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YOUR SEAT, JESUS’ SEAT

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1 My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord  Jesus Christ must not  show favoritism. 2  Suppose  a  man  comes  into  your meeting  wearing  a  gold  ring  and  fine clothes,  and  a  poor  man  in  filthy  old clothes also comes in. 

JAMES 2:1-7

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3 If you show special attention to the man wearing  fine  clothes  and  say,  “Here’s  a good  seat  for  you,”  but  say  to  the  poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” 4 have  you  not  discriminated  among yourselves  and  become  judges with  evil thoughts?

JAMES 2:1-7

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5 Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him? 6 But  you have  dishonored  the poor. Is  it  not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court? 

JAMES 2:1-7

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7 Are  they  not  the  ones  who  are blaspheming  the  noble  name  of  him  to whom you belong?

JAMES 2:1-7

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SEAT IS

VERY IMPORTANT

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IN THE WORLD IT

DETERMINES YOUR STATUS

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SEAT IN THE BIBLE

REPRESENTS GLORY AND

CONTROL

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IN FCC ALL OF US ARE EQUAL

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CHRISTIANITY IS FOR

EQUALS

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GETTING WHAT

YOU PAY FOR

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DISTINCTIONS ARE EVIL

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None of us would have a problem going to a sporting event or going to a concert and paying for a seat, and then whatever money we pay determines where we are. But in church, it troubles us if that 

were the case.

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NO BASIS FOR MORAL

INDIGNATION

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You should be seated wherever youwant to be seated. All people should be 

treated equal. There should not be partiality like this.

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The difference between Christianity and other religions is, in other religions, you get what you earn. It’s works. But in Christianity, you get what 

Jesus earns. It’s grace.

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Because we believe in grace, we believe in Jesus, we believe that people 

should be treated equal. But if you believe in a religious ideology or philosophy, you believe in karma, that some people have paid off 

more debt than others, 

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and if they’re suffering in this life, we shouldn’t help them, because after all, we could be interrupting their 

karmic debt payback.

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7 Do  not  be  deceived: God  cannot  be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

GALATIANS 6:7

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Some religions teach levels of enlightenment that some of us have 

reincarnated, some of us have become more enlightened, some of 

us are more evolved.

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Religion teaches you, you earn it.

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That being said, here’s their problem. Their problem is that the church is behaving in a worldly way. When it comes to biblical thinking, there’s 

the kingdom of God.

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WHO HAS THE BEST

SEAT?

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WHO SITS IN

YOUR LIFE?

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This is where Jesus is alive, ruling and reigning right now as King of kings and Lord of lords, and that God’s people will be together forever in 

His kingdom.

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Today, we’re in the world. We’re in cultures and nations that don’t think in a way that is biblical and don’t submit to King Jesus. In the 

middle is the church.

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The church is in the world but belongs to the kingdom. These are God’s

people, Jesus’ people.

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The problem is that sometimes the church thinks in a way that is more worldly and less like Jesus’ kingdom.

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That’s exactly what’s happening here. And James is saying the church shouldn’t be like the world. The 

church should be like the kingdom. And their problem, ultimately, is 

partiality. Don’t get hung up on the finances here.

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The underlying issue is partiality.

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Their problem is they think rich people are good, and poor people are bad. We have a theology for that today. It’s a very worldly theology. It’s called prosperity theology.

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We think like Robin Hood. Rich people are bad, poor people are good.” 

That’s called poverty theology. Rich people are good and poor people are bad, or rich people are bad and 

poor people are good.

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The Bible says everybody’s bad. It’s equal.

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ONLY ONE IS GOOD AND

THAT IS JESUS

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The answer to those who favor the poor is not to favor the rich. The answer is not to show partiality to anyone 

but to treat everyone equally.

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FAVORITISM REFERS TO

PEOPLE AND RELATIONSHIPS

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1 My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. 2  Suppose  a  man  comes  into  your meeting  wearing  a  gold  ring  and  fine clothes,  and  a  poor  man  in  filthy  old clothes also comes in. 

JAMES 2:1-7

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If you have favorites then you are ruining the lives of both.

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PARTIALITY IS YOUR

OPINION AND IDEAS

OR INCLINATIONS

OR ISSUES

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1 My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord  Jesus Christ must not  show favoritism. 2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. 

JAMES 2:1-7

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THE PROBLEM WITH BOTH

SIDES IS PARTIALITY

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15 Do  not  pervert  justice; do  not  show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.

LEVITICUS 19:15

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What he’s saying is this: Don’t show partiality to the rich and don’t show 

partiality to the poor. Treat everyone fairly, rightly, justly.

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THREE TRUTHS TO CONSIDER

IN ELIMINATING PARTIALITY

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According to the Bible, everyone is equally made in the image and likeness of God.

1

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Every person is very important2

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Those who belong to Jesus are equally saved, equally loved, equally forgiven.

3

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Horribly things happen when parents start playing favorites.

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Don’t let your preferences become your prejudices.

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CHRISTIANITY IS THE ONLY

RELIGION OF EQUALITY

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Biblical thinking that we’re equally made by God, we’re equally fallen into sin, and we’re equally loved, and saved, and forgiven by God, and that God’s a Father and he loves all of his kids 

equal, and he doesn’t have favorites, and he doesn’t have prejudices and preferences.

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Wherever Christianity is spread, the sense of equality has led to education, and it’s fascinating that then education would argue that Christianity is intolerant and doesn’t believe in equality, because 

without Christianity, you wouldn’t even have institutions of higher learning to 

argue against Christianity.

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 This is why, in Great Britain, you have men like William Wilberforce who were 

arguing strongly, and passionately, and effectively against slavery and racism 

because of biblical conviction.

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Our Father doesn’t play favorites, and if we do, we are sinning against him.

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This is why you have men like Martin Luther King Jr. who was a preacher and worked 

from biblical imagery and thinking.

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GOD’S PRESCRIPTION

FOR PARTIALITY

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God is a Father, who has no favorites.

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Then He transitions in the most magnificent way and he talks about the only seat the real matters. What we’re talking about, ultimately here, we’re talking about the 

glory seat.

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What he’s talking about is the glory of Jesus Christ means that his seat alone is the 

seat that matters, that you and I shouldn’t be particularly concerned 

about our seat, even in this life. And we shouldn’t be arguing that people like us 

should get a better seat.

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BAD VS

JESUS

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We are all bad and only one is Good and that is Jesus.

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Seat controls glory and authority.

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ISSUE OF

GLORY

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Glory is a mega-theme of the Bible.

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This theme of glory appears about 275 times in the Bible. It’s a massive theme and it means a number of things: splendor, 

beauty, magnificence, radiance, heaviness, weightiness, prominence, preeminence, luminescence, splendor, majesty, holiness, purity, worthiness.

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What everybody is saying is, “Hey, give me the glory seat. Put me up front high and exalted, everybody can see me. And bring people like me around because 

we’re more valuable. We want the glory seat. Jesus is saying no, and he’s saying 

it through his brother James.

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Jesus is the only one who deserves to sit on the glory seat. It doesn’t matter 

where you sit; it doesn’t matter where I sit. It only matters where He sits.

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WHO IS SITING IN

YOUR LIFE?

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WHO IS CONTROLLING YOUR LIFE?

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WHO’S THE

KING?

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There’s one seat. There’s one glory seat and there’s only one who’s sitting on it. Who 

is it? It’s Jesus Christ. He is King of kings, He is Lord of lords.

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His throne, His glory seat, is the center. It’s the center of all creation. It’s the center of all history. It’s His throne 

that’s high and exalted, and He alone sits upon it, and He alone is worthy of it. And around Jesus are all the nations, and all the tribes, and languages. 

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The rich are there, the poor are there, the black are there, the white are there, the 

highly educated, the uneducated, they’re all there. The men are there, the 

women are there, everybody who belongs to that King and is a citizen of 

that kingdom are there. 

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And they don’t care where they sit, all they care is that they’re around His throne because He’s the one who gets all the 

glory. And the angels fall down, and the leaders fall down, and the people fall 

down.

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We were made not to sit on a throne, but to fall before a throne. We were made not to be worshiped by God in our glory. We were made to worship God in his

glory.

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The more that we understand this, the happier we are, the freer we are. We’re liberated from worldly thinking into kingdom thinking. And we realize, “It doesn’t matter where I sit because nobody’s looking at me anyways. It 

doesn’t matter where I sit as long as I am seated around Him and His throne, 

high and exalted.”

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FAITHWORKS CHRISTIAN CHURCH GLOBAL

Presented By:Ptr. Vetty GutierrezFCC Main, San Mateo Rizal, PH

April 10, 2016

Website: http://faithworkschristianchurch.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Faithworks-Christian-Church-Global-292363410916567/