WEBVTT 00:00:01.100 --> 00:00:01.461 Hey, what up? 00:00:01.461 --> 00:00:02.064 It's Mark Carter. 00:00:02.064 --> 00:00:03.327 I'm the pastor of Fierce Church. 00:00:03.327 --> 00:00:04.371 Welcome to our podcast. 00:00:04.371 --> 00:00:06.689 I'm so pumped that you're able to join us today. 00:00:06.689 --> 00:00:16.208 I hope this encourages you, inspires you, strengthens you, gives you hope to keep pressing on, and it's my prayer that this sermon gives you a more expansive view of God's love for you. 00:00:16.208 --> 00:00:22.746 Enjoy the message, and today we're going to jump back into the Sermon on the Mount. 00:00:22.746 --> 00:00:35.121 This is where we were in over the fall and then we went through a bunch of stuff, but now we get to jump back into it and I hope that you're spiritually hungry I know that I am and we're going to start with a question Is all anger wrong? 00:00:36.484 --> 00:00:39.790 Is all anger wrong or is just some anger wrong? 00:00:39.790 --> 00:00:46.731 You guys know I mean you've experienced the negative consequences of anger for sure, so you know already there's got to be some anger. 00:00:46.731 --> 00:00:49.448 That's wrong because it produces all kinds of unhealth in us. 00:00:49.448 --> 00:00:52.307 It can damage, like, our immune system. 00:00:52.307 --> 00:00:59.953 It can get us all anxious, it can keep us up at night, it can get us in like a negative spiral where it becomes, if we stay angry. 00:00:59.953 --> 00:01:12.673 It becomes even hard to get positive because we're just always keeping this one thing before us, or several things, how they hurt us, how it wasn't fair, how they stole something from us. 00:01:12.673 --> 00:01:18.343 And often anger is a sign that somebody maybe did steal something from you, somebody took something from you and you're angry about it. 00:01:18.343 --> 00:01:23.742 But as we meditate on that, as we stay there, as we hover there, it can do tremendous damage. 00:01:23.742 --> 00:01:27.710 It, it can steal our joy, it can make us a real downer among others. 00:01:27.710 --> 00:01:29.534 And we even begin to talk out of the heart. 00:01:29.534 --> 00:01:35.911 The mouth speaks and so we begin to talk all about the hurt and how bad it was and we begin to anticipate more hurt. 00:01:35.911 --> 00:01:38.521 We begin to anticipate well, that's just how it goes and that's what they're going to do. 00:01:38.521 --> 00:01:41.891 And when that happens, we can start to ice over in our heart. 00:01:41.891 --> 00:01:49.180 We just have a little protective shield of ice that says well, you know what, dude, I don't want to get too close to anything because it's just going to make me mad again. 00:01:49.180 --> 00:01:51.965 It's just going to get me upset and I don't want to do that. 00:01:51.965 --> 00:01:56.441 And it can mess up trust within relationships. 00:01:56.441 --> 00:02:04.566 See, people stop talking because they get hurt and maybe there was a conflict, there was a tension and folks just drifted away. 00:02:04.566 --> 00:02:06.188 Because every time I try to fix this. 00:02:06.188 --> 00:02:12.106 It just doesn't get fixed and sometimes it's so bad it can lead to toxic environments, like you've probably been there. 00:02:12.106 --> 00:02:28.164 You've been in a work environment, you've been in a class environment or you've been in a community environment where everyone's just so mad all the time that it's hard for anybody to chill, it's hard to even think straight, and this is where protests start to become riots and things get violent. 00:02:28.205 --> 00:02:43.709 Anger does all kinds of bad stuff and maybe worst of all maybe worst of all sometimes it trickles down through the generations and kids get mad because mom or dad was mad and they pass on that mad and they think mad is the right way. 00:02:43.709 --> 00:02:44.792 That's just how. 00:02:44.792 --> 00:02:46.984 Hey, there's nothing you can do about it, that's just how you're going to do life. 00:02:46.984 --> 00:02:48.108 That's what it is. 00:02:48.108 --> 00:02:51.747 Is there ever good anger? 00:02:51.747 --> 00:02:53.224 Well, the Bible tells us that there is. 00:02:53.224 --> 00:02:54.782 So we certainly see. 00:02:54.822 --> 00:02:57.471 We see Jesus when he grabs a whip and drives people out of the temple. 00:02:57.471 --> 00:03:08.032 Yeah, there's a good, righteous anger that says somebody or something is robbing God of the glory that he is due, and Somebody or something is robbing God of the glory that he is due, and that's not okay. 00:03:08.032 --> 00:03:09.354 We see, when Nathan confronts David, talks to him about. 00:03:09.354 --> 00:03:11.415 Hey, man, you've been in this sin for over a year, man. 00:03:11.415 --> 00:03:18.045 You killed Uriah the Hittite and you've been hardening your heart toward God and he's mad. 00:03:18.045 --> 00:03:20.992 And God is justly mad because he trusted David to do a whole bunch of stuff and David didn't do it. 00:03:20.992 --> 00:03:28.771 There's things like the idolatry that takes place among the people of Israel, again and again and again and again. 00:03:28.771 --> 00:03:31.081 And God is rightly mad because he keeps making them all these promises. 00:03:31.081 --> 00:03:35.181 As long as you don't do this, then I will do all this blessing, but you keep turning your back on me. 00:03:35.181 --> 00:03:37.829 So we know, obviously there's right anger. 00:03:37.829 --> 00:03:40.020 There is a good kind of righteous anger. 00:03:40.100 --> 00:03:43.945 The problem is often the things that we struggle with is not righteous anger. 00:03:43.945 --> 00:03:45.026 Most of us don't walk around man. 00:03:45.026 --> 00:03:48.510 I'm so righteously angry and all the way God is being robbed of his glory. 00:03:48.510 --> 00:03:51.995 If you do that, that testifies to your heart. 00:03:51.995 --> 00:03:53.515 That's great that that happens sometimes. 00:03:53.515 --> 00:04:06.014 But most of our anger I would be willing to bet most of our anger is what we're just going to call self-avenging anger, and this is an anger that Jesus is going to talk about today in the Sermon on the Mount. 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:08.647 It is an anger that stews. 00:04:08.647 --> 00:04:14.372 It's an anger that contemplates how much went wrong, and it stays on. 00:04:14.372 --> 00:04:23.610 So it's not momentarily angry, it's beginning to simmer angry, it's just staying in anger. 00:04:23.610 --> 00:04:28.083 And the more it gives another excuse to get angry, it just yes, that's another reason. 00:04:28.083 --> 00:04:29.706 And it goes deeper and deeper. 00:04:30.088 --> 00:04:31.752 And some of you know that this is a prison. 00:04:31.752 --> 00:04:35.853 Some of you, you know this You're like yeah, anger never ends. 00:04:35.853 --> 00:04:39.324 Anger doesn't really get better by giving over to anger. 00:04:39.324 --> 00:04:46.891 And that's part of the problem with the world is the world says, hey, what you need to do is just get it out of your system, which is hilarious, honestly. 00:04:46.891 --> 00:04:48.295 Get it out of your system? 00:04:48.295 --> 00:04:53.692 Yeah, well, self-avenging anger is sin, and sin is not going to get out of your system. 00:04:53.692 --> 00:05:00.807 What it's going to do is it's going to give you a wicked taste for it and you're going to keep giving yourself to it and giving yourself to it and giving yourself to it. 00:05:00.807 --> 00:05:03.793 So Jesus' answer, just so you know, is not get it out of your system. 00:05:03.793 --> 00:05:07.757 It's not like, well, just let it all out, beat somebody and then be done with it. 00:05:07.757 --> 00:05:12.009 No, jesus is quite a bit different, as he's going to counsel us today. 00:05:12.471 --> 00:05:30.711 But before we go in, we need to recognize that this self-avenging anger is unbecoming in the sense that for a kingdom subject we're talking about kingdom in a minute for a kingdom subject, for a lover of Jesus Christ, it decomposes all that he's trying to put right in us. 00:05:30.711 --> 00:05:33.468 And that's where the Sermon on the Mount comes. 00:05:33.468 --> 00:05:34.742 It says hey. 00:05:34.742 --> 00:05:37.543 Jesus says well, you've heard what Moses said and what the ancients said. 00:05:37.543 --> 00:05:39.449 But I'm going to tell you something even better and higher. 00:05:39.449 --> 00:05:43.531 I'm going to tell you that I don't just want you to exteriorly conform yourself to the law. 00:05:43.531 --> 00:05:45.704 I want to come on the inside. 00:05:45.704 --> 00:05:47.980 I don't want to change your feelings about things and your attitudes about things. 00:05:47.980 --> 00:05:50.928 I want you to know just because your outside is right doesn't mean your inside is right. 00:05:50.928 --> 00:05:54.221 I want to get your inside so right that you start to reflect God. 00:05:54.221 --> 00:06:11.572 You look like a little Jesus to people, but when you give yourself to these six sins that he's going to go into in the Sermon on the Mount, you decompose all that God is trying to grow and make beautiful. 00:06:11.572 --> 00:06:12.314 We're contradicting it. 00:06:12.314 --> 00:06:14.259 We're giving ourselves over to the dark side that persecutes Jesus. 00:06:14.259 --> 00:06:16.464 And he says hey, I don't want you to be left unwhole. 00:06:16.464 --> 00:06:19.622 He says in the Sermon on the Mount I want you to be perfect, as your heavenly father is perfect. 00:06:19.903 --> 00:06:29.692 And while there's a striving for moral purity and moral integrity and, yes, very high, we need to understand that perfect word is not perfect like you got a perfect score, you got 10 out of 10. 00:06:29.692 --> 00:06:30.314 That's not what it is. 00:06:30.314 --> 00:06:32.925 It's more like and it's kind of a weird illustration. 00:06:32.925 --> 00:06:35.670 You know how like a donut has a hole in it. 00:06:35.670 --> 00:06:41.531 Okay, that hole means the donut, in one sense just flow with me is not whole. 00:06:41.531 --> 00:06:43.646 Okay, it's not whole because there's a hole in it. 00:06:43.646 --> 00:06:46.261 It's not whole. 00:06:46.261 --> 00:06:47.584 Okay, it's not whole because there's a hole in it. 00:06:47.584 --> 00:06:48.507 It's not whole, it's not perfect. 00:06:48.507 --> 00:06:50.651 Now, if you plug the hole with some kind of jelly goodness, now it's perfect. 00:06:50.651 --> 00:06:53.101 Okay, now it's whole. 00:06:53.101 --> 00:06:54.307 The whole thing is whole. 00:06:54.307 --> 00:06:58.382 Now, I know this illustration breaks down because some donuts are pretty perfect even though there's a hole in them. 00:06:58.382 --> 00:06:59.423 But you get. 00:06:59.423 --> 00:07:03.769 What I'm saying is that there's something, there's a hole in the thing and it's not perfect. 00:07:03.769 --> 00:07:06.293 And Jesus is saying I want you to be whole. 00:07:06.293 --> 00:07:10.358 I want you to be whole like your heavenly father is whole. 00:07:10.358 --> 00:07:17.213 I want you to represent my ways always and in every situation, because I want you to be like me. 00:07:18.339 --> 00:07:20.064 Let's pick it up Matthew 5, 21. 00:07:20.064 --> 00:07:29.591 It says you've heard that it was said to the people long ago you shall not murder and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment. 00:07:29.591 --> 00:07:31.322 Okay, he's being, he's being dead serious. 00:07:31.322 --> 00:07:33.389 Hey, man, you'll be dragged into the Sanhedrin. 00:07:33.389 --> 00:07:39.584 Okay, that's, that's the Supreme court of Jesus time, and you're going to, they're going to, they're going to lay down a judgment on you. 00:07:39.584 --> 00:07:40.404 Verse 22. 00:07:40.404 --> 00:07:46.175 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. 00:07:46.641 --> 00:07:49.007 Now let's just, real quick, talk about what's shocking there. 00:07:49.007 --> 00:07:52.086 To the people listening, it is maybe a little bit shocking. 00:07:52.086 --> 00:07:56.146 No, it's not even just like murder, it's anger itself. 00:07:56.146 --> 00:07:58.766 But even more shocking is wait, did I hear that right? 00:07:58.766 --> 00:07:59.048 He said. 00:07:59.048 --> 00:07:59.709 But I tell you. 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:04.427 So we have to understand what Jesus is standing up and claiming. 00:08:04.427 --> 00:08:11.543 He's saying listen, I just want everybody to know I precede and supersede even Moses, and that would have blown their minds. 00:08:11.543 --> 00:08:12.346 They would be shocked. 00:08:12.346 --> 00:08:14.146 Who would ever dare such a thing? 00:08:14.146 --> 00:08:15.584 Who would ever say that? 00:08:15.584 --> 00:08:16.968 And you know who would say it? 00:08:16.968 --> 00:08:19.065 The Alpha and the Omega would say it. 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:23.391 The one who says dude, I don't just obey and fulfill the law, I wrote the law, I'm the guy. 00:08:23.391 --> 00:08:25.771 I'm telling you the original intent of the law. 00:08:25.771 --> 00:08:26.692 This is what I want you to know. 00:08:26.692 --> 00:08:28.194 I am supremely unique. 00:08:28.194 --> 00:08:29.314 I am Jesus Christ. 00:08:29.314 --> 00:08:33.740 I'm the one who's here, the only one who came for you, the only one who came to rescue you from your sin. 00:08:33.740 --> 00:08:34.541 I'm the one. 00:08:34.541 --> 00:08:38.625 What I say is absolutely, 100%, all the time, true. 00:08:38.625 --> 00:08:43.292 I see you and I see your heart and I know what's wrong and I know how to make you whole. 00:08:43.292 --> 00:08:46.455 I am Jesus Christ, the Lord, god of all. 00:08:46.455 --> 00:08:47.416 That's who he is. 00:08:47.416 --> 00:08:49.346 So that's who's talking. 00:08:49.346 --> 00:08:51.226 Okay, not some random rabbi. 00:08:51.226 --> 00:08:53.306 This is Jesus talking. 00:08:54.360 --> 00:09:06.292 And he says and again, anyone who says to a brother or sister raka, which means essentially idiot, is answerable to the court, and anyone who says you, fool, is in danger of the fire of hell. 00:09:06.292 --> 00:09:08.203 Whoa, so Jesus. 00:09:08.203 --> 00:09:17.672 Right here he's referencing Gehenna, which is really a pagan place of ritual sacrifice where they used to, centuries ago, sacrifice kids in Jesus' time of centuries ago. 00:09:17.672 --> 00:09:22.149 But it has become a garbage dump where people just bring all their old junk. 00:09:22.149 --> 00:09:24.802 They bring carcasses and all kinds of stuff. 00:09:24.802 --> 00:09:25.605 Hey, just throw it in there. 00:09:25.605 --> 00:09:29.260 And the place is on fire and it's horrible looking and it reminds everybody of hell. 00:09:29.260 --> 00:09:39.032 And he's pointing that he's saying this thing that represents hell, and that's what happens when you don't seek a whole heart in Christ. 00:09:39.934 --> 00:09:47.885 Ultimately, what you say when you side with the trash, when you side with the evil, jesus says at some point, god's just going to wash his hands of all the evil. 00:09:47.885 --> 00:10:09.789 See, the new world is going to come and the old things are going to pass away, and the only place the garbage, the junk and everything that clings to the junk, everything that says no, I prefer the junk, and God says, well, I don't have anything for you then, because we don't let junk into the new world, and so you're going to have to go be scraped off into Gehenna, into the fiery place that nobody wants to go. 00:10:09.789 --> 00:10:12.686 What we're saying is it matters. 00:10:12.686 --> 00:10:15.870 It matters because there's guys there's a twist here. 00:10:15.870 --> 00:10:23.793 There's well-meaning people who will sometimes say you can receive Jesus as Savior first and then, later on, you can get around to making him Lord. 00:10:23.793 --> 00:10:25.842 The problem is Jesus is not divided. 00:10:25.842 --> 00:10:27.610 There's no such thing as one or the other. 00:10:27.610 --> 00:10:28.995 It's always both okay. 00:10:28.995 --> 00:10:33.668 You can't receive Jesus as Savior and not receive him as Lord, because he is both. 00:10:34.509 --> 00:10:41.950 So what we just want to get clear is there's consequences for not receiving Jesus the exact way that he is. 00:10:41.950 --> 00:10:46.741 He lovingly warns us we're going to see how loving in a few minutes, what do we do? 00:10:46.741 --> 00:10:50.336 Because self-avenging anger decomposes spiritual life. 00:10:50.336 --> 00:10:54.589 Number one I end my anger and see their worth. 00:10:54.589 --> 00:10:56.956 I end my anger and see their worth. 00:10:57.616 --> 00:11:09.750 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother, anyone who is meditating on it, it's not even overt, it's not like you want to, like you want to be a killer and a murder mister and you want to kill them necessarily. 00:11:09.750 --> 00:11:13.831 But there's thoughts of you know what, dude, I just don't, I don't even need them around. 00:11:13.831 --> 00:11:14.922 Like, what are they doing? 00:11:14.922 --> 00:11:16.306 They are a fool. 00:11:16.306 --> 00:11:18.731 Like, have you ever said I would never do that? 00:11:18.731 --> 00:11:20.201 I would never. 00:11:20.201 --> 00:11:21.764 I can't believe they would do that. 00:11:21.764 --> 00:11:24.470 I'm so disgusted with them because I would never do that. 00:11:24.470 --> 00:11:25.451 And what you're saying? 00:11:25.451 --> 00:11:26.234 They're a fool. 00:11:26.234 --> 00:11:31.769 Biblically speaking, a fool is not just somebody who does dumb things, it's someone who is in rebellion against God and his ways. 00:11:31.769 --> 00:11:33.547 And we're saying they're worse than me. 00:11:33.547 --> 00:11:34.684 I would never do that. 00:11:34.684 --> 00:11:36.926 We just need to get rid of them. 00:11:37.500 --> 00:11:41.871 And Jesus says what the seeds in that is, those are murder seeds. 00:11:41.871 --> 00:11:46.461 And what you're doing check it out. 00:11:46.461 --> 00:11:52.094 What you're really doing is you're devaluing somebody that God says is insanely valuable. 00:11:52.094 --> 00:11:54.339 They're valuable. 00:11:54.339 --> 00:11:55.221 Have you ever done this? 00:11:55.221 --> 00:12:01.552 So as we write somebody off, it's like man, I just the world would be better off Definitely I would be better off without them In our hearts. 00:12:01.552 --> 00:12:02.739 We're reducing their value. 00:12:02.739 --> 00:12:04.423 You're saying nothing, we don't need them. 00:12:04.423 --> 00:12:05.807 They're hurting everything. 00:12:05.807 --> 00:12:06.649 They're making everything bad. 00:12:06.809 --> 00:12:13.442 Now, they might've hurt things and they might've made things bad, but even so, jesus is saying don't devalue them to the point where you would just toss them aside. 00:12:13.442 --> 00:12:14.004 Why? 00:12:14.004 --> 00:12:15.187 Because I don't. 00:12:15.187 --> 00:12:24.918 If you want to be whole, if you want to be perfect, understand that, even what they did wrong, I still value them more than anything in the universe. 00:12:24.918 --> 00:12:26.101 I would shed my blood for them. 00:12:26.101 --> 00:12:26.966 And what does Jesus want? 00:12:26.966 --> 00:12:28.517 He wants us to be in agreement with Jesus. 00:12:28.517 --> 00:12:28.778 Why? 00:12:28.778 --> 00:12:29.681 Because he's trying to make us whole. 00:12:30.461 --> 00:12:32.265 And here's the hello. 00:12:32.265 --> 00:12:38.364 You're that person too, hello, we've all sinned in those same ways. 00:12:38.364 --> 00:12:41.659 Maybe not exactly, but in some sense we've sinned in those same ways. 00:12:41.659 --> 00:12:46.330 And someone would be tempted to write us off and say, well, they're not valuable, you don't need them. 00:12:46.330 --> 00:12:48.621 Nobody pay attention to them, let's just get rid of them. 00:12:48.621 --> 00:12:51.688 That's what the heart is saying, even if they did hurt us. 00:12:51.688 --> 00:12:54.046 And God's like you ain't getting rid of them. 00:12:54.046 --> 00:13:02.653 They've hurt me the most and I value them and I want you to have my heart and I want you to value them the way that God does. 00:13:02.653 --> 00:13:09.163 And so it becomes poison when we're giving ourselves to the self-avenging anger and it's devolving us. 00:13:10.028 --> 00:13:11.091 Can you imagine what the world would be like? 00:13:11.091 --> 00:13:17.144 Y'all Imagine this, because the world has a version where they're like hey, man, protect everybody, get angry, just don't kill anybody. 00:13:17.144 --> 00:13:20.307 The problem is people go right up to the edge. 00:13:20.307 --> 00:13:23.051 They're like, okay, I won't kill anybody, well, you never know. 00:13:23.051 --> 00:13:24.633 And then they step over and they kill somebody. 00:13:24.633 --> 00:13:26.754 Like murder actually happens because it's somewhere. 00:13:26.794 --> 00:13:28.115 They went beyond the guardrail. 00:13:28.115 --> 00:13:33.400 Now I'm just going to do, I'm just going to kill him. 00:13:33.400 --> 00:13:33.561 What if? 00:13:33.561 --> 00:13:34.660 What if we pull the guardrail back all the way to? 00:13:34.660 --> 00:13:35.642 Don't even say fool in your heart? 00:13:35.642 --> 00:13:39.884 You come up to the guardrail and you're like, oh well, that's Jesus, don't want me to do that. 00:13:39.884 --> 00:13:41.784 With the power of the spirit, I'm going to pull back from that. 00:13:41.784 --> 00:13:45.586 Even if you step one or two over, you still ain't killed anybody. 00:13:45.586 --> 00:13:49.028 Pull back behind the guardrail. 00:13:49.028 --> 00:13:50.110 That's what Jesus is after. 00:13:50.110 --> 00:13:52.671 He's saying dude, this is you think this is good? 00:13:52.671 --> 00:13:54.991 No, dude, don't even get over here. 00:13:54.991 --> 00:13:55.913 Don't even get this far. 00:13:55.913 --> 00:13:57.874 Pull back in your heart. 00:13:57.874 --> 00:14:00.315 Don't even let it get that far. 00:14:00.315 --> 00:14:06.378 Don't devalue my people, because you wouldn't kill something that you actually value. 00:14:06.378 --> 00:14:14.995 If you have a pet and you value that thing, you wouldn't just walk up and just kill it. 00:14:14.995 --> 00:14:16.440 Jesus is saying I'm the same way with my things. 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:18.528 I don't want you in your mind, in your imagination, pretending to kill people. 00:14:18.548 --> 00:14:20.899 One day Peter said to Jesus Lord, how many times should I forgive somebody? 00:14:20.899 --> 00:14:22.142 Seven times, jesus Lord. 00:14:22.142 --> 00:14:23.145 How many times should I forgive somebody? 00:14:23.145 --> 00:14:23.769 You know, seven times, lord. 00:14:23.769 --> 00:14:24.331 I know man 77. 00:14:24.350 --> 00:14:25.456 Let's go through a whole story here. 00:14:25.456 --> 00:14:29.956 There was a king once Peter okay, and the king forgave somebody who owed him millions of dollars. 00:14:29.956 --> 00:14:38.764 And that dude went out right away and found somebody who owed him a couple hundred dollars and he started to strangle him and he put him in debtor's prison and said you're not going to get out until you pay everything. 00:14:38.764 --> 00:14:41.408 And then the king found out about it and he was pretty upset. 00:14:41.408 --> 00:14:50.609 He said I forgave you all this and now you're going to hold this other person in prison for less than what you did. 00:14:51.851 --> 00:14:52.413 I ain't having it. 00:14:52.413 --> 00:14:53.279 I don't like that. 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:58.788 That reminds me of trash, that reminds me of something I would just get rid of because it's not like my heart, it's not the way I would do it. 00:14:58.788 --> 00:15:00.552 And guys, hello. 00:15:00.552 --> 00:15:09.509 That's one of the reasons he wants us to not give ourselves to self-avenging anger, because it's like you're getting drunk, dude, you're forgetting what you are, you're forgetting where you came from. 00:15:10.961 --> 00:15:22.109 It's so easy for us to paint ourselves so pretty and forget how much we've hurt the king of kings and lord of lords and defied his commandments and stuck our middle finger in the air and says hey God, why don't you get lost? 00:15:22.109 --> 00:15:27.625 And if you don't know, you've said that, dear heart, you need his help. 00:15:27.625 --> 00:15:36.822 You need him to reveal that to you, because it's death, true, okay, jesus didn't come to die just because you were occasionally, you know, breaking the rules in kindergarten. 00:15:36.822 --> 00:15:43.280 It was worth his death because it was drastic what we'd done wrong and it needed to be covered. 00:15:43.280 --> 00:15:45.325 Come on somebody. 00:15:46.707 --> 00:15:50.403 So Jesus has an antidote for us, but it's not what you think, it's not just. 00:15:50.403 --> 00:15:51.004 Well, you know. 00:15:51.004 --> 00:15:51.787 So just never get it. 00:15:51.787 --> 00:15:52.990 Just try really hard and never get angry. 00:15:52.990 --> 00:15:55.604 It's a little bit of that, but it's better than that. 00:15:55.604 --> 00:15:56.565 What it is is. 00:15:56.565 --> 00:15:59.028 It's spirit-empowered obedience. 00:15:59.028 --> 00:16:00.792 Here's where he wants us to get. 00:16:00.792 --> 00:16:05.110 God wants us to get to the place where we give up all sense that. 00:16:05.110 --> 00:16:06.336 I think I'm going to solve this. 00:16:06.336 --> 00:16:07.801 I think I'm going to get better than this. 00:16:07.821 --> 00:16:10.791 Do you remember the original audience of who's hearing the Sermon on the Mount? 00:16:10.791 --> 00:16:15.105 It's not only like folks, you know, poorer folks, it's also Pharisees. 00:16:15.105 --> 00:16:16.688 It's people that are the religious experts. 00:16:16.688 --> 00:16:17.630 They're in the crowd too. 00:16:17.630 --> 00:16:20.575 He doesn't want everyone just obeying like them, better and better. 00:16:20.575 --> 00:16:21.918 He wants them to recognize first. 00:16:21.918 --> 00:16:23.961 You're poor in spirit and you have nothing to offer God. 00:16:23.961 --> 00:16:24.482 You never did. 00:16:25.384 --> 00:16:31.672 Instead, with the Spirit's help, I want you to demonstrate check it out obedience through the power of the Spirit. 00:16:31.672 --> 00:16:46.260 It's referenced in Romans 8.13, for if you live by its dictates the law you will die, but if, through the power of the Spirit, you put to death the deeds of your sinful nature, you will live. 00:16:46.260 --> 00:16:47.003 So there's some way, my friends. 00:16:47.003 --> 00:16:54.006 There's some way that if we're going to overcome this sin, or any sin, we've got to do it with the power of the Holy Spirit, not just the law, not just doing better, not just trying harder. 00:16:54.006 --> 00:17:02.812 If you tell me you're going to try harder, dear heart, I'm just going to put my arm around you and just chuckle on the inside because you're trying harder isn't going to matter, it's not going to work. 00:17:02.812 --> 00:17:07.896 Okay, the Jewish nation did it for thousands of years and it didn't work. 00:17:07.896 --> 00:17:10.163 The Messiah still had to come and still die on the cross. 00:17:10.163 --> 00:17:11.404 It doesn't work. 00:17:11.404 --> 00:17:13.470 Romans 1.5. 00:17:14.111 --> 00:17:15.073 Let's get deeper. 00:17:15.073 --> 00:17:15.680 How do we do this? 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:17.702 Through him, we receive grace and apostleship. 00:17:17.702 --> 00:17:19.905 Not all of us apostleship, but the apostles. 00:17:19.905 --> 00:17:24.653 Talking is saying to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith. 00:17:24.653 --> 00:17:26.395 It's the obedience of faith. 00:17:26.395 --> 00:17:28.603 It's the obedience of faith. 00:17:28.603 --> 00:17:32.492 Guys, if you can clue in on this, this can change everything. 00:17:33.401 --> 00:17:36.069 I know that there's some angers. 00:17:36.069 --> 00:17:38.920 That will stop if you just stop hanging around with angry people. 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:39.548 For sure, there's angers. 00:17:39.548 --> 00:17:41.393 Maybe that will stop if you stop reviewing hanging around with angry people for sure there's angers. 00:17:41.393 --> 00:17:49.527 Maybe that will stop if you stop reviewing things that if you go read the letter again and it's the thing that made you mad yeah, that's going to make you mad again. 00:17:49.527 --> 00:17:52.384 Sure, there's exposure, things that will just trigger it. 00:17:52.384 --> 00:17:54.233 And if you stay away from those things, that'll be better. 00:17:54.536 --> 00:17:59.285 But there's a deeper work that needs to be done and it's the obedience of faith. 00:17:59.285 --> 00:18:07.902 What it is is saying God, I'm going to do my best, but I'm just going to believe in Jesus' name that you're going to help me obey better and better and better. 00:18:07.902 --> 00:18:09.969 So let me just ask you are you wrestling with anything? 00:18:09.969 --> 00:18:15.882 You've just been wrestling with it forever and you've just tried, and you circled this thing and circled this thing and it's not getting any better. 00:18:15.882 --> 00:18:23.478 I want to lovingly, as a guy who's felt that way myself, I want to lovingly, as a guy who's felt that way myself, I want to lovingly challenge all of us. 00:18:26.180 --> 00:18:26.602 Go back to the spirit. 00:18:26.602 --> 00:18:27.204 How did you start this thing? 00:18:27.204 --> 00:18:28.329 You weren't smart enough and you weren't strong enough. 00:18:28.329 --> 00:18:28.711 The spirit of God. 00:18:28.711 --> 00:18:30.380 All you did was believe and you trusted God and he saved you. 00:18:30.380 --> 00:18:35.079 It's the same way with your sanctification, or with your progress, with your growing in Christ likeness. 00:18:35.320 --> 00:18:37.243 I just let me start with believe. 00:18:37.243 --> 00:18:38.766 I'm going to start at believe. 00:18:38.766 --> 00:18:40.208 God is making me better. 00:18:40.208 --> 00:18:41.250 We should all just say that out loud. 00:18:41.250 --> 00:18:42.432 God is making me better. 00:18:42.432 --> 00:18:44.494 Come on, let's say it together God is making me better. 00:18:44.494 --> 00:18:47.346 Yeah, listen, god's not a liar, yo. 00:18:47.346 --> 00:18:48.769 Sanctification is going to work. 00:18:48.769 --> 00:18:50.759 How many know that's good news, dude? 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:51.260 It works. 00:18:51.260 --> 00:18:52.362 I'm telling you what, dude. 00:18:52.561 --> 00:18:53.823 I was 18 when I got saved. 00:18:53.823 --> 00:18:54.983 I'm 47 now. 00:18:54.983 --> 00:18:57.987 I promise you, it took a while, but sanctification works. 00:18:57.987 --> 00:19:00.328 I can see it, I know it, I've watched it. 00:19:00.328 --> 00:19:03.172 I'm a yutz now, but you should have seen me before. 00:19:03.172 --> 00:19:04.894 God just stuck with me. 00:19:06.055 --> 00:19:15.903 Sanctification is a promise and it's real and we just have to start again at the beginning. 00:19:15.903 --> 00:19:16.243 It's by faith. 00:19:16.243 --> 00:19:20.113 It's by faith, god, I believe you're making me better, and it might take 30 years, it might, but God's going to win. 00:19:20.113 --> 00:19:25.384 Somebody say God's going to win, god's going to win and he's going to help me. 00:19:25.384 --> 00:19:32.503 So, god, when I'm tempted, when I'm tempted to undervalue somebody, I want you to think about this, think about doing this. 00:19:32.503 --> 00:19:37.020 Okay, it's hard when you're tempted to undervalue somebody. 00:19:37.040 --> 00:19:43.952 Just have the thought, just back up with the spirit of God's help and just say well, you know, jesus, it's possible I'm undervaluing them. 00:19:43.952 --> 00:19:45.054 Yes, they did it wrong. 00:19:45.054 --> 00:19:48.548 Yes, they hurt me, it was bad and I wish they wouldn't have taken that from me. 00:19:48.548 --> 00:19:51.443 But also, do you think maybe I'm undervaluing them? 00:19:51.443 --> 00:19:53.529 Am I valuing them the way that you do? 00:19:53.529 --> 00:19:57.310 Because if you'll help me value them the way that you do, I'll start to pray for them. 00:19:57.310 --> 00:20:08.631 You do, I'll start to pray for them and, even though they hurt me, I'll start to act like you would and I'm asking you to show them grace and show them blessing and help them persevere and help them progress and help them get past the stage where they would ever do that again. 00:20:08.631 --> 00:20:10.746 But I'm asking the Lord to not just do it. 00:20:10.746 --> 00:20:11.386 I don't want you. 00:20:11.386 --> 00:20:13.721 I don't need to be reluctant while you bless them, lord. 00:20:13.721 --> 00:20:26.339 Instead, I want to be the one that says it's possible I'm undervaluing them and possible I'm undervaluing them, and part of my sanctification process is to value my enemy. 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:32.932 Are y'all in this thick, rich sermon today, hello, value your enemy? 00:20:32.932 --> 00:20:37.650 What yeah For Rizzle, verse 23. 00:20:37.650 --> 00:20:40.789 Therefore, if you're taking your gift at the altar and they remember that your brother or sister has something against you, it's their brother or sister, so that means it's someone close to them. 00:20:40.789 --> 00:20:41.343 It's someone that they like. 00:20:41.343 --> 00:20:42.053 It's their brother or sister, so that means it's someone close to them. 00:20:42.053 --> 00:20:42.405 It's someone that they like. 00:20:42.405 --> 00:20:45.472 It's someone who's probably, if they're Christian, it's a Christian brother or sister. 00:20:45.472 --> 00:20:50.080 Leave your gift there in front of the altar First. 00:20:50.080 --> 00:20:51.105 Go and be reconciled to them. 00:20:51.105 --> 00:20:52.445 Then come offer your gift. 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:55.588 Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. 00:20:55.588 --> 00:21:03.195 Do it while you're still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer and you may be thrown into prison. 00:21:03.195 --> 00:21:07.364 Truly, I tell you, not get out until you have paid the last penny. 00:21:07.364 --> 00:21:17.041 So, because self avenging anger decomposes spiritual life, first we're going to end my anger and see their worth, and second I'm going to step toward them to mend what's broken. 00:21:17.041 --> 00:21:19.488 Oh man, this is graduate level stuff here today. 00:21:19.488 --> 00:21:21.491 Guys, this is the hard stuff. 00:21:21.491 --> 00:21:22.861 Some of y'all. 00:21:22.861 --> 00:21:23.763 I want deep preaching. 00:21:23.763 --> 00:21:25.670 Carter, can you go back to shallow after today? 00:21:25.670 --> 00:21:26.580 That's what you're going to say. 00:21:29.086 --> 00:21:30.108 Let's talk about how this works. 00:21:30.108 --> 00:21:31.853 Here's several different examples. 00:21:31.853 --> 00:21:36.105 One example is you realize, like this person did, oh, somebody's mad at me. 00:21:36.105 --> 00:21:38.631 I didn't even know it, but you get wind of it. 00:21:38.631 --> 00:21:39.511 You think it. 00:21:39.511 --> 00:21:40.713 You're like are they mad at me? 00:21:40.713 --> 00:21:41.095 I don't know. 00:21:41.095 --> 00:21:43.548 I think I might've made them angry at some point. 00:21:43.548 --> 00:21:45.443 This person check it. 00:21:45.443 --> 00:21:46.406 They're at the altar. 00:21:46.567 --> 00:21:47.288 Where is Jesus? 00:21:47.288 --> 00:21:48.372 Jesus is in Galilee. 00:21:48.372 --> 00:21:58.670 What he's saying is if you're at the temple 80 miles away, which is a four to five day trip if you're there and you're about to offer your offering you're about to offer your offering. 00:21:58.670 --> 00:22:01.073 You're like, oh, wait a minute, somebody might be mad at me, I'm gonna go home now. 00:22:01.073 --> 00:22:04.805 You're gonna go all the way back to be reconciled to them. 00:22:04.805 --> 00:22:09.477 Before you come back and complete your offering, what is he saying? 00:22:09.477 --> 00:22:11.546 He's saying get serious and you should work a little hard at it, okay? 00:22:11.546 --> 00:22:13.882 So yeah, if you've gotta go find them on social media, try. 00:22:13.882 --> 00:22:18.806 You know, if you've gotta work a little bit, I've got to ask somebody hey, what's their email? 00:22:18.806 --> 00:22:20.647 Can you help me get a hold of them? 00:22:20.647 --> 00:22:24.211 Yeah, work a little hard, because you probably don't have to walk 80 miles. 00:22:24.211 --> 00:22:30.875 But Jesus is saying yeah, it's that great, it's that serious, step out and go after it. 00:22:30.875 --> 00:22:31.336 And what do we do? 00:22:31.336 --> 00:22:50.220 No-transcript. 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:54.932 You got in their way and you hear later that they're kind of mad that you did that. 00:22:54.932 --> 00:22:55.903 What do you do? 00:22:55.903 --> 00:23:02.487 You step out, you step in, you step toward them, even though they, by rights, should come to you. 00:23:02.487 --> 00:23:06.482 If you hear that, well, you know you said that thing and it was just. 00:23:06.482 --> 00:23:10.894 You just said it in such a way maybe you didn't even know, but you said in such a way that they're just sensitive to that kind of thing. 00:23:10.894 --> 00:23:14.327 And now they're hurting, now they're stewing, and now you know it's messing with, they don't even want to be around. 00:23:14.788 --> 00:23:26.121 When you hear that, that means you go. 00:23:26.121 --> 00:23:26.943 You go find them and here's what you say. 00:23:26.943 --> 00:23:27.586 You say, hey, I just got to check. 00:23:27.586 --> 00:23:27.826 Are we cool? 00:23:27.826 --> 00:23:28.709 Because I feel like maybe we're not cool. 00:23:28.709 --> 00:23:29.069 I heard something. 00:23:29.069 --> 00:23:31.560 Or you're just behaving in a way that makes me feel like maybe we're not cool. 00:23:32.564 --> 00:23:37.961 Now, when someone has the guts to do that in your direction, they come to you and they're like hey, are we cool? 00:23:37.961 --> 00:23:44.891 If y'all ain't cool, please do not act passive, aggressive, like no, we're fine. 00:23:44.891 --> 00:23:47.233 No, we're fine. 00:23:47.233 --> 00:23:48.455 Why? 00:23:48.455 --> 00:23:59.126 Because not only is that sinful, not only is that a version of manipulation, but precious God delivered them to your door, coming to you asking should we be reconciled? 00:23:59.126 --> 00:24:00.663 And you're sending them away. 00:24:00.663 --> 00:24:03.330 Hello, what? 00:24:03.330 --> 00:24:06.627 What did God have to do just to get them there? 00:24:06.627 --> 00:24:09.406 That means you trust them. 00:24:09.406 --> 00:24:10.565 You say, yeah, thanks so much. 00:24:10.565 --> 00:24:18.267 Thanks for leaning in, because I value you and I'm so thankful to know that you value me that we should maybe try to solve this. 00:24:18.267 --> 00:24:26.109 I'm just going to tell you what's going on with me and then you tell the truth and you trust that they are telling you the truth what's going on with me and then you tell the truth and you trust that they are telling you the truth. 00:24:26.109 --> 00:24:26.652