Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to Wednesday Service, Episode five. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Josh Monday. If you don't know me,
Speaker 1: I'm a Christian rapper, devoted husband, father, father, and Army veteran.
Speaker 1: And this is Wednesday Service brought to you by Cult
Speaker 1: of Conspiracy Podcast. Thank you Jonathan, Thank you Jacob for
Speaker 1: allowing me to have this Wednesday Service. I really appreciate it,
Speaker 1: and thank you Lord for allowing us as well. So
Speaker 1: I appreciate everybody's prayer that prayed for my son. He
Speaker 1: so on February first, a few nights ago, at one
Speaker 1: ten am, he was born and he was only twenty
Speaker 1: one weeks and four days and according to the hospitals
Speaker 1: then that's not a viable age. So he did pass
Speaker 1: away and it was very very traumatic for me and
Speaker 1: my wife. I just got back from the hospital yesterday
Speaker 1: and my wife was you know, it was traumatic for
Speaker 1: my wife, but she had to go through the whole
Speaker 1: whole entire delivery process and the hospital and what they
Speaker 1: do is they they kind of they assessed the situation
Speaker 1: and when they know it's not viable, then they just
Speaker 1: induce you. They put some pills in her mouth that
Speaker 1: kind of slowly digested, and it lasted about thirty minutes
Speaker 1: and then it started the contractions. And what happened was
Speaker 1: we went to the hospital. You guys deserve to know
Speaker 1: this because you know, you guys were all praying for
Speaker 1: me and stuff. So when we went to the hospital,
Speaker 1: my wife kind of started having contractions. So we went in.
Speaker 1: She was on bed rest, like for a whole entire week.
Speaker 1: She was doing whatever she could to keep the baby
Speaker 1: in the womb. And her water had already broke, you know,
Speaker 1: so she's kind of, you know, doing her best to
Speaker 1: keep hydrated, keep fluid, and she was on bed rest
Speaker 1: and she was such a soldier that she was even
Speaker 1: you know, not even getting up to use the rstion,
Speaker 1: you know, just bedpanning and everything. Such a beautiful, you
Speaker 1: know mom she is, you know, for for you know
Speaker 1: what a beautiful wife and a beautiful mom. You know.
Speaker 1: She she just did her very best to keep that baby. Uh,
Speaker 1: his name is Aspen, his middle name is Psalms, and
Speaker 1: his last name is Monday. So he he, She was
Speaker 1: doing everything to keep Aspen in her her womb, you know.
Speaker 1: And what happened was she started having contractions, and well
Speaker 1: she she started having contractions and and they were they
Speaker 1: were hitting like every thirty minutes. So I took her
Speaker 1: to the hospital and the doctor was like, we need
Speaker 1: to do an exam and see how dilated you are.
Speaker 1: And they looked with this this is this thing that's
Speaker 1: like it's called the speculum, and they looked and she said, oh,
Speaker 1: I could see the foot. So I was like, oh no,
Speaker 1: you know, those contractions that my wife was having was
Speaker 1: kind of pushing the baby slowly, slowly and more down.
Speaker 1: Now she went on bed rest for even another like
Speaker 1: fourteen hours and stopped the contractions. So I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is good news. But the doctor was telling us
Speaker 1: that the baby doesn't have enough fluid in the placenta.
Speaker 1: You know, there's no fluid showing, so that means that
Speaker 1: the only fluid that's being produced is when the baby
Speaker 1: basically goes to the bathroom or my wife drinks, and
Speaker 1: then what happens is it goes through the placenta and
Speaker 1: then it leaks out where the water broke. So he
Speaker 1: was kind of in a tough spot, you know, and
Speaker 1: you guys were all praying for us, and like I said,
Speaker 1: I really I super appreciate everybody that was praying. And
Speaker 1: I would have never put my business out there if
Speaker 1: I didn't need prayer. You know, I needed prayer. You know,
Speaker 1: this is like the Guinness Book of World Records. I
Speaker 1: think was something like twenty one weeks the baby's born.
Speaker 1: My baby's twenty one weeks, four days. They're telling us
Speaker 1: that if the baby's born at twenty one weeks, nothing
Speaker 1: we could do. If the baby's born at twenty one
Speaker 1: weeks four days, nothing we could do. If the baby's
Speaker 1: born at twenty two weeks, maybe slight we would maybe try,
Speaker 1: but so might the prayers I was trying to ask
Speaker 1: everybody was to keep that baby in the womb, and
Speaker 1: you guys all prayed. I really appreciate everybody on my
Speaker 1: YouTube was praying. I'm sure God received a lot of
Speaker 1: prayers for this baby, But I personally the way I
Speaker 1: feel as a man and as a Christian man, I
Speaker 1: believe what the Bible says that absent from the body
Speaker 1: present with the Lord. So I believe that when Aspen
Speaker 1: passed away as he was being delivered, which he didn't
Speaker 1: come out with being being able to breathe, he died
Speaker 1: during delivery. I believe as soon as he passed away
Speaker 1: and he died, fully, I believe that absent from the body,
Speaker 1: he's present with the Lord. And I was going to
Speaker 1: be his heavenly father obviously, or his heavenly dad, I
Speaker 1: would say, and not heavenly, I'm sorry, his earthly dad, right.
Speaker 1: I was in that position to be his earthly dad.
Speaker 1: And I feel like I could, you know, do my
Speaker 1: very best to be a great dad. I got three kids,
Speaker 1: and then he would be my fourth, you know, my
Speaker 1: only son. And I could definitely try my best to
Speaker 1: be a great earthly dad for this baby. But what
Speaker 1: better father, what you know, for my baby to have
Speaker 1: than our father in heaven, you know. So I believe
Speaker 1: absent from the body present with the Lord, he's with Jesus,
Speaker 1: he's with God, he's with the Holy Spirit, you know,
Speaker 1: he's he's up in heaven. And and I just pray
Speaker 1: that the way that heaven works, you know, the baby.
Speaker 1: The Bible's not clear that we're gonna go see our
Speaker 1: family and hang out with our family, like, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what our role is in heaven, you know,
Speaker 1: but I you know, I hope that it's that heaven
Speaker 1: is like you know, you get to heaven and you
Speaker 1: see your family and you recognize each other, you know,
Speaker 1: when you're in your glorified heavenly bodies. But you know,
Speaker 1: it was just different because my wife has had me
Speaker 1: carriages in the past, and that's you know, that's basically
Speaker 1: that all that's taken care of in the in the womb,
Speaker 1: and you know, blood comes out and it's you know,
Speaker 1: we've had a few of those miscarriages before and those
Speaker 1: definitely affect me and it definitely affects my wife. This time,
Speaker 1: we had twins and one of them passed away in
Speaker 1: the womb, and then we had you know, Aspen was
Speaker 1: still there and he was lasting. He was doing great.
Speaker 1: So but this time it was different because she uh
Speaker 1: because of the water breaking and and you know just
Speaker 1: how long it it took at least a week for
Speaker 1: everything to kind of happen, and he was in the
Speaker 1: womb and just knowing that you can't do anything about
Speaker 1: like trying to replenish that water. And and another thing
Speaker 1: is he was breached, and when you're breached, it means
Speaker 1: that you're coming feet first, and that's another thing. So
Speaker 1: like everything that could go wrong was was kind of
Speaker 1: going wrong, you know, So I let it God's will.
Speaker 1: If it's his will, I let it be done. And
Speaker 1: nothing I could do, you know, I just I've gained
Speaker 1: a lot of resilience from being in the military. I
Speaker 1: was in the Army, and I've been through resilience classes,
Speaker 1: and i went through basic training, and I went through deployment,
Speaker 1: and I went through different scenarios that make you prepare,
Speaker 1: prepare you for life. So when anything that I've ever
Speaker 1: been through in the military, like nothing I've been in
Speaker 1: the civilian world even compares to that. So I always
Speaker 1: look at it like I always look at it like
Speaker 1: like anything I could do in the civilian world wouldn't
Speaker 1: ever compare to what I had to go through in
Speaker 1: the army. So I feel that this scenario, even though
Speaker 1: it was it was very hard. I think, I'm okay.
Speaker 1: You know, my wife, it's harder for her because she's
Speaker 1: used to having the baby move around inside of her
Speaker 1: and now the baby's you know, out and gone, you know,
Speaker 1: so that's a different connection. Me as the father of
Speaker 1: the baby, I have the connection as well. But you know,
Speaker 1: the connection that I had that kind of hurt me
Speaker 1: was that it would be my first son. You know,
Speaker 1: I have three daughters, and my wife doesn't have my
Speaker 1: wife's mom, uh and and her dad, they don't they
Speaker 1: don't have any grandkids that are that are boys. They're
Speaker 1: all girls. So we were kind of very excited to
Speaker 1: have our first boy. And uh, you know, so that connection,
Speaker 1: it definitely it hurts. But when you're a Christian and
Speaker 1: you have faith in the Lord, and you have faith
Speaker 1: and and and you and knowing that all everything you
Speaker 1: do in life is to try to get to heaven.
Speaker 1: For God to give my baby boy a a like
Speaker 1: a straight to heaven pass, some people might feel like
Speaker 1: that's terrible, and that's horrible, but I have faith that
Speaker 1: he went to heaven and he doesn't have to go
Speaker 1: through everything we have to go through here, the struggle,
Speaker 1: the pain, the agony, the you know, the spiritual battles,
Speaker 1: that the devil can't touch him like he could touch
Speaker 1: maybe my other kids in different ways or you know,
Speaker 1: influence my kids in other ways. You know. So I
Speaker 1: feel like he just had a first like a straight
Speaker 1: get out of jail free boom, straight to heaven. So
Speaker 1: in a way, when you look at it, and from
Speaker 1: a Christian standpoint and a spiritual standpoint and not the physical.
Speaker 1: The physical. Yes, it hurts, you know, hurt my feelings.
Speaker 1: And we they allow you to have the baby in
Speaker 1: the room for as long as you want, you know,
Speaker 1: to to you know, some people they you know, they
Speaker 1: they heal differently, you know, so that was the hard thing,
Speaker 1: you know, to have the baby in the room, you know,
Speaker 1: and they you know, it was just that was very difficult.
Speaker 1: But anyways, I just want to tell you, guys, from
Speaker 1: the bottom of my heart, from the bottom of my
Speaker 1: wife's heart, thank you guys for the prayers. I see
Speaker 1: the comments that you left below on Spotify that you
Speaker 1: were you prayed for us, and man when when a
Speaker 1: lot of people are praying at once, I'm sure the
Speaker 1: Lord you know, loves that, you know, because you know,
Speaker 1: he knows that everybody has compassion that's praying, and you know,
Speaker 1: and a passion for what we do here, you know.
Speaker 1: So like I said, I really appreciate you, and I
Speaker 1: thank you, and I really do. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: So but the show must go on, right, so we
Speaker 1: need to get back to the Bible. So let's let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and do that. Let's jump to Matthew eighteen
Speaker 1: and uh, it's going to be Matthew eighteen to one
Speaker 1: and everybody that's listening. One thing I want to ask
Speaker 1: is I love to see the comments on Spotify. I
Speaker 1: love to see the comments that you guys leave in
Speaker 1: the review for Apple. I love to see that because
Speaker 1: I don't really get to talk to you guys. And
Speaker 1: if you guys do want to talk to me, just
Speaker 1: feel free excuse me. A lot of you guys have
Speaker 1: DM me at Josh Monday Underscore podcast. That is my Instagram,
Speaker 1: so you can DM me, and if you have any questions,
Speaker 1: if you have prayer request, or if you're going through
Speaker 1: a spiritual battle in some way and you need some advice,
Speaker 1: feel free to hit me up. But I do like
Speaker 1: to see the comments below on Spotify, you know, saying
Speaker 1: you know certain things you know like it kind of
Speaker 1: it's in a way, it's kind of like you're communicating
Speaker 1: to me, you know, because it's hard to I don't
Speaker 1: know how many people are all listening to the show,
Speaker 1: but it's a way you can communicate. And if you
Speaker 1: want to take it one step further, you can always
Speaker 1: DM me and I always answer, you know, I always answer,
Speaker 1: even and in most moments you'll see me answer you guys. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, thank you guys for the prayer and everything.
Speaker 1: Just such an amazing, amazing how Christ works and how
Speaker 1: the Body of Christ works. It's from the bottom of
Speaker 1: my heart, thank you. So all right, So we're on
Speaker 1: Matthew eighteen, verse one, and the title of this verse
Speaker 1: it says who is the Greatest? So it says at
Speaker 1: that time the disciples came to Jesus saying, who then
Speaker 1: is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. Then Jesus
Speaker 1: called a little child to him, sat him in the
Speaker 1: midst of them, and said, assuredly, I say to you,
Speaker 1: unless you are converted and become a little children, you
Speaker 1: will by no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore,
Speaker 1: whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest
Speaker 1: in the Kingdom of Heaven. Whoever receives one little child
Speaker 1: like this in my name, receives me. So who is
Speaker 1: the greatest? Like? Why are the disciples even arguing about that?
Speaker 1: You know what, they're Jewish, So they're thinking that Jesus
Speaker 1: is going to start a kingdom on earth, you know,
Speaker 1: like an earthly kingdom, Like that's that's what they're they're
Speaker 1: thinking that he's going to be a king on the earth,
Speaker 1: he's going to be ruling. But really Jesus is talking
Speaker 1: about the Kingdom of Heaven, which is where he is,
Speaker 1: the king of kings, you know, the lord of lords.
Speaker 1: He is. He holds the key to heaven, to Hell
Speaker 1: and in the earth. So Jesus is letting him know
Speaker 1: that you need to be as innocent as this child.
Speaker 1: And also, like with with children, you could tell a
Speaker 1: child like, you know, you could be like oh, and
Speaker 1: then your child will be like is that a rooster? Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a rooster outside. They'll believe you, you know, so
Speaker 1: you need to you know, it's really about believing in
Speaker 1: Jesus whether you see him or not. Even though the
Speaker 1: disciples saw Jesus for us, we don't get to see Jesus,
Speaker 1: you know. So we got to understand that. And I say,
Speaker 1: unless you converty be kime as little children, you will
Speaker 1: no means enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Now, what does
Speaker 1: Jesus say that we need to do. He says that
Speaker 1: we need to be like a child. He actually says
Speaker 1: we need to be born again. We need to be
Speaker 1: born again for us to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Right,
Speaker 1: so we need to be born again, So we need
Speaker 1: to be innocent as a child. And also when you
Speaker 1: come to the Bible, you need to come as a child.
Speaker 1: Don't come as some theologian, some Harvard grads, some Yale
Speaker 1: grad student. That's so smart and intelligent that you could
Speaker 1: pick everything that the Bible says and say, oh, I
Speaker 1: can counter that. I can counter that because the Bible
Speaker 1: says this, well, science says this. What you need to
Speaker 1: do is you need to take all your preconceived biases,
Speaker 1: you place them to the side, and you read the
Speaker 1: Bible knowing that this is the truth. Proverbs thirty verse
Speaker 1: five says, do not add to the the word right.
Speaker 1: It also says, I think it's in Deuteronomy. Do not
Speaker 1: add to the word, because the word of God is pure.
Speaker 1: All scriptures inspire by God is what Paul says, right
Speaker 1: and two Timothy, All scriptures inspire by God. If you
Speaker 1: understand also that God cannot lie Titus one two. It's
Speaker 1: impossible for God to lie Hebrews six eighteen. You understand
Speaker 1: that when you're listening to this Bible, you have to
Speaker 1: accept it if you want to believe. If you want
Speaker 1: to have faith, you have to accept it as absolute
Speaker 1: truth because it's inspired by whom, by God. And then
Speaker 1: everything that Jesus is saying, if you believe Jesus is
Speaker 1: God and Jesus cannot lie, you need to take this seriously, right,
Speaker 1: but you need to take it as a child, and
Speaker 1: take all your traditions, take everything you've learned from your
Speaker 1: pastor take everything you've learned from as a Baptist, non Baptist,
Speaker 1: as a Pentecostal. This so all that stuff that you've learned,
Speaker 1: place it to the side when you're reading the Word
Speaker 1: of God because a a lot of this stuff is
Speaker 1: traditions that man has placed upon religion. But this is
Speaker 1: the Bible. Now, this is what this is the meat
Speaker 1: well your pastor teaches you on Sunday. If they're teaching
Speaker 1: you from the Bible, from the Word of God, then
Speaker 1: that's great. But sometimes they mix man made traditions, man
Speaker 1: made religion and all that stuff. When you think you're
Speaker 1: a theologian and you're so smart and you know this,
Speaker 1: and you know that you're placing that on the people
Speaker 1: that you're teaching to, you need to come at the
Speaker 1: Bible like a child. You need to come to God
Speaker 1: like an innocent child, ready to receive the message, not
Speaker 1: speak the message. You need to have two ears one mouth,
Speaker 1: two ears to listen, one mouth to speak. Yes, but
Speaker 1: you need to receive the word you understand. So you
Speaker 1: need to come as a child. So that's hard for
Speaker 1: people to do, because you know what, you have to
Speaker 1: swallow your pride, put everything on the altar and allow
Speaker 1: the Bible to teach you and allow you and your
Speaker 1: pride and everything that's stopping you from receiving get place
Speaker 1: to the side, your preconceived biases that you've learned and
Speaker 1: been and put all this stuff in your mind, pull
Speaker 1: that out, stick it to the side, and come to
Speaker 1: the Bible like a child, and you will be the
Speaker 1: greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. That's what Jesus is
Speaker 1: all against religion, all against these Pharisees, letting him know like,
Speaker 1: you guys are all filled with all these man made
Speaker 1: traditions and things, and you're the way you're interpreting the Bible,
Speaker 1: but you're wrong. So obviously Jesus is letting another wrong.
Speaker 1: So Jesus warns of offenses. But whoever causes one of
Speaker 1: these little ones who believe in me to sin, it
Speaker 1: would be better for him to if a millstone were
Speaker 1: hung around his neck and he were drowned in the
Speaker 1: depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of offenses,
Speaker 1: for offenses must come, but woe to the man by
Speaker 1: whom the offenses comes. So whoever causes one of these
Speaker 1: little ones who believe in me to sin, it would
Speaker 1: be better for him to have a millstone hung around
Speaker 1: his neck and we were drowned to the depth of
Speaker 1: the sea. So understand something that there's things that people
Speaker 1: do to cause other people to stumble. And when the
Speaker 1: person is saved, and he's saying, woe to those that
Speaker 1: are causing those people to stumble, because those are Jesus's
Speaker 1: little ones. Okay, he's connecting that verse to that verse.
Speaker 1: So he's talking about the people that are coming to
Speaker 1: him as a child whoa to those who were causing
Speaker 1: them to sin. So there's bad influences in your life
Speaker 1: that caused you to sin. But you as a as
Speaker 1: a man and a woman, need to understand what are
Speaker 1: what you know, what triggers would cause you to sin,
Speaker 1: you know, so you have to also be mindful yourself
Speaker 1: it's not just that person's fault all the way. It's
Speaker 1: also your fault too for even putting yourself in that position.
Speaker 1: But there are people that cause other people to sin,
Speaker 1: whether it's a friend, whether it's a person that is
Speaker 1: a drug dealer, whether it's a person that does pornography.
Speaker 1: Those those women and men that are having sex on screen,
Speaker 1: they're causing people to stumble. They are ruining marriages, they
Speaker 1: are ruining people's sex life. They are ruining people like that.
Speaker 1: You know, people that are causing people to you know,
Speaker 1: like bars that are open, and there's people that have
Speaker 1: problems with drinking and they're driving down the street and
Speaker 1: they're trying to get right with the lord, and they
Speaker 1: finally get right with the lord, and then they get
Speaker 1: in an argument with their wife and then they see
Speaker 1: that bar, you know, or their friends says, hey, man,
Speaker 1: let's go to the bar and have a drink. Oh
Speaker 1: I don't drink anymore. Oh dude, just have one. Okay,
Speaker 1: bloom drink and then boom, you are stumbling. So and
Speaker 1: then also there's something if you want to take it
Speaker 1: to the absolute extreme, there's some people that have done sends.
Speaker 1: Two actual little ones, actual children, and that is like
Speaker 1: a generational curse when that happens where it's causing that
Speaker 1: kid to stumble and then maybe he stumbles on somebody else.
Speaker 1: I know, you guys are probably understanding what I mean,
Speaker 1: but that is absolute terrible. But he's saying it's better
Speaker 1: for him to have a millstone or hung around his
Speaker 1: neck if he were drowned in the depths of the sea.
Speaker 1: Woe to the world because of offenses. Now, let's let's
Speaker 1: we can go to the strongs accordance real quick and
Speaker 1: let's go to Matthew chapter six. Excuse me, and uh,
Speaker 1: let's see what he means by that, because the Greek
Speaker 1: is very precise. So that's one thing I do, Like
Speaker 1: you know about the about the Greek, woe to them
Speaker 1: because of offenses, it's probably what it means. But I
Speaker 1: just want to make sure. The movable stick or trigger
Speaker 1: of a trap a trap, a snare, So woe to
Speaker 1: the world because of the snares, For snares must come,
Speaker 1: but go to the man whom they the offense comes
Speaker 1: or the trap an impediment placed in the way causing
Speaker 1: one to stumble or fall. That's what that means. It's
Speaker 1: a strong g scondalong scandaloon. That's what that word means
Speaker 1: applied to Jesus, whose person and career was so contrary
Speaker 1: to the expectations of the Jews concerning the Messiah. They're
Speaker 1: rejected by him, by their made shipbreak of their salvation.
Speaker 1: Any person or thing which is entrapped, drawn into air
Speaker 1: or sin so go to the world because of snares
Speaker 1: or traps or like I said, the world would be
Speaker 1: the bars. The world would be the drugs. The world
Speaker 1: would be the prostitution. The world would be massage parlors.
Speaker 1: The world would be strip clubs. The world would be pornography.
Speaker 1: The world would be uh, you know, addiction to money,
Speaker 1: or addiction to gambling, or addiction to anything. You know
Speaker 1: that that's what the world would be. Alcohol, drugs, bars, clubs,
Speaker 1: people looking, you know, addicted to women, whatever it is.
Speaker 1: You know, it's saying, whoa to the man by whom
Speaker 1: the snares come or the sin comes. Yeah, so understand
Speaker 1: it's it's it's very serious. That's why Jesus is saying
Speaker 1: it's very serious, and we don't understand that. You know,
Speaker 1: believe me, I've been that that guy that is causing
Speaker 1: my friends to stumble. I used to be I used
Speaker 1: to love to drink. I used to love to do drugs.
Speaker 1: I used to love to do cocaine. I used to
Speaker 1: love to chase women. I used to love to go
Speaker 1: to parties. I used to love to do drugs. Like
Speaker 1: I was that guy I was causing people to stumble.
Speaker 1: And I understand that Jesus is talking to these people
Speaker 1: in this day and age. But you can also there's
Speaker 1: there's a spiritual aspect that you can learn from these verses. Okay,
Speaker 1: so he is talking to the Jews at this very moment,
Speaker 1: but this app this can be an application to our
Speaker 1: lives that we're supposed to learn from this. If your
Speaker 1: hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off
Speaker 1: and cast it from you, it is better for you
Speaker 1: to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having
Speaker 1: two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
Speaker 1: If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out
Speaker 1: and cast it from you, it is better for you
Speaker 1: to enter into life with one eye rather than having
Speaker 1: two eyes to be cast into hell fire. So this
Speaker 1: is serious. You know that he's not literally telling you
Speaker 1: to cut your eye out, but what he's trying to
Speaker 1: say to you is if your eyes causing you to stubble,
Speaker 1: if you have like lust of the eyes, you need
Speaker 1: to correct that, you know, you need to correct that.
Speaker 1: If you have a problem with, for example, watching your
Speaker 1: phone and let's say you look at Instagram and it
Speaker 1: causes you to stumble, and then it castes you to
Speaker 1: get into you know, pornography or whatever, then then your
Speaker 1: phone needs to be put somewhere or locked some kind
Speaker 1: of lock on it to where you can't access that,
Speaker 1: or you need to take that and put it upstairs
Speaker 1: and have a charge next to your wife when you
Speaker 1: go and do stuff instead of having it with you
Speaker 1: in the bathroom or having it wherever. It's causing you
Speaker 1: to stumble. If you have some kind of trigger, it
Speaker 1: actually says right here, movable stick or trigger of a trap,
Speaker 1: like a trigger that causes you to do certain things.
Speaker 1: Causes you to smoke cigarettes, cause you to smoke weed,
Speaker 1: causes you to think about doing some type of drug.
Speaker 1: You need to those triggers. You need to correct those,
Speaker 1: you know. So that's really what I think the gist
Speaker 1: of this versus UH talking about that if your hand
Speaker 1: or foot causes you to sind cut it off, like,
Speaker 1: cast it from you. Whatever causing you to sin, you
Speaker 1: need to cast it from you. If there's a woman
Speaker 1: in your life that you're not equally yoked with that
Speaker 1: is causing you to sin, or beating you or hating you,
Speaker 1: or if there's a man in your life that's that's
Speaker 1: hating you or beating you, or cheating on you, or
Speaker 1: causing adultery, whatever it is. Like you see, you need
Speaker 1: to cut it off. Because it's better to cut off
Speaker 1: that relationship than it is to for you to get
Speaker 1: and go to hell. That's what Jesus is saying. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that to stop the marriage. That that's different.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a little bit later. I'm just telling you, like,
Speaker 1: if there's somebody in your life causing you to stumble,
Speaker 1: cut them out of your life, and do it in
Speaker 1: a Christian sense. Once you're saved, you are now Jesus's
Speaker 1: little one. You don't need to allow people to influence
Speaker 1: you at that point that's going to cause you to stumble.
Speaker 1: If there's people in your life that are causing you
Speaker 1: just stumble that are not saved, cut them out. If
Speaker 1: there's family members that are not saved that are causing
Speaker 1: you to stumble. You can keep them at a distance.
Speaker 1: Say I love you and I understand, but if you're
Speaker 1: causing me to do this, I don't want to be
Speaker 1: around you. Because it's better that you don't live your
Speaker 1: life stumbling and stumbling with this person than it is
Speaker 1: for you to end up in hell. You see what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's better. This is a physical reality we
Speaker 1: live in, but we're really living for the Kingdom of
Speaker 1: God because we're saved. Now the parable of the lost sheep,
Speaker 1: and this is definitely a lot of us were lost sheep.
Speaker 1: That's for sure, the parable of the lost sheep. Take heed,
Speaker 1: this is Matthew eighteen, verse ten. Take heed that you
Speaker 1: do not despise one of these little ones. For I
Speaker 1: say to you that in heaven they're angels. Always see
Speaker 1: the face of my Father, who is in heaven, for
Speaker 1: the Son of Man has come to save that which
Speaker 1: was lost. Take heed to what you despise of one
Speaker 1: of these little ones, For I say to you that
Speaker 1: in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father,
Speaker 1: who is in heaven, For the son of Man has
Speaker 1: come to save the lost. So what do you think
Speaker 1: if a man has a hundred sheep, and one of
Speaker 1: them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety nine
Speaker 1: and go to the mountains to seek that one who
Speaker 1: is straying? And if he should find it, as surely
Speaker 1: I say to you, he rejoices more than the sheep,
Speaker 1: then the other ninety nine that did not go astray.
Speaker 1: Even so, it is not the will of your father
Speaker 1: who is in heaven that one of these little ones
Speaker 1: should perish. So we I mean, I was definitely one
Speaker 1: of those lost sheep that God found because I was,
Speaker 1: you know, before I joined the army and before I
Speaker 1: got my stuff together, I was definitely a loss to sheep.
Speaker 1: And thank God because there are these ninety nine that
Speaker 1: are that are following being obedient, going to church the
Speaker 1: whole life and never tasting that party life, never tasting
Speaker 1: that drug, never tasting that prostitution, never tasting that let
Speaker 1: me hook up with this woman, this woman, this woman,
Speaker 1: never tasting that club life or going to parties or
Speaker 1: never they never tasted that worldly things. They just continue
Speaker 1: to just follow God and and you know, probably didn't
Speaker 1: have sex to they were married, and there were versins
Speaker 1: to their married and maybe a high school sweetheart, and
Speaker 1: their parents took them to church, and their parents stayed together,
Speaker 1: no divorce, you know, they live that that that life,
Speaker 1: you know, and they ended up just staying on the
Speaker 1: on that that that right path. But there's a lot
Speaker 1: of us, like myself, that parents divorced. You know. My
Speaker 1: dad did some terrible thing and got caught selling drugs
Speaker 1: and then went to jail. And my mom she could
Speaker 1: you know, it was hard for her to take care
Speaker 1: of us because she didn't have the money. So we
Speaker 1: were just lost in the sauce. And the only thing
Speaker 1: that I found was was, you know, friends. You know,
Speaker 1: I wanted friends and party and I wanted to hang out.
Speaker 1: And my dad used to let us drink and do
Speaker 1: drugs at the house, and he said, I'd rather you
Speaker 1: do drugs in front of me than do drugs out there. Right.
Speaker 1: So I like doing cocaine at a young age, like
Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen, did a acid, did shrooms, got to experience
Speaker 1: all that, you know, And I was definitely a lost
Speaker 1: sheep before God found me. But what I'll tell you
Speaker 1: is from what I've seen, like look at Paul, like
Speaker 1: he was murdering Christians. He was killing Christians, he was
Speaker 1: following the Torah. He was trying to like he was
Speaker 1: just like either at one hundred and fifty percent or zero,
Speaker 1: and then he got saved by Jesus, you know, and
Speaker 1: and he ended up being one hundred percent into God
Speaker 1: right and and he and he was the nice for
Speaker 1: the gentiles. Right. So all I want to say is,
Speaker 1: even though some of us are that lost sheep, once
Speaker 1: we are found, I've seen a lot of people that
Speaker 1: have gone through the trenches and have done some crazy
Speaker 1: things in their life. Once they get saved, they are
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty percent dedicated to the Lord. Because
Speaker 1: we've already done that life. We've already tasted that. We
Speaker 1: don't need to go taste it again. We've already done that.
Speaker 1: We're done with that stage of our life, and we
Speaker 1: are one hundred and fifty percent down for the Lord.
Speaker 1: Not saying we don't backslide once in a while, all
Speaker 1: I'm telling you is I've seen a lot of people
Speaker 1: that have been through the trenches and had a hard
Speaker 1: rough road that that now that they're saved there they're
Speaker 1: doing wonderful things for the Lord. And there is some
Speaker 1: that have never tasted that life that are doing wonderful
Speaker 1: things for the Lord. But see, God knows that when
Speaker 1: he gets that sheep, that that one that that went astray,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's just amazing that he doesn't let
Speaker 1: us perish, because we were destined for hell. We were
Speaker 1: destined for shield, you know, we were destined for that.
Speaker 1: We were headed that way, full force, one hundred one
Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour that way, you know, and for
Speaker 1: God to give us a chance, give us grace and
Speaker 1: to you know, it says, even so, it is not
Speaker 1: the will of the Father who is in heaven that
Speaker 1: one of these little ones should perish. You know, it's
Speaker 1: not the will of the Father that we perish. God
Speaker 1: loves us. Even though we went a little sideways. The
Speaker 1: angels in heaven rejoice because that one sheep was found.
Speaker 1: And I just think it's absolutely amazing. You know that
Speaker 1: I love this this parable because I was definitely that
Speaker 1: lost sheep. And thank God that it's it's not the
Speaker 1: will of the Father that that that I perished. Thank
Speaker 1: you Lord for not letting me die in a drunk
Speaker 1: driving accident or a drug induced driving accident or whatever.
Speaker 1: He allowed me to live and be a living testament
Speaker 1: for him. It's amazing. And you that are listening can
Speaker 1: also be that living Testament. You can be that living Testament.
Speaker 1: You know you could be that, and some of you
Speaker 1: are that already. So, so how do we deal with
Speaker 1: the sinning brother or sister? Moreover, if your brother sins
Speaker 1: against you, go and tell him his fault between you
Speaker 1: and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained
Speaker 1: your brother. But if he will not hear, take with
Speaker 1: you one or two more that by mouth of two
Speaker 1: or three witnesses, every word may be established. And if
Speaker 1: he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church.
Speaker 1: But if if he refuses even to hear from the church,
Speaker 1: let him be to you like a heathen and a
Speaker 1: tax collector. It's funny because Matthew was a tax collector.
Speaker 1: So for them to put that there, I thought that
Speaker 1: was funny. So this is the proper way to deal
Speaker 1: with a brother. This is what Jesus is telling us, right,
Speaker 1: This is the proper way to deal with the brother
Speaker 1: that is sinning. So notice that it doesn't say that
Speaker 1: if your brother sins against you, go and tell the
Speaker 1: whole entire internet, and to go and tell everybody that
Speaker 1: that's that's that can that will listen what this brother
Speaker 1: did to you, so that they can all slander his
Speaker 1: name and slander and slander and talk bad about the
Speaker 1: sin that he committed and talk bad about this brother
Speaker 1: or sister in Christ. Does Jesus say to do that,
Speaker 1: go and post it on Instagram and a YouTube and
Speaker 1: Facebook and to create a podcast that is going against
Speaker 1: this brother that's sinned against you, or to go make
Speaker 1: a TikTok post about him. No, this is not what
Speaker 1: he says. Now, this is not this is talking about
Speaker 1: a brother in Christ. Okay, I'm not you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think you should ever do that to anybody, other words,
Speaker 1: a brother in Christ or not. But do you see
Speaker 1: why why would Jesus not want you to do that?
Speaker 1: Because we're supposed to attract people to the faith. We
Speaker 1: want to attract people to the faith. So if you
Speaker 1: see a brother sinning and you're telling every Tom, Dick
Speaker 1: and Harry and Mary and John and everybody you know,
Speaker 1: then you're slandering that person. And and that's just like
Speaker 1: everybody in the world. That's what they would do. Jesus
Speaker 1: is saying, tell him his fault between you and him alone.
Speaker 1: So if you tell your brother that's sinning. Listen, dude,
Speaker 1: you I saw you. You you drank last night like
Speaker 1: too much and you started talking to these women being
Speaker 1: lustful and you're married. Bro. You need to stop doing that, dude,
Speaker 1: And you know you need to. You need to, you know,
Speaker 1: just come on, bro, you need to need to clear
Speaker 1: up right. And and if and if he hears you,
Speaker 1: then he and he's and he is a true saved person.
Speaker 1: He would tell you, thank you. I appreciate you letting
Speaker 1: me know that I was stumbling and I will not
Speaker 1: do that again, thank you, brother. But if he continues
Speaker 1: to do it and he doesn't hear you, take with
Speaker 1: you one or two more that by mouth, two or
Speaker 1: three witnesses, every word may be established. Right, So you
Speaker 1: take two or three witnesses with you that are brothers
Speaker 1: in Christ with him, and then you talk to him.
Speaker 1: And if he's a saved person that is truly born again,
Speaker 1: he probably should listen at that point because you know
Speaker 1: that these brothers don't have something negative or they don't
Speaker 1: have something out for you. They're not doing it because
Speaker 1: they gain anything. They're doing it because they you know,
Speaker 1: they care about your faith. They care about you being
Speaker 1: saved they care about you, not stumbling. They care about
Speaker 1: your family, They care about your life and everything that
Speaker 1: could happen to you. They truly care, and they look
Speaker 1: at it from a spiritual aspect and not just a
Speaker 1: physical aspect. They're looking at it from a spiritual aspect. Right,
Speaker 1: And if he refuses to hear them, Let's say he refuses,
Speaker 1: then tell it to the church. So now the whole
Speaker 1: congregation knows, and they're gonna all come and try to
Speaker 1: counsel you. But if he refuses even to hear the church,
Speaker 1: then let him be to you like a heathen or
Speaker 1: a tax collector, basically saying, if you don't want to listen,
Speaker 1: then get out of the church and get away from me. Okay,
Speaker 1: you are now a heathen. Just go, you know, because
Speaker 1: you're going to cause people to stumble in the church.
Speaker 1: You're going to cause people like maybe someone like me
Speaker 1: that had triggers at one time to do certain things.
Speaker 1: Maybe they could try to cause me to stumble, you know,
Speaker 1: And believe it or not, that's saying that misery Enjoy's
Speaker 1: company is so true. It'll be like a cancer in
Speaker 1: the church. Someone like that. Now we're at Matthew eighteen eighteen. Assuredly,
Speaker 1: I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will
Speaker 1: be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth
Speaker 1: will be in heaven. Again, I say to you that
Speaker 1: if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that
Speaker 1: they ask, it will be done for them by my
Speaker 1: Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered
Speaker 1: together in my name, I am there in the midst
Speaker 1: of them. So if you notice, let's look at that
Speaker 1: real quick. We're at a Matthew eighteen, verse eighteen. Bind
Speaker 1: on earth. What does bind mean? Let's see what that means. Bound,
Speaker 1: to bind, to fasten, fasten with chains, to throw into chains.
Speaker 1: Satan is said to bind a woman bent together by
Speaker 1: means of a demon. Right, so to bind, to put
Speaker 1: under obligation to the law, to duty, to bind to
Speaker 1: one a wife a husband, so to fasten to chains. Surely,
Speaker 1: I say do, whatever you bind on earth will be
Speaker 1: bound in heaven. Whatever you loose on Earth will be
Speaker 1: loosen in heaven. So there's like a spiritual world happening
Speaker 1: and a heavenly world. There's there's a physical world happening.
Speaker 1: So as you bind things on earth, it is bind
Speaker 1: in heaven. Whatever you loose on Earth will be loose
Speaker 1: in heaven. So things are happening in the physical causing
Speaker 1: reactions in the heavenly. Okay, we got to understand that,
Speaker 1: Like maeah, there's things that people do that probably cause
Speaker 1: Heaven to to feel some I would just say, feel
Speaker 1: some type of way when certain things happen on earth
Speaker 1: cause God to to feel feel remorseful, you know. But okay, again,
Speaker 1: I say to you that two or three of you, okay,
Speaker 1: So for two of them are gathered in my name,
Speaker 1: I am there in the midst of them. So Jesus
Speaker 1: is saying, you know, as you know, when you're worshiping
Speaker 1: in my name, then I am there in the midst
Speaker 1: of you. You know. So I think that's very amazing
Speaker 1: and awesome. People need to understand that. And it says
Speaker 1: it will be done by my Father in heaven. Now
Speaker 1: he is talking to the people at that very time. Okay.
Speaker 1: So he's talking to those people at that time. To
Speaker 1: properly divide the word understand, he's talking to the Jews
Speaker 1: at that time, the people that are in Israel. He's
Speaker 1: talking to them. But there's a spiritual aspect we can
Speaker 1: gain from this and understand that when we are gathered
Speaker 1: in Jesus's name, that he is there in the midst
Speaker 1: of us. You know he is there, so we can
Speaker 1: take comfort in that right. The parable of the unforgiving servant,
Speaker 1: and Peter came to him and said, Lord, how often
Speaker 1: shall my brother sin against me? And I will forgive
Speaker 1: him up to seven times. Jesus said to him, I
Speaker 1: do not say to you up to seven times, but
Speaker 1: seventy times seven, which I think is four hundred and
Speaker 1: ninety four ninety four hundred and ninety times. Therefore, the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who wanted
Speaker 1: to settle accounts with his servants. And when he had
Speaker 1: begun to settle accounts, one was brought to him, who
Speaker 1: owed him ten thousand talents. But as he was not
Speaker 1: able to pay, his master commanded that he be sold
Speaker 1: with his wife and children and all that he had,
Speaker 1: and that payment be made. The servant therefore fell down
Speaker 1: before him, saying, Master, have patience with me, and I
Speaker 1: will pay you all. Then the master of the servant
Speaker 1: was moved with compassion, released him and forgave him the debt.
Speaker 1: But listen what the servant did. But the servant went
Speaker 1: out and found one of his fellow servants who owed
Speaker 1: him a hundred denari, and he laid hands on him
Speaker 1: and took him by the throat, saying, pay me whatever
Speaker 1: you owe. So his fellow servant fell down at his
Speaker 1: feet and begged him, saying, have patience with me, and
Speaker 1: I will pay you all. And he would not, but
Speaker 1: went and threw him into prison till he should pay
Speaker 1: the debt. So when his fellow servants saw that what
Speaker 1: he had done, they were very grieved and came told
Speaker 1: their master all that he had done. Then his master,
Speaker 1: after he had a call, after he had called him,
Speaker 1: said to him, you, wicked servant, I forgave you for
Speaker 1: the debt because you begged me. Should you not also
Speaker 1: have had compassion on your fellow servant as I had
Speaker 1: pity on you. And his master was angry and delivered
Speaker 1: him to the torturers until he should pay all that
Speaker 1: was due to him. How do you expect God to
Speaker 1: forgive you? You ask God to you know, Lord? Please?
Speaker 1: You know I sin against you? You ask him a
Speaker 1: bunch of times, you know, Lord, can he please forgive
Speaker 1: me for my sins? You know? Forgive me, Lord? And
Speaker 1: God has grace and he forgives you. But then one
Speaker 1: of your fellow brothers does something to you and you
Speaker 1: slander them and talk bad about them, and you don't
Speaker 1: forgive them, and you stop talking to them. Someone in
Speaker 1: your family does that, your mom, your dad, your cousin,
Speaker 1: your aunt, whatever, and you say, I will never forgive
Speaker 1: that person. I hate that person. That's as good as
Speaker 1: you murdering that person. When you do that, you don't
Speaker 1: understand that. But you're gonna go to God and ask
Speaker 1: him to forgive you for your sins when you're holding
Speaker 1: that grudge in your heart. That's the same exact thing
Speaker 1: that's happening right here. Jesus, God, the Holy Spirit deal
Speaker 1: with this all the time. That's why I know that
Speaker 1: Jesus is God, because he is talking about what God
Speaker 1: goes through. You know what God goes through on a
Speaker 1: daily basis, and what you mere humans don't understand that.
Speaker 1: You continue to do this time and time again, and
Speaker 1: you expect us to forgive you. You see, and his
Speaker 1: master was angered deliver him to the tortures until he said,
Speaker 1: pay all that was due to him. You understand. So,
Speaker 1: my heavenly father, Father, sorry, my heavenly Father, this is
Speaker 1: Matthew eighteen thirty five Known, so my heavenly father will
Speaker 1: also do to you. Each of you from his heart
Speaker 1: does not forgive his brother his trespasses. So so my
Speaker 1: heavenly Father will also do to you each of you
Speaker 1: from his heart does not forgive his brother his trespasses.
Speaker 1: So you've got to forgive. Understand, Okay, you got to
Speaker 1: be understanding. You got to be compassionate, and you have
Speaker 1: to forgive your fellow brother and sister or aunt or
Speaker 1: cousin or mom or dad like you got to put
Speaker 1: yourself in their shoes. Even though they might do something
Speaker 1: that's super offensive to you, they're not on the same
Speaker 1: level spiritually as you at that time, So something gets
Speaker 1: could be a lot more offensive to you because you've
Speaker 1: had time to spiritually grow and you've learned how to
Speaker 1: handle situations better than other people that haven't. Some people
Speaker 1: they don't have the Bible, they don't have a moral
Speaker 1: compass to go off of someone. Someone does something to you,
Speaker 1: their moral compass is off because it not saved. They
Speaker 1: haven't been properly born again, they haven't been properly taught
Speaker 1: the Bible. They have not been taught the ways of God.
Speaker 1: So when they do something to you, it's because they're
Speaker 1: not at that spiritual level that maybe you're at. So
Speaker 1: when you don't forgive them, you're not understanding the way
Speaker 1: that their mind works. You're not understanding the way that
Speaker 1: they haven't been saved and they haven't gone through the
Speaker 1: things that you've gone through. So I think it's vastly
Speaker 1: important to forgive, forgive what is the worst something. Now
Speaker 1: there's some people I've seen literally that are in court.
Speaker 1: The murderer is right there of this man's daughter, this
Speaker 1: man's son, right in front of him, and he says,
Speaker 1: I forgive you, and it makes that murderer fall to
Speaker 1: his knees, and it maybe makes it so that murderer
Speaker 1: finds out that that gentleman that forgave him is Christian,
Speaker 1: and maybe that murderer would convert and get saved and
Speaker 1: be born again. I think it was the Green River
Speaker 1: Killer something like that, and the man a lot of
Speaker 1: the people that he murdered, they were coming in there
Speaker 1: and all the people that were like family members of
Speaker 1: the victims was telling him, you know, I hate you,
Speaker 1: I you know whatever, just really hurtful things to that guy,
Speaker 1: and he was just sitting there. But one came this
Speaker 1: old man and he told them, you know what, I
Speaker 1: forgive you. And you don't understand that that serial killer
Speaker 1: had tears coming down his eyes and down his face
Speaker 1: because he you know, you never know what someone has
Speaker 1: gone through in their life or caused them to become
Speaker 1: that kind of person. But for that man to stand
Speaker 1: there and say, I forgive you, and you know you
Speaker 1: need Jesus whatever everything else he said, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: just really powerful for the person that committed the act.
Speaker 1: And also it's very powerful for the people and the
Speaker 1: audience that are watching that what does that man have
Speaker 1: that I don't have? How can he be so forgiving
Speaker 1: to that person? What does that man have? He has Jesus,
Speaker 1: He is born again, he is Christian. It causes people
Speaker 1: to want to ask you about the faith instead of
Speaker 1: you having to go and evangelize to them. You're living
Speaker 1: so great that they come and ask you. You see,
Speaker 1: that is truly being in a disciple of the Lord.
Speaker 1: That people notice it in your personality. They notice how
Speaker 1: you act, how you know, they notice everything like and
Speaker 1: it attracts people to the faith by your actions. That
Speaker 1: is the best way. So that is Matthew eighteen. That
Speaker 1: was really awesome. I love that chapter. And now we're
Speaker 1: going to get into what I talked about earlier, which
Speaker 1: is marriage and divorce. Now it came to pass. This
Speaker 1: is Matthew nineteen one if you're following along, And this
Speaker 1: is the new King James version. Okay. Like I always say,
Speaker 1: I read this version because I like the King James
Speaker 1: and this is a little easier for me to read,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to stumble when I'm speaking, so
Speaker 1: I try to try to read this a little smoother
Speaker 1: for me. Now it came to pass when Jesus had
Speaker 1: finished these sayings that he departed from Galilee and came
Speaker 1: to the reason of Judea before the Jordan and great
Speaker 1: multitudes follow him, and he healed them. There. The Pharisees
Speaker 1: also came to him, testing him and saying to him,
Speaker 1: is it lawful for a managed divorce his wife for
Speaker 1: just any reason? So the Pharisees are trying to catch
Speaker 1: Jesus in a trap, you see the other They're trying
Speaker 1: to do that. They're constantly trying to do that. They
Speaker 1: want to make him look bad to the people, and
Speaker 1: they're trying to make him break the law of God
Speaker 1: in some way. And Jesus is so smooth with his answers,
Speaker 1: and it says, and he answered, this is a matthew
Speaker 1: nineteen verse four. And he answered and said to them,
Speaker 1: have you not read what He who made them at
Speaker 1: the beginning? Made them male and female? And said, for
Speaker 1: this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother
Speaker 1: and be joined to his wife, and the two shall
Speaker 1: become one flesh. One two. You become one flesh. So
Speaker 1: then there are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore,
Speaker 1: what God has joined together, let man, let not man separate.
Speaker 1: So when you become married with your wife, and you
Speaker 1: know what, I know you guys think that marriage is
Speaker 1: like going to a chapel and getting married. And I
Speaker 1: know you guys think that getting married is that certificate
Speaker 1: you get from the state of California. Not all of you, guys,
Speaker 1: but some people believe that. But believe it or not.
Speaker 1: Marriage in the Bible is when you have intimate relations
Speaker 1: with a woman. That is marriage. You become one with
Speaker 1: that person. You understand it is a lot deeper. When
Speaker 1: you have sex with a person, is a lot deeper
Speaker 1: than you think. And it's like two boards when you
Speaker 1: glue them together. You glued them together. Let's we'll talk
Speaker 1: about actual marriage here. You know, well, just just for
Speaker 1: your guys' sake, but you become one with your wife,
Speaker 1: right And if you glue these wood together and you
Speaker 1: pull them apart, like for divorce, they're gonna splinter up
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna be able to put them back
Speaker 1: together correctly again. So even when you're trying to remarry
Speaker 1: somebody else that you got all those splinters, and then
Speaker 1: they're trying to conjoin with you, and sometimes it just
Speaker 1: doesn't work as good. You know, I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: never works out, but it just is not the same,
Speaker 1: especially when you have children with that woman, you know.
Speaker 1: So what God has joined together, let not man separate.
Speaker 1: Jesus is telling him that, and since they're all law
Speaker 1: abiding Pharisees, they respond with this. They said to him,
Speaker 1: Why then did Moses command to give a significate of
Speaker 1: divorce and put her and put her away? He said
Speaker 1: to them, Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts
Speaker 1: permitted you to divorce your wives. But from the beginning
Speaker 1: it was not so. And I say to you, whoever
Speaker 1: divorces his wife except for sexual immorality and marries another
Speaker 1: commits adultery. Whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Jesus is saying that God now that marriage happened,
Speaker 1: and then Moses talked about the certypic of divorce to
Speaker 1: put her away. But Moses, because of the hardness of
Speaker 1: your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives. But from
Speaker 1: the beginning it was not so, so Jesus is saying
Speaker 1: that he did not. God doesn't want you to divorce
Speaker 1: your wife or your husband unless there is sexual immorality.
Speaker 1: Now we could go there real quick. Okay, So Matthew
Speaker 1: nineteen verse eight Matthew nineteen verse eight nine, Sorry, my ben,
Speaker 1: so in the King James that right there instead of
Speaker 1: saying sexual immorality. Wait, let me see whoever puts your
Speaker 1: wife and except fornication is what the word is there?
Speaker 1: Illicit sexual will intercourse, adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, intercourse with animals,
Speaker 1: et cetera. Okay, sexual intercourse with close relatives. What it
Speaker 1: means is or nia. That's that word sexual morality. So
Speaker 1: for adultery, fornication, so illicit sexual intercourse. So if you're
Speaker 1: what it's saying here. In this case, you're talking about
Speaker 1: a wife. If your wife had had sexual intercourse with
Speaker 1: another man or another woman, or anything of the sort,
Speaker 1: and marries another who commits and marries another commits adultery. Right.
Speaker 1: So so that's the only exception is if they cheated
Speaker 1: on their spouse. Right. So his disciples said to him,
Speaker 1: if this is the case of the man with his wife,
Speaker 1: is it better not to marry? Like wow, if such
Speaker 1: is the case with the man with his wife, is
Speaker 1: it better not to marry? They don't get it. Jesus
Speaker 1: teaches on celibacy. But he said to them, all cannot
Speaker 1: accept this saying, But only those to whom it has
Speaker 1: been given. For there are euchs who were born thus
Speaker 1: from their mother's womb, and they are eunuchs who were
Speaker 1: made eunuchs by men. And there are unuchs who made
Speaker 1: themselves unus for the kingdom of Heaven's sake. Who is
Speaker 1: able to accept it, let him accept it. So let's
Speaker 1: go to that verse real quick. That's going to be
Speaker 1: nineteen verse twelve. Unuks. I want to make sure I'm
Speaker 1: even saying that. Corribe what is an unuk? I think
Speaker 1: it's probably someone that's celibate, bedkeeper, bed guard who support
Speaker 1: numbers wives at superintendent of women's apartment, an emasculated man,
Speaker 1: naturally incapacitated for marriage or for children, one who voluntarily
Speaker 1: abstains from marriage. That's what it mainly means right here,
Speaker 1: is someone who voluntarily obstrains from having sex or from marriage,
Speaker 1: or from having kids or from begetting children. Right So
Speaker 1: it's celibacy. So yeah, some people do add the gift
Speaker 1: of singleness, and some people do not do anything outside
Speaker 1: of marriage and they don't want to get married because
Speaker 1: who knows, but he who is able to accept it,
Speaker 1: let him accept it. If you can accept to live
Speaker 1: like that, then you know, hey, you're living for the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven for Heaven's sake, then hey, do it.
Speaker 1: Then you know that what's more important to you is
Speaker 1: the spiritual in heaven than you're physical. Jesus is just saying, hey,
Speaker 1: he who is able to accept it, let him accept it.
Speaker 1: So he's not saying like everybody should get married, and
Speaker 1: you have to get married for you to go to heaven,
Speaker 1: and you need to have children and you need to
Speaker 1: be fruitful and multiply like some of the commandments, saying
Speaker 1: some people don't do that, and it's okay. You're still
Speaker 1: like you said, who was able to accept it, let
Speaker 1: him accept it, right, So it's okay for the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of Heaven's sake for them to do that. Next is
Speaker 1: going to be Matthew nineteen of verse thirteen. Then Jesus'
Speaker 1: little children who were brought to him that he might
Speaker 1: put his hands on them and pray. But the disciples
Speaker 1: rebuked them, and Jesus said, let the little children come
Speaker 1: to me, and do not forbid them, for of such
Speaker 1: is the Kingdom of Heaven. And he laid his hands
Speaker 1: on them and departed from there. So probably the disciples,
Speaker 1: like you know, sometimes when you go somewhere and there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of little children running at you, you kind
Speaker 1: of want to, you know, you want to have adult time,
Speaker 1: so you kind of just probably rebuke the children and
Speaker 1: tell them, hey, get away, We're trying to have adult talk.
Speaker 1: You know. That could be maybe what I'm seeing here.
Speaker 1: But Jesus is saying, Nah, hold on, let the little
Speaker 1: children come to me, and do not forbid them from such.
Speaker 1: From such is the Kingdom of Heaven. For such is
Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven like these these little ones are innocent,
Speaker 1: they're beautiful, They're God's children. Let them come to me,
Speaker 1: do not do not forbid them? And he prayed for them,
Speaker 1: you know, and and yeah, so I think it's it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Jesus is just saying, hey, let them come like these
Speaker 1: they're children of God, like they're important too. So I
Speaker 1: could kind of see how the disciples were kind of
Speaker 1: probably like that. Even when you're at church sometimes, man,
Speaker 1: you you know, I had I've had a little ones
Speaker 1: and I'm at church and my kids are crying, ah,
Speaker 1: running around and not really like focused on the Word,
Speaker 1: and it's it's so hard to focus on God. So
Speaker 1: I understand where the disciples are coming from. But Jesus
Speaker 1: is like, beat it, like these are these kids are great?
Speaker 1: These are these are for the children from the for
Speaker 1: such is the kingdom of heaven. Right so Matthew nineteen
Speaker 1: verse sixteen. Now behold one came and said to him,
Speaker 1: good teacher, what good things shall I do that I
Speaker 1: may have eternal life? And he said to him, why
Speaker 1: do you call me good? No one is good but
Speaker 1: one that is God. But if you want to enter
Speaker 1: into life, keep the commandments. He said to him, which
Speaker 1: ones Jesus said, You shall not murder, you should not
Speaker 1: commit adulter, you should not steal, should not bear fall,
Speaker 1: fall witness, honor your father, your mother, and you shall
Speaker 1: love your neighbor as yourself. The young man said to him,
Speaker 1: all these things I have kept from my youth, what
Speaker 1: still do I lack? Jesus said, if you want to
Speaker 1: you want to be perfect, go sell what you have
Speaker 1: and give to the poor, and you will have treasure
Speaker 1: in heaven. Come follow me. That's a reality check for
Speaker 1: that guy. But the young man heard that, saying he
Speaker 1: went away sorrowful, where he had great possessions. You see, like,
Speaker 1: if you don't ask, if you ain't ready, because Jesus
Speaker 1: is gonna let you know what you need to do.
Speaker 1: And also Jesus is this is before Jesus died on
Speaker 1: the cross. He is speaking to the Jews that are
Speaker 1: there at that time. So at this time, Jesus is
Speaker 1: letting him know how to get salvation. Right, He's saying
Speaker 1: that you need to follow the commandments. Right, this is now. Yes,
Speaker 1: we still need to follow the commandments. You're still going
Speaker 1: to be obedient to God. But that's not how we
Speaker 1: obtain salvation now, even though we definitely need to do this,
Speaker 1: that's what I think, you know, But it's not the
Speaker 1: way we obtain salvation now. It's not by works. But
Speaker 1: right here, this is Jesus speaking to a young Jewish
Speaker 1: boy at that time. This verse is not for everybody
Speaker 1: in the world right now. This verse is for this
Speaker 1: gentleman right here, right then, at that time, and he
Speaker 1: was letting him know what to do. But what he
Speaker 1: was saying, more importantly than even following the commandments, if
Speaker 1: you want to be perfect, go sell everything you have,
Speaker 1: give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven,
Speaker 1: which is what really matters. Come and follow me. Come
Speaker 1: believe in me, Come have faith in me. That's how
Speaker 1: you will obtain heaven. And the guy says, I cannot
Speaker 1: do that. He walked away sorrowful because I have great possessions.
Speaker 1: So you have all these physical possessions that you cannot
Speaker 1: bring in a U haul with you to heaven. Jesus
Speaker 1: is letting you know. You can have the mansion, you
Speaker 1: can have the cars, you can have the women, you
Speaker 1: can have the fame, you can have the rap career,
Speaker 1: you can have the doctor career, you can have, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever you try to do in your life, and you
Speaker 1: have everything that you ever wanted in this physical world.
Speaker 1: But you are gonna die sometime and every single one
Speaker 1: of your possessions will be given to the next man.
Speaker 1: That house will be lived in in a hundred years
Speaker 1: by the next family, and forty years by the next family,
Speaker 1: and everything that you had that was so important to
Speaker 1: you will be gone. We need to understand that your house,
Speaker 1: your car, your wife's wife's, your wife, your kids. That's
Speaker 1: why I said. I said it with the as I
Speaker 1: meant to say, your kids, everything that you have here
Speaker 1: in the physic is given to you by the Lord.
Speaker 1: Thank you Lord for all my possessions. I appreciate him,
Speaker 1: but I appreciate you so much more. Lord. And if
Speaker 1: you want me to drop everything I have to follow you,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to do that. That's how we need to be.
Speaker 1: But you see this man, he's placing his possessions before God.
Speaker 1: We should never put anything above God. God is number one,
Speaker 1: then family, then your job, then you know whatever is
Speaker 1: after that. But God is number one. And when it
Speaker 1: comes to you and your wife, understand something. You don't
Speaker 1: obtain salvation with your wife. You're obtained of salvation as
Speaker 1: an individual with the Lord, so you need to understand that,
Speaker 1: and your wife needs to understand that, and you got
Speaker 1: to try to get equally yoked with her. So you
Speaker 1: guys are on the same belief So you guys can
Speaker 1: like go to church together, grow together. But it's up
Speaker 1: to you as an individual to have salvation with God.
Speaker 1: And also your kids. You need to try to do
Speaker 1: your very very best to bring your kids up in
Speaker 1: the Lord and in the ways of the Lord, because
Speaker 1: they need that foundation for when they get they end
Speaker 1: up going away from you, that they could teach their kids,
Speaker 1: you know, and disciple to their kids. You know that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like it's it's something that is so important.
Speaker 1: But this what's happening is especially nowadays, we have so
Speaker 1: many possessions and we're trying to keep up with the Joneses,
Speaker 1: and we're trying to have all these friends that are
Speaker 1: higher elite friends and oh these rich he's this, he's
Speaker 1: that I want to be like him and oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like, dude, that's just not even what you're
Speaker 1: supposed to do, like you're supposed to just life is
Speaker 1: not about that. You're supposed to live for the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of heaven, and it's so hard nowadays, especially man, when
Speaker 1: you get caught up keeping up with the Joneses and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So Jesus just basically said he knew
Speaker 1: exactly his weakness, and he exposed it. And the guy said,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I have great possessions. I could never do
Speaker 1: something like that, and he wasn't ready to truly follow God.
Speaker 1: How many people did Jesus run into that were like that,
Speaker 1: that told him I want exactly what you have, and
Speaker 1: I'm ready. Okay, you're ready, then let's go drop everything
Speaker 1: and let's go right now. No, hold on, I gotta
Speaker 1: go bury my dad. I gotta go bury the dead.
Speaker 1: I gotta go. I got I gotta do this. Let
Speaker 1: me talk, I gotta do No, let's go right now. No, okay,
Speaker 1: then go do what you gotta do. Never mind, when
Speaker 1: you're ready to truly follow, then let's go. All right,
Speaker 1: So Matthew nineteen verse twenty three. Then Jesus said to
Speaker 1: his disciples, so surely I say to you that it
Speaker 1: is hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of heaven. And again I say to you, it is
Speaker 1: easier for a camel to go through the eye of
Speaker 1: a needle and for a rich man to enter the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of heaven. That's exactly what I was saying right there.
Speaker 1: You're placing things above the Lord. And you can't have
Speaker 1: a bunch of idols and have You can only worship
Speaker 1: one master, either God or the Devil or the God
Speaker 1: of Mana. You can only worship God or the God
Speaker 1: of Mana or Satan. Right you love one and absolutely
Speaker 1: hate the other. You can't have one foot in the
Speaker 1: world and one foot with Christ and enter the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of Heaven. And saying that right here, being lukewarm, you
Speaker 1: can't do that. He will spew you out of his mouth,
Speaker 1: vomit you. So this is it's hard for a rich
Speaker 1: man to enter the Kingdom of heaven. Why because of
Speaker 1: the greed. Why because when you become rich, the amount
Speaker 1: of sins coming your way opens up tremendously. You could imagine, Okay,
Speaker 1: right now, I'm not rich. Do I have a good job. Yes,
Speaker 1: Do I have a job where I'm making millions of dollars? No? Okay,
Speaker 1: But for me, I am rich because I have the Lord.
Speaker 1: But what I'll tell you is you can imagine if
Speaker 1: you're a rich, attractive gentleman and you go to the
Speaker 1: gas station in a Lamborghini and you're fueling your car
Speaker 1: and a bunch of beautiful women are going to the
Speaker 1: club right next to you. They pull up to fill
Speaker 1: up their gas tank, and there's five women in the car,
Speaker 1: and they see you filling up your Lamborghini and you're
Speaker 1: just standing there. You're a married man, by the way,
Speaker 1: and all five of these women are like attracted to
Speaker 1: your Lamborghini. You see. That's why it's harder, because it
Speaker 1: opens up so much the floodgates of sin will be
Speaker 1: coming your way, and so much more sin and so
Speaker 1: much more temptation when you have money like that. Not
Speaker 1: saying that, it doesn't say that it's impossible for someone
Speaker 1: that's rich to go to heaven. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that either. But what I'll tell you, as I see
Speaker 1: from a man's point of view, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: can't see from a woman's point of view because I
Speaker 1: don't know. But what I will tell you is it
Speaker 1: opens up the floodgates for a lot more sin to
Speaker 1: come into your life. And also, what did you have
Speaker 1: to do to get that money. Did you have to
Speaker 1: step on people's toes to make that money? Did you
Speaker 1: have to sacrifice other people to get that money? There's
Speaker 1: people in the Hollywood right now that I believe have
Speaker 1: done sacrifices to make it to where they're at. Where
Speaker 1: they sold their soul, meaning not saying that the soul
Speaker 1: can belong to Satan, but what I could say say
Speaker 1: is they probably did blasphemy of the Holy Spirit to
Speaker 1: make that money and all those riches and all that
Speaker 1: gifts and everything that they want, the worldly gifts, they
Speaker 1: can have it upfront, but they're gonna end up going
Speaker 1: to hell. So you get all these gifts up front
Speaker 1: and have fun in life, and that's great. But that's
Speaker 1: why you see a lot of actors I believe, committing
Speaker 1: suicide and drug overdoses and people dying at the age
Speaker 1: of twenty seven, people committing suicide, people getting murdered, and
Speaker 1: because that life that they thought they wanted and then
Speaker 1: they sold their soul or they gave up their their
Speaker 1: maybe they did something, you know, I don't know, ritualistic,
Speaker 1: I don't know what they did. But they end up
Speaker 1: getting all this money and then they end up giving
Speaker 1: their soul away. In the process. So what I'm just
Speaker 1: saying is, I'm not saying that every rich man can't
Speaker 1: enter the Kingdom of Heaven. I don't think that Jesus
Speaker 1: is saying that either. He's saying that it's hard for
Speaker 1: a rich man to enter the kingdom heaven. It's even
Speaker 1: hard for a poor man to enter the Kingdom of heaven. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you can imagine being rich. So we got to
Speaker 1: understand that, Okay. Matthew nineteen, verse twenty five. When his
Speaker 1: disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, who then
Speaker 1: can be saved? But Jesus looked at them and said,
Speaker 1: with men, this is impossible, But with God, all things
Speaker 1: are possible. So a man cannot be saved on his own,
Speaker 1: because men try to be saved on their own all
Speaker 1: the time. And that is called works works based religion,
Speaker 1: works works works. But what does it say in the
Speaker 1: Book of Isaiah your works are like filthy rab to God?
Speaker 1: What does it say in Ephesians two eight, We are
Speaker 1: saved by grace through faith, for it is not of yourselves,
Speaker 1: It is a gift from God, So that no man
Speaker 1: shall boast. Because people that are doing works tend to
Speaker 1: boast right. So what it's saying is that we're saved
Speaker 1: by grace, by the grace of God. We're say by
Speaker 1: faith in whom in Jesus Christ, God's sin has only
Speaker 1: begotten son to die for us. Forever it believes in
Speaker 1: them shall not perish, but have everlasting life. You see,
Speaker 1: by having faith in Jesus. So it's impossible for men.
Speaker 1: But with God all things are possible because of that.
Speaker 1: But Jesus looked at them and said, when men with
Speaker 1: men is impossible, with God, all things are possible. That's
Speaker 1: we're at Matthew nineteen twenty six. Let's get to twenty seven. Now.
Speaker 1: Then Peter answered and said, see, we have left all
Speaker 1: and followed you. Therefore what shall we have? Jesus said
Speaker 1: to him, Surely, I say to you that in the Regeneration,
Speaker 1: when the Son of Man sits on the throne of
Speaker 1: his glory, you who have followed me will also sit
Speaker 1: on twelve thrones. Judging the twelve tries of Israel. That's
Speaker 1: a sorry judging the twelve tribes of Israel, and everyone
Speaker 1: who has left houses or brothers or sisters, or father
Speaker 1: or mother or wife, or children or lands for my
Speaker 1: name's sake shall receive one hundredfold and inherit eternal life.
Speaker 1: But many who are first will be last, and last
Speaker 1: will be first. So many people on earth, kings, queens,
Speaker 1: the Queen of England, you know that whatever, they're first
Speaker 1: in heaven. I mean they're first on earth. They got
Speaker 1: all these different things that they know. A forty story
Speaker 1: mansion in Scotland and whatever the heck, you know, forty
Speaker 1: room mansion with seven hundred bathrooms, like you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like they got everything. Their gifts are given
Speaker 1: to him up front. So they are first on earth,
Speaker 1: but they will be last in the kingdom of heaven.
Speaker 1: We understand that. That's why if you look at the
Speaker 1: story in Luke sixteen is talking about the rich man
Speaker 1: and Lazaruth. Lazaruth was not comforted on earth. He was poor.
Speaker 1: He was getting thrown food that was given to the dogs,
Speaker 1: and he's over there eating it real quick. He had sores,
Speaker 1: he was homeless, and that rich man stepped over him
Speaker 1: every single day, never helped him out. But he had
Speaker 1: plenty of linen and fine cloth out there when he
Speaker 1: was sleeping. But guess what, like everybody that rich man
Speaker 1: passed away Okay, he was first on earth, right, he
Speaker 1: had all the riches, all the women, all the parties,
Speaker 1: all everything that he wanted was right there. But then
Speaker 1: he went upstairs to go to sleep. Whoo, he died.
Speaker 1: The angels come and grabbed him and took him down
Speaker 1: to shield in the earth. And what happened. Lazareth was
Speaker 1: there on the other side of the cavern with Abraham.
Speaker 1: Father Abraham, send Lazareth over here to put it driple
Speaker 1: water on my tongue, please, like I'm burning up here.
Speaker 1: I just need one drop of water, please. So he's
Speaker 1: able to speak, he's able to hear. See. I talked
Speaker 1: about this before, but this is just important. He was
Speaker 1: the person that was first on earth. But look at
Speaker 1: him last and shield now. And Father Abraham said that
Speaker 1: Lazareuth was not comforted on earth, but you were comforted.
Speaker 1: You had everything on earth, but Lazarth didn't. Now he
Speaker 1: is comforted. Now he's in paradise. While you're over there
Speaker 1: and shield with your burning your feet, thirsty, everlasting thirst
Speaker 1: that you will never be quenched. Absent from God. You
Speaker 1: want to live absent for God your whole life. Well,
Speaker 1: when you die and you're in hell, or you're in shield,
Speaker 1: you will be absent from God. So go ahead, and eternity,
Speaker 1: you'll be like that, because on earth you never wanted
Speaker 1: to seek him. All right, So now we're in Matthew
Speaker 1: twenty verse one. Well, the kingdom of heaven is like
Speaker 1: a landowner who went out early in the morning to
Speaker 1: hire laborers for his vineyard. Now, when he had agreed
Speaker 1: with the laborers for a dinars a day, he sent
Speaker 1: them into the vineyard. And he went out about the
Speaker 1: third hour and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,
Speaker 1: and said to them, you also go into the vineyard.
Speaker 1: Whatever is right I will give you. So they went again.
Speaker 1: He went out about the sixth and ninth hour and
Speaker 1: did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out
Speaker 1: and found others standing idle, and said to them why
Speaker 1: they why have you been standing here idle all day?
Speaker 1: And they said to him because no one hired us.
Speaker 1: He said to them, you also go into the vineyard,
Speaker 1: and whatever is right you will receive. So when evening
Speaker 1: had come, the owner of the vineyard said to the steward,
Speaker 1: call the laborers and give them their wages, beginning with
Speaker 1: the last to the first. And when those came that
Speaker 1: were hired about the eleventh hour, they received a dinaris,
Speaker 1: But when the first came, they supposed that they would
Speaker 1: receive more. But likewise they received a dinaris. And when
Speaker 1: they had received it, they complained against the landowners, saying,
Speaker 1: the last man have worked only one hour, and you
Speaker 1: made him equal to us, who have borne the burden
Speaker 1: of the heat of the day. But he answered one
Speaker 1: of them and said, friend, I am doing you no wrong.
Speaker 1: Did you not agree with me for a dinaris? Take
Speaker 1: what is yours and go your way. I wish to
Speaker 1: give you the last man the same as to you.
Speaker 1: Is it not lawful for me to do what I
Speaker 1: wish to do with my own things? Or is your
Speaker 1: eye evil? Because I am good? For the last will
Speaker 1: be first and the first last. For many are called,
Speaker 1: but few chosen. So what I see here? Who knows
Speaker 1: if I'm correct? You know? I see that some people
Speaker 1: will are dedicated Christians their whole entire life, and they
Speaker 1: they they end up getting into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Speaker 1: And there's some people that they're on their deathbed, and
Speaker 1: they they asked Jesus to forgive them, and they ask
Speaker 1: God to forgive them and you know, they end up
Speaker 1: getting into the Kingdom of Heaven, just like these other
Speaker 1: people that have been dedicated their whole lives, you know,
Speaker 1: and maybe they'll complain, you know, like, how did that
Speaker 1: person get in? When I lived my whole life for
Speaker 1: you Lord? This one person he murdered, he killed, he stole,
Speaker 1: he did drugs his whole entire life, and then on
Speaker 1: his deathbed he asked you forgiveness. You forgave him, and
Speaker 1: you let him into heaven. You see, this is what
Speaker 1: this is. Till the last will be first and first last.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of what I'm seeing there, Am I right?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if I'm right, but
Speaker 1: this is what I'm seeing. Though. This is Jesus's parable,
Speaker 1: not mine. Jesus a third time predicts his death and resurrection.
Speaker 1: Now Jesus going up to is to Jerusalem, took the
Speaker 1: disciples of twelve disciples aside on the road and said
Speaker 1: to them, behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The
Speaker 1: son of Men will be betrayed to the chief priests,
Speaker 1: to the scribes, and they will condemn him to death
Speaker 1: and deliver him to the gentiles to mock and to scourge.
Speaker 1: And to crucify, and on the third day he will
Speaker 1: rise again. He's predicting, letting him know greatness is serving.
Speaker 1: Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to him with
Speaker 1: their sons, kneeling down and asking something from him. And
Speaker 1: he said to her, what do you wish? She said
Speaker 1: to him, grant these two sons of mine may sit
Speaker 1: one on your right hand and the other on your
Speaker 1: left in your kingdom. But Jesus answered and said, you
Speaker 1: do not know what you ask. Are you able to
Speaker 1: drink the cup that I'm about to drink and be
Speaker 1: baptized with the baptism I am baptized with. They said
Speaker 1: to him, we are able, And he said to them,
Speaker 1: you will indeed drink my cup and be baptized with
Speaker 1: the baptism I am baptized with. But to sit on
Speaker 1: my right hand and on my left is not mine
Speaker 1: to give, but it is for those of whom is
Speaker 1: prepared by my father. So the mother even gets involved,
Speaker 1: and she goes to ask him, can my son sit
Speaker 1: on your right hand and left hand? You know, like
Speaker 1: it's another one of these greatness questions, you know. And
Speaker 1: I think that the Jews believed that he was going
Speaker 1: to be king of the earth, and I think that's
Speaker 1: what the Mother believed too. But Jesus is talking about
Speaker 1: the heavenly, you know. And he's also saying, can you
Speaker 1: drink from my cup? Like I'm about to get crucified,
Speaker 1: I'm about to get spit on, beaten lashed, forty lashes,
Speaker 1: I'm about to have all this stuff happen. How are
Speaker 1: you going to drink from my cup? And like we
Speaker 1: are able, Like Jesus is like, sure, you ain't able,
Speaker 1: I know that. And also he's saying that it's up
Speaker 1: to Father God, who sits on the right and on
Speaker 1: the left, and Jesus is at his right hand obviously right,
Speaker 1: and Holy Spirits maybe at his left. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It doesn't say that, but you know. And then the
Speaker 1: ten heard it, and they were greatly displeased with the
Speaker 1: two brothers. But Jesus called them to himself. Now, I
Speaker 1: do believe in the trinity, so don't take it the
Speaker 1: wrong way. I believe there's one God, but you understand,
Speaker 1: like it's just the way that's spoken is one God,
Speaker 1: but three different persons, right, And when the ten heard it,
Speaker 1: they were greatly displeased with the two brothers. But Jesus
Speaker 1: called them to himself and said, you know, the rulers
Speaker 1: of the gentiles, lord over the gentiles, lord over them,
Speaker 1: and those who are a great exercise authority over them.
Speaker 1: It shall not be so among you. But whoever desires
Speaker 1: to become great among you, let him be your servant.
Speaker 1: Whoever desires to be first among you, let him be
Speaker 1: your slave. Just as the Son of Man did not
Speaker 1: come to be served, but to serve, and to give
Speaker 1: his life for a ransom for many, So it is
Speaker 1: better to serve. That's how you become great service to others.
Speaker 1: You don't become great by being a king on the earth.
Speaker 1: That's not how you achieve greatness in heaven. You achieve
Speaker 1: greatness by being a serve, a serf, by being a server,
Speaker 1: you know, serving people, being there for people. Right, And
Speaker 1: the Son of Man, or Jesus, could have came here
Speaker 1: on earth and became a great king like Solomon or
Speaker 1: like King David, and could have had a million rooms
Speaker 1: and a bunch of bathrooms, and a bunch of riches
Speaker 1: and everything that he wanted. He could have came that way.
Speaker 1: But instead he came as a common man, and he
Speaker 1: came to serve. He came to wash the feet, He
Speaker 1: came to heal the blind, He came to heal the sick,
Speaker 1: He came to preach. He came as a serve. Fir right,
Speaker 1: he is a server, it says, just as the man,
Speaker 1: a son of man, came not to be served, but
Speaker 1: to serve, and to give his life as a ransom
Speaker 1: for many. You understand that is the true thing right
Speaker 1: there that we need to do. From a spiritual aspect,
Speaker 1: we need to understand that we need to be serving people.
Speaker 1: Two blind men received their sight. Now as they went
Speaker 1: out of Jericho, a great multitude followed him, and behold
Speaker 1: two blind men sitting by the road. When they heard
Speaker 1: that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, have mercy
Speaker 1: on us, oh Lord, son of David. Then the multiplitude
Speaker 1: warned them that they should be quiet, but they cried
Speaker 1: out all the more, saying, have mercy on us, oh Lord,
Speaker 1: son of David. So Jesus stood still and called them
Speaker 1: and said, what do you want me to do for you?
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do for you? And
Speaker 1: they said to him, Lord, that our eyes may be open.
Speaker 1: So Jesus had compassion touched their eyes and immediately they
Speaker 1: receive sight, and they followed him. A lot of us
Speaker 1: are blinded and we need to we need our eyes
Speaker 1: to be open. You guys know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that are asleep, that are blind, that need to
Speaker 1: be able to see. And you know that once you
Speaker 1: get saved and once you certain things are exposed to you,
Speaker 1: you're able to see a lot more in depth. You're
Speaker 1: able to see some of the stuff that these people
Speaker 1: that are in power are doing, and these elites. And
Speaker 1: you know, so as a conspiracy theorist, you're able to
Speaker 1: see a lot of stuff. But once you get saved
Speaker 1: as well, and you have God as your foundation, and
Speaker 1: you have the Bible as your foundation, you're able to
Speaker 1: see even deeper and your discernment grows. So not only
Speaker 1: is He physically making these people see, but God can
Speaker 1: actually make us see on a spiritual aspect even deeper
Speaker 1: and better, which is I think even greater than being
Speaker 1: able to physically see. The triumphal entry. This is Matthew
Speaker 1: twenty one, verse one. Now, when they drew near Jerusalem
Speaker 1: and came to Bethatch at the Mount of Olives, then
Speaker 1: Jesus said sent two disciples, saying to them, go into
Speaker 1: the village opposite you, and immediately you will find a
Speaker 1: donkey tide and a cult with her. Loose them and
Speaker 1: bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you,
Speaker 1: you shall say the Lord has need of them, and
Speaker 1: immediately he will send them. All. This was done that
Speaker 1: it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophet saying,
Speaker 1: tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your king is coming
Speaker 1: to you lowly and sitting on a donkey, a cult,
Speaker 1: a foul of a donkey. Let's see, this is Matthew
Speaker 1: twenty one. Let's see where that's Where is that at?
Speaker 1: That is Matthew twenty one verse five. Oh yeah, so
Speaker 1: it didn't really pull up. Okay, so we have Matthew
Speaker 1: twenty one verse five that we just read. I could
Speaker 1: try to see what what is I think this is
Speaker 1: probably in Isaiah, but let me just check real quick.
Speaker 1: Twenty one five Isaiah. Yeah, Isaiah sixty two eleven, if
Speaker 1: you guys want to look that up. Prophecy found in
Speaker 1: Isaiah sixty two eleven, which speaks about the coming of
Speaker 1: the king to Jerusalem. Secni find the Missa's arrival. This
Speaker 1: verse is often paired with Zachariah nine to nine, which
Speaker 1: further describes the king writing on a donkey, signifying humility
Speaker 1: and peace. So look up Isaiah sixty two eleven, and
Speaker 1: then also pair that with Zachariah nine to nine. Okay,
Speaker 1: just letting you guys know that, I just wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure you know that I kind of haven't been
Speaker 1: doing that with those I need to start doing that
Speaker 1: with those, those little the prophecies, so you guys know
Speaker 1: where to look, kind of read it, and then pair
Speaker 1: it with another verse like that. That's good stuff for
Speaker 1: you guys to know. Good for the teaching portion, not
Speaker 1: the preaching portion. Okay, So we're at Matthew twenty one,
Speaker 1: verse six. So the disciples went and did as Jesus
Speaker 1: commanded them. They brought the donkey and the colt, laid
Speaker 1: their clothes them, and he sat on them. A very
Speaker 1: great multitude spread their clothes on the road. Others cut
Speaker 1: down branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
Speaker 1: Then the multitudes who went before and those who followed
Speaker 1: cried out, saying, Hosanna to the son of David. Blessed
Speaker 1: is he who comes in the name of the Lord
Speaker 1: Hosanna in the Highest. That's gonna be uh oh, let's see,
Speaker 1: Oh Sannah. Sorry, guys, I'm just looking up explanation. Hosannah,
Speaker 1: the word means praise God or save us. So praise
Speaker 1: God to the son of David, or save us to
Speaker 1: the son of David. Blesses he who comes in the
Speaker 1: name of the Lord, save us in the highest, or
Speaker 1: praise God in the highest. So we have that. So
Speaker 1: all right. Now we're at Matthew twenty one, verse ten.
Speaker 1: And when he had come into Jerusalem, all the city
Speaker 1: was moved, saying, who is this? So the multitude says,
Speaker 1: this is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee. And
Speaker 1: this is Jesus cleanses the temple. We're at Matthew twenty one,
Speaker 1: verse twelve. Then Jesus went into the Temple of God
Speaker 1: and drove out all those who bought and sold in
Speaker 1: the temple, and overturned the tables of money changers and
Speaker 1: the seats of those who sold doves. And he said
Speaker 1: to them, it is written, my house shall not be
Speaker 1: called a house of prayer, but you have made it
Speaker 1: a den of thieves. So this is a yeah, this
Speaker 1: is a very popular portion of Matthew when Jesus flipped
Speaker 1: the tables. So it's kind of interesting that he went
Speaker 1: into the temple and he said, my house shall be
Speaker 1: called a house of prayer, but you have made it
Speaker 1: a debt of thieves. He is so offended because Jesus
Speaker 1: went into the temple of God, because Jesus is God
Speaker 1: in the flesh, and he is offended because what they're
Speaker 1: doing is what they were guilty of doing. They were
Speaker 1: selling like people would bring doves in and they would say,
Speaker 1: this dove is not perfect enough, so you need to
Speaker 1: buy these doves that we have from the temple, and
Speaker 1: the people would buy it, and they're taking money from
Speaker 1: the people, when that's God never said to do that. Also,
Speaker 1: there was like a goat or a lamb that they
Speaker 1: say is not perfect, it's blemished. You need to get
Speaker 1: the unblemished one from the temple. So they would make
Speaker 1: them pay. And i'll see that were he said he
Speaker 1: made it a den of thieves, so that people were
Speaker 1: not putting that money into the temple. Obviously that money
Speaker 1: was going in there, a lot of it was going
Speaker 1: in their pockets. And Jesus overturned the tables of money
Speaker 1: and this is you know, this is some people think that, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a sin and what he just did, But no,
Speaker 1: see he overturned the tables and this is his own house,
Speaker 1: so he's able to do this. So then the blind
Speaker 1: and the lame came to him in the temple. This
Speaker 1: is Matthew twenty one to fourteen. We're back to the word.
Speaker 1: Then the blind and the lame came to him in
Speaker 1: the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief
Speaker 1: priests inscribed all the wonderful things that he did, and
Speaker 1: the children crying out, and the temple saying Hosanna to
Speaker 1: the son of David, they were indignant and said to him,
Speaker 1: do you hear what these are saying? And Jesus said
Speaker 1: to them, yes, have you never read out of the
Speaker 1: mouth of babies nursing infants? You have perfected praise. Then
Speaker 1: he left them and went out to the city of Bethany,
Speaker 1: and he lodged there. So now the Pharisees is getting
Speaker 1: a little crazy, because you see that that the interaction
Speaker 1: was a little more intense. He flips the money tables over,
Speaker 1: exposes them for what they're doing, and now he's got
Speaker 1: people praising him Hosanna, the son of David, Praise God,
Speaker 1: son of David. These and these Pharisees are like, what
Speaker 1: is he saying? Like what what does this guy think
Speaker 1: he is? You know, because they can't they're blind. They
Speaker 1: can't see. They think they're spiritually able to see all
Speaker 1: this stuff, but they're actually blinded that the Messiah is
Speaker 1: standing right there in front of them, the Christ. The
Speaker 1: fig tree withered. Now in the morning, as he returned
Speaker 1: to the city, he was hungry and seeing a fig tree,
Speaker 1: excuse me, by the road, he came to it and
Speaker 1: found nothing on it but leaves, and he said, let
Speaker 1: no fruit grow on you ever again. Immediately the fake
Speaker 1: tree withered away. So he's able to speak to the
Speaker 1: fig tree, and it just withered. The lesson of the
Speaker 1: withered fig tree. And when the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying,
Speaker 1: how did the fig tree wither away? So soon Jesus
Speaker 1: answered them, surely, I say to you, if you have
Speaker 1: faith and do not doubt, you will not only do
Speaker 1: what is done to the fig tree, but also you
Speaker 1: say to this mountain be removed, and they will cast
Speaker 1: into the sea. And it will be done whoever, but
Speaker 1: in whoever things you ask in prayer, believing you will receive.
Speaker 1: But you see, this is a this is you have
Speaker 1: to have that true faith, no doubt at all. And
Speaker 1: Jesus obviously is able as a you know, he is
Speaker 1: a man and god on earth. But he has that
Speaker 1: faith because he has been in heaven with his father,
Speaker 1: so he knows. Jesus authority. Question now, when he came
Speaker 1: into the temple, the chief priests and elders of the
Speaker 1: people confronted him as he was teaching, and said, by
Speaker 1: what authority are you doing these things? Who gave you
Speaker 1: this authority? But Jesus answered and said to them, I
Speaker 1: will ask you one thing, which if you tell me, I,
Speaker 1: like guys, will tell you what the authority I do things?
Speaker 1: The baptism of John, where was it from from heaven
Speaker 1: or from men? And they reason among themselves, saying, if
Speaker 1: we say from heaven, he will say to us, why
Speaker 1: did you not believe him? But if we say from men,
Speaker 1: we fear the multitude from all count John as a prophet.
Speaker 1: They answered, Jesus said, we do not know. Yeah, you see,
Speaker 1: Jesus was he's very obviously, he's super intelligent, super smart.
Speaker 1: He knows how to trap them as well, and he
Speaker 1: wants to trap them into saying these certain things because
Speaker 1: he knows what will happen. So instead of him being
Speaker 1: trapped like they're trying to trap him up, he just
Speaker 1: kind of trapped them right here, because that's what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do. They're trying to get Jesus to stumble
Speaker 1: or to say something that's against the law or against
Speaker 1: what Moses said, so that the people would start to
Speaker 1: doubt him. But obviously Jesus, obviously is so smart, so intelligent,
Speaker 1: and so able to just weave, you know, Bob, and
Speaker 1: weave through each conversation in the correct manner. And he
Speaker 1: said to them, neither will this is a Matthew twenty one,
Speaker 1: verse twenty it says, and he said to them, neither
Speaker 1: will I tell you what authority I do these things.
Speaker 1: So because the Pharisees it's not his time. If Jesus said,
Speaker 1: I do this by the authority of my father in Heaven, God,
Speaker 1: the Father, I do this in the authority of God,
Speaker 1: then these people would say he's blaspheming. He's trying to
Speaker 1: say that he's doing it. So that's why Jesus is
Speaker 1: talking like this. The parable of the two sons. But
Speaker 1: what do you think. A man had two sons, and
Speaker 1: he came to the first and said, son, go work
Speaker 1: today in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not,
Speaker 1: But afterward he regretted it and went. Then he came
Speaker 1: to the second, and likewise he answered it, said I go, sir,
Speaker 1: But he did not go. Which of the two did
Speaker 1: the will of his father? And they said to him
Speaker 1: the first, Jesus said to him, but surely, I say
Speaker 1: to you, the tax collectors and harlots enter the Kingdom
Speaker 1: of God before you. For John came to you in
Speaker 1: the way of righteousness, and you do not believe him.
Speaker 1: But tax collectors and harlots believed him. And when you
Speaker 1: saw it, you did not afterward relent and believe him.
Speaker 1: So two cents he came to the first and said, son,
Speaker 1: go work in the vineyard. He answered and said, I
Speaker 1: will not, But afterward he regretted it and went. Then
Speaker 1: the second and said, likewise, he answered and said I go, sir,
Speaker 1: But he did not go. See which one did that?
Speaker 1: He said the first, because he asked for he regretted it,
Speaker 1: and he went. See he's talking to the proud religious folks. Assuredly.
Speaker 1: I say to you that tax collectors in hardly ended
Speaker 1: the kingdom Heaven, for John came to you in a
Speaker 1: way of righteousness. See there's gonna be gentiles which are
Speaker 1: like pagans, or those are like harlots, or those are
Speaker 1: like tax collectors. See that those are the gentiles, or
Speaker 1: or the ones that are not believers they ended up
Speaker 1: believing John, or or like you know, people will end
Speaker 1: up believing Jesus and being saved. But these religious pharisees
Speaker 1: will not be able to believe, and they're not gonna
Speaker 1: end up in the kingdom of heaven. The parable of
Speaker 1: the wicked wine vine dressers. Here another parable. There are
Speaker 1: a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a
Speaker 1: hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and
Speaker 1: built a tower. And he leased it to the vine
Speaker 1: dressers and went into a far country. Now, when vintage
Speaker 1: time drew near, he sent his servants to the vine
Speaker 1: dressers and they might receive his fruit. And the vine
Speaker 1: dressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. Again.
Speaker 1: He set other servants more than the first, and they
Speaker 1: likewise they did likewise to them. The last of all
Speaker 1: he sent his son to them, saying, they will they
Speaker 1: will respect my son. But when the vine dressers saw
Speaker 1: the sun, they said among themselves, this is the heir. Come,
Speaker 1: let us kill him and seize his inheritance. So they
Speaker 1: took him and cast him out the vineyard and killed him. Therefore,
Speaker 1: when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he
Speaker 1: do to the vine dressers? And they said to him,
Speaker 1: he will destroy those wicked men miserably and lease his
Speaker 1: vineyard to other vine dressers, who will render him to
Speaker 1: the fruits of their seasons. Jesus said, have you never
Speaker 1: read the scriptures? The stone which builders rejected has become
Speaker 1: the chief cornerstone. This is the Lord's doing and is
Speaker 1: marvelous in our eyes. Therefore, I say to you, the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God will be taken from you, given to
Speaker 1: a nation bearing the fruits of it. And whoever falls
Speaker 1: on the stone will be broken, and whoever falls it
Speaker 1: will grind him to powder. So basically saying like they
Speaker 1: will respect my son, this is basically representing Jesus. Then
Speaker 1: they saw the sun and said among himself, this is
Speaker 1: the heir. Jesus is the heir. Come, let us kill
Speaker 1: him and seize his inheritance. So they took him, ask
Speaker 1: them out to the vineyard and kill them. So that's
Speaker 1: what they did to Jesus, right, So very interesting parable here,
Speaker 1: have you never read the scriptures? You know? Is basically
Speaker 1: checking them. Therefore, I say to you, the Kingdom of
Speaker 1: God will be taken from you and given to the
Speaker 1: nation bearing the fruits of it. So he's speaking to
Speaker 1: the Jews because the Jews do not believe in Jesus.
Speaker 1: So it'll be given to a nation like even though
Speaker 1: maybe he's not giving it to the Jews, like it
Speaker 1: could be Gentiles he's given it to but you know
Speaker 1: they received the fruits of it. Right, That's what I'm
Speaker 1: kind of gathering from that, am I right? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I'm gathering now. When
Speaker 1: the chief priests and Pharisees heard this parables, they perceived
Speaker 1: it that he was speaking to them. See yeah, So
Speaker 1: as I continue reading, I'm seeing that he's speaking to them,
Speaker 1: and that's what they end up trying to do to him.
Speaker 1: They end up killing him, even though he is the heir.
Speaker 1: But when they sought to lay hands on him, they
Speaker 1: feared the multitudes because they took him because they took
Speaker 1: him for a prophet. So now they're trying to act
Speaker 1: a certain way because they're fearing the multitudes. They're feeling
Speaker 1: the people. They don't want to cause a riot, and
Speaker 1: they're noticing that people are following Jesus. I think we'll go.
Speaker 1: We'll we'll read chapter twenty two Matthew twenty two, the
Speaker 1: parable of the wedding feast. And this is a Matthew
Speaker 1: twenty two, verse one, if you're following me along. And
Speaker 1: Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables, and said,
Speaker 1: the kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king who
Speaker 1: arranged a marriage for his son, and set out his
Speaker 1: servants to call those who were invited to the wedding.
Speaker 1: And they were not willing to come. Again, he sent
Speaker 1: out other servants, saying, tell those who are invited, see,
Speaker 1: I have prepared my dinner, My oxen, fat and cattle
Speaker 1: are killed, and all these things are ready. Come to
Speaker 1: the wedding. But they made light of it and went
Speaker 1: their ways of one of his own farm, another to
Speaker 1: his business, and they the rest seized. His servants treated
Speaker 1: them spitefully and killed them. But when the king heard
Speaker 1: about it. He was furious, and he sent out his armies,
Speaker 1: destroyed those murders and burnt up the city. Then he
Speaker 1: said to his servants, this wedding is ready, but those
Speaker 1: who were invited were not worthy. Therefore, go into the
Speaker 1: highways and as many as you can find a invite
Speaker 1: to the wedding. For those servants went out to the
Speaker 1: highways and gathered together all whom they found, both bad
Speaker 1: and good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
Speaker 1: So what I'm gathering here is the Jews were supposed
Speaker 1: to accept their messiah, but if you notice, they're not
Speaker 1: accepting their messiah. So they were invited to the wedding.
Speaker 1: They were invited to be saved. They were supposed to
Speaker 1: be the guest. But what happened is they didn't accept
Speaker 1: Jesus as the messiah, so they killed him. Right. The king,
Speaker 1: being God, the father I guess here, sent out his
Speaker 1: armies to destroy the murderers, burn up the city, and
Speaker 1: he said to his servant's a wedding. They still wanted
Speaker 1: the wedding, so wanted the people to be saved, and
Speaker 1: then they just gathered him throughout the city. Right, That's
Speaker 1: what I'm gathering here, and it says that the wedding
Speaker 1: hall was filled with guests. So even the Jews that
Speaker 1: are not accepting Jesus as a Messiah, well, what is it?
Speaker 1: So there's gentiles now that are accepting Jesus in Messiah.
Speaker 1: Now they're at the wedding because these hard heartened people,
Speaker 1: siff neck people, the Pharisees, and the ones that didn't
Speaker 1: accept Jesus as in Messiah, they're not going to be
Speaker 1: at the wedding, it says. But when the king came
Speaker 1: to see the guests, he saw a man there who
Speaker 1: did not have on a wedding garment, and he said
Speaker 1: to him, friend, how did you come in here without
Speaker 1: a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then the king
Speaker 1: said to his servants, bind him hand and foot, take
Speaker 1: him away, and cast him into outer darkness. There will
Speaker 1: be weeping and gnashing of teeth. For many you are called,
Speaker 1: but few are chosen. What is the wedding garment? Was
Speaker 1: that person maybe fronting like they are saved, but they
Speaker 1: actually aren't. And he's like maybe lukewarm, and that's why
Speaker 1: he was sent into outer darkness. Let's see Matthew twenty
Speaker 1: two verse eleven, and guys, yeah, I try to do
Speaker 1: my best to interpret these for you guys. I could
Speaker 1: be wrong, you know, I could be right, could be wrong,
Speaker 1: you know. I'll just try to do my best. Let's see,
Speaker 1: let's see, let's see it. Let's see what that is
Speaker 1: that is going to be twenty two, verse eleven. I
Speaker 1: just kind of want to see what this wedding garment
Speaker 1: was representing, remnant cloak or outer garment. Remnant. Okay, so yeah,
Speaker 1: very interesting. We'll continue. We're going to be Matthew twenty two,
Speaker 1: verse fifteen. Then the Pharisees went out and plotted how
Speaker 1: they might entangle him in his talk. And they sent
Speaker 1: to him their disciples with Herodians, saying, teacher, we know
Speaker 1: that you are true and teach the way of God
Speaker 1: in truth. Nor do you care about anyone You do
Speaker 1: not regard the person of men. Tell us, therefore, what
Speaker 1: do you think is it lawful to pay taxes to
Speaker 1: Casar or not? But Jesus perceived their wickedness and said,
Speaker 1: why do you test me, you hypocrites? Show me the
Speaker 1: tax money. So they brought him a dinaries, and he
Speaker 1: said to them, whose image and inscription is this? And
Speaker 1: they said to him, Caesar's and he said to them,
Speaker 1: render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and
Speaker 1: to God the things that are God's. And they heard
Speaker 1: these words, and they marveled and left him, and they
Speaker 1: went their way. So he's just letting him know, you
Speaker 1: ain't gonna catch me slipping, you know, because if you
Speaker 1: would have said that, don't give that to Caesar, then
Speaker 1: obviously he would have been arrested and killed right there.
Speaker 1: So he had to do it very smoothly. And that's
Speaker 1: the way Jesus operated. He spoke like this because it
Speaker 1: wasn't his time yet. He's trying to do God's will
Speaker 1: and there's a certain timing and everything that has to happen,
Speaker 1: and he needs to die on the cross, but he
Speaker 1: needs to do it in God's timing, not in man's timing.
Speaker 1: So they're trying to slip him up. But look what
Speaker 1: he says, Yes, pay your taxes, therefore to Caesar the
Speaker 1: things that are Caesar's, and to God that things are
Speaker 1: God's right. So he's not going to get caught slipping.
Speaker 1: He's too smart. The Saddescees, what about the resurrection the
Speaker 1: same day the Sadducees who say there is no resurrection,
Speaker 1: came to him and asked him, saying, Teacher Moses. Now
Speaker 1: the Sadducees were like very liberal, right, so they're trying
Speaker 1: to say there's no resurrection. They came to him asked him, saying,
Speaker 1: Teacher Moses said that if a man dies having no children,
Speaker 1: his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring
Speaker 1: for his brother. Now there were with us seven brothers.
Speaker 1: The first died after he married and having no offspring
Speaker 1: with his wife to his brother. Likewise, the second, also,
Speaker 1: the third, even the seventh, last of all the women,
Speaker 1: all died. Also. Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of
Speaker 1: the seven will she be? For they all had her.
Speaker 1: And Jesus answered and said to them, you are mistaken,
Speaker 1: not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God. For
Speaker 1: in the resurrection they neither marry nor given in marriage,
Speaker 1: but are like angels of God in heaven. But concerning
Speaker 1: the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what
Speaker 1: was spoken to you by God, saying I am the
Speaker 1: God of Abraham, God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.
Speaker 1: God is not the God of the dead, but of
Speaker 1: the living. And when the multitudes heards us. They were
Speaker 1: astonished by his teaching. So understand something, when you are
Speaker 1: in heaven, you are not going to I don't. It
Speaker 1: doesn't seem here that you're going to be. That's not
Speaker 1: going to be your focus being married. Like we are
Speaker 1: here here on earth. Our focus here is God first,
Speaker 1: and then you know a lot of us end up
Speaker 1: getting married and then having kids. So our focuses is God,
Speaker 1: and then our focus is wife and then our focus
Speaker 1: as kids. You know, this is a different thing than
Speaker 1: happens in heaven. And it's saying we are more like
Speaker 1: the angels of God in heaven. Doesn't say we are angels,
Speaker 1: but we are like the angels in heaven worshiping God.
Speaker 1: You know, we're doing things for the Lord, right, So
Speaker 1: it's just different. So he's saying, have you not you
Speaker 1: don't know the scriptures? And this is another thing. This
Speaker 1: is one of those verses that people say, well, look, angels,
Speaker 1: they can't marry, they can't be with women. It says
Speaker 1: it right here. But you see, when you have your
Speaker 1: heavenly body, you're not going to be getting married. But
Speaker 1: if you shed your heavenly body or you're okitarian as
Speaker 1: it says in the Book of Jude, they left their
Speaker 1: heavenly abode or their okaitarian or their heavenly body to
Speaker 1: come down here and have sex with women. As different
Speaker 1: they came down in the physical and they had sex
Speaker 1: with the women. So I think that's something that people
Speaker 1: try to say. But anyways, understand that it's Jesus is
Speaker 1: letting them know. It's like, you don't even know the scriptures,
Speaker 1: if you're asking me this question. The scribes, which is
Speaker 1: the first commandment of all? But when the Pharisees heard
Speaker 1: that this is now we're at Matthew twenty two, verse
Speaker 1: thirty four. But when the Pharisees heard that he had
Speaker 1: silenced the statuses, they gathered together. Then one of them,
Speaker 1: a lawyer, asked them a question, testing him and saying, teacher,
Speaker 1: what is the great commandment in the law? Which is
Speaker 1: the great commandment in the law. Jesus said to him,
Speaker 1: you shall love your Lord. You shall love the Lord
Speaker 1: your God with all your heart, with all your soul,
Speaker 1: and with all your mind. This is the first and
Speaker 1: great commandment. And the second is like it. You shall
Speaker 1: love your neighbor as yourself. And these two commandments hang
Speaker 1: all the Law and the prophets. On these two commandments
Speaker 1: hang all the law and the prophets. Because, first of all,
Speaker 1: think about it, think about what he said. You shall
Speaker 1: love the Lord your God with all your heart, with
Speaker 1: all your soul, with all your mind. If you love
Speaker 1: the Lord with all your heart, with your soul and
Speaker 1: your mind, you will be totally obedient to God's commandments.
Speaker 1: You will be completely obedient. So obviously, if you were
Speaker 1: to do that and love your Lord God with your heart,
Speaker 1: your soul, and your mind, then that would be you
Speaker 1: would be totally in obedience with all the other commandments.
Speaker 1: So that's perfect. And then the second is if you
Speaker 1: shall love your neighbor as yourself. So if you love
Speaker 1: the Lord God with all your mind, body, soul, right all,
Speaker 1: and you love him the way that you so love
Speaker 1: to God is by following his commandments, then you would
Speaker 1: be perfect. And then if you love your neighbor as yourself,
Speaker 1: that means that you are not disrespecting your brother or
Speaker 1: your you know, your fellow brothers in Christ, or you're
Speaker 1: not doing anything to them, and also you're respecting them
Speaker 1: and they're respecting their property and respecting their wives and
Speaker 1: respecting Then you're you're following all the commandments. It covers
Speaker 1: all of them. You understand, if you love your neighbor
Speaker 1: as yourself, you wouldn't murder your neighbor. If you love
Speaker 1: your neighbor, then you're more than yourself. Then as yourself,
Speaker 1: then you wouldn't commit adultery with his wife. If you
Speaker 1: love your neighbor, you're not gonna covet what he has.
Speaker 1: If you love the Lord God with all your heart,
Speaker 1: seet because there's some commandments that are aimed towards the Lord,
Speaker 1: and then there's other commandments that are aimed towards you personally.
Speaker 1: You see that. I think there's four of them that
Speaker 1: go to the Lord, and then six of them that
Speaker 1: don't you know, that are more towards yourself or what
Speaker 1: you could do. And then there's also one that you
Speaker 1: could actually do in your mind, which is covet your
Speaker 1: neighbor's stuff. That's a sinning in your mind. Right. So,
Speaker 1: so this will cover all the commandments and the law
Speaker 1: is what Jesus is saying. That's why he said these
Speaker 1: are the two greatest, because it would cover all basis
Speaker 1: if you follow these, which if the people knew the
Speaker 1: law and they know the commandments, they would know that
Speaker 1: Jesus has covered all basis on these, So it is
Speaker 1: definitely a great response to what they asked, how can
Speaker 1: David call his descendants lord? When the Pharisees were gathered together,
Speaker 1: Jesus asked them, saying, what do you think about the Christ?
Speaker 1: Whose son is he? The Christ the Messiah? And they
Speaker 1: said to him, the son of David. And he said
Speaker 1: to them, how then does David in the spirit call
Speaker 1: him lord? Saying the Lord said to my Lord, sit
Speaker 1: at my right hand till I make your enemies your footstool.
Speaker 1: This is very interesting. If David calls him lord, how
Speaker 1: is he his son? And no one was able to
Speaker 1: answer him a word, Nor that day on did anyone
Speaker 1: dare question him anymore. So, Jesus is the son of
Speaker 1: David or like in David's lineage in the physical, but
Speaker 1: Jesus the Christ is the son of God in the
Speaker 1: spiritual right, so they're not able to question him because listen,
Speaker 1: look what they're saying. The Lord said to my Lord,
Speaker 1: sit at my right hand till I make your enemies
Speaker 1: your foot stot. So how then does David in the
Speaker 1: spirit call him lord? You understand, David is Yes, he's
Speaker 1: in the line of David. Yes, he's in the physical
Speaker 1: line of David. Jesus's physical vessel, which is a man, right,
Speaker 1: but Jesus is God, right. That's why he says, the
Speaker 1: Lord said to my Lord. He's saying that he is
Speaker 1: the son of God. But they're not able to say
Speaker 1: that because if you're the son of God, you were
Speaker 1: equal to God. So that's why they didn't question him anymore.
Speaker 1: They're like, Wow, he just kind of blew our minds
Speaker 1: right there. So we are done for this episode. I
Speaker 1: think that we covered a lot of basis right there,
Speaker 1: a lot of ground. We did Matthew eighteen all the
Speaker 1: way to twenty two. I thought that was definitely a
Speaker 1: great study. So yeah, that's Wednesday service. And you know, guys,
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you guys, when you know,
Speaker 1: normal pastors when they teach on Sunday, they probably do
Speaker 1: a forty five minute message, and for for me to
Speaker 1: do a two hour message to you guys, just letting
Speaker 1: you know, we're covering a lot of ground. So by
Speaker 1: the time we get to you know, revelation in the
Speaker 1: in the New Testament, and we get through the Old Testament.
Speaker 1: You know, I think within a year we could probably
Speaker 1: get through the whole Bible, which is going to be amazing.
Speaker 1: So it is it's gonna help us both you know,
Speaker 1: whoever's listening, ah just developed spiritually. It's going to help
Speaker 1: us develop mentally, and it's going to help us with
Speaker 1: our walk with God. So all I could say to
Speaker 1: you guys is hang in there, let's do this, and
Speaker 1: let's try to cover the whole Bible. And I think
Speaker 1: that it's it's very it's very awesome for Jonathan and
Speaker 1: Jacob to allow me to be on their channel doing
Speaker 1: this study. I mean, it's it's crazy that they ended
Speaker 1: up being what it is right now because it started
Speaker 1: out with just Sunday Service where I was just going
Speaker 1: to have guests on and just talk about the Bible.
Speaker 1: And then it turned into me praying and asking God,
Speaker 1: like what do you want me to do? Like it's
Speaker 1: called Sunday Service. I better better teach the Bible like
Speaker 1: a pastor would, and I better preach and I better teach.
Speaker 1: So then Sunday Service was just me going through the
Speaker 1: Old Testament. I started with the Book of Genesis and
Speaker 1: now I'm on I just finished the Book of Exodus,
Speaker 1: and then Wednesday Service got you know, I got invited
Speaker 1: to do Wednesday Service, and I thought, what better thing
Speaker 1: to do than to do the New Testament because I
Speaker 1: knew that you guys need that, Like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people that are not like fully saved yet that
Speaker 1: are probably listening, it seems to me that need that
Speaker 1: New Testament teaching. So I was very excited when they
Speaker 1: asked me to do Wednesday service. So in a nutshell, guys,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be awesome. I think that we could probably
Speaker 1: go through the whole Bible, you know, maybe in six
Speaker 1: to seven months, maybe eight months. We're going through about
Speaker 1: four chapters every show, so four chapters of show, so
Speaker 1: you know, it's obviously going to take longer because there's
Speaker 1: only one show a week. But I think that we
Speaker 1: could go through the Bible, you know, and I think
Speaker 1: we could do it, and I think that's going to
Speaker 1: be amazing. And if I end up doing this, you know,
Speaker 1: continuing on their channel, we'll go through the Bible again
Speaker 1: and I'll know even more stuff, so I'll be able
Speaker 1: to teach even deeper and have even more studies. And
Speaker 1: this is all this is doing, is assisting me in
Speaker 1: my walk up and teaching me when I do my show,
Speaker 1: when I have a guest on and they bring something up,
Speaker 1: now I have something to talk about even more. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's helping me do in depth studies on this stuff,
Speaker 1: and it's really assisting me with my walk. And I
Speaker 1: pray and and you're sure of the Machiak's name and
Speaker 1: Jesus's name that it's helping you with your walk. And
Speaker 1: what I would ask you guys to do is share
Speaker 1: the show with somebody that needs it. Share the show
Speaker 1: with someone that that maybe doesn't need it, someone that
Speaker 1: you think doesn't even need it, just so that they
Speaker 1: get this, they get to they get this teaching, because
Speaker 1: you never know what people are going through. So if
Speaker 1: you could, all I ask, I don't want you to donate.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to give me money. I don't
Speaker 1: want for the physical gifts of money. I want I
Speaker 1: want you guys to share the show so that people
Speaker 1: get saved. That's what this is for. So yeah, so
Speaker 1: this is just for me. It's amazing to be able
Speaker 1: to do the show, and it's really assisting me in
Speaker 1: my walk, and it's assisting me in my life, and
Speaker 1: I just want to thank each and every one of
Speaker 1: you that prayed for my wife and prayed for my baby,
Speaker 1: asking Psalms Monday to be born. I really appreciate you guys,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, it's it's it really touched our hearts.
Speaker 1: You know that you guys all left messages and and
Speaker 1: left comments on Spotify because the Body of Christ is
Speaker 1: just amazing. So thank you guys for that. Like I said,
Speaker 1: if you guys are having any issues like going through
Speaker 1: spiritual battle, maybe you're listening to the show and you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: I have a question about this. Maybe you've listened to
Speaker 1: my past episodes and you have a question about them.
Speaker 1: All you you know, all you got to do is
Speaker 1: DM me at Josh Monday under Score podcast that's Instagram
Speaker 1: and you can just DM me and I will be
Speaker 1: there for you guys. Okay, thank you so much, And
Speaker 1: like we always do, we're gonna end this in prayer.
Speaker 1: So Father God in the name of Jesus, and is
Speaker 1: she with the Mischiak's name, Lord the Christ. You know
Speaker 1: you allowed us to go through the Book of Matthew.
Speaker 1: So far we're getting close to the end. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate you, Lord forgiving us this time, giving me this
Speaker 1: audience to speak to and allowing me to be a
Speaker 1: shepherd teaching the Bible. How crazy is that? Lord? I mean,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you giving me this opportunity. I just
Speaker 1: pray that if people have ears, just let him hear
Speaker 1: the word of God and let it resonate with them
Speaker 1: and assist them and in their walk spiritually assist them.
Speaker 1: I just want to say, Lord, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for giving me people to pray for the situation that
Speaker 1: I was in this past week. You know exactly what
Speaker 1: I went through, and I just want to ask you
Speaker 1: to accept asp and spirit in heaven and I know
Speaker 1: that He's with you. And when I do end up
Speaker 1: going to heaven, I don't know how it works, Lord,
Speaker 1: but if it works to where I'm able to see
Speaker 1: him again, Lord, I would really appreciate that. But I
Speaker 1: just want to say thank you, Father God for everything
Speaker 1: you do for us. And there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: out there that are struggling. Lord. Some people maybe listen
Speaker 1: to the show that are going through some of the
Speaker 1: things that are causing them to stumble, like we've talked about,
Speaker 1: and there's people in their life that are causing them
Speaker 1: to stumble. Lord, I asked that you assist them in
Speaker 1: rebuking them and keeping away from them. And if there's
Speaker 1: any triggers that are causing anybody that have addictions, assist
Speaker 1: them in overcoming those hurdles in their life. Because I
Speaker 1: know how it is to be addicted to something, and
Speaker 1: you help me through that. So help these people that
Speaker 1: are listening. Lord. There's a lot of people out there
Speaker 1: that are probably struggling with alcohol, with drugs, with any
Speaker 1: kind of addiction. Lord, I just asked that you break
Speaker 1: these strongholds that the devil have them in. And I
Speaker 1: ask in Jesus Name, Amen, thank you Lord for that.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you. Thank you for everything you do. Lord.
Speaker 1: I love you in Jesus Name. Amen. Thank you guys
Speaker 1: for listening. And yes, what an awesome show. I will
Speaker 1: see you guys next week for Wednesday service. But this
Speaker 1: week on Sunday service, I'm starting the Book of Leviticus.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my best, so it's like a it's
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting, the Book of Leviticus. I'm going to
Speaker 1: do my very best to teach that. And yeah, join
Speaker 1: me for Sunday service. And I appreciate you joining me
Speaker 1: for Wednesday service and if you want to follow me
Speaker 1: on YouTube, it's Josh Monday and Josh Monday Music and
Speaker 1: Podcast on YouTube. If you could please follow, And I
Speaker 1: appreciate everybody that's listening. I love you and God bless you.