WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:22.260 Hi, and welcome to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast. 00:00:22.780 --> 00:00:25.880 This is where you can find audio for our current and past sermons. 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:30.420 We hope that you enjoy this week's installment, and be sure to check back next week to hear 00:00:30.420 --> 00:00:31.260 the latest message. 00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:32.460 Thanks for listening. 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:46.540 Good morning. 00:00:47.360 --> 00:00:51.800 Glad that you guys are with us today, whether you're here with us on campus or whether you're 00:00:51.800 --> 00:00:53.080 joining us online. 00:00:53.080 --> 00:00:56.160 We're so grateful to have you as we worship together. 00:00:56.300 --> 00:01:00.580 If you've got your Bibles with you, go ahead and open them up to Luke chapter 6. 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:04.240 In just a minute, we're going to start reading, and we're going to jump all the way down to 00:01:04.240 --> 00:01:07.300 verse 20 is where we're going to pick up this morning. 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:10.820 A couple things going on that I'm really personally excited about. 00:01:11.160 --> 00:01:12.620 Number one, I just want to go ahead and tell you all this. 00:01:12.740 --> 00:01:16.540 I don't know if you were paying attention to the announcements or not, but this Wednesday 00:01:16.540 --> 00:01:20.780 night, we're going to be going out to the bowling alley, hanging out with 6th through 12th 00:01:20.780 --> 00:01:23.060 graders. 00:01:23.060 --> 00:01:28.920 My plan is to see I'm not a good bowler, but I'm going to act like I am, and to have some 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:33.180 good old-fashioned competition with some of our middle school and high school students. 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:36.600 I don't know that I'm going to put myself up there and compete with the high schoolers, 00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:38.780 but for all you middle schoolers, it's on. 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:40.440 I'm going to take advantage. 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:42.480 I'm going to get the lanes with the bumpers. 00:01:42.740 --> 00:01:43.420 That's all I'm saying. 00:01:43.520 --> 00:01:45.300 Y'all don't get that, but I get that, right? 00:01:45.540 --> 00:01:46.500 So looking forward to that. 00:01:46.600 --> 00:01:49.220 Hey, parents, drop them all $5 for a couple of hours. 00:01:49.400 --> 00:01:51.080 Be a great time that we're going to have. 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:55.540 But also, I don't know if you noticed, but we're having a baptism class. 00:01:55.640 --> 00:01:56.960 Now that's new for us. 00:01:57.000 --> 00:01:59.340 And so I want to explain some of that to you guys. 00:01:59.940 --> 00:02:04.580 If you've placed your faith in Jesus Christ and you would like to follow through in baptism, 00:02:04.780 --> 00:02:08.240 what we're doing across the board, from kids to adults, is saying we've got this baptism 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:09.040 class for you. 00:02:09.120 --> 00:02:13.720 Pastor Dave is going to lead it, and we just want to talk to you about what our relationship 00:02:13.720 --> 00:02:18.980 with the Lord, what that means, what baptism means, why God calls us to that, why we do 00:02:18.980 --> 00:02:19.260 this. 00:02:19.340 --> 00:02:23.440 And so you have the opportunity to go through and be a part of that class with Him. 00:02:23.700 --> 00:02:25.760 It is going to be hosted through Zoom. 00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:29.480 And so whether you're at home or you're here this morning, we'll connect you through 00:02:29.480 --> 00:02:33.960 there, and then we will schedule after that as a baptism that we can come together and 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:39.780 celebrate what God has done in your life and look forward to what God is going to do in 00:02:39.780 --> 00:02:40.620 and through you. 00:02:40.720 --> 00:02:44.680 So if you're someone and you're thinking about that, you've given your life to the Lord, 00:02:44.740 --> 00:02:49.840 but you haven't followed through, and Believer's Baptism is a wonderful opportunity and excited 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:52.720 as Pastor Dave is building that culture into us. 00:02:52.720 --> 00:02:55.240 And really, here's what the class is all about. 00:02:55.460 --> 00:02:56.860 This can be a side message, right? 00:02:57.100 --> 00:02:59.140 It's not about saying, hey, look at us. 00:02:59.180 --> 00:02:59.980 Look how many people we baptized. 00:03:00.640 --> 00:03:03.780 But it's about making sure that we're continuing the discipleship process. 00:03:04.380 --> 00:03:07.720 And so we'd love for you to be a part of that if that's where you are. 00:03:08.340 --> 00:03:15.240 So as we look at Luke chapter 6, there's going to be a theme that I want us to look at this 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:15.520 morning. 00:03:15.620 --> 00:03:20.280 It's what kind of every point is going to come out of, and it is going to be this. 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:27.960 What today we want to look at today, what we want to embrace is being versus doing, right? 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:36.400 Every world religion has an aspect of it of if you want to be pleasing to God, if you want 00:03:36.400 --> 00:03:39.060 to be blessed by God, then here's what it means. 00:03:39.060 --> 00:03:39.820 Do this. 00:03:39.820 --> 00:03:41.660 Here are rules. 00:03:41.660 --> 00:03:44.820 Be more obedient than not. 00:03:44.820 --> 00:03:49.000 Do more that's right than do more that is bad. 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:53.240 And in that, as you do, that's where God is going to be pleased. 00:03:53.480 --> 00:03:55.920 That's where God is going to be glorified. 00:03:56.160 --> 00:04:03.260 But within Christianity, what makes us different in a relationship with a God that we can know, 00:04:03.460 --> 00:04:08.120 that we can interact with, is that it's not going to be about the doing, even that's a 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:09.020 part of it, right? 00:04:09.040 --> 00:04:14.340 Like we want to live a life of obedience, but where it is found, where it's rooted in, is 00:04:14.340 --> 00:04:19.440 being, that this is who I am versus this is what I do. 00:04:19.440 --> 00:04:25.720 And when this is who I am, it begins to come out of me of the characteristics of God and 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:27.500 obedience of God. 00:04:28.060 --> 00:04:33.980 And so like what people can do is they can do a bunch of religious things, but it doesn't 00:04:33.980 --> 00:04:35.620 make them who they are. 00:04:35.780 --> 00:04:40.980 For example, like I play golf maybe twice a year. 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:47.480 And so when I go out to play golf, I take my clubs, I put on a golf shirt, I've got the 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:55.920 golf shoes, I've got a golf hat, and on the journey from my truck to the tee box, I look 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:56.540 like a golfer. 00:04:57.220 --> 00:04:58.720 I've done all the right things. 00:04:59.300 --> 00:05:01.380 I even tee the ball up well. 00:05:02.560 --> 00:05:07.940 But the moment I grab the club and I address it and I start my backswing, it's very evident 00:05:07.940 --> 00:05:09.440 this guy is not a golfer, right? 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:10.800 It's not who I am. 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:15.120 Even though I can do the things that would make you think that I am. 00:05:15.640 --> 00:05:21.600 I can go to a pharmacy today and stand in the cold and flu section and I can look at all 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:26.940 the different medicines and I can read the boxes and I can diagnose how I'm feeling, which 00:05:26.940 --> 00:05:29.420 by the way, I'm not feeling bad today, right? 00:05:29.520 --> 00:05:35.320 But if I was and I could diagnose my symptoms and I could choose the over-the-counter medicine 00:05:35.320 --> 00:05:36.040 that I need. 00:05:36.200 --> 00:05:36.860 But here's the deal. 00:05:37.020 --> 00:05:39.200 That doesn't make me a pharmacist. 00:05:39.440 --> 00:05:44.100 It doesn't make me a doctor because I'm able to have some actions that make me look like 00:05:44.100 --> 00:05:44.940 I know that I'm doing. 00:05:45.740 --> 00:05:47.880 And here's where this comes with Christianity. 00:05:48.640 --> 00:05:56.280 So many of us within our life, what we're trying to do is skip the who we need to be and just 00:05:56.280 --> 00:05:57.880 start what we need to do. 00:05:59.400 --> 00:06:05.360 And as Jesus is going to call a group of people to follow him, where he's going to begin within 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:11.980 there is them becoming who they need to be, resting in who they are. 00:06:12.980 --> 00:06:21.720 Because our faith, where we're going to find ourselves, is not going to be based in a list 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:27.360 of religious rules, but it's going to be found and we're going to be based in Christ and we're 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:28.580 going to be rooted in. 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:33.060 So in chapter 6, the parts that we're not going to read, but we're just going to look 00:06:33.060 --> 00:06:37.120 at real briefly, Jesus is walking and begins to teach. 00:06:38.440 --> 00:06:42.580 The Pharisees are going to bring up some things that Jesus' disciples are doing, that even 00:06:42.580 --> 00:06:43.280 Jesus does. 00:06:43.380 --> 00:06:47.260 And as he interacts with them at the beginning of chapter 6, Jesus is going to declare, like, 00:06:47.320 --> 00:06:48.840 hey, here's who I am, right? 00:06:48.900 --> 00:06:54.520 Like, I am divine and I have authority to say, this is important, Jesus says, I have the authority 00:06:54.520 --> 00:06:57.480 to define and to say what pleases God. 00:06:58.520 --> 00:07:05.240 And then Jesus retreats and he goes off by himself and he prays and he comes back and 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:10.360 he appoints his closest group of disciples that are going to follow him during his earthly 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:10.840 ministry. 00:07:10.940 --> 00:07:15.420 We're going to see the 12 that are chosen and Luke lists them by name. 00:07:16.380 --> 00:07:20.100 And at the very last one, he's going to say, and Judas Iscariot, who would betray him. 00:07:20.980 --> 00:07:25.980 And so Jesus, as he is living his life, is going to follow and call the men that are going 00:07:25.980 --> 00:07:28.700 to follow him. 00:07:28.700 --> 00:07:32.500 And in that is the reminder of the cross, of the work that Jesus will do so that we may 00:07:32.500 --> 00:07:36.580 come into a relationship with him, is that reminder through Judas Iscariot. 00:07:37.320 --> 00:07:41.080 And then in verse 16, it says that Jesus looks around and he begins to teach. 00:07:41.960 --> 00:07:43.240 And we're going to refer to this. 00:07:43.320 --> 00:07:48.260 I read a guy that referred to this as the sermon on the plane because in verse 17, it said he 00:07:48.260 --> 00:07:50.220 stood on level ground. 00:07:50.940 --> 00:07:54.320 And what we're going to notice is if you've heard of before, maybe you haven't heard of 00:07:54.320 --> 00:07:56.820 the sermon on the plane, but you've heard of the sermon on the mount. 00:07:57.580 --> 00:08:01.660 And there's going to be some similarities between the sermon on the plane and the sermon on the 00:08:01.660 --> 00:08:04.380 mount, but there's going to be some differences as well. 00:08:05.320 --> 00:08:09.480 Jesus lists or Luke lists a couple of cities where the people there are present. 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:13.200 And one thing that's interesting is in the sermon on the mount, what we find is a largely 00:08:13.200 --> 00:08:20.040 Jewish audience, but on the sermon on the plane, what we're going to find is largely a Gentile 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:20.640 audience. 00:08:21.540 --> 00:08:23.240 And Jesus, he teaches through this. 00:08:23.660 --> 00:08:27.360 It's shorter, but he's going to focus in on what we're going to call the blessings and 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:29.880 the woes based off of the words of Christ. 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.260 And so let's begin by looking at the blessings, starting in verse 20. 00:08:34.460 --> 00:08:41.920 It says, and he lifted up his eyes on his disciples and said, blessed are you who are poor 00:08:41.920 --> 00:08:44.860 for yours is the kingdom of heaven. 00:08:45.800 --> 00:08:51.380 Blessed are you who are hungry now for you shall be satisfied. 00:08:52.460 --> 00:08:57.920 Blessed are you who weep now for you shall laugh. 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:04.700 Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your 00:09:04.700 --> 00:09:07.820 name as evil on the account of the son of man. 00:09:08.820 --> 00:09:17.680 Rejoice in that day and leap for joy for behold, your reward is great in heaven for so their 00:09:17.680 --> 00:09:20.780 fathers did to the prophets. 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:26.740 And so Jesus is going to describe what it means to be blessed. 00:09:26.980 --> 00:09:33.000 And just as he did in the sermon on the mount, Jesus draws some areas of life where we would 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:38.560 say, I don't necessarily know that that's the blessing of life that I'm going to choose. 00:09:40.500 --> 00:09:44.800 Poverty isn't necessarily what we would think of as a blessing. 00:09:45.900 --> 00:09:52.600 Being mocked and being persecuted, you and I, we don't naturally look at that after a long 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:56.540 day of experiencing abuse and say, you know, that truly was a blessing. 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:03.940 We don't hit that point with hunger pains within us and think, oh man, I sure do feel blessed 00:10:03.940 --> 00:10:04.660 today. 00:10:05.860 --> 00:10:09.360 And so we want to begin to understand like, Jesus, what are you talking about? 00:10:09.500 --> 00:10:14.780 And if we're not careful, what we can look at is we can take this on and say, this is 00:10:14.780 --> 00:10:18.000 what I must do in order to be blessed. 00:10:18.140 --> 00:10:20.480 But here's what I want us to notice in Jesus' words, all right? 00:10:20.820 --> 00:10:25.260 And my grammar may be off on this, but I hope it conveys what we're trying to get to. 00:10:25.680 --> 00:10:27.060 I don't do blessed. 00:10:27.300 --> 00:10:29.460 I am blessed, right? 00:10:30.260 --> 00:10:32.500 I don't do blessed. 00:10:33.660 --> 00:10:36.480 Jesus says that we are blessed. 00:10:37.300 --> 00:10:43.560 In the verbs in which he uses, we begin to see blessing as what is given to us, as what's 00:10:43.560 --> 00:10:46.880 imparted to us, as what God is giving us. 00:10:46.880 --> 00:10:51.420 And so you and I don't figure out what we need to do so that we can be blessed. 00:10:51.660 --> 00:10:57.300 But instead, blessing is who we are, so that I am blessed. 00:10:58.140 --> 00:10:58.860 I mean, think about this. 00:10:58.940 --> 00:11:02.460 In his words, Jesus says, like, don't go make yourself be poor. 00:11:02.580 --> 00:11:04.000 He says, I am poor. 00:11:04.560 --> 00:11:05.280 You are poor. 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:06.880 I don't do hungry. 00:11:07.060 --> 00:11:08.420 I am hungry. 00:11:08.680 --> 00:11:09.580 And I love this one. 00:11:09.700 --> 00:11:10.860 I don't do weeping. 00:11:11.020 --> 00:11:11.700 I weep. 00:11:11.740 --> 00:11:13.060 And here's what I mean by this, right? 00:11:13.060 --> 00:11:18.820 Like, when we talk about weeping, where does weeping come from, right? 00:11:19.260 --> 00:11:25.840 Weeping doesn't come from your external means in order to get you to weep. 00:11:27.020 --> 00:11:32.640 Weeping is an outside reaction to internally what is happening to you, right? 00:11:32.700 --> 00:11:36.860 Like, I don't weep because I hurt my arm. 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:42.440 I weep because I hurt the arm and my body reacts to the pain that is within me. 00:11:43.100 --> 00:11:45.380 And so weeping comes from within me. 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:47.220 It's based in who I am. 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:48.800 I don't do hate here. 00:11:48.980 --> 00:11:50.640 I am hated. 00:11:51.940 --> 00:11:56.320 And we begin to see this understanding of what Jesus is pointing to as he's got this group 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:57.300 that is following him. 00:11:57.520 --> 00:12:00.920 It says, like, right, Jesus has just called these 12 to follow him. 00:12:01.020 --> 00:12:04.700 And he looks up at them, is what the scripture says. 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:11.340 And he begins to define who they are if they are in him. 00:12:12.200 --> 00:12:15.700 He defines what blessing looks like. 00:12:16.520 --> 00:12:21.340 And everything that Jesus is going to do, everything that Jesus is going to pour into them is going 00:12:21.340 --> 00:12:30.200 to be counter culture from what they've experienced and from what you and I, if we're honest, what we experience 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:32.300 and oftentimes what we even want. 00:12:33.040 --> 00:12:34.340 So what's Jesus talking about? 00:12:35.140 --> 00:12:36.780 Jesus says that we're poor. 00:12:36.980 --> 00:12:38.940 And what this means is that we're poor. 00:12:39.060 --> 00:12:43.280 There's this spiritual poverty where we're desperate for God. 00:12:44.340 --> 00:12:47.160 Jesus says that we are blessed if we are hungry. 00:12:47.340 --> 00:12:51.740 And what we are longing for is to be satisfied by God and God alone. 00:12:52.100 --> 00:12:59.920 Jesus says that we are blessed if weeping is who we are because we are discontent with the sin of ourselves 00:12:59.920 --> 00:13:01.460 and the sin of this world. 00:13:01.540 --> 00:13:04.520 And what we long for is godly sorrow. 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:08.360 That we are blessed if we are hated. 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:17.780 Because what is in us produces something that produces the obedience because who we are. 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:25.760 You see, Jesus is pointing us to that a blessed life is not the life that we earn. 00:13:26.700 --> 00:13:32.060 But a blessed life is the life that is given by God to us. 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:35.560 It's the gift of grace that was in our lives. 00:13:35.560 --> 00:13:38.160 And so Jesus looks at him and says, you want to be blessed? 00:13:38.240 --> 00:13:40.840 You want this to be the markings of who you are? 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:42.300 Then this is what this means. 00:13:43.020 --> 00:13:46.480 And it's going to continue on in this message of the Sermon on the Plain. 00:13:46.680 --> 00:13:50.680 He's going to define that and give some practical steps for people who say, 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:54.480 I want to pursue a life that looks like this. 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:56.600 He's just going to tell them where it's found. 00:13:57.220 --> 00:14:01.260 But it's not only the blessings, but Jesus gives the woes as well. 00:14:01.800 --> 00:14:03.020 I want to look down at verse 24. 00:14:04.180 --> 00:14:10.000 But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. 00:14:11.060 --> 00:14:14.920 Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry. 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:21.320 Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. 00:14:22.280 --> 00:14:29.460 Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets. 00:14:29.460 --> 00:14:31.740 We see the opposite of what was before. 00:14:32.020 --> 00:14:35.340 What was before is what they did to the prophets. 00:14:35.500 --> 00:14:42.020 They persecuted the men of truth and the women of truth, but not so with the false prophets. 00:14:42.260 --> 00:14:44.380 Here's what I want you to notice with the woes. 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:49.260 All of the woes that Jesus gives are temporary. 00:14:49.980 --> 00:14:52.500 Every single one of them. 00:14:53.100 --> 00:14:54.760 Money and wealth, temporary. 00:14:56.780 --> 00:14:58.500 Satisfaction from food, temporary. 00:14:59.540 --> 00:15:00.760 Laughter, temporary. 00:15:01.900 --> 00:15:04.180 Those who speak well of you, temporary. 00:15:04.540 --> 00:15:10.140 In every single instance, every woe that Jesus warns us about are the things that are temporary. 00:15:10.940 --> 00:15:13.440 I was listening to a pastor a couple weeks ago. 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:16.740 I was waiting outside for a meeting to take place. 00:15:16.800 --> 00:15:22.040 I couldn't go into the building yet and I was listening to a sermon and the pastor was talking 00:15:22.040 --> 00:15:26.880 about this and here's what he said and I'd never thought of it this way and it just impacted 00:15:26.880 --> 00:15:27.800 me greatly. 00:15:27.800 --> 00:15:36.980 He said, what we sinfully fill our lives with and sinfully find our satisfaction in will one 00:15:36.980 --> 00:15:40.520 day end up in garage sales and landfills. 00:15:43.340 --> 00:15:44.580 Blew me away. 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:47.160 Blew me away. 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:56.240 That one day all of those things that I value, those things that I find comfort in, will one 00:15:56.240 --> 00:16:02.200 day sit in my driveway and I'll try to negotiate a quarter either way with someone. 00:16:04.460 --> 00:16:14.540 That one day when I pass from this life to eternity with Christ, what those who are behind, what 00:16:14.540 --> 00:16:23.140 my son and daughter will do is they'll go through the stuff, keep some things that they want and 00:16:23.140 --> 00:16:26.260 drop the rest off at a goodwill or a landfill. 00:16:27.700 --> 00:16:35.860 Those things that we sinfully find our satisfaction in, those things that we sinfully find our joy 00:16:35.860 --> 00:16:42.040 in will one day be the next generation's trash is what Jesus says. 00:16:43.620 --> 00:16:43.860 Right? 00:16:44.400 --> 00:16:46.840 You find your satisfaction in your wealth. 00:16:47.840 --> 00:16:49.020 What if the market crashes? 00:16:50.080 --> 00:16:54.280 You find your satisfaction in food or pleasures of the body. 00:16:54.500 --> 00:16:56.520 Well, what happens when that moment is over? 00:16:57.460 --> 00:17:03.140 You find your satisfaction in the happiness of this earth and in the laughing that comes from 00:17:03.140 --> 00:17:03.380 that. 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:06.040 Well, what happens when you mourn? 00:17:06.820 --> 00:17:10.280 You find your satisfaction in the approval of people. 00:17:11.220 --> 00:17:14.080 And what happens when they turn on you? 00:17:14.860 --> 00:17:20.140 All those things that we've accumulated, all of those things that we've earned, all of those 00:17:20.140 --> 00:17:26.780 things that we worked hard for, Jesus says, if we find it in this, it's worthless. 00:17:27.900 --> 00:17:28.660 It's worthless. 00:17:29.740 --> 00:17:31.460 So then, Jesus, what do we need to do? 00:17:32.320 --> 00:17:35.780 What does our life need to look like so that we can be blessed? 00:17:36.120 --> 00:17:40.240 I don't know about you, but as I read this, I begin to drift away from the concept of being, 00:17:40.320 --> 00:17:41.600 of being found in who I am. 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:43.940 And I say, Jesus, then this is what I want to do. 00:17:43.940 --> 00:17:47.640 Jesus, I want to have a life that's satisfied in you and in you alone. 00:17:47.820 --> 00:17:50.180 And what does this begin to look like? 00:17:50.200 --> 00:17:54.460 And I can imagine that the people who are with Jesus, these disciples, who many of them 00:17:54.460 --> 00:17:58.120 have walked away from everything that they hold dear, they're kind of wondering, okay, 00:17:58.220 --> 00:17:59.700 this is what I signed up for. 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:01.180 I signed up for hunger. 00:18:01.380 --> 00:18:02.760 I signed up for persecution. 00:18:03.100 --> 00:18:04.220 I signed up for poverty. 00:18:04.500 --> 00:18:06.280 Jesus, this is what I signed up for. 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:08.740 Then what does the life look like? 00:18:08.860 --> 00:18:10.020 What do I need to do? 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:11.580 Jesus, what is the standard? 00:18:12.460 --> 00:18:15.040 And here's what I want to show as we look at verse 27. 00:18:16.220 --> 00:18:23.080 If we're going to live this life in our white knuckled, pull myself up by my own bootstraps, 00:18:23.340 --> 00:18:29.700 this is what I'm going to do in order to live a blessed life. 00:18:30.340 --> 00:18:34.920 Jesus is going to give us an impossible request. 00:18:36.040 --> 00:18:41.560 But if we're going to live our lives through the transforming power of the gospel, about it's 00:18:41.560 --> 00:18:46.680 who I am and what will come from that, then we stand a chance for the hope. 00:18:47.300 --> 00:18:49.500 Look at verse 27, the impossible request. 00:18:49.760 --> 00:18:50.020 Jesus says, 00:18:50.100 --> 00:19:13.060 And so at the very beginning, what Jesus does is you want your life to be one that glorifies God. 00:19:13.220 --> 00:19:15.460 You want to end this, to have something. 00:19:15.560 --> 00:19:23.040 If this is who you are, then I'm going to give you, I'm going to challenge you to do the one thing that you can't fake. 00:19:24.140 --> 00:19:24.620 Love. 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:26.480 Love. 00:19:27.600 --> 00:19:28.600 I want to challenge you to do the same thing that you can't fake. 00:19:28.600 --> 00:19:29.600 I want to challenge you to do the same thing that you can't fake. 00:19:29.600 --> 00:19:30.600 I want to challenge you to do the same thing that you can't fake. 00:19:30.600 --> 00:19:30.600 I want to challenge you to do the same thing that you can't fake. 00:19:30.600 --> 00:19:31.600 I want to challenge you to do the same thing that you can't fake. 00:19:31.600 --> 00:19:32.600 I want to challenge you with something. 00:19:32.600 --> 00:19:32.600 Find a difficult person. 00:19:32.600 --> 00:19:38.280 And in your own ability, in who you are, try to love them. 00:19:38.280 --> 00:19:41.800 Don't try to just do nice things for them. 00:19:42.940 --> 00:19:46.000 Try to legitimately love them. 00:19:47.140 --> 00:19:48.020 I'm going to tell you, it's impossible. 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:50.840 It is absolutely impossible. 00:19:51.020 --> 00:19:51.200 Why? 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:53.860 Because we're too selfish to muster that up within ourselves. 00:19:55.200 --> 00:20:02.380 But we begin to think through what they've done to us, what they've said about us, the complications of our life. 00:20:02.380 --> 00:20:07.800 And so Jesus says, but I say to you, love your enemies. 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:08.860 Right? 00:20:09.300 --> 00:20:10.220 Love them. 00:20:10.320 --> 00:20:14.000 The one thing that you and I can't fake. 00:20:14.780 --> 00:20:18.100 And so Jesus says, if this is who you're going to be about, then what you need to see, 00:20:18.100 --> 00:20:24.520 what you need to experience, is you need to experience a transformation that comes from me and me alone. 00:20:25.320 --> 00:20:32.980 And so what begins to happen within this is the internal love is going to produce something so that you do good for them. 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:34.360 Why? 00:20:35.760 --> 00:20:36.940 Because it's who you are. 00:20:38.180 --> 00:20:40.760 That you seek to bless them. 00:20:40.980 --> 00:20:44.020 And here's the definition of blessing so that we all understand this, right? 00:20:44.020 --> 00:20:49.260 Blessed means that we have something that we don't deserve. 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:58.500 And so for the people who make your life miserable, what you begin to long for them when you love them is blessing, 00:20:58.920 --> 00:21:01.640 even though they don't deserve to be blessed. 00:21:02.520 --> 00:21:04.900 But it's what you desire for them anyways. 00:21:06.080 --> 00:21:08.640 And then Jesus says, and you pray for them. 00:21:09.700 --> 00:21:14.260 You pray for those who abuse you. 00:21:14.940 --> 00:21:21.720 This goes completely counter to everything outside of Christ that you and I are. 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:25.820 And Jesus is going to address that the only way that this can happen, right? 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:28.080 Think about the miracles of last week. 00:21:28.620 --> 00:21:33.800 It's the miracle that begins to happen through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in our lives. 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:38.180 But you love your enemies. 00:21:38.660 --> 00:21:41.780 In that, then you have your reward. 00:21:41.840 --> 00:21:47.080 Because your reward is not found in what you do, but it is found in who you are. 00:21:48.180 --> 00:21:49.500 Look at verse 43. 00:21:49.780 --> 00:21:54.400 Jesus explains what this looks like in the life of an individual. 00:21:54.400 --> 00:21:55.340 He says, 00:21:55.400 --> 00:22:04.440 For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit. 00:22:05.180 --> 00:22:08.820 For each tree is known by its own fruit. 00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:16.240 For figs are not gathered from thorn bushes, nor grapes picked from a bramble bush. 00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:26.360 The good person out of the good treasures of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil. 00:22:26.660 --> 00:22:31.940 For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. 00:22:32.080 --> 00:22:34.720 All right, so we're going to have an agricultural lesson, all right? 00:22:34.780 --> 00:22:37.320 Now, nothing groundbreaking here, right? 00:22:37.360 --> 00:22:43.120 Like I'm not, I haven't gone to school for this, but here's some things that we know just because of life, all right? 00:22:43.120 --> 00:22:46.960 Dead trees, number one, don't produce fruit. 00:22:47.100 --> 00:22:47.440 They don't. 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:50.200 Dead trees don't produce fruit. 00:22:50.380 --> 00:22:52.780 Alive trees produce fruit. 00:22:53.360 --> 00:23:00.300 But also this, false trees, right, do not produce fruit either. 00:23:01.220 --> 00:23:04.360 I read a pastor this week who was talking about this. 00:23:04.360 --> 00:23:16.080 And here's the phrase that he used is, as you and I, when we try to muster up fruit from ourselves in our own ability, and he described it as stapling fruit. 00:23:16.340 --> 00:23:17.640 He said, your fruit staplers. 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:30.340 And what we're trying to do is to take something that is dead, to take something that's not alive, and to manufacture and put something on it so that the world looks at that and says, that's fantastic. 00:23:30.700 --> 00:23:31.800 So it'd be like this. 00:23:32.300 --> 00:23:33.940 I kind of live in scrub oak country. 00:23:34.040 --> 00:23:39.500 I don't know if you guys have scrub oaks in your yard, but I got a lot of scrub oak kind of toward the back of our property. 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:40.480 And I hate them. 00:23:40.540 --> 00:23:47.360 And every so often you got to go and you got to cut it down, and it feels like as soon as you cut it down, right, in three days there's one bigger than where the one that you cut was, right? 00:23:47.540 --> 00:23:48.480 So imagine this. 00:23:48.520 --> 00:23:54.420 Imagine if you came into my yard, and what I've done is I've taken a scrub oak, and I cut it down, and I threw it to the back. 00:23:54.620 --> 00:24:00.360 But now I take it, and I dig a hole, and I put it down in the hole, and I fill it with dirt. 00:24:01.180 --> 00:24:05.180 And you see the crooked bins, and there's no leaves that are on it. 00:24:05.900 --> 00:24:14.280 And I go to the store, and I get a bag of apples, and a bag of oranges, and a bag of pears, and maybe because whatever, a few watermelons. 00:24:16.140 --> 00:24:21.940 And I come, and I grab the bag of apples, and I staple all of them to the tree, and then I go, and I get the oranges, right? 00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:23.100 I don't even get a different tree. 00:24:23.220 --> 00:24:27.820 And I staple the oranges to that tree, and then I get the pears, and I staple those to the tree. 00:24:27.960 --> 00:24:32.140 And then it'd be really impressive, because I'm really good at all these things that I'm going to do, right? 00:24:32.140 --> 00:24:36.340 I take the watermelons, and I attach them to the tree. 00:24:37.540 --> 00:24:40.620 And then I call you back to my yard, and I say, well, look at this. 00:24:41.080 --> 00:24:42.620 Look at what I've been able to do. 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:44.940 Look at what I've been able to accomplish. 00:24:45.300 --> 00:24:47.060 Look at this tree that is dead. 00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:49.080 Look at this tree which has no roots. 00:24:49.300 --> 00:24:51.340 Look at this tree that doesn't even bear fruit. 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:53.480 But look at what I've been able to do. 00:24:54.600 --> 00:24:59.460 I've been able to take apples and make them, and I've been able to take pears and make them, 00:24:59.520 --> 00:25:04.140 and I've been able to take oranges and make them, and I've been able to take watermelons and place them on there. 00:25:04.140 --> 00:25:11.300 And what begins to be seen and what begins to be seen and what begins to know as the South Carolina sun bakes down on it is all of this is fake. 00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:13.480 It's all manufactured. 00:25:14.320 --> 00:25:31.900 And the truth is that when you and I say that in and of myself before love exists in who I am, I'm just going to muster up and fake some generosity. 00:25:33.260 --> 00:25:35.960 I'm just going to muster up and I'm going to fake some compassion. 00:25:37.020 --> 00:25:39.980 I'm just going to muster up and fake some purity. 00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:47.220 So on the outside that people can see what I've done, people can see what I've accomplished, people can see what I do. 00:25:47.220 --> 00:25:51.640 But the truth is, it's dead fruit on a false tree. 00:25:53.020 --> 00:25:57.160 And that, and that is our reward. 00:25:58.100 --> 00:26:05.300 You know, the phrase, fake it till you make it, right, doesn't apply to the gospel. 00:26:06.580 --> 00:26:07.940 It doesn't apply. 00:26:08.600 --> 00:26:19.340 That the true transformation of who we are comes from the power of God changing the heart of man. 00:26:20.460 --> 00:26:33.080 That's why scripture, as Paul writes and describes his situation, he says that what the power of the gospel does is it takes a dead man and it makes him alive again, right? 00:26:33.540 --> 00:26:41.820 That's why we begin to see that what the gospel does, according to scripture, is it takes a dead heart, it takes a heart of stone. 00:26:43.040 --> 00:26:52.540 And that what God does is he removes the heart of stone and he gives a heart of flesh, a soft heart that can work and move and be transformed. 00:26:53.560 --> 00:27:01.160 That it all begins not with you and I trying to figure out how do we check the fake religious boxes and put the fruit up on the tree, 00:27:01.160 --> 00:27:10.440 but how we say that, Lord, within me, Lord, that this is what I need you to do, that in my very being, Lord, transform me, that this is who I am. 00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:25.580 Because you can walk into work tomorrow with a thing of coffee and a donut and walk to that person who you can't stand and give a false Pharisee sense of love. 00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:38.240 Or you can pray that God will take that who was your enemy and transform your heart and bring from you love that glorifies God. 00:27:39.800 --> 00:27:45.280 Jesus closes this last part with one last teaching that I want you to look at. 00:27:46.560 --> 00:27:53.840 Verse 46, he says, why do you call me, Lord, Lord, and do not do what I tell you? 00:27:53.900 --> 00:27:55.880 Now, let's pause here for a second, okay? 00:27:56.200 --> 00:27:58.180 Because you're like, well, you just said it's about being. 00:27:58.420 --> 00:28:00.040 It's not about doing, right? 00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:03.440 Well, I want us to talk about the obedience that God's going to call us to. 00:28:04.260 --> 00:28:08.260 The foundational obedience that needs to exist in our life. 00:28:09.140 --> 00:28:10.280 That's what Jesus is pointing to. 00:28:10.340 --> 00:28:18.360 Verse 47, everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like. 00:28:18.360 --> 00:28:21.460 The key, everyone who comes to me, Jesus says. 00:28:22.420 --> 00:28:27.780 He is like a man building a house who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. 00:28:28.320 --> 00:28:36.220 And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it because it had been well built. 00:28:36.700 --> 00:28:44.120 But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. 00:28:44.120 --> 00:28:51.660 When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell and the ruin of that house was great. 00:28:52.380 --> 00:28:59.840 Jesus talks about the same situation happening to two things that look very similar. 00:29:00.700 --> 00:29:03.600 But there's one difference, the foundation. 00:29:04.600 --> 00:29:09.700 The house that my family and I lived in before we lived in the house that we live in now. 00:29:10.080 --> 00:29:11.160 I want to be honest with you. 00:29:11.300 --> 00:29:14.140 It was the most beautiful house that I've ever lived in. 00:29:14.780 --> 00:29:18.780 When you would pull up to that house and you would stand outside and you would look at that house. 00:29:18.840 --> 00:29:23.080 It was a gorgeous brick house with a detached garage with a breezeway. 00:29:23.540 --> 00:29:28.720 It had trim on the outside of the house over the brickwork to make it look very ornate. 00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:39.980 You would walk in and it had high ceilings and it had gorgeous hardwood floors and it had the handrails and everything on the walls that you could possibly imagine that it was there. 00:29:40.100 --> 00:29:46.580 It had a beautiful staircase with fancy chandeliers and light fixtures and everything that was there. 00:29:47.140 --> 00:29:57.760 And when it came time for us to put this house onto the market, we decided that before we do this, let's find out if there's anything wrong with this gorgeous house. 00:29:58.320 --> 00:30:06.040 With this beautiful house, with this house that as you walk up, so many people would want this house. 00:30:07.040 --> 00:30:10.020 And so someone came and did an inspection for us. 00:30:10.560 --> 00:30:12.840 And I want to tell you, we got some bad news. 00:30:14.040 --> 00:30:18.600 You see, there wasn't anything wrong with the doors and the windows. 00:30:18.780 --> 00:30:19.960 We had taken care of those. 00:30:20.600 --> 00:30:23.300 There wasn't anything wrong with the eye appeal. 00:30:24.080 --> 00:30:25.700 What was wrong with the house? 00:30:25.760 --> 00:30:29.220 And the guy brought me over to the right side of the house. 00:30:29.800 --> 00:30:31.100 And he said, I want to show you something. 00:30:31.940 --> 00:30:41.940 And he brought me over and there was a crack that ran all the way from the bottom where the grass touched the house all the way to the top window. 00:30:41.940 --> 00:30:43.800 And I'd never noticed it before. 00:30:44.580 --> 00:30:45.860 And he said, you got a problem. 00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:48.220 You got to get this crack fixed. 00:30:48.860 --> 00:30:50.380 And I said, well, that's not a problem, right? 00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:51.780 Like, we can get some grout. 00:30:51.880 --> 00:30:52.540 We can get something. 00:30:52.660 --> 00:30:54.560 Like, we can patch this and make this work. 00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:58.700 And he said, no, you can't. 00:30:59.600 --> 00:31:04.300 Nothing you can do to patch this, to make this work from the outside. 00:31:04.540 --> 00:31:08.020 The problem with the house is underneath. 00:31:09.080 --> 00:31:12.080 The problem with the house is the foundation. 00:31:13.020 --> 00:31:17.580 The problem with this house is it's not structurally sound. 00:31:18.540 --> 00:31:20.820 And I remember thinking, well, what about the chandeliers? 00:31:21.200 --> 00:31:22.020 What about the windows? 00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:22.960 What about the doors? 00:31:23.260 --> 00:31:24.780 What about the paint on the wall? 00:31:25.500 --> 00:31:26.760 What about the decorations? 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:28.020 What about the hardwood? 00:31:28.240 --> 00:31:29.340 What about all of this? 00:31:30.700 --> 00:31:38.220 But the truth was, none of those things mattered if the foundation wasn't set. 00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:44.800 Jesus described a situation where two houses were built. 00:31:46.040 --> 00:31:50.080 And it didn't matter that in both houses it had good walls. 00:31:51.140 --> 00:31:58.300 It didn't matter that the roof on both of them kept the water from coming in. 00:31:59.380 --> 00:32:03.360 It didn't matter that the doors would swing as they should. 00:32:03.480 --> 00:32:10.940 It didn't matter that the windows were positioned in the correct way to where the afternoon breeze would fill the home. 00:32:10.940 --> 00:32:18.860 It didn't matter that the floor was where the floor would be if the foundation was off. 00:32:20.340 --> 00:32:26.400 And so he said, the one whose life will stand, the one whose life will hold true, 00:32:26.980 --> 00:32:30.600 is the one whose foundation was found. 00:32:31.080 --> 00:32:34.020 And foundation was found in him. 00:32:34.740 --> 00:32:41.580 You see, you and I so often in our life, what we spend our life focusing in on, 00:32:41.800 --> 00:32:47.320 in our relationship with God, in our faith, are the outside things. 00:32:48.820 --> 00:32:50.720 The things that people can see. 00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:53.640 The things that people can respond to. 00:32:54.220 --> 00:32:56.720 The things that people can give us credit and praise. 00:32:56.960 --> 00:33:00.660 I'm telling you, people came to our house as when we sold our house. 00:33:00.940 --> 00:33:02.760 And you ask, what did you like about the house? 00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:04.500 Well, we liked how it set off the road. 00:33:04.620 --> 00:33:05.860 We liked the curb appeal. 00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:08.040 Not one person said, you know what? 00:33:08.080 --> 00:33:10.540 That foundation is quality, right? 00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:12.600 Not one person. 00:33:14.040 --> 00:33:18.020 But everything else was worthless if that wasn't set. 00:33:20.300 --> 00:33:28.720 You and I, my fear is in our life that we're walking around and we're consumed about walls when our foundation is not set. 00:33:29.520 --> 00:33:36.500 We're consumed about a new window when everything that we could be is not who we need to be because it's not found in him. 00:33:37.740 --> 00:33:39.700 So here's the point, I think, in the story of what Jesus is saying. 00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:41.380 But you're serious. 00:33:41.520 --> 00:33:42.600 But what do we do? 00:33:43.180 --> 00:33:44.340 I've got to have an action. 00:33:44.460 --> 00:33:45.860 I've got to have an application. 00:33:46.740 --> 00:33:48.380 I've got to have something that I step toward. 00:33:49.460 --> 00:33:50.560 But here's what I would tell us. 00:33:51.560 --> 00:33:52.220 Start digging. 00:33:53.800 --> 00:33:54.440 Start digging. 00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:59.260 Stop trying to put a wall on a foundation that doesn't exist. 00:34:00.260 --> 00:34:09.200 Stop letting your focus be on how do I need to modify my behavior and begin to dig your life into who Jesus is. 00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:18.860 Begin to desire and long for knowing him and spending time with him and growing with him and crying out to him. 00:34:19.180 --> 00:34:26.080 Begin to place your life rooted in who he is for his glory and for his name. 00:34:27.200 --> 00:34:28.060 But here's the thing. 00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:30.240 Digging's hard. 00:34:31.720 --> 00:34:32.760 Digging's not easy. 00:34:34.160 --> 00:34:35.520 Digging breaks your back. 00:34:36.700 --> 00:34:38.820 And no one gives you credit for it. 00:34:39.680 --> 00:34:43.640 But it's where everything is going to come from. 00:34:44.540 --> 00:34:45.680 You want to be blessed? 00:34:46.900 --> 00:34:49.020 You want to experience life with Christ? 00:34:49.420 --> 00:34:50.180 Christ alone? 00:34:51.340 --> 00:34:53.880 You want to know about the hope of what it's found? 00:34:55.840 --> 00:34:59.900 Stop stapling fruit and start digging into him. 00:35:01.080 --> 00:35:01.740 Would you pray with me? 00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:06.360 God, I come to you this morning. 00:35:10.160 --> 00:35:24.000 Lord, and my fear for so many of us is that we're trying to live these lives of stapling fruit, false fruit, fake fruit on dead trees. 00:35:25.080 --> 00:35:31.920 And we look at ourselves and we see what we've done and we think we're impressing ourselves and impressing others. 00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:35.400 Lord, but what we lack is life. 00:35:36.620 --> 00:35:51.080 And what we begin to find is where life begins, where life is upheld, where growth happens and takes place, is in a depth of foundation that is found in you and in you alone. 00:35:51.440 --> 00:36:06.800 So Jesus, as we begin to look through our lives and the examination of our heart and all of the things that we've tried to do in and of ourselves, Lord, may we wrestle with the one question. 00:36:07.620 --> 00:36:08.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:08.620 --> 00:36:09.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:09.620 --> 00:36:10.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:10.620 --> 00:36:11.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:11.620 --> 00:36:12.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:12.620 --> 00:36:13.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:13.620 --> 00:36:14.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:14.620 --> 00:36:15.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:15.620 --> 00:36:16.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:16.620 --> 00:36:17.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:17.620 --> 00:36:18.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:18.620 --> 00:36:19.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:19.620 --> 00:36:20.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:20.620 --> 00:36:21.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:21.620 --> 00:36:22.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:22.620 --> 00:36:23.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:23.620 --> 00:36:24.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:36:24.620 --> 00:36:25.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 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Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:37:47.620 --> 00:37:48.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:37:48.620 --> 00:37:49.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:37:49.620 --> 00:37:50.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:37:50.620 --> 00:37:51.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:37:51.620 --> 00:37:52.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:37:52.620 --> 00:37:53.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:37:53.620 --> 00:37:54.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:37:54.620 --> 00:37:55.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:37:55.620 --> 00:37:56.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:37:56.620 --> 00:37:57.620 Lord, we can't wait for it. 00:38:07.620 --> 00:38:24.620 Thanks again for listening to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast. 00:38:24.620 --> 00:38:26.620 We hope that you enjoyed listening to this week's message. 00:38:26.620 --> 00:38:30.620 If you'd like to learn more about who we are or explore additional resources, 00:38:30.620 --> 00:38:35.620 visit us online at www.willowridgechurch.com 00:38:35.620 --> 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