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0:01 Hey, Waters Church. Welcome to the last week of last days. Part 5 coming up in just a moment but I am absolutely sure that some of you are wondering, well, what about the Book of Revelation?0:13 Okay. We haven't had a chance to get through that book yet because it's a big book and it's super complicated. So good news, tomorrow, I'm releasing on my YouTube channel a revamped0:25 presentation of the book of Revelation. We did a study 2 years ago on my YouTube channel. We're bringing it back, and we've cut down the episodes 15 minutes each. I wanna challenge you tomorrow, release the first 70:36 episodes of it tomorrow morning. Check the YouTube channel out right here in the link right there, youtube dot com slash timhatchlife, and make sure that you are watching those videos as we go verse by verse through the0:47 book of Revelation and discuss the 4 interpretive views of that incredible book. Man, the world is crazy. Things are nuts. No better time than now to dig into the end times through that book. Okay. At0:59 all of our locations, different preachers, and we're gonna hit last days part 5 right now.1:35 Good morning, Waters Church. How are we doing? Alright. You guys ready for church even though it's Memorial Day weekend. And, I know George has mentioned, we just1:47 thank God for the lives, for those who gave their lives in service to this country. And as a reminder, again, we know that Memorial Day weekend also stands for this is the official day where you're allowed to wear1:59 white jeans. Amen? There's gonna be no judging right now. So from now until what? Day. Labor Day. That's it. After Labor Day, a lot of judging. But now you are2:10 allowed. Alright. So welcome, guys. I wanna just extend a warm welcome for those who are here for the first time. And I'm gonna ask you guys if you call Waters Church your home. Not only help those who are2:22 here for the first time, but just welcome those who are watching online. Can we just give them a warm Waters Church welcome? Yeah. We thank you. We praise God for you, and we hope that you guys keep coming back and2:34 hopefully make Water Church your home. Amen? Alright. So I'm gonna before we get going, I just wanna give honor to what honor is due. I just wanna honor2:46 pastor Tim for, allowing me and giving me the opportunity to be here with you guys and finishing off the last days sermon series. So could you guys just help me, just give it like a a warm and a2:57 thank you to pastor Tim? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Alright. So today for part 5 of the sermon series last days, it's3:09 titled sheep and goats. Some of you have already peeked in into the notes that we have given you that look like this, and you see the title of the message sheep and goats.3:21 Some of you have opened your bibles, and you may have a different title because you have a different translation. Some of your translation says from Matthew 25 verses 31 and 46, some of them3:33 is titled the final judgment. Some of them, some other translations have it titled as the judgment of nations. So, you know, just a nice,3:44 light, rosy, fluffy kind of message that you wanna kick the summer off with. Right? Yeah. I like it. You know, it sounds like I'm gonna be in the right crowd today. As3:56 you can imagine, and you know this by everybody's reaction, this is not an easy topic. This is not a popular cult topic in our culture. I just press judgment is perceived to be this,4:08 like, huge negative thing right now. Right? Like, you hear it all the time. You say, you know, I stopped going there because I felt being judged or that place, all they do is4:19 judge. You know, don't judge me. Who are you to judge me? I start coming to this church because or that church because I have not felt judged.4:31 You know? Judge. Judge. Judge. Judge. The average American churchgoer does not like to hear messages about judgment. The average American4:43 churches don't preach about judgment. But praise God, Waters Church is not an average American church. Amen? And the reason we're gonna preach4:55 about God's judgment, God's judgment is because it's in scripture. And if scripture brings it out, you bet, we're gonna preach on it. Amen. You guys ready?5:08 Let's do this. RC Sproul said that the 3 most hated doctrines and topics talked about in the church are 3 things, predestination,5:20 judgment, and hell. And because, again, today is your lucky day, verses 31 to 46 of chapter 25 of the gospel of Matthew,5:32 it talks about all 3 of them at once. So we're gonna go ahead and do that. But, I'm gonna test you, see if you guys have learned something from the previous 4 part. I'm gonna say a sentence,5:44 and I have confidence that you guys gonna help me finish this sentence. Are you guys ready? On 3. We know that Jesus has talked about these things not5:55 to scare us, but to do what? Prepare. Prepare us. Alright. We got some Christians who are going to heaven today. Alright. You guys this is a good amen.6:07 So before our further ado, just, let's all just stand up when we're gonna read from, god's word. Matthew 25 verses 31 through6:19 46 and it goes like this. When the son of man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him6:32 will will gather all the nations, and he will separate people 1 from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the6:44 goats on the left. Then the king will say to those on his right, come you who are blessed by my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of6:55 the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a stranger and you welcomed me. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in7:07 prison and you came to me. Then the righteous will answer him saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and and feed you or thirsty and give you drink? And when did7:19 we see you a stranger and welcome you or naked and clothe you? And when did when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you? And the king will answer them, truly I say to7:31 you, as you did it to 1 of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me. Then he will say to those on the left, depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal7:43 fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry, and you gave me no food. I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink. I was a stranger, and you did not welcome me, naked,7:55 and you did not clothe me sick and in sick and in prison and you did not visit me. Then they all they also will answer saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry or8:07 thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to you? Then he will answer them saying, truly I say to you, as you did not do it to 1 of the least8:19 of these, you did not do it to me. And these will go and these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. This is God's word.8:31 Bow your head. Let's pray. Father, we we thank you for your word. We thank you for the power of your word. We thank you that there's truth in your word, and we thank you, that your word and your8:42 son, Jesus, set people free. And, holy spirit, we just invite you into this room to minister to us and minister through us, Lord. And I just pray, father, that that as we meditate and as8:54 we reflect on these verses, Lord, that our, that that will be a pleasing offering into your sight and that you would help all of us, Lord, here in this room and online to see Jesus,9:06 him and him only, and we pray this in the matchless name of Christ. Amen. Amen. God bless you guys. Have a seat. K.9:19 As you can tell, the scripture today from the end of chapter 25 has stayed consistent with this theme that we've seen all9:30 throughout Matthew 25 and actually started well before that. So like in chapter 13, we've seen things like and the theme was separation. Right? Jesus separating sheep from the goats.9:42 And you remember in chapter 13, there was a parable about the good seed and then the weeds. So Jesus separated those 2. There was again a parable about the 4 types of soil.9:54 There was, 1 soil was called the path, which basically there was no soil. There was 1 that was rocky. Right? There was a rocky ground. It had a little bit of soil. There was 1 that was called10:06 among the thorns, and then there was the good soil. Right? And we also, the effect of throwing seed in there and each soil what each soil produced. Followed10:18 immediately by the the parable of the fisherman casting out a net. And then when he brought the net up and he's he find out that he caught bad fish and good fish. And just like a good10:30 fisherman would do, he will separate the good fish from the bad fish. And that was a picture of Jesus in the final days. In the in the judgment day, he will separate the righteous from10:42 the evil ones. And just couple weeks ago, kicking off chapter 25, pastor Tim talked about the parable of the 10 versions or the 1010:53 bridesmaids and how there was 5 wise bridesmaids that had flasks of oil for their lamps when they were all waiting for the groom, and they were11:05 separated from the 5 foolish ones that ran out of oil. So when the groom came, only 5 1, 5 wise ones were faithful, were ready, were ready11:17 for the groom. And last week, we saw the parable of the servants with the talents that was given to them and how Jesus separated the 2 faithful servants from the11:29 third 1. And, the the point that drove the message home for me was that faithfulness believes that God blesses those who make the11:40 most of their opportunity. And that was the answer for the second question of what was what does the last day church look like? So before the first answer was11:52 ready with the bridesmaids, and last week, we looked at that the last day church is faithful. And today in this passage, we have a a description what will happen during the final judgment.12:05 Jesus will come in his glory with his angels to sit on a throne in this earth, and he will judge all nations.12:18 And if you look at the original Greek word for nations, it meant it is ethnos, all ethnicities, all humanity. That's a black, white,12:30 brown. That's democrats, republicans. That's us and them. That's everybody, sheep and goats.12:44 And it also describes what will happen that the righteous judge, the king of kings and lord of lords will reward the righteous sheep, and he12:55 will condemn the goats. And throughout this message we're gonna talk about, so every time you hear sheep, it's actually a picture of genuine Christians, and goats13:07 refer to not the atheists, not the unbelievers, not the Hindus or or or whatever religion, but actually the goats are the fake Christians.13:20 So sheep and goats, goats and sheep, my main frame of reference for sheep and goats is strictly culinary. And I gotta tell13:31 you, they both taste nothing like chicken. Trust me. But in the in the in the time of the Bible was written, this made sense. So people who13:44 he they would have understood this reference. So when the shepherd will bring in the sheep and the goat for the night, that the shepherd will stand at the door of the gate, and13:56 he will make sure that the sheep go different way than the goats. And the reason why the reason was is that the sheep, because they have thick wool, they don't14:07 require a warmer place like the goats because the goats don't have thick wool. So the goats actually spend the night in a slightly warmer place than the sheep. And I14:19 I've watched a 7 and a half minute YouTube video. Well, I I typed it in the search bar, how does the shepherd separate sheep and goat? It was fascinating. The most fascinating 7 and a half14:31 minutes from a Pakistani shepherd, guy that was separated. It was interest interesting. He had a different voice for the shepherd, for the sheep, and he had a different voice for the for the14:42 goats. And it was interesting to see how that interaction they all look alike. Like, from from from the video, it all looked like the sheep looked almost exactly like the goat. Like, they're all grazing around. They're14:53 all eating kind of the same thing, but then it made sense and how at 1 point he just separated them, and it was interesting. So the picture so all these parables let's not forget that all these parables and all15:05 these stories that Jesus is bringing up, these are Jesus' words. It it meant to they're all connected, and it meant to paint a picture of what does a last day church look15:17 like. So the picture that it paints is that Jesus wants his last day church to be ready, to be faithful, and today we're gonna look at, if you fill in the blanks, the question, what does a last day15:29 church look like today? Answer number 3 is genuine. So fill in the blank, genuine. This part of, Matthew 25 has been and will continue to15:41 be 1 of the most misunderstood, misapplied parable out there. And 1 thing we ought to make clear here today despite15:53 both the outside noise and inside noise within the Pixie church movement. This is our stand and we wanna make it very clear, and we16:04 refuse to bow at the altar of the loudest voice out there or the cultural message. Our message is this is that this is not about social justice16:15 gospel. This is not about works righteousness gospel, and this is not about I'm a good person gospel. Amen? That's not what the those16:27 passages preach. We're look at it. And so for those who are saying no, this is actually teaching works works salvation by works. Right out the16:39 gate, if you follow along, I'm gonna give you 4 reasons why this is not teaching salvation by works. Let's just hone in right there. If you go to Matthew 25 verse16:50 34, 4 reasons why this is not teaching salvation by works. Jesus is saying, then the king will say to those on his right, come you who are blessed by my father,17:03 inherit the kingdom. Reason number 1, inheritance is passed down and not earned. Right? What they're receiving here is called17:14 inheritance. What is an inheritance? It's something received as a result of having earned it? No. I was waiting for a reply17:26 there. I was waiting for but I'm gonna it's not. We can't earn inheritance. Inheritance is something you receive by having a relationship17:37 with the 1 that really earned it. So inheritance cannot be earned. And in the same verse, verse 34, I'm gonna give you the same reason. Immediately after17:49 he said inherit the kingdom, he says, prepared for you from the foundation of the world. So reason number 2, inheritance, if you fill in the blanks, is prepared from eternity18:01 and not of recent fabrication. The inheritance is not a product of the inheritor. It's not. It's something it's not something that we're18:13 built by our own effort. It was prepared by God. That's what it says. Third reason, salvation by works contradicts the consistent teaching18:25 of the rest of the New Testament. It cannot mean that. You don't have to go far. If you stay in the book of the gospel of Matthew, you just flip back to chapter 718:37 verses 21 and 23, and I'm gonna read from the New Living Translation. Not everyone who calls out to me, Lord this is Jesus speaking. Not everyone who calls out to me, Lord,18:49 Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my father in heaven will enter. On judgment day, many, many will say to19:00 me, Lord, Lord, we prophesied in your name, and we cast out demons in your name, and we performed many miracles in your name. But I will reply, I19:12 never knew you. You may have known me, but I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God's law. This is telling us19:24 that it's never about what you did or even about knowing Jesus. It's about being known by Jesus. Amen. Amen? And John 3 1619:36 famously says, for God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that whoever did enough good works will go to heaven?19:48 No. I'm glad you said that. It says that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Point, fourth reason,19:59 fruits are evidence of the root. Ephesians 2 verses 8 to 10. And I'm gonna read it again from the NLT, translation. It says, God saved you by his grace when20:11 you believed. So you are saved by grace when you believed, and you can't take credit for this. It is a gift from God. It is a gift from God. Salvation is not20:23 a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus so we can do the good things20:35 he planned for us long ago. Jesus is not telling us here that our works save us, but that our works is an evidence that we have20:47 been saved and transformed through a relationship with him. That's what that verse teaches. Friends, the works are not the means of salvation. They are the20:58 evidence that we have been saved. I'm gonna give you a couple examples. Listen carefully. An apple tree, since my friend Chris21:10 had brought these fruits in here, amazing looking fruits here, An apple tree is not an apple tree because it produces apples. No. It actually produces apples21:22 because it's an apple tree. Okay. You look puzzled. I'm gonna repeat it again. An apple tree is not an apple tree because it produces apples. It produces21:34 apples because it's an apple tree. And since we're talking about sheep, I've read this quote from an article, Having real wool does not make21:46 you a sheep, but being a sheep causes you to have real wool. Interesting how that works. We Christian produce good21:57 works because we have been transformed by Jesus and having a relationship with with Jesus by the grace of God. It's only through a relationship with Jesus that we get to produce22:09 good fruit. And at the final judgment, whether you like it or not, and I know this is not a popular message, but it's in the Bible. So we have to say it, at the final judgment, at the day of22:21 the judgment, there's gonna be only 2 groups of people. There's not gonna be rich and poor, Democrats and Republicans. There's gonna be saved and unsaved. There's gonna be sheep22:32 and goats, genuine and fake Christians. There's gonna be no I know this is gonna sound offensive22:44 to some of our Catholic friends. There's gonna be no purgatory. There's gonna be no middle ground. There's gonna be no knock off ticket to to to go to heaven based on good works,22:56 friends. There's gonna be none of that. And if they told you so, tell them to show it to you in the bible. Alright. I'm gonna bring in23:08 illustration about knockoff tickets and trying to go to heaven. Yesterday, this might be very unfamiliar with you, but I'm still gonna throw it out there. So yesterday was was the Super Bowl of all Super Bowls in Europe,23:19 not here. Actually, in all of the world except the northeast. Right? So this is what I'm talking about. In soccer I mean mean, in football, like the real football, the 1 we play with actual our feet. We23:31 don't use our hands to throw the ball. There was a Champions League game. It's the best 2 teams on all of Europe. They face off. They faced off in Paris. It was23:43 Real Madrid of Spain against Liverpool of England. Whoop whoop. And they faced in Paris. And then Twitter went crazy because because right before the kickoff,23:55 there was this announcement that the game is going to be delayed at least 15 minutes. And you know the reason was? I know that you guys like, what is this guy yelling at us and telling us about soccer? I could kill us.24:06 Listen to me. There were so many people trying to get into the stadium with fake tickets that it actually it delayed not 15 minutes, but I think it was like 35, 36 minutes.24:19 By the gates, there were so many fakers and so many people that have bought tickets. They thought it was real with so much money. You wouldn't believe it. But the the the the the24:31 police force and all that, they had such a hard time dispersing the fakers, and they do you know why they don't wanna start on time? They want the people with the real tickets to come in. And24:43 that was a big deal. There's, like, investigation right now. How come there's so many fake tickets and all that good stuff? And I know this, like, you guys, like, what is this guy saying? All I wanna say is that maybe24:53 maybe when the day comes, there's gonna be people that they think they have the real ticket. And this is the time, friends. This is the time people Jesus is not trying to scare25:05 us, but he's trying to prepare you guys. Only the genuine article, those who have submitted their lives to Christ and confessed that he has died, rose again,25:16 and reigns right now as lord and savior over their lives will be able to get in. So what do genuine Christians do? Point number 1, genuine Christians25:29 bear fruit consistent with the root. Verses 35 and 36, he says, for I was hungry and you gave me food. I was thirsty and you gave me drink. I was a25:41 stranger and you welcomed me. I was naked and you called me. I was sick and you visited me, and I was in prison and you came to me. When Jesus is your root, you become more25:53 like him. You bear fruit consistent with him. He is our root. Works without the foundation of faith to spring from26:06 are labors that leads only to death. And and we don't have go to go anywhere else in the New Testament or Old Testament if you just stick with Matthew and you26:17 flip back again. Let's cross reference this, like, from the same context. Get into Matthew 5 verse 16, and he you know what he says? He says, this is Jesus speaking. In the same way, let your26:29 light shine before others so that they may see your good works and give glory to you. What does it say? Give glory to your father who is in26:41 heaven. The fruit reflects the root, reflects where we get this stuff from. Paul tell Paul tells Timothy in first Timothy26:53 6 18, tell them to use their money to do good. They should be rich in good works and generous to those in need, always being ready to share with others. The27:04 fruit. That's the fruit. As many of you know, I grew up I'm gonna bring this I go bring this again. I grew up as a Muslim. And when I grew up in much of the Arab Muslim world, we27:16 had this unwritten rule that we I grew up watching and seeing and and doing. If you trip while walking in a sidewalk or at home or at work or if, you know, if27:28 you, like, stub your toe or, like, you have butterfingers and you drop something, you know what you said? You just go ahead and you curse the Jews.27:41 Kind of like the way Americans will say, god bless you when sneezing. Now I am not proud of that, but people speak out the27:53 Arabic equivalent of curse the Jews in response to a minor mishap. Now this just was a demonstration of the28:04 fruit of the root that I had. It was 100 percent rotten fruit. Shocking to say now. Right? It was actually shocking to April,28:16 my wife, when, when I told her that this was the custom. And, you know, my mom and my sisters, you know, said it consistently. Even when they used to come when we used to have a relationship in here and they used28:28 to come and visit in the US, like, it just happened. And here's the thing. When I gave my life to Christ and I became rooted in him, that practice immediately, instantly became deplorable to me.28:40 And you know something? You know what it felt? It felt like having a sip, the first sip of your orange juice in the morning immediately after you brushed your teeth. Like, was yuck. That's what28:52 happened to me. I couldn't do that anymore. I was like, this is not right. You should have the juice before you brush your teeth, you moron.29:04 I, a man who grew up with every culture and religious message being, to despise the Jews, immediately had a complete change of heart and felt genuine love and care for29:16 Jewish people. That's Christ, my friends. That is Christ. That's heart transformation and not behavior modification. There was no process for29:28 me, And this still bugs April. Like, she we were trying to when we I was rehearsing the message, and she's like, wait. Wait. Tell me. What was the process like from going to cursing the Jews to not and loving them?29:40 I wanna hear the process. I said, all I could come up with, all I could muster up was there was none. It was immediate. You can hate me for this and you can say, how come he got an29:51 immediate change and I didn't? I don't know. But I'm gonna share it with you because I feel like God will use it for you too. And some for others, it's a it's a gradual change. It does not happen immediately, but I gotta30:03 tell you, it happens because it has happened, and maybe that will encourage some of you guys. And another thing that you're gonna hate me for, for those who smoke cigarettes or30:15 or and stuff, I remember, in my previous profession, you know, stressed out chef working crazy hours and all that. So I used to smoke cigarettes all the time and like a pack a day. And I was like half a pack a day, not30:27 pack a day, half a pack a day. And I was a Muslim, and and I started going to this church, and I just wanna listen to message. I wanna hear about, you know, what they preach out there. And I gotta tell you, there was 130:38 message that talked about how our bodies is the temple of the Holy Spirit and how we should care for that temple of the Holy Spirit. That it is no longer ours. It is what?30:50 The temple of the Holy Spirit. And I gotta tell you, I got out, you know, at the end of the church, I got in my car, hit the road in the highway. I gotta tell you, I opened the wind I turned the window down, and I31:02 did something very, very bad. I took the pack of cigarettes, and I threw it right out the window. And I'll tell you until today, and I know I literally I'm sorry. You can give me a fine.31:14 Shane will take care of that. But it was it was like, I no longer wanna do this. This is not helpful to me. Why would I wanna hurt something that kinda affects my31:26 relationship with the Holy Spirit? And I just that's that's the basic that's so it was just the basic thing that I understood at the time. So I just like chucked it out. Boom. And until today, I gotta tell you, since31:37 that day, I never had a craving and I never smoked cigarettes since that day. And you're clapping now because you think I'm a good guy. I am not. You should be clapping because that was god's that31:49 was god's word. That was the power of god's word that just set me free from that. So that is the miraculous and the instant transformation that can occur when you32:01 become rooted in Jesus. Good fruits are the product of good roots. And and and let's just set the record straight. I didn't say the the curse the32:13 Jews story because to vilify Muslims, you know, listen to me. My parents, my siblings, the guy that I get the best honey from and I go and I get Moroccan spices from are32:24 all Muslims still from today, and I love them and I pray for them. It's just to say that it just shows that the fruit we bear are the product of32:36 our root when we accept Jesus. We then when that happens, we then go on and produce fruit from him. And y'all looking at me like, why is he holding a peach? Maybe the peach will come to play32:48 later. But I wanna share it with you from, John chapter 15 verse 1 and 2. He said Jesus saying, I am the true grapevine, and my father is the32:59 gardener. He cuts off every branch that of mine that does not produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.33:13 Another scripture from James, and I love James because he was the brother of Jesus. He actually didn't believe in Jesus at for at first. It was, like, later on. And and and nobody33:25 knows Jesus more than his brother. Right? Like, probably they they had, like, bunk beds. You know, they they all listen to each other's stories, and and they all, like, fought for things and all the listen to what James33:36 is saying. James 2 18 to 22. But someone will say, you have faith and I have works. Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith33:48 by my works. You believe that God is 1? You do well. Even the demons believe and shudder. Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that33:59 faith apart from works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along34:11 with his works and faith was completed by his works. Faith is first and works spring out of faith.34:24 It's not even the the quantity of faith. It is the quality of faith that matters. And some of you have that like, oh, I need to have more faith. No. You don't. You just get whatever you got going, make it better.34:38 And it's the no so secret secret thing, right, that even the faith to believe in him, he actually gives us to us in in the first place. So all you gotta do is ask him today for more faith. And34:50 as long as we're rooted in Christ, he works in us, sometimes instantly, and sometimes he refines us over time.35:02 And in when we respond in him building faith in us, just like James says, we actively actively demonstrate his good work to35:14 others by what? By our actions and service to others. Second point, what do genuine Christians do? They genuine Christians believe everyone matters.35:26 Everyone matters. Matthew 25 verses 37 to 40, he says, this is Jesus speaking. Then the righteous will answer him saying, Lord, when did35:38 we see you hungry and feed you or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you strange and welcome you or naked or clothe you? And when and when and when? They're asking. They sound35:50 surprised. They know they have not seen Jesus, and they know they have not done those things to Jesus. And this is what he tells them, truly I say to you, as you did36:02 it to 1 of the least of these, my brothers, you did it to me. Let me be clear again. This does not mean me mean that every choice, every36:13 cause, every feeling, every belief that people champion needs to be rallied around and supported. We gotta we gotta have discernment people. Right? We gotta we gotta discern36:25 which cause to support. It does, however, mean that the difficult person you know that person? The 1 who actually messes up, the 1 who is on the36:37 outskirts of society, the actually genuinely marginalized person, the 1 that does not dress like you or speak polished English like you,36:49 the 1 that he's struggles and and to rise above the circumstance, the 1 that, like, messes up and they just look and seem37:00 unredeemable, that 1, that is the 1 that we ought to remind ourselves, guys, that he or she are too created in the image of God,37:12 that they are image bearers of our father in heaven. We are to love them. We are to love on them and act like Jesus when he37:24 reached out and and touched the plagued leper and he healed him, And act like Jesus when he healed the blind man, and act like Jesus when he healed the woman with the blood issue, and act37:36 like Jesus when he went and sought after the woman at the well. Those are the marginalized people. And you know what? Some of these amazing miracles that Jesus have performed, he did them with37:47 the marginalized people, the genuine marginalized people, not what cultures tells us who is marginalized and who's not. So how do we demonstrate genuine love for37:59 God? If you fill in the blanks, the answer is we love people genuinely. And if we can't or won't love other people the way God38:11 does, then we don't really understand him or maybe haven't even really been born of God. Yeah. I know. I know. You think that because this guy is holding a38:23 microphone here, he got it all together. I trust me. I have a hard time loving people the way God does love them too. And if you're honest with yourselves, should raise your hand with me right now.38:36 There we go. You got, like, 30 percent honest people in this house today. 31 percent of people. I know we can't love them, and you know why? That's when when you38:48 and I need the power of the holy spirit to help us. Because only from God's love for us that we can then show genuine love for other people.39:00 We have to start from there, not earn it, but go from the position of I am loved by God, therefore, I'm gonna spit it around. That is the fruit. That is the fruit. Who wants some39:11 fruit? Raise your hand. Troy, you didn't raise your hand, but you're getting a fake apple right now. Who wants a peach? You want a peach? Right there. Does it does it does it feel good? Does it39:23 taste good? We're gonna talk about that fake truth. This is what separates guys. Okay. Focus here. 1 second. Focus. No fruit talk. That's what separates sheep from39:35 goats is the power allowing God by the power of the Holy Spirit to work in us in order to produce good fruit. Amen? And look at39:47 Paul's words. First Peter I mean, not Paul. Peter. First Peter chapter 1 verses 22 and 23. He says, having purified your souls byShow more
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