1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:05,300 When we look to the method of parabolic teaching that Jesus 2 00:00:06,100 --> 00:00:11,000 did when Jesus walked on this Earth, before he was crucified, 3 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:14,700 we find that there was many reasons why or many different 4 00:00:14,700 --> 00:00:19,300 circumstances or settings that Jesus chose the method of 5 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:22,700 parabolic teaching, for example, this morning shot. 6 00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:25,900 He was talking about the kingdom and how Jesus spoke to his 7 00:00:25,900 --> 00:00:30,300 disciples concerning various aspects of the Kingdom. 8 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,800 For example, in the, in the thirteenth chapter of The 9 00:00:32,808 --> 00:00:36,400 Gospel, according to Matthew we find that Jesus taught his 10 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:39,900 disciples about the kingdom in Parables. 11 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,400 Also, we can go back to the last week of the life of Jesus. 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,200 For example we can look to the 21st chapter of The Gospel 13 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,200 according to Matthew on a very significant day and that was the 14 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:56,500 day that all of those enemies of Jesus were more bold than they 15 00:00:56,500 --> 00:01:00,500 had ever been in any day prior to that time. 16 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:03,600 And you remember that those enemies confronted Jesus and 17 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,500 they asked Jesus by what Authority. 18 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:11,000 Do you do the things that you do and who gave you that Authority 19 00:01:11,300 --> 00:01:14,800 and Jesus responded to them? And then he gave them the 20 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:19,800 parable of the two sons but there were casual settings that 21 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,200 Jesus taught in Parables as well. 22 00:01:22,500 --> 00:01:25,300 For example, one time in a fair seas home. 23 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:28,000 You remember that? Jesus was there in a woman that 24 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:32,000 was known and I don't know what it was that she was guilty of in 25 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,000 her life because the Bible says that anything really that goes 26 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,300 against the teachings, it's found in the word of God is a 27 00:01:39,300 --> 00:01:42,400 sin and we don't have degrees of sin. 28 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:47,800 Even though today people try to categorize or classify sins as 29 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:53,100 great or small or somewhere in between all we know is there was 30 00:01:53,100 --> 00:01:58,800 a woman and that woman was known in society as a sinner, whatever 31 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,900 it was that she was guilty of And you remember that as Jesus 32 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:07,500 was there in the house of that Pharisee, this woman enters the 33 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:11,900 scene with an alabaster box at she falls down at the back of 34 00:02:11,900 --> 00:02:16,300 the feet of Jesus and she while weeping with tears that flowed 35 00:02:16,300 --> 00:02:20,900 so much so that she washed the feet of Jesus with those tears 36 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:25,300 and she took her own hair and she wiped his feet and she 37 00:02:25,300 --> 00:02:29,900 kissed his feet and she anointed his feet as well. 38 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,700 Remember when the Pharisee was thinking among himself or 39 00:02:33,700 --> 00:02:37,300 speaking to himself? He said, truly, this cannot be a 40 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:41,400 prophet because if Jesus was a prophet, he would know the 41 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:44,800 character of the woman that is at his feet. 42 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:48,300 What did Jesus do? He gave a perfect sermon, the 43 00:02:48,300 --> 00:02:52,300 parable of the two debtors, what was he illustrating? 44 00:02:52,500 --> 00:02:58,500 He was illustrating that those that are forgiven much love much 45 00:02:58,700 --> 00:03:01,400 another time. A lawyer's It was asked to 46 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,500 Jesus, you remember that Jesus was asked by this lawyer, he 47 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:09,600 said, Master meaning teacher, what must I do to inherit 48 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,000 eternal life? And Jesus said what, saith the 49 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,200 law and how readest thou. And that lawyer said that thou 50 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,400 shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy 51 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:26,600 soul, with all thy strength. And with all thy mind, and thy 52 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:31,200 neighbor as thyself. And Jesus said those How sayest 53 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:35,600 well, he said, thus do and thou shalt live. 54 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,900 But if all the points of clarification, this man asks, he 55 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:45,000 asks, who is my neighbor? Jesus responded with a parable, 56 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:48,100 the parable of the Good Samaritan. 57 00:03:48,500 --> 00:03:51,900 Do you remember this time when Jesus settled a family dispute, 58 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:54,000 the think about it by way of context. 59 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Jesus is preaching maybe some of his most powerful significant 60 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,400 sermons he's preaching about the T of Christ's, I talked about 61 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,400 that a little bit this morning. He was preaching about Jesus 62 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,800 Christ as being the Son of God. He was preaching about, 63 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:15,200 blaspheming the Holy Spirit. He was talking about heaven, he 64 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:19,000 was talking about hell. Oh, these are great subjects 65 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:22,700 that anyone you would think would like to hear and sit at 66 00:04:22,700 --> 00:04:26,400 the feet of the master while he preached in those days. 67 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,800 But there was a man that came on the scene, a young man and he 68 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:33,700 said, As he interrupts Jesus during these great sermons and 69 00:04:33,700 --> 00:04:37,600 he says, wait a minute. Now would you tell my brother to 70 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:43,000 divide the inheritance with me? And Jesus said, man, I am not a 71 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,700 judge who made me a judge or a divider over you and such 72 00:04:47,700 --> 00:04:50,300 matters. Like that and Jesus warned the 73 00:04:50,300 --> 00:04:52,200 man. He said, Beware of covetousness 74 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:57,700 because the mark of a man is I paraphrase or a man's life is 75 00:04:57,700 --> 00:05:02,500 not determined by the abundance of Of the things that he 76 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:08,500 possesses and then Jesus gave the masterful sermon about the 77 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:11,800 rich fool. But today we're going to talk 78 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:17,000 about something that happened in the house of a ruler of a 79 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,600 Pharisee. You know, I studied various 80 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:24,200 Scholars along this line and Mr. Bowles said this, about those 81 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,800 about this, man being a ruler or a chief among the Pharisees, 82 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:32,000 some say that he was, perhaps one of the great men in the 83 00:05:32,008 --> 00:05:36,700 Sanhedrin, some say that he was Chief or ruler over certain 84 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:39,800 aspects of being a Jew. I don't know. 85 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,300 And Really, what he said is it's impossible to know to what 86 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:49,000 extent this man was a chief man or this man was a ruler. 87 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,700 All we know is this was an educated man and this was a man 88 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:57,600 of some importance in his life. This man. 89 00:05:57,700 --> 00:06:01,800 No doubt at heard of the fame of Jesus, he had heard about the 90 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,600 reputation of Jesus, he had heard that Jesus was one who 91 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,800 could heal those that were sick. And so, one day on the Sabbath 92 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,500 day, Day. He invites. 93 00:06:11,500 --> 00:06:15,100 Jesus over to his house to eat bread. 94 00:06:16,500 --> 00:06:20,500 Then the Bible says, there was a certain man, you know, there's a 95 00:06:20,500 --> 00:06:24,300 whole sermon in that phrase, you know what, it says that there 96 00:06:24,300 --> 00:06:28,700 was a certain man that was brought there and this man was 97 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:32,500 afflicted with the Affliction of the dropsy. 98 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:36,900 One scholar said that when it says a certain man, it's talking 99 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:40,500 about something that perhaps, this man was invited 100 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:44,000 deliberately, for the purpose of testing Jesus. 101 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,100 This didn't just happen by happenstance. 102 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:50,400 Stan's this man. This Chief among the Pharisees 103 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:55,000 this ruler of the Pharisees. This man invites Jesus over to 104 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,700 his house on the Sabbath day and also invites a man that was 105 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,400 afflicted with a horrible condition as the King James 106 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:08,200 version. Renders it the dropsy First of 107 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,500 all, what's the dropsy? Maybe you've always known. 108 00:07:11,500 --> 00:07:13,900 What dropsy was? I did not. 109 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,200 I didn't always know what the dropsy was. 110 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:18,500 I'll tell you what I've read, though. 111 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,100 It was something that was a condition that involved 112 00:07:23,100 --> 00:07:29,400 retaining water under the skin. Another words in various parts 113 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,700 of the body, the body would retain water. 114 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,100 And one scholar said it'd be kind of like congestive heart 115 00:07:37,100 --> 00:07:40,400 failure. Another words, the dropsy or 116 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:46,200 this blowing up of your body in water was really it was really 117 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:50,400 the outcome of another disease. In other words, it wasn't 118 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,200 curable either. You know, I've known people that 119 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:56,400 have had congestive heart failure and I'm sure you've 120 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:58,800 known folks. Like that to where their leg 121 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:00,700 swelled up. My father, had that his legs 122 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:03,100 would swell up. I mean, really, really big. 123 00:08:03,500 --> 00:08:06,400 I've seen some other folks that had blown up so much that the it 124 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,700 actually the water came out the skin. 125 00:08:10,300 --> 00:08:13,600 This was a horrible condition. It was very painful. 126 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:16,700 You can just imagine the heart of this Pharisee. 127 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:19,000 Is he brings this man before? Jesus? 128 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,500 Not, because he wanted Jesus to have pity on the man to heal the 129 00:08:22,500 --> 00:08:26,700 man, not because he cared at all, because he wanted the test 130 00:08:26,700 --> 00:08:31,300 Jesus on the Sabbath day, Jesus living under the Old Law, as a 131 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:34,299 Jew. He wanted to find out what Jesus 132 00:08:34,299 --> 00:08:36,700 really going to do another words. 133 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:40,000 If Jesus would look upon this man, and he would walk. 134 00:08:40,100 --> 00:08:43,500 And heal this man, then they would say now, wait a minute. 135 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:46,700 Do you really think that? It's lawful to heal a man on the 136 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:49,300 Sabbath day? After all, if you're going to 137 00:08:49,300 --> 00:08:53,600 heal someone, you're going to perform some Act of work and 138 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,500 that's not to be done on the Sabbath day. 139 00:08:56,700 --> 00:09:00,900 They also had phase two, I would say, or here's Plan B. 140 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,100 If Jesus came on the scene and looked at this man and didn't 141 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:09,500 heal the man, they can accuse him of being fearful of the 142 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:10,300 people. Oil. 143 00:09:10,300 --> 00:09:14,500 And secondly, they can accuse him of not being compassionate. 144 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:18,500 They can accuse him of not being understanding, they can accuse 145 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:21,600 him of not being loving and of all things. 146 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:25,400 If he really had the ability to heal the man, he was holding 147 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,000 back and deliberately not doing it. 148 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:33,900 You know it's amazing to me. What's amazing to me is the one 149 00:09:33,900 --> 00:09:37,100 that walked the face of this Earth for about 33 years that 150 00:09:37,100 --> 00:09:40,900 lived his life in perfect sinless Perfection. 151 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,200 He knows their hearts. He examines their intentions and 152 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:48,000 he knows exactly why he is there. 153 00:09:49,100 --> 00:09:52,900 You know what Jesus does, he doesn't heal the man right away. 154 00:09:53,100 --> 00:09:56,900 In fact Jesus is going to ask the question first. 155 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,500 He says, let me ask you, do you really think that it's lawful to 156 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:06,100 heal the man on the Sabbath day? And the Bible says they could 157 00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:09,600 answer not a word. You know what I thought about 158 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:12,300 the first thing that popped into my mind of another instance 159 00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:15,700 where Jesus was preaching a sermon of where there were those 160 00:10:15,700 --> 00:10:18,800 that could not answer a question that we talked about. 161 00:10:18,900 --> 00:10:21,100 The day of controversy, you remember, when they were 162 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:24,500 challenging Jesus. You remember, when Jesus says, I 163 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:27,000 will answer your question. If you answer one of mine, the 164 00:10:27,008 --> 00:10:29,300 baptism of John, was it of God or of, man? 165 00:10:29,500 --> 00:10:32,000 And the Bible says that they reason one with the other and 166 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,200 they deduced, wait a minute, it's a lose-lose proposition. 167 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:39,700 Because if we say that it's of God, then he's going to say, why 168 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:41,800 didn't you follow him? Why didn't you listen to him? 169 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:46,400 And number two, if we say it's of, man, he said many, they 170 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:50,000 feared the people because many considered John Be a prophet. 171 00:10:50,500 --> 00:10:54,900 So they said, we do not know but there was another time to 172 00:10:55,300 --> 00:10:59,600 remember, when Jesus gave the parable of the of the wedding 173 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,300 Feast, when Jesus talked about that wedding ceremony. 174 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:07,700 What about the guy that comes in to the wedding ceremony and he 175 00:11:07,700 --> 00:11:12,000 comes and sits down at the table without a proper wedding garment 176 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,100 on you. Remember when the king comes 177 00:11:14,100 --> 00:11:17,700 out, the marriage of the King's son and when the king comes out, 178 00:11:17,700 --> 00:11:20,300 he says why Aren't you wearing your wedding? 179 00:11:20,300 --> 00:11:24,100 Garment and the Bible says that the man just stood there and 180 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:27,600 said nothing. Somebody said one time is kind 181 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:34,000 of like penguins they just look they just stare Kind of picture 182 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,300 it like that. And on this occasion, this was a 183 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:39,700 man. These, these were individuals 184 00:11:39,700 --> 00:11:43,700 when Jesus asked them. The question, they said not a 185 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:46,000 word. We can just picture as they 186 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:48,400 stared back. Maybe with their mouths open. 187 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:52,500 They weren't expecting Jesus to say what he said. 188 00:11:53,100 --> 00:12:00,000 Then the Bible says that Jesus heals the man now along the 189 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,400 line, the show, their inconsistency, After Jesus 190 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:09,600 healed the man, he says, which one of you shall have an ass or 191 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:14,200 an ox fall into the ditch on the Sabbath day and straightway 192 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,700 would not go down and pull him out of the ditch. 193 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,800 What he was saying was this you're being extremely 194 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:24,600 inconsistent here in the 12th chapter of The Gospel, according 195 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:28,000 to Matthew, Jesus dealt with a very similar thing. 196 00:12:28,100 --> 00:12:30,700 In fact, the language is a little different there but it's 197 00:12:30,700 --> 00:12:34,600 very similar and Jesus talks about a man and that has one 198 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,800 sheep a sheep and the Sheep falls into the pit or falls into 199 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:42,400 the ditch Jesus says, you know, good and well you're going to go 200 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,500 and pull that animal out of the pit on the Sabbath day. 201 00:12:47,100 --> 00:12:52,100 Now what's Jesus is point, his point was they were accusing him 202 00:12:52,300 --> 00:12:57,000 if he would heal this man on the Sabbath day of performing an act 203 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,600 of work thus breaking the Old Testament law. 204 00:13:01,700 --> 00:13:06,500 Jesus Says, by way of your inconsistency, I know that you, 205 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:10,300 if one of your prize animals, would fall into the ditch would 206 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:12,600 go and bring him out. You wouldn't wait until the 207 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:15,500 Sabbath day was over and then go and get him. 208 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,700 What was his point? His point was number one. 209 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:24,100 You are placing the value. You're placing the value on an 210 00:13:24,100 --> 00:13:28,700 animal more than the value of a human being. 211 00:13:30,500 --> 00:13:33,100 You want to talk about being hit right in the face with it. 212 00:13:34,100 --> 00:13:38,200 You are placing the value of an animal and knowing that if you 213 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,800 go down to bring an animal out of the pit, it's going to take a 214 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,500 whole lot of work and not only that, chances are you're going 215 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:46,100 to have to go get your neighbors. 216 00:13:46,100 --> 00:13:48,500 You're going to have to get several people, and you're going 217 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:52,000 to have to all collectively work together to get the animal out 218 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:55,800 of the pit. Out of the ditch, whatever it 219 00:13:55,800 --> 00:14:01,200 is. Completely inconsistent. 220 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:05,700 The Bible says, they could not answer to that question either, 221 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:10,000 but, you know, little did they know Jesus was brought there and 222 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,000 Jesus knew this. He was brought there for the 223 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:15,700 purpose of being examined by the Pharisees. 224 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:19,800 He was being examined by these individuals that day. 225 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:23,800 Little did they know though? When Jesus got there, he began 226 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:29,000 to watch them and he began to examine them as well. 227 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:32,200 And as he noted, he noticed that there were those Is that were 228 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:36,600 invited that were selecting the very best places to sit. 229 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:42,700 You know, what's interesting McGarvey says about the tables 230 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:48,000 and so forth that were chosen or used at that time, the Grecian 231 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:52,200 tables. He says this McGarvey said the 232 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:56,600 Grecian table, then in use had three sections, which were 233 00:14:56,600 --> 00:15:00,100 placed together. So as to form a flat-bottomed, 234 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:04,800 you the space enclosed by the table was not occupied. 235 00:15:05,100 --> 00:15:08,300 It was left vacant so that the servants might enter it. 236 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:12,200 It and attend to the wants of the guests who reclined around 237 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:17,300 the outer margin of the table. Now, on the outside with, in all 238 00:15:17,300 --> 00:15:19,700 three, sections was a place of honor. 239 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:23,300 What did Jesus notice? He noticed that as he came there 240 00:15:23,300 --> 00:15:26,000 that day on that particular social Gathering. 241 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:29,600 There were those among the sect of the Pharisees that were 242 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:32,600 trying to have the very best place to sit. 243 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:36,600 You ever done that get there early. 244 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:42,000 So you can have a good seat Friday night, Tina and I and the 245 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,400 kids went to a high school football game and I got to tell 246 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:48,800 you it would have been great if we got there earlier to have a 247 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:50,600 better seat. I didn't even get one at all. 248 00:15:51,300 --> 00:15:54,400 In fact, they got a place to sit and I'm standing on the rail on 249 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,000 the steps that would have been a perfect indication or a perfect 250 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,700 time when I needed to get there earlier so that I can get a 251 00:16:00,708 --> 00:16:03,200 seat. That's not what I'm talking 252 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,200 about. Because when I'm talking, when 253 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,100 I'm talking about a high school football game, I'm talking about 254 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:10,700 a place that you can go sit anywhere you want to and when 255 00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:13,400 you get there first it's not a place of honor. 256 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:15,900 Its first come first serve you find a seat. 257 00:16:15,900 --> 00:16:18,700 You get there early and that's your seat, good for you. 258 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,600 But Jesus was talking about something else he was talking 259 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,100 about. Something that was an 260 00:16:25,100 --> 00:16:28,300 invitation. He was talking about that in the 261 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:30,500 invitation, there would be honored guests. 262 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:34,000 That would be bidden to come to, and those honored guests, that 263 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:37,800 were bidden would have places of honor and special places that 264 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:39,700 they might sit in. You know what? 265 00:16:39,700 --> 00:16:43,400 Jesus recognized though, he recognized that there was people 266 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,700 from whatever Walk of Life that were showing up there that day 267 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:49,500 that we're all trying with Petty positioning. 268 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,600 Going to find the best place of honor that they might sit there 269 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:59,300 and Jesus saw them and Jesus responded in this way. 270 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:03,700 This Petty positioning the setting, he gives a parable. 271 00:17:03,700 --> 00:17:08,099 Now the setting is a wedding feast and the Bible says, or 272 00:17:08,099 --> 00:17:11,800 talks about the the common social event of a wedding feast. 273 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:16,700 In fact, I think I read one time when Jesus referred to a 274 00:17:16,700 --> 00:17:20,500 wedding. At least eight times in the New 275 00:17:20,500 --> 00:17:25,000 Testament. A time or place of Happiness. 276 00:17:25,300 --> 00:17:32,000 Fellowship, Joy, Good Times a social setting places, where 277 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,300 people of Honor would be bidden to come. 278 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:38,400 Jesus says, well, there's this thing called A Wedding feast and 279 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,400 he warns when you get bidden to a place like that, don't sit 280 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:48,100 down in the best of places. He says, don't do that. 281 00:17:48,500 --> 00:17:51,400 Now, this was an invitation-only event. 282 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,600 You know what? Jesus says, the reason for it is 283 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,800 he said the reason for it is if you go and you choose the very 284 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:03,400 best seat and you sit in a place of honor, then all of a sudden, 285 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:04,900 people are going to be coming in. 286 00:18:04,900 --> 00:18:07,200 What are they going to do? You're sitting in the very best 287 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,100 seat. So the next guy comes in and 288 00:18:09,100 --> 00:18:13,000 just maybe with Petty positioning, he chooses the next 289 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:17,300 best right next to you and then the next best and the best after 290 00:18:17,300 --> 00:18:20,300 that. Incidentally these tables these 291 00:18:20,300 --> 00:18:22,900 chair, they weren't chairs like We have around tables. 292 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:26,200 They were as one scholar said, he referred to him, simply as 293 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,100 couches. They reclined around the Outer 294 00:18:29,100 --> 00:18:32,500 Perimeter of this three-section table. 295 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:36,000 The inside was left open for the servants to come and serve all 296 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:37,800 the guests. What's going to happen? 297 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:41,600 Jesus says, Jesus says, what's going to happen is that people 298 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,800 are going to come in and all of those seats are going to fill 299 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:49,500 up. and then, all of a sudden, There's going to be a fellow 300 00:18:49,500 --> 00:18:54,500 that arrives at that setting that was the the the honored 301 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:59,700 guest and that man's going to come in and the man that invited 302 00:18:59,700 --> 00:19:03,800 you and they're both going to walk up to you and say excuse me 303 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,200 Frank could you please get out of that seat? 304 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:10,100 That seed is not for you. That seat is for Bob Smith. 305 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,100 What did Jesus say? He says, what are you going to 306 00:19:13,108 --> 00:19:16,100 do? You're going to get up and with 307 00:19:16,100 --> 00:19:20,300 shame you're going to walk away. And guess what? 308 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:24,300 You've spent all this time and a seat that was not yours to have. 309 00:19:24,300 --> 00:19:28,700 So by the time that all of this transpires, the only thing that 310 00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:35,700 is left is the lowest place. And you are going to with shame 311 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,400 have to go and sit in the lowest place. 312 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:47,400 Long time ago, I thought about the lowest place. and that's 313 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:51,600 kind of, like, Right field at Dodger, Stadium behind the pole. 314 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:54,200 That's kind of the worst seat in the house. 315 00:19:54,300 --> 00:19:59,300 You're you're you're now in the worst seat of all It didn't have 316 00:19:59,300 --> 00:20:01,700 to be that way. But you went down and plopped 317 00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:04,300 down in somebody else's seat that was not yours sold out. 318 00:20:04,300 --> 00:20:06,800 Crowd filled up now, now you got what's left over. 319 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:11,700 Jesus makes the comparison if you elevate yourself to the 320 00:20:11,700 --> 00:20:15,500 place or position of Honor, that is not for you to have. 321 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:18,500 Somebody else is going to come and somebody else. 322 00:20:18,500 --> 00:20:21,300 Going to tell you to leave out of that place, and you with 323 00:20:21,300 --> 00:20:24,900 shame are going to have to go limping off as it were to the 324 00:20:24,900 --> 00:20:27,900 lowest of all places, and that's your C. 325 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:35,000 Seat. Jesus says, In verse 10. 326 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:42,200 But when thou art didn't go and sit down in the lowest room that 327 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:46,000 when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee friend, go 328 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:50,100 up higher, then shalt thou have Worship in the presence of them 329 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,000 that sit at meat with me. So what does he say? 330 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,200 Don't sit in the high place. Don't put yourself or Elevate 331 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,000 yourself in that position because what's going to happen? 332 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:00,500 You're going to get asked to move. 333 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:02,700 You're going to ashamed. Go take the worst seat in the 334 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:05,200 house. Now Now, what does he say to do? 335 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:07,800 Go and walk in and take the lowest place. 336 00:21:09,500 --> 00:21:13,700 I want to make a point here. Mr. Bowles said something that I 337 00:21:13,700 --> 00:21:16,700 think was great, reading it to this afternoon. 338 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:22,500 I want to share it with you. He said, Jesus did not mean that 339 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:27,400 you choose the lowest place. Look how humble I am. 340 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,700 I'm just going to give up my seat. 341 00:21:29,700 --> 00:21:32,500 Look at me. Look at the humility that I 342 00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:35,700 possess. In fact, this is what he said, 343 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:42,700 Mr. Bowles said that the height of arrogance is showing too much 344 00:21:42,700 --> 00:21:46,300 humility. I didn't say having too much 345 00:21:46,300 --> 00:21:49,600 humility. I said showing too much 346 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,900 humility. Now we might think I don't know 347 00:21:52,900 --> 00:21:56,500 anybody like that when Jesus is talking about arrogance and he's 348 00:21:56,500 --> 00:21:59,200 talking about pride and he's talking about humility and he's 349 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,000 talking about all of that, we don't know anybody like that. 350 00:22:03,500 --> 00:22:04,800 Well, I'll tell you something, folks. 351 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:09,200 When we start thinking When we start thinking and demonstrating 352 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,300 to other people that we want other people to look at us and 353 00:22:12,300 --> 00:22:14,600 think. Wow, they are really, they are 354 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:19,500 really humble people or a person that all of a sudden thinks that 355 00:22:19,500 --> 00:22:22,500 they get something that nobody else has gotten their 356 00:22:22,500 --> 00:22:26,000 discipleship, means more to them than anybody else that they get 357 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,700 it now. And, with tear filled eyes. 358 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:31,900 Look at my humility, All About Us. 359 00:22:32,100 --> 00:22:34,300 How many times do we use this phrase, folks? 360 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:36,700 There's no other way to put it. That is arrogant. 361 00:22:36,900 --> 00:22:40,300 Melody and the height of arrogance is the over 362 00:22:40,300 --> 00:22:45,100 demonstration of humility drawing attention to yourself. 363 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:51,100 Jesus says, with the right heart with the right perspective, with 364 00:22:51,100 --> 00:22:55,300 the right spirit with the right attitude, no, I'm going to give 365 00:22:55,300 --> 00:22:58,400 that seat up to Bob. I'm going to give my seat up the 366 00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,600 shot. Hey, What's going to happen now, 367 00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:06,600 I'm sitting in the lowest seat. I was bidden to this place. 368 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:08,600 I was bidden to come to this place. 369 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,900 But the man that did the bidding, he shows up and says 370 00:23:11,900 --> 00:23:13,000 women Frank, you're in the wrong seat. 371 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,300 No. Come over here with me how many 372 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:17,000 times that actually happen in life. 373 00:23:17,300 --> 00:23:19,900 You go and plops it down somewhere somewhere and you kind 374 00:23:19,900 --> 00:23:23,900 of sit back and you have humility and you are humble in 375 00:23:23,900 --> 00:23:26,500 your heart and you're not trying to take the best seat from 376 00:23:26,500 --> 00:23:29,100 somebody else. Somebody's going to say hey come 377 00:23:29,100 --> 00:23:31,600 sit with us. What does Jesus say? 378 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:34,600 You're going to have worship with those that are there. 379 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,400 It's going to be a good and happy occasion. 380 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:39,400 And listen. What would you rather? 381 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:41,800 Have happened. Would you rather have somebody 382 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,100 say you're in the wrong seat? Frank get out of there and go 383 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:48,000 find the lowest place and you have to walk in front of 384 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,900 everybody with shame to do it. Or would you rather have 385 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:53,900 yourself over here that you placed yourself in? 386 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,800 And somebody says, no, why don't you come over here with me and 387 00:23:56,800 --> 00:24:00,000 sit in the better seat, and we're going to enjoy this 388 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,200 outing. We're going to enjoy this 389 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:06,700 function, this Gathering. You know, Jesus concluded with a 390 00:24:06,708 --> 00:24:10,200 maximum, there was a maximum given. 391 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:16,200 What is a maximum a maxim by definition is It's a fundamental 392 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:20,200 principle. It is a general truth, it is a 393 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,900 rule of conduct. A maxim is a fundamental 394 00:24:24,900 --> 00:24:29,400 principle, a general truth or a rule of conduct. 395 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:30,900 This is one of the Lord's favorites. 396 00:24:30,900 --> 00:24:35,800 What did he say for whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased 397 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,400 and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. 398 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:42,400 Jesus also dealt with this very thing when he talked about the 399 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:45,600 Pharisee and the Publican will not go in To that. 400 00:24:45,700 --> 00:24:47,700 But Jesus dealt with that very thing. 401 00:24:47,700 --> 00:24:50,800 He said that the Publican he was a man that was a sinner was 402 00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:54,100 known to be an extortioner. And he all he did is he can't 403 00:24:54,100 --> 00:24:57,600 even look up toward the heavens. He has so much humility in his 404 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,400 heart. That the Bible says that he 405 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:03,600 smote his breast as an outward sign of an inward, anguish and 406 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:07,600 sorrow and repentance. And all he can say is God, be 407 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:12,600 merciful to me a sinner. You know what Jesus said there 408 00:25:12,700 --> 00:25:15,500 that's amazing. Remember the Pharisee and all 409 00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:17,300 the things that he says, oh, I think they either. 410 00:25:17,300 --> 00:25:20,200 I'm not as other man or extortioners and but be all for 411 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:23,500 even as him. You know what Jesus said? 412 00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:28,700 Jesus said that one man went away Justified. 413 00:25:29,900 --> 00:25:35,000 The other did not. The word Justified means to have 414 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,500 acquitted. That's like when you go into a 415 00:25:38,508 --> 00:25:42,300 court of law and you're on trial, if you're acquitted, 416 00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:47,700 you're acquitted of the crime that Publican was acquitted of 417 00:25:47,700 --> 00:25:54,100 his sinful crime, the other man he went away with all of his 418 00:25:54,100 --> 00:25:56,900 wonderful attributes, but he also took something else with 419 00:25:56,900 --> 00:26:00,800 him too. He took his sins with him. 420 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:06,500 Jesus said it there again about humbling ourself or exalting 421 00:26:06,500 --> 00:26:09,000 ourselves. And it was spoken, when Jesus 422 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,700 was teaching his disciples, not to be like the scribes and the 423 00:26:12,700 --> 00:26:17,800 Pharisees, in Matthew chapter 23, it is also found in the Old 424 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:21,600 Testament, scriptures, as well in Proverbs chapter 18 and verse 425 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:23,200 12. The Bible says Before 426 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:28,300 Destruction, the heart of a man is haughty and before honor is 427 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:34,200 humility in Proverbs 29 and 23. A man's Pride shall bring him 428 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,300 low but honors shallop old the humble. 429 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:40,600 In spirit. It was also repeated in the New 430 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:45,100 Testament in James chapter 4 and verse 6, where it says, but he 431 00:26:45,100 --> 00:26:49,900 giveth more grace wherefore, he saith God, resisteth the proud, 432 00:26:50,100 --> 00:26:52,800 but giveth Grace, unto the humble. 433 00:26:55,300 --> 00:26:59,300 Well lastly let's apply the parable, you know, there's an 434 00:26:59,300 --> 00:27:03,300 application to every single Parable, every single sermon 435 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:08,300 that Jesus ever preached and if we miss the application, we 436 00:27:08,300 --> 00:27:11,300 missed the whole meaning of the entire sermon. 437 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:16,700 Here's the application. We learned number one, the 438 00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:21,400 dangers of Pride. How many times have we heard? 439 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:26,600 Proverbs chapter 16 and verse 18 quoted like this Pride goeth 440 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:30,200 before a fall? Well, that's a true statement. 441 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,800 But that's not what the Bible says. 442 00:27:33,100 --> 00:27:35,500 It says something. That's even words that are 443 00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:38,400 harsh. More harsh than that, more 444 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,100 severe than that more strict than that. 445 00:27:41,100 --> 00:27:43,200 It doesn't say. Pride goes before a fall. 446 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:48,600 It says Pride goeth Before, Destruction and a haughty spirit 447 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:51,800 before a fall. They think about it. 448 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:53,700 I don't know what you think about when you think about 449 00:27:53,700 --> 00:27:55,600 destruction. But I think blown up, I think 450 00:27:55,600 --> 00:28:01,100 destroyed I think ruined. I think completely obliterated 451 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:07,500 Pride goes Before Destruction. It says, and a haughty spirit 452 00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:13,500 before a fall, the danger of pride is not just in Social 453 00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:17,100 settings either as per the parable, but especially in our 454 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:20,100 relationships with God, the Lord hates Pride. 455 00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:24,500 Proverbs 8:13 says, the fear of the Lord is to hate evil pride 456 00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:29,400 and arrogancy and the evil way and the froward The froward 457 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,100 mouth. Do I hate there are things that 458 00:28:33,100 --> 00:28:37,000 God hates. He hates Pride, he hates it. 459 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,600 When Brethren sow, Discord, among Brethren he hates lying 460 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,400 tongues. There's many things that the 461 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:47,600 Lord hates And we talked about God, we're talking about a being 462 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,300 that it's impossible for him to lie. 463 00:28:49,300 --> 00:28:53,200 It's impossible for him to sin and when you and I have hate, we 464 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:55,700 need to be careful. That's a different kind of hate. 465 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:57,700 We have hate that's different than God. 466 00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:01,900 We're not on the same plane or level with God, but God hates 467 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:06,300 Pride. We also find that Jesus would 468 00:29:06,300 --> 00:29:10,400 say in Matthew chapter 7 verses 21 through 30 to on the great 469 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,100 Sermon on the Mount that this Pride will defile a man. 470 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:17,700 Jesus said not every one that says to me. 471 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:21,100 Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that 472 00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:24,200 doeth, the will of My Father, which is in heaven. 473 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:27,500 Jesus said, many will say to me in that day, Lord, have we not 474 00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:31,200 prophesied in thy name and in thy name, cast out devils. 475 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,900 And in thy name, done many wonderful works. 476 00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:36,200 And Then will I profess unto them? 477 00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:41,700 I never knew you depart from me. Ye that work iniquity. 478 00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:48,200 Folks, we must always remember. First John chapter 2 verses 15 479 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:53,000 through 17 says that pride is not of the father but pride is 480 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,500 of the world. Secondly, we learn that from 481 00:29:57,500 --> 00:29:59,400 this Parable. The flip side of all this and 482 00:29:59,408 --> 00:30:02,000 that is the importance of humility. 483 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:08,100 People don't say that today. People say you got to take care 484 00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:12,200 of number, one people say in society, if you don't take care 485 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,300 of yourself and if you don't support yourself who's going to 486 00:30:15,300 --> 00:30:18,300 do it, now, I don't believe for one minute that we need to walk 487 00:30:18,300 --> 00:30:20,900 around in life with no confidence whatsoever. 488 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,400 I don't think that's a Biblical principle at all. 489 00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:27,300 And when the Bible talks about lowering our self and submitting 490 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:30,600 to somebody else, it's not saying that we are floor. 491 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,300 Mats. We throw ourselves down the 492 00:30:32,300 --> 00:30:34,500 ground. Beat ourselves up and hate are 493 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:36,900 self. That's a sin by The way to Hate 494 00:30:36,900 --> 00:30:40,300 Yourself. Nowhere in the scriptures. 495 00:30:40,300 --> 00:30:43,700 Does it say that you have to have no confidence whatsoever in 496 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:48,300 yourself? What it says is that humility is 497 00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:52,200 what we need to try to achieve in our life as opposed to Pride 498 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,600 and when it talks about preferring one another, it 499 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,300 doesn't mean that I want to hang out with Terry which I do 500 00:30:58,500 --> 00:30:59,900 doesn't mean. I'd rather hang out with Terry 501 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:03,200 than somebody else. It means if I prefer Terry I am 502 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:07,200 putting Terry before me. And that's exactly what Jesus 503 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,100 talked about. In this Parable. 504 00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:13,200 Put yourself aside step aside, step out of the equation. 505 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:18,200 Put somebody else first Always be like that in your dealings, 506 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,800 with your brethren with your fellow man. 507 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,700 The Lord blesses, those that are humble in Proverbs chapter 3 and 508 00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:30,200 verse 34, the Bible says surely, he scorned with the scorners but 509 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,400 he giveth Grace unto. The lowly humility. 510 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:39,700 Also is a mark of wisdom. Now, I know that goes against 511 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:45,800 the grain of today but humility is a mark of wisdom. 512 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,200 Now, that doesn't mean that's not false. 513 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:49,700 Humility. That's not. 514 00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:52,900 Look, I'm really I really I'm really wise really humble? 515 00:31:53,700 --> 00:32:00,000 No sincere. Humility is the mark of wisdom. 516 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,400 I don't know about you folks, but I'll tell you this. 517 00:32:04,500 --> 00:32:10,900 Every single time in my life, that I thought that I had all 518 00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:15,400 the wisdom that I needed that, I thought on a particular subject. 519 00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:18,400 Whatever. That is any time that I thought 520 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:23,100 that I had any particular subject, all figured out that I 521 00:32:23,108 --> 00:32:26,400 had come just as far as I could go along that line. 522 00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:29,000 I don't know about you, maybe that's not the case in your 523 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,600 life, but every single time when I had that mentality and that 524 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,900 attitude life, Slam me right back to the ground and I came to 525 00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:39,400 the realization. I didn't know half of what I 526 00:32:39,408 --> 00:32:43,100 thought I knew. When we think that we've got it 527 00:32:43,100 --> 00:32:46,600 all figured out, whether it's in anything in life, life has a way 528 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:50,000 of slamming us right back down and to the ground, putting our 529 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,600 feet back on the ground life. Does that? 530 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:59,200 But never ever let it be that we allow that kind of a heart or an 531 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:03,900 attitude or Spirit enter us. When we talk about our 532 00:33:03,900 --> 00:33:08,000 Christianity, especially when we think we've got, it figured out 533 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:09,600 more than somebody else. Because I'm going to tell you 534 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,600 something, folks. There's a whole lot of babes in 535 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,000 Christ. And if it's true, that a person 536 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:17,000 has to be a member of the Lord's church for 25-30 years before 537 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,800 they get it, and they get it now and they didn't get it before. 538 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:21,900 That means no babe in Christ to go to heaven. 539 00:33:23,700 --> 00:33:26,300 No, babe in Christ can be a disciple of our Lord and Savior 540 00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:28,400 Jesus Christ. And that goes against the grain 541 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,900 and the teachings that are found in the New Testament, every babe 542 00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:34,700 in Christ, that is following this pattern at to the best of 543 00:33:34,708 --> 00:33:37,200 their ability. All the way up to someone that 544 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,400 can endure strong meat meat of the word to the very best of 545 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,200 their ability. They get it. 546 00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:46,900 They understand it and they're trying to serve God and I'm at a 547 00:33:46,908 --> 00:33:49,100 something you never graduate ever. 548 00:33:50,100 --> 00:33:54,200 You never do. There is no diploma there is in 549 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:55,700 heaven. That's it. 550 00:33:56,300 --> 00:34:00,600 If there's a diploma or degree to be given, it's the reward 551 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:04,100 that we will all have that none of us will ever earn, but it's 552 00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:07,400 the reward that we will all have on that last and final day when 553 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:12,600 Jesus says, this one was mine, When I, when we hear the 554 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,199 wonderful words, well done, thou good and faithful servant enter 555 00:34:16,199 --> 00:34:18,300 into the joy of thy, Lord, and forever. 556 00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:20,900 Be with the Lord, that's graduation day. 557 00:34:21,300 --> 00:34:25,900 If anything in the world, that's it, that's the ceremony. because 558 00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:29,199 folks, if we ever think that we just reach a point in this life, 559 00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,500 when we've got it, all dialed in, That's the height of 560 00:34:32,500 --> 00:34:35,800 arrogance. And man we got so much more to 561 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:41,800 learn if nothing else about humility that Jesus spoke about 562 00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:45,900 a long time ago. We thank you for listening to 563 00:34:45,900 --> 00:34:50,699 our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 564 00:34:50,699 --> 00:34:54,300 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 565 00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:57,500 information, or you would like to receive a free Bible 566 00:34:57,500 --> 00:35:03,000 correspondence, course by mail. Please email us at info at her 567 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,500 Church of Christ Bakersfield.com. 568 00:35:06,100 --> 00:35:11,300 Our service times are on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and 569 00:35:11,300 --> 00:35:15,800 Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Please make plans to join us. 570 00:35:16,300 --> 00:35:18,500 We would love for you to be our honored guest.