1 00:00:06,410 --> 00:00:10,300 But we thank you this morning for every remembrance of you and 2 00:00:10,310 --> 00:00:15,070 of your Son and Father God. We thank you that those of us 3 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:19,550 who have trusted in you as our own Saviour could say this with 4 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:23,050 Paul in the book of Galatians, that we have been crucified with 5 00:00:23,060 --> 00:00:27,870 Christ. And so far this morning, this 6 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:32,759 occasion that we have had a rod around your table, the bread, 7 00:00:32,830 --> 00:00:38,330 the cup that we have taken, ohh. God reminds us of the fact that 8 00:00:38,340 --> 00:00:41,610 Christ has been crucified on our behalf and we or Lord God have 9 00:00:41,620 --> 00:00:45,210 been crucified with him. So we thank you, Lord God, for 10 00:00:45,220 --> 00:00:48,860 the life that we now have in our Lord Jesus Christ, and as Paul 11 00:00:48,870 --> 00:00:52,570 says, for the life that we live, we live for him, for the Son of 12 00:00:52,580 --> 00:00:55,270 man who loved us and gave himself for us. 13 00:00:55,680 --> 00:00:58,510 So Father God, what a privilege this morning to be able to come 14 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,810 into your presence to remember what your Son our Lord and 15 00:01:02,820 --> 00:01:05,400 Saviour our Lord Jesus Christ has done for us. 16 00:01:07,180 --> 00:01:12,810 And Father God, we pray a Lord, this morning as we now read your 17 00:01:12,820 --> 00:01:15,860 word and as Billy speaks to us from your word. 18 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:21,310 Lord God, we pray that we through Your word become to know 19 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:24,430 you day by day more clearly and more dearly. 20 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:28,270 Or Lord, that He would speak to us, Father, through Your Word, 21 00:01:29,660 --> 00:01:32,050 that Your Word, the Lord, may have an impact in our hearts and 22 00:01:32,060 --> 00:01:33,730 our lives. We pray that You'll open up our 23 00:01:33,740 --> 00:01:37,670 understanding as we seek Your Word, and we play a lot for your 24 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:41,110 hand upon Billy as he speaks. Father God, that the words that 25 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,100 are spoken may be afraid, that the words that are spoken, the 26 00:01:44,110 --> 00:01:46,750 Lord may not return void as promised in the Scriptures. 27 00:01:47,970 --> 00:01:50,590 We also thank you, Father, for our Sunday School kids. 28 00:01:50,650 --> 00:01:54,440 Each and everyone of them are not player for each of those 29 00:01:54,450 --> 00:01:57,180 children. Is that they too, Lord, may come 30 00:01:57,190 --> 00:02:00,990 around under Your word this morning, that they alone, 31 00:02:01,060 --> 00:02:03,120 through Your Word and through all of the activities in the 32 00:02:03,130 --> 00:02:06,270 Sunday School, we get to know You that much more dearly. 33 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:09,889 And our prayer is for each and everyone of those kids as they 34 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:13,450 grow up to not only come to know you personally, but grow up a 35 00:02:13,460 --> 00:02:16,380 lot in the ways of the Lord to be tremendous men and women for 36 00:02:16,390 --> 00:02:18,560 the Lord. We thank you for us and the 37 00:02:18,570 --> 00:02:21,920 school teachers and for the commitment that they have made. 38 00:02:21,970 --> 00:02:25,450 We pray, Father, that you will bless them this morning as they 39 00:02:25,460 --> 00:02:29,380 interact and as they share your world with these Sunday School 40 00:02:29,390 --> 00:02:31,710 kids. So, Father, once again we thank 41 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:34,140 you for the morning that you've given us, and we commit this 42 00:02:34,150 --> 00:02:37,680 time once again into your hands and save us, precious, and in 43 00:02:37,690 --> 00:02:43,350 his worthy name, Amen. I mean, good morning, Church. 44 00:02:44,270 --> 00:02:47,600 Hey, open with me to the Book of Luke chapter 6. 45 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:55,650 We're gonna be in Luke Chapter 6, continuing on where we are in 46 00:02:55,660 --> 00:03:01,580 our series and the book of Luke. And in the last two weeks we 47 00:03:01,590 --> 00:03:05,250 have been looking at a specific section in the book of Luke, 48 00:03:05,340 --> 00:03:08,290 which is the sermon that Jesus gives, which we call the sermon 49 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:11,030 on the plane. You'd see the same or similar 50 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,290 sermon in Matthew chapter 5 through 7. 51 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:16,950 It's assuming that Jesus gives and he brings to his disciples 52 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:18,930 and a group of people who were listening. 53 00:03:18,940 --> 00:03:22,510 And this morning we are going to finish off that section of Luke 54 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:26,520 the sermon that Jesus preached. And, and simply as we've been 55 00:03:26,530 --> 00:03:30,070 seeing the summon, Jesus is showing us the life of a 56 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,190 believer. What is the the life of a 57 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,600 Christian? The life of a follower of Jesus. 58 00:03:34,610 --> 00:03:38,000 What does it look like compared to the way that the world lives? 59 00:03:38,290 --> 00:03:39,840 So let's read this morning's passage. 60 00:03:39,850 --> 00:03:43,620 We're going to be in verse 37 through to the end of chapter 6, 61 00:03:43,630 --> 00:03:46,540 verse 49. We're mainly this morning. 62 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,980 We're going to focus in on mainly versus 41 and 42, but 63 00:03:50,990 --> 00:03:52,120 we're going to read the whole passage. 64 00:03:52,930 --> 00:03:55,140 This is this. This is the words of our Lord. 65 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,810 Judge not and you will not be judged. 66 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:01,860 Condemn not, and you will not be condemned. 67 00:04:02,660 --> 00:04:04,350 Forgive and you will be forgiven. 68 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:07,110 Give and it will be given to you. 69 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,670 Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, 70 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,270 will be put into your lap, for with the measure you use it will 71 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:17,920 be measured back to you. He also told them a parable. 72 00:04:18,350 --> 00:04:20,339 Can a blind man lead a blind man? 73 00:04:20,410 --> 00:04:22,300 Will they not both fall into a pit? 74 00:04:22,870 --> 00:04:26,200 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is 75 00:04:26,210 --> 00:04:28,180 fully trained, will be like his teacher. 76 00:04:29,090 --> 00:04:33,040 Why do you see the spick that is in your brother's eye but do not 77 00:04:33,050 --> 00:04:35,070 notice the log that is in your own eye? 78 00:04:35,860 --> 00:04:38,470 How can you say to your brother, brother, let me take out the 79 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:42,870 speck that is in your your eye when you yourself do not see the 80 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:47,270 log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, First take the 81 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:49,990 log out of your own eye, and then you'll see clearly. 82 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,770 To take the spec, take out the spec that is in your brother's 83 00:04:52,780 --> 00:04:55,600 eye. For no good tree be as bad 84 00:04:55,610 --> 00:04:58,380 fruit, Nor again does a good or bad tree bear good fruit. 85 00:04:58,750 --> 00:05:01,600 For each tree is known by its own fruit. 86 00:05:02,030 --> 00:05:05,200 For figs are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor are grapes 87 00:05:05,210 --> 00:05:08,400 picked from a Bramble Bush. For good person out of the good 88 00:05:08,410 --> 00:05:12,590 treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of 89 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:15,630 his evil produces evil. For out of the abundance of his 90 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:19,740 heart, his mouth speaks. Why do you call me Lord, Lord 91 00:05:19,750 --> 00:05:23,010 and not do what I tell you? Everyone who comes to me and 92 00:05:23,020 --> 00:05:25,890 hears my words and does them, I'll show you what he's like. 93 00:05:25,980 --> 00:05:30,010 He's like a man building a house who dug deep and laid foundation 94 00:05:30,020 --> 00:05:32,550 on the rock. And when a flood arose, the 95 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,770 stream broke against that house and could not shake it because 96 00:05:35,780 --> 00:05:39,030 it had been well built. But the one who hears and does 97 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,530 not do them is like a man who built his house on the ground 98 00:05:41,620 --> 00:05:44,490 without a foundation. When the stream broke against 99 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:48,650 it, immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was 100 00:05:48,660 --> 00:05:52,750 great. I mean, well, last week, if you 101 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,700 remember back to last week, we looked at the passage before 102 00:05:55,710 --> 00:05:59,570 this and we, we looked at what Jesus had to say to us about 103 00:05:59,620 --> 00:06:02,190 love. And one thing we found, and we 104 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,930 spoke about it at the start is the world and the society around 105 00:06:05,940 --> 00:06:10,510 us loves love, at least what it thinks love is. 106 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,200 And Jesus had a, a different vision for love for us. 107 00:06:13,380 --> 00:06:15,870 But the world around us loves love. 108 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,310 And, and this week we're turning to this concept of judgement and 109 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:22,450 judging others. And if the world loves love, I 110 00:06:22,460 --> 00:06:24,960 think what we're going to see is the world hates judgement. 111 00:06:26,220 --> 00:06:29,660 The society around us hates any form of judgement. 112 00:06:29,670 --> 00:06:33,090 And in fact, I think in this passage, verse 37, we've got 113 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:37,510 what what is I think one of the most misunderstood verses in the 114 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,840 Bible, one of the most misunderstood. 115 00:06:40,850 --> 00:06:45,850 And it's probably widely known. Judged not, judge not. 116 00:06:45,860 --> 00:06:48,130 In fact, I think many, yeah, many people in society are 117 00:06:48,140 --> 00:06:50,380 familiar with this verse. Maybe you've heard someone quote 118 00:06:50,390 --> 00:06:52,340 it to you. When when they find out you're a 119 00:06:52,350 --> 00:06:54,390 Christian. And maybe they find out some of 120 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,470 your views and they go, didn't Jesus say judge not? 121 00:06:58,940 --> 00:07:00,750 You said judge not. So you shouldn't really be 122 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,120 saying anything about the way I'm living. 123 00:07:03,190 --> 00:07:05,700 Or maybe someone else has made a comment about you and the way 124 00:07:05,710 --> 00:07:07,890 that you're living your life or some of the decisions you're 125 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:10,150 making. And this is kind of a wall you 126 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,350 put up. Well, what Jesus said judge not. 127 00:07:12,420 --> 00:07:14,970 Okay, so back off. You live your life. 128 00:07:14,980 --> 00:07:18,750 I'll, I'll, I'll live mine. And it's often said, and I think 129 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,630 it's important for us to understand the society we live 130 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,650 in. It doesn't really believe in 131 00:07:24,700 --> 00:07:27,620 truth. Some would call this we live in 132 00:07:27,630 --> 00:07:31,080 a post modern society, we live in a pluralist society. 133 00:07:31,150 --> 00:07:35,840 Essentially what what that means is that I think in our society 134 00:07:35,850 --> 00:07:39,560 that the the main view is no specific religion or no specific 135 00:07:39,570 --> 00:07:43,940 claim of truth can be seen as superior to any other claim. 136 00:07:44,490 --> 00:07:49,480 So simply there's no basis for truth, there's no standard for 137 00:07:49,490 --> 00:07:51,560 truth. And I think the outcome of that 138 00:07:51,630 --> 00:07:57,570 is any form of judgement is, is prohibited because there's no 139 00:07:57,580 --> 00:08:00,850 basis to make a judgement if there's no truth, if there's no 140 00:08:00,860 --> 00:08:04,390 common absolute truth, I have no basis to make any form of 141 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,620 judgement about the way you are living. 142 00:08:08,610 --> 00:08:11,990 You mind your business, all mine, my business. 143 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,370 You live your truth and and I'll live my truth. 144 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,150 I think it's inevitable that this kind of thinking, it seeps 145 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,850 into the church as well. It can be tempting to want to 146 00:08:21,860 --> 00:08:25,230 live as isolated Christians. I'll live my Christian walk. 147 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:27,930 You live your Christian walk. You don't comment on mine. 148 00:08:27,940 --> 00:08:32,370 I won't comment on on yours. But I think when I, when I look 149 00:08:32,380 --> 00:08:35,620 and I think about the church and I look at my own heart, I think 150 00:08:35,630 --> 00:08:39,140 my bigger concern is that we have fallen too far in the other 151 00:08:39,150 --> 00:08:41,740 direction. Because as Christians we 152 00:08:41,750 --> 00:08:43,230 believe, right? We have the word of God. 153 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:47,560 We have a standard for truth, and my concern is that often we 154 00:08:47,570 --> 00:08:49,560 jump too far the other direction. 155 00:08:49,570 --> 00:08:52,660 We say, well, no, we have truth. So I'm gonna call it like I see 156 00:08:52,670 --> 00:08:54,280 it. That's wrong. 157 00:08:54,340 --> 00:08:56,340 I don't like that. You didn't say that right. 158 00:08:56,350 --> 00:08:58,420 That wasn't good because you know what? 159 00:08:58,430 --> 00:09:00,200 We've got truth. We should call it like we see 160 00:09:00,210 --> 00:09:05,250 it, right? I don't think so. 161 00:09:06,030 --> 00:09:09,990 I don't think so. And this is the question that 162 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,680 that we've got to think about as we come to this passage. 163 00:09:13,550 --> 00:09:17,560 As followers of Jesus, in what way should we make judgments on 164 00:09:17,570 --> 00:09:21,770 other people? As followers of Jesus, in what 165 00:09:21,780 --> 00:09:25,430 way should we make judgments on other people? 166 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,330 There are two extremes laid out before us, and I think Jesus is 167 00:09:29,340 --> 00:09:31,360 telling us in this passage that they're both wrong. 168 00:09:32,830 --> 00:09:35,120 These two extremes, and he's telling us they're both wrong. 169 00:09:35,130 --> 00:09:37,200 We can fall off the boat from either side. 170 00:09:38,030 --> 00:09:40,360 We can either be isolated and say we're not going to judge 171 00:09:40,370 --> 00:09:44,640 because Jesus is judge not or or or we could say no, no, no. 172 00:09:44,650 --> 00:09:46,060 The Bible says what's right and wrong. 173 00:09:46,070 --> 00:09:50,420 So we need to be judgmental and and Jesus is gonna speak to that 174 00:09:50,430 --> 00:09:53,800 and the main versus we're gonna spend most of our time and as 175 00:09:53,810 --> 00:09:57,390 verse 41 and 42 where he's gonna use this analogy of saying it's 176 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:00,050 like we've got a log in our eye and we're pointing out a spig 177 00:10:00,750 --> 00:10:05,460 and our brother's eye. But it's important to understand 178 00:10:05,470 --> 00:10:09,520 as we go into this that Jesus isn't telling us to make no 179 00:10:09,530 --> 00:10:13,520 judgments. In fact, end of verse 42. 180 00:10:13,810 --> 00:10:17,100 I guess the end goal of this is that we would see clearly to 181 00:10:17,110 --> 00:10:21,080 take out the spec and our brother's eye, which in itself 182 00:10:21,090 --> 00:10:24,350 is it's a form of a judgement. The end goal is not that we 183 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:26,260 won't judge. The end goal is that we would 184 00:10:26,270 --> 00:10:30,380 judge well, that we would judge faithfully, that we would judge 185 00:10:30,430 --> 00:10:32,760 lovingly. And so I think the way that 186 00:10:32,770 --> 00:10:35,500 Jesus is crafting this is he's helping us to understand what do 187 00:10:35,510 --> 00:10:38,760 we need to do before we remove the spec? 188 00:10:39,670 --> 00:10:43,440 What do we need to do before we make judgments on each other? 189 00:10:43,550 --> 00:10:46,640 And I think the claim he's making is that we are all far, 190 00:10:46,650 --> 00:10:49,290 far too quick to remove the spec. 191 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:53,060 He's not saying don't do it, but he's saying maybe we need to get 192 00:10:53,070 --> 00:10:56,250 there a whole lot slower than we do at the moment. 193 00:10:57,190 --> 00:11:00,640 What do we do before we remove the spec? 194 00:11:00,910 --> 00:11:02,600 And it's, it's a big question to ask. 195 00:11:02,610 --> 00:11:07,400 And I think as I've assist my own heart this week, I feel like 196 00:11:07,410 --> 00:11:10,600 it's easy when Jesus is giving us instructions, he's giving us 197 00:11:10,790 --> 00:11:12,840 the way that we, we, we should live our life. 198 00:11:12,850 --> 00:11:15,400 It's very easy to turn it into A to do list. 199 00:11:15,410 --> 00:11:17,380 Okay, what do I need to do this week? 200 00:11:17,390 --> 00:11:22,100 Jesus to not judge, but actually in this process, Jesus is asking 201 00:11:22,110 --> 00:11:25,280 us as we come to this passage to really perform heart surgery 202 00:11:25,290 --> 00:11:28,470 here. It's not a do this, do this. 203 00:11:28,550 --> 00:11:32,790 He's really asking us to dig deep, assess our motives, assess 204 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:36,300 our desires, what is going on in our heart. 205 00:11:37,190 --> 00:11:40,680 Jesus is after our hearts. He's not just after our actions 206 00:11:40,690 --> 00:11:43,990 or our obedience. He's after our hearts. 207 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,710 O what do we do before we remove the spec? 208 00:11:47,750 --> 00:11:50,970 Well, firstly we're going to look at versus 37 to 38. 209 00:11:50,980 --> 00:11:55,250 Before we remove the spec, we must know that we will all stand 210 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:59,680 before the true judge. We must know that we will all 211 00:11:59,690 --> 00:12:04,270 stand before the true judge. He sees this inverse 37. 212 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:07,210 Judge not and you will not be judged. 213 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,070 Condemn not and you will not be condemned. 214 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:11,850 Forgive and you will be forgiven. 215 00:12:11,900 --> 00:12:14,270 Give and it will be given to you. 216 00:12:14,540 --> 00:12:18,030 Good measure pressed down, shaken together, running over 217 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:22,740 will be put into your lap for with the measure you use it use 218 00:12:22,750 --> 00:12:26,140 it will be measured back to you. And so he starts here by giving 219 00:12:26,150 --> 00:12:29,280 us 4 commands. Two of them are negative and two 220 00:12:29,290 --> 00:12:31,620 are positive. So judge not condemn not. 221 00:12:31,670 --> 00:12:36,940 And then he says forgive and and give and, and the main principle 222 00:12:36,950 --> 00:12:39,920 he's saying here is he's pointing us to the reality. 223 00:12:39,930 --> 00:12:43,420 When we think about judgement before we think about judgement 224 00:12:43,430 --> 00:12:46,860 this way, we need to understand that each of us will be judged 225 00:12:46,870 --> 00:12:49,500 by God. We are not the final judge. 226 00:12:49,910 --> 00:12:52,220 We are not the final judge. And it's interesting. 227 00:12:52,390 --> 00:12:54,290 And this is going to, this is going to make us think because 228 00:12:54,300 --> 00:12:57,290 it seems like he's saying there's some form of reciprocity 229 00:12:57,300 --> 00:12:59,250 here. What I mean by this is that you 230 00:12:59,260 --> 00:13:01,390 kind of summarises it at the end of verse 38. 231 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,470 He says with the measure you use, it will be measured back to 232 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:07,770 you. So to the extent that we judge 233 00:13:07,780 --> 00:13:10,350 critically, we will be judged critically. 234 00:13:11,010 --> 00:13:14,520 To the extent that we judge, we we forgive and we are gracious, 235 00:13:14,530 --> 00:13:18,310 it will be given back to us. And that's an interesting thing. 236 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:19,560 And that's going to make us think. 237 00:13:19,570 --> 00:13:23,060 And I want to wrestle with what he's actually saying here, but I 238 00:13:23,070 --> 00:13:24,980 just want to understand when you're speaking about judgement 239 00:13:24,990 --> 00:13:27,780 and, and condemn what he's Speaking of here. 240 00:13:27,790 --> 00:13:30,060 This is a fault finding mentality. 241 00:13:30,490 --> 00:13:33,060 This is the kind of mentality that is looking to other people 242 00:13:33,070 --> 00:13:36,150 and, and looking to find the worst and other people. 243 00:13:36,190 --> 00:13:38,150 And as we're going to see, there's a right way to judge. 244 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:40,090 He's speaking here of the wrong way to judge. 245 00:13:40,250 --> 00:13:42,560 And the principle that we're going to see here is, is this 246 00:13:42,570 --> 00:13:45,580 pretty simply. We must judge others with the 247 00:13:45,590 --> 00:13:48,900 reality in mind that one day we will be judged by God. 248 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:53,850 We should judge this way with a mindset, knowing we will be 249 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,730 judged against God and God has got plenty of evidence against 250 00:13:56,740 --> 00:14:00,400 us. God has got plenty of evidence 251 00:14:00,970 --> 00:14:02,960 against us. We certainly want God to judge 252 00:14:02,970 --> 00:14:04,720 us with grace. In fact, we're banking on the 253 00:14:04,730 --> 00:14:07,360 fact that God is going to judge us with grace because if he 254 00:14:07,370 --> 00:14:10,460 doesn't judge us with grace, he would judge us based off our 255 00:14:10,470 --> 00:14:12,580 sin. And so how could we then turn 256 00:14:12,590 --> 00:14:15,560 and judge others without any drop of grace? 257 00:14:15,570 --> 00:14:19,040 How could we then turn and judge others, only assuming the worst, 258 00:14:19,050 --> 00:14:22,810 only looking for the worst, when we actually are going to stand 259 00:14:22,820 --> 00:14:26,390 before God and we need Him to judge us with grace. 260 00:14:28,150 --> 00:14:30,980 And I will say this, and we need to know this, if you've believed 261 00:14:30,990 --> 00:14:33,930 and put your faith in Christ, we have confidence. 262 00:14:33,940 --> 00:14:38,460 We have more than confidence. We have assurance that God will 263 00:14:38,530 --> 00:14:43,280 judge us completely with grace. We don't have to be anxious as 264 00:14:43,290 --> 00:14:46,100 God gonna judge me with with with grace or judgement. 265 00:14:46,110 --> 00:14:49,820 If our faith is in Jesus Christ, the judgement that God will pour 266 00:14:49,830 --> 00:14:53,230 on us, it's completely lopsided. It's completely gracious. 267 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,160 In fact, he's going to give an example here. 268 00:14:55,250 --> 00:14:58,300 He speaks about this this, it will be given to you and he says 269 00:14:58,310 --> 00:15:01,660 good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over 270 00:15:01,670 --> 00:15:05,500 will be put into your lap. This is a lopsided amount of 271 00:15:05,510 --> 00:15:07,680 grace. And so the analogy here is that 272 00:15:07,690 --> 00:15:10,240 of grain. If you're pulling grain and any 273 00:15:10,250 --> 00:15:12,760 saying the person here who's giving you the grain as is 274 00:15:12,770 --> 00:15:16,140 pretty much packing it in all of the grain that they can get in. 275 00:15:16,150 --> 00:15:20,290 So I picture it like this with you having ice cream on a cone. 276 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:22,810 I haven't had this since I was a kid, but there's two ways you 277 00:15:22,820 --> 00:15:25,350 can put ice cream on a cone. You could get the scoop and you 278 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,030 can put it right on top. But I remember as a kid, mum and 279 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,270 dad would do that. I'm like you, this, this hollow 280 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,630 cone in there. You've got to get the little 281 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:36,300 scoops and fill up the cone and then you put the ice cream on 282 00:15:36,310 --> 00:15:37,770 top. I think this is the kind of 283 00:15:37,780 --> 00:15:39,250 picture here is using with the grain. 284 00:15:39,260 --> 00:15:42,130 It's like good measure pressed down, really jammed in there. 285 00:15:42,220 --> 00:15:46,650 This is an abundance of grace. That is how God if, if we put 286 00:15:46,660 --> 00:15:49,910 our faith in Jesus Christ, that is the kind of grace God has 287 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,570 poured on us and will pour on us when we are judged. 288 00:15:54,740 --> 00:15:58,190 And so the idea is we need to understand this and what we've 289 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:02,270 received should be should be reflected in the way that we 290 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,720 judge others. Many of you would be familiar 291 00:16:05,730 --> 00:16:09,700 with a parable Jesus uses in Matthew chapter 18 where he 292 00:16:09,710 --> 00:16:13,490 speaks about the servant who who had owed their master and 293 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,090 incomprehensible debt. You're talking millions upon 294 00:16:17,190 --> 00:16:20,220 millions of dollars and the master forgave the debt. 295 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:22,430 There was a date he could never repay. 296 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:26,980 The master forgave the debt and then the servant, he just been 297 00:16:26,990 --> 00:16:29,480 forgiven of his debt. And he goes out and he finds 298 00:16:29,490 --> 00:16:34,320 someone who owed him about 3 months wages and he pins him up 299 00:16:34,330 --> 00:16:36,920 against the wall by the scruff of the neck and he says when 300 00:16:36,930 --> 00:16:39,100 you're gonna pay me? And he says, look, just give me 301 00:16:39,110 --> 00:16:40,620 some time, I'll be able to pay you. 302 00:16:40,630 --> 00:16:43,750 I can pay you back. He's like not good enough, not 303 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:47,480 good enough any any seems them to gaol. 304 00:16:47,490 --> 00:16:49,980 And the point Jesus is saying here is he's this guy who's been 305 00:16:49,990 --> 00:16:53,910 given this, forgiven, this unbelievable date, and yet he 306 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:57,360 didn't go and extend it to those around him. 307 00:16:58,230 --> 00:17:03,180 And I think the warning here is this, if our life is is 308 00:17:03,190 --> 00:17:07,010 characterised by a harsh critical judgement of others, 309 00:17:08,660 --> 00:17:12,490 that should give us pause to ask whether we have truly trusted in 310 00:17:12,500 --> 00:17:17,030 Jesus Christ, whether we have truly tasted of the freedom of 311 00:17:17,140 --> 00:17:19,940 forgiveness. If there's nothing going this 312 00:17:19,950 --> 00:17:23,300 way, if we're not extending any form of grace, we need to ask. 313 00:17:23,310 --> 00:17:24,640 And this should be a mirror to us. 314 00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:30,640 Have I truly tasted forgiveness? We should judge others how we 315 00:17:30,650 --> 00:17:34,740 would want God to judge us and ultimately how God has judged us 316 00:17:34,820 --> 00:17:41,030 through Jesus Christ. Imagine if if you got caught 317 00:17:41,220 --> 00:17:45,270 speeding down, why did you drive and what is its eighty? 318 00:17:45,340 --> 00:17:47,190 Why did he drive? So imagine you got caught going 319 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,540 100 and the cop pulls you over and he goes, look, this is 320 00:17:50,550 --> 00:17:52,380 actually a bit too much for a ticket. 321 00:17:52,390 --> 00:17:55,030 I'm gonna give you a court summons and you have to go to 322 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:59,440 there, the Hamilton District Court and you go and, and and 323 00:17:59,450 --> 00:18:01,160 they say, OK, you need to wait in the courtroom. 324 00:18:01,170 --> 00:18:03,640 The judges kind of filing through the different cases. 325 00:18:03,710 --> 00:18:05,260 You've gotta wait. And then when it's your turn, 326 00:18:05,270 --> 00:18:07,080 you'll come and stand before the judge. 327 00:18:07,190 --> 00:18:10,400 And so you're sitting there waiting and the judge is 328 00:18:10,410 --> 00:18:12,380 actually dealing with the case before yours. 329 00:18:12,430 --> 00:18:16,220 And it's a very similar case. They were going 15 caves over. 330 00:18:16,230 --> 00:18:18,600 You're going 20 days over. This guy was going 15 caves 331 00:18:18,610 --> 00:18:20,520 over. And the judge is mulling over 332 00:18:20,530 --> 00:18:22,980 the case and he's trying to work out what kind of punishment he's 333 00:18:22,990 --> 00:18:25,420 going to hand down. And he's looking through it and 334 00:18:25,430 --> 00:18:28,630 he's kind of can't really work out what to do with this one. 335 00:18:29,740 --> 00:18:32,730 He's thinking, he's thinking, and then he looks at you, 336 00:18:32,740 --> 00:18:35,140 sitting waiting, He goes. What do you think? 337 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:37,670 What kind of punishment should I hand down? 338 00:18:39,260 --> 00:18:41,820 I I would guarantee that you are not gonna go. 339 00:18:41,830 --> 00:18:43,730 You know what, Judge? You should really make this one 340 00:18:43,740 --> 00:18:46,800 sting for him. He should learn his lesson. 341 00:18:46,810 --> 00:18:50,350 Then you'll never do it again knowing that you're right up 342 00:18:50,360 --> 00:18:51,810 after him. You're probably going to be 343 00:18:51,820 --> 00:18:53,250 like, look, you probably didn't mean it. 344 00:18:53,260 --> 00:18:56,860 You should be kind to him. I I think what Jesus is saying, 345 00:18:56,870 --> 00:18:59,160 he's putting us in, in the seat of understanding. 346 00:18:59,170 --> 00:19:00,980 We judge others, but we will be judged. 347 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,830 How are we judging others? And in light of that, we should 348 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,340 judge others. Before we think about judging 349 00:19:08,350 --> 00:19:11,800 others, we should know that we will stand before the true 350 00:19:11,810 --> 00:19:13,170 judge. We will be judged. 351 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,900 And secondly, we need to understand this before we remove 352 00:19:17,910 --> 00:19:23,440 the spec. We must recognise and remove our 353 00:19:23,450 --> 00:19:28,670 own log. We must recognise and remove our 354 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,510 own log. And verse 41 and 42, Jesus is 355 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:35,290 going to use an illustration essentially diagnosing the 356 00:19:35,300 --> 00:19:38,670 problem of what's going on in our hearts when we judge. 357 00:19:39,060 --> 00:19:42,450 And it's a familiar illustration and it's familiar to the point 358 00:19:42,460 --> 00:19:45,470 where I think there's a danger it loses its humour. 359 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:49,610 And I guess what Jesus is trying to portray here, he's saying, 360 00:19:49,620 --> 00:19:53,380 imagine he talks about a log and a spec. 361 00:19:53,390 --> 00:19:55,540 So someone's gotta speak. So let's say Gavin here's gotta 362 00:19:55,550 --> 00:19:57,940 spec. And it's like Gavin, Hey, he's 363 00:19:57,950 --> 00:20:01,440 got a spick and he's talking like a like a wood chip, a tiny 364 00:20:01,510 --> 00:20:04,680 little spick. And, and, and the word for log 365 00:20:04,690 --> 00:20:07,460 is actually the Greek word, you think for like a load bearing 366 00:20:07,470 --> 00:20:10,360 beam and a house. So like, I almost picture like 367 00:20:10,370 --> 00:20:12,820 one of these big beams that are going across here. 368 00:20:12,870 --> 00:20:16,560 So imagine literally I've got one of these honking out of my 369 00:20:16,570 --> 00:20:18,320 eye. I'm like trying to keep my 370 00:20:18,330 --> 00:20:21,410 balance and I kind of come up together and I'm knocking him in 371 00:20:21,420 --> 00:20:23,730 the head because of this big beam in my eye. 372 00:20:23,740 --> 00:20:25,800 I'm like, hey, Kev, I couldn't help but notice. 373 00:20:25,890 --> 00:20:27,940 Let me just help you out. You got a little spick. 374 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,190 Right there in the corner. I maybe I'll just help you get 375 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,950 that out. And you can imagine Gavin's just 376 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:34,900 being like, are you serious right now? 377 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:38,550 You've got this, you got this house sticking out of your eye 378 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:41,670 and you're pointing out this spick in my eye. 379 00:20:42,970 --> 00:20:46,700 I kind of happened as a child growing up, you know, we'd be 380 00:20:46,770 --> 00:20:50,220 saying grace and I'd always want to catch my siblings during 381 00:20:50,290 --> 00:20:52,580 grace before dinner and, and, and grace would finish. 382 00:20:52,590 --> 00:20:54,960 I go, Dad. Blake had his eyes open during 383 00:20:54,970 --> 00:20:57,460 grace. And here you go. 384 00:20:57,470 --> 00:21:00,000 Well, how do you know it's not important? 385 00:21:00,010 --> 00:21:02,560 How I know it's important that Blake had his eyes open during 386 00:21:02,570 --> 00:21:08,130 Grace? What's going on here? 387 00:21:08,140 --> 00:21:11,210 I mean, it's pretty obvious we are completely ignoring what's 388 00:21:11,220 --> 00:21:16,670 going on with ourself, but we are so captured by pointing out 389 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:21,190 what others are doing wrong. And it's I mean, this is a great 390 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,870 analogy that Jesus uses because it really gets right to the 391 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,310 heart here. And look, notice this can happen 392 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,490 in two ways. It happens silently and it 393 00:21:28,500 --> 00:21:30,590 happens verbally. Look at verse 41. 394 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:35,080 He says why do you see the spec? And then in verse 42 he says how 395 00:21:35,090 --> 00:21:38,620 can you say to your brother so this can happen in our hearts 396 00:21:38,660 --> 00:21:42,640 silently or verbally? I think for most of us, the 397 00:21:42,650 --> 00:21:45,200 problem we need to deal with is the silent judgement. 398 00:21:46,340 --> 00:21:48,310 In fact, we can often go, well, this isn't really for me. 399 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:50,490 I don't often say stuff to other people. 400 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,790 I think in our hearts we are judging all the time. 401 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:59,110 It's it's prevalent. Even think about today, how 402 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:03,030 often today have you made some sort of judgement towards 403 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,670 someone else in your mind, really, you're wearing that 404 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:09,230 shirt. You chose to wear that shirt to 405 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,760 church. Well, as someone kind of cuts 406 00:22:11,770 --> 00:22:14,710 you off in traffic and you wanna get up beside them at the lights 407 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:19,300 and kind of make some eyes at them, maybe you're going, why 408 00:22:19,310 --> 00:22:22,530 are we singing that song? I don't like that song. 409 00:22:22,540 --> 00:22:26,660 Maybe even right now, maybe you're thinking that was a good 410 00:22:26,670 --> 00:22:32,670 point. I hope so, And so is listening I 411 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,810 and I'll actually admit in my own heart there were some points 412 00:22:34,820 --> 00:22:37,230 this week when I was studying this passage. 413 00:22:37,340 --> 00:22:39,250 In the back of my mind, I thought, I hope so and so's 414 00:22:39,260 --> 00:22:42,390 there. And what I want to suggest to 415 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,040 you is when our mind goes there, that means that we're the one 416 00:22:45,050 --> 00:22:48,610 who needs to hear that. When our mind says, I wish 417 00:22:48,620 --> 00:22:51,380 someone so heard that. I wish I should send this sermon 418 00:22:51,390 --> 00:22:54,880 to so and so. I think that means that was for 419 00:22:54,890 --> 00:22:57,360 us. We need to hear that. 420 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:02,590 But verbal judgement is also a real problem. 421 00:23:04,210 --> 00:23:08,480 Being quick to point out to others their faults and their 422 00:23:08,490 --> 00:23:11,590 sins. Being very quick and I think we 423 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,330 take a joy in it. Often this is where gossip comes 424 00:23:15,340 --> 00:23:18,500 in as well. And I think this often comes in 425 00:23:18,510 --> 00:23:19,990 the false pretence of good motives. 426 00:23:20,690 --> 00:23:23,080 Did you see what science has been doing? 427 00:23:23,090 --> 00:23:24,820 I'm worried about them. Are you worried about them? 428 00:23:24,830 --> 00:23:26,900 You noticed that too? What else did you notice? 429 00:23:26,970 --> 00:23:29,260 Yeah, it's a bit of a concern. Ohh dear. 430 00:23:31,050 --> 00:23:36,300 So often I think verbally, silently, we are so full of 431 00:23:36,350 --> 00:23:39,720 judgement and the diagnosis I think of this is that what we 432 00:23:39,730 --> 00:23:42,820 are doing is we are circumnavigating our own hearts 433 00:23:43,750 --> 00:23:47,180 and jumping right to the faults of the other person. 434 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,300 Why? Well, because to us they have 435 00:23:50,310 --> 00:23:53,160 got a log. They've got this huge log 436 00:23:53,170 --> 00:23:54,780 sticking out of their face and we've got nothing. 437 00:23:55,620 --> 00:23:59,550 Maybe we've got a little spick, but the most urgent thing is 438 00:23:59,560 --> 00:24:02,400 that I deal with their log and that's the loving thing for me 439 00:24:02,410 --> 00:24:05,420 to do. I think behind this, often we 440 00:24:05,430 --> 00:24:10,070 want to feel superior. We judge others because we want 441 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:13,150 to feel better about ourselves. Maybe there's an underlying sin 442 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,750 in our lives and it actually makes us feel better about the 443 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,770 sins we're tuning through by actually highlighting the sins 444 00:24:18,780 --> 00:24:20,890 and other people's lives. At least. 445 00:24:20,900 --> 00:24:24,690 At least I'm not doing that. Maybe I can help them by by 446 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:29,160 pointing that out, especially when someone's dealing with 447 00:24:29,210 --> 00:24:31,200 maybe an era of sin that we aren't. 448 00:24:32,860 --> 00:24:35,710 Maybe someone's wrestling with anger and that's not an area of 449 00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,800 sin that I'm dealing with, but there's plenty of areas I'm 450 00:24:37,810 --> 00:24:40,170 dealing with that they're not. But let's just focus on the 451 00:24:40,180 --> 00:24:43,560 arranger for a moment. That'll make me feel better 452 00:24:43,570 --> 00:24:46,680 about myself. And Jesus is saying that this is 453 00:24:46,690 --> 00:24:50,440 it's sinful judgement. This is sinful judgement. 454 00:24:50,670 --> 00:24:53,220 When he's saying judge not, This is the kind of judgement he's 455 00:24:53,230 --> 00:24:58,100 Speaking of because we've got the wrong motives and we're 456 00:24:58,110 --> 00:25:02,550 doing it all in the wrong order. We're looking outward before we 457 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,470 assess ourselves. And that's why he says in verse 458 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:09,980 42, you hypocrite. It's the height of hypocrisy. 459 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:13,910 And yet I think it's one of the most prevalent sins that that we 460 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:19,890 struggle with as Christians. Many of you would be familiar. 461 00:25:19,900 --> 00:25:22,940 It's it's, it's a fascinating example of this and Second 462 00:25:22,950 --> 00:25:27,010 Samuel chapter 12, how we have King David, who's just committed 463 00:25:27,020 --> 00:25:29,590 adultery. He has committed adultery with 464 00:25:29,600 --> 00:25:32,540 this woman named Beth Shebe. She's fallen pregnant and to try 465 00:25:32,550 --> 00:25:34,310 to cover this all up, he's committed murder. 466 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:38,640 He's murdered Beth Sheba's husband and in the Prophet, 467 00:25:38,650 --> 00:25:42,550 Nathan comes to David and Second Samuel chapter 12, and he 468 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:45,520 doesn't like come forward and say exactly his motives here, 469 00:25:45,530 --> 00:25:48,610 but he says to him, hey, David, I want to tell you a story. 470 00:25:50,180 --> 00:25:55,370 There were two farmers, One farmer, he had flocks and flocks 471 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,510 of sheep, he had tonnes of them. He was rich and wealthy, had 472 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,270 sheep everywhere. And then his neighbor was a 473 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:05,010 small farmer and he only had the 1 little you a little sheep. 474 00:26:06,180 --> 00:26:07,520 And he actually loved this shape. 475 00:26:08,450 --> 00:26:13,460 He raised the sheep like his own daughter and the kids love the 476 00:26:13,470 --> 00:26:14,590 sheep. They they bring the sheep. 477 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,240 They let the sheep sleep inside. The sheep is precious to them. 478 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,490 And in this this rich guy, he's got a friend coming to town and 479 00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:25,990 he goes, well, OK, well, I need to kill a sheep to feed my 480 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,260 friend and so he sees to the servant. 481 00:26:28,270 --> 00:26:31,680 But no, don't go into my fields. I don't want to use one of my 482 00:26:31,690 --> 00:26:34,910 sheep, go into the poor man's field, kill his sheep. 483 00:26:35,850 --> 00:26:39,720 We can feed my friend with that sheep and all my sheep can stay. 484 00:26:41,290 --> 00:26:44,420 And he and Nathan sees this to David and David jumps out of his 485 00:26:44,430 --> 00:26:46,400 seat and he goes, well, that man should die. 486 00:26:46,690 --> 00:26:48,880 He's he's angry, he's going, then you can't do that. 487 00:26:48,890 --> 00:26:52,630 That man should die. What's he doing in the night? 488 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,400 And sees David? You are that man. 489 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:01,680 And what's going on there is David has got this huge log in 490 00:27:01,690 --> 00:27:06,610 his eye, Adultery, murder, lying, deception, and he's 491 00:27:06,620 --> 00:27:09,580 beside himself about what is really a far smaller sin. 492 00:27:12,940 --> 00:27:15,850 So often we've got this this log in our eye that that we try to 493 00:27:15,940 --> 00:27:19,770 move and shift out of the way because we want to be focused on 494 00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,500 other sins. We need to look inside, we need 495 00:27:23,510 --> 00:27:25,290 to recognise it and we need to remove it. 496 00:27:26,770 --> 00:27:32,680 Need to remove it. Just want to ask what what is 497 00:27:32,690 --> 00:27:35,280 this log? If we if we were to remove this 498 00:27:35,650 --> 00:27:41,030 log, what is this log? As I look at the passage, I want 499 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:45,710 to suggest to you that this log itself is a judgmental spirit. 500 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,990 The log that is in our eye is a judgmental spirit. 501 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,770 Now say that because of this, the log, he says in verse into 502 00:27:54,780 --> 00:27:56,930 verse 42. That's what's stopping us from 503 00:27:56,940 --> 00:28:01,720 seeing clearly to judge well. And so if what we need to remove 504 00:28:01,730 --> 00:28:06,260 in order for us to judge well, I believe that would be a 505 00:28:06,270 --> 00:28:08,420 judgmental spirit. It's a it's a spirit or an 506 00:28:08,430 --> 00:28:12,940 attitude of sinful, prideful judgement of assuming that I'm 507 00:28:12,950 --> 00:28:18,990 up here and they are down there. And So what do we need to do to 508 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,070 remove this log? We need to humble ourselves. 509 00:28:23,050 --> 00:28:26,240 We need to look inward before we look outward and assess our own 510 00:28:26,250 --> 00:28:30,040 spiritual condition, assess our own motives, assess our own 511 00:28:30,130 --> 00:28:33,890 desires. I wonder how it would change our 512 00:28:33,900 --> 00:28:35,550 attitudes of whatever room we're in. 513 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,920 We assume that we are the most sinful person in that room, 514 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,630 removing that log of a judgmental spirit so that we can 515 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:50,370 judge well. And then when we confronted with 516 00:28:50,380 --> 00:28:54,090 us and we worked to confess it, we worked to kill it, We work to 517 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:56,920 to hate it. And and I will say this can only 518 00:28:56,930 --> 00:28:59,360 be done in the context of the gospel. 519 00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,630 As people who have been forgiven by Jesus Christ, we've had his 520 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,050 grace lavished upon us. That's the only context that we 521 00:29:07,060 --> 00:29:09,590 can actually deal with our sin. That's the only context that we 522 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,710 can pull out this log from our eye because we can fix our sins 523 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,890 to Hermes faithful and he's just to forgive us from from all 524 00:29:16,900 --> 00:29:22,800 unrighteousness. Only then, once we have looked 525 00:29:22,810 --> 00:29:25,580 at ourselves, assessed our heart assist, our motives, can we see 526 00:29:25,590 --> 00:29:29,300 clearly to then remove the spic from our brother's eye. 527 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:32,650 And I will say this, and I want to speak about what it looks 528 00:29:32,660 --> 00:29:36,010 like to remove this spec because Jesus isn't condemning this. 529 00:29:36,020 --> 00:29:38,890 He isn't condemning the act of, of, of correcting someone else, 530 00:29:38,900 --> 00:29:42,150 of removing their spec per se, but rather he's going to reframe 531 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,390 the way we get there. And he's saying often we just 532 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,360 get there far too quickly and far too often. 533 00:29:50,060 --> 00:29:54,180 And I think if we treated our logs as as logs and everyone 534 00:29:54,190 --> 00:29:57,430 else's specs as specs, and actually if everyone did that, 535 00:29:58,110 --> 00:30:02,290 then by the time I've pulled my log out, Gavin here is actually 536 00:30:02,300 --> 00:30:05,270 already assessed his speak and he's pulled out his spec. 537 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,170 But if I'm viewing his speakers a log and he's viewing my speak 538 00:30:08,180 --> 00:30:10,390 as a log, we're just gonna be judging one another. 539 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:17,530 Jesus says there's a better way. There's a better way, but it is 540 00:30:17,540 --> 00:30:20,440 important that we correct one another because actually we need 541 00:30:20,450 --> 00:30:23,540 one another. We need one another to point out 542 00:30:23,550 --> 00:30:26,290 our logs and point out our specs, but we need one another 543 00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:29,260 to do it with the right motives and and in the right order. 544 00:30:30,310 --> 00:30:32,370 With the right motives and in the right order. 545 00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,290 We see this in in First Corinthians chapter 5. 546 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:41,070 There is rampant sexual immorality within the Corinthian 547 00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:43,360 church and Paul's actually saying to them in First 548 00:30:43,370 --> 00:30:45,970 Corinthians 5. Why did no one deal with this? 549 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:49,190 Why did no one address this? Why did no one call this out? 550 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:54,240 Why did no one judge this? If we will just say, OK, I'll 551 00:30:54,250 --> 00:30:57,400 mine my business, you mind your business. 552 00:30:57,410 --> 00:30:59,860 It's actually not helpful because as a church we should 553 00:30:59,870 --> 00:31:02,600 care about the effects of sin. We should care about the effects 554 00:31:02,610 --> 00:31:05,460 of sin and each other's lives. And Paul sees and 1st 555 00:31:05,470 --> 00:31:09,580 Corinthians 512, he says, is it not those inside the church whom 556 00:31:09,590 --> 00:31:14,650 you are to judge even and, and in seeking Timothy 316, when 557 00:31:14,660 --> 00:31:17,650 Paul is talking about the value of the word of God, he says what 558 00:31:17,660 --> 00:31:21,370 it's valuable for rebuking, it's valuable for for correcting. 559 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:25,580 So, so we should do this, but we need to do this well. 560 00:31:25,590 --> 00:31:29,120 We shouldn't run from judgement, but we shouldn't judge harshly 561 00:31:29,190 --> 00:31:32,280 and arrogantly. Jesus is offering us a better 562 00:31:32,290 --> 00:31:35,520 way. It's judge well. 563 00:31:35,530 --> 00:31:38,640 It's assist our motives. Let's do it in the right order. 564 00:31:39,590 --> 00:31:42,580 Let's let's look at ourselves, let's pull out our log and then 565 00:31:42,590 --> 00:31:44,420 and, and this is kind of going back to last week. 566 00:31:44,490 --> 00:31:46,300 Everything we do, we do and love. 567 00:31:46,940 --> 00:31:52,010 With the motive of love and humility, we confront one 568 00:31:52,020 --> 00:31:55,450 another about the sin we see. We speak to one another with 569 00:31:55,460 --> 00:31:58,840 love. I've been seeing this with the 570 00:31:58,850 --> 00:32:02,720 with the genuine heart to call one another higher. 571 00:32:02,730 --> 00:32:06,700 We we should be at people who who care deeply about sin, but 572 00:32:06,710 --> 00:32:14,220 also who who respond with grace. So before we confront someone's 573 00:32:14,230 --> 00:32:18,450 and we must confront our own, but then we should also be 574 00:32:18,460 --> 00:32:22,810 prepared to confront the ears. And I wonder this morning which 575 00:32:22,820 --> 00:32:27,560 side of that spectrum you need to be called inward from with 576 00:32:27,570 --> 00:32:31,130 the you actually need the challenge this morning to end 577 00:32:31,140 --> 00:32:35,250 love, be willing to address someone else's sin, to have a 578 00:32:35,260 --> 00:32:37,770 difficult conversation with someone out of love and saying, 579 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:41,930 I've been noticing this. How can I help you with this? 580 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,490 But I think for many of us we also need the reminder to be 581 00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:50,950 much, much slower and have far better motives to come to that 582 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,460 point as well. So before we pull the speak, we 583 00:32:55,470 --> 00:32:57,540 we need to know we are not the ultimate charge. 584 00:32:57,610 --> 00:33:01,400 We need to recognise and remove our log. 585 00:33:01,410 --> 00:33:04,340 And I think we need to remember in this our Lord Jesus Christ, 586 00:33:04,350 --> 00:33:07,740 who face the ultimate judgement of God and our place. 587 00:33:07,750 --> 00:33:11,180 Jesus is the ultimate example of one, of an action, of one who 588 00:33:11,190 --> 00:33:15,110 cares deeply about sin. He's not pushing it aside. 589 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:18,250 He cares deeply about sin. And yet we were judged with 590 00:33:18,260 --> 00:33:23,220 complete grace, because on the cross, Jesus Christ, He paid the 591 00:33:23,230 --> 00:33:25,540 full weight. Judgement was not withheld. 592 00:33:26,220 --> 00:33:30,790 He paid the full weight of our punishment with sin so that God 593 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:35,470 may judge us not based off the way we've lived, but by grace 594 00:33:37,170 --> 00:33:41,470 and we judge one another in the way that we have been judged. 595 00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:46,290 And as I close in, as we kind of close this zoom and that Jesus 596 00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:49,350 preached and Luke 6:00, I've got 2 quick thoughts and I'm talking 597 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,210 a couple of minutes and then I'll be done. 2 quick thoughts 598 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,410 as I finish. And I just want to look at the 599 00:33:54,420 --> 00:33:59,050 last two sections as we think about how we alley this because 600 00:33:59,060 --> 00:34:01,790 Jesus, he puts these sections that about the tree and its 601 00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,650 fruit and about the the, the foundation that we build our 602 00:34:04,660 --> 00:34:06,370 house on. He puts them at the end of his 603 00:34:06,380 --> 00:34:09,409 sermon for a reason, because he's essentially asking, OK, 604 00:34:09,460 --> 00:34:11,639 I've given you this information. What are you going to do with 605 00:34:11,650 --> 00:34:14,780 it? What are we going to do with 606 00:34:14,790 --> 00:34:17,300 this? Say this firstly, as we think 607 00:34:17,310 --> 00:34:20,139 about how we're applying what we've talked about the last few 608 00:34:20,150 --> 00:34:24,130 weeks, I'd say this as we look at versus 43 through 45, Jesus 609 00:34:24,139 --> 00:34:27,960 is after our hearts. He's after our hearts. 610 00:34:27,969 --> 00:34:32,750 He's not after our obedience. It's after our hearts, but not 611 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,690 after our obedience. He uses this example of a good 612 00:34:35,699 --> 00:34:38,429 tree and a bad tree. He's a good tree is going to be 613 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,330 a good fruit and a bad tree is going to be a bad fruit. 614 00:34:43,790 --> 00:34:46,429 It can be easy when we see these instructions to go, okay, I need 615 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,639 to do, I need to do. And then the question comes, 616 00:34:48,650 --> 00:34:51,800 well, what do I do if I have been that judgmental person? 617 00:34:52,610 --> 00:34:55,480 How do I address that if I have been confronted with the fact 618 00:34:55,489 --> 00:34:57,510 that I'm super, super judgmental? 619 00:35:00,220 --> 00:35:02,150 Jesus is not looking for obedience. 620 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,070 He's after our hearts. He's He's looking for fruit. 621 00:35:05,580 --> 00:35:07,700 But the secret to good fruit is a good tree. 622 00:35:09,650 --> 00:35:12,320 Secret to good fruit is a good tree. 623 00:35:12,330 --> 00:35:16,960 He sees in verse 45 from the abundance of his heart, his 624 00:35:17,010 --> 00:35:20,820 mouth speaks. And the good news of the gospel 625 00:35:20,830 --> 00:35:23,860 is Jesus Christ has come not to say do this and do this and do 626 00:35:23,870 --> 00:35:27,760 this, but he's come to give us new hearts that if we put our 627 00:35:27,770 --> 00:35:30,700 faith and trust in him, he will replace our wicked broken heart 628 00:35:30,770 --> 00:35:33,310 with a new heart, give us his Holy Spirit. 629 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,500 And and to use another analogy, in John 15, it says Jesus is the 630 00:35:37,510 --> 00:35:38,990 vine. And when when we're connected 631 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,350 and with the vine and we're a branch off of Jesus, we're going 632 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:47,550 to produce fruit. So Jesus is not just after 633 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,570 obedience, He's after our hearts. 634 00:35:49,660 --> 00:35:51,530 And he's saying that fruit will come. 635 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,340 And so if you're worried this morning, if you're thinking, 636 00:35:55,350 --> 00:35:57,710 man, I can't do that, I'm not doing well at that, Jesus is 637 00:35:57,720 --> 00:35:59,900 saying, come to me and be a good fruit. 638 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,610 And if you follow Jesus, I'd encourage you continue to be 639 00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:10,470 connected in with with the vine. Continue to be a fruit from him. 640 00:36:10,590 --> 00:36:12,940 And the last thing I'll say is I look at the last three verses of 641 00:36:12,950 --> 00:36:18,400 of Luke 6 is that to follow Jesus words as to be on solid 642 00:36:18,410 --> 00:36:22,030 ground. To follow Jesus's words is to be 643 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,530 on solid ground. He uses this analogy. 644 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,510 This is a verse 46. Why do you call me Lord? 645 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,780 Lord and you don't do what I tell you? 646 00:36:31,610 --> 00:36:35,330 Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, 647 00:36:35,380 --> 00:36:38,910 I'll show you what he's like. He's like a man who built his 648 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,410 house on a good foundation. He dug down and built his 649 00:36:41,420 --> 00:36:44,560 foundation on the rock so that when the storms come, the house 650 00:36:44,570 --> 00:36:48,380 stands firm. I mean, it's easy for us to hear 651 00:36:48,390 --> 00:36:51,520 these words and these instructions and what Jesus 652 00:36:51,530 --> 00:36:53,960 Christ is saying about what it means to follow him. 653 00:36:54,010 --> 00:36:56,140 It's easy to hear it. It's even easy to say, yeah, 654 00:36:56,150 --> 00:37:01,110 Jesus is Lord, but Jesus saying if you think I'm, if you really 655 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:05,920 believe that I'm Lord, man, we, we ought to listen because the 656 00:37:05,930 --> 00:37:09,000 way that he's calling us to live, it is a firm foundation. 657 00:37:09,070 --> 00:37:12,760 It is a firm foundation in which we should build our lives. 658 00:37:12,770 --> 00:37:15,140 And, and, and closes in the Matthew account. 659 00:37:15,150 --> 00:37:17,570 He's gonna close with us as well because he's essentially asking 660 00:37:17,580 --> 00:37:21,180 what are we gonna do about this? Are we going to just hear it or 661 00:37:21,190 --> 00:37:23,530 are we going to hear it and are we going to do it? 662 00:37:25,620 --> 00:37:28,680 And this is my refer us as we consider the last few weeks on 663 00:37:28,690 --> 00:37:31,030 the Sermon on the Mount, especially as we consider what 664 00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,530 we've talked about this morning around judging one another. 665 00:37:34,650 --> 00:37:37,460 May we be people this morning with new hearts. 666 00:37:39,020 --> 00:37:43,110 Judge slowly, who judge with the right motives, who judge in the 667 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,550 right order. Building our foundation, 668 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:49,030 building our house on a foundation that will last. 669 00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:54,410 So let's pray as we close. Gracious God and King, we thank 670 00:37:54,420 --> 00:37:57,440 you for your word, we thank you for your goodness to us, and we 671 00:37:57,450 --> 00:38:01,080 thank you for the gospel. Jesus is not just calling us to 672 00:38:01,090 --> 00:38:02,980 blind obedience, but He wants our hearts. 673 00:38:02,990 --> 00:38:07,760 God, I pray that we may be people and we may be a church 674 00:38:07,770 --> 00:38:11,200 community who judges one another well with the right motives. 675 00:38:11,210 --> 00:38:14,920 God, would we deal greatly with our own sin? 676 00:38:14,930 --> 00:38:18,400 Would we care deeply about our own sin and then and and love 677 00:38:18,450 --> 00:38:21,880 seek to help one another? God private and practise. 678 00:38:21,890 --> 00:38:24,830 You would just remove ego, would you? 679 00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,330 Remove false motives. Lord, would we love one another 680 00:38:28,340 --> 00:38:31,360 well in the way that we judge one another well. 681 00:38:32,290 --> 00:38:34,040 Jesus name, we pray these things. 682 00:38:34,110 --> 00:38:34,700 Amen.