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Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Relationships

October 9, 2025 | 29:0

Robert Jeffress - Straight Talk About Your Relationships
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 - Straight Talk About Your Relationships | October 9, 2025
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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 am robert jeffress
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  • And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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  • Nobody enjoys dealing with difficult people.
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  • Negative neighbors, coworkers, and even our own family
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  • Can spoil an otherwise very good day.
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  • Well, jesus certainly recognized
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  • The need to cultivate healthy relationships,
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  • And we'll see today he addressed it
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  • In his famous sermon on the mount.
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  • My message is titled
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  • "straight talk about your relationships"
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  • On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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  • ♪ music ♪
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  • Jesus, the master teacher, delivered very short sermons.
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  • Did you realize his renowned sermon on the mount
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  • Was only 18 minutes long?
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  • Yes, his sermons were short, but they were revolutionary.
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  • In "18 minutes with jesus," dr. robert jeffress breaks down
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  • The radical teachings that jesus packed
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  • Into just 18 minutes about happiness, faith,
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  • Relationships, prayer, money, eternity and more.
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  • Ruth graham, the wife of evangelist billy graham,
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  • Was one time asked about her marriage
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  • To the great evangelist,
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  • The reporter said, "mrs. graham, has there ever been a time
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  • During your marriage in which you thought about divorce?"
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  • With a twinkle in her eye, she said,
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  • "divorce? no. murder? yes."
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  • (audience laughing)
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  • It's a funny reply, but it's interesting
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  • That some people actually use a standard like that
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  • To measure their own righteousness,
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  • They think as long as they don't actually run away
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  • With somebody else's maid,
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  • As long as they don't actually kill the mate
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  • They're thinking about murdering,
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  • Well, maybe they're good enough to get into heaven,
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  • But as we're going to see today,
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  • God has a far higher standard than our standard,
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  • And understanding that standard is not only necessary
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  • To make it into the kingdom of god,
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  • But it's necessary for us to live with the benefits
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  • Of the kingdom of god right now,
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  • And that's what we're going to talk about today
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  • As we continue our series "18 minutes with jesus"
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  • Looking at the sermon on the mount,
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  • Turn to matthew chapter five,
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  • And remember in matthew chapter five,
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  • Jesus began this most famous of all sermons
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  • By outlining the benefits
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  • Of living according to his standards,
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  • We call those benefits the beatitudes,
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  • He talked also last time we saw about
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  • When we live according to jesus' standard
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  • Where the salt and light he commanded us to be,
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  • But now we're ready to get into the application,
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  • How does understanding and applying jesus' standard apply,
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  • First of all, to our relationships?
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  • And that's what he begins with in verse 17, jesus said,
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  • "do not think that i came
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  • To abolish the law or the prophets.
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  • I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill."
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  • That phrase, law and prophets, refers to the old testament,
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  • That was the phrase for the old testament,
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  • Which is all the scripture that they had.
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  • The rumor was already going on
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  • At this beginning point in jesus' ministry
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  • That he was disobeying the old testament law,
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  • There was an incident in mark 2
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  • When he didn't obey the law about the sabbath,
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  • And so they said,
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  • "this rabble-rouser is trying to negate the old testament!"
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  • He said, "oh, far from it,
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  • I came to actually fulfill the requirements of the law,"
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  • In fact, verse 18, "for truly i say to you
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  • That until heaven and earth pass away,
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  • Not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the law
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  • Until it's all accomplished."
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  • Now, i'd be guilty of pastoral negligence here
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  • If i didn't stop and point out jesus' attitude
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  • Toward the scripture, his high view of scripture,
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  • And again, remember, the scripture at that time
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  • Was just the old testament,
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  • Later it would be expanded to the new testament.
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  • Have you ever heard somebody say,
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  • "well, i believe the ideas of the bible are inspired,
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  • Maybe not the individual words,
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  • There may be some errors in the bible,
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  • It's the thoughts of the bible that are inspired,"
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  • Have you heard that before? jesus said,
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  • "no, it's not just the ideas that are inspired,
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  • It's the words that make up those ideas that are inspired,
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  • Breathed by god," and he doesn't stop there,
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  • He says it's not only the words that are inspired,
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  • But the letters that are inspired,
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  • And it's not only the letters that make up the words
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  • That make up the ideas,
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  • It's any stroke on an individual letter in a word
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  • That makes up the thoughts that is inspired by god,
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  • The smallest letter or stroke is inspired by god.
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  • In hebrew, the smallest letter was the yod,
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  • It looked like an apostrophe,
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  • But the stroke, king james calls it a tittle,
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  • A jotter tittle, a stroke was occurred on some letters
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  • That one stroke could change the letter
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  • And the letter could change the word.
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  • Dr. charles ryrie
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  • Who was my theology professor in seminary,
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  • Used to use this illustration with us.
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  • In the english language, he said,
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  • "you know, it only takes one stroke on a letter
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  • To change a word,"
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  • For example, the only difference between a p and an r
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  • Is that one stroke, a p can be changed into an r.
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  • What difference does that make?
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  • Well, it can make the difference between the word "pun,"
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  • P-u-n, or "run," r-u-n.
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  • You say, "well, so what?"
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  • Well, that can make a difference.
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  • If you're reading an obituary,
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  • It makes a difference whether john smith died from running
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  • Or john smith died from punning.
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  • We didn't know punning
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  • Could be lethal to your health, did you?
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  • But somebody could make a mistake
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  • And change the entire meaning of a thought
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  • With one stroke of a letter,
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  • Now, jesus applies that to scripture,
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  • Every part of the bible,
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  • Even the smallest letter and stroke is inspired by god,
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  • But jesus' main purpose in saying this
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  • Was not to talk about the inerrancy of the scripture,
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  • Which is a fact, his main topic is righteousness,
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  • Look at verse 20,
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  • "for i say to you that unless your righteousness
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  • Surpasses that of the scribes and pharisees,
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  • You will not enter the kingdom of heaven."
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  • We had a friend in a former church
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  • Who was a dentist by profession,
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  • He was a pole vaulter by hobby,
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  • And i remember he told me one time,
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  • He said, "robert, there are two ways you can succeed
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  • At pole-vaulting, either learn to jump higher
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  • Or lower the bar, you get there either way,"
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  • Well, you know, that lowering the bar
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  • I think explains people's view of righteousness,
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  • It's why only 4% of americans,
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  • According to the latest polls, only 4% of americans think
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  • There's even a chance they will end up in hell one day.
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  • You know why they are so confident
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  • In their self-righteousness?
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  • They have lowered the bar of what god expects from us.
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  • The average person on the street today
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  • Or that you talk to believes that,
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  • "just as long as i have a little more righteousness
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  • Than charles manson, adolf hitler or vladimir putin,
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  • As long as i'm a little bit better,
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  • That gives me the opportunity to cross the bar,"
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  • So to speak, "to make it into heaven,"
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  • They've got the wrong standard of righteousness.
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  • That's what jesus' audience had,
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  • They had a wrong standard of righteousness,
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  • Jesus said, "no, you have to exceed the bars
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  • Set by the pharisees," well, the audience gasped at that.
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  • "you have to be better than the pharisees?"
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  • Remember, they thought the pharisees
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  • Were the holiest of all god's people.
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  • Let me show you why.
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  • The pharisees were strict adherents
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  • Of the old testament law,
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  • The old testament law had 245 commandments
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  • And 365 prohibitions, almost...
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  • More than 600 rules about what to do and what not to do,
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  • And if that weren't enough, the pharisees added to it.
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  • They added thousands of regulations
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  • About what kind of work exactly
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  • You could not do on the sabbath,
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  • They made it impossible for anybody to obey those standards,
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  • And yet, jesus said even that standard
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  • Of the pharisees isn't enough.
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  • Jesus said the real standard of righteousness
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  • Is not only your external behavior
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  • But your internal feelings,
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  • The attitude that fuels your outward behavior.
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  • That was the problem with the pharisees,
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  • They had manufactured
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  • This external standard of righteousness,
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  • Which they were fairly good at keeping, not perfect,
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  • But jesus said they were nothing more
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  • Than dishes that are clean on the outside
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  • And dirty on the inside.
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  • Jesus has a completely different standard.
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  • Now, to help you understand this
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  • And to remind you of the difference
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  • Between judicial righteousness and ethical righteousness,
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  • Let me change metaphors for a moment,
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  • Let's get out of the world of pole-vaulting,
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  • Which probably nobody can really identify with,
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  • And let's go to a painful experience
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  • We are facing every week now,
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  • And that is filling up our gas tank.
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  • It's becoming increasingly painful, isn't it, to do that?
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  • Now, i want you to imagine there are two drivers.
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  • There's the first driver, he is a non-christian,
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  • And he goes to fill up his spiritual gas tank
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  • And he puts the nozzle in the tank,
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  • And he starts pumping the gas,
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  • And he watches how much it's costing him and so forth,
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  • And then, that little sensor
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  • Automatically cuts off the pump,
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  • It says, "your tank is full," in a sense, but is it full?
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  • No, there's always room for more gasoline,
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  • You have to pump more gasoline in manually
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  • To make sure that pump is full,
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  • The sensor doesn't have it right,
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  • Now, here is a non-christian
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  • And his goal is to have enough spiritual righteousness
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  • To make it all the way into heaven,
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  • And so, he has this internal sensor
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  • That tells him when he's done enough,
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  • "as long as i haven't dealt drugs or molested children,
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  • I'm probably okay, i've got enough,"
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  • But his internal sensor is faulty, that's not enough,
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  • In fact, the amount of righteousness
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  • It takes in your spiritual gas tank
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  • To make it into heaven is so expensive
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  • None of us can afford it.
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  • Now, you may have more gas in your tank,
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  • More righteousness than i have,
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  • And i may have more than vlad has in his, but you know what?
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  • It doesn't matter, none of us has enough,
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  • That's why the bible says, "for all have sinned
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  • And fallen short of the glory of god,"
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  • What i've just described to you
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  • Is what the bible terms "judicial righteousness,"
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  • A right standing with god,
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  • But the good news is jesus christ
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  • Has more than enough spiritual righteousness,
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  • And when we trust in him to be our savior,
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  • He pours his righteousness into our spiritual gas tank
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  • And that's enough to get us into heaven,
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  • That's what our judicial righteousness is,
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  • Is it's our right standing with god
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  • And that comes as a gift from jesus christ.
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  • Now, driver number two is a christian.
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  • His concern in life is not so much getting to heaven,
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  • He already knows he's got enough righteousness to do that,
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  • But he has a different destination in mind.
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  • He wants to drive to a place in this life
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  • That is characterized by freedom from anxiety,
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  • Contentment with your circumstances,
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  • A fulfilled marriage, satisfying relationships,
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  • He wants to experience the kingdom of god now.
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  • He needs a different kind of righteousness,
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  • Ethical righteousness,
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  • That's our right acting before god,
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  • That's what ethical righteousness is,
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  • And it's what the sermon on the mount is all about.
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  • It's about how to experience the kingdom of god now.
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  • Remember the theme?
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  • Those who modeled the attitudes,
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  • Affections and actions of jesus christ
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  • Are guaranteed genuine joy in this life
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  • And unending happiness in the next life,
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  • So here's a christian
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  • And he's trying to fill up his ethical gas tank
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  • With ethical righteousness.
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  • We've got the wrong standard.
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  • People, again, think as long as they don't murder anybody
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  • Or sleep with somebody else's mate,
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  • That's enough, that's all it takes,
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  • Jesus says, "no, my standard is far higher than that
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  • If you want to get to where you really want to go in this life,"
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  • And that's what he's talking about,
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  • Righteousness in this passage,
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  • Now, let's see how that applies to our relationships,
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  • Here was the old testament standard,
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  • Matthew 5:21, jesus said,
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  • "now, you have heard that the ancients were said,"
  • 00:13:45.948 --> 00:13:49.551
  • That's another way of saying,
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  • "you have read in the bible, the old testament,
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  • You shall not commit murder,
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  • And whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court."
  • 00:13:55.691 --> 00:13:59.795
  • Now, let's hand it to the pharisees, they got it right.
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  • They were teaching right,
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  • The old testament standard was don't murder anybody.
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  • That was the minimum standard, don't murder anybody,
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  • But jesus adds to that standard, look at verse 22,
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  • "but i say to you, not in contradiction of the old testament
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  • But in addition to it,
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  • That everyone who is angry with his brother
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  • Shall be guilty before the court,
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  • And whoever says to his brother, 'you good-for-nothing,'
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  • Shall be guilty before the supreme court,
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  • And whoever says, 'you fool,'
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  • Shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell,"
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  • Jesus is addressing the attitudes
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  • Behind the action of murder,
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  • And this is his foundational teaching about relationships.
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  • Yes, murder is the extreme, the ultimate way
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  • Of severing your relationship with another person,
  • 00:14:49.044 --> 00:14:52.147
  • But there are other ways to fracture
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  • An important relationship.
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  • For example, it's possible to murder somebody
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  • Through infuriation, that is, with your anger,
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  • That's what jesus says here,
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  • Everyone who is angry is guilty,
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  • Does that mean anger is always wrong?
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  • No, anger is not always wrong.
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  • If you'll remember in our series on proverbs,
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  • The solomon secrets, i defined anger as a natural physical
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  • And emotional reaction to perceived injustice.
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  • It's natural for us to be angry. you know why we get angry?
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  • It's not because we're sinful.
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  • It's because we are made in the image of god,
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  • Who gets angry.
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  • We are made in god's image,
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  • God is angered over injustice, wrongdoing.
  • 00:15:42.998 --> 00:15:46.568
  • Did you know the word "anger" in the old testament
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  • Is used 455 times?
  • 00:15:48.570 --> 00:15:51.473
  • 375 of those times, it refers to the anger of god.
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  • The reason we get angry is because god gets angry,
  • 00:15:57.780 --> 00:16:00.816
  • And that's not just an old testament concept,
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  • In john 2, jesus was angry when he saw
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  • The money-changers in the temple and he drove 'em out,
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  • Jesus was angry at the pharisees, who were hypocrites,
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  • Who tried to make others carry out responsibilities
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  • They didn't carry out.
  • 00:16:14.430 --> 00:16:16.465
  • No, anger is natural, and it's okay
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  • As long as it's dealt with correctly and quickly,
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  • Emphasize that word, quickly,
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  • That's why paul wrote in ephesians 4, verses 26 and 27,
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  • "be angry, and yet, do not sin,"
  • 00:16:32.748 --> 00:16:36.585
  • Isn't that an interesting command?
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  • "be angry, and yet, do not sin."
  • 00:16:38.587 --> 00:16:41.523
  • If anger in and of itself were wrong,
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  • He never would've said, "be angry,"
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  • Is there any other verse in the bible that says,
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  • "be lustful and do not sin?"
  • 00:16:48.097 --> 00:16:51.900
  • "be a drunkard, be drunk, but don't sin?"
  • 00:16:51.900 --> 00:16:55.838
  • "be a thief, but don't sin?"
  • 00:16:55.838 --> 00:16:58.240
  • No, it's, "be angry, yet don't sin,"
  • 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:01.376
  • And here's how to deal with it correctly,
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  • Don't let the sun go down on your anger
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  • And don't give the devil an opportunity.
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  • Deal with anger quickly.
  • 00:17:10.552 --> 00:17:13.422
  • One way we destroy another person
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  • Is by our anger, murder by infuriation,
  • 00:17:17.292 --> 00:17:21.230
  • But there's a second way to destroy your relationship,
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  • Murder by devaluation, devaluation,
  • 00:17:24.666 --> 00:17:28.237
  • Look at verse 22, he went on to say,
  • 00:17:28.237 --> 00:17:30.139
  • "whoever says to his brother, 'you good-for-nothing,'
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  • Shall be guilty before the supreme court,"
  • 00:17:33.942 --> 00:17:37.279
  • That phrase, "good-for-nothing," is the aramaic word "raca."
  • 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:41.817
  • It literally means "empty-headed."
  • 00:17:41.817 --> 00:17:45.053
  • When you say, "you are empty-headed,"
  • 00:17:45.053 --> 00:17:48.257
  • You are devaluing another person,
  • 00:17:48.257 --> 00:17:50.826
  • That's why james 3, 8-to-10 says,
  • 00:17:50.826 --> 00:17:53.529
  • "but no one can tame the tongue,
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  • It's a restless evil and full of deadly poison,
  • 00:17:55.330 --> 00:17:58.200
  • With it, we bless our lord and father,
  • 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:00.602
  • And with it, we curse men
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  • Who have been made in the likeness of god.
  • 00:18:02.104 --> 00:18:05.274
  • From the same mouth come both blessing and cursing,
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  • My brethren, these things ought not to be this way."
  • 00:18:08.410 --> 00:18:12.247
  • Whenever you devalue somebody, you call them empty,
  • 00:18:12.247 --> 00:18:16.385
  • You are speaking out against the god who created them
  • 00:18:16.385 --> 00:18:20.389
  • And that's wrong.
  • 00:18:20.389 --> 00:18:22.024
  • Don't be guilty by a murder by devaluation,
  • 00:18:22.024 --> 00:18:26.528
  • And thirdly, we can destroy your relationship,
  • 00:18:26.528 --> 00:18:28.997
  • We can murder somebody by defamation,
  • 00:18:28.997 --> 00:18:32.668
  • This is a nuanced difference,
  • 00:18:32.668 --> 00:18:34.770
  • But it's still important to understand, verse 22,
  • 00:18:34.770 --> 00:18:37.773
  • "whoever says, 'you fool,' shall be guilty enough
  • 00:18:37.773 --> 00:18:41.343
  • To go into the fiery hell."
  • 00:18:41.343 --> 00:18:44.079
  • "you fool," the greek word jesus used here is "moros,"
  • 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:48.517
  • We get our word "moron" from it.
  • 00:18:48.517 --> 00:18:51.420
  • Now, in our language,
  • 00:18:51.420 --> 00:18:52.688
  • We think of a moron as a stupid person,
  • 00:18:52.688 --> 00:18:55.724
  • But that's not what jesus had in mind here,
  • 00:18:55.724 --> 00:18:59.661
  • That would've been the previous word, "empty-headed."
  • 00:18:59.661 --> 00:19:03.599
  • Here, it means a moral reprobate.
  • 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:07.169
  • To call somebody a moron was to defame their character,
  • 00:19:07.169 --> 00:19:12.507
  • To engage in character assassination.
  • 00:19:13.308 --> 00:19:15.978
  • Proverbs 11:9 says, "with his mouth,
  • 00:19:16.778 --> 00:19:19.114
  • The godless man destroys his neighbor,
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  • But through knowledge, the righteous will be delivered,"
  • 00:19:22.684 --> 00:19:26.588
  • Don't be guilty of destroying somebody
  • 00:19:26.588 --> 00:19:30.058
  • By devaluing them or by defaming them.
  • 00:19:30.058 --> 00:19:34.296
  • Jesus realized that all of us fall short,
  • 00:19:35.197 --> 00:19:39.201
  • Let me be the first to say i fall short of that,
  • 00:19:39.201 --> 00:19:42.070
  • We all fall short of god's standard for righteousness,
  • 00:19:42.070 --> 00:19:45.140
  • So how do we repair relationships
  • 00:19:45.140 --> 00:19:48.377
  • That may have been severed?
  • 00:19:48.377 --> 00:19:50.312
  • I want you to notice in verses 23-to-26,
  • 00:19:50.312 --> 00:19:53.048
  • He gives us two important principles
  • 00:19:53.048 --> 00:19:55.150
  • For repairing damaged relationships.
  • 00:19:55.150 --> 00:19:58.820
  • The first principle
  • 00:19:58.820 --> 00:20:00.222
  • Is reconciliation is more powerful than revenge.
  • 00:20:00.222 --> 00:20:04.126
  • Remember that reconciliation is more powerful than revenge.
  • 00:20:04.126 --> 00:20:07.929
  • Usually, our natural instinct if somebody wrongs us
  • 00:20:07.929 --> 00:20:11.667
  • Is to wrong them, to hurt them,
  • 00:20:11.667 --> 00:20:15.871
  • And thus begins an escalation in hostility
  • 00:20:15.871 --> 00:20:19.641
  • That ends up many times
  • 00:20:19.641 --> 00:20:21.476
  • In a mutual destruction of both parties,
  • 00:20:21.476 --> 00:20:24.346
  • Remember romans 12:18?
  • 00:20:24.346 --> 00:20:26.348
  • "if possible, as far as it depends upon you,
  • 00:20:26.348 --> 00:20:30.919
  • Be at peace with all men."
  • 00:20:30.919 --> 00:20:33.388
  • Jesus said in a fractured relationship,
  • 00:20:33.388 --> 00:20:35.891
  • First of all, reconciliation is more powerful than revenge,
  • 00:20:35.891 --> 00:20:39.628
  • Secondly, reconcile today rather than tomorrow,
  • 00:20:39.628 --> 00:20:44.933
  • That's the second principle, look at verses 25-to-26,
  • 00:20:45.967 --> 00:20:48.470
  • Jesus said, "make friends quickly with your opponent at law
  • 00:20:48.470 --> 00:20:53.275
  • While you are with him on the way
  • 00:20:53.275 --> 00:20:56.078
  • So that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge,
  • 00:20:56.078 --> 00:20:59.147
  • And the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.
  • 00:20:59.147 --> 00:21:02.351
  • Truly, i say to you, you will not come out of there
  • 00:21:02.351 --> 00:21:06.154
  • Until you've paid up the last cent."
  • 00:21:06.154 --> 00:21:08.490
  • How does that relate to our relationships?
  • 00:21:08.490 --> 00:21:11.626
  • Reconcile today rather than tomorrow.
  • 00:21:11.626 --> 00:21:15.030
  • Let me be real practical with this.
  • 00:21:15.030 --> 00:21:17.499
  • Amy and i rarely argue, but when we do
  • 00:21:18.333 --> 00:21:23.205
  • And if it's my fault, which it usually is,
  • 00:21:23.205 --> 00:21:26.408
  • I've learned the hard way after 45 years of marriage,
  • 00:21:27.509 --> 00:21:31.580
  • It's much better if i ask her forgiveness today than wait,
  • 00:21:31.580 --> 00:21:36.852
  • Because the longer i wait,
  • 00:21:37.419 --> 00:21:39.688
  • The more my debt increases day by day by day,
  • 00:21:39.688 --> 00:21:45.093
  • And frankly, the bigger the debt becomes,
  • 00:21:45.961 --> 00:21:48.830
  • The less likely i'm to ask forgiveness, the longer it goes,
  • 00:21:48.830 --> 00:21:52.534
  • The less likely she is to grant forgiveness.
  • 00:21:52.534 --> 00:21:55.904
  • Settle it today, and that's what jesus is saying.
  • 00:21:55.904 --> 00:22:00.242
  • He's saying that reconciliation
  • 00:22:00.242 --> 00:22:01.877
  • Is more powerful than revenge,
  • 00:22:01.877 --> 00:22:04.579
  • And he's saying reconciling today
  • 00:22:04.579 --> 00:22:06.548
  • Is wiser than reconciling tomorrow.
  • 00:22:06.548 --> 00:22:10.185
  • What does jesus have to say about relationships?
  • 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:13.955
  • Here's the jesus standard for righteousness.
  • 00:22:13.955 --> 00:22:16.925
  • Keep a check, keep a watch on your anger and your words,
  • 00:22:18.059 --> 00:22:22.898
  • And if either gets out of hand,
  • 00:22:23.532 --> 00:22:25.901
  • Work for reconciliation and do it quickly.
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  • Cultivating healthy relationships between flawed people,
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  • And that's all of us, is rarely easy,
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  • In addition, jesus made it clear
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  • But for our private thoughts as well,
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  • And next time, we're going to see this principle
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  • In our series, "18 minutes with jesus."
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  • You can't play with sexual immorality
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  • Without losing your marriage.
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  • It's very easy to neglect weeds
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  • But no weed is more destructive
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  • Nothing robs us of what god plans for our marriage
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  • More than adultery,
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