WEBVTT 00:00:00.952 --> 00:00:06.888 Let's open up our Bibles to Luke 6:46. 00:00:06.888 --> 00:00:10.806 One thing we know for certain on this night 00:00:10.806 --> 00:00:12.916 when America holds its breath 00:00:12.916 --> 00:00:18.730 about who's going to be its next president, 00:00:18.730 --> 00:00:21.023 there is One who is Lord, 00:00:21.023 --> 00:00:25.316 and He's taken a seat on the throne 00:00:25.316 --> 00:00:28.992 of His father David, 00:00:28.992 --> 00:00:31.685 and He is going to rule over Jacob 00:00:31.685 --> 00:00:37.195 and He is going to reign forever and forever. 00:00:37.195 --> 00:00:38.914 And they call Him, "Lord." 00:00:38.914 --> 00:00:42.313 Lord of lords. 00:00:42.313 --> 00:00:49.058 Luke 6:46 00:00:49.058 --> 00:00:51.558 Probably most of you are familiar with this verse. 00:00:51.558 --> 00:00:55.562 But let's think about it. 00:00:55.562 --> 00:00:59.864 "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' 00:00:59.864 --> 00:01:07.350 and not do what I tell you?" 00:01:07.350 --> 00:01:14.316 Now, is that obvious to everybody - 00:01:14.316 --> 00:01:16.594 what's going on in this verse? 00:01:16.594 --> 00:01:19.021 Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord," - 00:01:19.021 --> 00:01:20.271 well, that's interesting. 00:01:20.271 --> 00:01:23.934 "Lord, Lord," - we don't talk like that. 00:01:23.934 --> 00:01:26.894 We don't say, "Kevin, Kevin." 00:01:26.894 --> 00:01:29.037 Or "Glenn, Glenn." 00:01:29.037 --> 00:01:31.479 "Lord, Lord." 00:01:31.479 --> 00:01:38.121 Why do you call Me, "Lord, Lord?" 00:01:38.121 --> 00:01:42.436 Anybody have any insights into 00:01:42.436 --> 00:01:45.997 that kind of addressing of people? 00:01:45.997 --> 00:01:47.896 That kind of usage? 00:01:47.896 --> 00:01:51.483 Obviously, the original here would be in Greek. 00:01:51.483 --> 00:01:54.509 Obviously, Jesus is growing up 00:01:54.509 --> 00:02:00.151 in a Hebrew context which was very much 00:02:00.151 --> 00:02:04.617 influenced by Rome. 00:02:04.617 --> 00:02:14.671 But 2,000 years ago in the Near East, 00:02:14.671 --> 00:02:18.517 what's the significance to talking like this? 00:02:18.517 --> 00:02:21.675 "Lord, Lord." 00:02:21.675 --> 00:02:27.845 What does He mean? 00:02:27.845 --> 00:02:32.576 Emphatic. You do have that idea of repetition. 00:02:32.576 --> 00:02:36.856 And by the way, can you think of any place else 00:02:36.856 --> 00:02:40.833 where you get a double repetition? 00:02:40.833 --> 00:02:42.728 You can probably think of other places 00:02:42.728 --> 00:02:45.819 where we even get that same repetition, 00:02:45.819 --> 00:02:47.818 "Lord, Lord." 00:02:47.818 --> 00:02:51.440 Where's another common place that shows up? 00:02:51.440 --> 00:02:53.142 Matthew 7. NOTE Paragraph 00:02:53.142 --> 00:02:54.824 Can you think of anywhere else 00:02:54.824 --> 00:02:56.687 where somebody is being addressed 00:02:56.687 --> 00:03:00.755 and their name is said twice? 00:03:00.755 --> 00:03:07.046 Martha, Martha. 00:03:07.046 --> 00:03:09.163 Now, do we talk like that? 00:03:09.163 --> 00:03:11.860 Is that the same? 00:03:11.860 --> 00:03:14.141 Do you get the sense that's the same? 00:03:14.141 --> 00:03:16.087 If somebody says, "Lord, Lord;" 00:03:16.087 --> 00:03:18.404 if somebody says, "Martha, Martha," 00:03:18.404 --> 00:03:20.947 do you get the sense that it's implying 00:03:20.947 --> 00:03:27.639 the same kind of stress? 00:03:27.639 --> 00:03:30.745 Like, I could imagine myself saying to my wife, 00:03:30.745 --> 00:03:33.380 "Ruby, Ruby..." 00:03:33.380 --> 00:03:38.432 See, I say we don't address Kevin: "Kevin, Kevin." 00:03:38.432 --> 00:03:43.408 But, in the right nuance of language, 00:03:43.408 --> 00:03:47.762 saying it with a little bit different inflection; 00:03:47.762 --> 00:03:52.320 saying it with different emphasis, 00:03:52.320 --> 00:03:54.884 depending on the context, 00:03:54.884 --> 00:03:57.336 if Kevin said something and it seemed like 00:03:57.336 --> 00:04:05.116 Kevin was speaking in a naive fashion 00:04:05.116 --> 00:04:06.914 or he was speaking in a way where 00:04:06.914 --> 00:04:09.270 he should really know, 00:04:09.270 --> 00:04:12.657 and he's coming across maybe as though he doesn't know, 00:04:12.657 --> 00:04:15.474 if you said, "Kevin, Kevin..." 00:04:15.474 --> 00:04:18.236 Now see, that we can understand. 00:04:18.236 --> 00:04:21.105 That would not be foreign. 00:04:21.105 --> 00:04:24.976 But what do you think here? 00:04:24.976 --> 00:04:31.249 "Martha, Martha." 00:04:31.249 --> 00:04:34.853 Familiarity? 00:04:34.853 --> 00:04:39.401 Yeah, it does seem that way. 00:04:39.401 --> 00:04:42.861 Put it in the context of the text that it's in. 00:04:42.861 --> 00:04:45.341 "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' 00:04:45.341 --> 00:04:48.888 and not do the things I say?" 00:04:48.888 --> 00:04:51.011 I mean, you have to put it together 00:04:51.011 --> 00:04:52.718 with not doing the things I say. 00:04:52.718 --> 00:04:55.302 In other words, He's stressing 00:04:55.302 --> 00:04:57.126 that you speak in a certain way, 00:04:57.126 --> 00:04:59.739 but your actions don't reflect 00:04:59.739 --> 00:05:02.718 what your lips say. 00:05:02.718 --> 00:05:05.511 Or you think about the other places where it's used. NOTE Paragraph 00:05:05.511 --> 00:05:10.854 Where else does the "Lord, Lord," come at us? 00:05:10.854 --> 00:05:12.308 We heard Matthew 7. 00:05:12.308 --> 00:05:14.910 How's it used? 00:05:14.910 --> 00:05:18.316 "Not everyone who says to Me, 00:05:18.316 --> 00:05:19.712 'Lord, Lord...'" 00:05:19.712 --> 00:05:21.870 And then it's used again, right? 00:05:21.870 --> 00:05:28.217 How's it used the second time? 00:05:28.217 --> 00:05:32.113 "In that day, many will say to Me, 'Lord, Lord...'" 00:05:32.113 --> 00:05:36.745 Now, maybe there's an emphasis there. 00:05:36.745 --> 00:05:39.387 Obviously: "many will say to Me in that day." 00:05:39.387 --> 00:05:41.492 What day? Judgment day. 00:05:41.492 --> 00:05:42.980 And what's happening to them? 00:05:42.980 --> 00:05:45.134 They're being cast away. 00:05:45.134 --> 00:05:49.082 This is kind of a frantic, emphatic: 00:05:49.082 --> 00:05:52.213 "Lord! Lord!" NOTE Paragraph 00:05:52.213 --> 00:05:55.288 Can you think of anywhere else where the "Lord, Lord," is used? 00:05:55.288 --> 00:05:56.085 (from the room) 00:05:56.085 --> 00:05:58.210 Even there, He says, "I never knew you." 00:05:58.210 --> 00:06:00.719 Coming back to intimacy like, "Martha, Martha." 00:06:00.719 --> 00:06:03.975 Familiarity. 00:06:03.975 --> 00:06:05.670 I didn't think of "Lord, Lord," 00:06:05.670 --> 00:06:07.550 but Jesus on the cross. 00:06:07.550 --> 00:06:11.578 He said, "Eli, Eli..." (My God, My God...) 00:06:11.578 --> 00:06:13.337 Two times in a row. 00:06:13.337 --> 00:06:14.906 "Why have You forsaken Me?" 00:06:14.906 --> 00:06:23.166 Tim: Yeah, emphasis like that we understand. 00:06:23.166 --> 00:06:25.479 And what there is 00:06:25.479 --> 00:06:27.684 is whether we want to connect it to 00:06:27.684 --> 00:06:29.925 somebody implying by the way they talk, 00:06:29.925 --> 00:06:31.935 there's a familiarity; 00:06:31.935 --> 00:06:34.082 there's an intimacy; 00:06:34.082 --> 00:06:39.183 there's some kind of emphasis. 00:06:39.183 --> 00:06:41.808 That's what it seems like 00:06:41.808 --> 00:06:46.136 that with your mouth, 00:06:46.136 --> 00:06:49.669 you are actually acknowledging Me as Lord 00:06:49.669 --> 00:06:56.475 in a way that is more than just kind of passing. 00:06:56.475 --> 00:07:02.710 You are actually speaking to Me 00:07:02.710 --> 00:07:07.748 in a way that more than just slightly 00:07:07.748 --> 00:07:11.959 seems verbally at least to be recognizing 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:14.076 My Lordship. 00:07:14.076 --> 00:07:18.241 You call Me "Lord," and you do it 00:07:18.241 --> 00:07:21.632 with a fair degree of significance. 00:07:21.632 --> 00:07:24.112 You do it more than just in passing. 00:07:24.112 --> 00:07:26.770 You do it more than just lightly. 00:07:26.770 --> 00:07:34.096 Maybe you do it repetitiously. 00:07:34.096 --> 00:07:37.367 "...And not do what I tell you." 00:07:37.367 --> 00:07:40.712 It's a very simple concept. 00:07:40.712 --> 00:07:44.142 (incomplete thought) NOTE Paragraph 00:07:44.142 --> 00:07:46.736 Somebody was bringing up 00:07:46.736 --> 00:07:49.580 Jeff Peterson's message from Sunday. 00:07:49.580 --> 00:07:51.667 He was dealing with Charles Stanley's book. 00:07:51.667 --> 00:07:55.855 This text just blows that whole idea 00:07:55.855 --> 00:07:58.769 of you can be a true Christian 00:07:58.769 --> 00:08:00.787 and just live any way you want. 00:08:00.787 --> 00:08:03.263 You know, if you just had one moment in your life 00:08:03.263 --> 00:08:04.467 where you believed, 00:08:04.467 --> 00:08:06.375 and now you can live any way you want. 00:08:06.375 --> 00:08:10.380 This text just blows it right out of the water. 00:08:10.380 --> 00:08:13.576 Because if you couple this with Matthew 7, 00:08:13.576 --> 00:08:17.057 you see, this by itself: 00:08:17.057 --> 00:08:18.866 "Why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' 00:08:18.866 --> 00:08:22.340 and not do what I tell you?" 00:08:22.340 --> 00:08:29.434 Well, the thing is that the very same parable 00:08:29.434 --> 00:08:32.791 that He ends up with over in Matthew 7, 00:08:32.791 --> 00:08:35.652 He ends up with here. 00:08:35.652 --> 00:08:39.844 And He doesn't simply say it's okay. 00:08:39.844 --> 00:08:41.822 It's not: why do you do it? 00:08:41.822 --> 00:08:43.322 I wish you wouldn't do it, 00:08:43.322 --> 00:08:45.735 but after all, it will turn out okay with you 00:08:45.735 --> 00:08:46.969 if that's what you do. 00:08:46.969 --> 00:08:48.793 That's not what He's saying. 00:08:48.793 --> 00:08:51.310 He is basically saying here 00:08:51.310 --> 00:08:58.114 that if you say one thing with your lips 00:08:58.114 --> 00:09:01.952 that seems to say that you're acknowledging Me... 00:09:01.952 --> 00:09:04.532 We get people in the church all the time like this. 00:09:04.532 --> 00:09:07.037 The word "Lord" comes off their lips. 00:09:07.037 --> 00:09:09.364 They read Scripture, they sing the songs, 00:09:09.364 --> 00:09:11.230 they speak to other Christians, 00:09:11.230 --> 00:09:13.132 they speak the Christian lingo. 00:09:13.132 --> 00:09:16.728 And so the word "Lord" comes off their lips 00:09:16.728 --> 00:09:20.525 with a fair degree of familiarity. 00:09:20.525 --> 00:09:23.156 More than the lost guy out there. 00:09:23.156 --> 00:09:24.796 you get people in the church. 00:09:24.796 --> 00:09:26.420 And it's coming off their lips. 00:09:26.420 --> 00:09:27.655 But what's the problem? 00:09:27.655 --> 00:09:29.529 You look at their life. 00:09:29.529 --> 00:09:31.404 (incomplete thought) 00:09:31.404 --> 00:09:33.279 What Jesus is saying is this: 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:35.233 It's right you call Me "Lord." 00:09:35.233 --> 00:09:36.733 I am Lord. 00:09:36.733 --> 00:09:39.633 But because I am Lord, 00:09:39.633 --> 00:09:43.008 that means I have a right to tell you what to do. 00:09:43.008 --> 00:09:44.411 And if you call Me Lord 00:09:44.411 --> 00:09:47.929 and don't do what I tell you to do, 00:09:47.929 --> 00:09:50.877 you basically are denying what you say 00:09:50.877 --> 00:09:52.961 by your lips with your life. 00:09:52.961 --> 00:09:54.071 You're denying it. 00:09:54.071 --> 00:09:55.458 And He doesn't say: 00:09:55.458 --> 00:09:57.886 Oh, but in the end, it's eternal security, 00:09:57.886 --> 00:09:59.850 and if you believed once, it's all okay, 00:09:59.850 --> 00:10:01.079 so don't worry about it. 00:10:01.079 --> 00:10:03.180 See, He doesn't go there. 00:10:03.180 --> 00:10:05.790 Basically where He goes is to a parable 00:10:05.790 --> 00:10:08.979 where He makes it crystal clear. 00:10:08.979 --> 00:10:11.122 "Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words 00:10:11.122 --> 00:10:15.401 and does them, I will show you what he is like." 00:10:15.401 --> 00:10:18.396 See, this has everything to do with His Lordship. 00:10:18.396 --> 00:10:20.731 "He is like a man building a house who dug deep, 00:10:20.731 --> 00:10:22.306 laid the foundation on the rock, 00:10:22.306 --> 00:10:25.127 and when a flood arose, the stream broke against the house. 00:10:25.127 --> 00:10:28.818 It could not shake it, because it had been well built." 00:10:28.818 --> 00:10:30.231 This is a man's religion. 00:10:30.231 --> 00:10:31.544 Well built. 00:10:31.544 --> 00:10:32.743 What does it look like? 00:10:32.743 --> 00:10:33.889 He believes on the Lord. 00:10:33.889 --> 00:10:34.852 He calls Him Lord. 00:10:34.852 --> 00:10:36.405 He believes He is Lord. 00:10:36.405 --> 00:10:40.382 And that belief doesn't just come off of his lips, 00:10:40.382 --> 00:10:42.760 it's reflected in a life. 00:10:42.760 --> 00:10:45.843 "But the ones who hears..." 00:10:45.843 --> 00:10:50.467 See, this is the person in v. 46. 00:10:50.467 --> 00:10:54.587 "...he hears and does not do them." 00:10:54.587 --> 00:10:59.036 He even admits Christ is Lord, 00:10:59.036 --> 00:11:01.634 but then he lives contrary to what he 00:11:01.634 --> 00:11:03.661 seems to say by his lips. 00:11:03.661 --> 00:11:07.644 He doesn't do what Jesus says. 00:11:07.644 --> 00:11:12.251 "The one who hears..." Jesus Christ 00:11:12.251 --> 00:11:17.071 and does not do what Christ as Lord says, 00:11:17.071 --> 00:11:19.861 "this man is like the man who built 00:11:19.861 --> 00:11:22.431 a house on the ground without a foundation 00:11:22.431 --> 00:11:24.094 and the stream broke against it. 00:11:24.094 --> 00:11:26.988 Immediately it fell and the ruin of the house was great." 00:11:26.988 --> 00:11:29.692 Like I say, when you compare this to Matthew 7, 00:11:29.692 --> 00:11:31.619 what we see is Matthew 7 00:11:31.619 --> 00:11:34.478 parks all this in the context of judgment day. 00:11:34.478 --> 00:11:39.312 So we see exactly what storm He's talking about. NOTE Paragraph 00:11:39.312 --> 00:11:44.729 So, let's think for a second. 00:11:44.729 --> 00:11:50.416 Can you think of any other places in Scripture 00:11:50.416 --> 00:11:57.055 that make that connection 00:11:57.055 --> 00:12:02.906 between being a genuine child of God 00:12:02.906 --> 00:12:09.135 and what Jesus says or what the Word says? 00:12:09.135 --> 00:12:13.984 The absolute necessity of a life 00:12:13.984 --> 00:12:16.896 that conforms to Christ's commandments 00:12:16.896 --> 00:12:19.535 or Christ's Word or the Word of God 00:12:19.535 --> 00:12:21.339 or the Scriptures, 00:12:21.339 --> 00:12:25.647 if indeed we are genuinely Christians? 00:12:25.647 --> 00:12:27.159 Can you think of other verses? 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:30.188 This is one. This is certainly one. 00:12:30.188 --> 00:12:33.330 "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord?'" 00:12:33.330 --> 00:12:36.036 And let that ring in your own ears. 00:12:36.036 --> 00:12:39.293 Think with me. 00:12:39.293 --> 00:12:42.000 You can change it a bit. 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:45.058 "You call Me, 'Lord, Lord.'" 00:12:45.058 --> 00:12:47.128 I do. I call Him Lord. 00:12:47.128 --> 00:12:48.484 I acknowledge Him as Lord. 00:12:48.484 --> 00:12:52.027 I pray to Him as Lord. 00:12:52.027 --> 00:12:55.530 That names comes off my lips 00:12:55.530 --> 00:12:58.750 all the time now that I'm saved. 00:12:58.750 --> 00:13:01.196 And I'm sure many of you in this room 00:13:01.196 --> 00:13:02.540 would say the same. 00:13:02.540 --> 00:13:04.897 That name comes off your lips. NOTE Paragraph 00:13:04.897 --> 00:13:09.476 But now, ask yourself, 00:13:09.476 --> 00:13:12.502 do you live in light of that? 00:13:12.502 --> 00:13:13.971 Do you really believe it? 00:13:13.971 --> 00:13:15.071 See, that's the issue. 00:13:15.071 --> 00:13:18.603 If you say it, you're seeming to indicate 00:13:18.603 --> 00:13:20.551 you believe it. 00:13:20.551 --> 00:13:22.781 But the real proof, Jesus is saying, 00:13:22.781 --> 00:13:26.528 of whether you believe He's Lord 00:13:26.528 --> 00:13:30.762 isn't by good talk. 00:13:30.762 --> 00:13:34.738 It's by the walk. 00:13:34.738 --> 00:13:37.879 And so, where are we at in that? 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:40.005 Where are we at? 00:13:40.005 --> 00:13:43.447 "Lord..." 00:13:43.447 --> 00:13:51.882 How am I in tune to that word? 00:13:51.882 --> 00:13:57.433 How is it impacting my life right now? NOTE Paragraph 00:13:57.433 --> 00:14:01.674 I mean, today even thinking about this, 00:14:01.674 --> 00:14:05.048 I remember - many of you may remember 00:14:05.048 --> 00:14:08.832 Matt Haney preached. 00:14:08.832 --> 00:14:11.661 More than once I remember him telling the story. 00:14:11.661 --> 00:14:13.301 I forget where he got it from. 00:14:13.301 --> 00:14:16.559 Maybe it was a Ravenhill story that he came across. 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:17.889 But you may remember, 00:14:17.889 --> 00:14:20.085 the guy was in the service 00:14:20.085 --> 00:14:21.683 and the preacher began to preach, 00:14:21.683 --> 00:14:23.789 and he didn't get very far into the message 00:14:23.789 --> 00:14:25.447 and this guy got up and went out. 00:14:25.447 --> 00:14:27.254 He was preaching a series of meetings. 00:14:27.254 --> 00:14:29.485 And the next night, the guy began preaching. 00:14:29.485 --> 00:14:30.954 The guy got up and walked out. 00:14:30.954 --> 00:14:32.495 Third night, began preaching, 00:14:32.495 --> 00:14:34.286 the guy got up and walked out. 00:14:34.286 --> 00:14:36.994 And finally the guy said to him, 00:14:36.994 --> 00:14:39.230 "what's going on with you?" 00:14:39.230 --> 00:14:42.168 And he said you would start preaching 00:14:42.168 --> 00:14:43.986 and I would be convicted of something 00:14:43.986 --> 00:14:45.939 that I needed to take care of in my life, 00:14:45.939 --> 00:14:48.609 and I figured there's no reason to sit here any longer. 00:14:48.609 --> 00:14:51.187 I need to go take care of that. 00:14:51.187 --> 00:14:52.744 And I always remember that, 00:14:52.744 --> 00:14:54.523 because to my reckoning, 00:14:54.523 --> 00:14:56.871 that was a true story. 00:14:56.871 --> 00:15:03.654 Does the Word of God impact us like that still? NOTE Paragraph 00:15:03.654 --> 00:15:05.085 Can you think of other verses 00:15:05.085 --> 00:15:07.786 where we get that kind of emphasis 00:15:07.786 --> 00:15:12.214 that the Word of God 00:15:12.214 --> 00:15:16.135 is not just a matter of hearing? 00:15:16.135 --> 00:15:18.174 James 1. 00:15:18.174 --> 00:15:19.916 Yeah, let's look at that one. 00:15:19.916 --> 00:15:32.645 (incomplete thought) 00:15:32.645 --> 00:15:36.228 James 1:22 says, 00:15:36.228 --> 00:15:42.019 "But be doers..." now notice this one, 00:15:42.019 --> 00:15:45.833 "...be doers of the Word, 00:15:45.833 --> 00:15:49.434 and not hearers only 00:15:49.434 --> 00:15:52.397 deceiving yourselves." 00:15:52.397 --> 00:15:54.145 That's the same truth. 00:15:54.145 --> 00:15:58.331 These people that build their house on the sand, 00:15:58.331 --> 00:16:00.756 they're deceiving themselves. 00:16:00.756 --> 00:16:03.402 Because they're building. 00:16:03.402 --> 00:16:05.458 They're those people in Matthew 7. 00:16:05.458 --> 00:16:07.438 They did many mighty works in His name. 00:16:07.438 --> 00:16:09.005 They're deceiving themselves. 00:16:09.005 --> 00:16:12.202 But what does Jesus call those people in Matthew 7? 00:16:12.202 --> 00:16:14.600 "Workers of lawlessness." 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.789 Which means, they were living their life 00:16:17.789 --> 00:16:22.469 without any conformity to the spoken, 00:16:22.469 --> 00:16:24.545 expressed will of God. 00:16:24.545 --> 00:16:27.563 Now, in times past, God spoke to us 00:16:27.563 --> 00:16:30.422 by way of the prophets, but in these last days, 00:16:30.422 --> 00:16:33.386 God has spoken to us by way of His Son. 00:16:33.386 --> 00:16:35.773 It's His Son who has come to give us 00:16:35.773 --> 00:16:40.019 the expressed will of God. NOTE Paragraph 00:16:40.019 --> 00:16:41.929 Can anybody think of any other verses 00:16:41.929 --> 00:16:46.584 that seem to reflect this truth? 00:16:46.584 --> 00:17:00.736 1 John 2:4. 00:17:00.736 --> 00:17:05.251 "Whoever says, 'I know Him...'" 00:17:05.251 --> 00:17:10.511 Now this is interesting because it's again, 00:17:10.523 --> 00:17:14.572 some of these compare hearing to doing. 00:17:14.572 --> 00:17:16.222 And some of these compare 00:17:16.222 --> 00:17:19.183 saying to doing. 00:17:19.183 --> 00:17:22.108 Like, "you call Me, 'Lord, Lord;' 00:17:22.108 --> 00:17:23.747 you don't do what I say." 00:17:23.747 --> 00:17:30.271 Here it's the familiarity is "I know Him." 00:17:30.271 --> 00:17:32.479 But then you don't keep His commandments. 00:17:32.479 --> 00:17:34.254 "Whoever says 'I know Him' 00:17:34.254 --> 00:17:36.103 but does not keep His commandments 00:17:36.103 --> 00:17:40.814 is a liar and the truth is not in him." NOTE Paragraph 00:17:40.814 --> 00:17:48.282 Can I give you one that is definitely 00:17:48.282 --> 00:17:51.376 open for discussion and debate 00:17:51.376 --> 00:17:52.768 at another time, 00:17:52.768 --> 00:17:55.908 but a text that I personally believe 00:17:55.908 --> 00:17:57.873 expresses exactly the same truth, 00:17:57.873 --> 00:18:00.917 and when taken in context, 00:18:00.917 --> 00:18:04.530 I think you can see that I'm speaking the truth. 00:18:04.530 --> 00:18:11.289 And I'm speaking namely of Romans 2:13. 00:18:11.289 --> 00:18:13.779 Look at it. 00:18:13.779 --> 00:18:19.872 I know that there are some 00:18:19.872 --> 00:18:22.107 theological voices out there 00:18:22.107 --> 00:18:24.048 that basically would say 00:18:24.048 --> 00:18:33.459 that there are actually no doers of the law. 00:18:33.459 --> 00:18:36.711 And so, this is basically saying, 00:18:36.711 --> 00:18:39.309 like the Old Testament commandments: 00:18:39.309 --> 00:18:40.688 do this and live. 00:18:40.688 --> 00:18:44.111 I don't believe at all that this is what is being said here. 00:18:44.111 --> 00:18:46.168 I believe that what we have here 00:18:46.168 --> 00:18:49.656 is exactly the same thing 00:18:49.656 --> 00:18:53.649 that is being spoken about - 00:18:53.649 --> 00:19:01.705 let's put this in context (verse 13). 00:19:01.705 --> 00:19:03.891 Notice v. 6, 00:19:03.891 --> 00:19:05.579 "God is going to render to each one 00:19:05.579 --> 00:19:06.982 according to his works." 00:19:06.982 --> 00:19:10.186 I want you to see what's actually in context here. 00:19:10.186 --> 00:19:11.867 It's the judgment. 00:19:11.867 --> 00:19:14.200 And we're being judged according to our works. 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:16.188 It's not talking about justification. 00:19:16.188 --> 00:19:20.475 This is not speaking about 00:19:20.475 --> 00:19:24.013 an imputed righteousness 00:19:24.013 --> 00:19:27.007 apart from our works. 00:19:27.007 --> 00:19:29.079 It's not speaking about that. 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:30.990 Notice what it's speaking about. 00:19:30.990 --> 00:19:32.690 It's speaking about judgment day 00:19:32.690 --> 00:19:35.872 and the fact that we're going to be judged according to our works. 00:19:35.872 --> 00:19:37.771 "To those who by patience..." 00:19:37.771 --> 00:19:39.611 Now, it's not talking about just those 00:19:39.611 --> 00:19:41.496 who rest in Christ by faith. 00:19:41.496 --> 00:19:43.652 You see, faith always works through love, 00:19:43.652 --> 00:19:44.957 and that's the issue. 00:19:44.957 --> 00:19:47.795 Judgment day is always based on works. 00:19:47.795 --> 00:19:49.231 Why? Because works show 00:19:49.231 --> 00:19:50.955 whether the faith was true or not. 00:19:50.955 --> 00:19:53.233 And basically what you see here is that. 00:19:53.233 --> 00:19:54.658 Patience in well-doing; 00:19:54.658 --> 00:19:56.012 they're seeking for glory, 00:19:56.012 --> 00:19:58.229 honor, immortality. 00:19:58.229 --> 00:20:00.248 And to those people who are seeking that, 00:20:00.248 --> 00:20:01.489 He gives eternal life. 00:20:01.489 --> 00:20:02.799 Those who are self-seeking, 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:04.989 do not obey the truth, obey unrighteousness - 00:20:04.989 --> 00:20:06.190 there's wrath and fury. 00:20:06.190 --> 00:20:08.360 Tribulation, distress for every human being 00:20:08.360 --> 00:20:10.762 who does evil - the Jew first, also the Greek. 00:20:10.762 --> 00:20:12.745 Glory, honor, and peace for everyone 00:20:12.745 --> 00:20:15.596 who does good - the Jew first, and also the Greek. 00:20:15.596 --> 00:20:17.085 They do good. 00:20:17.085 --> 00:20:18.988 He's not speaking hypothetically 00:20:18.988 --> 00:20:21.006 about somebody could get to heaven 00:20:21.006 --> 00:20:23.210 if they kept the law perfectly. 00:20:23.210 --> 00:20:24.967 That's not what he's talking about. 00:20:24.967 --> 00:20:26.865 He's talking about the righteous life 00:20:26.865 --> 00:20:29.215 of true Christians. 00:20:29.215 --> 00:20:30.988 God shows no partiality. 00:20:30.988 --> 00:20:32.562 And see, v. 12, "For..." 00:20:32.562 --> 00:20:34.026 It starts with a conjunction. 00:20:34.026 --> 00:20:39.125 He's not changing topic here. 00:20:39.125 --> 00:20:41.067 He's not going in a different direction. 00:20:41.067 --> 00:20:42.828 "All who have sinned without the law, 00:20:42.828 --> 00:20:44.238 also perish without the law." 00:20:44.238 --> 00:20:45.979 Anyways, you get to v. 13, 00:20:45.979 --> 00:20:47.806 "It's not the hearers of the law 00:20:47.806 --> 00:20:49.322 who are righteous before God, 00:20:49.322 --> 00:20:51.092 but the doers of the law 00:20:51.092 --> 00:20:53.092 who will be justified." 00:20:53.092 --> 00:20:55.905 And I believe that that's the same way. 00:20:55.905 --> 00:20:57.891 Scripture uses that term "justified" 00:20:57.891 --> 00:20:59.973 in that way concerning judgment day. 00:20:59.973 --> 00:21:01.640 Think of our words, right? 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:02.786 The words that we speak? 00:21:02.786 --> 00:21:04.252 What does Scripture say about 00:21:04.252 --> 00:21:08.594 how we're going to be justified by our words? 00:21:08.594 --> 00:21:11.841 What is it? Matthew 12? 00:21:11.841 --> 00:21:13.323 Basically, we're told that. 00:21:13.323 --> 00:21:17.566 We're going to be justified by our words. 00:21:17.566 --> 00:21:19.807 What you find in Matthew 25 00:21:19.807 --> 00:21:23.267 is although the term "justified" is not there, 00:21:23.267 --> 00:21:26.309 clearly we are justified by our works 00:21:26.309 --> 00:21:28.692 when we come to stand before God 00:21:28.692 --> 00:21:30.174 on judgment day. 00:21:30.174 --> 00:21:32.608 Because the books are opened 00:21:32.608 --> 00:21:34.899 and it's our works that are examined, 00:21:34.899 --> 00:21:36.324 and it's on that basis 00:21:36.324 --> 00:21:38.949 that we are justified or condemned. 00:21:38.949 --> 00:21:40.573 We're not speaking about 00:21:40.573 --> 00:21:43.636 the imputed merits of Christ. 00:21:43.636 --> 00:21:46.294 Obviously we recognize the doctrine of justification, 00:21:46.294 --> 00:21:48.027 the importance of that. 00:21:48.027 --> 00:21:54.819 But this appears to be in the context 00:21:54.819 --> 00:21:58.485 of people who are actually keeping the law. 00:21:58.485 --> 00:22:00.834 In fact, if you continue to go down 00:22:00.834 --> 00:22:04.507 through Romans 2 and you get to the end, 00:22:04.507 --> 00:22:11.338 you see that he actually begins 00:22:11.338 --> 00:22:15.017 to talk about the nature of a true Jew 00:22:15.017 --> 00:22:17.611 and what true circumcision is. 00:22:17.611 --> 00:22:20.351 And in v. 26, he says, "if a man who is uncircumcised 00:22:20.351 --> 00:22:22.394 keeps the precepts of the law, 00:22:22.394 --> 00:22:23.738 will not his uncircumcision 00:22:23.738 --> 00:22:25.635 be regarded as circumcision?" 00:22:25.635 --> 00:22:27.441 Again, he's not being hypothetical. 00:22:27.441 --> 00:22:29.519 He actually is going to tell us here. 00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:31.767 He's speaking about a true Jew. 00:22:31.767 --> 00:22:33.389 One who is a true Jew inwardly 00:22:33.389 --> 00:22:35.658 as circumcision is a matter of the heart. 00:22:35.658 --> 00:22:38.600 And so he's speaking very practically through these verses. NOTE Paragraph 00:22:38.600 --> 00:22:43.646 But, anyway, another place I was thinking of. 00:22:43.646 --> 00:22:47.161 Look at John 8. 00:22:47.161 --> 00:23:04.944 John 8:31. 00:23:04.944 --> 00:23:08.433 If you go back to 8:30, 00:23:08.433 --> 00:23:13.335 Jesus has been speaking here 00:23:13.335 --> 00:23:15.559 and it says, "As He was saying these things, 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:19.169 many believed in Him." 00:23:19.169 --> 00:23:22.543 (incomplete thought) 00:23:22.543 --> 00:23:25.590 People can believe that He's Lord. 00:23:25.590 --> 00:23:28.285 And so much so, they call Him, "Lord, Lord." 00:23:28.285 --> 00:23:31.723 But see, He goes further. He says this, 00:23:31.723 --> 00:23:36.923 "Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in Him, 00:23:36.923 --> 00:23:40.567 'If you abide in My Word, 00:23:40.567 --> 00:23:42.468 you are truly My disciples.'" 00:23:42.468 --> 00:23:44.624 To abide in His Word, 00:23:44.624 --> 00:23:47.825 that means to stay there; to live in them. 00:23:47.825 --> 00:23:51.325 They characterize your life. 00:23:51.325 --> 00:23:53.100 It's only then that you prove 00:23:53.100 --> 00:23:54.338 to truly be His disciple 00:23:54.338 --> 00:23:55.778 and you will know the truth, 00:23:55.778 --> 00:23:59.901 and the truth will set you free. 00:23:59.901 --> 00:24:02.356 So we see this reality. NOTE Paragraph 00:24:02.356 --> 00:24:07.886 Now listen, 00:24:07.886 --> 00:24:11.541 "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' 00:24:11.541 --> 00:24:16.284 and not do the things I say?" 00:24:16.284 --> 00:24:17.952 Jesus is our Redeemer. 00:24:17.952 --> 00:24:20.035 He's our Savior. 00:24:20.035 --> 00:24:23.150 He's our Sacrifice. 00:24:23.150 --> 00:24:30.131 But Jesus is our Teacher, 00:24:30.131 --> 00:24:31.857 our Master, 00:24:31.857 --> 00:24:35.037 our Rabbi. 00:24:35.037 --> 00:24:37.260 He's our Lord. 00:24:37.260 --> 00:24:39.579 And He came to teach us, to instruct us, 00:24:39.579 --> 00:24:41.947 to command us... 00:24:41.947 --> 00:24:46.810 and I want to ask you this. 00:24:46.810 --> 00:24:50.276 I want you to tell me. 00:24:50.276 --> 00:24:55.668 Think about Jesus' words - 00:24:55.668 --> 00:24:59.622 the words that He spoke to us. 00:24:59.622 --> 00:25:01.338 "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' 00:25:01.338 --> 00:25:03.496 and do not do the things I say?" 00:25:03.496 --> 00:25:08.886 Ok, let's think about the things He says. 00:25:08.886 --> 00:25:10.456 Think about the things He says. 00:25:10.456 --> 00:25:13.150 What's He implying? 00:25:13.150 --> 00:25:17.467 That the things He says 00:25:17.467 --> 00:25:23.630 are things that we have a responsibility to do. 00:25:23.630 --> 00:25:26.514 And that as true Christians, 00:25:26.514 --> 00:25:29.018 one of the chief characteristics 00:25:29.018 --> 00:25:32.617 is how we respond to what He says. 00:25:32.617 --> 00:25:35.446 It has impact. It has power. 00:25:35.446 --> 00:25:38.274 It used to not. 00:25:38.274 --> 00:25:40.172 We used to be at enmity with God, 00:25:40.172 --> 00:25:41.715 and the commandments of God 00:25:41.715 --> 00:25:48.653 were something that we chafed against. 00:25:48.653 --> 00:25:52.813 But the true characteristic of the Christian 00:25:52.813 --> 00:25:55.706 is that our lives become impacted 00:25:55.706 --> 00:25:59.048 by what He says. 00:25:59.048 --> 00:26:01.477 We don't live any longer 00:26:01.477 --> 00:26:03.451 as though those things don't matter. 00:26:03.451 --> 00:26:05.784 As though I can just blow those off. 00:26:05.784 --> 00:26:08.227 They hold weight. They hold sway. 00:26:08.227 --> 00:26:09.920 But I want to ask you this: 00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:11.747 "The things I say" - 00:26:11.747 --> 00:26:13.854 think about that - "the things I say." 00:26:13.854 --> 00:26:16.606 What things did He say? NOTE Paragraph 00:26:16.606 --> 00:26:20.282 In all the things that Jesus taught us 00:26:20.282 --> 00:26:23.541 and He expects us to conform our lives to, 00:26:23.541 --> 00:26:30.129 what things did He speak to broadly? 00:26:30.129 --> 00:26:35.955 In our lives, what did Jesus speak to? 00:26:35.955 --> 00:26:37.628 What did He tell us about? 00:26:37.628 --> 00:26:39.219 What did He command us about? 00:26:39.219 --> 00:26:41.305 What did He give us instruction about? 00:26:41.305 --> 00:26:42.398 Direction about? 00:26:42.398 --> 00:26:44.429 What did He say to us? 00:26:44.429 --> 00:26:50.313 In what areas of life? 00:26:50.313 --> 00:26:52.180 I want to be specific. 00:26:52.180 --> 00:27:02.481 General, but generally specific. 00:27:02.481 --> 00:27:04.784 (from the room) Sin. 00:27:04.784 --> 00:27:07.324 Tim: Sin? 00:27:07.324 --> 00:27:10.304 If you're going to say it, 00:27:10.304 --> 00:27:15.116 you've got to be able to tell me what He said about it. 00:27:15.116 --> 00:27:23.137 (from the room) To forsake it and follow Him. 00:27:23.137 --> 00:27:28.412 Tim: How did He say that? 00:27:28.412 --> 00:27:30.262 Now think about this. 00:27:30.262 --> 00:27:33.984 He told different people: 00:27:33.984 --> 00:27:37.342 "Go and sin no more." 00:27:37.342 --> 00:27:39.607 Does He tell us that? 00:27:39.607 --> 00:27:42.041 Would He tell those people that 00:27:42.041 --> 00:27:43.662 and that doesn't apply to us? 00:27:43.662 --> 00:27:51.921 Or does that apply to us? 00:27:51.921 --> 00:27:53.673 I mean, you would hardly think 00:27:53.673 --> 00:27:56.248 that it's something He's requiring of them 00:27:56.248 --> 00:27:57.923 and not of us. 00:27:57.923 --> 00:28:00.943 How do you read that when He says that to people? 00:28:00.943 --> 00:28:03.826 "Go and sin no more, 00:28:03.826 --> 00:28:08.341 lest a worse thing happen to you." 00:28:08.341 --> 00:28:09.756 How do you read that? 00:28:09.756 --> 00:28:11.990 What do you make out of that? 00:28:11.990 --> 00:28:15.211 Is that the way He talks to Christians? 00:28:15.211 --> 00:28:17.550 Is that the way He talks to lost people? 00:28:17.550 --> 00:28:19.047 Is that the way He talks to 00:28:19.047 --> 00:28:20.695 somebody He's just healed 00:28:20.695 --> 00:28:26.045 that may not be regenerated? 00:28:26.045 --> 00:28:40.434 Is that His word to everybody? 00:28:40.434 --> 00:28:44.545 I'll tell you my personal thought on that 00:28:44.545 --> 00:28:49.197 is that it's basically like what He says in Luke 6. 00:28:49.197 --> 00:28:51.094 "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' 00:28:51.094 --> 00:28:52.625 and do not do the things I say?" 00:28:52.625 --> 00:28:56.617 In other words, go forth 00:28:56.617 --> 00:28:59.068 and do the things I say. 00:28:59.068 --> 00:29:01.912 And the things I say never include sin. 00:29:01.912 --> 00:29:03.559 You depart from sin. 00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:04.761 If you say you know Him, 00:29:04.761 --> 00:29:07.955 you keep His commandments. 00:29:07.955 --> 00:29:09.964 That doesn't mean that we don't have 00:29:09.964 --> 00:29:11.493 an Advocate with the Father. 00:29:11.493 --> 00:29:15.622 (incomplete thought) 00:29:15.622 --> 00:29:18.687 I think the idea there 00:29:18.687 --> 00:29:20.208 when He talks about going forth 00:29:20.208 --> 00:29:21.502 and sinning no more 00:29:21.502 --> 00:29:28.765 is much like John speaks. 00:29:28.765 --> 00:29:30.201 How does John speak? 00:29:30.201 --> 00:29:31.957 It sounds very dogmatic. 00:29:31.957 --> 00:29:37.212 It sounds very absolute when it comes to sin. 00:29:37.212 --> 00:29:38.125 (from the room) 00:29:38.125 --> 00:29:40.775 Well, the woman, when she's caught in adultery, 00:29:40.775 --> 00:29:42.235 that's an example. 00:29:42.235 --> 00:29:44.051 Tim: I'm talking about 1 John. 00:29:44.051 --> 00:29:47.366 See, in our ESV, it talks about practicing sin, 00:29:47.366 --> 00:29:48.982 but if you go back and you read 00:29:48.982 --> 00:29:50.414 the King James Version, 00:29:50.414 --> 00:29:52.679 it's like what? 00:29:52.679 --> 00:29:54.496 (unintelligible) 00:29:54.496 --> 00:29:55.399 Right. 00:29:55.399 --> 00:29:57.128 It's like, "if you're born of God, 00:29:57.128 --> 00:29:58.992 you don't commit sin." 00:29:58.992 --> 00:30:01.275 And you read that and it's "what?" 00:30:01.275 --> 00:30:03.816 Well, the ESV puts "practice sin," 00:30:03.816 --> 00:30:06.520 and I think we all feel really comfortable with that 00:30:06.520 --> 00:30:10.563 because the reality is 1 John is the very letter 00:30:10.563 --> 00:30:18.049 where John concedes that if we do fall into sin, 00:30:18.049 --> 00:30:20.221 it's not a hopeless situation. 00:30:20.221 --> 00:30:22.289 There's a place for confession 00:30:22.289 --> 00:30:25.197 and we have an Advocate. 00:30:25.197 --> 00:30:28.615 But I think what He's doing 00:30:28.615 --> 00:30:31.224 is He's basically pressing these people 00:30:31.224 --> 00:30:34.199 to a characterization of life. 00:30:34.199 --> 00:30:36.334 Why? Well, think with me. 00:30:36.334 --> 00:30:43.217 He speaks in that great 00:30:43.217 --> 00:30:45.021 Sermon on the Mount. 00:30:45.021 --> 00:30:48.575 He starts it out by talking about 00:30:48.575 --> 00:30:50.169 the character of the people 00:30:50.169 --> 00:30:52.598 that make up His kingdom. 00:30:52.598 --> 00:30:54.938 (incomplete thought) 00:30:54.938 --> 00:30:58.088 He ends it up with basically 00:30:58.088 --> 00:31:02.805 a parallel passage to what we're finding here in Luke 6. 00:31:02.805 --> 00:31:04.717 And He ends it up with that parable 00:31:04.717 --> 00:31:06.866 about building the house on a rock 00:31:06.866 --> 00:31:08.045 versus the sand. 00:31:08.045 --> 00:31:09.697 And not everybody that says to me, 00:31:09.697 --> 00:31:11.907 "Lord, Lord," is going to inherit the kingdom. 00:31:11.907 --> 00:31:15.187 Those that do the will of My Father. 00:31:15.187 --> 00:31:18.509 Even there - those that do the will of My Father. 00:31:18.509 --> 00:31:21.621 Do they do the will of the Father all the time? 00:31:21.621 --> 00:31:23.727 I think the thing that's very encouraging 00:31:23.727 --> 00:31:25.557 about Scripture - several things 00:31:25.557 --> 00:31:28.129 very encouraging - 00:31:28.129 --> 00:31:33.047 if you think about those disciples, 00:31:33.047 --> 00:31:34.977 John 17 is very encouraging. 00:31:34.977 --> 00:31:36.596 "They have kept Your Word." 00:31:36.596 --> 00:31:38.215 I look at these guys. 00:31:38.215 --> 00:31:41.975 Look, you might think, oh boy, 00:31:41.975 --> 00:31:44.782 if He said that 24 hours after Pentecost 00:31:44.782 --> 00:31:47.534 when these guys are shining, glowing, 00:31:47.534 --> 00:31:50.975 they've got the flames of fire on their heads, 00:31:50.975 --> 00:31:54.251 they've spoken and 3,000 are saved 00:31:54.251 --> 00:31:56.836 and you think wow, the church is so glorious, 00:31:56.836 --> 00:31:59.548 and Peter's been transformed. 00:31:59.548 --> 00:32:04.365 No. Jesus says this 00:32:04.365 --> 00:32:07.160 right before Peter denies Him. 00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:08.865 After these guys have been arguing 00:32:08.865 --> 00:32:11.216 about who is going to be the greatest. 00:32:11.216 --> 00:32:14.627 And He says, "they've kept Your Word." 00:32:14.627 --> 00:32:17.407 And then when you come to that 11th chapter of Hebrews, 00:32:17.407 --> 00:32:20.133 and you read about: "by faith," "by faith," "by faith..." 00:32:20.133 --> 00:32:23.429 And if you go back and look at the accounts of some of these people, 00:32:23.429 --> 00:32:26.567 they had a lot of blemishes in their life. 00:32:26.567 --> 00:32:30.248 What's so encouraging is 00:32:30.248 --> 00:32:35.645 our sin is under the blood. 00:32:35.645 --> 00:32:37.384 You get these different accounts. 00:32:37.384 --> 00:32:38.834 Yes, it's true. God's people 00:32:38.834 --> 00:32:40.721 have their sins revealed in Scripture. 00:32:40.721 --> 00:32:42.412 But you get these certain accounts 00:32:42.412 --> 00:32:46.931 where it says though God just covers them over. NOTE Paragraph 00:32:46.931 --> 00:32:50.859 But, okay, so He speaks to sin in our life. 00:32:50.859 --> 00:32:53.489 That's real broad. 00:32:53.489 --> 00:32:59.565 What else does He speak to? 00:32:59.565 --> 00:33:01.057 Our possessions. 00:33:01.057 --> 00:33:03.782 He speaks to our money. 00:33:03.782 --> 00:33:06.904 He speaks to how we give. 00:33:06.904 --> 00:33:11.921 What else does He speak to? 00:33:11.921 --> 00:33:13.271 Our relations. 00:33:13.271 --> 00:33:17.859 (incomplete thought) 00:33:17.859 --> 00:33:22.194 Luke 9, you've got these two 00:33:22.194 --> 00:33:25.971 very specific incidents of apparently 00:33:25.971 --> 00:33:28.138 young men who want to be His disciples 00:33:28.138 --> 00:33:30.952 and one wants to go home and say goodbye. 00:33:30.952 --> 00:33:34.804 One wants to go home and bury his father. 00:33:34.804 --> 00:33:36.574 He talks about He didn't come 00:33:36.574 --> 00:33:38.430 to bring peace, but a sword, 00:33:38.430 --> 00:33:40.739 and He's talking very specifically 00:33:40.739 --> 00:33:43.347 about the family. 00:33:43.347 --> 00:33:49.809 He talks there in Matthew 10 00:33:49.809 --> 00:33:55.004 and Luke 14 about loving 00:33:55.004 --> 00:33:56.815 mother or father, husband or wife, 00:33:56.815 --> 00:33:57.966 son or daughter. 00:33:57.966 --> 00:34:00.304 He talks about our relationships. 00:34:00.304 --> 00:34:02.234 He talks about the necessity 00:34:02.234 --> 00:34:05.382 of loving Him more than anybody else. 00:34:05.382 --> 00:34:07.628 What else does He speak to? 00:34:07.628 --> 00:34:09.678 Well, I think about Matthew 15. 00:34:09.678 --> 00:34:11.058 He speaks about the fact 00:34:11.058 --> 00:34:13.016 that He expects that we would 00:34:13.016 --> 00:34:14.364 honor our parents. 00:34:14.364 --> 00:34:17.008 Even though there's going to be a sword in the family. 00:34:17.008 --> 00:34:18.774 He speaks as though He would have us 00:34:18.774 --> 00:34:21.431 honor our parents. NOTE Paragraph 00:34:21.431 --> 00:34:25.218 What else does He speak to? 00:34:25.218 --> 00:34:26.805 He talks about prayer. 00:34:26.805 --> 00:34:30.279 "Lord, teach us to pray." 00:34:30.279 --> 00:34:32.417 And He did. 00:34:32.417 --> 00:34:34.502 You think even in the Sermon on the Mount, 00:34:34.502 --> 00:34:36.088 He talks about prayer. 00:34:36.088 --> 00:34:39.562 He doesn't want us like the hypocrites. 00:34:39.562 --> 00:34:44.118 He talks about even some of the basic makeup 00:34:44.118 --> 00:34:47.047 of what's important in prayer. 00:34:47.047 --> 00:34:50.353 "Our Father, who art in heaven, 00:34:50.353 --> 00:34:51.706 hallowed be Thy name. 00:34:51.706 --> 00:34:53.125 Thy kingdom come... 00:34:53.125 --> 00:34:55.092 Thy will be done." 00:34:55.092 --> 00:34:57.587 He's giving us aspects of what 00:34:57.587 --> 00:35:04.239 He considers to be essential components 00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:05.947 of prayer. 00:35:05.947 --> 00:35:07.663 He talks about how to do it. 00:35:07.663 --> 00:35:09.905 He talks about the importunity of it. 00:35:09.905 --> 00:35:12.133 He talks about the promise - 00:35:12.133 --> 00:35:14.801 think about the promises that are given us 00:35:14.801 --> 00:35:21.124 concerning prayer in John 14, 15, 16. 00:35:21.124 --> 00:35:23.646 "If you abide in Me, and My Word abides in you." 00:35:23.646 --> 00:35:25.579 Now that comes back to this. 00:35:25.579 --> 00:35:27.761 Right? 00:35:27.761 --> 00:35:30.187 If My Word abides in you, 00:35:30.187 --> 00:35:31.705 you shall ask what you will 00:35:31.705 --> 00:35:33.685 and it shall be done unto you. 00:35:33.685 --> 00:35:35.043 He talks about the fact 00:35:35.043 --> 00:35:38.001 that He wouldn't need to ask the Father for us, 00:35:38.001 --> 00:35:39.804 because the Father loves us. 00:35:39.804 --> 00:35:41.963 He talks about praying in His name. 00:35:41.963 --> 00:35:43.488 He talks about praying 00:35:43.488 --> 00:35:46.344 so that the Father be glorified in the Son. 00:35:46.344 --> 00:35:51.478 He talks about praying that our joy be full. NOTE Paragraph 00:35:51.478 --> 00:35:55.385 What else does He speak to in our life? 00:35:55.385 --> 00:35:57.931 Loving others. 00:35:57.931 --> 00:36:00.523 He definitely speaks about love. 00:36:00.523 --> 00:36:03.639 He speaks about loving the brethren. 00:36:03.639 --> 00:36:07.525 He speaks about loving our enemies. 00:36:07.525 --> 00:36:13.410 He speaks about giving and lending. 00:36:13.410 --> 00:36:16.506 He speaks about not being like lost people 00:36:16.506 --> 00:36:20.179 who love their relatives, 00:36:20.179 --> 00:36:22.443 but actually loving those 00:36:22.443 --> 00:36:30.065 who are unrighteous and unthankful. 00:36:30.065 --> 00:36:34.176 What else does He speak to? 00:36:34.176 --> 00:36:36.880 Acknowleding Him before men. 00:36:36.880 --> 00:36:37.895 Yeah. 00:36:37.895 --> 00:36:43.766 How we identify Him 00:36:43.766 --> 00:36:45.361 in the face of the public; 00:36:45.361 --> 00:36:46.610 in the face of family; 00:36:46.610 --> 00:36:49.391 in the face of the onlooking world. 00:36:49.391 --> 00:36:51.622 How do we speak for Him? 00:36:51.622 --> 00:36:55.243 Do we own Him? 00:36:55.243 --> 00:37:00.848 Do we declare Him? 00:37:00.848 --> 00:37:05.537 What else does He speak to? 00:37:05.537 --> 00:37:08.182 (from the room) Evangelization, the Great Commission. 00:37:08.182 --> 00:37:09.576 Tim: The Great Commission. 00:37:09.576 --> 00:37:13.915 He told us what one of the key 00:37:13.915 --> 00:37:18.327 responsibilities of the church is going to be. 00:37:18.327 --> 00:37:24.314 And tells us - commands us to go. 00:37:24.314 --> 00:37:27.910 Promises us He'll be with us. 00:37:27.910 --> 00:37:30.978 What else does He speak to? 00:37:30.978 --> 00:37:32.191 Forgiveness. 00:37:32.191 --> 00:37:33.497 That's a huge thing. 00:37:33.497 --> 00:37:35.616 Right there in the prayer 00:37:35.616 --> 00:37:37.765 where He's teaching us how to pray. 00:37:37.765 --> 00:37:40.774 He's teaching us to forgive men 00:37:40.774 --> 00:37:43.998 their trespasses (incomplete thought). 00:37:43.998 --> 00:37:48.117 He's teaching us to ask 00:37:48.117 --> 00:37:51.234 that our trespasses be forgiven us 00:37:51.234 --> 00:37:54.098 even as we forgive those who trespass against us. 00:37:54.098 --> 00:37:56.255 And of course, you remember Matthew 18. 00:37:56.255 --> 00:37:59.443 You have the parable there. 00:37:59.443 --> 00:38:01.151 Matthew 18 so often known 00:38:01.151 --> 00:38:04.730 for how we deal with sin in the church, 00:38:04.730 --> 00:38:06.889 but there you have that parable 00:38:06.889 --> 00:38:10.940 about the necessity to forgive. 00:38:10.940 --> 00:38:12.546 (from the room) 00:38:12.546 --> 00:38:16.448 Keep oneself unstained from the world. 00:38:16.448 --> 00:38:19.958 Tim: Keep oneself unstained from the world. 00:38:19.958 --> 00:38:22.515 What text specifically do you have in mind? 00:38:22.515 --> 00:38:26.831 I'm thinking about Jesus' specific words. 00:38:26.831 --> 00:38:30.800 I obviously know James and Paul. 00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:35.639 We don't want to downplay those guys, 00:38:35.639 --> 00:38:37.653 but let's try to think of 00:38:37.653 --> 00:38:41.586 where He specifically spoke to. 00:38:41.586 --> 00:38:43.094 Fasting. 00:38:43.094 --> 00:38:44.771 He spoke not only to prayer, 00:38:44.771 --> 00:38:46.830 He spoke to fasting. 00:38:46.830 --> 00:38:50.114 How you do it - not like the hypocrites do it. 00:38:50.114 --> 00:38:52.089 He wants us to wash our faces. 00:38:52.089 --> 00:38:55.149 In other words, He wants us to have 00:38:55.149 --> 00:39:00.254 a private walk with the Lord, 00:39:00.254 --> 00:39:02.060 with the Father. 00:39:02.060 --> 00:39:06.943 Just between us and Him. NOTE Paragraph 00:39:06.943 --> 00:39:10.297 What else did He speak to? 00:39:10.297 --> 00:39:16.352 Abiding. Abiding in Him. 00:39:16.352 --> 00:39:18.696 (from the room) Spiritual realities? 00:39:18.696 --> 00:39:20.024 Tim: How so? 00:39:20.024 --> 00:39:21.083 (from the room) 00:39:21.083 --> 00:39:25.932 Parable of the Sowers 00:39:25.932 --> 00:39:28.406 Tim: He definitely spoke to 00:39:28.406 --> 00:39:31.010 the different responses that would be 00:39:31.010 --> 00:39:33.312 had to the Gospel. 00:39:33.312 --> 00:39:35.301 He takes us behind the scenes. 00:39:35.301 --> 00:39:36.665 He shows us the kingdom. 00:39:36.665 --> 00:39:38.253 He shows us the outworking. 00:39:38.253 --> 00:39:40.917 He shows us the devil sowing seed 00:39:40.917 --> 00:39:42.736 in the midst of all the wheat. 00:39:42.736 --> 00:39:45.071 He shows us these pictures. 00:39:45.071 --> 00:39:49.794 He takes us behind the veil so to speak. 00:39:49.794 --> 00:39:55.530 And He shows us what is unfolding. 00:39:55.530 --> 00:39:58.335 He shows us that not everybody that starts out real 00:39:58.335 --> 00:39:59.716 finishes well. 00:39:59.716 --> 00:40:03.468 He shows us that there are pleasures 00:40:03.468 --> 00:40:07.014 and entanglements and thorns in this world 00:40:07.014 --> 00:40:10.214 that cause us to not become fruitful. 00:40:10.214 --> 00:40:12.359 He speaks to our words, does He not? 00:40:12.359 --> 00:40:13.448 Matthew 12? 00:40:13.448 --> 00:40:14.537 (incomplete thought) 00:40:14.537 --> 00:40:16.157 We are going to stand 00:40:16.157 --> 00:40:17.676 and have to give an account 00:40:17.676 --> 00:40:19.932 for every idle word we've spoken. 00:40:19.932 --> 00:40:22.113 He speaks to marriage. 00:40:22.113 --> 00:40:25.483 He says don't let man separate 00:40:25.483 --> 00:40:27.057 what God has joined together. 00:40:27.057 --> 00:40:28.648 He speaks to lust. 00:40:28.648 --> 00:40:30.518 He says gouge out eyes 00:40:30.518 --> 00:40:31.852 and chop off hands. 00:40:31.852 --> 00:40:33.892 He speaks to life. 00:40:33.892 --> 00:40:36.418 What we give our lives to. 00:40:36.418 --> 00:40:39.259 He speaks about seeking first the kingdom. 00:40:39.259 --> 00:40:41.500 He speaks to the heart. 00:40:41.500 --> 00:40:43.979 How often did He deal with the heart? 00:40:43.979 --> 00:40:45.739 Their heart is not with Me. 00:40:45.739 --> 00:40:47.870 The heart - where the treasure is. 00:40:47.870 --> 00:40:49.303 That is where the heart is. 00:40:49.303 --> 00:40:53.102 He speaks to what's going on inside a man. 00:40:53.102 --> 00:40:54.394 Don't be a hypocrite. 00:40:54.394 --> 00:40:56.376 Don't act like the hypocrites. 00:40:56.376 --> 00:40:58.477 Your righteousness needs to exceed 00:40:58.477 --> 00:40:59.798 that of the hypocrites. 00:40:59.798 --> 00:41:01.475 That is all external. 00:41:01.475 --> 00:41:03.254 He's looking for the reality. 00:41:03.254 --> 00:41:04.544 He goes inside. 00:41:04.544 --> 00:41:06.658 He gives us those beatitudes. 00:41:06.658 --> 00:41:10.331 And He says this is what characterizes My kingdom; 00:41:10.331 --> 00:41:14.409 My people. What are they like? 00:41:14.409 --> 00:41:22.084 Blessed are the poor in spirit. 00:41:22.084 --> 00:41:23.438 What's next? 00:41:23.438 --> 00:41:25.369 What does He say next? 00:41:25.369 --> 00:41:29.757 In the beatitudes. 00:41:29.757 --> 00:41:32.721 Blessed are the mourners. 00:41:32.721 --> 00:41:35.228 Blessed are the meek. 00:41:35.228 --> 00:41:37.669 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst 00:41:37.669 --> 00:41:39.905 after righteousness. 00:41:39.905 --> 00:41:41.866 He goes inside. 00:41:41.866 --> 00:41:46.482 And He says you're salt and you're light. 00:41:46.482 --> 00:41:48.994 He speaks to persecution. 00:41:48.994 --> 00:41:52.230 Blessed are the persecuted. 00:41:52.230 --> 00:41:53.682 For His name's sake. 00:41:53.682 --> 00:41:58.530 For the Gospel's sake. NOTE Paragraph 00:41:58.530 --> 00:42:05.129 What else does He speak to? 00:42:05.129 --> 00:42:07.080 He speaks to the Holy Spirit. 00:42:07.080 --> 00:42:09.003 Promises concerning the Holy Spirit. 00:42:09.003 --> 00:42:10.564 The promised Holy Spirit. 00:42:10.564 --> 00:42:15.565 The Comforter is coming. He's not going to leave us orphans. 00:42:15.565 --> 00:42:19.894 What else did He speak to? 00:42:19.894 --> 00:42:22.186 He spoke to how the world's going to treat us. 00:42:22.186 --> 00:42:23.914 And He spoke to them about the fact 00:42:23.914 --> 00:42:26.315 that they're going to be put out of the synagogues 00:42:26.315 --> 00:42:33.672 and people are going to kill them thinking that they're doing God's service. 00:42:33.672 --> 00:42:38.964 What else did He speak to? 00:42:38.964 --> 00:42:41.057 Judgment. 00:42:41.057 --> 00:42:45.536 Well, He does. He gives us those pictures of judgment 00:42:45.536 --> 00:42:47.660 and what it's going to be like on that day. 00:42:47.660 --> 00:42:51.769 Repeated parables concerning the judgment 00:42:51.769 --> 00:42:53.507 and what it's like. 00:42:53.507 --> 00:42:55.810 Picture after picture. 00:42:55.810 --> 00:42:57.943 You've got this net. 00:42:57.943 --> 00:43:01.765 You've got pictures of these servants. 00:43:01.765 --> 00:43:06.494 You've got pictures of when the King 00:43:06.494 --> 00:43:08.999 takes His seat and all the nations 00:43:08.999 --> 00:43:10.883 are gathered together. 00:43:10.883 --> 00:43:13.550 He gives us all these pictures 00:43:13.550 --> 00:43:15.846 and these parables and these accounts 00:43:15.846 --> 00:43:18.420 where He shows this great coming 00:43:18.420 --> 00:43:21.264 day of judgment. 00:43:21.264 --> 00:43:24.812 "Well done, good and faithful servant. 00:43:24.812 --> 00:43:31.360 Enter into the joy..." 00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:35.449 And these are on the outside. 00:43:35.449 --> 00:43:36.929 What were they saying? 00:43:36.929 --> 00:43:43.014 Did they say, "Lord, Lord," there too? 00:43:43.014 --> 00:43:49.343 They're going to say we ate and drank in your streets. 00:43:49.343 --> 00:43:52.330 What else did He speak to? 00:43:52.330 --> 00:43:53.514 (from the room) 00:43:53.514 --> 00:43:56.514 He said to watch and be ready for His return. 00:43:56.514 --> 00:43:58.259 Tim: Oh, He warned that. 00:43:58.259 --> 00:44:00.541 He warned: you don't know when I'm coming. 00:44:00.541 --> 00:44:02.943 He warned that we need to be ready all the time. 00:44:02.943 --> 00:44:04.734 He warned that if you're the servant 00:44:04.734 --> 00:44:06.616 who gets lazy, 00:44:06.616 --> 00:44:08.715 and you begin to slack off, 00:44:08.715 --> 00:44:11.336 He's going to come and He's going to catch you. 00:44:11.336 --> 00:44:14.166 He's going to come like a thief 00:44:14.166 --> 00:44:16.402 and He's going to catch you unawares. 00:44:16.402 --> 00:44:19.232 And He said what I say to you, I say to all: 00:44:19.232 --> 00:44:20.893 you watch. 00:44:20.893 --> 00:44:24.117 Be watchful. 00:44:24.117 --> 00:44:26.776 Be ready. NOTE Paragraph 00:44:26.776 --> 00:44:30.446 Listen, Jonathan Edwards, 00:44:30.446 --> 00:44:33.960 when he was putting together his whole list 00:44:33.960 --> 00:44:36.505 of the things that he wanted to make certain 00:44:36.505 --> 00:44:39.853 that he gave himself to in his life, 00:44:39.853 --> 00:44:43.208 when he talks about not wanting to do 00:44:43.208 --> 00:44:45.858 anything that he would not want to do 00:44:45.858 --> 00:44:48.375 if he knew that Christ was going to return 00:44:48.375 --> 00:44:52.225 one hour from now or 24 hours from now. 00:44:52.225 --> 00:44:54.239 Listen, he wasn't the one that invented 00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:55.354 that kind of thinking. 00:44:55.354 --> 00:44:57.734 Jesus was the one that told His people: 00:44:57.734 --> 00:44:59.598 you need to be ready. 00:44:59.598 --> 00:45:01.783 And you need to live like I can come anytime 00:45:01.783 --> 00:45:06.454 because the reality is you don't know when I'm coming. NOTE Paragraph 00:45:06.454 --> 00:45:10.461 What else did He address? 00:45:10.461 --> 00:45:12.103 The Lord's Supper. 00:45:12.103 --> 00:45:13.885 He definitely introduced that to us 00:45:13.885 --> 00:45:18.925 and He said that we are to do that 00:45:18.925 --> 00:45:21.404 until He comes. 00:45:21.404 --> 00:45:23.769 We're to do that in remembrance of Him. 00:45:23.769 --> 00:45:25.193 He definitely spoke to that. 00:45:25.193 --> 00:45:28.834 What else does He speak to? 00:45:28.834 --> 00:45:30.478 The what? 00:45:30.478 --> 00:45:32.249 He did speak to rewards. 00:45:32.249 --> 00:45:33.587 How so? 00:45:33.587 --> 00:45:43.272 (unintelligible) 00:45:43.272 --> 00:45:47.099 Tim: He spoke about laying up treasure in heaven. 00:45:47.099 --> 00:45:50.408 I mean, think, think. 00:45:50.408 --> 00:45:55.668 "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do the things I say?" 00:45:55.668 --> 00:45:57.598 What does He say? 00:45:57.598 --> 00:46:00.438 Chop off hands. Cut off feet. 00:46:00.438 --> 00:46:01.918 Honor your parents. 00:46:01.918 --> 00:46:03.699 Love Me more than your parents. 00:46:03.699 --> 00:46:05.287 Love Me more than husband, wife, 00:46:05.287 --> 00:46:08.821 girlfriend, boyfriend, sons, or daughters. 00:46:08.821 --> 00:46:10.243 Store up treasure in heaven. 00:46:10.243 --> 00:46:12.427 Don't lay up your treasure here. 00:46:12.427 --> 00:46:15.291 He spoke to having dinners. 00:46:15.291 --> 00:46:18.323 Don't take the chief seat. 00:46:18.323 --> 00:46:20.555 Take the least seat and get moved up. 00:46:20.555 --> 00:46:22.431 When you have a dinner, 00:46:22.431 --> 00:46:25.272 don't invite all your family and friends. 00:46:25.272 --> 00:46:29.391 Invite those who can't pay you back. 00:46:29.391 --> 00:46:32.476 He spoke to money. 00:46:32.476 --> 00:46:33.526 Widow comes along, 00:46:33.526 --> 00:46:37.457 throws in her last two coins. 00:46:37.457 --> 00:46:40.484 She put in more than all the rest. 00:46:40.484 --> 00:46:42.055 He watched people give. 00:46:42.055 --> 00:46:45.855 He was standing there watching the way people give. 00:46:45.855 --> 00:46:49.893 He watched how people took seats. 00:46:49.893 --> 00:46:53.321 He watched people. 00:46:53.321 --> 00:46:58.002 He watched how people spoke. 00:46:58.002 --> 00:47:00.103 Speaking to some He said: 00:47:00.103 --> 00:47:02.445 you can't speak well. 00:47:02.445 --> 00:47:06.512 Why? Because again, it comes back to the heart. 00:47:06.512 --> 00:47:10.407 The heart shows where your treasure is. 00:47:10.407 --> 00:47:12.465 Or where your treasure is shows 00:47:12.465 --> 00:47:13.913 the matter of the heart. 00:47:13.913 --> 00:47:15.373 What your words say 00:47:15.373 --> 00:47:18.506 show what's going on in the heart. 00:47:18.506 --> 00:47:21.228 What basically is coming on the outside 00:47:21.228 --> 00:47:24.137 is an expression of the heart. 00:47:24.137 --> 00:47:26.955 Jesus said, "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord,' 00:47:26.955 --> 00:47:28.744 and do not do...? 00:47:28.744 --> 00:47:31.829 How much are we being impressed by what He says to do? 00:47:31.829 --> 00:47:35.592 Listen, He speaks to so many different aspects 00:47:35.592 --> 00:47:36.856 of our life. 00:47:36.856 --> 00:47:40.210 Possessions. 00:47:40.210 --> 00:47:43.651 Luke 12? He tells us to sell your possessions 00:47:43.651 --> 00:47:47.866 and give to the poor. 00:47:47.866 --> 00:47:53.180 He took the towel and girded Himself 00:47:53.180 --> 00:47:55.086 and He washed their feet. 00:47:55.086 --> 00:48:01.073 And He said, "I've given you an example." NOTE Paragraph 00:48:01.073 --> 00:48:03.075 He spoke to fear. 00:48:03.075 --> 00:48:04.827 "Fear not." 00:48:04.827 --> 00:48:07.547 Or, "I'll tell you who to fear." 00:48:07.547 --> 00:48:10.821 Fear not them. Fear Him. 00:48:10.821 --> 00:48:13.214 Don't fear those who can kill the body. 00:48:13.214 --> 00:48:16.564 Fear Him who can throw you into hell. 00:48:16.564 --> 00:48:19.439 Really? As children of God, that's what we should fear? 00:48:19.439 --> 00:48:21.484 That's what Jesus said to fear. 00:48:21.484 --> 00:48:24.795 That's a fearful thing. 00:48:24.795 --> 00:48:26.886 And a lot of people, according to Matthew 7, 00:48:26.886 --> 00:48:28.489 are going to be thrown into hell 00:48:28.489 --> 00:48:31.735 who don't think God would throw them into hell. 00:48:31.735 --> 00:48:34.254 But see, it comes back to this very thing. 00:48:34.254 --> 00:48:39.690 How much are Jesus' words impacting your life? 00:48:39.690 --> 00:48:41.475 You know what? 00:48:41.475 --> 00:48:43.899 A lot of people like to explain those words away. 00:48:43.899 --> 00:48:45.573 They're going to explain them away 00:48:45.573 --> 00:48:49.985 and they're going to wake up in hell one day. 00:48:49.985 --> 00:48:52.968 I'm not saying that all the things that Jesus said 00:48:52.968 --> 00:48:55.035 don't have to be thought about 00:48:55.035 --> 00:48:56.693 in how they impact our life. 00:48:56.693 --> 00:48:59.839 Look, when Jesus says when you have a dinner, 00:48:59.839 --> 00:49:03.867 don't invite these folks; invite these folks - 00:49:03.867 --> 00:49:08.775 does that mean that I can never invite my family? 00:49:08.775 --> 00:49:11.351 Well, even Jesus, when He went to dinners - 00:49:11.351 --> 00:49:13.382 He went to a wedding with His disciples. 00:49:13.382 --> 00:49:20.456 He attended dinners with His disciples. 00:49:20.456 --> 00:49:22.836 (incomplete thought) 00:49:22.836 --> 00:49:24.820 He's going to throw one in the end, 00:49:24.820 --> 00:49:32.892 and He's going to have all of His people there. 00:49:32.892 --> 00:49:40.417 You see times when 00:49:40.417 --> 00:49:47.193 undoubtedly where He and His disciples 00:49:47.193 --> 00:49:51.577 were fed at the house of Lazarus and Mary and Martha. 00:49:51.577 --> 00:49:55.283 And we need to recognize that if we're going to love our parents, 00:49:55.283 --> 00:49:58.377 we certainly aren't going to keep them away 00:49:58.377 --> 00:50:03.760 at Thanksgiving or whatever. 00:50:03.760 --> 00:50:06.715 But who are you going to invite over at Thanksgiving? NOTE Paragraph 00:50:06.715 --> 00:50:08.987 The reality is Jesus' words should be 00:50:08.987 --> 00:50:11.876 impacting our lives. 00:50:11.876 --> 00:50:13.742 What are you doing with your money? 00:50:13.742 --> 00:50:16.234 Do His words impact your life? 00:50:16.234 --> 00:50:18.592 What are you doing with your possessions? 00:50:18.592 --> 00:50:20.335 Do His words impact your life? 00:50:20.335 --> 00:50:22.170 Have you ever sold anything so that 00:50:22.170 --> 00:50:23.752 you could give to those in need? 00:50:23.752 --> 00:50:26.394 Do His words impact your life? 00:50:26.394 --> 00:50:31.296 Is there some way to wash feet today? 00:50:31.296 --> 00:50:32.982 Is that impacting your life? 00:50:32.982 --> 00:50:36.534 We should be asking ourselves. 00:50:36.534 --> 00:50:39.075 We should not just be going along through life 00:50:39.075 --> 00:50:42.645 not wanting to proactively sin. 00:50:42.645 --> 00:50:45.275 Scripture isn't just about what we don't do. 00:50:45.275 --> 00:50:47.639 (incomplete thought) 00:50:47.639 --> 00:50:52.063 If you think about Matthew 25. 00:50:52.063 --> 00:50:57.766 When Jesus gets to separating the nations, 00:50:57.766 --> 00:51:00.428 He doesn't look to those on His right 00:51:00.428 --> 00:51:03.773 and say guys, I am so glad you didn't steal. 00:51:03.773 --> 00:51:07.459 I am so glad you didn't commit adultery 00:51:07.459 --> 00:51:09.861 with the lady down the street. 00:51:09.861 --> 00:51:13.547 I'm so glad that you didn't... 00:51:13.547 --> 00:51:15.734 That's not what He does. 00:51:15.734 --> 00:51:19.058 He says I was hungry and you fed Me. 00:51:19.058 --> 00:51:21.018 See, we need to be proactive. 00:51:21.018 --> 00:51:24.348 Christ's commandments are not, by and large, 00:51:24.348 --> 00:51:26.816 what you don't do. 00:51:26.816 --> 00:51:30.309 Yes, there is some of that undoubtedly. 00:51:30.309 --> 00:51:32.132 But so much of His commands - 00:51:32.132 --> 00:51:35.965 think about the commands concerning 00:51:35.965 --> 00:51:39.320 the Gospel, the Great Commission. 00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:43.998 You think about the commands concerning salt and light. 00:51:43.998 --> 00:51:48.667 What we're told is we're to do our works, 00:51:48.667 --> 00:51:52.304 good works, before the onlooking world. 00:51:52.304 --> 00:51:55.624 To the glory of our Father. 00:51:55.624 --> 00:51:57.586 We're to seek first the kingdom. 00:51:57.586 --> 00:51:59.645 We're to lay up treasure in heaven. 00:51:59.645 --> 00:52:03.840 We're to live lives not just where 00:52:03.840 --> 00:52:07.131 we're constantly trying to not do. 00:52:07.131 --> 00:52:09.922 That's not the life we're called to. 00:52:09.922 --> 00:52:14.975 It's, okay, how can I wash feet today? 00:52:14.975 --> 00:52:17.934 Even though culturally that's not a thing. 00:52:17.934 --> 00:52:19.616 We don't walk around in bare feet 00:52:19.616 --> 00:52:22.453 in sandals on dusty roads. 00:52:22.453 --> 00:52:26.882 We don't typically have dirt floors in our house. 00:52:26.882 --> 00:52:30.717 Our feet stay relatively clean. 00:52:30.717 --> 00:52:34.071 But the whole idea was 00:52:34.071 --> 00:52:35.920 that was a menial task 00:52:35.920 --> 00:52:37.999 that a slave would have done. 00:52:37.999 --> 00:52:42.013 And our Lord did it. 00:52:42.013 --> 00:52:46.646 And He said I'm leaving you an example. 00:52:46.646 --> 00:52:51.745 So, you call Me "Lord, Lord," 00:52:51.745 --> 00:52:54.115 do you do what I say? 00:52:54.115 --> 00:52:57.502 I gave you instruction 00:52:57.502 --> 00:53:03.253 that encompasses a life. 00:53:03.253 --> 00:53:05.286 He who doesn't forsake all that He has 00:53:05.286 --> 00:53:07.209 is not worthy of Me. 00:53:07.209 --> 00:53:10.446 He can't be My disciple. 00:53:10.446 --> 00:53:14.702 He who loves somebody else more than Me, 00:53:14.702 --> 00:53:17.580 He can't be My disciple. 00:53:17.580 --> 00:53:21.992 He who doesn't take up his cross daily 00:53:21.992 --> 00:53:27.554 and die can't be My disciple. 00:53:27.554 --> 00:53:29.490 I mean, are we dying? 00:53:29.490 --> 00:53:32.162 Think about it. What's dying? 00:53:32.162 --> 00:53:35.089 Dying isn't physical death there. 00:53:35.089 --> 00:53:36.251 What is dying? 00:53:36.251 --> 00:53:37.587 It could lead to that, 00:53:37.587 --> 00:53:44.427 but dying is basically when my wants, 00:53:44.427 --> 00:53:47.657 wishes, agendas, goals 00:53:47.657 --> 00:53:51.002 come face to face with those 00:53:51.002 --> 00:53:53.518 that I know that He wants from me. 00:53:53.518 --> 00:53:56.237 That's where we die. 00:53:56.237 --> 00:53:59.518 Where we lay down our own ambitions 00:53:59.518 --> 00:54:04.340 and where there's a submission to His will. NOTE Paragraph 00:54:04.340 --> 00:54:08.679 And see, so often, brethren, 00:54:08.679 --> 00:54:14.906 so often we want mystical leadership. 00:54:14.906 --> 00:54:16.959 We can feel like: Oh, Lord, we want You 00:54:16.959 --> 00:54:19.277 to tell us what to do over here. 00:54:19.277 --> 00:54:21.715 I'll tell you, if we would concern ourselves 00:54:21.715 --> 00:54:28.796 with the myriad of things that He has spoken to, 00:54:28.796 --> 00:54:32.012 and we would apply ourselves there, 00:54:32.012 --> 00:54:36.422 we would be well on our way 00:54:36.422 --> 00:54:44.291 to doing the will of God. 00:54:44.291 --> 00:54:49.459 So often we want God to subjectively 00:54:49.459 --> 00:54:52.077 lead us or point us or guide us, 00:54:52.077 --> 00:54:56.176 and the reality is Jesus doesn't say: 00:54:56.176 --> 00:54:59.849 get frozen, get locked up, 00:54:59.849 --> 00:55:01.810 because you don't have some kind of 00:55:01.810 --> 00:55:04.444 mysterious, subjective leadership. 00:55:04.444 --> 00:55:08.456 He basically speaks very plainly repeatedly 00:55:08.456 --> 00:55:11.617 about His commandments, 00:55:11.617 --> 00:55:15.216 His Word; 00:55:15.216 --> 00:55:18.089 about what He's speaking; 00:55:18.089 --> 00:55:21.168 about the fact He's Lord. 00:55:21.168 --> 00:55:24.734 Why do you not do what I say? 00:55:24.734 --> 00:55:27.674 So, the whole point of tonight is: 00:55:27.674 --> 00:55:31.885 think about what He says. 00:55:31.885 --> 00:55:34.920 Why do you not do them? NOTE Paragraph 00:55:34.920 --> 00:55:36.619 Okay, let's be about them. 00:55:36.619 --> 00:55:37.724 Let's do them. 00:55:37.724 --> 00:55:40.970 Let's proactively set ourselves 00:55:40.970 --> 00:55:44.914 about striving to do it. 00:55:44.914 --> 00:55:50.121 So many people like to sit back and argue. 00:55:50.121 --> 00:55:53.325 Luke 6. What a place to say: 00:55:53.325 --> 00:55:58.808 Oh, but I don't know what this means? 00:55:58.808 --> 00:56:01.109 Luke 6:27, "I say to you who hear, 00:56:01.109 --> 00:56:02.039 love your enemies, 00:56:02.039 --> 00:56:03.589 do good to those who hate you, 00:56:03.589 --> 00:56:04.840 bless those who curse you, 00:56:04.840 --> 00:56:06.323 pray for those who abuse you. 00:56:06.323 --> 00:56:08.369 To one who strikes you on the cheek, 00:56:08.369 --> 00:56:09.542 offer the other also." 00:56:09.542 --> 00:56:11.057 What does that mean? 00:56:11.057 --> 00:56:12.753 Does that mean I be like the Amish 00:56:12.753 --> 00:56:14.488 and let the people come in my house 00:56:14.488 --> 00:56:15.963 and steal all my furniture? 00:56:15.963 --> 00:56:17.902 Does that mean I let the people come in 00:56:17.902 --> 00:56:21.430 and rape my wife if that's what they want to do? 00:56:21.430 --> 00:56:23.512 So often people get into arguments 00:56:23.512 --> 00:56:27.795 about these things where they're so concerned 00:56:27.795 --> 00:56:29.801 about what they don't mean. 00:56:29.801 --> 00:56:31.420 Why? 00:56:31.420 --> 00:56:35.693 Because they just feel like 00:56:35.693 --> 00:56:39.139 these things are almost absurd. 00:56:39.139 --> 00:56:41.648 "Give to everyone who begs from you, 00:56:41.648 --> 00:56:43.692 and from one who takes away your goods, 00:56:43.692 --> 00:56:45.503 do not demand them back." Really? 00:56:45.503 --> 00:56:46.704 Don't demand them back? 00:56:46.704 --> 00:56:48.249 Somebody takes away my goods? 00:56:48.249 --> 00:56:51.653 I shouldn't call the police on the thief? 00:56:51.653 --> 00:56:53.630 "As you wish that others would do to you, 00:56:53.630 --> 00:56:55.175 do so to them. 00:56:55.175 --> 00:56:56.924 If you love those who love you, 00:56:56.924 --> 00:56:58.554 what benefit is that to you? 00:56:58.554 --> 00:57:00.721 For even sinners love those who love them. 00:57:00.721 --> 00:57:02.900 If you do good to those who do good to you, 00:57:02.900 --> 00:57:05.457 what benefit is that to you? Even sinners do the same. 00:57:05.457 --> 00:57:08.190 If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, 00:57:08.190 --> 00:57:09.652 what credit is that to you? 00:57:09.652 --> 00:57:12.618 Even sinners lend to sinners to get back the same amount. 00:57:12.618 --> 00:57:14.339 Love your enemies. 00:57:14.339 --> 00:57:16.837 Do good and lend expecting nothing in return. 00:57:16.837 --> 00:57:18.824 Your reward will be great." 00:57:18.824 --> 00:57:21.072 Oh yeah, we could spend all day long 00:57:21.072 --> 00:57:23.055 arguing about what it doesn't mean, 00:57:23.055 --> 00:57:26.766 what it doesn't mean, what it doesn't mean... 00:57:26.766 --> 00:57:30.864 You know, there's a lot of people 00:57:30.864 --> 00:57:33.035 who want to argue about what it doesn't mean 00:57:33.035 --> 00:57:38.558 who don't do anything that even resembles it. 00:57:38.558 --> 00:57:41.033 The best thing to do is to be striving 00:57:41.033 --> 00:57:45.566 to reach further and further and further, 00:57:45.566 --> 00:57:48.842 and as we're willing to delve into these, 00:57:48.842 --> 00:57:52.303 we can pray: 00:57:52.303 --> 00:57:57.598 Father, if there are boundaries; 00:57:57.598 --> 00:57:59.577 if there are exceptions; 00:57:59.577 --> 00:58:03.895 if like Scripture often does speak extremely dogmatic 00:58:03.895 --> 00:58:05.725 when there's obviously times when 00:58:05.725 --> 00:58:07.528 we have to apply wisdom 00:58:07.528 --> 00:58:10.262 and other biblical principals - 00:58:10.262 --> 00:58:14.551 (incomplete thought) 00:58:14.551 --> 00:58:17.137 There is a time when there are certain people 00:58:17.137 --> 00:58:20.244 who are not willing to work, 00:58:20.244 --> 00:58:23.327 that they shouldn't eat. 00:58:23.327 --> 00:58:25.804 And so, if you've got a brother 00:58:25.804 --> 00:58:27.390 who's not willing to work 00:58:27.390 --> 00:58:30.397 and he asks - there's a time 00:58:30.397 --> 00:58:32.483 when somebody asks for something 00:58:32.483 --> 00:58:34.111 that you shouldn't give something 00:58:34.111 --> 00:58:36.356 because it's actually more loving. 00:58:36.356 --> 00:58:38.765 There is a place to let love dictate. 00:58:38.765 --> 00:58:40.738 But usually people don't want to argue 00:58:40.738 --> 00:58:42.441 about these things because they're 00:58:42.441 --> 00:58:44.280 trying to figure out how to love more. 00:58:44.280 --> 00:58:46.546 They typically want to argue about these things 00:58:46.546 --> 00:58:48.193 because they're stingy, covetous, 00:58:48.193 --> 00:58:53.523 and they want excuses for continuing to be so. NOTE Paragraph 00:58:53.523 --> 00:58:58.679 If Jesus said, "love your enemies," 00:58:58.679 --> 00:58:59.987 then you know what? 00:58:59.987 --> 00:59:01.870 We as people ought to be thinking about 00:59:01.870 --> 00:59:07.223 the people that we're persecuted most by; 00:59:07.223 --> 00:59:09.782 that create the greatest difficulties in our life, 00:59:09.782 --> 00:59:12.248 and we ought to be actively praying for them. 00:59:12.248 --> 00:59:14.817 We ought to be actively seeking to do good for them. 00:59:14.817 --> 00:59:16.725 (incomplete thought) 00:59:16.725 --> 00:59:19.589 Doesn't that reflect what the truth is here? 00:59:19.589 --> 00:59:21.583 Rather than getting in our debates 00:59:21.583 --> 00:59:24.776 about what it doesn't mean. 00:59:24.776 --> 00:59:26.679 In all these things, 00:59:26.679 --> 00:59:28.829 we ought to hear Him, 00:59:28.829 --> 00:59:30.744 because listen, He's Lord. 00:59:30.744 --> 00:59:32.017 He's wise. 00:59:32.017 --> 00:59:34.199 He's given us the things 00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:36.938 that are going to make us like Him, 00:59:36.938 --> 00:59:39.028 and that are going to please the Father. 00:59:39.028 --> 00:59:42.968 He's given us the standard of righteousness. 00:59:42.968 --> 00:59:46.489 And so, we ought to be venturing out. 00:59:46.489 --> 00:59:47.998 Here Thanksgiving's coming up. 00:59:47.998 --> 00:59:49.497 The holiday's are coming up. 00:59:49.497 --> 00:59:51.293 Listen, even in the church, 00:59:51.293 --> 00:59:53.387 whether you want to observe Thanksgiving 00:59:53.387 --> 00:59:55.765 or observe Christmas or observe New Years, 00:59:55.765 --> 00:59:56.961 you know this, 00:59:56.961 --> 00:59:59.545 it's typically a time when people get together, 00:59:59.545 --> 01:00:01.267 family and friends get together. 01:00:01.267 --> 01:00:06.297 And especially, if we're to do good 01:00:06.297 --> 01:00:08.408 especially to the household of God, 01:00:08.408 --> 01:00:11.523 but to all people, we really need to be thinking. 01:00:11.523 --> 01:00:14.472 Here's a time when especially those 01:00:14.472 --> 01:00:15.625 who are single, 01:00:15.625 --> 01:00:17.556 it can be a real time of loneliness. 01:00:17.556 --> 01:00:19.414 But see, a lot of you are single. 01:00:19.414 --> 01:00:21.317 The last thing you want to do is say, 01:00:21.317 --> 01:00:22.348 oh, woe is me. 01:00:22.348 --> 01:00:24.565 I need other people to love me. 01:00:24.565 --> 01:00:26.538 But you ought to be just as proactive 01:00:26.538 --> 01:00:28.277 in figuring out how to be creative 01:00:28.277 --> 01:00:29.862 in ways to love other people. 01:00:29.862 --> 01:00:31.922 It can be so easy to say, 01:00:31.922 --> 01:00:34.164 oh, well, I'm the guy or I'm the girl 01:00:34.164 --> 01:00:36.121 that's in the position that really needs 01:00:36.121 --> 01:00:37.938 other people to reach out to me. 01:00:37.938 --> 01:00:39.998 You ought to be in a position 01:00:39.998 --> 01:00:44.847 where you're seeking to reach out to others. 01:00:44.847 --> 01:00:46.657 That doesn't mean that other people 01:00:46.657 --> 01:00:50.835 should not be in turn seeking to reach out, 01:00:50.835 --> 01:00:57.665 but there's all manner of opportunity. NOTE Paragraph 01:00:57.665 --> 01:00:59.352 Look, the truth is 01:00:59.352 --> 01:01:07.505 that, like the Leiter's just sent me 01:01:07.505 --> 01:01:17.748 a link to a documentary that they did 01:01:17.748 --> 01:01:23.541 on the Dutch Underground during World War II. 01:01:23.541 --> 01:01:29.579 And the 120,000 or so - what's that? 01:01:29.579 --> 01:01:32.210 (from the room) 200,000 Dutch. 01:01:32.210 --> 01:01:36.478 It was about a hundred thousand Jews, 01:01:36.478 --> 01:01:39.086 and then a hundred thousand of the underground. 01:01:39.086 --> 01:01:42.357 So it was 200,000 who were killed. 01:01:42.357 --> 01:01:47.558 And I watched this documentary last night. 01:01:47.558 --> 01:01:49.744 There's so much evil in this world. 01:01:49.744 --> 01:01:52.451 There's so much hate in this world. 01:01:52.451 --> 01:01:57.097 There's so much cruelty in this world. 01:01:57.097 --> 01:02:00.693 And here you have Jesus telling us: 01:02:00.693 --> 01:02:02.893 Don't lay up treasure in heaven. 01:02:02.893 --> 01:02:05.507 Sell your possessions. Give. 01:02:05.507 --> 01:02:08.146 Love. Love those who hate. 01:02:08.146 --> 01:02:11.270 Do good. Bless, don't curse. 01:02:11.270 --> 01:02:15.018 Go into this world. Be light. 01:02:15.018 --> 01:02:16.818 Don't deny Me. 01:02:16.818 --> 01:02:19.063 Love Me more than anything else. 01:02:19.063 --> 01:02:20.652 Honor your parents, yes. 01:02:20.652 --> 01:02:22.508 Endure the sword. 01:02:22.508 --> 01:02:26.640 Endure to the end. 01:02:26.640 --> 01:02:28.077 But you go out in this world, 01:02:28.077 --> 01:02:32.041 and you love like I loved you. 01:02:32.041 --> 01:02:33.760 Resemble your Father. 01:02:33.760 --> 01:02:36.368 He's merciful to the unjust 01:02:36.368 --> 01:02:37.905 and to the unthankful. 01:02:37.905 --> 01:02:39.495 You go imitate that. 01:02:39.495 --> 01:02:42.013 You imitate Him in that in this dark world; 01:02:42.013 --> 01:02:45.540 in this domain of Satan out here. 01:02:45.540 --> 01:02:48.742 You go out and be light. 01:02:48.742 --> 01:02:50.518 You go out and take the Gospel. 01:02:50.518 --> 01:02:55.790 You go out and reach the nations. 01:02:55.790 --> 01:02:57.475 Last thing we want to do 01:02:57.475 --> 01:03:01.240 is hide that candlestick under a bushel basket. 01:03:01.240 --> 01:03:03.004 Our time is short. 01:03:03.004 --> 01:03:05.254 We are the light. We are the salt. 01:03:05.254 --> 01:03:08.310 There's nobody else that is. 01:03:08.310 --> 01:03:09.880 There's nobody else that has 01:03:09.880 --> 01:03:11.441 the transformed hearts. 01:03:11.441 --> 01:03:14.325 There's nobody else that has Christ 01:03:14.325 --> 01:03:18.682 being inscribed into the very nature 01:03:18.682 --> 01:03:23.206 and fabric of their being than us. 01:03:23.206 --> 01:03:26.648 There's nobody else who calls Him Lord, 01:03:26.648 --> 01:03:29.861 and then follows what He does 01:03:29.861 --> 01:03:33.867 and what He says, but us. 01:03:33.867 --> 01:03:36.255 There's nobody else who's empowered to do that; 01:03:36.255 --> 01:03:40.283 empowered by His Spirit to do that but us. 01:03:40.283 --> 01:03:42.255 And He expects us 01:03:42.255 --> 01:03:45.254 not to shrug off His words. 01:03:45.254 --> 01:03:49.529 He expects us to take His words 01:03:49.529 --> 01:03:53.431 as the most important 01:03:53.431 --> 01:03:56.202 guiding light for our life. 01:03:56.202 --> 01:03:57.382 That's obvious. 01:03:57.382 --> 01:03:59.426 "Why do you call Me, 'Lord, Lord?' 01:03:59.426 --> 01:04:04.440 and do not do the things I say?" 01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:13.605 I just want to impress upon us. 01:04:13.605 --> 01:04:17.922 Just laying our lives on the altar, 01:04:17.922 --> 01:04:19.617 that's really what it's all about. 01:04:19.617 --> 01:04:21.051 We use that kind of figure - 01:04:21.051 --> 01:04:22.328 being in submission, 01:04:22.328 --> 01:04:24.985 or being in subjection to Him. 01:04:24.985 --> 01:04:27.101 This is what it comes down to. 01:04:27.101 --> 01:04:33.731 Does His Word hold sway in my life? NOTE Paragraph 01:04:33.731 --> 01:04:38.725 And we should be often in the Gospels, 01:04:38.725 --> 01:04:42.235 and we should be hearing those words. 01:04:42.235 --> 01:04:45.078 And we should never read over them 01:04:45.078 --> 01:04:48.843 in some careless fashion 01:04:48.843 --> 01:04:51.055 without actually hearing them. 01:04:51.055 --> 01:04:53.758 (incomplete thought) 01:04:53.758 --> 01:04:56.503 Obviously, Paul is just as much the Word of God. 01:04:56.503 --> 01:04:58.861 All of Scripture is equally inspired. 01:04:58.861 --> 01:05:02.214 I'm not calling out His words in any special way 01:05:02.214 --> 01:05:03.634 other than this: 01:05:03.634 --> 01:05:05.720 you recognize that the epistles basically 01:05:05.720 --> 01:05:07.984 draw off the truth that we have 01:05:07.984 --> 01:05:10.060 in those four Gospels. 01:05:10.060 --> 01:05:13.188 Those four Gospels are the life of Christ 01:05:13.188 --> 01:05:14.814 set before us. 01:05:14.814 --> 01:05:17.290 We hear from His own voice, 01:05:17.290 --> 01:05:20.126 our Lord giving us His words. 01:05:20.126 --> 01:05:22.131 We ought to be often there 01:05:22.131 --> 01:05:23.494 in one of those Gospels. 01:05:23.494 --> 01:05:25.298 We need to be hearing those words. 01:05:25.298 --> 01:05:27.728 We need to be testing our lives by them 01:05:27.728 --> 01:05:30.471 all the time. 01:05:30.471 --> 01:05:32.069 Coming back. 01:05:32.069 --> 01:05:34.022 Confessing where we fall short. 01:05:34.022 --> 01:05:35.699 Asking for grace. 01:05:35.699 --> 01:05:43.628 And really, being like the guy 01:05:43.628 --> 01:05:45.745 that came to the services. 01:05:45.745 --> 01:05:47.258 The preacher began to preach 01:05:47.258 --> 01:05:49.919 and he got up and went out. 01:05:49.919 --> 01:05:51.770 I mean, when we go to reading 01:05:51.770 --> 01:05:56.989 Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, 01:05:56.989 --> 01:06:01.121 we ought to read 01:06:01.121 --> 01:06:07.608 and there ought to be ever increasing conformity. 01:06:07.608 --> 01:06:09.718 And if something's not right, 01:06:09.718 --> 01:06:12.817 it ought to stop us in our tracks 01:06:12.817 --> 01:06:14.598 and we ought to deal with it. 01:06:14.598 --> 01:06:20.296 Every time we're reading in the Word of God, 01:06:20.296 --> 01:06:25.928 we should be reading so as to see 01:06:25.928 --> 01:06:27.723 God's glory; 01:06:27.723 --> 01:06:30.014 to see our Lord Jesus Christ. 01:06:30.014 --> 01:06:34.404 We should read so that we can believe. 01:06:34.404 --> 01:06:38.823 We should read for the sake of conformity 01:06:38.823 --> 01:06:43.956 to the standard that's being set before us 01:06:43.956 --> 01:06:45.530 and where my life is. 01:06:45.530 --> 01:06:48.341 None of our lives are perfectly where 01:06:48.341 --> 01:06:58.430 they ought to be in conformity to this Word. 01:06:58.430 --> 01:07:01.658 Okay, brethren. NOTE Paragraph 01:07:01.658 --> 01:07:09.659 Let's pray. 01:07:09.659 --> 01:07:23.583 We do call you, "Lord, Lord." 01:07:23.583 --> 01:07:30.188 And I trust that many in this room 01:07:30.188 --> 01:07:38.221 do Your will. 01:07:38.221 --> 01:07:43.262 Lord, we hear what You tell us. 01:07:43.262 --> 01:07:47.842 We hear what You say. 01:07:47.842 --> 01:07:51.695 Lord, I pray that we would truly have ears to hear, 01:07:51.695 --> 01:07:53.881 grace to help. 01:07:53.881 --> 01:07:56.837 I think of the KJV rendering there 01:07:56.837 --> 01:07:58.116 in the Song of Solomon: 01:07:58.116 --> 01:08:07.875 Lord, draw us and we will run after Thee. 01:08:07.875 --> 01:08:11.764 But Lord, You gave much promise. 01:08:11.764 --> 01:08:17.733 You promised that You wouldn't leave us orphans. 01:08:17.733 --> 01:08:27.727 You promised You'd come to us. 01:08:27.727 --> 01:08:29.914 Lord, I pray, help us, 01:08:29.914 --> 01:08:33.251 convict us, give us ears to hear. 01:08:33.251 --> 01:08:38.346 Lord, we pray that the Word 01:08:38.346 --> 01:08:40.628 would resound in our ears, 01:08:40.628 --> 01:08:42.634 tug at our hearts, 01:08:42.634 --> 01:08:44.755 work in our consciences, 01:08:44.755 --> 01:08:48.227 be ever a guide, move us, 01:08:48.227 --> 01:08:54.491 impact us, bend us, 01:08:54.491 --> 01:08:58.787 provoke us to greater and greater good works. 01:08:58.787 --> 01:09:02.243 Lord, may it be like a great gust of wind, 01:09:02.243 --> 01:09:04.345 like a tidal surge in the water. 01:09:04.345 --> 01:09:07.510 May it pull; may it draw; 01:09:07.510 --> 01:09:12.199 may it move; may it be like the things 01:09:12.199 --> 01:09:14.048 that You say: like a sword, 01:09:14.048 --> 01:09:15.704 like a hammer, 01:09:15.704 --> 01:09:18.114 living. 01:09:18.114 --> 01:09:23.654 Lord, I pray that it would be 01:09:23.654 --> 01:09:24.930 like the thunder 01:09:24.930 --> 01:09:26.620 and like a still, small voice. 01:09:26.620 --> 01:09:28.359 But however it comes, 01:09:28.359 --> 01:09:30.892 that Lord, it would sway us. 01:09:30.892 --> 01:09:35.375 It would cause reaction. 01:09:35.375 --> 01:09:40.430 It would cause conformity. 01:09:40.430 --> 01:09:50.144 Lord, we pray that we would see this increasingly. 01:09:50.144 --> 01:09:51.659 I pray in Christ's name, 01:09:51.659 --> 01:09:52.914 Amen.