>> IT'S BEEN 2,000 YEARS SINCE
THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE CROSS
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ILLUMINATED A WORLD VEILED IN
DARKNESS AND CONFUSION ABOUT THE
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CHARACTER OF GOD.
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AND STILL TODAY THE GREATEST
NEED OF MANKIND IS A REVELATION
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OF GOD'S LOVE AS
REVEALED IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
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AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS,
"THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL" WITH
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PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR COMING
TO YOU EACH WEEK FROM SACRAMENTO
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CENTRAL CHURCH
IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA.
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DISCOVER HIDDEN
TREASURES IN GOD'S WORD TODAY.
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>> I REMEMBER, YEARS AGO, BEING
FASCINATED WITH EDDIE FISHER,
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THE CHESS MASTER.
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AND A LITTLE TRIVIA--SOME
OF YOU PROBABLY EITHER HEARD
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OF OR SAW THAT CLASSIC FILM
CALLED "GONE WITH THE WIND."
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ONE OF THE ACTRESSES WAS
EVELYN KEYES, EVELYN KEYES WAS
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THE SISTER OF
SCARLETT O'HARA IN THAT FILM.
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SHE WAS A DEAR FRIEND OF
MY MOTHERS AND WAS FREQUENTLY
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AT OUR HOUSE.
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WE DIDN'T EVEN CALL HER EVELYN
KEYES, WE CALLED HER KASEY.
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AND SHE TAUGHT ME TO PLAY CHESS
WHEN I WAS JUST OH, I DON'T
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KNOW, 7, 8, 9 YEARS OLD AND I
WAS VERY INTRIGUED BY THE GAME
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OF CHESS.
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I HAVEN'T PLAYED VERY MUCH CHESS
IN YEARS, BUT I WAS FOLLOWING IT
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BACK THEN.
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THE IDEA OF THE STRATEGY
AND THINKING SO FAR AHEAD.
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THEN I HEARD ABOUT THIS PRODIGY,
EDDIE FISHER, WHO WAS JUST
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A GENIUS AND A CHESS MASTER,
BECAME A GRAND MASTER AND SORT
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OF BROKE INTO
THE--IT WAS BOBBY FISCHER.
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THANK YOU, I KNEW
I SAID THAT WRONG.
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EDDIE FISHER WAS
ANOTHER SINGER, YEAH.
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WHERE ARE AM I?
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WHO ARE YOU?
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WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?
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ANYWAY IT'S GONNA BE MORE
LIKE THIS AS TIME GOES BY.
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ANYWAY, BOBBY
FISCHER, THAT'S RIGHT.
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AND SO I WAS INTRIGUED BY
THAT AND I REMEMBER HEARING OR
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READING, ACTUALLY, ABOUT HOW
WHEN THEY HAD THIS FAMOUS MATCH
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IN ICELAND BETWEEN THE TWO OF
THEM AND IT WAS MUCH PUBLICIZED
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THAT ONE WRITER INTERVIEWED
THE GRAND MASTERS OF CHESS.
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AND HE THOUGHT THERE WAS AN
INTERESTING CONSISTENCY WHEN
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THEY WOULD INTERVIEW THESE GRAND
MASTERS, THE BEST CHESS PLAYERS
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IN THE WORLD AND THEY TALK ABOUT
THE OCCASIONS WHEN THEY LOST.
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THEY SAID, "WELL,
WE DIDN'T REALLY LOSE."
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ALWAYS WHENEVER THEY WERE
DEFEATED IT WAS BECAUSE, WELL,
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THE OPPONENT DIDN'T REALLY
FOLLOW THE LINE OF STRATEGY HE
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SHOULD HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING OR,
"YOU KNOW, THE WEATHER THAT DAY
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IT WAS SO HUMID, I
JUST COULDN'T THINK."
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OR "I WASN'T ABLE TO SLEEP,
I TRAVELED THROUGH SO MANY TIME
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ZONES."
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OR YOU KNOW "I REACHED FOR
A PIECE AND MY HAND SLIPPED."
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BUT THEY NEVER SAID, "I WAS
OUTSMARTED OR I WAS DEFEATED"
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BECAUSE IT WAS ALMOST
UNTHINKABLE THAT A GRAND MASTER
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COULD SAY, "I'VE BEEN BEATEN."
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THEY HAD THIS VERY ELITIST IDEA
AND LIVED IN SORT OF AN ILLUSION
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THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE
THE BRIGHTEST AND THEREFORE THEY
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COULD NOT BE DEFEATED.
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WELL, OUR MESSAGE TODAY
IS TALKING ABOUT THAT KIND OF
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ATTITUDE THAT CAN EVEN DRIFT
OVER INTO THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.
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AND SO I'VE TITLED THE
MESSAGE "TOO GOOD FOR GOD."
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AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS THE
CENTRAL CORE OF WHAT I WANT TO
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SAY, YOU PROBABLY DON'T HAVE TO
WORRY ABOUT EVER BEING TOO BAD
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FOR GOD, BUT THE BIBLE WARNS US
THAT IT CAN BE VERY DANGEROUS TO
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THINK YOU'RE TOO GOOD FOR GOD.
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AND THERE'S NO EXAMPLE IN
THE BIBLE OF ANYONE THAT WAS
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TOO BAD FOR GOD TO SAVE, BUT
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN
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THE BIBLE WHO WERE
TOO GOOD FOR GOD TO SAVE.
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AND SO THIS WOULD BE A WARNING
THIS MORNING FOR THAT ATTITUDE
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OF THINKING THAT MAYBE
YOU'RE TOO GOOD FOR GOD.
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I REMEMBER READING ABOUT AN
ENGLISHMAN WHO WAS DRIVING HIS
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FAIRLY NEW ROLLS ROYCE
THROUGH THE SWISS ALPS.
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AND HE WENT AROUND TO TURN A
LITTLE FAST AND HE HIT A BUMP
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AND IT BROKE ONE OF THE
SPRINGS IN THE FRONT OF THE CAR.
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WELL, HE WASN'T SURE WHAT TO DO
SO HE LIMPED OFF INTO NEXT SWISS
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TOWN AND HE CALLED ROLLS ROYCE.
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AND AS SOON AS THEY HEARD WHAT
HAD HAPPENED, THEY IMMEDIATELY
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FLEW A TECHNICIAN TO SWITZERLAND
WHO CAME, HAD THE PARTS,
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REPAIRED THE CAR.
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THE MAN TRIED TO PAY FOR IT
AND HE SAID, "NO, THE OFFICE
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WILL TAKE CARE OF THAT."
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HE WOULDN'T
EVEN GIVE HIM A BILL.
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AFTER SEVERAL WEEKS WENT BY,
THE CAR WASN'T UNDER WARRANTY
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AND HE NEVER GOT A
BILL FROM ROLLS ROYCE.
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THE ENGLISHMAN BACK AT HOME,
NOW HE CALLED ROLLS ROYCE AND HE
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SAID, "YOU KNOW I'VE NEVER
GOTTEN THE BILL FOR THIS BROKEN
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LEAF SPRING."
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AND THERE'S A LITTLE BIT
OF CONFUSION ON THE LINE.
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PRETTY SOON A QUALITY-CONTROL
MANAGER CAME ON THE LINE AND HE
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SPOKE TO THE OWNER OF CAR.
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AND HE SAID, "YOU KNOW THERE
SHOULD BE SOME RECORD SOMEWHERE
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ABOUT A BROKEN LEAF
SPRING IN SWITZERLAND."
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AND HE SAID, "SIR,
THERE MUST BE SOME MISTAKE.
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ROLLS ROYCES DO NOT
HAVE BROKEN LEAF SPRINGS."
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I UNDERSTAND
THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
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AND THEY DID NOT WANT IT IN THE
RECORDS, THEY DID NOT WANT IT IN
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THEIR QUALITY REPORTS THAT
THEIR CAR, THIS MODEL, HAD HAD
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A BROKEN SPRING.
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AND SO IT WAS EASIER FOR THEM
TO DENY THERE EVER WAS A PROBLEM
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AND PAY FOR IT THAN TO ADMIT IT.
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BUT DO WE EVER FIND OURSELVES
DENYING THERE'S A PROBLEM
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BECAUSE WE THINK WE'RE ABOVE IT?
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OR WE USE THE DIVERSIONARY
TACTIC OF POINTING AT OTHER
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PEOPLE'S PROBLEMS BECAUSE
IT MAKES US, BY COMPARISON,
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FEEL A LITTLE BIT BETTER.
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BIG MISTAKE, IF YOU WANT TO
BE SAVED, STEP NUMBER ONE, YOU
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GOTTA ADMIT THAT YOU'RE LOST.
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BEFORE THE LORD CAN SAVE YOU
FROM YOUR SINS, YOU MUST ADMIT
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YOU'RE A SINNER AND GOD
WARNS AGAINST THIS TENDENCY,
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ESPECIALLY FOUND AMONG
CHRISTIANS, TO DENY THAT WE
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ARE SINNERS.
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1 JOHN 1:10, "IF WE SAY WE HAVE
NOT SINNED, WE MAKE HIM A LIAR
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AND HIS WORD IS NOT IN US."
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LOT OF VERSES IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT AS WELL.
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JEREMIAH 2:35, "YET YOU SAY
BECAUSE I'M INNOCENT, SURELY HIS
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ANGER SHALL TURN FROM ME.
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BEHOLD I WILL PLEAD MY CASE
AGAINST YOU," GOD IS SAYING,
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"BECAUSE YOU SAY
I HAVE NOT SINNED."
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SO THIS SELF-RIGHTEOUS
ATTITUDE IS VERY DANGEROUS.
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NOW TO AVOID ANY CONFUSION, I
WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR RIGHT AT
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THE BEGINNING THAT IN THE TITLE
WHEN I TALK ABOUT BEING TOO GOOD
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FOR GOD, I DON'T
THINK IT'S BAD TO BE GOOD.
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I THINK IT'S GOOD TO BE GOOD.
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MATTER OF FACT IF WE SOMETIMES
GO TO THE OTHER EXTREME AND WE
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SAY YOU KNOW YOU DON'T WANT TO
TALK ABOUT, "IF I'M BAD, I GO TO
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HELL AND IF I'M GOOD I GO TO
HEAVEN" BECAUSE THAT MIGHT SOUND
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LIKE IT'S WORKS.
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BUT THE FACT REMAINS
GOD WANTS YOU TO BE GOOD.
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IF YOU HAD ANY DOUBTS,
HE DOES WANT YOU TO BE GOOD.
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GOD IS GOOD.
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CHRIST IS GOOD.
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IF YOU FOLLOW CHRIST, YOU
SHOULD MODEL HIS GOODNESS.
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NOW HERE'S A FEW VERSES TO JUST,
LET'S ESTABLISH THAT BEFORE WE
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GO ANY FARTHER 'CAUSE I
DON'T WANT MISUNDERSTANDINGS.
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PSALM 34:14, "DEPART
FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD.
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SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT."
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PSALM 37:3, "TRUST
IN THE LORD AND DO GOOD.
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DWELL IN THE LAND AND
FEED ON HIS FAITHFULNESS."
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SAME CHAPTER VERSE 27,
"DEPART FROM EVIL AND DO GOOD."
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NOT ONLY DO
GOOD, DEPART FROM EVIL.
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"AND DWELL FOREVER MORE."
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ISAIAH 1:16, YOU KNOW THIS,
"WASH YOURSELVES, MAKE YOURSELF
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CLEAN.
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PUT AWAY THE EVIL OF YOUR
DOINGS FROM BEFORE MINE EYES.
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CEASE TO DO EVIL.
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LEARN TO DO GOOD."
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JESUS, OF COURSE, MATTHEW 5:44,
"BUT I SAY TO YOU, LOVE YOUR
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ENEMIES, BLESS THOSE WHO
CURSE YOU, DO GOOD TO THOSE WHO
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HATE YOU.
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PRAY FOR THOSE WHO SPITEFULLY
USE YOU AND PERSECUTE YOU."
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AND GOING TO HEBREWS 13:16,
"DO NOT FORGET TO DO GOOD AND TO
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SHARE FOR SUCH
SACRIFICES GOD IS WELL PLEASED."
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NOW I WOULD PROBABLY WEAR
YOU DOWN IF I WENT THROUGH ALL
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THE DO-GOOD VERSES IN THE
BIBLE, BUT HOPEFULLY THERE'S NO
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QUESTION IN ANYONE'S MIND.
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AS OPPOSED TO BEING BAD,
GOD WANTS YOU TO BE GOOD, RIGHT?
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GOD IS GOOD.
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CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE IDENTIFIED,
NOT FOR OUR BADNESS, BUT FOR
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OUR GOODNESS BUT YOU DON'T WANT
TO GET TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU
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THINK YOU'RE TOO GOOD FOR GOD.
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YOU DO GOOD BECAUSE YOU LOVE
HIM AND BECAUSE IT'S THE RIGHT
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THING.
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BUT YOU WANT TO AVOID THE
IDEA THAT YOU THINK THAT YOU'RE
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BETTER THAN EVERYONE
ELSE OR YOU BECOME ELITE.
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JESUS HAD QUITE A BIT TO SAY TO
THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES OF
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HIS DAY BECAUSE THEY ALMOST
FELT THEY WERE TOO GOOD FOR GOD.
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I'M ENCOURAGED WHEN I LOOK
AT THE EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE OF
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THE PEOPLE THAT JESUS CHOSE TO
FOLLOW HIM AND TO REPRESENT HIM.
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IT HELPS ME REALIZE
THERE'S HOPE FOR ALL OF US.
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THE FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST IN
THE BIBLE ARE OFTEN MADE UP OF
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A MOTLEY CREW.
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I LIKE THE STORY IN 1
SAMUEL 22 ABOUT KING DAVID.
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THE ONES WHO GATHERED
AND RALLIED AROUND DAVID,
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IT'S AN INTERESTING GROUP.
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1 SAMUEL 22:1, "DAVID THEREFORE
DEPARTED FROM THERE AND HE
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ESCAPED TO THE CAVE OF ADULLAM."
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HE'S NOT IN A PALACE, HE'S IN
A DAMP CAVE WITH A DIRT FLOOR.
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"AND WHEN HIS BROTHERS AND HIS
FATHER'S HOUSE HEARD IT, THEY
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WENT DOWN TO HIM THERE."
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AND LISTEN TO THIS:
"AND EVERYONE WHO WAS IN
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DISTRESS AND EVERYONE WHO
WAS IN DEBT AND EVERYONE WHO WAS
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DISCONTENTED GATHERED TO HIM."
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SO HE BECAME A CAPTAIN OVER THEM
AND THERE WERE ABOUT 400 MEN
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WITH HIM IN ADULLAM.
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THE WORD "ADULLAM"
MEANS SEALED PLACE.
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IT WAS SEALED OFF FROM
EVERYWHERE ELSE, KIND OF
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A REFUGE.
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AND ALL THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE
IN DEBT, WHO WERE DISCONTENT,
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WHO WERE HAVING ALL KINDS OF
PROBLEMS WITH THE GOVERNMENT OR
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MAYBE HAD BEEN CAST
OUT OF THEIR FAMILY.
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THEY WERE SORT OF THE OFF
SCOURING OF SOCIETY, THEY BECAME
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HIS ARMY.
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AND IT'S INTERESTING AS YOU
FOLLOW THE HISTORY OF DAVID AND
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HE WENT FROM LIVING IN A CAVE
TO ULTIMATELY BEING ENTHRONED,
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THAT'S SAME GROUP THAT STUCK
WITH HIM THICK AND THIN, THAT
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MOTLEY CREW, THEY BECAME
HIS CABINET IN THE NEW KINGDOM.
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WHO IS GOING TO BE AMONG
THE CABINET IN JESUS' KINGDOM?
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IT'S THE MOTLEY CREW OF
APOSTLES THAT HE CALLED.
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YOU REALIZE THAT THE FOLLOWERS
OF JESUS, THEY WERE NOT THE
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ELITE, SOPHISTICATED, EDUCATED,
REFINED PEOPLE OF THE DAY.
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THE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS
WERE ALSO A MOTLEY CREW.
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YOU'VE GOT JOHN 7:48-49, "ONE
OF THE THINGS THEY HAD AGAINST
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CHRIST WAS THEY SAID, 'HAVE ANY
OF THE RULERS OF THE PHARISEES
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BELIEVED ON HIM?' BUT
THIS CROWD THAT DOES NOT
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KNOW THE LAW, THEY WERE CURSED."
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I MEAN THE RULERS AND
THE PHARISEES AND THE LAWYERS
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AND THE SCRIBES,
THEY'RE NOT ENDORSING HIM.
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SO THIS MOTLEY CREW OF
FISHERMAN AND SHEPHERDS AND TAX
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COLLECTORS, WHAT DO THEY KNOW?
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THAT OUGHT TO
TELL YOU SOMETHING.
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WHO IS GOING TO BE PART OF
CHRIST'S CABINET IN THE KINGDOM?
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IT'S GOING TO BE THE APOSTLES.
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WE WILL LIVE AND REIGN
WITH JESUS, ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
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THAT'S AN ENCOURAGING
THING TO REMEMBER FOR ME.
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YOU KNOW IT MAKES ME THINK ABOUT
WHAT YOU FIND WHEN YOU SAIL
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THROUGH NEW YORK HARBOR, THERE'S
THAT POEM BY EMMA LAZARUS THERE
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ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
AND ESPECIALLY THE LAST LINES
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SORT OF DESCRIBES
WHY AMERICA'S GREAT.
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"GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR,
YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO
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BREATHE FREE, THE WRETCHED
REFUSE OF YOUR TEEMING SHORE.
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SEND THESE, HOMELESS,
TEMPEST-TOST TO ME, I LIFT MY
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LAMP BESIDE THE GOLDEN DOOR!"
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YOU KNOW I THINK THAT'S ONE
REASON THAT AMERICA'S A GREAT
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COUNTRY IS THAT WE'RE
SORT OF A MOTLEY CREW.
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YOU KNOW ENGLAND SENT SOME OF
THEIR PRISONERS HERE AS THEY DID
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TO AUSTRALIA.
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GET 'EM OUT OF THE COUNTRY.
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AND YOU HAD THE POOR AND THE
WRETCHED TEEMING MASSES AND THE
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PEOPLE LOOKING TO BREATHE
FREE AND JUST FOLKS FROM ALL
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DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, AND
COMBINED IT TURNED INTO GENIUS.
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BY THE WAY DID YOU KNOW THERE
ARE MORE DISEASES THAT YOU WILL
00:13:03.06\00:13:06.70
FIND AMONG THE PUREBREDS IN ANY
SPECIES THAN AMONG THE MUTTS?
00:13:06.70\00:13:15.66
HOW MANY OF YOU
KNOW THAT'S TRUE?
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NOW WE HAD A GERMAN SHEPHERD
WHO STARTED LIMPING AROUND.
00:13:18.90\00:13:21.06
AFTER A FEW YEARS, WE
FOUND OUT IT HAD HIP DYSTOCIA.
00:13:21.06\00:13:23.93
AND I SAID, WHAT'S THAT?
00:13:23.93\00:13:24.63
AND THEY SAID, "OH, IT'S
COMMON AMONG GERMAN SHEPHERDS.
00:13:24.63\00:13:26.33
IT'S BECAUSE OF THE INBREEDING."
00:13:26.33\00:13:29.36
AND JUST ABOUT EVERY RACE
HAVE CERTAIN DISEASES THAT ARE
00:13:29.36\00:13:32.93
EXCLUSIVE TO THAT RACE, BUT
THE MORE WE'RE SORT OF MIXED UP,
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THE BETTER
GENETIC VITALITY YOU HAVE.
00:13:38.36\00:13:41.63
IT'S THE PUREBREDS
THAT OFTEN GET SICK.
00:13:41.63\00:13:44.23
THE BLUE BLOODS WERE THE
HEMOPHILIACS OF ROYALTY AND THAT
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ALSO HAPPENS IN CHRISTIANITY.
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YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO BECOME SO
REFINED YOU'RE TOO GOOD FOR GOD.
00:13:53.80\00:13:58.26
NOW I'M NOT SUGGESTING
THAT YOU, YOU KNOW, BE A MUTT.
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I'M JUST TELLING YOU THAT
GOD OFTEN SEEMS TO CHOOSE PEOPLE
00:14:05.26\00:14:11.60
THAT DON'T THINK TOO MUCH
OF THEMSELVES FOR HIM TO USE,
00:14:11.60\00:14:17.20
OTHERWISE YOU CAN GET TO
THE PLACE WHERE YOU'RE TOO GOOD
00:14:17.20\00:14:20.00
FOR GOD.
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LISTEN TO HOW PAUL PUTS IT,
1 CORINTHIANS 1:26 DESCRIBING
00:14:20.63\00:14:24.76
THE EARLY CHURCH, "FOR YOU SEE
YOUR CALLING, BRETHREN, THAT NOT
00:14:24.76\00:14:29.63
MANY WIVES ACCORDING TO
THE FLESH, NOT MANY MIGHTY,
00:14:29.63\00:14:33.26
NOT MANY NOBLE ARE CALLED.
00:14:33.26\00:14:36.03
BUT GOD HAS CHOSEN THE FOOLISH
THINGS OF THIS WORLD TO PUT TO
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SHAME THE WISE.
00:14:39.43\00:14:40.76
AND GOD HAS CHOSEN THE WEAK
THINGS OF THIS WORLD TO PUT TO
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SHAME THOSE WHICH ARE MIGHTY."
00:14:43.53\00:14:46.26
YOU KNOW I LIKE THE STORY IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT, I THINK IT'S IN
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2 KINGS 6 WHEN THE PEOPLE
OF ISRAEL ARE SURROUNDED AND
00:14:49.83\00:14:54.03
STARVING AND ALL OF A SUDDEN
THEY FIND OUT THE ENEMY'S FLED
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AND THERE'S A
GREAT ABUNDANCE OF FOOD.
00:14:57.23\00:14:59.30
AND WHO IS IT THAT
DISCOVERS THIS GOOD NEWS?
00:14:59.30\00:15:01.83
FOUR LEPROUS MEN.
00:15:01.83\00:15:04.66
THE GOOD NEWS IS
GIVEN TO FOUR LEPROUS MEN.
00:15:04.66\00:15:08.56
A MESSAGE OF LIFE IS GIVEN
TO THESE MEN WHO ARE CLOTHED
00:15:08.56\00:15:12.00
IN RAGS.
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WHO DOES JESUS USE TO
ANNOUNCE THE RESURRECTION?
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PETER COMES TO THE TOMB
AND HE LEAVES AND JOHN COMES
00:15:17.53\00:15:20.26
AND LEAVES.
00:15:20.26\00:15:21.20
HIS OWN MOTHER COMES AND LEAVES,
BUT THE ONE WHO LINGERS IS MARY.
00:15:21.20\00:15:28.86
AND HE GIVES THE MESSAGE OF
LIFE TO A WOMAN THAT MOST OF US
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BELIEVE WAS REALLY A
PROSTITUTE SAVED BY GRACE.
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WHY DID HE GIVE IT TO HER?
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WHY DOES GOD SEEM TO
DELIBERATELY CHOOSE THE WEAK
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AND THE INADEQUATE?
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PETER SAID,
"LORD, DEPART FROM ME.
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I'M A SINFUL MAN," AND HE WAS
TELLING THE TRUTH, WASN'T HE?
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ANYONE DENY THAT
PETER, ANYONE DISAGREE?
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WE ALL BELIEVE PETER
WAS TELLING THE TRUTH.
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HE WASN'T OVERSTATING THE CASE.
00:15:59.33\00:16:01.66
I MEAN AFTER ALL IF JOHN THE
BAPTIST SAID, "I HAVE NEED TO BE
00:16:01.66\00:16:04.33
BAPTIZED OF YOU, JESUS,"
HOW MUCH MORE WOULD PETER BE
00:16:04.33\00:16:06.73
UNWORTHY?
00:16:06.73\00:16:08.13
AND WHAT DID CHRIST SAY?
00:16:08.13\00:16:10.43
"DO NOT FEAR
HEREAFTER YOU WILL CATCH MEN.
00:16:10.43\00:16:13.20
I CAN USE YOU."
00:16:13.20\00:16:14.23
BECAUSE YOU KNOW
YOU'RE NOT WORTHY.
00:16:14.23\00:16:17.43
IT'S THOSE OF US WHO FEEL LIKE
WE'RE GRAND MASTERS HE CAN'T
00:16:17.43\00:16:23.13
USE.
00:16:23.13\00:16:24.93
NOW THE MOST DANGEROUS
THING ABOUT THIS SITUATION IS
00:16:24.93\00:16:27.86
THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE IT
DON'T KNOW THEY HAVE IT.
00:16:27.86\00:16:32.00
IT'S KIND OF LIKE SLEEP, YOU CAN
ALWAYS KNOW WHEN YOU'RE AWAKE,
00:16:32.00\00:16:37.16
BUT YOU TYPICALLY DON'T
KNOW WHEN YOU'RE ASLEEP.
00:16:37.16\00:16:39.73
AND IF YOU'RE HAVING PROBLEMS
SLEEPING AND YOU'RE TRYING TO GO
00:16:39.73\00:16:41.96
TO SLEEP, IT'S WHEN YOU REALIZE
YOU'RE NOT ASLEEP, YOU'RE AWAKE.
00:16:41.96\00:16:49.00
AM I GOING TOO FAST?
00:16:49.00\00:16:52.60
BUT WHEN YOU ARE ASLEEP,
YOU ALMOST NEVER KNOW IT.
00:16:52.60\00:16:56.23
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE LAID THERE
AND GO, "OH, IT'S SO NICE TO BE
00:16:56.23\00:16:58.03
ASLEEP?"
00:16:58.03\00:17:00.96
IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU WAKE UP,
YOU REALIZE YOU WERE ASLEEP.
00:17:00.96\00:17:03.76
THAT'S SORT OF HOW IT IS
SPIRITUALLY FOR THOSE WHO ARE
00:17:03.76\00:17:08.60
TOO GOOD FOR GOD.
00:17:08.60\00:17:10.76
AND IN A SERMON LIKE THIS,
IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO YOUR RIGHT
00:17:10.76\00:17:14.60
AND TO YOUR LEFT THINKIN',
"PREACH ON PASTOR DOUG, THEY
00:17:14.60\00:17:17.16
REALLY NEED TO HEAR THIS.
00:17:17.16\00:17:19.80
WOW, HEY, I HOPE YOU'RE LOOKING
OVER HERE TO MY LEFT BECAUSE,
00:17:19.80\00:17:23.00
WHOO, THEY REALLY
NEED THIS MESSAGE."
00:17:23.00\00:17:25.73
HELLO, FOCUS, COULD BE
YOU THAT NEEDS TO HEAR THIS.
00:17:25.73\00:17:32.46
THERE'S A PARABLE THAT JESUS
GIVES THAT ILLUSTRATES THIS.
00:17:32.46\00:17:37.23
I ALMOST CHOSE THIS
AS THE SCRIPTURE READING.
00:17:37.23\00:17:40.93
LUKE 18, THIS IS EXHIBIT A OF
WHAT CHRIST IS WARNING US ABOUT,
00:17:40.93\00:17:45.70
THIS SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS WHERE
YOU CAN MAYBE THINK YOU'RE TOO
00:17:45.70\00:17:49.60
GOOD FOR GOD.
00:17:49.60\00:17:52.63
AND THIS MESSAGE IS NOT JUST TO
THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS HYPOCRITES,
00:17:52.63\00:17:56.53
THIS IS ALSO TO THE PUBLICANS
THAT MAY THINK THEY'RE TOO BAD
00:17:56.53\00:18:00.76
FOR GOD.
00:18:00.76\00:18:02.83
LUKE 18:10, "TWO MEN WENT
TO THE TEMPLE TO PRAY," THAT'S
00:18:02.83\00:18:08.06
THE CHURCH.
00:18:08.06\00:18:09.93
IS THAT GOOD?
00:18:09.93\00:18:12.33
THAT IS GOOD.
00:18:12.33\00:18:15.16
IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE COME
TO THE HOUSE OF GOD AND PRAY.
00:18:15.16\00:18:17.70
YOU CAN PRAY AT HOME, BUT I
THINK IT'S ALSO GOOD TO COME
00:18:17.70\00:18:20.13
CHURCH, PRAY HERE, COME TO A
PRAYER MEETING TO PRAY, COME TO
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HOME STUDIES AND PRAY
TOGETHER, BUT THESE MEN ARE VERY
00:18:23.26\00:18:29.50
DIFFERENT.
00:18:29.50\00:18:31.00
ONE WAS A PHARISEE, THE OTHER
A PUBLICAN OR A TAX COLLECTOR.
00:18:31.00\00:18:35.16
NOW JUST IN CASE YOU DON'T KNOW,
PHARISEES WERE THE RELIGIOUS
00:18:35.16\00:18:40.03
GRAND MASTERS.
00:18:40.03\00:18:42.06
THEY WERE EXTREMELY METICULOUS
ABOUT THE CLOTHES THEY WORE
00:18:42.06\00:18:46.40
AND THEY TIED LITTLE BITS,
PHYLACTERIES OF THE LAW ON THEIR
00:18:46.40\00:18:50.26
HAND AND THEY HAD LITTLE
BOXES ON THEIR FOREHEADS.
00:18:50.26\00:18:53.36
THEY STILL DO THIS TODAY, THE
ORTHODOX JEWS, LITTLE LEATHER
00:18:53.36\00:18:56.16
BOXES WHERE THEY GOT LITTLE
PIECES OF THE WORD OF GOD THAT
00:18:56.16\00:18:59.26
ARE ON THEIR FOREHEAD SO
THEY CAN SAY, "I'VE GOT THY WORD
00:18:59.26\00:19:02.10
BETWEEN MY EYES ON MY HAND."
00:19:02.10\00:19:04.10
AND THEY WENT THROUGH LOTS
OF RITUAL WASHINGS BEFORE THEY
00:19:04.10\00:19:08.50
WOULD EAT.
00:19:08.50\00:19:09.43
AND THEY WERE VERY CAREFUL NOT
TO BE DEFILED BY BEING AROUND
00:19:09.43\00:19:13.00
UNBELIEVERS AND THEY KIND OF
JUST STAYED TOGETHER BECAUSE,
00:19:13.00\00:19:17.03
YOU KNOW, YOU DIDN'T WANT TO
BE EXPOSED AND CONTAMINATED BY
00:19:17.03\00:19:19.83
THE UNBELIEVERS.
00:19:19.83\00:19:20.90
AND THERE'S JUST THIS, YOU KNOW,
THEY WERE SO PREOCCUPIED WITH
00:19:20.90\00:19:24.53
BEING PURE AND I THINK IT'S
IMPORTANT THAT WE STRIVE FOR
00:19:24.53\00:19:28.46
HOLINESS, THAT THEY NOT
ONLY INSULATED THEMSELVES,
00:19:28.46\00:19:32.43
THEY ISOLATED THEMSELVES.
00:19:32.43\00:19:34.86
CHURCH IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE
A SUBMARINE WHERE WE JUST STICK
00:19:34.86\00:19:38.93
THE PERISCOPE UP EVERY NOW
AND THEN TO SEE WHAT THE WORLD'S
00:19:38.93\00:19:41.36
DOIN' AND THEN WE GO BACK
INTO OUR OWN LITTLE BUBBLE, AND
00:19:41.36\00:19:45.00
THAT'S SORT OF HOW
THE PHARISEES LIVED.
00:19:45.00\00:19:46.73
THEY HAD THIS IDEA THAT
THEY WERE IN A SELF-CONTAINED
00:19:46.73\00:19:50.03
SUBMARINE UNTIL THEY GO TO THE
OTHER SIDE AND THE MESSIAH CAME.
00:19:50.03\00:19:55.10
YOU DON'T REACH
MANY PEOPLE THAT WAY.
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THEN THE OTHER EXTREME WHERE THE
PUBLICANS, THEY WERE COLLECTING
00:19:57.90\00:20:03.23
TAXES FOR THE ROMANS.
00:20:03.23\00:20:04.50
THEY WERE SORT OF CAST OFF BY
THEIR OWN PEOPLE, OR REJECTED.
00:20:04.50\00:20:08.80
THEY WERE CONSIDERED THE
TRAITORS OF THEIR PEOPLE AND THE
00:20:08.80\00:20:13.56
ONLY OTHER FRIENDS THEY HAD WERE
THE OTHER OUTCASTS OF SOCIETY.
00:20:13.56\00:20:17.30
AND SO THEY USED TO HANG OUT
WITH THE PROSTITUTES AND OTHER
00:20:17.30\00:20:20.76
SINNERS AND THE
GENTILES, THE PUBLICANS.
00:20:20.76\00:20:26.13
PUBLICANS WERE ALSO JEWS LIKE
ZACCHAEUS WAS A JEW, BUT HE WAS
00:20:26.13\00:20:29.13
A TAX COLLECTOR AND HE WAS HATED
BY THE PEOPLE IN JERICHO 'CAUSE
00:20:29.13\00:20:32.33
HE EXTORTED THEIR MONEY
AND GAVE IT TO THE ROMANS.
00:20:32.33\00:20:34.46
BUT HE DIDN'T GIVE ALL OF IT,
HE KEPT QUITE A BIT FOR HIMSELF.
00:20:34.46\00:20:37.20
AND SO PUBLICANS WERE CONSIDERED
WHEN YOU WANTED TO CURSE
00:20:37.20\00:20:42.13
SOMEBODY, WHEN THE PHARISEES
WOULD WANT TO CURSE SOMEBODY
00:20:42.13\00:20:45.60
YOU'D SAY, "YOU'RE A SAMARITAN
AND YOU'RE A DOG AND YOU'RE
00:20:45.60\00:20:49.43
DEMON-POSSESSED
AND YOU'RE A PUBLICAN."
00:20:49.43\00:20:52.63
JUST TO GIVE YOU A PICTURE
OF HOW THEY VIEWED PUBLICANS.
00:20:52.63\00:20:55.86
SO YOU'VE GOT THESE TWO
POLAR OPPOSITES THAT GO INTO
00:20:55.86\00:20:58.36
THE TEMPLE AND
MAYBE THEY CAME EARLY.
00:20:58.36\00:21:00.80
IT'S JUST THE TWO OF THEM THERE
AND THEY'RE GONNA PRAY TO GOD.
00:21:00.80\00:21:03.93
SO JESUS, THEY ALL UNDERSTOOD
THE PICTURE WHEN HE WAS TELLING
00:21:03.93\00:21:06.60
THIS STORY.
00:21:06.60\00:21:07.66
"THE PHARISEES STOOD AND
PRAYED THUS WITH HIMSELF."
00:21:07.66\00:21:13.10
I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT'S
INTERESTING JESUS WORDED IT
00:21:13.10\00:21:14.80
DELIBERATELY.
00:21:14.80\00:21:15.46
IT DOESN'T SAY HE PRAYED TO
GOD, HE PRAYED WITH HIMSELF.
00:21:15.46\00:21:18.23
IT'S LIKE HE'S
IMPRESSED WITH HIS OWN PRAYER.
00:21:18.23\00:21:22.33
"GOD, I THANK YOU THAT
I AM NOT LIKE OTHER MEN."
00:21:22.33\00:21:26.60
RIGHT THERE THERE'S SOMETHING
WRONG WITH THAT PRAYER.
00:21:26.60\00:21:28.53
WHAT'S AT THE
HEART OF THAT PRAYER?
00:21:28.53\00:21:30.40
I'M BETTER THAN OTHERS.
00:21:30.40\00:21:32.86
IS HE THINKING ABOUT WHETHER
OR NOT HE'S BETTER THAN GOD?
00:21:32.86\00:21:35.93
IS JESUS HIS EXAMPLE AND
HIS MODEL OR IS HE LOOKING
00:21:35.93\00:21:38.80
HORIZONTAL AND SAYING, "BETTER
THAN YOU, BETTER THAN YOU."
00:21:38.80\00:21:43.80
THE BIBLE SAYS, "THEY
THAT COMPARE THEMSELVES AMONG
00:21:43.80\00:21:45.93
THEMSELVES AND BY
THEMSELVES ARE NOT WISE."
00:21:45.93\00:21:48.93
THAT'S VERY DANGEROUS.
00:21:48.93\00:21:52.23
YOU COULD GET TO WHERE
YOU'RE TOO GOOD FOR GOD TOO.
00:21:52.23\00:21:54.93
"I THANK YOU, LORD, THAT I'M
NOT AS OTHER MEN, EXTORTIONERS,
00:21:54.93\00:21:59.86
UNJUST, ADULTERERS OR EVEN
AS THIS TAX COLLECTOR BACK THERE
00:21:59.86\00:22:04.60
ON THE BACK PEW.
00:22:04.60\00:22:06.43
I FAST TWICE A WEEK."
00:22:06.43\00:22:07.93
NOW NOBODY'S GONNA
WANNA SIT UP FRONT.
00:22:07.93\00:22:09.96
"I FAST TWICE A WEEK.
00:22:09.96\00:22:11.96
I GIVE TITHES OF ALL I POSSESS."
00:22:11.96\00:22:13.53
IS FASTING GOOD?
00:22:13.53\00:22:14.36
SURE.
00:22:14.36\00:22:16.30
PAYING TITHES, IF YOU ALL DID
IT, WE'D HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH
00:22:16.30\00:22:18.63
MONEY.
00:22:18.63\00:22:21.50
AND HE WAS
EXTOLLING HIS VIRTUES TO GOD.
00:22:21.50\00:22:25.26
"GOD, YOU'RE LUCKY TO HAVE ME.
00:22:25.26\00:22:27.90
I SERVE GOD AS A CONSULTANT."
00:22:27.90\00:22:33.70
NOW THIS IS THE EXTREME AND I
REALIZE SOME OF YOU ARE PROBABLY
00:22:33.70\00:22:37.13
THINKING "WELL, I THANK
YOU THAT I'M NOT LIKE THIS."
00:22:37.13\00:22:40.36
IT'S LIKE THE SUNDAY
SCHOOLTEACHER WHO'S TRYING TO
00:22:40.36\00:22:43.16
TEACH THE STORY ABOUT THE
PUBLICAN AND THE PHARISEE TO
00:22:43.16\00:22:46.03
HER CLASS.
00:22:46.03\00:22:46.86
AND SHE SAID YOU KNOW THAT
PHARISEE WAS JUST SO FULL OF
00:22:46.86\00:22:49.10
HIMSELF AND HE KEPT THANKING
HIMSELF THAT HE WASN'T LIKE
00:22:49.10\00:22:51.63
OTHER PEOPLE AND HE
WAS VERY SELF-RIGHTEOUS.
00:22:51.63\00:22:55.26
AND AFTER SHE TAUGHT THE LESSON
SHE THOUGHT SHE GOT THROUGH,
00:22:55.26\00:22:57.73
SHE HAD SOME LITTLE BOY DO
THE CLOSING PRAYER AND HE SAID,
00:22:57.73\00:23:01.16
"DEAR LORD, WE'RE SO THANKFUL
WE'RE NOT LIKE THAT PHARISEE."
00:23:01.16\00:23:05.70
SAME KIND OF ATTITUDE.
00:23:05.70\00:23:12.53
"BUT THE TAX COLLECTOR IS
STANDING AFAR OFF, DID NOT FEEL
00:23:12.53\00:23:15.96
WORTHY, AFAR OFF."
00:23:15.96\00:23:20.33
SOME PEOPLE STAND AFAR OFF.
00:23:20.33\00:23:23.50
YOU'VE GOT SOME PEOPLE THAT KIND
OF CREEP INTO CHURCH AND THEY
00:23:23.50\00:23:26.43
SAY THEY KNOW THEY NEED GOD BUT
THEY'RE JUST, THEY'RE AFRAID THE
00:23:26.43\00:23:29.20
PLACE IS GONNA FALL IN ON
'EM 'CAUSE THEY FEEL SO SINFUL.
00:23:29.20\00:23:32.60
AND WHILE YOU'RE SINGING THE
FIRST VERSE OF THE CLOSING SONG,
00:23:32.60\00:23:35.73
THEY'RE SLIPPING OUT.
00:23:35.73\00:23:37.53
NOW SOME OF YOU DO THAT 'CAUSE
YOU'RE AFRAID OF A PARKING JAM,
00:23:37.53\00:23:39.76
I KNOW OR YOU'RE
HUNGRY OR WHATEVER IT IS.
00:23:39.76\00:23:43.26
AND I DON'T WANT TO MAKE YA FEEL
TOO BAD BUT THERE'S SOME PEOPLE
00:23:43.26\00:23:46.90
THAT SLIP OUT BECAUSE THEY'RE
AFRAID SOMEBODY'S GONNA TALK TO
00:23:46.90\00:23:50.00
THEM AND ASK THEM
HOW THEY'RE DOING.
00:23:50.00\00:23:51.63
THEY'RE GONNA BREAK DOWN AND CRY
OR THEY'RE GONNA TALK TO THEM
00:23:51.63\00:23:53.73
ABOUT THEIR SOUL AND
THEY JUST DON'T FEEL WORTHY.
00:23:53.73\00:23:56.80
THEY STAND AFAR OFF.
00:23:56.80\00:23:59.06
IT'S LIKE THAT SON, WHEN HE
RAN FROM HIS FATHER, HE WENT TO
00:23:59.06\00:24:02.16
A FAR COUNTRY.
00:24:02.16\00:24:03.96
THEY FEEL SEPARATED
FROM GOD, THEY FEEL AFAR OFF.
00:24:03.96\00:24:09.96
"AND HE WOULD NOT SO MUCH
AS RAISE HIS EYES TO HEAVEN,"
00:24:09.96\00:24:13.76
LOWERED HIS EYES.
00:24:13.76\00:24:16.46
YOU KNOW EVEN IN THE ANIMAL
KINGDOM, NOT LOOKING AT A PERSON
00:24:16.46\00:24:22.13
WHEN YOU RESPECT THEIR AUTHORITY
WAS A SIGN OF REVERENCE, AND
00:24:22.13\00:24:27.06
I'VE NOTICED IN SOME PARTS OF
THE WORLD, ESPECIALLY IN SOME OF
00:24:27.06\00:24:30.43
THE ASIAN COUNTRIES, THAT WHEN
A PERSON WHO IS YOUR SUPERIOR IS
00:24:30.43\00:24:35.56
TALKING TO YOU, YOU
DON'T LOOK AT THEM IN THE EYE.
00:24:35.56\00:24:38.73
I KNOW IN OUR COUNTRY, WE OFTEN
SAY LOOK AT A PERSON IN THE EYE.
00:24:38.73\00:24:41.40
HOW MANY HAVE HAD YOUR PARENTS
SAY THAT WHEN SOMEONE'S TALKING
00:24:41.40\00:24:43.56
TO YOU?
00:24:43.56\00:24:44.70
BUT IN SOME COUNTRIES
IT'S CONSIDERED IF A SUPERIOR'S
00:24:44.70\00:24:46.90
TALKING TO YOU, YOU POLITELY
LOOK DOWN AND YOU LISTEN.
00:24:46.90\00:24:50.36
YOU STARE IN YOUR
EYE, IT'S CONFRONTATIONAL.
00:24:50.36\00:24:53.13
A LOT OF ANIMALS DO THAT.
00:24:53.13\00:24:54.66
THEY SAY IF YOU'RE TRACKING
GORILLAS, IF ONE OF THOSE BIG,
00:24:54.66\00:24:57.60
SILVER-BACK, MALE GORILLAS
STARTS TO CHARGE YOU, YOU LOWER
00:24:57.60\00:25:00.33
YOUR HEAD AND YOU
LOOK DOWN, HE'LL STOP.
00:25:00.33\00:25:03.20
YOU STARE 'EM IN THE EYE, HE
FIGURES YOU'RE CHALLENGING HIM
00:25:03.20\00:25:06.00
AND THIS MAN WOULD NOT
SO MUCH AS LIFT HIS EYES UP.
00:25:06.00\00:25:09.56
AN ATTITUDE OF
SUBMISSION TO GOD, HUMILITY.
00:25:09.56\00:25:15.70
"AND HE BEAT ON HIS
BREASTS," SIGN OF REPENTANCE.
00:25:15.70\00:25:20.53
"AND SAID, 'GOD, BE
MERCIFUL TO ME, A SINNER.'"
00:25:20.53\00:25:25.86
HE WAS NOT PLEADING ANYTHING
GOOD HE HAD TO OFFER GOD.
00:25:25.86\00:25:31.00
HE WAS NOT RECITING A LITANY OF
ALL OF HIS VIRTUES AND THE GOOD
00:25:31.00\00:25:34.10
THINGS HE'S DONE OR
WHY GOD SHOULD HELP HIM.
00:25:34.10\00:25:36.70
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER
THE STORY IN THE BIBLE WHEN KING
00:25:36.70\00:25:38.73
HEZEKIAH GOT SICK AND
ISAIAH SAID, "YOU'RE GONNA DIE"?
00:25:38.73\00:25:42.03
HEZEKIAH TURNS HIS FACE TO
THE WALL AND HE STARTS TO PRAY.
00:25:42.03\00:25:44.73
HE SAYS, "LORD,
I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
00:25:44.73\00:25:46.70
THIS IS WAY BEFORE I SHOULD DIE.
00:25:46.70\00:25:48.30
I MEAN EVENTUALLY YOU GET OLD
YOU DIE, BUT I'M STILL YOUNG."
00:25:48.30\00:25:50.96
HE SAID, "DON'T YOU THINK
ABOUT--DON'T YOU REMEMBER ALL
00:25:50.96\00:25:53.23
THE GOOD THINGS I'VE DONE AND
HOW I'VE OBEYED YOU AND HOW I'VE
00:25:53.23\00:25:55.60
STAYED TRUE AND I'VE SERVED
YOU AND I'VE GOTTEN RID OF
00:25:55.60\00:25:58.73
THE IDOLS?"
00:25:58.73\00:25:59.46
AND HE BEGINS TO RECITE TO GOD
ALL THE GOOD THINGS HE'S DONE.
00:25:59.46\00:26:02.33
AND GOD HEARD THE PRAYER OF
HEZEKIAH, BUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER
00:26:02.33\00:26:07.10
GOD ANSWERED HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER,
HE ALLOWED HIM TO BE TESTED.
00:26:07.10\00:26:11.20
THAT'S WHEN THOSE AMBASSADORS
CAME FROM BABYLON AND HEZEKIAH
00:26:11.20\00:26:13.53
BEGAN TO BRAG
ABOUT ALL HIS TREASURE.
00:26:13.53\00:26:16.03
GOD SAID, "YUP,
JUST AS I THOUGHT.
00:26:16.03\00:26:19.16
YOUR HEART IS FULL OF
PRIDE, SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:26:19.16\00:26:21.93
EVERYTHING YOU BRAGGED
ABOUT IS GONNA BE TAKEN AWAY."
00:26:21.93\00:26:24.33
THEN HEZEKIAH REALIZED HE
WASN'T AS GOOD AS HE THOUGHT.
00:26:24.33\00:26:28.40
HE WAS ALMOST TOO GOOD FOR
GOD UNTIL GOD GOT HIS ATTENTION.
00:26:28.40\00:26:33.20
HE DIDN'T KNOW.
00:26:33.20\00:26:38.13
"THIS PUBLICAN WOULD NOT SO MUCH
AS LIFT UP HIS EYES, BEAT ON HIS
00:26:38.13\00:26:41.06
BREAST.
00:26:41.06\00:26:41.83
'GOD HAVE MERCY ON
ME.'" WHAT'S THE MOST ELOQUENT
00:26:41.83\00:26:44.16
PRAYER WE CAN PRAY?
00:26:44.16\00:26:46.46
IT'S OUR DESPERATION, OUR
SINCERITY SERIOUSLY SAYING,
00:26:46.46\00:26:50.16
"LORD, HAVE MERCY ON ME"
AND MEANING IT, BEING SORRY,
00:26:50.16\00:26:53.13
HUMBLING OURSELF.
00:26:53.13\00:26:55.26
THEN HE'LL LIFT US UP.
00:26:55.26\00:26:56.66
JESUS MAKES IT CLEAR.
00:26:56.66\00:26:58.23
THIS IS VERY ENCOURAGING.
00:26:58.23\00:26:59.40
IT'S ENCOURAGING FOR YOU IF YOU
THINK YOU'RE TOO BAD FOR GOD.
00:26:59.40\00:27:03.40
IT'S A WARNING FOR YOU IF YOU
THINK YOU'RE TOO GOOD FOR GOD.
00:27:03.40\00:27:06.66
JESUS SAID, "I TELL YOU THIS
MAN, THE PUBLICAN, HE WENT DOWN
00:27:06.66\00:27:10.73
TO HIS HOUSE JUSTIFIED
RATHER THAN THE OTHER."
00:27:10.73\00:27:14.53
THE OTHER MAN, HE CAME TO
GOD AND TALKED ABOUT HOW GOOD HE
00:27:14.53\00:27:17.10
WAS.
00:27:17.10\00:27:17.70
HE WENT BACK HOME AGAIN LOST
'CAUSE HE WAS TRUSTING IN HIS
00:27:17.70\00:27:20.93
GOOD DEEDS WHICH
WILL NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH.
00:27:20.93\00:27:23.40
NO MATTER HOW GOOD YOU ARE,
NO MATTER HOW WELL YOU OBEY, YOU
00:27:23.40\00:27:26.46
WILL NEVER DO ENOUGH
GOOD DEEDS TO COVER YOUR SIN.
00:27:26.46\00:27:30.80
AND NO MATTER HOW BAD YOU'VE
BEEN, IF YOU HEAR THE HOLY
00:27:30.80\00:27:36.40
SPIRIT SPEAK INTO YOUR HEART,
YOU'RE NEVER TOO BAD FOR GOD.
00:27:36.40\00:27:40.63
MATTER OF FACT, I DON'T FIND
AN EXAMPLE IN THE BIBLE WHERE
00:27:40.63\00:27:43.70
ANYBODY'S REALLY TOO BAD
FOR GOD, BUT THERE WERE A LOT OF
00:27:43.70\00:27:46.20
PEOPLE THAT WERE TOO GOD
FOR GOOD, SELF-RIGHTEOUS.
00:27:46.20\00:27:52.36
JESUS SAID HE WHO
HUMBLES HIMSELF--SORRY.
00:27:52.36\00:27:55.13
EVERYONE WHO EXALTS HIMSELF WILL
BE HUMBLED AND HE WHO HUMBLES
00:27:55.13\00:27:58.83
HIMSELF WILL BE EXALTED.
00:27:58.83\00:28:01.40
HUMBLE YOURSELF
IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.
00:28:01.40\00:28:03.53
HE WILL LIFT YOU UP.
00:28:03.53\00:28:04.63
YOU'LL SENSE THAT FORGIVENESS
AND THAT CLEANSING THAT HE WANTS
00:28:04.63\00:28:06.73
YOU TO HAVE.
00:28:06.73\00:28:08.93
IT'S NOT SAFE FOR US TO BE
SINGING OUR OWN PRAISES LIKE
00:28:08.93\00:28:13.60
THAT PHARISEE, LIKE THIS
KING WHO BACK DURING THE TIME OF
00:28:13.60\00:28:17.90
SHAKESPEARE HAD A BANQUET AND HE
WANTED TO HAVE A MINSTREL THERE
00:28:17.90\00:28:21.16
AND HE INVITED THE MINSTREL IN
AND THE MINSTREL SPENT HIS WHOLE
00:28:21.16\00:28:24.33
TIME DURING THE BANQUET SINGING
ABOUT HIS TRAVELS AND HIS
00:28:24.33\00:28:27.33
EXPLOITS AND HIS GLORY AND HIS
GOODNESS, SINGING ABOUT HIMSELF.
00:28:27.33\00:28:31.10
AT THE END THE MINSTREL CAME
TO THE KING, HE SAID, "I LIKE MY
00:28:31.10\00:28:33.40
WAGES."
00:28:33.40\00:28:34.46
THE KING SAYS, "YOU'VE
ALREADY GOTTEN YOUR WAGES."
00:28:34.46\00:28:37.23
HE SAID, "YOU SPENT THE WHOLE
BANQUET SINGING ABOUT YOURSELF."
00:28:37.23\00:28:40.56
HE SAID, "I'M THE KING.
00:28:40.56\00:28:41.53
YOU OUGHT TO SAY
SOMETHING ABOUT ME."
00:28:41.53\00:28:45.00
AND A LOT OF TIMES WE KIND OF GO
THROUGH OUR EXPERIENCE AND WE'RE
00:28:45.00\00:28:47.80
SINGING OUR PRAISES.
00:28:47.80\00:28:48.73
"LORD, I THANK YOU
I'M NOT AS OTHER MEN."
00:28:48.73\00:28:51.70
AND I WONDERED, AS I WAS
PREPARING THIS MESSAGE, HOW DO
00:28:51.70\00:28:54.06
YOU GET THROUGH TO THOSE PEOPLE
'CAUSE THE ONES WHO FEEL THEY'RE
00:28:54.06\00:28:57.00
TOO BAD FOR GOD, THEY'LL
LISTEN, THEY'LL HAVE HOPE.
00:28:57.00\00:28:59.40
THE ONES WHO THINK THEY'RE TOO
GOOD FOR GOD, IT'S SO HARD FOR
00:28:59.40\00:29:01.63
THEM TO HEAR THAT MESSAGE.
00:29:01.63\00:29:05.46
IT'S KIND OF LIKE YOU'RE THE
LAST PERSON TO KNOW WHEN YOU'VE
00:29:05.46\00:29:07.66
GOT BAD BREATH.
00:29:07.66\00:29:11.80
YOU EVER SEEN A PERSON GO...
00:29:11.80\00:29:17.13
I REMEMBER ONE TIME I WENT
TO THIS CHURCH, LONG TIME AGO,
00:29:17.13\00:29:21.50
DIFFERENT TOWN SO
DON'T ANYONE WORRY.
00:29:21.50\00:29:24.10
AND THERE WAS A PASTOR THERE.
00:29:24.10\00:29:26.63
I USED TO VISIT THIS CHARISMATIC
CHURCH AND THERE WAS A PASTOR
00:29:26.63\00:29:30.06
THERE, NICE GUY BUT WE KIND
OF NICKNAMED HIM "HALLELUJAH
00:29:30.06\00:29:36.66
HALITOSIS" BECAUSE IT JUST
SMELLED LIKE HE ATE DECOMPOSING
00:29:36.66\00:29:43.73
DRAGONS FOR BREAKFAST.
00:29:43.73\00:29:45.23
I'LL TELL YA, IT WAS REALLY BAD.
00:29:45.23\00:29:47.26
AND THE THING IS WHEN HE'D MEET
YA AT THE DOOR AFTER CHURCH, HE
00:29:47.26\00:29:51.76
WASN'T ONE OF THESE GUYS
WHO IF YOU JUST GOT TOO CLOSE BY
00:29:51.76\00:29:54.43
ACCIDENT, YOU
REALIZED HE HAD BAD BREATH.
00:29:54.43\00:29:56.46
HE HAD TO GET RIGHT IN YOUR
FACE, IN YOUR PERSONAL SPACE,
00:29:56.46\00:30:00.06
AND THEN HE WOULD ALWAYS HOOK
ME AROUND THE NECK, NOT WITH HIS
00:30:00.06\00:30:02.53
HAND BUT WITH HIS ELBOW RIGHT IN
HERE AND HE'D PULL YOU RIGHT IN.
00:30:02.53\00:30:06.26
"BROTHER DOUG."
00:30:06.26\00:30:07.63
AND HE TALKED TO YA LIKE THAT.
00:30:07.63\00:30:08.86
AND I'M GOIN'-- AND
YOU EVER TRY TO TALK TO
00:30:08.86\00:30:10.80
SOMEONE WITHOUT BREATHING?
00:30:10.80\00:30:13.46
"PASTOR, IT'S SO
GOOD TO SEE YA AGAIN."
00:30:13.46\00:30:16.26
IT WAS TERRIBLE, AND I
DIDN'T WANT TO HURT HIS FEELINGS
00:30:16.26\00:30:20.03
BECAUSE HERE I WAS
VISITING HIS CHURCH.
00:30:20.03\00:30:21.40
I WAS ACTUALLY STUDYING WITH THE
GUY AND I THOUGHT IT'S NOT GONNA
00:30:21.40\00:30:24.36
GO WELL IF I SAY, "BROTHER,
YOU'VE GOT THE WORST BREATH I'VE
00:30:24.36\00:30:27.63
EVER SMELLED ON A HOMO SAPIEN."
00:30:27.63\00:30:31.40
AND SO ONE DAY BEFORE CHURCH,
I ATE A WHOLE BULB OF GARLIC.
00:30:31.40\00:30:38.26
WELL, NOT A WHOLE BULB,
BUT I ATE SEVERAL CLOVES RAW.
00:30:38.26\00:30:42.03
I USED TO DO THAT BACK THEN.
00:30:42.03\00:30:43.13
YOU KNOW I LIVED BY MYSELF.
00:30:43.13\00:30:44.26
I CAN'T DO IT ANYMORE.
00:30:44.26\00:30:46.03
SOME OF YOU STILL DO IT.
00:30:46.03\00:30:46.93
LET ME TELL YA, I CAN--I KNOW.
00:30:46.93\00:30:50.03
IF I DIDN'T KNOW BETTER,
I'D THINK SOME OF YOU BELIEVE IN
00:30:50.03\00:30:52.23
RIGHTEOUSNESS BY GARLIC.
00:30:52.23\00:30:54.20
AND I WENT TO THE DOOR AND
THIS PASTOR GOT A HOLD OF ME,
00:30:54.20\00:30:58.70
"BROTHER DOUG."
00:30:58.70\00:30:59.66
I SAID, "HALLELUJAH, PASTOR."
00:30:59.66\00:31:03.73
HE NEVER DID THAT AGAIN.
00:31:03.73\00:31:05.33
HA, HA.
00:31:05.33\00:31:07.60
BUT I DON'T KNOW IF HE EVER GOT
THE VICTORY BECAUSE YOU ALMOST
00:31:07.60\00:31:10.86
HAVE TO HAVE SOMEONE THAT LOVES
YOU ENOUGH TO SAY, "BROTHER,
00:31:10.86\00:31:14.50
SISTER," YOU KNOW SOMETIMES
A SPOUSE CAN GET AWAY WITH IT.
00:31:14.50\00:31:17.40
AND EVEN THEN YOU'RE
STILL ON THIN ICE, RIGHT?
00:31:17.40\00:31:21.06
HOW DO YOU TELL A
PERSON, YOU ARE SELF-RIGHTEOUS?
00:31:21.06\00:31:26.26
YOU'RE ALWAYS
CRITICIZING EVERYONE AROUND YOU.
00:31:26.26\00:31:28.10
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FAULTS
OF THIS PERSON, THAT PERSON, HOW
00:31:28.10\00:31:29.86
DUMB THEY ARE, WHAT THEY'RE
DOING WRONG AND THEY'RE OFTEN
00:31:29.86\00:31:33.73
THE LAST ONES TO REALIZE IT.
00:31:33.73\00:31:36.03
AND WE'RE USUALLY REAL GOOD AT
CONFESSING EVERYONE ELSE'S SIN
00:31:36.03\00:31:42.50
UNDER A PRETENSE OF A PRAYER
REQUEST, BUT WE'RE BLIND TO OUR
00:31:42.50\00:31:48.10
OWN.
00:31:48.10\00:31:49.93
TAKES THE HOLY SPIRIT
TO SOMETIMES WAKE US UP.
00:31:49.93\00:31:54.00
GOD DOES THAT FOR
PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE.
00:31:54.00\00:31:58.10
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:31:58.10\00:32:01.46
JESUS NEVER ATTACKED THE SINNER.
00:32:01.46\00:32:04.70
HE SIMPLY SAID, "I FORGIVE YOU."
00:32:04.70\00:32:06.93
HE DID ATTACK THE
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE
00:32:06.93\00:32:09.53
SCRIBES AND PHARISEES WITH A
PASSION BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT IF
00:32:09.53\00:32:13.43
HE DIDN'T WAKE
THEM UP, THEY'D BE LOST.
00:32:13.43\00:32:17.50
JESUS ILLUSTRATED THIS ALSO WITH
ANOTHER PARABLE, LUKE 14:16,
00:32:17.50\00:32:22.96
"A CERTAIN MAN--"
WHO'S INVITED TO THE FEAST?
00:32:22.96\00:32:28.46
HOW MANY OF YOU
WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN?
00:32:28.46\00:32:31.53
"A CERTAIN MAN GAVE A
GREAT SUPPER AND INVITED MANY,
00:32:31.53\00:32:36.76
MANY ARE CALLED."
00:32:36.76\00:32:38.26
HOW MANY ARE
INVITED TO ETERNAL LIFE?
00:32:38.26\00:32:41.30
EVERYBODY'S INVITED.
00:32:41.30\00:32:42.86
SO WHOEVER WILL, THAT'S
A PRETTY WIDE INVITATION.
00:32:42.86\00:32:49.36
WHEN KAREN AND I GOT MARRIED,
I WAS DOING PUBLIC EVANGELISM
00:32:49.36\00:32:51.73
AND SHE HAD SPENT ALL THIS
TIME WRITING OUT INVITATIONS
00:32:51.73\00:32:54.23
AND RSVPING EVERYTHING.
00:32:54.23\00:32:56.06
AND I--YOU KNOW I DIDN'T KNOW
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ORGANIZED
00:32:56.06\00:32:58.00
LIKE THAT BUT I WAS STILL
DOING MEETINGS AS WE PLANNED OUR
00:32:58.00\00:33:00.93
WEDDING.
00:33:00.93\00:33:01.60
I'D STAND UP IN FRONT OF
ENTIRE CHURCHES AND SAY, "HEY,
00:33:01.60\00:33:03.33
WE'RE GETTING MARRIED.
00:33:03.33\00:33:04.10
YOU WANT TO ALL COME?"
00:33:04.10\00:33:05.50
I DON'T KNOW HOW WE'RE
GONNA--NO, WE GOTTA BUY DINNER
00:33:05.50\00:33:08.10
FOR ALL THESE PEOPLE.
00:33:08.10\00:33:10.20
I WANT EVERYBODY TO COME.
00:33:10.20\00:33:12.83
THIS IS SORT OF HOW JESUS IS.
00:33:12.83\00:33:15.13
IT'S NOT AN ELITE GROUP
THAT GETS AN INVITATION.
00:33:15.13\00:33:18.43
EVERYBODY'S INVITED BUT
VERY FEW SEEM TO RESPOND.
00:33:18.43\00:33:22.03
AT FIRST A LOT OF PEOPLE
WILL RSVP, "YEAH, I'M COMIN'."
00:33:22.03\00:33:26.26
BUT WHEN THE TIME ACTUALLY
COMES, THEY DIDN'T WANT TO
00:33:26.26\00:33:28.20
ACTUALLY YOU KNOW LOOK
LIKE THEY WEREN'T COMING.
00:33:28.20\00:33:30.30
THEY'RE HOPING YOU WON'T
NOTICE THEY NEVER SHOWED.
00:33:30.30\00:33:33.53
BUT WHEN THE ACTUAL TIME COMES,
IT SAID, "COME NOW FOR ALL
00:33:33.53\00:33:40.43
THINGS ARE READY."
00:33:40.43\00:33:42.86
WHEN GOD CALLS US,
HE TELLS US TO COME NOW.
00:33:42.86\00:33:47.86
"COME FOR ALL
THINGS ARE NOW READY.
00:33:47.86\00:33:50.06
BUT THEY ALL, WITH ONE
ACCORD, BEGAN TO MAKE EXCUSES."
00:33:50.06\00:33:54.53
ABOUT THE ONLY THING THE CHURCH
MANAGES TO DO IN ONE ACCORD,
00:33:54.53\00:33:57.66
MAKE EXCUSES.
00:33:57.66\00:34:03.66
THE FIRST SAID, "I BOUGHT
A PIECE OF GROUND AND I MUST
00:34:03.66\00:34:05.96
GO SEE IT."
00:34:05.96\00:34:07.63
WELL, DID HE BUY IT
WITHOUT LOOKING FIRST?
00:34:07.63\00:34:09.90
SOUNDS LIKE A DUBIOUS EXCUSE.
00:34:09.90\00:34:12.30
"I ASK YOU HAVE ME EXCUSED."
00:34:12.30\00:34:14.56
ANOTHER SAID, "I BOUGHT FIVE
YOKE OF OXEN AND I'M GOING TO
00:34:14.56\00:34:17.36
TEST THEM."
00:34:17.36\00:34:19.30
WHAT'D YOU DO,
BUY THEM SIGHT UNSEEN?
00:34:19.30\00:34:21.90
STILL HAVE ME EXCUSED.
00:34:21.90\00:34:22.93
STILL ANOTHER ONE SAID, "I'VE
MARRIED A WIFE AND THERE I CAN'T
00:34:22.93\00:34:24.66
COME."
00:34:24.66\00:34:26.60
WELL, I'M SURE THAT
YOU CAN BRING YOUR WIFE.
00:34:26.60\00:34:29.43
JUST ALL THESE LAME
EXCUSES THAT WERE OFFERED.
00:34:29.43\00:34:35.16
AND YOU KNOW WE SORT OF DO THAT.
00:34:35.16\00:34:37.03
THE LORD SAYS,
"COME, COME TO ME."
00:34:37.03\00:34:39.46
AND WE BEGIN TO SAY, "WELL,
I'M GONNA COME TO YOU, LORD.
00:34:39.46\00:34:42.96
I WANT TO BE A CHRISTIAN, BUT
YOU KNOW NOW'S NOT A GOOD TIME.
00:34:42.96\00:34:47.80
GOT A LOT OF
DISTRACTIONS IN MY LIFE."
00:34:47.80\00:34:50.73
WHENEVER IT COMES TO MAKING
A COMPLETE SURRENDER, WE MAKE
00:34:50.73\00:34:54.56
EXCUSES ABOUT WHY
NOW IS NOT A GOOD TIME.
00:34:54.56\00:34:57.50
YOU KNOW WHEN I--I ALMOST
HESITATE TO MENTION IT 'CAUSE
00:34:57.50\00:35:02.86
I'VE SAID IT SO MANY TIMES,
BUT FOR ME A BIG STRUGGLE WITH
00:35:02.86\00:35:05.60
SMOKING.
00:35:05.60\00:35:06.50
AND WHEN I QUIT SMOKING, I KNEW
SOMEDAY I WAS GONNA HAVE TO LIKE
00:35:06.50\00:35:09.96
REALLY QUIT.
00:35:09.96\00:35:10.90
IT WAS EASY TO CUT DOWN,
BUT I KNEW I HAD TO QUIT.
00:35:10.90\00:35:13.93
AND I'D GONE FROM LIKE TWO PACKS
A DAY TO ONE PACK A DAY AND I
00:35:13.93\00:35:17.50
WAS JUST HALF A PACK A DAY.
00:35:17.50\00:35:18.83
AND YOU KNOW BUT I
REALIZED I'M STILL SMOKING.
00:35:18.83\00:35:22.00
AND THE IDEA OF QUITTING, I SAID
ONE OF THESE DAYS I'M GONNA PICK
00:35:22.00\00:35:24.16
A DATE.
00:35:24.16\00:35:24.80
AND I KEPT, YOU
KNOW, PUTTIN' IT OFF.
00:35:24.80\00:35:26.23
I'D SAY, "YEAH, NEW
YEAR'S IS A GOOD DATE."
00:35:26.23\00:35:27.96
OH, WHEN NEW YEAR'S
CAME, IT'S JUST A LOT OF STRESS
00:35:27.96\00:35:30.56
OR WHENEVER.
00:35:30.56\00:35:31.53
MY BIRTHDAY, THREE
MONTHS AWAY, MY BIRTHDAY.
00:35:31.53\00:35:33.60
JUST KEPT PUTTIN' IT OFF.
00:35:33.60\00:35:34.56
NOW NEVER CAME TILL FINALLY I
REALIZED I'VE JUST GOTTA DO IT
00:35:34.56\00:35:40.96
AND SAY THIS IS IT.
00:35:40.96\00:35:45.33
AND I THINK IF I WERE TO ASK YOU
TO RAISE YOUR HANDS EVERYBODY
00:35:45.33\00:35:50.23
WOULD SAY, "THERE ARE THINGS
IN MY LIFE WHERE I HAVEN'T
00:35:50.23\00:35:55.70
COMPLETELY COME TO THE LORD.
00:35:55.70\00:35:57.63
THERE ARE AREAS WHERE I HAVEN'T
MADE A COMPLETE SURRENDER AND I
00:35:57.63\00:36:00.70
PLAN ON IT, I KNOW I NEED TO
ONE OF THESE DAYS, BUT NOW'S NOT
00:36:00.70\00:36:06.33
A GOOD TIME.
00:36:06.33\00:36:08.80
WELL, NOT YET.
00:36:08.80\00:36:10.13
SEE, IT'D BE, YOU KNOW, JUST
A LOT OF STRESSES RIGHT NOW.
00:36:10.13\00:36:12.63
THE ENVIRONMENT, THE PEOPLE
I WORK WITH, TO MAKE A TOTAL
00:36:12.63\00:36:14.83
SURRENDER NOW, I DON'T
KNOW HOW I COULD EVER DO IT."
00:36:14.83\00:36:17.03
WELL, I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU,
THE DEVIL WILL SEE TO IT THAT
00:36:17.03\00:36:19.40
IT'S NEVER CONVENIENT.
00:36:19.40\00:36:21.70
DON'T MAKE EXCUSES.
00:36:21.70\00:36:24.86
HE SAYS NOW ALL IS READY, NOW.
00:36:24.86\00:36:30.83
SO THEY SAID THEY, YOU KNOW,
BOUGHT A COW AND MARRIED A WIFE,
00:36:30.83\00:36:36.06
THEY CAN'T COME.
00:36:36.06\00:36:37.50
NOW BY THE WAY, THIS IS A
KING THAT'S HAVING THE FEAST.
00:36:37.50\00:36:41.86
THEY'RE TOO BUSY FOR A KING.
00:36:41.86\00:36:44.93
WHEN YOU START MAKING EXCUSES
AND YOU SAY YOU CAN'T GO TO THE
00:36:44.93\00:36:47.23
WEDDING FEAST OF A KING'S SON,
HOW'S THAT KING GONNA FEEL ABOUT
00:36:47.23\00:36:51.30
WHERE YOU ARE ON
HIS LOYALTY LIST?
00:36:51.30\00:36:54.96
SO THAT SERVANT CAME AND
REPORTED THESE THINGS TO HIS
00:36:54.96\00:36:58.40
MASTER THEN THE MASTER OF THE
HOUSE BEING ANGRY SAID TO HIS
00:36:58.40\00:37:01.83
SERVANT, "GO OUT QUICKLY INTO
THE STREETS AND THE LANES OF
00:37:01.83\00:37:05.63
CITY AND BRING IN HERE THE
POOR AND THE MAIMED AND THE LAME
00:37:05.63\00:37:11.06
AND THE BLIND."
00:37:11.06\00:37:13.60
I MEAN HOW MANY OF YOU,
WHEN YOU MAKE UP YOUR WEDDING
00:37:13.60\00:37:16.93
INVITATIONS,
THAT'S YOUR CRITERIA?
00:37:16.93\00:37:21.83
YOU SAY, "WELL, LOOK
I'VE GOT THIS FEAST READY.
00:37:21.83\00:37:24.03
I WANT SOMEONE TO
APPRECIATE THE FEAST.
00:37:24.03\00:37:27.73
I PROVIDED GARMENTS.
00:37:27.73\00:37:29.36
I PROVIDED FOOD.
00:37:29.36\00:37:31.06
I PROVIDED THE ENTERTAINMENT.
00:37:31.06\00:37:32.46
I WANT SOMEONE WHO'S REALLY
GONNA SAY, 'WOW, I NEVER DREAMED
00:37:32.46\00:37:36.20
I'D BE IN A PALACE LIKE THIS
EATING FOOD LIKE THIS WITH THESE
00:37:36.20\00:37:39.33
KIND OF PEOPLE.'"
SAID, THESE PEOPLE WILL
00:37:39.33\00:37:42.40
APPRECIATE IT.
00:37:42.40\00:37:43.03
YOU GO GET THESE PEOPLE.
00:37:43.03\00:37:44.96
THE ONES WHO I INVITED, THEY
THINK THEY'RE TOO GOOD FOR ME.
00:37:44.96\00:37:48.43
BUT IF YOU GO OUT AND YOU GET
THE MAIMED AND THE BLIND AND THE
00:37:48.43\00:37:50.46
HALT AND THE LAME,
THEY'RE NOT GONNA FEEL THAT WAY,
00:37:50.46\00:37:53.56
THEY'LL COME.
00:37:53.56\00:37:55.33
THEY WILL COME
RIGHT NOW WITH NO WARNING.
00:37:55.33\00:37:58.40
NOW I NOTICE WHEN I PREACH AND I
MAKE ALTAR CALLS, YOU CAN ALMOST
00:37:58.40\00:38:06.16
TELL HOW BIG THE RESPONSE
WILL BE BASED ON CERTAIN
00:38:06.16\00:38:10.93
DEMOGRAPHICS, NAMELY I'M
NOT EVEN TALKING ABOUT RACIAL
00:38:10.93\00:38:15.10
DEMOGRAPHICS, I'M TALKING
ABOUT ECONOMICAL DEMOGRAPHICS.
00:38:15.10\00:38:20.10
IF I'M IN A VERY WEALTHY
COMMUNITY AND YOU ASK PEOPLE
00:38:20.10\00:38:23.73
TO PUBLICLY COME TO
CHRIST, PERCENTAGE DROPS.
00:38:23.73\00:38:27.96
AS THE WEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY
GOES DOWN, THE PERCENTAGE OF
00:38:27.96\00:38:32.26
THOSE THAT RESPOND GO UP.
00:38:32.26\00:38:35.13
THEY FEEL THEIR NEED OF GOD
MORE AND THE BEST RESPONSE I'VE
00:38:35.13\00:38:39.23
HAD IS WHEN I'M IN A PRISON
AND I MAKE AN ALTAR CALL IN
00:38:39.23\00:38:44.40
A PRISON ABOUT WHO WANTS
TO FIND FREEDOM IN CHRIST.
00:38:44.40\00:38:48.43
I REMEMBER ONE TIME I
GOT READY TO MAKE AN APPEAL.
00:38:48.43\00:38:50.86
I DIDN'T EVEN GET TO START MY
STORY AND THEY STARTED COMING.
00:38:50.86\00:38:54.26
I WANTED TO SAY, WAIT A
SECOND, I HAVEN'T STARTED YET.
00:38:54.26\00:38:57.13
THE WOMEN'S PRISON OVER HERE
IN CARSON CITY, THEY WERE SO
00:38:57.13\00:39:01.16
EXCITED TO COME TO JESUS BECAUSE
THEY DIDN'T FEEL LIKE THEY WERE
00:39:01.16\00:39:05.90
TOO GOOD FOR GOD.
00:39:05.90\00:39:09.10
I'D ENCOURAGE THEM THAT
THEY WEREN'T TOO BAD FOR GOD.
00:39:09.10\00:39:12.23
"AND THE SERVANT SAID TO
THE MASTER, 'IT'S DONE AS
00:39:12.23\00:39:13.80
YOU COMMANDED.'"
THERE'S STILL ROOM.
00:39:13.80\00:39:15.96
YOU KNOW ONE THING IN
THIS STORY, GOD DOESN'T RUN OUT
00:39:15.96\00:39:19.93
OF ROOM.
00:39:19.93\00:39:23.40
HE RUNS OUT OF PEOPLE
THAT ARE WILLING TO COME.
00:39:23.40\00:39:26.56
THERE'S ROOM FOR EVERYBODY.
00:39:26.56\00:39:29.50
THIS IDEA THAT GOD HAS
HANDPICKED WHO HE WANTS SAVED
00:39:29.50\00:39:31.80
AND SAYS, "YES
YOU, NO YOU, YES."
00:39:31.80\00:39:33.93
THAT PREDESTINATION THAT GOD IS
KIND OF PICKING WHO HE WANTS AND
00:39:33.93\00:39:36.80
HE'S NOT GONNA SAVE THE OTHERS,
I DON'T FIND THAT IN THE BIBLE.
00:39:36.80\00:39:40.20
I FIND GOD SAYING, "I WANT
EVERYBODY AND I'VE GOT MORE
00:39:40.20\00:39:42.80
THAN ENOUGH ROOM,
BUT THEY WON'T COME."
00:39:42.80\00:39:49.23
HE SAID THERE'S STILL ROOM.
00:39:49.23\00:39:51.13
"THE MASTER SAID TO HIS SERVANT,
'GO OUT INTO THE HIGHWAYS
00:39:51.13\00:39:53.83
AND THE HEDGES.'" IF
AMONG MY OWN PEOPLE AND MY
00:39:53.83\00:39:56.86
OWN CHURCH MEMBERS, I CAN'T GET
ENOUGH PEOPLE TO COME, YOU GO
00:39:56.86\00:39:59.83
GET THE GENTILES,
THAT'S WHAT CHRIST IS SAYING.
00:39:59.83\00:40:03.16
YOU KNOW WHAT
THIS PARABLE IS ABOUT.
00:40:03.16\00:40:05.80
IT'S TALKING ABOUT FIRST WHAT
WAS HAPPENING WHEN HE SENT THE
00:40:05.80\00:40:08.23
INVITATION OUT TO THE RELIGIOUS
LEADERS AND THEY WERE SUPPOSED
00:40:08.23\00:40:12.10
TO BE LEADING THE PEOPLE.
00:40:12.10\00:40:13.26
THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO RECOGNIZE
THE MESSIAH AND ANNOUNCE THE
00:40:13.26\00:40:15.30
MESSIAH, BUT THEY WERE TOO BUSY.
00:40:15.30\00:40:17.80
THEY DIDN'T COME.
00:40:17.80\00:40:20.33
AND THEN HE WENT TO HIS OWN
PEOPLE THAT THE RELIGIOUS LEADER
00:40:20.33\00:40:23.60
SAID, "OH, THEY'RE UNEDUCATED.
00:40:23.60\00:40:25.73
THEY'RE CRIPPLED SPIRITUALLY."
00:40:25.73\00:40:27.60
AND SOME OF THEM CAME
BUT THERE'S STILL ROOM.
00:40:27.60\00:40:32.03
HE SAID, "ALL RIGHT, I WANT
YOU TO NOW GO OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL.
00:40:32.03\00:40:34.86
I WANT YOU TO GO TO THE HIGHWAYS
AND THE HEDGES, THE GENTILES."
00:40:34.86\00:40:39.16
AND THAT'S WHAT THE GOSPEL DID,
IT BEGAN IN JERUSALEM, WHERE THE
00:40:39.16\00:40:42.13
RELIGIOUS LEADERS WERE, AND THEN
IN JUDEA WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE
00:40:42.13\00:40:45.56
LIKE GALILEE, AND THEN THE
SAMARITANS ARE SORT OF THE HALF
00:40:45.56\00:40:48.03
BREEDS AND THEN THE
OUTER MOST PARTS OF THE EARTH.
00:40:48.03\00:40:50.53
THE INVITATION, THE HIGHWAYS
AND HEDGES, THAT'S EVERYWHERE.
00:40:50.53\00:40:53.43
EVERYBODY WAS INVITED.
00:40:53.43\00:40:55.33
WHOSOEVER WILL.
00:40:55.33\00:40:56.63
AND NOTICE HE SAID, "FOR I'M
SAYING TO YOU THAT NONE OF THOSE
00:40:56.63\00:41:00.13
MEN WHO WERE INVITED
WILL TASTE OF MY SUPPER."
00:41:00.13\00:41:05.13
THE ONES WHO SAID THEY WERE
GONNA COME BUT FELT THEY WERE
00:41:05.13\00:41:07.60
TOO GOOD, THEY'RE NOT COMING,
EVEN IF THEY CHANGE THEIR MINDS
00:41:07.60\00:41:11.40
BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT
THEY WERE TOO GOOD FOR GOD.
00:41:11.40\00:41:13.60
I TAKE THAT BACK, I SAID
EVEN IF THEY CHANGE THEIR MINDS.
00:41:13.60\00:41:15.96
SOME OF THE SCRIBES AND
PHARISEES EVEN CAME TO CHRIST
00:41:15.96\00:41:18.96
LATER, IT SAYS THAT IN ACTS 5.
00:41:18.96\00:41:23.80
BUT IT'S A VERY DANGEROUS THING
TO TOY WITH THE INVITATION OF
00:41:23.80\00:41:26.63
SALVATION.
00:41:26.63\00:41:29.23
DID JESUS
ASSOCIATE WITH SINNERS?
00:41:29.23\00:41:35.03
MATTHEW 9:10, NOW THERE'S A
COUPLE PLACES WHERE YOU FIND
00:41:35.03\00:41:39.66
THIS AND THIS WAS PART
OF OUR SCRIPTURE READING.
00:41:39.66\00:41:44.06
"IT HAPPENED AS JESUS SAT IN THE
TABLE--" OH, BY THE WAY, THIS IS
00:41:44.06\00:41:48.10
AFTER CHRIST CALLS MATTHEW,
THE TAX COLLECTOR, THE PUBLICAN.
00:41:48.10\00:41:52.60
MATTHEW IS SO THANKFUL.
00:41:52.60\00:41:54.06
BY THE WAY, MATTHEW IS WILLING
TO LEAVE EVERYTHING, LIKE
00:41:54.06\00:41:56.50
THE FISHERMAN LEFT
THEIR NETS, AND FOLLOW JESUS.
00:41:56.50\00:41:59.50
AND HE WANTS TO SHOW
HIS GRATITUDE TO CHRIST.
00:41:59.50\00:42:01.50
HE INVITES HIM OVER.
00:42:01.50\00:42:02.60
HE SAYS, "MY FRIENDS
NEED TO HEAR YOUR TEACHINGS."
00:42:02.60\00:42:04.93
HE INVITES JESUS TO HIS HOUSE
AND HIS HOUSE IS FILLED WITH ALL
00:42:04.93\00:42:07.30
HIS OTHER COHORTS FROM
HIS, THE SEEDY PAST HE HAD.
00:42:07.30\00:42:13.06
AND JESUS IS HERE IN THIS HOUSE
AND BACK THEN THEY HAD THESE
00:42:13.06\00:42:16.03
COURTYARDS AND YOU COULD WALK
BY AND SEE WHO WAS EATING AT A
00:42:16.03\00:42:18.40
PERSON'S HOUSE.
00:42:18.40\00:42:19.33
THEY'RE NOT ALL IN
A CLOSED DINING ROOM.
00:42:19.33\00:42:21.90
"AND IT HAPPENED WHEN JESUS
SAT AT A TABLE IN THE HOUSE THAT
00:42:21.90\00:42:24.76
BEHOLD MANY TAX COLLECTORS AND
SINNERS CAME AND SAT DOWN WITH
00:42:24.76\00:42:29.23
HIM AND HIS DISCIPLES.
00:42:29.23\00:42:31.40
AND WHEN THE PHARISEES SAW
IT, THEY SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES,
00:42:31.40\00:42:34.10
WHY YOUR TEACHER DOES THIS,
HE'S EATING WITH TAX COLLECTORS
00:42:34.10\00:42:38.00
AND SINNERS."
00:42:38.00\00:42:39.46
AND JESUS HEARD THIS HE SAID,
"THOSE WHO ARE SICK DO NOT NEED
00:42:39.46\00:42:44.80
A PHYSICIAN BUT
THOSE WHO ARE--" I'M SORRY.
00:42:44.80\00:42:47.93
"THOSE WHO ARE WELL HAVE NO NEED
OF A PHYSICIAN, BUT THOSE WHO
00:42:47.93\00:42:51.10
ARE SICK.
00:42:51.10\00:42:51.93
BUT GO AND LEARN WHAT THIS
MEANS, I DESIRE MERCY AND NOT
00:42:51.93\00:42:56.83
SACRIFICE FOR I DID NOT COME TO
CALL THE RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS
00:42:56.83\00:43:01.76
TO REPENTANCE."
00:43:01.76\00:43:03.16
HOW MANY OF YOU WANT
TO BE CALLED TO CHRIST?
00:43:03.16\00:43:06.93
IF YOU ARE
RIGHTEOUS, HE'S NOT CALLING YOU.
00:43:06.93\00:43:10.20
HE CALLS SINNERS, THAT MEANS
IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE TOO BAD,
00:43:10.20\00:43:13.36
WELL, THAT'S YOUR FIRST
QUALIFICATION IS KNOWING THAT
00:43:13.36\00:43:15.23
YOU'RE A SINNER.
00:43:15.23\00:43:16.83
THAT'S WHO JESUS CAME TO SAVE.
00:43:16.83\00:43:18.93
NEVER DOES HE SAY
YOU'RE TOO SINFUL FOR ME.
00:43:18.93\00:43:22.80
ANY SINNER THAT
RESPONDED, HE ACCEPTED.
00:43:22.80\00:43:26.43
THAT'S GOOD NEWS.
00:43:26.43\00:43:27.93
I THINK I CAN
SAY THAT ASSERTIVELY.
00:43:27.93\00:43:29.96
ANY SINNER THAT EVER
CAME TO JESUS, HE ACCEPTED.
00:43:29.96\00:43:34.50
CAN YOU THINK OF AN EXAMPLE OF
ANY SINNER THAT CAME TO CHRIST
00:43:34.50\00:43:37.63
THAT HE TURNED AWAY 'CAUSE
HE SAID, "YOU'RE TOO SINFUL"?
00:43:37.63\00:43:40.73
WERE THERE SOME THAT TURNED AWAY
BECAUSE THEY FELT THEY WERE TOO
00:43:40.73\00:43:44.46
GOOD OR TOO RICH?
00:43:44.46\00:43:47.00
YEAH, RICH YOUNG RULER, HE
SAID, "I CAN'T FOLLOW JESUS.
00:43:47.00\00:43:48.86
IT WOULD COST TOO MUCH."
00:43:48.86\00:43:50.10
HE WAS TOO GOOD,
TOO RICH FOR GOD.
00:43:50.10\00:43:53.76
DIDN'T FEEL HIS NEED OF CHRIST.
00:43:53.76\00:43:55.93
AND A LOT OF SICK PEOPLE CAME
TO JESUS, BUT JESUS NEVER TURNED
00:43:55.93\00:43:59.46
ANYONE AWAY 'CAUSE
THEY WERE TOO SICK.
00:43:59.46\00:44:02.16
ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:44:02.16\00:44:04.46
BUT SOME NEVER CAME TO HIM
'CAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE
00:44:04.46\00:44:07.16
TOO HEALTHY.
00:44:07.16\00:44:09.26
I THINK THAT'S
SAFE TO SAY AS WELL.
00:44:09.26\00:44:13.23
HE'S WILLING FOR US TO
COME TO HIM JUST THE WAY WE ARE.
00:44:13.23\00:44:17.13
QUEEN ELIZABETH I SAID, "THEY
ARE MOST DECEIVED THAT TRUST
00:44:17.13\00:44:22.30
THE MOST IN THEMSELVES.
00:44:22.30\00:44:24.90
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS IS
THE DEVIL'S MASTERPIECE."
00:44:24.90\00:44:30.10
WE'VE GOTTA GUARD AGAINST
THAT, FRIENDS, AND JUST PRAY.
00:44:30.10\00:44:33.86
IT'S LIKE THE MAN WHO EATS
CHEDDAR CHEESE AND GETS IT ON
00:44:33.86\00:44:35.80
HIS MUSTACHE, WALKS AROUND ALL
DAY AND HE WONDERS WHAT STINKS.
00:44:35.80\00:44:40.33
HE THINKS EVERYBODY STINKS.
00:44:40.33\00:44:41.33
IT'S ON HIS MUSTACHE.
00:44:41.33\00:44:43.06
IT'S HIS MUSTACHE THAT STINKS.
00:44:43.06\00:44:44.83
AND IT'S SO HARD FOR
US TO KNOW OUR OWN SIN.
00:44:44.83\00:44:50.83
WE'RE BLIND TO IT.
00:44:50.83\00:44:52.96
WE NEED TO PRAY THAT GOD'LL
HELP US TO SEE OURSELVES CLEARLY
00:44:52.96\00:44:56.43
THROUGH HIS EYES AND TO BLIND US
TO THE FAULTS OF OTHERS BUT IT
00:44:56.43\00:44:59.70
SEEMS IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
00:44:59.70\00:45:01.30
WE'RE SO CLEAR ON THE
FAULTS OF EVERYONE ELSE.
00:45:01.30\00:45:04.00
INTERESTING SCRIPTURE,
ECCLESIASTES 7:16, "DO NOT BE
00:45:04.00\00:45:08.86
OVERLY RIGHTEOUS."
00:45:08.86\00:45:10.66
WOW, YOU'D NEVER THINK YOU'D
HEAR THE LORD SAY IN HIS WORD,
00:45:10.66\00:45:14.23
DON'T BE TOO GOOD.
00:45:14.23\00:45:17.50
HE'S SAYING DON'T BE
OVERLY RIGHTEOUS OR OVERLY WISE.
00:45:17.50\00:45:19.86
BY THE WAY, THIS IS THE WISEST
MAN WHO EVER LIVED THAT SAID
00:45:19.86\00:45:21.96
THAT.
00:45:21.96\00:45:23.30
DON'T THINK TOO MUCH
OF YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:45:23.30\00:45:26.93
SOON AS YOU THINK YOU'RE HUMBLE,
YOU BECOME PROUD OF HUMILITY
00:45:26.93\00:45:29.13
THEN YOU CEASE TO BE HUMBLE.
00:45:29.13\00:45:34.16
"WHY SHOULD YOU
DESTROY YOURSELF?"
00:45:34.16\00:45:36.73
JOB ALSO SAYS SOMETHING SIMILAR.
00:45:36.73\00:45:39.36
JOB 4:17, "CAN MORTAL MAN
BE MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN GOD?"
00:45:39.36\00:45:44.93
CAN A MAN BE MORE
PURE THAN HIS MAKER?"
00:45:44.93\00:45:48.10
AND YET THERE ARE SOME BASED ON
THEIR BEHAVIOR YOU WOULD THINK,
00:45:48.10\00:45:52.96
DO WE THINK
WE'RE TOO GOOD FOR GOD?
00:45:52.96\00:45:56.93
HEARD A STORY ONE TIME OF A
PRIEST THAT WAS TRAVELING ONE
00:45:56.93\00:46:01.60
FRIDAY THROUGH ITALY AND HE
STOPPED AT AN INN AND HE ASKED
00:46:01.60\00:46:07.23
FOR SOME FISH BECAUSE THEY'RE
NOT ALLOWED TO EAT MEAT ON
00:46:07.23\00:46:10.10
FRIDAY.
00:46:10.10\00:46:11.90
AND THE PROPRIETOR OF THE
INN SAID THERE'S NO FISH LEFT.
00:46:11.90\00:46:16.46
HE SAID, "WELL,
WHAT DO YOU HAVE?"
00:46:16.46\00:46:18.96
HE SAYS, "WELL, I GOT SOME
PHEASANT, BUT TODAY'S FRIDAY,
00:46:18.96\00:46:22.60
I CAN'T SERVE YOU MEAT."
00:46:22.60\00:46:24.93
HE SAID, "LOOK, I'M A PRIEST.
00:46:24.93\00:46:27.60
I TAKE THE BREAD AND I
TURN IT INTO THE BODY OF JESUS.
00:46:27.60\00:46:31.56
I CAN TURN THIS FOWL INTO FISH.
00:46:31.56\00:46:34.46
I'LL JUST SAY A PRAYER."
00:46:34.46\00:46:36.40
AND SO THE INNKEEPER
BROUGHT HIM HIS PHEASANT.
00:46:36.40\00:46:40.33
HE SAID A PRAYER, HE
SAID, "NOW IT'S FISH."
00:46:40.33\00:46:43.20
NOW I KNOW THAT'S HARD FOR YOU
AND I TO CONCEIVE OF BUT THAT'S
00:46:43.20\00:46:46.86
MAN THINKING THAT HE'S
MORE RIGHTEOUS THAN GOD PUTTING
00:46:46.86\00:46:51.46
HIMSELF IN THE PLACE OF GOD.
00:46:51.46\00:46:54.10
AND WE LOOK DOWN OUR NOSES AT
THAT, BUT YOU WONDER DO WE EVER
00:46:54.10\00:46:59.40
HAVE THAT KIND OF ATTITUDE?
00:46:59.40\00:47:02.10
MAKES ME SHUTTER 'CAUSE I
SOMETIMES SEE IT IN MYSELF.
00:47:02.10\00:47:07.03
LUKE 7:37, WHO'S
THE BIGGER SINNER?
00:47:07.03\00:47:13.73
WHAT QUALIFIES BIG SIN?
00:47:13.73\00:47:18.96
"BEHOLD A WOMAN," THIS IS WHEN
JESUS IS IN THE HOUSE OF SIMON,
00:47:18.96\00:47:22.53
THE LEPER.
00:47:22.53\00:47:23.90
HE'S CALLED SIMON THE
LEPER BECAUSE HE HAD LEPROSY.
00:47:23.90\00:47:25.90
JESUS HEALED HIM.
00:47:25.90\00:47:27.16
SIMON EVIDENTLY HAD A FEAST
TO THANK JESUS FOR HIS ACT OF
00:47:27.16\00:47:30.16
GRACE.
00:47:30.16\00:47:31.80
SIMON WAS A PHARISEE.
00:47:31.80\00:47:36.70
"BEHOLD A WOMAN IN THE CITY WHO
WAS A SINNER WHEN SHE WAS KNEW
00:47:36.70\00:47:39.03
THAT JESUS WAS AT A TABLE
IN THE PHARISEE'S HOUSE BROUGHT
00:47:39.03\00:47:42.06
AN ALABASTER
FLASK OF FRAGRANT OIL."
00:47:42.06\00:47:45.53
SHE WAS A
SINNER, LUKE ADMITS THAT.
00:47:45.53\00:47:49.10
"SHE STOOD AT JESUS' FEET
BEHIND HIM WEEPING AND SHE BEGAN
00:47:49.10\00:47:52.50
TO WASH HIS FEET WITH HER TEARS
AND WIPE THEM WITH THE HAIR OF
00:47:52.50\00:47:54.96
HER HEAD."
00:47:54.96\00:47:55.76
BY THE WAY, WHAT WAS HER NAME?
00:47:55.76\00:47:57.93
ANOTHER GOSPEL SAYS
THIS IS MARY MAGDALENE.
00:47:57.93\00:48:01.43
"AND SHE KISSED HIS FEET AND
ANOINTED THEM WITH A FRAGRANT
00:48:01.43\00:48:04.80
OIL.
00:48:04.80\00:48:06.50
NOW WHEN THE PHARISEE WHO HAD
INVITED HIM SAW THIS, HE SPOKE
00:48:06.50\00:48:10.36
WITHIN HIMSELF AND SAID, 'THIS
MAN, IF HE WAS A PROPHET, WOULD
00:48:10.36\00:48:13.70
KNOW WHO AND WHAT MANNER OF
WOMAN THIS IS WHO'S TOUCHING HIM
00:48:13.70\00:48:16.80
FOR SHE IS A SINNER.'"
NOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH HIS
00:48:16.80\00:48:20.50
ATTITUDE HERE?
00:48:20.50\00:48:22.83
HE SOMEHOW THINKS
HE'S BETTER, DOESN'T HE?
00:48:22.83\00:48:26.50
VERSE 40, "AND JESUS ANSWERED
AND SAID TO HIM, 'SIMON, I'VE
00:48:26.50\00:48:31.73
GOT SOMETHING TO SAY TO YOU.'
HE SAID, 'TEACHER, SAY ON.'
00:48:31.73\00:48:36.66
'THERE WAS A CERTAIN CREDITOR
WHO HAD TWO DEBTORS, ONE OWED
00:48:36.66\00:48:40.26
FIVE HUNDRED DENARI
AND THE OTHER FIFTY.'"
00:48:40.26\00:48:43.76
ONE OWES TEN TIMES
MORE THAN THE OTHER.
00:48:43.76\00:48:47.96
"AND WHEN THEY HAD NOTHING TO
PAY, THEY ARE EQUALLY BANKRUPT."
00:48:47.96\00:48:52.23
ONE OWES MORE BUT THEY'RE BOTH
EQUALLY BANKRUPT, THEY CAN'T
00:48:52.23\00:48:55.23
PAY.
00:48:55.23\00:48:56.90
"AND WHEN THEY HAD NOTHING WITH
WHICH TO PAY--" HOW MUCH DO WE
00:48:56.90\00:48:59.76
HAVE TO REPAY THE
LORD FOR WHAT WE'VE DONE?
00:48:59.76\00:49:03.93
HE PAID A DEBT THAT WE JUST
COULDN'T PAY AND YOU NEVER WILL
00:49:03.93\00:49:08.43
BE ABLE TO PAY IT.
00:49:08.43\00:49:10.30
"AND WHEN THEY HAD NOTHING
WITH WHICH TO REPAY, HE FREELY
00:49:10.30\00:49:13.80
FORGAVE THEM BOTH."
00:49:13.80\00:49:16.40
THE LORD FORGIVES
THE RICH AND THE POOR.
00:49:16.40\00:49:20.00
SOME ARE GOOD BY THE WORLD'S
STANDARDS AND MORALS AND SOME
00:49:20.00\00:49:25.40
ARE NOT.
00:49:25.40\00:49:26.30
HE FREELY FORGIVES BOTH.
00:49:26.30\00:49:29.20
"'TELL ME THEREFORE,' JESUS
IS ASKING SIMON THE PHARISEE,
00:49:29.20\00:49:34.00
'WHICH OF THEM
WILL LOVE HIM MORE?'
00:49:34.00\00:49:36.93
SIMON ANSWERED AND SAID,
'I SUPPOSE THE ONE HE FORGAVE
00:49:36.93\00:49:39.80
MORE.' HE SAID TO
HIM, 'YOU'VE RIGHTLY
00:49:39.80\00:49:42.83
JUDGED.'" NOW YOU GET THAT?
00:49:42.83\00:49:45.23
HE WHO HAS FORGIVEN
THE MOST, LOVES THE MOST.
00:49:45.23\00:49:48.53
SO IF WE BECOME PREOCCUPIED WITH
OUR GOODNESS AND HOW MUCH WE
00:49:48.53\00:49:51.76
OFFER GOD, WE WILL MAYBE
APPRECIATE GOD LESS AND NOT
00:49:51.76\00:49:56.30
SERVE HIM AS WELL WHICH
IS THE POINT OF THE MORAL.
00:49:56.30\00:50:02.40
"AND HE TURNED TO THE WOMAN--"
HE'S STILL IN THE HOUSE OF
00:50:02.40\00:50:05.93
SIMON, POINTS TO MARY MAGDALENE
AND SAYS, "YOU SEE THIS WOMAN?
00:50:05.93\00:50:09.70
I ENTERED YOUR HOUSE.
00:50:09.70\00:50:10.90
YOU GAVE ME NO
WATER FOR MY FEET.
00:50:10.90\00:50:12.56
SHE'S WASHED MY FEET WITH
HER TEARS AND WIPED THEM WITH
00:50:12.56\00:50:15.90
THE HAIR OF HER HEAD.
00:50:15.90\00:50:17.03
YOU GAVE ME NO KISS BUT THIS
WOMAN HAS NOT CEASED TO--" USED
00:50:17.03\00:50:20.83
TO USUALLY A MAN WOULD KISS
ANOTHER MAN ON THE FACE, YOU
00:50:20.83\00:50:23.43
KNOW HOW THEY DO IN THE MIDDLE
EASTERN COUNTRIES ON THE CHEEK?
00:50:23.43\00:50:26.30
"AND SHE'S NOT CEASED TO KISS MY
FEET SINCE THE TIME I CAME IN.
00:50:26.30\00:50:31.86
YOU DID NOT ANOINT MY HEAD
WITH OIL MY BUT THIS WOMAN HAS
00:50:31.86\00:50:34.23
ANOINTED MY FEET
WITH FRAGRANT OIL.
00:50:34.23\00:50:37.13
THEREFORE I SAY TO YOU, HER
SINS, WHICH ARE MANY--" IS THERE
00:50:37.13\00:50:41.30
ANY DENIAL THAT
SHE HAD MANY SINS?
00:50:41.30\00:50:44.26
SHE'S A BIG SINNER.
00:50:44.26\00:50:46.00
"HER SINS THAT ARE MANY ARE
FORGIVEN, FOR SHE LOVED MUCH BUT
00:50:46.00\00:50:50.53
TO WHOM LITTLE IS FORGIVEN,
THE SAME LOVE'S LITTLE."
00:50:50.53\00:50:54.40
THEN HE TURNS TO THE WOMAN, HE
SAYS, "YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN."
00:50:54.40\00:50:58.26
DID HE EVER SAY THAT TO SIMON?
00:50:58.26\00:51:02.26
IT'S NOT RECORDED.
00:51:02.26\00:51:04.66
SHE KNEW HER SINS WERE
FORGIVEN, THAT'S WHY MARY CAME.
00:51:04.66\00:51:09.56
NOW WAS JESUS SAYING THAT MARY
WAS A BIGGER SINNER THAN SIMON
00:51:09.56\00:51:14.06
OR WAS JESUS SAYING SHE WAS
AWARE OF HER SINS BETTER THAN
00:51:14.06\00:51:20.16
SIMON?
00:51:20.16\00:51:22.33
SHE HAD MORE CONSCIOUSNESS OF
HOW MUCH SHE HAD BEEN FORGIVEN.
00:51:22.33\00:51:27.03
IF WE ARE UNCONSCIOUS OF HOW
EXPENSIVE OUR FORGIVENESS IS, WE
00:51:27.03\00:51:30.73
CAN START THINKING LIKE SIMON
THAT WE'RE GOOD ENOUGH FOR GOD
00:51:30.73\00:51:34.30
OR MAYBE TOO GOD FOR GOD.
00:51:34.30\00:51:36.26
GOD IS NOT TELLING YOU THAT
YOU'VE GOTTA GO OUT THERE AND BE
00:51:36.26\00:51:40.36
A PUBLICAN OR A PROSTITUTE.
00:51:40.36\00:51:44.23
HE'S TELLING YOU THAT YOU
SIMPLY, YOU ALREADY HAVE THE
00:51:44.23\00:51:47.23
SAME CREDIT SCORE AS A
PUBLICAN OR PROSTITUTE.
00:51:47.23\00:51:50.83
HE'S TELLING YOU THAT YOU NEED
TO BE AWARE BECAUSE HE WHO HAS
00:51:50.83\00:51:53.80
FORGIVEN MUCH, LOVES MUCH.
00:51:53.80\00:51:56.63
LOOK AT THE CONTRAST.
00:51:56.63\00:51:57.80
HERE SIMON IS SITTING EQUAL
PLAIN WITH JESUS AT THE TABLE.
00:51:57.80\00:52:02.33
MARY IS CONTENT
TO BE AT HIS FEET.
00:52:02.33\00:52:06.13
AND WHEN SHE HUMBLES HERSELF
LIKE THAT, SHE'S THE ONE WHO
00:52:06.13\00:52:08.66
GOES OUT FORGIVEN.
00:52:08.66\00:52:10.96
SHE GETS THE HIGH HONOR OF BEING
THE ONE AT THE TOMB TO PROCLAIM
00:52:10.96\00:52:15.13
HIS RESURRECTION.
00:52:15.13\00:52:17.83
YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
BEING TOO BAD FOR GOD, BUT YOU
00:52:17.83\00:52:21.76
NEED TO PRAY THAT YOU DON'T
EVER GET TO THE PLACE OR HAVE AN
00:52:21.76\00:52:23.66
ATTITUDE WHERE YOU
THINK YOU'RE TOO GOOD FOR GOD.
00:52:23.66\00:52:27.36
THE STORY OF THE PRODIGAL SON,
HE COMES TO HIS FATHER AND HE'S
00:52:27.36\00:52:32.06
ACCEPTED JUST LIKE HE IS.
00:52:32.06\00:52:35.16
YOU GET THE STORY OF JONAH, YOU
KNOW JONAH, IT'S LIKE THE JEWISH
00:52:35.16\00:52:38.53
NATION.
00:52:38.53\00:52:40.33
HE THOUGHT HE WAS TOO
GOOD TO GO TO THE NINEVITES.
00:52:40.33\00:52:42.80
WELL, THEY'RE
PAGANS, LORD, WHY SAVE THEM?
00:52:42.80\00:52:44.46
AND EVEN AFTER HE PREACHED
TO THEM AND THEY REPENTED
00:52:44.46\00:52:46.00
THE LORD SAYS, "COME ON."
00:52:46.00\00:52:47.30
JONAH'S SAYING,
"LORD, I SAID THEY'RE GONNA
00:52:47.30\00:52:49.00
BE DESTROYED IN 40 DAYS.
00:52:49.00\00:52:50.36
YOU'RE NOT GONNA SHOW
THEM MERCY NOW, ARE THEY?
00:52:50.36\00:52:53.00
I'M GLAD YOU SHOWED ME MERCY.
00:52:53.00\00:52:54.36
I MEAN, YOU KNOW,
AFTER ALL I'M A JEW.
00:52:54.36\00:52:56.26
THANK YOU, BY THE WAY,
FOR SAVING ME FROM THE WHALE.
00:52:56.26\00:52:58.03
BUT THEY'RE NINEVITES."
00:52:58.03\00:53:00.50
WAS THERE A LITTLE BIT OF
SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS IN JONAH
00:53:00.50\00:53:02.26
MAYBE?
00:53:02.26\00:53:04.16
AND GOD JUST TRIED
TO GET THROUGH TO HIM.
00:53:04.16\00:53:06.93
THE SAME PROBLEM JONAH HAD AND
THE JEWS HAD, THE CHURCH HAS.
00:53:06.93\00:53:12.10
IT'S A HISTORY OF GOD'S
PEOPLE DOWN THROUGH THE AGES AND
00:53:12.10\00:53:14.50
ESPECIALLY AT THE END OF TIME.
00:53:14.50\00:53:16.96
ONE OF THE FINAL INDICTMENTS
GOD MAKES THERE IN REVELATION 3.
00:53:16.96\00:53:20.83
WHAT'S THE CONDITION OF THE
CHURCH THAT CHRIST DESCRIBES?
00:53:20.83\00:53:25.86
THE LAODICEAN
LUKEWARM CONDITION.
00:53:25.86\00:53:29.56
THAT LUKEWARM
CONDITION CAN BE LETHAL.
00:53:29.56\00:53:33.73
REVELATION 3:15, THE LORD SAY,
"I KNOW YOUR WORKS THAT YOU'RE
00:53:33.73\00:53:37.16
NEITHER COLD NOR HOT.
00:53:37.16\00:53:38.56
I WISH YOU WERE COLD OR
HOT, EITHER REPENTANT OR BEING
00:53:38.56\00:53:43.40
ZEALOUS AND
TRUSTING IN MY RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:53:43.40\00:53:47.46
THEN BECAUSE YOU'RE LUKEWARM--"
BACK THEN LUKEWARM USED TO
00:53:47.46\00:53:51.16
NAUSEATE A PERSON.
00:53:51.16\00:53:52.33
THEY'D HAVE TO SPIT IT OUT.
00:53:52.33\00:53:54.00
"BECAUSE YOU'RE LUKEWARM
AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I WILL
00:53:54.00\00:53:56.83
SPEW THEE OUT OF MY MOUTH
BECAUSE YOU SAY I'M RICH AND
00:53:56.83\00:54:00.96
I'VE BECOME WEALTHY AND NEED
NOTHING AND YOU DON'T KNOW THAT
00:54:00.96\00:54:04.30
YOU'RE WRETCHED AND MISERABLE
AND POOR AND BLIND AND NAKED."
00:54:04.30\00:54:08.56
KIND OF LIKE SOME DRUNK WHO'S
LIVING IN A TUNNEL IN CENTRAL
00:54:08.56\00:54:14.90
PARK WEARING RAGS.
00:54:14.90\00:54:17.70
MEETS ANOTHER DRUNK DURING
THE NIGHT WHO HANDS HIM A KEY.
00:54:17.70\00:54:21.03
SAYS, "I'M THE
MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY.
00:54:21.03\00:54:23.76
I OWN NEW YORK CITY AND
YOU LOOK LIKE A NICE GUY.
00:54:23.76\00:54:26.03
THANKS FOR THE WHISKEY.
00:54:26.03\00:54:27.10
HERE YOU'RE NOW THE
OWNER OF NEW YORK CITY.
00:54:27.10\00:54:30.16
YOU COULD BE MAYOR."
00:54:30.16\00:54:32.40
COME MORNING HE PUTS ON HIS
SUNGLASSES AND HE STUMBLES OUT
00:54:32.40\00:54:35.36
OF THE TUNNEL WEARING HIS RAGS,
SMELLING OF BOOZE COVERED WITH
00:54:35.36\00:54:41.13
FILTH AND HE THINKS HE'S
THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY.
00:54:41.13\00:54:47.56
AND I WONDER SOMETIMES IF WE'VE
BEEN INEBRIATED WITH TRUTH SO
00:54:47.56\00:54:51.96
THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE TRUTH,
WE THINK WE HAVE SALVATION.
00:54:51.96\00:54:55.73
THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS,
THE JEWS HAVE THE WORD AND THEY
00:54:55.73\00:55:00.20
CONFUSED HAVING THE
WORD FOR HAVING CHRIST.
00:55:00.20\00:55:04.26
SOMETIMES YOU CAN HAVE A
KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH ON THE
00:55:04.26\00:55:06.10
OUTSIDE WITHOUT HAVING
CHRIST THE WORD ON THE INSIDE.
00:55:06.10\00:55:10.76
AND THE LORD SAYS, "BECAUSE
YOU SAY, 'I AM RICH AND BECOME
00:55:10.76\00:55:15.76
WEALTHY AND NEED NOTHING' AND
YOU DON'T KNOW THAT YOU'RE POOR
00:55:15.76\00:55:19.50
AND WRETCHED AND
MISERABLE AND BLIND AND NAKED."
00:55:19.50\00:55:22.83
THE KEY IS THAT WE'VE JUST GOTTA
COME TO THE LORD THE WAY WE ARE
00:55:22.83\00:55:25.66
AND REALIZE WHAT
OUR CONDITION IS.
00:55:25.66\00:55:28.06
LIKE THAT PRODIGAL SON WHEN
HE CAME TO HIS FATHER, HE HAD TO
00:55:28.06\00:55:30.63
SPEND SOME TIME IN THE PIG
PEN, IT SEEMED LIKE, BEFORE HE'D
00:55:30.63\00:55:32.93
REALIZE WHAT HE HAD.
00:55:32.93\00:55:36.26
THE SON WHO CAME HOME WAS
EMBRACED BY THE FATHER, COVERED
00:55:36.26\00:55:41.73
BY THE FATHER.
00:55:41.73\00:55:43.13
THERE WAS A CELEBRATION FOR THE
SON WHO REALIZED HOW FAR HE HAD
00:55:43.13\00:55:47.03
WANDERED.
00:55:47.03\00:55:48.50
THE SON WHO NEVER LEFT HOME, BUT
HE NEVER REALLY FELT AT HOME,
00:55:48.50\00:55:54.30
HE DIDN'T GET A PARTY.
00:55:54.30\00:55:56.33
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING
ABOUT THOSE TWO BROTHERS?
00:55:56.33\00:55:57.76
HE SAID, "I'VE WORKED SO HARD."
00:55:57.76\00:55:59.30
HE WAS TRUSTING IN
HIS OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:55:59.30\00:56:01.06
HE WAS TOO GOOD FOR GOD.
00:56:01.06\00:56:03.16
THE OTHER SON REALIZED THE
LOVE OF THE FATHER AND HE CAME
00:56:03.16\00:56:06.16
AS HE WAS.
00:56:06.16\00:56:07.60
THESE ARE TWO BIG OPPOSITES
THAT YOU SEE IN THE BIBLE.
00:56:07.60\00:56:11.93
SOME FEEL LIKE THEY'RE NOT GOOD
ENOUGH, BUT YOU KNOW THERE'S
00:56:11.93\00:56:16.96
HOPE FOR THEM IF THEY
JUST COME THE WAY THEY ARE.
00:56:16.96\00:56:20.83
IT'S THE ONES WHO THINK THEY'RE
TOO GOOD FOR GOD THAT ARE
00:56:20.83\00:56:23.16
ESPECIALLY IN
SHARK-INFESTED WATERS.
00:56:23.16\00:56:27.20
AND SO I WOULD JUST PRAY THAT
GOD'LL WORK A MIRACLE AND WE'D
00:56:27.20\00:56:33.76
REALIZE THAT THE CHEESE IS
ON OUR MUSTACHE, THAT IT'S HIS
00:56:33.76\00:56:39.90
GRACE WE ALL NEED PERSONALLY,
THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL HELP
00:56:39.90\00:56:43.73
US REALIZE THAT THIS IS
SOMETHING BETWEEN US AND JESUS.
00:56:43.73\00:56:47.90
HOPEFULLY NOBODY HERE TODAY
FEELS THEY MIGHT BE TOO GOOD FOR
00:56:47.90\00:56:51.76
GOD, BUT I WANT TO REMIND
EVERYBODY, NOBODY HERE IS TOO
00:56:51.76\00:56:56.50
BAD FOR JESUS.
00:56:56.50\00:56:58.46
WE CAN COME JUST LIKE WE
ARE BECAUSE HE IS A FRIEND OF
00:56:58.46\00:57:01.56
SINNERS.
00:57:01.56\00:57:02.40
AMEN, FRIENDS?
00:57:02.40\00:57:03.63
AND THEN HE CAN GIVE US A
NEW HEART AND HELP US TO DO HIS
00:57:03.63\00:57:07.10
WILL.
00:57:07.10\00:57:08.20
LET'S PRAY.
00:57:08.20\00:57:10.00
LOVING FATHER IN HEAVEN, O
LORD, WE ARE ENCOURAGED BY THE
00:57:10.00\00:57:14.83
SIMPLE MESSAGE TODAY THAT YOU'VE
ILLUSTRATED MANY TIMES THROUGH
00:57:14.83\00:57:19.03
YOUR WORD, THAT ANYONE CAN COME
TO YOU IN FAITH AND BE RECEIVED.
00:57:19.03\00:57:26.06
AND I PRAY, LORD, THAT EACH OF
US CAN FIND THAT SALVATION, THAT
00:57:26.06\00:57:29.73
GRACE, HELP US TO STOP MAKING
EXCUSES BUT COME NOW THAT WE
00:57:29.73\00:57:34.53
MIGHT RECEIVE THAT
GARMENT AND BE FORGIVEN.
00:57:34.53\00:57:37.36
AND I PRAY, LORD, THAT
EACH PERSON THAT HAS HEARD THIS
00:57:37.36\00:57:42.16
MESSAGE WILL RESOLVE THAT THEY
CAN MAKE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL
00:57:42.16\00:57:46.00
SURRENDER OF THEIR LIVES
TO JESUS AND BE IN THAT GREAT
00:57:46.00\00:57:48.86
BANQUET.
00:57:48.86\00:57:51.06
BLESS US NOW, LORD, THAT
WE MIGHT SEE OURSELVES CLEARLY
00:57:51.06\00:57:53.76
THROUGH YOUR EYES, THAT WE HAVE
20/20 VISION WHEN IT COMES TO
00:57:53.76\00:57:57.46
OUR OWN SINS, BLINDNESS TO THE
SINS OF THOSE AROUND US AND HELP
00:57:57.46\00:58:02.16
US SIMPLY TO REPRESENT JESUS.
00:58:02.16\00:58:04.20
IN HIS NAME WE PRAY, AMEN.
00:58:04.20\00:58:07.96
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