Episode Transcript
Proverbs chapter 11 verse 1. I've so enjoyed going through the book of Proverbs tonight.
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And with this new chapter comes some new truths for us to ponder.
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And in our verse tonight Solomon draws our attention, if you look to Proverbs 11.
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He draws our attention to a false balance, a false balance.
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Now Solomon is not talking about balance in the sense of our equilibrium.
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He's not talking about our internal balance in our body that keeps us from falling down.
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But he's talking about a device. A balance is not a state of being, but it's a physical device
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that's used to measure something's weight. And you put a known weight on one side of the balance.
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And you put an unknown weight on the other side of the balance. And when each side of the balance
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is balanced, then you know that this weight being equal to this weight, you know what this weight is.
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All right? So if someone is buying 10 pounds of weight, everyone knows what a balance,
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should know what a balance looks like. That's what's in Lady Justice's hands when she has
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her sword and the blindfold on. Now the blindfold's off, she's just getting who she wants to.
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But, and she has those pair of scales in her hands. That's what the balance is.
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If someone's buying 10 pounds of weight, then you put a 10 pound weight on this side of the scale.
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And then you take your scoop of weight and you start scooping weight on the other side.
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So right now the 10 pounds is down here. You start scooping weight on this side until finally it
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comes and it equals out like this. And when it equals out like this, you've got 10 pounds of
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weight. When each side is perfectly balanced, then you know the customer has 10 pounds.
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But if a customer is buying 10 pounds from you, and you put a 9 pound weight on this side of the
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scale. Now you label it 10 pounds, that's the trick. That's how you get by with it. You get a
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9 pound weight that's labeled 10 pounds. You stick it on this side of the scale. And then you measure
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out your weight here. Then what's going to happen? You're going to have 9 pounds of weight that looks
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like you're selling them 10 pounds. Well you do that 10 times, you're going to get you, you're
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going to save 10 pounds of weight. So that's, you know, that can really help your bottom line there.
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But you just stole one pound of weight from your customer. So that's wrong. In fact, God says that
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a false balance, if you look back in your text, is abomination to the Lord. Thank you so much,
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Jonathan. You didn't lose my wife, did you? There she is. Thank you so much. So that would be,
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yeah, thank you. Did you lock that back, sweetheart? Thank you. So this would be
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a balance here. Of course, they're going to come in different sizes, depends on
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what type of commerce that you're doing. But this is a real balance.
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And we're going to look at that here in just a little bit. And it's going to come in handy by us
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studying it. So it's an abomination to the Lord when you have a false balance. And when you're
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thinking about the word abomination, because we don't use abomination a whole lot, it's a Bible
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term, it's a church term, but we don't use it in common language. And if you want a common word to
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understand abomination, it's the word disgusting. A false balance is disgusting to the Lord. It
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disgusts him. That's literally what abomination means. It means disgust, disgusting. But a just
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weight on the other hand, that means you don't have a nine pound weight pretending to be 10 pounds,
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you have a true 10 pound weight. That's a just weight. And a just weight on the other hand,
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if you look back in your text, is his delight. So a false balance is disgusting to the Lord,
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but a just or a true weight on that balance is his delight. A just weight means the balance is
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weighed accurately rather than fraudulently. A false balance is an abomination to the Lord,
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but a just weight is his delight. Now, if you take your pens and underscore the word abomination,
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abomination,
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now underscore the word delight, delight.
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Now, abomination and delight, those describe God's attitudes toward the weight on that balance.
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It's completely attitude. God's disgusted with something or God's delighted with something.
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This is describing God's attitude toward a balance.
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God is disgusted with a false weight. God is delighted with a just weight.
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Now, understand this. What disgusts a person and what delights a person
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determines that person's character.
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I saw a video this week of a man being intentionally run over by a utility truck.
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It appeared that someone was trying to steal the truck. I guess got tired of walking, I don't know,
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but he hopped into a utility truck and the utility worker was trying to stop him and
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well, he got off with the truck and the utility worker's like, "Oh, well, you know, there goes our
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truck." Utility worker starts walking across the street, I guess to go phone somebody, tell the
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boss the truck's gone, something, and that truck just comes barreling down the road and it hits
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that utility driver, hits him so hard, it sends him flying through the air like a rag doll.
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I felt so sorry for him when I saw that. It's very sad. What that driver of that truck did
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disgusted me, as it did most people, I'm sure, who watched it. Did anyone else see that video
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besides me? The problem is some of the people commenting on that video were rather entertained
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by all of it. They enjoyed it. They were laughing at that man being run over. We're talking about a
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man who probably has children, maybe grandchildren, maybe his parents are still alive, maybe he has
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a wife that depends on him, maybe he's her caretaker. But one man commented and said it was
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the funniest thing he had seen that day.
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They were happy that the man got ran over. So the assault on that man disgusted me,
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but it delighted them. And the difference in our attitudes reveal a difference in our character,
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you see. Recently, Joel Osteen and his wife attended an LGBTQ celebration concert put on
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by Lady Gaga. Did you all see that in the news? Karen did. And I mean, a pastor going to an
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LGBTQ celebration concert put on by Lady Gaga, that event disgusts me. It delighted him.
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And once again, it shows a difference in our character. What a person gets excited and happy
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about shows what kind of person they are versus what they get disgusted about.
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I tell you, as I was studying for this, because this is a verse that teaches us about the character
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of our God. It shows us what God is disgusted with. It shows us what God is delighted with.
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And as I was studying this first, I was thinking, I'm so glad that God is disgusted and delighted
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at the right things. As the vehicular assault and the LGBTQ concert are tokens of a person's character,
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so this balance tonight in Scripture, the Holy Spirit is making this balance a token
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of God's character. You've got a man getting ran over and depending upon attitudes,
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that then reflects the character. You have the scale and depending upon attitudes,
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that reflects the character. You know, there are actually some people, and I was telling a man
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today about when I was a teenager, there was a grown man behind the business where I worked at
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with my dad. And he wanted to buy some speakers for his car from me. I had some speakers for sale.
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And I didn't have a lot of experience dealing with these things. And he said, "Well, I'll give you
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half the money today and I'll pay you the rest on payday next week." I said, "Okay." So I give him
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the speakers. He gives me half the money and that's done. There's no more money coming.
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You come back the next week, he says, "No, I'm not paying you."
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"Well, you better. Nothing you can do about it. I'm not paying you." And then, you know, you start
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realizing, man, not everyone thinks like I do and not everyone has the same character I do.
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We have people come in for bankruptcy and they owe people money, lots of money.
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And they're just as happy as they can be coming in. They've got a lawyer trying to beat it and
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they really owe the money. And they admit they owe the money, but it doesn't bother them. I'd be so
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embarrassed. I'd be, if it was a dollar a week, man, if whatever it took, I'd be making payments
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on that till I drew my labs and breath to try to make it right with somebody. A lot of people just
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don't care. Do you know why? They think it's good business if you can beat somebody out of something.
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If you can take advantage of somebody and you can defraud them from what rightfully belongs to them,
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then that's good business on their part. So what they do, they are delighted
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when things aren't equal, when things are good on their end, but not good on the other guy's end.
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They're disgusted when they are equal, really disgusted when the other guy gets the advantage.
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And so again, the balance tonight, it shows the character of God.
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So in our verse tonight, the scriptures are making a balance, a visual illustration of the righteous
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character of God. And as we understand that, we're going to now study a balance.
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We're going to muse upon the balance the Holy Spirit is bringing to our attention. And what I
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want you to see about this balance is, and this is the beauty of the balance. Every balance
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has two sides. Every balance has two sides, one balance, but two sides. And you know what that is
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indicative of? It's indicative of our relationships, our relationships. Each side has to do with my
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relationship with somebody else or your relationship with somebody else. You got one side, they've got
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one side. Make sense? So that's what the balance is indicative of. A balance has two sides to weigh,
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and these two sides represent two different people in a relationship.
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The side of the scale that has the weight on it represents my interest.
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I'm giving this person 10 pounds of wheat and no more. I'm going to put this 10 pound weight on here
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and then I'm going to put this wheat and as soon as it's even, I'm done. That represents my interest.
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If I put a false weight on the scale, then it will benefit me, not my neighbor. I put the nine pound
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weight on there. Again, it's my interest. So if I put the 10 pound weight, that's me being honest
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with my customer, but it's making sure I don't get ripped off. The side of the scale that I'm
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scooping the wheat on, that's representing my neighbor's interest. The business relationship
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that I have with this person, and they're making sure that their side, the side that I'm putting
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the wheat on, that it evens out with my side that has the weight on it to make sure they get their
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10 pounds of wheat and no less. So the two sides of a balance teach us that God is delighted
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when both parties in a relationship get what's rightfully coming to them.
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And God is disgusted when they don't. And repeat that again. The two sides of the balance teach us
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that God is delighted when both parties in a relationship get what's rightfully coming to them,
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and God is disgusted when they don't. I want you to understand, we go back to righteousness.
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Righteousness is put into writing, is put into words for us in the 10 commandments.
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God's righteousness reduced to writing in the 10 commandments. That's really what it is.
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And the 10 commandments are divided in two parts. The first five and the last five. And every single
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10 commandments has to do with our relationships. Every single one. The 10 commandments are all
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based on the balance. And they have to be equal all the time. Or the 10 commandments are broken.
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Any of the 10 commandments. But every one of the 10 commandments are a balance to ensure
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that both parties in our relationships get what's rightfully coming to them. The first
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five commandments of the 10 commandments have to do with our relationship to God.
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Thou shalt have no other gods before me. You're not to make any graven images and bow down to them.
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It's about our relationship to God. Your relationship to God. You shall have no other gods before me.
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The second of the 10, the second set of five of those 10 commandments have to do with our
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relationship toward man, toward our neighbor. For example, you shall not steal. That's not a
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relationship with God. That's a relationship to one another. Now here's the absolute beauty of the
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balance. The two sides of a balance shows us that God cares about both parties in a relationship.
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He's a fair God. He's a just God. He doesn't play favorites.
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The equality in the weight of the balance, so the two sides shows that God cares about both parties.
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And then the equality when the balance balances out, the equality in that balance shows us that God
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requires both parties to wholly fulfill their obligations to one another.
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Make sense? If I fill my obligations and they fill their obligations, we're going to even out.
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If I don't fulfill my obligations, we're going to be like this right here.
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For example, the first five of the 10 commandments, you shall have no other gods before me.
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God's side of the scale requires that we give Him what's rightfully due to Him, our love and devotion
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to Him as His creatures, completely to God and to nobody else. All right? Our side of the scale
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requires that God gives us what's rightfully due to us. And some of you all may think, "Ah, God
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doesn't... There's nothing that's rightfully due to us." Yes, there is. There most certainly is.
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If it wasn't due to us, God would be wrong in giving it to us. You see, God, He's not in debt to us,
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but because of His moral character, He's obligated to be righteous toward His people. Make sense?
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God is obligated to His own righteous character to be righteous toward us.
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And so being His creatures and God being the righteous God that He is,
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then what's rightfully due to us is the goodness of His grace according to His holy nature
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as our Creator. Being our Father, our loving Lord, our protector, our provider, our Savior and our King,
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that's what He created us for. And since He created us for that, that's rightfully due to us
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because it fulfills His righteous purpose according to His righteous character.
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So my side of the scale, I am to love and serve Him and have Him as my God and no other God
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before me. And on His side of the scale, if He is to be my God, that's my devotion to Him.
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And then He is to be a God to me. That's His devotion to me. Make sense? And it both equals
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out that scale. Now, the second half of the Ten Commandments, the relationship of us toward one
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another, again, you shall not steal. My side of the scale requires that my neighbor does not
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take what belongs to me because the commandment given to me not to steal his stuff is also given
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to him not to steal my stuff. So if he doesn't steal my stuff and I don't steal his stuff,
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we balance the scale. If he takes my stuff, he owes me. He's going to pay till that's balanced back.
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Make sense? But the fact that God is disgusted with a false weight shows us that He wants us to be
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content with His provision for us and not step out of those limits through fraud or deceit.
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A false weight. I put my 10 pounds on here. I've got 10 pounds of wheat. I can only sell it for so
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much. If I claim more weight than I actually have on there and I get more money than what rightfully
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belongs to me, I'm being covetous. I'm not being content. A true weight shows us God wants us to
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be content with His provision and that God cares about that person and that person's needs just as
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much as He cares about my needs. He doesn't want me to be ripped off. I like what the Apostle Paul
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said when he was talking about giving in the church. He said, "I don't mean that you be burdened
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and other men be eased." He said, "I'm not trying to unbalance the scale here."
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But the fact that that's that God hates a false weight. He wants us to be content with what we
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have. But the fact that God loves a just weight shows us that God wants us to get everything
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that's coming to us. I'm so glad He does. He never tells us to claim an 11 pound weight
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and only put 10. You would think, "Well, if I have a 10 pound weight and I show it as 11,
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excuse me, I show it as nine. If I have a 10 pound weight and I show it as nine and I keep putting on
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there and I charge him for nine pounds and I really just gave him 10 pounds, then I just gave
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this man an extra pound for free." Realize that's still a false weight too. It's a false weight
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because God cares about what's coming to me as well as He does what's going to Him. He wants us
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to get everything that's coming to us. And so if you can take that and move it from our relationship
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from me to my neighbor and move it toward those first five commandments, my relationship between
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me and God, I want you to see how beautiful this becomes. When it comes to our relationship to God,
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God always deals with a just weight with us. The 10 commandments are those that...
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I lost, there we go. The 10 commandments are the weight that God measures us by.
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So we all start off right here and we've all sinned and come short of balancing the scale.
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They come short of the glory of God. Makes sense?
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And when we start to try to obey those 10 commandments, maybe we can budget a little bit,
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but no matter how good we try to live, we all come short of balancing that scale.
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That's how come God said in the Old Testament, "You have been weighed in the balances
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and found wanting," which means lacking. In other words, man, I put you on the scale.
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You're not evening out my commands. You're lacking my command. Your relationship to me
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is lacking its wanting and God deserves what justly belongs to him.
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He always has a true weight on the scale. God never judges on a curve.
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No matter how much we try to say, "Well, God will just forgive me if I ask him to."
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I'll tell God you're sorry and in his mercy, he'll forgive you. God doesn't do that because if
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God, a false weight is an abomination to God, the only way for God to be pleased with you
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is if you can even that scale out. And God at no time will ever say, "Well, they're only human."
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I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll take off some of this weight right here.
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As soon as he's doing that, God is lowering his standard.
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What's he doing now? He's dealing with a false weight.
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And he's taking this weight off here and now he's judging us to a substandard of his holy,
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righteous commandments in that disgust God. It should disgust us.
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Do you know what happens if God were to take that weight off the scale like that and even
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the balance up like that? Heaven, you all would be happy if God just did that. You know what would
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happen? We would have no gospel. You would be forever stuck for all eternity as an unholy,
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unrighteous person. What the beauty of the gospel is this, because God delights in a just balance,
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a just weight. Through the gospel, God sends his son. He obeys those righteous commandments
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on our behalf. He takes our sin debt. Jesus then gets on the scale in our place. He balances out
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so God can look and say, "Okay, you're justified by what Jesus has done." But the beautiful thing
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is this. It doesn't end there. That's justification. The beautiful thing is called glorification.
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And glorification is when the Jesus who balanced the scale for us comes back.
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And when he comes back, do you know what Jesus is going to do? He's going to make every one of us
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perfect, sinless, and as righteous as he is. Do you know what Jesus is going to do? He is going
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to make each individual in here, not a sinner saved by grace, but a person who once was a sinner
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who now is righteous and holy as Christ. He's going to make us perfect and sinless. And when he does,
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us, not Jesus, but us because of Jesus, will be the same weight as those 10 commandments.
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And if God ever just moved the commandments off and made it light so that we could balance it out,
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we would forever be lightweights, spiritually speaking. Makes sense? God loves a just balance,
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and it doesn't just end there. Not only is God going to make us be able to balance the scale
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out because we're always thrilled that Jesus got on the scale for us. The good news is one day we'll
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be able to stand on that scale and God be delighted in us as well because of what he's done.
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But since God always deals with a just weight, it doesn't go just on his side, it goes on our side too.
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That means no matter how much you serve God,
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so there's God's obligation to you, right? No matter how much you serve God, let's say that you
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really, really, really start serving God. You start praying, you start loving God so much,
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and then you're really putting a lot of weight on this scale. You're giving your whole life to him,
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you're surrendering him. No matter how much weight in your service, your love, your tithes,
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you're giving your devotion, your worship, no matter how much you give to God,
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you'll never tilt that scale like this. You never will.
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And that's absolutely beautiful. God will always be to you equal or more than what you are to him.
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Now we know it's more, but I'm giving you the principle here. No matter how much you serve
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God, love God, follow God, adore God, think about God. You will never tilt the scale off balance.
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You can't out-love God, you can't out-serve God, you can't out-give God,
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you can't out-ador God, you can't out-think about God throughout the day.
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If you could, then you'd tilt the scale and God would be lacking on his side,
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and God will never let his side of the balance come up short of yours.
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Bear as heavy in your devotion to God as you can. You'll never press your side down lower than God.
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God is delighted to never come short in his love for you.
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When it comes to our relationship to our fellow man, we must always deal with a just weight.
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How do we deal with a just weight?
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When it comes to our neighbor, because when it comes to our neighbor,
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we don't have the 10 commandments here and then us here with our neighbor.
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We don't do that. How do we deal just with our neighbor
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and have a just weight in that second part of the 10 commandments, those last five?
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Jesus made it so simple.
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You are to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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Make sense?
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So whatever you do, if it's me and Brother Sheppard,
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in whatever relationship I have with him, whatever dealings I have with him,
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if whatever I do toward him, I do as if I would want him to do to me.
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And he does as if he would want me to do toward him.
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We're going to have that right there.
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It's going to be a beautiful relationship.
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Now, if at any time I think, well, I'm going to get the better of Brother Sheppard
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and I want to act kind to him and I'm going to make sure
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and get myself the sweet part of this deal right here.
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You know, I wouldn't want him to do me that way.
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Now what's happening?
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Now I'm coming short of what I owe him
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according to the last part of those 10 commandments.
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Make sense?
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But if you will always do to him or her what you would have them do to you,
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you will always balance the scale of those last five commandments.
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So the first five, it's his law.
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Follow his law.
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The last five due to them is you'd have them do to you.
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And in each time you'll balance the scale.
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And if they don't, if they do you wrong, guess what?
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You're going to be down here and they're going to owe you.
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But you know what?
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God says if you do something to somebody out of kindness for his namesake,
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he won't be your debtor.
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So you know what happens is in the end, God's going to do this.
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He's really going to do this.
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We're always going to get more than we deserve.
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Isn't that right?
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We make sure the scales always balanced
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no matter which half of the 10 commandments we do.
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And God will always be delighted when we do that.
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And if we don't, God will be disgusted with what we're doing.
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Father, we thank you so much for your precious word.
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Thank you, Father, for this simple, yet profound, Lord,
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truth that you've given us in your word tonight.
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Thank you, Father, for being the type of God.
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I'm just so, so grateful.
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Lord, I don't understand the eternal.
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I don't understand things that are beyond my means to comprehend as a created being.
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But God, I'm so glad that I entered into life
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knowing that there is a God from whom all things come who does all things well.
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And that is so comforting to me, Father,
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thank you, Father, for loving a just weight.
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Thank you, Father, for the scale having two sides on it.
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It's not all about you.
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It's not all about me.
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Lord, you don't just care about yourself.
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You care about others too.
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So you put another side on that scale and you give plenty
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and you always make it equal and just.
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And I'm so thankful that, Father, in Jesus' precious name.
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Amen.
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