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Radio. Like going on in the world today.

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I'm watching, uh, breaking coverage on

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this collapse of the bridge in

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Baltimore. And actually,

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I think I'm understanding a little bit more what's

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going on here. It's a cargo ship, huge cargo

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ship. And these steel containers, by the way, a little bit

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of, uh, a

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little bit of cool discovery here. The

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ships never were loaded with these steel

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crates for many, many years. They were just bundling

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things or palletizing things and

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then having to protect them from ocean waves.

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But somebody sat in new Jersey and

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thought, hmm, can we do this better?

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And they started the steel containers

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and they thought, let's hoist these things from

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truck beds, make them transportable,

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load them onto these container ships,

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and then when they get to their next

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destination, offload them, put them on to truck

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track truck trailers and boom,

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off they go. Pretty amazing technology.

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Uh, strategic for sure.

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But the ship has not sunk the

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cargo ships floating well. So I

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think what they're saying sunk is

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what I originally thought. I don't think that cargo

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ship, some cargo ships are self-powered.

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Most are tug powered,

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meaning either tugs will

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tow or push the cargo

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ships around the cargo containers.

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And I think because of the billows

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of smoke that I saw just before it

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struck, this piling on this bridge

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in Baltimore, I think what

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went down boom crew. First

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off, navigational. They broke

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all the rules. There had

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to have been alarms that were going off on GPS

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systems. And Loren C

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coordinates and everything because they were outside

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of the channel, and they must have known

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it last second because you can see billows

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of smoke as they're trying to reverse thrust on

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these tugs. And it looks

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like I don't see a tug anywhere. So I think the tug

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actually exploded in flames, okay.

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And went down. But the cargo

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ships sitting there tangled in a

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web of iron of the ship's, uh,

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kind of debris in the in the river.

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It's a horrific scene, for sure.

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Tragedy, man. And, uh, reminds

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us again of we never we just never

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know. We just never know.

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Would you pray, Carl?

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I'm going to pray, father.

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All around this globe right now, there's tragedy

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upon tragedy, but some of these tragedies

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come out of the blue.

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And they are shocking

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and heart wrenching. We can only imagine

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that someone was sitting

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at home, waiting for a loved one to arrive

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late from work or early in the morning,

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and no word, and they turn

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on the television.

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There are some who are gripped

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with fear. Only to find

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out that there's made it home. Or we're

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just delayed. And there's some gripped with fear that

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we'll find out. The

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horrific news that maybe they lost

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a loved one. Lord,

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we live in such a fragile world,

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and I pray in the name of Jesus that

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we will be mindful of this today.

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This is a week in Holy Week when we

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have an opportunity to be mindful,

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mindful of the brevity of life

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and the, uh, how

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how life is so fragile. And

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yet how you are so good. And

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Lord, none of these events are.

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A surprise to you. You've

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put in motion. In this broken and

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fallen world. Um,

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an opportunity for us to.

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Choose what is right. We know that there's

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going to be tragic mistakes.

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There's going to be wanton carnage.

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There will be everything in

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between. But Lord,

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you are the God of it all and we give you

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praise. This morning. I pray that you would comfort

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the hearts of those who

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have lost, or will soon find out

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they've lost loved ones. I'm assuming there will

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be fatalities here, Lord, but

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we just ask for your peace. Your

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peace. And

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Lord, would you use this in a way that

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would glorify your name? Would you bring

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a sobriety

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to national consciousness of

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the brevity of life? And

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the fragile ness of life.

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Would you help us all to understand as

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we head out today that we have no assurances

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that will come home tonight, but we don't live

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in fear. We can live in

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close proximity to our Savior and our

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God and find peace

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there. And we pray it

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in Jesus name. Amen.

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Amen.

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Yeah, I'm trying to decipher here. Boom! Crew.

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Somebody who's looking at this more closely.

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I don't know, maybe this was a powered up cargo

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ship I'm looking at. I'm looking at billowing

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smoke as they're trying to reverse thrust before

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they hit this piling. And

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then bam! They hit that piling.

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You can't. I

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mean, you get a, you get a cargo ship this size,

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I forget what the actual numbers are

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on it. But in order to stop a ship of

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this size.

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I think it it actually.

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Oh man. The devastation here just instantly

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that minute they hit that piling. Uh,

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when you see a cargo ship

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of this size when they get under

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power. It's

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it's almost impossible

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to get those things stopped in less than a

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half a mile. It's my

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understanding if they're going like six,

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eight knots, something like that. So.

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It's going to be a lot of news in the aftermath.

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And again, it just reminds us

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how quick life can

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change on a dime. And

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whenever I see something like this, I'm

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brought back to the reality that life

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is short. And

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we need to be loving people well, which is,

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by the way, lead into our great Tuesday

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here today of Holy Week and

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what Jesus said when he was being scrutinized.

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By the Pharisees. Coming

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up here in just a moment. Pharisees

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had asked him about tax.

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He said, well, give me a coin. What's

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he got on there? Well, it's got on that

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coin. Uh. Caesar's picture.

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Well, give to Caesar what is Caesar's.

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We're under that government. With

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a few more words, he shut

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down the Pharisees. Sadducees

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came along and started debating with him about the resurrection.

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And then when the Pharisees heard that he

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had silenced the Sadducees, they came

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at him again on another topic. Now

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the young lawyer step up and say,

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all right, gotta love

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a lawyer, huh? And

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a young lawyer step up and say, all right,

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Jesus, what's the greatest

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commandment? Now, that was a tough question.

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That's a tough one, because according to the

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Talmud, there are, count

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em now, 613

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commandments in the Torah alone.

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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers

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in Deuteronomy 613.

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So if you're all about really honoring

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God this morning, I mean, you want to live

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by the law and you want to live by the letter of the

7:18

law. You want to live by the letter of the law. I want

7:20

you to get out of pen and paper and start writing down 613

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laws that you've got to abide by. 613.

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It's not daunting. Yeah, it's a daunting task.

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I'm running out of ink. Oops.

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So what did Jesus say? And we'll

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get to that straight ahead.

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Whether it's number 1 or

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100. Take that step with Jesus

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today. You're listening to Carl

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and Crew mornings.

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So it's Tuesday on Holy

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Week, and Jesus went back into

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the temple. On

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this day of Tuesday. Jesus

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was in a debate par excellence,

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one on many, and

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he took on the Pharisees

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on several issues. But

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one was paying taxes to Caesar and he

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grabbed someone. He said, hey, grab me a coin.

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Whose pictures on that thing? And

8:15

he shut down the Pharisees by saying, listen,

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we're under this governing authority of

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Roman Empire. Hail

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unto Caesar! What is Caesar's. Give

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to him what is his without

8:27

respect to whether or not it's moral or immoral,

8:30

thereby undergirding what we find,

8:33

even in Paul's teachings, that

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God sets up governing

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authorities whether we like him or

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not, we gotta live within the boundaries of

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those laws given to us. Now, is there hierarchical

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law? Absolutely. And

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someday we need to, you know, someday we need

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to bring in an ethics

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expert, biblical ethics expert.

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And I'm going to do that. Make a note of that. Super.

8:54

I want to get that in next, next week,

8:56

because this is a great discussion to

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have of when does God's law

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Trump man's law? That's

9:03

a great question. And obviously

9:06

there's things like taking of life.

9:08

Those are obvious things that you go, no,

9:10

no, we're not going to do that if you tell us

9:12

to do that. Are there times

9:14

when there is a need to rise up

9:16

against the government? Yes,

9:19

certainly. But the question is, how

9:21

is that even done? And what's the watermark

9:23

that makes it to the point where we

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say, no, no

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mas, we're not doing that anymore.

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So we'll have that discussion one day. But we've been

9:32

put under these governing authorities. And the governing

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authorities that Jesus ministered

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under were wretched

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despots. Man, they were awful

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people. Make no mistake

9:43

about it, the brutality,

9:46

the way they treated women, the

9:48

way they treated slaves.

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Slavery has gone on since

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the beginning of mankind,

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and it has not stopped till

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to this day it goes on.

9:59

But Jesus ministered in

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this dark culture

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and gave hope where there was no

10:06

hope to be found. He was incredibly

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egalitarian. He gave a voice to

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women when no one else would. Ah, Jesus

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was an amazing man. He

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he cared for the needs of

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children when they were seen

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as laborers,

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and to be traded upon

10:25

for babies was born with any kind of

10:27

maladies, the father

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would have a choice of what to do with that child.

10:31

If the baby was born of the wrong gender,

10:33

the father would have a choice as to what to do

10:35

with that child, oftentimes leaving them out

10:37

in the cold to die. These

10:39

are just the way things rolled in the Roman

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Empire. That's the way it rolled.

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It was ugly. So Jesus

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shut down. The Pharisees and Sadducees

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come at him and they start hammering him about the

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resurrection. They didn't believe

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in it. And then in verse 34 of chapter

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22, this is on the Tuesday

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of Holy Week. But when the Pharisees

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heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they

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gathered together, and one of them

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a lawyer. See, you gotta watch

11:07

out, man. Asked

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him a question to test him. Teacher,

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which is the greatest commandment

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in the law? It's actually a good

11:16

question. If you've got a line of questioning

11:18

and you're wanting to just pin

11:20

a person down, ask him that.

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Jesus masterfully said,

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you shall love the Lord your God

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with all your heart and with all your soul

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and with all your mind. Some

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gospel accounts add strength. I

11:33

think that's the Luke account. This

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is the great and first commandment,

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and the second is like it you shall

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love your neighbor as yourself.

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On these two commandments depend

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all the law and the prophets.

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Shut them down again. Why was

11:51

this such a problem? Why

11:53

is it such a problem for

11:55

you and me? 613

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commands in the Torah alone. According,

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uh, according to the Talmud, 613

12:04

commands. And Jesus took all

12:06

those commands in the first five books

12:08

of the Bible. And he said, you can sum

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them all up right here. Love God

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with all your heart, soul, and mind, and love your

12:15

neighbor as yourself. Wow.

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So where does that leave us? In

12:21

a minute and a half. I'll tell you where that leaves us.

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In a spot

12:26

of impossibility.

12:30

Lest you think you can live out

12:32

these commandments were mistaken.

12:36

Except for one. Hold on.

12:39

Start your day moving closer to Jesus.

12:41

You're listening to Carl and crew morning's.

12:47

In this Holy Week, uh,

12:51

Jesus was being pinned down by a lawyer,

12:53

and he asked a question. Which is the greatest

12:56

command 613 recorded

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in the Torah. According to the Talmud.

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613

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commandments. If you get out a pen and paper and

13:05

start writing those things down and try with all

13:07

your heart, you're going to find yourself failing.

13:10

And even in the Ten Commandments,

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try to keep those. It's

13:15

impossible. So Jesus

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whittled it all down to you shall love the Lord

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your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and

13:21

with all your mind. This is the first commandment,

13:23

and the second is like it you shall love your neighbor

13:26

as yourself. On these two

13:28

commandments depend all the

13:30

law and the prophets. I

13:32

love what John Blum calls

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these commandments the

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hopelessness and the hope of the greatest

13:39

commandments, the hopelessness

13:41

and the hope. Why is it hopeless? It's

13:44

hopeless because there is no

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one this side of heaven that doesn't have

13:49

even the smallest portion of

13:51

your heart that is undivided

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in love. To God.

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You might say, well, Carl, what's our hope? Our

13:59

hope is what we find in Romans seven where

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Paul says, foolish man, that I am that which

14:03

I don't want to do, I do, and that which I do,

14:05

I don't want to do. Who will rescue me from

14:07

this body of sin and death? And then he says these

14:09

beautiful words. Oh

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praise to the Lord Jesus Christ!

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I want to do a specific call out

14:16

to you right now. Are you

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a person who has tried to be

14:21

good enough to get into

14:23

heaven? In this Holy Week,

14:25

I want you to know something from the bottom

14:28

of my heart that is a sheer impossibility.

14:31

You can't. It

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can't be good enough. And

14:36

if you're honest with yourself, you know

14:38

that's true. If

14:41

you have a quiet moment alone with God right

14:43

now, you'll recognize

14:46

that your deeds are,

14:48

as Jesus called them, filthy

14:50

rags. If

14:53

you're true to your own heart, you'll understand that

14:55

what Jesus said to his

14:57

disciples during Holy Week, most

14:59

likely tomorrow. We'll

15:02

hit this tomorrow. But he said, apart from

15:04

me, you can do nothing. This

15:07

is all about clinging to the hope and

15:09

salvation that is found in Jesus

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Christ and His power alone.

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So I want to ask you.

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Are you done trying to perform

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well enough to get yourself into

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heaven? It's futile.

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But with his impossible with man

15:29

is possible with God. God

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so loved the world that he sent his

15:34

son. That whoever

15:36

believes in him you will

15:38

not perish, but you will have everlasting

15:41

life. Life

15:43

today and for eternity. And

15:46

I'm going to ask you to give your life to Jesus

15:49

today, to quit trying in your own

15:51

strength to be good enough for him. By

15:56

the power of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit

15:58

is pulling down the blinders

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of your own self-righteousness, and you're seeing

16:02

yourself for what you are. And that's a terrifying

16:05

thing. But it's a hope filled thing, because

16:07

I want to tell you, Jesus sees,

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he saw and he

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came and he died for you.

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He loves you. The

16:19

notion of you getting off this treadmill

16:22

of performance and trying to be good enough

16:24

in your life. And I don't care how long you've gone

16:26

to church, I don't care if you're a pastor. I've

16:28

met many people that have been

16:30

in in ministry many years.

16:32

I've known pastors who

16:34

came to the awareness one day in their

16:36

life when they realized, no, all

16:39

of my self-righteousness is nothing.

16:41

It's only by God's grace that I can

16:43

be born again. And

16:45

they came to faith in Jesus. And

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I want you to know today is your day.

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You say, Carl, how can I? How

16:56

can I know? God's

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given you the strength and the grace

17:04

today to surrender everything

17:06

to Jesus Christ. Everything.

17:10

Don't let this holy moment in this Holy

17:13

Week go by in your own stubborn

17:15

pride and performance, thinking

17:17

that you're something better maybe than others.

17:24

Today is the day of surrender. So

17:29

you've believed that Jesus died for your sins,

17:31

but it was a passive belief, not an active

17:34

belief. I'm asking you to actively believe

17:36

that he died for your sins.

17:39

I'm asking you to believe today that apart

17:41

from him, you can do nothing. I'm

17:46

asking you to allow Jesus to

17:48

crown you with salvation today.

17:53

To believe that Jesus rose from the

17:55

dead and any power over sin that we

17:57

can claim it all is not our claim. It's

17:59

the claim of Christ in us, the hope of

18:01

glory. And give

18:03

your life to Jesus today. Today.

18:08

Oh, my friend, don't let pride hold you

18:10

back. That's gone. It's not gotten you

18:12

anywhere, you know that.

18:20

Surrender means repentance means

18:23

turning around. Requires

18:26

some humility, and it's an admission

18:28

that you've been going in your own strength down

18:30

this broad path that leads only

18:33

on a highway to hell. But today,

18:35

you're turning around by the grace and power

18:37

of God and His mercy alone. You're saying

18:39

I give you my life and I want to ask you, is

18:41

today your day? Is

18:44

today the day that you are saying right

18:46

now, I believe actively

18:48

that Jesus died for me. I believe

18:51

that he rose again. And today

18:53

I repent from my foolish ways

18:55

in all my rule

18:58

abiding, law abiding foolishness.

19:01

And today I surrender

19:03

my life to Jesus. I don't want to ask you

19:05

for the first time in your life, is this your day

19:07

of salvation today, first day ever

19:10

that you've truly surrendered

19:12

to Jesus is that you just

19:14

say it aloud. Yes, Carl, today

19:16

is the day. And

19:20

father, I praise you that you hear the

19:22

hearts of people. You hear the cries

19:24

of souls. And

19:27

Lord, for these who believe today.

19:32

That there is no hope in trying to live

19:34

life by the list and performing

19:36

for you, and they're done trying.

19:39

I praise you that you have allowed

19:41

the blind to see today.

19:46

And then you give life and life abundantly.

19:50

I praise you in Jesus name, Amen.

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If this is you today. Never

19:57

before have you surrendered your life to Christ.

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Never before. But

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today is your day. I'm

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and 2168.

22:46

Welcome to each of you. We're so glad

22:48

that you have surrendered your life to Jesus

22:51

today. You

22:53

are new indeed, and you're on

22:55

this path. A path

22:58

that leads not only home to heaven,

23:00

but on fraternity.

23:02

And we're asking you to. We're

23:05

asking you to just take this link that

23:07

I just sent to you and and

23:10

act on it, guys. Act on

23:12

it. There's links in there that are going to really

23:14

help you, resources that we've got for you that

23:16

will really assist you in your first steps

23:18

with Jesus. What a cool blessing it is.

23:22

Well, I want to drill down a little bit further in the second

23:24

part of this great commandment. And

23:29

tackle it in a way that. Might

23:32

surprise you. What

23:34

if I told you that the more people

23:36

who were just spectating. Tragedy,

23:41

the less likely it is for people

23:43

to get involved. It's

23:45

a fascinating thing. But

23:48

it came out of a title nine,

23:50

uh, training that I had to do here at Moody.

23:53

I was stunned by one little educational

23:55

piece in this title nine training. I was ho

23:57

hum ING this thing thinking, oh my goodness,

23:59

more of this training that we've got to do.

24:03

But what I learned in this is pretty

24:05

profound. And it's got some direct implications

24:08

to the great commandment. So we'll break it down for

24:10

you coming up. This is it right here.

24:12

Natalie Grant and Christ alone. That's what it's

24:14

all about. Welcome to the family. Those of you

24:16

commit in your life to Jesus today and

24:18

him alone, not trusting yourself any

24:20

longer. Praise God for his work

24:22

in your life.

24:24

Helping you take the next step in your

24:27

walk with Jesus. This is Carol

24:29

and crew mornings.

24:30

It's currently crew mornings. We're in Holy Week and

24:34

Tuesday on Holy Week. So let's

24:36

go back to Triumphal Entry

24:38

on Sunday. Humility,

24:40

praise of God and

24:42

compassion for cities. As Jesus wept

24:44

for three of the great markers of

24:46

authentic Jesus followers. It's an amazing

24:49

narrative in Luke 19, where

24:51

I was preaching from this last weekend, and

24:54

I got to tell you guys, as we

24:56

go into Holy Week, we've never broken

24:58

down day by day this week.

25:01

No. And I'm loving this isn't.

25:03

It so awesome?

25:03

I really am just walking through

25:06

it day by day, just as Jesus

25:08

did.

25:08

And what's amazing about this is that,

25:11

um, show prep is right here.

25:13

Hey, show prep, we have show prep.

25:15

Show prep is right here, by the way. Tell you the truth,

25:18

our show prep is my Open Bible every week.

25:20

Yes it is.

25:21

Every day we stop opening

25:23

the Bible here. Would somebody please get me fired?

25:26

Somebody please get.

25:27

Me out of this! All out! Yeah.

25:30

So we open up the word.

25:32

And what do we find? We find in Holy Week

25:34

that on Tuesday, Jesus

25:37

was kind of in a court of law.

25:39

It was a kangaroo court of sorts. We're

25:41

trying to catch him to and fro.

25:43

Pharisees are hammering him on taxes

25:45

to Caesar. And then the Sadducees came

25:48

after him on the resurrection of

25:50

the dead. And when he shut them

25:52

down, Pharisees get up and go. We'll have

25:54

a go at him again. We got a young lawyer

25:56

get over here. And the young lawyer walked over

25:59

and he said, I got a question for you. Jesus,

26:01

don't you know these guys that have smirk on

26:04

their face because they thought they had him pinned of

26:07

the laws, which is

26:09

the most important. Now they're 613

26:12

laws just in the

26:14

Pentateuch. Just in

26:16

the Pentateuch alone, which

26:18

are the first five books of the Old Testament just

26:20

right there. It's

26:23

just. That's according to the Talmud,

26:25

613 lots. Which

26:28

is the most important are.

26:31

How would have you answered that? Well, Jesus

26:33

spun this thing around and he threw a

26:35

big old net around all 613.

26:38

He said, here it is. Love the Lord your God with all your

26:40

heart, soul, mind, and strength. And the other is

26:42

like it. Love your neighbor as yourself.

26:45

Impossible reason that

26:47

the Pharisees could go on no longer.

26:49

In that moment. The Holy Spirit must

26:51

have given them a glimmer of truth to realize,

26:55

you know, love God with your whole heart,

26:57

soul, mind, and strength,

27:00

and loving your neighbor as yourself.

27:03

Is it the Pharisees is

27:05

the guys that heap loads on people in there

27:07

unwilling to carry it themselves? These

27:09

are the guys that are whitewashed tombs.

27:12

Is that the guys that are like travel

27:15

mugs clean on the outside, shining

27:17

stainless with the logo on

27:19

their life, and inside it's

27:21

like nobody's scrubbed the mug in a month.

27:24

Yuck. And here's

27:27

the interesting thing love your neighbors yourself.

27:29

You know, doing some title nine training here.

27:32

In title nine training is. I

27:35

dread it because it takes forever to do

27:37

it, and some of it should

27:39

be felt self-explanatory. But I

27:42

learned something in this title nine training

27:44

I didn't think I would learn. There

27:47

was a statistic that was given because

27:49

it came to this point where it talks about people

27:51

that are at risk and

27:53

what's our responsibility, especially

27:55

as Jesus followers. And

27:59

I could. I could have surmised

28:01

this, I guess, but it kind of shocked me.

28:03

The more bystanders there

28:05

are to a crime. The

28:08

more people standing around, the

28:10

less likely it is that

28:12

anyone jumps in to do anything

28:15

about it. Remember that part of the training I.

28:17

I do and I'm with you? I was like, what?

28:19

How was that even possible?

28:21

But it's true, it's true. They've got

28:23

science on this. So

28:26

somebody's being accosted on the street,

28:29

there's a better chance that somebody will step

28:31

up to help someone if there's 1

28:33

or 2. But if there's 20 or

28:36

200, there's less likelihood that

28:38

someone steps out of the crowd to do something

28:40

about it. You know why.

28:43

Spectatorship breeds. Spectatorship.

28:47

Breeds like rabbits on a high.

28:49

Year cycle.

28:50

That's cutting.

28:51

It's true. So I got a tough

28:53

question for a spoon crew. I

28:55

want us be. I want us to think

28:57

about this a second. This is tough.

29:00

What have we grown accustomed to

29:03

in our world today that we've

29:05

become bystanders on?

29:07

That we need to step out of

29:09

the spectator crowd, roll up

29:12

our sleeves and start loving our neighbor.

29:15

I've got one I want to give you here in just a little

29:17

bit. But what have we grown accustomed

29:19

to that we need to

29:22

step out of the spectator crowd

29:24

and roll up our sleeves and get to work

29:27

loving our neighbor. I want you to think

29:29

about that.

29:30

Discipleship to start your day.

29:32

You're listening to Carl and crew

29:34

mornings. It's an interesting

29:37

thing.

29:37

But we can become bystanders

29:39

to what's going on. We can

29:42

not even grow cold, I think grow

29:44

familiar with what's going

29:46

on around us, to a point where we

29:48

don't step out of the crowd and do

29:52

the unusual, amazing

29:55

thing I learned in title nine training

29:57

here. I was blown

29:59

away. Number

30:02

one by the teaching of what's his

30:04

name? First name, last name? Griffin. What's his

30:06

kid's name that did this teaching here?

30:08

I figured out for me, I will.

30:10

Yeah, well.

30:10

Great guy. What a brother,

30:12

man. He was talking basically title

30:15

nine done God's way. And

30:17

he was exquisite on

30:19

this. In fact, I got to send him a note that was

30:22

some of the best.

30:23

He he took.

30:24

Boring training and turned it into

30:26

something God glorified. It was

30:28

awesome. But in it

30:30

it was highlighted. That

30:33

the more bystanders there are

30:35

just standing around, the less likely

30:38

it is for someone to step out of the crowd. Meaning,

30:40

if you see a woman getting

30:42

slammed up against a wall on

30:45

the corner of Chicago and Wells in downtown

30:47

Chicago, and there's two people there, there's

30:49

a greater likelihood that one of those guys is

30:51

going to step up. If there's 20, there's less

30:54

likelihood. If there's 200, there's less

30:56

likelihood. And the only thing

30:58

I can conclude is that

31:00

passivity is contagious.

31:03

It's a contagion. And

31:05

that's a great warning for us not to

31:07

blast the church. You know this.

31:10

I'm going to be asking this question a couple more times

31:12

this morning. And it's not an opportunity

31:14

to blast the church. It's a humble

31:17

awareness that, huh, what

31:19

are we just kind of bystanders on that God

31:22

wants us to step out of the crowd and

31:24

move. In

31:26

something that we can love our neighbors as ourselves.

31:28

And I'm going to give you one practical one that the Lord

31:30

has convicted me of. I am so

31:33

convicted by the reality

31:35

that all studies

31:38

prove that of

31:40

100 people of your friends,

31:42

neighbors, family, coworkers

31:46

who do not go to

31:48

a house of worship have

31:50

not seen the body of Christ in

31:52

motion. Out of 100

31:55

people that, you know, the

31:57

the drive thru clerk

32:00

at Starbucks who's loading up your

32:02

quad tall Americano. That's

32:04

me. The dry cleaners,

32:06

that you see him all the time.

32:09

You visa fill in the blank. 85

32:12

out of 100 with would come to you.

32:15

With you to a house of worship if

32:17

you invited them. 85

32:20

out of 100. And

32:22

we pray. Oh, God, raise up workers

32:24

for the harvest is is plentiful.

32:27

But the work. Well,

32:29

we got an opportunity. Big

32:31

one. And the Lord has not only

32:34

convicted me of this, I am

32:36

going to move on it this week. And

32:38

I've got at least four people in my mind's

32:40

eye that I'm going to go to,

32:43

and I'm going to invite them

32:45

to come with me to 180 Chicago,

32:48

because you know what I want for them.

32:50

I want for them to see what

32:52

I see every week. I

32:54

see a growing number of people

32:57

who are so in love with Jesus and

32:59

so on, fire for the transcendent

33:02

goodness of God, that I want

33:04

these people desperately to have

33:06

a shot at seeing the body of Christ

33:09

in healthy movement. I want

33:11

them to hear the message, yes, but

33:13

more than that, I want them to see

33:16

God's people. I'm a big believer

33:18

in worship evangelism. I believe that when

33:20

lost people witness God's people.

33:22

A flame for Jesus, like

33:25

a European soccer match on steroids.

33:28

I am convinced that God can use

33:30

that to call so many to himself.

33:33

And I think sometimes spectatorship

33:36

is contagious.

33:38

I can't wait to hear what happens.

33:39

I'm fired up.

33:40

I can't.

33:41

I'm fired up. Love the Lord

33:44

your God with all your heart, soul, mind

33:46

and strength. And love your neighbor

33:48

as yourself.

33:51

Whoa!

33:52

Can we keep it perfectly? No.

33:56

That's why Paul said, praise be to the

33:58

Lord Jesus Christ. Hang

34:00

on a lot more to talk about on this Holy Week

34:03

coming up.

34:05

Going deeper in our relationship with

34:07

Jesus, work, Carl and crew mornings.

34:10

It wasn't too long ago I was watching a documentary

34:12

on Hitler. And

34:15

I was pretty aware of some of the brutal,

34:18

not only the Holocaust and those brutal

34:20

realities, but even the brutality

34:22

he had toward anyone in Germany who

34:25

dared to rise

34:27

in opposition to him. Especially

34:30

Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Hitler

34:32

was about to go to his own demise.

34:34

He knew he was going to kill himself, most likely

34:37

cyanide poisoning. But

34:40

this coward dog went

34:42

and went and

34:44

pulled Bonhoeffer out of prison

34:46

and hung him.

34:49

Uh.

34:50

This guy was despicable. But

34:52

probably one of the most significant things that I

34:54

learned about Hitler that I had not known.

34:56

I had heard something of it, but I did not

34:58

know that in his. Last

35:01

will and testament. He actually had a two

35:03

page written, uh,

35:06

will that tried to

35:08

show that he was poor when he was

35:10

filthy rich. He had plundered Germany

35:12

and other countries. But

35:15

then he went on an 11 page

35:17

handwritten screed. Of

35:20

where he placed the blame for

35:23

all of World War Two squarely

35:25

in the hands of the Jews, believe it or

35:27

not. So who killed Jesus?

35:30

You might say, well, Carl, the Jews

35:32

killed Jesus. Did they

35:34

or did we have a part in that? And there's

35:36

an article to back this up from Michael

35:38

Redlich, and I've read large portions

35:41

of it. It is extensive. It's almost a

35:43

booklet. And I've got a link for you coming up

35:45

here in a moment.

35:47

Whether it's number 1 or

35:49

100. Take that step with Jesus

35:52

today. You're listening to Carl

35:54

and crew mornings.

35:56

There's no doubt that Jews had a hand in killing

35:58

Jesus, but they weren't the only hands. All you have

36:00

to do is read in acts 427,

36:02

these words indeed Herod and Pontius

36:04

Pilate met together with the Gentiles

36:07

and the people of Israel in

36:09

this city to conspire against

36:11

your holy servant Jesus, whom you

36:13

anointed. But there's a great danger

36:15

out there that there can be a theological

36:18

anti-Semitism. And in my

36:20

I had a long discussion with Michael Redlich,

36:23

an interesting every time I'm talking with Michael,

36:25

he's got a speakerphone on and it's bright Avis

36:27

in the background, and she's sharing

36:29

her heart, too. It's a it's we

36:31

have spirited conversations and Michael

36:33

gets so ramped up we're yelling into the heavens.

36:37

I would love to be a fly on the wall. I really

36:39

would.

36:40

And, uh, he's actually doing a chapel

36:43

this morning, or else he would have been here, so.

36:45

But he left me something he said something

36:47

that the boom crew might really enjoy.

36:50

And this is some deep thinking

36:52

here, but the warning that I have for

36:54

us is that it is. It

36:56

is a great temptation for a lot

36:58

of us to ascribe

37:01

the death of Jesus to

37:03

the Jewish people and the Jewish people alone.

37:05

And that's a tragedy and a travesty.

37:09

And it's what Hitler did. Hitler

37:12

actually appealed to the writings

37:14

ready for this boom crew of Martin Luther

37:17

that demonized Jewish people.

37:20

For the killing of Christ

37:22

and Jewish people alone. He

37:25

actually took out of context

37:27

the writings of Martin Luther and other

37:29

contemporaries of the day, and

37:32

he was gleeful over any

37:34

attachment he can give to the

37:36

Jews killing Christ. And that

37:38

was his justification for all

37:40

the atrocities that happened

37:43

to the Jewish people. Now

37:46

for the Holocaust deniers. And if you're

37:48

listening to us right now, I can't help you.

37:50

You're in utter darkness. And

37:53

that's just. You get some

37:55

bad information, my friend. But

37:58

for those of you that really want to explore the depth

38:00

of the Trilogy of Guilt, which

38:02

is one portion of what Michael calls this,

38:05

he wrote a booklet. A

38:09

few years ago, and it's titled

38:11

They Called Me Christ Killer. A Personal

38:14

Perspective on Who Killed Jesus.

38:16

Now, it's one of the most thoughtful pieces

38:18

on this topic I've ever

38:20

seen. So

38:23

if you want this resource, just text

38:25

the word killer right

38:27

now. Killer killer

38:30

killer to (312) 274-9624.

38:35

It's a booklet, but we've got it in a

38:37

kind of an expanded PDF form.

38:39

You read a large portion, you have to click

38:41

next to keep going through it. But it's worth

38:43

the read for some of you. You're going to

38:46

be intrigued with this text.

38:48

Killer 23122749624.

38:52

Getting our theology straight around who

38:54

killed Jesus is important. We all

38:56

had a hand in it. Text killer to (312) 274-9624.

39:04

New to the show. Stick around for

39:06

a while. Where Carl and crew mornings.

39:09

I am blown away. I thought

39:11

this might interest the select few.

39:13

Hundreds of these have already

39:15

gone out. Got a resource for

39:17

you today that Doctor Michael Redlich and I

39:19

were talking about yesterday. In fact, we were discussing

39:22

him getting on the show, talking Holy Week today

39:24

about Jesus

39:26

in front of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and

39:28

then the Pharisees came out, and again it laid to

39:31

the great commandment. We'll get into that in a few minutes.

39:33

Very important piece. But

39:35

we got kind of sidetracked on

39:37

what's going on globally with regard

39:40

to anti-Semitism. And it

39:42

is crazy

39:44

the blindness it is out there and

39:46

the hatred for Jewish people. It's

39:48

astounding, man. I don't want to get into

39:50

the politics of it. But make no mistake

39:53

about it, in modern war, no

39:55

army in an attempt to

39:58

quell their attackers, ruthless

40:00

attackers have done more

40:03

to avoid innocent

40:05

casualties than

40:07

Israel. It's amazing. When we were going

40:09

after ISIS, no one told us, whoa

40:12

whoa whoa, time out, time out. No.

40:14

The whole world like, yeah, go

40:16

get em. But I digress.

40:19

The real question here is who in the world killed

40:21

Jesus? And

40:23

I. I'm kind of stunned by this. I did

40:25

not know how widespread. And according to Michael,

40:27

the, uh, the embrace

40:29

of the sole responsibility

40:32

for the killing of Jesus and being placed.

40:35

On the Jewish people alone. It

40:37

flies in the face of Scripture. I'm going to read

40:39

to you again. Acts 427 here

40:41

x 427 reads. Indeed,

40:45

Herod and Pontius Pilate met together

40:47

with the Gentiles and the people

40:49

of Israel in this city

40:51

to conspire against

40:53

your holy servant Jesus, whom you

40:55

anointed. So we got Roman

40:57

leaders, we've got Greeks, we've

41:00

got Gentiles, we've got Jewish

41:02

people. And you and I, we

41:04

all had a hand because of our sin

41:07

in the killing of Jesus. Now,

41:10

the article that Michael wrote is a matter of fact.

41:12

He told me, he said I had a different title, but they

41:14

put up this title. He says it's a little bit of

41:16

a shocking title. It's

41:18

titled They Called Me Christ Killer,

41:20

a Personal Perspective on Who Killed

41:23

Jesus. Michael is making

41:25

this available to you. There's no cost for

41:27

this whatsoever. He gave me a link late last

41:29

night, and I've got it for you right

41:31

now. This is a great read

41:33

in Holy Week. It's

41:35

extensive. It's almost like a mini booklet,

41:38

but it's worth reading. It will clarify

41:40

for all of us who had a hand

41:42

in the killing of Jesus. It's

41:44

historical, it's biblical, and it

41:47

is powerful. Text.

41:49

Killer to (312) 274-9624.

41:53

Text killer. Killer

41:57

to (312) 274-9624.

42:00

We'll get it right out to you.

42:03

Whether it's number 1 or

42:05

100. Take that step with Jesus

42:07

today. You're listening to Carl

42:10

and crew mornings. Okay.

42:11

Uh, this is an

42:13

amazing statement by Jesus. He was asked

42:15

to pinpoint the greatest

42:18

commandment. Now there's 613

42:21

commandments, according to the Talmud, that are

42:23

just in the Torah alone. The first five books

42:25

of the Bible. And

42:28

Jesus's response. Shut

42:31

them down. You shall love

42:33

the Lord your God with all your heart,

42:35

with all your soul, and with all your mind.

42:37

This is the great in first commandment. In

42:39

the second is like it you shall love your

42:41

neighbor as yourself. Now

42:43

I want to linger here on this second one for a second.

42:45

Wrap up the show with this whole thought here

42:47

today, and know we're not done in six minutes. We're done

42:50

in 36 minutes. But

42:53

I want you to chime in on this. So let me give you

42:55

some backstory. This

42:57

loving our neighbors as we love

42:59

ourselves. I don't want

43:02

you to think, oh boy, these are all the

43:04

ways I'm being poor as a neighbor. Let's stop

43:06

for a second, though, and look at. The

43:09

reality that there

43:11

can be a lot of things that are going on in this

43:13

world, and we have become bystanders.

43:18

I took it title nine training

43:20

here at Moody. Everybody that works

43:23

here has to go through this training. And a guy

43:25

named Mark Griffin did the most

43:27

amazing job. He

43:30

had extensive videos throughout this

43:32

training, giving a biblical worldview and

43:34

an appeal to love as Christ loved

43:36

and actually. I

43:38

believe he cited the Great Commandment. Now,

43:41

here's what's interesting about

43:44

this training. I learned

43:46

something, I thought I was going to head into this going,

43:48

oh boy, you gotta go through this. Title nine

43:51

training. All right, we know I

43:53

get it. I know we've got to

43:55

mind our P's and Q's and don't be

43:57

a good don't be a goober

43:59

in the workplace. I get all that. Yeah,

44:02

but boy, did I have some good things to

44:04

learn. Not only what Mark Griffin did, he did a

44:06

phenomenal job in this training. But

44:09

there was a statement made in it that shocked

44:12

me in the statement was. That

44:16

the increased number of bystanders

44:19

toward any kind of harm

44:21

that's inflicted on someone creates

44:24

something astonishing. Studies

44:29

have proven that if let's

44:31

just say this on the corner of Wells in Chicago,

44:34

if a woman is accosted and somebody's trying

44:36

to grab her purse, if there's

44:38

two people there, there's a greater likelihood

44:40

that one person will jump in and respond

44:42

than if there's 20 or 200 people

44:44

watching. The increased number

44:47

of bystanders creates

44:50

a contagious passivity

44:52

among the bystanders.

44:56

Is that amazing? It is to

44:58

me. But

45:00

I think we've seen this happen before.

45:02

The more people that are spectators,

45:05

the more likelihood that there

45:07

is no one who will step out of

45:09

the crowd and do what is right.

45:13

So I've got a question for you.

45:18

What is it that we have maybe

45:20

grown blind to? We've become

45:22

bystanders. And this is not an invitation

45:25

for you to go on a screed against the church,

45:27

or grab your pet issue or something like

45:29

that. I'm asking you to humbly respond

45:31

with phone calls about what

45:34

is it in our world today that we're

45:36

seeing go on,

45:38

that we are not loving our

45:40

neighbors rightly? It's become

45:43

almost common

45:45

to be passive. It's

45:48

become contagious. Spectatorship

45:52

kind of becomes. A

45:55

contagion that moves through the crowd

45:57

and pretty quick. No one's stepping

45:59

forward. So

46:02

I want you to humbly consider. Where

46:05

have we fallen asleep with loving

46:07

our neighbors. That

46:10

we need to step out of the masses

46:12

and say, I'm going to roll up my

46:14

sleeves and love my neighbors

46:16

as I love myself. Now I've got one

46:18

for you and I'll hold on to it. But

46:21

I want everyone to think about this

46:23

thoughtfully and then call in. I

46:26

believe the Holy Spirit's prompting you with something

46:28

right now. What's

46:31

going on in our culture today, that

46:33

the masses are being bystanders,

46:36

and Christ is calling us by

46:38

the great commandment to step out

46:40

of the masses and in

46:43

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47:00

Drew in Kenosha. What do you say, drew?

47:03

Hey, um, real quick, I

47:06

reached out to this pastor that

47:08

I watch on Instagram, and

47:10

I just asked him, you know, where can I find your

47:12

messages on YouTube or something? And

47:15

he stopped what he was doing

47:17

and reached out to me and sent

47:19

me every link that he had, and

47:22

then reached out to me a couple of days after

47:24

that and gave me the address and the times

47:27

of the services at the church. And

47:29

much like you just said, my

47:31

family and I went to church, uh,

47:33

this past Sunday for the first time in

47:35

a minute. Um, and so,

47:38

you know, you just never know what

47:41

your one act of kindness can do

47:43

because you know, it.

47:45

Um, you know, we

47:48

we're Christians and everything, but I've been

47:50

scared to go back because ever since

47:52

the pandemic. And so this

47:55

was like one of the few times where I actually,

47:57

you know, my wife said, well, let's go. And

48:00

I pushed past my fear and

48:02

I went and I was glad that I went.

48:04

And so you never know,

48:06

just by you asking somebody you never

48:08

know. And I don't know what this is going

48:10

to lead to, but I had

48:12

an amazing time and I'm looking forward to my family.

48:15

My whole family is looking forward to going back.

48:17

So like you said, you know, you

48:19

know, you can stand by, but

48:22

it works better if you just stand up.

48:24

So yeah.

48:25

Drew, that is a phenomenal testimony

48:28

bro. Thank you so much for calling in today

48:30

from Kenosha. What an

48:32

amazing statement. And

48:34

what he's testifying to there boom crew

48:36

is just that's evidence

48:38

right there. That

48:40

pastor took the time to step out

48:43

of the crowd and go. Let

48:45

me help you. Here's some resources.

48:49

By the way, here's some times of services.

48:52

And guess what? Drew

48:54

and his family. Might

48:56

have found a home. That's a banner

48:58

ad for what we're talking about.

49:00

That's amazing.

49:02

Who's the crowd? Who are

49:04

our neighbors? Who are our neighbors?

49:06

That we need to step out of the crowd

49:08

and go, love. Hey,

49:14

this is Carl with Carl and crew, and I'm so grateful

49:16

that you listen to this show cast. Thank

49:19

you mostly for being part of the boom crew

49:21

as we help you take your next step with

49:23

Jesus. You're a huge encouragement to

49:25

us. We'll be here again live every

49:27

weekday morning from 5 to 9

49:29

a.m.. Godspeed.