1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:11,620 Well, it is truly interesting that we are in this thing. 2 00:00:11,620 --> 00:00:18,920 I think war is terrible, yet it is the way of kings. 3 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,760 It is the way of this age that we live in. 4 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:24,500 It's going to happen over and over again. 5 00:00:24,500 --> 00:00:27,020 There'll be rumors of wars and wars. 6 00:00:28,540 --> 00:00:32,080 And the fact that we got involved in this last night, 7 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:36,580 I think it creates all kinds of different opinions and emotion. 8 00:00:36,580 --> 00:00:40,220 And obviously as a pastor, people, well, what do you think, pastor? 9 00:00:40,220 --> 00:00:44,860 Turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter six. 10 00:00:44,860 --> 00:00:49,320 No, I will talk about it here just a little bit. 11 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,900 But love our president or hate him. 12 00:00:52,900 --> 00:00:56,540 And I think that we might have both in both camps here, 13 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:05,780 he told them, you guys have 60 days to do away with your nuclear program. 14 00:01:06,620 --> 00:01:12,780 On day 61, Israel whacked Iran. 15 00:01:12,780 --> 00:01:20,060 And Trump extended his hand again. 16 00:01:20,060 --> 00:01:20,880 We need to talk. 17 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:22,000 Let's have some peace talks. 18 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,180 Come on, come to the table. 19 00:01:23,180 --> 00:01:24,960 They weren't willing to do that. 20 00:01:26,160 --> 00:01:31,260 So thus we have what happened yesterday. 21 00:01:31,260 --> 00:01:36,080 And where's it going to take us? 22 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:38,000 Nobody knows. 23 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:39,960 But the Lord above, right? 24 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:41,440 He knows. 25 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:43,340 He knows where this is going to lead. 26 00:01:43,340 --> 00:01:46,180 Could it lead to Ezekiel 38 and 39? 27 00:01:46,180 --> 00:01:46,780 It could. 28 00:01:46,780 --> 00:01:47,880 It could. 29 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,300 Could it be a time of regime change for the Iranians? 30 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:52,940 Maybe. 31 00:01:52,940 --> 00:02:02,300 But I'm looking forward to a day in where it talks about in Isaiah. 32 00:02:02,300 --> 00:02:04,840 And I just want to read this scripture to you. 33 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,040 It's found in the second chapter of Isaiah. 34 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:08,660 Verse 4. 35 00:02:08,660 --> 00:02:10,360 Where it says, 36 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,980 He, God, shall judge between the nations and rebuke many people. 37 00:02:14,980 --> 00:02:19,820 They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. 38 00:02:19,820 --> 00:02:23,020 Nations shall not lift up sword against nation. 39 00:02:23,020 --> 00:02:25,720 Neither shall they learn war anymore. 40 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,840 We get to look forward as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. 41 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,380 We look forward to a time when this stuff won't be going on. 42 00:02:33,380 --> 00:02:38,040 And it won't be upsetting nations and the people of nations. 43 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,760 I pray for the people of Iran. 44 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:51,600 But I also believe that the bullies of the Middle East needed to be dealt with. 45 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:52,700 Right? 46 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:58,720 When I was a kid, I changed schools like 13 times between first and ninth grade. 47 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,220 And I had to deal with bullies. 48 00:03:01,220 --> 00:03:02,500 I wasn't a very big guy. 49 00:03:02,500 --> 00:03:05,580 And I had to deal with bullies all the time. 50 00:03:05,580 --> 00:03:09,080 And every time my parents told me we were moving, I go. 51 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,860 Right? 52 00:03:11,860 --> 00:03:16,000 Because the first two or three days of schools, I would double up my right fist. 53 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:16,640 I'm right-handed. 54 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:19,540 I would double up my right fist and I'd walk around school. 55 00:03:19,540 --> 00:03:22,540 And sure enough, every single time. 56 00:03:22,540 --> 00:03:27,120 A big bully would come up and start messing with the new kid. 57 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:28,760 And I just knew. 58 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:33,120 As soon as I punched somebody in the mouth, all the bullying was over. 59 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:34,260 Right? 60 00:03:34,260 --> 00:03:35,880 It was over. 61 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:37,680 And I hated it. 62 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:39,720 And it was out of fear. 63 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:45,400 But I knew that if I dealt with it right off the bat, then it would be over. 64 00:03:46,260 --> 00:03:51,500 And, you know, bullying is a whole different world today than what it was when I was a kid. 65 00:03:51,500 --> 00:03:54,440 You know, you dealt with it and got a big stick or whatever you had to do. 66 00:03:54,440 --> 00:04:08,060 But I remember being a junior in high school and hearing about, you know, when Reagan was campaigning for office and hearing about the hostages that were in Iran back then in 1979. 67 00:04:08,060 --> 00:04:09,080 I remember that. 68 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,340 And that they had kept them for over a year. 69 00:04:12,780 --> 00:04:20,000 And I remember Reagan, they asked him during the campaign, well, what would you do if you're elected? 70 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,560 What are you going to do about Iran? 71 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,340 And he goes, I'm going to treat them like the thugs that they are. 72 00:04:24,340 --> 00:04:27,780 And it was interesting. 73 00:04:27,780 --> 00:04:32,460 As soon as the election was over, before the inauguration, all those people came home. 74 00:04:32,460 --> 00:04:33,800 Right? 75 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:39,260 Because Reagan, they knew that Reagan would do what he said he was going to do. 76 00:04:39,260 --> 00:04:40,020 Right? 77 00:04:40,460 --> 00:04:43,080 And so there's a lot of weight to that. 78 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:43,340 Right? 79 00:04:43,340 --> 00:04:43,400 Right? 80 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:48,620 You appreciate people who say something and then do what they say. 81 00:04:48,620 --> 00:04:57,440 Years ago, I heard Chuck Missler said, that's what is a great definition of truth, is when the word and the deed become one. 82 00:04:57,440 --> 00:04:58,960 Right? 83 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:00,680 When the word and the deed become one. 84 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:06,100 And so I think this verdict is still out on Donald Trump. 85 00:05:06,100 --> 00:05:07,980 You know, I know he's not my savior. 86 00:05:09,380 --> 00:05:19,340 I appreciate him being in the White House because he's a very wealthy man and he didn't have to do what he did and run for office and all that. 87 00:05:19,340 --> 00:05:21,820 But he seems to have a genuine love for this country. 88 00:05:21,820 --> 00:05:26,300 And it appears that he does what he says he's going to do. 89 00:05:26,980 --> 00:05:38,740 And so I support this in the fact that they had taken hostages. 90 00:05:38,740 --> 00:05:46,680 They are the driving factor behind the Houthis, behind Hamas, behind Hezbollah. 91 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:52,240 And so I think it was warranted, this strike. 92 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,140 Now, will they come to the table? 93 00:05:54,140 --> 00:05:55,820 We don't know that. 94 00:05:55,820 --> 00:05:57,560 I doubt it. 95 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:02,200 Because this is a religion of death. 96 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:04,580 They love death. 97 00:06:04,580 --> 00:06:08,080 And they say that openly, that we love death. 98 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:12,780 And I liked what Amir Sarfati said when Hamas said that. 99 00:06:12,780 --> 00:06:17,080 He said, well, if you love death and we love life, just kill yourself and everybody will be happy. 100 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:45,500 But I have to think, as I analyze this, I have to think that if I have a neighbor that comes to my door occasionally and tells me how bad they hate me and my wife and my kids, and that they're going to remove us from the earth, I'm only going to tolerate that for a certain amount of time. 101 00:06:45,500 --> 00:06:46,520 Right? 102 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:48,820 As the man of the house of the leader, right? 103 00:06:48,820 --> 00:06:50,600 I'm only going to tolerate that a certain amount. 104 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:51,860 And then I'm going to deal with it. 105 00:06:51,860 --> 00:06:52,480 Right? 106 00:06:53,100 --> 00:06:55,640 And I think that's what has happened here. 107 00:06:55,640 --> 00:07:01,220 For years, they've been saying, for 40 years, they've been saying, death to America, death to Israel. 108 00:07:01,220 --> 00:07:04,180 So that's where I'm at. 109 00:07:04,180 --> 00:07:05,780 Where it's going to go, I don't know. 110 00:07:05,780 --> 00:07:09,460 But stand by for coming attractions. 111 00:07:09,460 --> 00:07:10,000 Right? 112 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:13,880 Because it could get very interesting. 113 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:19,020 And honestly, I believe that we're in the last days. 114 00:07:19,020 --> 00:07:22,840 Folks, we're in the last days of the last days. 115 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:29,420 So with that in mind, now turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 6. 116 00:07:29,420 --> 00:07:31,140 And we're going to look at a few verses here. 117 00:07:31,140 --> 00:07:45,960 And we looked last time at some challenges that Jesus gave his followers and how tough it is. 118 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:50,140 But we ended up with verse 36. 119 00:07:50,140 --> 00:07:55,040 And it says, therefore, be merciful, just as your father also is merciful. 120 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:59,600 That a merciful father should have merciful children. 121 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,940 Because it says, notice who he's merciful to. 122 00:08:02,940 --> 00:08:07,180 For he is kind to the unthankful in the evil. 123 00:08:07,180 --> 00:08:10,480 He's kind to the unthankful in the evil. 124 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:11,220 God is. 125 00:08:12,180 --> 00:08:13,420 Does that mean we have to be? 126 00:08:13,420 --> 00:08:15,480 Well, yeah. 127 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:20,200 That would almost disagree with what I just said. 128 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:21,740 But this is nation against nation. 129 00:08:21,740 --> 00:08:23,980 It's different when it's person to person. 130 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:31,980 And so we live in an age where war is a real thing. 131 00:08:31,980 --> 00:08:37,400 But when it comes to our personal relationship with God and our personal relationship with our fellow man, 132 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,220 the rules seem to be a little bit different. 133 00:08:40,220 --> 00:08:43,660 That you can't just kill somebody because you don't like them. 134 00:08:43,660 --> 00:08:49,840 I have a discontented friend who is a Christian. 135 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:56,560 And he always used to tell me, Scotty, do you realize that some people are alive simply because it's against the law to kill them? 136 00:08:56,560 --> 00:08:58,980 And that was his heart. 137 00:08:58,980 --> 00:09:03,020 I said, dude, I think you better deal with that right before Jesus comes. 138 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:09,040 And so, so true. 139 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:22,500 But to be merciful, that we as individuals can be merciful, we can turn the other cheek and be like our Jesus. 140 00:09:23,340 --> 00:09:30,800 And so, we're just going to read, I'm going to read from 37 down through verse 42. 141 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:33,140 And then we'll talk about it a little bit. 142 00:09:33,140 --> 00:09:37,260 So, he goes on here after he says to be merciful just like our father. 143 00:09:37,260 --> 00:09:40,120 He says, judge not and you shall not be judged. 144 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:43,080 Condemn not and you shall not be condemned. 145 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:46,100 Forgive and you will be forgiven. 146 00:09:46,100 --> 00:09:48,980 Give and it will be given to you. 147 00:09:48,980 --> 00:09:54,880 Good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over will be put into your bosom. 148 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:59,460 For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you. 149 00:09:59,460 --> 00:10:02,120 And he spoke a parable to them. 150 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,360 Can the blind lead the blind? 151 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,080 Will they not both fall into the ditch? 152 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:13,680 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher. 153 00:10:13,860 --> 00:10:20,880 And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but not perceive the plank in your own eye? 154 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:31,000 For how can you say to your brother, brother, let me remove the speck that is in your eye when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? 155 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:31,900 Hypocrite. 156 00:10:31,900 --> 00:10:39,980 First, remove the plank from your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck that is in your brother's eye. 157 00:10:39,980 --> 00:10:40,780 Shall we pray? 158 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:42,600 Lord, thank you for your word. 159 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,260 And Jesus, thank you for these parables. 160 00:10:46,260 --> 00:10:50,220 Lord, these stories that you bring to us. 161 00:10:50,220 --> 00:10:53,040 Lord, that speak such truth to our hearts. 162 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:55,340 Lord, that it truly should change us. 163 00:10:55,340 --> 00:11:02,100 And so may it have that effect on us, Lord, as we look, Lord, just at the power of your word today. 164 00:11:02,100 --> 00:11:03,600 And we pray it in Jesus' name. 165 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:04,160 Amen. 166 00:11:05,620 --> 00:11:07,600 So he says three things there. 167 00:11:07,600 --> 00:11:09,360 First thing he says is judge not. 168 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:13,520 The most abused phrase in all the New Testament, I believe. 169 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:13,940 Right? 170 00:11:13,940 --> 00:11:14,960 You have people tell you that. 171 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:16,560 Don't judge me, man. 172 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:18,380 The Bible says not to judge. 173 00:11:18,380 --> 00:11:21,220 Yeah, it does say that. 174 00:11:21,220 --> 00:11:23,460 But other places it says to judge. 175 00:11:23,460 --> 00:11:31,520 But people use that phrase, don't judge me, because they're trying to justify their sin. 176 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,280 And ultimately, God is the judge. 177 00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:35,240 We know that. 178 00:11:35,660 --> 00:11:44,600 But the word judgment there means to, you know, means to conclude or make a final judgment. 179 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,640 And you and I can't do that, right? 180 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:55,400 Because we don't have the privilege of passing a final judgment on anyone. 181 00:11:57,020 --> 00:12:00,900 And so that's God's judgment. 182 00:12:00,900 --> 00:12:06,920 And, but we're bent towards being judgmental, right? 183 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:09,480 We look at, ah, you know, isn't it amazing? 184 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:11,860 Our sin always looks so much worse on everybody else. 185 00:12:11,860 --> 00:12:15,800 You hate liars, but we lie, right? 186 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:16,860 We hate thieves. 187 00:12:16,860 --> 00:12:19,980 I hate a thief, but we're thieves, right? 188 00:12:19,980 --> 00:12:22,600 It always looks worse on someone else. 189 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:28,620 And therefore, you justify, try to justify yourself by saying, man, don't judge me, because 190 00:12:28,620 --> 00:12:35,740 the Bible says, but, but judgmentalism is the greatest form of hypocrisy, right? 191 00:12:35,740 --> 00:12:40,600 Being judgmental is the greatest form of hypocrisy because the old saying is true. 192 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,160 And it's compounded. 193 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:48,500 When you point one finger at someone for their sin, there's three more pointing back at you. 194 00:12:49,900 --> 00:12:53,320 And it helps you lose sight of your sin. 195 00:12:53,320 --> 00:13:00,040 And we like that because, yeah, because it's sin is, we're convicted by it. 196 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:01,560 We know we're guilty. 197 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:06,820 And so to make a judgment on somebody, it's not our place. 198 00:13:06,820 --> 00:13:10,460 That's not to say that we don't use discernment. 199 00:13:10,460 --> 00:13:16,200 There's a difference between making a final judgment, say you're going to hell, which none 200 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,700 of us can say that because God, didn't we just read how merciful God is? 201 00:13:19,700 --> 00:13:24,480 You realize how the people that will be in heaven, you go, how'd you get here? 202 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,460 I mean, it's going to be shocking, right? 203 00:13:27,460 --> 00:13:37,800 Because God is so merciful and he doesn't judge like we judge, but he's called us to have discernment, 204 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:38,440 right? 205 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,400 I can make a judgment on behavior. 206 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:48,220 When my child lies to me, you know, I'm thinking, oh, that's okay, right? 207 00:13:48,220 --> 00:13:48,840 That's okay. 208 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:49,800 I'm going to overlook that. 209 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:51,140 No, I'm not going to overlook that. 210 00:13:51,140 --> 00:13:54,220 They might get a Tony Llama upside their hind end. 211 00:13:54,220 --> 00:13:57,200 Right? 212 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:03,360 I'm not going to overlook that because it makes me look bad as a parent. 213 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:13,320 I have been guilty of that, been guilty of disciplining my kids because they make me look bad. 214 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:17,160 All of our kids make us look bad, right? 215 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:18,240 They're fallen. 216 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,260 They, they, they, they sin and fall short of God's glory. 217 00:14:22,260 --> 00:14:24,360 And you go, oh, how could you? 218 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:24,880 What do you mean? 219 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:25,400 How could you? 220 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:26,340 They get it from you. 221 00:14:26,340 --> 00:14:27,220 What do you expect? 222 00:14:34,060 --> 00:14:39,160 I just heard, heard Chuck Messler was, was teaching through his, his Bible in 24 hours. 223 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,940 He mentioned where David says in Psalm 116, all men are liars. 224 00:14:43,180 --> 00:14:46,160 He said, he said, he said it hastily, but he was right. 225 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:47,700 All men are liars. 226 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:49,360 You, your children. 227 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:57,460 And, but we can make, we can make a judgment call on, on behavior. 228 00:14:57,460 --> 00:15:02,500 We're also, it's also been called fruit inspectors, right? 229 00:15:03,460 --> 00:15:05,480 We, we can inspect fruit. 230 00:15:05,480 --> 00:15:16,480 What Luke is establishing here is, is, um, however you do a thing or treat people, right? 231 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,420 Is how it will be done to you is what he said. 232 00:15:20,420 --> 00:15:24,200 It's the whole idea of reaping and sowing, right? 233 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:26,920 Whatever you sow, that's what you're going to reap. 234 00:15:28,740 --> 00:15:31,980 And, um, so if you sow thorns, you're going to reap thorns. 235 00:15:31,980 --> 00:15:33,940 If you sow corn, then you're going to reap corn. 236 00:15:33,940 --> 00:15:41,260 And so that's what he's saying here with the, he says, uh, judge not, and you shall not be judged. 237 00:15:41,260 --> 00:15:44,640 Then the second one he says is to condemn. 238 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:50,540 They're kind of the same, but condemnation, it means to put yourself above somebody. 239 00:15:50,540 --> 00:15:52,660 You ever had somebody talk down to you? 240 00:15:52,660 --> 00:15:58,320 Well, most of you do talk down to me when we talk because you're taller than me, right? 241 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,740 But, but, but I mean, it's, it's like elevating yourself above someone. 242 00:16:02,740 --> 00:16:13,520 And, um, I don't know about you, but that, it really galls me when, you know, when somebody kind of treats you like their boy. 243 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:24,680 And yet it's okay because we're called to be servants. 244 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:30,300 So when somebody talks down to us, um, we should take it. 245 00:16:30,300 --> 00:16:33,320 It's that whole turning the other cheek thing. 246 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:39,060 It's, uh, it's being humble. 247 00:16:39,060 --> 00:16:48,280 It's being okay with somebody kind of putting themselves above you. 248 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:53,060 But back to the judge thing, it says here, judge not, and you won't be judged. 249 00:16:53,060 --> 00:17:02,980 Matthew, uh, takes it a little bit further, the same passage, but it gives a little more detail when it says, judge not that you be not judged. 250 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:06,960 For what with judgment you judge, you will be judged. 251 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:09,840 And with the measure you use, it would be measured back to you. 252 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:13,240 So how hard are you on people when they blow it? 253 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:14,980 Right? 254 00:17:14,980 --> 00:17:17,280 How much do you talk down to people? 255 00:17:20,020 --> 00:17:24,760 How often do you, in your own mind, you think you're above somebody? 256 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:29,100 When the fact is, none of us are above anybody. 257 00:17:29,100 --> 00:17:31,900 None of us have arrived. 258 00:17:33,180 --> 00:17:37,380 And so it's, it's a really good thing to walk in humility. 259 00:17:37,380 --> 00:17:43,380 And, and Jesus encourages us to do that over and over and over again. 260 00:17:43,380 --> 00:17:49,440 And so, but in some places, right, it, it does tell us to judge. 261 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:54,440 And, and that would, that would be probably more for discernment. 262 00:17:54,440 --> 00:18:00,040 You guys remember in first Corinthians, when Paul is talking to the people about taking communion. 263 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,340 And he encourages them to, to judge. 264 00:18:03,340 --> 00:18:07,900 And it's, he says there in, in verse 29 of a Corinthians, first Corinthians 11, 265 00:18:07,900 --> 00:18:11,220 for he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner, 266 00:18:11,220 --> 00:18:15,860 eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. 267 00:18:15,860 --> 00:18:18,100 No, they're just doing it frivolously. 268 00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:20,480 Just, just pop the bread in and take the cup. 269 00:18:20,480 --> 00:18:25,180 You're not, you're not considering, you're not taking a pause. 270 00:18:25,180 --> 00:18:27,200 You're not considering your own life. 271 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:28,640 Not only that, but your own sin. 272 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:35,100 You do it in an unworthy manner and disrespecting what Jesus did on the cross by, 273 00:18:35,100 --> 00:18:38,520 by receiving communion in this unworthy manner. 274 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:47,260 And he goes on to say, for this reason, many are sick and weak and some have fallen asleep. 275 00:18:47,260 --> 00:18:48,860 Really? 276 00:18:48,860 --> 00:18:56,180 Taking communion, not being concerned, not being convicted about your own sin, 277 00:18:56,260 --> 00:18:57,340 not dealing with it. 278 00:18:57,340 --> 00:19:02,360 And it says some are weak, sick, and some have died. 279 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:07,920 Because they didn't take their own sin really to heart and really turn from it. 280 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:09,820 They just kind of went on their own way. 281 00:19:09,820 --> 00:19:11,820 Oh, God's gracious and merciful. 282 00:19:11,820 --> 00:19:13,080 He'll just let it slide. 283 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:14,580 Maybe not. 284 00:19:14,580 --> 00:19:15,900 The wages of sin is death. 285 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:18,300 Some of these people that caught up with them. 286 00:19:18,300 --> 00:19:22,060 No turn from it. 287 00:19:22,060 --> 00:19:25,060 He says in verse 31, 288 00:19:25,060 --> 00:19:29,360 for if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. 289 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:35,620 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord that we may not be condemned with the world. 290 00:19:35,860 --> 00:19:40,740 It's almost like that thing where, you know, Paul says, when somebody's in sin, if they won't repent, 291 00:19:40,740 --> 00:19:41,820 just turn them over to Satan. 292 00:19:41,820 --> 00:19:45,940 Let him knock the tar out of them. 293 00:19:45,940 --> 00:19:48,800 That's a Scotty paraphrase, right? 294 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:54,100 Let him knock the, that their body would be destroyed, but their soul would be saved. 295 00:19:54,100 --> 00:19:58,540 It's like these people are believers, but they're not dealing with their sin. 296 00:19:58,540 --> 00:19:59,800 They're kind of just living in it. 297 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:02,680 And God's going, well, I'm sorry. 298 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:04,980 I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to kill you. 299 00:20:04,980 --> 00:20:13,180 I'm wondering, so you won't be condemned with the world. 300 00:20:13,180 --> 00:20:16,900 So that God won't make this, this final judgment on your life. 301 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:18,980 No deal with it. 302 00:20:18,980 --> 00:20:19,840 Repent, turn. 303 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:22,360 It's kind of like Ananias and Sapphira. 304 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:24,900 I wonder if that's a chastening, right? 305 00:20:24,900 --> 00:20:28,920 That's a big question for a lot of Bible scholars. 306 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,720 Did Ananias and Sapphira make it in? 307 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,380 Did God said, you know what? 308 00:20:34,380 --> 00:20:35,420 You guys just messed up. 309 00:20:35,420 --> 00:20:38,500 I'm going to take your breath away and you just come be with me. 310 00:20:38,500 --> 00:20:42,460 Remember, they lied to the Lord. 311 00:20:42,460 --> 00:20:47,580 Now, Peter said, you guys haven't lied to men. 312 00:20:47,580 --> 00:20:48,880 You've lied to the Holy Spirit. 313 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,320 You think you can get away with that? 314 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:51,800 You can't get away with that. 315 00:20:57,300 --> 00:20:57,960 I don't know. 316 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:03,260 I like to think it because God is so merciful, but he can show mercy to who he wants to show mercy. 317 00:21:03,260 --> 00:21:06,640 And to who he doesn't want to show mercy, he doesn't have to show mercy. 318 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,040 God makes the call. 319 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:09,980 You say, well, that's unfair. 320 00:21:09,980 --> 00:21:10,360 Really? 321 00:21:10,360 --> 00:21:11,440 According to who? 322 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:15,080 Us. 323 00:21:16,820 --> 00:21:19,340 But isn't he the one that gave you your breath to start with? 324 00:21:19,340 --> 00:21:20,820 Can't he do with it what he wants? 325 00:21:20,820 --> 00:21:22,120 Of course he can. 326 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:27,260 So, judge not lest you be judged. 327 00:21:27,260 --> 00:21:29,600 Condemn not lest you be condemned. 328 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:37,180 And then Peter talks about judgment begins at the house of God. 329 00:21:37,180 --> 00:21:42,180 Over here in Peter chapter 4. 330 00:21:42,180 --> 00:21:43,780 I'm going to read it to you. 331 00:21:43,780 --> 00:21:47,060 It's in verse 17. 332 00:21:47,060 --> 00:21:48,060 He says, 333 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:52,680 For the time has come, and it really is now, especially in these last days. 334 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:56,760 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God. 335 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:04,540 And if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 336 00:22:06,820 --> 00:22:13,620 Now, if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where would the ungodly and the sinner appear? 337 00:22:13,620 --> 00:22:22,320 Therefore, let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to him in doing good as to a faithful creator. 338 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:25,780 In other words, don't be messing around. 339 00:22:25,780 --> 00:22:27,280 Right? 340 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:29,580 Just be faithful to the Lord in these last days. 341 00:22:29,580 --> 00:22:31,340 Guys, we only got a short time. 342 00:22:31,340 --> 00:22:33,740 We can all hang on for a short time, can't we? 343 00:22:35,820 --> 00:22:39,500 That's what Jesus tells the church there in the book of Revelation. 344 00:22:39,500 --> 00:22:41,500 Strengthen that which remains. 345 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:41,780 Right? 346 00:22:41,780 --> 00:22:42,480 I'm coming. 347 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:43,840 Just hang on. 348 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:45,980 Don't weaken now. 349 00:22:45,980 --> 00:22:48,800 Don't forsake the Lord now. 350 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,760 Because we're so much closer to him coming. 351 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:57,760 And you're one day closer to dying. 352 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:04,240 Thirdly, Jesus mentions, 353 00:23:04,820 --> 00:23:05,980 forgiveness. 354 00:23:05,980 --> 00:23:06,200 Forgiveness. 355 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:09,700 Another tough pill to swallow. 356 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:16,120 And it's so easy to say and so hard for people to do. 357 00:23:16,120 --> 00:23:17,620 Or is it? 358 00:23:17,620 --> 00:23:20,700 When you see the result of not forgiving. 359 00:23:22,340 --> 00:23:27,620 When you see the result of not forgiving that Jesus mentions in a parable, 360 00:23:27,620 --> 00:23:30,560 a hair raisin parable, I might add, 361 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,560 in Matthew chapter 18, 362 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:36,920 when he tells a story about a guy that was a million dollars in debt. 363 00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:39,560 He's a million dollars in debt. 364 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:41,460 And the guy says, 365 00:23:41,460 --> 00:23:42,340 well, we're going to take him, 366 00:23:42,340 --> 00:23:43,520 take you and your family. 367 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:44,980 It's going to affect the whole family. 368 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:46,820 And you're going to go into debtor's prison. 369 00:23:46,820 --> 00:23:52,020 And you would go into debtor's prison and you couldn't come out till the last penny was paid. 370 00:23:52,020 --> 00:23:53,780 And he's just thinking, 371 00:23:53,780 --> 00:23:54,760 I'm sunk. 372 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:56,240 My family's sunk. 373 00:23:56,460 --> 00:23:58,820 And he goes and he falls down before his master. 374 00:23:58,820 --> 00:23:59,800 And he begs. 375 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:00,160 He says, 376 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:02,680 just give me time and I'll pay it off. 377 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:03,520 It's like, 378 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:07,520 and it says the master had compassion on him. 379 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:09,500 And he says, 380 00:24:09,500 --> 00:24:09,980 you know what? 381 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:11,800 You're forgiven. 382 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,820 You don't owe me a dime. 383 00:24:13,820 --> 00:24:16,560 Can you imagine? 384 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,540 I don't know about you. 385 00:24:18,540 --> 00:24:22,980 But debt is a weighty yoke. 386 00:24:22,980 --> 00:24:26,180 I hate debt. 387 00:24:26,180 --> 00:24:30,940 The proverb is so true that the borrower is servant to the lender. 388 00:24:30,940 --> 00:24:36,060 And God forgave this guy. 389 00:24:36,060 --> 00:24:39,360 Or this master forgave this guy. 390 00:24:40,140 --> 00:24:44,220 And then he goes down the street after being forgiven a million dollars. 391 00:24:44,220 --> 00:24:47,540 And the guy down the street owes him a hundred bucks. 392 00:24:47,540 --> 00:24:50,120 He takes him by the throat and says, 393 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:51,240 pay me what you owe me. 394 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:56,300 And the people that knew that this man had been forgiven. 395 00:24:56,300 --> 00:25:00,140 Went and told the master what he did. 396 00:25:00,140 --> 00:25:05,760 And he's fired up. 397 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:07,660 I forgave you a million dollars. 398 00:25:07,660 --> 00:25:09,980 And you got a guy by the throat that owes you a hundred bucks. 399 00:25:09,980 --> 00:25:13,720 Folks, 400 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:17,040 every one of us is that man that owes a million dollars. 401 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:19,580 Every one of us. 402 00:25:19,580 --> 00:25:22,620 Does somebody owe you a hundred bucks? 403 00:25:22,620 --> 00:25:24,860 Let it go. 404 00:25:27,740 --> 00:25:29,860 So in verse 33 of chapter 18, 405 00:25:29,860 --> 00:25:30,440 it says, 406 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:34,300 this master comes to him and says, 407 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:40,320 should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant? 408 00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,280 As I had pity on you. 409 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:49,600 And his master was angry and deliver him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due him. 410 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:50,640 For my, 411 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,740 so my heavenly father also will do to you. 412 00:25:54,740 --> 00:25:59,040 If each of you from his heart does not forgive his brother, 413 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:00,160 his trespasses. 414 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,460 That puts forgiveness in a whole new light for me. 415 00:26:03,460 --> 00:26:04,340 I don't know about you, 416 00:26:04,340 --> 00:26:05,580 but for me, 417 00:26:05,580 --> 00:26:05,900 it's like, 418 00:26:05,900 --> 00:26:06,300 oh yeah, 419 00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:06,620 no. 420 00:26:06,620 --> 00:26:07,720 Yes. 421 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:08,100 Yes, 422 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:08,360 Lord. 423 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:09,620 Right. 424 00:26:09,620 --> 00:26:10,920 Keep really short accounts. 425 00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:11,780 Forgive them. 426 00:26:11,780 --> 00:26:12,760 Let it go. 427 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,100 It's okay. 428 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:15,480 You're going to heaven. 429 00:26:16,340 --> 00:26:18,400 Because if you do not forgive, 430 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:19,940 you will not be forgiven. 431 00:26:19,940 --> 00:26:22,420 That's the principle here. 432 00:26:22,420 --> 00:26:25,160 It's this master withdraws his forgiveness. 433 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:27,280 And in the picture, 434 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,020 the guy in debt is you and me. 435 00:26:30,020 --> 00:26:32,020 The master is God himself. 436 00:26:32,020 --> 00:26:35,240 Could you imagine if God withdrew his forgiveness from you? 437 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,200 Does that not strike fear in your heart? 438 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,040 It ought to. 439 00:26:41,040 --> 00:26:43,040 Forgive. 440 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:48,420 And you'll be forgiven. 441 00:26:48,420 --> 00:26:50,580 So it's such a simple principle, 442 00:26:50,580 --> 00:26:53,040 but so hard to practice. 443 00:26:53,040 --> 00:27:04,380 Verses 39 through 42. 444 00:27:04,380 --> 00:27:05,900 It says, 445 00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:07,320 and he spoke a parable to them. 446 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,120 Can the blind lead the blind? 447 00:27:09,540 --> 00:27:13,200 Will they not both fall into the ditch? 448 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,160 A disciple is not above his teacher, 449 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:20,160 but everyone who is perfectly trained will be like his teacher. 450 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,880 And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye 451 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,420 and do not perceive the plank in your own eye? 452 00:27:25,420 --> 00:27:28,180 Or how can you say to your brother, 453 00:27:28,180 --> 00:27:28,540 brother, 454 00:27:28,540 --> 00:27:31,260 let me remove the speck that is in your eye 455 00:27:31,260 --> 00:27:34,460 when you yourself do not see the plank that is in your own eye? 456 00:27:34,460 --> 00:27:35,160 Hypocrite. 457 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:35,800 First, 458 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,900 remove the plank from your own eye, 459 00:27:37,980 --> 00:27:41,480 and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. 460 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,220 It's about seeing things clearly. 461 00:27:43,220 --> 00:27:48,100 Instead of being fogged over by our selfishness 462 00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:56,180 and our refusal to confess, 463 00:27:56,180 --> 00:27:57,220 right? 464 00:27:57,220 --> 00:27:58,220 Our sin. 465 00:27:59,540 --> 00:28:00,300 And so, 466 00:28:00,300 --> 00:28:02,980 that whole, 467 00:28:02,980 --> 00:28:05,380 given it will be given to you, 468 00:28:05,380 --> 00:28:05,880 good measure, 469 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:06,400 pressed down, 470 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:07,100 shaken together. 471 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:09,240 Can't imagine the blessings 472 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,160 that's just obeying these three commands 473 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,320 to not judge and not condemn and forgive. 474 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,140 It's awesome. 475 00:28:17,140 --> 00:28:18,540 But you have to see clearly. 476 00:28:18,540 --> 00:28:22,100 You got to see clearly your own fault and failure. 477 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:23,940 And he's saying, 478 00:28:23,940 --> 00:28:26,120 how can you, 479 00:28:26,120 --> 00:28:27,620 how can the blind lead the blind? 480 00:28:27,620 --> 00:28:30,060 I had a stepdad who was, 481 00:28:30,060 --> 00:28:30,600 he, 482 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:32,560 my mom married him in 1971. 483 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:34,060 And he, 484 00:28:34,060 --> 00:28:38,620 so he was a pretty huge influence in me and my brother Rick's life for 10 years. 485 00:28:38,620 --> 00:28:39,720 And, 486 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:40,540 you know, 487 00:28:40,540 --> 00:28:42,460 in prison for quite a few of those years. 488 00:28:42,460 --> 00:28:43,520 And, 489 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,520 and so my freshman year in high school, 490 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:48,640 him and my mom separated. 491 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,920 She stayed married to him while he went to prison for an attempted murder charge. 492 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:55,240 that was reduced to manslaughter. 493 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:56,500 He ended up doing a four year stint. 494 00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:57,580 The whole time I was in high school, 495 00:28:57,580 --> 00:28:58,260 he was in prison. 496 00:28:58,260 --> 00:29:00,160 And he gets out, 497 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,600 gets out of prison my, 498 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,460 my senior year, 499 00:29:05,460 --> 00:29:07,120 the spring of right before I graduated, 500 00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:07,960 he got out of prison. 501 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,880 And he was still a huge influence in Rick and I's life. 502 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:12,900 And, 503 00:29:12,900 --> 00:29:16,620 and so he, 504 00:29:16,620 --> 00:29:19,620 he was spiritually blind. 505 00:29:19,620 --> 00:29:21,540 And so for almost 10 years, 506 00:29:21,540 --> 00:29:22,280 he led us. 507 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,100 Into that spiritual blindness, 508 00:29:25,100 --> 00:29:26,040 right? 509 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:26,360 That, 510 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:27,300 I mean, 511 00:29:27,300 --> 00:29:31,520 I watched him snort lines of cannabinole and smoke weed and rob stores and, 512 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:32,340 you know, 513 00:29:32,340 --> 00:29:35,800 try to get girls to have sex with Rick and I when we're, 514 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:36,180 you know, 515 00:29:36,180 --> 00:29:39,980 10 and 12 years old and just the craziest stuff. 516 00:29:39,980 --> 00:29:42,540 And that was the darkness we were in. 517 00:29:42,540 --> 00:29:42,980 We just, 518 00:29:42,980 --> 00:29:43,340 you know, 519 00:29:43,340 --> 00:29:45,720 I kind of just thought it was normal, 520 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,840 but in 1982, 521 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,620 him being this huge influence on our lives, 522 00:29:50,900 --> 00:29:52,360 a bull steps on his head. 523 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,780 And when he wakes up a month later, 524 00:29:56,780 --> 00:29:58,480 and he was in a coma for a month, 525 00:29:58,480 --> 00:29:59,120 month and a half. 526 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:00,320 When he wakes up, 527 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:01,620 he's in total darkness. 528 00:30:01,620 --> 00:30:03,100 He can't even see light. 529 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:05,940 It's total darkness. 530 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:11,000 And so here's this guy who's just bigger than life, 531 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,000 you know, 532 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,980 ex-con, 533 00:30:13,980 --> 00:30:14,700 tough, 534 00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:16,300 hard worker, 535 00:30:16,300 --> 00:30:17,800 taught us how to ride bulls, 536 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:18,160 you know, 537 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:24,580 and now he's reduced to somebody leading him around. 538 00:30:25,420 --> 00:30:28,420 And so he came and lived with me for a while and I would lead him around. 539 00:30:28,420 --> 00:30:31,080 And when you're leading a blind person, 540 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,460 you have to be really alert, 541 00:30:33,460 --> 00:30:33,960 right? 542 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:34,400 You, 543 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:34,480 you, 544 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,320 you just take a step up on a curb for granted. 545 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,020 You can't do that with blind people. 546 00:30:39,020 --> 00:30:39,240 They, 547 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:40,220 you know, 548 00:30:40,220 --> 00:30:42,500 you don't tell them there's a step, 549 00:30:42,500 --> 00:30:43,380 then they crash. 550 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,620 Or if something's low hanging branch on a tree or whatever, 551 00:30:47,620 --> 00:30:48,980 you just walk them right into it. 552 00:30:48,980 --> 00:30:49,340 Not even, 553 00:30:49,340 --> 00:30:50,100 you know, 554 00:30:50,100 --> 00:30:51,020 I did that. 555 00:30:51,020 --> 00:30:53,000 I left my cupboard door open. 556 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,600 He went to the counter to get some food. 557 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:55,920 Oh, 558 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,780 sorry. 559 00:30:57,780 --> 00:31:00,140 I walk into the bathroom. 560 00:31:00,140 --> 00:31:00,680 It's dark. 561 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:00,860 I said, 562 00:31:00,860 --> 00:31:01,300 what are you doing? 563 00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:02,540 It's sitting here in the dark. 564 00:31:02,540 --> 00:31:06,720 He goes everywhere I go, 565 00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:07,220 it's dark. 566 00:31:07,220 --> 00:31:09,520 I mean, 567 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:10,980 you just take these things for granted. 568 00:31:10,980 --> 00:31:11,980 And, 569 00:31:11,980 --> 00:31:13,980 but I can't, 570 00:31:13,980 --> 00:31:16,840 imagine trying to lead him and close my eyes. 571 00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:18,840 It's like the blind leading the blind, 572 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:19,640 right? 573 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,640 We're both going to crash and burn and, 574 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:22,180 and, 575 00:31:22,180 --> 00:31:23,220 and make a mess. 576 00:31:23,220 --> 00:31:24,060 And, 577 00:31:24,060 --> 00:31:27,360 and it's interesting, 578 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:27,780 you know, 579 00:31:27,780 --> 00:31:29,000 about three years ago, 580 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,980 Rick and I spread his ashes out in front of the buck and shoots at the, 581 00:31:31,980 --> 00:31:32,980 at the Jerome County fairgrounds. 582 00:31:32,980 --> 00:31:34,660 As we, 583 00:31:34,660 --> 00:31:36,600 we maintained a relationship with him and, 584 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,520 and tried to share Jesus with him, 585 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:38,980 right? 586 00:31:38,980 --> 00:31:39,560 Tried to, 587 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,960 tried to lead him spiritually into a place of spiritual, 588 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:44,320 light. 589 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:46,360 Hopefully I'll see him again. 590 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:47,240 I don't know for sure. 591 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:48,580 Only Lord knows the heart, 592 00:31:48,580 --> 00:31:48,880 right? 593 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,220 And obviously God makes that call, 594 00:31:51,220 --> 00:31:52,440 but it says, 595 00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,300 but he was our teacher. 596 00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:55,640 And it says, 597 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,020 ultimately we will be like our teacher. 598 00:31:58,020 --> 00:32:00,400 So who's your teacher? 599 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:02,360 Who do you watch? 600 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,020 You know, 601 00:32:04,020 --> 00:32:07,460 all the things I learned in life and got good at it is because I watched 602 00:32:07,460 --> 00:32:07,960 somebody. 603 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:08,860 I, 604 00:32:08,860 --> 00:32:10,160 that's kind of how I learn. 605 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:11,880 I could read it and be confused, 606 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:13,640 but if I watched somebody do something, 607 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:14,660 then I, 608 00:32:14,660 --> 00:32:15,480 I was, 609 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,940 I was much more apt to be able to, 610 00:32:17,940 --> 00:32:19,120 to do it correctly. 611 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,280 And as we have God's word in front of us and, 612 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:27,060 and we're able to read about Jesus and who he was and what he was, 613 00:32:27,060 --> 00:32:30,560 and to have him be our leader, 614 00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:32,580 have him bring us to that, 615 00:32:32,580 --> 00:32:34,700 that place of maturity, 616 00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:36,780 of spiritual sight, 617 00:32:36,780 --> 00:32:39,440 to be trained. 618 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:40,480 It's just fully trained. 619 00:32:40,540 --> 00:32:41,440 I think it says here, 620 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,680 perfectly trained when he's perfectly trained will be like his teachers. 621 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,880 Are you getting trained? 622 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,240 See, 623 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,120 cause that training usually doesn't happen here at church. 624 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:59,040 It happens during the week as you put the word of God in your heart and, 625 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,380 and he begins to disciple you and, 626 00:33:01,380 --> 00:33:01,980 and, 627 00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:02,280 and, 628 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,200 and teach you and lead you along. 629 00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:06,740 As you, 630 00:33:06,740 --> 00:33:08,760 you take the time to be his student. 631 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,760 The Bible says that we need no man to teach us, 632 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,160 but God will teach you by his spirit. 633 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:21,600 And it's powerful when he does that. 634 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,140 And so 635 00:33:24,140 --> 00:33:28,340 we're, 636 00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:34,120 we're being led by a really good teacher. 637 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:35,660 And I don't know about you, 638 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:37,840 when it comes down to heroes, 639 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,920 Jesus is my hero. 640 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,460 And I, 641 00:33:42,460 --> 00:33:44,620 and I realized to be like him, 642 00:33:44,620 --> 00:33:48,800 I have to see myself in the proper light. 643 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,260 And the last part of this parable, 644 00:33:51,260 --> 00:33:55,000 where he talks about the brother with the plank in his eye, 645 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:55,620 you know, 646 00:33:55,620 --> 00:33:57,060 can you imagine having a big plank in your eye? 647 00:33:57,060 --> 00:33:57,660 Hey, 648 00:33:57,660 --> 00:33:57,900 let, 649 00:33:57,900 --> 00:33:58,140 Hey, 650 00:33:58,140 --> 00:33:58,480 let me, 651 00:33:58,480 --> 00:33:59,740 let me kind of get that speck, 652 00:33:59,740 --> 00:34:00,740 you know, 653 00:34:00,740 --> 00:34:01,540 um, 654 00:34:01,540 --> 00:34:02,160 back. 655 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,680 He says, 656 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:05,340 hypocrite. 657 00:34:05,340 --> 00:34:06,300 Right. 658 00:34:06,300 --> 00:34:07,880 Back in the nineties, 659 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:08,880 there was a, 660 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:11,820 there was a Christian rock group called plank. 661 00:34:11,820 --> 00:34:15,380 I look up some of their, 662 00:34:15,380 --> 00:34:17,240 I looked up some of their lyrics. 663 00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:18,400 Cause as I was reading through this, 664 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:18,660 I go, 665 00:34:18,660 --> 00:34:20,260 I remember that back in the nineties, 666 00:34:20,260 --> 00:34:20,460 this, 667 00:34:20,460 --> 00:34:20,840 this, 668 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:21,520 this kind of, 669 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:22,640 they were kind of a, 670 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,220 not a real hard rock, 671 00:34:24,220 --> 00:34:25,340 but they were rock and roll, 672 00:34:25,340 --> 00:34:27,140 Christian rock and roll band called plank. 673 00:34:27,140 --> 00:34:29,100 And, 674 00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:29,400 um, 675 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:31,820 and I thought that's a, 676 00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:32,700 that's an interesting, 677 00:34:32,700 --> 00:34:33,240 right? 678 00:34:33,240 --> 00:34:36,260 They obviously hit examine themselves and realize that, 679 00:34:36,260 --> 00:34:36,820 you know, 680 00:34:36,820 --> 00:34:39,260 you definitely got to deal with the plank. 681 00:34:39,260 --> 00:34:39,660 It's a, 682 00:34:39,660 --> 00:34:40,240 it's, 683 00:34:40,240 --> 00:34:41,860 it's like that examination that, 684 00:34:41,860 --> 00:34:43,880 that pastor Steve's going to talk about, 685 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:44,520 uh, 686 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,040 this Wednesday when he goes through second Corinthians 13. 687 00:34:47,300 --> 00:34:48,140 and in, 688 00:34:48,140 --> 00:34:49,100 and in that passage, 689 00:34:49,100 --> 00:34:49,440 it says, 690 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,780 examine yourselves as to whether you're in, 691 00:34:51,780 --> 00:34:53,460 you are in the faith, 692 00:34:53,460 --> 00:34:54,480 test yourselves. 693 00:34:54,480 --> 00:35:00,560 Do you not know yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you unless indeed you are disqualified, 694 00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:04,620 but I trust that you will know that we are not disqualified, 695 00:35:04,620 --> 00:35:05,960 right? 696 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,380 Check yourself, 697 00:35:07,380 --> 00:35:09,280 judge yourself. 698 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:13,860 It's kind of like the, 699 00:35:13,860 --> 00:35:16,420 the Psalmist when he wrote there in Psalm 139, 700 00:35:16,420 --> 00:35:16,640 right? 701 00:35:16,980 --> 00:35:17,480 Search me, 702 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:17,800 Oh God, 703 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:18,580 and know my heart. 704 00:35:18,580 --> 00:35:21,420 See if there be any wicked way in me and lead me in the way, 705 00:35:21,420 --> 00:35:22,700 way everlasting. 706 00:35:22,700 --> 00:35:28,540 Because when I see my, 707 00:35:28,540 --> 00:35:31,360 my depravity and I, 708 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:32,660 I see my failure, 709 00:35:32,660 --> 00:35:36,380 I'm much more apt to be merciful like my father, 710 00:35:36,380 --> 00:35:39,560 because he was so merciful with me. 711 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:45,280 It is important to see people through the lens of your own sin. 712 00:35:46,660 --> 00:35:47,500 It's really important. 713 00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:51,640 Because then you don't get up here and start looking down. 714 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:57,660 Don't be a hypocrite. 715 00:35:57,660 --> 00:35:59,420 Right? 716 00:35:59,420 --> 00:36:00,160 You hypocrite. 717 00:36:00,220 --> 00:36:02,840 Don't deal with the plank. 718 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:02,840 Don't deal with the plank. 719 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:06,860 There was a, 720 00:36:06,860 --> 00:36:09,060 there was one of the songs that they sang. 721 00:36:09,060 --> 00:36:09,720 It, 722 00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:10,440 the lyrics, 723 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,420 the name of the song was free me. 724 00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:13,520 And here are some of the lyrics. 725 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,500 See if they didn't get this right. 726 00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:15,900 It says, 727 00:36:15,900 --> 00:36:16,540 Father, 728 00:36:16,540 --> 00:36:17,520 I'm on my knees. 729 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:18,420 Lord Jesus, 730 00:36:18,420 --> 00:36:19,540 come and fill me. 731 00:36:19,540 --> 00:36:20,520 Without you, 732 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:21,280 I am nothing. 733 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:22,160 Oh Lord, 734 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:22,840 I am nothing. 735 00:36:23,220 --> 00:36:24,980 And I will serve until you're coming. 736 00:36:24,980 --> 00:36:26,740 Right? 737 00:36:26,740 --> 00:36:30,040 That's someone who sees clearly. 738 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:31,860 They've dealt with the plank. 739 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:42,480 And so often we were so quick to jump on the bandwagon and to, 740 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,360 to pass judgment and to, 741 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:50,520 to look down and to be that unforgiving servant. 742 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,220 And I don't know that there's ever a place for that. 743 00:36:54,220 --> 00:36:55,880 Not in us. 744 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,040 God can do what he wants. 745 00:36:58,040 --> 00:36:58,620 Right? 746 00:36:58,620 --> 00:37:00,200 So verses 43, 747 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:00,520 we'll, 748 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:01,520 we'll wrap up here. 749 00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:04,020 It says for a good tree does not bear bad fruit, 750 00:37:04,020 --> 00:37:05,840 nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 751 00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,520 For every tree is known by its own fruit. 752 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,940 For men do not gather figs from thorns, 753 00:37:10,940 --> 00:37:14,320 nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush. 754 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:18,640 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good. 755 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,960 And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, 756 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,140 brings forth evil for out of the abundance of the heart, 757 00:37:25,140 --> 00:37:26,360 the mouth speaks. 758 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:31,660 And so he's talking about this good tree, 759 00:37:31,660 --> 00:37:32,460 bad tree thing. 760 00:37:32,460 --> 00:37:32,900 Here's a, 761 00:37:32,900 --> 00:37:35,140 here's a fruit inspection type deal. 762 00:37:35,140 --> 00:37:36,900 You can tell we all bear fruit. 763 00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:38,040 Everyone in this room, 764 00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:38,680 you bear fruit. 765 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,040 What's it look like? 766 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:41,740 Is it inviting? 767 00:37:41,740 --> 00:37:43,280 Is it scrumptious and delicious? 768 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:43,900 Or it's like, 769 00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:44,580 no way. 770 00:37:44,580 --> 00:37:48,380 But we all there. 771 00:37:48,380 --> 00:37:49,960 Are you a good tree or a bad tree? 772 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:51,820 Good tree can't bear bad fruit. 773 00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,180 Bad tree can't bear good fruit. 774 00:37:53,180 --> 00:37:55,880 He compares figs, 775 00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:58,620 which would be the good fruit to thorns, 776 00:37:58,620 --> 00:37:59,740 which would be the bad fruit. 777 00:37:59,740 --> 00:38:01,860 Nobody likes thorns. 778 00:38:01,860 --> 00:38:03,240 Figs, 779 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:04,140 on the other hand, 780 00:38:04,140 --> 00:38:04,280 are, 781 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:05,440 I kind of like them. 782 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,280 But notice something. 783 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:09,060 This is, 784 00:38:09,060 --> 00:38:10,060 this is interesting. 785 00:38:10,060 --> 00:38:12,280 It seems to be determined. 786 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:12,920 Good tree, 787 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:13,460 bad tree, 788 00:38:13,460 --> 00:38:14,040 good fruit, 789 00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:14,580 bad fruit. 790 00:38:14,580 --> 00:38:17,520 by the mouth. 791 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,280 For out of the abundance of the heart, 792 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:21,760 the mouth speaks. 793 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:25,300 Your heart is tied to your tongue. 794 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:29,860 your heart is tied to your tongue. 795 00:38:29,860 --> 00:38:33,320 And so just let me hear you talk. 796 00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,500 That will 797 00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:39,060 either be good fruit 798 00:38:39,060 --> 00:38:39,960 or bad fruit. 799 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,760 The Bible says quite a bit about the tongue 800 00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,320 and that we should be careful with it. 801 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:47,740 Colossians chapter three, 802 00:38:47,740 --> 00:38:48,600 verse eight says, 803 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,480 but now you yourselves 804 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:51,900 are to put off 805 00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:53,300 all these. 806 00:38:53,300 --> 00:38:53,980 Check it out. 807 00:38:53,980 --> 00:38:54,680 Anger, 808 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:55,020 wrath, 809 00:38:55,020 --> 00:38:55,460 malice, 810 00:38:55,460 --> 00:38:56,000 blasphemy, 811 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,540 filthy language 812 00:38:57,540 --> 00:38:58,460 out of your mouth. 813 00:38:58,460 --> 00:39:02,600 I was so convicted by this. 814 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:07,980 Because just in the last few years, 815 00:39:07,980 --> 00:39:08,620 I've kind of 816 00:39:08,620 --> 00:39:10,620 let down my guard 817 00:39:10,620 --> 00:39:12,740 on the way I speak. 818 00:39:12,740 --> 00:39:14,760 And I'm going, 819 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:15,800 oh Lord. 820 00:39:17,260 --> 00:39:19,020 Because Jesus said something about that, 821 00:39:19,020 --> 00:39:19,280 right? 822 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:20,520 I don't know if you remember. 823 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,460 He says on the day of judgment, 824 00:39:22,460 --> 00:39:23,920 man is going to give an account 825 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,580 for every idle word 826 00:39:25,580 --> 00:39:26,820 he's ever spoken. 827 00:39:26,820 --> 00:39:29,540 Yeah, 828 00:39:29,540 --> 00:39:30,180 I don't know about you. 829 00:39:30,180 --> 00:39:30,720 You're just like, 830 00:39:30,720 --> 00:39:31,560 oh Lord, 831 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,060 I'm a dead man. 832 00:39:33,060 --> 00:39:39,100 And then James, 833 00:39:39,100 --> 00:39:39,960 right? 834 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:41,220 James chapter three, 835 00:39:41,220 --> 00:39:44,060 you can't not talk about the mouth 836 00:39:44,060 --> 00:39:45,980 and go there. 837 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:46,720 you know, 838 00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:47,340 in verse six, 839 00:39:47,340 --> 00:39:47,940 where he says, 840 00:39:47,940 --> 00:39:50,060 and the tongue is a fire, 841 00:39:50,060 --> 00:39:51,900 a world of iniquity. 842 00:39:51,900 --> 00:39:53,880 The tongue is so set 843 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:54,900 among our members 844 00:39:54,900 --> 00:39:56,920 that it defiles the whole body 845 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,520 and sets on fire 846 00:39:58,520 --> 00:39:59,680 the course of nature. 847 00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:00,200 Listen, 848 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,400 and is set, 849 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,140 and is set on fire by hell. 850 00:40:04,140 --> 00:40:04,980 Your tongue, 851 00:40:04,980 --> 00:40:06,500 it's in your mouth right now. 852 00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:07,820 I mean, 853 00:40:07,820 --> 00:40:08,920 we could turn the lights out 854 00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,400 and it'd be bright in here. 855 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,220 for every kind of beast 856 00:40:16,220 --> 00:40:17,200 and bird of, 857 00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,540 and of the sea, 858 00:40:19,540 --> 00:40:22,140 of reptile and creature 859 00:40:22,140 --> 00:40:23,500 of the sea is tamed 860 00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:25,240 and has been tamed by mankind, 861 00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:27,660 but no man can tame the tongue. 862 00:40:27,660 --> 00:40:29,640 It is an unruly evil 863 00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,100 full of deadly poison. 864 00:40:31,100 --> 00:40:31,940 With it, 865 00:40:31,940 --> 00:40:33,420 we bless our God and father 866 00:40:33,420 --> 00:40:34,040 and with it, 867 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:35,000 we curse men 868 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,400 who have been made 869 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:37,860 in the similitude of God. 870 00:40:38,060 --> 00:40:38,960 out of the same mouth 871 00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:40,880 proceeds blessing and cursing. 872 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:42,040 My brethren, 873 00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:43,060 these things 874 00:40:43,060 --> 00:40:44,500 ought not to be so. 875 00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:46,340 In other words, 876 00:40:46,340 --> 00:40:47,800 watch your mouth 877 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,280 because it oozes 878 00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,360 out of your mouth 879 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:53,500 what's in your heart. 880 00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:02,680 for out of the abundance 881 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:03,460 of the heart 882 00:41:03,460 --> 00:41:05,620 the mouth speaks. 883 00:41:05,620 --> 00:41:09,720 But it says there, 884 00:41:09,720 --> 00:41:10,640 a good man 885 00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:11,720 out of the good treasure, 886 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:12,560 verse 45, 887 00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:13,620 of his heart 888 00:41:13,620 --> 00:41:14,560 brings forth good. 889 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,680 I like that. 890 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,580 That we can actually, 891 00:41:18,580 --> 00:41:19,400 as a vessel 892 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:20,360 of the Holy Spirit, 893 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:21,700 bring forth good. 894 00:41:21,700 --> 00:41:23,300 That there's treasure in there 895 00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:24,360 that God has taught us. 896 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:25,520 The word treasure there 897 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,660 means properly stored up treasure. 898 00:41:27,660 --> 00:41:28,480 Riches. 899 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,540 a storehouse of treasure 900 00:41:30,540 --> 00:41:33,040 including treasured thoughts 901 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:34,440 stored up in the heart 902 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:35,060 and mind. 903 00:41:35,060 --> 00:41:38,580 That's what the Holy Spirit does. 904 00:41:38,580 --> 00:41:39,660 Right? 905 00:41:39,660 --> 00:41:40,340 That's why we need 906 00:41:40,340 --> 00:41:41,080 to be born again. 907 00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,000 That's why we need 908 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:43,040 to be converted. 909 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:44,300 That's why we need 910 00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:45,200 to put the old man 911 00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:46,460 to death all the time. 912 00:41:46,460 --> 00:41:47,980 It's because we're 913 00:41:47,980 --> 00:41:48,800 in this struggle. 914 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,560 And we would say 915 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,540 things that we ought 916 00:41:53,540 --> 00:41:54,420 not to say. 917 00:41:54,420 --> 00:41:57,200 But God gives us 918 00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:58,240 his Holy Spirit 919 00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:01,000 to be careful 920 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:01,800 what we say. 921 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:06,060 So then my beloved brethren, 922 00:42:06,060 --> 00:42:07,020 James tells us 923 00:42:07,020 --> 00:42:08,260 in James 1 at 19, 924 00:42:08,260 --> 00:42:09,660 let every man 925 00:42:09,660 --> 00:42:10,560 be swift to hear, 926 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:11,360 slow to speak, 927 00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:12,220 slow to wrath. 928 00:42:12,220 --> 00:42:15,600 Just good wisdom. 929 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:16,400 You know, 930 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:16,920 over the years, 931 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:17,960 I do not know 932 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:19,480 how many times 933 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:20,340 I've heard this 934 00:42:20,340 --> 00:42:21,560 passage of scripture 935 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,800 and how quickly 936 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:25,520 I forget it. 937 00:42:27,260 --> 00:42:28,360 not quick to speak, 938 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:28,680 slow, 939 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:29,820 slow to speak. 940 00:42:29,820 --> 00:42:34,560 And then I got to invoke 941 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:35,780 the proverb that says, 942 00:42:35,780 --> 00:42:37,880 a man who holds his tongue 943 00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:38,900 is thought to be wise. 944 00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:43,420 You want to be really smart? 945 00:42:43,420 --> 00:42:44,420 Shut up 946 00:42:44,420 --> 00:42:45,140 and don't say a thing. 947 00:42:49,780 --> 00:42:50,700 I think it was Lincoln 948 00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:51,040 said, 949 00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:52,680 I would rather be silent 950 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:53,660 than thought a fool 951 00:42:53,660 --> 00:42:54,680 than to speak up 952 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:55,580 and remove all doubt. 953 00:42:55,580 --> 00:43:01,600 But it's just about, 954 00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:04,000 as you walk through this life 955 00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:04,820 day by day, 956 00:43:04,820 --> 00:43:06,540 it's just about yielding 957 00:43:06,540 --> 00:43:09,360 to this Holy Spirit. 958 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:10,560 It's about being like 959 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:11,080 your teacher. 960 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,580 Realize that when 961 00:43:12,580 --> 00:43:14,120 you leave this place, 962 00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:14,920 when you step out 963 00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:15,780 of your house in the morning 964 00:43:15,780 --> 00:43:16,480 and go to work, 965 00:43:16,940 --> 00:43:18,300 you're to be following 966 00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:18,820 Jesus 967 00:43:18,820 --> 00:43:21,400 and becoming like 968 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:21,940 your teacher, 969 00:43:21,940 --> 00:43:23,920 being perfectly trained 970 00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:24,400 by him. 971 00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:25,720 Last night, 972 00:43:25,720 --> 00:43:26,380 I was on the phone 973 00:43:26,380 --> 00:43:27,380 with a dear friend of mine 974 00:43:27,380 --> 00:43:28,660 and we've known each other 975 00:43:28,660 --> 00:43:29,240 for years 976 00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:30,220 and he was telling me, 977 00:43:30,220 --> 00:43:30,400 you know, 978 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:30,700 he says, 979 00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:31,500 I've been watching 980 00:43:31,500 --> 00:43:32,160 all this stuff, 981 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:32,500 you know, 982 00:43:32,500 --> 00:43:33,620 and I watch a mirror 983 00:43:33,620 --> 00:43:34,560 and I watch what's going 984 00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:35,220 on in Iran 985 00:43:35,220 --> 00:43:36,220 and Israel 986 00:43:36,220 --> 00:43:37,540 and now America. 987 00:43:37,540 --> 00:43:38,620 He goes, 988 00:43:38,620 --> 00:43:39,780 he says, 989 00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,180 but I get on the X 990 00:43:42,180 --> 00:43:42,840 sometimes 991 00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:43,300 and he said, 992 00:43:43,300 --> 00:43:43,780 and then there's 993 00:43:43,780 --> 00:43:44,700 some inappropriate 994 00:43:44,700 --> 00:43:45,660 stuff on there 995 00:43:45,660 --> 00:43:46,740 and then there's people 996 00:43:46,740 --> 00:43:47,460 just kind of doing 997 00:43:47,460 --> 00:43:47,940 their thing, 998 00:43:47,940 --> 00:43:48,180 you know, 999 00:43:48,180 --> 00:43:48,860 and, 1000 00:43:48,860 --> 00:43:49,020 and, 1001 00:43:49,020 --> 00:43:49,500 and, 1002 00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:50,080 you know, 1003 00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:51,240 promoting their worldly 1004 00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:52,160 possessions 1005 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:52,920 and all these things 1006 00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:53,720 and I get caught up 1007 00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:54,400 looking at it 1008 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:54,940 and he said, 1009 00:43:54,940 --> 00:43:55,300 I just, 1010 00:43:55,300 --> 00:43:55,860 he said, 1011 00:43:55,860 --> 00:43:56,640 I just got to feeling 1012 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:57,780 so gross inside 1013 00:43:57,780 --> 00:43:58,960 and he said, 1014 00:43:58,960 --> 00:43:59,260 so I, 1015 00:43:59,260 --> 00:44:00,340 I realized that, 1016 00:44:00,340 --> 00:44:00,600 oh, 1017 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:01,500 I can delete this 1018 00:44:01,500 --> 00:44:03,620 and so he got on there 1019 00:44:03,620 --> 00:44:04,720 and he held it down 1020 00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:05,460 and it's gone. 1021 00:44:05,460 --> 00:44:06,220 He deleted it 1022 00:44:06,220 --> 00:44:07,960 and he says, 1023 00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:08,240 you know, 1024 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:09,500 the Lord just filled me 1025 00:44:09,500 --> 00:44:10,360 with his Holy Spirit. 1026 00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:11,700 The joy of the Lord 1027 00:44:11,700 --> 00:44:12,940 just filled my heart 1028 00:44:12,940 --> 00:44:15,220 with his goodness 1029 00:44:15,220 --> 00:44:16,280 and he said, 1030 00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:17,180 I got a little teary 1031 00:44:17,180 --> 00:44:17,540 and I, 1032 00:44:17,540 --> 00:44:19,980 but I was just super blessed. 1033 00:44:19,980 --> 00:44:22,340 That's it. 1034 00:44:22,340 --> 00:44:23,820 That's a life of obedience 1035 00:44:23,820 --> 00:44:24,260 right there. 1036 00:44:24,260 --> 00:44:24,800 Lord, 1037 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:25,240 help me. 1038 00:44:25,240 --> 00:44:26,500 I don't want to, 1039 00:44:26,500 --> 00:44:27,360 I don't want this 1040 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,560 and he will. 1041 00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,440 We just got to surrender. 1042 00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:38,360 Well, 1043 00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,640 I vowed 1044 00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:42,620 that I was going to finish 1045 00:44:42,620 --> 00:44:43,640 chapter six. 1046 00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,080 So here we go. 1047 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:46,860 Last three verses, 1048 00:44:46,860 --> 00:44:48,180 almost done. 1049 00:44:48,180 --> 00:44:49,840 But 1050 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,960 why do you call me 1051 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:53,500 Lord, 1052 00:44:53,500 --> 00:44:54,000 Lord 1053 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:55,700 and you do not do 1054 00:44:55,700 --> 00:44:56,300 what I say? 1055 00:44:56,300 --> 00:44:57,780 I don't know 1056 00:44:57,780 --> 00:44:58,660 if that convicts you, 1057 00:44:58,660 --> 00:44:59,780 but that is one 1058 00:44:59,780 --> 00:45:00,880 of the most powerful verses 1059 00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:01,480 in this, 1060 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:02,860 in this New Testament. 1061 00:45:02,860 --> 00:45:04,500 Why do you call me 1062 00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:04,920 Lord, 1063 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:05,320 Lord 1064 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:06,400 and you don't do 1065 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:07,040 what I say? 1066 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:08,380 Whoever comes to me 1067 00:45:08,380 --> 00:45:09,520 and hears my sayings 1068 00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:10,240 and does them, 1069 00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:11,620 I will show you 1070 00:45:11,620 --> 00:45:12,540 whom he is like. 1071 00:45:12,540 --> 00:45:13,760 He is like a man 1072 00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:14,920 building a house 1073 00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:15,820 who dug deep 1074 00:45:15,820 --> 00:45:16,940 and laid the foundation 1075 00:45:16,940 --> 00:45:17,900 on the rock. 1076 00:45:17,900 --> 00:45:19,900 That rock is Christ Jesus. 1077 00:45:19,900 --> 00:45:21,280 And when the flood rose 1078 00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:21,860 and the stream 1079 00:45:21,860 --> 00:45:22,940 beat vehemently 1080 00:45:22,940 --> 00:45:24,740 against that house 1081 00:45:24,740 --> 00:45:26,060 and could not shake it 1082 00:45:26,060 --> 00:45:27,120 for it was founded 1083 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:27,800 on the rock, 1084 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,020 but he who heard 1085 00:45:29,020 --> 00:45:29,880 and did nothing 1086 00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:31,000 is like a man 1087 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:32,100 who built a house 1088 00:45:32,100 --> 00:45:32,700 on the earth 1089 00:45:32,700 --> 00:45:33,720 without a foundation 1090 00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:35,660 against which the stream 1091 00:45:35,660 --> 00:45:37,500 beat down vehemently 1092 00:45:37,500 --> 00:45:39,660 and it immediately fell 1093 00:45:39,660 --> 00:45:40,540 and the ruin 1094 00:45:40,540 --> 00:45:41,280 of that house 1095 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:42,360 was great. 1096 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:46,940 Which one are you? 1097 00:45:46,940 --> 00:45:53,400 Let's all stand. 1098 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:59,000 The wise man built his house 1099 00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:00,480 upon the rock. 1100 00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:04,180 The wise man built his house 1101 00:46:04,180 --> 00:46:05,560 upon the rock. 1102 00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:09,460 The wise man built his house 1103 00:46:09,460 --> 00:46:10,660 upon the rock 1104 00:46:10,660 --> 00:46:14,520 and the rains came tumbling down. 1105 00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:15,460 Come on if you know it's singing. 1106 00:46:15,460 --> 00:46:17,920 The rains came down 1107 00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,180 and the floods came up. 1108 00:46:20,500 --> 00:46:22,820 The rains came down 1109 00:46:22,820 --> 00:46:25,040 and the floods came up. 1110 00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:27,660 The rains came down 1111 00:46:27,660 --> 00:46:29,960 and the floods came up. 1112 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:31,320 But the house 1113 00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:32,480 on the rock 1114 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:33,800 stirred firm. 1115 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,360 Hope that's you. 1116 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:36,760 Father, thank you. 1117 00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:38,660 Thank you for being our rock. 1118 00:46:38,660 --> 00:46:39,520 Lord, 1119 00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:40,920 that you don't roll, 1120 00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:42,080 you don't move. 1121 00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:42,940 Lord, 1122 00:46:42,940 --> 00:46:44,600 but we're shifting sand 1123 00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:45,200 sometimes. 1124 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:46,160 So Lord, 1125 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:47,240 would you draw us in? 1126 00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:48,700 Would you help us 1127 00:46:48,700 --> 00:46:49,580 and strengthen us 1128 00:46:49,580 --> 00:46:50,260 in these days 1129 00:46:50,260 --> 00:46:51,180 in which we live? 1130 00:46:51,180 --> 00:46:52,720 Knowing that your coming 1131 00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:53,600 is soon, Lord, 1132 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:54,940 the trumpet's gonna sound 1133 00:46:54,940 --> 00:46:56,260 and the dead in Christ 1134 00:46:56,260 --> 00:46:57,460 will rise first, Lord, 1135 00:46:57,460 --> 00:46:59,000 and then we who are alive 1136 00:46:59,000 --> 00:46:59,700 and remain 1137 00:46:59,700 --> 00:47:01,480 will be caught up 1138 00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:02,420 to be with you 1139 00:47:02,420 --> 00:47:03,160 in the air 1140 00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,180 and so shall we ever be 1141 00:47:05,180 --> 00:47:05,900 with our Lord. 1142 00:47:05,900 --> 00:47:08,140 What a glorious day, Lord. 1143 00:47:08,140 --> 00:47:09,280 We look forward to it. 1144 00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,020 Help us to be motivated 1145 00:47:11,020 --> 00:47:11,640 by it 1146 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:12,920 to live this life 1147 00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:13,640 that you've put 1148 00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:14,380 in front of us. 1149 00:47:14,380 --> 00:47:15,180 Anoint us 1150 00:47:15,180 --> 00:47:15,900 and empower us 1151 00:47:15,900 --> 00:47:16,860 with your Holy Spirit 1152 00:47:16,860 --> 00:47:18,360 that we would be full 1153 00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,400 and that we would be lights 1154 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,380 and salt in this world. 1155 00:47:22,380 --> 00:47:23,460 Knowing that light 1156 00:47:23,460 --> 00:47:25,500 shines in the darkness 1157 00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:26,400 and that salt 1158 00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,200 can be stingy sometimes, Lord. 1159 00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:30,000 So it's not always 1160 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:31,320 gonna be acceptable 1161 00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:32,160 by the world, 1162 00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:32,980 but we know 1163 00:47:32,980 --> 00:47:34,020 that it's acceptable 1164 00:47:34,020 --> 00:47:34,880 to you, 1165 00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:35,680 our God, 1166 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:36,760 in Jesus' name. 1167 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:37,440 Amen. 1168 00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:38,620 God bless you. 1169 00:47:38,620 --> 00:47:39,360 If you need prayer, 1170 00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:40,140 the prayer team's 1171 00:47:40,140 --> 00:47:40,880 gonna be up here. 1172 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:41,400 Also, 1173 00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:42,500 next week, 1174 00:47:42,500 --> 00:47:44,260 681st Street. 1175 00:47:44,260 --> 00:47:45,140 We won't be here. 1176 00:47:45,140 --> 00:47:48,680 We won't be here. 1177 00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:48,680 Thank you. 1178 00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:48,740 Thank you. 1179 00:47:48,740 --> 00:48:18,720 Thank you.