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0:00Luke chapter 12 verse 1.
0:03Under these circumstances, [music]
0:05after so many thousands of people had
0:08gathered together that they were
0:10stepping on one another, he began saying
0:13to his disciples [music] first of all,
0:15"Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees,
0:19which is hypocrisy.
0:22But there is nothing covered up that
0:25will not be revealed,
0:27and hidden that will not be made known.
0:30Accordingly, whatever you [music] have
0:33said in the dark will be heard in the
0:35light,
0:36and what you have whispered in the inner
0:38rooms will [music] be proclaimed upon
0:40the housetops.
0:42I say to you, my friends,
0:45do not be afraid of those who kill the
0:47body, and after that have no more they
0:50can do.
0:52But I will warn you whom to fear. Fear
0:55the one who,
0:57after he has killed, has authority to
0:59cast you into hell.
1:01Yes, I tell you, fear him.
1:04Are not five sparrows sold for two
1:07cents?
1:08Yet not one [music] of them is forgotten
1:10before God.
1:11Indeed, the very hairs of your head are
1:14all numbered.
1:16Do not fear, you are more valuable than
1:18many sparrows.
1:20And I say to you, everyone who confesses
1:23me before men, the Son of Man will
1:26confess him before the angels of God.
1:29But whoever denies me before men will be
1:33denied before the angels of God.
1:36And everyone who speaks a word against
1:38the Son of Man,
1:39>> [music]
1:39>> it will be forgiven him.
1:41But he who blasphemes against the Holy
1:44Spirit, it will not be forgiven him.
1:47When they bring you before the
1:49synagogues
1:50and the rulers [music] and the
1:52authorities, do not worry about how or
1:55what you are to speak in your defense or
1:58what you are to say.
2:00For the Holy Spirit will teach you in
2:03that very hour what you ought to say.
2:07So in this section, Jesus is telling
2:11them
2:12that they should watch out for the
2:14leaven of the Pharisees.
2:17So he doesn't say watch out because the
2:19Pharisees are hypocritical.
2:21He says their hypocrisy is like leaven.
2:25It's like yeast.
2:27It changes gradually the substance of a
2:30material.
2:32If you [music] add leaven to a lump of
2:34dough,
2:35does that dough stay the same?
2:38No, it it works its influence through
2:41that entire lump. It inflates it. It
2:44expands it. It substantively changes the
2:47structure of that dough.
2:50And the yeast is hypocrisy.
2:53It's saying one thing and doing another.
2:56It's saying something publicly that is
2:58different than what you say privately.
3:01So he says,
3:03"Whatever you say in the dark,
3:05it will be heard in the light."
3:08And you say, "Well,
3:10is he talking about us saying bad
3:12things?
3:13And and are unkind words coming to
3:16light?" Yes, but that's not all he's
3:19talking about. He's also talking about
3:23the good.
3:24The fact that
3:27they are trying to suppress Jesus'
3:29message and they're trying to keep it
3:31quiet in the houses and it's going to be
3:34proclaimed upon the rooftops.
3:37But he goes on and he says that
3:40he indicates that the motivation for
3:43speaking quietly about him
3:46or the motivation for speaking
3:49differently in the open than you do in
3:51secret is fear.
3:53It's self-protection. But he says, "I
3:56will warn you
3:58who you should fear." He says, "My
4:00friends,
4:01do not be afraid of those who kill the
4:04body and after that can do no more."
4:08Now, most people would hear that
4:09statement and find it
4:11most remarkable. They'd be incredulous
4:14at the statement.
4:16Because what more can you do after
4:18you've killed the body?
4:20Well, Jesus' equation is not temporal.
4:22It's not earthbound.
4:25It's eternal.
4:27And he's saying, "Don't think only in
4:30terms of what happens here on earth.
4:32Think in terms of what is going to
4:35happen in eternity."
4:37And he he does not give us this notion
4:39that we should fear nothing.
4:43He gives us this notion that we should
4:44fear nothing except God.
4:47But that we should fear God. Yes, I tell
4:50you, "Fear him," he says.
4:52Anyone who teaches you that you
4:54shouldn't fear God is placing you back
4:57under the fear of man. Because the only
4:59way to escape the fear of man is to stop
5:03thinking only in the temporal construct
5:06of what can be done to harm you in this
5:08life.
5:09But if you think in the eternal
5:11worldview, the eternal framework
5:14of what's going to happen after this
5:16life, that's how you escape the clutches
5:19of fear in this present time.
5:22And he tells us
5:23some of the ways that we need to take
5:26our secret words and make them
5:30public words.
5:31"I say, 'Everyone who confesses me
5:35before men,
5:36the Son of Man will confess him before
5:39the angels of God.'"
5:40Jesus wants us to have the courage
5:45to own our belonging to him, what he
5:49means to us before other people.
5:52It's easy to be a a Christian secretly.
5:56It's easy to have notions in your heart
5:59and that you whisper in your house.
6:02But when somebody asks you, do you also
6:04belong to them? Are you with him as
6:07well?
6:09Are you embarrassed? Are you ashamed?
6:11Well, that's because you're full of
6:12fear. And that fear proves that you're
6:15still living in the temporal construct
6:18of just this this world, of just this
6:21life, instead of the eternal construct
6:24of God's bigger purpose and our bigger
6:26destiny.
6:28Someone in the crowd said to him,
6:29"Teacher, tell my brother to divide the
6:32family inheritance with me."
6:35Well, now that is a change of subjects.
6:39Use your authority to make my brother do
6:43what I want him to do. To give me more
6:45of my possessions.
6:49But he, Jesus, said to him, "Man, who
6:52appointed me
6:54a judge or arbitrator over you?"
7:00This word appointed is the same word
7:03that Paul uses for ordain when he says
7:06to Timothy, "Ordain elders."
7:08And it means to be set in place, to be
7:10given authority through an office given
7:14from above.
7:16And Jesus is expressing profound
7:19humility. He's saying, "God has not set
7:23me in the place
7:25or given me authority to control the
7:27details of your life.
7:29That's not what I'm here for.
7:31I'm here to speak the truth and you are
7:34going to take responsibility for how you
7:36obey it."
7:39"Man, who appointed me, who ordained me
7:43a judge or arbitrator over you?
7:47Then he said to them, "Beware and be on
7:49your guard against every form of greed."
7:52So now he says, "I'm not going to get
7:54into the details
7:56of how you settle this matter with your
7:58brother. That's not my place. That's not
8:00what God has ordained me to do.
8:03But I am going to speak the word, and if
8:04you have ears to hear, you can
8:07obey that word
8:09knowing that you're accountable before
8:10God."
8:12Jesus did not exert
8:14every authority that he had the
8:16opportunity to exert. He stayed in the
8:18limits of the ministry God had given
8:21him. And if he had limits, how much more
8:24do we have limits and are obliged to
8:26stay constrained only to what God
8:30has told us to do.
8:31So he does not get into the details of
8:34whether
8:35John gets the cowboy boots and Jeff gets
8:38the sneakers in the inheritance.
8:40He has He is not going to weigh into
8:42those particulars because that's not
8:44what he's called to. But he is going to
8:46speak the truth that he knows if they
8:49have an ear to hear, it will settle the
8:52matter.
8:53Because that's what he's been ordained
8:54to do. So I'm not getting into your
8:56details, but here's the truth. Then he
8:59said to them, "Beware and be on your
9:02guard against every form of greed.
9:06For not even when one has an abundance,
9:10does life consist of his possessions."
9:17Why should we avoid greed?
9:19Because it doesn't bring life.
9:21Greed
9:23is giving to things the kind of
9:27excitement and devotion
9:30that should only follow
9:32that which brings life.
9:34Relationships bring life.
9:37Love brings life.
9:39Joy brings life.
9:42Truth brings life.
9:45But tables and chairs and houses and
9:48cars and horses and
9:51lands, they don't bring life.
9:55So greed amounts to desiring things
10:01as if they brought life.
10:04Treating things as if they were eternal.
10:08And therefore we're taking away from
10:11that which does bring life.
10:13And we're setting our affections and our
10:16ambitions on that which does not bring
10:18life. Because it's easier to get things
10:20than people.
10:22It's easier to get possessions than
10:24truth or love or joy or meaning.
10:28But those things bring life.
10:30And he told them a parable saying,
10:32"The land of a rich man
10:35was very productive.
10:37And he began reasoning to himself
10:40saying,
10:41'What shall I do, since I have no place
10:44to store my crops?'
10:47Then he said,
10:48'This is what I will do.
10:50I will tear down my barns and build
10:53larger ones.
10:54And there I will store all my grain and
10:57my goods.
10:59And I will say to my soul,
11:03"Soul,
11:04you have many goods laid up for many
11:08years to come.
11:10Take your ease.
11:12Eat, drink, and be merry."
11:17But God said to him,
11:19"You fool!
11:21This very night your soul is required of
11:25you.
11:26And now who will own what you have
11:29prepared?"
11:32So the man who stores up treasure for
11:35himself is not rich
11:38toward God.
11:41So, he's saying, you need to spend your
11:43energy,
11:44your time,
11:46your resources
11:48on building riches toward God.
11:52Because in the end, someone else is
11:54going to take over all your possessions.
11:57You're going to spend your life building
11:59all your wealth, and someone else is
12:01going to take it from you.
12:03Because you can't carry your crops, your
12:05barns, your things into eternity.
12:09But what you are going to carry into
12:11eternity is your eternal soul.
12:15And he's telling him,
12:20in this story, he's saying that the rich
12:22man was assuming, was acting as if his
12:26possessions could nourish and strengthen
12:29and prepare and secure his soul. The
12:33rich man said, "Soul,
12:36you have many goods laid up for many
12:38years to come."
12:41Big deal.
12:43That's not going to help your soul.
12:47But what if his life had been full of
12:49kindness toward others?
12:52What if his life had been full of truth?
12:55What if his life had been full of love?
12:57>> [snorts]
12:58>> Well, heaven and earth shall pass away,
13:00but the word of the Lord endures
13:01forever. Love never fails.
13:05Now abide faith, hope, and love. These
13:08remain.
13:09And the greatest of these is love.
13:11So, there are things that
13:13nourish and prepare our soul for its
13:16eternal destination, and there are
13:19things that do not.
13:21And when we start to treat the
13:24possessions that do not feed the soul as
13:27if they were the treasures that do feed
13:30the soul.
13:31That is when we are being caught.
13:34We are being snared. We are fools.
13:38We are the godless fool in this story.
13:42And he said to his disciples, "For this
13:44reason I say to you, do not worry about
13:49your life.
13:52Because the things of this world do not
13:55make you rich toward God. For this
13:57reason I say to you, do not worry about
14:01your life.
14:04Literally, stop worrying.
14:07Stop fretting.
14:10As to what you will eat,
14:13nor for your body as to what you will
14:15put on.
14:17For life is more than food,
14:21and the body more than clothing.
14:25Consider the ravens.
14:28For they neither sow nor reap. They have
14:31no storeroom nor barn.
14:33Yet God feeds them.
14:35And how much more valuable you are than
14:38the birds?
14:41And which of you by worrying can add a
14:44single hour to his lifespan?
14:48If then you cannot do even a very little
14:51thing, why do you worry about other
14:53matters?
14:54Consider the lilies, how they grow. They
14:58neither toil nor spin, but I tell you,
15:00not even Solomon in all his glory
15:03clothed himself like one of these.
15:06But if God so clothes the grass in the
15:09field, which is alive today and tomorrow
15:13is thrown into the furnace,
15:15how much more will he clothe you,
15:19you men of little faith?
15:22And do not seek what you will eat and
15:25what you will drink and do not keep
15:27worrying.
15:29For all these things the nations of the
15:31world eagerly seek,
15:34but your father knows that you need
15:36these things.
15:38But seek his kingdom
15:40and these things will be added to you.
15:43Do not be afraid, little flock,
15:46for your father has chosen gladly to
15:49give you the kingdom.
15:53Sell your possessions and give to
15:55charity.
15:57Make yourselves money belts which do not
15:59wear out, an unfailing treasure in
16:02heaven where no thief comes near nor
16:06moth destroys and where your treasure
16:08is, there your heart will be also.
16:13So he's telling them
16:15life isn't in the things that occupy
16:19your mind and affections. You're wasting
16:23your emotional energy. You're worrying.
16:27But there's no life there.
16:30Life is more than the things you worry
16:31about.
16:34You don't trust God.
16:37And he's saying
16:38what you need to worry about and you
16:40don't need to have worry, but you need
16:41to seek.
16:43You need to pursue something that does
16:46have life and that is God's kingdom.
16:49God desires to bring his dominion of
16:53love, his king dominion of love, into
16:56this world through you.
16:59He wants to express his dominion in the
17:02way you steward
17:03the practical things in your life, in
17:06the way you love the people in your
17:08life,
17:09in the way you share his truth to the
17:11world in your life.
17:15He wants you to bring his kingdom in
17:18your life.
17:20And if you'd stop worrying about what is
17:22not eternal and start investing in what
17:25is eternal, his kingdom,
17:28then God will give you all these things
17:30you worry about because he knows you
17:33need them.
17:34But they don't come as the prime
17:37product, they come as the byproduct.
17:41Nobody shakes cream to get buttermilk.
17:45They shake cream to get butter
17:47and buttermilk ensues as the byproduct
17:50of what they're after.
17:52And that's how possessions and blessings
17:54and things are. God knows you need them.
17:57He knows you need enough money to live.
17:59He knows you need good food.
18:01He knows you need clothing and houses
18:03and but if you'll
18:05if you'll shake, if you'll pursue
18:09the things that come first,
18:12his kingdom, his righteousness, his
18:14peace, his joy in the Holy Spirit.
18:18If you'll pursue being filled with his
18:21spirit, binding the strongman of sin and
18:25plundering the house and giving it over
18:27to the spirit of God,
18:30then in that grace, in that
18:33fruitfulness, all the other things will
18:36start showing up. You'll be like, "Oh,
18:38wow, look. He's giving me everything I
18:40once worried about."
18:43But you don't chase those things because
18:45the kingdom will never be the byproduct
18:48of your worry over things of the flesh.
18:53He tells them, "Do not worry.
18:56Do not be afraid, little flock.
18:59He feels sorry for them.
19:02They're like a bunch of sheep. He says,
19:04"Don't be like that, little flock.
19:06For your father has chosen gladly to
19:10give you the kingdom.
19:12While you're seeking it, he's glad to
19:15give it to you.
19:16God wants to give you his spirit. God
19:19wants to give you his purpose. God wants
19:21to give you the dominion of his grace.
19:26Gladly to give you the kingdom.
19:29He's not holding it back.
19:30But you're only going to find it when
19:32you seek it first. You can't be like the
19:35double-minded man who receives nothing
19:37from the Lord. You can't have two
19:39priorities. You can't be seeking the
19:41kingdom, you know, in these little gaps
19:44that you create
19:46in your real pursuit of seeking the
19:48things that worry your flesh.
19:51He says, "Sell your possessions. Don't
19:53hold on to things.
19:55Be generous. Give to people who have
19:57need.
19:58Loosen your grip on the things that are
20:01temporal,
20:02that are just in this earth,
20:05and get your your grip around those
20:07things that are eternal.
20:10Make yourselves money belts which do not
20:12wear out.
20:18Find the pearls of great price.
20:21Find the treasure buried in the field.
20:24The currency of love and truth.
20:27An unfailing treasure in heaven
20:30where no thief comes in nor moth
20:32destroys. Then he says, "Where your
20:35treasure is,
20:37there your heart will be also.
20:39Whatever you decide is valuable,
20:42whatever you make a decision, this is
20:45the most valuable thing in my life.
20:49Whatever you say, that is my treasure.
20:53That's where your heart is going to be.
20:55That's where your
20:56excitement is going to be. That's where
20:58your love is going to be. That's where
20:59your devotion is going to be. That's
21:01where your worry is going to be.
21:06So you can you can lie to yourself
21:08>> [snorts]
21:08>> and you can say, "My treasure is Jesus
21:11and seeing his kingdom in my life."
21:14But, if your heart, your worries, your
21:16excitement, your devotion, your emotion,
21:20if your heart
21:21is on all the things of this world,
21:23you're just lying to yourself.
21:25And then there's the other way in which
21:27he's saying this.
21:29He's saying that your soul, your eternal
21:32heart, is going to live
21:34in a place where you put your treasure.
21:37And if you put it in your barns,
21:39it's going to burn down with those
21:40barns. But, if you put it in heaven,
21:43you're going to be there where your
21:45treasure was. Be dressed in readiness
21:48and keep your lamps lit.
21:51Be like men who are waiting for their
21:53master
21:54when he returns from the wedding feast,
21:57so that they may immediately open the
21:59door to him
22:00when he comes and knocks.
22:04Blessed are those slaves whom the master
22:06will find on the alert when he comes.
22:10Truly, I say to you that he will gird
22:12himself to serve and have them recline
22:15at the table and will come up and wait
22:17on them.
22:18>> [clears throat]
22:20>> Whether he comes in the second watch or
22:22even in the third and finds them so,
22:26blessed are those slaves.
22:28But, be sure of this, if the head of the
22:30house had known at what hour the thief
22:33was coming, he would not have allowed
22:35his house to be broken into.
22:37You, too, be ready, for the Son of Man
22:40is coming at an hour that you do not
22:42expect.
22:45So, he's saying this speaks of Jesus'
22:47return, but it also speaks of
22:50God coming in each person's life.
22:53The time of our personal death.
22:56Like the man with his barns, okay? And
22:59he says, "I Here's how I want you to
23:00live your life.
23:02I want you to be like the servants
23:05in a big household
23:07where the master went away to a party,
23:11to a wedding feast.
23:13But when that master comes back to the
23:15house,
23:17he does not want to find all the
23:19servants asleep.
23:21Maybe he has horses that need to be
23:22stabled.
23:24Maybe he has
23:25Maybe the door needs to be opened for
23:27him when he arrives. Maybe the gate
23:30outside needs to be locked.
23:32But he says, "You need to be
23:34anticipating the master's coming in your
23:36life."
23:38And when he shows up, if you're ready,
23:41you're showing where your heart was.
23:43You're showing where your treasure was.
23:45You're sure showing that you are a
23:47servant to the kingdom.
23:50And this can even be a moment of
23:51blessing. This could be a visitation of
23:54God's spirit. But you're ready. And it
23:56says, "You open the door when he walks
23:59up."
24:00Picture the master walking toward the
24:02door of his great house in the middle of
24:04the night, and he gets right to it, and
24:06like an automatic door,
24:09it opens. That's how ready you are to
24:12open your heart, to open your life,
24:14to prepare the way of the Lord, to step
24:16into the moment, or to step into
24:19eternity itself.
24:22And he says here that when the master
24:24finds people in that state of readiness,
24:27you know what he's going to do?
24:29The master's going to gird himself. He's
24:31going to put a towel on, and he's going
24:33to become your servant.
24:35He's going to have you sit down
24:37there in the middle of the night, and
24:39he's going to serve you. God's going to
24:41give you what you need. Your father
24:43knows everything you need, and he wants
24:45to help you.
24:47But you need to be fixed on him,
24:50on his arrival, on his mission, on his
24:53house, and on your service to it, not on
24:56yourself.
24:58Peter said, "Lord, are you addressing
25:00this parable to us or to everyone else
25:03as well?"
25:05Like, are we the guys who are supposed
25:07to be ready? Are we talking about you
25:08coming?
25:10Or is this for everyone in the world?
25:14And the Lord said,
25:16"Who, then,
25:18is the faithful and sensible steward
25:22whom his master will put in charge of
25:24his servants
25:25to give them their rations at the proper
25:28time?
25:30Blessed is that slave whom his master
25:33finds so doing when he comes."
25:36So, he says, "Part of your preparation
25:37is watching, catching the door before he
25:40touches it, and part of your preparation
25:43is serving
25:45the others, the other servants in the
25:46house.
25:49Jesus wants to find us loving each other
25:51when he knocks at the door,
25:55giving each other our our bread in due
25:58season, our rations in due season.
26:01Truly, I say to you that he will put him
26:03in charge of all his possessions.
26:06But if that slave says in his heart, 'My
26:08master will be a long time in coming'
26:10and begins to beat the slaves, both men
26:13and women, and to eat
26:16and drink and get drunk,
26:20the master of that slave will come on a
26:23day when he does not expect him and at
26:25an hour
26:26he does not know, and he will cut him in
26:29pieces and assign him a place with the
26:32unbelievers.
26:34And that slave who knew his master's
26:36will and did not get ready or act in
26:39accord with his will will receive many
26:42lashes.
26:44But the one who did not know it and
26:45committed deeds worthy of flogging
26:48will receive but few.
26:51From everyone who has been given much,
26:53much will be required. And to whom they
26:55entrusted much, of him they will ask the
26:57more. So, Peter says, "Okay, you're
27:00talking about being ready for the master
27:02when he returns.
27:03Are you talking to us? Are you talking
27:05to everybody?"
27:07And Jesus is basically saying, "I'm
27:09talking to everybody who belongs in my
27:11house. But,
27:13there's a difference between those who
27:16know the master's will and those who do
27:18not."
27:20So, he's saying leaders
27:22who are responsible for feeding the
27:25other slaves and guiding the other
27:27slaves and telling the other servants,
27:30"This is what my master wants done when
27:32he gets back."
27:34They know the master's will.
27:37All right? But, those who they mislead,
27:40those who they lead astray into
27:42drunkenness or stupidity,
27:45they're going to be beaten with fewer
27:46stripes
27:48than the ones who were left with the
27:49instructions and knew more. So, he's
27:51saying to Peter, "I'm talking to
27:52everybody, but I'm especially talking to
27:55anybody who would be a leader,
27:58a leading steward, a slave with
28:00responsibilities."
28:03And he says that one of the things
28:04that's going to make him the most angry
28:06is if the leader starts to abuse
28:10the other servants in the house, starts
28:12to beat them, men and women. Says, "If
28:15he does that, I'm going to chop him in
28:17pieces and give him his place
28:20with the unbelievers."
28:23That's pretty rough situation. Jesus did
28:26not look kindly on that.
28:29I have come to cast fire upon the earth.
28:33And how I wish it were already kindled.
28:39But, I have a baptism to undergo.
28:42And how distressed I am until it is
28:45accomplished.
28:47Do not suppose that I came to grant
28:49peace on earth.
28:51I tell you, no,
28:53but rather division.
28:56From now on, five members in one
28:58household will be divided, three against
29:01two and two against three. They will be
29:03divided, father against son and son
29:05against father, mother against daughter
29:08and daughter against mother,
29:09mother-in-law against daughter-in-law
29:11and daughter-in-law against
29:12mother-in-law.
29:16This is a powerful statement. Jesus
29:18says, "I didn't come here
29:21to maintain status quo.
29:24I didn't come here to massage your
29:26traditions."
29:28And somebody could get very offended
29:30right now. He's dividing families.
29:33He's bringing truth and families are
29:36going to divide themselves
29:38based on whether they choose the truth
29:41or reject it.
29:45Jesus says, "I came to cast a fire upon
29:47the earth."
29:49That's a scary, revolutionary
29:52image.
29:54He wants
29:55something to come that changes the
29:57situation.
29:59And he says, "I am distressed until that
30:02fire comes."
30:03Now, what does this make you think of?
30:06It makes you think of when he says, "It
30:08is expedient that I go away, or else the
30:13comforter will not come."
30:15The Holy Spirit.
30:17And when did the fire come on earth?
30:21On the day of Pentecost.
30:22When there came from heaven a sound like
30:24a mighty rushing wind, and there
30:26appeared divided tongues as a fire, as
30:29they were all filled with the Holy
30:30Spirit.
30:32So, he's basically saying, "I came to
30:35cast the power and fire of the Holy
30:38Spirit on on earth.
30:41And I don't feel like I have fulfilled
30:43my mission until that comes. I am
30:46distressed
30:48until you guys get the power that can
30:51make you sons of God. But he says, "I
30:53have a baptism to undergo."
30:56And the baptism he's talking about is
30:57not a water baptism. That's already
30:59happened a long time ago with John in
31:02the River Jordan.
31:03The baptism he's talking about is the
31:05baptism of his death, the total
31:08immersion
31:10into God's sacrificial purpose at the
31:14cross.
31:16"Not my will, but your will be done."
31:18That's the baptism that he's talking
31:20about.
31:21And really nothing that he's been
31:23describing is possible.
31:25The building of the kingdom, the seeking
31:27it first, the proper stewardship,
31:31none of this is possible unless the
31:33power of the Holy Spirit comes.
31:37And he was also saying to the crowds,
31:40"When you see a cloud rising in the
31:42west, immediately you say, 'A shower is
31:45coming.' And so it turns out.
31:48And when you see a south wind blowing,
31:50you say, 'It will be a hot day.' And it
31:53turns out that way.
31:55You hypocrites,
31:57you know how to analyze the appearance
32:00of the earth and the sky,
32:02but why do you not analyze [music] this
32:04present time?
32:07On your way there, make an effort to
32:09settle with them,
32:10so that he may not drag you before the
32:13judge, and the judge turn you over to
32:15the officer, and the officer throw you
32:18into prison.
32:19I say to you, you will not get out of
32:22there until you have paid the very last
32:25cent."
32:26I know that this is a good principle for
32:28how to settle a legal dispute, and we
32:30should all take it, but I don't I think
32:32that's not what he's saying.
32:34I think he's saying,
32:36"You're coming to a judgment
32:38in your life,
32:40and you're not getting right with God.
32:43You can't read that you're about to be
32:45in front of a magistrate, and that
32:47magistrate is going to pass you to a
32:48judge, and before you know it, you're
32:51going to be
32:52handed down a judgment that you can't
32:54reverse." So, he's saying, "Get your
32:56life in order.
32:58Settle quickly with your adversary, your
33:01opponent, while you're on the way."
33:03So, what he's telling them, these
33:05Pharisees, these hypocrites, is that
33:07they should engage with Jesus, because
33:09they're about to be before a magistrate,
33:12and then they're going to stand before
33:13the judge of the earth, and it's going
33:15to be too late.

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