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 --> 00:00:17.039 practical ways. Good evening, whoa, we talked the whole day through, 4 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:19.000 good evening, good evening. 5 00:00:19.399 --> 00:00:23.160 Do you that's amazing, Chris. 6 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:25.839 Well, I did it because oh Mags today is a 7 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:27.440 person who said they listen. 8 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:29.239 In the evening, in the evening, oh, okay at night, 9 00:00:29.519 --> 00:00:30.039 yeah at night. 10 00:00:30.160 --> 00:00:32.960 Yeah. And we already made several comments about the fact 11 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:36.240 that some people, actually the majority. 12 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:38.039 A lot of listener listen beyond the morning. 13 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:38.880 Yeah, beyond the morning. 14 00:00:39.159 --> 00:00:39.320 Yeah. 15 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:42.000 Yeah, So I said, good evening. Good how about that? 16 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:45.079 So fantastic? That just made my whole day. It made 17 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:45.960 the whole day worth it. 18 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:49.000 Well, I gotta be honest, I'm struggling with my voice today. 19 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:51.759 So the fact that I even attempted singing. 20 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:56.039 Was it was miraculous. Miraculous. Thank you so much, Chris. 21 00:00:56.560 --> 00:01:02.039 The the difficulties you choose for us well on our behalf. 22 00:01:01.840 --> 00:01:04.200 Jeff I just for our own delight sacrifice. 23 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:07.000 Yes, yes, you risk it all for us. I do 24 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:08.879 thank you, thank you, Yeah, I appreciate that. 25 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:13.480 But hey, listen, let's move on because we have a segment, 26 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:19.879 and today's segment is called bags and mail Bags is 27 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:22.239 Today's mail Bags is from Alison Kane. 28 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:24.079 Hi Alison, Yes, sir. 29 00:01:24.120 --> 00:01:29.799 Allison says, Hi Jeffer Chris Actually, yeah that's right, So Hi. 30 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:30.879 Hi Alison, Hi Alison. 31 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:34.799 Love the podcast. Thanks for all you share every night. 32 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:35.760 Oh that's awesome. 33 00:01:35.799 --> 00:01:39.599 Fits in parentheses. That's when I listen. Yes, this is why. Yes, 34 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:41.959 I've got a fun question for you both. If you 35 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:47.200 could instantly master one spill no practice requires what would 36 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:47.959 it be? And why? 37 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:48.959 Oh that's a good question. 38 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:51.879 Looking forward to hearing your answers on the show. Okay, 39 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:54.439 And by the way, I love this because a lot 40 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:56.959 of times when people write in mail bags, uh, you know, 41 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:59.519 or writing a question. Rather, what they would do is 42 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:01.879 they would like say, hey, I get a Bible question 43 00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:03.959 or what about this? Or what about that? But I 44 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:06.719 love the fact that she's asking a curious question. 45 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:09.360 Yeah about us? Yes, she just wants to know more 46 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:15.240 about us. Where's our priorities? Yes, master any skill. 47 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:17.439 Hey, I'm going to challenge everybody right now, uh huh, 48 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:20.680 because it's hard to come across people, it's hard to 49 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:23.319 come across mailbag stuff. And to create this segment. But 50 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:24.400 if everybody did it. 51 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:27.479 Once, yes, everybody sending a question, yes, so please do. 52 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:32.639 Us a favor and email us at info at thebibleguys 53 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:33.319 dot com. 54 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:38.080 Any Bible question, any practical question, yes, any curious question. Yes, 55 00:02:38.120 --> 00:02:38.560 we're happy. 56 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:43.000 Can you imagine if we have what fifteen unique thousand 57 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:44.039 people who listen a. 58 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:44.800 Month, it'd be awesome. 59 00:02:44.919 --> 00:02:48.439 Fifteen thousand people. So if everybody took the time to 60 00:02:49.080 --> 00:02:52.280 email us one question, that means that Desiree and crew 61 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:55.360 would receive fifteen thousand questions today. 62 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:58.919 That's all we need. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for a 63 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:03.319 little while. That'll be the segment. Hey, I think it'd 64 00:03:03.360 --> 00:03:07.199 be fun to go back and do another whole series 65 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:09.520 of stump to pastors. That was really fun to do. 66 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:10.000 Yeah, it was. 67 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:10.719 Yeah. 68 00:03:11.120 --> 00:03:13.879 So yeah, that's assuming that we have good things to say. 69 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:16.960 We have to have fifteen thousand questions coming. Yeah. Okay. 70 00:03:17.080 --> 00:03:19.919 So, Jeff, if you could master one skill with new 71 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:21.159 practice required, what would it be. 72 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:24.680 There's a lot of things I like to do, yes, 73 00:03:25.319 --> 00:03:28.520 Like I love cooking, I love grilling, but I wouldn't 74 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:31.280 want to master it all at once because part of 75 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:35.319 it is learning it, right, I like to learn, so 76 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:38.240 I don't think that would be it. I don't know, 77 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:40.879 this is really hard. I think the skill I would 78 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:43.080 want to learn if I just master it, just like 79 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.560 I walk out from this room today and bang, I'm 80 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:52.800 just an expert. Thing would be languages. Languages, Yeah, because 81 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:57.879 I'm terrible at learning new language and I'm always in 82 00:03:57.879 --> 00:04:00.759 another country. In just a couple weeks, I'll be in Senegal. 83 00:04:01.159 --> 00:04:05.680 Right after that, I'll be in Sri Lanka. They asked 84 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:08.240 me to stop off in Malta on the way back, 85 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:11.439 and then I'm gonna be I can't remember back. I 86 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.879 think Egypt. So you're like, I just want to know Maltnes. 87 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:17.319 I just yeah, I just wish when I'm in Sri Lanka, 88 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:22.879 I wish I could speak uh, you know, was it uh? Uh? 89 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.120 They have they know, they have two languages that the 90 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:30.160 main languages they speak in in uh in India or 91 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.480 I mean in Sri Lanka. In you know, Egypt is 92 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:35.199 going to be Arabic. I wish I could speak Arabic 93 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:38.199 and I cannot put Arabic together at all. I just 94 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:41.079 I struggle. I have basic things hellos and goodbyes and 95 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:43.480 thank yous and my friend and you know stuff like that. 96 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:47.000 But man, it's just so hard and I wish I 97 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:49.639 could do that, And then when you make mistakes, it's terrible. 98 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:51.560 I told you the story about Bill and I when 99 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:53.040 we were out in the way, out in the bush 100 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:56.959 and we're driving. We were trying to say, like, nice greetings. 101 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:00.680 How do adults say nice things to children? Greetings? And 102 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:05.360 uh it's habari is how is a nice greeting from 103 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:07.600 an adult to a child. And so we're driving through 104 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:09.800 the bush and every time we'd dive, and then all 105 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:11.199 of a sudden there be five kids on the side 106 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:14.480 road and we yell out the window, hatari, hatari. Hatari 107 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:19.120 means danger. So these white guys are blasting through the bush, 108 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:22.040 you know, ten hours from Nairobi, four well drive truck. 109 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:24.800 These kids haven't seen a truck in three days. And 110 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:28.480 then we're yelling danger, danger as we're just blasting past them. 111 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:30.759 And finally our driver was like, I don't think that 112 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:33.279 means what you think it means, right, you know, you 113 00:05:33.319 --> 00:05:35.680 know Tobias And he said, I think you mean to 114 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:37.240 say hibari, not hatari. 115 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:38.879 You I think I would. 116 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:43.519 Yeah, So that's mine. What about you? 117 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:48.079 Uh, there's no question for me? I oh, it is 118 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:50.639 not what you're what you just said, Although that is 119 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:54.160 a tremendous skill to master, that would be amazing. It 120 00:05:54.199 --> 00:05:56.920 reminds me of that movie phenomenon with John Travolta when 121 00:05:57.000 --> 00:05:59.759 when when they're going to visit a Portuguese family and 122 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:02.680 he accept a Portuguese how to learn Portuguese by the 123 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:04.160 time he gets there in ten minutes? 124 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:08.680 Yeah, I would love that. That would be the best. 125 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:12.199 He goes, you just learned the whole Portuguese language in 126 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:14.240 ten minutes, and he goes and he looks at me and 127 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:21.439 he goes, not all of it away. Yeah. Anyway, mine 128 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:23.079 would be playing the piano. 129 00:06:23.879 --> 00:06:25.600 Really. Oh yeah, you want to learn how to play 130 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:26.000 the piano? 131 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:28.920 No, I do not, but I wish I immediately knew. 132 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:29.839 You wish you immediately knew. 133 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:32.000 Not want to practice playing the piano. I will never 134 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:34.759 do it ever, But to be able to walk up 135 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:38.279 to a piano and to masterfully sit down and then 136 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:45.439 just play something that delights everybody, I would absolutely adore 137 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:48.879 that gift. I want to be able to delight people 138 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:51.560 because because there are so many people, there are so 139 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:54.959 many times where other people delight me, you know, like 140 00:06:55.199 --> 00:06:57.279 in a mall, or something, or or they'll just walk 141 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:58.839 up and they'll be like, hey, let's all sing this 142 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:01.319 around a family gather and they just start playing. 143 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.279 People gather around guitars and they gather on pianos. You're right, 144 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:04.639 You're right. 145 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:06.680 I would I would love to do that. 146 00:07:06.959 --> 00:07:09.000 Yeah, that's a neat little gift. 147 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.600 Yeah, and one way I've always wanted to. And so 148 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:16.800 that's the main reason why we paid for piano lessons 149 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:21.040 for Sarah, who's now thirty something. But she she gave 150 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:23.319 it up and she did learn it, and then later 151 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:25.759 on she said, that's one of my biggest regrets I 152 00:07:26.040 --> 00:07:27.240 regret not sticking with. 153 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:29.360 Well, my wife Bonnie is one of the best piano 154 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:32.160 players I've ever known. She's Yeah, she's phenomenal like that, 155 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.000 But it takes a tremendous amount of work. You know, 156 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:35.920 when your mind starts slipping, that might be a good 157 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:37.360 thing for you to start doing. They say it helps 158 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:41.600 rebuild new pathways in your brain for thinking. Yeah, I 159 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:43.759 can't think of any jokes that would be appropriate to make. 160 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:45.800 As we move into the intro. 161 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:48.839 For this, well, I will say this, it's amazing how 162 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:54.040 Alison is able to see into our lives enough to 163 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:58.360 ask those insights. Okay, yes, and Jesus also talks about. 164 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:01.800 Seeing, yeah, what we see matters and looking yes, yep. 165 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:03.839 How it's very intentional as well. 166 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:04.319 Okay. 167 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:06.439 In Matthew five. 168 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:11.040 Yeah, so we are in this uh series that we're 169 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:17.560 doing on the Beatitudes, and the premise of this whole 170 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:21.000 topic that we're we're dealing with is that Jesus mentions 171 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:23.240 all these things that God blesses, and then through the 172 00:08:23.279 --> 00:08:25.759 whole rest of the Sermon on the Mount, he references 173 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:30.639 things that have to do with a faulty view of 174 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:34.759 the thing God bless us, right, where religion messes us 175 00:08:34.879 --> 00:08:38.639 up from actual, real blessing from God. That's that's basically it. 176 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:41.919 So yesterday we introduced the idea that he says, blessed 177 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:44.639 are those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God. 178 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:48.320 And what we were talking about there is that that 179 00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:54.279 word is catharos in Greek, and it means focused. It 180 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:58.279 means undivided, the word right, pure, the word the word pure, 181 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:02.759 and so it's not only clean, although that's part of it. 182 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:05.120 So there's a cleanliness to it, but there's also an 183 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:10.799 undivided loyalty, your focus towards God. And so with that idea, 184 00:09:10.879 --> 00:09:13.919 then he unpacks a few things that wind up being 185 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:17.879 the opposite of pure, and one of them here in 186 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:20.240 Matthew chapter five, verse twenty seventy, says, you've heard the 187 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:23.399 commandment that says you must not commit adultery. But I say, 188 00:09:23.399 --> 00:09:25.360 anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has 189 00:09:25.399 --> 00:09:28.000 already committed adultery with her in his heart. So if 190 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:30.320 your eye, even your good eye, causes you to lust, 191 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.000 gouge it out and throw it away, it's better for 192 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:34.759 you to lose one part of your body than for 193 00:09:34.840 --> 00:09:36.919 your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if 194 00:09:36.960 --> 00:09:39.799 your hand, even your stronger hand, causes you to sin, 195 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:41.399 cut it off and throw it away, it's better for 196 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:43.240 you to lose one part of your body than for 197 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:47.360 your whole body to be thrown into hell. Wow. Yeah, Wow, 198 00:09:47.720 --> 00:09:49.519 Well it's one of the strong I'm glad you didn't think, 199 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:51.279 good morning, this is a hard one. We're talking about 200 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:51.879 this in the afternoon. 201 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:55.799 Then, yeah, it's one of the it's one of the 202 00:09:55.919 --> 00:10:00.919 harsher teachings that Jesus you know, lays out there, because 203 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:03.120 you know, I think one of the harshest things that 204 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:06.600 Jesus has ever said, is if you're not willing to 205 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:09.399 abandon your father and your mother, yeah and follow me, 206 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:12.360 you cannot be worthy to be called my disciple. And 207 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:14.879 and really what that is is it doesn't literally mean 208 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:17.399 abandoning your father and your mother. It is it is 209 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:21.559 Jesus saying, unless you're going to choose Me over family, right. 210 00:10:21.960 --> 00:10:24.000 And so it's the idea that you know that choosing 211 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:27.360 God is is obviously the thing that trumps everything in 212 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:30.360 your life, and and and and obviously he was also 213 00:10:30.399 --> 00:10:33.000 dispelling a sort of open a can of worms by 214 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:35.799 saying that, because he was sort of dispelling excuses. Yes, 215 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:37.559 because they were saying like, hey, I don't want to 216 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:39.440 follow your Jesus because they had to go bury my 217 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:41.879 father and bury my mother, right and and tend to 218 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:45.279 my my family affairs. And he's saying, like, you're really 219 00:10:45.360 --> 00:10:48.120 just using that as an excuse, right, So that's what 220 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:50.279 he was doing. But anyway, the whole point is this 221 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:54.960 is another harsh teaching. So the question is, Jeff, does 222 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:58.360 he really mean take your eye out physically? 223 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:02.799 No? Yeah, no, not at all. I think he's using 224 00:11:02.840 --> 00:11:08.840 shocking language on purpose. It's a tool. So if you 225 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:12.080 can remember this entire but we tend to read like 226 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:15.960 today we just read a couple verses out. He's preaching 227 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:19.720 an entire message. So he starts off saying, listen, God 228 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:21.519 blesses people with a pure heart. That's one of the 229 00:11:21.519 --> 00:11:25.080 things he says. Then he talks about being salt and light, 230 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:26.759 and let your light so shine so, and he talks 231 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:29.720 about your deeds. Your deeds matter, So let your light 232 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:31.759 shine before men that they can see your good deeds 233 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:33.480 and glorify your father and heavemn. So the reason why 234 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:36.039 we would live good lives is it to get to heaven. 235 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:39.279 It's because God says, I'll bless you and people will 236 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:41.840 glorify me. Right. It brings glory to God. It brings 237 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:45.120 blessing to us. We just talked about this and on Sunday. 238 00:11:45.399 --> 00:11:48.360 This is exactly how he starts Romes chapter five. And 239 00:11:48.360 --> 00:11:51.279 then he goes, but here's your problem, and then he 240 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:54.559 in verses seventeen through twenty. He says, your problem is 241 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.000 you think, by keeping all the religious rules, that's how 242 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:00.759 you make God happy. Well, let me tell you can't. 243 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:05.360 And so he unpacks it then about murder. Right, if 244 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:08.720 you're angry at somebody. It's the same as killing somebody. 245 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:12.519 Then and now he talks about lust. You think, if 246 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:13.960 you just keep the letter of the law and don't 247 00:12:13.960 --> 00:12:16.559 commit adultery, you're fine. And he said, I'm telling you, 248 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:19.399 it all starts in the heart. So murder starts in 249 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:21.679 the heart. It doesn't start in the action of Oh 250 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:22.960 I got a knife in my hand. Oh I just 251 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:25.720 plunged it into your chest. It's the hatred in me 252 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:28.840 that drives me to murder you, right, God says Jesus 253 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:31.759 is saying, listen, it's not about the religious keeping of 254 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:35.279 every rule. It's about the heart, is what I'm after. 255 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:38.279 And so he gets to this adultery thing, and he goes, 256 00:12:38.320 --> 00:12:41.559 you think, just by keeping the rule about not actually 257 00:12:42.679 --> 00:12:46.720 committing acts with somebody else, that you're okay. And I'm 258 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:49.399 telling you it all begins in the heart. It's always 259 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:52.639 ever been about the heart. So then he's trying to 260 00:12:52.720 --> 00:12:55.840 shock them out of this behavior of thinking, because you 261 00:12:55.879 --> 00:12:58.080 know guys that go, oh, well, you know, I can't 262 00:12:58.080 --> 00:12:59.440 help what walks in front of me. I can't help 263 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:01.399 what I'm interested in. And so he's talking really about 264 00:13:01.440 --> 00:13:06.200 the intent there, and temptation is not a failure. Right, 265 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:11.080 Noticing beauty is not failure. It's when I decide I'm 266 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:13.639 going to keep rehearsing, I'm going to recall that thought, 267 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:16.200 I'm going to take that second look. Right, He's saying, hey, 268 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:19.759 what's in your heart? Is really that lustful thing in 269 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:23.799 your heart is the issue. And then he says you 270 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:26.080 need to learn remember when he said pure and heart, 271 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:30.440 pure in heart is undivided. You need to be willing 272 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:33.840 to make any radical decision in order to keep yourself 273 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:37.360 from crossing that line. That's what he's talking about. I 274 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:39.360 think there. I don't think he's saying, go get a 275 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:42.600 spoon and pop your eyeball out. Right. He's trying to 276 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:45.879 shock you into realizing how significant of a deal this is, 277 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:48.120 because people would go, well, boys are going to be boys, 278 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:50.240 ha ha, and just kind of pass on that one 279 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:52.320 a little bit, and he's going, no, I'm telling you 280 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:53.279 it's that serious. 281 00:13:54.519 --> 00:13:57.559 We did a series here in February of twenty twenty 282 00:13:57.639 --> 00:14:01.240 one called Questions for God. And in that series, do 283 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:05.639 you remember we did a like a limbo limbo sticks. 284 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:08.919 Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 285 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:10.279 Limbo sticks higher and above and and the and the 286 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:14.120 whole point of doing that was to talk about the bar, 287 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:17.399 and we taught this exact passage and the idea was 288 00:14:17.559 --> 00:14:19.720 I remember, and it was really based off something Francis 289 00:14:19.799 --> 00:14:22.480 Chance said, uh, in one of his sermons. He's a 290 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:25.639 very famous author and speaker and pastor. But anyway, Francis 291 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:27.360 Chance said, I just love the way he put it. 292 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:31.440 He said, people think that the Ten Commandments are the 293 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:32.159 highest bar. 294 00:14:32.440 --> 00:14:34.360 Yeah, right, right, he goes. 295 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:36.080 But believe it or not, he goes, He goes, the 296 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:38.639 Ten Commandments are a really low bar. He goes. You know, 297 00:14:38.679 --> 00:14:40.480 think about it. He goes. God's like, try not to 298 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:41.360 kill anybody today. 299 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:43.120 Yeah, he's a good job. 300 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:47.120 Try to stick with your own wife, not somebody else's wife, 301 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:49.000 you know. And he goes, he goes, He goes. We 302 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:51.480 think it's, oh, yeah, we obeyed the ten Commandments and 303 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:54.480 if we just achieved this really high bar, we can 304 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:56.799 get to heaven. He goes. What Jesus is doing is 305 00:14:57.080 --> 00:15:00.799 he's saying, no, it's actually really low. He goes. He goes, 306 00:15:00.799 --> 00:15:04.879 So he goes. Somehow he set the lowest lowest bar 307 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:08.720 of human behavior, the lowest common denominator of human behavior. 308 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:11.960 He goes, and somehow we've managed to slither under it, yes, 309 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:15.799 because I can't keep it and and uh and so 310 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:18.799 really that's part of what Jesus is doing here, because 311 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:23.399 remember Jesus is saying these examples right after he talks 312 00:15:23.399 --> 00:15:27.360 about the righteousness of the Pharisees. And the Pharisees were prideful, 313 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:30.159 and they thought like, oh, they were they were righteous 314 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:34.320 because they were keeping these big ten commandments, uh, you know, 315 00:15:34.360 --> 00:15:36.879 by not committing adultery and not murdering somebody. And what 316 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:39.679 Jesus is saying is like, no, if you if you 317 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:42.600 keep those commandments up here, he goes, you're not righteous. 318 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.600 I'm here to tell you that just because you have not, 319 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:48.879 you know, committed adultery, you feel righteous. And I'm telling 320 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:51.440 you that you're just as guilty of breaking the law 321 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:54.039 if you lust after a woman with your own heart. 322 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:57.120 He says, so you violated the law, you know, by 323 00:15:57.240 --> 00:15:59.159 by doing those things. And what he's part of what 324 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:02.600 he's doing is he's dispelling the righteousness of the Pharisees. 325 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:06.360 But he's also making the point that you know, you 326 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:09.240 can't you're not even close to the Pharisees, and and 327 00:16:09.240 --> 00:16:12.919 and and they violated the law you know themselves, and then, 328 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:16.480 of course he said that famous comment you have to surpass. 329 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:17.399 The righteousness into Pharisees. 330 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:21.519 Right, And so I've got a really funny story about this, so, uh, 331 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:24.559 listen to this. I was in I was in Bible College. 332 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:27.399 I'll never forget this. The day I die. I was 333 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:30.879 in Bible College and I was just getting ready to graduate. 334 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:33.000 It was my junior year of out of college. And 335 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.080 I was home for like 'll know, summer or something 336 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:40.919 like this, and I was getting interviewed by my home 337 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:45.720 pastor because our church was planting a church. Okay, so 338 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:50.200 Youngstown Baptist Church was starting a church called uh, oh, 339 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:52.480 it doesn't matter. I think it was called Heritage. What 340 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:54.600 was it called. It doesn't matter, I'll think of it later. 341 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:57.919 I think it might have been Heritage. Isn't that funny? 342 00:16:58.200 --> 00:16:59.679 But anyway, it was. It was a church that we 343 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:01.679 were playing thing in Hermitage. Oh that's what it is. 344 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:06.079 It was Hermitage, Pennsylvania. It wasn't It wasn't Cohertage. But anyway, 345 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:09.160 we were planning a church there and he was trying 346 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:12.000 to decide whether or not I was going to be 347 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:13.720 the person that they were going to hire to be 348 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:16.000 their youth pastor for the summer, and it was only 349 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:18.599 for a summer because there's a lot of good candidates 350 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:22.640 in our churches. So I was on that interview, imagine that, Okay, 351 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:25.119 on that interview, And as we were walking into Burger 352 00:17:25.200 --> 00:17:29.000 Kinge because you know, they they spared no expense. 353 00:17:28.839 --> 00:17:32.039 Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, whining and dining you trying to 354 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:34.000 get you to move to back to Youngstown. 355 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:37.359 So yeah, Pastor Jamie and Master John, do. 356 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:39.079 You want a whopper or a whopper Junior? 357 00:17:40.640 --> 00:17:43.880 They're taking me to Burgerton. And as I was walking 358 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:46.200 into Burkene, I keep in mind, I was a single guy, 359 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:49.480 I was young, I'd only been honestly a Christian for 360 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:52.759 a couple of years. There's this girl that walked by 361 00:17:52.839 --> 00:17:56.480 me and she was wearing the skimpiest outfit known to mankind. 362 00:17:57.000 --> 00:17:59.839 And uh and I and I literally, I I asked you. 363 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:02.880 As we were all walking into double doors, I turned 364 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:06.039 my head and I followed her. It was a it 365 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:08.400 was a direct violation of looking after somebody. 366 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:09.640 Right right, right right. 367 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:13.640 And I watched her walk out to the car and 368 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:16.480 and I and I lingered like like like a full 369 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:17.519 twenty seconds. 370 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:20.839 Yeah, that would be the failure then yes, yes, yeah, 371 00:18:20.920 --> 00:18:21.720 massive failure. 372 00:18:21.880 --> 00:18:25.680 Right. I turn around. I look and both Jamie and John, 373 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:28.960 who I thought were ahead of me going into Burger King, 374 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:31.319 are both standing there holding the door open for. 375 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:35.720 Me, watching me. Oh no, yeah, watch this girl busted busted? 376 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:38.680 Yeah right, I mean like massive failure. 377 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:42.960 Y yeah, as they're considering hiring, right you understand. 378 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:46.400 Yes, yeah, how okay you failed that one fail so 379 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:48.279 they did. They downgraded. You didn't get to get the 380 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:51.359 extra value meal, right, you didn't even get large fries. 381 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:52.599 You had to go yeah. Yeah, so. 382 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:56.680 This, this is this interview could have potentially. 383 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:58.759 Been over before it started. Yeah, it would have been so. 384 00:18:58.759 --> 00:19:02.079 Anyway, I look like this and I turn around, they 385 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:05.160 look at me and Jamie pastor. Jamie looks at me 386 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:08.359 and says, hey, Chris, if your I offend, you pluck 387 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:12.880 it out very yeah yeah, and then immediately you ready 388 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:16.480 for us. I thought of the biggest lie that I 389 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:18.480 could think of in that moment, and I go, I 390 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:21.000 go what I go? No, no, no, no, I go 391 00:19:21.559 --> 00:19:23.920 I know that girl and I can't believe she's wearing. 392 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:28.559 That yeah yeah yeah yeah oh no. So then you 393 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:31.680 had to confess to Jamie later. No, I never Yeah, 394 00:19:31.839 --> 00:19:34.759 so Jamie, yeah right, you need to call him. 395 00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:38.839 And so I literally I literally believe that I was 396 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:42.599 still clever enough. Yeah, and I'm not bragging. This is 397 00:19:42.640 --> 00:19:45.880 a confession, radical confession. But I even played the part 398 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:48.799 in my acting role. I go, what no, no, no, no, 399 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:51.319 you miss ourderstand I know that girl. 400 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:53.640 Well, that's what happens with stuff, right, when we give 401 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:56.200