Marc Hunter – Class 3: What Righteousness Isn’t

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Simon, I have something to say
to you, he replied say it

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teacher a certain money lender.
Had two debtors 100, 500,

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Genera, and the other 50.
And when they were unable to

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repay, he graciously, forgave
them both.

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Which of them therefore will
love him more.

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And Simon answered and said, I
suppose the one whom he forgave

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more and he said to him, you
have judged correctly. we spent

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some time in the last two days,
destroying our illusions of

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righteousness, and if we’ve
allowed the words of Jesus to

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impact us deeply, All our sense
of what we can accomplish and

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what we can hope for is being
crushed.

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And what what’s one of the side
effects of that?

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Well the degree to which you can
love and appreciate Christ is

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upon the degree to which you are
prepared to be crushed.

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It depends on the awareness that
you have of your sin.

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We’re all deeply and
overwhelmingly sinful, but we

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have different self-awareness.
So we spend these exercises

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trying to understand our sin and
one of the purposes is in order

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to increase our love and our
appreciation for what Jesus has

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done for us.
And as we look at Matthew

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chapter 6, we’re going to keep
digging.

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We’re not done yet.
Now, we skipped over some verses

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at the end of chapter 5.
And we carry this, you work

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technical issues.
Do oh no.

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Again, I have to get Uncle Co-op
here.

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Okay, that the big Revelation,
not really a revelation, but

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they significant conclusion of
chapter 5 of the second half of

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chapter 5 is that you can keep
the law and not be righteous.

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So we cannot contain
righteousness to this notion of

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keeping the law.
But Jesus, we said that, you

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have to be perfect.
Matthew chapter 5 verse 46.

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Jesus, introduces, another
concept.

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Kept in here.
If you love those who love you,

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what reward have you and there’s
two big words in this verse love

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and reward.
And at the beginning you

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remember I said, okay, if you
talk to a Jewish audience in the

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first century and said, give me
your summation of Ethics what

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defines righteousness?
How would we summarize it?

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And the thing most people would
think of is The Ten

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Commandments?
If you went out on the street

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today and gathered a bunch of
strangers and you said, how

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would you summarize the best way
to live?

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You know, what is the top I deal
in society and they’re going to

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say, Lob, right?
We should all just love each

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other if we can just love.
It’s all going to be okay.

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And There’s an element of Truth
to that.

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Okay.
The things are going to look at

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through this chapter are not
that black and white.

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But what Jesus is saying here is
there’s a reward associated with

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love, in some cases.
So I love my wife and I

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graciously surrender, most of my
paycheck about twice a month

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that it at her disposal and I
only occasionally complain about

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It and there’s all manner of
things that I might do for my

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wife because I love her.
This is Eva Braun, buddy.

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Know who Eva Braun is.
Cheater, you heard this before,

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it’s Hitler’s wife’s.
Hitler loved his wife.

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He would have said, so yeah, did
Hitler loved children?

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Absolutely, the Nazis love
children.

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Do we have videos of the Nazis
having tremendously beautiful

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holidays in the else with their
children?

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They love their dogs Stalin.
He loved his daughter.

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Bob all kinds of people love.
Now.

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It should, those people not
love, should Hitler, not of

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loved his wife.
No, no, that’s fine.

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It’s okay for Hitler.
Loved his wife.

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Right?
We don’t want you to come away

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from this section thinking.
Oh, I shouldn’t love.

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That’s not the issue.
The question is, is love

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righteousness before God, And
the answer is.

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Not necessarily right now.
Okay.

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Technically it’s not that love
is not equal the right system.

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Love is not necessarily
righteousness.

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You can’t just say, I’m feeling
love right now.

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Therefore I am righteous right.
That that person is loving and

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therefore they are righteous.
Okay?

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This is undermining one of the
pillars of secular ethics.

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The question is the killer
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Matthew 5 verse 27.
What are you doing?

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More than others.
Okay.

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Now, which others?
So for every concept that we put

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forward in the rest of this
chapter, you have to ask

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yourself.
You have to compare yourself to

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an atheist, okay?
There are lots of atheists in

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Canada, who the atheist love
their wives as they do.

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Do they love their children?
Yes, they do.

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Do they work hard at their jobs?
Can they be honest?

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Can they be hard-working?
Can they be self-sacrificing

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solutely?
But every one of those Noble

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traits that they present cannot
be righteous, it cannot be

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righteousness.
They must be doing it for other

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reasons, and if you are doing
the great and Noble thing that

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the atheists do, that’s great.
I’m not trying to discourage

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you, but don’t trick yourself
into thinking that that makes

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you righteous.
This is not the definition of

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righteousness.
What part of my job at a Pious?

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Do that to you?
Get a paycheck and that’s great.

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They pay you to be there and do
that work, but that’s not

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righteousness.
That’s just an exchange. 6:1.

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Jesus says in this version uses
the word beware, beware of

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practicing your righteousness
before men.

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If you’re righteous behavior is
intended to impress other people

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that’s fine.
You may be very successful at

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that and you get your reward
right?

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You did the good deed and you
were rewarded for the good deed

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and now we’re even There is no
debt God is not even involved in

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this process.
It’s a social transaction within

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a community.
Therefore when you give alms do

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not sound a trumpet, before you
as the Hypocrites, do in the

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synagogues and in the streets
that they may be honored by men,

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truly I say to you, they have
their reward in full It was an

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assumption in our culture, the
charity by definition is a good

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deed, but have you ever gone to
like maybe a big Community

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Center somewhere and they have a
wall or a hospital and they have

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a donors wall, right?
And you pay you pay to get your

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name and they might be 10,000 a
like if you hundred that some

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people pay a million, the whole
Pavilion might be named in honor

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of them, okay?
That’s not charity.

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That’s an advertising agreement,
right?

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I pay this money and you put my
name out there and and we’re

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even right?
Don’t go to God and say well I

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bet I donated a million dollars
to build this emergency room in

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the hospital.
It’s writing your name was

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Boston.
All the world good for you?

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No, it’s not nothing to do with
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If I bestow all my goods to feed
the poor, it profits me nothing.

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Now I’m eliminating some context
there, but the point is, you can

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observe someone surrendering all
their goods and you can be

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served that.
That’s righteousness.

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Jesus found this right?
When he, when he fed the people

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Y’all came to hear the teaching
and then he fed them, then they

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came the next day.
And Jesus is like, you know, I’m

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truly truly, I say to you.
You’re seeking me.

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Not because you saw signs, but
because you ate your fill of

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lows, okay?
This is one of the challenges we

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have is a religious community to
get involved in Charities.

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Are we attracting people for the
right reasons?

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There’s a documentary that I
would recommend that you watch

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called poverty ink and it
describes the international Aid

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System.
So, for instance, was an

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earthquake in Haiti and they
send in food Aid, this is an 80,

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but let’s pretend for a second,
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And, and by the way, I’m very
much in favor.

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Like if you want to donate to
send food, to Haiti, when

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there’s an earthquake, by all
means do.

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So, those people are in need
Eat.

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Okay, there’s a catastrophe but
if you go to Haiti six months

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later and nine months later,
there are warehouses full of

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food.
And guess how much that food

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cost for the average person
showing up.

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On Parade million dollars.
Game lower $10 lower.

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Ten cents lower one cents lower
zero.

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Right?
So there’s a great whereas this

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full of rice for instancing you
can show up there and 40

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dollars.
You can have your fill of.

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I sell some of you are in
farming now I think you said you

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were in farming but what do you
form?

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A great bunch of grains.
So suppose there’s warehouses in

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North Battleford full of a bunch
of grains that are selling 40

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dollars.
How’s your farm going to do the

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longer?
Your God.

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Go under.
And so when these guys come in

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and they bring all this food in
over the next year, they destroy

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the entire agricultural economy
of the place that they’re coming

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to help.
Okay.

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And then in two years when they
get bored and the World Turns to

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some other crisis now, it’s
floods in Indonesia.

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Oh, everything goes to Indonesia
Haiti’s, forgotten. and now

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people need rice and and what
happened to all the rice Farms,

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what happened to all the rice
Farmers, but if they go And now

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you have a chronic unending
dependency on International Food

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Aid because now it’s like, well,
now we’ve got hunger.

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We started with an earthquake.
Now we got under hunger and US

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Western people like you guys are
terrible at managing things,

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right?
Like you need to ask to come in

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and save you all the time.
Well maybe are saving them is

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ruining them sometimes right?
And again does this mean we

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don’t donate?
Does this mean you don’t go help

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somebody in there?
That’s great know.

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No, but it needs.
You actually have to put some

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thought into it.
You can’t just put the money in

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the box and say that’s it.
I’m a righteous person.

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I don’t care what happened to
that money after that I did my

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part.
You know, if subsequently this

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destroys the economy and
livelihood of thousands of

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people that’s not my problem.
That’s some administrators

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problem somewhere else.
Charity is tremendously more

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complicated than it looks.
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And we like the Feeling of
righteousness, where we write

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the check and we send it off and
we feel good, right?

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And we don’t worry about the
complicated details, but if

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that’s what we’re doing, that’s
our reward, right?

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We wrote a check and we had a
good feeling in our heart or

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even, don’t go to God afterwards
and say, oh well, I was

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charitable.
You enjoyed it.

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Good for you.
You know you played golf.

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You enjoyed that too.
Good for you.

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There’s not right.
It, we should give up the

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preaching.
The word of God to serve tables

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as a slightly controversial
verse because I do think in our

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community, we have problems at
both ends of the spectrum.

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We have a problem where we are
too insular and we do not help

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people that are in need.
Just in the community at Large.

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And we sort of just focus on our
own and and I’m not sure that

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that is correct.
The Assumption in this chapter

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is that you’re going to be
charitable.

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Okay?
However There is one remaining

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area in conservative religion,
where the atheists are happy

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with us.
And that one area is Charity,

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right?
So your atheist neighbor is not

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going to be happy with almost
anything that you think can do,

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but they’re going to be very
happy if you donate to the local

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food bank and to the hospital
and go.

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Yeah, that’s okay.
I agree.

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This is an overlap between the
secular worlds, ethics and our

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ethics.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t

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donate to charity, but be
careful to make sure that our

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involvement and charity is not
because we want to be light,

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right?
We’re not looking for their

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approval, if that makes sense,
right?

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And and there is a part of our
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involved in these Grand
charitable events so that we can

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talk to her our co-worker and
say yeah well in my church we do

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these great humanitarian access
because they’re going to accept

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us on that basis.
They’re going to say well you

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must be a good church, right?
If you’re if you’re one of the

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churches involved in
humanitarian work, you must be

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good.
And if that’s why Why we get

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involved in this work, then
that’s our reward, right?

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To be liked by our atheist
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I’m not sure that’s a good
trade-off, right?

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We have to be very thoughtful
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I think and how we approach
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The disciples are observing
catastrophes, right?

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The tower fell down.
Oh my goodness.

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And those people who were
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their blood was mingled, and
it’s a disaster, right?

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And Jesus goes.
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You know, it’s a disaster like
I’m not in favor of Towers

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falling down, but you got to put
the problems in context, right?

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Unless you repent, you will all
likewise perish.

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It’s very dramatic and
newsworthy to die when a tower

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collapses and maybe not so much
to die of cancer in a hospital,

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like many people to eat.
And Jesus is saying, how

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dramatic your death is, is
actually not a factor.

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The real key factor is, did you
repent?

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And this is our secret sauce,
this is the ingredient that we

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can offer.
People that no other

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humanitarian and charitable
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to repentance.
So charity is not necessarily

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righteousness so if you have
someone who’s loving and who’s

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charitable, Maybe they’re not
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Let me get to prayer 6:5, and
when you pray, you are not to be

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as the Hypocrites for they love
to stand and pray in the

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synagogues and on the street
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In order to be seen by men,
truly, I say to you, they have

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their reward in full, right?
Because the transaction, again,

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they have their reward.
This is what makes public

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prayer.
One of the most difficult

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exercises within the community,
because you have to, kind of way

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this balance of trying to Be
sincere but not showing off in

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some capacity, right?
If your prayers are meant to

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elicit, the admiration of your
audience is not righteous at

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all.
It’s a transaction, it’s another

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form of advertisement.
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Sit down crazy-ass these 52.
I try to remember this.

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God is in heaven.
You were on Earth therefore let

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your Words Be Few.
And this next section, and we

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see this in prayer and fasting.
There’s an emphasis on how

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private some of these things are
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Seven times in this verse is the
word Union or a derivative of

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it.
But you, when you pray, go into

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your room and shut your door and
pray to your father, who is in

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the secret place, in your
father, who sees in secret will

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reward you openly The best way
to know if your prayer is

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sincere is if it’s just between
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Obviously, we still need to pray
Camino and that’s important but

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there’s a little element of
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Now again we’re not going to go
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whole separate topic.
So you’ll forgive me for

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skipping over that section.
But what Jesus is telling us is

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that prayer is not necessarily
righteous, so you can have

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somebody who’s loving and
charitable and prayerful and Lee

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not be righteous.
When you fast do not put on a

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gloomy faces, they Hypocrites to
do. when it was their appearance

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so that they will be noticed by
men when they are fasting, truly

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I say to you, they have their
reward in full This one’s tricky

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because we tend to not the past
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We don’t have a fasting official
discipline or culture at least

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not generally speaking and that
may be a whole separate study to

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ask ourselves.
Why is that?

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It certainly is quite present,
all through scripture.

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So it’s something we may we may
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So I’m going to Pivot this a bit
and say, well fasting is, you

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know, deliberately denying
yourself, something that you

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find Pleasurable.
So we’re going to turn it into a

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question of self-sacrifice, so
we want to apply it to our lives

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here.
Are there things that you deny

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yourself?
Because of your religion.

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I deny myself a Facebook
account, I don’t, I do have one,

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but for the sake of argument,
I’m going to deny myself a

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Facebook account and all the
entertainment value that comes

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from that.
Okay, but if I do it in a way

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where I can subtly say, oh no,
I’m never in the loop of what’s

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going on because I don’t have
Facebook account.

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I find it to distract, you know,
or I don’t do this or I don’t

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have that.
Or I, or I’m four.

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I’m going to not engage in this
kind of behavior on.

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Get like, what are you giving up
and you’re giving things up and

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again?
This is not to say, you

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shouldn’t get things up by all
means give things up.

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Sacrifice things.
The moment you start sharing the

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fact that you have done and and
very subtly, right?

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Like Jesus mentions that he’s
like they disfigure their

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appearance like oh no, you know,
like they don’t they don’t

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advertise it with a neon sign.
They try to just sneak it in

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there and you can detect it
another’s, right?

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You can see.
You can know when somebody’s

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where they call it humble,
bragging, right?

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You can tell when someone’s
humble bragging, Well, guess

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what other people can tell when
you are to okay.

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They pick up the new ones like
oh yeah.

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Oh wow.
That’s very Noble and righteous

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and holy of you good for you,
okay?

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And if that reaction happens
You’ve received your award and

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by all means, cancel your
Facebook account.

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And if you want to tell people
that you’ve done it, that’s fine

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too.
But don’t go to God afterwards

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and expect that God’s going to
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You canceling.
Everything account that was

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between you and the community
that now holds you in higher

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esteem as one of the few who
don’t wear my Facebook.

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Colossians 2, 23.
And this one deals with the

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variety of different topics in
the in the context, but I’ll

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just cherry-pick it.
These are matters, which do have

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the appearance of wisdom showing
off in self-made religion

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because we’re usually picking
what we’re going to sacrifice

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and humility and severe
treatment of the body but are of

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no value against fleshly and
That’s very surprising to me.

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I’ve known value against fleshly
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Very risky.
And again, not saying, don’t

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self-sacrifice.
All I’m saying, is that if

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you’re sacrificing things, it’s
not necessarily because you’re

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righteous.
Now I use this brick wall slide

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in the, in the, in the last
session and what I’m proposing

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to you, we have love, we have
charity, we have prayer, we have

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self-sacrifice.
Is that it are those, the only

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topics where this happens?
No, it’s essentially everything

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that could be construed by
someone as being righteous,

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whatever the Activity or the
adornment or the whatever it is.

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Weird Choice, anything about
your life that may be perceived

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by others, as righteousness may
not be righteousness.

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Think of Charity, we think of
prayer, we think of fasting, we

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think of dress codes.
We think of Bible versions, and

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prophetic, interpretations, and
various prohibitions.

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There’s all manner of things.
That, if you choose to involve

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yourself in them and surrender,
them, and advertise them.

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They may not be righteous.
You are.

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Do not let your left hand know
what your right hand is doing

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right with mentions, this with
prayer, like the only guarantee

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you have.
The only way you can protect

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yourself from this risk is to
have your actions entirely

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anonymous.
And I like, you know, if you

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stopped by the side of the road
and help an old lady, change

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your tire, it’s hard to keep
that entirely Anonymous like,

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right?
It’s a good story.

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You want to share that story
like the moment.

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You break the anonymity, you put
yourself at risk.

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Again, I am not telling you to
drive by the old lady and not

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help her with each in the tire,
right?

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You helped her with the tire, no
matter what.

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None of this is advocating less
of the behaviors.

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Now, there’s a bit of a parent
contradiction here because in

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Matthew 5, we said let your
light shine before men in such a

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way that they may see, your good
works.

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I hold on.
Isn’t that advertising and

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glorify your father who is in
heaven.

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So if you can engage in some
sort of public righteous

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behavior that when people see
it, they say God is great.

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That’s fantastic.
Tastic, do it, right?

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And if they see it and they say,
you are great.

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Man, you have your reward. so,
turns out that motives matter,

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And this is the problem for her
legalists because motives are

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invisible and I’m miserable.
You know, you can see the

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behavior.
The why did they do it right

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now?
Getting ahead of tomorrow’s

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class.
There’s a silver lining here is

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that if you want to sit in your
community and observe the

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righteous behavior of others and
tell yourself.

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Yeah but they might not really
be righteous because they may be

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doing it for the wrong motives.
Absolutely, you can do that,

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right?
You get a get-out-of-jail-free

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card.
When you can knock anybody’s

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righteousness down by just
telling yourself, they’re

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probably doing it for the wrong
motives, right?

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Which is why Jesus is going to
start the next chapter saying

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judge, not right?
But we’ll get there.

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If you’re helping someone and
expecting something in return,

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you’re doing business not
kindness.

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We see this in other examples.
Jesus gives right you invite

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somebody over to your house.
Very nice and they invite you to

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their house.
Very nice.

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Now you’re even don’t expect a
reward from God.

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And there’s an interesting
concept of accidental

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righteousness.
What if you did something and it

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accidentally in, incidentally
happened to turn out to have a

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good outcome.
And this is where our atheist

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friends come in, right?
The Atheist might stop at the

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side of the road and, and help,
you know, a Lady Janes your

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time, but it doesn’t exist for
an atheist.

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There cannot be accidental
righteousness.

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It’s not righteousness in the
divine Go sense.

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Societally that’s great and we
should all encourage each other

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but there’s no such thing as
accidental righteousness.

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The motive is key and I this is
a terrible story but it’s a it’s

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a Dark humor, funny story.
This lady was in a drunken rage

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in her house and she pulled a
knife and she stabbed her

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partner.
And they ambulance came, they

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rushed him off, the doctors went
to so mop.

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And when they went to sew him
up, they looked inside in this

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thing.
Cancer of the liver.

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He saved his life.
If his wife hadn’t standing in a

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drunken rage, he would have died
of cancer, right?

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That awesome.
She’s a lifesaver, right?

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Like, you know, if you’re trying
to stab and kill someone and

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accidentally, you save their
life.

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That’s not righteous Behavior,
right?

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It doesn’t, you know, your
motives matter, you were trying

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to kill them.
That’s it, no righteousness, but

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whatever outcomes may happen.
It’s still not righteousness if

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you started from a negative
starting point.

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So, I’m going to paraphrase,
this isn’t always an over

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simplification when you, when
you re quote principles, but you

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want to think of it, as when
you’re doing something that God

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wants you to do.
Has God wants you to do it and

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you wouldn’t have done it if you
were annexed.

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This is something an atheist
would never do. and if you start

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to do some Accounting in your
life, you might find the list is

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getting pretty small right
there.

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Any activity, which you cannot
find an atheist doing.

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Those are the ones that count
the ones that nobody knows

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about.
Now, we’re at first 19 and

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there’s a technical note here.
Do not lay up for yourselves.

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Treasures upon Earth.
This feels like a big topic

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00:31:01,700 –> 00:31:05,300
shift within the chapter and it
might be.

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And I’ll invite your comments
and discussion afterwards

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because we’ve been talking about
all kinds of things, which have

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the appearance of righteousness
and all the sudden, Oh, and

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about money, right?
This may be one of those cases

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of cultural context.
That in that time in the Jewish

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World in Jewish religion, if you
were wealthy, that would be

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considered a sign of registers,
right?

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Because surely God has blessed
you.

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So there’s two ways you can look
at the second half of this

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chapter.
You can look at it as a

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continuation of the theme.
Or you can see it as a shift to

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another General danger and and
I’m still weighing the too, you

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know.
Verse 20 says, lay up for

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yourselves, Treasures in Heaven.
Which to me suggests that it’s

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actually following the same
Trend going.

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If you want to build up,
something to to manifest your

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00:32:04,000 –> 00:32:07,700
righteousness, right?
Don’t build up a bank account

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00:32:07,700 –> 00:32:14,600
build up an account with God
because that is a much effective

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00:32:14,600 –> 00:32:19,500
and long-lasting and proper way
to invest, you know, your energy

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rather than in wealth that.
At can perish home.

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And again, we’re going to not
spend death in this next

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section, but it’s there’s a lot
to it, but I want you to look at

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Burrs.
It’s my turn to lose my verse.

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the verse where he says, Oh no.
Here we go.

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Sorry, this is the first we
started with like I had myself,

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do not lay up for yourselves,
Treasures upon Earth, I want to

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00:33:02,400 –> 00:33:07,300
jump back for a second to talk,
like we discussed yesterday

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about these absolute statements
and whether you are really

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fulfilling the Commandments of
Christ that had some discussions

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on the side of this, write the
command of Christ here is, do

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not lay up for yourselves.
Self Treasures upon Earth, okay?

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So if you have a bank account
that has more money than you

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00:33:33,708 –> 00:33:36,400
need to feed you for the next
few weeks into the next

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paycheck.
If you have any kind of

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retirement savings or other kind
of investment account, if you

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have any assets that you can
turn into wealth, Technically,

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speaking, you’re in violation of
this command of Christ.

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And you go.
Well, that’s kind of extreme.

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That’s absolutely radical.
That’s insane.

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And yeah, it kind of is right?
And and, but we’ve seen this is

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a recurring theme, Jesus puts on
you.

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This is exactly what he said to
the rich young, man.

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This isn’t the only verse,
right?

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The rich young man says, I’ve
done, I’ve reached a certain

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level and Jesus says, okay level
up.

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Get rid of all your possessions,
then we’ll see.

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And, and, and I believe that,
that man struggled on that for

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the rest of his life.
And if I tell you, and it’s not

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me, it’s Jesus Christ, Jesus
Christ is telling you do not lay

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00:34:32,400 –> 00:34:34,900
up, Treasures, on Earth, are you
obeying this?

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00:34:35,000 –> 00:34:38,300
And I’m not telling you this
because I want you to go

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00:34:38,300 –> 00:34:42,800
liquidate all your assets.
The reason I’m telling you is

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because we see other people
failing chronically in other

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00:34:49,199 –> 00:34:51,900
visible aspects.
I don’t know how How much you

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have in your bank account.
But I can tell that that brother

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00:34:54,800 –> 00:35:01,100
over there has a problem with
XYZ and we go brother, you have

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00:35:01,100 –> 00:35:03,000
this problem, this is the
Commandment.

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00:35:03,000 –> 00:35:06,000
You need to live up to that
commandment, right?

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00:35:06,600 –> 00:35:09,500
And and I am we talked to you
last week and we talked to you

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00:35:09,500 –> 00:35:11,800
last month and we talk to you
what we’ve been working with you

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00:35:11,800 –> 00:35:14,500
for a year and you are
unrepentant.

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00:35:14,700 –> 00:35:17,800
You are unless unchanging, you
haven’t changed your behavior.

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00:35:19,900 –> 00:35:25,400
May be true and I say to us,
Jesus also said, don’t lay up

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Treasures in Heaven and on
Earth.

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And how are we doing with that?
And how are you going to be

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doing next week and next month,
right?

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00:35:34,300 –> 00:35:35,800
He figured by the end of the
year.

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You’ll be comfortable without
any retirement savings and

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00:35:38,300 –> 00:35:42,700
without any money in the bank.
At the rate inflation is going,

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00:35:42,700 –> 00:35:46,400
we might all be there.
Anyway, rather we might get some

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00:35:46,400 –> 00:35:52,700
help outside help on this, but
There are we need to help each

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other.
Absolutely right.

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But there are some things that
you are just going to struggle

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with all your life, all your
life.

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Right?
And you’re going to see other

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people struggling with some
things all their life and be

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00:36:11,100 –> 00:36:15,500
very cautious about putting some
things in a little box of

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00:36:15,500 –> 00:36:17,600
science.
He that’s okay because we’re all

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00:36:17,600 –> 00:36:20,000
struggling with that.
So we kind of make a pact among

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ourselves because we all have
bank accounts, right?

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But this other thing is a
problem that only some of us

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have.
So now we’re going to make a big

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deal if we usually about that
problem because that’s only 10%

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of our profit at scares me to
death, okay?

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Again, I’m not advocating in
action, I’m not advocating

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ignoring sin or accepting Center
saying that sentence, okay?

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All I’m saying, is my goodness,
we’re all in trouble through

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these two chapters.
And if we’re going to approach

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anybody in the state of
continual send and we have to

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acknowledge that.
We also are in a state of

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continual shortcomings.
For this reason, I say to you do

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not be anxious for your life.
That’s another commandment of

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Christ.
Do not be anxious for your life.

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00:37:18,300 –> 00:37:20,300
Can you just turn your anxiety
off?

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00:37:22,000 –> 00:37:28,700
Really anxiety is a problem that
is just skyrocketed in modern

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00:37:28,700 –> 00:37:32,500
society.
Not everybody’s entirely sure

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00:37:32,500 –> 00:37:34,900
why.
But you know, where the

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wealthiest and the healthiest,
and the most long-lived we’ve

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ever been in the history of
humanity and yet people are

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suffering, chronic and
debilitating anxiety.

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Epidemic levels.
Years time.

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This onto the to the wealth
question.

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Right, there is a relationship.
Sometimes the reason I keep

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money in a savings account or
the reason I say for my

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retirement is because I don’t
want to be anxious, I want to

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reduce my anxiety.
One of the reasons for anxiety

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live in the city, I know you all
live in acreages and you think I

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am.
We don’t have right?

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00:38:19,000 –> 00:38:24,000
I want you to Envision this as
your mind right, is your mind

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00:38:24,000 –> 00:38:30,100
just full of so much stuff.
Is there so much going on in

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your mind that it’s just burning
you up.

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It’s making you anxious.
What kind of things are we

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anxious about be?
We’re anxious because we want to

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control things.
We want to predict things.

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We want to be safe.
We want to know things. and

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maybe we should simplify our
thinking, which is why Jesus

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says First, his kingdom and his
righteousness, and all these

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things shall be added unto you.
Okay, rate from the money.

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All the way through anxiety
there is you look through it

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00:39:12,000 –> 00:39:14,300
all.
It’s all about too much going

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00:39:14,300 –> 00:39:16,500
on.
Right?

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We have the account of Martha
where Jesus says, you know,

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Martha, Martha.
You are troubled about many

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things, but one thing is
necessary.

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So, even an occasional, like, we
can do this, we can pack our

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life with so much stuff.
Like what Martha wanted to do

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was was fine.
It was a noble thing, right?

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00:39:37,800 –> 00:39:41,100
But it was too much.
And it was in the wrong

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00:39:41,100 –> 00:39:44,700
priority, right?
Make sure that even in a kleiza

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light, in your spiritual life
and your family life that you’re

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00:39:47,700 –> 00:39:52,600
putting first things first.
And, and be willing to let go of

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all the other things, because
they’re going to follow, they’re

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going to be taken care of.
So we spent yesterday

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demolishing, our Illusions about
what we can achieve.

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And today hopefully we demolish
some of your Illusions about

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00:40:24,700 –> 00:40:27,100
what you thought you had
achieved, right?

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So all the ways in which you
thought you were right.

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Just so maybe you’re not and as
a consequence, we’re were

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crushed.
This is what we promised at the

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beginning.
And so, you’re going to have

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moments.
Possibly frequently possibly

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00:40:49,200 –> 00:40:52,200
continually where you’re going
to say, I’m not good enough.

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I’m not worthy.
I can’t.

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00:40:58,800 –> 00:41:03,700
It’s just too much.
Even the things that I thought

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00:41:03,700 –> 00:41:11,500
of it are are worthless quite
possible and to the degree you

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00:41:11,500 –> 00:41:15,400
can Embrace and accept that to
that degree.

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You will love what God has done
for you.

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Now, let’s go to Romans chapter
8.

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If something happens to you and
you say, oh no, I realize I’m a

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terrible sinner.
It’s not that you’re a terrible

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00:41:38,900 –> 00:41:41,700
sinner that has changed.
The thing that has changed is

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your realization that you were a
terrible sinner.

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00:41:44,700 –> 00:41:46,900
You’re already a terrible
sinner.

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You’re already deeply in need of
Salvation.

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00:41:52,100 –> 00:41:55,900
You may discover the extent at
different points in life and be

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00:41:55,900 –> 00:41:59,500
shocked by it.
God is not shocked, he knew all

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00:41:59,500 –> 00:42:02,300
along.
Well before you fell into that

602
00:42:02,300 –> 00:42:04,900
pit, he knew you were in
trouble.

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00:42:04,900 –> 00:42:08,300
He might have said that pit up
for you to give you that

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00:42:08,300 –> 00:42:09,800
information.
Okay?

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00:42:10,100 –> 00:42:17,800
And so we carry this way and
then we read Romans 8:1, There

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is therefore now, no
condemnation.

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For those who are in Christ
Jesus, this is the challenge for

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00:42:29,500 –> 00:42:34,800
us to carry forward.
Can you bear in mind that you

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00:42:34,800 –> 00:42:39,900
are crushed and also accept the
word of scripture, which tells

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00:42:39,900 –> 00:42:46,800
you there is no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus

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00:42:47,100 –> 00:42:50,300
for the law of the spirit of
life in Christ.

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00:42:50,300 –> 00:42:56,600
Jesus has set, you free from the
law of sin and death for what

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00:42:56,600 –> 00:43:00,600
the law could not do weak as it
was through the flesh, God did

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00:43:00,600 –> 00:43:04,200
sending his own Own son in the
likeness of sinful flesh, as an

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00:43:04,200 –> 00:43:07,800
offering for sin, he condemned
sin in the flesh.

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00:43:08,400 –> 00:43:12,500
In order that the requirement of
the law might be fulfilled in

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00:43:12,500 –> 00:43:15,700
us, who do not walk according to
the flesh.

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But, according to the spirit,
This is a tremendous chapter.

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We could read the whole thing,
but let’s skip ahead to verse 31

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and read from 31 to the end.
What then shall we say to these

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things if God is for us, who is
against us?

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00:43:34,000 –> 00:43:38,300
He who did not spare his own
son, but delivered him up for

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00:43:38,300 –> 00:43:41,700
us.
All, how will he also?

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00:43:41,700 –> 00:43:43,900
How will he not also with him
freely?

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00:43:43,900 –> 00:43:46,900
Give us all things.
Romans chapter 5.

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00:43:46,900 –> 00:43:49,900
It tells us Christ died for us
while we were yet.

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00:43:49,900 –> 00:43:54,900
Sinners If we didn’t have to do
something in order to convince

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00:43:54,900 –> 00:43:58,900
Jesus to die for us, he died for
us in advance.

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00:44:01,100 –> 00:44:03,400
Who will bring a charge against
God’s elect?

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00:44:04,400 –> 00:44:07,200
We don’t believe in a devil.
We don’t believe that there’s

631
00:44:07,200 –> 00:44:10,800
someone else out there saying.
Oh, no, this person must burn.

632
00:44:11,300 –> 00:44:13,200
Who’s going to bring the charge
against it?

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00:44:13,300 –> 00:44:18,500
Yes, were crushed.
God is the one who justifies.

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00:44:19,900 –> 00:44:22,600
Who is the one who condemns
Christ Jesus?

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00:44:22,600 –> 00:44:25,600
Is he who died?
Yes, who rather was raised.

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00:44:25,600 –> 00:44:31,500
Who is at the right hand of God?
Who intercedes for us who shall

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00:44:31,500 –> 00:44:33,700
separate us from the love of
Christ?

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00:44:33,700 –> 00:44:38,000
Tribulation distress,
persecution, famine nakedness

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00:44:38,100 –> 00:44:42,100
Peril sword, as it is written.
For thy sake.

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00:44:42,100 –> 00:44:44,100
We are being put to death all
day long.

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00:44:44,100 –> 00:44:48,100
We are considered as sheep to be
slaughtered, but in all these

642
00:44:48,100 –> 00:44:53,200
things, we overwhelmingly
overwhelmingly conquer through

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00:44:53,200 –> 00:44:58,700
him, who loved us, Ryan
convinced that neither death,

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00:44:58,900 –> 00:45:02,400
nor life nor angels, nor
principalities nor things,

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00:45:02,400 –> 00:45:06,400
present, nor things to come nor
powers nor height nor depth, nor

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00:45:06,400 –> 00:45:11,500
any other created thing, shall
be able to separate us from the

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love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus, our lord,