It's been 2000 years
since the glorious light
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of the cross
illuminated the world
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wailed in darkness and confusion
about the character of God
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and still today the
greatest need of mankind
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is a revelation of God's love
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that's revealed in
the life of Christ.
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Amazing Facts
presents the everlasting gospel
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with Pastor Doug Batchelor
coming to you each week
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from Sacramento Central
church in sunny California.
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Discover hidden
treasures in God's word today.
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I want to take a
moment and welcome everybody
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who may be visiting
here at Sacramento Central.
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We trust that you
sense God's sphere here
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and you can feel as
part of God's family.
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We know we have some
people from Sunnyvale,
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we sure
appreciate the men's choir
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that has been singing a chorus
and that has been real blessing.
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And if you are member
here, you are welcome too,
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we are glad you are back.
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I sometimes forget about
you, so we are just delighted
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that we could come together
during this special time.
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This week has been
little bit interesting
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once every couple
of years Amazing Facts,
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some of the team
gets together leadership,
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we talk about our vision,
our mission where we are going
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and do some strategic planning
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and that's a
healthier thing to do.
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Every now and
then it is a smart move
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to sort of
recalibrate your compass.
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I have been having
some computer problems
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and one of the men in
our IT department said
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Doug every now and
then it's a good idea
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to format your hard drive
and reinstall the programs.
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Every thing seems to
run a little cleaner.
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Some times as Christians you
need to recalibrate your compass
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and just figure out
how we become confused
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and cluttered in our thinking
so that we are forgetting
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what the priorities are,
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that's the purpose of
the mission statement.
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Say we know, sometimes you start
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firing buckshot
in every direction
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and what you really need is
a rifle that is more focused.
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And as Christians we
look at the millions of words
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in the Bible and all
of the different doctrines
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and the different debates
about different doctrines
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and we can loose track
of what the main thing is.
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I don't remember the first time
I saw the statements very simple
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but it struck me, it's
very profound and it said
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the main thing is to keep
the main thing the main thing.
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You've all heard that before.
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And that's really
our message today.
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What is the main thing?
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In our scripture
reading that we had,
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we address the verse.
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And I'll have you turn there
with me in the Book of Micah.
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Matter of fact this has
been one of my favorite verses
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in the Bible
and because of that,
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it's one of the reasons that
named one of our children Micah
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because this verse always
struck me, I like simple things.
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It say in the word here
we are, what do you want,
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and that's really the
bottom-line, isn't it?
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"With what shall I come
before the Lord, Micah 6:6,
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With what shall I
come before the Lord
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and bow myself
before the high God?
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What does he want?
How do I worship Him?
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What do I bring to Him?
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Shall I come before
Him with burnt offerings,
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with calves a year old?
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That means in their
prime, the young, the healthy.
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Do I give him
the best calf I have?
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Will the Lord be
pleased with thousands of rams,
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may be its not a calf,
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may be if it's not
one calf may be many rams.
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Is it the highest
offering they had was the calf.
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So when they say they
brought forth the fatter calf,
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it was tender, it was
prime and at the most potential.
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Sometimes most numerous
offerings were the rams.
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He said is it the
quality of my offerings?
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Is it the quantity of
my offerings that you want?
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Or ten thousand rivers of oil?
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Is it the richness
the fatness of the oil,
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Shall I give my
firstborn for my transgression.
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Now every Jew knew that
the first born of every man
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and beast belong to
the Lord that didn't mean
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they were all sacrificed
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but it was
consecrated to the Lord,
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if it was a human then
they would make an offering
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for the first born, if
it was an unclean animal,
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you first born donkey
would be consecrated to the Lord
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except you won't offer a donkey
because it's an unclean animal,
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so they make a donation,
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thank the Lord
for the first born.
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Says what do you want?
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You want the first born,
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the fruit of my body
for the sin of my soul?
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This here is even the illusion
of God giving his first born
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then after he
makes such statement
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that messianic reference,
here is the main thing.
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This one verse is
the study of our sermon.
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I don't often do this,
usually I take a lot of verses
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and talk about a
subject or I'll take a story
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and use a lot of
verses to expound the story.
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And this is one of the
few times I am going to do
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an expository
message on one verse.
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Here is the verse,
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"He has shown you,
O man, what is good.
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And what does the
Lord require of you?
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But to do justly to love mercy
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and to walk
humbly with thy God."
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Now, when we met this
week with our leadership team
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at Amazing Facts and we
reviewed our mission statement
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and we found ourselves getting
into sort of manipulating
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and tweaking every little word,
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because
everything means something,
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and the idea of a
good mission statement
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is you don't want pages,
you don't even want paragraphs,
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you want
something that is focused
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that people can memorize,
that is sort of like a simple
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the marching orders
that was never a boy's scout.
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I had a lot of
friends that were boy scouts
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and they knew that they had
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sort of a little
oath that they said,
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they would all
memorize their creed.
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Anyone here know or
remember what that was?
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Any boys scout, pathfinders
have them too, don't they?
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Yeah, you remember
that, where you boy's scout?
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What was the creed?
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Remember to put
me on the spotlight.
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Put you on the spotlight
that it's kind of tough, aha?
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Friendly, courteous,
kind, obedient, cheerful,
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thrifty, brave, clean, reverent.
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That's pretty
good, that's pretty good
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and that was sort of the summary
of all those good virtues.
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Did you remember one?
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Be prepared
that was the summary,
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be prepared and the
marines and the navy
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and they all have their kind
of their creed of their slogan.
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Well, this verse that
we are looking at today
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is the essence of
the Christian life
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coalesced into one verse.
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Now, John 3:16 is really
the essence of God's mission.
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It's what God does,
God so loved His provision,
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He is telling us that
He so loved the world,
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what He does to provide for us.
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But this verse
is unique in that,
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it summarizes what
does the Lord want from us?
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What is our response?
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Is it sacrifices,
is it a pilgrimage.
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What kind of ritual is it?
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And he boils it all down
and He gives us the main thing,
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so we are going to
look at that together.
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First of all we will
start at the beginning.
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He has shown you.
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God is telling us
what He wants and he said,
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it's not a
mystery, it's not something
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that you are going to have to
have a degree in rocket science
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to understand, it's
not that complicated.
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I become exasperated sometimes
when I do evangelistic meetings
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and you present the
simple gospel to people
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and they come out and they start
debate with you and they say,
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well, you know there
are some books in the Bible
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that seem to be missing.
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And how do we know these things
were translated accurately
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and they want to complicate
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what is really a
very simple message.
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And they say, well,
it's still mysterious,
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it's difficult,
who can really know.
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Mark Twain used to love to say.
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Most people are bothered
by the passages of Scriptures
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they don't understand, but
the passages that bother me
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are those I do understand.
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He has shown you, you know,
you can't stand before the Lord
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and say I didn't know.
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Most of us know what God wants.
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Hosea 4:6, "My
people are destroyed
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for lack of knowledge."
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Well Pastor
Doug that sounds like
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you are contradicting yourself,
here it says they don't know.
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You have to keep
reading, he says,
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"My people are
destroyed for lack of knowledge
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because they have
rejected knowledge,
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they knew and they rejected it.
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He says because they
have rejected knowledge
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I'll reject you from
being a priest for me
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because you've forgotten.
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They knew the law of your God,
I will forget your children."
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It's not what we
don't understand.
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It's what we do understand.
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Romans 1:18, "For the
wrath of God from heaven
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is revealed from heaven
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against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men,
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who suppress the
truth in unrighteousness.
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Because what may be known
of God is manifest in them,
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God has shown it to them.
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He is saying
all men he has shown
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that you're not
just the nation of Israel
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or not just the church but
people know what God wants.
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For since the
creation of the world,
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the invisible attributes
of God are clearly seen
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being understood by
the things that are made.
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Even his eternal
power and Godhead,
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so they are without excuse.
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He has shown thee, O men.
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He has told us what He wants.
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We can't come to
church week by week
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and say I am not
ready to make a commitment
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because I'm not
really sure what God wants.
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Yes, you know what
He wants. He wants you.
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It's like that old
country love song it dates back
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before Willie
Nelson but he did it again.
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All He wants is you.
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Nothing else will
do, not just a part,
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He wants all of your heart.
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All He wants is all of
you, all He wants is you,
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but I have never
sung that before.
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That's not true sorry.
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That's a simple message, right.
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That's what the Lord wants.
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Deuteronomy 30:11,
Mosses at the end of his life.
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This is what he says
to the children of Israel.
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In case they were things,
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you know, we just don't have
enough encyclopedia of scripture
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on our shelf to really
understand what the Lord wants.
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Deuteronomy 30:11, Mosses said
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"For this commandment
that I command you today
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is not too mysterious for you,
can't say it's too complicated,
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it's too deep nor can you say
it's a far off we can reach it.
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It's not in
heaven, that we should say,
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'Who will
ascend to heaven for us
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and bring it to us that
we may hear it and do it?
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Nor is it beyond the
sea, that you should say,
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'Who will go over the
sea for us and bring it to us
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that we may hear it and do it?
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But the word is
very near to you,
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it's in your
mouth and in your heart,
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that you may do it.
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He has shown you but
keep in mind when Moses says
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this to the children of Israel,
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what was the most
prominent feature of their camp.
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Got the 12 tribes
organized into their clusters
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and they are all
organized in a square
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where that the middle
of their parade grounds
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was the sanctuary, right?
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And in the
sanctuary there is a courtyard
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and there was the holy
place and the most holy place
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and above of the Shekinah
Glory was glowing at night.
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And almost like the
wick of that of that candle
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in the Holy of Holies was a box,
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I believe the
Shekinah Glory came up
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right from the Holy of Holies
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and in that box
was the word of God.
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So when Moses
said don't make excuses
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that you don't
know what God's word is?
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It's right here in your midst.
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You've heard him
speak those same ten words
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from the mountain top.
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You know He wrote it
with His own finger in stone,
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so don't act like you
don't know what He wants.
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He has shown you what He wants.
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Most of us know.
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Even people who
can cannot recite
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the Ten Commandments know
that's its wrong to steal.
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Even people who have not
memorized all Ten Commandments,
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know adultery is wrong.
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The word is not far away.
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He has shown you.
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And by the way when
it says He has shown me,
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oh man, it's
that's the inclusive word
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it means mankind,
this is not just for men.
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He has shown the human race.
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What's the next
part of our verse?
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He has shown you what is good.
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You know Solomon
when he had his dream
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and he prayed and he said Lord,
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when God said what do you want?
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He said, Lord, give
therefore your servant
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an understanding heart.
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By the way 1 King 3:9,
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"Give therefore Your
servant an understanding heart
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to judge Your people,
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that I might discern
between good and evil."
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I want to know what is good.
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Well, God says He's
shown you what is good.
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He revealed it to Solomon.
He gave him that wisdom.
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Matter of fact
Solomon so much going for him,
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I mean he had a lot
of good things about him
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especially when he was
young but he went right ahead
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and did the very
things that God said don't do.
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God said, don't multiply horses,
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and then he goes on to
say Solomon multiplied horses.
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He said don't multiply
riches and he multiplied riches.
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And of course worst of all,
he said don't multiply wives
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and he went and did that.
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Then what happened
his wives drew him away
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because money made him proud,
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his army the size of
all the horses and his army,
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he began to trust
in that instead of God.
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He knew what to
do and when he prayed
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that God would help
him know the difference
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between good and evil.
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Most of us know what God wants.
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The Holy Spirit
guides us Ecclesiastes 2:26,
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by the way written by Solomon,
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"For God giveth to all men
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that is good in his
sight wisdom and knowledge
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and joy but to the
sinner he gives travail."
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God gives blessings to all those
that are good in His sight.
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We know what God wants us to do.
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You remember Luke 18:18.
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A rich young ruler came to
Jesus and he said good master,
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what good thing shall I do
that I might have eternal life?
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And this was a
diversionary tactic.
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He knew he wasn't
seeking for God's kingdom,
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he was seeking
first earthly treasure.
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Jesus answered him and
He said only God is good.
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He has shown you what is good.
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1 Corinthians 13:13 in
that great simple passage,
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Paul summarizes in
that chapter of love,
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what is the best
thing, what is good?
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Love is good.
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"Now abide faith, hope,
love, they are all good,
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these three but the
greatest of these is love."
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You notice what I did to
you, you didn't even catch it.
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I quoted where Jesus
said only God is good
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and then it said the
greatest of these is love
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and doesn't the
Bible say God is love?
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He has shown you,
O man what is good?
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God is good, God is love.
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Love is good. Most people know.
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What are the two
great commandments?
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Love the Lord,
love your neighbor.
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This love relationship is where
most of our problems come in,
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these two love relationships.
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This love relationship
and this love relationship,
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and I think in
order for you to have
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this love relationship right,
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you will have to have
these love relationships right.
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And that works both ways.
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In order for these love
relations to be at their best,
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this love
relationship needs to be right.
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He has shown you what is good?
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God is good, God
is love, love is good.
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It's the greatest,
it's not that complicated.
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And what does the Lord require?
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That's very important, we are
still moving through our verse.
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He has shown you,
O man, what is good
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and what does the Lord require?
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Now that's the bottom-line.
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What does the Lord want?
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Lord, what do you want me to do?
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Peter, no Paul stuck
down on the road to Damascus
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and still
trembling, Jesus appears to him
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and he finally says Lord
what do you want me to do?
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Lord, what do you want?
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That really should be
the cry of every heart.
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Lord, what is Your will?
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What do You want for me to do?
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Is that your question?
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Do you seek to find that out?
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I think that ought to be
the most important thing.
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We've to probably do what we
did at Amazing Facts this week
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and our whole church
ought to take a retreat
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for about four days
and just get together
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and say all right,
what is the main thing?
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I guess we do it
every week, don't we?
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Talk about what is
our mission statement.
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You know what our
mission statement is?
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He has shown you,
O man what is good.
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That's a good mission statement.
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There's lot of in the Bible.
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Another good mission statement
is go into all the world,
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preach the gospel
to every creature,
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make disciples of
all nations and baptize.
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He has shown you,
O man what is good.
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What does the Lord require?
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You notice he doesn't say
what does the Lord suggest?
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What does the Lord recommend?
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You see the difference between
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a requirement
and recommendation.
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You bet there is.
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It is recommended
before a pilot flies
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that he files a flight
plan, it is not a requirement.
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Now a
requirement is something that
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you can be
penalized for not obeying.
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There are recommendations
and there are requirements,
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the Ten Commandments
are not ten suggestions.
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They are not
ten recommendations.
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They would be ten requirements.
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And you know they
have when you read the--
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the information on the box
that has nutritional values,
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they've got your minimum
daily requirements for vitamins.
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I guess somebody did
some research to find out.
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You just have to have x amount
of cc of Vitamin C per day
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or you are going to
get scurvy or something.
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And if you don't
have Vitamin B 12,
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there are actually,
there are people who suffer
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a lot of side effects from that.
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Most of us get enough Vitamin C
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but some people
don't get enough potassium
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or B 12 or some of these things
and you can suffer from that.
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You get your minimum
vitamin requirements.
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All right, Lord, what is
the minimum basic requirement?
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What is the basics
that you want from us?
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I don't think we had
to shoot for the minimum
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but we ought to make
sure we don't get below it
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because it's a requirement.
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See the difference, don't
get below that requirement.
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Deuteronomy 10:12
Moses again is telling us.
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"And Now, Israel, what does
the Lord thy God require of the?
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He answers our question,
but to fear the Lord thy God,
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to walk in all of
His ways to love Him,
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and to serve the Lord
thy God with all of thy heart
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And to keep the commandments
of the Lord, and his statutes,
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which I command thee
this day for thy good?
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You must do it or
you are unhealthy,
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it's a minimum requirement.
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Let me read that
again Deuteronomy 10:12,
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"Fear the Lord,
walk in His ways,
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love Him and serve Him.
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You notice he doesn't
say serve Him and love Him.
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Before you can serve
Him, you got to do what?
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He says love Him and serve Him.
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He not even says that
in the Ten Commandments.
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It's understood
all through the Bible,
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you can't obey God
if you don't love Him.
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Right in the Ten Commandments
its say showing mercy
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and the thousands
of men that love Him
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and keep His commandments.
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Love Him love first and then
we do it because we love Him.
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That's what the
Lord requires of us.
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Another good mission statement.
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Fear the Lord thy
God and reverence Him,
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walk in His ways
love Him and serve Him
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with all of your
heart and all of your soul
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and keep His commandments.
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Luke 10:27.
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Remember when the
lawyer said to Jesus,
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what is the
greatest of the commandments
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and Jesus said what
do you read in the law
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and he answered
His own question.
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"You shall love
the Lord your God
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with all of your
heart, with all of your soul,
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with all of your
strength, with all of your mind,
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and your neighbor as yourself."
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And He said to him,
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"You have answered rightly,
do this and you will live."
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Jesus said
that's it eureka, bingo.
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No, He didn't say bingo.
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But you know what that means.
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You hit it, that's
the most important thing,
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love the Lord your God
with all of your heart,
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all of your soul,
all of your strength,
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all of your mind, and
your neighbor as yourself."
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Jesus said you rightly answered
do this and you will live.
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Well I say that's
one of the main things.
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"He has showed
you, O man, what is good
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and what does the
Lord require of thee,
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not just
everybody else but of you?
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What does He want from you?
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Not just from the church,
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it's not just the
collective requirement,
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so you are not going
to fill in one aspect
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and I'll fill another
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and someone else
will fill in the third
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and collectively
you know it's team work.
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There is something a minimum
requirement of everybody.
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Here it is.
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We are going to get into
it now, three big principles.
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Do justly do,
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I could preach a whole
sermon on do two words.
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Spurgeon used to
preach a whole sermon on the.
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I can preach whole sermon
on Do, the got three words,
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I suppose someone
can preach a sermon on I,
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one word, one letter or A.
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Lets talk about do for a minute.
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There is a lot of
discussion these days
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about just believing
and we play down the doing,
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but when I read my
Bible, Jesus makes a big deal
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about that two letter word,
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"Not everyone that says unto me,
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Lord, Lord will enter into
the kingdom but they that do."
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The Lord says there is
a man that had two sons
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and he says go work in my field.
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And one says, one
son says I'm going father
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but he does not go
and the other one says
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I'm not going but he
later repents and he goes
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and Jesus then
asks at conclusion
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which of the two did, oh
that's three letters now, right?
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The will of his
father, same principle.
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It's the one who went.
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Not just saying,
Lord, Lord but do we do it.
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When Jesus separates
the wise men from the fool,
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what's the big difference?
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The wise men hears these
words of mine and he does them,
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the foolish man
hears these words of mine
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and he doesn't do them and
so it does make a difference.
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God doesn't just want
Christianity to be a philosophy,
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He wants it to be something
that we do something about.
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Do what? Do justly.
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That means do what is right
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as in seek ye first the kingdom
of God, and his righteousness
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and all these
things will be added.
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In other words doing what
is right is act with fairness,
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act with honesty,
act with integrity,
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you do things
differently when you keep
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the man thing the main thing.
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You use good judgment.
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Jesus said don't judge
according to the appearance
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but judge a righteous judgment.
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You do what's right.
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It means honesty in our
relationships not giving
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preferential
treatment or being biased,
00:25:39.30\00:25:43.08
but doing what is just.
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Some one asked this butcher,
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what happened
after he was converted
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and he said well,
before I was converted
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I used to weigh my thumb.
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Some of you remember the days
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when they have
the old fashion scales
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and the butcher would plop
the chicken down on the scale
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and he lean over
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and he could put
his thumb on the scale
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and add another ounce
to it, this butcher said
00:26:05.94\00:26:07.80
after I was converted I
don't weigh my thumb anymore.
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He says I was
cheating those people.
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Said now in fact what
I do is all my customers
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I give them little
extra to compensate
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for all that time
I weighed my thumb.
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Since now I'm a Christian
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I don't weigh my
thumb, doing justly.
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He went and said
dishonesty is dishonesty
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whether it's a diamond
or a dollar, doing justly.
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That means that your are
faithful in little things
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as well as big things,
doing justly I love this verse,
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you want another
good bottom-line,
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the scouts creed
for the Christian.
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Psalms 15:1, "Lord
what do you require,
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who may abide in your tabernacle
00:26:56.55\00:26:58.86
who made dwell
in your holy hill?
00:26:58.89\00:27:01.51
Who is going to be in heaven?
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Psalms 15, this is
good you should circle it.
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"He walks
uprightly, he is a doer,
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he works righteousness, and
speaks the truth in his heart,
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he does what's just.
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You notice in his heart.
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He does not
backbite with his tongue,
00:27:15.77\00:27:18.75
he is not even speaking
ill of others but he guards,
00:27:18.78\00:27:22.00
I like the, I like
the children story today
00:27:22.03\00:27:24.51
talking about the tongue
and how powerful the tongue is.
00:27:24.54\00:27:29.49
Nor does evil to his neighbor.
00:27:29.52\00:27:31.49
Nor does he take up a
reproach against his friend.
00:27:31.52\00:27:34.30
In whose eyes a
vile person is despised,
00:27:34.33\00:27:37.10
But he honors
those who fear the Lord."
00:27:37.13\00:27:40.45
He seeks up the company of
the just he wants to be just
00:27:40.48\00:27:43.50
and he finds pleasure
in the company of the just.
00:27:43.53\00:27:45.99
Doesn't look for bad companions.
00:27:46.02\00:27:50.46
He honors those
who fear the Lord,
00:27:50.49\00:27:52.09
He swears to his own
hurt and does not change.
00:27:52.12\00:27:55.36
He will make a promise
then after he makes a promise,
00:27:55.39\00:27:57.78
he will realize, hey I'm
going to lose money on this deal
00:27:57.81\00:27:59.62
but I made a promise,
I got to follow my word
00:27:59.65\00:28:02.64
and he still keeps his
word, he follows through.
00:28:02.67\00:28:09.36
He swears to his own
hurt and does not change.
00:28:09.39\00:28:11.91
He does not put
out his money to usury,
00:28:11.94\00:28:14.18
that means he
shows mercy on others.
00:28:14.21\00:28:17.08
He might lend them but he is not
going to charge them interest,
00:28:17.11\00:28:19.62
he has the right to
charge interest but he doesn't.
00:28:19.65\00:28:25.01
The Bible says he does not take
a bribe against the innocent.
00:28:25.04\00:28:27.87
He does what's just regardless
of what's in it for him.
00:28:27.90\00:28:32.96
He who does these things.
00:28:32.99\00:28:35.95
You notice it's not
who think for these things,
00:28:35.98\00:28:37.48
is not who believes
these things, is he who what?
00:28:37.51\00:28:40.55
Who does these things.
00:28:40.58\00:28:44.38
He who does these
things shall never been moved.
00:28:44.41\00:28:48.39
That means they are
on a good foundation,
00:28:48.42\00:28:51.46
they are building on
the rock. Doing justly.
00:28:51.49\00:28:57.73
You know when raising children
you got to keep things simple.
00:28:57.76\00:29:00.70
Children need simple rules.
00:29:00.73\00:29:04.45
Sometimes parents
and I have done this,
00:29:04.48\00:29:07.03
Karen has done this.
00:29:07.06\00:29:08.48
The child will
do something wrong
00:29:08.51\00:29:10.51
and we begin to pontificate
and give them all the reasons
00:29:10.54\00:29:13.72
that they shouldn't
do this and pretty soon
00:29:13.75\00:29:15.28
their eyes are
glazed over and you're just,
00:29:15.31\00:29:16.88
all they do is they
see mom and dad going.
00:29:16.91\00:29:20.94
They will not hear what
you are saying anymore, right?
00:29:20.97\00:29:23.43
You are laughing
because two things,
00:29:23.46\00:29:24.80
one you remember
your parents doing that,
00:29:24.83\00:29:27.07
you're getting a tongue lashing
00:29:27.10\00:29:28.59
and you will hear the
first few words and pretty soon
00:29:28.62\00:29:30.37
it's just with noise.
00:29:30.40\00:29:34.70
And also you are laughing
because you've done that too.
00:29:34.73\00:29:37.69
You begin to lecture them.
00:29:37.72\00:29:39.34
Pretty soon it says,
got to keep it simple.
00:29:39.37\00:29:43.52
And you start
when they are young.
00:29:43.55\00:29:45.62
And I know some parents they had
00:29:45.65\00:29:47.20
some very simple
rules for their kids.
00:29:47.23\00:29:50.53
You might try this.
00:29:50.56\00:29:53.03
Don't do anything that will
hurt someone, rule number one.
00:29:53.06\00:29:57.10
Don't do anything I see
some of you writing these down,
00:29:57.13\00:29:59.48
you have to put
up on your mirror,
00:29:59.51\00:30:01.70
it's good for you too.
00:30:01.73\00:30:03.42
Now you are someone
that means don't do anything
00:30:03.45\00:30:06.00
that hurts yourself too.
00:30:06.03\00:30:08.24
And this is rule one
category A don't do anything
00:30:08.27\00:30:12.94
to hurt someone that
would include yourself,
00:30:12.97\00:30:16.26
so you can always ask
yourself will this hurt someone?
00:30:16.29\00:30:20.41
Rule number two.
00:30:20.44\00:30:22.02
Don't do anything
that will hurt something.
00:30:22.05\00:30:25.53
If it's going
to damage something
00:30:25.56\00:30:28.22
or break something
or wear something out,
00:30:28.25\00:30:32.59
you are hurting
something, don't do it.
00:30:32.62\00:30:36.94
Now you might think coloring
on the walls is an improvement
00:30:36.97\00:30:40.75
but you know your parents think
00:30:40.78\00:30:42.37
that's actually
hurting of the walls.
00:30:42.40\00:30:45.79
Number three. Don't do
anything that will hurt Jesus.
00:30:45.82\00:30:49.08
Now, I bet you
can't name some offense
00:30:49.11\00:30:52.39
that will not fall somewhere
in these three categories
00:30:52.42\00:30:56.23
Very simple rules, do
what's just in other words.
00:30:56.26\00:31:00.18
Don't do anything
that's going to hurt somebody.
00:31:00.21\00:31:02.68
Don't do anything
that's going to hurt something.
00:31:02.71\00:31:05.23
And don't do anything that
will hurt God. Simple rules.
00:31:05.26\00:31:10.20
All right so, now we
are getting to point two.
00:31:10.23\00:31:13.83
Remember there he'd
shown you what is good.
00:31:13.86\00:31:16.22
What does the
Lord require of you?
00:31:16.25\00:31:18.21
He has got three things
00:31:18.24\00:31:19.27
He mentions that
He requires of you.
00:31:19.30\00:31:20.60
One is what? Do justly.
00:31:20.63\00:31:23.55
What's number
one? Do what's just.
00:31:23.58\00:31:26.65
You know what that means.
00:31:26.68\00:31:28.85
Your spirit is going to
tell you when you stop doing
00:31:28.88\00:31:31.54
what's just or
if it's a gray area,
00:31:31.57\00:31:34.59
it's like the old
Scotsman that was getting ready
00:31:34.62\00:31:37.42
to get dressed in the
morning he was holding up
00:31:37.45\00:31:39.17
yesterday's shirt by
the window and sniffing it
00:31:39.20\00:31:42.41
and his wife
called over her shoulder,
00:31:42.44\00:31:44.20
if it's doubtful it's dirty,
if it's doubtful it's dirty.
00:31:44.23\00:31:51.17
And so when something is
doubtful, it's probably dirty.
00:31:51.20\00:31:55.39
When in doubt
throw it in the laundry.
00:31:55.42\00:31:59.42
Oh, wait a second, I got
to make a correction here
00:31:59.45\00:32:01.58
for kids that are lazy.
00:32:01.61\00:32:02.73
Lot of kids throw
clean clothes in the laundry
00:32:02.76\00:32:04.32
because they are too
lazy to put them away, right?
00:32:04.35\00:32:07.54
Yeah, so that's
not an excuse for that.
00:32:07.57\00:32:11.15
So point number two, we talked
about do justly, love mercy.
00:32:11.18\00:32:18.20
Now I could break those
two apart and just say love.
00:32:18.23\00:32:24.17
We could spend a
lot of time talking
00:32:24.20\00:32:25.73
just about love in this
great verse you've got love
00:32:25.76\00:32:31.27
but you notice
it's saying love, mercy.
00:32:31.30\00:32:36.12
Doing justly, catch
this, this is a great verse.
00:32:36.15\00:32:40.77
Doing justly is
what I do to others.
00:32:40.80\00:32:44.87
Showing mercy, now
I'm saying doing justly
00:32:44.90\00:32:47.41
is what I do with
myself, I get that backwards.
00:32:47.44\00:32:49.43
Doing justly is my choice about
how I'm going to conduct myself.
00:32:49.46\00:32:56.79
Love in mercy, I don't
show mercy to myself, do I?
00:32:56.82\00:33:01.70
I have decided to be
merciful today to myself.
00:33:01.73\00:33:05.38
How is that, how you show mercy.
00:33:05.41\00:33:07.29
You're not really
been very merciful.
00:33:07.32\00:33:09.11
Mercy is done where?
00:33:09.14\00:33:11.47
That way, it's done to others.
00:33:11.50\00:33:13.97
And so when you love mercy,
00:33:14.00\00:33:16.02
what do you have
to love to love mercy,
00:33:16.05\00:33:18.31
you got to love others.
00:33:18.34\00:33:20.71
Does that make
sense? You still with me?
00:33:20.74\00:33:23.54
So the first
part of doing justly
00:33:23.57\00:33:25.07
is how I will conduct my self.
00:33:25.10\00:33:27.15
Love in mercy is how
I'm going to treat others
00:33:27.18\00:33:29.89
and it goes beyond
treating them with justice
00:33:29.92\00:33:34.36
because when you
give somebody mercy
00:33:34.39\00:33:36.26
that's difference from justice.
00:33:36.29\00:33:38.72
You are giving them
something that doesn't require,
00:33:38.75\00:33:40.52
you're going
beyond the requirement
00:33:40.55\00:33:42.53
on the side of kindness,
00:33:42.56\00:33:45.92
that's one of the bottom lines
in the creed of a Christian.
00:33:45.95\00:33:50.30
Don't just do
what the obligation is,
00:33:50.33\00:33:52.63
go beyond the obligation
00:33:52.66\00:33:54.02
and do what's
kind, do what's merciful.
00:33:54.05\00:33:57.73
A mother came to Napoleon
one time pleading for her son
00:33:57.76\00:34:01.81
who had shown himself a
coward on the battlefield twice
00:34:01.84\00:34:05.55
and the penalty was death.
00:34:05.58\00:34:09.02
And she said, your majesty
please show mercy to my son.
00:34:09.05\00:34:15.64
He said I can't
because justice requires
00:34:15.67\00:34:18.96
that he dies for this offense.
00:34:18.99\00:34:21.14
She says I'm not asking for
justice, I'm asking for mercy.
00:34:21.17\00:34:24.61
He said he
doesn't deserve mercy.
00:34:24.64\00:34:27.12
She said if he
deserved it, it won't be mercy.
00:34:27.15\00:34:29.31
Mercy is something you give to
someone who doesn't deserve it.
00:34:29.34\00:34:33.45
Mothers become very eloquent
00:34:33.48\00:34:35.08
when they are
pleading for their children.
00:34:35.11\00:34:37.60
He said okay, you win, I'll
show him mercy and let him live.
00:34:37.63\00:34:43.49
If it wasn't, if it was justice
00:34:43.52\00:34:47.09
that we wanted
if we deserved it,
00:34:47.12\00:34:48.51
it won't be mercy, right.
00:34:48.54\00:34:49.72
What do we want from the Lord?
00:34:49.75\00:34:50.87
You want justice
from the Lord. Oh, no.
00:34:50.90\00:34:53.02
People ask me
periodically, Pastor Doug,
00:34:56.70\00:34:58.39
how is life treating you.
00:34:58.42\00:35:00.21
I say much
better than I deserve.
00:35:00.24\00:35:03.64
I don't want what I deserve.
00:35:03.67\00:35:06.26
And in case you don't know what
you don't want what I deserve,
00:35:06.29\00:35:10.76
you don't even
want what you deserve,
00:35:10.79\00:35:12.79
even if you
think what you deserve
00:35:12.82\00:35:14.40
is better than what I deserve,
you don't want what you deserve.
00:35:14.43\00:35:18.36
What we want is mercy.
00:35:18.39\00:35:20.87
Now, if we want mercy then
what should be willing to give?
00:35:20.90\00:35:27.05
Like that man who
the unmerciful debtor.
00:35:27.08\00:35:30.21
He is asking the
king to forgive him
00:35:30.24\00:35:31.77
his ten thousand
talents that he squandered.
00:35:31.80\00:35:34.83
The king shows mercy
to him, forgives him,
00:35:34.86\00:35:38.34
he goes out and finds a fellow
servant that owes him 42 pence.
00:35:38.37\00:35:44.49
There's a difference
between $52 million and $42.
00:35:44.52\00:35:49.39
He accepts the
mercy for the $52 million
00:35:49.42\00:35:52.08
but he won't pass on
the mercy for the 42.
00:35:52.11\00:35:56.24
Part of our Christian creed
is that we show mercy to others.
00:35:56.27\00:36:00.84
I went to have a
professional photo taken
00:36:05.70\00:36:08.81
and after I got done
looking at the picture,
00:36:08.84\00:36:10.63
you know,
periodically at Amazing Facts
00:36:10.66\00:36:12.10
I got to go get a
series of pictures taken.
00:36:12.13\00:36:14.61
For while there I was showing
pictures that were so old,
00:36:14.64\00:36:16.37
I still had hair.
00:36:16.40\00:36:18.11
And people said to
me Doug that's not on,
00:36:18.14\00:36:19.88
as you need to go get
some updated pictures,
00:36:19.91\00:36:21.68
so you go and you sit
in for a photo section,
00:36:21.71\00:36:23.42
I remember looking one
time at the picture and saying,
00:36:23.45\00:36:27.47
I don't know if this
really does me justice.
00:36:27.50\00:36:30.25
He said Doug you don't
want justice, you want mercy.
00:36:30.28\00:36:32.27
Actually I think he
said with the face like yours
00:36:44.48\00:36:46.21
you don't want
justice, you want mercy.
00:36:46.24\00:36:49.97
He is a friend. They
will be honest with you.
00:36:50.00\00:36:55.02
Blessed are the merciful
for they will obtain mercy.
00:36:57.24\00:37:02.36
Matthew 9:13, Jesus said,
00:37:02.39\00:37:04.45
"But go out and
learn what this means
00:37:04.48\00:37:06.96
'I desire mercy
and not sacrifice.
00:37:06.99\00:37:11.20
For I did not come
to call the righteous
00:37:11.23\00:37:13.13
to repentance but sinners.
00:37:13.16\00:37:17.21
What does God
want from us? Mercy.
00:37:17.24\00:37:20.79
Matter of fact if you are going
to err in your relationships
00:37:20.82\00:37:25.06
with your
friends and your family
00:37:25.09\00:37:26.99
or others that
you may work with.
00:37:27.02\00:37:28.88
If you are going to err and go
too far on the side of justice
00:37:28.91\00:37:33.15
or too far on the side of mercy,
00:37:33.18\00:37:35.46
which side would God
prefer that you err on,
00:37:35.49\00:37:39.78
I think He would prefer
that you go a little too far
00:37:39.81\00:37:42.43
on the side of mercy.
00:37:42.46\00:37:44.67
You know one
reason I believe that.
00:37:44.70\00:37:47.09
How many of you know
the story of kind David,
00:37:47.12\00:37:49.57
that man after God's own heart.
00:37:49.60\00:37:52.27
God had told David
you are to be king,
00:37:52.30\00:37:53.89
he had been anointed as king.
00:37:53.92\00:37:55.63
He had done
nothing wrong to Saul.
00:37:55.66\00:37:57.60
Saul was just demon
possessed and out of his mind
00:37:57.63\00:38:00.19
and he was hunting
down David to kill him.
00:38:00.22\00:38:02.96
Providentially God put Saul in
David's hand at least two times
00:38:02.99\00:38:08.93
where David could kill him
and all the soldiers around him
00:38:08.96\00:38:11.92
said this is
obviously an act of God.
00:38:11.95\00:38:13.98
Now you can have justice
for what he has done to you,
00:38:14.01\00:38:16.56
chasing you out of your land.
00:38:16.59\00:38:18.12
And you know what David said,
00:38:18.15\00:38:21.67
no if he is the king and
God has chosen him as king
00:38:21.70\00:38:27.37
and I'm going to
let God take him out,
00:38:27.40\00:38:28.90
I am not going to assume
that role of being vengeful,
00:38:28.93\00:38:33.68
vengeance belongs to the Lord.
00:38:33.71\00:38:35.89
He will either get old and
die, or he will fall in battle
00:38:35.92\00:38:38.09
or he will get sick but my
hand will not be against him,
00:38:38.12\00:38:41.42
I'm going to show him
mercy, I'm paraphrasing.
00:38:41.45\00:38:44.89
And you know God
loved what David did
00:38:44.92\00:38:48.20
because God could take
Saul out anytime he wanted.
00:38:48.23\00:38:51.48
David said look I'm gonna try
first to win Saul through mercy
00:38:51.51\00:38:55.49
and after David had an
opportunity to kill Saul
00:38:55.52\00:38:57.90
twice this happened, he
then shouted across the mountain
00:38:57.93\00:39:01.00
and said King Saul, my
Lord the king humbled himself
00:39:01.03\00:39:04.04
before the king and said
here I got a piece of your robe,
00:39:04.07\00:39:07.18
I have got your spear
that was at your side,
00:39:07.21\00:39:08.83
I had a chance to kill you,
00:39:08.86\00:39:10.02
I want you to know I
had a chance to kill you
00:39:10.05\00:39:11.62
but I have shown you mercy,
00:39:11.65\00:39:12.76
I hope you will
have mercy on me.
00:39:12.79\00:39:14.56
Will you stop chasing me down?
00:39:14.59\00:39:17.13
And God loved David
because he did that.
00:39:17.16\00:39:21.40
I think God
would have understood
00:39:21.43\00:39:23.24
if David had killed Saul.
00:39:23.27\00:39:24.74
In self defense he
is trying to kill me.
00:39:24.77\00:39:27.33
But he didn't
take that approach,
00:39:27.36\00:39:29.17
he erred on the side of mercy.
00:39:29.20\00:39:31.54
Did David end up
getting the throne?
00:39:31.57\00:39:33.97
David didn't need to
kill Saul, he killed himself.
00:39:34.00\00:39:37.22
Saul killed himself, so if
you are going to make a mistake,
00:39:37.25\00:39:41.87
sometimes you say look
well, I went over backwards
00:39:41.90\00:39:43.93
to help that person, I
have gone the second mile,
00:39:43.96\00:39:47.43
I am not going any further.
00:39:47.46\00:39:49.43
Well, you're never going to be,
00:39:49.46\00:39:53.32
God will not be angry at you
00:39:53.35\00:39:54.63
if you go just a
little further really.
00:39:54.66\00:39:57.20
If you err on the side of mercy,
forgiving them a little more,
00:39:57.23\00:40:01.62
being patient a little more.
00:40:01.65\00:40:03.91
How often did Jesus say to Peter
you should forgive 70 times 7
00:40:03.94\00:40:09.13
which is sort of the
Hebrew equivalent of seven
00:40:09.16\00:40:12.45
was a cycle of
time, it was a circle,
00:40:12.48\00:40:16.03
and he seventy times seven,
00:40:16.06\00:40:17.29
he was just saying
God's mercy endorse forever
00:40:17.32\00:40:21.90
and just go as
far as you can go.
00:40:21.93\00:40:25.16
Love mercy, don't just
tolerate it but leave it out.
00:40:25.19\00:40:29.66
2 Samuel 22, "With the merciful
You will show Yourself merciful
00:40:32.70\00:40:39.59
with the blameless man You
will show Yourself blameless.
00:40:39.62\00:40:43.01
If you ever want to
really appreciate God's mercy,
00:40:43.04\00:40:46.06
then let him pass it on
through you to someone else.
00:40:46.09\00:40:51.29
Be merciful to others and
you will never better understand
00:40:51.32\00:40:53.39
God's mercy for you.
00:40:53.42\00:40:54.80
To the merciful he
shows himself mercy.
00:40:54.83\00:40:58.01
Blessed are the merciful,
they will obtain mercy.
00:40:58.04\00:41:02.03
Matthew 23:23, I think
this is a reference of Jesus
00:41:02.06\00:41:06.29
is making to Micah to our verse.
00:41:06.32\00:41:09.39
This is one of the examples
where I think Jesus is making
00:41:09.42\00:41:11.44
a reference to this
Old Testament passage.
00:41:11.47\00:41:15.34
"Woe to you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites,
00:41:15.37\00:41:17.77
For you pay tithe of your
mint and your anise and cummin,
00:41:18.62\00:41:21.97
but you've neglected
the weightier matters,
00:41:22.00\00:41:24.47
can I translate
weightier matters,
00:41:24.50\00:41:26.37
you are not keeping the
main thing the main thing.
00:41:26.40\00:41:29.26
It's good to pay tithe and its
wonderful you are paying tithe
00:41:29.29\00:41:31.62
on your herb
garden that's wonderful.
00:41:31.65\00:41:35.29
I think he could probably take
care of your whole herb garden
00:41:35.32\00:41:37.19
just put one pumpkin in
the plate when he goes by say
00:41:37.22\00:41:39.93
hopefully that will
cover all the herbs.
00:41:39.96\00:41:41.67
I am not counting out
my parsley and chives,
00:41:41.70\00:41:45.59
rosemary, parsley and
thyme, to quote Simon and Garf.
00:41:45.62\00:41:53.09
I mean, you know,
that was sort of extreme
00:41:53.12\00:41:54.86
but he is not condemning
them for being precise
00:41:54.89\00:41:56.66
in their tithe but he said
00:41:56.69\00:41:57.72
you are forgetting
the weightier matters.
00:41:57.75\00:42:00.86
And notice what Jesus said.
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Justice, mercy and faith.
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The first two are the very
same two that you find in Micah.
00:42:06.54\00:42:09.68
Do justly, love mercy and
faith, that means faith in God,
00:42:09.71\00:42:14.76
that will be the last one
00:42:14.79\00:42:16.65
I think Christ is
quoting that there.
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And then we go to point
three, first of all do justly,
00:42:20.13\00:42:23.94
love and love
mercy, loving your neighbor
00:42:23.97\00:42:28.70
and then finally
walking humbly with your God.
00:42:28.73\00:42:32.52
Now, I'm going to
bare this out a little bit
00:42:32.55\00:42:33.96
because there is a lot there.
00:42:33.99\00:42:36.82
First of all walking
with God, not even talking yet
00:42:36.85\00:42:40.45
about walking humbly,
just walking with God.
00:42:40.48\00:42:44.56
Your walk represents
the direction of your life
00:42:44.59\00:42:47.11
and it represents how you
use your time from day to day,
00:42:47.14\00:42:49.73
that's your walk.
00:42:49.76\00:42:51.36
If you lay in bed all
day long, that's your walk.
00:42:51.39\00:42:54.12
You don't have to
walk to have a walk,
00:42:54.15\00:42:55.47
everybody has got a walk.
00:42:55.50\00:42:57.86
Your walk is how
you live your life.
00:42:57.89\00:43:00.88
It's an allegory
or metaphor for that.
00:43:00.91\00:43:06.88
I want to walk
like Enoch walked.
00:43:06.91\00:43:09.49
How did Enoch walked?
00:43:09.52\00:43:10.79
Well, it says in Genesis
5, Enoch walked with God,
00:43:10.82\00:43:14.14
and he was not,
for God took him.
00:43:14.17\00:43:17.06
And it's like it
tells us the 144,000
00:43:17.09\00:43:19.85
they followed the
lamb wherever He goes.
00:43:19.88\00:43:22.79
Are they in the kingdom?
00:43:22.82\00:43:24.76
Yeah, well they are--
00:43:24.79\00:43:26.50
I'm talking about Revelation
places them there, right?
00:43:26.53\00:43:29.47
So they are going to be
saved and the 12 apostles,
00:43:29.50\00:43:34.10
the ones who walked with Jesus.
00:43:34.13\00:43:37.64
They are the ones who are
going to be among the redeemed.
00:43:37.67\00:43:40.31
Ultimately their
names are going to be
00:43:40.34\00:43:42.90
on the 12 foundations
in the New Jerusalem.
00:43:42.93\00:43:48.35
So do you walk with Him here?
00:43:48.38\00:43:50.20
Bible says Noah walked
with God, he was a just man,
00:43:50.23\00:43:53.91
Genesis 6:9 "
Noah was a just man,
00:43:53.94\00:43:57.17
perfect in his generations,
and he walked with God."
00:43:57.20\00:44:01.45
Blessed is the man,
Psalms 1 your first Psalm 1:1,
00:44:01.48\00:44:06.59
"Blessed is the man who walks
00:44:06.62\00:44:08.16
not in the
counsel of the ungodly,"
00:44:08.19\00:44:11.34
what does walking with God mean?
00:44:11.37\00:44:12.64
Well, I tell you
what it doesn't mean.
00:44:12.67\00:44:14.91
You don't walk with the ungodly.
00:44:14.94\00:44:18.35
Nor stands in
the path of sinners,
00:44:18.38\00:44:21.10
nor sits in the
seat of the scornful.
00:44:21.13\00:44:22.81
But his delight is
in the law of the Lord,
00:44:22.84\00:44:25.28
and in his law he
meditates day and night."
00:44:25.31\00:44:27.46
So what is it-- what is
it mean to walk with God?
00:44:27.49\00:44:31.53
Can two people go in the
same destination if the are,
00:44:31.56\00:44:35.71
can they walk together
00:44:35.74\00:44:36.77
if they are not going
to the same destination.
00:44:36.80\00:44:39.77
Does God keep his own law,
so if you are walking with Jesus
00:44:39.80\00:44:43.83
and it says all of my Father's
commandments I have kept.
00:44:43.86\00:44:47.71
That means you're
following the Lord.
00:44:47.74\00:44:51.03
Amos 3:3, Can two walk
together, except they be agreed?
00:44:51.06\00:44:57.61
So this person who is keeping
the main thing the main thing,
00:44:57.64\00:45:01.40
he walks with God, he finds
that Lord what do you want,
00:45:01.43\00:45:04.76
what's your will and
that's what I'm going to do.
00:45:04.79\00:45:07.37
I've kind of summarized
this in five or six points.
00:45:07.40\00:45:11.56
To walk with God,
first of all you got to be
00:45:11.59\00:45:14.33
going in the same direction.
00:45:14.36\00:45:17.05
If you are not going
in the same direction,
00:45:17.08\00:45:18.47
you might walk
with them a little ways
00:45:18.50\00:45:19.83
if you are 45 degrees
off you are going to keep
00:45:19.86\00:45:21.80
getting further
and further apart.
00:45:21.83\00:45:23.51
But if you are going to
the same point on the horizon,
00:45:23.54\00:45:25.44
you're gonna
stay together, right.
00:45:25.47\00:45:28.31
So you got to be
going to the same place
00:45:28.34\00:45:30.36
in the same direction.
00:45:30.39\00:45:33.01
B, you need to be
going in the same pace.
00:45:33.04\00:45:37.25
When you are walking with God,
00:45:37.28\00:45:38.31
He has got a speed at
which He is going to lead you.
00:45:38.34\00:45:42.88
If you run ahead you
are not together anymore.
00:45:42.91\00:45:46.05
If you lag behind
you are not together.
00:45:46.08\00:45:48.00
You may be going
in the same direction
00:45:48.03\00:45:49.43
and still not
be walking together
00:45:49.46\00:45:50.81
because one's mile
ahead of the other.
00:45:50.84\00:45:54.09
Can't really say you are walking
together anymore, can you?
00:45:54.12\00:45:56.92
So you not only need to be
going in the same direction,
00:45:56.95\00:45:58.65
you need to be
going in the same pace.
00:45:58.68\00:46:01.23
Need to be going to
the same destination.
00:46:01.26\00:46:03.04
You need to be going
with the same purpose.
00:46:07.14\00:46:10.34
Why are you going?
00:46:10.37\00:46:12.09
Have you ever thought
that there is a lot of people
00:46:12.12\00:46:13.60
who want to go to heaven
00:46:13.63\00:46:15.56
and they are walking with God
00:46:15.59\00:46:16.62
with different
motives than Jesus has.
00:46:16.65\00:46:20.64
Shouldn't we have the same
motive for walking with God
00:46:20.67\00:46:23.27
that God has
for walking with us?
00:46:23.30\00:46:27.83
Have you seen people
getting married before
00:46:27.86\00:46:29.82
and they have got
different ulterior
00:46:29.85\00:46:33.49
motives for the marriage.
00:46:33.52\00:46:36.47
If their marriages
are, I love this person,
00:46:36.50\00:46:38.30
I want to make this person happy
00:46:38.33\00:46:40.57
and they both
have that one goal,
00:46:40.60\00:46:42.52
they are going to
have happy marriage.
00:46:42.55\00:46:44.18
If there are ulterior
motives other than that,
00:46:44.21\00:46:47.93
if their purpose is not
the same you got problems.
00:46:47.96\00:46:52.83
In your walk with the
Lord if you are doing it
00:46:52.86\00:46:54.35
because what's in it for
you, that's not God's motive.
00:46:54.38\00:46:59.81
Love must be the
motive for others,
00:46:59.84\00:47:01.60
a love that goes out, so you
got to do with the same purpose.
00:47:01.63\00:47:07.86
And finally you got to be
doing it under the same power.
00:47:07.89\00:47:11.09
The power of God's
spirit and it will certainly
00:47:11.12\00:47:14.02
be the driving
dynamo of the Lord,
00:47:14.05\00:47:16.16
it must be the same
power that drives you,
00:47:16.19\00:47:19.39
same direction, same
page, same destination,
00:47:19.42\00:47:21.53
same purpose and the same power,
00:47:21.56\00:47:23.95
that's how you determine if
you are walking with somebody.
00:47:23.98\00:47:27.71
Now doesn't just
say walk with God,
00:47:27.74\00:47:29.11
it tells us how
to walk with Him.
00:47:29.14\00:47:30.97
Walk humbly with thy God.
00:47:31.00\00:47:35.01
You know what that would mean?
00:47:35.04\00:47:36.88
In Hebrew the word humble
there in this verse Micah 6:8,
00:47:36.91\00:47:42.02
it means through humble
thyself to walk with God.
00:47:42.05\00:47:47.09
Another words walk
in humbly with God means
00:47:47.12\00:47:49.28
you begin the walk
by humbling of yourself,
00:47:49.31\00:47:53.36
repenting of your sins.
00:47:53.39\00:47:56.10
You are not walking with God
00:47:56.13\00:47:57.16
because you
think you are worthy,
00:47:57.19\00:47:58.22
you are walking with God
because you humbled yourself.
00:47:58.25\00:48:01.10
That's what makes us
worthy to walk with God.
00:48:01.13\00:48:05.05
We're not walking
with God because we think
00:48:05.08\00:48:06.46
we are better than
others who are walking with God.
00:48:06.49\00:48:09.78
We walk with Him
because we are thankful
00:48:09.81\00:48:12.36
that we can be found
worthy by Christ's virtue
00:48:12.39\00:48:15.37
in merit not by our own.
00:48:15.40\00:48:18.15
Psalms 25:9 "The meek
he will guide in judgment,
00:48:18.18\00:48:23.38
that means in rightness,
00:48:23.41\00:48:24.72
and the meek he will teach
his way, the humble will learn."
00:48:25.70\00:48:30.61
Heard about this
village in Africa
00:48:30.64\00:48:33.39
where a man was given a medal
00:48:33.42\00:48:34.94
because he was considered
00:48:34.97\00:48:36.00
the most humble
man in the village
00:48:36.03\00:48:38.29
but then he made the
mistake of wearing the medal
00:48:38.32\00:48:39.78
and they took it away from him.
00:48:39.81\00:48:40.94
The interesting thing
about Christian humility
00:48:45.57\00:48:48.42
is once you think
you have achieved it,
00:48:48.45\00:48:50.00
you probably lost
it at that moment.
00:48:50.03\00:48:53.57
Praise the Lord, I'm not
humble I mean as soon as you say
00:48:53.60\00:48:56.17
that you're proud
in your humility, right
00:48:56.20\00:48:59.00
and you've have lost it.
00:48:59.03\00:49:00.36
1 Peter 5:5 "God
resists the proud,
00:49:00.39\00:49:04.28
but he gives
grace to the humble."
00:49:04.31\00:49:07.21
I don't know about
you but I need grace.
00:49:07.24\00:49:10.16
You need grace? Who
gets the grace? The humble.
00:49:10.19\00:49:16.31
In your walk with God, are
you going to fall down? Yeah.
00:49:16.34\00:49:21.20
But if you walk in humbly,
00:49:21.23\00:49:22.37
they will pick you
back up, you get grace.
00:49:22.69\00:49:24.99
If you are walking
with arrogance with God,
00:49:25.02\00:49:28.74
you gonna fall a lot
where you're not even up yet.
00:49:28.77\00:49:32.98
But if you want to be able
to continue walking with God,
00:49:33.01\00:49:35.56
you need to do it humbly
00:49:35.59\00:49:38.93
and then especially
beautiful is the part that says
00:49:38.96\00:49:44.26
finally Psalms 51:17,
00:49:44.29\00:49:48.31
"The sacrifices of
God are a broken spirit,
00:49:48.34\00:49:53.01
a broken and a
contrite heart These,
00:49:53.04\00:49:55.68
O God, You will not despise."
00:49:55.71\00:49:58.00
If you are
walking with God humbly,
00:49:58.03\00:50:00.39
that means you are walking
00:50:00.42\00:50:01.49
because your
heart has been broken.
00:50:01.52\00:50:03.96
You have been broken
at the foot of the cross
00:50:03.99\00:50:07.99
and you are so
thankful that you have any--
00:50:08.02\00:50:10.06
the privilege to walk with God
that you are doing it humbly.
00:50:10.09\00:50:16.16
Now, moving
into that last verse,
00:50:16.19\00:50:19.18
the last parts of
the verse, do justly,
00:50:19.21\00:50:21.61
love mercy, walk
humbly with thy God.
00:50:21.64\00:50:26.27
You know that's really beautiful
when you think about it.
00:50:27.50\00:50:30.58
The very fact it says with
God what, we get to be with God.
00:50:30.61\00:50:34.63
What's the purpose of
the plan of salvation?
00:50:34.66\00:50:37.06
We have been
separated from God by our sins,
00:50:37.09\00:50:39.63
He wants to be with us.
00:50:39.66\00:50:41.84
Isn't that
wonderful to think about?
00:50:41.87\00:50:43.71
Revelation 21:3, "And I heard
a loud voice from heaven saying,
00:50:43.74\00:50:49.67
Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men,
00:50:49.70\00:50:53.13
and he will dwell with
them, they shall be his people,
00:50:53.16\00:50:56.99
and God himself
will be with them."
00:50:57.02\00:51:00.49
Wow, what's the ultimate
goal when we get to heaven?
00:51:00.52\00:51:03.67
That we are with each other.
00:51:03.70\00:51:06.38
So if you want
to be with Him then,
00:51:06.41\00:51:08.47
there, we must be willing
to walk with Him here now,
00:51:08.50\00:51:12.48
that we walk
humbly with our God.
00:51:12.51\00:51:14.84
Living to guide
you, you got two choices,
00:51:14.87\00:51:16.55
you can live a life
with God or without Him.
00:51:16.58\00:51:19.34
I have already tried living
without Him and it goes nowhere,
00:51:19.37\00:51:21.72
well, it goes down.
00:51:21.75\00:51:24.20
So I'm going to live with Him,
that means walking with Him.
00:51:24.23\00:51:29.04
Walk humbly with thy God.
00:51:29.07\00:51:31.74
Now in summary, notice
what's in these verses.
00:51:31.77\00:51:36.00
The three main
points are say it with me.
00:51:36.03\00:51:39.29
Do justly, love
mercy, walk humbly.
00:51:39.32\00:51:46.68
The do is what you do.
00:51:46.71\00:51:50.30
The love is what
you do with others.
00:51:50.33\00:51:54.08
The walk is with God.
00:51:54.11\00:51:57.01
The great commandment,
love the Lord your God,
00:51:57.04\00:52:00.73
love your neighbor
as you love yourself.
00:52:00.76\00:52:03.93
You heard me say before the key
to joy is Jesus, others, you.
00:52:03.96\00:52:09.78
As these three individuals
are in the key vision statement
00:52:09.81\00:52:12.88
for the Christian,
it's in this verse.
00:52:12.91\00:52:15.74
You live justly,
for others love mercy
00:52:15.77\00:52:22.35
and then have God
your focus, walk with God,
00:52:22.38\00:52:26.93
live for His glory, worship Him.
00:52:26.96\00:52:30.15
You, your neighbor and
God is all summed up in this.
00:52:30.18\00:52:33.09
You know what I
love about this verse.
00:52:33.12\00:52:35.23
It says for God seeks
not what you would have
00:52:35.26\00:52:39.61
but who you are, not your
substance but your spirit.
00:52:39.64\00:52:46.00
He is not looking for your
house but He wants your heart.
00:52:46.03\00:52:50.14
This wonderful
verse encapsulates
00:52:50.17\00:52:53.28
what does the Lord want from us?
00:52:53.31\00:52:55.65
He wants you, He
wants your heart.
00:52:55.68\00:52:59.29
And if He has your
heart, you will say Lord,
00:52:59.32\00:53:01.24
by your grace I'm going
to seek first your kingdom.
00:53:01.27\00:53:04.39
I'm going to do justly,
I'm going to love my neighbor,
00:53:04.42\00:53:08.14
I'm going to show
mercy and kindness
00:53:08.17\00:53:11.11
and I'm going to live a life
that's not separated from You.
00:53:11.14\00:53:14.06
I'm going to walk with
you like Enoch and Enoch
00:53:14.09\00:53:15.84
must had some kind of walk
because he never even died.
00:53:15.87\00:53:19.03
Enoch is where
you want to be, amen.
00:53:19.06\00:53:21.41
So if you can walk with God
the way Enoch walked with God,
00:53:21.44\00:53:24.58
then you are home free.
00:53:24.61\00:53:26.69
Now we've made a
little change in the way
00:53:26.72\00:53:28.97
we are going to conclude this.
00:53:29.00\00:53:31.84
I thought, how many of
you know that there is a song
00:53:31.87\00:53:34.30
that actually
summarizes this verse.
00:53:34.33\00:53:36.33
I'm going to see if
Pastor Steve will come out here.
00:53:39.18\00:53:40.82
We are going to put
that song up on the screen.
00:53:40.85\00:53:43.11
It's the word, the
whole song is this verse.
00:53:43.14\00:53:45.62
Yeah, just bring that
up. Thank you very much.
00:53:45.65\00:53:50.14
The song is this verse.
00:53:50.17\00:53:51.21
He has shown you,
O man, what is good
00:53:51.24\00:53:53.19
and what does the
Lord require of thee.
00:53:53.22\00:53:56.17
But to do justly, to love mercy,
00:53:56.20\00:53:59.65
and to walk humbly with thy God?
00:53:59.68\00:54:01.42
Now do you know why I
want you to sing this,
00:54:01.45\00:54:02.84
we're not going to
do the closing hymn.
00:54:02.87\00:54:04.48
How many of you men in the choir
00:54:04.51\00:54:05.60
know this song and the chorus.
00:54:05.63\00:54:07.22
I'd like you to
come up here with us.
00:54:07.25\00:54:08.85
Make Steven and I
sound much better,
00:54:08.88\00:54:10.13
come on don't be afraid.
00:54:10.16\00:54:11.61
We are sort of
a friendly church.
00:54:11.64\00:54:13.64
I'm taking your word
for that you know what,
00:54:13.67\00:54:15.14
that you don't know
some elaborate version.
00:54:15.17\00:54:17.13
All right, we are going
through a couple of times,
00:54:44.15\00:54:46.16
if you know it you
are welcome to sing,
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but probably it's a
short song, so probably do
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three or four or more times.
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And the idea is you gonna
be humming this all day long,
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I want to impress
this vision statement
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on your mind, all right.
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I will do it slow first, okay.
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You can join me.
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He has shown thee, O Man
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What is good
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And what does the
Lord require of me
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But to do justly
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And to love mercy
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And to walk humbly with thy God
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Say it again.
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He has shown thee, O Man
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What is good
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And what does the
Lord require of me
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But to do justly
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And to love mercy
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And to walk humbly with thy God
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Are you ready to join the choir?
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All right, let's all stand.
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You will sing
better, take a deep breath.
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We will do this
two more times, okay.
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He has shown thee, O Man
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What is good
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And what does the
Lord require of me
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But to do justly
00:56:16.52\00:56:19.72
And to love mercy
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And to walk humbly with thy God
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He has shown thee, O Man
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What is good
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And what does the
Lord require of me
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But to do justly
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And to love mercy
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And to walk humbly with thy God
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Amen. Amen.
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Are you gonna
remember this verse?
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Are you going to do it?
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All right, that's our prayer.
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Let's bow our heads together.
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Loving Father in heaven,
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Lord, sometimes
it's easier to quote it,
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to sing it than to do it, I pray
that Your word will come alive
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in our hearts that this
simple power of this verse,
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what it is you
require of us to do justly,
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to live honest
lives in integrity,
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to love mercy, to show
compassion and kindness
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for those around us
and to walk with the mind
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and the spirit of
Christ humbly in your presence.
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Help us Lord to really exemplify
these things in our lives.
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This is what it
means to be Christians.
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I pray that this can
be our mission statement.
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Bless each person,
guide us with Your spirit
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that we might
live this kind of life
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and walk this kind of walk,
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so that we might ultimately
be with You through eternity.
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This is our prayer
in Christ's name. Amen.
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