Marc Hunter – Class 4: Judge Not

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Thank you brother.
Well hopefully they will be

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among those who have ears to
hear and eyes to see as we give

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our attention to really Market.
Good morning once again, I’m

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still awake.
Nice.

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

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and the mountain of the
righteous men made perfect.

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And we discovered that keeping
the law does not guarantee

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righteousness.
You can keep the law and not be

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righteous.
You discovered you can love and

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not necessarily be righteous.
You can be charitable and not

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necessarily be righteous.
You can be prayerful and not

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necessarily be righteous.
You can be full of

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self-sacrifice and not
necessarily be righteous And we

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

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

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

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What does it mean to be
righteous?

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

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

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

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

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impossible.
We’re constantly judging, why

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does Jesus come and give us an
impossible commandment?

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

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impossible, commandment after
impossible, commandment after

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impossible, commandment, he’s
giving us another impossible to

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Nim.
Jesus is giving us this message

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

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crushed with this message is
ourselves.

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And this tremendous tool that
has been giving us in this

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chapter can also be a tremendous
weapon.

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

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

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withstand it anymore than you
will.

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

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in their charity.
You will find flaws in their

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prayer.
Flaws in their love, nobody can

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withstand this pressure.
Judge not.

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And a lot of people stop right
there and they’re like that’s

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it.
We’re not judging anymore ever

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again and ironically this is a
form of legalism, right?

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Like noro know, there’s a rule.
The rule says you don’t judge

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and therefore it’s all good.
Doesn’t work that way, right?

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You know, you can’t make an
agreement with an evil person

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and say, well, you don’t judge
me and I won’t judge you.

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And then, you know, judge, not
that you be not judged and we

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both get a get-out-of-jail-free
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No, that’s that’s not, that’s
not what he means.

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So what does he mean, right?
Why does he come with this bold

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statement?
Well, like we said before, you

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have a bias, you have a tendency
to make her wrong choice and

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he’s trying to smack you out of
that bias.

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She’s trying to wake you up,
he’s giving you an extreme

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statement.
It says you have an instinct to

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

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consider the possibility that
maybe you shouldn’t even judge.

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Maybe you don’t have to go
there.

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But it’s not here as a tool to
deflect personal criticism.

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If somebody comes up to you and
says, you know, I think you’re

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overbearing.
You don’t go to Matthew 7 verse

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1 and say judge not right to
shave Shield can never criticize

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me because I can counter
criticize you with judge.

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

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

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

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

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

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judging in this verse?
I can’t dive sleep-wake.

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Tell is this sort of like
Proverbs saying you know if you

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behave in a certain way, other
people will behave this way

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towards you, be aware of that if
you walk around life being

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judgmental and then you fall in
a pit, don’t expect everybody to

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be really sympathetic, right?
It could be that.

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

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

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

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oh yeah, I want you to forgive
me.

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So there is a Divine element to
this.

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When we talk about the mercy
journals, this is day one or day

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

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likely to extend to other people
appears to be directly

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

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How long since you have
recognized your insufficiency,

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

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walk around every day, feeling
your own insufficiency.

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Being your own inadequacy and
what this will do for you is it

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

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It will make you more grateful
to God.

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For the love that he has
expended you in accepting you in

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spite of all the ways in which
you fail.

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

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

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When they do surveys that people
to itemize their strengths and

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

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

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weakness and then they send out
another survey and they asked

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

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

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people around.
You will say, you have this

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

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around, you will say, you have
this weakness.

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Okay?
We are simply unable to perceive

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the extent of our own
weaknesses.

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

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psychologists will call it the
shadow.

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

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

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

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Why do people react this way to
me, right?

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

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

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example.
That’s very strange and, and,

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and the people around you are
watching you and your Shadow.

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And they’re like, oh boy.
But depending on who your

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

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are, if somebody Rise today, to
give you some subtle information

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about this shadow in your like
judge.

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Not I don’t want to hear it.
We block ourselves to the

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information which would most
help us and we all know it.

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And so we all actually quite
cautious about sharing our walls

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with each other.
There are serious problems in

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your character that you are not
fully aware of.

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Do you really believe that can
you really accept that?

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Do you really accept that?
There’s actually a plank in your

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eyes, not a plank beside you,
right?

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It’s not a plank over there and
I’ve got it, you know, that it’s

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in your eye.
It’s affecting your ability to

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perceive the information, which
is a rocket being in your brain

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is faulty.
You’re not getting the whole

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picture.
Is what Jesus is telling you

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here, you don’t have the full
picture.

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How can you say to your brother?
Let me take the speck out of

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your eye and behold.
The log is in your own eye.

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If you can’t see properly, what
makes you qualified to nitpick

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at other people, you can’t see,
right?

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What do you want a surgeon with
poor eyesight doing brain?

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Surgery on, you know, right.
You Toronto me, 19 515 by the

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mouth of two or three witnesses
that the matter shall be

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established.
I really want you to internalize

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this.
Your individual opinion on what

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happened or what was wrong is
not good enough.

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Under no circumstance, is your
opinion.

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Good enough.
But under the law of Moses, no

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important decision or fact can
be established by one person.

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You need two witnesses.
At least to you.

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

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

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

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be trusted, you cannot be
trusted with serious decisions.

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

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them.
Like I know what I saw, I

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underst like our instinct is
betraying us.

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

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other.
We need two or three Witnesses

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for every important decision.
First five, you hypocrite first,

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take the log out of your own eye
and then you will see clearly to

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take the speck out of your
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You hypocrite.
Why does he use the word

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hypocrite here?
What does it mean to be a

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hypocrite?
It’s not a rhetorical question.

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I am actually inviting the
audience participation.

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What is the meaning of
hypocrite?

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He’s two-faced not necessarily,
but the root is actually in the

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actor, right?
So, in order for there to be

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hypocrisy, there’s some kind of
pretending going on some kind of

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pretending now, How is verse 5?
Pretending you hypocrite?

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Okay, first, take the log out of
your own eye and then you will

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see clearly to take the speck
out of your brother’s eye.

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That just looks like a nice.
How is that relate to

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hypocrisies?
Where does that look hypocrisies

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come in?
I think that you’re qualified

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running.
If you’re pretending, if you’re

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going around saying I am an eye
surgeon, let me take the speck

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sort of all your eyes.
It’s pretending.

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It’s play-acting.
You are not an eye surgeon.

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You’re somebody walking around
with a big beam in your eye,

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right?
It’s an act.

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It’s a charade and most other
people can see through it.

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This is one of these things.
It’s very it’s another one of

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these shocking principles very
hard to live first.

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Remove the plank from your own
eye.

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First, if you’re going to
prioritize here here is my

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spiritual life for the next
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Here are my objectives first
first first, before you before

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you start going out there and
fixing other people first.

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Jesus says, can we really do
this?

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It’s, this is another one of
these practically impossible

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things to do.
But every time you find yourself

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picking up, the specs of the
people around, you come back to

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this verse, can you let Jesus
shake you a little bit?

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First, take the log out of your
own eye.

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And there’s some question about
exactly how all the rest of the

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elements of this chapter fit
together.

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And what I’m going to choose to
do for the purpose of this

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presentation is to suggest to
you that everything else in this

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chapter has to do with this
concept.

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First, take the plank out of
your own eye.

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How do we go about doing that?
What are the mechanisms?

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What are the pros and cons
exploit?

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On both sides of the equation.
How do we handle interpersonal,

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correction right before you say,
let me, you know, before you say

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to someone else, let me take the
speck out of your eye.

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What are the prerequisites that
are involved?

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Do not give what is Holy to
dogs?

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And do not throw your Pearls
Before Swine, or they will

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trample them under their feet
and turn and tear you to pieces.

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I struggle with this person for
a long time because I’d never

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thought of pigs Tearing Me To
Pieces.

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That’s a really awesome thing,
right?

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And it turns out, I finally read
somewhere that this is actually

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a chiasm.
Have you guys heard about chiasm

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‘s and introverted parallelisms?
Okay, they’re all trendy now.

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So I won’t spend a lot of time,
but the point is that they’re

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bookends Around each other and
the thing at the end actually

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relates to the thing at the
beginning rather than the thing

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immediately before it, which is
how we usually organized thought

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in our case.
So, in this case, the, the

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carrying you to pieces is
actually the dog, not the big,

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the pig trampled, you and the
dog tears you to pieces.

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And then we see this, you’re no
man can serve two masters, you

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hate, the one and love, the
other be devoted to the one and

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despise the other.
You cannot serve, God and money.

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And you will find this.
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A once you start to see it, it
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place.
But what does this mean in the

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context of specs and planks,
right?

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Normally I’ve heard this verse
used in the context of preaching

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to people and IQ don’t go into
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that nightclub, I guess they
call them nowadays and and start

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trying to preach there.
Really, you don’t throw your

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Pearls Before Swine, that’s not
the right place and and that,

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that may be true. but in the
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propose to you that Jesus is
asking you to consider whether

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people launcher help or not,
when you’re walking around with

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that blank in your eye, are they
looking for you to help them

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with their respects?
Like if you go into an occlusal

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situation and started trying to
correct everybody else, yeah

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that you may cause a whole lot
of problems there and you may

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want to consider first whether
it’s the appropriate time like

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there’s an appropriate time and
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For each kind of behavior.
So Jesus used the word beware

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earlier and I proposed that we
should beware of judging, always

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we presume more Mercy than we
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OK, we expect others to be more
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That we are inclined to be
merciful towards them.

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We underestimate the magnitude
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We can’t help it.
It’s the way our brain works.

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We underestimate how we’re flaws
inhibit our judgment.

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We Get that our flaws, our
perception laws, what you saw

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with your own eyes, there’s not
actually what happened, okay?

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

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

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eyewitness report, the jury
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Wow.
Yeah, that’s it.

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If people saw it with their own
eyes completely unreliable, the

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most unreliable form of evidence
evidence in criminal trials.

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Owls is an eyewitness report.
Turbo like in that moment you

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like you think you saw it and
some people go to their grave

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with that conviction that what
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No, And this is a great tool by
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In terms of forgiveness, you
think back to what that brother

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said two years ago or what they
did and it still Burns you up

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inside.
There’s a chance that never

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happened and I’m not kidding.
There is a literal chance and

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that little story that you play
in your head never actually

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happened.
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Every time we recall a memory
rebuild it and modify it a

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little bit it’s scary but true.
This is tested stuff like they

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go out there and they test
people’s memory.

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Your memory is way worse than
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So you know what, let it go
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Forgive the past.
We resist fixing ourselves

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before, trying to fix others.
We presume that others want our

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judgment.
I think everybody’s looking for

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our opinion, but we hardly ever
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right?
And sometimes they say, well,

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wait for someone to ask you, for
your opinion, it’s like nobody

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ever does.
So I better go just find a way

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that injective On the other
hand, you know, don’t throw your

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Pearls Before Swine.
Are we slime?

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

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

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attention, you turn on them and
trample them, you tear them to

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pieces.
If they happen to point out that

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

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We need to work both sides of
this Olympic athletes.

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

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point out every flaw in what
they do is bizarre, right?

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We can get that for free by just
coming in meeting on some

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important but we don’t write
when it happens.

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We’re like whoa back off right,
judge not who are you?

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I can I can find a lot of flaws
in your eyes too, right?

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

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

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

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

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

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difficult question, right?
Do we judge your?

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

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And when do we not judge?
So I’m going to just roll

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through a bunch of scriptures.
You were not going to settle

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

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

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verse 14.
I have a few things against you

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

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kept.
Teaching balak to put a

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stumbling block before the sons
of Israel to eat things

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sacrificed to idols.
And to commit acts of

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immorality.
So we have one of the seven

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occasions and there is someone
there teaching immorality and

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they had failed to properly,
judge to make a judgment call

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revelation, 22 verse 20.
I have this against you.

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You tolerate the woman Jezebel
who calls herself a prophetess

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and she teaches and leads my
bond servants astray so that

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they commit acts of immorality
and eat things sacrificed to

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idols.
First Corinthians 5 is really

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interesting.
It starts offers 12 what have I

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

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

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

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and staying.
No, parading in front of his

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whole to the big placard saying,
you shouldn’t drink and

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drunkenness.
It’s like he’s, he never made a

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

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What have I to do with judging
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Do not, do you not Do you not
judge those who are within the

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church?
Those who are outside?

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

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care of that.
Remove the Wicked Man from among

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

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

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dealing with matters of dislike,
you appoint them as judges were

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of no account in the church.
So he’s talking about conflict

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within the church here, right?
We have two members of the

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Ecclesia that are in some sort
of controversy, and I say this

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to your shame, is it so that
there is not among you, one wise

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man who is able to decide
between his brothers We have

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this problem in our community.
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Then, it’s tragic that, with all
the scriptural wisdom that we

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have in our communities
frequently, we end up in

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conflicts, where we can’t even
find one person that both sides

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will trust to make a judgment
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That’s the we need that
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That’s a judgment that were
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So those are my verses.
Did indicate that we need a

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certain amount of judgment in
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Romans 14 verses 3 and 4.
The one who eats is not to

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regard with contempt, the one
who does not eat, and the one

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who does not eat, is not to
judge the one who eats her God

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accepted him, who are you to
judge the servant of another

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qualifications.
Who are you?

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What exactly qualifies you to?
Go to your brother and be

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telling him what he should eat
and what he should be eating,

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right?
Are you pretending?

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Are you being a hypocrite?
To his own Master.

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He stands or Falls and he will
stand, right?

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God Will Make A different
judgment than you in many cases.

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To his own Master, he stands or
Falls and he will stand for the

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Lord is able to make him stand.
Romans 14 verse 10 but you were,

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why do you judge your brother?
Are you again?

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Why do you regard your brother
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We will all stand before the
Judgment seat of God for it is

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written.
As I live says the Lord.

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Every knee shall bow to me every
tongue.

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

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

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therefore, Let us not judge.
One another anymore or rather

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the determined this not to put
an obstacle or a stumbling block

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

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

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

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law.
But if you judge the law, you

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are not a doer of the law, but a
judge of it.

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There is only one lawgiver and
judge, the one who is able to

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save and Destroy, who are you to
judge your neighbor?

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You just have to be very
careful.

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When we judging judging is a
very dangerous situation and

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

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

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We need minimum standards of
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But we need to make sure we’re
not recreating the Mosaic

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Covenant.
And we banish people from our

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community for being angry.
Do we banish people from our

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community for being lost home.
We banish them because they have

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not given up all their
possessions, as Jesus commanded,

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do we banish them for not being
perfect the way Jesus commanded.

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But there are other things in
this category that we do banish

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people from our community for
We’re somewhat inconsistent in

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our judgment and that should be
very unsettling to us.

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It’s not about calling wrong
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Good it’s about determining if
we’re being compassionate and

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merciful and fair in the way we
judge, How do we maintain the

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health of the equation?
Let’s go to Matthew Chapter 13.

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We’ve referenced this before
this week.

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Brother, Nathan brought this up
in his evening address.

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Verses 24 to 30, he presented
another.

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Parable to them saying the
Kingdom of Heaven may be

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compared to a man who sowed good
seed in his field.

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But while men were sleeping, his
enemy came and sowed tares.

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Also among the wheat and went
away.

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And when the wheat sprang up and
bore grain, then the tears

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became evident also and the
slaves.

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The landowner came to him and
said to him, sir, did you not

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sow good seed in your field?
How then does it have tears?

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And he said, Add to them.
An enemy has done this and the

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slave said to him, do you want
us then to go and gather them

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up?
Do you Jesus wants us?

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You go among the Ecclesia and
gather up the tares.

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Do you want us to be evaluating
each other and trying to decide

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exactly how much weaker tear?
Each one of us might be and he

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said, no.
He said, no.

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Why not?
Well lest, while you are

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gathering up the tears, you met
root up.

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

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You sent you simply don’t have
the skills.

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

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don’t.
And so if you go in there,

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

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everybody into the right
category, you’re older reaching.

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Jesus is telling you you are not
qualified.

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That’s staggering.
What do we do that, right?

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What this tells us is that our
completions should have tears.

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If you somehow have an equation
that doesn’t have tears, then

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you have been too invasive.
You have been too aggressive and

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it’s possible heaven forbid that
you have destroyed wheat.

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In the process and you should be
very scared of that.

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You should be very worried that
you have taken a brother or

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sister who Christ died for and
driven them away from the pulled

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because you had a plank in your
eye.

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That you didn’t even realize you
have that should terrify you.

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

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the implications of you.
Having driven away, one of God’s

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terpenes.
I’ve allowed both to grow

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together.
It’s against every intuition we

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00:29:58,900 –> 00:30:03,000
have allow both to grow together
until the Harvest.

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How do we do that?
It’s terrifying, right.

439
00:30:08,900 –> 00:30:12,100
Interesting point, brother.
Nathan made is, how do you

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

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00:30:18,500 –> 00:30:24,300
wheat strong, so that it can
grow up right beside a tear and

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00:30:24,300 –> 00:30:27,300
survive.
Right?

443
00:30:28,500 –> 00:30:32,600
We need to focus primarily on
strengthening.

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

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There’s, there’s a certain stage
and stage at which, we need to

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protect our children from
outside influences.

447
00:30:42,800 –> 00:30:45,000
We need to build a shield,
right?

448
00:30:46,800 –> 00:30:52,200
Our Shield cannot be sustained
Forever at a certain point in

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00:30:52,200 –> 00:30:55,800
time, our children will face the
reality of the world around

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them.
So, in that period, we have to

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

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they will be able to withstand
the pressure of weeds.

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

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community, that is pure because
we’re afraid.

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00:31:17,800 –> 00:31:21,600
We shouldn’t be purifying our
ranks because we’re so afraid of

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being contaminated, we should be
strong enough.

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And if we’re not work on that
first, the plank in your own

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00:31:29,100 –> 00:31:32,100
eye, if you are.
So weak in your faith that you

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can’t tolerate, someone who
might have a opinion, that might

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be over the line, and it might
be, it might be it there.

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00:31:42,100 –> 00:31:44,300
Is your face.
So weak that you can’t, you

462
00:31:44,300 –> 00:31:47,300
can’t be there on a Sunday
morning with someone like that.

463
00:31:48,400 –> 00:31:49,800
You might need to work on your
head.

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00:31:49,900 –> 00:31:56,600
You should be able to withstand
Now, this isn’t an anything-goes

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00:31:56,600 –> 00:31:59,400
principle, right?
It’s not like, oh, well, you

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00:31:59,408 –> 00:32:01,600
know, let’s bring the Catholics
and let’s bring that like no,

467
00:32:01,600 –> 00:32:04,600
no, the wheat and the tares are
similar right bit.

468
00:32:04,600 –> 00:32:08,300
Like it’s not like there’s an
apple tree in the middle of my

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00:32:08,700 –> 00:32:11,400
field of week, right?
Like but, but the point that

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Jesus is making is when you draw
a circle and decide, these are

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00:32:15,100 –> 00:32:19,700
going to be the edges of our
community, the circle should be

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00:32:19,700 –> 00:32:22,000
wider than you think it should
be.

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And your instinct to go.
Well, this is the community of

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the saved of.
That’s that’s what you think and

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00:32:29,100 –> 00:32:32,800
you have your opinion with your
plank, in your eye, you should

476
00:32:32,800 –> 00:32:37,000
draw a bigger Circle, a circle
that you are not comfortable

477
00:32:37,000 –> 00:32:41,000
with That should be your circle
because it’s better for you to

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00:32:41,000 –> 00:32:46,900
be uncomfortable than that.
You should rip out some wheat in

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00:32:46,900 –> 00:32:52,400
your fear and anxiety, right?
If you’re, you know, inner

480
00:32:52,400 –> 00:32:56,600
insecurity is causing you to
tear out the wheat that Christ

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00:32:56,600 –> 00:32:59,200
died for.
You are in trouble.

482
00:33:00,400 –> 00:33:02,900
Who wants to face Christ in that
situation.

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00:33:02,900 –> 00:33:15,000
I know I do. when in doubt judge
Donald, Jumping to the next

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section, verses 7 to 11.
Ask and it shall be given to

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you.
And I mean this passage has been

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00:33:26,100 –> 00:33:29,500
taken out of context and so many
ways that people just assume

487
00:33:29,500 –> 00:33:33,000
that you know, whatever I want.
You don’t hear about kids train

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00:33:33,100 –> 00:33:34,900
for a new bike and I think get a
new bike.

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00:33:35,900 –> 00:33:38,200
Let’s think about this in
context.

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00:33:38,200 –> 00:33:40,600
Right?
What are we asking about?

491
00:33:41,300 –> 00:33:44,100
And and I’m going to choose the
lens here and it may not be the

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00:33:44,100 –> 00:33:47,500
only ones to read this chapter,
but if I’m saying, I have a

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00:33:47,508 –> 00:33:51,700
plank in my eye and I’m not sure
what to do about it.

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00:33:52,500 –> 00:33:58,700
Jesus is saying ask like you’ve
got flaws and you’re trying to

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00:33:58,700 –> 00:34:02,600
figure out how to work on them
and you see the dogs and the

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00:34:02,600 –> 00:34:06,200
pigs.
Don’t be a dog and a pig like go

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00:34:06,200 –> 00:34:12,000
to your brother and say, what
can I do about the plank in my

498
00:34:12,000 –> 00:34:14,500
eye?
And said, maybe maybe he doesn’t

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00:34:14,500 –> 00:34:17,500
know.
Well, then seek Go out.

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00:34:17,500 –> 00:34:22,500
Put some effort into it right?
Invite information.

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00:34:23,699 –> 00:34:26,400
That will educate you about your
shortcomings.

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00:34:28,199 –> 00:34:32,199
Okay, don’t don’t be the other
category that doesn’t want any

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00:34:32,199 –> 00:34:37,300
information.
Verse 12.

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00:34:37,699 –> 00:34:44,000
Therefore however you want
people to treat you.

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00:34:44,000 –> 00:34:47,100
So treat them for this is the
law and the prophets.

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00:34:48,400 –> 00:34:52,900
They call this the Golden Rule
and again, I find there for

507
00:34:53,199 –> 00:34:56,400
like, what’s that word there?
It’s a connecting word.

508
00:34:57,200 –> 00:35:01,200
How does this, you know, Golden
Rule have anything to do with

509
00:35:01,200 –> 00:35:04,000
knocking and asking and seeking
I Think Jesus is giving you a

510
00:35:04,000 –> 00:35:06,700
hint, okay?
If if you’re not getting the

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00:35:06,700 –> 00:35:09,600
information, if you’re having
trouble understanding how to

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00:35:09,600 –> 00:35:13,500
deal with the plank in your eye,
here is a good rule of thumb,

513
00:35:13,900 –> 00:35:16,600
right?
If you’re behaving in a way that

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00:35:16,600 –> 00:35:20,700
you find unacceptable, People
and other people work on that

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00:35:20,700 –> 00:35:28,100
first.
All that great Insight you have

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00:35:28,100 –> 00:35:31,100
on other people’s flaws will
make a list and say, okay, how

517
00:35:31,100 –> 00:35:33,400
am I doing you in every one of
these categories?

518
00:35:35,400 –> 00:35:38,600
Why does this work?
Why does it work?

519
00:35:38,800 –> 00:35:42,400
It works because we have double
standards, okay?

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00:35:42,400 –> 00:35:44,300
This is what Jesus is trying to
tell you.

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00:35:44,400 –> 00:35:47,900
You have a double standard, you
have one standard for others,

522
00:35:47,900 –> 00:35:49,400
and you have one standard for
yourself.

523
00:35:49,500 –> 00:35:51,400
And Jesus is trying to take that
standard.

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00:35:51,400 –> 00:35:53,800
You apply to others swinging it
around.

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00:35:53,800 –> 00:35:56,900
Come on, let’s turn it around.
Shine that light on yourself,

526
00:35:56,900 –> 00:35:58,600
that’s a great.
Starting point.

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00:36:02,600 –> 00:36:06,600
And in Psalms says, a quick me
of Hidden Falls.

528
00:36:07,700 –> 00:36:11,500
The most terrifying thing is
they is this notion that you

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00:36:11,500 –> 00:36:14,200
have these big problems.
You know, I can nobody’s telling

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00:36:14,200 –> 00:36:19,000
you about them.
It gives us another hint enter

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00:36:19,000 –> 00:36:24,600
by the narrow gate if you have
an ambiguity about which path

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00:36:24,600 –> 00:36:31,400
you should take.
A rule of thumb is, are you

533
00:36:31,400 –> 00:36:33,900
taking the easy way or you
taking the hard way?

534
00:36:34,200 –> 00:36:38,200
And if the thing that you’re
doing is easy, as should be a

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00:36:38,200 –> 00:36:41,700
big red flag waving.
This is a moment you should

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00:36:41,700 –> 00:36:43,700
double-check with your brothers
and sisters.

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00:36:44,300 –> 00:36:49,600
I’m taking the easy route.
Almost always the wrong choice.

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00:36:49,900 –> 00:36:52,100
Almost always the wrong choice,
seek out.

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00:36:52,100 –> 00:36:56,800
The difficult choice.
This applies across So many so

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00:36:56,800 –> 00:37:04,400
many ways.
Verse 15, beware of false

541
00:37:04,400 –> 00:37:06,000
prophets.
Who come to you in sheep’s

542
00:37:06,000 –> 00:37:08,800
clothing, and individually
inwardly are ravenous wolves.

543
00:37:09,100 –> 00:37:11,800
You will know them by their
fruits.

544
00:37:12,700 –> 00:37:14,800
What does this have to do with
clients in our eyes?

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00:37:15,100 –> 00:37:17,800
I think what he’s saying here
is, if you’re going to go and

546
00:37:17,800 –> 00:37:21,700
ask people for advice, make sure
it’s people who are credible.

547
00:37:22,600 –> 00:37:25,500
And they have a credible basis
for the advice they’re giving

548
00:37:26,800 –> 00:37:29,600
and you may not know that right
away, right?

549
00:37:29,900 –> 00:37:34,400
The the outworking of someone’s
philosophy of life doesn’t bear

550
00:37:34,400 –> 00:37:37,300
fruit right away.
Sometimes it takes some time, so

551
00:37:37,400 –> 00:37:40,200
be very cautious.
There’s a lot of messages.

552
00:37:40,200 –> 00:37:46,700
That sounds very nice, but end
up in tragic consider that

553
00:37:46,700 –> 00:37:49,800
possibility.
Observe you will know them by

554
00:37:49,800 –> 00:37:51,500
their fruit.
Not everyone who says to me,

555
00:37:51,500 –> 00:37:53,300
Lord Lord.
Well, enter the kingdom of

556
00:37:53,300 –> 00:37:56,800
heaven.
He who does the will of My

557
00:37:56,800 –> 00:38:02,200
Father, which brings us to the
next section, which is the wise

558
00:38:02,200 –> 00:38:03,600
man.
Built his house upon the rock,

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00:38:03,600 –> 00:38:08,000
so hard to you, this one without
the singing it and you have to

560
00:38:08,000 –> 00:38:10,200
ask yourself, okay?
This is the grand finale.

561
00:38:10,200 –> 00:38:14,400
Jesus is put together this
tremendous, you know, talk

562
00:38:14,400 –> 00:38:21,800
presentation on righteousness
and he ends with this concept

563
00:38:22,400 –> 00:38:25,500
and a fastest, l fly.
Well, when you go to the

564
00:38:25,500 –> 00:38:29,600
aquarium and there’s a sign up
there that says do not tap on

565
00:38:29,600 –> 00:38:33,600
glass, why would they put that
up there?

566
00:38:37,700 –> 00:38:41,100
But why would they bother
writing on a piece of paper and

567
00:38:41,100 –> 00:38:45,200
putting it up?
Because everyone wants to know

568
00:38:45,700 –> 00:38:47,700
is everybody keep stopping on
the glass, right?

569
00:38:47,700 –> 00:38:51,800
So when you When you see Jesus
giving giving advice, you have

570
00:38:51,800 –> 00:38:55,800
to understand that the reason is
doing is because this is what he

571
00:38:55,800 –> 00:38:59,300
thinks you’re going to do after.
I’ve given you all this

572
00:38:59,300 –> 00:39:05,100
information through all these
chapters The most likely thing

573
00:39:05,100 –> 00:39:11,400
for you to do is to be like,
Amen, brother, and go home and

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00:39:11,400 –> 00:39:16,600
do absolutely nothing about it.
Make no change at all.

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00:39:16,600 –> 00:39:21,100
You’re like this is the most
predictable, human reaction to

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00:39:21,100 –> 00:39:23,900
Divine Insight.
It’s great.

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00:39:23,900 –> 00:39:26,200
So it’s a greatness.
We love it.

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00:39:26,300 –> 00:39:30,500
We agree with it.
It’s wonderful and then do

579
00:39:30,500 –> 00:39:35,300
nothing about.
So at the end of this chapter

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00:39:35,300 –> 00:39:39,100
Jesus is saying, please please,
I’ve tried to shock you, I’ve

581
00:39:39,100 –> 00:39:42,000
tried to surprise you.
I’ve tried to educate and go cry

582
00:39:42,000 –> 00:39:46,700
to warn you and Only going to be
useful to you.

583
00:39:46,900 –> 00:39:52,900
If you actually turn this into
decisions in your life, you have

584
00:39:52,900 –> 00:39:55,900
to turn it into behaviors.
You have to do something

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00:39:55,900 –> 00:39:57,600
different in the next few
months.

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00:39:57,600 –> 00:40:01,000
Then you would have done before
because of these words of

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00:40:01,000 –> 00:40:05,500
Christ, if you don’t do that,
you have built your whole

588
00:40:05,500 –> 00:40:09,900
religion on the sand and the
moment, some kind of tragic

589
00:40:09,900 –> 00:40:13,300
event happens.
Your whole structure will

590
00:40:13,300 –> 00:40:20,400
collapse.
Therefore everyone who hears

591
00:40:20,400 –> 00:40:25,100
these words of mine and acts
upon them.

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00:40:25,100 –> 00:40:31,200
It’s a prerequisite will be like
a wise man who built his house

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00:40:31,300 –> 00:40:42,200
upon the rock.
To manifest God’s character.

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00:40:44,000 –> 00:40:50,500
We have to do things.
We have to engage in behaviors.

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00:40:53,400 –> 00:40:56,600
But we know from these chapters,
that were imperfect.

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00:40:58,600 –> 00:41:03,000
So we have a paradox because we
are called to manifest God’s

597
00:41:03,000 –> 00:41:06,700
character and our behavior.
And yet we can see conclusively

598
00:41:06,700 –> 00:41:09,000
that we are in perfect, what’s
going to happen?

599
00:41:09,000 –> 00:41:11,600
When we put these two things
together, what’s going to

600
00:41:11,600 –> 00:41:15,600
happen, when you take a bunch of
imperfect people and you ask

601
00:41:15,600 –> 00:41:23,400
them to manifest perfection.
Just going to have a lot of

602
00:41:23,400 –> 00:41:27,400
mistakes, right?
Is going to be a lot of

603
00:41:27,400 –> 00:41:31,600
mistakes.
Now, there’s a way to avoid the

604
00:41:31,600 –> 00:41:35,200
mistakes and that is by simply
not doing anything, right?

605
00:41:36,000 –> 00:41:41,200
And this is the one Talent, man.
I’ve got a hard Master, he wants

606
00:41:41,200 –> 00:41:44,400
me to be perfect.
The master wants me to be

607
00:41:44,400 –> 00:41:47,900
perfect, if I go and try to do
something with the talent, he’s

608
00:41:47,900 –> 00:41:50,200
given me.
I have to take a risk.

609
00:41:51,300 –> 00:41:54,900
I might do it wrong, I might
fail.

610
00:41:56,300 –> 00:42:02,000
And so the best way to never
fail Is to never do anything at

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00:42:02,000 –> 00:42:09,100
all to never take a risk.
And and Jesus, clearly condemns

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00:42:09,100 –> 00:42:12,600
this Jesus.
Clearly says you should be a

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00:42:12,600 –> 00:42:17,400
risk taker.
You need to take a risk of

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00:42:17,400 –> 00:42:18,600
failure.
Okay.

615
00:42:18,600 –> 00:42:21,600
It’s a risk of failure.
It’s a risk.

616
00:42:21,600 –> 00:42:24,800
That the thing that God gave
you, you may do something

617
00:42:25,600 –> 00:42:29,800
inadequate with it.
I bet that’s what the other ones

618
00:42:29,800 –> 00:42:32,400
did.
They took a risk?

619
00:42:36,400 –> 00:42:39,000
This is the situation.
We find ourselves every morning,

620
00:42:39,000 –> 00:42:40,100
right?
We wake up.

621
00:42:42,300 –> 00:42:47,400
And we can try to move closer to
God and closer to perfection.

622
00:42:48,300 –> 00:42:53,000
But we start off on a hunter,
with this, Chasm between us and

623
00:42:53,000 –> 00:42:56,300
where we should be and the path
to get there.

624
00:42:56,300 –> 00:43:03,000
Seemed so difficult and narrow.
and we know that nine times out

625
00:43:03,000 –> 00:43:08,800
of 10, when we step out We’re
going to slip or stumble, in

626
00:43:08,800 –> 00:43:14,700
some way.
And so we Face an incredible

627
00:43:14,700 –> 00:43:21,700
temptation to do know the sit
back to not make believe. but we

628
00:43:21,700 –> 00:43:28,700
forget, There’s actually.
A safety rope attached.

629
00:43:30,300 –> 00:43:38,200
Okay. if you step out and you
fall, God has built in a

630
00:43:38,200 –> 00:43:41,400
mechanism for you to get picked
back up again.

631
00:43:42,600 –> 00:43:45,700
Michael 7:8 do not rejoice over
me.

632
00:43:45,700 –> 00:43:47,800
My enemy, though.
I fall.

633
00:43:48,600 –> 00:43:53,100
I will rise though.
I dwell in darkness.

634
00:43:53,100 –> 00:44:00,800
The Lord is a light for me.
Romans chapter 5 verses 20, the

635
00:44:00,800 –> 00:44:03,900
law came in so that the
transgression would increase.

636
00:44:04,200 –> 00:44:08,400
But where sin increased Grace
abounded all the more so that as

637
00:44:08,400 –> 00:44:12,400
Sin reigned in death even so
Grace would Reign through

638
00:44:12,400 –> 00:44:16,800
righteousness to eternal life.
Through Jesus Christ, Our Lord

639
00:44:17,300 –> 00:44:22,500
Grace is our safety net.
Okay, we know we’ll never reach

640
00:44:22,500 –> 00:44:27,300
Perfection.
God has agreed to help us bridge

641
00:44:27,300 –> 00:44:29,700
the gap.
But He only Bridges it.

642
00:44:29,700 –> 00:44:34,000
If we’re moving, he requires us
to take those steps.

643
00:44:34,000 –> 00:44:38,300
And if we fall on that Journey,
he will pick us up.

644
00:44:40,000 –> 00:44:44,200
But if we don’t start the
journey, he’s not just going to

645
00:44:44,200 –> 00:44:49,400
teleport us there either.
It takes courage to leave.

646
00:44:49,600 –> 00:44:55,000
Mesopotamia takes courage to
leave Egypt. it takes courage to

647
00:44:55,000 –> 00:44:58,300
set step out of a boat in the
middle of the storm, and

648
00:44:58,300 –> 00:45:03,600
sometimes what we do we sink and
sometimes Jesus has to reach out

649
00:45:03,600 –> 00:45:07,200
and browse Whole is back into
the boat.

650
00:45:07,600 –> 00:45:12,800
Give us a talking to But then
expects us to get up.

651
00:45:13,400 –> 00:45:19,300
Try again.
We have to be able to move from

652
00:45:19,300 –> 00:45:23,500
crushing the blessing.
We started in the mountain of

653
00:45:23,500 –> 00:45:27,200
blessing.
We go through a crushing

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process, but we need to end in
the mountain of blessing.

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There is no condemnation for
those in Christ.

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That’s what Romans 8:1 says
there is no condemnation.

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That’s an absolute statement 0.
Do you have the faith to believe

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that verse?
That burst takes when you look

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inside yourself and see what’s
going on?

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Can you actually believe
scripture?

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When it says that there is no
commonly.

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This is a test of faith.
To be able to say there is no

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zero condemnation, not less, not
now.

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No condemnation for those for
those in Christ isn’t Universal

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salvation.
But what this verse does is it

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can take you from crushing to
blessing.

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So, I’d like to end where we
started and Hebrews chapter 12.

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And remind you that you have
come to Mount, Zion.

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The city of the Living.
God the heavenly Jerusalem.

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You have come to myriad’s of
angels.

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You have come to the general
assembly, and the Church of the

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firstborn who are enrolled in
heaven.

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You have come to God, the judge
of all, and to the spirits of

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righteous men made perfect.
You have come to the spirits of

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righteous men who didn’t have
what it took, but God bridged,

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the Gap because they were
willing to take the step.

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You have come to Jesus the
mediator of a New Covenant and

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to the sprinkled blood.
Which speaks better than the

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blood of Abel, see to it, that
you do not refuse him.

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Who is speaking?
Her those did not Escape when

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they refused him who are warned
on Earth much less shall we

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escape if we turn away from him.
Horns from heaven.

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What do we do in the crushing?
Do we turn away from him?

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We do.
We pick ourselves up and turn

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towards him.
Verses 28 and 29.

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Therefore since we receive a
kingdom which cannot be shaken.

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Let us show gratitude by which
we may offer to God an

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acceptable service with
reverence and awe for our God is

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a consuming fire.