WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 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 --> 00:00:13.480 practical ways. Hey, everybody, we want to welcome you, especially 4 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:15.720 if this is your very first time tuning in to 5 00:00:15.759 --> 00:00:16.359 the Bible guys. 6 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:18.440 We hope this is both fun and practical. 7 00:00:18.719 --> 00:00:22.320 It is in fun and practical ways. Yes, yes, we 8 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:24.920 are Christ and Jeff and we are just a couple 9 00:00:24.920 --> 00:00:28.800 of friends who happen to be pastors with Bible degrees. 10 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:37.079 But we actually you know, barely barely, but anyway, we 11 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:39.159 just believe in opening the Bible and then you know, 12 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:42.600 just asking questions, and we believe that God's words can 13 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:45.359 jump out, you know, from the page and apply to 14 00:00:45.399 --> 00:00:45.759 our lives. 15 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:48.240 Yeah, we think you can understand the Bible, that's right, 16 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:52.000 and that from the surface, just just reading it, you 17 00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:54.439 can understand most of what's being said there. And so 18 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:55.200 that's what we're doing. 19 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:56.960 This, especially if you have a good study Bible. 20 00:00:57.000 --> 00:00:59.880 That's one hundred percent. So we're using life application study bibles. 21 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:01.640 I'm using what are you using? 22 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:04.560 I did start bringing mind so that our Bibles match up, 23 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:10.040 but I just switched over to the Warren Wearsby Transformation study. 24 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:10.920 That's a good one. 25 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:14.359 Yeah, it's a good one. But I need to switch 26 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:15.879 you over just so that we're looking at the same thing. 27 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:18.239 But anyway, you're in the middle of a series on 28 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:22.040 the beatitudes. That's right, the beatitudes, which comes from the 29 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:24.640 part of the Sermon on the Mount or the beatitude. 30 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:26.000 That's the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount. And 31 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:28.640 the premise was a while back, we were talking through 32 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:31.680 the Sermon on the Mount and I mentioned how I 33 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:34.400 felt like, you know, the Sermon on the Mount is 34 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:37.599 Jesus' longest message that he preaches, and it lasts three 35 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:40.400 whole chapters. This is where he teaches us turn the 36 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:42.439 other cheek, go the extra mile, treat people the way 37 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:43.799 you want to be treated. So he taught us to 38 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:45.840 pray our father heart in heaven. It's where he said, judge, 39 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:47.680 not that you be not judged. You go on. Most 40 00:01:47.719 --> 00:01:49.920 of the things we know that Jesus says, he says 41 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:54.280 in these passages, but the first was it ten verses, 42 00:01:54.319 --> 00:01:58.319 eleven verses. He unpacks these things. He said, God blesses 43 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:01.439 you with or blessed is the person who you know 44 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:06.040 is poor in spirit or whatever. And I suggested that 45 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:10.159 these are introductions to all the other ideas he talks 46 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:12.000 about through the rest of this chapter. And then that 47 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:14.800 kind of spurred our thinking a little bit, and we said, hey, 48 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:17.479 let's come back and just do that. Let's look at 49 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:20.360 each of the beatitudes and then figure out what versus 50 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:22.759 does that have some connection to. So that's all we're 51 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:24.159 doing now. Yep, Yeah, it's gonna be fun. 52 00:02:24.240 --> 00:02:25.759 Yeah. And so before we get into that, we have 53 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:28.599 a segment that Desirae put together, and it is the 54 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:30.919 very classic Who's most likely? 55 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:33.439 Yes, so we're gonna we're I didn't look at these, 56 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:34.039 by the way. 57 00:02:33.879 --> 00:02:35.960 I did not. I have not looked at these at all. Okay, 58 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.199 in fact, I'm going to just read the first one blindly. 59 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:43.560 Who's most likely to accidentally start a conga line with strangers? 60 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:45.840 There's no question I have done this. 61 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:48.639 Yeah, I have done this, of course. 62 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:51.960 Yeah. My buddy Jeff and I used. 63 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:53.159 To because you're that guy. 64 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:54.919 I'm that guy we crashed weddings. 65 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:56.879 Yeah, yeah, yeah, you've told me this. I love this 66 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.719 and so little fun. Yeah growing up and you yeah, 67 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:01.120 that's what I. 68 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:05.360 Remember calling Sharon and Julie our dates and saying, hey, 69 00:03:05.400 --> 00:03:07.400 dress up, are going out tonight and we dressed up 70 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:09.080 and then we just and we went to the Marinit 71 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:12.120 Center on Murdian Road and there's three weddings happening with 72 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:14.919 three wedding receptions. And we went from one we ate 73 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.080 and danced, went to the other one ate and danced, 74 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:19.759 and went to the other one ate and danced. And Jeff, 75 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:21.199 Jeff even danced with the bride. 76 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:22.560 Oh yeah. 77 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:25.360 And then and then and he goes and he goes, 78 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:27.919 she goes, who are you here with? Again? And he goes, 79 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:32.680 Tony And that took care of it, okay, because everydy 80 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:39.240 young so so so anyway, so you started a congolome yes, 81 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:41.439 and and actually I started a congre line and then 82 00:03:41.560 --> 00:03:44.080 Jeff jumped in into it. And it was at this 83 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:46.800 wedding that was like it was actually a huge wedding. 84 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:50.560 And then Jeff took the wedding conger line through the 85 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:53.280 kitchen and actually we went back to the kitchen. It 86 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:53.840 was hilarious. 87 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:56.560 So and when you say Jeff, you're talking about about 88 00:03:56.560 --> 00:03:59.759 our friend Jeff Miller, not me. Yeah, all of your 89 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:03.240 cool friends their named Jeff. Though, that's right, that's correct. Okay, Well, 90 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:05.840 who's most likely to press a button? Label do not press. 91 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:08.080 That's me, is it you? Oh yeah? 92 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:08.319 Yeah? 93 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:12.360 Why you tell me. 94 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:14.319 What to do and tell me what not to do. 95 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:16.319 My brain says, don't do it. And so I sit 96 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:17.800 and look at it and look at it, and if 97 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:19.399 I don't leave the area, I'm going to have to 98 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:19.959 go put it. 99 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:20.759 That's hilarious. 100 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:22.000 You know you do that. 101 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:24.199 Well, I'll tell you what I was going to say. 102 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:27.120 Maybe me, but with such confidence. 103 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:30.959 Without a doubt, you have overridden me. Don't touch that confidence. 104 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:34.720 Don't fool with that. It's sharp. Don't point that in 105 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:35.360 some of your shoots. 106 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:39.079 Your brother's eye out right, that's me, all right. Number 107 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:44.399 three who's most likely to confidently give wrong directions? Well 108 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:46.480 that that have to be me, because your directions are 109 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:46.959 better than mine. 110 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:48.920 It's going to say, I've got like a compass built 111 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:49.319 into my head. 112 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:53.160 Yeah, yeah, GPS. Yeah, and so I have. I have 113 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.720 definitely been in an argument. I remember one time I 114 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:57.680 was in Missouri and I said, I was in the 115 00:04:57.680 --> 00:05:00.639 mall and I said, I guarantee you the story that 116 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:03.439 we're looking for is this way. And my buddy said 117 00:05:03.519 --> 00:05:05.480 it was my buddy norm He said, no, it's this way. 118 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:08.360 And I says I will guarantee you. I am so 119 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:11.040 confident it is this way, and so he goes, fine, 120 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:12.959 let's go. Let's let's prove you wrong, and I said, 121 00:05:12.959 --> 00:05:14.480 we're not going to prove me wrong. We turned the 122 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:18.079 corner and I said, oh, whoops, whoops, I've done it. 123 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:21.959 Who's most likely to create a catch phrase by accident? 124 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:23.639 That's gonna be you? 125 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:24.639 Do you think so? 126 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:25.199 Do you think so? 127 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:29.439 Catch phrase by accident? This is so fetch? You know 128 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:30.160 what movie that's from? 129 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:30.319 Uh? 130 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:30.560 Huh? 131 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:31.360 Yes? Do you? 132 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:31.639 Yeah? 133 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:33.639 The movie Fetch. It's a Will Smith. 134 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:37.800 No, you're thinking of hitch Hitch or fletch with with 135 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.319 Chevy Chase. No, no, No, Fetch is Mean Girls where 136 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:46.680 Rachel McAdams looks at Lacy whatever you saw. And she said, 137 00:05:47.279 --> 00:05:50.240 stop trying to make Fetch happen. It's not gonna happen 138 00:05:50.839 --> 00:05:52.399 because she was trying to do a catch phrase. 139 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:55.439 Start a catch first movie. 140 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:56.000 By the way, movie. 141 00:05:57.920 --> 00:05:58.879 I'm trying to talk about it. 142 00:05:59.120 --> 00:06:03.879 Wait wait, wait, Mean Girls is actually it surpasses women. 143 00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:05.959 Girls is a classic. 144 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:08.519 Okay, okay, men can like ingras. 145 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:11.959 Okay, all right, that's my that's my opinion. 146 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:14.160 I thought we were talking about a Will Smith movie. 147 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:17.079 But you're right, it was Hits not Yeah. By the way, 148 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:17.839 Hitch is pretty good. 149 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:20.120 Okay, who's most likely to cause friendly? 150 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:20.319 Oh? 151 00:06:20.439 --> 00:06:21.879 I think you're supposed to read that one? But anyways, 152 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:24.439 who's most friendly? Who's most likely to cause friendly chaos? 153 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:28.199 And then say what, I didn't do anything? What I 154 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:29.040 didn't do anything. 155 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:32.720 I don't know. I think both of us are well. 156 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:38.079 I usually I would say I do that a lot. 157 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:41.399 Then I'm gonna I'm gonna lean on you. I'm sometimes 158 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:46.360 if I come in like this just happened. It's been 159 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:49.560 a really hard couple of months. And then here over 160 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:53.160 Christmas break, we had a day and I told Bonnie, 161 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:59.000 I'm not gonna do anything. I've just exhausted mentally, emotionally thin. 162 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:02.160 I didn't feel like I had any bandwidth, and there 163 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:04.839 was nothing happening. It was two days after Christmas, and 164 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:06.839 so I said, I'm not going to do anything today. 165 00:07:06.879 --> 00:07:08.040 The only two things I did I got up in 166 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:11.040 the morning, I made biscuits and gravy so good. I'm 167 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:13.399 killing it on my biscuits right now, killing I am 168 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:16.160 so made biscuits and gravy for breakfast. And then at 169 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:19.800 night I grilled some steak, and we had steak, steak nachos. 170 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:21.879 Yeah, but that's not really doing anything for you. That's 171 00:07:22.120 --> 00:07:23.600 that's that's living the best thing. 172 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:26.639 Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Steak nachos and biscuits and gravy. 173 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:28.600 Those are the two things. Other than that. I didn't 174 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:31.560 do anything meaningful all day, just turned my brain off. 175 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:35.439 I binge watched the show. Well here here's what happened. 176 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:39.160 It was like I hit reset. So the next day 177 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:41.879 I come in the office and I'm full of it, 178 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:47.160 and you know, Chad is, Chad's listening. Chad's our executive pastor. 179 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:49.959 And I don't know why, but when I get full 180 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:51.439 of it, all of a sudden, it's just poke poke 181 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:53.759 poke poke poke. Pope, you feel like poking people. I 182 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:56.120 just couldn't help it, yeah yeah yeah. And then he go, 183 00:07:56.519 --> 00:07:58.439 why are you being such a drunk like me? I'm 184 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:00.360 not being a drunk, So I promise you. I did 185 00:08:00.360 --> 00:08:02.800 this like three days ago, is what I'm saying. Hilarious, right, 186 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.680 So I came in super refreshed, and now all of 187 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.800 a sudden, I'm just messing with people all day. Everybody, 188 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:11.079 everybody who walks through my office, everybody. I just messed 189 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:11.360 with them. 190 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:13.600 So when you said the next day, I was full 191 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:18.920 of it, full of what vinegar? That's great, that's great, 192 00:08:19.839 --> 00:08:23.000 that's awesome. So you just so when you get that way, 193 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:23.720 you like to poke. 194 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:26.279 Yes, I can't help it, and I just just mess 195 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:28.959 with people, yea, all the buttons and. 196 00:08:30.399 --> 00:08:32.840 Well, you know what, I I would definitely lean on 197 00:08:32.879 --> 00:08:35.759 you and say you because I didn't interpret friendly chaos 198 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:39.039 that way. It does say friendly, right, But I I 199 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.799 like to sometimes pit people against each other and then 200 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:43.679 sit back and then watch watch them. 201 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:46.519 Get them going and get them going, wind them up, 202 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:48.080 to sit back and watch enjoy the show. 203 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:49.679 Like, hey, Donnie, what do you think of his hat? 204 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:52.080 You know what I mean. 205 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:52.600 I've done that. 206 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:55.639 I've done that intentionally. I've done that, which is really fun. 207 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:59.440 So and and by the way, that happened, Uh, that 208 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:04.080 actually happen. And at my I did the Zarba party 209 00:09:04.639 --> 00:09:07.279 the day after Christmas. We went home to Ohio and 210 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:09.559 there was the Zarba party. So there's maybe thirty people 211 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:12.720 around the table or so, and someone made a comment 212 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.519 and I know she's she's a different political view than me, okay, 213 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:20.799 like radically different. And so she said something about a celebrity. 214 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:24.159 And I said, oh, I like this celebrity a lot, 215 00:09:24.279 --> 00:09:27.000 except for when it comes to political views. He should 216 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:31.840 just keep his mouth shut. And I knew. I knew 217 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:35.440 that that was starting something boom and and she goes, whoa, whoa, whoa. 218 00:09:35.519 --> 00:09:37.799 She goes, if you have a platform, you should be 219 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:39.519 able to say what you want to say. And I said, oh, 220 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:41.799 of course, everybody has the right to speak. I said, 221 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:44.759 freedom of speech. I said, but here's an idea, like, 222 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:47.960 just shut up and sing, you do your job, stay 223 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:49.799 in your lane. I was like, I was like, I 224 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:52.200 tune into you because I like you that you're a singer, right, 225 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:54.679 I watch you because you're an actor, right. I don't 226 00:09:54.720 --> 00:09:57.320 I don't want to hear your political views. I'm interested 227 00:09:57.320 --> 00:09:58.519 in your acting talent. 228 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:02.279 I'm not watching that quarterback drop back to throw a 229 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:04.519 forty hour past, thinking I wonder what he thinks about 230 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:05.440 x y. 231 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:08.840 Z Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so so uh 232 00:10:08.879 --> 00:10:11.120 and so then she just went on and on and on, 233 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:13.159 and then I was like uh huh uh huh. And 234 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:15.159 then I got and walked away, and so then it 235 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:17.600 started this big conversation without me, you know, and then 236 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:18.919 people just kept on talking about it. 237 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:20.759 Well, I think it's funny that we get you and 238 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:22.879 I will both get people who kind of pushed that 239 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:25.440 idea of hey, if they have a platform, they should 240 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:28.759 use it forgetting the fact that we have a very 241 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:32.519 significant platform. Correct, correct, right, But we're not out there 242 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:35.399 beating the drum politically, That's right, right, because there's more 243 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:39.039 important things than just that. Anyways, it's a whole other issue, dude. 244 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:42.080 It's a whole other just wound it up podcast, a 245 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:43.159 whole another podcast. 246 00:10:43.159 --> 00:10:46.720 I can go off on that. Okay, So back to 247 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:49.879 we already gave a long introduction to Yeah, we really 248 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:51.679 went over there. Well, we gave a long introduction to 249 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:54.399 what this that's true, what this series is about. And 250 00:10:54.480 --> 00:10:59.440 so the the beatitude that we're talking about today is 251 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:03.399 Matthew Chater five. Verse four says God blesses those who mourn, 252 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:06.639 for they will be comforted. And last week one of 253 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.360 the things that we talked about mourning was sin, right, 254 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:11.639 and Jesus taught us to pray in the. 255 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:13.919 Lord's prayer sorrow, specifically sorrow. 256 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:17.399 Sorrow over our sin. And so that's why Jesus told 257 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:20.519 us to confess our sin in the Lord's Prayer well, 258 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:26.279 today we're reading in Matthew chapter five, verses twenty one 259 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:31.600 through twenty six, and Jesus says, you have heard that 260 00:11:31.679 --> 00:11:34.159 our ancestors were told you must not murder. If you 261 00:11:34.200 --> 00:11:36.279 commit murder, you're a subject to judgment. But I say, 262 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:39.320 if you are even angry with someone, you're a subject 263 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:41.919 to judgment. If you call someone an idiot, you're in 264 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:44.279 danger being brought before the court, And if you curse someone, 265 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:46.759 you're in danger of the fires of hell. So if 266 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:49.279 you are presenting a sacrifice at the altar in the 267 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:52.440 temple and you suddenly remember that someone has something against you, 268 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.519 leave your sacrifice there at the altar, go and be 269 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:58.399 reconciled to that person, and then come and offer your 270 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:01.840 sacrifice to God. Otherwise, or when you are on your 271 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:05.799 way to court with your adversary, settle your differences quickly. 272 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:09.039 Otherwise your accuser may hand you over to the judge, 273 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:10.919 who will hand you over to an officer, and you'll 274 00:12:10.919 --> 00:12:13.320 be thrown into prison. That happens, you surely won't be 275 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:17.440 free again until you have paid the last penny. So 276 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:21.399 I think that we were talking just before this episode 277 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:23.440 we started recording this episode, and I said, I think 278 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:26.039 that the main idea here is, you know, before we 279 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:28.879 were talking about mourning over our own sin. Now what 280 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:32.200 this is talking about really is about being about grieving 281 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:34.360 or mourning over the fact that somebody else has offended 282 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:37.360 us or hurt us, or that a relationship is broken. 283 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:40.879 And he's saying, go fix this as soon as possible, right, right, 284 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:42.919 that's really what he's talking about. So this one is 285 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:45.200 what do you do when you're grieving over the fact 286 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:47.200 that a friendship or a relationship is broken. 287 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:50.360 Yeah, And I think there's levels of the mourning over 288 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:54.480 sin part. So for instance, it's sort of like a 289 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:57.919 continued thought because remember right before he teaches about anger 290 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:00.720 where you started in verse over twenty one. In verse twenty, 291 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:04.240 just the verse before he says, unless your righteousness is 292 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:06.399 better than the righteousness of the teachers of the religious 293 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:08.639 law and pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven. Right, 294 00:13:08.879 --> 00:13:11.440 And what he's doing is he's saying, like, hey, don't 295 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:15.399 feel good just because you don't commit murder, you know, 296 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:17.919 and then and then all of a sudden, like you're 297 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:20.759 gonna feel great about yourself instead mourn over the sin 298 00:13:21.240 --> 00:13:24.799 that you're angry, right, so what Jesus is doing here. 299 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:27.240 And I think there's obviously multiple levels of the reasons 300 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:30.919 why Jesus gave these words, obviously, but one of the 301 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:33.759 things that I've always appreciated is that, like when he 302 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:38.639 talks about the righteousness of the Pharisees, the Pharisees, you know, 303 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:41.879 we all know that they tried really hard to you know, 304 00:13:41.960 --> 00:13:45.879 obey God's law, but they felt it was obvious. Jesus said, 305 00:13:45.879 --> 00:13:49.559 they felt proud about their religiosity. They felt, you know, 306 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:52.559 they weren't humble about it. And what Jesus saying is like, hey, 307 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:54.840 do you feel like you're righteous enough just because you 308 00:13:54.840 --> 00:13:57.200 don't commit an adult or well he does, he says 309 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:01.000 adultery later, but he says, you don't. I'm going to 310 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:04.919 raise the bar and say you're just as guilty if 311 00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:06.879 you're if you call somebody an idiot, or if. 312 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:08.200 You're angry at them. 313 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:10.399 So in other words, like you think you're righteous because 314 00:14:10.399 --> 00:14:13.120 you don't murder, And that's and that's exactly by the way, 315 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:15.039 we're not going to cover I looked ahead, we're not 316 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:17.039 going to cover the adultry one. But it's the same thing. 317 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:20.360 He's like, so he goes you feel righteous about your 318 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:22.519 the fact that you don't commit adultry. Here's what I say. 319 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:24.360 If you lust after a woman in your own heart, 320 00:14:24.480 --> 00:14:27.679 you commit adultery. So, in other words, don't feel righteous 321 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:30.320 just because you don't do one part of the law, 322 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:33.480 because guess what, we're all guilty of the law. So 323 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:38.480 Jesus basically raises the bar of sin, meaning that he 324 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:42.440 wants us to mourn over all sin, not feel proud 325 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:46.159 just because we obey certain laws, the bigger ones like 326 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:51.200 adultery and lust, or excuse me, adultery and murder. And 327 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:55.440 by the way, I was actually a part of a conversation. 328 00:14:55.840 --> 00:15:00.200 I remember going to a girl's house and I it's 329 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:03.879 something like, uh, hey, don't be a fool or something, 330 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:07.879 and she goes. She goes, I heard you weren't supposed 331 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:10.200 to call people fools. Isn't that one of the deadliest 332 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:12.320 things you could do? I said, well, I'm want to 333 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:14.759 stand what you're talking about, like fools not a bad word, 334 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:17.799 and she goes, well, doesn't that say in Matthew Chapter 335 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:22.120 five that you're that you're you're just as likely to 336 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:24.879 receive judgment of murdering somebody if you call somebody a 337 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:28.120 fool because the King James version says rock on, which is. 338 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:29.960 Fool, right, that's an Aramaic word. 339 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:34.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And so she goes, goes, she goes. 340 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:36.080 It isn't that the same as murdering somebody if you 341 00:15:36.120 --> 00:15:38.600 call somebody a fool? And I was like no, I 342 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:41.679 was like, that's not what Jesus was saying. Jesus was 343 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:44.919 saying that everybody's guilty of sin, and you shouldn't feel 344 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:47.639 righteous just because you obey some things. Jesus is saying, 345 00:15:47.639 --> 00:15:50.039 we're all guilty, we're all in need of his grace. 346 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:53.000 We're all in need. But but but to your to 347 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:57.159 my point earlier, he's also raising the level of mourning 348 00:15:57.279 --> 00:16:01.039 over all sin, right, and and not to ful feel proud. 349 00:16:02.559 --> 00:16:06.960 I was reading this just before we recorded where it 350 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:11.960 said it said something about Jesus clearly stated that he 351 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:15.639 had come to honor the law and help God's people 352 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:18.200 love it, learn it, and live it. He would not 353 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:22.600 accept the artificial righteousness of the religious leaders. Their righteousness 354 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:26.399 was only an external masquerade. The religion was a dead ritual, 355 00:16:26.879 --> 00:16:29.919 not living in relationship. It was artificial, did not reproduce 356 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:33.519 itself in others in a living way. It made them proud, 357 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:36.840 not humble, and led to bondage not liberty. 358 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:42.759 Pretty neat huh yeah, So this this idea, then by 359 00:16:42.799 --> 00:16:44.559 the time you pick up twenty three. So at the beginning, 360 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:47.759 he's saying, hey, listen, your attitude is as important as 361 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:50.559 your actions. That's what he's talking about. With regard to 362 00:16:51.200 --> 00:16:54.039 hating somebody versus murdering somebody. He said, Hey, it all 363 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:56.840 murder comes from the same place as that anger, that hatred, 364 00:16:56.919 --> 00:17:00.039 that resentment. Right then, I would point out one of 365 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:01.559 the things, if you call somebody an idiot, you're in 366 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:04.319 danger being brought before the court. So if I call 367 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:07.279 you an idiot, you're probably not going to take me 368 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:10.519 to court, right But if I slander you publicly and 369 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:15.839 ruin your reputation, you have the right for slander right 370 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:18.720 to take me to court. So it's not just a 371 00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:20.440 word to another person. You're going to go to hell 372 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:23.640 because you called somebody an idiot. But it is this 373 00:17:23.720 --> 00:17:26.559 hatred of that gets me to the point, this anger, 374 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:28.079 this hatred gives me a point where I'm going to 375 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:31.160 try to ruin your career, ruin your reputation. That's why 376 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:33.559 you would go to court. All right, So Jesus gives 377 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:36.119 a caveat of you're in danger getting taken to court. 378 00:17:36.920 --> 00:17:40.160 If you curse someone, you're in danger of the same curse, 379 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:44.880 the fires of hell. Right, So maybe the biggest curse 380 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:48.799 would be somebody saying GD right, Yeah, what does that mean? 381 00:17:49.759 --> 00:17:50.559 The fires of hell? 382 00:17:50.920 --> 00:17:51.440 Right? Right? 383 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:53.640 So when you curse somebody, you're in danger of the 384 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:55.240 same kind of curse. That's what he's saying. 385 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:55.519 There. 386 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:58.240 When you slander somebody, you're in danger of going to court. 387 00:17:58.559 --> 00:18:01.000 Jesus the same Listen, you're atitude is as big of 388 00:18:01.039 --> 00:18:03.960 a deal as your actual behavior. Don't murder somebody, but 389 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.480 also don't get into these other attitudes that write the 390 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:09.319 attitude takes either. So then from that attitude, now he's 391 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:16.839 talking about offenses on a relational level, curses, slander, these 392 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:19.400 kinds of things. And it's in that context he says, So, 393 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:23.279 if you're at the temple and you're offering your sacrifice, 394 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:26.000 you're right with God. You're trying to get right with God, 395 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:29.400 and you remember that somebody has an offense against you. 396 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:33.039 So if I go and I'm making my sacrifice and 397 00:18:33.079 --> 00:18:35.160 I remember Chris is still mad at me about something, 398 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:42.200 God says, Jesus said, leave your sacrifice there and go 399 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:46.000 make things right with the person who is offended or 400 00:18:46.039 --> 00:18:48.799 mad at you. It's not the other way around, Like 401 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:51.519