Men of faith rise up and sing
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Of our great and glorious King
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You are strong
when you feel weak
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In your brokenness complete
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Everyone join.
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Shout to the North and the south
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Sing to the east and the west
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Jesus is Savior to all
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Lord of heaven and earth
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Rise up women of the truth
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Stand and sing to broken hearts
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Who can know the healing power
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Of our awesome King of love
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Shout to the north and the south
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Sing to the east and the west
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Jesus is Savior to all
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Lord of heaven and earth
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Everyone sing.
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Rise up church with broken wings
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Fill this place with songs again
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Of our God who reigns on high
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By his grace again we'll fly
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Shout to the north and the south
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Sing to the east and the west
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Jesus is Savior to all
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Lord of heaven and earth
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Lord of heaven and earth
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God's love for us is
something amazing, isn't it?
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So why we sing
shout to the north
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not only that Jesus is
Lord but also that God has this,
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this-- this amazingly strong
and over powering love for us.
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I pray that out of
His glorious riches
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He may strengthen you with power
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through His spirit
in your inner being,
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so that Christ may dwell
in your hearts through faith.
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And I pray that you being rooted
and established in that love,
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may have power together
with all the saints to grasp.
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How wide and
long and high and deep
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is the love of Christ.
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How deep the
Father's love for us, amen.
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How great.
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How deep the
Father's love for us
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How vast beyond all measure
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That He should give His only Son
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To make a wretch His treasure
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How great the
pain of searing loss
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The Father turns His face away
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As wounds which
mar the chosen One
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Bring many sons to glory
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Behold the Man upon a cross
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My sin upon His shoulders
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Ashamed I hear my mocking voice
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Call out among the scoffers
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It was my sin
that left Him there
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Until it was accomplished
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His dying breath
has brought me life
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I know that it is finished
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I will not boast in anything
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No gifts, no power, no wisdom
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But I will boast in Jesus Christ
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His death and resurrection
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Why should I
gain from His reward
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I cannot give an answer
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But this I know
with all my heart
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His wounds have paid my ransom
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Lord, you have my heart
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And I will search for Yours
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Jesus, take my
life and lead me on
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Join us as we sing.
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Lord, you have my heart
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And I will search for Yours
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Jesus, take my
life and lead me on
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Lord, you have my heart
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And I will search for Yours
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Let me be to You a sacrifice
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And I will praise You, Lord
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And I will sing
of love come down
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And as You show Your face
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We'll see Your glory here
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Mercy Came
Running, by now I'm sure
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we are all becoming very
familiar with that phrase
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and hopefully it's
getting burned into our minds
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that God comes running after us.
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Well, what you are seeing here
is several different colors.
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This is the
result of a conversation
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that I was
having with Brain Manly
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one of our faculty
over in art and design
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and we started
talking about mercy.
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What is something
visual that can tie us
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into this concept of mercy?
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So we ask the question,
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well, colors
communicate things, don't they?
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White, the color of white,
what does that communicate?
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Peace, purity
many things like that.
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In every culture
colors communicate
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and so we started
asking what color is mercy?
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And so I post this question
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to several of my
artist friends here
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and ask them
come up with a color
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that to you communicate
something of God's mercy.
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First of all, Jenny Shepherd,
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one of our
students in art and design.
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Jenny, you've chosen a
green, a very vibrant green.
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Tell us what this
color communicates?
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Well, I choose
the color light green,
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specifically because it
reminds me of new growth.
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It's the color of new growth
like the grass and spring.
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And how this relates to
God's mercy for me is that
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in our Christian lives
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we are continually
growing towards God
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and in His
infinite mercy He allow--
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He forgives us our
sins and we keep growing.
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So it's just a
continual green growth in mercy.
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Amen.
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Says God's mercies
are new every morning
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always ready
for that new growth.
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Yes. Amen, thank you.
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Greg Howell, one of our
students at the seminary here
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also a talented
artist has chosen this
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very also very vibrant orange.
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Greg, tell us why orange?
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What does orange communicate?
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Orange to me actually is
kind of my favorite color
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in several different
things, sunsets, fall leaves
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in my favorite
pictures these days have been
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deep space things from like
the Hubble telescope and stuff.
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And when, they show the sun
it's never that yellow color
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like we typically associate
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but its that deep orangish
reds and stuff like that.
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So I was thinking
about the sun and the power
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the closure you get to the
sun the more it affects you,
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I mean the hotter you get
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the more intense UV
rays you get and everything.
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And to me that's
kind of what mercy does,
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because the
closure I get to mercy
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and to seeing
what God is really like
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the more it has to
affect me and change me.
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It's hard to-- well, I
would say impossible to contact,
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come in contact with
God's mercy and remain unchanged
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much like falling into the sun.
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It's hard to remain unchanged,
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although God's mercy
doesn't vaporize us in the way
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that the sun would hopefully.
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Okay, all
right, thank you, Greg.
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Heidi Murphy is
not a stranger to many,
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many of you here.
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Lovely wife of Pat Murphy,
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who you can hear
saying amen, every week.
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Heidi, you have chosen a
blue, blue, tell us why blue?
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Well, blue for two reasons.
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The first one is I
use to procrastinate a lot
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when I was in
school I was an art major
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and-- I used to
wait to do my projects
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till the end of the semester
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and I would stay
up all night and work.
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So, the morning
light of the blue sky,
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meant I need mercy, because
my projects are not done yet.
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So God would show me
mercy through the sky say
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you have only got a
couple of more hours
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till you got to
get your project done.
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And every time my
professors would show me mercy.
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Amen.
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And it was through
them that I shown mercy.
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Number two, and I don't
know if you could see the--
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the transition from the
dark corners to the blue
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it's almost royal
and it's almost mercy
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shows transition in your heart.
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You change and you evolve
from darkness to a royalness
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in experiencing who Jesus is.
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Amen.
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Are we taking notes, professors?
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Arnol Jimenez,
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he's not a stranger
also to our community.
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He is been a part of it
for a number of years here
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and he has chosen
kind of a flesh tone
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a flesh tone.
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Arnol, tell us about this?
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Well, there is also two reasons.
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The first one is because
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obviously flesh
tone represents humanity.
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And we are the ones who
needs the most of mercy.
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And also because
the almighty merciful
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became flesh, so
it's in honor to Him.
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Amen. Amen.
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And its fitting that we
should end on this color.
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John 1 says, the
word became flesh
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and pitched his tent among us,
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he built his house next to us.
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Hebrews 2 says,
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"That He had to be made
like His brothers in every way,
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so that He might
become a merciful and faithful
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high priest in service to
God, and that He might make
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atonement for the
sins of our people."
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Flesh, flesh is the
color of God's mercy to us
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because God's
mercy became flesh.
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Blue, blue
because the day is coming
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and we have to turn things in
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but there is mercy for
us, thankfully, thankfully.
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And God changes us
from something that's dark
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to something that's royal.
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Orange, orange
the power of the sun,
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the power to change,
the power to lighten.
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And Green, growth.
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It's our prayer today
all of us I'm sure that,
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that all of you every one of
us will be able to experience
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a new color of God's mercy.
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In a moment we
look full into His eyes
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and we ask that question again
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what is oh, God,
the color of your mercy?
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Holy Father,
whatever color it is
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and perhaps it's
every color in the universe
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we've got to get
the color straight
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and may be the
color is different
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for every single one of us,
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divinely shaped and
crafted to perfectly match
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our own deep and personal need.
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Whatever the color
is may we see the colors
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and may the picture
of the colors compel us
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to be that color to
the world around us.
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We pray in Christ name, amen.
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The neighborhood hadn't seen,
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it had not seen
so many stretched
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limo's in its life time.
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I mean, you have
seen stretched limo's
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you know they come in all
colors and shapes and sizes.
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When our boy Kirk was growing up
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one of his
favorite backseat pastimes
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as we were heading
over to Chicago is to count
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how many limo's he could see
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on the way to the
airport in O'Hare.
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The gray, the
black, and the silver
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because you and I
know that when you spot it
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when you spot a limo
your eyes immediately light up
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because limos tend to indicate
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somebody very
important is passing by.
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Limos are driven for
people who are important
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or for people
who are trying hard
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to pretend that
they are important.
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Like the academy awards,
either way the limousines
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always catch your eyes.
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And so the neighborhood that
is absolutely a buzz tonight
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because as far
as the eye can see
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they are those
stretched limos everywhere.
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Big party, places jammed,
oh, the very interesting tonight
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the paparazzi you know,
those you ubiquitous gawking
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cameramen that always
show up where its happening,
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no paparazzi tonight
because the word is out
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nobody important is coming.
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But the guest drive up invited
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in their rented status symbols
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the man with
greasy slick black hair
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or pasty goody girl
clinging on to that right elbow,
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one by one by one they come
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but there is no
site of the guest.
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Where is the guest of honor?
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Party has already started
and eventually he arrives
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chugging up the street and
that beat up old Ford Taurus.
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Drives into the drive
way, the guest steps out,
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no talks, no girl,
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just a Kmart Blue
Light special of a suit
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but when the
whole spots man comes
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bounding down those stairs
with his arms out stretched
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you could have sworn
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this is the president of
the United States himself.
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Only the little camera's
one of those yellow Kodak
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throw away special
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flashing,
flashing, flashing, flashing
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let the party
begin the guest is here.
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I want to go, I want to go
to that flesh colored mercy
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with you this morning.
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Open your Bible with me please
because three of the gospel,
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three of the gospel writers
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just paint in
their own unique hues
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that
unforgettable late night party.
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Let's go to that party.
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Now, we know that we
have a friend in this series
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and our friend is Matthew.
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And so we are gonna go
to Matthew for the party.
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Although I've got to tell
you this is Matthew Chapter 9.
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Matthew is so humble
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he will not even
tell us in his account
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that he is the
one throwing the party
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and that is taken
place in his ornate mansion.
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Not a word about it.
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Now, let's go to
Matthew Chapter 9,
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you got a Bible
in the quire off,
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you got a Bible in the pew.
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If you didn't bring the Bible,
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just grab the pew
Bible in front of you please,
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because it will be
the New King James Version
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which is what I will be
in this morning with you.
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Page number in our
pew Bible page 634,
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let the party
begin here it goes,
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Matthew 9:9 "As
Jesus passed on from there,
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He saw a man named Matthew
sitting at the tax office.
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And He said to him, 'Follow Me.'
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And so Matthew
arose and followed Him."
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Hey hit the pause
button right there
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because I got to tell
you this is a very gutsy call
00:18:54.03\00:18:56.84
on the part of Christ because
I remind you in case you forgot
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Matthew was a member of
the hated tax collectors.
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You know, the tax
collectors, well, who don't you?
00:19:03.14\00:19:04.83
They were those wealthy Jews
00:19:04.86\00:19:06.48
who collaborated
with the despise Romans
00:19:06.51\00:19:09.88
to raise the taxes
of little land of Judea.
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Because you see
it's a good deal.
00:19:15.65\00:19:17.61
If the Romans come
to you and they say
00:19:17.64\00:19:18.67
hey boy, we are gonna
give you Berrien Springs
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and we have
assessed Berrien Springs
00:19:20.36\00:19:21.54
every year it's a good deal.
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The bad, the bad part of
the deal is that Romans say
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if you don't get
$200,000 from them
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we will take it
right out of your own hand.
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So we -- we don't
care where you get it
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we need $200,000.
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The good news is that
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because you are
under that kind of pressure
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you can set exuberating
levels of levy taxes.
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And so you can
understand the tax collectors
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were not the most
popular men in the village.
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In fact, they were despised
and hated as collaborators
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who would cut some kind of fusty
00:19:54.86\00:19:56.39
and bargain with
the devil himself.
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Please, so you got to admit
pretty gutsy of Jesus to say
00:19:58.36\00:20:02.61
hey, boy, you-- you follow Me,
00:20:02.64\00:20:06.50
I gonna make you
00:20:06.53\00:20:07.91
apart of the inner
circle of My closest.
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All right verse 9 and "As
Jesus passed on from there,
00:20:13.94\00:20:17.19
He saw a man named Matthew
sitting at the tax office.
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And He said to him, 'Follow Me.'
00:20:19.47\00:20:21.64
So Matthew arose
and followed Him."
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Verse 10, And "Now it happened
00:20:23.06\00:20:24.48
as Jesus sat at
the table in the house,
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that behold, many"
notice the word, many.
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"Many tax
collectors and sinners came
00:20:31.11\00:20:33.76
and sat down with
Jesus and His disciples."
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Matthew humbly
omits any mention of
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who is throwing this party
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but Mark and Luke
are absolutely insisting
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that we know its Matthew himself
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and because
Matthew is a tax collector
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he is a very wealthy man.
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He will not be wealthy for long
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but he is living in
this opulent mansion.
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Matthew is throwing the
party and ladies and gentlemen,
00:20:52.21\00:20:55.18
because verse 9 and verse
10 are juxtaposed side to side.
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We know two
reasons -- two reasons,
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its Matthew's kind of
subtle way of telling us
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there are two reasons
why I threw this party.
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Reason number
one, he is overwhelmed
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with a deep and
almost tearful gratitude
00:21:07.98\00:21:11.18
to this Jesus of
Nazareth who has saved Him
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from that life of under
the table extortion and greed.
00:21:13.02\00:21:16.90
I just-- I just
have to say thank you.
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And reason number two
is, Matthew cannot wait
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to have his buddies
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with their concerts
and their girlfriends
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and their wives
meet the very same Jesus,
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who obviously is a
friend of tax collectors.
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When mercy comes
a running to you,
00:21:31.39\00:21:33.94
you cannot keep
that fact to yourself.
00:21:33.97\00:21:38.11
You got to tell, so
he is having a party,
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very big party.
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By the way Luke's
language is it's a huge party,
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broke the bank to say thank you.
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All right, now let's read--
let's read verse 10 again.
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And so "Now it happened
as Jesus sat at the table
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in Matthew's house, that
behold, many tax collectors
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and sinners came and sat down
with Him and His disciples."
00:21:59.59\00:22:02.74
Because notice,
notice the coupling
00:22:02.77\00:22:04.23
of those two categories
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when ever the Jews had this
little word associate together
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yeah, let's word association.
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I'll say a word you respond
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whenever they
would say tax collector,
00:22:10.20\00:22:11.92
they knew their winning
response was always sinner.
00:22:11.95\00:22:14.76
If you say Pharisee, saint.
00:22:16.20\00:22:19.53
If you say
Roman, heathen or pig.
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If you say
Samaritan, half breed or dog.
00:22:23.69\00:22:27.42
Tax collector, sinner.
00:22:27.45\00:22:30.56
Always those two bound together.
00:22:30.59\00:22:33.51
So this is a party
for the tax collectors
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and sinners and other are social
00:22:37.09\00:22:38.56
and ecclesiastical
outcast and for Jesus
00:22:38.59\00:22:41.36
and guess what Pharisees
think they were invited.
00:22:41.39\00:22:43.16
Wrong guys, but they didn't know
00:22:43.19\00:22:45.01
they just went ahead
and showed up any way.
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Hence you know it.
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Look at verse 11 "And
when the Pharisees saw it"
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Pharisees, when the
Pharisees saw the party
00:22:51.93\00:22:55.44
"they said to His disciples,
'Why does your Teacher eat
00:22:55.47\00:22:57.85
with tax
collectors and sinners?'"
00:22:57.88\00:23:00.87
Party poopers its
like that old jingle,
00:23:00.90\00:23:03.89
every party has a pooper
that's why we invited you
00:23:03.92\00:23:06.43
party pooper, party pooper.
00:23:06.46\00:23:09.25
So when the Pharisees showed up
00:23:11.60\00:23:13.59
they weren't invited
drove up in their Honda Accords.
00:23:13.62\00:23:16.88
I love this Kodak moment,
00:23:22.46\00:23:23.98
this Kodak moment picture Jesus.
00:23:24.01\00:23:26.20
I just love this.
00:23:26.23\00:23:27.32
Look at these guys
because the Pharisees
00:23:27.35\00:23:30.55
these hoity religious pallets
who would have be caught dead
00:23:30.58\00:23:34.28
in the house of
an unclean publican.
00:23:34.31\00:23:37.52
But they got to find a way
00:23:42.99\00:23:44.02
to get inside
that party some how.
00:23:44.05\00:23:45.52
They can't go in so
they find a giant open window
00:23:45.55\00:23:48.13
beside the balcony.
00:23:48.16\00:23:51.04
The orange festive light is
spilling out on to the ground,
00:23:51.07\00:23:53.28
they are standing
in that orange light.
00:23:53.31\00:23:55.42
The laughter of a
party in full progress
00:23:55.45\00:23:57.83
was into the night
air and the Pharisees
00:23:57.86\00:24:01.32
they get up to that window
on their tiptoes they go psst.
00:24:01.35\00:24:05.61
Because Pharisees always hiss,
00:24:05.64\00:24:10.37
psst hey, they try
to get the attention
00:24:10.40\00:24:13.44
as some of these young men
00:24:13.47\00:24:14.59
that call the
guest of honor, master.
00:24:14.62\00:24:16.61
Psst, come, come, come, come.
00:24:16.64\00:24:18.35
I tell you what
the bunch of whips
00:24:20.74\00:24:23.59
will take on Jesus but
pick on His followers instead.
00:24:23.62\00:24:28.17
But here comes this Kodak moment
00:24:28.20\00:24:29.35
and I just love this
because my mother was this way.
00:24:29.38\00:24:32.33
And you know what,
your mother was this way.
00:24:32.36\00:24:34.75
I mean, did you
notice this about your mom?
00:24:34.78\00:24:36.98
I mean you can
be in a room packed
00:24:37.01\00:24:39.22
right may be was in
your-- your own little house
00:24:39.25\00:24:41.34
and everybody has come
over and mom is across the room
00:24:41.37\00:24:44.07
caught up in a
conversation with her friends
00:24:44.10\00:24:45.79
in that corner of the room
00:24:45.82\00:24:46.85
and on the other
side of the living room,
00:24:46.88\00:24:48.15
you and your
little buddies are there.
00:24:48.18\00:24:49.67
And you know what you can make
00:24:49.70\00:24:50.87
one slipping mistake in a word
00:24:50.90\00:24:55.87
and that mother who is so
concentrated on her friends
00:24:55.90\00:24:58.16
the whole time with
that rare view antenna
00:24:58.19\00:25:01.33
is listening to
everything you are saying.
00:25:01.36\00:25:05.05
Boom, she is in oh,
boy, what did you say boy?
00:25:05.08\00:25:07.58
Jesus is just like a great mom.
00:25:09.78\00:25:11.34
This is the Kodak
moment because He is over here,
00:25:11.37\00:25:13.74
and nobody has
asked Jesus a thing.
00:25:13.77\00:25:15.54
He is in conversation
with the other publicans
00:25:15.57\00:25:18.32
and tax collectors and
prostitutes over there.
00:25:18.35\00:25:20.33
He is in conversation
but His ear is monitoring,
00:25:20.36\00:25:23.28
His little voice
over in that corner
00:25:23.31\00:25:25.43
and they are just a
few years younger than He.
00:25:25.46\00:25:26.96
And when He hears that psst,
00:25:28.49\00:25:32.73
boom he was not invited but
he cuts into that conversation.
00:25:32.76\00:25:38.07
You had a question gentlemen?
00:25:38.10\00:25:39.61
I love that-- I
love that about Jesus,
00:25:43.15\00:25:45.46
He will never leave
you alone by the way.
00:25:45.49\00:25:47.62
You will never
have to dangle alone
00:25:47.65\00:25:50.12
if He is your master.
00:25:50.15\00:25:51.92
He has got an ear to
wherever you be He is listening.
00:25:51.95\00:25:55.83
All right, I'll see
them on the next page
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probably just a moment.
00:26:03.16\00:26:04.19
All right, here we go.
00:26:04.22\00:26:06.25
Verse 11, yeah, it's
a great story I love it.
00:26:06.28\00:26:09.00
Verse 11, "And when
the Pharisees saw it,
00:26:09.03\00:26:11.27
" we read it again "
they said to His disciples,
00:26:11.30\00:26:13.10
'Why does your Teacher eat with
tax collectors and sinners?'"
00:26:13.13\00:26:15.46
And "When Jesus heard
that," see that ears caught,
00:26:15.49\00:26:17.59
"when Jesus heard that,
He cut into that conversation
00:26:17.62\00:26:20.60
and He said to
them," and by the way
00:26:20.63\00:26:21.95
when Jesus speaks up He
get's everybody's attention.
00:26:21.98\00:26:24.21
That party likes-- in
that party just go shh,
00:26:24.24\00:26:27.34
what and Jesus
from across the room
00:26:27.37\00:26:29.81
hey you guys outside the window.
00:26:29.84\00:26:31.05
You have a question talk to me?
00:26:31.08\00:26:35.21
Jesus speaks in verse 12,
He says, hey, don't you know,
00:26:35.24\00:26:38.78
you guys obviously
have been on hospital
00:26:38.81\00:26:40.27
"Those who are well
have no need of a physician."
00:26:40.30\00:26:44.26
Well, people
don't need a doctor.
00:26:44.29\00:26:46.00
Jesus said no, no, no
"but those who are sick."
00:26:46.03\00:26:49.20
In fact, go and learn.
00:26:49.23\00:26:50.58
Since you guys weren't
invited to this party anyway
00:26:50.61\00:26:52.41
why don't you go home
and have a Bible study.
00:26:52.44\00:26:54.29
Go have a Bible study
00:26:54.32\00:26:55.35
I want you to
pull out the scrolls
00:26:55.38\00:26:56.41
be sure you get
the scroll to Hosea.
00:26:56.44\00:26:58.16
There is one
little line in Hosea guys,
00:26:58.19\00:26:59.62
I wish you would
please mediate on for a while
00:26:59.65\00:27:01.52
for the rest of this night.
00:27:01.55\00:27:02.80
"Go and learn what this means,
00:27:02.83\00:27:04.18
'I desire mercy
and not sacrifice.'
00:27:04.21\00:27:06.77
For I did not come
to call the righteous,
00:27:06.80\00:27:08.48
but sinners, to repentance."
00:27:08.51\00:27:10.56
I love the way Eugene Peterson
renders this last line of Jesus
00:27:16.46\00:27:20.34
in the message He
said, as Jesus saying,
00:27:20.37\00:27:22.45
"I'm here to invite
outsiders, not coddle insiders."
00:27:22.48\00:27:27.26
Insiders always want to
be coddle, coddle, coddle,
00:27:27.29\00:27:29.17
coddle, coddle so it
reminds me the prayer
00:27:29.20\00:27:31.29
Martin Luther once prayed.
00:27:31.32\00:27:32.70
Oh, when I saw
this prayer I said,
00:27:32.73\00:27:34.14
thank you Luther,
for teaching me that
00:27:34.17\00:27:35.66
because I would
like to pray it too.
00:27:35.69\00:27:36.94
It goes like this,
"May God of His mercy
00:27:36.97\00:27:40.24
preserve me from a church
00:27:40.27\00:27:41.53
in which there
are none but saints."
00:27:41.56\00:27:44.67
Wow, awful church to be in
00:27:44.70\00:27:48.49
if there are only
saints in it trust me.
00:27:48.52\00:27:50.98
Good thing you and I are here.
00:27:51.01\00:27:54.16
"May God of His mercy
preserve me from a church
00:27:54.19\00:27:55.64
in which there
are none but saints.
00:27:55.67\00:27:56.83
I desire to
dwell with the humble,
00:27:56.86\00:27:58.44
the feeble, the sick,
00:27:58.47\00:27:59.57
who know and feel their sins,
00:27:59.60\00:28:00.82
and who groan and
cry continually to God
00:28:00.85\00:28:02.78
from the bottom of their hearts
00:28:02.81\00:28:03.87
to obtain His
consolation and support."
00:28:03.90\00:28:06.15
Jesus said I
came to call sinners
00:28:06.18\00:28:09.20
what kind of
sinners what do you suppose.
00:28:09.23\00:28:12.26
Ladies and
gentlemen, as far as I can tell
00:28:12.29\00:28:13.65
there are no express limitations
00:28:13.68\00:28:15.22
in Jesus
rejoinder, do you see any?
00:28:15.25\00:28:17.00
I think He probably means.
00:28:17.03\00:28:18.59
Now, I'm just guessing at this
00:28:18.62\00:28:20.01
I think He
probably means all sinners.
00:28:20.04\00:28:22.61
You know the type don't you?
00:28:22.64\00:28:24.50
Heterosexual sinners
and homosexual sinners,
00:28:24.53\00:28:29.81
you know the type,
00:28:29.84\00:28:31.45
ethical sinners
and unethical sinners,
00:28:31.48\00:28:36.58
alcoholic sinners,
and non-alcoholic sinners,
00:28:36.61\00:28:43.03
democrat sinners,
and republican sinners.
00:28:43.06\00:28:47.85
Some of you
think, some of you think
00:28:47.88\00:28:49.48
Jesus hung around
with the republicans.
00:28:49.51\00:28:51.53
He did not, He hung
around the with the publicans.
00:28:51.56\00:28:54.21
It's not the same thing.
00:28:56.10\00:28:57.13
Independent sinners probably,
00:29:00.33\00:29:03.70
white sinners, black
sinners, brown sinners,
00:29:03.73\00:29:05.78
yellow sinners, red sinners.
00:29:05.81\00:29:07.41
All of them,
rich, poor sinners, yup.
00:29:07.44\00:29:09.71
Male, female yup
educated, illiterate, yup.
00:29:09.74\00:29:12.40
Christian
sinners, Jewish sinners,
00:29:14.19\00:29:18.14
Muslim sinners, Hindu sinners,
00:29:18.17\00:29:21.96
atheist sinners,
Adventist sinners,
00:29:21.99\00:29:24.97
come on you know
the type all of them.
00:29:25.00\00:29:27.65
I hang around them all,
00:29:27.68\00:29:29.97
apparently when
mercy comes running
00:29:30.00\00:29:31.33
it comes running for all of us
00:29:31.36\00:29:33.24
which strikes me
some a bit of good news,
00:29:33.27\00:29:35.40
don't it strike you that way?
00:29:35.43\00:29:36.90
Please, say, hey,
you guys by the window.
00:29:36.93\00:29:38.88
Matthew says
you weren't invited,
00:29:42.23\00:29:44.82
so go home and have
a Bible study will you?
00:29:44.85\00:29:47.01
And look it up, Hosea
6:6 figure out what God means
00:29:47.04\00:29:50.65
when He says, I desire
mercy and not sacrifice.
00:29:50.68\00:29:53.35
Good night.
00:29:53.38\00:29:54.41
Did you know that, that
solitary line from Hosea
00:29:58.86\00:30:01.41
is quoted only twice
in the New Testament.
00:30:01.44\00:30:03.75
Both times my
Matthew and both times
00:30:03.78\00:30:06.14
on the lips of Jesus himself
00:30:06.17\00:30:09.31
there must be
some really punch pat
00:30:09.34\00:30:13.68
and that powerful line
00:30:13.71\00:30:15.66
the only other time
in the New Testament
00:30:15.69\00:30:17.33
take a look, just turn one
page over Matthew Chapter 12.
00:30:17.36\00:30:19.83
Take a look at this.
00:30:19.86\00:30:21.51
Matthew 12:1 only
other time Hosea 6,
00:30:21.54\00:30:26.40
Matthew 12:1 let's go, and
00:30:26.43\00:30:28.37
"At that time Jesus went through
the grain fields on the Sabbath.
00:30:28.40\00:30:32.40
And His disciples were hungry,
00:30:33.81\00:30:34.95
and began to pluck
heads of grain and to eat.
00:30:34.98\00:30:37.50
And when the Pharisees
saw it, they said to Him,
00:30:37.53\00:30:40.38
'Look, Your disciples are doing
00:30:40.41\00:30:42.54
what is not lawful
to do on the Sabbath!'
00:30:42.57\00:30:45.07
But Jesus said to them,"
Here come the red letters now,
00:30:45.10\00:30:47.35
"Jesus said,
what's your guys problem,
00:30:47.38\00:30:49.79
'Haven't you read what
David did when he was hungry,
00:30:49.82\00:30:52.06
and he and those
who were with him,
00:30:52.09\00:30:53.36
how he entered the
house of God, verse 4,
00:30:53.39\00:30:55.38
how he ate the showbread
00:30:55.41\00:30:56.60
which was not
lawful for him to eat,
00:30:56.63\00:30:58.27
nor was it for
those who were with him,
00:30:58.30\00:30:59.83
but only for the priests?"
00:30:59.86\00:31:00.99
Or how about this guys, verse 5,
00:31:01.02\00:31:02.76
"Haven't you read in
the law that on the Sabbath
00:31:02.79\00:31:04.99
the priests in the
temple profane the Sabbath,
00:31:05.02\00:31:06.92
and are blameless?
00:31:06.95\00:31:07.98
Yet I say to you if
you guys could get this
00:31:08.01\00:31:10.13
that there is one
greater than the temple."
00:31:10.16\00:31:11.94
Who is standing here.
00:31:11.97\00:31:13.03
But verse 7, "I wish
you have another Bible study
00:31:13.06\00:31:15.58
verse 7, "But if you
had known what this means,
00:31:15.61\00:31:20.43
'I desire mercy, there it is
00:31:20.46\00:31:22.56
I desire mercy
and not sacrifice,'
00:31:22.59\00:31:25.08
you would not have
condemned the guiltless.'"
00:31:25.11\00:31:27.73
And by the way
"The Son of Man is Lord
00:31:27.76\00:31:30.81
even of the Sabbath."
00:31:30.84\00:31:32.16
Only two places
in the New Testament,
00:31:36.84\00:31:38.80
we just read them.
00:31:38.83\00:31:40.43
And by the way this
story is not over yet
00:31:40.46\00:31:41.53
because Jesus said, these
are the guys that slow me up,
00:31:41.56\00:31:43.32
I'm planning to
go to church today,
00:31:43.35\00:31:44.84
where is the synagogue
00:31:44.87\00:31:45.90
because I'm having
worship today with you.
00:31:45.93\00:31:48.17
And so the very
next verse, verse 9,
00:31:48.20\00:31:49.52
"Now when He had
departed from there,
00:31:49.55\00:31:50.74
He went into their synagogue.
00:31:50.77\00:31:52.49
And behold, there
was a man" verse 10,
00:31:52.52\00:31:54.28
"who had a withered hand.
00:31:54.31\00:31:55.86
And they asked Him,
saying," hey teacher,
00:31:55.89\00:31:59.49
"'Is it lawful to
heal on the Sabbath?'
00:31:59.52\00:32:01.93
That they might accuse Him."
00:32:01.96\00:32:03.31
They didn't want to know,
they didn't want an answer.
00:32:03.34\00:32:05.27
They want to nail Him.
00:32:05.30\00:32:07.30
And Jesus said to them again.
00:32:07.33\00:32:08.78
These guys shh, are every where.
00:32:08.81\00:32:11.55
"Then He said to
them, 'What man is there'"
00:32:11.58\00:32:13.77
common guys tell
me, you got a sheep,
00:32:13.80\00:32:16.31
sheep wanders how do
you look like on the Sabbath
00:32:16.34\00:32:18.32
tumbles into a pit you
are on your way to church
00:32:18.35\00:32:20.77
and you look down that pit
and that is your praise sheep.
00:32:20.80\00:32:23.59
What are you
gonna do on the Sabbath?
00:32:23.62\00:32:25.07
Don't tell me that
you are going to ahead
00:32:25.10\00:32:26.33
and go worship and
leave that sheep there.
00:32:26.36\00:32:27.59
Are you crazy? I
know what you will do?
00:32:27.62\00:32:29.21
You will climb down to
get all dirty in that pit
00:32:29.24\00:32:31.37
just to save the life of
a little tiny fluffy sheep.
00:32:31.40\00:32:35.60
Now Jesus says, verse
12 "Of how much more value
00:32:36.63\00:32:39.80
then is a human
being than a sheep?
00:32:39.83\00:32:42.17
Therefore I'm telling
you it is lawful to do good
00:32:42.20\00:32:45.56
on the Sabbath."
00:32:45.59\00:32:47.70
He turns some of
those party poopers
00:32:47.73\00:32:50.76
and He says to the man,
"Stretch out your hand."
00:32:50.79\00:32:55.14
And the man with
the withered hand
00:32:55.17\00:32:58.20
realizes he is in the presence
of divinity and in faith.
00:32:58.23\00:33:04.94
And hand just like, just
like that, just like that.
00:33:04.97\00:33:08.27
And then verse 14, oh,
boy, "The Pharisees went out
00:33:10.70\00:33:14.05
and plotted against Jesus,
how they might destroy Him."
00:33:14.08\00:33:17.33
And its clear form the
gospel record from that point
00:33:17.36\00:33:19.26
it's all down hill
He is headed to death.
00:33:19.29\00:33:22.60
By that single act of mercy
00:33:22.63\00:33:24.42
Jesus signed His
own death warrant.
00:33:24.45\00:33:28.08
Mercy is that important to Him.
00:33:28.11\00:33:30.20
Signed His execution orders.
00:33:30.23\00:33:31.94
There they are
ladies and gentlemen,
00:33:31.97\00:33:33.33
two stories one
punch line, I desire mercy.
00:33:33.36\00:33:37.10
And what's the truth
about that punch line?
00:33:37.13\00:33:40.08
This is the
great truth about mercy
00:33:40.11\00:33:42.12
and you can track this truth
00:33:42.15\00:33:43.18
all the way through
Jesus life and here it is.
00:33:43.21\00:33:45.80
The truth is that mercy
elevates need above creed.
00:33:45.83\00:33:51.78
Need over
creed, need over creed.
00:33:51.81\00:33:54.89
You know, what the
problem with you and me is
00:33:54.92\00:33:56.03
we get it backwards and so
that we won't get it backwards,
00:33:56.06\00:33:59.27
let's quickly
write it in frontward's.
00:33:59.30\00:34:01.50
Take the study guide
00:34:01.53\00:34:02.56
that's in your
worship bulletin we do that.
00:34:02.59\00:34:04.64
Just take your study guide
out we got to write this in.
00:34:04.67\00:34:06.58
Thank you ushers, we
probably have people here
00:34:06.61\00:34:08.31
who got in without study guides
so ushers come all the way
00:34:08.34\00:34:12.12
up to the front make
sure we cover up here.
00:34:12.15\00:34:13.98
Hold your hand up if
you need a study guide
00:34:14.01\00:34:16.10
and while the
ushers are coming by.
00:34:16.13\00:34:17.69
Let me say to those
who are watching on TV
00:34:17.72\00:34:19.62
you can get the same
study guide right now.
00:34:19.65\00:34:21.30
Let me put it on
the screen for you,
00:34:21.33\00:34:23.03
there it is www.pmchurch.tv
00:34:23.06\00:34:26.71
that's our website.
00:34:26.74\00:34:28.61
You can get the study
guide by going to this
00:34:28.64\00:34:30.28
particular teaching series
00:34:30.31\00:34:31.83
its called
"Mercy Came A Running."
00:34:31.86\00:34:34.57
And the title
of this teaching is
00:34:34.60\00:34:37.20
"How to Put a
Smile on God's Face."
00:34:37.23\00:34:39.16
You want to put a
smile on God's face.
00:34:39.19\00:34:40.90
It's mercy, mercy, mercy.
00:34:40.93\00:34:43.05
When you see that how to
put a smile on God's face
00:34:43.08\00:34:45.20
it says study
guide click right there
00:34:45.23\00:34:47.25
and you will have that
study guide right on the screen
00:34:47.28\00:34:49.09
before you and
you can fill it in
00:34:49.12\00:34:50.64
even as we go here
on your computer there.
00:34:50.67\00:34:54.79
All right, everybody
get one all in the balcony,
00:34:54.82\00:34:57.30
quire has theirs I know.
00:34:57.33\00:34:58.87
Let's go, number
one, fill it up please.
00:34:58.90\00:35:01.45
Two stories about Jesus
with a single truth about God,
00:35:01.48\00:35:04.13
"I desire mercy."
00:35:04.16\00:35:06.63
Fill that in
please, I desire mercy.
00:35:06.66\00:35:09.08
That's Hosea 6:6.
Keep your pen moving.
00:35:09.11\00:35:11.10
The truth we need to
get "frontwards" here it is.
00:35:11.13\00:35:13.47
Mercy elevates need above creed.
00:35:13.50\00:35:16.86
Need over creed.
Keep your pen moving.
00:35:16.89\00:35:20.57
That means
people above propriety.
00:35:20.60\00:35:23.56
What's proper no
people more important.
00:35:23.59\00:35:25.37
Human lives above human laws.
00:35:25.40\00:35:27.87
And mercy above justice.
00:35:27.90\00:35:31.16
Did you get that?
Mercy above justice.
00:35:31.19\00:35:33.81
Are we just imagining this guys,
00:35:33.84\00:35:35.13
are we making this up?
00:35:35.16\00:35:36.19
No, no, no there
is a stunning line
00:35:36.22\00:35:39.06
and you got to see
it in your own Bible.
00:35:39.09\00:35:40.66
This is our
last text to look up.
00:35:40.69\00:35:42.18
Go to the little book of
James in the New Testament.
00:35:42.21\00:35:45.08
If you can find
the Book of Hebrews,
00:35:45.11\00:35:46.32
it's the book right
after Hebrew is James.
00:35:46.35\00:35:48.77
Page number in our pew
Bible would be page 812
00:35:48.80\00:35:51.80
some of you are
gonna be startled that,
00:35:51.83\00:35:53.49
in fact, this
verse is in your Bible,
00:35:53.52\00:35:55.95
this is unbelievable.
00:35:55.98\00:35:57.18
Take a look at
this, James Chapter 2,
00:35:57.21\00:36:00.88
James Chapter 2
drop down to verse 13.
00:36:00.91\00:36:03.34
James 2:13, can you believe this
"For judgment is without mercy
00:36:06.26\00:36:11.06
to the one who
has shown no mercy.
00:36:11.09\00:36:14.15
But mercy
triumphs over judgment."
00:36:14.18\00:36:19.73
Isn't that sound?
00:36:19.76\00:36:21.71
Jot that in, let's put in there
00:36:21.74\00:36:23.35
fill in the
blank version of that.
00:36:23.38\00:36:24.98
Please fill it in, "For
judgment is without mercy
00:36:25.01\00:36:29.19
to the one who
has shown no mercy.
00:36:29.22\00:36:31.73
But mercy
triumphs over judgment."
00:36:31.76\00:36:36.69
And by the way the Greek
word for judgment is krisis,
00:36:36.72\00:36:39.72
from where it
comes the word crisis.
00:36:39.75\00:36:41.74
In the New Testament translated
either way it can be translated
00:36:41.77\00:36:44.18
judgment or it can
be translated justice.
00:36:44.21\00:36:47.29
So that justice
technically true is the reading
00:36:47.32\00:36:50.03
mercy triumphs over justice.
00:36:50.06\00:36:55.06
Now I know some of
you-- you already have a voice
00:36:55.09\00:36:56.88
protesting in
the back of your mind
00:36:56.91\00:36:58.19
you are saying hold, hold.
00:36:58.22\00:36:59.30
No, no, no before
you rise up and protest
00:36:59.33\00:37:02.01
I want to be quick to affirm
00:37:02.04\00:37:03.82
that we are not
trying to create here
00:37:03.85\00:37:05.16
some sort of false dichotomy
between mercy and justice.
00:37:05.19\00:37:08.97
We don't have to
concoct a straw man.
00:37:09.00\00:37:10.47
We don't have to come
up with a paper tiger.
00:37:10.50\00:37:12.43
I understand mercy and
justice are not antithetical,
00:37:12.46\00:37:16.19
they are not opposites,
they are not even apposed.
00:37:16.22\00:37:18.26
In fact, do you know
what they hold hands?
00:37:18.29\00:37:20.12
More over Psalms 85 declares
that mercy and justice kiss,
00:37:21.43\00:37:24.95
they are not opposites.
00:37:24.98\00:37:27.23
However, and I
believe every single one of us
00:37:27.26\00:37:29.44
could very this in the
witness of our own spirits.
00:37:29.47\00:37:31.91
Every one of us knows
this in our soul of souls
00:37:31.94\00:37:36.40
that there are times
when mercy must over rule
00:37:36.43\00:37:42.41
a strict legalistic
sense of justice and right.
00:37:42.44\00:37:48.93
When need must be
elevated above creed,
00:37:48.96\00:37:51.61
when people are more
important than propriety,
00:37:51.64\00:37:54.54
when mercy must
triumph, over judgment.
00:37:54.57\00:37:57.89
Come on guys,
don't you know this?
00:37:57.92\00:37:59.73
There are times when
the letter of the law...
00:37:59.76\00:38:02.15
or the letter of
the church manual
00:38:05.15\00:38:07.73
or the letter of
the university handbook,
00:38:07.76\00:38:10.06
it says, thrown them
out, but there are times
00:38:10.09\00:38:13.35
when mercy must stand up
00:38:13.38\00:38:16.31
it must stand up in
that committee room.
00:38:16.34\00:38:18.59
It must stand up
in that boardroom
00:38:18.62\00:38:20.47
it must stand up
in that staff room,
00:38:20.50\00:38:21.85
in that class
room, in that dorm room,
00:38:21.88\00:38:23.72
mercy must stand up and
say you can't you just cannot,
00:38:23.75\00:38:28.24
we must over ride and over
rule the letter of the law.
00:38:28.27\00:38:32.32
No, no, not so that somehow
we become, we become lawless
00:38:33.96\00:38:38.03
but rather for the
sake of making certain
00:38:38.06\00:38:40.04
that we are never loveless.
00:38:40.07\00:38:42.24
In fact, I wish, I wish
you take a look at this.
00:38:43.98\00:38:46.72
This is-- this is controversial,
00:38:46.75\00:38:51.28
I found a line a
hundred years ago,
00:38:51.31\00:38:52.75
a hundred years ago.
00:38:52.78\00:38:54.30
I believe this
line is mercy's appeal
00:38:54.33\00:38:55.92
to the faith community.
00:38:55.95\00:38:57.35
It's in your study guide
and you have to fill it in.
00:38:57.38\00:38:59.36
Move right down to where I am.
00:38:59.39\00:39:00.79
Read this, read these words
"In reforms" isn't this amazing?
00:39:00.82\00:39:04.17
"In reforms we would better
come one step short of the mark
00:39:04.20\00:39:09.17
than to go one step beyond it."
00:39:09.20\00:39:12.86
If any thing
hold back, hold back,
00:39:12.89\00:39:16.59
now, here comes the
one here is what knocks
00:39:16.62\00:39:18.94
your spiritual socks
out of this, this next line,
00:39:18.97\00:39:21.15
"And if there is error at all,
00:39:21.18\00:39:25.06
let it be on the
side next to the people."
00:39:25.09\00:39:29.63
Write that in.
00:39:29.66\00:39:31.28
If you are doing an error,
if there is going to be error
00:39:31.31\00:39:34.92
always error on
the side of the people.
00:39:34.95\00:39:39.43
I desire mercy that's why.
00:39:39.46\00:39:43.03
And so Jesus what did He do,
00:39:43.06\00:39:44.12
He sided with the
need of the people,
00:39:44.15\00:39:46.57
rather than the
creed of the Pharisees.
00:39:46.60\00:39:49.27
Sure come on, a
case could be made
00:39:49.30\00:39:50.64
that associating
with tax collectors
00:39:50.67\00:39:52.02
and socializing
with prostitutes,
00:39:52.05\00:39:54.23
makes for a bad press
for the kingdom of God.
00:39:54.26\00:39:56.28
Who doesn't understand that?
00:39:56.31\00:39:58.88
And so some could perhaps
even conclude you know what,
00:39:58.91\00:40:01.46
that kind of
association will only encourage
00:40:01.49\00:40:03.64
the immoral in
their immoralities
00:40:03.67\00:40:06.12
but Jesus
elevated need over creed.
00:40:06.15\00:40:10.03
He stood on the side of
the people and He said nope,
00:40:10.06\00:40:12.98
look at it if I can win
two or three more like Matthew,
00:40:13.01\00:40:16.00
its worth a
risk need over creed.
00:40:16.03\00:40:22.18
And so Jesus took His places
00:40:22.21\00:40:23.30
we just read in this quotation
on the side next to the people.
00:40:23.33\00:40:26.47
For you see mercy
elevates need over creed.
00:40:26.50\00:40:29.90
Our temptation is to
do what exactly opposite.
00:40:29.93\00:40:33.05
Here, fill this in,
here is what we want to do.
00:40:33.08\00:40:35.23
We want to elevate
creed over need, don't we?
00:40:35.26\00:40:39.58
I mean we get
Jesus mercy backwards.
00:40:41.99\00:40:44.24
And so we win our arguments
but we live we win our argument
00:40:44.27\00:40:48.10
but we lose our communities.
00:40:48.13\00:40:49.93
We prove the point and
tell there is finally nobody
00:40:49.96\00:40:52.17
to whom to prove
the point to anymore.
00:40:52.20\00:40:54.06
Creed won but it missed it,
00:40:54.09\00:40:56.56
it lost the need of the people.
00:40:56.59\00:40:59.04
That is so sad.
00:40:59.07\00:41:00.12
Pharisees always
get it backwards,
00:41:00.15\00:41:02.97
Pharisees always
exile creed over need.
00:41:03.00\00:41:06.75
I don't care if you are hungry,
00:41:06.78\00:41:09.50
I don't care if that
man has a shrivel arm.
00:41:09.53\00:41:11.19
What are we suppose to do?
00:41:11.22\00:41:12.25
Do something
about it on the Sabbath.
00:41:12.28\00:41:13.42
The creed says
this is Sabbath nothing.
00:41:13.45\00:41:16.59
Pharisees always
elevate creed over need.
00:41:16.62\00:41:21.56
Jesus says you got it backwards
I desire mercy not sacrifice.
00:41:21.59\00:41:25.90
So I'll tell you what
how did Martin Luther pray
00:41:27.62\00:41:30.28
"May God of His mercy
preserve me from a church
00:41:30.31\00:41:33.40
in which there
are none but saints."
00:41:33.43\00:41:35.75
Deliver me
please from the perfect
00:41:35.78\00:41:40.27
and that's why
both Luther and Jesus
00:41:40.30\00:41:42.91
chose to be on the
side of the people.
00:41:42.94\00:41:48.48
Need over creed.
00:41:48.51\00:41:51.68
If there is an error at all,
00:41:51.71\00:41:52.88
let it be on the
side next to the people.
00:41:52.91\00:41:56.09
Question since
its clear that mercy
00:41:56.12\00:41:58.32
is the default setting for God
00:41:58.35\00:41:59.51
I desire mercy what
should be the default setting
00:41:59.54\00:42:02.24
for the people of God?
00:42:02.27\00:42:03.65
Answer, mercy.
00:42:03.68\00:42:05.87
But of course I want
to end with a testimony.
00:42:05.90\00:42:09.35
I've had a bit more time
00:42:14.49\00:42:17.54
to contemplate
this issue of mercy
00:42:17.57\00:42:19.38
than you have because I started
booting on this last fall.
00:42:19.41\00:42:22.75
So I'm a few weeks ahead of you.
00:42:22.78\00:42:25.46
I want to share with
you a testimony of --
00:42:25.49\00:42:27.42
of where I'm at with
this -- with this brooding
00:42:27.45\00:42:31.26
because I have been wondering
to God I said, God I mean,
00:42:31.29\00:42:33.78
this makes sense but
how do we do it practically?
00:42:33.81\00:42:36.89
How do we live it out?
00:42:36.92\00:42:38.64
I found a little question
that I'm experimenting with
00:42:38.67\00:42:42.60
then I wish you
jot this question now
00:42:42.63\00:42:43.87
for what's its
worth, I understand
00:42:43.90\00:42:45.16
you don't have to take it.
00:42:45.19\00:42:46.22
But would you
jot it down please?
00:42:46.25\00:42:47.57
And here is the question
I have been asking myself.
00:42:47.60\00:42:49.31
What would be the most merciful?
00:42:49.34\00:42:51.43
Write it in.
00:42:51.46\00:42:52.49
What would be the
most merciful thing
00:42:52.52\00:42:54.37
to do in this instance?
00:42:54.40\00:42:56.94
I know about the-- you know,
what would Jesus do question?
00:42:56.97\00:42:59.25
That's okay, there
is also this question,
00:42:59.28\00:43:02.00
what does the
Bible tell me to do?
00:43:02.03\00:43:03.45
That's instructive but
I'm not getting much help
00:43:03.48\00:43:05.36
with those questions.
00:43:05.39\00:43:06.55
I'm being honest with you
I'm finding that this question
00:43:06.58\00:43:09.54
what would mercy do,
00:43:09.57\00:43:12.93
what would be the
merciful thing to do?
00:43:12.96\00:43:15.86
The most merciful
response in this instance?
00:43:15.89\00:43:19.30
I mean, somebody calls me up,
say Dwight, I need some help?
00:43:21.04\00:43:25.48
So how I'm gonna respond?
00:43:25.51\00:43:26.88
It's a--- I'm
trying to say okay,
00:43:26.91\00:43:29.32
what would mercy
do in this instance?
00:43:29.35\00:43:33.12
I want to give
somebody a piece of my mind.
00:43:33.15\00:43:36.29
This is not done
right. This is wrong.
00:43:36.32\00:43:40.37
I just want to give you
a little piece of my mind
00:43:40.40\00:43:42.82
so that you can understand
where I stand in this.
00:43:42.85\00:43:45.84
I want to give my
wife a piece of my mind.
00:43:45.87\00:43:48.67
I have given so many
pieces of my mind to Karen
00:43:48.70\00:43:50.81
I don't even have a mind left.
00:43:50.84\00:43:51.96
We have always
given pieces of our mind
00:43:56.35\00:43:57.72
hat's why we are
walking out empty brain.
00:43:57.75\00:44:00.72
Giving out piece of my mind here
00:44:00.75\00:44:02.32
but so I'm starting
to-- I'm starting to learn
00:44:02.35\00:44:04.83
I'm not there yet but
I'm starting to learn.
00:44:04.86\00:44:07.47
Come on Dwight,
calm down, please.
00:44:07.50\00:44:11.38
What would be the merciful
response in this situation?
00:44:11.41\00:44:14.42
Somebody calls me
up, it's my day off,
00:44:18.20\00:44:21.30
I'm already worn out
00:44:21.33\00:44:22.90
could you come
and help us please?
00:44:22.93\00:44:26.32
I have to put a little break,
00:44:26.35\00:44:27.38
hold it right
there, hold it, hold it.
00:44:27.41\00:44:28.73
Okay, boy, what would
be the most merciful way
00:44:28.76\00:44:31.59
to respond to this instance?
00:44:31.62\00:44:36.53
My roommate, oh, my roommate,
00:44:36.56\00:44:40.86
say what would be
the most merciful way
00:44:40.89\00:44:43.00
to respond to this?
00:44:43.03\00:44:45.29
My employer, no my employee,
00:44:45.32\00:44:49.29
no my colleague,
hey come on please.
00:44:49.32\00:44:54.04
No, what would be the
most merciful way to respond?
00:44:54.07\00:44:58.72
It's Friday
afternoon I got to get gas
00:44:58.75\00:45:01.27
and we both gone for the
gas pump at the same time,
00:45:01.30\00:45:07.12
parking spot both of us.
00:45:07.15\00:45:11.13
What would be
the most merciful way
00:45:11.16\00:45:13.00
to respond in this instance?
00:45:13.03\00:45:16.09
I'm beginning to figure out now,
00:45:16.12\00:45:17.60
please this is
gonna sound okay to you,
00:45:17.63\00:45:20.48
I'm beginning to think
that may be mercy even dictates
00:45:20.51\00:45:23.50
how I respond to our pet dog.
00:45:23.53\00:45:25.69
No, seriously, Karen
and I the other day, true,
00:45:28.11\00:45:30.55
Karen and I the other
day we are having worship
00:45:30.58\00:45:32.08
and we are
reading this little book
00:45:32.11\00:45:33.14
called Sons and Daughters of God
00:45:33.17\00:45:34.46
and there was this line in it
and I put in your study guide.
00:45:34.49\00:45:36.86
"He or she who loves God
00:45:36.89\00:45:38.38
will not only
love his fellow men,
00:45:38.41\00:45:40.80
but will regard
with tender compassion
00:45:40.83\00:45:42.73
the creatures
which God has made."
00:45:42.76\00:45:45.90
So I'm hurrying out of
the house because I have --
00:45:45.93\00:45:47.80
I got a creed and that
is you don't show up late
00:45:47.83\00:45:50.31
I got a creed but my little
dog at the top of the stairs
00:45:50.34\00:45:54.02
has a major need.
00:45:54.05\00:45:55.60
So I have to look at Saydi,
00:45:58.72\00:46:01.32
well, you can hold the girl
00:46:01.35\00:46:02.62
I'll back in four
hours just hold it.
00:46:02.65\00:46:06.46
And I asked myself,
wait a minute, wait a minute
00:46:06.49\00:46:07.88
is that mercy, is
that mercy to my dog?
00:46:07.91\00:46:10.80
No need, need right now,
00:46:10.83\00:46:14.57
gets elevated above creed
00:46:14.60\00:46:16.63
because if a creature is
a creation of my loving God
00:46:16.66\00:46:19.87
who Has had mercy on me
00:46:19.90\00:46:21.37
then I need to have
mercy on His creatures too.
00:46:21.40\00:46:24.53
So even the way
you treat your pets
00:46:24.56\00:46:26.38
somehow I know
it sounds a bit --
00:46:26.41\00:46:28.19
a bit corny I'm
not intending it for to
00:46:28.22\00:46:31.63
but all I'm
telling you is honestly,
00:46:31.66\00:46:35.11
I'm finding that
asking this question,
00:46:35.14\00:46:37.28
what would be the
most merciful response
00:46:37.31\00:46:39.17
to make in this particular
instance, is help in me.
00:46:39.20\00:46:42.18
As I said a moment ago,
I don't know who is asking
00:46:42.21\00:46:44.48
I just, sometimes I
don't have time for mercy.
00:46:44.51\00:46:49.18
You see, I understand that.
00:46:49.21\00:46:52.30
But you know
what and this is true,
00:46:52.33\00:46:54.17
I only have two or three
months ahead of you on this
00:46:54.20\00:46:56.37
but I use to stew, I still do it
00:46:56.40\00:47:01.04
but I use to really get up tight
00:47:01.07\00:47:03.13
because once I
figured something was wrong
00:47:03.16\00:47:05.59
it was not-- its not good if
we don't do things like this,
00:47:05.62\00:47:09.60
once I find that about--
find out about that then I stew
00:47:09.63\00:47:12.95
and I'm giving all
kinds of speeches in my mind
00:47:12.98\00:47:15.17
to the person
that needs the speech.
00:47:15.20\00:47:18.01
I give the speech so
that speech has a negative
00:47:18.04\00:47:21.45
its just very
poisons and so my stomach
00:47:21.48\00:47:23.85
scours these
little gastric juices
00:47:23.88\00:47:26.52
and my stomach goes
into a nut and a nut.
00:47:26.55\00:47:29.10
And I'm all uptight now,
00:47:29.13\00:47:31.32
I'm not afraid of
confrontation trust me,
00:47:31.35\00:47:33.49
bring it on but
until it takes place,
00:47:33.52\00:47:36.53
see it's just like this.
00:47:36.56\00:47:38.01
And I'm realizing
guys, I'm sorry to be so
00:47:38.04\00:47:40.84
I can't do with you but
I'm realizing that when you--
00:47:40.87\00:47:43.43
if you ask this question
what would be the most mercy--
00:47:43.46\00:47:45.70
common Dwight, take a
break, take a chill pill.
00:47:45.73\00:47:49.56
What would be
the most merciful way
00:47:49.59\00:47:51.24
for you to
respond in this instance?
00:47:51.27\00:47:54.45
I just find that
little nothic that
00:47:54.48\00:47:55.91
I just find it goes like that,
00:47:55.94\00:47:58.90
yeah, what's the deal?
00:47:58.93\00:48:00.07
I don't have to defend my right.
00:48:00.10\00:48:02.39
I don't have to
prove that I have a creed
00:48:02.42\00:48:03.95
that demands
perfection of everybody.
00:48:03.98\00:48:05.91
I don't have to
prove anything at all,
00:48:05.94\00:48:07.69
the need right now is mercy.
00:48:07.72\00:48:09.98
And when I let that go,
my stomach actually relaxes
00:48:10.01\00:48:13.78
and I'm in a
path a bit more piece,
00:48:13.81\00:48:15.65
refreshing piece in my life.
00:48:15.68\00:48:18.56
Guys, look at I'm
not there yet I know
00:48:18.59\00:48:20.91
but I'm telling you I
had a few weeks ahead of you,
00:48:20.94\00:48:22.97
it really does work.
00:48:23.00\00:48:24.55
What would mercy do in
this particular instance
00:48:24.58\00:48:28.60
with my wife, with my children,
00:48:28.63\00:48:31.27
with my friends,
with my strangers,
00:48:31.30\00:48:33.76
with my
colleagues with my employees,
00:48:33.79\00:48:36.35
what would it do?
00:48:36.38\00:48:37.49
Because the
fact of the matter is
00:48:39.49\00:48:40.95
when mercy had a choice
00:48:40.98\00:48:42.71
between creed
or need at Calvary,
00:48:42.74\00:48:46.54
now listen to me carefully
when mercy had a choice
00:48:46.57\00:48:49.22
between creed or need at Calvary
00:48:49.25\00:48:53.06
mercy said we
are going for need.
00:48:53.09\00:48:56.69
Because the creed
is he is dead meat
00:48:56.72\00:49:00.02
she is dead, she has sinned.
00:49:00.05\00:49:02.64
The creed is clear you lost
00:49:02.67\00:49:05.79
but mercy said no, no, no...
00:49:05.82\00:49:08.72
when I'm around
need goes over creed.
00:49:08.75\00:49:14.03
And so mercy stretched
out his arms and died for me
00:49:14.06\00:49:18.15
knowing the creed
but embrace the need.
00:49:18.18\00:49:22.30
And mercy
triumphs over judgment.
00:49:22.33\00:49:25.91
And all, you know
that song that we had
00:49:25.94\00:49:28.12
Nick Zoric sing
a few Sabbath's ago
00:49:28.15\00:49:30.06
that song, when --
"When I could not reach mercy.
00:49:30.09\00:49:35.34
Mercy came running
to me." Hallelujah.
00:49:35.37\00:49:39.79
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:49:39.82\00:49:43.06
when ever I go running
to any of you in the future
00:49:43.09\00:49:47.73
I'm asking God, please
00:49:47.76\00:49:50.59
let mercy go running with me.
00:49:50.62\00:49:55.96
You want that too?
00:49:55.99\00:49:57.58
I want to be like Jesus,
00:49:57.61\00:49:59.06
I want to be
like Jesus, don't you?
00:49:59.09\00:50:02.49
How many want to be like Jesus?
00:50:02.52\00:50:03.55
Come on, how many
want to be like Jesus
00:50:03.58\00:50:05.61
and let mercy go running?
00:50:05.64\00:50:07.47
We called an audible during
00:50:07.50\00:50:09.51
between our worship
first service and now,
00:50:09.54\00:50:12.54
because I heard what
you are about to hear
00:50:12.57\00:50:14.12
in first church and I
said oh, Jesus, this song
00:50:14.15\00:50:16.89
this glorious rendition of
00:50:16.92\00:50:20.81
"Jesus, the
very thought of thee"
00:50:20.84\00:50:23.76
this song has got to
be sung at this moment
00:50:23.79\00:50:27.18
because I want to be like Jesus
00:50:27.21\00:50:28.87
and I want Jesus
to be reflected in me.
00:50:28.90\00:50:30.82
And so here is what
I'm going to ask you to do
00:50:30.85\00:50:32.53
while Stephen
Zork is coming forward.
00:50:32.56\00:50:34.26
I'm gonna ask you
to take out your hymnal
00:50:34.29\00:50:36.00
and its hymn number 241.
00:50:36.03\00:50:38.02
There are gonna sing a rendition
of this you never heard before,
00:50:38.05\00:50:40.92
241 this thing moves
to a glorious climax.
00:50:40.95\00:50:45.19
Follow the
words, pray the prayer,
00:50:45.22\00:50:47.89
I want you Jesus, I
want to be like you.
00:50:47.92\00:50:50.70
Jesus, the very thought of Thee
00:51:30.09\00:51:38.09
With sweetness fills the breast
00:51:39.79\00:51:47.01
But sweeter far Thy face to see
00:51:49.24\00:51:55.24
And in Thy presence rest
00:51:59.21\00:52:06.21
Nor voice can
sing, nor heart can frame
00:52:15.86\00:52:21.86
Nor can the memory find
00:52:24.69\00:52:30.69
A sweeter sound
than Thy blest Name
00:52:33.45\00:52:38.45
O Savior of mankind!
00:52:42.40\00:52:49.40
O hope of every contrite heart
00:53:09.59\00:53:15.59
O joy of all the meek
00:53:18.60\00:53:24.60
To those who
fall, how kind Thou art!
00:53:27.67\00:53:34.67
How good to those who seek!
00:53:36.98\00:53:42.98
But what to those who find?
00:54:06.30\00:54:10.30
Ah, this Nor tongue
00:54:13.73\00:54:18.96
Nor pen can show
00:54:18.99\00:54:23.99
The love of Jesus, what it is
00:54:26.64\00:54:33.64
None but His loved ones know
00:54:36.71\00:54:43.18
Jesus, our only joy be Thou
00:55:36.31\00:55:42.31
As Thou our prize will be
00:55:45.57\00:55:49.57
Jesus be Thou our glory now
00:55:54.51\00:56:00.51
And through eternity
00:56:03.53\00:56:09.53
Jesus be Thou our glory now
00:56:13.40\00:56:19.90
And through eternity
00:56:27.26\00:56:31.93
Let me take one
more moment of your time
00:56:58.70\00:57:00.38
to let you know
that one of the blessings
00:57:00.41\00:57:01.76
I receive from this telecast
00:57:01.79\00:57:03.55
is being in touch
with viewers like you,
00:57:03.58\00:57:05.38
all across
Michiana and our nation
00:57:05.41\00:57:07.36
and literally the world.
00:57:07.39\00:57:09.14
I'm humbled and honored
00:57:09.17\00:57:10.20
with you sharing
a journey with us.
00:57:10.23\00:57:11.59
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00:57:11.62\00:57:13.33
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00:57:13.36\00:57:15.49
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00:57:15.52\00:57:16.84
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00:57:16.87\00:57:19.07
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00:57:19.10\00:57:20.23
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00:57:53.98\00:57:55.97
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00:57:56.00\00:57:57.77
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00:57:57.80\00:58:01.97
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