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Speaker 1: You're listening to a podcast from Victory. We study the
Speaker 1: Word in order to apply and obey what it says.
Speaker 1: Explore this truth in week eight of our series Wordview.
Speaker 2: As we end our series. We've been here in our
Speaker 2: series entitled Wordview, where for the past seven weeks we've
Speaker 2: been talking about the Word of God that we are
Speaker 2: called to have a life of devotion.
Speaker 3: What else we talked about that.
Speaker 2: The Word is perfect, it does not have any error,
Speaker 2: it's sufficient, it's clear, and that's why as believers, all
Speaker 2: of us here we are willing to put our lives
Speaker 2: under the authority of scripture. And as we learn all
Speaker 2: that for the past seven weeks, today we're going to
Speaker 2: apply what we learn.
Speaker 3: The question is how.
Speaker 2: Do we apply the Word of God? How do we
Speaker 2: do what it says? And how do we study it?
Speaker 2: Now we know that the series has been transforming our lives.
Speaker 2: It's been transforming our minds against the worldview.
Speaker 3: Now it wants us to be transformed by the Word
Speaker 3: of God.
Speaker 2: And this is actually what we want to talk about today.
Speaker 2: How to apply the actual Word of God in our
Speaker 2: lives and our main text is found in James Chapter one,
Speaker 2: verse twenty one, and it says here, therefore, put away
Speaker 2: all filthiness and rampant wickedness, and receive with meekness the
Speaker 2: implanted Word, which is able to save your souls. Verse
Speaker 2: twenty two says, but the doers of the word, and
Speaker 2: not hears, only deceiving yourselves. Verse twenty three says, for
Speaker 2: if anyone is a hero of the word and not
Speaker 2: a doer, he is like a man who looks intently
Speaker 2: at his natural face in the mirror. For he looks
Speaker 2: at himself and goes away, and at once forgets what
Speaker 2: he looks like. Verse twenty five says, But the one
Speaker 2: who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty,
Speaker 2: and perseveres, Being no hero who forgets, but a doer
Speaker 2: who acts, he will be.
Speaker 3: Blessed in all his doings. You know, we.
Speaker 2: Start our scripture today, which is found in the Book
Speaker 2: of James. The Book of James is said to be
Speaker 2: the book of faith, that works. This book was actually
Speaker 2: written by James, the half brother of Jesus, and he
Speaker 2: was writing to the Jerusalem Church. This was the church
Speaker 2: that he was pastoring. He wrote a letter because he
Speaker 2: wanted to address two things. Number One, he has seen
Speaker 2: that they have failed to put the word of God
Speaker 2: into practice. And it was a root of something else.
Speaker 2: Why because the people during that time, although they were
Speaker 2: saved already, they were deceived by the world. And that's
Speaker 2: why he was saying that they were living a life
Speaker 2: with a double mind. They were double minded people. When
Speaker 2: we say double minded is sometimes you are for the word,
Speaker 2: you allow the word to speak to you. But sometimes
Speaker 2: there's instances in your life that you actually use the
Speaker 2: world as your perspective. These are experiences that we go through.
Speaker 2: These are the advice that people give us that we're
Speaker 2: not sure if it's godly or something that they've experienced
Speaker 2: as well. James was actually talking to double minded people.
Speaker 2: But you know what, Yes, it was written two thousand
Speaker 2: years ago or more. But the question is in our
Speaker 2: lives do we have a double minded life as well?
Speaker 2: Are there things that make us decide based on what
Speaker 2: the world says or is it all based on the
Speaker 2: Word of God. And this is how he starts it.
Speaker 2: In verse twenty one, he says, therefore, put away all
Speaker 2: filthiness and rampant wickedness.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: He was reminding his people, the people of the church,
Speaker 2: the leaders, just like you, guys, everyone. He was reminding
Speaker 2: them that what Jesus has done on the Cross has
Speaker 2: brought you from.
Speaker 3: Sin and slavery. Now you are free.
Speaker 2: He was reminding them of their identity in Christ. He
Speaker 2: was saying that you are no longer slaves of sin.
Speaker 2: He can actually remove that life and move forward. And
Speaker 2: that's why he was reminding them to put away all
Speaker 2: wickedness and filthiness. He was saying this to remind them
Speaker 2: of their true identity in Christ.
Speaker 3: And now he starts with.
Speaker 2: Saying the word receive. He said and receive in another
Speaker 2: translation in the n E version, it's a to receive
Speaker 2: is to welcome. You know, when we welcome someone that
Speaker 2: we invite our house, we like them to be there.
Speaker 3: That's why we prepare for it. Me.
Speaker 2: I like inviting people to our house. I like hanging
Speaker 2: out with people in our house. I would always invite
Speaker 2: people to hang out like the bagdados. We'd always go
Speaker 2: there goes to us now. And as I've shared with you,
Speaker 2: we have a twelve bedroom unit. So Cilaria would stay
Speaker 2: in one of the rooms and we.
Speaker 3: Would hang out.
Speaker 2: But before the visitors would go, it would actually be
Speaker 2: we would actually.
Speaker 3: Prepare for it.
Speaker 2: Actually go to the grocery, buy something that they like,
Speaker 2: we'd actually prepare it. We clean it, lean ismen. We
Speaker 2: make sure that when they get there wellan calead. We
Speaker 2: make sure that when they get there, they get there safe,
Speaker 2: they know where to part. We welcome them. And when
Speaker 2: they're there, what do we do. We entertain them. We
Speaker 2: talk to them, We spend time with them. We give
Speaker 2: our one hundred persent attention to our visitors. We welcome them,
Speaker 2: we receive them, same as the word of God when
Speaker 2: we read the word, James is saying that we welcome
Speaker 2: it with one hundred percent of our attention when we
Speaker 2: read it, when we open the Bible, we're ready to
Speaker 2: receive it. We want them there. It's an appointment. They
Speaker 2: don't just just barge in. We're ready for it.
Speaker 3: We want them there. We want the Word of God
Speaker 3: to speak to us.
Speaker 2: Have you been to a house now and invite kyo?
Speaker 3: We don't do that. Do I do that? No, I
Speaker 3: don't do that. When we receive people, we welcome them.
Speaker 3: And this is what James was talking about. We receive them,
Speaker 3: we welcome the Word of God and it was giving.
Speaker 2: Us a posture of what our hearts should be. He says,
Speaker 2: how do we receive them in meekness? What do you
Speaker 2: mean by meekness? To be meek is actually to be submissive.
Speaker 2: It's an act of humility. It's being humbled by the
Speaker 2: presence of God that when you read it, you're saying, Lord,
Speaker 2: I don't know what you want me to understand, but
Speaker 2: I want you to explain it to me. I want
Speaker 2: you to reveal it to me. Do we have this
Speaker 2: posture when we read the Word of God? Are we
Speaker 2: humbled enough to say, Lord, I don't know what to
Speaker 2: do and I need your leading. Or are we the
Speaker 2: type of people that, whenever we open the Bible, we say.
Speaker 3: Al'm kunihan.
Speaker 2: The bad therefore nana man wellgum pisa. How do we
Speaker 2: respond when we read the Word of God? Are we
Speaker 2: people who actually are not one hundred percent fully engaged
Speaker 2: to the word whenever we read it, everything that's in
Speaker 2: your mind is actually to be on the next task.
Speaker 2: At seven o'clock you open your Bible and then you
Speaker 2: know that by fifteen and fifteen minutes traffic will build
Speaker 2: Upber are.
Speaker 3: You fully engaged and concentrated to the Word of God?
Speaker 2: Are we in the mood or is it a requirement
Speaker 2: already for us? Sabin no me preach keasaygo every day.
Speaker 2: And so you have this heart where you say, Lord,
Speaker 2: I read my Bible five times this week, Tapa may
Speaker 2: wish na n kapali don't Is it becoming a requirement
Speaker 2: or something that we negotiate with with God?
Speaker 3: What is our heart? Whenever we read the Word of God?
Speaker 2: He says we receive or welcome in humility. Which one
Speaker 2: the implanted word says there the implanted word. And what
Speaker 2: is the implanted word? It means the implanted in the
Speaker 2: Greek language is in phutos, which means to be permanently
Speaker 2: in place. It's something that takes root, something that's it
Speaker 2: holds there. And when we talk about the implanted Word
Speaker 2: of God, because James was saying that it is rooted
Speaker 2: to the gospel that we know, because if we really
Speaker 2: know who Jesus is, we can actually accept all his teachings,
Speaker 2: because if he know who Jesus is, that he died
Speaker 2: on the cross for my sins. Now I believe that
Speaker 2: everything that He wants for me that will save me,
Speaker 2: it will be good for me. It will be something
Speaker 2: that will protect me with something that will be a
Speaker 2: blessing to me.
Speaker 3: And this is a covenant that God gave.
Speaker 2: And we see this as a prophetic gesture. In Jeremiah,
Speaker 2: it says in Jeremiah thirty one, it says, for this
Speaker 2: is the covenant that I make with the House of
Speaker 2: Israel after those days, declares the Lord, I will put
Speaker 2: my law within them, and I will write it on
Speaker 2: their hearts, and I will be their God, and they
Speaker 2: shall be my people. This was a God saying that
Speaker 2: he will be the one to put the word in
Speaker 2: our hearts. It's actually him putting it in our hearts.
Speaker 3: The question is are we.
Speaker 2: Welcoming him to do that to us actually allowing him
Speaker 2: to put the.
Speaker 3: Word of God in our hearts.
Speaker 2: You know, we are called to receive the Word in humility,
Speaker 2: and when we say humility, what we're saying is that
Speaker 2: whenever we read the word, we accept it.
Speaker 3: We don't negotiate.
Speaker 2: Lord and wedding step one moon Lord and Hindiito Pasa.
Speaker 2: Are you a person that when you see the word
Speaker 2: that is hard to apply, you would actually automatically look
Speaker 2: for someone.
Speaker 3: Else kid Glendato. Whenever you read.
Speaker 2: The word and you see that it's difficult, you find
Speaker 2: fault in other people from because you pugnet transition shap Galitsha.
Speaker 2: We receive the word in humility because it's good for us.
Speaker 2: That's his heart, our father's heart to us. He always
Speaker 2: wants to minister to us. But you know what, James
Speaker 2: does not end there. He was saying that to apply
Speaker 2: the word of God, it doesn't end with reading it,
Speaker 2: with studying the word. He said in verse twenty two,
Speaker 2: we have to be doers of the word. We have
Speaker 2: to do something about it. We have to apply it
Speaker 2: in our lives. You know, one of the last trainings
Speaker 2: that I've experienced when I was in the previous company,
Speaker 2: when I was still working in a multinational company, they
Speaker 2: actually sent me to Antipolo for three days with a
Speaker 2: few couple of people. It was a training on seven
Speaker 2: habits of effective people, I think by Stephen Kobe. It
Speaker 2: was a three day thing. We were locked in on Tipolo.
Speaker 2: We were allowed to go home because they wanted us
Speaker 2: to make sure that there were exercises in applications or
Speaker 2: something that you would think about and reflect about after
Speaker 2: the eight to five seminar and me being a very competitive.
Speaker 3: Person, I would always have questions.
Speaker 2: I would always be the Paccin Avenue facilitator. I have
Speaker 2: a question, I will answer. I wanted to get all
Speaker 2: the learnings from it. I would write down everything that
Speaker 2: I needed to learn. I would market but Stabilo, yellow, green, blue, blue,
Speaker 2: nicolam well labs I market, I underline it.
Speaker 3: I put a star asterisk. I wanted to learn so much.
Speaker 3: I read.
Speaker 2: I wrote down everything that I needed to learn, and
Speaker 2: I would actually picture the things that I wanted to apply.
Speaker 3: Work but efficient all. I will change this. I will
Speaker 3: talk to the people. We have to change this. We
Speaker 3: have to do this.
Speaker 2: The training was on a Friday, three days Wednesday to Friday.
Speaker 2: You know on Friday, when I went home, Oh, come
Speaker 2: stan Kelley, grabbe, I'm gonna I'm gonna revolutionize my work
Speaker 2: at Tinao Feeling Saturday, I met a few people grab
Speaker 2: him galingon training.
Speaker 3: Damn, you should see the man. I'll lend it to you.
Speaker 2: Sunday, gangly by Monday when he got back to working
Speaker 2: desk on damning Peter Mahan, dammit and shampre. As a
Speaker 2: Christian as we are, so I did what I needed
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 3: I forgot about the training.
Speaker 2: If you ask me if I applied one of the
Speaker 2: seven maybe the eighth. I don't know, but I don't
Speaker 2: even remember applying the one to seven. Why because it
Speaker 2: was actually I forgot all about it. I was eaten
Speaker 2: by what I needed to do. Sometimes we're like that.
Speaker 2: When we read the word, We're excited you want to
Speaker 2: do it. We're excited when we read it. When we
Speaker 2: when Lord grab the first time looking grabbing a scripture
Speaker 2: of Jesus, wept. It's something I want to apply well
Speaker 2: on compassion, I want to cry. And then nothing happens.
Speaker 2: We experience that it's hard to do. Why, Because we're
Speaker 2: eaten by the world. We go back to the daily grind.
Speaker 2: We get busy. I want to say this to you,
Speaker 2: but stern warning, I'm gonna say this out of love,
Speaker 2: and this is for all of us. You know, many
Speaker 2: times we have this idea that as we hear a preaching,
Speaker 2: the preaching will make.
Speaker 3: Us grow as believers.
Speaker 2: But reality is, if we don't apply it, we'll just
Speaker 2: be back to where we are.
Speaker 3: We won't go, we won't grow. Whenever we hear.
Speaker 2: A preaching and we like it, we need to do
Speaker 2: our part.
Speaker 3: We need to apply it. We need to respond to
Speaker 3: do our part. I like the message. Version of the scripture,
Speaker 3: it says that the word of God.
Speaker 2: For people that who do not apply it, it's as if
Speaker 2: it enters one ear.
Speaker 3: And then sits another, just passes through. Warren words.
Speaker 2: We said, too many Christians mark their Bibles, but their
Speaker 2: bibles never mark them.
Speaker 3: Isn't it true? Sometimes we could write down everything that
Speaker 3: we could do, mark it, but.
Speaker 2: The world would actually lie to us and deceive us
Speaker 2: that there are a lot more things important.
Speaker 3: For us to do than to apply the word of God.
Speaker 2: In verse twenty three, it says James was giving us
Speaker 2: a picture.
Speaker 3: Of what it is if we do not apply it. Sabitazhan.
Speaker 3: For if anyone is a hear of the word and
Speaker 3: not a doer, he.
Speaker 2: Is like a man who looks intently at himself natural
Speaker 2: face in the mirror. For he looks at himself and
Speaker 2: goes away at once forgets what he was like if
Speaker 2: you think about it back you no, no, Why was
Speaker 2: James talking about a mirror that when you look at
Speaker 2: yourself intently and then you leave and back What's it
Speaker 2: about that mirror? You know during this time that James
Speaker 2: wrote this well up upon mirror in the glass mirrors
Speaker 2: were made of polished metal, and when you look at
Speaker 2: yourself in a polished metal object, it's something that will
Speaker 2: not give you one hundred percent of the reflection. So
Speaker 2: it means you need to look at it intently.
Speaker 3: You need to look at yourself.
Speaker 2: Paramasmaliti ilungko almko but iba. When your mirror is not
Speaker 2: one hundred percent reflective of you, you get to look
Speaker 2: at it in different angles.
Speaker 3: We get to think about it, is this really what
Speaker 3: I look like?
Speaker 2: And the verse is that when we see something different
Speaker 2: or we see something not try it in our faces,
Speaker 2: when we see the reflection, we have to actually do
Speaker 2: something about it. It's tomorrow when you wake up, before
Speaker 2: you leave for office, muta, ohi muta you take it
Speaker 2: out right? We take it out why because it's not normal.
Speaker 2: It's not normal that you go to the office with muta.
Speaker 3: You have to clean your eyes. You know, this is
Speaker 3: what the Word of God does.
Speaker 2: It's actually a reflection of what we need to see,
Speaker 2: more than a mirror to actually show us what's wrong
Speaker 2: with us. When we read the word of God, we
Speaker 2: would actually see what we need to do to actually
Speaker 2: give us a reflection of the sin that we're going through,
Speaker 2: to actually give us a reflection of our attitude. But
Speaker 2: mayavan bada do we have that pride? It's a picture
Speaker 2: of reflecting what we need to see about ourselves. But
Speaker 2: the problem is we don't do it. Some of us
Speaker 2: can actually ignore it. You feeling moment, do migan conte
Speaker 2: where everyone sees it. Now there's something wrong with you,
Speaker 2: but for you no.
Speaker 3: Normal.
Speaker 2: This is very unfortunate when we continue to live our
Speaker 2: lives as if.
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with us.
Speaker 2: When the Word of God is clear for us to
Speaker 2: see that we need to change, for us to see
Speaker 2: that we need to do something about it, for us
Speaker 2: to see that we need to repent for our things,
Speaker 2: for us to see that we need to say sorry
Speaker 2: to a loved one, but we don't do it.
Speaker 3: We close the book.
Speaker 2: The Word of God is saying that we're deceiving ourselves.
Speaker 3: It's us who is at the losing end.
Speaker 2: I like what James said in the same book, Chapter four,
Speaker 2: verse seventeen. It says, remember it is sin to know
Speaker 2: what you ought to do and then not do it.
Speaker 2: When we learn what we need to do based on
Speaker 2: the word of God and we don't do it, the
Speaker 2: Word says, it's actually sin. How do we respond when
Speaker 2: God reveals things to us once we receive it in humility,
Speaker 2: How do we respond to his word?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: God desires the best for us, but we all if
Speaker 2: we only read the word, understand it, study.
Speaker 3: It, but don't do it s actually.
Speaker 2: Rubbing ourselves of the best of what God wants us
Speaker 2: to experience.
Speaker 3: We're called to obey the word of God. Very simple.
Speaker 3: We have to do our part. God reveals to us truth.
Speaker 3: Now we need to do our part. We need to respond.
Speaker 2: Psalms one one nine, verse thirty says teach me, o, Lord,
Speaker 2: the way of your statutes, and I will keep it
Speaker 2: to the end. Give me understanding that I may keep
Speaker 2: your law and observe it with.
Speaker 3: All my heart.
Speaker 2: Lead me in the path of your commandments, for eye
Speaker 2: delight in it.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: And a practical way to look at the word is
Speaker 2: to ask, Lord, show me what you want me to
Speaker 2: understand in your lass, in your words, Lord, teach me,
Speaker 2: give me understanding and lead me to what you want
Speaker 2: me to do.
Speaker 3: This reality.
Speaker 2: Maybe some of us or maybe most of us, with
Speaker 2: quote scriptures in the Bible, we may know a hundreds
Speaker 2: of scriptures. We may know a lot of things, principal
Speaker 2: stories from the Old Testament to the New Everything. We
Speaker 2: may know all that, But if you don't apply the
Speaker 2: word of God in our lives, won't be able to
Speaker 2: move forward. God won't be able to put us in
Speaker 2: his will. God won't be able to use us the
Speaker 2: way He designed us. Question that we want to ask
Speaker 2: each and every one of us today, or there things
Speaker 2: that we need to obey, or their things that we
Speaker 2: need to apply. You know, one of the things that
Speaker 2: I want to do today, which is different from most
Speaker 2: of our preachings, is to actually do it. Apply it,
Speaker 2: apply the word of God. And today we're going to
Speaker 2: go back practical. So what's next?
Speaker 3: We want to apply the word?
Speaker 2: But the question is how? Verse twenty five says we
Speaker 2: start it by looking. But the one who looks into
Speaker 2: the perfect law, the law of liberty, is talking about
Speaker 2: the scripture, the word look here that was used comes
Speaker 2: from the Greek word para kupto, which means to bend
Speaker 2: over to see something better, to find out something intellectual
Speaker 2: about it. It's actually not just looking in front. It's researching,
Speaker 2: it's reading, it's meditating, it's looking for answers. Did you
Speaker 2: know that your bibles, most of our Bibles would have
Speaker 2: pages and pages of an introduction to a book. Sometimes
Speaker 2: it's at the back, sometimes it happens before the book.
Speaker 3: But it's there. We just need to read it.
Speaker 2: We just need to study it to be able to
Speaker 2: know the leading of God.
Speaker 3: We need to make sure.
Speaker 2: That we study the word of God. We need to
Speaker 2: make sure that we did deep. One of the things
Speaker 2: that I want to share with you on the practical
Speaker 2: side of it is this that as you study each
Speaker 2: book of the Bible, how many books do we have?
Speaker 2: Sixty six books? We need to actually know this. And
Speaker 2: if you're starting your devotion tomorrow and starting a new book,
Speaker 2: this would be a good thing to start with. Number One,
Speaker 2: know the author, Know the author, know the audience. Who
Speaker 2: is he talking about Latin yea, What is the purpose
Speaker 2: of the book, and then what is the context? And
Speaker 2: this is what we did a while ago about James.
Speaker 2: Now you understand when we read the scripture. Okay, so
Speaker 2: let's James.
Speaker 3: His church and in purpose.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he wanted to address issues of double mindedness. What
Speaker 2: was the context? They were thriving church?
Speaker 3: He U was all that this time. We only learned
Speaker 3: that if we.
Speaker 2: Read, if we study the book, if we study the scripture,
Speaker 2: and if you're ready, we're gonna do something different today.
Speaker 3: We're gonna do road.
Speaker 2: Have you heard of road as a method of doing
Speaker 2: your devotion? So road means R? What does what do
Speaker 2: we mean by R?
Speaker 3: It's read.
Speaker 2: When we read the word, we have to read it fast,
Speaker 2: read it slow, read it silently, read it aloud in
Speaker 2: any meth read it in different styles, read other translations.
Speaker 2: After you read ESV read NIV. You know, one of
Speaker 2: the things that we have the privilege of having is
Speaker 2: free Bibles in the Internet.
Speaker 3: There are a lot of versions.
Speaker 2: There that we can actually validate from. Even the Tagalog
Speaker 2: Bible is available there. So we read the scripture, and
Speaker 2: once you read the scripture, you highlight the things that
Speaker 2: impact you. You highlight the thing that you feel that
Speaker 2: God is speaking to you with.
Speaker 3: What's oh, oh is observe there? When we observe.
Speaker 2: We look at the context. What was happening, Where were
Speaker 2: they when was this?
Speaker 3: What are the words that were used?
Speaker 2: Was it repeated? Is there a concluding word?
Speaker 3: Is there a word? Therefore? Sometimes you would hear and.
Speaker 2: Read words like truly, truly? Why did they repeat the word?
Speaker 3: We observe that there are commands. Why are their commands?
Speaker 2: Look for the promises we observe, and then letter A
Speaker 2: is ask ask questions like why why did this happen?
Speaker 2: Ask questions like what what is going on?
Speaker 3: What does it say to me in my life?
Speaker 2: We can ask questions, And then lastly is do how
Speaker 2: do we respond? We need to repent? Do we need
Speaker 2: to say sorry?
Speaker 3: This is action?
Speaker 2: We start doing it? Do we start learning new disciplines?
Speaker 2: And another way of doing something is actually prayer. When
Speaker 2: God leads us to.
Speaker 3: Prayer, it's doing it.
Speaker 2: It's something that is a spiritual that when God reveals something,
Speaker 2: we get.
Speaker 3: Down on our knees and we pray. We do it.
Speaker 2: All right, So I hope you guys are excited because
Speaker 2: today we're gonna actually do rude. I'm gonna give you
Speaker 2: a scripture for the next few minutes. Let's read it
Speaker 2: and then we'll try to observe, we'll try to ask questions,
Speaker 2: and we'll do all right.
Speaker 3: Are you guys ready? All right, let's.
Speaker 2: Read John chapter twenty verse twenty four to twenty nine.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna give you guys time, okay, all right,
Speaker 2: so we'll just check something that you have observed. Can
Speaker 2: I hear someone to say something about what you have
Speaker 2: observed in the scripture? So well, I know, busy, yeah,
Speaker 2: Abram choose one? Yeah, all right, let's give a hand
Speaker 2: to the young gentleman.
Speaker 3: What have you observed? Are you Thomas? Yes?
Speaker 2: From the other disciples, yes, yes, that's good.
Speaker 3: They didn't believe Thomas.
Speaker 2: May prove they were convincing when they were convincing him. Okay,
Speaker 2: one more observation, all right, what's one thing that you observed?
Speaker 3: Thomas was not with the.
Speaker 2: Disciples, Yes, when they encountered Jesus he was not.
Speaker 3: Yes, all right, but yes, yes, one more, one more?
Speaker 2: One more observation from Abrams group. Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3: Thomas wanted for evidence, yes, to believe. That's good. All right.
Speaker 3: Let's give around the lost or volunteers.
Speaker 2: All right, so we'll see you know, stay there loud, Okay, observation,
Speaker 2: This is what I wrote down. Number one almost did
Speaker 2: not believe the other disciples about Jesus resurrection. Maybe he
Speaker 2: was a person that needs to see first to believe.
Speaker 3: It's very obvious, right. Another observation that.
Speaker 2: I found is Jesus defines a blessed person and that's
Speaker 2: believing without seeing. So because of my observation, what did
Speaker 2: I conclude? That we are called by Jesus to live
Speaker 2: a life of faith and that faith is a life
Speaker 2: of faith? Is what that we don't need to see
Speaker 2: a life of faith. It's not seeing to believe, it's
Speaker 2: an other way around. We can actually believe something that
Speaker 2: we do not see. When we do road we write
Speaker 2: down all our observations, there's no limit to it. You
Speaker 2: can fill in the entire page for this. So now
Speaker 2: we should ask what's one thing that you want to ask?
Speaker 2: But tep of friend Silla. If you think about it,
Speaker 2: the burk out the time.
Speaker 3: But to get any.
Speaker 2: If I was Peter or Paul or John or Ringo whatever,
Speaker 2: one more question?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and what's the purpose? Yes?
Speaker 2: I know I am purpose bay that's good.
Speaker 3: That's good?
Speaker 2: And how these are the two questions that I wanted
Speaker 2: to get clarified. The first one is clarity of the verse.
Speaker 2: This is my question, how did Jesus enter the room?
Speaker 2: Since the verses the door was locked.
Speaker 3: These are the.
Speaker 2: Questions that we want to ask because if you don't
Speaker 2: understand it, we can actually look for the answer. Lord
Speaker 2: back at and on purpose it was locked the verses
Speaker 2: the door was locked, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 2: Jesus was around them. Why because it was no longer
Speaker 2: in his flesh that is pinto He just appears where
Speaker 2: he wants to appear. Okay, another question that I wanted
Speaker 2: to ask, But this time I want.
Speaker 3: You to get this.
Speaker 2: This is a reflective question that I wanted to ask,
Speaker 2: and this is my devotion. By the way, a few
Speaker 2: days ago, I really chose this to.
Speaker 3: Share it with you. This is my question, what are the.
Speaker 2: Things that I've been believing for that I've lost hope
Speaker 2: on because I do not see it happening, no progress.
Speaker 3: It was like a Thomas.
Speaker 2: In me guides a bin and victory group leader, go guys,
Speaker 2: abin and pastors that I don't believe why because there
Speaker 2: was an I.
Speaker 3: Don't see it?
Speaker 2: Is there things in my life that I need to
Speaker 2: see first to believe, so I think questions go in
Speaker 2: my mind, okay.
Speaker 3: And the last one is do all right?
Speaker 2: What is one thing that you want to do based
Speaker 2: on the scripture were.
Speaker 3: Young faith by the mass Manuel at yes Teva.
Speaker 2: It's something that will allow you to do that meaning
Speaker 2: it's to have that faith that even though I do
Speaker 2: not see it.
Speaker 3: Now, I will believe it.
Speaker 2: Or these are the two reminders that I wanted to do, sabiko,
Speaker 2: remind myself of the things that I'm believing for that
Speaker 2: it will happen by faith. Although I don't see it yet,
Speaker 2: I can declare it's yes an aim and in Jesus Christ,
Speaker 2: it's a picture of Thomas and his unbelief Nis and
Speaker 2: Inula and the Tartana Jesus and savage Jesus. Blessed, Peace
Speaker 2: be with you. Blessed are the ones who do not
Speaker 2: see yet believe. And this is what I want in
Speaker 2: my life now, Lord, Now I don't even need to
Speaker 2: see what I can believe. This is what I learned
Speaker 2: from this text. And now I began to actually write
Speaker 2: down the things that I needed to remind myself that Lord,
Speaker 2: dig maa maa magiar in Alam, it's yes and Amen,
Speaker 2: I was actually giving a picture of a cake that
Speaker 2: whenever we buy a cake, do we need.
Speaker 3: To see how it's big. We just know it's there.
Speaker 2: We just know that when we need it, when we
Speaker 2: buy it, it's already there.
Speaker 3: And a build up in faithful. But I needed to
Speaker 3: do my part.
Speaker 2: I needed to write the things down that I needed
Speaker 2: to believe again and lastly, dun sad, I wrote down
Speaker 2: to pray that God will guard my heart from unbelief.
Speaker 2: That I don't want to live in unbelief. That whenever
Speaker 2: people would ask me something and I would reply to
Speaker 2: them that they need to see first to believe. I
Speaker 2: don't want to impart that to others unbelief And it
Speaker 2: starts with me. And I hope you get this. That
Speaker 2: doing is an act of prayer as well. Doesn't mean
Speaker 2: that when we pray we're not doing something. We're actually
Speaker 2: doing something when we pray and ask God to change us.
Speaker 3: When we pray and ask God.
Speaker 2: To change our heart of stone to a heart of flesh,
Speaker 2: what we're saying is Lord, Digo Kyah, do your work
Speaker 2: in me.
Speaker 3: Its surrenderer our lives to the one who can do it.
Speaker 2: Last few reminders, some guide questions during your devotion as
Speaker 2: you do your road on a daily basis. Number one,
Speaker 2: does it reveal an attitude to change.
Speaker 3: Or a sin to forsake?
Speaker 2: Ask these questions based on the scripture that we read.
Speaker 2: Number two, does it reveal a specific promise to claim?
Speaker 2: Does it reveal an example to follow? Does it reveal
Speaker 2: a command to obey? In these four questions that we
Speaker 2: ask and even that applied, don't skate Thomas.
Speaker 3: A story in Jesus.
Speaker 2: It's number one. Does it reveal an attitude to change?
Speaker 2: Second one, lord attitude know of unbelief? And then second
Speaker 2: it reveals an example to follow the example of Jesus
Speaker 2: saying that to believe is not necessarily to see, but
Speaker 2: actually to believe that it has already happened. Ohibyon in road,
Speaker 2: thank you, don Selima. In verse twenty five we end
Speaker 2: it says we are called to study.
Speaker 3: The word says there.
Speaker 2: But the one who looks into the perfect law and
Speaker 2: the law of liberty. And there's a keyword here, it
Speaker 2: says persevere. When we persevere, we do our part, we
Speaker 2: meaning we do it, we fight for it.
Speaker 3: Here's discipline, we do it. Until the end.
Speaker 2: And I was thinking about an example of who that
Speaker 2: this might be. And I know that you've noticed social
Speaker 2: media being flooded of posts about Billy Grant, a nineteen
Speaker 2: nine year old pastor, reverend, powerful evangelist speaker, someone who
Speaker 2: is devoted to the Word until the end at nineteen
Speaker 2: nine years old, if he could actually preach at that age.
Speaker 2: When we persevere, the Word of God.
Speaker 3: Makes stronger roots in our life. The Word of God
Speaker 3: just overflows in us.
Speaker 2: When we persevere and receive the word, and when we
Speaker 2: apply it.
Speaker 3: We can actually benefit from it. We have a blessed life.
Speaker 2: And this is the reward, the promise, the change gives.
Speaker 2: In the end, he said that whoever not only hears it,
Speaker 2: but does it, he will be blessed.
Speaker 3: In his doing.
Speaker 2: When we apply the word of God, when we study
Speaker 2: it diligently, we can have a blessed marriage. When we
Speaker 2: apply the Word of God and study it, we can
Speaker 2: have actually a blessed career, blessed relationships.
Speaker 3: He promises that that we will be blessed. It will
Speaker 3: always be.
Speaker 2: For us, protect us, strengthen us, lead us to the
Speaker 2: right path. If you think about it, this is the
Speaker 2: heart of God, the only reason why he wants us
Speaker 2: to obey this.
Speaker 3: For you, it's really for you. It's for us to
Speaker 3: have a life that is full, to have a li
Speaker 3: life that.
Speaker 2: Is worthy, something that honors him, and we can enjoy
Speaker 2: that life. As I end, I want to share with you, Luke.
Speaker 2: Chapter eleven, verse twenty eight. In this verse, Jesus was
Speaker 2: teaching a crowd just like this, a bunch of people,
Speaker 2: huge number of people, teaching.
Speaker 3: Them what to do with their lives.
Speaker 2: He was preaching about the kingdom that is at hand.
Speaker 3: Because of the preaching that he gave.
Speaker 2: There's this one woman shouts, blessed is your mother who
Speaker 2: carried you, Sabina in verse twenty seven ale bayum patita
Speaker 2: in our context, by your mommy most.
Speaker 3: Chapter with you.
Speaker 2: She shouted, blessed are you among women? Sorry, Sabina, blessed
Speaker 2: is your mother?
Speaker 3: Sorry?
Speaker 2: It is that Sabina, blessed is your mother in verse
Speaker 2: twenty seven. But what did Jesus say, Versey, It says
Speaker 2: blessed Rather are those who hear the word of God
Speaker 2: and obey it. I know you want to be blessed.
Speaker 2: Sometimes we claim it. Lord, we are blessed people because
Speaker 2: we are your children. God wants that for you. He
Speaker 2: has given his instructions for us, spoken to us, wants
Speaker 2: to speak to us on a daily basis, But we
Speaker 2: need to do our part. The biggest part he has
Speaker 2: done already by dying on the cross. And this is
Speaker 2: our position as sons and daughters of God.
Speaker 3: He wants us to be blessed. How do we do that?
Speaker 2: We need to obey the word of God. Amen, Amen,
Speaker 2: Heavenly Father, Thank you that your word is clear to us.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Lord God, that we can declare this word
Speaker 2: that we are blessed. Why because we are people who
Speaker 2: obey your word. Thank you, Heavenly Father, that you are
Speaker 2: in our midst today. Lord, speak to each and every
Speaker 2: one of us. Lord, I declare that you're giving them courage.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 2: Some of you, my brothers and sisters, are having this
Speaker 2: hard time because you know that it's gonna hurt you
Speaker 2: if you obey God. Why because it may be a
Speaker 2: wrong situation, maybe a relationship that you're in that you
Speaker 2: shouldn't be in. But you know what God is saying
Speaker 2: that he will be the one to restore you. Some
Speaker 2: of us might be afraid to obey God. Why because
Speaker 2: we're not sure of what will it turn out of
Speaker 2: what will happen if we obey him. But you know what,
Speaker 2: this is my declaration for each and every one of us,
Speaker 2: even to myself, that when we obey the word of God,
Speaker 2: we know that his plans are always good, pleasing, imperfect.
Speaker 2: You know, when God blesses us, he does not add
Speaker 2: trouble to it. Well, I'm Sabbath always be good for us,
Speaker 2: even the time that when we obey, He knows that.
Speaker 2: I believe some of us are hesitant, But you know what,
Speaker 2: I believe God is bestowing courage to each and everyone.
Speaker 2: Nor thank you for your people today, Nor thank you
Speaker 2: that their hearts are ripe for you, Lord God. Lord,
Speaker 2: thank you that whenever they read the word, they will
Speaker 2: look into it Lord, in all angles they will study it.
Speaker 3: Lord. Thank you, Lord God, that you have given us
Speaker 3: this hunger to know you more.
Speaker 2: Nor thank you that as we obey you, Lord God,
Speaker 2: You're gonna be a father who is delighted to us
Speaker 2: that whenever we do something, Lord, as we obey you, Lord,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be a father who is so happy that
Speaker 2: you're gonna reward us. Lord Nord, thank you that you're
Speaker 2: giving us an inheritance of a children of children that
Speaker 2: belongs to you, Lord nor, thank you for bestowing blessings
Speaker 2: upon blessings upon your people.
Speaker 3: Lord.
Speaker 2: They declare that you're gonna surprise them this week. Thank you,
Speaker 2: Lord God, that you're gonna move in and through them.
Speaker 2: Lord God, Favor upon men, Lord God as they obey you.
Speaker 2: Favor upon transactions, Lord, Favor upon restoration of relationships. This
Speaker 2: we declare in Jesus' name, and everybody say.
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