Nephilim Death Squad - Sermon on the Mount Episode 3

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00:01:45.480 Kids, you know?

00:01:46.700 Yeah.

00:01:47.240 Like dog.

00:01:48.520 Top loves the productions.

00:01:49.520 Blessed are the peacemakers.

00:02:19.500 For they shall be called the children of God.

00:02:21.760 This is Sermon on the Mount, episode three.

00:02:24.260 We're going to unpack this passage, and we're going to notice that it's not the fact that

00:02:28.200 they're peacemakers that makes them children of God, but this is more of like a, like we

00:02:33.480 keep saying about the Sermon on the Mount especially, but the scripture in its entirety

00:02:37.100 is a mirror, right?

00:02:38.920 It's a mirror into you.

00:02:40.680 People like to come into the shop and argue about doctrine and argue about how you interpret

00:02:47.300 the Bible, but the reality is I think we're missing like a deeper reality is that really

00:02:53.600 the scripture is interpreting us more than we're interpreting the scripture, and of like

00:02:57.700 all of the Bible that you could really use to use as a mirror and reflect on yourself and

00:03:04.700 really interpret to yourself who you are, the Sermon on the Mount is the most for that.

00:03:09.760 So we're going to dig into this.

00:03:11.420 Blessed are the peacemakers.

00:03:13.460 We're in verse nine.

00:03:14.540 For they shall be called the children of God, not to do a spoiler alert, but that's not

00:03:18.980 what makes them children of God, but we're going to get into that later of what makes

00:03:22.160 them the children of God.

00:03:23.420 This is just more of a manifestation of the fact that they are children of God.

00:03:27.260 So first thing we got to look at is peace, right?

00:03:29.440 Blessed are the peacemakers.

00:03:31.260 Nobody's going out making peace unless they have peace, right?

00:03:33.700 So let's look at this Greek word.

00:03:35.400 It's Irene, E-I-R-E-N-E in the Greek.

00:03:38.020 It's translated rest, quietness, or one.

00:03:42.780 That's an intriguing thought.

00:03:45.220 The definition is like harmony, right?

00:03:48.880 Like music, you know what I'm saying?

00:03:51.520 So it's not like out of tune music and like chaos, right?

00:03:56.020 Like that's not God's deal.

00:03:57.140 God's not into like out of tune chaos.

00:03:59.460 He's into harmony, security, safety.

00:04:03.420 This is an interesting way it's worded in the Blue Letter Bible.

00:04:06.060 The tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ and so fearing nothing

00:04:12.400 from God and content with its earthly lot of whatever sort it is.

00:04:16.660 I like that.

00:04:17.920 That's peace, man.

00:04:18.780 Like regardless of your circumstances, that's peace.

00:04:22.020 So this word peacemaker is Irina Poix, if you're French, I guess, or Irina Poios, if

00:04:29.280 you're English or from California.

00:04:32.140 But it's peacemaker.

00:04:33.400 And it's the only place that word's found in the Bible.

00:04:35.440 But blessed are these, these peacemakers.

00:04:37.160 So let's just jump into like what that looks like, what this word peace looks like.

00:04:42.960 And it's going to be complicated because it's another one of those words that are kind of

00:04:46.380 just very difficult to unpack, right?

00:04:49.920 But we'll just do the best we can biblically to break down the biblical definition of this

00:04:54.040 word.

00:04:54.360 So let's look at Mark 5, 25 through 34 is going to be our first passage.

00:05:00.040 We're going to go heavy on the scripture today too.

00:05:01.780 Okay, if you guys are ready, I'm ready.

00:05:07.000 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood 12 years.

00:05:12.480 And had suffered many things of many, many physicians and had spent all that she had and

00:05:18.140 was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse.

00:05:21.040 Not to be nasty, but like healthcare.

00:05:22.800 I don't know if this is like the first time period where healthcare has been kind of a

00:05:26.400 scam and not super useful.

00:05:28.040 I wonder, I don't know.

00:05:29.280 I don't have a time machine, so I wasn't there, but I would, I would guess that maybe

00:05:33.820 the situation with healthcare didn't always work.

00:05:38.760 You know what I'm saying?

00:05:40.200 Not to go off on a tangent.

00:05:41.420 When she had heard of Jesus, she came in the press behind and touched his garment.

00:05:45.460 Almost like I've tried everything else.

00:05:47.080 So now I'll try Jesus, which is kind of embarrassing for some of us.

00:05:49.800 We were like that too.

00:05:51.160 Instead of just like from the jump saying like, I'm going straight to Jesus.

00:05:54.100 Like, yo, I tried everything else, not working.

00:05:56.360 I'm desperate.

00:05:57.620 Now I'll go to him.

00:05:58.480 And sometimes he has to get us to that place, right?

00:06:01.000 When she had heard of Jesus, when she had heard of Jesus came in the press behind and

00:06:07.180 touched his garment for, she said, if I may touch, but his clothes, I shall be whole and

00:06:11.940 straightway.

00:06:12.460 The fountain of her blood was dried up.

00:06:14.260 This blood issue that she had instantly dries up and she felt in her body that she was healed

00:06:20.120 of the plague.

00:06:20.720 And Jesus immediately knowing in himself, that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about

00:06:26.520 in the press and said, who touched my clothes?

00:06:30.020 I love this passage, man.

00:06:31.720 And his disciples said, you see the multitude thronging you and you say, who touched me?

00:06:36.180 So imagine he's in this crowd, dude.

00:06:37.860 He's like coming down the street and there's a crowd just thronging him.

00:06:41.960 And all of a sudden he stops and says, who touched me?

00:06:45.740 The disciples are like, what do you, everybody, like 10,000 people just touched you.

00:06:49.100 What are you talking about?

00:06:50.000 And it's as if he was saying like, no, no, who touched me intentionally?

00:06:53.340 And I, the reason this is very vivid to me is like, I always thought about this when I

00:06:56.780 was going to church was like, I remember being in the lobby and it's like, yo, did you see

00:07:03.500 the ball game and, uh, where are we going to eat afterwards?

00:07:06.140 And how's your money, man?

00:07:07.520 And the job.

00:07:08.160 And like, you know, there's just all these like casual conversations about things, not

00:07:14.020 really pertaining to life and godliness, but just kind of about like, you know, the superficial

00:07:17.700 level of just like BS and with somebody in the lobby, you know, and then you just have

00:07:20.720 the conversation and they're like, be blessed, you know, and then that's it.

00:07:24.920 And I always thought about this past is like, man, is there just a ton of people just

00:07:28.380 like casually, just kind of casually bumping into Jesus at church?

00:07:33.700 They're not very intentional.

00:07:34.760 It's not really meaningful.

00:07:36.700 And, uh, I remember one time, this is going to be super embarrassing.

00:07:40.480 I'm like multiple levels, but I'm going to say it anyway.

00:07:44.620 So, uh, I used to hang out with the singing pastor at this church.

00:07:50.060 They call it a worship pastor.

00:07:52.260 And, um, they're cool people.

00:07:54.220 I would totally like, I don't know how you want to say it.

00:07:57.500 I would totally like enter into worship.

00:07:59.080 Like it was like, it was like a big thing for me.

00:08:01.580 And, uh, one time after church, the dude's like, Hey, you all right?

00:08:06.900 And I was like, yeah, yeah.

00:08:08.420 What's up?

00:08:09.060 And he's like, no, no.

00:08:09.820 Like, are you good?

00:08:10.600 And I was like, yeah, man, everything's good.

00:08:11.800 He's like, well, whatever, you know, whatever's going on, you know, you can talk to me about

00:08:14.380 it.

00:08:14.500 Right.

00:08:14.760 And I was like, bro, everything's good.

00:08:17.240 Like, what's up?

00:08:18.220 And he said, well, no, I just saw you crying, you know, like during worship, he's like the

00:08:22.060 leader, right?

00:08:22.560 So he could like see everybody in the crowd.

00:08:24.760 And so he's like, I seen you crying.

00:08:27.500 And I was like, yeah, we're, we're at like, we're, we're, we're worshiping God.

00:08:34.480 Right.

00:08:34.760 Like, yeah, dude, I'm in this place of just like, almost like confusion over like, how

00:08:40.140 did my life get this good?

00:08:41.600 How did it get like this?

00:08:42.660 God, how do we get to know each other like this?

00:08:44.500 Like, how am I, how did I go from the stone cold junkie and loser and idiot and like living

00:08:49.120 on the street and somehow forced got my way to this place that I'm at now.

00:08:53.920 And I'm like staggered by it.

00:08:55.580 Like, yeah, I'm crying.

00:08:56.640 Like, unless I think I was crying hard, like, like a very violently crying, you know what

00:09:02.000 I mean?

00:09:02.320 But I was just worse.

00:09:03.100 I was worshiping.

00:09:03.940 I just, you know, and there's a church where they're like running around with the flags

00:09:07.420 and the banners.

00:09:08.560 Yeah.

00:09:08.880 Yeah.

00:09:09.040 They're doing like, uh, they're doing like jumping jacks and they're just like spinning

00:09:14.180 and doing flips in the, in the walkway and stuff.

00:09:17.300 And little kids are running around and like playing games and stuff.

00:09:20.240 And it's like wild like that, but I was like, yeah, dude, I'm entering into this place of

00:09:25.740 just like being close to the Lord.

00:09:27.340 Like I want to touch him.

00:09:28.240 Like I want to be right there with him.

00:09:29.940 And so I'm not, I'm never saying that like, you can't enter into that through music on Sunday

00:09:34.680 morning.

00:09:34.960 I'm not saying you can't, I'm just saying like, so what was his problem with it?

00:09:38.420 Why did he ask you about it?

00:09:39.660 He just thought, I, I don't know, maybe he thought my dog died or something.

00:09:42.680 I don't know.

00:09:43.240 He just like, you know, I was like violently crying, I think, but I, but I just was like

00:09:48.440 in so close of a place to God.

00:09:50.520 Like if I'm really worshiping God, not just in the 501 C3, like in my car or in my closet,

00:09:54.880 when I'm reading scripture or whatever, I'm crying.

00:09:56.840 I cried.

00:09:57.260 Like when I'm like super close to the Lord, I guess everybody's different.

00:10:00.140 Everybody has like these different reactions when the spirit of God comes on and they're

00:10:03.140 really intimate and close with them.

00:10:05.020 But like, I'm just making the point that like, yeah, anytime I was going on Sunday morning,

00:10:09.320 I was like very intentional and I was very observant that there was.

00:10:12.860 Some people who maybe from the monotony of life and the monotony of going to church all

00:10:16.780 the time, maybe it was just kind of casual, just kind of bumping into Jesus.

00:10:20.280 And that kind of always reminded me of the story for what it's worth.

00:10:23.400 Well, I just, uh, I actually just looked up the word.

00:10:26.440 So, cause it says the virtue went out of him.

00:10:28.380 Yeah.

00:10:28.800 So the Strong's definition of virtue is strength, power, ability, or inherit power.

00:10:34.540 Yes.

00:10:35.280 Interesting that like she took that out of him.

00:10:37.280 Yeah.

00:10:37.980 And he's like, yo, what happened?

00:10:39.180 Yes.

00:10:39.740 I'm very aware that's that virtue just left me.

00:10:43.080 Right.

00:10:43.660 Dare I say grace?

00:10:44.900 Maybe there's an element of like, that's, that's this discussion of grace.

00:10:48.120 It's not just, it's not just this rad thing or the life of God or the energy of God, but

00:10:53.180 it's the ability to impart it in humans.

00:10:55.820 Right.

00:10:57.060 I think we're actually going to get into that later.

00:11:00.520 Cause as you're going to see grace and peace go together, like there's no peace without

00:11:03.600 grace, but not to jump the gun.

00:11:04.760 Let's finish with this.

00:11:05.520 Jesus immediately, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned

00:11:09.700 him about in the press and said, who touched my clothes?

00:11:11.860 And his disciples said unto him, you see the multitude thronging you and sayest thou who

00:11:15.500 touched me?

00:11:16.020 And he looked around about to see her that had done this thing.

00:11:21.940 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her came and fell down before

00:11:27.760 him and told him all the truth.

00:11:29.980 And he said unto her daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole, go in peace and be whole of

00:11:36.960 thy plague.

00:11:37.440 I just think that's a great picture of peace, man.

00:11:40.900 You're, you're like in this place for 12 years.

00:11:44.340 Imagine the agony, the pain, the suffering that you're going through.

00:11:48.100 You're going to all these humans.

00:11:49.760 There's no solution.

00:11:50.800 And then boom, there's a solution in your made whole.

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00:12:39.220 That's a wonderful picture of peace that can't be had if your whole world is good all the time.

00:12:45.860 It's like this wonderful, definitely different thing that you can feel that if she didn't have 12 years of pain and suffering, that peace couldn't have been so powerful.

00:12:57.100 And it's intriguing that he said, thy faith hath made thee whole.

00:13:00.160 A lot of people get touchy about that.

00:13:01.460 They're like, oh, no, your faith doesn't do anything.

00:13:03.980 Jesus says different.

00:13:05.020 He says your faith has made you whole.

00:13:07.260 That's what he says.

00:13:08.380 So she had faith in him.

00:13:09.820 It's also interesting because all these other people are touching him, but the effect doesn't happen to these other people.

00:13:15.380 They're not able to withdraw this power from Jesus.

00:13:18.360 But this lady who's been in pain for so long, I feel like there's something to that as well.

00:13:22.960 Like people that operate in consistent pain, I think maybe being a little bit more comfortable with the idea of death or this idea of suffering.

00:13:31.160 They're desperate.

00:13:32.080 They're desperate.

00:13:32.640 Yeah, there is something about that kind of a person that can operate in that realm, spirit realm, some would say, and draw that power from Jesus.

00:13:41.800 And just, I mean, just as close, not even touching him.

00:13:44.360 It just seems like such a deep level of peace, dude.

00:13:46.920 If there's been 12 years of pain and chaos and suffering, like imagine the peace from that, right?

00:13:54.200 We're just trying to unpack this word peace.

00:13:55.900 And it's a weird thing about this story.

00:13:57.660 I think sometimes when I think about it, it, you know, she kind of hid.

00:14:02.420 She kind of hid.

00:14:03.360 It says that, but the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him.

00:14:09.500 Like initially she just dipped.

00:14:11.360 Like she just kind of hid.

00:14:12.440 And I think you kind of always have to think about the dude, Adam, right?

00:14:16.980 Like the dude, Adam hid, right?

00:14:18.920 And, uh, but it's almost like opposite.

00:14:21.980 It's almost like Adam was in this place of peace.

00:14:26.960 Then he disobeys God.

00:14:28.600 And then he hides.

00:14:32.960 And it's almost like with Adam, it was like, Hey, you were living in peace, but now you're going to live in suffering.

00:14:40.940 Right.

00:14:41.380 Whereas this woman lived in suffering, hid from the shame, right?

00:14:48.540 Same way Adam hid from the shame.

00:14:49.800 She was hiding from the shame.

00:14:51.180 I think there's a lot packed up in this that like, she was unclean in that culture to be bleeding and to touch someone.

00:14:56.360 So she's ashamed.

00:14:57.760 And it's like opposite.

00:14:59.200 It's like, Adam, you hid.

00:15:01.620 You, you were living in peace.

00:15:03.300 Now you're, now you hid.

00:15:04.520 And now you're going to be ashamed to her.

00:15:05.960 It's like, you were ashamed.

00:15:07.560 Now you hid.

00:15:09.020 You don't need to.

00:15:10.160 Now you're in peace.

00:15:11.620 You know what I mean?

00:15:12.280 So there's this connection.

00:15:13.820 It just makes me think about that.

00:15:15.180 When somebody's hiding, it's like, that's what Adam did.

00:15:17.500 It's like opposite.

00:15:19.100 Right.

00:15:19.860 All right.

00:15:20.340 So let's get into the next thing.

00:15:21.880 So that's peace.

00:15:22.680 Right.

00:15:22.940 If we can get a context of like peace.

00:15:24.800 Right.

00:15:25.260 It's this powerful force, man.

00:15:27.020 It's like a lot of these words are very powerful forces that we just kind of flippantly use.

00:15:31.280 Like love, faith, grace, peace.

00:15:33.920 There's so many phrases in the Bible.

00:15:35.880 They're just like such powerful phrases and such powerful words and contain so much in them.

00:15:41.040 And we just kind of use them casually.

00:15:42.740 But this is a powerful word.

00:15:43.920 Peace.

00:15:44.280 All right.

00:15:44.600 So let's look at Matthew 10, 5 through 14.

00:15:48.420 We're going to notice the ability to spread this peace.

00:15:51.840 Right.

00:15:52.040 Because that's what we're talking about is blessed are the peacemakers.

00:15:54.180 So Matthew 10, starting in verse 5, this is after Jesus has called unto him his 12 disciples.

00:16:00.720 He gives them power against unclean spirits.

00:16:04.040 And then he says, these 12 Jesus sent forth and commanded them, saying, go not into the way of the Gentiles and into any city of the Samaritans.

00:16:11.820 Enter you not.

00:16:12.520 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

00:16:15.480 And as you go, preach, saying the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

00:16:18.660 Heal the sick.

00:16:19.420 Cleanse the lepers.

00:16:20.260 Raise the dead.

00:16:21.040 Cast out devils.

00:16:22.060 Freely you have received.

00:16:23.640 Freely give.

00:16:25.280 And say freely you have received.

00:16:26.740 Now take up an offering.

00:16:27.800 He said, freely you have received.

00:16:29.720 Freely give.

00:16:30.640 Provide neither gold nor silver nor brass in your purses, nor script for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves.

00:16:38.480 For the workman is worthy of his meat.

00:16:40.460 And into whatsoever city or town you shall enter, inquire in it who is worthy, and there abide until you go from there.

00:16:47.600 And when you come into a house, salute it.

00:16:49.460 And if the house be worthy, let your house come upon it.

00:16:53.380 This is beyond, I think, what a lot of us understand of this word peace.

00:16:59.740 It's this force that you have.

00:17:02.440 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it.

00:17:05.240 But if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.

00:17:09.020 I know you're going to like this, but we're going to put it in context.

00:17:14.160 And whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words when you depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

00:17:21.280 So it's this ability to spread peace, right?

00:17:26.640 Sometimes peace is compatible.

00:17:28.520 And sometimes peace is incompatible.

00:17:35.060 So just let that sink in for a minute.

00:17:36.660 He's saying like, yeah, there's people where you can spread your peace.

00:17:39.260 And then there's others, man.

00:17:40.480 You take that force back, right?

00:17:42.860 So you have the ability to create the environment you live in is really what he's saying, right?

00:17:49.580 Which some of us have come to understand that.

00:17:53.120 That like, really, man, at the end of the day, like I'm creating my sphere.

00:17:56.680 Like I'm creating the world that I live in.

00:17:58.640 Like whatever I entertain and my thoughts and my actions and my relationships, like this is forming the reality of my life.

00:18:05.640 Like whatever I'm taking into my spirit, like that's forming the reality of my life and how I act.

00:18:11.080 Like this is why we talk about like you act this way no matter what.

00:18:16.160 Like if somebody is nasty to you, you don't come back with nasty because now they're controlling how you're acting.

00:18:21.000 That's why we say like, no, you set out to be who you're going to be and stick to that.

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00:18:57.080 So, um, so let's look up Romans 12, 16 through 21.

00:19:02.200 We're just going to keep jumping for a while to just kind of paint this picture.

00:19:04.640 Romans 12, 16 through 21.

00:19:10.620 This is going to, this, like I said, in some places, peace is compatible and in some places,

00:19:14.720 peace is not compatible.

00:19:16.360 And the, and the Bible acknowledges that.

00:19:18.300 So we're in Romans 12, 16 through 21.

00:19:23.560 It says this.

00:19:25.100 Be of the same mind one toward another.

00:19:27.300 Mind not high things, but condescend to, but condescend to men of low estate.

00:19:32.900 Be not wise in your own conceits.

00:19:37.720 Recompense to no man evil for evil.

00:19:40.440 Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

00:19:43.020 That's what I'm saying.

00:19:43.780 Don't let people own you.

00:19:46.240 Like if you set out for your day to day, you're like, dude, I'm going to go, I'm going to

00:19:50.200 spread peace.

00:19:51.380 Like I'm going to do my thing.

00:19:53.060 I'm going to live a place of happiness and joy and being grateful.

00:19:56.260 And then somebody does evil to me.

00:19:58.240 And now I do evil back to them.

00:20:00.080 They own me.

00:20:01.340 That means they own me.

00:20:02.460 I'm not gonna let anybody own me.

00:20:03.480 I already belong to Christ.

00:20:04.560 Who's going to own me?

00:20:05.980 Nobody could own me and be nasty to me and change how I'm going to act now.

00:20:10.420 I already belong to Christ.

00:20:11.540 I already set out for how I'm going to live.

00:20:13.500 I'm going to live like that.

00:20:15.120 And then he says the why.

00:20:17.620 But verse 18 is a wild passage, man.

00:20:20.060 If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men.

00:20:24.040 So the Bible acknowledges this big if.

00:20:26.420 Like if it's possible, it's saying like, dude, there's some people you're not going to live

00:20:29.740 at peace with.

00:20:30.400 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto the wrath.

00:20:37.560 Rather give place unto wrath.

00:20:39.720 For it is written, vengeance is mine.

00:20:42.000 I will repay, sayeth the Lord.

00:20:44.220 This is like this thing where sometimes you got beef and God's like, hey, you can go stick

00:20:48.600 up for yourself or I can stick up for you.

00:20:51.020 But it's not going to be both.

00:20:52.580 It's not going to be both.

00:20:53.420 So you pick.

00:20:54.660 And I've just kind of learned over time.

00:20:56.180 Like, I'm like, yeah, God, I'd rather have you deal with it.

00:20:58.060 However, you're going to deal with it.

00:20:59.440 Like, I don't need to get wrapped up in any of this.

00:21:01.800 Therefore, if your enemy hunger, feed him.

00:21:04.420 If he thirst, give him drink.

00:21:06.180 For in so doing, you shall heap coals of fire on his head.

00:21:09.780 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

00:21:13.940 That's a great one liner, man.

00:21:15.480 If you just needed to think like, hey, where should my head be at today?

00:21:18.160 Just keep that.

00:21:18.800 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

00:21:21.140 And I know you're like, yeah.

00:21:25.580 If your enemy hungers, feed him.

00:21:27.380 If he thirsts, give him drink.

00:21:28.920 That's right.

00:21:29.520 Because I want to put coals of fire on his head.

00:21:32.280 But I don't know if that's not just saying like it's going to get his attention.

00:21:39.420 Maybe it's that.

00:21:40.580 Maybe you're like, no, let's burn his head.

00:21:42.920 Maybe.

00:21:43.620 But maybe it's more along the lines of getting his attention.

00:21:46.400 To me, when I read it, it said if you really want to burn him.

00:21:49.020 I knew that's how you read it.

00:21:50.860 Let God do it.

00:21:52.900 That's all right.

00:21:53.560 We don't really interpret the scripture.

00:21:55.060 It interprets us.

00:21:57.880 All right.

00:21:58.420 So now we're in Hebrews 12, 14 and 15.

00:22:04.040 Follow peace with all men.

00:22:07.020 Right?

00:22:09.560 And holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

00:22:12.760 So here we see a parallel in pure in heart.

00:22:14.520 Remember we did pure in heart last week or the week before?

00:22:17.180 The pure in heart, they'll see God.

00:22:18.800 This says without holiness, you won't see God.

00:22:21.800 There's a connection there.

00:22:22.900 We're starting to notice this.

00:22:24.000 We're putting passages together.

00:22:25.500 Follow peace with all men in holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.

00:22:30.020 Looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God.

00:22:34.220 Did you know the Bible warns that you can fail of the grace of God?

00:22:37.520 I'm not even going to unpack that.

00:22:38.760 I'm simply saying that the scripture says you can fail of the grace of God.

00:22:42.660 That's all I'm saying.

00:22:43.340 Looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.

00:22:54.100 So I just want to notice this connection between peace and grace.

00:22:57.720 It looks like, biblically speaking, there is no peace without grace.

00:23:00.560 And as we unpack it, like in the greetings, it's always grace and peace.

00:23:05.600 It's always in that order, which we're going to get into here in a second, not to jump the gun.

00:23:09.560 But there's this connection with peace and grace, and somehow, if you're not doing that, and you're not diligent about it, you can fail of the grace of God, which is tied to bitterness springing up in you and troubling you.

00:23:26.140 Like, bitterness is what will spring up and be a root that needs ripped out.

00:23:30.920 It will trouble you.

00:23:32.060 So what I want to bring attention to is, though, where it says follow peace in the Greek, one of the definitions for that word is pursue.

00:23:42.260 So it's saying, like, pursue peace.

00:23:44.220 Blessed are the peacemakers.

00:23:45.440 Pursue peace.

00:23:48.140 And then, of course, that verse 15 is the warning and the connection between grace and peace.

00:23:53.400 Right?

00:23:53.860 Let's look at 2 Peter 1, 1 through 4.

00:23:56.340 This is what I'm talking about, like grace and peace.

00:23:59.640 Watch how he opens up.

00:24:02.960 Second epistle, General of Peter.

00:24:06.340 2 Peter 1.

00:24:07.540 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle.

00:24:10.740 Notice the order.

00:24:11.680 Dude, these men of God, they always wrote servant first.

00:24:13.980 They never said I'm a big dog.

00:24:15.180 They never said I'm an apostle.

00:24:16.160 They always, first things first, said a servant.

00:24:18.680 I belong to Christ.

00:24:19.780 I'm just a servant.

00:24:21.180 And, by the way, he called me to be an apostle.

00:24:24.980 Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ.

00:24:27.620 To them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior, Jesus Christ.

00:24:32.900 Grace and peace be multiplied.

00:24:36.840 Like, we want to enter into that.

00:24:39.480 Multiplied.

00:24:39.960 Not addition.

00:24:42.280 Right?

00:24:42.560 Not 3 plus 4 is 7.

00:24:44.460 3 times 4 is 12.

00:24:46.780 Right?

00:24:47.240 I got my math right?

00:24:48.740 Yeah, you got it.

00:24:49.320 All right.

00:24:49.520 I'm just checking.

00:24:50.620 You see what I'm saying?

00:24:51.480 Like, sometimes you may go through this experience or recognize it in somebody else where they're, like, growing exponentially, man.

00:24:58.460 They're growing.

00:24:59.220 They're growing so fast.

00:25:00.460 You're saying, like, bro, you're, like, your game's strong.

00:25:03.020 And you're, like, increasing your proximity to God.

00:25:05.540 And you're clearly, like, in the scriptures.

00:25:07.420 It's multiplying, dude.

00:25:08.680 That's how it goes in our kingdom.

00:25:09.900 It multiplies.

00:25:10.660 He says, grace and peace be multiplied unto you.

00:25:13.380 How?

00:25:13.800 Through the knowledge of God and of Jesus Christ our Lord.

00:25:16.920 This is intriguing to me because, you know, your friend, I forget her name, but she goes to Orthodox Church in Oxford.

00:25:23.920 She invited you to come before.

00:25:25.160 She's seen you here.

00:25:26.060 Haley.

00:25:26.480 She came in yesterday.

00:25:27.860 She came in with a Russian Orthodox monk.

00:25:31.560 Did you ever meet him?

00:25:32.960 No.

00:25:33.580 He's, like, this big guy.

00:25:34.620 He's got, like, a cape on, like, a wild cross and stuff.

00:25:37.140 He's, like, I was, like, yo, what's up with the buddy?

00:25:38.580 He's, like, yeah, he's a Russian Orthodox monk.

00:25:41.620 Was she looking for me?

00:25:42.940 Yeah.

00:25:43.380 Yeah, but you guys were doing your show.

00:25:45.780 Okay.

00:25:46.660 And I was, like, don't bother him during the show, whatever you do.

00:25:51.040 So then we entered into this discussion about how the Orthodox has everything right, and that's what needs to be looked at is, like, there has to be bishops, and I think, I forget all the titles they had in that, but those are the ones who tell you what the Bible means because some people think they can just read the Bible and understand it.

00:26:08.880 And I said, yeah, yeah, that's, like, we're like that.

00:26:11.440 I didn't know that they believe that.

00:26:13.120 This is what she was explaining to me yesterday.

00:26:14.980 Okay.

00:26:15.300 Well, I think any big denomination or big, and I think she would say, no, we're not a denomination.

00:26:21.760 We're the right way.

00:26:23.220 I'm pretty sure that's what all the denominations say.

00:26:25.760 Like, that's why they say they're that.

00:26:27.340 Yeah.

00:26:27.480 But anyway, we got into this thing.

00:26:29.640 She's like, well, yeah, then anybody can say whatever they wanted to say.

00:26:33.940 I said, well, yeah, but at the end of the day, we all have to give an account for our life before God.

00:26:39.060 So, yeah.

00:26:39.560 So, we all do have to look in the Scripture and determine for ourselves what the Scripture says.

00:26:44.780 And I said, you're not going to stand at the judgment seat with the monk or with the bishop or with any of the people.

00:26:50.240 Like, you're going to stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

00:26:52.340 But then it made me think when she left is like, yeah, what is everybody trying to get out of the Scripture?

00:26:56.940 Like, this is a bigger discussion when the certain groups are saying, no, no, you have to get the truth from somebody at the top.

00:27:03.400 They determine what it means.

00:27:04.660 And so, I don't, like, that's not even my view of the Scripture.

00:27:09.440 Like, my view of the Scripture is to know God.

00:27:12.020 I'm not, I never got into the Scripture to, like, have flawless doctrine.

00:27:17.080 And I also don't think, like, oh, yeah, I have a different view than you on the Scripture.

00:27:21.700 And so, therefore, I'm going to demand that you see my view.

00:27:24.080 Because that's ultimately what she's saying is, like, somebody holds the right view and everybody else needs to hold that view because it's the right view.

00:27:30.240 Whereas I'm saying, like, I don't know, man, there's a lot wrapped up in this eternal Word of God.

00:27:35.080 Like, His words are spirit and they are life.

00:27:37.440 There's a lot going on here.

00:27:39.040 This is more about it interpreting us instead of us interpreting it.

00:27:42.720 And furthermore, like, my goal in reading the Scriptures has never been to have flawless doctrine and be right and other people are wrong.

00:27:49.840 My only goal coming to the Scriptures from day one was to know the Lord.

00:27:53.940 That's it.

00:27:54.800 That's it.

00:27:55.120 The Scripture, and if the Bible doesn't lead you to a place of knowing God and hearing His voice and living accordingly, then throw it away.

00:28:02.500 If it's just a math book or a science book and now your denomination can be right because you've got your doctrine in place and everybody else is wrong, throw it away, man.

00:28:11.680 And I don't even know.

00:28:12.460 That would be so embarrassing to me.

00:28:14.000 I don't even know that I would read the Bible if I thought that.

00:28:16.600 Like, I'm constantly going in the Word of God and I'm in expectation of being shown something that I didn't see before.

00:28:23.660 I'm not thinking, like, oh, this is already my doctrine.

00:28:26.060 It's flawless.

00:28:26.540 It's perfect.

00:28:27.500 Why would I read the Bible then?

00:28:28.760 Like, I'm constantly looking.

00:28:30.160 Dude, I thought about this story of Elijah for 20 years that he got taken to heaven.

00:28:33.740 The dude Sean from Kingdom and Context said in 10 seconds, like, nah, man, if you study it out, he wrote a letter after that.

00:28:40.800 It doesn't look like he did get taken to heaven.

00:28:42.740 It looks like he got put somewhere else.

00:28:45.660 Bro, can you imagine hearing that and saying, no, no, no, no, you're wrong.

00:28:50.140 You know what I'm saying?

00:28:51.000 Can you imagine you said, no, no, no, my denomination already believes this, this, this, and this.

00:28:55.420 That would be madness.

00:28:57.000 That would be madness.

00:28:58.740 Right?

00:28:59.020 So it's like, I'm just saying, like, the point of the scripture is to know the Lord, know his voice.

00:29:04.280 That way you're able to apply it to your life and live accordingly in a relationship with him.

00:29:08.720 And if it doesn't do that, then it's worthless.

00:29:12.320 Well, where do you put, so I, I, I love Haley, but where do you put like a, somebody whose life is messed up and they were searching before?

00:29:23.100 Maybe they, I don't know, from what I see now, look from the outside looking in, because I'm not like as close friends with her as before.

00:29:28.560 But since she's discovered the Orthodox Church, it seems like she's kind of tightened up her game and maybe something that she needed.

00:29:35.320 Amen.

00:29:35.800 For me, like, that's the reason I don't go to that type of church, because I understand, I understand like the, the structure and the liturgy and what they're talking about.

00:29:46.120 And I'm just kind of like, ah, like, I think that it's good, but I don't, I don't necessarily agree with it or need it.

00:29:52.060 No, no, I think it's all good.

00:29:53.180 Anybody in any denomination, it's all good.

00:29:56.740 I think she's also coming from a Pentecostal denomination and then going into this and seeing a vast difference.

00:30:02.220 And now she's going to tell us, but it's like, it's very much like we have, we've had other people on the show that they became Catholic.

00:30:07.340 And then they're like, Catholicism.

00:30:10.200 And it's like, yeah, I understand you guys like the order, but like, you're excited about this thing.

00:30:14.600 And now you want to shove it down people's throats.

00:30:16.300 And it's like, yeah, it's not going to, it's not going to happen.

00:30:18.060 I think that's more what I'm getting at is like, yeah, I may have views on it, but I'm not demanding that you see it my way.

00:30:24.460 No, I was like, this is how I see it.

00:30:25.640 But, you know, this is a book pertaining to life and godliness.

00:30:28.320 It's not pertaining to having flawless doctrine.

00:30:31.900 Yes.

00:30:32.480 It's just, to me, it's just a lot deeper than that.

00:30:34.820 And probably a lot of the points they're making are right, is that you end up with all these crazy denominations.

00:30:41.400 There's no unity in the body.

00:30:43.400 And therefore, you have people saying the craziest stuff out of Bible passages.

00:30:47.480 They're probably totally right about that.

00:30:48.580 I'm just saying, like, no man is going to correct that.

00:30:50.800 Only the Holy Spirit's going to correct that.

00:30:52.340 And I think it would be rad if one day that does happen in the church, that by the Spirit of God, the entire body of Christ does start to see clearly things pertaining to the scripture.

00:31:02.760 Like, that would be incredible.

00:31:04.180 But no dude from this denomination or that denomination is going to do that.

00:31:09.100 I think, and this is a hard truth, the denominations are not going to help you in your shortcomings in your personal life.

00:31:17.300 But your approach of like, hey, pick that up, pick the Bible up yourself and read it and really try to understand that, that has a much better possibility of helping you in your personal life.

00:31:26.940 A lot of these people get to these places where they have to rely on the denominations because there are extreme shortcomings in their personal life that they have convictions over.

00:31:35.620 And it's like, okay, you found something closer to it, but that's internal.

00:31:39.800 It's not going to help whatever has happened and whatever is going to happen in your relationships or whatever it may be.

00:31:47.500 Read the Bible.

00:31:48.320 Read it for yourself and understand it.

00:31:49.640 But if that helps you, great too.

00:31:51.180 Yeah.

00:31:51.560 But yeah, I don't know.

00:31:53.000 That's just my opinion on it.

00:31:53.880 Yeah, yeah.

00:31:54.340 Do the thing on, you know, on the Sunday or whatever.

00:31:57.740 That's cool.

00:31:58.200 But yeah, this has to be your whole life.

00:32:00.180 Yeah.

00:32:00.380 Okay, so it says, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue, whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature.

00:32:20.040 These are just rad scriptures, dude.

00:32:21.760 This is just in his opening.

00:32:23.260 This is just in his greeting.

00:32:25.300 Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

00:32:28.280 So I couldn't help but read all four verses.

00:32:30.800 But really, I was just keying in on verse two, where it talks about grace and peace.

00:32:35.340 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you.

00:32:37.180 Like, that's like this blessing that these dudes do at the beginning of the letters.

00:32:40.260 And I'm just making the point that, like, it's grace and peace in that order, right?

00:32:44.820 And we already alluded to it, that, like, grace is the life of God.

00:32:48.000 But it's not just that.

00:32:48.920 It's like the desire and the ability of God to impart that into other people, right?

00:32:55.500 I got a quote here.

00:32:57.040 I don't even totally remember where I got it.

00:32:58.840 But grace is ultimately the activity of God, which puts at the disposal of sinning men and women all the things that give delight to him.

00:33:06.820 So it's saying that, like, grace is this, it's the activity of God that he's willing to put inside of you.

00:33:14.140 And what it does is it gives you the ability to live this life that's pleasing to him, right?

00:33:18.360 The external things can't do that.

00:33:21.400 It's got to be this internal thing that he puts into us.

00:33:24.460 And you could say that peace is the result of grace, right?

00:33:27.200 It's the activity of God that produces peace for the child of God, right?

00:33:31.460 Because peacemakers are the children of God.

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00:34:05.140 Let's look at Psalm 34.

00:34:13.120 Are you in a hurry?

00:34:16.240 I got some places to be.

00:34:18.400 Okay, actually.

00:34:20.420 I'm joking.

00:34:21.220 We did that out of order.

00:34:23.960 Okay, so hold on.

00:34:25.700 I'll read the first verse, though.

00:34:27.480 This is Psalm 34.

00:34:28.440 It's a psalm of David when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, who also goes by

00:34:32.540 the name Ashish.

00:34:35.180 And he opens up Psalm 34, verse 1.

00:34:37.620 He says, I will bless the Lord at all times.

00:34:39.500 His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

00:34:41.600 Let's look at the state that this dude's in when he says that.

00:34:44.540 Because you're like, well, yeah, man, I'll bless the Lord.

00:34:47.200 You know, when things, when I'm riding high, man, when I got a lot of money, when things

00:34:50.420 are going good, when I'm crushing at the job, when I'm the big dog.

00:34:54.120 Let's see if David's in that position when he's able to say this.

00:34:58.440 I had a buddy in high school.

00:35:01.860 It wasn't my buddy, but my buddy, Anthony Paradiso, was buddies with him.

00:35:05.180 And I think his name was Luke Hawkins.

00:35:08.540 But Anthony Paradiso told me the story.

00:35:10.580 They were both in the military together.

00:35:11.880 And he wanted to get discharged, this dude Luke.

00:35:18.760 And he started like going around dribbling an invisible basketball and stuff.

00:35:22.140 Yeah.

00:35:22.400 He started like playing checkers and chess with himself and like yelling at the other guy.

00:35:27.140 But like playing with himself, like just like doing moves and just started doing crazy stuff

00:35:33.420 to get out of the military, which was just wild when I came across this passage.

00:35:38.640 Look at David, dude.

00:35:39.500 It says, and David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul and went to Ashish, the king of Gath.

00:35:44.920 This is after David bounces running from Saul and he goes into the temple.

00:35:50.860 He goes running to the priest there and he's like, hey, man, you got any food?

00:36:07.840 You got any weapons?

00:36:08.700 And the priest is like, yo, all we have is the show bread.

00:36:10.700 And Jesus references this passage when he's making the point that like, hey, religious rules are not designed to enclose you in.

00:36:17.780 Like, yeah, that bread was not for common people.

00:36:20.180 It was only for the priest.

00:36:21.280 But if David was going to die, of course, he could take the bread.

00:36:23.840 Of course, he could take the bread.

00:36:25.060 So that's this story where he goes in.

00:36:26.940 He says, hey, man, I need some bread.

00:36:27.880 He says, all we have is the holy bread.

00:36:29.020 He says, yeah, I'll take that.

00:36:29.960 You guys got a sword.

00:36:30.820 They go, all we have here is a sword of Goliath, which is a giant sword, right?

00:36:35.080 So anyway, he gets all that.

00:36:36.260 He bounces.

00:36:36.940 He goes to Ashish in Gath, right?

00:36:39.860 And the servants of Ashish said unto him to the king, isn't this David, the king of the land?

00:36:45.300 Did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying Saul has slain his thousands and David his ten thousands?

00:36:51.600 Hey, king, isn't this the guy that killed thousands of our people?

00:36:55.640 And David laid up these words in his heart.

00:36:58.860 Dude, this is like a thing I talk to kids in the coffee shop about all the time.

00:37:02.480 You have to observe your surroundings.

00:37:04.440 Like, you can't just be told what to do all the time, right?

00:37:08.300 Like, if you're somebody that has to be told what to do at your job all the time, you're going to do bad at life.

00:37:13.240 Like, you have to observe your surroundings.

00:37:14.780 If you call me and say, where are the straws at?

00:37:16.800 Because, like, I need to restock the straws.

00:37:19.000 Not only does that tell me that you've never restocked the straws and you've worked here for a year, it means you don't even know where they're at.

00:37:24.460 It's a very small coffee shop.

00:37:25.860 You haven't opened every cupboard in all of your hours of working here and just know where everything's at just to be familiar with your surroundings.

00:37:32.980 I'm always in shock by that.

00:37:34.820 Like, I'm not knocking anybody for that.

00:37:36.280 I think it's a generational thing, maybe.

00:37:37.840 I don't know.

00:37:38.420 Maybe the younger generation always was told what to do.

00:37:41.240 And so they've just developed this mindset of not being able to observe their surroundings and make decisions based on the surroundings.

00:37:48.000 They're waiting for someone to tell them what to do.

00:37:51.560 But, like, you can't do that.

00:37:53.200 Like, there's no—I don't think I've ever been in a job where somebody was like, I'm going to give you this leadership role.

00:37:57.160 I think I've only ever been in jobs where, like, I kept observing what was going on, doing the next thing, the next thing, the next thing.

00:38:03.140 And then it was like, yeah, dude, you're the guy for that role because you're already doing it, right?

00:38:06.680 I just think that's how life goes.

00:38:08.140 But, like, look how critical it is with David, dude.

00:38:10.420 He observed—like, he's doing his thing, and he observes them saying this.

00:38:14.200 He says, bro, I need to make—I need to make something happen here.

00:38:17.080 Like, I need to adjust accordingly.

00:38:19.180 They say, isn't this David, king of the land?

00:38:22.280 David laid up these words in his heart.

00:38:24.180 He was observing.

00:38:24.920 He was keen, right?

00:38:25.840 And he was sore afraid of Ashish, the king of Gath, and he changed his behavior before them and feigned himself mad in their hands and scrabbled on the doors of the gate and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.

00:38:39.420 Bro, so he's, like, at the gate, and he's, like, going like this, and he's, like, drooling.

00:38:43.760 He's letting all his spit and drool just drool down his beard and just all over.

00:38:46.960 He's going—he's, like, he's acting crazy.

00:38:50.700 Then said Ashish unto his servants, lo, you see, the man is mad.

00:38:53.920 Wherefore, then, have you brought him to me?

00:38:55.260 I have—have I need a madman that you brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence?

00:39:01.040 Shall this fellow come into my house?

00:39:04.720 So, dude, this is an incredible ability to respond to a situation, dude, that David was able to observe that and do that.

00:39:13.620 I have another really stupid story.

00:39:16.680 Here we go.

00:39:17.500 This story is so stupid, bro.

00:39:19.080 So, when I was in rehab, one of the chicks there that was, like, a counselor, looking back, dude, she had to be a witch.

00:39:26.880 She had to be something—she was something crazy.

00:39:30.380 Anyway, she had us all do tarot cards, right?

00:39:32.240 Like, we had this group of 10 people.

00:39:35.940 And you put—they were animal cards, bro.

00:39:38.040 Like, you pull an animal, and then it, like, tells you these things, right?

00:39:43.180 And, uh—

00:39:45.180 You pulled a gator?

00:39:46.380 No.

00:39:48.520 I pulled a mountain lion.

00:39:49.720 But hold on.

00:39:50.520 Hold on.

00:39:51.120 Hold on.

00:39:51.900 So, like, as it went around the room, I was in shock, bro.

00:39:55.540 Like, I didn't know the Lord, right?

00:39:57.320 And I was definitely involved in the occult, not knowing it for, like, a long time and very drawn to the occult.

00:40:03.000 And, dude, as it went around this room, like, all 10 people nailed it.

00:40:09.420 Like, nailed it, dude.

00:40:10.600 Whatever card they pulled, and then they—she described what that animal was like on the card.

00:40:15.220 It was, like, a perfect description of that person.

00:40:19.000 And I was like, yo, this is crazy, bro.

00:40:21.180 So, when it got to me, it was a mountain lion.

00:40:23.040 And I don't remember all the stuff, but I remember the last word of it.

00:40:26.660 It said, responsibility is the ability to respond to any situation.

00:40:30.960 That's what it said.

00:40:32.400 And so, that's why, like, when I got older and then I did know the Lord and my kids want to watch Disney movies and stuff, I'm not like, oh, no, no, this is just fairy tales and funny—I'm like, yo, yo, yo, I don't know how, but this stuff's real.

00:40:44.840 This stuff's true.

00:40:45.460 Like, they're—like, the way the witches and stuff do this, the sorcery with the witchcraft, whatever, like, there's accuracy in it.

00:40:53.180 Like, you've got to be aware of that.

00:40:54.980 It's not playtime.

00:40:55.760 It's not jokes.

00:40:56.560 It's not just silly when the witch is, like, doing the cauldron with the rat tail and the bat wing in it and the stuff.

00:41:02.660 Like, yo, don't let—don't subject your kids to that.

00:41:04.900 And if they are subjected to it, just explain to them, hey, hey, this is wicked and evil.

00:41:09.160 This isn't cool.

00:41:10.340 Do you see what I'm saying?

00:41:11.700 Anyway, I just say that to say, like, that was an interesting quote, was the responsibility is the ability to respond to any situation.

00:41:18.360 Look at David, dude.

00:41:19.340 Look at his ability to respond to that.

00:41:21.220 And he gets out of it.

00:41:22.500 Okay, but my point is Psalm 34 is written in that state.

00:41:27.520 That's what—that's how it opens up.

00:41:28.540 It says, a psalm of David when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, dude.

00:41:31.760 Like, that's where he's at when he's writing this psalm.

00:41:34.580 He says this.

00:41:35.140 He says,

00:41:35.440 I'll bless the Lord at all times.

00:41:37.400 His praise shall continually be in my mouth, not just during praise and worship when the fog machine's gone.

00:41:42.380 It'll always be there.

00:41:44.040 My soul shall make her boast in the Lord.

00:41:46.560 The humble shall hear thereof and be glad.

00:41:48.640 Oh, magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together.

00:41:52.340 I sought the Lord and he heard me.

00:41:55.660 That's real, dude.

00:41:56.640 That's, like, so heavy of a thing, dude.

00:41:58.840 If you're just going to God with, like, this list because you're supposed to pray, I don't know.

00:42:03.800 That's so sad to me.

00:42:05.100 It's like, dude, you can seek the Lord and he hears you, the creator of the universe.

00:42:10.380 You're going back and forth with him.

00:42:14.140 I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears.

00:42:17.340 They looked unto him and were lightened and their faces were not ashamed.

00:42:20.800 This poor man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his troubles.

00:42:24.260 The angel of the Lord encamps round about them that fear him and delivers them.

00:42:30.080 Dude, the fight's fixed.

00:42:31.680 Like, I don't think a lot of people understand the fight's fixed.

00:42:34.800 The angel of the Lord encamps round about them that fear him and deliver them.

00:42:39.720 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good.

00:42:42.500 Blessed is the man that trusts in him.

00:42:45.780 Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for there is no want to them that fear him.

00:42:51.000 The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing, right?

00:42:59.140 Like, we've read it before in Matthew 6.

00:43:00.920 It's also in the Sermon on the Mount.

00:43:03.120 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these other things will be added unto you.

00:43:07.220 That's what that's saying.

00:43:07.940 They that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

00:43:11.060 Come, you children, hearken unto me.

00:43:12.520 I'll teach you the fear of the Lord.

00:43:14.300 So this is David, like, telling people, yo, I'll teach you how to live like this.

00:43:17.960 What man is he that desires life and loves many days that he may see good?

00:43:24.180 Here's the answer.

00:43:25.120 Here's the solution.

00:43:26.300 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking guile or hypocrisy.

00:43:30.580 Depart from evil and do good.

00:43:32.760 Seek peace and pursue it.

00:43:35.820 It was a long-winded way to get to this, but this is his counsel, even in that state, even when he's acting like a madman.

00:43:44.200 He says, this is my counsel, man, in the craziest state.

00:43:47.420 I'm pretending that I'm drooling all over myself and scrabbling on the wall.

00:43:51.100 Even in that state, I got to tell you, man, seek peace and pursue it.

00:43:55.200 The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

00:43:59.400 That's so wild.

00:44:00.660 The face of the Lord is against them that do evil to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

00:44:05.340 The righteous cry, and the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.

00:44:09.160 The Lord is close unto them that are of a broken heart, and saves such as be of a contrite spirit.

00:44:15.160 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers them out of them all.

00:44:19.480 He keeps all his bones.

00:44:20.720 Not one of them is broken.

00:44:22.460 Of course, we know that's a prophecy.

00:44:24.140 Yeah.

00:44:24.800 Jesus didn't have a bone broken on the cross.

00:44:26.920 Evil shall slay the wicked, and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

00:44:31.320 The Lord redeems the soul of his servants, and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

00:44:36.240 That's a picture of peace.

00:44:37.600 None of them will be desolate.

00:44:38.640 So why did he write this psalm there?

00:44:42.960 Like, what's the point of that?

00:44:45.020 He wrote this in capture because he's saying he's supposed to be acting crazy, but he's telling them these truths?

00:44:51.580 No, I think he's writing this in private.

00:44:53.720 I don't think he's playing the madman in front of the public.

00:44:57.820 I'm just making the point that's how desperate his life had become.

00:45:00.980 Like, for us, we read it like a fairy tale.

00:45:02.380 Imagine your life has become so desperate.

00:45:05.460 You're not doing this to get a raise at your job.

00:45:07.320 You're not doing this to be popular on the gram.

00:45:09.520 You're doing this so you don't get killed.

00:45:11.540 So you don't get murdered in the street.

00:45:13.120 Like, you're about to get killed.

00:45:15.860 At any moment, they're going to come out and hang you or stab you through your heart, whatever they're going to do.

00:45:21.080 You're that desperate.

00:45:22.260 You have to pretend like you've turned into a madman.

00:45:24.780 Even in that state, he's so desperate.

00:45:27.180 He writes this.

00:45:28.280 To me, that's just so big of a deal.

00:45:29.940 And he's talking about peace in it.

00:45:32.160 He's really talking about peace.

00:45:34.640 Pursuing peace.

00:45:36.040 That's just wild to me, man.

00:45:37.640 It's just, he's talking about seeking peace.

00:45:40.460 I just think we don't have any excuses.

00:45:42.160 I just like these passages where I read them and I'm like, God, I don't have any problems.

00:45:46.460 Like, I don't, whatever, like whatever thing that I've been thinking is making my life hard or tough right now, it's not that hard.

00:45:52.260 Like, this dude's having to pretend that he's lost his mind just so he doesn't die.

00:45:56.720 And in that state, he's able to write that and he's able to pursue peace.

00:46:01.960 All right, we're moving on.

00:46:04.560 We're just painting a picture about peace right now.

00:46:09.120 Now we're in Colossians 3, 1 through 15.

00:46:12.640 A couple more big passages.

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00:46:51.120 I love this.

00:46:51.700 Oh, you want to read it?

00:46:53.040 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

00:46:57.960 Yeah.

00:46:58.660 Yeah, man.

00:46:59.140 That's your focus now.

00:47:02.280 Seek those things which are above.

00:47:03.980 Seek heavenly things.

00:47:05.840 Oh, I know the earthly things are cool.

00:47:07.340 Your favorite ball team won.

00:47:08.660 You got a new truck.

00:47:09.860 You got a big house.

00:47:10.820 That's awesome.

00:47:11.520 But let's start seeking those things that are above, that are eternal.

00:47:14.700 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

00:47:19.860 It's a big one.

00:47:21.720 Why?

00:47:22.080 Because you are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.

00:47:26.540 I seen a guy explain it like he took a card like this, put it in an envelope, close it up.

00:47:31.600 He said, your life is hid with Christ.

00:47:33.540 And he put it in his Bible and closed it and said, in God.

00:47:35.900 Like, that's how secure your life is.

00:47:42.140 You are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.

00:47:44.740 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with him in glory.

00:47:49.280 This is so heavy that it would need a whole, like, episode to break down, which we're not doing.

00:47:53.460 We're buzzing through it to make a key point.

00:47:56.640 Mortified, therefore, your members, which are upon the earth.

00:48:00.380 What are those things within our body?

00:48:03.300 Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness.

00:48:08.100 I think I butchered that word.

00:48:08.980 I'm glad I didn't read that.

00:48:09.900 Which is idolatry.

00:48:11.460 I wish you would have.

00:48:13.260 For which things sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

00:48:17.460 In the which you also walked sometime when you lived in them in the past.

00:48:22.020 You don't do it anymore.

00:48:22.940 But now you also put off all these.

00:48:26.640 Anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

00:48:30.360 Talking about the born-again life now, right?

00:48:33.380 Verse 9.

00:48:34.360 Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have

00:48:39.700 put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.

00:48:45.080 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond

00:48:52.960 nor free, but Christ is all and in all.

00:48:57.540 Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness

00:49:02.880 of mind, meekness, long-suffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another.

00:49:08.480 If any man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you, so also do you.

00:49:18.820 Remember that was like that parable we read last week, where it was like, the master forgave

00:49:22.520 the servant for so much, and then the servant went and choked the other guy that owed him

00:49:26.180 way less?

00:49:27.380 He's saying, no, no, no.

00:49:28.100 In the same way you were forgiven, forgive others.

00:49:31.700 And above all these things, put on love, says Charity in the King James.

00:49:35.360 Put on love, which is the bond of perfectness or maturity, and let the peace of God rule

00:49:42.080 in your hearts.

00:49:42.940 That's what we're talking about, the peace of God.

00:49:44.720 We went a long way to get to that.

00:49:47.460 Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body,

00:49:54.180 and be thankful.

00:49:55.780 So according to verse 14, love binds us together and makes it possible for the peace of God to

00:50:01.300 rule in our hearts.

00:50:02.060 So in the same way we say there's no peace without grace, there's no peace without love.

00:50:07.420 And as long as we're talking about this whole context of the Sermon on the Mount, that it's

00:50:10.700 the culture of our kingdom, it's like every nation has a culture.

00:50:14.360 Our nation, our kingdom has a culture too.

00:50:17.040 That culture is love, right?

00:50:19.020 So none of the other stuff happens without love.

00:50:22.400 Let's look at Philippians 4, 6, and 7.

00:50:24.520 Before you move on, I just think on verse 3, isn't it interesting where he's talking about

00:50:29.060 that your life should be hid with Christ in God?

00:50:32.280 Like we were touching on the aspect of hiding, right?

00:50:35.320 I don't know.

00:50:35.840 There might be something there.

00:50:36.820 It's just an interesting observation.

00:50:39.760 What?

00:50:40.020 You want to say it?

00:50:40.780 I don't know.

00:50:41.400 I don't know.

00:50:42.020 I just, I think there is something about when the Bible is describing to hide, you can hide

00:50:49.100 many places.

00:50:50.520 Apparently you can hide with God.

00:50:52.180 I think what you're saying is there's a big difference between hiding from God and hiding

00:50:59.100 with God, is how it's worded there.

00:51:01.400 You are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.

00:51:05.520 Hidden from what?

00:51:06.920 Hidden from everything?

00:51:08.140 Yeah, man.

00:51:08.800 It's just like, yeah, there's just like, oh, this whole world's going on and the Epstein

00:51:12.020 and the Republicans and the Democrats and Elon did this and Bitcoin did that.

00:51:15.760 It's like, yo, I'm hidden with Christ in God.

00:51:18.220 Like whatever.

00:51:18.980 That's all cool.

00:51:19.700 Well, like I'm not influenced by those things.

00:51:23.520 My job is to influence those in my little sphere, not, not on a national or worldwide

00:51:28.260 scale.

00:51:29.100 I don't think humans were ever designed to like be involved in that many different situations

00:51:35.360 all the time.

00:51:36.280 Like how many people were stressed over Russia, Ukraine, if they led 200 years ago, they would

00:51:40.840 have never even known Russia was at war with Ukraine.

00:51:42.720 You know what I'm saying?

00:51:43.180 It's just this thing where you can just like get so much going into you that you're allowing

00:51:46.900 from the outside where it's like, yeah, just be hidden with Christ in God, man.

00:51:51.760 You know what I'm saying?

00:51:53.020 And then live that life in the little sphere that you live in.

00:51:57.600 All right.

00:51:58.100 Philippians four, six, and seven says this, be careful for nothing.

00:52:02.960 It's almost saying like live a little recklessly in God.

00:52:05.400 I like that.

00:52:06.160 Be careful for nothing.

00:52:07.260 Let's be a little reckless in our relationship with God.

00:52:11.060 But in like, don't be afraid, like let it rip, let it rip, man.

00:52:14.300 You love the Lord.

00:52:15.120 You know, the Lord get out there and let it rip.

00:52:17.760 Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,

00:52:22.120 let your requests be made known unto God.

00:52:25.320 So primarily he's saying, come to him with whatever your needs are, whatever your requests

00:52:30.120 are, and don't like come to him and you can, you can be bold before him.

00:52:34.580 You can be strong and open before him.

00:52:37.460 Will it happen then in the peace of God, which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts

00:52:42.640 and minds through Christ Jesus.

00:52:44.140 I just feel like that needs to be said because this is a lot of passages.

00:52:49.420 This is a lot of talking, trying to explain what peace is.

00:52:54.300 And Paul's saying, bro, it's kind of like past understanding to be totally honest.

00:52:59.260 Like we could try to use words.

00:53:01.140 Kind of like what I was saying, like when I was listening to the music at the church

00:53:04.940 and then just like being so moot, it's almost like you're confused.

00:53:10.360 It's almost like it's this peace is past all understanding.

00:53:14.320 You're almost like, how did I get here?

00:53:16.960 How did it get like this?

00:53:18.780 Like, like, how did it go from that to this?

00:53:21.560 Like, what is this story?

00:53:23.180 Like, how did the Lord just grab me like that?

00:53:25.700 Like, how did, like, how did, how did any of this happen?

00:53:27.640 It's a peace that's without understanding.

00:53:29.440 Like, you're good.

00:53:30.300 It's like, you can't really explain it.

00:53:31.940 You can try to the woman with the issue of blood.

00:53:34.120 We talk about all these passages, but there's this thing, man.

00:53:37.320 It's a peace that passes all understanding.

00:53:39.400 You may not ever be able to explain it to someone.

00:53:42.740 And so I just want to make that point really to say, like, we're doing all this stuff to

00:53:46.900 explain a word that actually is beyond understanding.

00:53:50.020 Isn't that a wild thing?

00:53:51.860 Isn't that a wild statement?

00:53:53.020 Maybe we should ask a monk about it.

00:53:54.620 Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving,

00:53:58.900 let your requests be made known unto God.

00:54:00.600 And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ

00:54:05.840 Jesus.

00:54:08.120 Isn't that wild?

00:54:09.900 I don't know.

00:54:10.580 That's just a wild passage to me.

00:54:12.400 All right.

00:54:12.720 So now we got to talk about what can stop peace.

00:54:15.980 All right.

00:54:16.600 Let's look at Luke 12, 49 through 53.

00:54:22.380 What can stop peace?

00:54:24.780 I am come to send fire on the earth.

00:54:26.580 And what will I, if it be already killed?

00:54:29.440 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:54:30.980 Who's speaking?

00:54:32.260 This is Jesus speaking.

00:54:33.100 This is Jesus speaking.

00:54:34.640 Wait a minute.

00:54:35.760 What's he say?

00:54:37.000 And what will I, if it be already kindled?

00:54:39.740 No, what's he say when he opens up?

00:54:41.540 Like, what's that first thing he says?

00:54:42.580 I have come to send fire on the earth.

00:54:45.700 Bro, what?

00:54:46.940 Yeah.

00:54:47.620 Okay.

00:54:48.160 Okay, let's go.

00:54:50.980 But I have a baptism to be baptized with.

00:54:53.720 And how, and how am I straightened till it be accomplished?

00:54:58.040 What do you mean?

00:54:59.280 Oh, let's unpack it.

00:55:00.220 Suppose you that I'm come to give peace on earth.

00:55:02.640 This is what I'm getting at.

00:55:04.920 Remember, this is the Prince of Peace.

00:55:06.740 This is the God of peace.

00:55:08.360 Blessed are the peacemakers.

00:55:09.740 This is the culture of our kingdom.

00:55:11.540 How could he say this then?

00:55:13.060 How does this make any sense?

00:55:14.180 Suppose you that I'm come to give peace on the earth?

00:55:16.240 I tell you no, but rather division.

00:55:21.380 For from henceforth, there shall be five and one house divided, three against two and two

00:55:26.720 against three in the same household.

00:55:29.820 The father shall be divided against the son and the son against the father, the mother

00:55:33.580 against the daughter and the daughter against the mother, the mother-in-law against her

00:55:36.800 daughter-in-law and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

00:55:39.120 That's interesting scripture right here.

00:55:41.220 So the house divided, three against two, that's a, what do they say, like a third?

00:55:48.120 That's not a third, is it?

00:55:49.280 I'm not doing this with you right now.

00:55:50.460 We're doing this.

00:55:50.920 We're doing this stuff.

00:55:51.880 Right.

00:55:52.100 But it's just saying that there's going to, he's bringing division.

00:55:56.100 He's bringing division and he's bringing fire.

00:55:58.980 Right.

00:56:02.300 And so he uses two different illustrations to say the same thing.

00:56:06.680 If we look at Matthew 10, 34, he's going to use another illustration to say the same

00:56:11.980 thing.

00:56:12.340 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth.

00:56:16.040 I came not to send peace, but a sword.

00:56:18.560 Okay.

00:56:18.840 So first time he says, I didn't come to bring peace, but fire.

00:56:22.800 It's going to bring division.

00:56:24.300 Now he's saying, I didn't come to bring peace, but a sword.

00:56:28.860 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father and the daughter against her mother

00:56:35.020 and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

00:56:37.620 So he's here to divide.

00:56:39.200 A man's foes shall be that of his own household.

00:56:43.120 He's going to unpack this a little more now.

00:56:45.380 Maybe, maybe with some motive here.

00:56:47.440 Are we talking about like, who's, let's continue.

00:56:50.300 He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.

00:56:54.340 So here's where this division is coming in.

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00:57:28.000 He's unpacking a little more here.

00:57:29.440 And he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

00:57:35.620 I love this passage because me and Jess used to argue about it when I was very new to walking with God.

00:57:42.360 And she was very new or trying to get there.

00:57:44.840 And I remember her being like, no, I'm never going to love God more than I love my kids.

00:57:48.500 I love my kids more than anything in the world.

00:57:50.160 And then I don't remember exactly how it went down, but we argued about it.

00:57:56.240 I probably said really mean things.

00:57:58.080 But then I remember a day where she said, hey, like, like out of the blue.

00:58:04.100 Hey, remember when we argued about that?

00:58:06.200 Like, I used to love the kids this much.

00:58:09.520 Well, let me make sure it makes sense on the screen.

00:58:11.880 I used to love the kids this much.

00:58:13.120 And I loved God this much.

00:58:16.440 But now I love God this much.

00:58:18.820 I love him more than the kids.

00:58:20.400 But now I'm able to love the kids this much.

00:58:23.300 Does that make sense?

00:58:24.580 I'm able to love the kids more.

00:58:26.680 I love God more than I love my kids.

00:58:28.700 But that level that I was able to love them at before has increased so much now that God is the priority of my life.

00:58:35.580 Now that he's number one in my life.

00:58:37.320 You see what I'm saying?

00:58:38.120 She couldn't come to terms with like loving God more than her kids.

00:58:41.900 And then one day it happened.

00:58:43.980 Like, you know what I'm saying?

00:58:45.360 Like one day it happened.

00:58:46.320 She didn't learn it in seminary school.

00:58:47.880 It wasn't doctrine or theology.

00:58:49.680 She got taught in a class or at a Sunday morning.

00:58:52.380 It happened in her life.

00:58:54.440 And she said, okay, now I understand this.

00:58:57.420 I could I love the kids more than God.

00:58:59.920 Once I loved God more than the kids.

00:59:01.880 Now I was able to love the kids so much more than I ever could before.

00:59:06.840 Not to take a sidebar.

00:59:07.960 And he that takes not, she says, he that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.

00:59:13.200 And he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

00:59:16.440 And he that takes not his cross and follows after me is not worthy of me.

00:59:20.760 He that finds his life shall lose it.

00:59:22.780 And he that loses his life for my sake shall find it.

00:59:26.380 So ultimately what I think all of this is saying, this is just one man's take on it,

00:59:31.960 is that there's things that he's not compatible with.

00:59:34.940 You have to make him first.

00:59:36.980 You can't love, the household is divided because some people love Christ more than anything else in the universe.

00:59:43.480 And some people don't.

00:59:45.140 And now the house is divided.

00:59:46.600 And he uses two different explanations of like how he's going to do this, right?

00:59:51.160 Fire and a sword.

00:59:52.400 So some things, probably some people know this experience, some things he burns out of you.

00:59:58.180 Other things he cuts out of you.

01:00:00.260 And he cuts things out of you, but he cuts things away from you too.

01:00:03.600 Like there's things he cuts out of you.

01:00:05.340 But there's some of these relationships right here, like is what he's talking about.

01:00:08.700 He's talking about internals and externals.

01:00:10.880 Because that's what he goes into in the Matthew thing is like,

01:00:13.120 if you don't take your cross and follow me, you're not worthy of me.

01:00:17.540 You have to lose your life for my sake to actually find it.

01:00:20.540 There's internals, right?

01:00:21.680 But there's externals too.

01:00:22.840 There's family he's cutting away.

01:00:24.480 There's relationships he's cutting away.

01:00:26.400 There's people he's cutting away.

01:00:28.260 This is how he does things, dude.

01:00:29.920 Like I remember a dude from the gym.

01:00:32.500 This dude, Vince, he was like a jacked guy too.

01:00:35.720 And I used to talk to him about GHB and Coke and storing Oxycontins and like just partying and stuff.

01:00:40.340 And then I got converted and I don't know how much longer.

01:00:45.700 I don't know how much longer because a lot of that happened quick, but it happened over a long period too.

01:00:50.700 I just remember one time he texted me.

01:00:52.060 He's like, yo, I got some H if you're interested.

01:00:54.120 And I remember being like so offended when I read it.

01:00:57.720 Like what's wrong with this guy, dude?

01:00:59.820 Why would he think I want heroin?

01:01:01.760 Well, like why would this guy think that dude?

01:01:03.800 Like I'm a Christian and I just remember like how crazy that was.

01:01:09.840 It took me a second.

01:01:10.620 I was like, oh yeah, because like a month ago you were in the gym talking to him about GHB and Oxycontins.

01:01:16.940 You see what I'm saying?

01:01:18.700 Like the Lord starts cutting away people from you, if that makes sense, right?

01:01:24.080 And like you have to allow him to do this.

01:01:25.940 I'm not a big believer in like the thing that you're struggling with saying, I got to stop.

01:01:30.160 I got to stop.

01:01:30.800 I got to stop.

01:01:31.400 I'm a big believer on getting close to God and let him deal with it.

01:01:35.220 He's going to burn out of you these things that are incompatible with him to make peace.

01:01:39.400 There's things that he won't make peace with in your life.

01:01:42.400 He didn't come to make peace with those things that he's incompatible with.

01:01:45.620 He came to burn those things up and cut those things out so that he can make peace with you.

01:01:51.460 Do you see what I'm saying?

01:01:52.260 And he won't make peace with those things he's incompatible with.

01:01:54.940 There was a girl that worked here before.

01:01:56.300 I remember she said, she said, Matt, like a couple months ago, I started reading my Bible way more.

01:02:01.400 Like just from working with you and talking to you and stuff.

01:02:03.780 And you said something one day to another chick that came in that I never heard anybody say it like that.

01:02:09.480 And I was like, well, what was it?

01:02:10.620 And she goes, this chick was talking about how like she really wanted to be a Christian and she was raised as a Christian.

01:02:18.920 And she was doing the best she could to be a good Christian, but she really loves smoking weed.

01:02:23.100 And she goes, Matt, I'll never forget what you said.

01:02:26.380 I never heard it like that.

01:02:28.020 I said, what did I say?

01:02:29.040 She goes, you told her smoke it up.

01:02:31.980 You told her smoke it up.

01:02:33.660 You told her that her issue wasn't smoking weed.

01:02:36.140 Her issue was proximity to God.

01:02:38.380 And so whatever that thing is that you're doing, do it.

01:02:42.120 But go hard with all your heart after God.

01:02:44.920 Let him burn it out of you and let him cut it out of you.

01:02:47.980 And I said, yeah, I think I remember that conversation.

01:02:51.640 But even if I don't, that sounds like something I'd say because I know that experience, if that makes sense.

01:02:58.000 Yeah, there's a I think I want to say something about that scripture specifically, because that was like a I think that's the impotence of my first falling away from the church when I was really young.

01:03:09.280 I think a bad preaching led people in my family to cut off themselves from other family, which in where I grew up, like the houses were connected.

01:03:22.560 So I lived in one house and then like, you know, like townhouses this way and this way were my aunt and uncle.

01:03:27.860 Yeah.

01:03:28.600 Not Christians.

01:03:29.640 My family was a Christian and starting their walk and like getting hardcore with it, you know, and then it turned into that where it's like, you know, we have to cut these things off.

01:03:43.000 Like after, I guess, I don't know, like Jehovah's Witness would do that.

01:03:45.240 They'll preach the end and they'll cut it off if it's not going around.

01:03:48.240 But at the time I was like, hey, that's still family.

01:03:52.180 Like, I don't I don't think we do that.

01:03:54.280 And it was a big mistake.

01:03:55.500 And for me, like it was a reason I was given a choice like a few years later, like, do you want to still go to church or not?

01:04:00.320 And I said, no, I don't want to go to church.

01:04:01.920 And that's the reason, because for me, the family was the most important thing.

01:04:05.880 I don't know if it was like above God, but it's tough, dude.

01:04:08.000 These are these it's tough.

01:04:09.240 It's tough because there's also like, yeah, there's things he's got to cut away from you.

01:04:13.680 But that doesn't mean all things.

01:04:15.760 So it's just are you influencing the family or is the family influencing you?

01:04:20.040 I don't know what they were doing.

01:04:21.600 I don't know if they were involved in anything crazy.

01:04:23.340 No, nothing crazy.

01:04:24.320 Just Spanish activities, regular.

01:04:26.140 I mean, just dominoes and stuff.

01:04:28.520 Yeah, things like that.

01:04:30.160 But I think it was like a more legalistic approach where we have to like separate ourselves.

01:04:36.980 The American 501c3 system is kind of big on that.

01:04:40.180 And because there's like this is the problem.

01:04:42.220 There's some biblical truth in that.

01:04:43.700 Like I had to be cut off from old friends, old acquaintances, old dudes texting me if I want to get age from them.

01:04:50.860 I mean, there is an element of that.

01:04:52.300 If there wasn't an element of that.

01:04:54.320 No, it was just regular family stuff.

01:04:56.080 And and I mean, you know, I've spoken about it with with my family and they were like, they say that that was a mistake.

01:05:02.920 They also say it never happened.

01:05:04.520 But I'm kind of like, man, you know, like, I don't know, like we have to be real careful with that.

01:05:09.500 I think the big thing for if people are going through that is maybe take a break, not cut them off, but maybe regroup.

01:05:15.460 Right.

01:05:15.700 Like, this has always been my relationship to this person.

01:05:18.500 There is girls here that used to smoke a lot of weed together and then they stopped being friends because they knew that the other one was making them a weed smoker.

01:05:28.060 They both totally separate, started reading their Bible and going to church.

01:05:33.160 And then one of them was talking to me like, yo, how do you think I should handle this with her?

01:05:37.200 I was like, well, I think it's different now.

01:05:38.820 I think it's different.

01:05:39.460 I think you guys have backed off that relationship, that friendship.

01:05:43.340 You've both regrouped.

01:05:44.720 You enter it different now.

01:05:46.400 Like it's like it's a different thing now.

01:05:48.480 You know what I mean?

01:05:49.280 So I think there's that, too, is like some things have to just be cut out.

01:05:53.400 Right.

01:05:53.960 Some relationships, especially family, can't really be cut out.

01:05:58.060 It doesn't.

01:05:58.560 That's just how the universe works.

01:05:59.840 That's a tough one.

01:06:00.960 Right.

01:06:01.260 But you can step back and regroup and approach it different the next time.

01:06:05.220 Yeah, I think that's what and that's what ultimately happened.

01:06:10.320 OK, we're rolling.

01:06:11.660 We're rolling now.

01:06:12.400 We're talking about the children of God, right?

01:06:15.780 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

01:06:19.040 So let's look at this.

01:06:19.820 Let's unpack children of God.

01:06:23.140 Really, I feel like these passages are just an excuse to cover tons of Bible passages, right?

01:06:27.560 To just go on like a choose your own adventure style book and just check a ton of passages.

01:06:32.600 Galatians 3, 24 through 27.

01:06:35.000 Let's look at that.

01:06:37.680 Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

01:06:44.500 But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

01:06:47.800 Is he talking about the law?

01:06:49.620 Yeah.

01:06:49.980 Yeah.

01:06:50.200 He says, but before faith came, we were kept under the law.

01:06:52.840 So we were kept under the law before faith came.

01:06:57.940 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith.

01:07:02.620 So it was almost like he says it's like a schoolmaster, right?

01:07:06.360 It's like tutoring us and keeping us unto the faith, to bring us unto the faith, which should afterwards be revealed.

01:07:14.180 Wherefore, the law was our schoolmaster, why?

01:07:18.780 To bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

01:07:23.060 But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

01:07:27.260 Why?

01:07:28.080 The next word is for, which means because.

01:07:30.300 Because you are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

01:07:34.520 That's what we're getting at.

01:07:35.440 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.

01:07:42.880 Isn't that wild?

01:07:44.680 As I'm saying, like, just think about it before you get baptized.

01:07:47.080 That's all I'm saying.

01:07:47.860 Especially the young guys like, you don't want to get baptized.

01:07:50.460 They're going to a popular church.

01:07:52.220 That's really cool.

01:07:53.300 The chicks will think it's cool if you get baptized.

01:07:54.920 No problem.

01:07:55.640 Just think about this before you do it, right?

01:07:58.860 As many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.

01:08:02.100 And some would say that's not water baptism, that's spirit baptism.

01:08:04.460 No problem.

01:08:05.000 No problem.

01:08:05.380 I'm with that.

01:08:06.660 Ultimately, probably exactly what that's talking about.

01:08:10.000 But I just wanted to put it in context of, like, how are we the children of God?

01:08:13.880 You are all the children of God by faith.

01:08:16.840 So it's plain.

01:08:17.820 You're not the children of God by being a peacemaker, right?

01:08:21.280 This is what we were talking about earlier.

01:08:23.040 Like, we don't really interpret the scripture.

01:08:25.540 There's an author.

01:08:26.960 There's an author, right?

01:08:28.080 So, like, if you wrote a book and then I said, well, my interpretation of the book is blah, blah, blah, people would be like, well, why don't you go just talk to the author?

01:08:36.700 Like, why don't you just ask Todd?

01:08:37.620 Like, what do you mean that's your interpretation?

01:08:38.840 There's an author of the word of God, right?

01:08:41.040 It's the Holy Spirit.

01:08:44.580 So, really, the scripture interprets us.

01:08:48.520 And this is what we're doing.

01:08:49.520 We're the children of God by faith.

01:08:52.020 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

01:08:54.880 That's like a mirror that we're just checking ourselves.

01:08:57.180 Am I a peacemaker?

01:08:58.340 Am I meek, right?

01:09:00.700 Do I mourn?

01:09:02.100 Am I poor in spirit, right?

01:09:03.740 We're using the word of God as a mirror to check ourselves.

01:09:07.220 But we are the children of God by faith was the point that I'm getting at.

01:09:11.660 All right, let's look at these are the things we would expect in our life, right, as we live by faith.

01:09:18.240 This is the culture of our kingdom.

01:09:19.820 Let's look at 1 John 3, 10 and 11.

01:09:28.120 In this, the children of God are manifest.

01:09:30.580 Manifest.

01:09:31.080 That's what we're saying.

01:09:32.140 In this, they're manifest.

01:09:33.340 It doesn't make them that.

01:09:34.780 They're manifest.

01:09:36.120 This is another way of saying it.

01:09:37.580 And the children of the devil, whosoever doeth not righteousness, is not of God, neither he that loveth, not his brother.

01:09:45.660 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that ye should love one another.

01:09:50.000 Right.

01:09:50.440 In this, the children of God are manifest.

01:09:52.680 And the children of the devil, whosoever does not righteousness, is not of God.

01:09:56.440 It's not saying that, like, this makes you a child of God.

01:09:59.580 This just manifests it.

01:10:01.460 This just manifests it.

01:10:02.520 This just makes it seeable.

01:10:05.260 This makes it known.

01:10:06.900 This makes it appear.

01:10:08.280 This makes it known openly.

01:10:10.600 Right.

01:10:10.980 That's the point we're making.

01:10:12.400 Faith is what makes us children of God.

01:10:15.340 But in this, the children of God are manifest.

01:10:18.940 This is how they're shown.

01:10:20.860 Right.

01:10:21.380 How is it?

01:10:22.220 This is the difference between the children of God and the children of the devil.

01:10:24.540 Whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.

01:10:29.620 Because ultimately, all of the law, all of the entirety of the Bible, even ultimately, all of the details or the characteristics that are laid out about the character of those in our kingdom, about the culture in our kingdom, comes down to love.

01:10:45.600 Love God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.

01:10:49.400 That's what John's unpacking here.

01:10:51.020 Right.

01:10:51.220 He's saying the children, whosoever does not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loves not his brother.

01:10:58.320 For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

01:11:02.200 All right.

01:11:02.720 Let's go to John, not one John, but the gospel of John 13, 34 and 35.

01:11:08.200 It says this.

01:11:16.160 A new commandment I give unto you.

01:11:18.040 I like this.

01:11:18.620 I want to unpack this.

01:11:19.800 It's a new commandment.

01:11:22.480 A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

01:11:30.700 By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.

01:11:36.820 That's heavy.

01:11:37.820 Not if you have flawless doctrine.

01:11:39.940 Not if, like, you go every Sunday.

01:11:43.160 But as you love one another, that's how people are going to know.

01:11:48.880 By this shall all men know that you are my disciples.

01:11:51.460 In other words, this is how it will be manifest.

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01:12:25.540 We'll keep our finger there and we'll go back to 1 John.

01:12:28.380 Again, 1 John 2.

01:12:31.940 1 John 2, 3 through 11.

01:12:37.960 And hereby we do know that we know him.

01:12:43.240 Hold on, I got this, I got this.

01:12:46.200 Hereby we do know that we know him.

01:12:47.940 If we keep his commandments, right?

01:12:50.700 He's breaking down for us now the culture of the kingdom of God.

01:12:53.760 Do we live according to how he's teaching us?

01:12:58.840 He that saith, I know him and keeps not his commandments is a liar.

01:13:02.680 And the truth is not in him.

01:13:04.680 But who so keeps his word?

01:13:06.660 Who keeps it?

01:13:07.460 Who lives it?

01:13:08.300 Who lives what he's teaching?

01:13:09.760 It'd be wise of us to go through the commandments of Jesus, right?

01:13:12.520 Especially in the Sermon on the Mount.

01:13:14.260 That's really what we're doing.

01:13:15.860 He makes interesting commandments.

01:13:17.060 He says, lay not up treasure on earth, but do lay up treasure in heaven, right?

01:13:21.140 The word of God is vast in all of its teachings to us and how to live.

01:13:25.240 Those who live it, that's right.

01:13:27.800 Those who memorize it and don't live it, that's wrong.

01:13:31.640 He that says, I know him and keep not his commandments is a liar.

01:13:34.440 You're saying, yeah, I'm a Christian.

01:13:35.500 I mean, I don't really live how God commands me to live.

01:13:38.300 But I know him.

01:13:40.960 Then the truth is not in him.

01:13:42.480 But who so keeps his word?

01:13:43.940 In him verily is the love of God perfected.

01:13:46.740 Hereby we know that we are in him.

01:13:48.980 He that says he abides in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.

01:13:54.240 And I would say like at the core of that statement is like, how did Jesus walk?

01:13:58.780 It looks like at the core of his life was, I didn't do anything of myself.

01:14:04.060 I only did what the father showed me.

01:14:06.020 I only did what the father told me.

01:14:08.760 Like that's really, if you had to sum up his life in a sentence, it's really that.

01:14:12.240 That he did what his father wanted him to do, right?

01:14:15.380 And that's this living relationship.

01:14:17.960 And I believe that's what's being alluded to.

01:14:19.820 When it says, he that says he abides in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked in total obedience to God.

01:14:28.700 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment, which you had from the beginning.

01:14:37.640 The old commandment is the word which you have heard from the beginning.

01:14:41.020 Again, a new commandment I write unto you.

01:14:43.020 This is where it gets tricky.

01:14:44.080 This is why I like this.

01:14:45.180 He says, yeah, this is no new commandment.

01:14:47.460 It's an old commandment.

01:14:48.320 But then in verse eight, he says, but it's a new commandment.

01:14:51.300 Yeah, watch this.

01:14:52.520 I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you because the darkness is past and the true light now shines.

01:14:58.060 He that say it, he is in the light and hates his brother is in darkness.

01:15:01.000 Even until now, he that loves his brother abides in the light.

01:15:04.780 And there is no occasion of stumbling in him.

01:15:06.720 But he that hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and knows not where he goes because that darkness has blinded his eyes.

01:15:13.720 So there's this little trickery going on here.

01:15:16.480 There's like it's a new commandment, but it's an old commandment, but it's an old commandment, but it's a new commandment.

01:15:20.740 But it's not a new commandment, but it is a new commandment.

01:15:23.500 You're saying like, what's happening here?

01:15:25.000 It's a reminder.

01:15:25.800 This is how I unpack it, man.

01:15:27.160 If we go back to John.

01:15:27.840 Also, all together, that's 12, huh?

01:15:30.120 What do you mean?

01:15:31.040 12 commandments.

01:15:32.200 If you take, you know, he just gave him two new ones.

01:15:35.140 Yeah, love, which is really one.

01:15:41.060 Right?

01:15:41.540 So I'm just going to read it again in John 13, just real quick.

01:15:43.960 A new commandment I give unto you that you love one another as I have loved you.

01:15:49.440 Okay?

01:15:50.360 Hold on to that.

01:15:51.260 Now we're in John 15, 12 and 13.

01:15:54.260 This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you.

01:16:03.260 So this is where we're going to unpack this.

01:16:05.280 It's an old commandment, but it's a new commandment, but it's not a new commandment, but it's an old commandment.

01:16:11.660 This is my take on this.

01:16:12.900 If you have some different take, that's okay.

01:16:14.820 That's okay.

01:16:15.200 Because I'm not demanding that you see everything my way.

01:16:17.660 Love has always been the commandment.

01:16:20.180 This is to unpack this mystery.

01:16:22.300 This is no new command.

01:16:23.400 The entirety of the law, and even before the law, right?

01:16:43.000 The law had a beginning.

01:16:45.680 The entirety of the Bible is love, right?

01:16:49.220 Love God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.

01:16:54.040 So this is not a new commandment.

01:16:56.860 But why is it a new commandment?

01:16:58.840 Because it is, but it isn't.

01:17:00.920 Here he goes.

01:17:02.000 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

01:17:05.980 Okay.

01:17:06.800 Can you unpack that a little bit for us?

01:17:09.120 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

01:17:13.340 Bro.

01:17:14.300 This is something that, like, I don't know.

01:17:16.700 I don't know that people are ready for.

01:17:18.340 Like, this is the most wild thing.

01:17:21.480 This is the new command.

01:17:22.960 It's not a new command, but this is the command.

01:17:27.540 Be willing to die for others.

01:17:29.120 You say, oh, no, no.

01:17:29.680 That's not saying to die for others.

01:17:31.620 It's saying to, like, lay down your life and live for others.

01:17:34.520 That's probably harder than dying for someone.

01:17:37.340 So I'll take it either way, either way, right?

01:17:40.780 But the bottom line is your life is not your own.

01:17:43.820 You belong to Christ.

01:17:45.440 And now there's this new love that's willing to lay down itself for others.

01:17:50.420 That's the new command.

01:17:51.640 It's not really a new command, but it's kind of a new command, if that makes sense.

01:17:56.060 You say, oh, no, no.

01:17:56.840 This is madness, what you're saying.

01:17:58.540 This isn't found anywhere else in the scriptures.

01:18:01.620 Technically, it is, man.

01:18:02.640 If we look at Ephesians 5, it's going to get some people upset, but we're going to read it anyway.

01:18:09.440 Ephesians 5.

01:18:10.440 Watch this, man.

01:18:11.380 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands.

01:18:14.920 Yeah, so that's usually where, like, the dude is like, I said I wanted my steak medium rare, and you burned it.

01:18:20.020 You're getting the backhand.

01:18:21.160 Go to the store and get me another steak.

01:18:23.500 You got to keep reading.

01:18:25.040 You got to keep reading.

01:18:27.360 This is crazy, dude.

01:18:28.780 This is the wildest.

01:18:29.780 I don't know that people are ready to, like, enter into this either.

01:18:34.220 Like, this is wild.

01:18:35.300 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord.

01:18:40.660 Why?

01:18:41.260 Because the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, and he is the savior of the body.

01:18:49.200 Wow.

01:18:50.400 Therefore, as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

01:18:56.180 Okay, this is where it gets Skechosaurus Rex, man.

01:19:00.940 This is where people, they like that part.

01:19:03.020 The dudes really like that part.

01:19:04.480 This part gets a little rough.

01:19:06.260 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it.

01:19:11.840 That command of, like, wives submitting to the husband is only in context if the dude is willing to die for his wife.

01:19:19.600 That's what we're talking about.

01:19:21.220 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.

01:19:27.880 That's heavy, too.

01:19:28.760 To me, not to go off on a tangent, but, like, it's the man's job to do the Bible study in the home is what I'm unpacking from that.

01:19:36.000 You could say, oh, no, no, that's whatever.

01:19:38.000 That's my take on it.

01:19:39.540 Right?

01:19:39.980 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it.

01:19:43.760 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.

01:19:47.120 That's what Jesus did for the church.

01:19:48.920 And in a way, it applies to us.

01:19:50.840 And I believe that's why men should be leading the Bible study in their home.

01:19:54.660 You know, if your wife does it, that's great.

01:19:56.500 I'm not knocking you.

01:19:57.380 Bible study in the home is great.

01:19:59.260 I think dudes have to step up and, like, take this place.

01:20:02.320 Like, are you really willing to die for your wife if you're not willing to, like, lead the Bible study in the home with, like, the wife and the kids?

01:20:09.100 You don't have to be a genius.

01:20:10.160 You don't have to know all the Greek and Hebrew.

01:20:11.400 You just do Bible study with your family, man.

01:20:13.680 You get these stories in their spirit, especially the little kids.

01:20:17.060 Get these stories in their spirit, man.

01:20:19.740 It's funny that you're talking about that.

01:20:21.720 We're not even there.

01:20:23.080 America's not even get to, like, get the husband to do the Bible study.

01:20:27.060 The husband has abdicated the duty, and that's created, I don't know, you're not online, but there's, like, the man is fear where they're saying, you know, women are this, women are bad because they do this, because they do that.

01:20:38.280 It's an abdication, ultimately, of the duty of the man.

01:20:41.400 And that's why the women have behaved this way.

01:20:43.540 Because they had to fill a role that wasn't getting filled.

01:20:45.560 So now they're in an unnatural state.

01:20:47.780 And, I mean, it's untenable.

01:20:49.780 It's out of hand at this point.

01:20:50.900 Bro, I always thought that.

01:20:52.540 Yeah.

01:20:53.520 Sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off.

01:20:54.560 No, it's fine.

01:20:54.940 It's your show.

01:20:55.500 No, I'm the king of cutting off on podcasts.

01:20:57.440 I don't mean to be like that.

01:20:58.480 It's just like I think a thing and I'm like, blah.

01:21:00.840 Yeah, go ahead.

01:21:01.360 Explain yourself.

01:21:01.840 Okay, no, I just always recognized, like, this was wild that, like, on TV shows, the man was, like, when I was a kid or whenever I used to watch TV, it was, like, this dude, Homer Simpson, right?

01:21:11.960 It was, like, this dude, Al Bundy.

01:21:13.700 It was, like, this dude, King and Queens.

01:21:15.580 And the context was always the man's a doofus.

01:21:20.060 He's a dummy.

01:21:21.820 He can't really do anything without the woman.

01:21:24.820 And I always thought, like, that's weird, man.

01:21:26.940 Like, I wonder what that is.

01:21:28.380 I just observed it even before I knew the Lord.

01:21:30.440 But then the more I read the scripture, I was, like, oh, if Satan can get, like, the man to just be a dum-dum and he's not a king in his house, he's not a king and a priest in his house,

01:21:42.700 and he's not guiding the family, and he's not, like, a strong man, if he can, like, dare I say, brainwash, right, which is so much of what's all in media and social media, dude.

01:21:54.200 It's just so much brainwash, man, just to make people's brains think a certain way.

01:21:59.640 If I can make the dude a wanker, I don't have to attack the whole family.

01:22:03.260 I'll just attack the head.

01:22:04.560 If the husband is the head of the house, I'm not going to waste my time attacking the tail and the leg and the arm.

01:22:10.660 I'll just attack the head.

01:22:12.040 And it's been like that for a long time, which I think is what you're saying.

01:22:15.840 And so it just attacked the man.

01:22:17.280 The man subconsciously begins to think, like, yeah, just be a wanker because the wife does everything.

01:22:21.720 And now there's a vacuum and boom, she's got to fill it.

01:22:24.260 That's a secondary, like, more recent attack.

01:22:26.700 I think the older attack is less sophisticated.

01:22:31.460 I think it just has to do with adultery.

01:22:34.360 So in Spanish households specifically, like my grandfather, what they did and what they do even to this day, if you're, like, old school Spanish household, they go out and they have, like, multiple families.

01:22:46.660 And yeah.

01:22:48.160 Yeah.

01:22:48.920 That's just what they do.

01:22:49.960 The Puerto Rican people?

01:22:51.820 I mean, South American, like Spanish, Hispanic, Latin.

01:22:55.540 That's what it is.

01:22:56.820 So my ex-girlfriend, dad, the same thing.

01:23:00.520 Work.

01:23:00.960 He would work, provide and be like that strong household.

01:23:04.160 So like what Jesus is saying here, he's the head of the household.

01:23:06.860 So he's embodying that, but he's also going out and he is doing wrong by his wife.

01:23:11.960 And Jesus is not going to do that to his church.

01:23:14.600 So like that part, and it's not just Hispanic people.

01:23:17.560 It's, it's all, it's a lot of men that if they're not, if they're not being a cuckold to the wife, which is like inverting this role, this inversion, they're doing this thing where they're, they have their, you know, extramarital affairs.

01:23:30.980 They have their other families, like entire, my grandfather had another family, an entire other family.

01:23:36.100 I got my hands full with one wife.

01:23:37.760 It's crazy.

01:23:38.340 Happy birthday, sweetheart.

01:23:39.240 I love you.

01:23:39.780 But ultimately it's the, it's the man's job to not just fulfill the head.

01:23:43.240 Happy birthday, Jess.

01:23:44.720 She's the best.

01:23:45.660 It's not, not just to fulfill the role of the household, of the, of the man in the household, but you also have to treat your wife like Jesus would treat his church.

01:23:54.560 So there's two things.

01:23:55.720 Bro, that's what this is saying that I don't know.

01:23:59.620 This is one of the most like profound things, dude.

01:24:01.800 Christ is saying the Bible saying right here in Ephesians that every Christian marriage is a prophetic picture of Christ in his church.

01:24:11.280 If we're going to state that bluntly, that's, what's being said here.

01:24:14.620 Every Christian marriage is a picture to the rest of the world who doesn't read a Bible of what the church is supposed to look like.

01:24:22.080 That's staggering, bro.

01:24:23.280 I don't care if you're the talking pastor, singing pastor, deliverance pastor, missions pastor, canned food drive pastor.

01:24:30.420 Doesn't matter.

01:24:31.000 Are you married?

01:24:32.100 Do you have a Christian marriage?

01:24:33.840 Your marriage is a prophetic type to the planet of Christ in his church is what that's saying.

01:24:41.100 And that's staggering.

01:24:42.400 That's staggering.

01:24:44.580 Does my, is my marriage a prophetic picture to the world of Christ in his church?

01:24:49.460 Because that's what it's supposed to look like.

01:24:51.040 Like, yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's possible to do that like every single second, but are we, are you trying, are you trying every minute of the day to have that relationship with your wife?

01:25:03.380 And then with also with God, I think it starts with being aware.

01:25:06.700 Am I even aware that it's supposed to be that?

01:25:09.160 I didn't know that.

01:25:09.920 I never got told that at church.

01:25:11.380 I never got told my marriage is supposed to be a picture of Christ in the church.

01:25:15.820 I never heard such a thing.

01:25:17.400 These scriptures are also dealing with this idea of like, people want to kick against it, right?

01:25:22.720 Like, like the modern female might want to kick against this.

01:25:25.220 But the previous scriptures that we just, that we were just reading where he was, Jesus is talking about, you know, cutting off your father and loving him more.

01:25:33.580 He's not, it's not like he's building a cult.

01:25:35.820 He's just saying de facto, this is how it has to go.

01:25:39.040 This is how this place is built.

01:25:40.560 And this is what you have to do if you want to be successful in it.

01:25:43.700 Here's another method that you want to be successful in a marriage in with other people in a society.

01:25:48.760 That's just a structure.

01:25:50.780 Take it or leave it.

01:25:51.880 Yes.

01:25:52.320 And when you leave it, you live in America.

01:25:54.340 You know, what's funny though, is like there, how many ladies did they interview later in life that were like, yeah, I was the girl boss.

01:26:00.860 And I got CEO vibes and, you know, I crushed the game.

01:26:04.700 And then later in life, they're like, yeah, but really, I didn't know it.

01:26:07.900 But what I really wanted was to be a wife and a mom.

01:26:10.420 And now I can't have kids.

01:26:11.680 That happens, bro.

01:26:12.780 My favorite story.

01:26:13.960 Have you ever heard this story?

01:26:14.900 There's a woman, a New York CEO woman who works her way to the top.

01:26:18.580 She ends up freezing her eggs.

01:26:20.600 And she's like, I'm going to have kids later because I'm going to do my thing.

01:26:24.440 And later on, none of them are viable.

01:26:26.340 And now she's 50 or 45 at the time and just wrecked.

01:26:31.900 I don't know anybody like that.

01:26:33.320 But my cousin has told me tons of stories like that.

01:26:37.340 Yeah.

01:26:37.980 That where it was people, he's like a professional, like badass dude.

01:26:41.740 And he's like, yeah, I know a ton of professionals that just, they came, they went to college.

01:26:46.140 They were brilliant.

01:26:47.280 They came out of college.

01:26:48.220 They started crushing the game.

01:26:49.940 They're making a ton of money.

01:26:51.140 They're moving up the ladder.

01:26:52.660 They're putting off having kids, putting off having kids, putting off having kids.

01:26:56.360 Then when they finally decide to do it, they can't.

01:26:58.700 Yeah.

01:26:58.900 They can't, you know?

01:27:00.060 And I don't know.

01:27:01.020 I think it's just sad.

01:27:01.960 And I think there's a manipulation, you know, with the system and an attack against all of the society.

01:27:08.620 And I think that'd just be sad if you're like a lady and you get old and you're like, damn, I wanted to have like kids and I wanted to be a wife.

01:27:15.240 And really, it didn't matter if I was a lawyer or a doctor.

01:27:17.400 Like I wanted to like do this whole household thing, the way it's been set up by God.

01:27:21.860 That would suck, man.

01:27:23.360 That would suck.

01:27:23.780 But the world lies to us.

01:27:24.960 And that's just the reality of it, man.

01:27:26.420 We have to trust the word of God and trust his guidance.

01:27:29.620 Yeah, man.

01:27:30.180 It's rough, especially modern day.

01:27:32.740 But so many people fall into that trap.

01:27:36.580 And I don't know.

01:27:38.240 How do we get to Romans 8?

01:27:39.640 Can we go to Romans 8?

01:27:40.800 Yeah, we can.

01:27:41.420 Start in verse 1.

01:27:42.680 Let's do it.

01:27:43.280 Put you on here.

01:27:49.120 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Jesus Christ, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

01:27:55.460 Them.

01:27:55.740 Who are them?

01:27:56.500 They them.

01:27:57.340 No, who are they?

01:27:59.500 I don't know.

01:28:02.560 You want me to say it?

01:28:03.740 Yeah.

01:28:04.100 To them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

01:28:11.280 To them, there's no condemnation.

01:28:13.940 Because the law of the spirit of life, now we're introducing another word where the word, another passage where the word law is used, not referring to, there's different laws throughout the scripture, right?

01:28:28.180 This is referred to as the law of the spirit of life.

01:28:31.940 For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus have made me free from the law of sin and death.

01:28:37.680 So he's referencing two different laws.

01:28:39.660 He's referencing two different laws in that verse, right?

01:28:43.120 What laws explain this?

01:28:45.040 Well, the law of the spirit of life would be like what we're in now.

01:28:48.820 And some would argue that like the law of the spirit of life has just always been there, right?

01:28:53.840 Whereas, made me free from the law of sin and death.

01:28:58.200 There was an element of where the law given to Moses was just a guiding tool, but couldn't bring us life, right?

01:29:06.520 And I think wrapped up in the law of Moses was like red light stop sign laws, right?

01:29:12.480 Like you're breaking a law, a police officer is going to enforce a law, like that type of law.

01:29:19.540 But then there's another type of law that we talk about, like the law of gravity.

01:29:23.260 Or I don't know if everybody here believes in gravity.

01:29:25.680 Careful.

01:29:26.340 No, I don't know.

01:29:27.040 I'm serious.

01:29:27.760 I never know what stuff sets people off.

01:29:29.980 I get it.

01:29:30.420 But there's some kind of law of nature where if you go off a high building, you're going to go to the ground and die.

01:29:35.860 If X, then Y.

01:29:37.120 This is what I was just talking about before.

01:29:39.080 Natural laws, whatever you want to call it.

01:29:40.560 The laws of reality.

01:29:41.880 They're not red light stop sign laws.

01:29:43.400 It's just the reality of it, right?

01:29:44.940 Right.

01:29:45.100 So like you didn't, if you jump off a building and die, you don't die because God's mad at you.

01:29:51.300 You die because you broke the law of gravity, right?

01:29:53.980 And so a lot of this stuff that's wrapped up in the law of Moses, like take like the law of the Sabbath.

01:30:01.920 If you don't acknowledge the Sabbath, I don't think that you're like dying or being like destroyed internally because God's mad at you.

01:30:10.760 It's just like the law of gravity, bro.

01:30:12.600 If you don't take a day of rest, you're going to be fried.

01:30:16.260 You're going to be fried.

01:30:17.800 And in Christian living, that's why we would take a day of rest.

01:30:20.860 Obviously, we know the New Testament says let no man judge you according to the Sabbath.

01:30:24.540 So you got people that celebrate it on Saturday, people that celebrate it on Sunday, people that celebrate it Friday at evening.

01:30:30.960 Like let no man judge you according to that.

01:30:32.420 Some men don't celebrate it at all.

01:30:33.860 They celebrate every day the same.

01:30:35.680 To us, we'd say, no, you can't do that.

01:30:37.320 But I don't know, maybe if there's a dude who's retired and doesn't have a job, like he's like, yo, every day, I'm going hard after God every day.

01:30:44.500 I don't have any difference.

01:30:45.560 He doesn't wait till Saturday or Friday evening or Sunday.

01:30:49.280 So there's freedom in Christ.

01:30:50.520 Like there's like let no man judge you according to the Sabbath.

01:30:53.500 But there's some of these laws that are red light stop sign laws.

01:30:56.580 And there's some of these laws that are just natural laws like the law of gravity, right?

01:30:59.760 I don't want to get into too much of that because I didn't know until we started talking about this stuff that it sends people sideways.

01:31:04.680 And I don't want to go sideways with all that.

01:31:06.300 No, they get it.

01:31:07.060 I think they understand what you're talking about.

01:31:08.740 I know, but I don't like causing division over this topic.

01:31:11.940 Just make sure you say that the earth is flat.

01:31:14.140 For what the law could not do and that it was weak through the flesh.

01:31:17.240 So the law of Moses was not weak in itself.

01:31:19.940 It was weak because of us.

01:31:22.380 God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh.

01:31:27.700 So that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us.

01:31:31.920 Who?

01:31:32.320 Who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

01:31:36.300 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit.

01:31:42.940 Because to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

01:31:48.620 Just keep that.

01:31:51.080 Like if you're just going to keep one verse today, keep that one.

01:31:54.760 For it to be carnally minded is death.

01:31:56.480 This is what all these things are talking about.

01:31:57.780 Even in the Colossian letter, when we're talking about set your affections on things above and not on things of the earth.

01:32:02.900 This is what this is saying.

01:32:03.940 The things of the earth, to be minded of the things of the earth is death.

01:32:07.400 It's similar to what this is saying.

01:32:10.320 Set your affections on things above.

01:32:11.760 To be spiritually minded is life and peace.

01:32:14.400 All through the scripture, we're being told to transform our thinking now.

01:32:18.180 Not of the things of the earth, not of the carnal things, not of the fleshly desires, but the eternal things, the spiritual things.

01:32:26.040 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

01:32:30.620 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God.

01:32:33.780 That's heavy.

01:32:35.000 For it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

01:32:38.620 So what if you take a carnal mind and send them to cemetery school and put them in a pulpit?

01:32:43.740 You can end up with educated enemies of God in the pulpit.

01:32:48.400 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it's not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

01:32:54.300 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

01:32:57.020 But you're not in the flesh, but in the spirit.

01:32:59.080 If so, be that the spirit of God dwells in you.

01:33:02.760 We have to define spirit realm.

01:33:05.180 We're not doing that today.

01:33:06.320 If the spirit of God dwells in you.

01:33:09.880 Another staggering, we're not going to get into that, but it's staggering.

01:33:13.520 Now, if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

01:33:17.540 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness.

01:33:23.760 But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you.

01:33:28.560 Wait, what?

01:33:32.300 Okay, hold on.

01:33:33.120 So God comes down to the earth as a man, lets people spit in his face and rip his beard out, whip his back, make him die this bloody, torturous death on the cross.

01:33:41.760 He goes in the ground and he's resurrected.

01:33:44.720 If the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you.

01:33:52.560 Wait, that same force, that same spirit that raised Christ from the dead can live in me.

01:33:59.500 What do you mean my life looks like everybody else's life?

01:34:02.240 Like, what are we talking about?

01:34:04.100 Like, what do you mean?

01:34:04.860 I'm just like some dude, just like everybody else.

01:34:07.600 But when the paper comes around and asks me which religion I am, I check the box that says Christianity.

01:34:11.920 What are you saying?

01:34:13.700 The spirit of him that raised Christ from the dead lives in me.

01:34:18.220 What?

01:34:19.120 If the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwells in you.

01:34:27.900 I never, ever want to just read those passages and say, oh, yeah, I memorized it.

01:34:31.760 I can say it like a parrot on the pirate's shoulder.

01:34:33.800 I never, ever want to do that.

01:34:35.480 I want to, I hope the rest of my life I'm always staggered by that passage, man.

01:34:40.480 I never, I think that's the worst thing that happens is when a modern church or modern Christians just kind of act like what they believe isn't something crazy.

01:34:49.820 This is, this is the wildest thing, man.

01:34:52.000 The fact that this is reality is the wildest thing.

01:34:55.160 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh to live after the flesh.

01:34:58.820 Because if you live after the flesh, you shall die.

01:35:01.660 But if you, through the spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.

01:35:06.480 Remember, that's what we're talking about.

01:35:07.800 Through the spirit, mortify the deeds of the body.

01:35:10.420 Let God burn those things out of you.

01:35:12.640 Let God cut those things out of you.

01:35:14.800 Live through the spirit.

01:35:16.820 For as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

01:35:21.200 Okay, this is what we're getting to, right?

01:35:22.760 I know it's like a lot of other stuff.

01:35:24.680 But the context that we're still talking about right now is children of God, right?

01:35:29.340 Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.

01:35:32.700 So now we're getting to it.

01:35:34.000 For as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

01:35:38.240 Not to go into like a Greek class right now, but this word children of God and everything we've read so far has been the Greek word hios.

01:35:46.320 H-U-I-O-S.

01:35:47.980 Hios.

01:35:49.040 Right?

01:35:49.340 This is like a younger child or a less mature child, the children of God, right?

01:35:56.280 Watch how this unpacks right here.

01:35:58.300 For you have not received the spirit of bondage, again, to fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

01:36:08.220 The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.

01:36:12.860 So here we are back at this phrase, children of God, but now it's a new word.

01:36:16.320 In verse 16, it's the word technon of God, not hios.

01:36:21.300 And there's great studies into this topic that I'm not prepared to do because that's not the concept right now, but I just want to kind of bring this to everybody's attention.

01:36:32.540 We're hios.

01:36:33.780 Then there's this adoption process, which I've heard good sermons on this.

01:36:37.940 And again, I'm not a Greek scholar, but that the adoption process in this is not God driving by the orphanage and picking up an orphan and adopting them.

01:36:46.380 That it's not that.

01:36:47.420 The context is adoption is this process where a young child comes to maturity.

01:36:52.660 That's the difference between a hios and a technon.

01:36:55.420 And that's an interesting discussion.

01:36:57.360 That it's like, you didn't get adopted.

01:36:59.300 You didn't get picked up at the orphanage.

01:37:01.680 You're born of God.

01:37:03.860 You're his boy.

01:37:05.500 You're made of what he's made of.

01:37:07.600 He didn't pick up an orphan at the orphanage.

01:37:10.500 You are his son.

01:37:12.000 Could this also mean like when you're older, like let's say I'm 18, right?

01:37:17.180 And I want to have Matt, because Matt's much older than me, as my legal parent.

01:37:23.600 This would be like a formal contract.

01:37:25.880 And I would be able to then sign that to you.

01:37:28.460 You know what I'm saying?

01:37:29.660 Like I'm old enough rather than you are coming.

01:37:31.680 You're like that kid.

01:37:32.640 And then you adopt me.

01:37:34.300 I am like consenting that this is my legal father now.

01:37:38.480 It's an interesting take.

01:37:39.360 Yeah.

01:37:39.720 But it's more than that.

01:37:41.040 It's more.

01:37:41.480 It's like we are born of him.

01:37:43.460 We are born of God.

01:37:45.320 So we're not like something different that he picks up at the orphanage or even that we pick him.

01:37:51.140 We're born of the spirit.

01:37:52.300 We're born of him.

01:37:53.440 We are actually of him, which is whatever.

01:37:57.780 People disagree with that.

01:37:58.620 That's fine.

01:37:59.160 But I think that's the accurate take.

01:38:00.740 What's there to disagree with?

01:38:01.900 I think some people are like, no, no, no, that's not.

01:38:04.060 That's not what that's saying.

01:38:05.160 Adoption means clearly that he picked you up at the orphanage.

01:38:08.500 He adopted you.

01:38:09.260 But you're not actually his son.

01:38:10.520 Like in that sense, you're an adopted son.

01:38:13.440 Whereas I've heard it broken down in the Greek.

01:38:15.420 It's been a long time since I heard a sermon on this.

01:38:17.340 It just kind of came back to me while I was reading this.

01:38:19.080 That phrase adoption just means that when you go from childhood, quios, to technon, that's the adoption process.

01:38:28.220 It meant something different.

01:38:29.380 That other argument delineates between like Gentile and Jew, which is another crazy thing.

01:38:36.280 Like, I don't know.

01:38:36.700 The more I really think about that, like the Jews are God's people, but God created everything.

01:38:41.220 So it's like, of course, everything, right?

01:38:43.900 Everything's cool, man.

01:38:44.580 I'm just saying because I'm getting a little upset over here.

01:38:46.560 No, no, I'm just saying. We're good, right?

01:38:46.920 Everything's cool?

01:38:47.520 We're good?

01:38:48.320 Okay.

01:38:49.080 All right.

01:38:51.620 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

01:39:01.000 The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.

01:39:05.540 We just know we're his.

01:39:06.760 We know we belong to him, right?

01:39:09.680 The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.

01:39:13.360 And if children, then heirs.

01:39:16.760 What?

01:39:17.240 Going to inherit a portion of his inheritance?

01:39:21.280 If children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ?

01:39:27.260 Like, we're joint heirs with him.

01:39:29.320 What Christ is going to inherit?

01:39:30.560 If so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together, right?

01:39:51.620 So next week, we're going to get into blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, right?

01:39:57.400 That's what we're going to get into.

01:39:58.660 Sorry, it was only one verse this week, but we'll probably go a little bit further next week.

01:40:02.960 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake.

01:40:05.540 So just keep all this in mind as we close out.

01:40:07.620 If children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him.

01:40:13.680 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, right?

01:40:17.320 If so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

01:40:22.580 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

01:40:29.860 Amen.

Nephilim Death Squad - February 25, 2026

Sermon on the Mount Episode 3 ｜ Straight Bible

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