WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:16.440 practical ways. Good morning, morning, we talk through. Good morning. 4 00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:20.640 Good morning to you and you and you man. Hey, 5 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:21.640 good morning everybody. 6 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:24.320 It's it's only the second day of this week. 7 00:00:24.399 --> 00:00:26.079 Yeah, I forget it might not shake it up a 8 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:26.440 little bit. 9 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:29.559 Wow, I'm pretty well to it. I'm feeling wild, get 10 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:30.440 right to it. 11 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:32.039 Hey, wild cherry Life Savers? 12 00:00:32.119 --> 00:00:32.880 Did you No? 13 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:36.399 I don't even like Life Savers really I used to 14 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:38.799 as a kid. I'm not a candy person. 15 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:40.320 Yeah that's right. You aren't a candy person. 16 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:41.000 Yeah that's weird. 17 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:44.280 Yeah, which which is why we're friends. Yeah, right, because 18 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:45.039 that leaves more for me. 19 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:45.600 That's right. 20 00:00:46.079 --> 00:00:48.079 I never have to ask are you gonna finish that? 21 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:49.280 Right? Right? 22 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:52.439 It's true, especially chocolate. That's the thing I don't understand 23 00:00:52.479 --> 00:00:52.840 about you. 24 00:00:53.200 --> 00:00:53.399 Yeah. 25 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:55.840 As a matter of fact, I question our friendship over 26 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:56.359 the chocolate. 27 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:00.000 Hey, that you're not like I told you my experience. 28 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:02.039 I don't know two people that don't like chocolate, and 29 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:03.240 both of them are psychopaths. 30 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:08.959 What are you saying I'm a psychopath? Yeah? 31 00:01:09.319 --> 00:01:11.319 Like, did you ever hear Hannibal Lecter mentioned that he 32 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:14.519 liked chocolate. No, no, no, what I'm saying. So there's 33 00:01:14.560 --> 00:01:23.959 one he liked liver. So anyways, anyways, I might be 34 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:24.879 making a leap there. 35 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:28.840 Okay, Hey, so you know I don't mind chocolate, Like 36 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:31.439 I can eat chocolate with like like peanut m and m's. 37 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:34.079 If I were to buy a box of peanut lem 38 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:36.400 and M's in a movie theater, I get about halfway 39 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:38.640 through it, I'm like, I cannot eat anymore. But I 40 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:40.680 can only eat the first half because it has peanuts 41 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:43.000 in it. Ow I get to the end of a 42 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:46.359 Snickers bar, I'm like, whoa wow. But like, but halfway 43 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:47.079 through it, I'm fine. 44 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.680 I walked through. And if there's chocolate, I have to 45 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:51.640 taste it. I have to have it. I don't know why. 46 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:55.799 It's just I mean, I will say this very very strongly. 47 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:00.079 If it's like a Hershey's kiss, absolutely not even a 48 00:02:00.200 --> 00:02:02.760 chance while I eat that just pure chocolate. 49 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.680 No, I just ate five her She's kisses last night, 50 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:11.639 back to back to back. So funny. 51 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:15.680 Yeah, No, I just don't do it. 52 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:20.159 Okay, Well, sorry, all right, So, hey, Jeff, can the 53 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:21.240 misery of your life? 54 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:25.840 It's great, it's great. All right, Hey, listen, we are 55 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:30.439 launching into a segment the Desiree is calling Hot Takes Showdown, 56 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:33.199 and this is supposed to be where we debate. Yes, 57 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:36.800 we're supposed to commit. Okay, okay, so uh so here 58 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:39.080 we go. She said, do you agree with this the statement? 59 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:41.919 The statement debate, stand your ground, no middle ground. Here 60 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:45.840 we go. The first statement, is this cursive should still 61 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:49.159 be taught? Yes, absolutely, it should. 62 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.199 It should be. I think you think so too. Yes, wow, 63 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:54.240 I thought you would say no. 64 00:02:53.759 --> 00:02:57.479 No, I should be. Yes, it is. It is a 65 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:01.840 it is a lost art and and honestly it is. Uh, 66 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:04.120 it's it's there's so many things about it. It's elegant, 67 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:08.479 it's quicker to write, it is. Yes, it's you know, 68 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:11.960 it's interesting because people have signatures in cursive, and yet 69 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:15.240 nobody writes in cursive anymore. So I think it's I 70 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:15.639 think it's. 71 00:03:15.759 --> 00:03:18.680 Uh, I do I like I'll write in cursive. I'll 72 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:21.080 write in cursive. If I'm writing you a note, I'll 73 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:23.560 write in cursive and not print it. Yeah, because you 74 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:24.439 can't read my printing? 75 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:25.879 Oh is that why? 76 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:26.560 Yeah? 77 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:29.479 I have decent penmanship, but I still like to do 78 00:03:29.599 --> 00:03:34.599 cursive when uh, when I write a card to my kids, 79 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:37.400 I do cursive just to show them that cursive exists. 80 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:38.800 Yeah, and can they still read it? 81 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:39.759 I think so? 82 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:43.319 Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Another credit, Well, because I 83 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:44.199 think they were they were. 84 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:46.479 The cutoff was after them, Okay, so I think they 85 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:49.240 all learned it right then there's a cutoff. So yeah, 86 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:51.879 I mean the generation alpha they I don't think they'll 87 00:03:51.879 --> 00:03:52.960 be able to recognize cursive. 88 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:53.400 I don't know. 89 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:55.479 Yeah, I like it. 90 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:57.439 I like how it looks. I like it's I think 91 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:01.039 it's easy to read. Yeah, even if they yeah, poor penmanship. 92 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:04.840 Cursive you usually read the beginning and the end of 93 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:07.919 a of a word anyways, and incursive there's usually distinct 94 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:10.639 beginnings and ends. Write your first letter and your last 95 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:12.280 letter stand out. Even if there's kind of scribble in 96 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:14.319 the middle, you can usually and that's how you read. 97 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:17.680 Is that so that's part of it? It's easy to read. 98 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:19.879 The bottom line is is it not that hard? Why 99 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:21.279 do we get rid of it? It's not that hard. 100 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:22.639 We are standing our ground. 101 00:04:22.920 --> 00:04:24.759 Yeah, let's go, people pick up the pace. 102 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:26.480 I don't know why did we get rid of raise 103 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:28.720 the bar because everybody's typing and so we don't need 104 00:04:28.720 --> 00:04:31.519 to write cursive I think, so I guess, okay, it's 105 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:34.120 it's it seems silly to me, okay. And then the 106 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:36.360 second one is it's okay to quit things you start. 107 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:40.959 Absolutely it is absolutely yes, hate quitting things I start. 108 00:04:41.160 --> 00:04:42.120 It depends on what liz. 109 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:44.600 I hate it, but I do it. I just hate it. 110 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:45.319 Why. 111 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:47.120 I don't know. I always feel like less of a 112 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:49.839 man when I don't finish the things I start. Every time. 113 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.879 Let me let me give you an example. So I, uh, 114 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:56.000 I am the worst at this. Somebody said, somebody said, hey, 115 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:58.879 let me talk you to run in the marathon, and 116 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:02.079 I was like, great, I'm gonna commit to it. I 117 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:04.680 went public with it in front of everybody, in front 118 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:07.560 of thousands of people. Then I started training for it, 119 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:11.720 and then sometimes someone hurt my back and I was like, oh, 120 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:14.399 thank God, thank god that I hurt my back. I 121 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:16.879 don't have to run this race. And then what I 122 00:05:16.920 --> 00:05:20.000 realized was like two years later down the road. And 123 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.600 I'm not kidding when I say this. My old church 124 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:25.439 used to work at. Running was a big thing, and 125 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:27.800 everybody on staff was a large staff. There were like 126 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:32.759 twenty avid runners, twenty where they were like, running's my thing, 127 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:35.839 man marathons. And by the way, I'm not against runners. 128 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:41.680 I'm just against runners running longer than your body was intended, right, 129 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:43.920 because you know, a half a marathon. I think your 130 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:45.240 body can handle a half a marathon. 131 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:49.639 But every single people some people's bodies. 132 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:49.959 Right. 133 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.240 You ever see me running, the cops are tasting me. 134 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:55.759 Right, right. But anyway, bottom line is is twenty out 135 00:05:55.800 --> 00:06:01.759 of twenty had surgery. Twenty out of twenty. Yeah when 136 00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:03.920 he out of twenty had surgery because I. 137 00:06:03.839 --> 00:06:07.000 Am, and then they die their body falls apart. 138 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:12.399 Yeah, they all had surgery, back surgery, leg surgery, knee surgery. 139 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:13.120 It was just terrible. 140 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:16.680 There's a whole vein of medicine called sports medicine. 141 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:18.079 Yeah, that's right, right. 142 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:20.560 And and there's a whole segment just most of the 143 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:24.160 orthopedic surgeons and stuff. It's for runners, right most. 144 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:27.839 Well, our good friend Dave Wilson he can't walk upright 145 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:31.120 because he blew his knee out in the first game 146 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:33.720 he ever played at in college football and he's been 147 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:35.319 on bone on bone on his knee and now he 148 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:36.439 can't straighten up. 149 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:38.319 Well, we need to fix it. Well, I got a 150 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:40.199 pocket knife. Maybe I don't know if I'm good at it, 151 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:40.720 but it might be. 152 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:42.040 Yeah, give me a new knee. 153 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:47.120 Yeah yeah, so yeah. So I think the if you 154 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:49.160 ever asked me, what is the thing I wish I 155 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.399 could change the most about me, it's this. I start 156 00:06:52.439 --> 00:06:55.600 a million things and I and I don't always finish them, really, 157 00:06:55.639 --> 00:06:58.360 and there's nothing in me that says that's okay. Everything 158 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:00.360 in me says just finish it. I would rule the 159 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:02.000 world if I could finish all the stuff I start. 160 00:07:02.639 --> 00:07:05.199 And I think it's the adhd thing in me. Oh hey, 161 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:08.439 look at the squirrel. Squirrel right always there's another thing 162 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:11.639 that catches my attention and it's really exciting. And so 163 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:15.279 I start tons of stuff. Home project. You can ask 164 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.360 my wife. I'll start home projects and I can't finish them. 165 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:21.839 I've already made fifteen trips to home depot. I get frustrated. 166 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:23.920 It's time to call somebody to come and help me 167 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.439 fixing a car, same thing, and I just feel like 168 00:07:26.519 --> 00:07:27.920 I should, I should be able to do it. I 169 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.519 just don't. And either I don't or I can't. There's 170 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:32.360 a ton of those things. I probably have twenty five 171 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:36.040 unfinished projects right now. And nothing in me says that's okay. Yeah, yeah, 172 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:39.439 well not just at home. I'm not at home, just 173 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:42.120 projects are writing. I'm writing a couple of different things. 174 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:45.560 I'm writing three things right now. None of the three 175 00:07:45.560 --> 00:07:47.800 are done. I just put a deadline on one of 176 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:51.399 them recently. Deadlines. I like deadlines. Deadlines get me moving, 177 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:55.519 get me motivated. But yeah, I've got so many loose 178 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:56.839 ends and it drives me nuts. 179 00:07:57.199 --> 00:07:57.399 Huh. 180 00:07:58.279 --> 00:07:59.199 I don't think it's okay. 181 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:01.319 I will say real quick, because I know we're coming 182 00:08:01.399 --> 00:08:04.240 up on our time. One time, I tore the whole 183 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:06.920 bathroom apart down to the studs and I and I 184 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:08.920 had friends that I know come in and just do 185 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:10.800 bits and pieces. And it took forever because it was 186 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:13.920 like mostly free and uh, but the bathroom was still 187 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.959 undone after like a year, and slowly but surely we 188 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:19.439 just got it put together. And so I kept on 189 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:20.959 telling my wife. I was like, She's like, let's just 190 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:23.199 hire somebody, and I said, no, no, no, I'll get 191 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:25.160 it done. I promise. And then I went to Cuba 192 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:27.000 and I came back and it was done done, and 193 00:08:27.160 --> 00:08:30.240 she had hired somebody when I was in Cuba. Good 194 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.399 and she had planned the whole thing. So I'm like, 195 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:36.000 how much do we own this guy? But thank god 196 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:38.720 he was a good guy and charges a small amount. 197 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:39.519 That's funny. 198 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.399 So well, hey, speaking, I'm strong, I wouldn't say. 199 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:45.399 The one thing it is okay to quit thing is 200 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:47.799 if you're if you're eating a meal that's too big 201 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:48.600 to finish. 202 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:50.679 Oh yeah, right yeah, yeah, yeah. 203 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:55.759 Yeah, and uh that's what we're talking about. It's being hungry, hungry. 204 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:59.360 We both went for it, okay, very good. Yeah yeah yeah. 205 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:01.279 I like it as a weak transition. 206 00:09:01.399 --> 00:09:03.720 No, no, no, we got no. I thought it was it 207 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:07.039 got us there, clever. Yeah, it was better than our 208 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:08.240 normal lazy transition. 209 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:11.799 Yes, that's right. So in Matthew chapter five, we just 210 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:13.960 read in verse six, God blesses those who hunger in 211 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:17.279 thirst for justice or righteousness, for they will be satisfied. 212 00:09:17.639 --> 00:09:21.240 And then the premise of this entire series is Jesus 213 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:24.120 sets up these eight or nine things that God blesses 214 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:26.240 at the very beginning of the Sermon on the Mount, 215 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:29.279 and then peppered all throughout the Sermon on the Mount 216 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:32.799 our illustrations about those things, and one of them is 217 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:37.000 this idea of hungering and thirsting for righteousness. Oftentimes, the 218 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:40.000 people in Jesus day looked at the Pharisees as being 219 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:44.559 like super righteous because they obeyed all the laws of Moses, 220 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:49.559 and so they measured they equated righteousness with law. And 221 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:52.960 so here in Matthew chapter five, verse seventeen, Jesus says, 222 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.000 don't misunderstand why I've come. I did not come to 223 00:09:55.039 --> 00:09:58.279 abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, 224 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:01.879 I claim to plish their purpose. And I tell you 225 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:03.919 the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the 226 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:06.960 smallest detail of God's law will disappear until its purpose 227 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:10.679 is achieved. So if you ignore the least commandment and 228 00:10:10.720 --> 00:10:12.360 teach others to do the same, you will be called 229 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:14.519 the least in the Kingdom of heaven. But anyone who 230 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:17.440 obeys God's laws and teaches them will be called great 231 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:19.799 in the Kingdom of heaven. But I warn you, unless 232 00:10:19.799 --> 00:10:22.080 your righteousness is better than the righteousness of the teachers 233 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:24.799 of religious law and the Pharisees, you will never enter 234 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:29.360 the Kingdom of heaven. Woo about righteousness. So on one side, 235 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:33.720 yesterday we said, God doesn't say I'm going to reward 236 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:36.120 your righteous living. He said, I'm going to reward your 237 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:39.639 desire true bless you. And now Jesus says, you're not 238 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:43.559 going to go to heaven if your righteousness doesn't exceed 239 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:46.120 the righteousness of the Pharisees. 240 00:10:46.559 --> 00:10:50.639 Yeah, so some people can some people can misinterpret that, right, Yeah, 241 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:55.000 so some people misinterpret that as saying Jesus is saying 242 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:59.840 you have to live right in order to obtain heaven. Right, 243 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:04.759 But he's talking about the law being the thing, the 244 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:07.600 vehicle that gets you to heaven. Right. Right. 245 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:09.360 If you think the law is what gets you to heaven, 246 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:10.840 you have to keep it perfectly. 247 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:14.120 That's right, that's right. That's what he's saying. He's saying, 248 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:17.279 the righteousness of the law is not what gets you 249 00:11:17.320 --> 00:11:21.919 to heaven. Right, and so's and he's actually he's actually saying, listen, 250 00:11:21.960 --> 00:11:24.720 I've come to accomplish the law. I've come to fulfill 251 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:27.240 the law. I'm not doing away with it, right, just 252 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:29.600 because I'm giving you new rules, and you know, I'm 253 00:11:29.639 --> 00:11:33.080 giving you a new commandment love one another. And Jesus, 254 00:11:33.120 --> 00:11:38.120 you know, you know, he's the sacrifice, that is the 255 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.159 ultimate sacrifice. So he gives us a new Covenant because 256 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:44.519 of that right, that the brand new promise of salvation 257 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.480 everything else. So so in a lot of ways, the 258 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:50.960 Old Testament, some of the Old Testament laws, they don't 259 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:54.480 apply to us today because Jesus has fulfilled them. You know, 260 00:11:54.519 --> 00:11:58.919 if there's a prophecy that's just been lingering unfulfilled for 261 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:03.440 seven hundred years, Jesus fulfilled that, right, He's accomplished that. 262 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:05.639 There are some things in the Old Testament where Jesus 263 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:08.600 came to complete He put a bow on it, and 264 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:11.879 it's done with. Right. But he's not saying, but he said, 265 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:15.000 I'm not coming to do away with the law, right, 266 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:17.720 because anything that's not fulfilled, anything that I have not 267 00:12:17.879 --> 00:12:21.360 fulfilled or accomplished, it will exist all the way to 268 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:24.480 the ends of the earth. Right, So all the things 269 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:27.440 that Jesus didn't come to satisfy, all the stuff in 270 00:12:27.480 --> 00:12:30.840 the Old Testament that still exists that aren't satisfied by Jesus, 271 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:35.000 by his you know, salvation, What am I saying? Just 272 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:40.960 his fulfillment of salvation, prophecies, right, and everything else he's 273 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:43.600 saying will still exist. But then he's really talking about 274 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:46.240 the law and he's saying he's saying listen the law. 275 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:51.039 You think the Pharisees are righteous, but you have to 276 00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:53.799 surpass them in order to get to heaven. So I 277 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:55.559 just think that people will take this verse out of 278 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:58.360 context a lot of times and think that they have 279 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:00.559 to be righteous in order to get to heaven. But 280 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:04.960 that conflicts with every other verse when God promises salvation, 281 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:09.080 when God explains salvation. If you take all the verses 282 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:12.080 about salvation, this verse cannot mean that. 283 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:15.679 Yeah, well, this verse is consistent with what Paul says. 284 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.879 So Jesus is saying in a few sentences. Well, Paul 285 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:22.399 took several chapters in the Book of Romans to unpack. Right. 286 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:24.720 If you think that the law can get you to heaven, 287 00:13:24.799 --> 00:13:28.200 the law is just a task master. All the rules 288 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.559 are there to prove to you that you can't keep 289 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:32.840 the laws, and so then the only thing we have 290 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:37.279 to fall back on is God's grace. Right. And so 291 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:40.080 I talked about this, you know, and I preached this 292 00:13:40.120 --> 00:13:44.240 at my brother's funeral in Psalm or in Roman seven. 293 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:46.720 Even Paul says, the things I wish I'd do, I 294 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:48.639 don't do, and the things I don't want to do 295 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:51.399 I do. And he's talking about the law. In that 296 00:13:51.440 --> 00:13:53.039 whole chapter, he's talking about the law, and he said, oh, 297 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:54.919 what a wretched man I am? Who can ever save 298 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:57.279 me from this body of death? And he says, thank Goodness, 299 00:13:57.320 --> 00:13:59.720 only Jesus can. But then you turn to Romans chapter eight, 300 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:02.519 verse one, the very next page, and he says, there 301 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:06.279 is now therefore no condemnation for those who are in 302 00:14:06.440 --> 00:14:09.200 Christ Jesus. So if I'm going to try to earn 303 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:11.679 it my own way, Romans chapter seven says, oh what 304 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:14.320 a wretched man I am. And I just living in 305 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:17.679 a body of death. I'm miserable all the time. Romans 306 00:14:17.759 --> 00:14:19.960 chapter eight says, there's no condemnation for those who are 307 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:24.159 in Christ Jesus. How do I have my righteousness transcend 308 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:26.279 the righteousness of the most perfect people on the planet 309 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:30.440 At the time, the pharisees, not on my dime, It's 310 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:33.799 on Jesus dime. Right. The Bible says that we are 311 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:37.759 plunged into Christ, those who are in Christ. Jesus is 312 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:40.840 that word, and it talks about we are in His righteousness. 313 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:44.639 We're clothed. The Bible says, we're clothed in Jesus righteousness. 314 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:49.840 And so my righteousness on its own can never measure 315 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:52.200 up to the perfection of the law, let alone to 316 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:56.279 how good the Pharisees were. But when Jesus gives me 317 00:14:56.440 --> 00:15:01.200 his righteousness and I possess him, he's in me, and 318 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:04.879 I have him, then my righteousness. When God looks at me, 319 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:07.759 he sees Jesus, and that's the only way any of 320 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:10.759 us are getting in. It's through Jesus, and he unpacks it. 321 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:14.399 So it's interesting, I just noticed this, by the way, 322 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:17.120 so rate before this he goes, Hey, you guys are 323 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:18.720 the salt of the earth. You're the light of the world. 324 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:20.799 He'd already said he's the salt, the other the light 325 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:22.559 of the world, but now he's saying, you guys, are 326 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:25.799 you represent me? So he says, let your good deeds 327 00:15:25.799 --> 00:15:28.000 so shine before men, that they would see your good 328 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:32.960 deeds and glorify your father, who's in heaven. Then he says, 329 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:39.320 don't misunderstand why I've come. And then he says, I 330 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:41.120 came not to get rid of the law, but to 331 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.559 fulfill it. But if you're trying to fulfill it, there's 332 00:15:43.600 --> 00:15:49.039 no chance. And then from there on the next verses 333 00:15:49.159 --> 00:15:53.000 he talks about murder and anger. He talks about lust, 334 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:57.240 He talks about divorce and marriage and social contracts. He 335 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:01.759 talks about vows. He talks about revenge. He talks about 336 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:05.039 how we should be treating other people in our communities 337 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:08.480 and our enemies. He talks about generosity towards the needy. 338 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:12.440 He talks about prayer. He talks about fasting. He talks 339 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:16.720 about money. He talks about faith and worry. He talks 340 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:21.120 about judging. He talks about getting your prayers answered right, 341 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:26.720 all the religious stuff, He unpacks, everything attached to the law. 342 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:29.080 He talks about through the whole rest of the thing, 343 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:30.679 And every one of these goes and you can't do 344 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:32.120 it on your own, and you can't do it on 345 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:33.720 your own, and you can't do it on your own. 346 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:36.320 And finally he gets down to the end in chapter seven, 347 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:39.799 and he goes, so keep on asking, keep on seeking, 348 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:43.240 You're gonna find it, You're gonna receive it. It's a 349 00:16:43.279 --> 00:16:45.519 faith thing. This is what he's trying to turn. He's 350 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:47.960 turning it all on his head. He talks about all 351 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.480 the religious things. They think, if they can just give 352 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:53.840 enough money, if they can just avoid committing adultery, if 353 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:56.000 they just don't kill anybody, they're going to be good, 354 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:58.720 and Jesus goes, that's not enough, because if you are 355 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:00.639 angry at somebody enough to kill, it's the same as 356 00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:02.519 killing him. If you lust after a woman, it's the 357 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:04.119 same as sleeping with it. Right, he goes on down 358 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:06.200 the line. He said, listen, you are not perfect. There's 359 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:08.200 no chance for you if you think that you can 360 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:10.920 keep the law. The whole rest of the message is 361 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.000 just proving that the law isn't enough for you. You 362 00:17:14.079 --> 00:17:16.119 can't do it. And then he gets here to chapter 363 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:19.079 seven and he goes, but listen, it's a faith thing. 364 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:21.880 So he keeps tying faith is better than the law, 365 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:24.200 and then he gets there and then finally goes, so 366 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:25.720 let me just sumbon it, afraid, treat people the way 367 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:29.200 you want to be treated, and then seek me right. 368 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:31.839 And then he says in chapter seven, you can enter 369 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:34.279 God's kingdom only through the narrow gate. So the other 370 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:37.000 one says, if you're trying to trying to earn your 371 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:39.039 way to heaven, you're not going to make it in 372 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:42.599 the kingdom of heaven if your personal righteousness doesn't exceed 373 00:17:42.599 --> 00:17:44.599 the righteousness of the Pharisees. He said, but let me 374 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:46.039 tell you how to get to him. It's a narrow 375 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:50.640 it's a narrow way. Not the highway to Hell is broad, 376 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.279 and this gate is wide for the many who choose 377 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:56.440 that way. But the gateway to life is very narrow, 378 00:17:56.599 --> 00:17:58.279 and the road is difficult, and only if you ever 379 00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:01.240 find it. And he's saying it's him. There's another point 380 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:04.160 where Jesus says, I'm the gate right, I'm the door 381 00:18:04.400 --> 00:18:07.839 is what he says. So I don't think I'd ever 382 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:10.039 realized it before that. The whole message is him proving 383 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:11.799 that the law doesn't work. And then he gets in 384 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:13.759 and he goes, I'm the only way. We get to 385 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:15.720 John fourteen and he goes, I'm the way the truth 386 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:17.680 in life. No one comes with Father except through me. 387 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:22.599 And so Paul takes chapters and chapters and chapters to 388 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:26.599 unpack these ideas, and Jesus in here he just takes three. 389 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:31.359 And so his language is tighter, it's shorter, But when 390 00:18:31.359 --> 00:18:33.319 you compare it to everything else that we know in 391 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:36.039 the Bible, he's saying the same thing. He's saying the 392 00:18:36.079 --> 00:18:38.359 same thing. You can't earn your way to Heaven. You 393 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:41.200 need my righteousness. Let me prove it to you. Because 394 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:43.519 even how you look at the letter of the law, 395 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:45.440 I'm looking at the spirit of the law, and you 396 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:47.880 can't get to heaven because you've broken all the law anyways. 397 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:50.960 So then let me summarize it on this it's faith. 398 00:18:51.680 --> 00:18:53.920 I'm the only way. And then you're trying to figure 399 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:55.119 out how to live. Just treat people the way you 400 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:55.839 want to be treated. 401 00:18:57.480 --> 00:18:59.640