WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:15.199 practical ways. Hey, Jeff, what it's Friday Friday? Oh no, 4 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:18.239 it's all about Friday baby, Okay, Yes. 5 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:20.000 I love Fridays. Fridays are fun. 6 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:23.800 Yeah, yeah, Fridays are good days. And then JF. 7 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:25.120 Tomorrow's church day. 8 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:28.600 For all of our heritage church listeners, for all of 9 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:30.039 our train I. 10 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:32.039 Thought you converted the Seventh Day or something. 11 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:34.079 No, no, no, but for all of our hair to church listeners, 12 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:37.159 we have really great services on Saturdays. Yes, and that 13 00:00:37.359 --> 00:00:40.200 creates more room on Sundays. Yes, and we're out a room. 14 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:42.799 Yeah. Yeah, there's two. There's two services at four and 15 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:46.240 five thirty. And actually the number of people that were 16 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:48.039 there last Saturday were scared. Yeah. 17 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:49.640 Yeah, no, I don't want to say it. You say it. 18 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:50.159 Yeah. 19 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:50.479 Yeah. 20 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:52.640 They said they total up the attendance, yeah, like they 21 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:54.799 always do. And then they give us the reports and 22 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:56.079 so we come in and we look at them and 23 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:58.000 there's totals for every campus and everything else. 24 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:00.119 So our Saturday services and Sterling High. 25 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:03.520 We're six six six And I said, you can find 26 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:05.760 one more. I said, find one more. There's a pregnant 27 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:09.760 lady somewhere in the audience. Exactly right, come on, or 28 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:12.280 just take one down, just just sacrifice one. 29 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:13.560 So we need to the altar. 30 00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:15.599 We can't stick with that. We need you to move 31 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:16.560 over to Saturday. 32 00:01:16.599 --> 00:01:19.319 There you going there thinking about it. Yeah, that's right. 33 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:21.480 If you go to Heridage on Sunday, move to Saturday 34 00:01:21.480 --> 00:01:22.239 so we can get that number. 35 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:24.920 So Friday is always exciting because Saturday services are coming. 36 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:27.040 There you go, and so we do two identical services 37 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.120 on Saturday and then four more against Sunday and Sterling Heights. 38 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:31.239 I get an, it's for you. That is not where 39 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:32.079 Fridays are exciting. 40 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:35.439 It is for me. It's not for man. 41 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:37.719 Yeah, it's because most people work money through Friday and 42 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:38.799 they're glad to be done. 43 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:39.480 Yeah. 44 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:42.280 So anyway, hey, but yes, you're right. We do have 45 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:44.359 four services on Sunday, So that's. 46 00:01:44.439 --> 00:01:47.159 In Sterling Heights and then two more in Stony Creek 47 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:48.799 and three up in Emily City. For sure. 48 00:01:48.799 --> 00:01:51.799 It's Peach and Peach king man. All right, Hey, we 49 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:56.400 are coming up on a couple of verses in Matthew seven. 50 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:57.799 But before we get some of my favorites. 51 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:00.400 We have a Friday segment. 52 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:04.439 We love Friday segments. It's everybody's favorite segment, and it's 53 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:06.519 the only reason people tune in. Quite honestly, if you're 54 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:08.919 new with us, you're about to discover why this is 55 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:11.520 so exciting. But for our long time listeners, it's the 56 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:15.120 only reason they tune in on Friday, because it's all 57 00:02:15.159 --> 00:02:18.360 about what made Chris mad this week. 58 00:02:18.639 --> 00:02:18.879 Yeah. 59 00:02:18.919 --> 00:02:22.719 Well, if you're listen, tell our new listeners you are 60 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:28.759 not angry for you. You are vicariously angry for all 61 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:32.400 the rest of us. You're mad for us on our behalf. 62 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:33.599 You see an. 63 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:36.319 Injustice and you are upset that all of us have 64 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:37.080 to suffer with it. 65 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:38.680 Well, this is that's why. 66 00:02:38.439 --> 00:02:41.479 This is actually true. Okay, So I mean it is 67 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:45.719 like generally true. So here's the thing I was reminded 68 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:51.680 today today I drove past the mall. Okay, now you 69 00:02:51.759 --> 00:02:55.199 know the mall that's right near the church right here. Okay, yes, 70 00:02:56.240 --> 00:03:00.199 and sorry about that, we turned that off. But way 71 00:03:00.240 --> 00:03:03.680 them all by, the church is getting bulldoze. Supposedly, yes, 72 00:03:03.879 --> 00:03:07.479 this year, that's correct, And we're talking like billions of dollars, 73 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:09.840 probably right over a billion dollars. I don't know how 74 00:03:09.919 --> 00:03:12.800 much it costs to build them all, but that whole 75 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:15.520 thing is just getting bulldozed down. And so here's what 76 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:16.639 I'm mad at. You ready for this? 77 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:17.120 Tell me? 78 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:25.520 I am mad that the progression of new things kills 79 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:27.000 entire industries. 80 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:27.800 Wow. 81 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:30.360 Like, for instance, when when when the iPhone came out, 82 00:03:30.599 --> 00:03:32.120 who would ever think that was going to be the 83 00:03:32.159 --> 00:03:36.280 end of most taxicab companies? Yeah, through a thing called Uber. Right, 84 00:03:36.479 --> 00:03:38.520 so Uber comes along, Everybody's like, hey, we can do 85 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:40.960 it from our phones. Then all of a sudden, the 86 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:43.599 way the world works except for pretty much in New 87 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:45.919 York in a couple other cities, but the rest of 88 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:50.879 the entire world just collapses with the taxi cab industry. Right, 89 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:53.800 because it's like because and I feel so bad. It's 90 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:56.439 like what it's like, you know, think about like just 91 00:03:56.479 --> 00:03:59.680 the way the world operates and how many hundreds of 92 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:02.960 thousands of people around the world have completely had to 93 00:04:03.039 --> 00:04:06.479 shift because of that. And then you think about the malls. 94 00:04:06.840 --> 00:04:09.120 You think Amazon, it's so convenient, and all of a sudden, 95 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:12.840 next thing, you know, boom, malls are getting bulldozed everywhere 96 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:15.719 and there, you know, you see these things on like Instagram, 97 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:18.360 where people are touring malls that used to be vibrant 98 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.160 and now they're just completely gone. Uh gee whiz the 99 00:04:21.360 --> 00:04:25.279 oak Park Mall, the one Oakland Mall or whatever. They 100 00:04:25.319 --> 00:04:29.759 actually filmed that the day before Christmas, and therefore Christmas 101 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:31.839 supposed to be packed, and there was like one human 102 00:04:31.879 --> 00:04:35.360 being in the entire mallow. And so then and then 103 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:36.040 here's another thing. 104 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:39.399 You know, you're only half a step away from screaming 105 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:43.040 at kids to get off your lawn, you know that, right, This. 106 00:04:43.160 --> 00:04:43.839 Is not that. 107 00:04:45.519 --> 00:04:51.000 I I love my stage coaches. 108 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:53.160 I hate these cars. 109 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:54.879 Right, That is not what I'm doing. 110 00:04:54.959 --> 00:05:00.759 He's ruining the entire carrier pigeon industry with that thinking telephone. 111 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:05.680 I am not resisting change. You know. 112 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:08.199 Henry Ford said if I gave the people what they wanted, 113 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:09.879 I would give them better horses. 114 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:14.360 No, by the way, that is that is a very 115 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:18.600 appropriate quote. Way to pull that out. That's really good. 116 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:21.360 But that is not what I'm saying. That is not 117 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:22.000 what I'm saying. 118 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:24.720 I hate I hate sitting on my couch in my 119 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:27.879 socks and pushing a button. You and in four hours 120 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:29.360 they dropped it off at my front door. 121 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:29.920 Hate it. 122 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:32.879 I would rather have to get dressed, drive across town again, 123 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:33.639 go to that mall. 124 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:36.120 It's amazing to me how much you're demonstrating how much 125 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:40.040 you're not listening. You are, you are advocating the fact 126 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.399 that you're not listening. Okay, because again I am not 127 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.040 saying that I that I don't like change. I love Amazon, 128 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:47.720 love it, I love Uber. 129 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:49.879 You just hate the other industries. 130 00:05:50.160 --> 00:05:54.759 I feel so bad that there's no malls in our area. Hey, 131 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.160 let me tell you another thing. Ready for this. I think, 132 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:00.160 honestly it's inevitable that the that the movie theater is 133 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:03.000 going to go away. All the AMC's in the area. 134 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:05.439 Y sure that that you know there's an AMC next 135 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:05.759 to us. 136 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:07.439 I prefer to stay home. 137 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:10.199 I see my point exactly. 138 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:13.079 I turn up my sound system and my big TV. 139 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:16.120 And by the way, pop, my TV's bigger than yours. 140 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:18.879 It is, it is, and so I I I one 141 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:21.920 hundred percent love that for my house. But what I'm 142 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:22.600 saying is I. 143 00:06:22.480 --> 00:06:24.319 Feel staucha going to the theater. 144 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:28.240 The everything about the experience, yes, everything about the experience. 145 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:31.199 But the point is I feel bad that that is 146 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:33.240 going to go away. It's going to be a lost thing. 147 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:36.439 Eventually I know it is, and so it's like it's like, 148 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:41.959 I just feel bad that progress has to kill large 149 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:43.600 portions of the way the world works. 150 00:06:44.079 --> 00:06:49.839 Okay, yeah, I feel bad, thank you. Yeah missed those 151 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:50.680 carrier pigeons. 152 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:52.639 Did you know? Did you know? 153 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:55.879 I met a billionaire and he has a family. 154 00:06:58.079 --> 00:07:00.120 Museum and he had. 155 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:04.680 The last carrier pigeon, the last of the car they 156 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:06.560 went the stuffed. 157 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:07.240 It's stuffed. 158 00:07:07.319 --> 00:07:13.120 Yeah, that kind of pigeon went extinct and the last 159 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:15.839 one was alive in a zoo in Cleveland back in 160 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:19.720 the twenties and he has it. It's stuffed in his museum. 161 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:23.360 They're trying to restore them. Really yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 162 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:25.040 they're trying to bring it back, use the DNA from it, 163 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:25.720 and bring it back. 164 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:26.560 Wow. 165 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:29.839 He also has a baby wooly mammoth that was in 166 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:32.439 the permafrost. It's still in the ice and they're using 167 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:36.920 the meat from that to try to make new wooly mammoths. 168 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:37.199 Oh. 169 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:38.040 Really super cool. 170 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:39.199 Jurassic Park Lake. 171 00:07:39.600 --> 00:07:42.560 Yeah, except the elephants. It's not like dinosaurs. Yeah yeah, yeah, 172 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:43.680 a neat Yeah. 173 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:46.879 Anyways, well, hey, listen, I thank you Chris stand by 174 00:07:46.959 --> 00:07:49.120 that I feel bad for the industries that go away. 175 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:51.680 Yeah, maybe it's just time for the industries to go away. 176 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:53.519 Well, maybe there's a new thing. 177 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:57.920 I just I still feel bad for every everybody involved 178 00:07:58.319 --> 00:07:59.480 because they get blindsided. 179 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:06.800 When it used to be that the the uh what 180 00:08:06.879 --> 00:08:11.000 was the pony express? Yep, that was the fast stretch 181 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:15.519 across the country. But when the when the horses were 182 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:19.439 replaced with cars, then we get roots sixty six right right. 183 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:21.839 It took fifty years, but it's pretty cool. Some something, 184 00:08:21.920 --> 00:08:24.560 something will come in its place that will be as 185 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:28.560 good as malls. Okay you think I don't think so. 186 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:33.240 No, No, okay, all right, you kids, get off my lawn. 187 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:35.519 Give me my mall's back. 188 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:40.200 That is not what I said. Okay, listen, you know what. 189 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:44.360 Forget it, Jeff, don't ever ask me again what made 190 00:08:44.440 --> 00:08:48.240 Chris mad I refuse to refuse to give you my 191 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:50.120 unbridled feelings and thoughts. 192 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:53.679 I am just harassing you today, all right, that's all 193 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:56.600 it is. I don't disagree with you, and I'm not 194 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:00.360 gonna lie. I lamented this exact same thing in my 195 00:09:00.440 --> 00:09:02.600 truck in front of my wife and my daughter, not 196 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:04.000 two weeks ago, three weeks. 197 00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:05.080 About the mall, about the mall. 198 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:07.440 Yeah yeah, my wife and I had to go. 199 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:08.159 We went to the. 200 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:13.759 UH to the big mall over in Troy, and we 201 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:18.679 went to a cooking class there. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, 202 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:20.159 So we took a cooking class there, and then we 203 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.440 just walked around the mall, like I really miss walking 204 00:09:22.440 --> 00:09:22.919 around the mall. 205 00:09:23.919 --> 00:09:25.960 Yeah, and that mall is still pretty crazy. 206 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:27.759 Yeah yeah, So we went to that one. But when 207 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:30.080 I complained about it, we were at the mall near 208 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:32.720 the mall down in Taylor, and that was the mall 209 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:34.759 we used to go to all the time when our 210 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:36.840 kids were growing up. We go there all the time, 211 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:40.159 and now it's mostly closed. So ye yeah, all right, 212 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:41.919 so I also lamented the same thing. 213 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:45.039 Good yees, just just harass me. 214 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:46.960 It felt good, though, I'll tell you it felt really good. 215 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:48.360 It feel good for you because it felt good for me. 216 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:52.799 Yes, And you know what, I was dedicated to that opinion, 217 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:57.200 just as much as Jesus calls us to persevere, persevere 218 00:09:57.600 --> 00:09:58.679 with true discipleship. 219 00:09:58.840 --> 00:10:03.919 Wow, that's good. Good transition. There's really good transition. We're 220 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:06.279 moving to the end of the sermon on the mountain. 221 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:07.679 I think this is the last one, ye. 222 00:10:08.240 --> 00:10:10.240 Mount We'll start a new series, next new series next week, 223 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:10.840 next week, yep. 224 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:14.759 And I think I'm going to just read to the 225 00:10:14.840 --> 00:10:16.759 end of the chapter rather than just the two verses 226 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:17.399 were supposed to read. 227 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:17.960 Is that okay with you? 228 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:20.039 Yeah? And by the way, we're going to be covering 229 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:24.320 all the different types of flowers in the Book of Songs. 230 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:25.480 I'm kidding you. 231 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:30.120 What I was like, what I hadn't heard that? Okay, 232 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:32.600 I I haven't. I haven't found out what we're doing yet. 233 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:32.840 Yeah. 234 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:34.440 Yeah, that'd be a different series. 235 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:34.720 Yeah. 236 00:10:34.759 --> 00:10:36.039 Sure, So I'm excited. 237 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:40.879 So I have a big meeting tomorrow that may chart 238 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:42.559 the course for what the next series. 239 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:44.000 Is, so that's important, Jeff. 240 00:10:44.039 --> 00:10:45.879 Yeah, well no, it's just it's a big meeting and 241 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:48.039 it needed to be yesterday so we could talk about 242 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.159 it today rather than tomorrow. Where we're hinting that something 243 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:53.159 BIG's happening, but it's not confirmed yet. 244 00:10:53.320 --> 00:10:54.639 Okay, okay, are you ready? 245 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:56.960 Ye here's what Jesus says in Matthew chapter seven, verse 246 00:10:57.000 --> 00:10:58.600 twenty one, And I'm just going to read to the 247 00:10:58.679 --> 00:11:00.480 end of the chapter. There's lots of things anything he's 248 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:03.799 important to talk about, he says. Not everyone who calls 249 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:06.159 out to me Lord Lord will enter the Kingdom of heaven. 250 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:09.080 Only those who actually do the will of my Father 251 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:12.000 in heaven will enter on judgment day. Many will say 252 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:13.960 to me, Lord Lord, we propheside your name and cast 253 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:16.200 out demons your name, and perfore many miracles in your name. 254 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:19.360 But I will reply, I never knew you. Get away 255 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:23.840 from me, you who break God's laws. Then he says 256 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:26.639 in verse twenty four, anyone who listens to my teaching 257 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:30.000 and follows it is wise. Like a person who builds 258 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:32.919 a house on solid rock. Though the rain comes in 259 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:35.799 torrents and the floodwaters rise, and the winds beat against 260 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:38.960 the house, it won't collapse because it's built on bedrock. 261 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:42.000 But anyone who hears my teaching and doesn't obey it 262 00:11:42.039 --> 00:11:44.840 is foolish, like a person who builds a house on sand. 263 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:47.320 When the rains and floods come and the winds beat 264 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:50.960 against that house, it will collapse with a mighty crash. 265 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:53.440 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were 266 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:55.720 amazed at his teaching, for he taught with real authority, 267 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.080 quite unlike their teachers of religious law. 268 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:02.080 I love that. I love that last sentence that talk 269 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:06.080 about Jesus' authority and how it so, you know, was 270 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:10.879 different than those who taught the religious law, because you know, 271 00:12:11.240 --> 00:12:14.879 there's a big difference between you know, the heart behind 272 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.960 the law and the law itself right, and that's really it. 273 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:22.000 I mean, this is God, the author of all things, 274 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:26.960 communicating his heart and his laws in his truths right. 275 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:29.639 And so whenever you get the heart of God behind 276 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:33.279 each truth, then I expect that you feel that radically 277 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:37.440 differently right than just growing up and being told don't 278 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:39.279 do this right. 279 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:46.879 The Pharisees spoke, and they were always quoting previous Pharisees 280 00:12:47.799 --> 00:12:53.039 or previous lawyers, previous opinion, previous It was like all 281 00:12:53.200 --> 00:12:58.080 of their authority was in footnotes, and Jesus stepped up 282 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.600 and spoke in his own authority. Jesus isn't trying to 283 00:13:01.639 --> 00:13:06.080 say I'm right because Moses agrees and Elijah agrees and 284 00:13:06.120 --> 00:13:10.039 write here's an idea, but it's essentially all just quotes 285 00:13:10.080 --> 00:13:13.120 of all the other prophets. He steps up and as 286 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:16.720 a prophet says, that's Saith the Lord, and this right. 287 00:13:16.720 --> 00:13:20.480 He's speaking his own authority. Whereas the Pharisees would always 288 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:21.600 quote Averybel's. 289 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:25.759 And I had this happen In Bible College. 290 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:33.240 I was in a class that the professor was always 291 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:39.600 talking about being a man of ideas, a man of thought, 292 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:44.080 all this kind of stuff, but then only ever quoted 293 00:13:44.919 --> 00:13:50.720 proofs through the footnotes of all the research he'd done. 294 00:13:51.080 --> 00:13:53.480 So then a big part of that class also included 295 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:56.519 we'd had to take strong positions. We would have to 296 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:00.240 put those positions out in front of the class in 297 00:14:00.320 --> 00:14:03.840 debate form, but not not in a debate class like 298 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:06.320 you normally normally think of debate, but more as a pastor. 299 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:09.720 Two pastors disagreeing that that's how we would have to 300 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:11.159 to do it, and the class would vote on it 301 00:14:11.159 --> 00:14:15.360 and stuff, and I got I got into a thing. 302 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:19.600 The class voted that I won, and I got a 303 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:24.480 D on my on my work from the professor. And 304 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:29.519 the professor said I didn't cite another enough sources. And 305 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:31.879 I had explained it both in my notes and then 306 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:34.960 later to him in my justification. They were my original thoughts. 307 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:37.559 I'd never heard any about say those things. That was 308 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:40.559 my argument. But he stuck with it and gave me 309 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:42.919 a D. I got an I got the top. I 310 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.240 won the debate in the class, but from the professor. 311 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:47.960 I got a D. So I went to one of 312 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.960 the other guys the professors. 313 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:54.120 That were my was one of my mentors, and I 314 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:59.320 complained about it and he said, sometimes some professors are 315 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:01.120 educated beyond their intelligence. 316 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:03.440 That was his argument. 317 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:10.879 Wow, right, So I'm going to celebrate research over ideas, right? 318 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:12.919 And he said, is that really what a seminary is 319 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:16.639 supposed to be about, is just standing on the research 320 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:19.399 of others or should you also be working on developing 321 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:20.159 your own ideas? 322 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:20.440 Right? 323 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:22.960 And he said, I think both should be rewarded. And 324 00:15:23.080 --> 00:15:24.919 as long as the work can be shown that you 325 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:27.120 put in the work, and you did the work, you 326 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:31.000 thought it out, you wrote it out. And he tried 327 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:32.759 to advocate for me and it didn't work, and so 328 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:35.960 I stood there. I took that D, but I won 329 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:38.679 the class. The class was like, that's the best argument, right. 330 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.000 And it's a little bit of the same. You've got 331 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:45.639 pharisees who had no authority of their own that they 332 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:49.559 only spoke going so this scribe believed this, and this, 333 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:52.639 you know, Rabbi taught this, and that's all. They were 334 00:15:52.679 --> 00:15:56.360 just regurgitating what they were told. And I love Jesus 335 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:58.799 stepping up and going but I say, you've heard the 336 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:01.159 law say this, but I say this, But I say 337 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:03.320 that the Kingdom of Heaven is like this. And he 338 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:05.279 spoke with authority when he gets there, and he goes, listen, 339 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:07.879 if you're a fool, you're gonna hear me and not 340 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.519 do anything about it. If you're a wise man, you're 341 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:13.360 gonna hear me and do it. And by the way, 342 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:16.960 and this gets to the first part of that, just 343 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:20.639 because you say you know, God is of no consequence, 344 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:22.879 there's gonna be lots people show up and say, oh, Jesus, 345 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:25.000 I know all about you, I know about your name 346 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:26.679 and everything is I'm gonna say, go away. 347 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:27.480 I never knew you. 348 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:30.919 And he says, because you never actually did the thing, 349 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:34.159 You never acted like a Christian, you never actually did 350 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:38.240 what God said to do. And so no, it's that simple. 351 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:41.360 So it's that kind of authority that the people were like, 352 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:43.000 I love this guy. 353 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:46.279 Well only that. But the biggest part I think of 354 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:50.000 the authority piece is the fact that Jesus said, on 355 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:53.360 that day in eternity, people will stand in front of 356 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:57.840 the Lord. Didn't say, Lord, Lord, I prophesied in your name. 357 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:01.960 And then he says, but I will I will say. 358 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:06.279 He's saying, he's announcing that in eternity they're going to 359 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:09.880 be looking to him to pass judgment. He's the final 360 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:13.359 authority in heaven, right, And he's like, but I will 361 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:16.000 say to them, depart from me. I never knew you. 362 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:19.920 And it's like, what it's like, can you even imagine, 363 00:17:20.200 --> 00:17:23.000 you know, Jesus being one hundred percent man, not even 364 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:26.079 revealing himself at this point, is the Messiah? Right? This 365 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:28.880 is only Matthew chapter seven, right, this isn't a public 366 00:17:29.119 --> 00:17:33.039 revelation yet, and yet he's basically saying, it's going to 367 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:37.119 be me right right by the way I thought of it's. 368 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:42.519 Me, so if you find me so this can be 369 00:17:42.559 --> 00:17:45.640 a really shocking thing if you just read it right 370 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:48.279 off the top of the page. And I believe you 371 00:17:48.319 --> 00:17:50.880 can just pick up the Bible and read, read, and 372 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:53.160 understand the huge majority of the Bible just by reading 373 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:55.640 the simple words on this for sure. But it does 374 00:17:55.680 --> 00:17:58.880 take sometimes, especially when Jesus is talking, It takes sometimes 375 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:02.599 cross referencing to be able to The Bible is its 376 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:05.720 own best commentary, and so the Bible will explain the Bible. 377 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:10.720 And in this situation, what you see is Jesus is going, Hey, 378 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:13.559 just because you say Lord, Lord doesn't mean you're automatically 379 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:15.039 on the way to have Just because you go to church, 380 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:19.960 just because you do the religious rights and rituals that 381 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:22.759 are necessary, doesn't mean you're any way to have it right. 382 00:18:23.039 --> 00:18:25.279 And so he's already talked about these kinds of things 383 00:18:25.319 --> 00:18:27.759 a little bit, But he says only those who actually 384 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:30.960 do the will of the Father will enter heaven. Now 385 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:34.119 we know salvation is by grace through faith. Romans tells 386 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:37.680 us that very quickly, very clearly. Ephesians tells us that 387 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:41.759 very quickly, many many places in scripture, it's very clear 388 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:45.519 you can't work your way to heaven. So what's he 389 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:50.039 saying here? If you go back one phrase earlier, he says, 390 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:52.960 a good tree can't produce bad fruit, and a bad 391 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:55.920 tree can't produce good fruit. So every tree that does 392 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.640 not produce good fruit is chopped down. Yes, just as 393 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:01.559 you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you 394 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:05.359 can identify people by their actions. So I can talk 395 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:08.440 a good game about being a football player, but if 396 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:12.000 I go out on the field against the best high 397 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:15.039 school team, let alone against an NFL team, they will 398 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:18.200 kill me. Kill me I like to I like to 399 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:20.839 work out in boxing gyms a little bit. Why, Like 400 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:24.039 I can shake that heavy bag pretty hard, I can 401 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:26.640