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Matthew chapter 5 verse 38 and if you'll

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stand with me together well I'll just read

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these few verses out of it and ask

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you just to kind of follow along.

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You have heard that it hath been said,

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Matthew 5 38, an eye for an eye

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and a tooth for a tooth, but I

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say unto you that she resists not evil,

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but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right

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cheek turn to him the other also.

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And if any man will sue thee at

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the law, and take away thy coat, let

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him have thy cloak also.

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And whosoever shall compel thee to go a

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mile, go with him too.

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Give to him that asketh thee, and from

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him that would borrow of thee, turn not

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thou away.

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Let's pray.

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Father we thank you and we praise you

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for your word and Lord we thank you

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that your great desire, your great longing, the

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longing of heaven is to fill our lives,

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to bring every one in the world, but

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most obviously of all every child of yours

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that you have redeemed into a full experience

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of who you are.

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Lord we pray that would be our longing

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too, that we would not want to miss

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anything of you.

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Jesus I thank you for this wonderful sermon

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that you've given to us.

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Lord I ask that you would make it

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alive to us.

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Your Holy Spirit just to lift it off

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the page and into our heart in such

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a way as the things Lord that we

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ought to really be longing for in our

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life, the victories that you want to give

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to us and the battlefields that we have

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around our lives Lord that we would see

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them and understand them and Lord our lives

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would enter into greater blessing, greater fullness, greater

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joy.

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Father we ask it in Jesus name, Amen.

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You may be seated.

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Here once again and I'm making it as

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brief as I can but a few things

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just to remind ourselves.

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The Sermon on the Mount is one message,

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one flowing message.

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It doesn't change topics, it doesn't go from

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here to there and jump around.

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There is a tremendous flow to it.

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Sometimes we look at it and we just

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take bits and pieces of it and it's

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almost like Jesus just giving us a little

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shopping list of different things that come up

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in his mind.

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Oh yes and I don't want to forget

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to tell you this and then another thing

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and another thing but every one of these

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they're in a sense almost to me like

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dominoes you know that that one is to

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follow the other the other.

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It begins of course in the Beatitudes which

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is simply the the story laid out very

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simply of the exchange of my life for

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Jesus Christ.

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They're realizing I was born a sinner, I've

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lived the life of a sinner, I run

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my own life, I have this nature within

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me that wants control, it sits on the

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throne and I'm finally tired of it.

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I'm longing for God to take over.

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I wish that he could just come and

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oftentimes how many of us say Lord I

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just wish you could just come and take

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my life and you can have it and

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please and and we give it to him

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and maybe we have some wonderful experience but

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it doesn't last but here in the Sermon

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on the Mount Jesus tells us the secret

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of a lasting on how when it's exchanged

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if it's exchanged through a a poverty of

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my own spirit a longing and a realization

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I'm poor you're rich mourning over my sinfulness

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producing a meekness of it in my heart

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God would you please come and fill me

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take over my life I give it to

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you and then as he does he fills

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it with his life his love his spirit

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and the evidence of it again is the

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next domino would fall is that there's somebody

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that is now merciful and they're pure in

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heart and then that they're a peacemaker and

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he is just taking a you know person

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and through the beatitudes I am just surrendering

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my life and I'm giving it to him

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now so often we can come to church

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we can you know pray and we can

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seek the Lord and we can have that

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and he'll fill us and he'll do many

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wonderful things but yet immediately after that there's

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a number of things that just simply reverse

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the whole process take us right back to

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square one and here Jesus he did knowing

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that as our nature as he continues the

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Sermon on the Mount he tells us there

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there's some things you're gonna have to deal

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with if you want to keep me enthroned

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it's one thing to get me enthroned within

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your life to make me the Lord of

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your life to make me the master of

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your life but there's other things that you

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can turn right on around and do and

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I'm not gonna fight you I'm gonna let

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you do it and if you want to

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go and do it don't be surprised when

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you win where'd he go you turn around

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and you're right back on the throne Jesus

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is a wonderful gentleman the ultimate one and

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if he is asked to step down because

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I want to take over he'll do it

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he's there by invitation he's there by love

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he's there by choice he's there by desire

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and if I desire something more he says

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have it and thus he goes on and

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he says there you have heard that I

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have been said by them a whole time

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thou shall not kill and whosoever shall kill

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shall be in danger of the judgment but

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I say unto you that whosoever is angry

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with his brother is in danger of judgment

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here Jesus said one of the things will

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dethrone me quicker than anything else is that

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when you have a different heart towards people

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than I do you look there I'll God

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has he loves the world that Christ died

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for our sin not our sins only but

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for the sins of the whole world the

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Bible tells us there's not a person that

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the love of God isn't isn't desire of

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capturing in there when when I you know

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you give him my life sit on the

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throne take over I've ruined it I've made

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a mess of it and then I walk

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right out and there's somebody I am angry

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at there's somebody I look at is a

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worthless fellow there is somebody that I just

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write off and say that person's a fool

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and at that point it has this little

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way of just nudging him off I'm taking

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over all solve this problem and then I'm

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wondering what went wrong and here she's saying

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it's one thing to get me enthroned it's

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another thing to keep me but if you

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want to keep me in the right place

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you've got to come to grips with the

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fact that I love and I love the

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world and I want to use you as

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a vessel through which I will love them

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you are to be salt and you are

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to be light as he has said earlier

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that we there he said if you want

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to be salt you want to be light

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and you wanted me to be enthroned and

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you want to truly blessed happy life then

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you got to let me love through you

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let me let your life be a vessel

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through much my love will flow in as

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soon as you take over and and your

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anger and your hatred there's a whole dimension

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of our nature that just writes off a

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whole bunch of the planet then he goes

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on you have heard that have been said

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by them all time now should not commit

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adultery but I say in you that whosoever

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looks at a woman with lust after is

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committed adultery with her already in his heart

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there's this you want to know another way

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just to take me off the throne another

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way just to remove me another way to

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where you just take over all you've got

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to do is either start off or there's

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a whole bunch of the world you write

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off and you're done with or there's another

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part of the world that you can't live

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without that your passions and your love and

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your lust or your desires or your covetous

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heart it's your you're gonna run your heart

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and if it's angry it's gonna be angry

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and if I want something you're gonna go

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get it and here he says if you

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want me to be enthroned it isn't gonna

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work you're in an amazing how many times

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we come and God does wonderful things and

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we don't know what went wrong when we

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find ourselves you know mysteriously without his power

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and without his presence well the old thing

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what feel far from God gets a mood

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we're the we move by by our heart

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our heart moves away and then he said

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you know you have heard that if a

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man put away his wife let him give

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her give her a riding a divorcement and

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you know but I say to you that

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if any man put away his wife saving

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for the cause of fornication he caused her

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to commit adultery he looks there and he

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says the next thing there you want to

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know how to get me off the throne

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you want to know how to take it

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over yourself either you're right off a whole

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segment or you grab another segment of the

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world that you can't live without or else

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you make commitments and relationships and you build

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them and then you don't want to maintain

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them years there's a world in a life

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of commitments out there and and that when

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you're committed to them it takes your heart

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and you just don't casually just kind of

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enter in and walk away from them their

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covenants and the word of God you know

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it's yay and amen there's no shadow of

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turning in a minute doesn't lie and when

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there's a commitment there that has been made

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in this body on which he is on

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sits on the throne of it he takes

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it sincerely and he says you hold on

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to those relationships you build them you maintain

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them you take them casually you write off

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people you're gonna be in trouble and you're

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gonna be alone you know very quickly you

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have heard that thou shalt not forswear thyself

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but I say and you perform thy nose

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he looks there and he says every time

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you open your mouth every time that you

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speak let your yay be yay and your

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nay be nay not just sometime when you're

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taking us an oath and a solemn thing

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he says all the time every time you

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speak as David said let the words of

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my mouth and the meditations of my heart

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be acceptable in thy sight O Lord he

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looked there and he says God I want

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everything that I say to be something that

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people can look at it is a sign

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sealed and delivered commitment that it's a yay

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just because I said it and Jesus said

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if you say something you don't mean it

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you say something and just solve the problem

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for the moment honey I'll take care of

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it don't worry about it it's all done

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consider it finished only to get honey off

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your back let me tell you honey you'll

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come back and you'll be looking for Jesus

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again you know you'll be are these are

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the things that life is all about these

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are the things there that with a simple

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and yet profound things in life the battles

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of life these are the real trials so

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often of the Christian that we really have

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to fight we think you know that the

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travel that the battles of these huge issues

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of of health and the world and finances

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and those are all part of it but

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there is a much greater daily battle that

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goes on to maintain the throne the kingdom

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of God within us and that is where

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Jesus is King when I'm opening my mouth

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when I'm building relationships when I'm looking at

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people whether to write them off or to

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draw them in into lust after them these

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are the things he says there were the

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where the battles really are and he says

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you want to keep me in throne the

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he knows us fully well he knows exactly

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what he's talking about he's watched nobody has

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seen himself come and go I suppose more

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than Jesus it's amazing what a gracious gentleman

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he is how many times is he come

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back and forth on the throne of our

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life you know you think there's one point

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you just say listen listen we've been through

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this at least a thousand times by now

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the longer you're a Christian the more times

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you know Jesus please I'm sorry forgive me

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now come back and sit down and I'm

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gonna make it up to you you know

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or whatever else and then we got all

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these things and then immediately we get our

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peace back in our joy this is so

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wonderful you know and this is this is

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so great then somebody walks by and there's

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that idiot that there's that idiot goes by

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somebody else there's the there's the whatever you

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know but the and all of a sudden

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we're drawn in and out he is I

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it's wonderful to you that I'm not him

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for everybody's sake I'd sit there and give

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you one or two shots at it and

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then I'd slap you silly and say forget

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it I'm done with you I'd pick you

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up I'd bounce you off the wall and

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throw you around and you know just flick

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you to China just once maybe or something

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and then maybe I'd get some obedience or

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some surrender instead of all the time quiveling

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over if I get to be master but

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he is so patient he is about a

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journey that is more important even more important

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than than mastering our lives he is about

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the business of mastering our heart he is

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looking there to where he allows me to

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go through this and fail and go through

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this and fail have all these trials and

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temptations or struggles or burdens or open my

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mouth and blow it or make a commitment

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and not maintain it and have what he'll

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allow all these things that go on because

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one thing is that more I grow and

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the more I learn they realize Lord without

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you I can do nothing without you or

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that you on the throne every every time

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I open my mouth the moment you're not

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on it I'm in trouble and that when

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we begin to realize Lord they discernment amount

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is this wonderful sermon that if we really

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listening to it and longing for it ought

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to be something that every time we go

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through it Lord this is an area I

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long to see you bring me into victory

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in and here when he turns now in

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verse 38 and he says to us you

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have heard that it has been said an

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eye for an eye and a tooth for

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tooth but I say to you that she

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resists not evil and here once again now

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we have the fifth area that he's looking

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at where he easily just gets dethroned gets

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driven out we take over and that he

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says in the and here's where the Pharisees

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each one of these things they they they

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turned it around all of them and but

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if and if they stay turned around he's

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you'll be dethroned if I just live by

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an eye for an eye and a tooth

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for tooth hey that's what the Pharisees told

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me that's what that church told me well

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as he's gonna be dethroned I'm gonna drive

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him out if that's how I think and

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he so here he's always clarifying the misinterpretations

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of the Pharisees but here's the fifth one

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now that he looks at and he says

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you have heard that have been said an

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eye for an eye and a tooth for

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tooth now actually here he is just to

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give you the the verses that Moses that

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he's referring to and they're referring to the

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Pharisees Moses did in Exodus 21 24 he

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said an eye for an eye at a

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tooth for a tooth a hand for a

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hand and a foot for a foot Leviticus

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24 20 says breach for breach I for

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I tooth for tooth as he has caused

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a blemish in a man so shall it

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be done to him again you just brew

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somebody you know bruising in a sense Deuteronomy

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1921 and I and I shall not pity

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but life shall go for life I for

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I tooth for tooth hand for hand and

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foot for foot and here once again the

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it's the same issue that Jesus has been

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dealing on you know previously with the misinterpretations

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of Moses Moses at the time that he

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gives these things in Leviticus or Exodus 21

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he is speaking first of all to the

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judges he is speaking to those in authority

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there same thing as well in Leviticus 19

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those are given to us you know Moses

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is actually speaking there to the leadership he

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is and and he is not dealing with

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life in its in the ideal way when

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Moses is talking he's looking over here at

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the judges society is in chaos people are

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hurting people and wounding people and there there's

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all sorts of chaos and of struggles and

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he's establishing some parameters for the judges there

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that he's turning over the Lord the leadership

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and the judgment of people when they abuse

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people when they hurt people when they take

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advantage of people when they kill people or

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they whatever it is that they may do

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here is is telling the judges how to

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judge justly and righteously is telling them in

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a sense that whatever you measured out he

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measured back he's an eye for an eye

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and a tooth for tooth he's telling them

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that you know you just can't go out

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and and and do something that is out

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of balance that when somebody does things and

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borrow some money and they don't pay it

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back you don't go down and you blow

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his house up it's not you know you

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don't there's there's a fair system of judgment

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when human beings fail and this is what

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you know what Moses is dealing with you

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know everybody and when you get hurt there's

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always kind of you get offended or somebody

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does something wrong to you there's a kind

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of a knee-jerk reaction that we all

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have get even vengeance immediately when somebody does

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something wrong there is all of us in

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nature for wrath or anger hostility that just

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our own nature that says that isn't right

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somebody's got to deal with them somebody's got

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a hand you know go out and do

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something who in the world did this to

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me and Moses he's dealing with a chaotic

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environment and he's just giving laws there for

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the judges to just rule over sinful people

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that are living rebelliously he's not talking about

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how people ought to be living he's talking

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about the outside parameters that when somebody is

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living rebelliously all right you got to step

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in you got to do something then this

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is how you'll do it there'll be an

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eye for an eye and a tooth for

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tooth and a hand for hand and a

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foot for a foot he's telling them how

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to execute judge you know judgment and justice

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he wants crime and punishment to be in

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an equal balance secondly also you need to

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know I mean he's not speaking here of

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how people ought to be living he isn't

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telling somebody by the way this is the

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way that you need to be living no

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this is judgment that when people aren't living

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the way that they ought to be and

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secondly also notice that Moses he's not giving

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these laws to individuals I mean when he

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is giving them back in Exodus and Leviticus

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he is giving these to the judges he

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is telling the judges what how they are

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to handle this was to stop people from

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taking the law into their own hands this

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was they were to go and he's laying

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out to the judges there in Exodus in

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the Leviticus how they are judged now the

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problem what had happened is the Pharisees had

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basically taken and they had ignored entirely the

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real line that Moses was dealing on and

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the outer perimeters here of behavior when it's

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gone wrong this is what you got to

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do to solve it in the end then

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what the law commands that you do now

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to deal with the thing this isn't how

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people are to live ideally this was again

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not for the individual but the tragic thing

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is the Pharisees had taken this and made

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it to the individual and they had taken

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it and they had spiritualized it to the

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degree that that essentially there that if something

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has gone wrong God is a God of

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law and he's a God of justice and

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if somebody has done something wrong to you

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you aren't even spiritual if you're not dealing

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with it it is an eye for an

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eye and it is a truth for truth

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and if somebody has done something to you

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you're you don't have the courage to stand

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up for the law and what's right if

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you don't follow it through it's almost like

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you they found a way to just be

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so angry and be so hostile they did

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this to me then I've got the right

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to be there and so it's almost as

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if you with the Pharisees that if somebody

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has done something make sure it happens that's

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one extreme that's what they had done with

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it interestingly enough in this very context as

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well I just need to hit it for

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a moment I suppose because it's been misunderstood

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I think is that another issue here Jesus

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tells us in the text here he says

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resist not evil as he tells us I

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say and you resist not evil and and

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this too has been taken out of context

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just like the Pharisees in the Old Testament

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I mean took out the Moses's law and

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they abused it this verse is famous where

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a lot of Christians and have taken this

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to the degree when it says resist not

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evil they want to say you know no

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soldiers no police no judges you know or

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something no prisons or some may say well

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prisons and police are okay but no war

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no you know no nation should go to

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battle whatsoever no capital punishment and the variations

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of this thing and people be over this

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become conscientious objectors there may be evil happening

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but I'm not to resist it and I'm

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not going to get in part of the

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war issues but that also here has nothing

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to do with with what Jesus is talking

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about Jesus here is not he's not speaking

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to nations he's not speaking to governments he's

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not speaking to cities he's not speaking to

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groups of people that by law God gave

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the law there for nations and for governments

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to hold and maintain and establish to protect

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their people to provide a stable peaceful environment

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and so that the law does lay out

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for these things he isn't speaking now you

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know in the Old Testament Moses was speaking

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to the legal matters not to the individual

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but here in the New Testament Jesus is

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speaking to the individual but he is not

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speaking nationally he isn't telling the nation how

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this is he's talking here to a person

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that's been through the Beatitudes a person that

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wants Christ to made me enthroned a person

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that wants that daily walk and that communion

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with God in their relationship how to maintain

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it and their attitudes towards God and towards

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other people personally but he's not speaking you

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know people go out and they want to

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say Jesus said resist not evil and they're

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anti you know anything that has to do

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with law and and when law even tries

532
00:21:36,670 --> 00:21:39,530
to deal with anything that's unlawful or immoral

533
00:21:39,530 --> 00:21:42,250
or evil as soon as law stands up

534
00:21:42,250 --> 00:21:43,890
they said resist not evil it's not the

535
00:21:43,890 --> 00:21:46,170
Christian thing to do that's not what he's

536
00:21:46,170 --> 00:21:49,070
talking about here at all but any rate

537
00:21:49,070 --> 00:21:51,310
here he is talking here to the person

538
00:21:51,310 --> 00:21:53,270
in the context of the Sermon on the

539
00:21:53,270 --> 00:21:56,110
Mount is poor in spirit they mourn over

540
00:21:56,110 --> 00:21:59,930
their sin they've asked Christ to be enthroned

541
00:21:59,930 --> 00:22:01,310
I want to walk with you I don't

542
00:22:01,310 --> 00:22:03,630
I don't want to drive you out by

543
00:22:03,630 --> 00:22:05,450
my anger towards other I don't want to

544
00:22:05,450 --> 00:22:08,350
drive you out by my covetous lustful heart

545
00:22:08,350 --> 00:22:11,110
towards others I don't want to drive you

546
00:22:11,110 --> 00:22:12,870
away from the throne of my heart because

547
00:22:12,870 --> 00:22:15,050
the fact I I make commitments I don't

548
00:22:15,050 --> 00:22:17,190
keep them I open my mouth and I

549
00:22:17,190 --> 00:22:19,250
and I say words and don't mean them

550
00:22:19,250 --> 00:22:22,190
and now he is he is now taking

551
00:22:22,190 --> 00:22:24,390
it on to another personal level within our

552
00:22:24,390 --> 00:22:27,550
own life and on how you know in

553
00:22:27,550 --> 00:22:31,110
that daily walk in communion with him and

554
00:22:31,110 --> 00:22:33,330
he's not talking here even about me as

555
00:22:33,330 --> 00:22:36,410
a citizen if there's something that has been

556
00:22:36,410 --> 00:22:40,790
happening to me if the IRS comes along

557
00:22:40,790 --> 00:22:42,230
and tells me I own a bunch of

558
00:22:42,230 --> 00:22:44,450
money and I don't know to him there's

559
00:22:44,450 --> 00:22:46,630
no problem going with it you know to

560
00:22:46,630 --> 00:22:49,510
fight it if you don't know it and

561
00:22:49,510 --> 00:22:51,970
there's no problem you know that it did

562
00:22:51,970 --> 00:22:53,590
Jesus here isn't talking about that he's not

563
00:22:53,590 --> 00:22:55,850
talking about you know my dealings with the

564
00:22:55,850 --> 00:22:57,870
government or dealings you know in a broader

565
00:22:57,870 --> 00:23:01,770
scale he's talking about my heart my fellowship

566
00:23:01,770 --> 00:23:04,350
with God and with man in the attitudes

567
00:23:04,350 --> 00:23:05,850
of my heart and this is what he

568
00:23:05,850 --> 00:23:10,030
is dealing with here and essentially here now

569
00:23:10,030 --> 00:23:11,810
in the second the section we're in here

570
00:23:11,810 --> 00:23:14,390
he simply has one issue almost though it

571
00:23:14,390 --> 00:23:16,290
he comes at it from about three different

572
00:23:16,290 --> 00:23:19,930
illustrations of verses and that is essentially now

573
00:23:19,930 --> 00:23:21,890
not only what my attitude towards people I

574
00:23:21,890 --> 00:23:24,930
don't like people of attitudes I shouldn't like

575
00:23:24,930 --> 00:23:27,090
and do in the wrong way or things

576
00:23:27,090 --> 00:23:29,730
or the world that I'm covetous or lustful

577
00:23:29,730 --> 00:23:33,050
about or commitments that I won't maintain that

578
00:23:33,050 --> 00:23:35,470
I've made or words that I take lightly

579
00:23:35,470 --> 00:23:38,050
now he looks at now what is my

580
00:23:38,050 --> 00:23:43,210
ongoing attitude towards myself and the best way

581
00:23:43,210 --> 00:23:45,330
to find out what your attitude towards yourself

582
00:23:45,330 --> 00:23:47,090
is is just to find out how it

583
00:23:47,090 --> 00:23:49,250
responds when other people how other people deal

584
00:23:49,250 --> 00:23:52,030
with it best way you can more you

585
00:23:52,030 --> 00:23:53,730
want to find out anything of what kind

586
00:23:53,730 --> 00:23:55,810
of a person you really are don't ask

587
00:23:55,810 --> 00:23:59,350
yourself and don't ask your mother you know

588
00:23:59,350 --> 00:24:03,210
they are something and you know in but

589
00:24:03,210 --> 00:24:06,730
here you ask the people that you struggle

590
00:24:06,730 --> 00:24:08,950
with just look in a sense it's your

591
00:24:08,950 --> 00:24:11,890
own life and because here now he looks

592
00:24:11,890 --> 00:24:13,730
and he says to us there he says

593
00:24:13,730 --> 00:24:15,530
I send you the resist not evil but

594
00:24:15,530 --> 00:24:17,510
whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek

595
00:24:17,510 --> 00:24:20,050
turn to him the other also and he

596
00:24:20,050 --> 00:24:22,850
gives us four little you know things here

597
00:24:22,850 --> 00:24:25,830
that he tells us on how to examine

598
00:24:25,830 --> 00:24:28,230
your own heart how do you think and

599
00:24:28,230 --> 00:24:31,570
you know about other people essentially and the

600
00:24:31,570 --> 00:24:32,730
first one is what do you do when

601
00:24:32,730 --> 00:24:35,530
somebody puts you down that's essentially what he's

602
00:24:35,530 --> 00:24:37,990
saying and you know you've heard you know

603
00:24:37,990 --> 00:24:40,270
that that I send you resist not evil

604
00:24:40,270 --> 00:24:42,030
whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek

605
00:24:42,030 --> 00:24:44,870
turn to him the other also now this

606
00:24:44,870 --> 00:24:46,690
by the way just to put it in

607
00:24:46,690 --> 00:24:49,470
context here what Jesus talking about is somebody

608
00:24:49,470 --> 00:24:52,070
you know you know he walks up to

609
00:24:52,070 --> 00:24:53,410
you on the street and hauls off and

610
00:24:53,410 --> 00:24:56,270
just slugged you because they want to rob

611
00:24:56,270 --> 00:24:59,010
you and give me your wallet and then

612
00:24:59,010 --> 00:25:00,430
you turn there well excuse me we got

613
00:25:00,430 --> 00:25:02,110
a little piece of scripture to finish first

614
00:25:02,110 --> 00:25:04,130
man turn the cheek you know something here

615
00:25:04,130 --> 00:25:06,310
so you can hit me again you know

616
00:25:06,310 --> 00:25:09,770
what this actually the concept here that he's

617
00:25:09,770 --> 00:25:13,130
talking about there is not against somebody protecting

618
00:25:13,130 --> 00:25:15,470
you know in a physical sense that's not

619
00:25:15,470 --> 00:25:18,030
what he's talking about here this is when

620
00:25:18,030 --> 00:25:19,890
he talks about you know turning the other

621
00:25:19,890 --> 00:25:21,490
cheek maybe you remember it's like some of

622
00:25:21,490 --> 00:25:27,250
the old swashbuckling or three musketeers type of

623
00:25:27,250 --> 00:25:29,890
stories you know or d'artagnan you know

624
00:25:29,890 --> 00:25:31,510
and you know and there where they'd go

625
00:25:31,510 --> 00:25:33,770
and they'd challenge somebody and they take their

626
00:25:33,770 --> 00:25:36,830
glove off and they would slap somebody in

627
00:25:36,830 --> 00:25:39,710
the cheek I mean it's humiliating you know

628
00:25:39,710 --> 00:25:42,150
sort of a thing and and there when

629
00:25:42,150 --> 00:25:44,610
when somebody does something that puts you down

630
00:25:44,610 --> 00:25:48,270
and somebody there humiliate you because now when

631
00:25:48,270 --> 00:25:50,070
they do that that's the way that they

632
00:25:50,070 --> 00:25:52,890
challenge you to a duel when somebody there

633
00:25:52,890 --> 00:25:54,490
wants to you have a sword fight or

634
00:25:54,490 --> 00:25:56,750
we're gonna watch you know that 15 paces

635
00:25:56,750 --> 00:25:59,010
or whatever and turn around and I'm gonna

636
00:25:59,010 --> 00:26:01,250
kill you but in order to do it

637
00:26:01,250 --> 00:26:02,870
we have to have a duel I want

638
00:26:02,870 --> 00:26:04,610
to take you down I don't like you

639
00:26:04,610 --> 00:26:06,050
or whatever else and they so they come

640
00:26:06,050 --> 00:26:08,610
up and they slap you and now you

641
00:26:08,610 --> 00:26:11,550
there's that just any self-respecting human being

642
00:26:11,550 --> 00:26:14,350
is now forced to do I mean now

643
00:26:14,350 --> 00:26:16,770
you're you're not a man any longer you've

644
00:26:16,770 --> 00:26:19,150
you you've given up your masculinity you're a

645
00:26:19,150 --> 00:26:21,350
wimp you know you're a fool in everybody's

646
00:26:21,350 --> 00:26:24,330
eyes and you don't look good and here

647
00:26:24,330 --> 00:26:27,770
at this point you know if you turn

648
00:26:27,770 --> 00:26:29,890
the other cheek there now you know you're

649
00:26:29,890 --> 00:26:32,130
a wimp and so you now have to

650
00:26:32,130 --> 00:26:34,130
when they do that everybody's looking at you

651
00:26:34,130 --> 00:26:37,290
and and so all right pick your weapon

652
00:26:37,290 --> 00:26:39,790
you know or whatever else and we're going

653
00:26:39,790 --> 00:26:43,790
to battle and this oftentimes has been misunderstood

654
00:26:43,790 --> 00:26:46,290
I heard a story of a fellow one

655
00:26:46,290 --> 00:26:48,390
time he's sharing Christ with a friend or

656
00:26:48,390 --> 00:26:51,450
somebody and probably not a friend obviously but

657
00:26:51,450 --> 00:26:52,710
he told him he's a Christian the guy

658
00:26:52,710 --> 00:26:54,390
says you're not a Christian he said I'm

659
00:26:54,390 --> 00:26:56,890
too Christian he says you're not and he

660
00:26:56,890 --> 00:26:58,850
said yes I am he said why do

661
00:26:58,850 --> 00:26:59,690
you say that he said well I have

662
00:26:59,690 --> 00:27:02,370
a very simple way to test it and

663
00:27:02,370 --> 00:27:04,510
he says what's that and he says do

664
00:27:04,510 --> 00:27:05,410
you mind if I do it he says

665
00:27:05,410 --> 00:27:07,530
no go ahead he hauls off and he

666
00:27:07,530 --> 00:27:11,130
slugs and the guy says the Bible says

667
00:27:11,130 --> 00:27:14,330
that you're to turn the other cheek he

668
00:27:14,330 --> 00:27:16,950
looks at him for a moment turns the

669
00:27:16,950 --> 00:27:20,530
other cheek guy hauls off slugs him again

670
00:27:20,530 --> 00:27:23,250
the fella starts rolling up his sleeves down

671
00:27:23,250 --> 00:27:25,430
he says hey what are you doing he

672
00:27:25,430 --> 00:27:27,350
says after that my Lord my Lord gave

673
00:27:27,350 --> 00:27:37,330
no further directions and but the but this

674
00:27:37,330 --> 00:27:40,170
is a challenge though this is when somebody's

675
00:27:40,170 --> 00:27:43,090
pride is being attacked when it's being when

676
00:27:43,090 --> 00:27:45,670
it's being put down and here Jesus is

677
00:27:45,670 --> 00:27:47,890
simply saying there that one of the things

678
00:27:47,890 --> 00:27:50,850
there about a man who supposedly is poor

679
00:27:50,850 --> 00:27:52,930
in spirit he mourns over his own sinfulness

680
00:27:52,930 --> 00:27:54,970
he hates his ego he hates his pride

681
00:27:54,970 --> 00:27:57,550
he hates his self-sufficiency he hates his

682
00:27:57,550 --> 00:28:00,590
self-respecting nature anyplace he's lost in God

683
00:28:00,590 --> 00:28:02,890
he wants to give his life fully over

684
00:28:02,890 --> 00:28:05,210
to him he has no identity he wants

685
00:28:05,210 --> 00:28:07,970
to protect supposedly anyway that's the life that

686
00:28:07,970 --> 00:28:10,310
Jesus is enthroned in and so now when

687
00:28:10,310 --> 00:28:12,750
somebody comes and they do something that just

688
00:28:12,750 --> 00:28:15,610
would get to you something there that just

689
00:28:15,610 --> 00:28:19,370
kind of smacks at your pride and and

690
00:28:19,370 --> 00:28:20,930
it can be you know they they put

691
00:28:20,930 --> 00:28:24,190
you down and something inside would want to

692
00:28:24,190 --> 00:28:26,270
rise you realize wait a minute Lord because

693
00:28:26,270 --> 00:28:31,070
even as that rises the throne goes Lord

694
00:28:31,070 --> 00:28:34,950
I don't want that I want you to

695
00:28:34,950 --> 00:28:37,070
stay on the throne more than I want

696
00:28:37,070 --> 00:28:40,590
my pride to be defended I want you

697
00:28:40,590 --> 00:28:43,670
to stay in power and enjoy and in

698
00:28:43,670 --> 00:28:45,930
peace within my heart more than I want

699
00:28:45,930 --> 00:28:49,410
to put them down you know in return

700
00:28:49,410 --> 00:28:51,550
more than I want to deal with them

701
00:28:51,550 --> 00:28:54,250
and when we realize that that is what

702
00:28:54,250 --> 00:28:56,690
it is that we ought to want so

703
00:28:56,690 --> 00:28:58,590
often something happens and we can just get

704
00:28:58,590 --> 00:29:02,450
so offended and everything in us rises up

705
00:29:02,450 --> 00:29:05,970
and we got to deal with them remember

706
00:29:05,970 --> 00:29:07,650
one time I was in college and I

707
00:29:07,650 --> 00:29:10,690
was coming home from Cal Poly Pomona on

708
00:29:10,690 --> 00:29:13,270
the 10 freeway and I had my little

709
00:29:13,270 --> 00:29:15,370
Volkswagen I'm driving along and I must have

710
00:29:15,370 --> 00:29:16,910
been daydreaming or something I don't know what

711
00:29:16,910 --> 00:29:17,990
I was doing but all of a sudden

712
00:29:17,990 --> 00:29:20,670
I hear this horn an 18-wheelers horn

713
00:29:20,670 --> 00:29:24,010
no less behind me that just I shocked

714
00:29:24,010 --> 00:29:25,750
me and I looked in my rearview mirror

715
00:29:25,750 --> 00:29:28,410
and there seemed like right on my bumper

716
00:29:28,410 --> 00:29:30,790
was this grill you know as I'm looking

717
00:29:30,790 --> 00:29:33,550
through my rearview mirror this great big 18

718
00:29:33,550 --> 00:29:34,850
-wheeler I don't know where he came from

719
00:29:34,850 --> 00:29:36,810
and the first shock was is when you

720
00:29:36,810 --> 00:29:37,930
see that you don't know if they're about

721
00:29:37,930 --> 00:29:39,130
to hit you or where they come from

722
00:29:39,130 --> 00:29:41,870
and you got one second before you're dead

723
00:29:41,870 --> 00:29:43,970
you know and then after I realized after

724
00:29:43,970 --> 00:29:46,390
a moment no he had control of his

725
00:29:46,390 --> 00:29:48,690
truck he just didn't want me in front

726
00:29:48,690 --> 00:29:51,630
of him and he didn't need a Volkswagen

727
00:29:51,630 --> 00:29:55,070
in front of his 18-wheeler well after

728
00:29:55,070 --> 00:29:57,170
I did a moment later I got you

729
00:29:57,170 --> 00:29:58,150
know I sat there and thought of that

730
00:29:58,150 --> 00:29:59,390
made all of a sudden that made me

731
00:29:59,390 --> 00:30:02,470
mad and I'm there sitting there so I

732
00:30:02,470 --> 00:30:06,450
decided you know I all right I don't

733
00:30:06,450 --> 00:30:09,150
I mean just stupid no justification for it

734
00:30:09,150 --> 00:30:10,710
but I just saw so I would just

735
00:30:10,710 --> 00:30:12,730
slow up a little and then I'd speed

736
00:30:12,730 --> 00:30:14,230
up a little and I kind of slow

737
00:30:14,230 --> 00:30:16,190
off and just let this guy then he's

738
00:30:16,190 --> 00:30:18,170
just little his lights in his horn everything's

739
00:30:18,170 --> 00:30:20,850
going I'm just having the greatest time getting

740
00:30:20,850 --> 00:30:23,210
back at him you know sort of a

741
00:30:23,210 --> 00:30:25,270
thing there you know you want to ruin

742
00:30:25,270 --> 00:30:28,170
my day I'm gonna ruin your day and

743
00:30:28,170 --> 00:30:29,690
then the next thing the lights are blinking

744
00:30:29,690 --> 00:30:31,090
horn and then he's sitting there and he's

745
00:30:31,090 --> 00:30:33,230
waving pull over pull over you know and

746
00:30:33,230 --> 00:30:35,210
stuff he wanted to take me on and

747
00:30:35,210 --> 00:30:37,450
I so then I decided at that point

748
00:30:37,450 --> 00:30:40,030
all right we'll do that and I wait

749
00:30:40,030 --> 00:30:42,370
back pull over so he starts to pull

750
00:30:42,370 --> 00:30:44,390
this is on the 10 freeway distance to

751
00:30:44,390 --> 00:30:46,650
San Marino so he pulls I pull off

752
00:30:46,650 --> 00:30:48,470
and I was really I was by this

753
00:30:48,470 --> 00:30:49,830
time I was so mad I was so

754
00:30:49,830 --> 00:30:52,250
living I why I was you know I

755
00:30:52,250 --> 00:30:53,610
don't know whether he what he thought was

756
00:30:53,610 --> 00:30:55,810
in there but I'm I'm a college guy

757
00:30:55,810 --> 00:30:57,950
and I'm tough buddy and you're gonna you

758
00:30:57,950 --> 00:31:00,170
know or something whatever I thought but I'll

759
00:31:00,170 --> 00:31:01,730
never get I get out of my car

760
00:31:01,730 --> 00:31:03,890
and I'm walking back and his truck is

761
00:31:03,890 --> 00:31:06,370
there and this 80 the door opens up

762
00:31:06,370 --> 00:31:08,290
and you know I was waiting for this

763
00:31:08,290 --> 00:31:09,870
guy to step down but he didn't step

764
00:31:09,870 --> 00:31:12,390
down he just stepped out I mean this

765
00:31:12,390 --> 00:31:14,950
guy was so huge he didn't he didn't

766
00:31:14,950 --> 00:31:17,910
come down he just I just well foot

767
00:31:17,910 --> 00:31:19,770
went down and I'm saying this guy I'm

768
00:31:19,770 --> 00:31:24,950
I'll never forget this because I'm there you

769
00:31:24,950 --> 00:31:26,310
know at least I'm getting in the first

770
00:31:26,310 --> 00:31:27,910
blow or something all I looked at this

771
00:31:27,910 --> 00:31:31,490
as soon as I saw that how big

772
00:31:31,490 --> 00:31:33,530
I turned right around got my books why

773
00:31:33,530 --> 00:31:36,470
I went off this I made some gesture

774
00:31:36,470 --> 00:31:39,030
probably to let him know that I wasn't

775
00:31:39,030 --> 00:31:42,970
afraid of him but I was gone but

776
00:31:42,970 --> 00:31:48,690
but me but pride gets us into these

777
00:31:48,690 --> 00:31:52,610
stupid things all the time we and and

778
00:31:52,610 --> 00:31:54,970
somebody and then but but the great cost

779
00:31:54,970 --> 00:31:57,050
of it isn't just that isn't just the

780
00:31:57,050 --> 00:31:59,390
fact that the blessing of the beatitudes oh

781
00:31:59,390 --> 00:32:02,990
how happy the happiness goes the throne goes

782
00:32:02,990 --> 00:32:06,370
the salt of the earth loses its savor

783
00:32:06,370 --> 00:32:09,050
the light of the world is about to

784
00:32:09,050 --> 00:32:11,150
get its own lights punched out you know

785
00:32:11,150 --> 00:32:14,350
or something in there you realize everything that

786
00:32:14,350 --> 00:32:16,290
I longed to have in my life has

787
00:32:16,290 --> 00:32:19,110
just been in the last you know five

788
00:32:19,110 --> 00:32:23,710
minutes on the freeway destroyed and then you

789
00:32:23,710 --> 00:32:25,310
drive it home and all the time you're

790
00:32:25,310 --> 00:32:27,710
explaining to somebody or whatever it is or

791
00:32:27,710 --> 00:32:30,290
you're nobody's there but you're going through it

792
00:32:30,290 --> 00:32:32,430
all in your mind in your own misery

793
00:32:32,430 --> 00:32:35,630
and here Jesus says this is precisely what

794
00:32:35,630 --> 00:32:39,210
happens to people somebody comes along and some

795
00:32:39,210 --> 00:32:40,990
little thing all the time and I think

796
00:32:40,990 --> 00:32:42,670
nor you they put you down or they

797
00:32:42,670 --> 00:32:46,290
don't feed your ego or something happens and

798
00:32:46,290 --> 00:32:51,170
you find yourself in trouble and in here

799
00:32:51,170 --> 00:32:53,390
and you know Jesus looks and he says

800
00:32:53,390 --> 00:32:55,550
these are the battles these are the issues

801
00:32:55,550 --> 00:32:58,030
they confront everyone not just you this is

802
00:32:58,030 --> 00:33:01,010
written two thousand years ago hundreds of millions

803
00:33:01,010 --> 00:33:02,990
of people that are made exactly the same

804
00:33:02,990 --> 00:33:05,610
as you and me have the same struggles

805
00:33:05,610 --> 00:33:08,150
and Jesus knows the battle and he says

806
00:33:08,150 --> 00:33:10,490
here's the plan here are the issues that

807
00:33:10,490 --> 00:33:12,990
the Christian looks at these are the battles

808
00:33:12,990 --> 00:33:14,770
I want to fight and I want to

809
00:33:14,770 --> 00:33:17,930
win not the ones on the road and

810
00:33:17,930 --> 00:33:19,870
not the ones with other people they don't

811
00:33:19,870 --> 00:33:22,330
I'm tired of even thinking I might have

812
00:33:22,330 --> 00:33:25,350
won some of those because every one of

813
00:33:25,350 --> 00:33:28,510
them cost me the life and the power

814
00:33:28,510 --> 00:33:31,970
and the flow of my Lord reigning as

815
00:33:31,970 --> 00:33:34,950
King and then he says if any man

816
00:33:34,950 --> 00:33:37,330
will sue thee at the law and take

817
00:33:37,330 --> 00:33:39,550
away thy coat let him have that cloak

818
00:33:39,550 --> 00:33:42,750
also now back then a lot of people

819
00:33:42,750 --> 00:33:45,330
they wore what were almost two coats or

820
00:33:45,330 --> 00:33:48,390
two new garments one was you know a

821
00:33:48,390 --> 00:33:50,950
kind of a fitted inner vest which is

822
00:33:50,950 --> 00:33:53,650
called a coat here and then there's the

823
00:33:53,650 --> 00:33:55,730
cloak which is more of you know an

824
00:33:55,730 --> 00:33:59,670
outer garment and in here do what happens

825
00:33:59,670 --> 00:34:01,650
is is that somebody comes along now and

826
00:34:01,650 --> 00:34:03,390
they sue you at the law in a

827
00:34:03,390 --> 00:34:06,570
sense and I don't think necessarily that Jesus

828
00:34:06,570 --> 00:34:08,810
talking about somebody actually filing suit although it

829
00:34:08,810 --> 00:34:11,370
definitely could be that as well but essentially

830
00:34:11,370 --> 00:34:14,630
somebody wants something that you have the right

831
00:34:14,630 --> 00:34:18,230
to have by all legal rights by all

832
00:34:18,230 --> 00:34:21,489
of what it is it is yours and

833
00:34:21,489 --> 00:34:24,969
somebody comes along and they infringe upon your

834
00:34:24,969 --> 00:34:28,090
rights on what you know to be your

835
00:34:28,090 --> 00:34:30,989
rights that are your space whatever it is

836
00:34:30,989 --> 00:34:33,429
it belongs to you and and they have

837
00:34:33,429 --> 00:34:34,989
no right to it at all but they're

838
00:34:34,989 --> 00:34:37,989
going to get it they're gonna come along

839
00:34:37,989 --> 00:34:39,750
and you look and there's somebody that they

840
00:34:39,750 --> 00:34:43,770
that they do something and and there an

841
00:34:43,770 --> 00:34:47,250
injustice is happening again right then something comes

842
00:34:47,250 --> 00:34:50,010
up within us that we just gotta make

843
00:34:50,010 --> 00:34:53,790
it right that is wrong that is dead

844
00:34:53,790 --> 00:34:56,070
wrong there's no way in the world I

845
00:34:56,070 --> 00:34:59,610
mean any self-respecting human being is to

846
00:34:59,610 --> 00:35:02,490
let people like this live like this and

847
00:35:02,490 --> 00:35:06,210
do this sort of stuff you know way

848
00:35:06,210 --> 00:35:08,910
in all a world I'm gonna stand by

849
00:35:08,910 --> 00:35:12,750
and let that happen in here Jesus essentially

850
00:35:12,750 --> 00:35:16,130
looks there and he says when somebody finds

851
00:35:16,130 --> 00:35:19,030
there that they did that they so desperately

852
00:35:19,030 --> 00:35:22,290
think they need your rights your space your

853
00:35:22,290 --> 00:35:27,780
something and that's gonna make him happy he

854
00:35:27,780 --> 00:35:34,260
looks at it and he says as a

855
00:35:34,260 --> 00:35:37,500
matter of fact give him more and give

856
00:35:37,500 --> 00:35:40,140
him your cloak also he wants your shirt

857
00:35:40,140 --> 00:35:43,580
give him your jacket when there is somebody

858
00:35:43,580 --> 00:35:45,660
there that comes along in a sense of

859
00:35:45,660 --> 00:35:47,280
rather than saying but you don't have it's

860
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:51,700
not your shirt to my shirt and but

861
00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:53,560
here you know the thing is he looks

862
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:57,340
there when somebody's gotta have some that isn't

863
00:35:57,340 --> 00:36:00,480
what made you happy hopefully having it what

864
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,040
made you happy was the Beatitudes what made

865
00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:04,920
you was the life of Christ in throne

866
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,320
what made you happy was having him rule

867
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,100
and reign and now you found a greater

868
00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:12,020
happiness oh you used to have to have

869
00:36:12,020 --> 00:36:13,300
all that stuff you used to have to

870
00:36:13,300 --> 00:36:14,640
fight for your rights and I want this

871
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:15,940
I want that and I'm gonna get this

872
00:36:15,940 --> 00:36:17,600
thing and you did that never made you

873
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,140
happy you were the same way that they

874
00:36:19,140 --> 00:36:22,220
were to you but now he said when

875
00:36:22,220 --> 00:36:24,680
somebody is that way because you're salt and

876
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,520
because you're light because you're happy and because

877
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,760
your joy is doesn't even require that space

878
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:33,980
or this thing and somebody's gotta have it

879
00:36:33,980 --> 00:36:36,920
give it to him you don't need it

880
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,960
you don't need it at all I think

881
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,020
the most wonderful thing that can ever happen

882
00:36:43,020 --> 00:36:44,460
to a Christian is when they come to

883
00:36:44,460 --> 00:36:46,160
our Lord I don't need anything for but

884
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,500
you that's it and to have you in

885
00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:52,640
throne that's what I want and to have

886
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:55,560
you there is King within my heart within

887
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:57,240
my life and and we live in a

888
00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:59,320
day and age now where anything goes wrong

889
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:05,000
anybody infringes on your rights just so you

890
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,400
know sort of a thing and and that'll

891
00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:11,260
get their attention you know in fact the

892
00:37:11,260 --> 00:37:14,120
weirdest thing today I went home and there's

893
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,260
in my mailbox there's a letter from an

894
00:37:16,260 --> 00:37:21,180
attorney and and it just had my address

895
00:37:21,180 --> 00:37:23,060
on it and I open this thing up

896
00:37:23,060 --> 00:37:24,500
I wonder what it is well there's an

897
00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:28,240
attorney down the street that had written a

898
00:37:28,240 --> 00:37:30,360
letter to all the neighbors and they're having

899
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:34,680
water problems at their house and they don't

900
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,240
know where it's coming from but anybody this

901
00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:38,700
is kind of gradually up the street they're

902
00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:41,360
serving them warning you better turn off your

903
00:37:41,360 --> 00:37:44,560
sprinklers and because there's damage being done and

904
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,320
who knows who it's coming from and every

905
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,140
I read that thing and something inside of

906
00:37:50,140 --> 00:37:52,840
me says you know I haven't killed an

907
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,700
attorney all week you know I mean the

908
00:37:54,700 --> 00:37:56,420
first thing I mean that it can happen

909
00:37:56,420 --> 00:37:58,160
there I mean I'm said where's an attorney

910
00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:59,600
why didn't the guy come over and knock

911
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:00,920
on my door I am your neighbor I

912
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:02,840
got a water problem can you help me

913
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,500
but instead you know on their legal paper

914
00:38:05,500 --> 00:38:08,040
they're just suggesting I mean it was written

915
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:09,620
in such a way between the lines though

916
00:38:09,620 --> 00:38:11,600
you didn't have any problem figuring out what

917
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,380
they want in you say well sue all

918
00:38:14,380 --> 00:38:17,040
through the world all through the neighborhood and

919
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:18,760
you wanted to say boy would you I'd

920
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:20,160
love you to come to our next block

921
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:22,640
party you know or something because we need

922
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,820
a block like you you know or something

923
00:38:24,820 --> 00:38:28,160
almost the immediate response I looked at that

924
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,560
thing and instead I walked down knocked on

925
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,580
the door and in find myself Lord this

926
00:38:34,580 --> 00:38:36,320
I said hey I see you have what

927
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,340
you didn't I can do to help you

928
00:38:38,340 --> 00:38:39,700
and he said well where do you live

929
00:38:39,700 --> 00:38:41,180
I said just a few doors up here

930
00:38:41,180 --> 00:38:43,780
and I said I don't know what could

931
00:38:43,780 --> 00:38:45,200
be going on if there's anything I can

932
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,260
do or with anybody you know I'd sure

933
00:38:47,260 --> 00:38:48,560
love to just see us all do great

934
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,200
he ended up being the nicest guy all

935
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,220
of a sudden and for at least a

936
00:38:52,220 --> 00:38:54,040
few minutes till he finds us coming from

937
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,700
my house but the which I don't think

938
00:38:56,700 --> 00:38:59,560
it is but the he said well you're

939
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,600
probably too far away but the thing some

940
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,620
happens today soon just soon and you know

941
00:39:05,620 --> 00:39:08,040
you slip on a banana just get an

942
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,380
attorney just get one will you will just

943
00:39:10,380 --> 00:39:13,780
start with Chiquita bananas you know we'll get

944
00:39:13,780 --> 00:39:15,800
the banana farm we'll get the banana fold

945
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:17,640
both you know we'll get them you know

946
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:19,640
the the dock workers will give the guys

947
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,640
that delivered the bananas to the grocery store

948
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:23,560
will sue the grocery store and the box

949
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,160
boy they put the banana and your trunk

950
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,860
is somebody there is going to be responsible

951
00:39:27,860 --> 00:39:32,560
for your problem and and when we have

952
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,440
that type attitude that anything goes wrong I'm

953
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:38,120
gonna find somebody that's the world we live

954
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:41,800
in and here Jesus saying essentially there that

955
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,240
when you're around people like this disarm them

956
00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:48,320
disarm them find out what you can do

957
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,340
to help them in this that in he

958
00:39:51,340 --> 00:39:53,840
says you'll find also I'll remain in throne

959
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,860
I'll give you the words to share with

960
00:39:55,860 --> 00:39:58,980
them I'll help you through these difficult awkward

961
00:39:58,980 --> 00:40:02,580
times and and you'll be salt of the

962
00:40:02,580 --> 00:40:03,900
earth you'll be the light of the world

963
00:40:03,900 --> 00:40:05,940
and you'll be happy when when when you're

964
00:40:05,940 --> 00:40:08,220
done with it when you walk away from

965
00:40:08,220 --> 00:40:11,240
it and but when we finally can learn

966
00:40:11,240 --> 00:40:14,380
these things when not to say you never

967
00:40:14,380 --> 00:40:17,920
in court and you know I'm a I'm

968
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,840
things I know he's talking about relationships here

969
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:23,740
my own heart he goes on in verse

970
00:40:23,740 --> 00:40:26,020
41 he says whose service shall compel thee

971
00:40:26,020 --> 00:40:27,420
to go a mile go with him to

972
00:40:27,420 --> 00:40:31,200
there's something once again inside of us there

973
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,840
Jesus saying you want me enthroned these are

974
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:35,320
the things that happen to you all day

975
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,180
long somebody put you down somebody wants to

976
00:40:38,180 --> 00:40:40,000
take advantage of you somebody wants to come

977
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,720
along you got your agenda you got your

978
00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:44,400
plans somebody comes along infringes in your your

979
00:40:44,400 --> 00:40:47,640
space and says hey take this for me

980
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,320
under Roman law back there at that time

981
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:53,280
any you know Roman authority could come up

982
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,500
to you centurion you just come and and

983
00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:57,980
compel you to carry a stuff for a

984
00:40:57,980 --> 00:41:00,060
mile for him no matter what you are

985
00:41:00,060 --> 00:41:02,060
what you're doing minding your own business whatever

986
00:41:02,060 --> 00:41:03,560
else he could just come right up you

987
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,780
carry this and that the Jews were very

988
00:41:06,780 --> 00:41:09,740
bitter about that they were so angry you

989
00:41:09,740 --> 00:41:11,400
know this whole thing and maybe they would

990
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,200
do it but they sure had one miserable

991
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,560
mile walking with that guy and that guy

992
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,360
sure had a miserable mile walking with him

993
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:20,600
and they would make that no and here

994
00:41:20,600 --> 00:41:22,620
Jesus said you know when somebody takes advantage

995
00:41:22,620 --> 00:41:25,320
of you when somebody comes along and uses

996
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,040
you and they mess up your agenda and

997
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,000
they mess up your plans how do you

998
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,800
react are they just an intrusion in your

999
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,960
life saying hello what are you doing here

1000
00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:39,340
you know I don't need you and I'm

1001
00:41:39,340 --> 00:41:41,600
trying to he said right then as soon

1002
00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:44,240
as this happens there's this you can just

1003
00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:48,340
sense the throne being vacated you can just

1004
00:41:48,340 --> 00:41:52,620
senses you know in the Jesus just saying

1005
00:41:52,620 --> 00:41:56,480
okay you want to run it you go

1006
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,520
run it and you know the thing that

1007
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,520
he looks at us that because as far

1008
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:05,240
as Jesus concerned he loves doing stuff for

1009
00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:08,140
people he loves you know you look at

1010
00:42:08,140 --> 00:42:09,660
him all day long wherever he was people

1011
00:42:09,660 --> 00:42:12,420
coming up and grabbing and in pushing and

1012
00:42:12,420 --> 00:42:14,780
shoving and and where the disciples said stay

1013
00:42:14,780 --> 00:42:17,020
away leave him alone and they're shoving off

1014
00:42:17,020 --> 00:42:20,180
the kids and everybody and here Jesus he

1015
00:42:20,180 --> 00:42:23,380
just looked there his life he just people

1016
00:42:24,980 --> 00:42:29,140
relationships friendships they were so so wonderful dad

1017
00:42:29,140 --> 00:42:31,460
to have and when we stop there and

1018
00:42:31,460 --> 00:42:36,400
we realize there and you know that we're

1019
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,880
here for people a lot of times they

1020
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,840
don't seem to be here for us but

1021
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,020
a Christian ought to be here for people

1022
00:42:44,020 --> 00:42:46,780
where you going what are you doing how

1023
00:42:46,780 --> 00:42:50,550
can I help you a couple weeks ago

1024
00:42:50,550 --> 00:42:54,130
I went into the DMV needed to get

1025
00:42:54,130 --> 00:42:56,530
my address changed for my license and things

1026
00:42:56,530 --> 00:43:01,790
and I walked in there and found my

1027
00:43:01,790 --> 00:43:05,110
way around to the information booth and I

1028
00:43:05,110 --> 00:43:06,570
work my way up to it and there's

1029
00:43:06,570 --> 00:43:08,710
a lady sitting there at a desk and

1030
00:43:08,710 --> 00:43:10,750
I come up and so I'm just I

1031
00:43:10,750 --> 00:43:12,990
stand there and she's looking down but I

1032
00:43:12,990 --> 00:43:14,510
knew she could see me but she kept

1033
00:43:14,510 --> 00:43:17,390
looking down and I'm and I could see

1034
00:43:17,390 --> 00:43:22,330
well I wanted to hello yeah I just

1035
00:43:22,330 --> 00:43:24,490
come but I just well wait here for

1036
00:43:24,490 --> 00:43:25,910
a moment she may be busy with something

1037
00:43:25,910 --> 00:43:28,730
but I didn't know whether she was what

1038
00:43:28,730 --> 00:43:31,390
she was doing maybe a little quiet time

1039
00:43:31,390 --> 00:43:33,790
you know or something but anyway she's there

1040
00:43:33,790 --> 00:43:35,450
and I knew she knew I was there

1041
00:43:35,450 --> 00:43:38,350
and I just had this feeling that I

1042
00:43:38,350 --> 00:43:40,910
don't know if they get very much but

1043
00:43:40,910 --> 00:43:42,970
what they don't get in money they get

1044
00:43:42,970 --> 00:43:45,050
in power you know sort of a thing

1045
00:43:45,050 --> 00:43:48,270
and they make up your wages with authority

1046
00:43:48,270 --> 00:43:50,530
you can make people wait you know or

1047
00:43:50,530 --> 00:43:52,270
them so I just thought well I'll wait

1048
00:43:52,270 --> 00:43:54,250
here you know and so I waited I

1049
00:43:54,250 --> 00:43:56,810
just wonder how long until and I'm just

1050
00:43:56,810 --> 00:43:58,630
kind of having this little thing going on

1051
00:43:58,630 --> 00:44:01,150
within me so I'm gonna outwait her you

1052
00:44:01,150 --> 00:44:02,590
know and sort of a thing here and

1053
00:44:02,590 --> 00:44:04,950
and then finally after a little while she

1054
00:44:04,950 --> 00:44:06,310
looked up and she had that look on

1055
00:44:06,310 --> 00:44:07,910
her face like all right you outweighed me

1056
00:44:07,910 --> 00:44:10,350
big deal you know or something what do

1057
00:44:10,350 --> 00:44:13,450
you want you just and I just said

1058
00:44:13,450 --> 00:44:15,290
I just need to know what I got

1059
00:44:15,290 --> 00:44:16,830
to do to change my address I'm new

1060
00:44:16,830 --> 00:44:18,850
down here and she points over and she

1061
00:44:18,850 --> 00:44:21,330
says there on this thing over there you

1062
00:44:21,330 --> 00:44:23,350
know you there's and there's the forms and

1063
00:44:23,350 --> 00:44:25,650
I saw thank you that's so wonderful you

1064
00:44:25,650 --> 00:44:27,570
that did not in and I just kind

1065
00:44:27,570 --> 00:44:29,750
of smiled and she she almost smiled it

1066
00:44:29,750 --> 00:44:31,490
was this kind of it but I'm sitting

1067
00:44:31,490 --> 00:44:33,510
there and realizing I actually thought about what

1068
00:44:33,510 --> 00:44:36,390
I'm standing there thinking you know something your

1069
00:44:36,390 --> 00:44:38,150
own heart is you'd like to just sit

1070
00:44:38,150 --> 00:44:39,750
there and just pick up the desk and

1071
00:44:39,750 --> 00:44:42,230
just roll you then she'll turn it over

1072
00:44:42,230 --> 00:44:44,610
oh excuse me I didn't know you know

1073
00:44:44,610 --> 00:44:48,050
there's something or you want to sit there

1074
00:44:48,050 --> 00:44:49,290
and say you know I'd like to change

1075
00:44:49,290 --> 00:44:51,450
your address you know or something they're going

1076
00:44:51,450 --> 00:44:54,570
but you sit there and just realize Lord

1077
00:44:54,570 --> 00:45:00,100
is this worth the price is it worth

1078
00:45:00,100 --> 00:45:02,720
the price because the price is is the

1079
00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:06,720
witness is gone just my luck she goes

1080
00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:10,280
here you know or something but the no

1081
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:11,500
I don't know I'm just I mean I'm

1082
00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:18,970
just saying that would be my but here

1083
00:45:18,970 --> 00:45:21,390
Jesus Jesus simply say life can be so

1084
00:45:21,390 --> 00:45:23,390
simple if you want me in throne if

1085
00:45:23,390 --> 00:45:25,950
you really want me as king he says

1086
00:45:25,950 --> 00:45:27,390
give to him that ask of thee when

1087
00:45:27,390 --> 00:45:29,470
somebody wants to borrow some just do it

1088
00:45:29,470 --> 00:45:32,170
he looks there and here because he says

1089
00:45:32,170 --> 00:45:33,550
if you really want me to be king

1090
00:45:33,550 --> 00:45:35,570
you can handle any of these other things

1091
00:45:35,570 --> 00:45:37,350
anyway you want to but the cost is

1092
00:45:37,350 --> 00:45:40,570
always the same you'll lose my Lordship and

1093
00:45:40,570 --> 00:45:42,430
if you're willing to pay that price then

1094
00:45:42,430 --> 00:45:45,210
go ahead and let your eyes chase after

1095
00:45:45,210 --> 00:45:47,730
that cute little gal or that thing you

1096
00:45:47,730 --> 00:45:50,190
gotta have and you covet this or you

1097
00:45:50,190 --> 00:45:52,410
you don't care that much if I'm king

1098
00:45:52,410 --> 00:45:54,570
and Lord and you care more about it

1099
00:45:54,570 --> 00:45:56,390
being hostile and angry then be hostile and

1100
00:45:56,390 --> 00:45:59,910
angry until you're tired you know one of

1101
00:45:59,910 --> 00:46:02,050
the wonderful things about life is getting old

1102
00:46:02,050 --> 00:46:06,130
it's really a wonderful thing I honestly I

1103
00:46:06,130 --> 00:46:08,250
think some people think I'm weird about this

1104
00:46:08,250 --> 00:46:10,790
but I like getting old I really do

1105
00:46:10,790 --> 00:46:13,310
and I find a lot of things that

1106
00:46:13,310 --> 00:46:15,230
I used to have the energy you know

1107
00:46:15,230 --> 00:46:17,510
to do dumb stuff about I'm getting you

1108
00:46:17,510 --> 00:46:19,490
you know you just figured out Jesus this

1109
00:46:19,490 --> 00:46:21,510
is not worth it used to be worth

1110
00:46:21,510 --> 00:46:23,570
it somehow another I'd blow a whole day

1111
00:46:23,570 --> 00:46:25,230
you know on this thing and my fellowship

1112
00:46:25,230 --> 00:46:26,570
with you but I'm done I'm getting too

1113
00:46:26,570 --> 00:46:29,110
old you know for this I and I

1114
00:46:29,110 --> 00:46:30,950
just want to stay in communion with you

1115
00:46:30,950 --> 00:46:33,210
I just want to stay in fellowship with

1116
00:46:33,210 --> 00:46:36,050
you isn't worth it to me Lord forgive

1117
00:46:36,050 --> 00:46:38,410
me and help me these are the battles

1118
00:46:38,410 --> 00:46:41,510
these are the real issues of life when

1119
00:46:41,510 --> 00:46:43,750
somebody is looking there and saying Lord in

1120
00:46:43,750 --> 00:46:45,710
Jesus he loves he didn't know I don't

1121
00:46:45,710 --> 00:46:46,910
if he loves but he doesn't mind the

1122
00:46:46,910 --> 00:46:49,950
competition he looks there and he says I'm

1123
00:46:49,950 --> 00:46:52,450
willing to compete with your heart whether you

1124
00:46:52,450 --> 00:46:53,990
want it to hate or you want it

1125
00:46:53,990 --> 00:46:56,550
to love and I'll let you choose and

1126
00:46:56,550 --> 00:46:58,910
whether you want to lust and covet or

1127
00:46:58,910 --> 00:47:02,050
whether you want me and whether you want

1128
00:47:02,050 --> 00:47:04,430
to make really commitments and keep them and

1129
00:47:04,430 --> 00:47:07,870
or or or and forget them or you

1130
00:47:07,870 --> 00:47:09,810
want my presence and power to help you

1131
00:47:09,810 --> 00:47:12,150
keep those commitments and if when you open

1132
00:47:12,150 --> 00:47:13,670
your mouth you want to speak the truth

1133
00:47:13,670 --> 00:47:15,370
or you want to make up stories or

1134
00:47:15,370 --> 00:47:19,510
you want me these are the issues that

1135
00:47:19,510 --> 00:47:22,750
so often we are constantly making choices and

1136
00:47:22,750 --> 00:47:24,610
when I sit there and say Jesus I

1137
00:47:24,610 --> 00:47:28,850
want you as my king and I want

1138
00:47:28,850 --> 00:47:31,670
it so bad I don't want to hate

1139
00:47:31,670 --> 00:47:34,870
anymore I want it so bad I'm so

1140
00:47:34,870 --> 00:47:37,650
sick and tired of coveting and lusting I

1141
00:47:37,650 --> 00:47:40,210
wanted so bad I'm tired of making commitments

1142
00:47:40,210 --> 00:47:42,410
and not keeping them I'm tired of opening

1143
00:47:42,410 --> 00:47:44,490
my mouth and just saying stuff that isn't

1144
00:47:44,490 --> 00:47:45,930
true and I know it but I'm just

1145
00:47:45,930 --> 00:47:50,550
buying myself some time and then when I

1146
00:47:50,550 --> 00:47:52,390
I want it so bad that when somebody

1147
00:47:52,390 --> 00:47:54,830
puts me down that this pride that ought

1148
00:47:54,830 --> 00:47:56,810
to be dead anyway Lord help it stay

1149
00:47:56,810 --> 00:47:59,910
dead and when somebody wants some space let

1150
00:47:59,910 --> 00:48:03,770
him have it let him have it when

1151
00:48:03,770 --> 00:48:05,650
these are the things that we want most

1152
00:48:05,650 --> 00:48:09,130
of all this is the sermon of the

1153
00:48:09,130 --> 00:48:12,110
mount this is the battle of life these

1154
00:48:12,110 --> 00:48:13,790
are the battles you and I are fighting

1155
00:48:13,790 --> 00:48:16,910
day by day and as Jesus lays it

1156
00:48:16,910 --> 00:48:20,470
out he simply looks he says what do

1157
00:48:20,470 --> 00:48:24,650
you want because once I'm enthroned if you

1158
00:48:24,650 --> 00:48:27,550
want to keep me enthroned these are the

1159
00:48:27,550 --> 00:48:30,630
things that get me off these are the

1160
00:48:30,630 --> 00:48:33,750
things that remove my my power my spirit

1161
00:48:33,750 --> 00:48:37,090
the flow of my love these are the

1162
00:48:37,090 --> 00:48:38,950
battles every one of us ought to be

1163
00:48:38,950 --> 00:48:42,070
longing to fight and win the victory in

1164
00:48:42,070 --> 00:48:46,710
Christ amen father we thank you for your

1165
00:48:46,710 --> 00:48:49,550
word Lord we thank you for your wonderful

1166
00:48:49,550 --> 00:48:52,570
love for us and that you see these

1167
00:48:52,570 --> 00:48:55,550
battles Lord that you look at us and

1168
00:48:55,550 --> 00:48:57,470
then you tell us this is exactly what

1169
00:48:57,470 --> 00:49:00,010
the Christian life is all about these are

1170
00:49:00,010 --> 00:49:02,130
the real battles and Lord I pray that

1171
00:49:02,130 --> 00:49:05,190
if tonight maybe we have something about us

1172
00:49:05,190 --> 00:49:07,670
that are just pride are somebody just couldn't

1173
00:49:07,670 --> 00:49:10,690
say some little thing that puts us down

1174
00:49:10,690 --> 00:49:14,970
somebody doesn't acknowledge us and all of a

1175
00:49:14,970 --> 00:49:19,170
sudden we're picking weapons we're ready to duel

1176
00:49:19,170 --> 00:49:22,650
it out Lord may we realize it isn't

1177
00:49:22,650 --> 00:49:24,790
just the friend that we've got or the

1178
00:49:24,790 --> 00:49:26,790
enemy or whatever else that we're dueling in

1179
00:49:26,790 --> 00:49:29,890
with we already really lost the battle with

1180
00:49:29,890 --> 00:49:34,150
you we already just set you aside said

1181
00:49:34,150 --> 00:49:37,430
I'll take over or Lord when somebody comes

1182
00:49:37,430 --> 00:49:41,690
into our space steps in line in front

1183
00:49:41,690 --> 00:49:44,890
of us in the store and for whatever

1184
00:49:44,890 --> 00:49:47,990
reason instead of having to defend or what

1185
00:49:47,990 --> 00:49:50,310
do you think you're doing or maybe I'll

1186
00:49:50,310 --> 00:49:53,810
just look and smile and opportunity just a

1187
00:49:53,810 --> 00:49:56,490
smile and say how are you give him

1188
00:49:56,490 --> 00:49:58,170
the space and then also Lord give him

1189
00:49:58,170 --> 00:50:03,650
something extra give him some love give him

1190
00:50:03,650 --> 00:50:05,430
some peace give him some joy give him

1191
00:50:05,430 --> 00:50:09,360
a word from you being able to say

1192
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:11,740
that's all right I'm not in that big

1193
00:50:11,740 --> 00:50:15,120
a hurry just love to have a moment

1194
00:50:15,120 --> 00:50:18,560
tell you how good God's been to me

1195
00:50:18,560 --> 00:50:21,920
have a great day Lord that in the

1196
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,560
sense of having to protect and defend our

1197
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:28,240
life and our image and our identity Lord

1198
00:50:28,240 --> 00:50:29,780
that we can just look and say Lord

1199
00:50:29,780 --> 00:50:33,380
everything I am belongs to you help me

1200
00:50:33,380 --> 00:50:35,940
learn just to see that my life is

1201
00:50:35,940 --> 00:50:40,020
being poured out given away surrendered to others

1202
00:50:40,020 --> 00:50:43,480
Lord that we can truly be salt and

1203
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:45,220
light and that we can have the continued

1204
00:50:45,220 --> 00:50:48,040
blessing of you being enthroned within our lives

1205
00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:49,980
in Jesus name