1 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:08,500 Jesus said, when you see these things begin to take place 2 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:16,200 straighten up, Lift up your head for your Redemption draws, nigh. 3 00:00:17,300 --> 00:00:22,800 And so, I am not among those who sees the calamities of our time 4 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,900 and say, yeah, we've been through this before, actually, 5 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:28,400 we haven't. Paul told Timothy to things 6 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,700 would be bad and they would only get worse. 7 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:33,900 And so though, they may have familiar themes. 8 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,800 They will intensify in their evil and in their influence. 9 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,100 And so you and I have every right to say, my Redemption is 10 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:46,400 coming near. My Redemption is almost 9:00 it 11 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,400 is here. Very soon. 12 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,600 And I want to be found faithful, I hope you feel the same way and 13 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,200 so let's equip ourselves by God's word and Mark chapter 3 14 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:00,400 together. We read this passage last week. 15 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:07,500 We're revisiting it this week. Because there's just so much in 16 00:01:07,500 --> 00:01:16,800 it for us to contemplate. Lord, as we come to this chapter 17 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,600 in The Gospel of Mark. Sanctify us. 18 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:23,200 Lord. Our hearts need you. 19 00:01:23,500 --> 00:01:28,500 Our minds need you. We are so weak and we confess it 20 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:31,000 gladly because you are strong in our weakness. 21 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,700 And you are gracious. Help us, learn help us. 22 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:40,600 Apply help us worship. Help us obey and Jesus name we 23 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,000 pray. Amen. 24 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:48,400 First one again, he entered the synagogue and a man was there 25 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,900 with a withered hand and they watched Jesus to see whether he 26 00:01:52,900 --> 00:01:57,300 would heal him on the Sabbath so that they might accuse him and 27 00:01:57,300 --> 00:02:01,200 he said to the man with the withered hand come here and he 28 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:05,300 said to them is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm 29 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:11,000 to sit to save life, or to kill, but they were silent and he 30 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:16,200 looked around them with anger. Grieved at their Hardness of 31 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:22,500 Heart and said to the man stretch out your hand, he 32 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:27,300 stretched it out and his hand was restored, the Pharisees went 33 00:02:27,300 --> 00:02:31,500 out and immediately held counsel with the herodians against them, 34 00:02:31,700 --> 00:02:39,600 how to destroy him. The synagogue is more full than 35 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:43,800 it was a custom to the miracle-working rabbi from 36 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,600 Nazareth is in town and he is standing in the midst of this 37 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:51,500 assembly who have gathered for the Sabbath, his disciples. 38 00:02:52,500 --> 00:02:57,900 Excited sitting by him closely anticipating that he is going to 39 00:02:57,900 --> 00:03:00,600 do something wonderful. They've been used to his 40 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:04,200 leadership up to this point when Jesus comes to a place he is 41 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:08,800 unafraid of speaking the truth and he has unparalleled power 42 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:15,600 And across from their leader sits a man sheepishly. as he is 43 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,400 there to worship but his hand is withered handicapped disabled 44 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,900 broken and he does not realize that in a brief moment, his life 45 00:03:23,900 --> 00:03:27,700 is going to be radically altered And so on. 46 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:31,600 This sabbath day, in this specific congregation, there was 47 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,800 a particular atmosphere a strange one. 48 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,000 The air was filled with excitement and yet, it was also 49 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,500 mingled with tension because on the scene were the Pharisees 50 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:50,700 sitting on the edges of their seat hoping and waiting for 51 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:55,000 Jesus to do something that in their minds would break the law 52 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,700 so that they can smear his Reputation. 53 00:03:57,900 --> 00:04:03,300 And hopefully even indict him. And so with the see now before 54 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:07,200 us a fresh, I hope that you are prepared to behold something of 55 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:10,200 the Majesty, magnificence of the Lord Jesus Christ. 56 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,500 Last week, you and I took this text and we saw how the three 57 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:18,100 parties who were in that house of worship. 58 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:21,399 Provide, a wonderful illustration of just, some of 59 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:25,200 the reasons why people come to houses of worship today and what 60 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:27,900 they should be doing in some cases when they come to the 61 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:33,000 house of worship and so like Jesus, we must Just come to the 62 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,900 Fellowship of the Brethren ready to serve. 63 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:38,900 Not looking for the best seat, like the Pharisees, but looking 64 00:04:38,900 --> 00:04:42,600 for the best in others. And for others, and we ought to 65 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:45,900 come to the house of worship. Just like this man who was 66 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:51,700 withered, but he was worshipful. Come in your Brokenness. 67 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:56,300 Don't isolate yourself, don't Reserve yourself, don't hide 68 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:59,500 yourself. Throw yourself into the presence 69 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:02,500 of God's people and allow the hands and feet of. 70 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:07,600 Jesus to bring healing to your soul, our Brokenness varies, but 71 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,600 our solution is the same Christ Works in and through his body. 72 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,900 Therefore, you must be with his body to know his power. 73 00:05:16,300 --> 00:05:19,000 And lastly, I pray that there is not even one person in this 74 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:23,100 place who will ever remain in the place of what being like the 75 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:27,000 Pharisees, who knew enough about Jesus, who watched Jesus, who 76 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 studied Jesus, who knew the ways of Jesus enough to be saved a 77 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:35,100 thousand times over but never came to saving faith. 78 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,000 I hope that you are now among those who will say to Jesus on 79 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,700 that day, Lord, we ate and drank in your presence, you taught in 80 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:43,400 our streets. And he will say, I do not know 81 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:45,800 where you came from, just because you hang out with 82 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,500 Christians and you like to have potlucks at churches, doesn't 83 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:53,400 mean that you will be saved. With all of this here before us, 84 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:54,700 we still have much more to learn. 85 00:05:54,700 --> 00:05:58,900 The Holy Spirit has so much yet to say in this text, especially 86 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:02,700 with the gospel of Mark because in Mark's gospel, he has a 87 00:06:02,700 --> 00:06:07,000 detail significant detail about the Lord Jesus Christ that Luke 88 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:11,000 and Matthew have not etched in their versions and we will 89 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,300 discover that today it's something about Jesus that that 90 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:19,500 we for some reason do not see clearly in the word of God and I 91 00:06:19,500 --> 00:06:23,000 believe it's because of an imbalance view of who God is. 92 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:27,700 We will do this by coming to this tax and looking at three 93 00:06:27,700 --> 00:06:31,300 things about the Lord, Jesus Christ, three things about his 94 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:36,000 heart and the first thing is the heart behind his commands. 95 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:40,600 The second thing is the heart behind his confrontation. 96 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:49,300 And lastly, his heart. As he sees the callousness and 97 00:06:49,300 --> 00:06:52,600 some. And so, we looked at verse 1 and 98 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:54,600 2. Last week, let's look at verse 3 99 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,100 and 6. We see here that Jesus said to 100 00:06:58,108 --> 00:07:03,100 the man, with a withered hand, come here in this place, not 101 00:07:03,100 --> 00:07:04,600 knowing how much time has passed. 102 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:10,100 Jesus now breaks, the silence. He breaks the Silence by 103 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:15,000 speaking up and took control of the situation and the Lord did 104 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,500 not give a length. Discourse. 105 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:19,100 You didn't give a powerful Parable at least at this point. 106 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,600 Mark tells us that he turns his attention to this man with a 107 00:07:21,608 --> 00:07:24,300 withered hand. And he says, two simple words 108 00:07:24,300 --> 00:07:30,800 come here That is a command and that is a command worthy of 109 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:32,900 reflection. But before we go into that 110 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:36,400 realize that in these verses in this scene, we actually have two 111 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,400 commands. Jesus gives to commands to the 112 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,900 same man and when we actually just just look at what these 113 00:07:42,900 --> 00:07:46,100 commands say and what they mean we will know something about the 114 00:07:46,100 --> 00:07:48,400 nature of the lordship of Jesus Christ. 115 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,200 Even over us the first we saw it in verse 3. 116 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,600 He said come here. Then you scroll down to verse 5 117 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,900 and we see in the middle of verse 5u says, stretch out your 118 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:04,600 hand to commands for the same person and again, it would do us 119 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,100 good to realize that there's something behind these commands 120 00:08:08,300 --> 00:08:11,000 that deal with us. And if we would respond 121 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,900 appropriately and understanding the nature of Jesus lordship, we 122 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:19,100 will know what this man knew. What did he know, healing, what 123 00:08:19,100 --> 00:08:23,400 did he know, wholeness? What did he know life? 124 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:26,300 This is what's available. This is surely for you. 125 00:08:26,300 --> 00:08:29,900 And I Now, when we understand that behind Christ orders and 126 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:34,299 his charges is our good, our blessing, his glory, and he 127 00:08:34,299 --> 00:08:39,400 seeks to heal you, he seeks to heal you and what way? 128 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:43,000 Well, look at Matthews version. Go to Matthew chapter 12 and 129 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:53,500 look at verse 13, So it shall be the same for us who trust and 130 00:08:53,500 --> 00:08:58,100 obey. In Matthew 12 13, we read after 131 00:08:58,100 --> 00:09:00,400 the man was healed. Look at this. 132 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,200 Then he said to the man stretch out your hand and the man 133 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:08,800 stretched it out and it was restored healthy like the other 134 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:13,200 Matthew includes that detail healthy, like the other, 135 00:09:13,700 --> 00:09:16,200 implying, what? What, why would that even be 136 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:18,400 given to us? Why is that even necessary? 137 00:09:19,200 --> 00:09:22,200 Because it's a statement that Jesus wants us to be completely 138 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,800 whole. Completely whole, not partially 139 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,400 Sanctified, not some aspects of your life that had been 140 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:31,800 influenced by the work of the spirit and others that are still 141 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:36,700 dead and by the flesh Christ wants to complete his work in 142 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:41,400 you, he wants to bring fruit in every aspect of your existence 143 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:44,300 and every Arena of your day-to-day life. 144 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,400 And so if you long for that, if you yearn for that, if you're 145 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:50,000 tired of saying, you know, yeah, like since I became a Christian 146 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,900 this change but I could not shake this off. 147 00:09:51,900 --> 00:09:53,100 This is just something it's I guess. 148 00:09:53,300 --> 00:09:55,600 My nature to my culture. This is how we are. 149 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,800 Forget that. Christ wants to come and do a 150 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,100 complete work, make you completely whole and what that's 151 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:07,700 going to require, is us to understand his commands and what 152 00:10:07,700 --> 00:10:10,600 is required of us and responding to those commands. 153 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:12,400 And we will arrive to the fullness of the life of the 154 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:14,600 spirit. And so, let's examine these two 155 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:16,600 commands. Shall we the first one in verse 156 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:22,200 3, come here, What's so significant about that? 157 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,700 Well, this man was obviously sitting in a way in the 158 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:27,200 synagogue that he was outside of the full view of the 159 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,000 congregation and so Jesus and wanting to display his power 160 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,600 before all, who were there brought him into the center of 161 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:39,200 the room, come here and what's amazing is when Jesus says, come 162 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:41,900 here, he did not see it necessary to explain what he was 163 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:45,500 going to do. You didn't say come here because 164 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:51,100 he just told them what to do come here and this man who has 165 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:54,800 silently compliant gets up, and I'm sure there was thoughts 166 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,600 going on in his mind as he was taking those few small steps, 167 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,600 what's this all about? He listened. 168 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:05,300 And I wonder if it's because Jesus taught in the synagogue 169 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:08,800 and this man realized there's something different about this 170 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,100 man in comparison to the teachers who have walked through 171 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:13,700 this place. And I wonder if it was the 172 00:11:13,700 --> 00:11:17,300 authority and the compassionate with the power that compelled 173 00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:21,400 and convince them to trust in his voice, come here. 174 00:11:21,900 --> 00:11:26,800 All right, and so he comes and he approaches Jesus and Jesus is 175 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,600 going to do something wonderful for him. 176 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:31,000 And I want you to understand that there is a lesson here, 177 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,800 even in these two words, when we understand the lordship of Jesus 178 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,300 Christ, Our obedience to him, should never ever be influenced 179 00:11:38,300 --> 00:11:41,700 by our inability to perceive what will happen on the other 180 00:11:41,700 --> 00:11:42,800 side of that. Yes. 181 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:48,700 Our obedience to Jesus should never be influenced by our 182 00:11:48,700 --> 00:11:52,600 inability to see what will this bring about in my life? 183 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:58,200 If I say yes. Or if I say no, there are many 184 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,500 who feel this Unholy, hesitation to actually follow Jesus and 185 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:04,100 particular, instructions for their lives and they'll 186 00:12:04,100 --> 00:12:06,000 Christians have this General understanding. 187 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,100 Yes, trust and Obey for, there's no other way. 188 00:12:08,300 --> 00:12:10,400 God will bless your life if you walk in his ways. 189 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:13,200 For some reason, that's not enough to give him the 190 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,100 confidence to actually move forward when it comes to real 191 00:12:16,100 --> 00:12:21,000 life situations. And so these crashing thoughts 192 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:25,200 come in different ways. Well what if what if my friends 193 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,300 see me as a fanatic? What if my co-workers realize 194 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:32,700 that I'm so serious about Jesus that they begin to criticize and 195 00:12:32,700 --> 00:12:36,800 even determine the environment of my day-to-day job? 196 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:41,000 What if, what if I do, what Jesus said and lovingly 197 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,000 confront, a brother or sister, that I will make this 198 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,300 relationship that I cherish awkward. 199 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,300 Right? What if my faithfulness cost me, 200 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:50,800 fine? She lost what, what if I preach 201 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:53,300 in a certain way and people don't come like the church, 202 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:57,200 right? All these thoughts. 203 00:12:58,500 --> 00:13:02,400 All these hesitations but I want to tell you something, Jesus 204 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:07,000 does not owe us a personalized outline of what will happen if 205 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,300 you just trust him. He doesn't. 206 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:16,600 He doesn't owe us anything. He doesn't have any reason to 207 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,800 tell us this will play out in this way because that's not what 208 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,400 obedience is about. The sole motivation for our 209 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,400 total submission to the sovereignty of Jesus and the 210 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,100 Simplicity of his word is what I'm just doing. 211 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:34,200 What he told me to do. It's a simple as that. 212 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,900 No matter what comes out of it, no matter what comes out of it, 213 00:13:38,100 --> 00:13:42,100 knowing that I've done my part in obeying him suffice us 214 00:13:42,100 --> 00:13:45,100 whether it's praise or persecution promotion, or 215 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:49,100 eviction life or death, Smiles, her frowns. 216 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,100 When Jesus has come here, I will come. 217 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,300 And when he says go there, I will go. and I will trust that 218 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,900 the reward or the lack thereof, in this life will be his 219 00:13:59,900 --> 00:14:03,900 bidding, his doing, not mine, You see that in so many ways in 220 00:14:03,900 --> 00:14:05,100 the Bible, I think of the Apostle. 221 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:07,300 Paul one day, he's thrown into prison with Silas. 222 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,700 There they are chained hand and foot and they begin to pray and 223 00:14:10,700 --> 00:14:13,300 sing and that Midnight Hour. And what does God do? 224 00:14:13,300 --> 00:14:16,200 He brings an earthquake. I would like a few earthquakes 225 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:21,100 in my life, he shakes things up the prison doors, swing open and 226 00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:24,100 the Jailer who was on shift that night gets saved and not just 227 00:14:24,100 --> 00:14:29,200 him but his household Glory. And another time he gets 228 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:32,400 arrested by me, Paul was a frequent visitor to prisons, but 229 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,900 this time he's not leaving prison According to second 230 00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:38,300 Timothy without his head being cut off. 231 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:45,400 God was glorified in both ways. I loved that story goes, He 232 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,200 three Hebrew boys. We were talking about them. 233 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:49,700 We're hearing about it through Pastor, Daniel just a couple 234 00:14:49,700 --> 00:14:53,300 weeks ago and I'm paraphrasing, but they looked at 235 00:14:53,300 --> 00:14:55,000 Nebuchadnezzar, they said, okay, do what you want. 236 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,500 We're not doing what you say, throw us in the fire, and if God 237 00:14:58,500 --> 00:15:01,100 Saves us, he says he doesn't. We're not doing what you're 238 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:05,500 going to tell us to do those. Men were worried to be those 239 00:15:05,500 --> 00:15:08,700 guys were ready to be rather cooked alive. 240 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:13,000 And instead, they were promoted. You can't determine these 241 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,700 things. All you can determine is, I will 242 00:15:15,700 --> 00:15:17,900 trust what he says. He does have to explain what my 243 00:15:17,900 --> 00:15:19,400 life is going to look like if I do it. 244 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:24,300 I will just trust and Obey but we come back here to the second 245 00:15:24,300 --> 00:15:27,200 command in verse 5, stretch out your hand. 246 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:33,900 Stretch out your hand, what a strange command to give somebody 247 00:15:33,900 --> 00:15:36,000 who is incapable of doing the very thing that was asked of 248 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,900 him. This man's hand was paralyzed. 249 00:15:39,900 --> 00:15:43,100 And here's, Jesus telling him to move and extend it Forward 250 00:15:43,100 --> 00:15:46,600 impossible. It doesn't make sense. 251 00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:48,700 The man doesn't have life, he doesn't have ability. 252 00:15:48,700 --> 00:15:52,600 He doesn't have the grace to be able to do this simple thing, no 253 00:15:52,608 --> 00:15:54,500 matter how much he wanted to do it. 254 00:15:54,900 --> 00:16:00,200 And yet Jesus in his lordship in his Is them in his grace. 255 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:03,700 Looks at this man and he says, would you stretch it out? 256 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:10,600 and we look at this, and we think, How can Jesus asked this 257 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,200 man to do something that he could not do? 258 00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:14,300 And that's how many Believers feel about many of the commands 259 00:16:14,300 --> 00:16:17,100 of Jesus. Impossible. 260 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,100 Lord, how is it that I look at these truths and I hear what the 261 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:24,300 preacher saying you're asked me to live like this. 262 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:28,300 You're asking to be sexually pure, I can't even walk a week 263 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:33,900 without indulging in filth. You're asking me to, to be 264 00:16:33,900 --> 00:16:38,100 genuinely free from bitterness and to forget what people have 265 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:39,300 done in the sense of forgiving them. 266 00:16:39,300 --> 00:16:42,200 Though, I may rehearse it in the paint is still really asking me 267 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:47,300 to actually go beyond just forgiving but loving such people 268 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,700 that if they're in the shop at my front door and ask for a 269 00:16:50,700 --> 00:16:53,200 meal, or ask for help because their car broke down. 270 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:55,500 You want me to actually extend Greys? 271 00:16:57,700 --> 00:17:00,000 You want me to Rejoice? Always, I can even Rejoice at 272 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,700 all. Rejoice. 273 00:17:01,700 --> 00:17:06,800 Always. I'm trying to be a Godly mother. 274 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,000 I'm trying to be a Godly wife, but it would be really easy. 275 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,099 If you gave me a better husband or better children, And you're 276 00:17:13,099 --> 00:17:17,900 asking me to do this with nothing in view of return with 277 00:17:17,900 --> 00:17:20,599 no help here. Huh. 278 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,400 But here's the hoping this miracle that applies to our 279 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,300 spiritual paralysis. The glory of Jesus Christ being 280 00:17:29,300 --> 00:17:34,100 Lord, is that he always enables us to do that which we cannot 281 00:17:34,100 --> 00:17:37,600 exercise in our own strength. That's the point of this miracle 282 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,000 stretch out your hand and this man. 283 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,400 As he did it, with the little effort of faith that he had 284 00:17:45,700 --> 00:17:48,400 would sense, an infusion of power that would make it 285 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:54,000 possible. Jesus is not a cruel master that 286 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:59,700 dishes out unrealistic, prescriptions and smiles while 287 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:06,400 you painfully perform. He is an empowering Savior and 288 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,100 all he says is give me your faith and I will give you my 289 00:18:10,100 --> 00:18:13,600 power. That is the glory of the Gospel 290 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:16,600 of Jesus Christ. And it's it's a truth woven from 291 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:20,100 cover to cover in this Bible, especially when you seek to 292 00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:23,000 understand your inheritance in the New Covenant, what Jesus, 293 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,700 blood purchase for you and tapping into that power to live 294 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:28,400 and walk as he walked as we sang. 295 00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:31,300 And here's an example that we have before us. 296 00:18:31,300 --> 00:18:33,300 Let me give you another one, not with a man with his hand. 297 00:18:33,300 --> 00:18:36,800 But with a man with his feet in the Old Testament, want to this 298 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,000 bless me when I read it and I just chewed on it for days. 299 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:43,200 How is it that this man? Experience is disgrace in the 300 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:48,000 old Covenant and I myself would dare to even complain that these 301 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:51,300 things in the Christian Journey are not realistic. 302 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:54,800 Go to Ezekiel chapter 2 verse 1. I want you to see this with your 303 00:18:54,800 --> 00:19:00,000 own eyes Ezekiel's in the presence of God. 304 00:19:05,100 --> 00:19:07,700 And a measure that was overwhelming. 305 00:19:09,100 --> 00:19:14,900 Like an unimaginably, holy atmosphere, and Ezekiel to after 306 00:19:14,900 --> 00:19:18,400 being thrown to the ground laying prostrate by the glory. 307 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,400 That was before him. God calls us profit to do 308 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:25,100 something so simple, but yet so impossible. 309 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:29,500 Is he go to one? And he said to me, son of man, 310 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:32,800 stand on your feet and I will speak with you. 311 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:38,500 And as he spoke to me, the spirit entered into me, And set 312 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:40,900 me on my feet and I heard him speaking to me. 313 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:46,700 Stand on your feet and this servant of God cannot even lift 314 00:19:46,700 --> 00:19:51,200 his face. From the dust that his nose was 315 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:55,400 buried in because of the Blazing Majesty of God. 316 00:19:56,300 --> 00:19:59,400 And yet God would say and commissioned him, get up. 317 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,600 And here's how Ezekiel rights of his experience. 318 00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:08,200 Once I heard that command, that seems so impossible in that same 319 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:11,200 moment. Immediately came a supernatural 320 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:17,000 help that entered into me and lifted me up and place my feet 321 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:20,700 on Solid Ground. And when you see that, you have 322 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:25,000 to understand that that is a picture of what you and I have 323 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,700 permanently in Jesus Christ. See what we celebrate as 324 00:20:29,700 --> 00:20:32,800 Christians. Is that the spirits enabling 325 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,800 work is not reserved for some profits, or special Servants of 326 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:39,100 God. Jesus purchased this access for 327 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:43,300 all of us to know the energizing assisting work of the third 328 00:20:43,300 --> 00:20:46,000 person of the godhead, the holy spirit of God. 329 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:48,300 This is what we have. This is what we sell, this is 330 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:51,900 what we rejoice in Christ. Now made a way for the spirit 331 00:20:51,900 --> 00:20:56,200 not just to enter into me but the live in me, he sealed me and 332 00:20:56,200 --> 00:21:00,100 he's always ready to fill me and to help me. 333 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:05,500 And to meet my meager efforts by bringing about such a Grace that 334 00:21:05,500 --> 00:21:09,300 I myself would give him glory for any kind of stride of 335 00:21:09,300 --> 00:21:12,800 Holiness and that's something that you have to believe. 336 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,600 We need to recover the supernatural ality of our faith. 337 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:22,800 We got so caught up with people criticizing us for not being 338 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,500 rational or scientific. I believe we went to the Other 339 00:21:25,500 --> 00:21:29,900 Extreme and now we promote psychology and philosophy and we 340 00:21:29,900 --> 00:21:33,100 have almost drained this thing from the supernatural element of 341 00:21:33,100 --> 00:21:37,300 it. Christ can set you free, he 342 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:40,500 really can. So here's my question to you 343 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:42,300 brother. Here's my question to you, 344 00:21:42,300 --> 00:21:45,000 sister. What part of you is withered 345 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:47,800 Yes, Christ. Did a work in. 346 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:51,100 You praise the Lord, he saved you, Hallelujah. 347 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:55,200 But what part of you is still lifeless that can't seem to 348 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:58,200 become a branch where there's fruit hanging off of it, is it 349 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:02,300 your lack of love. Is it your lack of patience? 350 00:22:03,700 --> 00:22:10,500 Is it your rage is your Purity? Is it your humility? 351 00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:12,600 What is it? That you need God to do. 352 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:16,300 Well here's what I say to you. Stretch it forth by faith and 353 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:20,400 choir of the spirit of God and ask him to infuse the power that 354 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,500 you yourself. Could never ever, ever come to 355 00:22:22,500 --> 00:22:25,900 on your own and he will meet you there, he will meet you there. 356 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,300 I'm not ashamed. To give such simple advice. 357 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:32,100 I'm not ashamed because I see the simple promise here. 358 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,600 I believe that Jesus. Purchase that for you and I that 359 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,100 he can actually change you. It does not matter what your 360 00:22:39,100 --> 00:22:40,500 history is. It doesn't matter what 361 00:22:40,500 --> 00:22:43,400 generationally a pattern might have been, doesn't matter if 362 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:45,700 you're a hot-blooded, middle easterner, doesn't matter. 363 00:22:46,300 --> 00:22:49,100 Christ can change. He sanctifies our personality, 364 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:52,200 he can do something with your attitude, he can do something 365 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,400 with your mindset. He can do something with your 366 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:59,700 habits believe. Believe, we believe him by 367 00:22:59,700 --> 00:23:01,000 faith. And justification. 368 00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:03,000 Is that where it stops in Galatians, 3? 369 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,900 Know your faith continues in your sanctification. 370 00:23:07,300 --> 00:23:08,600 What you have begun in the spirit? 371 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:11,800 Continue in the spirit. Paul says, don't rely on the 372 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:14,200 power of the flesh. There is no power in the flesh. 373 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:16,900 Give yourself to the holy spirit's work. 374 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,100 A great price has been paid for us to tap into such a mercy. 375 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:22,400 So we see these things with these two commands. 376 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,400 Do we not? Come here, availed command. 377 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,900 That doesn't, give us all the details, but such as the nature 378 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:30,400 of Christ leadership. He doesn't owe you any 379 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,000 explanation. Just know who he is, and let him 380 00:23:34,100 --> 00:23:37,000 lead the way and it stretch forth your hand. 381 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,400 Whatever, you deem impossible. Whatever you see that seems to 382 00:23:40,408 --> 00:23:43,800 be such a challenge. He is right there behind every 383 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,700 command. With a promise to help you. 384 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,700 Every single time, this is the heart behind Jesus commands. 385 00:23:49,900 --> 00:23:52,800 As we see here, let us now move forward to the heart behind this 386 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:57,400 confrontation. In verse 4 of Mark chapter 3 and 387 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,600 he said to them. Now he's looking at the 388 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,600 Pharisees. He takes his attention away from 389 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,700 this man. I wonder if he was hiding his 390 00:24:05,700 --> 00:24:08,300 hand. I wonder if he was showing his 391 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:13,400 hand to give Jesus a clue that he wants to be healed regardless 392 00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:16,000 Jesus. Oh, with that Authority. 393 00:24:16,300 --> 00:24:20,700 But that Authority. What a man Jesus was come here. 394 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,300 This man moves into the crowd and he comes forward and he 395 00:24:24,300 --> 00:24:27,700 looks at this man oozing with compassion. 396 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:30,000 Then he looks at the Pharisees, I'm sure they were maybe sitting 397 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,800 on either side and he asked them a question, is it lawful on the 398 00:24:34,100 --> 00:24:41,100 To do good or to do harm to save life or to kill and Luke 68. 399 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:42,500 You'd have to turn. There we are. 400 00:24:42,500 --> 00:24:44,800 Told that Jesus knew their thoughts. 401 00:24:45,500 --> 00:24:47,100 So he knew why they were sitting there. 402 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,600 He knew exactly why they attended on that day to witness 403 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:51,200 a miracle. Yes. 404 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,100 But not for the same reason that you and I would want to see 405 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:56,200 Jesus heal somebody, right that's out of desire and love 406 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,000 and compassion. These men wanted to try to find 407 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,100 a reason. To criminalize him evil, 408 00:25:03,100 --> 00:25:06,300 ambition to condemn him for breaking one of their silly 409 00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:08,900 traditions. And so the Lord asked the 410 00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:10,200 question. It's really a brilliant 411 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,700 question. He says, is it lawful on the 412 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:16,900 Sabbath to do good or to do harm to save life or to kill you? 413 00:25:16,900 --> 00:25:19,500 Can't like either way you answer that you're gonna look like a 414 00:25:19,500 --> 00:25:22,500 fool, what you gonna say? It's evil to do good. 415 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:24,000 It's evil to save lives, they don't know. 416 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,900 They can't and that's why they are literally silent. 417 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:30,300 The breath has been sucked out of them, but it's even deeper 418 00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:31,500 than that. Deeper than that. 419 00:25:31,500 --> 00:25:34,000 Because this is what Jesus is saying, knowing their thoughts. 420 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:36,300 He knows that they're there to kill him. 421 00:25:36,300 --> 00:25:38,300 Are these trying to reason, find a reason to kill him? 422 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,900 And so, in essence, what he's saying in this question is here, 423 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:45,600 I am on the Sabbath wanting to heal this man and to do good to 424 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,200 him. And here you are on the same 425 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,200 Sabbath. And you want to kill me. 426 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:54,700 Who's really fulfilling the law of God here? 427 00:25:56,500 --> 00:26:00,300 I want to restore this man. You want to destroy this man. 428 00:26:00,300 --> 00:26:03,000 Me. So who's really observing the 429 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,600 heart of God behind the Sabbath? You are me? 430 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:13,400 You can imagine that this simple question, created a deafening 431 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:14,700 silence. I mean, if you thought it was 432 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:18,800 tense before this, add the awkwardness, add the 433 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:23,800 embarrassment on their part, add the fury and the anger that was 434 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,900 just coming out of their ears. Actually, do you want to know 435 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:28,200 how I know? They were angry. 436 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,800 Go to Luke, and I'll tell you exactly why. 437 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,600 And it's enlightening for us because I want to make a strong 438 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,100 point with this. Luke 6. 439 00:26:38,100 --> 00:26:42,500 This is Luke's version and he says, and says, in verse 9 to 11 440 00:26:51,300 --> 00:26:53,300 And Jesus said to them, I ask you. 441 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:58,200 Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm to save 442 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,900 life, or to destroy it. And after looking around at 443 00:27:01,900 --> 00:27:04,100 them, notice you didn't mention the anger of Jesus will get to 444 00:27:04,100 --> 00:27:07,400 that in a moment. After looking around at them, he 445 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,500 said to him, stretch out your hand and he did. 446 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:15,000 So, and his hand was restored, but they were filled with Fury. 447 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,200 They were filled with Fury and discuss with one another what 448 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:25,100 they might do to Jesus, anger, frustration, vexed. 449 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:29,700 How can this man speak to us in such a way? 450 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,600 And I love it because what Jesus does here is what these guys try 451 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,400 to do later on. Remember they try to Corner him 452 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,300 it was so cute. And try to try to trick him and 453 00:27:38,300 --> 00:27:39,800 put him in a place where he couldn't answer. 454 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,100 Like he did that to us as try to do it to him. 455 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:44,200 Jesus did it so gracefully. So powerfully. 456 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,100 So effortlessly, then when they try they just they just fail. 457 00:27:47,100 --> 00:27:53,100 It was embarrassing part 2. you know, I was reading this and as 458 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:56,200 many ways you can go about this verse, but I was thinking about 459 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,600 this, I made a comment last week, I don't know if you heard 460 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,900 it. As you study the gospels you'll 461 00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:05,300 realize how much real estate, the Pharisees, take up and God's 462 00:28:05,300 --> 00:28:07,400 word. It's really interesting. 463 00:28:08,300 --> 00:28:11,000 I mean, the encounters with Jesus, even let the woes that 464 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,900 Jesus has, I mean, they're they're from the, almost the 465 00:28:12,908 --> 00:28:14,700 beginning of his ministry to the end of it. 466 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,700 And I thought to myself a very simple question, why why did the 467 00:28:18,700 --> 00:28:23,000 Holy Spirit Reserve so much about the details of what? 468 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:28,100 Ferris, Liam looks like and and, and how it was so real in Jesus 469 00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:33,600 time. And so obvious in our Bibles And 470 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,500 I came to think about in there are many reasons, but there is 471 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:40,100 one clear statement that Jesus makes that proves to me, why the 472 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:44,300 Holy Spirit has decided to enclose and keep these things 473 00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:46,300 for generations to come. You don't have to turn there, 474 00:28:46,300 --> 00:28:49,100 but just listen at one point in Mark, he doesn't in different 475 00:28:49,100 --> 00:28:53,100 gospel accounts, he looks at his own disciples Jesus and Mark 8 476 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,500 and verse 15. And he says, watch out. 477 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,800 This is what Jesus says, watch out for what, Beware of the 478 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,800 leaven of the Pharisees and of the leaven of Herod. 479 00:29:05,900 --> 00:29:11,400 Jesus warned his own disciples don't let the leaven creep into 480 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:13,600 your life. The leaven of the Pharisees and 481 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,600 that leaven is not just speaking about false Doctrine. 482 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:23,400 A speaking about hypocrisy hypocrisy, He's warning his own 483 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,000 people. I'm telling you to be careful. 484 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:32,000 It is easy to slip into. Superficial spirituality, it's 485 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,000 easy, my disciples for you to become frauds. 486 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:42,400 To adopt external religiosity but to have no power of 487 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,100 godliness in you. So watch out. 488 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,100 And so I look at that statement, I think to myself, is it 489 00:29:48,100 --> 00:29:51,600 possible that the reason why we have so much about Pharisees, 490 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:56,000 what they do, how they think for the reason that Jesus stated, 491 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,600 because he wants to warn his people not to be like them. 492 00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:06,400 And if we want to know whether we are like them, he has all 493 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:10,500 these examples, all these interactions all these insights, 494 00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:13,500 so that throughout the generations, I would look at my 495 00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:15,300 Bible and see. Am I a Pharisee? 496 00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:21,700 Am I a Pharisee? You know what the common picture 497 00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:24,900 of a Pharisee is two people long robes. 498 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:33,500 Long beards incense, Bells Traditions over God's word, 499 00:30:33,900 --> 00:30:36,000 okay? But have you ever thought about 500 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,000 this concerning a Pharisee? One of the marks of somebody 501 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,000 being a Pharisee is that they are easily offended by the 502 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:49,800 truth. Oh yeah, so now the picture is 503 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,700 enlarged, right? You don't believe me. 504 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:54,300 That's okay. Don't believe me. 505 00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:58,900 Believe Jesus, in Matthew, 15 turn there with me because what 506 00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:02,600 you see here in Mark chapter 3, is a common characteristic of a 507 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:08,600 Pharisee. so, we think Pharisees are those who come from 508 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:13,000 traditional backgrounds, I'll show you what the Holy Spirit 509 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:14,600 tells us what a Pharisee looks like. 510 00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:24,700 In Matthew 15 12. Then the disciples came and said 511 00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:26,300 to him. Do you know that the Pharisees 512 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:29,900 were offended? When they heard the saying, He 513 00:31:29,900 --> 00:31:32,800 answered every plant that my heavenly father has not planted, 514 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,300 will be routed up, let them alone, I love that. 515 00:31:35,300 --> 00:31:38,700 Jesus didn't go around chasing offended, people, let them 516 00:31:38,700 --> 00:31:42,600 alone, they are blind guides. And if the blind lead, the 517 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,100 blind, both will fall into a pit. 518 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,400 There it is. One of the marks of being a 519 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:53,300 Pharisees that you are easily offended by a truth that you 520 00:31:53,300 --> 00:31:59,000 don't like. Disciple said, Jesus, probably 521 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,800 concerned that perhaps Jesus should be on good terms with the 522 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:04,900 religious leaders of his day. Hey, Jesus. 523 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,400 Do you realize after Sunday morning the whole roll of 524 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,800 Pharisees left upset, after what you said in your sermon? 525 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:15,000 They're all talking to you see the fuming, there they're upset. 526 00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,100 She's like, yeah, let him alone. They're blind. 527 00:32:18,100 --> 00:32:20,100 And whoever follows them is blind also. 528 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,600 And I look at this and I thought, wow, maybe there are 529 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,800 more Pharisees than I thought. Because a Pharisee claims to 530 00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:30,500 know the truth and love the truth. 531 00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:35,900 But is agitated when the word exposes a particular wrong that 532 00:32:35,900 --> 00:32:39,600 is found in a habit or a belief that they've held on to for so 533 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,000 long. That's a Pharisee. 534 00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:46,400 The Pride cannot acknowledge that they're wrong. 535 00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:49,000 My brother my sister, how do you respond? 536 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,800 Never mind from a sermon standpoint but when a brother or 537 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,000 sister sits with you and opens God's word and says this is out 538 00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:01,800 of line. They cannot accept how God would 539 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:05,100 ever disagree with them, especially with the things that 540 00:33:05,100 --> 00:33:08,400 they think is harmless or tolerable Pharisee. 541 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:15,700 The mark of a true child of God and relationship to the word is 542 00:33:15,700 --> 00:33:17,900 that whatever is presented before them. 543 00:33:17,900 --> 00:33:22,100 If they know, it's God's will, if it's clear then they joyfully 544 00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:24,400 accept it even if it stings at first. 545 00:33:24,700 --> 00:33:27,200 I embrace it. If it's God's will God's word, 546 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,500 God's wisdom, God's precepts. I embrace it, I want it, I will 547 00:33:31,500 --> 00:33:35,500 surrender to it. One of the ways that you and 548 00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:38,000 we've talked about this at Maranatha that you can actually, 549 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,300 decipher between false and true. Spirituality is very simple. 550 00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:46,300 How does that person engage and respond to the word of God? 551 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,200 That's all you need to know, because that's the foundational 552 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:51,900 thing. Even when Paul is teaching the 553 00:33:51,900 --> 00:33:54,900 church in Corinth, he ends one of his arguments that would 554 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:56,800 today be deemed as controversial. 555 00:33:57,200 --> 00:34:00,300 And you know what he says? And First Corinthians 14, don't 556 00:34:00,300 --> 00:34:02,800 turn their verse 37. Listen to these words. 557 00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:07,500 He says if anyone Things that he is a prophet or spiritual, he 558 00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:09,300 should acknowledge that these things. 559 00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:13,000 I am writing to you are a command of the Lord because so 560 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,000 so yes. Some people in Corinth that were 561 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,300 going around saying what Jesus told me and I'm and look at my 562 00:34:19,300 --> 00:34:22,199 gifts. So this this is this has to be 563 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:23,600 right? And Paul says, hold up. 564 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:24,900 Let's just, let's just deal with this. 565 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,300 If anybody is really a profit. If anybody is really spiritual, 566 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:32,100 they will hear what I say from this letter and they would 567 00:34:32,100 --> 00:34:34,500 acknowledge that this is from God and then they I will submit 568 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:36,600 to it. And you know what, the context 569 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:40,199 of this is when Paul said it woman's role in the church. 570 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:47,600 That was the context. And I think that is a very, very 571 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,600 applicable truth in our day. Today, when you have so many 572 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,100 people are going around saying, well, Jesus appeared to me in 573 00:34:53,100 --> 00:34:55,199 Jesus told me, and Jesus did this. 574 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,800 And Jesus, if you're really spiritual, the word is what you 575 00:34:58,808 --> 00:35:02,600 will submit to. No matter what, what your 576 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,700 experience was, no matter what your denomination says, no 577 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:07,600 matter how much you were requested, this not matter. 578 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,600 Pharisaism and Pharisees are offended by the truth. 579 00:35:13,700 --> 00:35:16,600 They cannot tolerate it. Do they? 580 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,500 Yes with lip service, acknowledge it. 581 00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:26,500 But when it touches a nerve, haha, They pull back, Jesus 582 00:35:26,500 --> 00:35:29,000 heart behind his confrontation. You know what? 583 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,800 The Lord wants to do in you and me, I believe that there is 584 00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,400 something here. About the Heart of Jesus behind 585 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:39,600 his teaching, he always wants to save us from hypocrisy really. 586 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,400 And I want to be like Jesus, if Jesus was at leader and a 587 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:43,500 teacher, I want to be like Jesus. 588 00:35:43,500 --> 00:35:46,200 And what way I want to first look at my own life and make 589 00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,800 sure there's no leaven of hypocrisy and I want to exhort 590 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,400 others to do the same. Be free from it flee from it. 591 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,900 So you want to know God's heart. Whenever you hear a word that 592 00:35:55,900 --> 00:35:58,000 might be strong, he wants to save you. 593 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,800 And I from the leaven of the Pharisees, he absolutely hates 594 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,900 hypocrisy. I You Don't See Jesus. 595 00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:09,600 Dedicating a chapter in Matthew woing over prostitutes and tax 596 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,100 collectors, but religious people. 597 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:18,000 Oh, woe to you woe to you. That says something there's 598 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,700 Greater Grace for prostitutes and drug dealers and gang 599 00:36:21,700 --> 00:36:25,500 members and pimps. Than people who put on a 600 00:36:25,508 --> 00:36:28,800 religious face when in reality they're fake. 601 00:36:30,700 --> 00:36:34,500 The heart of Christ in its confrontation lovingly is to 602 00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:37,900 save us to cleanse us, to wash us from that Levin that so 603 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:41,100 easily can come in and make us like a Pharisee, and you don't 604 00:36:41,100 --> 00:36:44,800 need the robe with a long beard. Either the heart of Christ 605 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,700 behind his commands, the heart of Christ behind his 606 00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:49,200 confrontation, the heart of Christ. 607 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:57,100 When he sees callousness in our hearts, First 5 of Mark, 3. 608 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,100 And he looked around at them with anger. 609 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,500 Grieved at their Hardness of Heart. 610 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:13,400 I'm sure you would agree that marks writing style up to this 611 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,000 point has been very fast pace, he loves to jump from one scene 612 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:17,600 to the next. She loves to use that word 613 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:21,200 immediately but it's as though the Holy Spirit does something 614 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,500 in this one verse. It says though he puts this on 615 00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:30,400 slow motion, And he slows the vehicle down so to speak so that 616 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,100 we can look into the window and through the window of God's 617 00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:38,600 word, and take our time to digest the details of this 618 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:44,100 portrait. Jesus looked at them. 619 00:37:45,100 --> 00:37:50,600 Angry And he was grieved. You know, I read that, and I 620 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,800 read that, and I read that in every single time I read that I 621 00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:58,100 cannot help, but feel the force of that picture, it almost makes 622 00:37:58,100 --> 00:38:02,200 me just step back and I wonder what his face look like. 623 00:38:03,500 --> 00:38:05,700 Doesn't look like the common paintings that you see on walls 624 00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:08,500 today, I could tell you that Jesus just staring out into the 625 00:38:08,500 --> 00:38:12,200 distance. Know when you see Jesus here, 626 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,700 whoever the eyewitness was the help Mark, right this. 627 00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:20,300 Yes by the spirit that person knew hey Jesus on that day 628 00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:23,700 didn't say a word and we all knew he was angry. 629 00:38:25,100 --> 00:38:30,700 He was angry that his eyes, widen that his nostrils, they 630 00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:35,100 extend. That is the the something 631 00:38:35,100 --> 00:38:37,400 happened with his face that had become a frown. 632 00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:41,100 What was it? All I know from this is that 633 00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:50,600 there is a penetrating gaze that pierced in that synagogue and as 634 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:57,100 I look at this, I think to myself What we're going to hear 635 00:38:57,100 --> 00:38:59,700 today is probably some of that you're not going to hear very 636 00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:01,900 often on a Sunday morning service especially in any 637 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:05,800 service for that matter. Jesus gets angry. 638 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,300 Jesus gets angry and we could praise God. 639 00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:14,600 That isn't get angry for the reasons that we do generally 640 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:18,300 speaking, but that doesn't make his anger, any less intense, if 641 00:39:18,300 --> 00:39:21,500 anything, it makes it more Fierce because his anger is 642 00:39:21,500 --> 00:39:24,500 Holy. It's pure. 643 00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:28,800 It's a reflection of his righteousness. 644 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:33,300 There is a fine line between righteous anger and unrighteous 645 00:39:33,300 --> 00:39:38,100 and a very fine line. But when it's righteous anger is 646 00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:42,700 actually to a degree a manifestation of what you love. 647 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,600 What you're angry about can reveal either your pride your 648 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:53,500 selfishness, you're undisciplined attitude, your 649 00:39:53,500 --> 00:39:58,100 lack of dependency on the Holy Spirit or it can show that you 650 00:39:58,100 --> 00:39:59,900 hate what? God hates. 651 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,400 And it moves you to action righteous action. 652 00:40:05,700 --> 00:40:07,900 And I want to tell you that although hearing on a Sunday 653 00:40:07,900 --> 00:40:10,800 afternoon especially as we heard earlier that, this world is very 654 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,300 angry may be hearing that Jesus gets angry is not the most 655 00:40:14,300 --> 00:40:17,500 edifying thing. But I can guarantee you, if you 656 00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:20,100 understand why he gets angry, you'll love him even more, 657 00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:24,700 you'll love him even more. Why did Jesus get angry? 658 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,500 We're told at their Hardness of Heart. 659 00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:32,600 He saw their thoughts, he read their minds. 660 00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:37,800 And his heart was angered by their heart, and here's the 661 00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:41,300 thing, unfortunately, the majority of our anger is stirred 662 00:40:41,300 --> 00:40:44,300 by our selfishness, right? We don't get our own way. 663 00:40:44,300 --> 00:40:46,400 We get upset at minor inconveniences. 664 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,800 We don't get the attention that we think we deserve. 665 00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:52,900 There's a, there's a sense in which it's my way or no way. 666 00:40:52,900 --> 00:40:56,700 And if it doesn't happen my way, I get all flared up. 667 00:40:57,100 --> 00:41:00,200 That's not Jesus. Rarely do people even God's 668 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,600 people get angry for the same reason Jesus Does. 669 00:41:03,700 --> 00:41:07,300 And one of the most explicit versus of Jesus being angry. 670 00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:10,500 And we're we being told informed that Jesus was angry was 671 00:41:10,500 --> 00:41:14,600 connected to an insensitive and on an unbelieving heart of 672 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,800 another. This is, this is what this is 673 00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:25,400 what caused him to look with such a fierce penetrating stare. 674 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,300 I wonder if it was for an extended amount of time that 675 00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:31,900 made them feel uncomfortable, but understand this, Jesus is 676 00:41:31,900 --> 00:41:33,700 anger. He's very patient. 677 00:41:33,700 --> 00:41:35,100 This was not his first interaction with these 678 00:41:35,100 --> 00:41:37,500 Pharisees. How many times has he rebuked 679 00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:39,500 them? How many time has he taught him? 680 00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:41,800 How many times has he displayed his power before them? 681 00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,900 And yet, time and time? Again, resist time. 682 00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:50,200 And time again, reject, refuse and it's come to a point now 683 00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:54,600 where Christ and seeking to even redirect the Pharisees Minds? 684 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:57,600 Do you think Jesus was Engaging with these Pharisees, just to 685 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:00,600 win an argument. We read an ax last week that 686 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,800 Jesus and his gospel Sate, some who belonged to the party of the 687 00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,300 Pharisees. Yes, Christ even wants to save a 688 00:42:06,300 --> 00:42:10,200 Pharisee. And Jesus here, with his anger 689 00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:14,500 has reached a point where their unbelief was was dangerous. 690 00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:19,800 Very dangerous because when a person grows in their rejection 691 00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:24,000 to a truth, the truth that they are continually exposed by and 692 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,600 to their only in curing a growing anger on The Lord Of 693 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:31,600 Love who desires to woo, their souls to be saved. 694 00:42:33,100 --> 00:42:36,300 There just comes a point where after all that God says, and all 695 00:42:36,300 --> 00:42:40,200 that God does in your life and you continue to say no to him 696 00:42:40,700 --> 00:42:45,000 and turn your back on him, that are righteous anger arises. 697 00:42:45,700 --> 00:42:48,000 And there is something called it's a theological term in the 698 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,700 Bible called the judicial hardening Israel's going through 699 00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:54,500 it right now that when you continue to refuse refuse, 700 00:42:54,500 --> 00:42:58,800 reject reject, that God will accompany that personal Harding 701 00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:02,200 that you are responsible for by finishing the job for you. 702 00:43:02,500 --> 00:43:03,900 You want to stay there? Stay there. 703 00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:06,900 We don't know where that line is. 704 00:43:06,900 --> 00:43:08,800 I wouldn't play with it. That's why the Bible says today 705 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:13,100 is the day of salvation. Jesus looks at their hearts and 706 00:43:13,100 --> 00:43:16,300 he's angry angry at their unbelief, but angry at the 707 00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:20,100 unbelief that caused them to be insensitive to others in 708 00:43:20,100 --> 00:43:22,100 Matthews version, Jesus gives a little teaching. 709 00:43:22,100 --> 00:43:24,900 He says, you're willing to actually go and help a sheep 710 00:43:24,900 --> 00:43:27,800 that falls into a pit on the Sabbath, but not help a brother 711 00:43:27,900 --> 00:43:30,700 who's suffering. How skewed can you be in your 712 00:43:30,700 --> 00:43:34,400 religiosity? And so what angers Jesus that 713 00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:39,800 also is when we lack that compassion for others and and 714 00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:43,000 our faith, cause us to be more self-righteous and treat others 715 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,400 with contempt, this angered is hard, Jesus gets angry at evil. 716 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,500 And we should be to, this is the plague of Our Generation. 717 00:43:52,400 --> 00:43:55,100 This is the plague of modern Christianity, don't get upset, 718 00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:58,700 be neutral, don't call things out. 719 00:44:00,900 --> 00:44:05,200 Jesus intentionally. Disrupted their tradition. 720 00:44:05,500 --> 00:44:08,100 He intentionally did it. If you wanted to heal and 721 00:44:08,100 --> 00:44:10,900 secret, he would have met the man behind the synagogue and 722 00:44:10,900 --> 00:44:13,700 heal them uses a a come here. Come here, he was 723 00:44:13,700 --> 00:44:17,100 confrontational and he was holy and doing it. 724 00:44:18,500 --> 00:44:20,100 And we have to understand that there is something that is 725 00:44:20,100 --> 00:44:22,300 needed today. That same holy confrontation. 726 00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:27,700 So Jesus here is angry at evil and there's nothing that can be 727 00:44:27,700 --> 00:44:31,500 more evil than rejecting, the gospel that seeks to save evil 728 00:44:31,500 --> 00:44:36,300 men. And so we see the reason for it. 729 00:44:36,300 --> 00:44:38,300 But look notice the grief with it. 730 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,300 And he looked around at them with anger grieved at their 731 00:44:43,300 --> 00:44:45,700 Hardness of Heart. You know what that means? 732 00:44:45,700 --> 00:44:52,100 There is genuine deep sincere sadness, That seems like a 733 00:44:52,107 --> 00:44:56,700 contradiction. But it's not for Jesus, at 734 00:44:56,700 --> 00:45:01,600 least, because he's holy, he's filled with love with this 735 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:04,200 anger. There was a sorrow and I believe 736 00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,500 the sorrow is because in realizing the hardness of their 737 00:45:07,500 --> 00:45:11,500 hearts, he also knew the fate of their constant Rebellion against 738 00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:14,300 God. He knew what this was going to 739 00:45:14,300 --> 00:45:17,000 lead to. He knew the Eternal damnation 740 00:45:17,100 --> 00:45:19,800 that they would receive because of the attitude that they were 741 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:23,900 entertaining in that moment. And so, as much as he was angry, 742 00:45:23,900 --> 00:45:26,500 he was also broken. There was a Pity there was, 743 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:30,700 there was a deep sense of Mercy because he knew the cost of not 744 00:45:30,700 --> 00:45:33,000 following Jesus Christ. We always talk about the cost of 745 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,600 following Jesus Christ. There's a greater cost of not. 746 00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:41,100 And limitations 3 verse 33. It says about the Lord for he 747 00:45:41,100 --> 00:45:45,900 does not afflict from his heart. He does not afflict from his 748 00:45:45,900 --> 00:45:48,600 heart or grieve. The children of men. 749 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,900 You know what that means down deep inside God's ultimate 750 00:45:51,900 --> 00:45:54,500 desires for us to turn to him and be saved. 751 00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:58,500 He finds Greater Joy in redeeming than in judging. 752 00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:03,200 He finds greater Delight in seeing people saved from 753 00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:06,700 suffering than seeing people suffer even under his wrath. 754 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:10,000 That is his preference. That is his desire, that is not 755 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,400 to say that he will not judge, he will, and it will satisfy his 756 00:46:13,400 --> 00:46:15,700 Justice. But we do have an understanding 757 00:46:15,700 --> 00:46:19,200 the complexity of all of this. That if there was a choice on 758 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:23,800 God's part, it would be to save and to see all come to 759 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:28,500 repentance Spurgeon had a wonderful way of describing this 760 00:46:28,500 --> 00:46:33,800 moment and it's interesting because it sounds almost sounds 761 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:39,800 almost unfamiliar. Spurgeon says, even when he 762 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:43,000 grows angry with men, he is angry with them because they 763 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:47,500 will not let him bless them. Interesting, isn't it? 764 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,700 Because they will not let him bless them, because they will 765 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,600 persevere in opposing him for reasons, which they cannot 766 00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,200 themselves support. And dare, not even own, you 767 00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,300 know, what made this even worse. I mean, Jesus presents a truth 768 00:47:00,300 --> 00:47:03,100 and they could not even defend their position and they still 769 00:47:03,100 --> 00:47:06,200 refuse Jesus Christ. Even when their arguments fell 770 00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:07,600 in, there was nothing to stand on. 771 00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,500 They still resisted him and this is what made him angry. 772 00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:12,900 How much more do I need to prove to you that you're wrong. 773 00:47:12,900 --> 00:47:16,300 And that I'm right. But Spurgeon goes beyond that 774 00:47:16,300 --> 00:47:20,300 and he says that the sorrow that Jesus knew was because he really 775 00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:24,200 wanted to bless them and their rejection of his lordship 776 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,500 canceled that possibility and only encouraged judgment 777 00:47:27,500 --> 00:47:31,200 instead. That's that's God's heart. 778 00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:34,600 Can you imagine that? You might disagree with Spurgeon 779 00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,400 but I think he has something going on there. 780 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,900 But I see something else in a very, very powerful way that is 781 00:47:40,900 --> 00:47:43,100 applicable to us. I don't just see the reason for 782 00:47:43,100 --> 00:47:44,700 his anger or the grief of his anchor. 783 00:47:44,700 --> 00:47:48,200 I see the control of his anger. Notice what he's what happens 784 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:49,600 here? He looked around at them with 785 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,500 anger grieved at their Hardness of Heart and then what happens 786 00:47:52,700 --> 00:47:54,300 and he said to the man stretch out your hand. 787 00:47:56,000 --> 00:48:01,500 Majestic control Mastery over his emotions. 788 00:48:02,100 --> 00:48:09,200 He did not lose his composure. Be angry and sin, not be angry 789 00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:12,400 and sin. Not and here's the Lord standing 790 00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:19,000 before these men infuriated by their unbelief and by their 791 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:20,700 resistance and you know what Jesus doesn't do. 792 00:48:21,100 --> 00:48:26,900 It doesn't look at them and He doesn't curse underneath his 793 00:48:26,900 --> 00:48:31,200 breath. It isn't cussed them out, didn't 794 00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:34,000 give them a Unholy attitude or an Unholy. 795 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:39,900 Look He channels that and he directed towards even greater 796 00:48:39,900 --> 00:48:43,700 compassion to this man. Here's the thing, I look at 797 00:48:43,700 --> 00:48:46,200 Jesus and I think to myself, if I'm going to follow him in all 798 00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,600 of his ways and I want to know how to be angry like him. 799 00:48:49,700 --> 00:48:52,300 Have you ever thought about that being angry like Jesus? 800 00:48:55,100 --> 00:49:00,200 No, emotion of Jesus ever interfered with his testimony or 801 00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:04,000 his obedient to the father. Remember that man, who was a 802 00:49:04,008 --> 00:49:06,100 leper? Jesus healed him says, don't go 803 00:49:06,100 --> 00:49:08,600 tell anybody. Just go to the priest and he 804 00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,300 goes tells everybody and doesn't go to the priest and we try to 805 00:49:11,308 --> 00:49:13,600 figure out why. That was maybe he was excited, 806 00:49:13,900 --> 00:49:15,400 maybe he was thrilled. Maybe you couldn't contain 807 00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,600 himself out of Joy but it's still led to Disobedience. 808 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,700 Our emotions can lead us to Disobedience, especially the 809 00:49:21,700 --> 00:49:26,600 emotion, the feeling of anger. And yet Jesus here, We can feel 810 00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,100 that anger in that room without a word being said. 811 00:49:32,100 --> 00:49:35,000 Was also radiating, the fragrance of the spirit. 812 00:49:35,700 --> 00:49:41,900 I want to say something to you. I work of the spirit is seen 813 00:49:41,900 --> 00:49:46,000 here just as much as in the man who stretched forth his hand and 814 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,000 in Ezekiel being stood on his feet. 815 00:49:49,300 --> 00:49:52,300 As full circle as a knot. As Christians. 816 00:49:52,300 --> 00:49:54,800 We feel I know some Christians don't like feelings and they 817 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:55,800 don't want people to have feelings. 818 00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:56,800 I don't know what's wrong with you. 819 00:49:58,100 --> 00:50:00,500 Feelings are a gift, they're engaged. 820 00:50:00,500 --> 00:50:03,300 They shouldn't guide us, but they're a gift from God. 821 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:07,100 Jesus felt very powerfully but he never permitted. 822 00:50:07,100 --> 00:50:10,300 What he felt to determine from pleasing, his father or 823 00:50:10,300 --> 00:50:14,200 dishonoring the father. He was in control. 824 00:50:14,900 --> 00:50:17,900 And this was a man who is as we know from The Book of Mark and 825 00:50:17,900 --> 00:50:23,400 example, of strew servanthood and the name of God. and I want 826 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:28,000 you to know that in these days if you feel angry if you feel 827 00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:30,800 angry, why they ingest this and the evil around us and the 828 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:36,900 corruption Be like Jesus and allow that feeling to lead you 829 00:50:36,900 --> 00:50:42,500 to do something of good service. Let that channel into something 830 00:50:42,500 --> 00:50:46,300 where you bear fruit just as he does here. 831 00:50:46,500 --> 00:50:49,100 And what happens the Pharisees and verse 6 went out and 832 00:50:49,100 --> 00:50:52,400 immediately held counsel with the herodians against them, how 833 00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:53,900 to destroy him. I don't want to speak about the 834 00:50:53,900 --> 00:50:56,700 herodians too much. But do you notice what I said 835 00:50:56,700 --> 00:50:59,700 about mark 8:15 that there isn't just a leaven of the Pharisees? 836 00:50:59,700 --> 00:51:03,100 There's a leaven of Herod 11 of Herod. 837 00:51:04,100 --> 00:51:06,500 You know what the leaven of Herod is, you got to come to 838 00:51:06,500 --> 00:51:10,500 church next week and find out. Let's pray. 839 00:51:28,600 --> 00:51:31,100 I encourage you in this moment in silence. 840 00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,600 Not the silence like the Pharisees, who were infuriated 841 00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:37,600 with the truth. That was preached to them, but a 842 00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:42,600 Silence of adoration. To just meditate on these 843 00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:46,900 things. It's speak to the Lord as a 844 00:51:46,908 --> 00:51:50,300 response and ask him, maybe you don't even need to ask him for 845 00:51:50,300 --> 00:51:51,400 anything. Maybe he's just to worship him. 846 00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:55,600 Lord, you are beautiful. You are perfect in all of your 847 00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:59,200 ways. I thank you that you are angry 848 00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,600 at evil and that you will one day do something about evil. 849 00:52:01,700 --> 00:52:03,500 But I thank you. That even in your anger, you 850 00:52:03,500 --> 00:52:07,600 long, you long to see men and women turn to you and when they 851 00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:13,600 don't It Grieves, you. Because you want to save them 852 00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:41,100 and bless them. Lord. 853 00:52:41,100 --> 00:52:50,300 We thank you for this service. And we are moved by. 854 00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:57,900 By Your Word. It Lord in silence. 855 00:52:57,900 --> 00:53:03,400 We worship you. But we want to obey you when you 856 00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:06,400 say come we want to come when you say stretch out we want to 857 00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:10,400 stretch out, help us trust your word. 858 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,600 Even though it might be a scary thing to move in obedience, 859 00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:18,800 especially in this day, help us believe and trust in your word. 860 00:53:21,400 --> 00:53:26,100 For the weak brother or sister. Let them know that your powers 861 00:53:26,100 --> 00:53:32,300 ready to meet their faith. So that they can walk and 862 00:53:32,300 --> 00:53:37,400 wholeness. Thank you, that Lord you love us 863 00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:42,200 enough to confront us to continually confront us to save 864 00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:43,700 us from the leaven of the Pharisees. 865 00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:45,900 We are not offended by your truth. 866 00:53:45,900 --> 00:53:49,600 We love your truth. It is honey to our lips water to 867 00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:54,600 our souls finer than gold. Even Feingold more precious than 868 00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:57,800 silver. Thank you that your word whether 869 00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,700 it's a rebuke or Comfort is our Delight. 870 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:10,100 Save us from unrighteous anger. Help us be angry for the things 871 00:54:10,100 --> 00:54:15,400 that anger you and may it lead us to Greater Holiness, greater 872 00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,900 sacrifice, greater compassion, May our anger at the evil around 873 00:54:18,900 --> 00:54:23,800 us only cause us to preach this gospel more. at the serve, those 874 00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:30,000 who are undeserving even more Help us know a grief of 875 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:34,200 Brokenness for sinners. Even a Brokenness for those who 876 00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:38,700 are in the church, but not in Christ to feel to feel 877 00:54:38,700 --> 00:54:43,100 absolutely sad. And for that to lead us to pray 878 00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:46,100 and to be faithful and preaching, truth, regardless of 879 00:54:46,100 --> 00:54:49,200 the lack of fruit. Low. 880 00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:51,400 It's so much before us today at this Feast. 881 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:56,500 We thank you and we worship you. In Jesus name. 882 00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:58,700 Amen. Let's stand and Worship the Lord 883 00:54:58,700 --> 00:54:59,200 together.