1 00:00:03,770 --> 00:00:05,939 Thank you for your generosity. 2 00:00:05,939 --> 00:00:07,707 We say all the time that you don't give to us. 3 00:00:07,707 --> 00:00:09,342 You give through us. 4 00:00:09,342 --> 00:00:12,012 Jameson YC is a perfect example of that. 5 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:16,516 So thank you for your generosity in enabling us to continue 6 00:00:16,516 --> 00:00:21,521 to spread God's kingdom, not just locally, but around the world as well as we do. 7 00:00:21,521 --> 00:00:25,025 So thank you also for your generosity and helping make the little entryway 8 00:00:25,025 --> 00:00:26,693 renovation happen. And the new chair. 9 00:00:26,693 --> 00:00:30,830 Some of you have been very generous towards that end. 10 00:00:30,864 --> 00:00:32,298 Thank you. If you haven't 11 00:00:32,298 --> 00:00:35,835 participated with us in that, you're missing out on a huge blessing. 12 00:00:36,102 --> 00:00:38,271 Getting to be part of the ones who make this stuff happen. 13 00:00:38,271 --> 00:00:39,973 So jump on with us. 14 00:00:39,973 --> 00:00:44,110 There's there's not just by giving resources, 15 00:00:44,110 --> 00:00:48,114 but a lot of a lot of people put a lot of time and energy into this. 16 00:00:48,114 --> 00:00:51,751 And God has given some people skill to do stuff 17 00:00:51,751 --> 00:00:54,854 with their hands that I don't possess. 18 00:00:55,622 --> 00:01:00,060 And some of those guys have worked very hard at this renovation 19 00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:03,797 project specifically, you know, Rob, he's sitting right over there 20 00:01:03,863 --> 00:01:05,231 a ton of time and energy. 21 00:01:05,231 --> 00:01:08,668 And Tom also, and Thomas 22 00:01:08,668 --> 00:01:12,872 and Mauricio and Jeff McClure with the lights and all kinds of stuff. 23 00:01:13,073 --> 00:01:16,342 Matt Willis, business, Valley Powerhouse 24 00:01:16,342 --> 00:01:19,345 Electric have just been so good to us. 25 00:01:19,813 --> 00:01:23,950 Jim kind of right and heard on the whole thing and Heather's decorations. 26 00:01:23,950 --> 00:01:25,785 If you love the decorations, it's Heather. 27 00:01:25,785 --> 00:01:29,322 If not, it's the youth pastors fault. 28 00:01:29,722 --> 00:01:31,057 I think we'll just leave it at that. 29 00:01:31,057 --> 00:01:35,161 But anyway, there have just been a lot of people had a lot of hands in doing this. 30 00:01:35,161 --> 00:01:38,231 So I just want to express my great gratitude 31 00:01:38,231 --> 00:01:41,234 and thanks to this church. 32 00:01:41,234 --> 00:01:44,070 I also want to invite you on Tuesday, Tuesday 33 00:01:44,070 --> 00:01:47,540 evening to our all church prayer meeting as well. 34 00:01:47,540 --> 00:01:49,142 So you're welcome to come to that. 35 00:01:49,142 --> 00:01:53,346 It would be a benefit to you and a benefit to our community 36 00:01:53,980 --> 00:01:56,950 as we implore God to do what only he can do. 37 00:01:56,950 --> 00:02:00,420 Jamison mentioned all those statistics about 38 00:02:00,420 --> 00:02:03,756 students and young ones who are just struggling right now, 39 00:02:04,824 --> 00:02:07,427 and programing is good, 40 00:02:07,427 --> 00:02:11,131 but the only true cure and help is Christ. 41 00:02:11,131 --> 00:02:16,102 So I invite you to pray with us over all that on Tuesday morning as a church, 42 00:02:17,103 --> 00:02:19,339 we're going to wrap up Matthew 25 43 00:02:19,339 --> 00:02:22,742 today and introduce Matthew 26. 44 00:02:23,810 --> 00:02:27,480 If you've been with us through this series, we've talked about 45 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,351 how from Matthew 21 through Matthew 25, 46 00:02:31,417 --> 00:02:35,121 like all of this, there's a there's so much in those chapters. 47 00:02:35,155 --> 00:02:40,660 All takes place on the Tuesday prior to Crucifixion Friday. 48 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,464 So Tuesday was a huge day for Jesus. 49 00:02:44,864 --> 00:02:46,933 Overturns the tables in the temple. 50 00:02:46,933 --> 00:02:50,737 He he presses into the the 51 00:02:51,938 --> 00:02:56,142 the religious authorities, the curse of the fig tree and the prophecy 52 00:02:56,142 --> 00:02:59,946 of what that means and all the questions by the religious leaders. 53 00:02:59,946 --> 00:03:01,915 And he bests all of them like this. 54 00:03:01,915 --> 00:03:03,750 It's all this stuff in these chapters. 55 00:03:03,750 --> 00:03:06,419 All happens on Tuesday. It's huge. 56 00:03:07,387 --> 00:03:08,421 And it 57 00:03:08,421 --> 00:03:12,759 culminates in, in Matthew 25, the end of Matthew 25 today. 58 00:03:12,759 --> 00:03:13,660 And then Matthew 59 00:03:13,660 --> 00:03:18,398 26 kind of kicks off on Wednesday, and Jesus takes a break on Wednesday. 60 00:03:18,398 --> 00:03:22,735 And that's when that's when all the plans start to be formulated 61 00:03:22,869 --> 00:03:24,070 for his crucifixion. 62 00:03:24,070 --> 00:03:27,106 And as we've looked through this, one of the things I hope that 63 00:03:27,106 --> 00:03:31,211 we've we've realized is that Jesus is orchestrated all of this. 64 00:03:31,277 --> 00:03:36,716 It's not as if one day he, you know, he's fed up with the 65 00:03:36,749 --> 00:03:41,421 with the people selling the doves and the sheep in the temple. 66 00:03:41,421 --> 00:03:43,990 And he just has enough. Enough's enough. 67 00:03:43,990 --> 00:03:47,493 And just, you know, overthrows the temple and makes everybody upset. 68 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:52,098 He's orchestrated all of this so that the crucifixion 69 00:03:52,098 --> 00:03:55,501 will happen on this specific Friday that's coming. 70 00:03:56,402 --> 00:03:59,372 He didn't lose his cool and blow it. 71 00:03:59,839 --> 00:04:02,508 He knew that he had to be crucified. 72 00:04:02,508 --> 00:04:05,912 He knew that the Romans were the only ones who could carry out crucifixion. 73 00:04:06,012 --> 00:04:09,716 And he knew it had to be on this specific Friday because of prophecies 74 00:04:09,716 --> 00:04:11,184 in the book of Daniel and all this stuff. 75 00:04:11,184 --> 00:04:15,521 And so he's working this week to set things in motion 76 00:04:15,822 --> 00:04:19,592 so that after Tuesday, the flywheel spinning 77 00:04:19,993 --> 00:04:23,196 and he knows what, he knows what's going to happen on Friday. 78 00:04:23,196 --> 00:04:26,032 But it's all at his orchestration. This is not my accident. 79 00:04:26,032 --> 00:04:28,835 It's not my chance. He's not a victim. 80 00:04:28,835 --> 00:04:30,703 He's completely in charge. 81 00:04:31,838 --> 00:04:34,707 And in the last part of Matthew 25 82 00:04:34,707 --> 00:04:39,145 is going to be the final words that he's going to to teach 83 00:04:40,413 --> 00:04:43,850 before he just shut it down and let's and let's the 84 00:04:43,916 --> 00:04:47,020 let's it lets it go knowing what's coming. 85 00:04:47,153 --> 00:04:51,424 And so I developed a big idea for us to give us an understanding 86 00:04:51,424 --> 00:04:54,494 as we walk through the end of 25 and open up 87 00:04:54,494 --> 00:04:58,665 chapter 26 and chapter 26, we're going to see three people 88 00:04:58,665 --> 00:05:03,236 or groups of people, the religious leaders Mary and Judas. 89 00:05:03,503 --> 00:05:06,472 And so to understand what's happening 90 00:05:06,472 --> 00:05:10,076 in their lives and and why they respond the way they do. 91 00:05:10,076 --> 00:05:13,079 And wrap up 25 here's the big idea. 92 00:05:13,079 --> 00:05:15,481 Devotion to Jesus begins in the heart, 93 00:05:15,481 --> 00:05:19,986 but never stays hidden there because the heart always leaves evidence. 94 00:05:22,355 --> 00:05:25,358 We're going to see that in Matthew 25 and Matthew 26. 95 00:05:25,358 --> 00:05:28,394 Devotion to Jesus always begins inside in the heart, 96 00:05:28,394 --> 00:05:31,397 but it never remains there, 97 00:05:32,298 --> 00:05:33,066 the heart always. 98 00:05:33,066 --> 00:05:36,903 These evidence what the heart, whether it's good or evil, 99 00:05:36,903 --> 00:05:40,873 these evidence of of it good or evil. 100 00:05:41,074 --> 00:05:43,576 And we're going to see that 101 00:05:43,576 --> 00:05:47,480 the fact is that everyone's heart towards Jesus becomes visible. 102 00:05:48,881 --> 00:05:51,851 Everyone's heart towards Jesus becomes visible. 103 00:05:52,218 --> 00:05:55,588 It doesn't remain hidden for good or for ill. 104 00:05:55,621 --> 00:06:00,393 And so I want to read I want to read this last portion 105 00:06:00,393 --> 00:06:04,931 of Matthew 25, little section by section, kind of unpack it. 106 00:06:05,198 --> 00:06:08,234 If you've been around church for any length of time, 107 00:06:08,334 --> 00:06:12,505 you've probably heard this, this teaching before, 108 00:06:12,872 --> 00:06:16,409 what Jesus is going to say it. 109 00:06:17,110 --> 00:06:20,113 It'll sound somewhat familiar to you, 110 00:06:20,380 --> 00:06:25,418 but I think in the American evangelical church, we've misunderstood 111 00:06:26,552 --> 00:06:27,720 Jesus's intent 112 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:31,891 when he spoke it, and we've kind of morphed it into something 113 00:06:32,091 --> 00:06:35,962 that kind of fits our narrative and our agenda. 114 00:06:36,229 --> 00:06:39,832 But it's different than what Jesus originally intended. 115 00:06:39,866 --> 00:06:42,201 Now they'll be application to how it's commonly understood. 116 00:06:42,201 --> 00:06:43,870 And I'm going to talk about all that. 117 00:06:43,870 --> 00:06:46,873 But but let the words hit your ears 118 00:06:47,673 --> 00:06:50,076 and then just stay with me as I unpack. 119 00:06:50,076 --> 00:06:53,913 I think Jesus is intent when he spoke these words. 120 00:06:54,414 --> 00:06:56,983 Matthew 25 121 00:06:56,983 --> 00:06:59,652 A starting of verse 31, 122 00:06:59,652 --> 00:07:01,988 When the Son of Man comes in his glory, 123 00:07:01,988 --> 00:07:06,292 and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 124 00:07:06,292 --> 00:07:12,064 Now Jesus says, listen, it's going to culminate with the Son of God 125 00:07:12,064 --> 00:07:16,235 coming back, the Son of Man coming back with all these angels are going to attend. 126 00:07:17,203 --> 00:07:19,138 And at this point, I think the disciples were like, 127 00:07:19,138 --> 00:07:23,176 well, yeah, this is exactly what I signed up for. 128 00:07:23,376 --> 00:07:26,946 Like, bring it, let's go up and to the right all the time. 129 00:07:26,946 --> 00:07:28,581 This is fantastic. 130 00:07:28,581 --> 00:07:31,384 So that's kind of where he's thinking and Jesus 131 00:07:31,384 --> 00:07:34,987 is going to address that attitude is beginning Matthew 26. 132 00:07:34,987 --> 00:07:37,990 But right now they're like, okay, all right, I'm tracking with you. 133 00:07:38,691 --> 00:07:41,861 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate 134 00:07:41,861 --> 00:07:45,865 people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 135 00:07:45,865 --> 00:07:49,902 And again, in their minds, they're tracking with Jesus 100% 136 00:07:49,902 --> 00:07:53,673 because this was common to their experience shepherds, sheep and goats. 137 00:07:53,906 --> 00:07:56,742 And in the Jewish mindset, 138 00:07:56,742 --> 00:07:59,345 they thought in terms of clean and unclean. 139 00:07:59,345 --> 00:08:02,381 Well, like what God approved of, what God disapproved of, clean and unclean. 140 00:08:02,381 --> 00:08:06,118 And both sheep and goats were clean animals. 141 00:08:06,118 --> 00:08:07,320 They're both clean. 142 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:11,491 Like it wasn't that that that one is is is clean and one's dirty 143 00:08:11,557 --> 00:08:12,792 like they're both clean animals. 144 00:08:12,792 --> 00:08:15,962 And as a shepherd had both sheep and goats. 145 00:08:15,995 --> 00:08:18,264 Oftentimes the herd was comprised of both. 146 00:08:18,264 --> 00:08:20,233 They all mingled together during the day. 147 00:08:20,233 --> 00:08:23,102 You really couldn't tell them apart, necessarily, but at night 148 00:08:23,102 --> 00:08:26,339 the shepherd would separate them, because the sheep can be out in the cold 149 00:08:26,339 --> 00:08:27,039 and be fine. 150 00:08:27,039 --> 00:08:30,776 But the goats had to kind of be under closure to be okay. 151 00:08:30,776 --> 00:08:33,746 And so this is all common to their experience. 152 00:08:33,746 --> 00:08:36,315 They understand the shepherd, the sheep and the goats, the interest 153 00:08:36,315 --> 00:08:39,952 and the separation that has to happen at some point. 154 00:08:40,219 --> 00:08:41,454 And so there. Yeah. 155 00:08:41,454 --> 00:08:42,054 No problem. 156 00:08:42,054 --> 00:08:43,656 We got you, we got you. 157 00:08:43,656 --> 00:08:45,691 And so then Jesus says, 158 00:08:46,826 --> 00:08:47,693 verse 33, and 159 00:08:47,693 --> 00:08:51,464 he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 160 00:08:51,497 --> 00:08:52,665 Then the king will say 161 00:08:52,665 --> 00:08:56,502 to those on his right, come, you who are blessed by my father, inherit 162 00:08:56,502 --> 00:08:59,505 the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 163 00:08:59,505 --> 00:09:01,908 For I was hungry, and you gave me food, I was thirsty, 164 00:09:01,908 --> 00:09:04,343 you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me. 165 00:09:04,343 --> 00:09:05,811 I was naked and you clothed me. 166 00:09:05,811 --> 00:09:07,079 I was sick and you visited me. 167 00:09:07,079 --> 00:09:09,282 I was in prison and came to me. 168 00:09:09,282 --> 00:09:14,820 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when, when, when did we see 169 00:09:14,820 --> 00:09:18,057 you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 170 00:09:18,190 --> 00:09:22,261 And when did we see you a stranger, and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 171 00:09:22,261 --> 00:09:25,798 And when did we see you sick or in prison to visit you? 172 00:09:25,798 --> 00:09:29,802 And the King will answer them, truly I say to you, as 173 00:09:29,802 --> 00:09:34,240 you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me. 174 00:09:35,274 --> 00:09:36,842 How many of you heard this? 175 00:09:36,842 --> 00:09:41,180 This teaching before is this is not new, okay. 176 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,716 How many have never heard this before? 177 00:09:43,716 --> 00:09:44,951 Any few of you? 178 00:09:44,951 --> 00:09:50,022 Okay, so the way this is usually understood 179 00:09:50,122 --> 00:09:54,360 in the American church context 180 00:09:54,393 --> 00:10:00,032 is that Christians are responsible to watch after and take care of 181 00:10:00,066 --> 00:10:05,271 and minister to the marginalized, the hurting, the outcast. 182 00:10:05,905 --> 00:10:07,707 That's how it's usually understood. 183 00:10:07,707 --> 00:10:11,010 I want you to understand something that in this teaching, 184 00:10:11,010 --> 00:10:15,114 when Jesus separates the two, he's not talking about salvation. 185 00:10:15,214 --> 00:10:18,217 This is not a judgment of salvation. 186 00:10:18,317 --> 00:10:23,356 It's not like if if someone is good to the marginalized 187 00:10:23,356 --> 00:10:26,425 and the outcast and the hurting and the poor, that they get salvation. 188 00:10:26,425 --> 00:10:29,195 That's not how salvation works. 189 00:10:29,195 --> 00:10:31,597 We understand from Scripture over 190 00:10:31,597 --> 00:10:34,600 say because of God's grace through faith alone, 191 00:10:35,668 --> 00:10:37,637 that that, that, that, 192 00:10:37,637 --> 00:10:41,674 that is the position of salvation, not by what we do. 193 00:10:41,941 --> 00:10:46,946 One of the things Jesus is saying here is, this is the revelation of the heart 194 00:10:46,946 --> 00:10:48,280 that already exists. 195 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,250 So the heart of someone who has 196 00:10:51,250 --> 00:10:55,655 it has has asked Jesus to be the ruler of their life, 197 00:10:55,655 --> 00:10:59,358 responds in this way do you follow? 198 00:10:59,492 --> 00:11:03,663 And the heart of someone who has rejected Jesus responds in this way, 199 00:11:03,663 --> 00:11:07,066 so this is not imparting salvation or damnation. 200 00:11:07,066 --> 00:11:10,202 This is the revelation of the heart that already exists. 201 00:11:12,905 --> 00:11:15,908 It's important for us to understand that 202 00:11:15,908 --> 00:11:18,077 in this, this teaching, 203 00:11:18,077 --> 00:11:21,213 here's here's how to view this. 204 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,750 A disciples heart will be aligned with the heart of his master. 205 00:11:25,651 --> 00:11:29,722 And so this is the revelation of a heart's alignment. 206 00:11:29,989 --> 00:11:32,658 It's not the proclamation of salvation or damnation. 207 00:11:32,658 --> 00:11:35,094 This is the revelation of the heart's alignment of the heart 208 00:11:35,094 --> 00:11:35,995 that already exists. 209 00:11:35,995 --> 00:11:39,031 And there are some hearts who are so aligned with the master 210 00:11:39,065 --> 00:11:41,200 that they will respond in this way to what 211 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,235 Jesus says the least of these, my brothers. 212 00:11:43,235 --> 00:11:45,771 Now here's where. 213 00:11:45,771 --> 00:11:50,476 Here's where I think what Jesus really intended when he spoke this. 214 00:11:50,476 --> 00:11:53,112 And a little different how the church is understood. 215 00:11:53,112 --> 00:11:57,183 Understood it when Jesus uses those words, when you've done this 216 00:11:57,183 --> 00:12:02,555 to the least of these, my brothers, my brethren, in Jesus's context, as he's 217 00:12:02,555 --> 00:12:07,493 speaking this, he's speaking specifically to God's people, the Jews. 218 00:12:10,229 --> 00:12:12,665 It matters 219 00:12:12,665 --> 00:12:15,668 how we treat the people of God. 220 00:12:16,469 --> 00:12:19,472 Now, if you notice. 221 00:12:20,172 --> 00:12:23,976 Verse 32, before him will be gathered the nations. 222 00:12:24,110 --> 00:12:28,214 So this is not an individual pronouncement on individuals. 223 00:12:28,214 --> 00:12:32,151 This is not what's called in the Bible, the great White Throne judgment, 224 00:12:32,318 --> 00:12:33,619 the culmination of all things. 225 00:12:33,619 --> 00:12:36,388 This is 226 00:12:36,388 --> 00:12:37,890 eschatology speaking. 227 00:12:37,890 --> 00:12:43,229 That's a church word for in times study, when Jesus comes back and 228 00:12:44,263 --> 00:12:46,699 all the things have already been decided about salvation 229 00:12:46,699 --> 00:12:50,336 and not rejecting Jesus and accepted, that's already been decided. 230 00:12:50,336 --> 00:12:54,473 And so Jesus in some way gathers the nations. 231 00:12:54,473 --> 00:12:59,745 And so, okay, now let me pronounce this what you have already decided. 232 00:13:00,012 --> 00:13:04,850 This is the judgment of the nations, how the nations have responded 233 00:13:04,917 --> 00:13:07,920 to God's people in this world, 234 00:13:08,654 --> 00:13:09,655 to the nation of Israel. 235 00:13:09,655 --> 00:13:11,157 It matters. 236 00:13:11,157 --> 00:13:17,062 So this is not an individual pronouncement of me and you that happened separately. 237 00:13:17,062 --> 00:13:19,932 This is okay world. How have you treated my people 238 00:13:21,467 --> 00:13:24,069 and the pronouncement of 239 00:13:24,069 --> 00:13:29,175 sheep and goats is the revelation of the people's hearts 240 00:13:29,175 --> 00:13:32,945 that already exist as a people group towards God's people group? 241 00:13:32,945 --> 00:13:35,347 Do you follow? 242 00:13:35,347 --> 00:13:38,350 Yes. It matters. 243 00:13:38,818 --> 00:13:40,452 It matters how we treat 244 00:13:40,452 --> 00:13:43,989 the people of God and the now. 245 00:13:44,156 --> 00:13:47,426 If you want to take it out of that specific context, because that's 246 00:13:47,426 --> 00:13:50,429 how Jesus meant it when he taught it and his here's what. 247 00:13:50,462 --> 00:13:53,833 Understand that now, if you want to take it out of that 248 00:13:53,833 --> 00:13:57,536 and make it for our world again, 249 00:13:57,970 --> 00:14:00,639 what you've done to the seas, my brothers, you've done to me. 250 00:14:00,639 --> 00:14:03,442 And so now he's talking about a family relationship. 251 00:14:03,442 --> 00:14:07,546 And so if you want to take it out of the nation of Israel context 252 00:14:07,546 --> 00:14:10,549 and just put it in our context, 253 00:14:10,749 --> 00:14:14,453 the least of these, my family, who's the family of God, 254 00:14:15,621 --> 00:14:17,957 Christ followers. 255 00:14:17,957 --> 00:14:21,660 He's not talking about what you've done to everybody else 256 00:14:21,660 --> 00:14:25,130 and every, you know who doesn't know me and like, be nice. 257 00:14:25,197 --> 00:14:27,233 It's not what he's saying, he said. 258 00:14:27,233 --> 00:14:30,536 It matters not just how you respond to my people, 259 00:14:30,536 --> 00:14:33,539 but to my family. 260 00:14:33,572 --> 00:14:37,776 How we respond to each other isn't the pronouncement of salvation. 261 00:14:37,776 --> 00:14:40,512 It's the revelation of a heart that's in line with the master's heart. 262 00:14:40,512 --> 00:14:43,148 Do you follow? 263 00:14:43,148 --> 00:14:46,151 If I'm unclear, I want to be clear. 264 00:14:46,185 --> 00:14:49,421 And so he's talking about this, this family relationship. 265 00:14:49,421 --> 00:14:52,424 It matters. 266 00:14:54,894 --> 00:14:56,795 And he's going to press. 267 00:14:56,795 --> 00:14:59,798 He's going to press into this. 268 00:15:01,634 --> 00:15:02,701 In verse 41. 269 00:15:02,701 --> 00:15:06,238 Then he will say to those on his left, depart from me, you cursed, 270 00:15:06,238 --> 00:15:09,475 into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. 271 00:15:09,475 --> 00:15:12,411 For I was hungry, and you gave me no food, I was thirsty, you gave me no drink. 272 00:15:12,411 --> 00:15:13,078 I was a stranger. 273 00:15:13,078 --> 00:15:15,748 You did not welcome me, I was naked, you did not clothe me 274 00:15:15,748 --> 00:15:17,750 sick and in prison, and you did not visit me. 275 00:15:17,750 --> 00:15:20,753 And they will answer him, saying, Lord, when? 276 00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:22,721 When did we see you hungry or thirsty, or a stranger 277 00:15:22,721 --> 00:15:25,691 in naked or sick, or in prison, and did not minister to you, 278 00:15:25,791 --> 00:15:29,261 and then he will answer them, I truly, I tell you, when you did 279 00:15:29,261 --> 00:15:32,264 not do it to the least of these, you did not do it to me. 280 00:15:32,464 --> 00:15:33,132 And these will 281 00:15:33,132 --> 00:15:36,869 go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous end of eternal life 282 00:15:36,902 --> 00:15:40,039 again, not a pronouncement of salvation, just a revelation of the heart 283 00:15:40,039 --> 00:15:41,573 that already exists. 284 00:15:41,573 --> 00:15:45,177 It amazes me that the ones on his right, the sheep. 285 00:15:45,678 --> 00:15:48,314 Like, when did we do that to you? 286 00:15:48,314 --> 00:15:49,949 What are you talking about? 287 00:15:49,949 --> 00:15:54,520 And I love it that they didn't realize that they were being so good to Jesus, 288 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,723 because that was just who their what their hearts had become. 289 00:15:58,223 --> 00:16:01,260 So in line with the master's are this is who they were, 290 00:16:02,261 --> 00:16:04,396 like serving the Lord by accident. 291 00:16:04,396 --> 00:16:05,097 Do you know what I'm saying? 292 00:16:05,097 --> 00:16:07,800 Like it's just beautiful that that's who they that's their character. 293 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:08,467 That's their heart. 294 00:16:08,467 --> 00:16:09,635 They have a new heart. 295 00:16:09,635 --> 00:16:11,637 And likewise those who are like, what are you talking about? 296 00:16:11,637 --> 00:16:14,640 When do we when did we deny you? 297 00:16:14,940 --> 00:16:18,978 They even realize that their denial and disservice 298 00:16:18,978 --> 00:16:22,681 of God's people with the denial, the service of God himself, 299 00:16:24,283 --> 00:16:27,252 their hearts were just crooked. 300 00:16:27,353 --> 00:16:30,356 They didn't realize it. 301 00:16:32,791 --> 00:16:34,660 What we have to understand 302 00:16:34,660 --> 00:16:38,330 is that a closed heart creates a closed hand. 303 00:16:39,665 --> 00:16:42,668 Those on the left have a closed heart towards God, 304 00:16:43,102 --> 00:16:46,238 and so they had a closed hand towards him and his people. 305 00:16:47,473 --> 00:16:50,542 Those on the right had an open heart towards God, so he had an open hand 306 00:16:50,542 --> 00:16:50,909 towards. 307 00:16:50,909 --> 00:16:53,712 We understand this in every other here's here's what I know. 308 00:16:53,712 --> 00:16:55,914 When my heart is closed. 309 00:16:56,915 --> 00:16:59,118 Let's talk about our resources and our finances. 310 00:16:59,118 --> 00:17:02,955 When my heart is closed, I get real stingy with my money. 311 00:17:04,323 --> 00:17:06,058 You understand? 312 00:17:06,058 --> 00:17:08,227 When my heart is open, 313 00:17:08,227 --> 00:17:11,230 I have an open hand with God's resources. 314 00:17:12,197 --> 00:17:13,899 Do you follow? 315 00:17:13,899 --> 00:17:16,101 When my heart is closed? I got a real. 316 00:17:16,101 --> 00:17:19,104 I got a closed hand with my time. 317 00:17:20,105 --> 00:17:23,108 When my heart is open I got an open hand with. 318 00:17:26,178 --> 00:17:28,814 And we see it here in this teaching. 319 00:17:28,814 --> 00:17:31,383 When your heart is closed 320 00:17:31,383 --> 00:17:34,386 to God and His people, it's. 321 00:17:35,621 --> 00:17:38,624 Your hands are going to be closed as well. 322 00:17:41,660 --> 00:17:43,996 One of the things that Jesus is saying here 323 00:17:43,996 --> 00:17:47,433 is, listen, disciples of mine are going to have my heartbeat 324 00:17:48,434 --> 00:17:51,437 and it is towards mercy and grace. 325 00:17:54,373 --> 00:17:57,843 And those who don't have my heart are going to be closed off. 326 00:17:59,878 --> 00:18:01,480 And by closing themselves off to me, 327 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,483 they're being closed off to my people. 328 00:18:08,821 --> 00:18:10,823 One of the things that we have to understand, 329 00:18:10,823 --> 00:18:15,627 and this will set up all of the beginnings of, of chapter 26. 330 00:18:15,661 --> 00:18:19,531 One of the things we have to understand is that inward crookedness opens 331 00:18:19,531 --> 00:18:22,534 the door for outward wrongdoing. 332 00:18:22,634 --> 00:18:27,072 When there's something crooked inside, that's 333 00:18:27,139 --> 00:18:30,142 what opens the door to outward 334 00:18:30,976 --> 00:18:31,944 wrongdoing. 335 00:18:31,944 --> 00:18:36,815 And so much of religion is focused on the outward doing 336 00:18:37,149 --> 00:18:40,786 without the addressing of the inward condition. 337 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,255 Don't do this. Don't do that. Don't do this, don't that. 338 00:18:43,255 --> 00:18:45,390 Make sure you do this. Make sure you do that. 339 00:18:45,390 --> 00:18:49,061 So much of religion is based on behavioral modification. 340 00:18:49,828 --> 00:18:52,297 And we just can't keep it up. 341 00:18:52,297 --> 00:18:57,336 Because what drives what we do is what exists in here. 342 00:18:57,336 --> 00:19:01,140 And so when in when I'm crooked inward, 343 00:19:01,707 --> 00:19:04,710 that's the open door for outward wrong. 344 00:19:04,910 --> 00:19:06,945 And I know this makes sense to you. 345 00:19:08,380 --> 00:19:11,550 And Jesus is the only one who can 346 00:19:12,851 --> 00:19:15,854 heal the crookedness inside. 347 00:19:16,755 --> 00:19:18,423 He's the only one. 348 00:19:18,423 --> 00:19:22,361 You and I both know that as hard as we try, 349 00:19:22,394 --> 00:19:25,397 we can't change our own heart. 350 00:19:25,397 --> 00:19:26,932 And some of us say it like this. 351 00:19:26,932 --> 00:19:28,800 That's just who I am. 352 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,669 I've always been this way. 353 00:19:30,669 --> 00:19:34,072 Well, yeah, because there's a cricket inside 354 00:19:34,072 --> 00:19:37,075 that you can't fix. 355 00:19:37,476 --> 00:19:40,012 That's why Jesus talks about a new heart 356 00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:43,015 and made new. 357 00:19:43,482 --> 00:19:45,751 And so when the Bible talks 358 00:19:45,751 --> 00:19:48,820 about sin, there's a lot of different words it uses. 359 00:19:48,820 --> 00:19:51,557 But there, there there's some primary ones. 360 00:19:51,557 --> 00:19:56,662 And one one word is just sin in general, just missing the mark. 361 00:19:57,162 --> 00:20:00,799 But there's two other words that we have really want us to understand 362 00:20:00,799 --> 00:20:05,637 because it has profound impact on us individually. 363 00:20:05,671 --> 00:20:09,107 One is iniquity and one is transgression or trespass. 364 00:20:09,641 --> 00:20:13,145 Same basic word iniquity is inward crookedness, 365 00:20:13,512 --> 00:20:16,515 transgression and trespasses, outward action. 366 00:20:16,548 --> 00:20:19,785 And most of us are focused on the outward action. 367 00:20:19,785 --> 00:20:22,588 I don't want to. I don't want to screw up. 368 00:20:22,588 --> 00:20:25,257 I'll make sure I'm doing what's right, that's all. 369 00:20:25,257 --> 00:20:27,359 Focus on transgression and trespass. 370 00:20:27,359 --> 00:20:28,694 And when we start there 371 00:20:28,694 --> 00:20:32,231 and never get to the iniquity that's in our heart will never 372 00:20:33,899 --> 00:20:35,200 get away from the trespass. 373 00:20:35,200 --> 00:20:38,170 Do you follow? 374 00:20:43,942 --> 00:20:45,344 When when Jesus, 375 00:20:45,344 --> 00:20:48,513 in the great sermon that he preached, beginning 376 00:20:48,513 --> 00:20:52,150 in Matthew five, he was talking about this very thing, this iniquity and trespass. 377 00:20:52,184 --> 00:20:55,420 He said, you've heard it said, don't commit murder. 378 00:20:55,454 --> 00:20:57,522 That's transgression and trespass. 379 00:20:57,522 --> 00:20:59,958 I say, don't hate someone in your heart. 380 00:20:59,958 --> 00:21:01,760 That's iniquity. Why? 381 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:04,296 Because iniquity leads to trespass. 382 00:21:04,296 --> 00:21:07,099 He said, I say, or I say, he says. 383 00:21:07,099 --> 00:21:10,469 The law says, you've heard it say, don't commit adultery. 384 00:21:10,502 --> 00:21:12,371 That's transgression and trespass. 385 00:21:12,371 --> 00:21:15,540 I say, if you lust after someone and harbor that in your heart, 386 00:21:15,540 --> 00:21:18,543 you've already committed sin talking about iniquity. 387 00:21:19,011 --> 00:21:24,349 And so many people are so focused on the transgression and trespass 388 00:21:24,349 --> 00:21:28,553 that they neglected dressing and asking God to address their own iniquity. 389 00:21:32,858 --> 00:21:35,560 We got to get this. 390 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:39,097 Lord created me a clean heart. Why? 391 00:21:39,131 --> 00:21:41,700 Because that's where iniquity lives. 392 00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:44,803 And until that's made new, I'm 393 00:21:44,803 --> 00:21:48,540 always going to live in the world of transgression and trespass. 394 00:21:48,540 --> 00:21:52,978 And that's why some of you have never been able to get past your own 395 00:21:52,978 --> 00:21:56,915 trespass and transgression, because you've never addressed and allow 396 00:21:56,948 --> 00:21:59,951 God to the iniquity in your heart. 397 00:22:01,420 --> 00:22:05,557 And this is exactly what David prayed in, in, in, in Psalm. 398 00:22:05,791 --> 00:22:08,193 Well, let me, let me read first the Psalm 66. 399 00:22:08,193 --> 00:22:08,760 Look at this. 400 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,697 If I had cherished what 401 00:22:11,697 --> 00:22:14,700 the broken crookedness in me, 402 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,702 you would not have listened. Why? 403 00:22:16,702 --> 00:22:20,739 Because even though everything on the outside, like I got my outside 404 00:22:20,739 --> 00:22:24,176 cleaned up, there's still this crooked 405 00:22:24,176 --> 00:22:27,379 sin in here that isn't addressed yet. 406 00:22:28,947 --> 00:22:29,548 And this 407 00:22:29,548 --> 00:22:33,318 is what David refers to in Psalm 32, which is one of his responses 408 00:22:33,318 --> 00:22:37,756 after being confronted about Bathsheba and, and, and and Uriah, 409 00:22:37,789 --> 00:22:40,826 he said, I acknowledge my sin to you generally, 410 00:22:40,826 --> 00:22:44,796 and I did not cover my what how broken 411 00:22:44,796 --> 00:22:48,100 I am, how crooked I am on the inside. 412 00:22:48,867 --> 00:22:51,436 I'm not going to cover that up anymore. 413 00:22:51,436 --> 00:22:54,339 And I said, I'll confess. What? 414 00:22:54,339 --> 00:22:55,507 My transgression. Why? 415 00:22:55,507 --> 00:22:58,510 Because that's a result of my iniquity. 416 00:22:58,944 --> 00:23:00,178 And I'll confess that to you. 417 00:23:00,178 --> 00:23:03,215 And you forgive. Forgive me. 418 00:23:03,615 --> 00:23:07,919 See, when David looked down at Bathsheba and saw this beautiful woman, 419 00:23:09,054 --> 00:23:13,058 he continued to desire her and iniquity in his heart. 420 00:23:13,091 --> 00:23:17,429 The broken, the crookedness in his heart led him to the transgression. 421 00:23:19,531 --> 00:23:22,534 Do you follow? 422 00:23:22,868 --> 00:23:25,237 I'm learning to pray this. 423 00:23:27,339 --> 00:23:30,342 Oh, God, please 424 00:23:30,342 --> 00:23:32,344 forgive the iniquity in my heart 425 00:23:32,344 --> 00:23:35,347 that I might not sin against you. 426 00:23:36,314 --> 00:23:39,584 Give me a clean heart and a renewed spirit within me, 427 00:23:39,951 --> 00:23:42,954 that I won't transgress your law. 428 00:23:43,388 --> 00:23:46,191 But until this is addressed, this will never. 429 00:23:46,191 --> 00:23:48,393 This will always be broken. 430 00:23:48,393 --> 00:23:51,029 Do you follow 431 00:23:51,029 --> 00:23:53,231 some of you today? 432 00:23:53,231 --> 00:23:54,933 Some of you today. 433 00:23:54,933 --> 00:23:58,036 You're on the verge right now of being completely set free 434 00:23:59,271 --> 00:24:02,374 because you've tried so long to address the transgression 435 00:24:02,374 --> 00:24:06,478 and trespass of your life, and you've not realized yet 436 00:24:06,545 --> 00:24:09,548 to confess your iniquity. 437 00:24:10,782 --> 00:24:13,785 And allow the father to change 438 00:24:14,853 --> 00:24:17,856 a crooked heart into a right heart. 439 00:24:21,993 --> 00:24:24,996 And so then Matthew 26 opens. 440 00:24:25,597 --> 00:24:27,532 We're going to see three people or groups of people, 441 00:24:27,532 --> 00:24:31,336 their religious leaders, and Mary and Judas. 442 00:24:31,736 --> 00:24:37,142 And we're going to see in their lives the outworking of the iniquity. 443 00:24:38,877 --> 00:24:40,212 What we see in their lives 444 00:24:40,212 --> 00:24:43,482 wasn't just because because, you know, they chose to do something good or bad. 445 00:24:43,515 --> 00:24:45,417 Well, we're seeing their lives is the 446 00:24:45,417 --> 00:24:47,953 the iniquity in their heart have been growing. 447 00:24:47,953 --> 00:24:52,023 And for the religious leaders under Jews, the iniquity was never addressed. 448 00:24:52,023 --> 00:24:53,859 And they just kept getting worse and worse and worse 449 00:24:53,859 --> 00:24:58,330 until it exploded with this betrayal of the Son of God and His crucifixion. 450 00:24:58,363 --> 00:25:01,733 But likewise, conversely, we're going to see Mary, this incredible 451 00:25:01,733 --> 00:25:04,736 love that she had for this beautiful Savior, 452 00:25:04,736 --> 00:25:07,672 and that that's what kind of renewed her heart. 453 00:25:07,672 --> 00:25:11,042 And out of that, this beautiful act flowed from her 454 00:25:11,042 --> 00:25:14,012 hands. 455 00:25:16,681 --> 00:25:17,182 Verse one. 456 00:25:17,182 --> 00:25:20,952 When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, 457 00:25:20,952 --> 00:25:23,188 you know that after two days the Passover is coming in. 458 00:25:23,188 --> 00:25:25,290 The Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified. 459 00:25:25,290 --> 00:25:28,894 And at this point the brakes are like, wait a minute, 460 00:25:29,828 --> 00:25:31,796 you just got to talking about how this year 461 00:25:31,796 --> 00:25:34,799 the Son of Man is coming back with all his angels and on the throne. 462 00:25:34,799 --> 00:25:35,634 He's going to rule. 463 00:25:35,634 --> 00:25:37,469 Like that's what we signed up for 464 00:25:37,469 --> 00:25:39,738 and just said, okay, now don't get ahead of yourself. Now, 465 00:25:40,939 --> 00:25:42,040 don't start walking around 466 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:45,510 like, go to the big chest because this is leading to my crucifixion. 467 00:25:46,912 --> 00:25:49,915 And now they're like, wait, what? 468 00:25:50,582 --> 00:25:53,585 Like go back. 469 00:25:55,987 --> 00:25:56,955 And so he tells him, 470 00:25:56,955 --> 00:25:59,958 it's amazing to me that right after he gets to talking about, 471 00:26:00,692 --> 00:26:03,595 he introduces again, reminds him again of his crucifixion. 472 00:26:03,595 --> 00:26:06,598 That's what this whole thing is building towards. 473 00:26:07,299 --> 00:26:10,535 Without the crucifixion, there's no forgiveness without the crucifixion. 474 00:26:10,535 --> 00:26:13,538 Is the is the entryway to the grace of God. 475 00:26:17,042 --> 00:26:17,576 Verse three. 476 00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:19,511 Then the chief priests and the elders of the people 477 00:26:19,511 --> 00:26:21,012 gathered in the palace of the high priests. 478 00:26:21,012 --> 00:26:21,813 And it was Caiaphas, 479 00:26:21,813 --> 00:26:25,550 and plotted together in order to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him. 480 00:26:25,617 --> 00:26:29,421 But they said, not during the feast, man, there's too many people here going 481 00:26:29,421 --> 00:26:30,755 to be an uproar and riot. 482 00:26:31,756 --> 00:26:33,091 This didn't just happen. 483 00:26:33,091 --> 00:26:34,893 This was the result of the iniquity 484 00:26:34,893 --> 00:26:37,996 that had been their heart for years towards Jesus. 485 00:26:38,830 --> 00:26:42,267 And what stays in the heart or what starts to understand the heart. 486 00:26:42,267 --> 00:26:45,270 This iniquity will overflow into transgression, 487 00:26:46,271 --> 00:26:49,274 so much so that they want to kill him. 488 00:26:51,710 --> 00:26:54,746 You know, they meet with Caiaphas, the high priest. 489 00:26:54,779 --> 00:26:57,215 This whole thing was crooked from the beginning. 490 00:26:57,215 --> 00:26:59,851 They had such iniquity in their hearts throughout the whole system. 491 00:26:59,851 --> 00:27:03,221 Caiaphas wasn't the wasn't the legitimate high priest. 492 00:27:03,221 --> 00:27:04,189 Annas was. 493 00:27:04,189 --> 00:27:06,791 But he was deposed and kicked out in Rome. 494 00:27:06,791 --> 00:27:07,392 And the authorities 495 00:27:07,392 --> 00:27:10,795 that be kind of put Caiaphas there as the high priest of the Jews. 496 00:27:10,795 --> 00:27:15,033 And it was all against Scripture, all of Jesus's crucifixion, 497 00:27:15,133 --> 00:27:18,570 arrest and trial and crucifixion was all against the Word of God. 498 00:27:18,570 --> 00:27:20,372 It was all against their own law. 499 00:27:20,372 --> 00:27:23,141 They're breaking their own law over and over and over, as was Caiaphas. 500 00:27:23,141 --> 00:27:25,243 He should have never been in this position in the first place, 501 00:27:25,243 --> 00:27:29,814 but he was a puppet of Rome, set there so that Rome could have over the Jews. 502 00:27:29,814 --> 00:27:30,882 And this exactly. 503 00:27:30,882 --> 00:27:33,318 I mean, they played right into this hand. 504 00:27:33,318 --> 00:27:36,054 Caiaphas, this guy, he was kind of the puppet ruler 505 00:27:36,054 --> 00:27:40,191 as this high priest from 80, 18 to 36 and in 1830. 506 00:27:40,291 --> 00:27:44,362 In 1836, realizing that he had had a hand in the crucifixion, the Son of God, 507 00:27:44,396 --> 00:27:46,531 he killed himself in a suicide. 508 00:27:49,067 --> 00:27:52,070 Because what in here was was so crooked, 509 00:27:53,905 --> 00:27:56,908 never addressing the iniquity in his heart. 510 00:27:57,909 --> 00:28:00,912 And they said, look, we need to arrest and we need to kill this guy 511 00:28:01,613 --> 00:28:05,750 because there was so much iniquity, it just came spewing out of them. 512 00:28:05,784 --> 00:28:06,918 And they said, we don't want to do this 513 00:28:06,918 --> 00:28:11,056 during the Passover because there's like, Jerusalem is like 514 00:28:11,256 --> 00:28:15,393 filled with millions of people and it's going to all go bad. 515 00:28:15,393 --> 00:28:18,096 They're going to riot. They're crazy right now. 516 00:28:18,096 --> 00:28:21,733 And that's exactly when they ended up wrestling and crucify him. Why? 517 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,468 Because Jesus knew it had to happen then. 518 00:28:23,468 --> 00:28:26,471 All this is orchestrated by Christ himself. 519 00:28:26,471 --> 00:28:30,375 And as I was reading this this week, I thought, Lord, thank you for Romans 828. 520 00:28:30,375 --> 00:28:31,743 All things work together for the good of those 521 00:28:31,743 --> 00:28:33,344 who love you and called according to your purpose. 522 00:28:33,344 --> 00:28:36,281 Like it looks so bad going into this. 523 00:28:37,282 --> 00:28:40,251 And Jesus like, look, just relax man. 524 00:28:40,385 --> 00:28:42,921 I'm working all this together. 525 00:28:42,921 --> 00:28:44,589 I'm sovereign. 526 00:28:44,589 --> 00:28:46,357 My providence is profound. 527 00:28:46,357 --> 00:28:49,360 Just relax. 528 00:28:50,462 --> 00:28:53,231 And what we see in these chief priests, 529 00:28:53,231 --> 00:28:56,234 these religious leaders, the iniquity lead to transgress. 530 00:29:00,572 --> 00:29:01,139 Verse six. 531 00:29:01,139 --> 00:29:05,076 Now when Jesus was at Bethany, the house of Simon the leper, a woman came 532 00:29:05,110 --> 00:29:07,979 up to the alabaster flask, a very expensive ointment, 533 00:29:07,979 --> 00:29:10,548 and she poured it on his head as he reclined at table. 534 00:29:10,548 --> 00:29:13,151 Now the Bible says he's at Simon the leper. 535 00:29:13,151 --> 00:29:15,620 Now, if this guy had leprosy, he couldn't be around people. 536 00:29:15,620 --> 00:29:19,958 So this is obviously Simon, one of the guys that Jesus healed of leprosy. 537 00:29:20,225 --> 00:29:22,494 Simon the Leper was like his nickname. 538 00:29:22,494 --> 00:29:25,296 Can you imagine having a nickname of something you used to say? 539 00:29:25,296 --> 00:29:27,465 Like. Like 540 00:29:28,466 --> 00:29:30,101 Kurt, the Covid, 541 00:29:30,101 --> 00:29:34,272 you know, like it's like, I guess it's good because he's been healed. 542 00:29:34,272 --> 00:29:36,541 But how would you like to be always known as you know. 543 00:29:36,541 --> 00:29:38,309 You know that guy. 544 00:29:38,309 --> 00:29:40,478 So Simon the Leper, 545 00:29:40,478 --> 00:29:43,314 they probably said with a smile, like, you're not leprosy anymore. 546 00:29:43,314 --> 00:29:44,382 But you did at one time. 547 00:29:44,382 --> 00:29:47,385 Nobody liked you. 548 00:29:48,586 --> 00:29:50,855 Have anything to do with my message at all? 549 00:29:50,855 --> 00:29:53,858 It's just a fun little. 550 00:29:54,459 --> 00:29:57,462 Very expensive perfume. 551 00:29:57,629 --> 00:30:00,732 This is Mary of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, 552 00:30:00,732 --> 00:30:04,135 who loved us to Jesus feet and just be there with him. 553 00:30:04,402 --> 00:30:08,306 When the Bible says very expensive perfume, it's probably about 300 denari, 554 00:30:08,339 --> 00:30:09,274 which is a day's away. 555 00:30:09,274 --> 00:30:12,277 So this is almost a year's salary worth. 556 00:30:12,477 --> 00:30:14,779 This is a big deal. 557 00:30:14,779 --> 00:30:18,383 Jewish women would carry oftentimes a little, a little, a little 558 00:30:19,184 --> 00:30:23,721 like flask of perfume around their little bit. 559 00:30:24,355 --> 00:30:26,357 This is an alabaster hour long neck. 560 00:30:26,357 --> 00:30:32,263 They have to break the neck to pour out the the ointment a year's salary. 561 00:30:36,835 --> 00:30:40,038 And when the disciples saw, they were indignant, saying, why this waste? 562 00:30:40,138 --> 00:30:42,740 This could have been sold for a large sum of money given to the poor. 563 00:30:42,740 --> 00:30:44,475 It says a year's wage. 564 00:30:44,475 --> 00:30:45,810 How much we can get for this stuff? 565 00:30:45,810 --> 00:30:50,148 You could have done that and and helped all the poor people around. 566 00:30:50,148 --> 00:30:52,984 But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, why do you trouble this woman? 567 00:30:52,984 --> 00:30:54,719 And she has done a beautiful thing to me for you. 568 00:30:54,719 --> 00:30:55,854 I'll always have the poor with you, 569 00:30:55,854 --> 00:30:58,756 but you will not always have me in pouring this on my body. 570 00:30:58,756 --> 00:31:00,491 She has done it to prepare me for burial. 571 00:31:00,491 --> 00:31:04,028 Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, 572 00:31:04,028 --> 00:31:06,464 what she has done will also be told a memory of her. 573 00:31:06,464 --> 00:31:08,466 He's like, listen, I get it. 574 00:31:08,466 --> 00:31:11,469 There's a bunch of poor people around and it's important to take care of him. 575 00:31:11,469 --> 00:31:14,706 I just got done talking about that in Matthew 25. 576 00:31:16,975 --> 00:31:17,542 You can, 577 00:31:17,542 --> 00:31:20,545 you can, you can measure them any time you want. 578 00:31:20,945 --> 00:31:24,682 But as far as me and this presence right now, you're not always going to have me. 579 00:31:25,016 --> 00:31:26,251 What she's done is beautiful. 580 00:31:26,251 --> 00:31:31,556 And when it says the disciples were in, it wasn't the disciples, it was Judas. 581 00:31:31,556 --> 00:31:33,191 And we know that from the book of 582 00:31:33,191 --> 00:31:37,028 Gospel of John, I think chapter 12, Judas was indignant. Why? 583 00:31:37,061 --> 00:31:39,931 Because we know from the Bible that Jesus was the he was the secretary. 584 00:31:39,931 --> 00:31:42,667 He was the financial guy. He carried the he carried the money back. 585 00:31:42,667 --> 00:31:45,670 And the Bible says he used to help himself from the money bag to kind of, 586 00:31:45,703 --> 00:31:48,172 you know, I mean, he's a thief. He's crooked. 587 00:31:48,172 --> 00:31:51,376 This iniquity in his heart was never healed by. 588 00:31:51,676 --> 00:31:54,512 And so, yeah, he wanted that soul so he would have a whole bunch 589 00:31:54,512 --> 00:31:55,980 of money he could draw from. 590 00:31:58,149 --> 00:32:00,518 Iniquity. 591 00:32:00,518 --> 00:32:03,421 Though he had walked with Jesus and served 592 00:32:03,421 --> 00:32:06,691 Jesus and looked great from the outside there was a 593 00:32:07,859 --> 00:32:10,862 crookedness on the inside iniquity. 594 00:32:13,398 --> 00:32:14,933 And married 595 00:32:14,933 --> 00:32:19,070 conversely, so much love it just came pouring out of her. 596 00:32:19,103 --> 00:32:22,540 She was the one who said, there is nothing too good for my Lord. 597 00:32:22,540 --> 00:32:23,675 He's so beautiful. 598 00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:24,442 He's so good. 599 00:32:24,442 --> 00:32:27,412 There's nothing too good for him. 600 00:32:28,913 --> 00:32:31,416 Oh, to have disciples like that, 601 00:32:31,416 --> 00:32:34,419 there's nothing too good for him. 602 00:32:38,156 --> 00:32:40,058 It was extravagant, 603 00:32:40,058 --> 00:32:43,161 a remarkable motive to Jesus and Jesus alone. 604 00:32:44,228 --> 00:32:46,497 Remarkable offering. Extraordinary. 605 00:32:46,497 --> 00:32:48,199 She wasn't a fan of Jesus. 606 00:32:48,199 --> 00:32:50,702 She was a fanatic. 607 00:32:50,702 --> 00:32:53,504 And you know, the world doesn't mind people being fans of Jesus. 608 00:32:53,504 --> 00:32:55,974 Yeah, he's a good guy. Yeah. No, I love you, Jesus. 609 00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:57,275 God bless you, too, you know? 610 00:32:58,710 --> 00:33:01,713 But the world doesn't want to see fanatics 611 00:33:02,547 --> 00:33:05,483 because fanatics don't care. 612 00:33:05,483 --> 00:33:08,453 There's nothing too good for my Lord. 613 00:33:08,553 --> 00:33:13,558 Mock me, make fun of me, disapprove of me. 614 00:33:14,559 --> 00:33:17,562 Don't care. 615 00:33:17,695 --> 00:33:18,629 Because I'm not just a fan. 616 00:33:18,629 --> 00:33:20,498 I'm a fanatic. She was a fanatic. 617 00:33:20,498 --> 00:33:21,933 And the love she had. 618 00:33:21,933 --> 00:33:22,834 And here she God 619 00:33:22,834 --> 00:33:26,504 had done such a work in here, it just came spilling out of her hands. 620 00:33:27,372 --> 00:33:30,375 It's beautiful. 621 00:33:36,881 --> 00:33:37,682 Said mock. 622 00:33:37,682 --> 00:33:40,251 Mock me, if you will. 623 00:33:40,251 --> 00:33:42,854 No concern of me. 624 00:33:42,854 --> 00:33:45,757 See, what I know is that devotion becomes visible 625 00:33:45,757 --> 00:33:48,760 when obedience becomes costly. 626 00:33:50,762 --> 00:33:53,731 That's when you can see devotion. 627 00:33:56,601 --> 00:33:59,570 And we see it in Mary. 628 00:34:01,272 --> 00:34:04,275 And then this third one, Judas, 629 00:34:05,243 --> 00:34:07,378 then one of the 12, his name was carry. 630 00:34:07,378 --> 00:34:09,080 It went to the chief priest and said, 631 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,382 what will you give me if I deliver him over to you? 632 00:34:11,382 --> 00:34:14,619 And they paid him 30 pieces of silver, and from that moment 633 00:34:14,652 --> 00:34:16,120 he saw an opportunity to betray him. 634 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,389 It's so interesting, Mary thinks. 635 00:34:18,389 --> 00:34:20,258 What can I give? 636 00:34:20,258 --> 00:34:22,693 Judas thinks, what can I get? 637 00:34:24,695 --> 00:34:26,464 Iniquity. 638 00:34:26,464 --> 00:34:29,467 Devotion. 639 00:34:33,037 --> 00:34:33,471 To the 640 00:34:33,471 --> 00:34:36,474 iniquity in Judas heart didn't just stay there. 641 00:34:37,775 --> 00:34:40,912 It eventually was fleshed out in his hands. 642 00:34:41,379 --> 00:34:44,215 And for 30 pieces of silver, 643 00:34:44,215 --> 00:34:47,218 that's not insignificant. 644 00:34:48,553 --> 00:34:50,655 In Exodus 21, 645 00:34:50,655 --> 00:34:54,792 the payment for a lost slave is 30 pieces of silver. 646 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,730 And so they take in the value of the Son of God and devalued him 647 00:35:00,431 --> 00:35:03,234 to less than 648 00:35:03,234 --> 00:35:05,103 human, 649 00:35:05,103 --> 00:35:08,106 just a slave. 650 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,310 And there's so much tie over to the Old Testament to what's going on here. 651 00:35:12,310 --> 00:35:16,781 This is so profound for the Jews, because they knew the prophet Zechariah. 652 00:35:16,781 --> 00:35:19,984 And in Zechariah, I think 12 or so, 653 00:35:21,052 --> 00:35:23,788 Zechariah is mocked 654 00:35:23,788 --> 00:35:27,492 and the leaders mock him, say, you're only worth 30 pieces of silver. 655 00:35:27,492 --> 00:35:30,828 And the Word of God came to Zacharias, said, take that 30 pieces of silver, 656 00:35:30,828 --> 00:35:34,465 and cast it at the potter's feet in the temple. 657 00:35:34,866 --> 00:35:38,269 When Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, 658 00:35:38,336 --> 00:35:41,172 he realizes he has just betrayed the Son of God. 659 00:35:41,172 --> 00:35:44,942 And he takes the 30 pieces of silver and throws it in the temple. 660 00:35:44,942 --> 00:35:46,878 And it's used to buy the potter's 661 00:35:46,878 --> 00:35:50,948 field, like Jesus orchestrated this whole thing. And. 662 00:35:56,254 --> 00:35:59,223 Friends, I want us to understand 663 00:35:59,223 --> 00:36:03,361 that iniquity in our heart will always lead to trespass. 664 00:36:07,064 --> 00:36:10,334 You can work your entire life 665 00:36:11,802 --> 00:36:14,772 to try to clean it up, 666 00:36:15,273 --> 00:36:19,477 and you will feel time and time, and I will to time and time and time again, 667 00:36:19,477 --> 00:36:24,015 until God does a work in here to heal the iniquity of our heart. 668 00:36:24,081 --> 00:36:27,051 That's what he came to do. 669 00:36:28,419 --> 00:36:30,121 You and I have no power 670 00:36:30,121 --> 00:36:33,558 to heal the iniquity of our, of our, of our hearts. 671 00:36:33,591 --> 00:36:35,459 None. 672 00:36:35,459 --> 00:36:36,561 It's only through Christ. 673 00:36:36,561 --> 00:36:41,632 And when this is healed, then we're able to live a life of devotion 674 00:36:41,632 --> 00:36:44,635 and faithfulness. 675 00:36:47,171 --> 00:36:48,973 And the entryway 676 00:36:48,973 --> 00:36:51,976 into that type of healing 677 00:36:52,777 --> 00:36:55,780 is repentance. 678 00:36:57,515 --> 00:37:00,518 Repentance turns a conviction of my 679 00:37:00,551 --> 00:37:03,554 what I know into a change of direction. 680 00:37:05,256 --> 00:37:07,091 Your decision won't change your direction. 681 00:37:07,091 --> 00:37:08,359 Repentance will. 682 00:37:09,460 --> 00:37:10,394 And if 683 00:37:10,394 --> 00:37:14,332 my belief never changes the direction of my life, it's proof 684 00:37:14,332 --> 00:37:17,335 that repentance in my heart has never occurred. 685 00:37:19,470 --> 00:37:21,939 And some of us here have tried 686 00:37:21,939 --> 00:37:26,377 so hard to be so good and to change the direction of our life. 687 00:37:26,377 --> 00:37:31,582 But we've never we've never, said God, I admit the iniquity 688 00:37:31,582 --> 00:37:34,585 that's in my heart change my heart 689 00:37:36,153 --> 00:37:39,257 so that I don't sin against you. 690 00:37:43,294 --> 00:37:45,296 Manning me in church your whole life 691 00:37:45,296 --> 00:37:48,299 and look perfectly good on the outside 692 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,936 and still have a crooked, poisoned heart. 693 00:37:51,936 --> 00:37:55,840 And till you repent and ask God to change it, 694 00:37:56,841 --> 00:37:59,810 not change your behavior, 695 00:37:59,910 --> 00:38:02,913 but heal you of your iniquity. 696 00:38:04,882 --> 00:38:06,417 And repentance is 697 00:38:06,417 --> 00:38:10,254 the here's repentance is the doorway to God's grace. 698 00:38:11,856 --> 00:38:13,357 It's by repenting. 699 00:38:13,357 --> 00:38:15,359 Father, forgive the iniquity of my heart. 700 00:38:15,359 --> 00:38:18,095 Give me a new heart. Then God says, yes, I will. 701 00:38:18,095 --> 00:38:21,232 And here's the fullness of my grace, my undeserved 702 00:38:21,232 --> 00:38:22,500 and unmerited favor and blessing. 703 00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:26,470 But as long as you hide that iniquity in your heart, I don't even hear you. 704 00:38:28,739 --> 00:38:29,907 How beautiful it 705 00:38:29,907 --> 00:38:33,377 is to live in repentance 706 00:38:34,178 --> 00:38:37,982 and the door of God's grace, opening up fully 707 00:38:38,816 --> 00:38:41,218 and saying, now 708 00:38:41,218 --> 00:38:44,221 you've been made new, amazing. 709 00:38:45,222 --> 00:38:48,459 And so, dear friends, repent. 710 00:38:50,594 --> 00:38:53,597 Not just of the behavior, 711 00:38:54,198 --> 00:38:56,834 but of the iniquity. 712 00:38:56,834 --> 00:38:59,837 I want you to pray with me. 713 00:39:01,739 --> 00:39:02,106 Father. 714 00:39:02,106 --> 00:39:05,109 Thank you that you, 715 00:39:06,077 --> 00:39:09,080 your love for us, has been from everlasting. 716 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,150 And thank you that not even the iniquity of our own 717 00:39:13,150 --> 00:39:17,355 heart would walk us out of your love, or make you not love us. 718 00:39:17,355 --> 00:39:20,624 You love us even in spite of our iniquity. 719 00:39:20,624 --> 00:39:23,928 It's amazing to me, you. 720 00:39:24,261 --> 00:39:29,500 You love us when the iniquity of our heart has led us to grave transgression. 721 00:39:30,101 --> 00:39:32,436 It's amazing to me, your love. 722 00:39:32,436 --> 00:39:35,439 Thank you. 723 00:39:38,843 --> 00:39:40,811 But, father, I pray that in this moment 724 00:39:40,811 --> 00:39:45,816 you would lead us to repentance, not just of the behavior, 725 00:39:47,017 --> 00:39:50,020 but of our inward iniquity. 726 00:39:50,388 --> 00:39:53,391 God. Some of us look really good on the outside, 727 00:39:55,059 --> 00:39:57,561 but there's still so much unconfessed 728 00:39:57,561 --> 00:40:01,232 and unrepentant iniquity on the inside. 729 00:40:02,433 --> 00:40:05,436 God, would you be merciful to us and forgive us? 730 00:40:07,104 --> 00:40:10,107 Friends, I invite you. 731 00:40:10,574 --> 00:40:13,577 Come before God right now in repentance. 732 00:40:14,311 --> 00:40:15,980 Say God, I admit I'm a sinner. 733 00:40:15,980 --> 00:40:17,581 Not only have I trespassed, 734 00:40:17,581 --> 00:40:21,519 not only have I transgressed, but there is iniquity in my heart. 735 00:40:21,552 --> 00:40:22,720 There's a brokenness. 736 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:25,723 There's a crookedness inside my heart. 737 00:40:28,426 --> 00:40:30,361 Jesus, I believe you died 738 00:40:30,361 --> 00:40:34,498 not just so my trespass can be forgiven, but so 739 00:40:34,532 --> 00:40:37,535 my iniquity can be healed. 740 00:40:39,937 --> 00:40:41,839 And I know that you are raised to life, 741 00:40:41,839 --> 00:40:44,842 so save me now. 742 00:40:45,676 --> 00:40:48,679 I commit to turn from my sin, 743 00:40:48,913 --> 00:40:54,452 from the transgression of my hands and the iniquity that's in my heart. 744 00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:55,786 I turn from it now. 745 00:40:57,955 --> 00:40:58,856 And I dedicate 746 00:40:58,856 --> 00:41:01,859 my life and my allegiance to you. 747 00:41:02,793 --> 00:41:05,796 Empower me to love you with my whole heart, 748 00:41:06,630 --> 00:41:09,633 my soul, my mind, and my strength, 749 00:41:10,634 --> 00:41:12,136 without delay any more, 750 00:41:12,136 --> 00:41:15,139 without any more hesitation. 751 00:41:16,140 --> 00:41:18,509 Fill me with your spirit 752 00:41:18,509 --> 00:41:22,413 and the power of your spirit to live a holy life, 753 00:41:23,814 --> 00:41:26,817 to turn away from both transgression and iniquity, 754 00:41:27,351 --> 00:41:31,188 and to choose holiness and righteousness. 755 00:41:32,623 --> 00:41:35,626 Tell him, say, father, as I repent, 756 00:41:35,826 --> 00:41:38,863 give me the fullness of your grace. 757 00:41:38,863 --> 00:41:41,866 Give me all that your grace will allow. 758 00:41:42,433 --> 00:41:45,336 From this point forward 759 00:41:45,336 --> 00:41:47,271 I give my full self to you. 760 00:41:47,271 --> 00:41:50,274 In your name I pray. Amen. 761 00:41:50,541 --> 00:41:52,376 Church, I love you. 762 00:41:52,376 --> 00:41:53,010 Well done. 763 00:41:53,010 --> 00:41:57,114 Going through this Tuesday of Jesus's life, it's it's been immense. 764 00:41:57,715 --> 00:42:01,785 This sets up the institution of what we call communion 765 00:42:01,785 --> 00:42:02,720 that we'll look at next week. 766 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:05,956 I'm going to spend the entire time just on this one thing of communion. 767 00:42:05,956 --> 00:42:07,358 It is profound. 768 00:42:07,358 --> 00:42:10,261 It's Old Testament, the confirmation of the New Testament, 769 00:42:10,261 --> 00:42:12,196 this whole new thing we call the New Covenant. 770 00:42:12,196 --> 00:42:15,733 It is amazing how it was part of this meal. 771 00:42:15,900 --> 00:42:20,037 Jesus makes some profound statements in this that that we just kind of tend 772 00:42:20,037 --> 00:42:22,740 to gloss over. Oftentimes we don't stand it. 773 00:42:22,740 --> 00:42:25,109 I'm on packed the whole thing next week. 774 00:42:25,109 --> 00:42:27,077 It's just beautiful. 775 00:42:27,077 --> 00:42:30,948 So read Matthew 26 and let's prepare our hearts for that. 776 00:42:31,482 --> 00:42:33,183 As we wrap up today, 777 00:42:34,151 --> 00:42:35,786 some of you 778 00:42:35,786 --> 00:42:39,590 went through that prayer of confession and repentance. 779 00:42:39,823 --> 00:42:44,862 Good that God hears that he honors that. 780 00:42:45,396 --> 00:42:48,999 But sometimes we need to make that prayer with somebody else, 781 00:42:50,501 --> 00:42:54,538 to pray it with somebody else, to have someone pray it and confirm it with us. 782 00:42:54,538 --> 00:42:57,641 And so as you do every, there'll be people on the front, in the back, 783 00:42:57,942 --> 00:43:01,145 grab one of us and just let us pray with you. 784 00:43:01,178 --> 00:43:04,181 Celebrate that and confirm that 785 00:43:05,215 --> 00:43:07,518 and let's be made. Do. 786 00:43:07,518 --> 00:43:08,152 Let's see.