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How To Walk in Perfect Faith | Lessons From the Lord's Brother Season 1
November 24, 2025 · 18 min
No one walks in perfect faith all the time. In his book, James clarifies in order to receive God’s Word and Truth, we are to walk in perfect faith. How can we as Christians receive this gift?
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Rabbi Schneider is equipping the body of Christ, building the church, and evangelizing the world. From the Old and New Testament, learn the biblical roots of Christianity and Jesus' Jewish heritage.
November 24, 2025 · 18 min · Discovering The Jewish Jesus
No one walks in perfect faith all the time. In his book, James clarifies in order to receive God’s Word and Truth, we are to walk in perfect faith. How can we as Christians receive this gift? ...more Show the full description Show less No one walks in perfect faith all the time. In his book, James clarifies in order to receive God’s Word and Truth, we are to walk in perfect faith. How can we as Christians receive this gift?
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In this video 0:00 Understanding Wisdom and Its Divine Source
Understanding Wisdom and Its Divine Source 0:07 So first of all, let's talk about what is wisdom. What's the difference between having wisdom and having information? You know, I could be so intelligent0:20 and have the ability to memorize mathematical formulas, or scientific equations, or the anatomy of the human body. And I could be0:32 so precisely intelligent to have that information memorized, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I would have wisdom.0:44 Because the ability to retain cognitive information is not the same as having wisdom. The ability to retain cognitive information0:56 is powerful and beautiful and important, and mankind has benefited so much from scholars and from mathematicians and biologists and doctors, etcetera,1:08 that have the ability in their mind to understand complex cognitive, information. But wisdom is of a different1:19 character. Wisdom is about the ability to know what is needed in every given specific situation. So for1:31 example, it takes more than scientific information in the mind to know how to navigate human relationships, to know how to reply to a child, to a1:43 husband, to a wife. If you're the pastor of a church, to know how to lead your congregation. That's more than information, that takes wisdom. It's a it's a primordial knowing. It is1:55 accumulated through experience, that we learn through experience, how to walk in wisdom. The scripture tells us that through experience, the mature2:07 are able to differentiate good from evil. So wisdom is gained from experience. Right? You're a lot wiser now than you were when you were a teenager. It's going through life and
2:19 experiencing so many different things has caused you to grow up in maturity, which gave you wisdom. But wisdom is also a primordial. I say primordial, meaning that it's
2:30 like children sometimes. It's like beyond it's beyond experience at times. It's beyond intellectual information as I've said. Children sometimes have the most wisdom of all. I mean, I
2:42 think we look at kids, and I know many of you understand this, and we think they don't really know what's going on. But sometimes something will come out of a child's mouth, it's like, wow. They know exactly what's going
2:54 on. I remember when I was just a little child, again, I think many of you can relate, you were able to observe adult human relationships, and you knew in your spirit, in your soul that some of the way that
3:05 adults were speaking and acting, you knew that it was just wrong. I mean, I know that when I was a little boy, I observed the behavior of of of even, you know, you know,
3:18 adults that were closest to me. And I was just like ashamed by it. How did I know that it was wrong? It was just a gift that God gives that there's no
3:29 explanation for it other than the fact that God gives the gift of wisdom. And even as we were little children, many of us can remember just having a wisdom.
3:41 Not that we knew everything about life, but we just had a wisdom that tonight was lost to adults. Because sometimes when you, age, your mind is taken away by the spirit of the age, and you
3:53 lose that wisdom that you had when you were just a little child, that it was given to us as babes. I think when Yeshua said, unless you become as children, unless you
4:05 become as a child, you shall not inherit the kingdom of God. I think that when Yeshua said that, he was speaking of many things. I think he was speaking of innocence. I think he was thinking of childhood wonderment,
4:17 where children are just in awe of creation, in touch with nature. They're not jaded. They're trusting. But I think another thing that Yeshua is referring to is that
4:28 innocent wisdom that children are born with. But listen, wisdom, as we all know, it's not just for children. The book of Proverbs says that above all
4:40 else, we should seek after wisdom. And so James tells us here that if any man lacks wisdom, let him ask, oh, God, who gives it to all
4:52 generously and without reproach. It will be given to him, the 1 that asked. So let's just ask the father right now for wisdom. I mean, I know I need wisdom.
5:04 I know I need more wisdom than I have right now. I need the eyes of the Lord to see, like David said, David Melech, the king of Israel, he said, in thy light
5:16 I see light. And I know that you also need wisdom to know how to deal with the challenges that you're facing in life, maybe financial situations, relationships, your children,
5:28 your spouse, decisions that we need to make, we don't know which way to go, whether we should move to this area or not, whether we should accept this job, whether it's time to
5:40 retire. So many decisions we have to make every single day. After all, isn't life just about choices? Every day we're having to choose. And
5:52 oftentimes, we're put in positions where we have to make a choice. The situation necessitates we have to make a choice. We're up against the wall. We wish we didn't have to make a choice, but we're just in a
6:04 predicament we have to choose, and we don't know what to choose. So let's ask the Lord for wisdom, we all need it. Maybe you want to pray with me. Father in Yeshua's
6:15 name, Father we just bow our hearts before you. We need wisdom, Father God. We recognize we need wisdom. And Father, so often times our hearts feel insecure because we just don't know which
6:27 way to go. And Father, we know we have to make a decision, but we feel like we can't see straight. We can't really know what what which road is the right road. We just don't have the vision sometimes to see which
6:38 direction to go and which way to choose. So father, we ask you for wisdom. We ask you for the ability to understand, to make the right decisions.
6:50 Guarded by your wisdom, and that our steps will be guided by your wisdom. Father, we wanna make the right choice every day, the right choices all day long. So father, we
7:02 ask you by your spirit, by the Ruach HaKodesh, to give us a greater impartation of your mind, of your wisdom. In Yeshua's name, we ask you today father for
7:14 wisdom. And your word tells us that if we'll ask you for wisdom, that you will give it generously. So Father, we thank you right now that I've just received, that we've just
7:26 received wisdom from above. Just put your hand over your heart with me, beloved 1, and say, Father, thank you for just asking answering my prayer. Because because you told me if I would ask you for wisdom, you'd give it.
7:37 And Father, I believe I've asked you for it and you've just given it to me. Thank you, Lord. I go by faith now in Yeshua's name that I'm walking in greater authority because of the wisdom you just gave me. Baruch Hashem,
7:48 amen. And then James continues in the next verse and he says, when we pray asking for wisdom, and this is just about prayer in general as well, it says, we must ask in faith
8:01 without doubting. For the 1 who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double
8:12 minded man, unstable in all his ways. Now that scares me a little bit when I read that verse, that when I pray, I can't doubt, because if I doubt, I
8:24 shouldn't expect to receive anything from the Lord. Listen again, just let the word see again. James just got done telling us if we ask wisdom the Lord's gonna give it to us. But then James follows up and he says, but he
8:36 must ask, we must ask, you and I, male and female, daughters and sons of the Lord, we must ask in faith without any doubting, for the 1 who doubts
8:48 is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind, for that man or that woman ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being double
9:00 minded unstable in all his ways. Now I don't know about you, but that makes my heart tremble a little bit in the spirit because I wonder sometimes if I'm always in
9:11 absolute faith. I feel more like the 1 that came to Yeshua and said, Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief. And so I think the reality
9:23 is that none of us walk in perfect faith all the time, but I think James gives us clarity that we are to be committed to walking in perfect faith,
9:35 to receiving God's word, to receiving God's truth, to receiving the light of Hashem and not letting doubt or anything else in. So we're on a journey to perfection, and the
9:47 and the and the target is that we must ask in faith and not doubt. So let's strive, beloved, to guard ourself from allowing doubt in. And when we see that doubt is in our heart, let's
9:59 try to uproot it. Let's ask for forgiveness and for cleansing. Let's say, Lord, forgive me and cleanse me of unbelief. I want to believe perfectly. And father, I hear James' words
10:11 when he said that the man that doubts ought not to expect anything from the Lord, because that man is double minded and unstable in all his ways. And we're on a journey to perfection. We're on a
10:23 journey. And listen, you can't really trust someone unless you know them. Isn't that true? I mean, when someone comes up to you that you don't know and just says, trust me.
10:35 I mean, how much do you trust them? I mean, I've got it in situations before with people where people that I didn't know were offended with me because I didn't trust them. And they're they're
10:47 like expecting me to have they're expecting to have my complete trust. I'm not speaking about being aggressively in distrust towards them, but I mean, they're asking me to make a full commitment to them, and I'm not
10:58 ready to make a full commitment to them because I don't know how trustworthy they are. I don't know. And yet they're offended with me that I don't fully trust them on the spot. But the reality is, we
11:10 can't trust somebody unless we know them. We gain trust with people by getting to know them and seeing that they're faithful and seeing they're trustworthy. I mean, because of
11:22 the jaded world that we live in, all of us I remember when I first got married to Cynthia Marjorie, my beloved wife, over 40 years ago, I didn't immediately
11:34 fully trust her at first. Because I had I had been in some relationships where there wasn't trustworthiness and faithfulness that was there. So it took me some time over the years to get to know my
11:45 wife before I could fully trust her. Now I fully trust her, but it took time to get to know her. You know, yes, she's she's faithful and trustworthy. You can trust her. The reason I share this, it's the same thing
11:57 in our relationship with God. It takes time for us sometimes to fully trust God. We ask ourselves, will he be faithful? Will he come through? Can I really trust him in this situation?
12:09 But over time, as time goes by, and as the years go by, and as God proves himself faithful over and over and over again, our heart opens up and
12:21 blossoms in the light of his spirit to trust him. And so beloved, I want you to know that God is calling us to complete faith, but he's also a gracious and a merciful God that knows that it
12:33 takes time for us to be able to fully heal out of the darkness which we came from to fully trust in his love. Father, we ask you to immerse us in your love now. Father, we realize that there's no excuse
12:45 not to trust you. But father God, we thank you that you realize that our souls, God, have been jaded and tainted by sin in the world. And father, that it takes time for us to open up and heal from
12:56 that. Father, heal our hearts to fully believe in you without doubting we pray. Father, we love you today. We make no excuses for our unbelief. We declare war against it, and we ask you
13:08 now to give us complete perfect faith and trust in you, just like Yeshua has and modeled for us. Do you know that the Bible tells us in the book of Ephesians
13:20 chapter 2, by grace you've been saved, you and I, we by faith, not of works, lest any man should boast. And then Paul
13:32 continues, he said, even your faith, he said, is the gift of God. By grace through faith you've been saved, not of works lest any man should boast, and even your faith
13:45 has been given to you by God. So what I'm sharing with you is the ability to have faith in God and not doubt him, to trust Him, that's a gift
13:57 that's given to us by Hashem, by our Maker. So father right now we open our hearts, Lord. We love you. Father, we appreciate you God, our daddy. And
14:09 father, we thank you for circumcising our hearts and promising us that you would complete the good work that you started in us. That father, you will establish us perfectly
14:21 in the ground of eternity. And now Father God, we come to you asking that you would establish us in faith, that we would believe in you and trust you without doubting,
14:33 in Yeshua Hamashiach's name. Amen and amen. And notice also that, that James makes the comment. He says, a double minded man is unstable in
14:45 all his ways. This is why we should endeavor through prayer and through obedience to build our confidence in God. Because until we get confident in God, the Bible
14:57 tells us we'll be unstable. And it's painful to be unstable. Right? It's painful to be unstable. It's painful emotionally to feel unstable. To to be in belief and
15:09 then in unbelief, to trust and to not trust, God wants us to have perfect confidence in him, to trust without doubting.
15:21 So father, we ask you, like the man we read about in the gospel, increase our faith. Father, we believe increase our faith. Now let's conclude today by
15:33 going on to James's next point. He says, but the brother of humble circumstances is to glory in his high position, and the rich man is to glory in his
15:45 humiliation, because like the flowering grass, he will pass away. And so what James is saying is that we should look upon everybody as being the same
15:57 in stature in terms of how important they are as human beings. That we're not to place more emphasis on successful people or rich people than we
16:09 do on human beings that may be poor or may not have the status as others. James is gonna tell us, we'll get to in the next episode, that if we start to show favoritism and treat people
16:21 differently just because of their worldly wealth or position, that we've become judges with impure motives. So I leave you today, my beloved friend,
16:32 with this challenge. Do you treat everybody with the same love and dignity and respect, regardless if they're a man or a woman, rich or poor, whether they're a
16:44 doctor, a lawyer, or somebody that's in, laboring in more humble circumstances? Do you treat everybody with the same dignity, love and respect? Or do you tend to show
16:56 more respect to people in high places. The Bible warns us against having a heart that doesn't treat everybody with the same love. You see, walking with
17:08 Jesus is the great equalizer. We're all brothers and sisters. We're all the same. We're 1 people with the same blood, and God wants us to love everybody as a
17:20 child of his. We have to remember what we're in the earth to do. At the end of Yeshua's ministry in the gospel of John, Yeshua lifted his heart to the father. He began to
17:32 pray what some people call the high priestly prayer. And he said, father, I've completed the work that you've given me to do. You and I, likewise, my beloved
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