WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.400 And if you would open up your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 13, I'm going to read 1-6. 00:00:12.339 --> 00:00:17.820 By the way, scholars think of Hebrews 13 as kind of the epilogue of the book. 00:00:17.820 --> 00:00:24.019 We've come to the last chapter of the book of Hebrews, and it is a series of commands. 00:00:24.660 --> 00:00:28.879 And so this morning we're going to take the commands in the section 1-6. 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:29.859 There are five of them. 00:00:30.119 --> 00:00:34.100 And then next week we're going to look at the commands starting in verse 7. 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:35.820 Hear the word of God. 00:00:37.899 --> 00:00:40.679 Let brotherly love continue. 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:48.920 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 00:00:49.980 --> 00:00:53.519 Remember those who were in prison as though in prison with them. 00:00:54.480 --> 00:00:58.340 And those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:03.980 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, 00:01:04.280 --> 00:01:08.180 for God will judge thee sexually immoral and adulterous. 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:14.000 Keep your life free from the love of money, and be content with what you have. 00:01:14.980 --> 00:01:19.659 For he has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you, so we can say confidently, 00:01:19.659 --> 00:01:21.700 the Lord is my helper. 00:01:22.259 --> 00:01:23.420 I will not fear. 00:01:24.060 --> 00:01:26.340 What can man do to me? 00:01:27.819 --> 00:01:28.500 Praise God. 00:01:28.500 --> 00:01:35.459 One of my favorite local parks has already been mentioned, Petrifying Springs. 00:01:36.659 --> 00:01:44.019 I was recently there, and when I was there, there were multiple cross-country teams that were practicing together. 00:01:44.019 --> 00:01:47.700 So they would gather, they would warm up, and then they would go run off at a pack. 00:01:47.780 --> 00:01:51.120 They'd come back, cool down, and they did it all together. 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:54.660 Cross-country is not a team sprint. 00:01:55.920 --> 00:01:58.340 It's a team endurance race. 00:01:59.240 --> 00:02:03.620 The church were part of a team endurance race. 00:02:04.620 --> 00:02:10.120 Those cross-country teams, they ran long, and they ran together all the way to the end. 00:02:10.200 --> 00:02:17.439 And so the church, we are to run long, and we are to run together. 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:22.699 A couple weeks ago, when we were in Hebrews chapter 12, 1, John read it this morning. 00:02:23.460 --> 00:02:28.319 We learned that there's been a race that has been marked out for us. 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:30.639 We're to run it with endurance. 00:02:31.740 --> 00:02:35.219 And so the Christian life is not a sprint. 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:35.879 It's a marathon. 00:02:36.180 --> 00:02:39.520 And the good news is that we're to do this together. 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:50.780 Hebrews, the whole epistle is one long exhortation to Christians to hold fast to Christ all the way to the end. 00:02:51.219 --> 00:02:54.160 And we're not to run this race alone. 00:02:54.780 --> 00:02:58.040 We're to run this race together. 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:01.980 We run long, and we run together. 00:03:02.200 --> 00:03:07.080 Or another way to say it is, we run long, and we run loving. 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:10.460 We run long, and we run loving. 00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:14.200 In Hebrews 13, 1 through 6, there are five commands. 00:03:14.600 --> 00:03:16.720 But there's a relationship between the commands. 00:03:17.140 --> 00:03:22.560 Command number one, which is in Hebrews 13, 1, where you read, let brotherly love continue. 00:03:22.940 --> 00:03:25.700 It governs the four that follow. 00:03:26.420 --> 00:03:30.100 And so there's this command, let brotherly love continue. 00:03:30.460 --> 00:03:35.840 And then that is spelled out in how that looks in the four commands that follow. 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:37.840 So five points this morning. 00:03:38.700 --> 00:03:39.900 First one, be loving. 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:43.500 Second, be loving through hospitality. 00:03:44.640 --> 00:03:48.759 Third, be loving through remembering those who are suffering. 00:03:49.500 --> 00:03:53.140 Fourth, be loving by honoring marriage. 00:03:54.300 --> 00:03:57.599 Fifth, be loving by being content. 00:03:58.879 --> 00:04:01.879 We run long, and we run loving. 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:06.840 Our salvation is bound up together. 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:09.979 So let's look at this first command. 00:04:10.079 --> 00:04:13.379 The command that is governing all the commands in this section. 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:15.460 The command to be loving. 00:04:16.420 --> 00:04:17.899 Let brotherly love continue. 00:04:19.339 --> 00:04:25.519 The Greek word for brotherly love, which is underneath that, if you don't know, the New Testament was written in, it's called Koine Greek. 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:28.500 And it's a very interesting word. 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:29.799 But you already know this word. 00:04:31.599 --> 00:04:33.839 It's the name of a city on the East Coast. 00:04:35.479 --> 00:04:38.899 It's the eastern city in Pennsylvania. 00:04:39.299 --> 00:04:40.819 It's the city of brotherly love. 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:41.399 Can you name it? 00:04:42.500 --> 00:04:43.759 You know a Greek word. 00:04:43.859 --> 00:04:45.199 That's the Greek word here. 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:46.479 Philadelphia. 00:04:48.139 --> 00:04:49.419 Phylos means love. 00:04:50.299 --> 00:04:53.019 Adelphos, Adelphia, means brotherly. 00:04:53.019 --> 00:05:00.740 And in antiquity, that word was almost exclusively used for biological siblings. 00:05:01.740 --> 00:05:03.659 But the Christian church co-opted it. 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:05.879 We made it our own. 00:05:06.799 --> 00:05:11.439 In order to describe the kind of love that we are to have for one another. 00:05:11.579 --> 00:05:14.060 It's a familial love. 00:05:14.060 --> 00:05:27.560 We've co-opted it because Jesus has radically reoriented and reprioritized our relationships around him. 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:30.759 At the end of Mark 3, you don't need to turn there. 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:34.540 But Jesus' mother and brothers come to where Jesus is. 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:35.899 Jesus is teaching his disciples. 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:36.800 They're in this house. 00:05:37.420 --> 00:05:42.139 His mother and brothers come because they came to take him away because they think he's out of his mind. 00:05:42.139 --> 00:05:45.939 Well, they come and there's some disciples that greet them at the door. 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:49.079 And those few disciples come back and they say to Jesus, 00:05:49.180 --> 00:05:51.139 Jesus, your mother and your brothers are here. 00:05:51.439 --> 00:05:52.839 And then Jesus says to them, 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:54.800 Who are my mother and my brothers? 00:05:56.459 --> 00:06:02.240 And then looking to all of the disciples in this house who are sitting at his feet, learning from him. 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:05.639 He says, Here are my mother and my brothers. 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:13.300 For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and my sister and my mother. 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:23.319 And that little teaching, that little snippet, Jesus radically reorients our relationships around him as Christians. 00:06:23.699 --> 00:06:29.680 He becomes the controlling center, not just of all of our, like, lives, but all of our relationships. 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:32.699 Both personally and corporately. 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:38.439 So our biological relationships are, yes, always will be important. 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:45.759 But this is a claim, a radical claim, saying that our Christological relationships are even more important. 00:06:47.340 --> 00:06:49.460 Because that's what the blood of Christ has done. 00:06:49.459 --> 00:06:57.799 The idea of love biblically is very different than our cultural idea of this. 00:06:59.039 --> 00:07:01.839 In 1984, Tina Turner, anybody know that name? 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:06.120 Released a song, What's Love Got to Do With It? 00:07:07.459 --> 00:07:10.240 I have been forbidden by my wife to sing that song. 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:15.319 But maybe you can finish this. 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:17.599 What's love got to do with it? 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:26.540 What's love but a secondhand emotion? 00:07:27.580 --> 00:07:31.920 Biblical love is not a secondhand emotion. 00:07:33.420 --> 00:07:38.439 Biblical love is a costly commitment to do good to others. 00:07:38.840 --> 00:07:40.400 Think of Jesus' love for you. 00:07:42.020 --> 00:07:46.100 Christ, who we've been learning about all throughout the book of Hebrews, 00:07:46.100 --> 00:07:51.020 greater than the angels, greater than Moses, greater than the Levitical priesthood, 00:07:51.060 --> 00:07:53.820 because he's from the line of Melchizedek. 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:56.280 He's totally God, totally man. 00:07:57.400 --> 00:07:58.920 He gave his life for you. 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:02.160 He shed his blood for you. 00:08:03.160 --> 00:08:05.140 Once and for all. 00:08:05.860 --> 00:08:10.000 To reconcile, to forgive you, to welcome you into God's presence. 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:12.500 Because he loves you. 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:16.240 It's a Niagara kind of love. 00:08:17.259 --> 00:08:19.379 Not just once, but ongoing. 00:08:20.420 --> 00:08:21.019 Volumous. 00:08:22.180 --> 00:08:24.220 Incessantly loving you. 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.699 And by that love, he's established a better covenant 00:08:27.699 --> 00:08:30.879 that has made the first covenant obsolete. 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:34.460 This is the love standard. 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:39.779 Remember John chapter 13, 34 and 35? 00:08:39.899 --> 00:08:42.059 If you want to turn there in your Bibles, please do. 00:08:43.620 --> 00:08:45.779 It's on page 1070 of your Pew Bible. 00:08:46.620 --> 00:08:49.220 Jesus has just washed his disciples' feet. 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:50.899 It's just hours from the cross. 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:51.799 And he says, 00:08:51.799 --> 00:09:01.559 That's the standard by which we love one another. 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:03.719 That's the command here in 13.1. 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:05.399 This brotherly love. 00:09:05.500 --> 00:09:06.159 This Philadelphia. 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:11.919 We're to love one another with a costly Jesus Christ kind of love. 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:16.219 Self-sacrificial love for the good of others. 00:09:16.220 --> 00:09:22.920 And when we love each other like Christ, it gets noticed. 00:09:23.820 --> 00:09:24.860 Look at verse 35. 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:31.300 By this love, all people will know that you are my disciples. 00:09:31.660 --> 00:09:37.279 If you have this Christ-like sacrificial love for one another. 00:09:38.379 --> 00:09:41.340 This let brotherly love continue. 00:09:42.100 --> 00:09:43.779 This is huge. 00:09:46.220 --> 00:09:49.399 And I want to make one more connection for you before we move on to point two. 00:09:51.160 --> 00:09:53.680 In Hebrews 12, verse 28, we read this. 00:09:53.680 --> 00:09:58.220 Therefore, let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken. 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:04.639 And thus, let us offer to God acceptable worship with reverence and awe. 00:10:04.899 --> 00:10:06.899 For our God is a consuming fire. 00:10:07.040 --> 00:10:08.440 Let brotherly love continue. 00:10:08.980 --> 00:10:10.259 The connection is this. 00:10:10.259 --> 00:10:18.279 We as a church offer acceptable worship to God by loving one another. 00:10:19.179 --> 00:10:23.120 Our love for each other is the worship of God. 00:10:25.639 --> 00:10:27.379 It's a way we walk in holiness. 00:10:27.639 --> 00:10:31.700 Think of our love for one another as holiness in motion. 00:10:31.700 --> 00:10:36.040 It's a way we run long. 00:10:37.160 --> 00:10:39.680 We run loving. 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:42.520 Our salvation is bound up together, brothers and sisters. 00:10:45.020 --> 00:10:47.240 That is the controlling command of this passage. 00:10:47.379 --> 00:10:48.600 And now we move to point two. 00:10:49.060 --> 00:10:52.120 How that love shows up. 00:10:52.120 --> 00:10:56.720 We love by showing hospitality. 00:10:57.379 --> 00:10:58.539 Look at 13.2. 00:10:59.259 --> 00:11:02.019 Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers. 00:11:03.100 --> 00:11:03.639 Listen to this. 00:11:03.940 --> 00:11:08.600 For thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:15.500 That for, for by some, that's the reason why we should show hospitality. 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:18.480 For thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 00:11:19.139 --> 00:11:19.759 Angels are real. 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:24.379 It's, it's pointing to two passages in the book of Genesis. 00:11:24.580 --> 00:11:28.100 Genesis 18, where Abraham and Sarah entertain angels unaware. 00:11:28.399 --> 00:11:30.659 They were incredibly hospitable to these angels. 00:11:31.059 --> 00:11:40.019 And then in Genesis 19, Lot, he shows hospitality to two angels that he was unaware of two angels. 00:11:40.120 --> 00:11:42.819 And we know that angels are messengers of God. 00:11:42.939 --> 00:11:44.139 They are God's servants. 00:11:44.299 --> 00:11:45.299 They do God's will. 00:11:46.139 --> 00:11:48.759 And so this hospitality, you could be entertaining angels. 00:11:49.759 --> 00:11:51.419 By showing hospitality. 00:11:52.419 --> 00:11:54.039 What is this hospitality? 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:55.980 Well, I'm going to teach you another Greek word. 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:56.860 Not Philadelphia. 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:01.059 It's philozenias. 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:04.159 Philozenias. 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:05.139 There's an X there. 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:07.240 Philo, love, zineas. 00:12:07.460 --> 00:12:07.980 Zenos. 00:12:07.980 --> 00:12:10.500 That means stranger. 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:15.659 Hospitality is love for the stranger. 00:12:16.620 --> 00:12:18.460 Love for the outsider. 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:20.500 Have you heard the word xenophobia? 00:12:21.920 --> 00:12:23.379 Fear of the outsider. 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:24.560 That's not us. 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:27.060 We are to love the stranger. 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:29.480 Love the outsider. 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:36.000 But the question we need to ask right here now is, what stranger does the author of Hebrews 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:36.620 has in mind? 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:38.680 Who's he talking about? 00:12:38.920 --> 00:12:42.039 Well, remember, 13.1 is governing this passage. 00:12:42.940 --> 00:12:44.300 Let brotherly love continue. 00:12:44.299 --> 00:12:50.339 So it's most likely that the people that the writer of Hebrews, God has in mind here, are 00:12:50.339 --> 00:12:55.899 those strangers who are Christians who are outside of the church that he's writing to, 00:12:55.959 --> 00:12:56.919 that the author is writing to. 00:12:57.000 --> 00:12:59.099 So they would be strangers to that church. 00:12:59.139 --> 00:12:59.819 But they're Christians. 00:13:00.500 --> 00:13:03.159 It's a way of loving brothers and sisters in the faith. 00:13:04.500 --> 00:13:06.599 We love non-Christians, obviously. 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:08.259 We care for them. 00:13:08.299 --> 00:13:09.379 We're hospitable to them. 00:13:09.379 --> 00:13:11.539 But the emphasis here is on Christians. 00:13:11.779 --> 00:13:18.580 It's showing a biblical, costly hospitality, a love of other Christians who are outside 00:13:18.580 --> 00:13:19.639 the church. 00:13:19.860 --> 00:13:21.659 And you may be wondering, what does that look like? 00:13:22.899 --> 00:13:25.360 Well, I got three examples of what that can look like. 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:33.600 First is, we can show hospitality to Christian workers who are outside of our church. 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:39.000 Whether they're mission partners or other Christians who are seeking to expand the kingdom, 00:13:39.379 --> 00:13:42.600 we get to show them love. 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:44.639 We get to be hospitable to them. 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:50.419 Do you remember in the New Testament, maybe you're familiar with the book of Acts, how Paul 00:13:50.419 --> 00:13:55.580 and Silas and Timothy, even Apollos, would travel and would preach and minister. 00:13:56.019 --> 00:14:00.700 And they would go around all these different areas around the Mediterranean basin in the first 00:14:00.700 --> 00:14:01.059 century. 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:02.659 Do you know who was putting them up? 00:14:03.500 --> 00:14:04.320 Local churches. 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:06.820 They're opening their homes. 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:08.159 They're sharing their food. 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:09.699 They're providing their needs. 00:14:10.319 --> 00:14:12.360 It was a way of showing hospitality. 00:14:14.079 --> 00:14:20.079 And so we get to show hospitality in a similar way by mission partners. 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:21.860 Alliance would be one. 00:14:23.299 --> 00:14:24.480 We get to pray for them. 00:14:25.100 --> 00:14:28.159 We get to relationally support them. 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:30.600 We get to give financially to them. 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:34.620 And then when a gospel worker comes to visit, we open our homes. 00:14:34.820 --> 00:14:36.120 We share our food. 00:14:36.220 --> 00:14:37.180 We loan out our cars. 00:14:37.620 --> 00:14:40.500 Recently, G-1 and Caitlin Rye were in town. 00:14:40.580 --> 00:14:41.899 They were former members of the church. 00:14:42.040 --> 00:14:43.320 They're in Nepal right now. 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:44.920 They're doing great gospel work. 00:14:45.420 --> 00:14:47.100 And our family put them up. 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:52.220 It was a joy to share our home and to share meals together. 00:14:52.220 --> 00:14:56.340 So we get to show hospitality to gospel workers. 00:14:56.560 --> 00:14:58.740 That's one way we apply this. 00:14:58.800 --> 00:15:03.060 Another way to apply it is showing hospitality to newcomers on a Sunday morning. 00:15:03.139 --> 00:15:07.460 Now, if you're a newcomer this Sunday morning, I know this has the potential of being awkward. 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:10.960 But you can bear with us. 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:17.540 And sometimes it's not always obvious if a newcomer is a Christian or not. 00:15:18.740 --> 00:15:20.900 But here's how this rolls on a Sunday morning. 00:15:23.060 --> 00:15:29.840 When we have gathered together and we see a new face among us, it's an opportunity for us to be hospitable. 00:15:31.500 --> 00:15:33.700 To move to the new face. 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:36.379 To get to know them. 00:15:36.560 --> 00:15:37.639 Get to know their names. 00:15:37.800 --> 00:15:38.980 Get to know their stories. 00:15:38.980 --> 00:15:42.060 Ask good get to know you questions. 00:15:42.580 --> 00:15:46.080 And then introduce this newcomer to others. 00:15:47.820 --> 00:15:49.420 Even to invite them to your home. 00:15:50.779 --> 00:15:55.820 It's just another way in which we can love people who are outside. 00:15:56.259 --> 00:15:57.399 Love them inside. 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:04.500 The final way in which we can be hospitable is a little more fine-tuned. 00:16:04.879 --> 00:16:07.100 Because it's not just outside of the church. 00:16:07.100 --> 00:16:08.860 This one is kind of within the church. 00:16:09.940 --> 00:16:13.960 It's loving those brothers and sisters who are culturally different than us. 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:22.700 There's this general principle that we will gravitate towards people who are like us culturally. 00:16:23.500 --> 00:16:24.539 That's not bad. 00:16:24.539 --> 00:16:36.179 We'll gravitate to people who we share a similar racial background, economic background, neighborhood, interest, stage of life, even how we dress. 00:16:36.179 --> 00:16:42.779 But that cannot hold us hostage. 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:45.899 We need to love beyond that. 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:50.919 We need to love those who we would think maybe naturally are outsiders. 00:16:52.500 --> 00:16:53.359 Love them in. 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:58.659 From the very beginning, Christ the King Church has believed something wonderful. 00:16:58.659 --> 00:16:59.720 And here's what it is. 00:17:00.419 --> 00:17:07.259 We believe that God gets a glory when a homogenous group of people gather to praise Him. 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:08.240 God is glorified. 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:15.799 But we also believe that God gets a unique glory when He brings together people who are different from each other. 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:17.640 And they learn to love one another. 00:17:17.960 --> 00:17:21.359 In the world's eyes, that is kind of like what is going on there. 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:26.379 And what is going on there is the love of God. 00:17:27.859 --> 00:17:32.359 We love each other in a way that doesn't make sense to the world. 00:17:33.959 --> 00:17:36.500 Because we love each other with a Christ-like love. 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:38.459 It's a hospitality. 00:17:39.259 --> 00:17:40.559 It's a love for the stranger. 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:47.659 And it's just another way we run long by loving one another. 00:17:47.660 --> 00:17:56.400 The next point is we love by remembering those who are suffering. 00:17:57.779 --> 00:17:59.460 In 13.3 we read this. 00:17:59.580 --> 00:18:02.420 Remember those who are in prison as though in prison with them. 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:05.900 And those who are mistreated since you are also in the body. 00:18:07.340 --> 00:18:10.840 In verse 3, the author is focusing on two groups of suffering people. 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:13.720 People in prison and people who are being mistreated. 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:16.540 That mistreatment is a physical abuse. 00:18:16.620 --> 00:18:17.500 It's getting roughed up. 00:18:17.660 --> 00:18:25.360 Don't forget that 13.1 still is governing this. 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:26.860 So let brotherly love continue. 00:18:27.100 --> 00:18:29.360 Love other brothers and sisters in Christ. 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:34.040 And so the way to apply this and think about it is we are to be loving. 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:41.160 We are to be remembering those brothers and sisters in prison. 00:18:41.580 --> 00:18:45.600 And those brothers and sisters who are being roughed up physically. 00:18:45.599 --> 00:18:49.980 And the idea here is they are suffering for Christ. 00:18:51.980 --> 00:18:55.500 Remember this is a church in Hebrews 10.32-34. 00:18:55.500 --> 00:18:59.140 Who are suffering for Jesus. 00:18:59.140 --> 00:19:03.759 And so he's saying don't forget them. 00:19:05.020 --> 00:19:08.000 Don't forget your brothers and sisters who are in jail right now. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:12.660 Don't forget your brother and sisters who are getting roughed up for Jesus as we speak. 00:19:12.660 --> 00:19:18.600 Now we are to remember all people in our midst who are suffering. 00:19:18.600 --> 00:19:23.759 But the emphasis is here is especially those who are suffering for Christ. 00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:25.759 The temptation will be this. 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:26.160 The temptation will be this. 00:19:26.579 --> 00:19:28.599 To disassociate yourself from them. 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:37.039 To like be very cautious to identify with someone who is suffering for a variety of reasons. 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:42.660 But we're told how to remember these people in this passage. 00:19:43.079 --> 00:19:46.019 Remember those who are in prison as though in prison with them. 00:19:46.019 --> 00:19:48.680 It's putting yourself in their shoes. 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:53.059 Compassion will blossom from this. 00:19:54.019 --> 00:19:55.980 It will compel you to act. 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:02.019 And so when you remember a brother or sister who is jailed for suffering for Christ. 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:06.359 And you're like boy I can just imagine what it would be like to be in jail with them. 00:20:06.700 --> 00:20:07.819 Then you're going to pray for them. 00:20:07.900 --> 00:20:08.619 You're going to help them. 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:11.960 In the first century you would need to bring food to them and care for them. 00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:19.079 And for those who are mistreated again we are to put ourselves into their shoes. 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:24.740 And those who are mistreated remember them since you also are in the body. 00:20:24.840 --> 00:20:29.400 The idea there is hey you've got a physical body just like they have a physical body. 00:20:29.759 --> 00:20:33.600 And if they've got a black eye if they've got broken ribs you can imagine what that's like too. 00:20:34.799 --> 00:20:38.500 And the idea there is to generate this remembrance. 00:20:38.819 --> 00:20:39.460 This compassion. 00:20:39.700 --> 00:20:40.779 This moving to action. 00:20:40.779 --> 00:20:49.599 This is how you use your sanctified imagination to put yourself into the shoes of those who are suffering for Christ. 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:52.839 And when you do that it compels you to act. 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:54.420 It's a way of loving. 00:20:56.539 --> 00:21:01.819 Did you know that we have brothers and sisters all around the world right now who are suffering for Christ. 00:21:02.779 --> 00:21:03.799 They've jailed. 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:05.220 They're getting beat up. 00:21:05.220 --> 00:21:09.160 I want to put into your mind a website. 00:21:10.140 --> 00:21:12.420 It's an organization called Voice of the Martyrs. 00:21:12.500 --> 00:21:12.839 VOM. 00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:14.360 You can Google it. 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:16.660 And just FYI. 00:21:17.039 --> 00:21:23.559 You are going to be made aware of some very difficult situations globally of Christians. 00:21:23.700 --> 00:21:25.440 Brothers and sisters suffering for Jesus. 00:21:26.180 --> 00:21:27.839 It is good for us. 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:32.220 It will help us to remember those people who are suffering. 00:21:32.559 --> 00:21:33.439 You're going to want to pray. 00:21:33.659 --> 00:21:34.599 You may want to give. 00:21:34.699 --> 00:21:35.980 I would just encourage you. 00:21:36.619 --> 00:21:39.159 But let me just float this by you. 00:21:39.160 --> 00:21:43.140 Let's say in five or seven years from now. 00:21:45.259 --> 00:21:48.680 Pastor Mike has preached a sermon on biblical marriage. 00:21:50.080 --> 00:21:51.360 One man. 00:21:52.340 --> 00:21:53.240 One woman. 00:21:53.840 --> 00:22:00.620 Joined together by God in an exclusive one flesh relationship for life. 00:22:01.379 --> 00:22:06.799 And in saying that I'm saying what the Bible is saying is that even like homosexuality is wrong. 00:22:07.539 --> 00:22:09.179 There is fornication is wrong. 00:22:09.699 --> 00:22:11.619 These things are grievous in God's sight. 00:22:12.119 --> 00:22:16.919 And then that week I get arrested because it's seen as a hate crime. 00:22:19.579 --> 00:22:20.500 What are you going to do? 00:22:22.719 --> 00:22:24.579 Are you going to distance yourself from me? 00:22:26.619 --> 00:22:29.939 Because you don't want to be seen in a particular light. 00:22:31.619 --> 00:22:33.859 Or are you going to put yourself in my shoes? 00:22:34.479 --> 00:22:36.279 Are you going to put yourself in Jenny's shoes? 00:22:36.979 --> 00:22:39.579 And are you going to be compelled to act? 00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:46.899 The emphasis here is on those suffering for Christ. 00:22:47.059 --> 00:22:51.759 And it might be a little hard for us to conceive of in our country at this time. 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:53.279 But not so difficult. 00:22:55.739 --> 00:22:59.399 We need to remember too that there are people suffering for other things. 00:23:00.619 --> 00:23:02.039 Their physical bodies. 00:23:02.479 --> 00:23:03.399 Mental health. 00:23:04.259 --> 00:23:05.379 Relational strain. 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:06.599 Job loss. 00:23:08.139 --> 00:23:09.799 What's love got to do with it? 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:12.500 It's got everything to do with it. 00:23:12.500 --> 00:23:15.099 We run long. 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:17.440 And we run loving. 00:23:18.200 --> 00:23:20.220 Our salvation is bound up together. 00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:23.500 The next way. 00:23:23.779 --> 00:23:24.640 This is point four. 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:28.279 The way we love each other. 00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:29.160 Love the brothers. 00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:29.240 Brothers. 00:23:30.140 --> 00:23:31.380 Is by honoring. 00:23:33.019 --> 00:23:33.420 Marriage. 00:23:34.580 --> 00:23:35.340 It's in verse four. 00:23:35.600 --> 00:23:37.240 Let marriage be held in honor among all. 00:23:38.019 --> 00:23:39.680 And let the marriage bed be undefiled. 00:23:39.779 --> 00:23:42.660 For God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. 00:23:42.660 --> 00:23:45.840 Now this might sound strange in your ears. 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:48.340 You might be wondering. 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:48.800 How. 00:23:50.120 --> 00:23:51.140 How does this work? 00:23:51.220 --> 00:23:52.800 How is it that all of us. 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:54.300 By honoring marriage. 00:23:54.300 --> 00:23:55.200 Is a way. 00:23:55.620 --> 00:23:56.740 By which we love one another. 00:23:57.840 --> 00:23:58.600 Maybe you've never. 00:23:59.160 --> 00:23:59.960 Thought of it. 00:24:00.180 --> 00:24:01.060 Like this before. 00:24:01.620 --> 00:24:02.880 Let's just define some terms. 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:05.380 The phrase honor. 00:24:05.380 --> 00:24:10.320 Let marriage be held in honor among all. 00:24:10.500 --> 00:24:11.540 All of us. 00:24:12.020 --> 00:24:14.300 Are to honor marriage. 00:24:14.420 --> 00:24:16.180 We are to hold it in high esteem. 00:24:16.260 --> 00:24:17.680 We're to make much of it. 00:24:17.760 --> 00:24:19.040 We're to celebrate it. 00:24:19.280 --> 00:24:20.860 We're to celebrate when people get married. 00:24:20.940 --> 00:24:21.440 And then when we. 00:24:21.600 --> 00:24:23.680 We celebrate when people stay married. 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:24.800 For 20 years. 00:24:24.840 --> 00:24:25.400 And 30 years. 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:26.020 And 40 years. 00:24:26.080 --> 00:24:26.680 And 50 years. 00:24:26.740 --> 00:24:27.620 And 60 years. 00:24:27.620 --> 00:24:28.840 And 70 years. 00:24:31.360 --> 00:24:32.500 We recommend it. 00:24:34.060 --> 00:24:35.080 We urge it. 00:24:35.380 --> 00:24:37.360 And we do all these things. 00:24:37.560 --> 00:24:37.880 Because. 00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:39.940 It's good. 00:24:41.740 --> 00:24:43.320 God's design. 00:24:43.560 --> 00:24:44.340 Of marriage. 00:24:44.460 --> 00:24:45.040 Is good. 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:46.720 And it is a good gift. 00:24:47.080 --> 00:24:47.880 For all. 00:24:48.120 --> 00:24:49.360 Of humanity. 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:50.480 It is. 00:24:50.820 --> 00:24:51.200 His. 00:24:51.460 --> 00:24:51.960 Way. 00:24:52.100 --> 00:24:52.480 In which. 00:24:52.600 --> 00:24:53.380 He wants to. 00:24:53.740 --> 00:24:54.300 Establish. 00:24:54.580 --> 00:24:55.360 A planet. 00:24:56.460 --> 00:24:57.600 That is experiencing. 00:24:58.040 --> 00:24:58.440 Shalom. 00:24:58.560 --> 00:24:59.260 In relationships. 00:25:02.260 --> 00:25:03.500 We got to be clear. 00:25:03.500 --> 00:25:05.280 On what biblical marriage is. 00:25:06.360 --> 00:25:07.440 Let me just say up front. 00:25:08.360 --> 00:25:09.360 We are to honor. 00:25:09.700 --> 00:25:10.220 God's. 00:25:10.720 --> 00:25:11.160 Design. 00:25:11.560 --> 00:25:12.500 Of marriage. 00:25:14.660 --> 00:25:16.120 If you want to turn in your Bibles. 00:25:16.260 --> 00:25:17.540 To Genesis chapter 2. 00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:20.540 That's on page 2. 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:21.300 2 and 3. 00:25:21.360 --> 00:25:22.200 Of your pew Bible. 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:25.180 We start. 00:25:25.180 --> 00:25:25.180 00:25:26.420 --> 00:25:26.819 Hearing. 00:25:27.019 --> 00:25:28.100 A biblical definition. 00:25:28.100 --> 00:25:28.960 Of marriage. 00:25:32.580 --> 00:25:33.059 Adam. 00:25:33.059 --> 00:25:33.740 Adam has been busy. 00:25:34.779 --> 00:25:35.700 He's been naming. 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:37.240 All of the animals. 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:38.519 And as he's been naming. 00:25:38.519 --> 00:25:39.120 The animals. 00:25:39.259 --> 00:25:39.860 He's been naming. 00:25:40.380 --> 00:25:41.420 The male animal. 00:25:41.600 --> 00:25:42.720 And the female animal. 00:25:42.920 --> 00:25:43.920 And he's being made aware. 00:25:44.180 --> 00:25:45.299 That he has no female. 00:25:45.539 --> 00:25:46.440 Counterpart himself. 00:25:47.380 --> 00:25:48.319 So in verse 18. 00:25:48.639 --> 00:25:49.460 The Lord says. 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:50.339 And this is before. 00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:52.159 There's any sin in the world. 00:25:53.159 --> 00:25:54.359 It is not good. 00:25:54.359 --> 00:25:55.599 That man should be alone. 00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:56.599 I will make him. 00:25:56.679 --> 00:25:57.159 A helper. 00:25:57.859 --> 00:25:58.539 Fit for him. 00:25:58.619 --> 00:25:59.700 And then in verse 22. 00:26:00.099 --> 00:26:00.659 And the rib. 00:26:00.779 --> 00:26:01.460 That the Lord God. 00:26:01.579 --> 00:26:03.019 Had taken from the man. 00:26:03.059 --> 00:26:03.359 Adam. 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:04.460 He made into a woman. 00:26:05.099 --> 00:26:05.740 And God. 00:26:06.099 --> 00:26:06.759 Brought her. 00:26:06.980 --> 00:26:07.299 Eve. 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:08.179 To the man. 00:26:08.539 --> 00:26:08.939 Adam. 00:26:09.259 --> 00:26:10.119 Then the man said. 00:26:10.619 --> 00:26:11.200 This at last. 00:26:11.339 --> 00:26:12.059 Is bone of my bones. 00:26:12.139 --> 00:26:13.079 And flesh of my flesh. 00:26:13.299 --> 00:26:14.539 She shall be called woman. 00:26:14.539 --> 00:26:16.240 Because she has. 00:26:16.399 --> 00:26:17.899 She was taken out of man. 00:26:17.980 --> 00:26:20.019 Now I have a funny little interpretation of this. 00:26:20.279 --> 00:26:21.779 That you just need to hear right now. 00:26:24.599 --> 00:26:25.000 Adam. 00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:27.059 Oh man. 00:26:27.099 --> 00:26:28.139 It stinks being alone. 00:26:28.200 --> 00:26:28.779 Look at all these. 00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:29.680 Animals. 00:26:29.819 --> 00:26:30.500 Paired off together. 00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:33.000 God brings Eve. 00:26:34.599 --> 00:26:35.119 Hey Adam. 00:26:37.220 --> 00:26:38.180 Look what I made you. 00:26:40.940 --> 00:26:41.339 Adam. 00:26:42.859 --> 00:26:43.220 Whoa. 00:26:43.220 --> 00:26:43.299 Whoa. 00:26:44.539 --> 00:26:46.619 Man. 00:26:49.420 --> 00:26:49.819 Whoa. 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:52.879 Man. 00:26:54.619 --> 00:26:55.559 Whoa man. 00:26:57.940 --> 00:26:58.740 He's a happy. 00:26:58.940 --> 00:26:59.980 He's a happy guy. 00:27:01.339 --> 00:27:03.019 Therefore a man shall leave his father. 00:27:03.159 --> 00:27:03.680 And his mother. 00:27:03.839 --> 00:27:04.980 And hold fast to his wife. 00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:06.319 And they shall become one flesh. 00:27:06.399 --> 00:27:07.899 And the man and his wife. 00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:08.539 Were both naked. 00:27:08.619 --> 00:27:09.399 And were not ashamed. 00:27:09.720 --> 00:27:11.420 There's the biblical foundation for marriage. 00:27:11.420 --> 00:27:14.880 Here's what I want you to see. 00:27:16.080 --> 00:27:18.060 Turn now to Matthew chapter 19. 00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:19.759 Three through six. 00:27:20.700 --> 00:27:22.259 Because Jesus Christ. 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:24.740 Fully endorses this. 00:27:24.740 --> 00:27:28.240 I want you to turn there. 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:29.519 So you can see it yourself. 00:27:30.019 --> 00:27:33.259 That this is God's good design and will for marriage. 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:35.620 In Matthew 19. 00:27:36.019 --> 00:27:38.640 Jesus is getting peppered with a question about divorce. 00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:42.079 But we can see here what he thinks about marriage. 00:27:42.079 --> 00:27:45.059 It's what God thinks about marriage. 00:27:45.059 --> 00:27:46.839 Because Jesus is God in the flesh. 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:49.379 Matthew 19. 00:27:49.500 --> 00:27:50.619 Verses three through six. 00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:53.879 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking. 00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:56.779 Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause? 00:27:57.460 --> 00:27:58.399 Jesus answered. 00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:00.039 Have you not read. 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:03.240 That he who created them from the beginning. 00:28:03.859 --> 00:28:06.099 Made them male and female. 00:28:06.420 --> 00:28:06.960 Genesis 1. 00:28:08.220 --> 00:28:09.039 And said. 00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:12.119 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother. 00:28:12.180 --> 00:28:13.460 And hold fast to his wife. 00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:14.940 And the two shall become one flesh. 00:28:15.299 --> 00:28:16.180 Genesis 2.24. 00:28:18.099 --> 00:28:20.680 So they are no longer two but one flesh. 00:28:20.779 --> 00:28:23.059 What therefore God has joined together. 00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:25.119 Let not man separate. 00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:27.339 This is our king. 00:28:28.440 --> 00:28:29.759 Saying what marriage is. 00:28:30.819 --> 00:28:34.079 Biblical marriage is one biological man. 00:28:34.259 --> 00:28:35.559 And one biological woman. 00:28:36.059 --> 00:28:37.659 Joined together by God. 00:28:37.779 --> 00:28:40.720 In an exclusive one flesh union. 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:42.099 For life. 00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:46.180 It's the standard. 00:28:47.980 --> 00:28:52.099 This is God's one holy true standard. 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:53.460 For marriage. 00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:55.279 And any deviation from it. 00:28:55.559 --> 00:28:57.339 Any change of its definition. 00:28:57.339 --> 00:28:58.619 Is a distortion. 00:28:58.619 --> 00:29:00.199 It's a perversion. 00:29:00.579 --> 00:29:02.459 It's a counterfeit. 00:29:02.460 --> 00:29:06.200 In it's unloving. 00:29:08.420 --> 00:29:11.120 To be involved in these kinds of relationships. 00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:13.600 Is actually unloving. 00:29:13.599 --> 00:29:18.099 Did you know that the secret service. 00:29:18.099 --> 00:29:19.659 Is responsible for identifying. 00:29:19.659 --> 00:29:21.439 And purging counterfeit currencies. 00:29:21.439 --> 00:29:22.240 In the United States. 00:29:22.879 --> 00:29:23.740 And did you know. 00:29:23.879 --> 00:29:24.659 That the primary way. 00:29:24.699 --> 00:29:25.659 Secret service agents. 00:29:25.819 --> 00:29:26.359 Are trained. 00:29:26.619 --> 00:29:27.659 To spot counterfeits. 00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:29.579 Is by becoming incredibly familiar. 00:29:29.579 --> 00:29:30.759 More than anybody else. 00:29:30.919 --> 00:29:31.699 What U.S. 00:29:31.799 --> 00:29:32.740 Currency is like. 00:29:32.740 --> 00:29:33.339 And so. 00:29:33.339 --> 00:29:34.819 If you went to a. 00:29:35.480 --> 00:29:36.620 Secret service agent. 00:29:36.779 --> 00:29:38.200 Who's in the counterfeit division. 00:29:38.460 --> 00:29:39.039 And you said. 00:29:39.120 --> 00:29:39.180 Hey. 00:29:39.220 --> 00:29:39.740 Do you know what. 00:29:39.799 --> 00:29:40.920 A hundred dollar bill looks like. 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:41.279 They'll be like. 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:41.900 Of course I do. 00:29:43.220 --> 00:29:43.480 I mean. 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:45.180 All variations of hundred dollar bills. 00:29:45.299 --> 00:29:45.960 For the last 40. 00:29:46.039 --> 00:29:46.599 50 years. 00:29:46.759 --> 00:29:47.579 Anything in. 00:29:48.120 --> 00:29:48.339 In. 00:29:48.500 --> 00:29:49.500 In circulation right now. 00:29:49.579 --> 00:29:49.980 I know. 00:29:50.620 --> 00:29:51.039 And then. 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:51.539 You might say. 00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:52.039 Well do you know. 00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:53.500 What they smell like. 00:29:53.500 --> 00:29:54.339 Of course. 00:29:54.460 --> 00:29:54.859 I know what. 00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:56.399 A hundred dollar bill smells like. 00:29:57.480 --> 00:29:58.420 Do you know what they feel like. 00:29:58.460 --> 00:29:58.799 Of course. 00:29:58.899 --> 00:29:59.859 I know what they feel like. 00:30:01.379 --> 00:30:01.899 Do you know. 00:30:01.960 --> 00:30:02.559 They sound like. 00:30:02.639 --> 00:30:02.799 Oh. 00:30:02.899 --> 00:30:03.960 I know what a hundred dollar bill. 00:30:04.220 --> 00:30:04.960 Sounds crumpled. 00:30:05.139 --> 00:30:06.099 And I know what a ten dollar bill. 00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:06.859 Sounds like crumpled. 00:30:06.980 --> 00:30:07.779 And a five dollar bill. 00:30:07.879 --> 00:30:08.159 And a one dollar. 00:30:08.460 --> 00:30:08.799 Okay. 00:30:08.940 --> 00:30:09.200 Okay. 00:30:09.539 --> 00:30:10.740 Do you know what they taste like. 00:30:11.639 --> 00:30:11.839 Oh. 00:30:11.879 --> 00:30:12.220 I know. 00:30:12.299 --> 00:30:13.059 What they taste like. 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:17.680 They know the real stuff. 00:30:17.940 --> 00:30:18.839 So well. 00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:20.500 That they can spot. 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:22.500 A counterfeit. 00:30:22.639 --> 00:30:23.759 A mile away. 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:26.319 And what this biblical definition. 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:27.879 Of marriage does. 00:30:28.879 --> 00:30:30.859 It gives us the real stuff. 00:30:31.259 --> 00:30:32.879 So that we can spot. 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:33.960 Counterfeits. 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:42.099 This biblical definition. 00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:43.839 Is not just. 00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:45.839 Something we know. 00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:48.259 It's something we celebrate. 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:50.019 It's something we rejoice in. 00:30:50.019 --> 00:30:51.240 Because this is God's. 00:30:51.700 --> 00:30:53.079 Good design. 00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:54.819 And then you can spot. 00:30:54.980 --> 00:30:55.500 Counterfeits. 00:30:55.500 --> 00:30:56.139 As a result. 00:30:56.579 --> 00:30:57.319 The Bible calls it. 00:30:57.519 --> 00:30:57.819 Sin. 00:30:59.139 --> 00:31:00.160 You are rebelling. 00:31:00.299 --> 00:31:01.000 Against God. 00:31:01.859 --> 00:31:03.059 And there's two categories. 00:31:03.059 --> 00:31:04.000 Given in this verse. 00:31:04.180 --> 00:31:05.200 Sexual immorality. 00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:05.859 And adultery. 00:31:05.980 --> 00:31:06.759 Sexual immorality. 00:31:06.900 --> 00:31:07.119 Is just. 00:31:07.619 --> 00:31:08.960 General sexual sin. 00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:09.940 Adultery. 00:31:09.940 --> 00:31:11.339 Is when. 00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:12.680 A spouse. 00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:13.619 Is sexually. 00:31:13.940 --> 00:31:14.420 Unfaithful. 00:31:14.420 --> 00:31:17.860 Let me just fill that out. 00:31:17.860 --> 00:31:18.340 A little bit. 00:31:20.580 --> 00:31:21.960 Here are other ways. 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:23.640 Other. 00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:24.560 Other ways. 00:31:24.560 --> 00:31:25.560 That are outside. 00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:26.019 This. 00:31:27.019 --> 00:31:27.300 Good. 00:31:27.560 --> 00:31:28.660 Definition of marriage. 00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:30.100 What God has given us. 00:31:31.100 --> 00:31:31.620 Homosexuality. 00:31:31.620 --> 00:31:32.720 Is grievous. 00:31:32.720 --> 00:31:33.720 In God's sight. 00:31:33.820 --> 00:31:34.940 Because it's outside. 00:31:35.060 --> 00:31:36.000 This definition. 00:31:36.740 --> 00:31:37.259 Fornication. 00:31:37.259 --> 00:31:39.619 When two non-married people. 00:31:39.619 --> 00:31:40.359 Are engaging. 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:41.339 In sexual activity. 00:31:41.339 --> 00:31:41.660 It's. 00:31:41.660 --> 00:31:42.359 Grievous. 00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:43.079 In God's sight. 00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:43.960 Polygamy. 00:31:44.259 --> 00:31:44.980 Open marriages. 00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:46.140 Pornography. 00:31:46.359 --> 00:31:46.879 Consumption. 00:31:47.019 --> 00:31:48.420 It's all outside. 00:31:48.420 --> 00:31:49.700 Of God's good design. 00:31:50.980 --> 00:31:52.099 And what these do. 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:53.200 Is they distort. 00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:54.660 This good gift. 00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:56.720 And they defile. 00:31:56.859 --> 00:31:57.259 Those. 00:31:57.539 --> 00:31:58.460 Who participate in it. 00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:00.599 Don't defile. 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:01.759 The marriage bed. 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:06.039 How is honoring marriage. 00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:07.440 Loving. 00:32:07.940 --> 00:32:08.500 To one another. 00:32:10.180 --> 00:32:10.740 Because. 00:32:11.559 --> 00:32:12.759 It's acceptable worship. 00:32:14.019 --> 00:32:15.139 We love. 00:32:15.139 --> 00:32:15.799 One another. 00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:16.779 To this. 00:32:17.619 --> 00:32:18.180 Acceptable. 00:32:18.420 --> 00:32:18.740 Worship. 00:32:18.940 --> 00:32:19.500 Of God. 00:32:19.639 --> 00:32:20.299 In which we are. 00:32:20.420 --> 00:32:21.480 Stewarding our bodies. 00:32:21.819 --> 00:32:22.399 In a way that. 00:32:22.619 --> 00:32:23.339 God has told us. 00:32:23.379 --> 00:32:23.980 To steward them. 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:26.279 We love. 00:32:26.379 --> 00:32:26.619 One another. 00:32:26.759 --> 00:32:27.659 It is good. 00:32:28.639 --> 00:32:29.039 Don't. 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:30.039 Dabble. 00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:31.039 In anything. 00:32:31.500 --> 00:32:31.980 Outside. 00:32:32.159 --> 00:32:32.759 Of God's. 00:32:33.019 --> 00:32:33.359 Goodness. 00:32:33.899 --> 00:32:34.819 This is what we encourage. 00:32:34.899 --> 00:32:35.639 One another to do. 00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:37.139 So if you are. 00:32:37.159 --> 00:32:37.879 Participating. 00:32:38.019 --> 00:32:38.879 In any distortion. 00:32:39.079 --> 00:32:40.000 Of God's good gift. 00:32:40.039 --> 00:32:40.700 Of marriage. 00:32:41.500 --> 00:32:43.159 You defiled yourself. 00:32:44.240 --> 00:32:45.240 You've sinned. 00:32:45.299 --> 00:32:45.920 Against God. 00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:46.799 You need to confess. 00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:48.059 And repent. 00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:49.700 There's a warning. 00:32:50.139 --> 00:32:50.420 Here. 00:32:50.819 --> 00:32:51.480 And there's a reason. 00:32:51.579 --> 00:32:52.319 Why there's a warning. 00:32:52.460 --> 00:32:52.639 Here. 00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:54.639 The warning. 00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:56.319 Is simply this. 00:32:57.180 --> 00:32:58.519 God will judge. 00:33:00.099 --> 00:33:00.700 The. 00:33:01.500 --> 00:33:02.420 Sexually immoral. 00:33:02.639 --> 00:33:02.799 In a. 00:33:02.940 --> 00:33:04.159 In adulterer. 00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:06.580 If you are. 00:33:06.580 --> 00:33:07.100 Unwilling. 00:33:07.100 --> 00:33:07.740 To repent. 00:33:07.740 --> 00:33:09.180 Of your sexual sin. 00:33:09.800 --> 00:33:10.680 The danger. 00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:11.580 That you are in. 00:33:11.779 --> 00:33:12.580 Is whether you're even. 00:33:12.580 --> 00:33:13.140 A Christian. 00:33:14.320 --> 00:33:15.519 This can be the cause. 00:33:15.660 --> 00:33:16.279 By which people. 00:33:16.460 --> 00:33:17.100 Fall away. 00:33:17.460 --> 00:33:18.420 And show that they were never. 00:33:18.500 --> 00:33:19.580 Believers to begin with. 00:33:20.140 --> 00:33:20.500 And you know. 00:33:20.580 --> 00:33:21.620 There's another effect. 00:33:21.620 --> 00:33:22.500 Of sexual sin. 00:33:23.779 --> 00:33:24.700 It's hiding. 00:33:26.460 --> 00:33:27.700 It's avoidance. 00:33:29.040 --> 00:33:30.279 It's shame. 00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:33.619 One of the great schemes. 00:33:33.619 --> 00:33:34.379 Of the devil. 00:33:34.579 --> 00:33:35.319 In our day. 00:33:36.220 --> 00:33:37.740 To hamstring the church. 00:33:37.740 --> 00:33:39.480 From effective service. 00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:42.619 Is by hamstringing. 00:33:42.700 --> 00:33:44.359 Half the men. 00:33:44.539 --> 00:33:46.299 Of the evangelical church. 00:33:46.299 --> 00:33:47.200 Into the sin. 00:33:47.299 --> 00:33:48.059 Of pornography. 00:33:50.639 --> 00:33:52.420 Effectively taking them out. 00:33:52.819 --> 00:33:53.819 Of making disciples. 00:33:53.819 --> 00:33:54.379 Of Jesus. 00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:55.799 Who worship God. 00:33:55.920 --> 00:33:56.720 In the context. 00:33:56.819 --> 00:33:57.680 Of the local church. 00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:00.440 This is serious business. 00:34:03.460 --> 00:34:04.060 We. 00:34:04.259 --> 00:34:05.259 We love one another. 00:34:05.259 --> 00:34:06.240 By honoring marriage. 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:07.519 Calling each other. 00:34:07.600 --> 00:34:08.019 To that. 00:34:08.320 --> 00:34:09.340 And helping each other. 00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:09.800 Fight. 00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:10.579 The fight. 00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:11.000 Here. 00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:12.900 We. 00:34:13.940 --> 00:34:14.500 Run long. 00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:16.000 And we. 00:34:16.940 --> 00:34:17.220 Run. 00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:17.980 Loving. 00:34:19.059 --> 00:34:19.639 Our salvation. 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:20.800 Is. 00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:21.539 Bound up. 00:34:22.200 --> 00:34:22.519 Together. 00:34:24.740 --> 00:34:25.260 Finally. 00:34:25.500 --> 00:34:25.680 We. 00:34:27.019 --> 00:34:27.659 Point five. 00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:28.059 We love. 00:34:28.059 --> 00:34:28.079 We love. 00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:28.359 By. 00:34:28.359 --> 00:34:29.259 Being content. 00:34:32.339 --> 00:34:33.579 You might wonder. 00:34:34.139 --> 00:34:34.440 Wait. 00:34:35.379 --> 00:34:36.819 How does being content. 00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:37.239 And not. 00:34:37.539 --> 00:34:38.679 Not loving money. 00:34:38.799 --> 00:34:38.940 How. 00:34:39.059 --> 00:34:40.799 How does this have anything to do with. 00:34:41.339 --> 00:34:42.159 Loving one another. 00:34:44.179 --> 00:34:44.379 Well. 00:34:44.379 --> 00:34:45.119 Similar to marriage. 00:34:45.299 --> 00:34:46.359 It may not sound. 00:34:46.739 --> 00:34:47.119 Seem. 00:34:47.719 --> 00:34:48.659 Straightforward at first. 00:34:48.799 --> 00:34:48.980 But. 00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:50.219 Hear it out. 00:34:52.359 --> 00:34:53.639 There's another philo. 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:54.739 Word here. 00:34:55.399 --> 00:34:56.819 In verses five and six. 00:34:56.820 --> 00:34:58.800 Keep your life free from the love of money. 00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:00.660 The word love of money. 00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:01.880 In the original language is. 00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:03.320 Phy the. 00:35:03.420 --> 00:35:03.820 Argiros. 00:35:04.539 --> 00:35:04.880 It's. 00:35:05.100 --> 00:35:06.380 The love of silver. 00:35:07.100 --> 00:35:08.220 It literally means. 00:35:08.340 --> 00:35:09.200 The love of money. 00:35:09.420 --> 00:35:11.160 It goes by other words in your new testament. 00:35:11.300 --> 00:35:12.140 It goes by greed. 00:35:12.260 --> 00:35:13.559 It goes by covetousness. 00:35:15.200 --> 00:35:15.640 This. 00:35:16.059 --> 00:35:16.720 In this. 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:18.200 In this verse. 00:35:18.260 --> 00:35:18.840 In verse five. 00:35:18.940 --> 00:35:19.539 It's actually. 00:35:19.780 --> 00:35:20.180 Ah. 00:35:20.680 --> 00:35:21.039 Phyllo. 00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:21.679 Agurus. 00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:22.639 Which means. 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:23.940 Not the love of money. 00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:26.420 We are not to love money. 00:35:26.539 --> 00:35:27.659 But we are to be content. 00:35:27.659 --> 00:35:28.699 With what we have. 00:35:30.099 --> 00:35:31.219 The love of money. 00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:32.239 Is when. 00:35:32.599 --> 00:35:32.920 Money. 00:35:33.639 --> 00:35:34.199 Possessions. 00:35:34.500 --> 00:35:34.940 Things. 00:35:35.279 --> 00:35:36.679 Becomes the controlling center. 00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:37.440 Of your life. 00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:38.779 Even your relationships. 00:35:42.380 --> 00:35:43.279 It's not good. 00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:45.719 In Matthew six. 00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:46.739 Nineteen through twenty four. 00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:47.539 In the sermon on the mount. 00:35:47.539 --> 00:35:48.019 Jesus. 00:35:48.659 --> 00:35:49.880 Presents the love of money. 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:50.820 And the love of God. 00:35:51.079 --> 00:35:52.039 As mutually. 00:35:52.699 --> 00:35:53.179 Exclusive. 00:35:53.699 --> 00:35:54.000 You can. 00:35:54.259 --> 00:35:55.800 You can only have one master. 00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:56.619 Six twenty four. 00:35:56.699 --> 00:35:57.860 You can't love both. 00:35:58.659 --> 00:35:59.980 You can only have one. 00:36:00.659 --> 00:36:01.099 Functional. 00:36:01.679 --> 00:36:02.039 God. 00:36:02.139 --> 00:36:02.940 That's why Paul. 00:36:03.019 --> 00:36:03.719 In Colossians three. 00:36:03.800 --> 00:36:04.059 Five. 00:36:05.019 --> 00:36:05.500 Equates. 00:36:06.779 --> 00:36:07.219 Covetousness. 00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:08.360 With idolatry. 00:36:09.420 --> 00:36:10.360 Love of money. 00:36:10.619 --> 00:36:11.779 Is not acceptable. 00:36:11.900 --> 00:36:12.579 Worship to God. 00:36:13.340 --> 00:36:14.179 It's idolatrous. 00:36:14.239 --> 00:36:14.679 In his sight. 00:36:15.900 --> 00:36:16.079 And. 00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:17.199 For your reference. 00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:18.539 In first Timothy six. 00:36:18.659 --> 00:36:19.480 Six through ten. 00:36:20.019 --> 00:36:21.480 There is a stark. 00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:22.519 Warning. 00:36:23.419 --> 00:36:24.480 For all. 00:36:24.879 --> 00:36:25.639 Who are tempted. 00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:26.659 To the love of money. 00:36:27.059 --> 00:36:27.519 And just. 00:36:27.699 --> 00:36:28.379 To be clear. 00:36:28.819 --> 00:36:29.960 Both rich people. 00:36:30.139 --> 00:36:31.239 And poor people. 00:36:31.539 --> 00:36:32.179 Are tempted. 00:36:32.579 --> 00:36:33.379 To the love of money. 00:36:35.379 --> 00:36:36.799 We learn from that passage. 00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:37.159 That. 00:36:38.359 --> 00:36:38.839 Money. 00:36:39.259 --> 00:36:39.939 Is not the root. 00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:40.480 Of all evil. 00:36:41.099 --> 00:36:42.219 But the love. 00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:43.199 Of money. 00:36:43.839 --> 00:36:44.679 Is a root. 00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:46.059 Of all evil. 00:36:46.059 --> 00:36:48.019 It is a heart. 00:36:48.519 --> 00:36:49.079 Issue. 00:36:50.420 --> 00:36:51.739 And what are some of those evils? 00:36:52.699 --> 00:36:54.019 If you're loving money. 00:36:54.739 --> 00:36:56.139 More than you love God. 00:36:58.639 --> 00:36:59.719 You can neglect. 00:37:00.820 --> 00:37:01.719 Important things. 00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:02.519 You can neglect. 00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:03.340 Your marriage. 00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:04.400 You can neglect. 00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:05.480 Raising your children. 00:37:05.739 --> 00:37:06.000 You can. 00:37:06.500 --> 00:37:07.519 Neglect your life. 00:37:07.599 --> 00:37:08.279 In a church. 00:37:08.280 --> 00:37:10.860 You can. 00:37:10.860 --> 00:37:12.000 Manipulate. 00:37:13.460 --> 00:37:14.019 Lie. 00:37:14.560 --> 00:37:15.140 Compromise. 00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:15.900 Hoard. 00:37:16.220 --> 00:37:17.140 Take on debt. 00:37:18.160 --> 00:37:18.700 Sexually. 00:37:18.860 --> 00:37:19.900 Exploit people. 00:37:20.300 --> 00:37:22.120 Do you know what is at the heart. 00:37:22.240 --> 00:37:24.000 Of the porn industry. 00:37:25.120 --> 00:37:25.720 Love. 00:37:25.860 --> 00:37:26.560 Of money. 00:37:30.560 --> 00:37:31.060 Christian. 00:37:31.180 --> 00:37:31.620 You can't. 00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:32.460 Love money. 00:37:32.540 --> 00:37:33.260 And love God. 00:37:33.260 --> 00:37:35.420 You can only. 00:37:36.300 --> 00:37:37.680 Have one. 00:37:37.680 --> 00:37:38.840 Greatest love. 00:37:38.980 --> 00:37:39.600 Of your heart. 00:37:41.400 --> 00:37:42.880 And that's why it's loving. 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:43.520 To be content. 00:37:43.620 --> 00:37:44.420 With what you have. 00:37:45.160 --> 00:37:46.360 That's why it's acceptable. 00:37:46.520 --> 00:37:46.860 Worship. 00:37:47.620 --> 00:37:48.960 To be satisfied. 00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:49.800 With what God. 00:37:49.940 --> 00:37:51.060 Has provided you. 00:37:51.300 --> 00:37:52.480 Means you're satisfied. 00:37:52.900 --> 00:37:53.560 In. 00:37:54.080 --> 00:37:54.500 God. 00:37:54.860 --> 00:37:55.460 Your one. 00:37:55.700 --> 00:37:56.480 True love. 00:37:56.480 --> 00:37:56.599 Love. 00:37:58.380 --> 00:37:59.420 In this passage. 00:37:59.559 --> 00:37:59.920 There's. 00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:00.780 Two. 00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:02.460 Two Old Testament. 00:38:02.920 --> 00:38:03.320 Quotations. 00:38:04.579 --> 00:38:04.980 To. 00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:06.139 Kind of. 00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:07.139 Give grounding. 00:38:07.280 --> 00:38:07.840 To this idea. 00:38:07.900 --> 00:38:08.599 Of contentment. 00:38:09.219 --> 00:38:10.119 Be free from the love. 00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:10.599 Of money. 00:38:11.340 --> 00:38:11.880 Be content. 00:38:11.980 --> 00:38:12.539 With you have. 00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:13.519 With what you have. 00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:13.920 Why? 00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:15.480 For he said. 00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:16.079 To Moses. 00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:16.840 And to Joshua. 00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:18.039 I will never leave you. 00:38:18.059 --> 00:38:18.579 Nor forsake you. 00:38:18.579 --> 00:38:19.420 He said that to you. 00:38:19.500 --> 00:38:20.340 He's saying that to you. 00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:20.740 And me. 00:38:23.059 --> 00:38:24.380 I'm never going to bail on you. 00:38:24.519 --> 00:38:25.280 This Jesus. 00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:27.820 Who has created all things. 00:38:27.940 --> 00:38:29.080 And sustains all things. 00:38:29.140 --> 00:38:30.300 Through the word of his power. 00:38:30.640 --> 00:38:31.700 Thank you Hebrews 1. 00:38:31.980 --> 00:38:32.420 He says. 00:38:32.460 --> 00:38:33.140 I'm never going to leave you. 00:38:33.160 --> 00:38:33.660 Nor forsake you. 00:38:33.700 --> 00:38:35.019 I'm going to provide everything you need. 00:38:36.380 --> 00:38:37.860 And on that grounds. 00:38:38.019 --> 00:38:38.620 We can say. 00:38:38.820 --> 00:38:39.860 I don't need. 00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:40.780 To love money. 00:38:42.060 --> 00:38:43.160 Because my God. 00:38:43.240 --> 00:38:44.019 Will never leave me. 00:38:45.620 --> 00:38:46.420 And that's why. 00:38:46.540 --> 00:38:47.720 We can say in response. 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:48.680 Psalm 118. 00:38:49.160 --> 00:38:50.360 The Lord is my helper. 00:38:50.500 --> 00:38:51.320 I will not fear. 00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:52.580 What can man do to me? 00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:54.340 The idea behind that is. 00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:54.580 Remember. 00:38:54.579 --> 00:38:55.219 This is a church. 00:38:55.219 --> 00:38:56.159 That has been plundered. 00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:57.000 Of their property. 00:38:57.539 --> 00:38:58.119 And they're saying. 00:38:58.239 --> 00:38:59.059 Being said here. 00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:04.239 Even if your stuff is taken away. 00:39:05.319 --> 00:39:06.239 God is your helper. 00:39:06.380 --> 00:39:07.159 He's never going to leave you. 00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:07.799 He's going to forsake you. 00:39:08.319 --> 00:39:09.819 He'll provide for all of your needs. 00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:13.679 A need is something necessary. 00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:14.480 To life. 00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:15.799 And to function. 00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:17.179 A want is something. 00:39:17.659 --> 00:39:18.179 Unnecessary. 00:39:18.420 --> 00:39:18.819 To life. 00:39:18.900 --> 00:39:19.380 And function. 00:39:19.380 --> 00:39:22.480 And when you start making this distinction. 00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:24.960 Between needs and wants. 00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:26.519 It will begin to have. 00:39:26.760 --> 00:39:28.460 This effect. 00:39:29.579 --> 00:39:31.039 God has richly. 00:39:31.780 --> 00:39:33.800 Gone above and beyond. 00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:37.000 To not just meet your every need. 00:39:37.220 --> 00:39:39.039 But your wants as well. 00:39:40.340 --> 00:39:42.140 Which fuels trust. 00:39:42.139 --> 00:39:46.500 Which fuels this idea of. 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:49.639 I do not need money. 00:39:51.059 --> 00:39:51.379 I don't. 00:39:51.699 --> 00:39:53.779 That is not the controlling center of my life. 00:39:54.659 --> 00:39:55.319 Christ is. 00:39:56.319 --> 00:39:57.039 Brothers and sisters. 00:39:57.179 --> 00:39:57.819 The love of money. 00:39:58.659 --> 00:40:00.119 Will steal your heart. 00:40:00.859 --> 00:40:03.079 From offering acceptable worship. 00:40:03.079 --> 00:40:04.000 To God. 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:04.039 God. 00:40:05.820 --> 00:40:07.579 It crowds out your heart. 00:40:08.179 --> 00:40:09.480 So you got to repent of it. 00:40:11.019 --> 00:40:12.679 And you got to confess. 00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:13.800 Jesus. 00:40:14.440 --> 00:40:15.739 As the treasure. 00:40:16.179 --> 00:40:17.659 Over all things. 00:40:19.059 --> 00:40:19.800 The love of money. 00:40:19.940 --> 00:40:21.239 Not only compromises. 00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:22.579 Your love for God. 00:40:22.679 --> 00:40:24.440 But love for your brothers and sisters. 00:40:25.300 --> 00:40:26.340 And so contentment. 00:40:26.420 --> 00:40:27.260 Is being satisfied. 00:40:27.260 --> 00:40:28.099 With what you got. 00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:30.900 And then using your wealth. 00:40:30.900 --> 00:40:32.460 To love others. 00:40:32.460 --> 00:40:35.740 If you want to repent of this. 00:40:36.500 --> 00:40:38.240 You repent in your heart. 00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:38.840 And you say. 00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:39.260 God. 00:40:39.500 --> 00:40:40.860 You are my one treasure. 00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:42.579 And then you say. 00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:43.619 What do I need to live? 00:40:43.720 --> 00:40:45.280 And then you start giving stuff away. 00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:46.800 You're just being generous. 00:40:46.940 --> 00:40:47.940 And radically so. 00:40:48.820 --> 00:40:50.320 You will find yourself. 00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:51.340 Freed. 00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:53.039 From the love of money. 00:40:53.420 --> 00:40:54.440 You're walking by faith. 00:40:54.500 --> 00:40:55.420 The Lord is my helper. 00:40:59.420 --> 00:41:00.460 Petrifying Springs. 00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:02.440 Cross country teams. 00:41:02.460 --> 00:41:04.500 Run long. 00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:05.079 Run together. 00:41:07.240 --> 00:41:08.340 We run long. 00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:11.039 We run together. 00:41:12.119 --> 00:41:13.500 By loving one another. 00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:15.559 Sacrificially. 00:41:17.139 --> 00:41:18.220 Showing hospitality. 00:41:19.500 --> 00:41:20.740 Remembering the suffering. 00:41:22.019 --> 00:41:23.320 By honoring marriage. 00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:24.780 Sexual sin is unloving. 00:41:25.199 --> 00:41:26.159 By being content. 00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:27.099 Greed is unloving. 00:41:27.820 --> 00:41:29.159 This is how we offer to God. 00:41:29.240 --> 00:41:30.199 The acceptable worship. 00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:31.179 He deserves. 00:41:31.179 --> 00:41:31.379 He deserves. 00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:32.859 And how we do that together. 00:41:33.299 --> 00:41:34.719 We don't run this race alone. 00:41:34.819 --> 00:41:35.500 We run together. 00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:36.980 We run long. 00:41:37.859 --> 00:41:40.099 We run loving. 00:41:41.359 --> 00:41:42.039 Our salvation. 00:41:42.579 --> 00:41:43.679 Is bound up together. 00:41:44.339 --> 00:41:44.759 Let's pray. 00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:47.320 God in heaven. 00:41:47.320 --> 00:41:47.380 God in heaven. 00:41:50.720 --> 00:41:51.920 We need you. 00:41:53.220 --> 00:41:55.560 And now we come to the throne of grace. 00:41:56.160 --> 00:42:01.220 The very throne that you have given us access to by the blood of Jesus. 00:42:01.540 --> 00:42:03.020 And we come to you in need. 00:42:03.019 --> 00:42:03.619 God. 00:42:03.619 --> 00:42:03.900 God. 00:42:03.900 --> 00:42:04.380 God. 00:42:04.380 --> 00:42:07.519 Because we can just disregard other people. 00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:09.519 Other brothers and sisters. 00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:14.759 We can give ourselves to relationships that are grievous in your sight. 00:42:14.900 --> 00:42:17.139 We can love money more than you. 00:42:17.320 --> 00:42:19.039 And we need your help. 00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:19.920 Your grace. 00:42:20.380 --> 00:42:21.500 In times of need. 00:42:22.860 --> 00:42:24.840 So that we would be faithful to you. 00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:26.000 And faithful to each other. 00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:29.400 God would you help us. 00:42:30.099 --> 00:42:32.559 To run this race you've marked out for us. 00:42:33.239 --> 00:42:34.460 To run it with endurance. 00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:36.519 And to run together in love for one another. 00:42:36.699 --> 00:42:37.679 In Jesus name we pray. 00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:38.760 Amen.