Marc Hunter – Class 2: What Righteousness Is

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Big Brother Joseph brother, Mark
forward,

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try to record it.
So just waiting for the The Moon

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that sorry.
Talked about two mountains

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yesterday, you have not come to
the mountain, which may be

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touched into a blazing fire and
darkness and Gloom and Whirlwind

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to the blast of a trumpet.
And the sound of Words, Words,

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which sound was such that those
who heard begged that no further

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word should be spoken to them
for they could not bear the

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command.
If even a beast touches the

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mountain, it will be stoned.
And so terrible was the sight.

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That Moses said, I am full of
fear and trembling first moment

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of introspection is, is that the
mountain that you come to Is

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that the mountain that you
worship?

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That is that the mountain that
people see when they observe you

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in your equation when they
observe you and your family and

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your family, when they observe
you at work, but you have come

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to Mount, Zion to the city of
the Living.

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God the heavenly Jerusalem and
to Myriad of angels to the

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general assembly and the Church
of the firstborn who are

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enrolled in heaven and to God,
the judge of all, and to the

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spirits of righteous men.
Made perfect and to Jesus, the

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mediator of a New Covenant and
to the sprinkled blood, which

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speaks better than the blood of
Abel, and we come to the

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mountain that Jesus calls us to
when people see you in your

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daily life.
When people see you in the

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equation, like, do they see you
at the mountain that Jesus

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called you too, and in that
we’ve been considering the life

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of Joseph and several people
came out and brought up the fact

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that all the It’s our manifest
that in the life of Joseph is a

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peacemaker.
He mourned.

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He was persecuted.
He was poor in spirit.

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He was Meek, how did he do all
that without a list of rules?

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And he didn’t have the command,
he didn’t have the Ten

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Commandments he didn’t have most
of the Old Testament.

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How was he able to show forth?
Christ’s character without

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checklists?
Somehow he did somehow even then

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Joseph came to this mountain.
Now we have to balance this a

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little bit with me.
What does it mean to come to?

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This mountain doesn’t mean that
everything is just always

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sweetness and light.
If you read the next verse in,

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Hebrews chapter 12, see to it
that you do not refuse him.

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Who is speaking for those did
not Escape when they refused to

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him who warned them on Earth.
Much less shall we escape?

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Who turn away from him who warns
from heaven?

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The last verse in this chapter,
our God is a consuming fire.

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We are being offered this
wonderful Vision.

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The fact that this is wonderful
means that if we reject it, we

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Face an even greater consequence
than those who rejected the law

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of Moses.
Jesus starts to bring this up in

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Matthew Chapter 5.
When we saw the verses on salt

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in life, right?
It’s all fine to talk about a

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spiritual Concepts, but if
people can’t taste Christ in

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you, if people can’t see Christ
in you, if you successfully

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hidden it.
So that none of your co-workers,

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or your neighbors, know that,
there’s anything different about

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you, then what was the point,
right?

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Becomes all academic academic is
not enough academic is The

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starting point.
And then we had the kicker.

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Unless your righteousness
exceeds, the righteousness of

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the scribes and Pharisees, you
will, by no means enter the

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kingdom of heaven.
And we have to put ourselves in

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a historical context and say, to
an ordinary Merchant to an

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ordinary, you know, Shoemaker in
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The Pharisees were the Pinnacle
of religion.

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They knew more than anybody.
They tried harder.

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More than anybody that they they
taught, right?

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They were the teachers, they
were the experts and Jesus is

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saying what they’re doing, which
you think is so far above, you

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is not enough, if all you do is
what they do, you’re not going

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to be in the Kingdom.
So that brings us to Matthew

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chapter 5 verse 21, and Jesus
starts a process of seven ways

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to be more righteous than a
Pharisee.

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And the first one is that will
shout not to kill one of the Ten

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Commandments.
Okay.

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Remember Jesus is subtly
continually making a comparison

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and a contrast with the Ten
Commandments Thou shalt, not

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kill now Jesus tells us that
just not killing people happens

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to not be good enough, right
now.

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We like the law of not killing
people because it’s very

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measurable.
And I can go to bed at night and

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I can tell myself today, I did
not kill one single person,

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right?
Check box, I’m righteous.

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I have fulfilled the Mosaic law,
right?

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I have become as righteous as
the most righteous Pharisee with

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respect to this law and Jesus
says no no, no, no

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misunderstanding.
That was just the starting

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point.
You can take this concept and

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push it all the way.
How are your relationships with

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other people?
And when I was at, when I was a

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young man in the faith, I had
visions of, you know, battling

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people over the Trinity and and
having these great, you know,

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intellectual skirmishes with
with people of other faiths.

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And what I’ve realized is the
hardest thing in my walk has

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been getting along with other
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Keeping relationships, positive
healthy, constructive is so

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hard, right?
We underestimate how hard that

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is and is Ezra and Zion back
when they used to be able to

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walk along together and hold
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That’s okay.
There’s still hope

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relationships.
But Jesus says, you know, if you

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go to present your gift at the
altar and you remember that,

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your brother has off against
you, you put that aside and we

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don’t, we don’t do gifts before
the altar in quite the same way.

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But what we can say, is there
are ecclesial functions in a

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collegial.
Ian’s, there are ceremonial

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parts of our religious life.
And if we are putting those

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ahead of our personal
relationships, we are in big

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trouble.
We think it’s important to do

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the things of the Ecclesia and
it is, but it’s not as important

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as your relationships with other
people.

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And if there’s something you can
do for your relationships that

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wins over your equation
responsibilities.

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If there’s something you can do
for your family, that wins if

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that’s counterintuitive.
That’s not what our expectation

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would be.
L shall not commit adultery.

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Now, we have, you know, David
and Bathsheba, you know, Samson

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and Delilah.
Jesus brings up the eyes in this

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chapter.
I say to you, everyone who looks

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on a woman to lust after her has
committed adultery with her

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already in his heart.
And and and we see with David,

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right?
He was up on the palace and he

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looks and we see in this in the
story of Samson.

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He looked, and it set off a
chain of events, which resulted

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in actual, you know, over sin,
which is undeniable and visible

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to everyone.
And Jesus is saying he that

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happens and that’s terrible and
that should never happen.

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But you can fail in this way and
it can all just be in your head.

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It is not enough to just do with
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Say, you have to elevate your
game and there’s an equivalence

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here, which is Is absolutely
terrifying, right?

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Jesus says, everyone who looks
at a woman to lust after her has

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committed adultery with her in
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And when we assess the relative,
you know, weights and severities

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of sins, like, do we put those
in the same category?

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The people who have committed
adultery and the people who have

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lusted in their minds?
Do we rank those?

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The same because Jesus is
putting those in the same

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category.
Do we treat the people in our

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community who have failed in
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Equally if they have failed in
either of the waist, A little

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bit unsettling.
And then he says, if your right

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eye makes you stumble pluck it
out and throw it from you.

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And this one, I struggle with
because I’ve been walking around

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again and I haven’t seen anybody
missing any eyes and yet here is

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a commandment of Christ and here
is a righteous Community

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dedicated to the service and the
study of scripture and somehow,

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we we read this verse and we
automatically assume that Low

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blow.
Jesus, can’t mean that literally

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Yes, I suppose, but he did say
it, and he said it for a reason.

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And if you had to actually look
at it technically and say, look,

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I’ll trade you, I’ll make a
trade with you, we’re gonna

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pluck out your right eye and,
and you’re in the Kingdom.

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Would you take that trade?
I sure would I’d be in there.

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Might like if Jesus Christ
showed up to you today and said

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look step through it, like it’s
going to cost you your right.

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I go through that door, you’re
being the kingdom.

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I think most of us would take
that and that’s what Jesus says

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that’s the suit is saying like
are you willing to do that?

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You say you’re willing to do
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And yet here I am looking
looking for none of us have done

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that.
Okay, so what I can do is is

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doing here is what I call
emphasis by extremism and This

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is going to come up over and
over in here and I’m not sure

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I’m actually not.
I have to say, I don’t think

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Jesus means for us all to be
plugging our eyes though.

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But what he is saying is you
must take radical

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counterintuitive action, against
sin in your life.

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It isn’t just enough to say, oh,
I’ve just this little checkbox.

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No, you have to do things that
people in.

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He would consider absurd, right?
Like if we started walking

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around town with, you know, and
most of us were missing, eyes

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people go.
That is a crazy cult.

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That is a crazy cult, right?
But Jesus says crazy stuff and

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we forget about it because we’re
so used to it, right?

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But it had, Jesus said, eat my
flesh and were like, oh yeah,

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that’s great.
We do that every Sunday know

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people walked away from Jesus
because that is an absurd

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concept, right?
You’re a and of cannibalism.

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I just that is so bizarre,
right?

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But Jesus says, because he’s
trying to get your attention,

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he’s trying to tell you, look,
take this seriously.

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This is a radical religion.
This isn’t just the walk around

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every day and no fit in with
everybody else.

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So if we’re not going to pluck
out our eyes, you know, if

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you’re on a diet, this should
not be on your counter in your

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kitchen.
All right?

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Because you know that if you’re
on a diet and this is on the

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counter, in your kitchen, you’ll
be okay for an hour and you may

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be okay for two hours and if
you’re strong you may be okay

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for six hours, but if this is on
your counter when you’re on a

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diet, it is inevitable that you
will succumb.

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It is impossible for you to
sustain yourself, will long

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enough indefinitely and this
speaks to what, brother, Nathan

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talked about last night, right?
Like if we think of these as we

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write, if you just leave them
there and you just ignore them.

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And you don’t proactively, try
to remove the things from your

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life, that cross-contaminate.
Then you’re going to wake up one

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morning and it’s just, it’s all
going to be weak.

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Eat.
And there’s a well let me let me

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jump to this next one first and
I’ll come back to that.

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We have anger and we have lost
the two Commandments that Jesus

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is leaving too.
And in each case, we have a

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domino effect, right?
Where you had a small thing that

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turned into a bigger thing to
turn into a bigger thing and

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eventually in somebody’s dead or
a marriage is destroyed.

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So, This is the weeds concept,
catch it early, right?

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If you don’t catch it early, if
you don’t take it, seriously

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when it’s small, you’re going to
have a disaster when it’s big

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and I read a book, I highly
recommend it.

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It’s called Thinking Fast and
Slow by Jewish men named, Daniel

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Kahneman, and they examined.
People who are in the midst of

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you might call it lost or rage
or like when somebody’s lost

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their temper, if you have kids,
you see a kid throws a temper,

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tantrum.
Okay.

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That same thing happens to us
even as adults just manifest a

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little bit differently, but if
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certain threshold, you become
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And so they test these people
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and they make statements that
are absurd that in their normal

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selves, they would, they would
never do such a thing.

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And this is why you get people
who have temporary insanity,

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right?
They don’t get the same

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consequence for a murder.
When you’re under the influence

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of passion, because there’s an
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That once you’re under the
influence of passion, you

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basically become an animal And
in their research, they said

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well what can we do?
What can we do to help these

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people.
So that, when they’re in their

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passion, they don’t go off and
do these terrible life

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destroying things, whether it’s
adultery, whether it’s murder or

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violence, people do this.
How do we stop them?

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And they tried all kinds of
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And what they discovered is,
there is no way to stop.

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Okay, once you’re in that rage,
once you’re in that position,

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Passion.
You are literally unreasonable.

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You cannot be reasoned with and
any of you who tried to reason

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with a childhood middle of a
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No, there’s nothing.
You can say, you can’t explain

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the only thing you can do is
wait, wait for this moment to

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pass because your brain is
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and it’s absolutely terrifying.
Because there’s there’s nothing

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we can do to, even we can read
scripture, we can do whatever.

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If you let yourself get into a
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Whatever kind of passion, you
become a different creature.

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The only solution is don’t go
there in the first place.

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Don’t let yourself be built up
into anger.

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Don’t let yourself be built up
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That’s what Jesus is trying to
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He’s like, stop this early.
Don’t try to wait till the last

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minute and then say, Oh no, I’m
not going to commit adultery, it

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wasn’t really adultery, he got
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So this is clearly a pattern
developing here but let’s learn

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some of the lessons from.
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Proper relationships are crucial
slippery, slopes are slippery

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and matters, right?
Catch things early.

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We didn’t actually coordinate
the evening program.

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Really grateful for that last
night with anything words,

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matter, right.
Whoever has said, you fool, you

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know, as anybody ever said
anything unpleasant to anybody,

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yeah, everybody.
Drastic action is called for we

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belong to a radical religion.
If our lives are not radical and

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unintuitive and counterintuitive
to an observer and we’re not

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doing it right?
So, let’s come back to the

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theme.
How does this, you know, how can

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I be more righteous than the
Pharisees?

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So Jesus, as you see is is
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You have heard, but I say to you
my, so he’s putting the two

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concepts together.
And the first thing is bringing

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up is that we see the law as a
limit, right?

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There’s a line and you should
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but what happens when you have a
lying, right?

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You walk Ray.
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And Jesus is telling you don’t
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When there’s a line you turned
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You’ll be, you know, opposite
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He try to stay as far away from
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We’re not just trying to cross
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the line and then keep moving
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The other interesting point
Jesus makes everyone Who is

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angry with his brother will be
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Everyone who is angry with his
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And everyone in this room has
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His brother, everyone who looks
at a woman with lust has

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committed adultery everyone When
we think legalistically, we have

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this little hierarchy of who’s
done which sins and which ones

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are worse than others and and
where we are, and how we

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compare.
And you all know it, we all know

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it, we track it, it’s not the
way Jesus thinks.

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When Jesus looks at this room,
he says everyone.

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Has committed murder and
everyone has committed adultery.

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You sitting in a room full of
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How does that effect?
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interesting comment concept that
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The keeping the law is not
actually the definition of

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righteousness, right?
The Pharisees have been have

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been approaching their religion
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And he says no, you can do it.
You can do those two, Ten

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Commandments and not be a
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And the problem I had to get at
least one sort of computer, ish,

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kind of slide up here, but this
is binary 1 or 0, right?

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And Jesus, is saying,
righteousness is not binary.

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It’s not like true or false
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And this is a very featureless
life, but actually what we have

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done at the bottom is complete
darkness.

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And what we have at the top is
complete light.

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And righteousness is up there
and we are not.

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We are somewhere in here and
each of us are in different

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places in each of us in
different aspects of like maybe

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an anger control.
Some of us were over here in the

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maybe in gluttony.
Some some of us are over, there

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may be in love, some of us are
over here, right?

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It’s you you’re never done with
some scriptural principles.

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You’re just somewhere on this
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And you still have somewhere to
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There’s another.
Sort of philosophical technical

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question here, which is, is
Jesus establishing a new law

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when we have the law of Moses
and it’s described on the Ten

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Commandments and we just read a
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A whole bunch of additional
Commandments on top of the

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Commandments that are in the law
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Is this a new law is this law
2.0 gets the second computer.

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Deuteronomy says, everything
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You shall be careful to do.
You shall not add to it?

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That’s interesting.
The law itself suggests that you

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shouldn’t add to it or take from
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In Romans, it says the law of
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Jesus has Set Me Free from the
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The law of sin and death.
So, the question is, did the

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tablets that came down from
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Did they have the wrong words on
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It’s a weird thought experiment.
But you go if we had taken the

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words from Matthew Chapter 5 and
the other Commandments of Christ

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and we had chiseled, those onto
the tablets way back when and

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Moses it come down with those
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Would it have all been fine?
Would that have solved the

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problem?
And instinctively, you know,

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know, right, like that would
have eliminated the need for

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Christ.
So, there’s an interesting thing

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that we have to wrestle with
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Romans 8:3 says for what the law
could not do weak as it was

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through the flesh.
You see, the problem isn’t the

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words on the tablets.
The problem is the Flesh and the

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flesh is still with us.
No matter what words you write

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on the tablets, the flesh is
still here and we have to remind

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ourselves of that because
sometimes we come across

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problems in our community and in
our lives and we think to

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ourselves, you know what, the
solution to this is, we need to

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write something down on a piece
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We need to post it on the wall
and all of our problems will be

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gone.
Doesn’t work that way, right?

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The problem is in the flesh.
Is the law then against the

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promises of God, certainly not.
If there had been a law given

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which was able to impart life.
If such a thing existed, such a

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formula of words existed, truly
righteousness would have been by

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the law.
If there had been words that

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could have done it, God would
have put those words on the Ten

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Commandments and that would have
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But the problem is laws and the
words cannot solve it Now that

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no one is justified by the law
before.

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God is evident for the righteous
man shall live by faith.

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However, the law is not a faith
on the contrary he who practices

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them shall live by them.
Romans 10, verses 3 and 4 for

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not knowing about God’s
righteousness and seeking to

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establish their own.
They did not subject themselves

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to the righteousness of God.
For Christ is the end of the law

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for righteousness.
Christ, is the end of the law

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for righteousness to everyone
Who believes?

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We’re going to read a lot more
in this chapter.

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We’re going to encounter a lot
more Commandments.

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We’re going to encounter
ordinances and statutes and all

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the same sense that we find them
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But we have to recognize, this
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There is a qualitative
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Commandments of Christ and the
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So, let’s jump to the next one.
Let him divorce.

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Verse 31, it was said, whoever
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Let him give her a certificate
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Now this one’s interesting
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through all the different
sections in this chapter, pretty

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much all of them.
If you, if you look at them,

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sincerely your you’ll go.
It is impossible for me to fully

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live up to the things in this
section, you know, is it, can I

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really never be angry, can I
really Never Last Can-Can my yes

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be yes, really like every single
time, like if there’s a whole

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list of impossible commands in
this chapter, and this one kind

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of jumped out at me is like, I
think I can get through life

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without divorce, you know, and I
have it easy easy for me, it

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whether whether most feels the
same way, but one thing to

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understand here is the cultural
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When the subject of divorce
comes up elsewhere in Matthew

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and Jesus says no divorce not a
good not a good thing to do and

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his disciples these righteous
men say if such is the case of

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the man with his wife it is
better.

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Not to marry.
These are the Disciples of

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Christ considering life without
divorce and they’re like I would

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never get married right.
The foundation of marriage for

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them was divorce in that sense.
Right by the reason I am willing

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to marry you right now is
because I have the option to

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bail whenever is necessary,
right?

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And what’s more by the law All
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All I need to do is sign a piece
of paper on the dotted line,

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right?
It is, there it is permissible.

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In the law of Moses, I can be
righteous in the law of Moses by

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signing this piece of paper and
I can move on to another woman

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if I want to perfectly legal in
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Okay?
So luckily we don’t have quite

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the same cultural context.
But what Jesus is saying here,

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that the reason is bringing this
up is because we do similar

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things.
Things you can use law to

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legally sin, right?
And so if you’re married, you

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know, if this man is married to
that woman and this man decides

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that he would rather be with
that other woman.

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Well, if he just runs off with
her it’s adultery and that’s

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against the law and he’s an evil
man.

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But I have two pieces of paper
here and if you sign on the

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dotted line on the first one.
Yeah.

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And then now you come sign on
the dotted line over here.

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We’re all riches.
Yes.

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That’s that’s the law.
And by law, they would have been

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righteous by law and that
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And we look at that, we say,
that’s insane.

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And that’s what Jesus is telling
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Look, this is insane.
You’re filling out paperwork and

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you think that that makes you
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If the intention behind your
activity is not Divine, then I

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don’t care if you follow the
law.

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I don’t care what the law of
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All right, if you are pursuing
another woman that’s it it might

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be in your head.
It might be legalistic went.

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No, it’s all wrong.
Even when you do it legally, And

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bear in mind again that in the
culture of the time, they would

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have considered this an
impossible demand, it would have

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said, wow that’s just going to
destroy the fabric of our

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society.
Just re-emphasizing.

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00:30:04,300 –> 00:30:07,900
I guess what I just said
righteousness is not does not

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00:30:07,900 –> 00:30:11,300
mean keeping the law does not
mean righteousness.

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00:30:11,300 –> 00:30:14,200
Might you can fill out the
paperwork and you cannot be

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00:30:14,200 –> 00:30:15,800
righteous.
We can do this in our occasional

439
00:30:15,800 –> 00:30:17,000
life.
Do you write that you can show

440
00:30:17,000 –> 00:30:20,100
up, you can do your readings,
you can do all the sort of

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00:30:20,100 –> 00:30:24,300
technical things and that does
not mean righteousness.

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00:30:26,500 –> 00:30:29,500
Okay, let me jump to the next
one number for you shall not

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00:30:29,500 –> 00:30:33,200
swear falsely as again.
It’s an interesting in the

444
00:30:33,200 –> 00:30:35,900
context of marriage right?
Where it like your yes.

445
00:30:35,900 –> 00:30:38,500
Be yes and your no be no you
said you’re going to marry this

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00:30:39,200 –> 00:30:40,400
person.
You know till death.

447
00:30:40,400 –> 00:30:43,000
Do you part?
That’s what you said your yes

448
00:30:43,000 –> 00:30:44,700
should be.
Yes, you shouldn’t go back on

449
00:30:44,700 –> 00:30:46,800
that, right?
It’s not just oh, so, I mean,

450
00:30:46,800 –> 00:30:49,200
again, pull truly were not big
into oats.

451
00:30:49,200 –> 00:30:51,100
That’s not things that we
normally do.

452
00:30:51,100 –> 00:30:55,200
So, that’s not a big imposition
to us, but is our yes.

453
00:30:55,500 –> 00:30:59,300
All Always, yes.
And is are no, always, no, no,

454
00:30:59,800 –> 00:31:02,600
right.
We constantly equivocate, we

455
00:31:02,600 –> 00:31:07,400
constantly do Shades of Grey.
Now, why is this so important?

456
00:31:07,400 –> 00:31:12,800
Well, often when we agree to
things, we actually have a

457
00:31:12,800 –> 00:31:16,800
hidden list of subject tubes.
Now, I don’t know how many

458
00:31:16,800 –> 00:31:20,500
people have bought a house, you
have experienced this and you

459
00:31:20,500 –> 00:31:22,700
have a contract and you make an
offer, right?

460
00:31:22,700 –> 00:31:25,700
You’re right up a document.
You say I will buy your house.

461
00:31:25,800 –> 00:31:32,800
House subject to inspection and
subject to financing and subject

462
00:31:32,800 –> 00:31:35,300
and it’s a legal document so you
I am eyes it.

463
00:31:36,000 –> 00:31:40,200
So you’re saying yes I’m I’m
going to almost buy this house

464
00:31:41,000 –> 00:31:43,500
if everything else works out,
correct?

465
00:31:44,400 –> 00:31:48,700
And the problem we have is that
we make a lot of yeses with

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00:31:48,700 –> 00:31:54,700
hidden lists of subject tubes.
In our baptism might be one of

467
00:31:54,708 –> 00:31:58,300
those yeses, right?
We get baptized we’re saying yes

468
00:31:58,600 –> 00:32:02,600
I want to follow God to death or
the kingdom.

469
00:32:04,200 –> 00:32:08,300
Is it subject to something?
Is it subject to having good

470
00:32:08,300 –> 00:32:11,400
health?
Is it subject to belonging to a

471
00:32:11,408 –> 00:32:15,600
nurturing Ecclesia?
Is it subject to your spouse

472
00:32:15,700 –> 00:32:19,700
treating you perfectly?
Is it subject to the safety and

473
00:32:19,700 –> 00:32:24,400
well-being of your children?
Like is it subject to not having

474
00:32:24,400 –> 00:32:27,600
a object– poverty’s subject to
not dealing with addiction?

475
00:32:27,600 –> 00:32:31,100
Like do we have a long list of
subject to?

476
00:32:32,600 –> 00:32:34,700
And I think the short answer is
we do.

477
00:32:34,900 –> 00:32:39,200
I think we all have subject to
use in our marriages, in our, in

478
00:32:39,200 –> 00:32:43,700
our baptism in all of our
commitments and it’s a lifelong

479
00:32:43,700 –> 00:32:49,500
task to uncover them all and try
to eliminate them from our

480
00:32:49,500 –> 00:32:54,100
spiritual contrast.
Right, although the Fig Tree,

481
00:32:54,100 –> 00:32:56,900
shall not blossom yet.
Will I rejoice in the Lord?

482
00:32:57,000 –> 00:33:00,500
We see this all over scripture,
the whole Beatitudes, right?

483
00:33:00,700 –> 00:33:05,500
Like you are blessed, even when
you’re poor, you are blessed.

484
00:33:05,500 –> 00:33:07,700
Even when you’re persecuted,
right?

485
00:33:07,700 –> 00:33:11,600
If you’re rejected by Society,
does that weaken your

486
00:33:11,600 –> 00:33:13,300
commitment?
It should.

487
00:33:13,500 –> 00:33:16,900
And if it does, you had it all
along as a little subject to

488
00:33:16,900 –> 00:33:20,400
writer.
But we like hidden subject

489
00:33:20,400 –> 00:33:24,800
tubes.
They bring us value and I want

490
00:33:24,800 –> 00:33:28,300
to present it in the concept
that you sold pizza, right?

491
00:33:28,400 –> 00:33:30,900
And I said, okay, I’m going to
sell you a pizza, and you’d give

492
00:33:30,900 –> 00:33:33,600
me $20, and I’m going to deliver
a pizza.

493
00:33:33,900 –> 00:33:35,700
You’re Expecting the whole
pizza.

494
00:33:36,400 –> 00:33:39,800
Right.
But if I actually have a bunch

495
00:33:39,800 –> 00:33:45,300
of subject twos, a or may not
get the pizza or you may or may

496
00:33:45,300 –> 00:33:49,900
not get all of the pizza and you
only find out later.

497
00:33:50,700 –> 00:33:53,000
But but I’ve already got the
Dollars, right?

498
00:33:53,000 –> 00:33:57,300
So for me, as the person saying,
yes, I’ll give you the pizza, I

499
00:33:57,300 –> 00:34:01,000
get all the benefit and then you
later on when you only get half

500
00:34:01,000 –> 00:34:03,800
the pizza.
Well, we’ll worry about that

501
00:34:03,800 –> 00:34:08,100
later, right?
So, when we commit to things and

502
00:34:08,100 –> 00:34:12,400
don’t deliver on our
commitments, we are stealing,

503
00:34:12,500 –> 00:34:14,400
right?
It’s a form of stealing.

504
00:34:14,400 –> 00:34:16,900
It’s like somebody ordered a
pizza and you only gave him half

505
00:34:16,900 –> 00:34:20,500
a pizza.
And we do this all the time and

506
00:34:20,500 –> 00:34:24,699
little subtle ways we have to
live up to our commitments.

507
00:34:29,900 –> 00:34:33,000
Zap joke, I found online
parents.

508
00:34:33,199 –> 00:34:35,199
It’s okay to say no to your
children.

509
00:34:35,199 –> 00:34:39,900
They won’t explode true story.
And the reason I put that there

510
00:34:39,900 –> 00:34:45,600
is because is your, no, no, and
children have an uncanny ability

511
00:34:45,600 –> 00:34:50,600
to know when you’re know is not
actually know, right?

512
00:34:50,800 –> 00:34:54,400
And so and you like they ask you
for something you say no and

513
00:34:54,400 –> 00:34:58,300
they ask you again, why do they
keep asking me?

514
00:34:58,500 –> 00:35:02,700
But it’s because It’s a no
whistles objectives, right?

515
00:35:02,700 –> 00:35:04,600
And they’re trying to figure out
what are the four subject is

516
00:35:04,600 –> 00:35:06,000
this time?
Because last time you said no

517
00:35:06,000 –> 00:35:09,800
twice and then I got it.
So maybe the key is to is to get

518
00:35:09,800 –> 00:35:15,100
you know 3 knows it’s so hard
like it is so hard to be

519
00:35:15,100 –> 00:35:17,600
thoroughly consistent in our
commitments.

520
00:35:20,900 –> 00:35:25,500
Interesting question of control.
Here, there is an arrogance to

521
00:35:25,500 –> 00:35:28,500
commitment.
Now we sometimes, say God

522
00:35:28,500 –> 00:35:32,900
willing, right, and we should
say it more often because Jesus

523
00:35:32,900 –> 00:35:35,500
says, take no over at all,
either by heaven for it, is the

524
00:35:35,500 –> 00:35:38,500
Throne of God, that’s massive
the Earth.

525
00:35:38,500 –> 00:35:42,200
It’s still massive, but smaller
by Jerusalem.

526
00:35:42,400 –> 00:35:46,800
Now, it’s just a city nor you
shall taken off by your head.

527
00:35:48,000 –> 00:35:51,400
Are you cannot make a single
hair white or black?

528
00:35:51,400 –> 00:35:53,700
Right.
We start thinking all, you know,

529
00:35:53,700 –> 00:35:59,400
having the smallest thing.
You can’t even control the hair

530
00:35:59,400 –> 00:36:01,100
on your head.
Right.

531
00:36:01,200 –> 00:36:05,500
We make these commitments
foolishly because we assume that

532
00:36:05,500 –> 00:36:10,000
we can deliver right.
If your commitment has subject

533
00:36:10,000 –> 00:36:12,700
to use, you should clarify them
up front.

534
00:36:13,100 –> 00:36:15,600
I’ll be there.
God willing, I’ll be there.

535
00:36:15,600 –> 00:36:17,200
All being well, my uncle
Charlie.

536
00:36:17,200 –> 00:36:20,000
I was To say all being well.
And I try to inject that

537
00:36:20,000 –> 00:36:22,800
wherever I can, which is I’m
going to make an effort to

538
00:36:22,800 –> 00:36:26,300
deliver but I am accepting my
limitations.

539
00:36:26,700 –> 00:36:29,900
I’m accepting that things may
happen, which prevent me from

540
00:36:29,900 –> 00:36:37,400
delivering Psalm 15 verses 1 & 4
who shall dwell on your Holy

541
00:36:37,400 –> 00:36:39,500
Hill.
There’s a number of other

542
00:36:39,500 –> 00:36:43,700
attributes but an interesting
one here he who swears to his

543
00:36:43,700 –> 00:36:49,000
own hurt and does not change.
You made a commitment.

544
00:36:49,100 –> 00:36:52,400
It is now ridiculously
inconvenient to keep that

545
00:36:52,400 –> 00:36:55,900
commitment.
How far do you go and just like

546
00:36:55,900 –> 00:37:00,700
not sorry, not going to work.
You know, baseball game is on,

547
00:37:00,700 –> 00:37:02,900
you know, or that, you know, a
hockey team made it.

548
00:37:03,100 –> 00:37:06,400
Next set of the, you know, of
the Stanley Cup.

549
00:37:06,400 –> 00:37:07,800
So I’m not going to go to make
that anymore.

550
00:37:07,800 –> 00:37:09,600
Like, what kind of things do you
rail?

551
00:37:09,600 –> 00:37:19,800
Our commitments?
We have heard that it was said

552
00:37:20,100 –> 00:37:22,400
an eye for an eye, and a tooth
for a tooth.

553
00:37:23,600 –> 00:37:28,500
One thing to keep in mind that
Outsiders like to portray this

554
00:37:28,500 –> 00:37:33,700
as a Savage statement of the law
of Moses, because it feels so

555
00:37:33,700 –> 00:37:35,700
violent, right?
I’m taking out people’s eyes.

556
00:37:36,000 –> 00:37:40,600
This is actually one of the most
clear statements of fundamental

557
00:37:40,600 –> 00:37:44,600
human rights that you will find
in ancient literature because I

558
00:37:44,607 –> 00:37:47,900
can tell you that in An ancient
culture, it was not an eye for

559
00:37:47,900 –> 00:37:51,000
an eye.
If you took out my I kill you,

560
00:37:51,900 –> 00:37:53,900
right?
And it all had to do with your

561
00:37:53,900 –> 00:38:00,000
social status, if you’re a
slave, and you hurt me in even

562
00:38:00,000 –> 00:38:03,100
less than I, you’re dead, right?
And it goes all the way, like,

563
00:38:03,100 –> 00:38:06,900
maybe your whole family’s dead.
This is completely this

564
00:38:06,900 –> 00:38:12,700
statement in the law of Moses is
saying, everybody is equal your

565
00:38:12,700 –> 00:38:15,000
eye.
My eye, all eyes are worth the

566
00:38:15,000 –> 00:38:17,000
same.
They didn’t around the didn’t

567
00:38:17,000 –> 00:38:18,600
run around.
With the time of Moses, plugging

568
00:38:18,600 –> 00:38:21,800
people’s eyes out either, right
there was a compensation.

569
00:38:21,900 –> 00:38:24,500
If you cost somebody their
Vision, you must compensate

570
00:38:24,500 –> 00:38:27,500
their Vision.
Everybody’s vision is worth the

571
00:38:27,500 –> 00:38:33,300
same.
But then he goes on to say, Do

572
00:38:33,300 –> 00:38:36,900
not resist.
The one who is evil.

573
00:38:38,900 –> 00:38:41,700
And that is a really difficult
statement.

574
00:38:42,000 –> 00:38:47,200
Do know, how do you live that
one perfectly and completely do

575
00:38:47,200 –> 00:38:49,100
not resist the one.
Who is evil.

576
00:38:49,100 –> 00:38:54,000
I did you just supposed to fold,
you know, and give in to

577
00:38:54,000 –> 00:39:00,500
everybody, whoever shall force
you to go one mile, go with him

578
00:39:00,500 –> 00:39:02,900
two, how do you run a business
with that, right?

579
00:39:03,500 –> 00:39:06,300
Give to him, who has to be?
Do not turn away from him who

580
00:39:06,300 –> 00:39:10,700
wants to borrow from you?
And we do that a little bit.

581
00:39:10,700 –> 00:39:13,200
But how many of us can live?
This oh, can I borrow your

582
00:39:13,200 –> 00:39:20,900
tractor might bring it back or I
might not but like, This is this

583
00:39:20,900 –> 00:39:25,200
is again it’s extreme, it’s
absolutely extreme.

584
00:39:25,400 –> 00:39:28,000
Is that really what Jesus says?
Okay can I have your house?

585
00:39:28,000 –> 00:39:31,400
Can I borrow your house all?
I just yeah my children and I

586
00:39:31,400 –> 00:39:34,600
guess we’ll just go camp in the
backyard if that’s okay with you

587
00:39:34,600 –> 00:39:39,200
because it’s now your house like
we can’t lose sight of the

588
00:39:39,200 –> 00:39:43,400
extremism of these statements,
these are radical statements.

589
00:39:45,300 –> 00:39:46,700
Now just because they’re
radical.

590
00:39:46,700 –> 00:39:49,600
Does that mean we don’t we don’t
try to live them at all know.

591
00:39:49,600 –> 00:39:55,200
Jesus is saying I’m telling you
that this is you doing got a

592
00:39:55,200 –> 00:39:59,000
long way to go, right?
The distance to righteousness is

593
00:39:59,000 –> 00:40:00,900
further than you would ever
imagine.

594
00:40:05,100 –> 00:40:09,400
Peter 3, verse 9, not returning,
evil for evil or insult for

595
00:40:09,400 –> 00:40:12,800
insult, but giving a blessing
instead for you were called to

596
00:40:12,800 –> 00:40:16,200
this very purpose that you might
inherit a blessing.

597
00:40:18,000 –> 00:40:22,800
Love your neighbor and hate your
enemy and we have a story of the

598
00:40:22,800 –> 00:40:25,700
Good Samaritan.
The interesting thing here is he

599
00:40:25,700 –> 00:40:30,000
speaks of the blessings on the
undeserving right that God makes

600
00:40:30,000 –> 00:40:33,800
it rain on the just, and on the
unjust, are we selectively?

601
00:40:34,300 –> 00:40:38,800
And how we love people?
Or are we like God, where we

602
00:40:38,800 –> 00:40:42,000
were just willing to be loving
to everyone?

603
00:40:44,800 –> 00:40:48,800
We’ve had six so far, but
there’s a pattern here and I

604
00:40:48,800 –> 00:40:53,600
propose to you that this, these
six is not the complete list.

605
00:40:54,100 –> 00:40:56,300
Jesus isn’t saying, oh no, the
book is closed.

606
00:40:56,300 –> 00:41:01,000
Jesus is saying this pattern.
This concept of going to an

607
00:41:01,000 –> 00:41:06,600
absurd extreme is something that
you can do with every Concept in

608
00:41:06,600 –> 00:41:12,600
commandment.
Tithing the law says 10% that’s

609
00:41:12,600 –> 00:41:16,800
just the starting point.
Jesus would tell you right there

610
00:41:16,800 –> 00:41:19,400
presented just where you start.
Don’t think you’ve achieved

611
00:41:19,400 –> 00:41:23,700
something because God gave you
100 and you gave him back 1000

612
00:41:24,200 –> 00:41:28,900
how Noble of you, right?
Like try for 11 and then when

613
00:41:28,900 –> 00:41:31,800
you’ve got 11 even try to like,
you can go all your and you say

614
00:41:31,800 –> 00:41:33,300
but that’s impossible, hard
work?

615
00:41:33,500 –> 00:41:36,700
Yeah.
Yeah, it is interesting, right.

616
00:41:38,900 –> 00:41:43,000
The Sabbath concept.
Do you take the rest sacrifice,

617
00:41:43,200 –> 00:41:48,500
Hospitality humility, praise
modest fee of this morning

618
00:41:48,500 –> 00:41:52,000
honesty.
Generosity study, service

619
00:41:52,100 –> 00:41:56,500
prayer.
Take your pick work on it for a

620
00:41:56,500 –> 00:42:07,100
year, right?
You can just keep going. and

621
00:42:07,100 –> 00:42:17,000
then, We start to feel.
That everything keeps loading

622
00:42:17,000 –> 00:42:19,700
up, right?
No, the first one was hard, not

623
00:42:19,700 –> 00:42:22,300
being angry.
I was kind of stuck on the first

624
00:42:22,300 –> 00:42:30,500
one and then he followed with
five more and then he says you

625
00:42:30,500 –> 00:42:41,000
therefore must be perfect.
No, I want you to really try to

626
00:42:41,000 –> 00:42:43,900
feel how radical this statement
is.

627
00:42:44,300 –> 00:42:52,500
This is a commandment of Christ.
You vowed to serve him and he

628
00:42:52,500 –> 00:42:57,700
commands you to be perfect.
And what way in case you want to

629
00:42:57,700 –> 00:43:00,800
quibble about what exact
definition of perfect, well, let

630
00:43:00,800 –> 00:43:06,400
me tell you how you need to be
perfect in the same way that God

631
00:43:06,400 –> 00:43:15,800
is perfect. so, if you think,
That there is some kind of

632
00:43:15,800 –> 00:43:19,900
moment in life where you’re
going to be able to sit down and

633
00:43:19,900 –> 00:43:25,300
say, oh yeah, I got that right
today was a good day.

634
00:43:25,300 –> 00:43:27,800
I did it.
I got all the checkbooks to

635
00:43:28,100 –> 00:43:34,300
check boxes today, Jesus is
giving us the seventh challenge,

636
00:43:34,800 –> 00:43:37,800
the seventh impossible
challenge.

637
00:43:38,900 –> 00:43:42,500
In this chapter, we had our
Shades of Grey.

638
00:43:42,500 –> 00:43:45,200
What do we do with our Shades of
Grey?

639
00:43:45,300 –> 00:43:49,000
We’re all starting in different
spots in different parts of our

640
00:43:49,000 –> 00:43:52,500
discipline and what Jesus is
telling you is that your

641
00:43:52,500 –> 00:43:58,200
lifelong task is to push that
Arrow from Darkness to light

642
00:43:58,200 –> 00:44:02,700
wherever you start and until the
day that you die you need to

643
00:44:02,700 –> 00:44:06,300
move that arrow and what this is
here.

644
00:44:07,400 –> 00:44:11,300
Is an imaginary line drawn by
the Pharisees that says well

645
00:44:11,300 –> 00:44:13,800
that is the line of legal
righteousness.

646
00:44:15,000 –> 00:44:18,400
Right.
And and look, I’m above it and

647
00:44:18,400 –> 00:44:20,300
you’re not.
So I have a better person than

648
00:44:20,300 –> 00:44:23,900
you and the only used to be
above it, but I fell behind it.

649
00:44:23,900 –> 00:44:26,000
So now I’m not going to be in
the kingdom and I’m a bad

650
00:44:26,000 –> 00:44:29,200
person.
This is the parasail.

651
00:44:29,200 –> 00:44:31,900
Go legalistic mind, it’s inside
of each of us.

652
00:44:33,400 –> 00:44:38,700
What Jesus is telling you is
don’t worry about the line, the

653
00:44:38,700 –> 00:44:42,700
line is in your head.
The line is imaginary, this is

654
00:44:42,700 –> 00:44:45,300
the line, but there is a line.
It’s just I was the line is up

655
00:44:45,300 –> 00:44:50,900
here where you can’t see it,
that’s how righteous you have to

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00:44:50,900 –> 00:44:53,600
be.
If you’re going to be in the

657
00:44:53,600 –> 00:44:57,800
kingdom of God, on the basis of
your righteousness.

658
00:45:04,000 –> 00:45:09,600
Now, I’ve Ranted long.
So let’s see how I can wrap this

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00:45:09,600 –> 00:45:11,600
up quickly.
That I can’t get away.

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00:45:11,600 –> 00:45:14,000
Sorry for Mark chapter 10 verse
17.

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00:45:14,100 –> 00:45:17,100
Maybe you’ll just narrate it.
Throw you guys know the story of

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00:45:17,100 –> 00:45:19,200
the rich young, man.
He comes to Jesus.

663
00:45:19,200 –> 00:45:22,400
And he says, what should I do to
be righteous?

664
00:45:22,800 –> 00:45:25,400
And Jesus says, well, if you
look at smart guy, you know, the

665
00:45:25,400 –> 00:45:26,700
Commandments, don’t kill.
Don’t commit.

666
00:45:26,700 –> 00:45:29,900
Adultery yourself and the rich
young man, says, I’ve done that.

667
00:45:31,100 –> 00:45:33,700
Right.
He says, aha, I’m here.

668
00:45:34,700 –> 00:45:39,900
I got over the line and then
Jesus looks at him and, and I

669
00:45:39,900 –> 00:45:44,800
just, it gives me chills.
He looked at, and you can almost

670
00:45:44,800 –> 00:45:46,200
see Jesus.
Lots of people around.

671
00:45:46,200 –> 00:45:48,300
Somebody says, oh, I have a
question about whatever and the

672
00:45:48,308 –> 00:45:52,100
case is not, I’ve done that and
Jesus going, you’ve done that

673
00:45:52,900 –> 00:45:55,900
and he looks at him and he loved
him.

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00:45:57,300 –> 00:46:01,200
She doesn’t say very much, not
very many people that it’s a

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00:46:01,200 –> 00:46:04,200
Jesus.
Loved like specifically

676
00:46:04,200 –> 00:46:06,400
individually.
We know he loved him and he

677
00:46:06,400 –> 00:46:08,200
loved it this man.
He loved them.

678
00:46:08,200 –> 00:46:15,700
And he said, oh, Good for you.
Just one more thing, sell

679
00:46:15,800 –> 00:46:19,400
everything you have and give it
to the poor.

680
00:46:22,700 –> 00:46:25,900
What did Jesus do for that, man?
That he loved.

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00:46:27,800 –> 00:46:34,400
Erased, the line.
He gave that man, a goal that he

682
00:46:34,400 –> 00:46:38,400
was going to wake up every
morning and go to bed every

683
00:46:38,400 –> 00:46:43,800
night and look at every one of
his possessions and say, I

684
00:46:43,800 –> 00:46:51,300
didn’t I didn’t pull it off.
I didn’t achieve my own

685
00:46:51,300 –> 00:46:54,700
righteousness.
How does Jesus Love Somebody by

686
00:46:54,700 –> 00:46:57,000
giving them a goal that they can
never attain?

687
00:46:57,000 –> 00:47:02,100
How is that love?
But it is And so, this is what

688
00:47:02,100 –> 00:47:03,800
we have to consider this
morning.

689
00:47:04,100 –> 00:47:09,300
If you are playing a game that
you cannot win.

690
00:47:10,800 –> 00:47:12,900
You can’t win this game of
right.

691
00:47:12,900 –> 00:47:18,200
You will never win this game of
righteousness, if that’s true.

692
00:47:18,800 –> 00:47:20,500
What do you do when you get up
in the morning?

693
00:47:21,800 –> 00:47:30,500
Why even bother, I can’t do it.
Why even bother and whatever

694
00:47:30,500 –> 00:47:35,400
close to you is, that Jesus is
trying to give us an approach to

695
00:47:35,400 –> 00:47:41,200
righteousness that is less legal
in more like a craftsperson.

696
00:47:43,000 –> 00:47:47,000
Right?
If righteousness is your craft,

697
00:47:48,400 –> 00:47:55,000
like a person who loves Pottery,
they are, they never reached the

698
00:47:55,000 –> 00:47:59,700
Pinnacle of pottery a person who
loves music, never reaches the

699
00:47:59,700 –> 00:48:04,000
Pinnacle of music, right?
When something is someone’s

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00:48:04,000 –> 00:48:08,000
passion and crafts, they get up
in the morning and they pursue

701
00:48:08,000 –> 00:48:11,800
it, not because they’re going to
get seven points out of wood.

702
00:48:12,000 –> 00:48:14,900
No.
It’s because they love the thing

703
00:48:14,900 –> 00:48:19,700
for its own sake.
They love righteousness for its

704
00:48:19,700 –> 00:48:24,100
own sake.
Jesus wants you to be Craftsmen

705
00:48:24,100 –> 00:48:29,700
of righteousness.
Were you just you can’t imagine

706
00:48:29,700 –> 00:48:33,100
waking up in the morning and
saying, no, I’m gonna I’m gonna

707
00:48:33,100 –> 00:48:36,200
honor the flesh today.
Today’s a flesh day that you

708
00:48:36,200 –> 00:48:40,300
would be horrified by that.
You would go, let’s be absurd,

709
00:48:40,300 –> 00:48:42,500
right?
No, no, you were good all week,

710
00:48:42,600 –> 00:48:45,100
right?
So you get to take Friday off,

711
00:48:45,100 –> 00:48:46,800
your right, your extra
righteous.

712
00:48:46,800 –> 00:48:49,200
You know, you worked extra, my
make Tuesday, Wednesday,

713
00:48:49,200 –> 00:48:52,800
Thursday, so now you can take
Friday off from righteousness,

714
00:48:53,200 –> 00:48:55,200
right?
If it’s a quota, if it’s an

715
00:48:55,200 –> 00:48:56,600
amount.
If it’s something we’re

716
00:48:56,600 –> 00:48:58,300
measuring, you could maybe do
that.

717
00:48:58,500 –> 00:49:02,800
And we’re like, it’s absurd, if
you are a follower of Christ,

718
00:49:02,800 –> 00:49:07,200
because in your heart, you want
to be like Christ, no matter

719
00:49:07,200 –> 00:49:10,400
who’s watching, no matter who’s
counting, no matter where you

720
00:49:10,400 –> 00:49:13,400
might be on some scale, you’re
going to wake up in the morning

721
00:49:13,600 –> 00:49:19,100
and say, I want to be perfect as
my, heavenly father is perfect.