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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Really, the real ar Bernard is on Instagram?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Did you say that Red is on Instagram to be
e six get the Airbernardista in Instagram? You mean every
other Thursday at three pm Eastern time. We can catch
the real ar Bernard live on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yes, Join ar Bernard on Instagram live every other Thursday
at three pm Eastern.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Scripture says speak the truth in love, which means speak
the truth. But how you speak it must be guided
by a standard, and that standard it's called love.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Welcome to aar Bernard Ministries. You were about to hear
from aar Bernard, one of today's most influential voices in ministry.
A best selling author and charismatic teacher of spirit led truth.
Today's thought provoking message and captivating word will empower you spiritually,
inform you intellectually, and motivates you with renewed strength to
stand boldly in your purpose and live out your faith
(01:09):
in today's ever changing culture. Tune in and join us
now for a ar Bernard.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I want to share something with you today out of
a passage in the Gospel of Mark CCC.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
What is God like? You're making me look good? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Absolutely, he was the express image of the Father. He said,
if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. So to
understand God, to process him as human beings, it was
wonderful that he incarnated himself and became one of us.
(01:50):
Not only did it become one of us, but he
was in all ways tempted and tested as we are,
so that he would have a genuine human experience.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
So when we want to know what.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
God is like, how he feels about poverty, about sickness,
about people, about power, about anything, we have the four
Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, which are a record
of the days of his flesh here on earth and
how he interacted with people and ideas. So I strongly
(02:27):
recommend that you develop a very important relationship with the
Gospels because it will help you understand God in a
very deep and profound way. And there's something that I
wanted to understand out of my own experience that I
will be very transparent with you and share with you
(02:48):
that I wrestled through. But let me set it up
with going back to the Book of Genesis. How many
got up to that book in your bible reading?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Good?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Thank you making me feel better. In fact, this is
from chapter one. You'll notice a pattern that when God
did something, he then ended that day with saying, and
God saw that it was good. He finally makes humanity
(03:18):
and he looks at it all and said, this is
very good. So humanity started out good, and we know
that God is good. In fact, the text that we're
going to look at Jesus says only God is good,
which essentially means that all goodness proceeds from him.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
The only way that we could be good is because
of the goodness that flows from Him. As is true
in knowledge and understanding and wisdom, all of that flows
from God.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
God is good.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's like enough, Come on, That's an automatic response in
any church that you go to, right, I say, God
is good, and you say, and all the time I.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Know what church you go to, you see, so it
was good.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Now, some of you have gone to seminary and you've
been exposed to different theological perspectives and positions. But there
is what I call the theology of this house. All
of our minicists understand that there's a theology of the house.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So no matter what you may be exposed to a
learn or pick up, there is the perspective the lens
through which we teach and experience God. Here at CCC
one theological position or perspective with regard to the fall.
Because chapter two was wonderful, then we get to chapter
(04:53):
three and everything goes south.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Right, sin enters. The picture sin is essentially.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Chaos, anarchy that comes as a result of rebellion against
constituted authority divine order, and it manifests itself in many
different ways.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Sin enters.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And corrupts the image in which man was made, which
is the image of God. And essentially we are called
to be imagers of God. And now in Christ we
are to be images of Christ.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
So it all begins what good sin enters and it
becomes what And here is where different theological perspectives come in.
Because one position is that that corruption led to something
called total moral depravity, which means there is absolutely no
(06:12):
trace left of good or goodness in any human being,
and of course that necessitates some type of regeneration, new birth,
spiritual awakening, etc. All Right, To bring us back into
that problem with that is, God calls upon fallen humanity
(06:38):
to do good and to be good. So if it's
not in us to do good or be good, how
can God call upon us to do something that we
don't have the capacity for. The theology of our house,
and is shared by many, is that this corruption gave
(07:00):
not eradicate completely the good creation in humanity that the
Bible starts with, and that God created. What we believe
here is that this corruption left man wounded and broken.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Wounded and broken.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
If you see a and I'm careful here and to
compare human beings to animals, but if you see an
animal that has a wound inflicted, and that animal is
acting crazy, when by nature that animal is not crazy,
but because of the wound, the animal is now engaged
(07:56):
in behavior that inconsistent with what it would there be.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I had a rock.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Whiler and somehow the rock whiler picked up some something
that bit him. We later found out that it was lyme,
a tick that bit him and affected him and infected
his face. We had to take him and he was
(08:24):
he was he was young, very calm. We had to
take him to the vet, and when the vet tried
to treat him, he went after the vet and I
yanked him back. Of course, the vet was upset, you know,
worked around it. When I got him home, I noticed
(08:45):
that he was still very, very upset, and it was
because of how this was affecting him. So passor Karen
went near him, and she was always the one feeding
him and petting him, and she went to ped him
on the nose, and he snapped at her and grabbed
(09:07):
her finger. I saw it. I punched them in the face.
I'm sorry with a reflex. He backed off, but I
knew that it wasn't him. It was what he was
dealing with, what he's working with. It was the wound.
(09:29):
I used that to say that when sin entered, it
corrupted the good human nature, but it did not eradicate it.
In fact, you find in the Bible where it says,
well done, what good and faithful servant? The capacity for
good is in there, do good right, walk humbly with God.
These are words again and again Old Testament and New Testament.
(09:51):
So what happened was that image of God, that nature
that was one with God all right, became what wounded
and broken. And that woundedness, and that brokenness was a
result of the loss of that holiness and justice, fairness
(10:20):
in being and doing that we were given as a
gift in the image of God. So when you remove
this separateness that made us above every other species of being,
even though a little lower than the angel. All right,
you change the makeup of who we are when you
(10:43):
remove justice and fairness, you change the makeup of who
we are and how we function. Making sense to you, heymen,
So man became and I want to just go back
to that verse. All right, man became what wounded and broken,
(11:04):
which means he's now inclined to what we call evil propensities,
proclivities towards what's evil, if what's irmorral what's not good.
All right, he is inclined to evil, and this gives rise.
(11:26):
I'm going to write it down, which gives rise. Now
in turn gives rise to serious errors in I'm going
to give you a list in his spiritual understanding, errors
in his morals, errors in his education, because education is
(11:48):
the transmission of culture from one generation to another, errors
in his politics, how he handles power, thinks about power,
uses power, errors in his social actions, and errors in
how he relates to people, places, things, and even himself.
(12:16):
So we shout out good, sin comes in corruption is
a result of that we become wounded and broken, and
that woundedness and brokenness manifests itself in our personal choices,
our personal morality or immorality or immorality. In some cases,
(12:39):
it also then transfers into society in systems, structures, legal codes, policies,
processes all of that. It then translates ecclesially into religious codes, systems, hermeneutics, structures,
(13:03):
and it translates cosmically into all of creation in terms.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Of how it affects it.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
So our woundedness and then brokenness creates a condition where
we experience, in ourselves and in society at large, serious.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Errors in what go through it with me?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Come on spiritual understanding, our morals, our education, our politics,
our social actions, and our relationships. And that has played
out throughout human history. God now responds, and he responds
(13:51):
with this, how many familiar with that?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
For God? So what's the key word? Love?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
The world that he gave has only begotten sounderwear believes
in him should not perish, but have ever lasting life.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
The point is God's answer was what.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
When asked by the religious leaders who were trying to
trap him, to get him to put one above the
other of importance, they asked Jesus, what's the greatest commandment?
His answer was, you shall love the Lord, your God
with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. He said,
(14:42):
the second is just like the first, and you shall
love your neighbor as your self, interesting God, self neighbor.
And if there's a problem with self, there's going to
be a problem with how you love God and how
you love name Papor. So something has to happen with
(15:02):
the self.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
The ego state that is a fuel in the guide
for how.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
We interact with others, including God, has to be addressed.
It has to be dealt with. But God's answer is
still what love.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Talk about. Love for a.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Minute, love the Lord God with all your heart, soul,
mind and strength. Love your neighbor as yourself. The fact
that we can be commanded to love means that love
is not centered in the emotions.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
It's centered in the.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Will you love because it's a decision that you make
and a commitment that fortifies that decision. I know you're stuckle.
Love is a feeling. How many of you are married?
(16:05):
Just raise your hand if you're married? Okay, do you know?
You can wake up and not feel married. But that
doesn't that don't mean a thing you is married.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
So your feelings.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Our secondary to the decision, to the choice, to the will,
because if it wasn't centered in the will, then we
could not be commanded to love. So when God says
love your enemies, he wasn't telling you to feel good
about them.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
Turn your neighbors. They He's talking to us all over
your faith. Then the question is what did he mean?
What does that look like? Now, let me say something to.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
You about that summary, because they are those who they're preachers.
God bless my colleagues, But they are those who are
preaching that the Ten Commandments, which is the core of
God's moral law, is obsolete, been replaced by this new
(17:23):
commandment called love God with all your heart, soul.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
And mind.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Love neighbor her self. And Jesus said love one another.
Jesus quoted that out of Deuteronomy.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
That wasn't new. But what Jesus did say is.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
That those two commandments summarize all the law, got it.
And when you summarize something, it doesn't eradicate.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
What you're summarizing.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
The summary simply puts it together in a concise way
to make it easier to understand. He said, don't think
that I've come to abolish the law. I came to
fulfill it, he said. Don't get me wrong, he said,
(18:23):
on these two commandments hang all of the law six
hundred and thirteen commandments of Law Old Testament. And he says, love, God, love, neighbor,
a self summarizes it all, which means that in order
for us to understand loving, we need to go back
(18:52):
into what was summarized and begin to dig through it,
because in it it begins to define and present the
boundaries and standards that are associated with loving. In other words,
(19:13):
it teaches us how to love. So I can't just
say to you love and not give you a standard
to judge by whether you are loving or not. Scripture
says speak the truth in love, which means.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Speak the truth. But how you speak it.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Must be guided by a standard, and that standard.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Is called love. You've heard love of the desire to
benefit the one loved at the expense of self. Because
love is sacrificial.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
It desires to give, as opposed to loss, which is
a desire to benefitself at the expense of everyone else.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
Because lust desire is to get. But love has to
have a standard to guide us to make sense. So
if a person steals, is it loving to let them go,
(20:24):
or to make them suffer some penalty or consequence because
their action is immoral. Look at you? Is it loving
to just let them go? Or is it loving to
exact some type of penalty? You seeing the conflict you
(20:49):
have is see the attention because you're trying to figure
out what's the standard. Let me do it this way.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
If a person steals a loaf of bread, should they
get the death penalty? Look at how quickly you responding,
how vehemently you responded.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
No, Why what are you saying that the punishment must
fit the.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
So even within civil law, the presence of love that
governs justice and fairness should be at work. So we
need a standard to help us understand how to love.
We take it for granted, just love. What does that mean?
(21:45):
Because you're conflicted about whether we should let the thief go.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
Or punish them? How many say let the thief go? Ooh,
you're a rough crew.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Gee, forgot one mercy preston over here at work?
Speaker 5 (22:03):
The rest of you say this should be a consequence.
Did you get anything out of this?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
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Y
Really, the real ar Bernard is on Instagram?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Did you say that Red is on Instagram to be
e six get the Airbernardista in Instagram? You mean every
other Thursday at three pm Eastern time. We can catch
the real ar Bernard live on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Yes, Join ar Bernard on Instagram live every other Thursday
at three pm Eastern.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Scripture says speak the truth in love, which means speak
the truth. But how you speak it must be guided
by a standard, and that standard it's called love.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Welcome to aar Bernard Ministries. You were about to hear
from aar Bernard, one of today's most influential voices in ministry.
A best selling author and charismatic teacher of spirit led truth.
Today's thought provoking message and captivating word will empower you spiritually,
inform you intellectually, and motivates you with renewed strength to
stand boldly in your purpose and live out your faith
(01:09):
in today's ever changing culture. Tune in and join us
now for a ar Bernard.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I want to share something with you today out of
a passage in the Gospel of Mark CCC.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
What is God like? You're making me look good? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Absolutely, he was the express image of the Father. He said,
if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. So to
understand God, to process him as human beings, it was
wonderful that he incarnated himself and became one of us.
(01:50):
Not only did it become one of us, but he
was in all ways tempted and tested as we are,
so that he would have a genuine human experience.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
So when we want to know what.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
God is like, how he feels about poverty, about sickness,
about people, about power, about anything, we have the four
Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, which are a record
of the days of his flesh here on earth and
how he interacted with people and ideas. So I strongly
(02:27):
recommend that you develop a very important relationship with the
Gospels because it will help you understand God in a
very deep and profound way. And there's something that I
wanted to understand out of my own experience that I
will be very transparent with you and share with you
(02:48):
that I wrestled through. But let me set it up
with going back to the Book of Genesis. How many
got up to that book in your bible reading?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Good?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Thank you making me feel better. In fact, this is
from chapter one. You'll notice a pattern that when God
did something, he then ended that day with saying, and
God saw that it was good. He finally makes humanity
(03:18):
and he looks at it all and said, this is
very good. So humanity started out good, and we know
that God is good. In fact, the text that we're
going to look at Jesus says only God is good,
which essentially means that all goodness proceeds from him.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
The only way that we could be good is because
of the goodness that flows from Him. As is true
in knowledge and understanding and wisdom, all of that flows
from God.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
God is good.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's like enough, Come on, That's an automatic response in
any church that you go to, right, I say, God
is good, and you say, and all the time I.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Know what church you go to, you see, so it
was good.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Now, some of you have gone to seminary and you've
been exposed to different theological perspectives and positions. But there
is what I call the theology of this house. All
of our minicists understand that there's a theology of the house.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So no matter what you may be exposed to a
learn or pick up, there is the perspective the lens
through which we teach and experience God. Here at CCC
one theological position or perspective with regard to the fall.
Because chapter two was wonderful, then we get to chapter
(04:53):
three and everything goes south.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Right, sin enters. The picture sin is essentially.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Chaos, anarchy that comes as a result of rebellion against
constituted authority divine order, and it manifests itself in many
different ways.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Sin enters.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
And corrupts the image in which man was made, which
is the image of God. And essentially we are called
to be imagers of God. And now in Christ we
are to be images of Christ.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
So it all begins what good sin enters and it
becomes what And here is where different theological perspectives come in.
Because one position is that that corruption led to something
called total moral depravity, which means there is absolutely no
(06:12):
trace left of good or goodness in any human being,
and of course that necessitates some type of regeneration, new birth,
spiritual awakening, etc. All Right, To bring us back into
that problem with that is, God calls upon fallen humanity
(06:38):
to do good and to be good. So if it's
not in us to do good or be good, how
can God call upon us to do something that we
don't have the capacity for. The theology of our house,
and is shared by many, is that this corruption gave
(07:00):
not eradicate completely the good creation in humanity that the
Bible starts with, and that God created. What we believe
here is that this corruption left man wounded and broken.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Wounded and broken.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
If you see a and I'm careful here and to
compare human beings to animals, but if you see an
animal that has a wound inflicted, and that animal is
acting crazy, when by nature that animal is not crazy,
but because of the wound, the animal is now engaged
(07:56):
in behavior that inconsistent with what it would there be.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I had a rock.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Whiler and somehow the rock whiler picked up some something
that bit him. We later found out that it was lyme,
a tick that bit him and affected him and infected
his face. We had to take him and he was
(08:24):
he was he was young, very calm. We had to
take him to the vet, and when the vet tried
to treat him, he went after the vet and I
yanked him back. Of course, the vet was upset, you know,
worked around it. When I got him home, I noticed
(08:45):
that he was still very, very upset, and it was
because of how this was affecting him. So passor Karen
went near him, and she was always the one feeding
him and petting him, and she went to ped him
on the nose, and he snapped at her and grabbed
(09:07):
her finger. I saw it. I punched them in the face.
I'm sorry with a reflex. He backed off, but I
knew that it wasn't him. It was what he was
dealing with, what he's working with. It was the wound.
(09:29):
I used that to say that when sin entered, it
corrupted the good human nature, but it did not eradicate it.
In fact, you find in the Bible where it says,
well done, what good and faithful servant? The capacity for
good is in there, do good right, walk humbly with God.
These are words again and again Old Testament and New Testament.
(09:51):
So what happened was that image of God, that nature
that was one with God all right, became what wounded
and broken. And that woundedness, and that brokenness was a
result of the loss of that holiness and justice, fairness
(10:20):
in being and doing that we were given as a
gift in the image of God. So when you remove
this separateness that made us above every other species of being,
even though a little lower than the angel. All right,
you change the makeup of who we are when you
(10:43):
remove justice and fairness, you change the makeup of who
we are and how we function. Making sense to you, heymen,
So man became and I want to just go back
to that verse. All right, man became what wounded and broken,
(11:04):
which means he's now inclined to what we call evil propensities,
proclivities towards what's evil, if what's irmorral what's not good.
All right, he is inclined to evil, and this gives rise.
(11:26):
I'm going to write it down, which gives rise. Now
in turn gives rise to serious errors in I'm going
to give you a list in his spiritual understanding, errors
in his morals, errors in his education, because education is
(11:48):
the transmission of culture from one generation to another, errors
in his politics, how he handles power, thinks about power,
uses power, errors in his social actions, and errors in
how he relates to people, places, things, and even himself.
(12:16):
So we shout out good, sin comes in corruption is
a result of that we become wounded and broken, and
that woundedness and brokenness manifests itself in our personal choices,
our personal morality or immorality or immorality. In some cases,
(12:39):
it also then transfers into society in systems, structures, legal codes, policies,
processes all of that. It then translates ecclesially into religious codes, systems, hermeneutics, structures,
(13:03):
and it translates cosmically into all of creation in terms.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Of how it affects it.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
So our woundedness and then brokenness creates a condition where
we experience, in ourselves and in society at large, serious.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Errors in what go through it with me?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Come on spiritual understanding, our morals, our education, our politics,
our social actions, and our relationships. And that has played
out throughout human history. God now responds, and he responds
(13:51):
with this, how many familiar with that?
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Is that?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
For God? So what's the key word? Love?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
The world that he gave has only begotten sounderwear believes
in him should not perish, but have ever lasting life.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
The point is God's answer was what.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
When asked by the religious leaders who were trying to
trap him, to get him to put one above the
other of importance, they asked Jesus, what's the greatest commandment?
His answer was, you shall love the Lord, your God
with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. He said,
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the second is just like the first, and you shall
love your neighbor as your self, interesting God, self neighbor.
And if there's a problem with self, there's going to
be a problem with how you love God and how
you love name Papor. So something has to happen with
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the self.
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The ego state that is a fuel in the guide
for how.
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We interact with others, including God, has to be addressed.
It has to be dealt with. But God's answer is
still what love.
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Talk about. Love for a.
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Minute, love the Lord God with all your heart, soul,
mind and strength. Love your neighbor as yourself. The fact
that we can be commanded to love means that love
is not centered in the emotions.
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It's centered in the.
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Will you love because it's a decision that you make
and a commitment that fortifies that decision. I know you're stuckle.
Love is a feeling. How many of you are married?
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Just raise your hand if you're married? Okay, do you know?
You can wake up and not feel married. But that
doesn't that don't mean a thing you is married.
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So your feelings.
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Our secondary to the decision, to the choice, to the will,
because if it wasn't centered in the will, then we
could not be commanded to love. So when God says
love your enemies, he wasn't telling you to feel good
about them.
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Turn your neighbors. They He's talking to us all over
your faith. Then the question is what did he mean?
What does that look like? Now, let me say something to.
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You about that summary, because they are those who they're preachers.
God bless my colleagues, But they are those who are
preaching that the Ten Commandments, which is the core of
God's moral law, is obsolete, been replaced by this new
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commandment called love God with all your heart, soul.
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And mind.
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Love neighbor her self. And Jesus said love one another.
Jesus quoted that out of Deuteronomy.
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That wasn't new. But what Jesus did say is.
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That those two commandments summarize all the law, got it.
And when you summarize something, it doesn't eradicate.
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What you're summarizing.
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The summary simply puts it together in a concise way
to make it easier to understand. He said, don't think
that I've come to abolish the law. I came to
fulfill it, he said. Don't get me wrong, he said,
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on these two commandments hang all of the law six
hundred and thirteen commandments of Law Old Testament. And he says, love, God, love, neighbor,
a self summarizes it all, which means that in order
for us to understand loving, we need to go back
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into what was summarized and begin to dig through it,
because in it it begins to define and present the
boundaries and standards that are associated with loving. In other words,
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it teaches us how to love. So I can't just
say to you love and not give you a standard
to judge by whether you are loving or not. Scripture
says speak the truth in love, which means.
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Speak the truth. But how you speak it.
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Must be guided by a standard, and that standard.
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Is called love. You've heard love of the desire to
benefit the one loved at the expense of self. Because
love is sacrificial.
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It desires to give, as opposed to loss, which is
a desire to benefitself at the expense of everyone else.
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Because lust desire is to get. But love has to
have a standard to guide us to make sense. So
if a person steals, is it loving to let them go,
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or to make them suffer some penalty or consequence because
their action is immoral. Look at you? Is it loving
to just let them go? Or is it loving to
exact some type of penalty? You seeing the conflict you
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have is see the attention because you're trying to figure
out what's the standard. Let me do it this way.
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If a person steals a loaf of bread, should they
get the death penalty? Look at how quickly you responding,
how vehemently you responded.
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No, Why what are you saying that the punishment must
fit the.
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So even within civil law, the presence of love that
governs justice and fairness should be at work. So we
need a standard to help us understand how to love.
We take it for granted, just love. What does that mean?
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Because you're conflicted about whether we should let the thief go.
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Or punish them? How many say let the thief go? Ooh,
you're a rough crew.
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Gee, forgot one mercy preston over here at work?
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The rest of you say this should be a consequence.
Did you get anything out of this?
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