1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:03,500 We have quite a few of our numbers that are missing today 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,500 due to illness or traveling. But we are grateful for your 3 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:10,500 presence and I hope and pray that what we have to consider 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,700 this morning for a little while would be encouraging and 5 00:00:13,700 --> 00:00:17,100 edifying to you. Now, just a reason for the 6 00:00:17,100 --> 00:00:19,600 lesson. I don't know how long ago it 7 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,000 was, but I preached on Matthew chapter, 23 was the last sermon 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,600 our Lord ever preached. And it was really amazing. 9 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:28,900 This sermon. In fact, it was the Lord 10 00:00:28,900 --> 00:00:33,400 scathing rebuke upon scribes and Pharisees who pretended to be 11 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,100 one thing on the outside. But inside that's not who they 12 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:39,300 were. In fact, Jesus actually calls 13 00:00:39,300 --> 00:00:43,800 them Hypocrites, Hypocrites for real, they pretended to be 14 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,800 something they never really intended to be. 15 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:49,800 And so I preached a sermon entitled neglecting the 16 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,700 weightier matters of the law and the weightier matters that Jesus 17 00:00:53,700 --> 00:00:57,000 calls. He calls them, Justice, mercy 18 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,400 and Faith. So the reason for the lesson, a 19 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,700 very, very dear friend of mine asked by way of a request. 20 00:01:04,099 --> 00:01:08,000 Would I preach on the subject of what actually is, Justice, 21 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,700 mercy, and faith. And what are those things look 22 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:15,700 like in our life? Was it something brand-new that 23 00:01:15,700 --> 00:01:18,900 Jesus came? With in Matthew chapter 23 or 24 00:01:18,900 --> 00:01:21,800 has it always existed, did it go back all the way back to the 25 00:01:21,808 --> 00:01:23,800 very beginning under the law of Moses? 26 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:28,100 What was Jesus say? Why did he say it in the context 27 00:01:28,100 --> 00:01:30,400 that he gave it? And how does it apply to you? 28 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:33,200 And I today and I'm going to ask you to do something for me. 29 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,600 Please, you may have in your mind, a basic definition of 30 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:42,100 justice, a basic definition of mercy, and a basic definition of 31 00:01:42,100 --> 00:01:43,700 faith and I'm going to ask you this. 32 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:48,200 Please cast that aside. And don't draw any conclusions 33 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:51,600 or make any definitions until. We look at these words from the 34 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,500 Bible, we're going to actually be reflecting back on the Book 35 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:57,500 of Micah and we're going to notice in the Hebrew what those 36 00:01:57,500 --> 00:01:59,800 words actually meant. And how does it apply today? 37 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,900 And I think you may have a little bit of a different 38 00:02:01,900 --> 00:02:07,100 perspective on what Justice mercy, and Faith, really is. 39 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,199 Now, the only way that we're going to be able to understand 40 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:14,000 the context of Justice, mercy and faith is to understand the 41 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,100 context of what Jesus said prior to that. 42 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:21,300 So I'm not going to get bogged down in the particulars of these 43 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:23,500 passages. I've already taught on these 44 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:26,500 passages before I will narrate through them. 45 00:02:26,500 --> 00:02:29,600 So we have an understanding and we lay a foundation, and then we 46 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,600 can move forward together and my hope and prayer is when we leave 47 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,800 here today, we can understand what Justice mercy and faith is 48 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,400 how we Applied in our life and how we can be better in the 49 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,800 future than we've ever been, in days gone by. 50 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:44,600 That's my hope. That's my prayer. 51 00:02:44,700 --> 00:02:46,600 Let's begin. Matthew 23. 52 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:52,000 Jesus says, woe to you scribes and Pharisees. 53 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,900 And then he says the words, the word Hypocrites. 54 00:02:56,100 --> 00:02:59,800 I want to just slide this in. I've been here for a lot of 55 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,200 years and you've heard me say this many times, I'm going to 56 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:03,800 say it again. You already know what's coming. 57 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:09,700 I think the word hypocrite is the most overused and abused 58 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:12,400 word. In the English language, that 59 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:17,400 people use as an indictment on someone who professes to be a 60 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:22,600 Christian, but makes a mistake. That is not a hypocrite. 61 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:27,400 We are not perfect. We all make mistakes, we all 62 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,100 sinned. We all fall short of the glory 63 00:03:29,100 --> 00:03:31,800 of God. All of, that's true a person 64 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,300 that's trying to do. What's right? 65 00:03:33,300 --> 00:03:35,500 And makes a mistake as not a hypocrite. 66 00:03:36,100 --> 00:03:38,100 I'm going to slide this into, this was free. 67 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:41,200 You know what I found in my life, maybe you've seen the same 68 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:45,900 thing, but often times people use the word Hypocrites, and 69 00:03:45,900 --> 00:03:49,700 they use it against somebody else, to justify their own 70 00:03:49,700 --> 00:03:54,800 inactivity and lack of service to God, for example, I don't go 71 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,300 to church because there's Hypocrites over there. 72 00:03:59,300 --> 00:04:01,000 I don't want to be like the Hypocrites. 73 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,400 I'll just live my life like I do because I don't want to be like 74 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,700 those churchgoers they're Hypocrites. 75 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:12,200 In other words, it's used as a wuwei or a tool to justify their 76 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:13,800 own inactivity. All right. 77 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:17,700 All that being said, Jesus is going to talk about people that 78 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:21,899 are truly our Hypocrites. They were scribes and they were 79 00:04:21,899 --> 00:04:26,300 Pharisees and this is why. I notice what Jesus says, you 80 00:04:26,300 --> 00:04:29,600 give tithe of mint and anise, and cumin. 81 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:33,200 Now, what is MIT Anderson cumin? I'll just say it this way. 82 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,800 They were kitchen spices, and, you know what they did, they 83 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,500 actually grew up in the kitchen and clay pots, mint, and anise, 84 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:44,000 and cumin. Let me talk about tithing for 85 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:48,500 just a moment, okay, tithing was a requirement given by God in 86 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:52,300 the Old Testament and the word tide means 10th, by the way. 87 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,300 That's where we get the term. 10% or people talk about 10% 88 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:58,800 talk about tithing. It's because the word tithe 89 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,300 means tenth. What did God required God 90 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:05,200 required that the, that the people of the children of Israel 91 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:08,500 would give a tenth of all that the land produced? 92 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:14,100 Now. Did god require them to include 93 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,300 the kitchen spices in the tithing of a tenth of? 94 00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:20,400 What the land produced that's irrelevant. 95 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,400 That's not the point. Jesus was not saying they were 96 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:29,400 wrong in making the tithe extend to the kitchen spices. 97 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:34,000 It is never wrong to give to God, What he was saying is you 98 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,700 people are great in doing the things that everybody can see, 99 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,100 and Pat you on the back for, you've even taken the tithes 100 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:45,600 requirement and even to the nth degree and even made it to the 101 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,700 kitchen spices. And you can just imagine he's 102 00:05:47,700 --> 00:05:50,300 saying this by the way, the Lord saying you're great at taking 103 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:51,800 them. It anise and cumin and going, 104 00:05:51,900 --> 00:05:55,200 OK? 9 for me, one for God, nine for 105 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,400 me, one for God, 94, me one, forgot. 106 00:05:58,400 --> 00:05:59,900 He said you're great at that butt. 107 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:05,800 In doing that, you've also neglected, the weightier matters 108 00:06:06,100 --> 00:06:09,300 of the law. I got to say some but wait here. 109 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,800 You know, the word weightier was a rabbinical term. 110 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:19,100 What do I mean by that? God gave specific commands in 111 00:06:19,100 --> 00:06:22,700 the Old Testament. He gave specific requirements in 112 00:06:22,700 --> 00:06:27,200 the Old Testament rabbinic tradition decided, what 113 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:31,900 requirements were weightier and what we're not so waiting. 114 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,100 Let me give you two examples really quickly. 115 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,300 One of those weightier Matters by rabbinic, tradition was 116 00:06:38,300 --> 00:06:41,600 circumcision. And by the way, that's why when 117 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,000 the church was established, even though Jesus Took the old Lon, 118 00:06:45,100 --> 00:06:46,900 And nailed it to his cross. According to the book of 119 00:06:46,900 --> 00:06:50,900 Colossians when the church was established Jewish people by 120 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:54,700 Blood who formerly had ancestors that lived under the law of 121 00:06:54,700 --> 00:06:58,600 Moses considering rabbinic tradition that circumcision was 122 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,000 a way to your matter what they do. 123 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,100 They tried to bring about certain aspects of the Old Law 124 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:07,100 of Moses and bind it on the poor Gentiles that they hated. 125 00:07:07,100 --> 00:07:12,300 Anyway, we call those Judy, izing Christians or people 126 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:15,000 trying to bring aspects of the Old Law and binding it on. 127 00:07:15,100 --> 00:07:18,000 Gentiles, what actually did they do, this is what they said. 128 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,400 They told the Gentiles you have to be baptized to be saved, 129 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:24,500 which is true. But then they said, you got to 130 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:27,900 be circumcised to remain saved and the Apostle Paul had to 131 00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:29,600 correct. All of that, all of that was 132 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,000 wrong, okay? You don't have to be circumcised 133 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,700 to remain safe. Why do they do it? 134 00:07:33,700 --> 00:07:36,900 Because tradition said, rabbinic tradition, it was a weightier 135 00:07:36,900 --> 00:07:39,300 matter. Number two, example, way to your 136 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:42,300 matter. Rabbinic tradition said that the 137 00:07:42,300 --> 00:07:46,600 Sabbath was a weightier matter. You got to keep the Sabbath. 138 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,100 Incidentally, Jesus nailed the Sabbath to his cross to and were 139 00:07:50,100 --> 00:07:53,400 no longer under the Sabbath law. We don't recognize the seventh 140 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:58,100 day or Saturday, okay. That's why they hated Jesus. 141 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:01,500 One of the reasons one, he said, I am the Son of God, but there 142 00:08:01,508 --> 00:08:04,200 was another reason because of the way he handled the Sabbath 143 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,000 day. You know what Jesus said about 144 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,900 the Sabbath, I'll do anything. I want to on the Sabbath. 145 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,700 I'm greater than the With I'm lord of the Sabbath and Jesus 146 00:08:12,700 --> 00:08:15,900 marked the transition between the Sabbath day of the Old 147 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:18,200 Testament. And the first day of the week of 148 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:21,100 the New Testament, he marked that transition. 149 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:25,100 Why did they hate him? Because they said the Sabbath 150 00:08:25,100 --> 00:08:28,200 was a weightier matter. That Jesus didn't call those 151 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,200 things away to your matter. What did Jesus actually say? 152 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:38,799 Jesus said the weightier matters are these Justice mercy and 153 00:08:38,799 --> 00:08:44,000 faith He said what you're doing is you are good at keeping the 154 00:08:44,008 --> 00:08:48,600 details, which is important. Please get that. but you're 155 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:53,200 neglecting the weightier matters of Justice, mercy and faith, and 156 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,500 by doing that, you're making your sacrifice, you're making 157 00:08:56,500 --> 00:09:01,200 what you're doing with the details insignificant I have to 158 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,900 make a point before we go any further please, and I'm going to 159 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:08,100 tell you why we tell you why, because I read all kinds of 160 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:09,600 Articles. When I Was preparing this 161 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,300 lesson, I was doing this study, I just Googled it. 162 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:15,500 I Googled, Matthew 23, I wanted to Google stuff about in The 163 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:18,500 Book of Micah, which we're going to get to in a minute and I 164 00:09:18,500 --> 00:09:21,400 wanted to find out what is the general interpretation that 165 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:26,500 people have in the world about Matthew 23 about what Jesus 166 00:09:26,500 --> 00:09:28,700 actually saying, and I can't begin to tell you how many 167 00:09:28,700 --> 00:09:34,200 people wrote What matters is Justice, mercy and faith and the 168 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:39,200 details don't matter. That is not true. 169 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:45,700 Please get this. Jesus is saying the details and 170 00:09:45,700 --> 00:09:47,500 the weightier matters of Justice. 171 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:52,800 Mercy and Faith are equally required and equally important. 172 00:09:54,900 --> 00:09:57,000 And, you know, we're going to find out later on our lesson. 173 00:09:58,300 --> 00:10:02,000 If you truly by way of what these words mean, are people of 174 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:04,800 Justice, mercy, and Faith, guess what you're going to do, you're 175 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,100 going to keep the details. They go together. 176 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:10,900 They go together. Alright. 177 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:14,500 Both important. What about the scribes and 178 00:10:14,500 --> 00:10:16,300 Pharisees, though? The he called Hypocrites. 179 00:10:16,300 --> 00:10:19,100 They were not people who Justice mercy and Faith. 180 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,900 Now, this was not anything new by the way about Justice, mercy 181 00:10:22,900 --> 00:10:25,000 and Faith. It actually goes back to the 182 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,400 Book of Micah and that what Jesus is doing is Jesus is 183 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:33,500 quoting Micah. And Micah specifically is 184 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:36,900 quoting the general requirements in Deuteronomy chapter 10 will 185 00:10:36,900 --> 00:10:39,100 get to them. So this was nothing new. 186 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:42,600 This goes all the way back in the Book of Micah chapter 6 and 187 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:44,400 verse 8. This is what Micah the Minor 188 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,300 Prophets said. He has shown you o man, what is 189 00:10:47,300 --> 00:10:49,600 good and what does the Lord require of you? 190 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,400 But to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your God. 191 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,800 Now what we're going to show them later on. 192 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:03,300 Is when Jesus said Faith, it's the same thing as Mike is saying 193 00:11:03,300 --> 00:11:06,400 walking humbly with your God. It's the same thing. 194 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,200 That's why I asked you to please. 195 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,200 Just if you have an idea of a definition of these things, just 196 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,000 put it aside for just a moment. We're going to get to those 197 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:15,100 specifics. Okay. 198 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:19,000 What Jesus was saying, is this what he was saying is by 199 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,800 neglecting the weightier matters of Justice, mercy and Faith. 200 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,100 He's going to describe them in three ways and I'm going to be 201 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:26,800 brief. This is what he said by doing 202 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,100 that your mission. Point. 203 00:11:28,100 --> 00:11:31,100 This is what you're doing. You're like blind guides who 204 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:33,300 strain out a gnat and swallow a camel, okay. 205 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:37,400 Quickly wine at and why camel? Why did our brilliant Lord? 206 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,900 Why did the master use Nat and camel? 207 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:42,700 You know why? Because the neck in the Old 208 00:11:42,700 --> 00:11:45,500 Testament was the smallest of all unclean things. 209 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,900 A camo in the Old Testament was the largest of unclean. 210 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:54,600 Thanks, man was not allowed to ever ingest, or eat something 211 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,500 that was unclean and for something not to be. 212 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:02,900 The unclean it had to chew its cud, and it had to have a cloven 213 00:12:02,900 --> 00:12:05,200 hoof. Somebody said what time we'll 214 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:07,500 wait, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, camel. 215 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:10,400 They choose our cut. You've seen a camel chewing. 216 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,400 Its cud right true, but they don't have a cloven hoof. 217 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,000 They were unclean. Jesus is telling them 218 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 masterfully. Something they would totally 219 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,800 understand. He said by keeping the details, 220 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:24,600 which is good, but neglecting the weightier matters of 221 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,000 Justice, mercy and Faith. What's your like is? 222 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:30,500 You're like A blind guide who straining out the smallest of 223 00:12:30,500 --> 00:12:33,100 unclean things but you're swallowing the greatest, you're 224 00:12:33,100 --> 00:12:35,900 swallowing the camel. All right. 225 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,500 I got to talk about straining out in that. 226 00:12:38,500 --> 00:12:40,200 You've heard me say this before, but I gotta say it again. 227 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:46,000 I think it's a little funny. They were so concerned about not 228 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,300 eating the net, these Pharisees, they would take a strainer cloth 229 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:53,900 and put it over a cup. They would take the beverage in 230 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:56,300 a pitcher, and they would pour the beverage through the 231 00:12:56,300 --> 00:12:58,400 strainer cloth. So, in that couldn't 232 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:00,800 accidentally get the cut before they drank it. 233 00:13:01,700 --> 00:13:06,300 One scholar said that, I read, he said some of these fastidious 234 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:10,300 Pharisees would drink, then the beverage through clenched teeth 235 00:13:10,300 --> 00:13:13,500 like this. So they wouldn't accidentally 236 00:13:13,500 --> 00:13:15,700 get one of them little guys in their mouth and swallow it and 237 00:13:15,700 --> 00:13:18,000 be guilty of swallowing something that was unclean even 238 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,700 the smallest of unclean things and they just flick it out of 239 00:13:21,708 --> 00:13:25,000 the teeth Jesus Says, by neglecting Justice. 240 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:26,700 Mercy and Faith. You know what you are? 241 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:30,200 You're like a blind guide. Your straightening out the net 242 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:35,400 but you're swallowing the camel. You don't get it now. 243 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:40,900 Interesting about this, the second thing he describes them. 244 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 He said you're straight out of that swallow, Campbell by doing 245 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,600 here, but this also, what he says, woe to you. 246 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,100 Scribes Pharisees. And oh, oh, oh here's the word. 247 00:13:48,100 --> 00:13:51,800 Again, Hypocrites for you cleanse. 248 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,300 The outside of the cup and dish but inside they are full of 249 00:13:54,308 --> 00:13:57,300 extortion and self-indulgent. This is not a new passage, this 250 00:13:57,300 --> 00:14:00,300 is not a New Concept you know exactly what I'm going to say. 251 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:05,200 But I say quickly notice please. What you're doing is and I hope 252 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:08,600 you get the point, he's using these things metaphorically to 253 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,500 describe them self. He said, you're washing the 254 00:14:12,500 --> 00:14:15,800 outside of the cup you're taking that cup and you're polishing 255 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,500 the outside to a mirror shine, but inside it's dirty. 256 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:24,200 In other words, you are not on the inside what you appear on 257 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,100 the outside. That's one thing. 258 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,900 But then Jesus says cup and Dish. 259 00:14:28,900 --> 00:14:32,000 Let us not go fast by this word dish. 260 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:37,500 This word dish is not just any ordinary dish and it's not just 261 00:14:37,500 --> 00:14:39,100 something that's connected to the cup. 262 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:42,500 Historically they have dinner parties back in those days, by 263 00:14:42,500 --> 00:14:45,000 the way. And this dish that the Lord was 264 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,400 talking about here was a very special dish because people knew 265 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:50,900 at all the guests of a dinner party. 266 00:14:50,900 --> 00:14:55,100 They knew that if the servant brought out this special dish 267 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:57,800 and they could tell by the outside of the dish, what was 268 00:14:57,800 --> 00:15:01,000 coming, guess what they thought they were going to get the 269 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:02,900 Delicacies, were now going to be served. 270 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,100 And in other words, when they saw the dish on the outside, 271 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:09,300 they believe something specials coming on the inside. 272 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:13,100 That's what Jesus says you are. You're like a cup that you 273 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:15,700 polish on the outside but that's not you on the inside. 274 00:15:15,700 --> 00:15:18,000 You're like the dish that people think, oh, by your outward 275 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:21,300 appearance by the outward, way that you're acting, that's 276 00:15:21,300 --> 00:15:23,200 really you and some specials coming. 277 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:26,200 But that's not the case. That is not you. 278 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:29,400 What did Jesus say for them to do? 279 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:31,500 This is what Jesus said you should have done. 280 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 First cleanse, the inside of the cup. 281 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:39,100 And the outside may be clean. Also, you take a cup. 282 00:15:39,100 --> 00:15:41,000 You submerge it. In the sink and soapy water, you 283 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,500 clean the inside Arch, are you're already automatically. 284 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:47,100 Get me outside too. Are you kind of getting the 285 00:15:47,100 --> 00:15:51,300 point? Clean the inside first? 286 00:15:52,700 --> 00:16:00,300 Fix your inside, be authentic, make sure that's really you. 287 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,200 Oh, but there's more, there's one more example and then we're 288 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:04,800 gonna move on one more example quickly. 289 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:08,100 In verse 27. He said, this is you, by the 290 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:10,600 way, when you neglect the weightier matters of the law of 291 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:13,300 Justice, mercy and Faith woe to you scribes Pharisees. 292 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:16,300 There's that word again. Hypocrites for you are like 293 00:16:16,300 --> 00:16:22,000 whitewashed tombs. Little background in Jerusalem 294 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,700 after the spring rains and right before the Passover time. 295 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:30,600 You know what they would do, they would take lime powder and 296 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:33,800 they would mix it with water and they would go to all these 297 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,500 Graves and they would paint the two moves. 298 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:41,400 White one historian said that around Passover time when the 299 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,000 Sun was shining, people always people coming into Jerusalem for 300 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,600 the Passover. They would come in and they 301 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:48,800 would see these beautiful Graves died. 302 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,400 The countryside Jesus said That's you on the outside, you 303 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,800 appear to be beautiful but that's not used to tell you what 304 00:16:56,800 --> 00:16:58,500 you are. You're like Dead Man's Bones. 305 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:02,700 It's all you are in the inside. Why did they do that, though? 306 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:06,400 What was the reason for whitewashing the to knows? 307 00:17:06,700 --> 00:17:10,599 They did it for a very practical reason in the Old Testament. 308 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:15,900 God said that if somebody would touch a grave or touch the bones 309 00:17:15,900 --> 00:17:19,700 of a dead person, they would be ceremonially unclean. 310 00:17:19,700 --> 00:17:22,400 I think it was for seven days if I'm not mistaken. 311 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,700 A person coming in to Jerusalem at Passover time would never 312 00:17:28,700 --> 00:17:32,100 want to be ceremonially unclean and not be able to participate. 313 00:17:32,100 --> 00:17:37,400 So what they did is they painted the graves Sometimes they would 314 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:39,700 pay the whole grave sometime, they would paint the mouth of 315 00:17:39,700 --> 00:17:41,400 it. Sometimes the front of the cave 316 00:17:42,300 --> 00:17:45,400 and sometimes they would just paint Bones on it. 317 00:17:45,700 --> 00:17:48,400 A picture of Bones and other words don't touch it. 318 00:17:49,700 --> 00:17:54,200 You know what Jesus says that is you you beautiful on the outside 319 00:17:54,900 --> 00:18:00,500 but inside you are dead men's bones, that's all you are. 320 00:18:02,500 --> 00:18:05,400 A scathing rebuke very serious matter. 321 00:18:06,500 --> 00:18:11,700 Jesus said this in verse 28, even so you outwardly appear 322 00:18:11,700 --> 00:18:15,300 righteous to men, but inside you're full of hypocrisy and 323 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,400 lawlessness. Okay, so in summary, he said, by 324 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:21,500 neglecting the weightier matters and I'm finished with the 325 00:18:21,508 --> 00:18:24,700 background by neglected, the weightier matters, you've done 326 00:18:24,700 --> 00:18:27,000 three things, you're the like the blind guides is straight out 327 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,200 of that swell, the camel. You like the guy that polishes 328 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,500 the outside the company inside filthy and you are like 329 00:18:31,500 --> 00:18:33,700 whitewashed tombs that appear beautiful on the outside. 330 00:18:33,700 --> 00:18:36,500 But inside, you are rotten like Dead Man's Bones. 331 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:39,800 All right, what do we learn? What do we learn from this? 332 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:43,300 We learned for things. God, always looks at the heart. 333 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:49,000 Always. Looks at the heart. 334 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:54,500 If we fix the inside, we fix the outside. 335 00:18:56,100 --> 00:18:58,900 Number three. Don't appear beautiful on the 336 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:01,800 outside, but inwardly be rotten like Dead Man's Bones. 337 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,600 Don't do that. Number four. 338 00:19:04,700 --> 00:19:07,500 Let's keep the commands of God. But don't neglect, the weightier 339 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:09,300 matters of Justice, mercy and faith. 340 00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:12,200 And I'm going to say it again. The details and the weightier 341 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:16,800 matters are both required and both equally important got to do 342 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:22,100 it all. All right. so, what is justice? 343 00:19:23,300 --> 00:19:26,200 What is Mercy? And what's Faith? 344 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,400 Again, we go back to the prophet Micah. 345 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:33,400 And Jesus was not saying anything new, by the way, all 346 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:34,800 the way back to the prophet Micah. 347 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,000 Here's the passage again, where he spent time on this again 348 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,400 after this too. He has shown you o man, what is 349 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:46,400 good and what does the Lord? Require. 350 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:53,700 This is not a suggestion. This is a requirement. 351 00:19:54,900 --> 00:19:59,100 It has always been a requirement, you know, sometimes 352 00:19:59,100 --> 00:20:02,700 what we think in our mind, we think under the Old Law or in 353 00:20:02,700 --> 00:20:04,600 the Old Testament, God just gave him a list. 354 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,600 As long as they did the list, they fulfilled the requirement. 355 00:20:09,100 --> 00:20:11,700 But only in the New Testament do other things matter. 356 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,300 Not so and the reason we think that sometimes is because Jesus 357 00:20:15,300 --> 00:20:19,300 said you have heard that it has been said, You shall not commit 358 00:20:19,300 --> 00:20:21,700 murder. But I say unto you, whoever 359 00:20:21,700 --> 00:20:24,900 hates his brother or is angry, with his brother Without a Cause 360 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,800 All of those things, you've committed murder already in your 361 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:32,300 heart. Jesus said you have heard that 362 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:35,500 it has been said You shall not commit adultery but I say unto 363 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:39,700 you Amanda looks at a woman to lust after her has committed 364 00:20:39,700 --> 00:20:45,500 adultery already in his heart. Sometimes we think the inward 365 00:20:45,500 --> 00:20:48,800 side or the inward stuff was only taught in the O in the New 366 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:53,000 Testament and not the old and that's not true all the way back 367 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,700 in the Book of Micah. He's saying this this is what 368 00:20:55,700 --> 00:21:02,500 the lord requires. Do justly, love, mercy, and walk 369 00:21:02,500 --> 00:21:06,400 humbly with your God. The prophet Micah makes it 370 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:11,200 almost Well, it's not a Verbatim quote, but what it is, it is 371 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,700 specifics about what is taught in Deuteronomy in general. 372 00:21:15,700 --> 00:21:18,600 He gets very specific about what Deuteronomy teaches in general. 373 00:21:19,300 --> 00:21:21,200 Have they been honestly respected? 374 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:25,200 It would have prevented the leaders from being cruel to 375 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,200 others Committee cruelties Against the poor. 376 00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:30,900 And if they would have kept those weightier Matters by the 377 00:21:30,900 --> 00:21:33,500 way, then their sacrifices would have been acceptable to God. 378 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,500 Which is so important me, ask you something. 379 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,600 Do you want your sacrifice to God? 380 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,400 To be counted. Or to be meaningless. 381 00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:52,600 I'm about you, but I want all the extra credit I can get. 382 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,300 So I want my obedient service to God, to be counted. 383 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:01,200 I don't want my obedient service to God, to be counted 384 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:05,000 meaningless because I'm not the person I'm supposed to be, I 385 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,400 don't want that again. It always existed. 386 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,500 It was always required and this is very important to in 387 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:16,400 understanding this passage because in study of all of this 388 00:22:16,700 --> 00:22:20,800 and in looking at what people think about what this means, so 389 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:24,100 many people wrote little articles that said, all that 390 00:22:24,100 --> 00:22:27,200 matters is how you treat other people. 391 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,100 If you're a good person, Person and you treat others good. 392 00:22:30,100 --> 00:22:33,200 That's all that God requires, that's not true. 393 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:37,100 He requires so much more. So we need to understand the 394 00:22:37,100 --> 00:22:40,900 context and it's always existed. Some say there's nothing else 395 00:22:40,900 --> 00:22:43,400 needed and that's not true, but it always existed. 396 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:47,700 The concept of Justice, mercy and faith in general was given 397 00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:49,600 in Deuteronomy chapter 10 and verse 12. 398 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,300 Again, here's the generality. My kid got specific. 399 00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:56,100 I'll read the passage and now, Israel, what does the Lord your 400 00:22:56,100 --> 00:22:59,700 God require of you? But to Fear the lord, your God 401 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:04,100 and walk in all his ways and to love him to serve your lord, 402 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:08,200 your God, with all your heart, with all your soul. 403 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,500 Let's talk about God's justice and God's mercy for just a 404 00:23:13,508 --> 00:23:18,200 moment. Remember that song? 405 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,300 Justice and mercy met on Calvary? 406 00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,300 One of the lines of that song say the righteousness of God, 407 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:31,400 demanded judgment. But the goodness of his heart, 408 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,900 revealed his love. So what we understand that to 409 00:23:34,900 --> 00:23:39,200 mean is this God's justice should have been that? 410 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:44,700 We are lost A punishment has to be given because we should be 411 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:49,200 lost. Because we sin because we have 412 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,000 sinned. It should have been that. 413 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,600 All mankind is lost eternally because of sin. 414 00:23:57,100 --> 00:24:01,700 But like the song says mercy and judgment met on Calvary. 415 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,300 Instead of God, giving us Justice. 416 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:10,800 He extended Mercy. And He sent Jesus to die for the 417 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:14,700 sins of the world. I'm so thankful for that, aren't 418 00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:17,300 you? More on that though. 419 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:18,600 Let's go. Let's go further. 420 00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:20,200 How about more words to that song? 421 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:23,600 This is this But all my sins had blocked. 422 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:28,400 My soul from heaven. So Jesus had to come down from 423 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,200 above. There was no way to keep my soul 424 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,800 from dying. Death was the only sentence 425 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:40,800 there could be but Jesus saw my guilt and heard my crying. 426 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,900 And became the perfect sacrifice for me. 427 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:50,600 Justice and mercy met on Calvary, where the pure and 428 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:55,100 perfect savior took my place, pardon and forgiveness covered, 429 00:24:55,100 --> 00:24:59,800 all of my unrighteousness and every drop of blood was full of 430 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:04,100 grace. Do you realize that when it 431 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:06,100 comes to your salvation to things? 432 00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:11,300 Apply Mercy. And Grace. 433 00:25:12,700 --> 00:25:18,400 What's the difference? They both apply Mercy is God not 434 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:22,100 giving us what we deserve that's to be lost. 435 00:25:23,900 --> 00:25:28,700 Grace is giving us what we don't deserve that salvation. 436 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:34,100 Grace is unmerited, favor, meaning we don't deserve it. 437 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:44,000 Grace of Salvation is a gift. But that gift isn't free. 438 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:50,100 You say it again, the gift is not free. 439 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:56,000 There had to be a price and there is and there was we 440 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,700 understand the ultimate price the ultimate price is Jesus 441 00:25:58,700 --> 00:26:01,300 dying on the cross. Absolutely. 442 00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:04,500 That was God, extending Mercy, Jesus bought our service 443 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:07,300 salvation. He purchased our Salvation, he 444 00:26:07,300 --> 00:26:10,600 paved, the way he gave us hope because he died on the cross. 445 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,800 That is the ultimate ultimate price that was paid. 446 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:17,800 But that's not the only price that has to get paid. 447 00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:22,800 Guess what? Every one of you and me too we 448 00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:28,200 got a price to pay to if we want the gift that comes from God by 449 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:31,500 grace, that is not free. You got to pay your price too. 450 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:40,000 you know, that prices Obedience. Yeah, God requires something 451 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,900 from you. And as for the rest of your 452 00:26:42,908 --> 00:26:48,900 life. and if you want the gift of Salvation, which is by Grace, 453 00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:53,100 which we don't deserve, We have to obey. 454 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:56,700 You know, the Bible says, there's none righteous. 455 00:26:56,700 --> 00:27:00,200 No, not one. But because of our obedient 456 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:04,600 faith in our obedient actions, in our works of obedience in 457 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:09,000 honor to God. God looks as at us as though, we 458 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,500 were righteous. And then we get the gift. 459 00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:18,900 And that's everlasting life. Salvation is a gift but it is 460 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:23,100 not free. So Okay preacher. 461 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:26,500 You said all that, what I want to know is this what's Justice 462 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:30,100 mercy and Faith to us? That's what I want to know. 463 00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:34,800 What is it to us today? What does that look like in our 464 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,100 life? Well, first of all, the word 465 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:42,300 justice means, Well, we go to become like again, he has shown 466 00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:43,600 you o man. What is good? 467 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,900 And what does the Lord require? But to do justly. 468 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,300 Same thing as Justice. And by the way, do you see how 469 00:27:50,300 --> 00:27:54,200 Micah phrased it do? Justly, it's an action frames. 470 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:55,800 It means you got to do something. 471 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,700 You have to do something to be people of Justice. 472 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,300 It's not just an opinion, it's not just being fair in your 473 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:05,800 mind. It is something you have to do 474 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:10,100 being just is to do. Justly, what does that mean? 475 00:28:10,300 --> 00:28:14,300 The word Justice Means get this. In means to uphold what is 476 00:28:14,300 --> 00:28:16,300 Right? According to the will of God. 477 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:21,900 That's what Justice is. Now, sometimes this is what we 478 00:28:21,908 --> 00:28:25,400 do. Sometimes we try to uphold what 479 00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:29,300 we think is right. But that's not what Justice 480 00:28:29,300 --> 00:28:32,800 Means. To be people of Justice Means to 481 00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:36,800 uphold what is Right? According to the will of God. 482 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,000 In other words, it doesn't matter when I think God requires 483 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,800 a sacrifice of life. So, by the way, being people of 484 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:50,300 Justice requires sacrifice of life, more upholding, what is 485 00:28:50,300 --> 00:28:52,500 Right? Often requires the sacrifice of 486 00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:57,400 personal aims and ambitions, So for me to be a person of 487 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,200 Justice, I have to uphold what is Right? 488 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,700 According to the will of God, and that might mean, I've got a 489 00:29:01,708 --> 00:29:08,000 sacrifice personal aims and ambitions, Hard to do. 490 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:12,700 What that means, though. Oh, you mean Justice doesn't? 491 00:29:12,700 --> 00:29:15,500 Just mean being kind of fair know. 492 00:29:16,500 --> 00:29:20,500 It is about being fair. It does apply to our 493 00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:22,400 relationships but more on that later. 494 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:26,300 But in definition being, just means to uphold what is Right? 495 00:29:26,300 --> 00:29:28,900 According to the will of God, no matter what and put yourself 496 00:29:28,900 --> 00:29:31,800 aside. What else? 497 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:35,700 The next one? And sometimes people do this, 498 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:38,900 sometimes people separate Justice from Mercy. 499 00:29:38,900 --> 00:29:40,700 I'm going to give you an example in just a moment. 500 00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:44,900 God never separates Justice from Mercy. 501 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,200 Please get that. What is Mercy? 502 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,400 Justice is upholding? What is Right? 503 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,300 According to the will of God. Mercy. 504 00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:55,800 Is that Justice? Which God wants is based on 505 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:59,100 kindness and mercy? They go together. 506 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:03,300 Do you know when our society listen to this? 507 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:09,100 Please our society thinks that for something to be Justice or 508 00:30:09,100 --> 00:30:11,700 for justice to be served. If somebody commits a crime or 509 00:30:11,700 --> 00:30:14,600 something like that is for the full weight of the law to be 510 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:17,500 extended upon them and they received the full maximum 511 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:18,900 punishment. Let me give you an example. 512 00:30:20,300 --> 00:30:21,900 There was a young man who took a gun. 513 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:25,400 And he went into a liquor store to rob the liquor store. 514 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:30,200 He didn't mean to kill anybody, he didn't intend to kill 515 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:31,400 anybody. He took a gun. 516 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,200 He was a dumb kid, he made a terrible mistake. 517 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,400 He goes into the liquor store with the gun to scare the man, 518 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:40,600 so the man would give him the money. 519 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:42,900 He would just leave and not even you never have to use the gun. 520 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,000 You know what happened? While he was in there. 521 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,900 He accidentally shot and killed a lady. 522 00:30:52,900 --> 00:31:00,800 Who was just in the store. He was just she was just in the 523 00:31:00,808 --> 00:31:04,900 store. The husband wanted Justice. 524 00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:09,900 You can understand that. You can understand why the 525 00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:14,600 husband wanted Justice. The husband wanted the full 526 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:20,500 weight of the law extended. Against this person. 527 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,400 The court systems were merciful to the young man. 528 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,100 He paid his price. He went to prison. 529 00:31:36,100 --> 00:31:40,300 But he had a lesser sentence. And the husband of the victim 530 00:31:40,300 --> 00:31:44,900 was so Furious that he took the gun and tried to kill the young 531 00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:49,600 man. Because he said Justice was not 532 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:57,000 served. That's not true just because 533 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,600 Mercy is extended doesn't mean Justice was not served. 534 00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:05,600 Justice, and mercy were always combined by God. 535 00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:08,500 They were always connected together. 536 00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:13,800 Always. Sometimes, we need to remember 537 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,200 that. And I think it would help us. 538 00:32:18,300 --> 00:32:20,600 Tremendously and how we treat each other? 539 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:26,000 Remember they go together? Justice and mercy. 540 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:27,900 Go together. Hang on. 541 00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:32,600 One second. Okay, what about Mercy, though? 542 00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:37,400 The Hebrew word and Micah points to conduct. 543 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,700 There's that word again which is becoming those who are Covenant 544 00:32:41,700 --> 00:32:46,300 Brothers. Loving Mercy is an active 545 00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:50,200 quality. It is translating Mercy in the 546 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,700 deeps. That's how they go together. 547 00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:58,300 Justice and mercy. All right. 548 00:32:58,700 --> 00:33:02,400 What about faith? Faith or walking humbly before 549 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,700 your lord means this measured and careful conduct. 550 00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:07,300 Are you kind of getting the point here? 551 00:33:08,900 --> 00:33:11,900 It has everything to do with how you are, and what you are, and 552 00:33:11,900 --> 00:33:14,300 who you are, and how you behave and what you do. 553 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,500 You can't separate what you do from what you are. 554 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,900 And what we are in the inside, should be the manifestation on 555 00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:26,000 the outside. It should come out that way of 556 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,900 what we are in the inside and that's who people want to see in 557 00:33:28,900 --> 00:33:32,700 our life. Justice Means of holding, what's 558 00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:34,000 right? According to the will of God, 559 00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:38,000 all connected to kindness and mercy and faith, meaning 560 00:33:38,100 --> 00:33:44,600 measured and careful conduct. It's a matter of deferring to 561 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,500 the weigh-in will of God as revealed in his word. 562 00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:52,400 You know, something about that. Micah his point was if they 563 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,000 would have kept these three qualities. 564 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,100 Then they would not have had a problem, but in not keeping 565 00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:02,400 Justice, mercy and Faith. It made their sacrifices 566 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,400 meaningless and I want to illustrate it like this. 567 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:11,300 Good deeds for the wrong motive. Or the wrong attitude. 568 00:34:12,699 --> 00:34:20,699 Are meaningless. if I do something for Jack, And I give 569 00:34:20,699 --> 00:34:25,000 Jack a hundred bucks. But I don't give Jack a hundred 570 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,100 bucks because he needs it. I don't give Jack a hundred 571 00:34:28,100 --> 00:34:30,800 bucks because I love him. I don't give Jack a hundred 572 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:34,000 bucks to help him on the side. I give Jack a hundred bucks 573 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,199 because I want everybody to know what I did for Jack. 574 00:34:36,900 --> 00:34:40,300 Pat me on the back you know Jesus said you have your reward 575 00:34:40,500 --> 00:34:43,300 for all those Pharisees that would pray with outstretched 576 00:34:43,300 --> 00:34:45,900 hands in the synagogue to be seen of men he said you've got 577 00:34:45,900 --> 00:34:48,699 your reward whatever praise you get from man but don't think 578 00:34:48,699 --> 00:34:49,800 you're getting anything from God. 579 00:34:49,900 --> 00:34:52,699 If I do that project for all the wrong motive and all the wrong 580 00:34:52,699 --> 00:34:54,500 reasons, why? Got a rotten attitude as I'm 581 00:34:54,507 --> 00:34:57,600 handing it to him. You injection want to do give 582 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:02,900 the money back. Because deeds done with a rotten 583 00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:06,800 attitude or the wrong motive. Are meaningless. 584 00:35:08,500 --> 00:35:13,200 And so is your sacrifice to God. It's meaningless. 585 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:17,200 It's so important that everything is part of it in our 586 00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,300 life, all right? Let's go. 587 00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:22,600 Back to Matthew 23, where all this began? 588 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:28,200 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites. 589 00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:33,200 What were they doing wrong? They pay tithe of mint and anise 590 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:37,300 and cumin, but they have neglected, the weightier matters 591 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,800 of Justice, mercy and faith. And I'm gonna say it again. 592 00:35:40,100 --> 00:35:43,100 The details and the weightier matters. 593 00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:46,100 They are both equal and they are both required. 594 00:35:47,200 --> 00:35:49,200 And I'm glad I didn't say that. Jesus. 595 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:52,900 Did you ready for Jesus? I'm ready, quote, Jesus. 596 00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:56,000 Here we go. These you ought to have done 597 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,100 without leaving the others undone. 598 00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,300 You got to do it all. What's the Lord actually sang in 599 00:36:04,300 --> 00:36:06,000 this. Here, it is in summary. 600 00:36:07,300 --> 00:36:09,000 The Lord is saying Justice, mercy. 601 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,600 And Faith was keeping the details with the right motive. 602 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,400 It's about being authentic and not just going through the 603 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:19,000 motions to be seen by others or because you get the credit. 604 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,800 It's about not only being a Christian on the outside, but 605 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,400 being Christian on the inside. Number four, get this. 606 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:30,700 This will be our last closing point it includes, but is not 607 00:36:30,700 --> 00:36:34,600 limited to doing good, and right to our fellow, man, it's the 608 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:40,800 concept of second Mi religion. It's the concept of Second Mile 609 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:45,200 religion. In Luke chapter, 10 beginning in 610 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,400 verse 25, listen to this. These were the words that were 611 00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:53,900 spoken. And written in Luke 10 before 612 00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:58,400 Jesus gives an amazing story, he said and behold a certain lawyer 613 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,800 stood up and testing him saying teacher, what shall I do to 614 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:05,700 inherit eternal life. He said to him what is written 615 00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:07,800 in the law and what is your reading of it? 616 00:37:08,300 --> 00:37:10,700 So he answered and said, You shall love the Lord, your God 617 00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:12,900 with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your 618 00:37:12,900 --> 00:37:15,900 strength, and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself, 619 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:18,900 and he said to him, you've answered rightly do this. 620 00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:22,900 And you will live, but notice beliefs, but he wanting to 621 00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:27,900 justify himself said to Jesus. And who is my neighbor? 622 00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:30,500 Are you getting the point? This man? 623 00:37:30,500 --> 00:37:34,100 Wanted eternal life. Jesus said, you got to love your 624 00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:37,700 As yourself, he quoted the law. Jesus says, what do you mean by 625 00:37:37,700 --> 00:37:41,200 that? How do you read it? 626 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,600 When it came to the point of loving your neighbor as 627 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:46,700 yourself. Do you know what this man 628 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:48,300 actually says? He says, okay, well, who is my 629 00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:51,700 neighbor I don't know what to do that. 630 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:55,900 So give me the bare minimum. If you could tell me who he is, 631 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:59,100 I want to do it because I want eternal life, but just give me 632 00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:01,400 that guy. Tell me who he is. 633 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:08,800 Folks, listen to me, please don't let this ever become you. 634 00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:16,400 Is your service to God the bare minimum or are you giving it 635 00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:20,500 everything you've got? Are you a bare minimum? 636 00:38:20,500 --> 00:38:24,100 Requirement person? Well, the only a have to do 637 00:38:24,100 --> 00:38:27,500 Sunday morning. Okay, just give me the bare 638 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:29,000 minimum. I want to go to heaven. 639 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:30,500 I want eternal life. Just give me that bear, man. 640 00:38:33,100 --> 00:38:36,500 Or does your obedience extend to giving it everything? 641 00:38:36,500 --> 00:38:40,900 You've got to the Lord? We've already noticed. 642 00:38:40,900 --> 00:38:43,500 What happens when you don't give everything to the Lord, you get 643 00:38:43,500 --> 00:38:46,000 a scathing rebuke from the Lord. We don't want that. 644 00:38:48,300 --> 00:38:51,400 Jesus said in response to this this was an absolutely amazing 645 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:53,400 story. I'm going to be so brief. 646 00:38:54,900 --> 00:38:58,000 Jesus says it was a man that came from Jerusalem one day and 647 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:03,000 he went down to Jericho. And on that Jericho Road, it was 648 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:05,600 a road that lasted about 15 miles that descended. 649 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:10,400 I'm told about 3,000 feet. It was rough and Rocky terrain. 650 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:13,300 It was Rife with robbers and Highwaymen. 651 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,900 And the Bible says, Jesus said, there was a man on that road and 652 00:39:18,900 --> 00:39:23,700 he fell among Thieves. And they beat him and they left 653 00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:27,800 him for dead. And Jesus says, and oh, by the 654 00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:33,300 way, a priest comes by And the Bible says, when the priest saw 655 00:39:33,300 --> 00:39:36,500 him listen to the language when he saw him. 656 00:39:37,700 --> 00:39:42,800 He passed by on the other side. Don't you think that just maybe 657 00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,200 that man was laying there for dead looks up and sees a 658 00:39:45,207 --> 00:39:47,200 priestesses? Oh he'll stop. 659 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:49,400 You know why? He's a worshiper of God. 660 00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:52,700 Somebody might say that about you, oh, he'll help me. 661 00:39:52,700 --> 00:39:58,300 He's a Christian. He's a worshiper of God. 662 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,000 But he passes by on the other side. 663 00:40:03,700 --> 00:40:05,200 Then Jesus says the levite comes. 664 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:08,900 And by the way, this is worse. Maybe he's taking all of Levi, a 665 00:40:08,900 --> 00:40:10,700 worker in the temple, he'll stop. 666 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:16,400 The Bible says that the levite walks over and looks at him. 667 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:20,500 And then he passed by on the other side. 668 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:26,000 But then Jesus says, here comes a Samaritan, the combination of 669 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,400 a Jew, and a gentile, and the Jews hated Samaritans. 670 00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:34,300 Samaritan comes and he has compassion on him. 671 00:40:34,300 --> 00:40:37,100 He gets off Eva's animal. He takes all oil. 672 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:40,500 And he pours oil in his wounds from additional and soothing 673 00:40:40,500 --> 00:40:43,600 purposes. He takes bandages, and he binds 674 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:47,100 them up and whines them up. He puts him on his animal, he 675 00:40:47,107 --> 00:40:50,000 takes him into the end, he stays all night with him. 676 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,500 And the next day, you know, he does, he goes to the Innkeeper 677 00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:56,800 and he reaches in his pouch. I mean, that Pockets back down. 678 00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:01,400 So obviously pouch, he reaches in his pouch here we took out To 679 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:04,800 Denari. I that is to day's wages. 680 00:41:04,900 --> 00:41:07,500 I want you to ask yourself. How much do you make in two 681 00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:11,400 days? And you get the gist of what I'm 682 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:15,200 about to say. He reaches in his pouch takes 683 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:18,000 two days wages out and gives it to The Innkeeper. 684 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,000 And he said, take care of this man. 685 00:41:21,900 --> 00:41:27,600 That he didn't even know. And then he said, and if it's 686 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:31,800 not enough, when I come back, I'll pay the rest. 687 00:41:34,300 --> 00:41:36,100 Brilliant. Jesus, thank you. 688 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:40,400 And then he said this. So which of these three do you 689 00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:43,700 think was neighbor to him who fell among Thieves? 690 00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:48,800 He said, he who showed Mercy on him, then Jesus said to him go 691 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:56,900 and do likewise You know, something folks, we have a debt 692 00:41:56,900 --> 00:42:00,300 of love. That we need to pay. 693 00:42:01,700 --> 00:42:04,600 We have a debt of love that we owe that is never paid off and 694 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:06,300 that's because of what the Lord has done for us. 695 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:10,700 Because of What the Lord Has Done, you're the song at the 696 00:42:10,700 --> 00:42:15,100 cross. The word say, but drops of grief 697 00:42:15,100 --> 00:42:17,300 could never repay. The debt of love. 698 00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:19,300 I owe. Here. 699 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:22,200 Lord, I Give Myself Away. It's all that I can do. 700 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,700 We have a debt of love for everyone. 701 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,200 And you never pay it off. I'm going to give you a passage 702 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,400 and then we're going to go to our invitation. 703 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:38,200 Getting give you a passage. Romans chapter 13 and what we do 704 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,100 is we stop right here. We quote this passage. 705 00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:43,900 Oh no man! Anything and then we stopped 706 00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:45,100 right there. And the reason we stop right 707 00:42:45,100 --> 00:42:49,300 there. We stop right there because We 708 00:42:49,300 --> 00:42:51,700 say what that passage is talking about and it's right right 709 00:42:51,700 --> 00:42:53,200 there. Oh no man. 710 00:42:53,200 --> 00:43:00,800 Anything meaning if I oh Jack you jack again, if I oh Jack, I 711 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:05,500 need to pee Jack. And I need to make payments or 712 00:43:05,500 --> 00:43:08,000 do whatever I got to do to pay a debt that I owe to Jack. 713 00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:11,500 So owing no, man. Anything means pay your 714 00:43:11,500 --> 00:43:16,600 obligations and you pay them off until when until they're paid 715 00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:20,100 off, if the person forgives the debt you no longer. 716 00:43:20,100 --> 00:43:22,300 Oh, it's paid off. Okay. 717 00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:26,300 So you pay your debts until they're paid off but there's 718 00:43:26,300 --> 00:43:29,300 more Oh, no, man. Anything. 719 00:43:29,300 --> 00:43:31,600 In other words, don't be indebted by not taking care of 720 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:36,500 your responsibilities. Except To love one another. 721 00:43:38,500 --> 00:43:43,200 That's the dead of love that we must pay on for the rest of our 722 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,900 life and it will never be paid off. 723 00:43:45,900 --> 00:43:47,800 Why? Because the person deserves it? 724 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:53,200 No, because of Jesus. Because of what the Lord has 725 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,800 done because of what God extended Mercy on the cross and 726 00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,800 said, Jesus died for your sins because of that, we have a debt 727 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:06,300 of love that we will never pay off. then he says, For he who 728 00:44:06,300 --> 00:44:09,000 loves another has fulfilled, the law. 729 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:12,800 This does not mean, all you have to do is love your fellow man 730 00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,000 and you fulfilled all the laws of God. 731 00:44:15,100 --> 00:44:17,600 That's not what that means. It's very specific here in this 732 00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:20,000 context. Oh no man, anything except to 733 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,000 love one. Another love is the context. 734 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,600 For he who loves one another which is the context has 735 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,600 fulfilled. The law was the law, the law of 736 00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:30,000 love. You have fulfilled the law of 737 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:34,000 love. Wow. 738 00:44:36,100 --> 00:44:44,100 So Justice mercy and Grace. Is keeping the details with the 739 00:44:44,100 --> 00:44:47,600 proper mode of an attitude. It's serving God, with every 740 00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:50,300 fiber of your being with everything you got, it's being 741 00:44:50,300 --> 00:44:53,000 authentic, not only on the outside, but the inside is that 742 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:56,000 too and it's being the right, kind of person to your fellow, 743 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,200 man. It's all included, all of that 744 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,800 is included. In the weightier matters. 745 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:08,500 In closing. Remember when I said mercy and 746 00:45:08,500 --> 00:45:11,400 Grace go together but they're different. 747 00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,000 God's Mercy is that he doesn't give us what we deserve it has 748 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,000 to be lost. Grace is giving us, what? 749 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,200 We don't deserve that salvation and that's a gift, but it's not 750 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,900 free. But what I said, Our price that 751 00:45:24,900 --> 00:45:28,100 we pay the Lord already paid his price, but the price that we 752 00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:31,700 have to pay is obedience. The first thing you have to obey 753 00:45:33,700 --> 00:45:37,300 You've got to obey the gospel. I want you to listen very 754 00:45:37,300 --> 00:45:39,200 closely right now. If you want to go to heaven, I'm 755 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:40,900 going to tell you exactly what you have to do. 756 00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,400 If you don't do this folks, you can't go to heaven. 757 00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:51,600 You have to obey the gospel first then instead obedient life 758 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:53,500 for the rest of your life, but it begins with the gospel. 759 00:45:53,500 --> 00:45:55,800 How do you do that? So simple, you got to hear the 760 00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:59,200 word of God, Romans, 10:17. So, faith comes by hearing and 761 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:03,600 hearing by the word of God, you've done that today, you've 762 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,000 heard the word of God, and when you hear the word of God, you 763 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,200 got a choice to make. Everybody has a choice. 764 00:46:09,500 --> 00:46:13,300 The Bible says in Hebrews 11 and 6, you gotta believe with all 765 00:46:13,300 --> 00:46:14,800 your heart. Let me ask you something. 766 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:19,800 Do you believe, surely you do? Surely you do you gotta believe? 767 00:46:19,900 --> 00:46:21,300 Do you believe in Jesus? Do you believe? 768 00:46:21,300 --> 00:46:24,100 Jesus is son of God. Surely you did. 769 00:46:26,100 --> 00:46:28,100 Without faith. It's impossible to please him 770 00:46:28,100 --> 00:46:29,300 for. He who comes to God, must 771 00:46:29,300 --> 00:46:31,400 believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who 772 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,600 diligently seek him. What else? 773 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,300 You got to make a change in your life. 774 00:46:35,500 --> 00:46:37,800 You got to repent of your sins acts 17:30. 775 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,800 Truly these times of ignorance, God overlooked but now commands 776 00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:45,700 all men everywhere to repent Then you must say these precious 777 00:46:45,700 --> 00:46:48,500 words. You have to confess that Jesus 778 00:46:48,500 --> 00:46:50,600 Christ is the Son of God acts 8:37. 779 00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,000 Then Philip said, if you believe with all your heart, you may. 780 00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,900 And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the 781 00:46:57,900 --> 00:47:00,900 Son of God. All of these four steps are 782 00:47:00,900 --> 00:47:06,500 prerequisites to the point of salvation, but you're not saved 783 00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:09,600 yet. If you're going to obey the 784 00:47:09,607 --> 00:47:14,100 gospel, here it is. You got to be baptized for the 785 00:47:14,100 --> 00:47:17,800 remission of your sins. Mark 16:16. 786 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,100 He who believes and is baptized, will be saved. 787 00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:23,400 But he, who does not believe will be condemned. 788 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,300 Do you believe in Jesus Today? Show you do. 789 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,100 If that's the case step out in obedience, repent of your sins 790 00:47:30,100 --> 00:47:31,500 confess, his name as the Son of God. 791 00:47:31,500 --> 00:47:35,000 Be baptized in water today for the remission of your sins obey, 792 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:39,500 the gospel and start your path, pay the price, start your path, 793 00:47:39,500 --> 00:47:41,900 as a Christian. Maybe you've taken those steps, 794 00:47:41,900 --> 00:47:45,400 maybe you fall on, what a great time to come back right now. 795 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,200 Today, repent of those things confess, those things will pray 796 00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,400 with you and for you and God will forgive and restore be 797 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:56,100 wanted me to class come forward. While we stand most We thank you 798 00:47:56,100 --> 00:47:59,400 for listening to our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ 799 00:47:59,700 --> 00:48:04,000 at 22:15 plans. 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