Luke 5

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0:00 And a signed reading for us starts at Luke chapter 6 verse 36. And now just read through it here first and then we'll kind of like get into it a little bit. It's Luke chapter 6 verse 36 through 42. Be merciful even if your father is merciful. Judge not and you will not be judged. Condemned not and you will not be condemned.

0:30 Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and it will be given to you. Good measure, press down, shake it together, runnin' out of it. You'll be put in your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. You also told them a parable can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not those fall into a pitter? Just like a bull is not above his future, but everyone, when he is fully trained, will be like his people.

1:02 Why do you see the spec in your brother's eye but do not know this the log that is in your own eye? How can you say to your brother brother, let him take the spec out of that is in your eye? When you yourself do not see the log that is in your eye. You will regret. First, take the log out of your own eye and then you will be clearly taken out the spec that is in your brother's eye. I noticed something in that last part that I had never noticed before, which is, you know, he's like the thing about, don't call out the spec when you've got a log and don't be a hypocrite.

1:44 That makes sense to me. But the thing that was interesting to me that I had noticed before, he said, why do you see the spec in your brother's eye, but do not know this the log that is in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, let him take the spec out of your own eye when you do not see the log in your own eye? And this is really interesting because I can't take the log out that I don't know is there.

2:14 This is telling you to take the log out before you deal with the spec, but he also says you can't see the log. So I think what I heard from this today was just shut up about the spec in this running time. You have no idea. Like, just don't even bother. Right? Because you can't even see what's going on in your own eye. They said take the log out of your own eye, but like, I can't see the log in my eye. It's insane. It felt almost not like you were saying deal with your own stuff, and then once you've dealt with yourself, you're okay to start calling out other people's stuff.

2:52 It felt like you were saying you're never going to pay the call out of the people's stuff because you have no idea how flawed you are. That's what it felt like it was saying. And that was a new thing for me because he says that you can't see the log in your own eye. So deal with that. The thing that you cannot see or don't know is there. We'll work our way back up to that. Let's start at the beginning and get through it. This first part is like feels very mechanical for Jesus. And remember that this is like in the context of this larger teaching of Jesus.

3:25 If you back up a couple of paragraphs, you get to the beatitudes, right? And then you come through and you get to the build their house upon the rock. So it's in the context of a larger teaching that he shares his piece that feels like way more mechanical or like cause and acceptance in Jesus' teachings. You see verse 36. First he says be merciful as your father is merciful.

3:56 And then the next thing feel like an explanation of what it looks like to be merciful as a god is merciful. So he says that with a fraud statement, be merciful even as your father is merciful. Well, just it's worth mentioning. Last is we talked about mercy doopey, remember? And it still sits with me this idea that this recognition of realization that the Apostle Paul who walked around Asia Minor three times and started at East 13 churches and wrote three quarters of our New Testament.

4:35 The one for whom Jesus made the special trip out of heaven to come down and get him on the demand for the road. That the Apostle Paul calls himself not to cease to flee or manipulative, he's not being manipulative or false. And he says I am the chief of sin. And then he says that all he gets from God is strength to be the person who is close to the big mercy. Unnarrited, unwanted, stable. And the notion that that one, your Apostle Paul, needs mercy from God in order to be what he's called to do.

5:10 Awakened to the notion that I, if anything, I might get from God, if we get to mercy. Unnarrited, unbeknownst to him. So again, we lastly we talked about the one, the person of the 99. And remember when he says, if he left the 99 to go get the one. Right? And sometimes I was thinking about that more than think and I was laying it against the probable son, which is compared to, but we didn't break down now. And one of the realizations I had about the probable son is lays over against the 99 and the one.

5:48 Here's the version of the 99 and the one after we're asking about the version for the probable. But the version for the 99 and the one, I always thought, well, he loves the 99. But they're safe and so he leaves the 99 to go get the one. But what occurs to me here is he leaves the 99. Unprotected, unguarded, the 99 don't need it.

6:18 In the parable he says, he goes to get the one whom he loves and there is more rejoicing over one center in heaven than 99 who have no need to repent. This is suspicious everyone has no need to repent. The only ones who end up with the shepherd, close pommel, rescue, carriage, caught up are the ones who recognize that they are lost. The 99 have no need, the one needs it. He left the 99.

6:49 Spend for yourself. The one who is lost, that's the one who gets the close relationship, who gets the rescue, who gets the checker. If you want the God, the first thing is to recognize you are one who needs mercy. And Jesus says, God, the characteristic trait of God from beginning to end is a God who lives out, perpetuates, exists within mercy.

7:27 So Jesus says, now you be merciful like God is merciful. It's cold, so he breaks it down a little bit more. That hooks pommel up here in verse 37. Judge not, and you will not be judged. I would like to not be judged.

7:58 And take forward. Don't judge people, you will not be judged. And then not, and you will not be condemned. And pull enough, forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. Give, my third press down, second, again, and again over. We'll be put into a lot. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. The first thing that hit me reading this is my actions and the attitude of my heart, the words of my mouth have a weight.

8:43 It actually matters. The posture of your heart, the machinations of your mind, the words that come out of your mouth have significance. For other people, and for you, the position you take relative to other people matters. But your posture or position relative to the attitude, the behavior, the options, the words of other people have consciousness.

9:21 Jesus says here in this text, if you are someone, we talk about, we talk a lot about judgment. But judgment is not perceiving a problem but reducing people to their problem. It's not perceiving a shortness of short coming or a weakness in someone. Just perceiving it is not judging, but reducing them to it. They are the weakness. They are their worst flaw. They are the misconceptions. They are theirness. That is judgment.

9:54 When you take a posture of judgment, you will receive judgment. When you condemn people, when you decide their future or pronounce an appropriate future for them in line with their actions, you will be condemned. He says. When you, in conversely, when you forgive, number of forgiveness is saying things don't matter. It's saying things do matter, but God means out judgment not me.

10:37 When you turn people over to God, you also will be turned over to God. When you forgive, you also will be forgiven. When you forgive, it will be given back to you in this measure, your actions matter. Then you might think, which I did at first, is that this makes it easy that if I don't want to be judged, I just have enough judge.

11:10 My motivation to walk to judgment in my heart is in order that I don't get judged. My actions matter. This is where then he gets down to this parable that took me a minute to see how it's next. He also told them a parable in a blind man, lead a blind man, will not be fallen to a pet.

11:44 A disciple is not above his future, but everyone, when he is told, he will be like his teacher. Then he goes into this spackle and the law. But I was thinking about how this could be merciful as his father is merciful, and I thought about this phrase in Philippians. If you want, you can look there at this meeting. Philippians goes to the right, you're in a paper copy, Philippians chapter 2.

12:24 I thought about this phrase and I was thinking about this. The disciple is not above his future. He's just, of course, he's the teacher in this story, and if I'm doing my life right, he's just the teacher for me. Big turning point for me in the way that I perceived my potential in the world was when I took honestly that phrase from scripture, the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead is alive in me.

12:57 When I began to take on the lead with anticipation and hope that though I'm not interested in being Jesus, I don't want to be the savior of the world, I could be a person life-changing just in the world. That similar character's phrase or personality's status, I could carry, I could look like Jesus in the same way that I'd look like my dad. Then I could become a person like Jesus. When he says a disciple is not above his future, but the disciple will become like the teacher, I'm hoping I could become a person like Jesus.

13:32 And when I thought about that, I looked at, I thought about this phrase in Philippians chapter 2 starting at verse 5, where Paul says to the church in Philippi, have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count as equality with God, a thing to be grabbed. And this is the first reason that came to my mind, because my motivation to judge or condemn doesn't come from the fact that judgment is fun.

14:12 Judgment might be a little bit satisfying, but I don't find myself judging other people just because it's fun. I find myself judging other people because I am pretty sure I am completely wrong. And as a matter of fact, it doesn't indicate to me a little bit for all the hard work I do to be right. And I am the kind of arbiter of right and wrong.

14:42 When I announce a future, a predetermined future for some moment, I condemn them to the end course of their options. It's not just because it's fun and I like to do it, but it's because I'm poor. I know where their options will take them, and I can be in charge of it. And when I was thinking about the motivation in me to be someone who judges and condemns, it's not just because I want to be the one who decides.

15:14 I think I know. And when I thought about that, I thought about my teacher. I remember these passes from Philippians where Paul said that Jesus was one who did not consider equality with God, something to be grasped. God knows. God can judge. God can condemn. God knows right from long enough. God determined and prescribed futures and condemnation as a number.

15:47 Jesus, my teacher, knew it and didn't try the design. Who knows, he was in the form of God in order to be a teacher for me, did not consider equality with God for same-to-be-grand. But made himself nothing. Taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men, like me. And being found in human form, you humble themselves by becoming obedient.

16:22 To the point of death, even death on cross. You and I, with whole judgment, with whole condemnation, give out mercy, and give out forgiveness. Not merely to manipulate the future for the week of get mercy and forgiveness, but because in obedience, Jesus says, you don't know what you're doing, you can't even see your own fault and problem. So out of obedience, in as good disciples and students of a teacher whom we would like to be like, we withhold judgment.

17:00 We withhold condemnation. We dole out mercy and forgiveness. In the hopes that we might one day be a person like Jesus, where did it go to him? And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on cross. First, obedience presents his death on the cross, and then, verse 9, therefore, God is highly exulted and besowed on him the name that is the Father and the name.

17:33 So that after name is Jesus, every name should bow and heaven on earth, and every time confess that Jesus Christ is born. To the glory of the Father. We talked about glory. It's becoming one of my favorite church words for the... I call it a church word because we don't use it anywhere else.

18:07 But I like the idea of glory, and I don't know what the technical definition is, but the definition I've been working with is things revealed to what they truly are. So that infamy might come in all glory, but also Christ might be revealed in all glory. So the end for our teachers of Christ of obedience to the God results in the glory of God in front of everyone, meaning God is seen for what God really is, the beginning and the end of all things.

18:45 The source and origin of all beauty, wisdom, justice, mercy, and when God comes in his glory and is revealed in his glory, you and I will see God in the glory, will recognize that everything beautiful we've ever seen has its origin in him. Every piece of justice that's felt right has its culmination in him. Every piece of creativity was burned by him and finds its condition in him.

19:16 That everything we love in emerges out of him and returns Boston in him. That God is the source and end of all things when Jesus comes in his glory. And then this is true for you and I when we find the way that the capacity to withhold judgment, withhold condemnation, dispense mercy and forgiveness to live alive in obedience to our teacher, the end is that you and I, like Paul says, are changed from glory in the glory.

19:52 We become most fully ourselves, the planks fall away and we become most fully ourselves. It took me a little bit first reading these passages that were assigned for this week. It felt like it was just telling us what to do, which I mean it is telling you what to do.

20:30 But hidden inside of the encouragement to obedience is the hope for glory. You may hidden inside the encouragement to obedience to Jesus of Nazareth is the hope for glory for you. If you would like to become most fully yourself, the way to it is through obedience to the past.

21:00 If you would like to become most fully yourself, put down your judgment, your condemnation. Dispense forgiveness and mercy and follow the way of Jesus and you can pray alive like he did. Let me pray. And Lord thanks for the chance to be your kid and all that that means. Give us the capacity to believe your forgiveness, to feed your mercy in Jesus' name or for his safety plan.

21:42 Thank you.