WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.040
I'm thinking today of a short passage in James

00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:05.559
chapter 2. It begins with verse 9. It says, but

00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:08.279
if you show partiality, that means if you look

00:00:08.279 --> 00:00:10.339
like toward the rich people and you treat them

00:00:10.339 --> 00:00:12.779
well, or you treat only those people who treat

00:00:12.779 --> 00:00:16.079
you well, well, that kind of thing. It says,

00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:18.339
if you show partiality like that, you are committing

00:00:18.339 --> 00:00:22.420
sin and you are convicted by the law as transgressors

00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:25.320
for or because whoever keeps the whole law and

00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:27.480
yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty

00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:30.219
of all. For he who said, do not commit adultery,

00:00:30.320 --> 00:00:32.899
also said, do not commit murder. Now, if you

00:00:32.899 --> 00:00:34.659
do not commit adultery, but do commit murder,

00:00:34.840 --> 00:00:37.570
you have become a transgressor of the law. So

00:00:37.570 --> 00:00:40.710
speak and so act as those who are to be judged

00:00:40.710 --> 00:00:42.890
by the law of liberty. So this is the point.

00:00:42.969 --> 00:00:45.850
God has given us many instructions. They are

00:00:45.850 --> 00:00:47.770
the way that we will best honor him. They are

00:00:47.770 --> 00:00:50.350
the way that we will live our best life. He came

00:00:50.350 --> 00:00:52.229
and died that we might have life and have it

00:00:52.229 --> 00:00:54.649
more abundantly. And following the directions

00:00:54.649 --> 00:00:57.909
of our God, he is Lord, is the way to get there.

00:00:58.070 --> 00:01:00.890
But if you break one point, you would then be

00:01:00.890 --> 00:01:03.909
guilty of all of it. So if you showed partiality

00:01:03.909 --> 00:01:05.849
towards someone, if you lusted after someone,

00:01:06.030 --> 00:01:07.980
if you murdered someone, someone or showed anger

00:01:07.980 --> 00:01:10.000
or had anger in your heart toward a brother that's

00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:11.819
the same as murder those things then you would

00:01:11.819 --> 00:01:13.980
be guilty of all of it So you need a Savior.

00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:16.000
No one's perfect, and no one's going to get it

00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.040
right at all during this lifetime, but you need

00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:20.519
Jesus, and Jesus is Lord, and that means he tells

00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:22.099
us what to do, and we do it, and he's Savior.

00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:23.920
That means he paid the price for our sins, and

00:01:23.920 --> 00:01:28.420
that overcomes our judgment as transgressors,

00:01:28.420 --> 00:01:31.239
and we are justified. We live now just as if

00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:33.620
we had never sinned, and we try to live the best

00:01:33.620 --> 00:01:35.340
we know how and follow the directions because

00:01:35.340 --> 00:01:37.180
we don't want to be transgressors, but at the

00:01:37.180 --> 00:01:39.599
same time, we realize that it's in Jesus that

00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:40.040
we're saved.