217: Marc Hunter – Judge Not

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Welcome to good for selfie and
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This week’s talk is the last
talk in a series by brother Mark

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Hunter that was given in 2022.
So this year at the North,

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Battleford Bible school, you can
tell him the talk that he

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presented this On zoom.
And this is the fourth class is

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titled judge.
Not this is a study that Mark

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does through Matthew chapter 7
and kind of the first 14 verses

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are.
So I very much enjoyed this

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class.
This is found this as it was

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recently uploaded on Chris
laughing Bible talks.com.

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And this class was really,
really, really great to listen

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to to.
He makes a lot of points that

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they really made me kind of stop
and think.

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I think it was new to me is Mark
presents that all of the chapter

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needs to be kind of read through
the lens of the, parable of the

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mode and the beam in the eye,
you know, the more the moat, the

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man with the Beeman, has I
trying to take out the mote in

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his brother’s eye and so kind of
relating to then the whole The

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context of the whole thing
should be about judgment and we

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should judge not that you be not
judged and expands.

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And a lot of really interesting
ideas.

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One idea had never heard before,
which I would say, is my

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favorite point was in the
parable of the tares and the

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wheat.
It’s interesting that, you know,

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in the model that Parable or
kind of commanded to let the

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tears grow up with the wheat,
before the Harvest, comes kind

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of the final judgment.
Which I thought was a

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fascinating idea that we are not
in the place to make the

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Judgment of the Harvester.
We are, we should actually let

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maybe some of the were
uncomfortable with exist with,

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you know, with what we believe
to be true.

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So he has this has this quote
that said we need to train each

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other and our young people to be
stronger instead of looking to

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be Or out of fear.
So that was a really impactful

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line for me and I’m gonna be
thinking about that for a while.

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So thank you to brother Mark for
this class and here is Judge not

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by Mark Hunter.
Good morning once again.

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Still awake.
Nice.

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We started on two mountains.
The Mountain of Fire and Thunder

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and the mountain of those
righteous men made perfect.

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And we discovered the keeping,
the law does not guarantee

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righteousness.
You can keep the law and not be

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righteous.
You discovered you can love and

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not necessarily be righteous.
You can be charitable and not

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necessarily be righteous.
You can be prayerful and not

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necessarily be righteous.
You can be full of

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self-sacrifice and not
necessarily be righteous And we

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said at the start that if we
approached, Jesus words with new

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eyes that he’s going to surprise
us and he’s going to challenge

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us and then he’s going to crush
us if we let him.

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What does it mean to be
righteous?

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It’s just really hard to tell.
Sometimes it seems so obvious

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what righteousness is but the
closer you look, the more it

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seems to sort of Fleet from you.
And then Jesus says, Matthew 7

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verse 1, judge, not I have to
tell you that I believe this is

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impossible.
We’re constantly judging.

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Why does Jesus come and give us
an impossible commandment?

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Well, you’ve been here all week.
Jesus has been giving us

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impossible, commandment after
impossible, commandment after

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impossible, commandment, he
giving us another impossible to

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Nim.
Jesus is giving us this message

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for, it’s crushing power.
But the thing that needs to be

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crushed with this message is
ourselves.

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And this tremendous tool that
has been giving us in this

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chapter can also be a tremendous
weapon.

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And we weaponize it by shifting
it off of ourselves and applying

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it to the people around us.
Because they will not be able to

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withstand it.
Any more than you will.

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You will find flaws in their
obedience, you will find laws

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and their charity will find
flaws in their prayer.

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Flaws in their love, nobody can
withstand this pressure.

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Judge not.
And a lot of people stop right

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there.
And they’re like, that’s it.

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We’re not judging anymore ever
again and ironically this is a

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form of legalism, right?
Like do know, there’s a rule.

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The rule says you don’t judge
and therefore it’s all good.

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Doesn’t work that way, right?
You know, you can’t make an

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agreement with an evil person
and say, well you don’t judge me

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and I won’t judge you.
And then you don’t judge not

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that you be not judged and we
both get a get-out-of-jail-free

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card.
No, that’s that’s no, that’s not

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what he means.
So what does he mean, right?

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Why does he come with this bold
statement?

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Well, like we said before, you
have a bias you have a tendency

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to make our wrong choice, and
he’s trying to smack you out of

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that bias.
He’s trying to wake you up.

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He’s giving you an extreme
statement that says you have an

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instinct to judge and before you
act in any way on that instinct,

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first consider the possibility
that maybe you shouldn’t even

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judge.
Maybe you don’t have to go

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there.
But it’s not here as a tool to

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deflect personal criticism.
If somebody comes up to you and

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says you know, I think you’re
overbearing.

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You don’t go to Matthew 7 verse
1 and say judge not, right.

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Touche Shield can never
criticize me because I can

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counter criticize you with
judge.

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Not and and know that.
That’s not why it’s here.

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Or in the way you judge, you
will be judged.

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And by your standard of measure,
it will be measured to you.

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There’s an interesting question,
and the way you judge, you will

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be judged.
Now, who, who is doing the other

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judging in this verse?
I can’t actually go until is

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this sort of like Proverbs
saying you know if you behave in

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a certain way, other people will
behave this way towards you, be

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aware of that if you walk around
light being judgmental and then

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you fall in a pit, don’t expect
everybody to be really

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sympathetic, right?
It could be that.

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But we also know in Scripture
that in the case of forgiveness,

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for instance, that God makes it
quite clear that if you go

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around, not forgiving people.
Don’t turn to God later and say,

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oh yeah, I want you to forgive
me.

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And so there is a Divine element
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We talked about the mercy
journaling such as day one or

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day two, right?
The amount of Mercy that you’re

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likely to extend to other people
appears to be directly

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correlated to how long since
you’ve made a big mistake.

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How long since you have
recognized your insufficiency,

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one of the goals of these
chapters is to try to get you to

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walk around every day.
Feeling your own insufficiency

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peeling, your own inadequacy,
What this will do for you, is it

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will make you more humble, it
will make you more patient.

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It will make you more grateful
to God.

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For the love that he has
extended to you in accepting you

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in spite of all the ways in
which you fail.

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Why do you look at the speck?
That is in your brother’s eye.

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But do not notice the law that
is in your own eye.

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When they do surveys of people
to itemize their strengths and

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weaknesses, okay?
So if we send out a survey say

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what’s your greatest strength
and what’s your greatest

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weakness and then they send out
another survey and they asked

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other people to evaluate you on
the same question, okay?

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Now you may agree but if you say
I have this strength Other

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people around.
You will say, you have this

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strength and if you say I have
this weakness, the people

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around, you will say, you have
this weakness.

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Okay?
We are simply unable to perceive

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the extent of our own
weaknesses.

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Sometimes they call this, the
shadow sort of, you know,

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psychologists will call it the
shadow.

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You go through life.
And there’s this thing that

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follows you that you can’t see
and it has all these side

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effects in your life.
And you’re constantly surprised.

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Why do people react this way to
me, right?

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Like, oh, why does this happen
to me all the time?

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Why do I keep getting fired?
You know, just to pick an

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example.
That’s very strange and and, and

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the people around you are
watching you and your Shadow.

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And they’re like, oh boy, he’s
getting but depending on who

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your friends are, they might not
tell you and depending on who

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you are, if somebody To give you
some subtle information about

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this shadow in your like judge.
Not, I don’t want to hear it.

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We’ve block ourselves to the
information, which would most

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help us and we all know it.
And so, we all actually quite

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cautious about sharing our flaws
with each other.

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There are serious problems in
your character that you are not

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fully aware of.
Do you really believe that can

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you really accept that?
You really accept that.

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There’s actually a plant in your
eyes, not a plank beside you,

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right?
It’s not a plank over there and

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I’ve got to deal with it.
It’s in your eye.

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It’s affecting your ability to
perceive the information, which

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is a rocketing in your brain is
faulty.

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You’re not getting the whole
picture.

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Is what Jesus is telling you
here, you don’t have the full

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picture.
How can you say to your brother?

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Let me take the speck out of
your eye and behold.

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The log is in your own eye.
If you can’t see properly, what

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makes you qualified to nitpick
at other people, you can’t see,

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right?
Like, do you want a surgeon with

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poor eyesight doing brain?
Surgery on, you know, right.

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You Toronto me, 19 515 by the
mouth of two or three witnesses

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that the matter shall be
established.

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I really want you to internalize
this.

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Your individual opinion on what
happened or what was wrong.

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Is not good enough under no
circumstance, is your opinion.

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Good enough.
But under the law of Moses, no

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important decision or fact can
be established by one person you

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need to Witnesses at least to
you.

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At least need a second.
Please go for a third.

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If you can Matthew 18, they just
say, keep making the pool bigger

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and bigger, the more serious.
The thing is because You can’t

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be trusted, you cannot be
trusted with serious decisions.

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Do you believe that you don’t, I
don’t have trouble believing

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them.
Like I know what I saw, I

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understand like our instinct is
betraying us.

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We think we’re trustworthy or
not, we absolutely need each

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other.
We need two or three Witnesses

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for every important decision
verse 5.

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You hypocrite, first, take the
log out of your own eye, and

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then you will see clearly to
take the speck out of your

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brother’s eye.
You hypocrite.

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Why does he use the word
hypocrite?

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Your what does it mean to be a
hypocrite?

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It’s not a rhetorical question
and I am actually inviting the

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audience participation.
What is the meaning of

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hypocrite?
He’s two-faced necessarily, but

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the root is actually in the
actor, right?

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So, in order for there to be
hypocrisy, there’s some kind of

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pretending going on some kind of
pretending now, How is verse 5?

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Pretending you hypocrite?
Okay, first, take the log out of

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your own eye and then you will
see clearly to take the speck

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out of your brother’s eye.
That just looks like a nice.

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How is that relate to
hypocrisies?

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Where does that makka pakka?
See coming Everyone else is like

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to think that you’re qualified,
right?

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If you’re pretending, if you’re
going around saying I am an eye

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surgeon, let me take the speck
sort of all your eyes.

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It’s pretending it’s
play-acting.

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You are not an eye surgeon.
You’re somebody walking around

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with a big beam in your eye,
right?

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It’s an act.
It’s a charade and most of the

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people can see through it.
This is one of these things

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that’s very this, another one of
these shocking principles, very

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hard to live first.
Remove the plank from your own

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eye.
First, if you’re going to

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prioritize here here is my
spiritual life for the next

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year.
Here are my objectives first

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first birthday party.
Before you start going out there

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and fixing other people first.
Jesus says, can we really do

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that?
No, it’s this is another one of

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these practically impossible
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But every time you find yourself
picking up, the specs of the

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people around, you come back to
this verse, can you let Jesus

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shake you a little bit.
First, take the log out of your

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own eye.
And, and there’s some question

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about exactly how all the rest
of the elements of this chapter

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fit together and what I’m going
to choose.

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To do for the purpose of this
presentation is to suggest to

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you that everything else in this
chapter has to do with this

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concept.
First, take the plank out of

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your own eye.
How do we go about doing that?

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What are the mechanisms?
What are the pros and cons of

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when you’re on both sides of the
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How do we handle interpersonal,
correction right before you say,

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let me, you know, before you say
to someone else, let me take the

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speck out of your eye.
Why what are the prerequisites

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that are involved?
Do not give what is Holy to

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dogs?
And do not throw your Pearls

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Before Swine, or they will
trample them under their feet

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and turn and tear you to pieces.
I struggle with this person for

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a long time because I’d never
thought of pigs Tearing Me To

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Pieces.
That’s a really odd thing,

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right?
And it turns out, I finally

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read, somewhere.
Then this is actually a chiasm.

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Have you guys heard about
chiasm, and introverted

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parallelisms?
Okay, there’s they’re all trendy

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now.
So I won’t spend a lot of time,

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but the point is that they’re
bookends Around each other and

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the thing at the end actually
relates to the thing at the

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beginning rather than the thing
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how we usually organized thought
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So, in this case, the, the
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actually the dog, not the big,
the pig trampled, you and the

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dog tears you to pieces.
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You’re no man can serve two
masters, you hate the one and

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love the other or be devoted to
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You cannot serve God and money.
And you will find this.

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All over scripture.
A once you start to see it, it

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starts to pop up all over the
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But what does this mean in the
context of specs and planks,

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right?
Normally I’ve heard this verse

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used in the context of breaching
the people and IQ.

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Don’t go into that disco as or
disco know that nightclub I

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guess they call them nowadays
and and start trying to preach

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their other.
You don’t throw your Pearls

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Before Swine.
That’s not the right place.

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And and that, that may be true.
I’m very in the context of

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specks and planks.
I propose to you that Jesus is

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asking you to consider whether
people want your help or not,

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when you’re walking around with
that blank in your eye, are they

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looking for you to help them
with their respects?

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Like if you go into an occlusal
situation and started trying to

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correct everybody else, yeah
that you may cause a whole lot

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of problems there and you may
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Whether it’s the appropriate
time when there’s an appropriate

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time and place for each kind.
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So Jesus used the word beware
earlier and I proposed that we

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should beware of judging, always
we presume more Mercy than we

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give.
OK, we expect others to be more

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merciful towards us.
That we are inclined to be

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merciful towards them.
We underestimate the magnitude

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of our flaws.
We can’t help it.

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It’s the way our brain works.
We underestimate how we’re flaws

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inhibit our judgment.
We Get that our flaws, our

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perception flaws.
What you saw with your own eyes,

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there’s not a taxi.
What happened, okay?

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Like the police know this
lawyers, know this, if you have

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a crime scene or an accident
scene, when you get an

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eyewitness report, the jury
goes.

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Wow.
Yeah.

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That’s it.
People saw it with their own

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eyes completely unreliable, the
most unreliable form of evidence

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evidence in criminal trials.
Owls is an eyewitness report.

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Turbo like in that moment you
like you think you saw it and

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some people go to their grave
without conviction that what

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they saw was true.
No, and this is a great tool by

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the way.
In terms of forgiveness, you

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think back to what that brother
said two years ago or what they

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did and it still Burns you up
inside.

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There’s a chance that never
happened and I’m not kidding.

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There is a literal chance and
that little story that you play

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in your head never actually
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Okay, every time we recall it
from memory we rebuild it and

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modify it a little bit.
It’s scary but true.

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This is tested stuff like they
go out there and they test

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people’s memory.
Your memory is way worse than

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you think it is.
So you know what, let it go

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right?
Forgive the past.

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We resist fixing ourselves
before, trying to fix others.

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We presume that others want our
judgment.

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I think everybody’s looking for
our opinion, but we hardly ever

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ask them for their opinion,
right?

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And sometimes they say, well,
wait for someone to ask you, for

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your opinions, like nobody ever
does.

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So, I better go just find a way
to inject it.

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On the other hand, you do.
Don’t throw your Pearls Before

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Swine.
Are we swine?

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You know what we’re so I go if
we throw our opinion and and and

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are and we try to help people
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So negatively how do you react
when people bring things to your

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attention, you turn on them and
trample them.

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You tear them to pieces.
If they happen to point out that

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maybe there’s something you need
to work on in your life.

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And we need to work both sides
of this Olympic athletes.

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Paid big money to hire somebody
to sit there and watch them and

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point out every flaw.
And what they do is bizarre,

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right?
We can get that for free by just

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coming in meeting on Sunday
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But we don’t write when it
happens.

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We’re like, whoa, back off,
right, judge, not.

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And who are you?
I can I can find a lot of flaws

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in your eyes too.
Right.

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It’s bizarre.
Judge not I mean it’s an

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attention getter.
It’s there to set the bias but

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we know and, you know, and
you’re arguing with me in your

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head that you can’t just judge,
not like there has to be

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circumstances where we judge.
And so we have to face this

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difficult question, right?
Do we judge you?

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Do we not judge or better?
Said, when do we judge?

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And when do we not judge.
So I’m gonna just roll through a

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bunch of scriptures.
You were not going to settle

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this question today, but I’m
just going to put some of the

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pieces on either side of the
fence Revelation, chapter 2,

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verse 14.
I have a few things against you

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because you have there some who
hold the teaching of Balaam, who

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Teaching Bay like to put a
stumbling block before the sons

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of Israel to eat things
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And to commit acts of
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So we have one of the seven
Ecclesia has.

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And there is someone there
teaching immorality and they had

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failed to properly, judge to
make a judgment call revelation,

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22 verse 20.
I have this against you.

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You tolerate the woman Jezebel
who calls herself a prophetess

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and she teaches and leads my
bond servants astray so that

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they commit acts of immorality
and eat things sacrificed to

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idols.
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interesting.
It starts offers 12 what have I

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to do with judging Outsiders.
He starts off in an enzyme

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judging position, but he’s like,
if you have a guy at work who’s

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an atheist and he’s drinking too
much going around, judging him

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and staying.
No, parading in front of his

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house.
With the big placard saying, you

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shouldn’t drink and drunkenness.
It’s like he’s, he never made a

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commitment to Christ like that.
That’s not your problem, right?

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What have I to do with judging
Outsiders?

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Do not, do you not Do you not
judge those who are within the

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church?
Those who are outside?

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God, judges The Atheist,
drunkards God’s going to take

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care of that.
Remove the Wicked Man from among

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yourselves. 1st Corinthians 6,
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Do you not know that we will
judge Angels how much more

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matters of this life?
So if you have Law Courts,

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dealing with matters of this
like you appoint them as judges

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who are of no account in the
church.

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So he’s talking about conflict
within the church here, right?

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We have two members of the
Ecclesia that are in some sort

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of controversy, and I say this
to your shame, is it so that

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there is not among you, one wise
man who is able to decide

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between his brothers We have
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They had it back.
Then, it’s tragic that, with all

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the scriptural wisdom that we
have in our communities

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frequently, we end up in
conflicts, where we can’t even

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find one person that both sides
will trust to make a judgment

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call.
That’s the we need that

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judgment.
That’s a judgment that we’re

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lacking.
So those are our verses.

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Did indicate that we need a
certain amount of judgment in

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our community and then you have
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The one who eats is not to
regard with content, the one who

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does not eat, and the one who
does not eat, is not to judge

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the one who eats her God
accepted him, who are you to

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judge the servant of another
qualifications.

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Who are you?
What exactly qualifies you to?

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Go to your brother and be
telling him what he should eat

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and what he should be eating,
right?

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Are you pretending?
Are you being a hypocrite?

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To his own Master.
He stands or Falls and he will

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stand, right?
God Will Make A different

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judgment than you in many cases.
To his own Master, he stands or

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Falls and he will stand for the
Lord is able to make him stand.

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Romans 14 verse 10, but you why
do you judge your brother are

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you again, why do you regard
your brother with contempt?

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We will all stand before the
Judgment seat of God for it is

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written.
As I live says the Lord.

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Every knee shall bow to me every
tongue.

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Shall give praise to God.
So then let each one of us.

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So then each one of us will give
an account of himself to God,

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therefore, Let us not judge one
another anymore or rather

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determined is not to put an
obstacle or a stumbling block

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and their brothers way.
James chapter 4, do not speak

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against one, another Brethren.
He who speaks against a brother

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or judges, his brother speaks
against the law, and judges the

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law.
But if you judge the law, you

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are not a doer of the law, but a
judging them, there is only one

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lawgiver in judge.
The one who is able to save and

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Destroy, who are you to judge
your neighbor?

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You just have to be very
careful.

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When we judging judging is a
very dangerous situation and

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many ways, we need it.
But when it happens, we should

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go into it with tremendous,
trepidation, humility, and fear.

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We need minimum standards of
behavior but we need to make

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sure we’re not recreating the
Mosaic Covenant.

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Did we banish people from our
community for being angry?

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Do we banish people from our
community for being lustful,

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then we banish them because they
have not given up all their

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possessions, as Jesus commanded.
Do we banish them for not being

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perfect the way Jesus commanded.
but there are other things in

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this category that we do banish
people from our community for

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We’re somewhat inconsistent in
our judgment and that should be

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very unsettling to us.
It’s not about calling wrong

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things.
Good it’s about determining if

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we’re being compassionate and
merciful and fair in the way we

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judge, how do we maintain the
health of the equation?

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Let’s go to Matthew Chapter 13.
We’ve referenced this before

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this week.
My brother, Nathan brought this

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up in his evening address.
Verses 24 to 30, he presented

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another.
Parable to them saying the

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Kingdom of Heaven may be
compared to a man who sowed good

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seed in his field.
But while men were sleeping, his

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enemy came and sowed tares.
Also among the wheat and went

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away.
And when the wheat sprang up and

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bore grain, then the tears
became evident also and the

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slaves.
The landowner came to him and

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said to him, sir, did you not
sow good seed in your field?

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How then does it have tears?
And he said to them an enemy,

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Numbness.
And the slave said to him, do

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you want us then to go and
gather them up?

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Do you Jesus want us?
To go among the Ecclesia and

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gather up the tares.
Do you want us to be evaluating

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each other and trying to decide
exactly how much wheat or tear

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each?
One of us might be.

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And he said, no.
He said, no.

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Why not?
Well lest, while you are

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gathering up the tears, you met
root up.

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The wheat also, you aren’t
qualified, right?

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You sit, you simply don’t have
the skills.

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I mean, Jesus knows Jesus knows
exactly whose recent are but you

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don’t.
And so if you go in there,

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prematurely before the Harvest,
trying to sort of sit there,

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00:31:09,100 –> 00:31:13,800
everybody into the right
category, your over reaching

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Jesus is telling you you are not
qualified.

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Just a groom.
What do we do then?

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Right?
What this tells us is that our

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Ecclesia has should have tears.
If you somehow having a cliche

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that doesn’t have tears, then
you have been too invasive, you

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have been too aggressive and
it’s possible heaven forbid that

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you have destroyed wheat.
In the process and you should be

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very scared of that.
You should be very worried that

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you have taken a brother or
sister who Christ died for and

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00:32:02,400 –> 00:32:06,000
driven them away from the pulled
because you had a plank in your

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eye that you didn’t even realize
you had that should terrify you.

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None of us should want to stand
before the judgment and face the

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implications of you having
driven away.

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It’s one of God’s servants.
I’ve allowed both to grow

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together.
It’s against every intuition we

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00:32:27,500 –> 00:32:31,600
have allow both to grow together
until the Harvest.

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How do we do that?
It’s terrifying.

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00:32:37,400 –> 00:32:40,700
Interesting point, the brother
Nathan made is, how do you

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protect the wheat?
You make it strong, you make the

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wheat strong, so that it can
grow up right beside a tear

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00:32:52,700 –> 00:32:55,800
Survive.
Right.

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We need to focus primarily on
strengthening.

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The wheat, is the true of our
children as well.

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00:33:04,300 –> 00:33:08,600
There’s, there’s a certain age
and stage at which, we need to

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protect our children from
outside influences.

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00:33:11,400 –> 00:33:13,600
We need to build a shield,
right?

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00:33:15,400 –> 00:33:20,800
Our Shield cannot be sustained
Forever at a certain point in

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time, our children will face the
reality of the world around

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them.
So, in that period, we have to

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strengthen them so that when
they end up among the weeds,

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they will be able to withstand
the pressure of weeds.

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We need to build a community
that is stronger and not a

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community, that is pure because
we’re afraid.

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00:33:46,300 –> 00:33:50,200
We shouldn’t be purifying our
ranks because we’re so afraid of

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being contaminated, we should be
strong enough.

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00:33:53,200 –> 00:33:57,700
And if we’re not work on that
first, the plank in your own

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00:33:57,700 –> 00:34:00,700
eye, if you are.
So weak in your faith that you

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00:34:00,700 –> 00:34:05,700
can’t tolerate, someone who
might have a opinion, that might

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00:34:05,700 –> 00:34:09,199
be over the line, and it might
be, it might be it there.

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00:34:10,699 –> 00:34:13,199
Is your face so weak.
But you can’t, you can’t be

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00:34:13,199 –> 00:34:15,800
there on a Sunday morning with
someone like that.

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00:34:17,000 –> 00:34:18,300
You might need to work on your
face.

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00:34:18,500 –> 00:34:25,100
You should be able to withstand
Now, this isn’t an anything-goes

511
00:34:25,100 –> 00:34:28,000
principal, right?
It’s not like, oh well, you

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00:34:28,000 –> 00:34:30,600
know, let’s bring the Catholics
and let’s bring that like know,

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00:34:31,100 –> 00:34:33,000
the wheat and the tares are
similar, right?

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00:34:33,000 –> 00:34:36,400
But like it’s not like there’s
an apple tree in the middle of

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00:34:36,400 –> 00:34:39,900
my feel that weight, right?
Like but, but the point that

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00:34:39,900 –> 00:34:43,600
Jesus is making is when you draw
a circle and decide, these are

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00:34:43,600 –> 00:34:48,199
going to be the edges of our
community, the circle should be

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00:34:48,199 –> 00:34:50,500
wider than you think it should
be.

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00:34:51,600 –> 00:34:54,199
And your instinct, you go.
Well, this is the community of

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00:34:54,199 –> 00:34:57,600
the saved of.
That’s that’s what you think and

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00:34:57,600 –> 00:35:01,400
you have your opinion with your
plank, in your eye, you should

522
00:35:01,400 –> 00:35:05,600
draw a bigger Circle, a circle
that you are not comfortable

523
00:35:05,600 –> 00:35:09,500
with That should be your circle
because it’s better for you to

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00:35:09,500 –> 00:35:15,400
be uncomfortable than that.
You should rip out some wheat in

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00:35:15,400 –> 00:35:21,000
your fear and anxiety, right?
If you’re, you know, inner

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00:35:21,000 –> 00:35:25,200
insecurity is causing you to
tear out the wheat that Christ

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00:35:25,200 –> 00:35:27,700
died for.
You are in trouble.

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00:35:28,900 –> 00:35:31,500
Who wants to face Christ in that
situation?

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00:35:31,500 –> 00:35:43,500
I know item. when in doubt judge
Donald, Jumping to the next

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00:35:43,500 –> 00:35:50,400
section, verses 7 to 11.
Ask and it shall be given to

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you.
And I mean this passage has been

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00:35:54,700 –> 00:35:58,100
taken out of context and so many
ways that people just assume

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00:35:58,100 –> 00:36:01,200
that you know, whatever I want.
You don’t hear about kids

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00:36:01,300 –> 00:36:03,600
praying for a new bike and I
think get a new bike.

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00:36:04,500 –> 00:36:07,300
Let’s think about this in
context, right?

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00:36:07,500 –> 00:36:11,400
What are we asking about?
And I’m going to choose the lens

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00:36:11,400 –> 00:36:14,200
here and it may not be the only
ones to read this chapter.

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00:36:14,200 –> 00:36:19,000
But if I’m saying, I have a
plank in my eye and I’m not sure

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00:36:19,000 –> 00:36:22,100
what to do about it.
Jesus is saying, aye.

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00:36:22,300 –> 00:36:27,700
Housing, like you’ve got flaws
and you’re trying to figure out

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00:36:27,700 –> 00:36:31,800
how to work on them and you see
the, the dogs and the pigs.

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00:36:32,500 –> 00:36:36,400
Don’t be a dog and a pig.
Like go to your brother and say,

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00:36:37,600 –> 00:36:40,800
what can I do about the plank in
my eye?

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00:36:41,800 –> 00:36:43,200
And said, maybe maybe he doesn’t
know.

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00:36:43,200 –> 00:36:47,800
Well, then seek Go out.
Put some effort into it right?

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00:36:48,800 –> 00:36:54,100
Invite information.
That will educate you about your

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00:36:54,100 –> 00:36:58,800
shortcomings.
Okay, don’t don’t be the other

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00:36:58,800 –> 00:37:01,600
category that doesn’t want any
information.

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Verse 12.
Therefore however you want

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people to treat you.
So treat them for this is the

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law and the prophets.
They call this the Golden Rule

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00:37:19,100 –> 00:37:22,800
and again, I find, therefore
think what’s that word?

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00:37:22,800 –> 00:37:26,200
Therefore, it’s a connecting
word out.

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00:37:26,200 –> 00:37:29,700
Is this, you know, Golden Rule
have anything to do with

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00:37:29,700 –> 00:37:32,500
knocking and asking and seeking,
I Think Jesus is giving you a

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00:37:32,500 –> 00:37:35,300
hint, okay?
If if you’re not getting the

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00:37:35,300 –> 00:37:38,200
information, if you’re having
trouble understanding how to

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00:37:38,200 –> 00:37:42,100
deal with the plank in your eye,
here is a good rule of thumb,

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00:37:42,500 –> 00:37:45,200
right?
If you’re behaving in a way that

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00:37:45,200 –> 00:37:49,200
you find unacceptable, The bow
and other people work on that

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00:37:49,200 –> 00:37:56,600
first, right?
All that great Insight you have

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00:37:56,600 –> 00:37:59,600
on other people’s flaws will
make a list and say, okay, how

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00:37:59,600 –> 00:38:02,000
am I doing in every one of these
categories?

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00:38:03,900 –> 00:38:07,200
Why does this work?
Why does it work?

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00:38:07,300 –> 00:38:11,000
It works because we have double
standards, okay?

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00:38:11,000 –> 00:38:12,800
This is what Jesus is trying to
tell you.

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00:38:13,000 –> 00:38:16,400
You have a double standard, you
have one standard for others,

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00:38:16,400 –> 00:38:18,000
and you have one standard for
yourself.

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00:38:18,000 –> 00:38:20,000
And Jesus is trying to take that
standard.

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00:38:20,000 –> 00:38:22,300
You apply to others swinging it
around.

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00:38:22,300 –> 00:38:25,400
Come on, let’s turn it around.
Shine that light on yourself,

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00:38:25,400 –> 00:38:27,200
that’s a great.
Starting point.

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00:38:31,500 –> 00:38:35,200
In Psalms says, a quick me of
hidden faults.

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00:38:36,300 –> 00:38:40,000
The most terrifying thing is
that is this notion that you

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have these big problems.
You know like and nobody’s

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00:38:42,400 –> 00:38:47,500
telling you about them.
It gives us another hint enter

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00:38:47,500 –> 00:38:53,100
by the narrow gate if you have
an ambiguity about which path

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00:38:53,100 –> 00:38:59,900
you should take.
A rule of thumb is, are you

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00:38:59,900 –> 00:39:02,400
taking the easy way or you
taking the hard way?

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00:39:02,700 –> 00:39:06,800
And if the thing that you’re
doing is easy, as should be a

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00:39:06,800 –> 00:39:10,200
big red flag waving.
This is a moment you should

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00:39:10,200 –> 00:39:12,300
double check with your brothers
and sisters.

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00:39:12,900 –> 00:39:18,100
I’m taking the easy route.
Almost always the wrong choice.

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00:39:18,400 –> 00:39:21,800
Almost always the wrong choice.
Seek out the difficult choice,

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00:39:22,900 –> 00:39:25,000
this this applies across so
many.

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00:39:25,200 –> 00:39:33,000
So many Ways.
Verse 15, beware of false

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00:39:33,000 –> 00:39:34,500
prophets.
Who come to you in sheep’s

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00:39:34,500 –> 00:39:37,400
clothing, and individually
inwardly are ravenous wolves.

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00:39:37,700 –> 00:39:40,300
You will know them by their
fruits.

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00:39:41,300 –> 00:39:43,400
What does this have to do with
plants in our eyes?

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00:39:43,600 –> 00:39:46,300
I think what he’s saying here
is, if you’re going to go and

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00:39:46,300 –> 00:39:50,200
ask people for advice, make sure
it’s people who are credible.

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00:39:51,200 –> 00:39:54,100
And they have a credible basis
for the advice they’re giving

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00:39:55,400 –> 00:39:58,200
and you may not know that right
away, right?

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00:39:58,500 –> 00:40:03,000
The the outworking of someone’s
philosophy of life doesn’t bear

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00:40:03,000 –> 00:40:05,900
fruit right away.
Sometimes it takes some time so

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00:40:05,900 –> 00:40:08,800
be very cautious.
There’s a lot of messages.

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00:40:08,800 –> 00:40:13,000
That sounds very nice, but end
up in tragedy.

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00:40:14,500 –> 00:40:18,400
Consider that possibility,
observe you will know them by

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00:40:18,400 –> 00:40:20,000
the group.
Not everyone who says to me,

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00:40:20,000 –> 00:40:22,200
Lord Lord will enter the kingdom
of heaven.

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00:40:23,900 –> 00:40:26,600
He who does the will of My
Father, which brings us to the

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00:40:26,600 –> 00:40:30,900
next section, which is the wise
man.

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00:40:30,900 –> 00:40:34,100
Built his house upon the rock.
So hard to you this one, without

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00:40:34,200 –> 00:40:37,200
singing it.
And you have to ask yourself,

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00:40:37,200 –> 00:40:38,700
okay?
This is the grand finale.

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00:40:38,700 –> 00:40:43,000
Jesus is put together this
tremendous, you know, talk

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00:40:43,000 –> 00:40:50,400
presentation on righteousness
and he ends With this concept

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00:40:50,900 –> 00:40:54,000
and a fastest, l fly.
Well, when you go to the

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00:40:54,000 –> 00:40:58,100
aquarium and there’s a sign up
there that says do not tap on

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00:40:58,100 –> 00:41:02,100
glass, why would they put that
up there?

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00:41:06,200 –> 00:41:09,700
But why would they bother
writing on a piece of paper and

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00:41:09,700 –> 00:41:13,700
putting it up?
Because everyone wants to know

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00:41:13,700 –> 00:41:16,300
is everybody keeps popping on
the glass, right?

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00:41:16,300 –> 00:41:20,300
So When you, when you see Jesus
giving giving advice, you have

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00:41:20,300 –> 00:41:24,200
to understand that the reason is
doing it is because this is what

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00:41:24,200 –> 00:41:26,400
he thinks you’re going to do
after.

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00:41:26,400 –> 00:41:30,200
I’ve given you all this
information through all these

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00:41:30,200 –> 00:41:36,100
chapters The most likely thing
for you to do is to be like,

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00:41:36,200 –> 00:41:42,300
Amen, brother, and go home and
do absolutely nothing about it.

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Make no change at all.
You’re like this is the most

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00:41:46,300 –> 00:41:50,900
predictable, human reaction to
Divine Insight.

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00:41:51,900 –> 00:41:53,500
It’s great.
So it’s a greatness.

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00:41:54,100 –> 00:41:56,200
We love it.
We agree with it.

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00:41:56,800 –> 00:41:59,500
It’s wonderful.
And then do nothing.

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00:42:01,600 –> 00:42:05,900
So at the end of this chapter
Jesus is saying please please,

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00:42:05,900 –> 00:42:08,900
I’ve tried to shock you, I’ve
tried to surprise you.

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00:42:09,000 –> 00:42:13,800
I’ve tried to educate you about
5 to warn you and Only going to

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00:42:13,800 –> 00:42:18,600
be useful to you.
If you actually turn this into

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00:42:19,000 –> 00:42:23,200
decisions in your life, you have
to turn it into behaviors.

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You have to do something
different in the next few

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00:42:25,700 –> 00:42:27,800
months.
Then you would have done before

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00:42:28,100 –> 00:42:32,300
because of these words of
Christ, if you don’t do that,

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00:42:32,700 –> 00:42:36,600
you have built your whole
religion on the sand and the

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00:42:36,600 –> 00:42:39,400
moment, some kind of tragic
event happens.

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00:42:39,400 –> 00:42:42,600
Your whole structure will
collapse.

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00:42:46,200 –> 00:42:52,500
Therefore everyone who hears
these words of mine and acts

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00:42:52,600 –> 00:42:55,400
upon them.
It’s a prerequisite.

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00:42:56,500 –> 00:43:00,900
Will be like a wise man who
built his house upon the rock.

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00:43:08,400 –> 00:43:14,300
To manifest God’s character.
We have to do things.

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00:43:16,500 –> 00:43:23,700
We have to engage in behaviors.
But we know from these chapters,

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00:43:23,700 –> 00:43:30,000
that were imperfect.
So we have a paradox because we

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00:43:30,000 –> 00:43:33,100
are called to manifest God’s
character and our behavior.

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00:43:33,100 –> 00:43:36,900
And yet we can see conclusively
that we are imperfect, what’s

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00:43:36,900 –> 00:43:38,800
going to happen.
When we put these two things

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00:43:38,800 –> 00:43:41,600
together, what’s going to
happen, when you take a bunch of

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00:43:41,900 –> 00:43:46,100
imperfect people and you ask
them to manifest perfection.

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00:43:50,700 –> 00:43:53,600
Just kind of have a lot of
mistakes, right?

649
00:43:54,900 –> 00:43:56,600
There’s going to be a lot of
mistakes.

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00:43:58,600 –> 00:44:01,700
Now, there’s a way to avoid the
mistakes and that is by simply

651
00:44:01,700 –> 00:44:06,500
not doing anything, right?
And this is the one Talent, man.

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00:44:07,300 –> 00:44:11,000
I’ve got a hard Master, he wants
me to be perfect.

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00:44:11,800 –> 00:44:15,300
The master wants me to be
perfect, if I go and try to do

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00:44:15,300 –> 00:44:16,900
something with the talent, he’s
given me.

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I have to take a risk.
I might do it wrong, I might

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00:44:22,900 –> 00:44:27,400
fail.
And so the best way to never

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00:44:27,400 –> 00:44:31,000
fail is to never do anything at
all.

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00:44:31,800 –> 00:44:38,100
It’s the never take a risk and,
and Jesus, clearly condemns this

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00:44:38,300 –> 00:44:41,200
Jesus.
Clearly says you should be a

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00:44:41,200 –> 00:44:45,900
risk taker.
You need to take a risk of

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00:44:45,900 –> 00:44:47,100
failure.
Okay.

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00:44:47,200 –> 00:44:50,200
It’s a risk of failure.
It’s a risk.

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00:44:50,200 –> 00:44:53,400
That the thing that God gave
you, you may do something

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00:44:54,100 –> 00:44:58,300
inadequate with it.
I bet that’s what the other ones

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00:44:58,300 –> 00:45:01,000
did.
They took a risk?

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00:45:04,900 –> 00:45:07,500
This is the situation.
We find ourselves every morning,

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00:45:07,500 –> 00:45:08,700
right?
We wake up.

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00:45:10,900 –> 00:45:15,900
And we can try to move closer to
God and closer to perfection.

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But we start off on a hunt with
this, Chasm between us and where

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00:45:21,800 –> 00:45:24,900
we should be and the path to get
there.

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00:45:24,900 –> 00:45:31,600
Seemed so difficult and narrow.
and we know that nine times out

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00:45:31,600 –> 00:45:37,300
of 10, when we step out We’re
going to slip or stumble, in

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00:45:37,300 –> 00:45:43,200
some way.
And so we Face an incredible

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00:45:43,200 –> 00:45:50,000
temptation to do know the sit
back to not make the league. but

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00:45:50,000 –> 00:45:57,300
what we forget, there’s actually
a safety rope attached.

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00:45:58,800 –> 00:46:06,800
Okay. if you step out and you
fall, God has built in a

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00:46:06,800 –> 00:46:09,900
mechanism for you to get picked
back up again.

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00:46:11,100 –> 00:46:14,200
Michael 7:8 do not rejoice over
me.

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00:46:14,200 –> 00:46:16,400
My enemy, though.
I fall.

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00:46:17,100 –> 00:46:21,700
I will rise though.
I dwell in darkness.

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00:46:21,700 –> 00:46:29,400
The Lord is a light for me.
Romans chapter 5 verses 20, the

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00:46:29,400 –> 00:46:32,400
law came in so that the
transgression would increase.

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00:46:32,700 –> 00:46:37,000
But where sin increased Grace
abounded all the more so that as

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00:46:37,000 –> 00:46:41,000
Sin reigned in death even so
Grace would Reign through

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00:46:41,000 –> 00:46:45,300
righteousness to eternal life.
Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord

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00:46:45,800 –> 00:46:51,100
Grace is our safety net.
Okay, we know we’ll never reach

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00:46:51,100 –> 00:46:55,800
Perfection.
God has agreed to help us bridge

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00:46:55,800 –> 00:46:58,100
the gap.
But Only Bridges it.

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00:46:58,100 –> 00:47:02,500
If we’re moving, he requires us
to take those steps.

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00:47:02,500 –> 00:47:06,800
And if we fall on that Journey,
he will pick us up.

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00:47:08,600 –> 00:47:12,700
But if we don’t start the
journey, he’s not just going to

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00:47:12,700 –> 00:47:17,900
teleport us there either.
It takes courage to leave.

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00:47:18,100 –> 00:47:21,400
Mesopotamia takes courage to
leave Egypt.

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00:47:22,500 –> 00:47:25,700
It takes courage to set step out
of a boat in the middle of a

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00:47:25,700 –> 00:47:28,300
storm.
And sometimes what we do, we

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00:47:28,300 –> 00:47:33,000
sink and sometimes Jesus has to
reach out and grab ass.

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00:47:34,200 –> 00:47:40,100
How was back into the boat?
Give us a talking to but then he

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00:47:40,100 –> 00:47:47,900
expects us to get up try again.
We have to be able to move from

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00:47:47,900 –> 00:47:52,000
crushing the blessing.
We started in the mountain of

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00:47:52,000 –> 00:47:56,400
blessing.
We go through a crushing process

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00:47:56,400 –> 00:48:00,100
that we need to end in the
mountain of blessing.

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00:48:03,900 –> 00:48:09,000
There is no condemnation for
those in Christ.

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00:48:09,200 –> 00:48:14,300
That’s what Romans 8:1 says
there is no condemnation.

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00:48:14,800 –> 00:48:21,700
That’s an absolute statement 0.
Do you have the faith to believe

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00:48:21,700 –> 00:48:24,900
that verse?
That burst takes when you look

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00:48:24,900 –> 00:48:28,700
inside yourself and see what’s
going on?

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00:48:30,200 –> 00:48:31,900
Can you actually believe
scripture?

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00:48:31,900 –> 00:48:35,900
When it says that there is no
common these, this is a test of

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00:48:35,900 –> 00:48:40,200
faith.
To be able to say there is no

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00:48:40,200 –> 00:48:43,600
zero condemnation, not less, not
now.

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00:48:44,000 –> 00:48:49,300
No condemnation for those for
those in Christ isn’t Universal

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00:48:49,300 –> 00:48:52,300
salvation.
But what this verse does is it

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00:48:52,300 –> 00:48:56,300
can take you from crushing to
blessing.

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00:49:00,000 –> 00:49:05,300
So, I’d like to end where we
started and Hebrews chapter 12.

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00:49:07,800 –> 00:49:10,500
And remind you that you have
come to Mount, Zion.

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00:49:12,100 –> 00:49:15,000
The city of the Living.
God the heavenly Jerusalem.

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00:49:16,200 –> 00:49:18,100
You have come to myriad’s of
angels.

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00:49:19,200 –> 00:49:23,400
You have come to the general
assembly, and the Church of the

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00:49:23,400 –> 00:49:25,700
firstborn who are enrolled in
heaven.

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00:49:27,100 –> 00:49:31,700
You have come to God, the judge
of all, and to the spirits of

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00:49:31,700 –> 00:49:38,200
righteous men made perfect.
You have come to the spirits of

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00:49:38,200 –> 00:49:42,600
righteous men who didn’t have
what it took, but God bridged,

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00:49:42,600 –> 00:49:45,500
the Gap because they were
willing to take the step.

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00:49:46,400 –> 00:49:51,400
You have come to Jesus the
mediator of a New Covenant and

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00:49:51,400 –> 00:49:55,600
to the sprinkled blood.
Which speaks better than the

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00:49:55,600 –> 00:49:59,600
blood of Abel, see to it, that
you do not refuse him.

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00:50:00,400 –> 00:50:04,300
Who is speaking?
Her those did not Escape when

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00:50:04,300 –> 00:50:08,200
they refused him who are warned
on Earth much less shall we

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00:50:08,200 –> 00:50:12,100
escape if we turn away from him.
Who warns from heaven?

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00:50:14,400 –> 00:50:18,900
What do we do in the crushing?
Do we turn away from him?

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00:50:19,500 –> 00:50:23,300
Where do we pick ourselves up
and turn towards him?

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00:50:25,500 –> 00:50:29,100
Verses 28 and 29.
Therefore since we receive a

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00:50:29,100 –> 00:50:34,100
kingdom which cannot be shaken.
Let us show gratitude by which

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00:50:34,100 –> 00:50:37,300
we may offer to God an
acceptable service with

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00:50:37,300 –> 00:50:41,800
reverence and awe for our God is
a consuming fire.

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00:50:56,200 –> 00:50:58,400
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