father thank you for your word thank you that it is truth we pray that you'd open our eyes that we would behold wonderful things out of your word in the name of yeshua amen all right we're live on youtube welcome youtube we're glad to see you guys out there and glad to see all my peeps live on youtube uh for the first time i think this is my first time ever going live on youtube i may have done it once before with somebody else but i'm pretty sure this is my my first time ever going live on youtube but it will not be my last i assure you so i um want to welcome you to bible success secrets a couple of weeks ago when we had our bible study we were talking about we were talking about uh from james chapter one um every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the father of lights with whom there's no variableness neither shadow of turning which i think is um [Music] or actually verse 12 blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he has tried he shall receive a crown of life which the lord hath prepared for them that love him let no man say when he has tempted that i am tempted of god for god cannot be tempted with evil neither tempting any man but every man is tempted when he has drawn away of his own lust and enticed then when lust hath conceived it bringing forth sin and sin when his fingers finished bringing forth death and then it says do not ur mighty beloved brother in other words do not get off track do not get off the path do not get off of the way right because um wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and many there be that go in there at narrows the way and straight is the path that lead us to life and few there being that go into that a few there be that go in um there in two so what we want to do is we want to make sure we stay on the way it says do not error so we talked about um uh when we talked about blessed is the man that endureth temptation it's interesting that the bible in james chapter one it's talking about enduring temptations right let's talk about temptation it's talking about uh let's talk about trials in the beginning the first part of james is talking about trials we get down to verse number 12 it starts talking about temptations and then we get down to verse number 21 it's talking about the transformation of the word and so that's what we want to make sure we have happen we want to go we want to go through our trials victoriously we want to we want to have victory over temptation um victoriously and then we want to have transformation from the word and so we talked about how the fact that there are two types of temptation i'm going to give you a quick review since this is the first time on youtube um there there are two types of temptation two categories there's external temptation and internal temptation external temptation means somebody tempted you with something they offered you something that was or or an opportunity to do something that you should not have done has presented itself either from some person or something well the reality is external temptation is just that it's external temptation but the problem is not the external temptations the problem is the internal temptations that we have that match the external temptations that are presented to us so if somebody for instance i hate the smell of cigarette smoke so for me somebody offering me a cigarette is an external temptation but there's no internal temptation right because i hate the smell of cigarette smoke i hate the smell of alcohol so somebody offers me a you want to go out for a drink i drink some water i'll drink some apple juice but i don't like alcohol is not a temptation for me i quit drinking when i was 11. right so alcohol is not a temptation for me and so with that regard it's an external temptation but not an internal temptation now somebody pushes me somebody like like jumps in front of me and somebody like is threatening me and now there's an internal test i got a little bit it was kind of internal temptations all up in here you know what i'm saying so so i just pray that the lord won't lead me not into that temptation but deliver me from that evil can i get a witness and um so we we we understand that with regard to internal temptations there are three three types of internal temptation are that come from three different places inside of us we have three different internal enemies they are the world the flesh and the devil right the world tempts us in our ambitions and when i say our ambitions aren't we the reason we have a lot of the ambitions that we have is because we want people to think a certain thing about us and i submit to you that it is always a dangerous thing to need people to believe something about you like when you understand that you are who you are and who god knows you are and therefore who people think you are should be of no consequence just own your identity and let that be that right so the world tempts you in your ambitions the flesh tempts us in our appetites appetites mean anything that we do that are going to satisfy the flesh it could be food it could be drugs it could be alcohol it could be sex it could be for pornography it could be anger anything that's a fleshly appetite when we when we when we feed it it satiates us temp temporarily right that is a that's a the internal temptation of or it's an external temptation also external temptation of the flesh but if an external temptation of the flesh tempts me and i have no internal match for that then it's just an external temptation and then the last one is the temptation of the devil that tempts us in our attitudes and the primary attitude that is a temptation of the devil is a temptation of the um attitude of pride because satan wanted to usurp his authority over god he wanted to rise up and take over the throne of the most high the very first temptation that satan tempted man with yes it was a temptation to focus on lack but he told man the thing that i believe that he he told eve that really deceived her he said if you will do this thing you will be more like god right and because we are made in the image of god and we are an aleph dollar mem allah it's that spells adam and hebrew aleph dalid mem so aleph is the letter that represents god daleth mem spells the word blood so we are a god-like creation with flesh and blood that's who we are as human beings that's men and women the word god called their name adam adam later called her name even i know i'm giving a lot of foundational stuff but we're going somewhere with this so for people who are new i'm giving a little background so so understand that aleph taliban aleph is the letter that represents god in the hebron faith dalai mam is the word for blood we know the life of the flesh is in the blood so as an oliphalic men we are a god-like creature with flesh and blood but our objective as a man as a woman our objective is to make sure that the dollared meme part of us that the flesh and blood part of us is yielded to the spirit part of us and that the spirit part of us is in control and that we don't attempt we don't allow our spirit to try to elevate itself above god's spirit right these seven things that's the lord's six things that the lord hate yeah seven are abomination to him the first one it names is a proud look right and the reason god hates pride is because you have nothing to be proud of people say are you really proud of your children i'm thankful for my children but i'm not proud of them and and i know they don't mean any harm by that but we have to be very intentional with our words are you really proud of your business i'm thankful for my business but i'm not proud of it because the reality is even though i know that i've done the work to build this business the ability to do the work was a gift that i received that had nothing to do with me it was a gift that i received like the fact that i have cognitive reasoning sometimes in my brain that is a gift right the fact that my eyes can see and my mouth can speak and my ears can hear those are all gifts and i know how to open my eyes but i don't know how to make them see so blessed is the man um that in turn endure temptation for he shall receive a crown of life um which god um which the lord hath promised to them to love him now let no man say when he's attempted i'm tempted of god we already talked about that here's what's amazing about christ about yeshua hamashiach he was tempted in all points as we are yet without sin what does that mean that means he had all of the external temptations the temptation of the world the flesh and the devil if you go back and read in matthew chapter 4 and luke chapter 4 you will see that satan tempted christ in the arenas of the world the flesh and the devil right um you say your god prove it like jump off of the pinnacle of the temple and if you don't die then we'll know you're the messiah christ was not interested in proving that he was the messiah to anyone see a big part of our temptation like our art as human beings we want to prove to people that we're the man i want to prove to you that i'm the woman i want to prove to you that i'm the one like get over your need you are not free you are in the bondage of what you think somebody else thinks about you as long as you need somebody to believe something about you you are not truly free until you have nothing to prove nothing to lose nothing to gain and nothing to hide then and only then are you free and so so what happens is christ was tempted in the world but he said take these stones uh turn these stones to bread well that's the temptation of the flesh right and then what's the temptation of the devil bow down and worship me and i'll give you all the kingdoms of the world that's the temptation of the devil worship the devil satan again trying to use surface authority over god but see here's what it says in philippians chapter 2 let this mind be in you which was also in christ jesus allow this mind to be in you which was also in christ jesus who being in the form of god what does that mean that means christ knew who he was he understood his identity and owned it fully who being in the form of god he thought it not robbery to be equal with god in other words he didn't think he was doing something evil because he thought himself to be equal with god but even though he was equal with god he made himself of no reputation what does that mean he didn't need people to think anything about him but he was made in the likeness of men he was made in the likeness of men and being found in fashion as a man what did he do he humbled himself how did he humble himself he became obedient unto death he became obedient how be obedient unto death that's pretty obedient even the death of the cross wherefore god also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name that at the name of yeshua every knee should bow and every tongue confess that jesus christ is lord to the glory of god the father so what's my point my point is resist those temptations okay then it says then it says um do not urge my beloved brothers don't get off don't get off track here's why every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the father of lights with whom there is no variable this neither shadow turning now i love what it says after this so first of all every good gift and every perfect gift is from above right so every good thing that you have in your life every good thing that i have in my life is a gift that god has given me if do you understand that depression is a form of ingratitude do you understand that bitterness is a form of ingratitude it's not that i'm not saying the things that you're bitter about didn't happen i'm not saying the things you're depressed about aren't real i'm just saying you're more focused on the things that are making you depressed than you are on the one who is the prince of peace who can help you eliminate that depression you are you have a choice you don't have a choice in what happens to you if a loved one of yours i got a i meant a fault call from a friend of mine from many decades this past week our message on facebook that her niece was murdered in her front yard in front of her father murdered right he that's not she didn't have any control over my friend wasn't even there now she doesn't have any control over that but here's what she has control over she has control over what she's going to focus on i had polio as an infant i didn't have any control over that so i could focus on the fact that my left leg doesn't work that good or i can focus on the fact that my right leg does i have a choice the choice of focus is mine the choice of focus is always yours you can decide what you are going to focus on i got bad news from the doctor well you didn't get bad news from the doctor last year you got bad news this year so you had all last year to be thankful for you got bad news and one day like that wipes out the whole year a whole 20 years a whole 40 years of good news one bad news from a doctor i'm not saying it's not real and i'm not minimizing your problems i'm just saying thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee we need to be focused on the lord that is greater than any problem we face and if we do if we're more aware of the presence of the lord than we are the presence of whatever the threatening thing is we will be able to build an ark in the desert even though we've never seen a rain drop we will be able to we will be able to run towards a giant when everybody else is running from them we will be able we will be able to to to to stand in the presence of a sea of humanity who are all bowing down to a false god and worshipping irregardless of what happens to us when the king says i'm turn up the fire seven times higher it needs to be heated i'm gonna kill you seven times deader than anybody's ever been killed like if we are more aware of the presence of the lord when when the nebuchadnezzars of our lives say i'm going to throw you into that fiery furnace and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hand like we don't have to answer them with our mouth but our testimony can let them know that i am willing to sacrifice my life because my god whom i serve this is exactly what they said our god whom we serve is able to deliver us but if not see here's the problem with modern day christianity the modern day the problem of modern day christianity modern day churchianity is unfortunately most pastors think they're motivational speakers most preachers are giving you motivational talks instead of giving you the word of god and i am not motivated i'm not motivational enough to help you if i don't give you the word of god i am leading you astray and i am here to let you know that your best chance of achieving anything in this world is for you to put into practice the practical application of the word of god and i'm talking about walking it out shadrach meshach and abednego said we serve a god who's able but if he's not willing we still don't serve him he's able and they said and he will deliver us but if he doesn't if you burn us like crispier than last week's pancakes we are not bowing down to your idol and they threw them in the fire in the bible it's i love the bible because so it's like you you have to have a god-given faith to even believe it there's no there's no human that's smart enough to believe the bible because if you're all you're using is your intelligencia right you ain't gonna believe the bible because the bible talks about three different kinds of fire you all know there's three types of fire in the bible right okay there's there's called fire that burns where we see that fire we see it all over we see god sent down fire and brimstone from heaven to destroy sodom and gomorrah we see that elijah called down fire from heaven to consume the captain as 50. that's called fire that burns but we also see another fire we see the fire in exodus when god called moses and when god called moses the bible says the bush was on fire but it was not consumed now called fire that doesn't burn so we got fire that burns and we got fire that don't burn but the most amazing fire in the entire canon of scripture we find in daniel chapter 3 when it says that the king had his most mighty men like the most mighty men are i mean they were stronger than me i'm okay that was a joke some of y'all get that on the way home okay so the most the most mighty men in his army the scripture says he had him throw them into the fire it says the fire was so hot that it consumed the most mighty men in nebuchadnezzar's army and then it says and shad mack shadrach meshach and abednego fell down bound in the midst of the furnace it killed the men that threw him in but shadrach meshach and abednego fell down bound and then nebuchadnezzar in his haste stood up and said to his kings and i mean to his princes and his counselors did we now throw three men into the fire they answered him true o king he said lo i see four men loosed in the fire and the form of the fourth is like unto the son of god what do we learn from that we learn that more is caught than taught nebuchadnezzar couldn't hear shadrach meshach and abednego when they were telling him about their god but when they demonstrated who their god was by allowing him to throw his best his strongest man his hottest heat his greatest fire at them they fell down bound in the fire but then they were loosed in the fire so either it burned off the ropes or jesus untied him i'm not sure which one happened but they were loose in the fire they're walking around in the fire now they're showing off y'all don't see they're saying this is what their life is saying to nebuchadnezzar you don't know who i'm with you don't know who's with me you don't understand whose presence i'm aware of and i'm more aware of his presence than i am of your persecution i'm more aware of his presence than i am your problems i'm more aware of his presence than i am your peril you don't understand your fire can't scare me the one who created fire is in the fire with me and i know about the fire that burns because i read about it and i know about the fire that doesn't burn because i read about that in the torah but now we got a new kind of fire what's it called it's called the fire to burn some folk and don't burn other folk and see the very same trials that people in the world go through that don't have yeshua those very same trials that break them build us because we are aware of the presence of the lord i think it's time for me to say oh i wish i had some help in here okay i got it i wish i was in our praying church okay so anyway so so what happens so what happens he said it's a gift now here's what it says it says let no man say when he said um do not error my beloved brother and then it says every good gift every perfect gift is from above comes down from the father of lights but then there's no variable to see the shadow of turning here's what it says next of his own will not his will and my will not my will not his will of his own will begat he us what does that mean that means i am not okay there's a modern day like satanic false doctrine that's going around a lot of churches and what they'll do is they'll give an invitation they'll say if you want to give your life to jesus come down to the altar and we'll let you then you can give your life to jesus salvation is not a gift you give jesus salvation is gift he gives you the wages of sin is death but the gift of god is eternal life through jesus christ our lord salvation is not a gift we give christ so stop giving your life to jesus you give your life to jesus if that's what you think salvation is you're going to end up in a very hot place and it's not going to be fun and you're going to be amongst those people he said many will say unto me in that day lord lord have we not prophesied my name and i named cast out demons and then i named them many wonderful works then shall i say unto them i depart from me workers of iniquity i never knew you not i knew you and i don't know you anymore i never knew you why of his own will be god he us you don't you don't receive christ because you're smart enough to get it you receive christ because he of his own will begat you when you were born again you were born again of the will of the father and the son and the holy ghost you are the passive recipient not the active participant it's bible and don't get it confused your religion didn't help you your baptism didn't help you your church attendance ain't helping you you're helping old little ladies across the street and helping you the only the only hope you have for eternity is the death burial and resurrection of yeshua hamashiach jesus the christ and if you ain't got that you stuck like chuck in a pickup truck so of his own will be god he us by the way are you gonna be more proud or more thankful if you're the salvation that you have you received because you had faith but god is the one that gave you the faith to receive it are you gonna have are you gonna have more you're gonna have more gratitude if you just conjured it up i didn't conjure up enough faith i was i was just looking for god and all of a sudden i found i wasn't looking for him and i didn't find him he was looking for me and he found me the son of man come up to seek and save that which is lost let's don't get it twisted of his own will be god he us um of his own will begot he us by the word of truth that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures so he begat us by the word of his truth what is the word of his truth well let's say if we go to john 14 here's what yeshua said i am the way the truth and the life no man cometh to the father but by me in other words yeshua said i'm it i'm not one of the ways some of the truth and part of the light he said i am the way by the way that word thee means the one and only the truth not a part of the truth the life no man i love the words in hebrew i am the way i am the derek from which we get the word direction right or direct it's a path right derek is the hebrew word for for the way the road i'm the derek i'm the truth i am the ahmet from which we get our word amen god's mighty covenant covenant is a promise that is backed up by the life of the one who gave the promise that's why the scripture says god cannot lie because his word is his covenant it's his word that he's giving on his very life and if he does not keep his word he has to die the death of a mutilated animal i wish i had more time for that but don't don't right now so that's i met and then high high is life all high comes from god oh high life comes from god right so he is the derek he is the ahmet he is the high right i am the way the truth and the life no man cometh to the abba to the father to the av but by me what is abba abba aleph bait god of the house but by me of his own word be god he us of his own will be goddess by the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures then it says in verse number uh 19 wherefore my beloved brethren now understand this it just i mean a real simple bible interpretation process okay is this if you ever see the word therefore or if you ever see the word we wherefore it is referring to what came before so when you see therefore or wherefore it's referring to what came before so because he begat us of his own will by the word of truth wherefore my beloved brethren since that's what happened let every man be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath slow to boil over in anger let every man be swift to hear why because faith is created in the ears faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of god we need to be swift to hear especially swift to hear the word of god it's so imperative for us to read the word of god to listen to the audible word of god to read the word of god out loud it's important for us to talk about the word of god what does it say in deuteronomy chapter 6 before the children of israel deuteronomy is the second giving of the law in the book of deuteronomy it says that in chapter 6 it says um uh this book of the law shall not depart from out of thy mouth but thou shalt meditate there and when day and night why but thou may have to do a thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written there no that's uh this these words which i command this day shall be in thine heart so the word of god supposed to be in our heart and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children and thou shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house so when you're in your house talk about the word of god when you walk us by the way when you're traveling when that lies down and when thou rise this up and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon their hands and they should be frontlets between thy eyes frontlets are the things they put on the eyes of horses so they can't see the stuff off to the side that would cause them to to buck up they should be frontless between thine eyes and thou shalt write them upon the post of thine house and on my gates sounds like to me the word of god is supposed to be our everything maybe that's why the word of god is referred to as the light when we wake up in the morning the sun is to remind us of the light we go downstairs we make a piece of toast that's supposed to remind us of the word of god because the word of god is the bread of life and when we take a shower it's supposed to remind us of the word because the word of god is the washing of the water by the word so the word of god is our everything it's our path it's our way it's our derek and it says so let every man be swift to hear slow to speak slow to wrath um how slow how how fast should we hear well we should hear twice as fast as we talk i'm gonna tell you something if you fancy yourself a teacher make sure you're twice as much a learner as you are a teacher make sure you spend twice at least twice as much time studying as you do teaching in the words of my brother jeff you cannot draw water from an empty well if you fancy yourself a professional make sure you spend more time preparing than you do performing it's the stuff you do when nobody can see you that makes you shine when everybody sees you but abraham lincoln said i will prepare myself and perhaps my time will come myron golden says your time is going to come whether you prepare yourself or not if you're prepared when your time comes it will reveal you if you're not prepared it will expose you i was so verse 19 wherefore beloved brother and let every man be swift here slow to speak slow to wrath we should be slow to wrath why because the wrath of man work is not the righteousness of god in other words you are not going to do god's work from a place of anger we got way too many angry christians they won't fight everybody they want to prove they want to prove their and one of the reasons they want to fight everybody is because because they got ambitions they need people to know their right right and we got a lot so a lot of times people ask me questions about well uh what do you think about so-and-so what do you think about this person what do you think about that person i'm going to tell you something right now it doesn't matter what i think about them why does it matter what i think about them because the scripture says who art thou that judges thy brother why does thou judge that brother who art thou that judges another man's servant to his own master he standeth her followers yeah god is able to hold him up and he shall make him stand for every one of us oh we're all together shall stand before the judgment seat of christ it's not like like i i know i have no problem pointing out false doctrine but i'm not going to tell you this person is evil that person is evil that person's evil this person's evil because they don't believe what i believe sometimes they just have a different assignment sometimes they're not evil they just have a different assignment there's my assignment is not billy graham's assignment my assignment is not joel osteen's assignment my assignment's not td jake's assignment my assignment's not any of your sign my assignment is my sign and peter asked jesus about john when jeff when jesus told peter the death he should die peter peter said to jesus he pointed john said well what shall this man do jesus asked him one of the greatest questions of all times he said what is that to thee follow at me what business is that of yours you follow me it ain't my job to make you do the right i need my job to point out to you all the evil doers in the world the disciples said to jesus those dudes are already preaching you they're preaching salvation but they ain't with us we all you want us to go stop them no don't go stomp them ain't my job to stop everybody who ain't doing things according to the to the dictates of my assignment it's hard enough for me to make myself fulfill my assignment i'm gonna try to make you fulfill my assignment now i'm never gonna get my work done so um verse number 19. wherefore my beloved brother labor may be swift to hear slow speak so the wrath for the wrath of man works not the righteousness of god and then it says wherefore lay apart all filthiness superfluity of nottiness and receive with meekness the engrafted word which is able to save your souls i'm going to say something about this but then we're going to pick up on that one next wednesday we're going to pick up on that first next wednesday the only thing i'm going to say about that it says wherefore my beloved brethren let's lay aside all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness and then it says re receive with meekness the engrafted word which is able to save your results why does it say that why does it say lay apart all filthiness and um superfluity of naughtiness and then receive with meekness the engrafted word for the same reason you don't take an old dirty plate and put your supper on it for the same reason you don't take an old dirty glass and put your water in restaurant brings you glass and it's all dirty it's got fingerprints all over it's got black stuff floating in there and it looks like you're not gonna say oh okay cool or they bring you a glass to put your water in the water's the glass is dirty no bring me a clean glass god says if you're going to fill up a vessel with the word of god you clean that vessel first lay apart all filthiness and i used to wonder why does god often times tell us to don't the don'ts before he tells us to do the dues do you ever notice that god tells us to don't the don'ts and then he tells us to do the dues why same reason you don't put your food on a dirty plate blessed is the man it doesn't say blessed is the man that walketh it says blessed the man that walketh not in the counts of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the sea is going blessed is the man that doesn't do these three things but instead his delight is in the law of the lord and as long as he meditate day and night he should be like a tree planted by the rivers of waters of bringing forth his fruit and seasons leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he should do a shall prosper so don't you make the mistake of thinking there's nothing in the bible that teaches that our good works have to outweigh our bad work because our good works cannot wear about bad works because the scripture says that um that a man born of a woman um is here a few days and full of trouble we are born sinners sin is in our nature it's in the blood and so what we have to do what we have to do is we have to make sure we have to make sure that we are we are receiving the word of god into a clean vessel if we confess our sins he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness so we have to get to the place in our lives that we like get rid of the filth before we start trying to fill it up with the word like don't be clubbing on saturday night and going to church on sunday talking about praise the lord right yeah you're going to the club why would baby wobble on saturday night and then you want to come to the club worship and that would come to church worse than the lord it don't work like that i'm just saying it's the word of god it's not me he said don't don't make sure you put intention and attention on daunting the don'ts and then start doing the dues and so if we will do that then we can receive with meekness the engrafted word which is able to save our souls we're going to talk more about that later um i just saw a parallel that i've never even seen before when i said that so we'll talk about some of that stuff next week and we'll pick up one i think it's verse number 21. um verse number 21 wherefore lay apart all filthiness super fluidity of naughtiness receive with the meekness and graft a word which is able to save your souls we'll pick up on that next week by the grace of god i look forward to seeing all of you on youtube on youtube and here's what you do next wednesday morning will be on youtube 10 a.m eastern standard time on youtube make it better for the people on the east coast better for the people in the uk better for me i don't have to get up at 4 30 in the morning and drive to my office because i can't do it from home anymore so next wednesday morning share this on youtube comment share with all your friends it's easier to share now on youtube it's easier to share hallelujah right so share this bible study with ten of your friends through your friends share this channel with 10 of your friends for your three of your friends come join us and we're going to just we're going to stay blessed by the best and walk in this word and let it do in us what only the word can do in us in the meantime in between time stay blessed by the best my people by the grace of god i'll see