love to tell the story. Song number 228. I love to tell the story.
Sing it out together with me on the first. I love to tell the story.
Seeing things are the same. The story is true. Tell the story. Tell the story. Time to tell.
Singing. Thank you for not leaving me alone up here on the acapella. I always
appreciate that. I'll be doing the announcement today because brother Jason
and brother Paul are both sick so I don't know what they're getting chastised for
but there must have been something right there. Just kidding of course but
we have a verse of the week which is 2nd Timothy 4/7 which is I have fought a
good fight I finished my course I have kept the faith which is 2nd Timothy 4/7
again. So we're here at our Sunday morning service time we obviously have
our 330 service time and so winning in between that we have our Wednesday Bible
study which we will be on 1st Corinthians 6 I think part 2 on that
talking about all the list of sins that he says in such for some of you but now
you're washed and I you're justified now you're sanctified so that's an
interesting chapter there's there's actually a lot of different things that
I want to touch on concerning those verses alone there's a lot of meat there
if you will that you can dive into so and you guys know that I'm one to be
diving into it like that um we got our salvation total though for October we
had seven for the month of October and then we have one so far for November do
we get another one no okay so that's still a praise God we got one for this
month and then we had a really good conversation with brother Ryan's co-worker
as well went to his house this is guy I said this in my sermon before but I think
it's just so true and I think it like really made me think about it with this
too when we're giving the gospel to this guy some people just are raised in a
different you know salvation system their whole entire life so it's really
important for us when we're talking to people to be patient with them because
you know so many times I think that like we hear the gospel so much so it's just
like the ABCs to us basically come on you don't know this this is like just
the simplest thing from the Bible but they don't know it that's the whole
point right that's what we're going out to reach them with the gospel because a
lot of people in this world unfortunately have been deceived with a
workspace salvation they just live in a constant fear of God rather than the
love and the appreciation that we should have by for God by understanding
that salvation is eternal with our upcoming events though we have the
Chaney soul winning marathon which is the 15th of November we had to kind of do a
little moving of it because of the holidays this month and we're also
moving the homeschool day to the 18th I can't remember exactly why that was but
there was a reason for it we're moving it to the 18th of November at 11 a.m. so
you can just RSVP with my wife if you're planning on coming to that and
then we are gonna have the children's choir practice starting on the 23rd of
November which will be after the morning service every single time which will be
a blessing it's always great to hear little kids sing especially when they're
singing out to God yeah and then we have for the 25th it'll be the the midweek
service is gonna change it's gonna go from a Wednesday to a Tuesday because
we're gonna be traveling out of town and I didn't really want to have to burden
the men to come up with another sermon that week so we're gonna be changing it
from the Wednesday service to a Tuesday we do that from time to time when it
comes to holidays like that and then we're gonna have a men's preaching night
on November 30th so I'm excited to hear that well what you guys come up with
again because the men the first men's preaching that was good I just wish we
had it recorded now but uh we got nuked into oblivion on that one and the
sermons corrupted which was of the utmost unfortunate situation but for
this one we're gonna have like three cameras on this okay we are not gonna
let these sermons get nuked away but we're also having a Pi social that night
and I told and the most what's up group excuse me I posted that maybe it was
for the Tuesday service I was saying that you know if you want to bring food
on Tuesday you can we just don't want to burden everybody with like multiple
weeks in a row of bringing food to the church it just thought that would be a
little bit much but if you want to bring food on Tuesday you're absolutely more
than welcome to and then our verse of the week for the children is Philippians
4 13 which is I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me so
that's an easy one so all you kiddos should be getting candy for that one
because that one you can you can learn just like that yeah exactly yeah you
can't be standing with the kids but when they go to sing but with that all being
said we'll just kind of get into the prayer request I don't think we have
anything else oh we do have the birthdays though actually right did we
already sang to Josiah for his birthday yeah and then my wife's birthday the 13th
she's trying to hide back there what day is that I mean I guess we could sing on
Wednesday but we could also embarrass her today too we could give her the
double helpings of that yeah let's do that okay we'll see her twice no no
favoritism here it's just you know okay but let's sing happy birthday singing out
with me happy birthday to birth you do it sound there you could kind of hear
Paul saying that out of the way at his house um with that all being said we're
gonna have our third song now it's gonna be a song number 11 yes on chapter
number 11 song number 11 sing it with me on the first in the Lord put I might
for love the if the foundations be destroyed students this net his can see
and I'll just bless you off real quick dear mother God thank you so much it's
wonderful day thank you so much for everything you do for us the church God
I just pray that you would be with me when I preach a sermon later and I pray
that you'd be to all people that give to this church God and that give not just
their money but give their time and give their effort and give their their all to
this church God and that really truly try to you know serve you with all their
heart soul mind and strength God I just pray that you'd help us to do that even
more because I know nobody's perfect in that regard and I just pray that you
would bless the service today just a pray amen buddy go ahead and take your
bibles and turn to Luke chapter 10 Luke chapter 10 and as always here at sure
foundation Baptist Church we read the entire chapter before the preaching Luke
chapter 10 the Bible reads after these things the Lord appointed other 70 also
and sent them two and two before his face into every city in place whether he
himself would come therefore said he unto them the harvest truly is great but
the laborers are few pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would
send forth laborers into his harvest go your ways behold I send you forth as
lambs among wolves carry neither purse nor script nor shoes and salute no man
by the way and into whatsoever house ye enter first say peace be to this house
and if the son of peace be there your peace shall rest upon it if not it shall
turn to you again and in the same house remain eating and drinking such things
as they give for the laborer is worthy of his hire go not from house to house
and into whatsoever city enter and they receive you eat such things as are set
before you and heal the sick that are therein and say unto them the kingdom of
God is come nigh unto you but into whatsoever city enter and they receive
you not go your ways out into the streets of the same and say even the
very dust of your city which cleaveth on us we do wipe off against you not
withstanding be ye sure of this that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you but
I say unto you that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for
that city woe unto thee Torazin woe unto thee Bethsaida for if the mighty
works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which have been done in you they had a
great while ago repented sitting in sackcloth and ashes but it shall be more
tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at that judgment than for you and thou
Capernaum which are exalted to heaven shall be thrust down to hell he that
heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me and he that
despiseth me despiseth him that sent me and the 70 returned again with joy
saying Lord even the devils are subject unto us through thy name and he said
unto them I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven behold I give unto you
power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the
enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you notwithstanding and this rejoice
not that the spirits are subject unto you but rather rejoice because your names
are written in heaven in that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said I thank thee
oh father Lord of heaven and earth that thou hast hid these things from the wise
and prudent and has revealed them unto babes even so father for it seemed good
in thy sight all things are delivered to me of my father and no man knoweth who
the son is but the father and who the father is but the son and he to whom the
son will reveal him and he turned him unto his disciples and said privately
blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see for I tell you that
many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see and have
not seen them and to hear those things which ye hear and have not heard them
and behold a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him saying master what shall I
do to inherit an eternal life and he said unto him what is written in the
law how readest thou and he answering said thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy strength and with all
thy mind and thy neighbor as thyself and he said unto him thou has answered
right this do and thou shalt live but he willing to justify himself said unto
Jesus and who is my neighbor and Jesus answering said a certain man went down
from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves which stripped him of his
raiment and wounded him and departed leaving him half dead and by chance
there came down a certain priests that way and when he saw him he passed by on
the other side and likewise a Levite when he was at the place came by and
looked on him and passed by on the other side but a certain Samaritan as he
journeyed came where he was and when he saw him he had compassion on him and
went to him and bound up his wounds pouring in oil and wine and set him on
his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him and on the morrow
when he departed he took out two pence and gave them to the host and said unto
him take care of him and whatsoever thou spendeth more when I come again I
will repay thee which now of these three thinkest thou was neighbor unto him that
fell among the thieves and he said he showed and and he said he that showed
mercy on him then Jesus said unto him go and do likewise now it came to pass as
they went that he entered into a certain village and a certain woman named Martha
received him into her house and she had a sister called Mary which also sat at
Jesus's feet and heard his word but Martha was cumbered about much serving
and came to him and said Lord does thou not care that my sister hath left me to
serve alone bid her therefore that she help me and Jesus answered and said unto
her Martha Martha thou art careful and troubled about many things but one thing
is needful and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away
from her brother Jake could you pray for the service amen you guys are there in
Luke chapter number 10 we're gonna look down at verse number 25 of this chapter
which says and behold a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him saying master
what shall I do to inherit eternal life he said unto him what is written in the
law how readest thou and he answering said thou shalt love the Lord thy God
with all thy heart and with all thy soul with all thy strength and with all that
mine and thy neighbor as thyself and he said unto him that was answer right this
do and thou shalt live but he willing to justify himself said unto Jesus and who
is my neighbor which is the title of my sermon this morning let's pray. Dear Father God
thank you so much for a wonderful day. Thank you so much for everything you do for us God. Thank you so much for
this great church. God thank you so much for everybody that showed up to the
church service this morning. God thank you so much for the people that I know
would show up if they they weren't sick or didn't have something pressing in
their schedule. God I just pray that you would bless us all as a church. God I just
pray that you fill me with your Holy Spirit right now God and that you'd use
me to preach a sermon that would edify the people in this room God and I just
pray that you would help me to say what you want me to say and keep me from
saying what you don't want me to say and that you would help me to give
something for these people to take home to apply their life for the rest of this
week. In Jesus name I pray, Amen. Telling my sermon like I said again is who is my
neighbor and we're here in Luke chapter number 10. I just realized now, did I
forget to pray during the announcements? Is that what it was? You guys were kind of
looking at me funny. I was like what's going on? Okay that makes sense though
okay but we prayed a couple times now so we're good. We'll make up for it in the
night service. Yeah the double prayer. But we're here in Luke chapter number 10 and
today I'm gonna be talking about a very popular story in the Bible and where a
very famous question gets asked which is this question, who is my neighbor? And
today I'm not gonna spend very much time on the answer per se to this question
because the answer to this question is very simple in my opinion, who our
neighbor is. I think it's very easy to understand when we just kind of look at
the very basic teaching that Jesus is teaching here. But today most of this
sermon is going to be focused on the idea of why someone asks a question like this in
the Bible. Why is it this man is asking and who is my neighbor? It's kind of the
main focus of my sermon. And so right off the bat for this sermon I'll just say
this, go to 2nd Timothy 2.23 and keep your finger there in Luke 10 because
will be there most of the sermon. 2nd Timothy 2 verse number 23 I'll start off
by saying that a lot of times people in the world will have phrases that they say
that contradict the Bible and you just need to really be careful about things
that are contrary to the Bible that we repeat in this world. Like a lot of times
people will say just like listen to your heart or something like that but the
Bible says that your heart is wicked. It's super when you show me listen to
your heart. That is the opposite of what the Bible teaches. But another thing that
people say a lot is they'll say there's no such thing as dumb questions. But this
is also not true according to the Bible okay. Because we see there in 2 Timothy
2 23 it says but foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do
gender strife. So there are foolish questions. There are unlearned questions
what the Bible says. There are dumb questions and there's also dumb answers and dumb
conclusions if you will. But I was gonna think about this in my sermon like how
there are really many different types of questions in this world. Like think of
like something like a rhetorical question which is where God, like an
example that is God's lightened Job up towards the end of the book of Job. He's
like where were you when I laid the foundation in this world? Who feeds the
goats by the way? Who causes the the lightning to come down? He's like who
causes the snow? Who feeds all these animals in this world? Where were you
when I was doing all these things? And he's not expecting Job to answer him.
It's a rhetorical question. It's a question that's getting you to think
about basically, and that's sorry how dumb you were being, but in that example
okay, but we do the same thing with like even our kids where it's like you'll
like kids will be like well why can't I stay up as late as I want to mom and dad?
Why can't I? I'm like seven years old now. Why can't I choose? And you're like who
pays the bills in this house? Who feeds you? Who puts your clothes on? That's why
you can't choose, right? Rhetorical questions. But then you also have questions
that are like questions that are really just an answer or like I would say like
an answer framed as a question. I see a lot like in Q&A is where someone will
try to like really seem smart so they'll like just like they'll ask a question
but it's really an answer like they'll say something like you know because we
know this and because of this and because you know Josephus said this and
because the hypostatic union therefore what do you think about this? And you're
like well this is not really a question though this is like an answer to show
how smart you are really when you kind of think about people do this kind of
stuff all the time like they'll throw out a bunch of big words and it'll be
like a 20 paragraph question you're like at some point this is no longer a
question this is a statement that you're actually saying another one like a
leading question one that we used to do in school which is kind of funny but we'd
be like do your parents know that you're gay and the trick to that is that most
people would say no you're like oh well you better tell them you know the longer
you wait the harder it gets right but that's like a leading question right
that you do to someone and but the question this guy asked in this story I
was thinking of all these different kind of questions because there are many
types of questions in this world is a question that is of justification he's
seeking to justify himself in this story is what we see and just as a little kind
of side note but it's not really sign it because it kind of goes with what I'm
saying but whenever you see Jesus being questioned in the Bible you should find
out what kind of question it is that he's being asked and what is the spirit
in the attitude behind the questioner and the question itself because we'll
see a lot of times in the Bible that Jesus will answer people's questions
according to the attitude and the humbleness that they're coming to him
with like it makes me think of like with Nicodemus for example he's very
patient with Nicodemus and he gives the most famous verse in the Bible to
Nicodemus because Nicodemus is genuinely seeking the truth he's
genuinely seeking to find answers from Jesus Christ but then you have times
like with the scribes and Pharisees or like with the rich young ruler or with
this man in this story where Jesus kind of meets them where they're at if you
will like because when you think about what this man's trying to do what is he
trying to do he's trying to tempt Jesus Christ it says in verse number 25 it
says he's seeking to justify himself so in my opinion because Jesus Christ knows
that he's trying to manipulate this conversation to justify himself Jesus
Christ gives him an answer that is the most literal way of how to justify
yourself because he asked the question like what do I do to inherit eternal
life is what he asked him and Jesus Christ and when he he says like what do
you think the answer is and then he quotes him a Bible verse like
perfectly which by the way that's kind of like a sign of this as well when
people do stuff like this like that should be obvious when someone knows the
answer the question that they're asking you that should be like a little bit of
a red flag to you because like this guy's like asking Jesus like what are
we supposed to do to get to heaven he's like I don't know what do you think he's
like we need to love God with our heart soul mind strength and love our
neighbors ourself it's like well it sounds like you know the answer to your
question then right it'd be like if someone asked us like what do you guys
believe the Bible teaches about you know sodomy okay and then you're like I
don't know what do you think and they're like they quote Leviticus 2013 to you
it's like well wait a minute why are you asking me then because you know what the
Bible says about it right it's kind of the same idea here where this man is
asking Jesus this question he's trying to manipulate the conversation he's
trying to justify himself so Jesus gives him the answer that he's looking for
truly he gives him an answer that allows him to justify himself by saying hey this
do and now shall live which someone would be like well then is Jesus lying
he's not lying because here's the reality of things there and I said this
before but it's true there are two ways to heaven you can be a perfect person or
you can believe in Jesus Christ but you're never going to be a perfect
person so you should believe on Jesus Christ that is the catch in that
scenario and so when because this guy is seeking to tempt Jesus and justify him
that's why I believe he answers him in this fashion because the catch would be
that there's none righteous no not one and that for all of sin and come short
of the glory of God but so Jesus is not lying here he is telling him the truth
it's just an answer that's like what would you say majorly literal because
he's seeking to justify himself and you can try to justify yourself by keeping
the law but good luck with it because Jesus was the only person ever actually
be able to do that thing but because this man has an agenda and he's seen
to justify himself he's playing games with Jesus Christ he gives him an
answer according to his own heart and you just realize that if you think
you're smart enough to outwit God to play a stupid game with him just realize
that God can give you a very stupid prize okay if you're trying to play a
very stupid game with God and so you should never try to even play games
with God in the first place that is the like the yeah it's like the dumbest
thing you could do but um it kind of reminds me of sometimes is what I'll do
out out sewing and this is not all the time this is very rare occasion but
sometimes you'll go out sewing you like knock on someone's door and they'll come
to you out to you and they just have like a smug look on their face like what
are you doing at my door okay like hey what is that maybe the church being
super nice and they're like I have a church that I'm already going to thank
you very much like okay more important to go to church then do you you know know
for sure if you die today that you'd be on your way to heaven and they're like do
I know how to get to heaven maybe you should be asking me what it takes to get
to heaven when people do that to me I'm just I seriously will just be like okay
have a good day if you know the answer we're not looking for people that know
the answer we're looking for people that want to know the answer of how to get to
heaven people like well why would you do that because I'm just doing what Jesus
is doing in this story it's like Jesus meets people where they're trying to
meet him at as well you never see just just like falling all over himself like
would you please hear the gospel right when people come to Jesus sideways like
super prideful just super arrogant seeking to tempt him seeking to justify
themselves he gives them an answer according to their own folly like he
should and we shouldn't be like Mormons where it's like someone's like hail
Satan at the door and they're like this Easter that stuff is weak okay now I
might not flip out on a person who says that but I'm just not gonna say anything
to him at all they're not gonna get a god bless you for saying hail Satan get
out of here but in this story go back to verse 29 for Luke 10 29 if you kind of
left from that spot again I don't do that all the time but sometimes it's
just people when you just look at them and they just like have hubris like
ingrained into their face and just like dude I'm not even wasting my time with
you I'll just move on to the next door if that's the case Luke 10 29 it says
again it says but he willing to justify himself said unto Jesus and who is my
neighbor which is also not only the title of my sermon but it's also the
first point in this sermon who is our neighbor Luke 10 30 let's find out in
this story really quickly it says and Jesus answering said a certain man went
down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves which stripped him of his
raiment and wounded him and departed leaving him half dead so if you've seen
the princess bride it's kind of like equal right there it's like mostly dead
he's not fully dead he's just half dead right there right okay if you don't know
what that movie is God bless you okay you don't have to go look I don't know
if there's anything bad in that movie is there I'm trying to think hopefully not
okay I'm gonna get roasted online like look at this wicked scene that brother
Remy's promoting in this movie okay okay just don't go watch it okay that's
case version 31 though he says so he's mostly dead he's half dead says and by
chance there came down a priest that way and when he saw him he passed by on the
other side and likewise a Levite when he was at that the place came and looked on
him and passed by on the other side so here this is just crazy I like this is
kind of like a side note as well but I was just like imagine this scenario this
is so unbelievable to me that like you have the two people that are supposed to
supposedly be like the pinnacle of holiness you have a priest and you have
a Levite they walking down the road and they see a man who's dying in the middle
of the street and what do they do they don't try to help him out they don't
try to go call for help they just go oh and they walk to the other side of the
street and then just keep walking how disgusting is that I was thinking how
it reminded me of a video I had saw a long time ago where this guy it was like
kind of later at night but he gets stabbed and he falls over he passes out
from I think it was blood loss but there was like people that it was catching on
like a CTV camera there was multiple people that came up to this guy and then
just like took a picture of him and they just kept walking like they didn't even
help the guy out didn't call 911 just took a picture picture of this guy and
then just kept walking and they were saying that if someone would have called
the police if someone would have called the ambulance within you know the first
hour or two that this guy was stabbed and just bleeding out he might have been
able to live in this situation but it just shows how like detached we are as
a generation like we're doing the same thing that these people are doing in
this story and that should just be like a little bit of a side note for you on
that like like as Christians we represent Jesus Christ so we don't want
to be like involved and feel like imagine it's like I'm sure we live in
America right where like people are a majority Christian it's like I'm sure
that there was Christians there they were taking pictures this guy just keep
on walking let that never be so among us we should love our neighbor truly as
ourself and don't behave like these two first wicked men that we see in this
story and just enough of why this is just like practical if you do see
someone bleeding on the road you should call 911 because there's a lot of people
that you think like they're dead for sure and then they like pull something
out of their pocket and they bring these people back like there's a guy in
Portland as a matter of fact one time where he would have like a drug overdose
I just saw him we were like working and he just fell down on the street I was
like oh man this guy's buddies are he's like screaming he's like he's dead call
911 call 911 he's not breathing they get the ambulance there they've like fly
they're really fast or no excuse me they drive they're really fast and then they
get out and they get the Narcan out and they like bring him like right back to
life I was like that's insane okay so this is not the Bible this is practical
just call 911 in these situations okay because sometimes you think someone's
dead they're not really dead okay or you could do something to try to save
their life at the very least okay but in this story we find out firstly who when
we're trying to figure out who our neighbor is we find out firstly who our
neighbor has what has nothing to do with determining our neighbor and that is
this our neighbor is not determined by their religion or by their salvation
status and I bring this up because in this story we can see very clearly here
that we don't know the salvation status of anybody that we're about to read
about it's not mentioned we're not like this is the same man I mean he says
either a priest in a Levite but there was quite a few wicked priests in a lot
of the wicked Levites back in the day so that doesn't prove anything we don't
know the salvation status of anybody in this story so that should show us that
has nothing to do with someone being your neighbor and I bring that up
because sometimes I've seen people and I think this is an attempt to like
reconcile our belief about the revered doctrine to the love thy neighbor as
thyself verse they'll take these verses and they'll say well it's important to
realize in the Old Testament Jesus defines our neighbor as our brother
which is someone that saves they're like really when it's love thy neighbors
thyself it means you should love other saved people this is not what he's
teaching them from this story because he never brings up anybody's salvation
status in this story so that can't be true and that's ironically what the Jews
actually believed that's what he's debunking right now they're like only
our neighbors only the Israelites that are around us but people will go up and
say the same thing it's like no this is the opposite of what Jesus is showing us
in this story right here that our neighbor is not who we would just
initially think it would be but also their religion doesn't matter because
we'll see this in the next part of this as well. Luke 33 it says but a certain
Samaritan as he journeyed came where he was and when he saw him he had
compassion on him and so we normally do we see it has to do with religion
because of the fact that the Samaritans had a different belief system than the
Jews did if you remember the woman at the well who was a Samaritan she just
tells her like you guys don't know what you believe he's like salvations of the
Jews so the Samaritans had a different religion if you will and they also were
a different people than Israel at this time because that's what we realized
they hated each other the Jews and the Samaritans they hated each other you get
this because I won't just go to the history books and be like what is the
cultural reference here but even in the Bible you can see that in the with the
woman of the well Jesus says that the Jews and Samaritans they have no
dealings with each other like when he comes up and asks her a question she's
kind of like what but something else I want to point out by way of that is that
this also means that your race has nothing to do with who your neighbor is
because this is a different people this is the Samaritans not the pure chosen
holy Jews like they would think this is a half-breed Samaritan dog over here but
Jesus is saying this has nothing to do with who your neighbor is there were
your race your skin color has nothing to do with who your neighbor is and their
race and their skin color has nothing to do with them being your neighbor as well
you should understand that as a Christian where I had you guys out here
in this oh Luke 10 33 the next place I'm gonna have you guys go is into 2nd
Chronicles 19 2 but it just keep your finger there in Luke 2nd Chronicles 19
just keep your finger there and look I actually might have had you turn a tad
bit too fast but that was the other thing I was about to say about this
story is that in this story when you kind of understand though that the Jews
and the Samaritans didn't like each other it adds a different layer because
then you're realizing that Jesus is making the hero of this story someone
that the average Jew would have despised it'd be basically like if someone was
doing a similar parable back when they had slavery in America and they had like
a black man being the hero of the story or be like after like post 9/11 America
you're making like someone from Iran or someone that's a Muslim like a hero in
the story this is like this similar thing that Jesus Christ is doing here
but so we should understand from this that someone's religion someone's race
someone's skin color none of these things have to do with them being our
neighbor and so this dumb teaching nowadays of like racism all this garbage
that Nick Fuentes and other dummies like him post is garbage okay and here's the
thing this is like I don't know like I'm not gonna do like a whole deep dive in
this right now but I find it weird like people been bringing up like the
immigration stuff lately and I think it's a little bit of a complex issue
that just throw like do a throwaway line in a sermon but I always just have
found it weird when people make the immigration thing like the biggest deal
in the world it's kind of like to me like there's so many other more
important things in this world. And I understand like, there's people that because they come
here illegally, they make it harder for other people and they, you know, hurt the economy.
And there's a bunch of stuff to that. I understand this, but I'm just like, this should not be
like the top of our concerns as a Christian, truly. Like I saw this up in Seattle and my
Charlie Kirk said, but I was saying like, I don't want these Mexicans to get deported
away. I want them to be here so that I can preach them the gospel. Because so many times
people that are Mexican are more receptive than people that are even English that speak
the gospel, people that are American that speak the, or that speak our same language.
Like so I just don't, it's kind of weird. It's kind of like if you're like thinking about
laws and stuff, because you know that I'm a big stickler for laws, I am. So these things,
I'm not saying that this is necessarily good. It is a nuanced topic, but like, kind of like
someone making a big deal about someone feeding ducks at a pond or something like that. It's
like, is it wrong technically? Yeah, you're supposed to not really do that. But I'm like,
if I see someone, I'm not going to be like, 911, someone's hurting quacky in the park.
It's like, it's like going to keep moving, right? It's kind of the same thing where I'm
just like, I don't know. That's a whole different subject for a whole nother day in that regard.
But we just notice who our neighbor is not determined by and what, excuse me, what doesn't
determine our neighbor in this story. Look at verse number 34, it says, and went to him
and bound up his wounds, pouring an oil and wine and set him on his own beast and brought
him to an inn and took care of him. And on the morrow, when he departed, he took out
two pence and gave them to the host and said unto him, take care of him. And whatsoever
thou spendest more when I come again, I will repay thee. This is what Jesus says to him,
which of these three thinkest thou was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? So Jesus
is asking out of these three guys, who do you think was really a neighbor to this guy?
Who do you think acted like a neighbor? Was it his two similar kinsmen that had the same
religion as him? Or was it the Samaritan that would have been of a different people than
him and that would have a different religion than this man? What's the answer to this?
Look at verse 37, he says, "And he said, 'He that showed him mercy.' Then Jesus said unto
him, 'Go and do thou likewise.'" So who is our neighbor? According to this parable
that Jesus Christ gives here, your neighbor is anyone in this world that you see that
has a need. That is your neighbor, according to these verses right here. Anybody that we
see that has a need, whether it's emotional, whether it's physical, whether it's spiritual,
whatever it is, if we see a need in this world, if we see someone that has a need in this
world, Jesus says, if we can fulfill that need, if we can help them, that is our neighbor.
That's who we should help out in this life. But I'm sure someone would be wondering like,
wait a minute though, how would we explain this? How would we reconcile this with the
Reparate Doctrine? Okay. Because we obviously believe at this church that people that are
haters of God that we shouldn't love, right? This is what we teach. That's why I had you
turn to second Chronicles 19 verse number two, a tad bit earlier, I had you do that.
How do we reconcile this with that? The answer is pretty simple though. The answer is this,
is that love thy neighbor as thyself is a general commandment and it has its own exceptions
and its own caveats just like so many other things does in the Bible. Like so many other
things do in the Bible, excuse me. Second Chronicles 19 to it says in Jehu, the son
of Anani, the seer went out to meet him and said unto King Jehoshaphat, shouldest thou
help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord, therefore wrath is upon thee from before
the Lord. So the way that you reconcile these two scriptures and what's the scripture in
the Psalms where it's the Holy Spirit inspiring David to write hateful things in the Bible
is that there is exceptions to love that never is thyself just like there's exceptions to
every other thing, most other things that we would see in the Bible. But something I
found interesting as well when I was studying this now is like Jesus basically tells us
here to err on the side of mercy and to err on the side of caution. Like this guy in the
story doesn't go to him and be like okay I gotta check his pocket, does he have a pride
flag in there or like is this guy really a rebel I gotta figure out this right? He doesn't
do that he just he just goes and helps this guy right and I think what we should grab
from that is that we shouldn't just be on this witch hunt all the time and try to like
be guarding really closely like I just need to make sure I never accidentally show any
kind of mercy or any kind of niceness to someone like that because when you do that you're
going to pull your niceness you're going to pull your mercy from people that actually
need it. So err on the side of caution when it comes to people especially out so wanting.
If you're not a hundred percent sure that someone's a child of the devil that they're
twice dead show them mercy up until the very moment that you are a hundred percent sure
okay. That's what we should draw from this as well. But here's the thing about this because
people that are like mega liberals and I do mean literal liberals we get mad at us and
be like the Bible says to love thy neighbor as thyself and we liberals are more loving
than Christians we love everybody. But the thing is that the liberals understand exactly
what we're saying though because when they say that they love everybody they have a bunch
of exceptions and caveats to that as well right? It's like love everybody as long as
it's not Donald Trump or someone that's homophobic or someone that you know is a misogynistic
yeah someone that's a white Christian cis male or whatever right? But everybody else
okay we love everybody else it's like okay well then you guys should know exactly what
we're talking about then because it's almost funny like I was thinking about it like the
liberals almost have their own reprobate doctrine they just make us the reprobates of their
own little tale it's kind of it's kind of when you think about it because they would
treat us how we would treat an actual reprobate which is is very funny to me okay so they
understand this concept perfectly they play games though but some people will criticize
god for speaking generally which he is here but this is dumb because we speak generally
all the time as humans even that sentence I just said you was a general statement we
speak generally all the time do I literally mean like 24/7 365 I'm always speaking generally
no you're just saying I'm saying most of the time a majority of time a lot of times and
you know English we speak generally that's what I'm saying when I say that and so people
that would criticize that are silly for that because lots of people speak generally even
when they're writing things even when they're lost there's exceptions and caveats in these
things but also I think that God does this and I've said this before but I think it's
really helpful for this that God speaks generally with a blanket statement because he does want
us to err on the side of loving your neighbor as yourself because if God wrote it like
a different way people could really twist the scripture like they could if he had said
like love most of that neighbors as thyself then you could be like who's most of my neighbors
so I just I love everybody that's not in Washington state right that's a directly around me but
I love most of the other world so therefore I love most of my neighbors right uh-uh that's
what people do with these kind of verses if you did that or like thou shall not kill like
thou shall not kill except for anybody that deserves it well then it's like well then
everybody would get killed because you could always find a reason to justify it right so
i think that's why god lays out blanket statements like this in the bible but so now that we
understand who our neighbor is which is anybody that has a need we i would ask you this why
do people ask questions like this what is what is the point of him asking the question
in the story look at verse 29 again back in luke 1029 it says but he willing to justify
himself said unto jesus and who is my neighbor what i want to ask you this morning is what
is it that truly motivates people to ask questions like this like what is in this guy's heart
and what is his spirit and what is his attitude where he's asking jesus who his neighbor is
because i want you to kind of think about this like do you think that this guy's asking
this question to jesus because he just really wants the green light to go and love as many
people as possible and he just want to he just wants to make sure that he doesn't actually
or actually accidentally love a reprobate along the way do you think that's why he's
asking this question or do you think he's asking this because he wants to pull up his
like neighborhood maps and like mark off everybody that he's allowed to hate and then highlight
who he has who he has to love and then call it a day after that you think that this man
asking is asking Jesus excuse me this question because he just really really really wants
to make God happy or do you think it's because he wants to figure out what is the the minimum
threshold that he has to meet to just be barely over that line so that he's not getting punished
by God what do you think it is in those scenarios because I would submit to you that that's exactly
why he's doing this he's asking that question for that reason to justify himself but also
because this guy he's not focused about making God happy he's not focused about making him
proud of him or anything like that he's focused on doing just the bare minimum just reaching
right over that threshold just finding the line and stepping one step over it just so
that he doesn't get the wrath of God upon him but he doesn't actually want to make God
happy in this story is what you should see from this question okay because people like
this they'll do it all the time they're like where's the exact line of sin so that I can
just go right up to it so I'm just right at the fence of it right at the threshold of
it they're like who exactly do I have to love do I have to love am I forced to love because
I don't want to waste any of my precious love on anybody that doesn't deserve it right people
that are asking these questions you should realize that they have a bad heart they have
a bad attitude in these things but Christians will do these kind of questions they'll ask
these kind of questions and this is what we understand this morning is that God does not
respect this kind of attitude he doesn't respect it when Christians just try to find the line
of sin and just step one thing over it so that he's just okay with them that he's just
like suffering them okay God wants you to look at the commandments in the Bible and
say what can I do with this commandment to make God happy not just to appease him not
just to satisfy his wrath a little bit what can I do to make God proud of me is what he
wants you to look at the commandments with that kind of attitude okay because this is
what you should understand with people that this should be like a litmus test to you when
people start to do this with commandments it's a sign of a carnal christian okay it's the carnal
backslidden self-justifying christian who wants to escape from the guilt of the things that they're
not doing that will say well how much do I really need to read the bible how much do I really need
to go to church how many times do I really have to pray in a day why are you asking a question
like that it's not because you truly want to find out the answer so you can just do the like just
make god exceedingly happy with you it's because a christian that has that attitude wants to find
out what's the bare minimum that they can do and still you know not be punished by god is what i
would submit to you that's the attitude that's the spirit this comes from go to colossians 3 19
colossians 3 verse number 19 and while you guys are going there i'll read for you guys
luke 6 45 it says a good man out of the good treasure of his heart bring forth that which is
good and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bring it forth that which is evil
for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh what you should realize is that when
people are saying things like this when they're questioning commandments like this that's really
their heart showing how they really feel deep down inside it actually doesn't remind me of
the conversation i was just having yesterday with brother ryan's co-worker i asked him this isn't
the exact same but it reminded me of it like i asked him the question i was like if you believe
that salvation was 100% eternal there's nothing that you could do to lose it but god wants you
to keep the commandments he tells you to keep the commandments i was like would you just go live
however you want to and he said oh absolutely it's like what it's like why is he saying that
because that really shows in his heart that that's what he wants to do that the only reason that he
doesn't live a sinful wicked lifestyle is because he's scared of going to hell that's what that
proves at the end of the day he's not serving god because he loves him or because he wants to make
him proud or because he wants to you know show him that he really really likes obeying his
commandments he's only serving god out of fear of going to hell and that's what so much of work
salvation is it's bondage it's fear it's being trapped because you have to continually work your
way to heaven and never know when you wake up in the morning if you were good enough and if you've
repented enough and if you've done good enough to actually get yourself into heaven bondage and
fear is what that is but the way i bring this up and then what i was trying to tie that to is this
is that when a christian is asking a question like well how much bible do i really need to read today
i would submit to you it's the same kind of mind style because you don't want to actually read the
bible to impress god to make him happy to to keep his commandments you're just trying to figure out
like the little offering you can give him to just kind of appease him and deter his anger away
from you now you guys are there in colleges 319 i would just say as a caveat to this hopefully
you all would understand this there are people that will genuinely ask questions like this right
there are people that'll be like how many times should we go to church right and they're being
genuine this is not what i'm talking about though hopefully we all understand this okay that i'm
not just an idiot up here okay but so i'm just like please like i need to have like a caveat
button up here just like press caveat caveat draw your own caveats okay this is like if someone
like is a newer to christian and they're just like hey i'm trying to figure out where the bible you
know how much it teaches us to read like that's obviously not the same thing as someone who's
been a christian for years going how much should i really go to church though hmm i mean the bible
never says an exact number right colossus 319 where you guys are at colossus 319 you guys are
making me chuckle too the bible says this it says husbands love your wives and be not bitter
against them now the reason i have you turn to this because i want to use an analogy with this
verse that i think really displays what i'm talking about very well in this sermon imagine
if you were a guy that reads this verse he's like man i need to start loving my wife more okay so
i'm gonna go to my wife and say hey honey i want you to list out exactly what you want me to do in
a day that would make you happy with me that would make you proud that would make you think that i
love you okay so you're like okay sit down he and then he's like i'm gonna grab the the pen and the
notepad and he's like okay honey what is the first thing that you'd want me to do and she's like
well i would want you to you know when you come home from work to actually have a conversation
with me deals off the table then okay right but no say that's what she says like i would like you
to have a conversation with me he's like oh okay yeah yeah conversation okay okay how long should
we have this conversation for what do you think like five ten minutes maybe 15 30 let's just go
30 minutes okay what else do you want honey he's like oh i want you to give me you know a hug and
a kiss when i walk the door like okay hug kiss point two and you're like well just one kiss that's
what okay one kiss okay the hug how long are we hugging for we're talking about like a three
second hug and how tight is this hug we're talking about like an anaconda death grip are
we talking about just like a limp noodle kind of laying on them what kind of hug are we talking
about here okay let me uh write that down okay what's the last thing honey oh i just want you
to tell me that you love me okay when you come home okay tell her that i love her okay how many
times should i tell you that i love you in a day like two to three times maybe okay or maybe you
want a weekly threshold let's just say 20 times per week okay 20 times per week i'm making this
checklist okay like there we go i got the the the keys to success for my wife so i'm going to come
and nail this on the wall right here on my checklist so that every day i can go over to it
and be like oh i need to tell her i love her okay i'm down this week i better like throw a couple in
for this one right like uh you're like trying to figure all these things i'm using this scenario
but here's the thing would the wife actually be happy in that scenario no she'd probably be offended
as soon as you got the the pen and paper right maybe some of the women will be like oh yeah he's
finally listening to me right but like in reality you'd be like why would be like what are you doing
what's the pen and paper for you're like oh i just want to make sure that i'm meeting all these
minimums per week that's i i want to love you but even if they didn't get offended about the the
checklist alone per se it's like even if you did all those things week in and week out they still
wouldn't be happy about it and you could take that and be like it's just because women are very
complicated creatures right or you could take that and be like why wouldn't my wife be happy
i mean i'm doing all the minimums that she said there's been no weeks lately where she's gotten
less than 20 i love you's what is going on here what's the problem with that it's because it's
not real right it's it's it's like a robot executing a script is what it is it's not genuine
love he's not he's not doing things for his wife because he loves her because he's doting on her
because he's thinking about her which is what she really wants when she's saying that she wants her
husband to love him she's or she love her she just he's just meeting like these things so that it's
like he could just appease his wife at the very least right because real love is not just scripted
like that and obviously to be fair there are some things that are just like checklist things in a
relationship like i have to get them provided for my wife right we all know this i don't know
about the winner talk about like you can't just boil down all your love to just a checklist of
things with your relationships in this life like with your kids as well you can't just be like okay
spend 20 minutes a day with my kids and then i'm good to go then they'll know that i love me
this is not how relationships work and this is not how genuine love is and that's not the love
that god wants from us either is what i want you to apply from these analogies that with the husband
in that scenario he's not doing those things because he loves his wife he's doing them just
to appeaser just said like we don't want to get the divorce right so i just got to do just barely
these things and then you know she'll be happy with that this is the exact same way that people
will treat god though sometimes like they look at the bible and they'll look at things and just be
like what exactly do i need to do in my day-to-day life to make god happy how many chapters do i need
to read how many minutes do i need to pray for how many times i need to pray today how many times i
need to go so many how many times i need to go to church what would actually just like make him
happy with me i would submit to you your attitude is wrong because it's not just just like that
husband in that scenario it is not a checklist that you give to god that shows that you love him
love should be like a real genuine feeling that comes from your heart and there's obviously some
things that you can plan and it still be loving i hope we'd all understand that right but what
i'm trying to submit to you is that you can't just boil down love like that that's not really
love that's like what a robot would literally do okay and so go to first corinthians 11 for
first corinthians 11 verse number four this is the same attitude and the same spirit that this guy
in first corinthians would have where he's like and who is my neighbor how much do i have to love
my wife what exactly do i need to do to love my wife obviously again there's even an exception
for that that like someone can come up to you and be like i'm trying to work on loving my wife what
would you do differently right we understand this okay but that analogy is like an extreme example
to show you that that's not how real relationships and real love works tiny cup good night you guys
are going to first corinthians 11 verse number four okay um 11 or first corinthians 11 four
because i want to show you kind of like this from the bible as well it says this how god does these
things in the bible okay it says every man praying or prophesying having his head covered dishonoreth
his head but every woman that prayeth or prophesied with her head uncovered dishonor dishonoreth her
head for that is even all as if she were shaven for if the woman be not covered let her be shorn
but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven let her be covered first thing i bring up
with this that has nothing to do with the actual theme of the sermon but like people will take
these verses and say that this is talking about head coverings but they are full of beans that is
not what the bible is teaching right here the bible is talking about the length of your hair
it is saying that women should have long hair and that men should have short hair that's what these
verses are teaching how do we know this from the bible though go back down to verse 14 of this
chapter as well in first corinthians 11 verse number 14 look what it says it says does not
nature itself teach you that if a man have long hair it is a shame unto him but if a woman have
long hair it is a glory to her for her hair is given to given her for covering the bible is
teaching here not that it's a sin for a woman to pray without having a bonnet on her head like this
prayer bonnet that they all have it's teaching that it's a it's a sin for a woman it's a shame
for a woman to be praying with her head like shaving like bald like and obviously we obviously
throw the exception in there for uh cancer and all these things because it says if it's a shame
is it a shame for a person with cancer to have short hair obviously not right or someone naturally
has like a hair problem or anything like that that would be a natural exception to this but
what the bible's saying here is that it's a shame for you to take the beautiful long hair that god
gives you as a covering as a woman and to butch it off that's what he says that's shameful that is
dishonoring to your head and by the way this is why you'll see in public a lot of these people
i think some that are more strictly strict catholics do this and then i think russian
pentecostals do this to some degree as well where their women will have like the i don't know they
don't always go around with the bonnets on their head but some of them will and it's because they're
like well uh i had a guy tell me like his wife was like arguing with him trying to like let him
let her wear her bonnet 24/7 because she's like the bible says to pray without ceasing
so i'm just out about how am i going to pray if i don't have my hat on just 24/7
it's like that is like the issue with these kind of things right but so this is not teaching about
a bonnet again this is talking about your hair length in this okay and that it's a shame for a
man to pray with long hair it's a shame for a woman to pray with short hair when they're doing
these things just to be rebellious right is the attitude that he's coming to right here
but secondly about this okay i want to ask you this from these these verses okay what length
should a man's hair be what length should a woman's hair be give me the exact number what did this
verse say here what was the the exact number that a man has to have uh like restricted to and what's
the exact number of length uh on a woman's hair that she has to have it at does the bible say
right here doesn't say right it doesn't give us any kind of direct measurement okay because we
know that god would have given us a measurement in uh in our system because that's the freedom
units right that's the the go america units right we didn't know no like uh metric system right
wait is it a metric system now i'm confused are we metric see i'm an american see i'm proving my
my own my own stereotype right but god's not saying like bust out the ruler and measure your
hair length he just says men should have short hair women should have long hair but no length
no specific length given in this and you might ask like why doesn't god do that why doesn't he
say men keep your hair at four inches per you know strand and women make sure that your hair doesn't
come up above your shoulders it's because there's a few reasons for that but in my opinion it's
because of this god doesn't want you to obey a commandment like that he wants you to show him
your heart in obeying that commandment okay because someone that really wants to serve god and wants
to please him isn't going to have a haircut that's just right on the line they're like well he doesn't
say an exact number and this is you know schmort it's kind of it's kind of long and short right
it's like uh it's like a little bit you know it's kind of in the ballpark of this right
when god doesn't give that it shows someone's heart by how they actually are doing their hair
right because like we don't know the exact hairstyles that are okay there's no like you
know picture book in the bible that's like okay this cut is okay this cut is wicked as hell right
and we like to some degree this is you know uh what would you say what is that word that
i'm looking for it's um not objective it's subjective that's what it is yeah to some degree
this is subjective right and i've seen people fight through the nail in this like there'll be
a girl at a church and she'll butcher hair she's like well i'm i'm technically i have long hair
because i'm not bald right it's like hey that's the spirit you're coming to god's commandments
with though like i you as a christian should not be in a position where you're having to like defend
your actions by saying like well it's not the shortest ever right because what i'd submit to
you is that is again a direct reflection of your heart towards god's commandments that someone it's
not the length itself that is like what makes you say spiritual or something like that it's your heart
towards this that shows how you feel about god's commandments and actually making god happy like i
don't want to go to god and like live my life and be like i kind of got the shaggy dog hair but it's
like it's not the longest ever like it's not touching my shoulders it leads god right so i
want to go to god and be like hey this is the hair that i think would make you actually happy god
that's what we should do for all these things in our life though it's not just your hair length go
to john 14 verse number 15 john 14 verse number 15 you know there's a lot with a lot of things
in your in your life as a christian like you can talk about modesty like well the bible doesn't
exactly lay out what material and what clothes and what length your skirt needs to be therefore
you know you can just kind of do a free-for-all right not so because you are supposed to dress
modestly but it doesn't give you the exacts on it again why do we think that god did that why do i
think god did that it's because your attire how you dress represents how you feel about god it's a
sacrifice that you can give to god because like i i don't know if i said this before but like god
doesn't want us to just be robots as uh humans that's why calvinism fails because what makes us
be able to choose to love god and to actually sacrifice to god and for it to mean something
is the fact that we do have free will but within the bounds of your free will you can show god how
much you respect him by how you're treating his commandments because someone that's a line writing
christian that doesn't really respect the commands of god that just wants to do the bare minimum
they're like my skirt is like right up it's like just above the knee or whatever it's like
technically my thigh is not showing right as long as i don't sit down okay or something like that
it's like oh and they're like but there's no verses that says i can't do that it's like okay
maybe this is true okay and maybe you just put a blanket over yourself when you go to sit down or
whatever but it's just like that's the attitude that you have for god that's the the heart that
you want to give to god you want to go up to him one day and just be like well it wasn't the shortest
ever god right that's the kind of things you should think about when it comes to so many of
these subjective things in the bible or your speech how you speak with people it's like you
can like and i've talked about cussing before and and my different opinions about it but it's like
truly like the things that you allow yourself to say you should realize it's like hey god is
going to judge me by how i'm speaking and the bible gives a bunch of cat a bunch of lists of
things that should uh deter us from just using the most filthy and most vile speech right
but it doesn't say exactly what words we can't say but i would just submit to you hey say what you
think is going to be pleasing to god almighty and if you're comfortable with saying something
and someone else is that hey that's god's job the judge i've talked about that before with concerning
romans 14 but you should just realize that how you speak because it's subjective is a reflection
of how you feel about god's commandments same thing about the hobbies you do you might be like
well this show on tv is not that bad it's like that's what you want to go to god with i mean
god it's just it's just like game of thrones i mean it's kind of like lord of the rings right
or whatever and both of us are both not really that great okay it's like that's the attitude you
want to go to god with it shows that there's something wrong with your heart is what you
that's what i'm trying to get you to understand if you're always fighting to be like what's wrong
with it what exactly is wrong with it you're coming to things wrong ask yourself like what's
right with what i'm doing in my life what's right about the words that i speak what's right about
my hair length what's right about the modesty that i dress in what's right about all the things that
i do as a christian that's what god wants you to ask yourself that's what i want you to ask
yourself this morning what's right about the things i do in my life not just and is it
technically sinful or not you're standing on shaky ground when you're speaking like that
john 14 uh verse number 15 the sermon is coming to an end here pretty soon here as well says if
you love me keep my commandments people try to like play games with this and be like you know like
oh the christianity it's not about rules it's a relationship with jesus christ this is true
but your relationship is determined by how you are following the rules to some degree
just like your kids like if they're just never listening to you you're gonna have a bad relationship
you can't just be like mom and dad i know you told me to clean my room but i still really
really love you okay it's like if you're if you're gonna just disobey them you're showing that you
don't really care for their commandments right it's the same thing with god almighty that because
he gives us wiggle room on things and doesn't list off the specifics of things it allows us
to show our hearts to them and show how seriously we take his commandments and what attitude we go
to because you can come to the attitude with commandments like you know what's technically
sinful about it like explain to me exactly what makes it simple or you can say hey what is this
doing that would actually please god what would god be pleased with this if i took it up to him
at the other day not just kind of like oh i guess that's okay right like would god be like this is
great i'm glad that you made this sacrifice or this commitment in your life okay but again i've
been kind of focused on like the the um um what we just say like the standards i would say but
this applies to the very simple things in the bible as well like i said with bible reading
people will say show me the chapter and verse that says that you have to read like this amount of
chapters a day there is no verse that says that there's no verse in the bible that says
how many chapters how many verses you actually have to read in the bible i would just submit
to you this though how much you read in a day does show god how you feel about that commandment when
he says to study to show thyself approved right and so you can sit there and be like well you know
one verse a day is kind of enough you know one psalm one psalm 117 every day you know it's kind
of at least it's one verse to you right god it shows how you feel about his commandments right
or how long should i pray how often should i pray for again it shows you like if you're like boiling
it down like that you're already wrong is what i'm trying to show you in this morning in this
sermon okay how many times do i the bible just says not to forsake the assembling of yourselves
it doesn't say how many times have to go to church though right this is true okay but in reality
like how you're keeping commands and there's exceptions to this so bear with me as well
but like how you're keeping these commandments what you're doing about these commandments
shows god how you feel about him uh just like it would show a husband loving his wife when he's
just doing things for her that are above just the minimums that she would list off right um
that's kind of the that gets basically towards the end of my sermon i could give you a lot of
things about different commandments that doesn't list specific things on but what i would just ask
you to take home from this sermon is this you should reflect on your life and really examine
the things that you do every aspect of your life truly and say am i doing things to make god happy
or am i doing things just to barely escape his judgment just to barely escape his chastisement
just to barely have him be like neutral with me do i try to like get away from the line to please god
or do i try to get right up as close to the line because i don't really like god's commandment
there but i also don't want to faith his wrath on that right so the in closing as far as the
conclusions of this goes god your relationship with god should not just be a checklist it can't
just be a checklist if if god wanted a robot he could have made you a robot and calvinist would
argue that you are a robot but they're dumb okay and if i'm wrong about that he preordained me
to say that they're done for that which is like what do you do with that but it can't just be a
checklist just like your relationship with your wife and your kids can't be like that and as a
christian you need to realize who your neighbor is your neighbor is anyone that you see with a need
and the way that you obey god's commandments when he says to love your neighbor as thyself when he
says uh if you love me keep my commandments when he says in first john 2 3 when he says in hereby
do we know we are know that we know him if we keep his commandments right by the way that we are
obeying these commandments when they're subjective i would submit to you it shows the spirit and the
attitude of a christian and some people take that too far the pharisees will do that but obviously
that's the opposite of everything i would have ever preached at this church okay but just find
your balance is what i would that's what i would submit to you this morning uh with that all being
said let's pray deal for the god thank you so much wonderful day thank you so much for everything you
do for us god thank you so much for this church god thank you so much uh for everybody that came
this morning god i just prayed that we'd have an attitude in our lives god that truly reflects how
you want us to behave god and not just what we can get away with i just pray that we would all
examine our lives as a christians god and try to get the things out that you don't want us to have
god and to get the things out that are just there that we fight to justify that we know are wrong
i just pray that we would show how we love you god by how we obey your commandments and we take
that principle to heart jesus name pray amen last song is song number 43 marching to zion song
number 43 marching to zion song 43 let's sing it out together on the first come we that love
the lord and let us sweet sweet why is her not that slow we're not going to go that slow for the
rest of the time okay i don't know there's something baked into me right there okay
but we'll see it a little bit faster on the second let those rings to see chill chill the king
may speak sit of god great sweet before the heavenly fields or water walk the golden street
where mom to zonking upward to zonk t b dronking through jing through ground to fail upward to zonk
of god amen good see brother ryan could you go to the water prayer father i thank you after this
church and the preaching lord i just pray god that you'll help us to uh uh not eat bears so
parasitical in uh loving uh people around us to help us to come to you with a genuine heart
and uh seek to love our neighbors lord and uh to love you more in sincerity and we love you in
jesus name amen