1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:08,100 Matthew Chapter 7, Matthew chapter 7, 1 verse verse 12. 2 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:11,400 It's pretty there in your bulletin. 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:13,200 If you have your Bibles, you can turn there as well. 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,800 We're looking at just the single verse this morning and I think 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,700 you will recognize it it. What is known as the Golden 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,900 Rule, The Golden Rule. So that will be our application 7 00:00:23,900 --> 00:00:26,400 this morning here in El, the word of the Lord. 8 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:34,100 So whatever you wish that others would do to you do also to them 9 00:00:34,900 --> 00:00:38,300 for, this is the law. And the prophets. 10 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,100 The word of the Lord, you may be seated. 11 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:50,500 We're very familiar with this. The golden rule. 12 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:54,100 In fact you can find people all over the place that will tell 13 00:00:54,100 --> 00:00:55,100 you. That's their standard for 14 00:00:55,100 --> 00:00:57,700 living. How do you how do you conduct 15 00:00:57,700 --> 00:00:59,600 your life? What, how do you behave? 16 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:06,100 Oh, I follow the Golden Rule and the golden rule is wonderful. 17 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,900 It's loaded with meaning, when the Lord adds to the phrase, 18 00:01:11,300 --> 00:01:14,800 this is the law and the prophets, because the first part 19 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:18,000 of the phrase, both stated positively as it. 20 00:01:18,100 --> 00:01:23,000 Here as you wish others would do to you do to them, it's also 21 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,600 stated negatively by others. You won't be surprised to know 22 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:33,100 that they found the Golden Rule and Aristotle in the apocryphal 23 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:37,800 Book of Tobit in the ancient days. 24 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:44,300 Rabbi Hillel taught, the Golden Rule Philo of Alexandria, the 25 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:49,900 famous Greek. Scholar in influencer, who life 26 00:01:49,900 --> 00:01:54,000 came very close to the years that Jesus lived on earth Philo, 27 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:00,900 had to Golden Rule and another almost contemporaneous teacher, 28 00:02:00,900 --> 00:02:04,900 Seneca of Rome wrote in the Latin wrote many wonderful, 29 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:10,199 things principles of living. He had a golden rule all stated 30 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:13,000 very similar to what Jesus says here. 31 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,800 And this has led some Skeptics and scoffers to say. 32 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:22,300 Aha Jesus is not original. He gave this teaching, but he 33 00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:26,700 just stole it from others rather negative way to look at it. 34 00:02:26,700 --> 00:02:29,500 The ancient world was full of philosophical systems, 35 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:33,000 especially the Greek World filled with philosophical 36 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:38,900 systems. Sophia wisdom had been part of 37 00:02:38,908 --> 00:02:41,900 the Greek tradition for at least 400 500 years. 38 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:44,900 Going back to the Athenian. Philosophers. 39 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,600 My goodness. Hebrew wisdom, predated that by 40 00:02:51,700 --> 00:02:57,600 a good Century or more. and the Book of Proverbs was probably, 41 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,800 900 to 1,000 years old when it was composed. 42 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:04,500 And it was composed of sayings that had probably gone all the 43 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:08,800 way back to the wisdom of the earliest people on Earth, 44 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:14,600 following God's creation. So what we have in Christ is not 45 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:20,800 original sounding and it's not beyond measure in profundity. 46 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:26,300 But Jesus said something a little different, he ties in the 47 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:30,200 whole old. Estimate Revelation. 48 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:33,600 The 39 books of the Hebrew Bible. 49 00:03:35,300 --> 00:03:44,300 Into this particular principle. The law and the prophets. if you 50 00:03:44,300 --> 00:03:47,600 follow this Rule, and keep this Rule and live, according to this 51 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:57,100 rule, you will essentially have Obeyed and kept the law and done 52 00:03:57,100 --> 00:04:01,700 that, which was admonished and preached and proclaimed and 53 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:06,700 insisted upon by the Hebrew prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah and 54 00:04:06,700 --> 00:04:11,900 Amos Hosea, all of those men. So even though it's just one 55 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:13,400 little verse, we've got a lot to look at. 56 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,000 Don't we? Let me make it easy for us. 57 00:04:17,300 --> 00:04:21,100 It's a lot of things we can say by way of application about this 58 00:04:21,899 --> 00:04:25,900 simple beautiful little precept. Sometimes some people have 59 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:29,600 called it the Golden Nugget as well as the Golden Rule. 60 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:33,200 The Golden Nugget Luther called it just a little bit of a bundle 61 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:35,900 how it's all been packaged together. 62 00:04:36,500 --> 00:04:40,300 It settles a thousand different points. 63 00:04:40,700 --> 00:04:45,900 There's no necessity to have 100 laws If you can have one General 64 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:49,300 principle that essentially fulfills and meets the 65 00:04:49,300 --> 00:04:54,700 expectation of all of the little rules, it may be one rule. 66 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:59,300 It may be just one little nugget one precept. 67 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:08,100 But it contains in it for the Christian many applications and 68 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:10,700 this morning, I wanted to just sort of briefly sketch through 69 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:14,500 one. And that is when the apostles 70 00:05:14,500 --> 00:05:20,500 talked about, Our relationship to one another because this has 71 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:27,700 to do with others. One another each other, and our 72 00:05:27,700 --> 00:05:32,600 relationship horizontally, as opposed to vertically our 73 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:37,400 relationship to God. But that sets, an affects our 74 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:41,900 relationship to one another. And that one another phrase is 75 00:05:42,500 --> 00:05:47,500 pulled out by just a single little keyword and you wouldn't 76 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:51,200 believe how often that's used in the New Testament in the 77 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,100 exhortations to how we are to live. 78 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:59,500 The apostles following Christ, just simply took the idea of 79 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:04,700 one, another each other, others taking care of others, and just 80 00:06:04,700 --> 00:06:09,100 brought it right in two. The Christian ethic. 81 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:13,700 So I'm going to sketch through the New Testament, Apostles, and 82 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:19,800 pull out a few things that each one said about our treatment to 83 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:21,700 one. Another, in fact, Paul calls it 84 00:06:21,900 --> 00:06:24,900 in First Corinthians chapter 12, he calls it. 85 00:06:24,900 --> 00:06:31,300 The care we have for one another, the care, the concern 86 00:06:31,700 --> 00:06:35,400 that we have for one another. So first, let's take Paul in 87 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,400 Galatians. Paul said, bear. 88 00:06:37,900 --> 00:06:43,200 One another's burdens. And so fulfill the law of 89 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,500 Christ. And, as I mentioned each of 90 00:06:45,508 --> 00:06:49,800 these, I want you to just check your own heart, make your own 91 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:53,800 application. How am I doing in that area? 92 00:06:55,200 --> 00:07:00,900 Do I have a care and concern? And do I bear the burdens of 93 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:04,300 others? So often we think of the golden 94 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:09,600 rule is, in terms of Harm's, that is you don't hurt me, and I 95 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:13,000 won't hurt you. If you treat me, nice, I'll 96 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,000 treat you nice. But if you treat me mean, I'm 97 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,500 going to be meaner back to you. And that was kind of the ethos 98 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:21,400 of Jesus day. That was certainly the ethos of 99 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:25,700 the Roman Empire, but that's not what the apostolic, urging is 100 00:07:25,700 --> 00:07:28,400 bear one. Another's burdens Paul says in. 101 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,200 So fulfill the law of Christ, interesting phrase, the law of 102 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:34,100 Christ. We talk about the law of Moses, 103 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:37,900 but all of a sudden now that law of Moses has been so understood. 104 00:07:37,900 --> 00:07:42,000 And so, so saturated into the teachings of Christ in the 105 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,300 gospel that now it is called the law of Christ. 106 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,100 And Jesus said, if you love me, keep my commandments. 107 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,200 So now it is it has melded into that. 108 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,900 But let me not get bogged down here because there's quite a few 109 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:57,500 of these. The whole law is fulfilled. 110 00:07:57,500 --> 00:08:04,300 In one word, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. but if you 111 00:08:04,300 --> 00:08:09,000 bite and devour one, another be careful that thou art not 112 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:17,700 consumed by one another If you bite and devour one another if 113 00:08:17,700 --> 00:08:20,900 you bite, someone starts you and it's not a very long till you've 114 00:08:20,900 --> 00:08:27,700 consumed them, where they you? an admonition, Paul continues in 115 00:08:27,700 --> 00:08:33,900 Galatians, let us not become conceited provoking one another 116 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:40,900 Provoking one. Another envying one, another 117 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:45,700 Paul doesn't let up in Ephesians walk with all humility 118 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:53,800 gentleness patience bearing with one another in love. 119 00:08:55,700 --> 00:08:59,700 Listen to these treatments of our fellow man and certainly 120 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:01,800 those that are of the household of faith. 121 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:09,300 Humility gentleness patience. Bearing with one another in love 122 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:14,600 and flag that term love because you're going to hear it in the 123 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:18,100 apostles Doctrine. You know, the early church 124 00:09:18,100 --> 00:09:19,600 continued to the apostles Doctrine. 125 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:21,800 And those of us that are kind of worried, it's just over their 126 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,700 ticket, to teaching the doctor, to God, and sin, and man in 127 00:09:24,700 --> 00:09:27,700 Salvation, And all these true shirts really were but they're 128 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:32,500 also teaching the doctrine. The truth of love the importance 129 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:37,000 of loving one another here Paul continued let all bitterness and 130 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:43,100 wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you 131 00:09:43,100 --> 00:09:51,100 with all malice be kind to one another tender-hearted forgiving 132 00:09:51,100 --> 00:09:56,100 one another as God for Christ's sake, has forgiven Given you. 133 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,000 There's your gospel right there. The Lord loved us and gave 134 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,300 himself for us. We are forgiven of all of our 135 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:06,300 sins. We are cleansed. 136 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:10,400 We are exonerated. We are justified in the eyes of 137 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:15,000 God. Everything that condemns us has 138 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:18,600 been removed. All debts and penalties and 139 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:23,200 obligations have been paid. It is finished. 140 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,100 But it moves on. We've been given that treatment 141 00:10:31,100 --> 00:10:35,200 by God. How are we? 142 00:10:36,300 --> 00:10:41,400 To treat others but to treat them kind tender-hearted 143 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:45,000 forgiving one. Another Later on. 144 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,900 Paul says, having put away falsehood, Let each of you speak 145 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:51,900 the truth with his neighbor flag that word. 146 00:10:51,900 --> 00:10:56,200 Truth speak the truth with his neighbor for. 147 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:59,100 We are all members of one another. 148 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:02,900 One of the great teachings of the New Testament and Apostolic 149 00:11:02,900 --> 00:11:08,800 Doctrine is that we are all in a body and that body is the body 150 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,000 of Christ. And we remember several members 151 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,100 of that body, individual members of that body. 152 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:17,500 But there's a sense in which we are one and to do to one is to 153 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:20,900 do to ourselves and do to another and the Lord puts us 154 00:11:20,900 --> 00:11:25,800 together in that corporate entity, the body of Christ that 155 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:29,200 we may treat each other, right? And we met as I'm seeing them. 156 00:11:29,900 --> 00:11:31,400 Called could goes on in Colossians. 157 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,000 He says do not lie. Remember the emphasis on the 158 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:39,300 truth do not lie to one another bearing with one another 159 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:43,500 forgiving one another as the Lord has forgiven you. 160 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:48,000 So you must also forgive And then here's some beautiful one, 161 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,700 another passage flag in that little word all the time. 162 00:11:51,300 --> 00:11:55,300 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly teaching and 163 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:59,700 admonishing one. Another with all wisdom and 164 00:11:59,700 --> 00:12:04,700 singing, Psalms, and hymns and spiritual songs. 165 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:09,000 Boy, I'd love to lecture on that, right about now, That's 166 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:11,300 tells us something about our worship. 167 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:16,800 We admonish one another with the word of God and we do it through 168 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:25,100 our singing of three types of pieces, Psalms, hymns and 169 00:12:25,100 --> 00:12:29,600 spiritual songs, or our Psalms. How many of those do each thing 170 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:35,800 to start with hymns? Where we put our hymn books and 171 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:39,800 spiritual songs. The word of God must dwell 172 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,600 richly in all three of those. So that we are built up in our 173 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,600 wisdom and our understanding and we don't have that unless we do 174 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:49,800 it with one another, with congregational singing and with 175 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,500 and with the teaching of the word in the enjoyment of these, 176 00:12:53,500 --> 00:12:56,200 great things that God has given us for the fellows will Paul 177 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,200 doesn't stop there so we can go on. 178 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:03,200 May the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward one 179 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,200 another increase and abound in love. 180 00:13:07,700 --> 00:13:10,000 No matter how much love we have for each other. 181 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:15,400 There's room for more increase, and abound in love for one 182 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,700 another. You have been taught by God to 183 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:20,400 love one another. Paul's. 184 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,800 Now, in first Thessalonians therefore encourage one another 185 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:27,600 and build one another up. Did you know? 186 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:30,800 It's the job of each other to edify and build up each other in 187 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:33,000 the faith. It's not just the preachers job 188 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,000 for, you know, half an hour on Sunday morning to do all the 189 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,500 teaching and all the building up. 190 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:41,700 We are to edify to strengthen and to encourage that means we 191 00:13:41,700 --> 00:13:43,800 must be an incendiary Fellowship. 192 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,800 We've got to be like, coals in a fire. 193 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,600 We've got a huddle together and keep each other going and this 194 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,500 is the admonition of what we are to do with one another well to 195 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:56,600 the book of Hebrews. Whoever the apostle was that 196 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,300 wrote Hebrews I've got a good idea but technically we don't 197 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:03,800 really know for sure but listen to what he says, exhort one 198 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:08,700 another every day that none of you may be hardened by the 199 00:14:08,700 --> 00:14:13,500 deceitfulness of sin. Verse prior, he spoke of an evil 200 00:14:13,500 --> 00:14:16,400 and unbelieving heart. Don't let that kind of heart 201 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:18,400 getting you. How do you prevent that? 202 00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:22,200 Is because every day not just once a week on Sunday, every 203 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:28,000 day, you are being admonished, rebuked, loved cared for 204 00:14:28,100 --> 00:14:33,400 corrected by each other. One another, in the faith. 205 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:36,000 Do we have that operating in our lives where we are? 206 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:39,000 We are keeping each other on the track and holding each other 207 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:40,800 accountable and giving each other. 208 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:45,800 The The pathways that we need to to love more and to and to 209 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,800 forgive more and to be more tender hearted and so forth. 210 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:54,600 That's the what, the exhortation of Hebrews is the Apostle James 211 00:14:55,400 --> 00:15:00,100 in chapter 4, do not speak evil against one another. 212 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:07,800 There is a admonition for our behavior that is negative. 213 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:12,800 He has another one to do not Grumble against one another. 214 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:18,100 James listen to John. This is my commandment that you 215 00:15:18,100 --> 00:15:22,400 love one. Another as I have loved you and 216 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:24,200 Jesus talks about laying down his life. 217 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:28,100 Now John is quoting Jesus here and this is that new 218 00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:33,400 commandment, that new law that law, that fulfills the law of 219 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,800 Moses and law. That covers a thousand smaller 220 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:42,200 rules and regulations. The law of love, the law of 221 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,900 Christ, Paul's calls it. First John, John continues. 222 00:15:45,900 --> 00:15:49,400 We have fellowship with one another that is, we walk in the 223 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:53,400 light and we walk along together in the light and we have the 224 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:57,700 fellowship in our fellowship is with Christ centrally but then 225 00:15:57,700 --> 00:15:59,800 it's with one another by extension. 226 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,900 We should love one another. We should love one another. 227 00:16:05,900 --> 00:16:09,200 We know that we have passed from Death to life because we love 228 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,400 the brethren. John continues in first John 229 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,800 that we love one. Another as he has commanded us. 230 00:16:17,300 --> 00:16:20,700 Beloved, let us love one. Another love is from God, 231 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,800 whoever loves is born of God and knows God in fulfilling that 232 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:32,200 Royal law of Love. We Are Knowing god, we are 233 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,800 showing that we have been born of God that we have been born of 234 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:43,500 that, love that conceived. All love leads to conception and 235 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:47,700 eternal Everlasting, Love leads to everlasting life. 236 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:52,400 And we've been born of the spirit of God and brought forth 237 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:57,200 in as a new creature in Christ. If God. 238 00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:00,800 So loved us, we ought to love one another if we We love one 239 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,400 another, God abides in us. That's interesting, this is 240 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,700 getting pretty serious. This idea of the one another has 241 00:17:07,700 --> 00:17:10,000 to do with our own spiritual Vitality. 242 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,200 This is how we know we actually are born from above that. 243 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:14,900 We actually are the children of God. 244 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:19,200 This is how we know that we have passed from Death To Life. 245 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:25,200 This, this is getting to the vitals of our actual conversion, 246 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:30,100 our actual citizenship in the kingdom of God, and our 247 00:17:30,100 --> 00:17:33,800 membership in the body of Christ, the John continues in 248 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:39,200 second John that we love one another and this is love that we 249 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,200 walk according to his Commandments. 250 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:45,800 Will you see how John just sort of? 251 00:17:47,100 --> 00:17:49,900 Bores in on it. By the way, if you studied 252 00:17:49,900 --> 00:17:55,700 John's writings the gospel and the Epistles that Saint John 253 00:17:55,700 --> 00:17:57,100 Road. And then of course, the Book of 254 00:17:57,100 --> 00:18:01,000 Revelation the Apocalypse, You'll see this two things, 255 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,800 many, many things he covers because it's very theological, 256 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:08,100 those discourses, and that and those letters, but love and 257 00:18:08,100 --> 00:18:11,200 truth. And Paul even speaks of 258 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:18,000 speaking, the truth in love. That's the way we're obey God 259 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,900 and keep his Commandments. That's the way we fulfil that 260 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:25,600 Royal law. Let's go to Peter Love one. 261 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:30,200 Another earnestly from a pure heart above all, keep learning 262 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:32,700 loving one another and he uses that same word. 263 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:37,600 Again earnestly, this is not a cool thing or a shallow thing or 264 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:42,400 a perfunctory thing. This is this is dynamic and 265 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,200 vital. This love that we are to have 266 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,000 for one another show. Hospitality to one another 267 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,600 Hospitality. Is that Spirit of welcome that 268 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:58,900 open arms that saying in extending the call of Christ 269 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:02,400 coming to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will 270 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:06,000 give you rest. The hospitality is the is the 271 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,000 physical taking care? The being the true neighbor, 272 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,000 it's the point of Jesus. Parable of the Samaritan, the 273 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Good. Samaritan, that found the man 274 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,500 along the Wayside wounded, and bleeding and half dead, and he 275 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:29,600 was hospitable to him. Serve one another as good 276 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:34,900 stewards of God's grace. Clothed yourselves, all of you 277 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:38,200 with humility toward one another. 278 00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:42,900 And now before I wrap up more Paul, I just couldn't get away 279 00:19:42,900 --> 00:19:45,000 from Paul. I thought I had him covered but 280 00:19:45,900 --> 00:19:47,900 the more I began to look up terms more. 281 00:19:47,900 --> 00:19:50,500 I found out, I hadn't really scratched the surface, when Paul 282 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:56,400 gets to the end in chapter 12 and following chapter 13, 14 and 283 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,300 15, as he begins to wrap up the book of Romans, he's filled with 284 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:03,100 admonitions. And here, they are love one. 285 00:20:03,100 --> 00:20:06,800 Another with brotherly affection, and it was, it isn't 286 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:09,300 just a performance. That's a, it is an emotional. 287 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:12,000 Motion. There's any motive force with 288 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:14,400 our love. It's beyond just treating each 289 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:15,500 other, right? Because that's the right thing 290 00:20:15,500 --> 00:20:17,800 to do. Those of us that are lawkeepers 291 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:19,900 that be about all. We'd worry about them don't know 292 00:20:19,900 --> 00:20:23,500 but it goes beyond that it has to come out of a heart of true 293 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:29,500 love and affection to one another This is an interesting 294 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:33,800 phrase, outdo one, another in showing honor. 295 00:20:35,100 --> 00:20:39,100 So we though many are one body in Christ and individually 296 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:43,600 members of One Another live in harmony. 297 00:20:44,300 --> 00:20:47,000 With one another. That's interesting Phrase live 298 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:51,000 in harmony it's a musical term. It means that the Vibes have all 299 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:54,600 got to have the right count. When you get the right count on 300 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,200 the tones, they harmonize it's either Concord or Discord and if 301 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:03,700 it's disharmony its restless and it stirs up and it's its 302 00:21:03,700 --> 00:21:06,300 discontent. Don't go with Harmony, there's 303 00:21:06,300 --> 00:21:10,500 peace, there's contentment, there's resolved, there's rest 304 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:16,000 and besides that, there's beautiful music and that's what 305 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,100 I think the Lord wants us to do with one another's to be have a 306 00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:21,600 harmonious relationship. Oh, no, man. 307 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:23,900 Anything except to love one another. 308 00:21:23,900 --> 00:21:26,500 Here it is. Again, the one who loves another 309 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:32,200 has fulfilled, the law Think of all those wonderful 310 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:34,700 Commandments, God didn't get rid of them. 311 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,300 He just gave us a way to keep them. 312 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:44,600 Let us not pass judgment on one another any longer that's 313 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:46,900 interesting. Ball knows we've been doing that 314 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:53,400 and so he tells us to cut it out, he didn't say, you know, if 315 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,600 you've ever done he knows we have, we've done that. 316 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:03,200 Passing judgment on one another. Don't do it any longer. 317 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:05,500 Stop it. Let today be your last day to 318 00:22:05,500 --> 00:22:09,800 ever do that. Therefore, welcome one. 319 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,100 Another has Christ as welcome to you. 320 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,800 There's the Open Arms of the welcome. 321 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:19,000 That's the, the welcome of the Lord is something we need to 322 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:25,400 have in our souls for everyone. In terms may vary whether it's a 323 00:22:26,300 --> 00:22:29,800 dear brother in Christ or whether it's a total stranger or 324 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,600 whether it's an enemy, but we still have those. 325 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:37,200 Welcome arms open and it's for the glory of God. 326 00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:43,000 You see the Lord welcomed us when we were really not very 327 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:48,200 becoming. Christ died for the ungodly. 328 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,300 Did you know that if you come under the conviction of the Lord 329 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:53,400 that they're sitting in your life, then that's your trigger 330 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,700 right there to tell you. That's Christ died for you. 331 00:22:56,700 --> 00:23:01,300 That's why Don't ever get the idea that I don't live up to all 332 00:23:01,300 --> 00:23:04,700 this Commandments. I am not worthy to be saved. 333 00:23:04,700 --> 00:23:07,900 Christ didn't come to heal the righteous. 334 00:23:07,900 --> 00:23:10,000 He came to call, Sinners to repentance. 335 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:15,500 So the day you recognize your sinfulness is today, the gospel 336 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:17,200 is going to mean something to you. 337 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:20,600 It's the day, you're going to flee to Christ for forgiveness. 338 00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,300 It's the day you're going to call upon him for salvation. 339 00:23:23,500 --> 00:23:27,700 It's the day, you're going to feel the, the refreshing wash. 340 00:23:27,900 --> 00:23:34,100 Thinking of the blood of Christ cleansing, you of every sin and 341 00:23:34,100 --> 00:23:36,500 making you right with God in his sight. 342 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,700 Live in harmony with one another in a cord with Christ. 343 00:23:42,700 --> 00:23:45,600 Jesus, interesting, little phrase member in the Bible when 344 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,000 the people were in the upper room. 345 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,400 Tarrying waiting on the next move of God. 346 00:23:51,700 --> 00:23:56,700 It says they were in one Accord, one Accord and being in one 347 00:23:56,700 --> 00:24:00,300 Accord, in an upper room, privately huddled in prayer and 348 00:24:00,300 --> 00:24:04,700 fellowship before each other, will eventuate in, not too many 349 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:08,700 days. Since a great Still meeting 350 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,400 where the spirit of God descends upon All Flesh, men and women, 351 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,500 boys, and girls and they all call upon the name of the Lord 352 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,800 for salvation, and that's being in one. 353 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,500 Accord filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another 354 00:24:27,100 --> 00:24:32,200 able to instruct one another There's that idea that comes up 355 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:39,300 again, shouldn't we be able to admonish teach Comfort one? 356 00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:42,800 Another should we know enough about the Lord and his word and 357 00:24:42,808 --> 00:24:45,700 about the Christian Life to be able to answer questions, to be 358 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:47,700 able to sympathize and empathize. 359 00:24:48,100 --> 00:24:50,900 That's where becomes gives this. Is this one, another is this 360 00:24:50,900 --> 00:24:55,800 Mutual treatment of one another but it's also Mutual Ministry 361 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,200 and that's really who the Ministers of pc pc are used to 362 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,800 be in the bullet. And you may still be, I don't 363 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,700 know, I haven't noticed it. Who are the, who are the 364 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:05,000 pastor's? Well, they named them, you know, 365 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,800 who the elders they named them, who are the musicians that 366 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:09,300 played this morning, they'll name them. 367 00:25:09,500 --> 00:25:11,800 And then they say, who are the ministers? 368 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:17,600 Every single member of pc. Pc is a minister in that sense. 369 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:22,000 Well, we're out of time. That was that 42? 370 00:25:22,700 --> 00:25:25,300 I found forty to one another's in the New Testament and I 371 00:25:25,308 --> 00:25:28,800 didn't really search that hard so who knows how many there are 372 00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:32,700 altogether. But That's the way I think, will 373 00:25:32,700 --> 00:25:36,100 fulfill and enjoy every minute of it. 374 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:41,100 Fulfilling the law of the prophets is through this Golden 375 00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:32,700 Rule that Jesus has given us. That's the way I think, will 376 00:25:32,700 --> 00:25:36,100 fulfill and enjoy every minute of it. 377 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:41,100 Fulfilling the law of the prophets is through this Golden 378 00:25:41,100 --> 00:25:43,000 Rule that Jesus has given us.