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As we begin our study this 
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And as we look at this verse in 
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23. 
Jesus begins by saying woe to 

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you scribes and Pharisees and 
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And the first reason that he 
calls them Hypocrites from the 

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things that will discuss this 
morning. 

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He said, you pay tithe of mint 
and anise and cumin. 

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What does all that mean? 
Well, first of all the word MIT 

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there, if you look in the 
original Greek word, it actually

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is translated as Sweet smelling.
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about something that is in the 
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For example, you're talking 
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leaf, okay? 
Number two, what about anise? 

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You know, that word actually 
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dill pickle, something that you 
would have for flavor watch what

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they were doing. 
Oh, they were so meticulous. 

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They were very meticulous in 
tithing and they would actually 

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tithe of mint leaves. 
They would tithe of Flavored ill

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and they would also tie the 10% 
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cumin actually is a very small 
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Now, little background about Old
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about this under the Old 
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God instructed, his people, 
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all of their crops and we 
understand that the governmental

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structure at the time, was that 
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What's that? 
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government. 
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government that is Ron or 
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So, in the name of, or for God 
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was actually a theocracy from 
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elected to be king. 
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we are talking about something 
that is is referring back to the

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days of typing. 
Something else, too. 

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I know that the religious world 
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still has they use the phrase? 
Tithing in fact, they call it 

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tithing and offerings but the 
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tip. 
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the word actually is and nowhere
in the New Testament. 

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Are we required to give a tenth 
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of our income? 
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we're going to do that in just a
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We give a free will offering 
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our heart as we have been 
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So let us give, so it's not a 
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that's being judged in the New 
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Now, going back to the Old Law 
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under the Old Law and we talked 
about the idea of tithing. 

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And what did God actually say in
Leviticus 27:30? 

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This is actually, what was 
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And all the time of the land, 
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or of the fruit of the tree, it 
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that passage actually says it 
is, Holy to the Lord. 

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What else? 
How about Deuteronomy chapter 14

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and verse 22. 
You shall truly tithe. 

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Get this of all the increase of 
your grain that the field 

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produces year by year. 
Did God say anything about 

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kitchen spices? 
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about things that we're are used
to season food? 

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Why? 
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Are you kind of getting the 
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about? 
I read one scholar. 

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You know what he called them? 
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then Jesus was talking to he 
called them wooden literal 

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assists. 
I don't know what that means, 

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but he called them wouldn't 
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And what they would do is they 
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or tithe, they would take it to 
a ridiculous extreme and they 

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would even have kids Chicken 
pox, and they would grow what 

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they grow. 
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You know, they would do. 
Oh, wait a minute, I've got a 

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tie 129 for me, one for God. 
Oh what about this deal over 

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here? 
It'd be the same thing as a 

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pickle over here. 
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there 9 for me, one for God. 
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What about this? 
Tiny little herb, and by the way

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it was a tiny little herb used 
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Let me get that out and what 
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by the way. 
So everybody could see, they 

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would take urmi and one forgot. 
That's what they would do. 

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They took it to the Absurd. 
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Something different. 
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this way. 
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He said these men magnify the 
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the essential. 
There are things that are 

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ridiculous. 
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insignificant, but we'll talk 
about that in just a minute. 

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The idea of this though, even 
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saying to them outwardly it 
appears that their Pious, it 

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appears that they're doing a 
great thing, right? 

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But what the Lord is going to 
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you're rotten on the inside. 
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That is the entire theme of what
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The difference between Tween how
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what they really are on the 
inside and all the examples were

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going to use in this sermon deal
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outside and the inside. 
And what we're going to find is,

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it doesn't matter. 
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we're rotting on the inside, 
it's not enough. 

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It's not good enough, you know 
what you're called? 

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If that is the case, he calls 
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All right? 
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would get credit for, you don't 
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Kid growing up your, my dad, you
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I remember I would go do 
something and I got to tell you,

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you know, sometimes when you're 
a kid, you want the immediate 

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gratification or satisfaction of
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you do something. 
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tell me this all the time, he 
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greatest things that we ever do 
and if you want to ever judge 

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what you do, And the 
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He said the greatest things that
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don't get any credit. 
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do if no one was watching. 
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about these Pharisees. 
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was watching, when they wouldn't
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get the credit? 
Just with the did not answer me 

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one for God. see, even the 
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But then he says this, there's 
something else watch this. 

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You have neglected, the 
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then he says, what the weightier
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mercy, and faith. 
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child of God, without Justice, 
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Now, that's what he says. 
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weightier matters of the law. 
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weightier. 
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rabbinical word. 
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It's a fancy way of saying 
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rabbinic tradition. 
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rabbi's which were Jewish 
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based upon their own, 
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would have other things that 
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carrying your bed on the 
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Right. 
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rabbinical word was the word 
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And what they would say is and 
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is under the Old Law of Moses, 
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For example, that are really not
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called weightier. 
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One of them was circumcision, 
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keeping the Sabbath, and that's 
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He said, I'm their son of God. 
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way he dealt with the Sabbath 
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the Sabbath. 
I'm lord of the Sabbath and they

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hated him for it. 
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Because based upon rabbinic 
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They called that a weightier 
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You know what Jesus says, let me
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thing is it ain't seventh. 
It's this Justice Mercy. 

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And faith. 
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you know, Jesus didn't just pick
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And this is nothing new. 
You probably know the scripture.

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It's in the Book of Micah. 
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Micah says, that Jesus didn't 
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of the air. 
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he has shown you o man, what is 
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require of you notice? 
But to do justly to love mercy 

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and to walk humbly with your God
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He said you've neglected the 
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like justice. 
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Micah said, do justly, they were
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people. 
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They were Unholy people. 
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Things to people. 
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What about Mercy? 
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love Mercy. 
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I gotta say just as a little 
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We need to be really careful 
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mercy for someone else. 
Because I'm haunted by the words

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of Matthew chapter 7, 
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World religious world says, 
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It's not what he said, what he 
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judge it shall be judged and you
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scary thing is and I need 
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And so do you the scary thing is
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forgiveness from God. 
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have mercy in my heart, I'm 
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into the category. 
Please of being a Pharisee and 

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thinking it could never happen 
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What about this walking? 
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You know, that is. 
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You see that? 
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Nope. 
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They were, they followed the 
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They judged everything by their 
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Jesus says you've neglected the 
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then verse 20 the end of this 
verse verse 23 because I got to 

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say you know what people do they
miss quote this verse and you 

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know what they say See Jesus 
even said you don't have to obey

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any kind of commands. 
Just have this just have 

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Justice, mercy and Faith. 
That's not what he said. 

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What he said is this the very 
next line? 

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I didn't make this up. 
It's what the Lord said these 

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you ought to have done. 
Done without leaving the others 

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undone. 
In other words, you still have 

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to obey the law but she got to 
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don't do without them. 
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Now the Lord was not saying what
you got to do is you should have

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counted out the seeds and the 
seasoning and all of that. 

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That's not what he meant, what 
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kept the laws about the tithe 
that was a command of God and he

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had to keep that. 
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it, you should have not 
neglected, the weightier matters

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of the law. 
You should have done it all. 

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That's what he said. 
Sometimes people quote that 

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verse is a you know what, we 
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All we gotta do is have faith. 
Love Mercy, Justice. 

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It's not what you said. 
Keep the weightier matters and 

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also give attention to. 
The proper matters of tithing is

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what he was saying and then in 
verse 23 and verse 24, He says, 

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blind guides, who strain out a 
gnat and swallow a camel. 

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That's from the new King James. 
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how it renders it in the 
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And I have to tell you that in 
my life, I've kind of 

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misunderstood that, and from the
King James, it actually says it 

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a little bit differently in the 
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It says, you strain at a gnat 
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to me in my mind, maybe not you 
but to me it sounds as though 

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you were straining or re you are
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I don't know you're straining 
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Jesus was saying. 
He is continuing on the thought,

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you have neglected, the 
weightier matters of the law and

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what did you do by counting all 
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way to your things of the law? 
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strained out a gnat and 
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All right, it goes further. 
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Greek word, that means to filter
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Testament, the smallest unclean 
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Let's talk about unclean 
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So we get kind of some 
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Whatever goes on all fours. 
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creeping things that creep on 
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These you shall not eat for they
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Are an abomination. 
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The smallest one was Annette. 
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I'll tell you in just a minute. 
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Leviticus 11 for, and I'm gonna 
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about the net in Leviticus 11 
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Nevertheless, these you should 
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the cud or those that have 
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it chews the cud and does not 
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unto you. 
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in the biggest that were unclean
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biggest was a camel. 
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weightier matters of the law, 
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You are straining out the gnat 
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Now. 
Little background on that little

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background. 
I read this these, The Strain 

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their beverages. 
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would make wine when they would 
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grapes, do all that. 
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the vine. 
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beverage, the liquid, and 
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have things that we have in our 
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being able to keep things 
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So, you know what happens 
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The smallest of which was an 
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can't mean that's in there. 
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would take a straining cloth and
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that. 
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through the straining cloth in 
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So they can make sure they 
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little unclean, guys. 
Okay, so whatever do before they

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drank it. 
John MacArthur said this though.

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I thought this was rather 
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So you have all these guys, 
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John MacArthur said this, he 
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Pharisees, drink their wine 
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to filter out any impurities and
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teeth. 
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extra mile at strain to the 
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the drink cookers and drink and 
let the liquid go through, keep 

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your teeth together. 
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let the net down then pick the 
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Come on. 
Going through all of that. 

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But having their priorities 
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In other words, Jesus is saying 
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mint leaf. 
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dishonesty cruelty, and greed, 
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not all verse 25. 
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scribes and Pharisees and 
hypocrites. 

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Why? 
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of the cup and dish? 
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extortion. 
And self-indulgence the word 

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dish in the original comes to my
interesting Greek word, and it 

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has to do with a plate that was 
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Now, you clean the outside of 
the dish is what he's saying? 

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Oh, you polish the outside of 
that thing? 

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Man you got the outside of that 
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Just shining like crazy. 
But what you have put inside you

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got by hell extortion. 
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example. 
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you serve them. 
Oh, you got a beautiful shiny 

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cup. 
But inside is filled with things

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that they're going to eat, or 
drink or whatever that you 

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stole. 
That you extorted from somebody 

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else dishonesty. 
That's the example here about 

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what he's saying. 
In other words, your ministry 

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looks pipe, so it looks Pious. 
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taking advantage of other people
making merchandise of others, 

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Now, Jesus is teaching here that
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are concerned, we ceremonies 
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pure. 
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Our life on the outside. 
Has to reflect our being on the 

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inside. 
They didn't do that. 

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They appeared to be one way on 
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But Jesus did. 
What we can't do, he called them

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down on it. 
Now, you're rotten inside, 

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that's what you are. 
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final sermon, incidentally, 
sometimes people say, oh, don't 

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ever preach anything - I'm going
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When we preach things that are 
negative and we preach against 

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are, please hear me, please hear
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We have to do so and season our 
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productive manner, we don't ever
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weapon or be mean and hateful. 
But I'm going to tell you there 

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are times when to stand for the 
truth and preach that which is 

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right and when we do we have to 
preach it straight but we have 

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to preach it. 
As the Bible says and season are

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words with salt speak, the truth
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Some people say don't ever 
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all. 
Just preach Jesus and that's it.

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Do you know who's preaching this
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It's the Lord himself. 
Let me just ask you. 

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You think this is Harsh? 
I don't think I can get away 

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with this. 
If I did it woe to you scribes 

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Pharisees Hypocrites, and lay 
them out. 

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That's the epitome of love doing
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That is the greatest love ever 
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Anyone was Jesus. 
That's what Jesus said in the 

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entire chapter. 
Chapter 23, if we get things 

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right on the inside, you've 
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get things right on the inside, 
it will automatically translate 

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into things right on the 
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If however, we cultivate only 
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this, the outward facade. 
That is an actor, that is a 

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hypocrite. 
Did hear what I said, cultivate 

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the facade on the outside. 
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you've heard me say people make 
mistakes and they get blamed for

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being hypocrite. 
That doesn't make him a 

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hypocrite. 
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But what I just said is, when 
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never really intended to be that
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That's a play actor that 
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behaving in a way that they 
appear to be one way and 

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they're, they're not. 
But, you know, people look on 

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the outside and the Pharisees 
did that, they look to the 

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outside. 
You know what? 

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The Lord looks on. 
Looks on the heart. 

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What about this passage right 
here? 

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First? 
Samuel 16 and 7, but the Lord 

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said to Samuel, do not. 
Look at his appearance or his 

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physical stature because I have 
refused him for the. 

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Lord does not see as a man sees 
for a man, looks at the outward 

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appearance, but the Lord looks 
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And one of the most sobering 
things and I have to come to the

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realization about in my life is.
The Lord knows my heart and I 

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can't hide it. 
I can't hide my heart. 

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I can't. 
I just can't. 

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Jesus continues with this 
thought. 

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Next verse 26, notice He says 
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there's that word again. 
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the inside of the cup and dish 
that the outside of them may be 

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clean. 
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think everybody here will 
understand okay. 

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If I got a coffee mug, okay, and
it's dirty inside now. 

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And I take a sponge or whatever 
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I dip the sponge in water, I 
buff the outside. 

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I've done nothing to the inside 
at all. 

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If I am first cleansing the 
outside, only I'm not doing 

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anything for the inside. 
If however, I take that coffee 

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mug and I got the sink there and
it's full of Suds and nice hot 

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water. 
I submerged this cup in that 

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water. 
It goes on the inside, guess 

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what? 
I've taken care of the inside, 

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it automatically takes. 
Care of the outside. 

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That's what the Lord meant. 
Cleanse the inside. 

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And the outside will be fixed. 
Fix it on the inside. 

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Wash the inside of the cup. 
And the and the outside will be 

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fixed. 
Then he says this. 

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This is really an amazing 
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Again, woe to you scribes and 
Pharisees and hypocrites. 

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And then he said this, he said 
you are like whitewashed tombs 

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now. 
Please follow this. 

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He says, you are also guilty of 
deception and I'm going to use 

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the word and I'm going to prove 
it to you by the example that he

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gives you are guilty of 
Contaminating, others. 

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You're guilty of contaminating, 
others you're doing so by 

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deception. 
And, you know, very sadly that 

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fills the religious world today 
deception and it contaminates, 

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all of those that come and touch
or contact with that false 

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teacher. 
Now, listen to this, Jesus 

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condemns these Pharisees for 
spiritually can contaminating 

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everyone that they touch. 
In other words, you are not what

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you claim to be. 
And the example, he uses is Is 

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whitewashed tombs. 
What does that mean? 

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That Terry is a painter I was 
one. 

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Okay, 20, I don't know, 27 years
ago, whatever, 25 years ago, six

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years ago, came in the painting 
trade. 

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And one of the fads back then 
was whitewashed cabinets. 

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And we would even and one of 
the, one of the fads was red oak

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wood and then you take a white 
Platinum stain. 

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And you they called it 
whitewash. 

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You would whitewash the outside 
and if you add white Platinum 

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stain to a red cabinet. 
You got pink, that was a huge 

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fad and number of years ago. 
So that's what I think about 

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when I think about whitewash but
whitewashing this passage is not

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Platinum stain, whitewashing. 
This passage means that they 

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they went out to these tombs and
they smeared lime powder on them

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lime powder. 
Now, there was a reason. 

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Every Spring after the early 
rain ceased, And you know what? 

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Rain does rain would wash away, 
things like, lime powder. 

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And by the way, it was about the
15th of Adar. 

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You know what that is? 
That's the first part of March. 

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So, every first part of March, 
after the rains, you what they 

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do. 
They'd look out over Jerusalem, 

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and they would find a bunch of 
houses, a bunch of walls, and 

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most importantly tombs out there
with no whitewash. 

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You know, why? 
Because the rain washed it away.

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So here they come. 
They got the lime powder in head

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and they go out and smear it all
over these tombs. 

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In fact, I also read that 
sometimes the whitewash was 

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smeared on caves and Limestone 
tombs for those that were more 

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prominent and they did. 
So for preparation of the 

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Passover, let me tell you why. 
When people came to Jerusalem 

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for the Passover, they came from
everywhere. 

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Now, picture this hundreds 
thousands, I don't know. 

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People came to Jerusalem for the
time of the Passover. 

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The people that live there in 
Jerusalem, they wanted to create

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something that was beautiful. 
You see this appear beautiful 

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outward lie. 
So instead of having these old 

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nasty looking Graves out there, 
they would go to these tombs and

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they would smear lime powder on 
it. 

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So when you I walked into 
Jerusalem, all the beauty of it,

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it was all white. 
I read one scholar that said you

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can find white sepulchres that 
dot the mountains and hillsides 

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all throughout when you came 
into Jerusalem during this time,

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But that's not the main reason 
they did it. 

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That's not the main reason. 
That's not the main reason that 

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they did. 
So they actually went out. 

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And they put whitewash on the 
tombs. 

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So people that came to Jerusalem
at the time of the Passover 

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would not inadvertently or 
accidentally touch the tomb and 

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be ceremonially unclean for 
seven days. 

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That's why they're going to the 
Passover. 

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00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:46,600
They don't to be unclean so they
would mark it with sometimes the

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entire tomb being whitewashed. 
Other times. 

456
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,400
I read, you know, they did, they
actually painted Bones on the 

457
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:58,400
grave White Bones? 
So people that would walk by, 

458
00:27:58,400 --> 00:27:59,400
oh, I got to stay away from 
that. 

459
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,700
I better not touch that grave. 
Okay. 

460
00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:08,200
Now, And be defiled. 
I didn't just grab that notice. 

461
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,500
This passage here from the Old 
Testament, numbers, 19, and 16 

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Whoever in the field opened 
whoever in the open field. 

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00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:21,300
Touches one who is slain by a 
sword, or who has died or a bone

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00:28:21,300 --> 00:28:24,400
of a man, or a grave shall be 
unclean. 

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00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,300
Seven days. 
That's the reason right there. 

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00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:31,900
So, they painted the sepulchres.
Now, that's the example that 

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00:28:31,900 --> 00:28:34,800
he's using. 
He's using that as an example, 

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00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,100
when you came in Jerusalem, they
were beautiful. 

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00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:39,400
They were claiming their own 
white tombs everywhere dazzling 

470
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:43,400
in the Sun, but they weren't 
what they appear to be. 

471
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:44,900
You know why? 
You know what they were? 

472
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:49,500
They were just a grave. 
I'm going to tell you, I have 

473
00:28:49,500 --> 00:28:50,900
you. 
I would imagine in your 

474
00:28:50,900 --> 00:28:53,200
lifetime, you've been called 
some names. 

475
00:28:56,300 --> 00:29:00,200
You've been called some things 
I've been called some things. 

476
00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:07,900
And what if the Lord called you 
a tomb? 

477
00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:15,700
Because the only thing inside of
you is dead men's bones, what if

478
00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:18,200
the Lord looking at my life 
said, you know what, you've got 

479
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,100
this facade, you're beautiful on
the outside, in the eyes of 

480
00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:25,500
others, but I know yet, No, I 
know you. 

481
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:29,200
You're full of dead men's bones,
and uncleanness. 

482
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:37,800
That's what he told them. 
Now inside are full of dead 

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00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:45,800
men's bones. now, the next verse
verse 28, Even so you also 

484
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,400
outwardly appear righteous. 
You appear to be righteous men 

485
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,600
but inside you're full of 
hypocrisy and lawlessness. 

486
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:56,400
That's the example that he uses.
He uses the to just like 

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00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:57,800
whitewashing the two on the 
outside. 

488
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,300
What do you got in the inside 
dead men's bones? 

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00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:02,500
What about you, what about you? 
He says I'm telling you this 

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00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:05,500
because here's the example on 
the outside you appear 

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00:30:05,500 --> 00:30:07,800
righteous. 
That's a whitewashed tomb but 

492
00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:10,300
inside you're full of hypocrisy 
and lawlessness. 

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00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:11,600
That's Dead. 
Man's Bones. 

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00:30:12,100 --> 00:30:15,600
You just did you just a grief? 
You're dead inside. 

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00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,800
And by the way, the word Lawless
means to disregard the law of 

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00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:24,900
God. 
Make no mistake about it, folks 

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00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:26,800
and don't let anyone talk you 
out of it. 

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00:30:27,900 --> 00:30:30,800
Just because we are supposed to 
be those of Justice. 

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00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,100
Mercy, love, peace, faith, and 
all of that. 

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00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,200
As the weightier matters, it 
doesn't mean that we are not 

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00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:40,500
required to follow the laws of 
God. 

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00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:45,400
He said your Lawless. 
And that simply means you 

503
00:30:45,408 --> 00:30:49,700
disregard the laws of God. 
Anybody who touches you? 

504
00:30:49,700 --> 00:30:51,700
Here's his point is 
contaminated. 

505
00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:54,700
You know, very sadly. 
There are many false teachers 

506
00:30:54,700 --> 00:30:57,800
doing the very same thing. 
They're contaminating innocent 

507
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,500
people. 
But then the last one, the last 

508
00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:05,700
one that he uses these false, 
spiritual leaders are cursed for

509
00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:10,200
pretension pretension. 
What I'm saying is pretending to

510
00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,500
be so much better than everybody
else. 

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00:31:12,900 --> 00:31:16,000
You know, if you go all the way 
back to when Satan and a third 

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00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,100
of the hosts of Heaven were cast
out of Heaven. 

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00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:25,100
God has always hated Pride. 
God is not okay with me acting 

514
00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:27,100
or thinking that I'm better than
Dave Morgan. 

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00:31:27,700 --> 00:31:32,000
I don't just use that example, 
he's not okay with that. 

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00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:38,000
He's not okay with that at all. 
God is never okay for us to be 

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00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,900
filled with pretension. 
The last thing, he blessed him 

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00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:46,900
with his this, you're guilty of 
all of the things I just said, 

519
00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:51,300
but there's more. 
There's more you sit in a 

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00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:55,300
position or a place that you act
as though you are better than 

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00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:58,600
other people. 
Especially those of the past. 

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00:31:58,700 --> 00:32:02,000
Notice what happens. 
God always hates Pride. 

523
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:06,000
So he says you appear outwardly 
to appear righteous as righteous

524
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,300
man, inside your full of 
hypocrisy of lawlessness. 

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00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:11,300
Then he says this woe to you 
scribes and Pharisees 

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00:32:11,300 --> 00:32:14,700
hypocrites. 
Because why? 

527
00:32:14,900 --> 00:32:18,800
Because you build the tombs of 
the prophets and Adorn The 

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00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,300
Monuments of the righteous. 
What does that mean? 

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00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,700
Okay, I had to do a little 
reading for that. 

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00:32:24,700 --> 00:32:27,000
If, you know that at that time 
what they would do is it was a 

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00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:30,700
big deal for juice to do this 
man that had already died. 

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00:32:30,700 --> 00:32:33,700
Let me just call them Heroes of 
the past. 

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00:32:33,900 --> 00:32:36,500
It might be something like Terry
went are he's preaching his 

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00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:42,300
series on Heroes of Faith. 
In other words except lockers or

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00:32:42,300 --> 00:32:45,100
tombs. 
Or Graves of men that have lived

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00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:50,200
before that were great, man. 
Now, this is what Jesus says of 

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00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:51,400
all things. 
He says this. 

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00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,100
Oh, you are great at this, by 
the way, still hypocrite, you're

539
00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:58,200
great at this. 
You build tombs of the prophets.

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00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,000
In other words, you build these 
monuments for those that have 

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00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,400
already died. 
Of the righteous. 

542
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,500
He's referring to the practice 
of rebuild rebuilding in 

543
00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:13,800
remembrance those things for 
past heroes. 

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00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:18,700
In fact, I read this that even 
today, even today on the lower 

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00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:23,500
slope of the Mount of Olives. 
Even today you can find tombs 

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00:33:23,500 --> 00:33:25,900
that are built in honor of the 
prophets. 

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00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,300
And if you've been there and 
seen that, you know, exactly 

548
00:33:29,300 --> 00:33:33,000
what I'm talking about. 
Robertson said it this way, this

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00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,900
is exactly what you find today. 
And it's when Jesus was 

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00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:40,900
speaking, notice what Robertson 
said the tombs in the Kidron 

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00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:45,800
Valley that are now named in 
honor of Zechariah Absalom and 

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00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,900
Jehoshaphat. 
For example, they were all built

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00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:51,300
at the same time that Jesus said
this. 

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00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:54,200
So Jesus is saying, oh, you 
Hypocrites. 

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00:33:55,100 --> 00:33:57,500
Oh, you're great at building 
these These monuments. 

556
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:02,500
You're great at that. 
Yeah, you're great at that. 

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00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,800
Really big at lifting up the 
heroes from the past, lifting 

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00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:08,800
them up with memorials and 
monuments. 

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00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:14,500
Okay. 
And they even said this, if we 

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00:34:14,500 --> 00:34:18,100
had lived in the days of our 
fathers, we would have not been 

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00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:22,500
partakers with them in the blood
of the prophets, we're better 

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00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:24,600
than them. 
We didn't ever done that. 

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00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:30,800
We have never done that. 
I've heard people say, I don't 

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00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:33,199
understand how the apostles for 
such Jesus. 

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00:34:33,199 --> 00:34:35,199
I could I wouldn't ever done it.
I demand it right in there. 

566
00:34:35,699 --> 00:34:38,100
Yeah. 
No you weren't no you wouldn't. 

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00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,600
No you wouldn't. 
First of all you can't know what

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00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:43,900
you would ever do in a situation
you never been in but no you 

569
00:34:43,900 --> 00:34:46,900
wouldn't it was prophesied. 
Jesus would do it alone so you 

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00:34:46,900 --> 00:34:51,100
would have done it too. if Peter
can mess up, I guarantee you, 

571
00:34:51,100 --> 00:34:56,199
Frank brancato can Yeah, that 
was a special man. 

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00:34:56,199 --> 00:35:00,500
There I am not. 
What I'm saying is this, you 

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00:35:00,508 --> 00:35:02,900
know what they were saying they 
he says oh you build these 

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00:35:02,900 --> 00:35:05,500
monuments for all these heroes 
in the past and that but you sit

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00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:08,300
back and say, oh, I don't ever 
done what they did? 

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00:35:08,300 --> 00:35:10,900
My father's did I would have 
never done a thing to the 

577
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:15,500
prophets of old that were killed
by my forefathers. 

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00:35:16,100 --> 00:35:19,100
I would have never even thought 
of it like there holier than 

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00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:21,800
thou or it would be Beyond them 
to do that. 

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00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:25,700
The print the pretense here of 
ugly spiritual Pride, great at 

581
00:35:25,700 --> 00:35:28,400
building monuments great at 
honoring men in the past and 

582
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:30,800
claiming to be. 
Be better than their fathers, 

583
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:34,800
they would have never done that.
You know what Jesus says here's 

584
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:39,100
a direct hit and I'm almost 
finished but here is a direct 

585
00:35:39,100 --> 00:35:42,400
hit and you know, the Lord never
beat around the bush he made 

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00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,800
direct hits and he does it right
here. 

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00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:52,800
Amazing verse, you know he says 
therefore you are what Witnesses

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00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:59,200
against yourself. 
You know why it's the idea of 

589
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:04,900
like, father, like son They were
plotting to kill the greatest 

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00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:12,200
Prophet ever. 
Yeah, they were plotting to kill

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00:36:12,300 --> 00:36:17,500
the greatest Prophet ever. 
They were bragging and boasting.

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00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:19,700
We would have never killed those
prophets of old. 

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00:36:19,700 --> 00:36:22,100
Like our fathers didn't know we 
were better than that. 

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00:36:23,700 --> 00:36:25,000
Jesus said, you know what you 
are? 

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00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,100
You're a witness against 
yourself, why? 

596
00:36:29,100 --> 00:36:31,700
Because the plot was already in 
place. 

597
00:36:33,100 --> 00:36:36,600
The plan was already in place, 
they had to get rid of Jesus. 

598
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,500
Now, I'm going to tell you 
something, there's an next 

599
00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:43,200
verse. 
That I love. 

600
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:50,100
Because you've heard me preach. 
How many times you have heard me

601
00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:54,100
preach that? 
Jesus Christ was no man's 

602
00:36:54,100 --> 00:36:57,800
victim, you've heard me say it. 
You have heard me say that in 

603
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:02,700
great detail, many times. 
That he was totally in control. 

604
00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:04,300
We go to the Garden of 
Gethsemane. 

605
00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:06,900
He commands them to leave these 
alone and all that. 

606
00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:10,500
We know all that, right? 
This is the first place I can 

607
00:37:10,500 --> 00:37:15,000
see that it started. 
Watch this in verse 32, he says 

608
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,400
fill up then the measure of your
father's guilt. 

609
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:23,500
What's fill up mean? 
It means this, it means do it. 

610
00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:27,800
You are already your Witnesses 
against yourself because you're 

611
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,400
plotting to kill the Son of God.
So you know what? 

612
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,200
I'm going to tell you do it. 
That's what the word Philip 

613
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,400
means. 
It is a, it is a word that is 

614
00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:38,900
commanding to them. 
It is emphatic, in the sentence 

615
00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:40,900
me. 
Meaning he is, commanding them, 

616
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,700
do it. 
Now who's got the power, who's 

617
00:37:44,700 --> 00:37:47,800
in control? 
He said, do it. 

618
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,800
Do it. 
Scheming to kill the greatest 

619
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,300
Prophet. 
You know when you look at his 

620
00:37:56,300 --> 00:38:01,200
life from then on he's totally 
in control when he's before 

621
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,400
Pilate pilate says don't you 
understand what I can do 

622
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:04,400
against? 
You said you know what, you 

623
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,300
wouldn't have that Authority if 
it wasn't for my father. 

624
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,600
Jesus says, no man takes my 
life. 

625
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:14,000
I lay it down myself. 
All the things in which he did, 

626
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:17,200
he commanded them and 
orchestrated all of them to do 

627
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:21,300
exactly what God's plan was. 
And Jesus saw it to the very end

628
00:38:21,300 --> 00:38:24,700
and right here, right now, do 
you remember, when I said, the 

629
00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:28,100
reason that I wanted to preach 
this series is what happened 

630
00:38:28,100 --> 00:38:32,400
from Sunday when they said 
Hosanna to Friday when they said

631
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:38,000
crucify him? 
Thursday and Friday, crucify 

632
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,900
him. 
Well, I'ma tell you, he laid him

633
00:38:41,900 --> 00:38:46,400
out, pretty good in this sermon 
and then you already said, you 

634
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,500
are the Fulfillment. 
You are the full measure of the 

635
00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:52,200
father's guilt. 
You are so do it. 

636
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,800
Scholars, tell us that perhaps 
there was nothing to happen on 

637
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,600
Wednesday. 
In fact, some Scholars say that 

638
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,300
maybe the triumphal entry 
happened on Monday. 

639
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:07,700
So that there was something that
happened every day. 

640
00:39:07,700 --> 00:39:10,900
We don't need to know that we've
proven that the triumphal entry 

641
00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:13,400
happened on Sunday. 
I believe that. 

642
00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:15,700
And if that means, there was 
nothing recorded on Wednesday. 

643
00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:19,900
So what So what? 
But we're nearing they were 

644
00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:22,500
coming right to the end of 
Tuesday now and this is the 

645
00:39:22,500 --> 00:39:24,500
sermon that they heard the last 
sermon. 

646
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,500
Jesus preached, I'm finished 
this morning. 

647
00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:29,000
Thank you so much for your kind 
listening. 

648
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,600
I hope something was said that 
was both edifying and 

649
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:36,200
encouraging to you. 
As always is the case, My Hope 

650
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,300
and prayer is that it would 
cause you to have a greater 

651
00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:42,500
appreciation for Jesus and for 
all that he has done for us in 

652
00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:45,700
our life, and be better in the 
future than we've been in days 

653
00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:46,300
gone by