. But a person who truly finds
their enjoyment in these things, they're going to have joy unspeakable,
full of glory, an eternity of good things, good things, I mean,
really good things, really good things. Now, every believer in
here will say amen to what I'm about to say. Every believer
in here will say amen to that. In all of this madness called
the human race, in all of this place we live in, the only time
we're truly at peace, the only time we're truly happy, the only
time we're truly content, the only time we really feel inner
satisfaction, the only time when we feel real soul fulfillment,
I'm talking about inner man fulfillment, is under the sound of this Word.
Can you say that? Good. Several of you did. That's a good sign. I remember being very miserable. I remember being very miserable,
thinking, man, when will this be over? When will that long-winded
preacher shut up so I can go home and have some fun? And that
preacher was my father. But now, I can truly say, and
it's not every time, no, we're flesh, but most of the time,
generally speaking, our greatest happiness at times, we truly
feel content and feel this inner satisfaction and true fulfillment
in the inner man when you're feeding on this word and worshipping
with God's people around the table. I'm glad to see you emphatically
nodding your head. So, this is that good. This is
that really good gift. You didn't come up with that.
I didn't try real hard to make this interesting to me. I didn't
grit my teeth when I was a teenager. I'm going to like this. I like that old George Strait song. You can't make a heart love somebody.
And you can't. You can't make a heart love the
gospel. But I tell you who can. And who
does? God does. And if you do, it's a gift of God. Blessed are
you. Blessed are you. This came from
the Father. It came from the Father. That's what he said. Every good
and perfect gift comes down from the Father. That's who we've
been talking about, haven't we? Sunday and last Wednesday, we
talked about the Father who pities his children. He knows our frank,
our pitiful Father. Every all of this comes down
from the father are pitiful that is full of pity heavenly father. And he says now look at this
I like. The father of life he's the father
of life now. Every. Throughout the scripture to basically
two lights spoken up to the lights. The light of God's Word and the light of holiness. If
you'll look it up for yourself, that's what you'll find in reference
to light. The light of God's Word, when
God, God who caused the light to shine out of darkness, has
shined in our hearts to give us the light, the knowledge,
glory of God in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. You were in
darkness even as others, but God, who adopted you as His child,
the Heavenly Father, pitied you, and in mercy and grace sent the
light of the gospel to enlighten you. He's the source of His Father. He is light. God is light. He doesn't walk in this light
and darkness, but you shine as lights, Christ said. You shine as light. The light
of holiness, sin is always likened to something dark, isn't it?
Black. That's when sin takes, that's
when men do most of their sinning under the cover of darkness. It's not a cover to God, but
they think they're under the cover of darkness. Their sin's
always in the context of blackness and darkness. Oh, but he that
doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his deeds might be
made manifest, Christ said. In other words, we come to the
light to have our evil exposed. Say, Lord, root this out of me.
Get this out of me. And I want to Don't you want
to show forth the character of Christ instead of that dark fellow
that is in the recesses of your being? You don't want him to
come out and show his ugly head, do you? He does every now and
then. You want him back down in the
dark where he belongs. Oh, you want Christ to shine
forth, don't you? Sure you do. He's the Father
of lights. Yes, and we're all little lights. Father, I like this. I'm not
going to quit till I get through this. With whom is no variableness. The Father does not vary. No variability. He does not change.
This is a son of Jacob's greatest comfort. He said, I am the Lord. I change not. I don't change
when I had purposed something. I don't change it. When I had
willed something, I don't. turn from that. When I promise
something, I don't take it back. When I've done something, it's
done. When I give something, it's without
repentance. Never changes. He's always the
same. Now, don't you like somebody
that doesn't change very much? Just humanly speaking, don't
you like people that are constantly I know you know people that are
moody that you might call them one day and you're afraid how
they might answer the phone. Don't you like people that are
always the same? And there are some people that are most like
Christ are most like that. Well, infinitely more. Our Heavenly Father never changes.
He's always faithful. He's always faithful. You can
count on it. He's constant. He's reliable. You can rely on Him completely. Not partly. Completely. He's true. Everything He tells
you is true. We're not that way. He's just. Everything He does
is absolutely right. He's good. He can't do evil. He can't do evil to you. He can't
tell you anything evil. He can't do anything evil by
you. He's good. He's merciful. Did you hear that, Senator? God
is ever merciful. The scripture says he delights
to show mercy. He's always, he always will be
merciful to his people. Gracious. In other words, he
delights to give. He gives, he gives, and he gives. That reminds me of his people.
That's where they got that. He's long-suffering. You need to take into account,
Peter said, that that's salvation. How long is God going to suffer
through us? How long is he going to put up
with us? Well, now, He is understanding. He's understanding. 50, 60, 70 years old, 80 years
old, repeat the same childish mistakes. He knows you're right. He understands. He's just blessed.
It's pitiful. It never changes. Isn't that
good? No variables. It doesn't vary
from that. And look at this. And neither
shadow of turning I'm a quit with it there's no shadow of
turning. You know we don't always know
the outcome of something something we hope for let me give you an
illustration. This recent election I don't
know what you wanted to be elected but it's no secret who I want
and I stayed up that night. Watch the time. I could not go
to sleep. I thought it was very important
for our young. Well, I'm not going to go into
that. Anyway, I was anxious, and the man whom I hoped and
prayed the Lord would put into office was leaving, but he could turn. It could turn
in a moment. I just thought that's the reason
I couldn't go to sleep. It could have turned. Things
could have turned. But they didn't. And I finally
went to sleep. Well, this says, with God there's
no shadow. There's not even a shadow of
turning. And others whatever God has willed
whatever God has purpose whatever God's word say whatever promise
God might. Whomever makes it. There's not
even a shadow of a doubt. That he will turn. If you could get if I could get
ahold of it there's not even a shadow of a doubt. that God
will never give you this where you've heard this for years all
your life I said all that the father give it. Shall come. And. Him to come to me. I would. Know why. Yes. Yeah, but not a shadow of a doubt. Get over that now. It's not a
shadow of a doubt. It shouldn't be. But I doubt
myself. We're not talking about you. You're going to turn. You're
going to change. You're going to fall. You're
going to up, down, up, down, in, out, up, down, up, down.
You know, good, bad, hot, cold, all that. He doesn't. There's
no shadow of a doubt. He said, he didn't come at me.
I was nobody. Nobody. Yeah, but nobody. In that goodness was called the
gospel. Every good and perfect truly
good. That which makes us fit affects
us lower comes down from our father he promised to give it.
With whom there's no variables. Nor not not shadow of a doubt
that he'll turn from his word. May that get a hold of you. All
right. Stand with me. Our Heavenly Father, thank you,
thank you, thank you for your Word. It is everything. Without
it, we're in darkness. Without it, we're troubled and
we're, well, we're in ignorance. The Lord teach us, give us His
patience, give us His wisdom that comes from above. And Lord,
may we be doers of your word, not hearers only. May we be truly, may we truly ask in faith, be
willing to do what we know, what you tell us, and abide by it. And we're so thankful that thou
art the unchanging God, and that through Christ we have all the
promises. They're sure that the end, it's
all through grace that the end, that it might be sure And we
thank you for your work in Christ's name we are here tonight. Amen.