WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:01.679 Hey, everybody, we're the Bible Guys. 2 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:04.240 And if you're just tuning in recently, just know that 3 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:06.440 we are showing a little bit of reruns for a 4 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:08.640 few months, and then we'll be back bigger and better 5 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:12.320 than ever on August thirty first, because behind the scenes 6 00:00:12.519 --> 00:00:14.720 we're taking a hiatus to do some very important things. 7 00:00:14.759 --> 00:00:18.399 Yeah, we're building building out a new studio and we've 8 00:00:18.399 --> 00:00:21.399 got some new structure. Super excited about it. So August 9 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:24.359 thirty first, brand new content. But in the meantime, enjoy 10 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:25.440 some of our greatest hits. 11 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:28.519 So today, Wesley, we're going to learn how God loves 12 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:30.519 some people and he can't stand others. 13 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:33.920 No, that is not what we're coming wrong today. Okay, 14 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:36.600 well you know we're talking about how God's mercy is 15 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:41.280 available for everyone. Oh so the opposite, the exact opposite. 16 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:45.600 This is Chris and this is the Daily Bible Guys. 17 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:59.520 Hey, So Wesley, today you are joining in for the 18 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:02.359 Bible Guys as Jeff's out of town. And so today 19 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:05.920 we're going to do something that Jeff and I love 20 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:07.920 to do, which is and by the way, we always 21 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:10.359 fail at it, which is the Whisper Challenge. 22 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:13.079 So what I'd love for you to do. Actually, I'll 23 00:01:13.079 --> 00:01:14.359 go first. I'll go first. 24 00:01:14.359 --> 00:01:17.280 I'll put on these headphones and you whisper something into 25 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:19.680 the microphone and i'll see if I could guess. 26 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:22.439 And this is spontaneous, this isn't scripted, so he doesn't 27 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:23.319 know what I'm going to say. 28 00:01:23.319 --> 00:01:24.680 Actually, I don't even know what I'm going to say 29 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:26.840 after you. Yeah, I think of something. 30 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:32.000 On the spot. So here we go. Persson play. Okay, 31 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:32.920 go ahead, buddy. 32 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:37.840 Okay, the blue cow is really brown. 33 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:42.000 The brown cow is really brown. 34 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:43.719 You were close. 35 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:44.599 That was close. 36 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:48.799 It was the blue cow is really brown. The blue 37 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:50.760 cow is really brown. 38 00:01:50.840 --> 00:01:52.159 Hey, I can't believe I got that. 39 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:54.719 Yeah, that's really I tried to make it a tongue 40 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:55.480 twister a little bit. 41 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:58.519 I couldn't even hear anything. Yeah, all right, so let 42 00:01:58.519 --> 00:01:59.480 me tongue twister. 43 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:01.239 Huh. Yeah, okay, that's a little bit of what. 44 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.519 I'll go again. Here we go, hang on, hang on 45 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:08.599 and hit play. Okay, okay, here we go. 46 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:14.080 Pizza is so much better than pancakes. 47 00:02:15.360 --> 00:02:16.120 I have no idea. 48 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:22.599 I say it again, pizza is so much better than pancakes. 49 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:24.199 Something about going to the beach. 50 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:29.599 That's way off, I said, pizza is so much better 51 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:30.439 than pancakes. 52 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:35.360 Wow, that's a long phrase. All right, good, here we go. Wow, 53 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:39.639 you're tough man. Yeah, here we go. I'll give you 54 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:41.439 something tough. You're ready. 55 00:02:41.479 --> 00:02:44.840 You got to hit play. Okay. 56 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:48.360 I slipped the sheet. The sheet, I slit, and on 57 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:49.639 the slitted sheet, I. 58 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:55.439 Said, I have utterly no clue, and I'm watching your 59 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:56.319 mouth carefully. 60 00:02:56.840 --> 00:02:59.560 So because of the dark twisters that you gave, I 61 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:01.560 said that I slipped the sheet. 62 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:03.879 The sheet, I slipped none the slid say. 63 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:07.800 By the way, you have to really know that phrase 64 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:09.199 in order to be brave enough. 65 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:09.599 To pull that off. 66 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:12.360 Okay, I see if I can get this, I'll give you. 67 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:14.960 A real one. Now, okay, here we go. Let me think, 68 00:03:15.039 --> 00:03:15.479 Let me think. 69 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:26.319 Okay, Sally sells seashells down by the seashore. 70 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:33.319 That's tough. I felt like the first word was tithing. 71 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:41.400 Off. Yeah, the first one was Sally. 72 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:46.159 I was like, is that tithing hilarious? 73 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:46.520 Yeah? 74 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:50.759 So I said Sally sells seashells down by the sea shore. 75 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.560 Oh. I was like, is that tithing on Sunday? 76 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:57.919 Yeah, that's so funny. That's the message for our listeners. 77 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:01.159 Tithe on Sunday. Yeah, that's so funny. 78 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:03.560 Soone's turning on. I'm not listening to that anymore. 79 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:04.960 I'm out. I'm out. 80 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:07.360 Funny dude, that's funny. Hey. 81 00:04:07.719 --> 00:04:08.719 The Whisper challenge. 82 00:04:08.800 --> 00:04:10.319 The reason why I like it so much is because 83 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:13.719 it is so difficult and we rarely ever get it. 84 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.720 Yeah, so even when you're watching the person's mouth, you're like, 85 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:17.480 what are they saying? 86 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:19.000 It's really good. 87 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:22.319 So anyway, so today we're going to jump right in 88 00:04:22.439 --> 00:04:25.240 and we are going to continue in Roman chapter eleven, 89 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:28.680 and really, to be honest with you, it's it's similar, 90 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:32.920 Paul says something different than he did. You know that 91 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:36.959 yesterday's podcast, But this is just a continuation to the 92 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:40.240 thought that we had on yesterday's podcast. We're reading from 93 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:46.040 versus number twenty five through thirty six Romans chapter eleven, So. 94 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:48.199 Now I will read that that's out of the New 95 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:49.079 Living translation. 96 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:50.600 You're ready to go with your radio voice. 97 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:52.160 I'm ready to go? Or do you want to go? 98 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:55.120 No? No, dude, are you kidding me? I'll never read 99 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:57.240 with you in the room again. 100 00:04:58.360 --> 00:05:02.079 Verse twenty five. I want you to understand this mystery, 101 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:05.160 your brothers and sisters, so that you will not feel 102 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:08.519 proud about yourselves. Some of the people of Israel have 103 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:12.240 hard hearts, but this will last only until the full 104 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:16.120 number of gentiles comes to Christ, and so all Israel 105 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:19.600 will be saved. As the scriptures say, the one who 106 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:23.279 rescues will come from Jerusalem, and he will turn Israel 107 00:05:23.360 --> 00:05:27.040 away from ungodliness. And this is my covenant with them, 108 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:30.720 that I will take away their sins Verse twenty eight. 109 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:34.120 Many of the people of Israel are now enemies of 110 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:38.639 the good news and the benefits, and this benefits you, gentiles. 111 00:05:39.240 --> 00:05:42.120 Yet they are still the people He loves, because He 112 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:46.680 chose their ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob for God's gifts, 113 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:52.560 and his call can never be withdrawn. Once you, Gentiles, 114 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:55.560 were rebels against God, but when the people of Israel 115 00:05:55.639 --> 00:06:00.199 rebelled against him, God was merciful to you. Instead, they 116 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:02.720 are the rebels in God's mercy. Has come to you, 117 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:06.199 so that they too will share in God's mercy. For 118 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:10.160 God has imprisoned everyone in disobedience so he could have 119 00:06:10.279 --> 00:06:14.240 mercy on everyone. Oh how great are God's riches and 120 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:17.920 wisdom and knowledge. How impossible is it for us to 121 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:23.160 understand his decisions in his ways, for who can know 122 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:26.600 the Lord's thoughts, who knows enough to give him advice, 123 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:29.759 and who has given him so much that he needs 124 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:32.600 to pay it back, for everything comes from him and 125 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:36.120 exists by his power as an intended for his glory, 126 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.319 all glory to him forever A man awesome. 127 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:43.240 So, yeah, there's a few nuggets in here where Paul 128 00:06:43.360 --> 00:06:47.079 is talking about. Obviously, the blanket of his topic is 129 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:50.560 God's mercy, but at the same time, what he's doing 130 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:54.439 is he's giving thoughts around that. He's saying that God's 131 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:57.279 mercy is for everyone. But he says several different things, 132 00:06:57.720 --> 00:06:59.639 and the first thing that he says is number one, 133 00:06:59.879 --> 00:07:02.240 be proud, right And by the way, we sort of 134 00:07:02.360 --> 00:07:06.240 ended yesterday's podcast with that thought, don't be proud because, 135 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:08.800 you know, just because you're a part of, you know, 136 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:13.560 God's club, the Salvation Club. Just keep in mind that 137 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:17.079 it's not you who does anything that it's God. You know, 138 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.480 just because some are included, some are not, some have 139 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:22.680 rejected Christ, some are not, you should never. 140 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:25.160 Feel proud about that at all. 141 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:29.800 And it's really interesting, how, you know, there are some 142 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:34.879 people who I grew up in a very sort of conservative. 143 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:39.399 Denomination where people felt like. 144 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:43.639 It was very rules heavy, right, It was very very 145 00:07:43.720 --> 00:07:47.160 rules heavy. So it would just I don't know how 146 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.759 to say this without being trying to be respectful. So 147 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:54.240 I used to be a pastor in this denomination. And 148 00:07:54.279 --> 00:07:56.319 so here's the best way I can say it, because 149 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.439 I'll talk about myself, is that I look back at 150 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:01.839 my old mess when I was in my early twenties, 151 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:06.079 and the success of a successful message was to make 152 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:08.959 people feel bad about themselves. I wouldn't have said it 153 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:12.439 that way, but like, like literally, I would highlight. I 154 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:16.279 would highlight, like how bad can I convict you? I 155 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:18.639 would use that word convict, right, And I would just 156 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:21.759 say I would just say, like, you know, if I 157 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:25.160 could make you feel bad about your choices Monday through Friday, 158 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:28.920 you know, or whatever then or Saturday night specifically, then 159 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:30.120 I'm going to make you feel really bad. 160 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:32.720 And so I used to feel that. 161 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:37.399 And then consequently, somebody who focuses so much on that 162 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:41.480 when they're trying their very best to obey God's word, 163 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:45.639 there's pride that comes in, and it really does, and 164 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:48.200 then there's this air and I don't again, I don't 165 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:50.840 want to talk badly about it, but It's not just 166 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:52.440 the denomination I was a part of. 167 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:54.480 There's a lot of denominations that sort of. 168 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:56.480 Feel this way, and I think we feel this way 169 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:59.559 about people on Facebook as well. Sometimes right where it's 170 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:02.000 like it's like if there's a person that tries really, really, 171 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:05.639 really hard and the standards are super high, and we're 172 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:09.120 always talking about lifestyle and choices and behaviors and we're 173 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:12.279 trying our very best, then it's what we do is 174 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:13.840 when we talk about with other people, we take this 175 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:14.960 position of pride. 176 00:09:15.200 --> 00:09:18.240 Yeah, and you can feel, you know. 177 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:20.440 That I don't want to so much better than. 178 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:24.519 Yes, I'm trying not to be negative, but yes, it's 179 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:26.840 like this posture of. 180 00:09:26.879 --> 00:09:31.279 Like holier than thou, you know, better than Have you 181 00:09:31.320 --> 00:09:32.559 ever been a part of something like that? 182 00:09:32.639 --> 00:09:35.440 Yeah, But the funny part about that, Chris, is we 183 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:38.840 were all at one point in that same spot, right, 184 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.080 That's the funny part about it. So it's not like 185 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:44.759 we were never there and suddenly just appeared at this 186 00:09:44.960 --> 00:09:45.960 level in our lives. 187 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:47.759 Yes, No, that used to be us. 188 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:53.120 Yes, So what if God treated us like we're treating them, right, 189 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:55.519 that's something to think about. So the same way that 190 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:58.240 you look down upon them. What if God looked down 191 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:00.840 upon you like that, right, And when you look at 192 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:03.519 verse twenty eight, we see that God does not do that. 193 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.159 In verse twenty eight here it says many of the 194 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:09.440 people of Israel are now enemies of the good News, 195 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.080 and this benefits you, gentiles. But it goes on to say, 196 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:16.159 yet they are still the people He loves because He 197 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:22.480 chose their ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God loves them 198 00:10:22.679 --> 00:10:25.519 despite the hardness in their heart, despite the fact that 199 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:28.200 they have gone a different direction, they're on a different path. 200 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:31.399 God still loves them. And that really encourages me. 201 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:33.039 Yeah, yeah, yeah, very much so. 202 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:36.000 And just to be clear, we're talking about the two 203 00:10:36.039 --> 00:10:39.360 categories of those who believe in Christ those who do. 204 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:42.639 Not believe in Christ. Right, So, you know, it's always it. 205 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:45.720 Always feels like most of the applications fall into these 206 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:48.519 two categories because either you're a Christian and you believe 207 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:51.000 that Jesus died on the cross, rose from the grave, 208 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.080 and he's the way to Heaven and you believe that 209 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:57.120 for your faith, or you don't believe that part of it, which, 210 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:59.240 of course we would say that you know, is not 211 00:10:59.720 --> 00:11:02.960 a true religion because you know, we believe that Jesus 212 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:05.200 came and and it's sort. 213 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:06.519 Of the whole point of the Book of Romans. 214 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:08.759 He's the one that says he's bringing the good News, 215 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:12.320 which is again it's capitalized right here, good news, which 216 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:14.919 means the Gospel, the Gospels, the good News, the story 217 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:18.200 of Christ for everybody. And you know it's so funny 218 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:20.799 is when he talks about that, and he talks about 219 00:11:20.799 --> 00:11:24.879 God loves those, he's talking about those who are enemies 220 00:11:24.919 --> 00:11:28.080 of God. And he's not talking about enemies, meaning like 221 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:31.919 he God doesn't hate enemies. Like when we see enemies, 222 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:34.879 we're like, oh, I hate that person. I can't stand that, 223 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:37.000 or at least I have bad feelings to that person. Right, 224 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:40.320 That's not what God is saying. He's not saying that 225 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:43.279 he's an enemy of non believers. He's saying that non 226 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:46.240 believers have postured themselves as enemies of him. 227 00:11:46.320 --> 00:11:47.600 Yes, right, and. 228 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:50.159 So and so be careful to you know, not, you know, 229 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:53.840 don't ever attach that to God, because God clearly says 230 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:56.799 here to your point, that he still loves those people, 231 00:11:57.480 --> 00:12:00.240 you know, So think about all the people who can't 232 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.799 stand Christians like that. 233 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:06.480 Maybe some maybe for our listeners, someone they work with. 234 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:08.279 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yea, yeah. 235 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:11.279 Maybe you have people who are non Christians who just 236 00:12:11.480 --> 00:12:13.519 you kind of get the sense that they don't like 237 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:16.480 you for no other reason. Run the fact that you 238 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:19.000 go to church. That's the main reason they don't like you. 239 00:12:19.799 --> 00:12:21.519 Job, I got to tell you, I've had those people 240 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:24.080 in my life. Yeah, they just could not stand me. 241 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:25.200 I remember, and you're trying to. 242 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:27.399 Figure out what I haven't done anything. 243 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.120 To right, you know. I was. 244 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:30.720 I was a sophomore in high school and I had 245 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:34.080 this English teacher that just missus marsh that just didn't 246 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:35.000 like me at all. 247 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:36.799 And it was because I was a Christian. 248 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:38.879 Yeah, And by the way, I sort of thought that, 249 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:40.919 and then I thought, though that can be true, And 250 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:42.720 then I talked to my friends and they're like, oh, 251 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:45.639 she's straight up. It's the fact that you carry a 252 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:48.360 Bible and that you pull it out, you reference it, 253 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:51.360 you know. And she used to poke fun publicly at 254 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:53.480 me and all these different things. I was like, Wow, 255 00:12:53.639 --> 00:12:56.720 she was totally atheist and uh, and I just always 256 00:12:56.720 --> 00:12:59.200 felt like that is so weird. Yeah, somebody not to 257 00:12:59.279 --> 00:13:02.200 like me just because I have my own faith, And 258 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:05.360 who knows, maybe back then I was maybe arrogant or 259 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:08.360 postured myself, was maybe kind of like I told you, 260 00:13:08.399 --> 00:13:10.559 which is like better than you kind of a thing. 261 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:13.039 I might have. I might have been that way. But 262 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:14.879 by the way, that's let me let me let. 263 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:16.600 Me digress a little bit and go back to the 264 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.519 fact that even though that's the category of Christians and 265 00:13:19.519 --> 00:13:22.919 non Christians, what I was referring to I think is 266 00:13:23.080 --> 00:13:27.399 also the category of Christians and other Christians. Right, So 267 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:30.720 in other words, like you know, those people who look 268 00:13:30.840 --> 00:13:33.480 down on other Christians because they're not good enough, you know, 269 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:35.720 kind of like the pastor I used to be when 270 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:38.519 I used to do messages based on conviction to make 271 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:41.720 you feel bad. And uh, you know when anybody ever 272 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:46.159 postures themselves with pride and there's this arrogance or this 273 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:50.799 hue of of like better than then or holy, holier 274 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:53.639 than thou, I have to tell you it is. 275 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:57.120 It is one of the main things that Jesus spoke against. 276 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:00.919 Wasn't it Because because the religious leader who were in 277 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:04.519 Jesus's day, the Pharisees and the Sadducees and all the 278 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:09.600 other sees, right, they actually they thought that they were 279 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:12.600 serving God well like I don't believe that a lot 280 00:14:12.639 --> 00:14:14.679 of them had. I think that there was, you know, 281 00:14:14.720 --> 00:14:18.480 some evidence obviously of corruption, there was evidence of like, 282 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:21.440 you know, hypocrisy, there's evidence of all those things. 283 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:22.480 Jesus said it. 284 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:26.639 He's like, you're like you're like whited tombs, your whitewashed tombs, 285 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:29.600 where you're bright white on the outside, but underneath you're 286 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:32.559 all full of dead bones. Right, Like, there was definitely 287 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:35.440 hypocrisy in some of the Pharisee and the religious leaders. 288 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:38.559 But I believe that there's probably some of them who 289 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:41.039 they probably thought they were serving God. 290 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:44.799 Well, yeah, I'm adhering to every single one of God's laws. 291 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:48.080 I'm following it to the letter. I'm doing that. I 292 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:50.320 agree with you, they probably thought they were doing well. 293 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:55.120 Yes, and Jesus didn't always speak against the Pharisees with contempt. 294 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:58.879 I believe that he probably did it as evidenced here, right, 295 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:03.279 he loves everybody who doesn't believe in himself, but he's 296 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:03.679 doing it. 297 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:06.120 With compassion and and and and so like. 298 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:10.240 For instance, there's other instances in the Bible where Jesus says, 299 00:15:10.879 --> 00:15:14.279 uh for some around the mound. For example, where he says, hey, listen, 300 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:18.000 you pride yourselves and thinking that you've kept the thank 301 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:19.759 commandments where you don't commit adultery. 302 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:21.000 But I'm here to tell you that. 303 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:23.919 You know, I'm paraphrasing, but he's like, you're much, much, 304 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:27.159 much worse off than you think, because if you look 305 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:29.000 after a woman and you lust after her in your 306 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:32.320 own heart, you commit adultery. And what he wasn't trying 307 00:15:32.360 --> 00:15:34.879 to do wasn't trying to He wasn't trying to say, uh, 308 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:38.879 you know, I'm accusing you, and I'm trying to raise 309 00:15:38.919 --> 00:15:41.799 you to the standards of you know, stop looking at 310 00:15:41.799 --> 00:15:44.399 people and lusting it. He's not saying that, although that's 311 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:48.200 obviously what he wants us to do by giving that verse. 312 00:15:48.320 --> 00:15:51.919 All he's really saying is this, you can't pride yourself 313 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:54.240 for keeping one commandment of not. 314 00:15:54.360 --> 00:15:58.039 Sleeping with another man's wife the ones and you can't think. 315 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.519 But the point is right, The point is pride. 316 00:16:01.720 --> 00:16:05.320 That's the point, because you feel better than the person 317 00:16:05.399 --> 00:16:07.840 who glances after a woman who walks by and has 318 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:10.000 a little bit lust in his heart. And what Jesus 319 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:14.279 is saying is you're the same person, right, Chris, wouldn't. 320 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:16.639 You say that? Oftentimes we do this. We've we've all 321 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:21.279 done this where whatever the sin is in my life, 322 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:24.879 would just use me in my life isn't so bad. 323 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:27.559 But the sin in Chris's life, oh he needs to 324 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:30.240 be We need to throw rocks and stones a bit. 325 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:35.399 We need to my sin, but his is horrible. 326 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:38.000 Well, it's it's that rounds me of another scripture where 327 00:16:38.039 --> 00:16:40.799 Jesus says, Jesus says, you're worried about the sawdust in 328 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:43.759 your in your friend's eye when you have a two 329 00:16:43.799 --> 00:16:45.840 by four sticking out of your own right, And he 330 00:16:45.879 --> 00:16:48.200 says that by the plank of wood that's sticking out 331 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:50.879 of your own because we all have sin in our lives. 332 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:52.720 And that's that's Jesus point. 333 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:54.480 And I think that that's really the heart of what 334 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:57.840 Paul is getting at, and he's talking about don't feel 335 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:01.320 prideful over non Christians. But also I believe that we 336 00:17:01.320 --> 00:17:05.480 should not feel prideful over anybody right, whether they believe 337 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:09.279 in Jesus or not, because there is no pride that 338 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:11.920 comes with that. We should feel honored to be included 339 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:14.680 in the body of Christ. We should feel blessed to 340 00:17:14.759 --> 00:17:16.680 feel a part of the family of God. If we 341 00:17:17.000 --> 00:17:19.960 believe in Christ, and following him we receive his blessings. 342 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:23.319 We are adopted errors in Christ. We are joint errors 343 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:27.039 with him. We are the receiver of all the blessings 344 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:29.559 that God gives to us. But there's zero pride that 345 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:33.960 comes in that because of everything that Paul talks about 346 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:38.680 God's mercy. Let's keep in mind Romans eleven is under 347 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:41.519 the blanket of God's mercy. And you know the true 348 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:46.000 definition of mercy. Mercy is giving, not giving someone what 349 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:47.400 they actually deserve. 350 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:50.880 As you deserved it, but you're receiving it. 351 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:54.640 Yeah, you deserve something bad and I'm not going to 352 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:58.000 give it to you, right, I'm gonna give you mercy instead. 353 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:01.759 And there's a big difference between and grace. Right, So 354 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:05.440 mercy is sparing somebody what they deserve. The grace is 355 00:18:05.440 --> 00:18:09.359 actually giving somebody something that they don't deserve. Right, So 356 00:18:09.440 --> 00:18:14.240 mercy spares us, but grace pardons us, Grace favors us. 357 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:16.279 Right, that's the difference between the two. 358 00:18:16.640 --> 00:18:20.640 And so again God God says there's no pride because 359 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:25.240 none of the good in us comes from us, It's 360 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:29.319 from Jesus. And so another verse that stands out to 361 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:33.480 me is actually it comes with so many implications. 362 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:36.920 Is the quoting of Isaiah. 363 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:40.240 Chapter fifty nine, when he says, you know, even as 364 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:43.519 the scriptures say there's one who rescues us from Jerusalem, 365 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:46.359 he will not turn away from ungodliness. And then he 366 00:18:46.440 --> 00:18:49.920 quotes Isaiah again in verse number thirty four, and he 367 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:53.359 quotes Isaiah forty thirteen or who can know the Lord's thoughts? 368 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:56.319 And those are two different scriptures that have two different meanings. 369 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:58.240 You know what I think, you know what I thought of. 370 00:18:58.279 --> 00:19:03.599 I thought of immediately. Uh Isaiah was written seven hundred 371 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:08.480 years before Jesus walked the earth, seven hundred plus years 372 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:13.079 before Paul wrote this verse. And he's quoting the prophecy 373 00:19:13.559 --> 00:19:16.720 that talks about Jesus seven hundred years later and talking 374 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:18.839 about the city in which he lived in. 375 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:22.359 And you know, he was born in Nazareth. He spent 376 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:23.400 his time in Capernaum. 377 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:25.640 He came all the way down from the you know, 378 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:28.000 the Sea of Galilee to the south part of the 379 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:30.400 state of Israel, and and and you know, right around 380 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:34.480 or you know, Bethlehem's was was was near Jerusalem, but 381 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:36.559 then but then up in the in the north it 382 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.319 was Galilee in Capernaum, and then and then of course 383 00:19:39.319 --> 00:19:43.279 he dies back down in the south in Jerusalem. And 384 00:19:43.279 --> 00:19:47.359 and so here's Isaiah talking about this prophecy, And isn't 385 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:51.039 it amazing how that sort of is woven in there 386 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:55.960 to sort of solidify that Jesus has fulfilled right, Like, 387 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:58.359 there are those who don't believe him, Paul says, and 388 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:03.160 yet he's fulfilled over NDS three hundred plus prophecies, which 389 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:05.599 is impossible for any man to fulfill. 390 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:09.039 Yeah, yeah, cool, that's absolutely awesome. And then it ends 391 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:11.599 with verse thirty six. We could spend all day in 392 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:15.359 this chapter. It's got a lot of different angles to it. 393 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:18.880 But verse thirty six, for everything comes from Him and 394 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:22.720 exists by his power and is intended for his glory, 395 00:20:23.079 --> 00:20:25.599 all glory to Him forever a man. I could preach 396 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:28.200 a sermon on that one. No doubt that everything comes 397 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:31.839 from the Father. So we can't take credit for ourselves. 398 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:34.759 We can't take credit for anything that happens in our lives, 399 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:38.119 the family, we have, the jobs, we have anything, because 400 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:42.119 everything was given to us by God. But it exists 401 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:44.279