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Robert Jeffress - The Crux of Christianity (Part 2)

January 30, 2026 | 27:29

Robert Jeffress - The Crux of Christianity (Part 2)
In this episode of "Pathway to Victory," Dr. Robert Jeffress delves into the teachings of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, focusing on the unconventional perspectives Jesus offers on life's difficulties. Through powerful anecdotes and biblical passages, Dr. Jeffress explores the importance of building a life on the foundation of Jesus' words, emphasizing the need to embody Christian teachings in both attitude and action. The episode challenges viewers to reevaluate their approach to challenges, relationships, and faith, encouraging them to strengthen their spiritual foundation for a victorious life.
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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - The Crux of Christianity (Part 2) | January 30, 2026
  • ♪ music ♪
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  • From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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  • Of dallas, texas this is "pathway to victory"
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  • With dr. robert jeffress.
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  • Hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory".
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  • Life can be overwhelming, can't it?
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  • Whether you're dealing with a financial problem,
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  • Or a health crisis,
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  • Or a relationship that's gone south,
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  • Troubles can weigh us down and rob us of hope.
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  • Well, in his sermon on the mount,
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  • Jesus offered an unconventional
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  • Perspective on life's difficulties,
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  • And while jesus' words won't erase
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  • Your day-to-day problems,
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  • They can revolutionize your perspective.
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  • My message is titled
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  • "the crux of christianity"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory".
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  • ♪ 'twas grace ♪
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  • ♪ that taught ♪
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  • ♪ my heart to fear ♪
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  • ♪ and grace ♪
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  • ♪ my fears relieved ♪
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  • ♪ how precious did ♪
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  • ♪ that grace appear ♪
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  • ♪ the hour ♪
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  • ♪ i first believed ♪
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  • ♪ through many ♪
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  • ♪ dangers, toils, and snares ♪
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  • ♪ i have ♪
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  • ♪ already come ♪
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  • ♪ 'tis grace ♪
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  • ♪ hath brought ♪
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  • ♪ me safe thus far ♪
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  • ♪ and grace ♪
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  • ♪ will lead me home ♪
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  • ♪ lead me home ♪
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  • (bright theatrical music)
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  • ♪ and when ♪
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  • ♪ we're there 10,000 years ♪
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  • ♪ bright shining ♪
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  • ♪ as the sun ♪
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  • ♪ we've no ♪
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  • ♪ less days ♪
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  • ♪ to sing ♪
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  • ♪ god's praise ♪
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  • ♪ than when ♪
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  • ♪ we first ♪
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  • ♪ begun ♪
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • ♪ god's amazing grace ♪
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • (congregation applauding)
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  • Each day millions of lost people
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  • Are searching for hope and truth.
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  • Through "pathway to victory".
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  • God's word is reaching into homes across america
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  • And around the world, but there are still so many
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  • Who haven't heard the saving message of jesus christ.
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  • You can help change that by becoming a pathway partner.
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  • With the life-changing power of the cross.
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • I've come to believe even more painful
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  • Is losing a loved one through defection.
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  • Their heart turns cold towards you.
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  • They desert you.
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  • They leave you.
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  • Many of you have suffered a loss of a loved one
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  • Either through death or defection.
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  • He said, "blessed are those of you who weep right now.
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  • "for one day eventually you will laugh."
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  • Remember, when you know what
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  • Jesus knows about the future,
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  • You can be generous even about loss.
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  • Verse 22, "happy are you when men hate you,
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  • "and ostracize you and cast insults at you,
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  • "and spurn your name as evil
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  • "for the sake of the son of man."
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  • Verse 23, "for great is your reward in heaven."
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  • Students, teenagers, do you ever feel like
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  • You're ostracized from the rest of the group
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  • Because you want to live for god?
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  • Do you ever feel like in your business
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  • You've been passed over for a promotion,
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  • Because you won't bend your christian principles?
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  • Do you ever feel like
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  • There's a division in your family
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  • Between you and your mate or you and your children
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  • Or you and your parents because of your christian faith?
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  • Let's say like many people, many families,
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  • You're just keeping your head above water financially.
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  • You're trying to meet monthly expenses.
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  • Think about your kids' education,
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  • Think about your retirement,
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  • And every month you're hoping, you know,
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  • You run out of month before you run out of money.
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  • You're having a struggle.
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  • It's tight.
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  • That's the bad news.
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  • The good news is you have an uncle
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  • Who has left an irrevocable trust for you
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  • Of $10 million that will be yours when he dies,
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  • And the even better news is he's 99 years old.
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  • (congregation laughing)
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  • Now what does that knowledge do for you?
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  • Does the fact that that trust has been set up,
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  • Does it alleviate your day-to-day problems?
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  • No, it doesn't eradicate your problems,
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  • But it gives you a different perspective
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  • About your problems, doesn't it?
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  • You know, your problems are temporary.
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  • There's a great reward coming,
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  • And that's what jesus is saying here.
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  • Yes, your difficult circumstances are real
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  • And they're painful,
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  • But remember when you know
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  • What jesus knows about the future,
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  • You can be generous in your attitude
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  • Toward those difficult circumstances.
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  • You can also be generous in your
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  • Attitude toward difficult people.
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  • Look at verse 27 through 30,
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  • "but i say to you who hear, love your enemies.
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  • "do good to those who hate you.
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  • "bless those who curse you.
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  • "pray for those who mistreat you."
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  • Now, don't read into this what
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  • Jesus isn't saying about your enemies.
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  • He's not saying you have to hang around your enemies.
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  • He doesn't mean you have to have them as your best friends.
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  • He says, "love them.
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  • "pray for them.
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  • "do good to them."
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  • You know the best way to pray for your enemies?
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  • Is to pray god's best in their life.
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  • If they're your enemies and they're not christians,
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  • Pray for god's best that they would be saved.
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  • If they're your enemies and they're christians
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  • Who are acting unjustly,
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  • Pray that they would come back to god.
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  • That's what it means.
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  • To love your enemies means to wish
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  • And pray for god's best in their lives.
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  • He goes on in verse 29 and says,
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  • "whoever hits you on the cheek
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  • "offer him the other also."
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  • Again, people misinterpret this.
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  • When he talks about people hitting you on the cheek,
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  • He's not talking about somebody threatening your life.
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  • In jesus' day, part of the middle eastern culture was,
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  • If you wanted to insult somebody,
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  • You would slap them on the face.
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  • It was a way of insulting somebody.
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  • And jesus said, "when somebody insults you,
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  • "don't feel like you have to respond,"
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  • You know, with a don rickles insult,
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  • You know to come back at them,
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  • The best line you can come up with.
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  • Don't do that.
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  • Don't return insult for insult.
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  • This is not a prohibition against self-defense.
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  • Remember, we believe in the sanctity of life as christians,
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  • And the sanctity of life not only
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  • Refers to life inside a mother's womb,
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  • It also refers to life outside the womb.
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  • Human life is valuable.
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  • It's created by god,
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  • And we're to try to do anything we can
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  • To prevent the destruction of human life
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  • Including our own life.
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  • There's nothing wrong with having a weapon.
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  • There's nothing wrong in defending yourself
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  • Or defending your family.
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  • That's a godly principle.
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  • He's talking about returning insult for insult.
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  • He says, "whoever takes your coat,
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  • "do not withhold your shirt from him either.
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  • "give to everyone who asks of you
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  • "and whoever takes away what is yours,
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  • "don't demand it back."
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  • Now again, let's not go to extremes
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  • Of what jesus is saying or not saying here.
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  • If somebody cheats you out of money,
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  • Is it ever wrong to try to get that back
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  • And go to court to try to settle the issue?
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  • No.
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  • In luke 18, jesus told a story about a woman
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  • Who was being mistreated, a widow,
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  • And she went to a judge
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  • To seek relief for the mistreatment,
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  • The financial mistreatment she was experiencing.
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  • Jesus didn't condemn her for going to the judge.
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  • He commended her for going to the judge.
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  • Here's what i think jesus is saying is.
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  • He's saying when somebody wrongs you,
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  • Don't let it be the consuming passion
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  • Of your life to get back what was taken from you.
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  • I can tell you from personal experience
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  • A number of times somebody has cheated me out of money,
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  • And i've allowed that to consume me
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  • For a period of days, weeks, and months
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  • Trying to get that money back,
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  • Trying to right the wrong.
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  • And it became an all-consuming
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  • Possession and feeling in me,
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  • And in none of those cases did i ever get back
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  • What was taken from me.
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  • What jesus is saying is,
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  • "you know, sometimes you just have
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  • "to take the loss and move on with your life.
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  • "don't demand everything that is yours
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  • "when it's been taken from you.
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  • "let god settle the score,"
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  • That's what he's saying here.
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  • By the way, let me also remind you
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  • That these commands in verses 27 to 30,
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  • They are given to individuals not to nations.
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  • Nowhere in the bible is any nation told
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  • To turn the other cheek
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  • When faced with mistreatment.
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  • That is not god's plan for nations
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  • To forgive, to turn the other cheek.
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  • I was on npr radio a couple of weeks ago doing a debate,
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  • And the guy i was debating with was a christian
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  • Evangelical professor of a well-known university.
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  • And this professor said to me, "pastor jeffress,
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  • "don't you want a leader for this nation
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  • "who will govern this nation according to
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  • "jesus' words in the sermon on the mount?"
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  • I said, "heck no, i don't want that kind of leader.
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  • "in fact, any leader who says,
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  • 'i'm going to rule this nation
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  • 'according to the sermon on the mount,'
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  • "i'm going to run as far and as fast
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  • "from that candidate as possible,
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  • "because that is a perversion of the sermon on the mount."
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  • God never gave the sermon on the mount as a constitution
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  • For how a nation is to order itself.
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  • You know, in romans 12, god says,
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  • "do not repay evil for evil.
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  • "leave room for the wrath of god.
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  • "for vengeance is mine.
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  • "i will repay,' saith the lord."
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  • He's talking about how we deal
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  • Individually with injustice.
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  • Leave room for the vengeance of god.
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  • Let god take care of it.
  • 00:11:32.648 --> 00:11:33.983
  • Then in the very next chapter, romans 13,
  • 00:11:33.983 --> 00:11:36.652
  • He says, "for government is an instrument of god
  • 00:11:36.652 --> 00:11:41.690
  • "designed by god to seek vengeance on evildoers,"
  • 00:11:41.690 --> 00:11:45.394
  • God's going to take care of evildoers.
  • 00:11:45.394 --> 00:11:48.164
  • The instrument he does it through
  • 00:11:48.164 --> 00:11:49.932
  • Many times is government.
  • 00:11:49.932 --> 00:11:51.534
  • Don't confuse individual responsibility
  • 00:11:51.534 --> 00:11:54.904
  • With governmental responsibility.
  • 00:11:54.904 --> 00:11:56.972
  • This is for individuals.
  • 00:11:56.972 --> 00:11:59.809
  • You know, jesus not only gave us
  • 00:11:59.809 --> 00:12:01.577
  • An exhortation of how to treat evildoers,
  • 00:12:01.577 --> 00:12:04.246
  • He gave us a great example in his own life.
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  • Remember as he hung on the cross,
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  • First peter 2:23 says,
  • 00:12:09.985 --> 00:12:11.587
  • "while being reviled,
  • 00:12:11.587 --> 00:12:12.922
  • "he did not revile in return.
  • 00:12:12.922 --> 00:12:15.658
  • "while suffering he uttered no threats,
  • 00:12:15.658 --> 00:12:18.093
  • "but he kept entrusting himself
  • 00:12:18.093 --> 00:12:20.262
  • "to the one who judges righteously."
  • 00:12:20.262 --> 00:12:24.333
  • Jesus could have called 12 legions of angels,
  • 00:12:24.333 --> 00:12:26.802
  • 36,000 angels as he wanted to,
  • 00:12:26.802 --> 00:12:29.839
  • To get those guys who were doing him such evil.
  • 00:12:29.839 --> 00:12:32.274
  • But instead he said, "father," what?
  • 00:12:32.274 --> 00:12:35.678
  • "forgive them.
  • 00:12:35.678 --> 00:12:37.546
  • "for they know not what they do."
  • 00:12:37.546 --> 00:12:40.950
  • He could have added,
  • 00:12:41.417 --> 00:12:42.785
  • "but you know what you're doing through them."
  • 00:12:42.785 --> 00:12:46.055
  • You see, that's how jesus was able to forgive.
  • 00:12:47.022 --> 00:12:49.225
  • First of all, he knew one day god would settle the score.
  • 00:12:49.225 --> 00:12:51.961
  • He would judge righteously those who had done evil to him,
  • 00:12:51.961 --> 00:12:57.299
  • But he also knew that god was working out his perfect plan
  • 00:12:58.467 --> 00:13:02.071
  • In jesus' life and using the evildoers to do that.
  • 00:13:02.071 --> 00:13:06.242
  • You know, there's some of you right now
  • 00:13:06.242 --> 00:13:09.311
  • Who are just eaten up with bitterness
  • 00:13:10.112 --> 00:13:12.848
  • Over what somebody has done to you.
  • 00:13:12.848 --> 00:13:15.751
  • You know the greatest key to forgiveness, i believe,
  • 00:13:15.751 --> 00:13:19.355
  • It's realizing that nothing ever happens to a child of god
  • 00:13:19.355 --> 00:13:24.693
  • That has not first of all passed through
  • 00:13:25.561 --> 00:13:26.662
  • The perfect loving will of god.
  • 00:13:26.662 --> 00:13:29.798
  • Nobody is free to do to you
  • 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:32.735
  • Whatever they want to do.
  • 00:13:32.735 --> 00:13:34.637
  • God is sovereign.
  • 00:13:35.070 --> 00:13:36.405
  • He's in control even of that person
  • 00:13:36.405 --> 00:13:38.707
  • Who has hurt you and wronged you so deeply,
  • 00:13:38.707 --> 00:13:41.143
  • And he is able to take what was absolute evil
  • 00:13:41.143 --> 00:13:44.146
  • That's been done to you and use it for your good
  • 00:13:44.146 --> 00:13:47.650
  • And for his glory.
  • 00:13:47.650 --> 00:13:49.418
  • That's why jesus was able to say,
  • 00:13:49.418 --> 00:13:51.253
  • "father, forgive them.
  • 00:13:51.253 --> 00:13:52.388
  • "they know not what they are doing,
  • 00:13:52.388 --> 00:13:54.490
  • "but you know what you're doing.
  • 00:13:54.490 --> 00:13:55.724
  • "you're working out your plan
  • 00:13:55.724 --> 00:13:57.626
  • "for the redemption of the world."
  • 00:13:57.626 --> 00:13:59.962
  • When you know what jesus knows,
  • 00:13:59.962 --> 00:14:02.031
  • You can afford to be generous
  • 00:14:02.031 --> 00:14:03.365
  • In your attitude toward difficult
  • 00:14:03.365 --> 00:14:05.501
  • Circumstances and difficult people.
  • 00:14:05.501 --> 00:14:08.137
  • Now, jesus closes with three quick parables
  • 00:14:08.137 --> 00:14:12.441
  • About the importance of listening and acting
  • 00:14:12.441 --> 00:14:16.912
  • Upon his words in this message.
  • 00:14:16.912 --> 00:14:18.814
  • First of all, a parable about sight.
  • 00:14:18.814 --> 00:14:21.717
  • It's so easy to hear a message like this today and say,
  • 00:14:21.717 --> 00:14:24.453
  • "i know somebody who needs to hear this message.
  • 00:14:24.453 --> 00:14:27.690
  • "i'm going to buy a cd for them.
  • 00:14:27.690 --> 00:14:29.291
  • "i'm going to give them out because i know people who."
  • 00:14:29.291 --> 00:14:31.226
  • No, this is a message for us, first of all,
  • 00:14:31.226 --> 00:14:34.697
  • And that's what jesus says in verse 41,
  • 00:14:34.697 --> 00:14:36.365
  • "and why do you look at the speck
  • 00:14:36.365 --> 00:14:38.400
  • "that is in your brother's eye,
  • 00:14:38.400 --> 00:14:40.102
  • "but do you not notice the log
  • 00:14:40.102 --> 00:14:41.804
  • "that is in your own eye?
  • 00:14:41.804 --> 00:14:43.505
  • "or how can you say to your brother,
  • 00:14:43.505 --> 00:14:45.274
  • 'brother, let me take the speck out
  • 00:14:45.274 --> 00:14:46.608
  • 'that is in your eye when you yourself
  • 00:14:46.608 --> 00:14:48.811
  • 'do not see the log that is in your own eye?'
  • 00:14:48.811 --> 00:14:51.113
  • "you hypocrite.
  • 00:14:51.113 --> 00:14:52.614
  • "first, take the log out of your own eye,
  • 00:14:52.614 --> 00:14:55.784
  • "and then you will see clearly to take out
  • 00:14:55.784 --> 00:14:57.953
  • "the speck that is in your brother's eye."
  • 00:14:57.953 --> 00:15:00.356
  • Now again, don't misinterpret this verse
  • 00:15:00.356 --> 00:15:02.992
  • Like so many people do.
  • 00:15:02.992 --> 00:15:04.460
  • They say, "oh, well, jesus says we should
  • 00:15:04.460 --> 00:15:05.794
  • "never try to correct anybody involved in sin.
  • 00:15:05.794 --> 00:15:08.931
  • "that's judging and we're not supposed to judge.
  • 00:15:08.931 --> 00:15:11.433
  • How many of you have ever had something in your eye,
  • 00:15:11.433 --> 00:15:13.402
  • Very uncomfortable.
  • 00:15:13.402 --> 00:15:14.837
  • You know, that feeling a speck, a little grain of sand?
  • 00:15:14.837 --> 00:15:17.006
  • It's terribly uncomfortable.
  • 00:15:17.006 --> 00:15:19.742
  • The most loving thing somebody could do
  • 00:15:19.742 --> 00:15:21.810
  • Would be to help you get that out of your eye.
  • 00:15:21.810 --> 00:15:24.947
  • They would have to perform a judgment,
  • 00:15:24.947 --> 00:15:26.982
  • First of all, to say what's in your eye is bad
  • 00:15:26.982 --> 00:15:29.385
  • And it shouldn't be there.
  • 00:15:29.385 --> 00:15:31.253
  • There's nothing wrong with that.
  • 00:15:31.253 --> 00:15:33.889
  • Galatians 6:1, says, "if you see
  • 00:15:34.523 --> 00:15:37.726
  • "somebody who has been overtaken by sin,
  • 00:15:37.726 --> 00:15:40.462
  • "let those of you who are spiritual
  • 00:15:40.462 --> 00:15:42.197
  • "restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness."
  • 00:15:42.197 --> 00:15:45.434
  • The most loving thing you can do
  • 00:15:45.434 --> 00:15:47.770
  • For somebody who's caught up in sin
  • 00:15:47.770 --> 00:15:49.471
  • Is to help them rid themselves of that sin
  • 00:15:49.471 --> 00:15:52.241
  • And restore them to a right relationship with god.
  • 00:15:52.241 --> 00:15:55.210
  • Just imagine you've got this speck in your eye.
  • 00:15:55.210 --> 00:15:57.946
  • You go to the ophthalmologist,
  • 00:15:57.946 --> 00:15:59.348
  • "doc, can you help me?
  • 00:15:59.348 --> 00:16:00.749
  • "i've got something in my eye,
  • 00:16:00.749 --> 00:16:01.950
  • "and it's just killing me."
  • 00:16:01.950 --> 00:16:03.352
  • And the doctor says, "i'm sorry i don't do that.
  • 00:16:03.352 --> 00:16:06.088
  • "i don't do that.
  • 00:16:06.088 --> 00:16:07.389
  • "i don't remove specks from people's eyes,
  • 00:16:07.389 --> 00:16:08.924
  • "because that would require me to make a judgment
  • 00:16:08.924 --> 00:16:10.926
  • "and i don't judge anybody or anything."
  • 00:16:10.926 --> 00:16:13.862
  • What kind of doctor would that be?
  • 00:16:13.862 --> 00:16:15.631
  • I mean, that's why he exists,
  • 00:16:15.631 --> 00:16:16.965
  • To help people like you.
  • 00:16:16.965 --> 00:16:18.801
  • But imagine you're sitting there
  • 00:16:18.801 --> 00:16:20.302
  • And you're waiting for the ophthalmologist to come in,
  • 00:16:20.302 --> 00:16:22.071
  • And he walks in and he's got a two-by-four
  • 00:16:22.071 --> 00:16:24.907
  • -coming out of his eye. -(congregation laughing)
  • 00:16:24.907 --> 00:16:27.009
  • And he said, "well, let me see
  • 00:16:27.009 --> 00:16:28.277
  • "if i can help you get this thing here."
  • 00:16:28.277 --> 00:16:30.145
  • And you're ducking, trying to miss the two-by-four.
  • 00:16:30.145 --> 00:16:32.981
  • You'd want that doctor to take
  • 00:16:32.981 --> 00:16:34.349
  • The plank out of his own eye first
  • 00:16:34.349 --> 00:16:36.785
  • Before he tried to perform a delicate operation on you.
  • 00:16:36.785 --> 00:16:40.055
  • And that's what jesus is saying.
  • 00:16:40.055 --> 00:16:42.091
  • If you see somebody overtaken in sin,
  • 00:16:42.091 --> 00:16:44.093
  • You need to help them,
  • 00:16:44.093 --> 00:16:45.861
  • But before you can see clearly to help them,
  • 00:16:45.861 --> 00:16:48.864
  • Make sure you've dealt with unconfessed sin
  • 00:16:48.864 --> 00:16:51.366
  • In your life as well.
  • 00:16:51.366 --> 00:16:53.402
  • Second parable is one about fruit, verses 43 to 45,
  • 00:16:53.402 --> 00:16:57.106
  • "for there is no good tree which produces bad fruit,
  • 00:16:57.106 --> 00:17:00.642
  • "nor on the other hand,
  • 00:17:00.642 --> 00:17:01.877
  • "a bad tree which produces good fruit.
  • 00:17:01.877 --> 00:17:04.847
  • "for each tree is known by its own fruit."
  • 00:17:04.847 --> 00:17:10.486
  • Imagine you have an apple tree in your backyard,
  • 00:17:11.453 --> 00:17:15.858
  • And it's producing delicious red apples.
  • 00:17:15.858 --> 00:17:19.361
  • What do you know about that apple tree?
  • 00:17:19.361 --> 00:17:22.064
  • You know it's alive because it's producing fruit.
  • 00:17:22.064 --> 00:17:25.734
  • However, if you go out during fruit-bearing season,
  • 00:17:25.734 --> 00:17:29.638
  • And there's no fruit,
  • 00:17:29.638 --> 00:17:31.373
  • Just dried up withered limbs on that tree,
  • 00:17:31.373 --> 00:17:34.843
  • What do you know about the tree?
  • 00:17:34.843 --> 00:17:36.445
  • The tree's dead.
  • 00:17:36.445 --> 00:17:38.714
  • Where there is no fruit there's no life.
  • 00:17:38.714 --> 00:17:43.485
  • Now, all of these things jesus
  • 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:45.821
  • Has said about loving your enemies,
  • 00:17:45.821 --> 00:17:47.456
  • Praying for those who do wrong,
  • 00:17:47.456 --> 00:17:49.024
  • Standing firm in times of trial,
  • 00:17:49.024 --> 00:17:52.027
  • These are not the means by which
  • 00:17:52.027 --> 00:17:54.163
  • We become a christian doing these things,
  • 00:17:54.163 --> 00:17:56.765
  • But they are the proof that we are a christian.
  • 00:17:56.765 --> 00:18:00.869
  • If we are truly saved and born again,
  • 00:18:00.869 --> 00:18:03.305
  • Our life will be producing the fruit
  • 00:18:03.305 --> 00:18:06.441
  • That jesus describes in luke chapter six.
  • 00:18:06.441 --> 00:18:10.412
  • If there is no fruit in our life,
  • 00:18:10.412 --> 00:18:13.649
  • It means there is no faith.
  • 00:18:13.649 --> 00:18:15.918
  • That's why james said,
  • 00:18:15.918 --> 00:18:17.319
  • "faith without works
  • 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:19.488
  • "is a dead non-existent faith."
  • 00:18:19.488 --> 00:18:23.992
  • The third parable is a parable about construction.
  • 00:18:24.993 --> 00:18:28.230
  • Verse 46, luke 6,
  • 00:18:28.230 --> 00:18:29.898
  • "and why do you call me lord, lord
  • 00:18:29.898 --> 00:18:32.167
  • "and do not do what i say?"
  • 00:18:32.167 --> 00:18:34.803
  • Jesus is not just interested in professions of faith,
  • 00:18:34.803 --> 00:18:38.840
  • He's interested in the practice of faith.
  • 00:18:38.840 --> 00:18:41.310
  • That's the theme you see over and over again.
  • 00:18:41.310 --> 00:18:43.545
  • And to illustrate that, he gives this parable.
  • 00:18:43.545 --> 00:18:45.480
  • Look at verse 47.
  • 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:46.882
  • "everyone who comes to me and hears my words
  • 00:18:46.882 --> 00:18:50.152
  • "and acts upon them, i will show you whom he is like.
  • 00:18:50.152 --> 00:18:53.488
  • "he is like a man building a house
  • 00:18:53.488 --> 00:18:55.891
  • "who dug deep and laid a foundation upon a rock.
  • 00:18:55.891 --> 00:18:58.994
  • "and when the flood rose,
  • 00:18:58.994 --> 00:19:00.262
  • "the torrent burst against that house,
  • 00:19:00.262 --> 00:19:02.297
  • "and he could not shake it
  • 00:19:02.297 --> 00:19:03.498
  • "because it had been well built.
  • 00:19:03.498 --> 00:19:05.734
  • "but the one who has heard my words
  • 00:19:05.734 --> 00:19:07.703
  • "and not acted accordingly,
  • 00:19:07.703 --> 00:19:11.106
  • "he is like a man who built a house
  • 00:19:11.106 --> 00:19:13.041
  • "upon the ground without any foundation,
  • 00:19:13.041 --> 00:19:16.545
  • "and the torrent burst against it
  • 00:19:16.545 --> 00:19:18.513
  • "and immediately it collapsed.
  • 00:19:18.513 --> 00:19:20.449
  • "and the ruin of that house was great."
  • 00:19:20.449 --> 00:19:23.785
  • Two men both building a house,
  • 00:19:24.419 --> 00:19:28.957
  • Both experiencing storms,
  • 00:19:28.957 --> 00:19:31.093
  • That's what they had in common.
  • 00:19:31.093 --> 00:19:33.095
  • But one house stood.
  • 00:19:33.095 --> 00:19:35.697
  • The other house fell.
  • 00:19:35.697 --> 00:19:37.899
  • What was the difference?
  • 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:40.168
  • It all had to do with the foundation.
  • 00:19:40.168 --> 00:19:43.639
  • Jesus said, "the one who listens to my words
  • 00:19:43.639 --> 00:19:47.242
  • "and builds upon it is like the man
  • 00:19:47.242 --> 00:19:49.878
  • "who built his house upon the rock."
  • 00:19:49.878 --> 00:19:53.315
  • Every one of us here today
  • 00:19:53.315 --> 00:19:54.916
  • Is building some kind of life.
  • 00:19:54.916 --> 00:19:57.519
  • We have a limited amount of time, energy, resources.
  • 00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:02.257
  • You can build a life built around pleasure, recognition,
  • 00:20:02.257 --> 00:20:07.362
  • Material accumulation.
  • 00:20:07.863 --> 00:20:10.532
  • That's a life built upon the sand.
  • 00:20:10.532 --> 00:20:13.068
  • And when the storm comes into your life,
  • 00:20:13.935 --> 00:20:16.838
  • Especially the storm of death
  • 00:20:16.838 --> 00:20:18.807
  • That we're all going to face,
  • 00:20:18.807 --> 00:20:21.009
  • Nothing will remain.
  • 00:20:21.009 --> 00:20:23.412
  • Or you can build your life around not just hearing,
  • 00:20:23.412 --> 00:20:27.783
  • But applying jesus' words.
  • 00:20:27.783 --> 00:20:31.353
  • You know, i heard
  • 00:20:31.787 --> 00:20:33.255
  • An illustration from chuck swindoll,
  • 00:20:34.022 --> 00:20:36.224
  • And then i later read it in a book by john ortberg,
  • 00:20:36.224 --> 00:20:40.762
  • And i can't tell who stole from whom.
  • 00:20:40.762 --> 00:20:44.466
  • I spent all week trying to tell
  • 00:20:44.466 --> 00:20:46.234
  • Who stole this from whom.
  • 00:20:46.234 --> 00:20:47.969
  • I couldn't figure it out,
  • 00:20:47.969 --> 00:20:49.404
  • So i just decided to steal it from both of them.
  • 00:20:49.404 --> 00:20:51.740
  • (congregation laughing)
  • 00:20:51.740 --> 00:20:54.042
  • How many of you have ever played monopoly before?
  • 00:20:54.042 --> 00:20:57.312
  • It was my favorite game as a child, monopoly.
  • 00:20:57.312 --> 00:21:00.615
  • I used to play it with julia and dorothy too.
  • 00:21:00.615 --> 00:21:03.518
  • You know monopoly, you get the board out.
  • 00:21:03.518 --> 00:21:05.787
  • You have the little pieces you move around the board.
  • 00:21:05.787 --> 00:21:08.190
  • You have all of this pretend money.
  • 00:21:08.190 --> 00:21:09.891
  • The idea is to gain as much property as you can,
  • 00:21:09.891 --> 00:21:12.694
  • Build as many houses and hotels as you can,
  • 00:21:12.694 --> 00:21:15.764
  • And extract as much money from your children as possible,
  • 00:21:15.764 --> 00:21:19.167
  • You know, in the game and leave them frustrated.
  • 00:21:19.167 --> 00:21:21.903
  • It's a lot of fun, and at the end,
  • 00:21:21.903 --> 00:21:23.672
  • Whoever ends up with the most money wins.
  • 00:21:23.672 --> 00:21:26.908
  • The problem is it's all a fantasy.
  • 00:21:27.642 --> 00:21:30.512
  • None of it's real.
  • 00:21:30.512 --> 00:21:32.481
  • And eventually everything has to be folded up
  • 00:21:32.481 --> 00:21:35.350
  • And put back in the box.
  • 00:21:35.350 --> 00:21:38.420
  • You know, life is like that.
  • 00:21:39.020 --> 00:21:41.223
  • We spend our time trying to accumulate
  • 00:21:41.223 --> 00:21:43.859
  • Recognition, pleasure, material assets.
  • 00:21:43.859 --> 00:21:46.795
  • It's all a fantasy, folks.
  • 00:21:46.795 --> 00:21:48.964
  • It's all a fantasy.
  • 00:21:48.964 --> 00:21:50.866
  • Everything you've experienced, achieved,
  • 00:21:50.866 --> 00:21:52.968
  • Or accumulated is either going to be
  • 00:21:52.968 --> 00:21:55.637
  • Burned up one day or left behind,
  • 00:21:55.637 --> 00:21:58.740
  • And you are going in the box,
  • 00:21:59.374 --> 00:22:01.410
  • (congregation laughing)
  • 00:22:01.410 --> 00:22:02.711
  • And the only thing that remains
  • 00:22:02.711 --> 00:22:05.680
  • Is your relationship with god.
  • 00:22:06.314 --> 00:22:08.717
  • Isn't that what the bible says?
  • 00:22:09.351 --> 00:22:10.519
  • "it's appointed unto every one of us
  • 00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:13.555
  • "once to die, and then the judgment."
  • 00:22:13.555 --> 00:22:16.425
  • The wise person is the one who understands that,
  • 00:22:16.425 --> 00:22:20.996
  • Hears jesus' words, and builds his life upon it.
  • 00:22:21.930 --> 00:22:27.102
  • ♪ music ♪
  • 00:22:27.436 --> 00:22:31.573
  • Life is a lot like a game of monopoly.
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  • When our time comes,
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  • Fame and fortune will evaporate
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  • And only our relationship with god will stand.
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  • That's the crux of christianity,
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  • And it's the very reason "pathway to victory" exists.
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  • Let me take this occasion to reinforce how thankful
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  • We are for our relationship with you.
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  • You see, "pathway to victory" has no purpose,
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  • No impact without people like you
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  • Who want to learn more about god's word
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  • And to discover how to follow jesus christ.
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  • This program is prepared with you in mind,
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  • And we're delighted to have you along.
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  • And let me add a word of thanks to those of you
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  • Who support this ministry,
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  • Especially our pathway partners.
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  • We're humbled that god has chosen to reach
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  • So many people through this television program,
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  • And we're deeply appreciative of your commitment
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  • To the mission of "pathway to victory",
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  • To pierce the darkness with the light of god's word.
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  • Now please stay right there.
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  • I'll be back with more "pathway to victory"
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  • In just a moment.
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  • When jesus spoke, he wasted no time
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  • In getting straight to the heart of what matters most.
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Did you realize that his famous sermon on the mount
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  • Can be read in only 18 minutes?
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  • And now in my book called "18 minutes with jesus",
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  • I'll unpack the radical teaching that jesus shared
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  • With his followers in the famous sermon on the mount.
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  • In his sermon on the mount,
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  • Jesus delivers straight talk about
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  • The issues that matter to you most,
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  • Things like your happiness, faith,
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  • Relationships, prayer, money, eternity and more.
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  • With thought-provoking questions and activities
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  • Plus, you'll also receive the complete
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  • "18 minutes with jesus" teaching series on cd and dvd.
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  • This sermon is more of a constitution
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  • For life in the kingdom of god,
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  • Not something that happens after you die.
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  • It's how to live now.
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  • Your generous gift to "pathway to victory"
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  • Empowers us to equip christians
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  • In a dark and decaying world.
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  • So please, keep standing with us that we might reach
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  • As many people as possible with the truth of god's word.
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Every one of us is building some kind of life.
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  • Is your life built around hearing the words of jesus
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  • Or applying the words of jesus?
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  • Those who hear but don't apply
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  • Are building their life on sand,
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  • But those who hear and apply
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  • Are building their life on the rock of jesus christ.
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  • Well, in today's rapidly changing culture,
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  • It's more important than ever before
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  • To stand firm on the clear teaching of god's word.
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  • And next time i hope you'll join me for the series,
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  • "what every christian should know:
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  • "10 core beliefs to help you stand strong
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  • "in a shifting world."
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  • Stay tuned for a preview of what's
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  • Coming up next on "pathway to victory".
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  • Everything we know about jesus comes from the bible,
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  • And if there is a crack in that pillar, that column,
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  • Then the whole christian faith comes crumbling down.
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  • So today we're going to answer the question,
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  • How can i know the bible is the word of god?
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  • We're going to talk about the inspiration
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  • And inerrancy of the bible.
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  • Set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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  • "what every christian should know about the bible"
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  • Here on pathway to victory.
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • [narrator] experience a journey
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  • That will refresh your spirit and renew your faith,
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  • Surrounded by towering glaciers and snow-capped mountains,
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  • While enjoying powerful bible teaching from dr. jeffress,
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  • And share plenty of laughter with dennis swanberg,
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  • America's minister of encouragement.
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  • It's a sacred pause to reconnect with the lord.
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