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My oldest son Joey, who's working the welcome desk in the

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back, wants to remind all of you that we have vintage, his word,

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Munster church mugs.

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So feel free, and he put them there free.

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So thank you, Joey.

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But if you want to take those at the end of the service and fill

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your coffee cup, for some reason he would like to get rid of

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those today from the welcome table in the back.

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And it's interesting, Joey wasn't going to be named Joey.

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I don't know how many of you, when you are in the process of

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having kids, you think about names and whether or not you and

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your spouse can agree on one.

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And again, care is not here this morning, but it is true as the

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day is long, we could not agree on a girl's name to save our

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life.

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And God answered our prayers, gave us three boys, so we didn't

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have to worry about that ongoing fight, resentment, all that kind

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of stuff.

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But we both loved the name Micah.

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We both knew Micah's growing up, that just there's something,

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you know, it's a prophet in the Old Testament, that Micah, just

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beautiful, beautiful name.

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But the Micah's that we knew in our life were more of the olive

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colored skin, dark, you look a lot like Daniel Walters.

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So Daniel, if you want to stand up, right?

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No, just kidding, you don't have to stand up.

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But that's, I mean, he's the epitome of Micah.

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Now, I'm not saying his parents are wrong in naming him Daniel,

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but I think Micah would have been a better fit.

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But then Joey came out transparent with red hair.

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And we thought to ourselves, you're not a Micah.

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And so we're like, well, let's take the names of our dads.

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That would have been Jack Daniel.

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We're like, no, you're the old, you're redhead, you're pastor's

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kid, that's three strikes if your name's Jack Daniel.

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So we went with his, with her grandpa's name, Joey, or her

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dad's middle name, Joseph, right?

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And I still love the name Micah, and where you might be going,

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where in the world are you going with this?

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And the prophet Micah actually sums up this entire sermon

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series in three verses.

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And I want to open with Micah chapter 6.

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So Micah chapter 6, he has told you, O man, what is good, and

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what does the Lord require of you?

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But to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly

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with your God.

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Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with 10

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thousands of rivers of oil?

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Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my

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body, for the sin of my soul?

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He has told you, O man, what is good, and what does the Lord

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require of you?

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To do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly

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with your God.

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Now that is the Old Testament, right?

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That is obviously messianic prophecy towards Jesus, but in

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the Old Testament, though they had the sacrificial system, and

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that was how they built and developed their relationship

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with God, kept their relationship with God, it came

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down to three things.

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To do justly, to love mercy, or love kindness, and to walk

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humbly with your God.

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We've talked through what does loving kindness look like.

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This is all predicated on being humble in our walk in

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Christianity, because the opposite of that is pride or

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arrogance, and when believers walk that out, that turns off

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everybody unless you like that because you are in of yourself

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prideful and arrogant.

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Arrogance tracks arrogance, and they usually get in fights, but

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this section today we're going to look at is what does it mean

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to do justly, or to live out justice?

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And Jesus was all about justice.

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Now, you may think of justice, you may think of law, you may

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think of people getting theirs, you may think of, you know,

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something else, maybe the Justice League or whatever comes

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The idea of justice in the Bible is action, that it takes

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that mercy, which is also action, that humility, which is

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also action, that love that we have, which is also action.

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So, justice is action just like all the rest, because it says,

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what is required of you?

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Person at Munster Church here this morning, what is required

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of you to walk out a relationship with God is to be

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someone that does justice, that lives a just life.

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And Jesus gives a couple sermons in his time on earth.

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We call them the Sermon on the Mount, we call them the

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Beatitudes.

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He gives many different teachings, but in Luke 20,

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Matthew has one that we looked at a couple years ago, but Luke

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has a very similar one, though worded a little differently, and

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we pulled this from Luke 6, and I want to dive in here this

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morning.

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Luke 6, and he, Jesus, lifted up his eyes on his disciples and

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said, bless are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom

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of God.

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Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be

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satisfied.

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Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

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Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you

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and revile you and spurn your name as evil on account of the

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Son of Man.

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Rejoice in that day, leap for joy, for behold your reward is

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great in heaven, for so their fathers did to the prophets.

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But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your

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consolation.

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Woe to you who are full now, for you, excuse me, you shall be

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hungry.

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Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

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Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for so their

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fathers did to the false prophets.

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Molly, you can leave that up.

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Matthew doesn't go there.

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Matthew goes right into, after the Beatitudes, goes right into

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being the salt of the earth.

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But Luke camps out here, and I think here is a little bit of

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the difference, and here, you know, when we, how many people

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remember, what does the word blessed mean here if we kind of,

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if we define it in English terms?

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Does anyone remember from a couple years ago?

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Blessed means what?

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Congratulations.

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So reading, well done, that was a while ago, that was a deep

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take, thank you so much.

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Understand that this is the reward you get.

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Congratulations to you who are poor in spirit, who are poor.

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Congratulations to you because you understand what life is

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really about.

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We don't get this in Matthew.

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We get told, congratulations, you've made it, way to go.

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Now go be the salt of the earth.

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Go walk out what you just got congratulated about.

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So what is the opposite of congratulations?

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Anybody?

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This one's kind of, this one's weird.

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Anybody?

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Nobody?

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Despise?

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Interesting, but no.

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Condolence, say more about that, Sam.

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Oh, you're so close.

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You're so close.

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You pity them.

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You're right there.

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You're right there.

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Someone help them out.

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Wow, you missed it.

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No, that's not you two, you both got it.

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No, that was me, that was, you know, don't step on my words, Max.

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it's that understanding of, whoa, you missed it.

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It was right there and you didn't get it.

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The answer was right there.

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I liken this to a couple, you can go on YouTube

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and watch some of these, you know, people that are on,

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spin the wheel, Pat.

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Wheel of fortune, thank you.

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I don't know why that did, I even had wheel.

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That it's literally right there, like everybody would know what

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that is and they just guess it with all the confidence in the world

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and they get it completely wrong.

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And if you're in the studio audience, you're probably just like, ah, oh.

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Like almost like a disgust, like how do you get that wrong?

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That's similar feeling to this.

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This word, whoa, means heavy stuff.

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This isn't like, ah, shucks, I didn't get it.

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Or, ooh, B plus, not an A minus.

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Or, no, this is, it was right there and you missed it.

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Because one of the things we also read, but, whoa, to you, oh, Jerusalem.

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So when Jesus compares himself to a mother hen is when he talks about,

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whoa, to you, Jerusalem, you had a prophet.

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You had the prophet.

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You had the son of God right there and you missed it.

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So that radically, for me at least, changes how I read this section of Luke.

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Jim, you missed it because you were too busy being rich.

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You missed it because you were never hungry.

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You always satisfied yourself.

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You missed it because you took a position over a group of people,

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over a subculture, over a whatever and thought yourself, haha, I am so much better.

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Or anybody that, the movie Dodgeball comes to mind, Ben Stiller's character,

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like, hey, here at Global Jim, we're better than you and we know it.

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That's what that is.

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Probably the first and last time the Bible will ever be translated

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by the movie Dodgeball.

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Elders, I'm sorry.

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Whoa, to you, you know, man, you missed it because all you did was live a life

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so people would speak well of you and not in a hardworking kind of way,

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but in a positional kind of way.

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Friends, when I read that this way this week of Luke, man, it wrecked me.

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It wrecked me because do we not all try to do this?

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Don't we all chase wealth?

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Don't we all chase food, nourishment, comfort?

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Don't we all go, man,

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I've been without a meal for like six hours and I'm not even intermittent fasting.

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Like all of these things, we, Jesus is saying something drastically different here.

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He is saying your priorities are wrong.

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Congratulations to those who understand the depth of my love in such a way

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that you need to be reliant on me for every aspect of life.

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But woe to you when you think you have it all together to the point where Jesus

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doesn't really come into the equation.

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Sure, when we're devastated, we cry out to Jesus.

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When we have everything we've ever wanted, even if you've worked for it and it's all good.

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hmm, no, I got this.

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Isn't it funny how those first four commandments speak all to that?

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Because we make ourselves our own successes in our own name,

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wanting to be a name that is well thought of in this society.

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Again, there are good reasons for that.

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We want Munster Church to have a good name.

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But what name is that?

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You as a believer want to have a good name, but what name is that?

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Well, hopefully, Munster Church, when people see Munster Church, they say,

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there's an organization that does justly, that loves mercy,

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that walks humbly with the God that they believe in.

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I think the same would go for your life.

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And maybe you're here and you don't fully have that relationship figured out.

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Maybe you're here and this understanding of Jesus is new and you don't really know how it

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works.

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That's okay.

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Keep asking questions.

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If you want to get the whole story, join a BSF class because you're going to have 30 weeks.

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We're only doing 13 here.

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They're going to do 30 weeks in this love letter from a sovereign God in the book of

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Revelations.

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And again, a revelation, it's one.

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Understand, there's scary stuff in there, but it's good stuff.

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It's stuff that we need to understand.

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So this understanding of justice, to live as a just person, I don't live this way.

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To live as a just person, then really I should churn that and go, blessed are those who can

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help other people become rich.

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Blessed are those who can fill other people.

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Blessed are those who can lift up other people.

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Blessed are those who talk well of other people, who try to lift up other people's understandings

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of themselves.

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Man, does Jesus say a lot here because he's basing it on Matthew.

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And Matthew, we talked about it.

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We're going to show a couple of them.

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Matthew, right, and he opened his mouth and taught them saying, blessed are the poor in

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spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God.

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Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

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He adds a couple more that Luke doesn't have.

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Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

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Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.

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Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

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Blessed are the peacemakers, not peacekeepers, for they shall be called sons of God.

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Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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Blessed are you when others revile you, persecute you, and utter all kinds of evil against you,

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falsely on my account.

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Rejoice, be glad, for your reward is great in heaven.

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For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

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Same stuff.

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This is the sermon that Jesus is giving to say, you want to be my disciple, do these

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things.

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Do justly.

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Here we go.

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This is how you live, to be a person of justice.

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And if you go through all of those things, that is a clear-cut checklist of how you're

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doing in that.

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How are we loving mercy and walking humbly?

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We did that with 1 Corinthians 13.

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And some of you are like, wait, the Bible works that way?

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I can look at it and just kind of put myself in there?

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That's exactly what we're called to do.

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Jesus is teaching them, this is the beautiful thing about Jesus, and the sovereignty of

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God.

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He's also teaching you today, and he's teaching me.

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Here's the thing, he doubles down in an amazing way in Luke.

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So we did Luke, we jumped to Matthew, we're going to go back to Luke because it's so worth

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going through.

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And we're going to go with verse 27.

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But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those

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who curse you, pray for those who abuse you, to the one that strikes you on the cheek,

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offer the other cheek also, and from one who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your

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tunic either.

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Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods, do not demand

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them back.

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And as you wish that others would do to you, do also to them.

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If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you?

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Even sinners love those who love them, and if you do good to those who do good to you,

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what benefit is that of you?

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For even sinners do the same.

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And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you?

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Even sinners lend to sinners to get back the same amount.

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But love your enemies, and do good, and lend expecting nothing in return, and your reward

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will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful,

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for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.

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Be merciful even as your father is merciful.

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Molly, leave that up there.

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When I got here on Wednesday, the thing that really kind of blew my mind, but love your

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enemies, we've heard that, great, and do good, and lend expecting nothing in return.

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And I thought to myself, Jesus, why in the world would you accept, you know 2024, you

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know our culture, you know our financials, you know where we are compared to where they

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were in the first century.

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And so I think knowing that he's not getting to the specifics of some of that, he's getting

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to the heart of some of this.

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Because what happens if you lend somebody something, man, this is uncomfortable, and

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they don't give it back to you, or they don't give it back to you in the timetable you have

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in your mind.

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What goes on in us?

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Huh?

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Resentment, that's more toward the end, okay, that's a great answer.

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Frustration, what else?

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What?

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You're going to write them off, we're getting there, that's really good.

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Someone else said something else.

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Disappointment, that's kind of where it starts.

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I think it starts there, and that seed grows, it's a seed of resentment, but it doesn't

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start with resentment.

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Like if someone doesn't, if you lend someone to something and the next day it's not back

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to you and you go, I can't stand this person, I wish they were off the face of the earth,

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that's a you problem, that's not a them problem.

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That's something you probably need to talk about, come to my office, we'll talk that

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through.

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But it builds, and it grows.

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It builds to lack of trust, it builds to they're less of a person than I am because they're

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not giving me it back.

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And I know, I struggle with this verse, and I know that there are some of us that are

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struggling with this verse because you have given much in your life and it's not been

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credited back to you.

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And Jesus is saying, he's not saying tough, like that would be, I think that would be

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harsh for Jesus to be like, deal with it.

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No, but he's saying, are you finding your identity in the returns being brought back

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to you?

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Is that justice?

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Or is it a complete revamp of what we believe about ourselves and about our situations that

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you know what?

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Maybe I don't need that anymore.

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Maybe that person needed it more than I did.

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So perfect example, my first year here, we had an individual come and unfortunately we

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found out through Love, Inc., a partner ministry we have that this individual had gone to like

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five or six other churches.

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And I'm going to use the word cond because that's in fact, that's exactly what he did.

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But had a whole story about being part of the military, brought someone who he claimed

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to be his son.

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I remember sitting right down here, I believe where Sarah and Andrea are, and I gave him

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a Bible, we as a church gave him some cash, we gave him some gift cards to get down to

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Fort wherever he was going, I forgot the name, you know, all of that stuff, prayed with him,

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all of those things.

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And literally maybe 36 hours later found out he did it to eight, six or seven other churches.

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And I remember just sitting in the sanctuary livid.

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I was livid at him, and you know, you always maybe go through those situations, you go

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if I would have just, like there was something up with the kid that he brought that he was

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just physically uncomfortable being there.

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And I'm like, man, my spidey senses were going off and I didn't go into it because guess

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I believe the guy's story.

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And I remember sitting there and just angry.

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And in a day and a half, I resented this guy.

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Like how do you take advantage of the church this way?

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Like oh man, all of a sudden sin came in and I started thinking real bad thoughts, thoughts

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I had to confess, thoughts that I was like, why am I so bad?

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It wasn't even my money.

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Like I didn't give him it out of my pocket.

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Yet I own that situation so personally.

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I think this is what Jesus is getting at.

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That we are called to live just and merciful lives, not expecting those to be lived back

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to us.

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It's not going to happen that way all the time.

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That there are going to be times that we give and we do not get back.

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And Jesus is saying, good.

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Half of us are like, oh, Jesus and I, we're in conflict now.

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Because we live in a culture that's kind of eye for an eye.

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We live in a culture that, oh, and not only, if you're not going to give it back to me

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after a month or so, guess what I'm going to charge you?

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Interest.

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Because I now expect, because I don't have it in me right now, what you took from me

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are really what I gave you.

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And if I don't get it back to satisfy who I am to make my balance sheet zero, I'm going

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to charge you interest to where you're giving more than what I actually gave you.

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This is what Jesus is doing here.

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Jesus is throwing our understanding of finances, our understanding of giving, our understanding

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of help, and he's turning it on itself.

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Because I think he's saying, where your treasure is, your heart is also.

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He's calling out our heart.

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He's calling out our heart not only for people, but for situations when we help people.

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Situations that are different than us.

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Because if we can and if we're honest, we love that kind of relationship when we really

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have the upper hand.

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They hurt me, they owe me, they walked away from me.

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We're really good at pointing that finger, right?

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We're really good at saying, no, no, no, no, they need to come back and beg for forgiveness.

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They need to come back and make it right.

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They need to come back and own that to me.

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But what does Jesus even say in Matthew 18?

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I'm going a little bit off book.

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But what does Jesus say in Matthew 18?

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If someone hurts you, go and show them their fault.

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Yet there are a lot of times we get hurt and we just sit a little bit on our stoops and

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we just go, when are they coming?

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Oh, it's not today.

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I'm going to hate them a little bit more.

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It's not this month.

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I'm going to hate them a little bit more.

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I see them on Facebook.

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Their life's going well and I'm here mad.

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I'm here angry.

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I'm here hurt and they don't seem to care.

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And then where do we ultimately end?

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Who said resentment?

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Someone said resentment over here.

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Where does that resentment ultimately end up?

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Hatred.

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So the person you gave to, the person you tried to live justly to, the person you showed

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mercy to, however long that takes, you can end up going, well, I hate them.

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That sounds like a strong believer, Pastor Jib said sarcastically.

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And I think this is what Jesus is saying when he talks about doing, or what Micah is saying

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and what Jesus then kind of builds upon of what it means to do justly.

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We cannot have all the cards.

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We're not meant to hold all the cards.

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We're meant to live lives that are meek.

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We are meant to live lives that are poor in spirit, recognizing the greatness, the grandness,

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the gracefulness of God in my life that has been extended to me, the chief of sinners,

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that I'm supposed to extend to other people.

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Now there's a fourth of you that are thinking, well, Pastor, you're just asking me to be

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a Christian doormat.

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Just gonna, you're just telling me to have people walk all over me.

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No, there's something about being smart about this and being good stewards about this, but

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it's about the heart.

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That if you're not ready to give, you need to figure out why.

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Or and the scripture talks about this, right?

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You see that person on the street, and we've talked about this many times, half of us grew

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up with, if I give them money, they're only gonna buy drugs and alcohol, right?

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We're assuming all homeless, hungry people are addicts.

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Now the statistics hold to some of that, but are we supposed to find ourselves in that

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or the opportunities that we're given day in and day out to give?

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Because the other half is you've been given this opportunity to give, okay?

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When you give to someone on the streets, you walk downtown Chicago, wherever you are, and

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you give someone $5 or whatever, how many of you go, I better get that back?

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No.

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Yet you lend a family member a couple hundred bucks for something or you're helping them

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out in a certain way.

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For being honest, for the rest of your life, until you get that back, possibly with interest,

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you're gonna put that seed of distance between you.

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Same thing goes not only with giving, with hurt, with pain, with people that are different

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than us, when people who are, especially people who are different than us, wrong us, we hold

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on to that.

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We put it in our back pocket and we invest on the, what could be hatred of what that

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person is, who that person is, what that person has done to us, and what Jesus is saying.

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In Luke 6, we're gonna continue, but then I'm gonna jump, we're not gonna do all of

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Luke's, the last part of Luke 6.

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Judge not, and you will not be judged.

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Condemn not, and you will not be condemned.

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Forgive and you will be forgiven.

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Give and it shall be given to you.

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Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, runneth over, will be put in your lap.

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Or with the measure you use it, it will be measured back to you.

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Just leave it there, Molly.

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Because here's where we go.

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We talked about disappointment, we talked about anger, we talked about resentment, we

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talked about hatred.

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What we're doing is we're judging that person.

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Now this verse, oh, it gets used out of context all day, every day.

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Judge not, lest ye be judged, yet lest be fair.

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We love to, we love to judge.

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Now we may not verbally do it, we just might mentally, emotionally, spiritually do it.

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Oh, this person, mm, mm, mm.

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But what is Jesus saying here in Luke?

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What Jesus is saying here in Luke is when people do things to you, you have a choice.

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You can forgive them.

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You can let that yoke go.

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You can forgive them regardless if the relationship ever gets fully fixed.

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Because what Jesus is saying to you here is in that middle part, forgive and you will

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be forgiven.

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Given it will be given to you.

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It may not be given back to you in the same way that you gave it.

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Oh, I struggle with that.

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But if I give $1,000, I'm out $1,000 and I want my $1,000.

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And if I put 8% interest on that, you all know I can't do math, after a year, Jeremiah,

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what is that?

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$80.

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00:28:29,420 --> 00:28:33,100
I want my, so you just add that on to the thousand then?

480
00:28:33,100 --> 00:28:37,980
Yeah, then I want my 1,080 bucks.

481
00:28:37,980 --> 00:28:40,820
We start making people calculations in our mind.

482
00:28:40,820 --> 00:28:41,820
That's not what Jesus is saying.

483
00:28:41,820 --> 00:28:47,300
Jesus is saying and it will be given you good measure, pressed down, shaken together, runneth

484
00:28:47,300 --> 00:28:48,300
over.

485
00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:49,300
What is he talking about?

486
00:28:49,300 --> 00:28:58,220
He's talking about a time and a place where $1,000 doesn't matter.

487
00:28:58,220 --> 00:29:02,740
Because what if that person took that $1,000 that they needed and that money changed their

488
00:29:02,740 --> 00:29:04,300
life?

489
00:29:04,300 --> 00:29:08,740
What if that whatever you gave was needed, it changed and transformed their life and

490
00:29:08,740 --> 00:29:12,540
the kingdom of God was used through those donations?

491
00:29:12,540 --> 00:29:18,260
Now I would love to then turn this and go, and this is why we need to build our new building.

492
00:29:18,260 --> 00:29:24,300
No, that is complete and utter junk from the pulpit.

493
00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:27,300
But this is in our everyday life.

494
00:29:27,300 --> 00:29:32,580
Now what Jesus is doing, he is telling us how to be people of justice because of who

495
00:29:32,580 --> 00:29:34,300
we are.

496
00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:36,800
We should be a giving people.

497
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,500
We should be a giving church.

498
00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:44,900
Oh, I so want to get to John 8, but you know what?

499
00:29:44,900 --> 00:29:47,820
I'm going to use it next week because we're going to camp here.

500
00:29:47,820 --> 00:29:50,060
We're going to end here.

501
00:29:50,060 --> 00:29:55,380
Go to the next, can you go to the next after the Judge Not?

502
00:29:55,380 --> 00:29:58,980
He also told them a parable, can a blind man lead a blind man?

503
00:29:58,980 --> 00:30:00,860
Will they not both fall into a pit?

504
00:30:00,860 --> 00:30:06,780
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone who he has fully trained will be like his

505
00:30:06,780 --> 00:30:07,780
teacher.

506
00:30:07,780 --> 00:30:12,580
Why do you not see the speck in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log in your own

507
00:30:12,580 --> 00:30:13,580
eye?

508
00:30:13,580 --> 00:30:14,580
One more.

509
00:30:14,580 --> 00:30:19,940
How can you say to your brother, brother let me take the speck that is in your eye when

510
00:30:19,940 --> 00:30:23,780
you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye?

511
00:30:23,780 --> 00:30:28,420
You read it together, hypocrite.

512
00:30:28,420 --> 00:30:32,540
First you take the log out of your own eye and then you will see clearly to take the

513
00:30:32,540 --> 00:30:37,300
speck that is in your brother's eye and we'll land here.

514
00:30:37,300 --> 00:30:42,580
This will bleed into next week, it has to as we close the series.

515
00:30:42,580 --> 00:30:48,220
We are really good at spotting planks in other people's eyes, but is that the justice thing

516
00:30:48,220 --> 00:30:49,220
to do?

517
00:30:49,220 --> 00:30:56,140
Jim, the Bible says we are supposed to teach, we are supposed to correct.

518
00:30:56,140 --> 00:30:59,260
He doesn't say condemn though.

519
00:30:59,260 --> 00:31:02,900
We are supposed to teach, we are supposed to correct, we are supposed to hold accountable.

520
00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:06,660
We are supposed to walk alongside and go is your life matching up with the life of this

521
00:31:06,660 --> 00:31:07,660
book?

522
00:31:07,660 --> 00:31:13,260
We are not supposed to hit people with it, we are not supposed to drive by and go you

523
00:31:13,260 --> 00:31:15,860
are going to hell and then continue to leave.

524
00:31:15,860 --> 00:31:22,540
No, but what we are really good at is pointing out where everybody else's flaws are.

525
00:31:22,540 --> 00:31:30,980
When what he is saying, oh man, oh woman, what is required of you is to do the work

526
00:31:30,980 --> 00:31:34,140
inside first.

527
00:31:34,140 --> 00:31:39,460
What does Jim look like as a justice oriented person?

528
00:31:39,460 --> 00:31:46,340
What does Jim look like who is someone who attracts himself and wants to live out mercy?

529
00:31:46,340 --> 00:31:51,660
What does it look like for Jim to walk humbly?

530
00:31:51,660 --> 00:32:01,180
I guarantee you it is not to demand anything back, but it is to come alongside in meekness,

531
00:32:01,180 --> 00:32:06,140
in patience, in grace.

532
00:32:06,140 --> 00:32:10,060
Having a relationship with someone, I had it happen to me last week.

533
00:32:10,060 --> 00:32:14,460
A friend pointed out something I did.

534
00:32:14,460 --> 00:32:18,180
I could easily have gone on the offensive and we love the offensive.

535
00:32:18,180 --> 00:32:26,060
You want to bring up my junk?

536
00:32:26,060 --> 00:32:27,820
Is that how we are supposed to do it?

537
00:32:27,820 --> 00:32:36,500
When is the last time someone brought you an issue that you caused, a hurt that you

538
00:32:36,500 --> 00:32:41,500
gave, something that you were in the center of the wrong?

539
00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:46,500
And you sat on it and you sought the Lord and he answered, we are just saying about

540
00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:47,500
it.

541
00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:51,380
You go, is there an offensive way in me here?

542
00:32:51,380 --> 00:32:55,940
If you had the heart of it, guess what the answer is?

543
00:32:55,940 --> 00:32:57,700
Yes.

544
00:32:57,700 --> 00:32:59,820
Yet we go, well, they are going to get theirs.

545
00:32:59,820 --> 00:33:01,580
If I am getting mine, they are getting theirs.

546
00:33:01,580 --> 00:33:03,940
That is not how the kingdom of God works.

547
00:33:03,940 --> 00:33:09,340
The kingdom of God in your life, in the church, is we own it when we fall short and we walk

548
00:33:09,340 --> 00:33:12,260
alongside to bring about restoration.

549
00:33:12,260 --> 00:33:16,900
Friends, that is justice.

550
00:33:16,900 --> 00:33:20,900
That is what it means to be a just person.

551
00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:25,300
And we are going to see this in a tremendous way starting next week.

552
00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:28,060
Let's pray.