alright ha i'm lovin the Word of God and
I'm glad that you're also a lover of the
Word of God we are in Matthew chapter 7
once again and really digging deep into
Jesus's words in the first six verses of
Matthew 7 looking at this his words
about judgement and so forth and making
moral appraisals and when that's right
and when that's wrong and I want to
emphasize that there are times when it's
completely appropriate according to the
Lord Jesus I mean he himself admonished
his followers in Matthew 7 verse 5 first
take the log out of your own eye that's
the issue here you've got no right to be
finding fault with someone else when
you've got the greater fault first take
the log out of your eye and then and
then you'll see clearly to take the
speck out of your brother's eye you say
well you know what could be wrong with
that will think about it and God wants
us all to be obedient and holy and we're
also to be admonishing one another and
so forth exhorting one another in you
know in holiness and obedience to the
Lord think about like a preacher for
example you know if he's up there
exhorting people to be holy he's got no
right to be pointing out sins that they
might be guilty of if he himself is
guilty of the same sin I mean I i can
think of preachers in past history
pretty famous preachers who are you know
known for condemning and condemning
people in their audience for certain
sins and then it was uncovered and
discovered that they were golly they had
no right did they to be criticizing
anybody else because behind the scenes
you know in their private lives they're
guilty of the very things that they're
pointing the finger at other people
about right so I think of like John the
Baptist was it wrong for John to be
telling people you know when they said
what should we do to rap and he'd say
well whoever has two coats you know give
one to someone who has no coat well you
know what right would he have to say
that if he had no concern for the poor
if he was living in lavish
self-indulgence he will say well hey hey
buddy I noticed you drove your Jaguar
here too
and you your wife's got a mink coat on
there and you've got a nice leather
jacket and you're telling me you know i
should be given up my other coat to the
poor practice what you preach buddy so
the the the the consummate requirement
of preachers and teachers and
evangelists and pastors of course the
foundational thing is they have to be
obeying the Lord themselves they have to
be doing the will of God themselves not
just when they're in church but all the
time you know leaving a consistently
holy life people who aren't holy people
have no right to be telling anyone else
what to do okay and I don't know why
this is a stressed in Bible School you
you know how many classes do you take in
Bible School or seven a on holiness
personal holiness you know often they'll
teach about how to give a good sermon
how to administrate a church how to
counsel others but the foundation of it
all is you know you better be right with
God yourself John the Baptist had the
right to point out the sins of other
people he had the right to say you know
to Harran it's not right that you got
your brother's wife why because he was
clean morally himself he could tell
people you know don't steal don't take
money from anyone by force and and if
you've got food share it with those
enough food because he was living you
know an austere life he was living a
self disciplined life nobody could point
the finger back at him he had the right
okay now in this context where Jesus is
talking about you know correcting people
and so forth this verse number 6 you
know it is a natural progression of that
thought sometimes well in my Bible
they've got it marked so it's a brand
new paragraph as if it's a brand new
thought I submit to you it's not a brand
new thought it fits perfectly into here
talking about you know correcting people
talking about helping them get the speck
out of there I once you've got the log
out of your own eye okay and so it fits
in perfectly it's not a new paragraph
it's in the same section do not in verse
number 6 do not give what is holy to
dogs and do not throw your pearls before
a swine or they will trample them under
their feet and and and that's not it
that's not all and they may will turn
and tear you to pieces well isn't that a
good bit of wisdom I don't know if I've
ever heard a sermon about that in my
entire life but man I love that verse
because it just sets me free okay how
does it set me free well you know I'm
just a newspaper boy I'm the delivery
guy I bring the news and there's some
people that God says don't even waste
your time bring in the news to them
because they don't even deserve the news
cuz what are they gonna do with the news
they're gonna just on it- then
they're gonna hate you so nothing good
comes out of it at all now obviously
Jesus speaking metaphorically here you
know symbolically the dogs and the
pearls to the dogs and the pigs of whom
he speaks represent people naturally I
mean you know nobody's really literally
throwing pearls or giving something holy
to dogs but there are people that are
spiritual dogs and are people that are
spiritual pigs and and what is it that
characterizes them well it's that they
don't value what you're giving them if
you throw a pearl before a pig you know
he's not gonna say woo you know haha in
no way it what is that you know and
that's the end of that and and and so
people ask me sometimes I mean this is
the best answer I gave how do you know
if someone's a spiritual pig or a
spiritual dog here's how you do it if
take your smallest pearl and throw it
out there and then see what that see
what he does with it and if he steps on
that don't waste your time anymore okay
you don't have to tell people you know a
20-minute explanation of the gospel who
are not the least bit interested in
hearing even the first part of the
gospel right God's all wasting his time
in those kinds of people why should we
waste our time on those kinds of people
you don't have to share the whole
message of the Bible with people who
aren't interested take one spiritual
pearl throw it out there and just test
the waters as it were and see how people
react and if they take the bait if they
begin to nibble well
and you can throw them another pearl and
see how they do with that right okay
because you know God expects people to
seek Him God's calling people all the
time I mean God speaking people through
their conscience 24 hours a day he's
speaking to them through creation it was
marvelous creation all their lives and
people just go around ignoring him well
you know hey God wants us to look for
people that are spiritually receptive
okay those are the good ones and I'll
see you next time
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