WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:04.490 I think it's wonderful that you have come here to place blame and guilt upon us. 00:00:04.520 --> 00:00:06.220 I think it's wonderful that you have 00:00:06.250 --> 00:00:10.170 reminded us just how face and vile that we are. 00:00:10.200 --> 00:00:12.940 And I think, sir, that Christ would be quite pleased 00:00:12.970 --> 00:00:17.540 with you, because he did come to our world and he did say, get up on a stage, 00:00:17.560 --> 00:00:21.380 talk to people in Masses, tell them how awful they are. 00:00:21.400 --> 00:00:23.900 Don't get on your knees and wash their feet. 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:25.580 Don't pick up the prospects puts off 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:28.140 of the street and help them better their lives. 00:00:28.170 --> 00:00:30.300 Don't go down here to downtown, sir, 00:00:30.330 --> 00:00:34.140 and take your fancy coat off and give it to a homeless man that needs it. 00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:35.500 Don't give him that lot of money 00:00:35.530 --> 00:00:40.180 that you've held in your hand this entire time that you've been on the stage, okay? 00:00:40.210 --> 00:00:43.620 Why don't you take all of that you have go 00:00:43.650 --> 00:00:46.660 down there, sir, and give us a demonstration of Christianity. 00:00:46.680 --> 00:00:51.980 Because Christ did not say, get on this podium and say as I say. 00:00:52.010 --> 00:00:53.820 He said, do as I do. 00:00:53.850 --> 00:00:57.180 And I don't see you out here helping us with our homework. 00:00:57.210 --> 00:01:00.160 I don't see you giving us advice on how we 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:02.500 should live our lives, how we should have meaningful, 00:01:02.530 --> 00:01:05.380 committed relationships with our partners of our choice. 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:07.050 I don't see you doing any of this. 00:01:07.080 --> 00:01:10.820 What I see you do is pass judgment, and that is for God to do. 00:01:10.850 --> 00:01:13.180 If God exists, that is. 00:01:13.210 --> 00:01:14.490 It's not yours, sir. 00:01:14.520 --> 00:01:15.570 Work on yourself. 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:18.700 Work on your world, work on your community, work on your kids. 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:22.720 They're going to need it. And that is all I have to say. 00:01:23.360 --> 00:01:29.780 Okay, well, ignoring the fact that she just judged me for judging people 00:01:29.810 --> 00:01:33.660 and assuming, of course, that Christians do none of those things, 00:01:33.690 --> 00:01:38.490 like build homeless shelters and adopt more kids than people who are not 00:01:38.520 --> 00:01:42.260 Christians do and who give more than people who are not Christians. 00:01:42.290 --> 00:01:44.290 Despite all those evidences of salt 00:01:44.320 --> 00:01:47.140 and light, christians are the adopting people. 00:01:47.170 --> 00:01:49.060 Christians are the feeding people. 00:01:49.080 --> 00:01:51.570 Christians are the people who are taking care of the homeless. 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:52.380 And you know what, though? 00:01:52.410 --> 00:01:55.340 I will tell you this, christians are still sinners. 00:01:55.360 --> 00:01:56.780 I'll tell you that for a fact. 00:01:56.810 --> 00:01:59.980 Look, if I've given the impression by the way, this is about $4. 00:02:00.010 --> 00:02:04.420 If I've given the impression that I'm better than you, I'm sorry. 00:02:04.440 --> 00:02:07.020 Because I did not come here to tell you that I'm better than you. 00:02:07.050 --> 00:02:10.860 That's the last thing I'll tell you what I will proclaim to you. 00:02:10.890 --> 00:02:14.780 I am hands down, the worst person here right now. 00:02:14.810 --> 00:02:15.780 I'm telling you, 00:02:15.810 --> 00:02:19.980 I will go to the mattresses or the mats on that one wrestling with you. 00:02:20.010 --> 00:02:21.700 I am the worst person. 00:02:21.730 --> 00:02:25.170 If there is anybody in this place right now that is a sinner, it is. 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:27.610 I'll take myself through the committee. 00:02:27.640 --> 00:02:29.140 Do you want to hear something amazing? 00:02:29.160 --> 00:02:30.940 Do you think I'm an arrogant jerk? Okay. 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:31.940 I used to be even worse. 00:02:31.970 --> 00:02:35.300 If you can imagine that I actually studied to be a pastor. 00:02:35.320 --> 00:02:38.610 And you know what? I wasn't even a Christian at the time. 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:40.080 But anybody who didn't measure up 00:02:40.110 --> 00:02:44.260 to my theological standard, I thought I was superior, and I was a better person. 00:02:44.290 --> 00:02:47.580 I was an arrogant slime ball. Oh, man. 00:02:47.600 --> 00:02:50.610 I'm telling you, I would take advantage of you in a heartbeat. 00:02:50.640 --> 00:02:53.610 I'd get your money, get something I wanted from you. 00:02:53.640 --> 00:02:55.500 I'm telling you, I'm the worst of the worst. 00:02:55.530 --> 00:03:00.060 My thought life, if you could look inside of my brain, it is so disgusting and vile. 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:01.860 I'm not here to tell you I'm better than you. 00:03:01.880 --> 00:03:03.660 You want to look at my track record of life? 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:06.220 You're right. I don't feed enough people. 00:03:06.250 --> 00:03:08.460 I don't adopt enough people. You're right. 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:10.260 I don't. I don't help you with your homework. 00:03:10.290 --> 00:03:12.660 I don't. And you know what? 00:03:12.690 --> 00:03:15.300 I'm a bad person. 00:03:15.330 --> 00:03:17.900 I was in the bottom of the barrel, 00:03:17.930 --> 00:03:22.300 and God saw fit to scrape down and save me a sinner. 00:03:22.320 --> 00:03:25.740 So if I gave you the impression I'm superior, I'm sorry, because I'm not. 00:03:25.770 --> 00:03:28.580 I am a beggar who has been shown bread. 00:03:28.610 --> 00:03:30.980 I was thirsty, and God gave me living water. 00:03:31.010 --> 00:03:34.340 And the only reason I came here was to simply share with you. 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:35.980 There is something amazing out there 00:03:36.010 --> 00:03:41.180 called the Good News of Jesus Christ that God died for sinners. 00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:42.540 Why would I come here today? 00:03:42.570 --> 00:03:43.900 I'm not asking for money. 00:03:43.930 --> 00:03:45.700 I'm not taking up a collection. 00:03:45.730 --> 00:03:48.700 I'm not looking to sign anybody up for my Twitter account. 00:03:48.720 --> 00:03:51.780 I'm here to simply I'm going to leave, and then you're not going to see me anymore. 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:53.020 I'm not getting anything out of this 00:03:53.050 --> 00:03:56.580 but to share with you something that I know is true. 00:03:56.610 --> 00:03:58.610 I know this to be true. 00:03:58.640 --> 00:04:01.610 God died for sinners. 00:04:01.640 --> 00:04:02.920 That's how good he is. 00:04:02.950 --> 00:04:06.260 He died for you, and I came to proclaim it today. 00:04:06.290 --> 00:04:08.580 I know the reputation of Christianity is bad. 00:04:08.600 --> 00:04:09.900 I know we don't feed enough. 00:04:09.930 --> 00:04:11.100 That's our problem. 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:12.700 We don't say enough good things. 00:04:12.730 --> 00:04:14.060 That's our problem. 00:04:14.090 --> 00:04:17.420 We don't go overseas and malaria and people die. 00:04:17.450 --> 00:04:18.540 We don't do enough. 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:19.860 But it's even worse than that. 00:04:19.890 --> 00:04:22.500 It's not just the stuff we fail to do. 00:04:22.530 --> 00:04:24.700 Those are sins of omission. 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:28.220 Consider our sins of commission. 00:04:28.250 --> 00:04:32.780 How many evil things have you done? 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:34.900 Okay, let me ask you, and I asked this gently. 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:37.980 How many poor people have you fed the day? 00:04:38.010 --> 00:04:40.620 How many orphans did you adopt today? 00:04:40.650 --> 00:04:42.420 How many strangers did you want? 00:04:42.440 --> 00:04:44.820 Have you helped anybody with their homework today? 00:04:44.840 --> 00:04:48.180 If we're going to use that standard, we are all falling short. 00:04:48.210 --> 00:04:49.660 That's the point. 00:04:49.690 --> 00:04:54.020 We don't do what we should, and the things that we shouldn't do, we do. 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:55.420 That is our problem. 00:04:55.450 --> 00:05:00.180 And is there anything today that we can agree with, that nobody does enough good? 00:05:00.210 --> 00:05:02.300 Can we agree with that? Right? 00:05:02.330 --> 00:05:05.020 Can we also agree that we all do things that are bad? 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:06.100 You don't have to admit them. 00:05:06.130 --> 00:05:07.740 I don't need to see your resume. 00:05:07.770 --> 00:05:09.700 But do we not all lust? 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:11.940 Do we not all lie? 00:05:11.970 --> 00:05:14.580 Do we not all take things that don't belong to us? 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:16.540 Downloading music or answers from somebody 00:05:16.570 --> 00:05:19.540 else or a pencil we don't return to somebody's office? 00:05:19.570 --> 00:05:24.300 Did we not all dishonor our parents by being little snotty kids who didn't 00:05:24.330 --> 00:05:27.020 disobey or threw a tantrum and fell down on the floor? 00:05:27.040 --> 00:05:29.340 Or how's about the fact that you look at pornography? 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:32.060 Does that not dishonor your mom and dad? 00:05:32.080 --> 00:05:33.780 Think of what all the things that you've 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:39.180 done, and God will make sure that you receive what you deserve. 00:05:39.200 --> 00:05:40.260 It's as simple as that. 00:05:40.290 --> 00:05:42.260 Justice will be done. 00:05:42.290 --> 00:05:43.580 It is certain. 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:45.340 It's called Judgment Day. 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:49.220 But before that day comes, you have a chance to be forgiven. 00:05:49.250 --> 00:05:52.740 Because the punishment you deserve, jesus Christ took for you. 00:05:52.760 --> 00:05:54.100 The death that you deserve. 00:05:54.130 --> 00:05:55.660 Jesus died for you. 00:05:55.690 --> 00:05:59.180 And you can trust Him because he rose from the dead defeating death. 00:05:59.200 --> 00:06:01.540 And you don't have to be scared to meet God anymore. 00:06:01.560 --> 00:06:03.460 You don't have to be scared of the grave. 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:07.660 He will forgive you if you will repent and put your trust in Him today. 00:06:07.690 --> 00:06:10.700 And all of your sins will be forgiven. 00:06:10.730 --> 00:06:15.500 If you are terrified to witness to a loved one who is enslaved, you are qualified. 00:06:15.520 --> 00:06:16.020 Why? 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:19.580 Paul came to the Corinthians with fear and much trembling. 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:22.740 Now it's time to get equipped. 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