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Soak in God's Word from James While You Sleep Soothing Scripture Readings For Deep Sleep - Abide Meditation App · Abide Meditation App

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  Speaker 1: Find rest as you listen to this peaceful bedtime story.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, I'm James.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me tonight for sleep scriptures as we
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  Speaker 2: hear the Letter of James in the New International version.
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  Speaker 2: James was the leader of the Messianic Church in Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 2: meaning the congregation was filled with Jewish people who followed
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  Speaker 2: Jesus as Messiah. This letter was written to all of
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' followers, calling them to become truly wise by loving
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  Speaker 2: God and others. James explains that we tend to favor
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  Speaker 2: people who can help us, and we neglect those who
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  Speaker 2: are in need. This is the opposite of the love
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus and shows that our faith is dead. We
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  Speaker 2: are broken people who condemn our brothers and with the
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  Speaker 2: same mouth offer praise to God. We judge others and
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  Speaker 2: don't tell the truth. How we speak about others opens
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  Speaker 2: a window to what is in our hearts. God's kingdom
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  Speaker 2: is a place where there should be no divisions. We
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  Speaker 2: are to live with patience and hope for Jesus return
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  Speaker 2: to set all things right and be inspired to live
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  Speaker 2: a life full of faith filled prayer. Life's trials produce
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  Speaker 2: endurance and help to restore us from our brokenness into wholeness.
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  Speaker 2: When we choose to trust God, we view our trials
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  Speaker 2: through a new perspective. The Book of James gives us
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  Speaker 2: wisdom about how to live a life devoted to God.
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  Speaker 2: Speak with love, serve the poor, and trust that God
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  Speaker 2: gives us new life. We can fulfill the law of
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  Speaker 2: loving God and others. James Chapter one, verse five says,
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  Speaker 2: if any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,
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  Speaker 2: who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it
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  Speaker 2: will be given to you. Wisdom is the ability to
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  Speaker 2: see our trials through a new perspective. God will generously
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  Speaker 2: give this wisdom to those who ask in faith without doubting.
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  Speaker 2: When we recognize our brokenness before God, we are forced
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  Speaker 2: to choose between the anxiety of that reality and trusting
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  Speaker 2: in God alone. Let's choose to trust God. Now, as
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  Speaker 2: you settle your body into bed, settle your mind on
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  Speaker 2: the generosity of God. Let your whole body relax, giving
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  Speaker 2: every ache and broken part of you over to Him. Now,
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  Speaker 2: allow Him to restore you to wholeness. Align your body
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  Speaker 2: and mind to his word. Now in faith, open your
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  Speaker 2: heart to all God has for you. Tonight, breathe deeply,
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  Speaker 2: centering on his generosity. Dear generous Father, your word says
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  Speaker 2: that all we have to do is ask for wisdom,
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  Speaker 2: and you will give it to us. So we come
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  Speaker 2: before you now and ask for your wisdom. We set
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  Speaker 2: aside any doubt and trust fully in your power and generosity.
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  Speaker 2: Now on our own, we are broken. What you long
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  Speaker 2: to restore this child tonight? Make them whole fully in
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  Speaker 2: alignment with you. Take their burdens and replace them with
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  Speaker 2: a new perspective that the trials of this life are
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  Speaker 2: working to make us perfect.
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  Speaker 3: God.
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  Speaker 2: I pray that the truth in these scriptures would speak
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  Speaker 2: to this child tonight. Let your spirit of generosity grow
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  Speaker 2: within them so that it would flow out into the
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  Speaker 2: world around them. Continue to make them more like Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: loving God and loving others. It's in Jesus' name that
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  Speaker 2: I pray.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: James Chapter one, James, the Servant of God and of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes scattered among
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  Speaker 2: the nations, Greetings, consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever you face trials of many kinds. Because you know
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  Speaker 2: that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance
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  Speaker 2: finish its work so that you may be mature and complete,
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  Speaker 2: not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you
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  Speaker 2: should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault,
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  Speaker 2: and it will be given to you. But when you ask,
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  Speaker 2: you must believe and not doubt. Because the one who
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  Speaker 2: doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and
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  Speaker 2: tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to
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  Speaker 2: receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double
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  Speaker 2: minded and unstable in all they do. Believers in humble
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  Speaker 2: circumstances ought to take pride in their high position, but
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  Speaker 2: the rich should take pride in the humiliation, since they
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  Speaker 2: will pass away like a wild flower. For the sun
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  Speaker 2: rises with scorching heat and withers the plant, its blossom falls,
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  Speaker 2: and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the
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  Speaker 2: rich will fade away even while they go about their business.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial, because having
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  Speaker 2: stood the test, that person will receive the crown of
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  Speaker 2: life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
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  Speaker 2: When tempted. No one should say God is tempting me,
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  Speaker 2: for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he
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  Speaker 2: tempt anyone. But each person is tempted when they are
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  Speaker 2: dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then,
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  Speaker 2: after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and sin,
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  Speaker 2: when it is full grown, gives birth to death. Don't
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  Speaker 2: be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and
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  Speaker 2: perfect gift from above, coming down from the Father of
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  Speaker 2: the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
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  Speaker 2: He chose to give us birth through the Word of Truth,
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  Speaker 2: that we may be a kind of first fruits of
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  Speaker 2: all he created. My dear brothers and sisters, take note
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  Speaker 2: of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak,
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  Speaker 2: and slow to become angry, because human anger does not
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  Speaker 2: produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of
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  Speaker 2: all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent,
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  Speaker 2: and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can
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  Speaker 2: save you. Do not merely listen to the word and
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  Speaker 2: so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens
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  Speaker 2: to the word but does not do what it says,
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  Speaker 2: is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror,
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  Speaker 2: and after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets
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  Speaker 2: what he looks like. But who whoever looks intently into
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  Speaker 2: the perfect law that gives freedom and continues in it,
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  Speaker 2: not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it, they
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  Speaker 2: will be blessed in what they do. Those who consider
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  Speaker 2: themselves religious and yet do not keep tight rain on
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  Speaker 2: their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. Religion
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  Speaker 2: that God, our Father accepts as pure and faultless as this.
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  Speaker 2: To look at orphans and widows in their distress, and
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  Speaker 2: to keep oneself from being polluted by the world James,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter two. My brothers and sisters believers in our glorious
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  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. Suppose a man
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  Speaker 2: comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes,
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  Speaker 2: and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in.
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  Speaker 2: If you show special attention to the man wearing fine
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  Speaker 2: clothes and say there's a good seat for you, But
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  Speaker 2: say to the poor man you stand there or sit on.
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  Speaker 3: The floor by my feet.
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  Speaker 2: Have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with
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  Speaker 2: evil thoughts. Listen, my dear brothers and sisters. Has not
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  Speaker 2: God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of
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  Speaker 2: the world to be rich in faith and to inherit
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  Speaker 2: the kingdom he promised those who love him. But you
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  Speaker 2: have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who
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  Speaker 2: are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are
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  Speaker 2: dragging you into court? Are they not the ones who
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  Speaker 2: are blaspheming the noble name of Him to whom you belong.
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  Speaker 2: If you really keep the royal law found in scripture,
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  Speaker 2: love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing right. But
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  Speaker 2: if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by
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  Speaker 2: the law as lawbreakers. For whoever keeps the whole law
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  Speaker 2: and yet stumbles at just one point is guilt of
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  Speaker 2: breaking all of it. For he who said you shall
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  Speaker 2: not commit adultery also said you shall not murder. If
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  Speaker 2: you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you
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  Speaker 2: have become a lawbreaker. Speak and act as those who
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  Speaker 2: are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom,
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  Speaker 2: Because judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who
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  Speaker 2: has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment. What good
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  Speaker 2: is it, my brothers and sisters, If someone claims to
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  Speaker 2: have faith but has no deeds, can such faith save them?
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  Speaker 2: Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and
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  Speaker 2: daily food. If one of you says to them, go
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  Speaker 2: in peace, keep warm and well fed, but does nothing
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  Speaker 2: about their physical needs, what good is it? In the
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  Speaker 2: same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied
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  Speaker 2: by action, is dead. But some one will say, you
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  Speaker 2: have faith, I have deeds. Show me your faith without deeds,
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  Speaker 2: and I will show you my faith by my deeds.
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  Speaker 2: You believe that there is one God good. Even the
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  Speaker 2: demons believe that. And shudder, you foolish person. Do you
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  Speaker 2: want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? Was not
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  Speaker 2: our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when
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  Speaker 2: he offered his son Isaac on the altar. You see
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  Speaker 2: that his faith and his actions were working together, and
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  Speaker 2: his faith was made complete by what he did, and
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  Speaker 2: the scripture was fulfilled. That says Abraham believed God, and
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  Speaker 2: it was credited to him as righteousness, and he was
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  Speaker 2: called God's friend. You see that a person is considered
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  Speaker 2: righteous by what they do, and not by faith alone.
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  Speaker 3: In the same way.
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  Speaker 2: Was not even Rahab the prostitute, considered righteous for what
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  Speaker 2: she did when she gave lodging to the spies and
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  Speaker 2: sent them off in a different direction. As the body
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  Speaker 2: without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. James,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter three. Not many of you should become teachers, my
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  Speaker 2: fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will
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  Speaker 2: be judged more strictly. We all stumbled in many ways.
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  Speaker 2: Any One who is never at fault in what they
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  Speaker 2: say is perfect able to keep their whole body in check.
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  Speaker 2: When we put bits into the mouths of horses to
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  Speaker 2: make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal.
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  Speaker 2: Or take ships as an example. Although they are so
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  Speaker 2: large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered
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  Speaker 2: by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise,
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  Speaker 2: the tongue is a small part of the body, but
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  Speaker 2: it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is
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  Speaker 2: set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also
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  Speaker 2: is a fire, a world of evil among the parts
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  Speaker 2: of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the
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  Speaker 2: whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself
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  Speaker 2: set on fire by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles,
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  Speaker 2: and sea creatures are being tamed, and have been tamed
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  Speaker 2: by mankind. But no human being can tame the tongue.
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  Speaker 2: It is a restless evil full of deadly poison. With
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  Speaker 2: the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with
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  Speaker 2: it we curse human beings who have been made in
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  Speaker 2: God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing,
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  Speaker 2: my brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 3: This should not be.
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  Speaker 2: Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the
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  Speaker 2: same spring, my brothers and sisters. Can a fig tree
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  Speaker 2: bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a
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  Speaker 2: salt spring produce fresh water. Who is wise and understanding
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  Speaker 2: among you, let them show it by their good life,
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  Speaker 2: by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in
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  Speaker 2: your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Such wisdom does not come down from heaven, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
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  Speaker 2: For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you
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  Speaker 2: find disorder and every evil practice. But the wisdom that
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  Speaker 2: comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace loving,
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  Speaker 2: consider it submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial
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  Speaker 2: and sincere Peacemakers who so in peace reap a harvest
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  Speaker 2: of righteousness James Chapter four. What causes fights and quarrels
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  Speaker 2: among you? Don't they come from your desires? That battle
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  Speaker 2: within you? You desire but do not have, So you kill.
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  Speaker 2: You covet but you cannot get what you want, So
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  Speaker 2: you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you
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  Speaker 2: do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive,
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  Speaker 2: because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend
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  Speaker 2: what you get on your pleasures. You are dulterous people.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity
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  Speaker 2: against God. Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend
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  Speaker 2: of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do
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  Speaker 2: you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs
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  Speaker 2: for the spirit He has cause to dwell in us,
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  Speaker 2: but he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture
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  Speaker 2: says God opposes the proud, but shows.
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  Speaker 3: Favor to the humble.
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  Speaker 2: Submit yourselves then to God, resist the devil, and he
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  Speaker 2: will flee from you. Come near God, and he will
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  Speaker 2: come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and
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  Speaker 2: purify your hearts. You double minded, grieve, mourn and wail.
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  Speaker 2: Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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  Speaker 2: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who
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  Speaker 2: speaks against a brother or sister or judges them, speaks
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  Speaker 2: against the law and judges it. When you judge the law,
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  Speaker 2: you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
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  Speaker 2: There is only one lawgiver and judge, the one who
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  Speaker 2: is able to save and destroy.
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  Speaker 3: Or do you? Who are you to judge your neighbor?
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  Speaker 2: Now listen, you will say today or tomorrow we will
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  Speaker 2: go to this or that city, spend a year there,
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  Speaker 2: carry on business and make money. Why do you not
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  Speaker 2: even know what will happen tomorrow? What is your life?
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  Speaker 2: You are a mist that appears for a little while
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  Speaker 2: and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, if it
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  Speaker 2: is the Lord's will, we will live and do this
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  Speaker 2: or that as it is. You boast in your arrogant schemes.
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  Speaker 2: All such boasting is evil. If anyone then knows the
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  Speaker 2: good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it
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  Speaker 2: is sinned for them James Chapter five. Now listen, you
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  Speaker 2: rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that
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  Speaker 2: is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and months
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  Speaker 2: have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded.
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  Speaker 2: Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh
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  Speaker 2: like fire. You have hoarded wealth.
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  Speaker 3: In the last days.
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  Speaker 2: Look the wages you failed to pay. The workers who
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  Speaker 2: mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries
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  Speaker 2: of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
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  Speaker 2: You have lived on earth and luxury and self indulgence.
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  Speaker 2: You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You
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  Speaker 2: have condemned and murdered the innocent one who was not
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  Speaker 2: opposing you. Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the
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  Speaker 2: Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land
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  Speaker 2: to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn
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  Speaker 2: and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm,
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  Speaker 2: because the Lord's coming is near. Don't grumble against one another,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, or you will be judged. The judge
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  Speaker 2: is standing at the door. Brothers and sisters. As an
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  Speaker 2: example of patience in the face of suffering, Take the
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  Speaker 2: prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. As
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  Speaker 2: you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered.
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  Speaker 2: You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what
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  Speaker 2: the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of
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  Speaker 2: compassion and mercy. Above all, my brothers and sisters, do
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  Speaker 2: not swear, not by heaven or by earth, or by
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  Speaker 2: anything else. All you need to say is a simple
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  Speaker 2: yes or no, otherwise you will be condemned. Is anyone
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  Speaker 2: among you in trouble, let them pray. Is anyone happy?
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  Speaker 2: Let them sing songs of praise. Is anyone among you sick?
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  Speaker 2: Let them Call the elders of the church to pray
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  Speaker 2: over them and anoint them with oil in the name
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will
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  Speaker 2: make the sick person well. The Lord will raise them up.
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  Speaker 2: If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore, Confessor
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  Speaker 2: sends to each other and pray for each other, so
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  Speaker 2: that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous
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  Speaker 2: person is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being,
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  Speaker 2: even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would
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  Speaker 2: not rain, and it did not reign on the land
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  Speaker 2: for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and
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  Speaker 2: the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.
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  Speaker 2: My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander
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  Speaker 2: from the truth, then someone should bring that person back.
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  Speaker 2: Remember this, whoever turns a sinner from the error of
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  Speaker 2: their way will save them from death and cove over
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  Speaker 2: a multitude of sense. Generous God, I offer this prayer
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  Speaker 2: and faith just like these scriptures instruct Let this prayer
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  Speaker 2: over your child be powerful and effective. I ask for
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  Speaker 2: wisdom for this child, now that the words in the
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  Speaker 2: Book of James would bring fresh insight into how to
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  Speaker 2: be fully devoted to You. Continue to guide them in
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  Speaker 2: their journey through trials and toward being more like your son, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: I ask in faith that they would become truly wise
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  Speaker 2: by loving God and others like you have called them
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  Speaker 2: to do. Bless this child as they sleep tonight. James
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  Speaker 2: Chapter one, verse five says, if any of you lacks wisdom,
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  Speaker 2: you should ask God, who gives generously to all without
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  Speaker 2: finding fault, and it will be given to you. We
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  Speaker 2: know we lack your wisdom. Lord, so we ask you
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  Speaker 2: now for wisdom. You are generous. You do not condemn us, God,
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  Speaker 2: but you freely give to us what we ask.
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  Speaker 3: Help us to be.
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  Speaker 2: Truly wise, to love fully. We do love you, God.
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  Speaker 2: Help us to love others more as we continue to
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  Speaker 2: abide in Christ. Dear generous Father, Your word says that
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  Speaker 2: all we have to do is ask for wisdom, and
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  Speaker 2: you will.
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  Speaker 3: Give it to us.
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  Speaker 2: So we come before you now and ask for your wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: We set aside any doubt and trust fully and your
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  Speaker 2: power and generosity.
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  Speaker 3: Now on our own.
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  Speaker 2: We are broken. What you long to restore this child tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Make them whole fully in alignment with you. Take their
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  Speaker 2: burdens and replace them with a new perspective that the
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  Speaker 2: trials of this life are working to make us perfect.
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  Speaker 3: God.
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  Speaker 2: I pray that the truth in these scriptures would speak
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  Speaker 2: to this child tonight. Let your spirit of generosity grow
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  Speaker 2: within them so that it would flow out.
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  Speaker 3: Into the world around them.
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  Speaker 2: Continue to make them more like Jesus, loving God and
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  Speaker 2: loving others.
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  Speaker 3: It's in Jesus' name that I pray. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: James Chapter one, James the servant of God and of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes scattered among
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  Speaker 2: the nations. Greetings, consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know
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  Speaker 2: that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance
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  Speaker 2: finish its work so that you may be mature and complete,
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  Speaker 2: not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you
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  Speaker 2: should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault,
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  Speaker 2: and it will be given to you. But when you ask,
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  Speaker 2: you must believe and not doubt. Because the one who
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  Speaker 2: doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and
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  Speaker 2: tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to
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  Speaker 2: receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double
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  Speaker 2: minded and unstable in all they do. Believers in humble
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  Speaker 2: circumstances ought to take pride in their high position, But
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  Speaker 2: the rich should take pride in their humiliation, since they
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  Speaker 2: will pass away like a wild flower. For the sun
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  Speaker 2: rises with scorching heat and withers the plant, its blossom falls,
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  Speaker 2: and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the
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  Speaker 2: rich will fade away even while they go about their business.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial, because having
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  Speaker 2: stood the test that person will receive the crown of
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  Speaker 2: life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
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  Speaker 2: When tempted, no one should say God is tempting me,
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  Speaker 2: for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he
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  Speaker 2: tempt anyone. But each person is tempted when they are
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  Speaker 2: dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then,
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  Speaker 2: after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and sin,
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  Speaker 2: when it is full grown, gives birth to death. Don't
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  Speaker 2: be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and
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  Speaker 2: perfect gift from above, coming down from the Father of
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  Speaker 2: the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: He chose to give us birth through the Word of Truth,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: that we may be a kind of first fruits of
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: all he created. My dear brothers and sisters, take note
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  Speaker 2: of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: and slow to become angry, because human anger does not
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: save you. Do not merely listen to the word and
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: to the word but does not do what it says,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror,
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  Speaker 2: and after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets
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  Speaker 2: what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the
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  Speaker 2: perfect law that gives freedom and continues in it, not
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  Speaker 2: forgetting what they have heard, but doing it, they will
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  Speaker 2: be blessed in what they do. Those who consider themselves
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  Speaker 2: religious and yet do not keep tight rain on their
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  Speaker 2: tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless religion that God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father accepts as pure and faultless as this. To
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  Speaker 2: look at orphans and widows in their distress, and to
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  Speaker 2: keep oneself from being polluted by the world James, Chapter two.
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  Speaker 2: My brothers and sisters believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: must not show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your
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  Speaker 2: meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a
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  Speaker 2: poor man and filthy old clothes also comes in. If
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  Speaker 2: you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes
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  Speaker 2: and say here's a good seat for you, But say
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  Speaker 2: to the poor man, you stand there or sit on
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  Speaker 2: the floor by my feet? Have you not discriminated among
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  Speaker 2: yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my dear
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen those who are
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  Speaker 2: poor in the eyes of the world to be rich
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  Speaker 2: in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those
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  Speaker 2: who love him. But you have dishonor at the poor.
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  Speaker 2: Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are
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  Speaker 2: they not the ones who are dragging you into court?
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble
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  Speaker 2: name of Him to whom you belong. If you really
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  Speaker 2: keep the royal law found in scripture, love your neighbor
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  Speaker 2: as yourself, you are doing right. But if you show favoritism,
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  Speaker 2: you sin and are cavicted by the law as lawbreakers.
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  Speaker 2: For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at
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  Speaker 2: just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
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  Speaker 2: For he who said you shall not commit adultery also
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  Speaker 2: said you shall not murder. If you do not commit adultery,
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  Speaker 2: but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. Speak
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  Speaker 2: and act as those who are going to be judged
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  Speaker 2: by the law that gives freedom, because judgment without mercy
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  Speaker 2: will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.
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  Speaker 2: Mercy triumphs over judgment. What good is it, my brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, If someone claims to have faith but has
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  Speaker 2: no deeds, can such faith save them? Suppose a brother
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  Speaker 2: or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If
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  Speaker 2: one of you says to them, go in peace, keep
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  Speaker 2: warm and well fed, but does nothing about their physical
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  Speaker 2: needs needs, what good is it? In the same way,
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  Speaker 2: faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action,
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  Speaker 2: is dead. But someone will say you have faith, I
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  Speaker 2: have deeds. Show me your faith without deeds, and I
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  Speaker 2: will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe
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  Speaker 2: that there is one God good. Even the demons believe that.
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  Speaker 2: And shudder, you foolish person. Do you want evidence that
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  Speaker 2: faith without deeds is useless?
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  Speaker 3: Was not?
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  Speaker 2: Our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when
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  Speaker 2: he offered his son Isaac on the altar. You see
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  Speaker 2: that his faith and his actions were working together, and
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  Speaker 2: his faith was made complete by what he did, and
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  Speaker 2: the scripture was fulfilled. That says Abraham believed God, and
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  Speaker 2: it was credited to him as righteousness and he was
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  Speaker 2: called God's friend. You see that a person is considered
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  Speaker 2: righteous by what they do, and not by faith alone.
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  Speaker 2: In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute,
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  Speaker 2: considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging
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  Speaker 2: to the spies and sent them off in a different direction.
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  Speaker 2: As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith
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  Speaker 2: without deeds is dead. James, chapter three. Not many of
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  Speaker 2: you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know
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  Speaker 2: that we who teach will be judged more strictly. We
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  Speaker 2: all stumbled in many ways. Anyone who is never at
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  Speaker 2: fault in what they say is perfect able to keep
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  Speaker 2: their whole body in check. When we put bits into
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  Speaker 2: the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we
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  Speaker 2: can turn the whole animal. Or take ships as an example.
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  Speaker 2: Although they are so long charge and are driven by
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  Speaker 2: strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder
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  Speaker 2: wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise, the tongue is
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  Speaker 2: a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts.
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  Speaker 2: Consider what a great forest is set on fire by
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  Speaker 2: a small spark. The tongue also is a fire. A
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  Speaker 2: world of evil among the parts of the body. It
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  Speaker 2: corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of one's
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  Speaker 2: life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
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  Speaker 2: All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures are
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  Speaker 2: being tamed, and have been tamed by mankind. But no
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  Speaker 2: human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless
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  Speaker 2: evil full of deadly poison. With the tongue we praise
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  Speaker 2: our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human
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  Speaker 2: beings who have been made in God's likeness. Out of
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  Speaker 2: the same mouth come praise and cursing my brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 3: This should not be.
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  Speaker 2: Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the
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  Speaker 2: same spring, my brothers and sisters. Can a fig tree
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  Speaker 2: bear olives or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a
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  Speaker 2: salt spring produce fresh water. Who is wise and understanding
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  Speaker 2: among you? Let them show it by their good life,
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  Speaker 2: by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in
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  Speaker 2: your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Such wisdom does not come down from heaven. What is
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  Speaker 2: earthly unspiritual demonic? For where you have envy and selfish ambition.
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  Speaker 2: There you find disorder and every evil practice. But the
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  Speaker 2: wisdom that comes from Heaven is first of all pure
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  Speaker 2: than peace loving, considering, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit,
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  Speaker 2: impartial and sincere Peacemakers who so in peace reap a
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  Speaker 2: harvest of righteousness James Chapter four. What causes fights and
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  Speaker 2: quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires? That
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  Speaker 2: battle within you? You desire but do not have, So
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  Speaker 2: you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want,
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  Speaker 2: So you quarrel and fight. You do not have because
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  Speaker 2: you do not ask God. When you ask, you do
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  Speaker 2: not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you
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  Speaker 2: may spend what you get on your pleasures. You are
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  Speaker 2: dulterous people. Don't you know that friendship with the world
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  Speaker 2: means enmity against God. Therefore, anyone who chooses to be
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  Speaker 2: a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
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  Speaker 3: Or do you think.
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  Speaker 2: Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit,
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  Speaker 2: he has cause to dwell in us, but he gives
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  Speaker 2: us more grace. That is why Scripture says God opposes
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  Speaker 2: the proud, but shows favor to the humble. Submit yourselves
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  Speaker 2: then to God. Resist the devil and he will flee
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  Speaker 2: from you. Come near God, and he will come near
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  Speaker 2: to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts.
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  Speaker 2: You double minded, grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter
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  Speaker 2: to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before
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  Speaker 2: the Lord, and he will lift you up. Brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a
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  Speaker 2: brother or sisters or judges them, speaks against the law
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  Speaker 2: and judges it. When you judge the law, you are
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  Speaker 2: not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. There
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  Speaker 2: is only one lawgiver and judge, the one who is
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  Speaker 2: able to save and destroy?
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  Speaker 3: Or do you?
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  Speaker 2: Who are you to judge your neighbor? Now listen, you
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  Speaker 2: will say today or tomorrow we will go to this
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  Speaker 2: or that city, spend a year there, carry on business
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  Speaker 2: and make money. Why do you not even know what
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  Speaker 2: will happen tomorrow? What is your life? You are a
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  Speaker 2: mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: you ought to say, if it is the Lord's will,
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  Speaker 2: we will live and do this for that as it is.
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  Speaker 2: You boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone then knows the good they ought to do
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  Speaker 2: and doesn't do it, it is sinned for them. James
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  Speaker 2: chapter five. Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail
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  Speaker 2: because of the misery that is coming on you. Your
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  Speaker 2: wealth has rotted, and months have eaten your clothes. Your
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  Speaker 2: gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against
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  Speaker 2: you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded
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  Speaker 2: wealth in the last days. Look the wages you failed
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  Speaker 2: to pay. The workers who mowed your fields are crying
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  Speaker 2: out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached
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  Speaker 2: the ears of.
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  Speaker 3: The Lord Almighty.
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  Speaker 2: You have lived on earth and luxury and self indulgence.
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  Speaker 2: You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You
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  Speaker 2: have condemned and murdered the innocent one who was not
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  Speaker 2: opposing you. Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the
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  Speaker 2: Lord's coming. See how the farmer waits for the land
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  Speaker 2: to yield its valuable crop, patiently, waiting for the autumn
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  Speaker 2: and spring rains.
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  Speaker 3: You too, be patient and.
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  Speaker 2: Stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near. Don't grumble
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  Speaker 2: against one another, brothers and sisters, or you will be judged.
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  Speaker 2: The judge is standing at the door. Brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: as an example of patience in the face of suffering,
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  Speaker 2: take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered.
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  Speaker 2: You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what
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  Speaker 2: the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of
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  Speaker 2: compassion and mercy above all, my brothers and sisters, do
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  Speaker 2: not swear, not by heaven or by earth, or by
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  Speaker 2: anything else. All you need to say is a simple
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  Speaker 2: yes or no, otherwise you will be condemned. One among
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  Speaker 2: you in trouble, Let them pray. Is anyone happy, Let
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  Speaker 2: them sing songs of praise. Is anyone among you sick?
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  Speaker 2: Let them call the elders of the church to pray
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  Speaker 2: over them and anoint them with oil in the name
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will
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  Speaker 2: make the sick person well. The Lord will raise them up.
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  Speaker 2: If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore, confess
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  Speaker 2: your sins to each other, and pray for each other,
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  Speaker 2: so that you may be healed. The prayer of a
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  Speaker 2: righteous person is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human
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  Speaker 2: being even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it
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  Speaker 2: would not rain, and it did not reign on the
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  Speaker 2: land for three and a half years. Again he prayed,
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  Speaker 2: and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.
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  Speaker 2: My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander
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  Speaker 2: from the truth, then someone should bring that per and back.
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  Speaker 2: Remember this, whoever turns a sinner from the error of
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  Speaker 2: their way will save them from death and cover over
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  Speaker 2: a multitude of sense. A generous God. I offer this
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  Speaker 2: prayer and faith, just like these scriptures instruct Let this
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  Speaker 2: prayer over your child be powerful and effective. I ask
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  Speaker 2: for wisdom for this child, now that the words in
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  Speaker 2: the Book of James would bring fresh insight into how
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  Speaker 2: to be fully devoted to You. Continue to guide them
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  Speaker 2: in their journey through trials and toward being more like
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  Speaker 2: your son, Jesus. I ask in faith that they would
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  Speaker 2: become truly wise by loving God and others like you
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  Speaker 2: have called them to do. Bless this child as they
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: sleep tonight. James Chapter one, verse five says, if any
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  Speaker 2: of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives
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  Speaker 2: generously to all without finding fault, and it will be
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  Speaker 2: given to you. We know we lack your wisdom, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: so we ask you now for wisdom. You are generous.
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  Speaker 2: You do not condemn us, God, but you freely give
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  Speaker 2: to us what we ask. Help us to be truly wise,
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  Speaker 2: to love fully. We do love you, God. Help us
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  Speaker 2: to love others more as we continue to abide in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Dear generous Father, Your word says that all we have
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  Speaker 2: to do is ask for wisdom, and you will give
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  Speaker 2: it to us. So we come before you now and
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  Speaker 2: ask for your wisdom. We set aside any doubt and
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  Speaker 2: trust fully and your power and generosity Now on our own.
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  Speaker 2: We are broken. What you long to restore this child tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Make them whole fully in alignment with you. Take their
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  Speaker 2: burdens and replace them with a new perspective that the
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  Speaker 2: trials of this life are working to make us perfect.
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  Speaker 3: God.
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  Speaker 2: I pray that the truth in these scriptures would speak to.
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  Speaker 3: This child tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Let your spirit of generosity grow within them so that
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  Speaker 2: it would flow out into the world around them. Continue
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  Speaker 2: to make them more like Jesus, loving God and loving others.
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  Speaker 2: It's in Jesus name that I pray Amen.
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  Speaker 3: James.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter one, James, the Servant of God and of the
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  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes scattered among the nations. Greetings,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: face trials of many kinds, because you know that the
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work,
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: will be given to you. But when you ask, you
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: must believe and not doubt. Because the one who doubts
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: by the wind. That person should not expect to receive
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: anything from the Lord. Such a person is double minded
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: and unstable in all they do. Believers in humble circumstances
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: ought to take pride in their high position, but the
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: rich should take pride in their humiliation, since they will
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: pass away like a wild flower. For the sun rises
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: with scorching heat and withers the plant, its blossom falls,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: and its beauty is destroyed.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: In the same way, the rich.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Will fade away even while they go about their business.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial, because having
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: stood the test, that person will receive the crown of
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: When tempted, no one should say God is tempting me,
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: tempt any one. But each person is tempted when they
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: are dragged away by their own evil desire end enticed, then,
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and sin,
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: when it is full grown, gives birth to death. Don't
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: perfect gift from above, coming down from the Father of
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: the heavenly lights, who does not change.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: Like shifting shadows.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: He chose to give us birth through the word of truth,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: that we may be a kind of first fruits of
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: all he created. My dear brothers and sisters, take note
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak,
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: and slow to become angry, because human anger does not
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: save you. Do not merely listen to the word and
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: to the word but does not do what it says,
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror,
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: and after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: perfect law that gives freedom and continues in it, not
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: forgetting what they have heard, but doing it, they will
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: be blessed in what they do. Those who consider themselves
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: religious and yet do not keep tight rein on their
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. Religion that God,
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: our Father accepts as pure and faultless as this. To
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: look at orphans and widows in their distress, and to
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  Speaker 2: keep oneself from being polluted by the world James, Chapter two.
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  Speaker 2: My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: must not show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your
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  Speaker 2: meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a
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  Speaker 2: poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. If
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  Speaker 2: you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes
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  Speaker 2: and say here's a good seat for you. But say
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  Speaker 2: to the poor man you stand there or sit on
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  Speaker 2: the floor by my feet? Have you not discriminated among
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  Speaker 2: yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my dear
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen those who are
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  Speaker 2: poor in the eyes of the world to be rich
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  Speaker 2: in faith and to inherit the kingdom? He promised those
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  Speaker 2: who love him. But you have dishonored the poor. Is
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  Speaker 2: it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they
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  Speaker 2: not the ones who are dragging you into court? Are
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  Speaker 2: they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name
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  Speaker 2: of Him to whom you belong. If you really keep
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  Speaker 2: the royal law found in script, love your neighbor as yourself,
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  Speaker 2: you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you
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  Speaker 2: sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. For
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  Speaker 2: whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just
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  Speaker 2: one point is guilty of breaking all of it. For
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  Speaker 2: he who said you shall not commit adultery also said
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  Speaker 2: you shall not murder. If you do not commit adultery,
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  Speaker 2: but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker, Speak
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  Speaker 2: and act as those who are going to be judged
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  Speaker 2: by the law that gives freedom. Because judgment without mercy
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  Speaker 2: will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.
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  Speaker 2: Mercy triumphs over judgment. What good is it, my brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, If someone claims to have faith but has
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  Speaker 2: no deeds, can such faith save them? Suppose a brother
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  Speaker 2: or a sister is without clothes and daily fries. If
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  Speaker 2: one of you says to them, go in peace, keep
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  Speaker 2: warm and well fed, but does nothing about their physical needs,
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  Speaker 2: what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself,
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  Speaker 2: if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But
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  Speaker 2: someone will say you have faith, I have deeds. Show
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  Speaker 2: me your faith without deeds, and I will show you
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  Speaker 2: my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is
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  Speaker 2: one God good. Even the demons believe that. And shudder,
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  Speaker 2: you foolish person. Do you want evidence that faith without
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  Speaker 2: deeds is useless? Was not our father Abraham considered righteous
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  Speaker 2: for what he did when he offered his son Isaac
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  Speaker 2: on the altar. You see that his faith and his
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  Speaker 2: actions were working together, and his faith was made complete
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  Speaker 2: by what he did. And the scripture is fulfilled. That
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  Speaker 2: says Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him
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  Speaker 2: as righteousness, and he was called God's friend. You see
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  Speaker 2: that a person is considered righteous by what they do,
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  Speaker 2: and not by faith alone. In the same way, was
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  Speaker 2: not even Rahab the prostitute, considered righteous for what she
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  Speaker 2: did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent
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  Speaker 2: them off in a different direction. As the body without
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  Speaker 2: the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. James,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three. Not many of you should become teachers, my
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  Speaker 2: fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will
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  Speaker 2: be judged more strictly. We all stumbled in many ways.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone who is never at fault in what they say
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  Speaker 2: is perfect able to keep their whole body in check.
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  Speaker 2: When we put bits into the mouths of horses to
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  Speaker 2: make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal.
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  Speaker 2: Or take ships as an example. Although they are so
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  Speaker 2: large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered
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  Speaker 2: by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise,
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  Speaker 2: the tongue is a small part of the body, but
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  Speaker 2: it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is
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  Speaker 2: set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also
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  Speaker 2: is a fire, a world of evil among the parts
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  Speaker 2: of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the
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  Speaker 2: whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself
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  Speaker 2: set on fire by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles,
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  Speaker 2: and sea creatures are being tamed, and have been tamed
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  Speaker 2: by mankind. But no human being can tame the tongue.
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  Speaker 3: It is a.
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  Speaker 2: Restless evil, full of deadly poison. With the tongue praise
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  Speaker 2: our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human
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  Speaker 2: beings who have been made in God's likeness. Out of
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  Speaker 2: the same mouth come praise and cursing my brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: This should not be. Can both fresh water and salt
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  Speaker 2: water flow from the same spring, my brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: Can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs?
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  Speaker 2: Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water. Who is
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  Speaker 2: wise and understanding among you, Let them show it by
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  Speaker 2: their good life, by deeds done in the humility that
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  Speaker 2: comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and
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  Speaker 2: selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it
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  Speaker 2: or deny the truth. Such wisdom does not come down
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  Speaker 2: from heaven, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you
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  Speaker 2: have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and
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  Speaker 2: every evil practice. But the wisdom that comes from heaven
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  Speaker 2: is first of all pure, then peace loving. Consider it submissive,
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  Speaker 2: full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers
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  Speaker 2: who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness James
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  Speaker 2: Chapter four. What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't
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  Speaker 2: they come from your desires? That battle within you? You
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  Speaker 2: desire but do not have, So you kill. You covet
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  Speaker 2: but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel
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  Speaker 2: and fight. You do not have because you do not
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  Speaker 2: ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because
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  Speaker 2: you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what
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  Speaker 2: you get on your pleasures.
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  Speaker 3: You are dulterous people.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you know that friendship with the world means inmity
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  Speaker 2: against God. Therefore anyone who chooses to be a friend
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  Speaker 2: of the world becomes an enemy of God? Or do
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  Speaker 2: you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs
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  Speaker 2: for the spirit he has cause to dwell in us.
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  Speaker 2: But he gives us more grace. That is why scripture
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  Speaker 2: says God opposes the proud, but shows favor to the humble.
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  Speaker 2: Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil and he
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  Speaker 2: will flee from you. Come near God, and He will
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  Speaker 2: come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and
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  Speaker 2: purify your hearts. You double minded, grieve, mourn and wail.
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  Speaker 2: Change your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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  Speaker 2: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who
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  Speaker 2: speaks against a brother or sister or judges them, speaks
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  Speaker 2: against the law and judges it. When you judge the law,
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  Speaker 2: you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
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  Speaker 2: There is only one lawgiver and judge, the one who
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  Speaker 2: is able to save and destroy. Or do you who
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  Speaker 2: are you to judge your neighbor? Now listen, you will
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  Speaker 2: say today or tomorrow, we will go to this or
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  Speaker 2: that city, spend a year there, carry on business and
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  Speaker 2: make money. Why do you not even know what will
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  Speaker 2: happen tomorrow? What is your life? You are a mist
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  Speaker 2: that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: you ought to say if it is the Lord's will,
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  Speaker 2: we will live and do this for that, as it
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  Speaker 2: is you both and your arrogant schemes. All such boasting
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  Speaker 2: is evil. If anyone then knows the good they ought
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  Speaker 2: to do and doesn't do it, it is sinned for them.
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  Speaker 2: James chapter five. Now listen, you rich people, weep and
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  Speaker 2: wail because of the misery that is coming on you.
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  Speaker 2: Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify
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  Speaker 2: against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have
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  Speaker 2: hoarded wealth in the last days. Look the wages you
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  Speaker 2: failed to pay. The workers who mowed your fields are
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  Speaker 2: crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have
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  Speaker 2: reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived
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  Speaker 2: on earth and luxury and self indulgence. You have fattened
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  Speaker 2: yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned, and
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  Speaker 2: the innocent one who is not opposing you. Be patient, then,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, until the Lord's coming. See how the
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  Speaker 2: farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop,
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  Speaker 2: patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too,
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  Speaker 2: be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near.
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  Speaker 2: Don't grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you
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  Speaker 2: will be judged. The judge is standing.
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  Speaker 3: At the door.
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters. As an example of patience in the
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  Speaker 2: face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the
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  Speaker 2: name of the Lord. As you know, we count as
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  Speaker 2: blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's
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  Speaker 2: perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord is full of compassion and mercy above all,
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  Speaker 2: my brothers and sisters, do not swear, not by heaven
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  Speaker 2: or by earth, or by anything else. All you need
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  Speaker 2: to say is a simple yes or no, otherwise you
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  Speaker 2: will be condemned. Is anyone among you in trouble, let
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  Speaker 2: them pray? Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise.
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  Speaker 2: Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders
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  Speaker 2: of the church to pray over them and anoint them
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  Speaker 2: with oil in the name of the Lord. And the
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  Speaker 2: prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well.
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  Speaker 3: The Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned,
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  Speaker 3: they will be forgiven.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for
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  Speaker 2: each other so that you may be healed. The prayer
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  Speaker 2: of a righteous person is powerful and effective. Elijah was
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  Speaker 2: a human being even as we are. He prayed earnestly
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  Speaker 2: that it would not rain, and it did not reign
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  Speaker 2: on the land for three and a half years. Again
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  Speaker 2: he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth
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  Speaker 2: produced its crops. My brothers and sisters, if one of
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  Speaker 2: you should wander from the truth, and someone should bring
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  Speaker 2: that person back, remember this, whoever turns a sinner from
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  Speaker 2: the error of their way will save them from death
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  Speaker 2: and cover over a multitude of sense. Generous God, I
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  Speaker 2: offer this prayer in faith, just like these scriptures instruct
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  Speaker 2: Let this prayer over your child be powerful and effective.
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  Speaker 2: I ask for wisdom for this child, now that the
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  Speaker 2: words in the Book of James would bring fresh insight
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  Speaker 2: into how to be fully devoted to You. Continue to
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  Speaker 2: guide them in their journey through trials and toward being
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  Speaker 2: more like your son, Jesus. I ask in faith that
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  Speaker 2: they would become truly wise by loving God and U
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  Speaker 2: like you have called them to do. Bless this child
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  Speaker 2: as they sleep tonight. James Chapter one, verse five says,
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  Speaker 2: if any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,
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  Speaker 2: who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it
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  Speaker 2: will be given to you.
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  Speaker 3: We know we lack.
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  Speaker 2: Your wisdom, Lord, so we ask you now for wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: You are generous. You do not condemn us, God, but
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: you freely give to us what we ask. Help us
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: to be truly wise to love fully. We do love you, God,
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  Speaker 2: Help us to love others more as we continue to
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: abide in Christ. Dear generous Father, Your word says that
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  Speaker 2: all we have to do is ask for wisdom, and
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  Speaker 2: you will give it to us. So we come before
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: you now and ask for your wisdom. We set aside
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  Speaker 2: any doubt and trust fully in your power and generosity.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: Now on our own, we are broken. What you long
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: to restore this child tonight? Make them whole fully in
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: alignment with you. Take their burdens and replace them with
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: a new perspective that the trials of this life are
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: working to make us perfect. God, I pray that the
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  Speaker 2: truth in these scriptures would speak.
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  Speaker 3: To this child tonight.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: Let your spirit of generosity grow within them so that
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  Speaker 2: it would flow out into the world around them. Continue
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  Speaker 2: to make them more like Jesus, loving God and loving others.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: It's in Jesus name that I pray. Amen. James, Chapter one, James,
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  Speaker 2: the Servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: to the twelve tribes scattered among the nations. Greetings, consider
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: of your faith produces perseverance, Let perseverance finish its work
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: who gives generously to all, without finding fault, and it
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: will be given to you. But when you ask, you
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: must leave and not doubt. Because the one who doubts
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: by the wind. That person should not expect to receive
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: anything from the Lord. Such a person is double minded
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: and unstable in all they do. Believers in humble circumstances
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: ought to take pride in their high position, but the
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: rich should take pride in their humiliation, since they will
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: pass away like a wild flower, for the sun rises
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: with scorching heat and withers the plant its blossom. Falls
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the
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  Speaker 2: rich will fade away even while they go about their business.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial, because having
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: stood the test, that person will receive the crown of
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: When tempted, no one should say God is tempting me,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: tempt anyone. But each person is tempted when they are
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then,
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  Speaker 2: after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and sin,
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  Speaker 2: when it is full grown, gives birth to death. Don't
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: perfect gift from above, coming down from the Father of
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: He chose to give us birth through the Word of truth,
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  Speaker 2: that we may be a kind of first fruits of
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  Speaker 2: all he created. My dear brothers and sisters, take note
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  Speaker 2: of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: and slow to become angry, because human anger does not
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of
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  Speaker 2: all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: save you. Do not merely listen to the word and
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Any One who
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: listens to the word but does not do what it says,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: is like some one who looks at his face in
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: a mirror, and after looking at himself, goes away and
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks intently
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: into the perfect law that gives freedom and continues in it,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it, they
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: will be blessed in what they do. Those who consider
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: themselves religious and yet do not keep tight rein on
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. Religion
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless as this.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: To look at orphans and widows in their distress, and
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: to keep oneself from being polluted by the world James,
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: Chapter two. My brothers and sisters believers in our glorious
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus Christ, must not show favoritism. Suppose a man
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: If you show special attention to the man wearing fine
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: clothes and say here's a good seat for you, But
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: say to the poor man, you stand there, or sit
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: on the floor by my feet? Have you not discriminated
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: dear brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen those who
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: are poor in the eyes of the world to be
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom? He promised
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: those who love him. But you have dishonored the poor.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: they not the ones who are dragging you into court?
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: name of Him to whom you belong. If you really
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: keep the royal law found in scripture, love your neighbor
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: as yourself, you are doing right. But if you show favoritism,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: you sin and are convicted.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: By the law as lawbreakers.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: For he who said you shall not commit adultery also
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: said you shall not murder. If you do not commit adultery,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. Speak
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: and act as those who are going to be judged
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: by the law that gives freedom. Because judgment without mercy
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: Mercy triumphs over judgment. What good is it, my brothers
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: no deeds, can such faith save them? Suppose a brother
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: one of you says to them, go in peace, keep
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: warm and well fed, but does nothing about their physical needs,
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 3: But someone will say, you have faith, I have deeds.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: you my faith.
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  Speaker 3: By my deeds.
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  Speaker 2: You believe that there is one God good. Even the
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: demons believe that, And shudder, you foolish person. Do you
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? Was not
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: Our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: he offered his son Isaac on the altar. That his
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: faith and his actions were working together, and his faith
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: was made complete by what he did, and the scripture
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: was fulfilled. That says Abraham believed God, and it was
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  Speaker 2: credited to him as righteousness, and he was called God's friend.
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  Speaker 2: You see that a person is considered righteous by what
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  Speaker 2: they do, and not by faith alone. In the same way,
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  Speaker 2: was not even Rahab the prostitute, considered righteous for what
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  Speaker 2: she did when she gave lodging to the spies and
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  Speaker 2: sent them off in a different direction. As the body
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  Speaker 2: without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. James,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter three. Not many of you should become teachers, my
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  Speaker 2: fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will
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  Speaker 2: be judged more strictly. We all stumbled in many ways.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone who is never fault and what they say is
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  Speaker 2: perfect able to keep their whole body in check. When
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  Speaker 2: we put bits into the mouths of horses to make
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  Speaker 2: them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or
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  Speaker 2: take ships as an example. Although they are so large
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  Speaker 2: and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by
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  Speaker 2: a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise,
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  Speaker 2: the tongue is a small part of the body, but
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  Speaker 2: it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is
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  Speaker 2: set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also
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  Speaker 2: is a fire, a world of evil among the parts
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  Speaker 2: of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the
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  Speaker 2: whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself
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  Speaker 2: set on.
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  Speaker 3: Fire by hell.
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  Speaker 2: All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and sea creatures are
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  Speaker 2: being tamed, and have been tamed by mankind. But no
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  Speaker 2: human being cantame the tongue. It is a restless evil,
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  Speaker 2: full of deadly poison. With the tongue we praise our
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  Speaker 2: Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings
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  Speaker 2: who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the
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  Speaker 2: same mouth come praise and cursing my brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 3: This should not be.
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  Speaker 2: Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the
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  Speaker 2: same spring, my brothers and sisters. Can a fig tree
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  Speaker 2: bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a
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  Speaker 2: salt spring produce fresh water. Who is wise and understanding
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  Speaker 2: among you, let them show it by their good life,
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  Speaker 2: by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition, in
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  Speaker 2: your hearts. Do not boast about it or deny the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Such wisdom does not come down from heaven. What is earthly? Unspiritual, demonic?
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  Speaker 2: For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you
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  Speaker 2: find disorder and every evil practice. But the wisdom that
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  Speaker 2: comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace loving.
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  Speaker 2: Consider it submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial
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  Speaker 2: and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest
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  Speaker 2: of righteousness James Chapter four. What causes fights and quarrels
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  Speaker 2: among you? Don't they come from your desires? That battle
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  Speaker 2: within you? You desire but do not have, So you kill.
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  Speaker 2: You covet but you cannot get what you want, so
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  Speaker 2: you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you
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  Speaker 2: do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive,
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  Speaker 2: because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend
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  Speaker 2: what you get on your pleasures. You are dulterous people.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity
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  Speaker 2: against God. Therefore anyone who chooses to be a friend
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  Speaker 2: of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do
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  Speaker 2: you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs
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  Speaker 2: for the spirit. He has cause to dwell in us,
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  Speaker 2: but he gives us more grace. That is why scripture
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  Speaker 2: says God opposes the proud, but shows favor to the humble.
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  Speaker 2: Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil and he
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  Speaker 2: will flee from you. Come near God and he will
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  Speaker 2: come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and
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  Speaker 2: purify your hearts. You double minded, grieve, mourn and wail.
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  Speaker 2: Change your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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  Speaker 2: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who
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  Speaker 2: speaks against a brother or sister or judges them, speaks
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  Speaker 2: against the law and judges it. When you judge the law,
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  Speaker 2: you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
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  Speaker 2: There is only one lawgiver and judge, the one who
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  Speaker 2: is able to save and destroy.
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  Speaker 3: Or do you? Who are you to judge your neighbor?
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  Speaker 2: Now listen, you will say today or tomorrow, we will
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  Speaker 2: go to this or that city, spend a year there,
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  Speaker 2: carry on business and make money. Why do you not
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  Speaker 2: even know what will happen tomorrow? What is your life?
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  Speaker 2: You are a mist that appears for a little while
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  Speaker 2: and then vanishes instead. What to say, If it is
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  Speaker 2: the Lord's will, we will live and do this or
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  Speaker 2: that as it is. You boast in your arrogance schemes.
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  Speaker 2: All such boasting is evil. If anyone then knows the
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  Speaker 2: good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it
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  Speaker 2: is sinned for them. James Chapter five. Now listen, you
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  Speaker 2: rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that
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  Speaker 2: is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths
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  Speaker 2: have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded.
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  Speaker 2: Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh
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  Speaker 2: like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days.
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  Speaker 2: Look the wages you fail to pay. The workers who
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  Speaker 2: mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries
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  Speaker 2: of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
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  Speaker 2: Have lived on earth and luxury and self indulgence. You
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  Speaker 2: have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have
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  Speaker 2: condemned and murdered the innocent one who was not opposing you.
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  Speaker 2: Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord's coming.
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  Speaker 2: See how the farmer waits for the land to yield
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  Speaker 2: its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.
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  Speaker 2: You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's
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  Speaker 2: coming is near. Don't grumble against one another, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: or you will be judged. The judge is standing at
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  Speaker 2: the door. Brothers and sisters. As an example of patience
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  Speaker 2: in the face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke
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  Speaker 2: in the name of the Lord. As you know, we
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  Speaker 2: count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard
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  Speaker 2: of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally
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  Speaker 2: brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy
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  Speaker 2: above all, my brothers and sisters. Do not swear, not
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  Speaker 2: by heaven or by earth, or by anything else. All
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  Speaker 2: you need to say is as simple yes or no,
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  Speaker 2: otherwise you will be condemned. Is any one among you
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  Speaker 2: in trouble, Let them pray? Is anyone happy? Let them
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  Speaker 2: sing songs of praise? Is any one among you sick?
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  Speaker 2: Let them call the elders of the church to pray
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  Speaker 2: over them and anoint them with oil in the name
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will
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  Speaker 2: make the sick person well.
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  Speaker 3: The Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned,
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  Speaker 3: they will be forgiven.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore, confess your sinds to each other, and pray for
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  Speaker 2: each other, so that you may be healed. The prayer
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  Speaker 2: of a righteous person is powerful and effective. Elijah was
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  Speaker 2: a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly
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  Speaker 2: that it would not reign, and it did not reign
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  Speaker 2: on the land for three and a half years. Again
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  Speaker 2: he prayed, and the heavens gave rein, and the earth
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  Speaker 2: produced its crops. My brothers and sisters, if one of
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  Speaker 2: you should wander from the truth and someone should bring
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  Speaker 2: that person back, remember this, whoever turns a sinner from
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  Speaker 2: the error of their way will save them from death
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  Speaker 2: and cover over a multitude of sense. Generous God, I
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  Speaker 2: offer this prayer in faith, just like these scriptures instruct
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  Speaker 2: Let this prayer over your child be powerful and effective.
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  Speaker 2: I ask for wisdom for this child, now that the
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  Speaker 2: words in the Book of James would bring fresh insight
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  Speaker 2: into how to be fully devoted to You. Continue to
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  Speaker 2: guide them in their journey through trials and toward being
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  Speaker 2: more like your son Jesus. I ask in faith that
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  Speaker 2: they would become truly wise by loving God and others
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  Speaker 2: like you have called them to do. Bless this child
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  Speaker 2: as they sleep tonight. James Chapter one, verse five says,
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  Speaker 2: if any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,
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  Speaker 2: who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it
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  Speaker 2: will be given to you. We know we lack your wisdom, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: so we ask you now for wisdom. You are generous.
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  Speaker 2: You do not condemn us, God, but you freely give
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  Speaker 2: to us what we ask. Help us to be truly wise,
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  Speaker 2: to love fully. We do love you, God, Help us
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  Speaker 2: to love others more as we continue to abide in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Dear generous Father, your word says that all we have
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  Speaker 2: to do is ask for wisdom, and you will give
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  Speaker 2: it to us. So we come before you now and
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  Speaker 2: ask for your wisdom. We set aside any doubt and
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  Speaker 2: trust fully in your power and generosity.
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  Speaker 3: Now on our.
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  Speaker 2: Own, we are broken, but you long to restore this
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  Speaker 2: child tonight. Make them whole fully in alignment with you.
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  Speaker 2: Take their burdens and replace them with a new perspective
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  Speaker 2: that the trials of this life are working to make
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  Speaker 2: us perfect. God, I pray that the truth in these
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  Speaker 2: scripts would speak to this child tonight. Let your spirit
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  Speaker 2: of generosity grow within them so that it would flow
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  Speaker 2: out into the world around them. Continue to make them
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  Speaker 2: more like Jesus, loving God and loving others. It's in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name that I pray. Amen James Chapter one, James,
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  Speaker 2: the Servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: to the twelve tribes scattered among the nations, Greetings, consider
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  Speaker 2: it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face
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  Speaker 2: trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing
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  Speaker 2: of your faith produces perseverance, Let perseverance finish its work
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  Speaker 2: so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
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  Speaker 2: If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,
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  Speaker 2: who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it
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  Speaker 2: will be given to you.
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  Speaker 3: But when you.
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  Speaker 2: Ask, you must believe and not doubt. Because the one
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  Speaker 2: who doubts is like a wave of the sea blown
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  Speaker 2: and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect
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  Speaker 2: to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is
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  Speaker 2: double minded and unstable in all they do. Believers in
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  Speaker 2: humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position,
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  Speaker 2: but the rich should take pride in their humiliation, since
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  Speaker 2: they will pass away like a wild flower, for the
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  Speaker 2: sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant, its
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  Speaker 2: blossom falls, and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way,
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  Speaker 2: the rich will fade away even while they go about
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  Speaker 2: their business. Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial,
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  Speaker 2: because having stood the test, that person will receive the
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  Speaker 2: crown of life that the Lord has promised.
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  Speaker 3: To those who love him.
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  Speaker 2: When tempted, no one should say God is tempting me,
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  Speaker 2: for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he
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  Speaker 2: tempt anyone. But each person is tempted when they are
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  Speaker 2: dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then,
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  Speaker 2: after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and sin,
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  Speaker 2: when it is full grown, gives birth to death. Don't
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  Speaker 2: be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and
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  Speaker 2: perfect gift from above, coming down from the Father of
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  Speaker 2: the heavenly lights, who does not change.
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  Speaker 3: Like shifting shadows.
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  Speaker 2: He chose to give us birth through the Word of truth,
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  Speaker 2: that we may be a kind of first fruits of
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  Speaker 2: all he created. My dear brothers and sisters, take note
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  Speaker 2: of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak,
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  Speaker 2: and slow to become angry, because human anger does not
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  Speaker 2: produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of
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  Speaker 2: all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent,
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  Speaker 2: and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can
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  Speaker 2: save you. Do not merely listen to the word and
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  Speaker 2: so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens
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  Speaker 2: to the word but does not do what it says
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  Speaker 2: is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror,
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  Speaker 2: and after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets
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  Speaker 2: what he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the
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  Speaker 2: perfect law that gives freedom and continues in it, not
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  Speaker 2: forgetting what they have heard, but doing it, they will
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  Speaker 2: be blessed in what they do. Those who consider themselves
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  Speaker 2: religious and yet do not keep tight rein on their
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  Speaker 2: tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. Religion that God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father accepts as pure and faultless as this. To
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  Speaker 2: look at orphans and widows in their distress, and to
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  Speaker 2: keep oneself from being polluted by the world James, Chapter two.
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  Speaker 2: My brothers and sisters believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: must not show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your
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  Speaker 2: meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a
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  Speaker 2: poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. If
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  Speaker 2: you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes
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  Speaker 2: and say here's a good seat for you, but say
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  Speaker 2: to the poor man, you stand there or sit on
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  Speaker 2: the floor by my feet? Have you not discriminated among
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  Speaker 2: yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my dear
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen those who are
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  Speaker 2: poor in the eyes of the world to be rich
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  Speaker 2: in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those
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  Speaker 2: who love him. But you have dishonor the poor. Is
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  Speaker 2: it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they
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  Speaker 2: not the ones who are dragging you into court? Are
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  Speaker 2: they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name
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  Speaker 2: of Him to whom you belong. If you really keep
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  Speaker 2: the royal law found in scripture, love your neighbor as yourself,
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  Speaker 2: you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you
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  Speaker 2: sin and are convicted by the.
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  Speaker 3: Law as lawbreakers.
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  Speaker 2: For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at
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  Speaker 2: just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.
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  Speaker 2: For he who said you shall not commit adultery also
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  Speaker 2: said you shall not murder. If you do not commit adultery,
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  Speaker 2: but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. Speak
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  Speaker 2: and act as those who are going to be judged
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  Speaker 2: by the law that gives freedom. Because judgment without mercy
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  Speaker 2: will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful
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  Speaker 2: triumphs over judgment. What good is it, my brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: If someone claims to have faith but has no deeds,
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  Speaker 2: can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a
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  Speaker 2: sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of
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  Speaker 2: you says to them, go in peace, keep warm and
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  Speaker 2: well fed, but does nothing about their physical needs, what
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  Speaker 2: good is it? In the same way, faith by itself,
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  Speaker 2: if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But
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  Speaker 2: someone will say you have faith, I have deeds. Show
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  Speaker 2: me your faith without deeds, and I will show you
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  Speaker 2: my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is
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  Speaker 2: one God good. Even the demons believe that. And shudder,
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  Speaker 2: you foolish person. Do you want evidence that faith without
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  Speaker 2: deeds is useless? Was not our father Abraham considered righteous
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  Speaker 2: for what he did? When he offered his son Isaac
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  Speaker 2: on the altar. You see that his faith and his
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  Speaker 2: actions were working together, and his faith was made complete
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  Speaker 2: by what he did, and the scripture was fulfilled. That
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  Speaker 2: says Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him
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  Speaker 2: as righteousness, and he was called God's friend. You see
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  Speaker 2: that a person is considered righteous by what they do,
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  Speaker 2: and not by faith alone.
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  Speaker 3: In the same way, was not.
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  Speaker 2: Even rehab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did
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  Speaker 2: when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them
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  Speaker 2: off in a different direction. As the body without the
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  Speaker 2: spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. James,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three. Not many of you should become teachers, my
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  Speaker 2: fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will
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  Speaker 2: be judged more strictly. We all stumbled in many ways.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone who is never at fault in what they say
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  Speaker 2: is perfect able to keep their whole body in check.
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  Speaker 2: When we put bits into the mouths of horses to
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  Speaker 2: make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal.
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  Speaker 2: Or take ships as an example. Although they are so
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  Speaker 2: large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered
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  Speaker 2: by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise,
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  Speaker 2: the tongue is a small part of the body, but
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  Speaker 2: it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is
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  Speaker 2: set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also
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  Speaker 2: is a fire, a world of evil among the parts
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  Speaker 2: of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the
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  Speaker 2: whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself
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  Speaker 2: set on fire by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles,
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  Speaker 2: and sea creatures are being tamed, and have been tamed
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  Speaker 2: by mankind. But no human being can tame the tongue.
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  Speaker 2: It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With
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  Speaker 2: the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with
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  Speaker 2: it we curse human beings who have been made in
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  Speaker 2: God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and
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  Speaker 2: cursing my brothers and sisters. This should not be. Can
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  Speaker 2: both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring,
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  Speaker 2: my brothers and sisters. Can a fig tree bear olives,
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  Speaker 2: or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring
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  Speaker 2: produce fresh water. Who is wise and understanding among you,
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  Speaker 2: Let them show it by their good life, by deeds
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  Speaker 2: done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
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  Speaker 3: But if you.
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  Speaker 2: Harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do
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  Speaker 2: not boast about it or deny the truth. Such wisdom
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  Speaker 2: does not come down from heaven, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
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  Speaker 2: For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you
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  Speaker 2: find disorder and every evil practice. But the wisdom that
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  Speaker 2: comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace loving.
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  Speaker 2: Consider it submissive, full of mercy and good fruit impartia
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  Speaker 2: and sincere peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest
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  Speaker 2: of righteousness James Chapter four. What causes fights and quarrels
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  Speaker 2: among you? Don't they come from your desires? That battle
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  Speaker 2: within you? You desire but do not have, So you kill.
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  Speaker 2: You covet but you cannot get what you want, so
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  Speaker 2: you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you
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  Speaker 2: do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive,
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  Speaker 2: because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend
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  Speaker 2: what you get on your pleasures.
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  Speaker 3: You are dulterous people.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity
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  Speaker 2: against God. Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend
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  Speaker 2: of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do
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  Speaker 2: you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs
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  Speaker 2: for the spirit. He has cause to dwell in us,
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  Speaker 2: but he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture
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  Speaker 2: says God opposes the proud, but shows favor to the humble.
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  Speaker 2: Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil and he
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  Speaker 2: will flee from you. Come near God, and he will
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  Speaker 2: come near to you. Wash your hands, you say, and
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  Speaker 2: purify your hearts. You double minded, grieve, mourn and wail.
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  Speaker 2: Change your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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  Speaker 2: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who
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  Speaker 2: speaks against a brother or sister or judges them, speaks
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  Speaker 2: against the law and judges it. When you judge the law,
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  Speaker 2: you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
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  Speaker 2: There is only one lawgiver and judge, the one who
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  Speaker 2: is able to save and destroy. Or do you who
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  Speaker 2: are you to judge your neighbor? Now listen, you will
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  Speaker 2: say today or tomorrow we will go to this or
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  Speaker 2: that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and
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  Speaker 2: make money. Why do you not even know what will
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  Speaker 2: happen tomorrow? What is your life? You are a mist
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  Speaker 2: that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: you ought to say, if it is the Lord's will,
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  Speaker 2: we will live and do this for that as it is,
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  Speaker 2: you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone then knows the good they ought to do
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  Speaker 2: and doesn't do it, it is sent for them. James
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  Speaker 2: Chapter five. Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail
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  Speaker 2: because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth
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  Speaker 2: has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold
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  Speaker 2: and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you
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  Speaker 2: and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded.
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  Speaker 3: Wealth in the last days.
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  Speaker 2: Look the wages you failed to pay. The work who
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  Speaker 2: mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries
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  Speaker 2: of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.
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  Speaker 2: You have lived on earth and luxury and self indulgence.
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  Speaker 2: You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You
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  Speaker 2: have condemned and murdered the innocent one who was not
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  Speaker 2: opposing you. Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the
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  Speaker 2: Lord's coming.
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  Speaker 3: See how the farmer.
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  Speaker 2: Waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently
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  Speaker 2: waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be
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  Speaker 2: patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near.
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  Speaker 2: Don't grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you
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  Speaker 2: will be judged. The judge is standing at the door,
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters. As an example of patience in the
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  Speaker 2: face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the
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  Speaker 2: name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: As you know, we count as.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's perseverance,
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  Speaker 2: and have seen what the Lord finally brought about. The
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  Speaker 2: Lord is full of compassion and mercy above all, my
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. Do not swear, not by heaven or
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  Speaker 2: by earth, or by anything else. All you need to
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  Speaker 2: say is a simple yes or no, otherwise you will
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  Speaker 2: be condemned. Is any one among you in trouble, let
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  Speaker 2: them pray? Is anyone happy? Let them sing songs of praise?
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  Speaker 2: Is any one among you sick? Let them call the
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  Speaker 2: elders of the church to pray over them and anoint
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  Speaker 2: them with oil in the name of the Lord, and
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  Speaker 2: the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well.
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  Speaker 3: The Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned,
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  Speaker 3: they will be forgiven.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore, confess your sinds to each other and pray for
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  Speaker 2: each other, so that you may be healed. The prayer
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  Speaker 2: of a righteous person is powerful, and of Elijah was
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  Speaker 2: a human being even as we are. He prayed earnestly
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  Speaker 2: that it would not rain, and it did not rain
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  Speaker 2: on the land for three and a half years. Again
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  Speaker 2: he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth
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  Speaker 2: produced its crops. My brothers and sisters, if one of
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  Speaker 2: you should wander from the truth, then someone should bring
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  Speaker 2: that person back. Remember this, whoever turns a sinner from
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  Speaker 2: the error of their way will save them from death
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  Speaker 2: and cover over a multitude of sins. Generous God, I
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  Speaker 2: offer this prayer and faith just like these scriptures instruct
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  Speaker 2: Let this prayer over your child be powerful and effective.
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  Speaker 2: I ask for wisdom for this child now that the
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  Speaker 2: words in the Book of James would bring fresh insight
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  Speaker 2: and to how to be fully devoted to You. Continue
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  Speaker 2: to guide them in their journey through trials and toward
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  Speaker 2: being more like your son, Jesus, I ask in faith
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  Speaker 2: that they would become truly wise by loving God and
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  Speaker 2: others like you have called them to do. Bless this
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  Speaker 2: child as they sleep tonight. James Chapter one, verse five says,
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  Speaker 2: if any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,
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  Speaker 2: who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it
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  Speaker 2: will be given to you. We know we lack your wisdom, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: so we ask you now for wisdom. You are generous.
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  Speaker 2: You do not condemn us God, but you freely give
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  Speaker 2: to us what we ask. Help us to be truly wise,
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  Speaker 2: to love fully. We do love you, God, Help us
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  Speaker 2: to love others more as we continue to abide in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Dear generous Father, Your word says that all we have
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  Speaker 2: to do is ask for wisdom, and you will give
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  Speaker 2: it to us. So we come before you now and
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  Speaker 2: ask for your wisdom. We set aside any doubt and
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  Speaker 2: trust fully in your power and generosity. Now on our own,
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  Speaker 2: we are broken. What you long to restore this child tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Make them whole fully in alignment with you. Take their
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  Speaker 2: burdens and replace them with a new perspective that the
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  Speaker 2: trials of this life are working to make us perfect.
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  Speaker 3: God, I pray that the truth.
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  Speaker 2: In these scriptures would speak to this child tonight. Let
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  Speaker 2: your spirit of generosity grow within them so that it
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  Speaker 2: would flow out into.
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  Speaker 3: The world around them.
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  Speaker 2: Continue to make them more like Jesus, loving God and
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  Speaker 2: loving others.
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  Speaker 3: It's in Jesus name that I pray.
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  Speaker 2: Amen James Chapter one, James, the Servant of God and
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord Jesus Christ. To the twelve tribes scattered
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  Speaker 2: among the nations, Greetings, consider it pure joy, my brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because
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  Speaker 2: you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
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  Speaker 2: Let perseverance finish its word, so that you may be
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  Speaker 2: mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you
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  Speaker 2: lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to
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  Speaker 2: all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
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  Speaker 2: But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt.
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  Speaker 2: Because the one who doubts is like a wave of
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  Speaker 2: the sea blown and tossed by the wind. That person
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  Speaker 2: should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such
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  Speaker 2: a person is double minded and unstable in all they do.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 2: Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their
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  Speaker 2: high position. But the rich should take pride in their humiliation,
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  Speaker 2: since they will pass away like a wild flower. For
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  Speaker 2: the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant,
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  Speaker 2: its blossom falls, and its beauty is destroyed. In the
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  Speaker 2: same way, the rich will fade away even while they
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  Speaker 2: go about their business. Now, blessed is the one who
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  Speaker 2: perseveres under trial, because having stood the test, that person
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  Speaker 2: will receive the crown of life that the Lord has
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  Speaker 2: promised to those who love him. When tempted, no one
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  Speaker 2: should say God is tempting me, for God cannot be
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  Speaker 2: tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone. But each
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  Speaker 2: person is tempted when they are dragged away by their
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  Speaker 2: own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived,
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  Speaker 2: it gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is
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  Speaker 2: full grown, gives birth to death. Don't be deceived, my
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  Speaker 2: dear brothers and sisters. Every good and perfect gift from above,
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  Speaker 2: coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who
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  Speaker 2: does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give
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  Speaker 2: us birth through the word of truth, that we may
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  Speaker 2: be a kind of first fruits of all He created
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  Speaker 2: my dear brothers and sisters, take note of this. Everyone
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  Speaker 2: should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow
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  Speaker 2: to become angry, because human anger does not produce the
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  Speaker 2: righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral
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  Speaker 2: filth and the evil that is so prevalent, and humbly
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  Speaker 2: accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
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  Speaker 2: Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves.
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  Speaker 2: Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word
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  Speaker 2: but does not do what it says, is like someone
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  Speaker 2: who looks at his face in a mirror, and, after
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  Speaker 2: looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he
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  Speaker 2: looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect law
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  Speaker 2: that gives freedom and continues in it, not forgetting what
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  Speaker 2: they have heard, but doing it, they will be blessed
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  Speaker 2: in what they do. Those who consider themselves religious and
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  Speaker 2: yet do not keep tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves,
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  Speaker 2: and their religion is worthless. Religion that God our Father
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  Speaker 2: accepts as pure and faultless as this. To look at
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  Speaker 2: orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself
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  Speaker 2: from being polluted by the world James, Chapter two. My
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: must not show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your
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  Speaker 2: meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a
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  Speaker 2: poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. If
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  Speaker 2: you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes
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  Speaker 2: and say, here's a good seat for you, but say
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  Speaker 2: to the poor man you stand there or sit on
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  Speaker 2: the floor by my feet? Have you not discriminated among
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  Speaker 2: yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my dear
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen those who are
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  Speaker 2: poor or in the eyes of the world, to be
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  Speaker 2: rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised
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  Speaker 2: those who love him. But you have dishonored the poor.
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  Speaker 2: Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are
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  Speaker 2: they not the ones who are dragging you into court?
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  Speaker 2: Are they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble
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  Speaker 2: name of Him to whom you belong. If you really
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  Speaker 2: keep the royal law found in scripture, love your neighbor
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  Speaker 2: as yourself, you are doing right. But if you show favoritism,
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  Speaker 2: you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
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  Speaker 2: For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at
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  Speaker 2: just one point is guilty of breaking.
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  Speaker 3: All of it.
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  Speaker 2: For he who said you shall not commit adultery also
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  Speaker 2: said you shall not murder. If you do not commit adultery,
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  Speaker 2: but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. Speak
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  Speaker 2: and act as those who are going to be judged
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  Speaker 2: by the law that gives freedom. Because judgment without mercy
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  Speaker 2: will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.
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  Speaker 2: Mercy triumphs over judgment. What good is it, my brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, If someone claims to have faith but has
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  Speaker 2: no deeds, can such faith save them? Suppose a brother
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  Speaker 2: or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If
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  Speaker 2: one of you says to them, go in peace, keep
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  Speaker 2: warm and well fed, but does nothing about their physical needs,
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  Speaker 2: what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself,
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  Speaker 2: if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But
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  Speaker 2: someone will say you have faith, I have deeds. Show
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  Speaker 2: me your faith without deeds, and I will show you
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  Speaker 2: my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is
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  Speaker 2: one God good. Even the demons believe that, and shudder.
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  Speaker 2: You foolish person. Do you want evidence that faith without
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  Speaker 2: deeds is useless? Was not our father Abraham considered righteous
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  Speaker 2: for what he did when he offered his son Isaac
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  Speaker 2: on the altar. You see that his faith and his
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  Speaker 2: actions were working together, and his faith was made complete
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  Speaker 2: by what he did, and the scripture was fulfilled that
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  Speaker 2: says Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him
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  Speaker 2: as righteousness, and he was called God's friend. You see
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  Speaker 2: that a person is considered righteous by what they do,
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  Speaker 2: and not by faith alone. In the same way, was
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  Speaker 2: not even Rahab the prostitute, considered righteous for what she
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  Speaker 2: did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent
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  Speaker 2: them off in a different direction. As the body without
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  Speaker 2: the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. James,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter three. Not many of you should become teachers, my
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  Speaker 2: fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will
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  Speaker 2: be judged more strictly. We all stumbled in many ways.
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  Speaker 2: Any One who is never at fault in what they
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  Speaker 2: say is perfect able to keep their whole body in check.
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  Speaker 2: When we put bits into the mouths of horses to
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  Speaker 2: make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal
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  Speaker 2: or take ships as an example. Although they are so
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  Speaker 2: large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered
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  Speaker 2: by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise,
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  Speaker 2: the tongue is a small part of the body, but
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  Speaker 2: it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is
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  Speaker 2: set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also
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  Speaker 2: is a fire, a world of evil among the parts
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  Speaker 2: of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the
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  Speaker 2: whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself
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  Speaker 2: set on fire by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles,
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  Speaker 2: and sea creatures are being tamed, and have been tamed
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  Speaker 2: by mankind. But no human being can tame the tongue.
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  Speaker 2: It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With
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  Speaker 2: the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with
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  Speaker 2: it we curse human beings who have been made in
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  Speaker 2: God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and
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  Speaker 2: cursing my brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 3: This should not be.
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  Speaker 2: Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the
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  Speaker 2: same spring, my brothers and sisters. Can a fig tree
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  Speaker 2: bear olives or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a
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  Speaker 2: salt spring produce fresh water. Who is wise and understanding
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  Speaker 2: among you, let them show it by their good life,
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  Speaker 2: by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 2: But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 2: your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 2: Such wisdom does not come down from heaven. What is
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 2: earthly unspiritual demonic? For where you have envy and selfish ambition,
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 2: there you find disorder and every evil practice. But the
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  Speaker 2: wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure,
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  Speaker 2: then peace loving. Consider it submissive, full of mercy and
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  Speaker 2: good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who so in peace
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  Speaker 2: reap a harvest of righteousness. James, Chapter four. What causes
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  Speaker 2: fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires?
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  Speaker 2: That battle within you? You desire but do not have,
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  Speaker 2: So you kill. You covet but you cannot get what
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 2: you want, So you quarrel and fight. You do not
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  Speaker 2: have because you do not ask God. When you ask,
• 1:51:14
  Speaker 2: you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives,
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  Speaker 2: that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 3: You are dulterous people.
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 2: Don't you know that friendship with the world means inmity
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 2: against God. Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 2: of the world becomes an enemy of God.
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  Speaker 3: Or do you think.
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  Speaker 2: Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the
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  Speaker 2: spirit He has cause to dwell in us, but he
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 2: gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says God
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 2: opposes the proud, but shows favor to the humble. Submit
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 2: yourselves then to God. Resist the devil, and he will
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 2: flee from you. Come near God, and he will come
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  Speaker 2: near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify
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  Speaker 2: your hearts. You double minded, grieve, mourn and will change
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  Speaker 2: your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom. Humble
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  Speaker 2: yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who
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  Speaker 2: speaks against a brother or sister or judges them, speaks
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  Speaker 2: against the law and judges it. When you judge the law,
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  Speaker 2: you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
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  Speaker 2: There is only one lawgiver and judge, the one who
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  Speaker 2: is able to save and destroy. Or to you, who
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  Speaker 2: are you to judge your neighbor? Now Listen, you will say,
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  Speaker 2: today or tomorrow, we will go to this or that city,
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  Speaker 2: spend a year there, carry on business and make money.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you not even know what will happen tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: What is your life? You are a mist that appears
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  Speaker 2: for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought
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  Speaker 2: to say, if it is the Lord's will, we will
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  Speaker 2: live and do this for that as it is, you
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  Speaker 2: boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone then knows the good they ought to do
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  Speaker 2: and doesn't do it, it is sinned for them. James
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  Speaker 2: chapter five. Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail
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  Speaker 2: because of the misery that is coming on you. Your
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  Speaker 2: wealth has rotted, and months have eaten your clothes. Your
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  Speaker 2: gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against
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  Speaker 2: you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded
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  Speaker 2: wealth in the last days. Look the wages you failed
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  Speaker 2: to pay. The workers who mowede your fields are crying
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  Speaker 2: out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached
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  Speaker 2: the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on
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  Speaker 2: earth and luxury and self indulgence. You have fattened yourselves
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  Speaker 2: in the day of slaughter, you have condemned and murdered
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  Speaker 2: the innocent one who was not opposing you. Be patient, then,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, until the Lord's coming. See how the
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  Speaker 2: farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop,
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  Speaker 2: patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too,
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  Speaker 2: be patient and stand firm because the Lord's coming is near.
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  Speaker 2: Don't grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you
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  Speaker 2: will be judged. The judge is standing at the door.
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters. As an example of patience in the
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  Speaker 2: face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the
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  Speaker 2: name of the Lord. As you know, we count as
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  Speaker 2: blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's
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  Speaker 2: perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord is full of compassion and mercy Above all,
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  Speaker 2: my brothers and sisters, do not swear, not by heaven
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  Speaker 2: or by earth, or by anything else. All you need
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  Speaker 2: to say is a simple yes or no, otherwise you
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  Speaker 2: will be condemned. Is anyone among you in trouble let
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  Speaker 2: them pray? Is anyone happy let them sing songs of praise?
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  Speaker 2: Is anyone among you sick, Let them call the elders
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  Speaker 2: of the church to pray over them and anoint them
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  Speaker 2: with oil in the name of the Lord. And the
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  Speaker 2: prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned,
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  Speaker 2: they will be forgiven. Therefore, confs, infest your's sins to
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  Speaker 2: each other, and pray for each other, so that you
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  Speaker 2: may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is
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  Speaker 2: powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being, even as
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  Speaker 2: we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain,
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  Speaker 2: and it did not rain on the land for three
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  Speaker 2: and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens
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  Speaker 2: gave rain, and the earth produced its crops. My brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth,
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  Speaker 2: then someone should bring that person back. Remember this, whoever
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  Speaker 2: turns a sinner from the error of their way will
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  Speaker 2: save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
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  Speaker 2: A generous God, I offer this prayer and faith, just
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  Speaker 2: like these scriptures instruct Let this prayer over your child
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  Speaker 2: be powerful and effective. I ask for wisdom for this child.
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  Speaker 2: Now that the words in the Book of James would
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  Speaker 2: bring fresh insight into how to be fully devoted to You.
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  Speaker 2: Continue to guide them in their journey through trials and
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  Speaker 2: toward being more like your son, Jesus. I ask in
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  Speaker 2: faith that they would become truly wise by loving God
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  Speaker 2: and others like you have called them to do. Bless
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  Speaker 2: this child as they sleep tonight. James Chapter one, verse
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  Speaker 2: five says, if any of you lacks wisdom, you should
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  Speaker 2: ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault,
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  Speaker 2: and it will be given to you. We know we
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  Speaker 2: lack your wisdom, Lord, so we ask you now for wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: You are generous. You do not condemn us God, but
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  Speaker 2: you freely give to us what we ask.
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  Speaker 3: Help us to be.
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  Speaker 2: Truly wise, to love fully. We do love you, God,
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  Speaker 2: Help us to love others more as we continue to
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  Speaker 2: abide in Christ. Dear generous Father, Your word says that
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  Speaker 2: all we have to do is ask for wisdom, and
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  Speaker 2: you will give it to us. So we come before
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  Speaker 2: you now and ask for your wisdom. We set aside
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  Speaker 2: any doubt and trust fully in your power and generosity.
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  Speaker 3: Now on our own. We are broken, But.
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  Speaker 2: You long to restore this child tonight. Make them whole
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  Speaker 2: fully in alignment with you, take their burdens and replace
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  Speaker 2: them with a new perspective that the trials of this
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  Speaker 2: life are working to make us perfect. God, I pray
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  Speaker 2: that the truth in these scriptures would speak to this
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  Speaker 2: child tonight. Let your spirit of generosity grow within them
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  Speaker 2: so that it would flow out into the world around them.
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  Speaker 2: Continue to make them more like Jesus, loving God and
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  Speaker 2: loving others. It's in Jesus name that I pray. Amen
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  Speaker 2: James Chapter one, James, the Servant of God and of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus Christ. To the twelve tribes scattered among
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  Speaker 2: the nations, Greetings, consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: whenever you face trial of many kinds, because you know
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  Speaker 2: that the testing of your faith produces perseverance, Let perseverance
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  Speaker 2: finish its work so that you may be mature and complete,
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  Speaker 2: not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you
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  Speaker 2: should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault,
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  Speaker 2: and it will be given to you. But when you ask,
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  Speaker 2: you must believe and not doubt. Because the one who
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  Speaker 2: doubts is like a wave of the sea blown and
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  Speaker 2: tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to
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  Speaker 2: receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double
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  Speaker 2: minded and unstable in all they do. Believers in humble
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  Speaker 2: circumstances ought to take pride in their high position, but
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  Speaker 2: the rich should take pride in their humiliation, since they
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  Speaker 2: will pass away like a wild flower. For the sun
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  Speaker 2: rises with scorching heat and withers the plant, its blossom
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  Speaker 2: fault and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way,
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  Speaker 2: the rich will fade away even while they go about
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  Speaker 2: their business. Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial,
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  Speaker 2: because having stood the test, that person will receive the
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  Speaker 2: crown of life that the Lord has promised to those
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  Speaker 2: who love him. When tempted, no one should say God
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  Speaker 2: is tempting me, for God cannot be tempted by evil,
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  Speaker 2: nor does he tempt anyone. But each person is tempted
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  Speaker 2: when they are dragged away by their own evil desire
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  Speaker 2: and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth
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  Speaker 2: to sin, and sin, when it is full grown, gives
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  Speaker 2: birth to death. Don't be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: Every good and perfect gift from above, coming down from
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  Speaker 2: the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change
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  Speaker 2: like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through
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  Speaker 2: the word truth, that we may be a kind of
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  Speaker 2: first fruits of all he created. My dear brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: take note of this. Everyone should be quick to listen,
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  Speaker 2: slow to speak, and slow to become angry, because human
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  Speaker 2: anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: get rid of all moral filth and the evil that
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  Speaker 2: is so prevalent, and humbly accept the word planted in you,
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  Speaker 2: which can save you. Do not merely listen to the
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  Speaker 2: word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone
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  Speaker 2: who listens to the word but does not do what
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  Speaker 2: it says is like someone who looks at his face
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  Speaker 2: in a mirror, and, after looking at himself, goes away
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  Speaker 2: and immediately forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks
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  Speaker 2: intently into the perfect law that gives freedom and continues
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  Speaker 2: in it, not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it,
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  Speaker 2: they will be blessed what they do. Those who consider
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  Speaker 2: themselves religious and yet do not keep tight rain on
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  Speaker 2: their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless. Religion
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  Speaker 2: that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless, as
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  Speaker 2: this to look at orphans and widows in their distress,
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  Speaker 2: and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter two. My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious
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  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus Christ, must not show favoritism. Suppose a man
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  Speaker 2: comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes,
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  Speaker 2: and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in.
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  Speaker 2: If you show special attention to the man wearing fine
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  Speaker 2: clothes and say, here's a good seat for you, But
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  Speaker 2: say to the poor man you stand there or sit
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  Speaker 2: on the floor by my feet? Have you not discriminated
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  Speaker 2: among yourselves? Become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my dear
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen those who are
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  Speaker 2: poor in the eyes of the world to be rich
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  Speaker 2: in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those
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  Speaker 2: who love him. But you have dishonored the poor. Is
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  Speaker 2: it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they
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  Speaker 2: not the ones who are dragging you into court? Are
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  Speaker 2: they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name
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  Speaker 2: of Him to whom you belong. If you really keep
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  Speaker 2: the royal law found in scripture, love your neighbor as yourself.
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  Speaker 2: You are doing right, But if you show favoritism, you
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  Speaker 2: sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers. For
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  Speaker 2: whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just
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  Speaker 2: one point is guilty of breaking all of it. For
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  Speaker 2: he who said you shall not commit adultery also said
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  Speaker 2: you shall not murder. If you do not commit adults
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  Speaker 2: but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. Speak
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  Speaker 2: and act as those who are going to be judged
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  Speaker 2: by the law that gives freedom. Because judgment without mercy
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  Speaker 2: will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.
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  Speaker 2: Mercy triumphs over judgment. What good is it, my brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, If someone claims to have faith but has
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  Speaker 2: no deeds, can such faith save them? Suppose a brother
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  Speaker 2: or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If
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  Speaker 2: one of you says to them, go in peace, keep
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  Speaker 2: warm and well fed, but does nothing about their physical needs,
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  Speaker 2: what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself,
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  Speaker 2: if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But
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  Speaker 2: someone will say you have faith, I have deeds. Show
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  Speaker 2: me your faith without deeds, and I will show you
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  Speaker 2: my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is
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  Speaker 2: one God good. Even the demons believe that. And shudder,
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  Speaker 2: you foolish person, do you want evidence that faith with
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  Speaker 2: our deeds is useless. Was not our father Abraham considered
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  Speaker 2: righteous for what he did when he offered his son
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  Speaker 2: Isaac on the altar. You see that his faith and
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  Speaker 2: his actions were working together, and his faith was made
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  Speaker 2: complete by what he did, and the scripture was fulfilled
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  Speaker 2: that says Abraham believed God, and it was credited to
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  Speaker 2: him as righteousness, and.
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  Speaker 3: He was called God's friend.
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  Speaker 2: You see that a person is considered righteous by what
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  Speaker 2: they do, and not by faith alone. In the same way,
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  Speaker 2: was not even Rahab, the prostitute, considered righteous for what
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  Speaker 2: she did when she gave lodging to the spies and
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  Speaker 2: sent them off in a different direction. As the body
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  Speaker 2: without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is
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  Speaker 2: dead James, Chapter three. Not many of you should become teachers,
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  Speaker 2: my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach
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  Speaker 2: will be judged more strictly. We all stumbled in many ways.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone who is never at fault in what they say
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  Speaker 2: is perfect able to keep their whole body in check.
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  Speaker 2: When we put bits into the mouths of horses to
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  Speaker 2: make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal.
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  Speaker 2: Or take ships as an example. Although they are so
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  Speaker 2: large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered
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  Speaker 2: by a very small rudder wherever the pilot.
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  Speaker 3: Wants to go.
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  Speaker 2: Likewise, the tongue is a small part of the body,
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  Speaker 2: but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest
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  Speaker 2: is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue
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  Speaker 2: also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts.
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  Speaker 3: Of the body.
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  Speaker 2: It corrupts the whole body, sets the whole course of
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  Speaker 2: one's life on fire, and is itself set on fire
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  Speaker 2: by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and sea
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  Speaker 2: creatures are being tamed, and have been tamed by mankind.
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  Speaker 2: But no human being can tame the tongue.
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  Speaker 3: It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
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  Speaker 2: With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and
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  Speaker 2: with it we curse human beings who have been made
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  Speaker 2: in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise
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  Speaker 2: and cursing my brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 3: This should not be.
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  Speaker 2: Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the
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  Speaker 2: same spring, My brothers and sisters. Can a fig tree
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  Speaker 2: bear olives, or a grape vine bear figs? Neither can
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  Speaker 2: assault spring produce fresh water. Who is wise and understanding
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  Speaker 2: among you? Let them show it by their good life,
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  Speaker 2: by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in
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  Speaker 2: your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Such wisdom does not come down from heaven, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
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  Speaker 2: For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you
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  Speaker 2: find disorder and every evil practice. But the wisdom that
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  Speaker 2: comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace loving.
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  Speaker 2: Consider it submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial
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  Speaker 2: and sincere. Peacemakers who so in peace reap a harvest
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  Speaker 2: of righteousness. James Chapter four. What causes fights and quarrels
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  Speaker 2: among you? Don't they come from your desires? That battle
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  Speaker 2: within you? You desire but do not have.
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  Speaker 3: So you kill.
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  Speaker 2: You covet but you cannot get what you want, So
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  Speaker 2: you quarrel and fight you do not have because you
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  Speaker 2: do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive,
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  Speaker 2: because you ask with wrong motives. That you may spend
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  Speaker 2: what you get on your pleasures. You are dulterous people.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you know that friendship with the world means enmity
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  Speaker 2: against God. Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend
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  Speaker 2: of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do
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  Speaker 2: you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs
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  Speaker 2: for the spirit. He has cause to dwell in us,
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  Speaker 2: but he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture
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  Speaker 2: says God opposes the proud, but shows favor to the humble.
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  Speaker 2: Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the devil and he
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  Speaker 2: will flee from you. Come near God, and he will
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  Speaker 2: come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and
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  Speaker 2: purify your hearts. You double minded, grieve, mourn and wail.
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  Speaker 2: Change your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
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  Speaker 2: Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
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  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who
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  Speaker 2: speaks against a brother or sister or judges them, speaks
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 2: against the law and judges it. When you judge the law,
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 2: you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 2: There is only one lawgiver and judge, the one who
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  Speaker 2: is able to save and destroy?
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  Speaker 3: Or to you?
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  Speaker 2: Who who are you to judge your neighbor? Now listen,
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  Speaker 2: you will say, today or tomorrow we will go to
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  Speaker 2: this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business,
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  Speaker 2: and make money. Why do you not even know what
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  Speaker 2: will happen tomorrow? What is your life? You are a
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  Speaker 2: mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: you ought to say, if it is the Lord's will,
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  Speaker 2: we will live and do this for that as it is.
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  Speaker 2: You boast in your arrogance schemes. All such boasting is evil.
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  Speaker 2: If anyone then knows the good they ought to do
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  Speaker 2: and doesn't do it, it is sinned for them.
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  Speaker 3: James Chapter five. Now listen, you rich.
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  Speaker 2: People, weep and will because of the misery that is
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  Speaker 2: coming on you. Your wealth has rooted, and months have
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  Speaker 2: eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their
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  Speaker 2: corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire.
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  Speaker 2: You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look the
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  Speaker 2: wages you failed to pay. The workers who mowed your
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  Speaker 2: fields are crying out against you. The cries of the
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  Speaker 2: harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You
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  Speaker 2: have lived on earth and luxury and self indulgence. You
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  Speaker 2: have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have
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  Speaker 2: condemned and murdered the innocent one who was not opposing you.
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  Speaker 2: Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord's coming.
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  Speaker 2: See how the farmer waits for the land to yield
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  Speaker 2: its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.
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  Speaker 2: You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's
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  Speaker 2: coming is near. Don't grumble against one another, brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: or you will be judged. The judge is standing at
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  Speaker 2: the door. Brothers and sisters. As an example of patience
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  Speaker 2: in the faith of suffering, take the prophets who spoke
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  Speaker 2: in the name of the Lord. As you know, we
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  Speaker 2: count as blessed those who have persevered. You have heard
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  Speaker 2: of Job's perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally
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  Speaker 2: brought about. The Lord is full of compassion and mercy
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  Speaker 2: above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear, not
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  Speaker 2: by heaven or by earth, or by anything else. All
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  Speaker 2: you need to say is a simple yes or no,
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  Speaker 2: otherwise you will be condemned. Is anyone among you in trouble,
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  Speaker 2: let them pray. Is anyone happy, let them sing songs
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  Speaker 2: of praise. Is anyone among you sick, let them call
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  Speaker 2: the elders of the church to pray over them and
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  Speaker 2: anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick
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  Speaker 2: person well. The Lord will raise them up. If they
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  Speaker 2: have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore, Confessor, sinds to
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  Speaker 2: each other and pray for each other, so that you
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  Speaker 2: may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is
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  Speaker 2: powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being, even as
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  Speaker 2: we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain,
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  Speaker 2: and it did not reign on the land for three
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  Speaker 2: and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens
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  Speaker 2: gave rain, and the earth produced its crops. My brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth,
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  Speaker 2: then someone should bring that person back. Remember this, whoever
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  Speaker 2: turns a sinner from the error of their way will
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  Speaker 2: save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
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  Speaker 2: A generous God, I offer this prayer and faith, just
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  Speaker 2: like these scriptures instruct Let this prayer over your child
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  Speaker 2: be powerful and effective. I ask for wisdom for this
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  Speaker 2: child now that the words in the Book of James
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  Speaker 2: would bring fresh insight into how to be fully devoted
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  Speaker 2: to You, continue to guide them in their journey through
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  Speaker 2: trials and toward being more like your son, Jesus. I
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 2: ask in faith that they would become truly wise by
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  Speaker 2: loving God and others like you have called them to do.
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  Speaker 2: Bless this child as they sleep tonight. James Chapter one,
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  Speaker 2: verse five says, if any of you lacks wisdom, you
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  Speaker 2: should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault,
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  Speaker 2: and it will be given to you. We know we
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  Speaker 2: lack your wisdom, Lord, so we ask you now for wisdom.
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  Speaker 3: You are generous.
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  Speaker 2: You do not condemn us God, but you freely give
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  Speaker 2: to us what we ask. Help us to be truly wise,
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  Speaker 2: to love fully. We do love you, God, Help us
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  Speaker 2: to love others more as we continue to abide in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Dear generous Father, Your word says that all we have
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  Speaker 2: to do is ask for wisdom, and you.
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  Speaker 3: Will give it to us.
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  Speaker 2: So we come before you now and ask for your wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: We set aside any doubt and trust fully and your
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  Speaker 2: power and generosity Now on our own. We are broken.
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  Speaker 2: What you long to restore this child tonight. Make them
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  Speaker 2: whole fully in alignment with you. Take their burdens and
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  Speaker 2: replace them with a new perspective that the trials of
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  Speaker 2: this life are working to make us perfect. God, I
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  Speaker 2: pray that the truth in these scriptures would speak to
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  Speaker 2: this child tonight. Let your spirit of generosity grow within
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  Speaker 2: them so that it would flow out.
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  Speaker 3: Into the world around them.
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  Speaker 2: Continue to make them more like Jesus, loving God and
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  Speaker 2: loving others. It's in Jesus' name that I pray. Amen
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  Speaker 2: James Chapter one, James, the Servant of God and of
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  Speaker 2: the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes scattered among
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  Speaker 2: the nations, Greetings, consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know
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  Speaker 2: that the testing of your faith produces perseverance, Let perseverance
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  Speaker 2: finish its work so that you may be mature and complete,
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  Speaker 2: not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you
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  Speaker 2: should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault,
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  Speaker 2: and it will be given to you. But when you ask,
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  Speaker 2: you must believe and not doubt, because the one who
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  Speaker 2: doubts is like a wave of the sea blown and
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  Speaker 2: tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to
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  Speaker 2: receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double
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  Speaker 2: minded and unstable in all they do. Believers in humble
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  Speaker 2: circumstances ought to take pride in their high position, But
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  Speaker 2: the rich should take pride in their humiliation, since they
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  Speaker 2: will pass away like a wild flower. For the sun
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  Speaker 2: rises with scorching heat and withers the plant, its blossom falls,
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  Speaker 2: and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the
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  Speaker 2: rich will fade away even while they go about their business.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial, because having
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  Speaker 2: stood the test, that person will receive the crown of
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  Speaker 2: life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
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  Speaker 2: When tempted, no one should say God is tempting me,
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  Speaker 2: for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he
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  Speaker 2: tempt anyone. But each person is tempted when they are
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  Speaker 2: dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then,
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  Speaker 2: after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and sin,
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  Speaker 2: when it is full grown, gives birth to death. Don't
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  Speaker 2: be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and
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  Speaker 2: perfect gift from above come down from the Father of
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  Speaker 2: the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
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  Speaker 2: He chose to give us birth through the Word of truth,
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  Speaker 2: that we may be a kind of first fruits of
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  Speaker 2: all he created. My dear brothers and sisters, take note
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  Speaker 2: of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak,
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  Speaker 2: and slow to become angry, because human anger does not
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  Speaker 2: produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of
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  Speaker 2: all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent,
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  Speaker 2: and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can
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  Speaker 2: save you. Do not merely listen to the word and
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  Speaker 2: so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens
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  Speaker 2: to the word but does not do what it says
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  Speaker 2: is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror, and,
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  Speaker 2: after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what
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  Speaker 2: he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect
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  Speaker 2: law that gives freedom and continues in it, not forgetting
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  Speaker 2: what they have heard, but doing it, they will be
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  Speaker 2: blessed in what they do. Those who consider themselves religious
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  Speaker 2: and yet do not keep tight rain on their tongues
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  Speaker 2: deceive themselves and their religion is worthless, religion that God
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  Speaker 2: our Father accepts as pure and faultless as this. To
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  Speaker 2: look at orphans and widows in their distress, and to
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  Speaker 2: keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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  Speaker 3: James, Chapter two.
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  Speaker 2: My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: must not show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your
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  Speaker 2: meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a
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  Speaker 2: poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in.
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  Speaker 3: If you show.
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  Speaker 2: Special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say,
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  Speaker 2: here's a good seat for you, But say to the
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  Speaker 2: poor man, you stand there or sit on the floor
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  Speaker 2: by my feet? Have you not discriminated among yourselves and
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  Speaker 2: become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my dear brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the
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  Speaker 2: eyes of the world to be rich in faith and
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  Speaker 2: to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him.
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  Speaker 2: But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the
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  Speaker 2: rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones
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  Speaker 2: who are dragging you into court? Are they not the
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  Speaker 2: ones who are blaspheming the noble name of him to
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  Speaker 2: whom you belong. If you really keep the royal law
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  Speaker 2: found in scripture, love your neighbor as yourself, you are
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  Speaker 2: doing right. But if you show favoritism, you sin and
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  Speaker 2: are convicted by the law as law breakers. For whoever
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  Speaker 2: keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one
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  Speaker 2: point is guilty of breaking all of it. For he
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  Speaker 2: who said you shall not commit adultery also said you
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  Speaker 2: shall not murder. If you do not commit adultery, but
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  Speaker 2: do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. Speak and
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  Speaker 2: act as those who are going to be judged by
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  Speaker 2: the law that gives freedom. Because judgment without mercy will
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  Speaker 2: be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy
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  Speaker 2: triumphs over judgment. What good is it, my brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: If someone claims to have faith but has no deeds,
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  Speaker 2: can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a
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  Speaker 2: sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of
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  Speaker 2: you says to them, go in peace, keep warm and
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  Speaker 2: well fed, but does nothing about their physical needs, what
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  Speaker 2: good is it? In the same way, faith by itself,
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  Speaker 2: if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
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  Speaker 3: But someone will say you have faith, I have deeds.
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  Speaker 2: Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show
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  Speaker 2: you my faith by my deeds.
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  Speaker 3: You believe that there.
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  Speaker 2: Is one God good. Even the demons believe that and shuddered, You,
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  Speaker 2: foolish person. Do you want evidence that faith without deeds
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  Speaker 2: is useless? Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for
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  Speaker 2: what he did when he offered his son Isaac on
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  Speaker 2: the altar. You see that his faith and his actions
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  Speaker 2: were working together, and his faith was made complete by
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  Speaker 2: what he did, and the scripture was fulfilled that says
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  Speaker 2: Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,
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  Speaker 2: and he was called God's friend. You see that a
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  Speaker 2: person is considered righteous by what they do, and not
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  Speaker 2: by faith alone. In the same way, was not even
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  Speaker 2: rehab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when
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  Speaker 2: she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off
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  Speaker 2: in a different direction. As the body without the spirit
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  Speaker 2: is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
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  Speaker 3: James, chapter three.
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  Speaker 2: Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers,
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  Speaker 2: because you know that we who teach will be judged
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  Speaker 2: more strictly. We all stumbled in many ways. Anyone who
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  Speaker 2: is never at fault in what they say is perfect
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  Speaker 2: able to keep their whole body in check. When we
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  Speaker 2: put bits into the mouths of horses to make them
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  Speaker 2: obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take
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  Speaker 2: ships as an example. Although they are so large and
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  Speaker 2: are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a
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  Speaker 2: very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise,
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  Speaker 2: the tongue is a small part of the body, but
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  Speaker 2: it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is
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  Speaker 2: set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also
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  Speaker 2: is a fire, a world of evil among the parts
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  Speaker 2: of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the
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  Speaker 2: whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself
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  Speaker 2: set on fire by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles,
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  Speaker 2: and sea creatures are being tamed, and have been tamed
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  Speaker 2: by mankind. But no human being can tame the tongue.
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  Speaker 2: It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With
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  Speaker 2: the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with
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  Speaker 2: it we curse human beings who have been made in
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  Speaker 2: God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and
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  Speaker 2: cursing my brothers and sisters, this should not be Can
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  Speaker 2: both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring,
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  Speaker 2: my brothers and sisters. Can a fig tree bear olives,
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  Speaker 2: or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring
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  Speaker 2: produce fresh water. Who is wise and understanding among you?
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  Speaker 2: Let them show it by their good life, by deeds
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  Speaker 2: done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if
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  Speaker 2: you harbor bitter, envy and selfish ambition in your hearts,
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  Speaker 2: do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such
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  Speaker 2: wisdom does not come down from heaven, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
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  Speaker 2: For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you
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  Speaker 2: find disorder and every evil practice. But the wisdom that
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  Speaker 2: comes from heaven is first of all pure, then peace loving.
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  Speaker 2: Consider it submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial
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  Speaker 2: and sincere Peacemakers who so in peace reap a harvest
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  Speaker 2: of righteousness James Chapter four. What causes fights and quarrels
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  Speaker 2: among you? Don't they come from your desires? That battle
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  Speaker 2: within you? You desire but do not have, so you
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  Speaker 2: kill you covet but you cannot get what you want,
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  Speaker 2: so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because
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  Speaker 2: you do not ask God. When you ask, you do
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  Speaker 2: not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you
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  Speaker 2: may spend what you get on your pleasures. You are
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  Speaker 2: dulterous people. Don't you know that friendship with the world
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  Speaker 2: means inmitty against God. Therefore, anyone who chooses to be
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  Speaker 2: a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
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  Speaker 2: Or do you think Scripture says without reason that He
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  Speaker 2: jealously longs for the spirit he has called to dwell
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  Speaker 2: in us, but he gives us more grace. That is
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  Speaker 2: why Scripture says God opposes the proud, but shows favor
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  Speaker 2: to the humble. Submit yourselves then to God. Resist the
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  Speaker 2: devil and he will flee from you. Come near God
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  Speaker 2: and he will come near to you. Wash your hands,
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  Speaker 2: you sinners, and purify your hearts. You double minded, grieve,
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  Speaker 2: mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your
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  Speaker 2: joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he
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  Speaker 2: will lift you up. Brothers and sisters, do not slander
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  Speaker 2: one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister
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  Speaker 2: or judges them, speaks against the law and judges it.
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  Speaker 2: When you judge the law, you are not keeping it,
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  Speaker 2: but sitting in judgment on it. There is only one
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  Speaker 2: lawgiver and judge, the one who is able to save
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  Speaker 2: and destroy? Or do you who are you to judge
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  Speaker 2: your neighbor? Now listen, you will say today or tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: we will go to this or that city, spend a
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  Speaker 2: year there, carry on business and make money. Why do
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  Speaker 2: you not even know what will happen tomorrow? What is
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  Speaker 2: your life? You are a mist that appears for a
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  Speaker 2: little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say,
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  Speaker 2: if it is the Lord's will, we will live and
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  Speaker 2: do this for that as it is you boast in
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  Speaker 2: your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. If anyone
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  Speaker 2: then knows the good they ought to do and doesn't
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  Speaker 2: do it, it is sent for them.
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  Speaker 3: James Chapter five. Now listen, you rich.
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  Speaker 2: People, weep and wail because of the misery that is
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  Speaker 2: coming on you. Your wealth has roted, and months have
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  Speaker 2: eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their
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  Speaker 2: corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire.
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  Speaker 2: You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look the
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  Speaker 2: wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your
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  Speaker 2: fields are crying out against you. The cries of the
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  Speaker 2: harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You
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  Speaker 2: have lived on earth and luxury and self indulgence. You
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  Speaker 2: have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have
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  Speaker 2: condemned and murdered the innocent one who was not opposing you.
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  Speaker 2: Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord's coming.
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  Speaker 2: See how the farmer waits for the land to yield
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  Speaker 2: its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains.
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  Speaker 2: You too, and stand firm because the Lord's coming is near.
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  Speaker 2: Don't grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 2: will be judged. The judge is standing at the door.
• 2:33:13
  Speaker 2: Brothers and sisters. As an example of patience in the
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 2: face of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 2: name of the Lord. As you know, we count as
• 2:33:22
  Speaker 2: blessed those who have persevered. You have heard of Job's
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  Speaker 2: perseverance and have seen what the Lord finally brought about.
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 2: The Lord is full of compassion and mercy. Above all,
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  Speaker 2: my brothers and sisters, do not swear, not by heaven
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  Speaker 2: or by earth, or by anything else. All you need
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  Speaker 2: to say is a simple yes or no, otherwise you
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  Speaker 2: will be condemned. Is anyone among you in trouble, let
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 2: them pray? Is anyone happy?
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  Speaker 3: Let them sing songs of praise. Is anyone among you sick?
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  Speaker 3: The call the.
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  Speaker 2: Elders of the church to pray over them and anoint
• 2:34:03
  Speaker 2: them with oil in the name of the Lord. And
• 2:34:06
  Speaker 2: the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well.
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 2: The Lord will raise them up. If they have sinned,
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 2: they will be forgiven. Therefore, Confessor, sinds to each other
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 2: and pray for each other, so that you may be healed.
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  Speaker 2: The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 2: Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 2: prayed earnestly that it would not reign, and it did
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  Speaker 2: not reign on the land for three and a half years.
• 2:34:37
  Speaker 2: Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the
• 2:34:41
  Speaker 2: earth produced its crops. My brothers and sisters, if one
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 2: of you should wander from the truth, then someone should
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 2: bring that person back. Remember this, whoever turns a sinner
• 2:34:54
  Speaker 2: from the error of their way will save them from
• 2:34:57
  Speaker 2: death and cover over a multitude of sins.
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  Speaker 3: A generous God.
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  Speaker 2: I offer this prayer and faith, just like these scriptures instructed.
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  Speaker 2: Let this prayer over your child be powerful and effective.
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  Speaker 2: I ask for wisdom for this child now that the
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  Speaker 2: words in the Book of James would bring fresh insight
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  Speaker 2: into how to be fully devoted to You. Continue to
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  Speaker 2: guide them in their journey through trials and toward being
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  Speaker 2: more like your son, Jesus. I ask in faith that
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  Speaker 2: they would become truly wise by loving God and others
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  Speaker 2: like you have called them to do. Bless this child
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  Speaker 2: as they sleep tonight. James Chapter one, verse five says,
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  Speaker 2: if any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,
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  Speaker 2: who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it
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  Speaker 2: will be given to you. We know we lack your wisdom, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: so we ask you now for wisdom.
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  Speaker 3: You are generous.
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  Speaker 2: You do not condemn us God, but you freely give
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  Speaker 2: to us what we ask. Help us to be truly wise,
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  Speaker 2: to love fully. We do love you, God. Help us
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  Speaker 2: to love others more as we continue to abide in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Dear generous Father, Your word says that all we have
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  Speaker 2: to do is ask for wisdom, and you will give
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  Speaker 2: it to us. So we come before you now and
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  Speaker 2: ask for your wisdom. We set aside any doubt and
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  Speaker 2: trust fully in your power and generosity. Now on our
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  Speaker 2: own we are broken. What you long to restore this
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  Speaker 2: child tonight? Make them whole fully in alignment with you.
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  Speaker 2: Take their burdens and replace them with a new perspective
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  Speaker 2: that the trials of this life are working to make
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  Speaker 2: us perfect. God, I pray that the truth in these
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  Speaker 2: scriptures would speak to this child tonight. Let your spirit
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  Speaker 2: of generosity grow within them so that it would flow
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  Speaker 2: out into the world around them. Continue to make them
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  Speaker 2: more like Jesus, loving God and loving others. It's in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name that I pray. Amen James Chapter one, James,
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  Speaker 2: the Servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: to the twelve tribes scattered among the nations, Greetings, consider
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  Speaker 2: it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face
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  Speaker 2: trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing
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  Speaker 2: of your faith produces perseverance, Let perseverance finish its work
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  Speaker 2: so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
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  Speaker 2: If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,
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  Speaker 2: who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it
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  Speaker 2: will be given to you.
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  Speaker 3: But when you ask.
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  Speaker 2: You must believe and not doubt, because the one who
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  Speaker 2: doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and
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  Speaker 2: tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to
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  Speaker 2: receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double
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  Speaker 2: minded and unstable in all they do. Believers and humble
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  Speaker 2: circumstances ought to take pride in their high position, But
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  Speaker 2: the rich should take pride in their humiliation, since they
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  Speaker 2: will pass away like a wild flower. For the sun
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  Speaker 2: rises with scorching heat and withers the plant, its blossom falls,
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  Speaker 2: and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the
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  Speaker 2: rich will fade away even while they go about their business.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial, because having
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  Speaker 2: stood the test, that person will receive the crown of
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  Speaker 2: life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
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  Speaker 2: When tempted, no one should say God is tempting me,
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  Speaker 2: for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he
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  Speaker 2: tempt anyone. But each person is tempted when they are
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  Speaker 2: dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then,
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  Speaker 2: after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and sin,
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  Speaker 2: when it is full grown, gives birth to death. Don't
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  Speaker 2: be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and
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  Speaker 2: perfect gift from above, coming down from the Father of
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  Speaker 2: the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
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  Speaker 2: He chose to give us birth through the Word of truth,
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  Speaker 2: that we may be a kind of first fruits of
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  Speaker 2: all he created. My dear brothers and sisters, take note
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  Speaker 2: of this. Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak,
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  Speaker 2: and slow to become angry, because human anger does not
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  Speaker 2: produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of
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  Speaker 2: all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent,
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  Speaker 2: and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can
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  Speaker 2: save you. Do not merely listen to the word and
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  Speaker 2: so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens
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  Speaker 2: to the word but does not do what it says
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  Speaker 2: is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror, and,
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  Speaker 2: after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what
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  Speaker 2: he looks like. But whoever looks intently into the perfect
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  Speaker 2: law that gives freedom and continues in it, not forgetting
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  Speaker 2: what they have heard, but doing it, they will be
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  Speaker 2: blessed in what they do. Those who consider themselves religious,
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  Speaker 2: and yet do not keep tight rain on their tongues,
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  Speaker 2: deceive themselves and their religion is worthless religion that God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father accepts as pure and faultless as this. To
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  Speaker 2: look at orphans and widows in their distress, and to
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  Speaker 2: keep oneself from being polluted by.
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  Speaker 3: The world James, Chapter two.
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  Speaker 2: My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: must not show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your
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  Speaker 2: meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a
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  Speaker 2: poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. If
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  Speaker 2: you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes
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  Speaker 2: and say, here's a good seat for you, but say
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  Speaker 2: to the poor man you stand there or sit on
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  Speaker 2: the floor by my feet? Have you not discriminated among
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  Speaker 2: yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? Listen, my dear
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen those who are
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  Speaker 2: poor in the eyes of the world to be rich
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  Speaker 2: in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those
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  Speaker 2: who love him. But you have dishonored the poor. Is
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  Speaker 2: it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they
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  Speaker 2: not the ones who are dragging you into court? Are
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  Speaker 2: they not the ones who are blaspheming the noble name
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  Speaker 2: of him to whom you belong. If you really keep
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  Speaker 2: the royal law found in scripture, love your neighbor as yourself,
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  Speaker 2: you are doing right. But if you show favoritism, you
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  Speaker 2: sin and are convicted by the law as laws. For
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  Speaker 2: whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just
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  Speaker 2: one point is guilty of breaking all of it. For
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  Speaker 2: he who said you shall not commit adultery also said
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  Speaker 2: you shall not murder. If you do not commit adultery,
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  Speaker 2: but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker. Speak
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  Speaker 2: and act as those who are going to be judged
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  Speaker 2: by the law that gives freedom. Because judgment without mercy
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  Speaker 2: will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful.
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  Speaker 2: Mercy triumphs over judgment. What good is it, my brothers
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  Speaker 2: and sisters, If someone claims to have faith but has
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  Speaker 2: no deeds, can such faith save them? Suppose a brother
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  Speaker 2: or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If
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  Speaker 2: one of you says to them, go in peace, keep
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  Speaker 2: warm and well fed, but does nothing about their physical needs,
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  Speaker 2: what good is in the same way faith by itself,
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  Speaker 2: if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But
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  Speaker 2: someone will say, you have faith, I have deeds. Show
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  Speaker 2: me your faith without deeds, and I will show you
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  Speaker 2: my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is
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  Speaker 2: one God good. Even the demons believe that. And shudder,
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  Speaker 2: you foolish person. Do you want evidence that faith without
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  Speaker 2: deeds is useless? Was not our father Abraham considered righteous
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  Speaker 2: for what he did when he offered his son Isaac
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  Speaker 2: on the altar. You see that his faith and his
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  Speaker 2: actions were working together, and his faith was made complete
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  Speaker 2: by what he did, and the scripture was fulfilled. That
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  Speaker 2: says Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him
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  Speaker 2: as righteousness, and he was called God's friend. You see
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  Speaker 2: that a person is considered righteous by what they do,
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  Speaker 2: and not by faith alone. In the same way, was
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  Speaker 2: not even rehab the prostitute considered righteous for what she
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  Speaker 2: did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent
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  Speaker 2: them off in a different direction. As the body without
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  Speaker 2: the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
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  Speaker 3: James, chapter three.
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  Speaker 2: Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers,
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  Speaker 2: because you know that we who teach will be judged
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  Speaker 2: more strictly. We all stumbled in many ways. Anyone who
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  Speaker 2: is never at fault in what they say is perfect
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  Speaker 2: able to keep their whole body in check. When we
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  Speaker 2: put bits into the mouths of horses to make them
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  Speaker 2: obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take
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  Speaker 2: ships as an example. Although they are so large and
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  Speaker 2: are driven by strong winds winds, they are steered by
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  Speaker 2: a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise,
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  Speaker 2: the tongue is a small part of the body, but
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  Speaker 2: it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is
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  Speaker 2: set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also
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  Speaker 2: is a fire, a world of evil among the parts
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  Speaker 2: of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the
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  Speaker 2: whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself
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  Speaker 2: set on fire by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles,
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  Speaker 2: and sea creatures are being tamed, and have been tamed
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  Speaker 2: by mankind. But no human being can tame the tongue.
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  Speaker 2: It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With
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  Speaker 2: the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with
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  Speaker 2: it we curse human beings who have been made in
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  Speaker 2: God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise, and
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  Speaker 2: my brothers and sisters, this should not be. Can both
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  Speaker 2: fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring,
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  Speaker 2: my brothers and sisters. Can a fig tree bear olives,
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  Speaker 2: or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring
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  Speaker 2: produce fresh water. Who is wise and understanding among you?
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  Speaker 2: Let them show it by their good life, by deeds
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  Speaker 2: done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if
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  Speaker 2: you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts,
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  Speaker 2: do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such
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  Speaker 2: wisdom does not come down from heaven. What is earthly
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  Speaker 2: unspiritual demonic? For where you have envy and selfish ambition,
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  Speaker 2: there you find disorder and every evil practice. But the
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  Speaker 2: wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure,
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  Speaker 2: then peace loving. Consider it submissive, full of mercy and
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  Speaker 2: good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who so in peace
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  Speaker 2: reap a harvest of righteousness James Chapter four. What causes
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  Speaker 2: fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires?
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  Speaker 2: That battle within you you desire but do not have,
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  Speaker 2: so you kill you covet, but you cannot get what
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  Speaker 2: you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not
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  Speaker 2: have because you do not ask God. When you ask,
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  Speaker 2: you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives,
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  Speaker 2: that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
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  Speaker 2: You are dulterous people. Don't you know that friendship with
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  Speaker 2: the world means admitting against God. Therefore, anyone who chooses
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  Speaker 2: to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy
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  Speaker 2: of God.
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  Speaker 3: Or do you think.
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  Speaker 2: Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit.
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  Speaker 2: He has cause to dwell in us, but he gives
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  Speaker 2: us more grace. That is why Scripture says God opposes
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  Speaker 2: the proud, but shows favor to the humble. Submit yourselves
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  Speaker 2: then to God. Resist the devil and he will flee
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  Speaker 2: from you. Come near God, and he will come near
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  Speaker 2: to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts.
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  Speaker 2: You double minded, grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter
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  Speaker 2: to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before
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  Speaker 2: the Lord, and he will lift you up. Brothers and sisters,
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  Speaker 2: do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a
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  Speaker 2: brother or sister, or judges them speaks against the law
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  Speaker 2: and judges it. When you judge the law, you are
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  Speaker 2: not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. There
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  Speaker 2: is only one lawgiver and judge, the one who is
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  Speaker 2: able to save and destroy?
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  Speaker 3: Or do you?
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  Speaker 2: Who are you to judge your neighbor? Now listen, you
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  Speaker 2: will say today or tomorrow, we will go to this
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  Speaker 2: or that city, spend a year there, carry on business
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  Speaker 2: and make money. Why do you not even know what
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  Speaker 2: will happen tomorrow? What is your life? You are a
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  Speaker 2: mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead,
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  Speaker 2: you ought to say, if it is the Lord's will,
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  Speaker 2: we will live and do this for that as it
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  Speaker 2: is you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting
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  Speaker 2: is evil. If anyone then knows the good they ought
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  Speaker 2: to do and doesn't do it, it is sinned for them.
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  Speaker 2: James Chapter five. Now listen, you rich people, weep and
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  Speaker 2: wail because of the misery that is.
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  Speaker 3: Coming on you.
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  Speaker 2: Your wealth has rotted, and months have eaten your clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify
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  Speaker 2: against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have
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  Speaker 2: hoarded wealth in the last days. Look the wages you
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  Speaker 2: failed to pay. The workers who mowed your fields are
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  Speaker 2: crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have
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  Speaker 2: reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived
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  Speaker 2: on earth and luxury and self indulgence. You have fattened
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  Speaker 2: yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and
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  Speaker 2: murdered the innocent one who is not opposing you. Be patient, then,
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  Speaker 2: brothers and sisters, until the Lord's coming. See how the
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  Speaker 2: farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop,
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  Speaker 2: patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too,
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  Speaker 2: be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near.
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  Speaker 2: Don't grumble against one another, brothers and sisters, or you
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  Speaker 2: will be judged. The judge is standing.
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  Speaker 3: At the door. Brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 2: As an example of patience in the face of suffering,
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  Speaker 2: take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: As you know, we count as blessed those who have persevered.
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  Speaker 2: You have heard of Job's perseverance and have seen what
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  Speaker 2: the Lord finally brought about. The Lord is full of
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  Speaker 2: compassion and mercy. Above all, my brothers and sisters, do
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  Speaker 2: not swear not by heaven or by earth, or by
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  Speaker 2: anything else. All you need to say is a simple
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  Speaker 2: yes or no, otherwise you will be condemned. Is any
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  Speaker 2: one among you in trouble, let them pray. Is anyone happy,
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  Speaker 2: Let them sing songs of praise. Is anyone among you sick?
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  Speaker 2: Let them Call the elders of the church to pray
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  Speaker 2: over them and anoint them with oil in the name
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will
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  Speaker 2: make the sick person well.
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  Speaker 3: The Lord will raise them up.
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  Speaker 2: If they have sinned, they will be forgiven. Therefore, Confessor
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  Speaker 2: sinds to each other and pray for each other, so
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  Speaker 2: that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous
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  Speaker 2: person is powerful and effective. Elijah was a human being,
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  Speaker 2: even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would
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  Speaker 2: not rain, and it did not reign on the land
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  Speaker 2: for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and
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  Speaker 2: the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.
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  Speaker 2: My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander
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  Speaker 2: from the truth, then someone should bring that person back.
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  Speaker 2: Remember this, whoever turns a sinner from the error of
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  Speaker 2: their way will save them from death and cover over
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  Speaker 2: a multitude of sense.
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  Speaker 3: Generous God.
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  Speaker 2: I offer this prayer and faith just like these scriptures
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  Speaker 2: instruct Let this prayer over your child be powerful and effective.
• 2:54:26
  Speaker 2: I ask for wisdom for this child now that the
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  Speaker 2: words in the Book of James would bring fresh insight
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  Speaker 2: into how to be fully devoted to You. Continue to
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  Speaker 2: guide them in their journey through trials and toward being
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  Speaker 2: more like your son, Jesus. I ask in faith that
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  Speaker 2: they would become truly wise by loving God and others
• 2:54:51
  Speaker 2: like you have called them to do. Bless this child
• 2:54:56
  Speaker 2: as they sleep tonight. James Chapter one, verse five says,
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  Speaker 2: if any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God,
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  Speaker 2: who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it
• 2:55:12
  Speaker 2: will be given to you. We know we lack your wisdom, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: so we ask you now for wisdom.
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  Speaker 3: You are generous.
• 2:55:26
  Speaker 2: You do not condemn us, God, but you freely give
• 2:55:31
  Speaker 2: to us what we ask. Help us to be truly wise,
• 2:55:37
  Speaker 2: to love fully. We do love you, God, Help us
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  Speaker 2: to love others more as we continue to abide in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like when I listen to the sleep meditations.
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  Speaker 3: That I have a friend next to me, the lovel