1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,560 Father God, we thank you for today, and we are so. 2 00:00:02,560 --> 00:00:06,240 Grateful for Your Word that explains everything we need to 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:09,560 know pertaining to life and godliness, and You have been so 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:13,080 good to give it to us that we might be able to see the 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:14,920 greatness and the glory of our God. 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,440 Tonight, as we study your word, we pray that you'd open our eyes 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:22,480 to see only the things that will allow us to to be the kind of 8 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:27,360 people you want us to be and get us to know who you are even all 9 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:29,760 the more. We thank you, Father, that you 10 00:00:29,760 --> 00:00:32,720 give this opportunity to us in the middle of the week and pray 11 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:36,440 that Lord, we will grow deep in our understanding of You, that 12 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:42,640 we might follow you fully, not partially, but totally committed 13 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:47,520 to serving our God. So we thank you in the precious 14 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:54,120 name of Christ, Amen. I am so glad that you're here 15 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:57,160 with us this evening. And I trust that the things that 16 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,920 you learn will help you grow and your your walk with the Lord. 17 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:05,560 I think that as we study through the Sermon on the Mount, I think 18 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,760 that there will be so many things that God will use to draw 19 00:01:09,760 --> 00:01:13,360 you closer to him. So tonight I just want to ask 20 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:15,600 and answer a very simple question. 21 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,200 That's it. I'm going to ask you one 22 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:20,800 question and answer that question. 23 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:27,360 The question is this have you murdered anybody lately? 24 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:37,400 That's the question. Have you murdered anyone lately? 25 00:01:39,520 --> 00:01:41,360 You would say, well, why would you ask that question? 26 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,440 We're in church. We come to church. 27 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:50,160 We're not murderers. Why would you ask that question? 28 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:57,320 Well, that's because murders are happening in great numbers every 29 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:01,800 single day. And I'm afraid that most of us 30 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,240 don't understand the the essence of that. 31 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:09,199 For instance, that there are there are 55 murders that occur 32 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:12,680 in our country every day, at least 55. 33 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:19,080 That's on the low end scale. In other words, there's around 34 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:24,480 20,000 people murdered every year in America. 35 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,960 Every 31 minutes somebody's murdered. 36 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:33,200 So by the time we're done tonight, two people are going to 37 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,880 die by murder. Hopefully it's none of you this 38 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:41,880 evening, but that's the reality of murder. 39 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:51,000 But on the other hand, suicide is also murder, and there are 40 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:56,960 134 suicides take place every single day in America, 134, 41 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:07,600 meaning that there is 49,000 suicides every year in our 42 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,840 country. And suicide is a form of murder. 43 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:18,400 On top of that, abortion is murder. 44 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:27,240 And there are somewhere between 2200 and 2800 abortions every 45 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:32,440 day, meaning that there's somewhere between 800,000 and a 46 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:38,200 million babies aborted every year or murdered every single 47 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,720 year. Now just think about that. 48 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:49,760 And we live in in Southern California, and unless the 49 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:55,960 murder is out of the ordinary or in multiples or bizarre, we 50 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,640 usually don't hear about them. But because we live in 51 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,680 California, most of the murders are bizarre, and so we do hear a 52 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:09,200 lot about them. So I ask you again, have you 53 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:16,640 murdered anyone lately? That's a fair question to ask. 54 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:25,280 Now, I would probably guess that that none of you would murder 55 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:32,320 like Ted Bundy murdered when he killed over 30 different young 56 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:38,560 women across 7 different states. I'm going to presume that's none 57 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:43,240 of you this evening. And I will also presume that 58 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:48,800 that that none of you are like Jeffrey Dahmer, who between 1978 59 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:58,680 and 1991 murdered 17 young men and boys, dismembering them. 60 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:03,200 He was called the Milwaukee Cannibal. 61 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,840 I would also assume that that none of you are murderers like 62 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:19,120 John Wayne Gacy, who was called the killer clown in the 70s. 63 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:24,320 He murdered 33 young men, wrapped them in plastic bags and 64 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:30,040 buried them under his house. And then I would also assume 65 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:34,200 that none of you are anywhere related to Charles Manson. 66 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:40,400 Who's the Charles Manson family murders consisted of the actor 67 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:46,080 Sharon Tate and six other members in 1969. 68 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:51,440 I would hope that none of you are the Zodiac Killer because he 69 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:55,200 has never been caught and he killed several people in 70 00:05:55,200 --> 00:06:01,040 Northern California during the 60s and 70s. 71 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:10,120 Also, I'm certain that none of you of of are of the persuasion 72 00:06:10,120 --> 00:06:16,800 of Timothy McVeigh who killed 168 people with the Oklahoma 73 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:25,760 City bombing. Those are famous murderers. 74 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:32,120 For lack of a better title, we can even think of the The Trial 75 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:37,760 of the Century with. With OJ Simpson, although he was 76 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:43,000 found not guilty, that doesn't mean he didn't kill his ex-wife 77 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,000 and her boyfriend. All that being said is that that 78 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:55,280 murders happen all the time and Christ would ask a question 79 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:02,080 about murder in the Sermon on the Mount. 80 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:08,040 And so it's important for us to realize that the Bible makes it 81 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:12,240 very clear in the in the Decalogue, the 10 commandments 82 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,960 that excess chapter 20, the 6th commandment, thou shalt not. 83 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:22,280 Kill. Better translated murder because 84 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,920 there are some killings that God has divinely appointed. 85 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:31,320 Thou shalt. Not murder. 86 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,800 In fact, in Genesis 9 verse #6 Our Lord said, Whoso sheddeth 87 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:40,800 man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. 88 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:46,120 For in the image of God made he man. 89 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:53,840 So God under divine order made a way for murderers to be dealt 90 00:07:53,840 --> 00:07:57,200 with. God instituted capital 91 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,560 punishment. Genesis 9 verse #6 Romans 92 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:07,960 chapter 13 verse #4 So when the Bible says thou shalt not 93 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,320 murder, that does not include capital punishment. 94 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:17,880 It does not include wars because God has designed wars throughout 95 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:21,640 His sovereign plan. A lot of it to discipline and 96 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:26,760 judge certain nations. It also doesn't include 97 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:33,440 self-defense. In Deuteronomy 19 there is a a 98 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,799 prohibition against killing those who out of self-defense 99 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:41,520 defend themselves. Because after all, you are made 100 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:44,240 in the image of God and you are to protect that image. 101 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:49,920 And so in protecting others or yourself and self-defense, then 102 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:57,480 you are not subject to be killed, nor are you labeled a 103 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:01,520 murderer. Murder is something that's 104 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:09,240 planned, that's plotted to enact some kind of violence upon 105 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:13,200 someone else. And the question would come, 106 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:15,480 why? Why are there murders? 107 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:23,400 Well, we know that murders are authored by Satan. 108 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,200 John 844. He was a murderer from the 109 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:34,160 beginning crisis. So Satan is the author of 110 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:39,920 murders. You also need to know that 111 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:45,360 murder is an abomination to God. Proverbs chapter 6 tells us that 112 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:52,360 that those who shed innocent blood are an abomination to God. 113 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:59,800 You also need to know that murder arises from the heart. 114 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:07,160 Matthew chapter 15, Mark Chapter 7 from the heart proceeds 115 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:17,160 murders, adulteries, slandering, gossip, but murder arises from 116 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:20,760 the heart. Murder is authored by Satan. 117 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:28,240 Murder is an abomination to God, and murder is the acts of the 118 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:34,240 reprobate according to Romans chapter 1, verses 28 and 29. 119 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:44,160 But I ask you just another time, have you murdered anyone lately? 120 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:49,440 And that is a fair question. And you will see why it's a fair 121 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:52,040 question before the evening is over. 122 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,720 Christ is preaching on the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee. 123 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:01,320 There are scores of people. That are listening to him. 124 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,320 I always marvelled the fact that the Lord never needed a 125 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,640 microphone. He was able to speak and 126 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,000 everybody was able to hear what he said. 127 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,320 Now whether they gathered closely around him, I have no 128 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,640 idea. I I wasn't there, but the scores 129 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,880 of people on the North Shore, the Sea of Galilee, numbered in 130 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:25,480 the hundreds maybe, and probably in the thousands. 131 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:34,440 And he begins his sermon by by interpreting the identity of 132 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:38,240 Kingdom children in verses 1 to 12 with the Beatitudes. 133 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:47,600 Once he interprets the identity of children of the Kingdom, he 134 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:54,320 articulates their authority. That's in verses 13 down through 135 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:58,840 20. He articulates their authority, 136 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:05,360 one as salt in light in the world. 137 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:11,800 And he articulates their authority because of the 138 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,480 authority of Scripture that they follow. 139 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:21,400 Having said all that, Christ says, the children in my Kingdom 140 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:29,520 manifest a certain morality, a morality that stems from the 141 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:31,880 inside of them, not the outside of them. 142 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:40,600 And in so doing, He gives 6 illustrations whereby the 143 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:46,320 children of the King manifest their morality. 144 00:12:47,920 --> 00:13:03,360 Number one is murder #2 adultery #3 divorce #4 swearing #5 145 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:13,760 revenge, and number six love. He gives 6 illustrations that 146 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:18,760 are so pertinent to today, that are so relevant to our everyday 147 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:25,680 life that it's almost amazing to us how he articulates it. 148 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:32,000 But after all, these are are the children of the King in the 149 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,240 morality that they manifest on a daily basis. 150 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:40,640 He articulates very clearly and he begins with the same phrase 151 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:45,120 all six times. You have heard that it was said 152 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:50,920 by the ancients of old. He doesn't say that you have 153 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:54,800 heard that it was said in the Law of Moses. 154 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,480 He didn't say you've heard that it was said in the Pentateuch. 155 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:02,080 You haven't heard that it was said by the prophets. 156 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:06,320 He didn't say that. He simply says that you have 157 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:12,080 heard that it was said by the ancients of old, by the by the 158 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:17,280 rabbis of old. Because what they would do is 159 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:22,120 that they would add to the Scriptures, they would add their 160 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:26,400 oral tradition to the Word of God, and then they would then 161 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:31,120 teach the people about their oral traditions as if they were 162 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:34,720 as authoritative as God's Word was authoritative. 163 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:41,600 So Christ comes along and having interpreted the identity of the 164 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:45,840 people of his Kingdom, having articulated the authority of his 165 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:50,480 people in that Kingdom, he's now going to manifest the morality 166 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,440 of the people that live in that Kingdom. 167 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,400 And he does it in such a powerful way because he knows 168 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:00,600 that it within the audience, there are there are many 169 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,920 Pharisees, there are many scribes. 170 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:06,960 And that's why the theme verse is verse 20 of chapter 5. 171 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,120 Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and 172 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:17,080 Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of God. 173 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:24,560 And that had to shock everybody on the mountainside for their 174 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:26,880 thinking. How can that ever be possible? 175 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:34,680 They are so holy, they are so pure, they have such authority. 176 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:40,960 People lived in awe of the Pharisees, they lived in awe of 177 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:44,480 the scribes. They were keepers of the law, 178 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:49,200 they were interpreters of the law and they were high on 179 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:56,240 worship and people will be taken back by just the the presence of 180 00:15:56,240 --> 00:16:01,920 these religious leaders. But but Christ condemned them. 181 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:06,920 Christ spoke against them because they were hypocritical. 182 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,840 And so he makes it very clear in verse 20, which is the theme 183 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:17,880 verse of the the three chapters, that your righteousness must 184 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:22,920 succeed, that of the scribes and Pharisees because theirs was a 185 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:27,400 self righteousness. There was a self. 186 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:34,520 Induced righteousness And Christ says, you must obtain my 187 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:39,320 righteousness, or you'll never enter the Kingdom of heaven of 188 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:43,800 heaven. With that in mind, let me read 189 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:50,320 to you the section on murder, verse 21. 190 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:56,360 You have heard that the ancients were told you shall not commit 191 00:16:56,360 --> 00:17:00,600 murder and whoever commits murder shall be liable to the 192 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:04,119 court. But I say to you that everyone 193 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:07,680 who was angry with his brother shall be guilty before the 194 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:10,520 court. And whoever says to his brother 195 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:17,359 you good for nothing or raka shall be guilty before the 196 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:21,240 Supreme Court. And whoever says you fool shall 197 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:23,520 be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell. 198 00:17:24,319 --> 00:17:28,920 Therefore, if you are presenting your offering at the altar and 199 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:32,040 there remember that your brother has something against you, leave 200 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,280 your offering there before the altar. 201 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,000 Go first, be reconciled to your brother, and then come and 202 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:42,080 present your offering. Make friends quickly with your. 203 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,000 Opponent at law. While you are with him on the 204 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:49,600 way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge 205 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:53,200 and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison. 206 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:58,960 Truly, I say to you, you will not come out of there until you 207 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:08,000 have paid up the last cent. Over the next several weeks, I'm 208 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,680 going to give you 3 points. The first point will always be 209 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:17,480 the rabbinical tradition. The second point will always be 210 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:21,720 the biblical teaching. The Third Point will always be 211 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:26,720 your personal transformation. That's how we will look at each 212 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:31,360 of these topics that our Lord brings to the people there on 213 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:32,880 the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee. 214 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:39,720 Our Lord is very purposeful. He's he's very strategic. 215 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,880 He knows exactly what to say and how to say it. 216 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,560 And so he begins by always attacking the rabbinical 217 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:51,720 tradition. It's, it's not the biblical 218 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,480 teaching. He attacks because he came to 219 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,440 fulfill the law, not abolish the law. 220 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:01,920 But it is the rabbinical tradition that he does attack 221 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:08,640 because they had raised their tradition higher than the law of 222 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:11,520 God. And so he came to tear that 223 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:13,600 down. He came to destroy. 224 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,840 It. And so let's begin with the 225 00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:21,360 rabbinical tradition. When he says these words, you 226 00:19:21,360 --> 00:19:25,560 have heard that the ancients were told, or you have heard, 227 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:31,000 you have heard from the ancients of old, you've heard from them. 228 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:38,760 You shall not commit murder, and you can hear the people in the 229 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,960 crowd. Amen. 230 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:47,920 Amen. You got it right, Jesus, You 231 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:53,280 shall not commit murder. And all of us would say Amen to 232 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:56,400 that as well. We know the Decalogue, we know 233 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:58,960 what it says. They knew what it said. 234 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,240 And so Christ says, you have heard that it was said by the 235 00:20:04,240 --> 00:20:08,400 ages of old that you shall not murder. 236 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:16,200 And they agreed. They would understand that and 237 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:23,080 they would say this and whoever commits murder shall be liable 238 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:27,440 to the courts. Very interesting how he states 239 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:32,440 that because he wants them to understand the rabbinical 240 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:36,840 tradition. You see, the Pharisees would say 241 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,680 we are holy and we are righteous because we don't murder. 242 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:49,440 We're not like Jeffrey Dahmer. We're not like Ted Bundy. 243 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:54,040 We're not like Charles Manson. Those are heinous people. 244 00:20:55,120 --> 00:21:01,520 Those are our murderers. Those are serial killers. 245 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:07,240 Those are are the nasty of the nasties. 246 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:14,280 We're not like that. Oh no, we, we are holy and 247 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,480 righteous because we don't murder. 248 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:22,400 We are on our way to heaven because we don't murder. 249 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:28,440 We haven't killed anybody. We don't even own a knife, a 250 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,920 sword or a gun or a tank or a hand grenade or whatever. 251 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,400 We owe nothing. We've never killed anyone 252 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,880 because the Bible says you shall not murder. 253 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:48,360 And so they would see themselves as holy people. 254 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:53,240 They would see themselves as righteous before God because 255 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:59,720 they never murdered anybody. And there are people today who 256 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:01,960 would see themselves as righteous because they'd never 257 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,760 kill anybody. I'm not a murderer. 258 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:11,200 I'm not a an adulterer. I'm not a liar. 259 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:13,640 I'm. I'm not. 260 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:19,640 That kind of person, those kind of people are just nasty people. 261 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,960 And we begin to compare ourselves among ourselves. 262 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:28,520 And that's exactly what the Pharisees did. 263 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:36,760 But Jesus says your righteousness must exceed that 264 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:41,160 of the scribes. And Pharisees, in other words, 265 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:50,000 not murdering anyone is not enough to get you into heaven. 266 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:55,080 So if you think that you don't murder someone and you are 267 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,480 righteous because of that, and that's going to get you to 268 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:04,840 heaven, Jesus says, but I say unto you, he, he is going to 269 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:08,240 give them the the true teaching of the law of God. 270 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:15,080 He's going to help them understand exactly what the Lord 271 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:21,600 was saying. Notice they said the rabbinical 272 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:26,120 teaching was you should not commit murder and whoever 273 00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:28,840 commits murder shall be liable to the court. 274 00:23:29,320 --> 00:23:33,760 In other words, if you murdered someone then the courts would 275 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:38,320 decide what would happen. But notice they they left out 276 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,440 what the Lord thought about murder and what the. 277 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:45,640 Lord would do to. Those who committed murder 278 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,520 according to Genesis Chapter 9 verse #6 which of course they 279 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:56,240 would know very, very well, they did not take into account God's 280 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:00,280 holy character. God is a God of life. 281 00:24:01,360 --> 00:24:06,880 That's why you don't murder. God's a God of truth, That's why 282 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,480 you don't lie. God's a God of purity and 283 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,560 holiness. That's why you don't commit 284 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,840 immorality. Why? 285 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:16,400 Because you're a child of the king. 286 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,000 And you want to live like a child of the king. 287 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:26,200 You want to honor the king. The point is, they didn't kill 288 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:33,680 simply because if they did, they would get in trouble. 289 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:38,840 By the law of the land, they didn't see themselves as being 290 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:45,000 judged by the living God. You see, they emphasized the act 291 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:54,400 of murder and they excluded the attitude behind murder. 292 00:24:55,920 --> 00:25:00,440 That's very important. They should know what God's 293 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,360 attitude. About man's. 294 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:06,120 Heart. Is all about. 295 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:11,320 They would know first name was 16 that man looks on the outward 296 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:15,960 appearance, but God, God looks upon the heart. 297 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:22,160 God is into the. Heart because what's ever 298 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,200 happened on the inside is going to manifest itself on the 299 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:30,640 outside. Man is a murderer because of 300 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,080 what's happens on the inside, not because of what's happening 301 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,720 on the outside. Man is a murderer because he's 302 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,800 induced from the inside out, from a heart. 303 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:48,760 Murders proceed from the heart. Murders come forth because of 304 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:52,600 what's on the inside of a man, not what's on the outside of a 305 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,360 man. That's what concerns our Lord. 306 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:02,960 They would know Psalm 51 verse #6 that God desires truth in the 307 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:07,280 inward parts. They would know First Kings 308 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:13,280 chapter 8 verse #39 which says Thou alone dost know the hearts 309 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:20,960 of all the souls of men. They would know First Chronicles 310 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:28,120 28 verse #9 The Lord searches all hearts and understands every 311 00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:36,880 intent of man's thoughts. That's just amazing to me that 312 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:41,880 God understands every intent of man's thoughts. 313 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,320 You you can't disguise your motives to. 314 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:51,360 God. You can't deceive God. 315 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:57,920 God knows your heart. He knows every intent of the 316 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:02,040 thoughts in your heart. He knows them all. 317 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,840 Well, you see, the Pharisees would know those kinds of of 318 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:12,720 verses and Jesus would reinforce that when He said, you shall 319 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,720 love the Lord your God with all of your heart, with all of your 320 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,760 soul, with all of your mind, with all of your strength, with 321 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,560 everything on the inside of you. You should love Him and your 322 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:26,440 neighbor as yourself. And the Lord would would 323 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:31,240 emphasize that. So the Old Testament clearly 324 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:38,160 taught that God was into man's heart more so than anything 325 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:41,840 else. But the Jews. 326 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:51,080 The Jews disregarded the internal attitude and emphasized 327 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:56,360 the external. Act, For if they acted properly, 328 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,400 they saw themselves as righteous and holy. 329 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:06,840 If what they did on the outside was pleasing, then they were a 330 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,360 holy people. They had forgotten about the 331 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:14,960 inside. So you move from the rabbinical 332 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,400 tradition to the biblical teaching. 333 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:24,120 And Jesus says, But I say unto you, But I say, I'm going to 334 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:26,240 give you the real intent of the law. 335 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:28,760 I'm. Going to explain the law of God 336 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:32,480 to you as you've never heard it before. 337 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:38,200 I want you to understand what the law of God really is truly 338 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:45,040 all about, he says. But I say to you that everyone 339 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:48,240 who was angry with his brother shall be guilty before the 340 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,880 court. And whoever says to his brother 341 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:56,000 Rakah shall be guilty before the Supreme Court. 342 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:01,200 And whoever says, you fool, shall be guilty enough to go 343 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:06,480 into Gehenna or into a fiery hell. 344 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,920 What he does is he gives these illustrations. 345 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:16,120 He begins with an indictment. You've heard it this way. 346 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:21,120 But I say unto you. And he's going to give 3 347 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,360 illustrations, and they're going to build 1 upon the other. 348 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:33,600 The first one deals with silent anger, the second one deals with 349 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:42,520 spoken anger, and then the next one deals with salacious anger. 350 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:49,640 So he's going to build 1 upon the other and show them that 351 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:55,840 their righteous standard fell way short of God's standard. 352 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,200 Because God, he's going to, he's going to raise the standard 353 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,920 before the people. He's going to raise it so high 354 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,240 it's going to be impossible for people to meet it. 355 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,440 You see, the reason the Pharisees lower the standard is 356 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,520 because they couldn't meet God's standard. 357 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,560 So they lowered the standards so they could seem righteous. 358 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,840 They lowered the standards so they could obtain in their mind 359 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:27,120 a right to standing before God. And God says, you've heard that 360 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,000 it was said by the angels of old. 361 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,680 This is what they've told you. But I'm going to tell you the 362 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,640 real story. Here's the real law. 363 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:37,080 Here's the real righteous standard. 364 00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,120 And unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and 365 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:43,880 Pharisees, that is, you must obtain my righteousness, you 366 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,040 will never enter the Kingdom of heaven. 367 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,160 So you can imagine what was going through the minds of the 368 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:57,960 people there in the North Shore, the Sea of Galilee, and all of a 369 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,640 sudden you read this and you all of a sudden you find yourself 370 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:02,600 convicted. Why? 371 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:05,760 Because I'm going to ask you the same question. 372 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:17,800 Have you murdered anyone lately? That's the question, because we 373 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,440 would all agree, the Pharisees, no, we haven't murdered anybody. 374 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,040 We nobody's dead. We haven't shed any man's blood. 375 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:28,200 Ah, but you see, that's not the intent of the law. 376 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:35,320 That's not what God was saying. He says no if you are angry. 377 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:40,600 If there's a. Silent anger, or a spoken anger 378 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:45,800 or a salacious anger. You're bound for a fiery hell. 379 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:57,360 In other words, your heart makes you more guilty than the heinous 380 00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:03,640 act of murder. So the answer to the question 381 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:08,400 have you murdered anyone lately? The answer is yes. 382 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:18,600 It's not no, it's yes. And therefore you realize you 383 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:22,760 can't meet the standard. And this is where Christ is 384 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:27,040 driving them. He will later say next time 385 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:30,680 we're together you shall not commit adultery. 386 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,200 That's what you've heard. And then what? 387 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,920 I'll say you're right. We don't do that. 388 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,160 We don't sleep with another man's wife. 389 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,240 We only sleep with our own wives. 390 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:49,040 Ah, but I say unto you, right says deals with the heart of a 391 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,200 man, not the. Acts of a man. 392 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:58,160 And again he will blow them right off the North Shore, the 393 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:03,400 Sea of Galilee, with those words that are so piercing to the. 394 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:08,120 Depths of man's soul. Because he wants to bring them 395 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:15,400 to a point of conviction. He's teaching them that the 396 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:22,840 roots, the root of murder, is the heart of a man that's angry, 397 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,880 the heart of a man that's. Filled with hatred. 398 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:35,240 That's why you murder, because of what's on the inside, and God 399 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:39,680 judges not based on what you do on the outside. 400 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,920 He's based on what you do. He judges based on what you do 401 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,880 on the inside. Which is very important. 402 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:52,080 Why? Because in Revelation chapter 403 00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:59,720 22, Christ says these words. He says blessed are those who 404 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,520 wash their robes, that they may have the right to the Tree of 405 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,200 life and may enter by the gates into the city. 406 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:11,040 But outside of the gates, outside of heaven. 407 00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:20,080 Are the dogs and sorcerers the immoral persons and murderers? 408 00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:28,600 Murderers can't get into the Kingdom and so Christ says 409 00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:36,199 murder begins on the inside. For instance, John would say in 410 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:44,120 first John 3 verse #15 these words, whoever hates his brother 411 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:53,440 is a murderer. Whoever hates his brother is a 412 00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:59,360 murderer. So John is on the North Shore of 413 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:04,480 the Sea of Galilee. He hears the words of of Jesus 414 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:10,800 and he begins to understand where murder begins. 415 00:35:12,200 --> 00:35:16,760 Not to consider the state of the heart is not to consider that 416 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:23,400 which the Lord holds to be the all important measure of true 417 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,200 guilt. That's why Solemn would say 418 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:32,560 guard your heart, for out of it flow all the issues of life. 419 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:37,320 Guard your heart. It's the wellspring of all 420 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:42,200 things that happen in life. If you can't guard your heart, 421 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:48,320 you're in big trouble. So Christ says you have heard 422 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:49,600 that it was said by the ages of old. 423 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:53,160 You sound murder. But I want to let you know 424 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,560 something. If you are angry with your 425 00:35:56,560 --> 00:36:00,600 brother, it's, it's from the root word or gay, which means to 426 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:07,080 brood, to smolder, to to hold it in. 427 00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:09,800 That's why we call it silent anger. 428 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,600 It it's the rumblings on the inside where nothing happens but 429 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:19,040 the face gets more and more red with each passing day. 430 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:25,680 It's where bitterness wells up on the inside because man is so 431 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,640 angry because of something that happened to him. 432 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,720 You say, well, wait a minute, our our Lord got angry. 433 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:40,520 Yes, he did. John 2 at the end of Matthew 434 00:36:41,080 --> 00:36:45,960 both he cleansed the temple, overturned the tables, chased 435 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:51,200 out the the money changers. He was angry, yes he was, but it 436 00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:56,080 was righteous indignation. Psalm 69 was fulfilled in John 437 00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,600 2. Zeal for thy Father's house 438 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,120 consumes me. And he was zealous. 439 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:04,800 He had a he had a righteous indignation. 440 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,080 That's why Paul would say be angry and sin, not because there 441 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:13,320 is a righteous indignation and and, and the more holy you are, 442 00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:18,640 the more the more angry you become at unholiness, the more 443 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:22,400 Christ like you are, the more angry you are at those that are 444 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:29,400 not Christ like things. And so you could become angry at 445 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,400 those things and it's well deserving. 446 00:37:33,120 --> 00:37:34,760 It's called righteous indignation. 447 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,160 He's not talking about righteous anger. 448 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:38,800 He's not talking about righteous indignation. 449 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:42,120 He's talking about somebody who is angry because something has 450 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,520 happened to them because of somebody else. 451 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:51,240 Someone has caused this anger within you, some offense, some 452 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:57,880 attitude, some action, some situation that's caused. 453 00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,280 You to be. Angry. 454 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:06,680 Which causes you to refuse to forgive. 455 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:16,040 It's that long lived kind of anger or gay is a is a unique 456 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,480 word. If it's the root of all 457 00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,560 bitterness in the right of Hebrew says be careful that a 458 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,360 rooterness root of bitterness is it well up within you because it 459 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:29,280 defiles many, many people. I've talked to people over the 460 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:32,320 times I've talked to fathers and mothers and sons and daughters 461 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,480 about the bitterness in their family and be careful about that 462 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,960 because it's going to defile the members of your family. 463 00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:39,200 You got to be careful about that. 464 00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:45,440 But they had this anger that's on the inside, the silent anger. 465 00:38:45,720 --> 00:38:48,880 Nothing comes out. It's just wells up, it swells 466 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:56,320 up, it gets huge and all of a sudden you are so incensed on 467 00:38:56,320 --> 00:39:03,760 the inside. Christ says those people are are 468 00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:09,280 guilty before the court. Other words, they're they're 469 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:15,080 deserving of death. Whoa, they're deserving of 470 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:19,240 death. Anger merits divine execution 471 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,960 because God is a judge who sits on the throne. 472 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:28,040 Anger is at the root of hatred, and hatred is at the root of 473 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:33,080 every murder. And God says if you are angry at 474 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:35,040 your brother. You are deserving. 475 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:42,320 Of death, even though you never said a word, even there, though 476 00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:46,160 you you never shot a bullet, even though you never wield a 477 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:51,440 knife. Your anger is worthy of death. 478 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:57,400 Then he builds on that because he wants to take it from silent 479 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:04,840 anger to spoken anger. He he wants to to move from an 480 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:13,320 internal anger or internal, yeah, internal anger to a verbal 481 00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:19,680 abuse, he says. And whoever says to his brother, 482 00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:23,440 maybe your text says Raka. The new America standard says 483 00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:29,560 you good for nothing. That's a little soft Recall is 484 00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:35,640 a, is an it's a word that cannot be translated. 485 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:39,800 It's a word that they would know very, very well because there's 486 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,760 no definition of it. There's no describing it, but 487 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:47,840 they wouldn't know it well. It's a word that that deals with 488 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:54,000 the, the malicious intent to degrade someone, maybe because 489 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,200 of the character, maybe because of the way they look, but you're 490 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:02,000 going to, you're going to speak a word of Raqqa against them. 491 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:08,880 And Christ says if if you move from internal anger to verbal 492 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:15,440 abuse, if you move from silent anger to spoken anger, he says 493 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,680 that you are guilty before the Supreme Court. 494 00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,480 That's a more intense court. Why? 495 00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:29,960 Because that was the Sanhedrin, the 70 ruling elders of 496 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:38,160 Jerusalem who were the ones who judged the most severe of all 497 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:43,200 crimes. They pronounced judgement upon 498 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:48,640 Stephen as to why he was stoned. Because the words. 499 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:57,400 That Steven used So Christ says if you had this silent, 500 00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:02,160 smoldering anger. You're worthy of. 501 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:08,880 Death if that moves even further to to to spoken. 502 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,960 Anger. You're still. 503 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:16,200 Worthy of death. And then he says. 504 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:22,840 He says, and whoever says you fool shall be guilty enough to 505 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,760 go into the fiery hell, you fool, moron. 506 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:33,480 It's from the Hebrew word moron, which means to live against God, 507 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:39,440 to rebel against God. So if you if you say to someone 508 00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:41,920 you, you fool. Now, now listen carefully. 509 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:49,160 Jesus called the Pharisees fools because they didn't live against 510 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:50,960 God. They didn't rebel against God. 511 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,520 So you can call someone that fool who lives against God and 512 00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:00,760 who rebels against God because that's the definition of marah, 513 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:05,120 which is at the root of moron. But. 514 00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:12,720 If you just go around calling people that who are not that in 515 00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:17,000 a malicious kind of way, this is what we call salacious anger. 516 00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:23,560 It moves from silent anger to spoken anger to salacious kind 517 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:32,280 of anger to slamming kind of anger to scathing kind of anger. 518 00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:42,760 A lashing out at someone. Psalm 14 says that the fool has 519 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:49,920 said in his heart, no to God, that's the fool. 520 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:56,000 That's the one who lives against, against God. 521 00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:05,040 And Christ says if you do that, you, you are guilty of a fiery 522 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:10,440 hell. You're guilty of Gehenna, a word 523 00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:14,440 that Christ would use 11 times in the Gospels. 524 00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:19,000 Gehenna is the translation of the Valley of Hinnom. 525 00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:24,880 The Valley of Hinnom is that the valley on the South side of the 526 00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:32,120 Old City of Jerusalem. It became a cursed place simply 527 00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:38,400 because of Ahaz the king who convinced Israel to to worship 528 00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:40,880 the fire God Moloch and offer their children up his 529 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:45,160 sacrifices. When Josiah became king, he he 530 00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:48,960 transformed all that and reformed all that, but cursed 531 00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:54,080 the valley of Hinnom. It became the the garbage dump 532 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:59,240 in in Jerusalem and there was always this, this fire, this 533 00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:05,120 this smoldering fire that would always be present in the valley 534 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,400 of Hinnom. It became the perfect 535 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:11,920 illustration for a fiery hell because a fire would never go 536 00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,160 out. It was always lit, it was always 537 00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,880 smoldering, it was always smelly. 538 00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,320 It was a very cursed place. And that became the illustration 539 00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:25,000 that Christ would use of hell and call it Gehenna. 540 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:32,920 Christ says whether you have silent anger, spoken anger or 541 00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:37,400 salacious anger, you're worthy of death. 542 00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:44,280 So you think that if you just murder someone and they died 543 00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:49,800 physically, you were a murderer? He says Oh no, no, no, no. 544 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:55,080 That, that that begins on the inside of a man, and a man is 545 00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:59,160 guilty of murder. If there's this silent anger, if 546 00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,920 there's this spoken anger, if there's this salacious anger 547 00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,360 where he is lashing out at other people and is bitter and 548 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:12,600 resentful, resentful toward them, that man is just as worthy 549 00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:20,720 of death as Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, 550 00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,480 anybody else who is physically killed. 551 00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:27,360 Someone else. Why? 552 00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:34,480 Because Christ looks upon the heart, not the appearance of a 553 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:37,480 man, not the acts of a man. Why? 554 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,800 Because all the. Appearance and acts of a man's 555 00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:44,400 come from where? Inside of the man. 556 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:51,400 So what do you do? How do you handle this? 557 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,520 And, and Christ even even deals with it to some degree. 558 00:46:55,520 --> 00:47:00,600 He says, therefore, based on what I just told you, based on 559 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:04,800 your anger and your response towards somebody else. 560 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:08,720 Therefore, he says, if you are presenting your offering at the 561 00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:11,560 altar and there remember that your brother has something 562 00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:15,680 against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go 563 00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,960 first be reconciled to your brother and then come and 564 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,680 present your offering. He says this because the 565 00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:27,480 Pharisees were with a symbol of worship in Israel and they 566 00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:29,520 prided themselves on how they worshipped. 567 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,880 And Christ says, I want to let you know that you're living a 568 00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:39,600 life of hypocrisy because listen, if you know of someone 569 00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:43,200 who is angry with you, if you know of someone who has 570 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,800 something against you, and they, they would know about the, the 571 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,000 procedure and worship, they would know, they would, they 572 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,760 would take the, the animal in for sacrifice and they would, 573 00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:55,200 they would present it to the high priest and they would lay 574 00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,240 their hands on it. And the priest would go in and 575 00:47:57,240 --> 00:48:00,800 sacrifice that, that animal for the forgiveness of sins. 576 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,280 And that was just a, a symbolic act of the attitude of the 577 00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:08,960 heart. And they says when you, when you 578 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,480 take that animal and you go into the priest and you offer that, 579 00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:15,720 that, that animal to the priest, if you know there's anybody who 580 00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:19,200 has something against you, stop, stop right there. 581 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:24,360 Turn around and leave and get it right with that person. 582 00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:33,160 Why? Because if you don't, it's 583 00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:34,200 worthy of death. It's. 584 00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,920 Worthy of death. This is so important. 585 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,240 Think about it this way. People say, OK, how do we make 586 00:48:44,240 --> 00:48:48,840 the worship at Christ Community Church the best it can possibly? 587 00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:53,560 Be. Maybe we should remove the pews 588 00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:57,200 and put in chairs? Or maybe we should repaint the 589 00:48:57,200 --> 00:48:59,880 auditorium and make it aesthetically pleasing. 590 00:49:00,240 --> 00:49:03,680 Or maybe we should have a whole full orchestra pit. 591 00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,160 Or maybe we should have different kind of music. 592 00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,520 Or maybe we should have shorter sermons. 593 00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:11,120 Or, or maybe we should have this or have that. 594 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:16,080 Oh no, no, no, no, no. You want better worship. 595 00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,760 Here it is. Christ tells you if you come to 596 00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:24,280 church to worship the Lord and you know of someone in the 597 00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:28,560 auditorium who has something against you, leave. 598 00:49:29,240 --> 00:49:35,560 Leave the auditorium and get it right because that's the only 599 00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:39,880 way you're going to have meaningful, true, pure worship. 600 00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:45,800 Everything else is hypocritical. Coming in here thinking that you 601 00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:49,600 can worship the Lord, knowing that you just had a knock down, 602 00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,920 drag out fight with your wife on the way to church and you're 603 00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:55,640 yelling and screaming at each other and you get out of the car 604 00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:58,200 and you say praise the Lord. I'm at church today. 605 00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:00,920 I'm glad to be here. Hallelujah, brother. 606 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:03,080 Let's sing some praises to Jesus. 607 00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:07,800 Never, never gotten right with your wife or with your husband. 608 00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:15,280 You're a hypocrite and the Pharisees were extremely 609 00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:20,800 hypocritical. It grieves me when they're there 610 00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:24,240 are children who, who, who fight with their parents and then they 611 00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:26,760 want to come to church and worship the Lord as if there's 612 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:29,280 nothing wrong, but there's everything wrong. 613 00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:34,280 You can't worship the Lord hypocritically. 614 00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:37,840 You can't worship the Lord knowing that you have this 615 00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:41,240 offense or this anger or this attitude toward a friend of 616 00:50:41,240 --> 00:50:45,600 yours or or your mother or your father or a husband or a wife or 617 00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,560 someone who sits across on the other side of the auditorium. 618 00:50:48,720 --> 00:50:53,440 You cannot worship effectively. You cannot worship meaningfully. 619 00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:59,560 You can't worship Christ like if you have that kind of attitude, 620 00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:05,480 you cannot. So you must leave, get it right, 621 00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,800 then come back. That's why he says this. 622 00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:15,440 He says make friends quickly, leave and do it quickly. 623 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:18,200 Don't wait. Ah, well, you know, there's next 624 00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:23,240 week, there's next month when they will see him today. 625 00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,400 No, no, no. Do it quickly. 626 00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:28,560 Do it now. If you know he knows that which 627 00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:34,480 is right to do, he needs to do it extremely quickly and 628 00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:38,520 efficiently. Make friends quickly with your 629 00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:41,440 opponent in law while you are with them on the way so that 630 00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:44,880 your opponent may not hand you over to the judge and the judge 631 00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:46,960 to the officer and you be thrown into prison. 632 00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:51,000 Truly, I say to you, you will not come out of there until you 633 00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:54,120 have paid up the last cent. In other words, you can't pay it 634 00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:54,840 up. You're in prison. 635 00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:57,840 It'll never be paid back. It's too late. 636 00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:00,520 It's done. It's over. 637 00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:06,720 And if God is a judge? It's too late. 638 00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:12,600 Nothing you can do. Christ is is is helping them 639 00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:16,400 understand that they are such hypocrites in the way they deal 640 00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:19,400 with their relationships with people and they they wouldn't 641 00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,600 know this. They should know this. 642 00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:29,000 This was not new to them. God said it this way Isaiah 1. 643 00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,600 What are your multiplied sacrifices to me, says the Lord. 644 00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:37,480 I have had enough of your burnt offerings of Rams and the fat of 645 00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,920 fed cattle, and I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, 646 00:52:40,920 --> 00:52:43,520 lambs, or goats. When you come to appear before 647 00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:47,440 me, who requires of you this trampling of my courts? 648 00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:50,800 Bring your worthless offerings no longer. 649 00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:55,480 Incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath, the 650 00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:59,160 calling of assemblies. I cannot endure iniquity and the 651 00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,520 solemn assembly. I hate your new moon festivals 652 00:53:02,680 --> 00:53:05,560 and your appointed feast. They have become a burden to me. 653 00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:09,360 I am weary of burying them. So when you spread out your 654 00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:13,240 hands in prayer, I will hide my eyes from you. 655 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:18,560 Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. 656 00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,280 Your hands are covered with blood. 657 00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,480 Christ is saying, says in Israel, look, you're coming and 658 00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:28,280 you have all these sacrifices, you have all these rituals, you 659 00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:31,280 have all these ceremonies. It's like saying to us today, 660 00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,040 you know which way to go to church. 661 00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:34,400 You know how to dress for church. 662 00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,280 You know where to sit in church. You know how to sing in church. 663 00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:39,480 You know how to say the right things in church. 664 00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:41,440 And God says, I don't want any of that. 665 00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:46,080 It means nothing to me. This is this. 666 00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,760 Wash yourselves. Make yourselves clean. 667 00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,960 Remove the evil of your deeds from my sight. 668 00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:56,480 Cease to do evil. Learn to do good. 669 00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:59,080 Seek justice. Reprove the ruthless. 670 00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,880 Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow. 671 00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:05,600 In other words, make sure you're right with the people around 672 00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:07,880 you. Make sure your attitude is right 673 00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:11,760 with the people you live with. Because that's what matters. 674 00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:15,120 Sacrifice to me means nothing. Obedience to me means 675 00:54:15,120 --> 00:54:18,400 everything. Think about what he says in the 676 00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:20,920 book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah 7. 677 00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:26,080 Behold, you are trusting in deceptive words, to no avail. 678 00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:31,320 God says, will you steal murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, 679 00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:35,760 offer sacrifices to Baal, and walk after other gods that you 680 00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:40,440 have not known? Then come and stand before me in 681 00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:46,480 this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered, 682 00:54:46,720 --> 00:54:49,520 that you may do all these abominations. 683 00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:55,000 Lord says, are you going to live a life of immorality? 684 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,920 Are you going to live a life that's abominable to me? 685 00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:02,280 Are you going to live a life of anger and murder and all kinds 686 00:55:02,280 --> 00:55:06,560 of things that I'm against? Come into my house and say I'm 687 00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:09,600 here to worship you. He says get out of here. 688 00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,800 I don't want any of that. I don't need that. 689 00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,720 Get it right before you come to me. 690 00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:20,640 See, the Pharisee should have known all. 691 00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:24,040 That, and that's just a sampling of a couple of verses. 692 00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:26,200 The Old Testament's filled with them. 693 00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:28,480 Why? It's all about the heart. 694 00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:33,440 It's all about the inside of a man and his relationship he has 695 00:55:33,440 --> 00:55:38,200 with other people. You can't get God man right 696 00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:45,520 until you get man man right. If man man is wrong man God, it 697 00:55:45,520 --> 00:55:50,160 will always be wrong. That's why in the Sermon of the 698 00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:58,240 Mount he talks about prayer. He has one explanation of the 699 00:55:58,240 --> 00:56:01,520 disciples prayer and deals with forgiveness. 700 00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:09,160 He says unless you forgive your brother his trespasses, I will 701 00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:14,320 not forgive you your trespasses. Why? 702 00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:18,600 Because if you can't deal with your brother, don't even think 703 00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:20,400 of coming to me and dealing with me. 704 00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:24,560 It doesn't work that way. And that's the whole point. 705 00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:29,640 Christ is driving them to a place of desperation. 706 00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:32,600 Wait a minute. The Bible says we're not to 707 00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:34,040 murder. We don't kill anybody. 708 00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:36,040 Ah, no, no, no. It goes way deeper than that. 709 00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,760 It goes to the inside of a man, the heart of a man, because 710 00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,760 murders happen because of anger in the heart. 711 00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:44,720 Anger happens because hatred spurs it on. 712 00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:46,680 And then you commit the act of murder. 713 00:56:46,720 --> 00:56:48,600 It's all on the inside. You're guilty because of what's 714 00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:51,520 on the inside, not because of what you do on the outside. 715 00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:55,600 And. They're like, whoa, what do we 716 00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:59,240 do? How do you fix that? 717 00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:03,800 That's the point. So he's driving into the foot of 718 00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:09,040 the cross. He's driving them to him to 719 00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:14,320 plead and to cry out for mercy. That's where your personal 720 00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:17,200 transformation comes in. And we got to go fast. 721 00:57:18,760 --> 00:57:22,200 And that is number one there. There needs to be a recognition, 722 00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,240 a recognition of anger. Where does it come from? 723 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,960 Our adversary. He's the author of it, Our 724 00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:34,680 Depravity. Romans 128 and 29 Mark Chapter 7 725 00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:37,160 speak of how everything comes from the inside of a man. 726 00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,640 It comes from jealousy. Read about the prodigal son in 727 00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:45,840 Luke chapter 15, where the prodigal's brother, the older 728 00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:50,040 brother, is so jealous and so angry that his father would 729 00:57:50,040 --> 00:57:57,120 forgive his prodigal son and grant him a place of blessing in 730 00:57:57,120 --> 00:57:59,880 the house. He was so resentful because of 731 00:57:59,880 --> 00:58:03,800 jealousy. Jealousy happens, Animosity 732 00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:09,880 happens inside of a man. There's this recognition of 733 00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:12,960 where all this comes from. It comes from the inside of you. 734 00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:17,600 It comes from your heart. Unless you guard your heart, 735 00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:20,640 unless you protect your heart, unless your heart is. 736 00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:23,040 Truly committed to Christ, there is no. 737 00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:27,000 Hope it all comes from the inside. 738 00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,120 So there needs to be this recognition that that 739 00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:34,360 recognition leads then to a rejection of those things that 740 00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:37,240 are evil. That's why the Bible says over 741 00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:41,800 in Colossians chapter 3 these words. 742 00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:47,720 But now also you put them all aside, anger, wrath, malice, 743 00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:52,760 slander and abusive speech from your mouth and do not lie to one 744 00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:56,240 another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil 745 00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:59,000 practices. You need to lay those things 746 00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,760 aside. You need to, you need to discard 747 00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:04,560 those like you would dirty clothes at the end of the day. 748 00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:07,280 That's what it means to put off and put on at the end of the 749 00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:08,600 day. You, you take off your dirty 750 00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:10,320 clothes and you and you put them in the hamper. 751 00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:13,280 They need to be cleaned. You need to get rid of a malice, 752 00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:15,640 an abusive language and and slander. 753 00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:17,760 Get rid of all that stuff. Why? 754 00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:21,680 Because it's not fitting for a child of the king, that's why. 755 00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:26,040 Well, how am I going to do that? See, we, we, we need to look at 756 00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:27,880 Philippians. 48 and think on the things that are. 757 00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:30,640 True and pure and. Holy and lovely that are 758 00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:33,720 attractive, that are, that are of good repute, that we might 759 00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:36,840 think on things that are pure from above and not below. 760 00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:41,640 But we sit in our homes and we we sit resenting someone who has 761 00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:44,040 said something to us. And we, we sit there thinking 762 00:59:44,040 --> 00:59:47,320 all kinds of evil things against them, instead of thinking on the 763 00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:50,920 things of Scripture. Wherewithal shall a man keep his 764 00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:54,120 way pure, But by taking heed to the word of God, Thy Word, I 765 00:59:54,120 --> 00:59:56,080 have treasure in my heart that I might not sin against Thee. 766 00:59:56,240 --> 00:59:59,600 It's all about thinking about the things of Scripture in the 767 00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:03,240 things of our Lord, having our minds focused on that which is 768 01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:06,760 above and not below. There needs to be a rejection of 769 01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:10,240 all that stuff because we are totally engulfed. 770 01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:11,400 In the truth of. Scripture. 771 01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:16,320 And then there needs to be a reconciliation, A reconciliation 772 01:00:16,320 --> 01:00:21,720 with our brother, reconciliation with our sister or a family 773 01:00:21,720 --> 01:00:27,640 member or someone else. The Lord has turned the tables 774 01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:32,440 on the Pharisees. He's revolutionized everything. 775 01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:39,960 And a holy God who is perfect wanted you and me to be 776 01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:43,840 reconciled to him. So we did everything to make 777 01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:49,000 that possible. And if a holy God who is sinless 778 01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:53,480 and spotless and pure would do all he could to reconcile 779 01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:59,840 sinful, unholy, wretched man, why can't we do all we can to 780 01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:05,120 reconcile with our brother or sister in Christ, Right? 781 01:01:07,320 --> 01:01:10,840 And that reconciliation can only come, that rejection can only 782 01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:14,320 come, that recognition can only come if there's a redemption. 783 01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:16,600 That's the fourth point you can add to your outline. 784 01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:20,480 Redemption. You got to be redeemed. 785 01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:23,680 See, Christ is driving them to the cross. 786 01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:26,000 He's driving them to cry out for mercy. 787 01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:30,240 Lord, we can't do this. If we're guilty of, of, of the 788 01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:34,360 hell, the fiery hell, because of anger on the inside, what can we 789 01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:36,280 do? Christ says you can't do 790 01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:38,000 anything. You can't. 791 01:01:39,400 --> 01:01:43,200 Ah, but I can. Because you see, I can grant you 792 01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:47,920 my righteousness. I can grant you a standing with 793 01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:52,880 me. I can grant you a righteousness 794 01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:57,840 that exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, because theirs is 795 01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:04,760 one of human achievement and it dams their soul. 796 01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:11,520 But I can give you 1 because of divine accomplishment and it 797 01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:18,560 will save your soul. So have you murdered anyone 798 01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:23,640 lately? The answer is yes, we all have. 799 01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:31,560 But the good news is this. Jesus is the one who cleanses 800 01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:35,240 our soul. Jesus is the one that saves us 801 01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:40,960 from our sin. Jesus is our Redeemer, so he 802 01:02:40,960 --> 01:02:48,360 says these words, Come unto me, Come unto me, all you that are 803 01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:52,000 heavy laden and burden, and I will give you rest. 804 01:02:52,800 --> 01:02:56,160 Come to me. Though your sins be a scarlet, 805 01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:02,560 they should be as white as snow. Though they be red like Crimson, 806 01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:11,040 they will be made as wool. See, Pharisees knew that verse 807 01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:15,480 too. They just refused to to come to 808 01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:21,600 Christ us. Well, the good news is, is that 809 01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:23,480 if you're here tonight and you're giving life to Christ, 810 01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:26,560 then you've been cleansed. You've been washed in the blood 811 01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:29,560 of the lamb. If you haven't, you can be. 812 01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:33,280 All you have to do is give your life to Christ. 813 01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:36,600 Let me pray with you. Father, we thank you for 814 01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:41,680 tonight. You realize, Lord, that we're 815 01:03:41,680 --> 01:03:45,640 murderers don't want to be, but we are. 816 01:03:46,960 --> 01:03:54,400 We have sinful hearts, and yet yet you love us enough to die 817 01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:58,840 for us and to pave the way by taking our penalty. 818 01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:02,760 The wages of sin is death, and all of sin have fallen short of 819 01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:07,360 the glory of God. But Christ, you're our 820 01:04:07,360 --> 01:04:10,280 substitute. You died in ours place. 821 01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:16,680 You bore the the wrath of hell on Calvary's cross. 822 01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:22,960 So we would have to. We escaped Gehenna, we escaped 823 01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:30,760 the fiery hell because of Christ and his righteousness imputed to 824 01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:33,760 us. For that Lord we are grateful. 825 01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:36,520 In Jesus name, Amen.