following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all up and your church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church if you got a bible grab it if you got your phone grab it we're going to be going into james james chapter one and i ask this earlier in our bible study who wrote the book of james very abroad greetings of us twelve tribes who is he writing to his writing to that use of the gentiles is writing to the jews so we'll have to read this because if you're not a jew this doesn't apply to us so united you throw it away but guess what we're all called they no longer were slaves but he saw a blunt bondservant as one who says you know what i like working for you i like what you have done for me i appreciate all you've done and i want to be a bond servant to you i want to continue to serve you and what they would do is they would actually have it all and they would piers their ear and that was the mark that they were bondservant and so out of that james is saying he's a bondservant of god what is that saying he's saying you know what i don't have to be a slave to god because jesus says that we're no longer slaves were friends of god is that true if you're a believer in jesus christ or friends of god but what james is saying you know what i want to be more than a friend of god i want to be a servant to god i want to be sold out to god so james a bond sort of god the lord jesus christ of the twelve tribes are dispersed abroad greetings first to consider all joy my brother when you encounter various trials knowing that the test of your faith produce nothing anybody want to be perfect anybody want to be complete anybody want to have everything how do you get it perseverance trials gets you have to do was go through trials and the purse of beer and you know what you get you get good character you get insurance you get steadfastness and it comes a point that no matter what comes your way you sti through that's why you do that nothing because how many people are lacking in finances because they get a job and it don't work out they say well i guess i'm not supposed to work but you'd be lacking the street from where men live and whatever else says so as labor works and you go there and you get there five o'clock in the morning and when you get there they have tons of jobs they can't wait to send you out i mean oh that's not the case especially at first you know you do you go there and you do up sit and wait and then you see people going and you're sitting and the last person that went out smelled like we'd the last person that went out he looks like he's gotten off from heroin so do they lack they lacked that one hundred twenty dollars they could have made why because they didn't persevered but if they stick it out guess what happens they get sent out but wait a second bill s not true i was there for three days then didn't get anything does that happen yet three days get nothing and then you get quit you get in thing after that nothing could you quit sometimes it may be wait an hour two hours you wait three days but guess what happens when you persevered many of you know if you ever worked at a temp agencies you persevered what happens and you end up sticking it out and then i think i think sometimes the test people i think they really do i think they see who's going to stick it out for two or three days but then you stick it out then what happens all the sudden you get a ticket every day are working full time why because you persevered you endured it lacked nothing when it says that you'd be perfect and complete how many know there's only one person that's perfect jesus god the holy spirit one of the same are we perfect no but if you look at perfect in different way in that sense a perfect and complete with us talking about we are what we need to be who we need to be we are god create is to be can we walk lacks wisdom let him ask god who gives to all generously without reproach and it be given to him but i must ask in faith without any delton for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea driven and tossed by the wind for that are not expected to receive anything from the lord being a double minded man unstable in all his ways if you lack wisdom what is should you do you ask god if you lack wisdom you ask god for wisdom and  if you ask god for wisdom and he says let me think about it i'm going to give it to you're not you know i don't feel like giving it to you today i don't like you today is that what it says i don't read that this is you know what you need wisdom but you know what you want without reproach that means he's not going to hold anything against you if you want wisdom you're going to get it here's the crazy part how many times redoing things in rome is that asking for wisdom i'll tell you one of the ways this happens that ministry that is to people and in ministry happens the pastor's is i know my bible i know it i don't need to study it i've read it three times five times ten time i never need to read it again i got it down i got to figure out what you think think that's wise so then when they're preaching they don't even know what they're preaching because they haven't asked god for wisdom lord how do i interpret that passage lord how do you want to be applied to the congregation i'll tell you a good preacher good preachers when he's preaching he's hearing god's voice the whole time and ask god which way to go holy spirit where do you want to go god give me wisdom there are certain verses i would like to really hit on you believe that wisdom is not knowledge wisdom is taken knowledge in applying that knowledge and in the right way you may not have any knowledge at all but god can give you wisdom you don't have to be a smart intelligent person because the wisdom that god gives has nothing to do with you is it about you know it has nothing god's wisdom that he gives he has nothing to do with you he gives it w the say but ask without delton for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea driven tossed by the when anybody see the there's apartment to maui there's a part of the ocean that you go in it's calm it's beautiful it's good for snorkeling it's great then there's another part you go and you can do body surfing and you can do board and all that and then there's a place where the another part where there's the surf boards go out and it is scary gigantic gigantic waves and then you see the wind blown in and it's gone everywhere and you see them getting tossed around and one time i went to hell about fishing in alaska i had a friend that was  a commercial halibut fisherman and they took me out to go fishing with them and the wind was blowing and that ocean was going everywhere i chummed every fish in the ocean every fish got fed by me as sick as i got tossing everywhere everywhere and in the midst of i'm confused i've got a headache i just say stop what it is saying is that if you're asking god for wisdom and you doubt you're going to be totally confused you are not know what is true what is right because your question if god is going to come through or not god i need wisdom and guess what when god gives wisdom yet to believe he gives you wisdom so if you say god give me wisdom should i marry this person or not if god says don't marry them what does that mean don't marry them but if you have a relation as with a ship with god where your faith is lacking and you have a lot of doubt god says don't marry them and then you turn around i wonder if that's god or buy should do that or not what should i do i look for signs of wonders i'll do this or that and you start wavering what god told you not to do and then you do a god tell you not to do and then what happens trouble problems happens you turn around and you wonder if you should take a job or not a god says no i don't think you should take that job god give me wisdom and now me know that god gives us wisdom in his word in his principles so i am a alcoholic and i'm asking god if i should have a job as a bartender god give me wisdom see there are certain things we don't need god's wisdom because it is worthy of give us the examples principle do we put ourselves into temptation no so he gives us wisdom in his word that we didn't need to pray about but this is tom i was when we see god for wisdom and it says not to receive anything if you have a doubt don't expect god to give you if you have doubt i don't know if god's for me you're against me so if i don't know god for me i don't know if god loves me or not i don't know if i have value in god's eyes or not if you have all those kind of questions your mind that you're probably going to be tossed to and fro you have to solidify that god loves me cares about me and has nothing to do with my performance then we go down the verse nine but the brother of homo circumstances to glory in his high position in the rich man humiliation because like flowering grass he will pass away for the sunrise with the scorching when and where there is the grass in this flower falls off of the beauty of his appearance is destroyed so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away so what does this talk about his dress in two different ways talking about humility this talking about chasing after money is talking about the riches of this world and now many know that if you chase the riches o this role all that's going to fade away all going to go away so i gather up everything i can get so i gather all i can i gather all the riches i can i got i grab all the reputation i grab everything i possibly can because i'm trying to find peace i'm trying to find purpose i'm trying to find identity in all those things and this is saying that in the midst of all those pursuits in the end it fades away microsoft engineer in the wrong with being a microsoft engineer but what if you lose that job did you lose your identity hopefully not but how many base their whole life on it twenty five years they do whatever type of work they do they retire and they lose their identity and they turn around and they're suicidal because your identity was on the things of this room this happens a ministry ok verse twelve bl what does bless it mean happy and bless it means to be blessed to be happy is blessed to be blessed is that a good thing is that a wonderful being anybody want to be a blast blessed if you go through trials does it it doesn't say you're blessed you go through trials a lot of people go through trials not blast the last are going through all kinds of trials are not blessed is blessed it is a man who persevered under trials when you you've been approved so i was a as a tuber driver i had to do all these days get a background check and all that stuff and then i get a message that says you've been approved as a new driver i passed the test i filled all the requirements is talking about the test once god says you passed the test this is not all i got i got to go through trust to be got to accept me so i can be born again your born again by faith in jesus christ not by your works not by how good you are not by all bad you are this is talking about as you go through a trial for once he has been approved he will receive the crown of life which is the lord has promised to do those who love him the crown of life is for who those who love him and something else you see it now i don't want to get too much time on this as it would be controversial i don't mind being controversial i'm being controversial but there could be a degree of bring this when you look at a blesses a man or persevered on a trial for once he has been approved he will receive the crown of life which the lord has promised that those who love them so you get the crown of life if you love him and watch your approved you pass the test you go through the trial and pass the test that me to explain this to you i don't want to get to secure forever never never we get all wrapped up in that we forget about why don't we just live for jesus because this right no if i live for jesus i guarantee to heaven guaranteed no question my mind if i live in for the devil more than live for jesus there might be some question in my mind but what it says here is says that he received the crown of life for those who love him who have been approved and i argued that approval is now good i am it is not based upon how hard i work the good works but what is talking about is that when you're going through the trials you're going to church relations you're still serving god because the you think that you can accept g d r say jesus i accept you to my heart i believe you die on the cross i believe grossman did accept  in my heart and then as you're going through life you flunk every test what do you think do you think that's a sign of that you're born again so that every time there's a test i flunked a test i would argue there's got to be some place that there's evidence that there's fruit in your life that you're born again and i can prove it because we're going to get to it i think we'll get to it in time we'll get to the passage that shows that what i'm saying is true so i don't believe that you're saved by works i don't believe you have to be good enough to be getting into heaven but i believe you need to walk out the life of a christian you have to win some tests very ten the devil tempts you you keep following the film and to some point you have to say am i born again or not and i were argue some people are brought up and raised up in churches where they're telling you that if you say a prayer it's seven years old and you accept jesus as seven years old your bure salvation is secure in a no matter how you live your selfishness to care because you accepted jesus and the problem with that in the deception in that is the person except jesus seven years old and they live like the devil all their life and they think that their say because they said a prayer at seven years old by the way said a prayer doesn't get you say give your heart to jesus get you say you can be prayed for sinners repeat the sinners prayer over and over again and then does it get you say it's a loud jesus to take control of your life to let him be the lord and save your life and too many people are saying going and i believe he died on the cross he rose from the grave and through him i can have eternal life that's pretty much the sinners prayer i believe that that's important i believe that that's something you should acknowledge but some words off of the bible tract doesn't get you saved as w holy spirit does in your heart and in your life and so there's to be a place and your life that you're getting some victory in your life so do you want to be more like jesus if you want to have his character disclose him the father i would pray that for each and every one of us the lord god we take this chapter in the james that we looked at so far and we have ply every single principle in our lives i pray father god we would be people of wisdom i pray father god that we would be people that honor you and glorify you i pray lord identity would be in christ and not in possessions not in riches not in the things of this role i pray father god that we would walk in and i pray father god that we would embrace the father of lights that everything we talked about lord that the only way that we become like jesus christ is when we find out what it means to be an intimate relationship with jesus when we know what it means to be loved by the father and so lord is not about our works is not about put up the bootstraps is not about how good we are it's about how good you are and all we want is the know more of the god that is the god of this universe we want to know more about the god that will pour out wisdom e we want to be an enclosed intimate relationship and we want to pass the test below are we want to be approved by you not just for our salvation because if we accepted christ we are approved of except christ we are sanctified except christ we are justified but we want to be approved of in the sense that we are reflecting the very character of jesus christ so you get us little pitching and poke and you got to do a little cutting you know lord that you're the surgeon and we're the patient and i'd be pray that we'd be patient with your surgery on us say that you will reward us and you will bless us in our faithfulness and we just thank you father god that is not just on earth but here in heaven we can receive your blessings so help us to walk with you we pray in jesus name amen this is best to rich do you need to know jesus christ your lord and savior jesus said behold i stand at the door and not going to be one hears my voice and opens the door i will come in romans ten thirteen says we were called upon the name of the lord will be today if you want to get more information you can always go to our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is hope t v died or that there is hope to be done or and we have information on frequently asked questions eight six six one god see open door churches are vision is loving gun loving people loving life now that's the vision for a church to love god to love people love life let me tell you something that if you love god and love people you will love life you know why some people don't love life they don't love god or they don't love people if you love god you don't love people you won't love life let me tell you something else when you love life you will love people you will love god it goes both ways and out of it if you have a love and a passion for god and you say god i just love you with all my heart thank you jesus so you've done so much for me laura i just love you lord what can i do for you that's what happens when you have true love love the lord what can i you love me how can i love you you know god is going to answer love people that's what he's going to say he's going to say love me because you already love him and you but he know the greatest commandment love the lord thy god with all your heart soul mind and the second gr commandment is what love others as yourself so loving god leads to loving people let me tell you if you love god or i love you so much what can i do he says i want you to love this person over here i want you to love this person over here i want you to do this for this person  almost are you still love me people start loving gun you don't think that you have some fire in you you know that you have some love in you that you start loving life you're excited about life can i tell you one reason most people aren't excited about life connected most people aren't excited about life where they chasing the dig when you love life there's accent about life when there's a fire let me tell you if you say i don't have a fire in me why don't i have a fire in the wind i'm not excited about life you're probably not loving god loving people try it just try that if you if you think life is kind of boring to start saying god help me to love people and let me tell you you won't be able to love people the way god has you to love them unless you start loving god so long i am my life and i'm a deadbeat human being i'm a deadbeat christian you you can't help but give back and love people so that's a vision you have been listening to there is so with pastor richard over through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle open door church located in period committed to loving god loving people and loving life seattle open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves you there doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven seattle open door church is located at six twenty five