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It's a real joy for me to be

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here.

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And as I've shared with Brother Denny in

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the afternoon, as he just said, I saw

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a lot of similarity in the way God's

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led him through the years and led us

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in India.

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Twenty-four years ago, there were a few

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of us, just three or four families, that

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sought reality.

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About a year before that, I was born

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again about forty years ago, and for about

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sixteen years after that, I found, as I

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went on in the Christian life, that gradually

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the Christian life became a routine.

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And though I went through the external form,

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there was a lack of reality, and gradually

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I began to talk about things that were

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not true in my inner life.

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Externally, my testimony was okay.

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And I prayed a prayer that time.

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I was in full-time Christian work.

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And I said, Lord, I want you to

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do something in my life so that everything

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I say is going to be true in

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my inner life, my private life, my home

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life, that I'll never say anything that I

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don't practice.

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And I'll never give an impression to people

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of being holier than I really am.

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That was the prayer of my heart, and

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I felt if this could not be accomplished

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in my life, I'd quit the ministry and

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do something else.

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And that's when God met with me.

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And that's when a few of us began

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to meet together in my home that from

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there has grown into many people and many

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churches.

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But more than the numbers, I'm excited that

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there are people in our land whom God

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has brought together who want reality in their

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lives.

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There's a verse that I want to read

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to you in Psalm 51.

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Psalm 51, it says, this is a prayer

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of David.

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David was a man after God's own heart,

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but he lived under the old covenant.

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There were heights that he could not reach,

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however much he longed for it.

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Remember, Jesus once said that the greatest man

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under the Old Testament was the greatest man

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born of women.

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Up until that time was John the Baptist.

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And when we look at the life of

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these men, like Elijah and Moses and John

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the Baptist, they were tremendously godly men.

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They were not people running after money.

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They were not people seeking the honor of

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men.

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They were not people who were running after

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the opposite sex.

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They lived before God's face.

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They didn't care for kings or anyone.

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And yet Jesus said, in Matthew 11, that

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even though John the Baptist was the greatest

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prophet ever born and the greatest man born

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of women until then, the least person in

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the kingdom of God would be greater than

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him.

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And he was drawing a contrast between that

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life under the old covenant and life in

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the new covenant.

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Under the old covenant, you could come to

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a tremendously good life, as good as John

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the Baptist.

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And he said, if you really enter into

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the new covenant life, every single person who

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really enters into the new covenant can rise

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to a higher life than John the Baptist.

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It's quite something.

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And here's where we've got to be honest.

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It's very difficult to be honest.

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We are a people who fool ourselves very

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easily.

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When I began to examine my life and

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compared myself with John the Baptist, I couldn't

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say that my life was better than his.

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I couldn't say that my life was better

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than Elijah's.

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And yet, that was the promise under the

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New Testament.

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There was another man, David, it says in

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Psalm 51, this is the verse I want

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Psalm 51, verse 6.

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Behold, thou dost desire truth in the innermost

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being.

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David is not saying he had it.

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He's saying, God, I know that's what you

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desire.

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I don't have it.

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I've got a good life externally.

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He had it till he fell, and one

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mark of his uprightness was that when the

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prophet confronted him with his sin, he acknowledged

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it immediately.

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But he knew that there was more that

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God had, truth in the innermost being, reality

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in the innermost being.

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That's what God wants.

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David knew that, and he knew that he

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couldn't come to that height.

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All of that Old Testament life was external.

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The entire law, the Ten Commandments, dealt with

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that external life.

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And if you honored your father and mother,

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and you didn't worship idols, and you didn't

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take the Lord's name in vain, and you

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worshiped God, and you kept the Sabbath, and

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you didn't kill, didn't commit adultery, didn't steal,

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didn't bear false witness, you had a good

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testimony.

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The law couldn't punish you.

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You were okay.

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But God kept one commandment there, right at

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the end, to test how many would be

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honest.

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That was the Tenth Commandment.

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It was the only commandment in that list

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of ten that dealt with something inside.

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And that was, you shall not covet.

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You shall not desire your neighbor's wife, your

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neighbor's house, your neighbor's daughter, anything that's your

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neighbor's, his job, his ministry, his Bible knowledge,

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anything.

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You shall not desire it.

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Now, the law could never punish that, because

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how do you know whether a man's desired

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something?

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The law could only punish a man who

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disobeyed the first nine commandments.

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The Tenth Commandment didn't speak about grabbing your

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neighbor's something or the other.

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It was desiring.

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And we can wonder, why did God place

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a commandment that the law could never punish?

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Because you'd never be able to find out

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whether a man obeyed it or not.

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He placed it there to find out how

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many people would be honest.

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Paul said, in one place, in the Acts

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of the Apostles, he said, From my childhood,

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I've lived with a good conscience right up

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until this day.

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In Philippians 3, he said, According to the

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righteousness of the law, I was blameless.

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Which means, as far as he could remember,

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in his whole life, he had never disobeyed

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the law.

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What he meant was nine commandments.

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Because, I want to show you these two

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verses.

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First of all, in Philippians 3, where he

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says, As

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to the righteousness of the law, Philippians 3,

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6, I was found blameless.

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Now, we think that he's referring to the

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whole Ten Commandments, but he isn't.

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He says, There was absolutely nothing from my

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childhood in which I violated the law.

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He says that in Acts 23, verse 1.

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Looking at the Sanhedrin, the council, before whom

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he stood for judgment, he says in Acts

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23, verse 1, Brethren, I have lived my

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life with a perfectly good conscience before God

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up to this day.

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There was a man, just like that rich

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young ruler, who came to Jesus.

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I believe Paul was also a rich man.

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He belonged to a family that lived in

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Tarsus, where the business people from among the

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Jews went.

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His father was obviously a very rich man.

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There was another rich young man, Paul of

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Tarsus, who made the right decision.

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Unlike the other rich young ruler, who also

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was very upright, who missed what the Lord

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had for him, who had kept all the

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commandments, Paul says, I too have lived with

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a perfectly good conscience.

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Now, there are very few human beings who

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can say that.

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There was a man who from childhood had

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lived with a perfectly good conscience.

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And he was a million miles away from

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God, in spite of all that.

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Going completely on the wrong track, despite being

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so upright on the outside.

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And when you turn to Romans 7, you

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see what he says.

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Here is where you see Paul's honesty.

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And it's that honesty that led him into

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the new covenant.

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Otherwise, he would have missed it altogether.

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Just like that other rich young ruler.

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In Romans 7, Paul says, what shall we

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say then, verse 7.

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Is the law sin?

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May it never be.

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Now, notice his honesty here.

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On the contrary, I would never have known

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sin, except through the law.

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I would not have known about coveting, if

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the law, now he is talking about the

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10th commandment.

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Had not said, you shall not covet, you

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shall not lust.

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It's the same word, lust, covet, desire.

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Verse 8, but sin, and this is the

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verse where he reveals his inner life.

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Taking opportunity through this commandment, produced inside me.

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Coveting of every kind, lusting of every kind.

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Here is Paul's honesty.

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He is saying, even though I kept all

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these commandments on the outside, and I had

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such a good testimony before people.

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People thought I was such a saint from

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childhood, because I lived with a good conscience.

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My parents thought I was a saint.

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The Jewish leaders thought I was a saint.

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But little did they know, what all was

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going on inside my heart.

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Lusting of all types.

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Not just one type, many types.

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That's where we see, that Paul was constantly

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disobeying the 10th commandment.

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He admits it.

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I couldn't keep it.

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Inside me, lusting, lusting, lusting.

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And because he was honest, and he was

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struggling with this.

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This is what he was struggling with.

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He says, I want to be pure inside.

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Verse 19, the good that I wish, I

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don't do.

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He is not talking about honoring his father

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and mother.

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That he could do.

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He is not talking about not committing adultery.

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He didn't do that.

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Never committed adultery in his whole life.

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Not talking about not bearing false witness.

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He never bore false witness in his whole

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life.

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He is talking about something else when he

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says, the good that I wish, I do

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not do.

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He is talking about, I want to be

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pure in my heart.

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But I don't seem to be able to.

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I am defeated inside.

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That's what he is talking about in verse

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19.

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I am doing the very thing I don't

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wish.

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Verse 20.

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He is not talking about external sin.

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He is talking about inward, in his thought

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life.

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In his attitudes.

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And then he says, O wretched man that

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I am.

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Verse 24, Romans 7, 24.

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How can I be free?

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Here is a man who is crying out

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to God and he is revealing to us

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his inner heart.

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In absolute, total honesty.

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He is getting up and saying in scripture,

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I found every type of lust in my

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heart.

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And then he says in Romans 8, this

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wonderful word, but finally something happened.

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The law of the spirit, Romans 8, 2.

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Now this is different.

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From the law of Moses.

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Here he is talking about the law of

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the Holy Spirit.

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There is a law of the Holy Spirit.

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Just like there is a law of Moses.

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But the law of the Holy Spirit is

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not found in commandments.

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Jesus didn't come with many more commandments.

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It says here in Romans 8, 2, the

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law of the spirit is life in Christ

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Jesus.

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It is a life.

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It is not law.

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It is a life.

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And he says, that life has finally set

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me free from this other law of sin

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and death.

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Then he says in verse 3, for what

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the law could not do.

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Now we need to stop there a moment.

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What was it that the law could not

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do?

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He is talking about the Ten Commandments.

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Could the law help him to worship only

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one God?

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Sure.

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Never worship idols?

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Sure.

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All his life the law helped him.

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Never committed adultery?

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The law helped him.

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Never steal?

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Never tell lies?

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Never murder?

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The law helped him in all these areas.

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There was only one thing the law could

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not do.

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It could not deliver him from lusting inside.

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And he says, what the law could not

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do, God did.

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That is the new covenant.

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And a man who has not experienced that

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has not entered into the new covenant.

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It is only his external life that is

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holy.

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And he says, no.

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And then he talks about God sending his

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own son, that is Jesus.

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In the likeness of sinful flesh.

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There is an offering for sin on Calvary's

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cross.

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God condemns sin.

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In the flesh of Jesus.

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Why?

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So that.

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Now we need to go back once again

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to Romans 7 verse 8.

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Where he said, this 10th commandment, it produced

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in me or revealed to me.

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Probably is a better way to say that.

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There was all types of lusting.

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He goes on to say, I never knew

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about it.

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It was always going on there.

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But the law was like a searchlight, you

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know, like you can have a whole lot

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of snakes in a room.

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And you don't know they are there till

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somebody shines a light in.

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And here were all these snakes in Paul's

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heart.

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And he never knew about it till the

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law shone a light in and said, you

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shall not lust.

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And he suddenly discovered all types of snakes

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there.

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Which he never knew was there.

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See people walk in darkness, they don't even

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know about this.

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But people open up their lives to the

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law of God, to God's word.

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Begin to discover these snakes as the light

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shines in.

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And that's why when Jesus came and saw

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these Pharisees who didn't seem to have a

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consciousness.

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Of all these snakes crawling around in their

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heart.

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He said, well you fellows are healthy, aren't

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you?

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Jesus could be sarcastic sometimes.

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He said, I don't come for you people.

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I came for the sick.

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I came for the prostitutes.

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I came for the thieves.

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I came for the tax collectors.

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Because it's the sick who need a physician.

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And he was trying to point out to

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them.

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They still couldn't see it.

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That their biggest problem was they thought they

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were healthy.

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And they were not.

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But Paul acknowledged it.

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The law shone in.

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Did those Pharisees have the tenth commandment?

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Sure.

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What was the difference between those Pharisees and

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Saul of Tarsus?

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One major difference.

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And that's the big difference between God's people

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today.

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And that difference was the Pharisees would not

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acknowledge.

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That they were disobeying the tenth commandment inside.

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That they were lusting.

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Coveting.

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Desiring.

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They would come to the synagogues on Saturday

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and pretend to be holy people.

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And sit there and talk about scripture.

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And pray.

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And praise and perhaps clap their hands in

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the temple.

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They never cried out like, Paul, oh God.

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I'm a wretched man.

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The things inside these other folks around don't

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know.

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That's what made God select Paul.

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That's why out of all that bunch of

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Pharisees, God picked out one.

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He just left the others.

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Why?

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Why does God pick out one person from

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here and one person from there?

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In the midst of a whole lot of

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bunch of holy people.

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People who look holy anyway.

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Because they are honest.

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Paul said, I discovered all types of coveting,

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Lord.

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I want to do what's right.

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But I don't do it.

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And I want to acknowledge it.

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This is what David said way back a

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thousand years earlier.

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You desire truth in the innermost being.

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You desire reality in the innermost being.

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Not just on the outside.

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That was the crisis I had with God

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24 years ago.

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Reality.

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I saw that my problem was not Bible

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knowledge.

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I knew the Bible.

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I could preach.

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But I didn't have reality.

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And when I sought that, I entered into

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the new covenant.

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Just like this.

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What the law could not do.

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It wasn't through a technique.

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It wasn't through an experience.

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It was through the law of the Spirit.

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Of life in Christ Jesus.

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That's what the Holy Spirit has come to

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produce in us.

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Life in Christ Jesus.

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The very life that there was in Jesus.

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To be produced in me.

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In my thought life.

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In my attitudes to other people.

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It was not me struggling and manufacturing a

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good life.

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It was the Holy Spirit imparting to me

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another life.

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That's this new covenant.

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That's why God picked Paul.

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Because he was honest.

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He admitted his need.

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And I believe God is looking all over

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the world.

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For those who are honest.

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Those who will acknowledge honestly before him.

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This is the meaning of walking in the

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light.

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If we walk in the light.

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What does that mean?

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It's not a big complicated thing.

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It just means I just expose myself.

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And I say if there is a stain

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on my shirt.

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Well, I acknowledge it.

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I don't pretend it's not there.

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To walk in darkness is to pretend it's

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not there.

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To pretend I'm okay inside.

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To put up a front.

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Then of course God can't do anything.

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I think of the two thieves who hung

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on the cross of Calvary.

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On Calvary on either side of Jesus.

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For many years I thought.

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That that one thief who got into God's

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kingdom.

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Got in there because he said Lord remember

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me.

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When you come in your kingdom.

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But as I studied that passage carefully.

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I discovered that was not the reason.

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Why he got into paradise.

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A lot of people who say Lord remember

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me.

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When you come in your kingdom.

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Who never get into God's kingdom.

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Not everyone who says Lord Lord.

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Will enter into the kingdom Jesus said.

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But there was something else about that man.

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You see crucifixion.

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Was the type of punishment.

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That the Roman government reserved.

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For the worst criminals.

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It's like the electric chair.

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Or hanging.

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You don't.

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You send the worst criminals to the electric

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chair.

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The others may get 15 years or 20

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years.

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But the worst.

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In those days the worst were crucified.

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And here were those.

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These two thieves hanging on the cross.

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Alongside Jesus.

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And one of them said to Jesus.

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In Luke 23.39. Luke's gospel 23.39.

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One of the criminals there said.

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Aren't you the Christ?

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Save yourself and us.

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What he was saying was.

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Well I need to be saved from this

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crucifixion.

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I know I'm a criminal but I'm not

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so bad.

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That I deserve to be crucified.

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Perhaps a few years in prison.

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But not crucifixion.

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I deserve to be saved from this.

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But the other man.

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On the other side.

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The other thief he said.

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He said don't you fear God.

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Verse 40.

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Verse 41.

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He said exactly the opposite.

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He said we are being punished justly.

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Because.

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Verse 41.

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We are receiving what we deserve.

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What we deserve.

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For our deeds.

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He was honest.

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He said Lord I don't pretend to be

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a saint.

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I don't even pretend that what I needed

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was 20 years.

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I'm such a wicked man.

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I deserve to be crucified.

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I deserve the worst punishment.

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I deserve the electric chair.

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And he was free.

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The Lord that's why.

560
00:24:12,950 --> 00:24:13,870
Because he was honest.

561
00:24:15,350 --> 00:24:17,110
Just like Paul in Romans 7.

562
00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:20,800
And he said.

563
00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:23,080
Jesus remember me.

564
00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:25,600
When you come in your kingdom.

565
00:24:25,740 --> 00:24:26,820
That's 2,000 years later.

566
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,080
And Jesus said no.

567
00:24:29,460 --> 00:24:30,680
Not 2,000 years later.

568
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:31,180
Today.

569
00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:33,620
You're going to be with me in paradise.

570
00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:36,280
Paradise is made for people like you.

571
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:37,880
Who are honest.

572
00:24:39,340 --> 00:24:41,300
That man make restitution.

573
00:24:42,780 --> 00:24:43,900
Never had a chance.

574
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,020
Did that man even go and ask for

575
00:24:47,020 --> 00:24:48,680
forgiveness from those he had wronged?

576
00:24:49,380 --> 00:24:49,700
No.

577
00:24:50,660 --> 00:24:52,160
Did he ever do one good thing?

578
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:53,640
He never had a chance.

579
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,720
He repented and he died right there.

580
00:24:58,980 --> 00:24:59,640
And that evening.

581
00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:01,900
The angels in paradise.

582
00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:03,480
The angels in heaven saw.

583
00:25:03,900 --> 00:25:05,240
This amazing sight.

584
00:25:07,590 --> 00:25:09,330
Of one who had walked for 33 and

585
00:25:09,330 --> 00:25:10,630
a half years without sinning.

586
00:25:12,820 --> 00:25:14,940
Walking in paradise with one who had walked

587
00:25:14,940 --> 00:25:16,340
for 33 years in sin.

588
00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:18,260
Amazing.

589
00:25:20,740 --> 00:25:21,620
What did he do?

590
00:25:22,840 --> 00:25:24,500
He never did one good thing in his

591
00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:24,740
life.

592
00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:26,580
But he was honest.

593
00:25:27,620 --> 00:25:29,080
He said Lord this is what I really

594
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:29,300
am.

595
00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:30,060
I deserve this.

596
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,300
Paradise is made for honest people.

597
00:25:35,370 --> 00:25:36,530
Made for those who are willing.

598
00:25:37,210 --> 00:25:38,630
To be known as they really are.

599
00:25:39,930 --> 00:25:41,570
In whom there is no pretence.

600
00:25:45,290 --> 00:25:45,490
And.

601
00:25:46,470 --> 00:25:48,170
This is the secret of fellowship.

602
00:25:48,430 --> 00:25:49,510
If we walk in the light.

603
00:25:49,630 --> 00:25:51,130
John says 1 John 1 7.

604
00:25:51,630 --> 00:25:53,230
We have fellowship one with another.

605
00:25:53,370 --> 00:25:55,090
Not only vertically with God.

606
00:25:55,810 --> 00:25:56,970
But with one another.

607
00:25:57,970 --> 00:26:00,750
The great need among husbands and wives.

608
00:26:01,610 --> 00:26:02,970
To walk in the light.

609
00:26:04,790 --> 00:26:06,130
To be transparent.

610
00:26:07,870 --> 00:26:09,470
Without pretence.

611
00:26:10,370 --> 00:26:11,610
To be honest.

612
00:26:13,710 --> 00:26:15,130
Sometimes we can give.

613
00:26:15,950 --> 00:26:18,110
Young people who come into our churches.

614
00:26:19,570 --> 00:26:20,570
An impression.

615
00:26:21,450 --> 00:26:22,590
Through our preaching.

616
00:26:22,830 --> 00:26:23,930
Through our singing.

617
00:26:24,990 --> 00:26:26,330
Through our whole church service.

618
00:26:26,330 --> 00:26:28,670
And our presenting of ourselves to them.

619
00:26:29,450 --> 00:26:30,390
An impression that.

620
00:26:30,670 --> 00:26:32,810
We don't face the struggles they face.

621
00:26:34,770 --> 00:26:36,730
And those young people can come into our

622
00:26:36,730 --> 00:26:37,030
meetings.

623
00:26:37,230 --> 00:26:37,970
And think well.

624
00:26:39,010 --> 00:26:40,710
This holy bunch of people will never know.

625
00:26:40,850 --> 00:26:41,450
What I'm going through.

626
00:26:42,350 --> 00:26:43,210
And they turn away.

627
00:26:44,910 --> 00:26:47,150
And they don't turn away from Jesus Christ.

628
00:26:47,970 --> 00:26:50,410
They turn away from the false Christ.

629
00:26:50,970 --> 00:26:52,130
Presented by Christians.

630
00:26:52,990 --> 00:26:54,450
I believe this is true in India.

631
00:26:55,270 --> 00:26:56,310
I don't believe that India is a false

632
00:26:56,310 --> 00:26:56,410
country.

633
00:26:56,410 --> 00:26:57,610
I don't believe India has rejected Jesus Christ.

634
00:26:58,350 --> 00:27:00,230
I believe India has rejected the Christ.

635
00:27:00,330 --> 00:27:01,890
They've seen in so many Christians in India.

636
00:27:02,950 --> 00:27:04,190
And that's not the true Christ.

637
00:27:05,630 --> 00:27:07,690
The Christ they've seen in Christians in India.

638
00:27:08,290 --> 00:27:09,710
Is a Christ who loves money.

639
00:27:09,990 --> 00:27:12,790
And who is interested in seeking his own

640
00:27:12,790 --> 00:27:13,410
gain.

641
00:27:13,690 --> 00:27:15,490
And many things like that.

642
00:27:15,610 --> 00:27:16,570
That's not the true Christ.

643
00:27:16,650 --> 00:27:17,630
That's the Christ they've rejected.

644
00:27:18,790 --> 00:27:20,970
And that's the Christ America has rejected.

645
00:27:22,590 --> 00:27:24,530
The Christ they've seen in the television evangelists.

646
00:27:25,810 --> 00:27:27,910
And the Christ they've seen in so many

647
00:27:27,910 --> 00:27:28,470
hypocrites.

648
00:27:29,830 --> 00:27:31,050
That's the Christ they've rejected.

649
00:27:32,710 --> 00:27:34,150
And I know this has brought me on

650
00:27:34,150 --> 00:27:35,290
my face before God.

651
00:27:36,450 --> 00:27:37,330
And said Lord.

652
00:27:38,290 --> 00:27:39,950
Am I reflecting your son.

653
00:27:41,090 --> 00:27:41,490
Correctly.

654
00:27:42,530 --> 00:27:43,270
Jesus said.

655
00:27:44,770 --> 00:27:45,530
His disciples.

656
00:27:46,050 --> 00:27:46,910
At the end of three and a half

657
00:27:46,910 --> 00:27:47,510
years with them.

658
00:27:47,530 --> 00:27:48,650
He said if you've seen me you've seen

659
00:27:48,650 --> 00:27:49,050
the Father.

660
00:27:49,170 --> 00:27:50,270
You don't need to see God at all.

661
00:27:51,790 --> 00:27:52,390
You've seen him.

662
00:27:52,390 --> 00:27:53,690
You've seen the way I live.

663
00:27:53,830 --> 00:27:54,710
You've seen everything I did.

664
00:27:55,210 --> 00:27:55,910
You've seen the Father.

665
00:27:56,870 --> 00:27:58,590
And Jesus said as the Father sent me.

666
00:27:59,090 --> 00:27:59,850
So send I you.

667
00:28:01,050 --> 00:28:01,710
That means.

668
00:28:02,470 --> 00:28:03,810
As we walk through the world.

669
00:28:04,810 --> 00:28:06,510
We should be able to say to others.

670
00:28:09,170 --> 00:28:09,830
If you've seen me.

671
00:28:09,950 --> 00:28:10,990
You've seen a little bit of what Jesus

672
00:28:10,990 --> 00:28:11,430
is like.

673
00:28:13,130 --> 00:28:14,070
I thought you know.

674
00:28:14,770 --> 00:28:15,130
When.

675
00:28:15,870 --> 00:28:17,290
If I were living in Nazareth.

676
00:28:18,010 --> 00:28:19,370
Around two thousand years ago.

677
00:28:19,490 --> 00:28:21,050
And I didn't know that.

678
00:28:24,350 --> 00:28:25,250
I thought of him as the son of

679
00:28:25,250 --> 00:28:25,570
Joseph.

680
00:28:25,770 --> 00:28:26,670
Another carpenter there.

681
00:28:28,070 --> 00:28:28,230
And.

682
00:28:28,450 --> 00:28:30,050
Supposing I thought of him as just another

683
00:28:30,050 --> 00:28:30,330
Jew.

684
00:28:31,730 --> 00:28:33,290
And I encountered this.

685
00:28:34,170 --> 00:28:35,770
Twenty eight year old young man.

686
00:28:36,170 --> 00:28:37,690
Sometime in the streets of Nazareth.

687
00:28:39,190 --> 00:28:40,190
What would be.

688
00:28:41,030 --> 00:28:43,490
The first thing that struck me about him.

689
00:28:43,990 --> 00:28:44,670
I thought of that.

690
00:28:44,770 --> 00:28:46,790
Supposing I'd encountered Jesus in the streets of

691
00:28:46,790 --> 00:28:47,130
Nazareth.

692
00:28:47,630 --> 00:28:49,050
What would be the first thing.

693
00:28:49,970 --> 00:28:51,390
That would impress me about him.

694
00:28:52,570 --> 00:28:53,450
Have you ever thought of that.

695
00:28:56,170 --> 00:28:56,850
I think.

696
00:28:57,070 --> 00:28:59,290
I would have come away with the impression.

697
00:29:00,630 --> 00:29:02,390
Not of a holy man.

698
00:29:02,630 --> 00:29:04,170
The Pharisees gave that impression.

699
00:29:04,850 --> 00:29:05,730
A holy man.

700
00:29:05,810 --> 00:29:07,070
Who's always talking about the Bible.

701
00:29:07,330 --> 00:29:09,110
And many many holy things.

702
00:29:11,270 --> 00:29:12,430
I think I'd have come away with the

703
00:29:12,430 --> 00:29:12,910
impression.

704
00:29:13,130 --> 00:29:15,030
When I met Jesus of a very humble

705
00:29:15,030 --> 00:29:15,450
man.

706
00:29:18,550 --> 00:29:19,350
Man who.

707
00:29:22,180 --> 00:29:23,160
Put me at ease.

708
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:25,620
Not overawed me.

709
00:29:26,340 --> 00:29:27,960
With his sense of holiness.

710
00:29:29,060 --> 00:29:30,940
He was the holiest man that walked on

711
00:29:30,940 --> 00:29:31,120
earth.

712
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:33,460
But that's not.

713
00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:36,080
What he would overawed me with.

714
00:29:37,740 --> 00:29:38,480
He would.

715
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:40,340
Make me feel as if.

716
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:41,980
I were his equal.

717
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,600
Even though I would be a million miles

718
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:46,180
beneath him.

719
00:29:47,660 --> 00:29:49,120
It'd make me feel at ease.

720
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:51,780
And not.

721
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,780
Uncomfortable with his holiness.

722
00:29:56,910 --> 00:29:57,110
And.

723
00:29:58,010 --> 00:29:58,670
If I'm not.

724
00:29:59,610 --> 00:30:01,890
Like that to other sinners around me.

725
00:30:02,830 --> 00:30:04,310
I'm not reflecting Jesus correctly.

726
00:30:06,510 --> 00:30:07,750
This is.

727
00:30:07,970 --> 00:30:09,550
The wrong Christ.

728
00:30:09,830 --> 00:30:11,330
That many sinners are rejecting.

729
00:30:11,930 --> 00:30:12,230
You know.

730
00:30:13,410 --> 00:30:14,650
Logically speaking.

731
00:30:15,370 --> 00:30:16,270
A sinner.

732
00:30:17,130 --> 00:30:18,950
Should feel more comfortable.

733
00:30:20,270 --> 00:30:21,470
With another sinner.

734
00:30:22,450 --> 00:30:23,590
Not with a holy man.

735
00:30:26,730 --> 00:30:28,430
I mean it's like a person who's filthy.

736
00:30:29,490 --> 00:30:29,870
Will.

737
00:30:30,230 --> 00:30:31,930
Feel comfortable with another filthy man.

738
00:30:32,750 --> 00:30:34,390
You feel very uncomfortable and awkward.

739
00:30:34,410 --> 00:30:35,750
If he sits next to a very.

740
00:30:36,370 --> 00:30:36,930
Clean.

741
00:30:38,850 --> 00:30:39,050
Person.

742
00:30:40,470 --> 00:30:41,470
Strictly speaking.

743
00:30:41,930 --> 00:30:42,850
The sinners.

744
00:30:43,110 --> 00:30:44,390
The sinner should feel.

745
00:30:45,030 --> 00:30:46,430
Uncomfortable with a holy man.

746
00:30:46,530 --> 00:30:47,850
And that's how they did feel with the

747
00:30:47,850 --> 00:30:48,530
Pharisees.

748
00:30:48,690 --> 00:30:50,050
The sinner came near a Pharisee.

749
00:30:50,350 --> 00:30:52,050
A prostitute came near a Pharisee.

750
00:30:52,150 --> 00:30:54,270
She'd feel so terribly unworthy.

751
00:30:55,190 --> 00:30:56,730
But he felt so comfortable with Jesus.

752
00:30:57,830 --> 00:30:58,470
How is that?

753
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:01,560
Even though he.

754
00:31:01,700 --> 00:31:02,860
He had real holiness.

755
00:31:03,260 --> 00:31:06,280
His holiness was a blazing holiness of God.

756
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,260
This filthy sinners.

757
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:10,500
Felt comfortable with him.

758
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,660
That is the holiness of God.

759
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:15,560
And if you haven't seen it.

760
00:31:15,660 --> 00:31:16,540
We have really missed something.

761
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,860
The holiness of God.

762
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:21,980
Is perfect love.

763
00:31:23,540 --> 00:31:24,580
It's a love.

764
00:31:25,260 --> 00:31:27,500
Which never makes another person feel.

765
00:31:27,620 --> 00:31:28,220
Awkward.

766
00:31:29,340 --> 00:31:30,320
Or inferior.

767
00:31:31,180 --> 00:31:32,180
Or small.

768
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,540
Or overawes them with.

769
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:36,220
A sense of what a.

770
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,360
Pure holy person I am.

771
00:31:38,460 --> 00:31:39,000
I may be.

772
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:41,560
But I don't overawe him with that.

773
00:31:42,740 --> 00:31:44,120
I make him feel at ease.

774
00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:45,280
I want to.

775
00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:46,340
It's a holiness.

776
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:47,680
The real holiness of God.

777
00:31:47,740 --> 00:31:49,420
Is something that gets underneath someone.

778
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,000
And lifts them up.

779
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:52,920
Right up into the presence of God.

780
00:31:53,460 --> 00:31:54,660
That's how Jesus came.

781
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,260
That's the Jesus we need to reflect.

782
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,260
The society around us.

783
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:01,600
And.

784
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,140
We may not be reflecting that.

785
00:32:07,780 --> 00:32:08,080
And then.

786
00:32:08,620 --> 00:32:09,720
We say all these.

787
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:12,520
People they don't have any love for righteousness.

788
00:32:14,020 --> 00:32:14,440
Well.

789
00:32:15,380 --> 00:32:16,940
They may be turning away from the Christ.

790
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:17,840
They see in us.

791
00:32:19,790 --> 00:32:21,130
Now that's what the Pharisees said.

792
00:32:21,330 --> 00:32:22,690
Those people who don't know the law.

793
00:32:22,810 --> 00:32:23,830
They are condemned.

794
00:32:26,060 --> 00:32:28,280
But Jesus went underneath them and saved them.

795
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:29,960
Lifted them up.

796
00:32:30,700 --> 00:32:32,460
The only thing he required from people.

797
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:33,080
Was honesty.

798
00:32:35,110 --> 00:32:35,870
And if we were honest.

799
00:32:35,990 --> 00:32:36,770
If we are honest.

800
00:32:41,910 --> 00:32:43,410
There are types of lusting in us.

801
00:32:44,350 --> 00:32:45,450
And if you are saved from it.

802
00:32:45,510 --> 00:32:46,650
I'm not saying we got to live like

803
00:32:46,650 --> 00:32:46,910
that.

804
00:32:47,850 --> 00:32:49,430
The spirit has come to save us from

805
00:32:49,430 --> 00:32:49,610
it.

806
00:32:50,530 --> 00:32:52,750
But it doesn't make us superior to that

807
00:32:52,750 --> 00:32:53,350
other person.

808
00:32:56,930 --> 00:32:58,130
Paul says what have you got.

809
00:32:58,570 --> 00:32:59,570
That you didn't receive.

810
00:33:00,650 --> 00:33:02,450
Is there a single thing in your life.

811
00:33:03,450 --> 00:33:04,250
That you didn't receive.

812
00:33:05,950 --> 00:33:07,930
You know we can never be proud of

813
00:33:07,930 --> 00:33:08,230
what.

814
00:33:08,470 --> 00:33:09,670
We didn't manufacture.

815
00:33:10,410 --> 00:33:11,250
If your holiness.

816
00:33:12,470 --> 00:33:14,550
Is something you manufactured yourself with.

817
00:33:14,690 --> 00:33:15,630
Gritting your teeth.

818
00:33:15,850 --> 00:33:16,950
And denying yourself.

819
00:33:17,370 --> 00:33:20,570
And reading the Bible every day for one

820
00:33:20,570 --> 00:33:20,790
hour.

821
00:33:20,890 --> 00:33:21,230
Etc.

822
00:33:21,290 --> 00:33:21,610
etc.

823
00:33:21,710 --> 00:33:22,010
etc.

824
00:33:23,150 --> 00:33:24,310
Well you'll be proud of it.

825
00:33:25,870 --> 00:33:27,730
But if it was something imparted by the

826
00:33:27,730 --> 00:33:28,210
Holy Spirit.

827
00:33:28,250 --> 00:33:28,950
As a free gift.

828
00:33:29,590 --> 00:33:30,830
You can never be proud of it.

829
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:34,760
I feel that.

830
00:33:35,580 --> 00:33:37,180
I believe in victory over sin.

831
00:33:38,220 --> 00:33:39,680
I preached it for twenty years.

832
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,440
And been rejected by Christians in India.

833
00:33:42,460 --> 00:33:43,300
Because I preached it.

834
00:33:43,340 --> 00:33:44,440
And I continue to preach it.

835
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:45,740
Because God's word says.

836
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:48,060
Sin shall not have dominion over you.

837
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,360
No sin need ever have dominion over us.

838
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:53,560
I need not be a slave to anger.

839
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:55,920
I need not be a slave to the

840
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:56,940
lust of my eyes.

841
00:33:57,100 --> 00:33:58,760
Or the jealousy or bitterness.

842
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,580
Not even a single day of my life.

843
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,600
I need never raise my voice at my

844
00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:04,840
wife.

845
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,300
365 days of the year.

846
00:34:07,219 --> 00:34:08,360
That's the Christian life.

847
00:34:09,699 --> 00:34:11,000
That's God's will for me.

848
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:12,659
But.

849
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,540
I don't have to make other people feel

850
00:34:15,540 --> 00:34:16,179
uncomfortable.

851
00:34:17,060 --> 00:34:17,820
When they are defeated.

852
00:34:21,050 --> 00:34:21,850
God divides.

853
00:34:21,929 --> 00:34:24,050
We think God divides people according to holy

854
00:34:24,050 --> 00:34:24,690
and unholy.

855
00:34:25,770 --> 00:34:27,929
I think God divides people according to honest

856
00:34:27,929 --> 00:34:28,670
and dishonest.

857
00:34:30,370 --> 00:34:32,270
When Jesus said about Nathaniel.

858
00:34:33,250 --> 00:34:34,550
There is a man in whom there is

859
00:34:34,550 --> 00:34:35,330
no dishonesty.

860
00:34:36,389 --> 00:34:37,469
There is a man in whom there is

861
00:34:37,469 --> 00:34:38,250
no pretence.

862
00:34:39,110 --> 00:34:40,230
There is a man in whom there is

863
00:34:40,230 --> 00:34:40,810
no guile.

864
00:34:42,090 --> 00:34:43,270
For many years I've said.

865
00:34:43,330 --> 00:34:44,710
Lord if you can say that about me.

866
00:34:44,929 --> 00:34:45,350
I'll be happy.

867
00:34:46,449 --> 00:34:48,010
There is a man in whom there is

868
00:34:48,010 --> 00:34:48,810
no pretence.

869
00:34:49,409 --> 00:34:50,070
He is genuine.

870
00:34:50,790 --> 00:34:51,449
He is real.

871
00:34:53,290 --> 00:34:53,690
You know.

872
00:34:54,010 --> 00:34:55,510
We can't be holy overnight.

873
00:34:56,310 --> 00:34:57,810
We can't be perfect in love.

874
00:34:58,290 --> 00:34:59,230
It takes many years.

875
00:34:59,870 --> 00:35:02,350
And people who have been defeated by anger

876
00:35:02,350 --> 00:35:03,030
for many years.

877
00:35:03,130 --> 00:35:04,470
It may take many years for them to

878
00:35:04,470 --> 00:35:05,030
get out of it.

879
00:35:06,750 --> 00:35:09,550
People who have indulged in dirty thoughts.

880
00:35:09,630 --> 00:35:10,790
It may take a long time for them

881
00:35:10,790 --> 00:35:11,930
to be totally free from it.

882
00:35:11,930 --> 00:35:13,590
But there is one thing all of us

883
00:35:13,590 --> 00:35:15,510
can be honest from day one.

884
00:35:17,430 --> 00:35:18,530
That all of us can be.

885
00:35:18,570 --> 00:35:19,130
That's honest.

886
00:35:19,510 --> 00:35:22,170
We can be honest right from day one.

887
00:35:22,810 --> 00:35:23,530
Because that's easy.

888
00:35:23,810 --> 00:35:24,510
Anyone can be honest.

889
00:35:24,590 --> 00:35:25,690
A prostitute can be honest.

890
00:35:26,130 --> 00:35:27,130
A thief can be honest.

891
00:35:29,590 --> 00:35:31,430
That's what Paul was in Romans 7.

892
00:35:31,530 --> 00:35:33,110
And that's one of the most difficult things

893
00:35:33,110 --> 00:35:33,490
to be.

894
00:35:36,770 --> 00:35:38,810
And that's what makes us.

895
00:35:39,790 --> 00:35:40,750
Not spiritual.

896
00:35:41,650 --> 00:35:42,610
But religious.

897
00:35:42,610 --> 00:35:45,910
And I see that Jesus.

898
00:35:46,330 --> 00:35:47,470
In his earthly life.

899
00:35:48,750 --> 00:35:51,230
He was in a constant battle.

900
00:35:51,990 --> 00:35:53,050
With religious people.

901
00:35:53,730 --> 00:35:54,890
You know he was never battling.

902
00:35:55,750 --> 00:35:58,110
Sinners and thieves and murderers.

903
00:35:58,250 --> 00:35:59,250
And condemning them.

904
00:35:59,350 --> 00:36:02,290
I never see him taking a campaign against.

905
00:36:02,750 --> 00:36:04,230
Adulterers and murderers and.

906
00:36:04,890 --> 00:36:06,490
Everything I see in the gospels.

907
00:36:06,630 --> 00:36:08,830
Is this conflict with these so called holy

908
00:36:08,830 --> 00:36:09,290
people.

909
00:36:10,630 --> 00:36:11,950
Religious people who.

910
00:36:12,250 --> 00:36:13,970
Were always in the synagogues.

911
00:36:13,990 --> 00:36:16,210
Praying, fasting, tithing.

912
00:36:16,830 --> 00:36:17,910
Doing so many things.

913
00:36:18,470 --> 00:36:19,630
And the biggest hypocrites.

914
00:36:19,910 --> 00:36:20,610
In the land.

915
00:36:22,010 --> 00:36:24,130
He was in constant conflict with them.

916
00:36:25,890 --> 00:36:27,630
And I believe that if Jesus were.

917
00:36:27,750 --> 00:36:29,410
He's the same yesterday, today and forever.

918
00:36:30,730 --> 00:36:32,170
And if he were to come into our

919
00:36:32,170 --> 00:36:32,690
churches.

920
00:36:33,990 --> 00:36:35,890
His conflict would not be.

921
00:36:36,430 --> 00:36:38,290
With those people we dub as sinners.

922
00:36:39,030 --> 00:36:40,210
Who are externally sinful.

923
00:36:41,270 --> 00:36:41,950
And acknowledge it.

924
00:36:41,990 --> 00:36:43,030
Don't pretend to be holy.

925
00:36:43,030 --> 00:36:43,690
Not with them.

926
00:36:44,450 --> 00:36:46,070
His conflict would be with people.

927
00:36:46,250 --> 00:36:47,830
Who pretend to be holy and are not.

928
00:36:50,210 --> 00:36:52,470
People who claim to be following him.

929
00:36:53,210 --> 00:36:54,570
And who are not free from the love

930
00:36:54,570 --> 00:36:54,950
of money.

931
00:36:55,090 --> 00:36:56,370
But pretend to be free from it.

932
00:36:58,770 --> 00:36:59,930
The first sin.

933
00:37:00,670 --> 00:37:02,750
That we read of as judged in the

934
00:37:02,750 --> 00:37:03,490
early church.

935
00:37:04,110 --> 00:37:05,030
Was not murder.

936
00:37:05,650 --> 00:37:06,530
Not adultery.

937
00:37:06,770 --> 00:37:07,430
Not theft.

938
00:37:08,990 --> 00:37:09,790
It wasn't telling.

939
00:37:10,670 --> 00:37:12,530
It wasn't bearing false witness.

940
00:37:13,370 --> 00:37:15,390
The first sin that we read of as

941
00:37:15,390 --> 00:37:16,450
judged in the early church.

942
00:37:16,610 --> 00:37:17,530
Was the sin of pretense.

943
00:37:20,370 --> 00:37:20,850
Hypocrisy.

944
00:37:21,050 --> 00:37:22,230
In Ananias and Sapphira.

945
00:37:24,410 --> 00:37:26,710
And when we read that in Acts chapter

946
00:37:26,710 --> 00:37:27,110
5.

947
00:37:28,610 --> 00:37:30,670
We see that they sinned.

948
00:37:30,710 --> 00:37:31,870
Without even opening their mouth.

949
00:37:33,970 --> 00:37:35,690
You know that Ananias never said anything.

950
00:37:36,870 --> 00:37:38,250
It says there that all the.

951
00:37:38,890 --> 00:37:40,570
People were coming and laying there.

952
00:37:40,710 --> 00:37:42,590
Selling their property and taking the money.

953
00:37:42,590 --> 00:37:44,630
And laying it at the apostles feet.

954
00:37:46,410 --> 00:37:48,450
And all that Ananias did.

955
00:37:49,830 --> 00:37:50,970
Was stand in the queue.

956
00:37:52,450 --> 00:37:54,230
And along with all the others.

957
00:37:55,230 --> 00:37:56,390
Quietly leave his money.

958
00:37:57,130 --> 00:37:58,470
At the apostles feet.

959
00:37:58,970 --> 00:37:59,830
Nobody said a word.

960
00:38:00,270 --> 00:38:01,890
Different people came put their money and went

961
00:38:01,890 --> 00:38:02,130
on.

962
00:38:02,490 --> 00:38:03,710
And the next person came put his money

963
00:38:03,710 --> 00:38:04,250
and went on.

964
00:38:04,910 --> 00:38:05,930
And Peter was standing there.

965
00:38:06,390 --> 00:38:07,530
They were coming and laying the money there.

966
00:38:09,210 --> 00:38:11,590
And Ananias just laid the money there and

967
00:38:11,590 --> 00:38:12,030
moved on.

968
00:38:12,030 --> 00:38:13,650
And as he moved on Peter said come

969
00:38:13,650 --> 00:38:13,870
here.

970
00:38:15,490 --> 00:38:17,350
Those apostles had discernment.

971
00:38:18,910 --> 00:38:20,810
They could see through these humbugs.

972
00:38:21,990 --> 00:38:23,190
They were spirit filled men.

973
00:38:26,210 --> 00:38:27,410
And he said to Ananias.

974
00:38:28,690 --> 00:38:30,590
Why have you told a lie to God?

975
00:38:31,970 --> 00:38:33,150
He hadn't opened his mouth.

976
00:38:35,270 --> 00:38:37,150
That's the first sin we read of.

977
00:38:38,090 --> 00:38:39,710
Judged in the early church.

978
00:38:39,850 --> 00:38:40,950
Judged with death.

979
00:38:42,270 --> 00:38:43,630
It was a very serious punishment.

980
00:38:44,730 --> 00:38:45,630
For what?

981
00:38:46,570 --> 00:38:48,250
For telling a lie in the church.

982
00:38:48,670 --> 00:38:49,770
Without opening your mouth.

983
00:38:52,090 --> 00:38:52,670
What was that?

984
00:38:52,810 --> 00:38:53,270
Pretending.

985
00:38:54,570 --> 00:38:56,070
You see everybody was giving.

986
00:38:56,510 --> 00:38:59,510
All that they had sold their land for.

987
00:39:00,210 --> 00:39:01,110
That was understood.

988
00:39:02,610 --> 00:39:04,170
And all that Ananias did.

989
00:39:04,590 --> 00:39:06,550
Was pretend that he was giving everything.

990
00:39:07,490 --> 00:39:08,750
And God didn't want his money.

991
00:39:09,670 --> 00:39:11,530
God owns the cattle on a thousand hills.

992
00:39:11,610 --> 00:39:12,810
He doesn't want anybody's money.

993
00:39:15,110 --> 00:39:16,270
And Peter said to him.

994
00:39:16,630 --> 00:39:18,050
He said do you know Ananias.

995
00:39:18,370 --> 00:39:20,330
Before you sold the land it was yours.

996
00:39:21,030 --> 00:39:22,230
Nobody asked you to sell it.

997
00:39:22,910 --> 00:39:24,030
There is no commandment which says.

998
00:39:24,130 --> 00:39:25,490
Thou shall sell all thy land and give

999
00:39:25,490 --> 00:39:26,490
thy money to God's work.

1000
00:39:26,890 --> 00:39:27,890
No such commandment.

1001
00:39:29,290 --> 00:39:30,890
After you sold it the money was still

1002
00:39:30,890 --> 00:39:31,330
yours.

1003
00:39:32,330 --> 00:39:33,070
You could have kept it.

1004
00:39:33,690 --> 00:39:35,190
There is no commandment which says.

1005
00:39:35,810 --> 00:39:37,170
Because everybody is doing something.

1006
00:39:37,270 --> 00:39:38,370
You also must do something.

1007
00:39:38,610 --> 00:39:39,130
The same thing.

1008
00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:39,410
No.

1009
00:39:40,310 --> 00:39:41,630
After you sold the land you could have

1010
00:39:41,630 --> 00:39:42,170
still decided.

1011
00:39:42,710 --> 00:39:44,110
To keep it and when you came in

1012
00:39:44,110 --> 00:39:44,390
the queue.

1013
00:39:44,490 --> 00:39:45,750
All you had to say was.

1014
00:39:47,010 --> 00:39:47,770
Well Peter.

1015
00:39:48,030 --> 00:39:49,830
The others were giving a hundred percent.

1016
00:39:50,030 --> 00:39:51,370
My wife and I didn't feel.

1017
00:39:51,810 --> 00:39:52,930
We could give a hundred percent.

1018
00:39:53,110 --> 00:39:54,350
We just want to give fifty percent.

1019
00:39:56,910 --> 00:39:57,890
He would have been alive.

1020
00:39:58,770 --> 00:39:59,810
He could have gone home peacefully.

1021
00:40:01,150 --> 00:40:02,870
But it's because he kept his mouth shut.

1022
00:40:04,350 --> 00:40:05,110
That he died.

1023
00:40:08,460 --> 00:40:09,660
That's a warning to us.

1024
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:15,380
I believe that the problem was.

1025
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,380
That Ananias and Sapphira were in such a

1026
00:40:17,380 --> 00:40:18,600
powerful church.

1027
00:40:20,140 --> 00:40:21,440
You know it depends on which church you

1028
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:21,660
are in.

1029
00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:25,580
If you are a hypocrite.

1030
00:40:26,260 --> 00:40:27,680
In a church full of hypocrites.

1031
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:28,500
You are probably safe.

1032
00:40:30,750 --> 00:40:31,770
God will leave you alone.

1033
00:40:32,890 --> 00:40:34,350
I think if Ananias were in a church

1034
00:40:34,350 --> 00:40:35,250
like the church in Corinth.

1035
00:40:35,350 --> 00:40:36,550
He would probably have been an elder there.

1036
00:40:37,350 --> 00:40:38,530
I mean after all how many people give

1037
00:40:38,530 --> 00:40:39,830
fifty percent of their money to God.

1038
00:40:41,410 --> 00:40:42,930
The problem was he was in the church

1039
00:40:42,930 --> 00:40:43,390
in Jerusalem.

1040
00:40:44,710 --> 00:40:46,810
Which is a church on fire for God.

1041
00:40:48,970 --> 00:40:50,250
In the midst of revival.

1042
00:40:51,850 --> 00:40:52,830
And he was pretending.

1043
00:40:54,330 --> 00:40:55,550
That's why he was judged.

1044
00:40:58,080 --> 00:40:59,240
For dishonesty.

1045
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,080
For pretense.

1046
00:41:05,610 --> 00:41:06,310
And I see that.

1047
00:41:06,590 --> 00:41:07,710
Like we said in the case of the

1048
00:41:07,710 --> 00:41:08,430
Apostle Paul.

1049
00:41:09,450 --> 00:41:10,750
It was his honesty.

1050
00:41:10,910 --> 00:41:12,630
His honest acknowledgement of his need.

1051
00:41:13,290 --> 00:41:15,090
That enabled God to lead him.

1052
00:41:15,490 --> 00:41:16,450
Into the new covenant.

1053
00:41:17,370 --> 00:41:19,270
Where that which David longed for.

1054
00:41:19,390 --> 00:41:21,670
Reality in the innermost being.

1055
00:41:22,590 --> 00:41:23,690
Could be fulfilled.

1056
00:41:24,350 --> 00:41:25,750
I want to turn to Romans chapter eight

1057
00:41:25,750 --> 00:41:26,050
again.

1058
00:41:26,970 --> 00:41:28,570
Where we read.

1059
00:41:29,830 --> 00:41:31,030
What Paul says.

1060
00:41:31,170 --> 00:41:32,670
When the law of the spirit began to

1061
00:41:32,670 --> 00:41:33,650
operate in his life.

1062
00:41:33,750 --> 00:41:34,910
Life in Christ Jesus.

1063
00:41:35,530 --> 00:41:36,850
What the law could not do.

1064
00:41:37,110 --> 00:41:37,790
God did.

1065
00:41:39,490 --> 00:41:40,330
And then he says.

1066
00:41:40,810 --> 00:41:41,810
In order that.

1067
00:41:41,930 --> 00:41:42,670
Romans eight four.

1068
00:41:42,770 --> 00:41:44,350
This is the whole purpose and the goal.

1069
00:41:45,550 --> 00:41:47,470
That the requirement of the law.

1070
00:41:47,770 --> 00:41:49,270
Now what is the requirement of the law

1071
00:41:49,270 --> 00:41:50,210
he was talking about.

1072
00:41:50,710 --> 00:41:52,130
Which the law could not do in verse

1073
00:41:52,130 --> 00:41:52,450
three.

1074
00:41:53,130 --> 00:41:53,910
That was.

1075
00:41:56,450 --> 00:41:58,550
Deliverance from every type of lusting.

1076
00:42:01,130 --> 00:42:01,770
You know.

1077
00:42:02,150 --> 00:42:04,490
We can think of dirty lusts.

1078
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:08,440
But there are other lusts.

1079
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,440
Which are clean lusts.

1080
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:12,020
You know when.

1081
00:42:12,860 --> 00:42:14,880
Like the good sheep of King Saul.

1082
00:42:15,060 --> 00:42:16,220
Which he of Amalek.

1083
00:42:16,340 --> 00:42:17,560
Which King Saul never killed.

1084
00:42:19,820 --> 00:42:20,260
Amalek.

1085
00:42:20,420 --> 00:42:21,640
Which is a picture of the flesh.

1086
00:42:22,300 --> 00:42:24,020
Has got bad sheep and good sheep.

1087
00:42:25,740 --> 00:42:26,560
And of course.

1088
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:27,960
Everybody would kill the bad sheep.

1089
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:29,260
But like King Saul.

1090
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:30,880
We don't identify these good sheep.

1091
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:33,800
I'll give you one example.

1092
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:36,140
The lust for.

1093
00:42:37,380 --> 00:42:38,680
The honor of men.

1094
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:41,380
Does that look like a dirty lust.

1095
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:43,420
You know to.

1096
00:42:44,380 --> 00:42:47,040
Perhaps preach in a way that impresses people.

1097
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:49,980
I remember in my younger days.

1098
00:42:51,180 --> 00:42:52,580
I began preaching.

1099
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:54,860
Thirty five years ago.

1100
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:58,220
Of course we are young and.

1101
00:42:58,680 --> 00:42:59,580
We want to make an impression.

1102
00:43:01,580 --> 00:43:03,480
And the Lord asked me a question.

1103
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:06,640
You want to impress people.

1104
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:07,460
Or you want to help them.

1105
00:43:09,470 --> 00:43:10,710
I said Lord I want to help them.

1106
00:43:11,650 --> 00:43:13,410
And he said stop trying to impress them.

1107
00:43:14,830 --> 00:43:15,330
I said ok.

1108
00:43:18,790 --> 00:43:19,490
It's a lust.

1109
00:43:20,890 --> 00:43:21,650
It's one of those.

1110
00:43:22,090 --> 00:43:23,330
All types of lusting.

1111
00:43:23,450 --> 00:43:25,110
One of those is this lust to.

1112
00:43:26,370 --> 00:43:26,850
Impress.

1113
00:43:27,650 --> 00:43:28,710
To get honor.

1114
00:43:29,430 --> 00:43:30,610
To please people.

1115
00:43:32,530 --> 00:43:33,890
To soften that.

1116
00:43:35,790 --> 00:43:37,590
Word so that it doesn't hurt that.

1117
00:43:37,870 --> 00:43:38,870
Friend of yours sitting there.

1118
00:43:41,410 --> 00:43:42,930
I remember about twenty five years ago.

1119
00:43:43,010 --> 00:43:44,550
Twenty six years ago when I was.

1120
00:43:45,350 --> 00:43:46,970
In Australia for a deeper life convention.

1121
00:43:48,490 --> 00:43:48,750
And.

1122
00:43:50,050 --> 00:43:51,190
I was praying in my room.

1123
00:43:52,350 --> 00:43:53,630
Before the first meeting.

1124
00:43:55,630 --> 00:43:57,450
And the Lord spoke to my heart.

1125
00:43:58,210 --> 00:43:58,730
And said.

1126
00:44:00,090 --> 00:44:01,710
You want to be invited here again.

1127
00:44:04,550 --> 00:44:05,130
I knew what.

1128
00:44:05,350 --> 00:44:06,150
What the Lord meant.

1129
00:44:06,830 --> 00:44:08,490
That means are you going to speak.

1130
00:44:08,630 --> 00:44:09,410
In such a way.

1131
00:44:11,590 --> 00:44:12,310
Please everybody.

1132
00:44:13,290 --> 00:44:14,230
So they call you again.

1133
00:44:16,730 --> 00:44:17,470
And I said no Lord.

1134
00:44:17,550 --> 00:44:18,250
I'm not bothered.

1135
00:44:18,850 --> 00:44:19,770
I want to speak the truth.

1136
00:44:21,590 --> 00:44:22,870
And it's only then the Lord permitted me

1137
00:44:22,870 --> 00:44:23,230
to go.

1138
00:44:23,790 --> 00:44:24,270
And speak.

1139
00:44:25,830 --> 00:44:27,070
And I found through the years.

1140
00:44:27,190 --> 00:44:28,670
I've had many experiences where.

1141
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:31,320
They've.

1142
00:44:32,740 --> 00:44:33,820
Stopped me in the middle of.

1143
00:44:35,260 --> 00:44:35,980
Special meetings.

1144
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:37,980
So we don't want to hear you anymore.

1145
00:44:42,740 --> 00:44:44,500
It's a temptation to seek honor.

1146
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:46,220
It's not one of those dirty lusts.

1147
00:44:46,420 --> 00:44:47,140
Like sexual.

1148
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:48,920
The dirty thoughts.

1149
00:44:49,300 --> 00:44:51,120
Or bitterness or jealousy.

1150
00:44:51,740 --> 00:44:53,440
It doesn't look so ugly.

1151
00:44:54,220 --> 00:44:55,740
When I sing a song.

1152
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:56,460
Or a solo.

1153
00:44:57,700 --> 00:44:59,540
Be more bothered what people think of my

1154
00:44:59,540 --> 00:44:59,920
voice.

1155
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,600
Than whether Jesus Christ is glorified.

1156
00:45:02,700 --> 00:45:03,940
When I preach to.

1157
00:45:04,260 --> 00:45:06,300
Be more bothered about what people think about

1158
00:45:06,300 --> 00:45:06,900
my message.

1159
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:08,960
Than whether they are drawn closer to God.

1160
00:45:10,740 --> 00:45:12,820
It can be in many many ways.

1161
00:45:15,260 --> 00:45:16,840
If I'm seeking the glory of God.

1162
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:17,720
And if I'm.

1163
00:45:19,260 --> 00:45:21,300
Ministering in the power which God gives.

1164
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:24,120
I can never seek my own honor.

1165
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:26,580
It's like the holiness I said earlier.

1166
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:28,000
You know if.

1167
00:45:28,820 --> 00:45:30,240
If the holiness I have.

1168
00:45:31,100 --> 00:45:32,180
Is something I made.

1169
00:45:32,340 --> 00:45:33,180
I'll be proud of it.

1170
00:45:33,740 --> 00:45:35,760
And that pride shows me I don't have

1171
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:36,100
victory.

1172
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:38,160
The way the Lord pictured this for me.

1173
00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:39,700
Many years ago was like this.

1174
00:45:41,660 --> 00:45:42,100
Anger.

1175
00:45:42,500 --> 00:45:44,240
The Bible says put away all anger.

1176
00:45:44,380 --> 00:45:45,720
Which means there must be no more anger

1177
00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:46,360
in my life.

1178
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:49,620
It's very clear in Ephesians 4.32. So

1179
00:45:49,620 --> 00:45:51,300
I must seek victory over all anger in

1180
00:45:51,300 --> 00:45:51,760
my life.

1181
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,220
But anger is a one.

1182
00:45:54,340 --> 00:45:56,000
Let's say a hundred foot pit.

1183
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:58,900
And here I am like all other men.

1184
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:00,400
Sunk in this pit.

1185
00:46:00,980 --> 00:46:02,180
One hundred feet deep.

1186
00:46:03,540 --> 00:46:05,200
And I'm one of those seeking for victory.

1187
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:07,720
And I seek for victory.

1188
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:09,200
And I managed to come out of it.

1189
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:12,120
And I fall into.

1190
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,280
Another one thousand foot pit.

1191
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:16,520
Called.

1192
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:18,100
Spiritual pride.

1193
00:46:19,500 --> 00:46:20,960
I'm proud of the fact that I've got

1194
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:22,160
victory over my anger.

1195
00:46:23,420 --> 00:46:25,280
I look down on that other fellow who's

1196
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:26,200
still losing his temper.

1197
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:28,280
What is that?

1198
00:46:28,360 --> 00:46:29,560
The Lord said that's not victory.

1199
00:46:30,340 --> 00:46:32,000
That's a worse defeat than you were in

1200
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:32,420
before.

1201
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:36,380
The Lord wants to give us victory.

1202
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:37,360
With humility.

1203
00:46:38,620 --> 00:46:40,700
A victory where you don't despise the other

1204
00:46:40,700 --> 00:46:41,120
person.

1205
00:46:41,140 --> 00:46:43,320
Who's still defeated by the very thing you

1206
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:44,120
got victory over.

1207
00:46:45,100 --> 00:46:46,920
The Lord wants to give us victory in

1208
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:47,500
such a way.

1209
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:49,980
That we're not going to show off.

1210
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,080
We're not going to make that other person

1211
00:46:52,080 --> 00:46:52,860
feel small.

1212
00:46:53,020 --> 00:46:54,640
Because he doesn't have the life I have.

1213
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:57,340
That's why people were drawn to Jesus.

1214
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:58,400
Sinners were drawn to Jesus.

1215
00:46:58,980 --> 00:47:00,200
He had genuine holiness.

1216
00:47:00,780 --> 00:47:05,040
Genuine holiness is always accompanied by humility.

1217
00:47:06,460 --> 00:47:09,740
False holiness can be identified by this one

1218
00:47:09,740 --> 00:47:10,300
mark.

1219
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:12,400
Pride.

1220
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:14,760
You can sense it.

1221
00:47:15,740 --> 00:47:18,960
The person makes you feel that you're inferior.

1222
00:47:21,290 --> 00:47:22,630
And then such a person has fallen to

1223
00:47:22,630 --> 00:47:23,630
a thousand foot pit.

1224
00:47:24,230 --> 00:47:25,630
That's not victory at all.

1225
00:47:26,630 --> 00:47:28,610
And we can say that such a victory

1226
00:47:28,610 --> 00:47:30,370
is something I've manufactured.

1227
00:47:31,110 --> 00:47:33,830
We had a brother in our church who

1228
00:47:33,830 --> 00:47:34,830
came from Hinduism.

1229
00:47:35,910 --> 00:47:37,670
And he said this one day in a

1230
00:47:37,670 --> 00:47:38,050
testimony.

1231
00:47:38,470 --> 00:47:40,110
He said, I got victory over anger long

1232
00:47:40,110 --> 00:47:41,550
before I became a Christian.

1233
00:47:42,450 --> 00:47:42,890
I did yoga.

1234
00:47:45,050 --> 00:47:47,630
And with that Buddhist type of self-control.

1235
00:47:49,010 --> 00:47:50,590
He never lost his temper.

1236
00:47:52,010 --> 00:47:53,810
We had a religious leader in India called

1237
00:47:53,810 --> 00:47:54,090
Buddha.

1238
00:47:54,350 --> 00:47:56,010
One thousand years before Christ.

1239
00:47:58,490 --> 00:48:01,670
He forsook all the wealth of this world.

1240
00:48:01,810 --> 00:48:03,150
And went and sat in a forest.

1241
00:48:04,530 --> 00:48:06,650
For meditation and all that.

1242
00:48:07,230 --> 00:48:09,970
One day somebody came and irritated him.

1243
00:48:10,190 --> 00:48:10,670
Terribly.

1244
00:48:11,750 --> 00:48:13,450
And he said to him, you've come ten

1245
00:48:13,450 --> 00:48:14,130
years too late.

1246
00:48:14,770 --> 00:48:15,990
You can't irritate me now.

1247
00:48:17,430 --> 00:48:19,410
You cannot irritate me.

1248
00:48:20,390 --> 00:48:22,370
I have victory over anger.

1249
00:48:23,490 --> 00:48:24,210
That's Buddha.

1250
00:48:25,890 --> 00:48:27,450
It's a thousand years before Christ.

1251
00:48:28,790 --> 00:48:29,910
And here was this Hindu person.

1252
00:48:31,130 --> 00:48:33,090
He had victory over it before he came

1253
00:48:33,090 --> 00:48:33,610
to the church.

1254
00:48:37,150 --> 00:48:38,050
It was on the outside.

1255
00:48:38,910 --> 00:48:40,890
It didn't solve the anger problem inside.

1256
00:48:40,890 --> 00:48:43,330
It was just putting the screw tight on

1257
00:48:43,330 --> 00:48:45,090
the bottle so it didn't come out.

1258
00:48:45,210 --> 00:48:45,610
That's all.

1259
00:48:47,410 --> 00:48:51,890
And yoga in Hinduism teaches people to really

1260
00:48:51,890 --> 00:48:55,050
screw that bottle tight that nothing comes out.

1261
00:48:56,550 --> 00:48:58,550
But it doesn't solve the anger problem inside.

1262
00:48:59,570 --> 00:49:01,890
The tenth commandment is still being disobeyed.

1263
00:49:02,950 --> 00:49:04,770
There's no reality in the innermost being.

1264
00:49:05,710 --> 00:49:07,510
But you look very holy on the outside.

1265
00:49:08,570 --> 00:49:10,130
And it's very easy for a Christian to

1266
00:49:10,130 --> 00:49:10,590
be a Buddhist.

1267
00:49:12,030 --> 00:49:13,310
A good Buddhist.

1268
00:49:14,250 --> 00:49:16,190
And think he's following Jesus Christ.

1269
00:49:17,450 --> 00:49:19,790
God desires truth in the innermost being.

1270
00:49:21,330 --> 00:49:22,410
And he gives it to those who are

1271
00:49:22,410 --> 00:49:22,770
honest.

1272
00:49:22,870 --> 00:49:26,350
Say, Lord, there's every type of lusting in

1273
00:49:26,350 --> 00:49:26,890
my heart.

1274
00:49:27,770 --> 00:49:28,890
There's a desire for honor.

1275
00:49:29,790 --> 00:49:31,210
Desire for the approval of men.

1276
00:49:32,470 --> 00:49:34,370
Seeking to please this person.

1277
00:49:35,150 --> 00:49:36,770
Thinking what will that person think of me.

1278
00:49:36,810 --> 00:49:37,430
It's a lust.

1279
00:49:37,430 --> 00:49:40,790
It's as dirty a lust as any other

1280
00:49:40,790 --> 00:49:42,050
filthy lust you can think of.

1281
00:49:44,710 --> 00:49:46,790
And when I have got a victory, like

1282
00:49:46,790 --> 00:49:49,150
I said, this type of victory over anger

1283
00:49:49,150 --> 00:49:49,850
or anything.

1284
00:49:51,070 --> 00:49:54,270
Yoga also teaches people to control and get

1285
00:49:54,270 --> 00:49:59,710
victory over dirty sexual actions and self-control.

1286
00:50:00,070 --> 00:50:02,070
It's one of the things that yoga in

1287
00:50:02,070 --> 00:50:02,870
Hinduism teaches.

1288
00:50:03,010 --> 00:50:03,930
But it's all on the outside.

1289
00:50:05,510 --> 00:50:08,910
But that type of victory can appear like

1290
00:50:08,910 --> 00:50:10,530
victory, but it's not victory at all.

1291
00:50:12,090 --> 00:50:13,710
It doesn't bring a man to rest.

1292
00:50:14,890 --> 00:50:16,030
He's always proud of it.

1293
00:50:16,150 --> 00:50:17,270
Always conscious of it.

1294
00:50:18,050 --> 00:50:19,990
And always makes other people aware of his

1295
00:50:19,990 --> 00:50:22,110
victory and makes them feel small compared to

1296
00:50:22,110 --> 00:50:22,490
himself.

1297
00:50:23,070 --> 00:50:23,810
It's a counterfeit.

1298
00:50:24,610 --> 00:50:25,550
It's not the real thing.

1299
00:50:28,250 --> 00:50:31,670
And I remember once looking at it like

1300
00:50:31,670 --> 00:50:31,970
this.

1301
00:50:32,030 --> 00:50:33,270
To use an illustration.

1302
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:38,880
I used to think, supposing there's a beautiful

1303
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,460
cake here being distributed after the service.

1304
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:43,020
A lovely cake.

1305
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:45,580
And I didn't make it.

1306
00:50:46,420 --> 00:50:48,200
But somebody else made it and brought it

1307
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,880
and everybody gets a taste of it and

1308
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,780
says, Boy, that's a wonderful cake.

1309
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:56,520
Wonderful cake.

1310
00:50:57,420 --> 00:50:59,140
I never even feel tempted to be proud

1311
00:50:59,140 --> 00:51:00,160
of it because I didn't make it.

1312
00:51:01,780 --> 00:51:03,300
But supposing I was the one who baked

1313
00:51:03,300 --> 00:51:03,540
it.

1314
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:07,420
And I hear different people saying, Boy, that

1315
00:51:07,420 --> 00:51:08,280
was a wonderful cake.

1316
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:11,500
Well, I'm certainly tempted to be proud then.

1317
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:13,340
So, what am I trying to say?

1318
00:51:14,660 --> 00:51:17,720
If you made it, you're tempted to be

1319
00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:18,220
proud of it.

1320
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,760
If you didn't make it, you're not even

1321
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:23,520
tempted to be proud even if a hundred

1322
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:24,980
people say that was a wonderful cake.

1323
00:51:26,580 --> 00:51:31,490
If you manufactured your holiness, you're proud of

1324
00:51:31,490 --> 00:51:34,310
it when people say, Boy, he's really a

1325
00:51:34,310 --> 00:51:34,850
humble brother.

1326
00:51:36,870 --> 00:51:38,570
Or, he's really so gracious.

1327
00:51:39,170 --> 00:51:39,930
So gentle.

1328
00:51:40,850 --> 00:51:41,490
So nice.

1329
00:51:43,550 --> 00:51:46,390
And you feel a little happy about it

1330
00:51:46,390 --> 00:51:47,030
because you made it.

1331
00:51:47,410 --> 00:51:48,070
You made the cake.

1332
00:51:48,210 --> 00:51:48,770
You baked it.

1333
00:51:49,250 --> 00:51:49,990
You manufactured it.

1334
00:51:50,070 --> 00:51:51,050
It's not God's at all.

1335
00:51:51,090 --> 00:51:51,610
It's a counterfeit.

1336
00:51:52,770 --> 00:51:54,770
If it was really from God.

1337
00:51:55,190 --> 00:51:56,910
If it was something God did in you

1338
00:51:56,910 --> 00:51:57,930
and you are aware.

1339
00:51:58,850 --> 00:52:00,350
Like Paul says, what have you got that

1340
00:52:00,350 --> 00:52:01,070
you did not receive?

1341
00:52:01,070 --> 00:52:02,850
It's something that God gave you.

1342
00:52:03,970 --> 00:52:06,310
The Bible says that we are to be

1343
00:52:06,310 --> 00:52:08,210
partakers of His holiness.

1344
00:52:08,950 --> 00:52:10,710
You read that verse in Hebrews chapter 12?

1345
00:52:10,990 --> 00:52:12,170
It's a beautiful verse.

1346
00:52:12,970 --> 00:52:14,450
It's not a holiness we manufacture.

1347
00:52:15,830 --> 00:52:19,290
Hebrews chapter 12, it says in verse 10

1348
00:52:19,290 --> 00:52:22,230
that we may partake of His holiness.

1349
00:52:25,230 --> 00:52:27,330
This is New Testament Christianity.

1350
00:52:28,110 --> 00:52:31,130
Where the Holy Spirit comes and gives me

1351
00:52:31,130 --> 00:52:31,990
the life of Jesus.

1352
00:52:31,990 --> 00:52:34,570
This is why it's necessary to be filled

1353
00:52:34,570 --> 00:52:35,450
with the Holy Spirit.

1354
00:52:36,410 --> 00:52:37,910
He's the one who's going to impart to

1355
00:52:37,910 --> 00:52:39,530
us this life.

1356
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:43,680
And when I recognize this is something I've

1357
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:44,540
received from Him.

1358
00:52:46,300 --> 00:52:48,880
It keeps me down on my face before

1359
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,640
God in gratitude.

1360
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,680
And if people appreciate it, they say, Lord,

1361
00:52:55,780 --> 00:52:56,160
it's yours.

1362
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:56,820
It's what you did.

1363
00:52:57,620 --> 00:52:58,760
I know what I am.

1364
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:03,680
And the other thing is, which I've discovered

1365
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:04,540
through the years.

1366
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,360
The closer we come to God.

1367
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,120
You know, when Paul wrote Romans 7.

1368
00:53:11,900 --> 00:53:14,180
He wrote that 30 years after he was

1369
00:53:14,180 --> 00:53:14,620
a believer.

1370
00:53:15,900 --> 00:53:18,620
The closer we come to God, we discover

1371
00:53:18,620 --> 00:53:23,850
things in our life which we never knew

1372
00:53:23,850 --> 00:53:25,590
earlier was sin.

1373
00:53:29,940 --> 00:53:32,860
I remember once in my life, many years

1374
00:53:32,860 --> 00:53:33,240
ago.

1375
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:39,360
I found a little difficulty with a brother

1376
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:40,620
in the church.

1377
00:53:40,860 --> 00:53:42,140
I mean, I didn't have any difficulty with

1378
00:53:42,140 --> 00:53:43,300
him, but he seemed to be a little

1379
00:53:43,300 --> 00:53:43,720
distant.

1380
00:53:45,100 --> 00:53:46,320
I was wondering why.

1381
00:53:48,100 --> 00:53:50,180
I began to rack my mind and said,

1382
00:53:50,240 --> 00:53:50,980
Lord, what did I do?

1383
00:53:51,020 --> 00:53:52,900
I can't remember a single thing I said

1384
00:53:52,900 --> 00:53:53,500
to hurt him.

1385
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:57,660
Or did to him that should have hurt

1386
00:53:57,660 --> 00:53:57,820
him.

1387
00:53:57,820 --> 00:53:59,740
I can't think of anything.

1388
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:02,560
Why has he become a little distant?

1389
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:06,000
And then the Lord showed me that there

1390
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:07,000
were two types of sins.

1391
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:10,640
There are sins that you can commit.

1392
00:54:11,700 --> 00:54:13,020
It says in 1 John 3.

1393
00:54:15,060 --> 00:54:17,440
The sin is the transgression of the law.

1394
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:19,620
That means the law says you shouldn't do

1395
00:54:19,620 --> 00:54:20,540
that and you do it.

1396
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:22,480
That's a sin.

1397
00:54:22,540 --> 00:54:23,820
That means a sin which you did.

1398
00:54:23,820 --> 00:54:26,440
For example, you speak a rude word or

1399
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:28,200
an angry word to a brother or to

1400
00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:28,640
a wife.

1401
00:54:28,900 --> 00:54:34,320
Or you act in a way that's bad.

1402
00:54:34,860 --> 00:54:36,120
That's a sin of commission.

1403
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,520
But the Bible also speaks of sins of

1404
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:41,240
omission.

1405
00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:44,020
In the last verse of James 4, it

1406
00:54:44,020 --> 00:54:45,880
says, If you know what's the right thing

1407
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:48,920
to do and you don't do it, that's

1408
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:49,520
also a sin.

1409
00:54:51,380 --> 00:54:53,200
And what the Lord showed me that time

1410
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:57,700
was that you needed to have a little

1411
00:54:57,700 --> 00:54:59,080
more fellowship with that brother.

1412
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:01,720
You needed to spend a little time with

1413
00:55:01,720 --> 00:55:04,260
him which you didn't do.

1414
00:55:05,100 --> 00:55:06,540
It was not a sin of commission.

1415
00:55:07,060 --> 00:55:07,880
I hadn't hurt him.

1416
00:55:07,980 --> 00:55:08,980
I hadn't said a word to him.

1417
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:10,480
I just ignored him.

1418
00:55:10,620 --> 00:55:10,880
That's all.

1419
00:55:11,940 --> 00:55:13,580
We don't think ignoring a person is a

1420
00:55:13,580 --> 00:55:13,680
sin.

1421
00:55:15,500 --> 00:55:16,700
It's like with our children.

1422
00:55:17,200 --> 00:55:18,960
I can get angry with my child and

1423
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:20,360
beat him and say, Oh, that's a sin.

1424
00:55:21,780 --> 00:55:23,360
But I may never think that if I

1425
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:27,890
don't encourage my little son, I never think

1426
00:55:27,890 --> 00:55:28,570
of that as a sin.

1427
00:55:30,230 --> 00:55:32,150
I don't speak a word of encouragement to

1428
00:55:32,150 --> 00:55:32,610
my wife.

1429
00:55:33,990 --> 00:55:35,230
I don't think of that as a sin.

1430
00:55:35,310 --> 00:55:36,750
If I speak rudely to her, of course,

1431
00:55:36,830 --> 00:55:37,330
that's a sin.

1432
00:55:38,230 --> 00:55:39,470
But if I don't speak a word of

1433
00:55:39,470 --> 00:55:39,970
encouragement.

1434
00:55:44,510 --> 00:55:48,870
There is a proverb which is used in

1435
00:55:48,870 --> 00:55:50,210
the military in India.

1436
00:55:51,650 --> 00:55:58,210
The more you sweat in peace, the less

1437
00:55:58,210 --> 00:56:00,690
you bleed in war.

1438
00:56:02,190 --> 00:56:04,350
The meaning of it is, if you work

1439
00:56:04,350 --> 00:56:09,840
hard in times of peacetime, it won't be

1440
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:11,400
so difficult when the battle comes.

1441
00:56:13,570 --> 00:56:14,610
And the way I apply it to this

1442
00:56:14,610 --> 00:56:19,810
situation is, it's in times of peace between

1443
00:56:19,810 --> 00:56:22,370
husband and wife that we need to build

1444
00:56:22,370 --> 00:56:22,810
fellowship.

1445
00:56:24,690 --> 00:56:28,190
When things are peaceful between brother and brother.

1446
00:56:29,610 --> 00:56:31,150
But that's the time we do nothing.

1447
00:56:32,310 --> 00:56:32,750
Chill.

1448
00:56:33,150 --> 00:56:33,790
Everything's okay.

1449
00:56:36,350 --> 00:56:38,330
And then attention comes.

1450
00:56:40,610 --> 00:56:41,490
And then we wonder why.

1451
00:56:42,790 --> 00:56:44,710
And we never related to the fact that

1452
00:56:44,710 --> 00:56:46,550
during the time of peace, we didn't sweat.

1453
00:56:47,050 --> 00:56:47,910
We didn't do any work.

1454
00:56:48,070 --> 00:56:49,550
We didn't try to build something.

1455
00:56:50,670 --> 00:56:51,670
And that's why this thing came.

1456
00:56:51,730 --> 00:56:52,770
And that's what the Lord showed me at

1457
00:56:52,770 --> 00:56:53,990
that time in relation to this brother.

1458
00:56:54,790 --> 00:56:56,490
That if you had taken a little time

1459
00:56:56,490 --> 00:56:58,330
to fellowship with him, perhaps this strain wouldn't

1460
00:56:58,330 --> 00:56:58,730
have come.

1461
00:56:59,630 --> 00:57:01,890
It could be in a married relationship.

1462
00:57:03,290 --> 00:57:05,310
The Bible says a woman's a weaker vessel.

1463
00:57:07,110 --> 00:57:08,970
And the Bible says a husband must live

1464
00:57:08,970 --> 00:57:11,110
in an understanding way with his wife.

1465
00:57:11,850 --> 00:57:12,590
What does that mean?

1466
00:57:13,430 --> 00:57:15,130
It doesn't mean just that I don't shout

1467
00:57:15,130 --> 00:57:16,130
at her or yell at her.

1468
00:57:16,430 --> 00:57:18,470
It also means that I recognize that she's

1469
00:57:18,470 --> 00:57:21,810
a weaker vessel and needs encouragement and lifting

1470
00:57:21,810 --> 00:57:22,650
up of her spirit.

1471
00:57:23,150 --> 00:57:24,990
And if I don't do that, it's a

1472
00:57:24,990 --> 00:57:25,870
sin of omission.

1473
00:57:27,030 --> 00:57:29,810
And when I don't do that, a little

1474
00:57:29,810 --> 00:57:31,450
later a strain comes and I wonder what

1475
00:57:31,450 --> 00:57:32,090
did I do now?

1476
00:57:32,850 --> 00:57:33,670
I never said anything.

1477
00:57:33,790 --> 00:57:34,670
Of course you didn't say anything.

1478
00:57:34,750 --> 00:57:35,290
That's the problem.

1479
00:57:35,390 --> 00:57:36,110
You never said anything.

1480
00:57:37,690 --> 00:57:39,370
You never said anything to encourage her.

1481
00:57:40,970 --> 00:57:42,110
You didn't lift up her spirit.

1482
00:57:42,270 --> 00:57:44,010
In the time of peace, you didn't sweat.

1483
00:57:44,610 --> 00:57:45,910
And so now in times of war, you

1484
00:57:45,910 --> 00:57:46,170
bleed.

1485
00:57:49,580 --> 00:57:52,020
When we come closer to the Lord, the

1486
00:57:52,020 --> 00:57:55,120
Lord begins to show us this various type

1487
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:56,920
of lusts in our...

1488
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:58,620
You know, why is it I don't take

1489
00:57:58,620 --> 00:57:59,800
time to fellowship with that brother?

1490
00:57:59,900 --> 00:58:01,180
Why is it I don't take time to

1491
00:58:01,180 --> 00:58:02,300
encourage this person?

1492
00:58:02,380 --> 00:58:05,260
Because there's a terrific lust in my inner

1493
00:58:05,260 --> 00:58:08,520
heart, in our flesh called selfishness.

1494
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:14,320
We think in terms of ourselves all the

1495
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:14,720
time.

1496
00:58:15,780 --> 00:58:17,700
And one of the things the Lord gives

1497
00:58:17,700 --> 00:58:19,360
us light on is that as we walk

1498
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:19,620
with Him.

1499
00:58:19,820 --> 00:58:21,300
I'm not saying this to condemn anyone.

1500
00:58:21,740 --> 00:58:23,720
There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus.

1501
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:25,680
And let me say this, my brothers and

1502
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:28,160
sisters, in the New Covenant, there is no

1503
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:28,780
condemnation.

1504
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:31,860
And if you're getting this as condemnation, you

1505
00:58:31,860 --> 00:58:32,760
got it in the wrong spirit.

1506
00:58:34,160 --> 00:58:36,940
I'm just trying to show you, I praise

1507
00:58:36,940 --> 00:58:38,860
God that I've been delivered from all condemnation.

1508
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:41,900
The Holy Spirit convicts me, but He always

1509
00:58:41,900 --> 00:58:42,940
shows me specifically.

1510
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:44,700
I find this is the big difference between

1511
00:58:44,700 --> 00:58:47,260
the devil speaking and the Holy Spirit speaking.

1512
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:49,780
The devil says, Oh, you're good for nothing.

1513
00:58:49,780 --> 00:58:50,480
You're useless.

1514
00:58:50,660 --> 00:58:51,520
You'll amount to nothing.

1515
00:58:51,900 --> 00:58:53,700
The way some foolish fathers tell their children,

1516
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:54,740
You'll amount to nothing.

1517
00:58:54,840 --> 00:58:55,260
You're useless.

1518
00:58:55,420 --> 00:58:56,000
You're good for nothing.

1519
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,140
But God never says like that.

1520
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:00,120
God never says to the worst sinner in

1521
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:01,360
the world, You're useless.

1522
00:59:01,500 --> 00:59:02,100
You're good for nothing.

1523
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:03,020
You'll amount to nothing.

1524
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:04,300
He never says that.

1525
00:59:05,620 --> 00:59:06,660
It's always the devil.

1526
00:59:07,740 --> 00:59:09,960
The Holy Spirit, when He speaks, is always

1527
00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:10,580
specific.

1528
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:14,080
Like a father will say to his son

1529
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:15,780
or daughter, You know, the way you spoke

1530
00:59:15,780 --> 00:59:16,840
to mummy, that wasn't right.

1531
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:18,180
That was a bit rude.

1532
00:59:19,780 --> 00:59:19,920
That was a bit rude to her.

1533
00:59:20,740 --> 00:59:23,960
That's specific, giving the person hope, how to

1534
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:25,920
set it right, and how to come out

1535
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:26,640
of that situation.

1536
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:28,380
That's how the Holy Spirit convicts.

1537
00:59:29,540 --> 00:59:31,820
And I praise the Lord for that, that

1538
00:59:31,820 --> 00:59:33,000
that's the way He speaks to me.

1539
00:59:34,280 --> 00:59:36,800
Not, Why didn't you encourage your wife for

1540
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:37,940
the last 20 years?

1541
00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:39,760
What can I do about that?

1542
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:45,960
But, another way, don't you think that's a

1543
00:59:45,960 --> 00:59:47,700
good thing you could start doing from tomorrow

1544
00:59:47,700 --> 00:59:47,980
onwards?

1545
00:59:47,980 --> 00:59:50,540
I say, Yes, Lord.

1546
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:52,100
I want to do that.

1547
00:59:52,820 --> 00:59:53,760
There's no condemnation.

1548
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:55,340
It gives me hope.

1549
00:59:55,580 --> 00:59:56,800
It gives me hope that I can have

1550
00:59:56,800 --> 00:59:58,460
a wonderful married life with my wife.

1551
00:59:59,220 --> 01:00:00,720
It gives me hope that I can build

1552
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:02,740
fellowship with that brother who is a bit

1553
01:00:02,740 --> 01:00:03,100
distant.

1554
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:11,180
You know, it's our pride that makes us,

1555
01:00:12,260 --> 01:00:17,400
that hinders us from humbling ourselves to seek

1556
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:18,860
fellowship with that person.

1557
01:00:21,060 --> 01:00:23,420
I say, Well, we're so big, if he

1558
01:00:23,420 --> 01:00:24,900
wants fellowship, let him come and seek it

1559
01:00:24,900 --> 01:00:25,300
with me.

1560
01:00:28,810 --> 01:00:33,750
You know, I've asked married couples in India,

1561
01:00:33,790 --> 01:00:35,570
we often have married couples meetings in India,

1562
01:00:36,910 --> 01:00:38,010
and I ask them this question.

1563
01:00:39,890 --> 01:00:44,250
I say, When there's a tension between husband

1564
01:00:44,250 --> 01:00:47,230
and wife, and the same principle applies to

1565
01:00:47,230 --> 01:00:48,630
a brother and brother, or sister and sister,

1566
01:00:49,850 --> 01:00:55,110
who should take the first step to restore

1567
01:00:55,110 --> 01:01:00,190
that fellowship and restore communication, and bridge the

1568
01:01:00,190 --> 01:01:03,550
gap, and come closer together?

1569
01:01:03,630 --> 01:01:04,550
Who should take the first step?

1570
01:01:04,550 --> 01:01:05,730
That's the important question.

1571
01:01:06,690 --> 01:01:08,090
Because very often, when a husband and wife

1572
01:01:08,090 --> 01:01:10,430
are in tension, they both realize they've done

1573
01:01:10,430 --> 01:01:11,970
something wrong, but each is waiting for the

1574
01:01:11,970 --> 01:01:14,130
other person to take the first step.

1575
01:01:14,890 --> 01:01:16,370
And when somebody takes the first step, the

1576
01:01:16,370 --> 01:01:17,910
other one is quick to say, Oh yeah,

1577
01:01:17,950 --> 01:01:18,570
I'm also sorry.

1578
01:01:19,330 --> 01:01:20,510
But the question is, who's going to take

1579
01:01:20,510 --> 01:01:21,030
the first step?

1580
01:01:22,150 --> 01:01:24,150
And I say, we have a wonderful example

1581
01:01:25,750 --> 01:01:26,550
in God.

1582
01:01:27,930 --> 01:01:31,810
When God had a problem with man, and

1583
01:01:31,810 --> 01:01:34,810
there was a distance and a gap, and

1584
01:01:34,810 --> 01:01:36,850
it had to be bridged, I say, who

1585
01:01:36,850 --> 01:01:37,590
took the first step?

1586
01:01:39,170 --> 01:01:39,570
Who?

1587
01:01:39,570 --> 01:01:39,970
God.

1588
01:01:40,870 --> 01:01:43,750
In other words, the one who was more

1589
01:01:43,750 --> 01:01:44,250
spiritual.

1590
01:01:44,250 --> 01:01:45,290
Okay?

1591
01:01:46,250 --> 01:01:47,110
You got the answer now?

1592
01:01:47,850 --> 01:01:50,330
Who should take the first step?

1593
01:01:51,130 --> 01:01:52,770
The one who is more spiritual.

1594
01:01:53,250 --> 01:01:55,230
And since husband and wife both think they

1595
01:01:55,230 --> 01:01:57,070
are more spiritual, they should be just running

1596
01:01:57,070 --> 01:01:57,790
towards each other.

1597
01:01:59,370 --> 01:02:00,550
Why isn't it so?

1598
01:02:03,910 --> 01:02:05,590
Are you really more spiritual?

1599
01:02:07,330 --> 01:02:08,890
And follow God's example.

1600
01:02:09,910 --> 01:02:10,750
Humble yourself.

1601
01:02:11,850 --> 01:02:13,050
Take the first step.

1602
01:02:14,730 --> 01:02:15,950
Say, Lord, I want to build fellowship.

1603
01:02:18,930 --> 01:02:20,710
Have I partaken of the life of Jesus?

1604
01:02:21,910 --> 01:02:23,810
This is what the Holy Spirit comes to

1605
01:02:23,810 --> 01:02:24,370
communicate.

1606
01:02:25,370 --> 01:02:29,450
My brothers and sisters, this is real holiness.

1607
01:02:30,830 --> 01:02:34,970
The primary characteristic of holiness is humility.

1608
01:02:36,350 --> 01:02:39,030
When people meet you, they must meet a

1609
01:02:39,030 --> 01:02:39,830
humble man.

1610
01:02:41,030 --> 01:02:43,850
One who doesn't overawe them with a sense

1611
01:02:43,850 --> 01:02:47,950
of holiness and righteousness, but one who gives

1612
01:02:47,950 --> 01:02:48,470
them hope.

1613
01:02:49,390 --> 01:02:51,030
One who is willing to be a servant,

1614
01:02:51,350 --> 01:02:53,530
not one who is a benefactor.

1615
01:02:53,810 --> 01:02:55,530
Jesus said, don't be benefactors.

1616
01:02:55,890 --> 01:02:57,130
Have you read that verse in Luke 22?

1617
01:02:57,790 --> 01:02:59,110
When he was sitting in the Last Supper

1618
01:02:59,110 --> 01:03:01,450
with his disciples, then he said, the Gentiles,

1619
01:03:01,530 --> 01:03:03,230
he said, he said the Gentiles are kings,

1620
01:03:03,790 --> 01:03:04,630
don't be like them.

1621
01:03:05,190 --> 01:03:07,050
But he also said in Luke 22, 25,

1622
01:03:07,370 --> 01:03:08,950
the Gentiles are benefactors.

1623
01:03:09,030 --> 01:03:10,150
You know who benefactors are?

1624
01:03:10,970 --> 01:03:12,850
Benefactors are people who do good to others.

1625
01:03:14,270 --> 01:03:16,650
But they do good in such a way,

1626
01:03:16,750 --> 01:03:19,350
they make that other fellow painfully conscious of

1627
01:03:19,350 --> 01:03:21,350
the fact that he is inferior.

1628
01:03:22,430 --> 01:03:24,770
And here is this great philanthropist who is

1629
01:03:24,770 --> 01:03:26,770
coming and doing good to him.

1630
01:03:27,890 --> 01:03:30,230
A lot of Christians doing good to poor

1631
01:03:30,230 --> 01:03:30,950
people like that.

1632
01:03:32,070 --> 01:03:33,250
I've seen it in my country.

1633
01:03:35,890 --> 01:03:38,910
Rich people from western lands, great benefactors, they

1634
01:03:38,910 --> 01:03:39,310
do good.

1635
01:03:39,690 --> 01:03:40,870
Hundreds and thousands of dollars.

1636
01:03:41,370 --> 01:03:42,770
But it's not in the spirit of Jesus.

1637
01:03:42,770 --> 01:03:46,230
It's not in the spirit where you make

1638
01:03:46,230 --> 01:03:48,670
that other person feel an important brother.

1639
01:03:50,070 --> 01:03:50,850
He's inferior.

1640
01:03:51,770 --> 01:03:52,670
He's poor.

1641
01:03:53,670 --> 01:03:54,370
I'm rich.

1642
01:03:55,170 --> 01:03:56,990
And here I am the great benefactor coming

1643
01:03:56,990 --> 01:03:59,130
in, doing all types of good things for

1644
01:03:59,130 --> 01:04:00,950
him, providing him with this and that and

1645
01:04:00,950 --> 01:04:02,590
the other thing to make his life comfortable.

1646
01:04:03,290 --> 01:04:05,230
And that poor slave looks up and says,

1647
01:04:05,310 --> 01:04:06,750
I'm very thankful for this benefactor.

1648
01:04:07,330 --> 01:04:08,490
It's not Christianity.

1649
01:04:09,510 --> 01:04:10,910
It never builds a brotherhood.

1650
01:04:12,070 --> 01:04:13,750
Jesus never came like that.

1651
01:04:15,630 --> 01:04:18,310
The first principle of all Christian service is

1652
01:04:19,610 --> 01:04:21,850
he was made in all things like his

1653
01:04:21,850 --> 01:04:22,190
brothers.

1654
01:04:23,350 --> 01:04:24,550
That's what it says about Jesus.

1655
01:04:25,390 --> 01:04:27,230
He was made exactly like us.

1656
01:04:28,410 --> 01:04:29,510
He came down to our level.

1657
01:04:29,610 --> 01:04:32,090
Like it says about Ezekiel, I sat where

1658
01:04:32,090 --> 01:04:32,630
they sat.

1659
01:04:34,070 --> 01:04:35,070
I was just like them.

1660
01:04:36,790 --> 01:04:40,210
It's only from that position that we can

1661
01:04:40,210 --> 01:04:44,310
manifest the holiness of Christ to a needy

1662
01:04:44,310 --> 01:04:46,950
world around us.

1663
01:04:48,230 --> 01:04:49,690
I want to encourage you as I encourage

1664
01:04:49,690 --> 01:04:50,110
myself.

1665
01:04:50,770 --> 01:04:52,350
I haven't preached to you, my brothers and

1666
01:04:52,350 --> 01:04:52,690
sisters.

1667
01:04:52,990 --> 01:04:55,390
Every word I said is as much for

1668
01:04:55,390 --> 01:04:56,890
myself as it is for you.

1669
01:04:57,770 --> 01:05:00,630
I stand before God and the word is

1670
01:05:00,630 --> 01:05:03,070
for me as much as it's for you.

1671
01:05:04,350 --> 01:05:08,110
We need to repent where we have turned

1672
01:05:08,110 --> 01:05:13,010
our children away by presenting to them self

1673
01:05:13,010 --> 01:05:18,950
-righteousness, Phariseeism, a holiness which is not coupled

1674
01:05:18,950 --> 01:05:20,590
with the humility of Jesus Christ.

1675
01:05:22,150 --> 01:05:24,030
We need to get on our faces before

1676
01:05:24,030 --> 01:05:25,770
God and say, Lord have mercy on me.

1677
01:05:27,930 --> 01:05:30,610
That unrepentant, unborn again child of mine has

1678
01:05:30,610 --> 01:05:31,510
not rejected you.

1679
01:05:32,510 --> 01:05:34,550
He's rejected the Christ he's seen in me.

1680
01:05:35,190 --> 01:05:35,670
Forgive me.

1681
01:05:36,930 --> 01:05:38,910
That neighbor of mine, the person who works

1682
01:05:38,910 --> 01:05:41,270
with me in the office, and that other

1683
01:05:41,270 --> 01:05:44,090
person has not rejected the Christ of God.

1684
01:05:44,210 --> 01:05:47,350
He's rejected the self-righteous Christ he's seen

1685
01:05:47,350 --> 01:05:47,730
in me.

1686
01:05:48,210 --> 01:05:48,670
Forgive me.

1687
01:05:50,350 --> 01:05:51,350
I want to repent.

1688
01:05:53,550 --> 01:05:56,750
I want the Holy Spirit to work in

1689
01:05:56,750 --> 01:05:59,970
me and make me really like Jesus and

1690
01:05:59,970 --> 01:06:01,190
not like the Pharisees.

1691
01:06:02,150 --> 01:06:03,770
Let's bow our heads before God.

1692
01:06:10,250 --> 01:06:14,830
The Bible says that when you look into

1693
01:06:14,830 --> 01:06:19,310
the mirror of His word, don't be a

1694
01:06:19,970 --> 01:06:20,290
hearer.

1695
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:24,780
For it's easy to be a forgetful hearer

1696
01:06:24,780 --> 01:06:30,220
who saw very clearly during the meeting what

1697
01:06:30,220 --> 01:06:32,400
the mirror of God's word showed us.

1698
01:06:33,700 --> 01:06:36,020
But we forget completely the moment we are

1699
01:06:36,020 --> 01:06:36,620
out of the door.

1700
01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:40,320
We need to pray that the Lord will

1701
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:42,060
do a permanent work in us.

1702
01:06:42,980 --> 01:06:46,080
Lord, I want you to do a thorough

1703
01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:48,140
work in me in this area.

1704
01:06:50,770 --> 01:06:52,830
Bring in my heart a deep sorrow and

1705
01:06:52,830 --> 01:06:58,870
a mourning for the self-righteous pharisaical Christianity

1706
01:06:58,870 --> 01:07:01,650
that I've manifested to others.

1707
01:07:02,110 --> 01:07:05,770
The honor-seeking, the lust for honor, for

1708
01:07:05,770 --> 01:07:11,690
position, for the approval of men, to please

1709
01:07:11,690 --> 01:07:12,250
men.

1710
01:07:13,090 --> 01:07:14,370
I want to repent of it.

1711
01:07:17,270 --> 01:07:20,290
The lies I've spoken without opening my mouth

1712
01:07:21,210 --> 01:07:24,570
by giving a wrong impression of a holiness

1713
01:07:24,570 --> 01:07:25,530
I don't have.

1714
01:07:26,370 --> 01:07:27,130
Forgive me.

1715
01:07:28,010 --> 01:07:28,710
Cleanse me.

1716
01:07:29,390 --> 01:07:32,550
The blood of Jesus cleanses from all sin

1717
01:07:33,290 --> 01:07:34,670
those who walk in the light.

1718
01:07:36,050 --> 01:07:39,210
There is no condemnation those who walk in

1719
01:07:39,210 --> 01:07:39,530
the light.

1720
01:07:40,250 --> 01:07:44,810
Heavenly Father, apply the truth to our hearts.

1721
01:07:47,250 --> 01:07:48,830
Everyone who is calling upon you, I want

1722
01:07:48,830 --> 01:07:50,830
to invite you, my brothers and sisters, respond

1723
01:07:50,830 --> 01:07:51,970
to God right now.

1724
01:07:53,130 --> 01:07:55,450
Open your heart right now.

1725
01:07:56,810 --> 01:08:00,790
And say, Lord, begin that work in me

1726
01:08:00,790 --> 01:08:01,570
right now.

1727
01:08:02,410 --> 01:08:05,750
I want reality in my innermost being.

1728
01:08:07,250 --> 01:08:08,710
I want reality.

1729
01:08:09,490 --> 01:08:12,030
I want the humility of Christ to be

1730
01:08:12,030 --> 01:08:14,690
the glory that people see in me first

1731
01:08:14,690 --> 01:08:15,189
of all.

1732
01:08:17,010 --> 01:08:23,210
Deliver me from counterfeit holiness, from external holiness.

1733
01:08:24,210 --> 01:08:26,590
Give me a reality in my innermost being.

1734
01:08:27,729 --> 01:08:29,470
Lord, you hear those who are crying to

1735
01:08:29,470 --> 01:08:30,210
you at this moment.

1736
01:08:31,370 --> 01:08:34,010
You see the hearts of people here.

1737
01:08:37,090 --> 01:08:39,470
The ears of the Lord are open to

1738
01:08:39,470 --> 01:08:41,029
the cry of the righteous.

1739
01:08:42,370 --> 01:08:44,310
The Lord is near the broken hearted.

1740
01:08:45,649 --> 01:08:47,569
And Lord, those who are broken hearted here

1741
01:08:47,569 --> 01:08:50,430
today, I believe you are near them right

1742
01:08:50,430 --> 01:08:50,770
now.

1743
01:08:51,689 --> 01:08:53,270
And I pray you'll give them an assurance

1744
01:08:54,090 --> 01:08:55,550
that you have heard their prayer.

1745
01:08:58,279 --> 01:08:59,479
We ask in Jesus' name.

1746
01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:00,880
Amen.