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 In there, we'll be spending most of our time in Luke 18 and the passages before that.

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 At this time in the book of Luke, Jesus is coming to the end of his ministry.

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 He is definitely faced towards Jerusalem.

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 Him and the disciples are headed that way.

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 And he has some urgent things still that he wants the disciples to know,

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 particularly concerning salvation and how men are to be saved.

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 And so today in our passage in Luke 18, starting in verse 18, we have a narrative account.

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 Something that actually happened.

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 This is not a parable, but something that happened.

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 And Jesus uses this again to teach his disciples about salvation.

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 Starting in verse 18, it says,

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 A certain ruler asked him,

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 Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?

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 Why do you call me good? Jesus answered.

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 No one is good except God alone.

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 You know the commandments.

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 Do not commit adultery.

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 Do not murder.

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 Do not steal.

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 Do not give false testimony.

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 Honor your father and mother.

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 All these I have kept since I was a boy, he said.

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 When Jesus heard this, he said to him,

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 You still lack one thing.

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 Sell everything you have and give to the poor,

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 and you will have treasure in heaven.

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 Then come follow me.

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 When he heard this, he became very sad because he was a man of great wealth.

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 Jesus looked at him and said,

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 How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God.

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 Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle

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 than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

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 Those who heard him asked,

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 Who then can be saved?

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 Jesus replied,

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 What is impossible with men is possible with God.

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 Peter said to him,

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 We have left all we had to follow you.

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 I tell you the truth, Jesus said to them.

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 No one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children

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 for the sake of the kingdom of God

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 will fail to receive many times as much in this age

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 and in the age to come eternal life.

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 So this is a pretty intriguing passage,

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 and it's one that's found in all three of what we call the synoptic gospels.

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 It's found in Matthew 19 and also in Mark 10.

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 And this guy comes, he has a good question.

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 It's one that's, you know, if we had one question to ask Jesus

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 and knew that we would get the truth,

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 this is probably as good a question as you could ask of Jesus.

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 What must I do to inherit eternal life?

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 It's not the first time we've heard this question.

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 You guys remember a few months back,

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 Samir preached out of Luke chapter 10

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 when a lawyer came up trying to trap Jesus,

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 and he asked the same question,

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 What must I do to inherit eternal life?

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 And Jesus asked him, and he gave the commandments,

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 and then Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan.

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 This young man seems to be coming with a different agenda on his mind.

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 By looking at all three passages,

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 we've learned a little bit about who this young man is.

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 First, in Matthew, we learn that he's young.

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 It doesn't mention that in Luke here,

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 but in Matthew, it talks about a young man coming to Jesus.

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 Here in Luke, we see that he's a ruler,

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 and therefore, we get that part from the Gospel of Luke.

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 And then all three of them talk about the man's wealth.

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 In the interchange there, it says that he went away sad

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 because he was very wealthy.

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 So we take all that together and we put it together,

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 and we have the rich young ruler.

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 Even though he's not called that in any of the passages,

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 he's known as that because of the three passages put together.

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 We also know a few other things about this young man.

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 He comes in Mark.

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 It talks about him running up to Jesus and kneeling before him.

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 So we know that he has this question.

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 He's very eager to know the answer.

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 He has a question that has to be answered.

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 Again, Jesus has been ministering in this area for a few years,

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 and perhaps this man has heard Jesus' teaching,

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 and he's finally come to the conclusion

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 that if anybody knows the answer to this question,

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 it's got to be Jesus.

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 And so I have to have this question answered.

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 And so we would say he's an eager young man.

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 We also would say that he's reverent.

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 In Mark, it also talks about him running up to Jesus

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 and kneeling before him to ask this question.

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 And so he's acknowledging that Jesus has some authority

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 and he has some weight to him.

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 I mean, even in his address to Jesus,

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 he calls him good teacher.

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 That's not something that was normally called of the teachers at that time.

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 The rabbis certainly were people that were asked questions,

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 but they generally wouldn't call them good teacher.

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 It would be like teacher or rabbi or something like that.

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 And like I said, he seems to have a very different agenda.

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 When some of these rulers and people from the area,

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 like the Pharisees and the scribes who come to question Jesus,

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 they came trying to trap him.

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 This man has a different purpose.

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 He needs to know the answer to this question.

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 And so we see him coming up and asking Jesus this question,

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 and we immediately think to ourselves,

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 if any of us have done any evangelism,

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 this looks like a pretty good prospect.

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 He's a hot lead.

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 He wants to know right away.

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 And so we have to ask ourselves then why he asked this question.

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 Out of all the questions, again, that he could ask Jesus,

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 he chose this one.

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 And like I said, I think it's a good question

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 and an important question.

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 But apparently there was something in him

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 that was needing an answer to this question.

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 I mean, apparently he was looking for some type of peace or joy

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 or just assurance, assured hope in something.

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 But definitely something was missing in him.

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 You know, he had the wealth.

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 He was a man of position.

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 We don't know exactly what it means to be a ruler, that Luke calls him,

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 but very possibly he was a ruler in the local synagogue

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 or possibly part of the Sanhedrin or something like that.

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 We tend to think he was part of the Jewish community there, probably not a Roman.

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 Just in his familiarity with Jesus and in the way he asks his questions,

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 he seems to be familiar with the commandments.

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 So he's probably a local Jewish ruler,

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 and that would kind of limit things in that time

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 since they were under the rule of Rome.

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 So he's looking for something.

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 And like I said, he seems to be familiar with Jesus

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 and also with the Old Testament.

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 It kind of brings to mind, perhaps you've heard some quotes.

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 St. Augustine, he talked about men being restless

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 until they find their rest in God.

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 And Blaise Pascal, he talked about men having a God-shaped hole in their heart

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 and that only God could fill that.

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 And so this man seemed to have that sense about him.

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 He had all these things.

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 There was money in the position.

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 He even seemed to have an upright moral character about him.

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 And yet all this did not satisfy him.

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 There was still something missing.

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 And so he asked this question about inheriting eternal life.

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 And so what is he asking for there?

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 What is this eternal life?

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 To understand that, we really need to, again,

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 Jesus talks much about eternal life,

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 and he talks about the kingdom of God.

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 And these two terms are used interchangeably,

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 even in these passages that we're looking at.

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 And so it's talking about something that is more of a quality

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 than a quantity of life.

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 Oftentimes we think of eternal life,

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 and we think of that time after we die that we are going to live forever.

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 And it's either going to be eternal life,

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 or it's going to be eternal death.

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 And that's what this young man seems to understand, that difference.

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 He understands that there's something missing,

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 and he wants that eternal life.

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 But again, it's more of a quality thing.

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 Before the fall of Adam,

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 when Adam and Eve sinned and were banished from the Garden of Eden,

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 men had perfect fellowship with God.

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 They were able to commune with him and enjoy his presence,

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 have joy in his presence,

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 just to talk to him and walk with him,

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 and just fellowship and commune with God.

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 After the fall, we are no longer able to do that.

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 The Bible says that we are spiritually dead,

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 so we don't have this ability to commune and fellowship with God

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 and to seek after him.

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 And so the Jews, they understood this,

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 and they believed that God was eventually going to restore all things,

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 as he promised.

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 And they begin to think of that as the age to come.

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 They were looking back to that age before the fall,

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 and now they're in this period where because of our sin and our deadness,

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 we are no longer able to fellowship and commune with God.

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 And so they're looking for the time when God would restore things

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 and bring about that age to come when we would have, again,

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 that fellowship and communion with God.

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 And so they even talked about it as being that divine life,

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 that they could participate in God's life,

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 that life free from sin.

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 It's free from just the bindings of sin

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 and free from the bindings of time even.

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 And it's an eternal life that God possesses,

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 and yet he's going to impart that with us as well.

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 And this is what the Jews became to think of.

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 Jesus even tells us it's something more than just living forever.

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 He talked in John 3,

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 Nicodemus came and Jesus began to talk to him about the kingdom of God

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 and how one had to be born again to be a part of this kingdom of God.

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 So he's talking about a different life than we currently are living.

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 And so he's showing that, and this is what they believed,

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 it's much more than living for a long time.

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 And it's about living in a world like God dwells in

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 and being able to communicate and commune and fellowship with him

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 and just experience life the way God intended us to.

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 So that is behind what his question is.

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 When he says, you know, how do I inherit this eternal life?

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 He's asking for more than something, just life after death.

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 He's looking for something much greater than that.

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 And so then Jesus begins to answer him in kind of a strange way.

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 He asks the man a question right off the bat.

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 Why do you call me good?

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 Jesus answers.

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 He doesn't give him a chance to respond to this,

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 but Jesus is doing something here.

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 Again, he's not just answering the man's question directly,

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 but he's trying to show him something.

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 And I also would encourage you to remember that the disciples are watching this very closely.

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 And so Jesus is showing them something as well,

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 as the way he goes about dialoguing with this young man and answering his questions.

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 And so Jesus is, first off, he's saying, why do you call me good?

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 Only, no one is good except God alone.

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 And he's trying to show him that this young man, that he has a, in a sense, a wrong perception of what good is.

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 He, like most of us, tend to think of good as a relative term.

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 You know, we keep most of the commandments.

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 We only break a few.

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 We tend to think of that as good.

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 Or, you know, we're better than that person who, you know, has murdered five people or five million people or whatever.

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 We're better than them.

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 Therefore, we can call ourselves good.

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 But Jesus is saying that this is not how God views good.

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 When we talk about God being good, it's something totally different than that.

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 Only God is good.

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 All the rest of us, because we have sinned, because we have fallen short of God's standard,

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 have fallen short of giving him glory, we are not good.

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 We are evil in all that we do.

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 And that's what Jesus is trying to, first and foremost, get to, because he knows where this is going.

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 And he knows that this man is not seeing this rightly.

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 And probably thinks of himself as good.

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 And he wants, right off the bat, to communicate to this young man that you're not good.

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 And he's beginning to systematically kind of take apart this man's foundation for why he perhaps believes that he's very close to eternal life.

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 So he begins by talking about that.

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 Why do you call me good?

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 And like I say, he doesn't give him a chance to respond, because he's just trying to make a point there.

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 But then he goes right into, in a sense, answering this man's question.

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 And again, he does it in a way that perhaps we would not think to do.

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 Again, if you've done any evangelism, somebody comes up and asks you this question, you're going to have, you know, you've got a ready answer.

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 You know, oh man, he's wanting eternal life, he's wanting salvation.

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 He just needs to believe in Jesus and be saved.

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 And we tend to oversimplify it.

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 But again, Jesus knows this man's heart, and he knows that this man is not actually seeking what he seems to be seeking.

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 He's seeking something different.

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 And so Jesus doesn't say any of the things that we would say.

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 He doesn't say, whosoever calls on the Lord shall be saved.

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 He doesn't say what Paul said to the Philippian jailer, believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.

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 Jesus could have quoted Isaiah 55, 6 through 7.

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 It says, seek the Lord while he may be found.

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 Call on him while he is near.

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 Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts.

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 And let him return to the Lord, and he will have compassion on him.

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 And to our Lord, to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

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 So we have all these things he could draw on.

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 And we've seen Jesus already in the Gospels.

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 He talks about if anyone thirsts, come to me, and I will satisfy.

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 He says things like, I didn't come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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 And so when he comes to this answer and he tells the man, you know the commandments.

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 Do not commit adultery.

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 Do not murder.

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 Do not steal.

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 Do not give false testimony.

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 Honor your father and mother.

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 That doesn't seem like Jesus is preaching a gospel.

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 It sounds like he's preaching law here.

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 That somehow this man could be saved by keeping the commandments perfectly.

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 Again, that's not something where we would go.

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 We tend to emphasize, oh, no, salvation is a free gift.

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 You don't have to do anything to earn salvation.

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 You have to just believe.

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 And, you know, we want to emphasize that free gift so often because, you know, that'll hook them.

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 That'll draw them in.

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 Everybody wants something free.

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 And eternal life, that sounds like something really good.

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 So we offer them that and think that, wow, you know, they want that.

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 Surprise, surprise.

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 Who doesn't want something free?

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 And then so we just kind of lead them through a prayer and, well, you know, kind of pronounce them as saved.

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 But Jesus is saying that it's not always as it appears.

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 He's going to dig a little deeper into this man's heart and show these things, show us some things about so-called seekers.

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 And we say, you know, Jesus believes all those things that I just said.

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 You know, those are all perfectly true.

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 And like I said, Jesus pronounced some of these things himself in that it's just believe and you will be saved.

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 But, and he's believing those things.

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 And at the same time, we can say that just because he tells this man, you know, do these commandments, keep these and you'll be saved.

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 He's not distorting the gospel.

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 Again, he's using the law in a different way.

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 He's not using the law to show this man how to be saved.

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 But in a sense, he's using the law as the way Paul describes it in Galatians 3.24 as a tutor to teach us that we need to be saved.

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 He's using the law for that purpose.

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 Romans 7 through 13 says,

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 The law is good.

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 It is holy.

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 And the law helps us to know what sin is.

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 So, again, he's telling these to this man so that he can see the incredibly high standard that is required by God and also see the impossibility for any man to keep that standard.

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 Jesus wants this man to see that he had broken God's laws and was a sinner.

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 This man was not coming with that posture to Jesus.

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 He's coming with, see what I have, see all the good things that I have done.

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 What else do I need to do to have eternal life?

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 And Jesus is saying this is not the right posture to come to God in.

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 And we'll look at that a little bit more.

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 But Jesus knows that this is not going to save this man.

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 But what he wants to do, again, is to show this man that he has broken God's law and is a sinner.

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 Paul says the same thing in Galatians 3.10 through 14.

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 He says,

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 In fact, anyone who does try to keep the law actually is under a curse.

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 And only Jesus can redeem us from that curse.

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 And it's by faith that we gain that eternal life.

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 So Jesus shares God's law with this ruler.

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 And the young ruler says, at first, he says, he has kept the law.

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 So in his mind, again, he's not thinking that he's guilty.

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 And I'm probably looking at these externals of the five that Jesus mentioned in this passage.

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 He probably thinks, I have been faithful to my wife if he's married.

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 I haven't committed adultery.

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 I haven't murdered anybody.

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 I've never stolen.

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 He's a very rich man.

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 Why would he need to steal?

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 Perhaps he has honored his father and mother.

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 Perhaps he hasn't given false testimony.

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 And externally, all these things he probably has kept.

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 If he had been at the Sermon on the Mount, he might have heard Jesus talk more about how these things come from the heart.

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 And begin to have a take place in the heart that we break these commandments.

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 When Jesus says, you have heard it said, thou shalt not murder.

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 But I tell you, if you hate your brother, you have murdered him already.

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 And he would say things like, if you lust after a woman, you have already committed adultery.

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 And so Jesus gets much more internal.

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 And we might expect him to do that here.

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 To kind of like, okay, we've got to bring this down so that we can see that this is at a heart level.

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 But he lets the man just give his response.

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 I've kept all these commandments since I was a boy.

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 In verse 21 it says that.

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 All these I have kept since I was a boy.

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 But I suspect that if he knows about Jesus' teachings, he probably knows there's something more there.

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 And he still is waiting for the answer from Jesus.

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 Because this hasn't satisfied him.

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 He hasn't received this assurance that, oh, I've kept all these, therefore I must be inheriting eternal life.

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 There's still something missing in his heart.

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 So he needs more.

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 And then Jesus kind of goes right for the kill on this one.

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 And he says to the man, you still lack one thing.

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 Sell everything you have and give to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven.

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 Then come follow me.

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 So Jesus doesn't deal with whether he had actually faithfully kept those five commandments or not.

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 He now goes for the most foundational commandment that there is in the first commandment in the Ten Commandments.

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 He knew that this man was not convinced that he was a sinner here.

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 And he knew the heart of this young man.

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 And so instead of going over these, he goes right to it and basically is showing this man that his possessions are a god to him.

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 We see his response says, when he heard this, he became very sad because he was a man of great wealth.

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 And it talks about in the other passages about him walking away with sadness.

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 So Jesus says, in a sense, successfully demonstrated to him that he had a different god.

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 He was not ready to serve God the way the first commandment said to have no other gods before the one true god.

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 He had this god of possessions.

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 And so Jesus, by giving him this requirement, knowing that he will not do it,

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 he shows that he has this one basic commandment that he has broken.

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 Essentially the first commandment, as the lawyer had talked about in Luke chapter 10,

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 love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might.

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 This man was not doing that.

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 And I think it's interesting that he went away sad.

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 There was a sense in that he knew Jesus had the authority to command that and to say, to follow me.

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 And he went away sad.

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 You've got to think that if he just disagreed with Jesus that this wasn't the right thing to do,

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 he would get mad and just kind of dismiss Jesus.

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 But the fact that he went away sad gives us a sense that he knows that that's true,

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 and yet he can't do it.

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 He's not going to be able to sell his possessions and follow Jesus.

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 And that's what Jesus begins to tell to the disciples.

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 First of all, we see this command of Jesus telling this man,

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 you need to sell all you have and give to the poor and then follow me.

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 And we see from Scripture that that's not a requirement to be saved.

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 I mean, there's plenty of other people, accounts in the Scriptures where Jesus pronounced people saved on the basis of their faith.

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 If you look just over in Luke 19, we're not going to read through that passage,

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 or perhaps you're familiar with the passage where Zacchaeus, the tax collector,

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 he has Jesus over to his house.

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 And Jesus just coming to his house causes this man to have such joy that he wants to, in a sense,

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 make up for the sins that he committed.

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 He's going to repay all the money that he had stolen.

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 He's going to begin to do things to help the poor.

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 It says that he sold half his possessions.

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 And Jesus declares that salvation has come to this house.

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 He didn't sell all his possessions.

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 He hasn't sold anything yet.

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 He's just saying, I'm going to sell half my possessions.

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 I'm going to repay what I've taken.

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 But Jesus says salvation has come to this house today based on the change that he saw in this man's life.

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 He was turning from what he had formerly done as a wicked tax collector

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 and defrauding people and lying to people and stealing from people.

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 And now he's turned into a person that wants to do what Jesus wants him to do

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 in repaying that and following after him.

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 And so it's not a requirement that he do all this,

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 but it's definitely a demonstration that there has been repentance in the heart of Zacchaeus.

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 And Jesus is able to say salvation has come to this house.

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 And there's other people that come to Jesus and demonstrate faith in various ways,

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 like the centurion who demonstrates a knowledge of authority.

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 And Jesus says, this is such great faith I haven't seen in the whole country of Israel.

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 And we get a sense that this man is saved and others are saved on the basis of their faith.

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 They didn't have to sell all their possessions.

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 But at the same time, there are times where Jesus requires some people.

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 You need to, he'll say things, you need to deny yourself.

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 You have to take up your cross and follow me.

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 You know, he gives an example of where some people come up with excuses as to why they can't follow Jesus.

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 And he basically says, you know, depart from me.

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 You're not ready to follow me if you're not ready to give up your family and your possessions and all these things.

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 And he's not saying that those things are requirements,

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 but those would definitely be demonstrations of repentance.

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 And that's what he's asking from this rich young ruler.

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 So I just want to make sure that you understand that this is not what was required.

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 What's required is that we worship God first and put him first,

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 that all these other things become secondary, lesser priorities.

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 None of us, to my knowledge here, have been asked to give up our family in order to be saved.

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 But there are countries in this world where that's, in a sense, what these people are being asked to do.

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 For Muslims to become Christians in some nations, they're going to have to give up their families.

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 Some of them are going to have to give up their jobs.

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 It's going to cost them a lot to become Christians.

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 It might cost them everything.

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 It might cost them their lives.

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 But that is certainly not the requirement in order to be saved.

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 It might be something that will happen to these people.

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 And that will be an opportunity for them to demonstrate repentance

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 and that they're willing to pay this cost.

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 And so we see that though this is not a requirement,

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 it's certainly within Jesus' right to demand everything that we have.

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 If we are going to follow him and confess him as Lord and King,

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 everything we have is his.

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 Our lives, our possessions, our reputations, everything belongs to him.

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 And so this is part of what this man understands,

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 is that Jesus has this right to demand this,

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 and he leaves with sadness.

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 Again, showing two things.

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 I think showing that he understands what Jesus is saying,

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 but also showing that he has an idol in his heart.

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 There's something that he is worshiping before the true and living God.

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 They're, like I said, violating the first commandment,

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 to have no other gods before God.

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 And so he leaves in sadness and walks away.

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 And Jesus can see the sadness on him.

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 Oop, I'm going to turn the page and lost my spot.

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 Okay.

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 So Jesus, in verse 24 now,

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 this is where Jesus really is turning his attention to the disciples

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 and teaching them and trying to explain to them

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 what has just happened and what they should be taking away from this.

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 And Jesus looked at him and said,

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 How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God.

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 Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of the needle

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 than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

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 So he has this great illustration just showing how hard it is.

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 And in fact, it's impossible for men to be saved,

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 for these rich men to be saved.

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 And it's actually impossible for men to be saved.

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 And so he's trying to teach this to the disciples.

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 And he has this illustration of trying to get a camel through the eye of a needle.

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 It's impossible.

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 It's just not going to happen.

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 And the same way, a rich man in and of himself is not going to enter the kingdom of God.

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 And you'll see that.

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 That's kind of where he uses that interchangeably.

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 The young man asked, How do I inherit eternal life?

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 And Jesus now is talking about entering the kingdom of God,

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 just showing that those two things are the same.

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 When Jesus is talking about these, he's meeting the same things.

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 And so this prompts a question to be asked.

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 Who then can be saved?

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 And Jesus hears this question.

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 These people hear this, and they ask perhaps amongst themselves,

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 perhaps to Jesus directly, Who can be saved?

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 You know, they looked at this young man.

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 He's rich, wealthy.

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 He's got the position.

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 He's a ruler, you know, perhaps in the local synagogue.

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 He has everything going for him.

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 You know, they just heard, in a sense, how he testified to being morally upright,

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 that he's kept all the commandments.

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 And again, they're looking at this young man and just thinking,

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 if he can't be saved, who can be saved?

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 You know, in that culture, wealth especially, was viewed as a blessing from God.

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 If you were wealthy, you were blessed by God.

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 And so they're looking at someone, and they're thinking,

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 man, he's got extreme blessing from God,

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 and yet he's not going to enter the kingdom of God.

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 Who can be saved if he can't?

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 And so Jesus takes this opportunity again to teach,

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 and he just makes this statement.

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 Verse 27, Jesus replied,

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 What is impossible with men is possible with God.

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 And so we've got to understand, why is this so hard?

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 Why is it impossible for men to enter the kingdom of God?

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 And we have to understand, again, what Jesus was showing,

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 is that there is a heart there that has a defect.

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 It's dead.

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 It cannot worship the one true God.

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 And Jesus, in his teachings throughout the Gospels,

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 he talks about men needing new hearts.

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 He's saying out of the heart is where the sin comes from.

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 So that's where it comes out,

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 and that's what causes us to be dead

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 and are unable to come to God.

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 That's why he talked about, again, to Nicodemus in John 3,

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 you have to be born again.

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 You have to have this new life, this new heart

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 that can follow after God,

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 that can worship God as he ought.

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 And so we see over and over again in Scripture,

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 way back in the Old Testament,

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 it was prophesied even in Ezekiel

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 that God is going to come,

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 and he's going to sprinkle with water

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 and cleanse people's lives

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 and give them new hearts,

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 hearts that can serve God and follow after him.

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 And so Jesus is building on this

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 and just showing them that, again,

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 the disciples is like,

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 salvation is all of God.

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 This is not anything that man can accomplish on his own.

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 He needs a new heart.

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 He needs something done in his life

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 so that he can come to God

00:29:15.819 --> 00:29:17.699
 and repent of these things

00:29:17.699 --> 00:29:19.439
 and follow after Jesus.

00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:22.980
 And so we see this

00:29:22.980 --> 00:29:25.840
 and then Peter says to him,

00:29:26.019 --> 00:29:27.180
 kind of a strange statement.

00:29:27.779 --> 00:29:28.320
 He says,

00:29:28.700 --> 00:29:31.620
 we have left all we had to follow you.

00:29:32.500 --> 00:29:34.220
 I'm not really sure what Peter's getting at.

00:29:34.620 --> 00:29:35.059
 He's saying,

00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:36.799
 well, are you sure about that, Jesus?

00:29:36.900 --> 00:29:38.299
 Because we came to you

00:29:38.299 --> 00:29:40.039
 and, you know,

00:29:40.980 --> 00:29:42.440
 I'm not sure if he's just trying to get some

00:29:42.980 --> 00:29:45.320
 pat on the head,

00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:46.539
 like, yeah, you did a good thing, Peter.

00:29:46.539 --> 00:29:48.079
 But Jesus just keeps going

00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:49.960
 and showing him that, again,

00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:51.200
 salvation is all of God.

00:29:51.259 --> 00:29:51.480
 He says,

00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:52.299
 I tell you the truth,

00:29:52.399 --> 00:29:53.180
 Jesus said to them,

00:29:53.659 --> 00:29:54.759
 no one who has left home,

00:29:54.839 --> 00:29:55.240
 or wife,

00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:55.779
 or brothers,

00:29:56.279 --> 00:29:56.899
 or parents,

00:29:57.059 --> 00:29:58.940
 or children for the sake of the kingdom of God

00:29:58.940 --> 00:30:01.200
 will fail to receive many times as much

00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:01.859
 in this age

00:30:01.859 --> 00:30:03.599
 and in the age to come,

00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:04.379
 eternal life.

00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:05.680
 So in a sense,

00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:06.299
 he's saying to Peter,

00:30:06.460 --> 00:30:06.619
 you know,

00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:09.759
 God has given you all these things.

00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:11.319
 You've brought,

00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:13.460
 yeah, you've brought what you have

00:30:13.460 --> 00:30:14.279
 and you've given it to God,

00:30:14.379 --> 00:30:15.859
 but it's like,

00:30:16.119 --> 00:30:16.319
 you know,

00:30:16.379 --> 00:30:17.940
 complaining about spending a dollar

00:30:17.940 --> 00:30:20.379
 and hitting 500 million on the lottery.

00:30:20.519 --> 00:30:21.539
 Look what I had to spend

00:30:21.539 --> 00:30:23.980
 in order to win this 500 million dollars.

00:30:25.299 --> 00:30:26.779
 It's nothing in comparison

00:30:26.779 --> 00:30:27.940
 to what God has done

00:30:27.940 --> 00:30:29.480
 and what God is doing

00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:30.720
 in this life

00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:31.879
 and in the life to come.

00:30:32.339 --> 00:30:32.599
 Again,

00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:33.619
 that eternal life

00:30:33.619 --> 00:30:35.299
 encompasses all of that

00:30:35.299 --> 00:30:36.059
 from that moment

00:30:36.059 --> 00:30:37.500
 that we come to Jesus

00:30:37.500 --> 00:30:38.720
 and in faith.

00:30:39.160 --> 00:30:40.380
 He gives us that new heart

00:30:40.380 --> 00:30:41.859
 and at the same time,

00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:42.660
 a new life

00:30:42.660 --> 00:30:44.579
 that is able to fellowship with God

00:30:44.579 --> 00:30:45.680
 and commune with him

00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:48.000
 and follow after Jesus in that.

00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:49.420
 And so we see that

00:30:49.420 --> 00:30:49.880
 he's just,

00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:50.759
 all through this passage,

00:30:50.839 --> 00:30:53.039
 just trying to show these disciples

00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:54.240
 and the people who are listening

00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:56.099
 that salvation is a work of God.

00:30:56.180 --> 00:30:58.039
 You have to come to him

00:30:58.039 --> 00:31:00.960
 knowing that we are unable

00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:02.400
 to follow him

00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:03.660
 apart from the work of God

00:31:03.660 --> 00:31:05.359
 and all the blessings that follow

00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:06.819
 are God just pouring out

00:31:06.819 --> 00:31:07.579
 goodness

00:31:07.579 --> 00:31:10.139
 and multitudes of things

00:31:10.139 --> 00:31:11.259
 into our life.

00:31:11.399 --> 00:31:11.700
 Again,

00:31:11.819 --> 00:31:12.559
 not in response,

00:31:12.980 --> 00:31:13.720
 not because of anything

00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:14.399
 we have done,

00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:15.579
 but because of what God

00:31:15.579 --> 00:31:17.079
 has done in our lives.

00:31:18.299 --> 00:31:19.839
 So how do we respond

00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:20.859
 in this

00:31:20.859 --> 00:31:22.419
 if we're unable?

00:31:22.919 --> 00:31:25.299
 Jesus gives us some teaching.

00:31:25.439 --> 00:31:25.579
 Again,

00:31:25.659 --> 00:31:27.059
 this is right in the middle

00:31:27.059 --> 00:31:27.659
 of a section,

00:31:27.919 --> 00:31:28.899
 right before Jesus

00:31:28.899 --> 00:31:29.980
 is going to Jerusalem

00:31:29.980 --> 00:31:31.879
 to be crucified.

00:31:32.379 --> 00:31:33.079
 And so he's got some

00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:34.359
 intense teaching going on here

00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:34.919
 that he's doing

00:31:34.919 --> 00:31:35.659
 with these disciples.

00:31:35.660 --> 00:31:37.000
 And right before this

00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:38.240
 in Luke chapter 18,

00:31:38.779 --> 00:31:39.519
 we have a couple

00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:43.519
 of passages

00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:44.960
 that help to demonstrate

00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:45.660
 a little more

00:31:45.660 --> 00:31:47.460
 of the proper response

00:31:47.460 --> 00:31:48.540
 to God.

00:31:49.300 --> 00:31:50.160
 Right after this,

00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:50.440
 we see,

00:31:50.600 --> 00:31:52.340
 I talked about the passage

00:31:52.340 --> 00:31:53.100
 with Zacchaeus

00:31:53.100 --> 00:31:54.160
 where, again,

00:31:54.220 --> 00:31:54.880
 Jesus is showing

00:31:54.880 --> 00:31:56.040
 this is the way people

00:31:56.040 --> 00:31:57.519
 are to respond to God.

00:31:57.600 --> 00:31:58.540
 There's going to be a change.

00:31:58.620 --> 00:31:59.519
 There's going to be repentance.

00:32:00.420 --> 00:32:00.840
 But here,

00:32:01.040 --> 00:32:01.840
 and before this

00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:02.759
 in Luke 18,

00:32:03.099 --> 00:32:03.740
 he has a couple

00:32:03.740 --> 00:32:05.599
 little parables

00:32:05.599 --> 00:32:06.519
 and another little

00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:07.459
 narrative passage

00:32:07.459 --> 00:32:08.519
 that kind of show

00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:10.000
 of what coming

00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:10.619
 to God

00:32:10.619 --> 00:32:11.599
 is going to look like.

00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:12.619
 So if you want to

00:32:12.619 --> 00:32:13.659
 just back up a little bit

00:32:13.659 --> 00:32:14.519
 there in Luke 18

00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:15.959
 to verse 9,

00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:19.439
 it says,

00:32:19.699 --> 00:32:21.699
 Jesus is directing

00:32:21.699 --> 00:32:22.799
 this parable

00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:24.259
 to some who are

00:32:24.259 --> 00:32:24.779
 confident

00:32:24.779 --> 00:32:25.679
 in their own righteousness.

00:32:26.220 --> 00:32:26.539
 It says,

00:32:27.099 --> 00:32:27.779
 to some who are

00:32:27.779 --> 00:32:28.459
 confident in their own

00:32:28.459 --> 00:32:28.879
 righteousness

00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:29.620
 and look down

00:32:29.620 --> 00:32:30.380
 on everybody else,

00:32:30.460 --> 00:32:31.560
 Jesus told this parable.

00:32:32.100 --> 00:32:32.900
 Two men went up

00:32:32.900 --> 00:32:33.400
 to the temple

00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:33.980
 to pray.

00:32:34.600 --> 00:32:35.420
 One a Pharisee

00:32:35.420 --> 00:32:35.900
 and the other

00:32:35.900 --> 00:32:36.660
 a tax collector.

00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:38.240
 The Pharisee stood up

00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:39.240
 and prayed about himself.

00:32:39.860 --> 00:32:40.660
 God, I thank you

00:32:40.660 --> 00:32:41.240
 that I am not

00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:41.960
 like other men,

00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:42.600
 robbers,

00:32:42.740 --> 00:32:43.260
 evildoers,

00:32:43.420 --> 00:32:43.920
 adulterers,

00:32:44.180 --> 00:32:44.860
 or even like

00:32:44.860 --> 00:32:45.680
 this tax collector.

00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:47.040
 I fast twice a week

00:32:47.040 --> 00:32:48.080
 and I give a tenth

00:32:48.080 --> 00:32:48.740
 of all I get.

00:32:49.860 --> 00:32:50.540
 Then we also have

00:32:50.540 --> 00:32:51.360
 this tax collector

00:32:51.360 --> 00:32:51.860
 who's there.

00:32:51.980 --> 00:32:52.660
 He's in the distance

00:32:52.660 --> 00:32:53.160
 and he says,

00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:55.700
 the tax collector

00:32:55.700 --> 00:32:56.540
 stood at a distance.

00:32:56.720 --> 00:32:57.260
 He would not even

00:32:57.260 --> 00:32:58.060
 look up to heaven

00:32:58.059 --> 00:32:59.240
 but beat his breast

00:32:59.240 --> 00:32:59.639
 and said,

00:32:59.819 --> 00:33:00.599
 God have mercy

00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:00.980
 on me,

00:33:01.059 --> 00:33:01.419
 a sinner.

00:33:02.099 --> 00:33:02.720
 I tell you

00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:03.440
 that this man

00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:04.379
 rather than the other

00:33:04.379 --> 00:33:05.599
 went home justified

00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:06.599
 before God.

00:33:07.019 --> 00:33:07.519
 For everyone

00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:08.579
 who exalts himself

00:33:08.579 --> 00:33:09.240
 will be humbled

00:33:09.240 --> 00:33:11.419
 and he who humbles himself

00:33:11.419 --> 00:33:12.440
 will be exalted.

00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:14.079
 And so we're seeing

00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:15.159
 kind of a contrast

00:33:15.159 --> 00:33:15.799
 here already.

00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:17.899
 We saw the passage

00:33:17.899 --> 00:33:18.859
 where that rich young ruler

00:33:18.859 --> 00:33:20.220
 came and we can see

00:33:20.220 --> 00:33:20.740
 that he came

00:33:20.740 --> 00:33:22.299
 more like the Pharisees.

00:33:22.619 --> 00:33:23.279
 He came talking

00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:24.799
 about himself

00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:26.000
 of what he had done.

00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:27.720
 or at least

00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:28.759
 we sense

00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:29.380
 that he's thinking

00:33:29.380 --> 00:33:29.960
 I have done

00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:30.400
 these things.

00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:31.720
 I have great wealth.

00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:32.920
 I have this position.

00:33:33.519 --> 00:33:34.740
 I think I'm pretty close

00:33:34.740 --> 00:33:35.700
 to eternal life.

00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:37.700
 I just need one more thing.

00:33:38.259 --> 00:33:40.480
 What good thing

00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:41.279
 do I need to do

00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:42.559
 to get eternal life?

00:33:43.140 --> 00:33:43.740
 And then we have

00:33:43.740 --> 00:33:44.880
 this tax collector

00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:45.920
 and he's more

00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:47.160
 of a demonstration

00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:47.819
 of how this man

00:33:47.819 --> 00:33:48.539
 should have come.

00:33:49.180 --> 00:33:50.039
 He should have come

00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:51.140
 just knowing

00:33:51.140 --> 00:33:52.480
 I'm an idolater.

00:33:52.819 --> 00:33:53.759
 I love my possessions.

00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:55.980
 I love my position.

00:33:56.140 --> 00:33:56.720
 I love the power

00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:57.720
 I have, the prestige.

00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:00.500
 And I know

00:34:00.500 --> 00:34:01.500
 this is an offense

00:34:01.500 --> 00:34:02.039
 to God.

00:34:02.579 --> 00:34:05.359
 These are keeping me

00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:05.859
 from him.

00:34:05.940 --> 00:34:07.460
 I need God's mercy.

00:34:08.099 --> 00:34:09.320
 And so this tax collector

00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:10.699
 these were the

00:34:10.699 --> 00:34:12.360
 these were kind of

00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:13.420
 considered the lowest

00:34:13.420 --> 00:34:14.260
 in society.

00:34:14.699 --> 00:34:15.460
 These were men

00:34:15.460 --> 00:34:16.079
 who were considered

00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:17.719
 traitors to the Jews

00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:18.480
 in that they served

00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:20.239
 the Roman occupying

00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:21.480
 government there.

00:34:21.579 --> 00:34:22.079
 They would collect

00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:22.559
 the taxes

00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:23.579
 and the Romans

00:34:23.579 --> 00:34:24.319
 really didn't care

00:34:24.319 --> 00:34:25.319
 how they went about it

00:34:25.319 --> 00:34:26.259
 and so they would

00:34:26.259 --> 00:34:27.360
 they could do it

00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:28.199
 in the most wicked

00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:28.900
 ways possible

00:34:28.900 --> 00:34:29.619
 of collecting

00:34:29.619 --> 00:34:30.400
 way more taxes

00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:31.199
 than they needed to

00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:32.759
 of defrauding

00:34:32.759 --> 00:34:33.239
 the people

00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:34.319
 in any way they could

00:34:34.319 --> 00:34:35.480
 but basically

00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:36.159
 they were considered

00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:37.799
 the worst sinners

00:34:37.799 --> 00:34:40.219
 of the people

00:34:40.219 --> 00:34:40.799
 at that time.

00:34:40.900 --> 00:34:41.360
 So when Jesus

00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:41.880
 talked about

00:34:41.880 --> 00:34:42.799
 a tax collector

00:34:42.799 --> 00:34:43.860
 that's what the people

00:34:43.860 --> 00:34:44.199
 would think

00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:45.420
 oh he's a bad guy.

00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:47.739
 He's just full of sin

00:34:47.739 --> 00:34:48.539
 and wickedness.

00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:49.860
 There's no hope

00:34:49.860 --> 00:34:50.260
 for him

00:34:50.260 --> 00:34:51.920
 but the way

00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:53.000
 he came to God

00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:53.519
 the posture

00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:54.079
 that he had

00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:54.800
 of beating

00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:55.960
 beating his breast

00:34:55.960 --> 00:34:56.880
 and just saying

00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:57.680
 God have mercy

00:34:57.680 --> 00:34:58.140
 on me

00:34:58.140 --> 00:34:59.180
 a sinner

00:34:59.180 --> 00:35:00.380
 I'm a wicked sinner

00:35:00.380 --> 00:35:01.559
 and I am totally

00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:02.620
 in need of God's mercy.

00:35:03.720 --> 00:35:04.940
 Jesus is in that

00:35:04.940 --> 00:35:05.480
 Richard Young Ruler

00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:06.120
 passage showing

00:35:06.120 --> 00:35:07.019
 this is the posture

00:35:07.019 --> 00:35:08.120
 that that man

00:35:08.120 --> 00:35:09.059
 should have come to.

00:35:11.200 --> 00:35:12.360
 He's just basically

00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:13.200
 again telling me

00:35:13.200 --> 00:35:13.960
 he told this parable

00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:14.720
 to people who were

00:35:14.720 --> 00:35:15.960
 trusting in their

00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:16.400
 righteousness

00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:16.960
 and he's just

00:35:16.960 --> 00:35:17.440
 showing them

00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:19.120
 that being righteous

00:35:19.119 --> 00:35:21.420
 and their righteousness

00:35:21.420 --> 00:35:22.059
 was according

00:35:22.059 --> 00:35:23.239
 to their own standards

00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:24.539
 not to God's standards.

00:35:24.659 --> 00:35:25.139
 He's not talking

00:35:25.139 --> 00:35:26.159
 about people

00:35:26.159 --> 00:35:26.980
 who are righteous

00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:28.019
 according to God's standards

00:35:28.019 --> 00:35:29.119
 but their own righteousness.

00:35:29.799 --> 00:35:30.719
 They thought themselves

00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:31.139
 righteous

00:35:31.139 --> 00:35:32.519
 because of the way

00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:33.880
 they conducted

00:35:33.880 --> 00:35:34.900
 their lives.

00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:36.659
 Perhaps they thought

00:35:36.659 --> 00:35:37.719
 well we go to the temple

00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:38.799
 every week

00:35:38.799 --> 00:35:40.059
 we pay our tithe

00:35:40.059 --> 00:35:41.460
 you know like

00:35:41.460 --> 00:35:42.179
 they said

00:35:42.179 --> 00:35:44.000
 I fast twice a week

00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:44.539
 I give a tenth

00:35:44.539 --> 00:35:45.119
 of all I get.

00:35:45.339 --> 00:35:45.719
 There's so many

00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:46.400
 religious things

00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:47.619
 that we do these days.

00:35:48.079 --> 00:35:48.839
 We give our offerings

00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:50.079
 who come to the worship service

00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:51.220
 there's many that

00:35:51.220 --> 00:35:52.160
 believe that's enough

00:35:52.160 --> 00:35:53.340
 that's the good works

00:35:53.340 --> 00:35:55.079
 that they are doing

00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:56.360
 and they believe themselves

00:35:56.360 --> 00:35:57.400
 to be righteous.

00:35:58.660 --> 00:35:59.620
 Some people just

00:35:59.620 --> 00:36:00.860
 because they're not involved

00:36:00.860 --> 00:36:02.000
 in certain types of sins

00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:03.000
 you know I don't do drugs

00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:04.320
 I don't get drunk

00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:05.740
 I'm not immoral

00:36:05.740 --> 00:36:07.079
 I'm not cheating on my taxes

00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:09.220
 so therefore I'm righteous

00:36:09.220 --> 00:36:10.559
 I'm doing things

00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:11.340
 the right way.

00:36:12.460 --> 00:36:13.420
 Also maybe some

00:36:13.420 --> 00:36:14.579
 just because of the type

00:36:14.579 --> 00:36:15.440
 of church they go to

00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:16.300
 you know I go to

00:36:16.300 --> 00:36:17.019
 a Lutheran church

00:36:17.019 --> 00:36:18.579
 or a Baptist church

00:36:18.579 --> 00:36:19.300
 or you know

00:36:19.300 --> 00:36:20.579
 a Buddhist church

00:36:20.579 --> 00:36:20.960
 whatever

00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:22.900
 just belong to a

00:36:22.900 --> 00:36:23.739
 Bible believing church

00:36:23.739 --> 00:36:24.500
 whatever it is

00:36:24.500 --> 00:36:25.940
 they equate that

00:36:25.940 --> 00:36:26.780
 with righteousness

00:36:26.780 --> 00:36:28.079
 and think I do these things

00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:29.659
 therefore I'm righteous

00:36:29.659 --> 00:36:30.539
 but understand

00:36:30.539 --> 00:36:31.199
 these are all

00:36:31.199 --> 00:36:32.280
 man's standards

00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:33.659
 this is their own righteousness

00:36:33.659 --> 00:36:34.320
 they've declared

00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:35.079
 themselves righteous

00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:36.239
 God has not

00:36:36.239 --> 00:36:37.500
 declared them righteous

00:36:37.500 --> 00:36:38.960
 according to their standards

00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:39.920
 his standards

00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:41.360
 none of them are righteous.

00:36:41.360 --> 00:36:44.700
 we do these good deeds

00:36:44.700 --> 00:36:45.280
 to make ourselves

00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:45.820
 look righteous

00:36:45.820 --> 00:36:46.900
 but they come from

00:36:46.900 --> 00:36:47.680
 a sinful heart

00:36:47.680 --> 00:36:49.059
 and they're offensive

00:36:49.059 --> 00:36:49.780
 to God

00:36:49.780 --> 00:36:51.099
 they have selfish motives

00:36:51.099 --> 00:36:52.120
 involved in trying

00:36:52.120 --> 00:36:52.920
 to make ourselves

00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:53.340
 righteous

00:36:53.340 --> 00:36:55.240
 and that is just

00:36:55.240 --> 00:36:56.740
 compounding

00:36:56.740 --> 00:36:57.920
 the wickedness

00:36:57.920 --> 00:36:59.260
 that we have.

00:36:59.420 --> 00:37:00.000
 If we get into

00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:00.780
 this conundrum

00:37:00.780 --> 00:37:02.500
 of trying to do

00:37:02.500 --> 00:37:03.400
 enough good works

00:37:03.400 --> 00:37:04.360
 to please God

00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:06.039
 you never know

00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:07.000
 when you have enough

00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:08.160
 there is nowhere

00:37:08.160 --> 00:37:08.620
 in scripture

00:37:08.620 --> 00:37:09.120
 that says

00:37:09.120 --> 00:37:09.800
 this is how many

00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:11.320
 good works you must do

00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:12.640
 to enter the kingdom

00:37:12.640 --> 00:37:13.519
 of heaven.

00:37:13.700 --> 00:37:14.320
 I mean Jesus set

00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:14.840
 that standard

00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:15.480
 pretty high

00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:15.980
 you have to keep

00:37:15.980 --> 00:37:16.740
 all the commandments

00:37:16.740 --> 00:37:17.580
 perfectly.

00:37:19.420 --> 00:37:20.420
 A few years ago

00:37:20.420 --> 00:37:21.220
 I had some

00:37:21.220 --> 00:37:22.019
 Jehovah's Witnesses

00:37:22.019 --> 00:37:23.160
 come to the door

00:37:23.160 --> 00:37:24.920
 and the first

00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:25.700
 I didn't want to talk to them

00:37:25.700 --> 00:37:26.420
 Jasmine had been

00:37:26.420 --> 00:37:27.539
 they had been coming

00:37:27.539 --> 00:37:28.140
 during the week

00:37:28.140 --> 00:37:30.180
 and having talks

00:37:30.180 --> 00:37:30.640
 with Jasmine

00:37:30.640 --> 00:37:32.340
 and so this was like

00:37:32.340 --> 00:37:33.340
 I think it was a holiday

00:37:33.340 --> 00:37:34.039
 like Labor Day

00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:35.300
 and of course

00:37:35.300 --> 00:37:36.120
 they don't like

00:37:36.120 --> 00:37:36.840
 celebrating holidays

00:37:36.840 --> 00:37:37.720
 so they go out

00:37:37.720 --> 00:37:39.120
 and do some door to door

00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:40.179
 and you know

00:37:40.179 --> 00:37:40.980
 they came to our door

00:37:40.980 --> 00:37:41.960
 and I was like

00:37:41.960 --> 00:37:42.759
 I don't want to deal

00:37:42.759 --> 00:37:42.940
 with them

00:37:42.940 --> 00:37:43.500
 I was busy

00:37:43.500 --> 00:37:44.599
 doing something

00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:45.539
 but Jasmine invited them

00:37:45.539 --> 00:37:46.259
 and she had

00:37:46.259 --> 00:37:47.059
 been regularly

00:37:47.059 --> 00:37:47.719
 talking to them

00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:48.799
 and somehow

00:37:48.799 --> 00:37:49.359
 they drew me

00:37:49.359 --> 00:37:50.319
 into the story

00:37:50.319 --> 00:37:52.619
 into the conversation

00:37:52.619 --> 00:37:54.599
 and they told me

00:37:54.599 --> 00:37:55.539
 I needed to do

00:37:55.539 --> 00:37:56.400
 good works

00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:57.239
 to be saved

00:37:57.239 --> 00:37:59.619
 and I asked the lady

00:37:59.619 --> 00:38:00.000
 I said

00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:00.799
 well how many

00:38:00.799 --> 00:38:02.880
 because I don't want

00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:03.179
 to do more

00:38:03.179 --> 00:38:03.759
 than I have to

00:38:03.759 --> 00:38:05.659
 and she's just

00:38:05.659 --> 00:38:06.119
 kind of like

00:38:06.119 --> 00:38:06.759
 what

00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:07.900
 I'm like

00:38:07.900 --> 00:38:09.560
 I understand

00:38:09.560 --> 00:38:10.000
 I've got to do

00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:10.560
 some good works

00:38:10.560 --> 00:38:11.080
 to be saved

00:38:11.080 --> 00:38:11.620
 but how many

00:38:11.620 --> 00:38:12.620
 do I have to do

00:38:12.620 --> 00:38:13.120
 you know

00:38:13.120 --> 00:38:13.700
 can you show me

00:38:13.700 --> 00:38:14.120
 in scripture

00:38:14.120 --> 00:38:14.740
 you know

00:38:14.740 --> 00:38:15.840
 just where the line is

00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:16.340
 I just want to

00:38:16.340 --> 00:38:17.180
 kind of ease

00:38:17.180 --> 00:38:17.880
 over the line

00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:19.100
 and you know

00:38:19.100 --> 00:38:20.260
 be saved that way

00:38:20.260 --> 00:38:21.040
 and she just

00:38:21.040 --> 00:38:22.120
 didn't know

00:38:22.120 --> 00:38:22.440
 what to do

00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:22.960
 with me really

00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:25.400
 but she took me

00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:26.120
 to another passage

00:38:26.120 --> 00:38:26.960
 in Matthew

00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:27.720
 where Jesus talks

00:38:27.720 --> 00:38:28.400
 about good trees

00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:29.280
 producing good fruit

00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:30.380
 and bad trees

00:38:30.380 --> 00:38:31.340
 producing bad fruit

00:38:31.340 --> 00:38:31.800
 and she said

00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:32.640
 here don't you see

00:38:32.640 --> 00:38:33.300
 you need to produce

00:38:33.300 --> 00:38:33.860
 good fruit

00:38:33.860 --> 00:38:35.040
 and I said

00:38:35.040 --> 00:38:35.420
 okay

00:38:35.420 --> 00:38:36.480
 so you're saying

00:38:36.480 --> 00:38:37.220
 I'm a bad tree

00:38:37.220 --> 00:38:38.300
 and she's like

00:38:38.300 --> 00:38:38.500
 yeah

00:38:38.500 --> 00:38:38.960
 I said

00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:40.019
 so how do I

00:38:40.019 --> 00:38:40.820
 produce good fruit

00:38:40.820 --> 00:38:43.519
 and she's just like

00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:44.500
 I'm like

00:38:44.500 --> 00:38:45.420
 how do I become

00:38:45.420 --> 00:38:45.920
 a good tree

00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:46.760
 and she goes

00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:47.780
 well you do good

00:38:47.780 --> 00:38:48.800
 you produce good fruit

00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:49.320
 I said

00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:50.260
 but I'm a bad tree

00:38:50.260 --> 00:38:52.019
 I produce bad fruit

00:38:52.019 --> 00:38:52.880
 how can I produce

00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:53.460
 good fruit

00:38:53.460 --> 00:38:54.360
 and when you get

00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:55.180
 into that works

00:38:55.180 --> 00:38:55.820
 righteousness

00:38:55.820 --> 00:38:57.800
 there's no assurance

00:38:57.800 --> 00:38:58.579
 you don't know

00:38:58.579 --> 00:38:59.320
 where the line is

00:38:59.320 --> 00:38:59.960
 you don't know

00:38:59.960 --> 00:39:00.760
 have I done

00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:01.559
 enough good works

00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:02.079
 have I done

00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:03.099
 too many bad works

00:39:03.099 --> 00:39:04.780
 and you realize

00:39:04.780 --> 00:39:05.380
 there's nothing

00:39:05.380 --> 00:39:05.900
 in scripture

00:39:05.900 --> 00:39:07.500
 that will show you

00:39:07.500 --> 00:39:08.440
 where that line is

00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:09.340
 because the line

00:39:09.340 --> 00:39:10.100
 is way high

00:39:10.100 --> 00:39:11.660
 only Jesus has kept it

00:39:11.660 --> 00:39:13.100
 and everybody else

00:39:13.100 --> 00:39:13.640
 falls short

00:39:13.640 --> 00:39:14.200
 whether you've done

00:39:14.200 --> 00:39:14.780
 one sin

00:39:14.780 --> 00:39:16.100
 or a billion sins

00:39:16.100 --> 00:39:17.400
 you still fall short

00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:18.400
 you're a sinner

00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:19.660
 condemned by God

00:39:19.660 --> 00:39:21.640
 and that's his standard

00:39:21.640 --> 00:39:22.980
 and so we are all

00:39:22.980 --> 00:39:24.080
 in need of mercy

00:39:24.080 --> 00:39:25.560
 just like that tax collector

00:39:25.560 --> 00:39:26.920
 he's no more wicked

00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:27.900
 than we are

00:39:27.900 --> 00:39:29.140
 apart from God

00:39:29.140 --> 00:39:29.820
 we are all

00:39:29.820 --> 00:39:31.240
 fall way short

00:39:31.240 --> 00:39:32.400
 of God's standard

00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:33.900
 then Jesus has

00:39:33.900 --> 00:39:35.740
 another story

00:39:35.740 --> 00:39:35.980
 there

00:39:35.980 --> 00:39:37.840
 right after that

00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:38.780
 in Luke

00:39:38.780 --> 00:39:39.780
 starting in verse

00:39:39.780 --> 00:39:41.340
 18 verse 15

00:39:41.340 --> 00:39:42.720
 it says

00:39:42.720 --> 00:39:43.440
 people were also

00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:44.119
 bringing babies

00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:44.559
 to Jesus

00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:45.400
 to have him touch

00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:45.619
 them

00:39:45.619 --> 00:39:46.860
 when the disciples

00:39:46.860 --> 00:39:47.440
 saw this

00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:48.320
 they rebuked them

00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:49.460
 but Jesus called

00:39:49.460 --> 00:39:50.300
 the children to him

00:39:50.300 --> 00:39:50.639
 and said

00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:51.460
 let the little children

00:39:51.460 --> 00:39:52.059
 come to me

00:39:52.059 --> 00:39:53.380
 and do not hinder them

00:39:53.380 --> 00:39:54.340
 for the kingdom of God

00:39:54.340 --> 00:39:55.539
 belongs to such as these

00:39:55.539 --> 00:39:56.900
 I tell you the truth

00:39:56.900 --> 00:39:57.760
 anyone who will not

00:39:57.760 --> 00:39:58.860
 receive the kingdom of God

00:39:58.860 --> 00:39:59.639
 like a little child

00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:01.019
 will never enter it

00:40:01.019 --> 00:40:02.659
 and so we hear

00:40:02.659 --> 00:40:03.559
 again we're seeing

00:40:03.559 --> 00:40:04.780
 an aspect of

00:40:04.780 --> 00:40:05.539
 how do we come

00:40:05.539 --> 00:40:06.199
 to Jesus

00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:07.259
 and this one's

00:40:07.259 --> 00:40:07.860
 kind of troublesome

00:40:07.860 --> 00:40:08.820
 because we don't

00:40:08.820 --> 00:40:09.460
 really know exactly

00:40:09.460 --> 00:40:10.320
 what Jesus is saying

00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:11.059
 and he's come

00:40:11.059 --> 00:40:12.219
 as a little child

00:40:12.219 --> 00:40:13.300
 you know some people

00:40:13.300 --> 00:40:13.860
 have suggested

00:40:13.860 --> 00:40:14.380
 well maybe

00:40:14.380 --> 00:40:15.639
 you know children

00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:16.420
 are pretty humble

00:40:16.420 --> 00:40:17.440
 maybe we gotta go

00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:18.000
 in humility

00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:19.500
 and I'm like

00:40:19.500 --> 00:40:20.139
 I don't know

00:40:20.139 --> 00:40:21.599
 I have a two year old

00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:22.900
 and there's nothing

00:40:22.900 --> 00:40:23.780
 humble about him

00:40:23.780 --> 00:40:25.960
 as

00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:27.659
 you know at times

00:40:27.659 --> 00:40:28.280
 if he doesn't get

00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:28.940
 what he wants

00:40:28.940 --> 00:40:30.440
 he would kill you

00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:31.039
 if he could

00:40:31.039 --> 00:40:33.159
 he gets that angry

00:40:33.159 --> 00:40:34.380
 he wants his way

00:40:34.380 --> 00:40:35.320
 so bad

00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:36.579
 so I'm not sure

00:40:36.579 --> 00:40:37.599
 that there's a humility

00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:38.400
 there that we want

00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:38.920
 to emulate

00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:40.220
 in children

00:40:40.220 --> 00:40:42.559
 and same thing

00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:43.099
 you know people

00:40:43.099 --> 00:40:43.559
 will say like

00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:44.059
 well children

00:40:44.059 --> 00:40:45.340
 have such pure faith

00:40:45.340 --> 00:40:47.079
 and the reality

00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:47.480
 is children

00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:48.320
 will believe anything

00:40:48.320 --> 00:40:50.500
 they are very gullible

00:40:50.500 --> 00:40:51.460
 it's not a faith

00:40:51.460 --> 00:40:52.320
 based on knowledge

00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:53.400
 it's just

00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:54.000
 you know

00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:55.380
 it's one of the

00:40:55.380 --> 00:40:56.220
 conundrums of doing

00:40:56.220 --> 00:40:56.840
 Sunday school

00:40:56.840 --> 00:40:58.079
 and evangelism

00:40:58.079 --> 00:40:58.519
 with children

00:40:58.519 --> 00:40:59.779
 is that it's very easy

00:40:59.779 --> 00:41:00.940
 to get them to pray a prayer

00:41:00.940 --> 00:41:02.840
 if that's what you're aiming for

00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:03.779
 if you can

00:41:03.779 --> 00:41:04.299
 you know

00:41:04.299 --> 00:41:05.279
 there's so many

00:41:05.279 --> 00:41:07.400
 vacation bible schools

00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:08.079
 and things like that

00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:08.799
 where their whole goal

00:41:08.799 --> 00:41:09.960
 is to get that child

00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:10.639
 to pray a prayer

00:41:10.639 --> 00:41:11.420
 and then kind of like

00:41:11.420 --> 00:41:12.380
 pat them on the head

00:41:12.380 --> 00:41:13.019
 and oh good

00:41:13.019 --> 00:41:14.119
 you've inherited

00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:15.000
 eternal life

00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:15.819
 and these kids

00:41:15.819 --> 00:41:16.460
 can grow up

00:41:16.460 --> 00:41:17.139
 thinking that

00:41:17.139 --> 00:41:18.259
 and they're

00:41:18.259 --> 00:41:19.199
 believing a lie

00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:21.059
 because they haven't

00:41:21.059 --> 00:41:22.099
 repented of their sin

00:41:22.099 --> 00:41:22.599
 and followed

00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:23.559
 after Jesus

00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:23.819
 so

00:41:23.819 --> 00:41:25.500
 but one thing

00:41:25.500 --> 00:41:26.199
 that we do see

00:41:26.199 --> 00:41:26.579
 in here

00:41:26.579 --> 00:41:27.340
 is that people

00:41:27.340 --> 00:41:27.900
 were bringing

00:41:27.900 --> 00:41:28.539
 the babies

00:41:28.539 --> 00:41:29.039
 to Jesus

00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:30.019
 there was a common

00:41:30.019 --> 00:41:30.639
 Jewish practice

00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:31.279
 for the parents

00:41:31.279 --> 00:41:31.699
 to bring

00:41:31.699 --> 00:41:33.460
 their one year olds

00:41:33.460 --> 00:41:33.779
 usually

00:41:33.779 --> 00:41:35.679
 to the local rabbis

00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:37.159
 or to a local official

00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:38.239
 to receive blessings

00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:39.500
 and these parents

00:41:39.500 --> 00:41:40.059
 were bringing

00:41:40.059 --> 00:41:41.219
 these helpless

00:41:41.219 --> 00:41:41.860
 children

00:41:41.860 --> 00:41:42.779
 to Jesus

00:41:42.779 --> 00:41:44.559
 and wanting

00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:45.639
 blessings from him

00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:46.279
 and I think

00:41:46.279 --> 00:41:47.219
 that's more the aspect

00:41:47.219 --> 00:41:47.779
 of what Jesus

00:41:47.779 --> 00:41:49.920
 is going after here

00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:50.559
 that these are

00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:51.019
 helpless

00:41:51.019 --> 00:41:51.900
 children

00:41:51.900 --> 00:41:52.819
 they're coming

00:41:52.819 --> 00:41:53.819
 to God

00:41:53.819 --> 00:41:55.219
 helplessly

00:41:55.219 --> 00:41:55.799
 they're actually

00:41:55.799 --> 00:41:56.439
 being brought

00:41:56.439 --> 00:41:57.379
 to God

00:41:57.379 --> 00:41:58.239
 they're being brought

00:41:58.239 --> 00:41:58.719
 to Jesus

00:41:58.719 --> 00:41:59.539
 in much the same way

00:41:59.539 --> 00:42:00.939
 we have to be brought

00:42:00.939 --> 00:42:02.159
 to Jesus

00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:03.159
 we are helpless

00:42:03.159 --> 00:42:03.619
 to go there

00:42:03.619 --> 00:42:04.219
 we won't seek

00:42:04.219 --> 00:42:04.759
 after him

00:42:04.759 --> 00:42:06.279
 apart from

00:42:06.279 --> 00:42:07.219
 a work being done

00:42:07.219 --> 00:42:08.139
 and so

00:42:08.139 --> 00:42:09.359
 we see

00:42:09.359 --> 00:42:10.579
 these two aspects

00:42:10.579 --> 00:42:11.739
 of how these people

00:42:11.739 --> 00:42:12.059
 came

00:42:12.059 --> 00:42:13.679
 the tax collector

00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:14.199
 he comes

00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:15.000
 just in search

00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:15.459
 of mercy

00:42:15.459 --> 00:42:16.679
 and coming

00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:17.219
 like a baby

00:42:17.219 --> 00:42:17.799
 is just coming

00:42:17.799 --> 00:42:19.159
 with helplessness

00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:20.159
 God I cannot

00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:21.219
 change myself

00:42:21.219 --> 00:42:22.879
 only you can do that

00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:24.280
 and we come

00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:24.660
 to him

00:42:24.660 --> 00:42:26.140
 looking for

00:42:26.140 --> 00:42:27.200
 that eternal life

00:42:27.200 --> 00:42:28.380
 and so as we

00:42:28.380 --> 00:42:28.900
 close today

00:42:28.900 --> 00:42:31.099
 I just want to pray

00:42:31.099 --> 00:42:33.160
 that some of you

00:42:33.160 --> 00:42:33.740
 are feeling

00:42:33.740 --> 00:42:34.260
 restless

00:42:34.260 --> 00:42:35.140
 perhaps

00:42:35.140 --> 00:42:37.360
 maybe you know

00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:38.019
 that you don't yet

00:42:38.019 --> 00:42:39.000
 have eternal life

00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:40.280
 and like this rich

00:42:40.280 --> 00:42:40.800
 young ruler

00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:41.380
 you need to have

00:42:41.380 --> 00:42:42.220
 that question answered

00:42:42.220 --> 00:42:43.000
 what do I have

00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:43.720
 to do to have it

00:42:43.720 --> 00:42:46.760
 I just want to say

00:42:46.760 --> 00:42:47.780
 I know you're in need

00:42:47.780 --> 00:42:48.700
 of God's mercy

00:42:48.700 --> 00:42:49.320
 all of us

00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:50.280
 are in need

00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:51.039
 of God's mercy

00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:52.099
 and all of us

00:42:52.099 --> 00:42:52.599
 are helpless

00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:54.579
 to do anything

00:42:54.579 --> 00:42:55.139
 about it

00:42:55.139 --> 00:42:56.019
 but I believe

00:42:56.019 --> 00:42:56.960
 that today

00:42:56.960 --> 00:42:57.420
 like those

00:42:57.420 --> 00:42:58.839
 helpless infants

00:42:58.839 --> 00:42:59.880
 that the parents

00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:00.199
 were bringing

00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:00.539
 to Jesus

00:43:00.539 --> 00:43:01.199
 God has brought

00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:01.739
 you here today

00:43:01.739 --> 00:43:02.799
 he has brought

00:43:02.799 --> 00:43:03.319
 you here

00:43:03.319 --> 00:43:04.159
 to hear

00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:05.579
 from his son

00:43:05.579 --> 00:43:06.480
 and I'm just

00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:06.759
 telling you

00:43:06.759 --> 00:43:07.099
 that Jesus

00:43:07.099 --> 00:43:07.440
 today

00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:08.400
 he's asking

00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:09.039
 the same thing

00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:09.920
 he's asking

00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:10.920
 to repent

00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:11.579
 and believe

00:43:11.579 --> 00:43:12.819
 and I'm telling

00:43:12.819 --> 00:43:13.239
 you too

00:43:13.239 --> 00:43:13.799
 he's asking

00:43:13.799 --> 00:43:14.179
 you to do

00:43:14.179 --> 00:43:14.400
 something

00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:15.059
 that's impossible

00:43:15.059 --> 00:43:16.039
 for you to do

00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:18.199
 but with God

00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:18.699
 all things

00:43:18.699 --> 00:43:19.219
 are possible

00:43:19.219 --> 00:43:20.279
 and so even

00:43:20.279 --> 00:43:21.519
 as Jesus

00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:22.099
 would tell

00:43:22.099 --> 00:43:23.239
 there's a passage

00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:23.880
 in Mark

00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:24.279
 where Jesus

00:43:24.279 --> 00:43:25.099
 tells a paralytic

00:43:25.099 --> 00:43:26.619
 this man's

00:43:26.619 --> 00:43:27.219
 never walked

00:43:27.219 --> 00:43:27.819
 before

00:43:27.819 --> 00:43:28.400
 his friends

00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:28.819
 had to come

00:43:28.819 --> 00:43:29.339
 and lower him

00:43:29.339 --> 00:43:29.799
 down through

00:43:29.799 --> 00:43:31.139
 a hole in the roof

00:43:31.139 --> 00:43:31.980
 and Jesus

00:43:31.980 --> 00:43:32.559
 tells the man

00:43:32.559 --> 00:43:33.339
 rise up

00:43:33.339 --> 00:43:35.199
 take your pad

00:43:35.199 --> 00:43:36.319
 and leave

00:43:36.319 --> 00:43:37.860
 he asked the man

00:43:37.860 --> 00:43:39.039
 to do the impossible

00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:40.639
 but the man

00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:41.219
 immediately

00:43:41.219 --> 00:43:42.139
 rose up

00:43:42.139 --> 00:43:43.239
 rolled up his pad

00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:43.819
 and left

00:43:43.819 --> 00:43:45.400
 the same time

00:43:45.400 --> 00:43:45.819
 that Jesus

00:43:45.819 --> 00:43:46.380
 asks you

00:43:46.380 --> 00:43:47.000
 to do the impossible

00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:47.699
 he gives you

00:43:47.699 --> 00:43:48.480
 the ability

00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:49.420
 to do the impossible

00:43:49.420 --> 00:43:50.320
 he will give

00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:50.800
 you a heart

00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:51.480
 that can

00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:52.360
 repent of your

00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:52.659
 sins

00:43:52.659 --> 00:43:53.519
 and follow

00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:54.159
 after him

00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:55.000
 he will help

00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:55.539
 you to turn

00:43:55.539 --> 00:43:55.940
 from those

00:43:55.940 --> 00:43:56.539
 false gods

00:43:56.539 --> 00:43:57.119
 of possessions

00:43:57.119 --> 00:43:57.760
 and power

00:43:57.760 --> 00:43:58.280
 and pleasure

00:43:58.280 --> 00:43:59.559
 and to follow

00:43:59.559 --> 00:43:59.860
 him

00:43:59.860 --> 00:44:00.760
 and so he's

00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:01.480
 asking you

00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:02.240
 to do the impossible

00:44:02.240 --> 00:44:03.420
 but let me tell you

00:44:03.420 --> 00:44:04.039
 it's possible

00:44:04.039 --> 00:44:04.960
 with him

00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:06.420
 perhaps there's

00:44:06.420 --> 00:44:06.840
 also some

00:44:06.840 --> 00:44:07.280
 here today

00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:07.960
 that think

00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:08.480
 they believe

00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:09.820
 but are really

00:44:09.820 --> 00:44:10.380
 trusting in

00:44:10.380 --> 00:44:10.780
 themselves

00:44:10.780 --> 00:44:11.300
 they're like

00:44:11.300 --> 00:44:12.039
 the Pharisees

00:44:12.039 --> 00:44:12.559
 they have this

00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:13.159
 pile of good

00:44:13.159 --> 00:44:13.500
 works

00:44:13.500 --> 00:44:14.400
 that that's

00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:14.700
 what they're

00:44:14.700 --> 00:44:15.320
 trusting in

00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:16.559
 and I just

00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:17.059
 ask you today

00:44:17.059 --> 00:44:17.680
 to ask these

00:44:17.680 --> 00:44:18.000
 questions

00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:18.559
 where is your

00:44:18.559 --> 00:44:18.800
 hope

00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:19.980
 when you ask

00:44:19.980 --> 00:44:20.639
 why do I

00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:21.079
 have eternal

00:44:21.079 --> 00:44:21.320
 life

00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:22.260
 do you immediately

00:44:22.260 --> 00:44:23.179
 start listing off

00:44:23.179 --> 00:44:24.099
 a list of things

00:44:24.099 --> 00:44:24.519
 that you have

00:44:24.519 --> 00:44:24.739
 done

00:44:24.739 --> 00:44:25.860
 or do you

00:44:25.860 --> 00:44:26.940
 think immediately

00:44:26.940 --> 00:44:27.579
 of what God

00:44:27.579 --> 00:44:28.019
 has done

00:44:28.019 --> 00:44:28.840
 for you

00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:30.139
 in your life

00:44:30.139 --> 00:44:31.239
 do you know

00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:31.920
 God's peace

00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:32.619
 and rest

00:44:32.619 --> 00:44:33.179
 are you looking

00:44:33.179 --> 00:44:33.820
 for that one

00:44:33.820 --> 00:44:34.300
 more thing

00:44:34.300 --> 00:44:35.239
 to help me

00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:35.860
 have assurance

00:44:35.860 --> 00:44:37.519
 that I have

00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:38.619
 eternal life

00:44:38.619 --> 00:44:40.280
 I know that God

00:44:40.280 --> 00:44:41.039
 will not let you

00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:42.039
 have that rest

00:44:42.039 --> 00:44:43.340
 if you are not

00:44:43.340 --> 00:44:44.380
 fully trusting

00:44:44.380 --> 00:44:44.780
 in him

00:44:44.780 --> 00:44:45.480
 so if you're

00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:46.039
 having that

00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:47.619
 lack of peace

00:44:47.619 --> 00:44:47.940
 and lack

00:44:47.940 --> 00:44:48.319
 of rest

00:44:48.319 --> 00:44:48.900
 about that

00:44:48.900 --> 00:44:49.980
 please ask

00:44:49.980 --> 00:44:50.599
 God to

00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:52.059
 what is it

00:44:52.059 --> 00:44:53.059
 that is keeping

00:44:53.059 --> 00:44:53.779
 me from

00:44:53.779 --> 00:44:54.539
 Christ

00:44:54.539 --> 00:44:55.739
 and come to him

00:44:55.739 --> 00:44:56.440
 again helpless

00:44:56.440 --> 00:44:57.059
 to change

00:44:57.059 --> 00:44:58.119
 but knowing

00:44:58.119 --> 00:44:58.920
 that we are

00:44:58.920 --> 00:44:59.359
 in need of

00:44:59.359 --> 00:44:59.639
 change

00:44:59.639 --> 00:45:00.679
 we are great

00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:01.039
 sinners

00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:02.079
 in need of

00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:02.599
 salvation

00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:04.819
 I know there's

00:45:04.819 --> 00:45:05.199
 some of you

00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:06.019
 that are already

00:45:06.019 --> 00:45:07.139
 following Jesus

00:45:07.139 --> 00:45:08.219
 and we just

00:45:08.219 --> 00:45:09.099
 give praise to God

00:45:09.099 --> 00:45:09.599
 and rejoice

00:45:09.599 --> 00:45:10.359
 that he did

00:45:10.359 --> 00:45:10.980
 the impossible

00:45:10.980 --> 00:45:11.940
 for us

00:45:11.940 --> 00:45:13.299
 that he has

00:45:13.299 --> 00:45:13.779
 made us a

00:45:13.779 --> 00:45:14.119
 disciple

00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:15.019
 and yet

00:45:15.019 --> 00:45:15.319
 at the same

00:45:15.319 --> 00:45:15.859
 time he calls

00:45:15.859 --> 00:45:16.239
 us to make

00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:16.779
 more disciples

00:45:16.779 --> 00:45:17.699
 so we need

00:45:17.699 --> 00:45:17.899
 to spend

00:45:17.899 --> 00:45:18.179
 a lot of

00:45:18.179 --> 00:45:18.579
 time like

00:45:18.579 --> 00:45:19.159
 those disciples

00:45:19.159 --> 00:45:19.819
 just meditating

00:45:19.819 --> 00:45:20.619
 on those passages

00:45:20.619 --> 00:45:22.379
 of how a person

00:45:22.379 --> 00:45:22.819
 is saved

00:45:22.819 --> 00:45:23.759
 and what a

00:45:23.759 --> 00:45:24.959
 right way

00:45:24.959 --> 00:45:25.459
 to come to

00:45:25.459 --> 00:45:26.419
 God is

00:45:26.419 --> 00:45:28.559
 we need to be

00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:29.099
 finding those

00:45:29.099 --> 00:45:29.599
 lost and

00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:30.139
 bringing to

00:45:30.139 --> 00:45:30.519
 Jesus

00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:31.339
 just the way

00:45:31.339 --> 00:45:32.299
 that the

00:45:32.299 --> 00:45:33.639
 parents brought

00:45:33.639 --> 00:45:34.119
 their helpless

00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:36.399
 children to

00:45:36.399 --> 00:45:36.739
 Jesus

00:45:36.739 --> 00:45:37.599
 and then we

00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:38.339
 just kind of

00:45:38.339 --> 00:45:39.119
 like Jesus

00:45:39.119 --> 00:45:39.639
 to try to

00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:39.979
 help them

00:45:39.979 --> 00:45:40.699
 understand their

00:45:40.699 --> 00:45:41.899
 need for a

00:45:41.899 --> 00:45:42.739
 savior and

00:45:42.739 --> 00:45:43.279
 point them to

00:45:43.279 --> 00:45:43.859
 Jesus who is

00:45:43.859 --> 00:45:44.419
 the way the

00:45:44.419 --> 00:45:44.879
 truth and the

00:45:44.879 --> 00:45:45.179
 life

00:45:45.179 --> 00:45:46.199
 so let me

00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:47.139
 pray for us

00:45:47.139 --> 00:45:47.759
 now

00:45:47.759 --> 00:45:52.480
 dear heavenly

00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:53.199
 father again I

00:45:53.199 --> 00:45:54.239
 just do give you

00:45:54.239 --> 00:45:55.039
 thanks that you

00:45:55.039 --> 00:45:55.940
 do save sinners

00:45:55.940 --> 00:45:57.659
 father that

00:45:57.659 --> 00:45:59.839
 as we follow

00:45:59.839 --> 00:46:00.539
 after Jesus

00:46:00.539 --> 00:46:01.859
 and see the

00:46:01.859 --> 00:46:02.419
 way he lived

00:46:02.419 --> 00:46:02.980
 his life

00:46:02.980 --> 00:46:04.659
 father and as

00:46:04.659 --> 00:46:05.359
 we follow him

00:46:05.359 --> 00:46:05.919
 all the way to

00:46:05.919 --> 00:46:06.419
 the cross

00:46:06.419 --> 00:46:07.960
 and we see that

00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:08.659
 place where

00:46:08.659 --> 00:46:10.059
 where Jesus was

00:46:10.059 --> 00:46:10.919
 crucified and

00:46:10.919 --> 00:46:12.000
 died for our

00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:12.359
 sins

00:46:12.359 --> 00:46:13.480
 father and then

00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:14.179
 we continue to

00:46:14.179 --> 00:46:14.699
 follow and we

00:46:14.699 --> 00:46:15.339
 see him raised

00:46:15.339 --> 00:46:16.279
 from the dead

00:46:16.279 --> 00:46:17.359
 with victory

00:46:17.359 --> 00:46:18.460
 over sin and

00:46:18.460 --> 00:46:18.759
 death

00:46:18.759 --> 00:46:20.239
 father and we

00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:20.759
 see that he

00:46:20.759 --> 00:46:21.899
 is who he

00:46:21.899 --> 00:46:22.439
 says he is

00:46:22.439 --> 00:46:23.739
 the lord Jesus

00:46:23.739 --> 00:46:24.439
 Christ and the

00:46:24.439 --> 00:46:25.159
 one whom we

00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:25.759
 should follow

00:46:25.759 --> 00:46:26.779
 and worship

00:46:26.779 --> 00:46:27.819
 father we just

00:46:27.819 --> 00:46:28.299
 thank you for

00:46:28.299 --> 00:46:28.960
 making that

00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:30.179
 known to us

00:46:30.179 --> 00:46:31.559
 father I also

00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:32.500
 just pray for

00:46:32.500 --> 00:46:33.299
 those this

00:46:33.299 --> 00:46:33.819
 morning who

00:46:33.819 --> 00:46:34.980
 who you have

00:46:34.980 --> 00:46:37.019
 caused to hear

00:46:37.019 --> 00:46:38.079
 the gospel

00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:38.619
 preached

00:46:38.619 --> 00:46:39.559
 father as they

00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:40.239
 you cause them

00:46:40.239 --> 00:46:40.839
 to see your

00:46:40.839 --> 00:46:42.199
 son as the

00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:43.339
 one who calls

00:46:43.340 --> 00:46:43.840
 people to

00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:44.800
 repentance and

00:46:44.800 --> 00:46:45.180
 belief

00:46:45.180 --> 00:46:46.160
 father I

00:46:46.160 --> 00:46:46.579
 pray that you

00:46:46.579 --> 00:46:46.980
 help them

00:46:46.980 --> 00:46:47.380
 now help

00:46:47.380 --> 00:46:47.760
 give them

00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:48.860
 hearts that

00:46:48.860 --> 00:46:49.380
 they might

00:46:49.380 --> 00:46:50.260
 come and

00:46:50.260 --> 00:46:51.200
 repent of

00:46:51.200 --> 00:46:51.820
 their sins and

00:46:51.820 --> 00:46:52.220
 turn to

00:46:52.220 --> 00:46:52.600
 Jesus

00:46:52.600 --> 00:46:54.660
 father again we

00:46:54.660 --> 00:46:55.400
 just thank you

00:46:55.400 --> 00:46:55.760
 for this time

00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:56.340
 pray to you

00:46:56.340 --> 00:46:57.559
 continue as we

00:46:57.559 --> 00:46:58.600
 sing in worship

00:46:58.600 --> 00:46:59.400
 to help just

00:46:59.400 --> 00:47:00.620
 empower our

00:47:00.620 --> 00:47:01.440
 worship to you

00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:02.600
 as it is due

00:47:02.600 --> 00:47:03.640
 father I thank

00:47:03.640 --> 00:47:03.940
 you that

00:47:03.940 --> 00:47:05.180
 just pray that

00:47:05.180 --> 00:47:05.480
 you would

00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:06.720
 again by your

00:47:06.720 --> 00:47:07.559
 spirit cause

00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:08.160
 your words

00:47:08.159 --> 00:47:09.339
 that they're

00:47:09.339 --> 00:47:10.679
 here in the

00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:11.299
 scriptures to

00:47:11.299 --> 00:47:12.259
 have power in

00:47:12.259 --> 00:47:12.940
 people's lives

00:47:12.940 --> 00:47:13.839
 to change

00:47:13.839 --> 00:47:15.019
 them power

00:47:15.019 --> 00:47:17.859
 to just cause

00:47:17.859 --> 00:47:18.799
 your disciples

00:47:18.799 --> 00:47:20.920
 to do the

00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:21.420
 work that you

00:47:21.420 --> 00:47:21.899
 have called us

00:47:21.899 --> 00:47:22.859
 to in making

00:47:22.859 --> 00:47:23.440
 disciples

00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:24.859
 father but in

00:47:24.859 --> 00:47:25.440
 all these things

00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:26.399
 we rejoice that

00:47:26.399 --> 00:47:27.519
 you are great

00:47:27.519 --> 00:47:28.739
 that you love

00:47:28.739 --> 00:47:29.379
 us and that you

00:47:29.379 --> 00:47:30.139
 are full of

00:47:30.139 --> 00:47:31.379
 mercy towards

00:47:31.379 --> 00:47:31.699
 sinners

00:47:31.699 --> 00:47:32.940
 let's pray these

00:47:32.940 --> 00:47:33.500
 things in Jesus

00:47:33.500 --> 00:47:33.819
 name

00:47:33.819 --> 00:47:34.339
 amen