1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,280 Matthew chapter 6 tonight. 2 00:00:02,460 --> 00:00:04,840 We're just flying through this sermon here. 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:07,460 Already in chapter 6. 4 00:00:09,180 --> 00:00:11,480 Take heed that you do not do your 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,140 alms before men to be seen of them, 6 00:00:13,220 --> 00:00:15,120 otherwise you have your reward of your father 7 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:15,900 which is in heaven. 8 00:00:16,860 --> 00:00:19,300 Therefore, when thou doest thine alms, do not 9 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:21,420 sound a trumpet before thee as the hypocrites 10 00:00:21,420 --> 00:00:23,380 do in the synagogues and in the streets, 11 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,640 that they may have glory of men. 12 00:00:25,900 --> 00:00:27,520 Verily I say unto you, they have their 13 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:27,980 reward. 14 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:30,560 But when thou doest alms, let not thy 15 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:32,480 left hand know what thy right hand doeth, 16 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:34,740 that thine alms may be in secret. 17 00:00:35,060 --> 00:00:37,200 And thy father which seeth in secret himself 18 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:38,680 shall reward thee openly. 19 00:00:39,740 --> 00:00:41,620 Father, we want to thank you again for 20 00:00:41,620 --> 00:00:42,160 this sermon. 21 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:46,580 Lord, we just thank you how powerful it 22 00:00:46,580 --> 00:00:46,700 is. 23 00:00:46,820 --> 00:00:53,520 What a wonderful, practical, in-depth, Lord, message 24 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:56,340 this is on living and walking before you. 25 00:00:57,300 --> 00:01:00,200 So many of the practical, real issues, Lord, 26 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,640 that are before our lives day after day. 27 00:01:03,680 --> 00:01:05,700 Areas, Lord, where we struggle and if we 28 00:01:05,700 --> 00:01:07,700 but learn your word and what it is 29 00:01:07,700 --> 00:01:11,120 that you have to say, the liberating experience 30 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:12,380 it can be to us. 31 00:01:13,420 --> 00:01:14,780 So we just open our heart and we 32 00:01:14,780 --> 00:01:16,560 ask that your word would just set us 33 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:16,880 free. 34 00:01:17,620 --> 00:01:19,700 Even in areas of our life tonight that 35 00:01:19,700 --> 00:01:21,240 we didn't know why we struggle. 36 00:01:21,980 --> 00:01:23,840 The Lord may you minister to us in 37 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:24,580 Jesus' name. 38 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:25,240 Amen. 39 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:29,420 Well, remember, of course, as we now going 40 00:01:29,420 --> 00:01:31,080 through here, the Sermon of the Mouth, that 41 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:33,980 this is obviously all, all of his sermons, 42 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,360 of course, are tremendously spiritual. 43 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:39,220 But the message here is a tremendous message 44 00:01:39,220 --> 00:01:41,380 of the Lord giving to, given to us, 45 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:43,100 essentially to the soul. 46 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,680 The human soul that longs for a deep 47 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:48,640 relationship with Jesus Christ. 48 00:01:49,020 --> 00:01:52,260 For somebody that wants a living, abiding, continuing 49 00:01:52,260 --> 00:01:54,480 relationship with Jesus Christ. 50 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:56,600 For somebody that wants to see him enthroned 51 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:59,180 within their life, that is poor in spirit, 52 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:02,600 mourns over their sin, mourns over their own 53 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,440 self, their own arrogance, their own pride, their 54 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:06,480 own self-sufficiency. 55 00:02:06,820 --> 00:02:10,580 They vacated the throne, turned their life over 56 00:02:10,580 --> 00:02:12,680 to Jesus there in the Beatitudes as we 57 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:13,380 went through them. 58 00:02:13,980 --> 00:02:15,640 Seen to it that he, that he's being 59 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:17,880 enthroned within our hearts through that. 60 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:19,780 And then the sermon goes on to tell 61 00:02:19,780 --> 00:02:22,360 us now once you give him the throne, 62 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:24,960 here's, it's one thing to get the throne 63 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:26,540 for the Lord to get it, but it's 64 00:02:26,540 --> 00:02:29,040 another thing for him seemingly to maintain it. 65 00:02:29,780 --> 00:02:32,280 Now in chapter five, it's really a section 66 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,900 of the sermon unto itself in the sense 67 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:37,500 that it's really a, it's a powerful message 68 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:39,600 of course all by itself, but it is 69 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,120 one that is primarily in chapter five, it 70 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:45,520 is all about me and my relationship with 71 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:45,840 God. 72 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:47,680 It's just the two of us essentially in 73 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:48,680 the room, you might say. 74 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:50,940 It's just the Lord just wanting to talk 75 00:02:50,940 --> 00:02:53,160 to me about my heart, my life, my 76 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:56,380 thoughts, and, and things there that under my 77 00:02:56,380 --> 00:02:58,780 own skin and my own human experience that 78 00:02:58,780 --> 00:03:01,620 once Jesus is really Lord, I put him 79 00:03:01,620 --> 00:03:03,860 on the throne, the things that can happen 80 00:03:03,860 --> 00:03:05,740 in, in my own heart, under my own 81 00:03:05,740 --> 00:03:08,400 skin that dethrone him. 82 00:03:08,660 --> 00:03:10,940 Where my flesh comes back and it takes 83 00:03:10,940 --> 00:03:11,400 the throne. 84 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:13,800 That's why after the Beatitudes and, and my 85 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,860 life is given to him, a transference of 86 00:03:15,860 --> 00:03:18,080 authority essentially is happening in there. 87 00:03:18,380 --> 00:03:19,820 But then he goes on and he said, 88 00:03:19,860 --> 00:03:21,020 now there's some things you're gonna have to 89 00:03:21,020 --> 00:03:22,760 look out for because if you don't, under 90 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:24,240 your own skin and your own heart and 91 00:03:24,240 --> 00:03:27,200 your own thoughts, uh, he'll drive me right 92 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:28,840 off the throne and you'll take it over 93 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:30,900 again if you find there where, you know, 94 00:03:30,920 --> 00:03:33,260 if a man, you have, you've heard that 95 00:03:33,260 --> 00:03:34,740 has been said by them all time, thou 96 00:03:34,740 --> 00:03:36,660 shall not kill, but I say unto you 97 00:03:36,660 --> 00:03:38,880 that whosoever is angry with his brother, he 98 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:40,900 said, if you're under your own skin, if 99 00:03:40,900 --> 00:03:43,220 you have the luxury of being angry at 100 00:03:43,220 --> 00:03:45,780 people, if you think anytime you want, you 101 00:03:45,780 --> 00:03:48,280 can just take off and your hostilities, your 102 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:49,680 anger, he says, you want to know me 103 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:51,120 how to get me off the throne, that'll 104 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:51,780 do it. 105 00:03:52,500 --> 00:03:53,680 But then he goes on and he says 106 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:56,380 in another area, you drive me off the 107 00:03:56,380 --> 00:03:58,320 throne of people's lives all day long. 108 00:03:58,420 --> 00:03:59,640 He says, you have heard that has been 109 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:01,280 said by them all time, thou shall not 110 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,500 commit adultery, but I say unto you that 111 00:04:03,500 --> 00:04:05,500 whosoever looks at a woman with lust after 112 00:04:05,500 --> 00:04:07,580 in his heart has already committed it. 113 00:04:07,900 --> 00:04:09,040 He said, you want to get me off 114 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,660 the throne, you're, you want to let your 115 00:04:10,660 --> 00:04:12,640 flesh take over, there's where he'll do it. 116 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,180 That's how he'll get right back on when 117 00:04:15,180 --> 00:04:17,120 you decide under your own skin, in your 118 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,420 own heart, and then you can, you can 119 00:04:19,420 --> 00:04:21,180 take over and you can do, you can 120 00:04:21,180 --> 00:04:22,000 think what you want to. 121 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:23,660 You can run your own heart, run your 122 00:04:23,660 --> 00:04:26,960 own life, you'll be amazingly lonely rather rapidly 123 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:28,520 and wondering what went wrong. 124 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,180 Then he went on and he talked about 125 00:04:30,180 --> 00:04:32,260 marriage, he talked about the commitments in life 126 00:04:32,260 --> 00:04:35,580 and maintaining a vow, in a sense, maintaining 127 00:04:35,580 --> 00:04:38,240 a heart that is pure towards the relationships 128 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:38,940 we have. 129 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:40,500 He said, you don't, you don't keep those 130 00:04:40,500 --> 00:04:45,140 relationships pure and You'll find once again, you're 131 00:04:45,140 --> 00:04:47,640 shoving me off, you're taking on, on again 132 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,160 and Jesus is such a gentleman, he won't 133 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:49,940 fight us for it. 134 00:04:50,860 --> 00:04:52,920 You want your own flesh over me, you 135 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:54,600 can have it, but then you gotta live 136 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:55,880 with the consequences of it too. 137 00:04:56,380 --> 00:04:58,560 The loneliness of it, the struggles of it, 138 00:04:58,620 --> 00:05:00,360 the burdens of it, the guilt of it, 139 00:05:00,620 --> 00:05:02,820 till you find yourself running back to me, 140 00:05:03,180 --> 00:05:03,960 getting it right. 141 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,460 If you make an oath, then keep it. 142 00:05:06,940 --> 00:05:08,920 And there he says, you, you, you give 143 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:10,720 somebody your word and you don't intend on 144 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,200 keeping it in your own heart, your own 145 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:13,720 life, you're going to have trouble. 146 00:05:14,220 --> 00:05:17,320 You'll find me once again being shoved aside. 147 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:19,740 And so, thus in chapter five, as he 148 00:05:19,740 --> 00:05:21,420 goes and he deals there with, you know, 149 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,600 walking a second mile, churning the other cheek. 150 00:05:23,660 --> 00:05:25,320 If you've got pride, if you've got that 151 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:26,980 ego that just has got to be in 152 00:05:26,980 --> 00:05:27,440 control. 153 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:30,500 These are areas, he says, you've got to 154 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:31,220 deal with these. 155 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:33,840 These are the great battlefields of the Christian 156 00:05:33,840 --> 00:05:34,220 life. 157 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:37,320 These are the great areas that, that the 158 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,580 Spirit of God longs to rule and reign 159 00:05:39,580 --> 00:05:39,940 in. 160 00:05:40,060 --> 00:05:41,540 And when you see a Christian that is 161 00:05:41,540 --> 00:05:43,940 having victory in their life in these areas, 162 00:05:44,340 --> 00:05:46,540 you're seeing somebody that God has done some 163 00:05:46,540 --> 00:05:48,980 rather, you know, awesome and wonderful things within. 164 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,100 And where there's also been quite a few 165 00:05:52,100 --> 00:05:53,520 battles in order to get there. 166 00:05:54,300 --> 00:05:56,980 And, uh, but they've, they've fought them and 167 00:05:56,980 --> 00:05:58,620 they've longed for them and they've prayed and 168 00:05:58,620 --> 00:06:00,320 they've sought and said, Lord, I want you 169 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:01,900 so much on the throne of my life. 170 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,340 I'm willing to give up anger and to 171 00:06:04,340 --> 00:06:05,240 keep you on the throne. 172 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:06,900 Now stay here instead of letting my anger 173 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:07,580 drive me away. 174 00:06:07,980 --> 00:06:09,640 I want you on the throne so much 175 00:06:09,640 --> 00:06:11,020 of my life instead of going off and 176 00:06:11,020 --> 00:06:12,300 coveting and living lustfully. 177 00:06:13,420 --> 00:06:16,400 I want you now here, set up your 178 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:17,820 throne instead of being distracted. 179 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:19,560 These are all under our skin. 180 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,840 But now when he gets to chapter six, 181 00:06:22,220 --> 00:06:25,020 he's now moving into a new area, essentially 182 00:06:25,020 --> 00:06:26,900 another area of matters, you might say. 183 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,440 And now, uh, areas you might see outside 184 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,380 of our skin, I suppose you say, public 185 00:06:32,380 --> 00:06:32,740 matters. 186 00:06:33,780 --> 00:06:35,960 And, uh, he says a whole new area 187 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:37,640 in a sense there, things to be aware 188 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:39,740 of that now when we are in society, 189 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:42,520 when we're living with other people in chapter 190 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,300 five, again, it's just me and the Lord. 191 00:06:44,380 --> 00:06:45,740 But now it's as if, okay, he says, 192 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:46,740 now I'm going to take you out in 193 00:06:46,740 --> 00:06:47,060 public. 194 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,340 Now I'm going to try out some of 195 00:06:50,340 --> 00:06:52,360 these things in you and I'm going to 196 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:53,820 take you out and I want to see 197 00:06:53,820 --> 00:06:55,540 how you learn to live and see if 198 00:06:55,540 --> 00:06:57,200 you still want me on the throne that 199 00:06:57,200 --> 00:06:57,540 bad. 200 00:06:58,060 --> 00:06:59,720 If you still want me to be Lord, 201 00:06:59,780 --> 00:07:01,320 because here are some of the areas where 202 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:02,980 you're going to have some struggles, you're going 203 00:07:02,980 --> 00:07:05,160 to have some, some, some battles. 204 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:07,280 And here in a sense there, there's some 205 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:09,880 public, you might say, pitfalls that happen that 206 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,740 now they're to, uh, that we've got to 207 00:07:12,740 --> 00:07:13,120 deal with. 208 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:14,980 If I want to stay in a wonderful 209 00:07:14,980 --> 00:07:17,340 communion with my Lord. 210 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:19,500 And that's what it's really all about here 211 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:20,260 in chapter six. 212 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:21,780 Let me just run through a few of 213 00:07:21,780 --> 00:07:23,260 the verses to give you a general idea 214 00:07:23,260 --> 00:07:24,260 of what we're going to be seeing as 215 00:07:24,260 --> 00:07:25,020 we go through it. 216 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,020 But it's all about maintaining a relationship with 217 00:07:28,020 --> 00:07:28,400 God. 218 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,760 Notice in verse four, and I'm just going 219 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:32,120 to run through, you'll catch the drift of 220 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:32,220 it. 221 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:33,380 It's all about it with God. 222 00:07:33,500 --> 00:07:35,560 But in verse four, that thy norms may 223 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,560 be in secret and thy father would see 224 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:39,160 it in secret. 225 00:07:39,740 --> 00:07:41,440 In verse six, he says, and when thou 226 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:43,460 prayest enter into thy closet and when thou 227 00:07:43,460 --> 00:07:46,340 hast shut thy door, pray unto thy father, 228 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:48,920 which is in secret and thy father would 229 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:50,620 see it in secret will reward the openly. 230 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:53,580 Verse eight, be not therefore like unto them 231 00:07:53,580 --> 00:07:56,460 for your father knoweth what things you have 232 00:07:56,460 --> 00:07:56,960 need of. 233 00:07:57,640 --> 00:07:59,620 Verse nine, and after this manner, therefore pray 234 00:07:59,620 --> 00:08:02,200 our father, which aren't in heaven. 235 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,720 Uh, verse 14, if he forgive men, their 236 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,120 trespasses, your heavenly father will forgive you. 237 00:08:09,140 --> 00:08:12,540 Verse 18, that thou appear not unto men 238 00:08:12,540 --> 00:08:15,360 to fast, but unto thy father, which is 239 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:16,120 in secret. 240 00:08:16,140 --> 00:08:18,840 Verse 26, behold, the fowls in the air, 241 00:08:18,900 --> 00:08:20,680 they sow not, neither do they spin nor 242 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,420 gather into barns, yet your father feedeth them. 243 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:27,100 And then verse 32, for after these things 244 00:08:27,100 --> 00:08:30,040 did the Gentiles seek, but your heavenly father 245 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:31,960 knows that you have need of these things. 246 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,780 Here, Jesus over and over here in chapter 247 00:08:34,780 --> 00:08:36,080 six, he's going to look there and he 248 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:37,900 says, we're going to deal with some issues 249 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:39,679 in life, but all behind it, it's going 250 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:42,159 to be a clear choice between you and 251 00:08:42,159 --> 00:08:45,940 your father or you and another world. 252 00:08:46,300 --> 00:08:47,640 Do you want to maintain? 253 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:50,180 You really want that living relationship that you 254 00:08:50,180 --> 00:08:53,160 could have privately, personally, wonderfully under your skin 255 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:54,500 with your father. 256 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:56,660 Now, do you want it in public? 257 00:08:57,020 --> 00:08:58,280 How do you want it in the rest 258 00:08:58,280 --> 00:08:59,660 of the areas of your life? 259 00:09:00,220 --> 00:09:01,860 And the first, and this is what he's 260 00:09:01,860 --> 00:09:04,500 talking about here because he lays it and 261 00:09:04,500 --> 00:09:06,620 then in opposition to a whole nother force 262 00:09:06,620 --> 00:09:09,500 there in verse two, he says there, he 263 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:11,580 says, therefore, when thou doest thine alms, do 264 00:09:11,580 --> 00:09:13,440 not sound a trumpet before thee as the 265 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:16,020 hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the 266 00:09:16,020 --> 00:09:19,160 streets that they may have glory of men. 267 00:09:19,900 --> 00:09:21,080 Verily, I say unto you, they have their 268 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:21,520 reward. 269 00:09:22,220 --> 00:09:25,000 Verse five, he says, when thou prayest, thou 270 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:26,960 shall not be as the hypocrites are, for 271 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,880 they love to pray standing in the synagogues 272 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:30,100 and in the corners of the street that 273 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:31,760 they may be seen of men. 274 00:09:32,340 --> 00:09:33,940 Verily, I say unto you, they have their 275 00:09:33,940 --> 00:09:34,320 reward. 276 00:09:34,940 --> 00:09:36,880 Moreover, when ye fast, be not as the 277 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:39,620 hypocrites of sad countenance, for they disfigure their 278 00:09:39,620 --> 00:09:42,280 faces that they may appear unto men to 279 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:42,580 fast. 280 00:09:42,580 --> 00:09:44,040 And verily, I say unto you, they have 281 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:44,640 their reward. 282 00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:47,280 You see here, Jesus in this chapter, he's 283 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:49,060 saying, okay, in chapter five, in your own 284 00:09:49,060 --> 00:09:51,380 heart, your own life, the battleground under your 285 00:09:51,380 --> 00:09:53,840 own skin, in your own heart, in your 286 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,320 thoughts, in dealing with anger and with lust 287 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:58,360 and with your, your word and with honesty 288 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:00,660 and integrity and your pride and other matters 289 00:10:00,660 --> 00:10:03,100 as we looked at in that chapter there, 290 00:10:03,140 --> 00:10:04,160 he says, we deal with that. 291 00:10:04,220 --> 00:10:06,160 But now in chapter six is saying he's 292 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,640 taking us out in public where now he 293 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,260 says, I want to know is it still 294 00:10:10,260 --> 00:10:13,040 you and your father that's really important to 295 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:14,540 you or is it being seen of men? 296 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,480 Is it how you look? 297 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:20,280 You see, Jesus knows as well as anything 298 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,240 and is better than even we do ourselves 299 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:25,140 how much we love to be seen. 300 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:27,860 How much we love recognition. 301 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:31,820 We seem to love it as much as 302 00:10:31,820 --> 00:10:33,220 anything I suppose in all the world. 303 00:10:33,340 --> 00:10:35,240 We just love recognition. 304 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:37,200 We love to be seen of men. 305 00:10:38,260 --> 00:10:40,560 One time years ago, my boys were young 306 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:42,760 and we were off on a vacation somewhere 307 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:44,820 together and where we happened to stay, they 308 00:10:44,820 --> 00:10:46,720 had this little par three pitch and putt 309 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,860 course and they were off doing something. 310 00:10:50,020 --> 00:10:51,020 And so I had a couple of clubs 311 00:10:51,020 --> 00:10:53,440 and I took my clubs out and early 312 00:10:53,440 --> 00:10:54,900 in the evening and no one was there 313 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:56,220 and I just started shooting around. 314 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:58,920 I teed a ball up on about 120, 315 00:10:59,060 --> 00:11:01,500 130 yard hole and I took a shot 316 00:11:01,500 --> 00:11:04,220 and think, man, it went off wonderful, just 317 00:11:04,220 --> 00:11:05,200 a beautiful shot. 318 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:07,260 Went right up on the green, rolled up 319 00:11:07,260 --> 00:11:08,460 on the green and then next thing I 320 00:11:08,460 --> 00:11:10,040 know, it disappeared in the cup. 321 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,460 And immediately, I was immediately, two things, I 322 00:11:13,460 --> 00:11:17,580 was absolutely thrilled to death and absolutely frustrated 323 00:11:17,580 --> 00:11:18,240 at the same time. 324 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:19,840 I took a couple steps, I was so 325 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:21,700 excited and then I just stopped right there. 326 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,420 My hands literally dropped down, I'm holding on 327 00:11:24,420 --> 00:11:24,880 to the club. 328 00:11:25,740 --> 00:11:27,900 And there as I'm just thinking about this 329 00:11:27,900 --> 00:11:30,560 thing and as this is happening, off in 330 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:33,700 the distance, a fella is over there and 331 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:36,280 he actually saw me do the shot and 332 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,960 knowing exactly, he could read my countenance. 333 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:40,860 He knew exactly what was going on and 334 00:11:40,860 --> 00:11:44,910 over there, there's a and he said, I 335 00:11:44,910 --> 00:11:46,910 saw it, I saw it. 336 00:11:47,070 --> 00:11:48,970 He knew exactly what I needed. 337 00:11:49,410 --> 00:11:51,670 I did something and nobody saw it. 338 00:11:51,770 --> 00:11:54,110 I mean, there was nothing so pathetic in 339 00:11:54,110 --> 00:11:55,710 all your life when you're a hole in 340 00:11:55,710 --> 00:11:57,610 one and nobody saw it. 341 00:11:58,110 --> 00:12:00,550 And as soon as he said it, I 342 00:12:00,550 --> 00:12:02,930 lifted up the club and victory and yeah, 343 00:12:03,150 --> 00:12:07,170 like, yeah, just another hole, you know, or 344 00:12:07,170 --> 00:12:09,650 something as if, you know, but on how 345 00:12:09,650 --> 00:12:10,610 we love that. 346 00:12:10,910 --> 00:12:13,530 It's our nature and to have the opportunity 347 00:12:13,530 --> 00:12:14,850 to be seen. 348 00:12:15,430 --> 00:12:18,270 It's something that is so much a part 349 00:12:18,270 --> 00:12:21,150 of the, of the Adamic nature, of the 350 00:12:21,150 --> 00:12:24,530 fallen nature, of our own self, our own 351 00:12:24,530 --> 00:12:26,130 pride, this whole thing that we spent an 352 00:12:26,130 --> 00:12:29,470 entire chapter wanting to see destroyed and obliterated. 353 00:12:29,630 --> 00:12:30,670 We're tired of its anger. 354 00:12:31,150 --> 00:12:32,350 We're tired of its lust. 355 00:12:32,510 --> 00:12:35,130 We're tired of its inability to make and 356 00:12:35,130 --> 00:12:37,570 maintain a relationship or keep its vows or 357 00:12:37,570 --> 00:12:40,070 we're sick and tired of its pride and 358 00:12:40,070 --> 00:12:41,650 its ego and its lack of care or 359 00:12:41,650 --> 00:12:43,090 concern for anybody else. 360 00:12:44,250 --> 00:12:46,370 And we spend an entire chapter wanting to 361 00:12:46,370 --> 00:12:47,550 be done with it and now the Lord, 362 00:12:47,670 --> 00:12:49,530 he wants to take us out in public. 363 00:12:50,190 --> 00:12:52,190 Realizing there, he says, now listen, when we're 364 00:12:52,190 --> 00:12:53,870 out here, I want to know what's important 365 00:12:53,870 --> 00:12:54,070 to you. 366 00:12:54,130 --> 00:12:56,370 Is it your relationship with God, your Heavenly 367 00:12:56,370 --> 00:12:58,990 Father, who knows what's going on, who sees 368 00:12:58,990 --> 00:13:02,350 in secret, or is it being seen of 369 00:13:02,350 --> 00:13:02,570 men? 370 00:13:03,270 --> 00:13:04,390 Is it being noted? 371 00:13:04,510 --> 00:13:05,650 Is that what is important? 372 00:13:05,730 --> 00:13:08,470 And the great tendency is that this is 373 00:13:08,470 --> 00:13:12,010 what we have, the fallen nature, this pride, 374 00:13:12,550 --> 00:13:15,390 this ego, there's something there that he'd give 375 00:13:15,390 --> 00:13:17,270 it a chance to come back and get 376 00:13:17,270 --> 00:13:19,630 on the throne, give it any opportunity to 377 00:13:19,630 --> 00:13:21,730 take over and that's, that's its nature. 378 00:13:22,350 --> 00:13:24,910 Desperately wants to find a way, once it's 379 00:13:24,910 --> 00:13:27,470 been driven out, to get its ugly head 380 00:13:27,470 --> 00:13:29,710 back in and stick it up and say, 381 00:13:29,930 --> 00:13:30,470 here I am. 382 00:13:31,050 --> 00:13:33,090 And in chapter five, again, we saw the 383 00:13:33,090 --> 00:13:37,150 fundamentals of the living quietly before Jesus. 384 00:13:37,270 --> 00:13:39,430 And now in chapter six, we see some 385 00:13:39,430 --> 00:13:44,850 of the fundamentalities, fundamentalities, some of the basic 386 00:13:44,850 --> 00:13:51,610 stuff about living quietly with Jesus in public, 387 00:13:52,730 --> 00:13:55,950 about maintaining that quiet experience in that quiet 388 00:13:55,950 --> 00:13:56,450 life. 389 00:13:57,190 --> 00:13:58,890 And to where, you know, hopefully in chapter 390 00:13:58,890 --> 00:14:00,850 five, it was just, Jesus, I just want 391 00:14:00,850 --> 00:14:03,770 you, I'd please anything to have you take 392 00:14:03,770 --> 00:14:05,470 over my life, to have you be enthroned. 393 00:14:05,890 --> 00:14:08,250 I'm tired of all this stuff and I 394 00:14:08,250 --> 00:14:12,150 can't stand it, I'm so exhausted, please come 395 00:14:12,150 --> 00:14:13,830 and take over and rule and reign. 396 00:14:14,370 --> 00:14:16,710 But here in chapter six, now after all 397 00:14:16,710 --> 00:14:19,030 this has, you know, been, been dealing with 398 00:14:19,030 --> 00:14:20,790 it through chapter five, now he says, let's 399 00:14:20,790 --> 00:14:22,690 take a public, you know, check of some 400 00:14:22,690 --> 00:14:23,010 things. 401 00:14:23,530 --> 00:14:25,630 Let's go out here in public and see 402 00:14:25,630 --> 00:14:27,290 how you do now with all of these 403 00:14:27,290 --> 00:14:30,410 other egos and all this other vain and 404 00:14:30,410 --> 00:14:34,210 corrupt and selfish and conceited and, and angry 405 00:14:34,210 --> 00:14:37,450 and lustful and lying or whatever else. 406 00:14:37,490 --> 00:14:38,690 Let's take you out there in the midst 407 00:14:38,690 --> 00:14:40,070 of all of this other thing and now 408 00:14:40,070 --> 00:14:43,470 let's see if what you chose in private, 409 00:14:44,030 --> 00:14:46,190 you still want in public. 410 00:14:46,970 --> 00:14:48,690 If you really want an end to self 411 00:14:48,690 --> 00:14:51,390 and an enthronement of me, that's essentially what's 412 00:14:51,390 --> 00:14:52,670 happening here in chapter six. 413 00:14:53,770 --> 00:14:55,550 Years ago we had a dog, a Doberman, 414 00:14:55,630 --> 00:14:57,770 I said little things about the dog, but 415 00:14:57,770 --> 00:14:59,670 one of the things, anybody ever takes a 416 00:14:59,670 --> 00:15:00,730 dog and you want to train it, one 417 00:15:00,730 --> 00:15:02,890 of the first things you do, you'll take 418 00:15:02,890 --> 00:15:04,270 it in the backyard, you'll take it away 419 00:15:04,270 --> 00:15:06,750 from everybody else and then you'll sit there 420 00:15:06,750 --> 00:15:09,330 and you'll go through, you know, sit down, 421 00:15:10,010 --> 00:15:12,430 you know, roll over, stay, you know, and 422 00:15:12,430 --> 00:15:13,610 you put it through and give it some 423 00:15:13,610 --> 00:15:15,270 rewards and it's just you and the dog 424 00:15:15,270 --> 00:15:17,930 and just keep it there while it's simple 425 00:15:17,930 --> 00:15:20,410 and then you go through the fundamentals of 426 00:15:20,410 --> 00:15:23,170 obedience just there, but just doing it and 427 00:15:23,170 --> 00:15:24,370 then you go over it and over it 428 00:15:24,370 --> 00:15:26,190 and over it until it's kind of got 429 00:15:26,190 --> 00:15:27,970 it and then once you think it's got 430 00:15:27,970 --> 00:15:29,130 it, the next thing you do is you 431 00:15:29,130 --> 00:15:29,390 do what? 432 00:15:29,430 --> 00:15:31,890 You take it out in public and now 433 00:15:31,890 --> 00:15:33,510 you let the thing there with all the 434 00:15:33,510 --> 00:15:34,710 other, you know, things around. 435 00:15:34,830 --> 00:15:36,430 Now it's got the distraction and it's got 436 00:15:36,430 --> 00:15:38,110 other dogs and it's got kids and it's 437 00:15:38,110 --> 00:15:40,310 got noises and it's got all this other 438 00:15:40,310 --> 00:15:43,250 activity going on around it and then you, 439 00:15:43,310 --> 00:15:45,730 you say, tell it to sit when nobody 440 00:15:45,730 --> 00:15:48,810 else is sitting, it to stay when nothing 441 00:15:48,810 --> 00:15:49,990 else is staying anywhere. 442 00:15:50,770 --> 00:15:53,090 When you say, you say it down, when 443 00:15:53,090 --> 00:15:55,010 nothing else is down, it's looking around, it 444 00:15:55,010 --> 00:15:56,710 sees the kids and other dogs, everything else 445 00:15:56,710 --> 00:15:58,430 is doing it, then you're up here trying 446 00:15:58,430 --> 00:15:59,110 to get attention. 447 00:15:59,730 --> 00:16:01,710 Here I am, look at me, but you're, 448 00:16:01,750 --> 00:16:03,630 the dog's looking, well what about nobody else 449 00:16:03,630 --> 00:16:05,370 is sitting, you know, and what's going on 450 00:16:05,370 --> 00:16:05,510 here? 451 00:16:05,590 --> 00:16:07,690 Everybody else gets to run and play, this 452 00:16:07,690 --> 00:16:10,290 isn't fair, this isn't right. 453 00:16:10,990 --> 00:16:14,470 And this is what's happening here, essentially in 454 00:16:14,470 --> 00:16:17,250 a broad strokes of what Jesus is doing. 455 00:16:18,070 --> 00:16:19,550 It's kind of like, you know, here we 456 00:16:19,550 --> 00:16:22,190 come to church and we sit here in 457 00:16:22,190 --> 00:16:25,510 church and we're just quietly, hopefully just before 458 00:16:25,510 --> 00:16:27,270 him, his face and ours, we're just looking 459 00:16:27,270 --> 00:16:29,830 up and it's so simple, it's so easy 460 00:16:29,830 --> 00:16:35,570 to be a our hearts drawn to him 461 00:16:35,570 --> 00:16:37,570 and we pray and we open our heart, 462 00:16:37,650 --> 00:16:38,430 we take communion. 463 00:16:39,110 --> 00:16:41,910 We get this wonderful experience with him and 464 00:16:41,910 --> 00:16:44,630 our love is fresh and his touch is 465 00:16:44,630 --> 00:16:46,430 there and it's real and oh Lord, this 466 00:16:46,430 --> 00:16:47,510 is how it ought to be. 467 00:16:48,070 --> 00:16:50,290 And it's so wonderful, the love. 468 00:16:51,510 --> 00:16:53,470 We love him, we love each other. 469 00:16:53,610 --> 00:16:54,950 You probably all look around here and say, 470 00:16:55,050 --> 00:16:56,370 can't you just feel the love? 471 00:16:56,530 --> 00:16:57,210 It's so wonderful. 472 00:16:58,030 --> 00:16:59,730 I love you, a bushel and a peck, 473 00:16:59,890 --> 00:17:01,190 bushel and a peck and hug around the 474 00:17:01,190 --> 00:17:02,490 neck or whatever, you know, and we get 475 00:17:02,490 --> 00:17:04,730 all, we can, in church it's so easy, 476 00:17:04,829 --> 00:17:06,970 hi brother, hi sister, and we can hug 477 00:17:06,970 --> 00:17:07,970 and do all these things. 478 00:17:08,950 --> 00:17:10,170 And then we get in our car and 479 00:17:10,170 --> 00:17:11,890 he says, now let's try all this stuff 480 00:17:11,890 --> 00:17:15,550 out in the real world, where instead of 481 00:17:15,550 --> 00:17:18,710 hugging you, they have other gestures for you. 482 00:17:19,210 --> 00:17:22,950 You know, there's other noises, the song isn't 483 00:17:22,950 --> 00:17:25,930 the same, the feeling, everything is different and 484 00:17:25,930 --> 00:17:27,430 now you're sitting there and he says, now 485 00:17:27,430 --> 00:17:35,130 sit down, roll over, roll over, heel, sit. 486 00:17:35,510 --> 00:17:39,390 What about attack, you know, kill, you know, 487 00:17:39,510 --> 00:17:41,830 you know, we're looking there, come on. 488 00:17:41,910 --> 00:17:43,590 I mean, I like that those words are 489 00:17:43,590 --> 00:17:47,490 fine in church, but then when we get 490 00:17:47,490 --> 00:17:48,810 out and in the rest of the world 491 00:17:48,810 --> 00:17:50,410 and this is what he, when Jesus is 492 00:17:50,410 --> 00:17:52,230 saying there's a world there, do you want 493 00:17:52,230 --> 00:17:53,310 to live before me? 494 00:17:54,510 --> 00:17:57,010 Really, and truly, and when we realize these 495 00:17:57,010 --> 00:17:59,430 here in this chapter, these are the pitfalls, 496 00:18:00,190 --> 00:18:03,270 these are the things, the life that we 497 00:18:03,270 --> 00:18:05,790 tend to live before men. 498 00:18:06,750 --> 00:18:08,410 And these three things that we'll be seeing 499 00:18:08,410 --> 00:18:09,810 here in the next few weeks, one of 500 00:18:09,810 --> 00:18:13,190 them is giving, another is fasting, and these 501 00:18:13,190 --> 00:18:15,330 are broad strokes, I think have much deeper 502 00:18:15,330 --> 00:18:19,890 meaning than just the obvious initial one there, 503 00:18:19,990 --> 00:18:22,110 there are whole areas of our life and 504 00:18:22,110 --> 00:18:24,750 of prayer, but there's something there that when 505 00:18:24,750 --> 00:18:27,290 essentially, if I'm going to be living my 506 00:18:27,290 --> 00:18:29,470 life before men, to be seen of men, 507 00:18:30,150 --> 00:18:31,910 and there when I would go to give, 508 00:18:33,050 --> 00:18:34,790 God has done something to me, I become 509 00:18:34,790 --> 00:18:36,550 his child, he bought me, paid for me, 510 00:18:37,230 --> 00:18:39,310 died for me, he took me through the 511 00:18:39,310 --> 00:18:42,010 Beatitudes, he loved me, redeemed me, he forgave 512 00:18:42,010 --> 00:18:45,110 me, he comes into my heart in life, 513 00:18:45,190 --> 00:18:47,630 he takes over the throne, wants to make 514 00:18:47,630 --> 00:18:49,230 me salt in life, he helps me get 515 00:18:49,230 --> 00:18:51,350 victory over anger and over lust and over 516 00:18:51,350 --> 00:18:53,790 all these other things, and what's the response 517 00:18:53,790 --> 00:18:54,830 of the heart, you're going to want to 518 00:18:54,830 --> 00:18:56,990 give back to him, you're going to want 519 00:18:56,990 --> 00:19:00,290 to respond, there's going to be something that 520 00:19:00,290 --> 00:19:02,310 the heart's going to happen, have happened within 521 00:19:02,310 --> 00:19:05,170 it, but then if I begin to respond 522 00:19:05,170 --> 00:19:08,070 to the Lord in a public way, what 523 00:19:08,070 --> 00:19:11,270 I'm doing, I do before men, Jesus said 524 00:19:11,270 --> 00:19:14,350 here, if what you do when you respond 525 00:19:14,350 --> 00:19:17,450 to me, and then you're putting yourself where 526 00:19:17,450 --> 00:19:20,570 you're, you can be immediately in trouble again, 527 00:19:21,310 --> 00:19:23,490 I may go do something, but, and nobody 528 00:19:23,490 --> 00:19:26,290 sees it, nobody responds, nobody likes it or 529 00:19:26,290 --> 00:19:29,130 something, all of a sudden I'm hurt, my 530 00:19:29,130 --> 00:19:33,050 service, my gift, my labor, my effort, my 531 00:19:33,050 --> 00:19:37,850 ministry, and it wasn't appreciated, and God, I 532 00:19:37,850 --> 00:19:39,390 poured my heart into that thing, and the 533 00:19:39,390 --> 00:19:42,170 next thing you know, I'm in trouble, and 534 00:19:42,170 --> 00:19:45,410 I'm angry, and I'm hurt, and I'm wounded, 535 00:19:46,170 --> 00:19:48,330 and I find myself there, to where, you 536 00:19:48,330 --> 00:19:49,950 know, and then worst of all, Jesus said, 537 00:19:50,050 --> 00:19:52,870 not only you're that, you're hypocritical too, that's 538 00:19:52,870 --> 00:19:54,510 what he says here, some three times, notice 539 00:19:54,510 --> 00:19:56,930 verse two, he says, therefore when thou doest 540 00:19:56,930 --> 00:19:58,810 thy norms, do not sound the trumpet before 541 00:19:58,810 --> 00:20:01,710 thee as the hypocrites do there in, as 542 00:20:01,710 --> 00:20:03,430 he said in the synagogues, in verse five, 543 00:20:04,530 --> 00:20:07,070 and he says, and when thou prayest, thou 544 00:20:07,070 --> 00:20:08,470 should not be as the hypocrites do when 545 00:20:08,470 --> 00:20:11,750 they pray, down in verse 16, moreover when 546 00:20:11,750 --> 00:20:13,710 thou fast, be not as the hypocrites, Jesus 547 00:20:13,710 --> 00:20:17,230 said, if you allow yourself to respond to 548 00:20:17,230 --> 00:20:20,530 me, and my lordship, and my life, in 549 00:20:20,530 --> 00:20:22,210 you, in a public way, you do it 550 00:20:22,210 --> 00:20:25,130 before men, to be seen of men, not 551 00:20:25,130 --> 00:20:27,830 only you're going to get hurt, not only 552 00:20:27,830 --> 00:20:30,690 you're going to be frustrated, not only you're 553 00:20:30,690 --> 00:20:32,810 going to feel slighted and ignored or something, 554 00:20:32,910 --> 00:20:36,670 you're also a hypocrite, you're allowing yourself to 555 00:20:36,670 --> 00:20:40,490 do it for the wrong reasons, it's like 556 00:20:40,490 --> 00:20:41,930 Jesus saying, I thought it was me you 557 00:20:41,930 --> 00:20:43,090 loved, I thought it was me you were 558 00:20:43,090 --> 00:20:44,530 serving, I thought it was me who took 559 00:20:44,530 --> 00:20:46,010 you through the beatitudes, I thought it was 560 00:20:46,010 --> 00:20:47,650 me that was changing your heart under your 561 00:20:47,650 --> 00:20:49,790 skin, I thought it was me you wanted 562 00:20:49,790 --> 00:20:54,170 to respond to, then respond to me, don't 563 00:20:54,170 --> 00:20:56,830 do it for others, and for the benefit, 564 00:20:57,190 --> 00:20:59,810 and for the sake of others, otherwise it's 565 00:20:59,810 --> 00:21:03,830 hypocritical, like most any other real precious relationship, 566 00:21:04,170 --> 00:21:07,310 like a marriage, if I find, you know, 567 00:21:07,430 --> 00:21:09,690 that with Jean, if Jean, she wants me 568 00:21:09,690 --> 00:21:13,710 to do things to her, for her, privately, 569 00:21:14,730 --> 00:21:17,310 and I mean, imagine that, can't figure that 570 00:21:17,310 --> 00:21:19,290 out, but she does, I mean, but if 571 00:21:19,290 --> 00:21:21,570 I'm only nice to her in public, if 572 00:21:21,570 --> 00:21:24,170 I'm only warm and loving, you know, in 573 00:21:24,170 --> 00:21:26,270 public, and caring towards her in public, and 574 00:21:26,270 --> 00:21:30,250 then I ignore her, in private, she's got 575 00:21:30,250 --> 00:21:32,330 this nasty little way about her, she'll get 576 00:21:32,330 --> 00:21:36,730 upset, and she thinks I'm a hypocrite, so 577 00:21:36,730 --> 00:21:38,850 I'm nasty to her everywhere, so, and you 578 00:21:38,850 --> 00:21:43,170 know, I'm, but, but the thing is, is 579 00:21:43,170 --> 00:21:45,810 in a relationship, it's, if I'm really the, 580 00:21:45,910 --> 00:21:48,430 if this whole business is me before God, 581 00:21:49,470 --> 00:21:51,970 if it's really my life before God, here 582 00:21:51,970 --> 00:21:53,890 Jesus said, then let's keep it before God, 583 00:21:53,890 --> 00:21:55,890 because one of the things that'll sidetrack it, 584 00:21:55,930 --> 00:21:58,270 is that when you find yourself doing something 585 00:21:58,270 --> 00:22:01,190 for another reason, there's another motive, and you 586 00:22:01,190 --> 00:22:02,390 allow that to happen. 587 00:22:03,170 --> 00:22:05,130 You see, there's two sides, I suppose, in 588 00:22:05,130 --> 00:22:05,910 balance to things. 589 00:22:05,950 --> 00:22:09,710 Back in chapter 5 and verse 16, Jesus 590 00:22:09,710 --> 00:22:11,050 did say, he said, now you let your 591 00:22:11,050 --> 00:22:12,950 light shine before men, that they may see 592 00:22:12,950 --> 00:22:14,790 your good works and glorify your Father which 593 00:22:14,790 --> 00:22:15,270 is in heaven. 594 00:22:16,450 --> 00:22:18,130 And now here in chapter 6 verse 1, 595 00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:19,430 he says, take heed that you do not, 596 00:22:19,570 --> 00:22:21,110 you do your alms before men to be 597 00:22:21,110 --> 00:22:22,850 seen of them, and now those can appear 598 00:22:22,850 --> 00:22:24,390 somewhat, I think, to be in conflict, I 599 00:22:24,390 --> 00:22:25,030 don't believe they are. 600 00:22:25,570 --> 00:22:26,950 On one hand, he says, let your light 601 00:22:26,950 --> 00:22:29,350 so shine, let them see, let everybody know, 602 00:22:29,410 --> 00:22:32,150 you know, what's, what's going on, but here, 603 00:22:32,310 --> 00:22:33,910 and then in chapter 6, he says, now 604 00:22:33,910 --> 00:22:36,150 don't do things before men, but essentially, what 605 00:22:36,150 --> 00:22:39,570 I believe here, Jesus said, is that anything 606 00:22:39,570 --> 00:22:42,890 that Jesus has done for me, let it 607 00:22:42,890 --> 00:22:43,190 shine. 608 00:22:43,690 --> 00:22:45,410 That's what's happened thus far in the Sermon 609 00:22:45,410 --> 00:22:46,390 on the Mount, when he said, let your 610 00:22:46,390 --> 00:22:47,010 light to shine. 611 00:22:47,710 --> 00:22:49,470 Anything of his love and of his mercy 612 00:22:49,470 --> 00:22:50,910 and of his grace and of his goodness, 613 00:22:51,170 --> 00:22:53,910 of his benefits towards me, shout it out, 614 00:22:54,030 --> 00:22:55,810 let it shine, let the whole world know 615 00:22:55,810 --> 00:22:56,970 who he is and what he's done for 616 00:22:56,970 --> 00:22:57,150 you. 617 00:22:58,090 --> 00:23:00,350 In chapter 6, though, he says, now however, 618 00:23:00,530 --> 00:23:02,330 what you do in response to what he's 619 00:23:02,330 --> 00:23:04,230 done for you, you keep that between you 620 00:23:04,230 --> 00:23:04,530 and him. 621 00:23:05,950 --> 00:23:08,070 You let that be something there in your 622 00:23:08,070 --> 00:23:09,710 own intimacy, in your own love, in your 623 00:23:09,710 --> 00:23:10,290 own affection. 624 00:23:11,010 --> 00:23:12,990 Lord, this is that which I want to 625 00:23:12,990 --> 00:23:14,550 do for you because of what you've done 626 00:23:14,550 --> 00:23:14,890 for me. 627 00:23:15,130 --> 00:23:16,290 I don't do it for them. 628 00:23:17,410 --> 00:23:18,330 I don't do it for them. 629 00:23:19,010 --> 00:23:19,830 I do it for you. 630 00:23:21,010 --> 00:23:22,870 And I think there's a number of reasons 631 00:23:22,870 --> 00:23:23,950 that it ought to be for him. 632 00:23:24,030 --> 00:23:25,530 Number one, it's all of him anyway. 633 00:23:26,530 --> 00:23:28,830 You'll notice there in verse, uh, 2, when 634 00:23:28,830 --> 00:23:30,730 it says, therefore, when thou doest thine alms, 635 00:23:30,770 --> 00:23:32,450 that word thine is in italics. 636 00:23:34,650 --> 00:23:36,010 In other words, it wasn't there in the 637 00:23:36,010 --> 00:23:37,070 original, they just dug it in. 638 00:23:37,950 --> 00:23:38,870 It's just alms. 639 00:23:39,650 --> 00:23:40,790 We don't have any alms. 640 00:23:40,810 --> 00:23:41,370 We have nothing. 641 00:23:41,430 --> 00:23:42,210 What does a man have? 642 00:23:42,290 --> 00:23:43,930 Paul says that he hasn't received it from 643 00:23:43,930 --> 00:23:44,210 God. 644 00:23:44,270 --> 00:23:45,630 And if he's received it from God, why 645 00:23:45,630 --> 00:23:47,010 do we boast as if we haven't? 646 00:23:47,930 --> 00:23:50,430 Everything that we ever have came from God 647 00:23:50,430 --> 00:23:51,090 in the first place. 648 00:23:51,650 --> 00:23:53,310 And so anything I give back to him, 649 00:23:53,870 --> 00:23:55,750 it's always less than he gave to me. 650 00:23:55,890 --> 00:23:57,170 You know, you can't outgive him. 651 00:23:57,790 --> 00:23:59,710 Can't give more than I've received. 652 00:23:59,930 --> 00:24:01,170 You can only give up to, and then 653 00:24:01,170 --> 00:24:02,530 he never asks us even to come near 654 00:24:02,530 --> 00:24:03,630 to up to what we've received. 655 00:24:03,870 --> 00:24:05,830 But he does say, you can respond out 656 00:24:05,830 --> 00:24:08,570 of what you've received, and you can serve, 657 00:24:08,570 --> 00:24:09,930 and you can give. 658 00:24:10,350 --> 00:24:11,450 But it isn't yours. 659 00:24:12,110 --> 00:24:12,770 It's all his. 660 00:24:12,890 --> 00:24:14,810 All of our life, you know, belongs to 661 00:24:14,810 --> 00:24:15,070 him. 662 00:24:15,710 --> 00:24:17,830 And it's something there that when we realize 663 00:24:17,830 --> 00:24:20,190 there that God, he's merely looking at us 664 00:24:20,190 --> 00:24:21,890 now, wanting to take us out in public 665 00:24:21,890 --> 00:24:24,570 and let us live. 666 00:24:24,690 --> 00:24:26,470 And for me to think I have done 667 00:24:26,470 --> 00:24:28,610 anything, even when I give, is foolish anyway. 668 00:24:30,450 --> 00:24:32,030 On Wednesday morning, we have a staff meeting, 669 00:24:32,170 --> 00:24:34,470 and this morning John was sharing with the 670 00:24:34,470 --> 00:24:36,850 staff a little story about how that when 671 00:24:36,850 --> 00:24:38,810 his son Peter John was young, and he'd 672 00:24:38,810 --> 00:24:40,210 go out to mow the lawn. 673 00:24:41,010 --> 00:24:43,090 And there that Peter John, who could kind 674 00:24:43,090 --> 00:24:44,810 of almost at the time reach up to 675 00:24:44,810 --> 00:24:46,250 the lawnmower handles. 676 00:24:46,710 --> 00:24:48,190 John would mow the lawn, and Peter John 677 00:24:48,190 --> 00:24:49,370 would reach up and grab on. 678 00:24:49,650 --> 00:24:51,950 And John was doing it all, but Peter 679 00:24:51,950 --> 00:24:53,350 John would hold on and kind of hang 680 00:24:53,350 --> 00:24:55,430 on and dragged around the yard. 681 00:24:55,670 --> 00:24:58,150 But you know, but at the end, Peter 682 00:24:58,150 --> 00:25:00,050 John helped mow. 683 00:25:00,490 --> 00:25:01,330 So we thought. 684 00:25:02,110 --> 00:25:05,030 But in reality, as John pointed out, John 685 00:25:05,030 --> 00:25:07,090 mowed the lawn and dragged Peter with him. 686 00:25:07,090 --> 00:25:08,230 You know, or something. 687 00:25:08,430 --> 00:25:10,750 I didn't say that, but that's pretty, any 688 00:25:10,750 --> 00:25:12,270 of us that have taught our kids, that's 689 00:25:12,270 --> 00:25:13,290 how we all learn, isn't it? 690 00:25:13,990 --> 00:25:15,630 But that's exactly the way that God is 691 00:25:15,630 --> 00:25:15,910 anyway. 692 00:25:16,050 --> 00:25:17,870 Anything that he ever allows us to do 693 00:25:17,870 --> 00:25:19,390 that we may even think for a moment, 694 00:25:19,490 --> 00:25:21,310 I mowed a lawn, you know, or something 695 00:25:21,310 --> 00:25:23,630 there to realize, no, the Lord did it 696 00:25:23,630 --> 00:25:24,930 and just kind of drug us with him 697 00:25:24,930 --> 00:25:26,290 and let us walk along with him while 698 00:25:26,290 --> 00:25:27,590 he was doing it and share fellowship. 699 00:25:28,070 --> 00:25:30,430 That's honestly what the Christian life is all 700 00:25:30,430 --> 00:25:30,710 about. 701 00:25:31,490 --> 00:25:34,450 The fact that Christ so loves us, not 702 00:25:34,450 --> 00:25:36,370 only loves to do things in our heart, 703 00:25:36,450 --> 00:25:38,430 but he also loves then to say, here, 704 00:25:38,930 --> 00:25:41,350 while I'm mowing, I'll let you here, if 705 00:25:41,350 --> 00:25:42,710 you can reach up and just hold on 706 00:25:42,710 --> 00:25:44,450 to the bar, you know, I'll drag you 707 00:25:44,450 --> 00:25:47,090 with me and in spite of you, we'll 708 00:25:47,090 --> 00:25:49,790 get this thing mowed for the most part. 709 00:25:50,410 --> 00:25:52,950 I mean, but the tragic thing is if 710 00:25:52,950 --> 00:25:54,770 after it's mowed, I go and call the 711 00:25:54,770 --> 00:25:58,310 neighbor and, hey, come see the lawn I 712 00:25:58,310 --> 00:25:58,730 mowed. 713 00:25:59,310 --> 00:26:01,330 Then at that point, as when I think 714 00:26:01,330 --> 00:26:02,590 the Lord says, you know, we need to 715 00:26:02,590 --> 00:26:05,130 have a little chat in the backyard, you 716 00:26:05,130 --> 00:26:07,650 know, and sort of a thing because we've 717 00:26:07,650 --> 00:26:10,450 got some things way out of order. 718 00:26:11,070 --> 00:26:13,110 And the worst part of this whole thing 719 00:26:13,110 --> 00:26:15,450 is, is that we're putting our own flesh 720 00:26:15,450 --> 00:26:16,610 right back on the throne. 721 00:26:17,090 --> 00:26:19,690 The very thing that we spend an entire 722 00:26:19,690 --> 00:26:22,070 chapter wanting to be rid of. 723 00:26:22,830 --> 00:26:24,530 The thing that we ought to hate in 724 00:26:24,530 --> 00:26:26,430 all the world more than anything. 725 00:26:27,490 --> 00:26:29,030 You know, a lot of the world today, 726 00:26:29,130 --> 00:26:32,130 we look at, you know, Saddam Hussein is 727 00:26:32,130 --> 00:26:34,410 some great error, you know, a great enemy, 728 00:26:35,190 --> 00:26:37,390 great, you know, somebody we ought to hate. 729 00:26:37,490 --> 00:26:39,350 And I, or hate what he is or 730 00:26:39,350 --> 00:26:40,510 what he does or whatever you want to 731 00:26:40,510 --> 00:26:40,890 do with it. 732 00:26:40,930 --> 00:26:43,770 And I, I suppose there's a lot of 733 00:26:43,770 --> 00:26:47,210 feelings that could be directed that way, but 734 00:26:47,210 --> 00:26:49,330 I don't think there should ever be any 735 00:26:49,330 --> 00:26:51,950 stronger hate or distaste that anybody should ever 736 00:26:51,950 --> 00:26:54,730 have in all the world than, than for 737 00:26:54,730 --> 00:26:55,230 themselves. 738 00:26:56,610 --> 00:26:59,010 Whatever Saddam Hussein has ever done to my 739 00:26:59,010 --> 00:27:00,770 life, I can tell you, he has never 740 00:27:00,770 --> 00:27:02,130 messed it up as much as I've done 741 00:27:02,130 --> 00:27:03,770 it all by myself without even knowing the 742 00:27:03,770 --> 00:27:04,230 guy's name. 743 00:27:04,570 --> 00:27:05,130 Isn't that true? 744 00:27:05,790 --> 00:27:06,470 Pick anybody. 745 00:27:07,830 --> 00:27:09,830 Pick anybody in the world that you could 746 00:27:09,830 --> 00:27:11,830 ever be unhappy with and what person has 747 00:27:11,830 --> 00:27:14,210 ever messed with your heart and your soul 748 00:27:14,210 --> 00:27:15,830 more than you. 749 00:27:16,970 --> 00:27:18,830 And when we sit there and then decide, 750 00:27:19,090 --> 00:27:22,290 I don't want to rule, I don't want 751 00:27:22,290 --> 00:27:22,770 to reign. 752 00:27:24,190 --> 00:27:25,870 And then Jesus said, well, now I want 753 00:27:25,870 --> 00:27:26,910 to take you out in public and I 754 00:27:26,910 --> 00:27:28,270 want to use your life to serve me. 755 00:27:29,450 --> 00:27:31,130 I want to use your life to represent 756 00:27:31,130 --> 00:27:31,490 me. 757 00:27:31,970 --> 00:27:33,490 I want to use, I'm going to give 758 00:27:33,490 --> 00:27:34,190 you capacity. 759 00:27:34,350 --> 00:27:35,050 It may be alms. 760 00:27:35,110 --> 00:27:35,790 It may be ministry. 761 00:27:35,890 --> 00:27:36,530 It may be service. 762 00:27:36,670 --> 00:27:38,730 It may be one thing or another, but 763 00:27:38,730 --> 00:27:40,210 for one moment, if you think it has 764 00:27:40,210 --> 00:27:42,850 anything to do with you, and if you 765 00:27:42,850 --> 00:27:44,630 allow that to be something where you think 766 00:27:44,630 --> 00:27:47,770 you're somebody, you're wrong. 767 00:27:49,150 --> 00:27:52,390 And the tragic thing is, is that Jesus, 768 00:27:52,550 --> 00:27:54,270 he's not going to compete for the throne. 769 00:27:55,090 --> 00:27:56,630 If we want it, he says you can 770 00:27:56,630 --> 00:27:57,090 have it. 771 00:27:57,670 --> 00:28:00,150 But if you really want me on it, 772 00:28:00,410 --> 00:28:03,110 then when we go out in public, then 773 00:28:03,110 --> 00:28:04,710 you got to want me to be on 774 00:28:04,710 --> 00:28:05,990 the throne there. 775 00:28:06,530 --> 00:28:08,330 And I think one of the great tragedies 776 00:28:08,330 --> 00:28:09,930 in the church today, even in the church 777 00:28:09,930 --> 00:28:11,730 world, in church, a lot of church teaching 778 00:28:11,730 --> 00:28:14,470 sometimes, is that the very thing that we're 779 00:28:14,470 --> 00:28:17,470 trying to destroy, we actually enthrone many times 780 00:28:17,470 --> 00:28:18,470 in ministries. 781 00:28:19,430 --> 00:28:21,130 Sometimes, you know, you see churches, you know, 782 00:28:21,170 --> 00:28:22,690 they got their thermometers out there. 783 00:28:22,750 --> 00:28:24,410 Who's going to give so and such and 784 00:28:24,410 --> 00:28:24,650 such? 785 00:28:24,690 --> 00:28:26,090 Because the people that give the most are 786 00:28:26,090 --> 00:28:28,490 the most spiritual, obviously. 787 00:28:29,550 --> 00:28:30,950 That's the way, I mean, if you say 788 00:28:30,950 --> 00:28:34,390 that, you know, and, you know, and who 789 00:28:34,390 --> 00:28:35,430 will give and who will do? 790 00:28:35,510 --> 00:28:37,690 And there's just something about, well, you know, 791 00:28:37,810 --> 00:28:40,270 I'll do something. 792 00:28:40,690 --> 00:28:42,770 And we make the flesh a very motivator. 793 00:28:43,050 --> 00:28:44,350 We almost motivate the flesh. 794 00:28:44,450 --> 00:28:46,390 We almost tease it and say, come on, 795 00:28:46,490 --> 00:28:48,970 come on, take over the throne, pull out 796 00:28:48,970 --> 00:28:50,810 the big bucks and let everybody think you're 797 00:28:50,810 --> 00:28:51,270 spiritual. 798 00:28:52,350 --> 00:28:54,870 And the very life that we've vowed when 799 00:28:54,870 --> 00:28:56,770 we came to Christ that we, that we 800 00:28:56,770 --> 00:29:00,230 wanted to see destroyed, oftentimes in the church, 801 00:29:01,130 --> 00:29:06,210 it literally coddles it, comforts it. 802 00:29:06,770 --> 00:29:08,370 You know, it's sort of a thing, you 803 00:29:08,370 --> 00:29:10,870 know, I go to churches sometimes, they'll be, 804 00:29:11,050 --> 00:29:12,810 have you ever seen in a church bulletin? 805 00:29:13,830 --> 00:29:16,070 And the lovely flowers this morning on the 806 00:29:16,070 --> 00:29:20,350 altar were donated by Sister Hilda, you know, 807 00:29:20,350 --> 00:29:22,530 in memory of her dog Fluffy, you know, 808 00:29:22,550 --> 00:29:24,050 or whatever, you know, sort of a thing. 809 00:29:24,250 --> 00:29:26,610 And something there, wouldn't you like to donate 810 00:29:26,610 --> 00:29:28,850 next week in memory of your dead dog 811 00:29:28,850 --> 00:29:31,790 or whatever, you know, but something there that, 812 00:29:31,870 --> 00:29:34,530 that people, you know, wow, I want to 813 00:29:34,530 --> 00:29:36,990 give flowers all of a sudden and it 814 00:29:36,990 --> 00:29:38,190 appeals to somebody. 815 00:29:39,230 --> 00:29:40,570 And we want to thank Brother So-and 816 00:29:40,570 --> 00:29:42,750 -so who gave us the organ and his 817 00:29:42,750 --> 00:29:44,210 name is on a little plaque here in 818 00:29:44,210 --> 00:29:47,650 loving memory of his mother, you know, or 819 00:29:47,650 --> 00:29:49,710 somebody, you know, but on, on all these 820 00:29:49,710 --> 00:29:52,750 things in there, they're designed for people that 821 00:29:52,750 --> 00:29:54,530 the very life that we ought to look 822 00:29:54,530 --> 00:29:56,470 there and say, Lord, I don't want to 823 00:29:56,470 --> 00:29:56,770 rule. 824 00:29:57,610 --> 00:30:00,690 And otherwise, you know, we'll be right back 825 00:30:00,690 --> 00:30:03,390 and hear Jesus simply saying, when you give 826 00:30:03,390 --> 00:30:04,730 and when you love and when you serve 827 00:30:04,730 --> 00:30:07,330 and when you minister to people, don't do 828 00:30:07,330 --> 00:30:08,490 it to be seen. 829 00:30:08,630 --> 00:30:09,790 Don't do it for recognition. 830 00:30:10,930 --> 00:30:12,630 How many times in our life, how many 831 00:30:12,630 --> 00:30:15,270 times in our, in our marriages, how many 832 00:30:15,270 --> 00:30:16,890 times in our home, how many times with 833 00:30:16,890 --> 00:30:18,630 other people do we do something and we 834 00:30:18,630 --> 00:30:20,410 don't get the recognition for it? 835 00:30:21,550 --> 00:30:24,210 Here you went and you got your wife 836 00:30:24,210 --> 00:30:27,270 that stone there and that ring and you 837 00:30:27,270 --> 00:30:28,870 took her out and you even took all 838 00:30:28,870 --> 00:30:30,510 your buddies and hey, look at this, look 839 00:30:30,510 --> 00:30:32,350 at this, look what I got, Matilda, you 840 00:30:32,350 --> 00:30:32,930 know, or whatever. 841 00:30:33,110 --> 00:30:34,750 And you're pulling your wife and her hand 842 00:30:34,750 --> 00:30:36,350 over there and, you know, and say, what'd 843 00:30:36,350 --> 00:30:36,650 you get her? 844 00:30:36,670 --> 00:30:37,750 Well, here, here, you got to get in 845 00:30:37,750 --> 00:30:39,230 the light, turn over here, just okay there. 846 00:30:39,330 --> 00:30:40,950 See, now you're looking, see there, there's a 847 00:30:40,950 --> 00:30:42,130 stone there, you know, or whatever. 848 00:30:42,270 --> 00:30:44,630 Wow, what a guy, you know, and then 849 00:30:44,630 --> 00:30:48,250 you go do something and your wife says, 850 00:30:48,330 --> 00:30:49,370 you know, you got to give me a 851 00:30:49,370 --> 00:30:50,850 bigger pair of glasses to see it, you 852 00:30:50,850 --> 00:30:51,350 know, or something. 853 00:30:51,350 --> 00:30:53,370 And all of a sudden you're crushed. 854 00:30:54,050 --> 00:30:56,110 You gave or you did something and you 855 00:30:56,110 --> 00:30:59,070 didn't get a response you wanted back. 856 00:30:59,470 --> 00:31:03,270 You did something and you said something or 857 00:31:03,270 --> 00:31:06,050 you helped or you, in some way, something 858 00:31:06,050 --> 00:31:08,330 was motivated to come out of you and 859 00:31:08,330 --> 00:31:12,570 when it didn't get a response, you're angry 860 00:31:12,570 --> 00:31:14,150 and hurt. 861 00:31:15,550 --> 00:31:17,730 And all of a sudden the very nature 862 00:31:17,730 --> 00:31:20,390 that we buried in the last chapter, we're, 863 00:31:20,490 --> 00:31:23,570 you know, we're giving artificial respiration to in 864 00:31:23,570 --> 00:31:25,130 chapter six to revive it and say, I've 865 00:31:25,130 --> 00:31:26,990 heard, I know you poor thing. 866 00:31:27,290 --> 00:31:28,350 I don't know why you did it. 867 00:31:28,510 --> 00:31:29,630 Don't ever do that again. 868 00:31:29,890 --> 00:31:31,830 No siree, they'll use you and abuse you 869 00:31:31,830 --> 00:31:32,590 and kick you out. 870 00:31:33,150 --> 00:31:34,890 That's what you get for loving them. 871 00:31:35,390 --> 00:31:39,950 And how many people, that very thing happens. 872 00:31:41,610 --> 00:31:43,450 Sometimes it's interesting to me, I mean, it 873 00:31:43,450 --> 00:31:44,990 can happen in all sorts of service. 874 00:31:45,970 --> 00:31:47,630 I ministered in church one time. 875 00:31:48,270 --> 00:31:49,690 There was a pastor and there was a 876 00:31:49,690 --> 00:31:51,730 fellow in the church who loved to sing. 877 00:31:52,370 --> 00:31:53,050 He loved to sing. 878 00:31:53,810 --> 00:31:55,370 And the problem was he loved to sing 879 00:31:55,370 --> 00:31:55,890 too long. 880 00:31:56,790 --> 00:31:59,870 Every service, we'd, this guy, everybody would sing 881 00:31:59,870 --> 00:32:02,970 and when the notes stopped, he always, I 882 00:32:02,970 --> 00:32:04,070 don't know whether you call it a beat 883 00:32:04,070 --> 00:32:05,850 or what, you know, it was, he felt 884 00:32:05,850 --> 00:32:07,450 beaten when he did it anyway, but there 885 00:32:07,450 --> 00:32:08,190 was another beat. 886 00:32:08,250 --> 00:32:09,770 He always, you know, you could always hear 887 00:32:09,770 --> 00:32:11,990 his voice just a little every, after every 888 00:32:11,990 --> 00:32:14,530 little thing, there would be, you know, him. 889 00:32:14,890 --> 00:32:15,850 You'd hear his voice. 890 00:32:16,570 --> 00:32:17,210 Carrying on. 891 00:32:17,750 --> 00:32:19,050 You know, and the people, you know, they 892 00:32:19,050 --> 00:32:21,570 were wanting to worship, but then it's hard 893 00:32:21,570 --> 00:32:22,170 to worship. 894 00:32:22,810 --> 00:32:25,110 I mean, we'd, we talked about committees and, 895 00:32:25,470 --> 00:32:28,490 and how we, you know, and Christian vigilantes 896 00:32:28,490 --> 00:32:31,570 to go rip his lungs out or something, 897 00:32:31,710 --> 00:32:33,730 you know, I mean, things, but the, and 898 00:32:33,730 --> 00:32:35,990 you were somebody, there's something, you just got 899 00:32:35,990 --> 00:32:36,430 to do it. 900 00:32:36,530 --> 00:32:38,630 And next thing you know, it's a distraction 901 00:32:38,630 --> 00:32:39,510 to others around. 902 00:32:40,710 --> 00:32:42,290 And so there's something about our nature when 903 00:32:42,290 --> 00:32:44,650 in some form of service, we love recognition. 904 00:32:45,770 --> 00:32:48,570 I never understood, but sometimes, you know, people 905 00:32:48,570 --> 00:32:50,810 come in the service here and then we'll 906 00:32:50,810 --> 00:32:51,970 have a wonderful service. 907 00:32:52,110 --> 00:32:53,290 Then somebody will stand up. 908 00:32:53,530 --> 00:32:54,330 They just stand up. 909 00:32:55,390 --> 00:32:57,090 And now they've never been here, maybe they 910 00:32:57,090 --> 00:32:58,390 just think, well, I just love God and 911 00:32:58,390 --> 00:32:59,850 I just want to stand up and they'll 912 00:32:59,850 --> 00:33:00,830 stand up. 913 00:33:01,350 --> 00:33:02,970 And the next thing you know, the worship, 914 00:33:03,090 --> 00:33:05,050 I wish everybody could have a turn sitting 915 00:33:05,050 --> 00:33:07,030 up in front, because anytime somebody stands up, 916 00:33:07,110 --> 00:33:09,030 everybody else stops worship and they're looking over. 917 00:33:09,850 --> 00:33:10,630 What's he doing? 918 00:33:10,830 --> 00:33:11,550 Well, he's standing. 919 00:33:13,010 --> 00:33:14,030 He's singing. 920 00:33:14,690 --> 00:33:15,670 He likes to sing. 921 00:33:16,370 --> 00:33:18,330 I wonder if he's good or whatever you're 922 00:33:18,330 --> 00:33:18,930 thinking about. 923 00:33:19,330 --> 00:33:21,190 And the whole thing, but it's something there 924 00:33:21,190 --> 00:33:23,250 with the nature of our flesh. 925 00:33:23,430 --> 00:33:24,390 We want to do something. 926 00:33:24,890 --> 00:33:28,770 Instead of Lord, I want my service unto 927 00:33:28,770 --> 00:33:31,670 you to be unto you. 928 00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:35,870 Otherwise the flesh, otherwise the pride. 929 00:33:36,310 --> 00:33:38,070 And then we can get into this thing 930 00:33:38,070 --> 00:33:43,930 where this unending battle, you know, where as 931 00:33:43,930 --> 00:33:46,570 soon as you get into that realm, you, 932 00:33:46,730 --> 00:33:48,790 you, the flesh is back. 933 00:33:49,970 --> 00:33:51,550 And then you never can get enough. 934 00:33:52,190 --> 00:33:53,650 You never get enough recognition. 935 00:33:53,670 --> 00:33:56,250 When somebody wants recognition from man, they'll never 936 00:33:56,250 --> 00:33:56,730 get enough. 937 00:33:57,170 --> 00:33:59,430 Just like pride, they'll never be satisfied. 938 00:33:59,750 --> 00:34:01,830 No matter how proud somebody is, there's always 939 00:34:01,830 --> 00:34:02,770 room for more pride. 940 00:34:02,870 --> 00:34:03,450 Have you noticed that? 941 00:34:04,470 --> 00:34:08,130 And however proud we are, I like the 942 00:34:08,130 --> 00:34:13,330 story of the fella who bought himself a 943 00:34:13,330 --> 00:34:15,409 brand new Rolls Royce Silver Cloud. 944 00:34:16,630 --> 00:34:18,670 And he knew this was the most beautiful 945 00:34:18,670 --> 00:34:19,370 car in town. 946 00:34:19,969 --> 00:34:22,070 He had the greatest car in town and 947 00:34:22,070 --> 00:34:24,750 he paid a lot of money for it. 948 00:34:27,030 --> 00:34:28,590 I think I'm supposed to be done by 949 00:34:28,590 --> 00:34:29,170 now, but anyway. 950 00:34:31,250 --> 00:34:34,370 But, uh, he got that thing and he's 951 00:34:34,370 --> 00:34:36,110 going home and he is so excited about 952 00:34:36,110 --> 00:34:37,510 this Rolls Royce Silver Cloud. 953 00:34:37,630 --> 00:34:40,050 He just thinks he's the cat's meow going 954 00:34:40,050 --> 00:34:40,510 home boy. 955 00:34:41,050 --> 00:34:42,310 And as he's going along though, he comes 956 00:34:42,310 --> 00:34:43,710 up to a stop sign and there's this 957 00:34:43,710 --> 00:34:47,130 beautiful little sports car with tinted windows that 958 00:34:47,130 --> 00:34:47,989 pulls up next to him. 959 00:34:48,510 --> 00:34:50,429 And the window comes down and he figures, 960 00:34:50,590 --> 00:34:51,530 well, he's eyeing the car. 961 00:34:51,630 --> 00:34:52,429 But the guy looks at him. 962 00:34:52,469 --> 00:34:54,770 He says, I bet you think you're pretty 963 00:34:54,770 --> 00:34:55,250 neat in that. 964 00:34:56,770 --> 00:34:57,810 He says, you're not so cool. 965 00:34:58,450 --> 00:35:00,630 And the guy looks over at him and 966 00:35:00,630 --> 00:35:01,690 he says, no. 967 00:35:02,330 --> 00:35:03,950 And he says to him, he says, do 968 00:35:03,950 --> 00:35:05,130 you have a cell phone in that car? 969 00:35:05,970 --> 00:35:08,530 And he said, yes, I have a cell. 970 00:35:08,570 --> 00:35:10,670 I have a cell phone in my car. 971 00:35:10,990 --> 00:35:11,530 Do you? 972 00:35:11,990 --> 00:35:13,770 He says, yep. 973 00:35:14,650 --> 00:35:15,790 Do you have a fax machine? 974 00:35:17,610 --> 00:35:19,830 He said, yes, I have a fax machine 975 00:35:19,830 --> 00:35:20,590 in my Rolls Royce. 976 00:35:20,630 --> 00:35:20,930 Do you? 977 00:35:20,990 --> 00:35:21,970 And he says, yep. 978 00:35:22,730 --> 00:35:23,170 Yep. 979 00:35:23,890 --> 00:35:24,730 Do you have a TV? 980 00:35:25,690 --> 00:35:27,750 He says, yes, I have a TV. 981 00:35:28,210 --> 00:35:28,990 Color TV. 982 00:35:29,490 --> 00:35:29,810 Do you? 983 00:35:29,890 --> 00:35:30,430 And he says, yep. 984 00:35:31,730 --> 00:35:33,590 And he says, do you have a bed? 985 00:35:35,390 --> 00:35:36,090 A bed? 986 00:35:37,390 --> 00:35:37,810 No. 987 00:35:38,770 --> 00:35:39,610 He said, I told you. 988 00:35:39,710 --> 00:35:41,150 The window rolls up and off he goes. 989 00:35:42,090 --> 00:35:44,290 Well, all of a sudden this guy is 990 00:35:44,290 --> 00:35:44,990 so upset. 991 00:35:45,330 --> 00:35:46,510 He turns right around. 992 00:35:46,590 --> 00:35:47,610 He goes back to Rolls Royce. 993 00:35:47,610 --> 00:35:48,690 He says, I want a bed in this 994 00:35:48,690 --> 00:35:48,930 thing. 995 00:35:49,470 --> 00:35:50,670 I got to have a bed. 996 00:35:50,950 --> 00:35:52,690 You make a bed somehow or another in 997 00:35:52,690 --> 00:35:53,050 this thing. 998 00:35:53,150 --> 00:35:53,970 And so they did. 999 00:35:54,070 --> 00:35:55,330 They went and built a bed in this 1000 00:35:55,330 --> 00:35:55,870 thing for him. 1001 00:35:56,250 --> 00:35:57,490 And next thing you know, he's driving all 1002 00:35:57,490 --> 00:35:58,670 over town looking for this guy. 1003 00:35:58,710 --> 00:35:59,410 He's going to find him. 1004 00:36:00,450 --> 00:36:02,130 You know, let him know he's got a 1005 00:36:02,130 --> 00:36:03,270 bed in his Rolls Royce. 1006 00:36:03,370 --> 00:36:04,930 And finally, after a few weeks, he sees 1007 00:36:04,930 --> 00:36:06,130 the car in a parking lot and he 1008 00:36:06,130 --> 00:36:08,790 pulls in and he goes over and again, 1009 00:36:08,830 --> 00:36:10,110 does that smoke windows, but he could hear 1010 00:36:10,110 --> 00:36:10,490 music. 1011 00:36:10,570 --> 00:36:11,590 So he knew the guy had to be 1012 00:36:11,590 --> 00:36:12,050 in there. 1013 00:36:12,510 --> 00:36:13,830 He goes over and he starts banging on 1014 00:36:13,830 --> 00:36:14,670 the window. 1015 00:36:14,670 --> 00:36:15,750 He didn't let him know. 1016 00:36:16,130 --> 00:36:17,450 And he hears nothing. 1017 00:36:18,050 --> 00:36:19,490 He bangs another little longer. 1018 00:36:19,590 --> 00:36:21,090 And finally, the guy comes, the window comes 1019 00:36:21,090 --> 00:36:21,830 down a little bit. 1020 00:36:22,410 --> 00:36:23,950 The guy says, yeah, what do you want? 1021 00:36:24,290 --> 00:36:25,310 He said, do you remember me? 1022 00:36:25,350 --> 00:36:26,090 And he says, who are you? 1023 00:36:26,490 --> 00:36:27,710 I'm the guy with the Rolls Royce. 1024 00:36:28,190 --> 00:36:29,570 He said, oh yeah, I remember you. 1025 00:36:29,970 --> 00:36:31,390 He said, I just want you to know. 1026 00:36:32,530 --> 00:36:34,090 I got a bed in my Rolls Royce 1027 00:36:34,090 --> 00:36:34,270 now. 1028 00:36:35,090 --> 00:36:36,570 The guy looks at him and he says, 1029 00:36:36,790 --> 00:36:38,630 you mean to tell me you got me 1030 00:36:38,630 --> 00:36:40,310 out of the shower to tell me that? 1031 00:36:51,110 --> 00:36:53,990 But so often, that's our nature. 1032 00:36:54,870 --> 00:36:57,090 We get something and then as soon as 1033 00:36:57,090 --> 00:37:02,630 somebody has more recognition or more something, we're 1034 00:37:02,630 --> 00:37:03,130 depressed. 1035 00:37:04,550 --> 00:37:05,550 We're upset. 1036 00:37:05,910 --> 00:37:07,770 That's the nature of the flesh, isn't it? 1037 00:37:08,710 --> 00:37:11,670 And here, Jesus said, live quietly before me. 1038 00:37:12,210 --> 00:37:14,110 When you give to me or you serve 1039 00:37:14,110 --> 00:37:15,550 me or you give, do it to me. 1040 00:37:16,430 --> 00:37:18,170 When you do it, whether unto another, you 1041 00:37:18,170 --> 00:37:19,290 do it unto your wife, you do it 1042 00:37:19,290 --> 00:37:19,670 unto me. 1043 00:37:20,390 --> 00:37:21,830 When you give a cup of cold water 1044 00:37:21,830 --> 00:37:23,470 to somebody in my name, it's to me. 1045 00:37:24,230 --> 00:37:26,030 When you serve your wife, when you serve 1046 00:37:26,030 --> 00:37:27,610 your children, when you minister to other people, 1047 00:37:27,770 --> 00:37:28,470 do it to me. 1048 00:37:29,190 --> 00:37:30,150 I'll reward you. 1049 00:37:31,750 --> 00:37:32,450 I'll work. 1050 00:37:33,270 --> 00:37:34,750 But if you're going to sit around and 1051 00:37:34,750 --> 00:37:39,630 wait for recognition, then hypocrisy is getting in 1052 00:37:39,630 --> 00:37:41,890 and your heart is going to be in 1053 00:37:41,890 --> 00:37:42,170 trouble. 1054 00:37:42,910 --> 00:37:44,990 And as we close tonight, maybe some of 1055 00:37:44,990 --> 00:37:48,570 us, we realize, Lord, this is no small 1056 00:37:48,570 --> 00:37:49,510 thing with any of us. 1057 00:37:49,590 --> 00:37:50,790 How often are we hurt? 1058 00:37:51,550 --> 00:37:54,010 How often are we, you know, I don't 1059 00:37:54,010 --> 00:37:55,010 need this any longer. 1060 00:37:55,170 --> 00:37:56,810 I'm tired of this woman. 1061 00:37:56,910 --> 00:37:57,970 I'm tired of this man. 1062 00:37:58,030 --> 00:37:58,450 I'm tired. 1063 00:37:58,590 --> 00:37:59,910 I do this and I do this and 1064 00:37:59,910 --> 00:38:01,630 I serve and I give and what do 1065 00:38:01,630 --> 00:38:02,270 I get for it? 1066 00:38:02,270 --> 00:38:03,190 Nothing. 1067 00:38:05,020 --> 00:38:07,940 But when we determine, Jesus, I want to 1068 00:38:07,940 --> 00:38:08,880 live before you. 1069 00:38:09,980 --> 00:38:12,040 I want to serve before you. 1070 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,920 I want what I do because of all 1071 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:17,220 that you have done for me. 1072 00:38:17,420 --> 00:38:20,060 As you tell me to give it, as 1073 00:38:20,060 --> 00:38:21,600 you tell me to pour out my life 1074 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,260 or my energy or my efforts, I want 1075 00:38:24,260 --> 00:38:26,120 it to truly be for your glory and 1076 00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:27,920 I want to be able to live quietly, 1077 00:38:28,820 --> 00:38:32,260 continuously before you. 1078 00:38:33,020 --> 00:38:33,420 Amen? 1079 00:38:34,820 --> 00:38:36,440 Father, we thank you for your word. 1080 00:38:36,940 --> 00:38:38,680 We thank you for your love and your 1081 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,600 desire, Lord, to help us, Lord. 1082 00:38:41,660 --> 00:38:43,220 And I pray that as in this chapter, 1083 00:38:43,340 --> 00:38:44,840 you kind of take us out in public 1084 00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:46,760 and then you put other people around us. 1085 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,680 And then you tell us and you give 1086 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,380 us opportunities to say, do you love me? 1087 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,460 We'll serve them and help and give. 1088 00:38:56,520 --> 00:38:58,440 And as you serve, make sure it's me 1089 00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:59,040 you're serving. 1090 00:39:00,420 --> 00:39:01,680 And do it as unto me. 1091 00:39:03,140 --> 00:39:04,860 And I'll help you mow the lawn and 1092 00:39:04,860 --> 00:39:05,820 I'll drag you with me. 1093 00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:07,440 We'll stay in fellowship all the way through 1094 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:07,580 it. 1095 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,120 It won't be you doing these things anyway. 1096 00:39:09,220 --> 00:39:11,400 Everything you've got, every accomplishment, I'm doing it. 1097 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:14,820 Every blessing that's in your life. 1098 00:39:14,940 --> 00:39:17,000 And so when you take something out that 1099 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,280 I've given to you and give to another, 1100 00:39:18,860 --> 00:39:20,700 don't use it as an opportunity to think 1101 00:39:20,700 --> 00:39:21,160 or anything. 1102 00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:24,880 Lord, I pray that we would value more 1103 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:27,880 just walking across the grass, cutting the lawn 1104 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:32,600 with you more than anything that's accomplished by 1105 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,060 anybody walking down the street. 1106 00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:36,620 That we would look and say the great 1107 00:39:36,620 --> 00:39:38,980 thrill in life is living in communion with 1108 00:39:38,980 --> 00:39:39,800 Jesus Christ. 1109 00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:42,440 The great thrill in life is the fact 1110 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,180 that he has so loved me and blessed 1111 00:39:44,180 --> 00:39:46,940 me and has changed places with me and 1112 00:39:46,940 --> 00:39:48,660 is giving me victory over my own heart 1113 00:39:48,660 --> 00:39:50,080 and my own life and my own weaknesses, 1114 00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:51,900 my own flesh and my own carnality. 1115 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,580 And then as I learn to give back 1116 00:39:55,580 --> 00:39:58,960 and respond, Lord, may I now, with other 1117 00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:00,860 people in the room, so to speak, may 1118 00:40:00,860 --> 00:40:04,220 I now live quietly before you still, Jesus. 1119 00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:06,440 May it be before my heavenly Father who 1120 00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:07,320 seeth in secret. 1121 00:40:08,420 --> 00:40:11,360 Teach us these profound and yet so simple 1122 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:11,880 lessons. 1123 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,560 We ask it in Jesus' name. 1124 00:40:14,340 --> 00:40:14,640 Amen.