1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,600 Welcome To The River. City Church podcast and a 2 00:00:03,608 --> 00:00:06,800 message by our lead. Pastor Jason Powers. 3 00:00:07,300 --> 00:00:10,500 Our prayer is that this message would Inspire and encourage you, 4 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,300 build your faith. And point you to the 5 00:00:13,300 --> 00:00:17,600 life-changing love of Jesus. May you enjoy the goodness of 6 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:35,600 God as you follow him today? One of the scariest places in 7 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:37,900 the world are one of the scariest places that I've ever 8 00:00:37,900 --> 00:00:40,900 been is on a Mountain Road between kind of Estes Park in 9 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:42,800 Grand Lake. It's called Trail Ridge Road, 10 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:44,500 and it goes over the Continental Divide. 11 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:48,200 And the thing about it is that it's like about this big, both 12 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,200 lanes. I mean, like, an actual size. 13 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,700 It's this big. It seems like your cars are 14 00:00:52,700 --> 00:00:56,000 bigger and you start out at the bottom and it's fine because 15 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,400 you're just on a road trip, like, well, we're climbing the 16 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,100 mountains. Like, I'm a mountain guy like in 17 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:03,300 my soul are mountains and Hike, so we drive and it's good. 18 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:05,600 You got the radio. Blast and everything's good. 19 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,600 Right? But you start to go up and it 20 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,300 goes like this, right? And the switchbacks right? 21 00:01:10,300 --> 00:01:13,000 Answer, you're always going. And so there are long stretches 22 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,200 of Trail Ridge Road, where it's just like down there like 23 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,200 thousands and tens of thousand feet, right? 24 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,300 And guys, with trailers or just, umm root. 25 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:24,300 And so you start out in your listen, it's all exciting, 26 00:01:24,300 --> 00:01:25,400 right? And then you get up a little bit 27 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:26,800 of the way, right? And what you have to do with 28 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,100 like turn the radio off, so you can see better. 29 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:30,700 Right? So you're you're just like 30 00:01:30,700 --> 00:01:33,400 gripping and then and then the trucks coming you're shaking 31 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,200 right and then The kids like the good nature laughing in the 32 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:39,400 background, you like to drive, right? 33 00:01:39,500 --> 00:01:42,500 And you go and there's no more trees anywhere because like, 34 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:45,400 there's not enough oxygen there. I'm like, you can't grow trees 35 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:47,600 up here. But here we are just tooling 36 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,700 along, right? And there's these long chains. 37 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:54,300 And I'm like, gripping fingerprints into the into the, 38 00:01:54,300 --> 00:01:56,500 you know, the steering wheel and you come down. 39 00:01:56,500 --> 00:02:00,900 And you can, we have to live here now? 40 00:02:00,900 --> 00:02:03,900 Because I'm never going over that again. 41 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:08,600 And you just you wonder like truly like I've I live in Texas. 42 00:02:08,600 --> 00:02:13,500 Like, guardrails are a thing. Can you not just mix in a 43 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:15,200 guardrail every now and then, right? 44 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,100 But if you think about that, listen barrels aren't really 45 00:02:18,100 --> 00:02:19,900 that much better. I mean, there's certainly 46 00:02:19,900 --> 00:02:22,700 probably going to keep you from plummeting to your death. 47 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:26,200 But what really they mostly made me feel safe, but I wouldn't 48 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:27,800 feel any better if you're doing this, right? 49 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,700 If you're right in the Gargoyles, the guardrails are 50 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:33,200 great protection. It's good to have guardrails. 51 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:37,600 It's Her to be a good driver. So I've been working on that for 52 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,600 the last little while before I get back. 53 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:43,100 And that guardrail illustration. It works. 54 00:02:43,100 --> 00:02:45,200 We started a couple weeks ago, looking at The Sermon on the 55 00:02:45,208 --> 00:02:50,600 Mount, which is Jesus is like Kingdom, Manifesto, write, like 56 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,000 this is what the Kingdom looks like, and he started. 57 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:58,100 Well, we started actually in Matthew 1 and we just looked at 58 00:02:58,100 --> 00:02:59,900 Jesus as he talks about the kingdom. 59 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:04,000 Jesus is the kind of guy that includes unlikely people in. 60 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,300 His story. He includes the Tamar's, and the 61 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:09,900 rahab's, and the bathsheba's, and, and the Mary's, and he 62 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:13,200 includes them, and he makes them part of their story because he 63 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:17,500 came to redeem their stories and our stories and histories. 64 00:03:17,500 --> 00:03:22,500 And so, we've seen kind of Jesus come in and changing the scene. 65 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:24,900 And the guardrail illustration comes to deal. 66 00:03:24,900 --> 00:03:28,100 Like, what we saw last week is, Jesus said, I haven't come to 67 00:03:28,100 --> 00:03:34,600 abolish the law, but to fulfill it and then he said, Not only am 68 00:03:34,608 --> 00:03:36,400 I not come to abolish it. But it said, unless your 69 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:40,500 righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees, then you 70 00:03:40,500 --> 00:03:44,000 certainly won't even enter into the kingdom of heaven. 71 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:47,000 And so he's talking about like this, Fair season Returns the 72 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,800 law and the Pharisees did with guardrails was like they would 73 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,800 put like guardrails around the law just to keep you just to 74 00:03:53,808 --> 00:03:57,100 make sure I cuz you got these big like don't murder and don't 75 00:03:57,100 --> 00:04:00,300 steal and you know, honor the Sabbath and you know honor your 76 00:04:00,300 --> 00:04:03,400 father and mother but can we really know what those mean 77 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,900 unless? We have really like a bunch of 78 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:07,600 other rules to support it. Right? 79 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:11,800 And so the Pharisees treatment of the law raises, the question 80 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:13,000 for us, and it's an important question. 81 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:18,800 I think we all asked a lot. What does it mean to be Godly? 82 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:25,100 What does godliness look for? And for the Pharisees and most 83 00:04:25,100 --> 00:04:27,500 of kind of first century, it Judaism in Israel, right? 84 00:04:27,500 --> 00:04:30,700 It looked like the law but again, these guardrails, right? 85 00:04:30,700 --> 00:04:33,300 Because if we don't make sure, we're really sure that you 86 00:04:33,300 --> 00:04:35,500 don't. And so it says, honor the 87 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:37,900 Sabbath respect the Sabbath and keep it holy, right? 88 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:40,000 And so the idea behind the Sabbath was no work. 89 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,400 And so they said, well, you can't just trust people not to 90 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:43,900 work. So we gotta say what not working 91 00:04:43,900 --> 00:04:50,500 means. So if you take 218 219, 220 Not 92 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:53,600 work. You're fine. 221. 93 00:04:53,700 --> 00:04:54,900 Well, now you're a lawbreaker. Now. 94 00:04:54,900 --> 00:04:58,100 You've broken the Sabbath. You have work or even better. 95 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:01,700 Imagine you're a tailor, right? And you are a clothes store and 96 00:05:01,700 --> 00:05:06,200 you are walking 214 215. Well now you just broken a law 97 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,500 because you have a pin in your coat and since you're a tailor 98 00:05:09,500 --> 00:05:12,300 and since you use pins and needles, you have one in your 99 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:14,400 code and voila, you have now walked too far. 100 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,100 And so you have the sense of everybody going. 101 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,600 What? What just happened, right? 102 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:25,400 Or there's this law in the law? You don't cook an animal and its 103 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,900 own mother's milk. I don't know why. 104 00:05:28,900 --> 00:05:30,900 That's I don't know why that's in there. 105 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:32,900 I think some of it had to do some, a part of the law. 106 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:35,800 Really was God's particularly kind of the ceremonial law in 107 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:38,600 the judicial. All the idea was God telling the 108 00:05:38,608 --> 00:05:41,300 issue of People. You're you're different. 109 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,100 You need to look different. You need to be a different kind 110 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:45,900 of culture, and society. And so a lot of that has kind of 111 00:05:45,908 --> 00:05:47,400 passed away. But there's this law that says 112 00:05:47,900 --> 00:05:49,900 don't cook an animal in its mother's milk. 113 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:51,700 Right? And so the Pharisees really 114 00:05:51,700 --> 00:05:54,300 wanting to be good at the law started to ask questions. 115 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,100 Well, how can, you know, whether it was this? 116 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,800 Mother's know. How can, you know whether this 117 00:06:01,200 --> 00:06:03,000 pig this ham was made as weather. 118 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:05,600 And so at the Pharisees said, is like just to be sure. 119 00:06:05,700 --> 00:06:09,900 You should never eat meat and dairy at the same time, which 120 00:06:09,900 --> 00:06:13,400 tells me that Orthodox Jewish people have never had a ham and 121 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,100 cheese sandwich. And you can't tell me that's not 122 00:06:16,100 --> 00:06:21,100 in God's design, right? So, you put these guardrails 123 00:06:21,100 --> 00:06:23,400 around the law that says, no, just to keep you just to stay 124 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:25,700 safe. Just think right in the middle. 125 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:32,500 And Jesus, now takes up this issue of rules of the law of 126 00:06:32,500 --> 00:06:35,900 what do we do about godliness, and about being good? 127 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,600 And what Jesus shows us. He says that both at the rules 128 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,000 that the law is important. It's important, the law that God 129 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:43,600 established even in the Old Testament. 130 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,600 The law is important. Jesus said, I did not come to 131 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:48,800 abolish the law. Jesus didn't say. 132 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:51,200 Hey, it's a For all now, you go do what you want to, I want to 133 00:06:51,208 --> 00:06:54,400 do a, but what Jesus said is the law as useful as it is. 134 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,500 It's not ultimate because he talked about a righteousness 135 00:06:57,500 --> 00:07:00,400 that surpasses that. So, what does it look like? 136 00:07:00,500 --> 00:07:04,100 Well, he explains it. Matthew 5:20, one simple and 137 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:06,800 easy, straight ahead, right? You heard it said to the people 138 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,400 long ago, you shall not murder and anyone who murders will be 139 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:14,000 subject to judgment and you go, that's a good law. 140 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:20,800 Is that enough? But I tell you, Jesus says that 141 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:24,500 anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be 142 00:07:24,500 --> 00:07:27,400 subject to judgment. Can you imagine hearing that the 143 00:07:27,408 --> 00:07:29,300 Pharisees are undergoing loud? What else are you going to make 144 00:07:29,300 --> 00:07:32,000 murder legal? And she's like, no murders. 145 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,100 Not legal. Anger is illegal. 146 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:37,100 Now, in the Pharisees, like, well, that's terrible. 147 00:07:38,300 --> 00:07:42,000 Again, anyone who says to his brother or sister raka, right? 148 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:43,700 Like that's you empty head, right? 149 00:07:43,700 --> 00:07:46,700 Like that's his personal something that's like so mad, 150 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:49,600 they're shaking, right? But then he goes on his answer 151 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,100 with court. And anyone who says you fool 152 00:07:52,300 --> 00:07:54,000 will be in danger of the fire of hell. 153 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:55,200 Now. There's this progression here, 154 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:56,900 right? Like there's this anger and then 155 00:07:56,900 --> 00:07:59,400 there's a seething anger and there's this rage and then 156 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,500 there's just like what a fool contempt. 157 00:08:03,100 --> 00:08:07,800 But Jesus doesn't do is say, the murder is okay, but Jesus also, 158 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,700 Do is say it's okay to hate people. 159 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:13,700 As long as you don't murder them. 160 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:17,500 Go down to verse 27. You heard that it was said, You 161 00:08:17,500 --> 00:08:20,000 shall not commit adultery and were like, oh, that's fine. 162 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:20,700 That's good. Right? 163 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:22,300 Most of us. Do y'all haven't done that? 164 00:08:22,300 --> 00:08:25,200 But Jesus says, but I'll tell you that anyone who looks at a 165 00:08:25,208 --> 00:08:28,300 woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her and 166 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:29,300 her heart. He got Jesus. 167 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:30,900 That's so heavy. Right? 168 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:32,600 Like I don't think the point is like this you go. 169 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,200 Oh, that's the nature side. It's the point is The point is 170 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,400 the wolf whistle, right? The point is like the cartoons 171 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:43,000 of the eyes when looking at a person for the purpose of 172 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,600 lusting. Now, this takes all kinds of 173 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,300 shapes on our right? Like you can go online, right? 174 00:08:47,300 --> 00:08:49,300 And you can see all kinds of ways of looking through us, 175 00:08:49,300 --> 00:08:51,200 right? And a lot of that falls kind of 176 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:54,200 on the male's. Now listen, there's such a ideas 177 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,400 fantasy, the ideas, like who is filling your brain right now. 178 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:01,800 Listen, I'm watch some of those soap operas. 179 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,400 Right? Like I know some of you like 180 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,600 have like a Sonny Corinthos thing, right? 181 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:07,200 Going on. Some of you I was at Days of Our 182 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:08,200 Lives. Nobody in here. 183 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:09,600 Got that, that makes me happy first. 184 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:13,000 Service went uproarious on that. So we knew where they are 185 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,000 spiritually, right? You guys are doing a great job. 186 00:09:18,700 --> 00:09:23,000 The problem is fantasy and it can be books. 187 00:09:23,100 --> 00:09:27,500 It can be 50 Shades of Grey. It can be all kinds of things. 188 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,700 The question is, what's filling your Head and Jesus says, it's 189 00:09:31,700 --> 00:09:36,900 not okay to not commit physical adultery with your spouse and 190 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:39,900 yet to have all these fantasies of other people filling your 191 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:41,100 head all day. Yes. 192 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:46,200 The physical but also the mental violations are both violations 193 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,400 and he goes down, verse 31. It's been said that anyone who 194 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,200 divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce. 195 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,200 Now that comes from a law of Moses were most. 196 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:56,900 Now the listen, let's be real clear. 197 00:09:56,900 --> 00:10:01,200 The original law goes back to Genesis and Is where Adam wakes 198 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,100 up? He's like, hey, that's Eve. 199 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:05,100 Right? And it says, for this reason, a 200 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:07,600 man will leave his father and mother and cling to his wife and 201 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,100 they will become one flesh. That's the original picture of 202 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:13,500 divorce. Now Moses said, yeah, that's 203 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:14,300 fine. You can divorce. 204 00:10:14,300 --> 00:10:17,100 If you can give, you know, if you can convince that or if you 205 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:19,600 just want to write. So that seems kind of 206 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:21,400 duplicitous, right? Because look he goes down there. 207 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,300 Yeah, you can you can divorce anyone, right? 208 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:28,200 But I tell you, anyone that divorces except for sexual 209 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:30,700 immorality, make sure the victim of adultery And anyone who 210 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:33,600 marries a divorced woman commits adultery again, you have heard 211 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:34,900 that it was said to the people long ago. 212 00:10:35,100 --> 00:10:37,700 Don't break your oath. So in the law of Moses said, 213 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:42,500 sure you can divorce your wife, but don't you dare break an oath 214 00:10:42,500 --> 00:10:44,700 to someone else. It seems duplicitous, right? 215 00:10:44,700 --> 00:10:48,100 It seems like those things go together, but fulfill your vows 216 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:51,600 to the Lord, you have made. But I tell you, do not swear an 217 00:10:51,700 --> 00:10:54,900 oath at all. See the idea for the law, the 218 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:57,400 good use of the law as we see it front counter from the Old 219 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,100 Testament. Don't murder law is, it's a 220 00:10:59,108 --> 00:11:02,000 great way. Way to keep us from not doing 221 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,100 bad, which is, which is fine. Right? 222 00:11:04,100 --> 00:11:06,800 Like the law keeps us from that. But here's the deal. 223 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:15,000 God isn't just not bad. God doesn't just not murder you. 224 00:11:15,100 --> 00:11:18,200 God loves you. God cares for you. 225 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:20,000 Now. The law is good. 226 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:21,900 God is good. It's like the difference between 227 00:11:21,900 --> 00:11:23,500 broccoli. Broccoli is fine. 228 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,600 I broccoli right? But broccolis not steak. 229 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:31,500 Right is God, broccoli. Or is God, like steak? 230 00:11:31,500 --> 00:11:33,300 We know, we know the answer to this, right? 231 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:34,700 We get this right. Fine. 232 00:11:34,700 --> 00:11:35,500 Sure. That's good. 233 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:37,800 We know it adds something. We know the value of broccoli is 234 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:39,400 good, right? Nutrients and pro, and all that 235 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:40,800 stuff. Right, but we know that there's 236 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,100 something bigger in, there's something better out there. 237 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:46,700 So Jesus talks about the law, and he talks about 238 00:11:46,700 --> 00:11:49,800 righteousness, and he talks about this surpassing 239 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:51,300 righteousness. He talks about this 240 00:11:51,500 --> 00:11:54,800 righteousness is greater than the Pharisees, and then he takes 241 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:59,000 the whole system and raises. It, he doesn't say, unless your 242 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,500 righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and really go 243 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:03,800 ahead and do whatever you want. He raises the ball so that it 244 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:06,800 covers the heart then. And what Jesus does he does 245 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:08,600 something that is very good for us. 246 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,100 Even though we don't like it when Jesus makes it. 247 00:12:11,100 --> 00:12:13,500 Not just about what you do with your parts. 248 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:15,800 Not just where your hands and feet and parts go. 249 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:17,500 But what goes on in your heart, you're out what he does. 250 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:22,200 Is he removes this whole idea of moral relativism right? 251 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:24,100 Where? Oh, well, as long as it's okay 252 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:25,900 for you. It's ok for me, right? 253 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,200 Oh well as long as As if you do it, then I can do it. 254 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,900 Right? It keeps us from ranking sins 255 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:35,900 and he goes, no, it doesn't matter if you have physically, 256 00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:38,100 literally committed adultery, and you have physically, 257 00:12:38,100 --> 00:12:41,500 literally committed, adultery through through fantasy in your 258 00:12:41,500 --> 00:12:44,900 heart. You diminished someone you have 259 00:12:44,900 --> 00:12:47,400 heard someone somewhere. And the other thing it does, is 260 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,600 it dissing it removes us from what about ISM? 261 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,700 When somebody says, oh, that thing in your life is keeping 262 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:56,900 you from God's Beth. Oh, wow, but what about them? 263 00:12:57,900 --> 00:13:03,100 It's as if, as long as we're not the most sinful person in the 264 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:05,700 world, we're okay. Right? 265 00:13:05,700 --> 00:13:08,000 Like, that's a whole, like, kind of the mindset of like, oh, some 266 00:13:08,300 --> 00:13:09,500 were you going to go to heaven when you die? 267 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:11,200 Well, yeah. Well, I'm not a murderer. 268 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:14,700 Oh, that's the standard good. I didn't, I didn't know. 269 00:13:14,700 --> 00:13:17,500 I thought it may have been more, but as long as we don't murder 270 00:13:17,500 --> 00:13:21,100 someone and we'll get in, right? Jesus doesn't use the law. 271 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:23,600 That way he doesn't use it. Relative doesn't make it 272 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:25,400 relative. He doesn't make it about, what 273 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:27,600 is mm. So now the question, Comes, 274 00:13:27,900 --> 00:13:31,000 what's the difference? What's the difference between 275 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,100 the way, the Pharisees and the religious leaders used the wall? 276 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:39,200 And the way that Jesus used law, the difference, I would say 277 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,200 between the way these to use the law is compassion. 278 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,100 Let me share with you. The definition of compassion 279 00:13:46,100 --> 00:13:53,500 compassion is sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings 280 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:58,800 and misfortunes of others. The difference between Jesus and 281 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:03,600 the Pharisees was compassion the Pharisees elevated. 282 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,100 The law. They made the points of the law. 283 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:12,300 They emphasize the law so much so that they D emphasized 284 00:14:12,300 --> 00:14:14,000 people. There can be people. 285 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:18,100 That are hurting and lost and all the Pharisees saw was God's 286 00:14:18,100 --> 00:14:20,400 judgment. Well, if you were better, God 287 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:22,300 would heal you, if you were better. 288 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:25,900 God would make you rich. And the subtext is if you were 289 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:30,900 better, God would bless you. Like he has blessed me. 290 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:35,400 He would make you like me and what Jesus Does by raising the 291 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,300 bars. Go know if you want 292 00:14:38,300 --> 00:14:41,400 righteousness. You need to be like me. 293 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:46,700 Jesus emphasized the law. All without D emphasizing the 294 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:51,600 person. That's what the law of Jesus is. 295 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,700 The law of Jesus doesn't make away with rules. 296 00:14:54,700 --> 00:15:00,500 The law of Jesus, instead is an invitation to compassion. 297 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,700 The law of Jesus is an invitation to compassion. 298 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,900 I believe that compassion is the thing around without which the 299 00:15:12,900 --> 00:15:15,600 law doesn't listen to Old Testament. 300 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:18,800 What does god require of You? O mortal. 301 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:22,200 He has shown you. And what does he require Micah? 302 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:30,300 6:8 act, justly, love, mercy and walk humbly with your God. 303 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:35,600 Justice and mercy, together, evidence of compassion when I 304 00:15:35,608 --> 00:15:37,800 look and go know, there is a standard in the standard is good 305 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:39,400 and in his right, but I see Mercy. 306 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:41,800 I look at your heart and I see the person behind it. 307 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:45,300 If you have these things, if you walk humbly with your God, you 308 00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:49,300 will have compassion because he has compassion on the others. 309 00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:52,600 Jesus is law. Is about compassion and look at 310 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,700 2nd Corinthians chapter 1 starting in verse. 311 00:15:56,700 --> 00:16:00,400 Three, praise be to the praise, be to the God and father of our 312 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:03,900 Lord. Jesus Christ, the father of 313 00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:09,100 compassion, and the God of All Comfort, who comforts Us in all 314 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:12,100 our troubles. So that we can comfort those in 315 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:15,800 any trouble with the Comfort. We ourselves receive from God to 316 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:20,300 be Godly, is to be Godlike. And to be Godlike, is to be 317 00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:24,600 compassionate because our God is compassionate. 318 00:16:25,700 --> 00:16:29,000 When Jesus gave The Sermon on the Mount, he wasn't thinking 319 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:32,200 about when we died and went to heaven, and sat on a cloud 320 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:35,600 because Jesus said, the Kingdom of Heaven is here. 321 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:38,200 It's at hand. The Kingdom of Heaven is in the 322 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:40,800 atmosphere Among Us at his breaking out all over. 323 00:16:40,900 --> 00:16:44,700 It's breaking Out Among the ne'er-do-wells among the sick 324 00:16:44,700 --> 00:16:48,400 and the lost, and the hurting. But what Jesus does, when he 325 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:49,800 says, the Kingdom of Heaven is now. 326 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,300 And he said, you can't take part in the Kingdom of you disobey 327 00:16:53,300 --> 00:16:54,700 the rules. And if you walk away from the 328 00:16:54,700 --> 00:16:57,000 commands. You can't do without compassion. 329 00:16:57,100 --> 00:16:59,000 What he's saying? He's saying is the law. 330 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,300 The compassionate law, infused with the heart of God, the 331 00:17:02,300 --> 00:17:06,900 missing element to make that the Redemptive force in the world is 332 00:17:06,900 --> 00:17:09,400 compassion. And Jesus is law, is an 333 00:17:09,407 --> 00:17:12,200 invitation, and it's an invitation to certain two 334 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:13,900 specific things. The first thing, it's an 335 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:20,099 invitation Beyond, outraged and contempt. 336 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:28,400 Man, the fruit of the spirit is not anger. 337 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:33,700 The fruit of the spirit is not Fury. 338 00:17:34,100 --> 00:17:37,900 The fruit of the spirit is not outraged. 339 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:41,600 Ever. The fruit of the spirit is love, 340 00:17:41,700 --> 00:17:47,100 and joy, and peace, and patience, and kindness, and 341 00:17:47,100 --> 00:17:50,700 goodness, and faithfulness, and gentleness and self-control. 342 00:17:50,700 --> 00:17:53,500 And I Is reliving the evil times preacher. 343 00:17:54,300 --> 00:17:56,500 Jesus turned the tables in the temple. 344 00:17:56,500 --> 00:17:59,500 Righteous indignation is what Jesus is about. 345 00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:01,600 Like weird. Listen, Jesus lived under the 346 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,900 Roman Empire. So certainly there was some 347 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:08,200 Moral relativism. Can we say that at the time? 348 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,100 Certainly there was some cultural. 349 00:18:10,100 --> 00:18:12,400 So let's see what Jesus got so mad about right. 350 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:14,700 Did he go in and kick all the Romans out of the temple. 351 00:18:14,700 --> 00:18:19,500 We go to Mark chapter 10, starting or chapter, where we 352 00:18:19,500 --> 00:18:22,900 have 11 in verse 15 on reaching Jerusalem. 353 00:18:22,900 --> 00:18:26,000 Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who 354 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:29,200 are buying and selling their, he overturned the tables of the 355 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,900 money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 356 00:18:31,900 --> 00:18:34,100 The reason they were selling doves is for sacrifices, so that 357 00:18:34,100 --> 00:18:37,300 people wouldn't have to Carry their sacrifices from a long way 358 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,300 so that they could go be forgiven receive atonement. 359 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:41,500 Right? So, people are just like, well, 360 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:43,400 that's great. We'll just have all the stuff in 361 00:18:43,408 --> 00:18:45,200 the temple for you. So you just show up. 362 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,900 Oh, by the way, there's gonna be like an 87 percent markup just, 363 00:18:48,900 --> 00:18:50,500 you know, cover the cost of expenses. 364 00:18:50,700 --> 00:18:53,300 So he goes in. Turns him over. 365 00:18:53,300 --> 00:18:55,100 He wouldn't allow anyone to carry merchandise through the 366 00:18:55,100 --> 00:18:57,600 temple and as he taught them. Now, notice this is important 367 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,300 because Jesus is about to tell you why, he just cleared the 368 00:19:00,300 --> 00:19:01,800 temple. If we're going to be table, 369 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:05,400 Turner's like Jesus, when got to be tabled, Turner's like Jesus. 370 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:07,300 So what did he say? You're so mad. 371 00:19:07,300 --> 00:19:09,500 You're stepping on my right. You're opposing me or against 372 00:19:09,500 --> 00:19:10,700 me. Rome will never rise. 373 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:15,000 Israel forever know what he says is it, isn't it written that my 374 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,800 house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. 375 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,400 Do you know why Jesus was Turning Tables there? 376 00:19:22,700 --> 00:19:27,900 That Gentiles in the temple in Jerusalem and its to be a prayer 377 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:31,600 House of Prayer for all nations. So righteous indignation is not. 378 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:36,200 When somebody hurts my feelings righteous indignation isn't 379 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:39,500 somebody said something that I don't like righteous. 380 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:42,800 Indignation isn't well, people are here that shouldn't be here. 381 00:19:42,900 --> 00:19:46,900 Righteous indignation is when we see our religiosity or somebody 382 00:19:46,900 --> 00:19:50,900 else's religiosity, keeping people away from God, that 383 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:55,200 should be drawn to God, if we're going to be table, Turner's, if 384 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,600 we're going to have righteous. Indignation, we are righteous 385 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,700 indignation needs to begin when our compassion. 386 00:20:00,700 --> 00:20:04,600 For people who are far away from God, begins to wane and diminish 387 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:09,200 and look ugly to them and keep them away that I believe is when 388 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,900 Jesus started. He hasn't called us into a life 389 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:16,800 of outrage. He hasn't called us into a life 390 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:21,200 of of Fury. Jesus called us beyond that. 391 00:20:21,900 --> 00:20:23,300 Matthew Chapter 5 going back. Right? 392 00:20:23,300 --> 00:20:26,600 Remember where he says, you're in danger of the fire of hell. 393 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:29,700 It can, can we show that graph? I'm going to go out of order 394 00:20:29,700 --> 00:20:31,600 right here and show this, right? Because this is the deal right? 395 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:34,000 Emotional engagement agree. Hey, I'm just annoyed with 396 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,300 somebody going. Don't think about it much but as 397 00:20:37,300 --> 00:20:40,300 I start to get angry, that's where I start going home and 398 00:20:40,300 --> 00:20:41,400 telling Natalie, right? Other. 399 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:42,700 Can you believe it? Didn T. 400 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:45,700 You can't believe this, right? And with rage is now when were 401 00:20:45,700 --> 00:20:48,300 Furious and we're just walking around where, and we're planning 402 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:49,200 out, right? I'm gonna get them. 403 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:50,000 And I'm going to say this, right? 404 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:51,200 You have that conversation, right? 405 00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:53,400 All of the things that I'm going to say them, right, and it's 406 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:55,800 building its building in there taking up increasing in and then 407 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,300 contempt comes and you just go. Yeah, forget you. 408 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:02,700 I'm on the time of day for you. The language of contempt. 409 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:08,400 Is you are dead to me. I won't give you time and will 410 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:09,900 give you energy and will give you resource. 411 00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:12,300 You're dead to me. So when Jesus says, yeah, sure 412 00:21:12,300 --> 00:21:15,000 don't kill your neighbor, but let's not kill him. 413 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,400 Emotionally either. Let's not kill him, right? 414 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,100 So what does Jesus say, if you're offering your gift at the 415 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:21,600 altar, he's talking about the worship. 416 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:22,900 Now, he's talking about the temple. 417 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,500 If you offer your gift at the altar, and remember that your 418 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:31,700 brother or sister has something against you, this doesn't say 419 00:21:31,700 --> 00:21:34,200 that if you stand there and you remember somebody that really 420 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:36,800 just ticked you off. You just left, but we'll get to 421 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:37,500 that. Second. 422 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:40,600 But at first, it says, if you're there praying and you remember 423 00:21:40,700 --> 00:21:44,000 that you have offended somebody or the somebody took exception 424 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:45,700 to you or that somebody hurt you. 425 00:21:45,700 --> 00:21:48,300 If you're doing that, leave your gift in front of the altar. 426 00:21:48,300 --> 00:21:51,900 First go and be reconciled to them and then come offer your 427 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:53,700 gift. You know what the precursor to 428 00:21:53,700 --> 00:21:56,200 worship is. Hey, I think I may have hurt 429 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:57,500 your feelings and I'm really sorry. 430 00:21:59,500 --> 00:22:02,400 Listen, I wasn't trying to, but that doesn't diminish it. 431 00:22:02,500 --> 00:22:04,800 I know that what I said wounded, you and listen. 432 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:08,100 If I could do it different. I'm sorry. 433 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:11,100 And you just say, but they were wrong. 434 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:17,300 So what so are you? Because we are all badly broken 435 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,600 deeply love. Do you know why? 436 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:23,100 Jesus wants this? Because Jesus wants to live in a 437 00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:25,700 world where nobody has to walk around like this. 438 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,300 And so if I can come to you and go, please forgive me. 439 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,100 I wish I had done different. I will listen. 440 00:22:33,300 --> 00:22:35,400 We've got disagreement. We got to go to dinner, and we 441 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,200 got to figure that out. But listen, no matter how 442 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:39,900 different we are on this issue or that issue, no matter how 443 00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:41,800 different, how far apart we are on that. 444 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:43,800 I believe that you are a person loved by God. 445 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,600 And so, I want to love you. And I want to figure this out 446 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,200 and I want to get to the bottom of this, but I want to get 447 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,600 through it together. And you know, what? 448 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:53,400 If that can save somebody from, you know, from the arms folded 449 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:57,200 Death, March, I believe that's a little bit more like the Adam of 450 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:02,700 heaven when that be good. So what if we just live beyond 451 00:23:02,700 --> 00:23:04,500 outraged? So, that's the question. 452 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,700 Who do you need to ask forgiveness of? 453 00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:12,300 Does Jesus talks about that in the same paragraph and the same 454 00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:15,400 message in the same teaching as murder? 455 00:23:16,300 --> 00:23:19,300 His anger talks about in terms of the law. 456 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:22,200 But he goes on settle matters. Quickly with your adversary. 457 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,800 He was taking you to court, do it while you were still together 458 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,200 on the way or your adversary will hand you over to the judge, 459 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,900 and the judge May hand, you over to the officer and you may be 460 00:23:29,900 --> 00:23:30,800 thrown into prison. Now. 461 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,000 There's a reason for this order. Jesus begins with saying, you 462 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,800 need to ask for forgiveness because once you've received I 463 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,200 need forgiveness. It becomes much easier to 464 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,800 forgive others. And so what Jesus calls us to 465 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:49,500 with this law, is too radical compassion to love and to care 466 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,000 for people and to call people and Jesus. 467 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,300 Jesus is like, yeah, you want to be like God again. 468 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:58,000 God doesn't murder you, but he also doesn't hold content 469 00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,400 overview. And I have to say, if I'm 470 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,400 honest, 100% honest. This is where my theology. 471 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,800 I'm really having to work on this because while I know my 472 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,400 theology is good. I know that God is a god of 473 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:08,800 love. There's a part of me and my 474 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,300 soul, my spirit that I'm considering where I just feel 475 00:24:11,300 --> 00:24:13,600 like God is kind. Like, just disappointed in me. 476 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,600 That's not what the scripture tells me. 477 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,500 What the scripture tells me that he loves me and he walks over 478 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:24,100 and in fact, he has commanded his church to not hold grudges 479 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:26,600 so that we can resolve so that I can make peace through 480 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,400 forgiving. But also through being forgiven. 481 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:34,000 That's how we grow together. That's what all of this is about 482 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:37,000 where to seek peace through confession, but also to seek. 483 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,400 Peace through reconciliation and through forgiveness. 484 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,400 That's how Jesus reflects his goodness by forgiving us. 485 00:24:44,900 --> 00:24:47,700 What compassion does it just reinforces the goodness of what 486 00:24:47,700 --> 00:24:50,000 compassion does. When we begin with an I go got I 487 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,600 need to be forgiven. Got any be forgiven by you, but 488 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,300 there's also other people in my life that need to be forgiven. 489 00:24:56,500 --> 00:24:59,500 Apologize to your kids, parents apologize to your kids a lot. 490 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:01,400 Show them. Hey, I was wrong. 491 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,400 Hey, I made that I made that mistake because as we begin to 492 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,900 walk in that, we begin to live in a world Beyond outraged and 493 00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:10,400 Beyond fury because what his Fury do, it divides. 494 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,700 It separates as it pushes apart. And it doesn't really solve much 495 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:19,500 gives us ulcers working through without more ulcers. 496 00:25:20,100 --> 00:25:23,000 But what compassion does when we Forgiveness. 497 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:25,900 And then we forgive give forgiveness others. 498 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,900 What compassion for others does? Is it reinforces the idea that 499 00:25:29,900 --> 00:25:33,600 they're just like me? The problem is, I'm an 500 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,000 us-and-them world, right? Us as good them as bad. 501 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,800 What compassion? What forgiveness does is just 502 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:40,300 go. Oh, yeah. 503 00:25:40,300 --> 00:25:42,300 I know. They're like me, you know, the 504 00:25:42,300 --> 00:25:44,100 verse like love your enemies as yourself. 505 00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:49,900 That's hard, right? What if what that means is? 506 00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:53,700 Do you know the excuse is that you'll make for yourself? 507 00:25:53,700 --> 00:25:55,500 You don't justify. You don't say you're sinless, 508 00:25:55,500 --> 00:25:56,800 right? Nobody would say I like, I know 509 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,300 like if we're here just go Johnson, right? 510 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,500 But I just go. Well, I do that. 511 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:01,500 Yeah that's in. But listen. 512 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:04,300 The reason I do that is because my dad was really mean to me and 513 00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:07,600 neglectful and so I'm insecure and I had these, I have these 514 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:10,200 heart wounds that hurt me. And so, you know, when you said 515 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,300 that thing I felt betrayed and and sure it was a it was a sin 516 00:26:13,300 --> 00:26:14,600 but it's not that I don't love you. 517 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:16,000 And will you accept me back, right? 518 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:17,900 And we say that we do that, we want that. 519 00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:20,700 And we believe that, right? Loving your neighbor as yourself 520 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:23,000 one. Aspect one component of that, I 521 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,900 believe is making it making the same excuses for the person 522 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:29,000 across the table that I would make for myself. 523 00:26:30,300 --> 00:26:34,000 If they're cranky, maybe it's not because they are a disciple 524 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,100 of Satan. Maybe they didn't get enough 525 00:26:37,100 --> 00:26:41,100 sleep last night and a little compassion would help, maybe 526 00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:43,700 they're hungry and they need a sandwich and a little 527 00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:45,700 compassion. Would feed a brother in need 528 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:46,100 right? Whatever? 529 00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:48,500 Whatever this is, but this brings back. 530 00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:51,700 The second thing, when Jesus talks about, right, raising the 531 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:54,800 bar, what he's doing is he's inviting us, not just beyond, 532 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,900 outraged and content, which by the way, just sidenote church. 533 00:26:56,900 --> 00:26:58,800 Let's get Beyond outraged and contempt. 534 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,500 Let's stop. I'm so mad all the time. 535 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:04,000 Wouldn't it be better? When we better for our, like, 536 00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:08,400 our blood pressure, like our cholesterol, like all of that. 537 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,500 And listen, let me just listen. I've read the book. 538 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:14,400 I gotta tell you, I'm going to be like someday Jesus is going 539 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,500 to come back and it's all going to get better like all at once 540 00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:17,900 and suddenly and it's going to be awesome. 541 00:27:17,900 --> 00:27:21,100 It's going to be great. But until then it's not, it's 542 00:27:21,100 --> 00:27:25,400 not that doesn't excuse us from doing all the good that we can 543 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,100 as often as we can to, as many people as they can, whether they 544 00:27:28,100 --> 00:27:31,100 deserve it or not, because they don't deserve It because none of 545 00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:34,200 us deserve it. But Romans 5:8 tells us that God 546 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,500 shows his love for us in this while we were still Sinners, he 547 00:27:36,500 --> 00:27:40,600 died for us and then he said, follow me and I don't like that. 548 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:42,500 Part of follow me. I liked the part of follow me 549 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:43,800 where you like, walk on the water. 550 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,300 I haven't had that part yet, but I do have the part about 551 00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:50,500 forgiving and I do have the part about loving and about serving, 552 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:52,400 right? And so is Jesus holds up this 553 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:53,900 mirror, and he's right, like, yeah, sure. 554 00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:55,700 Glad that you haven't murdered anybody. 555 00:27:55,700 --> 00:27:58,200 But are you angry with people? And he says this to a crowd of 556 00:27:58,200 --> 00:27:59,900 outcasts, right thing about the Pharisees. 557 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,300 Have them out at the system. Yeah, they're mad at the 558 00:28:02,300 --> 00:28:04,400 Pharisees and the Sadducees in the religious leaders and 559 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,200 they're mad at the whole dang thing in Jesus. 560 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,900 Like we got to work on that and we got to figure that. 561 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:11,500 Listen, if you're angry. This isn't even on my notes. 562 00:28:11,500 --> 00:28:12,800 This is me pleading with you right now. 563 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,400 This is so good. Don't Harbor it. 564 00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:18,600 It's eating you up and it's killing you and it doesn't have 565 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:21,400 to be that way in Jesus sees you and he knows you and he loves 566 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,400 you and he wants to set you free and he wants to walk with you 567 00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,300 and encourage you. And he wants to tell you see the 568 00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:27,900 thing about anger is it's like it's a secondary emotion. 569 00:28:27,900 --> 00:28:30,800 It's in front of something. It's a Active emotion. 570 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,500 It makes its if you're angry, it's because you're hurt or your 571 00:28:33,500 --> 00:28:35,600 wounded or you're scared. And you're afraid. 572 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,100 That's the thing to take to Jesus. 573 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:39,400 And Jesus. Like, listen. 574 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,100 I'm in control. Read the end of the book. 575 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:48,500 We're gonna get there y'all but Jesus everything's terrible. 576 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:50,800 He's like, I know, You know what? 577 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,200 Make it better compassion. Go do that. 578 00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:59,600 And as we realize how difficult that is, he shifts our ideas to 579 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,900 us, right? And we get nervous wreck off. 580 00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:03,400 We just talked about love and grace all the time. 581 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:04,800 People just going to go out and sends, right? 582 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:06,600 We'll all of this is Jesus raised the bar. 583 00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:09,000 It's an invitation to take our own sins. 584 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,200 Seriously. What I would say is it's an 585 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,700 invitation to take our own sins as seriously as we take the sins 586 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:18,200 of other people, right? Because we look at the sins of 587 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,800 other people who just like, well, that's the worst one. 588 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,200 You should never never, Do that. Right? 589 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:30,000 And the idea is that mental sins are just as real as the physical 590 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,700 ones. Here's here's an experience 591 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:35,500 experiment, guys. How would you feel if you came 592 00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:37,000 home at the end of the day and you're talking to your wife, 593 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,700 your life, honey, like honey. How were things she goes? 594 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,300 Oh my gosh. They were amazing. 595 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:48,200 I thought about my high school boyfriend for hours today. 596 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:51,600 Then I went and found him on Facebook and we chatted for a 597 00:29:51,608 --> 00:29:54,200 couple of hours and week talk. And yeah, we're going to talk 598 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:55,700 again tomorrow while you're gone. 599 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,700 It's going to be awesome. Guys, if you're listening, 600 00:29:58,700 --> 00:30:01,000 you're going to go. Excuse me. 601 00:30:01,008 --> 00:30:02,500 I'm sorry. What was that? 602 00:30:03,300 --> 00:30:07,900 Because we know the mental is not different. 603 00:30:08,100 --> 00:30:11,700 We want it to be but it's not. And these are all things when we 604 00:30:11,700 --> 00:30:15,000 focus and we fantasize on something that is not that it's 605 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,800 not, not ours. It impacts us. 606 00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:22,200 And here's the deal addicts. When addicts go, and they get 607 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,300 sober, right? And they start to go. 608 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:27,500 It's not uncommon for addicts and all kinds of dishes to have 609 00:30:27,500 --> 00:30:29,600 suffered a relapse. Here's the thing about 610 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,000 addictive. Ecology. 611 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,100 Relapse has begin long before the person ever actually takes a 612 00:30:35,108 --> 00:30:37,300 substance, you know, when a relapse happens when a relapse 613 00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:40,000 begins? When people start thinking about 614 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,100 the thing, when they start thinking about the drink, when 615 00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:47,600 they start thinking about the High, when they start thinking 616 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:52,200 about the Escape, see the problem with making the law, 617 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,700 just about the external stuff? Is it doesn't get to the root. 618 00:30:55,700 --> 00:30:58,300 Have a dog? Any Dino. 619 00:30:58,300 --> 00:31:01,600 Is it going somewhere? He's a vessel a dog. 620 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:02,800 He's amazing. Right? 621 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,700 He's like he doesn't shed. His name is Remus. 622 00:31:04,700 --> 00:31:06,700 He's high. Energy loves me, man, kisses all 623 00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:09,100 the time. Like now I didn't always had a 624 00:31:09,108 --> 00:31:11,200 dog when I was growing up. But when we first got married we 625 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:14,700 were I was married for like probably ten years before we got 626 00:31:14,700 --> 00:31:16,600 a dog. Do you know what happened? 627 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,200 The one day I started sitting it out. 628 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,400 I was like, you know what? I used to have good dogs, man. 629 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,100 I had dog. Mr. B was my dog. 630 00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:24,700 And then we had Lacy with my dog and I started thinking that I 631 00:31:24,708 --> 00:31:27,000 had a thought, like, once a month and then about a month 632 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,900 later, I go men, dogs are great, and I start having a thought. 633 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,000 About a dog every two weeks and I started going man. 634 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,800 What kind of dog would I get if I were going to get a dog? 635 00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:37,400 Alright odd Germans light and you start them out and it's very 636 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,500 like Natalie. We gotta what kind of we were 637 00:31:39,508 --> 00:31:41,500 gonna get a DOT right in. So you start talking about and 638 00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:43,400 then guess what? Dog. 639 00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:48,900 I did not set out to buy a dog. And now, I love my dog, my dog 640 00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:52,500 is there, but what happened was? I let little things get into my 641 00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:55,300 brain and I let those brain. So, when that's what's called 642 00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:57,600 entertaining, right? If I entertain you, at my house, 643 00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,400 I set a place for you. We cooked dinner, bring out our 644 00:31:59,408 --> 00:32:01,400 best all that. We do those same things with 645 00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,800 these thoughts, with these ideas that come in that, that pop into 646 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,500 our head, right? We don't take the thoughts as 647 00:32:07,500 --> 00:32:10,100 seriously as the behaviors, seriously, as the action, but 648 00:32:10,100 --> 00:32:15,000 notice what Jesus says in verse 29, these numbers are so small. 649 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:19,800 Um, verse 29, if your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it 650 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,100 out and throw it away. It's better for you to lose one 651 00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:23,900 part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown your 652 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:25,800 health fun. Right? 653 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,200 Glad we're talking about this. This is good. 654 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:28,700 Right? And if your right hand causes 655 00:32:28,700 --> 00:32:31,100 you to stumble cut it off, and throw it away for, it's better 656 00:32:31,100 --> 00:32:34,200 for you to lose one part of your body for then your whole body to 657 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,800 go into hell. So, what do you do with this? 658 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,200 Now? This passage of scripture has 659 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,100 been used to dismiss the whole thing. 660 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:42,900 Like Jesus was cracked. Jesus was a whack job. 661 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,800 I don't, I don't think so. So there's A couple ways we 662 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,000 lose. Let's take it the silly way. 663 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,200 Right? Like, if we just look at and go. 664 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:50,100 Okay. He's all right. 665 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,400 The point here is this imagine that we're talking now about the 666 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:55,600 adultery, right? And you have a guy here and he's 667 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:57,200 like, and he's thinking in his head, right? 668 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,300 He's looking to lusts and he goes, he goes. 669 00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:03,500 Oh my God, gouge his eye out, right next walks by, I is like 670 00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:05,700 this. Now, it looks like, oh man, this 671 00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:06,900 right? And now, I got to do it right 672 00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:08,900 and start cutting his hand. They've just whatever, right? 673 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,200 You've seen Monty Python, right? The nitrite means lights coming 674 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:13,100 around. He's a stump. 675 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:14,600 Listen. Are you hearing me? 676 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:19,200 I saved. That stump is no better prepared 677 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:22,200 to resist sin than he was when he had all of his Parts because 678 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,900 the problem isn't out there. So in Jesus saying, cut off your 679 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:28,300 hand cut off your foot, kind of your all that, he's not saying 680 00:33:28,300 --> 00:33:29,500 that that's going to solve the problem. 681 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:33,400 He's showing the absurdity of an externals only kind of reality. 682 00:33:33,500 --> 00:33:36,200 Now, let's imagine that. Jesus is seriously, Oswald 683 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:38,400 Chambers, you wrote writes a great devotional called My 684 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,300 Utmost For His Highest talks about Jesus here, talking about 685 00:33:41,300 --> 00:33:43,700 the severity, the significance of sin and going. 686 00:33:43,700 --> 00:33:48,400 Listen, sin is so so detrimental and so important in your life 687 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:55,200 that it is less severe to dismember yourself than to 688 00:33:55,200 --> 00:34:00,500 tolerate and to deal with sin. It is better for you to be 689 00:34:00,500 --> 00:34:04,200 dismembered than to give your life to sin. 690 00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:07,400 And so now this presents us with an issue, right? 691 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,500 Great. Well, what do we do with sin? 692 00:34:09,500 --> 00:34:12,300 Well, here's the question. What does Jesus do with sin? 693 00:34:13,699 --> 00:34:16,800 He forgives it. Isn't that compassionate? 694 00:34:17,300 --> 00:34:20,100 Isn't that great? Now, it's not Costless Grace. 695 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:23,800 It cost him the cross. It cost him everything. 696 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,300 But that's the standard. That's the model. 697 00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:27,699 That's what compassion looks like. 698 00:34:27,699 --> 00:34:30,300 He doesn't dismiss the law. No, it's right. 699 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,500 It adds to it. You have to have heart. 700 00:34:32,500 --> 00:34:36,000 You have to see people. You have to see love, and grace 701 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:37,800 and forgive. And so we're fact we find that 702 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,000 Jesus forgives. In fact, we read Second 703 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,400 Corinthians chapter 5. We read that reconciliation is 704 00:34:42,408 --> 00:34:45,300 God not. Running man's sins against them 705 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,199 which was made possible by Jesus At The Cross. 706 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:51,600 And so to forgive is Godly. And so if we want to be Godly, 707 00:34:51,699 --> 00:34:56,900 we can't behave enough to be Godly because godliness is the 708 00:34:56,900 --> 00:35:00,400 forgiveness. And so, Jesus is just turning 709 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,500 her eyes to our own Hearts turning our eyes to what's 710 00:35:03,700 --> 00:35:07,300 inside of us and inviting us. Now, as he looks and goes, look 711 00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:08,600 your heart. You got all this stuff is 712 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,600 inviting us to deal Faithfully with others. 713 00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:17,400 I am frustrated, if you will, by Moses duplicity. 714 00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:22,500 How can you allow divorce and not allow the breaking was that 715 00:35:22,500 --> 00:35:24,600 you can't break, right? See the problem with both when 716 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,900 we don't divorce and we read, you know, keep your word to 717 00:35:26,908 --> 00:35:28,200 others. What we're dealing with is this 718 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,900 idea of Covenant? We're dealing with this idea of 719 00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:34,100 your word, meaning, something about being the kind of person 720 00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:36,900 who's Yes, means. Yes, and your no means no. 721 00:35:36,900 --> 00:35:38,800 And listen. This is so important is so 722 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:40,700 important. I can't stress this enough. 723 00:35:41,100 --> 00:35:45,100 The Sermon on the Mount is not another law. 724 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:47,400 If it's a law, were all sunk, right? 725 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,200 Jesus didn't go out. Say, you know what? 726 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,900 He just he's doing is he's showing us the condition of our 727 00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:53,800 hearts. He's showing us our duplicity. 728 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,400 He's showing us how much in his, we will cook the books to be our 729 00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:59,300 own, right? And so, what he does is, it's 730 00:35:59,300 --> 00:36:00,400 dealing with are dishonest hearts. 731 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,400 And what does he say? In verse 34. 732 00:36:03,300 --> 00:36:06,400 Don't swear an at all. Either by heaven for it is God's 733 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,200 Throne or by Earth for it is his footstool or by Jerusalem for 734 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,800 it's the city of the great king and don't swear by your head 735 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:14,000 for, you can't make even one hair white or black. 736 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,200 All you need to say is simply yes or no anything beyond. 737 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:19,500 This comes from the evil. On the old translations say let 738 00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:21,300 your yes. Be yes and your no be no. 739 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:23,300 Now, here's why this here's the idea. 740 00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:26,500 Right? If I came up to you and said, 741 00:36:27,100 --> 00:36:29,700 I'm going to jump from here to the back of the room. 742 00:36:29,700 --> 00:36:31,200 What are you going to go? No, you're not. 743 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:34,200 No, you're not because, you know, I'm not that kind of guy. 744 00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,400 I can't do that. Right? 745 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,900 So the problem there is, you don't believe me. 746 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:39,400 So, how can I make, you believe me? 747 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,400 No, I swear. I promise. 748 00:36:41,500 --> 00:36:44,400 I promise I watched. I watched Survivor a lot, right? 749 00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:47,900 Lot of swearing on Mothers and grandmothers and jobs and Graves 750 00:36:47,900 --> 00:36:48,800 and kids. Stuff like that. 751 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,500 Like you people hate your family because you're lying to 752 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:53,000 everybody and I can see it. Right. 753 00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:57,400 But one way that we manipulate people one way that we coerce 754 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:02,100 people is by promising and by swearing and what Jesus is 755 00:37:02,500 --> 00:37:06,900 calling us to an inviting us to is to be the kind of people who. 756 00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:09,900 Yes, means. Yes to be the kind of person 757 00:37:09,900 --> 00:37:13,800 that knows if I couldn't jump to the back of the room. 758 00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,400 I wouldn't say that I could jump to the back of the room. 759 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,000 He says, Do what you can. And guess what that means that 760 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,400 people may not believe you at first. 761 00:37:22,700 --> 00:37:26,100 They may not listen to you. They may not like you but that's 762 00:37:26,100 --> 00:37:27,800 not what it's about. What it's about. 763 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,600 Is, you being the kind of person whose Yes means. 764 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,000 Yes. And whose no means. 765 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:33,400 No. And the reason that this is 766 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,800 compassion is because compassion seems the value and dignity and 767 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,300 other people so much. So that they wouldn't think of 768 00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:41,600 diminishing that with dishonesty. 769 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,500 That's the command to not bear false. 770 00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:48,300 Witness against your neighbor right to tell people. 771 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,400 Or the truth, whether it's about you or about them or about other 772 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,800 things, he that's really the difference between Jesus and the 773 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,500 Pharisees. It's not confidence in the law. 774 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,900 Both Jesus. And the Pharisees knew the law, 775 00:38:03,100 --> 00:38:06,700 and they valued the law. The difference is compassion. 776 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:12,200 Jesus didn't diminish people for the point of upholding, the law. 777 00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:14,700 And so, that's why his invitation is for us to be 778 00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:19,600 transformed From the Inside Out by Jesus compassion. 779 00:38:19,700 --> 00:38:21,700 Listen, if I just tell you go into the world and be 780 00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:24,600 compassionate and if you don't, Jesus is gonna be mad at you. 781 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,100 That's another law. That's what Jesus came to be 782 00:38:27,100 --> 00:38:28,200 said. Free from listen. 783 00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:31,300 If you're like me, you don't have compassion. 784 00:38:32,100 --> 00:38:35,100 I'm not I there's it's yeah, it's a thing. 785 00:38:35,100 --> 00:38:36,300 I'm working on it. Right? 786 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,000 What I need is Jesus is compassion and the way that I do 787 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:41,600 that is confessing. I wake up in the morning. 788 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:42,200 Go. Oh God. 789 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,000 I'm going to run into a whole bunch of people today. 790 00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:46,500 And if I'm not careful, I'm gonna be cranky and I'm going to 791 00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:48,600 be Snappy and I'm going to hurt someone's feeling. 792 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,300 I'm gonna respond in the flesh and just go, Jesus. 793 00:38:50,300 --> 00:38:53,700 I need you to help me. Feel what you feel for those 794 00:38:53,700 --> 00:38:58,700 people now be prepared because his feelings are way more 795 00:38:58,700 --> 00:39:00,600 intense. It's been hours. 796 00:39:01,700 --> 00:39:05,400 So, if you want Jesus compassion be prepared, it changes 797 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,300 everything, but boy, does it make us more like him? 798 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,100 When that be great to have a compassion, like that. 799 00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:12,500 So what do we do? The first thing we got to do, is 800 00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:15,000 we got to be reconciled, not angry. 801 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,800 Have you confessed, your sin, your hurt anybody. 802 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:21,300 Had you own your part in a relational break. 803 00:39:22,100 --> 00:39:24,800 Have you, forgiven people who have confessed their part. 804 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,900 Now? I'm not saying you got to, you 805 00:39:26,900 --> 00:39:29,900 know, jump back into business with every crooked person. 806 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:32,400 You've ever been in business with it may be time for you to 807 00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,800 have some space, but you need to forgive, you need to stop 808 00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:36,900 carrying that wound and they hurt. 809 00:39:36,900 --> 00:39:38,100 You really bad. I get it. 810 00:39:38,100 --> 00:39:40,100 My guess is they didn't nail you to a cross. 811 00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:44,100 And Jesus, forgave the Roman Empire and he forgave us and he 812 00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:47,900 says, follow me deny. Self take up your cross and 813 00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:50,200 follow me. We need to be disciplined. 814 00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:52,500 Not selfish. We need to be disciplined about 815 00:39:52,500 --> 00:39:54,000 our spirit. We need to be disciplined about 816 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:55,800 the things that we do. We need to be disciplined about 817 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,100 being generous, need to be disciplined, about being for 818 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,600 about forgiving. We need to be generous about 819 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,000 confessing. We need to be disciplined about 820 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,600 those things. And what discipline means is. 821 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,100 I don't want to, I don't want to forgive. 822 00:40:08,100 --> 00:40:11,700 I don't want to be generous. I want everything in the world 823 00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:15,200 to be about me and my guess is you do to? 824 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:16,900 That's why there's so much. Each conflict. 825 00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:20,400 And so the way of Jesus is to step back and go know that whole 826 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,500 system is broken and it's passing away. 827 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:25,900 There's a new system and the new system is where everybody gives 828 00:40:25,900 --> 00:40:29,300 themselves entirely that's a better system. 829 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,900 That's a system Surplus. And so we can be disciplined, 830 00:40:31,900 --> 00:40:34,800 and not selfish. We can be humble and not 831 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,000 forceful. We can allow ourselves to be 832 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,100 misunderstood. We can allow ourselves to be 833 00:40:39,100 --> 00:40:42,000 misinterpreted. We can allow ourselves to be 834 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:46,400 even stepped on. In the name of compassion, in 835 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,400 the name of Grace, in the name of Peace, in the name of the 836 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,200 Kingdom, Jesus. I pray that you would make us 837 00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,900 Kingdom people. I pray that you would give us 838 00:40:56,900 --> 00:40:59,900 your compassion. Even if it breaks the mold of 839 00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:02,200 what we thought we could feel or be about. 840 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:06,600 I pray that your church River City Church, but also Oakwood 841 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:08,700 Church in New. Braunfels Bible Church and 842 00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:12,100 Redemption Bible Church and epic life and hope pres. 843 00:41:12,100 --> 00:41:14,600 And all the churches here in town and pray that we would be 844 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:19,200 known for our compassion. I pray that we would be known 845 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:25,200 for how seriously, we take getting free from sin and how 846 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:27,800 ruthlessly we support each other. 847 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:31,600 In that Pursuit, how we take no prisoners and encouraging and 848 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,600 loving and blessing. Others is they follow you. 849 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:40,600 So Jesus, teach us. Teach us. 850 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,600 Help us to be like you that's our desire. 851 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,300 That's our goal. We ask father for your help to 852 00:41:47,300 --> 00:41:49,200 bring this about when we ask in your name. 853 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:50,900 And for your glory. Amen. 854 00:41:51,500 --> 00:41:54,500 Thank you for joining us today. River City Church is all about 855 00:41:54,500 --> 00:41:57,200 experiencing and expressing God's love in our lives and 856 00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,100 community. And we hope that you've been 857 00:41:59,100 --> 00:42:01,800 able to experience that today as grateful. 858 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,500 As I am, that you've spent this time, listening in this morning. 859 00:42:04,700 --> 00:42:08,100 This podcast is no substitute for full participation in a 860 00:42:08,108 --> 00:42:09,900 local church. I love it. 861 00:42:09,900 --> 00:42:12,900 When River City people listen to other, Masters, but it is those 862 00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:16,000 who show up week after week Faithfully, giving their support 863 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,500 and time and resources that make all of this possible. 864 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,400 If we can help you get connected to a local church, pray for you 865 00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:24,900 or support you in any way. Click the link in the 866 00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:27,700 description and let us know if you'd like to financially 867 00:42:27,700 --> 00:42:29,200 support the ministry of River City. 868 00:42:29,300 --> 00:42:31,800 Click the give link on our website in the description. 869 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,800 Don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to share this with 870 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,900 your friends. Thanks so much for listening. 871 00:42:37,100 --> 00:42:40,100 May the Lord bless, and keep you in all Grace and peace.