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It certainly is wonderful to be 
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We have a wonderful crowd and 
we're so thankful. 

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We have, as has been mentioned, 
we have some visitors that are 

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among us and we want you to know
you are our honored guest. 

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And we just simply say welcome. 
I've been very encouraged by the

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teachings of Jesus in this 
masterful sermon he preached so 

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long ago in Matthew chapter 5-6 
and seven. 

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And as we continue our series on
the great Sermon on the Mount, 

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we now come to Matthew Chapter 7
and verse #1 And I'll just say 

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at the very outset of this 
lesson, this verse is one of the

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most misunderstood and abused 
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of Jesus. 
Many people look at this passage

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and they say to justify sinful 
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sinful choices by saying, look, 
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judge anybody and that judging 
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Some people in in the attempt to
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relativism, make an appeal to 
this verse of Scripture because 

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sometimes people just don't 
believe that there's actually a 

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definitive standard of truth 
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Even though Jesus says in John 
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truth, Your word is truth. 
The passage that we are in 

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reference to is one that we all 
heard and one that we all know, 

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and that is this Matthew Chapter
7 and verse #1 Jesus says judge 

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not that you be not judged. 
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Was Jesus condemning all forms 
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Here's the problem when people 
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there's no standard of truth, 
that standards don't matter and 

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all of that. 
The problem with all of that, if

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that is true, then everything 
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without responsibility and 
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And you know what? 
Have you ever stopped to 

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consider? 
If everything in life is without

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responsibility and 
accountability, then absolutely 

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nothing in life matters. 
Nothing matters and everybody 

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can do anything that they want 
to do and it really doesn't 

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matter. 
And I will not violate my 

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conscience and you can't say 
anything to me because after 

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all, Jesus says don't judge. 
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here, Jesus when he made that 
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forms of judgment. 
Please get that. 

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He is not condemning all forms 
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Give you some examples in this 
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Later on, beginning in verse 15,
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Beware of false teachers. 
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that we have to discriminate 
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is wrong. 
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first John chapter 4 and verse 
1, John tells us to test the 

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spirits to see that they are of 
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Some translations say try the 
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Who are the spirits? 
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context of that passage is 
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they're speaking by way of 
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In other words, beware of those 
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teachers and understand who they
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Then he said this John says that
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see them. 
Second John and chapter second 

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John and 10. 
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other gospel than that which we 
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That's the Word of God passed 
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Apostolic tradition, which is 
the word of God in the New 

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Testament. 
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gospel. 
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every one of those things. 
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It involves making judgments. 
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statement that I made a couple 
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I didn't expound upon it. 
I didn't elaborate on it. 

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And the reason that I did not is
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was coming. 
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believe is with all my heart, I 
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Everybody makes decisions and 
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life, even about people. 
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We make judgments even about 
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Remember, there's a difference 
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being judgmental. 
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If you make a judgment about 
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judging and being judgmental? 
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It is making a decision. 
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It is making an assessment that 
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and fact. 
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Anything wrong with that? 
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What's the difference between 
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The definition of the word 
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It is being overly concerned 
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One denotes an attitude. 
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Judgmental is an attitude. 
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is he's going to, he's going to 
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judging. 
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attitude. 
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judgmental. 
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something. 
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you that can happen to us if we 
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judging others, which is the 
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Let me tell you what can happen 
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It can cause us to meddle in 
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Seems to me I read something in 
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Seems to me that the wise man 
Solomon of old and Proverbs said

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something about that. 
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He that meddles in affairs that 
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dog by the ears. 
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like? 
Go up to a mean old dog, go up 

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to his ears and get you a hoped.
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That's what it's like when you 
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your own. 
I want to share something 

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personal with you. 
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and I'm no longer that, when I 
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crack out and preach, I got a 
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advice from a lot of people, 
much of which came from older 

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preachers and I cherished 
everything they ever said to me.

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Some of those preachers that I 
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no longer with us. 
Some still are, many aren't. 

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But you know what? 
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advice that I was ever given was
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Christ. 
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Her name was Patsy King. 
You know what Patsy said to me 

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one day? 
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and go preach. 
She said, listen, she was trying

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to tell me, beware when you go 
places that people don't pull 

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you in and try to draw you into 
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And then all of a sudden you're 
getting involved in matters that

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are not none of your business. 
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And you know, if you know Patsy,
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I love her. 
She'll look at you right in the 

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eye and get you told. 
She'll just get it straight out.

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I love it right from the hip. 
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She said, Frankie, you go hold 
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little sermons, you collect your
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freight out of there. 
Great stuff. 

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You know, I'm glad for that. 
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that because I don't want to do 
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I'm too busy with my own work 
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involved or force myself into 
situations that are not none of 

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my business, like a very famous 
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I'm just trying to keep my own 
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to be concerned with other 
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are not my business. 
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Judgmental is an attitude. 
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what is the Lord condemning? 
He is condemning #1 hypocritical

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judgment. 
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judgment. 
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is, but that's what he's 
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The Jewish religious elite that 
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Pharisees and the Sadducees, 
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own self righteousness, it led 
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It led to the unjust 
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Hypocritical judgment. 
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Pharisee and the public, and I 
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I'll just make the statement 
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When the Pharisee looked down 
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and or the tax collector and 
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thanked God for all the great 
things that he was all about, he

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was doing often times what we 
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this. 
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sometimes we do this, we garnish
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the traits of other people and 
that's something we need to be 

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careful about. 
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let's look at the word judge. 
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actually mean in the passage? 
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It refers to prejudicial or 
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That's what the Lord was talking
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I like what JW Mcgarvey said. 
JW Mcgarvey said it this way. 

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He said all judging from surmise
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from ill will is prohibited. 
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by the way. 
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It's assuming something is true 
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It's making a judgment that is 
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You know what it also is? 
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making the determination based 
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How many times has somebody took
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they didn't get down to the 
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then they drew a conclusion 
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wasn't true and then went out 
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And they drew a conclusion about
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because it was by surmise or 
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Seems to me that that wise man 
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that too. 
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he that answers a matter before 
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shame to him. 
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especially with regards to 
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to the bottom of it and get all 
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But before we make a judgment 
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true, let's not judge by 
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All right then Jesus says this 
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Keep going back to the clicker 
is not working for with what 

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judgement you judge, you will be
judged, and with what measure 

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you use, it will be measured to 
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Remember, the way we judge is 
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in a secondary sense too. 
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in my judgement of others or 
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others, isn't it true that 
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when other people judge me, 
they're going to be unfair too? 

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It's it's highly possible that's
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in a good way, it's highly 
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to judge me in the same way. 
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That's not the point. 
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really matters is judgement from
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And that's what Jesus is saying.
For with what judgement you 

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judge, you will be judged, and 
with what measure you use, it 

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will be measured back to you 
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OK, remember a couple things 
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He said this. 
Only the merciful are going to 

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obtain mercy. 
Only those that forgive are 

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going to be forgiven. 
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without mercy to one who shows 
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So here's the point. 
If we self righteously and 

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unmercifully judge others, then 
God's going to hold us to that 

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very strict standard. 
OK, got to make a point here. 

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Got to slip something in. 
I don't want you to 

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misunderstand me. 
This is not saying that if I 

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wink at the sin of somebody 
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sin. 
That doesn't mean that at all. 

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You know why? 
Because God doesn't wink at any 

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sin. 
And I can't wink at any sin, and

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you can't wink at any sin. 
We're going to all stand before 

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the judgment seat of Christ. 
We all have to give an account 

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for what we do. 
We're not talking about winking 

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at sins. 
What we're talking about is the 

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way that we are either merciful 
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I don't have time to go into 
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chapter 18, when Jesus gave the 
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servant, what a powerful 
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Peter had come to Jesus, and 
Peter says, Lord, how many times

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shall my brother sin against me 
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Seven times, Peter said, and 
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7 times, but 70 * 7. 
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amount of time, right? 
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parable. 
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likened unto a king. 
What do that is is likened unto 

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a king who's got all these 
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And one day he calls in the 
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debts. 
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settle up with my servants. 
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owes 10,000 talents a huge 
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The man comes to the master. 
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me. 
He says you're going to be sold,

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your wife's going to be sold and
your kids are going to be sold 

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and all that you have is going 
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The servant falls down before 
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mercy on me and I will pay you 
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The Bible says the master showed
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forgave the entire debt. 
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forgiven a tremendous amount had
another fellow servant that owed

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him a little amount, 100 
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And he goes to that man and he 
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grabs him by the throat and he 
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I don't have the money. 
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He falls down before his fellow 
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on me and I will pay you all. 
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debt. 
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they went to the master and they
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master was angry and the master 
went to that unforgiving servant

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and he went to him and he said 
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I forgave you a huge amount. 
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same mercy for your fellow 
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same forgiveness. 
Now I'm going to deliver you to 

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the the new King James says the 
torturers, wow. 

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Until your dead is satisfied. 
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tormentors until your dead is 
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Then Jesus sums it up like this.
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Father also will do to you, if 
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not forgive his brother his 
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I like what Branus said. 
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I thank him best and most 
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as if he himself sinned every 
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if he pardoned no one. 
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And by the way, there's so many 
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I got to keep moving. 
We got a lot to cover. 

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We got to keep moving. 
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Jesus says, and why do you look 
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brother's eye, but do not 
consider the plank in your own 

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eye? 
I'm going to tell you what 

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people think this means. 
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Jesus was talking about a tiny 
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sin versus a big thing, and that
the speck was just some tiny 

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little insignificant thing. 
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This word is not referring to a 
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to a piece of dried wood or 
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be blown into the eye and cause 
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So we're not talking about just 
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Chrome. 
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that still is significant. 
He's not comparing a tiny sin 

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with a big sin. 
Please get this, He's up. 

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He's comparing a big sin with a 
gigantic sin. 

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Got to make a point about big 
and small because I know, you 

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know, I believe sin is sin in 
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So what makes something a bigger
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sin in the eyes of God? 
Lying in the eyes of God is just

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as so condemning. 
If we don't make those things 

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right as murder, what's the 
difference between what really 

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we can consider a smaller sin 
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It's not by way of how God looks
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It's by way of this because all 
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OK, and we all have sin. 
It's talking about this when you

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talk about big or small. 
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ramifications than other sins. 
Some sins have bigger 

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consequences than other sins. 
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It's all sin in the eyes of God.
And we're going to find out. 

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By the way, we need to work 
together and helping each other 

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rid all that from all of our 
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OK, so first of all, he said 
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Then he says about the word 
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What does that mean? 
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means beam, but the word means 
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Here's the point. 
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propose to extract a smaller yet
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our brother, clean up your own 
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backyard of those sins that are 
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It is unjust, please get this. 
And it is unchristian to judge 

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another harshly while missing 
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That's the point. 
It's kind of like this. 

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It's kind of like a blind 
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qualified to remove somebody 
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My brother-in-law, Darren, is 
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he's brilliant. 
I would trust him to do all 

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manner of things. 
I don't want him working on my 

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eyes, right? 
Same principle. 

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Look at verse 4. 
Or how can you say to your 

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brother, let me remove the speck
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is in your eye. 
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He said the Lord's statement 
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requiring us to get rid of all 
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attempt to correct others. 
He's not saying that for on this

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condition none would be 
qualified for the position of 

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teachers, but it requires that 
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given fault preparatory to 
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Then verse 5. 
Hypocrite, first remove the 

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plank from your own eye and then
you will see clearly to remove 

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the speck from your brother's 
eye. 

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Verse 4 describes somebody who 
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in his life but sets out to fix 
somebody else, right. 

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I love verse 5 though, because 
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which both sinners can be cured 
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Both are sinners and nobody's 
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You know what I thought about? 
I thought about Kylie. 

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She was a little girl when this 
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We were having a little Bible 
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my house and they were little. 
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sometimes people make mistakes. 
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precious little voice that sat 
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nobody's perfect. 
Nobody's perfect. 

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Verse 5 is a matter of two 
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not perfect. 
It is the manner in which we can

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help each other. 
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the other person, we're going to
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We're going to get specific 
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idea and that concept, it is a 
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that neither one is perfect but 
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love for the Lord to get it 
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We're going to talk about those 
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at the word hypocrite. 
Why is this hypocritical 

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judgement? 
It is hypocritical judgement 

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when we do this, when we attempt
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disease of sin that we refuse to
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And I got to tell you that can 
be generally, and that can also 

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be specifically in a general 
sense where nobody's perfect and

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everybody has sins. 
It applies, OK, But have you 

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ever stopped to consider that it
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Isn't it true that sometimes we 
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guilty of the very same things 
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I've seen it happen. 
Got one example for you? 

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Number of years ago, there was 
one brother who was incredibly 

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harshly in his attitude, judging
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Was he wrong with judging? 
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we have to do that. 
His attitude was incredibly 

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harsh and without mercy. 
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It was also hypocritical. 
You know why He slammed this 

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brother for five years and then 
I found out five years later he 

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was guilty of the very same sin.
That's hypocritical judgement. 

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Unmerciful hypocritical 
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That's what the Lord's 
condemning. 

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OK, then Jesus says this. 
This is what you're going to do 

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first. 
First remove the plank from your

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own eye. 
And when you do that, I love it,

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then you will see clearly to 
remove the speck from your 

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brother's eye. 
I've heard Matthew Chapter 7 

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beginning in verse one and going
all the way through the specks 

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and the beams and all of that. 
I've heard people say what that 

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means is Jesus says don't judge 
it all. 

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We're not allowed to judge. 
Everybody's got specs, 

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everybody's got beams, 
everybody's got their own stuff.

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So everybody just worry about 
yourself and leave everybody 

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alone. 
That's not what he said. 

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Don't you see? 
The Lord is saying, here's 

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something very powerful. 
He's saying we have a 

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responsibility to each other. 
First, get the plank out of your

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eye so you can what? 
Help your brother get the speck 

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out of his eye. 
Have you ever stopped to 

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consider the tremendous 
responsibility we have toward 

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each other when it comes to sins
in our life? 

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A tremendous responsibility. 
Let's go to Galatians chapter 6.

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Brethren, if any man is 
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who are spiritual restore such 
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gentleness, considering 
yourself, lest you also be 

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tempted. 
The word trespass is often 

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translated fault. 
So if anyone is overtaken in a 

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fault, guess what? 
We're not perfect. 

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We're going to be overtaken from
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Please understand this. 
The motive is not to crush him, 

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demoralize him, make him feel 
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No, there's a motive behind the 
ACT. 

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What do you got to do? 
You got to go to the person. 

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And who are the ones to do it? 
Those that are spiritual. 

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What's that mean? 
Oh, is that the preacher? 

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Is that the elder? 
Is that the Deacon? 

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That the other church leaders? 
Is that Christians that have 

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been members of the church for 
50 years? 

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Is it the people that walk 
around thinking they got it all 

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figured out? 
I want to know, because this is 

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very practical, who are the ones
that are spiritual? 

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Because it's very important. 
If somebody's overtaken in any 

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trespass, somebody's spiritual 
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Who's that? 
What does it mean to be 

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spiritual? 
Not somebody that's that's 

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finally reached some higher 
level of perfection because 

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nobody's going to do it. 
It is simply those that are 

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walking. 
Please get this according to the

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Spirit or the Word of God. 
Give you some Bible though 

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Galatians chapter 5 verse 16. 
I say them, walk in the spirit 

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and you shall not fulfill the 
lust of the flesh. 

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Galatians 5 and 25, if we live 
in the Spirit, let us also walk 

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in the Spirit. 
So who are those that are spirit

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in the spirit or those that are 
spiritual are those that aren't 

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living in the Spirit? 
Who are those that are living in

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the Spirit, those that are 
walking in the Spirit? 

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How do you know if you're living
in the spirit and walking in the

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Spirit? 
I said this two months ago in 

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another sermon. 
Going to be very brief about it,

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but I'm going to hit it again. 
The only way that you really 

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know and that everybody else 
really knows, if you're living 

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in the Spirit and walking in the
Spirit, it's when you are 

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manifesting in your life the 
fruit of the Spirit. 

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The Bible says by you, their 
fruits, you shall know them. 

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I'm not going to go into every 
one of these like I did last the

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last time I did. 
I'm just going to mention them 

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briefly. 
But the fruit of the Spirit is 

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Lovejoy, peace, long-suffering, 
kindness, goodness, 

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faithfulness, gentleness, 
self-control. 

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Against such there is no law 
that is the fruit of the Spirit.

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OK. 
And as I said before, big 

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debate, is this referring to my 
human spirit? 

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Is it referring to the Holy 
Spirit? 

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Does it involve my human spirit?
Does it involve the Holy Spirit?

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Here it is. 
It's both. 

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Thayer says the word fruit means
nature. 

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OK, He said the word spirit here
means Spirit of God. 

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Who's that? 
That's the Holy Spirit, OK? 

452
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:49,280
These things exist independent 
of me, and they don't become my 

453
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,760
fruit in my life by direct 
operation of the Holy Spirit or 

454
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,520
miraculously, something has to 
happen. 

455
00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:01,680
What has to happen when I make 
the willful choice by my human 

456
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:07,680
spirit to apply the fruit of the
Holy Spirit to my life? 

457
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,320
That's by choice. 
And guess what? 

458
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,920
Then all these wonderful 
qualities, which is the nature 

459
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,480
of the Holy Spirit, becomes my 
fruit. 

460
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,560
And when that happens, everybody
looking at me can know that I'm 

461
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:25,480
a Christian and I can say, oh, 
I'm not perfect, but what am I? 

462
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:34,520
I'm spiritual. 
If you're living according to 

463
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:39,600
God's Word, you are spiritual. 
On the flip side, though, on the

464
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:45,480
flip side, if we're not obeying 
the dictates of the Spirit and 

465
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:49,040
we're following the impulses of 
the flesh, then the flip side of

466
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:54,480
that is we are carnal. 1st 
Corinthians 3 and three, you are

467
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:58,520
carnal for where there are envy,
strife, divisions among you, are

468
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,280
you not carnal and behaving like
mere men? 

469
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:06,160
OK, so here's Paul's point here.
When somebody falls into sin, 

470
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:11,160
when they fall to the human 
tendencies, somebody spiritual 

471
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:14,040
has to come to the rescue. 
To do what? 

472
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:25,840
Please get this restore. 
What's restore mean restore. 

473
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:31,400
How many times did Jesus in his 
teaching tell us the importance 

474
00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:36,720
of the attitude behind the ACT 
or the motive behind the ACT? 

475
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,000
Jesus would make statements like
this, you have heard that it had

476
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,560
been said, and then quote 
something from the Old 

477
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:47,720
Testament, he says. 
But I say to you, in other 

478
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:52,000
words, even the motive behind 
the ACT is in question or judged

479
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,520
by God. 
What's the motive? 

480
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,880
The motive for going to your 
brother that's overtaken in any 

481
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,160
trespass or fault. 
Somebody that is spiritual, 

482
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,480
following the dictates of the 
Spirit, manifesting those things

483
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:10,200
in his life by willful choice, 
has to go to restore that 

484
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:11,360
person. 
What's the word mean? 

485
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,480
The word restore means this 
comes from a Greek word that 

486
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:20,040
means to mend. 
It carries the idea of repairing

487
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,200
something that is broken or 
damaged. 

488
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:31,840
I found in my life people are 
more inclined to listen to 

489
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:38,640
others when they're being taught
and not just being told. 

490
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:46,920
People would rather be taught 
than told. 

491
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:53,920
When you go to restore, you have
to have the mindset and the 

492
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,480
spirit of teaching them why that
they're in error or wrong, 

493
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:01,960
because you love them, because 
you want to do what you want to 

494
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,480
fix that which is broken. 
I love what it says in Hebrews 

495
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,280
chapter 12. 
Notice, therefore, strengthen 

496
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,200
the hands which hang down, and 
the feeble knees, and make 

497
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,680
straight paths for your feet, so
that what is lame may not be 

498
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:19,640
dislocated, but rather healed. 
OK, he says this. 

499
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,800
Somebody's spiritual got to come
to the rescue for the purpose of

500
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:28,360
restoration, but you got to do 
it with the right way, in the 

501
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,880
spirit of gentleness. 
You've heard me say this. 

502
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:37,040
I got a number of Frank isms. 
I'm old enough now to have a 

503
00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:39,160
bunch of Frank isms, and people 
usually know what they are. 

504
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,400
Preachers get these isms. 
You know, the things that you 

505
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:48,920
say, like Cullen Smith, he 
always says been there, done 

506
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,520
that, saw the video about the 
T-shirt. 

507
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:56,120
I mean, it's a Cullen ISM and 
preachers sometimes have isms 

508
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,480
that they say all the time. 
You've heard me say this, I'm 

509
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:04,560
going to say it again. 
If you have to remove a family 

510
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:09,800
from somebody's forehead, you 
don't need a hammer. 

511
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,200
Paul says. 
Do it in the spirit of 

512
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,680
gentleness. 
And by the way, that's one of 

513
00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:23,240
the fruits of the Spirit. 
Then he says this considering 

514
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,760
yourself, lest you also be 
tempted. 

515
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,400
You know, there's two things 
involved here. 

516
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:31,200
Number one, considering yourself
lest you also be tempted. 

517
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,960
Number one, please get this. 
Don't ever think it could never 

518
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,680
happen to you. 
Don't ever have the mindset it 

519
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,800
could never happen to you. 
That's one way you can be 

520
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,120
tempted. 
Paul said consider yourself lest

521
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:46,000
you're tempted in that way. 
Don't do that number two way you

522
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,800
can be tempted. 
Don't feel in a spirit of 

523
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:52,400
arrogance or conceit or 
condescension or haughtiness, 

524
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,120
because you're the one doing the
correcting and you think you're 

525
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:56,920
better than that person. 
Don't do that either. 

526
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:03,560
Consider yourself lest you also 
be tempted, and do so in the 

527
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,960
spirit of gentleness for the 
purpose of restoration to fix 

528
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:09,199
that which is broken. 
Wow. 

529
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,159
Then he says this. 
I love this. 

530
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:17,040
Then he says bear one another's 
burdens and so fulfill the law 

531
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,840
of Christ. 
The word burdens by definition 

532
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:24,480
is heavy loads, hard to carry. 
And I got to say it is a general

533
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:28,560
principle as a Christian that we
bear one another's burdens in 

534
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,000
general. 
Like I'm going to just give you 

535
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:38,719
some examples like illness, 
setbacks, catastrophes, loss, 

536
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:44,280
pain, suffering. 
All of that is true in a general

537
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,159
sense. 
And Paul deals with that in 

538
00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:49,520
First Corinthians 12 where the 
body of Christ and members 

539
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:52,199
individually, when one suffers, 
we all suffer. 

540
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:53,920
When one rejoices, we all 
rejoice. 

541
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,120
That is a biblical, biblical 
principle. 

542
00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:02,120
But the context of this bearing 
one another's burdens is not 

543
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:05,680
talking about that. 
The context of this word 

544
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,320
burdens, which is heavy loads, 
hard to carry, goes back to 

545
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,600
verse one. 
What is the context of verse 

546
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,880
one? 
If anyone's overtaken in a 

547
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:21,040
trespass or a fault or a sin? 
So in context, I am responsible 

548
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,920
to my brother. 
After I go to him to restore or 

549
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:30,160
pick him up, I got more to do. 
I have to bear his burdens, 

550
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,720
which are heavy loads that are 
hard to carry, heavy burdens 

551
00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:36,680
that are causing him to sin 
that's helping him through those

552
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,200
temptations. 
That's what the passage is 

553
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:45,560
talking about in context. 
Heavy burdens that are causing 

554
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,000
your brother's sin. 
I'm going to tell you something.

555
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,920
Temptation is a heavy burden and
a heavy load, isn't it? 

556
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:53,880
Heavy burden and heavy load. 
You know what else is really 

557
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:55,320
heavy? 
Habitual sin. 

558
00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:02,760
And many times, many times when 
we have habitual struggles, they

559
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,120
are the same things that we 
struggle with over and over and 

560
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:06,720
over again. 
Everybody's got their own, but 

561
00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:10,040
usually it's the habitual things
that keep rearing up their head 

562
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:13,000
at us. 
And just because a person is 

563
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,160
restored and forgiven doesn't 
mean the temptation is gone. 

564
00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:21,840
In fact, you know what? 
Sometimes those temptations come

565
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:26,080
with such force. 
They pull us back into those 

566
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,840
sinful habits. 
So what do we got to do? 

567
00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,280
We go to them and we pick them 
up. 

568
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:36,080
But then we got to hold them up 
too. 

569
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:40,440
How do we hold them up? 
James 5/16 Confess your 

570
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:44,080
trespasses to one another and 
pray one for another that you 

571
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:45,960
may be healed. 
The effective fervent prayer of 

572
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,080
a righteous man avails much. 
Obviously, I've referenced this 

573
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:53,320
passage hundreds of times with 
you, so I'm just going to say 

574
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:58,280
this prayer is first and 
foremost the effective fervent 

575
00:36:58,280 --> 00:36:59,880
prayer of a righteous man avails
much. 

576
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,880
James 516 is talking about 
habitual struggles. 

577
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,960
That's what he's talking about. 
If I have a habitual struggle, 

578
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,440
I'm going to confess that to my 
brother and he's going to pray 

579
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,080
for me In the effective, fervent
prayer of a righteous man avails

580
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,360
much. 
That is first, that is foremost.

581
00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,840
That is true. 
But please, let's not 

582
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:23,800
underestimate the importance of 
a secondary benefit or a 

583
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,960
practical benefit, which is 
this. 

584
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,960
How about accountability? 
I've just made myself 

585
00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:32,920
accountable to my brother, and 
he's going to work with me and 

586
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:33,640
help me. 
And you know why? 

587
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:34,800
Why? 
That's going to be great. 

588
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:41,200
You know, it takes 21 days to 
remove a habit, maybe sometimes 

589
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:45,880
even longer, and it takes 21 
days, they say, to form a new 

590
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:49,200
habit. 
If I'm working with my brother 

591
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,400
and I know not only helped him 
up, but now I'm holding him up, 

592
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,360
he's accountable to me. 
I'm praying for him. 

593
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:04,080
The longer he goes, the better 
chance he has to lose that bad 

594
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:11,320
habit and get a better one. 
Wow, isn't that great stuff from

595
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:16,920
the Lord. 
May I suggest something please? 

596
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:28,240
If somebody confides in you, 
keep it to yourself. 

597
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,560
Nobody has the right or the 
business to know anything that 

598
00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:37,440
your brother confided in you 
regarding something personal in 

599
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:41,640
their life like that. 
I'm going to tell you something 

600
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:42,840
right now. 
I knew of a case. 

601
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,640
This is awful. 
Somebody confided in somebody 

602
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,200
and asked that person not to 
repeat it. 

603
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:53,480
The person said they wouldn't 
repeat it. 

604
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,440
Do you know how long it took for
that information to travel 

605
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,600
across the United States and 
back to the the place of origin?

606
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:01,760
Yeah. 
How long you took? 

607
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:07,800
Two hours. 
Shame on them. 

608
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:16,080
Shame on them. 
I'm so thankful that I have some

609
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:20,840
people in my life. 
Then if I confided in them, I 

610
00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:22,760
know for a fact they'll take it 
to their grave. 

611
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,440
I've told my pal Don L King 
things that I know he took to 

612
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:32,440
his grave, that he didn't even 
tell Patsy because he said to 

613
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,480
me, I won't even tell Patsy 
unless you give me permission. 

614
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,320
Yeah, that's what I'm talking 
about. 

615
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,400
That's what it's about. 
If somebody confides in you with

616
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:44,360
the struggle that they're going 
through, keep it to yourself. 

617
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:51,240
Oh, such damage can be done. 
What happens when we bear one 

618
00:39:51,240 --> 00:39:54,600
another's burdens? 
Paul said you fulfill the law of

619
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,720
Christ. 
What is the law of Christ? 

620
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:59,800
Everything that the Jesus 
describes and that's all that 

621
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,720
matters. 
No specifically when you do that

622
00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:05,160
you fulfill the law of Christ 
and the law of Christ is the law

623
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:09,000
of love. 
John chapter 13 beginning verse 

624
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:13,160
34 A new commandment I give you,
that you love one another as I 

625
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,880
have loved you, that you also 
love one another. 

626
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,400
By this all will know that you 
are my disciples, If you have 

627
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:24,280
love one for the other. 
Galatians 5 and verse 14 For all

628
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:28,120
the law is fulfilled in one 
word, even this you shall love 

629
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:33,360
your neighbor as yourself. 
OK, so in this passage that 

630
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,200
we've already talked about 
burdens here and I'm almost 

631
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:39,760
finished. 
Burdens here in this passage are

632
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,640
heavy loads that are causing 
your brother to sin. 

633
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:48,880
OK, what about in verse 5 when 
the King James Version says that

634
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:53,000
we all must bear our own burden?
Let's look at that passage. 

635
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:57,400
For each one shall bear his own.
The new King James says load. 

636
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,320
Is there a contradiction? 
Absolutely not. 

637
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:06,080
What he's saying is here. 
The word load are things that we

638
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:11,240
will all give an account for. 
What it means is this, we need 

639
00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:14,120
each other to help each other 
and to bear one another's 

640
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,120
burdens that cause us to sin. 
You know why? 

641
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,960
Because all of us are going to 
have to stand before God and 

642
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:24,120
bear our own burden. 
That's why got to work out our 

643
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,720
own salvation. 
By the way, working out your own

644
00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:28,040
salvation doesn't mean I do it 
my way. 

645
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,000
You do it your way, and we all 
choose our own thing and that's 

646
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,280
not what that means. 
Working out your own salvation 

647
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:35,800
is this. 
Here's the standard. 

648
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:37,480
It doesn't mean I choose my own 
standard. 

649
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,960
It means here's the standard and
I got to work it out on my own. 

650
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:46,320
That's why it's so important. 
It's so important that young 

651
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,160
people understand something 
vital to their Christianity. 

652
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:53,880
And I say young people because 
you know why? 

653
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,240
Because young people, when 
they're raised, they brought the

654
00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:59,000
church, they brought the 
services, they become 

655
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,440
Christians. 
They follow what they've been 

656
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,000
taught, they follow what they 
they've been told, they follow 

657
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:05,040
the example. 
But you know what? 

658
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:06,840
Something has to happen for 
every one of those young people 

659
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,920
at some point. 
That faith has to become their 

660
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,520
own. 
That faith has to become their 

661
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,040
own faith. 
Not the faith of their Father, 

662
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:19,000
not the faith of their mother, 
but their own faith. 

663
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,400
That's when it all begins with 
working out your own salvation 

664
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:28,800
with fear and trembling. 
But the faith has to be based 

665
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:32,640
upon 1 standard, and that's the 
word of God, not our own way to 

666
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,520
choose. 
OK? 

667
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:36,360
You've been such a wonderful 
audience. 

668
00:42:36,720 --> 00:42:39,040
So now we come to the three 
words that sometimes we long to 

669
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:40,560
hear. 
And that's and in conclusion, 

670
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:47,040
here we go. 
In conclusion, what did we learn

671
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,120
today? 
Number one, please get this. 

672
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:54,160
Jesus did not condemn judging of
all kinds. 

673
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,000
And if somebody would say Jesus 
said you can't judge, that's not

674
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,880
what he said. 
What Jesus condemned is 

675
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:07,520
hypocritical, prejudicial, 
overly harsh judgment and 

676
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:09,960
judgment with the wrong attitude
or the wrong motive. 

677
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:16,760
That's what he was condemning. 
So if that is the case, when we 

678
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do make judgments, and we must, 
the motive behind the ACT has to

679
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be this, to pick up, hold up and
build each other up. 

680
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That's the point. 
That's what we got to do. 

681
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,080
That's our job. 
We're in this together. 

682
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:45,560
We never know the hearts and 
minds of those that are present.

683
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,640
I don't know how it is with you,
but maybe you're here today and 

684
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you're not a Christian. 
We never teach from the Word of 

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God without extending an 
invitation to somebody that 

686
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might be subject to the gospel 
call. 

687
00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,600
The steps to become a Christian 
are very simple. 

688
00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:02,120
First of all, you got to hear 
the Word of God. 

689
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:07,720
Romans 10/17 So faith comes by 
hearing and hearing by the word 

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of God. 
After we hear the word of God, 

691
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we have a choice. 
We have to believe with all our 

692
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,120
heart. 
Hebrews 11 and 6. 

693
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,320
Without faith it's impossible to
please Him, for he who comes to 

694
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:22,040
God must believe that He is and 
that He is a rewarder of those 

695
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,200
who diligently seek him. 
Then what? 

696
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,400
I got to repent of my sins. 
I got to make the determined 

697
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,200
resolve in my life. 
I'm no longer going to live in 

698
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,800
the direction that I was living 
or the direction I was going. 

699
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:34,640
I want to live for God. 
I'm going to change my life. 

700
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:39,000
It's called repentance. 
Acts 17 and 30. 

701
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:42,280
Truly these times of ignorance 
God overlooked, but now commands

702
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:44,480
all men everywhere to repent. 
And then what? 

703
00:44:44,920 --> 00:44:48,280
Then be willing to confess Jesus
Christ as the Son of God. 

704
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,440
The greatest words you will ever
said, say then Philip said, if 

705
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:52,800
you believe with all your heart,
you may. 

706
00:44:53,320 --> 00:44:57,400
And he answered and said, I 
believe that Jesus Christ is the

707
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,680
Son of God. 
Upon taking these steps of 

708
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,680
obedience, you're now a fit 
candidate to go to the point of 

709
00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:06,040
salvation, and that's to be 
baptized for the remission of 

710
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,040
sins. 
Mark 1616. 

711
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,680
The Lord said this, he who 
believes and is baptized will be

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00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,560
saved, but he who does not 
believe will be condemned. 

713
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:18,920
Maybe you've taken these steps 
of obedience. 

714
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:22,080
Maybe you've drifted. 
Maybe there are things in your 

715
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:25,080
life that you need to correct. 
Then just repent of those 

716
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:26,200
things. 
Confess those things. 

717
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:28,240
We'll pray with you and for you,
and God will forgive and 

718
00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:29,920
restore. 
Be one of either class. 

719
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,080
Come forward while we stand, 
while we see.