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\nA couple of people have asked me
\nsome things about things that I <\/p>\n
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\ntalked to you about.
\nI’ve tried to share with you <\/p>\n
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\nthis week.
\nThings that have taken me a long<\/p>\n
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\nI grew up in an ecclesia that <\/p>\n
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\ndiscovered over time that I <\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t really find out, that our
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\nmatched up exactly what I would
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\nAnd so those are things that, as
\nI’ve grown up, I’ve decided that<\/p>\n
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\nit took me a long time to
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\nAnd one of them was the love of
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\nlaw.
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\ntopic for this morning.
\nOne of the other ones was God’s <\/p>\n
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\nelection, and our collegiate
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\nelection.
\nMost people in North America <\/p>\n
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\ndidn’t talk about God’s election
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\nwe had it all right and and
\ngoing through Romans chapter 91 <\/p>\n
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\ntime and John was listening to
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\nHe gave like 40 some classes on
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\nBut it opened my eyes to the
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\nstories for years without really
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\nto those stories.
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\nmy background has come from on
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\nSo I thought, maybe tomorrow if
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\ncommittee, I’ll probably take
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\nmaybe 20 minutes and we’ll have
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\nsee where that teaching actually
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\nBut today we are going to look
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\nNow somebody also mentioned to
\nme yesterday that they thought <\/p>\n
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\nGod was our, how do you
\npronounce it? <\/p>\n
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\nCouch.
\nCouch. <\/p>\n
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\nThey said what is he talking
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\nGod is our coach, but it was
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\nI don’t know how you say it,
\ncoach. <\/p>\n
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\nAnyways, all those all those
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\ncoaches.
\nSo yeah, it was actually, if you<\/p>\n
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\nmissed that, it was supposed to
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\nJust wanted to make sure that <\/p>\n
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\nwas straight.
\nAll right, so this is one of the<\/p>\n
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\ntopics that when I was growing
\nup, when Sue and I grew up in <\/p>\n
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\nour our local cultural area of
\nDetroit, people didn’t talk much<\/p>\n
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\nabout the love of God.
\nIt wasn’t a topic you could hear<\/p>\n
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\nexhortations on or Bible classes
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\nIt was just sort of treated as
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\nIf you started talking about,
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\noh, you’re evangelical.
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\nIt’s like that was the kind of
\nreaction we got. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd yet you find out in the
\nScriptures, this is all over the<\/p>\n
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\nBible.
\nThis was what to me, it’s like <\/p>\n
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\nthe foundation principle.
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\nhave had in the BASF is it
\nstarts out with God loves us, <\/p>\n
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\nGod is love.
\nAnd I really find it. <\/p>\n
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\nIt really has changed the way we
\napproach people in life. <\/p>\n
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\ncollegial problems and decisions<\/p>\n
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\nis to remember that we want to
\ntry to do them like God. <\/p>\n
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\nGod loves us.
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\na father does as children.
\nSo we ought to look today at <\/p>\n
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\nwhat in the world does that
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\nI think it’s it’s important to
\nrealize that God is the one who <\/p>\n
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\ndefines love.
\nThis is not like humanism, where<\/p>\n
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\nGod is, and what do you think
\nGod’s love is? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what do you think now?
\nWe’re told in the scriptures <\/p>\n
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\nwhat love is, the way God
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\nout, and how he treats people.
\nThe love of God. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s the one who took the
\ninitiative and he is the one who<\/p>\n
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\nloved us first.
\nIt all comes from God. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s all coming down from God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I really think this helps us
\nto like, fine tune our <\/p>\n
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\nunderstanding of how is God
\nconnected with Jesus today? <\/p>\n
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\nWho’s connected with us?
\nWhat does this actually mean? <\/p>\n
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\nset in motion all of the things
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\nwe talk about in the atonement.
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\nSo look how first John puts it
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\nWe we better get this right
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\nmanifested toward us and that he
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\nAnd this is love, not that we
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\nLet’s get it right.
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\neven though he says we were
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\nsent His Son to save us. <\/p>\n
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\nWe can throw the phrase out all <\/p>\n
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\nBut do you really know what it <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a word that’s used in the
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\nTestament substituism for the
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\nIt’s the place of mercy.
\nHe He sent his Son to be the <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s what our God did because <\/p>\n
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\nAnd how does it all play out? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause he’s hoping we’ll do
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\nIt’s all about the love of God.
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\nwell, we’ll know that God abides
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\nPerfected. <\/p>\n
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\nSo in first John three look what
\nhe says will happen and that we <\/p>\n
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\nby this we know love because he
\nlaid down his life for us. <\/p>\n
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\nSo now he’s talking about Jesus.
\nWe ought also to lay down our <\/p>\n
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\nlives for the brethren.
\nThis is what Jesus was showing <\/p>\n
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\nLook at how he functioned all
\nthe way through the day before <\/p>\n
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\nThe day of the crucifixion. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s always He gets down on his
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\nAnd so he says in in verse 17 of
\nchapter 4 by this love is <\/p>\n
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\nperfected in us so that we may
\nhave confidence for the Day of <\/p>\n
338
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\nJudgement.
\nHe ever wondered, like, how do <\/p>\n
339
\n00:17:50,240 –> 00:17:52,080
\nyou get confidence for the Day
\nof Judgement? <\/p>\n
340
\n00:17:52,360 –> 00:17:55,600
\nA lot of Christadelphians still
\nlive in fear of the Judgement <\/p>\n
341
\n00:17:55,600 –> 00:17:58,240
\nDay.
\nThey’re afraid if Jesus walked <\/p>\n
342
\n00:17:58,240 –> 00:18:00,600
\nin the door back there, I know
\nthere are people that would be <\/p>\n
343
\n00:18:00,600 –> 00:18:03,760
\nafraid to face him.
\nThey’re afraid because they <\/p>\n
344
\n00:18:03,760 –> 00:18:06,840
\nthink God’s out to get them.
\nThat isn’t the God who we <\/p>\n
345
\n00:18:06,840 –> 00:18:09,440
\nworship.
\nHe isn’t like that. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:18:09,880 –> 00:18:12,800
\nHe loves you.
\nHe’s training you like a father <\/p>\n
347
\n00:18:12,800 –> 00:18:15,400
\nwith his child, you know?
\nImagine that kind of <\/p>\n
348
\n00:18:15,400 –> 00:18:17,480
\nrelationship with a dad.
\nDid you have a dad that when he <\/p>\n
349
\n00:18:17,480 –> 00:18:19,320
\nwalked in the door you were
\nafraid to see him? <\/p>\n
350
\n00:18:19,520 –> 00:18:20,960
\nOr did you run up and give him a
\nhug. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:18:22,280 –> 00:18:26,240
\nGod was hoping that if we if we
\nexperience this in our families <\/p>\n
352
\n00:18:26,600 –> 00:18:30,880
\nthat then we would understand
\nhow he feels about us, that <\/p>\n
353
\n00:18:30,880 –> 00:18:33,440
\nthat’s the God that we have.
\nIt’s it’s like the father of the<\/p>\n
354
\n00:18:33,440 –> 00:18:35,960
\nprodigal son.
\nWhen the prodigal son comes back<\/p>\n
355
\n00:18:35,960 –> 00:18:38,480
\nin, in the parable, he doesn’t
\nhe hasn’t grabbed the son. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:18:38,480 –> 00:18:40,480
\nAnd they’ll say, well you did
\nthis wrong and this wrong and <\/p>\n
357
\n00:18:40,480 –> 00:18:42,680
\nthis wrong and I’m not sure we
\ncan actually bring you into the <\/p>\n
358
\n00:18:42,680 –> 00:18:44,960
\nEcclesia you let until all these
\nthings up. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:18:45,600 –> 00:18:49,240
\nNo, he grabs them and hugs them.
\nSays I’m glad you finally <\/p>\n
360
\n00:18:49,240 –> 00:18:52,480
\nlearned and you’re back.
\nThat’s what he does. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:18:53,120 –> 00:18:55,320
\nThat’s our God.
\nHe just can’t wait for us to <\/p>\n
362
\n00:18:55,320 –> 00:18:57,760
\ncome back.
\nSo look at how he he words this <\/p>\n
363
\n00:18:57,760 –> 00:19:00,240
\nin first John 4.
\nYou know, because he’s been <\/p>\n
364
\n00:19:00,240 –> 00:19:02,160
\nperfected in us as we are in
\nthis world. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:19:02,160 –> 00:19:05,760
\nSo in verse 18 I I can still
\nremember looking at this when I <\/p>\n
366
\n00:19:05,760 –> 00:19:08,440
\nwas probably a teenager and
\ngiving a Bible class in Detroit <\/p>\n
367
\n00:19:08,440 –> 00:19:11,200
\nin first John Four.
\nAnd I said there’s No Fear in <\/p>\n
368
\n00:19:11,200 –> 00:19:13,960
\nlove.
\nBut perfect love casts out fear.<\/p>\n
369
\n00:19:14,720 –> 00:19:18,600
\nFear has to do with punishment
\nand whoever fears has not been <\/p>\n
370
\n00:19:19,160 –> 00:19:21,880
\nin love.
\nAnd I remember in the class that<\/p>\n
371
\n00:19:21,880 –> 00:19:24,840
\nthe a lot of the older brother,
\nyou know, that commented, they <\/p>\n
372
\n00:19:24,840 –> 00:19:27,600
\nall just said, well, John’s just
\ntalking about a theoretical <\/p>\n
373
\n00:19:27,600 –> 00:19:29,600
\nidea.
\nYou can’t really apply that in <\/p>\n
374
\n00:19:29,600 –> 00:19:31,600
\nlife.
\nThat wouldn’t work because we <\/p>\n
375
\n00:19:31,600 –> 00:19:34,000
\ndidn’t fear God.
\nIf we weren’t afraid of the <\/p>\n
376
\n00:19:34,000 –> 00:19:36,800
\npunishments and the torment that
\nwe might get, then we would <\/p>\n
377
\n00:19:36,800 –> 00:19:41,160
\nprobably get off track.
\nI remembered that for a long <\/p>\n
378
\n00:19:41,160 –> 00:19:43,200
\ntime.
\nIt’s not right. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:19:43,680 –> 00:19:46,120
\nThat was the culture that we had
\nin our ecclesia. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:19:46,520 –> 00:19:48,520
\nThat was the culture of the
\ntimes back then. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:19:48,680 –> 00:19:51,680
\nBut it’s not right.
\nBrothers and sisters, I’d <\/p>\n
382
\n00:19:51,680 –> 00:19:54,720
\nencourage the young people we
\nhave to always be challenging <\/p>\n
383
\n00:19:54,720 –> 00:19:57,920
\nour culture.
\nJust because everybody teaches <\/p>\n
384
\n00:19:57,920 –> 00:20:01,520
\nit doesn’t mean it’s right.
\nOur our doctrinal principles are<\/p>\n
385
\n00:20:01,520 –> 00:20:04,760
\nright, but how we apply them in
\nlife, how they work out. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:20:04,960 –> 00:20:07,880
\nA lot of us have just grown up
\nin a Christadelphian culture and<\/p>\n
387
\n00:20:07,880 –> 00:20:11,200
\naccepted it without really
\nchallenging it with the Bible. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:20:12,000 –> 00:20:14,040
\nJohn’s not talking about theory
\nhere. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:20:14,080 –> 00:20:17,920
\nThe entire letter isn’t about
\ntheory, it’s about practical way<\/p>\n
390
\n00:20:17,960 –> 00:20:20,960
\nof life.
\nYou really can get to a point <\/p>\n
391
\n00:20:20,960 –> 00:20:24,320
\nwith your relationship with God
\nwhere you love him like your <\/p>\n
392
\n00:20:24,320 –> 00:20:28,000
\nfather, and there is No Fear in
\nthat love. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:20:28,800 –> 00:20:33,240
\nThat perfect love casts out fear
\nbecause fear has to do with <\/p>\n
394
\n00:20:33,240 –> 00:20:36,480
\npunishment.
\nAnd I really warn you as parents<\/p>\n
395
\n00:20:36,480 –> 00:20:39,520
\nand grandparents, don’t talk to
\nyour children and say you’re <\/p>\n
396
\n00:20:39,520 –> 00:20:41,200
\ngoing to punish them for what
\nthey’ve done. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:20:41,600 –> 00:20:44,080
\nThey’ll end up thinking as they
\ngrow older that that’s what God <\/p>\n
398
\n00:20:44,080 –> 00:20:45,960
\ndoes to them.
\nAnd it isn’t true. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:20:46,360 –> 00:20:48,920
\nYou look through the New
\nTestament, you won’t find that. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:20:49,280 –> 00:20:53,120
\nYou’ll find this, instead that
\nGod loves you and there is No <\/p>\n
401
\n00:20:53,120 –> 00:20:55,720
\nFear in love and perfect love.
\nReally. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:20:55,720 –> 00:20:59,120
\nWell, cast out fear.
\nAnd what God’s looking for is <\/p>\n
403
\n00:20:59,120 –> 00:21:02,360
\nnot people who are motivated by
\nbeing afraid of the judgment <\/p>\n
404
\n00:21:02,360 –> 00:21:04,560
\nseat.
\nHe’s looking for children who <\/p>\n
405
\n00:21:04,560 –> 00:21:08,840
\nlove his eternal way of life.
\nAnd you do it no matter what <\/p>\n
406
\n00:21:08,840 –> 00:21:12,200
\nhappens, like Job you can.
\nYou continue and believe he’s <\/p>\n
407
\n00:21:12,200 –> 00:21:14,840
\nright and you trust him in
\neverything. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:21:14,840 –> 00:21:17,480
\nThat’s faith.
\nThat’s what he’s looking for, <\/p>\n
409
\n00:21:17,920 –> 00:21:21,560
\nnot fear based people.
\nHe he can’t really afford to <\/p>\n
410
\n00:21:21,560 –> 00:21:24,520
\ngive eternal life to people who
\nlive in a fear based <\/p>\n
411
\n00:21:24,520 –> 00:21:27,120
\nrelationship.
\nBecause once you get eternal <\/p>\n
412
\n00:21:27,120 –> 00:21:30,400
\nlife, the fear is gone and
\nwhere’s the motivation anymore <\/p>\n
413
\n00:21:30,400 –> 00:21:33,240
\nto serve your God?
\nYou’ve lost it because you were <\/p>\n
414
\n00:21:33,240 –> 00:21:36,800
\nmotivated by fear.
\nAnd that’s not what you’ll see <\/p>\n
415
\n00:21:36,800 –> 00:21:40,560
\nin our New Testament writings.
\nSo anyone who says that I love <\/p>\n
416
\n00:21:40,560 –> 00:21:42,760
\nGod and hates his brother, he’s
\na liar. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:21:43,840 –> 00:21:45,640
\nSee, that’s the kind of thing
\nJames would say. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:21:45,640 –> 00:21:48,000
\nIt’s it’s so clear.
\nThey bring up these examples, <\/p>\n
419
\n00:21:48,000 –> 00:21:50,760
\npractical examples, of how we
\ncan monitor. <\/p>\n
420
\n00:21:51,000 –> 00:21:54,120
\nDo we really love God?
\nIt’s easy to sit there in our <\/p>\n
421
\n00:21:54,120 –> 00:21:55,720
\nchairs today and say, well, I
\nlove God. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:21:55,960 –> 00:21:57,440
\nI’ll look at all the things I do
\nfor God. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:21:57,880 –> 00:22:00,120
\nI love God.
\nBut how do you treat your <\/p>\n
424
\n00:22:00,120 –> 00:22:02,360
\nbrothers and sisters?
\nHow do you treat your children? <\/p>\n
425
\n00:22:02,640 –> 00:22:04,680
\nHow do you treat other people’s
\nchildren? <\/p>\n
426
\n00:22:05,240 –> 00:22:07,080
\nDo you treat them with the love
\nof God? <\/p>\n
427
\n00:22:08,040 –> 00:22:10,480
\nThis is challenging to us
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:22:10,480 –> 00:22:13,640
\nIt’s it’s very challenging.
\nIf you hate your brother, you’re<\/p>\n
429
\n00:22:13,640 –> 00:22:16,440
\na liar.
\nYou’re a liar to say that you <\/p>\n
430
\n00:22:16,440 –> 00:22:20,160
\nreally love God because it’s not
\nplaying out in your life. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:22:20,720 –> 00:22:23,760
\nIf you love God, you would love
\nyour brothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:22:24,040 –> 00:22:27,960
\nFor he who does not love his
\nbrother, whom he has seen, can <\/p>\n
433
\n00:22:28,120 –> 00:22:32,880
\nnot God, whom he has not seen.
\nAnd I know some of us are <\/p>\n
434
\n00:22:32,880 –> 00:22:35,640
\nsitting there thinking, well,
\nyeah, why would God expecting <\/p>\n
435
\n00:22:35,640 –> 00:22:37,680
\none of my brother and sister
\nwhen they’ve done this to me and<\/p>\n
436
\n00:22:37,680 –> 00:22:40,040
\nthey’ve done that to me and
\nthey’ve done this and we make up<\/p>\n
437
\n00:22:40,040 –> 00:22:43,480
\nall these excuses.
\nThat’s why Paul said in Romans 5<\/p>\n
438
\n00:22:43,480 –> 00:22:47,120
\nwhen we were sinners, when we
\nwere ungodly. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:22:47,480 –> 00:22:50,680
\nThat’s why Joseph said to his
\nbrothers, I know you meant it <\/p>\n
440
\n00:22:50,680 –> 00:22:53,160
\nfor evil.
\nI know your motive wasn’t good, <\/p>\n
441
\n00:22:53,560 –> 00:22:57,280
\nbut God meant it for good.
\nTo save many as they’re alive <\/p>\n
442
\n00:22:57,280 –> 00:22:59,760
\ntoday, you know?
\nYou know, God’s in control of <\/p>\n
443
\n00:22:59,760 –> 00:23:02,440
\nthis.
\nThat’s why Joseph loved his <\/p>\n
444
\n00:23:02,440 –> 00:23:04,160
\nbrothers.
\nThat’s why he forgave them. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:23:04,320 –> 00:23:06,560
\nSee this.
\nThis leads into forgiveness as <\/p>\n
446
\n00:23:06,560 –> 00:23:09,080
\nto why we forgive one another
\nfor our mistakes. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:23:09,640 –> 00:23:11,400
\nThis is what the way our God
\nlives. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:23:11,400 –> 00:23:14,440
\nThis is him.
\nAnd he’s asking us to take his <\/p>\n
449
\n00:23:14,520 –> 00:23:18,560
\neternal way of life and
\nincorporate it into us. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:23:18,880 –> 00:23:22,160
\nThat’s what he wants.
\nSo you can’t claim to love God <\/p>\n
451
\n00:23:22,360 –> 00:23:24,440
\nand mistreat your brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:23:24,680 –> 00:23:27,160
\nThat’s really challenging, I
\nthink for all of us. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:23:27,160 –> 00:23:29,800
\nThat’s very challenging.
\nAnd this is the commandment that<\/p>\n
454
\n00:23:29,800 –> 00:23:33,280
\nwe have from him that whoever
\nloves God must also love his <\/p>\n
455
\n00:23:33,280 –> 00:23:36,280
\nbrother must also.
\nNow see, that’s a commandment. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:23:36,600 –> 00:23:41,600
\nAnd and the problem with law and
\ncommandments is we can do that. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:23:41,600 –> 00:23:45,960
\nWe can say all right, John said
\nit’s a commandment or Jesus said<\/p>\n
458
\n00:23:45,960 –> 00:23:49,120
\nwe must love one another.
\nSo I’ll do it because he said <\/p>\n
459
\n00:23:49,120 –> 00:23:54,160
\nit, but I don’t really feel it.
\nAnd that’s that’s the problem we<\/p>\n
460
\n00:23:54,160 –> 00:23:56,800
\nrun into as people.
\nAnd thankfully God gives us <\/p>\n
461
\n00:23:56,800 –> 00:24:00,480
\nyears to grow in the truth.
\nBut what we got, we got to know <\/p>\n
462
\n00:24:00,480 –> 00:24:02,720
\nwhat the goal is.
\nWhat’s the bar that we’re aiming<\/p>\n
463
\n00:24:02,720 –> 00:24:05,160
\nfor?
\nThe bar is that we don’t do it <\/p>\n
464
\n00:24:05,160 –> 00:24:08,840
\nbecause it’s a commandment.
\nWe don’t do it by law. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:24:09,200 –> 00:24:14,000
\nWe do it by love, like God does,
\nlike Jesus did, like Paul did, <\/p>\n
466
\n00:24:14,040 –> 00:24:17,440
\nlike all these Bible characters,
\nJoseph, you you look at how they<\/p>\n
467
\n00:24:17,440 –> 00:24:22,120
\nlive like the angels do when
\nthey grabbed Lot and walk them <\/p>\n
468
\n00:24:22,120 –> 00:24:26,480
\nhand in hand out out of Sodom.
\nThey loved these people and it <\/p>\n
469
\n00:24:26,480 –> 00:24:29,160
\nmotivated them.
\nLook at the the Angel with <\/p>\n
470
\n00:24:29,160 –> 00:24:31,360
\nAbraham when they said to one
\nanother, you know, are we going <\/p>\n
471
\n00:24:31,360 –> 00:24:33,600
\nto tell Abraham we’re going to
\ndestroy Sodom or shouldn’t we? <\/p>\n
472
\n00:24:33,600 –> 00:24:37,840
\nWell, we got to tell him we know
\nhim, We love him as an intimate <\/p>\n
473
\n00:24:37,840 –> 00:24:38,680
\nfriend.
\nWe got it. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:24:38,680 –> 00:24:42,200
\nWe got to take care of Abraham.
\nThat’s what changes your life, <\/p>\n
475
\n00:24:42,200 –> 00:24:46,120
\nbrothers and sisters, when love
\nmotivates us to to affect the <\/p>\n
476
\n00:24:46,120 –> 00:24:50,960
\nway we treat one another, not
\nbecause we have to, but because <\/p>\n
477
\n00:24:51,040 –> 00:24:54,400
\nwe want to.
\nWe want to live God’s eternal <\/p>\n
478
\n00:24:54,400 –> 00:24:57,640
\nway of life.
\nAnd what that will do to you is <\/p>\n
479
\n00:24:57,640 –> 00:25:00,000
\nit casts out all the fear of
\njudgement. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:25:00,880 –> 00:25:03,440
\nIt really does.
\nYou’re not afraid of of Christ <\/p>\n
481
\n00:25:03,440 –> 00:25:05,480
\ncoming back.
\nYou’re not afraid of what’s <\/p>\n
482
\n00:25:05,480 –> 00:25:09,080
\ngoing to happen at the judgement
\nseat because you know your <\/p>\n
483
\n00:25:09,080 –> 00:25:13,080
\nloving father, the judge of all
\nthe earth, will do right. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:25:13,560 –> 00:25:15,280
\nHe will.
\nHe’ll do right. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:25:15,600 –> 00:25:17,400
\nWhatever happens, he will do
\nright. <\/p>\n
486
\n00:25:17,440 –> 00:25:20,520
\nAnd you trust that that that’s
\nthe way it will happen in the <\/p>\n
487
\n00:25:20,520 –> 00:25:23,800
\nend.
\nSo we we lose that fear because <\/p>\n
488
\n00:25:23,800 –> 00:25:27,080
\nwe trust that he’s in control
\nand we have confidence in in <\/p>\n
489
\n00:25:27,080 –> 00:25:30,640
\nGod’s love for us and we don’t
\nhave to fear as as Paul would <\/p>\n
490
\n00:25:30,640 –> 00:25:32,160
\nend.
\nI love the way Paul ends his <\/p>\n
491
\n00:25:32,160 –> 00:25:35,400
\nwhole section in in Romans one
\nand one to seven, that whole <\/p>\n
492
\n00:25:35,400 –> 00:25:38,040
\nsection about dealing with the
\natonement he gets to chapter 8 <\/p>\n
493
\n00:25:38,240 –> 00:25:40,360
\ndeals with the battle between
\nthe mind of the Spirit and the <\/p>\n
494
\n00:25:40,360 –> 00:25:42,440
\nmind of the flesh.
\nAnd then he ends up saying at <\/p>\n
495
\n00:25:42,440 –> 00:25:45,280
\nthe end of the chapter like who?
\nWho’s going to get in the way of<\/p>\n
496
\n00:25:45,280 –> 00:25:47,600
\nof God’s love for you?
\nWho’s who’s going to get there <\/p>\n
497
\n00:25:47,600 –> 00:25:50,120
\nand stop it.
\nYou know if you really think <\/p>\n
498
\n00:25:50,120 –> 00:25:53,200
\nGod’s going to go after you.
\nGod loved you so much he gave <\/p>\n
499
\n00:25:53,200 –> 00:25:55,760
\nhis son.
\nDo you think Jesus is going to <\/p>\n
500
\n00:25:55,760 –> 00:25:57,880
\ncondemn you with the judgment
\nseat of Christ? <\/p>\n
501
\n00:25:58,120 –> 00:26:02,200
\nChrist loved you so much He gave
\nhis life for you every day of <\/p>\n
502
\n00:26:02,200 –> 00:26:03,680
\nhis life.
\nHe did. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:26:04,080 –> 00:26:06,960
\nSo who’s going to separate us
\nfrom the love of God and the <\/p>\n
504
\n00:26:06,960 –> 00:26:09,720
\nlove of Christ?
\nNobody can do that, brothers and<\/p>\n
505
\n00:26:09,720 –> 00:26:13,720
\nsisters, but ourselves.
\nWe’re the ones that have to get <\/p>\n
506
\n00:26:13,720 –> 00:26:16,080
\nit right and we’ve got to put it
\ninto practice. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:26:17,160 –> 00:26:20,120
\nSo as John says there, really
\nlove. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:26:20,120 –> 00:26:25,240
\nBut perfect love casts out fear,
\nbecause fear involves <\/p>\n
509
\n00:26:25,440 –> 00:26:28,000
\npunishment.
\nWe got to get this punishment <\/p>\n
510
\n00:26:28,000 –> 00:26:32,200
\nout of our heads.
\nThey may punish our children at <\/p>\n
511
\n00:26:32,200 –> 00:26:35,520
\nschool or somewhere else to
\npunish criminals. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:26:35,520 –> 00:26:37,640
\nAnd what did they do?
\nThey put them in a jail. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:26:37,640 –> 00:26:41,280
\nAnd you deserve to be in jail.
\nThey use words like deserve and <\/p>\n
514
\n00:26:41,280 –> 00:26:44,680
\npunish and all this stuff.
\nThe New Testament doesn’t use <\/p>\n
515
\n00:26:44,680 –> 00:26:47,400
\nthose words.
\nIt’s not what you deserve. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:26:47,800 –> 00:26:50,000
\nNo, God doesn’t give us what we
\ndeserve. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:26:50,000 –> 00:26:53,360
\nHe gives us grace.
\nHe gives more grace. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:26:53,360 –> 00:26:56,280
\nThat’s the God who we worship.
\nAnd when you get it right, <\/p>\n
519
\n00:26:56,280 –> 00:26:59,400
\nbrothers and sisters, your
\nconfidence becomes in God, not <\/p>\n
520
\n00:26:59,400 –> 00:27:02,920
\nin me or not in you.
\nWe’re not confident in ourselves<\/p>\n
521
\n00:27:02,920 –> 00:27:06,520
\nto save ourselves.
\nWe are confident that if we <\/p>\n
522
\n00:27:06,520 –> 00:27:09,400
\ncooperate with all the
\nexperiences God brings into our <\/p>\n
523
\n00:27:09,400 –> 00:27:13,480
\nlife and we try to react like
\nGod would, we try to, to reveal <\/p>\n
524
\n00:27:13,480 –> 00:27:16,800
\nthe love of God to other people.
\nWe are confident that that <\/p>\n
525
\n00:27:16,800 –> 00:27:20,760
\ntraining program will bring us
\nto the Kingdom and it will allow<\/p>\n
526
\n00:27:20,760 –> 00:27:24,280
\nus to join the family of God.
\nIt’s a confidence in God, not a <\/p>\n
527
\n00:27:24,280 –> 00:27:28,480
\nconfidence in ourselves because
\nlove has more power to change <\/p>\n
528
\n00:27:28,480 –> 00:27:31,280
\nyour life than fear.
\nI don’t know whether you’ve ever<\/p>\n
529
\n00:27:31,280 –> 00:27:33,720
\nthought of that idea before, but
\nwhen you look at little <\/p>\n
530
\n00:27:33,720 –> 00:27:36,120
\nchildren, those of you that are
\nraising little guys over there, <\/p>\n
531
\n00:27:36,240 –> 00:27:38,680
\nyou know that when children are
\nyoung and they’re they’re just <\/p>\n
532
\n00:27:38,680 –> 00:27:42,280
\ngrowing up and getting started,
\nwe have to have a bit of a fear <\/p>\n
533
\n00:27:42,280 –> 00:27:44,640
\nbased relationship.
\nThey’ve got to at least respect <\/p>\n
534
\n00:27:44,640 –> 00:27:47,600
\nthat or or fear what might come
\non them if they do something <\/p>\n
535
\n00:27:47,600 –> 00:27:49,760
\nwrong.
\nBut when your children get to <\/p>\n
536
\n00:27:49,760 –> 00:27:52,480
\nteenage years, if you’re still
\ndoing that, you’re going to lose<\/p>\n
537
\n00:27:52,480 –> 00:27:55,640
\nthem that that isn’t what holds
\na family together. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:27:56,120 –> 00:27:58,240
\nLove is what holds a family
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:27:59,080 –> 00:28:01,760
\nI mean, honestly, I used to talk
\nto people at my school and when <\/p>\n
540
\n00:28:01,760 –> 00:28:03,920
\nmy kids were getting older and
\nthey used to talk about how bad <\/p>\n
541
\n00:28:03,920 –> 00:28:06,240
\nthe teenage years were going to
\nbe and you know what it’s like <\/p>\n
542
\n00:28:06,240 –> 00:28:09,200
\nto raise teenage children.
\nAnd soon I would we’d look at it<\/p>\n
543
\n00:28:09,200 –> 00:28:12,120
\nand it’s like, I I don’t know
\nwhat you’re talking about. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:28:12,720 –> 00:28:16,600
\nOur kids loved us.
\nWe had wonderful teenage years <\/p>\n
545
\n00:28:16,960 –> 00:28:21,840
\nbecause the the family got along
\nwhen we chose to live to to move<\/p>\n
546
\n00:28:21,840 –> 00:28:23,640
\nto California.
\nWe asked the family where do you<\/p>\n
547
\n00:28:23,640 –> 00:28:28,840
\nguys want to all live?
\nThey said Hawaii, ’cause they <\/p>\n
548
\n00:28:28,840 –> 00:28:31,360
\nall like the warm weather and
\nthe beaches and all that stuff. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:28:31,680 –> 00:28:34,800
\nAnd of course Sue had her vote
\nand she has the power of veto <\/p>\n
550
\n00:28:35,200 –> 00:28:38,120
\nand and Sue said Nope, won’t be
\nHawaii, there’s no ecclesia <\/p>\n
551
\n00:28:38,120 –> 00:28:41,360
\nthere and but all our kids
\nthought, well, if we move to <\/p>\n
552
\n00:28:41,360 –> 00:28:43,400
\nHawaii and we let everybody know
\nwe’re here, they’ll all come and<\/p>\n
553
\n00:28:43,400 –> 00:28:45,360
\nvisit us.
\nWe’ll have a big Sunday morning <\/p>\n
554
\n00:28:45,360 –> 00:28:49,480
\nmeeting every week, but that
\nthat’s the kind of relationship <\/p>\n
555
\n00:28:49,480 –> 00:28:52,760
\nyou can have with your children
\nif it’s loved based. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:28:53,200 –> 00:28:56,080
\nIt doesn’t have to be bad years.
\nIt doesn’t have to be living by <\/p>\n
557
\n00:28:56,080 –> 00:29:00,040
\na bunch of rules.
\nIt can be living by love and not<\/p>\n
558
\n00:29:00,040 –> 00:29:03,160
\nby law.
\nBut that transition has to take <\/p>\n
559
\n00:29:03,160 –> 00:29:06,040
\nplace from the time the children
\nare two and three and four years<\/p>\n
560
\n00:29:06,040 –> 00:29:08,280
\nold to by the time they get to
\nbe teenagers. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:29:08,600 –> 00:29:11,840
\nIt has to be a transition.
\nAnd then what happens when <\/p>\n
562
\n00:29:11,840 –> 00:29:14,520
\nthey’re studying for baptism,
\nthey realize, wow, that same <\/p>\n
563
\n00:29:14,520 –> 00:29:15,920
\nrelationship you got with mom
\nand dad. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:29:16,200 –> 00:29:19,520
\nThat’s the God that we worship.
\nAll I got to do is transfer it <\/p>\n
565
\n00:29:19,520 –> 00:29:21,400
\nover to God.
\nThat’s what he hoped would <\/p>\n
566
\n00:29:21,400 –> 00:29:24,160
\nhappen in families.
\nAnd it can happen brother than <\/p>\n
567
\n00:29:24,160 –> 00:29:26,680
\nsisters.
\nSo look at Joseph when, when <\/p>\n
568
\n00:29:26,680 –> 00:29:29,080
\nthey, when they, when the
\nbrothers sold him into Egypt. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:29:29,400 –> 00:29:32,240
\nYou remember the whole issue
\nthat they made-up this whole <\/p>\n
570
\n00:29:32,240 –> 00:29:36,840
\nstory about how, well Joseph was
\nkilled by a wild animal because <\/p>\n
571
\n00:29:36,840 –> 00:29:39,920
\nthey were afraid to tell Jacob
\nthe truth. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:29:40,480 –> 00:29:42,400
\nThey couldn’t tell them what
\nthey really did. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:29:42,760 –> 00:29:46,800
\nIt was all based off of fear.
\nThat’s the relationship they had<\/p>\n
574
\n00:29:46,800 –> 00:29:49,280
\nwith their dad.
\nAnd because it’s fearful, you <\/p>\n
575
\n00:29:49,280 –> 00:29:51,760
\ndon’t even tell the truth.
\nThat’s what happens. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:29:52,200 –> 00:29:56,920
\nBut then when Judah pleaded with
\nJoseph and you watch the change <\/p>\n
577
\n00:29:56,920 –> 00:30:00,240
\nin the character of Judah over
\nthose years, he pleaded with <\/p>\n
578
\n00:30:00,240 –> 00:30:06,520
\nJoseph to take Benjamin’s place.
\nIt’s because Judah finally loved<\/p>\n
579
\n00:30:06,520 –> 00:30:09,320
\nhis dad.
\nYou ever noticed that as you’re <\/p>\n
580
\n00:30:09,320 –> 00:30:11,360
\nreading through the story?
\nIt’s why it’s one of the <\/p>\n
581
\n00:30:11,360 –> 00:30:14,480
\nemotional, most emotional
\nstories I find in the Bible. <\/p>\n
582
\n00:30:14,480 –> 00:30:16,680
\nYou can hardly read it without
\ncrying about it. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:30:17,080 –> 00:30:23,720
\nBut finally, Joseph saw that the
\nlove for their father outweighed<\/p>\n
584
\n00:30:23,880 –> 00:30:27,320
\ntheir own personal interest.
\nAnd Judah says, let me take his <\/p>\n
585
\n00:30:27,320 –> 00:30:31,280
\nplace because I I can’t bear to
\nsee what this is going to do to <\/p>\n
586
\n00:30:31,280 –> 00:30:33,680
\nDad.
\nI can’t disappoint Dad. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:30:33,840 –> 00:30:35,320
\nI can’t let him go through this
\nagain. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:30:36,120 –> 00:30:38,480
\nHe already saw what happened
\nwhen it went through the first <\/p>\n
589
\n00:30:38,480 –> 00:30:41,520
\ntime.
\nThat’s the motivation of love <\/p>\n
590
\n00:30:41,640 –> 00:30:45,360
\nopposed to fear.
\nAnd like Paul says, that love is<\/p>\n
591
\n00:30:45,360 –> 00:30:48,160
\na fulfilling of the law.
\nThis is what the driving force <\/p>\n
592
\n00:30:48,160 –> 00:30:50,800
\nof the law was all about.
\nAnd Jesus said that you know you<\/p>\n
593
\n00:30:50,800 –> 00:30:54,280
\nshall love the Lord your God.
\nAnd what’s the second greatest <\/p>\n
594
\n00:30:54,280 –> 00:30:57,200
\ncommandment?
\nYou shall love your neighbor as <\/p>\n
595
\n00:30:57,200 –> 00:31:01,160
\nyourself.
\nSo Paul says in Romans 13, oh, <\/p>\n
596
\n00:31:01,160 –> 00:31:05,040
\nno man, anything except to love
\none another. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:31:05,280 –> 00:31:09,840
\nFor he who loves one another has
\nfulfilled the law and he lifts <\/p>\n
598
\n00:31:09,840 –> 00:31:11,960
\noff all those commandments.
\nYou know, you’ve heard those <\/p>\n
599
\n00:31:11,960 –> 00:31:13,600
\ncommandments.
\nYou shall not commit adultery, <\/p>\n
600
\n00:31:13,600 –> 00:31:16,160
\nnot murder, not steal.
\nI think Stephen’s probably <\/p>\n
601
\n00:31:16,160 –> 00:31:18,720
\ntelling you about all those
\nthings and bear false witness <\/p>\n
602
\n00:31:18,720 –> 00:31:21,160
\nand covenant all that.
\nBut if there’s any other <\/p>\n
603
\n00:31:21,160 –> 00:31:24,960
\ncommandment, they’re all summed
\nup in this saying, namely, you <\/p>\n
604
\n00:31:24,960 –> 00:31:29,280
\nshall love your neighbor as
\nyourself, because love won’t do <\/p>\n
605
\n00:31:29,280 –> 00:31:33,000
\nany harm to your neighbor and
\ntherefore love is the fulfilling<\/p>\n
606
\n00:31:33,000 –> 00:31:36,280
\nof the law.
\nSo it’s it’s hard to, but we <\/p>\n
607
\n00:31:36,280 –> 00:31:40,000
\ncan, brothers and sisters, get
\nout of the mode of reacting <\/p>\n
608
\n00:31:40,000 –> 00:31:44,320
\nagainst problems in families and
\necclesias by thinking right away<\/p>\n
609
\n00:31:44,320 –> 00:31:47,560
\nwhat we’re going to have to do
\nto bring consequences into <\/p>\n
610
\n00:31:47,560 –> 00:31:50,080
\nsomebody’s life.
\nWhat do you do when a when a <\/p>\n
611
\n00:31:50,080 –> 00:31:52,400
\nyoung person comes to you, you
\nfind out that they’ve had <\/p>\n
612
\n00:31:52,400 –> 00:31:54,200
\npremarital sex?
\nWhat are you what are you going <\/p>\n
613
\n00:31:54,200 –> 00:31:56,040
\nto do?
\nHow are you going to react to <\/p>\n
614
\n00:31:56,040 –> 00:31:59,040
\nthat You does your mind go to
\nthe fact that right away you <\/p>\n
615
\n00:31:59,040 –> 00:32:01,320
\nthink about, well we’re going to
\nhave to do this and this and <\/p>\n
616
\n00:32:01,320 –> 00:32:03,640
\nthis and this because of what
\nyou’ve done? <\/p>\n
617
\n00:32:03,760 –> 00:32:05,640
\nIs that is that where our minds
\ngo? <\/p>\n
618
\n00:32:06,240 –> 00:32:09,000
\nI I hope as parents it isn’t
\nwhat you think. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:32:09,720 –> 00:32:12,720
\nI I think as parents we’ve we’re
\nall being trained to realize <\/p>\n
620
\n00:32:12,720 –> 00:32:18,160
\nwhen you love your children, we
\nask them, well, I’m glad you <\/p>\n
621
\n00:32:18,160 –> 00:32:21,200
\ntold me but what can we do now?
\nHow how are we going to go <\/p>\n
622
\n00:32:21,200 –> 00:32:22,840
\nahead?
\nHow are we going to move forward<\/p>\n
623
\n00:32:22,840 –> 00:32:25,840
\nwith this within the framework
\nof of God’s principles. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:32:26,320 –> 00:32:29,080
\nBut you don’t come after them
\nwith punishment. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:32:29,520 –> 00:32:32,080
\nWe come after them with how are
\nwe going to solve this how are <\/p>\n
626
\n00:32:32,080 –> 00:32:34,520
\nwe going to deal with that.
\nAnd and I’ve watched so many <\/p>\n
627
\n00:32:34,520 –> 00:32:37,240
\npeople do this in a collegial
\nlife with their own children. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:32:37,920 –> 00:32:41,320
\nBut then when it comes to
\nsomebody else’s child and <\/p>\n
629
\n00:32:41,320 –> 00:32:45,680
\nEurangi Board’s making decision,
\nit’s very difficult to treat <\/p>\n
630
\n00:32:45,680 –> 00:32:48,720
\nsomebody else’s children like
\nyou would treat your own. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:32:49,440 –> 00:32:52,080
\nAnd I would suggest that that’s
\none of the greatest things we <\/p>\n
632
\n00:32:52,080 –> 00:32:55,440
\ncan do is to try to put
\nourselves in the position of <\/p>\n
633
\n00:32:55,440 –> 00:32:59,240
\nthose parents or that young
\nperson and think like, what do I<\/p>\n
634
\n00:32:59,240 –> 00:33:01,680
\nreally need right now?
\nWhat am I really looking for <\/p>\n
635
\n00:33:01,680 –> 00:33:03,400
\nfrom the Ecclesia?
\nI need help. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:33:04,320 –> 00:33:07,720
\nWho’s willing to help me.
\nWe don’t need people to condemn <\/p>\n
637
\n00:33:07,720 –> 00:33:10,200
\nus.
\nWe already condemn ourselves. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:33:10,640 –> 00:33:13,800
\nWhat we need is people that are
\nwilling to help us move forward.<\/p>\n
639
\n00:33:14,360 –> 00:33:16,960
\nNow I I really think you see
\nthat in Jesus with the woman <\/p>\n
640
\n00:33:16,960 –> 00:33:19,640
\ncaught in adultery.
\nIn John 8, you know, he gets all<\/p>\n
641
\n00:33:19,640 –> 00:33:21,440
\nthe way to the end.
\nAnd he says, well, neither do I <\/p>\n
642
\n00:33:21,440 –> 00:33:23,840
\ncondemn you, but go and sin no
\nmore. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:33:23,840 –> 00:33:26,920
\nLet’s change, Let’s learn from
\nthis and let’s move forward. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:33:27,280 –> 00:33:30,600
\nThat’s what God’s looking for in
\nall of us, because that’s how <\/p>\n
645
\n00:33:30,600 –> 00:33:33,280
\nGod treats us.
\nIt’s great. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:33:33,760 –> 00:33:36,320
\nAnd so love does no harm to a
\nneighbor. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:33:36,320 –> 00:33:39,160
\nTherefore, love is the
\nfulfillment of the law. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:33:39,880 –> 00:33:42,720
\nIt’s it’s much more important
\nthan just going through a bunch <\/p>\n
649
\n00:33:42,720 –> 00:33:46,200
\nof legalistic rules.
\nSo parents, as our children are <\/p>\n
650
\n00:33:46,200 –> 00:33:49,440
\nyoung, we do lay down the law
\nbecause we want to protect them.<\/p>\n
651
\n00:33:49,440 –> 00:33:52,400
\nI can remember with my autistic
\ndaughter she used to like, want <\/p>\n
652
\n00:33:52,400 –> 00:33:55,480
\nto walk right out the door,
\nright down the sidewalk right <\/p>\n
653
\n00:33:55,480 –> 00:33:58,480
\nout into the street in front of
\nthe cars, had no awareness of <\/p>\n
654
\n00:33:58,480 –> 00:34:01,760
\ncars going down the road.
\nAnd and we had to treat her in a<\/p>\n
655
\n00:34:01,760 –> 00:34:04,280
\ndifferent way than we treated
\nthe other kids because it was <\/p>\n
656
\n00:34:04,280 –> 00:34:07,720
\nfor safety reasons.
\nBut as they get older, as our <\/p>\n
657
\n00:34:07,720 –> 00:34:11,520
\nkids get older, we have to turn
\nour our our course and direction<\/p>\n
658
\n00:34:11,520 –> 00:34:16,600
\naround culture.
\nThey’re going to do that. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:34:16,600 –> 00:34:19,320
\nAnd what do we do and and punish
\nthem? <\/p>\n
660
\n00:34:19,639 –> 00:34:22,320
\nOr do we try to talk through
\nthese things and explain why we <\/p>\n
661
\n00:34:22,320 –> 00:34:25,239
\ndo that, Open the door to the
\nfact well, maybe you guys have a<\/p>\n
662
\n00:34:25,239 –> 00:34:27,000
\ngood idea that we hadn’t even
\nthought about before. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:34:27,000 –> 00:34:29,480
\nMaybe there is a different way
\nto do this and we don’t have to <\/p>\n
664
\n00:34:29,480 –> 00:34:32,600
\nwait that we don’t have to do it
\nthe way we always did, but that <\/p>\n
665
\n00:34:32,600 –> 00:34:34,520
\nmight be a better way to do it
\nToday. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:34:34,760 –> 00:34:37,440
\nThat’s a possibility.
\nBut we don’t get angry at people<\/p>\n
667
\n00:34:37,440 –> 00:34:40,239
\nand yell at them and scream and
\nthose kind of things, you know, <\/p>\n
668
\n00:34:40,280 –> 00:34:44,040
\nour obedience to our parents and
\nGod, it has to come from love. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:34:44,280 –> 00:34:48,080
\nThat’s our goal for them.
\nYou know you look at Deuteronomy<\/p>\n
670
\n00:34:48,080 –> 00:34:50,120
\n25.
\nThat whole section there in <\/p>\n
671
\n00:34:50,120 –> 00:34:55,760
\nDeuteronomy 25, in the 1st 10
\nverses or so it it’s all <\/p>\n
672
\n00:34:56,400 –> 00:34:59,440
\nproblems that people get into.
\nSo he starts out as there’s <\/p>\n
673
\n00:34:59,440 –> 00:35:02,200
\nthere’s a speak to men and they
\ncome to court and the judge may <\/p>\n
674
\n00:35:02,200 –> 00:35:04,640
\njudge them and they justify the
\nrighteous condemn them. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:35:05,560 –> 00:35:08,440
\nWe’re not going to do things
\nthat humiliate people like that.<\/p>\n
676
\n00:35:08,600 –> 00:35:10,000
\nThat’s not what we’re going to
\ndo. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:35:10,520 –> 00:35:11,720
\nAnd then he throws in there.
\nOh yeah. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:35:11,720 –> 00:35:14,320
\nBy the way don’t muzzle an ox
\nwhen it. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:35:15,400 –> 00:35:18,280
\nSome of you know Paul’s comment
\non it and Corinthians, you know,<\/p>\n
680
\n00:35:18,280 –> 00:35:21,240
\nBut but when we’re first going
\nthrough the law, our natural <\/p>\n
681
\n00:35:21,240 –> 00:35:23,400
\nreaction is just to go.
\nHere’s another law at home <\/p>\n
682
\n00:35:23,400 –> 00:35:25,160
\nMuzzle docks when it turns out
\nthe grave. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:35:26,120 –> 00:35:30,240
\nPaul gives the New Testament
\nexposition of that which is so <\/p>\n
684
\n00:35:30,240 –> 00:35:32,760
\ngreat to have the New Testament
\nwriters tell us what these Old <\/p>\n
685
\n00:35:32,760 –> 00:35:36,240
\nTestament things really meant.
\nHe says in First Corinthians 9, <\/p>\n
686
\n00:35:36,240 –> 00:35:40,320
\nhe tells us how to read the law.
\nHere’s really what that meant. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:35:40,680 –> 00:35:44,000
\nSo my defense to those who
\nexamine me, he says, do we have <\/p>\n
688
\n00:35:44,000 –> 00:35:46,800
\nno right to eat and drink?
\nDo we have no right to take <\/p>\n
689
\n00:35:46,800 –> 00:35:50,000
\nalong a bleeding wife, wife, or
\nand do also as the other <\/p>\n
690
\n00:35:50,000 –> 00:35:52,080
\napostles and brothers of the
\nLord or Cephas? <\/p>\n
691
\n00:35:52,080 –> 00:35:54,800
\nOr is it only Barnabas and I who
\nhad no right from to refrain <\/p>\n
692
\n00:35:54,800 –> 00:35:57,240
\nfrom working?
\nAnd so he goes on in verse 8 and<\/p>\n
693
\n00:35:57,240 –> 00:36:01,000
\nhe says, do I say these things
\nas a mere man, Not the law. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:36:01,000 –> 00:36:04,200
\nSay the same thing, or it is
\nwritten in the law of Moses. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:36:04,240 –> 00:36:07,520
\nYou shall not muzzle an ox while
\nit treads out the grain. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:36:08,320 –> 00:36:12,280
\nSee, now he goes back.
\nHe quotes that phrase out of <\/p>\n
697
\n00:36:12,280 –> 00:36:15,920
\nDeuteronomy 25.
\nAnd then he says to people, what<\/p>\n
698
\n00:36:15,920 –> 00:36:18,920
\ndo you really think?
\nDo you think God really just <\/p>\n
699
\n00:36:18,920 –> 00:36:22,840
\ncared about the oxen?
\nIs that how you take the law and<\/p>\n
700
\n00:36:22,840 –> 00:36:25,080
\nyou take it word for word and
\nyou read it and you just say, <\/p>\n
701
\n00:36:25,080 –> 00:36:27,720
\nwell, it’s just this, it’s just
\nthis and it’s just that. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:36:27,880 –> 00:36:30,400
\nAnd you limit, you limit its
\napplication. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:36:30,880 –> 00:36:33,840
\nIs it really oxen that God was
\nconcerned about? <\/p>\n
704
\n00:36:33,840 –> 00:36:37,400
\nOr does he say it all together
\nfor our sakes, and then he <\/p>\n
705
\n00:36:37,400 –> 00:36:39,880
\nanswers his own question for our
\nsakes. <\/p>\n
706
\n00:36:39,880 –> 00:36:42,920
\nNo doubt this is written that he
\nwho ploughs should plough with <\/p>\n
707
\n00:36:42,920 –> 00:36:46,600
\nhope, and he who threshes in
\nhope should be partakers of the <\/p>\n
708
\n00:36:47,000 –> 00:36:50,440
\nand be partakers of this hope.
\nIt was all written there so that<\/p>\n
709
\n00:36:50,440 –> 00:36:54,360
\nwe would not mistreat people,
\npeople. <\/p>\n
710
\n00:36:54,800 –> 00:36:56,440
\nIt’s about how we treat one
\nanother. <\/p>\n
711
\n00:36:57,000 –> 00:37:00,000
\nPaul brings it up again in in
\nFirst Timothy 5 and again he <\/p>\n
712
\n00:37:00,000 –> 00:37:02,640
\nshows you about how we should be
\nreading the law. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:37:03,200 –> 00:37:06,600
\nSo families, what God designed
\nthe family for and that large <\/p>\n
714
\n00:37:07,040 –> 00:37:11,240
\nextent was to teach us how to
\nshow mercy, how to deal with <\/p>\n
715
\n00:37:11,240 –> 00:37:14,000
\npeople that make mistakes.
\nYou know, our kids make a lot of<\/p>\n
716
\n00:37:14,000 –> 00:37:15,640
\nmistakes.
\nI’m sure yours, dude. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:37:16,120 –> 00:37:18,400
\nOurs make a lot of they did.
\nThey made a lot of mistakes in <\/p>\n
718
\n00:37:18,400 –> 00:37:20,200
\nlife.
\nLook at ourselves like, you <\/p>\n
719
\n00:37:20,200 –> 00:37:23,520
\nknow, James says in Chapter 3.
\nFor we all make many mistakes in<\/p>\n
720
\n00:37:23,520 –> 00:37:25,520
\nthe RSV.
\nThat’s the way he words that. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:37:25,800 –> 00:37:28,600
\nSo that’s why we don’t judge one
\nanother so harshly. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:37:28,600 –> 00:37:32,200
\nWe all make many mistakes.
\nBut what God is hoping for, and <\/p>\n
723
\n00:37:32,200 –> 00:37:35,640
\nthe wonderful thing about our
\nGod is, is that he can watch our<\/p>\n
724
\n00:37:35,640 –> 00:37:39,480
\nmistakes and he doesn’t get near
\nas upset about them as we do <\/p>\n
725
\n00:37:39,480 –> 00:37:42,600
\nwith one another.
\nYou ever thought about that? <\/p>\n
726
\n00:37:42,600 –> 00:37:44,480
\nAnd then you think about, like,
\nwhat? <\/p>\n
727
\n00:37:44,480 –> 00:37:47,240
\nWhat is it like from the angel’s
\nperspective is if somebody makes<\/p>\n
728
\n00:37:47,240 –> 00:37:49,800
\nsome mistake, take some big
\nmistake in the community. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:37:49,800 –> 00:37:52,680
\nIf somebody commits adultery or
\nsomebody commits divorce, and <\/p>\n
730
\n00:37:52,680 –> 00:37:55,080
\nthen they get remarried.
\nAnd these things that we elevate<\/p>\n
731
\n00:37:55,080 –> 00:37:57,000
\nup there is like the biggest
\nthings in the world. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:37:57,360 –> 00:38:01,000
\nWhat the way God looks at this
\nis really different than we do. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:38:01,440 –> 00:38:05,120
\nHe sees them as learning
\nexperiences for people. <\/p>\n
734
\n00:38:05,920 –> 00:38:09,880
\nHe’s waiting to see how is that
\nperson going to respond with <\/p>\n
735
\n00:38:09,880 –> 00:38:13,520
\nthat mistake.
\nAnd if, if we understand the way<\/p>\n
736
\n00:38:13,520 –> 00:38:18,640
\nGod’s looking at it, we will
\nhelp those people respond the <\/p>\n
737
\n00:38:18,640 –> 00:38:21,600
\nway God is hoping they will
\nrespond, and that they will <\/p>\n
738
\n00:38:21,600 –> 00:38:25,440
\nlearn from those mistakes
\ninstead of condemning them all <\/p>\n
739
\n00:38:25,440 –> 00:38:28,640
\nthe time for the mistakes.
\nYou ever thought of that before <\/p>\n
740
\n00:38:28,800 –> 00:38:30,040
\nthat?
\nThat’s what God does. <\/p>\n
741
\n00:38:30,360 –> 00:38:33,640
\nIt’s a learning program.
\nIt’s it’s a a training program. <\/p>\n
742
\n00:38:33,840 –> 00:38:37,320
\nSo those have been trained, as
\nPaul says in Hebrews 13, Hebrews<\/p>\n
743
\n00:38:37,320 –> 00:38:39,160
\n12.
\nThe the the fruit of <\/p>\n
744
\n00:38:39,160 –> 00:38:42,120
\nrighteousness comes out of that.
\nWe’re going through a training <\/p>\n
745
\n00:38:42,120 –> 00:38:44,160
\nprogram.
\nWe don’t want a coach who just <\/p>\n
746
\n00:38:44,160 –> 00:38:46,960
\nsits there for every mistake and
\njust beats us on the on the head<\/p>\n
747
\n00:38:46,960 –> 00:38:49,200
\nfor the fact he made another
\nmistake, made another mistake. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:38:49,640 –> 00:38:53,920
\nNow our coach watches our
\nmistakes, and what he’s hoping <\/p>\n
749
\n00:38:53,920 –> 00:38:57,760
\nfor is the end product is
\nsomeone who has learned to live <\/p>\n
750
\n00:38:57,760 –> 00:39:01,520
\nhis eternal way of life.
\nThat’s different than the way I <\/p>\n
751
\n00:39:01,520 –> 00:39:03,280
\ngrew up.
\nThat’s very different than the <\/p>\n
752
\n00:39:03,280 –> 00:39:07,080
\nway I used to think.
\nAnd I really found it helped me <\/p>\n
753
\n00:39:07,280 –> 00:39:11,880
\nhelp other people who had made
\nmistakes so they can go to young<\/p>\n
754
\n00:39:11,880 –> 00:39:14,240
\npeople and other brothers and
\nsisters that have done things <\/p>\n
755
\n00:39:14,240 –> 00:39:19,840
\nthat the rest of the ecclesia
\nmight just totally show up <\/p>\n
756
\n00:39:19,840 –> 00:39:21,600
\nagain.
\nAnd you can go to them and find <\/p>\n
757
\n00:39:21,600 –> 00:39:24,840
\nout, well, how can we help you,
\nwhat can we do to help and move <\/p>\n
758
\n00:39:24,840 –> 00:39:27,240
\nforward.
\nThat’s what God does. <\/p>\n
759
\n00:39:27,680 –> 00:39:32,280
\nHe helps us move forward and He
\nextends mercy to us, hoping that<\/p>\n
760
\n00:39:32,280 –> 00:39:35,560
\nwe will respond and that we’ll
\nlearn that all these things, all<\/p>\n
761
\n00:39:35,560 –> 00:39:37,720
\nthese mistakes we made, and
\nlet’s be honest, friend and <\/p>\n
762
\n00:39:37,720 –> 00:39:40,280
\nsisters, we all make these
\nmistakes. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:39:40,280 –> 00:39:42,800
\nEverybody, just.
\nSome are more public than <\/p>\n
764
\n00:39:42,800 –> 00:39:45,080
\nothers, but everybody is
\nfailing. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:39:45,240 –> 00:39:47,720
\nWe all are.
\nAnd why do you come to meeting <\/p>\n
766
\n00:39:47,720 –> 00:39:49,480
\non Sunday and take the bread and
\nwine? <\/p>\n
767
\n00:39:49,640 –> 00:39:51,800
\nYou ask most people?
\nWhat they’re hoping for is <\/p>\n
768
\n00:39:51,800 –> 00:39:55,840
\nforgiveness and mercy and and if
\nthat’s what we’re hoping for, <\/p>\n
769
\n00:39:55,840 –> 00:39:57,840
\ndon’t you think the rest they’re
\nhoping for that? <\/p>\n
770
\n00:39:57,920 –> 00:40:00,080
\nI’m not talking about people
\nthat walk away from the truth. <\/p>\n
771
\n00:40:00,240 –> 00:40:02,120
\nI’m talking about people who
\nhave made mistakes. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:40:02,400 –> 00:40:05,400
\nThey’re looking for someone to
\nrespond to them like God <\/p>\n
773
\n00:40:05,400 –> 00:40:07,640
\nresponds to them and he’s
\nwilling to forgive. <\/p>\n
774
\n00:40:08,240 –> 00:40:11,120
\nSo family life and a collegial
\nlife, they’re they’re not going <\/p>\n
775
\n00:40:11,120 –> 00:40:13,760
\nto be perfect and don’t ever
\nexpect them to be. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:40:14,160 –> 00:40:16,440
\nYou don’t develop in a perfect
\nsituation. <\/p>\n
777
\n00:40:16,720 –> 00:40:18,360
\nSome people get very
\ndiscouraged. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:40:18,360 –> 00:40:20,440
\nAmongst the Christadelphians, I
\nthink some of the young people, <\/p>\n
779
\n00:40:20,440 –> 00:40:23,320
\nyou might get discouraged when
\nyou realize, hey us older guys, <\/p>\n
780
\n00:40:23,320 –> 00:40:26,280
\nwe we are always perfect.
\nWe make a lot of mistakes and <\/p>\n
781
\n00:40:26,280 –> 00:40:29,280
\nwe’re we’re not the perfect
\npeople that we sometimes present<\/p>\n
782
\n00:40:29,280 –> 00:40:33,680
\nourselves to be.
\nBut that’s OK because God wants <\/p>\n
783
\n00:40:33,680 –> 00:40:36,080
\nyou to work through those
\nmistakes, to learn from the <\/p>\n
784
\n00:40:36,080 –> 00:40:39,160
\nmistakes of others and try to
\nfigure out how can we all get <\/p>\n
785
\n00:40:39,160 –> 00:40:40,760
\nalong, how can we help each
\nother. <\/p>\n
786
\n00:40:41,160 –> 00:40:44,200
\nSo you consider look at Jesus’s
\nfamily and how they treated him <\/p>\n
787
\n00:40:44,520 –> 00:40:47,400
\nand and the ecclesia itself.
\nThink of David’s or or <\/p>\n
788
\n00:40:47,400 –> 00:40:49,400
\nJonathan’s families.
\nThey weren’t perfect. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:40:49,640 –> 00:40:53,920
\nNo way they weren’t perfect.
\nAnd yet still God developed his,<\/p>\n
790
\n00:40:54,000 –> 00:40:57,480
\nhis, his gems, his goal.
\nJoseph’s family were were <\/p>\n
791
\n00:40:57,480 –> 00:41:00,560
\nterrible for years.
\nFor years all they cared about <\/p>\n
792
\n00:41:00,560 –> 00:41:03,360
\nwere themselves.
\nBut through the experiences the <\/p>\n
793
\n00:41:03,360 –> 00:41:06,840
\nangels brought into their life
\nand that Joseph built on when <\/p>\n
794
\n00:41:06,840 –> 00:41:10,480
\nthey came to Egypt, because he
\nunderstood how the angels worked<\/p>\n
795
\n00:41:10,840 –> 00:41:14,520
\nand he and he put his, his
\nbrothers into situations, not <\/p>\n
796
\n00:41:14,520 –> 00:41:17,760
\nreally just to test them, but to
\nfind out if they would <\/p>\n
797
\n00:41:17,760 –> 00:41:21,280
\nspiritually grow.
\nAre they ready now to, like, do <\/p>\n
798
\n00:41:21,280 –> 00:41:24,160
\nsomething for somebody else when
\nbefore they weren’t? <\/p>\n
799
\n00:41:24,160 –> 00:41:28,480
\nThey didn’t care about Dad.
\nBefore they didn’t care about <\/p>\n
800
\n00:41:28,480 –> 00:41:31,520
\nJoseph.
\nAnd now Judah comes forward and,<\/p>\n
801
\n00:41:31,600 –> 00:41:34,000
\noh, I can’t do this to Dad.
\nI love him. <\/p>\n
802
\n00:41:34,000 –> 00:41:35,720
\nI’m not going to put him to it
\nagain. <\/p>\n
803
\n00:41:36,160 –> 00:41:39,920
\nSee, that’s how Joseph thought.
\nHe comes about as close as any <\/p>\n
804
\n00:41:39,920 –> 00:41:42,640
\nBible character I’ve ever seen
\nwho operates like an Angel. <\/p>\n
805
\n00:41:43,040 –> 00:41:45,880
\nNot not trying to get people,
\nbut trying to develop their <\/p>\n
806
\n00:41:45,880 –> 00:41:48,280
\nspiritual character.
\nAnd there’s a whole list of them<\/p>\n
807
\n00:41:48,280 –> 00:41:49,920
\nthat, as you can see them
\nthrough the Scriptures. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:41:50,240 –> 00:41:53,960
\nSo that’s what God does.
\nHe develops strength through our<\/p>\n
809
\n00:41:53,960 –> 00:41:57,240
\nweaknesses, but all the glory
\ngoes to God. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:41:57,520 –> 00:41:59,680
\nSee how this works?
\nNobody’s going to walk into the <\/p>\n
811
\n00:41:59,680 –> 00:42:01,160
\nKingdom saying look at what I
\ndid. <\/p>\n
812
\n00:42:01,400 –> 00:42:04,120
\nLook at all the rest of my
\necclesia did this or that, or my<\/p>\n
813
\n00:42:04,120 –> 00:42:06,520
\nfamily did, but look at me, I I
\ndidn’t do those things. <\/p>\n
814
\n00:42:07,040 –> 00:42:09,280
\nI think maybe Job’s friends
\nwould have been like that at the<\/p>\n
815
\n00:42:09,280 –> 00:42:10,840
\nbeginning.
\nThey were very much into <\/p>\n
816
\n00:42:10,840 –> 00:42:14,840
\nthinking they were pretty good.
\nBut in the end, what God was <\/p>\n
817
\n00:42:14,840 –> 00:42:17,200
\nhoping for is they would all
\nrealize we all make many <\/p>\n
818
\n00:42:17,200 –> 00:42:19,000
\nmistakes.
\nAnd the only thing that’s <\/p>\n
819
\n00:42:19,000 –> 00:42:22,200
\ndifferent is that God’s working
\nin our life, He’s extending <\/p>\n
820
\n00:42:22,200 –> 00:42:26,000
\nmercy to us, allowing us the
\nopportunity tomorrow to start <\/p>\n
821
\n00:42:26,000 –> 00:42:29,080
\nagain and to grow again.
\nIt’s it’s it’s great. <\/p>\n
822
\n00:42:29,360 –> 00:42:31,760
\nIt’s it’s a wonderful way to
\ntreat people. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:42:32,200 –> 00:42:35,640
\nSo you look at how Jesus reacted
\nin John 8 with the adultery <\/p>\n
824
\n00:42:35,640 –> 00:42:37,520
\ncase.
\nI already mentioned it, but, you<\/p>\n
825
\n00:42:37,520 –> 00:42:39,520
\nknow, he knew this woman was
\nguilty. <\/p>\n
826
\n00:42:39,600 –> 00:42:42,480
\nHe knew it.
\nAnd according to the law, if you<\/p>\n
827
\n00:42:42,480 –> 00:42:46,040
\nread the law legally, he would
\nsay we should stone her. <\/p>\n
828
\n00:42:46,040 –> 00:42:49,800
\nShe’s guilty of adultery and and
\na lot of Christadelphians would <\/p>\n
829
\n00:42:49,800 –> 00:42:52,120
\nwould like this.
\nI mean, let’s be honest, <\/p>\n
830
\n00:42:52,120 –> 00:42:56,080
\nbrothers and sisters, we are
\nlike as people, we tend to be <\/p>\n
831
\n00:42:56,080 –> 00:42:59,240
\nvery judgmental.
\nWe tend to make bad decisions <\/p>\n
832
\n00:42:59,240 –> 00:43:02,720
\nabout how we treat other people.
\nIt’s hard to get into the mind <\/p>\n
833
\n00:43:02,720 –> 00:43:05,000
\nof God.
\nIt’s hard, but when you <\/p>\n
834
\n00:43:05,000 –> 00:43:09,280
\nappreciate how God treats you,
\nit should motivate us to treat <\/p>\n
835
\n00:43:09,280 –> 00:43:12,600
\nother people in a better way.
\nAnd look at things like this. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:43:12,600 –> 00:43:16,240
\nThese kind of stories just stuck
\nin my head as like, this is so <\/p>\n
837
\n00:43:16,240 –> 00:43:19,560
\nagainst the way I grew up.
\nJesus, say to all the other <\/p>\n
838
\n00:43:19,560 –> 00:43:21,480
\nguys, you’re right, she
\ncommitted adultery. <\/p>\n
839
\n00:43:21,480 –> 00:43:23,640
\nThe law says we just need two or
\nthree witnesses. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:43:23,640 –> 00:43:26,960
\nLet’s stone her.
\nHe doesn’t do that and he’s <\/p>\n
841
\n00:43:26,960 –> 00:43:32,440
\nkeeping the law perfectly.
\nThat’s why these are great <\/p>\n
842
\n00:43:32,440 –> 00:43:34,960
\nexamples.
\nIf it’s somebody else, it would <\/p>\n
843
\n00:43:34,960 –> 00:43:37,760
\nbe a different story.
\nBut in the end, all he really <\/p>\n
844
\n00:43:37,760 –> 00:43:41,240
\ncared about is that the woman
\nlearned from this and she walked<\/p>\n
845
\n00:43:41,240 –> 00:43:43,800
\naway.
\nAnd he says in verse 11, neither<\/p>\n
846
\n00:43:43,800 –> 00:43:46,120
\ndo I condemn you.
\nHe didn’t condemn her. <\/p>\n
847
\n00:43:46,120 –> 00:43:47,560
\nHe wasn’t going to witness
\nagainst her. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:43:47,880 –> 00:43:50,680
\nBut go and sin no more.
\nLearn from this. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:43:50,840 –> 00:43:53,760
\nChange your life and go and sin
\nno more. <\/p>\n
850
\n00:43:54,040 –> 00:43:55,640
\nAnd he goes on and says to them
\nright away. <\/p>\n
851
\n00:43:55,640 –> 00:43:57,640
\nHe says, I am the light of the
\nworld. <\/p>\n
852
\n00:43:58,240 –> 00:44:02,160
\nThis was the light, a new way to
\ntreat people different than the <\/p>\n
853
\n00:44:02,160 –> 00:44:04,400
\nPharisees that taught those
\npeople of that generation. <\/p>\n
854
\n00:44:04,720 –> 00:44:08,520
\nBut whoever follows me will not
\nwalk in darkness but have the <\/p>\n
855
\n00:44:08,520 –> 00:44:12,600
\nlight of life, the light of
\nGod’s eternal life. <\/p>\n
856
\n00:44:12,880 –> 00:44:16,080
\nThat life that John one talks
\nabout that was in his Son, <\/p>\n
857
\n00:44:16,080 –> 00:44:19,000
\nmanifested from the Father.
\nThat’s that’s our God. <\/p>\n
858
\n00:44:19,560 –> 00:44:21,720
\nI mentioned to you the other
\nday, look in Matthew one of how <\/p>\n
859
\n00:44:21,760 –> 00:44:24,680
\nJoseph reacted.
\nYou know God put this in the <\/p>\n
860
\n00:44:24,680 –> 00:44:28,360
\nBible record for a reason, that
\neven though he’s betrothed to <\/p>\n
861
\n00:44:28,360 –> 00:44:32,720
\nMary, she’s now having the child
\nand she should by law she should<\/p>\n
862
\n00:44:32,720 –> 00:44:35,160
\nbe stoned.
\nBible goes out of its way to <\/p>\n
863
\n00:44:35,160 –> 00:44:37,360
\ntell us.
\nMatthew says then Joseph, her <\/p>\n
864
\n00:44:37,360 –> 00:44:42,840
\nhusband, being a righteous man,
\na just man, and not wanting to <\/p>\n
865
\n00:44:42,840 –> 00:44:46,640
\nmake a public example of her, he
\nwas minded to put her away <\/p>\n
866
\n00:44:46,640 –> 00:44:50,040
\nsecretly.
\nSee, I bet not many of us would <\/p>\n
867
\n00:44:50,040 –> 00:44:53,240
\nhave read the law that way.
\nI I know I wouldn’t have. <\/p>\n
868
\n00:44:53,240 –> 00:44:55,520
\nAs a young person, I used to
\nread the law and say, well, if <\/p>\n
869
\n00:44:55,520 –> 00:44:58,440
\nit says that she should, she
\nshould be stoned for, for being <\/p>\n
870
\n00:44:58,440 –> 00:45:00,800
\npregnant now and being patrolled
\nto him and she’s gone and <\/p>\n
871
\n00:45:00,800 –> 00:45:02,960
\nfaithful to him.
\nThe law said we should all pick <\/p>\n
872
\n00:45:02,960 –> 00:45:07,160
\nup stones and stone her.
\nThat’s the way I read the law <\/p>\n
873
\n00:45:08,040 –> 00:45:11,400
\nand I I wrong.
\nIt’s wrong to read it that way. <\/p>\n
874
\n00:45:11,400 –> 00:45:13,560
\nThat isn’t really what it meant
\nit. <\/p>\n
875
\n00:45:13,560 –> 00:45:17,600
\nIt may be that that’s what we
\ndeserve, yes, But mercy was <\/p>\n
876
\n00:45:17,600 –> 00:45:21,040
\nalways there to be extended God,
\nhoping that people would learn <\/p>\n
877
\n00:45:21,040 –> 00:45:23,480
\nfrom their mistakes.
\nAnd in this case, wasn’t even <\/p>\n
878
\n00:45:23,480 –> 00:45:26,280
\nMary’s fault.
\nLook at how Jesus deals with <\/p>\n
879
\n00:45:26,280 –> 00:45:29,480
\nthis in Matthew chapter 12.
\nAnd again, these stories are <\/p>\n
880
\n00:45:29,480 –> 00:45:33,160
\nhere for us so that we should
\nunderstand how to read this law.<\/p>\n
881
\n00:45:33,520 –> 00:45:35,840
\nAt that time, Jesus went through
\nthe grain fields, right? <\/p>\n
882
\n00:45:35,840 –> 00:45:37,800
\nAnd the disciples were hungry,
\nand they began to pluck the <\/p>\n
883
\n00:45:37,800 –> 00:45:40,080
\nheads of grain.
\nWhen the Pharisees saw it, they <\/p>\n
884
\n00:45:40,080 –> 00:45:43,680
\nsaid to him, look, your
\ndisciples aren’t doing what is <\/p>\n
885
\n00:45:43,680 –> 00:45:45,200
\nlawful.
\nThey’re not doing what they’re <\/p>\n
886
\n00:45:45,200 –> 00:45:47,200
\ndoing what is not lawful to do
\non the Sabbath. <\/p>\n
887
\n00:45:47,440 –> 00:45:51,240
\nThey’re breaking this rule.
\nThey’re not following the rules,<\/p>\n
888
\n00:45:51,240 –> 00:45:52,840
\nright?
\nWe’re all good at that. <\/p>\n
889
\n00:45:52,840 –> 00:45:56,880
\nWe watch people and we can so
\neasily say they’re not following<\/p>\n
890
\n00:45:56,880 –> 00:45:59,440
\nthe rules.
\nAnd then Jesus, what does he say<\/p>\n
891
\n00:45:59,440 –> 00:46:02,040
\nback to them?
\nHaven’t you read? <\/p>\n
892
\n00:46:02,920 –> 00:46:06,680
\nDidn’t you read your Bibles?
\nAnd didn’t you notice what David<\/p>\n
893
\n00:46:06,680 –> 00:46:09,480
\ndid when he was hungry and and
\nhe and those that were with him,<\/p>\n
894
\n00:46:09,720 –> 00:46:13,920
\nhow he entered the House of God
\nand ate the showbread, which was<\/p>\n
895
\n00:46:13,920 –> 00:46:18,560
\nnot lawful for him to eat.
\nDavid broke the law and wasn’t <\/p>\n
896
\n00:46:18,560 –> 00:46:23,080
\nlawful for him to do it and and
\nGod accepted that and and what <\/p>\n
897
\n00:46:23,080 –> 00:46:26,080
\nis what do you learn from that?
\nIs that just like a special <\/p>\n
898
\n00:46:26,080 –> 00:46:27,760
\nexception that David could get
\naway? <\/p>\n
899
\n00:46:27,760 –> 00:46:30,240
\nIs that how you read that that
\nGod just made an exception in <\/p>\n
900
\n00:46:30,240 –> 00:46:34,120
\nhis case or or do you start to
\nunderstand that What do you do <\/p>\n
901
\n00:46:34,120 –> 00:46:37,200
\nwith the Sabbath, as Jesus says
\nin the end that the Sabbath was <\/p>\n
902
\n00:46:37,200 –> 00:46:39,440
\nmade for man not man for the
\nSabbath. <\/p>\n
903
\n00:46:39,720 –> 00:46:43,320
\nSo when you go to rank God’s
\nlaws which one are you going to <\/p>\n
904
\n00:46:43,320 –> 00:46:46,480
\nput on the higher scale?
\nThe fact that we love our <\/p>\n
905
\n00:46:46,480 –> 00:46:49,320
\nneighbor as ourselves or that we
\ngot to keep the Sabbath. <\/p>\n
906
\n00:46:49,320 –> 00:46:51,400
\nSo I’m pure.
\nWhich one are you going to hold <\/p>\n
907
\n00:46:51,400 –> 00:46:53,520
\nup?
\nWhich one do you give the <\/p>\n
908
\n00:46:53,520 –> 00:46:56,200
\ngreater weight to?
\nAnd and if you’re like me <\/p>\n
909
\n00:46:56,200 –> 00:46:58,760
\ngrowing up, it would be we got
\nto keep the Sabbath. <\/p>\n
910
\n00:46:59,200 –> 00:47:01,120
\nWe shouldn’t break this law.
\nCan’t do this. <\/p>\n
911
\n00:47:01,600 –> 00:47:04,320
\nBut then whatever happened to
\nlove your neighbor as yourself <\/p>\n
912
\n00:47:04,320 –> 00:47:06,520
\nAnd these people are hungry and
\nthey need to be fed. <\/p>\n
913
\n00:47:06,880 –> 00:47:07,960
\nWhere?
\nWhere’s that? <\/p>\n
914
\n00:47:08,560 –> 00:47:11,920
\nWell, you just conveniently
\nforget about that one. <\/p>\n
915
\n00:47:12,720 –> 00:47:17,240
\nBut Jesus is always ranking
\nrules, and what what comes out <\/p>\n
916
\n00:47:17,240 –> 00:47:21,080
\non top is treating people with
\nthe love of God. <\/p>\n
917
\n00:47:21,080 –> 00:47:24,040
\nI don’t know whether you’ve ever
\nnoticed that, but that is the <\/p>\n
918
\n00:47:24,040 –> 00:47:25,840
\nnumber one rule that got us
\nafter. <\/p>\n
919
\n00:47:25,840 –> 00:47:29,200
\nHe cares about people.
\nHe cares about the widows and <\/p>\n
920
\n00:47:29,200 –> 00:47:32,720
\nthe orphans, He cares about all
\nof the people and how we treat <\/p>\n
921
\n00:47:32,720 –> 00:47:34,680
\nthem.
\nAnd it’s just so clear. <\/p>\n
922
\n00:47:34,680 –> 00:47:37,000
\nLike look at the other case.
\nHe brings up the priests in the <\/p>\n
923
\n00:47:37,000 –> 00:47:39,520
\ntemple.
\nThey profane the Sabbath and are<\/p>\n
924
\n00:47:39,520 –> 00:47:42,360
\nblameless.
\nThey broke the rules and they’re<\/p>\n
925
\n00:47:42,360 –> 00:47:45,000
\nblameless.
\nThat’s OK, because they’re doing<\/p>\n
926
\n00:47:45,000 –> 00:47:48,360
\nsomething on the Sabbath day and
\nand keeping all of the things <\/p>\n
927
\n00:47:48,360 –> 00:47:49,880
\nthat were going on within the
\ntemple. <\/p>\n
928
\n00:47:50,200 –> 00:47:51,960
\nAnd so look at how he ends that
\nsection. <\/p>\n
929
\n00:47:51,960 –> 00:47:57,720
\nBut if you had known what this
\nmeans, I desire mercy and not <\/p>\n
930
\n00:47:57,720 –> 00:48:01,560
\nsacrifice.
\nI want mercy, not some legal law<\/p>\n
931
\n00:48:01,560 –> 00:48:04,000
\nthat you’re keeping.
\nI want mercy. <\/p>\n
932
\n00:48:04,200 –> 00:48:07,040
\nThen you would not have
\ncondemned the guiltless. <\/p>\n
933
\n00:48:08,040 –> 00:48:10,600
\nWell, that’s serious, brother
\nand sisters, because for all of <\/p>\n
934
\n00:48:10,600 –> 00:48:12,640
\nus, I hope we go home challenged
\nthis week. <\/p>\n
935
\n00:48:12,960 –> 00:48:15,760
\nYou got to think about decisions
\nyou’ve made in a collegial life <\/p>\n
936
\n00:48:15,760 –> 00:48:18,360
\nabout other people.
\nYou got to think about these <\/p>\n
937
\n00:48:18,360 –> 00:48:20,920
\nthings that are the decisions
\nthat we make about people that <\/p>\n
938
\n00:48:20,920 –> 00:48:24,040
\nthat commit sins or things that
\nthe that our children and other <\/p>\n
939
\n00:48:24,040 –> 00:48:27,360
\npeople have done.
\nYou may be careful because you <\/p>\n
940
\n00:48:27,360 –> 00:48:32,840
\ncould be condemning what God
\nwould consider the guiltless and<\/p>\n
941
\n00:48:32,840 –> 00:48:35,400
\nyou feel totally justified
\nbecause you have your rules. <\/p>\n
942
\n00:48:35,920 –> 00:48:38,040
\nThe rules all said they couldn’t
\ndo this, they’re not supposed to<\/p>\n
943
\n00:48:38,040 –> 00:48:40,560
\ndo this.
\nAnd we put those rules so high <\/p>\n
944
\n00:48:40,560 –> 00:48:43,640
\nup there, we’ve lost track of
\nloving our neighbor as our self.<\/p>\n
945
\n00:48:44,280 –> 00:48:47,320
\nI really think those, those are
\nsome of the guiding principles I<\/p>\n
946
\n00:48:47,320 –> 00:48:51,240
\nfound for my life that wow,
\nthat’s made a huge difference in<\/p>\n
947
\n00:48:51,240 –> 00:48:54,320
\nhow I approach people today.
\nSo I’ll leave it at that for <\/p>\n
948
\n00:48:54,320 –> 00:48:57,640
\ntoday and thanks very much and
\ngive you a few things to think <\/p>\n
949
\n00:48:57,640 –> 00:48:59,640
\nabout.
\nEnjoy that much?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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