What the Law Could Not Do | Matthew 5

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It's that time of year again,
Michael.

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Oh, not fall.
We're coming into fall.

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We're coming.
Into fall, rounding out

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summertime sports are starting
out.

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My, my, what?
I mean to say, it's time for

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sports.
Yeah.

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My kids, they start soccer on
Monday.

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Exciting.
Who's coaching them?

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I'm coaching them.
Oh.

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Did you?
You didn't need a necessary

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coach.
I feel like you're I should, I

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should have asked you, but I
feel like you were busy.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Enough.

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And this is K through 2nd grade.
It's good.

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Next year, we will tag team
coaching.

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If is, is Phoebe in kindergarten
next year?

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Phoebe's in kindergarten next
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That'll be, that'll be.
I was like, Man, Jackson,

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Jordan, Phoebe Everly on the
same team.

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Yeah, that'd.
Be good.

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That's that's pretty, pretty
cool.

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And then on top of that, you
know, had a nice, you know, I

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feel like done today.
Played some frisbee, got 6 miles

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in, jumped into cold plunge.
So I'm, I guess timing, maybe,

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maybe, maybe you've seen this,
maybe not.

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But keep the lookout for that
bonus episode to drop down.

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And and and NFL starting back
up.

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We had the Chiefs just laying
the smack.

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Down football's where this is
going.

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This is where this is going
because it just when you watch

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beautiful.
Football.

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Man, Mahomes just can't stop the
Chiefs, am I right?

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You can't when they have the
refs on their side.

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And I know people like, show me
the plate.

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Like I posted something on
social media complaining about

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this and people come in, they're
like, well, here's this place

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where this touchdown wasn't
awarded to the Steelers.

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Jonathan Hyde, I'll call you out
right now.

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I think it was you that no.
Steelers don't get calls, I'll

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tell you that.
And I'm like, there's a logical

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explanation.
You in order to score a

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touchdown, you have to have a
reception.

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In order to have a reception,
you have to survive contact with

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the ground or make a football
move.

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We can debate whether that's a
good rule or a bad rule that but

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the rule was applied accurately
in that case, so no touchdown

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was awarded.
But Oh my goodness, Chris

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Collinsworth, you can get me
started.

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Like he's like defending.
He's defending Kelsey, who has

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his arm around something.
He's like, well, you know,

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that's hard for a receiver like
that to block these defensive

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ends, blah, blah, blah.
And like, like, make it being an

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apologist for a clear violation
of the rules.

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Then later on in the game, This
is why I turn it off like

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Ravens, like he's blocking,
blocking like his fingers like

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for a split second.
Flag on the play.

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Clothes on but the runner's
already passed and it is in the

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NFL rules like what's the users
word I can't think of but it's

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like incidental.
Incidental holding isn't called,

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so if it doesn't affect the
play, that sounds.

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Like it affected the play
greatly.

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Yeah, yeah.
No, no.

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Nothing's more beautiful than a
Pats fan complaining about the

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refs not coming to their
defense.

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This is like, I am just loving
it.

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This is what I wanted to say
that I'm not a choose fan.

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I'm Steelers fan.
But man I do.

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I do like Mahomes Tuck.
You list it out.

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Tuck rule.
Oh, Tuck rule.

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Oh my goodness.
It followed the rule.

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It was there before Brady was
ever in the league.

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So all of these things that I
hear over and over again, check

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out the instances they don't
hold.

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Up and if you're a Pats fan, you
cannot ever complain about the

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refs.
I will say this, I will say

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this.
Maybe in the course of watching,

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I saw one or two over like a
couple years where Brady got a

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roughing in the past or I
thought that may be a little

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bit, maybe a little ticky tacky.
Oh, but I'll, I'll tell you this

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about the game on Thursday.
I'll admit that.

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Here's here's a thought.
You know, Lamar could have just

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thrown it to the wide open guy
in the end zone a couple times.

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Yeah, two times in a row.
I stopped watching at that end

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point and and I'm not a Ravens
fan.

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I just you're a Chiefs hater.
You're a.

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Chiefs hater.
That's true.

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That's true.
I probably hate the Chiefs more

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than the Steelers or The Jets at
this point, which is most past

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fans shouldn't.
I will say this one last thing.

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I've been in a game where my
defensive lineman were getting

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held and it wasn't called.
I have coached that and it

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affects how you have to prepare
an attack as a defense because

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now if if my defense is getting
in, they're getting held and

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that pressure doesn't get
counted against the quarterback

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and the quarterback's free to
throw, you have to make

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adjustments that then make the
run more advantageous.

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And so now it it destroys a
defense when holding isn't

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called and it it just has
material secondary tertiary

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effects.
I love how mad you're getting.

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This is great.
This is great way to start the

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podcast and and this has a lot
to do with the service survey on

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the mountain well.
If you abuse the rules of the

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NFL, then and misuse them, then
it leads to bad things.

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If you misuse and abuse the Old
Testament law, that's right.

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Amen.
It leads to bad things.

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There you go.
I love it.

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Let's take it to the next level
from the hearts of the Low

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Country in South Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next
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Another another sermon that I
wasn't there for, but I'll be

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honest, I heard the guy wasn't
that good anyway.

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Yeah, it was, it was.
It was skippable.

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No, we had a guest, a guest
speaker.

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Really not a guest speaker.
You've been preaching like every

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other month, so really you're in
the rotation, you know?

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Someone said something and I was
like, well, we as elders told

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Joel, take a few more Sundays
off across the year.

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We want him to last 10 more
years, so if that means instead

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of being gone out of the pulpit
2 * a year, you're gone 456

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times a year, that's fine.
Word management.

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It's like the NBA.
You gotta like rest.

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Lebron's gotta take the rest.
So he's ready for the playoffs,

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you know?
So.

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Well, great.
I listened to the sermon after

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the fact.
It was really great.

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Titled What the Law Could Not Do
from this prominent passage,

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Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5
through 7, What I like about

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what you've been doing, you've
been connecting it to where

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we're at.
Every time you preach, you're

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connecting it to Romans to help,
you know, give us a maybe better

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perspective.
Yeah, that's what I was trying

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to do.
I was thinking about what do I,

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what do we preach on?
And I was thinking, you know,

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it's difficult for me.
We're an expository preaching

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church, so we want to work
through a passage.

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And if you're like working
through a book and you've given

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the intro and you kind of the
passage will tell you what to

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preach.
But when you're just coming in

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and preaching a sermon kind of
out of the blue, you don't want

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to just be like, all right, And
you kind of have to connect it.

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So that's what I was trying to
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I'm trying to connect it to what
we've been learning.

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I thought, you know, what about
the Beatitudes?

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Because we just started talking
about what the law couldn't do.

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And we know from Israel's past
that they were flirting with

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idolatry and really in this
license type of lawlessness

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phase.
And then after they return, and

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I think maybe we're gonna talk
about Ezra and Nehemiah, it was

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rubbable at some point in time.
I've seen some notes on those.

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That's.
Right, might, might be a couple

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months from now.
They got a lot to cover, but we

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will at some point.
But, you know, when they came

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back, there was this very, you
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into captivity again.
And so they started taking this

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law and really they started
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And what they started doing were
these fence laws.

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And so we talked about, I don't
want to monopolize the

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conversation, but we, you know,
we've talked about the mission

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of the Talmud before and we were
kind of both like we're not

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clear.
I, I did my homework since then.

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So the Mishnah, basically, if
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Old Testament and tried to
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the Mishnah.
And then the Gamera is the

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commentary on on those laws.
It's the rabbinical commentary

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and the kind of the adding to
like here's how you alley this.

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And so the what they did was
they put what we've called fence

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laws.
So imagine there's an area that

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you can't cross and in order to
like, man, we want to make this

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even more secure.
You put a perimeter around that

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so that if you don't cross the
perimeter, then you haven't

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crossed this area.
Those two together, the Michigan

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and the Gamera form the Talmud.
So it's kind of the Talmud is

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the the the combination of those
two.

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No, that that's good.
You gave some good examples just

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for context, like how are we to
think of some of these?

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I know in the past, you know,
Pastor Joel's done some, he had

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one like on, I can't remember
exactly what it was with like

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the toilet and how it flushes.
You remember this or how you

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wash hands or, I don't know,
stuff like.

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This, it was about how you wash
hands and how the water has to

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flow certain ways.
And it was this rabbi talking

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about how to be ceremonially
clean and how he's like dipping

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water and stuff.
And the the sad thing in all

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these that we're gonna name is
that they believe that is

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garnering favor with God when
they follow those very, I would

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say man made rules.
Yeah, and and you mentioned some

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of these two when when I was in
Israel, we stayed at this.

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It was pretty nice Dead Sea like
hotel.

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And, you know, they had the
Sabbath elevator, Shabbat

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elevators that we just get on
and get everything and the light

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truck already on in certain
places because you can't like

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turn stuff on because we were,
we happened to be there for a

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Shabbat.
And so kind of got to see some

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of those laws into effect.
And so you got you get on the

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slow elevator or the fast
elevator, you know, was one good

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example.
Yeah, because you couldn't start

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a fire, which is in the Mosaic
law, that is.

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There's a scripture that talks
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But rabbis, well, in one we
could talk about, you know, are

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we still under the law?
Who?

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You know, that's a whole
separate discussion.

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But rabbis have since equated
the use of electricity with

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fire.
You can kind of see how they

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would.
Make that connection.

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And so like you said, you can't
push a switch, a button or flip

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a switch.
But if you just, if it's just

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doing this thing on its own,
you're not actively engaging it.

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So yeah.
And you made those points with

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like air conditioning,
compressed air, if it's like,

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you know, going you're, you're
good, but you can't initiate

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some of that stuff.
Right.

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Yeah, they can press air so
that, you know, they have some

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sound powered speakers using
compressed air, some air

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conditioning.
There's these Eruvs, which are

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these streams that they run
like.

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So you can get maps of these
large city centers like LA,

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Manhattan, and they tie.
And normally it's like a fishing

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line.
It's very high.

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You can't hardly see it.
But there'll be some signage

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like this is the end of the
roof.

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And basically they're trying to
get around this fence law that

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says you can't carry stuff on
the Sabbath because that would

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be considered work.
That's not in the Old Testament

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law, but you know, the rabbis
has said you can't carry

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something outside of your
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What's my domicile?
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square mile, you know, a roof
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claim that as my domicile and I
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So there we would call that
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In the end of the day, legalism
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them to the level of God's laws.
And it really has two effects.

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One, it puts people in bondage.
So you hear Jesus talking to the

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Jews of his day, you know,
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because of all the bondage that
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meticulous rules that were man
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But two, it kind of gives you an
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Right, 'cause you got all these
other things that occupy your

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mind and we'll, we'll talk about
this in your sermon, Sermon on

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the Mount.
Jesus basically said, hey,

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you're off the hook.
You don't have to do anything.

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I'm, I'm, I don't care about the
law, right?

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Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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The law's not no, that's not
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That's.
The amazing thing when you get

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to the essence of it, it's not
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hey, laws don't matter.
So I'm excited to get into it.

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And I like what I appreciate
about your sermon.

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You gave a good overview where I
think a lot of times people zone

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in on maybe like one or two
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And you kind of gave us the
whole structure so you we can

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read it, know what's going on,
know maybe the logical

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progression or what Jesus is
trying to hit, which was, which

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was nice.
Yeah, so if you've read the

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Beatitudes or the Sermon on the
Mount starts out with the

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Beatitudes, and really that
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should have produced in them.
So I'm sure if you're listening

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to this podcast, you're familiar
with the Beatitudes, but you

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know, things like being poor in
spirit, being hungering and

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thirsting for righteousness.
If you were following the Old

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Testament law and you were
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day out, and you were honest
with yourself, oh man, I sinned

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again.
I got to do another sacrifice.

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This should lead you to this
brokenness that Jesus talks

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about in the Beatitudes.
Yeah, look that that's like

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that's kind of the starting
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the conversation, how you think
about your sin that will drive

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you to to the right place.
You kind of worked worked

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through those and then has this
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that that's that's that's a big
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Yeah, yeah.
So there's the couple verses

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that kind of toward the end of
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you know, blessed are you and
you are persecuted for my name's

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sake or for righteousness sake.
A couple verses there that he

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gives.
You can read that.

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But again, Paul talks about the
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lead you to this place where,
like, you know what?

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I I don't deserve anything.
What I deserve is hell.

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I'm willing because my what are
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naturally gonna have a love for
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What?
Who am I, right?

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I'm gonna love others.
I'm gonna be thinking

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missionally talking about being
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things.
It all kind of flows out from

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that beginning part.
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And I tried to make the point
that we have what's been called

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the Great Commission, some
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There's not really something
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Testament believers.
But we see hints of that

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missional mindset, the Abrahamic
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going to be a blessing to all
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We see Jonah being called to go
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There are places, you know,
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Gentile widow that takes care of
Elijah and and one other thing

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that he oh the Naaman, the guy
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leprosies cleanse.
He's like, and then the Jews try

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to kill him 'cause he's showing
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the Jews, it's really for the
Gentiles.

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Yeah.
That's pretty amazing that those

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are his examples and that just
brought on top.

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He says, hey, first I'm the
Messiah and then here's some

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here's some examples and man
riling people up so that the law

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should have produced all of this
in in the Jews and it it did

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not.
So what do we do with the law?

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Do we just throw it out?
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and this is where we gotta like
you might hear people say the

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Sermon on the Mount is for Old
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for the church today.
And then you hear people that

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kind of miss the fact that Jesus
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they just interpret it through a
New Testament church lens.

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So really you should recognize
Jesus is correcting abuses of

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the law.
But there's good things in there

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for us.
In Jesus's time they were still

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under the Old Testament law and
he was saying not one of these

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jots or titles.
If you are the reading from the

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KGV will pass the.
Ball.

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Until everything is fulfilled.
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maybe when Jesus died on the
cross, he fulfilled the Old

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Testament law and brought the
Mosaic law to an end because

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he's ushering in that new
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But in the same token, we see
everything that Jesus mentions

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here.
These are moral laws that are

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repeated in the New Testament
for the believer.

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Yeah, he's he's and he goes
through and takes one and says,

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hey, actually I'm, I'm raising,
raising the standard.

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These are not only good, but if
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if you get to what's really
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step further.
And I think on one hand, a lot

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of people understand that, but I
think a lot of people don't

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understand that.
And they're like, Jesus came, we

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could do whatever we want, you
know, and it's like, no, if when

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you read and it's great that he
has different examples, not just

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one, he does it in several
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I think he did a good job of
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a couple of these and saying
same patterns kind of done

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throughout.
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So the one that you know, he
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I believe he takes up being
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You know, let your yays be a
your Navy.

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Nay, but in the murder 1
specifically, he's going to

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quote the law.
He's going to say, you've heard

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that it's been said you
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And if you do murder, you're
going to be guilty of the court.

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And then he takes up, yeah, he's
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If you're angry at your brother
without a just 'cause if you say

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to your brother you are good for
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If you say to your brother a
fool or we might say stupid.

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lessening.
So it goes from murder angry

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without just cause.
Calling your friend good for

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nothing, calling him you, you
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But the consequences go up.
So it goes from being guilty of

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the court, guilty of the Supreme
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Then you look at that, you're
like, yeah, does that make like,

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I don't understand, but there is
a point you pointed out really

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well.
Yeah, yeah, so.

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And in contrast to the defense
laws, we're usually thinking on

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a physical level, like don't go
this far out, you know, don't do

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the, don't eat these things.
Wash your hands.

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Really, Jesus saying you should
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So if you don't want to murder,
don't be angry.

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And if you don't want to be
angry, don't be having thoughts

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about your brother like he's
good for nothing.

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And if you don't want to be
having thoughts like that, then

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don't be thinking your brother's
stupid, like you have to guard

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your heart.
And that little sin, it's a sin,

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and it garners you the
punishment of eternal home.

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Yeah, if you can try to get your
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I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure bad
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I'm sure most people when they
do murder someone, where does it

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start?
And it's like we all can relate

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to thinking someone is dumb or
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acting out like that's so
practical that we need to guard

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that there because Jesus is
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That's great.
And one more thought on that,

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like, you know, Tim, our
resident counselor, he talks

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about folks who struggle in
different areas and the triggers

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that they allow them to, you
know, this happened.

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This is how I responded.
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allow my mind to do this, I
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here and went here.
If it's lust or, you know,

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gossip, you know, all of these,
you know, kind of the patterns

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that lead up to it.
And he'll talk about, you know,

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radical amputation.
Like, you got to get rid of

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those things that are leading up
to.

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Yeah, that's practical.
Look at your life, look at my

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life and catch those now it's a
lot easier to amputate a toe

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than a leg or whatever, you
know, don't let it take over

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everything.
And then from here, you correct

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me if I'm wrong.
You preach the sermon.

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You you kind of gave us kind of
like a you kept giving us this

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big picture of different things
Jesus was talking about, like

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giving us the site how to read
the Sermon on the Mount.

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Yeah.
So if you look at the beginning,

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he's really saying we talked
about this in the Beatitudes,

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you know, what the law should
have done.

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And then he's going to start
addressing different abuses.

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So towards the end of Chapter 5,
he's really picking up, I think,

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these abuses of the law.
And if you look at the what's

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the end of commonly the
Beatitudes or if you break out,

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you know, the salt and light
portion?

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He says unless your
righteousness exceed that of the

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scribes and Pharisees, you shall
know wise enter into the Kingdom

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of heaven.
That's the the KJV.

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That's what I had memorized when
I was a kid.

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Yeah, sorry.
And so.

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And that would have been a wow.
Yeah.

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For the big deal.
Scribes and Pharisees.

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I've got to be better than them.
These are the people who tie the

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a tenth of their mint and their
dill and their cumin.

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How?
How am I going to do better than

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that?
And then at the end of all of

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these corrections to the law,
it's like a bookcase.

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Maybe it's a a chiasm.
I don't know.

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But he ends by saying, therefore
be be therefore perfect, even as

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your Father in heaven is
perfect.

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That's the standard.
If you want to justify yourself,

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you've got to be perfect.
That's how chapter 5 ends.

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Chapter 6 starts looking at not
necessarily abuses of the law in

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particular, but abuses of
practices in the law, praying,

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tithing, fasting, worrying about
material things.

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Like it had been, you know, kind
of like our name and claimant

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preachers today.
Wealth was looked at as a sign

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of righteousness and and there
was all this worry about things.

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So he's going to end chapter 6
with this, you know, kind of a,

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a rebuke on people who are
caught up in, in material

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things.
And then Chapter 7 ends with all

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these woes and, and basically
saying you can do these things,

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but your fruit has to match your
heart.

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And if you've got bad fruit,
then you don't really know me.

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And then and we get some of
those, you know, I'll cast you

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out and, and you'll, they'll
say, but we did this, we did

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this.
I never knew you.

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So that's really the Sermon on
the Mount.

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And it's a big picture of how
the the law was abused.

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Now that that that's really
great to frame it in that way

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and Jesus just hits things.
Oh, I like that.

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There's so many examples, so
many little vignettes that

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there's a lot.
There's a lot in here.

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I know most are very familiar
with it, but it's just so great

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to great to revisit over and
over.

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So what else would you want to
hit on?

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Well, I will say I do want to
caveat one thing.

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It might be that Jesus did not
say all these things at one time

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at one setting.
Maybe He did, maybe He didn't.

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The reason why we would have
some questions about that is,

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one, we know the tendency of
Jews to group things

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thematically, and that was how
they preferred it.

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And so Matthew being a Jew,
being a follower, disciple of of

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Christ, could have taken these
things and grouped it into a

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single coherent thing like we do
when we do systematic theology,

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like we grab verses from all
these places behind, put them

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together.
What's the overall story?

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I'm not saying he did or didn't.
It's just a possibility that he

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didn't and the reason we might
think that he didn't was because

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Luke, who's writing to a
different audience with a

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different preference and how we
take kind of more what we would

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think of in our Western American
culture.

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We think of a biography.
We want it, you know,

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chronological in order.
Read the opening of Luke.

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He's like I know other said,
other gospels have been out

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there, but I'm putting together
A1 that's orderly.

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And so you see these sayings,
all these sayings are there, but

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they're kind of spread out in,
in Luke.

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So I, I don't want anyone to get
hung up on that.

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The harmony of the gospel.
Maybe you did, maybe it didn't.

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And really that theme
thematically versus

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chronological viewpoint that
solves a lot of your problems.

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I was going through Ezra and
Nehemiah and boy, chronology is

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all over the place.
Ezra chapter 4 is like at the

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end of the it's, it gets
confusing with the kings.

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They're dropping kings
everywhere.

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And it's because they're trying
to group things thematically.

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And that's a big, I think that's
a really good, good take away

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when you try to, you know, and
that that might be one of the

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reasons it's outlined so nicely.
You know, how it, the book ends

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and everything.
It might be you know who.

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We can't say for sure what else
you want to hit about your

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sermon here.
Well, I'll just say, you know

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the end, and we kind of already
hit this again, You know, if you

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bookcase those beginning and
ends of where he's really diving

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into the law, righteousness has
succeeded that of the scribes

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and Pharisees.
And then at the end, he says,

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your righteousness basically has
to be on par with the Father.

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You got to be perfect.
If you turn over to Matthew 11

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and do you have it there?
Yeah.

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Why don't you read that verse
for us?

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Great, Matthew 11 if I look down
at verse 28, Jesus says come to

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me all who labor and are heavy
laden, and I will give you rest.

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Take my yoke upon you and learn
from me, for I am gentle and a

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lowly in heart and you will find
rest for your souls.

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For my yoke is easy and my
burden is light.

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Yeah, so if you imagine yourself
trying to live up to all the man

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made rules of the scribes and
Pharisees, plus, you know, all

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the laws and we can even talk
like abuses of the people.

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You know, real quick Side Story
to to you know, we we hear about

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the widow's mite, the lady who's
give given her last penny.

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And if you read that out of
Luke, I think it makes it clear

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that Jesus is angry, not at the
widow.

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But this box that's outside the
temple where these people are

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given money dates back to Ezra
Nehemiah when they're trying to

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get to get enough money to
rebuild the temple.

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Temple's built, Herod's done
crazy amounts, but they are

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still expecting people to give
to this.

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And the the Pharisees are
onlooking and they're seeing

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who's given what.
And it's just an abuse to the

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people.
Like, yes, great for that widow,

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not taking anything away from
her.

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But I think the overall point
and if you read it in its

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context and you get rid of the
chapter breaks and the section

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breaks.
Jesus is really showing this as

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a condemnation of the Pharisees
because they are continuing to

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be over burdensome on the
people.

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In contrast, not that the not
that everything is perfect and

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rosy in the New Testament
believer, but the New Testament

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covenant, we live in grace.
That's what Paul would say over

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and over and over again.
We live by grace.

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We live through faith in what
Christ has done for us.

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We're not trying to meticulously
keep the law because we're not

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justifying ourselves.
Jesus done that.

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And I think that's what he's
saying in Chapter 11 about

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taking his yoke upon him because
it's light.

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It's it's easy.
Yeah, I think it goes back to

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the beginning of those
Beatitudes.

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Blessed are the poor in spirit,
just identifying the different

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attitudes, because if you're
looking at Matthew 11, the

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paragraph right before that,
he's saying woe to you.

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It's going to be worse for you
than it was for, you know, Tyre

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and sight and Sodom and
Gomorrah.

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And it's because you did not
repent.

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You were not broken over your
Senate.

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It's, it's that whole mindset
because I, you know, I think

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it's, I like how Matthew put
these two things back-to-back

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because you see that rest, but
you see, you're not repenting.

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You see these miracles and then
you don't come to Christ, you

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don't come to that rest that
that's not good news.

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No, no, that's good.
No.

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Good.
We got some application at the

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end that you gave everyone.
Number one, are you guarding?

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Are you fencing your hearts #2
do you tend towards rules,

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legalism, or towards grace and
this license to sin?

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How do you find the balance?
And you pulled out this verse

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I'm not familiar with.
Yeah, so I remember when Joel

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first came, like it was Acts
242, Acts 242, Acts 242.

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And I have over time, it's like
repetition is the mother of

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learning.
And it's like, OK, I, you become

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a believer.
And I don't know, maybe four or

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five, six years into it, you
know, I was always thinking Acts

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242 church, Acts 242 church.
We as a church, we want to be

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about the word.
We want to be about prayer.

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We want to be about fellowship.
We want to be about breaking

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bread, communion.
And what does that mean?

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You know, worship and word and
deed and witness all those

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things that were we exalting
Christ, great.

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But if we're going to be about
that as a church, we got to be

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about that as families like my
family, your family, the Hawks

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family, all, all the families in
church.

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We have to be an Acts 242
family.

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And you know how that happens.
Well, probably on the moms and

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the dads, but individuals in
that family had to be Acts 242

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families.
And if you build those

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foundational building blocks, I
think it's going to be a guard

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against legalism, against
license, against all manner of,

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you know, ways we can get off
the, the true and and narrow

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path.
I totally agree.

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That's a great church to the
family, to the individual.

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And then application #3 have you
found rest in Jesus?

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Kind of where we ended in
Matthew 11.

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If you haven't come to Christ,
if you haven't realized your

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need for sin, I mean, you're,
you're missing the boat.

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If if you do with these things
great or you don't do these

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things great.
It's it's you're missing that

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that foundational that central
piece of of your life.

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So great challenge at the end
for any of those out there who

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might not know Christ as their
savior.

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Great sermon.
Michael, any parting words for

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us?
No, it's a pleasure to preach.

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00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:36,680
I think Joel is a good standard
by which to you know, I try to

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follow him as he's following
Christ.

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00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,200
Think he does a great job in his
sermon.

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So try to kind of copy his
format and stuff.

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So hopefully I it's great
justice.

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It was, it was great.
Thanks for hanging in there with

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us.
That's our take.

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Thanks for listening to Take
Two.

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