June 30, 2023 • 30 mins
Dan Schilling & Michael Blue examine Matthew 19 to look into the dangers of "doing" without "being" with Jesus. This is the third episode of a 3-part series. Our desire is to free you from the bondage of feeling like you are "not doing enough" for God. #ThriveinChrist
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Dan Schilling (00:07):
Hey, welcome to the FeedSheep podcast where we
help you hear God's voice,follow his lead and thrive as a
disciple. I'm Dan Schilling. AndI'll be one of your guides. Now
let's get into today's topic.
Hey, welcome to the FeedSheeppodcast. Thanks for tuning in,
hey, we're gonna pick up wherewe left off, this will be part
three of our discussion of be,then do I believe this is a
really important topic, becausefor many of us, like the rich,
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young ruler around, look athere, this episode gets so
caught up in the doing versusthe beat. Guilty. So I hope this
will be an encouragement to youon your journey to hear, follow,
thrive.
Tune in. Well, and this is whereI want to kind of transition now
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to, to your point here, youknow, like what happens when,
when we try to add more to it ortry to get things and we become
much like this young man whocomes to Jesus, it's in Matthew
19, is where we're gonna go nexthere. And this, again, some
pastors say, the rich youngruler and you think, Gosh, I
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mean, he's rich, he's young, andhe's ruler, he's probably on the
front of Christianity Todaymagazine back then, right? I
mean, like, this guy's got a lotgoing for him, you know, he's
got wealth. He's got power, he'sof influence. He's a ruler. He's
got youth, he's got energy andlife. And obviously, based on
what we're gonna hear in asecond, he's seems like he's
pretty obedient. So he's doingpretty good stuff. And then
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we're going to see how Jesus andhe interact with one another.
And we're going to break thisdown a little bit. So let's get
started here. I'm gonna startreading here. Switch this one,
here. Here we go.
Michael Blue (01:50):
All right. All right, verse 16, someone came to
Jesus with this question,Teacher, what good deed must I
do to have eternal life? Why askme about what is good? Jesus
replied, there is only one whois good. But to answer your
question, if you want to receiveeternal life, keep the
commandments, which ones the manasked, And Jesus replied, You
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must not murder you must notcommit adultery, you must not
steal, you must not testifyfalsely. Honor your father and
father and mother, love yourneighbor as yourself. I have
obeyed all these commands, theman replied, What else must I
do? Jesus told him, if you wantto be perfect, go and sell all
your possessions and give themoney to the poor, and you will
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have treasure in heaven, thencome follow me.
Dan Schilling (02:35):
Alright, so let's talk about can break it for just
like talking about this for justa second. This is one of my
favorite passages, because whereyou and I came from in the world
of teaching people about whatthe Bible says about money, this
is a key strategic passage. Andso, and some people struggle
with this, right? When they hearlike, oh, man, is Jesus calling
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me to do something like, do Ihave to go sell everything I
have, and give it to the poor.
And so what we're gonna see hereis, you know, the guy comes to
Jesus, and there's probablysomething going on in his heart.
And that angst or that issue inhis heart, is it something's not
fulfilling. So he's doing abunch of stuff, but he's still
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not fulfilled. So he's coming toJesus trying to what I would
say, trying to find some, maybesome peace or some, like, gosh,
like Jesus, you know, what gooddeed must I do? To get eternal
life? And Jesus was a buddy, youknow, don't ask me what's good.
If you want to know what's good,you know, if you want to get
turned live, obey the commandsguys like, well, which ones? And
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then Jesus says, Well, don'tdrink smoke Jew or date girls
who do not he didn't say that.
But you know, he, he gives himsome of the basic rules, right?
Like don't murder, don'tadultery, No stealing. And
what's interesting is the guy'sresponse was he says, I've
obeyed all these commands, towhich I could say, Jesus can
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say, wait, wait, buddy, wait aminute. Like, did you miss the
sermon on the mount that I justgot done teaching a while back
here, because I said that murderisn't what you do. It's really
what you think. Right? And thatadultery is not what you do.
It's what you think. And socould Jesus have rebuke rebuked
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him or you know, like, say, waita minute, buddy, like you're
still murdering, you're still inadultery. But he didn't call him
on those sins. He actually sayswell, if you want to be perfect,
and that term there when I wasstudying several years ago is
not without fault. So he didn'tsay if you want to be perfect,
like you got nothing wrong withyou what he's if you want to
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bring it the term actually meansto bring it to completion. Like
if it was a tire, you know, andyou wanted to bring this thing
make it whole and circular roundso it didn't, you know, thump
went goes around or like a spokeit was missing, like you got to
put all this together. So bringit together. And then it will
roll nicely. If you want to beperfectly you want to bring it
into Completion, your yourheart, go sell what you have,
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you know, give that money away,and then you know, you'll have
treasure in heaven and comefollow me, which is really,
again back to the here, followthrive. Gs was he was hearing,
he had the invitation to followlike everybody else did. What
we're going to see is that hedidn't say, oh, man, praise God,
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what a great idea. I'd love tocome just be with you. Because
what was the problem was he wasstill trying to figure out what
he needed to do. So, Michael,give us your thoughts.
Michael Blue (05:45):
Yeah, I mean, I just see the thinking about the
Sermon on the Mountain how muchthis ties into it with with the
instructions about murder andstealing and how he had
qualified those who said, youknow, you've heard it said, But
I say to you, yes. And even inthe Sermon on the Mount, where
he says, where you're where yourtreasure is there, your heart
will be right. We call it thetreasure principle. And, and,
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and the instruction is, youknow, it's to store up treasures
in heaven is that instructionthere? And so he tells this guy
what to do to inherit eternallife or to have treasure in
heaven. Yeah, just to sell hispossessions and give them away
not to give them to Jesus, orJudas, whoever is holding the
purse, but to give them away tothe poor and then come, come
follow. And, you know, I justread this, and it hinges so much
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on do I value following Jesus?
And how much do I valuefollowing Jesus? Yes. It's a
tough, it's a tough, toughpassage. Well, seems like a
tough command. Right?
Dan Schilling (06:43):
Yes. Well, and again, I think just to clarify,
this, for folks listening todayare watching is, I don't believe
this is a blanket command. Idon't think it's everybody has
to, you know, go take your stufftomorrow, line up at the, you
know, place the auction house,sell it all, and then take the
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money down to the local foodpantry or wherever and give,
give it all away. Right. But Ido believe is calling each of us
willingness to say, Okay, I'll,I'll go wherever you want me to
go. I'll do what you want me todo. And if it is something that
you can't do, I'm willing,knowing that he's not calling us
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to a life of poverty,necessarily on this earth, but
he's calling us to a life ofdestiny. And that, even when the
the disciples, we're not goingto get into all that today, but
even Peter after this, he'slike, so what's in it for us? I
mean, like, we've given awayeverything. Jesus, like reminds
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him, hey, following me does havea cost, but but the return on
investment is out of this world.
So don't don't think about whatyou're losing. Think about what
you're gaining. And that gaininggoing isn't stuff that gaining
is the intimacy thing. intimacywith Me the intimacy of walking,
being with me on this journey.
Michael Blue (08:08):
I've got I've often taught this and contrasted
it with this, the littleparable, I guess you could say,
where Jesus says the kingdom ofheaven is like a man who
discovered his treasure in thefield. Right? And then his joy,
he goes and sells all that hehas, so he can buy that field.
And I think that if you walkthrough the two passages, the
people are the same. They're,you know, they have, you know,
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they're looking for eternallife. They're looking for the
kingdom of heaven. It's offeredto them. And the cost is the
same. It's everything. You haveto sell everything you have come
in here and come take thistreasure, but I oftentimes have
read that story and said, Well,yeah, that's great. He gets this
treasure, right? In my mind, Ithink of treasure chest with
gold and jewels and all that.
And this other guy, all he gotwas to walk around in a dusty,
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dry area with a bunch of guys.
And some women, some stragglersa following. I mean, like, a
weight that was the son of Godthat he got to walk with. And so
it's it's to me, they're verysimilar. We look at them
differently. I've seen themdifferently until I realized
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that this is the same offer,once joyful, and the other will
see here doesn't respond withsuch joy.
Dan Schilling (09:19):
Yes, well, let's let's go ahead and get down to
that. I'll see the guy's youngman's response here in verse 22,
Michael Blue (09:26):
instead, but when the young man heard this, he
went away, sad, for he had manypossessions. And then Jesus said
to His disciples, I tell you thetruth, it is very hard for a
rich person to enter the kingdomof heaven. I'll say it again. It
is easier for a camel to gothrough the eye of a needle than
for a rich person to enter thekingdom of heaven. The disciples
were astounded, and who in theworld can be saved? They asked.
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Jesus looked at them intentlyand said humanly speaking, it is
impossible, but with God,everything is possible.
Dan Schilling (09:55):
Yes. And so again, I think this continues to
highlight What we're talkingabout here is he went away sad,
because Jesus just didn't givehim a list of things to do.
Actually, he did give himsomething to do. They have one
pretty big thing to do onepretty big thing to do. But it
really wasn't an invitation todo. I mean, he didn't say that.
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But he said, you know, this is away of, of a means of coming to
follow me. So here what I'msaying, because there's
something that's keeping youfrom intimacy, the intimacy with
Me, and I believe it's yourstuff. And I don't think Jesus
was I believe, he'd say, I know,because he's Jesus, right? He
knows what the problem is goingon inside of us. And so he was
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trying to help this young menseparate himself what had become
the lord of his life, which washis stuff, which many of us, me
included, could say, you know,this is an issue. This is hard
when God starts asking me forthings like, wait a minute, and
I've said this for years,Michael, it's easy to say that
God owns at all until he askedfor the keys. Right? And you're
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like, Whoa, that was my wealth.
And that's the problem here.
This is he went away sad,because he had great wealth.
This version says he had manypossessions, he had a lot of
stuff. But the problem was, itactually, it wasn't that he had
the stuff is actually that thestuff had him write the stuff
had his heart, and Jesus knowingit was trying to help draw him
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away from that thing that waskeeping his heart from being
intimate with God. And then hesays, I'm gonna tell you, it's
hard for a rich person, not justthis guy. But across the board.
Yes, it's hard. It's hard forthem. Why? Because when I
acquire great wealth on thisside of eternity, my heart gets
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linked to those things. And thatfor many of us, many of us who
are listening today, this islike, their step back, buddy,
you're stepping on my toes, I'mstepping on my own toes, right?
This is this is a, this is areality for us. And I don't want
to find myself on the wrong sideof the needle. So to say, you
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know, like, it's easier for acamel like I don't want I don't
want to be on the wrong side ofthis, that I want to be
following the good shepherdthrough that narrow gate through
that narrow needle, I if youwill, and knowing that it's not
going to happen on my own, like,he's the one that's going to
lead us he's the one is going tohelp us separate ourselves from
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those things that are keeping usfrom intimacy again. So he's not
looking for us to do he'slooking for us to be and that
being may lead us to do things,especially with the finances and
the wealth and possessions thatHe's given us that may look odd
or funny to other people in theworld. And I know you and I both
have common stories of thingsthat God asked us to do that
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others would say, man, you'recrazy. But it wasn't done as a
doing exercise. It was done as aresult of being with him.
Michael Blue (12:59):
Right? Yeah, I get this picture in my head as you
as you talk about steward andyou know, God owning it all and
till he asked for the keys and Iyou know, picture like, you
know, as we think of steward, wethink of a maybe a kingdom, or
mansion, something like that.
And it's as if the owner walksback in and says, Hey, you know,
thanks so much for watching overwhat? What I gave you to watch
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over? Here's a match. I want youto get towards the whole thing.
Dan Schilling (13:27):
Yeah, like what I think yeah, I
Michael Blue (13:29):
mean, even as a steward, you'd be like, Wow,
that seems that seems wasteful.
Like why why would I do that?
Look at what we can do with thiskingdom? He said, No, no, you
know, here's a torch here's mygood torch it and so I think
that kind of is I think aboutthat picture. That's I think a
lot of times our reaction waslike wait, okay, you don't no
longer you no longer know what'sbest for this you're at you're
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telling me to do something thatis a really bad idea. Or
wasteful? And there's no torchit
Dan Schilling (14:03):
Yes. Well, and then you will see here that
again, he's he's not he's notconcerned about these temporal
things, right. He's concernedabout us and our heart and
because even the disciples hearthis teaching and I point out
there's like, we talked abouthow words matter. It says here
that the disciples wereastounded at one thing that I
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read years ago said that itactually is the same feeling
that you have when you hearabout someone who is near to you
that dies suddenly and youdidn't like it like it literally
takes your breath away you'relike oh my gosh, you know
astonish somebody was actuallysay, and so it says it was never
been one of those like, liketook their breath away teachings
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like something he said, like, ohmy gosh, then when I like well,
then who in the world can besaved? Like who in the world can
be redeemed or have their lifeturned around? I mean, like this
guy. He's the epitome of whatwe're thinking we're striving
for right? Rich Young Ruler. Imean, this guy's got it all
going on. And just like No, hedoesn't have it all going on,
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because he's not with me. He'sgot a lot of things he's done
right that he, you know, maybeoutcomes, but he's still missing
something. And what he's missingcan't be achieved on his own.
And that's why I believe hesays, humanly speaking, it's
impossible. You can't enterthrough that narrow gate. You
can't go like a camel. You justcan't do it. Apart from me, as
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we said, last time that you cando nothing. It's impossible. But
with him, abiding in Him whenwe're with him, then it's
possible. And so for many of us,when we hear this where they
can, oh, my gosh, I could neverdo that. And you're not you're
right. You can't. And this iswhat I believe what God's
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wanting for us in this processis really just to confess, I
can't do this. I can't do thison my own. I can't carry all
this pressure this weight andand do this like this guy.
Because as he went away, sad, hewas right. Back it I can't do
it. Right.
Michael Blue (16:13):
Now, yeah, it's what I would, and mark in the
same story, and talk about howit's impossible with us. But
with God, it's it is possible.
It says in there when whenthey're having the center axis
is Jesus looked at him and lovedhim. And then he spoke the words
to him. And that's not in theMatthew version of it. And I
don't think it's because it'snot true. There's some that
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think it's because the richenrollers actually Mark and Mark
knew that Jesus loved him. Andso he threw it in there as the
intimate detail. Right? We cantalk about that at some other
time that yes, yes. But the ideais that this wasn't a command of
I'm so tired of people ask methese questions here. Here's
something that you'll never do.
Like, just Quit bothering meuntil you're ready to fight.
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This was actually a lovingresponse to it was probably a
genuine question that the guydidn't like the answer to. Yes,
says he went away sad. But Ialways like to point out that
the invitation was to followJesus. I mean, I mean, think
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about if we if you believed hewas the Son of God, he just
invited you along the journey.
Right? Said, Hey, come on. Comewalk with me. Come eat with me.
Come lay your head next to mewhen we sleep. Come see, when I
wake up in the morning, andmaybe I'm a little tired and how
I handle people come be with me.
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And he's like, but he asked meto give up so much stuff.
Dan Schilling (17:48):
Well, you and I both know that. This? It's not.
It's not an easy road, right? Imean, this is what he was saying
the other day, you know, theroads tough. It's difficult. To
our flesh, it is it's difficult.
And so for those you listeningnow to know you think, Man, this
is hard, what may be hard. Butit's not diff I mean, it's
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there's a simplicity to it,right? Come just be with me,
come follow me. Don't, don't tryto figure it all the things you
got to do. Just start makingyourself available to me. And so
I want to wrap up, Michael todaywith a couple of weeks ago, I
woke up at like four o'clock inthe morning, and I could feel my
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heart racing. And someone latertells me that this is what an
anxiety attack is. And I'm like,Oh my gosh, I'm really I woke up
and my heart rate felt like Iwas, you know, on a full blown
sprint, you know, racing inside,and knowing that that's not you
know, the way I should be wakingup at four o'clock in the
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morning, and I quickly just feltlike Oh, Holy Spirit, just come
you know, sometimes I'm, I'mtroubled or burdened by
something. I don't even knowwhat it is. And I was reminded
of that passage. And in Matthew,when he talks about this in
math, it's Matthew 11. And hesays, Come to me all you who are
weary and heavy laden, I'll putit up here and I will give you
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rest Take my yoke upon you. Letme teach you because I am humble
and gentle at heart and you willfind rest for your souls. For my
yoke is easy to bear. And theburden I give you is light. And
so Michael when I wake up likethat, I can't get back to sleep.
And so as I'm laying there, Istart thinking about this
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passage. I'm thinking I don'treally know much about a yoke yo
LK as my boys are like a yokelike no, not an egg yoke a yoke
why Okay. And, and so I startedwatching some videos on these
guys, modern day guys who haveoxen and they start teaching and
talking about it. and they hadthese two oxen and they took
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them to the hitching post. Andthey were, you know, I said as
the you're loving on them,you're brushing them. And
there's a relationship betweenthe the owner and the oxen. And
there's a love relationship,they, these animals actually
begin to know you and you know,come up and rub and they're
waiting for you to love on themand brush them. And then what he
started to share with, he said,this thing that goes across
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their neck is called an O. andit raised about 8200 pounds. But
he said, when this thing is puton 1500 to 2000 pound animals,
it literally weighs is nothingto them. And so I started
thinking about Wow, so whenJesus is saying, my, my yoke is
easy to bear, it's not acrushing yoke or so the Old
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Testament about the iron yoke,like this thing that cuts into
you like this is, this is not ahard thing. So, and the yoke is
a symbolism of submission. Andso when you put these oxen
together, they're some you know,in submission. And so I've
always heard a TA that Jesus wassaying that we need to be yoked
with him, like he's on the otherside of that. Oh, and as I
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started watching more, he'slike, oh, wait a minute. That's,
I don't think that's the case.
Because they said what is on theleft side of the oxen that's on
the left as they're together isusually the more mature oxen the
older one, and he's helpedtraining the younger one who's
on the right. But off to theleft, the there's, they call
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this person then the some comaBo Aki, a Teamster or an aux
driver. So I'll use aux driverfor the rest of our time here.
But that's kind of a title, thisperson who's off to the left.
And he said that the Aux driveractually guides these oxen in
three different ways, by voiceby a stick called a go do a D
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and taps them with it, not beattaps them with it, and by
proximity. And so he said, sohe'll say, well, well, well, and
they'll stop or he'll say, Comeon the turn left, left under the
term they use. And he said, ifI'm, if he's far away from the
oxen, they'll turn on a wideturn, if he's really close, they
turn on, you know, tighterradius. But the reason why the
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older ones on the left isbecause he's closer, and he
knows the commands, and he helpsthe younger oxen to his right.
Learn. Instead, if that youngeroxen when we're trying to train
them, we look at their pedigree,their kind of personality traits
and whatever. And we think thatthey're fit to be an oxen, but
if once they get that yoke on,and they just start going crazy,
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and they don't submit to that,and that leading of that, he
said, they become beef. Like,okay, like, all right. And so as
I start thinking about thiswhole thing, and how it relates,
to me, is when Jesus is sayingto us, that My yoke is easy. And
my burden is light, that this,this ox driver loves his oxen,
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and they said, they were tellingme how they cared for them and
brush them or whatever theysaid, they took them out of the
woods, and they were pullinglogs out of the woods, he said,
we could probably tie three orfour down on but really, we
don't wanna do that, we're nottrying to burden them. We just
put one log at a time and carryit out. I just begin to think
this, again, about Jesus in thisis, I'm not trying to, I don't
need you to do big things forme. And then the weight that
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you're carrying is because youthink that you got to do, right,
all these things, you got allthese things that you're
burdened by the things to do.
And all I really want for you isto rest in Me to abide in and
out of that abiding, that wepartake in that fellowship with
Him, then share that freshbread, that encouragement that
you get from me, as you abidewith me, then take and share
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that with others. Now, Michael,I'm a habitual doer. So I got a
long road to grow. I've notnailed this message down by
life, but I know it's somethingthat God's speaking to me and
putting on my heart and Ibelieve, for many of you
listening, as well. So
Michael Blue (24:08):
that's good. Yeah, I mean, to be freed from would
have begun to turn the tyrannyof stewardship. Right, we are
stewards and we want to be goodstewards but there's a tyranny I
think that comes with it when webelieve that our results which
which implies that I think I cancontrol my results are the thing
that is being judged. versus youknow, the oxen their ability to
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listen and just do I mean thatyou know, the flower was plowed
or planted or whatever, based onhow the ox driver was moving
them not not them rightultimately and so if we let
truly believe that the producethe fruit that production is, is
God's, so my job isfaithfulness. It's not I'm
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trying to come and hand this,you know, this liquid I did to
God. He's like, no, no, I didthat. Yeah. I guess, like what
you did was was by what you didwas be faithful. There are some
people who who will, you'll lookaround and you'll be able to see
their, you know, production, ifyou will, and there's others
that you won't at all. And Ithink believe that those will be
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the same 100 fold people in manycases. I've seen so yeah, that's
a good good word that the yokeis his light?
Dan Schilling (25:27):
Yes. Yes. Well, as we finish up for today,
thanks for tuning in some extendtime here with us just want to
encourage you on your journey.
And just some action steps justto begin to. First one is you're
just ask the Holy Spirit to say,I need your help. I can't do
this on my own, I can't, I can'tgo through the I can't go
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through the narrow gate bymyself, I can't give everything
away and or sell everything infollow you I just I can't do
that. But the Holy Spirit, whodesires to draw us into greater
intimacy, right, he was left tobe that comforter, that
counselor, the one who leads usinto truth. And he wants to lead
you and I into truth, especiallyin this area, because it's
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foundational, foundational forus in the abiding, so much of
the other teaching that we'regoing to continue to do is going
to be foundational, built off ofthis foundation. So I just want
to encourage you, on yourjourney to do that. The second
one, really, as we talked about,how do I move from doing to
being is really, it's helped meto deny myself my desire to
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think that I can earn my way bydoing certain things. If I do
this, and do this, and do this,that you'll be pleased with me.
I don't believe it's about thedoing. It's about a willingness
to deny myself and say, I don'thave to think about all the
things I have to do, really isan invitation from you to be in
your presence. So I want toencourage you on this journey in
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this process, that God's desireis not for you to things that
you can do. But really thethings that he wants you to be.
And that's daily beingavailable. We talked about last
time just availing ourselves andyou have access to me 24/7 365.
I want to be in tune, I want tobe aligned, I want to I want to
be in alignment before I get myassignment. So helped me to be
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aligned to be a abiding in you.
So, Michael, final thoughtsbefore we close out today in
prayer?
Michael Blue (27:30):
Yeah, I mean, I just the the refrain that we
have is this is a journey thatwe're all on together. And I
think the what we've we'veprobably tried to help people
with is what we're stillstruggling to realize is that as
productive as we want to be. AndI think that that's a good
desire, I want to be productive.
I want God to use me and inwhatever ways he wants and
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significant ways for him. Butthat can oftentimes lead me
towards this pressure ofperformance. And so I become so
obsessed with the results that Idon't that I miss the intimacy
with Him of the following. And Ithink that we're trying to free
people that it's, yeah, we'redoing we're running, we're
running hard. Like we're notboxing and beating air, we're
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going after it. But that's notthe that's not what we're called
to do or be we're called to befaithful and to be to abide. And
the rest of that stuff reallydoes follow. And so we want to
just get things in the rightorder and not be so trapped and
confined and really enslaved tothe results.
Dan Schilling (28:39):
Yes, but you made a great comment last episode all
if this and then pray for us isthat we, we, we, we aren't
really thriving, we're striving.
Right. And that's what I hearyou saying right there. And that
danger is when I'm striving forsomething, all the things I can
do. It actually is not leadingme to thrive. It's most of time
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leading me to death, because I'mstriving so hard. Well, let me
pray for us and close up.
Father, thank you for today andjust the opportunity to be in
your presence. So I asked todaythat you would find us
available, willing ready to hearyour voice to follow your lead,
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and to thrive as disciples notagain a tagline but truly a
lifestyle that each of us walkin. We know that this is a
journey and not just adestination that we reach and
then we've got it down. Thateach day is a new, fresh that
you give us. So let your merciesbe new and fresh for us today.
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Holy Spirit, we invite you tocome and speak to us and avail
ourselves to you speak to us aswe as we rest in your presence,
whether that's in bed when weactually lay our head down or
when we Have time just set apartfor you whether it's morning,
noon or night. So thank you forthe sheep of the pasture that we
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are to you. Thank you for beingthe good shepherd. We'd like to
just be in your presence withyou. We love you. Thank you and
praise you in Jesus name.
Hey, welcome to the FeedSheep podcast where we
help you hear God's voice,follow his lead and thrive as a
disciple. I'm Dan Schilling. AndI'll be one of your guides. Now
let's get into today's topic.
Hey, welcome to the FeedSheeppodcast. Thanks for tuning in,
hey, we're gonna pick up wherewe left off, this will be part
three of our discussion of be,then do I believe this is a
really important topic, becausefor many of us, like the rich,
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young ruler around, look athere, this episode gets so
caught up in the doing versusthe beat. Guilty. So I hope this
will be an encouragement to youon your journey to hear, follow,
thrive.
Tune in. Well, and this is whereI want to kind of transition now
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to, to your point here, youknow, like what happens when,
when we try to add more to it ortry to get things and we become
much like this young man whocomes to Jesus, it's in Matthew
19, is where we're gonna go nexthere. And this, again, some
pastors say, the rich youngruler and you think, Gosh, I
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mean, he's rich, he's young, andhe's ruler, he's probably on the
front of Christianity Todaymagazine back then, right? I
mean, like, this guy's got a lotgoing for him, you know, he's
got wealth. He's got power, he'sof influence. He's a ruler. He's
got youth, he's got energy andlife. And obviously, based on
what we're gonna hear in asecond, he's seems like he's
pretty obedient. So he's doingpretty good stuff. And then
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we're going to see how Jesus andhe interact with one another.
And we're going to break thisdown a little bit. So let's get
started here. I'm gonna startreading here. Switch this one,
here. Here we go.
Michael Blue (01:50):
All right. All right, verse 16, someone came to
Jesus with this question,Teacher, what good deed must I
do to have eternal life? Why askme about what is good? Jesus
replied, there is only one whois good. But to answer your
question, if you want to receiveeternal life, keep the
commandments, which ones the manasked, And Jesus replied, You
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must not murder you must notcommit adultery, you must not
steal, you must not testifyfalsely. Honor your father and
father and mother, love yourneighbor as yourself. I have
obeyed all these commands, theman replied, What else must I
do? Jesus told him, if you wantto be perfect, go and sell all
your possessions and give themoney to the poor, and you will
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have treasure in heaven, thencome follow me.
Dan Schilling (02:35):
Alright, so let's talk about can break it for just
like talking about this for justa second. This is one of my
favorite passages, because whereyou and I came from in the world
of teaching people about whatthe Bible says about money, this
is a key strategic passage. Andso, and some people struggle
with this, right? When they hearlike, oh, man, is Jesus calling
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me to do something like, do Ihave to go sell everything I
have, and give it to the poor.
And so what we're gonna see hereis, you know, the guy comes to
Jesus, and there's probablysomething going on in his heart.
And that angst or that issue inhis heart, is it something's not
fulfilling. So he's doing abunch of stuff, but he's still
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not fulfilled. So he's coming toJesus trying to what I would
say, trying to find some, maybesome peace or some, like, gosh,
like Jesus, you know, what gooddeed must I do? To get eternal
life? And Jesus was a buddy, youknow, don't ask me what's good.
If you want to know what's good,you know, if you want to get
turned live, obey the commandsguys like, well, which ones? And
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then Jesus says, Well, don'tdrink smoke Jew or date girls
who do not he didn't say that.
But you know, he, he gives himsome of the basic rules, right?
Like don't murder, don'tadultery, No stealing. And
what's interesting is the guy'sresponse was he says, I've
obeyed all these commands, towhich I could say, Jesus can
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say, wait, wait, buddy, wait aminute. Like, did you miss the
sermon on the mount that I justgot done teaching a while back
here, because I said that murderisn't what you do. It's really
what you think. Right? And thatadultery is not what you do.
It's what you think. And socould Jesus have rebuke rebuked
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him or you know, like, say, waita minute, buddy, like you're
still murdering, you're still inadultery. But he didn't call him
on those sins. He actually sayswell, if you want to be perfect,
and that term there when I wasstudying several years ago is
not without fault. So he didn'tsay if you want to be perfect,
like you got nothing wrong withyou what he's if you want to
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bring it the term actually meansto bring it to completion. Like
if it was a tire, you know, andyou wanted to bring this thing
make it whole and circular roundso it didn't, you know, thump
went goes around or like a spokeit was missing, like you got to
put all this together. So bringit together. And then it will
roll nicely. If you want to beperfectly you want to bring it
into Completion, your yourheart, go sell what you have,
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you know, give that money away,and then you know, you'll have
treasure in heaven and comefollow me, which is really,
again back to the here, followthrive. Gs was he was hearing,
he had the invitation to followlike everybody else did. What
we're going to see is that hedidn't say, oh, man, praise God,
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what a great idea. I'd love tocome just be with you. Because
what was the problem was he wasstill trying to figure out what
he needed to do. So, Michael,give us your thoughts.
Michael Blue (05:45):
Yeah, I mean, I just see the thinking about the
Sermon on the Mountain how muchthis ties into it with with the
instructions about murder andstealing and how he had
qualified those who said, youknow, you've heard it said, But
I say to you, yes. And even inthe Sermon on the Mount, where
he says, where you're where yourtreasure is there, your heart
will be right. We call it thetreasure principle. And, and,
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and the instruction is, youknow, it's to store up treasures
in heaven is that instructionthere? And so he tells this guy
what to do to inherit eternallife or to have treasure in
heaven. Yeah, just to sell hispossessions and give them away
not to give them to Jesus, orJudas, whoever is holding the
purse, but to give them away tothe poor and then come, come
follow. And, you know, I justread this, and it hinges so much
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on do I value following Jesus?
And how much do I valuefollowing Jesus? Yes. It's a
tough, it's a tough, toughpassage. Well, seems like a
tough command. Right?
Dan Schilling (06:43):
Yes. Well, and again, I think just to clarify,
this, for folks listening todayare watching is, I don't believe
this is a blanket command. Idon't think it's everybody has
to, you know, go take your stufftomorrow, line up at the, you
know, place the auction house,sell it all, and then take the
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money down to the local foodpantry or wherever and give,
give it all away. Right. But Ido believe is calling each of us
willingness to say, Okay, I'll,I'll go wherever you want me to
go. I'll do what you want me todo. And if it is something that
you can't do, I'm willing,knowing that he's not calling us
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to a life of poverty,necessarily on this earth, but
he's calling us to a life ofdestiny. And that, even when the
the disciples, we're not goingto get into all that today, but
even Peter after this, he'slike, so what's in it for us? I
mean, like, we've given awayeverything. Jesus, like reminds
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him, hey, following me does havea cost, but but the return on
investment is out of this world.
So don't don't think about whatyou're losing. Think about what
you're gaining. And that gaininggoing isn't stuff that gaining
is the intimacy thing. intimacywith Me the intimacy of walking,
being with me on this journey.
Michael Blue (08:08):
I've got I've often taught this and contrasted
it with this, the littleparable, I guess you could say,
where Jesus says the kingdom ofheaven is like a man who
discovered his treasure in thefield. Right? And then his joy,
he goes and sells all that hehas, so he can buy that field.
And I think that if you walkthrough the two passages, the
people are the same. They're,you know, they have, you know,
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they're looking for eternallife. They're looking for the
kingdom of heaven. It's offeredto them. And the cost is the
same. It's everything. You haveto sell everything you have come
in here and come take thistreasure, but I oftentimes have
read that story and said, Well,yeah, that's great. He gets this
treasure, right? In my mind, Ithink of treasure chest with
gold and jewels and all that.
And this other guy, all he gotwas to walk around in a dusty,
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dry area with a bunch of guys.
And some women, some stragglersa following. I mean, like, a
weight that was the son of Godthat he got to walk with. And so
it's it's to me, they're verysimilar. We look at them
differently. I've seen themdifferently until I realized
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that this is the same offer,once joyful, and the other will
see here doesn't respond withsuch joy.
Dan Schilling (09:19):
Yes, well, let's let's go ahead and get down to
that. I'll see the guy's youngman's response here in verse 22,
Michael Blue (09:26):
instead, but when the young man heard this, he
went away, sad, for he had manypossessions. And then Jesus said
to His disciples, I tell you thetruth, it is very hard for a
rich person to enter the kingdomof heaven. I'll say it again. It
is easier for a camel to gothrough the eye of a needle than
for a rich person to enter thekingdom of heaven. The disciples
were astounded, and who in theworld can be saved? They asked.
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Jesus looked at them intentlyand said humanly speaking, it is
impossible, but with God,everything is possible.
Dan Schilling (09:55):
Yes. And so again, I think this continues to
highlight What we're talkingabout here is he went away sad,
because Jesus just didn't givehim a list of things to do.
Actually, he did give himsomething to do. They have one
pretty big thing to do onepretty big thing to do. But it
really wasn't an invitation todo. I mean, he didn't say that.
(10:19):
But he said, you know, this is away of, of a means of coming to
follow me. So here what I'msaying, because there's
something that's keeping youfrom intimacy, the intimacy with
Me, and I believe it's yourstuff. And I don't think Jesus
was I believe, he'd say, I know,because he's Jesus, right? He
knows what the problem is goingon inside of us. And so he was
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trying to help this young menseparate himself what had become
the lord of his life, which washis stuff, which many of us, me
included, could say, you know,this is an issue. This is hard
when God starts asking me forthings like, wait a minute, and
I've said this for years,Michael, it's easy to say that
God owns at all until he askedfor the keys. Right? And you're
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like, Whoa, that was my wealth.
And that's the problem here.
This is he went away sad,because he had great wealth.
This version says he had manypossessions, he had a lot of
stuff. But the problem was, itactually, it wasn't that he had
the stuff is actually that thestuff had him write the stuff
had his heart, and Jesus knowingit was trying to help draw him
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away from that thing that waskeeping his heart from being
intimate with God. And then hesays, I'm gonna tell you, it's
hard for a rich person, not justthis guy. But across the board.
Yes, it's hard. It's hard forthem. Why? Because when I
acquire great wealth on thisside of eternity, my heart gets
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linked to those things. And thatfor many of us, many of us who
are listening today, this islike, their step back, buddy,
you're stepping on my toes, I'mstepping on my own toes, right?
This is this is a, this is areality for us. And I don't want
to find myself on the wrong sideof the needle. So to say, you
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know, like, it's easier for acamel like I don't want I don't
want to be on the wrong side ofthis, that I want to be
following the good shepherdthrough that narrow gate through
that narrow needle, I if youwill, and knowing that it's not
going to happen on my own, like,he's the one that's going to
lead us he's the one is going tohelp us separate ourselves from
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those things that are keeping usfrom intimacy again. So he's not
looking for us to do he'slooking for us to be and that
being may lead us to do things,especially with the finances and
the wealth and possessions thatHe's given us that may look odd
or funny to other people in theworld. And I know you and I both
have common stories of thingsthat God asked us to do that
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others would say, man, you'recrazy. But it wasn't done as a
doing exercise. It was done as aresult of being with him.
Michael Blue (12:59):
Right? Yeah, I get this picture in my head as you
as you talk about steward andyou know, God owning it all and
till he asked for the keys and Iyou know, picture like, you
know, as we think of steward, wethink of a maybe a kingdom, or
mansion, something like that.
And it's as if the owner walksback in and says, Hey, you know,
thanks so much for watching overwhat? What I gave you to watch
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over? Here's a match. I want youto get towards the whole thing.
Dan Schilling (13:27):
Yeah, like what I think yeah, I
Michael Blue (13:29):
mean, even as a steward, you'd be like, Wow,
that seems that seems wasteful.
Like why why would I do that?
Look at what we can do with thiskingdom? He said, No, no, you
know, here's a torch here's mygood torch it and so I think
that kind of is I think aboutthat picture. That's I think a
lot of times our reaction waslike wait, okay, you don't no
longer you no longer know what'sbest for this you're at you're
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telling me to do something thatis a really bad idea. Or
wasteful? And there's no torchit
Dan Schilling (14:03):
Yes. Well, and then you will see here that
again, he's he's not he's notconcerned about these temporal
things, right. He's concernedabout us and our heart and
because even the disciples hearthis teaching and I point out
there's like, we talked abouthow words matter. It says here
that the disciples wereastounded at one thing that I
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read years ago said that itactually is the same feeling
that you have when you hearabout someone who is near to you
that dies suddenly and youdidn't like it like it literally
takes your breath away you'relike oh my gosh, you know
astonish somebody was actuallysay, and so it says it was never
been one of those like, liketook their breath away teachings
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like something he said, like, ohmy gosh, then when I like well,
then who in the world can besaved? Like who in the world can
be redeemed or have their lifeturned around? I mean, like this
guy. He's the epitome of whatwe're thinking we're striving
for right? Rich Young Ruler. Imean, this guy's got it all
going on. And just like No, hedoesn't have it all going on,
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because he's not with me. He'sgot a lot of things he's done
right that he, you know, maybeoutcomes, but he's still missing
something. And what he's missingcan't be achieved on his own.
And that's why I believe hesays, humanly speaking, it's
impossible. You can't enterthrough that narrow gate. You
can't go like a camel. You justcan't do it. Apart from me, as
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we said, last time that you cando nothing. It's impossible. But
with him, abiding in Him whenwe're with him, then it's
possible. And so for many of us,when we hear this where they
can, oh, my gosh, I could neverdo that. And you're not you're
right. You can't. And this iswhat I believe what God's
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wanting for us in this processis really just to confess, I
can't do this. I can't do thison my own. I can't carry all
this pressure this weight andand do this like this guy.
Because as he went away, sad, hewas right. Back it I can't do
it. Right.
Michael Blue (16:13):
Now, yeah, it's what I would, and mark in the
same story, and talk about howit's impossible with us. But
with God, it's it is possible.
It says in there when whenthey're having the center axis
is Jesus looked at him and lovedhim. And then he spoke the words
to him. And that's not in theMatthew version of it. And I
don't think it's because it'snot true. There's some that
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think it's because the richenrollers actually Mark and Mark
knew that Jesus loved him. Andso he threw it in there as the
intimate detail. Right? We cantalk about that at some other
time that yes, yes. But the ideais that this wasn't a command of
I'm so tired of people ask methese questions here. Here's
something that you'll never do.
Like, just Quit bothering meuntil you're ready to fight.
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This was actually a lovingresponse to it was probably a
genuine question that the guydidn't like the answer to. Yes,
says he went away sad. But Ialways like to point out that
the invitation was to followJesus. I mean, I mean, think
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about if we if you believed hewas the Son of God, he just
invited you along the journey.
Right? Said, Hey, come on. Comewalk with me. Come eat with me.
Come lay your head next to mewhen we sleep. Come see, when I
wake up in the morning, andmaybe I'm a little tired and how
I handle people come be with me.
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And he's like, but he asked meto give up so much stuff.
Dan Schilling (17:48):
Well, you and I both know that. This? It's not.
It's not an easy road, right? Imean, this is what he was saying
the other day, you know, theroads tough. It's difficult. To
our flesh, it is it's difficult.
And so for those you listeningnow to know you think, Man, this
is hard, what may be hard. Butit's not diff I mean, it's
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there's a simplicity to it,right? Come just be with me,
come follow me. Don't, don't tryto figure it all the things you
got to do. Just start makingyourself available to me. And so
I want to wrap up, Michael todaywith a couple of weeks ago, I
woke up at like four o'clock inthe morning, and I could feel my
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heart racing. And someone latertells me that this is what an
anxiety attack is. And I'm like,Oh my gosh, I'm really I woke up
and my heart rate felt like Iwas, you know, on a full blown
sprint, you know, racing inside,and knowing that that's not you
know, the way I should be wakingup at four o'clock in the
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morning, and I quickly just feltlike Oh, Holy Spirit, just come
you know, sometimes I'm, I'mtroubled or burdened by
something. I don't even knowwhat it is. And I was reminded
of that passage. And in Matthew,when he talks about this in
math, it's Matthew 11. And hesays, Come to me all you who are
weary and heavy laden, I'll putit up here and I will give you
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rest Take my yoke upon you. Letme teach you because I am humble
and gentle at heart and you willfind rest for your souls. For my
yoke is easy to bear. And theburden I give you is light. And
so Michael when I wake up likethat, I can't get back to sleep.
And so as I'm laying there, Istart thinking about this
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passage. I'm thinking I don'treally know much about a yoke yo
LK as my boys are like a yokelike no, not an egg yoke a yoke
why Okay. And, and so I startedwatching some videos on these
guys, modern day guys who haveoxen and they start teaching and
talking about it. and they hadthese two oxen and they took
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them to the hitching post. Andthey were, you know, I said as
the you're loving on them,you're brushing them. And
there's a relationship betweenthe the owner and the oxen. And
there's a love relationship,they, these animals actually
begin to know you and you know,come up and rub and they're
waiting for you to love on themand brush them. And then what he
started to share with, he said,this thing that goes across
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their neck is called an O. andit raised about 8200 pounds. But
he said, when this thing is puton 1500 to 2000 pound animals,
it literally weighs is nothingto them. And so I started
thinking about Wow, so whenJesus is saying, my, my yoke is
easy to bear, it's not acrushing yoke or so the Old
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Testament about the iron yoke,like this thing that cuts into
you like this is, this is not ahard thing. So, and the yoke is
a symbolism of submission. Andso when you put these oxen
together, they're some you know,in submission. And so I've
always heard a TA that Jesus wassaying that we need to be yoked
with him, like he's on the otherside of that. Oh, and as I
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started watching more, he'slike, oh, wait a minute. That's,
I don't think that's the case.
Because they said what is on theleft side of the oxen that's on
the left as they're together isusually the more mature oxen the
older one, and he's helpedtraining the younger one who's
on the right. But off to theleft, the there's, they call
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this person then the some comaBo Aki, a Teamster or an aux
driver. So I'll use aux driverfor the rest of our time here.
But that's kind of a title, thisperson who's off to the left.
And he said that the Aux driveractually guides these oxen in
three different ways, by voiceby a stick called a go do a D
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and taps them with it, not beattaps them with it, and by
proximity. And so he said, sohe'll say, well, well, well, and
they'll stop or he'll say, Comeon the turn left, left under the
term they use. And he said, ifI'm, if he's far away from the
oxen, they'll turn on a wideturn, if he's really close, they
turn on, you know, tighterradius. But the reason why the
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older ones on the left isbecause he's closer, and he
knows the commands, and he helpsthe younger oxen to his right.
Learn. Instead, if that youngeroxen when we're trying to train
them, we look at their pedigree,their kind of personality traits
and whatever. And we think thatthey're fit to be an oxen, but
if once they get that yoke on,and they just start going crazy,
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and they don't submit to that,and that leading of that, he
said, they become beef. Like,okay, like, all right. And so as
I start thinking about thiswhole thing, and how it relates,
to me, is when Jesus is sayingto us, that My yoke is easy. And
my burden is light, that this,this ox driver loves his oxen,
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and they said, they were tellingme how they cared for them and
brush them or whatever theysaid, they took them out of the
woods, and they were pullinglogs out of the woods, he said,
we could probably tie three orfour down on but really, we
don't wanna do that, we're nottrying to burden them. We just
put one log at a time and carryit out. I just begin to think
this, again, about Jesus in thisis, I'm not trying to, I don't
need you to do big things forme. And then the weight that
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you're carrying is because youthink that you got to do, right,
all these things, you got allthese things that you're
burdened by the things to do.
And all I really want for you isto rest in Me to abide in and
out of that abiding, that wepartake in that fellowship with
Him, then share that freshbread, that encouragement that
you get from me, as you abidewith me, then take and share
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that with others. Now, Michael,I'm a habitual doer. So I got a
long road to grow. I've notnailed this message down by
life, but I know it's somethingthat God's speaking to me and
putting on my heart and Ibelieve, for many of you
listening, as well. So
Michael Blue (24:08):
that's good. Yeah, I mean, to be freed from would
have begun to turn the tyrannyof stewardship. Right, we are
stewards and we want to be goodstewards but there's a tyranny I
think that comes with it when webelieve that our results which
which implies that I think I cancontrol my results are the thing
that is being judged. versus youknow, the oxen their ability to
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listen and just do I mean thatyou know, the flower was plowed
or planted or whatever, based onhow the ox driver was moving
them not not them rightultimately and so if we let
truly believe that the producethe fruit that production is, is
God's, so my job isfaithfulness. It's not I'm
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trying to come and hand this,you know, this liquid I did to
God. He's like, no, no, I didthat. Yeah. I guess, like what
you did was was by what you didwas be faithful. There are some
people who who will, you'll lookaround and you'll be able to see
their, you know, production, ifyou will, and there's others
that you won't at all. And Ithink believe that those will be
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the same 100 fold people in manycases. I've seen so yeah, that's
a good good word that the yokeis his light?
Dan Schilling (25:27):
Yes. Yes. Well, as we finish up for today,
thanks for tuning in some extendtime here with us just want to
encourage you on your journey.
And just some action steps justto begin to. First one is you're
just ask the Holy Spirit to say,I need your help. I can't do
this on my own, I can't, I can'tgo through the I can't go
(25:49):
through the narrow gate bymyself, I can't give everything
away and or sell everything infollow you I just I can't do
that. But the Holy Spirit, whodesires to draw us into greater
intimacy, right, he was left tobe that comforter, that
counselor, the one who leads usinto truth. And he wants to lead
you and I into truth, especiallyin this area, because it's
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foundational, foundational forus in the abiding, so much of
the other teaching that we'regoing to continue to do is going
to be foundational, built off ofthis foundation. So I just want
to encourage you, on yourjourney to do that. The second
one, really, as we talked about,how do I move from doing to
being is really, it's helped meto deny myself my desire to
(26:35):
think that I can earn my way bydoing certain things. If I do
this, and do this, and do this,that you'll be pleased with me.
I don't believe it's about thedoing. It's about a willingness
to deny myself and say, I don'thave to think about all the
things I have to do, really isan invitation from you to be in
your presence. So I want toencourage you on this journey in
(26:58):
this process, that God's desireis not for you to things that
you can do. But really thethings that he wants you to be.
And that's daily beingavailable. We talked about last
time just availing ourselves andyou have access to me 24/7 365.
I want to be in tune, I want tobe aligned, I want to I want to
be in alignment before I get myassignment. So helped me to be
(27:19):
aligned to be a abiding in you.
So, Michael, final thoughtsbefore we close out today in
prayer?
Michael Blue (27:30):
Yeah, I mean, I just the the refrain that we
have is this is a journey thatwe're all on together. And I
think the what we've we'veprobably tried to help people
with is what we're stillstruggling to realize is that as
productive as we want to be. AndI think that that's a good
desire, I want to be productive.
I want God to use me and inwhatever ways he wants and
(27:53):
significant ways for him. Butthat can oftentimes lead me
towards this pressure ofperformance. And so I become so
obsessed with the results that Idon't that I miss the intimacy
with Him of the following. And Ithink that we're trying to free
people that it's, yeah, we'redoing we're running, we're
running hard. Like we're notboxing and beating air, we're
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going after it. But that's notthe that's not what we're called
to do or be we're called to befaithful and to be to abide. And
the rest of that stuff reallydoes follow. And so we want to
just get things in the rightorder and not be so trapped and
confined and really enslaved tothe results.
Dan Schilling (28:39):
Yes, but you made a great comment last episode all
if this and then pray for us isthat we, we, we, we aren't
really thriving, we're striving.
Right. And that's what I hearyou saying right there. And that
danger is when I'm striving forsomething, all the things I can
do. It actually is not leadingme to thrive. It's most of time
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leading me to death, because I'mstriving so hard. Well, let me
pray for us and close up.
Father, thank you for today andjust the opportunity to be in
your presence. So I asked todaythat you would find us
available, willing ready to hearyour voice to follow your lead,
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and to thrive as disciples notagain a tagline but truly a
lifestyle that each of us walkin. We know that this is a
journey and not just adestination that we reach and
then we've got it down. Thateach day is a new, fresh that
you give us. So let your merciesbe new and fresh for us today.
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Holy Spirit, we invite you tocome and speak to us and avail
ourselves to you speak to us aswe as we rest in your presence,
whether that's in bed when weactually lay our head down or
when we Have time just set apartfor you whether it's morning,
noon or night. So thank you forthe sheep of the pasture that we
(30:08):
are to you. Thank you for beingthe good shepherd. We'd like to
just be in your presence withyou. We love you. Thank you and
praise you in Jesus name.
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