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Father, thank you for

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your goodness Toward. Thank you for the many

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blessings that we have in Christ and hopefully

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as we talk about. Cove, we see that

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the best remedy for that is

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spiritual

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on what you've done through, done for us

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to your son

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And so I appreciate the the theme in

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this morning's

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service, not 1 that I...

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That I have my fingerprints on, didn't choose

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the songs and didn't didn't expect Cary and

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claude to be

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playing this I

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with

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songs that the choir chosen lord. And so

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I pray you help us to be focused

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on your blessings things. I really think that

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that's the best way to resist cove and

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to be consent in abiding christ.

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So I pray lord that that'd be the

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forefront of our minds,

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during this time, and I pray you just

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use this Sermon.

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To its fullest lord in each person's life

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to help us to grow in this area

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an area that all of us struggle with

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to some extent.

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And time talking about contentment,

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and the importance of it, and I see

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Cove as being the real enemy, Lord, and

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so I I pray you'd help us to

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build able to put off Cove and put

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on contentment. Use these versus car in our

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lives. Pray for an un believe who joined

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us as Pastor nathan and pray at the

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beginning of a service that none of us

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have would leave here the way that we

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came and especially any end believers if they'd

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be born again and see their need for

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Christ

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that they would,

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see their gentleness and need for the favor

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that you provided or be vaulted,

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and please with this time we have and

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we asked this in Jesus name. Him amen,

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The fellow morning, Sermon is you cove it

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and cannot obtain so you fight in coral.

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So if you need to joining us, I'm

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preaching a few Sermon on Cove.

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Not sure how many there will be, but

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I enjoyed the time with contaminant after coming

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to Akron from Africa and seen a strong

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relationship between contentment and cove So enjoying being

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able to talk about preach on this as

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well. And I don't know if I'm just

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preaching myself because I'm a cove person. But

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I've been challenged and I hope that the

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verse would administer to me minister to you

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as well.

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When California when Cad an Hour were in

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California,

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we had a neighbor, but that had 4

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daughters,

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and 2 of the daughters became particularly close

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to. So when Ray was born, the 2

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2 youngest daughter. They enjoyed coming into the

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house. They enjoyed being

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around the baby. They were pretty helpful for

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Katie, and they spent a lot of time

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in our home. The and developed a very

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close relationship with us, and especially with Katie,

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They would come over in the morning before

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school, and then Katie would walk them to

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to school It come over,

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after school and state our house until,

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I guess 1 of their sisters have come

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over to bring them home.

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And over time, it became apparent that the

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older sister, there... They had 2 older sisters,

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and 1 of those older sisters, seem to

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really dislike Katie for some reason.

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We'll call this older sister, Jennifer, and, Jennifer

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was very rude to Katie,

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and when she would come to our house

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to pick up her 2 younger sisters, she

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would pound on the door really loudly, and

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she would be rude to Katie space.

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And so, Katie,

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put up a note next to the door,

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asking people to knock quietly,

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to not ring the doorbell. Now the note

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was not,

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let's say,

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addressed to anyone, but it was intended for

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this sister, Jennifer.

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And so the first day that Katie put

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up this note, Jennifer came over, pounded on

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the door even louder than usual and sat

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they're ringing the doorbell repeatedly like this.

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So pretty clear that Jennifer didn't like Katie.

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so when Katie,

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talked to Jennifer about this instead of criticizing

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her, for her behavior, Kate was very kind

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to her and asked her why she's seemed

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to hate her so much. And this sister

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broke down and started to cry, and guess

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why she she said she was treating Katie

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the way she was.

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Yeah. She was jealous. She was cove. She

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acknowledged this. She jealous in a moment of

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vulnerability

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of the relationship that Her 2 sisters had

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with Katie, and this brings us to less

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than 1.

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We fight and quarrel because of cove.

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We fight and quarrel because of cove.

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What do we think typically Ruins relationships? Not

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up.

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Necessarily right answer around looking for with this.

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So what are some things that come to

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mind. You can borrow some things about what

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room relationships?

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What something what?

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K. You're not supposed to say Jealousy, because

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that's the right answer, that I was gonna

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mention. So let's say besides Jealousy imagine that

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ethan just say that.

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Selfish. What else did I hear?

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Bitterness,

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what else?

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gossip,

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wise.

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I don't think that we typically think.

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Of self of jealousy or cove, ruling

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relationships. But we should.

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Cove ruined that sister's

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relationship with Katie and

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God blames cove.

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For our conflicts and James 4, 1 and

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2 says what causes ko and what causes

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fights among you again, maybe we'd think

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selfish s lying, gossip of, anger.

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But James says

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you desire and do not have, You want

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things that you don't get and then he

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says to your murder.

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He says you cove it. Again, you want

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things.

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You can't obtain them. You don't get them,

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so you fight and you quarrel about them.

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So James blames,

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cove us, for the conflicts we experience.

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We take it out on others when we

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don't get what we want. In Jennifer's case,

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she wasn't getting the attention from Katie or

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via affection. From her. And so she took

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it out on her.

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Notice the synonyms in the verse,

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desire and do not have as synonymous with

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covenant cannot obtain. Let me say that 1

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more time. James is repetitive here. God is

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repetitive through James. He says desire and do

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not have, And that's the same as C

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and cannot obtain,

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and then he mentions murder, which is synonymous

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with ko

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and fights.

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And so God is repetitive to drive home

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this point

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that cove causes

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conflicts.

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The same point is made elsewhere, proverbs 28

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The greedy or the cove

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stir up conflict. Why would the greedy stir

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a conflict?

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Because they're fighting to get what they want.

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First timothy of 06:10,

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The love of money or cove is a

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root of all kinds of evils, and why

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would it say that because in our efforts

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to, in this case, get money,

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we are willing to commit evil sins against

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others.

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We're gonna we're gonna do something a little

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different this morning. We're gonna examine 4 accounts

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that demonstrate this so we can learn from

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them. And I'll go through the accounts quickly

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because we're familiar with them. We're gonna look

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back to back at the first 3 accounts,

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consider the application from them, and then we're

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gonna look at the fourth account by itself.

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So the first

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account is familiar. The prod go son.

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The prod go son pence,

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he returns home and then listen to this.

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Luke 15 22. 23.

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The father said to his servants.

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Bring quickly the best robe,

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put it on him, put a ring on

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his hand, put shoes on his 20 the,

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bring the fat and calf and kill it

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and let us eat and celebrate?

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Who does this not go over well with?

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The older brother.

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When he learned what happened,

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luke 15 28 to 30, the older brother

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was angry, he refused to go into the

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celebrate for his brother, his father came out

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and ent him,

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but he answered his father and said, look.

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These many years I've served you. I never

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disobey your command but you never even gave

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me a young goat, and I might celebrate

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with my friends.

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The son of yours home notice that the

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son of yours,

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How did God refer to the israelites to

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Moses when he was angry with them?

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What would God say to Moses when god

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was angry with the israelites?

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Your people,

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not my people. Now they're Moses people. Who

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else does this?

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Parents do this.

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When they're talking to each other,

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your son did this.

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Your daughter. Suddenly, they're not our kids anymore.

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So the older brother, this isn't his brother.

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He's like, he's not like my brother, but

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this son of yours

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devoured your property of prostitutes. You kill the

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fat and

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calf for him.

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The older brother is furious about the patent

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calf and the celebration.

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Wait till he finds out about what.

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The road, the rings and the shoes. Right?

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It's about to get even worse for him.

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Turn to Matthew 20. Keep that account in

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mind.

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Turns to Matthew 20.

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The second example of cove

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causing conflict,

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is in the parable of the vineyard workers.

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So keep in mind the conflict cove

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caused

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between the older brother and his father

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or the older brother and his younger brother,

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and now look at the conflict caused by

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cove in the parable of the vineyard workers,

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Map 20 versus 1 through 4. The kingdom

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of heaven is like a master of a

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house, caused to went out early in the

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morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

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Notice this after

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agreeing with the labor, this is a very

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important point. That the labor agreed to a

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den a day,

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the master sent them into his vineyard.

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Going out about the third hour of the

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master saw others standing idle on the market

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place and he said to them, you go

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into the vineyard 2.

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And then he said, whatever is right, I

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will give you.

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So place the workers that were hired early

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in the morning, more than likely this is

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about 6AM.

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They agreed,

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what they were told would be they would

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be paid was acceptable.

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The workers hire 3 hours later, about 9AM,

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What does it say about them?

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This is whatever is right. So they weren't

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told how much they'd be paid

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I suspect just because they're waiting for work

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becoming more desperate as the day progressive they

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disagreed or whatever,

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the whatever. They... They're told.

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You'll be paid whatever's is right and agreed

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at. The master continues hiring workers at the

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sixth hour, which is 1PM, the ninth hour

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3PM,

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the 11 hour 5PM.

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When the master pays the workers, they each

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received a areas.

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So regardless how much they worked they each

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received a areas and this did not sit

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well with who.

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The ones who started working earliest and longest

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and bore the heat of the day.

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So they tell the master, Lick verse 12,

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Matthew 20 verse 12.

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They said these last ones only worked 1

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hour. They started working at 5PM and finish

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to 6PM.

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And you've made them equal to us,

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who bore the burden of the day and

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the scorching heat,

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but the master applies to 1 of them.

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Friend, very kindly here.

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He says friend,

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I doing you no wrong.

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Did you not agree with me for area.

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Now take what belongs to you and go,

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I choose to get to this last worker

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as I give to you.

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Am I not allowed to do what I

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choose with what belongs to me?

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Or do you beg garage my generosity?

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So let me ask you this. Was the

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master fair? Dues

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This it's kind of a trick question.

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He was fair to somebody was unfair to

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others.

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This is important.

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Because it was fair to pay 1 areas

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for 1 day's work.

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It was

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unfair.

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To pay one's and areas for less than

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1 day's work.

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It was unfair, but it was wet.

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He says it was generous.

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And that word generous is synonymous with what.

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What is god to us?

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We don't talk about him being generous to

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us. We say that he's been what to

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us.

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Gracious. So you need to understand generosity here

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is synonymous with gracious.

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Now if the master was fair.

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To everyone he would not be wet.

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If God was completely fair with us, he

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wouldn't be wants to us.

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You wanna be gracious for mutually exclusive. You

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can't be both.

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Gracious by nature is unfair

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because grace is un merit favor. It's receiving

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what you don't deserve.

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God can't be fair and gracious. He must

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be 1 or the other.

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So the master asks,

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and and by the way, do you know

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what's ironic.

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Have you ever heard people say or maybe

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use these instead,

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I want god to be fair?

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You don't want god to be fair.

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If God was fair, he wouldn't be gracious

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to you and he wouldn't be mer to

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you.

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You would go to hell.

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You want god's to be unfair. You want

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to be gracious you. You want him to

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give you what you don't deserve and you

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want him to be mer, which is to

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say you don't want him to give you

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what you do deserve.

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We celebrate God being mercy every comm. When

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you hold that bread,

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I hope you're mindful that you're holding a

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symbol of the body of Christ that took

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the punishment your since deserved, which is an

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incredible

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demonstration of God's mercy.

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If God was fair, there would be no

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demonstration of Mercy. God would not have spent

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his son.

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But the master says this, he says, am

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I not allowed to do what I choose

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with what belongs to me?

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What belongs to god?

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Everything does.

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Which is to say God can do it

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every once

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with what he chooses.

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Everything belongs to the Lord. He's allowed to

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be more gracious to some than others.

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He is allowed to be mer or more

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more mer. Some than others. He's allowed to

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have objects for his mercy in his grace.

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He's allowed to have

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objects of his love.

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Now, let's be honest.

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Do we understand

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why

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the older brother

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of the prod son?

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Was upset and why some of the vineyard

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workers that worked the longest or upset.

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Just be honest.

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You don't wanna lie in the church turn

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a worship service you. Now when I read

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this, and I look at the older son's

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hostility. I don't go like this. I don't

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go... I can't believe this guy. What a

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how immature he is. I'm like, I kinda

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get it. You know, it bothers me a

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bit to see the father being so gracious.

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To the prod son after living so

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wicked.

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And

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if I worked all day like that

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And then people that worked an hour, probably

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1 twelfth of what I worked. Y'all paid

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the same

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that I got paid,

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that would bother me too.

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Now keep this in mind and turn to

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first samuel 18.

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Turn to first samuel 18, the third example

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of cove causing conflict. Between Saul and David.

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I'll just remind you how wonderfully this relationship

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began because it's was not gonna laugh

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It's hard to tell what I know which

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took place first

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in first Samuel, but it's hard to tell

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which accounts took place if it was David

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Fl, Goliath or if it was David playing

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music

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to alleviate

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saul of the spirit that was torment to

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him. But either way, David and Saul

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relationship began beautifully

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where

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saul is being tormented, David comes in place

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music, and he's refreshed.

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And David goes out and defeats Goliath on

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saul or the nation's behalf,

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and

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we're even told in first samuel 16 that

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Saul had

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great affection for David loved him very much.

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And that continued until first samuel 18,

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look at verse 6.

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When David returned from striking down the Phil

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Goliath,

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the women came out of all the cities

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of Israel,

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they're singing and dancing to meet King saul

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with Tam with songs of joy with music

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instruments.

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And the women saying to 1 another as

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they celebrated,

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saul has struck down his thousands,

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nothing wrong with that,

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but then this,

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David has 10 thousands.

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And this

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to me looks like the vineyard workers.

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God chooses

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to be more gracious to some than others,

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He

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chooses for some to slay thousands and he

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chooses some to slay 10 thousands.

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And he probably chooses thumb to slay only

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a few.

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What's the point?

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The point is there's always going to be

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others who have more wet and fill the

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blank with whatever you want there.

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More gifts, more wealth, more success

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better health,

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better marriages, better children, better families,

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reminds me of the parable to talents. Matthew

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25 15. So 1 he gave what.

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5 talents. To another he gave to, and

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then to another, he gave 1.

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So what must we avoid doing

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when we look around and see some who've

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been given more talents than us or who

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has slain

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thousands more than us or who have greater

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wealth or health or

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Intelligence,

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or families, or marriages or homes or cars

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of vacations in us. What what what must

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we guard against?

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Must guard against cove. That's right.

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Now Saul maybe more than anyone else in

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scripture shows us

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the danger of failing to do so.

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And how you just wanna think this. You

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kinda think, well, what's gonna ruin a life,

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murder, adultery,

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cove,

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ruin saul life.

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Look in verse 8,

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saul was very angry,

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and this thing to displeased him.

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And he said, they subscribed to David 10

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thousands.

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And to me, only thousands,

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what more

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can he have but the whole kingdom?

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And saul Eyed David from that day on.

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The Hebrew word for Ide at the van,

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and it means to watch with jealousy. There

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could be some

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translations are translate it that way.

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So there are 2 factors that caused Solves

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downfall.

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First,

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his propensity to make excuses

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To fail the take responsibility for his actions.

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Right? First samuel 13, he offers the... He

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is supposed to wait 7 days and Sam

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order and offer the sacrifice.

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Stall offers a sacrifice,

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same can confront, and it's, like, well, you

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didn't show up with the right time. And

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then the people were fleeing and the fill

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of things and he blames everyone he can

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except for himself.

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So fast forward a couple chapters for saying

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the 15, you're supposed to exterminate the ama

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heights,

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Ph confronts them, so, well, the the people

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kept the best of the sheep in Oxen

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and all of the excuses.

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And so

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David, to his credit

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was a repentance broken individual. I think they're

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in the union the versus about God's.

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Heart for a

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heart, which makes me think why David was

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a man after God's own heart con tradition,

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following his failures and saul never

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exhibited that sort of repentance or godly sorrow

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just worldly sorrow with him.

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But the second reason for saul downfall beyond

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that was his

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Cove. He was obsessed with David's fame popularity.

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He could not handle someone else doing better

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than him or having more than him.

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Now let's learn from each of these accounts

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in the spring to lesson 2.

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We shouldn't let God's grace cause us to

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part 1 cove.

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We shouldn't let God's grace

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to others

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cause us to cove it.

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The master said, do you my generosity or

552
00:20:07,786 --> 00:20:08,344
my grace?

553
00:20:10,179 --> 00:20:12,890
The King James says is divine I evil?

554
00:20:13,625 --> 00:20:15,965
Is by evil. The evil eye

555
00:20:16,345 --> 00:20:18,125
was a phrase that Jews used

556
00:20:18,424 --> 00:20:20,684
to indicate an en or jealous

557
00:20:21,144 --> 00:20:23,312
disposition which is why some translations,

558
00:20:24,268 --> 00:20:26,419
such as the And Ne nes being amplified,

559
00:20:26,579 --> 00:20:27,694
say are you jealous.

560
00:20:29,144 --> 00:20:31,144
So we're tempted to cut it when people

561
00:20:31,144 --> 00:20:33,944
get what we think that they don't deserve.

562
00:20:34,505 --> 00:20:36,758
A sense of justice in us. Right? We'll

563
00:20:36,758 --> 00:20:38,034
look at people and think, why did they

564
00:20:38,034 --> 00:20:39,390
get to have that? Why did he get

565
00:20:39,390 --> 00:20:41,623
that promotion? Why does she get that big

566
00:20:41,623 --> 00:20:43,218
health? Why do they have so much money?

567
00:20:43,377 --> 00:20:45,052
Why do they have that health?

568
00:20:46,505 --> 00:20:47,785
We can be like the older brother.

569
00:20:48,505 --> 00:20:49,865
And we say why do they get all

570
00:20:49,865 --> 00:20:51,065
that, but I don't.

571
00:20:52,424 --> 00:20:54,025
Or it might be like the vineyard workers?

572
00:20:54,838 --> 00:20:56,428
And we say, why why do I have

573
00:20:56,428 --> 00:20:58,973
work so hard? And they don't. Why do

574
00:20:58,973 --> 00:21:00,325
they have it so much easier than me?

575
00:21:00,882 --> 00:21:01,915
Why I have to bear the heat of

576
00:21:01,915 --> 00:21:03,346
the day and only work 1 hour and

577
00:21:03,346 --> 00:21:04,380
get the same pay as idea?

578
00:21:06,230 --> 00:21:07,986
If you have children, what's 1 of the

579
00:21:07,986 --> 00:21:09,741
most common statements they say?

580
00:21:11,177 --> 00:21:12,947
It is not fair. And if you didn't

581
00:21:12,947 --> 00:21:14,382
say that out loud, you must allow any

582
00:21:14,382 --> 00:21:14,621
children.

583
00:21:15,338 --> 00:21:15,577
Yeah.

584
00:21:17,650 --> 00:21:19,164
Why do they get to have that? But

585
00:21:19,324 --> 00:21:19,882
I don't.

586
00:21:21,174 --> 00:21:21,894
If not fair.

587
00:21:23,255 --> 00:21:25,174
Why did their parents? I mean, you know

588
00:21:25,174 --> 00:21:26,934
what? Let's just get the children to pay

589
00:21:26,934 --> 00:21:28,615
attention for this. Amen parents.

590
00:21:33,724 --> 00:21:35,098
Kids, you will ruin

591
00:21:35,710 --> 00:21:37,322
your joy and contentment

592
00:21:38,569 --> 00:21:39,284
so fast.

593
00:21:40,331 --> 00:21:41,600
If you wanna look at other kids and

594
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:42,790
what they have and do.

595
00:21:44,376 --> 00:21:45,273
The fastest,

596
00:21:47,248 --> 00:21:48,545
way to be miserable

597
00:21:49,639 --> 00:21:51,255
and feel sorry yourself

598
00:21:52,189 --> 00:21:53,862
is to make comparisons with other kids.

599
00:21:55,390 --> 00:21:58,277
There is nothing that will make you miserable

600
00:21:58,414 --> 00:21:58,914
quicker

601
00:21:59,846 --> 00:22:01,835
than trying to find other kids that get

602
00:22:01,835 --> 00:22:02,870
to have more than you.

603
00:22:05,192 --> 00:22:06,863
Why do their parents let him steps so

604
00:22:06,863 --> 00:22:09,170
late, but I don't get to. It's not

605
00:22:09,170 --> 00:22:09,409
fair.

606
00:22:10,682 --> 00:22:12,512
I have so many chores, but they don't.

607
00:22:13,164 --> 00:22:13,963
It's not fair.

608
00:22:15,481 --> 00:22:16,760
Why do they get to go there,

609
00:22:17,399 --> 00:22:18,837
but I don't. It's not fair.

610
00:22:21,648 --> 00:22:22,765
But who else can be like,

611
00:22:23,643 --> 00:22:24,042
children.

612
00:22:25,877 --> 00:22:27,633
Adults and the kids are, like, get them

613
00:22:27,633 --> 00:22:28,750
pastor their Scott. Get the parents.

614
00:22:31,630 --> 00:22:33,482
My son Ricky down there. It's just

615
00:22:34,096 --> 00:22:35,290
want me to go after the adults hey.

616
00:22:35,449 --> 00:22:36,802
I admit. We can be like this too

617
00:22:36,802 --> 00:22:38,965
as adults. We make these compare since our

618
00:22:38,965 --> 00:22:40,795
contentment is ruined and that's all We're preaching

619
00:22:40,795 --> 00:22:43,659
the sermon. We're talking about experiencing contentment, and

620
00:22:43,738 --> 00:22:45,988
I think the greatest ats and contempt is

621
00:22:46,045 --> 00:22:46,545
cove

622
00:22:47,654 --> 00:22:48,453
But here's the thing.

623
00:22:49,331 --> 00:22:50,950
When we as parents

624
00:22:51,968 --> 00:22:53,805
do this, we're acting more alike.

625
00:22:55,178 --> 00:22:55,578
Children.

626
00:22:56,137 --> 00:22:57,894
I mean, we'll condemn our children for the

627
00:22:57,894 --> 00:22:58,853
things that we do.

628
00:22:59,572 --> 00:23:01,090
We know they shouldn't do that, but we'll

629
00:23:01,090 --> 00:23:03,253
do it. So we need to honor ask

630
00:23:03,253 --> 00:23:05,182
ourselves if we cove what others have

631
00:23:05,556 --> 00:23:08,121
when God has chosen to be

632
00:23:08,971 --> 00:23:09,368
to them.

633
00:23:10,179 --> 00:23:11,796
Allow them to slay 10 thousands

634
00:23:12,652 --> 00:23:13,152
or

635
00:23:13,929 --> 00:23:15,684
allow them to be paid well when they

636
00:23:15,684 --> 00:23:17,121
haven't worked as hard as us.

637
00:23:17,934 --> 00:23:19,615
The next part of lesson 2. We shouldn't

638
00:23:19,615 --> 00:23:21,454
let God's grace cause us to part to

639
00:23:21,454 --> 00:23:22,255
be discontent.

640
00:23:27,622 --> 00:23:29,378
So 1 summer when I was growing up,

641
00:23:30,495 --> 00:23:32,250
we had 2 separate neighbors,

642
00:23:33,142 --> 00:23:35,789
that hired my brother, Jason and I

643
00:23:36,562 --> 00:23:38,176
to take care of their animals

644
00:23:39,838 --> 00:23:41,134
So I cared

645
00:23:41,590 --> 00:23:43,443
for 1 neighbors animals

646
00:23:44,216 --> 00:23:45,092
for 2 weeks,

647
00:23:46,365 --> 00:23:48,037
and I had very little to do.

648
00:23:49,802 --> 00:23:52,421
My brother Jason cared for the other neighbor's

649
00:23:52,421 --> 00:23:52,921
animals

650
00:23:53,612 --> 00:23:54,405
for 1 month,

651
00:23:55,278 --> 00:23:56,787
and he had lots to do.

652
00:23:58,549 --> 00:23:59,665
When the neighbors returned,

653
00:24:00,463 --> 00:24:01,420
guess who was paid more.

654
00:24:03,015 --> 00:24:03,413
I was.

655
00:24:05,088 --> 00:24:06,386
Even though I worked

656
00:24:06,922 --> 00:24:07,321
left,

657
00:24:08,133 --> 00:24:09,722
I don't just mean less time, but had

658
00:24:09,722 --> 00:24:10,278
less to do.

659
00:24:11,311 --> 00:24:13,059
Jason was paid less even though if he

660
00:24:13,059 --> 00:24:14,331
worked more and worked longer.

661
00:24:15,459 --> 00:24:16,198
Now, Jason

662
00:24:16,574 --> 00:24:18,246
received what they agreed to pay him.

663
00:24:20,556 --> 00:24:22,388
And guess what? I didn't know what I

664
00:24:22,388 --> 00:24:23,025
was gonna be paid.

665
00:24:24,553 --> 00:24:25,929
And Jason felt

666
00:24:26,624 --> 00:24:27,124
pretty

667
00:24:27,899 --> 00:24:29,753
content with his pay

668
00:24:30,448 --> 00:24:30,926
until what?

669
00:24:33,420 --> 00:24:34,539
Until he found out what I was paid,

670
00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:36,320
and then he was angry and he was

671
00:24:36,460 --> 00:24:37,500
with art with his pay.

672
00:24:38,380 --> 00:24:39,340
The vineyard workers.

673
00:24:41,272 --> 00:24:43,420
Let's think for a moment about why the

674
00:24:43,420 --> 00:24:46,363
vineyard workers were and were not upset.

675
00:24:48,130 --> 00:24:49,829
Because they found themselves in a very similar

676
00:24:50,049 --> 00:24:50,210
situation.

677
00:24:51,329 --> 00:24:52,549
The vineyard workers

678
00:24:53,089 --> 00:24:55,029
received what they agreed

679
00:24:55,490 --> 00:24:57,169
to be paid a den darius.

680
00:24:58,379 --> 00:25:01,000
So to be clear, the vineyard workers were

681
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:01,500
not

682
00:25:02,350 --> 00:25:04,653
discontent because of what they were paid.

683
00:25:05,765 --> 00:25:06,718
Why were they consent?

684
00:25:08,163 --> 00:25:09,514
Because of what others were paid.

685
00:25:11,500 --> 00:25:13,963
So if the others interestingly, if the other

686
00:25:13,963 --> 00:25:15,473
workers had received less.

687
00:25:16,283 --> 00:25:17,556
Then they would have been content.

688
00:25:18,988 --> 00:25:21,773
So they weren't discontent because of what they

689
00:25:21,773 --> 00:25:24,319
had. They were discontent because of what others

690
00:25:24,319 --> 00:25:24,637
had.

691
00:25:25,289 --> 00:25:27,679
And so often our discontent comes,

692
00:25:28,316 --> 00:25:31,185
not from what we have or don't have,

693
00:25:32,221 --> 00:25:33,894
but from seeing what others have,

694
00:25:35,581 --> 00:25:38,046
And when others have more suddenly, we're discontent.

695
00:25:39,636 --> 00:25:41,941
The older brother complains and he said, now

696
00:25:41,941 --> 00:25:43,214
listen to what the father said this is

697
00:25:43,214 --> 00:25:43,714
fascinating.

698
00:25:45,136 --> 00:25:47,281
The father's response to the older brother with

699
00:25:47,281 --> 00:25:49,107
son, Luke 15 3 1 son,

700
00:25:50,299 --> 00:25:52,523
you are always with me.

701
00:25:53,413 --> 00:25:56,846
And all that is mine is yours.

702
00:25:58,202 --> 00:25:58,522
Wow.

703
00:25:59,878 --> 00:26:02,204
I read that and I think this older

704
00:26:02,204 --> 00:26:04,981
brother was not living some deprived life.

705
00:26:06,012 --> 00:26:06,885
He had much.

706
00:26:09,443 --> 00:26:11,518
Everything that belonged to his father belonged to

707
00:26:11,518 --> 00:26:11,757
him.

708
00:26:12,874 --> 00:26:15,987
He wasn't some des and neglected child.

709
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:18,640
He had as much as the father himself.

710
00:26:19,519 --> 00:26:20,400
So here's the point.

711
00:26:21,039 --> 00:26:24,880
Why was and wasn't the older brother discontent.

712
00:26:25,614 --> 00:26:26,274
He wasn't

713
00:26:27,052 --> 00:26:29,049
because he didn't have enough. He was discontent

714
00:26:29,049 --> 00:26:30,988
because of what he saw his brother

715
00:26:31,686 --> 00:26:32,086
have.

716
00:26:33,694 --> 00:26:35,364
Now what was saul praise for?

717
00:26:35,999 --> 00:26:36,397
Killing?

718
00:26:38,066 --> 00:26:38,566
Thousands.

719
00:26:39,417 --> 00:26:39,917
I

720
00:26:41,261 --> 00:26:43,115
don't have to live in the ancient world

721
00:26:44,128 --> 00:26:45,960
to think they're killing thousands of a lot.

722
00:26:46,916 --> 00:26:49,168
I mean, saul killed enough that the women

723
00:26:49,878 --> 00:26:51,254
Nobody's happier after

724
00:26:52,824 --> 00:26:54,894
a victory than women, because it means their

725
00:26:54,894 --> 00:26:56,885
husbands are coming home and they're not gonna

726
00:26:56,885 --> 00:26:57,601
become the slaves.

727
00:26:58,332 --> 00:26:59,446
Of the opposing army.

728
00:27:00,321 --> 00:27:03,844
So they're singing and saul had slain enough

729
00:27:03,980 --> 00:27:04,480
soldiers

730
00:27:05,109 --> 00:27:07,282
that the women saying about him slay

731
00:27:07,897 --> 00:27:08,295
thousands.

732
00:27:09,808 --> 00:27:12,039
So Saul was not discontent. This is important.

733
00:27:12,278 --> 00:27:14,864
Saul was not discontent because he only

734
00:27:16,919 --> 00:27:17,797
slay thousands.

735
00:27:18,835 --> 00:27:21,229
He was discontent because they saying that David

736
00:27:21,229 --> 00:27:22,767
killed tens of thousands

737
00:27:23,718 --> 00:27:25,627
So Saul wasn't discontent because of what they

738
00:27:25,627 --> 00:27:27,298
saying about him. He was discontent because of

739
00:27:27,298 --> 00:27:29,764
what they saying about David and saul said

740
00:27:29,764 --> 00:27:30,162
as much.

741
00:27:30,814 --> 00:27:31,611
When he complains.

742
00:27:33,445 --> 00:27:36,018
So we must be careful to resist being

743
00:27:36,156 --> 00:27:37,911
discontent, not because of what we don't have,

744
00:27:38,070 --> 00:27:39,426
but because of what others have.

745
00:27:39,998 --> 00:27:41,213
So are we

746
00:27:41,587 --> 00:27:43,970
this... Or are we content with our house

747
00:27:43,970 --> 00:27:46,353
car vacation spouse, children and then we see

748
00:27:46,353 --> 00:27:47,545
someone else's better?

749
00:27:48,752 --> 00:27:51,457
Car vacation spouse, children and suddenly we're discontent

750
00:27:51,457 --> 00:27:51,934
with ours.

751
00:27:52,730 --> 00:27:54,639
We should ask ourselves am my I discontent

752
00:27:54,639 --> 00:27:55,991
because I'm so focused on others.

753
00:27:57,278 --> 00:27:58,388
The next part of left 2.

754
00:27:59,338 --> 00:28:01,240
We shouldn't let God's grace causes part to

755
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:02,191
be better toward God.

756
00:28:04,330 --> 00:28:04,384
The

757
00:28:06,815 --> 00:28:07,533
When we cove it,

758
00:28:08,728 --> 00:28:11,598
super easy to become bitter toward God,

759
00:28:12,568 --> 00:28:15,346
The people most prone to becoming vi toward

760
00:28:15,425 --> 00:28:18,124
God are actually the people who have the

761
00:28:18,124 --> 00:28:20,107
highest view of gods,

762
00:28:21,553 --> 00:28:22,053
sovereignty.

763
00:28:22,748 --> 00:28:23,625
And why would that be?

764
00:28:25,298 --> 00:28:27,052
Because they recognize is control,

765
00:28:29,854 --> 00:28:31,604
They know that what they have or don't

766
00:28:31,604 --> 00:28:32,104
have

767
00:28:33,036 --> 00:28:34,252
is because of

768
00:28:35,104 --> 00:28:35,422
God.

769
00:28:37,108 --> 00:28:38,937
He controls what happens in their lives, So

770
00:28:38,937 --> 00:28:40,767
it's very tempting to be bitter toward him

771
00:28:40,767 --> 00:28:42,357
when we think he's not giving us enough.

772
00:28:42,914 --> 00:28:44,838
He's not giving us what we deserve. Or

773
00:28:44,838 --> 00:28:46,906
he's giving others what they don't deserve. We

774
00:28:46,906 --> 00:28:48,417
might not even be better about what he's

775
00:28:48,417 --> 00:28:50,031
giving us where is better than he's giving

776
00:28:50,167 --> 00:28:51,383
other something else

777
00:28:52,573 --> 00:28:54,411
So now this is ironic.

778
00:28:55,450 --> 00:28:57,607
Instead of seeing God is gracious,

779
00:28:58,407 --> 00:28:59,706
we see him as

780
00:29:01,690 --> 00:29:01,928
unjust.

781
00:29:04,392 --> 00:29:05,822
Instead of seeing him as good. We seen

782
00:29:05,822 --> 00:29:07,887
him as bad. Why doesn't God give me

783
00:29:07,887 --> 00:29:08,761
what he gives them?

784
00:29:09,573 --> 00:29:11,728
He must love them more. He must think

785
00:29:11,728 --> 00:29:12,686
they're better than me.

786
00:29:14,521 --> 00:29:16,117
The prod sons father,

787
00:29:17,646 --> 00:29:19,416
the prod son's father

788
00:29:20,503 --> 00:29:23,440
and the vineyard master both represent him, Not

789
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:24,075
a your question.

790
00:29:25,044 --> 00:29:27,538
The prod son's father and the vineyard

791
00:29:27,916 --> 00:29:29,751
master or owner both represent who.

792
00:29:30,709 --> 00:29:31,426
God the father.

793
00:29:32,398 --> 00:29:35,412
The older brother's bitterness toward his father in

794
00:29:35,412 --> 00:29:37,657
the vineyard workers bitterness toward the master

795
00:29:38,347 --> 00:29:38,585
picture,

796
00:29:39,473 --> 00:29:42,094
how we might be better toward god.

797
00:29:43,365 --> 00:29:45,986
So we should consider whether we are like

798
00:29:45,986 --> 00:29:46,701
the older brother,

799
00:29:47,909 --> 00:29:49,108
and we should be like, him because we'll

800
00:29:49,108 --> 00:29:49,747
probably say this.

801
00:29:50,467 --> 00:29:52,145
Will sound like older brother. The older brother

802
00:29:52,145 --> 00:29:53,743
says, I never disobey you.

803
00:29:54,383 --> 00:29:55,581
I don't even get them easily as go

804
00:29:55,581 --> 00:29:56,860
to celebrate with my friends.

805
00:29:57,594 --> 00:29:59,352
So we're all proud and self righteous.

806
00:29:59,911 --> 00:30:01,669
We say something like this. Look how good

807
00:30:01,749 --> 00:30:02,148
I've been.

808
00:30:02,867 --> 00:30:03,986
Look how beating I've been.

809
00:30:06,073 --> 00:30:08,692
I've resist so many temptation compared to others.

810
00:30:08,930 --> 00:30:10,439
I'm so much better than the people around

811
00:30:10,439 --> 00:30:12,105
me, You know don't, give me anything, not

812
00:30:12,105 --> 00:30:13,772
even go to celebrate with my friends.

813
00:30:15,065 --> 00:30:17,144
Maybe we're more like the vineyard workers. We

814
00:30:17,144 --> 00:30:19,464
complain about how much easier others have than

815
00:30:19,464 --> 00:30:19,625
us.

816
00:30:20,345 --> 00:30:21,625
Why do I have to work so hard

817
00:30:21,625 --> 00:30:23,200
and they don't. Why do I all these

818
00:30:23,318 --> 00:30:25,061
trials, but their life is care free.

819
00:30:25,774 --> 00:30:27,359
Why are think so difficult for me, but

820
00:30:27,359 --> 00:30:28,785
so much easier for everyone else.

821
00:30:30,703 --> 00:30:32,058
So we wanna to be on guard against

822
00:30:32,058 --> 00:30:32,298
this.

823
00:30:33,015 --> 00:30:34,290
The next part of lesson 2.

824
00:30:35,007 --> 00:30:36,761
We shouldn't elect God's grace caused us to

825
00:30:36,761 --> 00:30:38,195
part 4 be bitter toward others.

826
00:30:40,510 --> 00:30:42,015
We don't wanna let God's grace cause us

827
00:30:42,015 --> 00:30:43,045
to be bitter toward others.

828
00:30:46,945 --> 00:30:48,770
Picture this situation. Let's say there's a gentleman

829
00:30:48,770 --> 00:30:49,246
named Bob.

830
00:30:50,437 --> 00:30:52,342
Bob's been working it as job for years,

831
00:30:53,549 --> 00:30:56,043
He knows other employees do things mediocre,

832
00:30:56,819 --> 00:30:58,914
but he strive to do things excellent.

833
00:30:59,770 --> 00:31:02,184
He's heard other employees criticized management.

834
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:04,434
He avoids those

835
00:31:04,815 --> 00:31:05,134
conversations.

836
00:31:05,934 --> 00:31:06,674
He's watched

837
00:31:07,055 --> 00:31:08,755
other employees arrive early

838
00:31:09,055 --> 00:31:10,734
or excuse me. Leave early.

839
00:31:11,627 --> 00:31:14,657
Arrive late, Bob, arrive early, leave late.

840
00:31:15,852 --> 00:31:18,005
Other employees move on to other companies. He

841
00:31:18,005 --> 00:31:19,121
stayed faithful with this 1.

842
00:31:20,250 --> 00:31:22,875
Bob's boss retire, there's this opening above him,

843
00:31:23,989 --> 00:31:26,558
and Bob has convinced that his years of

844
00:31:27,186 --> 00:31:29,251
excellence and hard work and faithfulness are gonna

845
00:31:29,251 --> 00:31:30,998
pay off and he's gonna be given this

846
00:31:30,998 --> 00:31:31,236
promotion,

847
00:31:32,825 --> 00:31:34,278
but the company gives

848
00:31:35,381 --> 00:31:38,000
the job to Bob's best friend Brian.

849
00:31:41,175 --> 00:31:42,286
It's unthinkable to Bob.

850
00:31:43,337 --> 00:31:44,932
Now, Bob and Brian work in the same

851
00:31:44,932 --> 00:31:46,607
department. They often have lunch together.

852
00:31:47,484 --> 00:31:49,159
When Brian gets the promotion,

853
00:31:50,595 --> 00:31:52,052
Bob starts cove

854
00:31:53,001 --> 00:31:53,796
Brian's position.

855
00:31:55,227 --> 00:31:58,326
And pretty soon, Bob picks apart everything Brian

856
00:31:58,326 --> 00:31:58,565
does.

857
00:32:01,921 --> 00:32:03,275
He thinks why did we do it that

858
00:32:03,275 --> 00:32:04,868
way? I kept done it better than him.

859
00:32:05,346 --> 00:32:06,699
I remember last time we had to do

860
00:32:06,699 --> 00:32:08,372
something. I gotta done so much quicker.

861
00:32:09,024 --> 00:32:11,573
He's floppy. I'm excellent. He doesn't work as

862
00:32:11,573 --> 00:32:12,689
hard as I do. I put him more

863
00:32:12,689 --> 00:32:13,883
hours. I stay later.

864
00:32:15,238 --> 00:32:16,991
Brian asked Bob, if they can have lunch

865
00:32:16,991 --> 00:32:17,230
together.

866
00:32:18,995 --> 00:32:20,979
He's always finding reasons to decline.

867
00:32:22,010 --> 00:32:23,914
The point is when we cove what others

868
00:32:23,914 --> 00:32:24,311
have,

869
00:32:24,787 --> 00:32:26,374
we tend to become better toward them.

870
00:32:27,262 --> 00:32:29,245
You start to pick them apart, criticize them,

871
00:32:29,483 --> 00:32:30,990
find all the things we're doing wrong.

872
00:32:32,577 --> 00:32:34,823
Saul became so bitter toward David

873
00:32:35,687 --> 00:32:36,960
I mean, you wouldn't believe it. It was

874
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:37,540
if you

875
00:32:38,074 --> 00:32:40,801
stopped at chapter 17, which is when David

876
00:32:41,096 --> 00:32:41,892
killed Goliath.

877
00:32:42,543 --> 00:32:44,131
And you never had chapter 18.

878
00:32:44,846 --> 00:32:46,672
And someone came to you and told you

879
00:32:46,672 --> 00:32:49,054
what happens in chapter 18. So you know

880
00:32:49,054 --> 00:32:52,960
chapter 16 that David Plays music to refresh

881
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:55,659
saul and alleviate of the torment spirit, you

882
00:32:55,659 --> 00:32:57,723
know the David goes out and kills Goliath,

883
00:32:58,453 --> 00:32:59,886
And if you stop reading right after that,

884
00:33:00,125 --> 00:33:02,115
someone comes and says, did you know in

885
00:33:02,115 --> 00:33:03,946
the next chapter, Saul starts trying to murder

886
00:33:04,026 --> 00:33:05,857
David, What would you say? You said?

887
00:33:07,227 --> 00:33:07,887
That must

888
00:33:09,222 --> 00:33:10,420
not be in the Bible Reading,

889
00:33:13,293 --> 00:33:13,851
but he did.

890
00:33:14,823 --> 00:33:17,208
Because of his cove, he despise David so

891
00:33:17,208 --> 00:33:17,447
much,

892
00:33:18,321 --> 00:33:20,786
became so jealous that he spent most of

893
00:33:20,786 --> 00:33:23,171
the rest of his life, even mobilized the

894
00:33:23,171 --> 00:33:25,259
army of this rule, to hunt David down,

895
00:33:25,500 --> 00:33:27,420
forcing and the living in caves. He's on

896
00:33:27,420 --> 00:33:28,940
the lamb, just trying to escape saul.

897
00:33:29,980 --> 00:33:31,660
For some of the most formative wonderful years

898
00:33:31,660 --> 00:33:33,019
of his life. That's how David had spent

899
00:33:33,019 --> 00:33:34,654
them because the saul cove.

900
00:33:36,062 --> 00:33:38,128
We also tend to become better toward people

901
00:33:38,128 --> 00:33:39,957
who don't give us what we cove it.

902
00:33:41,070 --> 00:33:42,898
This happened with 2 of our examples,

903
00:33:43,788 --> 00:33:44,901
the older brother,

904
00:33:46,015 --> 00:33:48,321
the older brother, if I say who is

905
00:33:48,321 --> 00:33:50,867
the older brother bitter toward, there's 2 answers

906
00:33:50,867 --> 00:33:51,185
to that.

907
00:33:52,394 --> 00:33:54,554
What's 1 of the answers? You kinda quick

908
00:33:54,554 --> 00:33:55,355
stays younger brother.

909
00:33:56,474 --> 00:33:57,755
But he's bitter toward his father,

910
00:33:58,954 --> 00:34:00,554
because his father not giving him what he

911
00:34:00,554 --> 00:34:01,355
thinks he deserves.

912
00:34:02,725 --> 00:34:05,456
The vineyard workers became bitter toward the master

913
00:34:06,231 --> 00:34:07,984
who didn't pay them for working longer.

914
00:34:09,514 --> 00:34:12,470
Similarly, our converse say our cove can make

915
00:34:12,470 --> 00:34:13,988
us a better picture these situations.

916
00:34:14,947 --> 00:34:16,385
Let's say there's a woman named Wendy.

917
00:34:17,279 --> 00:34:18,258
And she cove

918
00:34:19,036 --> 00:34:20,714
this other man's wife.

919
00:34:21,673 --> 00:34:23,431
She cove mike's wife Jennifer.

920
00:34:24,963 --> 00:34:26,718
So who does Wendy become bitter to?

921
00:34:27,675 --> 00:34:28,393
Her husband.

922
00:34:29,749 --> 00:34:32,540
Brian. She says, why doesn't my husband, Brian

923
00:34:32,540 --> 00:34:34,510
get me these things that Mike by Jennifer.

924
00:34:35,742 --> 00:34:38,445
Why doesn't Brian treat me like Mike treats

925
00:34:38,604 --> 00:34:39,081
Jennifer?

926
00:34:40,036 --> 00:34:41,626
Let's say there's a guy named Mike and

927
00:34:41,626 --> 00:34:44,663
he's cove b of heather husband James.

928
00:34:45,539 --> 00:34:47,369
So he becomes better toward his wife?

929
00:34:48,482 --> 00:34:49,914
Michelle, and he says, why does the Michelle?

930
00:34:50,153 --> 00:34:52,875
My wife respect me like I see Heather

931
00:34:52,875 --> 00:34:53,672
respecting James.

932
00:34:54,309 --> 00:34:56,620
I've bet Heather never talks to James like

933
00:34:56,859 --> 00:34:57,815
Michelle talks to me.

934
00:34:59,250 --> 00:35:01,818
Like Think of parents who cove the children

935
00:35:01,818 --> 00:35:02,697
of another family,

936
00:35:03,814 --> 00:35:05,331
And who do those parents become bitter for

937
00:35:05,331 --> 00:35:07,645
it? They become bitter toward their own children,

938
00:35:08,138 --> 00:35:10,306
Why don't our children do their chores

939
00:35:10,996 --> 00:35:12,744
as joyful as those other kids?

940
00:35:14,173 --> 00:35:16,158
I have those kids never complain. I bet

941
00:35:16,158 --> 00:35:18,319
those parents never... Have the same problems with

942
00:35:18,319 --> 00:35:19,433
their children that we do.

943
00:35:20,467 --> 00:35:22,217
I bet those kids are thankful for all

944
00:35:22,217 --> 00:35:24,070
they have, not like our un grateful

945
00:35:25,161 --> 00:35:25,559
children,

946
00:35:26,355 --> 00:35:29,183
have Children who are cove of other children

947
00:35:29,242 --> 00:35:31,236
become bitter toward their parents? Why don't my

948
00:35:31,236 --> 00:35:32,991
parents get me as much as these other

949
00:35:32,991 --> 00:35:35,338
kids have. Why do I have to go

950
00:35:35,394 --> 00:35:37,941
to church so much or why can't I

951
00:35:37,941 --> 00:35:39,771
go at all these fun places? Why do

952
00:35:39,771 --> 00:35:41,839
my parents make me do so much work?

953
00:35:42,969 --> 00:35:44,887
I bet those other kids have so much

954
00:35:44,887 --> 00:35:45,446
better than me.

955
00:35:46,165 --> 00:35:49,041
It's almost inevitable to cove and not become

956
00:35:49,041 --> 00:35:49,281
better.

957
00:35:50,733 --> 00:35:52,490
Now let's discuss the 4 account, you can

958
00:35:52,490 --> 00:35:53,687
turn to Genesis 25.

959
00:35:54,645 --> 00:35:57,280
This one's particularly interesting because it involves 2

960
00:35:57,359 --> 00:35:59,036
Cove brothers, Jacob and Esa.

961
00:36:01,522 --> 00:36:03,536
Their account shows the conflicts

962
00:36:04,232 --> 00:36:05,666
that cove causes.

963
00:36:08,951 --> 00:36:10,467
Familiar accounts, so I'll go through it quickly.

964
00:36:10,627 --> 00:36:11,664
Genesis 25.

965
00:36:15,907 --> 00:36:17,180
Here's the lesson that goes with it. And

966
00:36:17,339 --> 00:36:18,692
I forgot to put a blank there. So

967
00:36:18,692 --> 00:36:20,362
you already have it on your on your

968
00:36:20,362 --> 00:36:21,476
bullets in less than 3.

969
00:36:22,764 --> 00:36:25,236
Jacob shows covenants doesn't disappear with time.

970
00:36:28,028 --> 00:36:29,326
We're gonna see that covenants

971
00:36:30,182 --> 00:36:32,415
does not disappear with time. Listen to this.

972
00:36:33,226 --> 00:36:34,737
Genesis 25 26.

973
00:36:36,806 --> 00:36:37,306
Afterward,

974
00:36:37,761 --> 00:36:39,432
Esa brother came out.

975
00:36:40,083 --> 00:36:40,880
This is Jacob.

976
00:36:42,394 --> 00:36:45,421
With his hand holding ef files heel,

977
00:36:46,696 --> 00:36:49,086
so Jacob's name was called Jacob.

978
00:36:49,820 --> 00:36:52,139
So Jacob grabbed eth ethos heal for what

979
00:36:52,139 --> 00:36:52,639
reason

980
00:36:54,300 --> 00:36:55,179
because he wanna wet.

981
00:36:55,900 --> 00:36:57,339
He wants the birthright. He wants to come

982
00:36:57,339 --> 00:36:57,900
out first.

983
00:36:58,952 --> 00:37:01,098
Psalm 51 5 says behold. I was brought

984
00:37:01,098 --> 00:37:03,267
forth in an equity and inc my mother

985
00:37:03,482 --> 00:37:05,231
did conceive me. So, Jacob's is a good

986
00:37:05,231 --> 00:37:06,661
example of this. He seemed to struggle with

987
00:37:06,661 --> 00:37:07,138
cove.

988
00:37:07,949 --> 00:37:08,747
Right out of the womb.

989
00:37:10,104 --> 00:37:12,817
His struggle continued into adulthood. Look at verse

990
00:37:12,817 --> 00:37:13,376
29,

991
00:37:13,935 --> 00:37:15,291
Genesis 25 29.

992
00:37:17,141 --> 00:37:19,374
Jacob was cooking stew, Esa came in from

993
00:37:19,374 --> 00:37:19,932
the field.

994
00:37:20,570 --> 00:37:22,564
Esa was exhausted and he said to Jacob.

995
00:37:22,803 --> 00:37:24,238
Let me eat some of that red stew

996
00:37:24,238 --> 00:37:25,115
for I'm exhausted.

997
00:37:25,529 --> 00:37:27,123
Therefore, his name was called Eat because it

998
00:37:27,123 --> 00:37:29,353
means red. Jacob said tell me your birth

999
00:37:29,353 --> 00:37:29,752
right now.

1000
00:37:30,708 --> 00:37:32,222
Esa said I'm about to die,

1001
00:37:33,018 --> 00:37:34,134
which is pretty dramatic.

1002
00:37:35,424 --> 00:37:37,102
Of what you as a birthright right to

1003
00:37:37,102 --> 00:37:37,262
me.

1004
00:37:37,981 --> 00:37:39,420
Jacob said swear to me now.

1005
00:37:40,538 --> 00:37:42,456
So esa saw swore to him and sold

1006
00:37:42,456 --> 00:37:43,815
his birthright right to Jacob,

1007
00:37:44,309 --> 00:37:46,467
then Jacob Gave Esa saw bread and lentils

1008
00:37:46,467 --> 00:37:48,944
stew and he ate and drank and rose

1009
00:37:48,944 --> 00:37:50,542
and went away Didn't think anything about giving

1010
00:37:50,542 --> 00:37:52,540
up his birthright right. Thus he the despise

1011
00:37:52,540 --> 00:37:52,700
it.

1012
00:37:53,594 --> 00:37:55,591
So the point is Jacob coveted at Esa

1013
00:37:55,591 --> 00:37:57,109
ethos birthright when he was in the Womb

1014
00:37:57,109 --> 00:37:58,786
and he still coveted it lair.

1015
00:37:59,665 --> 00:38:02,068
Coveted this is not something that disappears on

1016
00:38:02,068 --> 00:38:04,215
its own with time. It is not something

1017
00:38:04,215 --> 00:38:05,170
that's outgrown.

1018
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,239
And let me say, like, if not something

1019
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,066
we overcome without repentance, might be a better

1020
00:38:11,066 --> 00:38:11,543
way to say it.

1021
00:38:13,687 --> 00:38:15,038
And this is why if we cover a

1022
00:38:15,038 --> 00:38:17,198
bigger house, we cover a fancy car are

1023
00:38:17,198 --> 00:38:19,027
we covered a better paying job? It's not

1024
00:38:19,027 --> 00:38:21,414
going to disappear? And this is why you'll

1025
00:38:21,414 --> 00:38:23,005
meet some people and it is a sad

1026
00:38:23,005 --> 00:38:23,323
thing.

1027
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,889
Or they could be in our 60 seventies,

1028
00:38:26,128 --> 00:38:26,606
eighties,

1029
00:38:28,042 --> 00:38:28,542
still

1030
00:38:28,999 --> 00:38:29,499
discontent

1031
00:38:30,036 --> 00:38:32,030
with their marriage with their career with their

1032
00:38:32,030 --> 00:38:34,277
children with their parents with their house their

1033
00:38:34,277 --> 00:38:34,596
friends,

1034
00:38:35,391 --> 00:38:36,822
spend decades of their lives,

1035
00:38:39,128 --> 00:38:39,764
discontent and bitter.

1036
00:38:40,639 --> 00:38:40,957
Why?

1037
00:38:41,672 --> 00:38:43,286
Because of cove

1038
00:38:43,740 --> 00:38:45,510
with It's a sin they didn't repent. It

1039
00:38:45,510 --> 00:38:47,184
was never put off so that they could

1040
00:38:47,184 --> 00:38:48,062
put on consent.

1041
00:38:49,737 --> 00:38:51,571
Now we can learn from Esa lesson 4

1042
00:38:51,651 --> 00:38:53,746
Esa saw shows Cove in this part 1

1043
00:38:54,059 --> 00:38:54,858
produces bitterness.

1044
00:38:56,696 --> 00:38:59,253
Ef shows us that cove part 1 produces

1045
00:38:59,253 --> 00:38:59,652
bitterness.

1046
00:39:03,409 --> 00:39:05,258
How did Esa respond

1047
00:39:06,742 --> 00:39:09,282
when he learned that his brother, Jacob received

1048
00:39:09,282 --> 00:39:11,682
his birthright right? Did he confess us then

1049
00:39:11,682 --> 00:39:12,239
in repent?

1050
00:39:13,512 --> 00:39:14,149
No, he didn't.

1051
00:39:15,104 --> 00:39:17,570
We discussed cove tempting us to become better,

1052
00:39:17,903 --> 00:39:19,171
and Eth is a great example of that.

1053
00:39:19,329 --> 00:39:21,310
Look at Genesis 27 41,

1054
00:39:22,974 --> 00:39:24,480
Genesis 27 41,

1055
00:39:24,955 --> 00:39:25,010
and

1056
00:39:28,472 --> 00:39:30,166
I'll go through these versus quickly

1057
00:39:30,621 --> 00:39:32,054
drawing your attention to a few parts.

1058
00:39:33,821 --> 00:39:35,096
Genesis 27 41.

1059
00:39:35,813 --> 00:39:37,588
Now Esa saw hated

1060
00:39:38,283 --> 00:39:39,876
Jake a that a strong language.

1061
00:39:40,766 --> 00:39:42,828
Hates Jacob because of the blessing with which

1062
00:39:42,828 --> 00:39:45,446
his father had blessed him, and Esa said

1063
00:39:45,446 --> 00:39:47,191
to himself, the days of mourning for my

1064
00:39:47,191 --> 00:39:48,063
father approaching,

1065
00:39:48,793 --> 00:39:51,505
then I will kill my brother Jacob, so

1066
00:39:51,585 --> 00:39:53,101
East Was planning to murder,

1067
00:39:54,776 --> 00:39:55,334
murder him.

1068
00:39:56,530 --> 00:39:57,647
Skip down to verse 44.

1069
00:40:01,082 --> 00:40:03,387
His mother 7 say your brother's anger turns

1070
00:40:03,387 --> 00:40:04,284
away from you

1071
00:40:05,214 --> 00:40:05,714
until

1072
00:40:06,104 --> 00:40:09,318
his mother recognizes this. Until your brother anger

1073
00:40:09,377 --> 00:40:10,734
turns away from you,

1074
00:40:11,293 --> 00:40:13,049
and he forgets. So this is why Jacob

1075
00:40:13,049 --> 00:40:14,565
had to flee and go live with Lay,

1076
00:40:15,618 --> 00:40:17,213
because his mother was convince this is the

1077
00:40:17,213 --> 00:40:18,570
only way to keep them alive.

1078
00:40:19,926 --> 00:40:22,730
The words esa saw hated Jacob, I will

1079
00:40:22,730 --> 00:40:25,344
kill my brother, Jacob, Your brother's anger, reveal

1080
00:40:25,344 --> 00:40:27,246
just how bitter Esa became.

1081
00:40:29,637 --> 00:40:31,539
I didn't read it, but Rebecca said, esa

1082
00:40:31,539 --> 00:40:32,807
saw comforts himself.

1083
00:40:34,391 --> 00:40:35,184
Comforts himself.

1084
00:40:36,055 --> 00:40:38,057
Thinking about... In in verse 42. I'll have

1085
00:40:38,057 --> 00:40:39,330
you. Look at verse 42. The words of

1086
00:40:39,728 --> 00:40:41,637
Her older brother, told her son, we're told

1087
00:40:41,876 --> 00:40:43,547
Rebecca. She sent, called Jacob,

1088
00:40:44,039 --> 00:40:45,630
Her younger son and said to him behold

1089
00:40:45,630 --> 00:40:48,652
your brother esa thought comforts himself about you

1090
00:40:48,652 --> 00:40:49,925
by planning to kill you.

1091
00:40:51,134 --> 00:40:52,727
Now how fitting is that?

1092
00:40:53,524 --> 00:40:55,356
When people are better, how do they comfort

1093
00:40:55,356 --> 00:40:55,595
themselves?

1094
00:40:56,551 --> 00:40:57,586
By thinking about,

1095
00:40:59,278 --> 00:41:02,075
horrible things. They want to see happen to

1096
00:41:02,075 --> 00:41:03,454
the person they're bitter toward

1097
00:41:03,833 --> 00:41:05,911
or thinking about horrible things they wanna do

1098
00:41:05,911 --> 00:41:06,550
to that person,

1099
00:41:07,203 --> 00:41:08,816
I mean, this is a very unique

1100
00:41:09,191 --> 00:41:10,702
moment where we get an insight into a

1101
00:41:10,702 --> 00:41:13,246
bitterness where Re rebecca says, your brother is

1102
00:41:13,246 --> 00:41:13,746
comforting

1103
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,553
himself by thinking about murdering you. Which is

1104
00:41:17,553 --> 00:41:20,092
frequently what happens when we're bitter.

1105
00:41:20,726 --> 00:41:23,662
We comfort ourselves with these ugly dark spots,

1106
00:41:24,314 --> 00:41:26,072
about what either we hope happens to the

1107
00:41:26,072 --> 00:41:27,350
person or what we wanna do to them.

1108
00:41:28,469 --> 00:41:30,626
Now turn to hebrews 12:15, we won't turn

1109
00:41:30,626 --> 00:41:31,526
back to Genesis

1110
00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:33,834
I want you to see the ethos connected

1111
00:41:33,834 --> 00:41:36,088
to bitterness, caused by his cove.

1112
00:41:37,901 --> 00:41:40,134
So Hebrews is James t the Bibles after

1113
00:41:40,213 --> 00:41:40,931
Paul's epi,

1114
00:41:43,096 --> 00:41:44,686
Think this is the last place we turn.

1115
00:41:45,641 --> 00:41:47,789
Right before James where we have a scripture

1116
00:41:47,789 --> 00:41:48,027
reading.

1117
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:55,800
Hebrews 12:15 and 16 or 2 versus about

1118
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:56,280
esa.

1119
00:41:59,807 --> 00:42:01,243
And I want you to notice that esa

1120
00:42:01,243 --> 00:42:03,157
saw is connected here to bitterness,

1121
00:42:03,954 --> 00:42:05,869
which shouldn't be surprising based on the verses

1122
00:42:05,869 --> 00:42:06,906
we just read in Genesis.

1123
00:42:07,878 --> 00:42:10,110
The Hebrews 12:15 c to that no 1

1124
00:42:10,110 --> 00:42:12,423
fails to obtain the grace of God that

1125
00:42:12,423 --> 00:42:14,278
no root of bitterness

1126
00:42:14,655 --> 00:42:15,953
springs up and

1127
00:42:16,662 --> 00:42:18,884
causes trouble and buy it many become to

1128
00:42:18,884 --> 00:42:20,789
file that no 1 is sexually immoral or

1129
00:42:20,789 --> 00:42:23,249
un holy here it is like Esa, who

1130
00:42:23,249 --> 00:42:24,757
sold his birthright right for a single meal.

1131
00:42:25,568 --> 00:42:28,120
So how much trouble was caused by Esa

1132
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:29,874
ethos root. If we talk about a root

1133
00:42:29,874 --> 00:42:31,948
of bitterness if filing many are causing trouble,

1134
00:42:32,187 --> 00:42:33,862
how much trouble was caused by Esa ethos

1135
00:42:33,862 --> 00:42:34,260
bitterness?

1136
00:42:34,833 --> 00:42:36,128
So much so that

1137
00:42:36,581 --> 00:42:38,330
Jacob had to flee to go live with

1138
00:42:38,409 --> 00:42:38,807
Lay,

1139
00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:41,350
Rebecca said 4 a while. Because I don't

1140
00:42:41,350 --> 00:42:43,440
know how long that while ended up being

1141
00:42:44,550 --> 00:42:45,829
end up being 20 years,

1142
00:42:47,429 --> 00:42:49,829
20 years, the Jacob was separated from his

1143
00:42:49,829 --> 00:42:50,329
parents

1144
00:42:50,869 --> 00:42:53,190
and his brother during that time, Rebecca died,

1145
00:42:53,444 --> 00:42:54,719
she never thought her son again.

1146
00:42:55,834 --> 00:42:56,334
It's

1147
00:42:56,710 --> 00:42:57,608
a disastrous

1148
00:42:58,543 --> 00:43:00,429
situation caused by cove, but

1149
00:43:01,186 --> 00:43:04,052
Cove ruins relationships, not just between Jacob and

1150
00:43:04,052 --> 00:43:06,839
esa thought between Jacob And occurrence. Now look

1151
00:43:06,839 --> 00:43:08,193
at hebrews 12:16 again.

1152
00:43:09,083 --> 00:43:10,913
That no 1 is sexually a immoral or

1153
00:43:10,913 --> 00:43:11,413
un

1154
00:43:12,265 --> 00:43:13,163
like Esa

1155
00:43:13,617 --> 00:43:15,447
who sold his rate for a single meal.

1156
00:43:16,098 --> 00:43:18,503
Now, it might initially sound strange

1157
00:43:19,114 --> 00:43:19,614
to

1158
00:43:20,146 --> 00:43:22,923
compare esa with sexually immoral people.

1159
00:43:23,735 --> 00:43:25,575
There are many similarities that we would do

1160
00:43:25,575 --> 00:43:28,215
well to remember, especially young people.

1161
00:43:29,494 --> 00:43:31,815
Esa saw coveted the stew that belonged to

1162
00:43:31,974 --> 00:43:35,580
Jacob like sexually immoral people cove the intimacy

1163
00:43:35,580 --> 00:43:37,175
that belongs to married people.

1164
00:43:38,611 --> 00:43:40,765
Esa was willing to trade his birthright right

1165
00:43:40,765 --> 00:43:42,775
for what, kind of a quick thrill. Can

1166
00:43:42,775 --> 00:43:44,954
we say a a quick satisfaction,

1167
00:43:46,375 --> 00:43:47,595
having a a quick

1168
00:43:48,135 --> 00:43:49,675
a desire quickly satisfied?

1169
00:43:50,307 --> 00:43:52,606
Just like sexually immoral people are willing to

1170
00:43:52,606 --> 00:43:54,744
trade their purity for a quick thrill.

1171
00:43:55,854 --> 00:43:56,963
Esa was impulsive,

1172
00:43:57,454 --> 00:44:00,716
He wanted instant gratification, Esa gave no thoughts

1173
00:44:00,716 --> 00:44:01,534
to the consequences.

1174
00:44:02,068 --> 00:44:04,057
If you're familiar with the account, did Esa

1175
00:44:04,057 --> 00:44:06,046
saw later feel bad about what happened.

1176
00:44:06,858 --> 00:44:09,009
Yeah. I thought. It describes him as this

1177
00:44:09,009 --> 00:44:11,558
grown man weeping, just begging his father, give

1178
00:44:11,558 --> 00:44:14,347
me something, getting anything you must have something

1179
00:44:14,347 --> 00:44:16,592
left. Remember he goes in, to get the

1180
00:44:16,592 --> 00:44:17,708
birth right, but the birthright right I had

1181
00:44:17,708 --> 00:44:18,823
already been given to Jacob.

1182
00:44:19,460 --> 00:44:21,771
So my point is he ends up regretting

1183
00:44:21,771 --> 00:44:22,408
it later,

1184
00:44:22,886 --> 00:44:25,117
and that's often the case with sexually immoral

1185
00:44:25,117 --> 00:44:27,126
people to not thinking about it at the

1186
00:44:27,126 --> 00:44:29,838
moment, but experiencing terrible regret later,

1187
00:44:30,556 --> 00:44:31,753
the shame of it,

1188
00:44:33,761 --> 00:44:37,447
Notice Hebrews 12:16 also calls Esa un.

1189
00:44:37,983 --> 00:44:39,497
Un means I'm spiritual.

1190
00:44:40,467 --> 00:44:43,329
What does un or un spiritual have to

1191
00:44:43,329 --> 00:44:44,999
do with esa trading as birthright right?

1192
00:44:46,589 --> 00:44:48,910
The person with a birthright right, took the

1193
00:44:48,910 --> 00:44:51,136
father's place and became the spiritual head of

1194
00:44:51,136 --> 00:44:51,772
the family.

1195
00:44:52,249 --> 00:44:53,919
So in Esa ethos case,

1196
00:44:54,793 --> 00:44:57,417
he was so un un spiritual,

1197
00:44:58,150 --> 00:45:00,570
that he didn't even care about not

1198
00:45:00,950 --> 00:45:01,450
becoming

1199
00:45:01,829 --> 00:45:03,430
the spiritual leader of their family or he

1200
00:45:03,430 --> 00:45:06,150
thought nothing about ab advocating that role and

1201
00:45:06,150 --> 00:45:07,349
allowing Jacob to have it.

1202
00:45:08,483 --> 00:45:09,621
And that's why

1203
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,873
we don't read the God of Abraham, Isaac

1204
00:45:12,873 --> 00:45:13,592
and Esa.

1205
00:45:14,869 --> 00:45:16,407
For him, there's never been

1206
00:45:16,959 --> 00:45:18,396
Mean, he could been 1 of the patriarch.

1207
00:45:19,194 --> 00:45:22,089
He he forfeit 1 of the most esteem

1208
00:45:22,228 --> 00:45:23,765
positions in all of came in history

1209
00:45:24,223 --> 00:45:25,660
to bend 1 of the patriarch.

1210
00:45:26,231 --> 00:45:27,659
Of the nation of Israel,

1211
00:45:28,056 --> 00:45:29,405
and he just gave that up to his

1212
00:45:29,405 --> 00:45:30,991
brother and I thought nothing about after eating

1213
00:45:30,991 --> 00:45:32,340
the stew just walking away.

1214
00:45:33,705 --> 00:45:36,010
That's how he was un and spiritual. And

1215
00:45:36,010 --> 00:45:37,680
it's often the case when they struggle with

1216
00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,622
cove. There's this focus on the physical versus

1217
00:45:40,622 --> 00:45:42,212
the spiritual. And my whole point for drawing

1218
00:45:42,212 --> 00:45:43,664
that out, is to be able to say

1219
00:45:43,664 --> 00:45:44,143
this to you.

1220
00:45:44,942 --> 00:45:47,579
Esa off focused on the physical with no

1221
00:45:47,579 --> 00:45:49,038
thought to the spiritual

1222
00:45:49,657 --> 00:45:51,575
and that is often the case with cove.

1223
00:45:52,229 --> 00:45:54,213
There was only 1 thing that Esa thought

1224
00:45:54,213 --> 00:45:56,037
about in that moment, and it was the

1225
00:45:56,037 --> 00:45:58,894
stew that he coveted. It was entirely physical.

1226
00:46:00,103 --> 00:46:02,259
No thought to the spiritual consequences and this

1227
00:46:02,259 --> 00:46:03,376
view to our last lesson.

1228
00:46:04,175 --> 00:46:07,129
Esa shows cove part 2 is a spiritual

1229
00:46:07,129 --> 00:46:08,327
versus physical problem.

1230
00:46:10,659 --> 00:46:13,139
Shows cove part 2 is a spiritual versus

1231
00:46:13,139 --> 00:46:13,940
physical problem.

1232
00:46:17,875 --> 00:46:19,094
Philippians 03:19

1233
00:46:19,155 --> 00:46:21,554
discusses people whose God is their stomach.

1234
00:46:24,114 --> 00:46:27,564
That means that they're dominated or controlled by

1235
00:46:27,564 --> 00:46:29,181
their appetite, physical

1236
00:46:29,559 --> 00:46:29,798
appetite.

1237
00:46:30,755 --> 00:46:32,591
Whatever they happen to cove at that moment,

1238
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:35,152
little self control,

1239
00:46:36,266 --> 00:46:36,766
no

1240
00:46:37,538 --> 00:46:38,333
self denial.

1241
00:46:39,526 --> 00:46:40,481
If ethos problem,

1242
00:46:41,769 --> 00:46:43,527
was not that he didn't want his birthright

1243
00:46:43,527 --> 00:46:45,364
right, his problems that he didn't want it

1244
00:46:45,364 --> 00:46:46,642
more than he wanted the sue.

1245
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,319
And he resembled every un spiritual person who

1246
00:46:50,319 --> 00:46:52,540
cove the physical more than the spiritual.

1247
00:46:54,523 --> 00:46:55,975
Donald Barn House wrote

1248
00:46:57,079 --> 00:47:00,435
History shows that men prefer illusions to realities.

1249
00:47:02,273 --> 00:47:04,270
Men choose time rather than eternity.

1250
00:47:05,323 --> 00:47:07,155
Men choose the pleasures of sin for a

1251
00:47:07,155 --> 00:47:09,227
season rather than the joys of God forever.

1252
00:47:10,183 --> 00:47:12,015
Men will read trash rather than the word

1253
00:47:12,015 --> 00:47:13,768
of God and adhere to a system of

1254
00:47:13,768 --> 00:47:14,246
priorities,

1255
00:47:14,739 --> 00:47:16,337
that lee god out of their lives.

1256
00:47:17,456 --> 00:47:19,932
Multitudes of men spend more time shaving than

1257
00:47:19,932 --> 00:47:21,231
they spend on their souls

1258
00:47:22,184 --> 00:47:24,257
Multitudes of women give more minutes to their

1259
00:47:24,257 --> 00:47:26,251
makeup than to the life of their eternal

1260
00:47:26,251 --> 00:47:26,650
spirit.

1261
00:47:27,847 --> 00:47:29,840
The point of men still sell their birthright

1262
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:31,197
right for a massive stew.

1263
00:47:33,128 --> 00:47:34,965
It is a shameful thing to cove the

1264
00:47:34,965 --> 00:47:37,681
physical and the temporal more than the spiritual

1265
00:47:37,681 --> 00:47:38,400
in the internal.

1266
00:47:39,374 --> 00:47:41,152
And that's what you thought pictures

1267
00:47:41,531 --> 00:47:43,629
and we can to when we cove it

1268
00:47:43,928 --> 00:47:46,106
because we're typically cove the physical

1269
00:47:47,057 --> 00:47:49,451
To prevent this, we need to focus on

1270
00:47:49,451 --> 00:47:49,951
the

1271
00:47:50,487 --> 00:47:50,726
spiritual.

1272
00:47:52,083 --> 00:47:54,178
We're not gonna have a whole sermon or

1273
00:47:54,475 --> 00:47:56,012
few sermon on cove

1274
00:47:56,643 --> 00:47:59,452
with me turning and telling you that the

1275
00:47:59,748 --> 00:48:01,203
solution is to try harder

1276
00:48:01,897 --> 00:48:04,069
or that it's about a white knuckle effort

1277
00:48:05,017 --> 00:48:07,010
And if you just put forth enough strength

1278
00:48:07,010 --> 00:48:08,685
and you're gonna have victory in this area,

1279
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:11,874
that's not the gospel remedy to this.

1280
00:48:13,324 --> 00:48:14,042
To prevent this,

1281
00:48:15,318 --> 00:48:17,631
we should ask ourselves what pot of stew

1282
00:48:17,631 --> 00:48:20,683
or physical thing we cove more than the

1283
00:48:20,742 --> 00:48:22,017
spiritual that the Lord offers.

1284
00:48:23,228 --> 00:48:26,567
And we resist cove by focusing on those

1285
00:48:26,567 --> 00:48:28,315
spiritual blessings that we have in Christ.

1286
00:48:29,746 --> 00:48:31,416
Let me conclude by taking back to the

1287
00:48:31,416 --> 00:48:33,099
verses that we looked at. To begin this

1288
00:48:33,099 --> 00:48:33,417
sermon,

1289
00:48:34,052 --> 00:48:36,036
which also make the point that Cove is

1290
00:48:36,036 --> 00:48:38,418
a spiritual versus physical problem. Listen to this

1291
00:48:38,418 --> 00:48:40,736
again. James 4 1 and 2 to what

1292
00:48:40,736 --> 00:48:42,962
causes corals and what causes fights among you?

1293
00:48:43,121 --> 00:48:44,177
Is it not this

1294
00:48:44,552 --> 00:48:46,460
that your passions are at war within you?

1295
00:48:46,778 --> 00:48:48,702
You desire and do not ask, see murder

1296
00:48:48,702 --> 00:48:50,693
you cove and cannot obtain the fight in

1297
00:48:50,693 --> 00:48:51,012
portal.

1298
00:48:51,729 --> 00:48:53,561
And you need to notice something super important

1299
00:48:53,561 --> 00:48:54,358
about these verses,

1300
00:48:55,155 --> 00:48:57,483
the James is making the point that we

1301
00:48:57,483 --> 00:48:58,702
focus on

1302
00:48:59,478 --> 00:49:01,871
the physical instead of the. Spiritual listen to

1303
00:49:01,871 --> 00:49:02,111
this.

1304
00:49:02,925 --> 00:49:06,045
Passions at war within you, desire, cove,

1305
00:49:06,605 --> 00:49:09,244
are always for him to describe the spiritual,

1306
00:49:10,219 --> 00:49:12,690
that cause the physical problems. He says ko,

1307
00:49:12,930 --> 00:49:14,763
fights and murders. Those are all physical.

1308
00:49:15,481 --> 00:49:17,235
So the point is the conflicts are only

1309
00:49:17,235 --> 00:49:17,894
the symptoms

1310
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,104
The problems arise from cove within our hearts,

1311
00:49:22,263 --> 00:49:24,432
which is what Jesus said, Mark 07:21

1312
00:49:24,569 --> 00:49:26,659
22 out of the heart of man comes

1313
00:49:27,034 --> 00:49:27,534
cove.

1314
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:30,790
And so when we experience all of these

1315
00:49:30,790 --> 00:49:33,760
physical problems, we're experiencing them because of

1316
00:49:34,534 --> 00:49:35,171
spiritual reasons,

1317
00:49:35,744 --> 00:49:38,130
When we experience conflicts, we have to look

1318
00:49:38,130 --> 00:49:40,914
past the physical to the spiritual and focus

1319
00:49:40,914 --> 00:49:41,812
on the heart

1320
00:49:42,426 --> 00:49:43,699
rather than the q itself.

1321
00:49:45,228 --> 00:49:47,326
So cove causes conflict

1322
00:49:48,983 --> 00:49:50,601
that takes place horizontally

1323
00:49:51,634 --> 00:49:53,940
So we tend to look at cove as

1324
00:49:53,940 --> 00:49:54,440
something

1325
00:49:54,815 --> 00:49:56,247
horizontal or physical.

1326
00:49:57,361 --> 00:49:58,530
But the weakness is

1327
00:49:59,048 --> 00:50:00,644
in our relationships with the lord,

1328
00:50:01,283 --> 00:50:03,140
and that's why the solution

1329
00:50:03,917 --> 00:50:06,151
to cove or the remedy for it is

1330
00:50:06,151 --> 00:50:08,791
to focus on our blessings that we have

1331
00:50:08,791 --> 00:50:11,969
in Christ. We put off cove not by

1332
00:50:11,969 --> 00:50:12,684
trying harder.

1333
00:50:13,240 --> 00:50:15,702
We put off cove by what has afforded

1334
00:50:15,702 --> 00:50:18,349
us through Christ. On the blessings things that

1335
00:50:18,349 --> 00:50:19,550
we have in him. Let me just read

1336
00:50:19,550 --> 00:50:21,150
a few of them. Ephesians 1, 3 to

1337
00:50:21,150 --> 00:50:21,550
14.

1338
00:50:22,510 --> 00:50:24,030
The God implied of our Lord jesus with

1339
00:50:24,190 --> 00:50:26,199
Christ who has blessed us in Christ with

1340
00:50:26,199 --> 00:50:28,266
every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

1341
00:50:28,903 --> 00:50:30,653
even as he chose us in him before

1342
00:50:30,653 --> 00:50:31,766
the foundation of the world,

1343
00:50:32,418 --> 00:50:34,732
In love, he pre destiny us for adoption

1344
00:50:34,732 --> 00:50:37,284
to himself as sons. He has blessed us

1345
00:50:37,284 --> 00:50:39,916
and the beloved, we have redemption through his

1346
00:50:39,916 --> 00:50:41,910
blood the forgiveness of our tres passes,

1347
00:50:42,721 --> 00:50:44,550
according to the riches of his grace, which

1348
00:50:44,550 --> 00:50:45,664
he lavish upon us,

1349
00:50:46,300 --> 00:50:48,130
making known to us the mystery of his

1350
00:50:48,130 --> 00:50:48,449
will.

1351
00:50:49,577 --> 00:50:52,122
In him, we have obtained an inheritance, having

1352
00:50:52,122 --> 00:50:54,032
been pre destined, we were sealed with the

1353
00:50:54,032 --> 00:50:55,145
promised holy spirit.

1354
00:50:56,433 --> 00:50:57,469
And so the point is,

1355
00:50:58,664 --> 00:51:00,257
instead of getting more stuff,

1356
00:51:01,770 --> 00:51:02,588
the gospel

1357
00:51:02,965 --> 00:51:05,847
solution to cove is meditating on our. Spiritual

1358
00:51:05,847 --> 00:51:06,880
blessings in Christ.

1359
00:51:07,676 --> 00:51:10,222
So if you find yourself ke, go to

1360
00:51:10,222 --> 00:51:12,130
ephesians 1, read through these blessings,

1361
00:51:13,184 --> 00:51:15,045
And when you do, I'm convinced

1362
00:51:16,385 --> 00:51:18,304
instead of feeling cove you're going to feel

1363
00:51:18,304 --> 00:51:18,545
what.

1364
00:51:19,984 --> 00:51:20,465
Thankful.

1365
00:51:21,917 --> 00:51:22,871
Content. Grateful.

1366
00:51:23,588 --> 00:51:25,122
How could we cove it

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when reading these blessings and thinking about everything

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that has been given to us in Christ.

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If you have any questions, or I can

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pray in way, I'll be front after service,

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and I considered a privilege to speak with

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you.

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Father the, thank you so much for the

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blessings that you've given us in Christ.

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We thank you that you've redeemed us that

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you have saved us, adopted us to be

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your friends and daughters, when we struggle with

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cove, Lord help us,

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to reflect on these wonderful blessings things

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and find contentment, fill us with thankful

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and grateful at those times. That's really the

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way to put off cove.

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And to be consent in Christ is by

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thinking about what he has done for us

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Lord. And so if do pray for that

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that it wouldn't be something that we try

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to accomplish our human effort, but would instead

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look to Christ and what has been afforded

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us through him

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and that we would be able to find

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contentment

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to But that's what we put on after

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repent of and putting off cove.

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Thank you for this time, Laura we thank

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you for your son he's done for us,

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and we put all this in his name.

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Him amen.