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All right
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How was worship this morning
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Fantastic
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I uh I had an interesting mix I could only hear my own voice
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Um So I’m
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I was by faith uh believing that everyone was was blessed and the Lord was receiving wonderful worship So
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if you heard my uh shaker playing then uh you know that I could not hear anything back there
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So
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my title of the message this morning is making heart health a priority
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I’m launching a new line of supplements And
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so I have uh
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I have whittled down my notes this morning to 13 pages so that I don’t wander too far a field
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So
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when do we get right into it Heavenly Father we just thank you and praise you Lord We just give you uh honor and glory Lord And we ask you this morning God as the as the word comes forth that you would uh anoint these lips Lord God
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and speak What’s on your heart for the people of life springs uh and those watching by uh by video and and uh later on podcast
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speak to our hearts Heavenly Father
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Let me just give you thanks and praise Almighty God Amen
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Uh So some of the things I want to share this morning have been ruminating in my heart for a year
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And this is the first time that I’ve I’ve preached on some of them
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And then uh there’s also a few things that have uh that God has been stirring and building within me for uh
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24 years So
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point number one today is that looks can be deceiving
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So how many of you know who DEMAR Hamlin is
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Yes he’s a he’s a safety for the Buffalo Bills and the NFL and they were uh
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on January 2nd gearing up for a very important game to decide who was going to make the playoffs And he had a fairly routine football hit and dropped dead of cardiac arrest on the field on Monday night football
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life television coverage
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He was dead for about 10 minutes while they performed CPR and pulled the defibrillator out and brought him back
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The level of physical fitness required to be an elite athlete in the NFL is very high
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These are the best of the best
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Uh I forget what percentage of NCAA college athletes actually make it to the NFL but it’s you know something like 1% It’s he’s the best of the best
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um
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passed all of his physicals and everything looked great on the outside
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Meanwhile he had underneath under the hood an undiagnosed and invisible heart condition
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and I would submit to you that There are many people walking around in God’s church today who have everything outwardly looking great
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and have an invisible heart condition
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And it’s not your job to search it out It’s between them and the Lord But I would ask you to search your own hearts this morning and to be cognizant of uh of appearances we as a as a human beings are obsessed with appearances This is not new It’s always been this way
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You can go back to the garden and the uh you saw that that apple was pleasing
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you know pleasing to the eye and good for food
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Samuel the prophet was sent to Jesse son of obed to choose the next king
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of Israel to replace Saul
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And even he got fooled because Jesse brought his sons out and array them in in in line And Samuel thought to himself here’s a you know a handsome tall you know strapping young guy He looks very kingly It’s gotta be him
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And God said no
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he’s not the one
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and neither is that one And they went on down the road until God rejected them all And
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God said to Samuel man looks on outward appearance
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but God looks where
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at the heart Yes
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And so it is uh to this day in Jesus day the Matthew 15 says the scribes and Pharisees came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders for They do not wash their hands when they eat
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How dare they
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for God commanded And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition
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For God commanded on oh excuse me
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I skipped to the very important part We’re now on to Jesus and Jesus answered them with a question
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One good question deserves another in the rabbinical uh tradition
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And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition For God commanded honor your father and mother and whoever reviles father and mother must surely die
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But you say if anyone tells his father or mother what you would have gained from me is given to God
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He need not honor his father So for the sake of your tradition you have made void the word of God You hypocrites
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Well did Isaiah prophesy of you when he said this people honors me with their lips
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But there are what
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heart is far from me in vain Do they worship me teaching as doctrines of the commandments of men
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If you’re not familiar with uh the background of that story or what or that practice
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you could basically leave your worldly worldly wealth to the temple when you died
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when you declared that it became the lords
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in in practice right So you continued to enjoy the benefits of and fruits of your wealth yourself until you died
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While you left your parents hanging out to dry
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Basically So they said oh it’s a gift to God
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but they didn’t give it right Then they uh they it was at on on their death bequeathed to the temple So
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it was a wicked practice
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But outwardly they uh they sure love the law
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and Jesus turned away from rebuking the Pharisees and scribes to address the people And he called the people to him and said here and understand it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person but what comes out of the mouth This defiles a person Then the disciples came and said to him do you know that the Pharisees were offended When they heard this saying
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he answered every plant that my heavenly father has not planted will be rooted up let them alone They are blind to guides
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and if the blind lead the blind they shall both fall into a pit But Peter said to him explain the parable to us
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And he said are you also still without understanding
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Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled pretty basic uh
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gastrointestinal truth being revealed here
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But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart
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and this defiles a person
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for out of the heart come evil thoughts murder adultery sexual immorality theft false witness and slander These are what defile a person but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone
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by the way Isaiah 29 that we that Jesus quoted is uh where we get the phrase lip service
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and God is not interested in the lip service
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We are not being transformed
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by the renewing of our lips
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but by the mind the whole the whole person
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The next week after Jesus drove the money lenders from the temple
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A funny thing happened
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They left and then they’re coming back the next morning And
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as they returned to the city Jesus was hungry
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and seeing a fig tree by the road
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he came to it and found nothing on it but leaves
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and said to the fig tree
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because I because we always talk to the the plants right
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Let no fruit grow on you ever again Immediately the fig tree withered away and his disciples were amazed
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So the fig is a little unusual because it puts forth its fruit before the leaves And this being the time of Passover around April it should have had a couple of months worth of fruit on it
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And yet Jesus came to it
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and there’s fig leaves
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but no fruit
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Of course this is a parable of Israel
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That week Jesus spent the entire week pronouncing judgment on the city woe unto you
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How oh Jerusalem Jerusalem how I longed to gather you together as a hen gathered her chicks but you would not
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they would have none of it
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Jesus wasn’t just uh
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in a bad mood
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when he passed the fig tree it had the appearance of being fruitful
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and it was not So it was both an object lesson an allegory of Jerusalem as well as a lesson in prayer which he continued to teach from from that as well
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So it’s not what’s on the surface but it’s what’s underneath that’s important Paul prayed for the Ephesians that God would grant you according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit In the inner man
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Every one of us here this morning have an inner man
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and an outer man
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The outer man is what everyone else sees When they look at you
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the inner man
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is your heart and your soul and those parts of you that are unseen
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So how much time do you spend on the outer man
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in front of the mirror
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Working out
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bodily exercise profit little There is something there but Godliness is profitable in all things
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I I think of that uh
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scene from Zoolander where uh
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he has this epiphany this awakening in in uh he says uh
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I’m beginning to realize
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that there might be more to life than being really really really ridiculously good looking
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Hey everybody comes everybody comes along at their own speed right
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Matthew 23 then speak Jesus to the multitude and to his disciples saying the scribes and Pharisees sit in moses’ seat
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all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe that observe and do
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but do not Ye after their works for they say
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and do not
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for They bind heavy burdens and grieve us to be born and lay them on men’s shoulders But they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers But all their works they do for to be seen of men
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the outer man
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the other man’s walking tall living large outwardly
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they got it going on
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But all their works they do for to be seen of men They make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments and love the uppermost rooms at feasts and the chief seats in the synagogues
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and greetings in the markets and to be called of men Rabbi rabbi
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a few verses later woe to you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you tithe mint and dill in in common and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law justice and mercy and faithfulness
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But these are things you should have done without neglecting the others
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You blind guides who strain out a net and swallow a camel Do you scribes in Pharisees hypocrites
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Get this for you Clean the outside of the cup and of the dish
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But inside they are full of robbery and self indulgence You blind pharisee first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish so that the outside of it may become clean Also
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what do you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites You are like whitewashed tombs
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which on the outside appear beautiful
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but inside they’re full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness So you too outwardly appear righteous to men but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness
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Ouch
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All right So that’s the leaders of Israel
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And uh
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what do you talk about in church to get people really riled up
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money OK
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Jesus uh Jesus said no servant can serve two masters for either he either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other You cannot serve God and mammon
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the money system
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and the Pharisees also who were covetous heard all these things and they derided him
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of all the things to uh to get upset about that seems pretty straightforward there But they took it personally
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where your treasure is there Will your heart be also
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And he said unto them ye are they which justify yourselves before men
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But God knoweth your hearts God knoweth your hearts
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for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God
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Wow that’s a mouthful right there
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What is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God That’s why it says elsewhere Beware when men speak well of you
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because Jesus said if they persecuted me they’re gonna persecute you
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And
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on the flip side of that he said if they believed my words they will also believe yours
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So you and I we don’t have the power to see into people’s hearts Only God sees what’s in the heart Jesus gave the parable of the wheat and the tears that a man sowed his field and an enemy came at night
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and sowed weeds
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among them
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When the blade was sprung up and brought forth fruit then appeared the tears So the servants of the householder came and said to him sir did so so good seed and thy field from tears And he said to them an enemy had done this
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The servant said will thou then that we go and gather them up
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He said no let both grow together until the harvest And in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers gather ye together first the tears and bind them in bundles to burn them and gather the weed into my barn
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The Apostle Paul was uh was dealing with some some foolishness as well in the early church where uh people were picking picking sides and they uh they had their favorites and there was a foolish disputes and and rival factions arguing about whether Paul was better or Apollos was better And so Paul brought correction to them
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and they were you know speaking ill of Paul some of them he said but with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by a human court In fact I do not even judge myself for I know of nothing against myself yet I am not justified by this In other words his conscience was clear He was not aware of anything before God
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but he’s not the ultimate judge of himself He confesses but he who judges me is the Lord Therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord comes
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who will bring to light who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the councils of the hearts
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Then each one’s praise will come from God
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So we can’t see the heart God will reveal the heart
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and something that I’ve something that I’ve run into personally
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is legalism
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And uh I know a lot about legalism because I used to be one of those
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I used to love being God’s policeman in the earth
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I was I was like Holy Spirit junior I was going around convicting everyone a sin and I was setting setting the setting things in order
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on God’s behalf doing him a solid
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forgive me Lord
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So legalism um
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legal legalism is is this there’s many applications many manifestations it can be subtle or it can be in your face overt but it’s the separation or removal of God’s law
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from God The law giver
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making it its own its own thing
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in the subtle form It just isolates the dos and don’t
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and makes the religious practice uh the center
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it makes those things uh uh most important It’s it’s an external uh it’s focused on externals
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and this kind of obedience to the law When you separate out the law giver it’s cold it’s dry
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it’s lifeless
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and it’s divorced from the broader context of of the love and grace that formed the covenant under which the law was given
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to everybody Understand
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so that it’s separating out or isolating the rules from the rule giver
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another subtle manifestation of legalism
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Paul talks about in Romans eight and it’s the letter versus the Spirit
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Jesus addresses in the sermon on the Mount
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where he pointed out the
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the foolishness or the fallacy of saying in my heart that you know I’m a good person because I haven’t committed adultery
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Jesus said if you look on a woman to lust after her you’ve already committed adultery in your what
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In your heart Yeah And I’m a I’m a pretty good person Uh I’m you know keeping God’s law because I I haven’t murdered anyone You know
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if you harbor hatred toward your brother in your heart then you are a murderer in your heart
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Wow
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we’re always we’re always tempted to look for loopholes and technicalities so that we can justify ourselves and stay within the letter Teenagers are really good at this So so I know because I I was one
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and it’s hard to believe But
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yes I used to be your age Um
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Yeah
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the letter of the law kills the Bible says but the Spirit gives life
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a third kind of legalism
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is probably more common and it’s deadly really Uh And thank God that he delivered me from some of the foolishness of this But
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it’s when we add our own rules
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to the law of God
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and then we treat it as divine
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Well
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sometimes we go so far as to make those things that we’ve added to God’s law salvation issues
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Um Actually this week I was uh I was raked over the coals for uh
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well indirectly I was I was in a a chat about the gift of tongues
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right And this was a uh
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these were mostly Calvinists uh chiming in and a lot of them cessations And so uh there were there were some harsh words one guy in particular uh chimed in and I was like hey you know to
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who are you to judge another man’s servant
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to his own master He stands are false
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So basically I was able to quote Paul the apostle to him but
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that that looking at other people and and judging them based on a standard that God has not made the standard Remember what happened in the early church when they were trying to figure out if all these gentiles that were coming in and getting saved
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needed to obey the 613 commandments and civil and ceremonial laws And that
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and there was a dispute that arose and finally when it was settled Peter reported back and said it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us
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to lay no greater burden upon these new believers than to avoid sexual sexual immorality To avoid eating meat sacrificed to idols and meat with the blood still in it
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Cook your food
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man That’s pretty lax Right
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I mean compare you know compared to what the Jews had been living under
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um that had to be the the Lord impressing that upon them because that you know to the Jews Um
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you know to bring these these gentiles in I mean they’re already you know unclean and get away from me And and you know
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um
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we can quickly by adding to God’s law we can become um
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as my uh
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as my old youth pastor And uh and uh late brother in law used to say we can become more orthodox than God
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as if God forgot a few things and and like I said we play Holy Spirit junior and we’re going to go set everybody straight The result of that mindset is that we Rob
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are brothers and sisters of the freedom that they have in Christ
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and we sow division and strife
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among the Kingdom of God
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And we know that you know from Proverbs that’s one of one thing that God hates is he who separates close friends and and brothers
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you Paul had a thorn in the flesh
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Some people think that Paul thorn in the flesh was an eye disease or what not That’s not my theory II I
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the old Testament uses thorn in the flesh to describe persecutors
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If you don’t if you don’t go into the land that I’ve given you and drive out the people that are the inhabitants and you let them stay
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uh They will be a thorn in your flesh and said right So that’s
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so I take the thorn in Paul’s flesh to mean the jude is that followed him from city to city undermining his message Imagine I get finished preaching today and I sit down and immediately somebody comes and grabs the microphone and undo everything that I said
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be kind of frustrating right
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And that’s what Paul was dealing with in addition to being stoned and shipwrecked and you know and all the other
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thrown to the wild animals
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Uh and all the things that they did to uh our dear brother
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Um
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Man
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there were people always trying to bring him under bondage I wanna read Colossians chapter two
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uh starting verse 13 2nd yeah clauses chapter two
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And you this is a freedom passage here
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and you being dead in your sins In the un circumcision of your flesh He has resurrected together with him having forgiven you all sins He blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us and contrary to us and he took it out of the way nailing it to the cross
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and having disarmed authorities and powers He made a show of them openly triumphing over them by the cross
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what handwriting of ordinance ordinances was against
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the Jews
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is both the law and the traditions of the Jewish system
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They were they had the sentence of death hanging over them for having broken all of those things And Jesus delivered them from the condemnation that came via the law
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Therefore
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let no one judge you
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regarding food or drink or in respect of a holy day or a new moon or Sabbath days
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These are shadows of things to come but the substance belongs to Christ
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Do not let anyone cheat you out of your reward
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by delighting in false humility in the worship of angels dwelling on those things which he has not seen vainly arrogant to do to his unspiritual mind and not supporting the head from which the entire body nourished and knit together by joints and sinews grows as God gives the increase
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Therefore if you died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world those rudimentary principles are essentially the same thing It was the the rules and the uh the old system under which they stood condemned
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Why as if you were living in the world do you subject yourself to legalistic rules Do not touch do not taste do not handle
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These all are to perish with use and are aligned with the commandments and doctrines of men These things have indeed a show of wisdom in self imposed worship and humility and neglecting of the body but are worthless against the indulgence of the flesh
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So
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adopting a uh
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an aesthetic lifestyle a uh a spartan kind of attitude toward uh holiness where I’m going to abstain from all these things You know that’s great if you wish to do that to you know buffet your body and keep it under subjection
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But it’s not thus sayeth the Lord
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right Those things are are not law to you unless you know unless God speaks to you God can uh
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can deal with us directly as sons
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and daughters
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So I I fully realize that uh this is not a disclaimer this is kind of a
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just a confession I fully realize that I’m probably wrong about a great many things that I believe
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Now I don’t know what things are because I wouldn’t you know I wouldn’t believe those things if I knew that I was mistaken right But I I expect one day that I will stand before God
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and as God reveals himself and I am in his presence and I am learning throughout eternity that I will find a you know a great many things that I was mistaken about right
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And I hope you understand too that you know when we’re all standing before the Lord someday every one of us is gonna go through that process
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So that when I think about that it uh you know it it kind of forces some humility
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in there
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We’re always changing and learning
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And uh I think
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when you remind yourself of that you’ll be less dogmatic
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about the things that you believe
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I I try to avoid uh stating things in such a way that you know if I went to meet the Lord I’d be embarrassed
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you know had
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somebody I disagree with has beliefs about God that I just don’t think you know if God was like that I wouldn’t serve him you know I mean
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got to be careful making making statements like that because
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there were there are mysteries and there are paradoxes
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All right So the fruit of legalism
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is that you are again placed under bondage
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So why do we uh why do we why do we place these bondage on ourselves
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I think one reason is that it’s easier to sow fig leaves
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over our nakedness than it is to deal with the things
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What happened when Adam sinned
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God shows up Adam where are you
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He hid and he didn’t just hide He took fig leaves
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I wonder I wonder Jesus cursed that tree
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A Adam hid Adam hid his sin behind fig leaves
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essentially
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OK Maybe that’s a stretch But uh
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seems like a good connection to me But
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but it’s easier to sew fig leaves over our sin and shame than to deal with the evil that’s in our hearts
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I think another reason why we why we fall victim to legalism
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is the um
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for many of us maybe for all of us it’s difficult to receive
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a gift a free gift
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We want to contribute something
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or you feel the weight of your sin and what you’ve been delivered from And you still feel like you feel
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like you need to do some pennant
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a self imposed
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self imposed you know self flagellation to add to what Christ did
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can’t do that
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There is nothing to add to what Christ has done It is a free gift
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Um
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Yeah uh Michael Pearl uh who is the one who did uh founded the No Greater Joy Ministries
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uh which is a child training ministry Uh He tells the story of
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he’s an artist also and and from time to time has supported himself by selling art and he would go to flea markets and shows and sell these things Well he had a painting that was I don’t know $50.75 dollars
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And there was a young man who came in over the course of the weekend and was looking at this painting and admiring it and then he’d leave he’d come back and look at it again It clearly he you know was enamored with this thing And on the last day they they talked and uh
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and he said hey I you know I see you admiring the the painting and they talked about it and he’s like oh man I would absolutely love to have this you know it deeply impacted me And uh but you know there’s no way I can afford that
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And so uh Michael said well I want to give it to you
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and the guy was blown away
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Wow thank you
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And uh
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what does he do He reaches for his wallet and he starts pulling out some change and he said I only have I think I only have like $17
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Well it’s not $17 it’s $75
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But I
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but you you know you were gonna he goes no if you want to pay for it it’s $75
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What would uh what would Mrs Pearl Debbie Pearl say if Michael came home without his painting that day And oh I see you sold you know you sold a big painting there Uh
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Yeah I sold it for $17
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That was stupid What did you do that for you You’re a terrible businessman maybe a good artist but a terrible businessman taking the laws like that you know painting is not cheap You spent a long time on that
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You see what happens when we try to add our own
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to what Jesus has done We we cheapen it and infinitely So you know this is a very finite uh allegory that I’m sharing
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the chasm that we couldn’t cross is immeasurable to get to God and to be reconciled
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And I think that’s one of the reasons why uh legalism has this appeal to us is there’s a
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if we can add some things that you know
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you know buffet our flesh or uh where we can expend our energies to get there
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Hm
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The disciples uh tried to rain down fire on the hecklers
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as Jesus preached
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And he said that
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you know not spirit you know not what spirit you are of
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And uh today the church of Jesus Christ
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the men’s meeting last night somebody said you know keep your powder dry
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And I was thinking my my thought was uh man the church has expended We don’t have any powder to keep dry We’ve spent it all on each other
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back biting and criticizing and being jealous and attacking each other
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You know we deserve whatever judgment might come to America from the hand of God If for no other reason than to wake us up It’s been said the trouble with Christians is that nobody is trying to kill them anymore So at least in America
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and the rest of the world they’re not so lucky but the church is growing and thriving in
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many of many of those places
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And then sometimes we get a hold of a truth
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that God reveals to us
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And we want to build an altar there
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and build doctrine build you know a whole system of doctrine upon that truth I have I have
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a couple a couple of friends that I’m thinking of right now who you don’t know them
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who God showed them something and he downloaded something and their man when they were telling me about it They were so excited Uh And it meant so much to them
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I was like wow when you know when did he show you this you know 08 years ago
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and they were still there and they were interpreting everything through the lens of of that one revelation
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And they had you know spiritually they had built an altar there and were stuck in that place
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missing what God might have for them in addition to it And I I think that we are sometimes guilty of that too We get a hold of a a word a timely word from the Lord And we think oh you know I’ve I’ve arrived you know this is this is the rosetta stone for all that uh that I will ever encounter in in the world and in life
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Hm
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Ok
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let’s talk about let’s talk about kids
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So uh when Rochelle and I got married
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I tell people we had
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we had four different theories
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on child training
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I mean we had it all planned out We had all you know now we have four kids and no theories So
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I was they didn’t come out with instructions and it really threw me for a loop
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I had to figure it out
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So
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when we train up our Children you know I’m I’m from the home school community Um and then you know eventually our kids went to private school but we home schooled exclusively for uh
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until was 14 So like 16 years
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I guess if you can home school infants I’m counting them
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And so that’s you know that’s kind of where our uh background was where we cut our teeth and things that worked and things that didn’t work
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And
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there’s a great article a series of articles that Michael and Debbie Pearl put out with their ministry called Jumping Ship
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And they talk about you know this was I think it was written in 2005 Uh So at that point you had
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you the home school movement had really taken off in the in the starting in the eighties and and uh and into the nineties And so you had about 30 years of you know of good
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uh empirical evidence right about how you know how this home schooling is gonna turn out and and what uh kind of people they’re gonna be and
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and uh you know by and large it was an enormous success But there were those families
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who as soon as their kid turned 15 they you know moved in with the girlfriend down the street they went they left home and got all kinds of piercings and rebelled in every way that they could think of
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And these parents were writing letters to the Pearl saying what did we what did we do wrong You know why is this happening to me We did everything right
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I wanna read a read a short excerpt here of uh
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a letter that uh
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a letter that they received
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Uh yeah that’s the problem of having 13 pages of notes
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Yeah
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Where can a family go to save their Children
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Escaping from the world is like escaping from your own skin while we peer behind us Hoping to have eluded the enemy We discover that he’s standing in our shoes
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Many Christian families have been very careful to protect their Children only to discover that the devil is in the air we breathe the food we eat and even in the sex organs of a 13 year old
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many parents have had their faith shaken
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We didn’t watch television
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we didn’t associate with sinners
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We taught our Children Christian principles Why didn’t it work
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It is almost as though Christians are believing the leftist propaganda This uh William James uh father of modern psychology said that the your uh
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destiny will be determined by your heredity your education or training and your environment
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right Completely discounting free will
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which we know is bunk because
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jesus’ own brothers and sisters didn’t believe in him They were offended at him and he marveled at their unbelief
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two times in the in the Bible It says Jesus marveled
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One of them was at great faith where it shouldn’t have been and the other one was no faith where it should have been the strongest Jesus Christ was the offspring of of Joseph and Mary If you chase her genealogies back talk about coming from good stock
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man all the way back to you know King David And
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what was the environment like being raised in a household with Jesus Christ
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I mean you probably had fights with your siblings growing up you know rivalries and whatever
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and fights but you’re raised in a home with Jesus Christ
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You know
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if he if he didn’t walk out holiness before them then he’s not the Lord right I mean you know how how Jesus behaved in front of him what an example was if he didn’t teach them truth he would have been in sin right
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I mean
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you can’t find better heredity and
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better environment and and teaching than
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what was in the household of Jesus
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And yet
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they didn’t believe so
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It is almost as though Christians are believing the leftist propaganda that environment And here are the factors that determine a person’s behavior Parents seem to believe that they can condition their Children into being good Christians by protecting them and teaching Christian principles
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Reality has proven that old premise to be false saved them from corrupt influences and they will never corrupt
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We think that if we shelter properly
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that we can construct a perfect Christian environment
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in which our Children are guaranteed to grow up and and never go astray
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and it just doesn’t work like that
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Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden
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They only they only had 11 law
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because God couldn’t give them half a law
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Talk about lenience leniency I mean in in the beginning
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God had a government and he had two subjects and
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in order to make sure that they would let God be God
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and
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you know and and then be man he gave them half a law you know or whole law I guess whole law don’t don’t eat from you eat from any tree in the garden but not from this one
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If Adam and Eve fell in that environment what chance do we have to create a perfect you know
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garden in which to you know
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that’s not to say that we shouldn’t protect our Children
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We certainly should There are responsibilities as a parent
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don’t take them to uh transvestite you know drag queen shows
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um for example
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but your kids are going to encounter things when they go in the world And so to the extent that they can understand
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you prepare them for the evil that they’re going to face If you read the Bible you’re gonna learn about evil I mean there’s some some pretty gross sin that happened
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and and the Bible doesn’t sugar coat it it just presents it you know as it happened
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and you know as your kids get into the word they’ll they’ll discover things But
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I uh when I was a youth pastor here I would always tell the youth that sin is not
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something that lives on the internet It’s not something sin doesn’t live in a tent on your lawn You know waiting for you to come out the front door so it can nab you
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It’s not in the pages of a magazine but sin dwells in your
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members It says in Romans
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sin dwells and works in your members The Bible personifies sin
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It uh it talks about sin as if it’s an enemy And when my kids were little one of the things that I tried to tell them you know the rod and reproof give wisdom
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So not just whoops
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you don’t want to be you want to be just a bully You want to be an impartial
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judge that’s enforcing a law that supersedes you know
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just your uh your whims and your uh
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you’re fancy
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But I would explain to my kids that you have an enemy
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lives in your members
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Sin
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Sin is crouching at your door God said to Abel it desires to have you
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you must master it
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And so I think that that had
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you know my reasoning and explaining that to them was that uh when they should encounter temptation and fail morally and sin
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that instead of just beating themselves up we could get mad at the devil together
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right
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And sin becomes an enemy that you’ve defeated at the cross
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When you are united with Jesus in his death and baptized into him you are free from sin
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And that is the sense in which you are free from sin
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So
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we make a mistake when we try to
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create an outward righteousness in our Children
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Do this say these things go here
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and you’ll be OK
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You’ve got if you’re going to pass the baton from one generation to the next you’ve got to have their heart
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when they sin Are they afraid to come to mom and dad
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Because
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I really want to run and hide Right But get the fig leaf
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I don’t want to come into the light
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and there’s because no one likes to be humiliated
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There’s shame I mean kids know when they do wrong they know when they’ve crossed the line the border they’re more sensitive probably than we are because their consciences are you know their newly developed consciences are like you know spring green and sensitive and
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they don’t want to be humiliated They don’t want to tell you something that’s going to make you fly off the handle and and you know
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they don’t wanna they don’t wanna face that expression on your face I remember uh uh brother Mike to pastor Mike His testimony of when he got saved
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that it just it really stuck with me that in his heart He said
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I would die before I tell anybody what I’ve been up to
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and God God read his mail
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and that’s partly why he’s here today and and uh
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but that that idea that you know
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I would rather die than have anybody know what’s going on in here
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makes us walk in darkness
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And this is a condemnation that they love darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil
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and they did not want to come into the light and have their deeds exposed Right Well your own kids deal with those things too And so you wanna make sure that you have their heart and resist that temptation
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to uh to pummel your Children with shame
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at that young age right Because they they need to develop a habit of coming to you know mom and dad with with things that they’re going through All right Uh do me a favor A little exercise here
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I want everyone to look at this cross up here
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for 10 seconds Stare right at the center of it Don’t move your eyes don’t blink stare right at the middle of it 10 seconds Nine
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eight
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seven
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six
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five
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four
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All right Nobody close your eyes
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Do you see it
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You see it on your eyelids
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If you if you saw it you can open your eyes
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the rest of you Uh keep trying until I’m done No I’m just kidding
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So if we if we will fix our eyes on the author and perfecter of our faith
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there’s a quote that I encountered recently that I just thought was phenomenal That’s from a Dutch theologian
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GC Bur Bur Bur Hoover So I don’t know how to pronounce that but
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it goes like this the essence of Christian theology is grace and the essence of Christian ethics is gratitude
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What is meant by Christian ethics
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how you should behave how I should behave the dos and don’t
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of the Christian life
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Gratitude
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Gratitude is at the center of that
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When we think on
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the Lord Jesus and we think about what he’s done for us the sufferings of the cross We’re coming into Easter season soon and we’ll have we’ll have sermons and we’ll hear things about the suffering the passion of the Christ Maybe you’ll pull out Mel Gibson’s movie and watch it I don’t know
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But when you look upon
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the risen lamb and you think of think upon the character of God and what he’s done
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It’s hard for gratitude not to well up within you One of my favorite worship songs is a song by Christie Knock
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Uh She and her husband Nathan Knuckles uh produced some of the passion worship C DS and she sings on some of those
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It’s called If you never
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And it goes uh If you never did another thing for me it would always be enough that you set me free
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would always be enough that you gave your life
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Jesus you are mine
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And man that’s
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I feel like that’s that’s where I wanna be where
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I’m not always coming to God
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like he’s my big sugar daddy and I need dust and dust But I want to come to God
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and say Lord if I never get another thing from your hand
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I have enough
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You’ve you’ve done enough
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and I don’t need to crawl on my hands and knees you know 50 miles you know to earn
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anything It’s the weight of that gift and and where I was and
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you know a lot of people would you know would look at me and think you know you really weren’t that bad
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but somebody who says that either either hasn’t
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come to the Lord and felt the weight of their sin or they they just regard sin as a mere trifle That’s no big deal
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In either case it’s time for that for someone who believes that to be broken up by
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um you know to fall upon the the cornerstone
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uh because one day
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will all be broken before God And as Jesus put it
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either you’ll fall upon the cornerstone and be broken or the cornerstone will fall upon you and you’ll be crushed
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His exact words it will grind grind that man to powder
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So I don’t want that for anybody
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Certainly certainly don’t want it for myself And I don’t want anybody to have to go through that but to fall upon the rock and be broken
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That’s the gratitude that we should have
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Um one more uh one more scripture
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and this is my uh key text for today
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God’s plan of salvation
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involved
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taking us you know the Israelites and making them
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a peculiar people setting them apart through the laws the civil and ceremonial laws he called them his own people and he gave special revelation to them
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What advantage is is there in being a Jew much in every way for them were committed The oracles of God right So they had an exclusive relationship
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God’s plan was to take them through that to point them
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to Christ and to point the world
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to Christ when they see them
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one way to understand evangelism or
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centrifugal force is uh
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the drawing in force If I take something a rock on a string and I spin it around
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The centrifugal force is the rock
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centripetal force in the Old Testament I always get this too confused but there’s a force that the string is exerting on the rock it’s pulling it inward So it goes in orbit
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in the Old Testament God
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would bring in the stranger in the sojourner
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There were people in the lineage of Jesus like uh rehab the Harle
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and others who were not even Israelites you know they were mobs and others that were brought in and drawn in and made part of it And it was a centripetal in the New Testament It’s centrifugal
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and God has sent us out in the kingdom of God the rock hewn without hands smashed the Kingdoms of the world and is growing to fill the whole earth And I believe that’s where we are now not to get into end times
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If I haven’t said enough controversial stuff already I better stop there
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in the end game The purpose of all of it This is God’s will for us First Timothy 15 Now the purpose of the commandment
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is love from a pure heart
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from a good conscience and from sincere faith
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And that is what God is after God is after your heart and mind Not
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the the one who gave the law
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later said
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Do I delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices No
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Well you told us to do them God Yes But that’s not that wasn’t the point They were to point you to
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they were to break your heart Number one over your own sin but they were to point to the one who is to come
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And that is why they were instituted to make them The point is to miss the point
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God is after our hearts
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So will you pray with me
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Heavenly Father as we think upon your word Lord as we uh I just remember all that you’ve done is we took communion today Lord God
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we just wanna we just wanna uh be uh open before you Lord God
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We want to bear our hearts before you Lord As the psalmist said if there be any offensive way in me Lord
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come and reveal it Lord God by your heart
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forgive me If I’ve added to your words Lord
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and uh just come and uh and dwell Lord God let there be nothing nothing that would hinder
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my relationship with you Lord And I pray that for everyone here Lord God let us be open books Lord epistles read by all men Let us walk in the light Lord God willing to be seen as we are
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and to come to you Lord Jesus and uh and receive all that you have for us Lord God we just give you thanks and praise Uh Thank you for your word today Uh multiply it Lord and uh made the seed that you planted in us through your word Bear much fruit
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in Jesus Mighty name Amen
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brother Mine
Speaker#2:
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Hey man what a great word
Speaker#2:
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So uh God there’s not much to add to that other than just thank you for for that word Alan Really um really really just been um on my heart a lot of the stuff how God just rich said something about it last night about returning back to your to your first love And uh but also
Speaker#2:
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seeing God who he is now in the relationship he wants to do with us now It’s great to look back at the what what he started but what he wants to do today And I really really I just feel his drawing for us to him in in a way that maybe we haven’t seen
Speaker#2:
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And uh I’m I’m I’m so excited I’m so excited Let’s just pray Lord We thank you for your word again I I I’m praying that again We’re just so thankful for it as you’re wooing us uh Lord to you And uh I I thank you for your heart is over flowing for your church and for the everyone here and father I pray a blessing on
Speaker#2:
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in here Lord help us to to uh see the new things Lord that you wanna show us Uh Lord maybe help us to uh uh uh forget some things and but and but be re reveal us some truths that maybe we haven’t looked at or maybe we’ve seen for the first time or thank you for that Lord and thank you for your thank you for your holy spirit who leads us and guides us into all truth Father thank you for this church Thank you for this body Thank you for the church in general
Speaker#2:
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And we say all this in the mighty name of Jesus Amen Amen So guys if um uh right now where if the prayer teams wanna come up guys if you want prayer please come up Uh There’ll be people up here praying for you If you need to go get something to eat or something like that go on the peace of the Lord And uh thank you for coming to life Springs Amen Bless you all
