James 3:9 to 18

okay welcome back we are in James chapter 3 and we finished up last time in verse 8 so today we're gonna start in verse 9 but I want to go ahead and just read again verse 1 all the way back down to verse 8 just remind us what we looked at last time I didn't erase everything up here I thought we'd start over but we're talking about this gossip and using your tongue and you need to be careful because your tongue can be used for evil and your tongue is like a fire and you better be careful because gossip is evil and you say evil things about people that's not right that's not right and we'll get into that more today so let's start there in verse 1 there in verse 1 my brother --an be not many masters knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation now remember last time we said a masters that that must be like the religious context sounds a lot like what Jesus was saying and the Pharisees why they they were the ones that received the condemnation because there were false masters verse 2 for are many things we offend all yes the Jews do offend people and they get offended easily God calls the Jews a stiff-necked people but we shouldn't try to offend people nor should we get offended when people attempt to offend us the same as a perfect man is also able to bridle the whole body behold me put bits in the horse's mouth that they may obey us we turn about their whole body behold also the ships which though they be so great and are driven of fierce winds yet are they turned about with a very small helm whithersoever the governor Elizabeth even so the tongue is a little member and boast its great things behold how great a matter a little fire kindle a--the so be careful what you say don't boast be careful about boasting 6 and the tongue is a fire a world of iniquity so is the tongue among our members that it defile it the whole body that is on fire the course of nature and it is set on fire of hell so be careful what you say you can say a lot of bad things and cause a lot of horrible stuff how many people I wonder in this world have been killed because of words from the mouths of someone else people like Marx and Lenin and Stalin and Hitler and how they speaking a political ideal that formed a government that ended up killing and murdering millions and millions of people that's just so sad so watch what you say with your mouth verse 7 for every kind of beast and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed and have been tamed of mankind see animals are naturally afraid of man that's part of the curse but they can be tamed but can your tongue be tamed that's the question verse 8 but the tongue can no maintain it is an unruly evil full of deadly poison so be careful what you say watch out what you say the hardest thing in the world is is just to say what you mean how's the best way to explain this my dad would always say there's simply no substitute for clear and effective communication and he would make me say that over and over and over because there's times we'll say something and it's not what we said it's what we didn't say and people are very quick to jump on something you said and you didn't say it all or you didn't say it right and they'll twist it so you gotta be careful try to say things as directly and to the point as you Keenan it try not to mess around with words if you go to secular universities universities all they try to do is make you look smart by how many words you have and the thicker the book the more they think oh look how smart that fella is no to me the smartest person in the world is someone that can write a book that's only about that thick but be so profound because they are so direct and to-the-point I don't like to have to read a thousand pages when I can get the same thing in about 50 pages and to me the guy that wrote a thousand pages isn't that so right the guy that writes it and condense it in such a way that he can communicate to me everything that a thousand pages says in 50 pages that to me is a smart fella but university while you go to pay for words and learn how to be lengthy and talking into speeches and things and I just I think direct conversation direct to the point powerful words that mean what they mean that's the best way to speak but the tongue can no maintain is none really evil full of deadly poison II need to be careful what we say be careful what we say now verse nine there with bless we God even the father and there with curse we men which are made after the similitude of God now let me go ahead read verse 10 - out of the same mouth proceeding blessings and cursings my brother these things ought not some fee so you got a guy here and the guy's got his mouth open and he's talking to you and on this side of his mouth he blesses he get you get a blessing but then on this side of his mouth he curses that's not right but I've known people like that and usually it's depending on what group they're in what they say and a lot of times you know when you're with a certain group well you just oh this guy's so big and you're just praising somebody and tell them how great they are but then you get away and you say now that guy's a that guy I think he's an evil he's it you gotta be careful that's what you called a hypocrite somebody that says one thing in one setting with one people then turn around says the opposite with somebody else that's the kind of people jesus warned us about hypocrites let's go to Matthew 23 Jesus says watch out for the Pharisees they're hypocrites and went to Matthew 23 last time and I used that as an illustration that some of the things that he's saying in James chapter 3 sound like they would have come from Matthew chapter 23 look what Jesus says in verse 13 but one do you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men for you either go in yourselves and either suffer you them that their entering in Kingdom of Heaven what's that getting into the Millennial Kingdom woe unto you scribes Pharisees hypocrites for you devour widows houses and for a pretense make long prayer therefore you shall receive the greater damnation here speaking with your mouth Oh Lord we just pay we didn't you make long prayers but it's all in vain because you don't even believe in God because you're hypocrites won't you scribes Pharisees hypocrites for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte and when he is made you should make him twofold more the child of Hell than yourselves they weren't even saved well do you you blind guides which say see there all they do is with their mouths but they don't even do what they say with their mouths blind guides which say whosoever shall swear by the temple is nothing but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple he is a debtor he fools and blind for which is greater the gold or the temple that sanctified the gold in on and on and on Jesus continues verse 23 woe unto you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites verse 25 woe unto you scribes heresies Crippen hypocrites verse 27 well you two scribes Pharisees hypocrites verse 9 what once you scribes Pharisees hypocrites a generation of vipers and on and on and on so watch out what you say there's people out there that do something but then or say something but they do the opposite I've met preachers like that they say I'm the King James Bible in love says this and then they go do the exact opposite of what the Bible says watch out for such people so control your tongue and do your best to do right verse 9 there were there with bless we God even the father there with curse we men which are made after the similitude of God now notice what it says the similitude of God similitude is a likeness so James here says that man is made after the likeness of God what is God well let's go to Genesis 1:26 notice how God speaks we're made in God's image - Bible says in Genesis 1:26 God says and God said let us make man in our image after our likeness our similitude so God says when he made man he made man after his likeness but it's funny how he mentions it he says let us make man in our God speaking of himself and he says let us who talks like that if you're one you say I will in my image it would be my and I but instead it's our and us who's God talking to while he's talking to himself and he said he made us in His image so what are we made up of what are we made up of let's go to first Timothy excuse me first us alone Ian's let's go to first Thessalonians and let's go to chapter 5 verse 23 this is something some people that claim to be Christians today still don't know I think that's crazy everybody should know this what are we you know you've got a university for years you're paying hundreds of thousands of dollars and I bet I could go to an average atheist who's come out of a university and say hey what are we what are we made up of and they wouldn't even be able answer this and yet it's right there clear in the Bible the Bible says we're made up of the following first Thessalonians 5:23 says and the very God of peace sanctify you wholly and I pray God your whole spirit soul and body be preserved brain blameless so we are made up of three parts three parts that make up us human beings and Bible says we're made in God's image so what does that mean well if we're made in the likeness of God does that mean that God has three parts well in the Bible they're called three persons and you go to first John chapter five and verse seven probably one of the most hated verses in the entire Bible a lot of people want to say this verse doesn't belong in the Bible they are liars in the Greek language if you take this verse out the Greek language doesn't even it's wrong dramatically it only works if this event is this is here people say no no the old the oldest text don't have it yeah cuz someone took it out of the so-called oldest text and those so-called oldest texts are Vaticanus and city Atticus and they're 400 to 600 years after Jesus but I can take you back to the church fathers that quote first John 5:7 one hundred and two hundred years after Jesus so let's do the math this isn't hard if you go to the so-called oldest texts and first John 5:7 is not there but you go to the church fathers that were for them and it is then that means it must have been in the originals and someone 400 to 600 years after Jesus said I don't like this verse I'm gonna take it out who was that the Gnostics and I don't have time to get into that but look at first John 5:7 this is definitely a verse of scripture that should be in the Bible for there are three that bear record in heaven the father the word and the Holy Ghost so we have the father we have the word and we have the Holy Ghost well we know the Holy Ghost is the Holy Spirit and well that lines up with the Spirit we know the word is Jesus and the word is Jesus the Son and so well that he came in a body for us and died on the cross and then the father was the father's I don't know all I know is that God is one God it says these three are one so as we have three parts God is made up of three persons but that does not make three different gods it clearly says in the scripture of these three are one so God made us in His image God is made up of three and he made us with three but we don't go around saying I'm three people no I'm not three I'm one but I consist of three God is one but he consists of three and these three are one now let's go back to the book of James a lot of people will call this the doctrine of the Trinity and I don't have a problem with that some people say well that's a Catholic word that's a lie I looked up the word Trinity when it first appeared and it appears before 325 AD Catholicism started in 325 AD with Constantine who joined the state with the church so how could you say that Trinity is a Catholic word when it predates the Catholic Church there's just people out there and just go around using their mouth running their mouth and then we would think about what they're saying now the word in the Bible is the Godhead I don't have a problem using the word Trinity because I know what it's talking about but there are people that think Trinity means three gods no I've never in my life met a person who was a Trinitarian that believes in Trinity that says I believe in three separate gods but they try to say well that's something no one guide three persons and we're made in the similitude of God so we're made in His image and his likeness so we have three parts so simple I mean love people's I don't understand the Trinity well you don't have to understand it I don't understand how it works but I understand what it is it's one God in three persons but those three are one so it's one God all right I mean that's just simple though let's go continuing here in verse 10 out of the same mouth perceived a blessing and cursings my brother and these things ought not so to be right we shouldn't bless out of one side of our mouth and the other side curse somebody today we we have a word cussing and sometimes we use the word curse and cussing is using bad words should we use bad words well Paul says let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good to the use of edifying so we shouldn't curse we shouldn't cuss we shouldn't use that word we shouldn't say bad things about people that's just what the Bible says and I want to be a good Christian I don't want to say things that I shouldn't so watch what we say now verse 11 verse 11 does the fountain send forth the same place sweet water and bitter well the answer to that is no and there are some places in the book of James where James is continually asking questions and I find that very interesting let me give you these if you want to write them down the references are James - four - five - six - seven - 14 - 16 to 20 - 21 to 22 and to 25 chapter 3 verse 11 chapter 4 verse 1 verse 4 verse 5 and verse 12 in chapter 5 and verse 13 so there's a lot of places in which James asks a question and what we do is we answer that question and the question is can a fountain send forth of the same place sweet water and bitter and the answer is no you mean there have a fountain that's sweet it's clear crystal clear water or you have a corrupt fountain that's sending forth a bitter water water that could have poison it you got to be careful and he's likening this to our tongue and he's your tongue is a fountain things can come out of that make sure that what comes out of that is sweet not bitter so be sweet to other people right I mean just that's what it's saying and then it says here umm can the fig tree my brother and bear all the berries either the vine FIGS so can no fountain yield boasts boast yield salt water and fresh fresh water we can drink salt water we're not we can't now we live close to a bay we live close to a skin be a bay here and it's saltwater and I'd love to go out there sometimes it's the middle of summer now so it's too hot but I love to go swimming but I can't drink it and sometimes I'll get pruney you know you've been in the water so long swimming that you get prune hands and I get so thirsty and I come back up in the house and get a cold glass of water and water that's fresh it's so good now sometimes we'll go to Ponce de Leon Springs about an hour up the road on i-10 and that is fresh water and it is a beautiful gigantic freshwater spring and the water shoots out up about 25 feet from an open hole in the ground and comes up to the top of the water so so fast it almost looks like it's boiling the water is going like this at the top but it's 60 degrees and you go up there and you jump off this platform and you dive down about 20 feet and you literally feel the water coming past your face it's shooting out so fast and you just open your mouth and you go nope nope well then you taste the freshest sweetest most amazing crystal-clear fresh water and I'll be honest man I love that place I wish we lived closer said there to be honest with you so we can go there every day but I love fresh water fountains and so James is taking this and he's saying it's like water and he says what do you want you want fresh water you want saltwater well you can't drink salt water if you did it's gonna damage you you know words can damage somebody so you need to be careful what you say now also in verse 12 and I don't know if I'll do this I was thinking about it he mentions three types of trees in verse 12 he mentions fig olive and a vine so he mentions three trees now in my commentary on this I go more in detail on this and I might not go to detail on it now so you get the commentary but there's the olive and then there's the the grape and what's the other one he says fake the fig tree now I'd like to tie these in to the trees in the Garden of Eden if you remember your Bible you remember over here Adam and Eve and Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden and you know what I think we find in the Bible is these trees because they use the fig leaf to cover themselves and there's some grapes and there's some olives and all of it is the oil of the olive is a type of the Holy Spirit when we're saying we get eternal life and we're sealed with Holy Spirit so there's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of knowledge of good and evil and then there's the tree of life now is the olive tree a type of the tree of life because when we get saved we get eternal life we get the Holy Spirit and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was the tree that Adam and Eve ate that made them fall well when Adam and Eve were created where was blood it doesn't there wasn't any blood blood came from their fall okay so I think you know you hear the story of that I mean even you say oh the Adam and Eve ate that Apple and and I look at that and I go no I'm sorry but I don't see an apple in the Bible that story of Adam and Eve eating an apple that story of an apple that comes from a Golden Apple that comes from ancient Greek mythology the Golden Apple there's nowhere in the bible does it say an apple and if they ate an apple but in the Bible there's several times that a grape or grape juice is like into the blood now scientists have have said that that grapes are very close to blood if you take grapes and you mash the that liquid coming out almost looks like blood if you get these Browns I'm not brown but kind of a purplish blue dark black grape so I've always wondered what the fruit of that they ate I don't believe it was a nap I believe it was probably grapes or a grape like think and it was probably some sort of a great plant because and I don't have time to get into this if you want to read more on that on my commentary I have a book too about the blood of Christ and people say well breaker you're so dumb I love it how people just love to say just mean hateful things try it off the bat oh brother breaker you're just so stupid I go really am i stupid tell me about it oppa brother breaker it's called the tree it's not called a vine and these they grow on vines well I'm glad you mentioned that because you know what the Bible says the Bible calls it a vine tree so thank you for trying to correct me but before you do would you just read the Bible first so I'm not going to get into that it's in my commentary and I show how there were at least these three things in the Garden of Eden because we know there was a fig tree in the Garden of Eden because well I mean Eve covered themselves so that's type of self-righteousness olive tree was probably the tree of life but I'm not certain but there probably was because we've got type of Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit gives us life and then you have a divine tree and blood looks a lot like grape juice and it ties into that so I'm not going to get into that I got a lot of that in my commentary about that if you want to look that up again you can read that for free on my website rrb three.com it also lines up with the three the three trees in the Garden of Eden kind of line up with the three thieves on the cross which is kind of interesting because you have the three trees you got a self-righteousness well there's your self righteous sinner you got the grape juice or grapes type of blood well there's Christ on the cross and then the other guy what did he do he said Lord remember me and that he would line up with somebody who who chose life he didn't want to die he wanted Jesus he wanted the beside he wanted to get into his kingdom so that's just interests and just one throw that out there I won't get into that too much it's just a personal thought as I read the Bible and it's kind of fun well anyway let's continue a James chapter for now verse 13 who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom so here he goes again talking about works James why are you talking about works all the time works works works works works well because over here in the tribulation it's all about doing some good works and the Jews will be living together and what they'll need to do is they'll need to live together and enjoy one another and be nice to each other and not curse each other and not fight with each other and they'll need to do good works for each other and help each other out close each other and feed each other and everything else so do good works now what he's saying here is your speech and Matt sure works he's talking about how we should speak and how we should control our tongue and we should make sure that what we say matches what we do there's your devotional application verse 14 but if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lie not against the truth so here is him talking about some things and he's saying don't lie don't lie and don't lie against the truth now let's go to verse 13 again who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you let him show out of his good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom let's go over to Matthew chapter 5 Matthew chapter 5 and this sounds like what is the message that we're reading in the book of James Matthew chapter 5 in verse 16 let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven so James is saying make sure you do good works show forth good works well here Jesus says hey make sure you do good works and let the shine before men show good works now what is the context here well verse 13 you are the salt of the earth but if the salt that loves his savour wherewith shall it be salted is henceforth good for nothing but it's cast out of the neutron underfoot you're the light of the world the city is set on the hill cannot be hid and as you continued reading down to verse 22 watch this verse let's read verse 17 think not that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets I'm not coming destroy but to fulfil for verily I say to you till heaven and earth pass one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled those over therefore shall break one of these least Commandments that you'll teach men so that you shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven but whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven for I say to you except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees you shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven and what is the kingdom of heaven well that's Millennial Kingdom and so it's it's being righteous but it's also not breaking the law it's also having some wisdom so I don't know I could go back to verse 13 who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you if he's saying wise of the law and knowing what the law says let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom all right meekly with wisdom doing good works following what the law says that's what it's talking about James 4 verse 1 through 4 tells us don't fight look at verse 1 from whence come Wars and Fighting's among you come they not hence even of your lusts that war in your members you lust you have not you kill and desire the habit of can't obtain you fight it war but you have not because you asked not you ask to receive not because you ask amiss that you may consume upon your lusts you adulterers an adulterer all sudden he knows two attacking people and he's saying you guys are evil because you're full of hate and murder and killing and you're just warring with one another don't be that way so that's the contrast to verse 13 to do good works with meekness of wisdom be meek don't be someone that's just going around trying to hurt people so there we go now back to a James chapter 3 and verse 14 but if you have bitter envying and strife in your heart's glory not and lie not against the trigger now if you are how better of anything you should not glory in your bitter envying and don't lie against the truth what is the truth well we know the Bible is the truth we know Jesus is the truth so we're not supposed to lie against this so he's warning Jews don't lie against the truth do right and don't attack one another now we can spiritually apply that today to Christians hey Christians don't lie about one another don't say bad things don't gossip don't be evil toward one another do right be meekness do good works after were saved we should do good works but it's not to save us or to keep us safe it's because we are saved amen so yes there's a lot of book of James that we can try to apply to the church and it applies great and it helps us hey if you're a Christian stop talking bad about other Christians okay I mean duh but then he starts talking about wisdom now verse 15 this wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual devilish this wisdom what is this wisdom well this wisdom shows that there are two wisdoms there's the wisdom from above verse 17 and the wisdom from below verse 14 alright let's look at this but if you have bitter envying and strife in your heart school or not and let not lie not against the truth verse 17 but the wisdom that is from above is first okay verse 15 says this wisdom is sin is not from above but is earthly sensual this okay let me make sure I do that again so you get a hold of it verse 15 this wisdom what wisdom verse 14 the wisdom of having dinner envying and strife in your hearts that is wisdom that descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual and devilish okay so you've got two wisdoms mentioned here and the best way to say it is you've got the wisdom of the world and then you've got the wisdom of God now worldly wisdom is from the flesh its carnal but heavenly wisdom that's spiritual that's from the Spirit of God when you're saved you get the wisdom of God you get the Holy Spirit inside of you and you begin to read the Bible and the Holy Spirit begins to teach you things and it's like wow but that wisdom is from the Bible if you don't have a Bible you don't have wisdom from above you have the wisdom from below so the wisdom from below is the earthly sensual carnal wisdom and it's really not wisdom at all it's you and your flesh justifying what you do but the wisdom from above is following what God says so he's telling us about wisdom all of sudden a wisdom is the ability to use knowledge whereas knowledge is just an assembly of facts understanding is knowing your relationship relationship between wisdom and knowledge in relation to God we need wisdom every day to apply our knowledge to God the more we live the longer we live the more we read our Bible the more we go through trials and tribulations and get closer to God the more wisdom we'll have in a wise person is not someone who goes and talks bad about others and lies about them and says mean things that is someone who is in the flesh and is not wise does not show forth wisdom I Robert Breaker want to be a wise person I want to be caring loving gracious merciful kind I want to be the kind of Christian that the Bible says I'm supposed to be and Paul tells me to do that well now we find James is saying that same thing James is saying don't go around cursing people don't go around saying bad things don't gossip don't lie don't tell slander about people that's just not right because your tongue can get you in trouble it gets set on fire the world so in order to be a wise person we have to understand some things now notice what he's saying here in verse 17 but the wisdom that is from above is fir pure then peaceable then gentle and easy to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy so let me write what this wisdom from God is godly a gold Lee I wrote gold Lee huh godly wisdom it says its first pure all right is your heart pure before God well you need to keep your heart right and you need to get your heart right every day you need to get down on your knees and pray you need to read your Bible you can say Lord am i doing what I'm supposed to be doing help me show me Lord I don't want to be bragging on myself and and boasting Lord in my prideful get all this pride up me help me be meek lord help me not to be a bad person what does what does it say I believe it's here in James where he talks about being humble let's see here if I can find this verse yeah verses verse 10 humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up speak not evil one of another 4:11 brother brother in' he didn't speak of the evil of his brother and judges his brother's speaking evil of the law and judges the law but if they'll judge the law thou art not a doer of the law but a judge so we're not supposed to speak evil of other people a wise godly Christian is someone who is pure and then it continues their peaceable so we want to be peaceable do you make peace with other Christians are you peaceable person what does it say they're gentle gentle easy to be entreated someone who's easy to talk to you easily along with someone you can you have fun with and full of mercy so merciful what is merciful well having mercy with people also it says full of mercy merciful good fruits so having good fruit and that reminds me of what Paul tells us later on the fruits of the Spirit and says without partiality that's not being partial to one person or one thing you treat everybody equally and without hypocrisy so I'm not a hypocrite all right so let me ask you this all right now we know he's writing to Jews and he's writing more about the tribulation so this is really for Jews in the tribulation so how can we apply this to us today well remember it's written about right here and the body of Christ starts with who Christ so the early church was Jews the early body of Christ before Paul and all this so yes he's still talking to the church so we can take this and we can say what he's telling us he's telling Christians and I forgot to tell you when they were first called Christians in Acts chapter 11 I was something I wanted to mention I forgot in Acts chapter 11 and I believe it's verse 26 it says the disciples are first called Christians in Antioch of Syria so James dies in chapter 12 but before he died he would have lived during the time so James would have called himself a Christian because a Christian at that time meant a disciple of Jesus and followers of the Christ so can we take this part of the book of James and apply it to the church surely and when we do we find out that Christians should not gossip should not speak evil of other Christians shouldn't boast about themselves shouldn't fight against other Christians shouldn't speak evil of others a Christian a true Christian should have godly wisdom that comes from studying and reading the Bible and a crude true Christian should be pure peaceable gentle easy to be a Trinity treated merciful have good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy that's what God desires from us now look at verse 16 for we're envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work now what am I talking about this well I got saved July 29th 1992 when I got saved in 1992 I thought wow everybody who's truly saved are Saints and they're just the sweetest most wonderful people in the whole world and I just thought every Christian was a saint and just a godly wonderful person I just thought everyone obeyed the Bible and was like this it didn't take me long to realize that that's not the case there are people out there that claim to be care Christians but they're very carnal they're not spiritual and they're not like this when I went to Bible School I remember the pastor there saying now the people that are gonna hurt you the most in the ministry are other Christians and I laughed I remember sitting in the pew and laughing and going ah no Christians are the greatest people that will never hurt me he doesn't know what he's talking about he knew what he was talking about I've been in ministry now for many many years twenty-something years let's say I was 18 in 92 got saved in 92 was street preaching that same year in the corner so you could say from 92 to whatever this is 1987 so what's 27 years then I've been preaching and teaching and been in the ministry I've come across people many claim to be ministers or pastors or missionaries or teachers that were the most wicked most vile most disgusting most perverted most angry most hateful most critical just mean people and they go out of your way to lie to slander to put you down to mock you to say a dirty mean hateful thing just to hurt your feelings they're just some of this just worst people and that's my brother in Christ and I hate it I think it's disgusting and what I see is that they are not what they claim to be they say with their mouths I'm a King James Bible believer now hold up the Bible I believe every word but my question is are the King James Bible readers and then are they King James Bible doers look at verse 17 of chapter 4 James 4:17 therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it is saying what I'm doing today is I'm telling you what's right he tells us to do good in verse 13 James says let him of a good conversation do what show out of a good conversation his works with me some meekness of wisdom so if you claim to be a Christian you need to be a meek and a humble person if you have no meekness if you have no humility that you're a part re excuse for a human being and I don't want to have anything to do with you III just I love you in the Lord have a nice day see you in heaven because I'm not interested in going along with people that don't want to be what the Bible says the Bible says we're supposed to be meek we're supposed to be humble we're supposed to have well let's see what we're supposed to be let's go to Galatians chapter 5 now talk about this because most of my ministry a lot of it now is on YouTube and all the time I get people saying well brother breaker there's these other people on YouTube that claim to be King James Bible believers I go okay and but all they do is they talk bad about other people and their hateful and they're angry and they're mean spirited in there and they're just not right what do you think about that brother breaker I said well I hate it for them that's sad I hope they get right with God and some of them they just live to attack other Christians and I find that so sad and they make their videos on YouTube not to instruct us in righteousness not to edify us not to teach us the Bible not to show us what God says and how to live a godly Christian life no they in the flesh with their worldly wisdom they'll go on YouTube and all they do is gossip and talk bad about other people and I look at that and I say that is not a true minister that is not somebody that's doing the work of the Lord and it's just saddens me greatly and so what I do is I said well does that person have the fruit of the Spirit see even James said we're supposed to have good fruit so what is the fruit if you're saved what should your life show to prove that you're safe what is the fruit of the Spirit when we get saved we get the holy spirit Ephesians 1:13 we're sealed with Holy Spirit when we get saved in Galatians chapter 5 verse 22 and 23 say but the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance against such there is no law so these are the things that we're supposed to have all right watch what they are love joy peace well there's people on YouTube that claim to be Christians they have no love of the brother and actually I hate people that's why they make their videos to tell how much they hate other Christians they never smile they never have any joy there's no peace because they don't desire for peace all they want to do is wage war on other Christians and that's and long-suffering they don't have any long-suffering long-suffering means you put up with somebody well they can't put up with them though they have to come out and make what 12 videos against one person in one day or something crazy stuff goodness long-suffering I left out gentleness they're not gentle they're not kind they're not good um faith meekness temperance are they meek are unique temperance temperance is self-control and we looked at that last time and how we're supposed to be able to control ourselves and have some self control and not do things that we shouldn't so when I look at the Bible and then I look at other people who claim to be Christians and no I don't want to compare myself because Paul says they to compare themselves among themselves are not wise so I don't want to look at them and say oh I'm so much better than them because then I would be bragging or boasting and we've already seen in the book of James that we're not supposed to brag or boast so I don't want to compare myself but I do want to ask this question are they what they should be as a Kris James is telling us this this is what Paul said Paul says love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith meekness temperance that's the fruit of the Spirit that's what proves that we're Christian that the Holy Spirit is working that outwardly of us now yes we can be saved and not show that because we're just in the flesh but you would think if we're saved we show at least some of this but James says if you want to be a godly Christian full of wisdom and you want the wisdom from above not the wisdom from below then be pure and peaceable be gentle be easily to be entreated be merciful have good fruits well here's the fruits of the Spirit and do so without partiality and without hypocrisy so there it is I mean how are you doing the Bible is telling us that there's a certain way that we should live as Christians and there's a tongue that we have in our mouth that we need to keep and watch and there's some things that we just should not say with that that tongue so we need to watch out what we say so let's go back to verse 14 but if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lie not against the truth well I've met some Christians that live for strife and what is strife strife our striving is just to go around and cause problems it's making war on other Christians and it's putting them down and attacking them and saying horrible things about and when someone does that and then strife in their heart it shows me that there's some Envy there and that they're envious see I've had people email me and say brother breaker did you hear what this guy said about you and YouTube the JIRA and I just say look I'm not interested on no thanks but I get that all the time people say brother break did you hear this there's a new video this guy said this and they would no no thanks because they're not a true Christian they're not supposed to they're not what they should be it may be safe but they're certainly not what they should be they're immature but they say brother breaker why do these people say that about you I say I don't know that's their business I sigh I'd hate to be them on the day of the judgement I mean I'd hate to be them and see how they're not gonna get any rewards in heaven because they're doing the opposite of what the Bible says but many emails say brother breaker I think I figured it out and I said what is it and they say I think these people hate you and attack you and lie about you and mock you and all this stuff because they're envious of you they wish that they had a channel that taught the Bible they wish they had so many subscribers I don't even know how many subscribers I have I don't even keep up it's not how many subscribers you have it's how many people actually watch the video and I think that that's being manipulated now by by YouTube and things like that I don't even know the numbers are true it looks like they're not but the question is what are you doing for the Lord and why what is your motive that's the question for some people their motive is fame for some people their motive is is they they just enjoy putting other people down that's not right we shouldn't enjoy the pain and affliction on others but for some people that but it's envy it striving it and we should we as Christians were not supposed to fight we're not supposed to strive we're just supposed to get along and love one another now if someone goes off into false doctrine then we just say okay this doctrine is being taught today this is not right the true doctrine is this if you come across somebody that believes otherwise well just just shun them just move along I'll put them behind and keep on let's get together and the right doctrine as much as we can Bible says we're supposed to dwell together in unity and it's sad to see people that don't so back to James chapter 4 verse 13 who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you let him show up good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom so your conversation should be good your work should be good you should be a meek person and a wise person an unwise person is someone who is going about with bitter envying and strife and it says in their hearts and that's what it's all about keeping your heart right if your heart is full of pride and that's another problem about other people email saying bro the problem with your enemies is they're prideful I say okay yeah I'm not gonna disagree because I find that in the Bible that if a person is it's full of contention it's because of pride because Bible says pride cometh before contention so a contentious person that lives to cause strife and division it's because their hearts not right with God and there's bitter envying in their heart and pride and strife but if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lie not against the truth this wisdom the earthly wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly sensual devilish so earthly would be worldly so these people are worldly that's why they act the way they do sensual well that's carnal sensuality but notice what it says devilish we're in that room up here that means the devil is delighting in what they do so when people come out and they claim to be Christians and they tack another Christian who is teaching and preaching the true gospel and his King James Bible believer and attacking them that's preaching right and doing right they are being used of the devil and not of God that's another reason why I don't want my youtube channel to be well I'm rubber breaker and I want to tell you why this guy over here John John GABA or whatever thing is this idiot he's a this fullness doesn't it just name-call say bad things about him and attack him and say how dumb this person is I don't want to do that I don't want cursings out of one side of my mouth and bless I don't want to talk bad about other people I want to stick with the book go by what the Bible says all right so then it says here in verse 7 verse 16 for we're entering and strife is there is confusion in every evil work so the devil the way the devil gets into Christianity is he gets ahold of somebody who's saved but it gets them in the flesh and what's there in the flesh you get some full of pride so that they can because of envy because they're envious of others they can go out and cause war and they call strike and when they do that that causes confusion now what does the Bible say the Bible says God is not the author of confusion so whenever there's confusion who's the one behind it the devil now I have this bird on YouTube that attacks me all the time you know what I said to him have a nice day I don't have anything nice to say about the guy so I'm not gonna say anything at all but this guy attacks me it says things about me that are just outright lies and I think I counted up from what I've gathered of people into sending me emails and think that there's about five or six different things that this guy invented then he says I teach and I look at I go no I don't teach that but he says I do so it must be true because he said so right that's his thinking if I say that it's true now that's not the way it works but this guy has gone out there and he's made these lies about me he's teaching this on YouTube and I get emails from time to time not a lot very few people see see the guy is telling the truth many see through him but they say brother breaker um I'm confused this guy says this guy said do you teach that and I go no no I don't why would you but the confusion is because that person has not kept their tongue and wants to go around and because of envy and strife lie slander say bad things say things that aren't true so God is not the author of confusion so what this is is James is warning us and I think it's a great warning be careful what you say about other people because you just might be doing the work of the devil and attacking them rather than the work of God so am i saying this guy that attacks me is of the devil no I'm just saying he needs to watch out I don't see the fruit of that person's YouTube video as a ministry I don't see it ministering anyone all the people that used to watch them say that guy's just he's just a vexation he's just he's sad he doesn't have any of these all he has is his opinion and he wants you to know what it is well I've always said opinions are like armpits everybody has two and they all stink so I'm not interested in your opinion I could care less what you think of Robert breaker I probably think less highly of myself than you do even my worst enemies I probably think I'm worse than they think I am because I don't like myself I I hate myself I'm too hard on myself sometimes I really I hate this flesh I can't wait till the rapture comes to be delivered from this evil wicked vile flesh but until then I want to at least be faithful doing what the Bible says and doing my absolute best to have this wisdom from above that its first pure and then peaceable I want to be peaceful I want to be a peaceful Christian I don't want to live to just bark at people and attack them and put them down I want to be easily entreated I want to be gentle and merciful I want to be what a Christians supposed to be and the more that I do that I've noticed the more that contrasts me from those those evil people and the more people contact me said brother director thank you for being what a Christians supposed to be thank you for not doing what they do and attacking other Christians thank you for being in each it's not just because I'm better than you I'm not bragging I'm just reading this in the Bible and saying this is what God says to do okay I want to do it so I want to be a true Christian all right so let's finish this up verse 17 but the wisdom that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easy to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy and boy there's a lot of hypocrisy I've noticed lately I watched one of these videos I usually don't watch these videos where people attack I usually don't but I watched one one time and this guy was attacking this guy for something that this guy did and while this guy was attacking that guy for something he did this guy was doing the exact same thing and I just like that do you not see that's unfruitful do you not see that that doesn't help anybody all you're doing is continuing the war to me the best thing to do is just ignore these people and just keep studying the Bible because all they want to do is give their opinion all I want to know is what does God say and so that's what I'm I focus on this one we keep doing is just going about what God says I don't want to be a hypocrite amen now verse 18 and the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace well do you make peace a lot of people are claimed to be Christians they do not they do not make peace rather they go out of their way to be mean and hateful and attack and ridicule and mock and put down other Christians and I look at that I go that's just awful that's just a shame no I want peace the Bible says and I forget the verse I wish I had it here in front of me talks about how if a man's ways please the Lord he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him and that's happened to me several times in my life I go out of my way some people say brother breaker you bend over backwards you're too nice you're just too nice to certain people okay I'd rather be too nice than too mean okay I'm not gonna compromise on what the Bible says but I can be humble and meek and gentle with other people and long-suffering I don't want to go overboard to that extreme to where I'm an attacking person who lies and slanders and says things about other but um it says he makes even your enemies to be at peace with you and there's been a couple times when there were people that attacked me so bitter so hard so mean said horrible things about Robert breaker that aren't right and they have later come back some of them on YouTube but some of these were way before YouTube and they come back and said brother breaker I just want to apologize to you I misjudged you I said things about you weren't true i i gossiped about you and said some hateful things to some people and I see that I was wrong and I just want to say I'm sorry well that thrills my heart I love it when my enemies are made at peace with me so all I want to do my goal in this life is to please the Lord I'm not here to please you I'm sorry I'm here to please the Lord and I do the best that I can doing that by teaching verse by verse by preaching by saying what the Bible says and the fruit of righteousness is shown in peace of them that make peace I want to be remembered as Robert that Christian who was righteous and had the fruit of righteousness and peace I want to remember it as Robert breaker a man who preached the gospel Gospels first Corinthians 15 one through four I want to be remembered as the guy who preaches on the blood you know I've had people tell me brother breaker you preached too hard on the blood of Jesus okay I don't want to be remembered as that guy I want to be remembered as the guy who doesn't forget the precious shed blood of Christ and I want to be remembered as a guy who was not a critical spirited mean hateful person but who was trying his best to be a true gentleman and following the scriptures and the Word of God you can't so peace unless you first have peace you can't have peace unless you first show peace how do we make peace with others forgiving them witnessing to them telling them that we care about them even if they hate us and say things that aren't true we still we care about you it's all about peace it's all about peace and where will peace be at the end when Jesus shows up and gets into his kingdom it's gonna be peace on earth peace on earth for a thousand years and that all comes through Christ so for the Jews their peace will come through their trusting in Jesus in the tribulation and they'll get into that peace for the Millennial Kingdom for us who are safe today we get peace through the blood of Christ and when we're safe we get a peace that passeth all understanding and as Christians we should be at peace one with another we shouldn't be at war with one another as many so-called Christians do in attacking and putting each other down that's not what God wants us to do so there's chapter three and we finished it up today next time we'll start chapter four and I really can't wait to get to chapter five because there a lot of good stuff in Chapter five especially applying to the Tribulation Period but chapter three has got a lot of good stuff for us in the church age that can be applied today not speaking evil mother's living a gentle peaceable loving caring caring about other Christians being careful not to cause envy and strife so there it is we'll see you next time James chapter four

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Published: Tue Oct 08 2019