1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,720 Hey, I'm Matt Brownell. 2 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:10,360 And I'm Van Owens. 3 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:11,760 And I'm Tim Adams. 4 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:18,000 Welcome to Climbing the Mountain, where we dive into the scriptures and discuss themes, 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,160 connections, and real life application. 6 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:24,800 We're kicking off a series here where we're going to examine the Sermon on the Mount and 7 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:34,280 discuss implications for this teaching for Christians today. 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:35,280 We're back! 9 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:36,280 Part two! 10 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:42,480 Tim is going to take it away and give us a summary of where we were just last time. 11 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:43,480 Great. 12 00:00:43,480 --> 00:00:45,960 Yeah, so we covered a lot last time. 13 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,920 It was a great discussion. 14 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:54,920 My key takeaways were we were thinking about what is the Sermon on the Mount? 15 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,600 Is this a new law that's given to us? 16 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,360 Is it an amendment to the old law? 17 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:06,720 And we didn't actually land on a particular thing in our last conversation. 18 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,680 But we did have some takeaways. 19 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:17,840 And one was whatever we might call this, the Sermon on the Mount is teaching given to us 20 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:22,840 by our instructor, the one instructor, the Messiah. 21 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,720 He's speaking with authority to his disciples. 22 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:32,400 And so, however we approach this, we need to approach it extremely seriously. 23 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,520 This is important teaching for our lives. 24 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:38,040 That was one big takeaway. 25 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:48,240 But we also talked about in the New Covenant that Jesus instituted in Luke 22 and it's 26 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:55,640 talked about in Hebrews, we don't just have new information being given to us. 27 00:01:55,640 --> 00:02:01,800 Not just this crazy high standard that Jesus is giving, which is even higher than the old 28 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,160 law, the Mosaic law. 29 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:11,840 We actually have the Holy Spirit helping us and guiding us and equipping us to when we 30 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:13,600 come to the Sermon on the Mount. 31 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:21,560 And so that gives me hope as I'm reading these words and as they seem weighty and challenging. 32 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,880 I'm not just doing this on my own under my own power. 33 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:27,520 I'm doing this as a part of the new creation. 34 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:28,520 Yeah. 35 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:30,600 There is something supernatural happening here. 36 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,280 We're chimeras, right? 37 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,720 We're not just the sinful nature anymore. 38 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:39,840 We've got that spiritual nature that's supernatural inside of us doing its thing. 39 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:47,200 And it reminded me of Romans 12 where Paul says, don't be conformed to this world. 40 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:52,040 The world is pushing us into, is trying to put it, push us into its mold everywhere around 41 00:02:52,040 --> 00:03:00,000 you, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing you made discern 42 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:06,000 what is the will of God, what is the good and acceptable and perfect will. 43 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:14,640 And that testing you made discern, it actually has a meaning of that you may approve. 44 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:19,520 It's almost like the Holy Spirit is working on us in the process of sanctification so 45 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:24,720 that we start to desire the things that God desires. 46 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,800 And it's that kind of work on our hearts and minds. 47 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:33,840 As we struggle with what Jesus is teaching here, as we struggle with it and not just 48 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,040 set it aside if we hold on to it. 49 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:44,960 So I want to return now to this notion of righteousness because last time we kind of 50 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:50,480 talked a little bit about how the Pharisees, you know, Jesus uses them as an example of 51 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:54,080 our righteousness needs to surpass theirs. 52 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:55,080 What does he mean by that? 53 00:03:55,080 --> 00:04:01,600 And I think in poor, and then he gives a few examples of what he means, you know, not just 54 00:04:01,600 --> 00:04:08,120 don't go to the letter of the law of murder, you want to get to the heart of it, hate, 55 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,400 and weed that out of your heart. 56 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:18,800 But I think in this context, I'd like to focus a little bit about on righteousness and what 57 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:19,800 does that mean? 58 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:24,960 And is there something, because I think this ties in with the rest of the sermon, is there 59 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:31,280 some kind of structure that we can look at with the Beatitudes that we'll, to start at 60 00:04:31,280 --> 00:04:38,280 least if we try to answer what does Jesus mean by righteousness? 61 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:44,280 And I want to start us off here in just noting the structure of the Beatitudes. 62 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:49,840 It starts off with blessed or the poor in spirit for theirs as the kingdom of heaven. 63 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:56,920 And then at the end, it's blessed are the persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs 64 00:04:56,920 --> 00:04:57,920 as the kingdom of heaven. 65 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:03,480 So he's saying, theirs is the kingdom of heaven, poor in spirit and persecuted for righteousness. 66 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:10,720 And then in between, he has all these blessed are, you know, those who mourn for that, they'll 67 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,440 be comforted, blessed are they will be. 68 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,680 So it's a, there's is, and then there's a future. 69 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:19,760 So there's a present and future to all of this. 70 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:27,960 And he said, but after the first four, at the fourth one of each, he talks about righteousness, 71 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:33,280 blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. 72 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:38,400 Everything before that is, you could say the blessedness of emptiness. 73 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,000 Like, you are empty. 74 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:42,240 And so what do you want? 75 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,560 You hunger and thirst for righteousness. 76 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:48,040 You see your need and you hunger and thirst for righteousness. 77 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:49,040 Well, what is that? 78 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,680 And then he talks about blessed are the merciful. 79 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:57,320 It seems like you've now filled up on something and you can provide mercy and you filled up 80 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:01,880 on something and you're, you're pure in heart and you can, you, you see God and you're a 81 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:02,880 peacemaker. 82 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:07,360 These are, I would put before us, maybe some of the qualities that Jesus is looking for 83 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:12,040 that we could test maybe in the rest of the sermon. 84 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:14,360 Does he mean that with righteousness? 85 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:19,520 If you're merciful, if you're pure, if you're a peacemaker. 86 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:30,080 And when we look at these examples later, you know, it says, you know, about not being 87 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:31,640 even angry. 88 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:37,080 That's being a peacemaker, not lusting. 89 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,720 That you know, yeah, don't commit adultery, but don't even lust. 90 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:46,760 That seems like purity right there, divorce, keeping your own. 91 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:54,000 So all of these seem retaliation, you know, all of these things seem like, you know, loving 92 00:06:54,000 --> 00:07:04,720 your enemies, examples of, of purity, mercy and peacemaking to me. 93 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:05,720 That's really interesting. 94 00:07:05,720 --> 00:07:12,400 I've never made that explicit connection between being merciful, pure in heart and a 95 00:07:12,400 --> 00:07:17,880 peacemaker with what you're seeing in the rest of the sermon. 96 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:20,960 But I mean, you, you were focused on Matthew five. 97 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:31,320 If you think about Matthew six, Matthew six is the first half of it is all about religious 98 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:38,600 observances and how to do them with a pure heart and it's all about not being seen by 99 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:42,480 people, but being seen by God. 100 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:46,720 And the promise for the pure in heart is that they will see God, which that's pretty cool. 101 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:47,720 That's cool. 102 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,480 I haven't, I hadn't thought about that until, until now. 103 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:55,200 And I'm glad that you brought us back to when, when you're talking about righteousness 104 00:07:55,200 --> 00:08:02,640 to the Beatitudes, because it is easy to, when you're thinking about the Surreal amount, 105 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:12,920 to focus on the explicit teachings that relate to our behavior, whether that's about treating 106 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:19,160 people kindly and not in anger, or whether that's about not worrying about money. 107 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:25,720 But Jesus starts with the Beatitudes for a reason and I've definitely heard, I've 108 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,200 heard it said that this is the foundation of the Surreal amount. 109 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:39,800 And I wholeheartedly agree with that because these qualities are all over the place. 110 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:42,400 Yeah. 111 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:47,400 If you go, if you scroll, if you keep going, I'm scrolling on my phone here. 112 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:54,240 If you're flipping your pages, he too, down to the end of chapter six, I think in verse 113 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:58,760 33, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. 114 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:06,800 So again, you know, I think also related to this is seeking after and struggling with 115 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,360 God and trying to be like him. 116 00:09:08,360 --> 00:09:14,960 Because if I go back to the end of the Beatitudes, I think there's eight, right? 117 00:09:14,960 --> 00:09:21,400 What are you, when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you 118 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:22,920 falsely on my account? 119 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:26,080 That part, I think supports verse 10. 120 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,480 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake. 121 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:34,600 So the righteousness there, I think there's a parallelism there, I see with, you know, 122 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,200 you're being persecuted in both cases. 123 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:42,680 One is for righteousness and the other is on account of Jesus. 124 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:49,360 And so I think there's also a dimension to this where the righteousness that, you know, 125 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:56,840 the key is really with Jesus to be found in him and not looking to ourselves, our own 126 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:02,120 resources, but to God, I think is part of also the, what I see in the Beatitudes, but 127 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:07,800 that even in the prayer, I think that's another thing that I've been thinking about. 128 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:08,800 Yeah. 129 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:12,660 I think, Matt, what you were saying when you were sort of laying out that the first part 130 00:10:12,660 --> 00:10:16,360 of the Beatitudes is sort of that emptying. 131 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:20,120 And then the second part is what you, what you actually do. 132 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:25,800 I think that a big part of what's going on here, and this is something that I personally 133 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:36,200 struggle with is the performative aspects of the way that I live my religious life. 134 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:42,480 And a lot of what Jesus corrects throughout the sermon is, you know, you've heard it said 135 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,360 and he talks about some performance. 136 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:49,360 You've heard it said, don't kill that. 137 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:54,200 Well, that's, I mean, it's sort of an anti performance, but you don't kill anybody. 138 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:57,080 So that means don't kill people. 139 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:04,680 But then he talks about the, the inward aspect of I'm telling you, don't even hate them 140 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:08,840 and how the two validate each other. 141 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:13,080 You cannot, you can't have the performative aspects of your religion. 142 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:18,960 Don't mean anything if they're just a performance, just like the inward parts, the parts that 143 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:24,320 you're being filled up with don't mean anything if you don't then act on them. 144 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:31,960 And I think what Jesus is talking about here, he's, he's really in a way giving us a true 145 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:40,960 definition of righteousness, of what it should be, because what the Pharisees and the teachers 146 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:48,880 of the law called righteousness had become for many of them just a performance, just 147 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:51,800 how they looked to the people outside of them. 148 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:56,040 Then the emphasis became, how do I look? 149 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:57,040 How do I look? 150 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:59,680 Do I look righteous? 151 00:11:59,680 --> 00:12:01,400 Instead of am I righteous? 152 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:05,760 Am I being righteous? 153 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:14,520 Can I, can I ask a question and this is, this is a tangent, but it's, it's directly related 154 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:15,920 to righteousness. 155 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:21,480 And I think it's really important as we're talking about the sermon on the mount. 156 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:28,400 So merciful, pure and heart peacemakers, you know, if we accept, which I think is very 157 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:34,840 valid that those are components of being righteous. 158 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:38,880 Jesus says, blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness. 159 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:44,280 And then he kind of leans in on that and says, let me remind you again, like you said, Matt, 160 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:49,280 that you actually are going to be blessed when you're persecuted. 161 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:51,960 Why are we getting persecuted for righteousness? 162 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:55,040 Why are we getting persecuted for doing these great things? 163 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:59,120 Isn't this what the world wants a bunch of people to be merciful? 164 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:02,160 Yeah, that's a valid question. 165 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:09,360 Why wouldn't anyone love mercy and peacemaking? 166 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:14,680 But Jesus says, no, that's not what's going to happen when you try to do those kind of 167 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:15,680 things. 168 00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:21,760 And I think part of it is that your light shines on darkness and people don't like to 169 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:22,760 be revealed. 170 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:26,840 They don't like to have that light shine on them. 171 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:33,760 And maybe they don't like, let's say you're at work and the boss says, you guys can have 172 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:36,080 a half hour break, right? 173 00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:42,400 And then everyone else wants to take an hour, but you go back to work after half an hour 174 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:49,840 and everyone suddenly hates you because you're making them all look bad. 175 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:57,760 And yes, the world wants mercy, but what Jesus is saying is, but the world doesn't understand 176 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:01,000 what mercy really is. 177 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:06,760 And what mercy really is, the world doesn't want. 178 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:18,560 That if the person makes you walk with them a mile to carry their burden, that's not mercy. 179 00:14:18,560 --> 00:14:21,200 It just looks like mercy. 180 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,360 What's mercy is to go two miles. 181 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:29,160 What's mercy is to say, no, I'll carry it all the way home for you. 182 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:36,200 And the world thinks that is stupid and crazy and overboard. 183 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:46,480 And now you've bridged from being kind to being abused and your rights violated. 184 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:52,640 And I think that part of what Jesus is saying here is that the world likes the word, the 185 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:58,480 concept of mercy in general, but the world doesn't understand what mercy really is. 186 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:02,600 The world doesn't understand what purity really is. 187 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:03,840 Yeah. 188 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:10,800 You know, Jesus is a perfect example of perfect and crucified. 189 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:11,800 Right. 190 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:12,800 Right. 191 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:13,800 Yeah. 192 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:19,920 And I just think that that's helpful for me because when I'm thinking about these words 193 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:26,320 like righteousness, it can be a very spiritual word. 194 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:32,520 It can feel like it's not so much connected to my day-to-day life. 195 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:41,960 But then I think when I read the Sermon on the Mount, there can be parts of it that are 196 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:49,600 like that where it feels like either it's not connected to me or I feel a certain sort 197 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,040 of repulsion to it. 198 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:52,640 Like you were saying, Van. 199 00:15:52,640 --> 00:15:55,560 Like I don't think I want that. 200 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:58,080 And that's too much righteousness. 201 00:15:58,080 --> 00:15:59,880 That's too much righteousness. 202 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:01,040 Exactly. 203 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:05,400 And so if the Sermon on the Mount is a picture of what righteousness looks like, which I 204 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:12,680 think is a good example, our description of what it is, then I think as we're approaching 205 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:18,760 it, as we're preparing to dig into it, we're going to have times where we are doing some 206 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:25,120 of that recoiling ourselves, where we're tempted to persecute the righteousness ourselves. 207 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:30,120 And I think we just need to be aware of that, that Jesus is the one defining righteousness 208 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:31,120 here. 209 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,680 It's not us defining righteousness. 210 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:38,200 And that needs to change our posture. 211 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,920 Yeah, absolutely. 212 00:16:41,920 --> 00:16:44,320 I like that setup. 213 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:46,960 That's pretty good to remember. 214 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:55,880 Maybe we can also pivot to the seriousness, because I think it relates, of how Jesus kind 215 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:58,360 of wraps up his sermon with this. 216 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,800 The first time I read this, I was a religious guy. 217 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:03,640 I was a pastor's kid. 218 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,960 And boy, did it get me stone cold sober. 219 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:13,440 In Matthew 7, this is verse 21, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, we'll enter the 220 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:20,280 kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven. 221 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:24,480 On that day, many will say to me, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and cast 222 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,200 out demons in your name and do many mighty works in your name? 223 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:32,600 And then I will declare them, I never knew you. 224 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:36,640 Depart from me, you workers of lawlessness. 225 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:47,520 And this word, lawbreakers or lawlessness, anemia in Greek, those who work iniquity, 226 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:52,000 it describes the condition of being without law, either because you're either ignorant 227 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:55,520 of it or you violate it. 228 00:17:55,520 --> 00:18:02,880 It can also mean contempt and violation of law, basically wickedness. 229 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:08,080 So I think Jesus is saying, we really need to take this pretty seriously. 230 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:13,560 He's ratcheted up the stakes like this pretty hard, pretty high, because you're shut out 231 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:15,080 of the kingdom of God. 232 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:19,200 He's saying he doesn't know you. 233 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:30,640 And I think this relates back to what we were seeing in the Beatitudes about never really 234 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:35,760 being satisfied unless you hunger and thirst after God's righteousness. 235 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:44,680 It's sort of a summary, I think, at the end of Matthew 5 where in verse 48 he says, be 236 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:50,400 perfect as your heavenly father is perfect. 237 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:57,160 And I think unless our passion in life is to know God in the struggle to be like him 238 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:00,240 in the world, we're just doing religion. 239 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,800 It's not relationship. 240 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:14,280 Yeah, I just, I guess I want to just echo how important that is. 241 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:23,200 I think the, it makes me feel so grateful for the Holy Spirit. 242 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:28,960 Because yeah, Matthew, I mean, it's not like he just gives one hard teaching at the end 243 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:30,840 of Matthew 7. 244 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,560 He has like four back to back, right? 245 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:34,560 Enter through the narrow gate. 246 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:36,120 It's going to be hard. 247 00:19:36,120 --> 00:19:41,720 Watch out for people who teach you things that, you know, sound good, but aren't, don't bear 248 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:42,720 fruit. 249 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:43,720 Right. 250 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,960 And make sure to do my will. 251 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:49,680 And you could even think you're doing it, right? 252 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:53,720 You could be doing miracles in my name, but not be doing my will. 253 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:57,080 And by the way, hear what I say and put into practice. 254 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:01,960 It's like so, it's so challenging. 255 00:20:01,960 --> 00:20:06,280 But he does say at the very beginning, like blessed are the poor in spirit. 256 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:14,200 And so it's like recognizing that we're, we're struggling is, and it's going to be really 257 00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:16,200 hard. 258 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,360 He wants us to do that. 259 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:20,840 Instead of it being something we have to like pretend will never happen. 260 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:21,840 Right. 261 00:20:21,840 --> 00:20:22,840 Because we're going to do everything perfect. 262 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:23,840 Right. 263 00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:29,520 I think that's, that's exactly what this sermon does to me when I read it and I meditate on 264 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:30,520 it. 265 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:34,840 It makes me, it crushes me and it brings me back to the, the beatitudes again. 266 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:39,400 And I circle back to them and think, Oh my gosh, I need God. 267 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:40,960 I can't do this. 268 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:48,080 And I'm convicted by my sin and I, and I, I want to change and I, and I feel, oh man, 269 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:49,080 this is hard. 270 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:58,400 And, but I think it would be much worse if we never looked in the mirror, you know, and 271 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,360 just coasted, right? 272 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:04,560 That's the, that's the lazy river to hell right there. 273 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:05,560 Right. 274 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:06,560 Yeah. 275 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:12,400 And, you know, the, and then he ends the sermon talking about building. 276 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:16,840 It's something that you are building. 277 00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:23,840 It's not something that you are sort of in what I was saying before. 278 00:21:23,840 --> 00:21:27,560 If I thought, if I memorized it, I would have it. 279 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:29,880 It's not something that it doesn't work that way. 280 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:34,880 It's something that I have to build and I have to build it on the right foundation. 281 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:39,440 You know, if you build your house on the rock, it'll stand in the storm. 282 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:47,560 If you build it on not the rock, the rock being Jesus, if I build it on my own character, 283 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:55,320 if I build it on my own performance, if I build it on my church attendance or on my 284 00:21:55,320 --> 00:22:03,520 denominational affiliation or on my education or on my talent or on anything that's not 285 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:09,640 that rock, which is Jesus, then when the storm comes, it's not going to stand. 286 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,360 And it's something that we're, we're building. 287 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:21,080 I really love the, the thought of that because building involves creativity and it involves 288 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,840 collaboration. 289 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:26,200 It involves, it involves other people. 290 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:32,400 It involves the Holy Spirit and it, it, it's sort of an encouragement at the end of all 291 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:37,800 that really hard stuff at the end where it says you, you might look like you're on the 292 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:44,000 way, but you might be going in the complete opposite direction because I've got to build 293 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:49,440 it and I've got to realize that as long as I'm on this side of eternity, that building 294 00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:51,440 continues. 295 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:55,120 That building is something that has to keep going on. 296 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:56,120 Yeah. 297 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:58,200 This is, this is good stuff. 298 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:06,920 I, I love you like leaning into that analogy because Jesus is so good with his analogies. 299 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:16,040 And when, when I think about kind of the quintessential analogies that Jesus makes about this relationship 300 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:27,720 of walking with him and it being a process of obedience and grace and love, I think about 301 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:28,720 John 15. 302 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,120 I don't know if you guys mind if I just read a few. 303 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:32,120 Yeah, please go for it. 304 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:36,800 Because I think this is, this is at the end of Jesus' ministry and he's kind of reflecting 305 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:39,560 back and he's reminding his disciples of the paradigm. 306 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:46,440 And so he, Matthew seven, he uses that idea of builder and here it's, it's gardening. 307 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:47,520 The gardening analogy. 308 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:55,320 So in Matthew 15 verse one, he says, I am the true vine and my father is the gardener. 309 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:58,680 He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. 310 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,480 He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit. 311 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:06,000 You are clean already because of the word I have spoken to you. 312 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:11,840 Remain in me and I will remain in you just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself 313 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:13,600 unless it remains in the vine. 314 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,440 So neither can you unless you remain in me. 315 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:18,840 I am the vine. 316 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:20,280 You are the branches. 317 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:25,160 The one who remains in me and I and him bears much fruit because apart from me, you can 318 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,680 accomplish nothing. 319 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:31,880 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch and dries up and such branches 320 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,680 are gathered up and thrown into the fire and are burned up. 321 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:40,400 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be 322 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:41,720 done for you. 323 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:46,280 My father is honored by this that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples. 324 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:47,880 So I mean there, right? 325 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,400 Jesus is like really hitting this point. 326 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:56,520 You can't do anything unless you remain in me. 327 00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,600 But if you remain in me, you're going to be pruned. 328 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:00,600 Yeah. 329 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,240 You keep on bearing more fruit. 330 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:03,240 Right. 331 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:06,840 And my question then is like, well, how do I remain in you, Jesus? 332 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:07,840 Right. 333 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:13,720 And so then he answers that in verse nine and 10. 334 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:18,920 It is just as the father has loved me, I have also loved you remain in my love. 335 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,000 If you obey my commandments, you remain in my love just as I have obeyed my father's 336 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,720 commandments and remain in his love. 337 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:30,280 And so I mean, he talks earlier about loving, right? 338 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:31,520 Loving Jesus. 339 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,120 You're going to keep his commands. 340 00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:35,360 And I appreciate what you shared, Mata. 341 00:25:35,360 --> 00:25:38,960 It's not that they're like equivalent, right? 342 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,400 Love precedes obedience. 343 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,920 But love can't be absent from obedience. 344 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:48,720 But I think here it's like the analogy is just like it's a vine, right? 345 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,880 It's just all linked up. 346 00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,440 We can't separate ourselves from Jesus. 347 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,000 We can't separate Jesus from his teachings. 348 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:01,000 We can't separate Jesus' teachings from our lives. 349 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:09,280 It's just this all, this mass that is continuously growing and building and bringing God glory 350 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,520 in that pruning, growing process. 351 00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:13,520 Yeah. 352 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:15,280 I don't know if any of you have rose bushes. 353 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:17,760 I have, I've killed a few. 354 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:23,600 And I'm in the active process of killing one now. 355 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:28,080 The blight got one and I didn't know if you clipped one, you could take it over to the 356 00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:29,080 other one. 357 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:30,880 I figured that out though, the hard way. 358 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,000 We have one beautiful rose bush left. 359 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:41,160 And what I've learned though is you really do need to prune the heck out of them a lot. 360 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,800 And that is what they need. 361 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,160 They really thrive after that. 362 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,560 And I like this. 363 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:59,840 I do think this reminds me a lot of the love piece I think of as God loving us first and 364 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:06,160 because he did, we have a chance to love him and that it is all intertwined. 365 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:13,080 And thank goodness we have the Holy Spirit and we remain in him holding on to his commands, 366 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:17,720 not letting go of them, returning to them again and again and again. 367 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:22,920 We fall down, we pick ourselves up, we go back and we're going to keep getting pruned 368 00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:27,880 and that's going to feel really hard, but it's going to prepare us to bear fruit. 369 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:34,120 And that's something that just, you know, my rose bush produces flowers because it's 370 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:39,560 just stayed there and it's still absorbing all the water from the ground. 371 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,840 And the Holy Spirit's going to keep moving in us and we're going to get pruned and it's 372 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:47,640 not going to feel good and that sin that we, you know, self-reliance or whatever is going 373 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,960 to get chopped at and taken down. 374 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:55,920 And then we're going to be producing something that's beautiful that glorifies God. 375 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,680 And you know, the fruit that comes from that. 376 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:01,680 Yeah. 377 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:10,360 I mean, I think the question I think you were going to follow up with was like, well, I 378 00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:13,920 mean, how can we, how can we do this? 379 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,920 How can we do what the Sermon on the Mount calls us to do? 380 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:22,360 I mean, Jesus is loving him as to keep his commands, but I can't keep these. 381 00:28:22,360 --> 00:28:26,680 And so what happens if we sin? 382 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:36,440 What happens if we fall short of the commands that are being talked about here? 383 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:43,520 Are there scriptures that you guys think about when you're thinking about that process of 384 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:48,760 sinning and getting back on your feet again or fault or even, you know, sometimes it's 385 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,680 not the same sins that we do, but it's the good that we don't do. 386 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:53,680 Right? 387 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:54,680 Yeah. 388 00:28:54,680 --> 00:29:03,680 How do we move forward in those times when we're like, I want to love Jesus. 389 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:11,880 I want to keep his commands, but I feel like I'm having trouble holding onto this. 390 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:13,760 What do you guys think about that? 391 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,040 I guess it's like the process of sanctification, right? 392 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:17,040 This process. 393 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,480 What keeps you guys going? 394 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,480 God's mercy. 395 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:29,880 I think, I think the world lies to us and we have to keep going back to his word. 396 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:35,960 I'm, I'm not okay if I'm spending, if I'm not spending time in the word, if I'm not 397 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:40,560 reminding myself of what's real, I get weird, real easy. 398 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:46,960 I'm so, my natural inclination is to be self-reliant and rely on my own strength and not look to 399 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:47,960 God. 400 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:53,560 And the more that I realize, the more I read the Bible, the more I realize I have to keep 401 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,360 my eyes focused on him. 402 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:00,040 And yeah, I'm going to mess up. 403 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:11,480 And I've started to, to realize the longer that I've been holding onto Jesus that I've 404 00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,680 tasted more of his mercy and it's made me more secure. 405 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:25,280 And I think that I, I am an insecure person and that I want people to like me. 406 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:30,280 And so talking about my sin is hard and I don't want to look bad. 407 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:34,760 And I don't want people to think, Oh, why would you be struggling with that? 408 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:35,960 That's stupid. 409 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,920 And shouldn't you be further along? 410 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,000 And I often think, Yeah, I should be. 411 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:44,880 I thought I'd be a lot further along than I am right now, you know? 412 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:45,880 But I'm not. 413 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:52,680 And I am really grateful that I have mercy. 414 00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:57,840 And I think that you got to just keep going back. 415 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:04,320 And these are some of the verses that I think help me, you know, to remember and to focus 416 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:06,320 on Jesus. 417 00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:08,520 Yeah. 418 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:14,800 I think that and you guys and our virtual audience out there is going to have to forgive 419 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,720 me because it's getting late at night where I am right here. 420 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,560 So I'm not recalling the scripture. 421 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:26,960 I believe it's in Philippians where it talks about all attaining to or living up to what 422 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,680 you've already attained. 423 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:36,880 And I think, you know, being, having been a Christian as long as I have, going on 40 424 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:37,880 years. 425 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:42,360 Now, anything that you've been doing for 40 years, you ought to be really, really, you 426 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:44,720 ought to be an expert at it. 427 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:49,320 And sometimes I feel like I'm a novice all over again. 428 00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:54,800 And passages like that helped me because they helped me to understand that. 429 00:31:54,800 --> 00:32:02,920 So I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to cure cancer here. 430 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:08,880 I'm trying to live what I already know, what I've already experienced, because what happens 431 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:10,940 is when I sin. 432 00:32:10,940 --> 00:32:13,040 So when I, when I fall to something. 433 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:17,800 I, in my mind, I want to say, well, see, you're a loser. 434 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,640 You've always been a loser. 435 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:23,160 You're always going to be a loser. 436 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,640 And I want to park there and I want to stop there. 437 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,720 But then I think, no, I'm not a loser. 438 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,360 I know what God has done in my life. 439 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,880 I know what it takes. 440 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:43,000 I know, like you were saying that, I know that if I'm not in the word deeply and consistently 441 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:51,400 and for me, because I need it, not because I need to teach somebody that, not because 442 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,880 somebody's going to ask me what's your Bible study like these days or what are you studying 443 00:32:55,880 --> 00:33:01,400 in your Bible, but then I do it because I know that I need it because if I don't do 444 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:05,120 it, I'm a mess. 445 00:33:05,120 --> 00:33:08,640 And that's what, that's what keeps me going. 446 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:11,360 That's what keeps me saying, you know what? 447 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:16,720 You're not a loser because the Holy Spirit is in you. 448 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:20,600 And it's not, it goes beyond, you're not a loser because you've been doing this for 40 449 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:24,760 years and there's, you get there, you know, longevity counts. 450 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:30,720 No, I'm not a loser because Jesus loves me and I love him. 451 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:37,880 The Holy Spirit is in me and I know how to get back out of this. 452 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,320 My sinful nature wants to tell me, no, you don't know how to get yours. 453 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:44,120 You're not going to. 454 00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:48,200 And it's that that keeps me going. 455 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:57,360 That the Holy Spirit is in me, groaning, communicating things that I can't with my mind, but that 456 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,800 helps me with my spirit. 457 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,360 Yeah. 458 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,360 When I'm weak, then I'm strong. 459 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:12,920 If I can just keep focused on Jesus, I am, you know, he carries me. 460 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:22,520 And I think the, so much of faith, you know, how we are, we live is just keeping our eyes 461 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,080 focused on Jesus. 462 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:27,240 I mean, the author and perfector of our faith, right? 463 00:34:27,240 --> 00:34:33,520 I think that when I read things like John 1, where it says in the beginning, the word 464 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,080 was with God and the word was God. 465 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:41,560 The way that he uses that with word, it actually means toward. 466 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,280 Jesus's whole orientation is toward the Father. 467 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,800 And you can see that the rest of the, you know, he says, oh, I can only do what I see 468 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:49,800 my father doing. 469 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,920 I only say what my father's told me to say. 470 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,840 And that is so amazing, right? 471 00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:00,760 He models what faith is for us, look to God. 472 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:01,760 Yeah. 473 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:02,760 Yeah. 474 00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:06,120 I know that we're coming up on time. 475 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:11,280 I don't know if we answered the question at all still, but this has been a fun discussion. 476 00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:12,280 Yeah. 477 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:21,080 I guess I just want to bring it back in my mind to the Sermon on the Mount there because 478 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:28,440 I think the Sermon on the Mount is supposed to and can serve as this amazing way of coming 479 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:29,960 back to Jesus. 480 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:30,960 Yes. 481 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:38,280 I think that it's that look in the mirror of where am I compared to where Jesus wants 482 00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:39,280 to be. 483 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:43,880 And each time I look at it, every year, every month, I look at it again. 484 00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:50,880 I'm going to see a new smudge on my face that I need to wipe off. 485 00:35:50,880 --> 00:36:02,360 And it can be difficult and it can be scary and I know doing that for 40 years, that must 486 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:08,320 be like, wow, this is a lot of work to keep on going through this. 487 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:16,760 But to be able to do that in the hope and the confidence that we're doing it with Jesus, 488 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:22,080 we're doing it in communion with the Holy Spirit and that the Holy Spirit is using this 489 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:25,240 as a tool to make us more like Jesus. 490 00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:32,080 And so maybe to wrap up here, I don't think that if I was to answer this, the Sermon on 491 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:38,320 the Mount is new law in the same way the old law was like, here's the letter of the law 492 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:44,280 and you've got to go up to this and because people went up to the edge and then whatever 493 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:48,400 didn't say that, okay, and I've got all these loopholes now and I can, or they went to the 494 00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:52,280 other extreme of building a hedge around the Torah and I'm not even getting close to it 495 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:58,080 and Jesus came in through and had a lot of fun, I think breaking those hedges down. 496 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:04,120 But it's more getting to the heart and getting to the motivations and getting to relationship 497 00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:11,760 and almost to that point where the correlation I see in Romans 12 about by testing you may 498 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:12,760 discern. 499 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:17,640 And I think that our hearts would change and we would desire the things that God desires, 500 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:22,640 that we would desire Him as most important above all the other things that we could desire 501 00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:23,640 in this world. 502 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:32,280 Yeah, I think that the Sermon on the Mount helps us every day in every hour at every 503 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:33,800 moment. 504 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:44,000 Jesus is ascending that mountain and sitting down prepared to teach and we have to keep 505 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,680 looking that way. 506 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:53,280 He's up there, so he's a little higher so we can see him if we look in that direction. 507 00:37:53,280 --> 00:38:02,560 But it's just that every day making that decision, I can follow Jesus and I can sit down at His 508 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:10,040 feet and I can listen to what He says or I can do this other thing. 509 00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:19,320 Yeah, and this is, I think, is where we'll have to keep on digging in because unless 510 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:24,440 people forget what we talked about at the beginning of this episode, Jesus is like, 511 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:29,320 if you don't follow what I'm saying, you're doomed. 512 00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:30,320 Right? 513 00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:38,040 So, I think the Sermon on the Mount is both this aspirational, inspirational vision of 514 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:45,480 the future and it is the word of our teacher that we have to follow today. 515 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:54,360 I think we have to live in the both and there and we can't lose sight of those dual realities. 516 00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:55,680 Agreed. 517 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,760 That's a great ending there. 518 00:38:57,760 --> 00:38:58,760 Yes. 519 00:38:58,760 --> 00:38:59,760 Thanks, man. 520 00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:00,760 Good. 521 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:01,760 This has been fun. 522 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:02,760 This is fun. 523 00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:31,760 I love this.