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¹ If you're ridin' for the Lord, don't go to shunnin' some folks and favorin' others. ² If one fella comes in with boots and a hat, and another walks in with raggedy short britches and worn out toe-thong sandals, ³ do you shake the cowboy's hand and ignore the other guy? ⁴ If you do, then you are judgin' wrongly and you ain't no better'n a coyote. ⁵ Listen up cowboys! Didn't the Boss choose the poor and ragtag to be rich in faith and in line for the ultimate inheritance for those who love to ride for him? ⁶ But you've been lookin' down your nose at those less fortunate. Are they the ones takin' people to court and makin' life hard for people or is it the rich? ⁷ Aren't the rich the ones who are ridin' down the wrong road and talkin' crap about the Boss? ⁸ But if you uphold the highest standard in the Good Book, "Take care of your neighbor as good as you take care of yourself," you are ridin' the right trail. ⁹ But if all you do is ride by those less fortunate than you or who are different than you, then it is you who is the scoundrel and will be treated as such. ¹⁰ You can't pick and choose which of the Boss's standards you want to follow. If you willingly ignore one, then you might as well ignore 'em all. ¹¹ The Boss has already told us, "Don't jack with another man's Jenny," and he also said, "Don't dare commit murder." If you've done one, then you've done the other in the Boss's eyes. ¹² Walk and talk like a cowboy who will be judged by the standard that sets men free. ¹³ There will be no mercy waitin' on a cowboy who never showed anyone else such a thing. But mercy trumps judgment every single time.

Faith and Works Go Hand in Hand

¹⁴ What good is a faith that only goes as far as their lips? Is a person a cowboy if he claims to have a saddle, but it's never seen a set of pockets or a mount? Can faith that is never used actually save someone? ¹⁵ If a guy or gal only has rags to wear and not enough food for every day, ¹⁶ and a cowboy says to them, "Ride tall in the saddle my friend and stay warm and eat well," but doesn't offer to help them, what good is it to say such things? ¹⁷ Faith without works is like a saddle without a horse. ¹⁸ Now some folks will mouth-off and say that if they have faith, they don't have to do anything. But I say that a saddle ain't nothin' but a decoration if it ain't on a horse and being used. Same goes for faith and works. ¹⁹ Do you want a cookie for saying the Boss is real? Shoot, even demons know that—and crap their pants in fear.

²⁰ So you want me to prove that like a saddle without a horse is useless, so faith without works is the same? ²¹ Wasn't the great cowboy Abraham right in God's eyes because he came within an instant of sacrificing his boy Isaac? ²² His faith was workin' and it was by these works that his faith was perfected. ²³ And the good words from the Good Book were proven true when it said, "Abraham trusted God with his faith and actions and this made him right in the Boss's eyes," and he was called the Boss's pard. ²⁴ A cowboy is made right with God by putting his faith to work, not just by talkin' about it. ²⁵ Even Rahab the hooker was made right in the Boss's eyes because she helped out the Israelite spies and kept them safe. ²⁶ A body without its soul is dead, and faith without works is also deader'n a doornail.