1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:26,000 You are my hiding place 2 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:32,000 You are my hiding place 3 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:44,000 You always fill my heart with songs of deliverance 4 00:00:44,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Remember I am afraid, I will trust in you 5 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Let the weak say I am strong in the strength of the Lord 6 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:34,000 You are my hiding place You always fill my heart with songs of deliverance 7 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in you 8 00:01:50,000 --> 00:02:02,000 Let the weak say I am strong in the strength of the Lord 9 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:30,000 I will trust in you 10 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:46,000 You are my hiding place You always fill my heart with songs of deliverance 11 00:02:46,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in you 12 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:16,000 Let the weak say I am strong in the strength of the Lord 13 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:44,000 I will trust in you 14 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:56,000 You are my hiding place 15 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:26,000 You are my hiding place 16 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:56,000 You are my hiding place 17 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:26,000 You are my hiding place 18 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:56,000 You are my hiding place 19 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:26,000 You are my hiding place 20 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:56,000 You are my hiding place 21 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:26,000 You are my hiding place 22 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:56,000 You are my hiding place 23 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:26,000 You are my hiding place 24 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:56,000 You are my hiding place 25 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:26,000 You are my hiding place 26 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:56,000 You are my hiding place 27 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:26,000 You are my hiding place 28 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:56,000 You are my hiding place 29 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:26,000 You are my hiding place 30 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:56,000 You are my hiding place 31 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:26,000 You are my hiding place 32 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:56,000 You are my hiding place 33 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:26,000 You are my hiding place 34 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:56,000 You are my hiding place 35 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:26,000 You are my hiding place 36 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:56,000 You are my hiding place 37 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:26,000 You are my hiding place 38 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:56,000 You are my hiding place 39 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:26,000 You are my hiding place 40 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:56,000 You are my hiding place 41 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:26,000 You are my hiding place 42 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:56,000 You are my hiding place 43 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:26,000 You are my hiding place 44 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:56,000 You are my hiding place 45 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:26,000 You are my hiding place 46 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:56,000 You are my hiding place 47 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:26,000 You are my hiding place 48 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:56,000 You are my hiding place 49 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:26,000 You are my hiding place 50 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:56,000 You are my hiding place 51 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:26,000 You are my hiding place 52 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:56,000 You are my hiding place 53 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:26,000 You are my hiding place 54 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:56,000 You are my hiding place 55 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:26,000 You are my hiding place 56 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:56,000 You are my hiding place 57 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:26,000 You are my hiding place 58 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:56,000 You are my hiding place 59 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:26,000 You are my hiding place 60 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:56,000 You are my hiding place 61 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:26,000 You are my hiding place 62 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:56,000 You are my hiding place 63 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:26,000 You are my hiding place 64 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:56,000 You are my hiding place 65 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:26,000 You are my hiding place 66 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:56,000 You are my hiding place 67 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:26,000 You are my hiding place 68 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:56,000 You are my hiding place 69 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:26,000 You are my hiding place 70 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:56,000 You are my hiding place 71 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:26,000 You are my hiding place 72 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:56,000 You are my hiding place 73 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:26,000 You are my hiding place 74 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:56,000 You are my hiding place 75 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:20,000 James the brother of Jesus understood it. 76 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:32,000 And so what happens is when we fail to miss the point, don't become an expert in others witnesses, don't become an expert in helping others with their issues, and even in the kindness of our heart we should not do that, then we start preaching righteousness. 77 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:42,000 Is rightness a good thing? Is it good to be right? Is it good to be honest? Natalie, is it good to be honest? Yes! It's like one of the greatest things, right? 78 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:50,000 But when you go and tell people to be honest, all you're doing is meddling in their life with the Word of God, but only sort of. 79 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:57,000 Is it a tradition to be honest? In the world, without the Bible at all, is it a tradition to be honest? 80 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:05,000 They know they should be honest. They've become a law unto themselves. People know that they should be honest, but do they lie? Yeah. 81 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:15,000 And what is the primary reason why they do it? Because everybody does. Right? Because they want something. Because they are embarrassed and don't want something. 82 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:24,000 Because they lie. And they'll tell you. And everybody lies. Don't you dare tell your wife she doesn't look good in that dress. Everybody lies. 83 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:34,000 So then if everybody lies, that tradition is invalid. But at the same time they carry around this understanding that they don't like to be lied to. No one should ever lie to them. 84 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:44,000 And so the bottom line is, when we preach righteousness and propose pathways to doing better, pointing to effectiveness, if you don't lie, people will trust you. 85 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:51,000 If you show up on time, people will respect you. If you do hard work in people's presence, people think you're a hard worker. Right? 86 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,000 If you do it appropriately for the occasion, people will not look down on you. 87 00:35:54,000 --> 00:36:04,000 So when we propose pathways and we point to effectiveness, all we're doing, if we don't do it in God's power, is play God ourselves. 88 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,000 So we all have issues and we all have issues. 89 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:15,000 Notice though, he says, past issues, issues that are moved completely to the past, become present solutions. 90 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,000 Past issues become present solutions. 91 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:25,000 He says, first remove the beam out of your own eye before you try to take the splinter out of somebody else's eye. 92 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:30,000 Just as my mother was able to get that ash out of my eye, it's just like that. She knew exactly what to do. 93 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:39,000 Even though I was struggling away at it in pain, crying and screaming because it hurt, like somebody was sticking a knife in my eyeball. 94 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:45,000 In 30 seconds she saw that past issues are present solutions, so say Jesus. 95 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:50,000 What he means by that is whatever you turn over to God will be out of the way. 96 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:56,000 Hear me now very carefully because this is hugely, maybe the pinnacle, maybe the main thing to see. 97 00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:03,000 Whatever you turn over to God will be out of the way so you can see clearly. 98 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:06,000 This whole thing is about seeing clearly. 99 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:10,000 It is not about doing right. Not even about that. 100 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000 Can the speck be considered sin? Sure. Should it be dealt with? Sure. 101 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:17,000 Do we all have issues? Yes. But are our issues limited to sin? 102 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:24,000 If you don't like certain drinks vehemently, like you just can't drink them, that's an issue. 103 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:30,000 It can be used against you, but is it sin? Not necessarily. We have many issues that are not necessarily sin. 104 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:34,000 What we're talking about is the ability to see clearly. 105 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:40,000 If you've got something in your eye, if you've got a beam in your eye, the representation is you can't see. 106 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:48,000 You can't see clearly. So what he's saying is whatever you turn over to God will be out of the way so that you can see clearly. 107 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:53,000 So now if you recognize you have an issue, whatever that is, sin or not, you need to submit it to God. 108 00:37:53,000 --> 00:38:00,000 If a situation arises where my issue would keep me from doing what God wants me to do, 109 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:06,000 I am not going to allow that issue to keep me from doing what God wants me to do because I am a follower of God. 110 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:11,000 A follower of God has Jesus as Lord. Lord means He tells me what to do and I do it, so He's telling me what to do. 111 00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:20,000 And I have this issue that I'm still working on, but I've submitted the issue to God, therefore I can see clearly to do what I need to do. 112 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:24,000 Whatever you turn over to God will be out of the way so that you can see clearly. 113 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:31,000 First remove the beam from your own eye, then perhaps remove splinter from the eye of your brother. 114 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:36,000 When a thing is removed by God, it makes helping others possible. 115 00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:45,000 So a number of times it's been hugely important in my witnessing where I'm talking with somebody and I realize I had an issue in the past. 116 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:50,000 I shared this illustration twice. I was at Myers. There was a young woman there. She was working at the cash register. 117 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:55,000 I began to talk about Jesus and Japanese spiritual beliefs and using church Jesus without fear to kind of begin the conversation. 118 00:38:55,000 --> 00:39:00,000 She said, yes, I do. She believed in God. She had never accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. 119 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000 I started the conversation because she was complaining about her job. 120 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:11,000 I said, yeah, I totally get that. I used to work in retail myself. It is really hard. I had issues back then too. 121 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:16,000 Issues, I didn't say sin, although sin was true, but I didn't say that I had issues. She had issues. 122 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:20,000 I said, so what is your issue? She said, my issues with my schedule. Always changing all the places. 123 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,000 Plus, I have hours to actually pay my bills. That's my issue. 124 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:29,000 And I said, that was totally my issue when I worked in retail. I totally feel what you're saying. I had the same issue. 125 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:36,000 Are we talking about sin? Is it a sin that she's upset, not getting enough hours to pay her bills? No. 126 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:42,000 Where is the sin? The sin is that she did not submit her life to Jesus Christ. 127 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,000 Jesus said, I did not come to condemn, but they are condemned already by what they've done with the Son of God. 128 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:50,000 She was condemned by what she did with the Son of God. She felt about her schedule. 129 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:56,000 Or even if she gossiped or slandered about her schedule to somebody else and complained to her boss, whatever. 130 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:01,000 If she lied and cheated and stole to try to get more hours, none of that was what was causing her to be lost. 131 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,000 What was causing her to be lost was she didn't know Jesus as Lord and Savior. 132 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,000 She was condemned already by what she had done with the Son of God. 133 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:11,000 And I knew that. And she kind of knew that. And so I shared Jesus with her. 134 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:16,000 And I said, after I came to Jesus Christ, I found out that that issue is not really an issue. 135 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:22,000 And I was able to turn that issue over to the Lord. And I was no longer fearful that I wouldn't have enough money to pay my bills. 136 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:27,000 I was no longer angry that I didn't have enough hours. I was angry because my schedule was being all affected. 137 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:33,000 I was changed so that I could see that issue differently. 138 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:37,000 Just a couple moments. She prayed that she was Christ as Lord and Savior. 139 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:41,000 See, we're all about you going to hell because you have sinned. 140 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:44,000 People aren't going to hell because they have sinned. 141 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:48,000 The wages of sin is death. That separates them from God. 142 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:53,000 That's why they're going down. The problem has never been sinned. The problem is death. The problem is the separation from God. 143 00:40:53,000 --> 00:41:00,000 And a bridge across that separation, a tunnel through to have a perfect relationship with God has been crafted by Jesus. 144 00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:08,000 And not because they're going to hell, not based on the sins that they have committed, but because they are condemned by what they have done with the Son of God. 145 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:12,000 They're refusing to accept the lifeline. 146 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,000 When a thing is removed by God, it makes helping others possible. 147 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,000 We proclaim what we have seen and heard. 148 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:23,000 When a thing is removed by God, it makes helping others possible. 149 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:28,000 Especially in the kindness. 150 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:32,000 Especially in the kindness of your heart. 151 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,000 Trust God and submit. 152 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:39,000 See, we couldn't in the kindness of our heart deal with their issues. 153 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:44,000 We couldn't in the kindness of our heart become an expert on their issues. 154 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:47,000 But when a thing is removed by God, it makes helping others possible. 155 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:57,000 And especially in our heart, we can go out there and show them that by trusting God and submitting to God, that issue they too can see. 156 00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,000 Genesis 1, 2, 4 says this. 157 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:10,000 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter the house, knowing that the test in the case of endurance, and let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. 158 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:15,000 Why do we not understand that the things that we go through need to be submitted to God? 159 00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:23,000 When they are submitted to God, when they are submitted to God, they get out of the way so that then we can help others. 160 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,000 Why do we not understand that? 161 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:33,000 Rick Warren and his purpose-driven life has a whole chapter, which we studied way back in the day, and it really profoundly affected me, and another young man that I shared with in the youth group at that time, 162 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:40,000 about how whatever you go through, the difficulties you go through, once you survive it, it becomes fuel to help others. 163 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,000 That's what this is talking about. 164 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:52,000 He said, remove the beam from your own eye, deal with your issue, and in dealing with your issue, you become able to help others deal with theirs. 165 00:42:52,000 --> 00:43:00,000 I have a magnifying glass, kind of one of my fun little things I have in my office. 166 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,000 Magnifying glass. 167 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,000 I really don't magnify my bicep. 168 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:09,000 Wow! That's pretty awesome to do that. 169 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:15,000 This magnifying glass. There was a young man, a child really, who got a magnifying glass. 170 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:19,000 I'm going to look at the magnifying glass and look at the paper. 171 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,000 Whoa! Look at ants. 172 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,000 Whoa! Six legs! 173 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,000 Moving fast! 174 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:29,000 So strong! 175 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,000 A cron that's four times its body size. 176 00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:36,000 You went around magnifying things and looking at them, and it gave him a completely different perspective on the world. 177 00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:41,000 Do you understand that there are things going on around you all the time that you never see before? 178 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,000 In your body. 179 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,000 Your cells are replicating and dividing and splitting right now as you're sitting there. 180 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,000 Not a few. 181 00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,000 I would say billions, trillions. 182 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,000 More than you can imagine. There is so much activity going on. 183 00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:00,000 We're all sitting and thinking and listening to God being changed. 184 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:05,000 There is so much activity going on in this room at a cellular level that we can't see. 185 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,000 The magnifying glass opens up a new world to you. 186 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:13,000 When you pay attention to the right thing, you can see it more clearly. 187 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,000 The psalmist said it this way in Psalm 34, beginning of verse 3. 188 00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,000 He says, oh, magnify the Lord with me. 189 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,000 Magnify the Lord with me. 190 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:25,000 He said it again. 191 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,000 Magnify the Lord with me. 192 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,000 Is that not what Sundays are about? 193 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,000 Everything that we're doing here, magnifying the Lord. 194 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,000 That's why you don't need your phone. 195 00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:35,000 That's why you don't need to be distracted. 196 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,000 That's why you don't need a snack. 197 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,000 You don't need to get out. 198 00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:41,000 You don't have to go to the bathroom. 199 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,000 You don't have to get up and do nothing. 200 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,000 Magnify the Lord. 201 00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,000 And you are capable of turning off every other thing and just focusing on God because you have a relationship with God. 202 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:51,000 And if you're not capable of doing that, then you need to question whether or not you have actually seen Him. 203 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,000 So magnify the Lord with me. 204 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:57,000 He says, let us exalt His name together. 205 00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,000 So we all have issues. 206 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,000 Don't ignore your own issues. 207 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:03,000 And don't become an expert on others' issues. 208 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,000 But realize we can exalt the name of the Lord together. 209 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:09,000 He says, I swore the Lord. 210 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,000 And He answered me. 211 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,000 And delivered me from all my fears. 212 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,000 Can you say that about God? 213 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:20,000 Did you seek God and God answered you and delivered you from all your fears, all your worry, all your anxiety, all the things of this life that prevented you from seeing Him? 214 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,000 That He has you being in doing? 215 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,000 Did He deliver you? 216 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,000 If He didn't deliver you, you're not saved. 217 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,000 And He did submit your life to Jesus. 218 00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,000 I sought the Lord and He answered me. 219 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,000 And delivered me from all my fears. 220 00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,000 They looked to Him and were radiant. 221 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:38,000 Notice they looked to God and their faces glowed. 222 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,000 And their faces shall never be ashamed. 223 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:46,000 If you are a follower of the Lord, Jesus Christ, if you have come to Jesus, you're not going to be ashamed of your living for the Lord. 224 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,000 Yes, you have issues with your work. 225 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:54,000 And every time you turn your issue over to the Lord, you become more capable to help others. 226 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,000 We looked to God and we were radiant. 227 00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:00,000 Our faces shall never be ashamed if we rephrase it in the first person. 228 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:06,000 Verse 6 says, This poor man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of his trouble. 229 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:12,000 The angel caps those who fear him and rescued them. 230 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:16,000 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. 231 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,000 How blessed is the man who takes refuge. 232 00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:20,000 Don't you hear what the psalmist is doing? 233 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,000 Let me put it in the context of our verses. 234 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,000 This is what the psalmist is doing. 235 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:26,000 The psalmist is doing what he's saying to me. 236 00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:30,000 And people like me have been submitting the log in our eye. 237 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:34,000 Opening up the opening. 238 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:38,000 And when we do that, God shows up and does amazingly. 239 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:40,000 What's that you say? 240 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,000 You have a splinter in your eye? 241 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,000 Well, here's what you can do. 242 00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,000 Magnify the Lord. 243 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,000 Submit your issues to God. 244 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,000 And God will show up. 245 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,000 Will show up. 246 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,000 And He will deal with it as He has always done. 247 00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,000 Cry out to the Lord and the Lord will heal you. 248 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,000 And save you from your issues. 249 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,000 That's what the psalmist is saying. 250 00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:04,000 And he's giving us an example of how magnifying God, 251 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:06,000 which is what Jesus is telling us to do in these verses, 252 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,000 can help other people. 253 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:12,000 That brings us to our conclusion. 254 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,000 You need more than a clear eye. 255 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,000 Boy, a clear eye sounds good. 256 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,000 Truth is, a lot of people don't have it. 257 00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,000 A lot of saved people don't have it. 258 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,000 Because they're not submitting their issues to God. 259 00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:24,000 You need more than a clear eye. 260 00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:26,000 It would be great to have one. 261 00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,000 And it sounds like it's what Jesus wants for all of us based on these verses. 262 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:30,000 But you need more than a clear eye. 263 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:32,000 Everyone needs more than a clear eye. 264 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,000 Because no man is just an eye. 265 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,000 Are you just an eye? 266 00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,000 You're like floating around two eyes and that's it? 267 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,000 It's just what you see? 268 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,000 And kids are sometimes like that. 269 00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,000 They get wrapped up in everything that they see and they chase after this and that. 270 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,000 They chase after that chaotic everywhere. 271 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,000 But is that you? Are you just an eye? 272 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,000 Do you not have a brain? Do you not have ears? 273 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,000 Do you have feet? Hands? Heart? Lungs? 274 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,000 No. You are much more than just an eye. 275 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:56,000 So a clear eye would be great. 276 00:47:56,000 --> 00:48:00,000 But you need something considerably more than a clear eye. 277 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:06,000 But where would your foot be if every part of you was an eye? 278 00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,000 Right? 279 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,000 No. 280 00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,000 You need more than a clear eye. 281 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,000 Jesus said this, he taught this in Luke 11. 282 00:48:14,000 --> 00:48:18,000 He says, the eye is the lamp of the body. 283 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:22,000 When your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light. 284 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:28,000 But when it is bad, talking about your eye, your body also is full of darkness. 285 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:32,000 In some very real sense, hear this, this is huge. 286 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:36,000 In some very real sense, Jesus died to clear your eye. 287 00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:40,000 When you learn that your whole body can be full of light by submitting your eye, 288 00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:49,000 and all the rest of you to God, then you actually have a solution in the present for someone who has a splinter in their eye. 289 00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,000 The solution is not to remove the splinter. 290 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:56,000 At least not by your efforts, or even by a miracle of God. 291 00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:59,000 But to provide a body full of light. 292 00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:01,000 That is the solution. 293 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:06,000 A body full of light. 294 00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:12,000 People plead with God to do and to save them from circumstances they don't like. 295 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:16,000 Jesus asked back, do you want to be healed? 296 00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,000 Like he did with the man by the pool. 297 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,000 And the man said, well yeah, I want to be healed. 298 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,000 I've been laying here for a decade. 299 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:27,000 But every time the water starts, someone else comes and says, 300 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:34,000 I've been laying here for a decade, but every time the water starts, someone else gets down on the water before me and they get healed. 301 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,000 I don't have anybody to help me get down on the water. 302 00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,000 I want to do the manhack. 303 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,000 The manhack issues. 304 00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:43,000 Was it sinful that he was paralyzed? 305 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:46,000 Was it sinful that he couldn't be the first one down in the pool to be healed? 306 00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,000 No, he had issues. 307 00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,000 Jesus said, do you want to be saved? 308 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,000 Do you want to be healed? 309 00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:54,000 And he said, yes, I want to be healed. 310 00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:59,000 Fast forward the clock in my life, some distance, I was playing paintball. 311 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,000 I kind of liked paintball, even though I hadn't played in a long time. 312 00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:06,000 Playing out at Tito's Sultans used to be out past Williston, Ohio. 313 00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,000 That was the end of a particular session. 314 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,000 They used to play morning session, afternoon session. 315 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,000 That day I was there playing the morning sessions. 316 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:16,000 I was playing from like 8.30 a.m. to like 11.30 a.m. 317 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:20,000 Paintball, I mean, you fire a 60 caliber paint round at other people kind of fast. 318 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:21,000 And it breaks on their clothing. 319 00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,000 If they get hit, they're out, right? 320 00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:25,000 So I was what's called a cheek paintball player. 321 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:27,000 I had a thing called a Splatmaster. 322 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:31,000 It was a gun that I bought at over here at Woodville Surplus for 16 bucks. 323 00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,000 Paintball guns were very expensive. 324 00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,000 It would hold 10 paintballs in it. 325 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:38,000 Two in the top, that's why there are actual two paintballs in there. 326 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,000 It was chocolate by pushing a thing in on the back. 327 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,000 I used to play paintball like James Bond. 328 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,000 I would sneak around behind any lines and shoot people in the back. 329 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,000 In my mind, I was playing like James Bond. 330 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:47,000 I couldn't shoot very far. 331 00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,000 I acted like I was about 15 feet. 332 00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:53,000 Most of the other people out there had 200, 300, 200 dollars or something like that. 333 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:57,000 Back in that day, if you went out there with automatic, full turret and it would go da-da-da-da-da, fire really fast, 334 00:50:57,000 --> 00:50:59,000 they were 12 to 15 hundred dollars. 335 00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,000 And there would occasionally be one on the battlefield. 336 00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,000 I couldn't afford one, nor was I ever going to afford one. 337 00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:07,000 If you could afford that, you couldn't afford a light unless you were rich. 338 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,000 And some people thought they were rich, put another credit card or I don't know what, 339 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,000 and they made $1,250 paintball. 340 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:14,000 So at the end of the session, it's almost noon, and everybody's going to break for lunch. 341 00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:18,000 And I was debating with myself if I was going to come back and play the second session we started one or not. 342 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:19,000 I had paid again. 343 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,000 And then I probably couldn't bring it up. 344 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:23,000 I was feeling my oats. 345 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,000 We get to the end of the game, and there's this place called The Village. 346 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,000 That's like wooden houses. 347 00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:29,000 And the enemy was always hidden in The Village. 348 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:34,000 Now because I was sneaking around behind any lines and shooting people in the butt, in the back, and like that, 349 00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:36,000 I was behind any lines as we got to the end. 350 00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:41,000 And the horn went off telling us we had whatever that time was three or five minutes left in the game. 351 00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:43,000 As far as I could see, The Village was clear. 352 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:44,000 There was nobody in The Village. 353 00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,000 The flag was in there somewhere. 354 00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,000 There's only a few minutes left to win the game. 355 00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:52,000 80 degrees outside, sun shining, plenty of green brush covers. 356 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:53,000 So I snuck up in the brush. 357 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,000 I'm like 10 feet from the nearest building. 358 00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:00,000 I caught a glimpse of color in one of the buildings. 359 00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:02,000 And I think, that's probably the flag. 360 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:05,000 And so I ran for the brush, and I'm up next to the wall of this building. 361 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:07,000 And now the flag is in the next building. 362 00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:08,000 It's 20 feet away. 363 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:12,000 All I got to do is grab the flag and get it back to my side human. 364 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:14,000 Just a couple minutes left in the game. 365 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,000 The spot master's in my hands, ready with a round. 366 00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,000 No opposition anywhere in the city. 367 00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:23,000 Bugs chirping away, birds, sunshine, gentle breeze in the brush. 368 00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:27,000 I'm having the day of my life, but a great day lately. 369 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:35,000 All of a sudden, I'm at the corner, all of a sudden a guy appears in the brush on the opposite of us, about 60 feet away. 370 00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,000 The flag is about 15 feet away. 371 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:41,000 And the lines take it back across, it's about 10 feet behind me. 372 00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:46,000 So my thought was, run from here, grab the flag, go out the other side of that building and head back. 373 00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:51,000 And he'll shoot me, if he hits me I'll be out, but if he misses me, we win. 374 00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:52,000 That's my thought. 375 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:56,000 And so as he's coming up out of the brush, I break from cover and I run toward the door. 376 00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:00,000 As I run toward the door, I fire this flat master with the one shot that I've got in the chamber. 377 00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:03,000 I can only fire once, and I have to cock, and I don't have time to cock, and I'm running as fast as possible. 378 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,000 I fired the shot, I fired him. 379 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:06,000 He fires at me. 380 00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:13,000 As he fires at me, I think I'm going to be smart, and I slide like I'm sliding into base to try to slide into the building. 381 00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:15,000 Two things went desperately wrong. 382 00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:17,000 The first one was, I missed the door. 383 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:18,000 I hit this building. 384 00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:22,000 So I'm lying on the ground, I'm not even in the room, so at that point I know I'm going to be dead. 385 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,000 He's going to walk up and shoot me. 386 00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,000 But as I hit the building, I realized that something else went desperately wrong. 387 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:33,000 And what happened was, he fired the paintball gun as I slid down, and the paintball hit me right in the top of my nose, right here. 388 00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,000 It blew my goggles off my head. 389 00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,000 I was wearing goggles strapped on my head. 390 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:38,000 It blew my goggles off my head. 391 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,000 It filled my eyes with paint. 392 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:41,000 And I can't see. 393 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:43,000 I can't see anything. 394 00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:44,000 Right? 395 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:47,000 And he says I could see a teeny bit around the edges, but nowhere I could see anything. 396 00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:49,000 I'm thinking to myself, do I have water? 397 00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:50,000 What am I going to do? 398 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:51,000 I'm screwed. 399 00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,000 This guy comes charging down, throws his rifle on the ground. 400 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,000 He's wearing a rebel bandana. 401 00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:58,000 It's a southern black from the Civil War. 402 00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:02,000 He takes it off, and he begins to wipe the paint out of my eyes. 403 00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,000 He said, oh, dude, are you okay? 404 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,000 And he starts wiping the paint out of my eyes. 405 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:10,000 And pretty soon I could see that this rebel bandana was covered with paint, was wiping the paint out of my eyes. 406 00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:11,000 And I'm like, I'm okay. 407 00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:12,000 I'm okay. 408 00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:13,000 I was not okay. 409 00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:14,000 But I'm going, I'm okay. 410 00:54:14,000 --> 00:54:15,000 I'm okay. 411 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,000 Because that's what you say when you're 16 years old and you just got hurt, right? 412 00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:18,000 I'm okay. 413 00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:19,000 I'm okay. 414 00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:20,000 So he got my eyes mostly clean. 415 00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,000 He picks me up, and he carries me back. 416 00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:24,000 Not literally, but I mean, it's like I'm leaning on him. 417 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:25,000 We go back out to the front. 418 00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:27,000 He picks up the gun, and the game's over. 419 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:28,000 The horn blows. 420 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:29,000 We didn't win. 421 00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,000 And I get back out there, and I'm pouring water on my eyes. 422 00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,000 I get my eyes all cleared. 423 00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:36,000 I spent the whole lunch break getting my eyes all cleared. 424 00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:38,000 I am not playing around. 425 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:39,000 I'm done, right? 426 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:41,000 I rode my motorcycle. 427 00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:42,000 I play paintball. 428 00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,000 I go, and I get on my motorcycle. 429 00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,000 He stops over and he's like, are you okay? 430 00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:46,000 I'm like, yeah, I'm okay. 431 00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:49,000 He said, well, I never played before in my life, and I'm super sorry. 432 00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:50,000 I didn't mean to shoot you in the head. 433 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,000 I was aiming for your body. 434 00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:52,000 I'm like, I know. 435 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:53,000 I slid. 436 00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,000 I was trying to get in the building. 437 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:55,000 And he said, really? 438 00:54:55,000 --> 00:55:00,000 I'm sure he was thinking that was a horrible slide into the building because you literally slid into the wall. 439 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,000 But he said, I saw it. 440 00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:04,000 That happened. 441 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:05,000 I felt terrible. 442 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,000 And I got on my motorcycle. 443 00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:15,000 And for two and a half months, for two and a half months, every day of my life for two and a half months, I had a little spot here on the side of my eye. 444 00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:19,000 And every time I would blink, this little spot would go beep, go down, and up. 445 00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:20,000 Every time. 446 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:22,000 How many times do you blink in a day? 447 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,000 Hundreds, thousands of times. 448 00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:25,000 Great. 449 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:29,000 I'm 16 years old, and I'm literally forever going to have a little speck in my eye. 450 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:33,000 And I'm thinking to myself, how am I going to get rid of this little speck out of my eye? 451 00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,000 I thought, I'm going to go to an eye doctor or something. 452 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:40,000 And you know how, like, you're 16 years old, and the last thing you ever want to admit is that you have to go to the doctor? 453 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:41,000 Well, that was me. 454 00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:42,000 So I'm like, I'm putting it up. 455 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:43,000 I'm doing my schoolwork. 456 00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:44,000 I'm working in school. 457 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:46,000 And I'm filling out the math problem. 458 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:47,000 And I go blink, blink. 459 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:48,000 And my left eye cannot see the page. 460 00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:49,000 And then my left eye can blink. 461 00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:50,000 And this little speck. 462 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,000 And that's all I could think about. 463 00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:58,000 All day long, all day, every day, was how for the rest of my life, I'm going to have a tiny speck in my eye, blinking up and down, blinking up and down. 464 00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,000 Listen. 465 00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:02,000 People do not need you. 466 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,000 I could stop right there. 467 00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,000 It's really what they need is Jesus. 468 00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:09,000 People do not need you to go and tell them what they have to speck in their eye. 469 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:16,000 Just the same as if you're in this room and you're a Christian, you know very plainly that you have issues. 470 00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,000 Some of your issues are sinned. 471 00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:19,000 Some of them are not. 472 00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:27,000 If you have an issue, and you know what it is, and you're ignoring it, that is sin. 473 00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:29,000 It's sin. 474 00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:40,000 If you recognize an issue in somebody else, and begin to ignore your issues to try to fix their issues, that is sin. 475 00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:43,000 Even if you do it in the kindness of your heart. 476 00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:54,000 Even if you do it with the greatest of compassion, thinking you are denying yourself while you are solving their problems, by allowing your issues to persist, that is sin. 477 00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:59,000 Rather, Jesus said, submit your issue to me. 478 00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:10,000 Let's you and me work together to get this out of your eye, so your whole body can be filled with light. 479 00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:15,000 John 1,4 says, In him, in Jesus, was light. 480 00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:19,000 And the light was the light of him. 481 00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:25,000 John 8,12 says, Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. 482 00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:33,000 He who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of light. 483 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:35,000 Everybody knows they have issues. 484 00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:37,000 They don't need you to go and point it out. 485 00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:43,000 The key to this is to submit your issues to God, so your eye can be cleared and your body can be full of light. 486 00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:57,000 And then the last problem, you will actually be able to go and show people how they can submit their issue to God and have an eye that's open and a person that's full of light. 487 00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:00,000 And the title is this. 488 00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,000 An open opening. 489 00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,000 That is to say, if your eyes are open, be clear. 490 00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:07,000 An open opening opens. 491 00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:08,000 An opening. 492 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:11,000 That is to say, an opportunity. 493 00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,000 To open openings. 494 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:16,000 That is to say, the eyes of others. 495 00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:19,000 So, let's open with that. 496 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:31,000 Let's take the problems and the issues and even the sins that are messing with our vision and submit them to the Lord so we can have a clear eye and be filled with light. 497 00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:36,000 And then let's go and show others how they can do the same thing. 498 00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:38,000 They don't need you to tell them they have issues. 499 00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:40,000 They already know. 500 00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:45,000 They don't need you to give them action plans on how they can do better struggling through difficult times. 501 00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:50,000 What they need is the know-how to submit their issues to the Lord. 502 00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:53,000 And then you fill the hole. 503 00:58:53,000 --> 00:59:06,000 Here today, you're a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, which you recognize in yourself, the great skill of being able to go around and find the things that are wrong with other people. 504 00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:11,000 You realize you can be offended easily when somebody does something that you don't like. 505 00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:16,000 Maybe you're a student. You're smart, wise, discerning. 506 00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:23,000 You can tell others good action plans, good steps on how to make their situation better. 507 00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:36,000 And you find that you've been majoring in that rather than showing them how to submit the beam that's in their eye, the issue that they have, that they should not be ignoring to the Lord. 508 00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:39,000 Have their eye cleared and their whole self full of light. 509 00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:45,000 I submit to you that there's a whole bunch of Christians in the book that are walking around with issues in their eye. 510 00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:46,000 It doesn't have to be sin. 511 00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:54,000 Now, if it comes to you, you need to be there. Your issue could just simply be, I struggle with myself. 512 00:59:54,000 --> 00:59:59,000 It could simply be, I stay out too late. 513 00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:15,000 But when those issues remain and they block your view so that the God of heaven, Jesus, who died on the cross for this very purpose, cannot fill your whole inside with light, cannot enlighten you, that is sin. 514 01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:18,000 You need to repent and turn those issues over to the Lord. 515 01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:25,000 And the next time you hear yourself say, I can't because, even if it's true, ask yourself, is that an issue? 516 01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:29,000 Is it an issue that I should submit to the Lord? 517 01:00:29,000 --> 01:00:33,000 The next time you hear yourself say, man, he or she may be ganged. 518 01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:37,000 Man, they hurt me. Oh, I wish they wouldn't do that. 519 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:43,000 Is that you ignoring the issues that you have and focusing on the issues that others have? 520 01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,000 Because if it is, it's sin. 521 01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:48,000 And if it's sin, it's surely a beam in your eye. 522 01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:52,000 And if it's a beam in your eye, it will surely block your eye. 523 01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:57,000 And if your eye is not open, your whole self will not be filled with light. 524 01:00:57,000 --> 01:01:00,000 That's the mathematical equation that is here in containment. 525 01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:09,000 Jesus said this, he said, why do you look at the speck that's in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 526 01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:14,000 Or how can you say to your brother, let me take the speck out of your eye and behold, the log is in your own eye? 527 01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:15,000 You hypocrite. 528 01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:22,000 First take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly that it is the speck out of your brother's eye. 529 01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:23,000 Pastor Dan, it's like this way. 530 01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:27,000 And it opens, it opens, it opens, it opens, it opens, it opens. 531 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:29,000 So let's open that. 532 01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:32,000 Would you please come forward and lead us in our final hymn today? 533 01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:35,000 And if the Lord has spoken to your heart and you need to respond, and you come and do so, 534 01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:39,000 you can publicly say something, this is a perfect opportunity to put something in the hands of the Lord, 535 01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:42,000 whatever it might be that you're struggling with, and say I'm giving that over to God today, 536 01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:46,000 and I'm going to let God do with it as my thesis so that I can sing. 537 01:01:46,000 --> 01:02:09,000 As we are led, stand and sing with me and with them, and then if the Lord so will be, then you respond.