00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:10 Pastor Rod's Doctorate Journey

01:08 Birthday Wishes for Amanda

04:11 Discussing the Sermon on the Mount

04:58 Kingdom Ethics and Righteousness

06:49 Persecution and Modern Context

13:30 Judgment and Hypocrisy

16:38 Prayer and God's Goodness

21:33 Conclusion and Prayer

22:28 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to Friday's edition

of The Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yeah, welcome back and I guess

welcome back to me again.

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Welcome back to you as well, pastor

Mark's back because Pastor Rod is

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in the midst of a class right now.

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He's pursuing a doctorate degree.

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Some of you guys know

that, maybe you don't.

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He's pursuing his demon n at

Southern Seminary, and so he is.

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With a professor and his other

students right now, digitally, at

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least online taking that class.

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Yeah.

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That's great.

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That's great.

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Yeah.

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It's well worth his time to, to

continue to study God's word in that

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setting and in that way it is a,

it's a very valuable use of his time.

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Absolutely.

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And he's pursuing a degree in biblical

counseling, so it's one of the

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things that's advantage advantageous

about a doctor of ministry is.

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Practical degree, so a PhD

can be helpful as well.

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I'm not saying it's not, but a PhD

is largely considered an academic

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degree and so you get a lot of people

pursuing a PhD who are gonna be, who are

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gonna find themselves in the academy.

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The doctor of ministry is more of

a practical professional degree

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for those that are doing ministry.

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And so he's pursuing a doctor of ministry

in biblical counseling and so I'm excited

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to see the fruit that's born outta that.

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Yeah, that'll be great.

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And I expect much fruit to come from it.

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Same.

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Same.

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Well, it is my wife's birthday,

so happy birthday, Amanda.

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Yeah.

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Happy birthday, Amanda.

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Yeah.

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She's not here.

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She's in California

with her mom and sister.

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And Kelly, our sister-in-law,

who also goes to our church.

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They're out there having just a ladies'

weekend and, but it's her birthday.

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I'm thankful for I lover.

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So, happy birthday, Amanda.

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And you're holding down the fort?

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I'm holding down the fort.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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How's that going?

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It's going well so far.

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We're only like a 12

hours into it, so, so far.

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House is still standing.

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Dog's still alive.

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Kids got to school today.

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Yeah.

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That's a victory.

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That's a victory.

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Lemme put you on the spot.

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Yeah.

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Since it's your wife's birthday, why

don't you tell us what your three

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favorite things about your wife are?

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Sure.

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Yeah.

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I may end up doing more, but number

one, I just love being with her.

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She is a person I choose to spend

time with every single time.

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10 outta 10 times, I'm

gonna choose my wife.

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Even over Pastor Rod.

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Yeah.

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And even over you, pastor Mark.

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Yeah.

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As much as that hurts, I think

it's probably a good thing.

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I'm glad that we see eye to eye on that.

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What about grok?

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Still my wife.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Good.

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Okay, just checking.

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That was just a tense.

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So I love being a router.

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It's it is never laborious to be

with my wife, which is a good thing.

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Right.

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And hopefully I don't need

to state that, but it's true.

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Mm-hmm.

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And then the second thing is

our relationship is, it's really

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built on good communication.

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And I love that about us too.

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We go on walks probably twice a

week, Saturdays and Mondays, and just

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talk with each other on those walks.

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And we talk about our kids,

we talk about our plans.

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We talk about the future,

we talk about our marriage.

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And and that's so good because there's

substance and we're not just putting

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our relationship on autopilot and

waking up one day down the road.

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Going, oh man.

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How do we relate with each other now that

our kids are raised and outta the house?

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And then the third thing and yeah,

this is not in chronological order

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because this is super important.

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She loves the Lord.

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She challenged me in my walk.

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She's wise.

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She's yeah, just courageous in

her faith, she'll do things that

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are out of her comfort zone to

allow God to use her in ways that

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she never thought maybe he would.

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And so I love that about her.

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And she's super hot too, so, at

least from my point of view, which.

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I, so is that number four

on the list or So, yeah.

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The college students, when I was a college

pastor, they would be like, pastor pj,

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is it okay for me to put that, I want

my future spouse to be attractive?

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And you answered, no, never.

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Right?

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That's un allowed.

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It's totally fleshy for you to want

to be attracted to your future spouse.

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No, of course you should want be

attracted to your future spouse.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah.

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Pastor Rod he has this theory

that attraction can be cultivated.

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And while I understand

where he comes from.

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I think that initial draw

to somebody has to be there.

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There's gotta be some physical

attraction there that causes you to

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go, I wanna go talk to that person.

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Now I'm sure we have the exceptions to

the rule that are out there in the church.

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And you're, you may already be

writing the email right now.

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I'm not saying it never happens.

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I'm just saying generally speaking,

physical traction precedes every other.

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Element of that, that

pursuit of somebody Yeah.

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Can I agree with both of

you if that's allowed?

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You can, yeah.

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As long as you agree more with me.

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I think you're absolutely right.

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I think it is something.

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That is initially present, but it's also

something that I think can and should

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be cultivated throughout a marriage just

in a similar way that you can destroy

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it and do things to ruin it over time.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So I have to agree with both of you.

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Fair enough.

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Fair enough.

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That is a very political middle

of the road answer there.

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Yeah.

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So very strategic.

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It's 'cause you're running for office.

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You want both of our votes?

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That's right.

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We'll vote for you.

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Okay, good.

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Well, let's jump into our DBR.

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We got a big one today.

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We are tackling.

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Yeah.

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How are we gonna get through this?

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The Sermon on the Mount?

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Yeah.

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And that's just the thing, like, we're

not gonna hit all the details in this.

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We can't, we don't.

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This isn't a four hour, five hour

podcast and you don't want it

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to be and neither do we 'cause

we've got other things to do too.

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But the Sermon on the Mount, last time

we talked about the sermon on the plane

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from Luke's Gospel this is different.

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This is obviously Mount versus plain.

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Those are different.

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Geography's probably a long time ago

for a lot of us, myself included, but

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I remembered that man a mount is a

hill and a plane is a flat knot hill.

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Jesus, it looks like taught similar themes

multiple times, and that makes sense.

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If he was an itinerant preacher and

teacher, which he was, he would travel

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around to different areas, he would.

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Probably cover a lot of the same things

when he would go to various areas.

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We get more though in Matthew's account.

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Certainly.

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The Sermon on the Mount boils down to,

and there's different views of this but I

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think by and large what the Sermon on the

Mount is calling us to is kingdom ethics.

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He's calling us to, and he says

as much in Matthew five 20, a

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righteousness that exceeds the

righteousness of the Pharisees, which

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the intent there was for his heroes

to say, how is that even possible?

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Mm-hmm.

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How can I be more righteous

than the Pharisees?

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Because as much as the Pharisees

are the bad guys when we read the

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Bible in this time as Jesus is

speaking to this audience, they

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didn't look at them as the bad guys.

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They looked at them as the ones that were

more righteous than anybody else around.

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Yeah, that's right.

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So Jesus is going to say, this is

what a righteousness that exceeds

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their righteousness looks like.

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And that's really the Sermon on the Mount.

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And so a lot of it is,

these are kingdom ethics.

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Now, that said, that doesn't mean that our

approach is to say, hey, you know what?

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I can't do this.

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So this is just the ideal,

but it's not for me.

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There's a lot here for us to

apply as we read through it.

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Yeah, and there's some theologians who

will go as far as saying, this is a

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bunch of things that don't apply to us.

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Now, this is laws and principles

for the millennial kingdom.

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Right.

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Just as a standalone thing.

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And we wouldn't, we would certainly

not say that, but there are people

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who will go as far as saying.

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Saying something like that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And certainly there's elements here,

which I think he's alluding to and

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pointing to the millennial kingdom.

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Yes.

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Even the beatitudes.

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These are, and I mentioned this

with yesterday's episode, is

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he's really pinning a picture

of an upside down economy here.

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Mm-hmm.

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When he says, blessed are the poor in

that word, blessed in the Greek is Rios.

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It's happy.

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Mm-hmm.

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Happier the poor for theirs

is the kingdom that the poor

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people don't inherit kingdoms.

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Right.

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Right.

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A blessed are those who mourn

for they will be comforted.

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Blessed are the meek for they

shall inherit the earth again.

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There's another one.

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The meek don't inherit the earth.

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They're not the strong and the conquering

do, at least in, in the present world.

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And so there's evidence here that

this is talking about a world to

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come or at least a kingdom to come.

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But I would agree.

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I don't think the whole thing is

about just the millennial kingdom.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Let's look at one of these specifically.

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Yeah.

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Like what does it mean to be persecuted

and how does that apply to us?

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Today here in North Texas.

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Yeah.

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Are we persecuted here?

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And is this promise for those who are

persecuted something that applies to us?

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Or is this just for maybe the martyrs

or maybe people in the missions field?

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Yeah, yeah, it's, I'm talking about

this briefly on Sunday, and Peter's

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gonna bring us face to face with

the concept of persecution as we

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continue in the study of the letter.

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And I think it's, can we

experience persecution here

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in north Texas in our current.

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Context.

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Yes.

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There's varying levels of persecution

all throughout the world and I would

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even go further to say, I think we're

going to begin to experience a greater

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degree of persecution as time goes on.

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Yeah.

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And we're starting to see the initial

waves hitting the shore, so to speak,

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of that persecution that's coming.

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In fact, the Supreme Court right

now is entertaining a case against

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a Christian counselor in Colorado

who was sued for trying to.

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Help a young person who is struggling

with their gender identity and

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attraction to people of the same gender

and try to point them towards Christ

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and say, this is not what's good.

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You need to follow Jesus.

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And so they've been sued

saying, this is wrong.

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You can't do this.

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And now that's at the Supreme

Court because it's become a

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matter of, is this free speech?

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But I think Dr.

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Moler was talking about this

a few days ago and he was just

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saying, look, this is gonna have.

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Ramifications no matter what side

the Supreme Court comes down on.

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But if the Supreme Court sides with the

state of Colorado against this Christian

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counselor man, that all of a sudden

takes what we believe and puts it in the

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crosshairs of people that if they wanna

disagree with us, now there's a precedent

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that they can take us to court and say,

Hey, you can't teach the Bible this way.

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So I, I think.

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Growing up, we always thought

about persecution as something

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that happened somewhere else.

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Mm-hmm.

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But it might be coming here.

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And so would Matthew five 10 apply to us?

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Absolutely.

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As long as it's for righteousness

sake that we're being persecuted.

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Yeah.

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And not for, that's a helpful distinction.

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Yeah.

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Not just for being jerks.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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We're not gonna get blessings

for that and we can.

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Wrongly understand our just rude

attitude or aggressive manner to be

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persecution when it really isn't for

the content, it's for for sure the means

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by which we, we say these things, so

we have to be careful not to interpret

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that and understand that wrongly.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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In Matthew five and then six, he's

gonna get into a series of things

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where he's gonna say, you've heard

that it was said, but I say to you,

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in fact, that's a repeated ent.

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You can find that in your

Bibles if you underline it or

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if you use log offs online.

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Maybe you can highlight it on there.

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But I think is worth noting that

because this is significant and

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what the crowds are gonna respond

to Jesus, they're gonna say, wow.

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He's teaching as one with authority,

not like the scribes and the

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Pharisees, because the scribes and

the Pharisees would always appeal to.

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Other voices and they would never say

of scripture, well, you've heard it

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said this, but I say, and, mm-hmm.

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And add to scripture or modify scripture.

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But what we see in the Sermon on

the Mount is Jesus doing just that.

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He said, you've heard it say that you

shouldn't be angry, but I tell you man if

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you or that you shouldn't commit murder.

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But I tell you, if you're angry with your

brother, you're guilty of that sin already

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because it's a matter of the heart.

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Same he talks about with

lust and these other things.

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So, yeah.

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Jesus is going after these the heart

of the issue, which is the heart, and

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he's gonna call them to this obedience.

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And that's one of the reasons why

this kingdom ethic is saying you

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need a righteousness that exceeds

the righteousness of the Pharisees.

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'cause the Pharisees were all

about the external without

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dealing with the internal.

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Yeah.

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And it can be easy, even modern day

Jews, you can move to neighborhoods

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that have Jewish people in them and

they'll have little strings that connect.

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Oh yeah.

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Their houses to the grocery store so that

they can go there and we can look at that

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and mock that and, I think rightly so we

should identify that as perhaps an issue.

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Yeah.

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But I think we can also just look

over there and say, oh, look at them.

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Look how silly.

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Mm-hmm.

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But what Jesus is calling

us to is say, okay.

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This is what you've been told,

but let's look at your heart.

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Mm-hmm.

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Let's examine what actually is

motivating you and driving you.

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And I think we can see in all human

hearts, but very evident in, in what

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we're seeing here is the check, the box

attitude that we so easily get into.

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It's just like, oh, well if we have

a string that connects the house to

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the grocery store, we're good to go.

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Right?

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But that's not what Jesus cares about.

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He cares about.

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Our hearts.

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He does.

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He does.

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And he cares about the

integrity of mm-hmm.

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The person too.

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Because the other issue with

the Pharisees was hypocrisy.

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And that's something that

Jesus went hard after them, and

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he's gonna go after them hard.

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And in Matthew's gospel when we get to

Matthew 23 and the woes the statements

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of woe and condemnation there.

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So he is been dealing with that

a little bit with the anger and

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the lust and things, but then he's

gonna get into that with regards

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to the outward expressions of.

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Of righteousness and he's gonna

talk about giving, Hey, don't

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be like them when you give.

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Don't be like them when you pray.

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Don't be like them when

they, when you fast.

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And what they would do is they would want

everybody to notice what they're doing.

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Mm-hmm.

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Because they would want

the applause of the world.

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And Jesus is saying, it's not about the

esteem of the world, but the esteem of

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your father and your father who sees

in secret will reward you in secret.

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And so Jesus is calling for this.

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This integrity that is not about

being seen by other people.

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But saying, man, it, it really is

about my, my, again, the heart, my

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heart posture before the Lord being

fully devoted to him saying, I'm doing

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these things because I love the Lord.

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Again, kingdom ethics.

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It's not just let me avoid the big

ticket items, but if I have small

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sins in my life, it's no big deal.

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And it's also not just about man.

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I'm doing this so other people look

at me and think that I'm righteous.

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No, you're doing this for the acclaim

of God, not the acclaim of men.

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Yeah, that's right.

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Yeah.

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And you can look at like the

end of chapter five and the

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section on Loving Your Enemies.

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And I think there's a really like

convictional thing in there for me at

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least, which is he's talking about.

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How we should love our neighbors

and we should also love our

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enemies and pray for them.

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And one of the things that Jesus says is,

do not even the Gentiles do the same in

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regards to loving people who love them.

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And we can so easily.

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I find myself even doing this on

occasion and saying like, what?

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Is different about a nice secular

person who is a conservative and

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has a family and a Christian.

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What?

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What is different?

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Well, I say that rhetorically, I

ask that question rhetorically.

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Of course there's many differences, but.

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Here's a really distinct difference.

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You're never gonna see that guy

or that gal loving their enemy.

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Mm-hmm.

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And Jesus calls us to this new kingdom

ethic that you're talking about, which

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is that we're to love our enemies.

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And that's what one of the

things that will make us

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distinct from even the seemingly.

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American picket fence family

that we may come across on a

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regular basis here in North Texas.

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Yeah, no, for sure.

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And the radical treatment

of sin too is another thing.

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Mm-hmm.

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That the, if your eye causes you to

sin, tear it out and throw it from you.

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If your hand causes, you sin, cut it off.

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Now he's not literally talking

to do that, but he's saying we

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need to treat sin that radically.

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Yeah.

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We need to see it as such a

danger to us that we've rooted out

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anywhere we find it in our lives.

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Let's talk.

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About what he says about judging in

Matthew seven, because I continue to

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hear this, it's a common refrain from the

world and people will often throw this

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back at Christians, they'll say, doesn't

the Bible say thou shalt not judge?

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Number one let's address that.

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Does the Bible say thou shalt not judge?

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And then second, is that true?

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Should we not judge?

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What are your thoughts on that?

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I think we need to

define what judgment is.

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Okay.

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What kind of judgment are

we talking about here?

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Okay.

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Are we talking about.

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I, let me use a different word.

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Are we talking about discernment

or are we talking about someone

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who condemned somebody to hell?

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Or are we talking about something?

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Something else?

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Because I think that helps

us understand this, right?

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Are Christians called to just

be completely und discerning?

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I don't think that is a

biblical response, right?

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Are we called to be the one

who condemns people to hell?

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With our gavel also something

that is not our responsibility.

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So I think that's the first step,

is understanding what exactly

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does it mean that what kind of

judgment are we talking about?

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Yeah and I think while I agree with you,

we're not condemning anyone to hell.

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I.

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Often what people are referring

to when that, when they say,

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Hey, you don't judge me.

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You're not supposed to judge me.

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Doesn't the Bible even say, don't judge

and look at Matthew seven, one Judge.

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Not that you not be judged.

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And yet oftentimes people are saying that

because they're like, I don't want you

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to tell me that what I'm doing is wrong.

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And so the world will say, don't tell me

that the person that I love, I can't love.

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Don't tell me that my sinful

choices are sinful because.

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The Bible says, don't judge,

and yet look at verse three.

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It says, why do you see the spec

that's in your brother's eye?

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But do not notice the log

that's in your own eye.

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Or how can you say, let me

take the spec out of your eye

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when there's a log in your eye.

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But look at verse five, you hypocrite.

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He says this first, take the

log out of your own eye and then

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you will see clearly to take the

speck out of your brother's eye.

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So I think this is Jesus

assuming we should judge.

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It's just we need to

judge not hypocritically.

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This is keeping with the rest of what

he's been talking about, about not doing

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things for external, not doing things

for show, examining your own heart.

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And this is keeping with Galatians

six when it says, brothers, you who

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are spiritual, restore the person

caught in a sin or a transgression.

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In Galatians six, Paul says, but watch

yourselves lest you also fall in this.

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I, would agree that I don't know how

much Christians should be involved

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in judging unbelievers, specifically

calling them, to forsake sin.

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You can't expect an unbeliever

to act like a believer.

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Mm-hmm.

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But I think within the household of

God, as long as we're not doing it

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hypocritically, I think the paradigm

in the Bible is that we should judge.

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And so Christians shouldn't

look at somebody else and be

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like, dude, don't judge me.

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'cause the Bible says,

don't judge no it doesn't.

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It just says, don't judge hypocritical.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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And I think that's, that answers the

question because when that line is used,

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and when I say that question, I mean

what is the actual judgment, the type

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of judgment that we're talking about

here, when people use that line, judge,

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not that you be not judged, they're

using that as a defensive mechanism.

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They're not looking at the

context that follows this.

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Right.

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And we'll get.

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Maybe there in a second.

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But the golden rule, same thing.

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Very well known verse.

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Yep.

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But then the subsequent

verse not so well known.

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Right.

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And really gives a lot of clarity

and definition to, to this particular

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phrase that lots of people know.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Right Before that though,

I think it's worth hitting.

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He talks about our prayer lives.

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And we need to clarify this because

otherwise we could take this and run with

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it and really misunderstand some things

and find ourselves pretty disappointed

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in wondering what's wrong with me.

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Because Jesus says, ask

and it will be given.

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Seek.

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And you will find and knock

and it will be opened.

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Okay?

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So those are statements of promise.

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Ask.

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It's gonna be given, seek, and you

will find knock and it will be opened.

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And then he doubles down in verse eight.

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He says, everyone who asks.

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Receives.

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The one who seeks, finds, the one who

knocks it will be opened, and then he

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gives the example of a father and a son.

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He says, look, if you as earthly fathers

know how to give good things to your

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children, when they ask how much more

is your heavenly Father gonna give

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good things to you when you ask him?

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So I think the important thing

for us here is to say we have to.

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Pay attention to the word good.

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Yes.

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And we don't get to define good.

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God does.

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So it's like when your kids come to

you and they say Hey dad, I'm hungry.

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I want to eat a full bag of m and ms.

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Can I have a full bag of m and ms?

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They're asking, they're

seeking, maybe they're knocking.

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'cause you're behind a closed door.

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They're saying, I want

a full bag of m and ms.

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You as the dad, you're gonna say, okay.

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I know what's good for my kids.

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What's good for 'em is not to have a full

bag of m and ms, but the need that they're

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expressing, which is that they're hungry.

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I, as their father, I'm happy to meet

that need, and so I'm gonna provide

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them with something that's good

to meet the need of their hunger.

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It may not be the exact thing that

they're asking for, but because you as

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the dad know better, you're gonna meet

the need, and that need is still gonna

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be met, but it's gonna be met with.

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What you define to be good.

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And that's how God works with us too.

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Yeah.

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We'll go to God and say,

God, I'm asking you for this.

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I'm seeking this.

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I'm knocking at heaven's door for this.

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And God will so often say, yes, I, I hear

you, but I know what's ultimately good

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and what's right and what's best for you.

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So here's the need that you

really have, and let me give you

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what's good to meet that need.

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Yeah.

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Let me ask a ridiculous question,

but maybe it'll be helpful

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in clarifying, is it wrong to

pray and ask God for a Ferrari?

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I can't say in every circumstance.

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No, because somebody could ask that

with a thought in mind of this is

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specifically how I feel like I could

use that for God's kingdom work.

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Yeah.

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And if that's true and you can, and God

sees fit to, to say, yeah, I can see how

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you could use that for God's kingdom work.

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He could answer that prayer

request and give you a Ferrari.

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But man there's a big gap between saying,

God, I could use some transportation

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to get from point A to point B

and saying, God, I need a Ferrari.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, and I think that, again,

it goes back to the heart, right?

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This is all about what is the heart.

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Yeah.

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And, are you somebody who wants the

good things that God defines as good?

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Maybe that is a Ferrari

in some niche situation.

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Right?

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Right.

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Or are you somebody who wants

what you define to be good?

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And I think even when we make those

requests, we should be seeking a heart

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that genuinely thinks and desires what?

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God thinks is good, right?

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To be those requests.

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No, for sure.

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For sure.

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And the heart is really

what it comes down to.

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And this is really where he wraps

up the Sermon on the Mount when

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he talks about even the scariest

passage in the Bible, right?

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Matthew 7 21 through 23, that

they're gonna be those on

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that day that say, Lord, Lord.

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And they're gonna appeal to a

lot of things they did for the

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Lord, but they're not gonna

appeal to a relationship with him.

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They're not gonna have that love

for him, that heart relationship

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with him and Jesus is gonna.

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Indict them for that

and say, depart from me.

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I never knew you.

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, we didn't have a relationship.

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And so that's what it's gonna come

down to, even the two houses, right?

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There's those that hear the word and

do it and the one that hears the word

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and doesn't do it the hearing and

doing is part of the relationship.

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That's part of what it looks

like to follow Part Christ.

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And so, that's so key to the, our future

and our eternity is when we do that.

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I think so much about the sermon on

the Mount is about the heart, and I

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think that's what Jesus is going after

and saying, this is what you really,

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this is where the problem really lies.

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It's not on the external.

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It's in the internal and only God.

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Only Jesus.

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Only the act of salvation and being

reborn can solve that problem.

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Absolutely.

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And.

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If you read these passages and you

aren't astonished in some way, like

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the crowds were granted, we have the

Holy Spirit, we're gonna read these

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things with different intuition, right?

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Different insight, right?

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But if we don't read these and we're

not blown away, we're not amazed

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at what God is doing, I encourage

you to go back and read it again.

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This is incredible stuff.

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All of scripture is of course, but.

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We should be astonished in a right

way in a new covenant way about these

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incredible truths that are in here.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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'cause again, just to, reiterate

what we said towards the beginning

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of this, this is not something that

Jesus is saying, Hey, this would be

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great, but you don't have to do this.

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Mm-hmm.

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He's saying, this is our aim.

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This is our target.

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Yep.

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And so when you read about what he

says about anger or lust, or when

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you read about these things, about

what your heart should be when

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you're fasting or praying or giving.

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He means what he says, this

is not him just saying, oh,

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it would be nice if, right.

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He's said, no, this is what

it looks like to follow me.

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And by his spirit we can

make some progress in that.

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And that's something that we

should be praying for and seeking.

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For sure.

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Well, let's pray and we'll

be done with this episode.

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Lord, we thank you for the Sermon on

the Mount and for the clarity of it.

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And it's it's power.

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Lord it's sobering to

read this and to say, wow.

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Sin is waiting.

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It's crouching.

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It's seeking someone to devour.

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I see how I can look at the big ticket

items and say, well, I'm, at least I'm

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not doing that, but I've got other sin

in my life that I need to be just as,

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as adamant to guard myself against.

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And like Jesus says, about cutting off

the hand or gouging out the eye or.

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His comments that he makes about the

hypocrisy of people during this time.

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Lord, it, it's so easy for that mindset

to creep into our lives regardless.

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Against that, I pray and

give us a true integrity.

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Give us a hunger for you,

a hunger for your word.

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Keep us on the narrow path.

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We didn't even get to talk about that.

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There's so much more, so much rich

stuff here in the Sermon on the Mount.

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But we do wanna be a church that's

on the narrow path until you return.

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We pray this in Jesus' name, amen.

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Keep your Bibles tuning again

tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you tomorrow.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said