Sunday, November 10th, 2019 - PM - Becoming Disciples with Discernment, Part 2 (Mt. 7:1-6)

So you got some refreshment he's taking a little bit of a break you soak in verses 1 through 5. Now, let's look at burst number six with Matthew 7 and let's encapsulate this last part that I have for you today in Brooklyn for 6 the Lord Jesus Christ his give not that which is holy unto the dogs. Neither cast ye your Pearls Before Swine. Lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and Rend you Lord. I pray that you would bless our time of your work help us understand now as your disciples as we know what it means to be introspective person to pass judgment on ourselves and have self-examination let a man examine himself and so let him eat and drink of that bread in that cup Lord It's when we look at ourselves first that we can see you more clearly and then we can see how to help others the way we ought to as we walk with you Lord. This will enable us to have a greater the sermon on what we do for the gospel as we give out your message board. The message of the kingdom was with Jesus preached in his day and then he commissioned his disciples to go with the freak. The gospel to Every Creature. That's the good news war that you came and died on Calvary As we sing about at Calvary years? I spent been team fraud carry NADA. My world was crucified knowing how it was for me. He died you did that Lord because you loved us and gave yourself for us that we could be free from sin. I pray that you help us understand better. Was it first meme about giving that which is holy unto the dogs and casting Pearls Before Swine. I pray you'll help us to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ Our Savior in Jesus name. I pray amen. They have a right to have a heart to help in the right to censor that have a heart to help we made some striking statements in earlier some statements that. I'm not sure it goes. Well, I'm sure everyone in Colorado does not agree with me on many of those five statements that I met all of them.

From the truth of God's word and you stand on that I sent changing its time. And God is not some some vindictive waiting to strike people with lightning bolts, whenever they step outside of that. He gives us the knowledge of himself and the right way to walk in so that we can find life in Jesus in this whole passages going to talk about two ways to road to two of many things that Jesus teaches about here and I think there's parallels with that contrast and comparison that we can make that could be in the heart of his disciples certainly was in the heart of the Pharisees No Doubt He gave me probation. He helps his disciples to discern the difference between lox and specs. Disapprobation does not until you can see clearly when you can do that. Then you can tell there's a purpose because you're going to stand before God one day and give an account for what you judge on others. And God is going to hold you to that same standard in there will be lost at the Judgment seat of Christ. If we don't have the right attitude in the right motive in this we need to have respect as the Lord will judge both the living and the dead the Quicken and the dead at his parent. What was the prescription on how to get right? Well, it's secure yourself before trying to assist others get the bean and then you'll see clearly help someone else to do women is that we can wind up being a disqualified at ophthalmologist and it's a shocking absurdity to think that we would walk around with this sticking out of her face and not even see what you can't see this. Jesus is pointing it out, but I'm in contrast to that inadvertently that there's a surgical stupidity when we not only have the sticking out of her face.

We have this big log sticking out of ours that surgical stupidity the directed by means that you've gone to God your stuff done right with him you got in that beam out of your own eye the purpose of self judgement. Where's he said? There's to serve others. We judge ourselves to others in their walk with God and Jesus has exposed to pieocracy in Dellwood that as a very real possibility in the life of those that would follow him. He seeks to put an end to his disciples naivety a possible that they could be engaged in. This would be Discerning not oak logs and specs for Jesus move now to be Discerning of dogs and pigs or is some commentators tallest dogs and Hogs, whichever one you like better to line of pigs. They're all the same creatures and wild boars the Bible talks about those animals. They do wrong free and they were arranged in the land of Israel strikingly as I was in particular. I truly expected to see if the instance of Jesus and he didn't want not one of those commentaries

What happens when the defense take over those pigs and Legion goes into those flying and they end in destruction as they run off the cliff into the sea tracking?

Jesus is talking about giving that which is holy unto the dogs and casting Pearls Before Swine. Generally. This is understood to be the message of the kingdom. And if you trade Matthews argument in particular, this makes sense, I think because

What he preached? I'll help you out with the first.

Halos Heaven is at hand if something is at hand it is within reach the Kingdom of Heaven is within reach you need to turn around. If you're going to find it and Jesus explain to Nicodemus Imports God and about yourself. Anto Jesus Took up that message repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand question. Who was that message preached to primarily What people group was it Jews or Gentiles will narrow it down to two? Why so to the Chief won't because they have been committed with the Oracles of God and had fallen from God's grace and actually rejected the Messiah that he promised. And so it may reject Jesus Christ a message to change your mind because God is working at work among you and this was the work that was prophesied through his people fruit Israel. And so the message the conversion process Steel in the symbol was baptism. They were under the baptism of John jesus takes up Continental at you've been in prison for preaching righteousness and standing up the old harridan his dad saying you can't have this relationship with your brother's wife and John the Baptist's wouldn't break. It wouldn't back down. What was right and I had him thrown in jail with no name of that story, because of weakness and unrighteousness.

Justice and mercy and in the word of God so deep it takes up to me repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand in the kingdom of God the king of Heaven they can be synonymous. You can interchange them. I think Matthew is where you're going to see the Kingdom of Heaven more. So your Father which art in Heaven instead of God. Maybe I have that backwards Matthew might be the king of God seek. Ye first the kingdom. What's the back of Matthew 6:33 at Elitches first the kingdom of God and Heaven king of God.

Jesus preached this message later on in chapter number 10. He's going to Commission.

to the house of Israel Now there will be Gentiles along the way in Jesus's Ministry that fill out front of leg, any come in and be there in no wise cast out and there's an interesting correlation. I think with what we're talking about today with the Savage Nation woman. There's other Gentiles you have think about the the nobleman's son you think about others that are outside of Israel that will receive face. So it's not saying it until can be safe even in the ministry and then to the Greek the ground is level at the cross and the hang up for the Jewish people. Is there thinking that they can have righteousness with God through their own works and they've missed Define righteousness. According to God's work that God gave them showed them how to be righteous in his eyes.

Couldn't see their own simple condition that they had missed a fine and they began teaching for the Commandments of God and Jesus and I had fallen drastically short message and you know, they do all these Mighty works the same thing cast out demons and heal people in The Blind receive their sight the power of the Gospel in your Pearls Before Swine.

Give me manwiches. Holy unto the dogs. Sadly some have misinterpreted this I think through the course of church history to put it in a box that I don't think is it justifiable what I mean by that? Well, if you take the corridors of church history, you'll find people applying this to the Lord's table at the Eucharist alone. And they say, you know, you shouldn't allow unbelievers to come and sit at the table of the Lord is someone who is not saved if someone is not safe.

Know if they're not willing that we are saved.

No, because I need to get those things right first salvation by faith through Grace and then saying Lord, I'm going to follow you identify with pricing In The Blood Bought Church and through that they can come and have open Fellowship in open communion by that was called close communion here and there's reasons for that. Are there right with God to come to the table with I don't know how to exercise with my pastor for Minnesota game. Who am I?

I'm going to stand before God for that. I know I'm going to give an account for the pastor at that. The Lord has allowed me to serve your end in communion only or the Eucharist only or the Lord's table only cast not your Pearls Before Swine is trying to teach his disciples about Jesus now is winding back all the way to stop anything corrlink compare about being Salt and Light and the persecution that they would face remember the very last to be added to prepare them for that persecution. And so now he's saying be careful. How did Thurman? What Jesus is not opening here is that we should preach the gospel only to some people and exclude others. That's not what he's saying. We preach the gospel to Every Creature. If you're going to say that there's some that don't need to hear the dishes, you know, the holy things before Jesus commissioned to church to go to the end of the world. And so we can't wrestle this into saying that there's some people that we shouldn't preach the gospel to

So if that's not what Jesus means what what is this a we get it? We're not supposed to give that which is holy to the dogs. Supposed to cats are pearls are precious. Things are Treasures Before Swine. What what is the Bluetooth talking about?

Well, let's look at the force of the passage of hopefully will be coming with the clear before we let me do a little text to work with you to help you see what I believe is happening here. There's a there's a clause level chiasmus that we're looking at home alone with me. I'll show you another verse that will correlate with this. Let's try thinking cap on and let's also think we can like a Hebrew. I know where English speakers but there's some cemeteries in using a teaching methods to reiterate the fact and while if he sang the same thing as a different way, he's driving the point home with the Ludacris illustration.

So he's repeating exactly what he's just teaching in a way that it if it's saying it again. Sometimes we need to hear things more than once.

We need to hear it more than once. Now let me know if you keep badgering it.

part number 6 carefully with me give not that which is holy unto the dogs, That's letter A in set letter B with the next Frank S. Letter b letter b LOL the next phrase let's day.

now move back out to the corresponding a and turn again and Rend you. So who's going to do the Randy? take me to. Play out specifically dog was following it. He said give not that which is holy unto. Neither cast ye your Pearls Before Swine lest. They trample them under their feet and then back out to letter a and turn it in and bring you the dogs to the Renton. So who does the who does the rending the dogs? Does that fit with what we know about dogs and pigs? I wish I had friends and family that raised.

We have barbed wire and sometimes we trust and to know down along the ground shake that thing somehow or another it was usually the stake it down some more and eat tear it up against take it in. And so, you know Pig scramble. They do try now. There's an aspect in which you know, we'll talk about picture in the moment. But do you see you see the claws level chiasmus X marks the spot? Okay, we work in and that'll help us understand the flow. And when I saw that I thought you know, that makes sense. Now, I can see the picture in a greater way the dogs and a pig so here is an illustration that rent. Let's go get these dogs in a pig. Why do we need to give that which is holy unto the dog because simply put dogs are undeserving of paper.

Let's help our understanding about dogs in this context Hello, Google.

I know how bad it can be. And they can be that, you know the best pets that you could ever have. I also know how much they can go to the store today and pick something.

Or we have land somewhere that they can be free and actually be a dog like a dog supposed to be maybe I was considered but that's not the mindset of the dogs that are being talked about here. We're not talking about household pets. We're talking about this crazy The Mangy stray. Okay, we're talking about the rock for the community center that warned you about. Northpointe apartment now It's the one that says if you're less than 3 feet tall, you shouldn't be out here alone because the coyotes will get you on the open spaces around there are dogs that you have no business messing with and you just need to keep your distance because they're going to chew you up and spit you out and have you for dinner. That's the kind of dog that Jesus is referencing here when he says give not that which is holy unto the. Now put your Jewish hat on but your yamaka on if you're a guy in text.

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to go and make an offering, you know, they got their land them or they've got whatever they were. They were processing for that offering that got it all taken care of and rather than take it to the altar. They just passed that off and toss it to the dogs, you know, maybe the walking by the valley of hinnom out there and they take that out and there's a Scavenging dogs down there looking for morphle. Is a dog going to discern that that was headed to the altar as an offering of the sacrifice and give it to scavenger like that that didn't understand the whole purpose behind the offering Thanksgiving. They're just they're just out to fill the belly.

That is close to think what Jesus thinks you're to disciple. Give not that which is holy unto the. So what is that which is holy again, if it's not limiting the preaching of the Gospel to a certain group of people or somebody that we can single out and preach the gospel to all as we go we need to understand there are some people that you know, this is this is more than just I can respect you believe that about Jesus in the Bible you believe that the Bible is the word of God and respect that you can believe God you can serve God you can work. That's kind of dog. A dog is someone who reject God and reject all things holy and would turn around as a Christian and chu-u of you as a Christian and they would turn around and chew you up and spit you out and persecute you to know in it just because they hate God. They have no discernible spiritual things whatsoever. So do we need a level of discernment? Yeah, the next time you go to your Thanksgiving family dinner. You're going to have some people there. They're going to be okay with you read your Bible and praying and seeking God but the moment you start trying to turn it to them is the moment they're going to say, I don't think any fact if they're Scavenging and if they have a sports God that maybe you weren't even aware of that moment around there and start chewing you up and they're going to have you for dinner and that's what's going to be the turkey.

You know that what you needed need to know when to stop. We don't shovel We Believe they'll be people through and if we keep pursuing this then we could be taking that which is holy that which is Sanctified and set apart you see we come and we open our Bible and we can you get into that. It's just that I found in my devotional reach the things that the Lord.

How do I get that? They're not going to be able to digest that they'll just take a chewed up and spit out the bone. So casting your Pearls Before Swine and I was able to discern it. There's a different word that's translated in Matthew chapter 15 for dogs. So there are two kinds of dogs even in the life of Israel understand. There's two kinds of dog that told you about that.

Unless you have a Rottweiler or Doberman.

You get the point in this day and time there's two kinds of dogs as well. There's a household dog. And those are the kind that you know, they're okay to have around the house and no, don't desire the crumbs that fall from the table. You don't believe me the dogs know how to do that and you never had off template simple, you know when I can help them out along the way and maybe I'll help out a little something from a ball something, you know, they're just they're so expecting hypothetically and you would open that trunk 10 minutes later than 10 minutes.

Take it out on you every chance you get.

What's the difference?

These kind of dog totally undeserving of sacred often. There's an iterative negative. Imperative imperative when he says to give not the sense would be never did you should never do this. You should have enough to know when these this is somebody that just it's not time God might need to work on them a little bit longer for them to come to the place where they can approach the things of God with humility and understand that there's a couple things of God, they're not there. And so we don't we have to have a permit to help people find and give that to somebody who wouldn't even give me the time of day. Y'all come here is a diminutive euphemism. And this is a reference simply to profane men. So what we're doing is we're looking at something physical that we can relate with. Okay, a dog Scavenging roaming about dog that you don't want to have animal in the in a dark alley somewhere because if you won't have a leg or something worse. Foaming at the mouth making noise.

Bible does it talk about a man named Lazarus who was laying at the gate. Or Never by Percy and the Bible says moreover. It wasn't as if it wasn't bad enough that he had more over there.

Stop people have such a disdain for these kind of. If a Jewish person came in contact with a dog head to toe and they would go fully clothed.

Batman a lepers women Well, there's a story about that owed of a king Ahab squatting upon the throne of Israel. Thank u r g Lee had a wife named the prophecy was made about her that came to fulfillment and part of that prophecy was at the dog we can sync with and they did. Until a dog is not going to think twice about eating of Courts.

Peter said it like this as a dog returns to his vomit. Solar pool to his fault. If you don't know that dogs are gross. You've never had or been around them long enough. Yeah, like they walk away, you know 5 seconds later.

Now your stomach feels about like it should to read this passage give that give not that which is holy unto the dogs that have no place for that. They can't stomach that. I'm just devour it. And so these are distinct. It's metaphorical hear what he's talking about. If you work at the last parallel to turn again and Rend you is possible to turn again circumstantial participle and it's taking a physical action and speaking of it for a mental action to talk about another that's metaphor right dog doing in their mind. They're turning on you. Because of what you believe in what you shared with him about God you need to know how far to go and casting in getting that which is holy to the dogs. Don't do it.

Now, let's look at the pic and share those with somebody who is vindictive towards the cause of Christ. We going to do more damage. and it's not going to benefit anything doesn't mean

I'll call you in just a moment with an illustration. I think that will solidify both of these ideas almost one of those dull moment.

How fast do that together with Corey never figured that one out? Don't cast your Pearls Before Swine because they don't eat Pearl acorn.

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Play Tony Pearl. So this would be more common throughout the Jordan Valley. So this would be familiar to what teaching them referencing Psalm 80 verse 13.

Even today set of saying from pork and they don't eat it only take it only pork the Jews and Islam Muslim people afraid from pork goes back even though and it and the cow does the cow come between the pig is unclean because of the reason why I like bacon just like next week.

Jewish custom they don't eat pork because it's unclean to them the most unclean animals all over its uncleanness now, it's also I mean, I see it on both sides of what I found in the commentaries that racing pigs is is not a profitable business for Jewish person to be in pain because well, you have to give your brain to the pigs and then you know, the brand that you should be using to feed others you're having it's expensive to do with the take apart from just use it for making they don't give you milk. If you don't produce anything else from them just the bacon or ham hocks and wherever you want it. It's another say, you know, it doesn't really take that much to raise pigs. So I see you know, the argument from both sides because there's nothing there's nothing in there with desire a young man The Prodigal who went away and spend all the substance on ride with living when he came to himself. He said I'll return to my father's house. Where was he when he came to himself. With banks and they would wrong Through The Valleys they like mud and digest it all.

Don't give that which is holy to the dogs cast not your pearls before swine mean. It's a pretty plain picture, I think. Why would a Jewish person ever take holy food maybe was offered as sacrifice. Why would they give that ugly dog?

Put your Jewish cap on again, Come on. Ladies figure whatever you ladies put on for maybe a Charlotte something.

Why would a Jewish person ever give a pearl to Pig?

I don't use person and I know they're very smart people.

And I don't believe that just walked on the Market Street. Are they can't take that same Pearl that sell it to you.

Will stop right there. good point God has blessed his people he has even today they can be the shrewdest negotiators you've ever seen. And so that's not a very wise the illicit. There's a pearl worth more than diamonds in this day. Worth more than that and I'm just going to toss it to some pics what's going to happen to me? What Jesus says they're going to trample them under their feet. They're going to the doctor.

This could have the sports behind it. It's a rhetoric Force. He's using it to make a dark and so his teaching demonstrates to the disciples. We shouldn't presume that anybody is going to reject the gospel some commentaries capture this I think I witness statement the same as an admonition about the necessity to limit the time towards the heart. Encountered this when I was witness down on Seville Square. We were easy easy to pick out the McWrap because of our uniforms are afternoon class trip. We will go down into Pensacola downtown and we would take gospel tracks and walk the streets and try to share Christ with folks and share gospel tracks were going to try to leave the Lord and my experience service leader. He told me he'd watch out because they know we're coming and they're looking for us. Well, I was in there Target that day there was a group of Jehovah's Witnesses that were down there and rather than go and try to hide what they believe they called it their Duty because you know, we're at the Devil according to them, you know, we're taking the Bible in teaching people about Jesus and that's another discussion service by tying up our college students who would go down and take the Bible and try to share Jesus with people. They thought they were doing the kingdom of God of service by stopping us from preaching the gospel.

To this day. I can understand it, but that that was the truth and they would sit there and talk with you for hours on end. Not really caring about hearing what you have to say, but simply wasting your time so that you could go talk to somebody else. That's how it worked out.

Casting your Pearls Before Swine much is too much.

Charles Spurgeon in his book The Gospel of the Kingdom. He said this sayings or not to be simple to use simpletons either fools when it comes to preaching the gospel. We need to know how much time is enough to expand when we see that we're not getting good reception. We need to be Discerning of that know, okay. This is going to be casting Pearls Before Swine possibly what Jesus was talking about here. Another commentator said it like this and it rings in my ears. Jesus's disciples should neither be inquisitors judges nor simpleton neither censoriousness that he will not be able to discern the difference between a fellow disciple with a relatively minor problem and an enemy.

That's where these things tied together C-section doesn't occur a disciple make blunder on the side of judgemental hypocrisy or extreme gullibility. That summarizes it well ignorance of oneself is often mixed with arrogance for the ignorance of oneself is often mixed with a Ford other. D Martyn Lloyd Jones in his Exposition studies in The Sermon on the Mount he talked about us being really expositors of God's work God's people we need to be able to go after their preaching the gospel. We hold these precious truths of the Lord out to others and we need to know are they going to be receptive with this at all?

Is closed off then we don't waste our effort there anymore. In fact were instructed by Jesus the dust our feet and keep moving on. Remember. He left the 99 to find the one about $1,000 drone before you even find one before even one person darkens the door to give you an ear to what you believe about Jesus. And so it's not our job to put people in the net. It's our job to Simply cast the net. Ella me close with this story because I have verified it and it is validated. Maybe doesn't Nelson's other dear dear folks and they've been coming for some time now. Well, I asked Brother Don because I had heard a story years ago when I was at a conference with evangelist Jim Van gelderen about a doctor Ed Nelson Don's brother. So let me share with you something that I think is. Intriguing as disciples and moving on to the next place you want a living?

As far as I know every detail of this is absolutely accurate and I've confirmed it now they want to tell you feel like at validate listen to this 1948. Eccentric Israel was liberated 1948 when they became a state was here can trace its roots in a way back to dr. Nelson because I mean his legacy lives on 9048 you still in college and stop more effort and made an Endeavor to go up to Dylan how many of you know we're doing is Write up the I-70 Corridor. He went up to Dylan the town that was there to time a 1948 and he tried to plant a church up there and nobody nobody was interested. It reminds me a lot of what I heard with Freddie Martinez going over to Louisville. Not one single family even remotely interested in coming to the services at church, but I believe that in confidence. He believes that there are certain Geographic locations that are under the Judgment of God today and we can confirm that validate that buy what the Holy Spirit I tried to go to a planters. Cannot go today. Because they don't have the desire to or the drive to assembly because it's quote. So the story continues, dr. Nelson went up and try to do some church cleaning efforts Endeavors up there. There was one lady said that was kind of remotely interested in in a church in started up there. So what doctor Nelson did I don't know if I would ever have enough courage to do this. I think I would want to seek the Lord in prayer and fasting.

Goes out to the sign that says you now in through Dylan he approaches the sign and he goes out there and takes it shoot off. And he dusts right on the side. Because of the reception or the lack thereof and that you can trace the history of all the churches that were planted Colorado in this region. bathing suit.

Go to study the history of Dylan. You'll find out that there's a town. under the lake

That was the Dylan the doctor Nelson went and dusted his shoes off on the sign and left and strangely somehow later on. They decided that they needed to just

give not that which is holy unto the dogs need to cast your Pearls Before Swine.

There Are Places today or people don't want what you have a hopper for Jesus Christ. In fact, they will be nasty world. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Yeah, right. They hurt it hurt a lot. They can do a lot of damage. And so as you're going to get the gospel offered to everyone free to all but when you discern a might be dealing with a dog or a pig it's time to get out of there. Because if they turn and they can't eat those pearls. They will find something to eat and it just might wind up in you or someone you love it's that nasty of the world. So hopefully that'll help you discern between dogs and pics and be a disciple with a little more discern.