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Amen and amen.

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So if you got a Bible, we're going to be in Luke chapter 12.

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It seems like I'm forgetting something.

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I think Pastor Steve told you that we will be here till the 31st,

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and then we will go to the fairgrounds for a while,

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and nobody knows how long that is.

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So we're praying for a speed entrance into First Street, Lord Willing, and the Creek don't rise.

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But if you have your Bible, we're going to be in Luke chapter 14, starting a new chapter.

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We had seen Jesus talking about his heartbrokenness over the rejection of who he was there in the last part of chapter 13.

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where he said, oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who were sent to her.

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How often I wanted to gather you, gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing.

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And so I just pray that, you know, I don't know where you're at this morning as far as the Lord is concerned.

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Some of you are maybe still checking it out, you know, just not real sure you want to make any kind of a,

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life commitment to this person named Jesus. But I'm here to tell you there's no one else.

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I don't know where else you could go to find life like the life that Jesus gives.

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And he is second to none. He's worthy of our praise. He's worthy of all our worship.

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he's worthy of our very lives and our very breath.

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And I just hope and pray someday that you come to that realization

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because obviously these folks were having a hard time with this Jesus.

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And we're going to read the first 14 verses here of chapter 14.

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And so read along with me.

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It says, now it happened as he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees

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to eat bread on the Sabbath that they watch.

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watched him closely. And behold, there was a certain man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus,

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answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees saying, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath? But they kept

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silent and he took him and healed him and let him go. Then he answered them saying, which of you

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having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit will not immediately pull him out on the

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Sabbath day. And they could not answer him regarding these things. And so he told a parable to those

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who were invited when he noted how they chose the best places saying to them, when you were invited by

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anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, less one more honorable than you be

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invited by him. And he who invited you and him come and say to you, give place to this man. And then you

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with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place,

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so that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, friend, go up higher. Then you will have

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glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you. For whoever exalts himself will be humbled,

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and he who humbles himself will be exalted. Then he also said to him, who invited him,

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When you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back and you be repaid.

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But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maim, maimed, the lame, the blind.

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And you will be blessed because they cannot repay you, for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.

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Shall we pray?

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Lord, your word is powerful and it's sharp.

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And even these last verses in this passage kind of cut us a little bit.

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And that's good.

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We need cut down to the level where we should be, where we look up and where we are humble before our God.

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And so I pray that you would teach us that lesson as we go through these verses and just take a look what it means to be.

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to be made low and to be lifting up the name that is above every name.

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As your word tells us, that at the name of Jesus, every knee is going to bow and every tongue

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is going to confess to the glory of God, the Father, that you are Lord, and there is none like you.

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May we see that clearly today in Jesus' name. Amen.

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So it's interesting that after he kind of, you know, chastise him a little bit about being

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the city that killed the prophets and stuff that he is invited back to a Pharisee's house.

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It's like, I know you guys don't like me.

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So why do you keep inviting me over for a banter?

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And it's kind of like the Democrats and Republicans.

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You know, it depends on who you talk to, but a lot of commentators, I remember a guy by the

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name of Crouthammer, Charles Crouthammer.

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He's passed away now. Hopefully he knew Jesus.

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But he would say, now, we just think the Democrats are wrong.

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They hate us. They want us dead.

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Right? There's a difference.

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These people, Jesus knew they were wrong, and he was pointing out their wrongs,

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and he disagreed with them.

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He could have killed them all with the word, but he didn't.

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But they wanted him dead.

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They wanted him out of their lives.

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He was just a thorn and their side.

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He was a burr under their saddle blanket.

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And they wanted him gone.

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And yet they invite him.

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And so the disputes between the Pharisees and Jesus about healing on the Sabbath,

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it happens like seven or eight times throughout the New Testament.

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It's like Jesus is kind of, you know, he's got one of them,

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well we used to have hot shots right and every time on a Sabbath is like he's going

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he was he was lighting them up a little bit they were just getting chapped that he was doing

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these things on the Sabbath day and it seems to be nonstop you remember the woman that was bent

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over or the man with the withered hand or them rubbing grain together in their hands on the

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Sabbath day and and these religious people were just getting all wotted up

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You get watered up about stuff.

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I do sometimes, and it's just like, no, God's got it.

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You know, now I do believe that there are many times we're called to call a spade a spade.

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But not to just be jerks, because I know a lot of Christians, they're just jerks.

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And if they're the only ones that I saw being Christians, I mean, no thanks, right?

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but there's a lot happening in these next three chapters and most scholars believe that chapter

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14 through chapter 17 all happened in one day if you read through that you're just going

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oh my gosh no wonder john said that if everything that jesus did was recorded the books

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the libraries of the world couldn't contain it all and so these Pharisees called them

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the set apart ones. Oh, really? A little hoity-toity, don't you think? Right? The set-apart ones.

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You've been around people like that. They just, they just have this natural look down their nose,

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even if they're a short person like me, right? They even have this natural look down their nose

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at people, thinking they're better, somehow better. And the reality is that no one is any better

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than the other ones. Some are just better sinners than the other ones. But we've all sinned and

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fallen short of the glory of God. And I talk about that a lot from this pulpit because it seems

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that people don't get the depravity of man. They don't talk about it. Why do not politicians

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talk about the depravity of man? Because people in their hearts and the natural man does not believe

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he's depraved. He thinks he's a good dude. And the Bible teaches something totally different.

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Now, it's not that I don't believe that people desire good. I see people all the time, right? And even

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myself is as wicked as I was before I came to Christ. There was a desire for good. I just didn't have

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any of it in me until Jesus comes along. So it's not that I'm saying that no,

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people, there's people that desire to do good and they'll do a good deed here and there.

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But by nature, they're not good.

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And so it's just a, it's an important understanding as a Christian to believe that the Bible

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teaches wholeheartedly from genus through the end of the book, that man is depraved.

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Man is depraved.

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You're depraved, I'm depraved.

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My babies are depraved.

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My grandbabies are depraved.

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That's hard to say.

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Because, I mean, I think my grandbabies are perfect.

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But they're perfectly depraved.

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And it doesn't take you long to figure that out if you're an honest parent.

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And so they called themselves the set apart ones.

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Well, that's pretty puffed up.

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That's pride at its best right there.

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They believed, listen, this is what they believed.

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They believed, the Pharisees believed,

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that if they could keep the law perfectly for one whole day,

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that it could possibly usher in their Messiah.

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If they could just keep the law perfect,

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like it's on them, that the Messiah's coming.

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He's coming whether they do whatever they do or not.

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It's kind of like you and me.

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There is a thought today that the church is going to,

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usher Jesus in to start the millennial kingdom. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

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Right? The church is not going to usher Jesus in. In fact, Jesus said, when the son of man comes,

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will he find faith on the earth? You and I, we're just like hanging on by a thread, it seems like.

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Like that one church that Jesus said, he encouraged him. He says, strengthen whatever you got.

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He got just a little bit of faith, strengthen it.

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Because I'm coming.

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In other words, keep hanging there.

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Don't let go.

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Hang on.

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Like our Bible reading thing.

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Hang on.

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But here, the irony is the Messiah is standing right in front of him.

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And they don't recognize him.

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They don't see him for what he is.

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He's done nothing but stir up hatred and discontent.

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and their heart. He's seated at the table with them. And so, and as far as they're concerned,

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he's guilty of breaking the mosaic law. However, these accusations were based on the Pharisees' interpretation

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of the law rather than the actual commandments regarding the Sabbath. There was concessions made for an

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emergency on a Sabbath. And God was gracious. Sometimes he wasn't.

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I just read about this last week or so in the book of numbers when the dude was,

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it might have been in Leviticus, but he gathered sticks on the Sabbath and they were going,

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what do we do?

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Rock him.

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Rock him to death.

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And they did.

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They rocked him to death.

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But you know what was interesting about that is when you look at when God pours out his wrath,

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many times he gives people an opportunity to repent.

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and then they have to go through with their punishment.

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But then they're with the Lord.

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It's a win-win.

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Do you imagine?

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You get to trade this life and this fleshly life

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that can be miserable with a glorious life

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where every tear is wiped away

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and all you have to do is just say,

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okay, Lord, I messed up, I'm sorry, I broke your law,

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I deserve to die, but thank you that you're showing me mercy

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and letting me be with you.

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That's why the whole capital punishment thing is a good deal.

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It's a really good deal.

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It's a deterrent, just a little bit, right?

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I remember taking the fourth graders up to the state penitentiary,

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standing on the gallows, standing on the trap door,

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the one that they would drop out from under you after they got the noose around your neck.

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And it was interesting.

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All the last rights that they had record of there in the penitentiary,

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they all repented. They asked God to forgive him. And God's just. And he's gracious. And he'll

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forgive to those who humble themselves. But these guys weren't willing. They weren't willing to do that.

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That's what that last verse there, or one of the last verses there in chapter 13, you were not

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willing. And so, so here they are. The Sabbath, they invite him to Shabbat. And I want to take part in Shabbat,

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sometimes, starts on Friday night, ends on Saturday evening.

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And on Friday night, they have two loaves of bread and some wine,

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and they would do a blessing.

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And if you're Jewish in here, you can probably correct me.

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I'm probably getting this wrong.

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But the thought is that they were commemorating when the Lord brought them out of Egypt.

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And so the two loaves of bread were symbolic of the double portion of manna

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that they could keep on the Sabbath.

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You remember?

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Because they had to go out every day and get the manner to stay alive there in the wilderness.

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But on Sabbath, they could get a double portion.

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If they tried to get a double portion any other day of the week, what happened?

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It rotted.

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It got worms in it.

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Yummy.

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Right?

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And they couldn't, it wasn't edible.

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There's so many, there's several sermons just in that picture right there.

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And they would bless the wine.

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So Jesus was, he says, I am the bread that came down from heaven.

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The symbols that they had sitting there that night as they partook on Shabbat,

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the symbols, the reality was sitting right in front of them.

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What did we just take?

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Bread and juice or bread and wine.

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That's what they would do.

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Wine throughout scripture is a symbol of joy.

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Joy.

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Think about that.

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Think about the blood of Jesus.

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Does that bring joy to your life?

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It sure does.

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Because without it, I'm a crispy critter.

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Right?

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I am a crispy critter without it, without that cleansing power of the blood of Christ.

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And so these symbols that they celebrated on Shabbat, on Sabbath,

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was sitting right there with them.

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He's the reality of that bread,

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And he's the reality of that fruit of the vine or that wine that brings joy to our lives.

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Jesus said to them in John chapter 6, 35, I am the bread of life.

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He who comes to me shall never hunger.

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And he who believes in me shall never thirst.

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Psalm 1611, you will show me the path of life.

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In your presence is the fullness of joy.

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At your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

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and they were looking right past the one who was all of that to them if they would have received it.

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And so it is for you today, if you'll receive it.

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It's life in abundance, right?

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So he's invited to Shepot at another Pharisee's house,

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and maybe not because the man was hospitable, but because notice it says there,

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and they watched him in verse one, and they watched him closely.

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They wanted to try to catch you.

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Let me tell you something.

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If you name the name of Jesus, your life is under a microscope.

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People are watching every move you make.

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They just watch you like a hawk.

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And then you're a pastor.

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And then that's like, oh, they're going to see all my flaws.

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Right?

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The grocery store.

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Hey, pastor.

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What's you buying?

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Right? I don't dare buy a six pack of beer or a bottle of wine. I don't dare.

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That's a freedom I have to give up standing up here behind this pulpit.

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I like seeing some parishioners see it, you know, hey, pastor.

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And I looked down and all they had was four cases of beer in their cart.

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My dad's coming and he likes to drink beer, so I buy him beer.

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Yeah, right.

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It's pretty funny, actually.

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It's pretty...

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But really, I mean, they watch what you watch.

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You watch that movie?

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Wasn't that like rated PG-18 or something?

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You really watch that movie?

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Or the jokes you laugh at?

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Right?

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Yeah, as a believer, you have to be careful

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jokes you laugh at. I had this old buddy, he was an old friend of mine, an old cowboy, just a

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crusty old codger, and I worked with him. And he told me later, I got to pray with him right before he

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died. But he told me, he told me later after we weren't working at the same place anymore. He

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says, you know, for the first four years we worked together, he said, I, I tried to come up with

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every foul joke I could to make you laugh. And I, from the most part, I was pretty, I was

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reserved, he'd say that he'd tell one of them dirty jokes and I'd turn around, I'd walk away.

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But one day that guy caught me off guard, and I mean, it was vile. This joke was vile.

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And I howled.

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I was just like, oh, you old codger, you got me on that one. Right? But they watch you closely.

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You say you love Jesus. What they really want to know is prove it.

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but then they're not satisfied with prove it.

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They're satisfied with watching you fall.

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They want to see, because they want, you know,

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misery loves company.

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And when I came out of the world, you know,

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I mean, I was running with a pretty wild bunch.

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And this one dude, he was a whiskey drinking, dope smoking dude.

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He'd roll a joint and pour a shot,

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drink and smoke, or I'm punching you.

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I'm going to, I had to quit hanging out with them

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because I would either cave and get loaded in stone,

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or if I refused, I got bruised.

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So I just had to quit hanging out with them.

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But now they call me because their livers are failing,

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their blood sugar is taking over, right?

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They've got all kinds of health issues

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right on the verge of death a few times,

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and they're just in their early 60s.

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But they're still stuck where we were back in our early 20s.

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there is a time to grow up folks

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and Jesus helped me grow up really quick

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and so they're watching him

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but notice it says and behold there was a certain man there

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who had dropsy

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dropsy is this edema

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it's an excessive amount of edema that would come into the

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legs and because of some organ failure of some kind

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I just went and seen my cousin the other day as a year younger

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me and his legs were the size of an elephant's leg all just I think they they took like 30 gallons

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or he got rid of 30 gallons of fluid because his congestive heart failure his organs are

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shutting down because he's still there where we were when we were 20 and he doesn't realize this is

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killing you dude what are you doing and and so this guy had this this condition most believe that

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he was planted there they brought him

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there just to test Jesus.

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Because they knew that this Jesus would have a heart of compassion for someone who had a need.

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And in fact, he did.

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And so, Jesus answering spoke to the liars and the Pharisees saying,

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is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to heal?

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Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?

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What do you think?

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Is it lawful to do things that are good on the Sabbath?

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But they kept silent.

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Notice they couldn't even talk.

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And he took him and healed him and sent him on his way.

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That's the only reason he was there.

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And Jesus saw fit to make this man whole.

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But he wasn't done.

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He wasn't done.

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Because

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In the earlier chapter in Luke 6, he had asked him basically the same question.

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Jesus said to them, I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil,

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to save life or to destroy it?

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Right?

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And the answer is obvious.

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It's obvious simply because of who God is.

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And then verse 5, he answered them saying,

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which of you having a donkey or an ox that has fought?

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fallen into a pit will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day.

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Now, this is interesting because the Pharisees were not just religious people that showed up

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a church, seven days a week.

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Right?

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They had certain times when they were on their own.

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And the Levites, which most of them were descendants of, were not, they were never allotted

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any ground there in Israel.

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It was only the other tribes.

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Levi wasn't.

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They weren't a lot of ground.

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But there was what they called in the Old Testament common land.

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And so these common land pastures they could use.

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And many of them had little bunches of cows and a little bunch of sheep

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and farmed a little bit of ground, had some oxen.

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And so it was dear to their heart, these animals.

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Right?

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Because when they weren't serving in the temple, they were just like everybody else.

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That's funny.

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people don't realize pastors are just like everybody else.

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Probably worse sinners.

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The pastors are usually worse sinners than anybody in the congregation.

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Just say it, right?

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Paul said, I'm the chief of sinners.

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And that is simply because when Jesus saves somebody who's going to be a pastor,

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he knows he must keep them on a really short chain.

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Right?

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That's why bad sinners get converted and become pastors.

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And then the old saying, you know, in your congregation, how people try to con you,

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you can't con a con.

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Right?

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You can't con a con.

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Been there and done that.

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That's where I love being at the school, you know, because those little kids would try to con me.

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And I'm just going, I would say, I'm just a little kid that I ever knew.

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You're not going to pull the wool over my eyes.

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You're trying to tell me you're good.

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I know you're not.

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So he's saying, good or evil?

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It's always good to do good, isn't it?

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I would imagine.

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And then he tells him in Matthew, or excuse me, Mark chapter 2, verse 27, he says, listen,

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the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

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In other words, you have control of the Sabbath.

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Paul tells us that, right in the epistles.

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He says, let everybody persuaded in their own mind.

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It's important to have a day of rest where you just kind of take it easy, right?

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That was the model that God gave us at creation.

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And, but he said, choose what day is best for you.

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There's groups that say, if you don't worship on the original Sabbath on Shabbat, on Saturday, you're going to hell.

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Now, I don't believe that, obviously, but Sunday is not my Sabbath, right?

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sometimes Saturday is, sometimes Monday is,

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but not Sunday,

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because here I be.

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You wonder why sit during worship?

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Because I've got to stand up here.

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Why, you are all sitting.

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So I sit while you stand.

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Just turnabout's fair, probably, right?

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But they had,

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they had exchanged the righteousness of God for their own righteousness.

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They had elevated themselves.

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They had lifted themselves up to this place where they thought they were so much better.

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And they were involved in a parade of self-righteousness before men.

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They thought way too highly of themselves, these people did.

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Therefore, their parade was really a charade.

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Right?

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they were just presenting themselves as something that they weren't,

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that they weren't really genuine.

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And nothing exposes the counterfeit like the genuine.

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So the contrast between Jesus and these people,

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these leaders, these Pharisees, was pretty striking, I'm sure.

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So Jesus heals the guy, he lets him go.

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And then he challenges them personally.

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You guys.

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You guys try to do good.

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If you're, obviously, if you're going to lose a donkey or an ox or a lamb and a mud pit on the Sabbath,

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no, you're going to try to save me, especially nowadays.

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Prices are pretty high.

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Those things are worth a lot.

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And so he asked him.

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And they could not answer him regarding these things.

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They were dead silent.

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they had no argument whatsoever

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but no doubt

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the hatred for Jesus was

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was stirring

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in their hearts

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they couldn't answer him

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because he knew he was right

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so he tells them in a parable

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listen you guys think you're way up here

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listen to this this parable

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so he tells them in starting in verse 7

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So he told a parable to those who were invited when he noted how they chose the best places,

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saying to them, when you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place,

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less one more honorable than you be invited, you be invited by him, and he who invited you and him come and say to you, give place to this man.

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And then you begin with shame to take the lowest place.

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But when you are invited, go sit down in the lowest place.

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So that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, friend, go up higher.

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Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.

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For whoever exalts himself will be humbled.

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And he who humbles himself will be exalted.

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When you're invited, show up in humility.

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Go sit on the floor.

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Right?

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go sit on the floor

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because this humility

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was it was a theme

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through scripture

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we seen it in the lives of

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men they did

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the previous men in fact the one they were trying to

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honor this man Moses

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look what it says about him in Numbers

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chapter 12 verse 3

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and it says now the man Moses was very

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humble more than all men who were on

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the face of the earth

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Moses was a humble man

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he's the one who got the law from

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God went up and got face to face with the Lord, didn't have to eat or drink anything for 40

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days. He was a spiritual stud muffin. If anybody could have been exalted, it would have been Moses.

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And yet he was the most humble man on the face of the earth. Why is that? Probably because

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he had been in the presence of God. And the fear of the Lord gave him a great amount of wisdom.

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So he was humble, Moses was.

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And then David, the one who they called Jesus the son of David,

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because David's throne, when it was established,

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God said it was going to last forever.

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The throne of David would last forever.

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It's going to last forever.

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Jesus is going to be sitting on the throne of David when he comes back.

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The throne of David is going nowhere.

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In 2. Samuel, he says, with the pure, you will show yourself pure. This is David. With the devious, you will show yourself shrewd. You will save the humble people. But your eyes are on the haughty that you may bring them down. For you or my lamp, O Lord, the Lord shall enlighten my darkness.

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David knew that God had called him, and he was humbled by it.

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He was humbled by the idea that when Samuel anointed him king, in place of Bible trivia, Saul, right?

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He anointed him king.

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He told him, listen, the kingdom's going to be ripped out of your hands because Saul had grabbed Samuel's cloak, and Samuel tore it away,

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and he had a piece of his cloak in his hand.

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And Samuel turned around and looked at Saul.

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He said, listen, God is going to tear the kingdom from your hand

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and give it to somebody else.

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A ruddy little shepherd boy named David.

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And David was humbled by that.

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But Samuel had rebuked Saul because at one time Saul was humble.

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This scares me.

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This really scares me.

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Because you can be humble and then,

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pride can enter in and you can get elevated, much like Louisifer.

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When we see him in Louis Saffir, yeah.

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You can read about him in Ezekiel chapter 28 and Luke chapter 14, or excuse me, Isaiah

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chapter 14.

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00:32:59,220 --> 00:33:06,540
And so he told him, 1st Samuel chapter 15, verse 17.

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So Samuel said to Saul, he says,

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when you were little in your own eyes, you were not head of the tribes of Israel.

472
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:19,520
When you were little, you were small in your own eyes, you were humble.

473
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,240
You realized what you were.

474
00:33:23,020 --> 00:33:26,580
The Bible says in the Psalms, we're just a breath.

475
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:28,740
We're just here and gone.

476
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:29,940
Man, it is very best.

477
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:31,720
I read it this morning, right?

478
00:33:35,980 --> 00:33:38,560
It says, men of low degree are but a vapor.

479
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:40,960
Men of high degree are a lie.

480
00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:44,420
Why? Because they think way too highly of themselves.

481
00:33:45,420 --> 00:33:48,260
And that's your problem and my problem for the most part.

482
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:51,640
That's something we'll struggle with our whole lives.

483
00:33:52,740 --> 00:33:54,900
So the contrast between David and Saul,

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00:33:57,280 --> 00:34:02,320
when Saul saw the bigness of God, he was small.

485
00:34:04,860 --> 00:34:06,740
And he saw the smallness of himself.

486
00:34:07,140 --> 00:34:09,100
But when he lost sight,

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00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:13,260
of the greatness of God, then he assumed that position of greatness.

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00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,399
And the Bible says that God will not share his glory with another.

489
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:30,820
But David never lost sight of God's greatness, even though he was a murderer and an adulteress.

490
00:34:32,300 --> 00:34:32,679
to her.

491
00:34:34,740 --> 00:34:35,620
You wouldn't have, yeah.

492
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:37,080
You guys know what I mean.

493
00:34:39,240 --> 00:34:40,659
Masheba was, right?

494
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,820
They both should have been stoned for what they did.

495
00:34:43,179 --> 00:34:45,139
In fact, David thought he was going to get stoned.

496
00:34:45,620 --> 00:34:47,700
Not, you know, but rocked.

497
00:34:50,139 --> 00:34:53,280
David thought he was going to get rocked for what he did with Basheba

498
00:34:53,440 --> 00:35:00,340
when that big, big, pointy prophet finger from Nathan came to him and said,

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00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:05,560
you're the man. He says, but you're not going to die. Though you should, for what you've done,

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00:35:06,180 --> 00:35:11,880
you're not going to die. And so David, he goes to the house of the Lord. Check this out.

501
00:35:12,140 --> 00:35:16,280
Second Samuel chapter 7. It's several verses, but hang with me. If you have a Bible,

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00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:20,520
you can turn there and read along, maybe highlight some of it. It's really good stuff.

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00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:29,180
It's 2 Samuel chapter 7, verses 17 to 24. And it says, then David went in and sat before the Lord.

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00:35:30,340 --> 00:35:34,280
David was not afraid to sit on the floor.

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00:35:38,140 --> 00:35:40,180
And he sat before the Lord and he said,

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Who am I, O Lord God?

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00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:48,360
And what is my house that you have brought me this far?

508
00:35:53,220 --> 00:35:57,800
And yet this was a small thing in your sight, O Lord God,

509
00:35:57,940 --> 00:36:02,940
and you have also spoken of your servant's house for a great while to come.

510
00:36:03,540 --> 00:36:05,780
Is this the manner of man?

511
00:36:07,220 --> 00:36:08,100
O Lord God.

512
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,240
Now what more can David say to you?

513
00:36:12,020 --> 00:36:14,480
For you, Lord God, know your servant.

514
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:19,380
For your words' sake, and according to your own heart,

515
00:36:19,580 --> 00:36:23,080
you have done all these great things to make your servant know them.

516
00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:26,260
Therefore, you are great, O Lord God,

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00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:34,460
for there is none like you, nor is there any God beside you according to all that we have heard with our ears.

518
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:46,200
And who is like your people, like Israel, the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for himself as a people to make for himself a name?

519
00:36:46,620 --> 00:36:50,980
And to do for yourself great and awesome deeds for your land.

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00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:56,260
Before your people whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, the nations, and the nations,

521
00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:02,820
their gods, for you have made your people Israel, your very own people forever. And you, Lord,

522
00:37:02,850 --> 00:37:12,460
have become their God. That is a humble man right there, David. He knew who God was. He knew

523
00:37:12,490 --> 00:37:18,420
that God should have killed him. That's where we get that beautiful Psalm in Psalm 51,

524
00:37:21,980 --> 00:37:26,240
where it says, creating me a clean heart, oh God. Renew a right spirit.

525
00:37:26,260 --> 00:37:40,760
within me. Cast me not away from your Holy Spirit. And so David was humble, a great insight for you and I.

526
00:37:41,940 --> 00:37:47,600
Not only that, but his son Solomon was even a humble guy, even though he was a lusty dog.

527
00:37:50,860 --> 00:37:56,220
Solomon recognized. He said, you are God in heaven and here am I on earth. I'm going to let my words be

528
00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:56,400
you.

529
00:37:58,980 --> 00:38:01,000
And I don't know what your words to the Lord are right now.

530
00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:03,780
It might be like mine are on a consistent basis.

531
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:04,900
Oh, Lord, help.

532
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:06,540
Oh, Lord, help me.

533
00:38:07,940 --> 00:38:08,540
Lord, help me.

534
00:38:08,900 --> 00:38:09,860
Help me walk with you.

535
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,120
Help me be faithful with my wife.

536
00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:13,860
Help me to be a good example to my kids.

537
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:14,780
Lord, help me.

538
00:38:15,420 --> 00:38:17,560
Because I'm not any of those things without him.

539
00:38:23,019 --> 00:38:23,740
Jesus finishes.

540
00:38:24,020 --> 00:38:25,420
So he tells these guys, listen, don't.

541
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:27,440
Be careful where you're sick, man.

542
00:38:27,820 --> 00:38:30,100
When you show up somewhere, sit on the floor.

543
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,880
Because from the floor, every place else is up, right?

544
00:38:35,660 --> 00:38:36,600
Every place else is up.

545
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:37,500
Just sit on the floor.

546
00:38:42,780 --> 00:38:46,260
And so that's what I like about David.

547
00:38:47,260 --> 00:38:49,120
He was the full package.

548
00:38:49,460 --> 00:38:51,300
This man was a mighty warrior.

549
00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:52,920
He was a passionate worshipper.

550
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,340
He was an incredible repenter.

551
00:38:56,460 --> 00:39:02,400
how good are you you repenting right that's a really good quality you have be a good repenter

552
00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:09,680
that's what billy graham said makes the best marriages i think it was his wife that said it

553
00:39:10,060 --> 00:39:18,700
a good marriage is made up of two good forgivers right two good forgivers you know in marriage as well

554
00:39:18,700 --> 00:39:25,420
as i do you have to keep pretty short accounts to make things work guys so she don't

555
00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:32,920
kill you or poison your coffee or whatever which I'm sure she wants to occasionally.

556
00:39:44,420 --> 00:39:50,960
So in verse 12 through 14 it says then he said to him who invited him when you give a

557
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,780
dinner or a supper do not ask your friends your brothers your relatives

558
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:59,780
nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back and you be repaid.

559
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:04,480
But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maim, the lame, the blind,

560
00:40:04,860 --> 00:40:08,040
and you will be blessed because they cannot repay you,

561
00:40:08,460 --> 00:40:11,820
for you shall be paid at the resurrection of the just.

562
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:16,940
This is convicting to me.

563
00:40:18,580 --> 00:40:22,680
Because, you know, a lot of times, hey, let's go eat, sure.

564
00:40:23,540 --> 00:40:25,460
Go ahead. You can pay this time. I paid last time.

565
00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:33,680
He said, no, no, no, no. It's not that we don't do that because we, obviously, we're all guilty of that.

566
00:40:34,580 --> 00:40:39,280
But when's the last time you gathered up, you know, four or five people from the mission?

567
00:40:39,500 --> 00:40:40,800
He said, come on, let's go have dinner.

568
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,860
They can't pay you back. They won't pay you back.

569
00:40:48,460 --> 00:40:51,340
But notice what he says. It's powerful.

570
00:40:52,820 --> 00:40:53,300
He said, listen.

571
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,680
you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.

572
00:40:57,860 --> 00:40:58,700
You get your payback.

573
00:41:00,260 --> 00:41:01,600
Unless you just want to pat on the back.

574
00:41:02,140 --> 00:41:03,560
Then the Bible says you have a payback.

575
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,960
As soon as you tell people, yeah, we grab some homeless people and went and had dinner.

576
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:09,560
You have your reward, the Bible says.

577
00:41:10,620 --> 00:41:13,740
Don't let your right hand know what your left hand is doing, the scripture says.

578
00:41:14,620 --> 00:41:14,760
Right?

579
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:15,780
Bless people.

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00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,400
Bless people who can't give it in return.

581
00:41:21,780 --> 00:41:23,360
And give without expecting.

582
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:27,260
anything in return. Jesus

583
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,640
tells us in Matthew 5, people don't like this

584
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,980
scripture. It says, but I tell you, not to resist an evil person,

585
00:41:35,180 --> 00:41:38,220
but whoever slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other also.

586
00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:41,700
I don't like that.

587
00:41:44,980 --> 00:41:47,900
No, I want to, if he slaps me, I'm going to punch him.

588
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:55,560
You know, he knocks out one tooth.

589
00:41:55,700 --> 00:41:56,960
No, I want to knock out all his.

590
00:41:58,900 --> 00:42:00,300
That's just our nature, right?

591
00:42:01,420 --> 00:42:04,940
No, but Jesus says, turn the other cheek to him also.

592
00:42:05,060 --> 00:42:10,140
And if anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also.

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00:42:11,660 --> 00:42:14,400
Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with them two.

594
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:22,000
You realize how seriously against our nature this is.

595
00:42:24,040 --> 00:42:27,720
None of us can do this unless God empowers us to do it.

596
00:42:31,020 --> 00:42:33,660
Paul reminds us in Philippians 2.3,

597
00:42:34,060 --> 00:42:38,100
do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit,

598
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,560
but rather in humility, value others above yourselves,

599
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:45,460
even those who slap you in the face.

600
00:42:50,180 --> 00:42:50,860
I ain't got that.

601
00:42:52,260 --> 00:42:53,160
I just don't.

602
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,240
But God can give it to you if you're willing.

603
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:00,960
I've got to tell you a story.

604
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:04,620
So my boy Buster, he does worship for us.

605
00:43:05,180 --> 00:43:12,380
When he was about 12, we went to, took the youth to a big party down in Natsupaw.

606
00:43:13,310 --> 00:43:15,460
They had a big concert called Rock the Canyon.

607
00:43:16,100 --> 00:43:17,040
Rock the Canyon.

608
00:43:18,020 --> 00:43:19,440
I've shared this story with you before.

609
00:43:21,820 --> 00:43:22,380
So we're down there.

610
00:43:22,460 --> 00:43:28,700
We're at, you know, at Nat Supaa playing, you know, they're playing, you know, I don't

611
00:43:28,780 --> 00:43:31,720
know what they do, and chicken, what do they get on shoulders.

612
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:33,400
Anyway, Buster's on this kid's shoulder.

613
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:38,720
Well, this high school kid, Buster's in seventh grade, this high school kid comes flying

614
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:43,300
in there and just rips him across the face, bloodies and nose, rips him down into the

615
00:43:43,420 --> 00:43:43,660
water.

616
00:43:44,360 --> 00:43:47,280
And this kid's like a senior in high school, and Buster's in seventh grade.

617
00:43:47,780 --> 00:43:48,660
And I see it happen.

618
00:43:49,300 --> 00:43:49,840
That's my boy.

619
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:51,540
I love my boy.

620
00:43:53,460 --> 00:43:54,460
I see it happen.

621
00:43:55,860 --> 00:44:02,220
And I got to tell you, everything within me wanted to grab that boy, put him under the water until he quit kicking.

622
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:06,520
Everything in me wanted to do that.

623
00:44:08,300 --> 00:44:12,640
And this boy that was with us, he did not know Buster was my son.

624
00:44:13,300 --> 00:44:15,480
and so I went up to

625
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,180
and I said hey why'd you do that

626
00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:19,360
oh that buster kid he's such a

627
00:44:19,420 --> 00:44:20,940
push and you know

628
00:44:21,140 --> 00:44:23,360
he's giving me the right act why he don't like him

629
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:24,940
and I go

630
00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:27,740
and I turned around I got out of the pool

631
00:44:27,740 --> 00:44:28,780
and our youth pastor's standing

632
00:44:28,900 --> 00:44:30,560
he's a great big guy like 6-3

633
00:44:30,900 --> 00:44:31,520
300 pounds

634
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,000
he looks at me he goes wow

635
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:35,980
that was a lot of restraint

636
00:44:39,220 --> 00:44:41,280
but I realized at that moment

637
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:42,640
and of course I was in trouble

638
00:44:42,660 --> 00:44:47,300
family because bus was looking at me like dad you're my dad are you going to protect me i mean he was

639
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:51,900
bleeding a little bit he was all right it's long ways from his heart but and then my mom and then my wife

640
00:44:52,060 --> 00:44:57,160
he went and told mom and then i i was in i was in the doghouse with my family for a little while

641
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:02,420
but i finally told him i said listen you guys if i would have done what i wanted to do of course i'd be

642
00:45:02,460 --> 00:45:09,680
in prison but if i would have really came down hard on that kid then i would have lost the

643
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:12,620
opportunity to minister to it right

644
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:20,540
And so, it's, it's, you've got to have God to do this stuff.

645
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:23,780
This Christian life, it's a supernatural life.

646
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:27,800
You have to have the Holy Spirit to be able to navigate hard things like that.

647
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:30,200
But he'll help you in that moment.

648
00:45:30,940 --> 00:45:35,460
If you humble yourself, if you'll sit on the floor and say, oh Lord, I need you.

649
00:45:36,540 --> 00:45:37,960
I know what I am.

650
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:41,280
But more importantly, I know who you are.

651
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:43,240
And I know what you are.

652
00:45:43,820 --> 00:45:46,360
And you can make something out of nothing.

653
00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,860
So help me become nothing that you can make something out of me.

654
00:45:53,140 --> 00:45:58,340
Because Paul tells us, he says, when a man thinks he is something when he is nothing.

655
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,260
The thought is, every man is nothing.

656
00:46:02,780 --> 00:46:05,780
Every man, woman and child is really nothing in the big picture.

657
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:10,260
Have you seen how small we are on this earth?

658
00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:12,560
Can you see us from space?

659
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:15,580
No, we're a speck on a speck.

660
00:46:21,080 --> 00:46:23,440
The important thing is to fear God, right?

661
00:46:24,220 --> 00:46:26,460
Proverbs encourages, I'm going to close with this.

662
00:46:27,140 --> 00:46:31,000
Proverbs 1533, the fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom.

663
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,820
And before honor is humility.

664
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:39,120
For you ever to be lifted up in honor, humility has to come first.

665
00:46:39,500 --> 00:46:43,040
I used to tell the kids at Water Springs this when we started our sports program.

666
00:46:44,100 --> 00:46:46,560
We usually took two years for us to win a game.

667
00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:49,400
I mean, we would get demolished.

668
00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:51,040
I mean, blown out.

669
00:46:53,340 --> 00:46:55,200
And I would tell the kids this verse,

670
00:46:56,300 --> 00:46:57,660
humility comes before honor.

671
00:46:58,860 --> 00:47:01,600
Just get used to eating that crow because there's a lot of it's coming.

672
00:47:02,380 --> 00:47:02,580
Right?

673
00:47:04,300 --> 00:47:06,200
But then I would tell them, just remember.

674
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:09,420
Remember that when you demolish somebody,

675
00:47:09,460 --> 00:47:11,640
you know how it feels, right?

676
00:47:12,340 --> 00:47:13,480
So you better win gracefully.

677
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:17,760
Proverbs 18, 12,

678
00:47:17,940 --> 00:47:20,200
before destruction, the heart of man is haughty

679
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:22,620
and before honor is humility.

680
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,500
This is a great study in humility.

681
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:31,360
Just learn to sit on the floor

682
00:47:33,240 --> 00:47:34,800
because it's a good place.

683
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:36,500
Because like I said,

684
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,200
every place from there is up.

685
00:47:40,340 --> 00:47:42,100
Hey, I'm going to invite the prayer team to come up.

686
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:43,760
You all want to stand.

687
00:47:45,140 --> 00:47:46,420
We're going to pray.

688
00:47:47,500 --> 00:47:50,960
And then I think I might even do a song here.

689
00:47:59,060 --> 00:48:02,460
Father, we come before you right now,

690
00:48:02,580 --> 00:48:07,340
and I just want to encourage people, Lord, to humble themselves before you, Lord,

691
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:11,220
and not be afraid of being low

692
00:48:12,300 --> 00:48:14,600
because you tell us here in this word

693
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:18,140
that whoever exalts himself will be humbled,

694
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,200
but whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

695
00:48:21,300 --> 00:48:23,860
And Lord, we just want to be with you.

696
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,460
When time comes, we want to go up and not down.

697
00:48:28,980 --> 00:48:32,320
And so teach us, teach us to walk in humility.

698
00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,299
And I just pray for anyone who needs a

699
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:43,660
a touch from the Lord or maybe you need to stand in for somebody just thinking of people who

700
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:50,860
have extreme heartache right now i just lift up brother arlin to you lord and just pray that

701
00:48:50,900 --> 00:48:56,400
you'd be with him and the land is family lord and others who are just struggling the hicks family

702
00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:05,280
lord and uh lord that death has come and uh it it casts a pretty long shadow and yet

703
00:49:05,300 --> 00:49:10,440
Yet though we go through that valley of the shadow of death, Lord, you're with us.

704
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:12,000
We don't have to fear.

705
00:49:12,860 --> 00:49:14,320
So we just praise you for that, Lord.

706
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And pray that you would hear the humble requests of your people.

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And Lord, that we would walk in that humility this week, just knowing what a great and almighty God we serve, Lord, that we're not forgotten, that you're with us, no matter how small we feel.

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Just pray for our area here in eastern Idaho, so much suicide among us.

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the young people, Lord, would you just draw them to yourself? Let them know, Lord, they're valued by

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you. You love them. You have a plan for their life. Lord, they can't even imagine. Lord, would you

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rescue them out of that darkness and those lives? So, Father, we just love you. We praise you.

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And pray that you'd be with us this week, that we would walk in your ways and that we would have your

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will be done in each one of our lives. In Jesus' name, amen.