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Wonderful. Let's do that one more time. Good morning, everybody.

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Good morning.

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Awesome. Sweet. As you guys could tell, I am not Pastor Nathan.

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I am blessed to be able to cover and take over for Pastor Nathan while he goes out to family camp with everybody.

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But for those of you, it's your first time. Welcome, whether it's online or in here.

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Yeah, let's give a hand. My name is John. For those of you who don't know, I do run the men's ministry here at Hosanna.

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And like I said, I'm blessed to give the message this morning.

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The message that the Lord put on my heart this morning is about judging and judgment.

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We all can be judgmental at some point, right?

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We hear a lot of people, a lot of nonbelievers say, Christians are so judgmental.

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They're like very judgmental. They always have an opinion. They're always, you know, they're just so judgmental.

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And then, of course, there's other Christians who say, well, you can't judge me. Only God can judge me.

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And we see that all the time. But unfortunately, there are some truths to those statements.

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And again, like I mentioned, unfortunately, a lot of us tend to be very judgmental.

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You know, we say things like, wow, who let them leave the house looking like that?

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Or who let them dress like that? Or, you know, oh, they need a designer or whatever.

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And a lot of people say, too, it's why are they always talking about the Bible at church?

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Why are they always doing that? You know, don't they have anything else better to do?

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Shouldn't you just give us a good, you know, feel good message?

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But there are a few types of judgment that is mentioned in the Bible.

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You know, in the New Testament, we see that there's the judgment seat of Christ.

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Now, the judgment seat of Christ is where Jesus judges us on our good deeds as Christians is what we do.

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And from there, he rewards us and gives us crowns.

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Then there's the great white throne judgment.

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That's where it's the last and final judgment that God gives on the whole world and all the living.

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That's where the nonbelievers will be cast down to the lake of fire.

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And then that's where we as Christians will reign with Christ for eternity.

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And there's one more judgment that's usually, you know, cast upon.

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And that judgment is on believers or of believers.

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Now, this judgment is usually for us Christians to judge other Christians.

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Now, that doesn't mean we can judge unrighteously. That means we judge righteously.

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The way that we judge as Christians is we say, OK, what are they doing? Are they sinning?

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How can we help them? How can we correct them? How can we evaluate their heart?

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That's the type of judgment that we do.

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But there are two words this morning that I'm going to be talking about, using a lot this morning,

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and that is condemning and judging.

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And I'll be talking about what the difference between condemning and judging is.

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But my prayer for this morning, guys, just so you know, is to provide a biblical insight as to are we to judge?

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How are we supposed to judge? And who am I to judge?

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There is a quote from an unknown author that I don't know who said it, but I thought it was great.

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It says, don't judge someone just because they sin differently than you.

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It's just so true. You know, there are some sins that we struggle with and we see that same sin in somebody,

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but we just point the finger and say, you're a horrible person.

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What are you doing? Like, why are you doing that sin?

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And it's so much so that they create their own standard of judgment of what's acceptable and what is not acceptable.

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And what they do is they take God of the equation and they just make their own self the standard.

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But first, what we like to do here at Hosanna is we like to spend time and praise and worship

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before I dig into judgment and a lot of conviction.

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We do usually, every single Sunday, we like to praise the Lord and worship.

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And let's just all lay our troubles aside. Let's lay everything at the foot of the cross.

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And let's just praise the Lord. Let's pray and we'll begin worship.

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Lord, I just thank you so much for this time that we have here.

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Lord, I just pray that you bless every single one of us that's in the room, Lord.

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I pray that you convict our hearts. If we're unrighteously judging one another, Lord,

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I just pray that you just convict us to not do so.

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But Lord, I just pray that you give us a heart into want to help another brother and sister if they're sinning.

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Lord, please bless this time as we worship and please bless this time that we just praise you

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and just thank you for everything that you have done, Lord.

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Thank you, Lord. It's in your precious son's name we pray. Amen.

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Let's all turn our Bibles to Matthew chapter 7. Matthew chapter 7.

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Now, I'll give the context of what's going on here. In Matthew chapter 5 to chapter 7,

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Jesus gave a sermon of a lifetime. Jesus went up on top of a hilltop,

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or He went up on a hilltop on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee.

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And the twelve disciples followed Him up there. And this is where Jesus was able to give a message of the how-tos.

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We today can use this sermon as well. We learn a lot of things from this sermon.

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And this is how we can learn how to be Christ-like, how to do things that God commands us to do,

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all where we can learn right from wrong. This is the famous sermon called the Sermon on the Mount.

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And in this sermon, Jesus began with the Beatitudes in chapter 5.

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This is where Jesus said the famous, 8 blessed are the statements.

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He said, blessed are the poor in spirit, blessed are those who mourn, blessed are the meek,

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blessed are those who hunger and thirst, blessed are the merciful, blessed are the pure in heart,

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blessed are the peacemakers, and blessed are the persecuted.

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Then Jesus goes on and He speaks about how, again, we as Christians could be salt and light of the world to the unbelievers.

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Jesus spoke about how He fulfilled the law in these chapters. He spoke about how murder begins in our heart.

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And Jesus also spoke about adultery begins in our heart as well.

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Jesus declares that marriage is very sacred and binding, and Jesus there in the Sermon on the Mount forbids oaths.

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Jesus spoke about how we are to go the second mile on those who don't like us, and we may not like them either.

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But Jesus tells us how to love our enemies and that we should love our enemies.

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And again, in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus modeled how we are to pray, how we are to fast, and there's just so much more.

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But Jesus ends here in chapter 7 concluding His sermon with how to judge, are we to judge, and so on.

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So read with me here, we'll read the first six verses here.

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It says, Do not judge so that you won't be judged, for you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others.

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And you will be measured by the same measure you use.

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Why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye, but don't notice the beam of wood in your own eye?

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Or how can you say to your brother, let me take the splinter out of your eye and look, there's a beam of wood in your own eye?

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Hypocrite, first take the beam of wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

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Verse 6, Don't give what is holy to dogs or toss your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet, turn and tear you to pieces.

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Let's ask for the Lord to go before us.

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Lord, I just pray that you just bless this time of study, Lord. I just pray that you give me the words to speak.

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Speak your words, Lord, not mine, Lord. I just pray that you just bless this time and just open our hearts, Lord, to the words that you want us to know.

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It's in Jesus' name we pray, amen.

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So we go on the first verse, Do not judge.

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This reminds me of a story of an elderly woman that walked into the local church one Sunday.

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She was greeted by a friendly usher at the door and he helped her up the flight of stairs.

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And he says, Where would you like to sit?

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And she says, Well, I'd like to sit in the front row, please.

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He says, You really don't want to do that.

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The usher says, The pastor is really, really boring.

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She says, Do you know who I am?

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He says, No. She says, I'm the pastor's mother.

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He's like, Oh, he's like, Do you know who I am?

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She's like, No.

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He's like, Good. Enjoy the sermon.

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And he walked off.

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But the whole point is it just reminds me of not to judge.

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You know, what somebody may think is boring or whatever the other person may think is edifying.

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But this verse here in verse one would better read, Do not condemn so that you will not be condemned.

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We see this in Luke 6 37, where Jesus says, Do not condemn and you will not be condemned.

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But for here, Luke uses, Luke uses condemn and judge in his gospel account.

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Matthew, for whatever reason, just records just the judge part.

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Do not judge so that you will not be judged.

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I mentioned that because there's no contradiction.

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There's nothing that makes any difference.

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It's all the same message.

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Everything that Luke said is the same that Matthew.

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It's the same message.

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But to distinguish the difference between the two words here is.

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Condemning is the final judgment, which is God reserved for himself.

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It's the final judgment.

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But the judgment here that we see in Matthew 7 means to evaluate one another or to use discernment.

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That's the type of judgment that we're to use.

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So in a sense, Jesus is saying, Don't condemn your brothers and sisters.

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When we do, we become self-righteous to the point to where, as I mentioned earlier, we create our own standard of goodness.

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We create our own standards of morals and our standards of morals.

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We tend to look at as better than God's because, you know, we just say, well, you're a horrible person.

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Well, why? What did they do?

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Well, they sin.

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Well, don't you sin?

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Don't make that moral standard.

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You know, don't make your standard higher than God's.

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But God's moral standards are the Ten Commandments.

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They're also known as God's moral law.

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So we can most definitely use God's moral law to point out sin.

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But we are not to condemn one another for sins that everybody else commits.

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But the biggest thing that happens a lot here is a lot of carnal Christians cast their own personal condemnation with their own moral standards on others.

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Now, a carnal Christian is someone who has never denied self-life and one who has never taken up their cross daily to follow Jesus.

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Yes, they still have salvation through Christ, but they just still going around doing their own thing.

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They think that they're self-righteous and they think that they don't sin and they think they're better and they still go around condemning people.

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Since they create their own standard of what is acceptable, they use their own standards.

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They don't use God's moral law.

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They are the type of Christian who sees someone who looks a little bit different, who doesn't look like a Christian, whatever that may be.

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I don't know.

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I still don't understand what that is.

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But they still see somebody who looks just a little bit different, who dresses a little bit different, somebody who may struggle with same sex attraction,

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which the struggling with the sin or struggling with same sex attraction is not the sin.

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Acting on the sin is the sin.

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I just want to make that clear.

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But when they see this person who struggles with same sex attraction, they just go and they condemn.

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They condemn them and they look at them.

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But really deep down inside, this Christian who struggles with same sex attraction, they still bear the fruits, the good fruits of someone who has truly accepted Christ into their hearts.

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Because they are the ones who deny themselves daily.

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They deny their sins daily.

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But the carnal Christian still goes around and says, I don't care.

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You're going to hell.

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Instead of evaluating or discerning what their heart is, they condemn them.

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They say it doesn't matter what Jesus says.

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They just condemn them.

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That's what a lot of carnal Christians do.

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Far too many of us Christians, we do the same thing.

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There have been a handful of celebrities that have accepted Christ in the last few months.

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And instead of Christians rejoicing, they cast their condemnation upon everybody.

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You know, they say things like, oh, they're not really saved.

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They're just looking for the next best thing.

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You know, they've already tried all the drugs.

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They've already tried, you know, drinking alcohol.

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They've done everything.

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But they're not really saved.

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We need to stop doing that as Christians.

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We have to stop doing that.

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The Bible says there is joy in the presence of God's angels over one sinner who repents.

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Who are we to say, oh, well, they're not really Christians?

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We can't do that.

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We must rejoice with them.

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We must welcome them to Christ.

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We should know more than anyone that as soon as we become a Christian, the world is against us.

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You know, Satan doesn't want to see his people.

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You know, Satan doesn't want to see anybody come to Christ.

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Satan doesn't want to see anybody repent and become God's children.

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Why?

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Because he wants everybody to go with him.

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He wants everybody to be cast down to hell.

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But we have to stand with God's people and welcome them.

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You know, help.

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We need to welcome the repented sinners to Jesus.

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You know, I don't know if you guys know who Russell Brand is,

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but about three, four months ago, maybe a little bit less, Russell Brand accepted Christ.

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And that's a very big thing because he went through a lot of, you know, alcohol abuse,

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drug abuse, going through every religion that you can think of.

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But then just a few months ago, he says, you know, I'm going to try Christianity.

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I've never tried it. I've tried everything else.

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I'm going to try Christianity.

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Well, everybody else, and unfortunately a lot of Christians, they went out and said,

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oh, he's not really, he's not going to be a Christian.

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He's tried every single religion.

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He's done every single thing.

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He's just not, you know, he's not going to stay there.

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But instead of looking at him accepting Christ, they went and judged him.

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They shouldn't do that.

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We should never pronounce condemnation upon anybody who accepts Christ.

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That right is reserved for God only.

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But we can use discernment.

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We can evaluate their actions.

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We can evaluate how they are reacting with one another.

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We as Christians should treat them as they are a believer

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and pray for them as if they aren't believers.

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Now, that's the hard thing is because with Russell Brand in particular,

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he's taking every measure that I've seen.

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You know, I don't know how he is reacting, you know, because I don't know him personally,

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but I see everything.

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He's acting, you know, as a Christian online.

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He knows that he's like, well, I'm not going to do these sins.

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I'm not going to do this.

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He's even, because he's very opinionated, and he even said,

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well, I'm not going to give my opinion on certain things because I know that's a sin.

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I shouldn't be judging people for the things that they're doing.

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And again, we should rejoice.

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We should rejoice when people come to Christ.

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You know, there's also another guy named Richie the barber.

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I don't know if you guys have ever heard of him.

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Well, this guy doesn't look like your average Christian either.

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You know, he dresses as a clown.

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He's got tattoos and piercings and everything.

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And again, unfortunately, there's a lot of Christians who judge him.

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They say, you're not a Christian.

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You know, you have tattoos, you have piercings, you know, you're doing all these things.

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But the fruit he bears, he goes to church.

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Not that going to church saves you, but he has truly accepted Christ.

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He goes out and he gives the gospel.

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He uses his platform as a Christian, as an influencer to give the gospel.

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Not many people do that.

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But they, you know, again, unfortunately, the carnal Christians go out and judge him.

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But we must stay away from the carnality of our flesh when we're evaluating other Christians.

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we become extremely judgmental as the world calls us Christians.

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As they say, you guys are extremely judgmental.

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Christians are so judgmental.

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Then we see here in verse one, the second half of verse one, so that you won't be judged.

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So don't judge so that you won't be judged.

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Romans 2, 1 says, Therefore, every one of you who judges is without excuse.

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So Paul is saying, do not pronounce condemnation on anyone,

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especially your brothers and sisters.

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If we were to call out a sinner and call out the sins of a judgmental person who is a sinner,

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how would they react?

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you know what, I am being judgmental.

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I am, you know, I am doing all these things.

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I should turn from that.

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They tend to just deflect it back to the person who points out the sin.

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When we evaluate them, we have to be very cautious.

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Don't condemn, just evaluate.

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But when we give our righteous judgment, the judgment that is by our standards,

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we better understand that we will be judged the same way that we judge the people.

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You know, one pastor said that our unrighteous judgment is like a boomerang effect.

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It will come right back at us.

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it is going to come back at us as well.

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So you better make sure, you know, all of us better make sure that we are not, you know,

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judging them harshly or condemning them or doing, you know,

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judging them on the same things that we do.

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He knows what we are doing, what we are looking for.

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You know, if you struggle with stealing, He knows that you are looking for that.

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He knows that the person that is lusting is looking for the next person to lust after.

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But we try to justify our sins.

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and feel better by calling out somebody else.

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We feel better calling out somebody else on their sin

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because we are just completely stuck in it.

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And we could see that sin.

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So the question here is are we to evaluate and use discernment with others?

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Yes. You know, as Christians we should.

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he says, Now I urge you, brothers and sisters,

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to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles

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contrary to the teaching that you learned.

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Avoid them, because such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites.

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They deceive the hearts of the unsuspected with smooth talk and flattering words.

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So we saw that there was contamination that was entering the early church in the Romans.

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Paul wasn't condemning the church.

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He didn't say, Oh, all you guys are going to hell.

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All you guys are sinners.

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All you guys are just going to, you know, burn in the, you know, lake of fire.

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No. Rather he says, evaluate the church.

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He evaluated the church.

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He looked at what the church was doing wrong.

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He saw that they were sinning and he pointed it out.

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And when he wrote, you know, to the Romans, you know,

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the church in Rome, he said, Hey, this is what I've evaluated.

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This is the things that I've been seeing that's going on in the church.

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You guys better stop that right away.

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But again, we are told to evaluate and not condemn.

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I know I keep saying the same thing over, but I just want to make sure we get that clear.

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Evaluate, not condemn.

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We are to evaluate righteously without condemning.

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John 7 24, Jesus said, stop judging according to the outward appearances,

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rather judge according to righteous judgment.

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but don't do it with unrighteous acts or our own standard.

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Look at God's, you know, use God's moral standard.

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And that is with righteousness is when we look at, you know, when we evaluate others.

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When I first became a believer, I was, you know, I hate to say it,

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but I was very judgmental, you know, when I first became a believer,

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I was working at this old job and there's one friend of mine who, you know,

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he knew the things that I struggled with because unfortunately I didn't try to hide them.

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You're doing X, Y, and Z. Aren't you a Christian?

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I'm like, yeah, of course I'm a Christian.

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He says, well, then why are you sinning and why are you doing all these things?

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You're not a Christian. You can't judge me.

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Only God can judge me.

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And I'm like, thinking back now, I'm like, what kind of nasty stuff is that?

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But like, I have to think about it.

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Like, we have to really evaluate our heart.

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We can't say only God can judge us because again, like I mentioned earlier,

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yes, only God can judge us.

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don't do the boomer, you know, don't deflect.

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Just accept it and look at our hearts.

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What are we doing wrong?

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You know, are we being too judgmental?

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Are we using our standards instead of God's standards?

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For you will be judged by the same standard with which you judge others,

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and you will be measured by the same measure you use.

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So, being a hypercritical, being hypercritical by our standards just assures us

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that we will be looked at according to the same standard.

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We will be hypercritically judged.

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Now hypercritically, for those of you who don't know,

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it's excessively and unreasonably judgmental.

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don't get mad at when somebody else pulls the Uno reverse card on you

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and does the same thing to you.

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We cannot get mad at somebody who does that.

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But this here reminds me of 2 Samuel 12.

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You guys all know the story.

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It's where Nathan the prophet went to King David,

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and he told King David a story.

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He says, hey, there's a rich man and then there's a poor man.

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but the poor man only has one lamb.

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That lamb, he lives and treats that lamb as if it's his child.

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so he says, you know what?

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We need to sacrifice an animal to feed everybody.

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I don't want to use any of mine.

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There's that poor guy down the street there.

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Let's get his lamb.

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Let's sacrifice his lamb.

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He was so saddened.

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He's like, why would you take mine when you have so many?

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and says, as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die.

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David, you are the man.

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You know, and we know this, that David is the one who took Bathsheba

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and basically got her husband killed, and he took them.

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and said to put him to death.

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But David was that man.

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Of course, David didn't get put to death, but it was that boomerang effect.

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He judged and says, hey, you know what, they're doing wrong.

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He says, no, you're doing wrong.

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You're that man.

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You know, it kind of reminds me, I took, how many of you guys took biology

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in high school or whatever?

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Yeah, I failed all four years.

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But it was funny, it's just this, my wife loves this story.

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I tried to study all the time, or well, I tried one time to study.

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That's besides the point.

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I'm not going to do this anymore.

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I'm going to study.

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I was so confident.

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I said, you know what, I'm going to pass this.

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I got this.

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Like, you know, I didn't know what anything meant up until now.

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So we took the test, and I was just, oh, man, yep, I got this one, this one.

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I was like, pff, A, you know what, I got an A.

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He says, all right, here's your grade.

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I was like, ooh, nope, I didn't get an A.

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Whatever, I got a B.

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Nope, not a B.

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All the way down, turns out I was that person that got the 14%.

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I was judging somebody by thinking, oh, well, they're dumb.

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They didn't know what they were doing, but that was, in fact, me.

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Anyways, I never passed biology, but I'm here today.

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But if we are guilty of condemning others, though, by our standards,

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we had better be careful because people will be looking at all the faults

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that are in us, and they will condemn us when they see all those faults.

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Are you guys evaluating others righteously?

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Are you guys evaluating the good fruits of others?

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For us to know what is good and bad, we must evaluate the situation.

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We must evaluate their heart.

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We must evaluate so much.

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Jesus said in Matthew 7, 15 that we will know who the false prophets are,

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you know, the wolves in the sheep clothing, if you will,

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and we will recognize them by their fruits.

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What did Jesus mean by this?

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a good tree can't produce bad fruit.

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Neither can a bad tree produce good fruit.

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Every tree that doesn't produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

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So you'll recognize them by their fruit.

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So in a sense, Jesus is saying to know who is living righteously,

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you are not to judge them unrighteously, but to evaluate the fruits.

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What are they doing?

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Are they responding in love?

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And if we are the ones who are complaining constantly about people who are judging

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and complaining about, you know, people from church or people at our work,

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you know, and we're just being nasty and we're being disrespectful to everybody,

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then we're probably the ones bearing the bad fruits.

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We should probably evaluate our hearts.

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We should always check ourselves before we wreck ourselves.

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I'm just kidding, but we should check ourselves before we check others anyways.

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Jesus tells us that in verses 3 and 5, but we'll get to that.

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But again, if we are constantly going around judging and condemning others,

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just like a hawk, we can point out the bad fruits and all the sins and others.

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They too will be looking at the flaws in us.

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The boomerang effect will, you know, hit us.

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We should be the good fruit.

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Paul says in Galatians 5, 22 and 23, speaking of the fruits of the Spirit,

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what the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,

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goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

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The law is not against such things.

451
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So the law, God's moral law is not against these things.

452
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So are we bearing the good fruit today?

453
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Are we showing love to our brothers and sisters?

454
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000
Are we being joyful with one another?

455
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Are we being patient, peaceful?

456
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,000
God wants us to love one another.

457
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The world is already watching us as Christians.

458
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:10,000
Sadly, the world rejoices when they see pastors who have to step down

459
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because of the sins that they've committed or the things that they've been hiding.

460
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The world just rejoices in all those things.

461
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,000
And the world responds with, see, we were right about Christians.

462
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,000
They abuse their authority.

463
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,000
They really are judgmental.

464
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:27,000
They really are disgusting.

465
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:28,000
And they are fake.

466
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,000
That's what we get accused of.

467
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:32,000
But we must fight back from that.

468
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:35,000
We must not live that stereotype of being a Christian.

469
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:41,000
We must fight back with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,

470
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,000
faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

471
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,000
We have to fight back.

472
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,000
We have to use the fruits of the Spirit.

473
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,000
We have to be loved.

474
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:55,000
We have to be the only Christ that they will ever see.

475
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:59,000
Not that we are Christ, but living as Christ that they will ever see.

476
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:04,000
Most people in this world won't see anybody who is loving.

477
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:08,000
They won't see anybody who is very patient.

478
00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:10,000
They won't see anybody who is gentle.

479
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:16,000
Most of the people they see as harsh, judgmental, mean, rude.

480
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,000
But we shouldn't add on to that.

481
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:24,000
We as Christians should have self-control and love one another and love the world.

482
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:30,000
In 1 Corinthians 5, 19 to 13, Paul wrote to the church in Corinth.

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He says, I write to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

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I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters.

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Otherwise, you would have to leave the world.

486
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:54,000
But actually, I wrote you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister

487
00:33:54,000 --> 00:34:01,000
and is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler.

488
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,000
Do not even eat with such person.

489
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:08,000
For what business is it of mine to judge outsiders?

490
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,000
Don't you judge those who are inside?

491
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,000
God judges outsiders.

492
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,000
Remove the evil person from among you.

493
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,000
So this brings us to the next question.

494
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If we are permitted to judge by the fruits, evaluate by the fruits,

495
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,000
are we supposed to judge the unbelievers?

496
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:35,000
Well, Paul gives us the answer in verse 5. Paul says not to judge the outsiders.

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Why?

498
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:43,000
Well, in verse 13, Paul says God judges the outsiders.

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00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:49,000
The word for judge here is the condemnation, one which only God can do.

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00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,000
That is the condemnation that is reserved for God only.

501
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:59,000
Paul writes in Romans 2.16, says, On the day that when God judges,

502
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:05,000
what people have kept secret according to my gospel through Christ Jesus,

503
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:08,000
no man will escape the judgment of God.

504
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:12,000
No man will escape the judgment that is coming from God.

505
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:18,000
Even the ones who are violating and ignoring God's written revelation, they will not escape it.

506
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,000
We shouldn't try to jump in and say, oh, well, we're going to condemn you to hell

507
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,000
because we don't know everybody's heart.

508
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,000
We don't know the unbeliever's heart.

509
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:31,000
You know, there's many people in my family who I never thought would be Christians.

510
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,000
I'm like, oh, man, it's going to be so hard.

511
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,000
But guess what?

512
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,000
The Lord had, you know, other plans.

513
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:41,000
The Lord broke their heart, broke through and says, you know what?

514
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:45,000
And they've, you know, accepted Christ.

515
00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:49,000
But Paul is talking about the judgment of the unbeliever, which, again,

516
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:54,000
this judgment will penetrate the thoughts and the intentions of their hearts,

517
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,000
of the unbeliever's hearts.

518
00:35:55,000 --> 00:36:02,000
We have no such authority to condemn with condemnation on unbelievers

519
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:07,000
or the, you know, condemning of the no fruit that is being produced by the unbelievers.

520
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:13,000
We can evaluate them, but that's all we can do.

521
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:16,000
Only God knows the hearts of men and women.

522
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:21,000
Only God can condemn them with his own righteousness.

523
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,000
And we have to remember that.

524
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,000
We can't judge the unbelievers by not knowing Christ.

525
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:31,000
We have to share Christ, but not judge them for not knowing Christ.

526
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:37,000
We as Christians will not be judged by our sins, though.

527
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,000
They have already been forgiven.

528
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:44,000
Our sins have already been forgiven on the cross, so we won't be judged again by our sins.

529
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:53,000
But the judgment will not be for salvation, but Christ has already sacrificed that for us.

530
00:36:53,000 --> 00:37:00,000
So we have to let God, you know, judge the sinners, the unbelievers,

531
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:03,000
or not the sinners, but the unbelievers.

532
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,000
But the Bible does say that we will be judged by our righteous acts.

533
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,000
This is where we will receive the rewards in heaven.

534
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,000
I mentioned this a little bit in the beginning.

535
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,000
This is called the judgment seat of Christ.

536
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000
But the nonbelievers will be judged by their sins.

537
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:22,000
But the judgment, that is by the great white throne judgment.

538
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,000
That's where the unbelievers will be judged and cast.

539
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:32,000
But we as believers will receive rewards and crowns at this judgment seat of Christ.

540
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:39,000
And then the great white throne judgment, we will live in eternity with Christ.

541
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,000
Verses three and five, almost done here.

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Why do you look at the splinter in your brother's eye,

543
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,000
but don't notice the beam of wood in your own eye?

544
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:53,000
Or how can you say to your brother, let me take the splinter out of your eye,

545
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,000
and look, there's a beam of wood in your own eye.

546
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,000
Hypocrite.

547
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,000
First take the beam of wood out of your eye,

548
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:05,000
and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

549
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,000
So if we look at this through the context,

550
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:14,000
the splinter or the piece of wood that's in our brother's eye is a small piece of wood,

551
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,000
and that is sin.

552
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,000
That's the same exact piece of wood, the log that's in ours.

553
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:22,000
That's the same thing.

554
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,000
So the wood represents sin here.

555
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:30,000
As I mentioned again earlier, our sin doesn't seem to be so bad when we're committing it,

556
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:33,000
but when somebody else is, it's always bad, right?

557
00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,000
We can be like, well, how dare they commit that sin?

558
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:40,000
If we're struggling with, say, adultery and we see somebody committing adultery,

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00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:42,000
how dare they do that?

560
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,000
You know, it's like, well, you're doing the same thing.

561
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,000
We shouldn't point out the small sawdust in our brother's eye

562
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:53,000
while they have, you know, while we have the log sticking out of our eyes.

563
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:56,000
We should first take the beam of wood out of our eye,

564
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,000
then help our brothers and sisters.

565
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,000
But are we to judge our brothers and sisters?

566
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,000
Yes, but only by evaluating, not condemning.

567
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,000
Jesus shows us that we shouldn't condemn our brothers and sisters

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00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:14,000
with the splinter in our brother, or the piece of wood that's in our brother's eye

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00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,000
while we have the beam of wood in our eye.

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00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:21,000
Jesus says in John 8, when the Pharisees brought the woman

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00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,000
who was caught in the act of adultery to see, you know,

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00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,000
they went to take, they took this woman to Jesus,

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00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,000
and they wanted to see if Jesus would condemn her.

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00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,000
So the Pharisees said in verses 4 and 5, said,

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00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:37,000
Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery

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00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:42,000
in the law Moses commanded us to stone such woman.

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00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:45,000
They asked them to see if they could trap him.

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00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000
You know, the Pharisees tried to trap Jesus.

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00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,000
And remember what Jesus said.

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00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:56,000
Jesus responded, the one without sin should be the first to throw a stone at her.

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00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:01,000
And then, you know, we all know the story, he leaned down and started writing.

582
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:07,000
Jesus, in a sense, was saying to take care of the massive log that's in our eye

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00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:13,000
before we start sinning the person with the splinter in their eye.

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00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:20,000
Because when we do, that's us not casting our stones,

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00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:27,000
not throwing our judgment at people and not knowing their heart

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00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000
because we're doing the same thing.

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00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,000
We should evaluate ourself.

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00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:38,000
We shouldn't be condemning the sinners because we are sinners too.

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00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,000
But we should be loving.

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00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,000
We should be caring.

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00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:45,000
We should be more willing to help them through their struggle of sins.

592
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,000
Well, how can we do that?

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00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:53,000
Well, we can become, we can be an accountability partner for those who are sinning,

594
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,000
who are struggling with sins.

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00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,000
We shouldn't just judge them and say, oh, you're a horrible person, you sin.

596
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,000
No, help them.

597
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,000
Ask if you can be the accountability partner.

598
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:07,000
Ask if you can, you know, help them, walk with them with whatever they're struggling with.

599
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,000
Help them.

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00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:13,000
If they need somebody to talk to, talk to them.

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00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,000
We should never say it's okay that they're sinning.

602
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:19,000
We should never be like, oh, no, it's okay, brother, or it's okay, sister.

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00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:20,000
Go ahead.

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00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,000
Continue to sin.

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00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,000
No, Christ says we are called to help one another out.

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00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:29,000
You know, Galatians 6, 1 and 2, Paul writes, he says, brothers and sisters,

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00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:35,000
if someone is overtaken in any wrongdoing, you who are spiritual,

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00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:40,000
restore such a person with gentle spirit, watching out for yourselves

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00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:43,000
so that you also won't be tempted.

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00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,000
Carry one another's burdens.

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00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:49,000
In this way, you will fulfill the law of Christ.

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00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:56,000
So how many of us are willing to carry our brothers and sisters' burdens?

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00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,000
How many of us are willing to help those who are struggling

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00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:04,000
instead of judge them and condemn them?

615
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:08,000
Those who are struggling with illnesses and they don't know what they're doing

616
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:14,000
or if they're feeling lonely, feeling lost, are we willing to help them?

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00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:19,000
It's our duty as Christians to fight the good fight alongside of them.

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00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,000
We are to continue to run the race with one another,

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00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,000
to help each other through the sins, not through judging.

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00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,000
We shouldn't judge them.

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00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,000
We should always be loving.

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00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:34,000
But if we just sit there and judge our brothers and sisters with the log in our eye,

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00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,000
we just become hypocrites.

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00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:37,000
That's what Jesus says.

625
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:42,000
Now, the word hypocrites in the original language is hypocrite.

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00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:47,000
It means someone who is an actor or somebody who puts on a mask over their face.

627
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:51,000
We too are hypocrites if we don't help them out,

628
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,000
if we just point the finger at them and condemn them.

629
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,000
We are the hypocrites if we don't help them.

630
00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:00,000
So we shouldn't act like we are somebody who we aren't.

631
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,000
We shouldn't act like we're holier than thou.

632
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:07,000
We shouldn't act like, oh, well, you sin way more than I do.

633
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,000
I'm just going to judge you.

634
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,000
No.

635
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:17,000
It's by the grace of God that we are redeemed.

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00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,000
He has called us to repent.

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00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:25,000
Jesus has called us to repent and to follow him so we can gain eternal life.

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00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:31,000
And without that, we can't receive that if we're just continuing to judge

639
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:33,000
and be so judgmental.

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00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:38,000
So we can become adopted in God's family by just loving one another,

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00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,000
by accepting Christ.

642
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,000
So let's not be hypocrites.

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00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:47,000
Let's not condemn those who are sinning because we too sin.

644
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,000
Instead, let's help them out.

645
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:50,000
Let's help them turn from their sins.

646
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,000
Let's walk alongside of them.

647
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,000
Let's fight the fight with them.

648
00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:58,000
You know, Jesus constantly called the Pharisees hypocrites.

649
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,000
Why?

650
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,000
Well, because they were claiming to be holier than thou.

651
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:08,000
Matthew 6, 5, Jesus said, whenever you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites

652
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:13,000
because they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners

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00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,000
to be seen by people.

654
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:19,000
They don't worry about anything but glorification.

655
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:20,000
That's what the Pharisees want.

656
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,000
And we see that constantly everywhere.

657
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,000
We see a lot of cults do that.

658
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,000
We see other religions do that where they want the glorification.

659
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:32,000
Instead of giving Christ the glorification, they want the glorification.

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00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:37,000
So what they do is they take that and they say, this is my self-righteousness.

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00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:41,000
This is my self being better than everybody.

662
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,000
Glorify me.

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00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,000
And that's what they do.

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And it's horrible.

665
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,000
It's extremely horrible.

666
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,000
All right, last verse.

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00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:58,000
It says, don't give what is holy to dogs or to toss your pearls before pigs

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00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:04,000
or they will trample them under their feet, turn and tear you to pieces.

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00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:09,000
So for us to be able to tell who are dogs or to tell who are pigs,

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00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,000
we must use righteous judgment.

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00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:17,000
We must be able to evaluate and to discern what is holy.

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00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:22,000
This last verse was extremely challenging for me when I was studying through this

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because there's a lot of different commentators who differ on this verse.

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Some commentators believe that this verse is talking about giving the gospel.

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00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:37,000
They say it refers to the scriptures and the things concerning the gospel.

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00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:38,000
I'm sure we've all heard that.

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00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:44,000
That says, believers should not continue to preach the gospel to those who have rejected Christ.

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00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:49,000
You know, for instance, if you're giving the gospel to, say, a Jehovah's Witness

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00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:52,000
and they say, no, I don't want to hear it and they just walk away,

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00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:56,000
they say, don't cast pearls before swine.

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00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,000
That's what the commentators say.

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00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:03,000
And they use verses like Matthew 10 and 14, Matthew 10-14 and Matthew 15-14.

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00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:07,000
I don't have time to go through that, but if you guys want to talk to me after, we can.

684
00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:10,000
But basically, they're saying if you're giving the gospel to somebody

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00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:13,000
and they reject it, just turn away and just walk away.

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00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:16,000
That's what some commentators believe.

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00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:21,000
And then there's other commentators who say that what is holy is referring to the standard

688
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,000
that is in Jesus Christ, the moral standards, God's moral standards.

689
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,000
So what do I mean by that?

690
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:34,000
It says, we live in such a time that if we accept Christ and we call ourselves Christians

691
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:40,000
and we say we believe in Jesus, we've accepted Jesus Christ in our hearts,

692
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,000
the world turns on us and says we're judgmental.

693
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:48,000
They say you're literally just following a man who just had talked about good things.

694
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:53,000
He had a lot of good views on philosophical things.

695
00:46:53,000 --> 00:47:00,000
And the whole world says no, like you guys are just, you guys are horrible.

696
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:06,000
So with that moral standard that we live by, they judge that and say no, we reject it.

697
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:14,000
So us Christians tend to expect the nonbelievers to live by Christ or God's moral standards.

698
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,000
We expect them to know what sin is.

699
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:21,000
I mean, most people know what sin is, but we basically say, oh, you're a sinner.

700
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,000
You're going to hell.

701
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,000
But they don't know what that means.

702
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,000
If they're not believers, if they're not Christians, they don't know what that means.

703
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:31,000
So we have to be willing to talk to them.

704
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:35,000
But unfortunately, we come off as condemning and judging and all that good stuff.

705
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:38,000
So that's why we have to walk them through that.

706
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:43,000
But for the most part, you know, those who are not Christians, they receive that.

707
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:47,000
They're not like, oh, wow, thank you for telling me that I'm a sinner.

708
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,000
No, I'm just going to go to Christ.

709
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,000
No, for the most part, they say you're just judgmental as a Christian.

710
00:47:52,000 --> 00:48:01,000
But the what is holy here is referred to as giving correction to the unbeliever or giving counsel.

711
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:13,000
So they're basically saying correcting those who will not receive the gospel in correction and futile.

712
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,000
And I would agree with this statement here.

713
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:26,000
Basically, if we try to give counsel to an unbeliever, they won't receive it well because they don't know Christ or they don't know God's moral standards.

714
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:34,000
So I would, you know, not that my opinion matters, but I lean more towards this side than the other side

715
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,000
because we are commanded as Christians to give the gospel.

716
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:43,000
Matthew 28, we're to give the gospel to the whole world.

717
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:50,000
And so that's why I personally stick with this one, you know, the belief what the other commentators say.

718
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,000
But again, this isn't saying to not give the gospel.

719
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,000
It's not saying, oh, well, you don't want to believe it.

720
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:55,000
You don't want to hear it.

721
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:56,000
We're not going to give you the gospel.

722
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,000
We're commanded to do so.

723
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:03,000
But it says basically to not correct those who have rejected the gospel.

724
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,000
Just know that the seed was planted.

725
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:11,000
Just pray for the sowing of the seed that was planted.

726
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:15,000
But, you know, we shouldn't force our beliefs on the world.

727
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:20,000
We are to be the light and the salt, you know, as we are called to be.

728
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:30,000
We must share the gospel with sincerity that one day we will meet the judge and one day they will meet the judge.

729
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,000
But God doesn't want us to suffer.

730
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:34,000
God doesn't want anybody to suffer.

731
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:35,000
He doesn't want to condemn us.

732
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:41,000
He doesn't want to, you know, have us spend eternal separation from him.

733
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:44,000
That's why we are to give the gospel to unbelievers.

734
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:58,000
You know, in John 3, 16, the most arguably famous verse is, for God so loved the world in this way, he gave his only one and only son that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

735
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,000
And I would say amen to that.

736
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:06,000
But as Christians, we are also commanded to let the world know that.

737
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,000
We are commanded to let the world know that we are all sinners.

738
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:13,000
We all have fallen short of the glory of God.

739
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:17,000
And with our sins, we have committed we need a savior.

740
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:21,000
And I'm speaking to the hearts of those who have not accepted Christ.

741
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,000
We are all sinners.

742
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,000
Every single one of us in this room, we're all sinners.

743
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,000
But we need a savior.

744
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:37,000
Because if we die in our sins, we are heading towards eternal punishment.

745
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:47,000
Romans 6, 23 says, for the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

746
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:54,000
This is what we should be preaching to the nonbelievers, not judging them, but preaching.

747
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:58,000
We should be willing to point them to the cross.

748
00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:05,000
We should be willing to point them to the suffering that Christ endured on the cross for all the world.

749
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:09,000
And how Christ died for all our sins.

750
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:13,000
And that they too can be forgiven for all of the things.

751
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:19,000
All they have to do is accept and receive Christ into their hearts and believe that Christ died for them.

752
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:23,000
We shouldn't judge them. We should not go on judging them.

753
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:30,000
So before we take communion, I just want to say in conclusion of this study, a lot of judging, a lot of condemnation.

754
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:35,000
We are called to be fruit inspectors to all Christians.

755
00:51:35,000 --> 00:51:39,000
But only God can judge us and condemn us.

756
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:43,000
We can use God's moral standards, not ours.

757
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:48,000
We are called to judge righteously, but not to condemn.

758
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,000
Condemning is reserved for God.

759
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:59,000
We must take care of the beam of wood that is in our eye before pointing out the splinter that is in our brothers and sisters eyes.

760
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:01,000
Doesn't mean we shouldn't help them.

761
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:07,000
We shouldn't help. You know, it's not saying to not help them with that piece of splinter in their eye.

762
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,000
No, we are. But don't condemn them.

763
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,000
Help them through everything.

764
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:14,000
Help them and point them to the reality of sin.

765
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,000
Sin kills, literally.

766
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:21,000
So for communion, everybody should have gotten a cup now.

767
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,000
Everybody got a cup? Everybody awake? Wonderful.

768
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:26,000
You didn't get one?

769
00:52:26,000 --> 00:52:31,000
All right, if you have not got one, let's raise your hand real quick.

770
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,000
All right, so we got one over here.

771
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:36,000
Yeah, can you?

772
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:48,000
So I just wanted to point out that as everybody gets their communion cup, by the way, today is communion.

773
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:51,000
If you guys didn't know.

774
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:56,000
Communion is a reminder as to what Jesus has done for us.

775
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,000
Communion isn't just something we do once a month, right?

776
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,000
Here at Hosanna, that's what we do.

777
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:09,000
It's a covenant that we have with our Lord and Savior as a reminder of the sacrifice that he has endured for us.

778
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:22,000
We must remember that we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Christ once and for all time.

779
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:27,000
For those who have received Jesus, we are forgiven for all of our sins.

780
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:34,000
Although we deserve the death that Jesus took, that he bore all the pain and all the suffering,

781
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:40,000
he took all of our sins with him on the cross and he wiped us clean.

782
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:47,000
He defeated death and resurrected three days later to prove his love for us.

783
00:53:47,000 --> 00:53:52,000
Now, God will not judge us again for our sins, as I mentioned earlier.

784
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:56,000
They have already been dealt with on the cross once and for all.

785
00:53:56,000 --> 00:54:04,000
He took Jesus' standard and tried to make it our own and he says, no, that's not what it is.

786
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:12,000
We have made a standard for ourselves that if we judge, then we can live by our own standards.

787
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:17,000
But Christ says, no, it's my standard.

788
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:19,000
We have to live by that.

789
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:29,000
Jesus also said, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

790
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:33,000
We cannot hold ourselves higher than Jesus.

791
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,000
We are not good.

792
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:39,000
We are not good despite of what, you know, the world says.

793
00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,000
Oh, we have a good, you know, we're all good.

794
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:46,000
I would disagree.

795
00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:54,000
We must realize that Christ gave his body and sacrificed his blood to atone for our sins.

796
00:54:54,000 --> 00:55:00,000
And so let's, this is a new one, so we're all used to the other one.

797
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:09,000
Let's all carefully open up the tab for the bread, the offering, the cracker.

798
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:16,000
Now, this, the bread here, this is in remembrance of Jesus' body.

799
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:23,000
We break the bread as we remember that Jesus is the bread of life.

800
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:27,000
This bread of life is a gift from God.

801
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:31,000
This bread is without leaven because leaven represents sin.

802
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,000
Jesus knew no sin.

803
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:35,000
Jesus wasn't filled with any sin.

804
00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:38,000
Jesus' body had no sin.

805
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:45,000
When we eat of this bread, we are not eating his physical body as some believe,

806
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:48,000
but this bread is symbolic of Jesus' body.

807
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:51,000
It's symbolic of his perfect body.

808
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:55,000
Jesus gave us his body for us.

809
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:58,000
He gave it up for us.

810
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,000
We should have suffered for our sins.

811
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:05,000
We should be the one that have died on the cross, but we didn't.

812
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:10,000
Christ put himself there purposefully because he loves us.

813
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:14,000
It's by your wounds, Jesus, that we are healed.

814
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,000
Let's pray.

815
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:25,000
Father, I thank you for sending your son, Lord, for your son accomplished so much

816
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:28,000
that we could not.

817
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:34,000
But instead of doing away with us, you gave us your son.

818
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:39,000
You gave us his body so we can have remembrance of all the goodness

819
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:42,000
that you have done for us.

820
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,000
Father, I just thank you for everything.

821
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:49,000
Thank you, Jesus, for enduring the suffering on the cross

822
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:54,000
and the punishment that we deserve and taking that from us.

823
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:57,000
Thank you for giving your body as remembrance,

824
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:00,000
for it is by your wounds we are healed.

825
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,000
Let's partake in the bread, guys.

826
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:07,000
Now, the blood is the new covenant that we have with God,

827
00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:10,000
that we have with Christ.

828
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:14,000
Not that the old was worse and that the old didn't do anything,

829
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:20,000
but this new covenant was accomplished to accomplish what the old could not

830
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,000
because we were the ones that distorted it.

831
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:28,000
The old could not do away with sin once and for all.

832
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:36,000
The new covenant is a removal of sins and cleansing of the conscience.

833
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:42,000
Christ's blood cleanses us from all our sins once and for all.

834
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:43,000
We must remember that.

835
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,000
His blood represents life.

836
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:50,000
It's a reminder that we have been crucified with Christ,

837
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:54,000
and it is Christ who lives in us.

838
00:57:54,000 --> 00:58:01,000
It's Christ's life that was offered for us and given to us.

839
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:06,000
It is Christ that wiped away every blemish, every sin,

840
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:12,000
to cleanse us all of our unrighteousness and for the forgiveness of our sins,

841
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:17,000
our past, present, and future.

842
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:22,000
So, as you guys can tell, let's pull back on the juice here.

843
00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:28,000
Let's go slowly so we don't spill it so we have enough juice to partake.

844
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,000
Let's pray.

845
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:35,000
Thank you, Jesus, for your shed blood.

846
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:40,000
Thank you for taking the horrible suffering that we deserve,

847
00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:48,000
but you knew your blood and only by your blood that we can be cleansed of all unrighteousness.

848
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:56,000
Thank you, Father, for loving us so much that you sacrificed your one and only Son

849
00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:00,000
so we would not perish but have eternal life with you.

850
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:04,000
Thank you, Jesus, for wiping us clean.

851
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:08,000
We are cleansed forever because of your blood.

852
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:10,000
Let's partake.

853
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:15,000
As the message that we had is to not judge one another,

854
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:20,000
let's just go out and be the salt and the light of the world.

855
00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:23,000
Let's continue to give the gospel.

856
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:28,000
Let's continue to tell the whole world who Christ is.

857
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:34,000
Let's continue to go out and fight the good fight and tell everybody who God is.

858
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:38,000
God didn't create us just to kill us, to condemn us.

859
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:41,000
God created us because he loves us.

860
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:45,000
So let's all continue to fight the good fight with one another,

861
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:48,000
and let's all love one another. Amen?

862
00:59:48,000 --> 01:00:12,000
All right, let's worship, guys.