His Words Are Life

Hebrews 13:15

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

Program transcript

Participants: Kelly Mowrer

Series Code: HWAL

00:16 Hello, and welcome to His Words Are Life.
00:19 I'm Kelly Mowrer, and today we will continue to read in the
00:22 book of Hebrews.
00:23 But before we read together, lets pray.
00:26 Dear Jesus, thank You again for the blessing of Your word to
00:31 read to strengthen us and to guide us.
00:34 We've been spending time reading about the heroes of faith
00:38 in the Bible; men and women like us who actually lived,
00:43 for pretty much of us, a lot harder lives than we've seen
00:46 so far.
00:47 We haven't yet been tortured for You, and we haven't been
00:52 imprisoned, most of us, for You; and yet we find our faith is so
00:58 weak sometimes.
00:59 We want to be strong.
01:00 We long to be like the men and women that we've
01:03 read about here.
01:04 Please come and take our feeble faith and make it burn brighter.
01:09 We're like the father in the story that said, Lord I believe
01:13 but help my unbelief.
01:14 Take our hearts and make them fully Yours so that we may be
01:21 of service to You, and to each other, to the glory of
01:24 Your name.
01:25 We love You so much, and thank You for loving us.
01:27 Amen.
01:28 We're continuing to read in Hebrews, and the verse that
01:33 we're going to start on is chapter 13, and verse 15.
01:36 It has a phrase in it that I've always loved.
01:39 I think of it often when I sit down to play the piano.
01:42 It talks about the sacrifice of praise.
01:44 And that is what He is looking for from each one of us;
01:48 a sacrifice of praise to Him.
01:50 We're created to show forth His praise.
01:52 Let's read now Hebrews 13, starting with verse 15.
01:55 This is the King James Version.
01:57 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God
02:03 continually, that is, the fruit of our lips,
02:07 giving thanks to his name.
02:09 But to do good and to communicate forget not:
02:13 for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.
02:16 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves:
02:20 for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account,
02:25 that they may do it with joy, and not with grief:
02:28 for that is unprofitable for you.
02:30 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience,
02:34 in all things willing to live honestly.
02:36 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored
02:41 to you the sooner.
02:42 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our
02:46 Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood
02:50 of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good
02:54 work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing
02:59 in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory
03:03 for ever and ever.
03:04 Amen.
03:05 And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation:
03:10 for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
03:13 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom,
03:17 if he come shortly, I will see you.
03:20 Salute all them that have the rule over you,
03:23 and all the saints.
03:24 They of Italy salute you.
03:25 Grace be with you all.
03:27 Amen.
03:28 Continuing now to read the general epistle of James,
03:34 and this is the King James Version; James chapter 1.
03:37 James a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
03:41 to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
03:45 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers
03:50 temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith
03:55 worketh patience.
03:57 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be
04:01 perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
04:04 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
04:08 that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not;
04:12 and it shall be given him.
04:14 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
04:18 For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the
04:22 wind and tossed.
04:24 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing
04:27 of the Lord.
04:28 A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
04:31 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:
04:37 but the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of
04:43 the grass he shall pass away.
04:45 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat,
04:48 but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth,
04:51 and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the
04:57 rich man fade away in his ways.
04:59 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is
05:05 tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord
05:08 hath promised to them that love him.
05:09 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God:
05:14 for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he
05:18 any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away
05:22 of his own lust, and enticed.
05:24 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin,
05:29 when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
05:33 Do not err, my beloved brethren.
05:36 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,
05:40 and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no
05:43 variableness, neither shadow of turning.
05:46 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth,
05:52 that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
05:55 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear,
06:01 slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not
06:07 the righteousness of God.
06:09 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of
06:15 naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word,
06:19 which is able to save your souls.
06:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
06:27 deceiving your own selves.
06:29 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer,
06:32 he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
06:37 for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way,
06:40 and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
06:43 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty,
06:48 and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer,
06:53 but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
06:58 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his
07:04 tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's
07:08 religion is vain.
07:09 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father
07:14 is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction,
07:19 and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
07:22 Continuing to read in the book of James, chapter 2.
07:27 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ,
07:32 the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
07:35 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring,
07:39 in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man
07:44 in vile raiment; and ye have respect to him that weareth the
07:48 gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place;
07:51 and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my
07:56 footstool: are ye not then partial in yourselves,
08:00 and are become judges of evil thoughts?
08:02 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor
08:07 of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which
08:12 he hath promised to them that love him?
08:14 But ye have despised the poor.
08:17 Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the
08:20 judgment seats?
08:21 Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which
08:24 ye are called?
08:25 If ye fulfill the royal law according to the scripture,
08:29 Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:
08:33 but if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin,
08:37 and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
08:40 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one
08:45 point, he is guilty of all.
08:47 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also,
08:52 Do not kill.
08:53 Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill,
08:58 thou art become a transgressor of the law.
09:00 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged
09:05 by the law of liberty.
09:06 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shown
09:10 no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.
09:14 What doeth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he
09:18 hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
09:22 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
09:26 and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed
09:30 and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which
09:34 are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
09:38 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
09:43 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works:
09:48 show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my
09:54 faith by my works.
09:56 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well:
10:01 the devils also believe, and tremble.
10:04 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without
10:09 works is dead?
10:10 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had
10:14 offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
10:17 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works
10:22 was faith made perfect?
10:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed
10:27 God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness:
10:31 and he was called the friend of God.
10:34 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified,
10:39 and not by faith only.
10:40 Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works,
10:46 when she had received the messengers, and had sent them
10:48 out another way?
10:49 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without
10:54 works is dead also.
10:56 Continuing to read in the book of James, chapter 3.
10:59 My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall
11:04 receive the greater condemnation.
11:06 For in many things we offend all.
11:09 If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man,
11:14 and able also to bridle the whole body.
11:17 Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may
11:20 obey us; and we turn about their whole body.
11:23 Behold also the ships, which though they be so great,
11:28 and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a
11:32 very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.
11:36 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth
11:41 great things.
11:42 Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
11:46 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity:
11:50 so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth
11:54 the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature;
11:57 and it is set on fire of hell.
11:59 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents,
12:03 and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of
12:06 mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil,
12:11 full of deadly poison.
12:14 Therewith bless we God, even the Father;
12:18 and therewith curse we men, which are made after the
12:22 similtude of God.
12:24 out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing.
12:28 My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
12:33 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water
12:37 and bitter?
12:38 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries?
12:42 either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water
12:48 and fresh.
12:50 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you?
12:53 let him show out of a good conversation his works with
12:58 meekness of wisdom.
13:00 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,
13:05 glory not, and lie not against the truth.
13:08 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly,
13:13 sensual, devilish.
13:15 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every
13:20 evil work.
13:21 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure,
13:25 then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated,
13:31 full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality,
13:35 and without hypocrisy.
13:37 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them
13:42 that make peace.
13:43 Continuing with James, Chapter 4.
13:46 From whence come wars and fightings among you?
13:50 come they not hence, even of your lusts that war
13:54 in your members?
13:55 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have,
13:59 and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not,
14:03 because ye ask not.
14:05 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss,
14:09 that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
14:12 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship
14:16 of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a
14:22 friend of the world is the enemy of God.
14:24 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that
14:28 dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
14:30 But he giveth more grace.

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