1 00:00:01,160 --> 00:00:04,680 Turn in your Bibles to Matthew chapter 15, 2 00:00:21,310 --> 00:00:24,230 Matthew chapter 15. Last week we covered verses one 3 00:00:24,230 --> 00:00:26,310 through 9. Today we're doing verses 10 4 00:00:26,310 --> 00:00:28,830 through 20. But when we read it, we're going 5 00:00:28,830 --> 00:00:31,550 to read the whole thing because we truly cut Jesus off mid 6 00:00:31,550 --> 00:00:34,510 sentence, which is always a bad thing to do. 7 00:00:34,790 --> 00:00:37,590 He wasn't mid sentence, but he was in the in the middle of this 8 00:00:37,590 --> 00:00:39,840 whole scenario. So we're going to read the whole 9 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:41,440 thing. So you've got the full picture 10 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:43,400 of what's happening. Again, we're picking up chapter 11 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:47,360 15 and verse one. Then Pharisees and scribes came 12 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,120 to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, why do your disciples 13 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:52,760 break the tradition of the elders? 14 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:54,880 For they do not wash their hands when they eat? 15 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:58,680 He answered them and why do you break the commandment of God for 16 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,840 the sake of your tradition? For God commanded honour your 17 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:05,680 father and mother, and whoever reviles father and mother must 18 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:09,000 surely die. But you say, if anyone tells his 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,720 father and mother, what you would have gained from me is 20 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:14,080 given to God, then he need not honour his father. 21 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,560 So for the sake of your tradition you've made void the 22 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:22,040 word of God, you hypocrites. Well did Isaiah prophecy of you 23 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:26,560 when he said this People honours me with their lips, but their 24 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,880 heart is far from me. In vain do they worship Me, 25 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:34,120 teaching his doctrines, the commandments of men. 26 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:38,360 And he called all the people unto Him, and said to them, Hear 27 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:42,480 and understand, It's not what goes into the mouth that defiles 28 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:45,400 a person, but what comes out of the mouth. 29 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:49,520 This defiles a person. Then the disciples came to him. 30 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,520 Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard 31 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:55,480 the saying? He answered, Every plant that my 32 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,880 heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 33 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,200 Let them alone. They're blind guides. 34 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:03,920 And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit. 35 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,240 But Peter said to him, explain the parable to us. 36 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:09,840 And he said, are you still without understanding? 37 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,920 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into 38 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:16,320 the stomach and is expelled? But what comes out of the mouth 39 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:20,560 proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 40 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:26,200 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, 41 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:33,120 sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander, these are what 42 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,920 defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands 43 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,360 does not defile anyone. God we thank you so much for 44 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,080 your word. It is so liberating, it is so 45 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:45,960 powerful. It is sharper than any 2 edged 46 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,160 sword. Lord, open us up today and do 47 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,520 exactly what's needed. Bring the strength, bring the 48 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,240 healing, bring the hope, bring the correction, bring the 49 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,560 wisdom, bring the life, bring the love. 50 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:01,440 You're, you're the doctor, you're the physician who can see 51 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,720 every case perfectly and you love your patience dearly. 52 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,600 So we surrender and we submit to you again. 53 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:12,120 Help us to understand you more, to know you better, because we 54 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,080 do know Jesus, that all the treasures of wisdom and 55 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:17,800 godliness, everything is hidden in you. 56 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,920 Open up the eyes of our heart, Lord, that we would see and most 57 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:25,760 importantly God today as as conviction comes, we commit 58 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:30,600 right now to obedience, not only to say that was good or that was 59 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,200 true, but this is now how I will live in light of it. 60 00:03:35,760 --> 00:03:37,200 Or we humble ourselves right now. 61 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:40,720 It is a vulnerable place to be, but it is a safe place to be 62 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,160 because we know our God, we know our Father and his nature and 63 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,080 his character and we know that your ways are best. 64 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:49,360 So that's what we choose. That's what we pursue and that's 65 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,080 what we love. In Jesus name we thank you, 66 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,400 Amen. So remember, fancy pants 67 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,280 Pharisees and scribes have come from Jerusalem, not just any 68 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,840 Pharisees and scribes, but from Jerusalem, the city of all 69 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:04,760 cities, the most religious city on earth. 70 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,960 They've come from there and they and now the people of Genesar it 71 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,880 Did I get that right? Genesar it Matt pointed out last 72 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:15,320 week. He goes, Hey, man, am I am I 73 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:17,320 reading something wrong? You I keep hearing you say 74 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:19,600 Cassiner it. I'm like, no, always trust your 75 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,960 Bible over me, no matter what. That's always a good practice. 76 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:26,680 So Ganester, it is the way it's said or the way we're 77 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:30,680 pronouncing it anyway. But they've come to this, this 78 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,320 local area to rebuke Jesus, to call him out in front of 79 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:36,160 everybody. Go, why don't your disciples 80 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:40,440 wash their hands, bro, you came 90 miles to to gloat. 81 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,480 You came 90 miles to say I'm superior to you. 82 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:46,480 Look at our disciples. Look how they dress, look how 83 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,320 they behave. So proper. 84 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:50,720 And Jesus says you're all filthy and disgusting. 85 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:52,600 Actually you look good on the outside. 86 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:55,800 So if that's all you're going for, congratulations and well 87 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:57,320 done. But you've received your full 88 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,520 reward, the applause of these people, these ignorant people, 89 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:03,840 That's all you're getting. But you'll, you'll see me on the 90 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:06,040 day of judgement and it'll be very different from this 91 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,440 exchange. He gives them a taste, but it's 92 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,800 not the full. They're not doomed yet because 93 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,960 of course anyone could still repent, but they come, he calls 94 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,120 them out, he's rebuking them. This is a big deal. 95 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,240 The people of Ganester it would be shocked and blown away at the 96 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:24,880 way Jesus is talking to these guys. 97 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:31,160 This is socially unacceptable. I'm struggling to come up with 98 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:35,200 modern examples that would help you to feel the amount of the 99 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,680 amount of cringe, the amount of Yikes that people would feel in 100 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,240 a social scenario like this where Jesus takes the elite of 101 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:46,240 the elite and then just makes them low, the mountaintop men 102 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,320 and Jesus turns them into a valley in front of everybody. 103 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:52,080 And again, when we by the time we get to chapter 23 and all 104 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,120 this is happening in Jerusalem, I'll be at a loss for words to 105 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,480 I've I've over, I've overstated my case too often, I guess I say 106 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:00,320 he's going nuclear, He's going nuclear. 107 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:02,600 I don't know what comes after nuclear, but that's what he's 108 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,280 going to be doing. And he's just continuing to just 109 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,960 annihilate everyone and rebuke them. 110 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:09,800 Why? Because he has all authority. 111 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:14,880 All authority in heaven and on earth belongs to him, so he 112 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:17,840 speaks as the one who has all that authority. 113 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,000 Was he made low? Was he humbled? 114 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,200 Yeah, he He humbled himself and came down in a Manger. 115 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,160 And still he's glorified. He's always king. 116 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,960 There's never been a moment where Jesus wasn't king in the 117 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:32,760 Manger, on the cross, at the resurrection and in the future. 118 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:34,840 Jesus is king. He knows this. 119 00:06:34,960 --> 00:06:39,280 So he speaks appropriately. So he finishes rebuking them. 120 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:43,040 You hypocrites. Well, did Isaiah prophecy of you 121 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,280 when he said this People honors me with their lips, but their 122 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:49,880 heart is far from me. In vain do they worship me, 123 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,880 teaching his doctrines, the commandments of men. 124 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:58,280 Whoa, massive stuff. But now it's it's almost as 125 00:06:58,280 --> 00:07:01,200 though he turns from them. So he's talking to the blind 126 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,080 guides and now he turns to talk to the blind people. 127 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,040 Everybody's there watching this going what on earth is 128 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:09,000 happening? And he called the people unto 129 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:10,960 him and said, hear and understand. 130 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,920 Or you see these guys, you hear all that. 131 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:15,360 Let me explain to you what's going on here. 132 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,360 It's not what goes into your mouth that defiles a person. 133 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,480 It's what comes out of your mouth that defiles a person. 134 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:26,680 And now separately. So that's all he gives to the 135 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,240 crowd. Why we talked before about why 136 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,880 does he speak in parables? Why does he speak in what seems 137 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,120 like Riddle? Because the humble will lean in 138 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,120 and go, Lord, bring me light, bring me revelation. 139 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:39,560 The prideful will go, whatever, then move on. 140 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,640 And it's working. God's plan is working. 141 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:44,160 Does God want all to come to repentance? 142 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,600 Yep, the Scripture tells us so. And yet it's also part of His 143 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,360 plan that His judgment is actively working against you 144 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:53,920 when you are in pride. It's fascinating and terrifying 145 00:07:54,520 --> 00:07:57,040 when you're prideful. The judgement of God could just 146 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:00,680 be to go have it your way. The judgement of God is not 147 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:04,280 always the fire and brimstone. The judgement of God is also you 148 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,360 can have it. Is that what you want? 149 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:11,680 Yes, that's what I want. It's yours that's devastating. 150 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:14,800 That's remember you're that's you driving down the freeway. 151 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:18,080 Jesus is the last thing between you and the Cliff and that Jesus 152 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:20,040 going, you sure you want to go that way? 153 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,480 After you run into him a few times, He goes, You sure you 154 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,240 want to go that way? And you go, yes, and he goes. 155 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:29,640 It was unnecessary. You've destroyed your life and 156 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:31,640 you've deserved all that's coming. 157 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:35,559 But he's the only thing. If you trample Christ, there's 158 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,600 nothing else. There's nothing else, there's 159 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:40,400 nobody else, there's no Plan B, there's only Jesus. 160 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,880 But Jesus doesn't bother with the Pharisees anymore. 161 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:48,320 Remember He told us back in the Sermon on the Mount what the 162 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,360 Kingdom is like. He was showing us what the 163 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:52,360 Kingdom was like. He was healing people, He was 164 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,840 blessing people, He was preaching, but we really didn't 165 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:58,040 know what He was preaching until we got to Matthew 5. 166 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:00,920 And then we found out what is this Kingdom really like? 167 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:06,080 But that's where Jesus told us blessed are the pure in part, 168 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:09,480 for they shall see God. And today that's what we're 169 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:10,400 going to see. We're going to see an 170 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,000 application of the pure in heart. 171 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,840 The people are thinking about purity of hands, purity of 172 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,800 ritual, cleansing, purity of foods that we eat. 173 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:21,600 And Jesus is saying blessed are the pure in heart. 174 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,200 They are the ones who will see God. 175 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:26,480 So he's not going to bother with the Pharisees anymore. 176 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,480 In this moment. He rebukes them plainly and 177 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,680 clearly. And now he actually wants to 178 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:33,400 help the humble. He's drawing this crowd in. 179 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,480 He's making this scene and he's going, look, these guys came 180 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,840 publicly to expose him and now he's publicly exposing them. 181 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:43,640 It's not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but 182 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,320 it's what comes out of the mouth this defiles a person. 183 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:53,080 So we should have the question, you good Bible readers, you 184 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:54,400 should have this question. Wait a second. 185 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:56,520 I thought we could be defiled by woman in our mouth. 186 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:59,200 Under the old covenant. In Leviticus, God says there 187 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:01,800 were certain things that they could not eat. 188 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,840 He plainly said that you cannot eat this, you cannot eat that, 189 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:11,240 you cannot eat this. But now Jesus is fully revealing 190 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:14,080 the point of those earlier commands. 191 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:18,040 That's what's happening. And in this moment, Jesus saying 192 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:21,200 it's not what goes in the mouth that makes you unclean, but it's 193 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,720 what comes out. He is also in this moment, not 194 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,280 only later in Acts when Peter gets the vision, but in this 195 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,360 moment, he declares all foods clean. 196 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,600 How can you say that, pastor? Because Mark, Mark says so. 197 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,840 Mark Chapter 7. So it says it gives us the same 198 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:37,840 account of the same scenario. Hey, here's what happened that 199 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:39,920 day. And the Holy Spirit adds through 200 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:43,200 Mark, he goes and in saying this, Jesus declared all food 201 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:45,400 clean. So sometimes we look at Acts and 202 00:10:45,400 --> 00:10:48,000 we say that's the moment that all foods became clean. 203 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Actually, this was the moment that the King spoke and said all 204 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,360 foods from this point forward are clean. 205 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:54,200 Did they have full revelation clarity on that yet? 206 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,080 I don't know. I can't speak to all that. 207 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,160 I just know that Mark tells us that in this moment Jesus is 208 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:02,240 saying all foods are clean from this point forward. 209 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:04,080 Well then why were they? Well, there was a number of 210 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:05,800 reasons. Sure, you could argue about the 211 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:08,040 the health advantages or disadvantages of the different 212 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:10,840 foods that the Lord told the Jews that they could and could 213 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,080 not partake in. But the most important piece was 214 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:18,200 that Jesus is revealing the point of these commands, these 215 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,600 certain laws that God intended, that God gave. 216 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:24,440 They were intended to be a picture of a greater reality. 217 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,160 That was the point. A lot of the Old Testament law 218 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:30,200 was that it was a moral application. 219 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:34,440 But many things were also preaching a greater sermon and 220 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,240 some people got stuck on the surface. 221 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,960 The Pharisees kept things shallow and they kept focused on 222 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:44,480 the outward presentation and pursued a self righteousness. 223 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:47,840 So certain laws that God gave, they were intended to be a 224 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:51,760 picture of a greater reality. That's that's the whole Bible. 225 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:53,720 That's the Psalm that we read this morning. 226 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:55,400 Well, is that about the Jews in Egypt? 227 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:57,320 Yep. And it's about Joe Michael and 228 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:00,760 his stupidity and sin as well and his deliverance that the 229 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:02,840 Lord brought in, in the deliverance of the Lord. 230 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:07,040 So the whole Bible is about Jesus, the whole Bible is about 231 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,920 redemption. The whole Bible is about God's 232 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:12,440 plan for people. But the light gets brighter the 233 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:14,040 further you go through the Scriptures. 234 00:12:14,680 --> 00:12:17,920 Everything in Genesis, good doctrine, you see it in Genesis, 235 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:21,640 but it's in seed form. Is that an, is that an oak tree? 236 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:26,880 Well, it's going to be. That's the oak, Oak, oak seed. 237 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:28,720 Would that be an acorn? Thank you. 238 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:32,360 That's an oak seed. I'm not a smart man, but I know 239 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:36,200 what acorns are. So that's an it's an acorn. 240 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,200 What's it going to be? Well, in Genesis you just see 241 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,520 the acorn. In Revelation, what do you see? 242 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,080 The mighty oak. And you know, you see the tree 243 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:47,480 of life fully blossomed and fully bloomed. 244 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,480 So the the light gets brighter throughout time. 245 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,600 The Lord continues to bring light in Revelation, but the 246 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,280 Pharisees kept things focused on the shallow instruction and 247 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,240 pursued a self righteousness with it. 248 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,040 They weren't after a purification of heart, they were 249 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:07,200 after a righteous presentation. Only Jesus is showing that there 250 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:11,920 is a greater uncleanness in men and no amount of soap can take 251 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:14,000 care of this issue. Remember I told you the 252 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,240 Pharisees? They had their tradition that 253 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:18,160 they invented. Here's how you must wash, and 254 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:20,680 here's how you must wash, and here's how you must dry. 255 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:24,920 Oh what a holy man. That kind of stuff impresses 256 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:26,920 people. It doesn't impress God. 257 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,320 You and I get distracted and impressed with people. 258 00:13:29,480 --> 00:13:31,560 Wow, look at this. Wow, look at that. 259 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:34,520 I've seen many ministers, I've seen many preachers. 260 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,880 And in my years and my day, I've seen many people present 261 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:40,920 themselves as though they are someone, as though they are 262 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,400 something instead of I love God and I love his people. 263 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,720 And sure, do I understand my office? 264 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:49,360 Absolutely do. Should I walk in an appropriate 265 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:50,840 authority? Also yes. 266 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,480 But there's also pomp and circumstance then added on to 267 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:54,800 it. That's disgusting to God. 268 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,320 It's filthy and it's gross. It can be impressive to you and 269 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,840 I Oh my goodness, look, they have an entourage. 270 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,800 Oh my goodness, look, they, they pulled up in this vehicle, 271 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:04,040 right? That's what celebrities do, 272 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,000 right? They walk out of the red carpet 273 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:08,040 and we kind of like, Oh my goodness, I like that person. 274 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,400 He's my favorite actor. That's my favorite basketball 275 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:11,600 player. That's exciting. 276 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:16,680 And I don't condemn every application of, of celebrity 277 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:18,640 status. I don't think all I don't think 278 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,960 enjoying a celebrity is always equal to idolatry, although it 279 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,320 certainly could be. But when it comes to the body of 280 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:26,080 Christ, there's just no room for any of that. 281 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:28,920 Everything should be pointed directly to Jesus with 282 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,560 deliberate effort to say he's king. 283 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,200 Well, you did a great job. Well, thank you, thank you. 284 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:36,360 I hope you would love me as your pastor. 285 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:39,240 I know you do like if you're hanging around me, I know you 286 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:41,960 got to love me because I know I'm obnoxious and I know I'm 287 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,640 extra and I know there's I know I got a lot of flaws and 288 00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:46,600 problems. So for you to be in this church, 289 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:47,480 I'm like, I know. I know. 290 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:52,920 You really do love me. So for pastors, for religious 291 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,240 leaders, I've told you many times, does God hate religious 292 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:58,120 leaders as people often claim? No, but God hates pride. 293 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:02,280 He hates pomp and circumstance and presentation and gloss. 294 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:06,320 What he loves is humility. That's what he expects is 295 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:08,200 humility. Out of everybody, no one's more 296 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,680 humble than the God who comes down to become a man. 297 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,640 So when God lowers himself from his throne and comes down to 298 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:18,240 earth and walks in the dirt with us, and then we go, hey, did you 299 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:19,760 know I'm kind of a big deal? He goes, stop. 300 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,840 That's so dumb. That's so dumb. 301 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,160 You don't know who I am or where I've come from, right? 302 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:27,120 Remember Undercover Boss? You ever seen that show? 303 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:29,520 I love that show. So much fun. 304 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:31,920 The boss walks in and you got this employee, the hotshot 305 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:34,360 employees, Like, look, here's the deal around here. 306 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:36,680 Let me tell you what's what. Let me tell you, just like you 307 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:38,040 don't know who you're talking to. 308 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:40,520 You don't know who's standing in front of you. 309 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,360 It's the CEO. He started this thing 45 years 310 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:46,680 ago. He owns everything. 311 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:49,000 You can see everything. The light touches. 312 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:53,720 That's his He owns. It's his name on your paycheck 313 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,000 on Friday. And you're talking to him like 314 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:59,400 you know something you don't. You should be humble. 315 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:01,920 You should be low. Well, if I knew who it was. 316 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:03,240 Well, that's the thing about humility. 317 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:06,160 Humility is always the right posture regardless. 318 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:07,800 Well, if I had known then I would have. 319 00:16:08,680 --> 00:16:11,600 So now we've got Jesus, the undercover boss. 320 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,440 The undercover king comes down, he goes, let me let me tell you 321 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:17,440 how it is. People go, Oh, we, we actually 322 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,240 have a way to do it. We have a way that we run things 323 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:24,960 here. So Jesus is not impressed with 324 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,960 their hand cleansing ceremony that they've come up with. 325 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,240 Why? Because the purpose if you want 326 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:31,440 to wash your hands, wash your hands. 327 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,080 Jesus didn't have a problem with them doing that. 328 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:36,720 He only puts them on blast when they condemn him for not. 329 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:40,120 That's what Pharisees do. Matt's got a conviction about 330 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:41,680 something. He goes, hey, pastor, I feel 331 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:43,000 like I ought to do this. And I say, all right, brother, 332 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,600 let's talk through that. Let me encourage you in that. 333 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:47,520 And and he says, this seems like the right thing for me. 334 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:49,400 And I say, yeah, man, I want to encourage you in it, to walk in 335 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,800 obedience to it. It's not a specific command 336 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:54,600 necessarily, but the fact that you want to serve the Lord in 337 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,120 that way, I commend it. But that's different when Matt 338 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,560 comes to me and says, and also Joe Michael, you are now 339 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:02,680 required to follow my new conviction. 340 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:06,000 Hey brother, your conviction's fine. 341 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,640 There's nothing wrong with it, but it's not, you can't put your 342 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,079 conviction on everyone else. Well, isn't there wisdom? 343 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:15,480 Yep, there's wisdom and and there's many ways that believers 344 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,640 can encourage one another. So there are many things that 345 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:20,680 people have put around fences in their lives. 346 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,160 To say, you know what, this is wise for me to do this. 347 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,160 It's out of my love for God that I do want to put a fence around 348 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,000 something. It's not to be a Pharisee. 349 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:30,440 It's not to get credit to go look how holy I am. 350 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:33,120 Everyone see God's law, I put a fence around it. 351 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,800 That's not the motive. So that's why the heart is so 352 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,000 tricky. The heart is so slippery because 353 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,880 in one moment I could be doing it the right way. 354 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:43,160 And I put this fence around something just for myself, for 355 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:46,760 my wisdom, for my own lack of self-control or discipline or or 356 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:49,240 love or whatever it may be. But now whenever I start to 357 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:53,200 present it to you as law, this is the way. 358 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:56,600 You must do it this way. Then you have to say, hang on a 359 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:58,240 second. That might be a wise 360 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:02,280 application, that might be useful, but let me make sure I'm 361 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:03,600 walking in obedience to God's law. 362 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,000 We talked about that last week, going too far or not going far 363 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,760 enough, but we're tempted to put all the emphasis on the outward, 364 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:15,520 but Jesus focuses on the inward. Remember he said, you've heard 365 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:20,280 it said this, but I say, and then he fully reveals the whole 366 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,120 standard. You've heard it said, thou shalt 367 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:24,240 not murder. And everybody's like, Yep, never 368 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:26,240 murdered. Easy day, he said. 369 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:30,560 But I say if you have any hatred in your heart, then you've 370 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:33,360 already murdered. And you go, whoa, that's a 371 00:18:33,360 --> 00:18:35,520 different level. I'm not allowed to hate 372 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:37,000 somebody. I thought it just meant I 373 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,080 couldn't stab him 87 times. But you're saying I'm not 374 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,800 allowed to hate them. And he goes, yeah, that's that 375 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:46,440 was the point, because murder comes out of hatred. 376 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,080 That's the that's the pathway. So he says, I'm after your 377 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:51,840 heart. I'm not just after like, I've 378 00:18:51,840 --> 00:18:54,800 never killed anyone. I've never technically committed 379 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:56,600 adultery. I've never all these things. 380 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,560 He's going, I'm after your heart. 381 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,680 I say, if you even lust, then you've already committed 382 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:07,680 adultery in your heart. Go whoa, that changes things. 383 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:11,960 That makes me a murderous, adulterous, lying. 384 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:13,400 I mean, you name it. You go through all 10 385 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:15,360 commandments. I've broken all of them. 386 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:17,600 I'm I'm not speaking hyperbole now. 387 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:19,320 I'm speaking literally for me personally. 388 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:24,560 And you have too, by the way. So we put the emphasis on the 389 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,240 outward, but Jesus focuses on the inward. 390 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:30,760 You've heard it said, But I say, and then he fully reveals the 391 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:33,320 standard. We'll keep going here. 392 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:37,800 Then the disciples came to him. Do you know that the Pharisees 393 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,480 were offended when they heard this saying? 394 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,160 I don't know if the guys are feeling that social pressure. 395 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:46,640 I would suspect so. Hey, Jesus, I don't know, maybe 396 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,680 you're still new here, but on earth, we don't rebuke the 397 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:51,560 Pharisees like that in front of everybody. 398 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,800 We don't say you hypocrites. Isaiah prophesied about you. 399 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:55,920 He did? Yeah. 400 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,040 He said you're full of it. Like we don't do that to the 401 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:00,560 Pharisees in, like, public settings. 402 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:02,280 Did you know that you actually offended them? 403 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,680 What do you think Jesus said? Oh, my goodness. 404 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,000 Are you Are you sure? Tell them I did not mean to 405 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,000 offend them. That was the last thing I ever 406 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,440 wanted to do. Right. 407 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:16,840 Didn't he have the bracelet? What would Jesus do? 408 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,520 Be nice, Jesus. Jesus is good, Jesus is not 409 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:22,120 nice. Jesus does the right thing at 410 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:25,400 the right time, and Jesus puts pride on blast. 411 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:26,920 Of course he knows he offended them. 412 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,000 He meant to offend them. That was the point. 413 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,360 That was the mercy to them. That was the grace to them to 414 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:36,400 offend, to try and breakthrough. Nothing gentle was getting 415 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,760 through. So come through with clarity, 416 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:42,600 with precision, with the sword that slices deep and they go. 417 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:45,080 It's no wonder that they want to murder him. 418 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:48,560 By the time we come later into Matthew as as we're in the last 419 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:51,160 week of his life, you're going to be understanding like, of 420 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,120 course they want to murder him. I get it. 421 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:56,240 Like they're losing everything. They're losing all power. 422 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:59,320 The whole world is going away to follow him and they feel it and 423 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,440 they see it. He is gutting them of all their 424 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:03,640 false authority. He's calling out all their 425 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:05,880 hypocrisy. The eyes of the people are being 426 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:07,720 open. They're starting to believe 427 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:09,640 possibly could this be the Messiah? 428 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:12,760 The the Pharisees have everything at stake now, Of 429 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,560 course, they could just humble themselves and repent and go. 430 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:18,360 We're nothing. Strip themselves of all their, 431 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:21,360 of all their falseness of the mask. 432 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:22,920 Remember the mask of the hypocrite. 433 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,640 The hypocrite wears the mask, plays the part. 434 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,280 Do you know they were offended? Yeah, He knew they were offended 435 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,000 because they've bet all their money on the outward image. 436 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:39,000 And he's now emphasizing something that they have that 437 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,000 they have lost everything on. He's emphasizing the inward life 438 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,000 that only God sees. They don't like that. 439 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:46,760 The hypocrite doesn't like that. Don't emphasize the N word. 440 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,480 Emphasize the outward. No, no, no, it's, it's the 441 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,640 outward that matters. That's where I want to put all 442 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:55,760 my money in that bank because that's the thing I can control. 443 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,720 I can manage my image. When you change the standard to 444 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,880 make about my heart, now I get nervous. 445 00:22:01,120 --> 00:22:03,800 Now it gets really slippery. That's going to take some deep 446 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:05,560 work. That's going to take some real 447 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,000 repentance. That's going to take some real 448 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:09,800 prayer. That's going to take some real 449 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,840 humility. I don't like that standard. 450 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,560 No, no, no outward presentation. And I'll use the Bible to prove 451 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,200 my points on my outward presentation. 452 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,080 Jesus going, uh, you can try, but the Bible is going to crush 453 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,760 you. The Bible is going to lead you 454 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,960 to a dependency on grace and humility. 455 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:29,360 A hypocrite will always be offended at the truth. 456 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,880 The hypocrite wears the mask and is concealing the truth. 457 00:22:32,880 --> 00:22:35,320 So of course they respond with offense. 458 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,080 Jesus doesn't care. Keep going. 459 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:43,400 Verse 13 and he answered, Every plant my heavenly Father has not 460 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:46,320 planted will be rooted up. Let them alone. 461 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,720 They are blind guides. And if the blind lead the blind, 462 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,680 both will fall into a pit. Remember what we learned in 463 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,440 Matthew chapter 13. Jesus told us the parable about 464 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,720 the wheat and the tares and he said that they planted, they 465 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:04,600 planted good wheat seed in a field and then it started to 466 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,480 grow up and they're going, oh, this is going to be an awesome 467 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:07,840 harvest. Look at everything out there. 468 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:11,080 But then when they started to develop the head on them, they 469 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,400 found out there's a bunch of tears in here. 470 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:16,320 So we found out that that was a, a weed, but it looks just like 471 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,160 wheat and its whole growth process. 472 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,760 So you're just rejoicing going look at this awesome harvest. 473 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:25,480 And then when the heads start to develop, you go, oh, no, there's 474 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:26,800 tears. Who's done this? 475 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:30,200 He says an enemy has done this. Should we pull them up, Master? 476 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:33,040 He goes, no, leave them, leave them to the harvest. 477 00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,720 They're going to grow together. They're going to be together 478 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,560 until the end. And at the harvest we will 479 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,920 separate them. This is what he's saying. 480 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:44,480 Every plant he's referencing back to that parable, My father 481 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:48,080 didn't plant every plant. So if my father hasn't planted 482 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,240 them, leave them alone. They're going to grow alongside 483 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,000 the false with the pure that we're all going to grow up 484 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,400 alongside together. And they will be dealt with at 485 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,720 the judgement. Sometimes God's judgement is to 486 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,320 let people have, like we said, what they're running after a 487 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,600 life without him. Blind guides. 488 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:08,320 He's also saying blind guides and their ignorant followers 489 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:13,000 will both go into the pit, literally hell, the blind guide 490 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:14,440 and all these ignorant followers. 491 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:15,880 Oh, wow. Oh, wow. 492 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:17,680 Oh, wow. Well, the poor people, Well, 493 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:19,600 yeah, Jesus loved them. He had compassion on them. 494 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,920 And also they should have obeyed God and not obeyed man. 495 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,600 But that's the temptation is to be impressed with man. 496 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,720 Look how impressive he is. Look how impressive she is. 497 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:32,200 Instead of saying look what the Lord has done and glorifying 498 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,520 their Creator, you worship the creation. 499 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:37,160 That's idolatry. It's what it is. 500 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:40,440 Taking the created thing and elevating it. 501 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,360 I don't know, keep it, keep it down here and appreciate it. 502 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:46,760 Yes, He's incredible at what he does. 503 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,280 Rejoice in it and say God is good. 504 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:52,600 Let everything you see draw you vertically to worship. 505 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,320 You see something good in somebody, you can let him know. 506 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:57,240 I see what the Lord is doing in your life. 507 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,000 I see that as a gifting that He's given you. 508 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:01,920 You can honor them both. I can see that the Lord has 509 00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:05,280 blessed you in that way and I and I commend your faithfulness. 510 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,160 Give everybody, give God glory and give people praise and 511 00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:10,720 encouragement. I don't think anybody's over 512 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,720 encouraged anybody in here. He's just like, I'm sick of all 513 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,160 this encouragement. Like I get it everywhere I turn, 514 00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:17,680 somebody's encouraging me and blessing me. 515 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,720 It's overwhelming. No, OK, me either. 516 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,760 So we know we can do better with one another on that until 517 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,320 somebody's finally sick of it and we're all right. 518 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:26,120 We can turn it down on that person. 519 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,840 So they're all growing alongside together. 520 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,360 That's what he's doing. He says we're going to let it 521 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:34,920 all grow together, and then at the harvest, we're going to deal 522 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:36,680 with it. But the blind guides, they're 523 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,640 ignorant followers are going to hell. 524 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:43,520 Jesus is merciful, He's patient, He's blessing people. 525 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,280 He expects them to walk in obedience on their own, as they 526 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:49,680 should. So how can we be protected from 527 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,960 this blindness? What can protect us from false 528 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,400 teachers? What can protect us from 529 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,200 celebrity? What can protect us from false 530 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,680 teaching? What can protect us from our own 531 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:05,400 hearts? Just the honesty, the 532 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:09,640 willingness to think sometimes just to assess things, to not be 533 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,280 so quick, to just slow yourself down. 534 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,680 Take the scriptures and get in the habit of making direct 535 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,520 application, assuming and knowing that what you just read 536 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,280 the Lord intended for you on that Monday morning, on that 537 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,840 Tuesday afternoon, on that Wednesday night, whenever it may 538 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,400 be. Don't just read to consume 539 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,320 knowledge and go, I now know more stuff. 540 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,480 Careful because knowledge can puff up, but love will build up. 541 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,800 So when we love God, we will be built up by God. 542 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:41,120 But you want to get in the habit of making direct application 543 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:42,640 with the scriptures to your life. 544 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,160 Another thing is simply don't have itching ears for something 545 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,760 new when you haven't obeyed something old. 546 00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:51,960 Man, I really want this. I need something on the top 547 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,840 shelf. You know, this seems like ABC 548 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,120 123 kind of stuff and I need, well, are you walking in full 549 00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:01,320 obedience to that? Alright, you just answered my 550 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,720 question. So Master ABC123 and we'll keep 551 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,480 building from there. But don't be, don't be so 552 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,840 excited to just pursue the new thing. 553 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,000 Man, I heard something so good the other day. 554 00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,880 It was really interesting. It's going to take me down this 555 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,160 deep rabbit hole that isn't going to change my life. 556 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,560 It's not going to make me better at work. 557 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,160 It's not going to make me a better husband. 558 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:21,200 It's not going to make me a better brother or sister in 559 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:22,200 Christ. It's not going to make me a 560 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:23,640 better pastor. It's not going to do any of 561 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:25,680 those things. But it's just interesting and 562 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,000 it'll build me up with knowledge. 563 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,680 Don't get distracted by things that aren't going to be actually 564 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,880 edifying to you. Don't be impressed by men. 565 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:45,000 Just remember, they're people, they have flaws, they have sin. 566 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,480 If you spend a lot more time with them, you'd be a lot less 567 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,040 impressed with them. It's one of the reasons you 568 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:51,280 should spend time with your pastor. 569 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:54,120 It's one of the reasons why you actually need to know your 570 00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:56,120 pastor. Cause the more we're around each 571 00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:59,560 other, the more we're at men's breakfast or discipleship group 572 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,400 or at men's round table or hanging out of my living room or 573 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:08,640 dinner at your house or whatever, you're like, OK, I see 574 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,960 the whole picture. He's not Jesus, He loves Jesus, 575 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,120 he's sincere and he's real. And he's still very much my 576 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:15,200 pastor. None of those things have 577 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:19,000 changed and yet he's a man. He's a man that's helpful to 578 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,640 you, that's a blessing to you, that's a protection for you so 579 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:25,160 that Jesus stays the hero. Jesus stays the point and we go, 580 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,520 we can trust the Lord and I can follow and should follow my 581 00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,760 pastor as he follows Christ. There's still plenty to be said 582 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:33,600 there. Pay attention to those who lead 583 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,000 you and feed you in the scriptures and emulate their 584 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:37,840 lives. Those are commands to you. 585 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,880 So there's oh, what's true? Both, both and but also they're, 586 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,440 they're just men. They're just people. 587 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:49,400 So don't be impressed by them. What else can we do to protect 588 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,400 ourselves from this blindness? Be jealous for Jesus and be 589 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,240 fiercely loyal to him in his word. 590 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,280 I see Christians who just are not jealous enough for Jesus. 591 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,520 They're just not eager. And when I say jealous for him, 592 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:04,880 I mean they're not, they're not greedy enough for him to get 593 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,880 more glory. They're not, they're not loyal, 594 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:09,840 frankly, is another way to put it. 595 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,800 They're not, they're not eager. They, they're, they're OK with 596 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,440 him being blasphemed. They're OK with him being 597 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,240 belittled. Like even Muslims do this well 598 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,040 with their false wicked Prophet Muhammad. 599 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:24,880 Like you talk bad about Muhammad. 600 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:29,320 You know what happens, right? Muslims get serious real quick. 601 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,240 And this is all demonic, of course. 602 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,360 So they're murder. They have murder in their hearts 603 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,000 and and their prophet was a murderer. 604 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,880 So like, it all makes sense. So fair enough. 605 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,040 I'm not advocating we behave as though Muslims do because we 606 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:46,520 love our enemies. That's why we love Muslims and 607 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:50,840 we want them to repent and come to the saving faith of the 608 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,080 gospel of Jesus Christ and actually receive the fullness of 609 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,840 his forgiveness. That they would become brothers 610 00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:01,040 and sisters. But they they have a loyalty and 611 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,720 I go, well, that's a good trait. A devotion, that's a good trait. 612 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:07,640 It's the same thing. You should be jealous for your 613 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,440 spouse. I'm eager to protect Natalie. 614 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,000 I'm eager to have Natalie all for myself. 615 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:14,960 Same thing when it comes to Christ. 616 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,880 I'm eager to protect his name. Not that I could literally 617 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:23,160 protect Jesus in any way, but to be jealous for his truth and to 618 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:27,040 be bold for it to be able to say no, no, no, no, that's, that's 619 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:28,520 not right. That's not what Jesus said. 620 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,320 And do not fear all the questions that you don't have 621 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,680 answers to, but instead to stand firm on the things that you do 622 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:37,280 know. I was talking with a brother the 623 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,680 other morning and he was just sharing part of his testimony 624 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,080 right after he had gotten saved. And he was talking about how, 625 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,320 how just wonderful it was what the Lord had pulled him, pulled 626 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,480 him out of, and how thankful he was to love and follow Jesus. 627 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,280 And he was, and he had gone back to his family and friends and it 628 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,800 was, you know, just supposed to be another big shindig of 629 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,560 drinking and drugging and, and they're like, hey, it's time to 630 00:30:57,560 --> 00:30:59,200 do things. He's like, hey, I'm not going to 631 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,200 do it anymore. Like what? 632 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,480 Why not? He's like, man, you don't 633 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,120 believe this. Jesus changed my life like last 634 00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:09,160 week and and I'm a new man and I'm a different person. 635 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,840 And this man's brother proceeded to just curse him and go off on 636 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,360 him and hit him with all kinds of questions and overwhelm with 637 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:17,720 all kinds of things he couldn't answer. 638 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,480 And I was and I was my heart was going out to him because I know 639 00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,800 what happens to most Christians with tender hearts in that 640 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:24,680 moment is they think that they have to answer all of the 641 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:27,520 foolishness and accusation and hard heartedness that's coming 642 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,760 at them. And he goes, I don't know the 643 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:32,360 answer to anything you just asked. 644 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,440 I just know I love Jesus now. And I said, praise God, that's 645 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,480 enough. That is so sweet and that is 646 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:42,080 enough, and the Lord will bless it, and the Lord has blessed 647 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,640 that man, and the Lord will continue to bless that. 648 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,080 I don't, I don't know about all this. 649 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,760 I don't know about all this. I'm sorry you feel that way, but 650 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:51,760 I don't. I love Jesus and I'm just going 651 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,000 to follow Him and walk with Him. Oh, what a safety, what a 652 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,120 freedom, what a sheep in his pasture. 653 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,760 The shepherd will get involved in a situation like that instead 654 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,760 of me taking on all these burdens like I've got wolves and 655 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,400 snakes and pigs asking me questions. 656 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,960 But they're not sincere, they're not real, they're not humble. 657 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,840 They actually don't want help. It's just a trap. 658 00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,160 Hey, teacher, we just have a quick question. 659 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,000 Fair question, every. No, no, no, no, no. 660 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:18,840 We're totally reasonable. Totally reasonable question. 661 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,200 Totally reasonable question. Why don't your disciples do the 662 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,840 hand washing? Just just wanted to clarify. 663 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:27,560 I don't know if everyone knew Jesus disciples don't do the 664 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,880 hand washing. We were just asking him why we 665 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:31,240 just because we're just reasonable. 666 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:37,520 We just want to know reasonable, fair, right, no nonsense, lies, 667 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,640 false. You don't have to play alone. 668 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:41,720 Hey, I don't know, I don't have the answer to your question. 669 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,600 But anyway, back to my testimony. 670 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,480 I don't have the answer to your question, but here's what God 671 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,400 did in my life. Nobody can argue with your 672 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,000 testimony. Nobody can argue with it. 673 00:32:51,480 --> 00:32:54,240 Here's what Jesus did for me. Well, I know one time my aunt 674 00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,400 said I saw a ghost in the woods one day. 675 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,520 What about dinosaurs? All the nonsense that will come 676 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:03,120 at you and you just go, here's what Jesus did in my life. 677 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:04,920 And they're like, yeah, but what about you? 678 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,360 I don't know anything about that. 679 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,400 I don't know. I don't know. 680 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:10,720 You want to talk? You want to talk more about it? 681 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,320 Maybe. I got some Christians in my 682 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:13,400 church. They've been walking with the 683 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,200 Lord a lot longer. They might have some answers for 684 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:16,960 you. That would be a good move. 685 00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,320 By the way, I'm sure my pastor would love to talk with you. 686 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:21,800 He might have some answer to those things. 687 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,560 He might not. But anyway, back to what I was 688 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,920 saying. Jesus saved me from my sin. 689 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,840 I was dead in my trespasses and sins and he made me alive. 690 00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,320 And now I'm walking with him, and now I know him, and now I 691 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,840 have peace and a joy and a love and I'm saved. 692 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:42,440 And I want you to have that too. That's you can't argue with what 693 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,600 He's done for me. You can argue about a lot of 694 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:45,800 other things. And I got a lot of other 695 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,840 questions too, but they don't undo the grace of God and the 696 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,920 redemption and the miracle of the new birth. 697 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:57,040 Thank God for that. Keep going here. 698 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:03,640 Verse 16 after Peter said, you know, explain or sorry, verse 699 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,560 15, Peter said to him, explain the parable to us. 700 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,679 Quick application here. Ask the Lord to teach you his 701 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:13,719 word. Saints, when you're reading your 702 00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:16,520 Bible and you don't understand something, God, would you please 703 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,560 show this to me? Lord, I don't understand this. 704 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,800 What's going on here? Lord, help me to apply this. 705 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,679 This is confusing to me. Can you please teach me? 706 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:27,239 Maybe he'll rebuke you like you did Peter. 707 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,679 But he's going to teach you. He's going to help you. 708 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,960 He's going to love you. He's not going to condemn you. 709 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,199 It's interesting, right? Jesus? 710 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,480 He doesn't go. All right, Peter, I'll explain. 711 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,719 He goes. How are you still without 712 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,960 understanding? You've been walking with me. 713 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,040 How do you not get this? Jesus? 714 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,040 Did you have to say that part? Wouldn't it have been better, 715 00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,960 Lord, if you just gave him the answer? 716 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:57,320 Are you going to say that to Jesus? 717 00:34:57,720 --> 00:34:59,840 Because I'm not. I'm not going to. 718 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:01,480 I'm not going to. I'm not going to. 719 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,400 You don't correct the Master. You learn from the Master. 720 00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:06,600 So even in that question you can go. 721 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,560 Lord, why did you speak to Peter that way? 722 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,080 That's a good question. I know it was right. 723 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,000 But can you teach me, Lord? Can you help me understand? 724 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,800 Can you give me the wisdom, Lord? 725 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,320 Can you bring me more wisdom to know how to handle each 726 00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,080 situation, to not apply, to not apply a blanket script for 727 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,480 everything that I face in life, but help me to walk in the 728 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,280 wisdom of God to know what's needed. 729 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:32,400 Jesus loves Peter more than you love Peter, and he's taking good 730 00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,880 care of him and giving him what he needs. 731 00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,160 But when you need something, when you need to learn 732 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:38,360 something, we need to see something. 733 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:39,880 Ask the Lord to teach you His word. 734 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,520 Ask him for light and ask him for revelation. 735 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,640 Verse 17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth 736 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,640 passes into the stomach and is expelled? 737 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,880 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and 738 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,880 this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil 739 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:01,600 thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual morality, theft, false 740 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:05,640 witness, slander, these are what defile a person. 741 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,760 But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone. 742 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,280 The heart that Jesus is talking about. 743 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,000 To be clear here, since we're talking about body, bodily 744 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,680 organs and functions, when he's talking about the stomach, he's 745 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,440 talking about the stomach. But when he's talking about the 746 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,360 heart, he's not talking about the beating organ that pumps 747 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,960 blood. The reference here, when he's 748 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,880 saying out of the heart, obviously he's talking about the 749 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,480 seat of yourself. This application refers to the 750 00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:36,560 real you and includes your thinking or your understanding. 751 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,680 So what's he saying? You aren't unclean because of 752 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,920 your diet. That's what he's teaching it, 753 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,720 the people and his disciples. Your food is used by your body 754 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,160 and it's absorbed, and what isn't absorbed is is passed out 755 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,240 of the body. But what comes out of your mouth 756 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:57,280 came from your heart first. For better or worse, you 757 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,160 believed it in your heart, and then you said it with your 758 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:04,720 mouth, and that defiled you. That made you unclean. 759 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,720 Jeremiah 17, nine, says the heart is deceitful. 760 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:13,360 That means sly, insidious, slippery. 761 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,680 The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick. 762 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:23,960 Who can understand it? I think everybody is good in 763 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,120 their heart. No, they're not. 764 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,920 Don't say that anymore. It's not true. 765 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:33,280 God says differently, I think. But I really think in the heart 766 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,160 of stop, God says differently. You're disagreeing with him. 767 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,040 I think everybody's good in their heart, but we're not. 768 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,400 We were born in sin, in sin, the Scripture says in sin. 769 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,640 Did my mother conceive me? Well, I was born and raised in a 770 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,200 Christian home. Well, praise God for that. 771 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,160 And still you were born as a Sinner because of your father 772 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,040 Adam. So regardless of your mom and 773 00:37:55,040 --> 00:38:01,480 dad who birthed you, your father Adam set you up for failure and 774 00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,440 you are sinful and you have sinned and you are crushed and 775 00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,640 you are weighted and you are overwhelmed and your heart will 776 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,840 deceive you. The heart is deceitful above all 777 00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:16,160 things and desperately sick. It means incurable is what the 778 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,440 translation really means. There. 779 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:20,160 Oftentimes it's translated desperately wicked, but the a 780 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:23,080 better translation, more accurate is desperately sick or 781 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,280 incurable. You have an incurable heart. 782 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:28,800 Well, that's the problem, isn't it? 783 00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:31,760 That's difficult. And he says, who can understand 784 00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,800 it because we can even deceive ourselves in our own heart. 785 00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,240 It gets crazy, it gets complicated, becomes this tied 786 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:40,440 up knot. Verse 10 brings the relief. 787 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:46,480 I, the Lord search the heart and test the mind to give every man 788 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,760 according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds. 789 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,000 So he says, who can understand it? 790 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,560 And then the Lord answers, I can, I can understand your 791 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:58,240 heart. I already do understand your 792 00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:00,560 heart, and I'm going to search your heart. 793 00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,400 I'm going to test your mind. And I'm going to give to every 794 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,280 man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his 795 00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:07,160 deeds. Which is it? 796 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:08,840 Is it? It is according to the heart or 797 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,640 according to the deeds. The heart led to the deeds. 798 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:15,800 The heart led to the deeds. So that's why Jesus is going to 799 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,440 judge us according to our deeds. Yeah. 800 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:19,960 Why? Well, because your deeds came 801 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,280 out of your heart. You can wear a mask temporarily, 802 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,560 but not permanently. And you can never wear a mask 803 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:27,720 with God. So you can deceive people. 804 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,560 Well, I did a good thing. Yeah, but you're not a good 805 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,560 person. I did a good thing, but I'm. 806 00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:35,920 It doesn't make me a good person. 807 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:37,880 How many good things do I have to do to become a good person? 808 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:39,720 There is. There's no number you can ever 809 00:39:39,720 --> 00:39:42,440 hit. Jesus makes you a good person. 810 00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,880 What can save me? What can rescue me? 811 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,800 How can I be rescued or helped or freed? 812 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,520 It's nothing I can do. It's nothing but the blood of 813 00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:56,560 Jesus. Our pride doesn't like this 814 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,840 truth about the heart because it is a measurement that we cannot 815 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,400 fake. I can fake outward presentation. 816 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:04,960 I can play the hypocrite. I can be the mask wearer. 817 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:09,120 But King Jesus is revealing the truth, revealing a truth that 818 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,520 the Pharisees have missed. You can put supposedly clean 819 00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:16,480 things in your mouth for food and still have filth come out of 820 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,440 your mouth because of your heart. 821 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,200 I experienced this on a regular basis. 822 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,160 In my work, in the family captain, whenever I come across 823 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,640 it, past couple years I've been coming across more other husband 824 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,120 coaches in the same kind of arena of the work that I'm 825 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:36,720 doing. And whenever I come across 826 00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:42,480 something new, immediately, immediately it comes up and I 827 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:44,200 go, what's this guy talking about? 828 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,040 Immediately I've got this cynicism. 829 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,920 Immediately. I feel competitive immediately. 830 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,920 What is that pride? Who's this guy? 831 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,920 I'm the guy. I'm the guy As I try and make 832 00:40:55,920 --> 00:40:57,960 myself taller, I'm the I'm the guy. 833 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,000 No, no, no, no, no, I'm the guy. And I'm like, let me, let me 834 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,920 listen to this guy. And thankfully in each case, the 835 00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:09,520 Lord in his grace to my stupid self has said, hey stupid, this 836 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,800 is a blessing. We need a million more of these. 837 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,400 We need a million more. May the Lord raise up a million 838 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,000 more. And then I go, what is wrong 839 00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:19,320 with me? Where did that come from? 840 00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,400 That's the next thing to where did that come from 'cause I know 841 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,760 it couldn't have come from my sweet self. 842 00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:29,000 It must have been the devil. The devil must have done that to 843 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,560 me. No, I can tell you where it came 844 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,320 from, Joe Michael, It came from right in there. 845 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,600 Oh, oh, what's going on? Who's this? 846 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:39,720 Who does he think he is? Who do you think you are, little 847 00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:42,920 man? What is that? 848 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,840 That's your deceitful heart. It's sly, it's insidious, it's 849 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,920 slippery. So then what do you do? 850 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,560 Well, then I comment on this brother's stuff, typically on 851 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:53,080 different guys. I'm like, keep up the great 852 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:54,840 work. Good word. 853 00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,920 Encourage somebody who's like, why put the flesh down? 854 00:41:58,120 --> 00:41:59,960 Put the flesh down. Why? 855 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:02,280 Because I'm scared. I'm scared of God. 856 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:03,920 I'm scared of the potential of my flesh. 857 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:06,560 Unbridled. Letting the weed grow, letting 858 00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:07,800 it become the tree. And you go on. 859 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:11,840 How'd this tree get here? All the grass is dead and the 860 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:15,400 tree is giving us nothing but poison, Poisonous fruit. 861 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:20,040 Pride, insecurity, sin. Where'd it come from? 862 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:22,080 My own heart. Don't look around. 863 00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:25,360 Don't blame the devil. It comes out of your own heart. 864 00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,080 Now this isn't a perfect formula. 865 00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:30,880 This is just a really quick side note here. 866 00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,680 Jesus just quoted Isaiah. He said you honor me with your 867 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:36,240 lips, but your hearts are far from me. 868 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,880 Wait a second, I thought, if my heart's far from God, then my 869 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,600 lips will be far from God. So again, the point is that 870 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:43,920 generally the truth will always come out. 871 00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:46,960 So whatever is in my heart eventually will surface, even 872 00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:48,760 though temporarily I can be false. 873 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,640 So the Lord isn't denying the fact that sometimes your lips 874 00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:54,680 can deceive people in, in spite of what's going on in your 875 00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:56,760 heart. But the the Lord's point is that 876 00:42:56,920 --> 00:43:00,480 the heart will reveal the truth. The heart will always tell the 877 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:02,720 truth. And the masks are only temporary 878 00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:05,960 coverings. So, and we should also add your 879 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,520 food diet. It does impact your physical 880 00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,760 health, right? We know this, but it does not 881 00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:17,920 reveal your righteousness. So you say why I do carnivore 882 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:23,840 and now you're somebody or I'm I'm vegan. 883 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:28,200 Oh, are you more righteous? Well, I might be more healthy. 884 00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,160 Well, that might be true. Might be better for your 885 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:31,360 physical body with what you're doing. 886 00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,640 I don't know. I mean, I can't imagine that not 887 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:38,120 eating meat would be awesome. But anyway, I'm just goofing 888 00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:42,000 off. So does my diet increase my 889 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,120 righteousness? No, absolutely not. 890 00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:45,360 But that's what the Pharisees believed. 891 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:51,480 I am more righteous than you because of what I just chewed on 892 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,400 and swallowed and Jesus going, no, no, you're missing it. 893 00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:56,600 Why? Your heart reveals your 894 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,480 righteousness. And now he goes into these 895 00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:03,040 details. He's actually listing, he's he's 896 00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:07,400 going deeper in listing the 10 command part of the 10 897 00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,120 commandments for verse 19. For out of the heart come evil 898 00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:14,120 thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false 899 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:17,680 witness, slander. These are what defile a person. 900 00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,800 But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone. 901 00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,440 So he says evil thoughts and he says murder, that's the 6th 902 00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,560 commandment, adultery, that's the 7th, sexual immorality, and 903 00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:32,360 he says theft, that's the eighth, false witness and 904 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,240 slander, that's the 9th. What's he doing? 905 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,440 He's stacking it up. Stacking it up. 906 00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,040 That's what the law does. The law crushes the law birds. 907 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,160 And you go, Oh my goodness, what should I do now? 908 00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:47,080 Now you've reached the point. The Pharisees were walking 909 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:48,880 around with the law going, We're keeping the whole law. 910 00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,000 No, you're not. You're not. 911 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,400 You're not at all. You're ignoring the law. 912 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,000 If you were keeping the law, then you would be perfect. 913 00:44:57,560 --> 00:44:59,640 There's only one who's perfect. There's one who kept the law 914 00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,000 perfectly, and that's Jesus. And he did it in the most 915 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:05,040 difficult way. In his heart. 916 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,640 He never once sinned against the Lord. 917 00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,600 Not only did he not murder anybody, like many of us haven't 918 00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:16,280 done that, but more importantly, Jesus never hated. 919 00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:20,120 Even as he's being murdered and as he's laying down his own life 920 00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:25,080 by people who hate him, He prayed, Godfather, forgive them. 921 00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:27,080 They don't know what they're doing. 922 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:33,920 Pleading for mercy for his murderers and saying Father have 923 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:35,800 mercy on them. They don't, They don't know. 924 00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,680 And I would say they do know Jesus because you told them and 925 00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,520 you showed them and they had it and Jesus going. 926 00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,600 They just, they don't know. If they knew then they wouldn't, 927 00:45:44,720 --> 00:45:47,280 right? And Jesus is just pleading for 928 00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,960 mercy for his enemies. Jesus had lots of enemies. 929 00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:53,400 Christians will have enemies. If you don't have any enemies, 930 00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,680 you should probably question whether or not you ever stand up 931 00:45:55,680 --> 00:46:01,920 for any truth. So how does the incurable heart 932 00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,320 get help? It can't be cured. 933 00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:07,880 You're right, we need a new heart, a brand new heart 934 00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,640 entirely. The only thing that can affect 935 00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,640 the righteousness of your heart is Jesus. 936 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,600 It's the only thing we needed, a real transformation. 937 00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:22,600 Just like Abraham, he believed God, and that was credited to 938 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:27,040 him as righteousness. You believe God, Well, I don't 939 00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,160 accomplish. I don't do anything not to be 940 00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,400 saved. After you're saved, you'll want 941 00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:34,200 to do all kinds of things because you'll have a new heart, 942 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,680 you'll have a new identity, you'll still have the capability 943 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:39,240 for sin, which is kind of crazy, right? 944 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:41,240 I have a new heart, but I still have flesh. 945 00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,320 So that's why I still have that pride come up. 946 00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,160 That's why I still have to keep crucifying it. 947 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,040 That's why I still have the ability to sin. 948 00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:52,720 But, but I am not any longer identified by the Lord as a 949 00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:55,560 Sinner. I am actually like you. 950 00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:58,960 For those of you who are in Christ, actually literally a St. 951 00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:02,200 we're Saints. Yeah, you're the righteousness 952 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:07,320 of God in Christ, out of Christ, who you don't want to know what 953 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:11,720 you are, but in Christ you're the righteousness of God. 954 00:47:12,720 --> 00:47:14,480 Food doesn't change a person's heart. 955 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:17,280 What pollutes a person is what comes from their own heart. 956 00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,520 What comes out of the heart can be worse than what goes into the 957 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,240 sewer, is what Jesus is saying here. 958 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,080 And you need a new heart. That's the only way you can be 959 00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:27,200 made clean. And we're closing now. 960 00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,600 The body expels things automatically. 961 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:34,000 So what do I do with my heart? When it comes to your heart, you 962 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,160 have to put in effort to expelling things. 963 00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:38,200 The body is just a natural process. 964 00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,840 If things go in the mouth, eventually the body expels those 965 00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,120 things. But something comes into your 966 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:44,960 heart. There is no automatic expelling 967 00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:49,320 system. Humility, hunger for hunger and 968 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:53,440 thirst for righteousness is the only protection and that does 969 00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:58,200 actually take desire back to Jesus. 970 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:02,240 Sermon on the Mount. Blessed are those who mourn for 971 00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:06,080 they shall be comforted. Remember we talked about blessed 972 00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:08,080 are those who mourn what over their spiritual state. 973 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,560 This wasn't just an application to I think that was the 974 00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:13,520 secondary application when someone has died. 975 00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:16,480 Now we mourn, but in the context of everything he's teaching 976 00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:17,520 there. Blessed are those who mourn 977 00:48:17,720 --> 00:48:23,520 their spiritual situation. God have mercy on me, a Sinner. 978 00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,200 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. 979 00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:32,000 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. 980 00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:38,520 Do you mourn that you send? Are you eager to leave your sin? 981 00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:41,880 Do you hate your sin? Or are you like Lot's wife? 982 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:46,560 Jesus told us, remember Lot's wife, it's a warning from our 983 00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:50,280 Lord who is Lot's wife. Lot lives beside Sodom and 984 00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:52,160 Gomorrah, 2 wicked filthy cities. 985 00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,080 The Lord comes to judge and destroy them. 986 00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:57,160 He had been merciful and he says the time of of judgement for 987 00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:00,960 these places has come. Abraham intercedes and prays. 988 00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,800 Lot gets rescued, his family gets rescued. 989 00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:06,440 But the angels that come and rescue them say when we leave 990 00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:10,920 the cities, do not look back. And they're leaving the cities. 991 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:14,320 And Lot's wife look back. Why does she look back? 992 00:49:15,920 --> 00:49:19,000 Because her heart, she, she was going to miss it. 993 00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:20,800 She was going to miss the shopping. 994 00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:22,560 She was going to miss the social hours. 995 00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,320 She was going to miss the wine brunches. 996 00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:27,880 She was going to miss whatever, whatever status she had in this 997 00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,840 wicked and filthy culture. She was going, does he have to? 998 00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:36,120 And what did the Lord do? She was commanded to not look 999 00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:42,680 back on the cities, but out of her heart she sinned. 1000 00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:46,760 And in that moment in in death, God made her what she always 1001 00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:49,120 should have been in life. He turned her into a pillar of 1002 00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:52,360 salt. What you should have been salt 1003 00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:56,240 in the earth, preserving, protecting and purifying this 1004 00:49:56,240 --> 00:49:57,400 wicked place. If we're going to go in here, 1005 00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,560 we're going to go as missionaries and we're going to 1006 00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,160 remain faithful and true to the Lord. 1007 00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:02,720 But instead they just kind of went in. 1008 00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,040 Are we going in as Kingdom ambassadors or are we just kind 1009 00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,120 of going in? Well, we're going in and we're 1010 00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:12,760 just kind of like hope that the Kingdom influence does something 1011 00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,000 that's we don't do anything on accident. 1012 00:50:15,640 --> 00:50:17,560 We put the gates of hell on defense. 1013 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:21,840 That means we run an offense. But not for Lot's wife. 1014 00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,160 So do you mourn your sin or do you just mourn the fact that you 1015 00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:31,680 don't get to sin? Why is God so strict about 1016 00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:33,760 looking back for her? Because it wasn't about 1017 00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:35,720 eyeballs. What was so wrong with her eyes 1018 00:50:35,720 --> 00:50:37,320 going here? Because you know what controlled 1019 00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:39,200 her eyes. Same thing that controls your 1020 00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:41,880 eyes. There's something that controls 1021 00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:43,320 your eyes. It's something that controls my 1022 00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,040 eyes. Why did I look at that? 1023 00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:48,400 Why was I scrolling and I saw curves and I went back to what I 1024 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,960 just saw? Is this too real for a Sunday 1025 00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:56,240 morning? That was just for the men. 1026 00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,240 I gotta get, I gotta get better with the ladies. 1027 00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:03,920 Where does where do these things come from? 1028 00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:06,360 We know where they come from. Are we allowed to talk that way? 1029 00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:08,400 We better, we better get humble before the Lord. 1030 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,520 We better be honest. We better be humble before the 1031 00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:13,080 Lord. We don't have to tell everything 1032 00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:16,040 to every person all the time, but we better be humble and put 1033 00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:20,320 ourselves low and go, God, help me, help me to eradicate, to 1034 00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:24,360 crush sin out of my heart and out of my life, out of my mind, 1035 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,480 purify me, rescue me, protect me. 1036 00:51:29,720 --> 00:51:33,000 It's not about eyeballs, it's about heart desires. 1037 00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:36,320 Out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks out of 1038 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:39,240 the overflow of the heart, the eyes look out of the overflow of 1039 00:51:39,240 --> 00:51:42,000 the heart, the hands touch out of the overflow of the heart, 1040 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:46,640 the feet walk. So those things make me go whoo. 1041 00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:52,560 So my actions, I'm so tempted to dismiss and and defend myself 1042 00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:56,560 and go, well, I only did that because tell the whole truth. 1043 00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,800 Tell the whole truth. You did that because there was 1044 00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:04,520 something ugly inside. What does that mean? 1045 00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:06,080 Well, that makes Jesus the hero again. 1046 00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:09,360 This is a good moment. Repentance is a good thing. 1047 00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:15,760 Husbands, wives, children, parents, mothers, fathers repent 1048 00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,360 to one another. Well, then they're going to lose 1049 00:52:18,360 --> 00:52:20,960 respect for me. They lost respect for you when 1050 00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:25,000 you sinned. You'll actually gain respect 1051 00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:28,760 through your repentance and more importantly, you get to point to 1052 00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,760 Jesus in that moment. So when I repent to my sons, 1053 00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,760 they don't go, Oh my goodness, who is our father? 1054 00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:35,920 I thought, I thought we had a decent dad. 1055 00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:37,960 That's a moment where they get to, I get to go. 1056 00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,320 Jesus is king, Jesus is the hero. 1057 00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,840 Keep following Jesus, Daddy's going to keep doing his best. 1058 00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:47,000 But Jesus is the hero in the household. 1059 00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:48,840 Jesus is the hero in the workplace. 1060 00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:52,120 Apologize to your Co worker. Apologize to that other family 1061 00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:53,720 member. Oh, then they're going to think 1062 00:52:53,720 --> 00:52:56,280 I was wrong. Yeah, welcome to the point. 1063 00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:58,840 Welcome to the full ownership of humility. 1064 00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,120 And then they're going to think that then they're going to. 1065 00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:03,680 You're not, you're not responsible to live their life. 1066 00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,160 You're responsible to live yours. 1067 00:53:06,800 --> 00:53:11,080 Humility is your protection. It will keep you safe. 1068 00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:15,360 It will guard your heart, and you'll stay away from hypocrisy 1069 00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:23,080 and mask wearing. So pray with sincerity when you 1070 00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:26,760 confess sin and wring out your heart like you'd wring out a 1071 00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:28,280 washcloth. I remember as a little kid I 1072 00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,920 would wring out a washcloth and I would get every bit I could 1073 00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:32,640 and fold it and every bit I could. 1074 00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:35,040 And then I'd hand it to my dad and he would be able to get more 1075 00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:38,960 every time. That's a picture. 1076 00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,320 The Lord will help you. Lord, help me to wring this 1077 00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:43,880 stuff out of my heart. And Lord will say, I'll help you 1078 00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:45,640 get it all out. I'll help you get it all out. 1079 00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,640 But to get it all out, we must be filled with something else. 1080 00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:53,000 We don't want an emptiness. We want a fullness, which is why 1081 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,640 we pray. God fill us with your Holy 1082 00:53:55,640 --> 00:54:00,200 Spirit, actually truly, completely fill us to 1083 00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:04,040 overflowing so that I'm not just holding back the sin with 1084 00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:05,680 desperation And that's all I got. 1085 00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:07,520 If sin breaks through the door, then I'm doomed. 1086 00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:10,120 But instead, man, it's a lot easier to keep sin out when 1087 00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,760 there's just a gusher flowing constantly into my life stuff. 1088 00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:16,200 This stuff can't survive in the in the rivers of living water. 1089 00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:18,480 Why? Because the fruit of the 1090 00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:20,520 Spirit's flowing, the fruit of the Spirit's growing. 1091 00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,400 So we find a thing, we go, it becomes easier to dismiss. 1092 00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:25,960 It becomes easier to prune the tree. 1093 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,880 It still, it still hurts, but thankfully we have a good 1094 00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:31,520 gardener who loves us. And he goes, oh, that didn't 1095 00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:32,080 belong. There you go. 1096 00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:36,440 Oh yes, Lord, take it, take it. Lord, don't let that thing grow. 1097 00:54:36,440 --> 00:54:38,480 Don't let that thing blossom. Don't let that thing bloom. 1098 00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,080 Don't let that thing multiply. Don't let it hit the ground and 1099 00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:43,840 drop more seeds. Nip it in the bud. 1100 00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:49,520 Get it now? Why are you crushing us with the 1101 00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:51,680 law, Jesus? Why are you crushing us with the 1102 00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:57,080 law, Pastor? The law drives you to humility. 1103 00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,840 The law shows you who you are, man. 1104 00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:02,160 You go look at the 10 commandments. 1105 00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:05,000 Guilty, guilty, guilty. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, 1106 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,320 guilty, guilty, guilty. What's that make you? 1107 00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,520 Guilty? That's who you were. 1108 00:55:11,240 --> 00:55:14,520 And in Christ you can have new life. 1109 00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:18,240 But even still in Christ, we walk in humility and say, God, 1110 00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:23,560 make me humble, make me faithful, keep me close to you. 1111 00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:26,400 Don't let me wear a mask. It's not the same thing as 1112 00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,560 telling everybody everything all the time. 1113 00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:31,960 But there is a humility that keeps you close to the Lord. 1114 00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,680 There's a protection there that drives you to Jesus into the 1115 00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:37,520 cross. Let's go there now. 1116 00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:41,080 Lord, we have prayed together through the Lord's Prayer 1117 00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:45,320 already as we confessed our sins, and we said that we 1118 00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:49,160 forgive those who trespass against us as well. 1119 00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:54,800 But even as Your word has been preached, if there has been 1120 00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:58,120 anything else brought up among your people, like we said ahead 1121 00:55:58,120 --> 00:56:04,280 of time, we commit to obedience. God, please destroy the masks. 1122 00:56:05,520 --> 00:56:15,400 Please destroy falseness. Please remove pride, arrogance. 1123 00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:25,400 Deliver us from evil. Help us to remember Lot's wife 1124 00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:30,560 and not become like her and know that our eyes do what they do 1125 00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:33,080 for a reason. Our hands do what they do for a 1126 00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:34,880 reason. Our mind thinks what it thinks 1127 00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,240 for a reason. Our mouths speak what they speak 1128 00:56:37,240 --> 00:56:40,640 for a reason. It's just so much better to walk 1129 00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:42,440 in holiness. It's just so much safer. 1130 00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,480 It's so much freer. What a joy, what a relief. 1131 00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:47,960 Well, we don't have to pretend anymore. 1132 00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:51,320 What a relief. Well, we don't have to be false. 1133 00:56:52,240 --> 00:56:55,280 What a relief to walk in freedom. 1134 00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:58,280 You have set us free. You have delivered us. 1135 00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:00,240 The sun has set us free, so we're free indeed. 1136 00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:04,560 I plead the blood of Jesus over your people as they confess sin, 1137 00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:07,440 as they wring out their hearts before you. 1138 00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,160 Help us, Lord, to wring them out fully. 1139 00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:15,360 And then God, as you've wrung out the the toxins, fill us with 1140 00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,600 your spirit, fill us up to overflowing. 1141 00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:24,120 In Jesus name we thank you. And now the Lord bless you and 1142 00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:27,680 keep you. The Lord make his face Shinedown 1143 00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:31,920 upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance 1144 00:57:31,920 --> 00:57:37,680 upon you and give you great peace in Jesus name, Amen. 1145 00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,280 We all good here. I didn't stop it. 1146 00:57:48,800 --> 00:57:50,160 I hope it didn't stop it so.