1 00:00:08,220 --> 00:00:09,760 I almost wore my cap out here. 2 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:12,100 Who do I think I am? 3 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:13,720 Justin Beshearse? 4 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:20,560 No, I'm not Justin. 5 00:00:20,620 --> 00:00:21,480 I'm not that cool. 6 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,900 But for an old guy, I'm pretty cool. 7 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:34,340 I walked up today, and the guys who were greeting out front said, 8 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,260 you look like you got a beach thing going on. 9 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,540 I said, I do from here to here. 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:42,640 It's in between. 11 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:46,140 Would you stand with me? 12 00:00:46,180 --> 00:00:50,720 I want to get right into this because I got some stuff I want to say today. 13 00:00:51,060 --> 00:00:55,620 We're going to read two verses, but read them meaningfully. 14 00:00:55,740 --> 00:01:06,120 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. 15 00:01:06,830 --> 00:01:14,160 And this, therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, 16 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:21,420 clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. 17 00:01:22,420 --> 00:01:29,680 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. 18 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,220 Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 19 00:01:33,540 --> 00:01:35,060 Father, I thank you for your word. 20 00:01:36,060 --> 00:01:38,260 I thank you that there's life in your word. 21 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:45,160 But Lord, none of us are able to receive that life without the presence of the Holy Spirit. 22 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:53,220 So I ask for the Holy Spirit to come, inhabit us today, and help us receive life. 23 00:01:53,630 --> 00:01:55,040 In Jesus' name, amen. 24 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:56,640 You may be seated. 25 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:06,160 I'm sure it doesn't come as any surprise, would not come as any surprise to any of you, 26 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:11,380 for me to state that we live in a divisive age. 27 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:13,560 Yeah. 28 00:02:14,580 --> 00:02:17,000 And in fact, we live in a divisive world. 29 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:21,060 I really don't know if this age is necessarily any more divisive. 30 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:26,600 In fact, I'm pretty sure there have been some even more divisive ages in the past. 31 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:34,460 But for my lifetime, I guess, this is the most divisive I can remember things being. 32 00:02:35,620 --> 00:02:39,300 Of course, my lifetime is just a flash of a blink. 33 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:45,460 And it should not be shocking because this is a fallen world. 34 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,400 It's a divisive world. 35 00:02:48,620 --> 00:02:53,860 But what I find troubling is living in the age of a divisive church. 36 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,600 Expected from the world, but not from the church. 37 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:03,780 Division runs counter to God's plan. 38 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:15,320 Over in Mark, Jesus was accused of driving out demons by Beelzebub, by the prince of demons. 39 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,940 And he made a statement that actually applies broader than just that. 40 00:03:21,640 --> 00:03:26,200 He said, if a kingdom is divided against itself, it cannot stand. 41 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,600 It didn't say if the kingdom of Satan is divided against itself, it can't stand. 42 00:03:30,730 --> 00:03:32,620 It said a kingdom, any kingdom. 43 00:03:32,910 --> 00:03:33,720 And guess what? 44 00:03:35,220 --> 00:03:40,860 the kingdom is what it's about we're in the kingdom of god the church is not the kingdom of god 45 00:03:41,380 --> 00:03:47,380 but it is supposed to be a representative to the world of the kingdom of god 46 00:03:49,100 --> 00:03:59,780 and live in a divisive age for churches uh proverbs chapter six says there's uh six things that god 47 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:07,460 hates. And it goes on to mention them. The last one that it kicks in with is a person who stirs 48 00:04:07,460 --> 00:04:13,980 up conflict in a community. Some translation says someone who sows division among brothers. 49 00:04:17,639 --> 00:04:23,880 And in that list, it's also in that list with lying and murdering. So it kind of, you know, 50 00:04:23,980 --> 00:04:28,599 that's some pretty heavy duty company that it's keeping there to be divisive. Now don't 51 00:04:29,420 --> 00:04:35,760 don't run ahead of me here. Don't get down the track and go, oh, there must be some stuff going 52 00:04:35,940 --> 00:04:46,500 on at Springhouse. It's a church. Has people in it. There's always stuff going on. I pastored here 53 00:04:46,580 --> 00:04:55,600 for 33 years. And even with me here, there was stuff going on. There is, but I will tell you this, 54 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:59,440 And I've been around churches my whole life. 55 00:04:59,620 --> 00:05:03,200 I mean, I think I probably attended my first service at like three days old. 56 00:05:04,420 --> 00:05:04,720 Four. 57 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:05,880 I was born on a Wednesday. 58 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,140 I don't think we went that night. 59 00:05:12,220 --> 00:05:13,360 But we may have. 60 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:14,320 I'm not sure. 61 00:05:16,040 --> 00:05:17,180 My grandfather was a preacher. 62 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:17,960 My dad was a preacher. 63 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:21,400 I've been preacher, preacher, preacher stuff all my life. 64 00:05:22,180 --> 00:05:29,020 And Springhouse is one of the most peaceful and unified churches that there is. 65 00:05:29,940 --> 00:05:30,440 Just to be honest. 66 00:05:31,780 --> 00:05:33,340 But that doesn't mean stuff doesn't come up. 67 00:05:33,340 --> 00:05:33,620 It does. 68 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:37,780 But don't think that's where I'm going because the trains come in and that's not where I'm going. 69 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,360 And it may bump you off the track. 70 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:47,880 On the other side of the coin about divisiveness, we have Psalm 133. 71 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:53,380 how good and pleasant it is for God's people to dwell together in unity. 72 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:59,220 It's like the precious anointing oil flowing down over Aaron's head and beard 73 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:01,580 and down upon the collar of his robes. 74 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,080 It's like the dew of Mount Hermon falling on Zion. 75 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:10,160 There the Lord commands a blessing to reside, life forevermore. 76 00:06:11,660 --> 00:06:14,160 And half of that psalm is in parenthesis. 77 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:19,340 Now, I don't think the Hebrew language has parentheses, 78 00:06:19,880 --> 00:06:22,100 but the English language does. 79 00:06:22,530 --> 00:06:24,020 And if you take the parentheses out 80 00:06:24,030 --> 00:06:26,180 and just get to the meat of what it's saying is 81 00:06:26,420 --> 00:06:28,560 how wonderful and pleasant it is 82 00:06:28,900 --> 00:06:31,500 when God's people dwells together in unity 83 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,160 because there the Lord commands a blessing to reside. 84 00:06:37,300 --> 00:06:38,320 Life forevermore. 85 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:47,440 So division runs counter to God's purpose, God's plan. 86 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,160 But church division is not a new thing by any means. 87 00:06:52,730 --> 00:06:56,020 Now, it's been a problem for centuries. 88 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:02,900 In fact, the first big division took place in 1054. 89 00:07:03,050 --> 00:07:08,459 That was almost 1,000 years ago when the Eastern church and the Western church 90 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:12,900 decided to divide the Orthodox and the Roman church. 91 00:07:13,890 --> 00:07:15,540 And they had their reasons. 92 00:07:16,180 --> 00:07:17,560 They'd been brewing for a little while. 93 00:07:17,850 --> 00:07:19,380 A lot of their reasons were political. 94 00:07:21,580 --> 00:07:22,620 Nothing new under the sun. 95 00:07:23,230 --> 00:07:24,920 A lot of their reasons were cultural. 96 00:07:26,740 --> 00:07:28,120 Nothing new under the sun. 97 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,520 Some of their reasons were theological 98 00:07:30,750 --> 00:07:32,580 and those would kind of matter, you would think. 99 00:07:32,580 --> 00:07:36,800 I mean, the political and the cultural, I'm sorry, 100 00:07:37,340 --> 00:07:40,600 But those are world things. 101 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:44,560 Jesus said, my kingdom is not of this world. 102 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:46,040 That's not what it's about. 103 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:50,820 Oh, well, maybe the theology, well, listen, these are some heavy-duty things, 104 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:51,860 so let me lay them on you. 105 00:07:52,580 --> 00:07:53,240 A couple of them. 106 00:07:54,640 --> 00:08:02,000 They divided over whether or not it was okay to use unleavened bread and communion. 107 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:04,340 Can you believe that? 108 00:08:05,980 --> 00:08:07,880 Don't you know which one you're supposed to do? 109 00:08:09,620 --> 00:08:21,160 And then they also divided over a conflict concerning whether or not the Holy Spirit emanated from the Father and the Son or the Father only. 110 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,760 To which I have to say, whatever. 111 00:08:29,660 --> 00:08:30,240 He's here. 112 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:32,320 He's here. 113 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:36,080 You're talking about stuff that I don't know anything about. 114 00:08:36,219 --> 00:08:36,640 No, what? 115 00:08:36,659 --> 00:08:37,260 You don't either. 116 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,979 But that's why they divided them. 117 00:08:42,979 --> 00:08:50,520 And then 500 years later, the Reformation came, brought about wars that displaced and destroyed people's lives. 118 00:08:50,700 --> 00:08:52,580 And Christians killing Christians. 119 00:08:53,740 --> 00:08:56,140 And we really don't do that killing part anymore. 120 00:08:57,680 --> 00:08:58,800 Except with our words. 121 00:09:00,940 --> 00:09:01,760 What to do? 122 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:04,040 How do you fix this? 123 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:07,660 I mean, it's apparently part of our DNA. 124 00:09:07,930 --> 00:09:12,040 Well, it's the DNA of humanity, not necessarily the church, 125 00:09:12,170 --> 00:09:14,960 but since the church is made up of humanity, it's our DNA. 126 00:09:15,140 --> 00:09:16,220 How do you fix this? 127 00:09:18,300 --> 00:09:20,020 Maybe we could try. 128 00:09:22,700 --> 00:09:27,680 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, 129 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:34,200 Just as Christ, in Christ, God forgave you. 130 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:44,360 A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned my father-in-law, Jack Haley. 131 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:46,340 He's gone on to be with the Lord now. 132 00:09:46,390 --> 00:09:51,820 And I mentioned it because I learned from him that a Presbyterian could be saved. 133 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:55,740 Because he was a Presbyterian. 134 00:09:56,340 --> 00:09:58,660 And he was a godly man. 135 00:09:59,420 --> 00:10:01,360 and it really kind of blew me away. 136 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,820 But it started early. 137 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:08,440 Papa, that's what we call him. 138 00:10:08,480 --> 00:10:10,220 Papa was the youngest of four children. 139 00:10:12,540 --> 00:10:14,080 He had two older brothers and a sister. 140 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,040 And according to family legend, 141 00:10:17,330 --> 00:10:18,680 whenever they would fight, 142 00:10:20,020 --> 00:10:21,480 little Jack would come in 143 00:10:22,420 --> 00:10:23,140 and he would say, 144 00:10:23,450 --> 00:10:25,880 be ye kind one to another, 145 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:27,680 forgiving each other, 146 00:10:28,020 --> 00:10:30,420 Just as in Christ, God forgave you. 147 00:10:34,900 --> 00:10:38,460 How many of you have three or more children? 148 00:10:41,700 --> 00:10:44,520 When they get into a fight with each other, 149 00:10:46,300 --> 00:10:49,540 have you ever had your youngest child come in 150 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:56,620 and quote Ephesians 4.32 to calm down the fight? 151 00:10:57,180 --> 00:10:57,340 No. 152 00:10:58,200 --> 00:10:59,820 He was an extraordinary man. 153 00:11:00,740 --> 00:11:02,380 He really was. 154 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:06,500 So maybe we could try, or maybe we could try this. 155 00:11:06,980 --> 00:11:15,860 Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, we're God's chosen people. 156 00:11:16,580 --> 00:11:26,460 Well, if you are, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 157 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,120 bear with each other and forgive one another 158 00:11:30,740 --> 00:11:33,060 if any of you has a grievance against someone. 159 00:11:34,180 --> 00:11:35,900 Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 160 00:11:37,740 --> 00:11:38,760 You think that'd fix it? 161 00:11:40,940 --> 00:11:42,160 If this is how we acted, 162 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:47,660 you think that might take care of the issues that we have? 163 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:51,920 I grew up in a holiness tradition. 164 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:56,160 Now, holiness actually is a continuum. 165 00:11:56,180 --> 00:11:58,700 It's not just a monolith over here. 166 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:10,040 You know, you got this end of the spectrum that would kind of go, you know, dear, you might want to cover up those arms because men are looking. 167 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:17,920 And then you have over here on the other end of the spectrum, you got, you hussy, you get those arms covered up. 168 00:12:18,180 --> 00:12:19,780 Get that nakedness covered up right now. 169 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:20,380 You're going to hell. 170 00:12:21,140 --> 00:12:22,540 You know, so it's a continuum. 171 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:30,060 And we were kind of on the liberal side of the continuum, but here's a picture of the church I grew up in. 172 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:40,440 And this, I didn't, yeah, there are a lot of our, we were liberal. 173 00:12:41,900 --> 00:12:46,840 We were on the liberal side of holiness, but we were still holiness. 174 00:12:47,650 --> 00:12:47,760 Okay. 175 00:12:50,540 --> 00:12:52,560 And none of those women are wearing pants. 176 00:12:54,900 --> 00:12:59,200 no i'll take it even a step further oh by the way that's my dad over there holding that box 177 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:04,800 i don't know what's in it i don't know why i have this picture but but i do 178 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:13,400 and uh let me just ask you a question can you identify the woman in that picture who is in 179 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:21,240 danger of hellfire oh well then you weren't holiness brought up if you don't know what it 180 00:13:21,140 --> 00:13:28,360 And obviously it's the hussy with the big earrings hanging off of her ears. 181 00:13:32,420 --> 00:13:35,680 And there's like, you probably can't see the detail well enough, 182 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:39,820 but there's like five of them who are just teetering on the brink. 183 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:43,000 They're wearing necklaces. 184 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:49,020 You see, our women didn't wear no jewelry. 185 00:13:50,340 --> 00:13:51,580 You know, that's... 186 00:13:52,740 --> 00:13:56,560 And they didn't wear makeup. 187 00:13:58,720 --> 00:13:59,780 I don't know how they got husbands. 188 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:02,760 Yeah, I do. 189 00:14:03,980 --> 00:14:04,740 Some lovely people. 190 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:12,360 But anyway, I think we may have placed too much emphasis 191 00:14:12,510 --> 00:14:14,780 on the outward trappings of being holy. 192 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,940 I think that might have been an issue that went on with us. 193 00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:27,820 now many of the people in our camp many of the people in our church were the sweetest most loving 194 00:14:29,780 --> 00:14:34,860 humble uh truly sincerely they showed the nature of christ 195 00:14:37,980 --> 00:14:40,800 however we also had quite a few who were meanest snakes 196 00:14:42,860 --> 00:14:48,479 and see being certain that you're right about everything can kind of bring out the meanness 197 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:54,440 sometimes. You know, if you know I have it together, I've got this figured out. 198 00:14:59,900 --> 00:15:04,120 First Corinthians was our favorite chapter in the Bible. I mean, our first favorite book in the 199 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:09,520 Bible. Favorite chapter of our favorite book was First Corinthians 12. It talked about the gifts 200 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:17,959 of the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. In my adult years, I actually paid attention to First Corinthians 201 00:15:17,980 --> 00:15:25,420 chapter 8. And there's 1 Corinthians chapter 8 starts out with a verse that when I finally read 202 00:15:25,420 --> 00:15:36,100 it and really looked at it, kind of just caused a volcanic eruption in my thinking. And it says this, 203 00:15:38,380 --> 00:15:41,820 Knowledge puffs up while love builds up. 204 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:44,360 What? 205 00:15:45,940 --> 00:15:47,760 I thought knowledge was what it was about. 206 00:15:48,700 --> 00:15:49,920 Knowledge puffs up. 207 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:50,560 It makes you. 208 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,500 Love builds up. 209 00:15:54,700 --> 00:15:57,400 Now, the holiness camp is not the only divisive faction. 210 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,660 There are political camps. 211 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:02,580 Does that sound familiar? 212 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:05,160 Anybody remember 1054? 213 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,600 You don't remember it, but maybe you remember what I said about it. 214 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:16,060 You know, political camps, the politically righteous, both on the right and on the left. 215 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:21,840 And the cultural issues, the cultural divisions. 216 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:25,720 You got the culturally righteous and the culturally righteous over here. 217 00:16:26,660 --> 00:16:29,100 And the theological righteous, man, we got it. 218 00:16:29,260 --> 00:16:32,840 We know the right words to say when we baptize you. 219 00:16:33,260 --> 00:16:34,200 It'll actually work. 220 00:16:34,580 --> 00:16:41,900 When we do it, you know, or, you know, we, you know, there are people, I grew up in a church 221 00:16:42,100 --> 00:16:46,800 that believed in speaking in tongues. Okay. And I thought, well, that's cool. You speak in tongues. 222 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:52,620 That means you're filled with the Holy Spirit. I'll later, I think, revise my thinking into 223 00:16:53,180 --> 00:16:58,059 you project the fruits of the Spirit, you're filled with the Holy Spirit. Yeah. Anybody can 224 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:14,780 Shondilii, but the, but theologically, you know, we clutch onto these things and go, well, this is it. 225 00:17:17,060 --> 00:17:25,280 Maybe not. All of these camps are problematic because their fellowship is misplaced. 226 00:17:26,860 --> 00:17:28,720 They are a fellowship of ideas. 227 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:31,300 They are a fellowship of opinions. 228 00:17:32,380 --> 00:17:35,540 They are a fellowship of certain practices. 229 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:41,240 Our real, they might as well be golf fellowships 230 00:17:41,860 --> 00:17:44,740 or fantasy football fellowships, 231 00:17:45,820 --> 00:17:47,180 of which I belong to a couple. 232 00:17:48,780 --> 00:17:52,360 But our real fellowship is Christ. 233 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:54,900 It's in Christ. 234 00:17:55,620 --> 00:17:56,800 That's it. 235 00:17:57,760 --> 00:17:58,620 That's what counts. 236 00:17:59,920 --> 00:18:01,940 And I've learned a couple of things since then. 237 00:18:02,260 --> 00:18:07,720 I've learned that there are Christ-like people in virtually every branch and camp of the faith. 238 00:18:09,020 --> 00:18:09,700 There really are. 239 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:20,140 There are also unscrupulous, mean bullies in virtually every camp and branch of the faith. 240 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:31,100 You start by understanding that in the end, the thing that really matters is not some man-defined holiness. 241 00:18:31,420 --> 00:18:39,660 It's not a matter of who is right or who wins or even who makes the most sense. 242 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,860 What really matters is being like Christ. 243 00:18:45,460 --> 00:18:47,320 He often didn't look like the winner. 244 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,980 In fact, for most of his ministry, he didn't look like the winner. 245 00:18:52,860 --> 00:18:59,880 You know, he fed 5,000 people, and then they show up again and go, 246 00:18:59,900 --> 00:19:02,440 hey, we really like you. 247 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:06,080 We want to hear another sermon and maybe get some food too. 248 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,880 Okay, well, he preaches another sermon, and they all leave. 249 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:12,620 That doesn't look like a winner. 250 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:20,279 He was a homeless, itinerant preacher going throughout Judah 251 00:19:20,460 --> 00:19:22,480 And Judea. 252 00:19:22,660 --> 00:19:25,700 And when I say homeless, I mean homeless. 253 00:19:25,780 --> 00:19:27,220 He had no place to lay his head. 254 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:29,640 He didn't really know where the next meal was coming from. 255 00:19:29,940 --> 00:19:31,420 He knew about the daily bread thing, 256 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,360 but he didn't know exactly where it was gonna come from. 257 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:36,980 He didn't look like a winner. 258 00:19:37,460 --> 00:19:39,340 And he certainly didn't look like a winner 259 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:41,500 hanging naked on a cross, 260 00:19:42,299 --> 00:19:45,360 being condemned to death as a criminal. 261 00:19:50,100 --> 00:20:00,760 he himself said i'm i am humble and i'm gentle so come to me my yoke is easy my burden is light 262 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:09,600 when people come to christ they often start to ask what is my calling what what is my purpose 263 00:20:10,340 --> 00:20:12,600 What am I supposed to do now? 264 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,800 And Pastor Kevin last week was talking about, 265 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,960 we did the abide section of this series. 266 00:20:22,190 --> 00:20:25,760 And that's coming to Christ, learning to abide in Christ. 267 00:20:26,110 --> 00:20:29,200 And then we wanna skip over to advance. 268 00:20:29,860 --> 00:20:30,640 What do we do now? 269 00:20:30,730 --> 00:20:31,580 What do we go do now? 270 00:20:32,260 --> 00:20:34,440 There's this arise section. 271 00:20:34,850 --> 00:20:37,560 You see, what do we do now has to do with, 272 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:38,760 what do we do? 273 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,180 Arise has to do with 274 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:42,260 what is he doing 275 00:20:43,960 --> 00:20:44,780 in us? 276 00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:51,580 The only correct answer 277 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:53,620 to what do I do now 278 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:56,700 is to be like Christ. 279 00:20:58,660 --> 00:20:59,400 Be like Christ. 280 00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:00,580 How do I do that? 281 00:21:01,380 --> 00:21:02,140 I don't know if you've seen 282 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,180 this scripture or not. 283 00:21:04,460 --> 00:21:06,120 Be kind and compassionate 284 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:06,940 to one another. 285 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:15,400 forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you or maybe you've heard this one 286 00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:21,540 therefore as God's chosen people holy and dearly loved clothe yourselves with compassion 287 00:21:23,059 --> 00:21:31,640 kindness humility gentleness and and patience bear with each other and and forgive one another 288 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:36,980 if you have any grievance against someone forgive them that's what you're supposed to do 289 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:39,720 as the Lord forgave you. 290 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,260 There are three words that, 291 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,380 three concepts that appear 292 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:52,340 in both of these passages of Scripture. 293 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:54,800 And I wanna look at those three 294 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,020 for just a moment here. 295 00:21:57,420 --> 00:21:58,300 And they are this, 296 00:22:00,620 --> 00:22:04,800 kindness, compassion, forgiveness. 297 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:06,660 Forgiveness. 298 00:22:09,620 --> 00:22:09,980 Kind. 299 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:18,060 We admire the fire-breathing leader, the one who can lead us. 300 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:19,040 I do. 301 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:21,100 I think most of us do. 302 00:22:21,130 --> 00:22:23,560 You know, usually that's a very charismatic person. 303 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:24,420 Charge. 304 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,780 Come on, I'm going to lead the charge, and I'm going to go first, 305 00:22:28,410 --> 00:22:29,000 and all this stuff. 306 00:22:29,010 --> 00:22:30,240 And we admire that. 307 00:22:31,620 --> 00:22:33,160 But that was not Jesus MO. 308 00:22:35,020 --> 00:22:40,920 That wasn't really, I'm not saying that if someone is a fire-breathing, 309 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,280 what am I thinking of here? 310 00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:48,120 Charismatic person that they're wrong. 311 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,700 That's what God put in them. 312 00:22:49,910 --> 00:22:51,560 But that wasn't how Jesus did it. 313 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:54,880 He was kind. 314 00:22:57,140 --> 00:22:58,100 Jesus was kind. 315 00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:02,760 Has he been kind to you? 316 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:07,280 Earlier, the question went, has God been good to you? 317 00:23:07,350 --> 00:23:08,900 And we hear that all the time. 318 00:23:09,460 --> 00:23:11,300 But let's break it down even a little more. 319 00:23:11,420 --> 00:23:12,840 Has he been kind to you? 320 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:18,260 The way that he's dealt with you in things? 321 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:26,080 Well, he did cleanse the temple and pronounce woes on the religious leaders, 322 00:23:26,630 --> 00:23:28,640 the Pharisees and the teachers of the law. 323 00:23:29,260 --> 00:23:32,100 Yeah, tell me he's not a fire breather right there. 324 00:23:36,120 --> 00:23:42,060 But even that was done with a kindness motive, and it presented a kindness. 325 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:50,060 He was showing people, explaining to people where they were messing up. 326 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:53,720 When he cleansed the temple. 327 00:23:56,860 --> 00:24:02,920 You know, I grew up in church, and then after I came here and started pastoring, 328 00:24:03,610 --> 00:24:09,220 you know, there was a hot theological debate as to whether or not it was okay to have a bake sale at church. 329 00:24:12,220 --> 00:24:13,600 Because Jesus cleansed the temple. 330 00:24:13,650 --> 00:24:14,760 He turned over the... 331 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,920 And that may be a little shallow interpretation. 332 00:24:20,460 --> 00:24:22,000 I think it's okay to have a bake sale. 333 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,220 What was going on there was a scam. 334 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:33,400 And Jesus did it because of the compassion that he had for the poor and the people being exploited. 335 00:24:33,530 --> 00:24:36,400 But also there was actually a kindness. 336 00:24:36,510 --> 00:24:39,380 He clearly explained what's going on here. 337 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:46,180 He said, this is supposed to be a house of prayer for all nations. 338 00:24:46,620 --> 00:24:49,660 You've turned it into a den of robbers. 339 00:24:52,020 --> 00:24:55,140 Let me open your eyes to what's going on here. 340 00:24:55,560 --> 00:25:02,980 because they were checking off all the boxes and doing it right in terms of the law and how it 341 00:25:03,180 --> 00:25:10,280 should be done, but they had also undermined that by turning it into a den of robbers. Let's say 342 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:17,220 you bring your sheep, your goat, or whatever, and you finally come to town, and you're kind of going, 343 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:23,800 I want to offer this to the Lord. It's the best I got. And the priest family could look at that and 344 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:31,860 go, yeah, that's not good enough. However, we do have over here some sheep and goats for sale that 345 00:25:31,940 --> 00:25:41,380 have been pre-approved. Okay, well, all right, no way. You go over to buy it and go, oh, okay, well, 346 00:25:41,740 --> 00:25:47,360 here, I've got my money. And they go, oh, no, no, no, no, no. We can't use that money. We have to use 347 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:52,340 the temple currency. So you're going to have to go over there and get your money exchanged. 348 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:54,420 Have you ever had your money exchanged? 349 00:25:57,340 --> 00:26:00,840 The rate you get when you buy 350 00:26:01,100 --> 00:26:03,540 is not what you get when you want to sell back. 351 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:07,580 You know, there's a thing going on there. 352 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:09,100 Okay, so now you got the money. 353 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:10,300 You come back over here. 354 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:12,520 Okay, I'll take that sheep. 355 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:13,460 How much is that? 356 00:26:14,580 --> 00:26:14,940 What? 357 00:26:16,300 --> 00:26:17,820 Because they can charge whatever they want to charge. 358 00:26:18,540 --> 00:26:20,460 Jesus said, you've turned it into a den of robbers. 359 00:26:21,620 --> 00:26:27,480 You think you're worshiping the Lord because you have checked off all the boxes. 360 00:26:28,020 --> 00:26:30,880 Yes, the animal has to be perfect. 361 00:26:31,300 --> 00:26:33,300 The animal has to be approved. 362 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,460 And I don't know where the temple currency thing came from. 363 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:40,000 But you think that you're worshiping the Lord. 364 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:42,060 But let me tell you what you're really doing. 365 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:45,480 You're exploiting people. 366 00:26:46,660 --> 00:26:52,980 You're undermining the grace and goodness of God and defiling his name by what you're doing. 367 00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:02,640 And then the teachers of the law, the woes that he pronounced. 368 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,020 He didn't say, you know, you're going to hell. 369 00:27:06,060 --> 00:27:07,740 He said, woe to you. 370 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:09,420 Let me tell you what you're doing. 371 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,460 You're slamming the door in the face of people who want to come into the kingdom. 372 00:27:14,980 --> 00:27:15,920 Now, how do you do that? 373 00:27:18,039 --> 00:27:19,920 well now these are the things that you have to do 374 00:27:20,060 --> 00:27:21,140 before you can get into the kingdom 375 00:27:21,660 --> 00:27:22,900 before we'll open the door for you 376 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:26,620 you're traveling across land and sea 377 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:27,820 to make a convert 378 00:27:30,039 --> 00:27:31,000 embellish your resume 379 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,300 and yet you come in and you make them twice 380 00:27:33,420 --> 00:27:35,040 a child of the devil as you are 381 00:27:37,179 --> 00:27:39,380 you know it takes a really good friend 382 00:27:39,820 --> 00:27:41,000 to tell you when you got a booger 383 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:41,999 hanging out of your nose 384 00:27:45,820 --> 00:27:51,760 and that's what Jesus was doing that's what he was saying go through that list of woes you'll 385 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:58,880 see I'm not gonna go through them all right now in fact in second Timothy 2 24 when I came back 386 00:27:58,980 --> 00:28:04,200 to the Lord in my mid-20s I went to a church with a fire-breathing preacher he's a good preacher man 387 00:28:04,210 --> 00:28:10,879 let me tell you and and you know and and a good man I don't want to dishonor his name in in in any 388 00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:18,700 way. But there was just something kind of disquieting about what I was hearing. And 389 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:26,220 later, when I had left the church, that church and gone to another one, God, it was a God thing. 390 00:28:26,300 --> 00:28:30,860 I'm not going to go into that. Sometimes there are good reasons to leave a church. And there's 391 00:28:30,910 --> 00:28:40,059 really only one, and that's God told me to. But 2 Timothy 2.24 says this, the Lord's servant must 392 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:48,900 not be quarrelsome, but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. 393 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:58,080 And it goes on later in that same passage to say, if you'll do this, if this is the way you 394 00:28:58,260 --> 00:29:04,240 approach it, then the person that they're ministering to may very well escape the trap 395 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,540 of the devil and come to repentance. 396 00:29:08,420 --> 00:29:12,299 That works a lot better than... 397 00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:20,980 And kindness. 398 00:29:21,460 --> 00:29:22,520 Jesus was compassionate. 399 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:30,500 Jesus saw the crowds and they'd been with him 400 00:29:30,500 --> 00:29:32,700 for a long time and they were now faint 401 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,140 and he had compassion on them. 402 00:29:38,420 --> 00:29:39,020 Let's feed them. 403 00:29:39,140 --> 00:29:40,620 Let's give them something to eat 404 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,100 because he saw their condition. 405 00:29:43,350 --> 00:29:44,480 Well, what is compassion? 406 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,740 Basically, it's empathy. 407 00:29:48,460 --> 00:29:50,400 Basically, it's walk a mile in my shoes. 408 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:53,260 That's what it is. 409 00:29:53,310 --> 00:29:54,840 Before you tell me what I'm doing wrong, 410 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:58,160 come and walk where I'm walking. 411 00:30:00,300 --> 00:30:01,400 Don't be quick to judge. 412 00:30:02,540 --> 00:30:04,840 to assume you know what's going on. 413 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:08,780 The devil has another name 414 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,060 that scripture has put on him, 415 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:13,420 and that name is Satan. 416 00:30:13,780 --> 00:30:15,780 Does anybody know what that name means? 417 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:17,480 I know some of you do. 418 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,240 Does anybody know what that name means? 419 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,420 It means accuser. 420 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:24,160 Accuser of the brethren. 421 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,500 The Satan is the one who comes along 422 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:30,240 and goes, God, did you see? 423 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:32,860 Did you see what Josh did this week? 424 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,540 In fact, did you see what he was thinking? 425 00:30:38,660 --> 00:30:40,800 Did you see what Mary Sue did? 426 00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:43,060 Did you hear her doing that? 427 00:30:43,919 --> 00:30:48,360 Yeah, that's the Satan who does that. 428 00:30:50,340 --> 00:30:53,600 Bruce Coble was the youth pastor at the Lord's Chapel 429 00:30:54,780 --> 00:31:00,140 back in the 70s, 70s, early 80s. 430 00:31:00,620 --> 00:31:01,840 And I was a youth leader. 431 00:31:03,350 --> 00:31:06,800 I was in my late 20s, early 30s. 432 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,540 I myself was not a youth. 433 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:10,180 I was a youth leader. 434 00:31:12,820 --> 00:31:15,800 From my perspective now, maybe I was also a youth. 435 00:31:15,970 --> 00:31:16,480 I don't know. 436 00:31:19,540 --> 00:31:22,040 But Bruce was the youth pastor, 437 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,460 and we would meet with him fairly often, like weekly. 438 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,380 And then we would also have a youth meeting. 439 00:31:30,420 --> 00:31:33,400 and Bruce would be the first one to tell you 440 00:31:33,860 --> 00:31:36,160 that he's not a dynamic speaker. 441 00:31:36,460 --> 00:31:40,300 He's not a charismatic person that kind of draws you, 442 00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,820 draws you a man, I just gotta go hear Bruce. 443 00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:46,640 But every now and then, Bruce would say something. 444 00:31:47,340 --> 00:31:48,880 Well, actually, probably all the time 445 00:31:48,980 --> 00:31:50,040 if you were really listening. 446 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:52,640 But certainly every now and then, 447 00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:54,340 he would say something that would just go 448 00:31:55,820 --> 00:31:59,400 right through you and stay there. 449 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:08,260 and I remember him, he told a story one time to the youth group that I have never forgotten and 450 00:32:08,380 --> 00:32:16,080 never will forget. He said, I was driving to Nashville this week and this was, he was probably 451 00:32:16,260 --> 00:32:23,540 on 65, 24 may be the worst one, 65 is not very good either and this was back in the day when it 452 00:32:23,540 --> 00:32:29,460 was two lanes each way, one of this four lane stuff. So I was driving to Nashville 453 00:32:29,940 --> 00:32:37,800 and I was late. I was late for an appointment, and I got behind this guy who was just going so slow. 454 00:32:38,150 --> 00:32:44,260 I don't know, something like 40 or something on the interstate. I mean, really, 40 on the interstate, 455 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:49,840 please. And he said, I was behind this guy, and I couldn't get around him because you know how it 456 00:32:49,940 --> 00:32:55,919 is. You'll get behind a slow car, and that big long line of traffic behind you just keeps pulling 457 00:32:55,940 --> 00:33:00,500 out and coming around so that you can't get out and go around, even though it's your turn. 458 00:33:01,380 --> 00:33:04,620 And, you know, so he's getting frustrated. 459 00:33:05,420 --> 00:33:06,860 And he was frustrated with this guy. 460 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,400 What is up with this guy? 461 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:10,420 He's going so slow. 462 00:33:12,260 --> 00:33:16,500 And so he finally got the opportunity to pull out and go around him. 463 00:33:17,060 --> 00:33:21,060 And he had, well, he was going to give him one of those looks. 464 00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:28,280 what's wrong with you 465 00:33:30,639 --> 00:33:32,840 don't act like you don't know that look 466 00:33:32,940 --> 00:33:35,680 you use that look 467 00:33:37,380 --> 00:33:39,560 and some of you say stuff too 468 00:33:42,060 --> 00:33:43,700 and hope they can read lips 469 00:33:46,820 --> 00:33:49,880 so he's gonna give him that look 470 00:33:50,580 --> 00:33:52,700 and he looked over and he said, 471 00:33:53,630 --> 00:33:54,520 the guy was crying. 472 00:34:02,420 --> 00:34:02,920 Wow. 473 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,620 Who drives down the interstate crying? 474 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:09,980 What happened to him? 475 00:34:11,510 --> 00:34:12,760 Did his wife leave him? 476 00:34:12,899 --> 00:34:15,100 Did he lose a child? 477 00:34:15,340 --> 00:34:18,399 Did he get a bad doctor's report? 478 00:34:18,490 --> 00:34:19,360 Did he get fired? 479 00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,399 What is happening in his life? 480 00:34:25,020 --> 00:34:28,720 The only things I can imagine are a whole lot more important 481 00:34:28,879 --> 00:34:31,080 than whether or not I get to this meeting on time. 482 00:34:35,599 --> 00:34:36,200 Compassion. 483 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:40,899 And then forgiving. 484 00:34:43,379 --> 00:34:44,800 For many, this is the hardest. 485 00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:49,139 We can be kind. 486 00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:50,280 Or we think we're kind. 487 00:34:50,540 --> 00:34:52,260 I mean, I think I'm kind, 488 00:34:52,399 --> 00:34:53,879 but I think there are probably some people 489 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:55,280 who disagree with me on that. 490 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:58,720 The way that I come across sometimes. 491 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:03,560 But forgiving. 492 00:35:06,220 --> 00:35:07,360 But it should be the easiest. 493 00:35:10,940 --> 00:35:11,900 The trouble is, 494 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,020 we think we can do it in our own strength. 495 00:35:18,340 --> 00:35:21,640 I was telling Michelle where I was going with the sermon this week. 496 00:35:24,359 --> 00:35:29,520 And forgiveness has kind of been a hot topic with her lately. 497 00:35:29,550 --> 00:35:32,280 It's kind of popped up everywhere she's gone. 498 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,200 She's kind of like, okay, the Lord's putting some things together here. 499 00:35:36,060 --> 00:35:36,480 Forgiveness. 500 00:35:37,510 --> 00:35:42,500 And she's got some pretty big deal stuff that needs forgiveness. 501 00:35:44,980 --> 00:35:46,300 And so do many of you. 502 00:35:46,980 --> 00:35:51,620 I grew up in a situation where, I don't know, it was just blessed. 503 00:35:51,820 --> 00:35:52,940 There was grace. 504 00:35:53,150 --> 00:35:59,400 And I've forgiven people, but nobody's ever really laid me low. 505 00:36:01,820 --> 00:36:02,980 I was an only child. 506 00:36:03,110 --> 00:36:08,620 I grew up in a household that was holiness, but liberal holiness. 507 00:36:10,420 --> 00:36:12,480 It was nothing bad. 508 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:19,760 But many of you have things, especially from maybe your household or whatever. 509 00:36:22,340 --> 00:36:26,800 Tell me why is Father's Day the hardest day of the year for most people? 510 00:36:26,910 --> 00:36:29,340 I mean, you know, that's just how it is. 511 00:36:30,839 --> 00:36:37,480 But we were talking about it, and she's been thinking about it and working on it for a while now. 512 00:36:37,490 --> 00:36:40,880 And she said something that I'd never heard before. 513 00:36:41,540 --> 00:36:46,160 The concept I get, I just never heard it expressed this way. 514 00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:47,980 Forgiveness. 515 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:50,320 She said, it's supernatural. 516 00:36:53,740 --> 00:36:55,060 Oh, wait a minute. 517 00:36:56,240 --> 00:36:57,220 It's supernatural. 518 00:36:59,040 --> 00:36:59,260 Yeah. 519 00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:02,240 And we're not. 520 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:05,020 We aren't superheroes. 521 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:06,920 We don't have superpowers. 522 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:09,560 Supernatural powers. 523 00:37:09,780 --> 00:37:10,320 Not really. 524 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,900 But forgiveness is a supernatural thing. 525 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,360 Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 526 00:37:20,100 --> 00:37:22,800 There's a supernatural factor in there. 527 00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:33,260 We don't forgive because of anything that has to do with this other person. 528 00:37:33,610 --> 00:37:36,760 We don't forgive because of anything that has to do with us. 529 00:37:38,420 --> 00:37:44,940 Except for the fact that the power comes from these words. 530 00:37:47,940 --> 00:37:52,340 And I immediately thought, well, I'm going to put up, you know, forgive as the Lord forgave you. 531 00:37:52,340 --> 00:37:54,240 But the Lord said, no, I want you to use these words. 532 00:37:57,460 --> 00:37:59,200 Freely you have received. 533 00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:01,400 Freely give. 534 00:38:05,119 --> 00:38:06,400 Freely you receive. 535 00:38:06,700 --> 00:38:07,180 Freely give. 536 00:38:11,420 --> 00:38:17,580 you know we sometimes think that the lord forgives us when did the lord forgive you 537 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:24,400 when did he forgive you we sometimes think the lord forgives us when we come to him and ask for it 538 00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:31,420 no no no no no that's when we receive it the forgiveness was already there 539 00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:40,480 it's been there a long long time ago and if you've got someone in your past or present maybe 540 00:38:40,940 --> 00:38:46,460 who needs forgiveness then 541 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:56,200 how can I wait for them to come and ask for it that's not my problem that's their problem 542 00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:58,900 to be able to receive it. 543 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:02,400 My issue is freely. 544 00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:04,060 It's been given to me. 545 00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:05,920 Freely. 546 00:39:07,540 --> 00:39:08,400 I'm supposed to give. 547 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:09,720 Let me ask you another question. 548 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,000 How many times has the Lord forgiven you? 549 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:22,260 Can you say infinitely? 550 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:24,440 Number of times? 551 00:39:24,940 --> 00:39:29,280 I mean, you can certainly make a theological case for one time, brother. 552 00:39:29,780 --> 00:39:30,240 Let me tell you. 553 00:39:32,180 --> 00:39:35,720 He forgave me one time, but I think he's done it a few times since. 554 00:39:37,980 --> 00:39:45,440 Peter came to him and said, Lord, if my brother offends me, how many times a day should I forgive him? 555 00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:45,800 Seven? 556 00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:49,380 And Jesus said, oh, you want a number. 557 00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:51,140 Okay. 558 00:39:53,020 --> 00:39:57,240 Let's go with 490 times a day. 559 00:40:02,040 --> 00:40:03,040 He's forgiven me today. 560 00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:07,280 Some of the stuff he's forgiven me for, I don't even know what it is. 561 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,120 Some of it I do know what it is. 562 00:40:09,340 --> 00:40:11,480 But he's forgiven me. 563 00:40:11,820 --> 00:40:13,560 And that's how it's supposed to be. 564 00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:15,600 Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 565 00:40:15,940 --> 00:40:16,500 Is it easy? 566 00:40:17,060 --> 00:40:17,220 No. 567 00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:19,600 We have work to do. 568 00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:22,800 And it's an ongoing process. 569 00:40:24,500 --> 00:40:28,480 Let me tell you, you don't forgive somebody and, oh, that's done. 570 00:40:28,830 --> 00:40:30,720 Now I don't have to think about it anymore. 571 00:40:31,300 --> 00:40:32,860 No, just wait five minutes. 572 00:40:35,900 --> 00:40:41,240 They'll either do something else or the devil will bring it up in your mind some way 573 00:40:42,430 --> 00:40:43,580 and it'll have to be done again. 574 00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:46,460 I'm getting tired of this. 575 00:40:46,460 --> 00:40:48,120 You don't get tired of being forgiven, do you? 576 00:40:56,420 --> 00:41:02,000 that's pretty close to all I got you guys can come out right now 577 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:10,900 we're gonna we're gonna worship the Lord but also we're gonna provide an opportunity for 578 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:16,939 people to come and be prayed for now why in the world would anybody need to come and be prayed for 579 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:19,960 after hearing a sermon about you need to forgive. 580 00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:24,040 You need to be compassionate. 581 00:41:26,260 --> 00:41:27,160 You need to be kind. 582 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:28,620 It's all about that. 583 00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,920 Like I say, I genuinely think I'm a kind person, 584 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:35,760 but I don't think I always come across that way. 585 00:41:36,100 --> 00:41:37,560 So maybe I'm not. 586 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:43,640 I genuinely think that I'm a compassionate person. 587 00:41:45,700 --> 00:41:47,660 But if I get behind somebody on the interstate 588 00:41:49,450 --> 00:41:50,080 and I'm late 589 00:41:52,150 --> 00:41:54,020 or any other number of circumstances, 590 00:41:56,960 --> 00:41:58,820 that compassion doesn't always overflow. 591 00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,200 I genuinely think I'm a forgiving person 592 00:42:07,390 --> 00:42:08,520 and I believe that I am. 593 00:42:10,130 --> 00:42:11,940 But I probably need prayer for that too. 594 00:42:14,260 --> 00:42:16,420 Well, those who are going to pray with people, go ahead and come forward. 595 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:22,140 And if you're here and you need any of those things, 596 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:28,320 or maybe you brought a need that you need prayer for, 597 00:42:28,940 --> 00:42:32,680 want someone to pray with you about, you feel free to come forward. 598 00:42:33,140 --> 00:42:33,900 Let's all stand. 599 00:42:34,100 --> 00:42:34,600 We're going to worship. 600 00:42:35,620 --> 00:42:39,400 And there's an opportunity to come and pray with a brother or sister. 601 00:43:08,140 --> 00:43:09,100 I'm here.