WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:20.260 We are Handover, the new 00:01.400 --> 00:20.260 årr. 18:00.000 --> 18:04.000 I thought that was, uh, I thought that was a baby jigsaw. 18:05.000 --> 18:09.000 He just started walking and he's all ready to find her. 18:10.000 --> 18:12.000 Hi, Mama! 18:16.000 --> 18:19.000 I bet she's been walking all this walk. 18:24.000 --> 18:26.000 Hi, little baby! 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 Hi, Mama! 18:34.000 --> 18:36.000 Hi, Mama! 18:38.000 --> 18:40.000 Hi, Mama! 18:42.000 --> 18:44.000 Hi, Mama! 18:46.000 --> 18:48.000 Hi, Mama! 18:50.000 --> 18:52.000 Hi, Mama! 18:54.000 --> 18:56.000 Hi, Mama! 18:56.000 --> 18:58.000 Hi, Mama! 19:00.000 --> 19:02.000 Hi, Mama! 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 Hi, Mama! 19:08.000 --> 19:10.000 Hi, Mama! 19:12.000 --> 19:14.000 Hi, Mama! 19:16.000 --> 19:18.000 Hi, Mama! 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 Hi, Mama! 19:22.000 --> 19:24.000 Hi, Mama! 19:26.000 --> 19:28.000 Hi, Mama! 19:30.000 --> 19:32.000 Hi, Mama! 19:34.000 --> 19:36.000 Hi, Mama! 19:38.000 --> 19:40.000 Hi, Mama! 19:42.000 --> 19:44.000 Hi, Mama! 19:46.000 --> 19:50.000 Baptist Church, if you guys want to go ahead and find your hymnals, we're going to turn to page number 66. 19:52.000 --> 20:00.000 Page number 66 at Calvary. 20:00.000 --> 20:08.000 Page number 66. 20:08.000 --> 20:16.000 Years I spent in vanity and pride, 20:16.000 --> 20:21.000 Caring not my Lord was crucified, 20:21.000 --> 20:30.000 Knowing not it was for me, He died on Calvary. 20:30.000 --> 20:35.000 Mercy there was great and grace was free, 20:35.000 --> 20:40.000 Harden there was multiply to me, 20:40.000 --> 20:49.000 There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary. 20:49.000 --> 20:54.000 By God's word at last my sin I learned, 20:54.000 --> 20:59.000 Then I trembled that the lights burned, 20:59.000 --> 21:08.000 Till my guilty soul and glory turned to Calvary. 21:08.000 --> 21:13.000 Mercy there was great and grace was free, 21:13.000 --> 21:18.000 Harden there was multiply to me, 21:18.000 --> 21:27.000 There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary. 21:27.000 --> 21:32.000 O the love that drew salvation's plan, 21:32.000 --> 21:37.000 O the grace that brought it down to man, 21:37.000 --> 21:46.000 O the mighty gulf that God did spend at Calvary. 21:46.000 --> 21:51.000 Mercy there was great and grace was free, 21:51.000 --> 21:56.000 Harden there was multiply to me, 21:56.000 --> 22:05.000 There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary. 22:05.000 --> 22:10.000 Now I give to Jesus everything, 22:10.000 --> 22:15.000 Now I gladly own Him as my King, 22:15.000 --> 22:24.000 Now my raptured soul can only sing of Calvary. 22:24.000 --> 22:29.000 Mercy there was great and grace was free, 22:29.000 --> 22:34.000 Harden there was multiply to me, 22:34.000 --> 22:43.000 There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary. 22:44.000 --> 22:46.000 Alright, excellent singing everybody. 22:46.000 --> 22:48.000 Will the pulcher please open us up in order to prayer? 22:48.000 --> 22:50.000 Thank you Father, thank you so much for this day. 22:50.000 --> 22:52.000 Thank you so much for those who are willing to make it. 22:52.000 --> 22:54.000 We just pray for the health and safe travels 22:54.000 --> 22:56.000 and have all the members of Jesus name and amen. 22:56.000 --> 22:58.000 Amen. 22:58.000 --> 23:00.000 Alright, if you want to take your hymnals, 23:00.000 --> 23:05.000 we're going to turn to page number 31. 23:05.000 --> 23:11.000 It's page number 31, He Lives. 23:11.000 --> 23:14.000 Page number 31. 23:14.000 --> 23:34.000 I serve a risen Savior, He's in the world today. 23:34.000 --> 23:40.000 I know that He is living whatever men may say. 23:40.000 --> 23:46.000 I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer. 23:46.000 --> 23:51.000 And just the time I need Him, He's always near. 23:51.000 --> 23:57.000 He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today. 23:57.000 --> 24:03.000 He walks with me and talks with me along life's narrow way. 24:03.000 --> 24:10.000 He lives, He lives, salvation to impart. 24:10.000 --> 24:16.000 You ask me how I know He lives. 24:16.000 --> 24:22.000 He lives within my heart. 24:22.000 --> 24:28.000 In all the world around me I see His loving care. 24:28.000 --> 24:34.000 And though my heart grows weary, I never will despair. 24:34.000 --> 24:40.000 I know that He is leading through all the stormy blasts. 24:40.000 --> 24:45.000 The day of His appearing will come at last. 24:45.000 --> 24:51.000 He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today. 24:51.000 --> 24:57.000 He walks with me and talks with me along life's narrow way. 24:57.000 --> 25:04.000 He lives, He lives, salvation to impart. 25:04.000 --> 25:10.000 You ask me how I know He lives. 25:10.000 --> 25:15.000 He lives within my heart. 25:15.000 --> 25:21.000 Rejoice, rejoice, O Christian, lift up your voice and sing. 25:21.000 --> 25:27.000 Eternal hallelujahs to Jesus Christ the King. 25:27.000 --> 25:33.000 The hope of all who seek Him, the help of all who find. 25:33.000 --> 25:39.000 None other is so loving, so good and kind. 25:39.000 --> 25:45.000 He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today. 25:45.000 --> 25:51.000 He walks with me and talks with me along life's narrow way. 25:51.000 --> 25:58.000 He lives, He lives, salvation to impart. 25:58.000 --> 26:04.000 You ask me how I know He lives. 26:04.000 --> 26:10.000 He lives within my heart. 26:10.000 --> 26:14.000 Alright, excellent singing everybody. This time we will have our announcements. 26:14.000 --> 26:20.000 Alright, good morning everyone. 26:20.000 --> 26:24.000 The verse of the week is Galatians 2 verse 21. 26:24.000 --> 26:27.000 Galatians 2 verse 21. 26:27.000 --> 26:35.000 I do not frustrate the grace of God, for it is righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. 26:35.000 --> 26:38.000 That's Galatians 2 verse 21. 26:38.000 --> 26:43.000 The times are 10.30 this morning, 3.30 this afternoon, 6.30 on Wednesday. 26:43.000 --> 26:47.000 Soling times for yesterday at 12.30 today at 1.00 p.m. 26:47.000 --> 26:53.000 Salvation for May have been 10. So a total of 81 for the year so far. 26:53.000 --> 26:56.000 Alright, 10 is down below. 26:56.000 --> 27:02.000 Upcoming things, I think this is today. 27:02.000 --> 27:07.000 You have the memory challenge for 1 Corinthians chapter 13. 27:07.000 --> 27:11.000 I'm going to recite it to the Thompsons and there is a reward for doing so. 27:11.000 --> 27:19.000 Alright, June 9th is the next homeschool day at the church building here at 11 a.m. 27:19.000 --> 27:23.000 Plius RSVP with Ms. Kime. 27:23.000 --> 27:29.000 And Remy should be back, Brother Remy should be back this afternoon. 27:29.000 --> 27:32.000 Hopefully, hopefully the flight and travel go safe. 27:32.000 --> 27:35.000 He's just coming back from the Red Hop preaching. 27:35.000 --> 27:39.000 With that, we'll start with Jason this morning and then Remy should be preaching this evening. 27:39.000 --> 27:45.000 Alright, kids, your current verse is Psalms 59 verse 17. 27:45.000 --> 27:47.000 Psalms 59 verse 17. 27:47.000 --> 27:53.000 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing, for God is my defense and the God of my mercy. 27:53.000 --> 27:56.000 That's Psalms 59 verse 17. 27:56.000 --> 27:58.000 Rules are down the same. 27:58.000 --> 28:02.000 Tithing information is below. 28:02.000 --> 28:06.000 No further anniversaries and birthdays for May. 28:06.000 --> 28:10.000 And let's turn to the Lord in prayer. 28:32.000 --> 28:34.000 Amen. 29:02.000 --> 29:30.000 Alright, if you want to take your psalm books or your bibles and turn to Psalm 150, 29:30.000 --> 29:34.000 Turn to Psalm 150. 29:41.000 --> 29:45.000 Psalm 150. 29:53.000 --> 29:57.000 Psalm 150. 29:58.000 --> 30:02.000 We'll sing it out on the first. 30:08.000 --> 30:24.000 Praise ye the Lord, Praise God in his sanctuary, Praise him in the firmament of his power, 30:24.000 --> 30:36.000 Praise him for his mighty acts, Praise him according to his excellent greatness, 30:36.000 --> 30:52.000 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet, Praise him with the psaltery and harp, 30:52.000 --> 31:04.000 Praise him with the timbrel and dance, Praise him with stringed instruments and organs, 31:04.000 --> 31:20.000 Praise him upon the loud cymbals, Praise him upon the high sounding cymbals, 31:20.000 --> 31:33.000 Let everything that hath breath, Praise the Lord, Praise he the Lord. 31:33.000 --> 31:36.000 Alright, excellent singing everybody. 31:36.000 --> 31:39.000 Brother Paul, would you please pray for the offering? 31:39.000 --> 31:42.000 Brother Paul, we thank you so much for all we have and those who remember the Lord. 31:42.000 --> 31:47.000 Be faithful to me as you stand fighting and you will see the blessings which I can give you. 31:47.000 --> 31:49.000 Amen. 31:49.000 --> 31:51.000 Thank you. 32:19.000 --> 32:31.000 Good morning everyone. 32:31.000 --> 32:36.000 Go ahead and take your Bibles and turn to Matthew chapter 20. 32:36.000 --> 32:40.000 Matthew chapter 20 will be our text this morning. 32:40.000 --> 32:45.000 And as always here at our church we read the entire chapter before the preaching. 32:45.000 --> 32:50.000 Matthew chapter 20, the Bible reads, 32:50.000 --> 32:55.000 For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, 32:55.000 --> 32:59.000 Which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. 32:59.000 --> 33:05.000 And when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 33:05.000 --> 33:13.000 And he went out, and he went out about the third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, 33:13.000 --> 33:20.000 And said unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give it you. 33:20.000 --> 33:23.000 And they went their way. 33:23.000 --> 33:29.000 And again, again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour and did likewise. 33:29.000 --> 33:33.000 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, 33:33.000 --> 33:37.000 And saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? 33:37.000 --> 33:41.000 They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. 33:41.000 --> 33:48.000 He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right that shall ye receive. 33:48.000 --> 33:53.000 So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, 33:53.000 --> 33:59.000 Call the laborers and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. 33:59.000 --> 34:06.000 And when they came that were hired, and when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, 34:06.000 --> 34:08.000 They received every man a penny. 34:08.000 --> 34:13.000 But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more, 34:13.000 --> 34:16.000 And they likewise received every man a penny. 34:16.000 --> 34:21.000 And when they had received it, they murmured against the good men of the house, 34:21.000 --> 34:27.000 Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, 34:27.000 --> 34:30.000 Which have borne the burden of the heat of the day. 34:30.000 --> 34:34.000 But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong. 34:34.000 --> 34:37.000 Dost thou not agree with me for a penny? 34:37.000 --> 34:40.000 Take that as thine, and go thy way. 34:40.000 --> 34:44.000 I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. 34:44.000 --> 34:48.000 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? 34:48.000 --> 34:52.000 Is thine eye evil because I am good? 34:52.000 --> 34:56.000 So the last shall be first, and the first last. 34:56.000 --> 34:59.000 For many be called, but few chosen. 35:00.000 --> 35:05.000 And Jesus, going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart in the way, 35:05.000 --> 35:09.000 And said unto them, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, 35:09.000 --> 35:14.000 And the Son of Man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, 35:14.000 --> 35:19.000 And they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles, 35:19.000 --> 35:26.000 To mock and to scourge and to crucify him, and the third day he shall rise again. 35:26.000 --> 35:30.000 Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, 35:30.000 --> 35:34.000 Worshiping him and desiring a certain thing of him. 35:34.000 --> 35:37.000 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? 35:37.000 --> 35:41.000 She saith unto him, Grant that these two, my two sons, 35:41.000 --> 35:47.000 May sit the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left in thy kingdom. 35:47.000 --> 35:51.000 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. 35:51.000 --> 35:54.000 Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, 35:54.000 --> 35:58.000 And to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? 35:58.000 --> 36:01.000 They say unto him, We are able. 36:01.000 --> 36:05.000 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, 36:05.000 --> 36:09.000 And be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with. 36:09.000 --> 36:14.000 But to sit on my right hand and on my left is not mine to give, 36:14.000 --> 36:18.000 But it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father. 36:19.000 --> 36:24.000 And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren. 36:24.000 --> 36:27.000 But Jesus called them unto him and said, 36:27.000 --> 36:32.000 Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, 36:32.000 --> 36:37.000 And they that are great exercise authority upon them. 36:37.000 --> 36:39.000 But it shall be not so among you. 36:39.000 --> 36:45.000 But whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister. 36:45.000 --> 36:50.000 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant. 36:50.000 --> 36:54.000 Even as the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, 36:54.000 --> 36:58.000 But to minister and to give his life a ransom for many. 36:58.000 --> 37:03.000 And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him. 37:03.000 --> 37:07.000 And behold, two blind men sitting by the wayside, 37:07.000 --> 37:11.000 When they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out saying, 37:11.000 --> 37:14.000 Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David. 37:14.000 --> 37:18.000 And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace. 37:18.000 --> 37:23.000 But they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David. 37:23.000 --> 37:27.000 And Jesus stood still and called them and said, 37:27.000 --> 37:30.000 What will ye that I should do unto you? 37:30.000 --> 37:34.000 And they said unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened. 37:34.000 --> 37:38.000 So Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes, 37:38.000 --> 37:43.000 And immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him. 37:43.000 --> 37:46.000 Brother Paul, could you pray for the preaching? 37:46.000 --> 37:50.000 Brother Paul, thank you so much for allowing us to be here, to hear you a word read to us. 37:50.000 --> 37:54.000 But may our ears be opened now because the message builds off this chapter. 37:54.000 --> 37:58.000 May our minds be expanded, may our hearts be refreshed, 37:58.000 --> 38:01.000 And may the Lord be honored with this sermon. Jesus' name, Amen. 38:01.000 --> 38:05.000 Amen. All right, so we're here, we're there in Matthew chapter number 20. 38:05.000 --> 38:10.000 But I want to have you go ahead and turn to Ecclesiastes chapter number 9. 38:10.000 --> 38:14.000 And the title of my sermon this morning is, Life Just Isn't Fair. 38:14.000 --> 38:17.000 Life Just Is Not Fair. 38:17.000 --> 38:22.000 And we're going to be coming back to Matthew chapter number 20 to kind of go over that story a little bit. 38:22.000 --> 38:26.000 But here in Ecclesiastes chapter number 9, verse number 11, 38:26.000 --> 38:30.000 The Bible reads, it says, I returned and saw unto the sun, 38:30.000 --> 38:35.000 That the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, 38:35.000 --> 38:40.000 Neither yet bred to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, 38:40.000 --> 38:47.000 Nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all. 38:47.000 --> 38:52.000 And so this verse in Ecclesiastes chapter number 9 is telling us, 38:52.000 --> 38:58.000 Look, sometimes in life, the outcomes are not always as we think that they should be. 38:58.000 --> 39:03.000 You know, every once in a while, the guy that's the strongest or the guy that's the fastest, 39:03.000 --> 39:08.000 He doesn't actually win the race for whatever reason. 39:08.000 --> 39:13.000 Maybe that guy got injured or maybe a bug flew in his throat or something. 39:13.000 --> 39:20.000 Who knows? There's all kinds of reasons why he might not have won, or the battle to the strong. 39:20.000 --> 39:26.000 Maybe the most skilled army didn't win for whatever reason. 39:26.000 --> 39:31.000 Maybe the other commander was just more clever, or maybe the terrain was fake. 39:31.000 --> 39:34.000 There's all kinds of different reasons, right? 39:34.000 --> 39:39.000 And at the end of this verse here, there's a very interesting phrase that says, 39:39.000 --> 39:43.000 Time and chance happeneth to them all. 39:43.000 --> 39:49.000 And here the Bible is, I would say, it's referring to what we would call luck. 39:49.000 --> 39:53.000 And a lot of people, they'll come to this conclusion that says, 39:53.000 --> 39:56.000 Hey, luck isn't real. I don't believe in luck. 39:56.000 --> 39:58.000 But the thing about it is, and a lot of people will say, 39:58.000 --> 40:02.000 I don't believe in luck because I'm a Christian or whatever. 40:02.000 --> 40:06.000 But the reality is that the Bible teaches that there is such thing as luck. 40:06.000 --> 40:11.000 Time and chance happeneth to them all. 40:11.000 --> 40:18.000 And so a lot of people, they have this idea that they want life to be fair. 40:18.000 --> 40:22.000 And we all generally have this idea that we want life to be fair. Amen. 40:22.000 --> 40:25.000 We want to see things that are fair happen in the world. 40:25.000 --> 40:29.000 Especially if we're the recipients of the unfairness. 40:29.000 --> 40:33.000 If we feel that we've been wronged in some way and life isn't just like... 40:33.000 --> 40:37.000 But if we're receiving, if we got the luck of the draw, then we're like, 40:37.000 --> 40:41.000 Life isn't fair, but that's just how it is. I want. 40:41.000 --> 40:44.000 But whenever we're the recipients of the unfairness, we're like, 40:44.000 --> 40:46.000 Hey, why isn't life fair? 40:46.000 --> 40:50.000 Well, the reality of the world is that life isn't fair. 40:50.000 --> 40:53.000 That's just the way it is. 40:53.000 --> 40:57.000 Sometimes you might have been the best person for a position, 40:57.000 --> 41:00.000 and somebody else got the position, right? 41:00.000 --> 41:07.000 There could be situations where some bum wins the lottery or something like that. 41:07.000 --> 41:11.000 It's like, well, how could this idiot here win the lottery? 41:11.000 --> 41:16.000 And when he has done nothing good in his life, he's provided nothing for society, 41:16.000 --> 41:19.000 but yet he got all these riches. 41:19.000 --> 41:21.000 This isn't fair, right? 41:21.000 --> 41:26.000 But the reality, we have to realize that God, 41:26.000 --> 41:29.000 he's in overall control of the universe. 41:29.000 --> 41:33.000 He created the universe. He holds everything together. 41:33.000 --> 41:40.000 But we need to realize that God is not orchestrating every single event that happens in life. 41:40.000 --> 41:45.000 I mean, we can't sit here and when something bad happens, blame God. 41:45.000 --> 41:49.000 When something bad happens, we can't sit here and blame God for it 41:49.000 --> 41:52.000 and say, well, why didn't he make this fair? 41:52.000 --> 41:56.000 Why didn't God intervene and make this right? 41:56.000 --> 42:01.000 And so go ahead and turn to Ecclesiastes chapter number 10. 42:01.000 --> 42:08.000 So the point of my sermon is we need to realize that life isn't fair, 42:08.000 --> 42:11.000 and we shouldn't be blaming God for that, right? 42:11.000 --> 42:17.000 Because God is not making everything happen in our lives. 42:17.000 --> 42:21.000 We do need to realize that God, he is involved in our lives. 42:21.000 --> 42:25.000 I'm not here to say that nothing in your life happens because of God. 42:25.000 --> 42:28.000 There are many things that happen in life because of God. 42:28.000 --> 42:35.000 However, we can't sit here and attribute everything that goes on in the world to God. 42:35.000 --> 42:38.000 Because think about all the wickedness that goes on in this world. 42:38.000 --> 42:41.000 Are we going to sit here and blame God for that? Absolutely not. 42:41.000 --> 42:45.000 And think about all the bad things that have happened to you 42:45.000 --> 42:48.000 directly because of your decisions. 42:48.000 --> 42:51.000 Has anything bad happened because of your decisions in your life? 42:51.000 --> 42:56.000 Yeah. You know, I've had bad things that have happened to me. Why? 42:56.000 --> 43:00.000 Because of the guy in the mirror, right? Because I did something dumb, right? 43:00.000 --> 43:05.000 But there's also other things that happened in our lives that happened 43:05.000 --> 43:09.000 not necessarily because you made a bad decision because you did something wrong. 43:09.000 --> 43:13.000 It was just the luck of the draw, right? 43:13.000 --> 43:18.000 You know, people have gotten into different car accidents and what not. 43:18.000 --> 43:22.000 You know, like I was in a car accident several months ago 43:22.000 --> 43:27.000 where I stopped because there was a car in front of me that stopped. 43:27.000 --> 43:29.000 And then I get hit. 43:29.000 --> 43:32.000 Now, was that like, you know, am I going to sit here and be like, 43:32.000 --> 43:36.000 well, God didn't protect me from you having this car accident. 43:36.000 --> 43:42.000 No, because God wasn't necessarily just controlling the guy behind me 43:42.000 --> 43:45.000 and his driving, right? 43:45.000 --> 43:51.000 But maybe God could have caused the guy to swerve or make him pay attention or whatever. 43:51.000 --> 43:54.000 Maybe he could have done that, but he didn't. 43:54.000 --> 43:58.000 But I'm not going to sit here and blame God and be like, well, that's not fair. 43:58.000 --> 44:03.000 Because look, time and chance happeneth to them all. 44:03.000 --> 44:07.000 Was it very likely for me to get into a car accident? 44:07.000 --> 44:10.000 No, but it happened. 44:10.000 --> 44:14.000 Time and chance happeneth to them all. 44:14.000 --> 44:18.000 But in Ecclesiastes number 10, verse number 5, it says, 44:38.000 --> 44:42.000 And so what the Bible here is saying is that, you know, 44:42.000 --> 44:47.000 basically the Ecclesiastes, or, you know, Solomon, 44:47.000 --> 44:52.000 he's saying, look, I've seen the world backwards at times. 44:52.000 --> 44:58.000 It's like where you have some fool, he's in a place of authority. 44:58.000 --> 45:02.000 And then the guy that's really smart, he's like a servant. 45:02.000 --> 45:05.000 It's like, why is this happening? This doesn't seem fair. 45:05.000 --> 45:10.000 And, you know, we can see this in our world today 45:10.000 --> 45:15.000 where you have all kinds of people in positions of authority that are just fools. 45:15.000 --> 45:22.000 I mean, you think about all the people in our government 45:22.000 --> 45:25.000 that it seems like they're complete morons, 45:25.000 --> 45:27.000 but yet they've been put into this position of power, 45:27.000 --> 45:30.000 like the head of the FBI or something. 45:30.000 --> 45:31.000 AOC. 45:31.000 --> 45:35.000 Yeah, how did AOC, how is she a congressman? 45:35.000 --> 45:39.000 I mean, she has an IQ, you know, north of 60, 45:39.000 --> 45:42.000 and it's like, how did she become a congressman? 45:42.000 --> 45:45.000 But it's just the way the world works sometimes. 45:45.000 --> 45:48.000 You know, you can get a complete moron into a position of power. 45:48.000 --> 45:52.000 It's like, you know, how did this happen? 45:52.000 --> 45:54.000 What in the world? 45:54.000 --> 45:58.000 And, you know, but you'll have somebody that's like really smart, you know, 45:58.000 --> 46:03.000 and they don't get into that position of power, but then you have some fool, right? 46:03.000 --> 46:07.000 And, you know, you see this through like different corruptions and whatnot in our world, 46:07.000 --> 46:11.000 and unfortunately it's just the way the world is. 46:11.000 --> 46:15.000 Because we live in a sinful world, right, 46:15.000 --> 46:18.000 this is the type of stuff that's going to go on. 46:18.000 --> 46:23.000 And, you know, you can see that kind of thing happening in your life on a smaller level, right? 46:23.000 --> 46:27.000 It's something that we just have to deal with as human beings. 46:27.000 --> 46:31.000 And here's the thing, you know, life isn't fair, the world's not fair, 46:31.000 --> 46:36.000 but, you know, especially as saved Christians, you know, we should be able to deal with it. 46:36.000 --> 46:38.000 Because we should be able to realize, well, guess what? 46:38.000 --> 46:44.000 We're actually major recipients of, you know, the lack of fairness, right? 46:44.000 --> 46:52.000 Because, you know, is it fair for Jesus to kind of suffer and pay the penalty for my sin? 46:52.000 --> 46:55.000 And then I just get, I don't have to pay for my sin at all? 46:55.000 --> 46:58.000 Is that fair? No, that's not fair. 46:58.000 --> 47:01.000 And so we're massive recipients of lack of fairness. 47:01.000 --> 47:09.000 So, you know, as saved Christians, you know, we shouldn't be sitting around lamenting the fact that life isn't fair, 47:09.000 --> 47:13.000 because we're major beneficiaries of that fact, that life isn't fair, 47:13.000 --> 47:19.000 that Jesus took the unfair punishment, you know, that we deserved upon himself and took it for us. 47:19.000 --> 47:22.000 And we don't have to suffer those consequences. 47:22.000 --> 47:30.000 Now, you know, so when we're suffering through life, you know, the fact that unfair things happen, 47:30.000 --> 47:32.000 we should be able to deal with those things. 47:32.000 --> 47:37.000 Now, the unsaved world, you know, it shouldn't surprise us, 47:37.000 --> 47:40.000 it shouldn't shock us when they're upset that the world isn't fair, 47:40.000 --> 47:46.000 because at the end of the day, you know, if they don't get saved, they're going to have to pay for their sins. 47:46.000 --> 47:51.000 And they're going to have to get that divine justice from God and go to hell, unfortunately for them, right? 47:51.000 --> 47:57.000 And so, you know, we as Christians though, we should be able to look at the world and be like, 47:57.000 --> 48:02.000 well, this thing happened, it's not fair, but I'm not going to get upset about it, 48:02.000 --> 48:08.000 I'm not going to freak out about it, because, you know, I'm benefiting from the lack of fairness, 48:08.000 --> 48:16.000 from the fact that God, you know, put that punishment on Jesus Christ for us, which wasn't fair, 48:16.000 --> 48:19.000 but we get to benefit from that, amen? 48:19.000 --> 48:23.000 And so, but, you know, as human beings, I think I was kind of mentioning this earlier, 48:23.000 --> 48:25.000 go ahead and turn to 1 Peter chapter 1. 48:25.000 --> 48:29.000 You know, as, actually, 1 Peter chapter number 2. 48:29.000 --> 48:33.000 If I could get a glass of water, that would be fantastic. 48:33.000 --> 48:41.000 So, here in 1 Peter chapter number 2, verse number 20, it says, 48:41.000 --> 48:42.000 It says, 48:56.000 --> 49:04.000 So, the Bible here, you know, it's contrasting, you know, taking suffering and being buffeted for your faults, 49:04.000 --> 49:12.000 in other words, what you did wrong, contrasting that with being buffeted for things that you did right, right? 49:12.000 --> 49:19.000 Because some, you know, and, you know, this doesn't happen, you know, I would say, especially in 2026 America, 49:19.000 --> 49:22.000 this isn't happening, like, a ton, okay? 49:22.000 --> 49:27.000 It's not like my, I can't sit here and say, like, my whole life I've just been doing everything right 49:27.000 --> 49:32.000 and doing everything correct, and every time I do something correct, I get punished for it, you know? 49:32.000 --> 49:38.000 You know, personally, I can't really say that, you know, maybe every once in a while something like that happens. 49:40.000 --> 49:42.000 But it is a reality, amen? 49:42.000 --> 49:45.000 Sometimes in life, things like that do happen. 49:45.000 --> 49:52.000 And in other places, in other times in history, I'm sure it happened to people a lot more than it's happening to 2026 Christians, amen? 49:52.000 --> 50:02.000 And so, you know, the Bible is saying that this is a reality where, you know, you could do something that is right in the sight of God, 50:02.000 --> 50:10.000 do something that's correct, and, you know, it seems like you're punished for it, like something bad happens as a result of it. 50:10.000 --> 50:16.000 You know, and I guess a good example of this would be when we're out soul hunting, if somebody just, like, freaks out, like, 50:16.000 --> 50:21.000 You know, it's like, oh man, you know, no good deed goes unpunished. 50:21.000 --> 50:28.000 Well, you know, that happens every once in a while, and honestly, that's not a big deal, especially if you've been soul hunting for a while. 50:28.000 --> 50:30.000 You just, you kind of get used to it, right? 50:30.000 --> 50:37.000 You know, every once in a while somebody just really explodes, and it's like, whoa, like, what happened here? 50:37.000 --> 50:40.000 Like, you need, do you need, like, counseling? 50:40.000 --> 50:45.000 You know, like, you know, like, you know, you need, like, counseling? 50:45.000 --> 50:49.000 Or, like, or maybe a padded box? 50:49.000 --> 50:55.000 We're not sure, but it's like, you know, you know, so every once in a while things like this happen, right? 50:55.000 --> 51:03.000 But, you know, honestly, you know, we're not dealing with, like, actual real persecution where, you know, we're physically suffering or anything like that. 51:03.000 --> 51:05.000 We just have somebody freak out on us every once in a while. 51:05.000 --> 51:07.000 Maybe somebody will call the cops or whatever. 51:07.000 --> 51:11.000 And it's like, you know, did we really deserve that? 51:11.000 --> 51:12.000 No, we didn't. 51:12.000 --> 51:13.000 But here's the thing. 51:13.000 --> 51:15.000 Life isn't fair. 51:15.000 --> 51:17.000 It's simply, it's not fair. 51:17.000 --> 51:18.000 Right? 51:18.000 --> 51:20.000 And so, you know, we should be able to put up with it. 51:20.000 --> 51:28.000 And look, the thing about it is that this is, the Bible says here, when you take it patiently, you know, this is acceptable with God. 51:28.000 --> 51:29.000 Right? 51:29.000 --> 51:40.000 So when somebody just freaks out on us, right, flips out on us at the door, you know, the proper response is probably not to flip them off, but to take it patiently. 51:40.000 --> 51:41.000 Right? 51:41.000 --> 51:43.000 Just take it patiently. 51:43.000 --> 51:47.000 Let it, you know, it should be like water off a duck's back. 51:47.000 --> 51:49.000 You know, just don't worry about it. 51:49.000 --> 51:52.000 You know, and don't let it, you know, consume. 51:52.000 --> 51:56.000 And there's, there is this temptation, you know, where you just kind of dwell on it. 51:56.000 --> 51:57.000 Oh, that guy. 51:57.000 --> 52:00.000 Oh, oh, how can't he see how wrong he is? 52:00.000 --> 52:03.000 You know, there's this temptation to kind of dwell on these things. 52:03.000 --> 52:18.000 But honestly, you know, when, when injustices happen, when lack of fairness happens in our lives, you know, one thing that we shouldn't do is just sit there and dwell on it and just think about it and let it, and let it, you know, let it simmer in our minds, whatever. 52:18.000 --> 52:20.000 Because for one, it's not going to do you any good. 52:20.000 --> 52:22.000 It's not going to help you at all. 52:22.000 --> 52:25.000 You know, you should just forget about those things. 52:25.000 --> 52:26.000 Let it go. 52:26.000 --> 52:28.000 Maybe have a laugh about it. 52:28.000 --> 52:29.000 Right? 52:30.000 --> 52:34.000 You know, I oftentimes enjoy coming back from soul wedding and just talking about the crazy thing that happened. 52:34.000 --> 52:43.000 Like the crazy guy that was just standing out by his door and be like, hey, don't come to my door with that Bible, talking to me about God. 52:43.000 --> 52:45.000 You know, these, these crazy people, right? 52:45.000 --> 52:49.000 It's, you know, sometimes it's fun to come back and talk about those things. 52:49.000 --> 52:53.000 But you do want to avoid letting those things bother you. 52:53.000 --> 53:00.000 You know, when you lay down your head on your pillow at night, you don't want to be thinking about all the injustices that happen to you during the day. 53:00.000 --> 53:01.000 Right. 53:01.000 --> 53:02.000 Right? 53:02.000 --> 53:05.000 Because for one, you're probably not going to be able to do anything about it. 53:05.000 --> 53:07.000 You're not going to change the outcome. 53:07.000 --> 53:10.000 You're not going to be able to fix the situation, especially if it's some freak out soul wedding. 53:10.000 --> 53:11.000 Right? 53:11.000 --> 53:12.000 You can't fix it. 53:12.000 --> 53:14.000 There's nothing you can do about it. 53:14.000 --> 53:16.000 So don't think about it. 53:16.000 --> 53:17.000 Just let it go. 53:17.000 --> 53:24.000 Because, you know, you're just causing yourself more stress, more heartache for no reason. 53:24.000 --> 53:26.000 You're suffering for free. 53:26.000 --> 53:28.000 You know, my wife always says, like, I'm drunk. 53:28.000 --> 53:31.000 You're drowning in a glass of water. 53:31.000 --> 53:33.000 There's no there's no reason for it. 53:33.000 --> 53:38.000 OK, it's it's it's it's just, you know, just forget about it and move on. 53:38.000 --> 53:39.000 Right. 53:39.000 --> 53:44.000 But but we as human beings, you know, we have a there's a strong desire for fairness. 53:44.000 --> 53:45.000 Right. 53:45.000 --> 53:48.000 And go ahead and turn to Matthew, chapter number 20. 53:48.000 --> 53:57.000 It's inhuman nature that, you know, we, you know, if we feel that we've been wronged or whatever, we have a we have a strong desire for things to be fair. 53:57.000 --> 53:58.000 Amen. 54:00.000 --> 54:11.000 And there's a story that kind of connects to this here in Matthew, chapter number 20, which is, of course, the chapter we read for for the for the preaching. 54:11.000 --> 54:22.000 It says in Matthew, chapter number 20, verse number one, it says, For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is in householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. 54:22.000 --> 54:29.000 And when he had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. 54:29.000 --> 54:33.000 So basically, you know, there's a guy he owns a vineyard and he's hiring laborers. 54:33.000 --> 54:34.000 Right. 54:34.000 --> 54:40.000 And he said, and he agrees to pay them a certain amount, you know, a day's a day's worth of labor, whatever. 54:40.000 --> 54:42.000 Which is apparently is a penny back in that time. 54:42.000 --> 54:46.000 Probably, probably at least a Canadian wheat penny or something like that. 54:46.000 --> 54:50.000 I don't know if that's Canadian or if it's just, I don't know. 54:50.000 --> 54:55.000 I'll have to ask Bill Sweeney about, you know, he'll know. 54:55.000 --> 55:09.000 But anyways, verse number three says, And he went out the third hour and saw other standing idle in the marketplace and said unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard whatsoever is right, I will give you. 55:09.000 --> 55:10.000 And they went their way. 55:10.000 --> 55:14.000 And again, he went out to six hour and the ninth hour and did likewise. 55:14.000 --> 55:24.000 And about the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing idle and sayeth unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? 55:24.000 --> 55:27.000 They said unto him, Because no man hath hired us. 55:27.000 --> 55:33.000 He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. 55:33.000 --> 55:44.000 And when even was come, the Lord of the vineyard said unto his steward, Call the laborers and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. 55:44.000 --> 55:50.000 And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. 55:50.000 --> 55:56.000 And when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more. 55:56.000 --> 56:00.000 And they likewise received every man a penny. 56:00.000 --> 56:08.000 And when they had received it, they murmured against the good man of the house, saying, These last have wrought but one hour. 56:08.000 --> 56:19.000 And thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden, excuse me, I can't read for some reason, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. 56:19.000 --> 56:25.000 But he answered one of them and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong. 56:25.000 --> 56:27.000 Didst thou agree with me for a penny? 56:27.000 --> 56:29.000 Take that as thine and go thy way. 56:29.000 --> 56:32.000 I will give unto this last even as unto thee. 56:32.000 --> 56:37.000 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? 56:37.000 --> 56:42.000 Is thine eye evil because I am good? 56:42.000 --> 56:51.000 So we see here in this story, right, that basically you have the first people that are working for 12 hours for one penny. 56:51.000 --> 56:57.000 And then everybody else that works less time, they're also working for one penny. 56:57.000 --> 57:01.000 You know, and the most egregious, right, would be the people that came in at the last hour. 57:01.000 --> 57:06.000 They worked for 60 minutes and they still got one penny. 57:06.000 --> 57:11.000 And the people that work for 12 hours, they're upset about this, right? 57:11.000 --> 57:14.000 Like, Hey, you know, how come they're getting a penny? 57:14.000 --> 57:17.000 You know, the good man of the house, he's like, Am I a Jew? 57:17.000 --> 57:20.000 Am I supposed to be like a coin clipper or something? 57:20.000 --> 57:22.000 Like, you want me to cut up the penny? 57:22.000 --> 57:24.000 You know, there's ridges on the coins for a reason. 57:29.000 --> 57:34.000 The householder, he's like, Google why there's ridges on the coins. 57:34.000 --> 57:37.000 He's like, you want me to be some kind of a Jew? 57:37.000 --> 57:40.000 Like, you know, to Jew them out of a penny or something, right? 57:40.000 --> 57:49.000 But so, you know, they're basically they're upset because somebody that worked for one hour got the same pay as them. 57:49.000 --> 57:51.000 Now, here's the thing about this. 57:51.000 --> 57:57.000 We might look at that situation and be like, ah, that's not fair. 57:57.000 --> 58:03.000 But really, is it unfair though? Is it really unfair? 58:03.000 --> 58:06.000 I mean, what if, let's think about this. 58:06.000 --> 58:14.000 What if I came in here and I gave, let's say I gave Brother Paul and Brother Ryan, I just gave them both a thousand dollars. 58:14.000 --> 58:17.000 Like, oh, that's fair, right? That's fair. 58:17.000 --> 58:24.000 Okay. What if I gave Ryan a thousand dollars and then Paul, since he left the room, a five hundred dollars? 58:24.000 --> 58:26.000 Would that be fair? 58:26.000 --> 58:30.000 Would there be anything unfair about that? 58:30.000 --> 58:31.000 No. 58:31.000 --> 58:34.000 Okay. What about, what if I did this? 58:34.000 --> 58:44.000 What if I gave every single person in this room, including Mini Paul, a thousand dollars and I gave Paul nothing? 58:45.000 --> 58:47.000 Would that be unfair? 58:47.000 --> 58:54.000 If I just waltzed in here and just started handing out cash, making a rank, you know, except for Paul. 58:54.000 --> 58:57.000 Would that, that wouldn't be unfair. Why? 58:57.000 --> 59:00.000 Because did I do anything wrong to Paul? 59:00.000 --> 59:02.000 I didn't do anything wrong to him. 59:02.000 --> 59:07.000 I just blessed somebody else, right? I blessed everybody else. 59:08.000 --> 59:17.000 Now, somebody might start, you know, somebody might be like, well, what's the deal with, how come Brother Paul didn't get anything? 59:17.000 --> 59:19.000 Brother Paul might be thinking the same thing. 59:19.000 --> 59:21.000 Like, oh, come on, you're going to get anything, right? 59:21.000 --> 59:28.000 Well, you know, but the reality is, is that I didn't do anything wrong to Paul. 59:28.000 --> 59:29.000 Yeah. 59:29.000 --> 59:32.000 Right? So there's nothing actually unfair about this situation. 59:32.000 --> 59:39.000 Now, you know, somebody might perceive it as being unfair, but the reality is, is that if I wanted to give everybody in here a thousand dollars, 59:39.000 --> 59:43.000 except for Brother Paul, there would actually be nothing actually wrong with that. 59:43.000 --> 59:49.000 You know, or if I just gave one person a thousand dollars, you know, and that's the other thing. 59:49.000 --> 59:55.000 It's like, you know, if I gave one person a thousand dollars, probably nobody would blink an eye at that, right? 59:55.000 --> 59:58.000 They'd be like, oh, cool, you know, so and so got a thousand dollars. 59:58.000 --> 01:00:06.000 But if like, if everybody got a thousand dollars except for one person, then it's like, oh, this is, this is unfair. 01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:09.000 But fundamentally, did something different happen? 01:00:09.000 --> 01:00:11.000 I mean, is it something fundamentally different? 01:00:11.000 --> 01:00:13.000 No. Right? 01:00:13.000 --> 01:00:21.000 It's, it's like, you know, the householder, he can give however much money he wants to to each individual. 01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:22.000 Right? 01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:29.000 You know, and also, you know, of course, there's the detail of the fact that he agreed for a penny with the original people 01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:32.000 and the other people had no idea what they were going to get paid. 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:40.000 But, you know, even without that fact, the reality is, is that the householder can give what he wants to any individual. 01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:48.000 And, you know, God, he can, he can bless the nation of Israel or he can bless individuals however he wants. 01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:49.000 Right? 01:00:49.000 --> 01:00:52.000 He can, he can give one person great riches. 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:55.000 He can give another person very little riches or no riches. 01:00:56.000 --> 01:01:03.000 And yet, you know, it's, it's still, it's not something that you could really say is unfair. 01:01:03.000 --> 01:01:11.000 Why? Because the reality is, is that all the blessings, however, you know, whatever blessings you compare one to another, 01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:15.000 at the end of the day, there's still blessings that you didn't necessarily deserve. 01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:16.000 That's right. 01:01:19.000 --> 01:01:26.000 You know, the Bible says that it rains on the, on the righteous and the wicked. Right? 01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:34.000 So, you know, we as human beings, we're receiving blessings from the Lord all the time, every single day. 01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:35.000 Right? 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:45.000 And, you know, we didn't do anything to earn these blessings necessarily because according to the Bible, what we've earned is death. 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:46.000 Right? 01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:49.000 That's what we would actually deserve is death. 01:01:49.000 --> 01:01:52.000 And so anything we get over and above that is truly a blessing. 01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:53.000 Right? 01:01:53.000 --> 01:02:01.000 And so if one person is blessed more than another person, you know, that shouldn't, that shouldn't upset us. 01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:02.000 Right? 01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:04.000 That shouldn't, we shouldn't allow that to make us mad. 01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:05.000 Right? 01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:07.000 And we shouldn't sit around and say, like, that's not fair. 01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:08.000 That's not fair. 01:02:08.000 --> 01:02:13.000 Because the thing about it is like, you know, this, this type of thing, I'm sure happens all the time. 01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:22.000 Like if, let's say, you know, there was an owner of a business, right, and he has two employees and they're both doing the exact same thing. 01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:27.000 And he's paying, you know, one person a certain wage. 01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:30.000 Let's say, you know, one person is getting, you know, $40,000 a year. 01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:35.000 But then the other employee, he just likes him and he gives him $80,000 a year. 01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:36.000 Right? 01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:41.000 Did the, did the owner of the business, did he do anything wrong? 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:43.000 No. 01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:46.000 He just blessed in one person more than the other. 01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:47.000 Right? 01:02:47.000 --> 01:02:51.000 And so, you know, somebody might say, well, that's not fair. 01:02:51.000 --> 01:02:57.000 But, but the reality is, is that the owner can do what he wants with his money. 01:02:57.000 --> 01:02:58.000 Right? 01:02:58.000 --> 01:02:59.000 So just like this householder. 01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:09.000 You know, and so I did kind of want to mention the fact that there is, you know, there is some correlation between fairness and justice. 01:03:09.000 --> 01:03:10.000 Right? 01:03:10.000 --> 01:03:11.000 And those are going to be pretty similar things. 01:03:11.000 --> 01:03:12.000 But there is a difference. 01:03:12.000 --> 01:03:13.000 Right? 01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:22.000 And, you know, fairness, like, you know, somebody might say, well, you know, this thing that happened was unfair. 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:25.000 But, you know, wasn't necessarily criminal though. 01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:31.000 Because when, you know, when we're, when we're thinking about something that's, you know, unfair versus unjust. 01:03:31.000 --> 01:03:32.000 Right? 01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:37.000 You know, you could have something that, you know, we would say, well, that's, that's just not fair. 01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:38.000 Right? 01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:41.000 But, you know, did criminal activity happen? 01:03:41.000 --> 01:03:53.000 Like, like in that, in that situation, you know, you know, somebody could make the argument that, hey, that's not really fair if they're doing the exact same job, but they have completely different salaries. 01:03:53.000 --> 01:03:56.000 You know, you could make the argument that that's not fair. 01:03:56.000 --> 01:03:57.000 Right. 01:03:57.000 --> 01:03:58.000 Okay. 01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:01.000 But you couldn't really make the argument that it's like criminal or something. 01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:02.000 Right. 01:04:02.000 --> 01:04:04.000 That it's unjust. 01:04:04.000 --> 01:04:05.000 Right? 01:04:05.000 --> 01:04:14.000 You know, and the Bible does talk about the fact that, hey, you know, basically, masters should pay his servants properly. 01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:15.000 He should pay them well. 01:04:15.000 --> 01:04:17.000 He shouldn't be like ripping them off or whatever. 01:04:17.000 --> 01:04:28.000 But, you know, as long as he's paying them a proper wage for whatever they're doing, you know, you can't just be like, well, you know, he should be paying everybody the same thing. 01:04:28.000 --> 01:04:37.000 Because, you know, the reality is, is that, you know, life is going to be unfair because God's, for one, I mean, God's not a communist. 01:04:37.000 --> 01:04:40.000 He's not making everything and everybody the exact same. 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:41.000 Amen. 01:04:41.000 --> 01:04:42.000 Right. 01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:44.000 You know, we don't all look the same. 01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:46.000 We don't all sound the same. 01:04:46.000 --> 01:04:48.000 You know, we don't all have the same temperaments. 01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:49.000 We're different. 01:04:49.000 --> 01:04:50.000 Right. 01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:52.000 God made us all different. 01:04:52.000 --> 01:04:55.000 And so there's going to be different outcomes. 01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:56.000 Right. 01:04:56.000 --> 01:04:57.000 Because God. 01:04:57.000 --> 01:05:01.000 Think about like how boring would that be if we just all looked exactly the same? 01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:03.000 We all acted exactly the same. 01:05:03.000 --> 01:05:05.000 We all did the exact same thing. 01:05:05.000 --> 01:05:08.000 It's like a giant hive mind where it's all it's like the board. 01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:09.000 Right. 01:05:09.000 --> 01:05:11.000 Everyone's completely equal. 01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:14.000 Nobody's having any like out of range thoughts. 01:05:14.000 --> 01:05:17.000 You know, we're all just like robots doing the same stuff. 01:05:17.000 --> 01:05:18.000 Right. 01:05:18.000 --> 01:05:21.000 I mean, how how boring and pathetic would that be? 01:05:21.000 --> 01:05:23.000 That would be terrible. 01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:26.000 And so, you know, does anybody want to live like that? 01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:27.000 Live in a hive? 01:05:27.000 --> 01:05:31.000 Does anybody want to go join a board cube today? 01:05:31.000 --> 01:05:33.000 Resistance is futile. 01:05:33.000 --> 01:05:35.000 Nobody would want to do that. 01:05:35.000 --> 01:05:36.000 Right. 01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:40.000 You know, if you're watching Star Trek, you're like, oh, no, the euro, he got turned into a board. 01:05:40.000 --> 01:05:41.000 No. 01:05:41.000 --> 01:05:42.000 Right. 01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:46.000 Because, you know, that just that seems like horrible to us. 01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:50.000 But if you wanted everything to be fair. 01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:51.000 Right. 01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:52.000 Yeah. 01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:53.000 Yeah. 01:05:53.000 --> 01:06:02.000 Let's say that you kind of have to have like a board cube situation where nobody's getting anything that they you know nobody's getting more than anybody else. 01:06:02.000 --> 01:06:04.000 You know, nobody's getting more resources. 01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:06.000 Nobody's getting more talents. 01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:13.000 You know, and everybody is just doing you know their job you know exactly the way that the board mind wants it or whatever. 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:18.000 That's what you'd have to have in order to make everything completely out of 100 percent fair in our minds. 01:06:18.000 --> 01:06:19.000 Right. 01:06:19.000 --> 01:06:23.060 20 and no no no no no it has to be 100% fair you know everybody's gonna work 12 01:06:23.060 --> 01:06:26.560 hours and everyone's gonna get one penny you know and and we're just we're 01:06:26.560 --> 01:06:30.240 definitely gonna make sure that all the pennies have ridges so nobody you know 01:06:30.240 --> 01:06:34.680 all the pennies are exactly equal in weight and of the same value and you know 01:06:34.680 --> 01:06:38.960 not a Jew has seen a put a breath on any of those coins so they're all equal 01:06:38.960 --> 01:06:44.600 right and so you know that's what you would have to do right but but who 01:06:44.600 --> 01:06:48.000 wants to live like that though who wants to be have everything exactly the same 01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:52.200 everyone has the exact same things you know and different societies have tried 01:06:52.200 --> 01:06:57.800 this right you know you think about the Bolshevik Revolution over in in Russia 01:06:57.800 --> 01:07:04.440 where they try to install communism create communism right and what's the 01:07:04.440 --> 01:07:09.360 whole point of communism well we're trying to make everything equal I mean 01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:16.280 who wants to go live in a commie block over in Russia today no thanks I'd rather 01:07:16.720 --> 01:07:21.560 not live I'd rather live in America where you know you have different 01:07:21.560 --> 01:07:27.120 outcomes you have unfair outcomes right where you know if you want to you know 01:07:27.120 --> 01:07:33.080 you can work really hard and you know get a you know you don't have to live in 01:07:33.080 --> 01:07:36.800 a commie block you can live in a regular house you know and you can have like a 01:07:36.800 --> 01:07:40.760 yard you know it's it's pretty nice that we don't live all just live in the 01:07:40.760 --> 01:07:45.080 commie blocks we actually have yards that we can you can that you can have 01:07:45.080 --> 01:07:48.960 your kids playing it's pretty great right and so you know but it but if we 01:07:48.960 --> 01:07:54.280 had a completely and totally and utterly fair society you know like the 01:07:54.280 --> 01:07:59.800 communists claimed to want you we'd all be living in a tiny tiny apartment but 01:07:59.800 --> 01:08:05.160 probably with very little heating you know and some commie block somewhere and 01:08:05.160 --> 01:08:10.280 the reality is of course you know in a communist society you know it's actually 01:08:10.280 --> 01:08:13.760 not fair because all the goy get the commie blocks and all the Jews they get 01:08:13.760 --> 01:08:18.200 all the money and power right it's actually even more unequal than in like 01:08:18.200 --> 01:08:23.800 a capitalist society where it's like instead of instead of the unequal a seed 01:08:23.800 --> 01:08:30.280 being there because you know some people you know choose different paths than 01:08:30.280 --> 01:08:34.760 other people so they get different outcomes it's a forced outcome you know 01:08:34.760 --> 01:08:49.800 which is far worse far far worse but you know in our world though you know 01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:52.480 there's a lot of things that we would perceive as being unfair that are really 01:08:52.480 --> 01:08:57.960 actually not unfair but but the reality is is that unfair things do happen and 01:08:57.960 --> 01:09:01.920 we should just realize that that's the world we live in the world is unfair 01:09:01.920 --> 01:09:07.280 because man is sinful because of our sin that we've screwed up and so we should 01:09:07.280 --> 01:09:13.160 just we should just realize that accept that and just do the best with the cards 01:09:13.160 --> 01:09:17.600 that were handed amen go ahead and turn to John chapter number 21 John chapter 01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:25.160 number 21 and you know there's there's lots of different examples of this type 01:09:25.160 --> 01:09:28.520 of thing happening in the Bible but this is this is a really good one I think in 01:09:28.520 --> 01:09:32.680 John chapter number 21 where you have you know two different people that are 01:09:32.680 --> 01:09:35.920 living two different lives and they have two different outcomes that's like well 01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:40.440 this one's not fair you know there this isn't fair right and here in John 01:09:40.440 --> 01:09:47.360 chapter number 21 this is basically when Jesus you know finds Peter you know 01:09:47.360 --> 01:09:51.680 fishing you know after he's supposed to be following Jesus Christ doing his will 01:09:51.680 --> 01:09:55.400 you know after he's resurrected right you know Peter decides he's gonna go 01:09:55.400 --> 01:10:00.080 fishing for some reason it's like dude Jesus rose like and then you're gonna go 01:10:00.080 --> 01:10:06.160 fishing like what dude but he goes fishing right and this is you know this 01:10:06.160 --> 01:10:10.920 is after Jesus like hey do you love me do you love me do you love me you know 01:10:10.920 --> 01:10:17.920 Peter's like you know you know you know you know and so right after that in John 01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:21.560 chapter number 21 look at verse number 18 it says very liberally I say unto 01:10:21.560 --> 01:10:26.680 thee when thou was young thou didst gird thyself and walkest whither thou 01:10:26.680 --> 01:10:31.320 wouldest but when thou shalt be old thou shalt thou shalt stretch forth thine 01:10:31.320 --> 01:10:36.600 hands and another shall gird thee and carry thee whether thou wouldest not he 01:10:36.600 --> 01:10:43.640 spake excuse me this spake he signifying by what death he should glorify God and 01:10:43.640 --> 01:10:50.200 when he had spoken this he saith unto him follow me then Peter turning about 01:10:50.240 --> 01:10:55.320 seeeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following which also leaned on his 01:10:55.320 --> 01:11:03.880 breast at supper and saith Lord which is he that bereth thee Peter seeing him 01:11:03.880 --> 01:11:10.760 saith to Jesus Lord and what shall this man do Jesus saith unto him if I will 01:11:10.760 --> 01:11:17.880 that he tarry till I come what is that to thee follow thou me and so so what's 01:11:17.920 --> 01:11:22.880 going on here is this Jesus is telling Peter basically how he's gonna die right 01:11:22.880 --> 01:11:27.040 now you know this stretching forth his hands you know a lot of people say well 01:11:27.040 --> 01:11:32.160 hey that's him stretching forth his hands on a cross and basically you know 01:11:32.160 --> 01:11:37.080 that's how people say that Peter died upside down on cross right you know 01:11:37.080 --> 01:11:41.560 maybe that happened maybe it didn't you know we don't know exactly what Jesus is 01:11:41.560 --> 01:11:44.840 referring to there but he's referring to what death he should die that should 01:11:44.840 --> 01:11:50.400 glorify God amen and so Peter's gonna die some way somehow that's gonna 01:11:50.400 --> 01:11:56.960 glorify God and then you know Peter he you know he's turning about he's like 01:11:56.960 --> 01:12:06.400 well what about him what about that guy it's like Jesus he's like well if he if 01:12:06.400 --> 01:12:12.680 he literally never dies if he's just alive until I come back what does that 01:12:12.680 --> 01:12:16.480 have to do with you what is that to be right why what how's that gonna affect 01:12:16.480 --> 01:12:24.880 you Peter yeah like is this isn't fair though what about him he you know I mean 01:12:24.880 --> 01:12:28.040 Peter you know I guess he you know if he probably is asking that because he 01:12:28.040 --> 01:12:33.640 realizes like oh man I'm gonna die in some horrible way you know and he's like 01:12:33.640 --> 01:12:39.800 well what about him you know is he gonna die if I'm gonna die in some horrible 01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:43.920 way I want him to die in some horrible way you know what kind of a mentality is 01:12:43.920 --> 01:12:47.960 that like I don't know you know so you Peter he's a great character in the 01:12:47.960 --> 01:12:53.000 Bible but he has a lot of moments where it's like dude like what are you doing 01:12:53.000 --> 01:12:58.080 you know Jesus he's like hey guess what I'm gonna die and then I'm gonna be 01:12:58.080 --> 01:13:03.000 resurrected and then Peter's just like that's not so that's not gonna happen be 01:13:03.000 --> 01:13:08.360 it far from thee and then Jesus like hey get behind me Satan you know I mean 01:13:08.400 --> 01:13:10.840 Peter has all kinds of these little moments where he's just saying something 01:13:10.840 --> 01:13:14.960 dumb right and you know we've all probably been like Peter where we're 01:13:14.960 --> 01:13:20.640 saying dumb stuff you know it happens right we get that foot and mouth disease 01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:26.600 you know it's something I suffer from greatly and so you know but he's like 01:13:26.600 --> 01:13:31.440 you know what what about him you know I want him to suffer too I wanted him to 01:13:31.440 --> 01:13:37.720 be at the cross next to me now like this is not a good attitude though like if 01:13:37.760 --> 01:13:42.040 just because you're suffering that doesn't mean that other people have to 01:13:42.040 --> 01:13:46.000 suffer with you you know there's that saying that what this says like a 01:13:46.000 --> 01:13:50.240 suffering loves company right and you know a lot this is something that 01:13:50.240 --> 01:13:53.640 people do a lot of times you know if they're having a bad day you know they 01:13:53.640 --> 01:13:57.520 want to bring everyone else down to their level but the but the thing about 01:13:57.520 --> 01:14:04.560 it is is that somebody else's joy is not hurting you right like if somebody else 01:14:04.600 --> 01:14:08.920 is happy and they're excelling in life and life is just going great for them 01:14:08.920 --> 01:14:16.320 everything is going well for them does that actually hurt you is that harming 01:14:16.320 --> 01:14:21.880 you in any way you know and it's like you know yeah but how come I can't have 01:14:21.880 --> 01:14:25.400 all the blessings that they have you know if you spend too much time on 01:14:25.400 --> 01:14:30.640 social media or whatever you know you'll you'll see all the all the great things 01:14:30.640 --> 01:14:34.960 that are happening in other people's lives or whatever and it's like you know 01:14:34.960 --> 01:14:38.760 you could get a sour aptitude because it's like well how come they not 01:14:38.760 --> 01:14:44.120 miserable like me you know but the reality is is that if they were 01:14:44.120 --> 01:14:48.000 miserable like you would you be happier 01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:57.080 I mean you shouldn't it shouldn't make you happy happier maybe for somebody 01:14:57.080 --> 01:15:00.560 maybe it does I don't know like they're just happier the more miserable 01:15:00.560 --> 01:15:04.280 everybody else is like I don't know but that but that's a wicked attitude though 01:15:04.280 --> 01:15:08.880 right that's not an attitude that we should have so if somebody else is being 01:15:08.880 --> 01:15:13.360 blessed right if somebody else if their life's going perfect if it's just going 01:15:13.360 --> 01:15:19.520 great like nothing ever goes wrong then just be happy for them just be glad for 01:15:19.520 --> 01:15:24.360 them or just don't think about them you know you know if somebody else's 01:15:24.360 --> 01:15:28.960 happiness is just bothers you I don't know what to do for you other than to 01:15:28.960 --> 01:15:32.000 say maybe I don't know maybe you could just pretend they're miserable I don't 01:15:32.000 --> 01:15:38.760 know but the reality is is that you know that's not an attitude that we should 01:15:38.760 --> 01:15:43.320 have if somebody else is being blessed just be happy for them because the 01:15:43.320 --> 01:15:49.080 reality is that their blessing this is not like a zero-sum game right what 01:15:49.080 --> 01:15:53.240 what's a what's a zero-sum game well that's basically like if you have that 01:15:53.240 --> 01:15:59.120 you know that there's one pie right and they're just the pie is only so big and 01:15:59.120 --> 01:16:05.560 there's so many people that can have part of the pie so whatever pie I take 01:16:05.560 --> 01:16:10.040 I'm basically making so that other people can't have that right 01:16:10.040 --> 01:16:14.680 that's a zero-sum game right so if I take half the pie that means that 01:16:14.680 --> 01:16:19.880 there's half the pie that everybody else can't have right and so if I take the 01:16:19.880 --> 01:16:25.160 whole pie that means nobody else got any pie right that's that's what it that's 01:16:25.160 --> 01:16:31.480 what a zero-sum game is is that I win at the expense of others right I receive 01:16:31.480 --> 01:16:41.120 pie at others lack of pie right and if I don't get pie it's it's gonna be to 01:16:41.120 --> 01:16:44.720 others game right other people are gonna get more pie because I got less pie does 01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:49.320 that make sense so but here's the thing about it life is not a zero-sum game 01:16:49.320 --> 01:16:56.400 and joy is not a zero-sum game you see I don't if I the more joyful I am I don't 01:16:56.400 --> 01:17:02.120 have to like suck joy out of other people to get that right right and so you 01:17:02.120 --> 01:17:06.600 know if somebody else is happy it's not like they've robbed your happiness 01:17:06.600 --> 01:17:12.480 right they haven't taken anything from you and so you know if somebody else is 01:17:12.480 --> 01:17:17.640 joyful and somebody else is happy you know don't let it you know don't let 01:17:17.640 --> 01:17:23.800 their joy suck your joy away right or or make your misery worse right because 01:17:23.800 --> 01:17:28.240 that's that's that's if if some if people are thinking that way it's just 01:17:28.240 --> 01:17:38.640 in their mind it's not reality so never let somebody else's happiness cause you 01:17:38.640 --> 01:17:45.160 to be you know an Eeyore right we don't we you know we don't need the Eeyore 01:17:45.160 --> 01:17:50.480 Baptist Church we need what's the piglet we need like piglet or we need 01:17:50.480 --> 01:17:55.000 poo Baptist Church we need the poo he's he's happy right I don't know that's I'm 01:17:55.000 --> 01:18:00.880 making references I probably shouldn't I don't know you know we need the poo you 01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:04.360 know he did he missed piglet a lot but that was a really good bacon sandwich 01:18:04.360 --> 01:18:10.120 something I don't know all right that would be a zero-sum game right you know 01:18:10.120 --> 01:18:15.680 whose happiness came with the expensive piglet okay all right you know what we're 01:18:15.680 --> 01:18:18.760 moving on from this point all right let's we're moving on all right go ahead 01:18:18.760 --> 01:18:24.560 and turn to Proverbs chapter number Proverbs chapter number 14 Proverbs 01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:28.920 chapter before I haven't you know I had I had a bunch of little poo bear Winnie 01:18:28.920 --> 01:18:32.920 the Pooh books when I was a kid but I don't remember enough about them to make 01:18:32.920 --> 01:18:36.840 those references you know I just remember the Eeyore is always grumpy you 01:18:36.840 --> 01:18:40.920 know and he needs to cheer up and be happy all right so here Proverbs chapter 01:18:40.920 --> 01:18:48.520 number 14 look at verse verse number 30 says a sound heart is the life of the 01:18:48.520 --> 01:18:54.680 flesh but envy the rottenness of the bones and a lot of where this this 01:18:54.680 --> 01:19:00.720 fairness problem comes from is when people are envying other people right so 01:19:00.720 --> 01:19:06.440 if somebody else if their life if their joy or whatever is making you 01:19:06.520 --> 01:19:12.920 unhappy what would we call that is envy right and so you know we're envying 01:19:12.920 --> 01:19:17.960 somebody else's either possessions or the life they have or how things are 01:19:17.960 --> 01:19:23.320 going for them or whatever it is you know if this is making you unhappy we 01:19:23.320 --> 01:19:27.320 would call this envy right and what does the Bible says it says envy is the 01:19:27.320 --> 01:19:32.920 rottenness of the bones now if you think about it you know your bones are a pretty 01:19:32.920 --> 01:19:36.920 important part of your body right if you don't have strong bones you're gonna 01:19:36.920 --> 01:19:43.200 have you're gonna have issues and you know there's a there's a this youtuber 01:19:43.200 --> 01:19:47.600 that I used to watch every once in a while what's his name he was a gun 01:19:47.600 --> 01:19:53.560 tuber and he was from the great state of Oregon right so so shoot why can't I 01:19:53.560 --> 01:19:56.480 remember his name well anyway so this guy he got I think you got like 01:19:56.480 --> 01:20:05.720 pancreatic cancer and he apparently at one point his hips broke and then he 01:20:05.720 --> 01:20:10.360 fell down why well because his bones were all messed up right and he you know 01:20:10.360 --> 01:20:15.000 eventually he he died from pancreatic cancer and you know it's a you know a 01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:21.760 sad situation right but you know his his bones basically were were suffering 01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:26.200 from this pancreatic cancer they became super weak to where his hips literally 01:20:26.200 --> 01:20:31.680 just broke while he's standing there right and you know so that's kind of the 01:20:31.680 --> 01:20:37.000 picture that the Bible is painting here where if you're just letting envy rule 01:20:37.000 --> 01:20:44.000 your life like it's like you it's like having patriot a pancreatic cancer and 01:20:44.000 --> 01:20:49.720 having your bones break it's like the rottenness of the bones right and the 01:20:49.720 --> 01:20:53.960 thing about it is is that you know like I was saying earlier having this envy 01:20:53.960 --> 01:21:00.680 will not help you it's not going to help you in any way because you know 01:21:00.680 --> 01:21:05.360 whatever it is that you're envious of you can't have it you know you can 01:21:05.360 --> 01:21:09.600 there's other things you can have again this is not like a zero-sum game where 01:21:09.600 --> 01:21:13.480 if you you know you have to take it from them in order for you to have it that's 01:21:13.480 --> 01:21:19.400 you know that's not the case that's not true it's not a zero-sum game and so 01:21:19.400 --> 01:21:27.040 being envious of other people will not help you 2nd Corinthians chapter number 01:21:27.040 --> 01:21:31.360 10 verse number 12 it says where we dare not make ourselves of the number or 01:21:31.360 --> 01:21:35.400 compare ourselves with some that commend themselves but they measuring 01:21:35.400 --> 01:21:41.080 themselves by themselves and comparing themselves among themselves are not wise 01:21:41.080 --> 01:21:48.000 and so you know you shouldn't be sitting around just comparing yourself to other 01:21:48.360 --> 01:21:52.960 people necessarily okay you know if it like you know there's a there's multiple 01:21:52.960 --> 01:21:56.760 ways you could do this that are that are negative I would say if you're just like 01:21:56.760 --> 01:22:02.400 sitting around but hey I'm just so much better than so and so yeah or you know 01:22:02.400 --> 01:22:06.160 if you're like oh you know they just have it so easy you know like how come 01:22:06.160 --> 01:22:09.880 how come I can't have how come I can't have their life it's just so easy 01:22:09.880 --> 01:22:13.600 nothing ever goes wrong for them and they you know you know whatever it is 01:22:14.560 --> 01:22:19.000 you know these are these are evil ways to compare yourself yeah right and you 01:22:19.000 --> 01:22:24.880 know especially if you're comparing yourself to like people that are you 01:22:24.880 --> 01:22:28.800 know in your life right you don't want to be doing that because you could be 01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:33.400 causing strife and issues between people that you're that you're living with 01:22:33.400 --> 01:22:36.000 right people that you're going to church with or people that you're interacting 01:22:36.000 --> 01:22:39.840 with at the job site or whatever right if you if you want to compare yourself 01:22:39.840 --> 01:22:43.760 you know if you want to make yourself feel good why don't you compare yourself 01:22:43.760 --> 01:22:47.800 to people in like third world countries or whatever compare yourself to them and 01:22:47.800 --> 01:22:51.400 then just be like wow I'm just so blessed right why don't you do that right 01:22:51.400 --> 01:22:58.160 you know if here's a tip right if you if you're if you're taking your wife out 01:22:58.160 --> 01:23:02.880 and your family out on just like a cruise on a drive right don't drive 01:23:02.880 --> 01:23:08.160 through like the rich neighborhood because then it's like well how can we 01:23:08.160 --> 01:23:14.360 get out like that yeah drive through like the most ghetto part of the 01:23:14.360 --> 01:23:19.280 neighborhood you can find like wow honey I'm so glad you're such a great provider 01:23:19.280 --> 01:23:31.600 right or you could just stay home and save the gas money right wait till 01:23:31.600 --> 01:23:36.240 operation Epstein fury to end you know maybe the gas prices are gonna go down 01:23:36.240 --> 01:23:40.840 and then then you can you know maybe think about having a having a having a 01:23:40.840 --> 01:23:45.760 drive with your family but other than that you know you got a you got to save 01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:51.800 the tank all right tell your wife hey we can't go on a drive because but well for 01:23:51.800 --> 01:23:54.120 a couple reasons we're gonna be comparing ourselves among ourselves 01:23:54.120 --> 01:23:59.600 which is not wise and Epstein fury is still happening so you know gas prices 01:23:59.600 --> 01:24:05.640 are still up so yeah so what was I saying with that I have no idea but 01:24:05.680 --> 01:24:13.280 you know you want to avoid making these bad comparisons with people right and 01:24:13.280 --> 01:24:19.760 you know because the thing about it is that you are living a very specific life 01:24:19.760 --> 01:24:26.920 right you are living your life you know I'm living my life right my life is not 01:24:26.920 --> 01:24:30.840 the same as brother Paul's it's not the same as brother Ryan's right it's not 01:24:30.840 --> 01:24:34.080 the same as anybody else in this room or anybody else on planet Earth we all have 01:24:34.120 --> 01:24:38.080 we have different difficulties and issues that we that we have to deal with 01:24:38.080 --> 01:24:46.400 right you know so we so comparing ourselves among ourselves is a really 01:24:46.400 --> 01:24:50.480 productive thing to do it's not a it's not a good thing to do right now you 01:24:50.480 --> 01:24:53.880 know I'm sure that there are certain situations where you could you know make 01:24:53.880 --> 01:24:57.000 certain comparisons right I'm not I'm not gonna condemn every single 01:24:57.000 --> 01:25:01.880 comparison ever right but there's a lot of situations where you just shouldn't 01:25:01.880 --> 01:25:06.680 be comparing yourself right like if you know if maybe if you're doing like a lot 01:25:06.680 --> 01:25:11.520 of Bible reading you know you probably shouldn't be just comparing yourself 01:25:11.520 --> 01:25:17.120 there but as hey hey brother how much Bible did you read this week ten 01:25:17.120 --> 01:25:26.440 chapters I had a 65 you know that's not a good comparison is it right or or maybe 01:25:26.440 --> 01:25:29.880 like if you if you're struggling if you were struggling to read the Bible last 01:25:29.880 --> 01:25:36.920 week you know maybe if somebody is like if somebody's like hey I did 65 chapters 01:25:36.920 --> 01:25:40.320 you know announcing it you know it's probably not a good thing for them to 01:25:40.320 --> 01:25:44.560 be doing if they're just announcing that for in 65 chapters Bible yeah you know 01:25:44.560 --> 01:25:48.600 don't worry about that right don't compare yourself to them don't let them 01:25:48.600 --> 01:25:52.040 get you down because here's the thing like just the fact that they're 01:25:52.040 --> 01:25:56.360 announcing to the whole world how much Bible they've read like only ten chapters 01:25:56.360 --> 01:26:02.480 65 you know that's not a spiritual thing for them to be doing and they 01:26:02.480 --> 01:26:07.040 should be very embarrassed about that so you know if you if you see you know if 01:26:07.040 --> 01:26:12.320 you're comparing yourself like oh man I'm not doing well spiritually because of 01:26:12.320 --> 01:26:15.920 a comparison with other people you shouldn't be doing that don't worry 01:26:15.920 --> 01:26:19.600 about those other people why well because for one they're on a different 01:26:19.600 --> 01:26:24.000 life track than you are okay you know you should be comparing yourself to 01:26:24.000 --> 01:26:29.320 yourself right or you can compare yourself to Jesus right and you know 01:26:29.320 --> 01:26:32.680 here's the thing when you compare yourself to Jesus you know we're never 01:26:32.680 --> 01:26:38.440 gonna measure up right but however that is still the goal amen and so but you 01:26:38.440 --> 01:26:45.120 should be comparing yourself to yourself right like hey within yourself you know 01:26:45.120 --> 01:26:50.760 can you read more Bible can you memorize more verses can you and the answer to 01:26:50.760 --> 01:26:55.680 all those questions is yes right amen but you know have you spent enough time 01:26:55.680 --> 01:27:00.560 in prayer have you spent enough time doing XYZ right and so you know you 01:27:00.560 --> 01:27:04.960 should you shouldn't be worrying about other people's races right because God 01:27:04.960 --> 01:27:12.200 has set a race before you and it's your job to run your race you know it's not 01:27:12.200 --> 01:27:17.080 your job to run everybody else's race right and so you know maybe somebody 01:27:17.080 --> 01:27:22.760 else's race is way easier you know you know in track and field you know they 01:27:22.760 --> 01:27:26.520 have those races where they have to jump over the hurdles and you know maybe 01:27:26.520 --> 01:27:31.960 somebody else maybe they only got one hurdle right but you got like I got like 01:27:31.960 --> 01:27:37.280 ten hurdles well you know jump your hurdles do it with all the gusto and all 01:27:37.280 --> 01:27:41.400 the correct form you know get your toe up and you know at the right speed or 01:27:41.400 --> 01:27:45.720 whatever jump those hurdles you know and if you crash and burn on hurdles or 01:27:45.720 --> 01:27:50.200 whatever just you know get back up and and do it again you know and you know 01:27:50.200 --> 01:27:55.600 because hey you know maybe God put those hurdles in there for a reason or maybe 01:27:55.600 --> 01:27:58.920 there's no reason that there's hurdles there but you just got our jump over 01:27:58.920 --> 01:28:03.760 him anyway right and God's gonna bless you when you jump those hurdles without 01:28:03.760 --> 01:28:10.200 complaint right let's see here where was I Philippians go ahead and turn to 01:28:10.200 --> 01:28:13.520 Philippians chapter number two verse number 14 we're we're gonna be wrapping 01:28:13.520 --> 01:28:16.080 up here pretty soon 01:28:21.400 --> 01:28:25.120 Philippians chapter number two look at verse number 14 it says do all things 01:28:25.120 --> 01:28:30.840 without murmuring and disputing that ye may be blameless and harmless the sons 01:28:30.840 --> 01:28:35.320 of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom 01:28:35.320 --> 01:28:42.760 ye shine as lights in the world and so you know even even if you have more 01:28:42.760 --> 01:28:47.560 hurdles than somebody else you know again jump over those things without 01:28:47.560 --> 01:28:51.560 complaining without without disputing be like hey you know say somebody get these 01:28:51.560 --> 01:28:56.040 extra hurdles get these hurdles off of my lane and put them in his lane he needs 01:28:56.040 --> 01:29:00.840 more hurdles you know put more hurdles in his lane no he doesn't it doesn't need 01:29:00.840 --> 01:29:05.360 any more hurdles you know maybe you can't see all the hurdles that that guy has to 01:29:05.360 --> 01:29:12.480 jump you know again you know when you're going back to that comparison verse 01:29:12.520 --> 01:29:16.600 if you're comparing your life to other people's lives do you have all the data 01:29:16.600 --> 01:29:21.840 to compare proper to make a good comparison with no you don't have all 01:29:21.840 --> 01:29:25.360 the data you don't know what their life is truly like you don't know all the 01:29:25.360 --> 01:29:28.840 things that go on you don't know all the different struggles that they had to go 01:29:28.840 --> 01:29:34.440 through during the day or whatever and so you know just do your job without 01:29:34.440 --> 01:29:40.200 murmuring and disputing you know and you know be blameless in the sight of God and 01:29:40.440 --> 01:29:46.320 God is gonna be happy with that and you know when you go through difficulties 01:29:46.320 --> 01:29:51.760 and you know you just suffer through unfair situations in life and you don't 01:29:51.760 --> 01:29:56.320 want to complain about it that is great testimony before the world right that's 01:29:56.320 --> 01:30:00.680 it that's you know it's gonna make you a shining light before the world like 01:30:00.680 --> 01:30:05.920 especially you know if you suffer through something at work like where you 01:30:05.960 --> 01:30:10.640 know you just get blatantly you know defrauded or something you know 01:30:10.640 --> 01:30:14.280 something unfair happens amen and you know everyone sees that and you don't 01:30:14.280 --> 01:30:20.120 let it bother you then that's a great testimony right people like wow you know 01:30:20.120 --> 01:30:25.160 that guy you know he obviously should have got the promotion but somebody else 01:30:25.160 --> 01:30:32.600 did and that was totally unfair but he's not bothered by it you know you know 01:30:32.600 --> 01:30:36.920 that's kind of like the lifestyle evangelism right you know I believe 01:30:36.920 --> 01:30:41.720 lifestyle evangelism so long as it's not a replacement for soul winning. There's 01:30:41.720 --> 01:30:45.320 nothing wrong with lifestyle evangelism unless it's replacing soul winning right 01:30:45.320 --> 01:30:50.120 and so you know it's a it's a good testimony so that when you do have the 01:30:50.120 --> 01:30:54.720 opportunity to present the gospel to somebody they're not like well you know 01:30:54.720 --> 01:30:58.520 he just freaked out and had a major hissy fit when he didn't get the 01:30:58.520 --> 01:31:02.000 promotion so why would I listen to him right that's that means you're not a 01:31:02.040 --> 01:31:06.880 very good light but if you take those things patiently then you can be a good 01:31:06.880 --> 01:31:12.040 light to those that are that are around you and you know the the more you know 01:31:12.040 --> 01:31:17.240 people around you are freaking out about these different things and the the the 01:31:17.240 --> 01:31:21.680 less you are the more of a light that you're gonna be right the the darker the 01:31:21.680 --> 01:31:27.440 world gets around us the easier it is to shine and just be a good example right 01:31:27.920 --> 01:31:35.240 and so you know again title the sermon is life just isn't fair and you know we 01:31:35.240 --> 01:31:39.920 should be okay with that we shouldn't let it bother us and you know when when 01:31:39.920 --> 01:31:45.080 other people are blessed and we're not we should be okay with that you know if I 01:31:45.080 --> 01:31:48.800 if I were to give a thousand dollars to everybody except for Paul you know Paul 01:31:48.800 --> 01:31:53.200 just needs to be okay with that by the way I'm not giving anybody a thousand 01:31:53.200 --> 01:32:04.200 dollars you know I was thinking about getting like a bunch of pennies and just 01:32:04.200 --> 01:32:07.920 like handing out pennies everybody except for Paul but you know I don't know 01:32:07.920 --> 01:32:12.240 I didn't have enough I had some pennies yeah it's too cheap right I had some 01:32:12.240 --> 01:32:15.760 pennies but they were like covered in like sticky stuff and it's like yeah you 01:32:15.760 --> 01:32:21.280 know I heard people are gonna want the penny I'm gonna like pick up my notes 01:32:21.280 --> 01:32:26.800 and it's gonna stick to my hands and it's like oh yeah not good then you know 01:32:26.800 --> 01:32:30.280 they'll be like hey you gave me this penny this wasn't fair it's stuck to my 01:32:30.280 --> 01:32:35.680 hand I can't get rid of it you know like it's yours forever all right well 01:32:35.680 --> 01:32:42.480 anyways you know what again life isn't fair you know we should be okay with 01:32:42.480 --> 01:32:48.880 this you know don't let it upset you it is what it is right and and guess what 01:32:48.880 --> 01:32:53.080 we're the recipients of unfairness and we should be very happy about that 01:32:53.080 --> 01:32:57.960 because it wasn't fair for Jesus to pay for our sins for us and you know what 01:32:57.960 --> 01:33:03.120 I'm really happy that life isn't fair because I get salvation for free right 01:33:03.120 --> 01:33:06.200 and so let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer dear heavenly father I 01:33:06.200 --> 01:33:08.400 thank you for this day Lord I thank you for everything you've done for us Lord 01:33:08.400 --> 01:33:12.120 we hit pray that you please help us to get through life even though it is it is 01:33:12.120 --> 01:33:18.240 not fair and help us to rejoice in the blessings we receive and not lament the 01:33:18.240 --> 01:33:22.020 fact that others may be blessed more in our lives or that we think that they're 01:33:22.020 --> 01:33:27.720 blessed more help us Lord to rejoice in the blessings that we receive and help 01:33:27.720 --> 01:33:33.320 us to only look at others lives so that we can look to bless them Lord and look 01:33:33.320 --> 01:33:36.120 to the things of others and not to things of our own and dear Jesus name 01:33:36.120 --> 01:33:38.560 amen 01:33:38.560 --> 01:33:58.240 all right if you want to take your him knows turn to page number 16 page number 01:33:58.240 --> 01:34:14.320 316 I have decided to follow Jesus page number 316 we'll sing it out on the 01:34:44.320 --> 01:34:55.160 back though none go with me still I will follow though none go with me still I 01:34:55.160 --> 01:35:07.800 will follow though none go with me still I will follow no turning back no turning 01:35:08.800 --> 01:35:23.200 the world behind me the cross before me the world behind me the cross before me 01:35:23.200 --> 01:35:34.800 the cross before me no turning back no turning back all right I can sing you 01:35:34.800 --> 01:35:38.360 everybody but apology please close this order prayer 01:35:38.360 --> 01:35:42.800 this message to remind ourselves Lord do not get stuck in the question 01:35:42.800 --> 01:35:48.000 concern who gets what and if I did or they didn't I Lord let us just always 01:35:48.000 --> 01:35:52.560 know Lord in the end this life isn't fair but thank goodness we were saved 01:35:52.560 --> 01:35:56.640 because of your grace because we didn't deserve the great gift that we was 01:35:56.640 --> 01:36:01.000 amen