Pastor Robert takes a closer look at what it means to be good and shares why God's grace far outweighs the goodness we try to achieve on our own.
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Pastor Robert Morris Ministries | Good Enough | June 19, 2022
- ROBERT MORRIS: My Son took the test
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- and scored a perfect score.
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- If you want, you can take His grade,
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- or you can take the test yourself.
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- But you've already failed.
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- ♪ ♪
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- ROBERT: So we're in a series called,
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- "Perfect or Perfected."
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- I'm sure none of you have related to either
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- of the first two messages, the first one on perfectionism.
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- No one here has ever had a problem with that.
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- Last week, on stress, "Stressed Out."
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- No one's ever had a problem with stress.
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- So, this week, the title of the message is,
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- "Good Enough" - "Good Enough."
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- Now, in the same way that, "perfect,"
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- has become a catch phrase, a buzzword, same way,
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- "good enough," has.
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- But, "good enough" is like, almost a bad phrase.
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- It's like when you're doing a school project.
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- About 2:00 a.m. you say, "It's good enough."
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- Good's gotten a bad rap.
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- So, I'm gonna actually show you that the word, "good,"
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- is a good word in the Scripture.
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- And we're gonna talk about, are you okay
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- if you're perfected by grace and you're not perfect?
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- Are you okay if God says you're good, you're okay,
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- you're good, all right?
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- So, Mark 10:17 says, talking about Jesus,
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- "As He was going out on the road, one came running,"
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- this is the rich, young ruler.
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- They call this the story of the rich, young ruler,
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- 'cause he was rich, young, and a ruler.
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- [Laughter] All right, so.
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- "One came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him,
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- "Good Teacher" - notice immediately
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- the focus is on being good.
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- "What shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"
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- So Jesus said to him, "Why do you call Me good?
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- No one is good but One, that is, God.
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- You know the commandments."
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- Now, if you want to number them, you can.
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- "Do not commit adultery. Do not murder.
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- Do not steal." There's three.
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- "Do not bear false witness. Do not defraud.
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- Honor your father and mother."
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- He only named six of the Ten Commandments.
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- The commandments are divided into two categories.
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- The first four have to do with your relationship with God.
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- The last six, which He named,
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- have to do with your relationship with other people.
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- Those are the only six Jesus named,
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- not because He forgot the first four,
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- but because the man couldn't say that he kept them.
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- He couldn't say that he'd kept not having
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- any other gods before Him. He couldn't say that.
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- You see what I'm saying?
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- He could only talk about what he had done
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- in relationship with other people.
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- So, Jesus only named six.
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- He said, "You know the commandments."
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- Verse 20, "He answered and said to Him,
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- "Teacher, all these things I've kept from my youth."
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- Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him."
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- I just love those two words. I think people miss them.
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- "Loved him" - in other words, He loved him enough
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- to tell him the truth.
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- "And He said to him, "One thing you lack:
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- Go your way, sell whatever you have and give it to the poor,
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- and you will have treasure in heaven.
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- Come, take up the cross," sounds like more than one,
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- by the way, but it's all involved in one.
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- "Come, take up the cross, and follow Me."
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- He was sad at His word and went away sorrowful,
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- for he had great possessions." Okay, here's the point.
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- His focus was on being good enough, and Jesus,
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- in essence, says to him, "That's not enough.
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- We can't be good enough to go to heaven.
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- The only way you can go to heaven
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- is to give everything up to God."
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- In other words, to be perfect.
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- Now, we're gonna talk about this,
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- and we've talked about, "Perfect or Perfected."
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- But, He comes up and here's a guy that says,
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- "I've kept all of these commandments."
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- Now, I thought about this, this last week
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- when I was preparing this message,
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- and I went through the Ten Commandments.
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- I broke nine of them by the time I was 15 or 16 years old.
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- I didn't kill anyone, so that's the only one I've never broken.
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- Aren't you glad?
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- I thought about it, but I didn't...okay.
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- But anyway, the point is I've broken the other ones,
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- and you probably have, too.
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- You've probably broken a majority of them.
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- So, you can't be...here's what He's trying to say.
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- "You want to talk about being good?
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- Okay, let Me just put it out of your reach.
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- Sell everything, give it away, take up a cross,
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- be willing to die a horrible death, and follow Me."
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- And the guy goes away sad. You would, too.
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- Because He says, "No, it's not about being good,
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- it's about something else."
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- And we're gonna talk... in a moment
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- we're gonna follow up with this passage,
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- because most of the time when we preach on it,
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- we don't read the passage after it,
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- and that's when Jesus explains what He meant.
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- So, we'll talk about that in a moment.
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- So, the first thing we want to talk about though,
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- is good is good. Good is good!
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- It's not bad, it's good.
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- I looked up the word, "good," in the dictionary, Merriam-Webster,
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- and there were so many definitions
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- I can't even put them on the screen.
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- I'm just gonna scroll through some of them.
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- Look at these words - favorable character,
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- bountiful, handsome. I'm a good pastor!
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- [Laughter]
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- Attractive, suitable, pleasant, wholesome, amusing.
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- I am a good pastor!
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- Clever, true, honorable, deserving of respect,
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- adequate, satisfactory, virtuous, commendable,
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- kind, benevolent, competent, skillful,
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- something conforming to the moral character of the universe.
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- So, good is not bad, good is good,
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- and we're gonna get to the end of this message
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- and find out that good is good. It really is good.
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- It's okay to be good.
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- So, we're talking about being good or perfect.
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- So, let me ask you something.
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- Do you have a good job, or do you have a perfect job?
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- Okay, hold on.
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- So, there was a time when - remember, I traveled and spoke,
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- and did revivals, youth revivals and things,
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- but I had to do things on the side sometimes
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- to make extra money.
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- I worked for a guy that built fences,
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- and we would do the fence posts and the fence panels.
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- But, another guy I worked for had a cleaning company,
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- and so when I went to clean, we cleaned office buildings,
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- and he had me clean the restrooms.
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- And he did not believe that you cleaned toilets with brushes.
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- You put a rubber glove on, and you took this, you know,
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- rag thing, and just cleaned that toilet.
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- So, I'm kind of cleaning the toilet, you know,
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- and he comes in and gets on me.
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- "No, it's not the way you do it.
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- You've got to really get after it, you know."
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- And he kind of chews me out, you know.
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- So, I'm a little mad at him. I'm a little embarrassed.
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- So, I thought, "Okay, I'll just really go,"
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- so I went like that.
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- Well, his glove was longer than my glove.
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- [Laughter]
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- So, when he would go all the way down in the toilet bowl,
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- no water got in his glove.
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- My glove was about that long.
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- Are you all following me?
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- So, when I went all the way down,
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- my glove filled up with toilet water.
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- It was not a perfect job, but it was actually perfect
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- for me at that time in my life.
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- It was perfect for me.
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- So, I want to talk about this, good or perfect.
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- So, now I'm gonna ask a question.
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- Men that are married, look forward.
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- Don't blink.
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- Don't move in any way at all, okay?
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- Is your wife perfect? Don't move.
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- [Laughter]
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- Is she good?
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- Is she a good gift from God, or is she a perfect gift from God?
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- I'll show a Scripture, Proverbs 18:22.
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- "He who finds a wife finds a good thing."
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- She's good.
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- But, let me show you another Scripture.
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- James 1:17, "Every good gift and every perfect gift
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- is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights,
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- with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning."
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- So, is your wife good or perfect?
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- Are you ready for this? Yes.
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- [Laughter]
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- Let me tell you what I mean.
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- Debbie and I were having a funny fight one time.
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- I don't know if you know what a funny fight is,
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- but you'll recognize it, you've had one.
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- It's when you're arguing about who was right,
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- which way to go, which was the shortest route
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- or whatever it is, and you're not mad at each other.
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- You've been married a long time.
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- You're just kind of, you know, joking with each other.
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- You're not jabbing.
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- There was nothing... we were just joking.
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- Does everyone understand?
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- We were not really fighting and we weren't, you know, mad.
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- We didn't say anything that would have hurt
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- each other's feelings, but we were joking with each other.
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- And so, I said to her, "You know,
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- contrary to popular belief, you are not perfect."
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- [Laughter]
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- And she said to me, "I'm perfect for you."
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- [Laughter]
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- So, is my wife a good wife or a perfect wife? Yes.
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- She's a great wife, and she's perfect for me.
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- Is she perfect in her behavior? No.
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- But, is she perfect for me? Yes.
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- Are you all following me?
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- So, when God gives a gift, it's perfect for us,
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- but it's also a good gift.
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- Good is not bad, good is good, okay?
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- Here's point number two. Grace is good.
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- Grace is good.
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- So, remember, a rich, young ruler runs up to Jesus.
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- "What do I have to do to inherit eternal life?"
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- "You know the commandments." "Kept them all."
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- "Okay, you lack one thing, that's everything you own."
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- Okay. So, watch what happens next.
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- Verse 23, "Then Jesus looked around
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- and said to His disciples, "How hard it is
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- for those who have riches to enter the Kingdom of God."
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- And the disciples were astonished at His words."
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- "Astonished," I want you to remember that word,
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- we'll come back to it. "Astonished at His words.
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- But Jesus answered again and said to them, "Children,
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- how hard it is for those who trust in riches,"
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- now He's clarifying it a little more,
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- "to enter the Kingdom of God!"
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- And then, here's the famous verse.
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- "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
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- than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."
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- And they were greatly astonished,
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- saying among themselves" - they didn't say it to Jesus,
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- among themselves - "Who then can be saved?"
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- But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men,"
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- now we're talking about being saved.
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- "With men it's impossible, but not with God;
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- for with God, all things are possible."
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- So, let me just talk for a moment about the disciples.
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- Why were they astonished?
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- Why were they greatly astonished?
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- By the way, these are two different words in the Greek.
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- "Astonished" means amazed.
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- The second "astonished" is amazed,
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- but it's a compound word,
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- and the other word that it joins with it is,
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- "to strike with a blow," like to strike someone in the face,
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- hit them with your fist.
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- So, it was like He hit them in the face with amazement.
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- That's the word the Bible uses.
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- They were amazed the first time, then they were knocked down
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- with amazement, but why?
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- Because I've heard that the disciples were poor.
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- So, when Jesus said, "You know, it's hard for rich people
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- to go to heaven," you would think they'd say,
- 00:12:55.867 --> 00:12:58.036
- "Yep, that's right.
- 00:12:58.036 --> 00:13:00.572
- Yep, yep, those rich people, they're not gonna make it,
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- but us poor fishermen, we're gonna make it."
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- Well, I'm not saying they were rich,
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- but just remember, when they followed Jesus
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- it said they left their nets and boats with their hired servants.
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- Hired servants are called employees.
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- Poor people don't have employees.
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- I'm not saying they were rich.
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- I'm not preaching a rich gospel,
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- or hyper-prosperity, or anything like that.
- 00:13:40.578 --> 00:13:43.014
- I'm just saying they were okay.
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- They had hired servants.
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- Their businesses, by the way, kept going while they were gone,
- 00:13:47.752 --> 00:13:51.222
- because Peter goes back to fishing then.
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- He's still got his boat.
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- All I'm saying is there's no reason
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- that they would be astonished and be afraid.
- 00:13:57.462 --> 00:14:00.465
- This word actually also means not only amazement, but fear.
- 00:14:00.465 --> 00:14:04.969
- Why would they be afraid when Jesus said
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- it's tough for people that's got money to go to heaven?
- 00:14:06.905 --> 00:14:10.275
- Why wouldn't they just say,
- 00:14:10.275 --> 00:14:11.476
- "Yep, that's what we think, too?"
- 00:14:11.476 --> 00:14:14.545
- Why would they be afraid? Because they had some money.
- 00:14:14.545 --> 00:14:18.516
- It's just crazy that somehow we think these guys...
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- they had businesses.
- 00:14:22.587 --> 00:14:23.888
- That's all I'm saying to you. They're greatly astonished.
- 00:14:23.888 --> 00:14:27.458
- And so, Jesus said, "Well, it's just tough."
- 00:14:27.458 --> 00:14:30.461
- And they said, "Well then, who then can be saved?"
- 00:14:30.461 --> 00:14:33.398
- Now, I want you to hear His answer.
- 00:14:33.398 --> 00:14:36.501
- "With men it's impossible." Let me tell you what this means.
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- It's impossible for you to save yourself.
- 00:14:41.472 --> 00:14:45.677
- That's what Jesus is saying. You can't be good enough.
- 00:14:45.677 --> 00:14:51.649
- You can't be.
- 00:14:51.649 --> 00:14:52.951
- It is completely impossible to save yourself.
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- You need - oh, I just think
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- this is incredible, Jesus saying this.
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- Here's what He's trying to tell them.
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- You need a Savior.
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- You need someone who can do it for you.
- 00:15:07.765 --> 00:15:10.234
- Because, you have to remember, in order to be accepted by God,
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- an acceptable sacrifice had to be perfect.
- 00:15:14.939 --> 00:15:22.480
- It had to be perfect. Want me to show you?
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- Leviticus 22:21, "And whoever offers a sacrifice
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- of a peace offering to the Lord, to fulfill his vow,
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- or a free will offering from the cattle or the sheep,
- 00:15:32.123 --> 00:15:35.727
- it must be perfect to be accepted."
- 00:15:35.727 --> 00:15:41.232
- Right there in the Scripture,
- 00:15:41.232 --> 00:15:42.567
- "It must be perfect to be accepted.
- 00:15:42.567 --> 00:15:44.802
- There shall be no defect in it."
- 00:15:44.802 --> 00:15:49.707
- Exodus 12:5, about the Passover lamb.
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- "Your lamb shall be without blemish."
- 00:15:52.010 --> 00:15:56.280
- And then, obviously it's fulfilled in Christ,
- 00:15:56.280 --> 00:15:58.116
- 1 Peter 1:19, "But with the precious blood of Christ,
- 00:15:58.116 --> 00:16:01.085
- as of a lamb without blemish."
- 00:16:01.085 --> 00:16:06.791
- So, here's the perfect One standing there, saying,
- 00:16:06.791 --> 00:16:09.193
- "You can't save yourself. You can't be good enough.
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- You have to be perfect, but I'm perfect.
- 00:16:12.597 --> 00:16:17.535
- I can save you."
- 00:16:17.535 --> 00:16:18.970
- That's what He's trying to tell them.
- 00:16:18.970 --> 00:16:20.271
- So, we've been talking about perfectionism, stress.
- 00:16:20.271 --> 00:16:24.108
- Let me just tell you, perfectionism
- 00:16:24.108 --> 00:16:26.210
- will never be overcome by trying to do better.
- 00:16:26.210 --> 00:16:31.449
- You'll never overcome it by trying to be better
- 00:16:31.449 --> 00:16:33.084
- or do better.
- 00:16:33.084 --> 00:16:34.952
- You only overcome perfectionism by grace,
- 00:16:34.952 --> 00:16:39.657
- by being perfected by grace, receiving grace.
- 00:16:39.657 --> 00:16:44.762
- Let me give you an example of grace.
- 00:16:44.762 --> 00:16:48.366
- So, in the Old Testament, God gives the law.
- 00:16:48.366 --> 00:16:51.102
- It's His moral standard.
- 00:16:51.102 --> 00:16:53.304
- The New Testament tells us it's literally to frustrate us
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- to bring us to grace. It's phenomenal.
- 00:16:57.341 --> 00:17:00.878
- It's just, Paul spends, Jesus and Paul spend
- 00:17:00.878 --> 00:17:04.782
- most of their ministry trying to get people
- 00:17:04.782 --> 00:17:06.617
- to understand how good grace is.
- 00:17:06.617 --> 00:17:10.021
- So, you've got the law, and most people, again,
- 00:17:10.021 --> 00:17:12.490
- think it's 10 questions. It's not 10 questions.
- 00:17:12.490 --> 00:17:15.393
- It's 613 questions.
- 00:17:15.393 --> 00:17:17.962
- It's Leviticus, which is the Law of the Levite's,
- 00:17:17.962 --> 00:17:21.766
- Leviticus, and then Deuteronomy means,
- 00:17:21.766 --> 00:17:24.402
- "the law a second time."
- 00:17:24.402 --> 00:17:26.437
- So, Leviticus and Deuteronomy have the law, 613 laws.
- 00:17:26.437 --> 00:17:30.875
- So, here's how good grace is, okay?
- 00:17:30.875 --> 00:17:36.047
- God says to every human, "If you want to go to heaven,
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- you have to be perfect.
- 00:17:42.620 --> 00:17:45.022
- There's a test you have to take, 613 questions,
- 00:17:45.022 --> 00:17:49.794
- and you have to get them all right.
- 00:17:49.794 --> 00:17:52.630
- If you miss one, you don't go to heaven.
- 00:17:52.630 --> 00:17:56.334
- And by the way, you've already missed about 600 of them.
- 00:17:56.334 --> 00:18:04.142
- Now, My Son took the test and scored a perfect score.
- 00:18:04.142 --> 00:18:12.884
- If you want, you can take His grade,
- 00:18:12.884 --> 00:18:17.155
- or you can take the test yourself,
- 00:18:17.155 --> 00:18:21.025
- but you've already failed." Are you all following me?
- 00:18:21.025 --> 00:18:27.598
- That's how easy it is to accept Christ
- 00:18:27.598 --> 00:18:30.268
- and what He did on the cross!
- 00:18:30.268 --> 00:18:32.236
- Do you want to try to work your way there,
- 00:18:32.236 --> 00:18:35.339
- or do you want to accept His score?
- 00:18:35.339 --> 00:18:36.807
- Here's the problem, though, with believers.
- 00:18:36.807 --> 00:18:39.844
- We accept grace and then we still try to be perfect
- 00:18:39.844 --> 00:18:43.981
- in everything we do - and you're not gonna be perfect.
- 00:18:43.981 --> 00:18:48.686
- You're a human. You're gonna make mistakes.
- 00:18:48.686 --> 00:18:52.924
- But, you're good because He's made you good,
- 00:18:52.924 --> 00:18:55.826
- and God's good, so.
- 00:18:55.826 --> 00:18:57.461
- All right, so good is good, grace is good,
- 00:18:57.461 --> 00:19:00.231
- and here's number three - God is good.
- 00:19:00.231 --> 00:19:05.503
- God is good.
- 00:19:05.503 --> 00:19:07.338
- Now, I know where the word, "good," comes from,
- 00:19:07.338 --> 00:19:13.778
- but I decided to just kind of refresh myself on this,
- 00:19:13.778 --> 00:19:17.682
- so I put in the search, "Does good come from God,"
- 00:19:17.682 --> 00:19:21.819
- the word, "God."
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- All of these articles - no, no, good doesn't come from God.
- 00:19:23.721 --> 00:19:28.893
- Good is this word, God is this word,
- 00:19:28.893 --> 00:19:32.063
- and almost, one of them said straight out,
- 00:19:32.063 --> 00:19:33.497
- several straight out, "God is not good."
- 00:19:33.497 --> 00:19:36.968
- It's amazing.
- 00:19:36.968 --> 00:19:39.103
- And I kept thinking, "Well, I need to go back,"
- 00:19:39.103 --> 00:19:41.005
- because I remember when I did this study years ago,
- 00:19:41.005 --> 00:19:43.407
- you know, this is going back to the 12th century.
- 00:19:43.407 --> 00:19:45.076
- It's around the 6th century this word came into existence from,
- 00:19:45.076 --> 00:19:48.045
- you know, the Greek, and the Latin, and da-da-da.
- 00:19:48.045 --> 00:19:50.414
- So, I was kind of thinking, "I think I need
- 00:19:50.414 --> 00:19:52.283
- to go back farther," and I can't go back
- 00:19:52.283 --> 00:19:54.885
- and I can't find it, you know, da-da.
- 00:19:54.885 --> 00:19:56.821
- And then I thought, "Oh, I know how I can go back farther.
- 00:19:56.821 --> 00:19:59.423
- I'll go to the Bible." [Laughter]
- 00:19:59.423 --> 00:20:03.294
- And you know, I just remembered, I just kind of got reminded of,
- 00:20:03.294 --> 00:20:06.831
- the Bible is better than the internet!
- 00:20:06.831 --> 00:20:10.134
- [Laughter]
- 00:20:10.134 --> 00:20:11.869
- It's incredible how good the Bible is!
- 00:20:11.869 --> 00:20:14.238
- [Applause]
- 00:20:14.238 --> 00:20:16.040
- So if you're really trying to find out correct theology
- 00:20:16.040 --> 00:20:18.409
- and doctrine, just go to the Bible.
- 00:20:18.409 --> 00:20:20.177
- So, let me just show you whether God's good or not, okay?
- 00:20:20.177 --> 00:20:24.015
- So, Deuteronomy 26:11, "So you shall rejoice
- 00:20:24.015 --> 00:20:26.884
- in every good thing which the Lord your God
- 00:20:26.884 --> 00:20:32.056
- has given you in your house."
- 00:20:32.056 --> 00:20:34.091
- Psalm 118:1, "Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good."
- 00:20:34.091 --> 00:20:40.665
- Psalm 119:68, "You are good and do good."
- 00:20:40.665 --> 00:20:45.636
- Psalm 145:9, "The Lord is good to all."
- 00:20:45.636 --> 00:20:49.740
- Romans 8:28, "We know that all things work together for good
- 00:20:49.740 --> 00:20:53.077
- to those who love God, to those who are called
- 00:20:53.077 --> 00:20:55.513
- according to His purpose." 1 Timothy 4:4,
- 00:20:55.513 --> 00:20:57.948
- "For every creature of God is good."
- 00:20:57.948 --> 00:21:01.052
- 3 John 11, "Beloved, do not imitate
- 00:21:01.052 --> 00:21:04.021
- what is evil, but what is good.
- 00:21:04.021 --> 00:21:06.290
- He who does good is of God, but he who does evil
- 00:21:06.290 --> 00:21:11.495
- has not seen God." Why?
- 00:21:11.495 --> 00:21:13.497
- Because God is good. God is good.
- 00:21:13.497 --> 00:21:16.467
- Now, here's the question I've been wanting to get you
- 00:21:16.467 --> 00:21:18.836
- to the whole message.
- 00:21:18.836 --> 00:21:21.072
- Is good good enough if God says it's good?
- 00:21:21.072 --> 00:21:28.012
- So when I started, I said, "Is good good enough?"
- 00:21:28.012 --> 00:21:30.047
- And you were like, "Nope."
- 00:21:30.047 --> 00:21:31.849
- But, is good good enough if God says it's good? Yes.
- 00:21:31.849 --> 00:21:36.787
- So, I just want to show you how good good is,
- 00:21:36.787 --> 00:21:40.758
- according to God.
- 00:21:40.758 --> 00:21:42.626
- So, God created the world, six days.
- 00:21:42.626 --> 00:21:46.063
- Now, the Scripture talks about a day is as a thousand years.
- 00:21:46.063 --> 00:21:49.133
- We don't know. God's eternal.
- 00:21:49.133 --> 00:21:51.068
- We don't know about old, or new, or all of those things.
- 00:21:51.068 --> 00:21:55.806
- There are all sorts of theories about that.
- 00:21:55.806 --> 00:21:57.608
- Have whatever theory you want.
- 00:21:57.608 --> 00:21:59.043
- I don't mind. I don't mind.
- 00:21:59.043 --> 00:22:00.911
- Millions of years, six days, whatever you want,
- 00:22:00.911 --> 00:22:03.748
- as long as you know God did it. That's the bottom line.
- 00:22:03.748 --> 00:22:07.151
- As long as you know God did it and we didn't happen because,
- 00:22:07.151 --> 00:22:11.055
- you know, nothing collided with nothing.
- 00:22:11.055 --> 00:22:14.325
- [Laughter]
- 00:22:14.325 --> 00:22:18.195
- [Applause]
- 00:22:18.195 --> 00:22:24.535
- God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
- 00:22:24.535 --> 00:22:29.373
- And we have a designer, okay? So, all right.
- 00:22:29.373 --> 00:22:33.544
- So, do you remember, at the end of each day of creation,
- 00:22:33.544 --> 00:22:40.451
- God checked for one thing?
- 00:22:40.451 --> 00:22:44.088
- Here's the end of day one, Genesis 1:4.
- 00:22:44.088 --> 00:22:47.892
- "And God saw the light, that it was," what?
- 00:22:47.892 --> 00:22:53.264
- "Good." It didn't say perfect.
- 00:22:53.264 --> 00:22:57.802
- It didn't even say great.
- 00:22:57.802 --> 00:23:00.438
- God said, "That's good." End of day two, Verse 10.
- 00:23:00.438 --> 00:23:05.609
- "God saw that it was good." End of day three, Verse 12,
- 00:23:05.609 --> 00:23:08.612
- "God saw it was good." End of day four, Verse 18,
- 00:23:08.612 --> 00:23:12.817
- "God saw it was good."
- 00:23:12.817 --> 00:23:14.084
- End of day five, Verse 21, "God saw it was good."
- 00:23:14.084 --> 00:23:16.954
- Now, you do need to know on day six He created man
- 00:23:16.954 --> 00:23:21.759
- before He created woman.
- 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:25.362
- Genesis 2:18 says, "And the Lord God said,
- 00:23:25.362 --> 00:23:30.034
- "That's not good."
- 00:23:30.034 --> 00:23:31.702
- [Laughter]
- 00:23:31.702 --> 00:23:38.609
- That's not good.
- 00:23:38.609 --> 00:23:40.177
- [Laughter]
- 00:23:40.177 --> 00:23:42.213
- Created man without woman, looked and said,
- 00:23:42.213 --> 00:23:46.183
- "Yeah, that's not good. That's not good."
- 00:23:46.183 --> 00:23:51.088
- Just...ladies, just leave him for a few days
- 00:23:51.088 --> 00:23:55.359
- and you'll agree with God - not good.
- 00:23:55.359 --> 00:23:58.596
- That's not good.
- 00:23:58.596 --> 00:24:00.130
- But at the end of day six, after He created woman,
- 00:24:00.130 --> 00:24:04.535
- Genesis 1:31.
- 00:24:04.535 --> 00:24:05.936
- "Then God saw everything that He made,
- 00:24:05.936 --> 00:24:07.571
- and indeed it was very good.
- 00:24:07.571 --> 00:24:12.510
- And the evening and morning were the sixth day."
- 00:24:12.510 --> 00:24:16.280
- So, I just want you to know something -
- 00:24:16.280 --> 00:24:18.148
- good is good enough with God.
- 00:24:18.148 --> 00:24:21.385
- It's good enough to be good, to be made good by God's grace.
- 00:24:21.385 --> 00:24:28.559
- Everything He made was good, and when He made you,
- 00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:32.429
- He said, "That's good. That's good."
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- ROBERT: You are perfect in your Father's eyes.
- 00:24:34.932 --> 00:24:39.837
- Because of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ,
- 00:24:39.837 --> 00:24:43.874
- because of the perfect life of Jesus,
- 00:24:43.874 --> 00:24:46.277
- and the perfect death of Jesus Christ,
- 00:24:46.277 --> 00:24:49.113
- You are perfect.
- 00:24:49.113 --> 00:24:51.549
- Just like your children,
- 00:24:51.549 --> 00:24:53.951
- when you held that baby for the first time,
- 00:24:53.951 --> 00:24:57.054
- you probably thought to yourself,
- 00:24:57.054 --> 00:24:58.989
- "He's perfect," "She's perfect."
- 00:24:58.989 --> 00:25:02.026
- Your Father sees you as perfect.
- 00:25:02.026 --> 00:25:05.930
- He has a perfect love for you.
- 00:25:05.930 --> 00:25:09.600
- So stop trying to achieve something
- 00:25:09.600 --> 00:25:12.102
- that you've already received by grace.
- 00:25:12.102 --> 00:25:15.973
- Hey, I'm gonna continue the series next time.
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- I'll see you then.
- 00:25:18.242 --> 00:25:20.377
- ANNOUNCER: So many of us obsess over everything in life
- 00:25:20.477 --> 00:25:23.113
- being perfect and when something isn't perfect
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- and failure start creeping in.
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- What if perfection isn't something that's required of us?
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- What if the things that we are working
- 00:25:33.691 --> 00:25:35.092
- so hard to fix on our own are actually things
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- we need to give to God?
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- In his new series, "Perfected or Perfected,"
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- Pastor Robert challenges our view on perfection
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- and shares why hearing, believing, and obeying God
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- and relationships.
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- When God changes your heart, you'll discover
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- that there is so much more to life.
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- With humor, passion, and clarity,
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- Pastor Robert presents,
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- "The Secrets of Living Your Best Life."
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- ♪ ♪
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