Dr. Frank E. Ray - Attitude Adjustment

James chapter 1 verse 1 2 & 3 would you read there with me James a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad greetings my brother and counted all joy when you fall into divers temptations knowing this that the trying of your faith worketh patience thank you so much kid somebody by the head and look at him and say neighbor we need an attitude adjustment an attitude adjustment said it again an attitude adjustment thank you I want to take these words in this text and go deep enough to deal with the original language and then I would bring it back up to our English language and help us understand it I don't want to get too deep but I don't want to be too shallow even it open with the Pens 'men of the text telling us who he is he give us his name his name is James he says that if though he is there only James in the Bible he does not put in a handle on his name he just says James doing research in the Bible there were at least three other James and there was one that was called James the less which was one of the original disciples and the Lord just mentioned his name and what you might call chronological order he says nothing about him give us nothing to do with his parents where he came from his background when he when he met the Lord he just says James then there's another James that you offer millia with he is the brother of John his mother's name was Salam his father's name was Zebedee he was also one of the twelve of that followed Jesus but he ran into Hera and lost his head one Easter Sunday morning but then there was another James that was the brother of Jesus when you see Jesus's biological family Jesus had four half-brothers and had some sisters James Joseph Judas and Simon were the Brothers of Jesus but when you look at that James on the surface their questions about him because when Jesus was alive he did not have any support from his siblings in other words his sisters nor his brothers so enough of him to follow him his mother followed him but not his siblings they actually thought that Jesus was a little off they believed that his lights was on but nobody was home if you allow them to tell it they would say his elevator didn't go all the way to the top in the language of our modern-day children and young teenagers they would say he was mentally challenged to the extent that one day they came where Jesus was teaching and they sent an usher in and said go in and tell Jesus his mother and brothers are outside they would like to see him and when Jesus received a message he asked who is my mother who are my brothers and then he answered his own question by saying my mother and brothers are the ones that do the wheel of my father they say AHA we know he's a little off if you notice you never saw any of them around Jesus doing all of his miracle-working all of his teaching they were never there that was what you call self-imposed ignorance that when teaching is going on and you don't show that self-imposed ignorance but the Lord saw the need a region the biological family of Jesus for in 1st Corinthians chapter 15 verse 7 after Jesus had made a pit-stop or personal appearance to several people maybe we call her Mary Magdalene her name was Mary she came from a town called Magdalene and we called her Mary Magdalene after you appeal to merit after your period to ten disciples on the lake of Tiberias after you peer to seven more disciples and after you appeared to five hundred brothers at once he went back and made a public appearance to James the brother of Jesus it was then that the brother of Jesus decided that he was going to be a part of the family of Jesus Christ it's it's believed that this is the James that Pindus tax he is actually the brother of Jesus James is so nute in his instructions until he does not say apostle james prophet Jiang Bishop James Archbishop James he doesn't put a handle at all he just say James and of course when you know who you are and know who you are you don't have to have titles to be identified and so he Miller said James and then he tell us who he was he said I am a serpent the Greek word for servant is the word Doulos in the Greek and where it come from the word meaning not just a slave but a bonds slave a bond slave is different from a regular slave a bond slave had the privilege every seven years to be set free master you have been kind to me you have blessed my home and my family and I want to be your willing slave and so the master the end would get an ice pick and put a hole in his ear and plays an earring that's found a Deuteronomy chapter 15 verse 17 he would place an earring in his ear and release him and everywhere he would go when once spotted the earring they knew that he had been a slave he chose to remain a willing slave the rest of his life I don't know why you wear earrings but it came from the Bible from a person being a slave and he chose not to be set free it's a James a servant and then he tell who he belonged to he said I am a servant of God now as say what you will of me we are slaves either of Satan or the Savior that what you like it or not we are slaves we were born slaves born in sin born in iniquity but because of who we belong to we've had the privilege of being free am i here by myself he is a slave a of God they are is the Greek word for God Elohim is the Hebrew word for God now God that is not his name that's just who he is his name is Yahweh Elohim else Shariah Jehovah Nissi jehova rapha jehova sholom jehova sit canoed that is his name but you can call him God if you can't remember none of the other names you can say hey God and God will respond to your request he said I am a servant of God and of the Lord kurios Jesus EA soos Christ Christos now if you notice he places all three of his names in James chapter 1 minute places when you read about Jesus you will read the text and Jesus spoke or in some places you would wait why's that thou are the Christ but in some place you would read ways there the Lord but here he places all three of his names together Lord Jesus Christ now you know sometimes when you buy something or you make an agreement they will tell you to put your first million Ischl and sign your last name some documentation they tell you sign your first name put your mill initial and then sign your last name but some documentation z' they're so important until they tell you sign your whole name and what James is saying that this matter of adjustment attitude adjustment is so important in the sight of God until Jesus uses his whole name he uses Lord because Lord is His divine name Jesus is his human name Christ is His Holy Office am i here by myself it's at Lord Jesus Christ and then it says who he is right into to the 12 tribes which are scattered now twelve tribes of Israel came actually from the twelve sons of Jacob and they were named Jacob's name was changed from Jacob to Israel after Jacob had messed up you see the name Jacob stand for trickster but the name Israel he'll stand for God will deliver somebody you need to know that God will deliver he is a delivery God ain't it good to know that God will change your name he will change your name from sinner to say that he will change your name from doubter to faith he will change you from darkness to the marvelous light God can and will change your name Israel were the twelve tribes but what happened was ten tribes split out from two tribes two tries went in one direction but ten the twelve ten tribes went in the other direction but in spite of their being scatter God still loved them all and they were scattered in the Greek is the apsara diaas is a preposition it means the so spur ah is a noun it means through he said listen I want you to note that I'm so in through and as quiet as it is Kip God is still in the sewing business you see you come to Salem and get saved and get indoctrinated into the Word of God and sometimes you move to other areas sometimes you go to California sometimes to New York sometimes to Atlanta or Orlando you go to different places but because you have been indoctrinated into the Word of God you care in the gospel wherever you go in other words you have been scattered for the betterment of the king you know that's why when you come and get filled with the word and indoctrinated in the gospel when you go to other places don't hide in the crowd if though you don't have the word you must take what you have use it at your work for us you need to let people know on your job that I know who Jesus is you need to let people know at your house I know who Jesus is you need to let people know in the street I know who Jesus is I may not look like much but I have been indoctrinated into the real Word of God talk to me somebody it's no accident that you have kept here in Salem now talk to me somebody because God want to fill you with the unsearchable riches of just the word the word is universal it is appealed reasonable in his teaching reliable in his frumble's doable in his conflict for region in his vision accurate in his prophesy simple in its application new and modern in its statesmanship but you have to read it to be wise you have to believe it to be saved you have to practice it to be holy it is a pilgrim staff a pilot's compass a Christians chariot there's a soldiers sword preached memory it said into the twelve tribes which are scattered scatter and then he says greetings greeted chaos is the Greek word for greetings the word greetings chaos mean to rejoice in other words he said in spite of being scattered in spite of being away from your home in spite of being away from your family in spite of things look at difficult to you now in spite of what you heard from your doctor in spite of what your job balls said to you in spite of what your loved ones has said about you in spite of all the difficulties that you go into he said you need an adjustment attitude he said rejoice in other words the word rejoice greetings men kick your heel look you know what don't walk around with a hung down head don't walk around if though you knew you had to frown all the time he said you need to know that whatever happened to you God either wills it or he allows it and you need to also know that he is still in control I've said it over and over and over again that there when people pass sometimes we get all bent out of shape why didn't my mother time why did my father die why did my sister brother that what I lose my husband my wife of Revelation 180 Jesus I'm he that liveth I was there but the whole I am Alive for evermore and then he said he made and then it come right back before he in diverse I had the key of death in my head here's what it means that the reason you are still here and your friend is gone because the Lord didn't turn the key on you or the health of HIPPA here it a because you've been so a hold it it's not the cause you're doing everything right it's not because you walk in the way of the Lord is because the Lord did turn the key it also means you can't die until he turns the key Adel to witness as it is not that's why you here this morning is because the Lord did turn the key on you you can be into health as a bool but if the Lord turned the key you gone and you can be sick enough until look like your last breath is your last breath but if the Lord don't turn the key you will get up and kick over backwards and walk down eyes I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus that's why I get up Ramona's a lot thank you for not turning the key oatmeal ass night then his head watch he use this personal pronoun man man brethren we got understand that this is a huge family I hear people say I'm in Memphis by myself I don't have any family that ain't quite right if you born again you sitting next to family members hmm you see if you're not careful your Christian family would be much closer to you than your biological family because sometime biological folk like to use you they like to ride in on what you got and if your ain't got nothing then go show up not everybody but some of them I was ahead of him but but but your Christian family if they know that you in need somebody is gonna be there it may not be the one you look for but somebody is gonna be right there and they will come and want nothing in return everybody help you don't want you to help them back they they want to just be a blessing to you because of the stuff there's on the inside and when you got the right stuff on the inside you ends your blessing your sister you enjoy blessing your grub and if you're running somebody don't bless you don't fall out with them the God didn't want them to do it God got some matter around the cone I don't suppose they right but rat around the corner that's waited to bless your life you said my brother in Greek retro brother end is out of fast they come from the word meaning from the same womb that means we are related by whoo you see we have been born into this fender mentioned in several times but there are five distinct verse in the Bible there's what you call the soil birth the surgical birth the sack birth saviors birth and the Saints of earth Genesis 274 men from the dust of the ground that's the soil earth and then after he made man he put him to sleep and perform surgery it is said that man had 14 reels if a woman came along and the Lord when a mean woman he could a man took one of his ribs and made well I won't go too far with that he he made woman out of that ribs a man once was in the hospital and he was pretty sick and his wife was sitting next to him and he he raised up he said that that you Lisbeth see you baby it's me Elizabeth I just aching we beg younger when I was in Veterans Hospital sick he would write there it's literate you know when the house burned down to the ground you right there see little bit you know when I lost my job I lost my car he was right there Elizabeth you know when I broke my leg come think about you was right there he takes a little bit ain't had nothing but bad luck ever since I met you see you she is that real that come from that's the surgical birth but whenever man impregnate a woman she Caribbean a sack that's called sack birth the Holy Spirit leaped up on me impregnated her and she brought forth Jesus that's the Savior's birth and the Holy Spirit brought us from darkness to the marvelous light give us new inspiration new aspirations start looking with new observations counted with new calculation that's the Saints birth and when we're born again we are knitted together to the spiritual birth that's why it shouldn't be so much turmoil in the Church of the Living God because we're family talk to me if you can we are let me say we're family yes just take a moment and shake somebody's hand and say you must sister you my brother just say you made a noise and we family we family we're family we're yeah we're family we're we're family we are yeah we will family and when family know you're family family just stick together you don't get it little Huddle's and top-down family members come on talk to me you don't rejoice when a family member is down you don't rejoice when a family members going through something because we are family when my family hurt I heard when my family rejoiced I rejoiced because we are family don't make no difference out you being Methodism that is a Presbyterian Church of God and Christ talk to me some manner you get to heaven you ain't you need going until my take me to the section where the Baptists are take me over there what a member that's all come on talk to me I want to go down the corner what church you gotten quite no no no it's either st. I and I'm in the same family am i doing all right piece of my brother in little use this other word count sit in your Bible okay am I in the Greek for the word count it comes from this idea of a spreadsheet it's banking terminology you know and banking terminology they give you when you get ready to make a loan you have to present a spreadsheet or your spreadsheet you put your asset on one side you place your liabilities on the other lemon talk you put your income or what side you put your expenditure on the other side sometimes we do that as Christians you know we sing a song that all of my good days are we my bad days so I won't complain not only you can do that it said it is because you've been counting your good days and you've been counting your bad days James said don't do that because we will put our sunshiny days over here I read it is over here our whale days over here our sick days over here the days we have friends we put over here the days we have enemies we put it over here days we got a little money we put in here days we're broke we put of it James said stop doing that he's attitude adjustment he's a counted Oh joke I know it's hard let's do that but watch this count a joy when I got some money well here count a joy when I'm broke whoever comes over here I'm no learn how God can take nothing it makes something out of it am I here by myself over here count in joy because I'm well but over here counted joy because I'm sick because it is here I'm gonna fan out that God is a doctor that never lost a patient am I here by myself counted you're over here because the sun is shining be counted jar over here because it's raining because i'm gonna discover that God can bless me install me well yolo hitman is that you see if you had all sunshine and never rain you would end up with a desert if you had all rain and no sunshine you went in up with a flu but what God does to us he give us a little sunshine he give us a little rain and you end up with a beautiful garden yo hey go hip it is him can you imagine how life would be if it was good all the time we got all these cliches we use oh how you do Oh bless the Lord I'm blessed and highly favored get away from me with it having away everyday no good day you will have some bad days if my Bible is right you gonna have some bad day now they're gonna let you have no everyday no good day you get besides yourself if they make good sense to have it good all the time because don't you know you get beside yourself and everything if every time you ask God for something he gave it to you I'm looking at some folk now you wish God had a setting out to you some day you saw that man oh lord please Lord please give him to be Lord not I can't pick it without it I won't even lord please please Lord give it to me las all right you can have it three months later lo what was wrong with you they tell you now but you kept begging me you can't bet I said no several time but you wouldn't stop enough to go I would be down your street in a moment you say count it hit me said count it Nidhi use the word Oh let me near many things that happen to you it's part of the whole if you just read this verse you ain't gonna be frowning no mo I see people sometime in the morning right along beside them mouth punch down like they mad at the world I ask myself what could have happened to make them that mad that early you got help and spread and you ain't walking you even in a car and a pretty car - and you frown them dr. clay ever and said you see folk with a loaf of bread under their own complaint it come on talk to me somebody I mean you ought to at least know that everything that happened to you that God did he did it for good count it Oh episode but preacher I get laid off last month counted old Joe preacher talk to me some at the doctor said don't look like I'm gonna get with count it all joy preacher my husband left me with children to raise by myself Karen all so I talked to him Reverend my wife took everything the head counted the talk to me somebody old Joe what's it counted oh joy hero hey Russ for joy k RS and k-rock are two systems Kira is the Greek word for grace k r s is the Greek word for joy they work hand and hand together for me to have joy I need to have already had experience with grace you do know about grace don't you that we have been saved by grace through faith unto good work I am saved in other words I am gripped with grace and the book of Romans say that God give us a measure of grace in other words that different measures of grace he give to different people at different times let me explain you see dr. Evans just finished singing a little while ago and with that melodious voice God gave him singing Greece Moses just finished playing that instrument and and you can't do it able to get jealous of it because God has given him musician of grace talk to me something Angie sometimes when a person is going through crisis God has given them crisis grace y'all don't have it here that's why some people can endure more than others because God had given them a measure of grace for the moment god no how much grace you need to help you make it through what you got to go through that's why you have to some rather said turn it over to Jesus he will yeah work it out and because he has given us a man of grace he threw in some joy that's why I don't have to walk with my head down because I know who I am I know what I am and I know whom I'm serving and the God that I serve he want me to hell joy he said listen even when I feel your cup I don't just put a measure in your cup he's I make your cup run over he's I don't just give you life he said when I give it to you I give you life more abundant less preach memory that's why the God I save talk to me somebody he want me to hell real Jonah that's a difference between joy and happiness we get a mixed up we say I just ain't happy well happiness is based upon what's happening yeah joy is based upon Jesus happiness is external but joy is internal happiness is temporal but joy is eternal you're here in other words you see what's happening in the pen who happen is dependent on what's happening for the moment that's why people come to church and leaves it ain't happen is because you looking at the external but when you have Joann only inside the house of hipping is it I heard Paul say you know I can be locked in prison and they can put me in the inner done yin and I can still have church he said because what I do is I just think myself happy am I here by myself you nobody here will just stop thinking and when you start thinking you started thinking talk to me sometimes before you knew it you were shouting all by yourself stop looking at the negative and start looking at the positive and start yeah yo ego hip here start looking at how good god has already been to you and y'all don't hit me that when you start looking at his goodness you can't help but the hell real joy know I am a witness sometimes some people are not tough enough some folk react to the same problem different ways put three containers on the podium fill all three with hot water put a egg in one put some vegetables in the other and put coffee in the other and all three will react different hot water will make the egg ha ha Dada will make the vegetables salt but hot water will send flavor from the coffee sometime when some folk go through stuff they get hard I'll be all right yes that was they get mean and hateful and lowdown because of what they're going through but some hot water they get soft get wet it can't stand nothing but you can put other folk in hot water and they're come up with a flavor and they will flavor the whole room but it's really an attitude adjustment y'all hit me don't ya because it's the way you look at situation don't look at it though God is fine yeah look at his God is bringing the best out of you and you've heard me say this before the God look for folk that he can trust with trouble oh I know I'm saying he looked for poking and trust with trouble that you see if something had to go through the stuff I have to go through you know get hate letters and nasty remarks on internet that fools talking about me on the radio and tell him it suffer would commit suicide yeah yeah you saw talk to me suffer go through it they're gonna gun and try to take out revenge yeah but when you got the right stuff in you talk to me some that you keep on flavoring the room and say I carried Lord ho me a moment oh joy talk to me some that because listen if this a person can't talk about you without thinking about you and if they're thinking about you evidently you're doing something that they would love to do because of you oneness they were gone about that business I wish a handsome hitman is a carried yo hear me don't you old joy when you fall the Greek word is Carrey Oh pip toes carrier yeah me that the fall pip domine around here's what I really mean it's like a person that walk in and get caught up in quick saying you know answer you are surround it with stuff destroying the whole you dimed euro HIPAA it means that you can't back up you cannot go forward you can't go to your left hey go to you right now he said listen you need to count it joy when you get in predicaments that you can't get yourself out of us all to have a witness in this house it looks strange to me because we're so used to having stuff our own way the large sander yet understand that I'm waiting to be your deliverer you're a go hip I'm waiting to get you out of stuff you could not get yourself out of that he said counted hip masseur counted a count it all joy just sing a hand one more time that let's accounted your baby counted yo so I don't know what you're dealing with but count it count it count it count it Cat Cat Cat Cat Cat count Anna counted all joke and then watch what he said when you fall into divers put yellow the Greek for the word divers meaning that your temptation come in different colors they'd always come looking the same way if your temptation came looking the same way you could set up for it but sometimes your temptation come in the form of suffering yeah anybody ever had to do a little suffering that he come in the form of suffering there sometimes you have to suffer because the Falls free answer sometimes you have to suffer because of lack of employment sometimes you have to suffer because of the lack of knowledge in certain areas sometimes your temptation come in the form of suffering but sometime it come in the form of sacrifice talk to me somebody you see every now and then you have to make a sacrifice and sacrifices they're not easy you gotta get up some stuff you want to keep for yourself that gotta give up some things you're really low there you gotta give up some things and make your happy it come in the form of sacrifice er sometimes it coming to form the I'm sorrow you got a weep at the grave of somebody talk to me somebody but you gotta watch your attitude when you get to the grave don't be accent God why my mama no don't do that just tell them thank you for letting them stay with me as long as they were with me because my God will never make a mistake up here always I'm trying to quit here don't have a witness here it come in different it miss at different colors different shapes different fashion then my brother in count it all joy when you fall into dimers use this other word Tim patients shout temptation one time hit missus temptation hey Ross Massa Greek word for Jim they don't mean much to y'all it'd mean a lot to me temptation mean that man God is getting ready to sent us to a test you see testing is important you don't really know what's the Veals if it had not gone no test when a goldsmith go dig up just go you take it and place it in the pot he then put fire under the pot and he stand and wait for the fire to burn all yeah the bacterias off of the gold and it was wild he will walk over and look in the pot if he cannot see the reflection of his face he put more fire under the pot he come back and look if he cannot see his face he put a little more fire under the pot he look again he can see it but his face is not clear he put a little more fire under the pot and when he can look down at the gold and see his face and is clear he know then the gold is pure talk to me somebody every now and then that Jesus shows up and he look at you and see if he can see his reflection in your life and when it can't see it he turn the fire up am i here by myself that when he cannot see his face in your life he turned now the fire a little more and when he can't see his face reflection of his self in you later he'll turn that preach memory the fire up a little more

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