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Robert Jeffress - The Crux of Christianity (Part 1)

July 29, 2025 | S25 E360 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - The Crux of Christianity (Part 1)
Pathway to Victory offers a practical application of God’s Word to everyday life through the clear, biblical teaching of Pastor Jeffress.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Crux of Christianity (Part 1) | July 29, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist
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  • Church of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • In his famous sermon on the mount, jesus delivered a
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  • Groundbreaking message based on a sequence of paradoxes.
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  • Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs
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  • Is the kingdom of heaven.
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  • Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth.
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  • Sounds completely backwards, doesn't it?
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  • Well, maybe from our point of view, but when you view things
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  • From jesus's perspective, these statements start to
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  • Make a lot more sense.
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  • My message is titled, "the crux of christianity" on today's
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  • Jeffress: chuck swindoll tells a great story about
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  • A couple that lived in new orleans.
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  • The husband loved his wife desperately,
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  • But he hated his wife's cat.
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  • Some of you can relate.
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  • Every night he'd come home from work and that cat would curl
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  • Itself around his leg.
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  • The cat would jump up in his lap while he was
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  • Trying to eat dinner.
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  • At night the cat would insist on sleeping at the end of the bed.
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  • One weekend his wife had to leave town for a few days
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  • To go visit her mother, and her husband thought
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  • This was his big chance.
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  • So while his wife was gone, he took a burlap sack, loaded it
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  • With rocks, put the cat in there, went down to the
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  • Mississippi river and threw the cat and bag
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  • Into the mississippi river.
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  • He knew his problem was over.
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  • Comes back home sunday night, his wife returns from visiting
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  • Her mother, and of course, the first thing she wanted to know
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  • Was where was her cat?
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  • He said, "well, i guess the cat ran away."
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  • She burst into tears.
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  • And so trying to console his wife, he said, "look, i'll try
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  • To retrieve your cat for you."
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  • And so the next day he put an ad in the newspaper, "$500 reward
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  • For missing cat," and he put his phone number in there.
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  • Of course, there was no response.
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  • That night his wife again began to sob uncontrollably, and so he
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  • Said, "well, lemme put another ad in the newspaper."
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  • So the next day he took out an ad, "$1,000 for missing cat,"
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  • And put his telephone number.
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  • Later in the day, a coworker said, "hey, i saw that ad
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  • In the newspaper for the missing cat,
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  • And i recognized your phone number.
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  • That sure is a lot of money to offer for a cat."
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  • The husband smiled and said, "when you know what i know,
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  • You can afford to be generous."
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  • Some of you can't get past the cat in the river.
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  • I know that.
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  • But just cry for a moment, okay?
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  • You know, jesus said something very similar in luke chapter 6,
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  • Not about cats, but the message of luke chapter 6 is very clear.
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  • When you know what jesus knows, you can afford to be generous
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  • In your attitude toward difficult circumstances
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  • And difficult people.
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  • And that's the theme of the message
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  • We're going to look at today.
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  • If you have your bibles turn to luke chapter 6, we've come in
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  • Our study of luke to some of jesus's most familiar words,
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  • We call them the sermon on the mount.
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  • And there's some of jesus's most familiar teachings,
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  • But also some of his most misunderstood words.
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  • He talks about love your enemies, turn the other cheek.
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  • If somebody asks you for your coat, not only give them your
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  • Coat but your shirt as well.
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  • And a lot of people realize these words
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  • Seem impossible to keep.
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  • How in the world can they apply in a world like ours today?
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  • And so i've noticed throughout the ages, people have gone to
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  • One of two extremes when it comes to these words that we
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  • Call the sermon on the mount.
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  • Some people say this is a list of requirements of what you must
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  • Do to go to heaven when you die.
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  • Now, if that's true, if jesus was giving us a list of
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  • Impossible requirements to keep, then jesus was no better
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  • Than the pharisees.
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  • Remember what he said about the pharisees.
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  • They tie up heavy loads on the backs of men so that they cannot
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  • Enter into the kingdom of god.
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  • The pharisees had all of these dos and don'ts that made it
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  • Impossible for anybody to keep.
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  • So jesus is no better than if he gives us this list and says,
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  • "this is how you go to heaven."
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  • I don't think that's what this is, but other people go
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  • To the opposite extreme.
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  • In fact, it's the extreme that most evangelicals go to,
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  • And that is saying that these words have no application
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  • For our world today.
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  • In fact, i attended a seminary, one seminary that taught that.
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  • Well-known professor used to say about the sermon on the mount
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  • That this has no application for today.
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  • This is the constitution for the millennial kingdom, and this is
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  • The way we're all going to act when we get into the millennium,
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  • But we can't do that today.
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  • Is that what jesus is saying?
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  • As i read these words, there's nothing to suggest that this is
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  • For some future generation.
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  • Jesus is talking about how we are to act as christians, and
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  • Yes, it's difficult.
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  • If you believe this world is all that there is, these commands
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  • Are impossible to keep.
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  • There's no motivation for keeping them if this is all that
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  • There is, but remember the theme.
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  • When you know what jesus knows about the future, you can be
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  • Generous in your attitude toward difficult circumstances and
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  • Difficult people.
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  • Now, before we get into the summary of the sermon on the
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  • Mount, let's first of all look at the setting for this sermon,
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  • That's key to understanding what jesus is saying.
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  • Look at luke 6, verse 12, "and it was at this time that jesus
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  • Went off to the mountain to pray, and he spent the whole
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  • Night in prayer to god."
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  • It was at this time that jesus prayed out all night.
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  • Now, of course, the question is, what time are you talking about?
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  • Well, the answer is in the preceding verse 11, "but they
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  • Themselves were filled with rage, and discussed together
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  • What might do to jesus."
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  • The pharisees had been enraged by jesus, what he was teaching.
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  • They decided we've gotta get rid of this guy
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  • And so they were plotting to kill jesus.
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  • Jesus is now aware that his time on earth is very, very limited,
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  • And at this time he goes off to pray all night.
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  • By the way, have you come to grips with the fact
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  • That your time on earth is limited?
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  • Have you come to grips with the fact that you are going to die?
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  • And it's gonna come sooner than you can possibly expect.
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  • All of us are going to die, every one of us,
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  • And the inevitability of death produces one of two reactions.
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  • One reaction, the most common reaction is; eat, drink,
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  • And be merry, for tomorrow we die.
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  • If this life is all there is, grab all the gusto you can get,
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  • Have all the pleasure, the recognition, pile up all the
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  • Money you can because one day you're going to die.
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  • That's one reaction.
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  • The other reaction, the one that lasts beyond your death is to
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  • Decide to invest your life in something that will outlast it.
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  • You know, the bible says there are only two things
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  • That are going to last for eternity.
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  • People, everybody's gonna live forever, some in heaven,
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  • Some in hell, but people are eternal
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  • And god's word is eternal.
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  • "thy word is settled in heaven forever."
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  • And if you wanna have a life that continues after you die,
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  • You are gonna spend your life investing god's word in the
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  • Lives of other people, and that's what jesus decided to do.
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  • He decided to instill his teaching in other people.
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  • And by the way, that's what discipleship is all about.
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  • Discipleship is spending your limited time on earth helping
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  • Other people be faithful followers of jesus christ
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  • By instilling his word in them.
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  • Remember what paul said to timothy, paul knew his life was
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  • Limited, and so he said to his young protégé in 2 timothy 2,
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  • Verse 2, "and the things which you have heard from me in the
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  • Presence of many witnesses, these entrust to faithful men
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  • Who will be able to teach others also."
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  • Paul knew that the continuation of christianity depended upon
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  • Him having someone to carry on his teaching after he died.
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  • My friend, bill spears, who is a member of our church,
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  • Has a great saying, i repeat it all the time.
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  • "success without succession is failure."
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  • A wise ceo is one who realizes his time in the seat is limited,
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  • He better prepare for somebody who's going to succeed him.
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  • And that's true for us who are christians.
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  • You know, dr. crystal used to say all the time, i remember him
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  • Saying this all the time, "every civilization is only one
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  • Generation away from paganism."
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  • Every civilization only one generation away from paganism.
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  • If we fail to pass on the christian truth to the next
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  • Generation, we become a pagan people.
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  • And that's what discipleship is.
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  • It is investing our lives and instilling god's word
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  • In the lives of other people.
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  • Of course, for those of us who are parents, our most important
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  • Discipleship project is our own children.
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  • To teach our children to follow god and to imitate christ,
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  • But our children aren't our only discipleship project.
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  • We need to be entrusting our faith to other men and women
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  • Who will carry on the faith.
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  • Jesus knew his time was limited, he didn't have any natural
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  • Children, but he decided to pass along his faith to 12 men who
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  • Would be entrusted with the christian faith to spread it
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  • Throughout the world.
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  • And so he needed guidance from his heavenly father,
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  • "which 12 men should i choose?"
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  • And so he goes and has an all-night prayer meeting
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  • For god's wisdom in making the right choice.
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  • Now, i could get real sanctimonious here if i wanted
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  • To, and i could say, what is it you're so concerned about that
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  • You've ever stayed up all night and prayed about?
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  • I could do that if i wanted to, but i'd be a hypocrite.
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  • Because the fact is, i have never purposefully stayed up
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  • All night to pray about something.
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  • Now, i have had times when i couldn't go to sleep at night,
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  • And when i was so concerned about something that i would
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  • Pray and then i would drift off to sleep for a little bit, and
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  • Then i would wake up and start praying about it again
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  • And drift off to sleep.
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  • Many of us have had that experience, but honestly,
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  • I've not stayed up all night purposefully to pray.
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  • So i'm not gonna ask you that question.
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  • Here's the question i am going to ask you.
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  • What are you so concerned about in your life right now that you
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  • Would devote just five minutes a day to pray for?
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  • Is there anything in your life, your children, your work,
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  • The health concern of a friend or yourself, anything that
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  • You're willing to spend five uninterrupted minutes
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  • A day praying for?
  • 00:12:27.269 --> 00:12:29.305
  • Jesus knew how important prayer was, and so he prayed all night
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  • And the result, verse 13, "and when day came, he called his
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  • Disciples to him and he chose twelve of them, whom he also
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  • Named as apostles."
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  • Now lemme say a word.
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  • You might wanna write this down about the difference between
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  • A disciple and an apostle.
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  • A disciple is a follower of a rabbi.
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  • A disciple is somebody who is so enthralled with a rabbi that
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  • He seeks to imitate not just his words, but his example.
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  • To be a disciple of jesus means to model your attitudes,
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  • Actions, and affections after jesus.
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  • It means to love what jesus loved, act like jesus acted,
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  • Think like jesus thought in every situation.
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  • The simple definition i gave you a few months ago of a disciple
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  • Is this; to be a disciple means for me to live my life as jesus
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  • Would live my life if he were i, how would jesus operate
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  • If he had your job?
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  • How would jesus relate to your family members?
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  • How would jesus relate to your friends?
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  • How would jesus handle the amount of money he's entrusted
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  • To you?
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  • That's what it means to be a disciple.
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  • But out of the disciples came 12 apostles, these are the ones who
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  • Would be sent forth a unique group to proclaim the message
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  • Of jesus to the jews and the gentiles.
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  • Now, i could spend sermon after sermon talking about these
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  • Apostles, i'm not going to do that.
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  • Let me just give you three observation about the list you
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  • Find in verses 12 to 14, and you find the similar list
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  • In matthew and mark.
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  • Number one, the lists begin with simon peter.
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  • All three lists of the apostles begin with peter.
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  • He was the leader, but you know what?
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  • What's interesting?
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  • He was the greatest failure of all of the apostles.
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  • Here's a guy who denied jesus, not once or twice,
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  • But three different times.
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  • He was a major screw up as an apostle, and yet jesus chose him
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  • To be the leader.
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  • Doesn't that give you hope?
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  • It doesn't matter how much you failed, what is in your past?
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  • God can take your mistakes, forgive them, and redeem them.
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  • Peter is at the beginning of every list.
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  • Secondly, the list ends with judas iscariot.
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  • You know, iscariot e--is comes from the hebrew word ishman,
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  • Cariot is probably a derivation of kerioth, the town of judea.
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  • Judas, the man of kerioth.
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  • We all know about judas, he's the one who betrayed jesus
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  • For 30 pieces of silver and led to his crucifixion.
  • 00:15:16.939 --> 00:15:20.409
  • Now at first reading, we have to think, well,
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  • Why did jesus choose judas?
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  • Did he make a mistake?
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  • Maybe jesus should have spent even longer praying about this
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  • Selection so he didn't make a mistake like judas.
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  • No, all of this was a part of god's plan.
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  • Jesus chose judas for a reason because jesus knew god could use
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  • The evil in judas's own heart to accomplish his purpose.
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  • I'm gonna say more about that in a moment.
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  • But god can take evil people, he can take evil circumstances that
  • 00:15:47.903 --> 00:15:52.908
  • Are used against you, and he can still use those for your good
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  • And his eternal purpose.
  • 00:15:56.678 --> 00:15:59.148
  • The final thing i noticed about this list is they are comprised
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  • Of young men.
  • 00:16:02.418 --> 00:16:04.086
  • You know, when we think about the apostles, we think about
  • 00:16:04.086 --> 00:16:05.954
  • These, you know, old white guys with beards, you know,
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  • And think the 60, 70-year-olds, no.
  • 00:16:09.458 --> 00:16:13.095
  • Most bible scholars believe these men were probably in their
  • 00:16:13.095 --> 00:16:15.764
  • Late teenage years, early 20s at the most when
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  • They were chosen to be apostles.
  • 00:16:19.168 --> 00:16:22.704
  • Now, having said all of that, let's look at verse 17,
  • 00:16:22.704 --> 00:16:25.641
  • Or verse 17 tells us that when jesus descended to a plane,
  • 00:16:25.641 --> 00:16:30.646
  • There was a great multitude of his followers there.
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  • And verse 20 says, "turning his gaze on his disciples."
  • 00:16:33.549 --> 00:16:39.321
  • What i want you to notice is this message we're gonna look at
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  • For just a few moments is not a message for the unsaved.
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  • There's nothing in this passage that will tell you how to go to
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  • Heaven when you die.
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  • There's nothing about god's forgiveness through jesus or the
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  • Cross or the blood of christ, this was a message for his
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  • Disciples, his followers.
  • 00:16:56.338 --> 00:17:00.008
  • You know, it's interesting, jesus was in the midst of
  • 00:17:00.008 --> 00:17:02.277
  • Relentless criticism from the pharisees, but jesus did not
  • 00:17:02.277 --> 00:17:06.515
  • Spend his time answering the criticism of the pharisees.
  • 00:17:06.515 --> 00:17:10.919
  • In fact, in this passage, jesus doesn't try to answer the
  • 00:17:10.919 --> 00:17:13.755
  • Pharisees, instead, he invest his time with his disciples,
  • 00:17:13.755 --> 00:17:19.461
  • His followers.
  • 00:17:19.461 --> 00:17:20.796
  • And here's a great leadership principle that won't cost you
  • 00:17:20.796 --> 00:17:23.065
  • Anything extra, but i want you to write it down.
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  • Here's a mark of a true leader.
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  • A true leader in--doesn't invest his time with problem people,
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  • He invests his time with people with potential.
  • 00:17:34.743 --> 00:17:38.514
  • Lemme say it again.
  • 00:17:38.514 --> 00:17:40.048
  • A real effective leader invests his time not with people with
  • 00:17:40.048 --> 00:17:43.886
  • Problems, but people with potential.
  • 00:17:43.886 --> 00:17:47.823
  • He doesn't invest his time with people who are causing trouble
  • 00:17:47.823 --> 00:17:50.859
  • And are upset all the time, he invests his time with the people
  • 00:17:50.859 --> 00:17:54.163
  • Who have potential.
  • 00:17:54.163 --> 00:17:56.098
  • You see that over and over again.
  • 00:17:56.098 --> 00:17:57.533
  • The mistake of focusing your attention on people who just
  • 00:17:57.533 --> 00:18:01.603
  • Have problems.
  • 00:18:01.603 --> 00:18:03.338
  • You know, we see this in families.
  • 00:18:03.338 --> 00:18:04.940
  • There's a problem child in the family, the parent devotes
  • 00:18:04.940 --> 00:18:08.143
  • All the attention and emotional issue to this child with the
  • 00:18:08.143 --> 00:18:11.246
  • Problems and neglects the rest of the children in the family
  • 00:18:11.246 --> 00:18:14.283
  • Who have great potential.
  • 00:18:14.283 --> 00:18:16.285
  • Or you see this in businesses.
  • 00:18:16.285 --> 00:18:17.853
  • A business is all hung up on this one or two problem
  • 00:18:17.853 --> 00:18:21.690
  • Disgruntled customer they have, and they forget all of the
  • 00:18:21.690 --> 00:18:25.694
  • Potential customers they could be devoting
  • 00:18:25.694 --> 00:18:27.796
  • Their resources toward.
  • 00:18:27.796 --> 00:18:29.731
  • You see this in a church, i see this time and time again
  • 00:18:29.731 --> 00:18:32.734
  • In churches.
  • 00:18:32.734 --> 00:18:34.136
  • A church has a little handful of disgruntled members and the
  • 00:18:34.136 --> 00:18:37.272
  • Leaders of the church are focused on
  • 00:18:37.272 --> 00:18:39.174
  • These disgruntled members.
  • 00:18:39.174 --> 00:18:40.676
  • "oh, what did we do to offend you?
  • 00:18:40.676 --> 00:18:42.578
  • Or what could we do to make you happy?"
  • 00:18:42.578 --> 00:18:44.680
  • And the pastor stands up and he focuses on that little group,
  • 00:18:44.680 --> 00:18:47.950
  • And he's just lambasting them week after week after week
  • 00:18:47.950 --> 00:18:51.186
  • Forgetting that 99% of the people in the church are happy
  • 00:18:51.186 --> 00:18:54.223
  • With the church, they're excited about what's going on,
  • 00:18:54.223 --> 00:18:57.059
  • But he focuses on the few with problems.
  • 00:18:57.059 --> 00:18:59.962
  • Again, a real leader is somebody who doesn't focus his attention
  • 00:18:59.962 --> 00:19:04.499
  • On people who are causing problems, but people with
  • 00:19:04.499 --> 00:19:07.636
  • Potential, and that's what jesus did.
  • 00:19:07.636 --> 00:19:09.538
  • He focused this message on the ones who would carry on
  • 00:19:09.538 --> 00:19:12.507
  • His faith long after he had ascended back into heaven.
  • 00:19:12.507 --> 00:19:16.578
  • And that brings us to the substance of the sermon
  • 00:19:16.578 --> 00:19:19.681
  • Beginning in verse 20.
  • 00:19:19.681 --> 00:19:22.417
  • Let me remind you, this is just a summary of the sermon
  • 00:19:22.417 --> 00:19:25.854
  • On the mount.
  • 00:19:25.854 --> 00:19:27.222
  • You find a longer version in verse--in matthew 5 through 7.
  • 00:19:27.222 --> 00:19:31.360
  • This is a short version of it.
  • 00:19:31.360 --> 00:19:33.328
  • Some people get hung up on that.
  • 00:19:33.328 --> 00:19:34.896
  • "wait a minute, pastor, why are the accounts different?"
  • 00:19:34.896 --> 00:19:38.333
  • It's just a summary.
  • 00:19:38.333 --> 00:19:40.669
  • You know, in the english language we have quotation
  • 00:19:40.669 --> 00:19:43.105
  • Marks, and in your text it probably shows quotation marks.
  • 00:19:43.105 --> 00:19:47.342
  • In the english language, quotation marks means this is a
  • 00:19:47.342 --> 00:19:50.946
  • Word for word, exact quotation of what somebody said.
  • 00:19:50.946 --> 00:19:54.983
  • In the greek language, there were no quotation marks.
  • 00:19:54.983 --> 00:19:58.420
  • This is an indirect paraphrase of what jesus said, and that's
  • 00:19:58.420 --> 00:20:02.724
  • Why luke emphasizes some things that matthew doesn't.
  • 00:20:02.724 --> 00:20:06.895
  • Matthew emphasizes something that jesus doesn't.
  • 00:20:06.895 --> 00:20:09.431
  • So don't get hung up on that.
  • 00:20:09.431 --> 00:20:11.300
  • This is a paraphrase of what jesus said.
  • 00:20:11.300 --> 00:20:14.369
  • Now, having said that, remember the theme.
  • 00:20:14.369 --> 00:20:16.772
  • When we know what jesus knows, we can be generous,
  • 00:20:16.772 --> 00:20:19.641
  • First of all, in our attitude toward difficult circumstances.
  • 00:20:19.641 --> 00:20:23.578
  • Let's just look at some of these.
  • 00:20:23.578 --> 00:20:25.213
  • Verse 20, "and turning his gaze on his disciples, he began to
  • 00:20:25.213 --> 00:20:29.051
  • Say, 'blessed,'" literally happy, "are you who are poor,
  • 00:20:29.051 --> 00:20:34.589
  • For yours is the kingdom of god."
  • 00:20:34.589 --> 00:20:37.125
  • Now he's not talking about material poverty.
  • 00:20:37.125 --> 00:20:39.895
  • There's nothing blessed about being
  • 00:20:39.895 --> 00:20:41.730
  • Poor financially automatically.
  • 00:20:41.730 --> 00:20:44.933
  • Matthew adds the words, blessed are the poor in spirit.
  • 00:20:44.933 --> 00:20:50.672
  • That is blessed, happy or those of you
  • 00:20:50.672 --> 00:20:53.008
  • Who recognize your spiritual poverty.
  • 00:20:53.008 --> 00:20:56.011
  • I like the way one commentator says it.
  • 00:20:56.011 --> 00:20:57.879
  • "blessed are those who realize they are spiritual zeroes,
  • 00:20:57.879 --> 00:21:03.318
  • For one day yours will be the kingdom of god."
  • 00:21:03.318 --> 00:21:05.787
  • Do you ever feel like a spiritual zero?
  • 00:21:05.787 --> 00:21:08.357
  • You just feel like you're not succeeding
  • 00:21:08.357 --> 00:21:09.891
  • In your christian life?
  • 00:21:09.891 --> 00:21:11.360
  • You know you ought to pray more and read the bible more, but you
  • 00:21:11.360 --> 00:21:13.795
  • Just can't do it, and you don't react like you should and you
  • 00:21:13.795 --> 00:21:16.631
  • Wish you could be better than you are?
  • 00:21:16.631 --> 00:21:19.401
  • He said relax, be happy because one day that struggle you have
  • 00:21:19.401 --> 00:21:25.107
  • In your christian life is gonna be satisfied, yours is going to
  • 00:21:25.107 --> 00:21:28.477
  • Be the kingdom of god.
  • 00:21:28.477 --> 00:21:30.278
  • In verse 21, "blessed," happy, "are you who hunger now,
  • 00:21:30.278 --> 00:21:33.482
  • For you shall be satisfied."
  • 00:21:33.482 --> 00:21:36.318
  • Again, another version says, "blessed are you who hunger and
  • 00:21:36.318 --> 00:21:39.621
  • Thirst for righteousness."
  • 00:21:39.621 --> 00:21:42.557
  • He's talking about a spiritual hunger
  • 00:21:42.557 --> 00:21:44.259
  • And thirst for righteousness.
  • 00:21:44.259 --> 00:21:47.195
  • Do you ever wish we lived in a world where justice reigned?
  • 00:21:47.195 --> 00:21:50.966
  • Do you wish we had a world where there was no dallas
  • 00:21:50.966 --> 00:21:54.369
  • Or baton rouge or terrorist attacks?
  • 00:21:54.369 --> 00:21:58.273
  • Do you wish there was a world in which evil would be overcome
  • 00:21:58.273 --> 00:22:02.110
  • By good every time?
  • 00:22:02.110 --> 00:22:04.346
  • That's what he's talking about.
  • 00:22:04.346 --> 00:22:05.747
  • "blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
  • 00:22:05.747 --> 00:22:09.518
  • For one day you will be satisfied."
  • 00:22:09.518 --> 00:22:13.355
  • One day the tables are going to be turned and god is going to
  • 00:22:13.355 --> 00:22:16.057
  • Right the wrongs of this world.
  • 00:22:16.057 --> 00:22:18.560
  • He goes on to say, "blessed" happy, "are those of you who
  • 00:22:18.560 --> 00:22:21.163
  • Weep now, for you shall laugh."
  • 00:22:21.163 --> 00:22:26.435
  • There's nothing more painful than losing a loved one.
  • 00:22:26.435 --> 00:22:30.739
  • Losing a loved one through death is painful.
  • 00:22:30.739 --> 00:22:33.775
  • I've come to believe even more painful is losing a loved one
  • 00:22:33.775 --> 00:22:37.679
  • Through defection, their heart turns cold towards you.
  • 00:22:37.679 --> 00:22:42.451
  • They desert you, they leave you.
  • 00:22:42.451 --> 00:22:44.853
  • Many of you have suffered a loss of a loved one either
  • 00:22:44.853 --> 00:22:47.722
  • Through death or defection.
  • 00:22:47.722 --> 00:22:49.524
  • He said, "blessed are those of you who weep right now for one
  • 00:22:49.524 --> 00:22:52.761
  • Day, eventually you will laugh."
  • 00:22:52.761 --> 00:22:55.697
  • Remember, when you know what jesus knows about the future,
  • 00:22:55.697 --> 00:23:00.302
  • You can be generous even about loss.
  • 00:23:00.302 --> 00:23:03.371
  • Jeffress: at first, these words from jesus may sound like
  • 00:23:07.509 --> 00:23:09.845
  • A paradox, but those who suffer here on earth will be blessed
  • 00:23:09.845 --> 00:23:14.583
  • Eternally in heaven.
  • 00:23:14.583 --> 00:23:16.918
  • Now, in closing, i wanna share an encouraging note from mitch
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  • In north carolina.
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  • He wrote, "i love pathway to victory because i know you are
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  • I attend church to worship every sunday, but i am able to worship
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  • Every day with you through pathway to victory."
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  • Well, thank you for those words of encouragement, mitch.
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