Sir Skip you are excellent I am telling my friends in south Africa ( Soweto )that God gave me a new friend, wonderful teacher! everymorning and before I go to sleep I listen to your teachings❤

The Lord is SO FAITHFUL! Jesus own brother rejected him. - What did Jesus do? He came back for him and now we have this wonderful book! Thanks Jesus for not giving up on us!

Skip thank you for this excellent material

Thank you and God bless you, Pastor Skip! Love this teaching.

Thank you, Pastor Skip. I found it very important to know that Jesus’ brothers, James and Jude did not believe In Jesus until after the resurrection.

I love and respect the fact that you covered the whole book in one sermon. God bless you, Pastor Skip.🙏🏼 Your hard work is appropriated.✝️

Watching from Kenya. Inspired to teach the men of our church on sexual purity tomorrow.

Thank you sir

Thank you Pastor....with Agape love from Stephen, Dubai

Amen praise you Jesus thank you for saving us the world and thank you pastor skip for teaching us world wide stay safe

Thank you for sharing your gift of teaching. That was an insightful journey through the book of James. Your insights helped me understand why I quote James so much. I am more literal than not. Excellent!!

The trials we are experiencing today in this pandemic will produce patience... has timely message Pas Skip Heitzig...Great teaching .

Thank you for helping me understand the great book of James. I really needed to hear this. God bless

Thank you pastor skip watching from Dammam from Philippines finally I know about James in a more positive way stay safe pastor skip and calvary church 092021

Thank you For sharing such a blessed book!

AMEN AMEN AMEN thank you pastor Skip my son is in the marines and is going they panic attacks please keep him in prayer .I am going to send him this lesson GOD bless y’all

Absolutely beautiful and Powerful and Profound and Practical .... teachings...!! ❤️ I just enjoyed listening..... inspiring me to put them into Daily Practice..!! Excellent.. Pastor Skip...❤️

Thank you

Lovely and practical teaching, pst. Skip

Ps Skip, on the last day of 2020 ~ what a great book to jump off into the new year ~ 2021 !! So much to take on board !!

I have found you finally thank you so much 🙏

This is so amazing, i love these so much i take notes on every video i watch 💯 truly a hero and a servant leader, thank you 💛 I love how you educate us, you're so well articulated and humorous, we appreciate the fact that you take the time out to share your wisdom with us through God 💛

Pastor God bless you🙏 n give you long life. From Northeast 🇮🇳 india

EXCELLENT ! In the name of Jesus ..Bless u skip an your family plus the our family threw Christ Jesus! The body of christ

Always receice your sermon in, especially during the COVID season .Sydney Australia.

What do you do when you find yourself in a loop of constantly looking at yourself for works? Where is the balance in self-evaluation between works that is laxidaisy verses seeking perfection?

Practical and helpful teaching 👍🏻

Great teaching!

Excellent may God bless you From India

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awesome! love from Nigeria.

"You can grow as much as you want" 😍

Thank you so much for your teaching pastor Hietzig! I have been listening to your “The Bible from 30,000 feet”. From Missouri

From Ontario Canada. Thank you for your ministry. Blessings

Very good !!!!!

Thank you Ps Skip.

I'm trying to grow-up. Its tough raising me. You would not believe what I've been through.

Thank you Pastor Skip 🙏🙏

Amen

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Good teaching

So true….

Thank you for sharing such meaningful and informative lessons. I definitely relate to lessons learned in this series. I believe COVID created an increasing need and desire for spiritual guidance and understanding. Listening to your lessons has helped me immensely to understand the Bible. Physical presence at my very small church will not be possible until perhaps January. I will continue with Calvary teachings/sermons however. I understand real faith and works do much better. God has certainly used you to "bring me closer" and I thank Him and you from northern MN where no comparable to this is available to me

Hello Brothers & Sisters . I'm from Calvary Chapel Rosarito. God Bless you ALL. I've been watching Skip for a year now, he's Awesome. I'd like to contact him. Please respond. Thank you. This sermon is great, just like all I have seen and heard.

Thanks for all the wonderful teaching done here.. I would also like to hear from you concerning Ch. 5, verses 14 and 15, which are skipped right over....

Good sermon! Dave J--Denver--

trails lead to temptations

Speaking in tongues is not gimmerish . Its taking this man into any organization any business and his tongue will make the place better . He has no reason knowing solutions in those fields yet he can n humbly

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Never be out worked in self improvement not reputation of

Skip! You are such a great teacher, pastor, and amazing story teller!

Sermon on the mount any age curious as children to be born again any age inside mind set battlefield of the mind body spirit - needs us to pay attention what works

I googled where James Jesus‘s brother speaks to Jesus and I cannot find what Pastor Skip is talking about Does anyone here know where James is kind of jeering Jesus? is it talking about going? Show yourself at Passover?

Bdw I'd like to join the tour to israel next year please let me know how to go about it I'll pray about it.

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Praying for the sick (it seems to me) is to pray for their healing. I cannot think of a single instruction or example of anyone praying that a sick person just "live with it". Even James asks, "Is anyone sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church, who will anoint him with oil and pray for him." He goes on to say that if the sick person has sinned then God will heal him. "The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." It seems like a prayer for the sick should be a prayer for his healing. Do you have B/C/V for a prayer to God for someone to just learn to live in patience with his sickness? I can't think of one. Jesus said that disease was "bondage of the devil" (see Luke 13:16). Should we just learn to grin and bear our bondage to Satan?

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I praised God for leading me to your u tube channel. I'm from the Philippines and am 72 yo. What do you recommend for me to read in the Bible and watch to you preach about the great commission of the Lord and shamelessly sharing God's word.

Could you send me leank to give

Where’s James 4:4??

Why can I not get you transcripts anymore?

Pray with one another NOT 4 2 or more sir to get her wisdom

Jesus taught, "If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you." Jesus was all about, "Ask and ye shall receive." It's interesting that He never once taught that asking God for something was wrong because you wanted it for yourself. In fact, he once said, "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." Paul told the Philippians, "Be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God." (Php 4:6) In other words, don't filter your prayers to God. Tell Him what you want. James tells us that asking for what we want is somehow evil. I am of the opinion that if all I can ask for is what God wants then I can kinda let God do all the asking for me. I mean, am I trying to put on a show of piety for God? Who benefits from that? There is playing church and there is keepin' it real, IMHO. Thank God James' religion is not the gospel and James is smart enough to never call his brand of religion, "good news" (gospel). That word is never used in the Book of James.

I will be sure not to skip a lesson skipper of humans . Navy humor

The New Testament Epistle of James was written before the Crucifixion. (12/18/2021 Yeah, the hypothesis is pretty much irrefutable now.)

Sanctified means "holy" or "set aside for a holy purpose". A "saint" is someone who is sanctified. A person has "fruit unto holiness" but that's something that happens as a result of his sanctification - not some process he's trying to work himself through. Jesus talked about abiding in the Vine in order to bear much fruit. It's a very similar concept. The New Testament teaches things like, "God giveth the increase". It's not to him that runneth nor to him that willeth but God, who has mercy. Trying to force your brand of holiness (sanctification) on your life is an exercise in futility. We walk in the Spirit and not strain and struggle and strive. That's the Old System of religion. Jesus promises us abundant life that comes as a result of abiding in Him. He promises that His yoke is easy and his burden is light. We can make things difficult for ourselves trying to force it but hopefully we learn from that mistake before we burn out and walk away from God in frustration... like I did, once upon a time.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a doctrinal book". The Book of James is LOADED with doctrine (teaching). Just off the top of my head, he teaches that pure religion is to visit the fatherless and widows and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. That's a teaching. He teaches that the doctrine of justification by faith only is bunk. That's kind of "counter doctrinal". Doctrine means teaching and if a teacher (rabbi) is not teaching then he's wasting everybody's time

The doctrine that God does not tempt us with evil ignores pretty much all of scripture. The Book of James is LOADED with doctrine - sometimes false doctrine. Let's go to the bible. In Genesis, what did God put in that Garden? Did Satan put that there or did God? You can see this happen over and over again throughout the scriptures. And so, to say that God doesn't tempt us is empirically false. You can learn a lot just by reading the text. James tells us that lust leads to sin. James 1:14-15 - But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Jesus taught that lust IS sin. Paul reminds us that the Law calls lust a sin. Rom. 7:7 - What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. Paul and Jesus seemed to understand the Law and lust but James is a little out of phase with that teaching. The Book of James is indeed a doctrinal book and sometimes a false doctrinal book. Read the text and learn.

You think that if you insert some extra words to the text that you can magically transform unbelief into belief? Well, if that's fair play then anybody can insert anything to any of the text of the bible and come up with a doctrine that suits himself. If not, why not? It is NOT s superior translation to insert your own brand of religion. "Can that _kind of_ faith save him?" That's not what is written. What are we warned about going beyond what is written? "Whosoever transgresseth (i.e. goes beyond) and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ HATH NOT GOD." (2 John 9a) What did Paul tell Timothy? 1 Tim. 4:16a (NIV) - Watch your life and doctrine closely. Taking James' DOCTRINE at face value, then, what is he saying? That faith only cannot save - cannot justify. Romans 4:4-5 - Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. 5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. James erected as straw man. Paul was NOT teaching that all you do is have mental ascent to the existence of God but that's what James wants us to believe that that is what Paul was teaching. But if you read Romans 4, Paul is not talking about believing in the existence of God but believing what that God has promised. Rom 4:20-21 - He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; 21 And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. Believing in the promises of God is airtight. You can fake piety (to yourself and others). You can fake good works. But you cannot fake belief in God's promises. I tested this doctrine and so I know. Faith righteousness is the perfect filter. It is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword. It can smoke out a pretender faster than anything I have ever seen.

James calls the Law of Moses, "The Royal Law" and "The perfect Law of Liberty". Peter and Paul called it "bondage". Acts 15:10 - Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? Gal. 2:4 - And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: The apostles of Jesus Christ understood that the Law was NOT liberty but an undoable yoke of bondage. But that doctrine flies in the face of the Jewish religious establishment and is what they persecuted and killed Christians for. It's what they used to imprison Paul with in the latter chapters of Acts. "Love your neighbor as yourself" is part of the Law of Moses. Lev. 19:18 - Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

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If you believe that real, active, dynamic faith is necessary (and it is) then why would you counter the doctrine of justification by faith, which James does? Paul preached an real, active, dynamic faith but he also acknowledged the truth - that God justified Abraham on the strength of his faith in God's promise. James poo-poos it.

@Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig May i suggest that you have whomever is walking/moving and causing reflections on the screen/wall behind you, to not move about while you are preaching. This is rather rude and disrespectful. Thank you

He didn't cover this verse either because of its known toxicity: James 4:17 - Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. Nobody can save you from that brand of religion. You will die in your sins unless you repent of that mindset. Take it at face value and ask yourself, "Am I always doing my best for God?" Right now, you're reading what some monkey is writing on the Internet, is that the best use of your time for God? Certainly not. If you're at church and worshiping God, could you have brought someone with you? Did you talk to enough people about Jesus this week? If you helped someone move, did you also talk about Jesus to them the whole time? If not, why not? If you are not going flat out for God 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you're sinning. In the words of Admiral Akbar, "It's a TRAP!" James 4:17 is poison especially to the most God fearing persons. The Book of James is loaded with doctrine and a lot of it is very BAD doctrine.

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Don’t you think it would have been awkward for Mary and James sitting next to each other at Pentecost, when Jesus just gave John the care of Mary. It wasn’t akward because Jesus didn’t have brothers. Where are all of Jesus’s nephews today? Wouldn’t one brag about that, I’m guessing so. Just another wrong Bible interpretation by the slick one.

James is just wrong but you're right, he's flipping the coin. Check it out: James wrote, "Faith without works is dead", but I say unto you that Works without faith are impossible. Example: If you do not believe that the laying on of hands will heal someone, will you lay your hands on a sick person in the name of Jesus? If you don't believe that prayers for the sick will do them any good, will you pray for the sick? And so you see, works without faith will not even be tried - let alone accomplished. Works without faith are impossible. James is just a hair out of phase.

James 2:8 The ROYAL LAW should be written with initial caps, if not all caps! It’s the “new commandment” that Jesus gave us, in John 13:34, which sums up the Ten Commandments into one, physically giving food to the fatherless and widows especially. PURE religion (James 1:27) tells US to give those starving food and necessities. Same for PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY, James 2:8. God showed me that the cause of world poverty is the oppressive system we still have is the wage system, just like in Exodus. Notice how the theme of the Bible keeps referring back to the way God “lead the people out of Egypt” referred to over 600 times! So God doesn’t like the wage system in Egypt or now because it’s oppression, a heavy burden (IDOLS: debt, rent, insurance and everything), like insurance most people worldwide can’t get because there aren’t ANY JOBS, and because it shouldn’t exist, and only exists because of the USA wage system, especially how USA forces all nations to accept it (“Rogue State” by Wm Blum) by starting over 50 wars worldwide to “stop communism”, teaching torture, and more, including how making too many weapons because it “creates millions of WAGE JOBS”, making USA look “good” but it’s evil oppression. We should force all weapons manufacturers and military out of existence because that’s “an evil way,” not God’s PERFECT WAY, meaning a new system that doesn’t cause harm and does NOT cause world poverty! If USA alone today eliminated all harmful jobs there wouldn’t be many wage jobs. So if not the wage system, then we’d be able to give a UBI (Universal Basic Income), or equal wealth (stop giving all money to a few rich people, leaving billions to starve), then all nations could end world poverty. We can do it today, for the first time in history, because most money is just numbers in computers! It won’t happen easily, but it’s possible finally! If Christians started demanding a UBI and or equal wealth to end oppression and world poverty WE could be the ones God has been waiting for, and WE could end world poverty and crimes and wars! Ending wage slavery (like Exodus) will save the Earth too (ex: stop cutting down all trees to save forest... and mankind), and all nations could finally “destroy death” (the “last enemy” see I Cor 15:26 we must destroy) and save lives by building only TOWER CITIES connected to MAGLEV TRAINS WORLDWIDE! Cars killed millions so WE must eliminate all vehicles ASAP to save the Earth! That is God’s PURPOSE so it should be OUR PURPOSE, to end all oppression. ( see Purpose in Isaiah 14:24-27) Study oppression. God bless everyone.

HA! 🤣He didn't even mention prayers for the sick. Well, at least he's consistent. Don't pray for the sick so that he can be healed because that obviously doesn't work. HAHAHA! I kind of believe in a religion that goes by what the Book says and not by what my denomination teaches. I'm a little odd that way. 🤣

Amen