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Matthew chapter 5 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Matthew chapter 5. Let us pray.
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  Lord our God, our Father Jesus, thank you.
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  Thank you, God that you are the treasure that's buried in the
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  field. Thank you God, that we have
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  enough wherewithal to sell everything God and come and
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  follow you, or to lay down everything and come and follow
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  you. God, we resist the enemy.
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  God, we rebuke in the name of Jesus, the enemy from off of our
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  minds. God, we rebuke the enemy from
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  off of our family. God, in the name of Jesus, the
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  Lord rebukes the Satan. Get thee behind us, Satan.
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  Lord, we pray for dominion. God, Dominion over our bodies,
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  dominion over this land, dominion over our houses,
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  dominion over our families, dominion over our workplaces,
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  dominion everywhere that we step.
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  God is holy ground. So, Lord, I pray that today will
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  be the turning point for many, Lord, as they see you in US.
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  Lord, I pray in the name of Jesus that we are the salt and
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  the light. God, I pray in the name of
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  Jesus, Lord, that you make us the ministers of reconciliation
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  for our families and our friends and our neighbors.
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  God in this world, Lord, I pray that you'll make us humble
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  servants. Lord, I pray that you'll make us
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  bond servants, God, And you no longer call us servants, but you
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  call us friends and sons. And so, Lord, I pray in the name
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  of Jesus that you'll continue to come and get your glory.
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  God, come and get your glory in the creation that chooses you,
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  Father. And we do.
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  We choose you today. We choose you tomorrow, God, we
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  choose you for all of eternity, Father, we're so ravished and in
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  love with you, God. We're enamored by your beauty,
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  Father, We say thank you. Lord, we enter your gates with
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  praise and Thanksgiving. Lord, we enter in.
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  God, we enter in through the narrow way.
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  Father, we hear your voice, Lord, you, we are your sheep.
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  Lord, you are the Good Shepherd. Lord, we come in and dine and
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  Sup with you got. We're feasting on the living
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  water, God. We're feasting God with the
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  bread of life. We're feasting God with the
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  manna. Father, give us the quail.
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  God, give us Our Daily Bread today.
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  Father, we beg of you that you'll come in, Lord, and that
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  you will fill us. Holy Spirit, fill us
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  overflowing. God, we want more of you.
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  We have tasted and we have seen that you are good, Lord, and you
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  satisfy us and leave us longing for more.
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  We know that we were created, created for more.
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  We know that we were created for eternity.
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  For You have placed it in our heart, God.
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  And I pray in the name of Jesus, Lord, that you'll bring many
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  more into the fold with this God.
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  Lord, you are only getting started.
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  And so, Father, we get out of our own way.
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  We lay prostate. Father, lift our gaze up to You.
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  We know where our help comes from.
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  You are a good and loving and gracious Father, and we love you
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  so much. Lord, teach us your ways today.
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  I get out of the way. Holy Spirit, you come in and
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  teach. Holy Spirit, you come in and say
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  whatever it is that you want to say to us today.
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  Holy Spirit, have your way. Holy Spirit, we love you.
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  Baptize us with the Holy Ghost. Baptize us with fire.
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  Fresh wind today. Lord, let us see you.
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  We want to see you, God. Yes, Lord, teach us your ways.
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  Teach us, Holy Spirit, convict us.
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  Holy Spirit, let us lay down all of the things that are
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  entangling us and strangling us, God, all the things that are
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  taking first place, God, we lay them down.
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  Lord, we cast them on the fire, Father, purify us and purge us,
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  God, Refine us in the refining fire, God.
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  For you are so good at what you do, Lord, and we trust you like
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  little children. We know that you're a good
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  father. We have that childlike faith
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  today, God. Thank you, Lord.
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  Jesus is Lord, it's in Jesus Christ.
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  Holy precious powerful name. Did I pray?
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  And seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain, and
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  when he was set, his disciples came unto him.
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  What's he talking about here in verse one?
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  Couple things you need to know here.
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  If you were following along in chapter 4, you're going to know
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  that there were a multitude of people that were following after
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  Jesus Christ and it looked as if he was amassing some kind of
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  army for a Roman overthrow. Jesus had a mass, so many people
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  here at this time and he went up into a mountain and this would
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  have been a repetitive sermon that he would have given
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  multiple times. And this is one of the times
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  that he would have recorded it. And it looks as if he went to a
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  place that had great acoustics, that he could have sat down
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  while everyone else was standing and all the people came and
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  amassed all around him. And I'm sure as he spoke, it
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  reverberated so that the entire crowd could hear it.
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  And isn't Jesus so good? He is meekness.
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  He is such power under control as he sits to teach.
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  Praise God two, and he opened his mouth and taught them,
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  saying this entire book that you hold in your hand from Genesis
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  to Revelation is Jesus opening his mouth to speak to us.
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  There is not one comma or period that is not as important as the
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  other. It all points to this moment.
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  It all points to Jesus Christ. Friends three blessed or the
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  poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
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  Here we're going to understand the heart of God.
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  Friends, lock in, pay attention, and this is all going to point
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  us to the things that please God.
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  This is all going to point us to how we should live our lives.
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  This is how. This is the lens that we should
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  see the entire world through, friends.
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  It's not the lens of your teachers.
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  It's not the lens of the news. It's not the lens of your
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  parents. It's not the lens of your
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  constituents. It's not the lens of the
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  government. It's not the lens of family and
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  friends and culture. It's not the lens of what is
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  popular. It is not the lens of what has
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  become mainstream. It's not that lens, the lens
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  that we should govern our lives by, the lens that we should
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  meditate upon always. The lens that should always come
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  into our minds and our hearts and our emotions in our
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  circumstances, day-to-day to day-to-day, 24 hours a day,
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  seven days a week, 365 for however many years that you have
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  left on this earth. Until He comes back, or until we
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  go the way of our fathers into the grave.
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  Every single day, every single moment.
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  This is the mandate upon your lives, friends.
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  Lock in, pay attention, listen up.
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  Blessed are the poor in spirit. These are the downcast, the
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  downtrodden. These are the ones that society
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  passes over. These are the ones that are
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  struggling to make ends meet. These are the ones that feel as
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  if they've been marginalized. And what does he say?
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  For theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
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  It's an upside down, inside out kind of Kingdom.
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  Friends, the economy of heaven is not the same as the economy
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  here. And here many that are first
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  will be last, and here many that are last will be first in the
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  Kingdom of heaven. Friends, don't forget it, for
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  blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.
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  Just think about it for a little while this morning.
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  And the Bible tells us not to mourn like the rest of the world
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  who have no hope. We mourn differently.
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  We mourn for those that do not know him, but for those that
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  know him that Passover. We should rejoice friends.
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  We should celebrate friends because to live is Christ and to
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  die is gain. Do not mourn like the rest of
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  the world who have no hope. We will be comforted if we allow
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  it. Don't let the death of a loved 1
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  cause you to doubt God or to doubt His goodness.
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  Even if it's premature, even if it leaves such a void.
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  We need to trust. We need to know that God's plans
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  are way better than our plans in His ways are not our ways.
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  His thoughts are not our thoughts, friends.
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  We need to trust, we need to know that He's working all
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  things out for the good of those who love him and who are called
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  according to his purposes. And do not be conformed to this
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  world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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  Five. Blessed are the meek, for they
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  shall inherit the earth. This is power under control.
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  This is what Jesus exuded. He was the Son of God.
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  He is the Son of God. He is God Incarnate.
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  He is God in the flesh. And he came and he was hungry.
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  He came and he was thirsty. He came and he was lonely and
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  tired. This is power under control.
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  Even at the end of his life, he said, do you not know that I can
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  call down legions of angels? And when Pilate was asking him
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  if he was the Son of God, if he was the king of Jews, he said,
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  you have no power but what has been given to you by my Father.
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  This is meekness and he calls us to be me when we are in power
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  over other people. Whether you are a supervisor,
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  whether you are a manager, whether you are a CEOACOOACFO,
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  whether you are the owner of a business, whether you are over
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  your family, whether you are over your children.
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  God expects for us to act in meekness and the meekness is
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  even though we have the ability to exact power and exact our
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  position over others, He desires for us to behave and to act in a
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  way that is pleasing unto Him, which is following after all of
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  the mandates here that you find in the Beatitudes.
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  This is the attitudes that we should have friends towards our
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  neighbors, towards our sons and daughters and spouses towards
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  our coworkers. This is what pleases the Lord
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  God Almighty, and this is the fulfillment that Jesus walked
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  out in His earthly ministry here, friends.
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  And He's showing us what it is that God desires of us, friends,
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  to be meek. And then He gives us every time
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  He tells us what we should do in every instance that we're going
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  to encounter for the rest of our lives, which by the way, that's
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  what you're going to see here. He tells us the promise that's
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  connected to it. He says that we'll get to see
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  God. God.
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  He tells us we're going to be comforted.
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  He tells us that we'll get the Kingdom of heaven.
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  He tells us that we'll inherit the earth.
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  Here, friends, we'll have that dominion. 6 Blessed are they
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  which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they will be
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  filled. That, my friends, is what the
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  Lord wants from us. He wants us to be searching and
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  seeking and to be moving towards righteousness.
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  And what even is righteousness? Righteousness is living the
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  right way. What is living the right way is
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  following after all of these mandates here.
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  It's all of these promises. Here is righteousness, friends,
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  and He promises us that would be filled.
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  He promises us that will inherit the earth.
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  He promises us that will be comforted.
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  He promises us the Kingdom of heaven.
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  Here, friends, 7 Blessed are the merciful, for they will obtain
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  mercy. You just think about whenever
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  David had it within his power to kill King Saul and usurp the
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  authority in his rightful place. He had already been anointed as
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  king by Samuel, and he could have killed him in The Cave.
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  Whenever Saul went in to relieve himself and he cut off a part of
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  his coat there and he went out and he told him I could have
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  killed you. And Saul was embarrassed, but he
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  didn't give up. He was relentless towards the
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  pursuit of trying to kill David. And then you look whenever David
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  was on the roof and he had the affair with Bathsheba.
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  And wasn't God merciful to him? He was a man after God's own
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  heart. And this is the principle that
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  you'll see here, that we will obtain mercy when we are
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  merciful to others. Friends, that is the idea here.
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  We should extend forgiveness to others because we have been
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  forgiven. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see
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  God. Blessed are the pure in heart.
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  This is someone who's completely sold out to the King of Kings
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  and the Lord of Lords. This is somebody who has
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  stiffed, armed all the world and everything of the world and all
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  of the things that they could gain in this world.
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  And they are absolutely, totally, 100% sold out to Jesus
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  Christ. And it does not mean that they
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  live the perfect way, but they are not willing to compromise
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  when the world comes in and tries to sell them alive, when
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  the world comes in and promises them all the desires of their
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  heart, promises them that they will be happy whenever they give
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  in to compromise. And these are the people who
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  say, absolutely not. I'm following after God, and
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  though none come with me, I will still follow Him.
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  And whenever you are pure in heart, you have the childlike
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  faith. And when you have the childlike
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  faith, God allows you to see Him all around.
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  All of creation proclaims His name.
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  He allows you to see Him in the little children.
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  He allows you to see Him in the elderly.
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  He allows you to see Him in marriages.
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  He allows you to see Him in the world around us through the
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  church, and He allows you to see Him in His Word here and in
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  prayer. God allows you to see Him when
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  you are pure in heart, friends, and that is what we should
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  strive after. We should be striving after
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  mercy and righteousness. We should be striving after
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  purity and meekness. We should be striving after the
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  comfort that comes from mourning.
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  We should be striving after being poor in spirit.
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  Whenever we do not care about the riches of this world, we're
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  completely sold out. We've sold everything to buy the
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  treasure in the field. Friends 9 Blessed are the peace
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  makers, for they shall be called the children of God.
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  These are not peacekeepers. This is not someone who's
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  separating 2 fighting foes. This is someone who by their
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  very presence, because they are reflecting God Almighty, when
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  they walk in the room, there is stillness and a calmness.
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  There's peace in the room just by the presence, because you
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  have been in the presence of God.
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  When you come down out of the mountain and they say cover your
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  face, we'll do whatever you say. This is the peacemakers,
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  friends. You are called to be a
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  peacemaker, friends, and it comes from your obedience unto
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  God. And you will be called the
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  children of God. They will see God all over you,
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  in you, and on you. Friends 10 Blessed are they
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  which are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs
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  is the Kingdom of heaven. OK, so we're moving in to a
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  different mindset here. Even whenever you are following
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  after the Lord God Almighty, you can expect that you're going to
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  rub up against those who are hostile.
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  They've made a love decision for the world and they're going to
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  ridicule you. They're going to say all kinds
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  of false things towards you. And what does he say about these
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  people? They said he says that they are
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  blessed and that theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.
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  This is the same as the poor in spirit.
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  This is the kick down downtrodden.
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  This is the marginalized. These are those that have been
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  pushed into a corner, backed up against the wall.
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  These are those that are completely reliant upon God for
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  all of their provision. They're not self seeking, self
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  satisfying, self reliant. They are reliant upon God and
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  God alone for all of the daily bread.
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  They are reliant upon God Almighty for their next breath.
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  These are the ones who will inherit the Kingdom of Heaven.
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  11 Blessed are you when men will revile you and persecute you and
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  and say all kinds of manner of evil against you falsely for my
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  sake. Jesus is going to tell us here
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  about how the world because they refuse to believe in him and
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  they hated him first they will hate us and that is such a
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  promise to us that that is an indicator that you belong to
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  him. But when that happens he's going
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  to tell you what to do in 12 rejoice be exceedingly glad for
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  great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the
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  prophets which were before you. So God is promising us that our
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  rewards will be in heaven, friends, not here on this earth.
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  He's saying here your reward in heaven.
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  And it takes faith to understand that we're going to have rewards
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  in heaven. It's such a profound promise,
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  and it is repeated over and over and over and over and over all
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  throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, all
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  throughout the Bible. God promises us rewards,
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  friends, and we do not work for the rewards.
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  We do not work for our salvation.
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  It is a natural overflow of a life that is sold out to Him.
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  But you will be rewarded friends, and He's promising you
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  here in chapter 5 of Matthew that great is your reward in
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  heaven. And he tells you that they
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  persecuted the prophet. So don't be surprised when they
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  persecute a true sold out, born again blood bought St.
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  He says rejoice in it. Be exceedingly glad when you're
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  getting tied up to the stake. Be exceedingly glad when they're
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  flaying off your skin. Be exceedingly glad when you're
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  thrown into the fire. He's telling you to rejoice
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  because it's for him. But if you're persecuted for
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  doing wrong, there is nothing glorious in that.
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  Friends, do not rejoice and be glad if you're caught doing
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  something wrong. And then justice is served. 13
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  You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt has lost its
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  savour, how shall it be salted? It is therefore good for nothing
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  but to be cast out and to be trodden under foot of men.
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  He's telling us that we're the salt of the earth.
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  He's telling us not to lose our ability to cleanse and to go
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  into the wounds and to kill all the bacteria.
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  That is the purpose of the salt. It is antibacterial and if
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  you've ever cut yourself and then got salt in it, if you ever
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  have a burn and you get salt in it, or if you are sweating and
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  the salt from your pores goes into the cut, it stains.
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  And that's the idea here. This salt goes in and it
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  cleanses and it purifies. It detoxifies.
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  It kills all the bad bacteria and God knows exactly what he's
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  doing. And he's telling us, yes, we
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  should go in and flavor the world this, this bland, this
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  wicked and perverse world that's living in darkness.
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  He's saying that we as we spend time in His Word, as we spend
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  time in meditation, as we spend time in worshiping Him, as we
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  spend time praying unto the Father, as we spend time
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  reflecting upon His face, We like the moon, we take in the
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  sun, the SON, we take in the sun as we go out into our
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  communities. People see that, friends.
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  They see God all over us, Friends.
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  That is the salt and that is the light that He's going to talk
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  about here. Friends 14 You are the light of
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  the world. A city that is set on a hill
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  cannot be hidden. You know, whenever there's a
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  storm and the power gets knocked out and somebody goes and they
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  finds the candle and they light the candle.
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  It is just our nature, friends. It is a natural, innate response
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  for us to come out of the darkness towards the light.
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  And when you are the light of the world, people will naturally
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  come towards you whenever the whole world is going by the
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  wayside and you have hope and you have purpose and peace.
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  People see it and they want to know.
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  They say, what is this hope that you have inside of you?
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  And it is a great opportunity for you to share the love of God
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  Almighty with them, what Jesus has done for you.
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  Remember your testimony. Remember where you've come from.
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  Tell everybody about your salvation story, friends.
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  Do not lose your savor Ness. Do not lose the saltiness.
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  Do not lose the ability to flavor this world.
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  Do not be so incredibly wrapped up in the world that you are no
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  good to share. Whenever they look and they say,
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  oh, this guy is a bigot. Oh, this guy is duplicious.
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  Oh, this guy is a hypocrite because he does the things that
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  the entire world does. And then he tries to come and
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  sit on his high horse. He tries to preach the gospel
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  and his life looks no different than mine.
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  That's what it looks like to be trodden under foot.
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  Friends, we should live differently.
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  It's good for the boat to be in the water, but it's not good for
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  the water to be in the boat. Friends. 15 Neither do men light
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  a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a Candlestick,
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  and it gives light unto all that are in the house.
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  That's exactly what I was talking about.
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  We need to lift Jesus up over all of our circumstances.
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  Lift Jesus up over your natural responses.
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  Lift Jesus up over your financial situation.
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  Lift Jesus up. Trust Jesus and everything, and
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  watch how the world sees it. And they come and they ask, how
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  is it that you have such faith in this time?
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  16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see
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  your good works and glorify your Father, which is in heaven.
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  Here we get to see a beautiful dance.
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  We get to see that we're not saved by work, so that anyone
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  should boast. But what does he tell us here?
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  That letting our light shine, which is taking in Jesus daily,
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  people will see the natural overflow of that and then they
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  will glorify God Almighty. 17 Do not think that I've come to
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  destroy the law or the prophets. I have not come to destroy, but
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  to fulfill. Every single one of the laws
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  that Moses went through was to show us our need for Jesus
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  Christ. He was perfect, He is perfect,
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  He lived a perfect life. He was this spotless,
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  unblemished Lamb that was slain. You and I could never behave our
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  way into heaven. It was only by the blood of the
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  Lamb that we enter in. And Jesus here is showing us
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  that He fulfilled all the requirements of the Mosaic Law.
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  He, he fulfilled him in his perfect life, and He's going to
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  fulfill them in the death and the burial and the resurrection
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  and the ascension. God knew what He was doing when
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  he gave all the law of Moses. He was showing us that we could
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  never get there on our own. 18 For truly, I say unto you, until
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  heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or title shall in no way
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  pass from the law until all be fulfilled.
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  So here you can see the principle.
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  The heaven and earth shall pass away, but not one of His words,
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  not a comma, not a period, not a jot, not a title, not the
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  smallest mark, not the smallest letter will pass away until all
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  of it is fulfilled. Whenever we've been there 10,000
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  years, bright, shining as the sun, we have no less days to
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  sing His praise than when we first begun.
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  That's the fulfilment of it, friends.
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  When we are there and there is no more temptation, there's no
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  more evil. There is no more need for
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  pastors and preachers and teachers, for we will be there
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  with Him forever more, forever and ever. 19 Whosoever therefore
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  shall break one of the least, the commandments shall teach men
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  so he shall be called the least in the Kingdom of heaven.
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  But whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall be called
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  great in the Kingdom of heaven. 19 Is this principle that there
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  will be hypocrites that make it there, as if they escaped out of
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  a fire, but they will be the least.
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  There is no rewards, there's no crown, but those of us who have
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  learned how to serve him in this life, when we get there, not
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  only are we just there, there are a lot of people that are
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  just content with making it there.
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  That's all they actually care about is they just want to get
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  there. So they want to live however
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  they want to live here. And as long as they have their
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  blessed assurance, they continue to go back into sin multiple
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  times. And it's not to say that they're
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  not actually saved. It's just that they don't
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  understand this principle, that if you can get it here, and if
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  you could lay down this world now and take up the cross and
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  follow Him, and not care about all the pleasure in the
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  pleasantries of this life, and be sold out to Him, no matter
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  what it costs, then what does He say?
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  You will be called great in the Kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say
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  unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed the
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  righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, you shall in no
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  case enter into the Kingdom of heaven.
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  This is the childlike faith, friends.
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  That is how we're going to make it into heaven.
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  It is having the childlike faith and the Pharisees and the
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  scribes, they were scrupulous. They were meticulous in their
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  obedience, but it was all just ceremonious, that all they cared
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  about was just if they had fulfilled the law.
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  They did not care about the heart, which was all of the
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  Beatitudes back there. It was taking us not just from
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  action but to the inner motives. And that is what He's talking
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  about here in verse 2021. You have heard that it was said
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  by them of old that you shall not kill, but whoever shall kill
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  shall be in danger of the judgment.
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  So here this would have been the oral traditions that the
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  synagogues and all the teachers there whenever they were talking
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  about the Law of Moses and they were adding all of these laws on
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  top of laws to protect the people from ever breaking the
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  initial law. Jesus is going to expound upon
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  that and he's going to completely flip over the tables
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  and drive out the money changers from all of their oral
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  traditions. What does he say?
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  22 But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his
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  brother without cause shall be in danger of the judgement, and
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  whoever shall say to his brother Raqqa shall be in danger of the
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  council. But whoever shall say, you fool,
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  shall be in danger of hell fire. Think about it for a second.
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  It's the motives here, you know. First sin is perceived in the
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  mind and in the heart, and then it's conceived outside in the
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  natural. First you have to commit
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  adultery within your mind. First you have to murder within
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  your mind before you ever do it outside.
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  And this is whenever we are harnessing evil within our
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  hearts. But outwardly we sure do look
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  the part. We're suiting ties with our
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  stretch Cadillacs and our big mansions.
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  We go into our Sunday dinner sitting down and we want
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  everybody to know and see that we've been to church.
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  But inwardly we're addicted to pornography.
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  Inwardly we are liars and inwardly we're greedy.
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  Inwardly we think that God's holding out on us and he doesn't
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  have our best. Inwardly, we're manufacturing
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  our own lives and God sees all of the motives whenever we are
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  gossiping and slandering and whenever we're breaking other
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  people down. Because we are so incredibly
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  self confident and self reliant, whenever we are incredibly
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  distracted, it causes us to start believing lies and
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  latching on to lies and allowing Satan to have a playground
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  within our mind and our hearts. And it should not be so Friends,
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  we should purge out the devil. Kick the devil in the face.
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  He is a defamed, declawed lion. He has no power.
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  He's just a roar. And we know that the thief comes
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  to steal, kill and destroy. And he tries to destroy your
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  marriage. He tries to destroy your
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  relationship with your children. He tries to destroy the
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  relationship in the community. He kills our joy friends.
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  And we need to make sure that we're not entertaining him
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  within our hearts and minds. And then outwardly we say yes
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  and Amen and brother and sister. And we are on the outwardly
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  religious, but inwardly we've let so much of the world in. 23
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  Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember
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  that your brother has aught against you. 24 Leave there your
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  gift before the altar, and go your way, and first be
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  reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gifts.
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  He's saying that it's more important to God that we're
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  reconciled to our brothers and sisters than it is for us to
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  come and give gifts and to give offerings and to tithe and to
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  give money to the church. God says that He would rather us
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  go and be reconciled to our brothers and sisters.
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  Friends, if you have something that is causing you to be in
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  strife with your brother or sister, go and make it right
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  before you go and put the money in the offering plate. 25 Agree
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  with your adversary quickly while you are in the way with
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  him, unless at any time the adversary delivers you to the
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  judge and the judge delivers you to the officer and you are cast
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  into prison. He's saying that us as
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  believers, brothers and sisters in Christ, we are going to judge
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  the world. We're going to judge the angels,
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  and do you not know that, friends?
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  And if we are to judge them, then how could we not make it
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  right amongst each other? How are we going into the Pagan
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  world and into the Pagan offices, in the Pagan
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  courtrooms, to settle disputes whenever we have the power of
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  the Holy Spirit within us, whenever we are the temple of
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  God? 26 Truly I say unto you, that
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  shall by no means come out there until you have paid the
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  uttermost Farthing penny. Until you have paid the last
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  cent, you shall not be released from prison. 27 You have heard
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  that it was said by them of old, You shall not commit adultery.
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  But I say unto you that whoever looks at a woman with lust in
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  his heart has already committed adultery with her.
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  So what's he saying here? He's saying that even in the
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  Mosaic Law, there were things that were allowed that Jesus
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  doesn't even allow. So we might think that Jesus was
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  coming to just disallow and disavow all of the things of
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  old. But it's not.
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  So, friends, Jesus actually compounded them.
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  You know you cannot keep a bird from flying over your head, but
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  you sure can keep it from building a nest in your hair.
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  This is what it looks like. It's even the motive of the
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  hearts that gets us in trouble. When David was on the roof,
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  before he had the affair with Bathsheba, when he was on the
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  roof, he was supposed to be out in war with his battle buddies.
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  But what was he doing? He was up there.
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  He was being lazy. It is sin perceived before it is
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  conceived. Don't forget it.
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  He's saying that it starts in the mind.
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  It starts in the heart. Friends, before we ever do it,
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  we need to get rid of it. The moment that it enters into
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  our mind, we need to not let it settle in our hearts.
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  Don't let it build the nest in your hair, friends.
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  Don't even entertain it. Look away.
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  As soon as you see it, look away.
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  Don't let people catch you looking at things that are not
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  godly. If you see something that
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  catches your eye, look away. Immediately.
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  Look up. Pray to the Lord.
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  Ask Him for strength in that moment. 29 And if the right eye
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  offends you, pluck it out and cast it from you, for it is
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  profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and
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  not that the whole body shall be cast into hell.
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  He's saying that don't even let it take root.
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  Don't even let it start anywhere.
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  Do not let it lead you off into captivity.
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  Do not let it go down into the depths of hell.
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  Do not let it get you to lose your position with God Almighty.
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  It is such a beautiful thing when we're in the fold.
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  It's such a beautiful thing when we're listening and hearing from
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  God. But we can see our conscience as
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  friends. We can grieve the Holy Spirit,
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  and that will lead us off into hell.
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  Friends 30 And if your right hand offends you, cut it off,
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  cast it from you, for it is profitable for you that one of
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  your members should perish, that not the whole body should be
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  cast into hell. And here's a really quick
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  principle. The devil cannot cast there.
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  The devil cannot snatch you out of God's hands when you're in
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  the fold, praise God, Hallelujah.
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  You might be like the one that just escaped out of the fire,
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  but you cannot lose your position with him.
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  But there are many today that are being drawn by the Spirit.
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  There are being many today that are being beckoned by the
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  Spirit. And they don't really know where
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  they stand with God. And a lot of times it is the sin
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  that comes in that gets them to go so far down into depravity,
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  that gets them to believe that they're not loved and that God
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  hates them and that God doesn't want to have anything to do with
• 41:53
  them. And they die in that sin,
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  friends. And that is how they're cast
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  into hell. 31 It has been said, whoever shall put away his wife,
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  let him give her a writing of divorcement.
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  So here again Jesus is going to expound upon the law, not
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  abolish it. 32 But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put
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  away his wife, except for the cause of fornication, shall
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  cause her to commit adultery, and whosoever shall marry her,
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  that is divorced commits adultery.
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  So here we learn this all the way back in Malachi chapter 2,
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  how God really feels about marriage.
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  And whenever the legal system says you're divorced, unless
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  there was adultery, God still sees those people as married.
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  And that is what Jesus is saying.
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  He is beckoning us back to Malachi too.
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  He is beckoning us back to how God sees about marriage.
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  Marriage is a God instituted thing.
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  It's not a man made thing. It's not a legal document.
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  It was instituted by God Almighty.
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  And we might say, well, I want a different spouse.
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  I'm tired of this one. And we live in a culture that
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  when something breaks, we don't fix it.
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  We just go out and get a new one.
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  And this is what Jesus is warning US against, that God
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  doesn't just allow us to go get a piece of paper from a lawyer's
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  office that says that we're divorced.
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  It doesn't work that way. God still sees you as married
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  unless there was infidelity. And if someone is abusing you,
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  get them help. You get help, you get out.
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  You don't stay, but you stay married until death.
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  You stay married even if you're separated from them. 33 Again,
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  you have heard that it has been said by them of old.
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  You shall not forswear thyself, but shall perform unto the Lord
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  your oath. So he's saying that we should
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  not swear. We should not be like those
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  little children who use the Lord's name in vain, and say, I
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  swear. 34 But I say unto you, Do not swear at all, neither by
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  heaven, for it is God's throne, nor by the earth, for it is his
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  footstool, neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great
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  King. So many truths are found here.
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  We don't need to take the Lorde name in vain.
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  Whenever we're promising and swearing something to somebody,
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  he's going to tell us what to do. 36 Neither shall you swear
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  by your head, because you cannot make one hair white or black.
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  So in their culture at this time, it was common for them to
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  swear by Jerusalem, it was common for them to swear by the
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  earth, it was common for them to swear by heaven.
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  And Jesus is saying, don't swear at all, but let your
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  communication be yes, yes, no, no, for whatever is more than
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  these comes from evil. He tells us where all of this
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  swearing comes from. There's so many times when
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  people say, I swear that they're actually lying and they're
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  trying to cover up their tracks and they're bringing whatever
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  high thing into the equation to try to throw you off the scent.
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  But the reality is they're lying.
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  And that's what Jesus is saying here.
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  It is from the evil 138. You have heard that it has been
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  said an eye for an eye and a 24239.
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  Here's Jesus expounding upon Moses's law and he says, but I
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  say that you do not resist evil, but whoever shall strike you on
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  the right cheek, turn to him. The other also, this is someone
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  who disrespects you. This is humility in action right
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  here. This is when we're disrespected.
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  We do not try to go in exact revenge on these people even
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  though we're fired up. That is the meekness that he
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  talked about. This is the gentleness that he
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  talks about. He says, 40 And if any man will
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  sue you at the law and take away your coat, let him have your
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  cloak also. This is the outer garment.
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  This is the inner garment. This is Jesus telling us that if
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  they want half, just give them all because God is able to give
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  it all back to you twice fold, just like he did with Job.
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  Don't worry about materialism, friends. 41 And whoever shall
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  compel you to go a mile, go with him too.
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  He's saying let God fuel you. Mount up like eagles, run, and
• 47:20
  not grow weary. 42 Give to him that ask you, and from him that
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  would borrow to you. Don't turn them away.
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  This is the principle of not expecting to get repaid.
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  This is the principle of amongst brethren.
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  Don't try to give interest rates. 43 You have heard that it
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  has been said that you shall love your neighbor and hate your
• 47:44
  enemy. 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, and bless
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  them that curse you. Do good to them that hates you
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  and pray for them which despitefully use you and
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  persecute you. He talked about that back there
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  and the Beatitudes. And what was he saying?
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  He's saying great is your reward in heaven when you behave in
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  this way, friends, memorize it, highlight it.
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  Put it on your postcard, Put it on a little place card on your
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  desk and in your car and in the mirror.
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  When you're getting ready, put it in your wallet.
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  Study it. Study verse 44.
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  If we could get this right, we will have a bountiful, beautiful
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  life here on this earth, and when we get there in heaven,
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  Friends 45 that you may be the children of your Father, which
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  is in heaven. For he makes his Son to rise on
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  evil and on the good, and he sends rain on the just and on
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  the unjust. Think about it.
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  For a lot of people, this is their reward.
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  This is as close to heaven as they will ever get.
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  But for us who know Him and are known by Him, this is just the
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  beginning. This is the appetizer to the
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  main course, friends. This is the down payment of the
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  Holy Spirit. And we see him dimly and darkly,
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  but one day we will see him in fullness.
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  Praise God. Hallelujah 46 For if you love
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  them, which love you, what reward is that?
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  Do not even the publicans do the same?
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  44 And if you salute your brothers only, what do you more
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  than others? Do not even the publicans?
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  Do so? And we'll end on 48 Be he,
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  therefore perfect, even as your Father, which is in heaven, is
• 49:37
  perfect. Be holy, because I am holy.
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  Be perfect just as your Father in heaven.
• 49:43
  What does that even mean? Well, we'll back up a couple
• 49:46
  verses. He's saying don't just bless
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  those that bless you. Don't just love those that love
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  you. Don't just be kind to those that
• 49:54
  look like you and talk like you and walk like you.
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  We need to make sure that when someone comes in and they look
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  as if they had just rolled out of a dumpster fire and they
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  smell, be kind, be gentle, treat them with dignity.
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  Give them a cup of water, give them something to eat, invite
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  them into your home, talk to them about God, show them how
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  far you have come. And don't forget where you have
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  come from, friend. Don't forget.
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  Don't be like the publican who looks over at the center and the
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  center won't even raise his head up.
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  The center is crying unto God and the publican says thank you
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  God, that I'm not like this center here.
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  Who do you think the Lord heard? And it's obviously the Sinner.
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  Don't be like the publicans, don't be like the rest of the
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  world who judge from the outside.
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  Sometimes we have entertained angels by showing hospitality.
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  And when he says be perfect, he's saying take on the
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  righteousness of Jesus Christ, put on the blood of the Lamb,
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  and God will only see you one of two ways when you get there.
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  He'll either see the blood of the Lamb covering you and he
• 51:30
  won't see a single sin. And that is what he is
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  mentioning here. This perfection is when we have
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  put on the blood of the Lamb, but there are those who will try
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  to behave their way into heaven and they've never truly been
• 51:45
  washed in the blood. And when they get there, they're
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  going to say, I prophesied in your name.
• 51:50
  I cast out demons in your name, and God is going to say, depart
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  from me, for I never knew you. What an amazing chapter this has
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  been. What an amazing principle this
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  has been. This is the greatest sermon that
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  has ever been taught in the history of mankind, from Adam
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  and Eve all the way to the end. Friends, this is Jesus Christ in
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  all of his glory, and he's giving us the mandate for life
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  and he's giving us our principles and how we should
• 52:28
  govern our lives. Friends, it's all about this
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  moment right here. Don't miss it.
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  Praise God, Hallelujah. We love you.
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  Lord Jesus, I hope you've been blessed by this chapter.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you, so does God, and
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  we'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.