1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:03,980 We're still in Luke chapter 11. 2 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:07,140 One guy was shocked. 3 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:10,080 We're in Luke 11? I already read 12. What are you doing? 4 00:00:12,580 --> 00:00:15,160 So, but it's some pretty good stuff, actually. 5 00:00:15,530 --> 00:00:25,120 So would you stand, and we're going to read this just to, we don't do that often, but I might get windy today. 6 00:00:25,150 --> 00:00:25,760 You never know. 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,860 Although I didn't go to the bathroom, so I'm probably going to have to cut it short. 8 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:40,260 we're going to start we're going to start we're going to we're going to start in uh luke chapter 9 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:48,240 11 verse 37 and as he spoke a certain pharisee asked him to dine with him so he went in and sat down to 10 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:55,659 eat and when the Pharisees saw it he marveled that he had not first washed before dinner then the 11 00:00:55,700 --> 00:01:25,640 Lord said to him, now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the dish clean, but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness, foolish ones, did not he who made the outside make the inside also, but rather give alms of such things as you have than indeed all things are clean to you. But woe to you, Pharisees, for you tithe mint and rue in all manner of herbs and pass by justice. 12 00:01:25,820 --> 00:01:26,820 and the love of God. 13 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,520 These you ought to have done without leaving the others undone. 14 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:35,700 Woe to you, Pharisees, for you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the 15 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:36,420 marketplaces. 16 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,300 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees hypocrites. 17 00:01:39,700 --> 00:01:46,100 For you are like graves which are not seen, and men who walk over them are not aware of them. 18 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:50,660 Then one of the lawyers answered and said to him, teacher, by saying these things you 19 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:52,780 reproach us also. 20 00:01:53,340 --> 00:01:55,600 And he said, woe to you also. 21 00:01:55,660 --> 00:02:02,060 lawyers for you load men with burdens hard to bear and you yourselves do not touch the burden with one of 22 00:02:02,060 --> 00:02:07,980 your fingers woe to you for you build the tombs of the prophets and your fathers killed them in fact 23 00:02:08,500 --> 00:02:14,700 you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers for they indeed killed them and you 24 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:21,220 build their tombs therefore the wisdom of god also said i will send them prophets and apostles 25 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,620 and some of them they will kill and persecute that the blood of 26 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:31,100 all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, 27 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:38,820 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple. 28 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,160 Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation. 29 00:02:43,420 --> 00:02:49,480 Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge and did not enter in yourselves, 30 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:55,480 and those who were entering in you hindered. And as he said these things to them, 31 00:02:55,620 --> 00:03:02,580 the scribes and Pharisees began to assail him vehemently and to cross-examine him about many things 32 00:03:02,740 --> 00:03:10,080 lying in wait for him and seeking to catch him in something he might say that they might accuse him. 33 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,760 Lord, this is your word and it's powerful and it's sharp. 34 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:20,280 And Lord, you didn't pull any punches, Lord, and you're going to call all of us into account just with that generation, 35 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,660 just like you did these Pharisees and these lawyers. 36 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:29,200 And so, Lord, may we take heed in these days in which we live, that our relationship with you, Lord, 37 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,900 that wouldn't be something that's just religious, Lord, but it would be real. 38 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:39,060 And that the love of God and justice would rule and reign in our lives, Lord, that we would walk in your righteousness, 39 00:03:39,460 --> 00:03:40,760 knowing we have none of our own. 40 00:03:41,220 --> 00:03:43,020 Bless our time, we pray, in Jesus' name. 41 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:43,620 Amen. 42 00:03:44,250 --> 00:03:44,940 You may be seated. 43 00:03:45,180 --> 00:03:46,020 Thank you. 44 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:53,200 So last time we looked at letting that light shine. 45 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:59,160 Amen. And I think I even sing a little verse, right? This little bite of mine. 46 00:03:59,420 --> 00:04:02,740 Yeah, I'm okay. Me and two-year-olds get along really well. 47 00:04:05,580 --> 00:04:14,800 But to this generation, he says this generation, this generation will be judged more harshly being condemned by those in the past. 48 00:04:15,660 --> 00:04:21,079 Right? The Ninevites, it says, will rise up in the judgment because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. 49 00:04:22,540 --> 00:04:25,320 They heard in 40 days, judgment's coming. 50 00:04:26,779 --> 00:04:29,320 And everything repented. 51 00:04:29,700 --> 00:04:31,260 Even the animals, right? 52 00:04:31,700 --> 00:04:33,080 They didn't feed them. 53 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:34,140 They didn't let them drink. 54 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:35,180 They didn't do anything. 55 00:04:35,940 --> 00:04:37,880 They mourned before the Lord. 56 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:44,260 And the Lord says that these Ninevites, who were Gentiles, by the way. 57 00:04:45,420 --> 00:04:45,600 Right? 58 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:51,080 Anytime Jesus talked about Gentiles, it just galled the Pharisees and the lawyers. 59 00:04:51,660 --> 00:04:52,460 just galled them. 60 00:04:53,060 --> 00:04:58,780 Like, how dare you talk about a Samaritan or a bona fide Gentile 61 00:04:59,340 --> 00:05:01,540 that's good for nothing but the fires of hell? 62 00:05:02,020 --> 00:05:03,160 That's the only thing they're good for. 63 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:09,300 And that's not true, don't we know, right? 64 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,460 Some people feel that way about people in eastern Idaho. 65 00:05:15,180 --> 00:05:17,000 And it ought not to be. 66 00:05:19,719 --> 00:05:21,600 Because anytime you point the first, 67 00:05:21,620 --> 00:05:31,460 finger, just remember there's three more pointing right back at you. And also the queen of Sheba, 68 00:05:32,100 --> 00:05:37,160 she traveled a long ways to see the wisdom of Solomon. And Jesus told us, 69 00:05:37,420 --> 00:05:43,260 greater than Solomon is here. And so that generation that saw Jesus walk this earth, 70 00:05:43,700 --> 00:05:50,380 shame on them. But if that's true for them, what about us? Because listen, they've been trying to 71 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:51,540 disprove this thing. 72 00:05:51,840 --> 00:05:55,260 for 2,000 years, and they've gotten nowhere. 73 00:05:58,400 --> 00:05:59,960 So we might be lumped in with them. 74 00:06:04,820 --> 00:06:08,120 Because they were a privileged generation 75 00:06:08,340 --> 00:06:12,820 because they seen face to face the true goat. 76 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:15,740 That's a real popular term today, the goat. 77 00:06:16,380 --> 00:06:17,240 Have you guys heard that? 78 00:06:18,820 --> 00:06:19,980 Greatest of all time. 79 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:22,380 There's only one goat. 80 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:29,440 His name is Jesus, and he was the scapegoat that carried your sins and my sins away, right? 81 00:06:30,780 --> 00:06:32,320 Everyone else pales in comparison. 82 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:35,220 But they saw him face to face. 83 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:36,700 They saw his miracles. 84 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:42,640 They saw the raising of the dead and the healing of the blind and the healing of the sick and the lame. 85 00:06:42,780 --> 00:06:43,540 They saw it all. 86 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:50,180 The greater than the greatest of all time was there. 87 00:06:51,420 --> 00:06:52,820 and they overlooked him. 88 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:54,380 Have you? 89 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,020 So he was 90 00:07:00,860 --> 00:07:02,920 that incredible example 91 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:05,920 that they saw with their own eyes 92 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:07,100 and yet they rejected him 93 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:12,060 and shame on anyone who rejects the Lord Jesus Christ. 94 00:07:12,620 --> 00:07:15,300 Paul tells us in Corinthians he says, 95 00:07:15,380 --> 00:07:19,940 listen, if anyone loved not the Lord Jesus Christ, 96 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,640 let him be anathema, cursed, condemned to hell. 97 00:07:28,260 --> 00:07:30,660 It's a requirement to love him. 98 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,320 The thing about it is, is when you love somebody, you have to do it by choice. 99 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,160 Because if you don't do it by choice, then it's not love. 100 00:07:40,620 --> 00:07:41,920 And he calls us to love him. 101 00:07:42,060 --> 00:07:46,520 The first great commandment, love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart, soul, mind, and strength. 102 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:55,740 And so he gets this invite from this Pharisee here over in verse 37. 103 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:02,660 And there's conjecture on why the guy really, I mean, obviously it looks like he was, 104 00:08:04,140 --> 00:08:06,480 it wasn't necessarily an invite to dinner. 105 00:08:06,620 --> 00:08:09,280 It was an invite to a trap, right? 106 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:12,300 They wanted to see if they could catch him. 107 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:14,800 But Jesus is so willing. 108 00:08:15,860 --> 00:08:16,040 Sure. 109 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:17,140 Yeah. 110 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:18,640 I'll come. 111 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:21,220 I'm down. 112 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,440 It's kind of like the cowboy guitarist, 113 00:08:25,940 --> 00:08:27,940 you know, old cowboy singer, 114 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,280 got invited by a rapper 115 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:36,460 to come and do a pre-super Bowl show. 116 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:37,320 Was it last night? 117 00:08:38,099 --> 00:08:40,820 Last night, I think, in San Francisco, 118 00:08:40,870 --> 00:08:42,300 a guy by the name of Dave Stamey. 119 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:44,660 If you ever want to hear some good old cowboy music, 120 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:45,940 go check out Dave. 121 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:51,700 but he he said yeah I'll come so Dave shows up with rapper and there's the dude with this 122 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,720 you know he's got a cigarette and he's bling going on and here's Dave he's a cowboy hat and he's 123 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:05,060 you know he's game we need to be game it's like we can't just get stuck in our little 124 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:11,180 Christian circles and sing kumbaya right it's time to get out and and be salt and light 125 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:15,920 go out into the word be willing Jesus he didn't have a problem with it 126 00:09:15,940 --> 00:09:17,220 He knew who these people were. 127 00:09:18,540 --> 00:09:20,280 He knew who everybody was, right? 128 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:23,020 Tells us in the Gospel of Dawn, 129 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,020 Jesus did not give himself over to man. 130 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:25,260 Why? 131 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:26,500 Because he knew what was in man. 132 00:09:26,900 --> 00:09:28,260 He knows within you and in me. 133 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:29,240 He knows it. 134 00:09:29,980 --> 00:09:31,360 He's not intimidated by it. 135 00:09:32,740 --> 00:09:34,360 He's not totally disgusted by it, 136 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:36,800 though we are totally disgusting sometimes. 137 00:09:42,899 --> 00:09:44,900 So he knew they were going to trap him, 138 00:09:45,540 --> 00:09:49,360 but obviously he's God, so he's not really concerned. 139 00:09:50,300 --> 00:10:02,380 But he's willing to go and to maybe impart truth just by chance that somebody might come to a place where they would humble themselves. 140 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:09,420 So their true colors were obviously revealed immediately in verse 38. 141 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:14,920 It says when the Pharisee saw it that he marveled that he had not washed before. 142 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:23,600 dinner, right? And this was, this was a serious thing as far as these religious people were, 143 00:10:25,300 --> 00:10:33,280 were concerned. He didn't wash his hands. Now, the old English preacher John Trapp quotes, 144 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:44,900 quotes, a, um, an thought here where it says, this not washing your hands thing, it says, the Pharisees deemed it as 145 00:10:44,980 --> 00:10:48,020 a great as sin as to commit fornication. 146 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:50,340 Really? 147 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:53,880 Holy cow, I've been a fornicator my whole life. 148 00:10:55,540 --> 00:10:56,940 Because I don't ever wash my hands. 149 00:11:05,980 --> 00:11:07,720 Could you imagine being that? 150 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:13,580 The really strict Jew would not do this. 151 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:16,840 would do this only before the meal, 152 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,060 but also between each course throughout the meal. 153 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:21,760 Oh, got to go worse. 154 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:25,420 So they would be squeak. 155 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:28,240 The rabbis were deadly serious about this, 156 00:11:28,340 --> 00:11:32,080 saying that bread eaten with unwashed hands 157 00:11:32,220 --> 00:11:34,240 was no better than excrement. 158 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:39,840 The rabbi who once failed to do this 159 00:11:39,940 --> 00:11:42,680 was considered excommunicated. 160 00:11:42,980 --> 00:11:51,860 Another rabbi was imprisoned by the Romans and used his ration of water for ceremony cleansing instead of drinking, nearly dying of thirst. 161 00:11:53,720 --> 00:11:58,840 But being regarded as a great hero, I think being regarded as a stupid individual. 162 00:12:04,820 --> 00:12:12,940 If these religious leaders were concerned about cleansing their hearts as they were about cleansing our hands, they would have been a lot of. 163 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:32,440 more godly man. Amen. And so the Lord, he kind of calls him on that. And people often look to 164 00:12:34,070 --> 00:12:42,340 these rituals, right, as something that can cleanse us. Can't cleanse you. Can't cleanse you. 165 00:12:42,780 --> 00:12:50,540 right you do it as an expression of your commitment to the god of heaven baptism doesn't cleanse you 166 00:12:51,660 --> 00:12:56,720 a lot of people that get baptized if they're not sincere and have an understanding of 167 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:04,440 what baptism is all about they go down and they come up and they're just as bad off as they were 168 00:13:04,540 --> 00:13:09,420 before because they haven't repented there hasn't been a washing on the inside 169 00:13:13,660 --> 00:13:15,700 Some people think that they're good with God 170 00:13:15,740 --> 00:13:17,820 because they have a Bible on the nightstand. 171 00:13:18,580 --> 00:13:20,100 This got like this much dust on it. 172 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:28,020 It is fascinating to me the things that people deem. 173 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:32,340 It's like a good luck charm that God has to honor 174 00:13:33,300 --> 00:13:35,740 a St. Christopher medal or a cross around your neck. 175 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:36,740 No. 176 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:39,360 Because that's all. 177 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:47,020 word, right? God looks at the heart. That's what he's wanting from you is your heart. 178 00:13:49,020 --> 00:13:53,100 And so Jesus says this to him in 39. He says, and the Lord said to him, 179 00:13:53,400 --> 00:14:00,160 now you Pharisees, make the outside of the cup and dish clean, but your inward part is full of 180 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:09,340 greed and wickedness. Right? You put on your robes, your Pharisee robes, and you, and you're, 181 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:13,140 and your shawls, and you walk around, look at me. 182 00:14:14,300 --> 00:14:15,500 Aren't I so cool? 183 00:14:16,140 --> 00:14:18,920 And I am close with God, and you are not. 184 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:24,580 I do that quite well, don't I? 185 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,340 You look okay on the outside, right? 186 00:14:34,420 --> 00:14:36,540 We live in a culture here in Eastern Idaho. 187 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:38,720 A lot of them look really cool on the outside. 188 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,280 styling, man, every hair in place. 189 00:14:41,940 --> 00:14:44,520 White shirt, tie, suit coat. 190 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,160 You're good with God, man. 191 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:48,760 Not. 192 00:14:54,460 --> 00:14:56,660 But inside, notice what he says, he says, 193 00:14:56,980 --> 00:15:02,360 but inside you're full of greed and wickedness. 194 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:03,920 Greed. 195 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:08,680 It means extortion, 196 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,820 ravening, spoiling, plundering, taking. 197 00:15:12,380 --> 00:15:13,020 You're just taking. 198 00:15:13,700 --> 00:15:14,720 You're going through this life, 199 00:15:14,820 --> 00:15:16,040 taking as much as you can get. 200 00:15:18,340 --> 00:15:20,600 And Jesus has called us to do the opposite, right? 201 00:15:21,660 --> 00:15:23,000 Greater love has no one than this, 202 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:25,780 that he lays down his life for his friend. 203 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:27,120 Give it up, man. 204 00:15:28,140 --> 00:15:29,940 We had dinner with some folks the other night, 205 00:15:30,819 --> 00:15:34,080 and these people are so much closer to God than I am. 206 00:15:34,180 --> 00:15:37,900 They talked about giving homes to people. 207 00:15:39,279 --> 00:15:41,880 I'm real, my home's my retirement. 208 00:15:45,340 --> 00:15:47,860 And I'm just thinking, but that's just it. 209 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:50,740 God has challenged you and me in this. 210 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:52,080 You can't out give him. 211 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:53,060 Try. 212 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:54,400 Go ahead and try. 213 00:15:55,340 --> 00:15:57,260 And these people have tried and they can do it. 214 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:00,620 But not take. 215 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:02,720 God hasn't called us to take. 216 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:07,280 He's called us to hold everything loosely, 217 00:16:07,460 --> 00:16:15,520 realizing that it all comes from him anyway. And wickedness means depravity, especially malice. 218 00:16:15,900 --> 00:16:20,920 They're stinking mean people. You ever seen people like that in church? I've seen people who've 219 00:16:21,740 --> 00:16:26,860 been blessed with the Holy Spirit and have these spiritual gifts, but they're the meanest people I've 220 00:16:26,860 --> 00:16:32,360 ever seen in my life. I'm just like, where's the love of God in your life? Yeah, you have 221 00:16:32,500 --> 00:16:37,280 giftings, but you're still stinking mean. Nobody wants to even get close to you. Then you're 222 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:38,400 why you don't have friends. 223 00:16:40,180 --> 00:16:41,840 To have friends, the Bible says you've got to be friendly. 224 00:16:44,580 --> 00:16:47,640 So he says, this is what you have. 225 00:16:47,670 --> 00:16:50,960 You have greed and wickedness, and you've overlooked. 226 00:16:52,580 --> 00:16:55,640 You foolish ones, he says here in verse 40. 227 00:16:56,780 --> 00:17:03,460 He says, did not he who made the outside make the inside also, 228 00:17:04,959 --> 00:17:07,260 but rather give alms to such things. 229 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:12,079 as you have, then indeed all things will be clean to you. 230 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,220 He says, you're full of greed and wickedness. 231 00:17:16,339 --> 00:17:19,280 You've overlooked justice and the love of God. 232 00:17:21,860 --> 00:17:26,020 But he said, if you would give, right, if you would give, if even a little bit, 233 00:17:26,260 --> 00:17:29,840 you would kind of hold loosely, right, you would make those things clean. 234 00:17:31,220 --> 00:17:37,240 Because there's something about giving that deals with our, 235 00:17:37,260 --> 00:17:44,740 natural greed because we are naturally, I don't care who you are, right? And don't come down on me 236 00:17:44,780 --> 00:17:51,200 this because I'm pointing something out that we all struggle with and it's greed. Right? We are greedy. 237 00:17:53,960 --> 00:18:01,780 And that's a monster, a demon we have to fight, right? Constantly. We don't want to give. 238 00:18:03,620 --> 00:18:06,460 But Jesus said it's more blessed to give than to receive. 239 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:19,400 And so he tells these guys, listen, your gifts can be clean if you'll just hold things loosely and give, 240 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,940 but rather give alms of such things as you have. 241 00:18:23,300 --> 00:18:27,380 So give of your substance, whatever you have. 242 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,340 He's not saying give what you don't have. 243 00:18:30,900 --> 00:18:32,780 He says, whatever you have, give. 244 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:36,060 And that really does check us. 245 00:18:36,420 --> 00:18:42,200 when we give. And I think that's why the Lord gave us this opportunity throughout scripture 246 00:18:42,420 --> 00:18:47,120 to give a tithe, which means a tenth, or to give an offering, which is just whatever the Lord 247 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:52,660 lays on your heart, because then it teaches you, you can live life like this with your hands open. 248 00:18:53,090 --> 00:18:56,380 You don't have to live life like this. It's not healthy. 249 00:19:00,740 --> 00:19:04,800 And so he calls them out, and then he says, whoa. 250 00:19:05,980 --> 00:19:30,520 but woe to you verse 42 Pharisees for you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs and passed by justice and the love of God these you ought to have done without leaving the others undone this word woe is pretty serious Jesus is he's coming down on they're getting a hind chewing from the Lord of Lords and the King of Kings here 251 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:43,040 Because these guys, right, these guys, though they honor him with their lips, their hearts are far from him. 252 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,520 And some of you remember the Lord saying that. 253 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:53,280 Titus chapter 1, verse 16, has that same idea where it says they profess to know God, 254 00:19:54,120 --> 00:20:01,280 but in works they deny him being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work. 255 00:20:03,540 --> 00:20:06,160 but in works they deny him. 256 00:20:07,340 --> 00:20:10,400 They say they love God, but then just watch their life. 257 00:20:11,580 --> 00:20:15,440 Have you ever watched somebody's life and you just think, wow, there's something up with that person. 258 00:20:16,260 --> 00:20:17,980 They've got something good going on in their life. 259 00:20:18,260 --> 00:20:19,840 I need to find out what it is. 260 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:23,800 And most of the time, they love Jesus. 261 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:30,520 So Jesus says to give. 262 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:41,660 verse 42 that first woe in the greek the word it conveys an intense exclamation of grief 263 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:48,880 dread or denunciation woe we see that in the book of revelation right the woes woe to you 264 00:20:50,540 --> 00:20:58,359 and woe to us when the lord says that to us for our hypocrisy you go through your religious motions 265 00:20:58,500 --> 00:21:03,320 with mint and rue and ignore the love and the justice of God. 266 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:07,240 The Pharisees were so careful in their outward obedience 267 00:21:07,940 --> 00:21:11,720 that they would literally tithe from their herb gardens, 268 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,060 counting out seeds and leaves, 269 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:16,880 and giving a tenth of each to God. 270 00:21:18,940 --> 00:21:20,560 That's kind of just self-centered, right? 271 00:21:21,380 --> 00:21:22,080 That's not giving. 272 00:21:23,360 --> 00:21:24,420 No, that's... 273 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,340 I'm good because I gave 10% 274 00:21:29,580 --> 00:21:31,220 of my cucumbers to the Lord. 275 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,000 They would go to church and prayer meetings and Christian concerts, 276 00:21:46,580 --> 00:21:51,800 but walk right by the hungry, thirsty, naked, sick, and imprisoned. 277 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:55,200 And that's, right, that's who Jesus ministered to. 278 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,320 And that was his, that was his, that was his, 279 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:06,380 condemnation in the sheep and goat judgment. And that's in Matthew chapter 25. If you got a Bible, 280 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:13,040 go ahead and turn there real quick. We'll read through that. In Matthew chapter 25 in verse 41, 281 00:22:14,580 --> 00:22:21,440 this is the sheep and goat judgments. And I just want to say, you don't want to be a goat. You want to be a sheep. 282 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:32,780 And in verse 41 of Matthew chapter 25, he says, then he will say to those on his left hand, this is the Lord. 283 00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:40,600 He will say to those on his left hand, depart from me, you cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 284 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:45,800 Notice who it's prepared for, this everlasting fire for the devil and his angels. 285 00:22:46,260 --> 00:22:48,780 For I was hungry and you gave me no food. 286 00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:50,980 I was thirsty and you gave me no drink. 287 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,880 I was a stranger and you did not take me in naked. 288 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:59,280 you did not clothe me, sick and in prison, and you did not visit me. 289 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:04,960 Then they also will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, 290 00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:08,940 a stranger or naked or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you? 291 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:14,640 And then he will answer them saying, surely I say to you, and as much as you did not do it to one 292 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,400 of the least of these, you did not do it to me. 293 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:22,500 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. 294 00:23:25,340 --> 00:23:28,960 Yeah, there's been a little buzz lately about, oh, there's no hell. 295 00:23:30,020 --> 00:23:30,220 Really? 296 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:39,860 And they will go to that place of everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 297 00:23:41,020 --> 00:23:42,620 You know, God didn't make hell for you and me. 298 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,040 But there's some you and me is going to hell. 299 00:23:48,940 --> 00:23:50,960 He talked more about hell than he did heaven. 300 00:23:51,580 --> 00:23:52,140 Jesus did. 301 00:23:55,480 --> 00:24:00,200 and these will go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous to eternal life. 302 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,780 To see all this is kind of, for what? 303 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:15,060 If there's no hell, there's no consequences for a self-satisfying life? 304 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:17,480 No, there's consequences. 305 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:19,160 Guaranteed. 306 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:21,920 He guaranteed it right here. 307 00:24:23,340 --> 00:24:27,800 and then he goes right into a second woe there in verse 43. 308 00:24:30,500 --> 00:24:30,800 He says, 309 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,320 woe to you Pharisees, 310 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,440 for you love the best seats in the synagogue 311 00:24:35,780 --> 00:24:37,400 and greetings in the marketplaces. 312 00:24:38,820 --> 00:24:41,460 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, 313 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,640 for you are like graves which are not seen 314 00:24:45,220 --> 00:24:48,860 and the men who walk over them are not aware of them. 315 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:51,580 So he says, 316 00:24:51,660 --> 00:24:58,760 first he says you like to be seen you like to be noticed you go right the old the old 317 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:08,240 pound on the chest thing i think i'm more tolerable of those those young 22 something year old 318 00:25:08,340 --> 00:25:18,380 kids that do that in the end zone than i am with a religious person saying look at me as a pastor 319 00:25:18,460 --> 00:25:22,620 I don't really want people looking at me because I know that if they look very close, 320 00:25:22,700 --> 00:25:24,680 they're going to see all my faults and my failures. 321 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:26,320 They're going to see all my sin. 322 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,280 And I could be the cause of somebody stumbling. 323 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:37,420 That really bothers me because I want people, no, don't look at me, please. 324 00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:38,180 Look at Jesus. 325 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:40,300 You look at Jesus? 326 00:25:40,660 --> 00:25:41,480 You can't go wrong. 327 00:25:41,980 --> 00:25:42,860 He won't let you down. 328 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:44,200 I will. 329 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:46,120 You will. 330 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,960 will let people down. 331 00:25:50,220 --> 00:25:53,140 But these people, there was this spiritual pride. 332 00:25:54,420 --> 00:25:56,080 I hate it when I see it myself. 333 00:25:57,670 --> 00:26:02,000 And so they would, you know, have their philactories and their, you know, 334 00:26:02,060 --> 00:26:05,520 some of them wore hats with, with scripture on it. 335 00:26:06,270 --> 00:26:12,320 And I'm so cool because I'm right with God and you're not. 336 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:19,660 Isaiah talks about it in Isaiah 5. 337 00:26:20,030 --> 00:26:27,140 He says, therefore, hell or shield has enlarged itself and opened its mouth beyond measure. 338 00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:36,920 Their glory and their multitude and their pomp, and he who is jubilant shall descend into it. 339 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,280 This spiritual pride was. 340 00:26:42,460 --> 00:26:44,280 the fall of Satan. 341 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:46,380 Right? 342 00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:49,240 You read about it in Ezekiel chapter 28. 343 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,180 He was that anointed cherub. 344 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,420 And all of a sudden he got this, 345 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,400 this puffiness that caused him to say, 346 00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:01,400 oh, I'm going to ascend above the most high. 347 00:27:02,060 --> 00:27:04,940 I'm going to be, I will, I will, I will, I will. 348 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,139 And God says, no, you won't. 349 00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:09,680 No, you won't. 350 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:12,820 He casts down spiritual pride. 351 00:27:17,140 --> 00:27:23,320 So humility is definitely the way to go, lest he say to you and I, whoa. 352 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:26,300 That third woe is there in verse 44. 353 00:27:26,360 --> 00:27:27,240 We just read it. 354 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:32,680 Touching a grave, right, you walk over dead man's graves without knowing it. 355 00:27:33,220 --> 00:27:36,240 But touching a grave, whether they knew it or not, made them unclean. 356 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:37,900 Unclean for seven days. 357 00:27:38,060 --> 00:27:40,680 They had to be away from society. 358 00:27:40,700 --> 00:27:41,760 for seven days 359 00:27:43,780 --> 00:27:44,980 because they had been close 360 00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:45,880 to something dead. 361 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:48,900 And Jesus is saying, 362 00:27:49,020 --> 00:27:50,940 listen, you guys are unclean 363 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:52,920 and you don't even know it. 364 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:56,780 And isn't that the case 365 00:27:56,780 --> 00:27:57,400 with so many? 366 00:27:59,380 --> 00:28:00,480 I know when I was in the 367 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:03,320 depth of wickedness, 368 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,260 I could say to myself in my heart, 369 00:28:06,940 --> 00:28:08,440 Scotty, you're a pretty good guy. 370 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:09,460 Right? 371 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:11,180 You're a pretty good guy. 372 00:28:12,500 --> 00:28:13,560 But that wasn't reality. 373 00:28:15,260 --> 00:28:16,680 That wasn't reality at all. 374 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:26,820 I had walked over a lot of dead people's graves, figuratively, and literally, because I worked in a cemetery, so I had a lot of people under me. 375 00:28:40,060 --> 00:28:44,500 So he's kind of railing on these on these Pharisees. 376 00:28:44,610 --> 00:28:45,220 And then he, 377 00:28:47,740 --> 00:28:48,800 and then in verse 45, 378 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:52,880 after this lawyerhood stood up and said, 379 00:28:55,220 --> 00:28:55,380 you, 380 00:28:59,140 --> 00:29:04,880 this lawyer stands up in verse 45 sorry it says then one of the lawyers answered and said to him 381 00:29:05,060 --> 00:29:13,640 teacher by saying these things you reproach us also he's going you're hurting our feelings right you're 382 00:29:13,780 --> 00:29:21,960 insulting us well if the shoe fits wear it right i mean that's that's how what i heard growing up 383 00:29:22,060 --> 00:29:25,360 just if if you got it coming you got it coming 384 00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:35,160 and the scribes and the lawyers worked in tandem right the lawyers detailed the law and then the 385 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:46,360 Pharisees would push or enforce it and so this this lawyer he he he he's saying wow he's indirectly 386 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:52,400 coming at us because we're the ones who's writing this stuff down that you know that you can't 387 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:58,380 eat without washing your hands or it's like committing adultery, which you guys know the 388 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:09,400 penalty for adultery in the law. It was right. It was stony. You killed them. And so no doubt, 389 00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:16,800 no wonder they were so upset, the Mishnah lays it down that it is more important to 390 00:30:17,060 --> 00:30:22,280 observe the scribal interpretation than the law itself. They would interpret. 391 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:32,420 just crazy things they would write it basically in into the law and so this lawyer says to jesus 392 00:30:32,620 --> 00:30:44,420 you reproach us right you you insult us for example they taught on the sabbath right a man could not 393 00:30:44,540 --> 00:30:52,360 carry something in his right hand or his left hand across his chest or on his shoulder but 394 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:59,680 you could carry something with the back of your hand, with your foot, or with your elbow, 395 00:31:00,420 --> 00:31:09,620 or with your ear, or your hair, or in the hem of your skirt, or your shoe or your sandal. 396 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:17,900 Right. So they try to make all these loopholes in the law where you could get away with doing stuff. 397 00:31:21,460 --> 00:31:26,220 And you can just see the Lord going, are you kidding me? 398 00:31:28,820 --> 00:31:28,940 Right? 399 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:32,280 All these things, all these amendments they were making. 400 00:31:33,540 --> 00:31:37,280 And so this lawyer comes to Jesus, and Jesus says to me in verse 46, 401 00:31:37,700 --> 00:31:42,080 woe to you, lawyers, for you load men with burdens hard to bear, 402 00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:47,260 and you yourselves do not touch the burden with one of your fingers. 403 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:50,700 You've been around people like that? 404 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:51,920 Hey, go do that. 405 00:31:55,740 --> 00:31:57,340 My brother Rick says I used to be like that. 406 00:31:57,500 --> 00:31:58,620 Rick, go me up to goat. 407 00:31:59,060 --> 00:32:00,140 Rick, go feed the horses. 408 00:32:00,540 --> 00:32:00,720 Rick? 409 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:01,460 Right? 410 00:32:02,340 --> 00:32:02,720 You see it. 411 00:32:03,220 --> 00:32:04,640 Any Savage Sam watchers? 412 00:32:04,900 --> 00:32:07,660 Who's here has ever seen the movie Savage Sam? 413 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,040 It is the sequel to Old Yeller. 414 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:13,520 Oh my gosh. 415 00:32:14,940 --> 00:32:15,760 Are you guys Americans? 416 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,920 Okay, go online. I do not make many movie recommends. 417 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:34,640 Go online and watch Travis and Arlis, right? 418 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:38,640 It is not near as sad as old yeller. 419 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:42,460 And Mr. Searcy, right? 420 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:43,400 They're all in it. 421 00:32:43,660 --> 00:32:44,300 Everybody's in it. 422 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,840 Savage Sam, the sequel to Old Yeller. 423 00:32:49,420 --> 00:32:53,580 But that's what Travis got accused from Arliss about doing, right? 424 00:32:54,500 --> 00:32:57,440 That he was just making him do everything and he didn't do anything to help. 425 00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:02,620 Just kick back and drink his iced tea and tell his little brother what to do. 426 00:33:03,300 --> 00:33:04,460 You've been around people like that. 427 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,460 You've probably been a person like that, just like me. 428 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:10,200 And that's what Jesus is saying. 429 00:33:10,860 --> 00:33:14,680 You're putting this huge yoke on these people and you're not how. 430 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:23,600 open it all. That's what the church leaders came in the book of Acts to say, how can we put the yoke 431 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,820 on these Gentiles who are getting saved? We're going to put the yoke of the law on them 432 00:33:28,220 --> 00:33:33,660 that we nor our fathers could keep. Nobody could keep the law. And you're going to put that on 433 00:33:34,390 --> 00:33:44,500 them? Just worry about you. God will deal with them. You just worry about you. Do what you can do. 434 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:49,300 to bring glory to the Lord to lend a hand to your neighbor. 435 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,780 Not heaping loads on people and not being willing, willing to help. 436 00:34:04,740 --> 00:34:12,880 I love the story of a officer in the Revolutionary War 437 00:34:14,419 --> 00:34:18,480 that came up and the horses were getting tired. 438 00:34:18,590 --> 00:34:20,620 And so the soldiers had to come in behind it 439 00:34:21,190 --> 00:34:24,760 as the wagon in the battle was going up the hill. 440 00:34:26,720 --> 00:34:29,419 And one of the officers was riding back and forth 441 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,340 around the wagon telling him, 442 00:34:31,580 --> 00:34:34,179 come on, push, push, push, and he's horseback. 443 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,220 And all of a sudden another officer comes up 444 00:34:36,220 --> 00:34:38,940 and jumps off his horse and starts pushing with the soldiers. 445 00:34:40,220 --> 00:34:40,879 It was Washington. 446 00:34:41,919 --> 00:34:42,840 It was General George, 447 00:34:42,879 --> 00:34:45,100 Washington, right? 448 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:48,360 Practice in what he preached. 449 00:34:49,419 --> 00:34:50,179 No, you help. 450 00:34:51,899 --> 00:34:54,379 The other officer thought that was below him. 451 00:34:55,340 --> 00:34:56,460 Really, is anything below us? 452 00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,660 Because you and I, we're lower than a snake belly's in a tire rut. 453 00:35:04,100 --> 00:35:05,840 That's a Gordon Boyle quote, by the way. 454 00:35:15,420 --> 00:35:18,440 He's no, you, you, you help, right? 455 00:35:18,620 --> 00:35:20,140 You won't help with one of your fingers. 456 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:27,280 And then verse 47, he says, 457 00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:35,160 woe to you, woe to you, for you build the tombs of the prophets and your fathers 458 00:35:35,300 --> 00:35:41,500 killed them. In fact, you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers, for they indeed 459 00:35:41,720 --> 00:35:49,180 killed them and you build their tombs. Therefore, the wisdom of God also said, I will send them prophets 460 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,820 and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute, that the blood of all the prophets, 461 00:35:56,320 --> 00:36:02,500 which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, from the blood of 462 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:06,920 able to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the temple. 463 00:36:07,070 --> 00:36:12,780 I say to you, yes, it shall be required of this generation. 464 00:36:15,020 --> 00:36:19,980 He says, yeah, your dads were just as wicked as you, and they killed the prophets, 465 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:21,680 and then you're going to do it. 466 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,140 Jesus gives a prophetic word there where he says, I sent apostles to you. 467 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,200 They're going to kill the followers of Jesus. 468 00:36:27,820 --> 00:36:29,060 Not only that, but they're going to kill Jesus. 469 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,520 They're going to shed all this blood. 470 00:36:31,940 --> 00:36:33,540 Notice, the blood cries out. 471 00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:36,280 The blood cries out. 472 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,720 Abel and Genesis, you remember when the Lord comes to Cainty, he says, 473 00:36:48,220 --> 00:36:48,720 where's your brother? 474 00:36:49,740 --> 00:36:51,460 His blood cries out to me. 475 00:36:54,140 --> 00:36:55,280 His blood cries out to me. 476 00:36:55,420 --> 00:36:59,260 Zachariah, he said, as they were killing him, Lord, remember this. 477 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:01,660 His blood's crying out. 478 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,160 What about the 60 million babies that we've butchered in the womb? 479 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,580 You don't think their blood cries out to the Lord, their maker? 480 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,180 I don't know about you, but that just horrifies me to think. 481 00:37:18,860 --> 00:37:20,140 Because the life is in the blood. 482 00:37:22,260 --> 00:37:26,040 Those babies with blood running through their veins are alive. 483 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:27,060 They are life. 484 00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:30,300 And life is God's to give. 485 00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:40,880 It just seems to be getting worse, doesn't it, as we go along? 486 00:37:43,100 --> 00:37:45,340 Spirreing down and down and down. 487 00:37:47,940 --> 00:37:50,840 They profess to venerate dead prophets, 488 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:52,900 but they rejected the living prophets, 489 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,200 the apostles and Jesus the greatest prophet. 490 00:37:56,120 --> 00:38:00,300 In doing so, they showed that they really were the children of those who murdered the 491 00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:01,920 in the days of old. 492 00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:06,220 You approve of the deeds of your father. 493 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:17,900 We express the same thought when we think that we would have trusted Jesus more than his 494 00:38:18,100 --> 00:38:21,020 disciples did or been more faithful to him. 495 00:38:21,380 --> 00:38:22,180 You ever thought about that? 496 00:38:22,580 --> 00:38:27,560 Well, if I would have been back there walking with Jesus and talking with Jesus and seeing 497 00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,980 Jesus do all these things, I would have never. 498 00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:31,400 forsaken him? 499 00:38:34,980 --> 00:38:36,000 I think I just read that 500 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,440 about Peter, right? 501 00:38:39,980 --> 00:38:41,900 He said, I'll never, I'll die 502 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:43,880 with you, liar. 503 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:48,620 He ran like a scared 504 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,080 cat, and so did all the rest. 505 00:38:54,460 --> 00:38:55,980 If we're going to have any courage 506 00:38:57,260 --> 00:38:59,680 to face death for the sake of the Lord, 507 00:39:00,220 --> 00:39:02,160 it's going to have to be him that does it, right? 508 00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:05,940 Just like it's been him that has cleaned us up and forgiven us 509 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,640 and given us righteousness and given us faith, 510 00:39:08,980 --> 00:39:10,760 it's going to have to be him that does it. 511 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:13,980 Because you and I ain't got that much brass, folks. 512 00:39:15,420 --> 00:39:18,760 I was shocked when back, what was it, about 10 years ago, 513 00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,900 the shooting at Unqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, 514 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:23,960 the city of my birth. 515 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:26,960 And the gunman was in there. 516 00:39:28,620 --> 00:39:29,680 And he saw a young lady, 517 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:36,900 there. I think she had a cross or something. He said, you a Christian? And it had to have been the 518 00:39:37,100 --> 00:39:42,960 spirit of the Lord because she said, yes, I am. He goes stand up. So she stood up. Boom. Headshot her. 519 00:39:43,940 --> 00:39:52,600 Killed her. He says, anyone else? And that the guy says, yep, I am. Stand up. Boom. Headshot him. 520 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,680 That's the power of the Lord, folks. That's what he wants. That's what he wants. 521 00:39:59,700 --> 00:40:01,900 wants you and me to have in our hearts. 522 00:40:02,420 --> 00:40:03,120 It's his power. 523 00:40:06,300 --> 00:40:07,200 Because we ain't got it. 524 00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:09,480 We're wannies, we're weanies, 525 00:40:09,820 --> 00:40:10,500 we're weak-hearted. 526 00:40:11,940 --> 00:40:12,840 We got no spine. 527 00:40:12,980 --> 00:40:13,480 We're yeller. 528 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:21,200 And yet, 529 00:40:22,980 --> 00:40:23,920 he'll show up 530 00:40:24,540 --> 00:40:26,640 and he'll give us the strength 531 00:40:26,670 --> 00:40:27,960 and whatever we need. 532 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,700 if we'll simply be humble for him and ask. 533 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:38,380 You know, James tells us, you have not, because you ask not. 534 00:40:41,140 --> 00:40:44,440 And so this blood is going to cry out. 535 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:48,180 Verse 52, he says, 536 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:53,260 woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. 537 00:40:53,820 --> 00:40:55,540 You did not enter in yourselves, 538 00:40:56,180 --> 00:40:58,700 And those who were entering in, you hindered. 539 00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:00,700 You lawyers. 540 00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:05,980 You guys are writing this stuff down and it's leading people away from me 541 00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:09,880 because they believe what you're telling them. 542 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:15,440 It's interesting, that word there, he says, 543 00:41:15,540 --> 00:41:16,940 you have hidden the keys of knowledge. 544 00:41:17,260 --> 00:41:19,520 The word for knowledge here, you guys, is science. 545 00:41:20,380 --> 00:41:20,800 Science. 546 00:41:21,200 --> 00:41:23,100 That's what science means knowledge. 547 00:41:24,020 --> 00:41:25,240 Where does all knowledge come from? 548 00:41:26,420 --> 00:41:26,940 God. 549 00:41:28,660 --> 00:41:28,760 Right? 550 00:41:28,770 --> 00:41:32,880 So these liberal, insane scientists 551 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:34,940 have been telling us these lies 552 00:41:35,460 --> 00:41:37,380 for years and years. 553 00:41:38,740 --> 00:41:38,900 Right? 554 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:41,440 That's just from the goo to you. 555 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:43,640 That it just happened. 556 00:41:46,020 --> 00:41:47,240 That's such a lie. 557 00:41:47,740 --> 00:41:50,120 They've hidden the keys of science. 558 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,420 Because God holds the keys, folks. 559 00:41:52,940 --> 00:41:55,080 Last time I looked, Jesus held the keys for everything. 560 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:07,640 And it's almost comical because the scientific elites of today move people away from the Lord, 561 00:42:07,820 --> 00:42:13,320 and yet there have been many believers that were incredible scientists. 562 00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:14,200 Newsom? 563 00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:15,560 Noosan. 564 00:42:16,100 --> 00:42:16,260 Newton. 565 00:42:18,200 --> 00:42:20,140 God, I've been watching too much Fox News. 566 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,080 Did you guys hear, by the way, that he may not. 567 00:42:25,180 --> 00:42:26,000 even be on the ballot. 568 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:33,680 Newsom may not even be on the ballot because in California it's the two popular candidates that 569 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:40,800 get a run for governor. And he's down the line of ways. Steve Hilton's the guy on top right now 570 00:42:40,900 --> 00:42:46,300 who is the two top guys are Republicans. So it might be two Republicans running for, because 571 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:55,060 it's not partisan in California. That's weird, but we'll take it if it gets him out. I meant, 572 00:42:55,100 --> 00:43:03,620 Newton, Isaac Newton, what goes up must come down. Write that guy. Other scientists named 573 00:43:04,020 --> 00:43:10,440 Mendel and Faraday and Pascal, along with modern scientists like Francis Collins and James 574 00:43:10,580 --> 00:43:16,300 Tour. Tours got all kinds of videos out. You ought to check this dude out. He's a born-again Jew 575 00:43:17,240 --> 00:43:25,060 has written, I don't know, some 50 scientific papers, has won every prize an American scientist 576 00:43:25,140 --> 00:43:33,640 can win, and he's a professor at Rice University, and he is crazy about Jesus. And this guy is 577 00:43:33,900 --> 00:43:39,020 brilliant. He's into the nanotechnology that they make these little machines that can go in 578 00:43:39,420 --> 00:43:50,000 and eat tumors. He's a brilliant guy. He's fun to listen to. No nonsense. But it's like they come in, 579 00:43:50,300 --> 00:43:55,040 and they do it with our kids and the schools. Oh, no, your ancestors will 580 00:43:55,060 --> 00:43:56,760 a orangutan. 581 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:02,980 I tell people, 582 00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:05,200 they taught me how I evolved 583 00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:07,300 from a monkey in school and then they wonder 584 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:08,480 why I acted like one. 585 00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:11,680 Actually, I needed no help. 586 00:44:12,740 --> 00:44:13,920 It was a good excuse, though. 587 00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,740 Jesus was pretty fired up here, right? 588 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,720 With these woes. 589 00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:31,260 and look what he says to him in Matthew 2315. 590 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:34,920 It's kind of a powerful scripture. 591 00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:35,900 It says, 592 00:44:36,060 --> 00:44:38,380 woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. 593 00:44:39,020 --> 00:44:40,720 Hypocrat was the, you know, 594 00:44:40,820 --> 00:44:43,180 a lot of people use that excuse for not coming to church, right? 595 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:43,980 A hypocrite. 596 00:44:46,380 --> 00:44:48,880 Hypocrat meant in the Greek it meant mask wear. 597 00:44:49,720 --> 00:44:52,120 The people, you know, they had the little mask 598 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:53,760 with a handhold on it and they would put the mask. 599 00:44:53,780 --> 00:45:02,760 mask on when they were in character. And that's what a hypocrite is. It's saying something, 600 00:45:02,970 --> 00:45:09,500 but not doing it, right? Telling others how to live, but not living it yourself. That was the 601 00:45:10,450 --> 00:45:18,140 hypocrite. And so he says, woe to you scribes, Pharisees, you hypocrites, for you travel, land and 602 00:45:18,180 --> 00:45:26,500 see to win one proselyte you you go far and wide to convince somebody to be like you and notice what 603 00:45:26,500 --> 00:45:33,600 it says and when he is won when you've won him you make him twice as much the son of hell 604 00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:39,260 as yourselves it's pretty scathing 605 00:45:46,300 --> 00:45:49,300 So he doesn't really pull any punches with these guys. 606 00:45:52,060 --> 00:45:56,640 And no doubt they were not liking these woes. 607 00:45:59,300 --> 00:46:03,820 When they say there, in verse 53, he says, 608 00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:09,220 And he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees begin to assail him. 609 00:46:09,420 --> 00:46:16,500 vehemently and to cross examine him about many things lying and wait for him and seeking to catch him 610 00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:24,440 in something he might say and they might accuse him he so stirred up a hatred in their heart they just 611 00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:32,660 wanted his head they just wanted to kill him and when people are faced with the truth right 612 00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:39,220 they do one of two things either do that or they bow their knee and they think 613 00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:41,300 oh my God, have mercy on me. 614 00:46:45,300 --> 00:46:50,000 The Bible talks about this quite a bit, mentions those who won't listen. 615 00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:55,880 Obviously, these guys would not listen to Jesus, but Proverbs tells us that those who refuse 616 00:46:56,100 --> 00:46:58,880 correction, first they hate those who correct them. 617 00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:05,720 Proverbs 9, 8, and Proverbs 1512 talks about this. 618 00:47:05,900 --> 00:47:08,700 Mockers resent correction, and so they avoid the wise. 619 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:11,600 right they avoid the wise 620 00:47:13,780 --> 00:47:14,000 secondly 621 00:47:14,700 --> 00:47:17,420 they do not listen to the one correcting them 622 00:47:18,060 --> 00:47:19,020 and actually hate them 623 00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:20,560 they won't listen 624 00:47:24,220 --> 00:47:25,140 now I've been 625 00:47:25,540 --> 00:47:27,120 corrected by two and three year olds 626 00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,620 and I've been corrected by 627 00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:34,480 70 and 80 year olds 628 00:47:35,900 --> 00:47:37,980 and it's something that I need to get used to 629 00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:39,280 and I need to embrace it. 630 00:47:41,260 --> 00:47:43,340 Maybe the correction isn't always correct, 631 00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,000 but I need to receive it with humility. 632 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:48,140 And so it is with you. 633 00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,840 Amos says in Amos 510, he says, 634 00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,220 they hate the one who rebukes in the gate, 635 00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:58,420 and they abhor the one who speaks uprightly. 636 00:48:03,180 --> 00:48:04,840 And we see that in our country, right? 637 00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:06,580 I just listened this morning, 638 00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:08,920 I listened to the DA from Virginia. 639 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:12,100 ICE went into Virginia, 640 00:48:12,700 --> 00:48:16,260 cleaned out the city of 650 criminal immigrants, 641 00:48:16,940 --> 00:48:18,560 and there was not one protest. 642 00:48:19,700 --> 00:48:21,120 He said, it was great, man. 643 00:48:21,300 --> 00:48:23,560 They cleaned up our city like that, you know? 644 00:48:24,540 --> 00:48:25,140 And it's like... 645 00:48:32,140 --> 00:48:33,940 But people hate the truth. 646 00:48:35,220 --> 00:48:36,040 They hate the truth. 647 00:48:36,700 --> 00:48:41,560 and ultimately the truth is a person and his name is Jesus so that's who they're hating on 648 00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:48,360 third thirdly they despise their own soul it tells us in proverbs 649 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:54,420 proverbs 1532 those who disregard discipline despise themselves 650 00:48:55,320 --> 00:48:58,100 but the one who heeds correction gains understanding 651 00:49:02,620 --> 00:49:05,320 these guys would have done well to go back 652 00:49:07,260 --> 00:49:08,220 and open up their Bibles 653 00:49:09,380 --> 00:49:11,220 and let the Lord minister to their heart 654 00:49:12,100 --> 00:49:13,740 and convict them and cleanse them. 655 00:49:14,860 --> 00:49:15,140 And 656 00:49:18,660 --> 00:49:19,460 the Bible tells us 657 00:49:19,540 --> 00:49:20,860 the fear of the Lord is clean. 658 00:49:21,140 --> 00:49:23,180 It cleans us up. It does me. 659 00:49:24,300 --> 00:49:25,460 And I ain't very clean yet. 660 00:49:26,340 --> 00:49:27,040 But I'm getting there. 661 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:28,640 Poco a poco. 662 00:49:30,500 --> 00:49:31,560 A little bit at a time. 663 00:49:32,220 --> 00:49:33,740 A little bit here, a little bit there. 664 00:49:36,860 --> 00:49:39,180 because I don't know about you, but I need washed every day. 665 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:46,300 I need the washing of the water of the word in my life every single day. 666 00:49:47,380 --> 00:49:48,460 Is it really that late? 667 00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:49,300 I'm going to say amen. 668 00:49:49,460 --> 00:49:50,260 Let's all stand, shall we? 669 00:49:59,580 --> 00:50:00,360 Lord, we, uh, 670 00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,780 we're so impressed with our God. 671 00:50:09,100 --> 00:50:15,400 Lord, you gave these people chance after chance after chance to come to you. 672 00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,480 Lord, between all the woes, they could have bowed their knee. 673 00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:22,560 Between these woes in the cross, 674 00:50:22,700 --> 00:50:25,620 they could have humbled themselves and began to seek you 675 00:50:26,540 --> 00:50:30,400 and to walk with you and to have a life that was changed by you. 676 00:50:30,420 --> 00:50:35,560 you. Lord, I thank you that you've revealed yourself to us. Lord, I pray that we wouldn't 677 00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:45,460 hide it. Lord, that we would speak of it, that we would walk in the light as you were in the 678 00:50:45,950 --> 00:50:53,720 light. Father, I pray for your people today that you would all take us deeper with yourself. 679 00:50:54,820 --> 00:51:00,100 Lord, I know you have things for us to do. You have people for us to minister to. 680 00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,140 to get outside of ourselves, Lord, 681 00:51:03,460 --> 00:51:06,560 instead of just stowing up treasures on this earth 682 00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:09,920 and savings accounts and retirement accounts 683 00:51:09,990 --> 00:51:11,740 and all those things, the stock market 684 00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:14,500 that consume so many people's minds, Lord, 685 00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:16,860 I pray that you would consume our mind 686 00:51:18,220 --> 00:51:20,860 with that attitude of the prophet Isaiah, 687 00:51:21,100 --> 00:51:22,320 Lord, here am I, send me. 688 00:51:23,460 --> 00:51:24,820 So, Father, open doors for us. 689 00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,460 I just pray even this week, Lord, that you would go with us. 690 00:51:27,540 --> 00:51:28,740 Fill us with your Holy Spirit. 691 00:51:29,360 --> 00:51:30,840 Lord, empower us to do your will. 692 00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:37,040 Lord, that we would be able to lay down our lives as you've encouraged us to. 693 00:51:37,240 --> 00:51:39,320 Lord, that great commission, go into the world. 694 00:51:39,860 --> 00:51:41,820 Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. 695 00:51:42,580 --> 00:51:45,180 Lord, everything we need, we can't out give you. 696 00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:48,280 And you'll supply it because you're so good. 697 00:51:48,780 --> 00:51:49,340 So we love you. 698 00:51:49,420 --> 00:51:51,060 We pray that you'd go before us this week. 699 00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:56,560 And Lord, that you would hear us as we'd cry out to you in Jesus' name. 700 00:51:57,100 --> 00:51:57,280 Amen. 701 00:51:58,020 --> 00:51:58,740 Hey, God bless you. 702 00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:00,900 If you guys need prayer, the prayer team will be up here. 703 00:52:01,780 --> 00:52:06,220 Come on up for prayer and be on fire this week.