3AC Dr. Eric Walsh - Character Climb

james chapter 2 i'm going to read verses 21 to 23 was not abraham our father justified by works when he had offered isaac his son upon the altar see as thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect the scripture was fulfilled which saith abraham believed god and it was imputed unto him for righteousness and i like this last part church and he was called the friend of god and he was called the friend of god what an honor and privilege we have to be able to give back to um to the lord what he gives to us right ask that he may always bless his church his people and um that he always gives us this song in our heart that we may always always seek him and ask to be his servants [Music] lift up those make me today [Music] make me a servant [Applause] [Music] humbly [Music] make me make me a servant make me a servant today and may the prayer of my heart always [Music] me [Music] happy sabbath church it's good to be in the house of the lord on this sabbath day as we heard earlier there is a lot uh going on in the world and um i'll be honest with you it seems like this year is just uh one mess after another one and uh it's taken a toll on people i was off my morning walk and ran into one of our neighbors and um it's an older retired physician and he was really in a state of depression he said by now he is overwhelmed the year is taking its toll he said first it was coronavirus he said then it was riots he said the economy looks like it's going to crash he said and now i don't have any power and he was really in a state of depression and even the former first lady of the united states uh michelle obama uh made a statement this week that she's having low-grade depression the scriptures tell us that in the last days men's hearts will fail them for fear for looking after those things that are coming upon the world we're in a time when uh mental health i did like three talks zoom talks this week just about mental health one of them with a state senator from new york um around this issue and so we're gonna talk today a bit about what god is trying to do when these challenging times come i believe that one of the ways to stay healthy mentally in these times of trial is to remember that god has a purpose even in our difficulties um so we're gonna go our scripture reading is taken from the book of james the second chapter james chapter 2 i'm going to read verses 21 to 23 was not abraham our father justified by works when he had offered isaac his son upon the altar see as thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect the scripture was fulfilled which saith abraham believed god and it was imputed unto him for righteousness and i like this last part church and he was called the friend of god and he was called the friend of god our message this sabbath is entitled the character climb the character climb let us pray father god we thank you for this opportunity to to study your word lord once again i ask that you make me just a nail upon the wall a rusty sorry nail lord but upon that nail lord i ask that you hang a portrait of jesus christ eric walsh not be seen or heard instead father let us hear a word from the throne room of grace this is our prayer in jesus precious and holy name let the church say amen so we're gonna go to the book of genesis um hope you guys don't mind i'm gonna take off my jacket i figure if i can take off my mask up here i can probably take off my jacket um because i really want us to get into this word this is a very important thing in end times for us to understand genesis 15 starting at verse 1 the bible says and after these things the word of the lord came unto abram and in a vision saying fear not abram i am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward abraham was in a time abram was still abram here he wasn't abraham yet and he was in a time of perplexity and difficulty he was trying to find his way he had left his homeland and moved to a new place he was trusting god in many aspects of his life yet he was not seeing that god was blessing him as abraham began to wonder if god was really there the scripture in genesis 15 1 tells us that god gives abraham a promise that i want to lay as the foundation of our message today god lays the foundation by saying to abram and i want you to put your name where abram's name is he says fear not abram i am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward i hope you get that the next time you feel distressed as life is piling on you uh when you don't know what's going on on the job or at home when when things are difficult i want you to go back to genesis 15 1 and say fear not eric i am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward abraham said lord god will what will thou give me seeing i go childless and the steward of my house is this eleazar of damascus abram was upset because uh he had no children and the way that the it worked in those ancient times is if he didn't have children his inheritance would go to the children of uh the his caretaker or the manager of his house so abraham is perplexed he's developed all of this wealth and here he thinks he's going to have to turn it over there's also a spiritual component that abraham has no seed he nor sarah and and in that sarai at the time and in that it appears as if god is not in favor of them you've got to get this to everyone around as is as his cattle and his herds as his wealth are multiplied he can have he has no children and because of this it doesn't matter how much he has without an offspring it appears abram does not have god's blessing he said seeing i go childless and abram said behold to me thou has given no seed and lo one born in mine house is mine ear and of course this speaks to the fact that that uh he's worried that he's going to have to give everything he has over to uh eliezer verse 4 and behold the word of the lord came unto him saying that this shall not be thine air but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine ear he says listen abram you're talking foolishness i told you you're gonna have an air and the air is going to come from you it's not going to come from someone else verse 5 and he brought him forth abroad and said look now toward heaven i like this verse he brought him forth abroad and said look now toward heaven and tell the stars if you be able to number them and he said unto him so will your seed be did you get that abraham is sitting soaking wondering if god is going to give him a child all right i'm missing this thing and god takes abram outside out from his tent out from his place of of depression or his place of discouragement and the god of the universe points to the stars that god created and he says to abram you've got to get this abram your you will have children your offspring your seed will be like the stars in their numbers now you got to get this abraham abram still now and sarah are not young at this point the years of fertility have basically passed them a promise like this in the rational logical biological physiological obstetric mind is a a a non-starter you don't miss this for abram to be upset it was because uh a year after year uh attempt after attempt for them to have children had come and gone and they realized now that the opportunity from man's vantage point had dissipated but god says don't worry you're not just going to have a child you're going to have numberless children i want to submit to you that for some of us this is what happens in life we allow what appears to be reality to form our faith y'all missing this thing sometimes what we do is we allow our circumstances to determine how much we believe or how well we believe or how completely we believe we that when we look out of our window and see the conditions around us when we see uh the plight that our life is in uh maybe the the the uh um the condition of marriage is in or or or or the separation a child has from uh the religious upbringing that they've had we look at those circumstances and logic takes the place of faith god never asks you to figure out by your own calculation the possibilities he has for you god always says trust me and i will deliver the possibilities he says so shall thy seed be verse 15 chapter 15 and verse 6 is one of the most important scriptures in all of the bible if you're a christian it says and he believed in the lord and he counted it to him for righteousness god said look i'm gonna take you outside you're gonna see the stars of the sky and as you can't number the stars remember they didn't have electric lights back then we didn't this week either somebody say amen some of us and so the scot that's the the sky was nice and dark the air was not polluted yet so abraham with his naked eye could see what many of us cannot see in the current world condition he saw all of those stars and although it seemed impossible my bible tells me in genesis 15 and verse 6 that abraham believed in the lord let me tell you something when your circumstances get ahead of you when life seems as if it is uh impossible i want you not to trust the outcome that god is gonna give you i want you to trust in the lord and he believed in the lord and he counted it to him for righteousness now the story of abram is the story that says abram was not righteous yet y'all missing this thing abram was about to make blunder after blunder mistake after mistake he would commit sin after sin yet when he trusted god at the beginning of his life and really he wasn't the beginning of his life but at the beginning of of the the start of of his story my bible test tells me god gave him credit he credited him righteousness up front that abram wouldn't show for years this is why i'm a christian i'm a christian because when i believe in the lord as genesis 15 6 says when i believe in the lord i am credited with righteousness that i have not shown yet how could the thief on the cross be promised that day and he would be with paradise in christ later on he had no time to show righteousness but it was credited to him because he believed in the lord jesus christ on that cross let me tell you something do not walk around feeling you are unsaved somehow god is not on your side that you are so far from him because the truth of the matter is your righteousness if it is of yourself as isaiah says your righteousness is as filthy rags it must be the righteousness credited to you by jesus christ it must be a righteousness that you have not earned abram was given righteousness that he would not for a long-term time show which ought to liberate you to understand that god is working for your salvation even before you have the good sense to act on it that's why the scripture says that while we were yet sinners christ died for us so abraham's chronology 75 years old he left er but look at how he messes up here at 86 ishmael is born he was supposed to believe god in genesis chapter 15 yet later on sarah's faith wanes his faith wanes and he takes hagar as his wife and he bears a child ishmael who is not the child of promise it would be years 14 years according this 14 years more before isaac is born i want you to get this so he is credited with being righteous long before the promised child is born genesis 22 we jump forward in the story verse one and it came to pass after these things that god did tempt abraham and said unto him abraham and he said behold here i am now isaac is in his is in his teens abraham's promise has been fulfilled but he has made a mess in lying about sarah being his sister more than once in his life in taking hagar to be his wife and putting hagar away when in a cruel way i could go on and on abraham has not displayed what he was what he promised he would display when he saw the stars and believed so years later verse 2 and he said take you now thy son thine only son isaac isaac was not his only son but he was the only one that came by the promise he said take your son whom thou lovest and get into the land of moriah and offer him therefore a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which i will tell thee of sacrificing children was not a strange thing in the time of abram in the area where he lived there were many of the people around who passed their children the scripture says through the fire it was not an uncommon thing but the god of heaven never required such a thing this is one of the reasons the story is so interesting when i was in israel and i was studying jewish history one of the things that my professor told me uh as we were at the mount where this uh uh supposedly happened is that he said that to them they believe abraham was testing god as much as god was testing abraham now i believe god was testing abraham because that's what the bible tells me god was testing him he said to take your son go up to the mountain and offer him as a burnt offering where i tell thee of in verse three says and abram rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass and took his young men with him and isaac his son and claimed the wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went unto the place of which god had told him then on the third day abraham lifted up his eyes and he saw the place of far off and abraham said unto this young unto his young men abide here with the ass and i and the lad will go yonder and worship and come again to you he could not bear to have the young men see what was going to happen he travels for three days leaves them and he continues on when he sees the mountain where this is supposed to happen and abram took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it upon isaac his son isaac and abram had many times abraham had many times gone and worshiped like this this wasn't strange to isaac what's strange is about to be said and he took the fire in his hand and a knife and they both went together as they're walking i want you to get this no they've done this many times but as they're walking isaac keeps looking around because something's missing and the bible says in verse 7 isaac spoke unto abraham's father and said my father he said here am i my son and he said behold the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for a burnt offering isaac says wait dad this seems a bit strange we've got everything we need to have worship but there's nothing to to sacrifice where's the lamb and again a powerful verse of scripture if you read it right genesis 22 8 says and abraham said my son god will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering so they went both of them together i heard a preacher preach this when i was a kid and and what what shocked me is when you take when you take this verse apart watch this and abraham said my son you can read the whole thing god will provide himself a lamb the five parts of that first part of the sentence god will provide himself a lamb but as you take off each part it says something about god god will provide himself god will provide god will this is telling you about the sacrifice that christ would make that god himself would one day step in to be the only son who would be sacrificed one day he would take this position and i can imagine on the road to emmaus as christ was giving instruction to those two disciples i can imagine this might have been one of the verses where he went to to show them that the old testament prophesied fully to the coming of jesus christ and to the work that he had to do in going to the cross god will provide himself a lamb that's who jesus is he's the one that god provided because you know who deserved to go on the altar we did our sins made it so that we deserve to be the ones who died not him he went in our stead and as the story shows chapter 20 chapters 22 and verse 9. and they came to the place which god had told him of and abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound isaac his son and laid him on the altar upon the wood and abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son can you imagine a strong young man his father is older but somehow there's not just faith in abraham don't miss this parents the faith is not just in abraham the faith is also in his son isaac does not put up a fight and push away his father and run for safety isaac is willing to go on the altar because isaac is also a man of faith and can you imagine as abraham tears streaming down his face as he takes the knife of the son who god promised him years earlier when he pointed to the stars raises the knife over his head ready to plunge it into his son abraham's journey was an incredible one it was a character climb it shows you this this little graph shows you his age the relative approximate ages of abraham he had faith he goes down and this sort of when he goes up it's trust when he goes down it's doubt and you can see all the time in egypt he doubted um when he got the covenant he was trustworthy but when he had ishmael he wasn't he came up here uh the covenant of circumcision he trusted but then he laughed at god and and some of what would happen uh the blessing and then abimelech and then isaac is born and then mount moriah he goes up and i want to submit to you that god is asking each one of us to have a character climb did you get that i don't care where you've been i don't care how many mistakes you make abraham is called the father of the faithful yet when you look at his life he made countless mistakes he erred many times he fumbled the football on more than one occasion yet in the final analysis we find abram abraham completely obedient knife in hand over his own son abraham's character was developed how was it developed through the very trials abraham had to endure are you getting this i want you to understand that this coronavirus as terrible as this thing has been has been an opportunity for many of us to reflect on where we are with god you see when jesus comes back this is why character is so important he's not coming back for you because you have the best skin on earth you're not coming back because you've got the best hair on earth you're not coming back because you've figured out how to chisel your physique the right way so he's going to pick you when he comes back he will look past what man looks at as he said to samuel in dealing with with the choosing of saul uh uh when he was looking for a king man he said looks at the outward appearance but god looks at the heart when christ comes riding on a horse comes to collect his own he will look through our flesh and see our characters those who will be deemed worthy to return to glory with him will be those whose characters look like his he will see a reflection of himself in each of those individuals peter says it like this he talks about the character climb and how you how you experience this character climb second peter one uh and verse one simon peter servant of an apostle of jesus christ to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of god and our savior jesus christ grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of god and jesus our lord according as his divine power have given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him that has called us to glory and virtue god has called you to glory and to virtue whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these by these bible promises that by these you be partakers of the divine nature did you hear that it is through bible promises that you can become a partaker in the divine nature that's what christ is looking for having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust then look at what peter does he gives you this road map to developing a character that looks like christ's verse five and besides this giving us all diligence so he starts off by saying um bible promises we're to escape the world through lust and he says beside this giving all diligence add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity did you see that that's the character climb you start with faith that's where abraham started and up to his faith he added virtue as he learned the lesson when he lied about sarah's relationship to him to that he added knowledge as he began to learn and know who god is so why bible study is so important because once you start to study god's word and the truths are revealed to you now you've got to add to what you've learned temperance or self-control so that you will live as god says live and because you're trying to develop temperance you're going to need some patience amen you're going to have to be able to wait on the lord the scripture says here is the patience of the saints to patience once you've learned to wait on god when you once you've learned not to run ahead of god once you've learned to let god show up in your situation uh patience you'll add godliness you begin to behave different function differently and then you'll have brotherly kindness you treat the people around you differently and then charity this is where abraham abraham landed he went through the stages and anytime you want to know or read and study the process peter gives it to us this is the character climb he says for if these things be in you and abound they make you that they they they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our lord jesus christ abraham was worried that he was barren with a child but let me tell you something what you ought to be worried about is are you barren are you not giving birth to the fruit of the spirit verse nine but he that lack of these things is blind cannot see afar off and have forgotten that he was purged from his old sins wherefore the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and your what and your election sure for if you do these things ye shall what ye shall never fall did you get that there's a process and it takes intention to be a christian that's why so many are going to fall off the road they won't be patient they won't wait on god and part of that sometimes because we beat folk up when they make mistakes let me tell you something i was on a on a call this week talking about um addiction and in the world of addiction one of the phrases that the addicts would say when i was doing addiction medicine one of the phrases they would say is that relapse is a part of recovery because every time you fail there's a lesson you ought to learn so that you don't fail that way again so yes you will make mistakes but if you take your falls you take your failures you take your mistakes to jesus christ let me tell you something he will teach you in that moment and develop your character you shall never fall this all happens of course in the frontal lobe i talk a lot about this this is the the part of your brain here um where all that happens this is where uh habits are developed we talked we've been talking a lot and someone talks recently about habits habits happen by repetition spirit of prophecy it is by a repetition of acts that habits are established and character is confirmed it's by a repetition of acts it's what you do regularly and we know that neuro anatomically i've shown this here before these bounce the french word for bounds these show up uh reference word for buttons and they show up this is a electromicrograph of it literally the neural anatomy of your brain changes as you develop a habit did you get that the very structure of your brain changes making it easier for you to do that thing over and over again and as the spirit of prophecy says it is by a repetition of acts that habits are established and character confirmed peter warns us as he talks about it why is that so important because it is in that frontal lobe where we reason come now let us reason together say of the lord though your sins be a scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool how do we reach the mark of perfection how do you develop the character of christ spirit of prophecy says this the mighty power of the holy spirit works an entire transformation in the character of the human agent making him a new creature in christ jesus when a man is filled with the spirit the more severely he is tested and tried the more clearly he proves that he is a representative of christ if you want a sign that you are not filled with the holy spirit look at how you believe behave when difficulties come we're trying to get a generator yesterday and and um in lowe's and let me tell you something it was pandemonium it was like black friday and you know for a second i thought you know i saw people claiming the one there was only about five left in the front people started claiming them and you know you you start thinking man you maybe maybe it's time for us to just you know maybe it's time to just get you know bring up bring back the old man for a second and go wild in here and get what i need and get out of here but if you're a christian even in the most tense situation you don't give people a piece of your mind because your mind belongs to christ you don't get angry when the situation seems out of control that is a sign that you are filled with the holy ghost if when you get mad you're quick to lash out at folk and get mad someone cut you off in traffic and you calling them everything but a child of god character's not developed she says we may talk of the blessings of the holy spirit but unless we prepare ourselves for its reception of what avail our our works are we striving with all our power to attain to the stature of men and women in christ are we seeking for his fullness ever pressing toward the mark set before us the perfection of his character let me tell you you don't just come to church just because god is good and he loves you you come to church because god is so good he has washed away your sin and wants to develop you into someone who abhors sin when the lord's people reach this mark they will be sealed in their foreheads filled with the spirit they will be complete in christ and the recording angel will declare it is finished hebrews says it like this hebrew 11 7 17 11 17 to 19 by faith abram abraham when he was tried offered up isaac and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son of whom it was said that in isaac shall thy seed be called accounting that god look at this accounting that god was able to raise him up even from the dead from whence also he received him in a figure the bible says that the reason don't miss this that abraham was able to take that knife and lift it up the way he did ready to plunge it into the chest of his son is that abraham had developed the kind of character when he looked at his son laying there he trusted god so much that he knew that if god wanted to go all the way through with it and a ram was not caught in the thicket abraham knew that isaac would be raised from the dead is that the faith you have do you have the kind of faith that when trial hits your life you're not afraid to go forward because you understand that god is your shield and your blessing that even if death occurs in what you thought god was planning for you the god of the universe has the ability to resurrect it to life genesis 22 11 and 12 says and the angel of the lord called unto him out of heaven and said abraham abraham and he said here am i and he said lay not thine hand upon the lad neither do thou anything unto him for now i know that you fear god seeing you have not withheld your son your only son from me god says okay abraham stop put the knife down i'm not a god that asks for you to sacrifice your children to me but now i understand that you truly trust me that you truly have made the character climb verse 13 and abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns and abraham went and took the arm the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son let me tell you something while abraham was coming toward that mountain when he left his two servants with the donkey as he traveled with isaac without something to to sacrifice some preachers said the ram was coming up this side of the mountain while abraham was coming up this side of the mountain i believe the ram was on the mountain waiting for abraham for days god was not asking abraham to do anything the the sacrifice was already there that's why we say jesus is the lamb slain from the foundation of the world it wasn't that jesus was willing to go to calvary when he made a decision in gethsemane that decision was made before the world began your salvation then has already been etched in the stone of time all you have to do is accept him and abraham called the name of that place jehovah jihad as it is said to this day in the mount of the lord it shall be seen it's the very spot where the temple would later be built isn't that powerful it is upon this spot that one day later christ himself would preach the lamb that was prophesied in this would one day stand on that spot and proclaim the gospel and the goodness and the kingdom of god being at hand one day on that same spot then abraham looked up and glanced around and behold behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns and abraham went and took the ram and offered him it up for a burnt offering um the amplified bible bible says an ascending sacrifice instead of his son so abraham named the place look at i like this how the amplified bible says this here the lord will provide and it is said to this day on the mountain of the lord it will be seen and provided i want to speak into what you might be going through on your job in your home uh in your health i want you to understand that god is still jehovah jireh he's still the one who sees and provides and the angel of the lord called unto abraham out of heaven the second time and said by myself have i sworn saith the lord for because thou hast done this thing and it's not withheld thy son thine only son that in blessing i will bless the blessing comes full circle started with the stars look at how it ends look at how god capstones this blessing that in blessing i will bless thee and in multiplying i will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven and the as the sand which is upon the seashore and thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies god says no you're not just going to have a whole lot of kids you're not just going to have uh regenerate generations they're going to be blessed and they will possess the gates of his enemy you know what god says to us that the gates of hell will not prevail against his church and thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voice lift him up page 66 just these last couple quotes that will be done shall those who might be elevated and ennobled fitted to be co-laborers with the greatest teacher the world ever knew be content to remain imperfect and incomplete in character producing disorder when they might become vessels of unto honor shall the bodies and souls of god's purchased inheritance be so hampered with world bound habits and unholy practices that they will never reflect the beauty of the character of him who has done all things well in order that imperfect man through the grace of christ might do all things well and here at last christ's benediction well done thou good and faithful servant enter thou into the joy of the lord of thy lord god calls upon us to reach the standard of perfection and places before us the example of christ's character in his humanity perfected by a life of constant resistance of evil the savior showed that through cooperation with divinity human beings may in this life attain to perfection of character that is god's assurance to us that we too may obtain complete victory before the believers held out the wonderful possibility of being like christ obedient to all the principles of the law but of himself man is utterly unable to reach this condition the holiness that god's word declares he must have before he can be saved is the result of the working of divine grace as he bows in submission to the disciplined and restraining influences of the spirit of truth man's obedience can be made perfect only by the incense of christ's righteousness which fills the divine fragrance uh every act of obedience spills with divine fragrance every act of obedience the part of the christian is to persevere in overcoming every fault constantly he is to pray to the savior to heal the disorders of his sin-sick soul he has not the wisdom or the strength to overcome these belong to the lord and he bestows them on those who in humiliation and contrition seek him for help jay our scripture reading again james 2 21-23 was not abraham our father justified by works when he had offered isaac his son upon the altar seest thou how faith wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect the scripture was fulfilled which says abraham believed god and it was imputed it was credited to him for righteousness and he was called the friend of god i don't know about you but this sabbath i want to be called god's friend i want to have a character like the character of christ and i know it is a tough and difficult struggle in a world that is so uh injected with evil on every side we have mass murders and kidnappings we hear of of of of man's uh inhumanity to man every day on the news speaks to to the debauchery and the loss of all moral uh sensibilities in the world if the christian is to follow the course of having the character of christ we must be insulated from this world by the spirit of the holy of the ho of our holy god in the holy spirit and by a knowledge of the truth not just an intellectual knowledge but a spiritual one that transforms our characters and helps us to be more and more like christ in closing i saw a patient this week who was really going through some hard times as well some family issues that were very terrible she was very sick english was not her first language and she was very frustrated trying to deal with all of what life was throwing at her but in her speaking to me she she made mention of a phrase she said something as simple as i just pray to god that this and this and this will work out it was as if the holy spirit said to me this woman is a christian you need to encourage her and i asked her what was going on and she told me and i began to expound to her a few of my favorite bible promises and i said to her something i've said to many patients in my career i said it is not an accident that you and i have come together today god has a word of hope and encouragement for you and i quoted to her second timothy chapter 1 and verse 7 for god has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind church let me tell you something people are in panic mode take them the security and confidence that comes in knowing jesus christ people are hungry for something to hope for now so i prayed it as our characters climb as we develop to be more and more like christ that along the way through brotherly kindness as peter says we share this with our neighbors our neighbor helped cut down the tree that damaged the fence here somehow we ought to find a way to share with him the good news of jesus christ because jesus is about to return and all of these struggles are about to be over and he is coming for a church without spot or blemish so we must complete the character climb let's pray father god we thank you for this opportunity to study your word lord there was a lot in that message but i pray father god that we walk away with the fact that one if we believe in you wholeheartedly and without any without any um turning the lord you will credit to us righteousness we don't deserve yet but then father god you won't leave us just believing as james says lord you will help us to not only have the faith but you'll have give us faith that works so that lord we will develop our characters and become more like you not of our own strength not of our own doing but by relying more and more on you jesus lord help your church the purpose of the church is the purification of its people lord god help us to be a church that is purified by the influence of the holy spirit on us collectively and on us individually for lord we want to go home where there are no more power outages no more pandemics no more riots no more uh racial struggles father god where there's no more war where we will study war no more prepare your people for that place is our prayer in jesus precious and holy name let the church say amen and amen hi my name is daryl i hope you enjoy the program today we'd like to offer you a free gift it's a book called path to peace do you have stress in your life do you have guilt 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