That we may be saved
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That we may have life
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To find our way
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In the darkest night
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Let your light shine on us
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Lord, let your grace
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Grace from Your hand fall on us
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Lord, let your grace
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Grace from Your hand
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Fall on us
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That we may be saved
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That we may have life
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To find our way
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In the darkest night
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Let Your grace shine on us
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Lord, let Your love
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Love with no end
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Come over us
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Lord, let Your love
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Love with no end
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Come over us
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That we
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May be saved
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That we
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may have life
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To find our way
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in the darkest night
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Let Your love
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Come over us
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Let Your light
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Shine on us
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How lovely
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Is thy Dwelling place
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O Lord of Hosts,
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O Lord of hosts
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Thy dwelling place
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O Lord of hosts
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How lovely
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Is thy dwelling place
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O Lord of Hosts,
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O Lord of hosts
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For my soul
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It longeth yea fainteth,
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It longeth yea fainteth,
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It longeth yea fainteth,
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For the courts
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Of the Lord
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My soul and body
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Crieth out
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Yea for the living God
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My soul and body
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Crieth out
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Yea for the living God
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How lovely
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Is thy dwelling place
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O Lord of Hosts,
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O Lord of hosts
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Thy dwelling place
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O blest are they
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That dwell
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With in Thy house
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They praise Thy name ever more
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They praise Thy name
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They praise Thy name ever more
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They praise Thy name ever more
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They praise Thy name ever more
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They praise Thy name ever more
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How lovely,
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How lovely,
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How lovely,
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Is thy dwelling place
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Happy Sabbath, PMC family.
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Happy Sabbath.
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I have a few questions for you.
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How would you like it if
I slapped you in the face?
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If I talked bad, walked
and bragged about my race.
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How about if I
breach the proximity limit
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of your personal space?
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Or if one day I decide to bleach
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your colorful
speech on Jesus and grace
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then teach the opposite
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of what you preached to
colleague at the workplace?
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How would you feel if I
treated you like dirt this week?
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If I precede you as
being lower than the soil
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we used to grow food to eat?
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Would it hurt that I saw as dirt
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and therefore useless?
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Couldn't
produce anything planted
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so it granite.
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Your viewed is only a
dust creating nuisance.
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How about I make you cry?
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I build your
emotional state to a high
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than with one swoop
reduce your esteem to nothing
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and leave you dry.
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But what if I
make you cry again?
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But now it's
because in your time of need
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I was a true available friend.
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What if treating
you like dirt this week
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was still my aim but
now I viewed you as clay
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Jesus made and later became
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to proclaim
salvation in His name.
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What if I again invaded
your personal private space
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but this time to
show your affection
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through a warm embrace?
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What if I still
bragged about my race,
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the race of humanity being
redeemed by Christ saving grace?
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Do to others what
you'd have them do to you,
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Chapter 6:31 in
the Book of Luke.
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Your
relationship with God reflects
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and thus affects the
relations with others.
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If you worship or
harsh on forgiving God
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you'll find it hard to forgive
your sisters and brothers.
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We recite, Lord,
please have mercy on us
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as we have
mercy for other souls.
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We recite
therefore give us our sins
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as we forgive
line in Lord's Prayer
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but in reality it's
something we uphold.
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I find it interesting
that it comes right after us
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asking God to provide
us with food for the day.
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Thus next in line to
your physical nourishment
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are the social relationships,
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humanities also
nourish on the way.
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As daily as God
provides you with food
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is as daily you love for
others should shine through.
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So do to others as you
would have them do to you.
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Your vertical relationship
reflects the horizontal too.
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Once there was a holy place
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Evidence of God's embrace
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And I can
almost see mercy's face
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Pressed against the veil
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Looking down with longing eyes
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Mercy must have realized
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That once His
blood was sacrificed
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Freedom would prevail
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And as the sky grew dark
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As the earth began to shake
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With justice no
longer in the way
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Mercy came running
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Like a prisoner set free
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Past all my failures
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To the point of my need
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When the sin that I carried
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Was all I could see
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And when I could not reach mercy
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Mercy came running to me
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Once there was a broken heart
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Way too human from the start
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And all the years
left you torn apart
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Hopeless and afraid
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Walls I never meant to build
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They left this
prisoner unfulfilled
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Freedom called but even still
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It seemed so far away
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I was bound by the chains
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From the wages of my sin
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Just when I felt like giving in
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Mercy came running
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Like a prisoner set free
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Past all my failures
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To the point of my need
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When the sin that I carried
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Was all I could see
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And when I could not reach mercy
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Mercy came running to me
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Sometimes I still feel so far
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So far from where
I really should be
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He gently calls to my heart
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Just to remind me
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Mercy came running
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Like a prisoner set free
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Past all my failures
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To the point of my need
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When the sin that I carried
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Was all I could see
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And when I could not reach mercy
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Mercy came running to me
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Like a prisoner set free
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Past all my failures
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To the point of my need
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When the sin that I carried
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Was all I could see
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When I could not reach mercy
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Mercy came running
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When I could not reach mercy
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Mercy came running to me
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When I could not reach mercy
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Mercy came running to me
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When I could not reach mercy,
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I just love it.
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Mercy, says okay,
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stay right there
I'll come to you.
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Hallelujah.
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What you say to that, uh?
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Amen and amen.
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And Chris, dynamite.
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Thank you for composing that.
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That is just the
Lord knew we needed today.
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Let's pray together.
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Oh God, it's the
truth of who You are.
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Your name is mercy.
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And when we could not reach You,
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mercy came running to us.
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Holy Father, we are
not worthy of that mercy.
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Mercy is been running at us
all morning in this worship.
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It has not let us go
and now with mercy here
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show us, teach us how
mercy can run through us too.
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We pray in Jesus
name, amen, amen.
00:17:13.08\00:17:16.96
There is an
invariable law of human nature
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that if we choose to live by it,
00:17:29.21\00:17:35.97
if we chose to
direct our lives by it,
00:17:36.00\00:17:40.67
it will revolutionize
00:17:40.70\00:17:42.76
every relationship that we have.
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One law, human nature.
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Now that I have my
carpenter apron nicely in place.
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This is from my
friend, Garren Dense,
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hardware store in
town, village hardware.
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Do it Best, hallelujah.
00:18:05.85\00:18:09.12
I need to tell you
now that I got this on,
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a handyman I am not.
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You can ask my
wife, you can ask my kids
00:18:13.82\00:18:15.53
everybody that tell you.
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I have a few tools, a
few tools in my garage,
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so I brought a tool today.
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I want to give that tool
and get it right up here.
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Oh, it's already here.
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How you do that?
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I have this, this
tool hangs in my garage.
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Speaking of my
garage, by the way,
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I got a deal for you today.
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We've been collecting
stuffs since history begin,
00:18:34.89\00:18:38.28
and so-- No, no, seriously.
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If you'll will make a donation
to the Pioneer Memorial Church,
00:18:42.93\00:18:47.41
I'll give you sight on
seen everything in that garage.
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You don't talk
to my wife about it,
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just you come straight to
me and we'll work that out.
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All right, so this
is one of the tools
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along with my
carpenter apron here
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and this is a board.
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Just a nice little
board from the garage as well.
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All right. No.
00:19:07.58\00:19:10.73
I told you, I'm not a handyman.
00:19:10.76\00:19:11.96
I just...
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What I do with this thing?
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All right, okay.
00:19:16.41\00:19:18.32
So you know how
to use these saws?
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It's an old fashion saw,
that's what I used to do it.
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You know you got
these circular saws now.
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But you go like this.
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I want to show you something.
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Is it cold outside
or something, is this...
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I get it.
00:19:38.95\00:19:41.55
Because you know with the saw,
00:19:41.58\00:19:44.05
if you have wood and you
have a saw let me tell you,
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you can make,
you can make stuff.
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Now I am not going to go
ahead and do this whole board.
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You got to just trust me
00:19:56.66\00:19:57.97
and know that I really
I could have finished it,
00:19:58.00\00:19:59.34
all right.
00:19:59.37\00:20:00.97
But I want to show this,
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I want to show
you something here.
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You see this stuff
here? You see this?
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Do you know what they call this?
00:20:07.46\00:20:11.35
Saw dust. You
are handy person too.
00:20:11.38\00:20:15.09
This is saw
dust. Now look, look.
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This is
universally, so its quiz time,
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question.
00:20:21.94\00:20:23.16
Which would you rather
have stuck in your eye?
00:20:23.19\00:20:26.88
Uh?
00:20:26.91\00:20:27.94
Which would you rather
have stuck in your eye?
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Just one little
piece of this, all right?
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That's a choice.
Quiz, its multiple choice.
00:20:33.73\00:20:35.90
This or, or would
you rather have this
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janum into your eye?
00:20:42.09\00:20:44.62
Which would you rather have?
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Once up a time, there
was a carpenter named Jesus,
00:20:49.08\00:20:53.80
and He said
that is a no-brainer.
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I want you to
notice how Jesus puts it.
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Sermon on the Mount,
open your Bible please
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to Matthew Chapter 7
00:21:01.43\00:21:02.88
in our continuous
series mercy came running.
00:21:02.91\00:21:06.05
This is part three.
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Remember now,
00:21:07.36\00:21:08.39
we are looking for
powerful law about human nature
00:21:08.42\00:21:11.09
that can
revolutionist the way you live.
00:21:11.12\00:21:14.64
So let's find out,
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the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 7.
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I am in the New
King James version.
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If you didn't bring a Bible
just reach right into that pew
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and grab the pew Bible.
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Page number in a pew
Bible, 653, page 653.
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And by the way, if you have
red letter edition of the Bible,
00:21:35.95\00:21:38.82
these words better be in
red or you take that back
00:21:38.85\00:21:41.36
because this is solid,
solid Jesus, all right.
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Matthew Chapter 7,
Sermon on the Mount.
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Verse 1, "Judge not,
that you be not judged.
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For with what judgment
00:21:54.49\00:21:55.95
you judge, you will be judged,
00:21:55.98\00:21:59.57
and with the measure you use,
it will be measured back to you.
00:21:59.60\00:22:04.99
And why do you
look at the speck,"
00:22:05.02\00:22:07.87
and there it is,
that saw dust, all right.
00:22:07.90\00:22:10.01
One little piece of sawdust.
00:22:10.04\00:22:11.38
"Why do you look at that
sawdust in your brother's eye,
00:22:11.41\00:22:14.69
but do not consider
the plank in your own eye?"
00:22:14.72\00:22:18.63
Verse 4, "Or how can
you say to your sister,
00:22:18.66\00:22:21.24
'Let me remove the
speck from your eye'
00:22:21.27\00:22:23.47
and look, a plank
is in your own eye?
00:22:23.50\00:22:26.09
Hypocrite!" Verse 5.
00:22:26.12\00:22:29.52
"First remove the
plank from your own eye,
00:22:29.55\00:22:32.30
and then you will see
00:22:32.33\00:22:33.44
clearly to remove the
speck from your brother's eye."
00:22:33.47\00:22:40.99
Did you see what
the divine carpenter
00:22:41.02\00:22:43.53
has just reviewed
in this red letter box
00:22:43.56\00:22:46.62
that He has constructed for us?
00:22:46.65\00:22:49.08
Jesus says, Jesus says,
00:22:49.11\00:22:50.48
hey guys come here, come here.
00:22:50.51\00:22:52.24
I want to tell you something.
00:22:52.27\00:22:53.72
Followers of mine, I
want to tell you something.
00:22:53.75\00:22:55.96
I am gonna let you
in on a little secret
00:22:55.99\00:22:59.94
about human nature.
00:22:59.97\00:23:02.13
Now it's going to
be real comfortable
00:23:02.16\00:23:04.08
but if you get this
secret, your every relationship
00:23:04.11\00:23:09.95
you have will be revolutionized.
00:23:09.98\00:23:13.80
And I don't know about you,
00:23:13.83\00:23:14.86
but I would love to
have every relationship
00:23:14.89\00:23:16.63
that I enjoyed
revolutionized, would you?
00:23:16.66\00:23:19.46
So I want you to write it down.
00:23:19.49\00:23:21.34
Pull up your
study guide, please.
00:23:21.37\00:23:22.79
In your worship
bullet in this morning
00:23:22.82\00:23:24.33
there should be a
study guide in there.
00:23:24.36\00:23:26.39
Yeah, you're coming
in out of the blizzard
00:23:26.42\00:23:28.74
and you had to gloves on
00:23:28.77\00:23:30.37
so you didn't
get a worship book,
00:23:30.40\00:23:31.43
that's okay.
00:23:31.46\00:23:32.49
Ushers are gonna
make sure right now
00:23:32.52\00:23:34.43
that you have
the same study guy.
00:23:34.46\00:23:36.46
Hold your hand up I
will get that to you.
00:23:36.49\00:23:38.07
Those of you, who are watching
on television right now,
00:23:38.10\00:23:40.16
let me put our
website on the screen for you.
00:23:40.19\00:23:42.66
There it is on
your television screen,
00:23:42.69\00:23:44.76
www.pmchurch.tv.
00:23:44.79\00:23:48.92
Go to that website,
our still very new series,
00:23:48.95\00:23:52.43
Mercy Came running.
00:23:52.46\00:23:54.35
Click on that series
and this will be part three,
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Solid Gold. All right.
00:23:56.95\00:23:58.92
You see right
there beside Solid Gold
00:23:58.95\00:24:00.34
the word study guide.
00:24:00.37\00:24:01.40
You click that study guide word
00:24:01.43\00:24:03.27
and you will have on your screen
00:24:03.30\00:24:04.71
the very same one
00:24:04.74\00:24:07.54
that we're going
to fill in right now.
00:24:07.57\00:24:09.28
All right, we got
to cut to the chase.
00:24:09.31\00:24:10.41
Let's do it.
00:24:10.44\00:24:11.47
Filling that very top sentence,
00:24:11.50\00:24:14.29
what you, here
come now, watch out.
00:24:14.32\00:24:16.59
What you criticize in others
00:24:16.62\00:24:21.00
is invariably true about you.
00:24:21.03\00:24:25.05
Eugene Peterson in his masterful
00:24:28.31\00:24:31.23
rendition of the
bible called The Message.
00:24:31.26\00:24:33.70
Here's how Eugene Peterson
00:24:33.73\00:24:34.95
puts his first two
versus in Matthew 7.
00:24:34.98\00:24:38.07
In fact you
need to fill this in.
00:24:38.10\00:24:40.02
Peterson has Jesus
saying, "Don't pick on people,
00:24:40.05\00:24:42.85
Don't jump on their failures,
00:24:42.88\00:24:44.37
don't criticize
their faults unless,
00:24:44.40\00:24:46.40
of course, you
want the same treatment.
00:24:46.43\00:24:48.35
That critical, write it down,
00:24:48.38\00:24:50.90
"That critical spirit
has a way of boomeranging,"
00:24:50.93\00:24:58.58
as we're about to see
but not before we admit.
00:24:58.61\00:25:02.71
Okay, we got to do this,
00:25:02.74\00:25:03.81
we must admit
these are hard words
00:25:03.84\00:25:07.07
for an academic
community like ours.
00:25:07.10\00:25:10.05
Judge not that
you be not judged,
00:25:10.08\00:25:11.85
what's that suppose to mean?
00:25:11.88\00:25:12.93
Critique not that
you be not critique.
00:25:12.96\00:25:14.97
Criticize not that
you be not criticize.
00:25:15.00\00:25:17.73
I mean come on the very nature
of the intellectual community
00:25:17.76\00:25:21.16
is that it thrives on criticism.
00:25:21.19\00:25:24.98
We have whole branches
of knowledge call criticism.
00:25:25.01\00:25:27.91
We have higher criticism,
we have textual criticism,
00:25:27.94\00:25:30.57
we have literally criticism,
we have historical criticism.
00:25:30.60\00:25:33.59
Come on, we pride
ourselves in the mental acuity
00:25:33.62\00:25:37.19
that enables us to
challenge theories,
00:25:37.22\00:25:39.23
critique ideas,
scrutinize evidence
00:25:39.26\00:25:42.10
and criticize our conclusions.
00:25:42.13\00:25:44.51
In fact, I know the
faculty on this campus,
00:25:44.54\00:25:47.01
we like to pride ourselves
00:25:47.04\00:25:48.82
that we're training our
students to thank critically.
00:25:48.85\00:25:53.94
I mean, come on, you don't have
to take anybody's word for it.
00:25:53.97\00:25:56.73
Not-- no matter
who the authority is
00:25:56.76\00:25:58.72
hook line and seek it you
check it out first, right?
00:25:58.75\00:26:03.09
That's good. That's not bad.
00:26:03.12\00:26:04.87
That's why universities exist.
00:26:04.90\00:26:07.90
Doctoral communities,
00:26:07.93\00:26:09.36
oh, that little team
of critics can hardly
00:26:09.39\00:26:12.32
wait for the next
victim to come walking in.
00:26:12.35\00:26:15.01
Doctoral students
research critics, criticized.
00:26:15.04\00:26:19.03
Hey, I got good news for you,
00:26:19.06\00:26:21.78
as far as Jesus in us
00:26:21.81\00:26:25.12
is concerned-- and in
fact jot this down please,
00:26:25.15\00:26:27.37
"The good news for us
00:26:27.40\00:26:28.70
is that Jesus is not
challenging critical thinking."
00:26:28.73\00:26:34.69
Write that down.
00:26:34.72\00:26:35.75
But the bad news for us
00:26:35.78\00:26:37.58
is that Jesus is
condemning critical acting,
00:26:37.61\00:26:42.28
write that down too, please.
00:26:42.31\00:26:46.48
You see, the Greek
word for hypocrite,
00:26:46.51\00:26:48.55
the Jesus has just
used there in verse 5
00:26:48.58\00:26:50.88
that this is on
there in you study guide
00:26:50.91\00:26:53.71
and you need to fill it in.
00:26:53.74\00:26:54.77
Greek word for
hypocrite, hupokrites.
00:26:54.80\00:26:57.21
Hupokrites, it
refers to the actor.
00:26:57.24\00:27:00.66
Write it in, "the
actor on a Greek stage,
00:27:00.69\00:27:02.52
one who pretends
to be what he is not.
00:27:02.55\00:27:06.49
She wears a mask
and fools her audience."
00:27:06.52\00:27:11.17
Which is precisely
what a hypocrite does,
00:27:11.20\00:27:12.68
isn't that right?
00:27:12.71\00:27:13.74
Come on when I pretend,
00:27:13.77\00:27:14.98
when I fool
everybody by pretending to be
00:27:15.01\00:27:16.94
what I am not, I am a
hupokrites, a hypocrite.
00:27:16.97\00:27:22.44
Apparently it's a
favorite word of Jesus.
00:27:22.47\00:27:24.76
that word is
used only-- get this,
00:27:24.79\00:27:26.06
it's used only 17
times in the New Testament,
00:27:26.09\00:27:29.35
13 of those 17, all by Matthew
00:27:29.38\00:27:31.38
and all those times Matthew
puts it on the lips of Jesus,
00:27:31.41\00:27:34.78
"You hypocrite."
00:27:34.81\00:27:38.23
The job hazard for an
academic community like ours,
00:27:38.26\00:27:42.98
and by the way, the
danger for all of us,
00:27:43.01\00:27:45.17
academic or not academic
the danger for all of us
00:27:45.20\00:27:48.22
is that there
is a very thin line
00:27:48.25\00:27:51.30
between critical
thinking and critical acting.
00:27:51.33\00:27:56.66
You say, not. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:56.69\00:27:59.30
Jot it down, when
you develop the skill,
00:27:59.33\00:28:01.72
write this down, when you
develop the skill of critiquing,
00:28:01.75\00:28:05.89
you then become more susceptible
to the sin of criticizing.
00:28:05.92\00:28:11.67
You say, come on,
Dwight, it's not a sin.
00:28:11.70\00:28:14.11
Oh, I beg sir,
to differ with you.
00:28:14.14\00:28:17.77
It is a sin.
00:28:17.80\00:28:20.27
You don't have to fill this in
but I put it in your study guide
00:28:20.30\00:28:22.07
because I want you to see this,
00:28:22.10\00:28:23.13
look at this, we
put it on the screen.
00:28:23.16\00:28:24.19
The English word "critic-ize"
00:28:24.22\00:28:25.58
you see the first part
of the word its "critic."
00:28:25.61\00:28:28.05
The English word critic
is from the Greek word krites
00:28:28.08\00:28:31.66
which is the word for "a judge."
00:28:31.69\00:28:33.51
A judge is a krites.
00:28:33.54\00:28:37.08
But get this,
according to James 4:12
00:28:37.11\00:28:40.85
and you have to fill this
in, the apostle declares that
00:28:40.88\00:28:43.43
"There is only one
Lawgiver and Judge,
00:28:43.46\00:28:47.65
so who are you who
judge your neighbor?"
00:28:47.68\00:28:50.41
So ladies and gentlemen,
00:28:50.44\00:28:51.60
when I critic, when I krites,
00:28:51.63\00:28:56.14
when I criticize
you I become your judge
00:28:56.17\00:28:57.98
and I take on the sole
prerogative of all mighty God
00:28:58.01\00:29:01.73
and in anybody's
book that's a sin,
00:29:01.76\00:29:03.95
is it not, playing God?
00:29:03.98\00:29:05.71
Playing God to
judge you, please.
00:29:05.74\00:29:11.52
Wow, this is serious.
00:29:11.55\00:29:14.10
Verse 1, "Judge not,
that you be not judged.
00:29:14.13\00:29:18.85
For with what
judgment you judge,
00:29:18.88\00:29:21.72
you will be judged,
00:29:21.75\00:29:23.04
and with the measure you use
it will be measured back to you.
00:29:23.07\00:29:25.62
And why do you look at the
speck in your sister's eye,
00:29:25.65\00:29:27.89
but do not consider
the plank in your own?
00:29:27.92\00:29:29.64
Or how can you
say to your brother,
00:29:29.67\00:29:31.15
'Let me remove the speck,
that sawdust from your eye'
00:29:31.18\00:29:33.50
and, look, you got the
board jammed in your own eye?"
00:29:33.53\00:29:35.85
Verse 5, "Hypocrite!
00:29:35.88\00:29:38.98
First remove the
plank from your own eye,
00:29:39.01\00:29:41.95
and then you will see
clearly to remove the speck
00:29:41.98\00:29:44.88
from your brother's eye."
00:29:44.91\00:29:46.84
Because, ladies and gentlemen,
00:29:46.87\00:29:48.50
this is the
stunning law of human nature,
00:29:48.53\00:29:52.56
that little speck of sawdust
00:29:52.59\00:29:56.14
in his or her life
is nothing in comparison
00:29:56.17\00:30:00.89
to the huge board you
have jammed into yours.
00:30:00.92\00:30:06.17
You see, it's a
law of human nature.
00:30:06.20\00:30:09.70
Invariably it is true
00:30:09.73\00:30:12.47
when what you
criticize in others
00:30:12.50\00:30:15.79
is invariably true about you.
00:30:15.82\00:30:18.19
And by the way our whole nations
00:30:18.22\00:30:20.33
saw this potent
law of human nature,
00:30:20.36\00:30:23.03
our whole nations
saw this come true
00:30:23.06\00:30:24.57
just a few weeks ago,
you remember the story.
00:30:24.60\00:30:27.24
One of the
bright and shining stars
00:30:27.27\00:30:29.97
of evangelical America,
00:30:30.00\00:30:33.23
a pastor of 13,000 member church
00:30:33.26\00:30:36.21
that he had
raised up from scratch,
00:30:36.24\00:30:39.31
president of the
National Evangelical Association
00:30:39.34\00:30:43.28
visited frequent
to the White House,
00:30:43.31\00:30:45.85
a women preacher
against homo-sexuality
00:30:45.88\00:30:48.26
and sexual immorality.
00:30:48.29\00:30:49.66
Just a few weeks ago
00:30:49.69\00:30:50.82
was outed by a
homosexual prostitute
00:30:50.85\00:30:53.84
that the pastor had frequented
for the past two years.
00:30:53.87\00:30:57.15
Beware follower
of Christ, beware.
00:31:00.25\00:31:04.49
Watch you criticize in others
is invariably true about you.
00:31:04.52\00:31:10.48
"Judge not, that
you be not judged.
00:31:13.03\00:31:16.53
For with what judgment
you judge, you will be judged,
00:31:16.56\00:31:19.75
and with the measure you use,
00:31:19.78\00:31:21.30
it will be
measured back to you."
00:31:21.33\00:31:23.92
The pastor was defrocked,
banished from his pulpit.
00:31:23.95\00:31:29.58
The measure he had
used against other sinners
00:31:29.61\00:31:32.19
was now used against him
and now is a sinner exposed
00:31:32.22\00:31:37.41
he is seeking healing.
00:31:37.44\00:31:38.54
And I need to say,
I am praying to God
00:31:38.57\00:31:41.25
because I pray for him by name.
00:31:41.28\00:31:43.13
I am praying to God that
he and his dear little family
00:31:43.16\00:31:46.94
will find the
healing they are seeking
00:31:46.97\00:31:49.36
because you know why,
00:31:49.39\00:31:50.45
there but for the
grace of God, go I.
00:31:50.48\00:31:54.95
Judge not, don't you judge
00:31:54.98\00:31:59.06
that you be not judged.
00:31:59.09\00:32:03.58
For what you criticize in others
is invariably true about you.
00:32:03.61\00:32:07.75
And by the way, not
only does Jesus drive
00:32:07.78\00:32:09.86
the point home very graphically
but so does Paul the apostle.
00:32:09.89\00:32:14.54
Now jot this down
in your study guide,
00:32:14.57\00:32:15.75
we'll put it on
the screen, Romans 2:1.
00:32:15.78\00:32:18.57
This is something, isn't it?
00:32:18.60\00:32:19.88
Paul writing, "You,
therefore, have no excuse,
00:32:19.91\00:32:22.83
you who pass
judgment on someone else,
00:32:22.86\00:32:25.13
for at whatever point
you judge the another,
00:32:25.16\00:32:27.76
you are condemning yourself,
00:32:27.79\00:32:29.17
because you who pass
judgment do the same things."
00:32:29.20\00:32:34.28
Write it in the word same.
00:32:34.31\00:32:36.74
Judge not, that
you be not judged.
00:32:36.77\00:32:41.37
Some years ago I came across
00:32:41.40\00:32:44.62
these words of Oswald Chambers
00:32:44.65\00:32:46.24
and they have
just stuck in my heart
00:32:46.27\00:32:49.96
and I had to
share them with you.
00:32:49.99\00:32:51.19
You got in there
in your study guide.
00:32:51.22\00:32:53.05
You have to fill it in.
00:32:53.08\00:32:54.36
In his classic book,
My Utmost for His Highest,
00:32:54.39\00:32:56.75
Chamber is writing now,
00:32:56.78\00:32:57.87
"Every wrong thing that I
see in you, God locates in me.
00:32:57.90\00:33:03.36
Every time I
judge, I condemn myself,"
00:33:03.39\00:33:06.56
write it in, "I condemn myself."
00:33:06.59\00:33:10.45
Remember the kids,
remember when we were the kids,
00:33:10.48\00:33:13.27
did your generation do this too,
00:33:13.30\00:33:14.88
when you point at
somebody and say, "you,"
00:33:14.91\00:33:16.78
and they all laughed, ha-ha-ha.
00:33:16.81\00:33:18.37
Two fingers pointing my way,
three fingers pointing back.
00:33:18.40\00:33:20.52
You remember that? It's true.
00:33:20.55\00:33:23.77
Every time I judge
you, I condemn myself,
00:33:23.80\00:33:25.68
three fingers are pointing back.
00:33:25.71\00:33:27.21
I've never met
a man, no, no, no,
00:33:30.36\00:33:33.07
let me back track here,
00:33:33.10\00:33:34.56
"Every time I
judge, I condemn myself.
00:33:34.59\00:33:35.80
Stop having a
measuring rod for other people,"
00:33:35.83\00:33:38.54
then I put the emphasis here.
00:33:38.57\00:33:40.14
"There is always one
fact more in every man's case
00:33:40.17\00:33:45.12
about which we know nothing."
00:33:45.15\00:33:46.59
You know, we are
so hard on each other.
00:33:46.62\00:33:48.37
Do you understand
you and I do not know
00:33:48.40\00:33:50.34
everything about
that human being?
00:33:50.37\00:33:51.96
You know no, you have no
knowledge about his wife.
00:33:51.99\00:33:54.48
You know nothing
about her husband,
00:33:54.51\00:33:55.73
you know nothing
about the children,
00:33:55.76\00:33:57.02
you know nothing about
the home she grew up in.
00:33:57.05\00:33:58.92
You know nothing about the fact
00:33:58.95\00:34:00.05
she's fighting a
disease for her life.
00:34:00.08\00:34:01.84
You know nothing about
the pressures he bears,
00:34:01.87\00:34:03.76
you know nothing.
00:34:03.79\00:34:05.26
There's one fact,
always one fact left
00:34:05.29\00:34:07.76
you know nothing of
and yet you and I shred,
00:34:07.79\00:34:13.20
shred in our self-righteous
00:34:13.23\00:34:18.58
hearted spirit we shred.
00:34:18.61\00:34:21.24
You don't know.
00:34:21.27\00:34:23.14
The only one who
knows everything is God
00:34:23.17\00:34:24.52
and that's' why
he's the only one
00:34:24.55\00:34:25.58
who can judge, only one.
00:34:25.61\00:34:28.39
Chambers goes on, "I
have never met the man
00:34:28.42\00:34:29.95
I could despair of after
discerning what lies in me
00:34:29.98\00:34:32.27
apart from the grace of God.
00:34:32.30\00:34:33.53
If you have been shrewd
00:34:33.56\00:34:34.71
in finding out
the defects in others,
00:34:34.74\00:34:36.22
remember that will be exactly
the measure given to you.
00:34:36.25\00:34:39.08
Life serves back
in the coin you pay."
00:34:39.11\00:34:42.12
What you give is what you get.
00:34:42.15\00:34:46.49
Wow.
00:34:46.52\00:34:47.55
Judge not, judge not
that you be not judged.
00:34:47.58\00:34:51.30
Hey, come on, I
am just going to talk
00:34:51.33\00:34:52.39
little heart to heart now.
00:34:52.42\00:34:54.45
You suppose that's' why
we have such a hard time,
00:34:54.48\00:35:00.72
spending time
with critical people?
00:35:00.75\00:35:04.67
I am gonna be honest with you.
00:35:04.70\00:35:06.05
I don't like being
around here for long.
00:35:06.08\00:35:07.61
I can handle it for
a bit but not for long.
00:35:07.64\00:35:11.07
Have you notice
there's something grating
00:35:11.10\00:35:12.38
about their
spirit on your words.
00:35:12.41\00:35:16.68
That critical spirit,
those little innuendos,
00:35:16.71\00:35:19.62
the judgmental twist
they put on leader's mistake,
00:35:19.65\00:35:22.35
they are sly but
sugary sweet way of injecting
00:35:22.38\00:35:24.68
their pharisaical
judgment into the conversation.
00:35:24.71\00:35:27.40
I tell you what, let me just--
I'll lead this with you too.
00:35:27.43\00:35:31.64
These aren't in the study guide.
00:35:31.67\00:35:32.94
But the moment, the next
time you are with somebody
00:35:32.97\00:35:34.92
and that somebody
begins to criticize someone
00:35:34.95\00:35:37.96
and by the way always
that someone is not present,
00:35:37.99\00:35:40.74
you'll notice, all right.
00:35:40.77\00:35:41.82
The next time
that begins to happen,
00:35:41.85\00:35:43.30
there are two
realities you can know
00:35:43.33\00:35:44.72
about the person
doing the criticizing,
00:35:44.75\00:35:46.61
I want you to never forget these
00:35:46.64\00:35:47.81
because it exposes the
raw truth of our human nature.
00:35:47.84\00:35:50.70
Remember these
two, reality number one,
00:35:50.73\00:35:52.69
as Jesus and Paul and Chambers
00:35:52.72\00:35:54.00
have just made
clear to us this morning,
00:35:54.03\00:35:55.73
the individual is struggling.
00:35:55.76\00:35:57.53
The one doing the criticizing
00:35:57.56\00:35:58.72
is struggling with
the very same weakness
00:35:58.75\00:36:00.62
he or she has
identified in somebody else.
00:36:00.65\00:36:05.87
And by the way, truth
and fairness in advertising.
00:36:05.90\00:36:12.21
The reason I know that
this is the law of human nature
00:36:12.24\00:36:15.27
is because of my
own critical spirit.
00:36:15.30\00:36:19.62
I worked very hard at
trying not to ever talk
00:36:19.65\00:36:23.47
in a critical way about
another person not present.
00:36:23.50\00:36:27.53
And I think if
you talk to my staff
00:36:27.56\00:36:28.84
and you talk to my
family you would find
00:36:28.87\00:36:30.65
that I at least make an effort.
00:36:30.68\00:36:33.68
I am so ashamed of the times
00:36:33.71\00:36:37.11
I've broken my own rule.
00:36:37.14\00:36:40.60
And I want you to
stop me if you ever hear me
00:36:40.63\00:36:42.78
talking about
somebody who is not there,
00:36:42.81\00:36:45.18
why we're
talking about him or her.
00:36:45.21\00:36:47.06
Now in a positive way
talk to you, blew in the face,
00:36:47.09\00:36:49.21
I don't mind it, but if I
start critiquing, judging,
00:36:49.24\00:36:52.72
you stop me, all right.
00:36:52.75\00:36:54.80
But-- so I try
not to do it out loud.
00:36:54.83\00:36:57.25
But I can be very
critical of another person
00:36:57.28\00:37:00.93
right here in my mind.
00:37:00.96\00:37:04.65
And I've learned, I've
just shredded people here.
00:37:04.68\00:37:09.16
And I learned over the years
00:37:09.19\00:37:10.95
that the reason I am able
to spot another man's weakness
00:37:10.98\00:37:13.23
so quickly is because
I have that same weakness
00:37:13.26\00:37:16.28
and I've developed a proclivity
towards it and I see it.
00:37:16.31\00:37:19.00
It's like when you
drive a Ford Taurus,
00:37:19.03\00:37:20.77
they are everywhere.
00:37:20.80\00:37:21.84
So the next time,
00:37:27.58\00:37:28.89
now I'm giving you a
little bit of council,
00:37:28.92\00:37:30.45
it's not in the study guide.
00:37:30.48\00:37:31.70
But the next time you
hear somebody criticizing
00:37:31.73\00:37:34.95
another person who
of course is not present
00:37:34.98\00:37:36.78
you can know immediately
that he or she is struggling
00:37:36.81\00:37:39.85
with that same weakness,
00:37:39.88\00:37:41.14
that same sin,
that same failure.
00:37:41.17\00:37:44.65
I tell you what,
00:37:44.68\00:37:45.71
if those of us who enjoy
criticizing people in public
00:37:45.74\00:37:48.16
would realize what we're
actually saying about ourselves,
00:37:48.19\00:37:51.05
we would keep our mouth shut.
00:37:51.08\00:37:53.58
And this would be a whole
lot happier place to live in.
00:37:53.61\00:37:57.21
Judge not as you be not judged.
00:38:00.76\00:38:05.80
But I promised two,
there are two realities
00:38:05.83\00:38:07.90
that you can know
about a criticizer.
00:38:07.93\00:38:10.27
Reality number one, he
reveals his own weakness to you
00:38:10.30\00:38:13.88
and reality number
two, you can not trust
00:38:13.91\00:38:16.14
your own confidential
information with him
00:38:16.17\00:38:20.95
which is why Judas
00:38:20.98\00:38:23.37
was not a part of
Jesus' inner circle.
00:38:23.40\00:38:26.78
He wanted to be,
00:38:26.81\00:38:28.74
because a judgmental spirit
can turn on you in an incident.
00:38:28.77\00:38:31.29
Jesus can not afford to share
00:38:31.32\00:38:32.60
His deepest
confidences with Judas.
00:38:32.63\00:38:35.57
I mean, because
if he's talking about
00:38:35.60\00:38:36.84
so and so in my presence,
00:38:36.87\00:38:38.12
what do you suppose
he's saying about me
00:38:38.15\00:38:39.74
in someone else's presence.
00:38:39.77\00:38:42.28
I tell you what, never,
sometimes you feels little good
00:38:42.31\00:38:44.89
to somebody's come
to you to tell some.
00:38:44.92\00:38:46.39
Never flatter yourself
that a critic takes you
00:38:46.42\00:38:48.96
into her
confidence about someone else
00:38:48.99\00:38:51.02
because she is doing
the very same thing to you
00:38:51.05\00:38:53.65
behind your back,
trust me, trust Jesus.
00:38:53.68\00:38:57.93
That's why ladies and gentlemen,
00:38:57.96\00:39:00.22
critics had many
informants but few friends.
00:39:00.25\00:39:05.17
You think about
that for a moment.
00:39:09.02\00:39:11.69
A century ago, these
penetrating words were written,
00:39:15.10\00:39:18.46
that's why I want you
to have the study guide.
00:39:18.49\00:39:20.00
Look at this, you
have to fill it in.
00:39:20.03\00:39:22.21
"The atmosphere of
selfishness and narrow criticism
00:39:22.24\00:39:24.72
stifles the noble
and generous emotions,
00:39:24.75\00:39:27.45
and causes men
and women to become
00:39:27.48\00:39:28.91
self-centered
judges and petty spies."
00:39:28.94\00:39:32.44
Picky, picky,
picky, picky, picky, picky.
00:39:32.47\00:39:36.21
Why?
00:39:36.24\00:39:37.67
Because I just thrive on this.
00:39:37.70\00:39:41.03
By the way, the
reason I am so hard on you
00:39:41.06\00:39:43.76
is because I am
trying to cover up me.
00:39:43.79\00:39:46.58
If I weren't worry
about me, I would be--
00:39:46.61\00:39:48.37
I won't give two plain
nickels for your problem,
00:39:48.40\00:39:52.77
that's because I
have the same problem
00:39:52.80\00:39:55.20
that I deflect the
attention, just deflect it.
00:39:55.23\00:40:00.14
Next sentence, "The sin
that leads to the most--"
00:40:00.17\00:40:02.93
by the way, not the next
and the most, not the third,
00:40:02.96\00:40:04.76
not the fourth from the most,
00:40:04.79\00:40:06.12
"The sin that leads to
the most unhappy results
00:40:06.15\00:40:09.52
is the cold,
critical, unforgiving spirit
00:40:09.55\00:40:12.70
that characterizes Pharisaism.
00:40:12.73\00:40:14.59
He, she who is guilty of wrong
is the first to suspect wrong.
00:40:14.62\00:40:19.18
By condemning another
00:40:19.21\00:40:20.53
he is trying to
conceal or excuse
00:40:20.56\00:40:22.95
the evil of his own heart.
00:40:22.98\00:40:24.46
According to the
figure that our Savior uses,"
00:40:24.49\00:40:26.55
according to the
board and the sawdust.
00:40:26.58\00:40:33.44
"He who indulges a censorious
00:40:33.47\00:40:35.41
or critical
spirit is guilty of--"
00:40:35.44\00:40:37.67
is blows you out of the water
00:40:37.70\00:40:38.73
but write it down,
"is guilty of greater,
00:40:38.76\00:40:41.62
greater sin than
is the one he accuses,
00:40:41.65\00:40:44.90
for he not only
commits the same sin,
00:40:44.93\00:40:47.06
but adds to it
conceit and censoriousness"
00:40:47.09\00:40:49.43
which is an old word
for the spirit of criticism.
00:40:49.46\00:40:51.55
He sits on the seat of a
judge and that's a double sin
00:40:51.58\00:40:54.83
because there's only one judge
00:40:54.86\00:40:56.01
and when you
play God you're lost
00:40:56.04\00:40:59.20
because the only one
that can save you is you.
00:40:59.23\00:41:02.32
Not God mad at you,
you play God, save yourself
00:41:02.35\00:41:05.57
and you can't,
that's' why you are lost.
00:41:05.60\00:41:08.47
It's a sin, it
is a sin. Oh mercy.
00:41:08.50\00:41:14.26
Is there any mercy
00:41:14.29\00:41:15.61
for the judgmental
likes of you and me?
00:41:15.64\00:41:18.94
Hallelujah. Hallelujah there is.
00:41:18.97\00:41:23.16
You see, ever carpenter
00:41:23.19\00:41:24.88
in his nice carpenter
apron carries one of these.
00:41:24.91\00:41:28.97
This is a rule,
00:41:32.21\00:41:37.78
this is a ruler.
00:41:37.81\00:41:40.79
A carpenter knows that
you have to have a standard
00:41:40.82\00:41:44.26
by which you
live as a carpenter.
00:41:44.29\00:41:46.24
You can't keep
changing your standard
00:41:46.27\00:41:47.64
because then you'd
produce defective construction.
00:41:47.67\00:41:51.97
You have to have a
rule, you have to have a ruler
00:41:52.00\00:41:56.10
and you must use this ruler
00:41:56.13\00:41:57.93
with every bit of
construction you undertake.
00:41:57.96\00:42:01.09
If you ignored in one
that's gonna be messed up,
00:42:01.12\00:42:03.83
that one will be messed up.
00:42:03.86\00:42:05.09
The divine carpenter is
making a point to you and me,
00:42:05.12\00:42:07.88
you have to have a rule.
00:42:07.91\00:42:09.85
We call it the golden rule.
00:42:09.88\00:42:14.34
That's' the only
way you can survive.
00:42:14.37\00:42:16.02
Look at this,
drop down to verse 12,
00:42:16.05\00:42:17.54
isn't this some, carpenter
didn't leave us hanging.
00:42:17.57\00:42:20.05
Thank you, Jesus.
00:42:20.08\00:42:21.11
Verse 12,
"Therefore," Jesus says,
00:42:21.14\00:42:22.67
"Whatever you want men
and women to do to you,
00:42:22.70\00:42:25.15
do also to them, for this
is the law and the prophets."
00:42:25.18\00:42:30.04
All of God's
teachings, Jesus says,
00:42:30.07\00:42:31.57
you want to reduce
the entire bible into one,
00:42:31.60\00:42:33.70
here it is, one golden rule,
00:42:33.73\00:42:36.47
one single standard for God
00:42:36.50\00:42:39.26
and everyone
else in the universe
00:42:39.29\00:42:41.31
the same standard.
00:42:41.34\00:42:43.62
Jot it down, will
you in your study guide,
00:42:43.65\00:42:45.26
"Do to others what you
would have them do to you."
00:42:45.29\00:42:50.63
In other words,
won't you to get that down?
00:42:50.66\00:42:53.20
In other words,
00:42:53.23\00:42:54.52
"Treat others the way
you want to be treated."
00:42:54.55\00:43:00.26
And if we took a poll right now,
00:43:00.29\00:43:02.26
it would be
hands down unanimous.
00:43:02.29\00:43:04.52
How do we want to be treated?
00:43:04.55\00:43:05.62
Two words, I want to
be treated with mercy.
00:43:05.65\00:43:09.67
When you stand in
front of that traffic judge
00:43:09.70\00:43:11.36
with a trembling ticket,
speeding ticket in your hand,
00:43:11.39\00:43:13.87
you have two words on your
mind, your honor, with mercy.
00:43:13.90\00:43:18.07
When you stand in
front of your professor
00:43:18.10\00:43:19.53
and your paper is four days late
00:43:19.56\00:43:21.77
you have two words on
your mind, please, with mercy.
00:43:21.80\00:43:26.52
When you stand and your
room-mate walks into the room
00:43:26.55\00:43:28.91
and you have just dropped
00:43:28.94\00:43:30.02
her laptop and
broken it, with mercy.
00:43:30.05\00:43:34.91
Have you done that?
00:43:34.94\00:43:37.91
With mercy, treat me with mercy.
00:43:37.94\00:43:41.31
When you stand
before your spouse
00:43:41.34\00:43:43.13
and confess a
little unfaithfulness
00:43:43.16\00:43:44.97
or a big unfaithfulness
00:43:45.00\00:43:46.63
you have two words on your mind,
00:43:46.66\00:43:48.37
treat me with mercy. With mercy.
00:43:48.40\00:43:52.45
There isn't a human being
00:43:52.48\00:43:53.51
that doesn't want to
be treated with mercy.
00:43:53.54\00:43:55.17
It's the one
standard word, it's universal.
00:43:55.20\00:43:57.99
Every culture, every
nation, every era of time,
00:43:58.02\00:44:01.86
I want mercy and so do you.
00:44:01.89\00:44:04.66
Which by the way,
let me ask you this,
00:44:04.69\00:44:07.38
would you want anybody
to be talking about you,
00:44:07.41\00:44:10.42
criticizing you, condemning you
00:44:10.45\00:44:13.40
and you are not
there to defend yourself?
00:44:13.43\00:44:15.56
Would you ever want
that to be the case?
00:44:15.59\00:44:17.65
Would you rather say, okay,
you want to talk, let' talk.
00:44:17.68\00:44:19.90
We're big boys, we can talk
00:44:19.93\00:44:21.35
but let me be
there when we talk.
00:44:21.38\00:44:23.56
Let me answer, let me
tell you what you don't know.
00:44:23.59\00:44:26.94
Help me out as a loving brother,
00:44:26.97\00:44:28.29
if I am doing
something wrong, help me out.
00:44:28.32\00:44:30.33
I need your help.
00:44:30.36\00:44:31.50
You can't shred
me behind my back
00:44:31.53\00:44:33.48
and expect me to ever
grow from it now, can you?
00:44:33.51\00:44:37.09
You are ripping my life apart,
00:44:37.12\00:44:38.24
you are using it as
a little stepping stone
00:44:38.27\00:44:39.54
to be higher than everybody.
00:44:39.57\00:44:41.55
Get off.
00:44:41.58\00:44:43.26
Come on, wouldn't
you want to be present?
00:44:43.29\00:44:45.89
Then ladies and
gentlemen, never--
00:44:45.92\00:44:48.59
I am just going to be
very pointed with you,
00:44:48.62\00:44:50.91
for life on this
campus or wherever it is,
00:44:50.94\00:44:53.10
wherever else it
is that you live,
00:44:53.13\00:44:54.84
never ever criticize someone
00:44:54.87\00:44:59.32
in his or her absence.
00:44:59.35\00:45:03.05
If they are not
there, if she's not there,
00:45:03.08\00:45:05.97
if he's not there, shut up.
00:45:06.00\00:45:09.61
Matthew 18 says, you go
straight to him and talk,
00:45:09.64\00:45:11.40
you got to talk you go to him.
00:45:11.43\00:45:13.65
Never ever criticize
someone who is not present.
00:45:13.68\00:45:20.48
And you now have permission,
00:45:20.51\00:45:21.61
if somebody does
that in your presence
00:45:21.64\00:45:23.44
you now have
biblical permission to say,
00:45:23.47\00:45:25.99
hey, time now, I
don't know what it is
00:45:26.02\00:45:28.12
you are just gonna get--
you just get ready to share
00:45:28.15\00:45:29.46
but you know what,
it doesn't feel good.
00:45:29.49\00:45:33.87
I think if you
really got something to say,
00:45:33.90\00:45:35.94
yeah, go talk to
her, go talk to him.
00:45:35.97\00:45:38.34
Don't, please, I
just assume not knowing.
00:45:38.37\00:45:40.87
You know what, five
conversations like that
00:45:40.90\00:45:42.75
and the critic gets
it. The critic gets it.
00:45:42.78\00:45:45.78
He says, I guess,
00:45:45.81\00:45:48.54
I guess that kind of
make sense, doesn't it.
00:45:48.57\00:45:51.20
Jesus is giving us
permission to never, never
00:45:51.23\00:45:56.22
criticize
someone, our enemy even.
00:45:56.25\00:46:00.29
Which by the way is why Jesus
who had every right in the Book
00:46:00.32\00:46:04.02
to cast invictus on this sorry
wretch of a betrayer name Judas.
00:46:04.05\00:46:08.99
When Judas comes to Jesus
that early Friday morning,
00:46:09.02\00:46:12.18
when Judas shows up,
Jesus looks into the face
00:46:12.21\00:46:14.99
of the man who has
betrayed him behind his back
00:46:15.02\00:46:17.72
and Jesus says, friend.
00:46:17.75\00:46:20.91
He calls his enemy
friend. You know why?
00:46:20.94\00:46:24.50
Because Jesus lives--
00:46:24.53\00:46:26.22
the divine carpenter
lives by His own rule.
00:46:26.25\00:46:30.03
He lives by His own ruler.
00:46:30.06\00:46:31.78
If the tables were turned
00:46:31.81\00:46:33.10
I want you to do
the same thing to me,
00:46:33.13\00:46:35.40
keep calling me your friend.
00:46:35.43\00:46:39.63
So when you have been betrayed
00:46:39.66\00:46:41.01
behind your back
by somebody's tongue
00:46:41.04\00:46:45.29
still call her,
still call him friend.
00:46:45.32\00:46:49.36
Jesus, with his
torturous executioners,
00:46:49.39\00:46:54.27
look how He treats them.
00:46:54.30\00:46:56.38
I mean this is the
judge of all the universe
00:46:56.41\00:46:59.52
and they've taken
the divine carpenter,
00:46:59.55\00:47:00.81
they have His arms stretched out
00:47:00.84\00:47:02.34
upon the very
wood He himself crafted
00:47:02.37\00:47:05.55
and as they are
nailing His palms to the core,
00:47:05.58\00:47:09.72
the mighty core of that cross.
00:47:09.75\00:47:11.37
What is Jesus
do? What is Jesus do?
00:47:11.40\00:47:15.87
He says, hey, father, father,
father, please I beg of you,
00:47:15.90\00:47:21.61
forgive them, they don't
know what they are doing.
00:47:21.64\00:47:25.64
And when he
prayed mercy came running
00:47:25.67\00:47:29.88
at that instant
for His executioners.
00:47:29.91\00:47:35.54
Jesus lived, He
practiced what he preached.
00:47:35.57\00:47:38.06
And by the way
you just saw in Jesus
00:47:42.40\00:47:46.72
what is probably the
shortest and simplest antidote
00:47:46.75\00:47:49.79
to the spirit of criticism
anywhere on earth today.
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When you attempt to
the criticize somebody
00:47:52.27\00:47:53.87
and they are not present,
00:47:53.90\00:47:54.93
the moment that
temptation comes into your mind,
00:47:54.96\00:47:56.78
instead of criticizing
00:47:56.81\00:47:58.20
you immediately
pray for that person.
00:47:58.23\00:48:00.19
Would you write it down please?
00:48:00.22\00:48:01.32
Intercede instead of criticize,
pray instead of judge.
00:48:01.35\00:48:06.54
What would happen if
we pray for everybody
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we used to criticize?
00:48:09.26\00:48:11.45
What would happen on this campus
00:48:11.48\00:48:15.63
if we pray for
each other instead?
00:48:15.66\00:48:19.53
Pray instead of judge,
intercede instead of criticize.
00:48:19.56\00:48:23.31
And by the way, in
pleading for mercy for her,
00:48:23.34\00:48:26.68
whoever she is you are
praying for mercy for yourself.
00:48:26.71\00:48:29.93
When you pray for
mercy for that man
00:48:29.96\00:48:33.25
you are pleading
for mercy for yourself.
00:48:33.28\00:48:35.13
And the good news
is when you do that,
00:48:35.16\00:48:36.92
mercy comes running to
both of you at the same time.
00:48:36.95\00:48:40.85
You win, you win with mercy.
You'll always win with mercy.
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Treat others the way you
wanted them to treat you.
00:48:46.53\00:48:50.89
And then
Hallelujah, like the Amish
00:48:50.92\00:48:53.12
this too will
become a community,
00:48:53.15\00:48:54.62
a world starve for
mercy will come seeking.
00:48:54.65\00:48:58.06
I want to end with
a story of the Amish
00:48:58.09\00:48:59.72
but before I do
there's one more quotation
00:48:59.75\00:49:02.01
that you need you,
that end your study guide,
00:49:02.04\00:49:04.35
you need to fill in.
00:49:04.38\00:49:05.80
same book, hundred years ago,
00:49:05.83\00:49:07.96
"Search heaven and
earth," this is dynamite.
00:49:07.99\00:49:11.58
"Search heaven and earth,
and there is no truth revealed
00:49:11.61\00:49:15.31
more powerful than
that which is made manifest
00:49:15.34\00:49:17.68
in works of mercy,"
00:49:17.71\00:49:19.73
prayers of
mercy, works of mercy.
00:49:19.76\00:49:22.94
There's no
greater truth in this,
00:49:22.97\00:49:24.66
in heaven and earth no
more powerful truth than mercy.
00:49:24.69\00:49:27.54
This is the truth
as it is in Jesus.
00:49:27.57\00:49:29.82
Now listen to this, "When those
who profess the name of Christ,"
00:49:29.85\00:49:32.58
like you and me,
00:49:32.61\00:49:33.64
"shall practice the
principles of the golden rule,"
00:49:33.67\00:49:36.37
hold on to your pew,
00:49:36.40\00:49:37.70
"the same power
will attend the gospel"
00:49:37.73\00:49:40.64
today "as in
apostolic times." Hallelujah.
00:49:40.67\00:49:45.01
Do you
understand what that means?
00:49:45.04\00:49:46.41
A lot of you
getting little worried
00:49:46.44\00:49:48.48
about the revival
of the Holy Spirit
00:49:48.51\00:49:49.88
and oh boy, we need
revival, we need revival.
00:49:49.91\00:49:51.62
You want to have revival
like the early church had it,
00:49:51.65\00:49:53.94
you practice the golden rule.
00:49:53.97\00:49:55.32
When you
practice the golden rule,
00:49:55.35\00:49:57.00
that brings the revival
00:49:57.03\00:49:58.75
because it's
the spirit of Jesus.
00:49:58.78\00:50:00.84
What's a hot
pouring of the Holy Spirit
00:50:00.87\00:50:02.24
if it's not the Spirit of Jesus?
00:50:02.27\00:50:03.44
Its Jesus made
fresh through you and me.
00:50:03.47\00:50:06.91
And the power
of the Book of Acts
00:50:06.94\00:50:09.40
will be the power of the
village of Berrien Springs.
00:50:09.43\00:50:12.98
Thank you, Jesus.
00:50:13.01\00:50:15.94
I want to end with a story,
00:50:15.97\00:50:18.36
appeared in the
latest Willow magazine.
00:50:18.39\00:50:20.83
It's about that
tragic morning last fall,
00:50:20.86\00:50:22.61
the whole nation knew this one.
00:50:22.64\00:50:25.81
A little Amish school in
Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.
00:50:25.84\00:50:31.05
Remember that gunman entered,
00:50:31.08\00:50:32.79
barricaded that
little school house
00:50:32.82\00:50:36.04
and when the carnage was over
00:50:36.07\00:50:37.40
seven of the
students were wounded,
00:50:37.43\00:50:38.94
three little girls were
dead and the gunman had died,
00:50:38.97\00:50:41.65
died at his own hands.
00:50:41.68\00:50:44.16
The nation in
shock watch the unfolding
00:50:44.19\00:50:49.22
for the drama was not through.
00:50:49.25\00:50:51.59
The religious news
service came to this celebrated
00:50:51.62\00:50:55.01
Mennonite
philosopher and author.
00:50:55.04\00:50:59.32
One of his books,
The Upside Down Kingdom,
00:50:59.35\00:51:01.33
I think is one of the
greatest books I've read.
00:51:01.36\00:51:04.43
The Mennonite
author and philosopher
00:51:04.46\00:51:06.46
is Donald Kraybill
and he wrote an essay
00:51:06.49\00:51:10.70
for the religious news service.
00:51:10.73\00:51:13.47
As it turn out it's on
the back of this picture
00:51:13.50\00:51:15.66
so I hold the picture.
00:51:15.69\00:51:16.72
You look at the
three Amish women,
00:51:16.75\00:51:18.06
looking at the
place of that carnage.
00:51:18.09\00:51:20.61
And let me read this to you,
you see the title don't you.
00:51:20.64\00:51:23.17
All about forgiveness.
00:51:23.20\00:51:25.69
"The blood was hardly
dry on the bare, board floor
00:51:25.72\00:51:28.27
of the West Nickel Mines
School when Amish parents said
00:51:28.30\00:51:32.18
words of forgiveness
to the family of the man
00:51:32.21\00:51:35.21
who had killed their children."
00:51:35.24\00:51:38.27
Forgiveness?
00:51:38.30\00:51:40.00
So quickly and for
such a heinous crime.
00:51:40.03\00:51:42.68
Why and how could the Amish
do such a thing so quickly?
00:51:42.71\00:51:48.65
"Make no mistake, the
pain of death is sharp,
00:51:48.68\00:51:52.25
searing the hearts of
Amish mothers and fathers
00:51:52.28\00:51:54.58
like it would any other parents.
00:51:54.61\00:51:56.52
But why forgiveness?
00:51:56.55\00:51:57.59
Surely some anger, at
least some grudge is justifiable
00:51:57.62\00:52:00.72
in the face of such a slaughter.
00:52:00.75\00:52:03.79
A frequent phrase in Amish
life is 'forgive and forget.'
00:52:03.82\00:52:08.25
That's the recipe for
responding to Amish members
00:52:08.28\00:52:10.88
who transgress Amish rules,
if they confess their failures.
00:52:10.91\00:52:13.90
Amish forgiveness
also reaches to outsiders,
00:52:13.93\00:52:17.04
even to killers
of their children.
00:52:17.07\00:52:19.90
For you see, their
model is the suffering Jesus,
00:52:19.93\00:52:23.46
who carried his
cross without complaint,
00:52:23.49\00:52:26.08
and who, hanging on the cross, "
00:52:26.11\00:52:27.66
extended
forgiveness to his tormentors.
00:52:27.69\00:52:31.12
Father, forgive them, for
they know not what they do.
00:52:31.15\00:52:35.87
Beyond his example,
the Amish try to practice
00:52:35.90\00:52:38.84
Jesus' admonitions
to turn the other cheek,
00:52:38.87\00:52:41.24
to love one's
enemies, to forgive 70 times 7,
00:52:41.27\00:52:44.22
and to leave
vengeance to the Lord.
00:52:44.25\00:52:45.80
Retaliation and revenge
00:52:45.83\00:52:47.43
are not part of
their vocabulary.
00:52:47.46\00:52:50.60
As pragmatic as they
are about other things,
00:52:50.63\00:52:53.51
the Amish do not
ask if forgiveness works
00:52:53.54\00:52:56.96
they simply seek to practice it
00:52:56.99\00:52:59.29
as the Jesus way of responding
00:52:59.32\00:53:02.03
to adversaries, even enemies.
00:53:02.06\00:53:05.78
Final lines, "Such
courage to forgive has jolted
00:53:05.81\00:53:10.04
the watching world as
much as the killing itself.
00:53:10.07\00:53:13.21
The transforming
power of forgiveness
00:53:13.24\00:53:15.86
may be one redeeming
thing that flows from the blood
00:53:15.89\00:53:19.82
that was shed in Nickel Mines.
00:53:19.85\00:53:25.64
If they can love like Jesus
with mercy and forgiveness,
00:53:25.67\00:53:32.34
I ask you in the name of Christ,
00:53:32.37\00:53:35.53
can we not do the same?
00:53:35.56\00:53:41.17
Be like Jesus, I
would be like Jesus.
00:53:41.20\00:53:46.74
It seems the
right prayer to pray.
00:53:46.77\00:53:49.60
And so I am gonna ask
you to grab that hymn note
00:53:49.63\00:53:51.40
that's' in front of
you and turn to hymn 492.
00:53:51.43\00:53:56.13
Just the first
and the last stanzas.
00:53:56.16\00:53:58.54
Pray it with me will you?
00:53:58.57\00:53:59.81
Pray that chorus especially
when you get to the chorus,
00:53:59.84\00:54:03.91
I would be like Jesus.
00:54:03.94\00:54:08.16
Teach, me, Father, what to say
00:54:37.29\00:54:43.52
Teach me, Father, how to pray
00:54:43.55\00:54:50.68
Teach me all along the way
00:54:50.71\00:54:58.07
How to be like Jesus
00:54:58.10\00:55:05.91
I would be like Jesus
00:55:05.94\00:55:12.82
I would be like Jesus
00:55:12.85\00:55:19.99
Help me, Lord,
00:55:20.02\00:55:22.86
To daily grow
00:55:22.89\00:55:28.14
More and more
00:55:28.17\00:55:31.24
Like Jesus
00:55:31.27\00:55:38.14
Teach me how we may be one
00:55:38.17\00:55:44.53
Like the Father and the Son
00:55:44.56\00:55:51.85
And when all is overcome
00:55:51.88\00:55:59.36
I will be like Jesus
00:55:59.39\00:56:07.36
I would be like Jesus
00:56:07.39\00:56:14.78
I would be like Jesus
00:56:14.81\00:56:22.48
Help me, Lord,
00:56:22.51\00:56:25.70
To daily grow
00:56:25.73\00:56:30.97
More and more like Jesus
00:56:31.00\00:56:38.97
Oh Father, please, I beg of You.
00:56:43.18\00:56:48.90
Help me grow
00:56:54.21\00:56:58.31
more and more,
00:56:58.34\00:57:02.53
please, like Jesus.
00:57:02.56\00:57:08.14
Amen.
00:57:08.17\00:57:10.44
Before you go I wanted
to take one more moment
00:57:10.47\00:57:12.32
to let you know, how glad I am
00:57:12.35\00:57:13.85
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00:57:13.88\00:57:17.22
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world that we do now,
00:57:17.25\00:57:18.84
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surviving on the edge`
00:57:18.87\00:57:20.60
of constant upheaval change
00:57:20.63\00:57:22.96
and pray for that we have
00:57:22.99\00:57:24.02
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00:57:24.05\00:57:26.60
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