Words From the Living God to You

Father, we invite you, we give you permission, and we don't have any qualifications to this.

We don't have any conditions.

Father, just stand before you today, and we invite and give you permission to have your word enter deep into our heart,

that you would speak, your word would speak and rule in the very center of who we are.

Father, on one hand, part of our flesh wants to add conditions or maybe is a bit worried,

but, Father, at the end of the day, as we gather here, we know that Jesus loves us so much that he died for us on the cross.

And so, Father, trusting in Jesus, may your word come into us.

May your words speak and rule in our hearts.

And we ask this in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior. Amen.

Please be seated.

How is it that all of a sudden it's perfectly socially acceptable to be prejudiced against Russians in Canada?

Why is it that very few people seem to be troubled by the fact?

I mean, I don't know.

There's so many different news sources in Canada that it's hard.

Maybe you're all reading or listening to news sources which are trying to address this issue.

But from what I can see, like the principal news outlets in Ottawa,

they don't seem to actually say,

by the way, why are we prejudiced against Russian people who live in Canada?

It seems to be fine to put them down.

It doesn't seem as if people complain if they're deplatformed, if they're cancelled,

if their assets are frozen.

Like, didn't something similar happen in the Second World War in the States with Japanese people?

And now don't we look upon that as being a terrible evil that the American government did

against people of Japanese descent living in Canada?

Why is it all right right now and why is it that very few people talk about it?

The scripture text that we looked at, on one hand, from the sound of it,

it looked like one of those really boring sort of weird texts that Christians sort of talk about

and Jewish people talk about defiled and unclean and all of that.

And it seems to have nothing to do with our modern life and our modern experience.

But the text that we just look at has a very, very profound insight about our human nature.

And with that, why it is that there can be great prejudice by a wide segment of the elite

and of opinion makers, prejudice against Russians, actions against Russians,

which are probably immoral and unjust, and with very, very few people commenting on it.

The Bible actually has what looks like a weird talk about rituals, actually has a profound insight into it.

And so what we're going to do, we're going to look at it, but we're going to do something else,

which is a bit to help you to understand both the point and to go back and after we've sort of...

What I'm going to do is this.

You know, one of the things you can pray about is if I ever have a sabbatical,

one of the things I'm going to do on a sabbatical is I'm going to prepare a sermon series on the book of Job.

I've never preached a sermon series on Job.

It's a hard book to preach on, and it's long.

It's 42 chapters.

You don't want to do a 42-week sermon series, maybe eight.

But one of the things I think I'd have to do if I ever preach a sermon series on Job,

I'd need a sabbatical to sort of do almost like all the sermons done,

and then I could just do them one after another.

But those of you who are unfamiliar with the story of Job,

God allows, in a sense, the devil to do a whole pile of terrible things to Job.

And then you get a big, big part of the book is Job sort of complaining and meditating upon what's happened.

And you get his three friends all basically dump, you know, saying different things.

And then at the end of the book, you find out that all of Job's friends are wrong, and Job is right.

So if you ever preach to the book of Job, you sort of have to tell everybody at the beginning what the ending is.

Otherwise, you can't understand any of the texts you're going to.

Like, if you don't understand, okay, we're reading this, it's going to sound really weird,

because Job is saying all these things.

But remember what God says at the end, that's our clue.

So what we're going to do by looking at 7, 1 to 23, is we're going to begin with the end.

So if you have your Bibles, it would be really great if you turn to Mark chapter 7, verse 20.

Mark 7:20

Remember we read verses 1 to 23.

I'm going to go back and look at the part, but it's the ending.

Knowing the ending helps you to understand what's going on with this seemingly to us irrelevant discussion

about what you wash and what you don't wash and how to interpret Isaiah and how to interpret Moses.

And it just looks like yada, yada, yada, yada, yada.

Nothing important there for me.

So we're going to start at verse 20, and here's what Jesus says towards the end of this sort of chunk,

this story within the larger story of the gospel.

And Jesus said, what comes out of a person, what comes out of a person is what defiles him.

For from within, out of the heart of man.

Now, just before we go anything further, what you need to understand here about the word heart,

heart, we use the word heart and we think of emotions.

But the Bible sort of sees it in the center of what sort of makes you you,

at the center of that, of what makes you you.

Sometimes it's called the heart, sometimes it's called the soul.

But out of that one, in a sense, out of that one heart,

out of the heart comes your thinking, out of the heart comes imagination,

out of the heart comes your will, out of the heart comes your emotions,

out of the heart comes your longings, out of the heart comes your desires,

out of the heart comes your affections, out of the heart comes your memory,

out of the heart comes your creativity.

So we tend to think of, there's your mind, there's your emotions,

you know, there's your creativity, and there's sort of all these separate things.

but the Bible has this singular word and says it's out of this one, in a sense, organ

that the imagination, the will, the emotions, the thinking, the rational bit,

all that comes from, in a sense, this one organ.

And what we'd also now say that in some ways it's your heart that's your you.

Don't want to go too far about that because your bodies are important.

My body is very important and, you know, you don't have just a heart without a body and all that.

But in some ways your heart is your you.

That's how we'd sort of, in the same way that when you meet a man or a woman who has dementia

and they no longer recognize them, you, in a sense, feel a little bit like they've gone.

They've become lost. They've vanished.

Their you has gone.

So I'm going to read verse 20 again.

And he said to them, what comes out of a person is what defiles him.

For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts.

Now, I thought about this a little bit.

I'm going to take a sort of a few seconds with several of these just so you understand it.

And I know it's going to be a bit of an offensive shock

to some people maybe who are watching this online to hear this.

One of the things I heard very, very many times is that Jesus never spoke about LGBTQ plus issues,

that he never spoke about it.

But that's not true.

It's absolutely, absolutely not true.

He speaks about it right here.

And because the first thing that he mentioned, I mean, evil thoughts,

and the very next thing he mentioned, sexual immorality, that's in the Greek, the word porneia.

And the porneia word, what sexual immorality says,

what Jesus means right here,

is that any sexual knowing or sexual stimulation

outside of the marriage of a biological male to a biological female is porneia.

That's what the word means.

Any sexual knowing or sexual stimulation

outside of the marriage of a biological male to a biological female is porneia.

And I'm not going to talk about that particularly.

I just want to let you know.

It's a bit of a shock.

But by the way, if you understand the expression here,

you understand that this is speaking.

Remember, what Jesus is saying here is he's not saying,

oh, there's these nasty gay people over there,

and there's all these self-righteous heterosexuals here.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

He's saying that what, in a sense, makes us not right is coming out of us.

And this way of describing what comes out of us sexually describes every human being.

This text isn't an us versus them text.

This is a shocking description.

You know, this is us.

This is us.

Not an us versus them.

This is us.

Actually, and I know there's some homeschoolers here.

So this isn't a put down of homeschoolers.

But what you need to understand here, what he's saying is,

you could have the most godly parents,

and you could homeschool your kids,

and you could make sure that nothing bad from the internet or popular culture

comes into their lives.

And you know what?

They're still going to be sinners.

They're still going to do bad things.

And in fact, they might do absolutely horrendous things.

They might become a murderer.

Or a racist.

Because it's not that evil comes from outside.

Evil doesn't come because you have your social...

I mean, social structures can be evil.

They can be evil.

And social structures have consequences.

They can break down human beings

and encourage human beings to do terrible evil.

So the Bible isn't just saying that social structures don't matter.

But what the Bible is saying is that human beings create social structures.

And because there's things which are evil that come out of human beings,

there are all social structures.

You're going to have something about them that just aren't right

and that encourage things that just aren't right.

But even if you could somehow or another protect your kids,

your little precious baby, from all social influences,

the fact of the matter is,

is you actually don't get away from the problem

because things which are wrong emerge from within people.

And I'm going to say a bit more of it in a moment.

But so this very, very first thing,

and this isn't an us versus them text.

It's really lamentable that things in our culture have come

so that there can be wars on this in our culture.

And it's lamentable.

Because what we really need is to have a humbling of ourselves

and say, how shall we then live,

given that these are human problems,

rather than saying it's all black people

or all white people or all Asian people

or all rich people or all educated people

or all uneducated working class truckers.

We're all columnists.

We're all people who like the New York Times.

No.

What comes out of a person is what defiles them.

For when out of the heart of man come evil thoughts,

sexual immorality, theft, that's stealing, murder,

taking of innocent human life, adultery.

That is specific.

A husband cheating on his wife

or a wife cheating on her husband.

Coveting.

Coveting is another word for greed.

And it probably is a better word.

For just being greed.

Greed.

Always wanting more.

Always wanting more and more and more and more.

Where was I on my list of things?

Greed or coveting.

Wickedness.

Another way of understanding wickedness here,

maybe a better word would be malice.

Malice.

And what that means is you look at people

from a perspective of wanting to harm them

or see bad things happen to them.

I'll be very honest.

When I was a young man,

I was very, very radical left wing.

And I hated Nixon.

I hated those guys.

And I was really happy

when bad things happened to him.

Like I was happy.

I was a Christian.

And I wasn't praying for his conversion

or his repentance

or his amendment of life.

I was glad that he was getting

bad things happening to him.

That's malice.

That was in my heart.

Deceit.

That means just deceiving people.

Saying to a person,

gosh, you really are well-dressed

and sniggering

and then telling everybody

about how gauche they are

and they don't know how to put clothes together.

That's deceit.

Yes, boss, you're a great boss.

Then you go around

and you badmoth your boss.

And the next sin is sensuality.

That's the sin

where basically you sexualize.

It's where you

increasingly sexualize

all relationships

and more and more of reality.

In fact, that's a very, very, very big problem right now.

Our schools,

I mean, one of the arguments

for Christians and others

to get out of the school system

is that, in fact,

the popular movement of our thought

is to sexualize children

in terrible ways.

They're terribly sexualizing everything

about relationships in schools

and very, very young kids.

And it's not good.

And there's very few people in Canada

seeming to speak out against it.

But that's what's happening.

Everything is being sexualized

and that's sensuality.

Envy is looking up at another person

and envy is a really dangerous sin.

And I think it's in Matthew

and maybe in Luke

where it explains that the reason

that the Jewish leaders

wanted Jesus to be crucified,

it says it was out of envy

that they wanted him crucified.

See, envy is looking up at somebody

who has something that you,

some higher position

or some virtue that you don't have

and you feel inferior to them

and you resent it

and you want to bring them down.

You want to bring them down.

You want to see them fall.

It fits very easily with malice.

Slander is another way of,

I mean, deceit is deceiving people.

Slander is attacking their character.

Slander is another way of sharing

sharing pieces of gossip or information

in such a way that will make

the other person look really bad.

In churches, it can often happen

in the form of sharing prayer requests.

You share a prayer request

for another person

and really what you're doing

is slandering them.

Now everybody knows how bad they are.

All in the guise of praying for them.

In fact, it's part of the evil of the heart

that you can feel virtuous

for slandering somebody

because you're a person of prayer.

I'm a person of prayer.

I pray for this person.

Do you know what they did?

This is why we need to pray for them.

Pride.

Feeling you're better

than everybody else.

Believing that.

One of the ways that we know

we're proud

is the more that

the pride of somebody else

bothers us,

the more it's probably a sign

that we are proud.

If another person's

very obvious pride

just sort of bounces off us

like water off a duck's back,

then that's not our particular sin.

If it deeply offends you,

it probably is an indicator

that you have a problem with pride.

I think it was C.S. Lewis

who said,

you cannot look up to God

if you're looking down your nose

at other people.

Foolishness,

or is folly,

it's

sort of an Old Testament

type of word.

It's the opposite of being wise

or being prudent

or being careful

is foolishness.

is foolishness.

Now,

just remember how it began.

We spent some time on it,

but you know what's important?

Often in sinless,

we just rush over it

and then we think,

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

yada, yada, yada, yada,

yeah, got that,

all those things are bad.

But what we really do

is we're not really thinking

about it as being us.

You know?

And by the way,

don't you see how this all fits

with our current problem

of why is it

that they're so easy

for people to jump

on the bandwagon

of cancelling innocent Russians

who've left Russia

and live somewhere else

like in Canada,

United States?

Don't you see

how easy it would be

if I'm envious of somebody,

let's say a pianist

or a business person,

to now all of a sudden

to mask my envy

or to feed my envy.

I'm both masking my envy

and feeding my envy

by thinking that

that person should be cancelled.

Don't you see how easy it is

for me to in a sense

be slandering them

to say,

well, you're Russian,

therefore if you're Russian

you must support Putin

and you must support

what's going on with that.

There's something defective

about you Russians,

isn't there?

And all of a sudden

you see a whole pile

of other type of stuff.

You see lies

and all this other stuff

which is going there

and it comes effortlessly

out of human beings.

It comes effortlessly

out of human beings.

It comes effortlessly

out of the woke,

out of the anti-woke.

It comes effortlessly

out of conservatives.

It comes effortlessly

out of liberals.

It comes effortlessly

out of Christians

and Buddhists

and Muslims

and Hindus.

The well-educated

and the uneducated.

There's just these things

which just come effortlessly

out of us.

All these evil things,

verse 23,

come up from within

and they defile a person.

See, this is a very profound

teaching of Jesus.

Jesus.

And it's a very unique

teaching of Jesus.

You know, Paul will put it,

for all have sinned

and fall short

of the glory of God

and he's capturing

what Jesus is just teaching

and making very,

very, very clear

that Jesus isn't saying

that your heart

is purely evil.

evil.

But he's also not saying

that your heart

is perfect.

He's saying it's fallen.

He's not saying

that every single thing

you do is thoroughly evil.

That would just be ridiculous,

wouldn't it?

But what he is saying

is that evil comes from within.

It's not coming

from social structures.

It isn't coming from

because you have

a certain color of skin.

It isn't because you have

a certain type of parents

or lineage.

It isn't from all

of the normal way.

And it isn't just because

you haven't learned

the right things.

And it isn't just because

you haven't mastered

certain types of willpower things.

You see,

because the fact of the matter

is,

is that we,

and all of the different

philosophies

and all of the different

ideologies

and all of the different

religions are very,

very clever at coming up

with different types

of things.

It's because of your lineage.

Oh, it's because your mom

didn't nurse you.

Oh, it's because your mom

did nurse you.

Oh, it's because your dad

was distant.

Oh, it's because your dad

spent too much time with you.

Oh, it's because of your education.

Oh, it's because of your skin color.

Oh, it's because of your social class.

Oh, it's your lack of social.

It's very,

we put all of these types

of things and Jesus says,

no, no,

it comes from within.

It comes from within.

There is something

in every human being.

We,

we are fallen.

We are finite.

We are creatures.

We don't want to acknowledge

that we're finite.

We don't want to accept

that we're creatures.

And,

and,

and,

and,

and,

and we always seem to be

like a,

a drunk person trying,

a very,

very,

very drunk person

trying to,

to sit in a chair

and,

and one,

one hand they fall off

on one side

and they,

or on the other hand

they fall off

on the other side.

They're either,

we,

we keep falling,

oh,

okay,

because I'm not perfect,

I must be completely

and utterly,

everything about me

is evil.

And,

and then the next thing

you get on the chair

for a brief second,

you fall off,

and oh,

no,

no,

I'm actually perfect

and it's all their fault.

Right?

Isn't that,

that cup?

After years of therapy

I finally realized

that all of my problems,

that all of my faults

are somebody else's,

what,

all of my problems

are,

all the things I do wrong

are somebody else's fault.

Something like that,

right?

After years of therapy

it's a great cup.

And,

and Jesus is saying

something very,

very profound.

Your heart is not evil

or perfect

but it is fallen.

That you are a fallen

finite creature.

that the heart

is consistently

has a bent

towards different types

of sin

and that all of us

are broken.

And if you just think

of all of those

different things

that it mentioned here

it affects our sexuality,

it affects our imagination,

it affects our will,

affects our speech,

affects our thinking,

it's not like just,

okay,

my thinking's perfect

but everything else

is broken

or my will is perfect

but everything else

is just a bit off of whack

or my sexuality

is perfect

but everything,

no, no, no, no, no, no,

you listen to Jesus

it comes out of us.

There's something about us.

It's in light of that

that Jesus is going to

come at this

and by the way

this is something

that, you know,

it's a very unpopular doctrine

but it's one

that we all

on a deep level

it's funny

because we read

we read things

like critical theory

which deny this

and accept it

where we read

power of positive

thinking things

which deny this

and we like it

and we read

we, you know,

we read other types

of political philosophies

and which we like

which deny this

because there's this

we have this addiction

to thinking

that there's going to be

some type of philosophy

that human beings

have developed

or some religious practice

that human beings

have developed

that somehow

it gets over this problem

or it has supplant

just doesn't deal with it

and it presents

a different picture

and we have this

continual desire

for it

but at the same time

I mean,

a very simple

thought experiment

if tomorrow

we woke up

and every single

social media platform

and every legacy

newspaper

and media platform

all said

nothing bad

happened in the world

today

we'd all know

that it wasn't true

we'd all wonder

if the Russians

or the Chinese

or Fox News

or something

had hacked us

and if somebody

if one of your

if your sister

or your best friend

said they joined

a commune

or a community

somewhere out in the bush

and I love this community

it's perfect

there's no

like everybody there

just loves each other

all of the time

nothing bad

ever happens

it's completely

and utterly

perfect

bing bing bing bing

all these red flags

and alarm bells

are going off

in your mind

and you're saying

whoa whoa whoa whoa

brainwashing

cult

great evil

right

that's what you'd think

and that's what you'd think

if you're a secular person too

you'd go

no no no no no no

this there's something

that just

whoa

the smell test

whoa

it's just not passing

the smell test

why

because we know

that that's not true

we know that

Jesus is true

like that's a shock

Jesus is true

so we'll go back

and very quickly

I I've spent a long time

on this

and but

maybe I won't do

all of the the verses

that lead up to it

because I want to get

to our pre primary points

if we now go back

and look at it

at verse one

mindful of this is

where Jesus is going

to lead them

right

in a sense

to try to get us

modern Canadians

to understand the problem

I began with prejudice

against Russians

in Canada

because we don't have

a big issue

about how to wash

a couch

by and large

okay

so

but Jesus has to get

them there

in their context

but it still has

something important

to say to us

let's look at very briefly

in verse one

now when the Pharisees

gathered to him

with some of the scribes

who had come from Jerusalem

and by saying scribes

or intellectuals

from Jerusalem

it's like saying

a group of intellectuals

who all either went

to Oxford

Harvard

or Stanford

right

these are elite

who've come

in verse two

they saw that

some of his disciples

ate with hands

that were defiled

that is unwashed

so it's not talking

about what we would

it's not talking

about hygiene

it's talking about ritual

okay

how you make yourself

acceptable to God

verse three

for the Pharisee

and all the Jews

not eat

unless they wash

their hands properly

holding to the tradition

of the elders

and when they come

from the marketplace

they do not eat

unless they wash

and there are many

other traditions

that they observe

such as the washing

of cups

and pots

and copper

and vessels

and dining couches

okay

just sorry

I have to do this

I'm really

I don't know

if I have to say

confession after this

or not

if you look at

verse four again

and there are many

other traditions

that they observe

such as the washing

of cups

sorry just above that

and when they come

from the marketplace

they do not eat

unless they wash

you know what the word

wash actually is

literally

baptize

I'm sorry

it's possible

to be baptized

biblically

without full immersion

otherwise you're saying

that every time

they come in

from the market

they get completely

baptized

I'm sorry

a bit of an aside

just for those

of you watching

maybe there's

something about

Anglican

and other practice

of just pouring

over it

just saying

that's the word

baptize

but here's

here's the thing

which is going on

you know

very very briefly

in the text

that

Jesus isn't

being a Canadian

because Canadians

don't like the

tradition of the

elders

it's sort of

we're of two minds

if you have a person

from one of our

First Nations

come and very

reverently tell you

all about how they

obey the traditions

of their elders

people will all nod

okay

but if you have

another person

come and say

you know

listen

my great grandfather

told me to live

this way

and my grandfather

told me to live

this way

and my dad

told me to live

this way

so therefore

I'm going to

live this way

and we'd all

wonder if there

was something

wrong with them

right

because Canadians

say I gotta be

me

doesn't matter

what my

great grandfather

my grandfather

and my dad

said

they don't know

me

right

so Jesus

isn't being

a Canadian

here

what he's

just saying

is this

that what's

happened

is

that they've

added

a suggestion

about how

you know

the Bible

will tell you

let's say

the Bible

tells you

don't commit

adultery

and so

I may give

you a couple

of suggestions

as to how

to protect

yourself from

that

if you're

married

and then

somebody else

takes my

suggestion

and they make

a suggestion

on top

of my

suggestion

and then

somebody else

adds a

suggestion

to your

suggestion

to my

suggestion

and then

somebody else

comes and

adds another

suggestion

to that

suggestion

to that

suggestion

to that

suggestion

by the time

you get

to 20

suggestions

down

nobody

even

remembers

what the

Bible

text is

anymore

you've

completely

lost

the

Bible

you've

completely

lost

God's

word

and that's

going to be

important

when we

get to

I'll explain

why that's

very important

at the end

so verse

six

and the

Pharisees

and the

scribes

asked him

why do

you

disciples

not walk

according

to the

tradition

of the

elders

but eat

with

defiled

hands

they're not

divine

doing anything

that's wrong

from the

Bible

but they're

breaking their

traditions

and so

therefore

they're

sort of

unacceptable

you know

in

I have

a person

in my

congregation

who always

asks me

why I

often use

American

examples

rather than

Canadian

and I

said to

him

I think

if I

use

Canadian

examples

I'm

going to

get in

trouble

so I'm

going to

risk

getting in

trouble

how's

the

secular

equivalent

of this

pronouns

you don't

use the

right

pronouns

hell

hath

no

fury

in

much

of

elite

culture

the

fact

that

I

did

not

begin

this

talk

by

acknowledging

or

claiming

to

acknowledge

that

I'm

on

certain

ancestral

lands

I'm

defiled

those

are the

secular

equivalents

things

it's a

human

thing

to

create

insiders

and

outsiders

and

Jesus

is

getting

rid

of

it

all

in

this

human

lust

to

create

insiders

and

outsiders

based

on

external

things

and

the

culmination

of

this

whole

text

is

saying

that

there's

a

human

problem

and

it's

not

to

do

with

these

rules

and

it's

not

to

do

with

these

external

things

that

there's

a

human

problem

of

the

heart

and

all

it

could

be

those

who

wear

MAGA

hats

and

those

who

don't

like

you

know

if

you're

in

maybe

certain

parts

of

Alabama

or

the

states

and

everybody's

coming to

church

wearing

MAGA

hats

you know

and

if

you

don't

wear

a

MAGA

hat

oh

you're

unclean

right

or

if

you're

you're

going

to

another

part

of

the

United

States

and

you

are

wearing

a

MAGA

hat

oh

you're

unclean

right

it's

a

human

problem

it's

a

contemporary

problem

Jesus

going

right

after

it

verse

six

and

he

said

to

them

well

did

Isaiah

prophesy

of you

hypocrites

as it

is

written

and

he

quotes

Isaiah

the

people

honor

me

with

their

lips

but

their

heart

is

far

from

me

in

vain

do

they

worship

me

teaching

as

doctrines

the

commandments

of

men

you

leave

the

commandments

of

God

and

hold

to

the

tradition

of

men

and

the

word

vain

here

has

this

double

sense

that

it

is

both

at

the

end

of

the

day

the

rules

are

self

exalting

and

also

that

they're

futile

so

the

MAGA

hat

in

the

right

content

is

self

exalting

creates

self

righteousness

and

proper

pronoun

usage

or

making

claims

about

native

lands

fills

you

with

pride

and

self

righteousness

and

looking

down

your

nose

at

others

and

creating

us

versus

them

in

division

so

it's

vain

because

it

makes

you

go

like

this

and

it's

futile

because

it's

not

dealing

with

your

heart

here's

I think

if you

could

if you

could

just

actually

we'll

read a

little bit

further

notice by

the way

what

Jesus

says

here

in

verse

eight

you

leave

the

commandment

of

God

and

hold

to

the

tradition

of

men

and

he's

just

quoting

what's

in

Isaiah

and

then

in

verse

nine

he

said

to

them

you

have

a

fine

way

of

rejecting

the

commandment

of

God

in

order

to

establish

your

tradition

for

Moses

said

honor

your

father

and

your

mother

and

whoever

reviles

father

or

mother

must

surely

die

so

notice

the

commandment

of

God

is

Isaiah

and

the

commandment

of

God

is

now

Exodus

I think

in

Leviticus

but

you

say

if a

man

tells

his

father

or

his

mother

whatever

you

would

have

gained

from

me

as

Corban

that

is

given

to

God

then

you

no

longer

permit

him

to

do

anything

for

his

father

or

mother

thus

making

void

notice

what

he

says

the

word

of

God

by

your

tradition

that

you

have

handed

down

and

many

such

things

you

do

so

that

it's

a

bit

of

a

technical

thing

that

he's

doing

here

here

would

be

and

the

purpose

of

the

foundation

is

to

avoid

paying

taxes

and

to

allow

you

to

keep

a

lot

of

your

own

money

under

your

own

control

for

your

own

pleasure

your

own

ego

and

your

own

vanity

and

it

creates

this

double

thing

it

means

poor

working

stiffs

like

truckers

or

just

a

wage

slave

for

you

know

some

company

you

poor

people

you

got to

pay

all

your

taxes

but

there's

a

way

with

clever

lawyers

to

get

a

foundation

where

I

don't

pay

the

taxes

and

I

get

to

be

virtuous

because

I've

created

a

foundation

and

that's

what

Corban

is

roughly

going

on

it

would

be

like

a

thing

at

the

time

that

was

roughly

the

same

which

I

understand

is

possible

in

American

law

and

I'm

not

going

to

name

any

particular

corporations

that

probably

describe

that

so

it's

a

point

of

Jesus

point

is

the

Bible

is

very

clear

honoring

your

mother

and

father

means

you

have

to

be

doing

something

and

you

can't

just

say

oh

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

no

I

you

know

working

class

stiffs

they

have

going

on

so

let's

just

wrap

it

all

up

if

we

begin

to

grasp

the

problem

of

the

fact

that

the

human

heart

is

the

source

of

these

different

types

of

sins

sins

that

affect

the

imagination

that

affect

social

relations

that

affect

our

that

are

touching

our

creativity

our

religious

sentiments

our

emotions

the

way

our

mind

works

and

can

analyze

things

if

we

understand

that

there's

something

in the

very

center

of

that

generates

these

problems

being

out of

whack

then

the

first

point

only

the

triune

only

the

triune

God

could

act

to

bring

you

to

himself

you

need

you

need

God

to

do

it

sorry

I

don't

hope

this

doesn't

offend

because

you're

screwed

modern

language

if you

grasp

this

you

just

realize

there's

nothing

you

can

do

like

if

there's

no

God

then

that's

just

really

depressing

but

if

there is

a

God

and

we

believe

as

Christians

that

Jesus

has

revealed

that

the

triune

God

really

existed

unless

he

does

something

you

can't

do

anything

you

can't

leave

yourself

to

save

yourself

and

it

doesn't

even

matter

if

we

say

maybe

my

little

bentness

if

I

combine

my

bentness

with

Matt's

bentness

with

Chris's

bentness

with

Diane's

bentness

with

Lisa's