1 00:00:01,100 --> 00:00:03,400 It is great to be here with all of you today. 2 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:07,300 We're so thankful for the presence of all that have made 3 00:00:07,300 --> 00:00:11,400 an effort to be with us to worship God together in spirit. 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:16,400 And in truth, we have several of our number actually, quite a few 5 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,300 members of our congregation that are other places today. 6 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:21,900 They're up, north at the Memorial Day meeting or some are 7 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:24,600 out because they're ill. Perhaps others, traveling other 8 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,100 places. So I decided to deviate from the 9 00:00:28,100 --> 00:00:32,100 series that I've started with you, and that is on the, I am 10 00:00:32,100 --> 00:00:34,300 statements, the seven. I am statements. 11 00:00:34,300 --> 00:00:38,100 That Jesus Jesus made as recorded in the Gospel of John. 12 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:41,700 We've already talked about Jesus saying, I am the bread of life. 13 00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:46,100 I am the light of the world and I am the door next time. 14 00:00:46,100 --> 00:00:47,400 Lord willing. We're going to talk on the 15 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,900 subject of when Jesus said I am the Good Shepherd. 16 00:00:52,300 --> 00:00:54,100 So we'll deal with that next time. 17 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:57,400 What I wanted to do today though is I want to talk on some 18 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:02,100 passages that are found in the very last sermon that Jesus ever 19 00:01:02,100 --> 00:01:07,000 preached. And it's found in Chapter 23 and 20 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,500 beginning there, in verse 23, Jesus says this woe to you 21 00:01:11,500 --> 00:01:16,700 scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for you, pay tithe of mint, and 22 00:01:16,700 --> 00:01:20,600 anise, and cumin and have neglected, the weightier matters 23 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:24,400 of the law, Justice, and mercy, and Faith. 24 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:28,400 These, you want to have done without leaving the others 25 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,300 undone. Just a little bit of background 26 00:01:31,300 --> 00:01:34,300 here, Jesus on the day of questioning, or the day of 27 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,600 Questions, perhaps, Scholars, tell us. 28 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,300 It could have very well been on Tuesday in the last week, in the 29 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:45,100 life of Jesus and Jesus is questioned by the Pharisees, by 30 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:47,400 the Sadducees. He's questioned by the 31 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,300 herodians, he's questioned by the scribes. 32 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:54,700 And the reason that they come to Jesus, to try to discredit him 33 00:01:54,700 --> 00:01:58,900 is because if they can discredit Jesus in the eyes of the people, 34 00:01:58,900 --> 00:02:02,800 then the people would be supportive of Jesus being 35 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:05,800 crucified and All they wanted to do. 36 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:10,199 But Jesus answers every one of their questions, and now it's 37 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:15,600 time for the Lord to preach and he preaches this sermon so long 38 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,600 ago. He begins by saying calling them 39 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:22,300 scribes and Pharisees and hypocrites. 40 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:24,900 Notice the first thing. He says, this is what he's going 41 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:28,900 to bring out. He said you pay tithe of mint 42 00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:32,900 and anise and cumin. Now, what are those things? 43 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:36,300 You know, the word for I meant actually in the original. 44 00:02:36,300 --> 00:02:38,000 It's translated from a Greek word. 45 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,200 That means sweet smelling. So we all know what meant smells 46 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:47,400 like these were kitchen spices. They were things that were added 47 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,800 to their food and so forth. And what he says is you give 48 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,600 tithe to MIT and it's, by the way is Dill. 49 00:02:55,100 --> 00:03:01,100 It's a flavoring agent and human is also a flavoring agent to, 50 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:05,000 excuse me. And what he was saying is Saying 51 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,500 that these scribes and Pharisees and all of that they were paying 52 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:11,700 tithes to them. And what they would do is this 53 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,400 we're going to get to tithing in just a moment though because God 54 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,200 commanded a tithe and of the Old Testament, what they would do is 55 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:25,200 they took the command to tithe and they extended it to the idea 56 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,800 of even the kitchen spices, they would count out nine for me and 57 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,800 one for God, nine for me, and one for God. 58 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:35,800 And then cumin 9 for me. Me and one for God. 59 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,600 Now it's important that I make this point, I think it's really 60 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,800 not the point, whether they were giving a tithe of these kitchen 61 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:47,700 spices or not. What was Jesus was addressing 62 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:50,900 was their motive behind it? That was the point. 63 00:03:50,900 --> 00:03:54,900 Let me notice with you to Old Testament passages in Leviticus 64 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:59,800 chapter 27 and verse 30. It says in all the tithe of the 65 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:03,400 land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the 66 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:07,400 tree. The Lord is the Lord's, another 67 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,600 passage to that's found its found in Deuteronomy 14 and 22. 68 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:15,800 You shall truly tithe all the increase of your grain that the 69 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:22,000 field produces year by year. All right God commanded that 70 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,900 they would give a tithe of the increase that was produced in 71 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:29,600 the field. Now let me ask you this. 72 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:33,700 If God did not mean and that's not the point. 73 00:04:33,700 --> 00:04:37,000 But if he didn't mean about the kitchen spices is it wrong for 74 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,700 man to tithe or give from the kitchen spices? 75 00:04:41,700 --> 00:04:44,700 Absolutely not. It is never wrong. 76 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:47,400 It is never wrong to give to God. 77 00:04:48,700 --> 00:04:52,200 They would sort it out though, and they would be very well, 78 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:57,800 they would be very attentive to those even those kitchen spices. 79 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,200 One scholar said it this way, these men magnify the 80 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:05,400 insignificant and they minimized the essential. 81 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:09,500 All right, on the outside. Their expression, seems 82 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:12,900 honorable. They gave a tenth of what could 83 00:05:12,900 --> 00:05:15,100 be counted. And I got to thinking about this 84 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:18,400 this morning. You know, I quit my father, a 85 00:05:18,407 --> 00:05:21,000 lot. Some of you knew my father, my 86 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:26,300 father used to always say What would you do if you didn't get 87 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:30,900 credit? What would you do if no one was 88 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:34,400 there to give you the credit? It's kind of like this. 89 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:36,900 He would tell me about working out and stuff. 90 00:05:36,900 --> 00:05:39,800 He said if you work out the eyes of your coaches just because 91 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,000 they're watching what good is that it's really not who you are 92 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,600 and they said the greatest things you will ever do our 93 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:50,200 behind the scenes when you don't get credit a Texas billionaire, 94 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:54,200 once said in the testimony of his life and what drove him in 95 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,100 his life, he said my father was a Salesman. 96 00:05:57,100 --> 00:05:59,900 He was the greatest. Salesman in all the world to 97 00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:02,300 him. And he said, you know what, my 98 00:06:02,300 --> 00:06:04,900 father taught me and I've tried to live by that principle. 99 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:10,300 This Texas, billionaire said my father said, if you're willing 100 00:06:10,300 --> 00:06:16,200 to give somebody else the credit you can conquer the world If you 101 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:20,400 just don't have to have the credit, these fastidious 102 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:24,500 Pharisees, they wanted the credit, all the things that can 103 00:06:24,500 --> 00:06:26,400 be seen. How do I know that? 104 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:28,700 That's exactly what Jesus meant. When he talked about the 105 00:06:28,700 --> 00:06:32,100 Pharisees it says they like to be seen in the synagogue. 106 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:35,700 They like long prayers that they're seen of men and Jesus 107 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:39,500 said they have their reward. In other words whatever pat on 108 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:42,500 the back that they get from the world, looking at them and 109 00:06:42,500 --> 00:06:45,600 viewing them and giving them credit is all there. 110 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:50,300 To get there, getting nothing from the Father, the idea is the 111 00:06:50,300 --> 00:06:53,300 motive behind it. Notice what he says here. 112 00:06:55,300 --> 00:06:59,900 You're careful to give tithe of mint and anise, and cumin. 113 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:04,300 But what did you do wrong? You've neglected, the weightier 114 00:07:04,300 --> 00:07:09,700 matters of the law and those weightier matters, are Justice, 115 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:14,400 mercy and Faith. You know, the term weightier is 116 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,100 the rabbinical term and it was passed down by rabbinic 117 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:21,500 tradition and what the Jews would do, is they based on 118 00:07:21,500 --> 00:07:24,300 rabbinic tradition. They would consider certain 119 00:07:24,300 --> 00:07:27,800 aspects of the the law more weightier than other matters of 120 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:29,900 the law. And what's interesting is Jesus, 121 00:07:29,900 --> 00:07:33,100 is going to tell them what the weightier matters really are. 122 00:07:33,300 --> 00:07:36,900 He uses their phrase. He uses their rabbinic term and 123 00:07:36,900 --> 00:07:39,000 then he makes his point the Jews. 124 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,400 For example, believe that certain aspects of the Old Law 125 00:07:42,500 --> 00:07:44,400 were more weightier than the others. 126 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:50,000 Like, for example circumcision, and by the way, that's why, when 127 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,900 the Judy izing teachers entered into the church, after the 128 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:57,700 church was established, they wanted to By aspect bind aspects 129 00:07:57,700 --> 00:08:00,800 of the Old Law on them. What based upon their way to 130 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:05,000 your matters like circumcision? Here's another one. 131 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:06,800 Remember what the hated Jesus for. 132 00:08:08,700 --> 00:08:12,800 How the he handled the Sabbath, you know why rabbinic tradition 133 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,700 taught that keeping the Sabbath was a weightier matter. 134 00:08:17,700 --> 00:08:22,100 What Jesus is saying, is this your careful to give tithes of, 135 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:25,400 he's kitchen spices, but you're neglecting the weightier matters 136 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:27,600 of the law and Jesus says what they are. 137 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:32,299 They're Justice Mercy. And Faith. 138 00:08:34,100 --> 00:08:37,600 You know, this is really powerful because Jesus doesn't 139 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,799 just grab this out of nowhere and they would have understood 140 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:44,400 this to, it's a parallel. What Jesus says, here about 141 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,900 Justice, mercy, and faith is a parallel to what's found in the 142 00:08:47,900 --> 00:08:52,100 Book of Micah in the Old Testament, notice this Mike is 6 143 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:56,400 and verse 8 he has shown you o man what is good and what does 144 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:02,800 the Lord require of you? But To do justly, love, mercy, 145 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:09,700 and walk humbly with your God. You know, they were guilty of 146 00:09:10,100 --> 00:09:13,800 being against all of that they were unjust. 147 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:18,600 They were unmerciful. They were unkind, they were 148 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:23,700 unforgiving, they were Unholy. They did not walk humbly with 149 00:09:23,700 --> 00:09:27,400 their God, they walked by The Works of the law by their own 150 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,600 efforts. They walk by sight and had no 151 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,500 faith. They neglected truly the 152 00:09:32,500 --> 00:09:35,800 weightier matters of the law. Now it's important that we 153 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:41,400 remember this too, sometimes, please get this sometimes, gue 154 00:09:41,700 --> 00:09:45,700 people say, in interpreting, this passage is Jesus, doesn't 155 00:09:45,700 --> 00:09:51,100 care at all about the details. He only cares about Justice, 156 00:09:51,100 --> 00:09:52,900 mercy, and faith. And that's not what the Lord 157 00:09:52,900 --> 00:09:55,500 said. Let's notice what the Lord 158 00:09:55,500 --> 00:10:01,000 actually did say. These Justice mercy and Faith. 159 00:10:01,700 --> 00:10:06,600 You ought to have done without leaving the others undone. 160 00:10:07,500 --> 00:10:11,100 In other words, keep the Commandments, keep the details, 161 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:14,400 do they matter. Yes, they matter at the same 162 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,700 time. Keep Justice, mercy and Faith, 163 00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:21,100 but weightier matters. In other words, don't be without 164 00:10:21,100 --> 00:10:24,600 any of them. You know, I got to say sometimes 165 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:27,800 people. Sometimes people can go through 166 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:34,100 their life thinking that they've figured out what it means to 167 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:36,800 look like the kind of person that they should be by checking 168 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:40,000 the boxes off and going down the list. 169 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:42,800 And okay, I'm doing that, I'm doing that, I'm doing that. 170 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,000 And yet, they're awful to other people, unkind to other people. 171 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:54,500 It matters, folks. We need to understand that being 172 00:10:54,500 --> 00:10:57,100 a member of the church is also being a Christian. 173 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,500 They ought to go hand-in-hand. Absolutely, when you spend time 174 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:03,900 on what it means to be a Christian and to be a member of 175 00:11:03,900 --> 00:11:05,600 the church. It should be the exact same 176 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,100 thing. How we treat one another It's 177 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:13,900 not just a list, it's how God wants us to be as a Christian in 178 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:17,500 our life in the church should be the very same thing. 179 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:21,300 Sometimes people look at these passes and say you see we don't 180 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:25,200 have to obey anything. We just have to have those other 181 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:26,900 matters and that's not what Jesus said. 182 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,500 All right? So they should have kept the 183 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:31,600 weightier matters. They should have given attention 184 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:33,900 to the proper tithe and all of that. 185 00:11:34,700 --> 00:11:38,100 And now, Jesus is going to give examples of what they're like. 186 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:47,500 blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow the camel, you 187 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:51,100 know, the word strain It comes from a word that means to 188 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:53,900 filter. Now, the Old King James says it 189 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:59,800 like this, it says, who strain at a gnat but the new King James 190 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,000 really, I think is a better translation of it blind guides, 191 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,800 who strain out a gnat, because that's exactly what they did. 192 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:12,600 Annette by the way, was the smallest of all unclean things. 193 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,500 And what they would do is for example, they would would make 194 00:12:16,500 --> 00:12:20,600 sure that they didn't eat the NAT Leviticus chapter 11 verse 195 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,700 42 says whatever crawls on its belly. 196 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:28,300 Whatever goes on all fours. And whatever has many feet among 197 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:31,400 all creeping things that creep on the earth. 198 00:12:31,500 --> 00:12:35,500 These you shall not eat for. They are an Abomination. 199 00:12:35,700 --> 00:12:39,900 Another Passage Leviticus 11 and verse 4. 200 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,900 Nevertheless, you shall not eat among those that chew the cud. 201 00:12:45,300 --> 00:12:49,200 Nor those who have cloven hoofs the camel because it chews the 202 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:53,900 cud, but does not have cloven. Hooves is unclean to you. 203 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:58,100 This is what they would actually do, by the way, Jesus, is 204 00:12:58,100 --> 00:12:59,300 telling them, you know, what you're doing. 205 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:04,800 You see the net You're avoiding the net. 206 00:13:06,300 --> 00:13:11,300 But you're swallowing the camel. You're avoiding the smallest of 207 00:13:11,300 --> 00:13:15,300 unclean days. But you're swallowing the 208 00:13:15,300 --> 00:13:19,000 biggest. You're missing the point by 209 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,100 neglecting the weightier matters. 210 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:24,600 Actually, I read some stuff that was actually found in the talmud 211 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:27,500 and some other things have historians and Scholars have 212 00:13:27,500 --> 00:13:29,800 written about what they would actually do and that's what they 213 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,400 would have understood. When Jesus says you strain out 214 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:36,200 the neck, what they would do is this When they would make wine, 215 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,800 or they would make a beverage, what they would do is they'd be 216 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:42,000 very careful to keep it pure and keep it clean. 217 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,100 In fact, what they would do is they would take a strainer 218 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:49,600 cloth, just perhaps a gnat flew in there. 219 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,500 They didn't know and all of a sudden it's in there, they don't 220 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:53,800 want to be guilty of eating one of those gnats. 221 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,400 So they would take a strainer cloth and they would place it 222 00:13:57,400 --> 00:13:59,800 over the top. They would pour the beverage 223 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,800 through the strainer cloth and if there wasn't that, that was 224 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:06,000 in there, then that wouldn't get into the Drinking vessel, and 225 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,900 they could partake of it. They could drink it and not be 226 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:12,900 guilty of having something that was on claim. 227 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,200 That was straining out the net one. 228 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,000 Scholar said this. Do I thought this was rather 229 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:24,600 interesting, he said some fastidious Pharisees drank their 230 00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:28,300 wine through clenched teeth in order to filter out any 231 00:14:28,300 --> 00:14:31,200 impurities and then pick the nap out of their teeth. 232 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,300 Nah. I tried to picture what that 233 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:38,800 would have looked like some guy with this teacher like this 234 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:41,000 drinking a beverage. Making sure he didn't eat the 235 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,900 net, okay? You don't want to eat the net, 236 00:14:42,900 --> 00:14:44,700 right? And then it gets into a flick it 237 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:47,300 out the teeth later. Okay. 238 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:49,400 That's what Jesus was referring to. 239 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,500 That's how fast it is from the standpoint of every detail. 240 00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:57,500 They were but they missed the whole point. 241 00:14:57,900 --> 00:15:01,500 In other words, you're afraid to eat the 10th meet mint, leave 242 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:07,600 but you're allowing in your life hypocrisy, dishonesty, cruelty, 243 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,500 and greed. That's what he says that. 244 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:13,400 When you neglect, the weightier matters of the law, you know 245 00:15:13,408 --> 00:15:16,400 what you're doing, you're straining out the net but you're 246 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,600 swallowing a camel number two, the second example, describing 247 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:25,800 them, it's found in verse 25, woe to you scribes and Pharisees 248 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:31,200 Hypocrites, for you cleanse, the outside of the cup and dish, but 249 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,100 inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. 250 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:38,400 Interesting, the word dish in the Greek is a very interesting 251 00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:40,200 word, it's not just any ordinary. 252 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,800 Nari dish. It actually is translated as 253 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,500 fancy dish and just a little bit of background about that. 254 00:15:48,300 --> 00:15:51,100 If there was some kind of a function, or some kind of a 255 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:54,500 party, or some engagement, and so forth, and people came 256 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:58,000 together, if there were all there eating and so forth. 257 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:02,200 When they would bring out this particular dish, everybody knew 258 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:06,700 that when you brought the fancy dish out that contained therein 259 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:09,600 were the Delicacies the special stuff. 260 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:15,100 Do you see what he's saying? He's saying on the outside, 261 00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:18,600 you're appearing to be one way. You're appearing to be something 262 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,700 that you're not. And by the way, I know that the 263 00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:25,300 word hypocrite is the most overused word in the English 264 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:29,200 language, when people refer to people that are religious, it 265 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,500 is, it's overused, it's abused and all of that. 266 00:16:32,500 --> 00:16:36,100 But a hypocrite is what he's talking about now. 267 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:40,700 Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites. Why they're pretending to be 268 00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:42,600 something. Thing that they're really not on 269 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,900 the outside there. Looking like this fancy dish is 270 00:16:44,900 --> 00:16:47,700 going to bring the Delicacies, but on the inside now, it's 271 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:51,000 filthy. You're spending all of your time 272 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,400 washing, the outside of the cup, and the dish. 273 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:59,100 But the inside is full of extortion and excess one 274 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:02,300 scholar, said it like this. You have a Ministry that looks 275 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:05,500 Pious on the outside, but the whole thing is based on taking 276 00:17:05,500 --> 00:17:09,900 advantage of other people, you use people, you make merchandise 277 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:14,200 out of people. And, you know, the real source 278 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,599 of impurity was there. Heart. 279 00:17:18,700 --> 00:17:20,700 I know we spent a lot of time about the heartbeat, you know 280 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:23,400 why? Because the heart, one way or 281 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:28,099 the other is exactly the reason and the source of our Behavior, 282 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,900 that's the reason. Sometimes you can correct a 283 00:17:32,900 --> 00:17:36,600 symptom but this it doesn't go away because you haven't 284 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:40,000 corrected the problem. You know, it's kind of like this 285 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,200 if you have pain I'll just use myself years ago. 286 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,300 I had a headache for 10 years. I had concussion problems and so 287 00:17:47,300 --> 00:17:49,300 forth and I went to all kinds of doctors. 288 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,400 You know what they did. They gave me these medicines to 289 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,900 help the pain. Didn't go away came right back 290 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,600 you know why didn't fix the problem? 291 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:02,000 Then a doctor, put me on some medication that I take as a 292 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:05,400 preventative manner. Our preventive measure, guess 293 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:06,600 what? No more headaches. 294 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:11,400 Fix the problem, fix the source, and not just the symptom. 295 00:18:12,100 --> 00:18:14,700 So when we talk about people not putting the Lord first in their 296 00:18:14,700 --> 00:18:18,300 life that is a symptom. That's a symptom, we talked 297 00:18:18,300 --> 00:18:20,700 about and I'm not going to get on this subject but we talked 298 00:18:20,700 --> 00:18:24,500 about attendance things don't get better because it's only a 299 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:27,500 symptom. It's a symptom of a greater 300 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:29,300 problem. Mmm, and that's the heart. 301 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,800 What Jesus was saying is your real great about polishing, the 302 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:35,000 outside, the problem is your rotten heart. 303 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,800 The problem is your heart on the inside. 304 00:18:39,100 --> 00:18:42,600 If you fix the inside, the outside will be fixed. 305 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,600 Also, and, you know, I think this is really true, you know, 306 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:48,800 God looks at the heart. God cares about the heart. 307 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,700 He really does Jesus would say that too. 308 00:18:51,700 --> 00:18:54,400 When he walked on the face of this Earth and his personal 309 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,400 Ministry said, you heard that it had been said and he would cook 310 00:18:57,400 --> 00:19:01,100 something from the old law. But then Jesus say, but I say 311 00:19:01,300 --> 00:19:08,000 unto you the motive means everything, the heart is the 312 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:11,800 source. Let me say something pretty 313 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:15,500 sobering to you. But I will tell you this. 314 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:19,300 We could be here today. And we could be going through 315 00:19:19,300 --> 00:19:23,700 the motions of worship. We can make sure that every time 316 00:19:23,700 --> 00:19:25,600 those doors are open. We are right here. 317 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,000 We are worshipping God, right? We're here. 318 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:29,800 Got it. Check me off. 319 00:19:31,300 --> 00:19:35,600 It's possible to go through the motions, but your heart is far 320 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:39,300 from God. God knows, the heart and God 321 00:19:39,300 --> 00:19:42,800 cares about the heart. And if your heart is out there 322 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,100 somewhere, it's only a matter of time before you will follow it. 323 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:48,700 I think people do exactly what they want to do. 324 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:52,100 I really do and many times, they do what they want to do and then 325 00:19:52,100 --> 00:19:55,200 figure out ways after the fact that justify their decisions, 326 00:19:56,100 --> 00:19:57,600 but you will go where your heart goes. 327 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,200 And you know what, I didn't say that Jesus did where your 328 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,100 treasure is. That's where your heart will be. 329 00:20:04,100 --> 00:20:07,300 Also God cares about the heart, look at an Old Testament. 330 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:11,000 The passage now as found in first Samuel, 16 and 7 but the 331 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,700 Lord said to Samuel, do not look at this appearance or at his 332 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:20,300 physical stature, because I have refused him for the. 333 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:24,100 Lord does not see as a man sees, for a man. 334 00:20:24,100 --> 00:20:29,000 Looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart. 335 00:20:29,300 --> 00:20:34,500 All right, then he says this. By the way, he begins with 336 00:20:34,500 --> 00:20:36,900 scribes Pharisees Hypocrites over and over again. 337 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:41,300 I got to tell you this might be a very unpopular sermon today. 338 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:44,400 I'm so glad the Lord preached it. 339 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:51,800 He does it again in verse 26. Blind Pharisees Hypocrites. 340 00:20:52,100 --> 00:20:56,200 Then he says what you should do instead of doing what you've 341 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,300 been doing and that is washing the outside not caring about the 342 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:03,000 inside first clinch, the inside of the cup and dish that the 343 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:08,600 outside of them may be clean. Also, I don't mean to 344 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:11,700 oversimplify and I hope I'm not insulting your intelligence but 345 00:21:11,700 --> 00:21:15,100 we've all done dishes. We've all been washed dishes, 346 00:21:15,100 --> 00:21:17,200 you can hold a cup out of the water and you could take a 347 00:21:17,208 --> 00:21:20,000 sponge and clean the outside and it looks real good. 348 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:25,400 It could be filthy inside, it really can What Jesus says is, 349 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:29,500 that's what you're doing, what you should do, is wash the 350 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:31,900 inside. And notice when you wash the 351 00:21:31,900 --> 00:21:34,500 inside, the outside takes care of itself. 352 00:21:34,500 --> 00:21:36,600 You take the same cup. You submerge it. 353 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,800 In a sink full of soapy water. You clean the inside. 354 00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:41,800 Aren't you? Also cleaning the outside? 355 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:43,500 That is submerged. In that soapy water. 356 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,500 The idea is fix the inside. The outside. 357 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:57,100 Will take care of itself. Then here's another description. 358 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:02,600 Another description of them in verse 27, woe to you scribes and 359 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:07,200 Pharisees Hypocrites. For you are like whitewashed 360 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:11,300 tombs which indeed appear, beautiful, beautiful outwardly, 361 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:14,600 but inside are full of dead, men's bones and all on 362 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:19,800 cleanliness. You're guilty of deception and 363 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,400 you contaminate people. This is actually a stinging 364 00:22:22,400 --> 00:22:26,100 accusation folks. It's one of the most picturesque 365 00:22:26,100 --> 00:22:27,900 Jesus gives new assistant about them. 366 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,400 He says then you're like whitewashed tombs. 367 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,000 What is that? It's a little background about 368 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,600 that. First of all, the idea is you 369 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,400 are continue are contaminating. Other people spiritually. 370 00:22:40,900 --> 00:22:45,400 What are these Whited sepulchres or whitewashed tombs? 371 00:22:45,900 --> 00:22:49,900 What they would do is Is they would take at the time, or after 372 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,800 the time of the rains and what they would do is, when the rainy 373 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:57,200 season was over, they would take lime powder. 374 00:22:57,300 --> 00:23:01,800 They would mix it with water and they would wipe wash the tombs 375 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,600 and there was a reason for that. By the way, I remember, when I 376 00:23:05,608 --> 00:23:11,700 came into the painting trade, 31 years ago, I remember that 377 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:17,700 whitewash cabinets were the big fat of the day and that was such 378 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:21,100 a fad. It was red oak cabinets with 379 00:23:21,100 --> 00:23:25,300 white, Platinum stain. And we called that whitewash and 380 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:28,200 there, it actually would look kind of pink and then you'd like 381 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:30,500 written and lacquer with yellow and you just imagine what they 382 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:32,800 look like in 10 years, but that was a fad and that's what people 383 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:36,100 wanted whitewashed. Here was different. 384 00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:39,700 They took lime powder. They mixed it with water and it 385 00:23:39,700 --> 00:23:43,400 was kind of like paint and they would actually do this. 386 00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:47,300 In fact, the mishnah said, on the 15th of Adar which is the 387 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:51,200 month of March, in Israel at that time, they would whitewash 388 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:55,300 these tombs and they did it for a number of reasons. 389 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:00,900 They would whitewash those caves and Limestone tombs where the 390 00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:04,600 more prominent people were buried and they did that in 391 00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:08,200 preparation of the Passover, people would be coming during 392 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:10,800 the time of the Passover. They'd be coming in the 393 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:14,200 Jerusalem and one historian said, you could look up to the 394 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,500 hillside in Jerusalem, and you can see Whited sepulchres or 395 00:24:18,500 --> 00:24:22,600 whitewashed tombs dotting, the landscape of all of that. 396 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,100 Do you know why? Two reasons? 397 00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:34,900 One, it looked great. On the outside and to so that 398 00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:39,600 somebody coming into Jerusalem during the time of the Passover 399 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:44,300 would not inadvertently touch one of those Graves and become 400 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:48,700 unclean at the time of the Passover in Jerusalem. 401 00:24:49,500 --> 00:24:52,500 That's why they did that. They would take that lime powder 402 00:24:52,900 --> 00:24:56,000 and they would put it on those tombs. 403 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,400 What else would they do? I read that they actually took 404 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,700 and they would sometimes just cover the the whole tomb and 405 00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:06,300 other times they would draw pictures of bones. 406 00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:12,300 Telling people don't touch, and this is why in numbers 19 and 407 00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:15,500 16. Whoever in the open field, 408 00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:21,000 touches one who is slain by a sword, or who has died or a bone 409 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,400 of a man, or a grave shall be unclean. 410 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,300 Seven days. That was the reason. 411 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:35,200 Now, that's just history. But can you imagine being called 412 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,000 that? Can you imagine the Lord calling 413 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:44,400 you a whitewashed tomb? On the outside you appear, 414 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:48,600 beautiful clean. But on the inside, you're not 415 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:54,300 Inside, you are nothing, but Dead, Man's Bones, full of dead, 416 00:25:54,300 --> 00:25:59,300 men's bones, and uncleanness. The graves appear beautiful on 417 00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:03,900 the outside and I think to the idea is, he's telling them and 418 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:07,600 application here. He's telling them an application 419 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,200 that you're contaminating people because they see you as one 420 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,900 thing on the outside but you're not. 421 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,200 And I got to tell you. It's kind of like a false 422 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,600 teacher. It really is. 423 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,100 Have you ever stopped to consider the collateral damage 424 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:30,000 when somebody teaches error? I gotta clarify something to you 425 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,200 not talking about somebody that just misunderstands a passage 426 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,800 and teaches it and maybe they just missed the passage or they 427 00:26:37,100 --> 00:26:39,600 didn't understand it thoroughly or fully. 428 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,700 When I talk about a false teacher, I'm talking about this, 429 00:26:42,500 --> 00:26:45,400 I'm talking about somebody that rejects what the truth of the 430 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:49,200 Bible says and accepts an erroneous position, that's 431 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:53,100 that's inaccurate and teaches the erroneous position which is 432 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:57,500 inaccurate and does that to draw a party unto himself. 433 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,700 Called a false teacher, the Bible in the New Testament calls 434 00:27:01,700 --> 00:27:06,800 that a heretic. Somebody, that is not genuine. 435 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:11,200 Somebody that's a false teacher is just like this contaminating, 436 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,600 those that come across. And what that's doing is this, 437 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,600 its leading them with collateral damage away from the truth. 438 00:27:19,900 --> 00:27:25,100 When somebody decides to do that, it always has damaged. 439 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,000 Jesus says, though, the inside you are full of dead men's 440 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,600 bones, in Matthew chapter, 23 and verse 28. 441 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,300 The application here, even so you also outwardly appear 442 00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:42,500 righteous unto men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and 443 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:47,300 lawlessness. Now then there's one more, so so 444 00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:51,500 far Jesus says you're in. Neglecting the weightier matters 445 00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:53,900 of the law. That's what he said, and he 446 00:27:53,908 --> 00:27:55,700 describes them so far, three ways. 447 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,500 Number one, you strain out a gnat, but just well, the 448 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:01,600 Campbell number two, you wash the outside of the cup, but 449 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,800 inside, it's filthy and number three. 450 00:28:04,300 --> 00:28:06,400 You're like, whitewashed tombs on the outside. 451 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,100 But inside, you're just what you are in, that is dead men's 452 00:28:09,100 --> 00:28:12,700 bones, but there was something else, they were guilty of and 453 00:28:12,700 --> 00:28:16,900 that was for attention pretending to be so much better 454 00:28:16,900 --> 00:28:19,400 than everybody else. Have you ever stopped to 455 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:23,200 consider? Or how much God hates Pride. you 456 00:28:23,208 --> 00:28:28,100 know, the Bible talks about Pride, pride goes before, 457 00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:32,700 destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. 458 00:28:33,900 --> 00:28:37,500 That's what the Bible says. When Satan in the third of the 459 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:39,800 hosts of Heaven were cast out of heaven. 460 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:47,200 So long ago, it was because of sinful Pride, thinking yourself 461 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,900 to be better than somebody else. And Jesus is going to deal with 462 00:28:50,900 --> 00:28:53,300 this very thing. God always hates Pride. 463 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:58,400 This is what he says in Matthew. 23, verses 29 and 30 woe to you 464 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,500 scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites because you build the tombs of 465 00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:05,600 the prophets and Adorn The Monuments of the righteous. 466 00:29:06,100 --> 00:29:10,600 And it right there, this was the practice of rebuilding tombs in 467 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:13,700 remembrance of past Heroes they actually did that. 468 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,600 One of the ones that had died and passed here, they would 469 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:20,600 rebuild the tomb. They make a monument to them, 470 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:22,800 Jesus deals with that very thing. 471 00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:25,900 He says, you do this, by the way, you build the tombs of the 472 00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:28,200 prophets and Adorn The Monuments of the righteous. 473 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:34,000 That's not the problem yet. Very common for them to do that. 474 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:38,600 In fact, Robertson said this. The tombs in the Kidron Valley. 475 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,500 That are now named in honor of Zechariah Absalom and 476 00:29:43,500 --> 00:29:45,900 Jehoshaphat were all built at the time. 477 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:49,900 That Jesus said this, Jesus was referring to the practice that 478 00:29:49,900 --> 00:29:55,700 they did. But remember I said, They had 479 00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:58,500 Pride. They thought they were better 480 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,300 than the others and this is what they said. 481 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:07,000 If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have 482 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,700 been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. 483 00:30:11,300 --> 00:30:14,200 You see the hypocrisy? Let's build the monument. 484 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,600 For those Heroes of days. Gone by those prophets of old 485 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,800 and then if we were there, we would have done what they did. 486 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:24,500 We're much better than that, we're much holier than that. 487 00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:27,800 We would have done that. That's not what we would have 488 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,900 done. We wouldn't have killed the 489 00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:31,800 prophets as our fathers had done. 490 00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:35,400 We would have even thought of doing something like that. 491 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,400 We're holier than that, we're better than that. 492 00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:41,700 This is the ugly pretence of spiritual Pride, build monuments 493 00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:44,400 to honor men in the past and then claim to be better. 494 00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:49,700 Now, the Lord is going to fire a shot. 495 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,900 As we wrap up our thoughts, he's going to fire a shot. 496 00:30:53,900 --> 00:30:56,500 I'm gonna tell you something. The Lord didn't fire shots over 497 00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:59,500 the bow. This is a direct hit. 498 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:02,700 You want to talk about being direct? 499 00:31:02,700 --> 00:31:05,800 Sometimes people don't want to be direct or sometimes people 500 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,800 resent. When somebody's direct we get 501 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:09,900 will direct your. This is what Jesus said 502 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:16,500 therefore you are witnesses against your selves that you are 503 00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:19,300 the sons of those who murdered the prophets. 504 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,200 What's he saying is he's not beating around the bush. 505 00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:27,500 What he's saying is like father like son you've just said, hey 506 00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:29,600 look at these great prophets but we wouldn't have done what 507 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:30,400 they've done. No. 508 00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:32,300 Like father like son, you're the same way. 509 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:34,700 Why is that? They're about to murder the 510 00:31:34,700 --> 00:31:38,100 greatest Prophet the world ever knew that was Jesus Christ. 511 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,700 He's telling them. Not only are you like them? 512 00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:45,200 They killed the prophets, but you're worse. 513 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,300 You're absolutely worse like father. 514 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,200 Like son. Here's another Direct Hit. 515 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,500 Here's a command. And if you're not careful, you 516 00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:03,500 can fly right by right past this Jesus the word of God here is in 517 00:32:03,500 --> 00:32:07,900 the tenths of a command. He says, fill up the word fill 518 00:32:07,900 --> 00:32:11,800 up means do it fill up then the measure of your father's guilt. 519 00:32:12,700 --> 00:32:14,900 In other words that's what you came to do. 520 00:32:15,100 --> 00:32:19,000 Jesus is commanding them to get on with it to push his 521 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:23,600 crucifixion. Don't you see that? 522 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:29,400 Jesus was not the victim? Jesus was in control. 523 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:32,600 Jesus commands them to go ahead and do it. 524 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:36,400 You know why? Because Jesus knew it was God's 525 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,600 will that he would be sacrificed for the sins of the world and it 526 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,700 would be on a Roman cross. He would have to be lifted up 527 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,800 Old Testament, prophecies pointing toward that very event. 528 00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:51,000 It had to happen. When Jesus in The Garden of 529 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,200 Gethsemane. Was praying to his father. 530 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,900 He said, father if it is possible, let this cup pass from 531 00:32:57,900 --> 00:32:59,400 me. You've heard me say this before 532 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:04,200 the cup there is more than just the cup of suffering. 533 00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:10,400 I think what was worse, was the very fact that the sins of the 534 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,500 world would be placed on perfect Jesus. 535 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,400 He would have to do it by himself and God's face would be 536 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,200 turned away. He would be by himself. 537 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:23,900 And that was the only time our Lord was ever alone on gothis, 538 00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:27,100 brow on the cross dying for the sins of the world. 539 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,800 He despised the shame, he did, all of that, his Hebrews chapter 540 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:35,400 12 tells us, these were horrible things that he would have to 541 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:37,200 endure. That was God's will. 542 00:33:38,500 --> 00:33:42,200 And I want you to know something if you're here today, take that 543 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:48,500 personally. Jesus died for your sins. 544 00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,900 Personally, and for mine personally. 545 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,000 Jesus is telling them get it over with get on with it. 546 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,900 Jesus also said my life, no one takes. 547 00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:06,400 No man takes my life. He said my life, I freely give 548 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:09,600 that's why on the cross. When Jesus was about to die, he 549 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:12,600 said, it's finished. I've done it, it's accomplished. 550 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,100 He bowed his head and gave up The Ghost, and that is that he 551 00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:18,699 said into thy hands. I commend my spirit. 552 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:22,199 Jesus gave his life, but he knew they had to do their part. 553 00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:27,500 So he says in a command Just do it. 554 00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:31,300 Our Lord was totally in control, okay? 555 00:34:31,500 --> 00:34:34,699 In closing what we learn, what do we learn from this? 556 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,699 In application. Number one, God always looks at 557 00:34:39,699 --> 00:34:42,300 the heart, sometimes we look at the outside, that's all we look 558 00:34:42,300 --> 00:34:45,900 at is the appearance, but God always looks at the heart. 559 00:34:45,900 --> 00:34:50,300 Number two, if we fix the inside, we automatically fix the 560 00:34:50,300 --> 00:34:53,300 outside. Let's fix the source and not the 561 00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:55,400 symptom system takes care of itself. 562 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:58,700 Number three, don't appear beautiful on the outside but 563 00:34:58,700 --> 00:35:01,100 inwardly be rotten like dead men's bones. 564 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,700 Be authentic, be an authentic Christian be the same on the 565 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:07,300 inside as you are. The outside and number 4. 566 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:09,700 Oh yes. Let's keep all. 567 00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:12,600 The commands of God, the details do matter. 568 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,500 Keep all the commands of God, but don't neglect. 569 00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:20,500 The weightier matters, which are Justice, mercy and Faith. 570 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,600 Keep it all. 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