1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,040 Father, we thank you for today. Lord, we are so blessed to be 2 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:05,960 here and we just ask that you would teach us much this evening 3 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:07,480 that we might grow on a walk with you. 4 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:10,840 We thank you Father for the word of God that teaches us how to 5 00:00:10,840 --> 00:00:13,840 live for the glory of God. We thank you for the word of God 6 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,960 that shows us the beauty of your presence and who you are and 7 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:19,640 what you do. So we just thank you, Father, 8 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:22,560 that we could be here and pray, Lord, that you'd open our eyes 9 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:26,920 that we might behold the beauty of the Lord in Jesus name, Amen. 10 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,480 Take your Bible and turn with me to Matthew chapter 5. 11 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:35,080 Matthew chapter 5. And last time we were together, 12 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:39,480 we asked you, have you murdered anyone lately? 13 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:42,000 Some of you took great offense to that. 14 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:45,200 Well, if you did, you'll take greater offense this evening 15 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,520 because I'm going to ask you, have you committed adultery with 16 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,120 anyone lately? Now you say, well, wait a 17 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,280 minute, pastor, you're getting over, over the top here. 18 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,120 Why would someone want to come to our church if you call them a 19 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:01,040 murderer and adulterer? Well, listen, I don't do that. 20 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:03,360 I just read what the Scriptures say. 21 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,040 And So what we're looking at in the Bible is something that 22 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,720 Jesus explains to us about the essence of the law. 23 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:16,760 And I think that for most part, we don't understand the law of 24 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:19,720 God. Christ came to fulfill the law. 25 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:21,760 He didn't come to abolish the law. 26 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:28,520 He came to uphold the law of Moses and the prophets. 27 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,960 That is very, very important. So when he says, I did not come 28 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:38,920 to abolish the law, but I came to fulfill the law, that speaks 29 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:43,960 volumes to the audience on the hillside of the North Shore, the 30 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:47,760 Sea of Galilee, because they might be thinking, who is this 31 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:51,480 guy coming and saying the things he's saying, speaking with 32 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,560 authority? Who does he think he is? 33 00:01:55,840 --> 00:02:01,200 So we begin to explain to them the essence of the law of God. 34 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,680 And in our section tonight in Matthew chapter 5, he says these 35 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:12,640 words in verse #27 you have heard that it was said you 36 00:02:12,640 --> 00:02:17,840 should not commit adultery. But I say to you that everyone 37 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:23,440 who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed 38 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:29,560 adultery with her and his heart. If your right eye makes you 39 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,680 stumble, tear it out. Thought far from you. 40 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,960 For it's better for you to lose 1 of the parts of your body than 41 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,960 for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 42 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:45,760 If your right hand makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it 43 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:50,960 from you, for it's better for you to lose 1 of the parts of 44 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:56,320 your body than for your whole body to go into hell. 45 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:01,560 Now if you're on the hillside there in the Sea of Galilee, you 46 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,720 hear those words, you're you're kind of taken back for, for a 47 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:09,280 moment because if Christ says you have heard that it was said 48 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,920 you should not commit adultery, everybody would say Amen. 49 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:16,240 We understand that's the 7th commandment. 50 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,000 We understood the 6th commandment. 51 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,680 You should not murder. And we say Amen to that. 52 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:30,240 But Christ is concerned not so much about the deed, but the 53 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:37,360 desire behind the deed, not so much about the ACT, but the 54 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:44,280 attitude behind the act. This is very, very important. 55 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:53,640 We live in a, in a nation that is enamoured with marital 56 00:03:53,640 --> 00:04:02,680 infidelity, sexual promiscuity. In fact, it's, it's literally 57 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:09,800 out of control and not only out of control in our nation and in 58 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:16,160 the world, but unfortunately out of control inside of the church. 59 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:24,400 And Paul would address that in the church, the Church of 60 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,480 Thessalonica, the church at Corinth, because it is very 61 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:34,360 prominent. In fact, our Lord created the 62 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,120 heavens and the earth. Genesis chapter 1 Genesis 63 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:43,280 chapter 2 sin entered in chapter 3 and by the time you come to 64 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:49,840 Genesis chapter 6, God is going to destroy every living thing on 65 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:54,280 the planet. Why He tells us. 66 00:04:55,000 --> 00:05:04,040 Genesis chapter 6 verse #5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness 67 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:08,960 of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the 68 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:17,000 thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 69 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:24,880 And that's very, very important how that is stated, that every 70 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:31,000 thought, every evil intent of the heart was wicked. 71 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:37,960 He didn't mention the acts of those who live on the planet. 72 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,840 He mentioned the hearts of those who lived on the planet. 73 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:51,720 And So what did he do? He destroyed everyone except for 74 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:57,480 Noah and his family. God decided to grace Noah and 75 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:09,440 his family. 4500 years later, here we sit and the Lord and his 76 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:15,400 patience and his long-suffering and his mercy has not destroyed 77 00:06:16,280 --> 00:06:18,760 the planet. One day He will. 78 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,560 Second Peter chapter 3, the Book of Revelation tells us how our 79 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,560 Lord is going to destroy this planet. 80 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:34,640 But God has been gracious, He's been merciful to a society that 81 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,840 has turned their back on the Lord. 82 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:46,880 And so you you come to the teaching of Christ in Matthew 83 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:53,800 chapter 5 some 2000 years ago, helping people to understand 84 00:06:53,800 --> 00:07:00,840 what is the true attitude behind the act of adultery. 85 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:07,520 Because it's the attitude that dams your soul, not the act 86 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:11,360 that's so important to understand. 87 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:17,040 Because way before you ever do the ACT, there's a desire and an 88 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:22,160 attitude in the soul, in the heart that moves you to do that 89 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:26,600 action. And so the Lord wants them to 90 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:33,000 understand the intent of the law of God because somehow they 91 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,720 missed it. Somehow they would think, well, 92 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,360 I don't murder, so I'm righteous. 93 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:44,560 I don't sleep with my neighbor's wife and she doesn't sleep with 94 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:46,600 anybody else. So therefore, we're not 95 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,240 adulterers, We're righteous. We're we're on our way to 96 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:53,520 heaven. And the Lord wants to make it 97 00:07:53,520 --> 00:08:00,200 very clear that that is not the essence of the law of God. 98 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:06,400 It goes much deeper than that, and the Bible is replete with 99 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:10,480 warnings. We studied it when we looked at 100 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,520 First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 3. 101 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:17,200 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that is, 102 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:22,760 that you abstain from sexual immorality, any kind of sexual 103 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:24,880 act outside the realm of marriage. 104 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:27,080 This is the will of God for your life. 105 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,000 If you want to know what God wants for you, this is it. 106 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:36,320 He wants you pure, He wants you holy, He wants you seeking His 107 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,200 name. He says that each of you know 108 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:45,160 how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in 109 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,440 lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God, 110 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,760 and that no man transgressed and defraud his brother in the 111 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:55,840 matter, because the Lord is the avenger and all these things, 112 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:00,440 just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you. 113 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:04,560 For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in 114 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:08,200 sanctification. So he who rejects this is not 115 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:12,320 rejecting man, but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you. 116 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,080 Now Paul is writing to the Church of Thessalonica. 117 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:18,760 There is no greater model of a church than the Church of 118 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:21,800 Thessalonica. It is the model church and yet 119 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,720 he's already said I've warned you already about this. 120 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,080 I'm going to warn you again because I want your walk to 121 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,760 excel even more. This is the will of God. 122 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:33,600 Even your sanctification that you abstain from any kind of 123 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,920 sexual activity outside the realm of marriage. 124 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:44,400 So important fact, Solomon, say it this way. 125 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:47,840 Drink water from your own cistern. 126 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:54,640 Proverbs chapter 5, verse 15. And fresh water from your own 127 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,400 well. Should your springs be dispersed 128 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:01,840 abroad, streams of water in the streets, let them be yours 129 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:03,640 alone, and not for strangers with you. 130 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:08,440 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your 131 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:11,800 youth as a loving hind in a graceful dough. 132 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,160 Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. 133 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:16,680 Be exhilarated always with her love. 134 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:22,040 For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress, 135 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:24,920 and embrace the bosom of a foreigner? 136 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,040 For the ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he 137 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,760 watches all his paths. His own iniquities will capture 138 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:37,960 the wicked, and he will be held with the cords of a sin, and he 139 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:39,920 will die for lack of instruction. 140 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:46,040 In the greatness of his folly he will go astray. 141 00:10:47,640 --> 00:10:49,640 So whether you're the Old Testament or whether you're the 142 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:57,120 New Testament, there is a plethora of warnings all 143 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:03,480 throughout the Scripture to help you understand the importance of 144 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,000 honoring and glorifying the Lord. 145 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:16,200 The purpose of sex in marriage is confirmed in First 146 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:21,640 Corinthians 7. The perversion of sex outside of 147 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:26,920 marriage is condemned in First Corinthians chapter 6. 148 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:36,600 And the persistent pursuit of sex, whether in marriage or 149 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:42,000 outside of marriage, can be corruptive. 150 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,400 So we need to understand that. In fact, turn with me in your 151 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,520 Bible to 1st Corinthians Chapter 7. 152 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:54,480 This is the the purpose of sex in the realm of marriage. 153 00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:57,840 It's for pleasure and for protection. 154 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,560 The Bible is very clear about this. 155 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:04,840 It says the 1st Corinthians 7 and verse #3 the husband must 156 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:09,120 fulfill his duty to his wife and likewise also the wife to her 157 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,960 husband. Other words, you have 158 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:15,560 responsibility as a man to fulfill the needs of your wife 159 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:19,760 and vice versa as a wife to fulfill the sexual needs of your 160 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,000 husband. Why? 161 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:26,600 The wife does not have authority over her own body but the 162 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,440 husband does and likewise also the husband does not have 163 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:33,560 authority over his own body, but the wife does. 164 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:39,680 Stop depriving one another except by agreement for a time 165 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:43,920 that you may devote yourselves to prayer and come together 166 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:47,880 again. Said Satan will not tempt you 167 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:51,960 because of your lack of self-control. 168 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:58,160 So Paul says the purpose of sex and marriage is to fold pleasure 169 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:01,280 and protection. That's why your body is not your 170 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,960 own, but it's your husband's or your wife's. 171 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:09,040 And don't refrain from having sexual intimacy in your marriage 172 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:13,680 except only for the purpose of prayer, because if you do, you 173 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:17,480 will open the door for Satan to take advantage of you and to 174 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:21,440 tempt you and move you away from the purposes of God. 175 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:29,520 And then at First Corinthians chapter 6, Paul goes from the 176 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,560 purpose of sex inside of marriage to the perversion of 177 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:38,080 sex outside of marriage. He says this. 178 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,240 All things verse 12 are lawful for me, but not all things are 179 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,840 profitable. All things are lawful for me, 180 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:47,040 but I will not be mastered by anything. 181 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:51,680 Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food, but God 182 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:55,720 will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for 183 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:00,480 immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body. 184 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:04,760 You see, this is again the Church of Corinth. 185 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:07,960 He's speaking to people in the church. 186 00:14:08,680 --> 00:14:11,680 He's not talking to people outside the church, but people 187 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:15,760 who who profess Christianity inside the church. 188 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:21,200 And he tells them, look, sex is more than biological. 189 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:24,160 We look at it that way. Well, that's why they use the 190 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:26,600 phrase, well, food is for the stomach and the stomach is for 191 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,520 food. Sex is for the body and the body 192 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:31,760 is for sex. No, no, sex is not more than 193 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:32,760 biological. Why? 194 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:35,760 Because your body is for the Lord, that's why he redeemed 195 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:37,960 you. You need to understand that. 196 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:43,400 So he says now God has not only raised the Lord, but will raise 197 00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,480 us up through his power. Do you not know that your bodies 198 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,760 are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the 199 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,040 members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? 200 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:57,480 May never be. Or do you not know that the one 201 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:01,120 who joins himself to a prostitute is 1 body with her? 202 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:06,680 For he says the two shall become one flesh, but the one who joins 203 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,120 himself to the Lord is 1 spirit with him. 204 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,920 Flee immorality. Flee Tornaea. 205 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:17,840 Any kind of sexual activity outside the realm of marriage, 206 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:23,840 run from it. For every other sin that a man 207 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:28,200 commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his 208 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:30,320 own body. In other words, there's 209 00:15:30,320 --> 00:15:33,320 something about sex sin that's different than every other kind 210 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,920 of sin because sexual sin effects not just you physically, 211 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:41,000 but it affects you mentally, it affects you emotionally, it 212 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,600 affects you spiritually, it can end up affecting you 213 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,520 financially, It affects every aspect of your life. 214 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:51,720 So, so understand that your body is for the Lord, and when you 215 00:15:51,720 --> 00:15:54,600 take your body and join it to someone outside the realm of 216 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:58,880 marriage, you're joining the Lord to that prostitute, you're 217 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:05,760 joining the Lord to that harlot, and therefore you've defiled the 218 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:12,320 name of the Lord. So he goes on to say, excuse me? 219 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:15,800 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy 220 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,680 Spirit who is in you, who we have from God, and that you are 221 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,960 not your own if you've been bought with the price? 222 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:27,240 Therefore, glorify God in your body. 223 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:31,600 In other words, your purpose for your body is that God be 224 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:38,080 glorified, that God be honored, that God be magnified in your 225 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:46,840 body because He indwells you, He lives within you, and you want 226 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:50,480 to be careful about what you do with the body where God himself 227 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:58,720 dwells, because sex outside of marriage just perverts 228 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:05,680 everything about one's life. And then look what Solomon says 229 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:11,599 in the book of Proverbs, the 6th chapter, verse 23. 230 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:16,319 For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching is light, and 231 00:17:16,319 --> 00:17:19,760 he proves for discipline of the way of life to keep you from the 232 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,520 evil woman. Wow, why do you study the Bible? 233 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,359 Why do you read the Bible? Why do you memorize the Bible? 234 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:34,720 To keep you from the evil woman. It says from the smooth tongue 235 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,160 of the adulteress. Do not desire her beauty in your 236 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:42,640 heart, nor let her capture you with her eyelids. 237 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:49,200 For on account of a harlot 1 is reduced to a loaf of bread, and 238 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,920 adulteress hunts for the precious life. 239 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:59,920 Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? 240 00:18:01,360 --> 00:18:05,240 Or can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? 241 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:08,040 So was the one who goes to his neighbor's wife. 242 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,480 Whoever touches her will not go unpunished. 243 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:16,240 Verse 32 The one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking 244 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:19,240 sense. He would destroy himself, 245 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:26,200 doesn't wounds and disgrace he will find, and his reproach will 246 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:34,320 not be blotted out for jealousy and rages a man, and he will not 247 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:38,160 spare in the day of vengeance. He will not accept any ransom, 248 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:43,880 nor will he be satisfied, though you give many gifts. 249 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:49,800 Again, that the Bible is just replete with warnings about 250 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:55,480 sexual sin because it is so damaging, not just to you 251 00:18:55,480 --> 00:19:02,560 personally, but to your family, to your friends, to your church, 252 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:10,160 basically to anyone you come in contact with. 253 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:17,760 And so you come to a place where you begin to ask the question, 254 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:23,920 what is it about this pursuit of passionate pleasure that is so 255 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:26,800 prevailing in the lives of people? 256 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:33,120 Well, unless a heart is transformed by God, that passion 257 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:37,160 will rage uncontrollably. But even though the heart has 258 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:41,080 been transformed, the temptations for the believer are 259 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,000 great. That's why James says these 260 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:50,160 words. James chapter 1, he says very 261 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:54,040 clearly that no one say verse 13 when he is tempted. 262 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,040 I am being tempted by God, for God cannot be tempted by evil, 263 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,120 and he himself does not tempt anyone. 264 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:04,280 But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by 265 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,520 his own lust. Then when he lust has conceived, 266 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,160 he gives birth to sin, and when sin is accomplished, it brings 267 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:16,360 forth death. Do not be deceived, my beloved 268 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:19,520 brethren, because it's so easy to be deceived. 269 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,400 We think that we can sin without consequences, but you can't 270 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:30,360 because the result of the consequences of sin is a death 271 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:34,200 like existence, A lifeless existence. 272 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:42,760 And so Christ comes along because the Pharisees believe 273 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:46,480 that if you didn't do certain things, you were righteous. 274 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:50,560 If you don't murder, if you don't steal, you don't lie, you 275 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:53,560 don't cheat, you don't commit adultery, you're righteous. 276 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,360 You're on your way to glory. All you got to do is make sure 277 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:01,040 you accomplish the right feat, do the right thing. 278 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,600 And to some degree, look at us. We tend to think, oh man, I 279 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,120 would never, never sleep with another woman, or my wife would 280 00:21:09,120 --> 00:21:12,320 never sleep with another man. Oh, that's just so perverted, 281 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:17,360 so, so evil, so wrong. Well, that was the attitude of 282 00:21:17,360 --> 00:21:22,280 the Pharisees. They had the same attitude it 283 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,120 should be, except for the grace of God. 284 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:28,760 There we go, right? But the Pharisees had this 285 00:21:28,760 --> 00:21:31,880 attitude. Look at us, we are pure and holy 286 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:35,840 and righteous because we don't murder anybody, we don't lie to 287 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:39,400 anybody, and we don't sleep with anybody outside of our own 288 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:44,880 family. And that was how they 289 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:50,120 accomplished their righteous behavior and thought that that 290 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:56,080 would get them into glory. But Christ comes along and says 291 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,080 you have heard that it was said. He didn't say you have heard 292 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:05,840 that Moses said no, he says you have heard that it was said by 293 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,960 who? By the ancients of old. 294 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:09,840 He says that over and over here 6 times. 295 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,040 He says that because he gives, he begins each illustration with 296 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,480 the same phrase. You have heard that it was said 297 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:18,480 by by the ancients of old, by the by the rabbis of old. 298 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,640 This the tradition that you've been taught. 299 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:28,520 But I came to tell you the truth and the truth Trump's tradition. 300 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:35,080 So you must understand the essence of the law of Moses 301 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:40,400 because I came to fulfill that law. 302 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,160 You see, everything that the Pharisees, Pharisees did was 303 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:50,240 external. But what Christ does is 304 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:56,040 internal. Christ deals with the inside of 305 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,600 a person. They, they would say we are 306 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:04,000 righteous because of what we don't do or what we do do. 307 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:07,520 And Christ says you're not righteous because there anything 308 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:11,600 you do or don't do, you have to be righteous on the inside. 309 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:20,160 Your heart must be cleansed. Jesus is showing them, oh why 310 00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,320 you might not murder someone physically. 311 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:26,000 You hate them in your heart. You slander them, you speak 312 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,880 against them, and while you might not sleep with your 313 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:33,560 neighbor's wife, you lust for her in your heart. 314 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,320 And because you lust for her, you've already committed 315 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:45,000 adultery in your heart. So it's not the act of adultery 316 00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:51,560 that dams your soul, it's the attitude of adultery that dams 317 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:57,440 the soul. It's on the inside, not what's 318 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,360 on the outside. You see, they could, they could 319 00:24:00,360 --> 00:24:03,440 stop themselves from committing the act of murder. 320 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,280 They could stop themselves from committing the adulterous act. 321 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:08,480 They can do that externally, right? 322 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:14,520 But they could not stop what was on the inside of their hearts, 323 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:20,920 the hatred, the lustful thoughts, because they were 324 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,880 powerless to do that. They were hopeless to do that 325 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:30,280 because they were godless, therefore they could not conquer 326 00:24:30,280 --> 00:24:34,560 the enemy of their soul. So Christ comes along and says, 327 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,400 You have heard that it was said by the ancients of old, but I 328 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:44,840 say unto you, you have misunderstood the law of Moses. 329 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:53,360 When God gave the 10 commandments, he wasn't just 330 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:57,800 talking about things you don't do. 331 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,080 The commandments of God go much deeper than that. 332 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,800 So let me show you how that works. 333 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:16,040 Let me explain to you what the Bible really says about the law 334 00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:21,440 of God, because in today's day and age, this is what we say. 335 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,000 Well, the Old Testament is about the law of God and the New 336 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:26,880 Testament is about the grace of God. 337 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,000 But I'm afraid we've got that wrong. 338 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:34,280 Not that a New Testament doesn't teach about the grace of God. 339 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,960 It does. Not that the Old Testament 340 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,000 doesn't teach about the law of God, because it does. 341 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:48,560 But we've forgotten the purpose and the meaning of the law of 342 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,880 God. So let me say it to you this 343 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,760 way. The Old Testament begins with 344 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,400 the Pentateuch, the law of Moses, right? 345 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:10,200 And so the law that God gives is initiated in the Pentateuch from 346 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:14,480 the Pentateuch. Yet the prophets, the prophets 347 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:21,800 will elaborate on that. What that which was initiated in 348 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:27,520 the Pentateuch and then you have the New Testament and Jesus 349 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:34,560 comes and he consummates what was elaborated on based on what 350 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:42,200 was initiated in the Pentateuch. You need to understand that, for 351 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:48,000 instance, all throughout the Old Testament you'll hear the phrase 352 00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:58,240 the Law of Moses stated, or as Moses himself taught us, that 15 353 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:03,120 times in the Old Testament and seven times in the New 354 00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:09,440 Testament, there's a reference to the law of Moses because 355 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,240 Christ did not come to abolish that law. 356 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:17,960 He came to fulfill the law of God. 357 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:25,680 And so in the Pentateuch it ends with a specific book. 358 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,400 That book is called the Book of Deuteronomy. 359 00:27:31,320 --> 00:27:37,320 Deuteronomy could probably be the most important book in the 360 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:44,240 entire Old Testament, and the book of Deuteronomy, which is 361 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,600 the second law, or it is literally the reiteration of the 362 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,920 law of God. The nation of Israel is about to 363 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:54,720 embark on the promised land, and so Moses is going to reiterate 364 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,120 everything in the law. They got to get it. 365 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:02,040 Can't miss it. You have to understand it. 366 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:07,280 You're about to embark in a Pagan land, and everything I'm 367 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:09,400 going to say to you is a reiteration of what's already 368 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,200 been said. But I need to make it very clear 369 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,920 and plain to you. So he does. 370 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:22,600 He's preparing them to enter into the promised land. 371 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:30,720 Did you know that Jesus quotes the book of Deuteronomy more 372 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,600 than any other Old Testament book? 373 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:39,960 Did you know that the New Testament writers quote the book 374 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:43,800 of Deuteronomy more so than any other New Testament book? 375 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:49,120 Why would they do that? Because it's the most important 376 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,080 book in the Old Testament 80 times. 377 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,840 In the New Testament, the book of Deuteronomy is quoted 80 378 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:03,400 times. So important to realize what the 379 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:11,720 book is all about. In fact in Deuteronomy chapter 380 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:19,440 31 every seven years this was to be read at the feast of 381 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:27,200 Tabernacles. What the book of Deuteronomy it 382 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,280 says in verse 10 of Deuteronomy 31. 383 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:33,400 Then Moses commanded them, saying, at the end of every 384 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:38,320 seven years, at the time of the year of remission of debts, at 385 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,720 the Feast of Booths, when all Israel comes to appear before 386 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:45,400 the Lord your God, at the place which He would choose, you shall 387 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,760 read this law in front of all Israel. 388 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,200 In their hearing assemble the people, the men, the women, the 389 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,360 children, the alien who is in your own, your town, so that 390 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:00,040 they might hear and learn and fear the Lord your God. 391 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,320 And be careful to observe all the words of this law. 392 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,360 Their children who have not known will hear and learn to 393 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,520 fear the Lord your God as long as you live on the land which 394 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:16,280 you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. 395 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:22,200 Remember why Israel went to Babylonian captivity for 70 396 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:27,680 years? It's because he didn't keep the 397 00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:33,120 sabbatical, the sabbatical year, like God intended. 398 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,360 And because they didn't, they didn't read the book of 399 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:42,760 Deuteronomy and therefore they did not understand the law of 400 00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,440 God, which is rooted in God's love for his people. 401 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:53,560 It's no wonder they went into captivity. 402 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:58,880 So the book of Deuteronomy is a summation of, of the Pentateuch. 403 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:06,120 It's a summation of basically all of the Old Testament because 404 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:11,920 the prophets would elaborate on what the Law of Moses stated. 405 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:23,920 And in the Law of Moses there is one verse that is a summation of 406 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:28,400 the book of Deuteronomy, which is a summation of the entire 407 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,600 Bible, making Deuteronomy the most important book in the Old 408 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,840 Testament. Aren't you glad you came 409 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,000 tonight? Because you probably would have 410 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,360 never guessed that one. And that that verse is a very 411 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:47,120 familiar verse. It's Deuteronomy 6 verse #5 412 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,480 which says you shall love the Lord your God with all of your 413 00:31:55,480 --> 00:32:01,800 heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. 414 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,520 That that is the summation of the law of God. 415 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,040 You should love the Lord your God. 416 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:15,280 Hear, O Israel, the Lord of God is 1 And that that that is put 417 00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,600 inside the the Mezusa and the mezusa is just another word for 418 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,760 doorpost. And inside that mezusa is the 419 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:27,280 law of God, is the the great Shema to hear, hear what about 420 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:28,320 the Lord? God is 1. 421 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,320 And you shall love him with all your heart. 422 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:32,920 And you, you're going to a Jewish Home, and you had that 423 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:36,440 mezuzah hanging on the door. And the Jewish person will walk 424 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:41,160 in and he'll just put his hand over the mezuzah, or maybe he'll 425 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,240 lick his lips and kiss his lips and then touch the mezuzah. 426 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:49,120 Because the Lord is the guardian of that house and the guardian 427 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:52,720 of their doors, and they look at it as protection. 428 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,880 And it becomes the, the pivotal plastic of Scripture for 429 00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,920 families. Because it goes on to say these 430 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:02,720 words. These words which I am 431 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,560 commanding you today shall be on your heart and you shall teach 432 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,720 them diligently to your sons and shall talk to them when you sit 433 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,600 in your house and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, 434 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,920 when you rise up, shall bind them as a sign on your hand. 435 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,120 And they shall be as frontals on your forehead to write them on 436 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:21,400 the doorpost of your house, on your gates. 437 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:24,560 That's why there's the Mezusa, that's why they wear the 438 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,440 phylacteries. That's why they hang this law 439 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,840 from them and they take it literally that they shall wrap 440 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:33,600 it around them so that when they walk and they talk and no matter 441 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:39,280 where they go, it's always about loving the Lord your God. 442 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:45,360 Because you see, that's what the law of God is all about. 443 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:53,800 It's about learning to love the one true God. 444 00:33:55,160 --> 00:34:03,000 You see, God was primarily into a relationship with Israel. 445 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:11,400 God redeemed Israel. God chose Israel. 446 00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:17,880 God loved Israel before he ever gave them the law. 447 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:25,159 Why? Because the law of God regulates 448 00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:32,280 how you love God. Need to understand that the law 449 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:42,880 of God was given after the love of God for His people to show 450 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:47,520 the people how it is they would love God with all their heart, 451 00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:51,280 all their soul and all their strength and all their might 452 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:57,240 see, and that's exactly what the 10 commandments, the moral law 453 00:34:57,240 --> 00:35:02,360 of God is all about. It's about demonstrating how it 454 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:08,720 is I truly love God and love my neighbor because in the book of 455 00:35:08,720 --> 00:35:11,480 Deuteronomy, that's the emphasis all throughout the book. 456 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,080 Loving God and loving your alien neighbor. 457 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,400 If you love God, you'll love your brother, you'll love your 458 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:23,960 neighbor. In fact, isn't that true that 459 00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:27,760 Jesus says these words? And Matthew chapter 22, when the 460 00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,520 Pharisees came to him and said, Lord, what's the greatest 461 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:30,720 commandment? What's He say? 462 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,760 He says, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and 463 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,040 with all your soul, and with all your mind. 464 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,400 Deuteronomy 6 verse #5 So, So the Lord's asked the question, 465 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,560 what's the greatest commandment? He didn't say You shall have no 466 00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:47,160 other gods before me. Didn't say that. 467 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,400 Don't you say remember, remember the Sabbath day and keep it 468 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,160 holy? No, says you should love the 469 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,120 Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. 470 00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:02,360 This is the great and foremost commandment. 471 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,240 The second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as 472 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:10,520 yourself. And then comes verse #40 That's 473 00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:16,400 what it says. On these two commandments depend 474 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:27,040 the whole law and the prophets. On these two commandments hang 475 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,000 the law of Moses and the prophets. 476 00:36:31,240 --> 00:36:34,360 Everything is about loving God and loving your neighbor. 477 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:39,040 And if you love your neighbor because you love God, you won't 478 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:44,320 commit adultery, you won't murder, you won't steal, you 479 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,240 won't covet. Why? 480 00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:49,000 Because you love God and you love him so much you love your 481 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,720 neighbor so you won't defraud your neighbor. 482 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:59,680 The reason people steal and lie and commit adultery is simply 483 00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:05,240 because they do not love God. Therefore they cannot love their 484 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:10,160 neighbor. See, and here were the Pharisees 485 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,080 claiming righteousness based on the fact that he didn't do this 486 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:19,800 or didn't do that. But that's not the purpose of 487 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:26,600 the law of God. And so the Lord would explain 488 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:34,480 all that He means. The law did not 'cause Israel's 489 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:42,880 relationship with God. The law was the result of 490 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:48,120 Israel's relationship with God. Oh, by the way, that's the exact 491 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,560 same way it is in the New Testament. 492 00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:53,880 Did you know that? Sure it is. 493 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:58,560 What's the Bible say? We love him because what? 494 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:04,600 He first loved us. And So what did Christ say? 495 00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:09,480 If you love me, you will do what you will. 496 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:20,160 Keep my commandments. See, if you love me, you'll obey 497 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,960 me. And how will I obey you? 498 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,080 By understanding all that you say. 499 00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:31,200 And follow me through on that. If you go back to Deuteronomy 500 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:35,160 chapter 10, listen to this verse 12. 501 00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:40,440 Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you? 502 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:45,280 That's a good question, right? Moses is asking Israel, the 503 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:50,120 nation, What does the Lord require from you but to fear the 504 00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:56,280 Lord your God, to walk in all his ways and love Him, and to 505 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,840 serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your 506 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:05,560 soul, and to keep his, the Lord's commandments and His 507 00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:07,960 statutes, which I am committing you today for your good. 508 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:17,520 See, the regulations only come after the relationship, for the 509 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:26,560 relationship is 1 of love. Therefore, the way we love God 510 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:32,880 back is demonstrated to Him by obeying all that He says, and 511 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:38,560 therefore the demands of the law become the delights of 1's love 512 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,960 for their God. That's so important to 513 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:48,680 understand. It says behold verse #14 to the 514 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,680 Lord. Behold, to the Lord your God 515 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:53,320 belong heaven and the highest heavens, the earth and all that 516 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:56,160 is in it. Yet on your Father's did the 517 00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:00,320 Lord set his affection to love them, and He chose their 518 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:05,560 descendants after them, even you above all peoples, as it is this 519 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:07,280 day. The Lord loved you. 520 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:12,640 The Lord chose you. The Lord redeemed you. 521 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:20,840 The regulations never came until there was redemption. 522 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:27,160 They were purchased, bought out of slavery in Egypt. 523 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,000 So he says in verse 16, here's the key. 524 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:38,160 So circumcise your heart. God wants the heart cut away all 525 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:42,480 the the, the frivolity and cut away all the the hypocrisy and 526 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:47,040 cut away all the the immorality and cut away all those things 527 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:51,360 that keep you from loving God. God says, circumcise your heart. 528 00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,600 I want your heart to be solely devoted to me. 529 00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,560 That's what God wants. He wants the heart. 530 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:02,400 So when Christ comes along and says, you have heard that it was 531 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:07,800 said, do not commit adultery, but I say unto you, it's all 532 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,360 about the heart. It's what's happening on the 533 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:14,720 inside. The Pharisees were into the 534 00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:21,400 external show, but I'm into the internal soul. 535 00:41:22,720 --> 00:41:27,560 Big difference. And Christ says this is what's 536 00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:31,040 important. You need to understand this. 537 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:36,240 And so it goes on and says these words of verse 17 of Deuteronomy 538 00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:38,160 10. For the Lord your God is the God 539 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,800 of gods and the Lord of Lords, the great, the mighty, and the 540 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:44,880 awesome God, who does not show partiality or take a bribe. 541 00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,960 He executes justice for the orphan and the widow and shows 542 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,200 his love for the alien by giving him food and clothing. 543 00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:53,920 See. Love the Lord your God with all 544 00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,360 your heart, and love your brother. 545 00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:58,720 Love the alien. Reach out to them, care for 546 00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:02,840 them. So show your love for the alien. 547 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,440 Verse #19 For you were aliens in the land of Egypt. 548 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:11,280 You shall fear the Lord your God, you shall serve Him, cling 549 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,400 to Him. You should swear by His name. 550 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,240 He is your praise and He is your God who has done these great and 551 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:24,440 awesome things for you, which your eyes have seen. 552 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:30,120 Chapter 11 verse #1 You shall therefore love the Lord your God 553 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:34,760 and always keep His charge, His statutes, His ordinances, and 554 00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,160 His commandments. You see the order, It's always 555 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,000 love Him. And how do you know you love 556 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:41,680 Him? You keep His commands, you keep 557 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,640 His statutes, you keep His ordinances. 558 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,040 He gives them to you to regulate how it is you truly love the 559 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,440 Lord. He has shown you how to love Him 560 00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:52,840 and how to love your brother because you love Him. 561 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:57,760 He has spelled it out very clearly for you so that there's 562 00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:01,040 nothing for you to even think about. 563 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:07,440 God did it all for you. Verse 22 of Chapter 11. 564 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:10,880 For if you are careful to keep all this commandment which I am 565 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,640 committing you to do, to love the Lord your God, to walk in 566 00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:19,280 all His ways and hold fast to Him, then the Lord will drive 567 00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,680 out all these nations from before you, and you will 568 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:28,400 dispossessed nations greater and mightier than you, But you got 569 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:33,520 to love the Lord. Then you come to Deuteronomy 570 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:40,240 chapter chapter 31, excuse me, chapter 30 and verse 15. 571 00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:45,400 Moses says, see, I have set before you today life and 572 00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:49,520 prosperity, death and adversity, in that I command you today to 573 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:53,320 love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways and to keep His 574 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,880 commandments and His statutes and His judgments. 575 00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:57,760 You see, the order is always the same. 576 00:43:57,920 --> 00:44:00,240 Love the Lord your God. How do you love him? 577 00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:03,080 By keeping His statutes, by keeping His commandments, by 578 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:09,760 keeping His ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that 579 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:12,600 the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are 580 00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,120 entering to possess it. But if your heart turns away, 581 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:17,920 you see it's all about the heart. 582 00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,520 God's always been concerned about the internal, not the 583 00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:25,760 external, because if the internal changes, the external 584 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:29,720 will by nature change. But you can live a life of 585 00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:34,280 hypocrisy on the outside because there's been no transformation 586 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,480 on the inside. That was the Pharisees. 587 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:40,200 That's how they live their lives. 588 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,680 But God's always been concerned about the heart. 589 00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:47,760 But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn 590 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,880 away and worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you 591 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:52,800 today that you shall surely perish. 592 00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,720 You will not prolong your days in the land where you are 593 00:44:55,720 --> 00:44:58,160 crossing the Jordan to enter and possess it. 594 00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,880 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today. 595 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,880 And I've set before you life and death, the blessing and the 596 00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:07,000 curse. So choose life in order that you 597 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:08,960 may live, you and your descendants. 598 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:10,760 How? How will you live? 599 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:15,480 By loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by 600 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:19,120 holding fast to Him. For this is your life and the 601 00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,680 length of your days, that you may live in the land which the 602 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:27,520 Lord swore to your father's to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give 603 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:33,000 to them. So important to understand the 604 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:40,560 law of God. The law of God was given to 605 00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:46,400 regulate how it is we love the God who has already put us in a 606 00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:51,480 relationship with him. God never gave the the, the 10 607 00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:56,320 commandments for to, for us to just to blindly obey and have no 608 00:45:56,320 --> 00:46:00,680 heart behind it. That that's just hypocrisy that 609 00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:04,800 means nothing to God. God's not looking for the 610 00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:10,000 external show. He's not looking for the life 611 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:14,360 that looks good on the outside. Man looks on the asset. 612 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,480 God looks at the heart, and So what he is doing in Matthew 613 00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:21,640 chapter 5, saying, Look, this is what you say. 614 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,200 You have heard that it was taught by the ages of old. 615 00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,200 You should not do this. You should not do that. 616 00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:30,160 But I say unto you, the great but ologies of Scripture, but 617 00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,800 ologies give you the greatest theology. 618 00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:41,000 But I say unto you, But I say, He is going to reiterate the law 619 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:45,280 of Moses. He's going to reiterate the law 620 00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:49,680 of Moses that was giving out of a love for a people that would 621 00:46:49,680 --> 00:46:59,600 obey their God and serve him freely, openly, and only so 622 00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:06,720 important to understand the sum of the Old Testament is simply 623 00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,960 love God. The sum of the New Testament is 624 00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:18,800 simply love God. It's all about loving the Lord 625 00:47:20,240 --> 00:47:26,600 our God and God. God wanted to make sure that 626 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:31,360 they just didn't go through the motions of obeying. 627 00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:36,400 Remember the rich young ruler? What must I do to inherit 628 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:38,280 eternal life? Evidently he realized he was 629 00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:42,960 missing something. Evidently he had missed eternal 630 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:49,080 life in this ruler, this scribe, this, this rich man came to 631 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:53,120 Christ and he asked them, you know, Lord, what must I do to 632 00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:59,240 inherit eternal life? And Christ says to him in Mark's 633 00:47:59,240 --> 00:48:01,120 account, Why do you call me good? 634 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:12,040 For only God is is good. And so he comes to the Lord, and 635 00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:19,440 the Lord says these words, if you wish to enter the life, keep 636 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:27,240 the commandments perfectly, keep the mall without exception. 637 00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:35,480 Then he said to him, Which ones? What do you mean which ones? 638 00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:38,680 You know which ones there are? Which ones? 639 00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:45,320 So Christ says he gives him the loving your brother ones, the 640 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:51,240 easier ones, the simpler ones. He says you should not commit 641 00:48:51,240 --> 00:48:53,640 murder. I haven't killed anybody. 642 00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,760 Should not commit adultery. I don't sleep with anybody else 643 00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:01,640 but my wife. You should not steal. 644 00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:02,840 Why should I steal? I'm rich. 645 00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:05,800 Should not bear false witness. I don't lie. 646 00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:08,000 I need to lie about anything. I have everything. 647 00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:11,560 Honor your father and mother. Well, I've done that. 648 00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:13,480 That's why I'm rich. They got their inheritance. 649 00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,920 And you shall love your neighbor as yourself, which, by the way, 650 00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:22,680 the summation of the law, Love God, love your neighbor. 651 00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:32,760 The young man said to him, All these things I have kept, What 652 00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:37,000 am I still lacking? Oh, see, even though he kept 653 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:41,800 them all in his own mind, he was still lacking. 654 00:49:43,720 --> 00:49:46,600 You see, what the what the the religious establishment did was 655 00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:50,920 was just lower the standard of the law. 656 00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,640 If if I can relegate the law to what I don't do and what I do 657 00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:59,440 do, then I can keep it. I'll be good, I'll be righteous, 658 00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:03,120 I'll go to heaven. But that was never the intent of 659 00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,200 the law. Intent of the law was to 660 00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,920 determine the condition of the soul and what's happening on the 661 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:14,080 inside of a of a man. So Jesus said to him, if you 662 00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:17,680 wish to be complete, if you wish to be perfect, if you want to go 663 00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:22,760 to heaven because you have a perfect life, a sinless life, go 664 00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:26,680 sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have 665 00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,240 treasure in heaven and come follow me. 666 00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:35,920 What did Christ do? He drove him to the 1st 4 667 00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:39,240 commandments, the ones that dealt with his relationship with 668 00:50:39,240 --> 00:50:43,760 God and the very first one. You shall have no other gods 669 00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,960 before me. But he did. 670 00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:56,200 What was the God? He had himself His riches, they 671 00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,880 were more important to him than the one true God. 672 00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,960 But when the young man heard this statement, he went away 673 00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:10,640 grieving, for he was one who owned much property. 674 00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:17,480 He was unwilling to surrender to the one God who rules the world. 675 00:51:18,560 --> 00:51:23,520 He was an idolater in his heart. And even though he would say I 676 00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:25,720 never murdered anybody, I'm sure he hated somebody. 677 00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,040 And even though he never committed adultery, I'm sure 678 00:51:29,040 --> 00:51:32,920 there there was lust in his heart after someone else, but he 679 00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:35,840 never saw that. He never understood that he 680 00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,280 didn't really love his neighbor as he loved himself. 681 00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:42,640 And by the way, Jesus would change that in John chapter 13 682 00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:46,280 when he would say a new commandment I given to you a new 683 00:51:46,280 --> 00:51:48,320 command, say a new one, another one. 684 00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:50,600 We got enough. Why are you going to give us a 685 00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:54,280 new one, A new commandment, not in number, but in quality. 686 00:51:55,920 --> 00:52:00,960 That is a new commandment I given to you, that you love one 687 00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:05,600 another even as I have loved you. 688 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,720 See that no longer loving your brother as you love yourself. 689 00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:15,040 No longer is that any good. Doesn't work. 690 00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:17,520 Why? Because there's a selfishness 691 00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,240 there. I want you to love one another 692 00:52:19,240 --> 00:52:23,040 as I have loved you. A selfless, sacrificial kind of 693 00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:25,520 outreach and ministry to your brother. 694 00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:29,280 Because you love me. That's what I want. 695 00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:36,400 That's the new commandment. That's how you shall now live. 696 00:52:38,360 --> 00:52:43,720 So Christ comes along and says simply this I, I, I, I just want 697 00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:46,160 you to love me. That's it. 698 00:52:47,360 --> 00:52:52,560 I love you. I redeemed you, I chose you, I 699 00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:56,160 called you. I I just want you to love me 700 00:52:56,160 --> 00:53:00,080 with all your heart, and that's what the law of God is all 701 00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:01,440 about. It's about loving God with all 702 00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:08,880 your heart and, and demonstrating that thou shalt 703 00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,480 have know the God before me. That's the singularity of love, 704 00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:14,920 right? Know the Gods before me. 705 00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:21,240 None. There's one God, and I love him 706 00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:28,800 because He's my God, and I will worship him because he's the one 707 00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:31,920 I love. Thou shalt have no other gods 708 00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:33,640 before me. That's the singularity of love. 709 00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:40,160 Thou shalt not make unto thee any carved image or any likeness 710 00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:44,600 of anything that is in heaven above, that is in the earth 711 00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:47,920 beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 712 00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:52,040 And thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them. 713 00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:55,600 For I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the 714 00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:58,720 iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and 4th 715 00:53:58,720 --> 00:54:03,200 generations of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto 716 00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:08,840 thousands to them that love me. This is the loyalty of love. 717 00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:13,400 Love is very loyal, love is very faithful. 718 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:19,960 So God says, this is the singularity of love, and this is 719 00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:24,080 the loyalty of love. This is how you know you love me 720 00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:28,360 with all your heart. Thou shalt not take the name of 721 00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:34,120 the Lord thy God in vain. This is the sublimity of love, 722 00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:38,160 the great exaltation of the name of God. 723 00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:41,960 In not ever defaming the name of God or treating it as if it 724 00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:47,560 means nothing. You remember the Sabbath day and 725 00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:51,200 to keep it holy, that's a sanctity of love. 726 00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:57,240 The Sabbath day was never a day just designed, Forrest. 727 00:54:58,440 --> 00:55:03,640 The Sabbath day was designed for one reason, for you to be holy. 728 00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,240 And you love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your 729 00:55:08,240 --> 00:55:11,400 mind. You never say to God, you know, 730 00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,320 I know there's a day to worship you, but I'm going to go to the 731 00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:16,600 beach. I'm going to go to the party. 732 00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:21,240 I'm going to be with my friends. Why? 733 00:55:21,960 --> 00:55:25,160 Because you love him. It's called the sanctity of 734 00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:29,160 love. And then he says, honor your 735 00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:31,360 father and mother. This is the respectability of 736 00:55:31,360 --> 00:55:33,760 love. Respect. 737 00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:36,960 Honor the parents that God gave you. 738 00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:43,240 Thou shalt not kill. That's the dignity of love. 739 00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:45,760 Why? Because man is made in God's 740 00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:47,800 image. He's an image bearer. 741 00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:50,360 You treat him with dignity and respect. 742 00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:55,960 Thou shalt not commit adultery. That's the purity and the 743 00:55:55,960 --> 00:56:00,080 fidelity of love. It's singly minded so that it 744 00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:03,120 doesn't pursue someone else outside the realms of marriage. 745 00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,880 Thou shalt not steal. That's the generosity of love. 746 00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:13,720 You're generous to give, not to take from someone else because 747 00:56:13,720 --> 00:56:17,680 you're selfish. Thou shalt not bear false 748 00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:21,160 witness against thy brother. That's the integrity and honesty 749 00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:26,160 of love. And thou shalt not covet thy 750 00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:31,160 neighbour's house, the neighbour's wife, manservant, 751 00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:35,240 his maidservant, his ox, his ass, or anything that is his 752 00:56:35,240 --> 00:56:37,440 neighbour's. Why do you do that? 753 00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:39,400 Because that's the serenity of love. 754 00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:44,080 I'm content with what I have. I'm at peace with what I have. 755 00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:48,440 I don't need what you have. I don't even want what you have 756 00:56:49,320 --> 00:56:50,920 because I'm at peace with what I have. 757 00:56:50,920 --> 00:56:53,000 Because what I have is what God has given to me. 758 00:56:54,720 --> 00:57:01,000 And God says these 10 commandments are strictly about 759 00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,080 your love for me and your love for your brother. 760 00:57:05,240 --> 00:57:10,480 And those who love me will follow me and obey me. 761 00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:20,640 Remember the words of Christ when He said this in Luke 16. 762 00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:29,680 He said you, the Pharisees, are they who justify yourselves 763 00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:38,800 before men, but God knoweth your hearts, for that which is highly 764 00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:44,640 esteemed before men is an abomination in the sight of God. 765 00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:50,400 That's just a tremendous indictment against the 766 00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:53,880 religiosity and hypocrisy of the religious establishment. 767 00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:59,640 What you, what you do for a show on the outside that everybody 768 00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:03,000 oohs and awe is about, that's an abomination to me. 769 00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:08,400 Because your heart doesn't love me, you only love yourself. 770 00:58:09,800 --> 00:58:16,440 That's your God, not me, and therefore all your acts are 771 00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:21,400 truly an abomination. John said this way in first John 772 00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:25,160 24. The one who says I've come to 773 00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:35,920 know him and does not keep his commandments is a liar, is a 774 00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:43,160 liar, and the truth is not in him. 775 00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:47,280 You can't say I love God and disobey His word. 776 00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:53,160 God says, that's just an abomination to me because if you 777 00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:56,760 love me, you will keep my commandments because the 778 00:58:56,760 --> 00:59:01,680 commandments are the regulation of how you love in a 779 00:59:01,680 --> 00:59:03,680 relationship with the true and living God. 780 00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:08,520 I've spelled it out for you. I made it very clear to you. 781 00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:13,560 And so the Lord comes along and, and here he is on the, on the, 782 00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:17,000 the north slope of the Sea of Galilee saying, Oh, I know what 783 00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:19,520 you've heard. I know what you've been taught. 784 00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:23,240 You've been given all these traditions, but I'm here to give 785 00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:27,920 you the truth behind all the commandments that I've given 786 00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,520 because I've come to fulfill the law, not abolish the law. 787 00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:35,840 I am the embodiment of the law. I am the, the, the consummate 788 00:59:37,120 --> 00:59:46,400 truth of all that Moses said people would say, well, I don't 789 00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,400 love the Lord. And the Pharisees knew they 790 00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:50,240 couldn't love the Lord with all the heart, soul, mind straight 791 00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:52,520 anyway. So they they relegated the 792 00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:54,600 commandments to something that they that looked made them look 793 00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:59,720 good on the outside. Because the place I I can't do 794 00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:01,720 that. I don't. 795 01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,240 I don't love the Lord with all my and I don't love my neighbor. 796 01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:09,640 And now God got you right where he wants you because you have 797 01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:16,600 the inability, the impossibility to ever do what he asks. 798 01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,800 So he says, unless your righteousness exceeds that it 799 01:00:20,800 --> 01:00:24,080 describes the Pharisees, you'll never enter the Kingdom. 800 01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,880 Like, whoa, I guess we're not getting in. 801 01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:33,000 What do you mean? Because the righteousness that 802 01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:35,640 Ioffer, it's the only thing that gets you there. 803 01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:40,920 And my righteousness can be yours. 804 01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:43,520 But you got to come to me my way. 805 01:00:43,520 --> 01:00:48,240 You got to come on my terms. You got to come humbly before 806 01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:51,600 me. See, Christ is driving into a 807 01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:57,800 point of desperation, a point that says, man, oh, I can't do 808 01:00:57,800 --> 01:01:00,560 that. I can't love you like I should. 809 01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:03,920 My heart is deceitful, it's desperately wicked. 810 01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:09,080 There is lustful ideas and perversions within my heart. 811 01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:12,080 I hate my brother. I want to murder my brother. 812 01:01:12,080 --> 01:01:14,960 On the inside I don't commit the ACT, but on the inside I can't 813 01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:18,520 stand him. And I want my neighbor's wife. 814 01:01:20,080 --> 01:01:23,520 So what do I do? Christ has come to me, all you 815 01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:25,120 that labor and have you laid and I'll give you rest. 816 01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:29,240 Come to me and I will transform your inner man. 817 01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:36,360 I will save your soul. He's driving them there. 818 01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:42,120 But isn't it interesting that when the greatest preacher 819 01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:47,920 preaches the greatest sermon ever recorded, nobody repents. 820 01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:53,720 Nobody. Nobody is that convicted that 821 01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:59,520 says, Oh Lord, save me, Lord, I cry out and beg for mercy. 822 01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:01,480 No one does, are they marvel at his words. 823 01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:09,160 Never a man spoke like this man spoke, but nobody repented of 824 01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:12,760 their sin. Isn't that amazing? 825 01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:17,160 I just, I just I marvel at that. I read this. 826 01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:23,000 I think I am so convicted. But evidently they weren't 827 01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:28,880 convicted. Needless to say, our Lord came 828 01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:34,400 to present the truth. Next week we'll we'll dive more 829 01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:37,920 into the text itself. But I thought it'd be good to 830 01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:41,320 set the tone for what is Christ is saying when he says, look, 831 01:02:41,680 --> 01:02:44,840 this is what you've been taught, but this is the truth behind the 832 01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:49,560 law of Moses. This is what I always want. 833 01:02:50,960 --> 01:02:54,880 I love you enough to redeem you. I love you enough to choose you, 834 01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:58,760 I love you enough to call you, I love you enough to Commission 835 01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:04,280 you, I love you enough to indwell you, and if you love me, 836 01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:08,000 you'll keep my commandments. Let's pray. 837 01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:12,680 Father, we thank you for today and the things you've taught us 838 01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:17,520 and so much to to study and so much to learn. 839 01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:22,920 I, I pray for all of us that Lord, you do a mighty work in 840 01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:26,760 our hearts. Help us see the intent of all 841 01:03:26,760 --> 01:03:32,200 that the law means and how all you've asked is that we love the 842 01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:34,880 Lord our God with all of our hearts, soul, mind, and strength 843 01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:40,640 and teach them to our children. They walk by the way and they 844 01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:44,280 sit by the side. Somehow we would invest in them 845 01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:49,120 the truth of loving God, the God who was the Redeemer of man's 846 01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:52,480 soul. There's someone here tonight 847 01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:56,480 that doesn't know you. We pray for them should work in 848 01:03:56,480 --> 01:04:00,320 their heart cause him to come to a place of repentance. 849 01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:07,160 The crowd for mercy and say, Lord save me from my sin, that I 850 01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:13,800 might serve you only I pray in Jesus name, Amen.