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So we're continuing our study now in the

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Sermon on the Mount.

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Our title is Growth in Christlikeness and we

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first considered in Matthew 5 verses 1 to

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16 nine right attitudes and now we've been

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in the last few weeks we've been considering

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nine wrong attitudes and the first wrong attitude

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we saw was anger in Matthew 5 verse

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21 onwards and the second wrong attitude we

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saw was sinful sexual lust verse 27 onwards

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which included divorce and the third wrong attitude

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we saw was lying verse 33 to 37

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and the fourth one we saw last Sunday

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was vengeance which we saw from verse 38

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downwards and I just want to say one

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thing in clarification there there's nothing wrong in

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asking for justice we don't take revenge but

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it's perfectly proper to ask for justice and

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we have the example of Jesus there and

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you know we need to understand what exactly

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did Jesus mean when he say in verse

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39 if someone slaps you on one cheek

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turn the other but when you look at

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Jesus own example because when he was before

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the high priest it says people did slap

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him in Matthew 18 22 the officer standing

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there slapped him saying is that how you

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answer the high priest and Jesus didn't turn

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the other cheek you need to understand the

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spirit in which Jesus spoke those words if

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I have spoken wrongly he told them testify

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of the wrong but if rightly why do

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you strike me that was his reply so

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we are not to understand turn the other

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cheek in a literal way when Jesus said

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cut off your right hand he didn't mean

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it literally when he said plug out your

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right eye he didn't mean it literally we

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need to understand the figure of speech Jesus

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was using there and here we find Jesus

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asking for justice if I've spoken wrongfully sure

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give a testimony and say that I had

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said something wrong Matthew 18 John 18 23

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but if right why do you strike me

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he was asking for justice but when they

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just slapped him again and sent him off

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to the high priest he just kept quiet

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so we see there the example of Christ

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you know we've often said the new covenant

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letter can kill just like the old covenant

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letter we need to recognize that in an

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old covenant it was the letter in the

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new covenant is the word made flesh so

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Jesus is our dictionary Jesus the word made

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flesh is the one where we see the

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answer to difficult questions and how to interpret

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even Jesus own words otherwise you know if

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you take the literal interpretation of Jesus words

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you'll be another new covenant pharisee which can

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be worse than an old covenant pharisee I

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give you that warning because people many people

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pursuing holiness in this day who think they

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agree with us in our preaching holiness and

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I say I don't agree with you because

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your spirit is the spirit of a new

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covenant pharisee which is to me 10 times

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worse than the old covenant pharisee so Jesus

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is our example now we go on to

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the fifth wrong attitude from Matthew 5 verse

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43 onwards which I call selectedness in love

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and in the old covenant it was there

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was a command you shall love your neighbor

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and hate your enemy now there wasn't a

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command like that it was Jesus said you

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heard that it was said you shall love

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your neighbor that part is the command but

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and hate your enemy that was something they

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interpreted from the command for example that God

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told the Israelites to wipe out the Canaanites

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who were their enemies so it's from that

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they imply that statement but we need to

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understand why the Lord told them to wipe

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out the Canaanites it's because they did not

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have the ability to overcome idolatry which was

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the predominance among sin among the Canaanites and

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if God was to preserve a pure testimony

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for his name through which one day in

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the nation of Israel the son of God

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could come as a man and die for

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the sins of the earth that was God's

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ultimate goal in preparing a nation and giving

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them his laws and it took 1500 years

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to prepare that nation to receive Jesus Christ

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it wasn't an easy thing it was not

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something the Lord made a nation and the

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next week he'd send Christ to earth no

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they wouldn't have understood what it was all

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about and the word of God could not

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have been proclaimed as it was by the

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apostles who've been grounded in the law so

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we need to understand this that in order

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to prepare that nation to receive Christ God

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had to give them certain laws and they

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did not have the Holy Spirit dwelling within

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them so it was very difficult to keep

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them from idolatry and you see how often

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in spite of the prophets in spite of

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the laws they kept on going back to

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adultery again and again and again for a

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thousand years after the time of Moses again

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and again and again for 900 years until

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they went into the Babylonian captivity they were

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going back to idols and that was some

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prophet would take them out of it again

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some king would take them out again they'd

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go back to idolatry and it was to

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preserve that nation that the Lord said you've

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got to wipe out all these idol worshipers

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otherwise he they'll pollute you you don't have

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the strength to overcome their the satanic power

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that's operating through them there was no way

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to overcome satan in the old testament and

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on satan operating through the idol worshipers of

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that time because the Jewish people did not

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have the Holy Spirit so that's why he

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said the only way is to eliminate I

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mean to use an example it's like if

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a man's got a infected leg infected foot

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let's say which is developed what's called gangrene

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gangrene is something that's so bad that if

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you don't treat it it'll destroy your whole

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body it'll kill you so do you know

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what the doctors do they cut off that

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foot now if you saw through a window

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in a surgery a doctor cutting off somebody's

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foot you'd think that man hates him no

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he loves him it's because he loves him

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that he cuts off that foot so that

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the rest of the body is can live

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so something cutting off the Canaanites and the

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killing them was something equivalent to that many

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people who read the old testament say has

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God changed his mind in the new covenant

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and why was he like that see when

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you don't know God you have all these

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wrong ideas when you read the bible the

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bible can be understood only by one who

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has first received the Holy Spirit and who

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gets to know God through the Holy Spirit

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if you try to understand the bible intellectually

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you will have all types of questions not

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only in the old testament but in the

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new testament as well so that is what

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they were saying hate the enemy but in

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the new covenant the Lord was saying I

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say to you love your enemies now you

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can't do that unless you're filled with the

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Holy Spirit see the ultimate answer to keeping

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the Sermon on the Mount the commands in

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the Sermon on the Mount is to be

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filled with the Holy Spirit and if you

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read the Sermon on the Mount and you

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read it like the law of Moses you'll

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just say it's impossible impossible impossible I mean

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the old covenant law was impossible imagine this

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and that's why a lot of people say

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that and there are believe it or not

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there are some Christians in certain groups I

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don't want to mention their names they teach

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that this is not for Christians this is

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for the Jewish people and it's not for

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us they call that the I call it

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the Jewish waste paper basket whatever you don't

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like you put in the Jewish waste paper

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basket that's what somebody else used that expression

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very good expression but what is the answer

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to keeping the Sermon on the Mount I

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believe it's what finally Jesus said at the

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end of the Sermon on the Mount ask

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Matthew 7 7 and it'll be given to

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you what should you ask for good gifts

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and what are the good gifts you compare

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this with Luke chapter 11 verse 13 it's

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the Holy Spirit so when you compare Matthew

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7 these first seven verses no so verse

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7 to 12 with Luke 11 and verse

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13 you find that it's the gift of

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the Holy Spirit that the Lord's telling you

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to ask for if you want to keep

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the Sermon on the Mount otherwise you just

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can't do it forget about it I mean

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if you're trying to keep this on your

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own strength brother I'd say don't even try

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I'll tell you right now you'll fail love

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your enemies we have to love every if

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you've got 10 enemies and you love nine

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of them you have disobeyed the word of

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God if there are 10 people who are

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your enemies that means not that you're the

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enemies they are your enemies a true Christian

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has no enemies except the devil we read

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in Ephesians 6 verse 10 to 12 we

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have we wrestle not with flesh and blood

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we wrestle with principalities and powers and evil

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forces if you're a true disciple of Jesus

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you have from your heart you have no

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earthly enemy but hundreds of people may be

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your enemies because you're a disciple of Christ

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and the more fervent your disciple you are

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the more you proclaim the truth without compromise

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the more enemies you're going to have Jesus

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had the maximum number they hated him so

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much they killed him but he loved them

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all every single one of them he loved

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them even that soldier he came to capture

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him who came to capture him when Peter

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cut off his ear Jesus immediately picked up

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that year and put him back and healed

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him what a demonstration of love and love

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is what wins people's hearts and I believe

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that my conviction is that servant Malchus whose

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ear was healed will be in heaven I

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can't imagine a man who's being healed by

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somebody he went to capture and not being

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convicted by that and he'll be there in

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heaven thanking Peter for cutting out his ear

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he said God turned that for good and

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here I am in heaven Peter because how

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the Lord turned that evil to good love

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your enemies and pray for those who persecute

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you can you think of people who've been

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troubling you maybe in your office maybe your

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relatives maybe your mother-in-law maybe some

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anti-christian person you know making life difficult

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for you in your place of work because

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you're a witness for Christ do you pray

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for them otherwise you're not obeying God's commands

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Jesus said if you love me keep my

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commandments pray for those who persecute you pray

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for those who have troubled you in some

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way pray that they'll be saved that's the

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best thing we can we can pray for

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a few months ago some burglars got into

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my home that was being locked for some

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time and in India and well they didn't

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find anything of value there they looked for

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gold and cash and there was neither of

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those there no jewelry nothing my wife never

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wears jewelry in any case and they found

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nothing of value and they were disappointed but

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I prayed for them you know when I

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heard that I said Lord I want to

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see one of them at least I don't

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know how many people went in but at

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least one of them I want to them

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to be convicted and to be born again

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I pray and many times since that time

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in these past few months I prayed that

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the Lord would bring one of them to

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Christ in some way somewhere the Lord knows

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who they are and one of them oh

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Lord lay hold of that person help me

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hear the gospel so that one day when

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I meet him in heaven I can he

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embraces me and says you know Zach I

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burgled your house because of that I got

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saved wow that would thrill my heart and

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if I can meet him on earth itself

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that'll be even greater pray for those who

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persecute you and so that you may be

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sons of your father who's in heaven see

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this is not the way to become a

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child of God no don't misunderstand to become

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a child of God is John 1 verse

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12 as many as received him to them

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he gave the authority to be children of

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God which is the accurate translation as in

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the NASB in some other versions it's not

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translated correctly that's the way to be a

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child of God we repent of our sins

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and receive Jesus Christ as our savior who

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forgives our past sins and we are born

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from above into God's kingdom not of the

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will of the flesh not of the will

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of man but by the power of God

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but a child is a baby but child

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must grow up and become a son and

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here it says if you want to be

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a son if you want to grow up

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then you must love your enemies and you

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must pray for those who persecute you and

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treat nicely those who despitefully use you love

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those who hate you so the purpose is

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that we might thereby demonstrate that we are

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sons of the father and in fact not

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only demonstrate that is the proof that you're

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growing up now if you don't love your

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enemies i'm not saying you're not born again

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i'm saying you're an immature child and if

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you keep on like that well i don't

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know where you'll end up to tell you

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honestly you could lose your salvation because hatred

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is from the devil an unmerciful attitude is

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not from God God is full of mercy

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the one place in the universe where there

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is no mercy is hell and if you

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have a lack of mercy towards someone who's

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treated you badly face up to it you

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got a little bit of hell in your

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heart and you know the number of believers

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who got a little bit of hell in

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their heart they've got a lack of mercy

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towards someone who did something wrong to them

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there's some husbands who are not even merciful

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to their wives and particularly daughters-in-law

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mothers-in-law what a lot of lack

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of mercy there is among christians they've got

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a little bit of hell in their hearts

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because hell is the only place in the

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universe where there's no mercy and wherever there

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is on the earth here and there you

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do find mercy here and there different people

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but God's children are here and there but

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hell is a place without mercy at all

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and heaven is a place full of mercy

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so when heaven comes into our heart through

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the holy spirit he makes us merciful no

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he doesn't say we don't pretend that that

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chap never did me any wrong no sure

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he did me wrong we don't pretend that

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nobody killed Jesus Christ that wasn't evil it

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was very evil but Jesus was merciful father

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forgive them but they don't know what they're

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doing what did they not know doesn't everybody

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know that to kill a human being is

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wrong but they did not know who they

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were killing it was the son of God

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and when people treat me badly i say

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the same thing father they don't know who

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i am they don't know i'm a son

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of God they don't know what they're doing

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you think i'm another human being i'm not

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i'm a child of God and if you're

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born again so are you and they don't

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realize that they are poking the eye of

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God like it says in Zechariah chapter 2

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verse 5 and verse 8 he who touches

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you touches the apple of my eye they

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don't realize that they are touching the apple

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of God's eye father forgive them they don't

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know what they're doing and so we have

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to be merciful love our enemies do good

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to those who do evil to you in

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the in James version this is an there

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is expanded beyond what it says you love

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your enemies do good to those who do

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evil to you and pray for those who

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persecute you and despitefully use you we got

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to do good to those who hate us

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and it says here that because then you're

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a son of your father you've got the

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nature of your father what is the nature

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of your father you know you sons are

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supposed to look like their father just like

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physically you look at somebody and says hey

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boy he's a spitting image of his father

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and that's what people should be saying about

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us spiritually in our life the way we

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live what a challenge that is but the

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people who look at your life and mind

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should be saved boy that's a real image

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of his father in heaven how is that

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because he treats evil people in the same

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way he treats good people the father verse

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45 makes his son the s-u-n

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to rise on the good and the evil

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and the good and sends rain on the

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righteous and the unrighteous there's no difference here's

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a evil farmer who says there's no god

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is all rubbish and treats people badly and

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he's very unmerciful to his servants and here

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next door to him is a good god

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-fearing farmer who's kind to everybody but god

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sends the rain equally on both farms it

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looks a bit unfair you know why does

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god treat that atheist farmer the same way

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he treats his godly child of his he

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makes the sun you know farm needs both

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sun and rain and the sunrise sun shines

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equally on both farms that's that's god's way

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that's god's nature you cannot make god hate

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anyone he judges people he hates sin and

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he will punish one day he will judge

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people fairly and in love for the humanity

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he will send some people to hell they're

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just like even on earth people put people

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in prison because they love the rest of

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human beings so hell is like a eternal

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prison that's all there is to it so

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this god loves everyone and he's equal in

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his treatment of all he doesn't have a

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grudge in his heart against anyone and that's

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a wonderful thing to have you see if

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god were for example let me use an

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example supposing it was not like this there's

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another reason why god sends rain on the

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righteous and the unrighteous and makes the sun

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to rise equally on the good and the

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evil if god sent rain and blessings only

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on righteous people and all the others suffer

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because they're unrighteous a lot of people would

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choose righteousness because they want the blessing upon

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their farm because they want the blessing upon

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their life if godly people are wealthy and

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ungodly people are all poor and beggarly people

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would choose christianity for the sake of money

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god doesn't want that god doesn't want that

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so he allows equal distribution of rain and

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sun and even wealth some of the richest

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people not some most of the richest people

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in the world are not godly christians at

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all far from them far from it and

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so i know there's a false gospel called

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the prosperity gospel that is being preached today

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by people who don't know god who claim

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themselves to be christians and claim to be

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quoting the bible and they're mostly quoting deuteronomy

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chapter 28 and not luke chapter 6 there's

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a lot of difference between quoting luke 6

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and deuteronomy 28 and they preach that if

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you follow the lord you'll be prosperous they

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say if you pay your tithes god will

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bless you they're going to the old testament

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in the new testament there's not a word

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about that that's a false gospel because god

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blesses people equally whether they are good or

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evil did you understand did you read this

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clearly you don't become prosperous by being righteous

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because the most prosperous people in the world

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are crooks and ungodly people what does that

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prove and people who worship false gods and

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idols are multi-millionaires and billionaires when it's

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very rare to write a christian billionaire that

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itself disproves this entire prosperity gospel so god

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sends his rain equally on the righteous and

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the unrighteous thanks to sunshine and the good

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and the evil because he does not want

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anyone to come to him because of material

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blessing of prosperity i wish everyone in the

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prosperity gospel preachers would read this and understand

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it you'd be a son of your father

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proclaim that truth and be like that be

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good towards people to everyone that's how god

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is otherwise it's foolish to say you're growing

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up spiritually you can't say you're growing up

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spiritually you're not growing in love for the

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people who hate you and despise you and

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so it's it's it's not enough to just

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hear this right now and say yeah i

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want to do that no we must keep

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an account take an account book like you

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keep an account of your money and here

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you say now who are the people who

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have done harm to me who are the

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people who have treated me badly persecuted me

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cheated me done all types of things wrong

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to me borrowed money from me and never

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returned it a whole lot of people and

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did harm to my family which is worse

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treated my son or daughter badly maybe your

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boss in the office or somebody the teacher

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in school or something like that or is

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your brother-in-law cheated you of your

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property or your mother-in-law treated you

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badly whatever it is make a list of

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it my brother sister if you're serious about

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your christianity and go through that list one

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by one and ask yourself do you love

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them first of all do you treat them

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nicely do you have good thoughts about them

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or do you have grudge a grudge in

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your heart against them well you're definitely not

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a mature son or daughter definitely not but

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sometimes i would even question whether you're born

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again because you're not even trying to keep

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this command of god i mean if you're

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trying to climb this mountain and you see

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i'm still struggling you're on the right track

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ask god to help you with the holy

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spirit to love every single person who's your

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enemy to pray for every single person who

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despitefully used you or persecuted you to do

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good to every single person who hates you

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you may not have the opportunity but a

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lot of people you know i'm a son

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of the lord and so i'm a target

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of the devil so a lot of people

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hate me and have done harm to me

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and i've really prayed to god lord give

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me the opportunity to do good to every

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one of them if i get an opportunity

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i will do good if i find them

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lying on the road i'll pick them up

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and take them to hospital and do whatever

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i can to save their life i will

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do whatever i can to help them and

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their children i do not hate them i

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cannot hate them i'm not going to be

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super spiritual and do what jesus did not

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do the word made flesh is my example

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so when he said jesus loved the pharisees

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of course he was willing to die for

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them but he didn't go visiting the pharisees

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houses with gifts and say hey i love

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you fellows so much i know you spoke

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badly about me but here are some gifts

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to show you my love that is superficial

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nonsense jesus did not do that so don't

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go beyond uh try to be more righteous

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than jesus himself be wise so to love

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someone does not mean i have to go

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around visiting the houses of those who hate

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me and because the bible also says pursue

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peace with all men there's a command like

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that pursue peace with all men hebrews chapter

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12 and i've discovered through the years and

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i'll give you this advice in some cases

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the cases of people who hate you and

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don't like your face and don't want to

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see you the best way to pursue peace

531
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:11,910
with them is avoid meeting them try your

532
00:24:11,910 --> 00:24:14,950
best to avoid meeting them don't visit their

533
00:24:14,950 --> 00:24:17,930
homes why because you want to pursue peace

534
00:24:17,930 --> 00:24:20,390
with all men because you know they are

535
00:24:20,390 --> 00:24:22,150
the quarrelsome type of people you go there

536
00:24:22,150 --> 00:24:25,070
they'll start a quarrel so we need to

537
00:24:25,070 --> 00:24:31,290
always make jesus our example to explain these

538
00:24:31,290 --> 00:24:33,590
difficult verses so if you look at a

539
00:24:33,590 --> 00:24:35,910
scripture and try to follow that even this

540
00:24:35,910 --> 00:24:37,970
scripture you can go astray but the bible

541
00:24:37,970 --> 00:24:39,810
says let us run the race not looking

542
00:24:39,810 --> 00:24:41,410
at the verses in the bible but looking

543
00:24:41,410 --> 00:24:43,570
on to jesus so when you read a

544
00:24:43,570 --> 00:24:45,010
verse in the bible look on to jesus

545
00:24:45,010 --> 00:24:47,450
and see how he did it and then

546
00:24:47,450 --> 00:24:49,070
you won't go wrong these are very important

547
00:24:49,070 --> 00:24:50,950
particularly in these verses because i found some

548
00:24:50,950 --> 00:24:53,490
people who have a wrong way of fulfilling

549
00:24:53,490 --> 00:24:56,010
these verses bless those who curse you and

550
00:24:56,010 --> 00:24:57,770
do good to those who hate you and

551
00:24:57,770 --> 00:24:59,950
they try to be more spiritual than jesus

552
00:24:59,950 --> 00:25:02,910
and make a mess of everything and create

553
00:25:02,910 --> 00:25:06,870
more strife then jesus went on to say

554
00:25:06,870 --> 00:25:10,350
if you love only those who love you

555
00:25:11,210 --> 00:25:15,190
verse 46 what reward do you have because

556
00:25:15,190 --> 00:25:17,910
even the tax collectors do the same and

557
00:25:17,910 --> 00:25:19,610
if you greet only your brothers what more

558
00:25:19,610 --> 00:25:21,850
you're doing than others even the gentiles do

559
00:25:21,850 --> 00:25:26,510
that so i'm supposed to greet people who

560
00:25:26,510 --> 00:25:30,290
want to avoid me i mean again remember

561
00:25:30,290 --> 00:25:32,290
what i said earlier jesus didn't go around

562
00:25:32,290 --> 00:25:33,490
out of his way to shake hands with

563
00:25:33,490 --> 00:25:37,450
the pharisees to greet them he uh he

564
00:25:37,450 --> 00:25:39,430
wasn't avoiding them but he wasn't particularly keen

565
00:25:39,430 --> 00:25:42,550
on going seeing people who were only out

566
00:25:42,550 --> 00:25:45,870
to start a fight or argue and there

567
00:25:45,870 --> 00:25:47,490
are people like that who you know the

568
00:25:47,490 --> 00:25:49,570
only whenever you meet them they're out to

569
00:25:49,570 --> 00:25:51,690
start a fight with you argue about some

570
00:25:51,690 --> 00:25:54,490
doctrine or something that happened i avoid them

571
00:25:54,490 --> 00:25:56,910
i mean i would really avoid them i

572
00:25:56,910 --> 00:25:58,950
wouldn't go trying to shake their hands to

573
00:25:58,950 --> 00:26:01,510
show my love or anything like that and

574
00:26:01,510 --> 00:26:04,810
but i want to be like the sun

575
00:26:04,810 --> 00:26:09,710
that i'm an son jesus said the father

576
00:26:09,710 --> 00:26:13,470
makes his sun son shine on everybody equally

577
00:26:13,470 --> 00:26:16,030
then you can be an son that's what

578
00:26:16,030 --> 00:26:19,750
i want to be you know just be

579
00:26:19,750 --> 00:26:23,050
warm and good and the sun doesn't go

580
00:26:23,050 --> 00:26:25,310
out of the way to go and shine

581
00:26:25,310 --> 00:26:28,230
on people just continue shining because that's how

582
00:26:28,230 --> 00:26:31,450
we are to be and so there's no

583
00:26:31,450 --> 00:26:35,350
reward if you do good to those who

584
00:26:35,350 --> 00:26:36,870
do good to you for example you look

585
00:26:36,870 --> 00:26:38,890
at your church and you say well i'm

586
00:26:38,890 --> 00:26:40,510
such a nice person i help so many

587
00:26:40,510 --> 00:26:43,350
people but who do you help you have

588
00:26:43,350 --> 00:26:46,890
the people who are helping you examine your

589
00:26:46,890 --> 00:26:48,770
life you're good to those who are good

590
00:26:48,770 --> 00:26:50,990
to you somebody did some good to you

591
00:26:50,990 --> 00:26:52,850
and you do good to them you know

592
00:26:52,850 --> 00:26:57,010
what it says here you have no reward

593
00:26:57,010 --> 00:26:58,850
verse 46 did you do some good to

594
00:26:58,850 --> 00:27:00,810
somebody who did good to you let me

595
00:27:00,810 --> 00:27:02,810
tell you what you got verse 46 no

596
00:27:02,810 --> 00:27:06,370
reward i'm not saying you shouldn't do that

597
00:27:06,370 --> 00:27:08,050
by all means let's do good to one

598
00:27:08,050 --> 00:27:09,890
another in fact galatians 6 says let us

599
00:27:09,890 --> 00:27:12,370
do good to all men especially to the

600
00:27:12,370 --> 00:27:14,870
household of faith we have an obligation to

601
00:27:14,870 --> 00:27:17,090
bless and help our brothers and sisters that's

602
00:27:17,090 --> 00:27:19,230
that's a mark of a true christian but

603
00:27:19,930 --> 00:27:21,690
you shouldn't be doing that for a reward

604
00:27:21,690 --> 00:27:25,610
no what reward have you got for doing

605
00:27:25,610 --> 00:27:27,650
that because he is even the sinful people

606
00:27:27,650 --> 00:27:30,250
in the world non-christian idol worshipers also

607
00:27:30,250 --> 00:27:32,890
help those who help them but how much

608
00:27:32,890 --> 00:27:34,470
do you love those who don't love you

609
00:27:34,470 --> 00:27:36,310
i'm not saying you go and give to

610
00:27:36,310 --> 00:27:40,210
them let me emphasize that again and then

611
00:27:40,210 --> 00:27:42,730
this verse verse 48 you are to be

612
00:27:42,730 --> 00:27:45,470
perfect as your heavenly father is perfect now

613
00:27:45,470 --> 00:27:48,150
a lot of people misquote this they say

614
00:27:48,150 --> 00:27:50,210
jesus says he will make you perfect is

615
00:27:50,210 --> 00:27:53,610
that what he says here no read carefully

616
00:27:53,610 --> 00:27:58,450
you must be perfect as your heavenly father

617
00:27:58,450 --> 00:28:01,210
is perfect it is not a promised blessing

618
00:28:01,210 --> 00:28:05,310
it's a command to be obeyed now you

619
00:28:05,310 --> 00:28:06,450
say how in the world can i be

620
00:28:06,450 --> 00:28:09,570
perfect like god he's perfect in wisdom and

621
00:28:09,570 --> 00:28:12,130
knowledge and power he's not asking you to

622
00:28:12,130 --> 00:28:13,830
be perfect in wisdom and knowledge and power

623
00:28:13,830 --> 00:28:19,610
always read a verse in its context you

624
00:28:19,610 --> 00:28:22,010
know when you study the bible read a

625
00:28:22,010 --> 00:28:25,730
verse in its context in what context is

626
00:28:25,730 --> 00:28:28,630
he saying you must be perfect as your

627
00:28:28,630 --> 00:28:32,750
father it is in your attitude toward people

628
00:28:32,750 --> 00:28:35,070
who are unmerciful towards you be merciful to

629
00:28:35,070 --> 00:28:38,590
them and good to them and the other

630
00:28:38,590 --> 00:28:40,630
way we can know the truth is by

631
00:28:40,630 --> 00:28:45,450
comparing scripture with scripture so this sermon on

632
00:28:45,450 --> 00:28:48,390
the mount is also repeated in luke chapter

633
00:28:48,390 --> 00:28:52,190
6 and there we read the same thing

634
00:28:52,190 --> 00:28:55,910
luke 6 and verse 35 luke 6 and

635
00:28:55,910 --> 00:28:58,290
verse 35 this is the sermon on the

636
00:28:58,290 --> 00:29:00,790
mount again starting in verse 20 luke 6

637
00:29:00,790 --> 00:29:03,170
20 onwards and all the way up to

638
00:29:03,170 --> 00:29:05,070
verse 49 it's a sort of a compressed

639
00:29:05,070 --> 00:29:07,270
sermon on the mount what is in three

640
00:29:07,270 --> 00:29:08,990
chapters in matthew is in half a chapter

641
00:29:08,990 --> 00:29:12,610
in luke 6 and here it's written like

642
00:29:12,610 --> 00:29:16,490
this verse 31 treat others the way you

643
00:29:16,490 --> 00:29:18,010
want others to treat you if you love

644
00:29:18,010 --> 00:29:19,590
those who love you what credit is that

645
00:29:19,590 --> 00:29:22,230
was luke 6 33 if you do good

646
00:29:22,230 --> 00:29:23,410
to those who do good to you what

647
00:29:23,410 --> 00:29:25,530
credit is that if you lend from those

648
00:29:25,530 --> 00:29:27,410
you expect to receive verse 34 what credit

649
00:29:27,410 --> 00:29:30,850
is that and but verse 35 love your

650
00:29:30,850 --> 00:29:34,410
enemies do good and lend expecting nothing in

651
00:29:34,410 --> 00:29:37,130
return and you will be the seal reward

652
00:29:37,130 --> 00:29:38,190
to be great you'll see you will be

653
00:29:38,190 --> 00:29:41,830
the sons of the most high and then

654
00:29:41,830 --> 00:29:44,190
this phrase which we read in matthew 5

655
00:29:44,190 --> 00:29:46,870
is be perfect as your heavenly father is

656
00:29:46,870 --> 00:29:49,890
perfect compare scripture with scripture here it is

657
00:29:49,890 --> 00:29:54,530
luke 6 36 be merciful as your father

658
00:29:54,530 --> 00:29:57,250
in heaven is merciful so when you compare

659
00:29:57,250 --> 00:30:01,110
what is written in matthew 5 with what

660
00:30:01,110 --> 00:30:04,510
is also written in matthew 6 we realize

661
00:30:04,510 --> 00:30:06,830
that the lord is asking us to be

662
00:30:06,830 --> 00:30:11,250
perfect in mercy don't go by one scripture

663
00:30:11,250 --> 00:30:14,170
it is written be perfect as your father

664
00:30:14,170 --> 00:30:17,010
is heaven is perfect matthew 5 48 he

665
00:30:17,010 --> 00:30:19,170
is also written in luke 35 luke 6

666
00:30:19,170 --> 00:30:21,850
36 be merciful as your father is merciful

667
00:30:21,850 --> 00:30:24,770
so that's the one area where i can

668
00:30:24,770 --> 00:30:26,890
be perfect in mercy i can't be perfect

669
00:30:26,890 --> 00:30:30,530
in wisdom and knowledge and power no never

670
00:30:30,530 --> 00:30:34,070
not even in eternity but i can be

671
00:30:34,070 --> 00:30:36,110
perfect in mercy right now what does that

672
00:30:36,110 --> 00:30:38,450
mean if 10 people hate me i can

673
00:30:38,450 --> 00:30:40,650
love all 10 if i love nine of

674
00:30:40,650 --> 00:30:43,030
them i'm not perfect what does it mean

675
00:30:43,030 --> 00:30:45,950
in a examination to get 10 out of

676
00:30:45,950 --> 00:30:48,070
10 or 100 out of 100 that's perfect

677
00:30:48,070 --> 00:30:50,130
that's a perfect score you can't beat it

678
00:30:50,130 --> 00:30:52,150
so if you've got 10 enemies and you

679
00:30:52,150 --> 00:30:54,950
love all 10 you you're perfect if you

680
00:30:54,950 --> 00:30:56,530
love only nine of them you're not perfect

681
00:30:56,530 --> 00:30:59,230
that's all it means be perfect as your

682
00:30:59,230 --> 00:31:02,850
heavenly father is perfect in its context i

683
00:31:02,850 --> 00:31:05,150
want to say something here in passing and

684
00:31:05,150 --> 00:31:08,250
that is don't have this habit that so

685
00:31:08,250 --> 00:31:10,570
many christians have they come across a difficult

686
00:31:10,570 --> 00:31:12,930
verse like that and say oh that's impossible

687
00:31:12,930 --> 00:31:18,110
it's not impossible but you misunderstood what he's

688
00:31:18,110 --> 00:31:20,970
saying you compare scripture to scripture what what

689
00:31:20,970 --> 00:31:22,670
it needs in your part is a little

690
00:31:22,670 --> 00:31:26,470
diligence to study scripture with scripture to find

691
00:31:26,470 --> 00:31:29,030
what exactly it means i mean god didn't

692
00:31:29,030 --> 00:31:30,810
give me this as a revelation from heaven

693
00:31:31,990 --> 00:31:34,990
no i just studied the scripture carefully and

694
00:31:34,990 --> 00:31:37,070
when i came to luke chapter 6 and

695
00:31:37,070 --> 00:31:38,410
saw the same thing hey i said this

696
00:31:38,410 --> 00:31:39,410
is the same in the sermon on the

697
00:31:39,410 --> 00:31:41,630
mount i spent a little time this is

698
00:31:41,630 --> 00:31:44,730
not recent i'm talking about 55 years ago

699
00:31:44,730 --> 00:31:46,730
i compared scripture with scripture and i said

700
00:31:46,730 --> 00:31:49,330
hey i'm only supposed to be perfect in

701
00:31:49,330 --> 00:31:53,010
mercy that that i can understand if i

702
00:31:53,010 --> 00:31:55,890
want to be merciful i can be perfect

703
00:31:55,890 --> 00:31:58,510
in mercy and i wanted to show you

704
00:31:58,510 --> 00:32:02,790
also luke uh here in 635 how he

705
00:32:02,790 --> 00:32:05,330
expresses how the sun shines on the good

706
00:32:05,330 --> 00:32:07,650
and evil it says in verse 35 the

707
00:32:07,650 --> 00:32:11,930
last part god is kind to ungrateful and

708
00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:15,090
evil men that's a good thing to read

709
00:32:15,090 --> 00:32:18,090
we are surrounded by a world full of

710
00:32:18,990 --> 00:32:22,550
evil and ungrateful people it's a perfect expression

711
00:32:22,550 --> 00:32:26,450
of the world ungrateful and evil people there

712
00:32:26,450 --> 00:32:28,850
are christians who are ungrateful you do good

713
00:32:28,850 --> 00:32:30,970
to them and they forget about it oh

714
00:32:30,970 --> 00:32:34,130
i've had that experience numerous times you do

715
00:32:34,130 --> 00:32:35,330
such a lot of good to them a

716
00:32:35,330 --> 00:32:38,890
few years later they don't even remember it

717
00:32:38,890 --> 00:32:41,070
they forget all about the good you did

718
00:32:41,070 --> 00:32:44,750
to them ungrateful and evil men how should

719
00:32:44,750 --> 00:32:49,290
i treat them says here god is kind

720
00:32:49,290 --> 00:32:53,510
luke 635 to ungrateful and evil men you

721
00:32:53,510 --> 00:32:56,810
want to be like your heavenly father you

722
00:32:56,810 --> 00:32:58,850
want to be a son of your heavenly

723
00:32:58,850 --> 00:33:02,570
father then be like the sun who shines

724
00:33:02,570 --> 00:33:05,470
on evil ungrateful people just like he shines

725
00:33:05,470 --> 00:33:10,110
on the grateful people okay that's selectiveness in

726
00:33:10,110 --> 00:33:13,530
love wrong attitude number five now we go

727
00:33:13,530 --> 00:33:16,910
to the next one which is chapter 6

728
00:33:16,910 --> 00:33:19,110
and verses 1 to 18 matthew chapter 6

729
00:33:19,110 --> 00:33:23,190
verses 1 to 18 which is another wrong

730
00:33:23,190 --> 00:33:27,630
attitude which is seeking man's honor there are

731
00:33:27,630 --> 00:33:30,010
three different areas he speaks about here one

732
00:33:30,010 --> 00:33:33,710
is giving and the other is praying and

733
00:33:33,710 --> 00:33:35,970
the other is fasting and in all three

734
00:33:35,970 --> 00:33:41,630
areas he speaks about seeking man's honor now

735
00:33:41,630 --> 00:33:44,470
again here is here are areas where we

736
00:33:44,470 --> 00:33:46,830
find christians don't take this seriously at all

737
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:52,170
for example in giving it says here when

738
00:33:52,170 --> 00:33:57,590
you give don't let your left hand know

739
00:33:57,590 --> 00:34:00,090
what your right hand is doing matthew 6

740
00:34:00,090 --> 00:34:03,990
verse 3 beware of practicing your righteousness before

741
00:34:03,990 --> 00:34:08,710
men verse 1 now it's not that like

742
00:34:08,710 --> 00:34:10,489
it says here the pharisees blow a trumpet

743
00:34:10,489 --> 00:34:12,989
and then give no no no no we

744
00:34:12,989 --> 00:34:15,310
don't do it like that it's you need

745
00:34:15,310 --> 00:34:16,889
to understand the spirit in which you're saying

746
00:34:16,889 --> 00:34:21,330
that in some subtle way you may want

747
00:34:21,330 --> 00:34:24,230
to make it known what you have done

748
00:34:24,230 --> 00:34:27,469
as a very subtle way in a clever

749
00:34:27,469 --> 00:34:30,230
way you want to get honor for the

750
00:34:30,230 --> 00:34:33,870
good that you have done now you know

751
00:34:33,870 --> 00:34:36,150
in the old testament there was no law

752
00:34:36,150 --> 00:34:37,989
like this there was no law which said

753
00:34:37,989 --> 00:34:39,949
when you give your money or do good

754
00:34:39,949 --> 00:34:43,250
don't let anybody see it don't let anybody

755
00:34:43,250 --> 00:34:45,870
know what i mean that was god's heart

756
00:34:45,870 --> 00:34:47,889
but when they didn't have the holy spirit

757
00:34:47,889 --> 00:34:50,370
he couldn't enforce it so you know for

758
00:34:50,370 --> 00:34:53,150
example when they pay the tithe they brought

759
00:34:53,150 --> 00:34:55,690
their grain or their sheep which is their

760
00:34:55,690 --> 00:34:57,370
tithe or if they converted it to money

761
00:34:57,370 --> 00:34:59,350
and brought money to the gave it to

762
00:34:59,350 --> 00:35:01,590
the levites in the temple they could make

763
00:35:01,590 --> 00:35:04,250
a big show of it hey fellas do

764
00:35:04,250 --> 00:35:06,630
you see how much i'm giving god's blessed

765
00:35:06,630 --> 00:35:08,650
me immensely and here is my 10 in

766
00:35:08,650 --> 00:35:11,290
fact i decided to give 11 today they

767
00:35:11,290 --> 00:35:14,630
can boast about it and they did not

768
00:35:14,630 --> 00:35:17,450
sin because they obeyed the law which says

769
00:35:17,450 --> 00:35:20,610
pay your 10 and the other offerings as

770
00:35:20,610 --> 00:35:24,010
well but in the new covenant you can't

771
00:35:24,010 --> 00:35:27,190
do that in the new covenant it's not

772
00:35:27,190 --> 00:35:30,250
a question how much you give but why

773
00:35:30,250 --> 00:35:33,710
you give what is the motive and whose

774
00:35:33,710 --> 00:35:37,990
glory were you seeking not only in giving

775
00:35:37,990 --> 00:35:40,270
and praying and fasting and everything you know

776
00:35:40,270 --> 00:35:43,470
this verse in 1 corinthians 10 31 is

777
00:35:43,470 --> 00:35:48,190
all inclusive 1 corinthians chapter 10 and verse

778
00:35:48,190 --> 00:35:52,570
31 is an amazing verse 1 corinthians 10

779
00:35:52,570 --> 00:35:59,960
and verse 31 what whether then you eat

780
00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:03,240
or drink or whatever you do do all

781
00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:08,720
to the glory of god now eating and

782
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:10,600
drinking is the most ordinary thing that we

783
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,120
do every single day of our life so

784
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,080
jesus took that most ordinary thing and that

785
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:18,780
includes all the other things we do and

786
00:36:18,780 --> 00:36:20,560
he said do it all for the glory

787
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:26,260
of god so if i'm doing anything for

788
00:36:26,260 --> 00:36:28,320
the glory of myself for example to get

789
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:32,240
some glory or honor for myself even if

790
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:34,860
it just show you know how disciplined i

791
00:36:34,860 --> 00:36:38,680
am in my eating i don't eat much

792
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:43,700
you're sinning it's good to be disciplined in

793
00:36:43,700 --> 00:36:45,700
reading but when you begin to show off

794
00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:47,520
about it or hint about it or try

795
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,220
to get some credit for yourself you're committing

796
00:36:49,220 --> 00:36:52,120
a sin we need to be what are

797
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:53,860
eating and drinking for the glory of god

798
00:36:53,860 --> 00:36:56,920
not to show what a disciplined person you

799
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,540
are there's a lot of that in even

800
00:37:00,540 --> 00:37:03,460
among christians they do certain things they want

801
00:37:03,460 --> 00:37:05,820
to show how disciplined they are and how

802
00:37:05,820 --> 00:37:08,100
disciplined they are and how much i exercise

803
00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:09,520
and how much i do this how much

804
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,180
i do that to show people i'm a

805
00:37:11,180 --> 00:37:14,880
very disciplined person dear brother and dear sister

806
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:18,260
let god see it let god see it

807
00:37:18,260 --> 00:37:22,400
if you do good try your best sometimes

808
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,400
we can't avoid it for example if you

809
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:25,980
want a large gift you want to give

810
00:37:25,980 --> 00:37:27,720
a large gift for god's word you have

811
00:37:27,720 --> 00:37:28,920
to give it in a check you can't

812
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,140
carry bundles of cash but naturally the treasurer

813
00:37:32,140 --> 00:37:33,400
of the church will know about it but

814
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:35,900
that's okay you didn't do it wanting him

815
00:37:35,900 --> 00:37:38,260
to know about it the point is not

816
00:37:38,260 --> 00:37:41,280
whether somebody knew about it no the point

817
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:42,860
is did you want him to know about

818
00:37:42,860 --> 00:37:46,000
it that's the question here in other words

819
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,980
motive we will discover in the final day

820
00:37:49,980 --> 00:37:54,910
when we stand before the lord that the

821
00:37:54,910 --> 00:37:57,430
important question will be not what you did

822
00:37:58,710 --> 00:38:02,030
but why you did it you know that's

823
00:38:02,030 --> 00:38:03,990
why it says in 1 corinthians chapter 4

824
00:38:03,990 --> 00:38:11,950
and verse 1 corinthians chapter 4 and verse

825
00:38:11,950 --> 00:38:16,490
5 don't judge others before the lord comes

826
00:38:16,490 --> 00:38:20,290
because that day he will disclose the motives

827
00:38:20,290 --> 00:38:24,210
of people's hearts that day you will discover

828
00:38:24,850 --> 00:38:28,210
why he did this why he spoke like

829
00:38:28,210 --> 00:38:31,830
this why he gave this testimony like this

830
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,110
and this other thing that he added in

831
00:38:34,110 --> 00:38:37,610
his testimony why he added it you will

832
00:38:37,610 --> 00:38:39,990
discover in that day it was to get

833
00:38:39,990 --> 00:38:44,100
a little credit for himself that spoiled the

834
00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:46,460
whole thing you know you can do a

835
00:38:46,460 --> 00:38:49,960
very good work and then you do it

836
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,240
advertise it a little bit or do a

837
00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:55,760
little bit of it to get some credit

838
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,160
for yourself and you've spoiled the whole thing

839
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,980
i call it like making a a wonderful

840
00:39:00,980 --> 00:39:04,340
dish a very very tasty dish in india

841
00:39:04,340 --> 00:39:07,000
say a chicken curry or some whatever dish

842
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,160
you eat in your country you make a

843
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,120
wonderful tasty dish and then you put a

844
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:13,820
dead lizard inside it and mix it up

845
00:39:13,820 --> 00:39:17,520
with it ah you spoiled the whole thing

846
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,540
why in the world did you have to

847
00:39:19,540 --> 00:39:21,020
go and put a dead lizard inside it

848
00:39:21,020 --> 00:39:23,400
it was a first class curry up until

849
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,820
then but you went and put a dead

850
00:39:25,820 --> 00:39:28,440
lizard inside it now nobody can touch it

851
00:39:29,380 --> 00:39:32,920
that's an illustration you did a wonderful work

852
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:37,640
you give sacrificially to the lord but then

853
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:41,620
you spoil the whole thing by putting this

854
00:39:41,620 --> 00:39:44,720
dead lizard of advertising that fact to others

855
00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:47,700
in a subtle way even if it's a

856
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:51,800
small lizard it ruins that dish dear brother

857
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:56,180
sister don't ruin your offering to god by

858
00:39:56,180 --> 00:40:00,860
advertising it that's what jesus saying when you

859
00:40:00,860 --> 00:40:03,720
give don't let your left hand know matthew

860
00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:05,800
6 verse 3 what your right hand is

861
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:08,860
doing now think of your left hand right

862
00:40:08,860 --> 00:40:10,460
hand they don't have any intelligence right hand

863
00:40:10,460 --> 00:40:12,060
doesn't have any intelligence about knowing what the

864
00:40:12,060 --> 00:40:13,280
left hand is doing the left hand doesn't

865
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,040
know what the right hand it must be

866
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:19,860
referring to the body of christ the body

867
00:40:19,860 --> 00:40:21,180
of christ has got a left hand and

868
00:40:21,180 --> 00:40:23,220
the right hand and when we think of

869
00:40:23,220 --> 00:40:24,960
the left hand and those are the ones

870
00:40:24,960 --> 00:40:27,400
that work most closely together in the body

871
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,160
we're always doing things together so it's referring

872
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,140
to a brother or sister in the body

873
00:40:33,140 --> 00:40:36,800
of christ who's very close to you don't

874
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:40,220
let him know don't let her know what

875
00:40:40,220 --> 00:40:42,800
you're doing for the lord do it secretly

876
00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:46,780
the devil will tempt you all the time

877
00:40:46,780 --> 00:40:48,840
come on let somebody know get some credit

878
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:53,020
for it man say no i'm gonna do

879
00:40:53,020 --> 00:40:55,960
my best if somebody accidentally discovers it i'm

880
00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:58,020
not even hoping somebody will discover it but

881
00:40:58,020 --> 00:40:59,600
he discovers it well and good but i'm

882
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,160
not gonna do it to get any honor

883
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,820
see in matthew chapter 5 it's all talking

884
00:41:06,820 --> 00:41:09,180
about the inner life inner attitude inner attitude

885
00:41:09,180 --> 00:41:11,900
inner attitude inner attitude in matthew chapter 6

886
00:41:11,900 --> 00:41:14,540
is going one step further to motive what

887
00:41:14,540 --> 00:41:17,400
is your motive inner life rather in the

888
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,420
first 95 is inner life and in matthew

889
00:41:20,420 --> 00:41:23,720
6 it's your motive so inner life very

890
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:28,200
important motive just as important so they do

891
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,140
different things here in matthew 5 and matthew

892
00:41:31,140 --> 00:41:35,420
chapter 6 so then it goes on to

893
00:41:35,420 --> 00:41:39,680
the subject of prayer when you pray don't

894
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,180
be like the hypocrites don't pray in order

895
00:41:42,180 --> 00:41:44,300
to be seen by men see that expression

896
00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:47,080
in matthew 6 verse 5 to be seen

897
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:51,440
by men again what is the important thing

898
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,340
in prayer before he explains the lord's prayer

899
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:59,170
the important thing is motive now i have

900
00:41:59,170 --> 00:42:03,390
seen in every christian group particularly those who

901
00:42:03,390 --> 00:42:05,770
emphasize being filled with the holy spirit and

902
00:42:07,490 --> 00:42:10,510
charismatic pentecostal i find many of them they

903
00:42:10,510 --> 00:42:12,630
boast a lot about how long they pray

904
00:42:12,630 --> 00:42:15,130
not only them i've seen i've read testimonies

905
00:42:15,130 --> 00:42:19,250
of people who it's written in their biographies

906
00:42:19,250 --> 00:42:21,150
they prayed for four hours every day or

907
00:42:21,150 --> 00:42:22,810
they got up at such and such a

908
00:42:22,810 --> 00:42:25,530
time and prayed and they get a reputation

909
00:42:25,530 --> 00:42:28,550
for prayer for being men of prayer and

910
00:42:28,550 --> 00:42:30,610
when they die they are described as men

911
00:42:30,610 --> 00:42:33,510
of prayer and i say how in the

912
00:42:33,510 --> 00:42:35,590
world did that happen you know i read

913
00:42:35,590 --> 00:42:36,830
i used to read all this as a

914
00:42:36,830 --> 00:42:39,530
young christian about these people who spent two

915
00:42:39,530 --> 00:42:41,330
hours in prayer and four hours in prayer

916
00:42:41,330 --> 00:42:44,170
and i had you accused to discourage me

917
00:42:44,170 --> 00:42:48,710
he didn't encourage me discouraged me and i

918
00:42:48,710 --> 00:42:53,530
read the bible and i never discouraged because

919
00:42:53,530 --> 00:42:55,050
the bible doesn't tell me how many hours

920
00:42:55,050 --> 00:42:57,790
jesus prayed every day he just tells me

921
00:42:57,790 --> 00:43:00,050
once i i read that he went into

922
00:43:00,050 --> 00:43:02,230
all night to pray that happened once so

923
00:43:02,230 --> 00:43:04,590
big to find out who are going to

924
00:43:04,590 --> 00:43:07,330
be his 12 disciples who are going to

925
00:43:07,330 --> 00:43:09,370
you know establish the church for the next

926
00:43:09,370 --> 00:43:11,570
20 centuries definitely he needed to pray all

927
00:43:11,570 --> 00:43:15,170
night for that we don't have such 20th

928
00:43:15,170 --> 00:43:22,710
century influencing callings in our life so i

929
00:43:22,710 --> 00:43:24,850
every christian doesn't know how to pray all

930
00:43:24,850 --> 00:43:27,630
night even once but how much did he

931
00:43:27,630 --> 00:43:30,410
pray the other times he said the only

932
00:43:30,410 --> 00:43:32,190
morning he went to pray when he needed

933
00:43:32,190 --> 00:43:34,150
to find god's will about some particular situation

934
00:43:34,150 --> 00:43:36,750
but you have to be very careful in

935
00:43:36,750 --> 00:43:40,110
all this so are you supposed to tell

936
00:43:40,110 --> 00:43:41,870
people that you pray for two hours every

937
00:43:41,870 --> 00:43:43,690
day or four hours every day at least

938
00:43:43,690 --> 00:43:44,930
how would they write that in your biography

939
00:43:44,930 --> 00:43:50,450
unless you make it aware to people well

940
00:43:52,780 --> 00:43:56,740
i people ask me sometimes brother zach how

941
00:43:56,740 --> 00:43:58,160
long do you pray every day i said

942
00:43:58,160 --> 00:43:59,760
do you want me to disobey scripture you

943
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:03,500
are inviting me to disobey scripture as you're

944
00:44:03,500 --> 00:44:06,860
inviting me to disobey matthew six verses five

945
00:44:06,860 --> 00:44:10,260
to five to eight the lord says don't

946
00:44:10,260 --> 00:44:11,800
be like them i'm not going to be

947
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,260
like them so i'm not going to answer

948
00:44:14,260 --> 00:44:19,600
your prayer your question don't seek for a

949
00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:24,800
reputation as a praying man don't seek for

950
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,340
reputation anything and being holy before the lord

951
00:44:27,340 --> 00:44:29,260
it says here it's wonderful to see what

952
00:44:29,260 --> 00:44:32,460
you read here what jesus says here when

953
00:44:32,460 --> 00:44:34,620
you pray it's like you're giving if you're

954
00:44:34,620 --> 00:44:37,120
giving in secret your father who sees in

955
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,420
secret verse four will reward you let your

956
00:44:39,420 --> 00:44:41,080
father see in secret how much you gave

957
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,760
sacrifice he will reward you and i'll tell

958
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:45,040
you his reward will not only be in

959
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,180
heavenly reward you right now with a blessed

960
00:44:47,180 --> 00:44:52,240
happy life and a blessed happy ministry in

961
00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:54,980
the same way when you pray don't seek

962
00:44:54,980 --> 00:44:56,860
to be seen by men because that is

963
00:44:56,860 --> 00:44:59,400
their reward there is no reward after that

964
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,280
he advertised the fact that he was praying

965
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,020
two hours every day or one hour every

966
00:45:03,020 --> 00:45:05,620
day he's got his reward already when he

967
00:45:05,620 --> 00:45:07,060
stands before the lord the lord says well

968
00:45:07,060 --> 00:45:08,420
you never prayed at all say lord i

969
00:45:08,420 --> 00:45:10,260
prayed one hour every day yeah you got

970
00:45:10,260 --> 00:45:12,160
your reward for that in heaven beyond that

971
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:16,260
nothing imagine hearing that a guy who prayed

972
00:45:16,260 --> 00:45:17,920
for four hours every day and he advertised

973
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:19,980
it everywhere and he already got his reward

974
00:45:19,980 --> 00:45:21,800
here from people when he told about it

975
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:23,800
finally stands before the lord and the lord

976
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:25,120
says you never prayed at all he said

977
00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:26,580
oh yes lord i prayed four hours every

978
00:45:26,580 --> 00:45:27,880
day oh you got your reward for that

979
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:31,680
on earth nothing now it says there they

980
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:35,400
have their reward in full did you read

981
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,940
that matthew 6 5 there's no reward left

982
00:45:37,940 --> 00:45:43,540
in heaven that's tragic i'm not saying we

983
00:45:43,540 --> 00:45:46,040
pray in order to get a reward i

984
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,240
believe the purpose of prayer is to make

985
00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:49,620
us more christ-like to me that is

986
00:45:49,620 --> 00:45:52,500
the only reward of prayer for myself lord

987
00:45:52,500 --> 00:45:55,000
i want to be more christ-like even

988
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:57,320
when i pray for others that they'll be

989
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:00,400
healed or god will bless them that's what

990
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:01,820
jesus did and i say i want to

991
00:46:01,820 --> 00:46:04,400
be like that i i want i'm not

992
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,860
even praying for a reward in heaven i'm

993
00:46:06,860 --> 00:46:10,300
praying because that's the nature of my savior

994
00:46:10,300 --> 00:46:13,500
and the nature of jesus in me makes

995
00:46:13,500 --> 00:46:15,780
me want to pray and never tell people

996
00:46:15,780 --> 00:46:18,100
about it and to pray for those who

997
00:46:18,100 --> 00:46:22,660
are needy etc so always your motive if

998
00:46:22,660 --> 00:46:25,320
if matthew chapter 5 was speaking about the

999
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:27,580
inner life matthew 6 is talking about your

1000
00:46:27,580 --> 00:46:30,560
motive in giving your motive in praying why

1001
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:34,000
are you praying is more important than how

1002
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,140
long you prayed or what you prayed for

1003
00:46:36,140 --> 00:46:38,800
is when the motive is wrong the whole

1004
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,140
thing is corrupt it's a dead lizard in

1005
00:46:41,140 --> 00:46:44,300
that wonderful dish you cooked and then he

1006
00:46:44,300 --> 00:46:47,540
said when you pray we're six go into

1007
00:46:47,540 --> 00:46:52,580
your inner room and close your door and

1008
00:46:52,580 --> 00:46:55,580
pray to your father who is in secret

1009
00:46:55,580 --> 00:46:59,640
and your father who is in sick who

1010
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:03,060
sees what is done in secret will reward

1011
00:47:03,060 --> 00:47:10,810
you so what does that mean you know

1012
00:47:10,810 --> 00:47:14,990
i i think the old testament tabernacle the

1013
00:47:14,990 --> 00:47:18,370
old testament tabernacle there were three compartments well

1014
00:47:18,370 --> 00:47:21,650
the tent itself was two compartments but the

1015
00:47:21,650 --> 00:47:26,710
whole tabernacle was a big compound surrounded with

1016
00:47:26,710 --> 00:47:30,650
a curtain there was one gate and the

1017
00:47:30,650 --> 00:47:33,250
others people were outside and the all the

1018
00:47:33,250 --> 00:47:36,170
jewish people could come inside the outer court

1019
00:47:36,170 --> 00:47:38,950
it was called the outer court that's the

1020
00:47:38,950 --> 00:47:41,150
picture outside is the world inside you come

1021
00:47:41,150 --> 00:47:42,530
through the gate you come to the altar

1022
00:47:42,530 --> 00:47:45,110
of sacrifice the picture of calvary and the

1023
00:47:45,110 --> 00:47:47,990
labor full of water picture of water baptism

1024
00:47:47,990 --> 00:47:51,670
calvary and water baptism and that's where all

1025
00:47:51,670 --> 00:47:54,910
the believers gathered then there are two more

1026
00:47:54,910 --> 00:47:58,950
compartments which are covered with a curtain tent

1027
00:47:58,950 --> 00:48:01,910
that tent there was a holy place and

1028
00:48:01,910 --> 00:48:05,290
the most holy place so in the outer

1029
00:48:05,290 --> 00:48:06,850
court we can say we're all the believers

1030
00:48:06,850 --> 00:48:09,070
all the jews were there but in the

1031
00:48:09,070 --> 00:48:12,670
holy place only the priests went that's a

1032
00:48:12,670 --> 00:48:15,970
picture of the lord's servants the leaders and

1033
00:48:15,970 --> 00:48:19,070
in the most holy place in the in

1034
00:48:19,070 --> 00:48:21,390
those days nobody could go god dwelt there

1035
00:48:21,390 --> 00:48:22,870
god didn't dwell in the outer court of

1036
00:48:22,870 --> 00:48:24,490
the holy place in the most holy place

1037
00:48:24,490 --> 00:48:26,630
the fire of god rested over that most

1038
00:48:26,630 --> 00:48:28,870
holy place and that was blocked off in

1039
00:48:28,870 --> 00:48:31,170
the old covenant it's opened up when jesus

1040
00:48:31,170 --> 00:48:33,070
died in the new covenant so think of

1041
00:48:33,070 --> 00:48:37,170
these three pictures so there are people who

1042
00:48:37,170 --> 00:48:39,050
come into the outer court and they want

1043
00:48:39,050 --> 00:48:42,610
honor from one another whether it's praying or

1044
00:48:42,610 --> 00:48:45,950
giving and they want honor from one another

1045
00:48:45,950 --> 00:48:48,610
they're sinning then there are people who say

1046
00:48:48,610 --> 00:48:50,310
i don't want honor from any of these

1047
00:48:50,310 --> 00:48:53,090
people i pray and i'll give in secret

1048
00:48:53,090 --> 00:48:56,490
i'll pray in secret i'll give in secret

1049
00:48:56,490 --> 00:48:59,390
i'll fast in secret and they enter they

1050
00:48:59,390 --> 00:49:01,390
come to the next step and the most

1051
00:49:01,390 --> 00:49:04,110
in the holy place they say i really

1052
00:49:04,110 --> 00:49:07,610
seek honor from the leaders they don't honor

1053
00:49:07,610 --> 00:49:09,890
from the believers they move one step further

1054
00:49:09,890 --> 00:49:12,830
into the second compartment what do the leaders

1055
00:49:12,830 --> 00:49:15,230
think of me i want them to know

1056
00:49:15,230 --> 00:49:16,730
i want the elders in the church to

1057
00:49:16,730 --> 00:49:19,010
know that i'm praying i want the elders

1058
00:49:19,010 --> 00:49:20,630
in the church to know that i'm giving

1059
00:49:20,630 --> 00:49:22,670
i want the elders to know where i'm

1060
00:49:22,670 --> 00:49:24,390
witnessing to people or how many people i've

1061
00:49:24,390 --> 00:49:25,990
brought to christ i want the elders to

1062
00:49:25,990 --> 00:49:27,190
know what i've done for the lord here

1063
00:49:27,190 --> 00:49:28,930
and how i went and helped this person

1064
00:49:28,930 --> 00:49:30,590
there oh i want i don't want the

1065
00:49:30,590 --> 00:49:32,130
people to know no no i've gone beyond

1066
00:49:32,130 --> 00:49:33,750
the outer court i've come to the holy

1067
00:49:33,750 --> 00:49:38,270
place you haven't come to god yet those

1068
00:49:38,270 --> 00:49:39,970
who come through to the most holy place

1069
00:49:39,970 --> 00:49:41,890
they are not interested what the other believers

1070
00:49:41,890 --> 00:49:43,970
think about them they're not interested what the

1071
00:49:43,970 --> 00:49:45,870
elders think about them they're not trying to

1072
00:49:45,870 --> 00:49:47,890
impress the believers they're not trying to impress

1073
00:49:47,890 --> 00:49:52,070
the elders it's only god that's the true

1074
00:49:52,070 --> 00:49:55,190
son yeah the others are babies i'm not

1075
00:49:55,190 --> 00:49:56,750
saying you're not a child of god but

1076
00:49:56,750 --> 00:49:59,170
you're a baby you're a baby if you're

1077
00:49:59,170 --> 00:50:02,090
seeking honor from fellow believers you're a baby

1078
00:50:02,090 --> 00:50:05,150
if you're seeking honor from your leaders and

1079
00:50:05,150 --> 00:50:08,830
elders the son s-o-n is the

1080
00:50:08,830 --> 00:50:11,850
one who's finished with all this and say

1081
00:50:11,850 --> 00:50:15,110
lord it's only your approval i seek in

1082
00:50:15,110 --> 00:50:17,290
my life i don't seek approval for anybody

1083
00:50:17,290 --> 00:50:21,050
and so he says here when you pray

1084
00:50:21,050 --> 00:50:23,190
go into your inner room close your door

1085
00:50:23,190 --> 00:50:25,130
and pray to your father in secret and

1086
00:50:25,130 --> 00:50:26,390
you know you can do this even when

1087
00:50:26,390 --> 00:50:29,190
you're praying in public almost every believer who

1088
00:50:29,190 --> 00:50:31,730
prays in public seeks honor from others if

1089
00:50:31,730 --> 00:50:34,070
you don't believe me ask yourself when you

1090
00:50:34,070 --> 00:50:36,390
pray in public aren't you very conscious so

1091
00:50:36,390 --> 00:50:37,530
and so is listening so and so is

1092
00:50:37,530 --> 00:50:38,930
listening is very different from the way you

1093
00:50:38,930 --> 00:50:40,890
pray when you're alone kneeling by your bed

1094
00:50:40,890 --> 00:50:44,050
at home very different why all that flowery

1095
00:50:44,050 --> 00:50:45,470
language and all that you never use when

1096
00:50:45,470 --> 00:50:47,110
you're alone at home when you're at home

1097
00:50:47,110 --> 00:50:48,530
and you're praying alone to god you're crying

1098
00:50:48,530 --> 00:50:50,710
out in need but when you're praying in

1099
00:50:50,710 --> 00:50:53,410
public you use all this flowery fanciful language

1100
00:50:53,410 --> 00:50:55,390
and you're quoting verses and this that and

1101
00:50:55,390 --> 00:50:59,780
the other to impress people you know there's

1102
00:50:59,780 --> 00:51:02,280
so much of this what shall you do

1103
00:51:02,900 --> 00:51:04,880
i know when i started praying in public

1104
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:07,420
i found i was seeking honor i'd go

1105
00:51:07,420 --> 00:51:10,700
home repent lord i'm sorry i didn't pray

1106
00:51:10,700 --> 00:51:12,840
to you i prayed to people i'd come

1107
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,480
next time to the meeting and pray in

1108
00:51:15,480 --> 00:51:19,300
public again i would pray to conscious of

1109
00:51:19,300 --> 00:51:21,720
people i'd go home and repent and it

1110
00:51:21,720 --> 00:51:23,560
happened again and again for not one or

1111
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:26,200
two days for years but i said lord

1112
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:29,540
i'm going to get through this battle and

1113
00:51:29,540 --> 00:51:33,080
be an overcomer this giant of seeking honor

1114
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:36,520
in praying in public must be slain and

1115
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:39,240
must come under my feet i'm determined to

1116
00:51:39,240 --> 00:51:41,660
get this giant of seeking honor in public

1117
00:51:41,660 --> 00:51:45,220
prayer to come under my feet and a

1118
00:51:45,220 --> 00:51:47,160
day came and it happened it took years

1119
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,740
and if you are determined to get this

1120
00:51:49,740 --> 00:51:51,180
giant under your feet it'll happen in your

1121
00:51:51,180 --> 00:51:53,380
life too it may not happen to need

1122
00:51:53,380 --> 00:51:56,240
not happen uh take so long for you

1123
00:51:56,240 --> 00:51:58,640
it took long for me because nobody taught

1124
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:00,260
me what i'm teaching you now i wish

1125
00:52:00,260 --> 00:52:01,580
somebody had taught me this when i was

1126
00:52:01,580 --> 00:52:02,840
converted at the age of 19.

1127
00:52:03,540 --> 00:52:06,080
so many things which we shared today with

1128
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,580
on cfc churches i say lord i wish

1129
00:52:08,580 --> 00:52:09,820
somebody had taught me all this when i

1130
00:52:09,820 --> 00:52:11,820
was 19 years old i had to wait

1131
00:52:11,820 --> 00:52:13,520
till i was 35 to even understand these

1132
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,680
things you brothers are so lucky you hear

1133
00:52:16,680 --> 00:52:19,900
it at a very young age battle it

1134
00:52:19,900 --> 00:52:22,160
from a young age get these giants under

1135
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:25,060
your feet and don't get discouraged if you

1136
00:52:25,060 --> 00:52:27,340
fail just go home and repent it'll be

1137
00:52:27,340 --> 00:52:28,640
better next time to be able to better

1138
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:31,560
better gradually every blow will make that giant

1139
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:34,060
weak and one day it'll die that's that's

1140
00:52:34,060 --> 00:52:38,500
the way it is and so i i

1141
00:52:38,500 --> 00:52:40,600
see it like this now when i pray

1142
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,860
i must go into my inner room and

1143
00:52:43,860 --> 00:52:45,740
close the door and pray so when i'm

1144
00:52:45,740 --> 00:52:47,880
praying in public and there are hundreds of

1145
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,380
people around in my mind i shut the

1146
00:52:50,380 --> 00:52:54,520
door why do we close our eyes we

1147
00:52:54,520 --> 00:52:56,040
must not only close our eyes because we

1148
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:57,800
don't close our eyes because we won't don't

1149
00:52:57,800 --> 00:52:59,960
want to be distracted there's a door in

1150
00:52:59,960 --> 00:53:04,020
my mind that i must shut and in

1151
00:53:04,020 --> 00:53:06,140
my mind these people are they are here

1152
00:53:06,140 --> 00:53:10,400
but i'm not seeking their honor lord i've

1153
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:13,020
come into the most holy place now it's

1154
00:53:13,020 --> 00:53:17,100
only you and i'm praying to you there

1155
00:53:17,100 --> 00:53:20,800
are people listening to me i know but

1156
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:24,320
i'm before you i'm praying directly to you

1157
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:28,790
in heaven otherwise my brother sister you're praying

1158
00:53:28,790 --> 00:53:32,370
to the walls many prayers are not answered

1159
00:53:32,370 --> 00:53:35,270
because they were not prayed to god they

1160
00:53:35,270 --> 00:53:37,850
were prayed to impress people you wonder why

1161
00:53:37,850 --> 00:53:41,530
god never answered it even when you pray

1162
00:53:41,530 --> 00:53:44,410
at home don't pray to impress your children

1163
00:53:44,410 --> 00:53:46,670
or your husband or wife pray to god

1164
00:53:46,670 --> 00:53:49,730
develop this habit it'll take time to get

1165
00:53:49,730 --> 00:53:51,590
through and kill this giant of seeking honor

1166
00:53:51,590 --> 00:53:54,750
but it can come work on it work

1167
00:53:54,750 --> 00:53:56,530
on it if you're serious about your christian

1168
00:53:56,530 --> 00:53:58,690
life jesus said if you hear my words

1169
00:53:58,690 --> 00:53:59,870
and you don't do it you'll build your

1170
00:53:59,870 --> 00:54:01,630
house on sand i don't want to build

1171
00:54:01,630 --> 00:54:02,810
my house on sand i want to take

1172
00:54:02,810 --> 00:54:05,690
these words of jesus and do them then

1173
00:54:05,690 --> 00:54:07,390
i'll build my house on a rock and

1174
00:54:07,390 --> 00:54:09,490
i'll never shake and i found through the

1175
00:54:09,490 --> 00:54:11,570
years my life becomes more and more unshakable

1176
00:54:11,570 --> 00:54:15,230
that's god's will for you as well then

1177
00:54:15,230 --> 00:54:17,590
one more thing before we close and that

1178
00:54:17,590 --> 00:54:21,650
is matthew 6 and verse 7 when you

1179
00:54:21,650 --> 00:54:25,430
pray don't use meaningless repetition as the non

1180
00:54:25,430 --> 00:54:28,910
-jewish gentiles do because they think they'll be

1181
00:54:28,910 --> 00:54:31,790
heard for their many words don't be like

1182
00:54:31,790 --> 00:54:33,550
them because your father knows what you need

1183
00:54:33,550 --> 00:54:35,970
before you ask him matthew 6 verse 7

1184
00:54:35,970 --> 00:54:37,930
and 8 so that's the other thing we

1185
00:54:37,930 --> 00:54:44,020
need to keep in mind don't think that

1186
00:54:44,020 --> 00:54:45,920
god will hear your prayer because you prayed

1187
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:50,060
a long time when elijah and the prophets

1188
00:54:50,060 --> 00:54:51,540
of baal met on the top of mount

1189
00:54:51,540 --> 00:54:55,000
carmel they prayed for a long time nothing

1190
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,580
happened they rolled and shouted and yelled and

1191
00:54:57,580 --> 00:55:00,160
all that and you look at elijah's prayer

1192
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,240
it was less than a minute less than

1193
00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:06,440
one minute and the fire fell don't think

1194
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:07,900
god hears you because you prayed for a

1195
00:55:07,900 --> 00:55:11,120
long time you prayed all night brother you

1196
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:13,860
might as well have gone to sleep you

1197
00:55:13,860 --> 00:55:18,400
you were trying to accomplish a feat you

1198
00:55:18,400 --> 00:55:19,560
know when i was young as i said

1199
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:21,520
nobody taught me this so i said oh

1200
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:23,340
well i hear other people having all night

1201
00:55:23,340 --> 00:55:24,280
prayer you know what i did i was

1202
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:26,160
on a ship and i had a cabin

1203
00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:28,680
to myself in the ship so i could

1204
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,200
be alone and i decided i'm going to

1205
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:32,960
pray all night and i knelt down beside

1206
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:35,200
my bed and i started praying i said

1207
00:55:35,200 --> 00:55:36,740
i'm gonna get through all night it was

1208
00:55:36,740 --> 00:55:38,200
like a marathon i was trying to run

1209
00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,560
and i don't know what time i started

1210
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:42,680
maybe nine o'clock i pray and pray

1211
00:55:42,680 --> 00:55:44,080
and pray and pray and said boy it

1212
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,580
must be morning now hey holy 9 30

1213
00:55:46,580 --> 00:55:50,020
wow and i continue continue continue continue continue

1214
00:55:50,020 --> 00:55:53,040
once the time 10 30 when's this gonna

1215
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,320
finish i'm determined i'm on my knees are

1216
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:58,800
aching and i'm getting distracted but i'm keeping

1217
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:03,780
awake keeping awake finally it was six o

1218
00:56:03,780 --> 00:56:06,560
'clock in the morning i accomplished it what

1219
00:56:06,560 --> 00:56:11,500
did i accomplish nothing except yeah i learned

1220
00:56:11,500 --> 00:56:13,360
something that that type of praying is a

1221
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,320
waste of time i did learn something sure

1222
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:17,540
so it wasn't a waste of time in

1223
00:56:17,540 --> 00:56:19,840
that way but i i never tried it

1224
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:21,580
again i said prayer must come out of

1225
00:56:21,580 --> 00:56:23,860
a burden if it doesn't come out of

1226
00:56:23,860 --> 00:56:25,480
a burden doesn't come out of love for

1227
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:26,700
the lord doesn't come out of love for

1228
00:56:26,700 --> 00:56:29,400
people you're wasting your time it's the motive

1229
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:34,060
that matters in everything is the motive so

1230
00:56:34,060 --> 00:56:36,000
never talk about it look at jesus life

1231
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:38,760
for 30 years you know how much he

1232
00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,160
prayed do you think he didn't pray he

1233
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,860
prayed a lot i'm sure look at all

1234
00:56:44,860 --> 00:56:46,160
the good he did in 30 years do

1235
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:47,280
you think he didn't help people in 30

1236
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:51,280
years do you think he didn't fast in

1237
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:52,980
30 years i'm sure he did he prayed

1238
00:56:52,980 --> 00:56:56,080
he fasted he did good but i turned

1239
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:58,160
the pages of the bible and i don't

1240
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:00,460
even read anything about it in the last

1241
00:57:00,460 --> 00:57:02,480
verses of john's gospel he says there are

1242
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:04,880
so many other things that jesus did which

1243
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:08,440
if it's written here even the world will

1244
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:10,320
not be able to contain so many books

1245
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:14,720
wow lord what all you did if you

1246
00:57:14,720 --> 00:57:17,140
read that verse the number of things jesus

1247
00:57:17,140 --> 00:57:19,300
did which he's not talking about the three

1248
00:57:19,300 --> 00:57:21,540
and a half years most of that is

1249
00:57:21,540 --> 00:57:25,780
written down the 30 years of secret she

1250
00:57:25,780 --> 00:57:29,440
lived before the father and we know he

1251
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:32,660
did such a lot of good because and

1252
00:57:32,660 --> 00:57:34,740
never sought his own glory never advertised it

1253
00:57:34,740 --> 00:57:37,780
we still don't know it even today but

1254
00:57:37,780 --> 00:57:39,540
we know that the father looked at those

1255
00:57:39,540 --> 00:57:42,260
30 years and said this is my beloved

1256
00:57:42,260 --> 00:57:44,460
son in whom i am well pleased that

1257
00:57:44,460 --> 00:57:47,600
is baptism that is a public certificate at

1258
00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,240
the end of 30 years this son of

1259
00:57:49,240 --> 00:57:51,300
mine has done a perfect life and never

1260
00:57:51,300 --> 00:57:54,220
told anybody about it so when you pray

1261
00:57:54,220 --> 00:57:56,240
it says you don't use meaningless repetition don't

1262
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:58,900
believe in long prayers pray as long as

1263
00:57:58,900 --> 00:57:59,860
you have a burden if you have a

1264
00:57:59,860 --> 00:58:01,940
burden pray for one hour pray but if

1265
00:58:01,940 --> 00:58:03,340
you have a burden to pray like elijah

1266
00:58:03,340 --> 00:58:06,780
only for one minute that's the end the

1267
00:58:06,780 --> 00:58:09,760
fire can come in one minute sure so

1268
00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:12,040
i'm not against long prayers i'm saying pray

1269
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:13,220
as long as you have a burden the

1270
00:58:13,220 --> 00:58:15,500
old testament prophets always spoke about a burden

1271
00:58:15,500 --> 00:58:18,260
the burden of the lord there are two

1272
00:58:18,260 --> 00:58:20,560
things essential for prayer one is burden and

1273
00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:22,440
the other is faith if you don't have

1274
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,060
a burden it's useless if you don't have

1275
00:58:24,060 --> 00:58:27,000
faith it is useless so ask god to

1276
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:28,760
give you a burden and ask god to

1277
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:30,120
give you a faith then your prayers will

1278
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:32,360
be effective and if it's one minute or

1279
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,680
one hour that's gene even god but avoid

1280
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:38,440
meaningless repetition have you heard people saying hallelujah

1281
00:58:38,440 --> 00:58:42,860
hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah first of all they don't

1282
00:58:42,860 --> 00:58:45,300
even know the meaning of hallelujah it's a

1283
00:58:45,300 --> 00:58:47,600
hebrew word which means praise the lord you

1284
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:49,480
can say it in english you don't have

1285
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:51,080
to say it in hebrew for god to

1286
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:53,300
understand you can say praise the lord it's

1287
00:58:53,300 --> 00:58:56,220
exactly the same hallelujah is not more spiritual

1288
00:58:56,220 --> 00:58:58,480
than praise the lord hallelujah is saying it

1289
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:00,340
in hebrew and praise the lord is saying

1290
00:59:00,340 --> 00:59:04,720
it in english so it's not more advantageous

1291
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:07,420
to say hallelujah the only advantage i can

1292
00:59:07,420 --> 00:59:09,180
see is if you're in the midst of

1293
00:59:09,180 --> 00:59:10,840
a lot of people who speak different languages

1294
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:12,920
from different countries then they can all understand

1295
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:15,620
hallelujah because it's become very common among christians

1296
00:59:15,620 --> 00:59:17,100
other than that i don't see any value

1297
00:59:17,100 --> 00:59:20,060
in it and don't keep on repeating it

1298
00:59:20,060 --> 00:59:21,560
to say praise the lord praise the lord

1299
00:59:21,560 --> 00:59:22,700
praise the lord praise the lord praise the

1300
00:59:22,700 --> 00:59:24,760
lord jesus said don't do it you're actually

1301
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,420
disobeying jesus when you say that when you

1302
00:59:27,420 --> 00:59:30,740
keep saying hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah you're actually disobeying

1303
00:59:30,740 --> 00:59:33,060
jesus i don't know how many people understand

1304
00:59:33,060 --> 00:59:36,380
that i've seen christians who read these things

1305
00:59:36,380 --> 00:59:39,220
and they build their house on sand because

1306
00:59:39,220 --> 00:59:41,380
they hear it and they don't obey it

1307
00:59:41,380 --> 00:59:44,280
well you heard a lot of things today

1308
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:47,780
my brothers and sisters go home listen to

1309
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this message again and ask god to help

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you to have the power of the holy

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spirit to keep it humility is the greatest

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thing of all seeking god's glory alone let's

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pray heavenly father we pray in jesus name

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amen that you will help us to remember

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all that we've heard the holy spirit will

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be able to apply all this to our

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life and speak to each of us individually

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today tomorrow and this year next year until

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you come about the areas where we need

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to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the

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flesh and spirit we pray in jesus name

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amen