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Andy Stanley - Ninety Part 9 The One Commandments · Andy Stanley Sermons

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  Speaker 1: So I've told you before.
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  Speaker 2: We have Sandre and I have three kids, are all
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  Speaker 2: in their twenties now, which is wonderful. So we parents
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  Speaker 2: had babies and children and middle schoolers and high schoolers
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  Speaker 2: and college students and first jobbers and boyfriends and girlfriends
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  Speaker 2: and all the stuff. And when we first started, when
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  Speaker 2: we first had Andrew, you know, you're you're you're nervous,
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  Speaker 2: and you're trying to figure out what are we gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: So I had worked with high school students for ten
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  Speaker 2: to twelve years before I became a pastor, like a
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  Speaker 2: real pastor, and so I saw all kinds of family
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  Speaker 2: stuff and I decided, Okay, we're not gonna do it
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  Speaker 2: that way. So when we had Andrew and our kids
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  Speaker 2: were old enough to have rules, we decided. I decided,
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  Speaker 2: I said, in our house, we're just gonna have two rules,
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  Speaker 2: just two rules. Honor mom and tell the truth. Honor
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  Speaker 2: mom and tell the truth. I'd tell my kids all
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  Speaker 2: the time. The worst thing you can do is tell
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  Speaker 2: a lie. The worst thing you can do is tell
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  Speaker 2: a lie. The worst thing you can do is tell
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  Speaker 2: a lie. When day I'm driving and Andrew's in the
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  Speaker 2: back seat, and it's in the car seat and or
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  Speaker 2: he his big boy buckled up seat and he said, Dad,
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  Speaker 2: I think I know something worse than telling a lot
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  Speaker 2: like what because in our house, the worst thing you
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  Speaker 2: can do is tell a lie, because if you tell
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  Speaker 2: a lie, it breaks the relationship. You know, all this
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  Speaker 2: preacher stuff, you know, he's not I think on the worst
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  Speaker 2: in telling Alia I said what he said, worshiping the devil.
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  Speaker 1: So we added a.
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  Speaker 2: Third rule, honor mom, don't tell you know, tell the truth,
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  Speaker 2: and never worship anyway. So we just had these two
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  Speaker 2: rules because here's what I knew that you know what,
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  Speaker 2: if you if you cover the basic things, that pretty
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  Speaker 2: much takes care of everything. And in family life, those
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  Speaker 2: two basic things covered just about everything. Now today, in
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  Speaker 2: our journey with Jesus, Jesus does something similar, but he
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  Speaker 2: takes it even a step further.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't been with us, we're in.
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  Speaker 2: A series where we are following Jesus from his introduction
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  Speaker 2: to the world to the day that he became the savior.
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  Speaker 1: Of the world.
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  Speaker 2: And we said throughout this series that Jesus was not
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  Speaker 2: an end. Jesus was an Instead of that he came
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  Speaker 2: to this place to replace everything that was pretty much
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  Speaker 2: in place. He came to introduce something extraordinarily, brand spanking new.
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  Speaker 2: He came to introduce, as we talked about last time
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  Speaker 2: we were together, a new covenant, a new kind of
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  Speaker 2: relationship between God and mankind. He came to institute the
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  Speaker 2: new command, basically the fine print of the new covenant
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  Speaker 2: that will talk about in a few minutes. And then
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  Speaker 2: he left his new movement us the church. And throughout
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  Speaker 2: his time with his guys, and throughout his three year
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  Speaker 2: journey in Galilee and in Judea and in that part
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  Speaker 2: of the world, he would drop hints.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout.
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  Speaker 2: He would say things like this, you've heard it said,
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  Speaker 2: But I say, you've heard it said, But I say,
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  Speaker 2: And his audience would say, yeah, we've heard it said.
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  Speaker 2: That's what our parents said, that's what their parents said,
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  Speaker 2: that's what Moses said.
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  Speaker 1: Who do you think you are?
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus would smile and say, just keep paying attention.
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  Speaker 2: He claimed to be greater than the temple. Well, if
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  Speaker 2: you're greater than the temple, then we don't need the temple.
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  Speaker 2: But if we're we're not going to have a temple,
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  Speaker 2: what are we going to have? What are you talking
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  Speaker 2: about he insisted that the great people go to the.
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  Speaker 1: Back of the line.
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  Speaker 2: And then in a religious system, in a religious system
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  Speaker 2: that valued cleanliness physical cleanliness, Jesus insisted that the people
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  Speaker 2: who had the holiest hearts oftentimes had the dirtiest hands.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus would touch unclean people and he made them well.
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  Speaker 1: He made them.
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  Speaker 2: Knew it was an indication that something new was on
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  Speaker 2: the horizon. But of course his upside down value system,
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  Speaker 2: his kingdom that was not of this world, would be
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  Speaker 2: in conflict with the kingdoms of this world. Conflict was inevitable.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where we left off last time, the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of times we've been together in this journey. Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is on his way to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover with
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  Speaker 2: his guys, and when the religious leaders heard that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was on his way to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover, they
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  Speaker 2: put spies out everywhere. The text says that the chief
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  Speaker 2: priest and the Pharisees had given orders than anyone who
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  Speaker 2: found out where Jesus was should report it so that
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  Speaker 2: they might arrest him. And it turns out that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was easy to find, but he was not easy to
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  Speaker 2: arrest because everywhere he went there was a crowd. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: as he came to Jerusalem, people lined the streets outside
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  Speaker 2: the city.
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  Speaker 1: We know they lined the streets inside the city.
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  Speaker 2: The text says that the great crowd that had come
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  Speaker 2: for passoverheard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 2: and the intensity built and the excitement built, because they
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  Speaker 2: assumed that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem to do something
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  Speaker 2: for the nation, but in fact, Jesus was coming to
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  Speaker 2: Jerusalem to do something for you and for the entire.
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  Speaker 1: World.
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  Speaker 2: And then something unusual happened. One of Jesus's closest followers
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  Speaker 2: broke rank. Judas got tired of waiting. It dawned on
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  Speaker 2: Judas as they made their way to Jerusalem, Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: he's not going in there to become the Messiah. I
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  Speaker 2: think he's going to go in there and surrender all
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  Speaker 2: this talk of the first shall be last and last
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  Speaker 2: shall be first. And it finally dawned on Judas, this
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  Speaker 2: is not going the way he always thought it would
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  Speaker 2: and assumed it would, And it was time for him
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  Speaker 2: to get out. But he wanted to get out with
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  Speaker 2: something to show, so he broke away from the group
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  Speaker 2: to run an errand he went and found the chief priest.
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  Speaker 1: And he went to the chief priest and said, you want.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus, I can get you Jesus, and I can get
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  Speaker 2: you Jesus when he's not surrounded by a crowd. They agreed,
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  Speaker 2: and they paid him, and the text says that he
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  Speaker 2: watched for an opportunity to hand Jesus over when no
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  Speaker 2: crowd was present. And in the end their plan would succeed,
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  Speaker 2: but their objective would not be bat because unlike them,
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  Speaker 2: and unlike me, and perhaps unlike you, Jesus did not
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  Speaker 2: cling to his life all along.
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  Speaker 1: He had come to give it away.
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  Speaker 2: But before that moment, before he sacrificed himself for the world,
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  Speaker 2: there were two loose ends that he needed to wrap up.
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  Speaker 2: So first, as they gathered for Passover with the guys,
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  Speaker 2: the first thing he did was declare that he was
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  Speaker 2: establishing a new kind of relationship between God and all mankind,
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  Speaker 2: between God and God's image bearing rebel race. And so
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  Speaker 2: in the upper room, as they prepared and as they
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  Speaker 2: celebrated passover, Jesus changed the tone and Jesus changed the
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  Speaker 2: meaning of passover, and he said, okay, I know You've
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  Speaker 2: been it this way since you were little boys.
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  Speaker 1: But from now on, when.
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  Speaker 2: You gather for Passover, you're not going to remember Egypt,
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  Speaker 2: and you're not going to remember Moses.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to remember me.
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  Speaker 2: And this bread that always meant one thing, from now on,
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  Speaker 2: it means it represents my body.
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  Speaker 1: And this wine that represented.
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  Speaker 2: The blood of the lamb that our you know, ancestors
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  Speaker 2: put over the doorposts, from now on it is going
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  Speaker 2: to represent my blood. And I'm establishing a new covenant
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  Speaker 2: in my blood. And this signaled the end. And this
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  Speaker 2: is such a big, big, big idea that we miss
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  Speaker 2: so easily. This signaled the end of God's conditional covenant
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  Speaker 2: with the nation of Israel, and it signaled the beginning
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  Speaker 2: of a permanent, unilateral, unconditioned, unconditional covenant with all mankind,
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  Speaker 2: a new relational arrangement. But just like contracts, modern contracts
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  Speaker 2: come with fine print. Just like modern contracts come with
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  Speaker 2: terms and conditions, so covenants, ancient covenants came with fine print.
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  Speaker 1: They came with terms and conditions.
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  Speaker 2: And this new arrangement between God and man would require
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  Speaker 2: new terms and new conditions. These would replace the terms
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  Speaker 2: and conditions of the old covenant. And the thing is,
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  Speaker 2: jesus closest followers should have seen this coming, because all
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  Speaker 2: along the way, all along the way, he hinted at
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  Speaker 2: the fact that something new was coming, something big was coming,
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  Speaker 2: and it wasn't going to be an end. It was
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  Speaker 2: going to be an Instead of that, he had come
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  Speaker 2: to replace again much of everything that was currently in place.
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  Speaker 2: For example, months before his gathering for Passover in Jerusalem
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  Speaker 2: with disciples, about ten or eleven months before that occasion,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was the move through villages and towns, teaching, and
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  Speaker 2: they're again sort of dropping breadcrumbs all along the way,
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  Speaker 2: pointing to what was coming, and the Pharisees and the
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  Speaker 2: Sadducees and the teachers of the law were constantly following him.
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  Speaker 2: They were constantly trying to trap him and constantly trying
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  Speaker 2: to separate him from the crowd. So on one particular afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: they joined forces and they drew straws to see who
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  Speaker 2: would go first, because they wanted to trap Jesus with
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  Speaker 2: his words in order to embarrass him in front of
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  Speaker 2: the crowd, separate him from the crowd so that he
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  Speaker 2: would lose the crowd, so that they could ultimately arrest
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  Speaker 2: and get rid of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: So here's what happens.
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  Speaker 2: This is, you know, months and months before the events
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  Speaker 2: have passover. The text says that then the Pharisees went
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  Speaker 2: out and laid plans to trap Jesus with his words.
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  Speaker 2: But they didn't go themselves. They would be recognized. So
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  Speaker 2: they sent their disciples, their underlings, and they gave them
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  Speaker 2: a very very specific question. We want you to go
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  Speaker 2: sit in the crowd, blend in with the crowd. When
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  Speaker 2: Jesus gets to the Q and a part after his talk,
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  Speaker 2: you raise your hand and we want you to ask
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  Speaker 2: a specific question. And if you ask it correctly, you
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  Speaker 2: might be the one that wraps and trips up the teacher,
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  Speaker 2: the rabbi from Nazareth.
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  Speaker 1: And so here's what they said. They said, teacher. First,
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  Speaker 1: they buttered him up. Teacher. They said, we know that
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  Speaker 1: you were a man of.
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  Speaker 2: Integrity, that you are teaching the ways of God in
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  Speaker 2: accordance with the truth. And Jesus, we know that you,
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  Speaker 2: like most people, you are not swayed by others because
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  Speaker 2: you pay no attention to who they are.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and Jesus sees this coming.
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  Speaker 2: And then once they get him, all buttered up, and
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  Speaker 2: they think he's leaning in and they think he's vulnerable.
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  Speaker 2: They ask him an irs question seriously. Jesus responds with
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  Speaker 2: a coin trick, and he sends them scurrying back to
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  Speaker 2: their handlers. So the Pharisees are sitting in the back
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  Speaker 2: of the crowd. Their guys come back. They've embarrassed themselves,
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  Speaker 2: as Sadducees say, we're up next, And so the Sadducees
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  Speaker 2: approach Jesus, blend into the crowd, Q and a stand
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  Speaker 2: up in. One of the sadducees asked this question, teacher,
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  Speaker 2: they said, Moses told us because they're always trying to
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  Speaker 2: divide the people around the idea that Jesus was against Moses,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus stood in contrast to Moses. So now Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: Moses told us that if a man dies without having children,
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  Speaker 2: to follow this, if a man dies without having children,
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  Speaker 2: his brother must marry the widow his wife and raise
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  Speaker 2: up offspring for him. Now, if you are ever tempted
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  Speaker 2: to embrace the Old Testament and live by the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 2: this law in and of itself is a reason not
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  Speaker 2: to okay. When you think about the implications of this,
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, the New Testament says, if you're
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  Speaker 2: going to do any of the law, you got to
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  Speaker 2: do the whole thing. And this is probably illegal, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in some capacity, especially if you're already married. But the
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  Speaker 2: idea this was a good law in ancient times because
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  Speaker 2: women were so vulnerable. So if a woman's husband died
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  Speaker 2: and she didn't have any children, her husband's name wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be carried on.
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  Speaker 1: There would be no one to take care of her.
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  Speaker 2: So this was a good law. So her husband's brother
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  Speaker 2: would then have to marry her. He'd have multiple wives
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  Speaker 2: and then produce children through her so that his brother's
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  Speaker 2: name could be carried on. So wasn't a bad thing.
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  Speaker 2: But this was a law. So they tell Jesus the law.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus already knew all this, and then they turn it
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  Speaker 2: into a of sorts. Now there were among us. There
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  Speaker 2: were seven brothers among us. They're just making this up.
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  Speaker 2: There were seven brothers among us. The first one married
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  Speaker 2: and died, and since he had no children, he left
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  Speaker 2: his wife to his brother.
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  Speaker 1: So they get married.
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  Speaker 2: The husband dies, the wife marries the brother, and then
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  Speaker 2: they say, and then the second brother died and she
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  Speaker 2: married the third brother, and then the third brother died,
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  Speaker 2: and she married the fourth brother, and then the fourth
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  Speaker 2: brother died, and she married the fifth brother. The fifth
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  Speaker 2: brother died, she married the sixth brother. The sixth brother died,
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  Speaker 2: and she married the seventh brother, and then the seventh
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  Speaker 2: brother died, and then she died. Now, every riddle has
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  Speaker 2: a question at the end, So here's the question. So
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  Speaker 2: when she got to heaven, who is she married to?
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  Speaker 2: And the crowd was like, wow, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: Who would she be married to in heaven?
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  Speaker 1: Wow?
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  Speaker 2: Now, the point of their question was to show how
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous it was to believe in an afterlife, because the
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  Speaker 2: Sadducees did not believe in the afterlife. That's why they
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  Speaker 2: were sad, you see, Yes, okay, So they believed that
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  Speaker 2: we all aren't you glad you came to church today
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  Speaker 2: and you're glad you're watching the things you learn? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: So they believe that we lived for mankind womankind. We
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  Speaker 2: live for the pleasure of God, and when our lives
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  Speaker 2: are over there over and that's okay, because we live
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  Speaker 2: for the pleasure of God, not for ourselves. So they
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  Speaker 2: were just showing how ridiculous it was that there was
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  Speaker 2: an afterlife, which offended the Pharisees and was contrary to
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  Speaker 2: what Jesus taught. So they asked him this trick question
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus smiles and he tells says to them the
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  Speaker 2: thing they hated when he said, he said.
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  Speaker 1: Have you not read the scriptures?
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  Speaker 2: We other think that's pretty much all we do is
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  Speaker 2: he said, if you not read the scriptures, then he
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  Speaker 2: skips over Moses, goes to Abraham, makes an incredible point
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  Speaker 2: based on the tents of a verb, and sends them
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  Speaker 2: scurrying off to their handlers as well, and.
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  Speaker 1: The crowd goes wild.
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  Speaker 2: They love it when Jesus humiliates the hypocritic religious leaders
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  Speaker 2: who were constantly putting a burden on them that they
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  Speaker 2: weren't willing to carry themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what the text says.
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  Speaker 2: When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his
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  Speaker 2: teaching and hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the
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  Speaker 2: Pharisees decide to reload, so they sent their guys in.
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  Speaker 1: That didn't work.
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  Speaker 2: The Sadducees went in. Now the Pharisees have reloaded. They've
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  Speaker 2: got a really good question. They are sure, this is
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  Speaker 2: the one that's going to trip him up. And they
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  Speaker 2: choose one of their best guys, he's actually a lawyer,
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  Speaker 2: to blend into the crowd, wait for Q and A,
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  Speaker 2: raise his hand.
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  Speaker 1: And ask his question.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this question is a question you've probably heard before
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  Speaker 2: if you were raised in church. But this is an
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  Speaker 2: extraordinary moment in jesus teaching ministry, and he uses it
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  Speaker 2: to point to what is about to come.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what happened.
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  Speaker 2: One of them, an expert in the law, tested him,
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  Speaker 2: so he wasn't there sincerely was this was part of
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  Speaker 2: a setup? Tested him with this question, teacher, which is
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  Speaker 2: the greatest commandment in the whole law again, the law
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  Speaker 2: of Moses, which is the greatest commandment, and all the
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  Speaker 2: laws that Moses broke brought down from Mount Sinai, which
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  Speaker 2: is the greatest commandment.
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  Speaker 1: Now, everybody in Jesus'.
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  Speaker 2: Audience pretty much knew the answer to this question, because
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  Speaker 2: there was a standard Sunday school answer to this question.
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  Speaker 2: But Jesus saw this as an opportunity to point the
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  Speaker 2: way forward to where he was eventually taking all of
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  Speaker 2: his followers. And Jesus replied, and everybody in Jesus audience,
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  Speaker 2: for the most part, could have mouthed along with Jesus
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  Speaker 2: the answer to this question because this was there was
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  Speaker 2: a stock, standard theological answer to this question, because this
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  Speaker 2: wasn't the this wasn't the lawyer's real question. He had
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  Speaker 2: a question behind the question, and once he got Jesus
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  Speaker 2: to commit himself to the standard answer, he had a
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  Speaker 2: zinger that was going to you know, not Jesus back
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  Speaker 2: on the ropes, or so he thought. Jesus replied, love
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  Speaker 2: the Lord your God, with all your heart. Everybody's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we know this, and with all your soul and with
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  Speaker 2: all your mind. This is the first and the greatest commandment.
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  Speaker 2: And the lawyer is about to ask his second question,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus says, and the lawyer's like no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: no no. And if you ann that's gonna miss this
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  Speaker 2: thing up. Because see that was the setup. Then I
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  Speaker 2: got my question, and Jesus is.
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  Speaker 1: Like and and the second is like it.
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  Speaker 2: The second is like it, The second is equal to it.
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  Speaker 1: This is important.
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  Speaker 2: The second is second in sequence, it is not second
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  Speaker 2: in greatness. The second law is just as great as
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  Speaker 2: the first law. They go together, and the second is
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  Speaker 2: like it. Love your neighbor as yourself. Now, this is
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  Speaker 2: the first time in all of recorded history that anyone
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  Speaker 2: that we know of took a verse from Deuteronomy and
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  Speaker 2: this verse from Levitigus and put them together in this way.
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  Speaker 1: The two greatest.
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  Speaker 2: Commandments are love God with all your heart, soul, mind,
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  Speaker 2: and strength, and your neighbor as your self. And this
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  Speaker 2: signaled a very important shift, a shift that Jesus had
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  Speaker 2: been signaling all along.
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  Speaker 1: But this was a big clue.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: This signaled a shift when it came to religion, that
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: things were shifting from a vertical orientation to a horizontal
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: orientation in the religious world in which Jesus lived, in
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: the religious world perhaps in which you were raised east,
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: a person could love God and treat people poorly. A
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: person could claim to be good with God and mistreat
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: other people. And when they were confronted, they say, oh, no,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: God and I are good. I've confessed my sins. I
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: go to church, I'm in ministry, I serve Yet but
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: do you see how you're treating your wife. Look how
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: you listen to the way you talk to your son,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Listen to the way that you respond.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: To people at work.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: I know, but me and God are good. This was
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: the religion of the first century, my friends. This was
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: every religion of pretty much every century. And Jesus says,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: something new is on the horizon that is about to
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: change with me. And then he says, this all the
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: law and the prophets, all the law and the prophets. Now,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: law and the prophets. In the first century, that meant Bible.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: That's their Old Testament scripture. They didn't have the Bible
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: that came later. But they would call their scripture. They
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: would call it the Law and the prophets. This was
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Genesis all the way basically through Malachi. There was no
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: formal canon yet, but basically, these are all the sacred scriptures.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: So Jesus says, your entire sacred body of literature, your
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: entire Bible.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Hangs on these two commands.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Now, if Jesus had had a screen at that point,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: I think this is what he would have shown them.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Next.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: It would look like this. He'd say, love God, love
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: your neighbor. All of your Old Testament prophets, and all
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: of your Old Testament law, and all of your Jewish
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: scripture hang on these two things. If you're reading along
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: in Isaiah and you get confused, Just go back to here.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: If you're reading along in Daniel and you kind of
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: get confused, just just go back here.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: This is the starting point.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Everything else is history, explanation and commentary. In other words,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: love for God this is his point. Love for God
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: is best illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by love for others.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: And in this moment, Jesus reduces all of the Jewish
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: commands to two big ideas that he says are equal
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: in value. But he wasn't through the problem at this
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: point is that for a first century Jewish person, a
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: neighbor had a definition, and a neighbor was another jew
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: In fact, Levitgus nineteen eighteen that says love your neighbor
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: is yourself. It actually in that passage defines what a
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: neighbor is, and a neighbor is another Jewish person.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: So Jesus takes it a step further.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Many weeks later, he's in a similar situation and another
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: lawyer comes and asks him another trick question, and in
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: response to that question, Jesus changes the definition of neighbor
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: for every generation and in every nation, and he tells
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: the story the parable of the Good Samaritan, and at
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: the end of this parable. At the end of this parable,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: he answers the question who is my neighbor? And he
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: changes the definition of neighbor. And from this point forward,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Jesus says, the new definition for neighbor is not simply
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: another Jew, not someone who's like you, and not someone
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: you like. From now on, a neighbor is anyone anywhere
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: with a need that you can meet. This was new, indeed,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: that now love for God. Love for God is best illustrated, demonstrated,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: and authenticated by love for those who are.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing like you and may not even like you.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: This was so new, But unbeknownst to his audience, these
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: are breadcrumbs. Unbeknownst to his audience, these are all signs
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: pointing in a specific direction, hinting at the new terms
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: and the new conditions for the new covenant. And then
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: he chose passover as the moment for the official reveal.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: They just finished the meal we talked about that last
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: time we were together. They just finished the meal. Then
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: he humiliates them by washing their feet.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: They are so off balanced.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Then suddenly Judas gets up and leaves with no explanation.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: And then Jesus, having replaced Moses, as the covenant maker,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: because Moses was the one that established the covenant between
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: God and the nation of Israel, and now Jesus has
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: just established a brand new covenant between God and all mankind,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: even though they didn't understand it at the time. Now
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Jesus not only takes on the role as covenant maker.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Now Jesus steps into the role as law giver and
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: the new covenant, the new covenant, like the one that
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: he just replaced, would have its own set.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Of thou shalts and thou shalt not, but not six
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: hundred and not even two.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: This is one of the most important moments in the
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: life of Jesus, and it's heartbreaking to me that for
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: centuries and centuries and centuries it has been so underplayed,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: if given such little emphasis. Because what happens next would
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: ultimately change the world. Jesus says to his GUIs again,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: who had no idea the significance of these words. He says, gentlemen,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: I now get you a new command. Now, if they'd
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: been thinking straight, they'd say, wait, wait, wait, wit Jesus, Jesus,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: you can't give us any new commands. Okay, only God
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: gives commands, you know. The story Moses went up to
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Mount Sinai, God gave Moses the law, Moses brought it
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: back down. So Moses delivered the law. But Moses didn't
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: originate the law. So Jesus, okay, if you're saying that
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: you're giving us a new command once again, and you
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: do this all the time, it says, if you're stepping
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: in between us and God, it's like you're playing the
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: role of God.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Who do you think you are?
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: I think we're sort of getting the idea of who
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: you think you are, and that's disturbing to us. Jesus,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a new command, into which
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: they might have said, okay, but we don't need any
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: more commands.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: We have enough.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Besides, okay, besides, you've already reduced six hundred.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Plus to two. So now there's like a third command.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: There's like love the Lord your God with all your
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: heart and mind, soul and strength, and love your neighbor
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: as yourself. And if you can't be with the one
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: you love, love, that's probably not it. So what you know,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: what is the third command?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Man? Maybe three is good.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I mean tens a lot, six hundreds a lot. And
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: you gave us two threes the perfect number. So you're
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: gonna give us like the third command to go with
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: the other two. Is that what we're doing? But Jesus
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: had not come to add to. Jesus had come to
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: take from. Jesus had come to reduce even two to one.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: If the church gets this right, everything changes. A new command,
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: I give you love one another, to which they thought,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: that's not new, to which Jesus would have said, I'm
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: not through. There's a stipulation, as I have loved you, oh,
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: so you must love one another. And in this moment,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: he could have gone around the room from person to
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: person to person to person, and perhaps he did and
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: no one recorded it, because he could have paused at
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: this moment and says, as I've loved you, you must
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: love one another. Matthew, you remember when we met, Yes, sir,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: you remember what you were doing? Yes, sir, say it
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: out loud. I was a tax farmer. I was a
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: tax collector. And do you remember when we met? Do
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: you remember what I said to you? Yes, sir, you
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: invited me to follow you. And Peter would have spoken
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: up and said, I remember.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I was not happy.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: In fact, none of us were happy about Matthew following you,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: because if Matthew follows you, he tails around with us
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: and it's embarrassing Jesus. Like, Matthew, remember where we went
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: after I asked you to follow me? Yes? Or we
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: went to my house Peter's like I remember that, Peter. Matthew,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: for the rest of your life. The grace I extended
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: to you that day, I want you to extend that
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: to every single person you meet for the rest of
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: your life. Matthew, it's not the Golden rule. Were stepping
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: it up as I have loved you. That's how you
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: to love other people. Nathaniel, Yes, sir, you remember when
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: we met, Yes, sir? Remember what you said about my hometown,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: my parents, my stickball team, all my friends, Nazareth, Nazareth,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: what good thing could come from Nazareth?
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Do you remember that, Nathaniel? Yes, sir? Do you remember
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: how I responded?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, you invited me to be one of your
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: closest followers.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: That's right, Nathaniel.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I want you to extend that same kind of grace
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: and that same kind of acceptance to everyone you meet,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: regardless how they treat you. Guys, you remember that afternoon
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: that I didn't have my best day, I will admit it.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: When I preached that sermon about drinking my blood and
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: eating my flesh, and people got nervous because they couldn't
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: go with the illustration, and people started leaving. You remember
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: that afternoon. You guys were all sitting around looking at
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: me like you're paying attention, but I saw you glancing
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: off to the side.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: We started losing the crowd that day. Do you remember that, guys? John?
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: You do?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: You wrote it down right? We remember?
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: And do you remember how I responded when I busted you?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Do you remember, Peter? I looked at you guys and said,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: you don't want to go too? Do you? And you
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: were smart enough ought to lie to me because by
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: that time you knew I would know you're lying.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Remember when I said, do you want to go too?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Because I knew every single one of you, every single
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: one of you, in spite of all I've done for you,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: every single one of you, wanted to blend into the
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: crowd and disappear. Do you remember that day? Yes, sir,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Do you remember how I responded? You wanted to unfollow me,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: But I never chose to unfollow you, and I never
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: brought it up That's how I want you to treat
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: each other and the people that you meet for the
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: rest of your life.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: And this is just the passover meal. You know what
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: he could have said.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: And guys, you think you've seen love, you ain't seen
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: nothing yet. Two days from now, three days from now,
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: four days from now, I'm gonna take this to a
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: whole other level. And I want you to remember this
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: night because your responsibility is to love other people the
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: way that I have loved and am about to love
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: you by this one thing, By this one thing, By
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: this one thing, everyone will know that you are my disciple.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: If you love one another, not if you love me
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: because I'm leaving, not if.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: You love God.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Nobody knows if you love one another. His point being
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: that your love for me and your love for your
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: heavenly Father will be demonstrated by how well you love
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: each other and how well you love the people that
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: are difficult to love.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: And compared to.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: The extraordinarily complicated system of laws that they had grown
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: up with.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: This was far, far, far.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Less complicated, but it was far more demanding. Now let
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: me try to illustrate why, and I would rather just
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: not leave the room. Okay, So this is just between us.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: If you give me a list of rules, I can
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: find a loophole. In fact, the more rules you give me,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: the more space there is and the more potential for loopholes. Right,
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: And it's not just me. If I give you a
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: list of rules, you can find a loophole. If you're
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: a parent, and you have parented through the middle school years,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: you get this. If you can remember middle school, you
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: get this. Well, Mom, you didn't say exactly. Well, Dad,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: you said to be home, but you didn't say where
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: at home. Dad, you said I couldn't play, but you
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: didn't say.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: You didn't say. In other words, you didn't give me
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: the Dad. You know you're gonna have to spell this out.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: We're gonna have to have tiny print anytime you ever
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: say anything to me, Because Dad, I'm twelve years old,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I'm thirteen years old. I'm gonna find a loophole. Because
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: where there are rules plural, there is space, there are cracks.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: In fact, it's worse than that. And this is the
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: part I really don't want you to tell anybody.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: If you give me a.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Bible and I get to use the whole Bible, I
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: can find a loophole for just about anything you want
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: to do, especially if I get to use the first half,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: because some of the people who wrote the songs we
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: sing on Sunday did some horrible things. One of them
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: was a man after God's own heart.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Well, there you go.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: This is why you know people like me get questions
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: like this all the time. You've asked this question or
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: some question like it, Well, what does the Bible say
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: about because I want to do A? Does the Bible
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: say anything's wrong with A? Because I want to do A?
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: And if the Bible doesn't say A specifically, okay, that's
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: not exactly Okay, that's like B I'm asking about A.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: So I'm good to go? Right?
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Is there anything wrong with Does the Bible say there's
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: anything wrong with?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: All those questions?
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, I understand what's behind the questions, but often
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: what's behind the question is, look, this is what I
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: want to do, and I don't want to do anything
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: that God's absolutely against. But if he doesn't spell it
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: out specifically.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Am I good to go?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: And the answer is, give me a Bible, and I
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: can find you an opportunity to be good to go,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: because give me a list of rules, give you a
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: list of rules, you'll find a loophole, you'll find some
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: wiggle room. Jesus walked into a religious environment where the
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: religious leaders were professional loophole creators, and the hypocrisy was overwhelming,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: and it drove people away from the very God that
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: had created them to worship them. New Covenant love, New
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Covenant love. The New Covenant command closes all the loopholes
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: because there's only one command. You can't slide in between them.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: There's not an M, It's just one. This was the
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: brilliance of Jesus. Besides, after all, I'm not always sure
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: what to believe, I'm not always sure who to believe,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: but I almost always know what love requires of me.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: The old Covenant question was this question, what does the
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: law require? The modern version of the Old Covenant covenant
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: question is what does the bi require? The New Covenant question,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the Jesus question is what does love require of me?
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: And here's something our middle school students and our high
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: school students and our college students need to know. And
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: here's something we all need to know. But here's something
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: that has to become more foundational in.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: The teaching of the church.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Is simply this that every New Testament imperative of an
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: imperative is like a command. Right, Every New Testament imperative,
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: every New Testament imperative, especially those that follow the resurrection,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Every New Testament parative is simple. Imperative is simply an
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: application of this new Covenant command. In other words, the
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: New Testament is not full of a bunch of rules.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: The New Testament is full of one rule with hundreds
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: or dozens rather of applications.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: In other words, if we had.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: A new chart, it would look like this love just
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: as I've loved you, And everything else is explanation. Everything
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: else application, everything else's history, everything else's background, everything else
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: is commentary to what you say.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: It can't possibly be that simple.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, it became because the Savior of the world waited
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: until the time was right to deliver this final blow
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: to our ego, in this final blow to our selfishness,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: and this final blow to that thing and me and
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: that thing and the thing in you that wants to
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: have my way but wants to justify it.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Because I found a gap. I found a loophole.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you who saw this. We miss it, the
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: church misses it, preachers miss it. But I tell you
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: who didn't miss it the Apostle Paul, the first church planter.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: He did not miss this.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: The Apostle Paul applied this one New Testament New Covenant
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: command to everything.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Here's a few examples. He wrote this.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: You've heard this before. Be kind and be compassionate to
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: one another, forgiving each other. Well should I forgive?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Because the Bible says so? Paul says, what's a Bible?
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you didn't have a Bible.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: So, Paul, are we.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Supposed to be kind and compassionate because you told us
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: to be kind and compassionate? Paul's like, are you kidding? No, Well, Paul,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: why should we be kind and compassionate? Paul says, oh, well,
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: let me finish the statement, just as two of the
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: most powerful words in the New Testament. And you find
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: him throughout his letters, just as in Christ, God forgave you.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Why should I forgive because the Bible says forgive? No,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: you forgive because you're forgiven. Why should I be patient?
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Why should I be patient with her? Why should I
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: be kind? He's not kind to me? Why should I
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: be patient with her? She's not patient with me? Why
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: should I be kind? Why should I be patient? Show
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: me the verse.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Paul would say, what's a verse? Oh yeah, they didn't
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: have those yet.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Paul would say, No, here's why you should be patient.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: Here's why you should be kind, because love is patient,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: he wrote, and love is kind, And those are your
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: marching orders. Love does not dishonor others. Here, Essentially, love
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  Speaker 2: does not dishonor Here essentially is the core ingredient of
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  Speaker 2: the New Testament sexual ethic. You never do anything to
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  Speaker 2: dishonor another person, even if it's consensual. If you are
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  Speaker 2: a Jesus follower, Well, is there any verses that don't
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  Speaker 2: have a verse? Honor him, honor her, Honor her husband,
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  Speaker 2: honor his, Honor his wife, honor his children, Honor her
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  Speaker 2: future relationship, honor his future marriage.
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  Speaker 1: You put other people first. You don't need a verse.
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  Speaker 1: Love is the mandate. Love is the command.
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  Speaker 2: There is no wiggle room, there's no space to cheat,
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  Speaker 2: there is no loophole. It is so uncomplicated, it's so
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  Speaker 2: extraordinarily compelling.
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  Speaker 1: Paul goes on.
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  Speaker 2: He says this, He says this in your relationships, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: tell us about relationships. In fact, I'd like to do
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  Speaker 2: an eight week series on relationships. And if you just
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  Speaker 2: do an eight week series on relationships. You can you know,
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  Speaker 2: Paul would say, you don't need eight weeks in your
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  Speaker 2: relationships with one another. Just have the same mindset as
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  Speaker 2: Christ Jesus. You don't need a series. You need a
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  Speaker 2: three by.
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  Speaker 1: Five card and just put this somewhere that when you're.
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  Speaker 2: Wondering how to respond to your husband, you go, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm to respond to my husband the way that God
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  Speaker 2: through Christ responded to me when I was an idiot
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  Speaker 2: and when I was an honest and when I was insecure,
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  Speaker 2: and when I did the wrong thing, and when I
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  Speaker 2: you know, was trying to cover for myself.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. I mean, you don't need a series.
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  Speaker 2: You just asked, Okay, what did God through Christ do
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  Speaker 2: for me? That's what I'm supposed to do for other people.
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  Speaker 2: Then here's another one. Okay, this is the church in Ephesus,
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  Speaker 2: Paul writes, Follow this is kind of mushy. You want
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  Speaker 2: to hear some you know, you feel like you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: hear love song in the background. Follow God's example, therefore,
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  Speaker 2: is dearly love children, to walk into the way of love,
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  Speaker 2: the way of love. It sounds so romantic, Paul, what
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  Speaker 2: do you mean the way of love. Oh, let me,
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  Speaker 2: let me explain, just as Christ loved us and gave
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  Speaker 2: himself up for us. Oh that sounds hard. Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 2: no loophole. There are loopholes and romance. There are no
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  Speaker 2: loopholes and this kind of love. Again, I could go
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  Speaker 2: on and on and on and on and on. Paul
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  Speaker 2: does not give Christians a bunch of things to do.
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  Speaker 2: Paul gives Christians a bunch of applications for jesus Knew
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  Speaker 2: Testament command, his New Covenant command, which was simple, as
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  Speaker 2: I've loved you, so are you, so you are to
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  Speaker 2: love one another.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. That's the one commandments. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: This is the fine print of the New Covenant. These
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  Speaker 2: are the terms and these are the conditions. This is
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  Speaker 2: the overarching ethical move This is the sort of the
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  Speaker 2: overarching ethic for jesus brand new movement the Church. This
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  Speaker 2: is you've heard of the ark of the Covenant. This
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  Speaker 2: is the mark of the Covenant, and his first century
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  Speaker 2: followers got it. In fact, his first century followers got
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  Speaker 2: it their other's firstness, their willingness to put other people
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  Speaker 2: before themselves in the in a culture that you know,
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  Speaker 2: recognized and embraced violence. It was absolutely appalling. We talked
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  Speaker 2: about this a couple of weeks ago. In a culture
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  Speaker 2: that worshiped victory and strength, the idea of putting other
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  Speaker 2: people first seems so weak. But this upside down kingdom
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus introduced, eventually it became appealing, and then eventually
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  Speaker 2: it became contagious, and it circled the globe. And we
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  Speaker 2: are here today because a group of first century Christians
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  Speaker 2: got this and against all odds, and I mean against
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  Speaker 2: all odds, sandwich between the Temple and the Roman Empire,
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  Speaker 2: with no territory, no authority, no military, they survived and
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  Speaker 2: they thrived, and they were fueled by this single idea.
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  Speaker 1: As I've loved you, so you must love one another.
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  Speaker 2: By this all people will know that you're my follower.
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  Speaker 2: By this one thing, people will know that you're my
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  Speaker 2: follower if you love one another. You see, when we
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  Speaker 2: get this right, people want to work for us, even
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  Speaker 2: though they don't want to believe like us. When we
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  Speaker 2: get this right, people want us to work for them,
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  Speaker 2: even if they don't believe like us.
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  Speaker 1: When you get this right, people are so happy. There's
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  Speaker 1: a new church in town.
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  Speaker 2: When we get this right, people are so happy that
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  Speaker 2: their daughter or their son is dating a Christian.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they believe some interesting things, but my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: the way they treat people.
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  Speaker 2: What a night that was for those guys. I mean
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  Speaker 2: they showed up thinking, oh, we're gonna have Passover. And
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  Speaker 2: when the night's over, I mean their heads are spinning. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we're not doing passover anymore. You made this all about you.
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  Speaker 1: That's weird.
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  Speaker 2: And then you like cancel it out, Moses whole covenant,
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  Speaker 2: everything we grew up with, and you put on there's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be a new covenant and it's in your blood.
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  Speaker 2: But Jesus, I checked, you're not even bleeding. What does
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  Speaker 2: that even mean? And it's not gonna be the Bread's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be your body, but your body isn't broken. And
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  Speaker 2: then you washed our feet. That was like the worst
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  Speaker 2: moment of my life. I was so embarrassed.
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  Speaker 1: And then Judas.
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  Speaker 2: Left and now you've decided you're the lawgiver and there's
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  Speaker 2: just one law.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, their heads are spinning.
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  Speaker 2: There's no way for them to understand what had just happened.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus says, okay, I'd like to go now and pray,
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  Speaker 2: let's go to the garden that we always pray. Oh
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  Speaker 2: guess somebody, let's go to guess. It's dark, people won't
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  Speaker 2: see us moving.
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  Speaker 1: Through the streets. Try to be quiet. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: guest semony.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, they're murmuring and whispering as they make
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  Speaker 2: their way to guest semony.
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  Speaker 1: What in the world's going on? I find?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we haven't even really celebrated passover. He changed
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  Speaker 2: all the terms, he changed all the rules. It's so confusing.
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  Speaker 2: And they get to the garden. Jesus, as you pray here,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go pray by myself. He checks on him,
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  Speaker 2: They're asleep. He wakes him up, he prays, He checks
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  Speaker 2: on him.
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  Speaker 1: They're asleep.
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  Speaker 2: And then Judas shows up, and the text says he
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  Speaker 2: showed up with a large cohort, probably several hundred people,
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  Speaker 2: several hundred temple henchmen, several hundred guards from the temple,
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  Speaker 2: and Jesus is arrested and his eleven followers flee for
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  Speaker 2: their lives. He's taken the caiaphas at home for trial.
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  Speaker 2: None of his guys show up to be witnesses.
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  Speaker 1: There are other.
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  Speaker 2: Witnesses testifying to things that Jesus never said, and that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus never did. But the guys who had been there
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  Speaker 2: the whole time, who could have told the truth, they don't.
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  Speaker 1: Show up for the trial. And then they hear that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has been taken.
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  Speaker 2: To Pilot, and that can only mean one thing, because
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  Speaker 2: any other punishment that the religious leaders who would want
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  Speaker 2: to inflict on Jesus they had the right to do.
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  Speaker 2: The only reason they would need Pilot is that they
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  Speaker 2: wanted Jesus put to death. So when the guys heard
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus had been taken to Pilot's palace, they knew
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  Speaker 2: it was over, and they knew they were probably next.
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  Speaker 1: And so we will pick it up there next week.