1 00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:10,000 when Jesus asked those Pharisees, this question, Really 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,600 the question is a masterpiece about the identity and nature of 3 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:16,900 the Messiah? It occurs while those Pharisees 4 00:00:16,900 --> 00:00:20,800 were still assembled before him and we find that there's a mark 5 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,200 shift now in what Jesus is saying, concerning his 6 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:28,700 messiahship, for example, early on throughout his ministry. 7 00:00:28,700 --> 00:00:32,500 Jesus avoided open public Acclaim that he would be the 8 00:00:32,500 --> 00:00:34,700 Messiah, but now things are different. 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,500 Now, things have changed in the last week of his life now You 10 00:00:39,500 --> 00:00:42,200 know the Pharisees as they would be listening to the question 11 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:44,600 that Jesus would ask about the Messiah. 12 00:00:44,900 --> 00:00:48,100 They would have known that this was not an academic or 13 00:00:48,100 --> 00:00:52,600 theoretical inquiry but the Supreme question concerning his 14 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,500 own person. Brought us raise an interesting 15 00:00:55,500 --> 00:00:58,500 point about asking this question and no doubt. 16 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:01,600 Everything Jesus says was absolutely brilliant. 17 00:01:01,700 --> 00:01:05,900 Brought his said this about what Jesus says he said, Jesus is 18 00:01:05,900 --> 00:01:09,300 actually defending himself against the charges. 19 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:13,100 Will be brought later to he on him in the week soon. 20 00:01:13,100 --> 00:01:15,900 He will stand before the Sanhedrin for saying he is the 21 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:18,000 Christ. The son of God. 22 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:21,900 Thus his question might be aimed at establishing the fact that 23 00:01:21,900 --> 00:01:27,700 the Messiah though descended from David cannot be just a mere 24 00:01:27,700 --> 00:01:29,900 man. So here's the question. 25 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,200 Here's the passage before us. What do you think about the 26 00:01:33,208 --> 00:01:36,800 Christ? You know, I think that's a very 27 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:40,200 relevant question. What do you think about the 28 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,300 Christ? I think it's relevant today. 29 00:01:42,300 --> 00:01:46,600 To Jesus says, what do you think about the Christ and whose son 30 00:01:46,900 --> 00:01:50,500 is he? Now those two questions are 31 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:55,300 these What do you think about the Christ and whose son is he? 32 00:01:55,300 --> 00:01:59,400 Now they're going to respond, they're going to say the son of 33 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,300 David. Now, the question is this from 34 00:02:02,300 --> 00:02:06,700 what Jewish family line was? The Messiah going to come. 35 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,199 Now, they all knew what the where the Messiah would come 36 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:12,200 from. They all knew that it would be 37 00:02:12,300 --> 00:02:17,100 from the Royal lineage of David. In fact, every to understood 38 00:02:17,100 --> 00:02:20,800 that they knew that and we would come after that after that 39 00:02:20,900 --> 00:02:27,600 bloodline in In John chapter 7 verses 41 and 42 other said this 40 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:32,100 is the Christ but some said will the Christ come out of Galilee? 41 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,900 Has not the scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed 42 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:40,300 of David and from the town of Bethlehem where David was. 43 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:46,000 Another passage Luke chapter 1 verses 31 and 32 and behold you 44 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:50,600 will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son and shall call 45 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:52,000 his name. Jesus. 46 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,700 He will be great and he will be called the son of the highest 47 00:02:55,800 --> 00:03:01,000 and the Lord God will give him the Throne of his father David. 48 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,500 That's why they answered the way that they answered in chapter 22 49 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:09,500 and verse 42. They said he is the son of 50 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:11,400 David. Well, the question is this 51 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,200 though? How will Israel then know which 52 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:18,100 of David's descendants would be the Messiah if God did not give 53 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:21,700 any other criteria? If it was just going to come 54 00:03:21,700 --> 00:03:25,100 from the Fleshly blood line of David, there were many men, that 55 00:03:25,100 --> 00:03:27,900 could have fallen into that category men like Solomon. 56 00:03:27,900 --> 00:03:30,300 What about him? What about Hezekiah? 57 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:33,700 In other words, of all the men that followed, the fleshly 58 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:37,400 bloodline of David, there's got to be another criteria. 59 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:40,200 There's got to be something that's going to set that 60 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,600 Messiah, apart from all other descendants of David. 61 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:49,000 And the Lord is setting all this up, but Jesus not only fulfills 62 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,100 the human criteria. He also fulfills the Divine 63 00:03:53,100 --> 00:03:58,200 criteria. Jesus is called the son of David 64 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:03,600 and he is also the Son of God. Now he is the son of David. 65 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:07,300 Meaning he meets the criteria of coming from the fleshly 66 00:04:07,300 --> 00:04:12,300 bloodline of David showing this. That is the humanity of Jesus 67 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:15,000 Christ. Just like when the Bible says, 68 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,600 80 times in the Gospels, it calls Jesus, the son of man is 69 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,000 talking about the Messiah is talking about the human part of 70 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,900 the Messiah. He fulfills the Divine criteria 71 00:04:26,900 --> 00:04:30,900 in that, he is the Son of God. He is both, and Jesus is the 72 00:04:30,900 --> 00:04:33,700 Messiah because he fits all of that. 73 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:38,600 He is both the son of David and he is also the Son of God. 74 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,900 You know, what's interesting here, if you ever stopped to 75 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:45,300 consider these passages, The Pharisees were ejected him as 76 00:04:45,300 --> 00:04:46,900 being the Messiah. No Doubt. 77 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:50,900 But they seem to accept his human lineage. 78 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,700 They never say that. He was not from the lineage of 79 00:04:55,700 --> 00:04:58,000 David. And you know it's very 80 00:04:58,000 --> 00:04:59,900 interesting. John MacArthur wrote this about 81 00:04:59,900 --> 00:05:01,600 this in his commentary on Matthew. 82 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,400 I think it's interesting. He said it is therefore certain 83 00:05:05,500 --> 00:05:08,900 that the authorities had carefully checked Jesus 84 00:05:08,900 --> 00:05:13,200 genealogy and discovered that his descent from David was 85 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:16,100 legitimate. Otherwise they would have simply 86 00:05:16,100 --> 00:05:20,700 exposed him as having no claim to davidic Heritage and all 87 00:05:20,700 --> 00:05:24,600 discussion about his possible. Messiahship would have ended. 88 00:05:25,300 --> 00:05:28,800 You know what I read, I read that before the destruction of 89 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:34,200 Jerusalem in ad 70, they kept absolutely meticulous records 90 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:38,400 regarding all of their lineage regarding their Heritage and you 91 00:05:38,407 --> 00:05:40,700 know, where was kept. It was kept in the temple. 92 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,300 You know what that means? That means you don't have to go 93 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:46,600 online and try to figure out where you came from, you know, 94 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,500 that all that Heritage stuff today. 95 00:05:48,700 --> 00:05:50,100 Yeah. You don't even have to do that, 96 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:52,100 you're a Jew. All you have to do is go to the 97 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:55,000 records and the records were kept before ad 70. 98 00:05:55,100 --> 00:05:57,600 Before the destruction of Jerusalem, and they were kept 99 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,200 meticulously right there in the temple. 100 00:06:01,100 --> 00:06:03,900 So no doubt, they didn't, they didn't doubt that Jesus would 101 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:07,900 have fallen suit or falling into the Royal bloodline of David. 102 00:06:07,900 --> 00:06:10,700 They just recognized him being the Messiah. 103 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:18,500 So, in verse 43, He said to them, how then does David in his 104 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:22,200 Spirit. Call him Lord. 105 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,600 Now what Jesus is going to do now is Jesus is going to 106 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,300 reflect, he's going to quote in just a moment. 107 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:32,600 He's going to make a direct quote, from Psalm 110, and verse 108 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,400 number one. So what he's showing is this? 109 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:40,600 Yes, David was the fleshly bloodline but he said this Jesus 110 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:46,900 says how say to them does David? In the spirit inspired by the 111 00:06:46,900 --> 00:06:50,300 Holy Spirit, the psalmist, David call him Lord himself. 112 00:06:53,300 --> 00:06:55,400 How does he call him? Lord himself? 113 00:06:56,800 --> 00:07:00,800 David calls the Messiah, his Lord and such language can only 114 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,700 intimate. One thing that David thinks the 115 00:07:03,700 --> 00:07:07,800 Messiah is greater than he is. That the Messiah is greater than 116 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,500 David. But how can the Messiah, be both 117 00:07:10,500 --> 00:07:14,600 David's descendant and David's, Lord, at the same time, how can 118 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,800 the, to be compatible? Unless the Messiah is God, man 119 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,000 or God In the Flesh? No doubt. 120 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,800 And that's the next verse. This is what David said, Dave, 121 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:28,900 the Lord said to my Lord, Lord sit on my right hand until I 122 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:32,300 make your enemies your footstool. 123 00:07:32,900 --> 00:07:35,500 You know, this is a direct quote, from Psalm 110 and burst 124 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:40,900 of one And I gotta tell you the English reader looks to these 125 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:42,900 two words here. Lord here. 126 00:07:43,300 --> 00:07:47,000 And Lord here, it may seem confusing but it's not confusing 127 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:48,300 at all back. You know what they're different 128 00:07:48,300 --> 00:07:50,900 works. The first word. 129 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:52,800 Lord here, there's Davis. Psalmist. 130 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,900 David divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit. 131 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:59,300 Psalm, 110 verse 1. He says the word Lord. 132 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:05,400 That word is the Hebrew equivalent to the Hebrew word. 133 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:09,000 Jehovah or Yahweh. That's the name of God. 134 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,100 That's God's name. What he's saying is David is 135 00:08:13,100 --> 00:08:15,400 saying there's two people. There's two beings that are 136 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:18,600 greater than I am. The first one is Lord being 137 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:20,100 Yahweh or Jehovah. Ava. 138 00:08:20,100 --> 00:08:24,100 And incidentally, did you know that in the English translation? 139 00:08:24,100 --> 00:08:27,100 It renders the word, Lord, and all capitals. 140 00:08:27,100 --> 00:08:31,400 And there was a reason for that. The Jews felt like God's name 141 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,799 was so great that they could not call him Jehovah. 142 00:08:34,900 --> 00:08:38,400 It could not call him Yahweh. They couldn't say his name. 143 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:41,600 So, you know what they did. They called him Lord, all 144 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:47,400 capitals. That's the first Lord. 145 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,600 What about the second one? Do you remember? 146 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:55,400 Hearing me, say, over the years? I know you've heard it cuz I say 147 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:59,000 it a lot. When Jesus would talk to people 148 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,600 in his personal Ministry and they call him Lord, like the 149 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:03,900 scribes said, Lord, I will follow you anywhere you go. 150 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:05,700 And you've heard me say over and over and over. 151 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:08,600 That is not mean does not mean that they accepted him as Lord 152 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:11,600 and Savior. It's the word d-des Kalos. 153 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:15,300 It's a term of respect, but they're not saying he's the Lord 154 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,000 and what that means is translated in three English 155 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,900 words, Master teacher or Lord. Okay, that's not this word. 156 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:27,300 This word is the name for Jesus. This word here is the word at An 157 00:09:27,300 --> 00:09:31,100 eye and it means Master. It means one above another, you 158 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:32,800 know what David said, the psalmist. 159 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:40,100 David in Psalm, 110 and verse 1. He said God said to Jesus sit on 160 00:09:40,100 --> 00:09:45,600 my right hand And Jesus would triumph over all of it over 161 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,000 everything. Where's Jesus today. 162 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,400 Oh, he's on the right hand of the Throne of God, he is sitting 163 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,800 on his throne, he is reigning over his kingdom and the kingdom 164 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,200 is the church, you know, it's going to happen when it's all 165 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,400 over with. He's going to take the kingdom 166 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:04,200 and hand it back over to Jehovah, Yahweh, God Of Heaven, 167 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:07,300 God the Father. When it's all said and done. 168 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:14,100 So, We're talking about. David. 169 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:19,900 And David is not as great as Jesus, and Jesus being the 170 00:10:19,900 --> 00:10:23,400 descendant of David is still greater than David. 171 00:10:23,500 --> 00:10:26,900 But the question is this, how could the Messiah be David's 172 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:29,600 son? And also be at the same time? 173 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,700 Be David's Lord, if then David to Jesus says, if David then 174 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:37,100 calls him Lord. How is he his son? 175 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:39,800 Now it's incidentally here he doesn't save. 176 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,500 How is the Messiah? David's Lord but he Saying, how 177 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:45,900 is the Messiah, David's son, Jesus. 178 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:48,500 Now, return to humanity of the Messiah. 179 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,400 The Jews believe that the Messiah would come from the 180 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,300 Royal bloodline of David. So, in other words, here's the 181 00:10:54,300 --> 00:10:57,600 problem. If David was in the flesh, then 182 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,200 the Messiah would also be in the flesh and they didn't see past 183 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,500 that at all. Do you remember when they came 184 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:05,000 into Jerusalem? Do you remember when they did 185 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:06,400 that? And they were on that long road 186 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:11,600 into Jerusalem, perhaps coming from Jericho before the Passover 187 00:11:12,700 --> 00:11:15,400 You're stopped to consider, how many people were following Jesus 188 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:17,500 because they thought he was going to establish Earthly 189 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:21,000 Kingdom. Remember when Jesus was asked 190 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,700 questions, like, when are you going to establish the kingdom? 191 00:11:24,300 --> 00:11:26,500 And, and where am I going to be in that Kingdom? 192 00:11:27,500 --> 00:11:30,000 Not understanding that? Jesus was not talking about a 193 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,100 fleshly Earthly Kingdom, how many people follow Jesus? 194 00:11:34,100 --> 00:11:37,400 Because they thought the whole thing was going to be just a 195 00:11:37,408 --> 00:11:41,900 matter of In the Flesh that he would establish his kingdom in 196 00:11:41,900 --> 00:11:46,100 the flesh. Well, In Psalm 110 and verse 1, 197 00:11:46,100 --> 00:11:50,400 David called the Messiah, his Lord, he recognized the Messiah 198 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:54,500 as deity. And the only way that Jesus or 199 00:11:54,500 --> 00:12:00,900 the Messiah can be both deity and man, Is if deity came from 200 00:12:00,900 --> 00:12:05,500 Heaven to be that. John 3:16 for God. 201 00:12:05,500 --> 00:12:08,600 So loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that 202 00:12:08,608 --> 00:12:11,100 whosoever believeth on him. Should not perish, but have 203 00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:14,600 everlasting life. John chapter 1, says in the 204 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,700 beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word 205 00:12:18,700 --> 00:12:23,400 was God, the same was in the beginning with God, all things 206 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,400 were made by him and without him was not anything made that was 207 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,100 made. And in verse 14, it says and the 208 00:12:29,100 --> 00:12:34,100 word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his 209 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:37,700 glory, the glory, as of the only begotten of the father full of 210 00:12:37,700 --> 00:12:39,500 grace and truth. Are you getting the point? 211 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,700 They understood the fleshly lineage, but Jesus had to talk 212 00:12:43,700 --> 00:12:46,700 about deity. Now he had to talk about the 213 00:12:46,700 --> 00:12:50,500 deity part of the Messiah, and the only way that that can 214 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:56,100 happen is when God, the son came from Heaven to be all of that. 215 00:12:56,900 --> 00:13:00,900 Now, I'm going to tell you, how many times did Jesus answer 216 00:13:00,900 --> 00:13:02,600 questions? And people stood there with 217 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:05,300 their mouths open? Or stood there in dead silence, 218 00:13:05,300 --> 00:13:08,800 not saying a word. Just staring. 219 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:13,500 Just staring, you know what happened? 220 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:21,100 And no one was able to answer him a word nor from that day. 221 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:24,800 Did anyone dare question him anymore? 222 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:28,700 That is the ultimate, they had nothing to say. 223 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:32,700 They had absolutely nothing to say one. 224 00:13:32,700 --> 00:13:37,100 Scholar said, the silence must have been deafening as the Lord. 225 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:40,900 Spoke those words. Once again the young Rabbi From 226 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:45,100 Galilee destroys all of their expectations about the Messiah 227 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,600 destroyed it all And they were silent. 228 00:13:50,700 --> 00:13:53,300 But, you know, instead of submitting to the Divine word 229 00:13:53,300 --> 00:13:56,100 that the Lord was speaking, they just retreated in silence and I 230 00:13:56,108 --> 00:13:58,100 got to tell you that happens even today. 231 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:03,200 That happens even today. People hear the truth of the 232 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:07,300 word of God, but then they just do nothing and depart in 233 00:14:07,300 --> 00:14:11,600 silence. In other words, not being moved 234 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:17,000 by the word of God. There they hear it but it 235 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,800 doesn't change anything in their heart. 236 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,200 Nothing at all. They hear what Jesus has done 237 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,900 for the world for the sins of the world for their sins 238 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:29,500 personally, but it has no effect. 239 00:14:30,500 --> 00:14:32,300 And they just go away in silence. 240 00:14:34,700 --> 00:14:36,200 I think that happens today a lot. 241 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,400 Happened then to and we're not talking about ordinary, folks. 242 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:42,300 We're talking about the religious elite were talking 243 00:14:42,300 --> 00:14:44,000 about the most religious people in the world. 244 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Know what they did said, nothing and left in silence. 245 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,200 Matthew's account says this, no one asked any more questions as 246 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:54,900 their own moral poverty have been exposed. 247 00:14:55,700 --> 00:14:59,900 Their professional incompetence was made manifest and now it was 248 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:03,300 time to go and they rejected him and the rejection and silence 249 00:15:03,300 --> 00:15:07,500 was louder than words but to others, that were Present, their 250 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:12,200 response was very different. I got to say this really quickly 251 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,100 and I promise not spend a long time on. 252 00:15:14,100 --> 00:15:17,100 Just give me a minute. Remember, in John chapter 8, 253 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:19,700 when Jesus told the most religious people in the world 254 00:15:19,700 --> 00:15:21,000 they're going to die in their sins. 255 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:25,200 He said where I'm going you can't go he said you're gonna 256 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,300 die in your sins but they didn't get it. 257 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,800 They didn't get it. What about the other people 258 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:32,500 though? There were other people that 259 00:15:32,500 --> 00:15:35,000 were listening to that great sermon by the greatest preacher, 260 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,800 the world ever knew and they believed it said, many others 261 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,800 believed. So This is speaking to those 262 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,100 people and the religious Elite, and they rejected Christ and 263 00:15:45,100 --> 00:15:47,600 Jesus says, you're not going to heaven, I'm going. 264 00:15:48,700 --> 00:15:52,000 You can die in your sins but others believed, guess? 265 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,800 What? Same thing happened here. 266 00:15:54,100 --> 00:15:55,900 Look at this. Let's go to Mark's account. 267 00:15:55,900 --> 00:15:59,100 Now, I love this. Therefore, David himself, calls 268 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:03,000 him, Lord, how is he his son? Now, the phrase common people 269 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,700 can be misleading. If you look at the two words, 270 00:16:05,700 --> 00:16:07,700 common people in our English language. 271 00:16:07,700 --> 00:16:10,800 I'm going to tell you what went through my mind a little bit 272 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:14,200 before I actually looked up the words, what went through my 273 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:15,700 mind, I'm trying to think of maybe the. 274 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:18,800 I don't know either. Not so smart, folks. 275 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:22,600 Where they did not say wealthy folks. 276 00:16:24,100 --> 00:16:25,900 Are they just? I mean, what is it? 277 00:16:27,100 --> 00:16:31,100 Who falls into the category of common people to words in the 278 00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:32,900 original. And this is what it means. 279 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,500 Translated common people in this translation. 280 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:41,400 But it literally means this, it means a huge crowd or a great 281 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:45,000 multitude. So Jesus is speaking to the 282 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,700 Pharisees and they to return and they depart in silence. 283 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:53,700 But when they heard a huge crowd, a great, great multitude, 284 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:59,400 heard the word heard, the Lord gladly You know, at the end of 285 00:16:59,408 --> 00:17:02,100 his ministry was quite similar to the beginning of his 286 00:17:02,100 --> 00:17:03,800 ministry. When there were many, that would 287 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,200 follow Jesus. Plumber said this, they like the 288 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,099 freshness of the method and the skill in which he answered 289 00:17:11,099 --> 00:17:14,599 questions, they, perhaps enjoyed hearing the professional 290 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:18,099 teachers routed, and some may have appreciated their spiritual 291 00:17:18,099 --> 00:17:23,900 strength of his instruction. So he's talking and guess what? 292 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:27,000 Great multitudes are listening and they're hearing him, gladly 293 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:30,500 and you know what? This is what he says, then. 294 00:17:30,500 --> 00:17:34,600 He said to them in his teaching that phrase means this in the 295 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:39,600 course of his teaching, he said now get that It was a day of 296 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:44,400 questions, he shut them all down Pharisees Sadducees herodians, 297 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:48,700 scribes all of them, right? He keeps on preaching. 298 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:54,000 He just kept on preaching and in the course of his teaching, you 299 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:58,700 know what he said. Oh, by the way, beware of the 300 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:03,500 scribes. Why would he say that Beware of 301 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:06,700 the scribes, as he's preaching, this great sermon. 302 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,300 He points out that outwardly, they're very different 303 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:14,200 outwardly. They look important but 304 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,600 inwardly, they're bankrupt their corrupt. 305 00:18:16,900 --> 00:18:21,700 And may, I say that if a p, if a person is or persons weighing 306 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:26,400 his importance based upon his outer, garments the uniform, he 307 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:30,800 wears the title that he has the name that he goes by, By 308 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,800 whatever it is, that is very superficial. 309 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,200 That is very artificial and true importance. 310 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:41,500 Like one scholar said, can only be measured by a man's character 311 00:18:42,200 --> 00:18:44,500 character, determines your importance. 312 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,200 I'm gonna tell you could be a person of character characters, 313 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,600 everything and may I say character is tested when you're 314 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:53,600 up against it. If you want to know what kind of 315 00:18:53,608 --> 00:18:57,000 character you have, if you're tested and you're up against it, 316 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:58,300 that's the character that you have. 317 00:18:58,300 --> 00:18:59,700 That's you. That's me. 318 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:06,600 These guys not so much not so much, these scribes, they were 319 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:13,400 arrogant, selfish, insincere, and dishonest, and then Jesus 320 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:17,500 list, six items that reveal evil tendencies in them. 321 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,700 You know what, the first one was they desire to go around in Long 322 00:19:21,700 --> 00:19:25,600 robes, what's the big deal? Well, we know that outer 323 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:29,400 garments were called tunics the Lord, for example, and his 324 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:33,500 disciples they would have had a A shorter outer garment, then 325 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:37,100 these long robes, in fact, that's what people wore, if 326 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:42,500 you're a average person, regular guy, he wore a regular tunic. 327 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:46,900 These guys they wanted to go around first of all with a 328 00:19:46,908 --> 00:19:50,700 desire to have a long robe, you know who wore the long robes, 329 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,800 the ones that wore the long robes were Kings and Priests and 330 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:56,700 the road went all the way to their feet. 331 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:02,100 But notice it goes further, they desire to go around. 332 00:20:02,400 --> 00:20:05,400 You know what history tells us about them, they would go up and 333 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:08,800 down the streets of Jerusalem like they're really somebody, 334 00:20:09,500 --> 00:20:12,200 you've seen somebody like that perhaps with the arrogance and 335 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:13,600 conceit what in the world is think? 336 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:16,100 They're really somebody. And usually people that really 337 00:20:16,100 --> 00:20:18,600 are somebody don't care if people think there's somebody 338 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:21,200 they just know they are and character determines that and 339 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,500 that's just what they are. Not these guys oh no they wanted 340 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:26,200 to go around with these long roads. 341 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:27,600 Looking like they're going to do something great. 342 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,000 Look at me, I'm an important guy. 343 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:37,800 And then Jesus goes further and he says this, they love long. 344 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:44,100 Greetings in the marketplaces. Now, this doesn't mean they like 345 00:20:44,100 --> 00:20:46,200 to have people come up to him and say hello. 346 00:20:46,900 --> 00:20:50,900 In fact, greetings in the new King James is translated 347 00:20:50,900 --> 00:20:53,500 salutations in the Old King James. 348 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,600 You know what it means? It didn't mean, hey, how you 349 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,000 doing? Good to see you today. 350 00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:01,400 It met this long-winded worldly compliments, that's what that 351 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,600 means. They went around with these long 352 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:07,300 roads in Jerusalem, like they're really somebody and they want to 353 00:21:07,308 --> 00:21:10,200 belong compliments from other people. 354 00:21:11,100 --> 00:21:13,400 They want a different titles and phrases to, you know what they 355 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,600 were. They were these. 356 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,200 Rabbi. Redbone. 357 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:24,800 I Abba. Now, there were times when Jesus 358 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,700 was called, Rabbi, you're a rabbi was what's a rabbi, a 359 00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:33,100 rabbi is a Jewish scholar. That's a Jewish scholar Rabbi, 360 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,100 they wanted that title. You know what else they wanted? 361 00:21:35,100 --> 00:21:38,600 They wanted this 12 and Jesus was called rabona. 362 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,700 I rabboni literally means Master teacher. 363 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:45,400 Now it's fitting that Jesus would be a scholar and it's 364 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,500 fitting. That Jesus would be the master 365 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:49,800 teacher. What about this? 366 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,500 They even wanted that. Do you know what ABBA is? 367 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,700 It is an intimate phrase or an intimate word for God? 368 00:21:57,100 --> 00:22:01,200 They even wanted that Jesus says, beware of those guys that 369 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,200 go Oh around in these long robes they want to be called all this 370 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:07,000 stuff in the marketplace, beware of them. 371 00:22:08,300 --> 00:22:11,000 But it gets worse. You know what else they wanted? 372 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,800 They wanted the best seats in the synagogues. 373 00:22:16,500 --> 00:22:18,100 The best seats in the synagogues. 374 00:22:19,900 --> 00:22:23,800 You know, I read that the best seats in the synagogues were the 375 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:28,200 chief seats. And it was a place where it was 376 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,000 located at the Jerusalem end of the building, okay? 377 00:22:31,700 --> 00:22:35,100 And at the Jerusalem, end of the building, there was an elevated 378 00:22:35,100 --> 00:22:37,300 platform area. You know, who stood on the 379 00:22:37,308 --> 00:22:41,100 platform, the scripture reader or prayer leader. 380 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,300 So where did they want to be? Now? 381 00:22:43,300 --> 00:22:46,400 Keep this in mind, they wanted to have this position. 382 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,300 That means this, you got all the folks like you are right out 383 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:52,300 there sitting in your seats looking toward the platform 384 00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:54,200 area. The elevated area for the 385 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:55,600 scripture reader in prayer leader. 386 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,500 Okay, you know where they wanted to be right here, right in front 387 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:02,000 of it, right? With their backs against the 388 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,900 platform and that was a picture or that was a place where you 389 00:23:05,900 --> 00:23:10,000 put the dignified people. Now I have to share something 390 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,900 with you. In the Philippines. 391 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,700 I don't like it. It's uncomfortable. 392 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,800 And for 11 years. It's extremely uncomfortable. 393 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:24,700 Every time, I don't like it, but out of respect because they 394 00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:28,800 consider the Americans that come with high esteem when we're 395 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:33,300 really nothing and they want to put us in that same spot facing 396 00:23:33,300 --> 00:23:34,900 the audience. I got to tell you. 397 00:23:34,900 --> 00:23:37,000 It's so uncomfortable that I always turn my chair. 398 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,100 I tried to turn my chair. So I'm looking at the speaker. 399 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:41,300 It was Dawn that to that time, not me. 400 00:23:42,100 --> 00:23:45,100 I don't like sitting there. Okay, but there's a big 401 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:48,200 difference. They want us to go there where 402 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:51,000 the problem would be and we'd be guilty of the same thing as if 403 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,400 me and Don come rolling into know what we want the best 404 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,000 seats. Put us right here in the front. 405 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,700 That's what they wanted. That's what they insisted on. 406 00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:05,800 By the way, I just say, say this as a, as a side with that, what 407 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,200 I always try to do what we try to do is get the Filipinos to go 408 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,500 with us and I'll sit up there. If they go with us, I'll do 409 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:11,600 that. I know problem with that, if 410 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,300 they go with us but that's just their way of showing respect. 411 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:16,800 Okay. That's a big difference in 412 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,900 somebody demanding it, what else, how about this? 413 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,300 How about the best places in the feast? 414 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,300 This is a place of honor at Banquets, in fact, that phrase 415 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:32,200 the places is Better translated Chief couches and it's talking 416 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,100 about this. Edersheim said this enter Sean 417 00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:39,400 said according to the talmud, the chief guest lay in the 418 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:43,400 middle if there were three on a couch, if there were two, he lay 419 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:48,300 on the right side of the couch, Now you're talking about the 420 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:56,300 best seat, the best one. reclined with the, the person 421 00:24:56,300 --> 00:24:59,800 that did the inviting And you know what they wanted? 422 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,900 They wanted the best seat. You know, James talks about 423 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:04,200 about that. He said don't do this. 424 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:07,900 Don't ever assign the best seat to the rich and leave some poor 425 00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:12,400 man on the floor. He condemned that. 426 00:25:13,500 --> 00:25:17,500 These scribes, you know, they did they demanded and wanted the 427 00:25:17,500 --> 00:25:21,100 best places so what do they do? They came in, they wanted the 428 00:25:21,100 --> 00:25:22,900 long robes. Look at me, look at me, look at 429 00:25:22,908 --> 00:25:25,400 me, they wanted the title and the great greetings and 430 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,000 salutations they wanted that too. 431 00:25:27,100 --> 00:25:29,100 They wanted to have the best seats, they wanted all the 432 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:31,300 greatest names. They wanted to go to the best, 433 00:25:31,300 --> 00:25:34,300 the feast and have all this respect shown their way they 434 00:25:34,300 --> 00:25:35,900 wanted all that. I'm going to tell you that's bad 435 00:25:35,900 --> 00:25:37,400 enough but it doesn't stop there. 436 00:25:37,500 --> 00:25:40,800 That's not the worst part all, that's bad enough. 437 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:43,900 But the lowest just getting started. 438 00:25:43,900 --> 00:25:47,000 In fact, in Mark, chapter 12 and verse 40, you know what they 439 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,700 did. And I got to tell you, this is 440 00:25:48,700 --> 00:25:51,700 awful, they devour widows houses. 441 00:25:53,900 --> 00:25:59,700 They devoured widows houses. You know, no doubt there was 442 00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:05,600 women in the ministry of Jesus. That listen to his teaching and 443 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,300 follow Jesus and wanted to minister to him or serve him in 444 00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:10,900 some way. There's no doubt in my mind. 445 00:26:10,900 --> 00:26:12,500 That's exactly what they did for Jesus. 446 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,600 But there's also no doubt in my mind that they did that for the 447 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:20,000 scribes to just maybe I'm going to tell you something right now. 448 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:26,600 It's one thing to take advantage of somebody. and I know I'm 449 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,500 giving degrees here and I shouldn't but it is another 450 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:35,500 thing when you take advantage of a widow, A poor little lady. 451 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:45,400 And you take what's hearse? The scribes exploited their 452 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,800 generosity. In fact, widows are especially 453 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:53,400 targeted by the scribes Jesus does not explain specifically 454 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,400 how this is done. But in some way, the scribes 455 00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:59,600 take advantage of these poor women and robbed them of their 456 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,900 support. And notice and for a pretence, 457 00:27:03,900 --> 00:27:11,300 make long prayers. For a pretense for a show. 458 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,900 They offer long prayers. They pretended to pray long time 459 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:19,400 in order to gain influence over religious people. 460 00:27:19,500 --> 00:27:21,600 I got to tell you something about long prayers, there's 461 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:25,000 nothing wrong with the long prayer, okay, nothing wrong with 462 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,000 that at all. When you pray from your heart 463 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,500 and you pray a long prayer, there's nothing wrong with that. 464 00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:34,300 But the Jews back then and these specific scribes. 465 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:37,000 This is what they believed and plumber said this. 466 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:40,300 There was a rabbinical Saying that long prayers make for a 467 00:27:40,300 --> 00:27:44,800 long life. Now when Jesus condemned long 468 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:49,200 prayers of the Pharisees, he was talking about men that wanted to 469 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,200 hear themself. They want to be known for their 470 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:57,300 much speaking, and they wanted to hear themselves talk. may I 471 00:27:57,300 --> 00:28:03,100 just say a little thing here at and that's when we prayed the 472 00:28:03,100 --> 00:28:07,200 public prayer. When the man's praise for the 473 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,000 congregation in the assembly, we are praying for everybody. 474 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,900 So we need things that are applicable for everybody, okay? 475 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:17,300 And we don't have to pray and especially long prayer. 476 00:28:17,900 --> 00:28:22,300 You can just pray and get things covered and pray from the heart, 477 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:26,300 okay? A longer prayer does not mean a 478 00:28:26,308 --> 00:28:28,300 better prayer. You know what they were doing, 479 00:28:28,300 --> 00:28:30,100 though? Jesus put it all together. 480 00:28:30,300 --> 00:28:34,100 Jesus said, they devoured widows houses and as a pretense 481 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:37,800 pretended to You get all the influence by pretending to pray 482 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:43,300 these long heartfelt prayers. Now. 483 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:48,600 The Amplified version. Renders it like this and I think 484 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,200 it's really true. I think these two things are 485 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,800 connected. I think the devouring widows 486 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,700 houses and making the long prayers are connected. 487 00:28:55,700 --> 00:29:00,500 The Amplified Bible says that this way Who devour widows 488 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:07,600 houses and to cover it up. They make long prayers about 489 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,900 that. How about that? 490 00:29:12,300 --> 00:29:14,000 You know what? Jesus says, not to tell you. 491 00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:15,800 I had to really think about this. 492 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,000 I had to really study this, okay? 493 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:22,200 I really have to study this Jesus is going to sum it all up. 494 00:29:22,700 --> 00:29:25,400 And if you look at the verse, you know what's coming, what 495 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,400 does he mean? All of these are going to do all 496 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,600 of this. They're going to receive greater 497 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:33,900 condemnation. Okay? 498 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:37,900 Now what does that mean? Does that mean that there's a 499 00:29:37,900 --> 00:29:41,100 special spot in hell that is hotter than another spot? 500 00:29:41,500 --> 00:29:42,200 No. No. 501 00:29:42,300 --> 00:29:46,300 Does it mean that there is a secondary or even a worse place 502 00:29:46,300 --> 00:29:50,300 for the really bad people? No, we know that there is only 503 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:54,100 one Lake of Fire. We know that and if a person is 504 00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:58,900 lost their lost and there's only one Lake of Fire even though I 505 00:29:58,900 --> 00:30:01,300 have said when somebody does something really bad to 506 00:30:01,300 --> 00:30:05,700 somebody, I've even said it I confess, I said there must be a 507 00:30:05,708 --> 00:30:07,500 special spot in hell for a person like that. 508 00:30:07,500 --> 00:30:08,800 I've said that. Okay? 509 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:11,600 I don't read any of that anywhere. 510 00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:14,000 You might say, no, wait a minute, preacher. 511 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:18,600 Wait a minute, what is it mean? When the Bible says it's worse 512 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,600 for someone that has been enlightened by the gospel has 513 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:25,100 lived as they should for a time but have quit the church and 514 00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:28,200 gone back. The Bible says it's worse for 515 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,900 them than somebody. That didn't know and they were 516 00:30:30,908 --> 00:30:36,000 just lost. Okay, what that means is this If 517 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:41,900 I quit, if I quit. And I quit the church. 518 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:50,200 And I go back to the world. And I am lost and I died in that 519 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:53,600 loss condition. You know, why it's worse for me? 520 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,400 Because I'm going to know for eternity. 521 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,400 I didn't have to be there. I'm going to know for an 522 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,100 eternity. That I had the truth and I 523 00:31:04,108 --> 00:31:07,600 turned back. And do you know what? 524 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:09,900 I'm going to want more than anything in the world? 525 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:15,700 One more day. Just give me one more. 526 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:23,700 I'm going to get it right one. One more day. 527 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,500 What's it mean? The greater condemnation. 528 00:31:28,500 --> 00:31:32,000 What's it talking about? Same, hell, same Lake of Fire 529 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,200 same place, right? Okay, this is the best way that 530 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:37,900 I can explain it. I hope it's clear. 531 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,300 Receiving the greater condemnation, doesn't mean that 532 00:31:42,300 --> 00:31:46,100 the sentence is any worse than anybody else's sentence. 533 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:49,000 It's in the same place. Okay. 534 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:54,000 It's kind of like this though. Have you ever seen a judge 535 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,500 sentenced, two men to the same sentence? 536 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,600 Maybe one of them just fell into the three strikes Rule. 537 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,600 Now they got life in prison maybe because of carelessness or 538 00:32:04,600 --> 00:32:06,800 whatever they did in the law states three strikes you're out 539 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:11,300 now you got life whatever and they get the same sentence as 540 00:32:11,300 --> 00:32:16,400 some mass murderer creep. Still got life in prison, for 541 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,000 example. What's the difference when the 542 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,100 judge looks at that creep and tells them about what he did 543 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,400 when he looks at him and says, it's worse for you. 544 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,900 It's awful for you. Have you ever seen some one 545 00:32:28,900 --> 00:32:31,100 judge ball? Somebody out as their sentencing 546 00:32:31,100 --> 00:32:33,400 them? I have chew him out. 547 00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:37,200 You no-good rotten. I mean, he's not adding to the 548 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,200 sentence. It is what it is. 549 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:44,000 Its life. But that guy is getting the 550 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:45,800 greater condemnation. In fact know what that word 551 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,200 means. Word means this condemnation 552 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,500 means it applies to the estimate that the Lord will place on the 553 00:32:53,500 --> 00:32:56,800 wrong Deeds of these men. In other words, they're going to 554 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,200 be lost with all the others that are lost but the Lord in his 555 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:04,700 estimation is going to put a greater emphasis on what they 556 00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:09,300 did. And by the way, Jesus will be 557 00:33:09,300 --> 00:33:13,200 the judge. That's the only thing that makes 558 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,600 sense folks. That's the only thing that makes 559 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,500 sense. These scribes were using the 560 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:20,300 mask of religion to serve the devil. 561 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:28,000 They were doing that. they were doing that by saying, They were 562 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,200 taking advantage of those poor widows. 563 00:33:31,700 --> 00:33:35,400 And for a pretence, make long prayers by way of influence. 564 00:33:36,300 --> 00:33:37,800 And I'm going to tell you something, folks, there's a lot 565 00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,000 of people in the religious world that are taking advantage of 566 00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:42,600 people. It really is. 567 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:49,100 I wonder how many widows today, I wonder how many widows send 568 00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:51,500 five dollars a month to some guy somewhere? 569 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,700 I just wonder. Or ten dollars. 570 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,100 And they get on their on TV, they pull at the heartstrings of 571 00:34:01,108 --> 00:34:02,900 these wonderful wonderful ladies. 572 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,400 And they want to try to be a part of it so they send what 573 00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:11,500 they've got. All the while. for a pretense 574 00:34:11,500 --> 00:34:15,800 making long prayers, they take whatever they can get Jesus says 575 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,600 there's greater, They will receive a greater estimate of 576 00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:22,800 what they've done and he calls it condemnation for doing just 577 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,000 that. All right, I'm finished today. 578 00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:27,699 We are almost done with Tuesday, okay? 579 00:34:27,699 --> 00:34:31,900 We got a little bit left on Tuesday and then we'll progress 580 00:34:31,900 --> 00:34:34,400 through the rest of the week. Some powerful teaching. 581 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:36,400 The Lord has made all the way through. 582 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,500 On this particular day. Has been quite a day. 583 00:34:38,699 --> 00:34:41,699 It's been quite a day. We'll talk about the next thing. 584 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:46,600 The next Ford's day. We thank you for listening to 585 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:51,400 our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 586 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,900 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 587 00:34:54,900 --> 00:34:58,200 information, or you would like to receive a free Bible 588 00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:03,700 correspondence, course by mail. 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