00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:10 Recommended Resources for Bible Study

00:37 The Story Behind the Name Pentecost

02:34 Exploring the Concept of Resurrection

05:05 Heaven and the Intermediate State

07:41 Critiquing Worship Song Lyrics

10:13 Understanding the Sermon on the Mount

13:05 Understanding the Fulfillment of the Law

13:31 The Depth of Sin: Anger and Lust

14:56 Divorce and the Spirit of the Law

16:55 Oaths and Retaliation: A Call to Integrity

20:01 Loving Enemies and the Call to Perfection

20:22 Prayer, Fasting, and Treasures in Heaven

22:06 Anxiety and Trust in God's Provision

22:33 Judging Rightly and Bringing Requests to God

24:26 The Narrow Path and Bearing Good Fruit

26:23 The Foundation of Faith: Building on the Rock

27:23 Concluding Reflections and Prayer

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Hey, welcome to another episode

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Welcome back.

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We are back with some

resources recommended.

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Concise resources.

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Because it's super concise.

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Okay.

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So somebody wrote in, um, to

us and said, Hey, here's some

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good resources for people.

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And, and I would agree with these, uh,

the first one being the words and works

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of Jesus Christ by Dwight Pentecost.

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Now that's a name, right?

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He was actually one of my

profs at Dallas seminary.

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I got to take the life of Christ from him.

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That's cool.

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He knew all of this, then.

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Uh, yeah, everything.

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I actually helped him write the book.

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No, no, no.

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Of course.

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The words and works of Jesus Christ

by Dwight Pentecost, helpful survey,

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uh, that, that goes into detail.

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There.

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Pentecost.

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Somebody asked him in

one of our classes, Dr.

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Pentecost, that's a, quite the

name for a seminary professor.

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Well, it turns out his relative name.

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No.

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We're uh, fleeing persecution from the, in

France, the French Huguenots as they fled.

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And when they landed in the United

States, fleeing persecution or

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the Americas fleeing persecution.

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They landed on the day of Pentecost.

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And so they changed the

last name to Pentecost.

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Cool story.

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Yeah.

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So that one is helpful.

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Cool survey.

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Um, he uses one called the

Christ of the gospels by JW

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shepherd who wrote it in 1939.

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Um, There's a, another one that I want

to recommend the life and times of Jesus,

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the Messiah by Alfred Eder shine L yeah.

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Either sham.

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Uh, the life and times of Jesus, the

Messiah, these are helpful because editor,

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sham writes from a Jewish perspective.

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And so it gives us some cultural

background to everything going on.

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Uh, that's, that's good and helpful.

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So, 99 cents on Kendall.

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There you go.

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99 cents.

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Yeah, can't beat that price.

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He has another one on the temple

and the, the just helpful.

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Perception and perspective into these.

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These are just some companions

to have, as you study the

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gospels as you go through them.

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So.

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And Matt, let us encourage you

to just pick up books and read.

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Yeah.

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But buy some books by some really

strong, godly, biblical, but I mean

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the old books are great because the

guys can't say anything new that are

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going to be like, what are you saying?

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Write a great.

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Going off on the deep end, right?

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So some of these books, I've

not read, I've not read.

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I probably have something by Pentecost in

my library, but I don't think I've read

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anything, but that book, it looks great.

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And this one here by either shine.

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Uh, 1200 pages for a buck.

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Yeah, man, that sounds good.

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Well, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Do Pentacostal was amazing.

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He came in and taught a master's

level course on the life of

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Christ would just his Bible.

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That's amazing, bro.

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Like he just he'd done it for so long.

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That.

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He just, I'm glad I'm going to do that.

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So he walked in, which is his new

Testament sat down and taught the class.

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When I got my resurrected body.

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I'm going to use my brain for everything.

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No phones.

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Anywhere near that.

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Speaking of the resurrected body.

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Here's the question.

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The concept of our resurrection

is interesting to me because there

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are so many different views on the

timeline and what actually happens.

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After or when we die.

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If we don't have our resurrected bodies

yet, can we say for certain what certainty

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that we will be in heaven right away?

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Is it possible that we could be frozen

in time until we are resurrected and can.

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That's what I, that's what I should do.

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Can you talk about this idea of soul

sleep versus our disembodied soul

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is going to have an immediately.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Um, Remember concise.

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Yeah.

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Let me go to second Corinthians

five, just to answer this real quick,

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uh, for, we know that if the tent

that is our earthly home, that's

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our earthly body is destroyed.

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We have a building from God, a house not

made with hands eternal in the heavens.

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This.

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This is our, our glorified body.

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In this tent, we groan longing to

put on our heavenly dwelling, Ethan

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deep, by putting it on, we may

not be found naked or unclothed.

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For while we are still in this tent, our

earthly body, we groan being burdened.

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Not that we should be unclothed,

but that we would be further

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clothed, have the better, have

the glorified body so that what is

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mortal may be swallowed up by life.

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He was prepared us for this

very thing is God who has given

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us the spirit as a guarantee.

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So we are always of good courage.

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We know that while we are at home

in the body, this earthly body,

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we are away from the Lord for, we

walk by faith and not by sight.

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Yes, we are of good courage.

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We would rather be away from the

body in, at home with the Lord.

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So there's the answer to the

first part of the question.

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How do we know that we're actually

with the Lord when we go, because

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when we're away from this body, We're

at home with the Lord, the spirit.

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There's no intermediate intermediary state

of the spirit in a holding tank somewhere.

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Waiting to go to heaven.

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Um, and so to be away from the body

is to be present with the Lord.

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So there could be an intermediate

state where we don't have a body.

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We're not yet in our glorified.

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But we're still with the Lord, right?

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Um, which means we were wearing

something where we have something

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that, that represents our person,

but what that is, I don't know.

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That's where it gets interesting.

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Maybe God gives us a loaner, like

avatar got these blue long limbs.

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And that maybe that's something

that we would have, right?

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Yes.

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But there is an intermediate state.

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Or perhaps in that.

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Intermediate state heaven is more

a state of, of consciousness and

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awareness than it is a physical realm.

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At this point, you just went into

an area that this is the bed.

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Okay.

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So our brains are, there

are our spirits are.

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There are personality who we are, right.

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That that's the soul.

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That's the immaterial

part of the body, right?

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Is there.

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So everything that makes up

who we are, our cognitive

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minus our body minus our body.

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And that's what Paul means when he

says there were unclothed, right.

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We're naked because we don't

have our body exactly longing

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for the glorified body is heaven.

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A place.

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Yes.

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In the sense that we understand it.

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Like if.

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So when someone dies their spirit,

their soul goes to a physical place.

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Does God, because Jesus is

somewhere physical right now.

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Right?

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He's he's got a physical body.

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That's got a resurrected by,

so he's physically somewhere.

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Yes.

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So theoretically, could we go there?

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I mean, I mean, obviously

everyone goes there.

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Who's dead, but can, can, can

we drive past it in a spaceship?

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Is it, is it somewhere out there?

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I mean, where is it?

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I mean, we, we grew up thinking

about heaven is up hill is down.

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Right, right.

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I.

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I mean that's that's

tradition is all that is.

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Um, we talk about every knee is gonna

bow in heaven, above and in every tongue

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confess and under the earth as well.

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Right.

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And that's that some of

those concepts of the.

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Residents of helping

some more internal now.

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Uh, we've studied that the geological

layers of the earth and nobody has

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found, and here's the hell layer.

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And then you get to the magma and then.

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It's never gotten that far down though.

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So maybe it's that's true.

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card of yours, I guess.

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So forgive the silliness.

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I think it's a real place.

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It's a physical place.

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It's a real.

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Physical, I believe it is

because Jesus is there.

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So it would have to be some

element of physical, right.

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He's somewhere in the cosmos.

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Yes.

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Another dimension, perhaps?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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I'm open to that team.

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Yeah.

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Belinda Carlisle said,

heaven's a place on earth.

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Is that true?

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No, it's not it's.

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It is ultimately though, right?

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No, well, no.

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It's well, yes, the new

heaven is temporary.

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Okay.

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Maybe that's a point we

need to make another hole.

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Yeah.

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It's a holdings, a holding

place and it's temporary, right?

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Because in the end, the eternal

state is in the new earth.

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And so that's, I would

say it comes heaven.

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Yeah, but it's not heaven because

heaven is the place right now.

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The new earth is the new earth.

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It's the new Jerusalem.

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It's the eternal, it's the kingdom of God.

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I'm more comfortable with that language

than I am heaven on earth because.

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I think heaven is, is a temporal place.

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So it was hell the lake

of fire is the eternal.

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Place of torment for the, those that

have rejected Christ and the new earth

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is the eternal place of rest and, and

life for those that have embraced Christ.

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Um, So.

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So is the term heaven, then

it's kind of a misnomer the

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way that people tend to use it.

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What you're getting at.

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Cause we, we talk about it as

though it's the eternal state.

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It's not, it's not the eternal state.

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Speaking of the intermediate state.

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So Belinda Carlisle lied to all of us.

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She did in 1987, she was saying,

heaven's a place on earth.

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Yeah.

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And it also should be right.

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Or a strongly worded email.

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Yeah, probably.

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What.

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Th there's a worship song out there.

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Um, Beautiful man.

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What a beautiful name, right?

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Beautiful.

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That's a great song.

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It's killer and the bridge.

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Amazing.

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Right.

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You have no right death

could not hold us all that.

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Like just phenomenal.

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I have a problem with the song.

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Didn't wan to begin with that.

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Yeah.

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Jesus, you brought heaven down.

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What's wrong with that?

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Think about what we're saying there.

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You didn't want heaven without us.

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God.

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There was a deficiency in

the Trinity that caused.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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To say that someone doesn't want something

doesn't mean that they're efficient or

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not having it, but it's, it's a it's

I don't want this state the way it is.

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Isn't that true?

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But that's not true.

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That's not where God was there

because that implies there's something

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better than what I have right now.

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What I have is lacking.

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There was nothing lacking.

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That prompted God to create.

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And so in the sense of, of, of

that, I, I can't sing that line.

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You didn't want heaven without us.

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It makes it no.

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The other problem is I think

it makes it a man-centered.

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Focus on the gospel.

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So you would contend that

it's not a true statement.

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You did, it's not true that he

didn't want heaven without us.

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Right.

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I don't think that was true.

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I don't think it was the, the

impetus for them to, okay.

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That's different though to say

it's true, but not complete is one.

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And I might agree with you on that.

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I mean, who writes that song?

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Probably someone that will sound great.

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Okay, we'll see then we're in a

different territory altogether,

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but it's a true statement.

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I think it's just not the full statement.

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But I think all of poetry,

all of music is, is, is.

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It's poetic.

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It's not meant to convey the whole of it.

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It's conveying a particular part of it.

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That that says, oh, I mean, if you

look at the Psalms, the Psalms,

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say things in a hyperbolic.

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Parabolic way, even that are meant

to say, look, here's, here's the way

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this is like, Without saying, this is

all that we can say about the subject.

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Yeah, I still do.

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I still don't.

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I can't get there with that, that line.

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I will change it for you next.

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It opens up the door to a

deficiency in the Godhead.

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And I can't, I can't get there.

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God was inter.

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Was he eternally satisfied in himself.

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He was completely, he had

everything that he needed.

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There was nothing that he needed.

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There was nothing that he

lacked that he desired.

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Okay.

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If we're going to complain

about songs, they have one too.

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Paul Baloche.

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I love this guy.

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He writes such good music,

but its most famous song.

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Probably the most famous song,

like a rose trampled on the ground.

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Uh, you took the fall.

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I mean, no, that's not the,

that's not the worst part.

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Uh, Bobo.

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Above all Paul.

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Is it not think of me above.

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All right, glory.

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God is above all.

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I was, I was part of that

calculation, but I was not above.

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All right.

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Let's be mad as long as together, get

off of our theological lawns kids.

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All right.

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Uh, let's get into the

text cause we got a doozy.

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Uh, we are in the sermon on the mountain.

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It is just, just the seminar

Mount Matthew five through seven.

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Uh, Matthew five 20 is a verse that I want

you to know and pay attention to because

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it frames what Matthew five through

seven or at least in part is about.

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It is about kingdom ethics.

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In other words, it's about, you know,

the, the ideal follower of Jesus.

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What does his life look like?

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Well, it looks like

Matthew five through seven.

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But it's also there's.

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Jesus is doing something.

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He's going to make a statement

here in Matthew five 20.

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He says, unless your righteousness exceeds

that of the scribes and Pharisees, you

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will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

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His hearers would have concluded

when he said that that's impossible.

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The Pharisees and the scribes

were the most righteous of all.

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And though they had their hypocrisy

and do they have their issues that

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they were righteous individuals.

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And, and so there's something to that

there, and Jesus is holding them up

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saying you have to be better than that.

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And the conclusion to say, that's

not possible that Jesus would have

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said exactly that that's the point.

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And so you need an alien righteousness,

you need a greater righteousness.

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And so there's.

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There's a gospel.

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Element to the sermon on the Mount here.

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That should cause us to say,

man, this is super hard now.

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That doesn't cause us to conclude.

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So I'm not going to try, right.

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It causes us to say, man,

I need the righteousness of

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Christ to do this perfectly.

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And so I'm not going to be

able to do this perfectly.

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I'm not trying to earn my way into heaven

by, by nailing the sermon on the Mount.

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I'm I'm pursuing the sermon on the

Mount because the sermon on the

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Mount is about being more like Jesus.

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Jesus.

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This is the only one that

could do this perfectly.

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Jesus, the one that did do this perfectly.

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And so as we read this, we need to

read this with that understanding

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in mind, saying, Hey, look, I

need to be more like Christ.

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That's what this is about.

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This is not about meriting my,

my salvation or anything else.

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Fair enough.

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Yeah.

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Opens with the beatitudes.

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They be attitudes in

verses two through 12.

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Uh, blessed is that word

in the Greek means happy.

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So as he goes through here and

he talks about all the different

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characteristics here, it says happy is.

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And in a lot of these, you're going to

say, wait a minute, that seems like a.

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An oxymoron, verse four, happy are those

who mourn for they shall be comforted.

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Well, how can we be happy if we mourn?

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Well, it's about our perspective and

what we're ultimately living for.

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And that's so much of what he touches

on here in the beatitude section.

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Uh, verses 13 through 16 is

about being salt and light.

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Salty light.

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Yep.

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Salty, light, salt enhances

the flavor of something.

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So a lot of times people talk about

this as a preservative and yes, it is a

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preservative and there's a common grace

element where the church has meant to

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be here as something that God uses to

preserve some morality in the culture.

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Uh, but salt is also to enhance.

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It's supposed to make something

better or more appealing, enhance the

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flavor of something we're supposed to

enhance the flavor of the gospel we're

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supposed to, to make it look good.

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Make Christ look good

to the world around us.

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Through how we live our lives.

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Light is noticeable.

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People are going to see our light

and give glory to our father.

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So the call to be salt and

light there at 13 through 16.

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The law, Matthew five 17 through 20.

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Uh, no is not a Bolishak,

but fulfilled in Christ.

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And so the, the law is not abrogate.

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Abrogated Christ did not come

to say, look, the law is faulty

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and it's wrong and it's bad.

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And I'm here to, to get rid of it.

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No, he came to fulfill it perfectly.

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And that's where he

gets into the statement.

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Look, unless your righteousness exceeds

that of the scribes and Pharisees, you

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will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

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You need the righteousness of the one

that came in, fulfilled the law for you.

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Uh, anger, anger and loss.

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Let's take those two together verses

21 through 30 in this section, he

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says, you've heard it said that.

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And then he talks about anger.

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First.

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Don't be don't, don't commit murder,

but I tell you if you're angry with your

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brother, you're guilty of the same thing.

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And then he goes on and says, you've

heard, it said, do not commit adultery,

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but I tell you, if you lost after a

woman in your heart, you're guilty

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of the same PR talk us through that.

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How is that the same?

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Uh, because no one's being arrested

and tried for murder because they

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get angry with somebody on the road.

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Right.

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I think Jesus is simply making it

clear here that sins that we see as

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external violations actually have

internal violations first and foremost.

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So there are differences in degree

in not in category, you might

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angrily lash out with somebody.

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Um, but before you angrily lash out,

you've actually committed sins, several

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steps before that in your heart.

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So Jesus is warning you.

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Hey, don't think that you're good.

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Just because you didn't act upon the

evil impulses that happened inside.

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He's trying to help you see that

righteousness is necessary from

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the inner most person and then is

reflected on the outward person.

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That's again, to your point, he's

not trying to help us rely on

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our obedience to the law, but the

fact that we need internal change

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in order to fulfill the law.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Which leads to that idea of,

of treating sin seriously and

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realizing it's its roots run deep.

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And that's why.

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Versus 29 through 30 exists there.

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If your right eye causes you to, it causes

you to sin, tear it out and throw it away.

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Cut off your hand is not literal

by the way, but it's, it's saying,

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look, we need to take a radical

approach to sin because sin runs deep.

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And we've got to guard

ourselves against it.

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Versus 31 through 32.

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Then he deals with the subject of divorce

and says here, the, the permission

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that he gives everyone who divorces his

wife, except on the ground of sexual

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immorality, makes her commit adultery.

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And whoever marries a divorced

woman commits adultery.

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Uh, we had this question come up at the,

the, the men's Bible study, Q and a PR.

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Any comments you want to make

on this particular subject?

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Yeah, I guess the one thing that I

think is a really helpful takeaway for

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anybody who's considering this topic.

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Is that our job is not to try

to find all of the loopholes

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and exceptions to the rule.

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And there are people who, who

are trying to helpfully say,

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where do we draw the lines?

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And that's, that's useful.

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You need that because there are

times when you do have to say, okay,

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what are we going to do with this?

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No sin is the corporate here,

sin complexifies, and makes

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them much more difficult.

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Everything that touches it like

cancer, it infects, and it creates

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more problems and it resolves.

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Um, so when you think about divorce,

what we're trying to do is stay

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as close as we can to the, this.

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The spirit of the law to not divorce.

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And if in fact Jesus.

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We'll even say, look, if, if someone

sins against you in this particular way,

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in fact, Paul gives us the, the out.

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Uh, you can divorce someone actually

know Jesus has to take it back.

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Jeez, as you can divorce someone,

if they commit this kind of sin.

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Um, but the ideal is not that you do that.

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It's not, it's not like we're

trying to chomp at the bit and say,

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okay, you, you cross this line.

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I'm outta here.

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Not much better is for us to reconcile and

to again, make the gospel look beautiful,

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to be salt and light, by the way that we

interact, even with our fallen spouses

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who send against us in grievous ways.

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Now, granted there are situations

where this is not going to work out.

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But it says, send it to prom.

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Complexifies.

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It makes much more challenging all these

issues, but the idea here stay married.

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Get married once, stay married

for the rest of your life.

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That's what Jesus wants us to see.

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Exactly.

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In fact, if, if you come in for

counseling, Uh, to our office

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and something has happened

and there's been adultery.

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For example, that's taken place.

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Our first stop is not going to be okay.

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Well, let's write up the.

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Governor's of divorce.

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Yeah, here we go.

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We're going to say, Hey, let's

let's work towards reconciliation.

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To get an attorney on retainer, right?

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Because Jesus even says, this is

permissible only because of the hardness

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of your heart, because Moses granted

this because your, your hearts were hard.

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Uh, yeah.

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Uh, oh, Uh, Matthew 5 30, 3

through 37, do not take an oath.

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Do not swear falsely, but

perform, uh, to the Lord.

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What you have sworn a.

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He says in the end here in verse 37,

I think this is the key takeaway.

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Hey, let your yes.

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Be yes.

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And your no, be no, just be

somebody who is a man or woman

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of his, her, his or her word.

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I like that.

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Um, good advice there for us, for sure.

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Uh, retaliation verses 38 through 42.

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Here's the eye for an eye

and a tooth for tooth.

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Uh, do not resist the one who is evil.

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If one slaps you on the right

sheet, turn the other cheek also.

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Um, Is there a situation, pastor, rod

in which the Christian should defend

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himself though, and not simply surrender.

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Yeah, I think that see,

yeah, this is a big one.

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Um, there are people who well-meaning

believe that you should never

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withstand someone who's evil.

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Who's doing things against, against you.

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I don't think that's the

thrust of this, of this here.

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I'm not sure that that's the case.

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Anyway, my read of this

is personal offenses.

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I don't think he's saying like

someone literally is attacking you.

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Uh, that you're just to

stand there and take it.

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Now you could also say

well, but pastor, rod.

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Jesus actually had that take place.

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He modeled that.

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And I would say yes.

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And that was a purposeful event

for the purposes of saving us.

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I don't know that this is what

he had in mind because later he's

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going to tell us his apostles.

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You know, Hey, having a sword.

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Hey, once enough.

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I mean, don't everyone go buy

a sword, protect yourself.

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Be reasonable.

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We wise.

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Don't get run over.

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Don't just take the bullet to the head

just because it's an opportunity and

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you feel like, oh shit, this is a good

opportunity to show me my faith in Christ.

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I don't, I don't think it's that simple.

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So I do think Christians do.

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Have an opportunity and perhaps even a

responsibility to steward the protection

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of their families or their communities.

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By standing in the gap when

the opportunity arises.

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Uh, we should be the people who

are saying, I want to, I want

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to protect the weak and the

vulnerable men should do that.

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Especially men should do that,

but women can do that too.

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So retaliation here I believe

is with personal offenses,

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someone calls you a bad name.

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They.

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Look over overlook you at

up for a promotion at work

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and they slash your tires.

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Cause they know that you're a Christian.

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Okay.

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I'm going to just, I'm going

to roll with the punches.

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I'm not, I may still try to

get my money for the tire.

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I'm still, I may still try to get some.

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But I'm not going to return evil for evil.

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I think, I think that's

the thrust of your pastor.

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PJ would love to hear your points on that.

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Yeah, I would agree with you.

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Um, Luke 22, 36, he says, but now let

the one who has a money bag, take it.

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And likewise, a knapsack and

let the one who has no sword

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sell his cloak and buy one.

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Jesus is telling his

disciples to do that gear up.

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Yeah.

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You buy a sword, not to be like,

Hey, look at my cool sword.

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And they're like, here's two.

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And he's like, okay, that's enough guys.

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Yeah, don't don't over.

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Don't over-interpret what I'm saying.

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Right?

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So some of you guys being like,

great, I get to go buy another gun.

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Jesus is like, Hey.

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One on the arm.

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Yeah.

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Um, no, I would agree with you.

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I think that's, that's accurate

and, and it kind of gets to that

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righteous indignation, if are in

indignation over a sin is more over the

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personal offense than it is against.

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Uh, the offense against God

then we're, we're not in the

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realm of righteous indignation.

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And I think likewise, if

our desire to, to lash out.

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Is more personal than it is, you

know, desire for, for righteousness

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and justice and holiness.

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Then I think we're in danger as well.

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Yeah.

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I think a lot of Christians

have stumbled over this text.

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It's hard and have taken it in ways that

I think are probably not the intention.

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Not helpful for sure.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Versus 43 through 48.

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Then we get into loving our

enemies and he calls us to this.

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And, and men, he gives you

this impossible standard.

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I think on the, the tails, the

heels of something that is, is

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really hard to do to love somebody.

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Who hates us.

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He says in verse 48, you

therefore must be perfect as

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your heavenly father is perfect.

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So again, the theme is

continuing that's impossible.

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Jesus saying, yeah, you're right.

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It is impossible.

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Uh, you need an alien righteousness, um,

giving Matthew six one through four, he

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says, Hey, be careful how you're giving.

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Don't give for show.

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Don't let your, your left hand

know what your right hand is doing.

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So even, you know, B try to be.

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Careful with your own motives and

your own heart in this, in, in

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not giving for the wrong reasons.

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Prayer verses five through 15, the

Lord's prayer template we find here

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and how to pray, pray this way.

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It doesn't mean you have

to pray those exact words.

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As some denomination suggests the father's

prayer, our father who art in heaven,

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hallowed be thy name, but rather these

are some good things to be praying for.

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Glorifying God, bringing your

requests before and praying for

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forgiveness for giving other people,

even in prayer before the Lord.

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These are good things to be doing.

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And that's the pro template that

we find here in verses five through

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15 fasting verses 16 through 18.

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We we've talked about this briefly.

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It's not something that we practice

regularly, but it is a good thing.

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He says when you fast.

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And so there is a lot of people said,

does the Bible ever command us to fast?

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Well, it's assumed here by Jesus

that you're going to be doing it.

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In verse 16, fasting can be food.

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It can be anything really that,

that you regularly partaking.

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You're going to say, I'm

going to lay this aside.

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For the purpose of when I desire

it, it's gonna remind me to pray.

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It's going to remind me to bring a

request before the Lord or to worship

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or to give thanks to him for something.

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You should not facet daily Bible podcast.

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Just don't it out.

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Don't do that.

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Yeah.

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That's not a good thing.

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Courage yet to do that.

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So fast.

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Uh, verses 19 through 24, then

reward where your treasure is there.

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Your heart will be also a man can not

live, but love both money and God is

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going to love one and hate the other.

624

And so, uh, in, in this section here, we

are reminded that we have to be careful

625

about not being materialists, that we

have to make sure that we're storing up

626

treasure in heaven, where it matters and

not looking for all of our earthly reward

627

to be everything that, that matters to us.

628

Uh, anxiety 25, 3 34.

629

Uh, it breaks down

basically three points here.

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Number one, God knows your needs.

631

Number two, God cares for you.

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And number three, anxiety

doesn't change anything.

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I mean, that's kind of that section.

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It says, God, God knows what you need.

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He cares about you.

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He cares about the birds of the field.

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You're worth more than they are.

638

And then finally he says, who of

you by being anxious can change

639

anything really at the end of the day.

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And the answer is nobody can.

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So anxiety, they're very similar

to what Paul writes about

642

in Philippians chapter four.

643

It's almost like Paul

was influenced by Jesus.

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Crazy.

645

All right.

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Matthew seven verses

one through six judging.

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Uh, judging here.

648

Uh, the whole idea of,

of, Hey, don't judge me.

649

You're not supposed to judge

a Bible says don't judge.

650

That's not actually what it says.

651

It says, do it rightly.

652

Uh, we have to do it.

653

Rightly we have to do it carefully.

654

We have to do it introspectively.

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We have to do it humbly.

656

Uh, we have to make sure that

we've dealt with the log in our

657

own eyes before we go and deal with

the speck in our brother's eye.

658

But notice we are supposed to deal

with the speck in our brother's eye.

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We're not supposed to leave

that alone because, Hey, we

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don't want to judge anybody.

661

So I think it's a misnomer for us

to say, uh, Christians don't judge.

662

That's not what the call is biblically.

663

The call is to judge, rightly to

judge humbly to judge introspectively,

664

making sure that we're going out

about it the right way, right.

665

Verse five says that you're the first.

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So not only, only take this back

out of your own eyes, but first.

667

Assuming that there's a second step, which

is of course, then go to your brother.

668

Yeah.

669

Yeah.

670

Uh, verses seven through 11, then we get

into requesting, requesting bringing our

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request to the Lord and asking for things,

and God is going to give them to us.

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Now we might take that and say, great.

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So that means God's going to give me.

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Everything I want because he's, he's going

to give me all the things that, that I

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asked, just like a father and a child.

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But what's important for us is

to note in verse 11, when he says

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your father who's in heaven gives

good things to those who ask him.

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The thing we have to ask

is who gets to define good.

679

And answers God does.

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So we might think in our minds, this

is a good thing that I'm asking God

681

for, but in God's mind, he may know

better than we do and realize that

682

that's not a good thing for us.

683

And so he's not going to give it to us.

684

Like, if you went to your dad, when

you were growing up and you wanted.

685

A beer when you were five, he's

going to be like, oh yeah, no,

686

that's, that's not a good thing.

687

I'm not going to give that to you.

688

Uh, or if you wanted to eat

candy all day long, right?

689

Who didn't, who wasn't

there at some point?

690

Yeah.

691

We're not going to do that.

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That's not a good thing for

you giving us a glimpse into

693

your childhood near and candy.

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Dad, I just need some

parent candy, please.

695

And my dad, my dad goes to our church.

696

You could ask him, I will ask

them about, that's not accurate.

697

We'll see.

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Yeah, I don't want to

be your came to my mind.

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W getting candy.

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Input produces outputs.

701

Uh, finally.

702

Not finally, but, but close to

verses 12 through 14, do unto others.

703

Right?

704

Th th do you want to others, what

you would have them do to you?

705

The narrow gate in the hard way.

706

It's interesting that this is here,

but again, I think similarly to loving

707

our enemies, I think so much of the,

the, the paradox of Christianity to do.

708

What's not what doesn't come natural,

loving our enemies, doing to others.

709

What we would have them do to us.

710

Th that that's not natural.

711

And so then he goes on to say that the

way is narrow, that leads to eternal life.

712

Following this is difficult.

713

Um, It's a reminder to us that that is.

714

It's many broad as the path

in many or who find it.

715

We'll be headed towards destruction.

716

So, uh, yeah, just another reminder

there of the difficulty here in,

717

uh, in truly following Christ.

718

Verses 15 through 20, then we've

talked about this previously, but, but,

719

uh, the, the fruit trees and notice

here, he says a healthy tree bears.

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Good fruit.

721

Um, there may be times where, where

we are producing bad fruit, and that's

722

an indication that there's some, the

lack of health, a lack of wellbeing

723

in a spiritually that we need to

examine it, figure out what's going on.

724

Versus 21 through 23, uh, the

scariest passage in the Bible.

725

Um, aside from the, or along with

the, every word, you will be held

726

accountable for it because this is the

passage of Lord, Lord didn't didn't.

727

We do all these things and

I will say depart from me.

728

I never knew you.

729

Uh, nobody wants to hear that.

730

And that's caused a lot of questions.

731

And how do I know I'm not

going to be that person?

732

Well, notice what they do in appealing

to why they should be led into

733

heaven, whose work do they appeal to?

734

The appeal to their own.

735

They say, we did this, we did this, we

did this, we did this didn't we do all

736

of these things, what they don't do.

737

They don't appeal to the work of Christ

for them on their behalf, which is the

738

whole point of the sermon on the Mount.

739

That we needed a righteousness

alien to ourselves.

740

And so I think as long as we're standing

before the Lord and pointing to Jesus, and

741

the only reason I should get into heaven

is because of what he's done for me.

742

We're not going to find ourselves

in this position where Jesus

743

is saying depart from me.

744

I never knew you.

745

But because they're appealing to their

own righteousness when really they needed

746

the righteousness of Jesus instead.

747

Finally the two houses.

748

Uh, the two houses here are

basically comes down to what are

749

you doing with the word of God?

750

When you do hear it, are you

building your house on the sand?

751

Are you building the house on the rock?

752

The Sant that the house has looked the

exact same from the outside, but the

753

difference is seen when the trials come.

754

Uh, that the house that stands is the

house built on the word of God on the

755

rock of God is the Christian who does.

756

Uh, what God has laid

out in the scriptures.

757

Yeah.

758

And then the sermon ends verses 28

through 29 with a divine mic drop.

759

When she's Jesus finished seeing these

things, the crowd were astonished

760

at his teaching for his teaching as

one who had authority and not like

761

their scraps, PR any oversight,

any comments that you want to.

762

Chime in on no, man, this

is, this is dense, thick.

763

It's a lot.

764

I feel like there's just too,

there's too much good things.

765

Like I want to talk about that.

766

When I talk about that,

you're gonna appreciate this.

767

Uh, I am preaching.

768

Yeah.

769

So I'm probably going to take it faster

than we have than even what I would

770

care for faster than today, even.

771

Uh, maybe a little faster today.

772

Yeah.

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It's covered all in 10 minutes.

774

It's good stuff.

775

It is good stuff, man.

776

It's good.

777

Alright.

778

Hey, let's pray.

779

And then we will be done.

780

God, we, uh, we confess we

needed the alien righteousness.

781

We need Christ.

782

We need something that we can

produce in and of ourself.

783

We can't obey.

784

Um, Even part of the sermon on the

Mount, let alone the whole thing.

785

And yet Lord guard us from the mentality

that says, okay, so I don't even need to

786

try help us to remember that we are still

called a builder house on the rock that we

787

are still called to be hearers and doers

of the word and not just hearers only.

788

And so give us that, that grace,

that, that ability, that mindset, God.

789

And caused us to be more like Jesus.

790

As a result of our time in the word

every day, we pray in Jesus name.

791

Amen.

792

Amen.

793

Keep bring your Bibles tune in

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794

of the daily Bible podcast.