WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.439 The message is going to be called Plank Eye. 00:00:03.100 --> 00:00:08.960 For those who lived in the 90s Christian music, you might know, Sean's got a thumbs up back there. 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:13.919 ! He probably toured with him. 00:00:13.919 --> 00:00:14.919 Plank Eye. 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:17.240 I'll read the verse in a second. 00:00:17.240 --> 00:00:29.960 Plank Eye is basically a severe sickness, or a serious condition that can cause severe sickness to the body. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.000 Not Pink Eye, Plank Eye. 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:39.000 Basically, I think this is kind of a sequel to the message I gave on evil suspicions. 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:45.000 We have four points, and I'm just going to jump right in. 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:51.000 The first point is that we need to judge ourselves first. 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:53.000 We need to judge ourselves first. 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:59.000 Last year, as we prayed to the Lord and asked Him what are the words that God would have to speak to us for last year, 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:01.000 one of those words was order. 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:06.000 And I was thinking about that this weekend, and particularly this morning. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:16.000 And I was thinking of what the Lord has done in the last year in bringing different people into a more orderly place, 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:19.000 bringing homes into order, and I was encouraged by that. 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:31.000 One of the things, though, that came to mind as I was thinking about that was it can be easy to get about 90% there and say, 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:34.000 wow, we made some serious progress here, right? 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:36.000 Like, we brought an order to our home. 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:39.000 We've put things that were out of order into order. 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:43.000 But often it's that last 10% that's the most difficult. 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.000 It's that last 10% that maybe we don't want to deal with. 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:50.000 It's that last 10% that I don't want to talk about. 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:56.000 But I want to tell you, be encouraged by the order that was brought this last year, 00:01:56.000 --> 00:01:58.000 but I think there's more that needs to happen. 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.000 And maybe it's that last 10%. 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:04.000 The 10% that you're just like, well, I mean, come on. 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:06.000 I've brought a lot of things in order. 00:02:06.000 --> 00:02:08.000 This is way better than it was. 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:10.000 Well, what about that last 10%? 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:11.000 What about the hard things? 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:13.000 What about the things you've been putting off? 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:17.000 The things that you know you're supposed to put into order, but you haven't. 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:20.000 The things that have not had a sense of urgency on them. 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:26.000 I am bringing this up to you, I think by the Spirit of God, to say, bring the whole thing into order. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:28.000 Execute that last 10%. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:30.000 Be urgent about it. 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:31.000 Don't keep putting it off. 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:34.000 Don't say, oh, last year we focused on that. 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:36.000 We're not focused on this, that this year. 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:38.000 Don't say last year we focused on order. 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.000 I got about 90% there. 00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:41.000 Get off my back. 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:43.000 No, let's, let's go all the way. 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:48.000 Let's, let's, let's bring that plane in for a landing and the work that the Lord began. 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:52.000 Let's mix that word with faith and say, God wants to bring it into completion. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.000 Can you believe for that? 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:56.000 Can you believe for that in your families? 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.000 Can you believe for that in your own individual life? 00:02:58.000 --> 00:03:00.000 Or maybe there's some things out of order. 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.000 God wants to bring things into order. 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:05.000 And when things are in order, things work better. 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:10.000 When things are in order, divine glory goes to God. 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:13.000 Like the glory, the glory goes to God, right? 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:15.000 This is the way it's supposed to be. 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:19.000 And so what I want to say is get your house in order first. 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:31.000 Uh, Colossians two, five, Paul, the apostle is saying, though I'm absent in body, yet I'm with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:32.000 Okay. 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:33.000 Okay. 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:44.000 The apostle was rejoicing to see good order because that was one of the roles of an apostle is to bring order where there was disorder to bring order into these new churches and establish them on firm foundations. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:57.000 This brings us to the text that the, uh, the title of my message came from, and that's Luke chapter six, verses 37 to 42. 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:02.000 Jesus here says, judge not, and you will not be judged. 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:05.000 Condemn not, and you will not be condemned. 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:08.000 Forgive, and you will be forgiven. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.000 Give, and it will be given to you. 00:04:10.000 --> 00:04:16.000 Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:20.000 For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:24.000 Now, uh, side note for any prosperity preachers in here. 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:26.000 He's not talking about money right here. 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:27.000 Okay. 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:30.000 That's not the context of this chapter. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:34.000 He's not saying, Hey, give the money and it'll just start flowing to you, baby. 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:35.000 All right. 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:36.000 Like word, baby's not in there. 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:41.000 So you won't see that, but that's not, this is not about finances. 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:43.000 This is about judgment. 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:47.000 This is about condemnation, forgiveness. 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:47.000 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:53.000 When you give forgiveness, when you give mercy, when you give judgment, whatever you're giving, 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:55.000 that's what you're going to receive back. 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:57.000 That's what he's saying here. 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:01.000 Saying good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:04.000 With the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.000 This should be put the fear of the Lord in us, right? 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:10.000 I got to be careful what measure I'm using for other people. 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:12.000 Cause that's the measure that's going to come back on me. 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:16.000 I need to ask the question, is this the measure I would want on me? 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:20.000 Would I want it coming at me this heavy? 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.000 Would I want it coming at me this merciless? 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.000 Would I want it coming at me this unforgiving? 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:27.000 I want forgiveness. 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:28.000 I want mercy. 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.000 I don't want condemnation. 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:35.000 Therefore, what I would like to receive, how I would like to be loved, 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:37.000 that's how we should be giving it to other people. 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:39.000 Giving mercy. 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:41.000 Giving forgiveness. 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:42.000 Okay? 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:44.000 For the measure you use will be measured back to you. 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:46.000 Verse 39. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.000 He also told them a parable. 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:50.000 Can a blind man lead a blind man? 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.000 Will they not both fall into a pit? 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:58.000 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:01.000 And he asks an important question to go with this. 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:03.000 Can a blind man lead a blind man? 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:15.000 He says, why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log or other versions, the plank that is in your own eye? 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:21.000 Okay, why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but you do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:22.000 That's a good question. 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:23.000 Verse 42. 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:25.000 How can you say to your brother, 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:33.000 Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye, when you yourself do not see the log or the plank that is in your own eye? 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:34.000 You hypocrite. 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:43.000 First, take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye. 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:45.000 So this is about seeing. 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:46.000 Okay? 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:48.000 This is about righteous judgment. 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:49.000 Okay? 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:55.000 A lot of people say, like to quote the first verse in the section, 37, and say, don't judge. 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.000 See, that's the problem with these Christians. 00:06:57.000 --> 00:06:59.000 They just don't listen to Jesus. 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:01.000 Jesus said, don't judge. 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:02.000 He did say, don't judge. 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.000 But Christians don't read verses out of context. 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:08.000 Christians read verses in context. 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:15.000 And the same Jesus in the same paragraph who said, judge not, then said, hey, this is how you're to judge. 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.000 This isn't a verse about not judging. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.000 It's a verse about not judging incorrectly. 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:25.000 It's about making sure that you judge righteously, appropriately. 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:26.000 Okay? 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:27.000 This is a verse. 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:30.000 This is a section on how to judge rightly. 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:37.000 But when you just pluck one verse out of here and say, don't judge, that's where it gets goofy. 00:07:37.000 --> 00:07:38.000 Jesus was never saying that. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:42.000 You can't read this whole thing and say, oh, that's what this is about. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:44.000 This section is about seeing. 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.000 He said, can a blind man lead a blind man? 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:48.000 No. 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:50.000 Well, what makes the person blind? 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:59.000 Well, there's something obstructing their eyes, like a plank, like a log, like something sticking out of their eyes so that they can't see clearly. 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:02.000 No, a blind man can't lead a blind man. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:06.000 And so he says, he's wanting us to be able to see clearly. 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:07.000 Okay? 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:11.000 So we don't want to take this and say, oh, we're not supposed to look at each other. 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:14.000 We're not supposed to find specks. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.000 No, we are supposed to find specks. 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:20.000 You just can't see specks when there's a log sticking out of your eye. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:21.000 Right? 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:26.000 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:33.000 How can you say to your brother, brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye, when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:34.000 You hypocrite. 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:36.000 We don't want to be hypocrites. 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:39.000 We have to first, there's an order to this. 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:40.000 There's an order to this. 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:49.000 If we want to be people who inspect people's specks, we can't be a plank-eyed speck inspector. 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:50.000 Right? 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:53.000 You can't be a plank-eyed speck inspector. 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:56.000 You have to first take the plank out of your own eye. 00:08:56.000 --> 00:08:58.000 Otherwise, you're a hypocrite. 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:00.000 He says, you hypocrite first. 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:02.000 There's an order to this. 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:06.000 He's not condemning taking specks out of people's eye. 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:10.000 I mean, have you ever had a little speck in your eye and it's driving you crazy? 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:11.000 It hurts. 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:12.000 It's bothering you. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:13.000 Your eye's watering. 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:14.000 It's getting red. 00:09:14.000 --> 00:09:15.000 Might even get infected. 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:18.000 I had an eye infection so bad once that it turned into an eye ulcer. 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.000 You probably didn't know that that was a thing. 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:21.000 It is a thing. 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:22.000 I didn't know it was a thing. 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.000 But if I would have let it go the weekend, he said I would have lost vision in my eye. 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:26.000 Okay? 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.000 It's a big deal, these specks. 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:32.000 So we're not saying don't get specks out of people's eyes. 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:33.000 That's a good thing. 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:36.000 He's wanting us to get the specks out of people's eyes. 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:40.000 But to do that, you have to be able to see the speck in people's eyes. 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:43.000 He's trying to give us the right way to do it. 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:44.000 And there's an order. 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:47.000 First, get the plank out of your own eye. 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:52.000 If you want to be a speck inspector, make sure you're not a plank-eyed speck inspector. 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:53.000 Okay? 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:55.000 Get that out of your eye. 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:57.000 Are we doing this in the right order? 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:59.000 Are we doing this in the right order? 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:04.000 Then, it's good that we want to make sure that everyone's eyes are clear. 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:06.000 But start with us. 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:07.000 Start with us. 00:10:07.000 --> 00:10:08.000 Start with me. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:11.000 God, is there a plank in my eye? 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:16.000 Am I, am I, am I, do I have an overconfidence in my seeing? 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:18.000 If you have a plank in your eye, yes. 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:23.000 And you think you can be a speck inspector, you are overconfident. 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:24.000 That's not good. 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:25.000 That's not good. 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:27.000 You're a hypocrite, right? 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:34.000 But if you take it out first, then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye. 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:35.000 That's truth. 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:36.000 Then you will. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:38.000 And that's the way the church should be. 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:42.000 If it should be a bunch of clear-eyed people doing speck inspections. 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:43.000 Right? 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:45.000 Clear-eyed people who can see. 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.000 They can see clearly. 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:54.000 But there's nothing more annoying than a guy with a big log sticking out of his eye saying, hey, let me take the speck out of your eye. 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.000 It's like, bro, what are you talking about? 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.000 You're not going to be able to take the speck out of my eye. 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:04.000 You basically, you can't even function because you have this huge plank sticking out of your own eye. 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:05.000 Okay? 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.000 Don't be a plank-eyed speck inspector. 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:08.000 This is important. 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:10.000 Do we have the right order here? 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:12.000 Do we have the right order here? 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:15.000 Are we functioning in the right order? 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.000 Are we saying even just like we're taking the Lord's table? 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:19.000 Are we as concerned? 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:24.000 I think Seth even prayed it this morning and then Amber prayed this actual verse. 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:26.000 I don't know if you noticed that this morning we were praying. 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:32.000 But Seth said, help me to be more consumed with my own sin than the sins of others. 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:36.000 Help me to have the same passion for my own sin that I do for other people's sins. 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:39.000 That's taking the plank out of your eye. 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:41.000 That's the right order. 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.000 That's saying, hey, let's start here. 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:47.000 Let's go to the Lord's table and say, deal with me first, God. 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:54.000 That's not me hearing sermons and saying, yeah, thank God so-and-so's here. 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:55.000 It's a good thing they're here. 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:56.000 They need to hear this. 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.000 God knows I don't, but they do. 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:02.000 You know, like it's us saying, no, God, I'm the sinner. 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:03.000 I'm the one who needs help. 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:05.000 I'm the one who needs to see. 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.000 I'm the one who needs to be cleansed. 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:08.000 I'm the one who needs to be delivered. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.000 I'm the one who needs to be freed. 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:12.000 I'm the one who needs to be pure. 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:13.000 Lord, help me. 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:14.000 Start here. 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:17.000 Draw a circle on yourself. 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:19.000 Say, Lord, send revival here, right here. 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:20.000 Start with me. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.000 Change my heart. 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:24.000 Give me perspective. 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:26.000 And then you are useful to the master. 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:31.000 Now you're in a place where you can see, because there's two reasons why that's important. 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:36.000 One you see, like literally, and then the other you see compassionately. 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:41.000 Once the plank is out of your eye, you see literally, meaning there's no obstruction. 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:43.000 But then you also see compassionately. 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:47.000 Because you were once a log, a plank eye person too. 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:49.000 You're like, I had a severe case of plank eye as well. 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:51.000 Like, I understand. 00:12:51.000 --> 00:12:54.000 I'm not going to criticize your speck. 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:56.000 I used to have a log. 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:59.000 Your speck's nothing compared to the log I used to have. 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:02.000 This is why Paul says, I was the chief of sinners. 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:05.000 You might say, well, that's some cute hyperbole. 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:08.000 You know, Paul's just, you know, being hyperbolic. 00:13:08.000 --> 00:13:11.000 He's just kind of, you know, trying to make a point. 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:13.000 No, Paul believed that. 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.000 And it marked his ministry. 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:19.000 It gave his ministry power because it gave his ministry compassion. 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:24.000 And compassion is the marker of Christ. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:26.000 Christ was filled with compassion. 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:32.000 Christ had a gut level compassion that caused him to weep over Jerusalem when he looked at them. 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:39.000 He said, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, I wanted to, I long to gather you like a hen gathers a chicks. 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:40.000 Right? 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:48.000 That's the kind of compassion that drives real, sincere, genuine, Christian charity and love. 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:49.000 And that's what we need. 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:50.000 But it's got to start with us. 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:52.000 It's got to start with my house. 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:53.000 Is my house in order? 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:55.000 Is my life in order? 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:58.000 Is, is my individual life? 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.000 As heads of homes, men, is your home in order? 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:05.000 Are you leading in such a way to say, hey, I'm bringing my home in order. 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:08.000 Women who are married to those men, are you helping in this? 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:12.000 Single people, you got to bring your, your own house in order. 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.000 Okay? 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:16.000 And just say, all right, this is, I want to bring this in order. 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:25.000 I want to be the person who's conscious of myself, not in some morbidly introspective way, but in a, in a holy somber way to say, hey, I'm sober minded. 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:27.000 I want to be someone who sees clearly. 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:29.000 We need people who see clearly. 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:34.000 And it's got to start with us first, judging ourselves first. 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:42.000 Galatians 6, one to five says, brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him. 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:43.000 How? 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:45.000 In a spirit of gentleness. 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:50.000 Keep watching yourself, lest you too be tempted. 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:58.000 I always used to think of that verse to think, okay, if I'm correcting someone, I got to make sure that the sin I'm correcting them, that I don't fall in the same sin. 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:00.000 I don't necessarily think that's what he's saying there. 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:09.000 I think what he's saying is, realize that as you're correcting and trying to resource someone else who's fallen into temptation, you could just be just as susceptible. 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:12.000 Maybe not in the same area, but somewhere else. 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:13.000 We're all weak. 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:15.000 We're all prone to wander. 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:19.000 We're all people who, apart from Christ, have no hope. 00:15:19.000 --> 00:15:25.000 And so, we need to keep watching ourselves, lest we too be tempted to think, oh, I'm not above that. 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:30.000 Verse two says, bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:31.000 Okay? 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:34.000 We are supposed to take up people's burdens. 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:37.000 You know, I love when people say, well, I don't want to be a burden. 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:40.000 So, you don't want to be the thing that the Bible tells me to bear. 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:43.000 How's that supposed to work? 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:48.000 Why are you so self-conscious about being a burden when the Bible says that that's what Christians do? 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:50.000 We bear one another's burdens. 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:51.000 Well, that's their deal. 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:52.000 They need to figure that out. 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.000 No, it's not. 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.000 Do you hear me on that? 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:56.000 It's not. 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:01.000 You judge yourself first, and then you go and bear other people's burdens. 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:06.000 You carry them, and you say, hey, this person has some sin in their life. 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.000 I'm going to take that burden upon myself. 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:12.000 I'm going to be in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in them. 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:14.000 I'm going to take this to prayer. 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:16.000 I'm going to take this to persevering prayer. 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:19.000 I'm not going to take this to a judgment that I would never want to receive. 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:30.000 I'm going to take it to the throne room, get out of the courtroom, get into the throne room, and cry out to the true judge and appeal to the judge with the blood of Christ for my brother and sister. 00:16:30.000 --> 00:16:33.000 Say, God, have mercy on them. 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:34.000 Deliver them. 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:37.000 And I'm going to press in to see that happen. 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:38.000 That is how it works. 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:41.000 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:46.000 For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:52.000 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.000 For each will have to bear his own load. 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.000 Again, going back to divine order. 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:58.000 Test yourself. 00:16:58.000 --> 00:16:59.000 Start with your own load. 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:01.000 How are you doing on your own load? 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.000 If you want to go carry someone else's, first carry your own. 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:05.000 Just wait a second. 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:07.000 You're going to go carry someone else's burden? 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:08.000 You're not even carrying your burden. 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:12.000 You're not even carrying weight in your own home, in your own household. 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:14.000 You've got to test yourself. 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:18.000 Test your own work and say, hey, are you carrying your own load first? 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.000 Don't think you're something when you're nothing. 00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:24.000 Matthew Henry says self-conceit is self-deceit. 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:25.000 Okay? 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:28.000 If anyone thinks he's something when he's nothing, he deceives himself. 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:29.000 He deceives himself. 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:33.000 We have this arrogant, condescending pride that thinks I know better. 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:37.000 We're not testing ourself and realizing I got to start at home. 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:41.000 What ends up happening is self-conceit becomes self-deceit. 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:51.000 First Corinthians 11 was read today by Seth when we took the Lord's table. 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:59.000 Verse 27 says, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in any unworthy manner will be guilty of sin against the body and blood of the Lord. 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:01.000 Let a person examine himself. 00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:03.000 Again, same kind of concept. 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:04.000 Start with yourself. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.000 Start with our household. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:07.000 Let a person examine himself. 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:09.000 In this way, let him eat the bread and drink from the cup. 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:14.000 But whoever eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:18.000 This is why many are sick and ill among you and many have fallen asleep. 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:23.000 If we were properly judging ourselves, we would not be judged. 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:25.000 Do you see the order there again? 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:26.000 It's the same thing. 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:28.000 There's a theme here. 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:31.000 Judge ourselves first, then judge other people. 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:38.000 If we're coming to the Lord's table realizing we're not recognizing the body, we're thinking our part of the body is superior. 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:40.000 Our part of the body is better. 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:42.000 Our part of the body is independent. 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:44.000 I don't need that part of the body. 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:47.000 If that part of the body is weak, that's their deal. 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:48.000 No. 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.000 If that part of the body is weak, we're all weak. 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:53.000 If that part of the body is broken, we're all broken. 00:18:53.000 --> 00:18:56.000 If that part of the body is sick, the whole body's sick. 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:00.000 If that part of the body is handicapped, then we're all handicapped. 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:07.000 And so, when we take the Lord's table, we say, I want to make sure I recognize the body, like Seth was saying. 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:10.000 Am I relating rightly to these brothers and sisters? 00:19:10.000 --> 00:19:12.000 Am I saying, I need this part? 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:19.000 And if that part is weak, if that part is broken, yes, it's their responsibility to put their house in order. 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:26.000 But I want to be a person that puts judges myself first so that I can also then relate rightly to other people and carry their burdens. 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:28.000 And carry their burdens. 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:31.000 So that we're not pointing fingers at each other. 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:34.000 We're not, our fingers aren't used to point. 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:37.000 Our fingers are used to pull up and lift up and build up. 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:40.000 But we've got to start first with us. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:43.000 And we have to judge ourselves so that we will not be judged. 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:48.000 But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined so that we may not be condemned with the world. 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.000 Again, God's judgment is ultimately mercy. 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.000 He's saying, I'm disciplining you so that you won't be judged with the world. 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:00.000 I'm disciplining you so that you can be brought into the truth and brought into right relationship. 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:03.000 We have to judge ourselves first. 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:07.000 Okay, that's the, I think that's just a really important point. 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:09.000 I'm asking us to consider. 00:20:09.000 --> 00:20:13.000 I'm asking us to go back and think, okay, I was focused on order. 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:15.000 What about the last 10%? 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.000 Is there something left undone that I have to make right? 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:19.000 That I have to make right. 00:20:19.000 --> 00:20:22.000 If there's something in my house that I know is off. 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.000 That I know could be my finances. 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:26.000 It could be my parenting. 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:29.000 It could be my sexual purity. 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:33.000 It could be my commitment, keeping my word. 00:20:33.000 --> 00:20:35.000 It could be my honesty. 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:38.000 It could be walking in the light rather than walking in darkness. 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:39.000 I don't know. 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:40.000 You know what it is. 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:42.000 But where is that last 10%? 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:43.000 We got to judge ourselves. 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:48.000 And when we walk in an order there, an obedience there, that's going to make us a people that 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.000 are going to be able to carry other people's burdens and see other people's facts. 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:54.000 But we got to start there. 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:55.000 Amen? 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:56.000 Okay. 00:20:56.000 --> 00:21:01.000 Number two, we need to recognize that we see in part, know in part, and we are a part. 00:21:01.000 --> 00:21:02.000 Okay. 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:06.000 We see in part, we know in part, and we are a part. 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:08.000 1 Corinthians 13, 9 and 12 says, 00:21:08.000 --> 00:21:13.000 We know in part, and we prophesy in part, for we now see in a mere dim way. 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:14.000 Okay. 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:20.000 It's always important for us that when we're in body life and we are seeing, again, we're 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:22.000 going back to judgment is seeing. 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:24.000 It's looking, it's seeing, and it's seeing rightly. 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:28.000 You might say, okay, hey, no plank eye here. 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:29.000 Right? 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:33.000 I'm a qualified spec inspector, right? 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:35.000 The plank is out of the eye. 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:36.000 I'm good to go. 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:37.000 Right? 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:40.000 Well, it doesn't stop there. 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:43.000 That doesn't just give you carte blanche to just start chopping off heads then. 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:44.000 Right? 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:48.000 At that point in time, you have to realize, I still only see in part. 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:50.000 Well, wait a second. 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:55.000 I thought when I get, I thought when I get the plank out of my eye, then I can see clearly. 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:58.000 You can, but clearly in part. 00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:59.000 Right? 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:03.000 I mean, you know the concept of peripheral vision, right? 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.000 You might be able to see clearly forward, but I don't see clearly to the side. 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:11.000 And I don't see at all to my, you know, I don't have eyes in the back of my head. 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:13.000 I can see clearly forward. 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:15.000 I can see partially to the side. 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:17.000 I can't see at all behind me. 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:20.000 Just because you can see something clearly doesn't mean you're not seeing, doesn't mean 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:22.000 you're seeing everything. 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:26.000 He said, we know in part, we prophesy in part, we see in a mirror dimly. 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:27.000 Okay? 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:28.000 Okay. 00:22:28.000 --> 00:22:32.000 So even once you get your eye cleared and there's no more plank in your eye, you have 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:35.000 to know, I'm still only seeing a part. 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:38.000 Someone else is seeing a part I don't see. 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:40.000 Someone else is a part of the body that I'm not. 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:46.000 I need those other parts of the body and I can't be conceded and puffed up in pride to 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:49.000 say, hey, I got this figured out. 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:54.000 Which means we also have to be careful when we make blanket statements about the whole 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:55.000 church. 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:56.000 You might say, well, I can do that. 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:57.000 Christ church is really small. 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:58.000 That's easy. 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:01.000 Typically not accurate though. 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:02.000 Okay. 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:06.000 When we make blanking statements about the whole church is this or the whole church is that. 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:09.000 Remember, we see in part. 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:11.000 We see in part. 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:14.000 We prophesy in part. 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:15.000 We know in part. 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:17.000 And we are a part. 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:18.000 Right? 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:23.000 Ephesians 4, 16 says, from him, the whole body joined and held together where every supporting 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:26.000 ligament grows and builds itself up in love. 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:27.000 When? 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:28.000 How? 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:31.000 As each part does its work. 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:33.000 We're only a part. 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:40.000 If you get, if we as individuals get so hyped up and puffed up about our part and say, my 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:45.000 part's so important and we neglect to see the importance of the other parts and think 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:49.000 that our part is the end all be all, we're missing. 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:51.000 We're missing out. 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:54.000 That is, that is not a right seeing. 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:58.000 We have to realize, okay, I only see in part, but I only am a part as well. 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:02.000 There's another part of the body that sees differently than me, that has a different perspective 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:03.000 as me. 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:06.000 And their perspective is just as important as my perspective. 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:09.000 And my perspective is incomplete. 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:11.000 Do you believe that? 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:12.000 Do you believe that? 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:14.000 Just ask the question right now. 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:17.000 I'm not asking for a show of hands or anything like that, but I'm asking you to introspectively 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:23.000 take a look and say, when it comes to my seeing, the way I see Christ's church, that 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:30.000 I see all the other people in this church, am I seeing in a way where I realize this is 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:31.000 just part? 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:35.000 Am I seeing in a way of just saying, this is incomplete? 00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:38.000 Am I seeing in a way of saying, I'm just one part of the body. 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:39.000 There's so many other parts. 00:24:39.000 --> 00:24:41.000 My part's an important part. 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:46.000 My part is needed for the church to be built up, but it is just that it's only a part. 00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:50.000 And for the church to be built up, each part must do its work. 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:55.000 And so I need to do my part, but I can't think that my part is the end all be all. 00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:58.000 I need to be a champion of the other parts. 00:24:58.000 --> 00:25:00.000 Are you a champion of the other parts? 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.000 Do you value the other parts? 00:25:02.000 --> 00:25:07.000 Are you bearing the burdens of the other parts to see them be healthy in the same way that 00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:10.000 you're passionate about yourself, judging yourself and you being healthy? 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:16.000 If we all judged ourself and got healthy, we could be a part of the body that builds itself 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:21.000 up in love together where we're carrying the burdens of other people and we're all seeing 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:22.000 clearly together. 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:25.000 Are we doing that? 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:26.000 Are we doing that? 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:27.000 Super important. 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:33.000 We have to be careful that we don't get arrogant about what we're seeing because we're seeing 00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:34.000 in part. 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:35.000 Seeing in part. 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:38.000 That's just a humbling thing that's always there. 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:40.000 It's there for all of us. 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:41.000 It's not just some people. 00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:43.000 It's not like, hey, some of you need to hear this. 00:25:43.000 --> 00:25:45.000 No, all of us need to hear this. 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:49.000 It's not like there's some people who are all the parts and then one person who's a part 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:50.000 of the part. 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:51.000 No, we're all parts. 00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:53.000 We all see in part. 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:56.000 And so we all need to have humility in our seeing. 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:59.000 Say, I only see in part. 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:02.000 Thirdly, okay, we're seeing clearly. 00:26:02.000 --> 00:26:04.000 We're seeing in part. 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:06.000 We're realizing that we're humble. 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:12.000 Now, when we're seeing and we approach people with our knowledge of their specs, right? 00:26:12.000 --> 00:26:16.000 And we tell them, hey, there's a spec here that I really think you need to get out of 00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:17.000 your eye. 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:19.000 We need to be gracious and merciful. 00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:21.000 We need to be gracious and merciful. 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:26.000 James 2.13 says, judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. 00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:28.000 Mercy triumphs over judgment. 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:32.000 Or in other words, as Kevin Prosh once saying it, the mercy you don't give is the mercy you 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:33.000 don't get. 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:34.000 Okay? 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:37.000 So we have to be merciful in our judgment. 00:26:37.000 --> 00:26:39.000 Does that mean you don't judge? 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:40.000 No. 00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:41.000 You still have to judge. 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:46.000 You still have to render a proper judgment on the spec that you see. 00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:48.000 It's just you have to do it with mercy. 00:26:48.000 --> 00:26:50.000 Mercy mixed with judgment. 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:51.000 Okay? 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:53.000 John 1.14 and 17. 00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:55.000 John 1.14 and 17. 00:26:55.000 --> 00:27:03.000 These verses both speak of this really important description of Jesus. 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:04.000 Okay? 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:11.000 It brings about two important things in the same phrase when referring to Jesus in John 1.14 and 17. 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:15.000 It says that Jesus was a man full of what? 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:16.000 Just grace? 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:17.000 No. 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:18.000 Just truth? 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:19.000 No. 00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:21.000 What was Jesus full of? 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:22.000 Grace and truth. 00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:23.000 Okay? 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:28.000 And oftentimes in churches you end up, you got the grace people and you got the truth people. 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:31.000 And the grace and the truth people don't really like each other very much. 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:37.000 Because the grace people think that the truth people are too hard and the truth people think that the grace people are too easy. 00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:43.000 But Jesus somehow, someway was a man full of grace and truth. 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:44.000 And guess what? 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:46.000 So should his followers be. 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:48.000 So should his followers be. 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:50.000 Let me ask you the question. 00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:57.000 If someone were to talk about you, would they say, so-and-so is a man or a woman of grace and truth? 00:27:57.000 --> 00:28:01.000 Or would they say, so-and-so is a person of grace. 00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:02.000 So-and-so is a person of truth. 00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:06.000 Or would they say, no, this person is a person of grace and truth. 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:07.000 That's what you want. 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:09.000 Because that's what Jesus is. 00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:12.000 Jesus is a man full of grace and truth. 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:14.000 Are you full of both? 00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:18.000 And don't be these people who are saying, yeah, that's right, that's good. 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:20.000 But I secretly think that grace is better. 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:23.000 Or I secretly think that truth is better. 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:26.000 It's like, yeah, we're full of grace and truth. 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:27.000 Grace and truth. 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:28.000 But truth is better. 00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:30.000 You know, but grace is better. 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:33.000 It's like, no, they're both important. 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:35.000 You must have both. 00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:38.000 Are you a man or a woman of grace and truth? 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:40.000 Ask the question. 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:43.000 And if you're not, then we need to repent. 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:47.000 You have to just say, something's off in my seeing. 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:52.000 What I'm seeing, if I only have grace, it's not going to go well. 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:58.000 Like, if you're a doctor and you're looking at the eye and you're just thinking, well, you know, they have this really bad infection. 00:28:58.000 --> 00:28:59.000 They'll probably lose their eye. 00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:00.000 But I don't want to be hard on them. 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:02.000 I'm just going to be gracious toward them, you know? 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:03.000 Like, they're having a hard time. 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:06.000 I'd be like, please don't do that. 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.000 Can you please care about truth? 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:10.000 Like, I don't want you to just be gracious. 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:12.000 I want to keep my eye. 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:22.000 And if you had someone who just cared about truth and was, you know, banging up your eye and like poking you in the eye and hurting you, you'd just be like, okay, can you be a little bit more gracious in how you're fixing my eye here? 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:23.000 Right? 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:24.000 You need both. 00:29:24.000 --> 00:29:25.000 Grace and truth. 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:28.000 And Jesus was this perfect blend of this. 00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:29.000 Perfect blend. 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:30.000 Perfect blend. 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:32.000 And I won't even say balance of this. 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:34.000 Because I don't think Jesus was balanced. 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:39.000 He had the, he was more, I like to say, he had the balance of appropriate emphasis. 00:29:39.000 --> 00:29:40.000 Right? 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:43.000 He always knew when to emphasize what he emphasized. 00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:44.000 And it was always perfect. 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:45.000 Right? 00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:49.000 But it's not like he was walking around saying, I got to make sure I am balanced. 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:50.000 No. 00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:51.000 He was God. 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:55.000 And God is perfectly emphasizing all the attributes of his character at the same time. 00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:58.000 Never suspending one for the other. 00:29:58.000 --> 00:30:02.000 And we should, and we need to come and cast our burdens on him. 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:04.000 And the Bible says, and learn from him. 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:08.000 We have to learn from the one who is full of grace and truth. 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:11.000 Some of us need to learn a little bit more about grace. 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:13.000 Some of us need to learn a little bit more about truth. 00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:14.000 Okay? 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:16.000 Some of us got to learn about both. 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:17.000 Right? 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:21.000 But ask yourself the question, where am I at in this? 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:34.000 And how do people, as I'm functioning in body life and I'm trying to kind of lubricate the gears of my relationships so that they're not rusty and locked up. 00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:36.000 What is the oil that I'm missing? 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:38.000 Is it grace or is it truth? 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:39.000 Maybe it's both. 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:47.000 But some of us maybe are a little low on the grace oil or a little low on the truth oil and our gears are getting locked up. 00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:49.000 We're getting locked up in our relationships. 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:53.000 And God wants to lubricate those gears so that things flow the way they're supposed to. 00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:55.000 And it just hums along. 00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:56.000 Okay? 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:59.000 Colossians 3, 12 to 15. 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:04.000 Such a beautiful picture of how this is supposed to look. 00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:08.000 It says, Colossians 3, 12 to 15. 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:10.000 It says, 00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:23.000 Put on them as God's chosen ones, fully and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another. 00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:26.000 And if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other. 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:29.000 As the Lord has forgiven you, so also you must forgive. 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:32.000 That's a mouthful right there, right? 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:35.000 I mean, that's quite a bit. 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:40.000 He's saying, put on these things, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility. 00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:42.000 But what does it come from? 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:44.000 It comes from being God's chosen one, holy and beloved. 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:53.000 When you know that God has chosen you and that you are holy and beloved, it helps you to be compassionate, kind, humble, meek, and patient. 00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:55.000 And to bear with one another. 00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:58.000 And are we bearing with one another? 00:31:58.000 --> 00:31:59.000 Are we annoyed with one another? 00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:04.000 Are we bearing with one another with a sense of forgiveness? 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:08.000 If one has a complaint against another, forgive each other as the Lord has forgiven you. 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:09.000 How has the Lord forgiven you? 00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:14.000 Well, if you don't know, then you're not going to be a very good representative of God's forgiving love to others. 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:18.000 If you're not living in the awareness of God's forgiving love towards you. 00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:21.000 Where is your awareness on this topic recently? 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:25.000 And I ask the question because we can be one who forget. 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:37.000 In fact, it says in another portion of scripture that we end up not adding things to our faith when we have forgotten that we've been cleansed from our past sins. 00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:40.000 And it says we become nearsighted and blind. 00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:41.000 Right? 00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:44.000 Again, this goes back to our seeing. 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:45.000 We don't want to be nearsighted and blind. 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:47.000 We want to see correctly. 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:51.000 Well, that means that we have to not forget that we've been cleansed from our past sins. 00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:56.000 So what he's saying right here is, you've got to forgive as the Lord has forgiven you. 00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:59.000 Do some of us need a reminder of how God has forgiven us? 00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:03.000 Are we a little crotchety when it comes to other people's sins? 00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:06.000 And have we forgotten how much Christ has forgiven us? 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:16.000 Are we like the guy who was forgiven the huge debt and then he demands the $5 from the guy once he gets out of jail and choking him and say, pay all you owe? 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:18.000 You know, we don't want to be those people. 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:20.000 That guy forgot how much he had been forgiven. 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.000 We can become those people too. 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:23.000 And we become crotchety. 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:24.000 We become cranky. 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:29.000 We become people that people walk around with like walking on eggshells. 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:32.000 Forgive each other as the Lord has forgiven you. 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:34.000 So you also must forgive. 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:39.000 And above all these, put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:44.000 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. 00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:45.000 And be thankful. 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.000 That last part's really important. 00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:51.000 You might, that sometimes I think maybe people think that's kind of a throwaway thing. 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:55.000 You know, you're, you're reading all this list and you're thinking, yeah, I got to be loving and forgiving. 00:33:55.000 --> 00:34:04.000 But what ends up happening, if you're all these things, but you're anxious about other people's sins, you're afraid of them screwing up our church. 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:06.000 And you're afraid of them screwing up their own lives. 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:08.000 And you're afraid of them screwing up your life. 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:12.000 And there's this subtle anxiety that things aren't right in Denmark. 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:15.000 You're not letting the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:20.000 And you're making an environment where people don't feel free to be who they are. 00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:26.000 And you're making an environment that doesn't trust in the grace of God, but trust in our own self-righteousness. 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:28.000 It's not a good culture. 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:29.000 It's not a good look. 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:32.000 We have to let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts. 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:36.000 And this is a tough one because let's go back to the theme of what we're talking about here. 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:43.000 When you see something that's not right in someone, what happens after you see it? 00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:47.000 Do you experience peace or do you experience anxiety? 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:54.000 When you see something that's not right, someone, are you able to see with peace or do you see with fear? 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:57.000 That's an important thing. 00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:00.000 We can get so hyped up on the fact that we see. 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.000 Seeing is not that big of a deal. 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:02.000 A lot of people see. 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:07.000 It's how you see that determines the culture of our church. 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:12.000 If we have a bunch of people seeing rightly, but we're seeing with fear and anxiety, 00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:19.000 we create an atmosphere that is looking to man's strength and ability to hold things up, not to God. 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:24.000 We're creating an atmosphere where people walk around on eggshells, 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:27.000 wondering if they're doing something wrong. 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:32.000 And it's that the whole thing rests on our shoulders rather than people who can walk at ease 00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:35.000 because the peace of Christ is ruling in their hearts. 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:40.000 And even though they're seeing things, even though we're walking around and we're seeing clearly, 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:41.000 there's no plank in our eye. 00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:45.000 We've judged our house first and we begin to see specks in people's eyes. 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:48.000 That speck in the other person's eyes doesn't freak us out. 00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:54.000 Why would I be freaked out if Jesus is ruling on the throne? 00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:58.000 If Jesus is ruling on the throne and Jesus is ruling over Christ's church, 00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.000 then guess what's ruling in my heart? 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:01.000 Peace. 00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:06.000 And when you see things and the fruit of your seeing is not peace, 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:10.000 your seeing might not be all that spiritual. 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:11.000 It might be fleshly. 00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:13.000 Do you hear me? 00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:16.000 That's just simply Galatians 5 and the fruit of the spirit. 00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:21.000 If the result of your seeing is fear, you've got to realize you might be seeing, 00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:24.000 but you're seeing in the flesh, not by the spirit. 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:26.000 Not all seeing is seeing. 00:36:26.000 --> 00:36:30.000 Seeing in the spirit has the fruit of peace ruling in your heart. 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:32.000 That's an important aspect. 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:33.000 Okay. 00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:37.000 It's easy to just kind of say, oh, that's just a throwaway at the end of that. 00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:39.000 I mean, he was pretty comprehensive there. 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:42.000 And then he just says, and let the peace of Christ rule in your heart. 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:43.000 It's like, no, no, no. 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:44.000 Hold on. 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:45.000 Hold on. 00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:47.000 That's a really important aspect of this whole thing. 00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:55.000 He just did here that in your inmate being compassionate and being meek and forgiving one another, you're doing all that. 00:36:55.000 --> 00:37:05.000 But if you have this edge about you where you are in fear or anxiety and you can't, you can't function, you can't rest. 00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:07.000 Maybe you can't even sleep. 00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:17.000 But with the knowledge of the speck in someone that they don't see or they're not taking care of rightly in your opinion, that's bad fruit. 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:19.000 It's bad fruit. 00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:21.000 And it's a seeing, but it's not seeing by the spirit. 00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:23.000 It's a seeing in the flesh. 00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:25.000 The fruit of the spirit is peace. 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:31.000 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts to which indeed you were called in one body. 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:34.000 You notice that he ties it to body life as well. 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:35.000 Okay. 00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:37.000 This isn't just an individual peace. 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:43.000 The peace of the body is dependent on you seeing in a way that trust in the Lord. 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:50.000 The peace of the body is dependent upon you seeing in such a way that you can see things that are unsettling. 00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:51.000 You can see things. 00:37:51.000 --> 00:38:02.000 And I'm telling you what, the clearer you get in your seeing, whether it's through prophetic gifting or just through judging yourself and walking in divine order, you're going to start seeing things more. 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:06.000 Either way, either of those two are going to cause you to see things more. 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:11.000 If you don't know how to deal with your seeing, your seeing is a detriment, not a plus. 00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:20.000 We have to learn to steward the seeing and to bathe it in the peace that comes from trusting in God. 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.000 You have to trust in him. 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:28.000 And, you know, I think that's one thing of just being an elder for all these years. 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:36.000 You see a lot of stuff and you hear some horrible stories and you see some really bad sins. 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:38.000 And it's not just one person. 00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:45.000 And then when your church grows, it just means you're seeing more sins and more problems and more big problems. 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:52.000 And if your seeing isn't matched with the peace of Christ, you are not fit to be an elder. 00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:57.000 You're not fit to be a leader who carries that seeing with the peace of Christ ruling in your heart. 00:38:57.000 --> 00:38:59.000 Because it'll crush you. 00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:10.000 And many a prophetic person has been crushed because they don't know how to access peace through prayer and the rest that comes from God. 00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:11.000 Okay. 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:21.000 First Peter four, verse eight, um, says above all, keep loving one another earnestly since love covers over a multitude of sins. 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.000 I've always loved that first. 00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:27.000 I just feel like it's just such a practical, uh, especially cause I'm a parent. 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:30.000 Um, I've screwed up with my kids a lot. 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:32.000 I've made a lot of mistakes with my kids. 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:33.000 Right. 00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:35.000 And they remember them for a little while. 00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:36.000 And then they forget. 00:39:36.000 --> 00:39:37.000 You know why they forget? 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:44.000 The same reason I forgot about a lot of my dad's sins and my mom's they did because my parents love me. 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.000 And it covers over a multitude of sins. 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:48.000 I remember one father's day. 00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:51.000 And those were one of the most encouraging things I said to my dad. 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:53.000 He was asking me what I thought of our upbringing. 00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:54.000 I said, dad, I loved our upbringing. 00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:58.000 And my dad could only think of all the ways that he screwed up in our upbringing. 00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:00.000 I'm just thinking, yeah, I don't remember that stuff. 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.000 I don't remember that stuff. 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:05.000 And then I, what I do remember is you loved us. 00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:06.000 Did you make mistakes? 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:07.000 Yeah. 00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:08.000 And we can laugh at some. 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:10.000 We were laughing about it last time I was with them. 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.000 We were laughing about, uh, one time my dad flew off the handle, but I'm like, at the 00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:16.000 end of the day, dad, I knew that you love me. 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:19.000 And that covers over a multitude of sins. 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:22.000 And, um, that's how body life should be too. 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:24.000 That's how body life should be too. 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:26.000 It's that, you know, is there sins? 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:27.000 Yes. 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:28.000 Do we screw up? 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:29.000 Yes. 00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:30.000 Have we done some stupid things? 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:31.000 Yes. 00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:38.000 Christ's church will, but love covers over a multitude of sins. 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:39.000 Are we loving? 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:41.000 Are we loving? 00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:47.000 If you're seeing and not loving, what does first Corinthians 13 say? 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:49.000 Say you gain nothing. 00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:50.000 You gain nothing. 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:55.000 You can see perfectly, but if you have not love, what good is the seeing? 00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:57.000 The seeing has to be filled with love. 00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:59.000 Love covers over a multitude of sins. 00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:00.000 Okay. 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:05.000 Lastly, number four, don't bite and devour one another. 00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:09.000 Galatians 5, 13 to 15 says, you were called the freedom brothers. 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:15.000 Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love, serve one another. 00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:17.000 But the whole law is fulfilled in one word. 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:19.000 You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:25.000 No, but if you divide and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another. 00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:26.000 Okay. 00:41:26.000 --> 00:41:30.000 This is what I'm talking about where we don't want to create an atmosphere where we're walking on eggshells. 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:33.000 You want to serve one another in love. 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:36.000 So it says through love, serve one another. 00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:37.000 Okay. 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:39.000 And we got to be careful. 00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:40.000 We don't bite and devour one another. 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:42.000 Where we're crushing people's spirit. 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:48.000 Proverbs 18, 14 says a man's spirit will endure sickness, but a crushed spirit who can bear. 00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:51.000 A crushed spirit who can bear. 00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:53.000 There's a way we can talk to people. 00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:54.000 There's a way we can love one another. 00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:59.000 There's a way we can bring truth and be a speck inspector, which we have to be. 00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:00.000 We have to judge each other. 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:03.000 To have a healthy church, we need people who speak the truth. 00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:06.000 Who say, hey, you've got a speck in your eye. 00:42:06.000 --> 00:42:09.000 I think I can see to take it out. 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:10.000 All right. 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:12.000 But we don't want to crush people's spirit. 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:14.000 There's a way to do it. 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:15.000 There's a way. 00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:17.000 And we have to say, God, I don't just want to do your will. 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:20.000 I want to know your ways. 00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:27.000 It says in Hebrews chapter three that God was upset with Israel, not because they didn't do his will, but because they didn't know his ways. 00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:28.000 It's one thing to know. 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:29.000 This is God's will. 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:30.000 This is God's will. 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:31.000 This is God's will. 00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:32.000 Yes. 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:33.000 Thank you. 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:36.000 But do you know the way to bring about God's will? 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:39.000 Do you know the way to take the speck out of someone's eye? 00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:41.000 Do you know how to do that? 00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:43.000 Do you know how to do it without crushing their spirit? 00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:47.000 You know, that you pull out the speck, but you poked out the eye. 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:49.000 Mission accomplished. 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:50.000 I poked out the eye. 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:52.000 I got the speck out. 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:54.000 Like you poked out their eye, man. 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:55.000 They don't get it. 00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:56.000 They lost their eye. 00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:58.000 I mean, that's the kind of thing. 00:42:58.000 --> 00:42:59.000 Like I did it. 00:42:59.000 --> 00:43:00.000 I told them. 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:01.000 I told them what they need to work on. 00:43:01.000 --> 00:43:02.000 But you crushed their spirit. 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:03.000 Okay. 00:43:03.000 --> 00:43:08.000 We have to, we have to be able to champion one another while judging one another. 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:14.000 We have to be able to do it in a way that's brotherly or sisterly or fatherly or motherly. 00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:15.000 Okay. 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:20.000 And a lot of times when we do, when this isn't there and there's a, there's, there's a subtle biting of one another. 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:24.000 I think that's almost always symptomatic of not being on mission enough. 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:31.000 Because when you're on mission as a church, nobody's thinking about that stuff. 00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:48.000 And even just hearing the reports of those who went on, on Friday, you know, that it's such excitement, faith, positivity, champion of one another, affirming of how, how things went, you know, just on that little excursion to be on mission to a few people. 00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:49.000 Nothing crazy. 00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:50.000 Didn't take a lot of planning. 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:51.000 Planning. 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.000 It just took some people getting out and getting on mission to some people. 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:59.000 And I bet you, I bet you guys weren't thinking about all the things that were wrong with Christchurch at that time. 00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:03.000 No, you're thinking, man, we're on the front lines. 00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:07.000 You know, we're, we're, we're, we're, we're getting in there and doing what we're supposed to do. 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:08.000 We're in the arena. 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:09.000 We're preaching the gospel. 00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:12.000 We're getting in there and doing what a church should do. 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:13.000 We're on mission. 00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:14.000 We're doing what Jesus does. 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.000 We're seeking and saving those who are lost. 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:18.000 We're, we're, we're being a sent people. 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.000 This is what we're supposed to do. 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:24.000 And then you don't get hung up on all those things that we would bite and devour in each 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:25.000 other. 00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:28.000 It's typically symptomatic of not being on mission. 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:33.000 This is why as encouraged as I am on all the different missional things that are happening. 00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:37.000 I still want to say our missional communities need to get on mission together. 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.000 All the people in the missional community doing it together. 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:42.000 We need to make it happen. 00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:43.000 It's got to happen. 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:45.000 General mission is great. 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:46.000 I love it. 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:47.000 I love it. 00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:49.000 It's great joining together and doing that. 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:50.000 I love it. 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:55.000 Each missional community needs to be leading with mission so that it brings, it's like a chiropractic 00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:58.000 adjustment that brings proper alignment to the whole thing. 00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:04.000 When people are seeking and saving the lost and looking to that as a missional community, 00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:09.000 not just a couple people, not just the guys, not just the girls, but the whole missional 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:14.000 community is together seeking out lost people and preaching the gospel. 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:18.000 It removes the tendency to start biting and devouring one another. 00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:19.000 Okay. 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:26.000 In conclusion, I read a verse that goes with one of our other words that we had for this 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:27.000 year. 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:33.000 Romans 12, 10 out, do one another and showing honor out, do one another and showing honor. 00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:38.000 I think of seeing, and I think of seeing correctly and doing some spec inspections. 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:43.000 This should be kind of the, uh, the, the overarching mentality. 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:45.000 I don't want to just honor people. 00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:47.000 I want to outdo other people in honoring. 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:51.000 Again, it's the only place in the Bible that talks that advocates being competitive 00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:52.000 with people. 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:53.000 Okay. 00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:54.000 You want to be competitive? 00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:56.000 Show more honor than the other person. 00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:59.000 Be more honoring than they were honoring to you. 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:00.000 Okay. 00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:06.000 When we have that kind of mentality and that kind of thinking that creates a culture that 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:07.000 anybody wants to be a part of. 00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:12.000 I want to read a few quotes from Charles Spurgeon from lectures to my students. 00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:18.000 Um, that I've read, uh, in the past, uh, when I did the evil suspicions message message, 00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:21.000 because I think it's really good in closing. 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:25.000 And he says, many, a friend has been transformed into an enemy by being suspected. 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:31.000 He says, it would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion. 00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:37.000 He says, suspicion is a moral evil and injures the character of the man who harbors it. 00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:43.000 And he says, learn to disbelieve those who have no faith in their brethren, suspect those 00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:45.000 who would lead you to suspect others. 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:51.000 Definition of suspicion is that the act or an instance of suspecting something wrong without 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:53.000 proof or on slight evidence. 00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:56.000 In other words, the synonym for suspicion is mistrust. 00:46:56.000 --> 00:47:01.000 And I think that the Lord wants us to trust each other more. 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.000 That doesn't mean you have to ignore the speck in their eyes. 00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:09.000 It's that we're just trusting that God is working in people's lives. 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:12.000 That he who began a good work is faithful to complete it. 00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:16.000 We don't wait for people to arrive before we trust them. 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:17.000 Right? 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:18.000 Otherwise, no one would get married. 00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:19.000 Right? 00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:26.000 You think 20 something people are really trustworthy people to get to make a lifelong covenant 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:27.000 for the rest of their lives. 00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:29.000 It's like, really? 00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:31.000 Clearly, there's reasons to doubt that. 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:32.000 Right? 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:34.000 But we do it all the time. 00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:35.000 Right? 00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:38.000 Young people get married all the time and make a covenant for life. 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:39.000 How do they do that? 00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:41.000 They trust one another. 00:47:41.000 --> 00:47:42.000 In their weakness. 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:43.000 In their brokenness. 00:47:43.000 --> 00:47:46.000 And then after they're married, they think, oh my gosh. 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:49.000 There's a lot of things to mistrust here. 00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:50.000 You know? 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:51.000 But I made a covenant. 00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:53.000 I said I was going to work with these people. 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:56.000 And I'm not saying we're in a covenant with each other and we're married to each other. 00:47:56.000 --> 00:47:57.000 I'm not saying that. 00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:01.000 But I think for a church to be healthy, we have to trust weak, broken people. 00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:06.000 And I'm not advocating being blind to the specks in their eyes. 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:08.000 You heard me what I just taught. 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:10.000 Take specks out of people's eyes. 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:13.000 But we're going to have to trust people in their weakness and their brokenness. 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:14.000 That God is working in them. 00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:16.000 That God is building this church. 00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:19.000 And I'll tell you, trust breeds trustworthiness. 00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:25.000 Skepticism breeds anxiety and insecurity. 00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:30.000 When you trust people, it emboldens them and helps them be who they are. 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:34.000 This is why parenting, you have parenting where you're constantly suspicious of your kids 00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:37.000 and you're constantly correcting every little thing and you're never affirming them. 00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:39.000 You're not raising secure kids. 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:46.000 You have to bring affirmation and trust at some point in time in their life or they're going to be very unhealthy kids. 00:48:46.000 --> 00:48:49.000 Okay, it's the same way with the church. 00:48:49.000 --> 00:48:52.000 And this is why 1 Corinthians 13 7 says, 00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:59.000 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:00.000 Are we doing that? 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:02.000 Are we believing all things? 00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:03.000 Are we bearing all things? 00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:04.000 Are we hoping all things? 00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:05.000 Are we bearing all things? 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.000 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