Al Robertson

anything before God.

You're not coming in.

But James isn't saying, hey, you got to work to make sure that you earn a right position with God.

No, what he's saying is that when you truly have faith, you can truly have discernment and you can actually see what is good.

You can actually see what is pleasing.

You can actually see what is perfect.

And then that's the thing you're going to do.

Why are you going to do it?

Because you believe it's true.

He's trying to align those two things up.

He said these aren't in contradiction with one another.

So that's the setting of the asking for wisdom.

When you ask for wisdom, what you're ultimately asking for is show me the way the world really is.

so that I can believe that and operate inside of that.

Well, I mean, that's the funny thing about it, is by the time you get to the New Testament, and you're like...

I don't think this is going to work really well.

I mean, they didn't have – I mean, Israel, when the kingdom divides, if you go back and do the research, most of the kings of Judah were not good.

Yet a few.

Yet a few.

A handful, but none in north Israel.