Full Transcript for It's Those Hypocrites

as we have people in the church, we're going to have hypocrites in the church. 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:48.560 And I'm not saying it's right. 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:51.840 I'm not saying that I want to be a hypocrite. 00:02:51.919 --> 00:03:00.560 I'm not suggesting that you want to be a hypocrite, but from time to time we have hypocrites in the church. 00:03:00.879 --> 00:03:06.800 It doesn't mean that everyone all the time is a hypocrite. 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:11.599 Sometimes we are, sometimes we're not. 00:03:11.840 --> 00:03:14.080 But I would suggest to you, write this down. 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:17.039 At some point we wear a mask. 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:20.159 We sometimes we put a mask on. 00:03:20.560 --> 00:03:31.840 You see, that word hypocrite comes from the Greek word Hippocrates, which is translated stage actor or pretender. 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:49.599 Back in the Greek and Roman days of the dramas and the and the plays that they would do, rather than have a lot of different characters on the stage, oftentimes they would have one character just wear a mask. 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:56.080 And so he'd put on the mask of that particular character, and then he'd go off stage, he'd come back, he'd be the same person. 00:03:56.240 --> 00:03:58.639 He'd just have on a different mask. 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:03.759 And so he was the same person, but he was wearing a mask. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:10.319 And so that mask is what made him somebody that he really wasn't. 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:17.279 And so they were called Hippocrates, or they were called hypocrites. 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:28.240 And I would suggest to you that then in the world in which we live today, there are going to be people, whether it be right or wrong, that are wearing masks. 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:32.639 Now I'm not talking about those little silly masks that we had to wear during COVID. 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:33.920 I'm not talking about those. 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:42.720 I'm talking about masks that people put on to pretend that they are something that they're not really. 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:50.560 They're trying to cover up who they are, or they're trying to act like they are something else that they're not really. 00:04:50.800 --> 00:05:00.160 I know people that have bailed on the church because some hypocrite disappointed them in the church. 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:16.399 Listen, it's wrong if you let somebody else control your life to the point that you bail on something that's good and right, you let that person that is a hypocrite control you to the point that you bail on the church because of somebody else being a hypocrite. 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:19.360 I would suggest to you it's pretty hypocritical. 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:33.120 If you bail on the church because of somebody else that is not doing right in the church, because there is always going to be somebody in the church that is hypocritical. 00:05:33.680 --> 00:05:39.759 But it doesn't just uh it's just not the church that it's that way. 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:42.399 Let me ask you, let me ask you a question. 00:05:42.639 --> 00:05:45.199 Is there anybody here that goes to Publix? 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:47.519 Publix. 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:50.319 Listen, I love Publix. 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:52.639 I am a Publix guy. 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:55.920 We live out in Buell and just right the road from me. 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:58.800 I mean, just it's close, it's five minutes from my house. 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:00.000 There is Publix. 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:06.480 And I never thought I would say this, but my wife has turned me into the grocery person of our household. 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:10.000 And so she'll make me a list. 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:12.000 And I go to Publix. 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:22.560 Well, I really have a twofold purpose because Publix is one of the best evangelism places that I can go. 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:32.000 I don't know how many people will stop me at Publix and say, Aren't you Pastor Godfrey at Marcus Point Baptist Church? 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:33.120 Yes, I am. 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:35.920 And then we talk and I invite them to church and find out. 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:40.000 And then I don't know how many people I get to run into, and some people try to avoid me. 00:06:40.079 --> 00:06:40.959 I see them. 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:46.879 I turn on the aisle four and I see them down there at the end of the aisle, and they spot me and they they hurry off and eat. 00:06:49.360 --> 00:06:51.600 They don't want to see me, you know. 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:55.120 You know, let me ask you a question. 00:06:55.279 --> 00:07:03.360 I keep going to Publix, even though, hey, the produce manager at I don't know the produce manager at Publix. 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:04.560 I don't know him. 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:17.519 But if the produce manager puts out watermelon and it's supposed to be ripe, and he puts out unripe watermelon, I mean that's pretty hypocritical, isn't it? 00:07:18.879 --> 00:07:19.680 But you know what? 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:21.759 I'm going back to Publix next week. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:23.439 I keep going back to Publix. 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:28.240 No matter how hypocritical that produce manager is, I'm still going back to public. 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:29.360 Hey, look at this picture. 00:07:29.439 --> 00:07:30.800 Look at the next one here. 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:35.920 Yeah, I'm getting I'm getting in your business now, ain't I? 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:37.360 Yeah. 00:07:38.399 --> 00:07:40.399 Everybody here goes to Chick-fil-A. 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:43.439 I mean, I had Chick-fil-A nuggets this week. 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:45.920 And uh let me ask you a question. 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:59.120 When you go to Chick-fil-A and they serve you, and you say, thank you for the chicken nuggets or for the unsweet lemonade or for that chicken salad, and you say thank you, what do they say?

00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:01.360 It's my pleasure. 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:07.439 Now let me ask you, do you think that everybody that says that at Chick-fil-A really means it? 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:12.000 Of course they don't. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:21.040 In fact, you see those people out sometime and you'll see them somewhere else, and you'll and they don't say anything about it's my pleasure to get to talk to you today. 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:24.079 Well, that's pretty hypocritical, isn't it? 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:35.840 I mean, they always say it's my pleasure when they're at Chick-fil-A, but they see you out in the real world, and they don't say, it's my pleasure to get to talk to you, a bunch of hypocrites at Chick-fil-A. 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:42.080 But how many of you are gonna quit going to Chick-fil-A because there's hypocrites there? 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:42.639 No. 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:45.600 You're gonna keep going to Chick-fil-A, aren't you? 00:08:45.759 --> 00:09:03.679 You're gonna keep going to publics because you need to go to publics, or you like publics, and you like chicken sandwiches, and you like waffle fries, so you're gonna keep going to those places, and you're not gonna let the hypocrites at these places stop you from going there. 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:08.399 Well, I would suggest to you that there are hypocrites everywhere. 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:11.200 You name it. 00:09:12.080 --> 00:09:13.600 There are hypocrites there. 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:17.840 There's only one person that's ever walked this earth that was not a hypocrite. 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:19.759 Y'all know who it was, don't you? 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:21.120 It was Jesus. 00:09:21.440 --> 00:09:25.919 He was the only one that ever did exactly what he said he was going to do. 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:29.440 He was the only one that did right every time. 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:32.480 He was the one that always treated everybody right. 00:09:32.879 --> 00:09:41.519 Jesus is the only person that has ever walked this earth that was not a hypocrite. 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:47.279 And even though he wasn't a hypocrite, they still put him on a cross. 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:51.039 Pretty hypocritical, isn't it? 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:54.000 Treat Jesus like that, and he was perfect. 00:09:54.240 --> 00:10:01.519 But the truth of the matter is, all of us can be hypocrites from time to time. 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:12.720 It's interesting to me that some of the biggest hypocrites during that time of Jesus' life, some of the biggest hypocrites were the people that were the most religious people. 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:21.120 In fact, Matthew 9, verses 10 through 13, you remember the Pharisees were the biggest hypocrites. 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:33.840 And it came to pass as Jesus set it meet at a house, behold, many publicans, tax collectors, rough people, and sinners, kind of takes in a big category of people that didn't live right. 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:41.519 Publicans, tax collectors, and people that weren't living right, came and they sat down with Jesus and his disciples. 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:47.519 So he's having a meal with these people that would have been, they would have been called hypocrites. 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:49.120 Jesus having a meal with them. 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:50.960 But look at this, verse 11. 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:54.240 And the Pharisees, now they were the religious crowd of the day. 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:59.600 They were the ones that were always quick to point out everybody else's hypocrisy. 00:10:59.840 --> 00:11:02.879 But these people were the biggest hypocrites of all. 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:14.000 And when the religious people, the Pharisees, saw Jesus and his disciples sitting with these people, they said to the disciples, why is he eating with these sinners? 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:17.919 Well, they were the biggest sinners of all. 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:28.399 Because they were so hypocritical, because they were living, they were living one way in private and acting like they were living another way in public. 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:35.919 They were wicked behind the scenes, but they were acting like in public that they had it all together. 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:40.000 So they were big hypocrites. 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:49.279 And so they called out Jesus and his disciples because they were eating with sinners, verse 12. 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:51.360 Jesus heard it. 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:59.840 And he said unto them, hey, people that are in good shape, they don't need a doctor. 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.600 But if they're sick, they need a doctor. 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:05.039 Verse 13. 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:08.879 He said, Go ye and learn what I'm talking about. 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:12.480 He said, there needs to be mercy. 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:16.879 He said, for I'm not come to call the righteous. 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:19.600 He said, I'm not here to call people that are right. 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:21.120 He said, they're good. 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.320 He said, I'm trying to find those that need help. 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:32.080 I'm trying to find those hypocrites, those sinners, those publicans that need to take off their mask. 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:36.399 I'm trying to cause sinners to reap penance. 00:12:36.879 --> 00:12:42.159 I'm glad about that because that means he's here to help me, because I can be a hypocrite sometimes. 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:48.080 That means he's here to help you because you can be a hypocrite sometimes. 00:12:48.720 --> 00:13:00.639 So we see that Jesus was all about being real and sitting down with people that needed help to find their way to be the right kind of people. 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:05.360 It's interesting to me, the Bible is so true and so real. 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:06.879 Now, I'll say this to you. 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:16.480 If there's ever any doubt in your mind what we believe as a church,

we believe that the Bible is the inspired, infallible word of the living God. 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:23.519 We believe that every single word of God is 100% inspired. 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:25.200 God breathed. 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:27.039 And it is without error. 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.080 It is the perfect word of God. 00:13:30.639 --> 00:13:32.000 We believe that. 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:57.679 In fact, if you read the stories of the great, quote, great people in the Bible, you're going to find out that the majority of them, if not every single one of them, at some time in their life were hypocrites. 00:13:58.480 --> 00:13:59.120 Moses. 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:01.200 Everybody's heard of Moses. 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:04.399 Moses, the greatest leader that Israel ever knew. 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:06.720 But he was a hypocrite. 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:08.399 Here's Moses. 00:14:08.639 --> 00:14:10.720 He goes and kills a guy. 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.600 God still used him. 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:15.200 He had to get right. 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:26.240 Moses said to God, there's no way I could ever go and lead the people out of Egyptian bondage because I don't even talk right. 00:14:26.559 --> 00:14:28.240 I can't even speak well. 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:29.919 I'm not going to do it, God. 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:31.840 And God said, Oh, yes, you are. 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:36.159 And Moses had to take the mask off. 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:39.039 And he had to do what God was telling him to do. 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:40.639 I mean, I could go on and on. 00:14:40.720 --> 00:14:42.159 Look at Simon Peter. 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:44.159 Everybody knows about Simon Peter. 00:14:44.320 --> 00:14:47.679 Simon Peter preached one of the greatest sermons in the New Testament. 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:49.679 It was just a brief sermon. 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:51.440 It was only a few verses long. 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:56.000 But 3,000 people got saved when he preached that sermon in the book of Acts. 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:57.279 Think about this now. 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:01.759 But here was Simon Peter, who was one of the biggest hypocrites in the New Testament. 00:15:02.480 --> 00:15:03.120 Right? 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:04.480 Are you with me? 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:07.519 He was one of the biggest hypocrites in the New Testament. 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:10.960 I mean, you remember he denied the Lord three times. 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:12.000 Remember that? 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:14.240 Somebody said he cussed like a sailor. 00:15:14.480 --> 00:15:17.120 Why does everybody say people cuss like sailors? 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:20.879 Why don't they say they cuss like Marines? 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:24.480 I've heard Marines cuss pretty good, man. 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:26.159 They can get with it pretty good. 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:28.000 Here's the point. 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:32.080 Whether you cuss like a sailor or a burrito, whatever the case may be. 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:33.200 That was Simon Peter. 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:34.879 I mean, he had a filthy mouth. 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:44.720 And he taught, he he he lost his temper and he tried to hide who he was and he spoke in a certain way, but yet he was supposed to be a follower of Jesus. 00:15:44.879 --> 00:15:45.679 He was a hypocrite. 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:47.279 He took the mask off. 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:49.600 He was wearing a mask. 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:57.360 He was pretending to be something that in the inside of his heart he really wasn't. 00:15:57.600 --> 00:16:00.080 He was a hypocrite. 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:06.080 Now, let me call a name, and you're going to recognize this name. 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:09.440 And I'm going to give you two ways this guy was a hypocrite. 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:12.159 Have you ever heard the name Jonah? 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:15.039 How many of y'all have heard the name Jonah? 00:16:15.200 --> 00:16:16.639 How about out there at campuses? 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:17.440 You heard the name Jonah? 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:20.000 Okay, everybody's heard the name Jonah. 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:20.480 All right. 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:25.360 Jonah was a very famous Old Testament hypocrite. 00:16:26.240 --> 00:16:27.759 Very famous guy. 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.600 Everybody knows about Jonah. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:35.200 Well, here's some things that you should know about Jonah. 00:16:35.360 --> 00:16:36.639 He was a believer. 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:41.759 In our terminology, that means that he would have been a saved person. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:46.559 He would have been a, if you will, a follower of Jesus. 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:51.120 He not only believed in God, but he was a follower of God. 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:53.519 He was a believer. 00:16:53.759 --> 00:17:02.799 Not just knew about God, but he believed in his heart that God was who he said he was, and he would be a common day what we would say he was a Christian. 00:17:02.960 --> 00:17:06.160 But not only that, Jonah was a preacher. 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:09.279 And he was a prophet. 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:12.799 In those days, they had prophets slash preachers. 00:17:13.440 --> 00:17:20.319 And the prophet would be the guy that would go into a place and he would, God would tell him to call out the sins of the people. 00:17:20.720 --> 00:17:22.640 Man, you think this is a hard sermon. 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:24.880 You ain't heard nothing like Jonah preach. 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:27.119 I mean, Jonah would call out, whoo. 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:29.359 He'd name names. 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:31.200 And he'd call out sin. 00:17:31.440 --> 00:17:36.000 God tell him what to say and where to go and say it and who to say it to. 00:17:36.400 --> 00:17:44.240 Jonah would he would call them out, and then he would preach to them the truth and try to get those people to repent. 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:45.920 That was Jonah. 00:17:46.559 -->

00:17:50.240 But Jonah became a hypocrite. 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:52.640 Why did he become a hypocrite? 00:17:53.279 --> 00:17:55.359 How did he become a hypocrite? 00:17:55.519 --> 00:17:57.680 Here's what happened. 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:06.400 God told him to go and preach at a particular place to the Ninevites, and Jonah said no. 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:11.839 So here he is, a preacher and a prophet, supposed to be right with God, living for God. 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:13.839 God told him something to go do. 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:17.599 And Jonah, being a preacher, said, No, I'm not going to do it. 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:23.839 And so Jonah runs in the opposite direction from where God told him to go. 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:26.720 And he goes and he runs to another place. 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:28.799 And you know what happened, don't you? 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:32.640 He gets on a boat trying to hide from God. 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:36.400 He goes out into the ocean on this boat. 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:38.319 There's a big storm that comes up. 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:44.559 They throw Jonah over, and there's a big, gigantic, large-mouth whale. 00:18:46.240 --> 00:18:49.519 And like a topwater bait, he just sucks him under. 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:51.519 Takes him in. 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:55.440 And Jonah goes down into the belly of that great fish. 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.160 Anyone remember how long he was there? 00:18:59.039 --> 00:19:02.720 Three days and three nights. 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:05.279 Now, Jonah was a hypocrite. 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:14.079 Let me give you two ways that he demonstrated his hypocrisy. 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:15.680 First of all, write it down. 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:21.839 He was forgiven by God, but didn't want to forgive others. 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:27.839 He was forgiven, but he didn't want to forgive somebody else. 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:29.519 It's pretty hypocritical. 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:38.160 It's pretty hypocritical when God has forgiven you, but somebody else has done you wrong and you're not willing to forgive them. 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:39.920 That's hypocritical. 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:44.880 The Bible says in Jonah chapter 1, verses 1 through 3. 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:53.839 Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah, the son of Amitai, saying, I want you to go down to Nineveh, that great city. 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:56.880 And it was a lot of people in that city. 00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:58.880 It was a big place. 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:02.799 And he said, I want you to cry against that place. 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:06.640 God said, because their wickedness is come up before me. 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:08.720 So here's what I want you to do, Jonah. 00:20:08.880 --> 00:20:10.079 You're a preacher, you're a prophet. 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:11.599 I want you to go down to Nineveh. 00:20:11.759 --> 00:20:14.160 Have you ever heard of Iran? 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:16.480 Same people. 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:20.079 Pretty rough group, pretty rough crew, right? 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:21.359 Pretty bad group. 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:22.240 Same people. 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:23.599 Same descendants. 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:25.359 That's who they were. 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:27.119 I mean, you can understand, Jonah. 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:27.599 Hmm. 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:29.359 I don't like those people. 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:35.119 I don't like the way they treated our Israel family. 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:36.640 Ah, I'm not going. 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:38.000 I don't know. 00:20:38.799 --> 00:20:39.599 I'm not going. 00:20:39.759 --> 00:20:41.279 Verse number three. 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:46.880 So Jonah arose and he went down to Tarshus. 00:20:47.279 --> 00:20:50.160 Thought he could run from the presence of God. 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:54.640 And he found a ship, and he goes on this ship and he pays the fare. 00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:57.359 When you're gonna you run from God, you're gonna pay the fare. 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:04.160 One way or another, God will catch up to us. 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:16.799 And he pays the fare and he goes down into the ship, and then when he gets out into the water, he eventually is thrown overboard, and he eventually goes down into the belly of the fish. 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:28.799 God told Jonah to put away his prejudice and forgive the Ninevites for what they had done to Israel. 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:31.359 Go down and preach to them. 00:21:31.759 --> 00:21:39.200 But instead of forgiving them, he said, No, God, I'm not going to do it. 00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:45.599 And so he ran from the presence of God and he got away from Nineveh. 00:21:46.079 --> 00:21:52.559 I would suggest to you that it's pretty hypocritical for us to be forgiven by Jesus. 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:58.319 But you've been holding a grudge against somebody for a long time. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.400 And you won't give up on that grudge. 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:13.359 That unforgiveness that you've got in your heart has shaded you, has colored you, has changed you. 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:34.480 From being the loving, compassionate, helpful person that you know you could be and should be, to be the servant of God, the preacher of God, the witnessing person of God, the servant of God, all of these things, all these things that you know you could be and you should be, you know that you're having a difficult time being that person because you have an unforgiving spirit. 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:37.519 And you're holding a grudge. 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:42.400 I don't forget what you did to me 30 years ago. 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:45.839 Some of you longer than that. 00:22:46.640 --> 00:22:49.039 50, 60 years ago, you ain't forgot yet. 00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:50.880 You still holding on to it. 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:56.240 And that thing has gotten inside of you and is eating on you and eating on you and eating on you. 00:22:56.319 -->

00:23:08.160 And man, on the inside, you've gotten harder and harder and harder, and that grudge that you've been holding to has literally poisoned the vessel in which that unforgiveness is contained. 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:14.880 And you won't forgive them, but God forgave you. 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:18.319 I won't forgive them, but God forgave me. 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:19.759 That was Jonah. 00:23:20.160 --> 00:23:23.680 Jonah said, I'm not gonna forgive them for what they did to my country. 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:27.039 I'm not gonna forgive them for what they did to uh Israel. 00:23:27.279 --> 00:23:29.519 I'm not going down there and preaching to them, God. 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:31.920 I don't like those Ninevites. 00:23:33.519 --> 00:23:40.799 So he was not willing to forgive even though he had been forgiven. 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:41.680 Wow. 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:45.039 Think about how much God has forgiven you of. 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:47.440 Don't say it out loud, okay? 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:50.319 We don't need to talk about it right here. 00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:53.519 But hey, everybody in this room, you're looking at one. 00:23:54.640 --> 00:23:59.200 When I point like this at you, that means I'm pointing three fingers back at me, right? 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:02.640 I got a lot to be forgiven of. 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:04.559 I have been forgiven of a lot. 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:05.920 I'm not a perfect person. 00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:07.039 You're not a perfect people. 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:09.839 Nobody here but us, none of us are perfect people. 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:19.519 All of us have stuff that we have dealt with in our lives, things that have been done to us that have hurt us, that we have to get over, we have to forgive people of, and we have to move on with it. 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:24.640 If we don't move on, it doesn't hurt that person, it hurts you. 00:24:25.759 --> 00:24:29.680 You are the one that pays the price for that unforgiveness in your heart. 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:32.799 You are the one that becomes the hypocrite. 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:41.920 God, thank you for forgiving me, but I'm not willing to forgive him. 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:46.880 That is hypocritical. 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:49.759 Jonah was that way. 00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:53.519 Matthew 18, verses 23 through 33. 00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:56.079 I just listen to these verses. 00:24:56.640 --> 00:24:56.880 Man. 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:00.640 This gets us right here. 00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:08.480 Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain king, or in our terminology, it was this guy with a boss. 00:25:08.640 --> 00:25:13.599 He had people that worked for him, which would take an account of his people that worked for him. 00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:15.359 So here you got a guy that's a boss. 00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:21.279 He's got a lot of people that work for him, and people that do business with him. 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:30.240 And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him 10,000 talents. 00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:35.440 Let's just say this guy owed his boss$10,000. 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:38.400 Pretty good of money, right? 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:40.079 He owed him$10,000. 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:43.599 But for as much as he had not to pay, he couldn't pay. 00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:46.559 So his Lord commanded him, listen to this. 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:49.039 So the boss said, here's what you gotta do. 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:55.759 I'm gonna sell you, I'm gonna sell your wife, and I'm gonna sell your kids, and everything, I'm gonna sell your house. 00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:59.359 You gotta sell everything you have to pay me back. 00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:02.319 I want you to pay me what you owe me. 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:03.680 Wow. 00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:07.359 Pretty hard, pretty rough. 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:10.559 Verse 25. 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:16.319 The worker, the servant, therefore fell down on his knees. 00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:22.640 And literally, what this is saying is he just absolutely bowed before his boss. 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:28.240 And he said, boss, would you please give me a little more time? 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:31.119 Times are tough. 00:26:31.440 --> 00:26:33.279 Man, I got all these kids. 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:37.759 I got problems in my life, and a lot of things going on. 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:40.880 Please, can you just give me a little more time? 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:42.400 Give me another chance. 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:45.599 But I'm begging you, boss, give me another chance. 00:26:46.079 --> 00:26:48.400 Verse 27. 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:55.200 The boss of his worker had compassion. 00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:58.160 And it moved the boss. 00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:00.480 He said, You know, I believe you. 00:27:00.880 --> 00:27:02.640 I think you're sincere. 00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:06.000 And I tell you what I'm gonna do. 00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:08.480 I'm gonna give you another chance. 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:13.519 And he said to that guy, I've been blessed so much in my business. 00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:15.759 I got so many good things going on. 00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:16.960 I tell you what I'm gonna do. 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:20.960 I'm gonna pass it on to you, and I'm gonna give you another chance. 00:27:22.240 --> 00:27:22.880 Wow. 00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:26.160 That was great, wasn't it? 00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:28.960 Forgave him of his debt. 00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:30.079 But look at this. 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:31.599 Verse 28. 00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:43.039 But that same worker went out and he found one of his buddies that worked with him, which only owed him a hundred bucks. 00:27:43.920 --> 00:27:49.039 And he laid hands on him and he took him by the throat. 00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:51.920 And he said, You're gonna pay me what you owe. 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:56.240 I want my hundred bucks, and I want it now, or you going to

jail? 00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:58.079 I'm calling the law on you. 00:27:58.559 --> 00:28:00.319 Verse 29. 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:07.039 And his servant fell down at his feet and he said, Look, man, we work together. 00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:08.000 I'm your friend. 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:09.359 I can't pay you right now. 00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:10.319 Times are tough. 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:12.400 Can you give me a little more time? 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:13.839 Verse 30. 00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:17.519 And he would not do it. 00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:24.640 Had him thrown in prison to get his money back. 00:28:25.519 --> 00:28:26.160 Wow. 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:29.359 Can you believe that somebody would do that? 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:30.880 Look at verse 31. 00:28:31.759 --> 00:28:41.279 And when his fellow servants saw what was done, they were sorry and came and told the boss what they had seen this guy do, verse 32. 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:47.680 And the boss said, after he had called him in, he said unto him, Man, you are wicked. 00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:55.440 I forgave you of all of that debt because you asked me to, and I gave you another chance, verse 33. 00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:02.799 Shouldn't you also have compassion on your buddy that works with you and give him another chance? 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:05.680 You ain't nothing but a hypocrite. 00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:12.079 Wow. 00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:15.759 That's pretty strong, isn't it? 00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:26.319 Here was a guy that had been forgiven, and somebody did something against him, and he wasn't willing to forgive that guy of what had been done to him. 00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:31.599 And the principle is this God has forgiven us of so much. 00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:52.960 He has blessed us in so many ways and made us to be blessed with so many things, and yet somebody treats us wrong, and we hold a grudge against them, and we treat them like offcasts, and we are so hypocritical when we have been forgiven, but we're not willing to forgive them for what they have done against us. 00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:58.079 Man, it's gotten quiet in here. 00:29:58.480 --> 00:29:59.440 Come on, y'all. 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:01.119 This is just us. 00:30:01.680 --> 00:30:02.640 This is real. 00:30:04.240 --> 00:30:06.240 Because we all deal with this. 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:20.559 People hurt us, cheat us, take from us, don't treat us like we think we ought to, and we get that thing inside and we hold on to it, and it begins to destroy us and hurts us. 00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:28.079 And all the while you're living another way, like you're all good with it. 00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:31.119 Hypocrites. 00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:32.079 Wow. 00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:39.200 Jonah said, I'm not going down there and preach those people because I don't like them. 00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:43.920 And they hurt my people, and I'm not going to preach to them. 00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:46.720 God said, That's what you think, big boy.

00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:49.839 I got my ways. 00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:56.000 So he was forgiven, but was not willing to forgive. 00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:06.319 Number two, Jonah had been saved, but he didn't want those wicked Ninevites to get saved. 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:08.720 He got saved and he was forgiven. 00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:13.839 And God had blessed him and was taking him to heaven, but he didn't want the same thing for those Nineveh. 00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:17.920 Jonah chapter 3, verse 10, down to chapter 4, verse 3. 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:22.480 And God saw the works of the Ninevehes, that they turned from their evil way. 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:27.359 And God said, Look, I'm going to give them another chance, verse 11. 00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:30.000 Verse 11. 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:30.799 There you go. 00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:38.640 But it displeased Jonah that God was going to give them another chance. 00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:41.519 Verse 1 of chapter 4. 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:44.319 It displeased Jonah exceedingly, it says. 00:31:44.559 --> 00:32:03.599 And verse 2 says, and so he prayed unto the Lord and said, I pray thee, Lord, was not this my saying when I was yet in my country, therefore I fled before into Tarshis, for I knew that you're such a gracious God and merciful, and you're slow to anger, and you're a great, kind God, and repentest thee of the evil. 00:32:03.759 --> 00:32:10.799 Verse number three, the Bible says that Jonah says, Therefore now, Lord, just go ahead and kill me. 00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:17.359 He said, I'd rather you take my life than save those wicked Nineveh. 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:18.559 Here's what he said. 00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:21.119 I'm going to put it out there plain as day. 00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:25.039 Jonah said, the whole bunch of them can go to hell. 00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:32.559 I am not going to go down there and preach to them. 00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:35.599 Let them go to hell. 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:38.960 It's not my problem. 00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:42.720 Wow. 00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:46.559 Well, let me ask you a question. 00:32:47.599 --> 00:33:11.920 If a person has been delivered from their sin, if they have been given eternal life, if they have found Jesus as the one that forgives them of everything that they ever did, and is building for them a home in heaven, if that's that person, should they say God, the whole world can go to hell? 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:13.839 I'm not telling anybody. 00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:17.200 It's pretty hypocritical, isn't it? 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:29.039 You see, it's pretty hypocritical if we have been saved and been blessed, but we never invite anybody to come to church to hear the gospel message. 00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:37.200 Pretty hypocritical, isn't it? 00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:40.640 I mean, God saved you and changed you. 00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:46.319 When was the last time you invited somebody to come and hear the life-changing message of the gospel? 00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:55.920 You know, you see, it's pretty hypocritical for God to have been so good to us and give us his love and eternal life, and yet we never invite anybody to come hear the message. 00:33:57.279 --> 00:33:59.119 Come on, y'all, don't get mad at me. 00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:01.279 I'm just the messenger here. 00:34:03.839 --> 00:34:09.280 You see, Jonah was very hypocritical because he had been saved, but he didn't want to go tell the Ninevehes. 00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:11.679 He didn't want to go give them the message. 00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:13.840 Let me ask you this. 00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:17.280 How hypocritical it is, is it? 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:32.239 When we have been saved and God has blessed us, but we don't want to give any of our time to serve in the ministry so somebody else can be helped to find that same grace and salvation. 00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:34.960 Pretty hypocritical, isn't it? 00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:38.159 You know, we need people to drive golf carts. 00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:44.079 This morning I saw our golf cart people out there driving them golf carts, man, patting them on the back, love them, way to go. 00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:44.639 That's awesome. 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:46.639 You know, we need more golf cart drivers. 00:34:47.519 --> 00:34:48.400 Pretty hypocritical. 00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:49.760 God saved you and changed your life. 00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:54.960 And we ask you to drive a golf cart, you say, sorry, can't do it. 00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:59.440 What about them sign holders out there on the front of the church? 00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:00.880 Do y'all see them when you come in? 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:04.880 When I come in every Sunday morning, those people, those, those guys are out there holding those signs. 00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:06.639 Man, it makes my day. 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:10.320 But you know they're out there sometimes in the rain holding an umbrella. 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:22.239 So important that they're out there holding those signs, serving God by holding a sign so that when somebody drives up, they feel a welcome. 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:25.519 They feel like, hey, it's a it's a place that wants me to be here. 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:39.280 And then greeters at the doors and ushers that usher people down, and people right now that are over there taking care of the babies and they're taking care of the kids and children's church, and we got people that are fixing coffee, and we got people that are singing on the platform. 00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:41.119 We got all these people that are serving. 00:35:41.280 --> 00:35:46.159 Thank God they say, God, you saved me, and now I want to serve you with my life. 00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:47.039 Thank you, God. 00:35:47.199 --> 00:35:48.719 Let me just serve where I can. 00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:52.639 I may not be able to do much, but at least I can pull weeds into flower beds, right? 00:35:54.480 --> 00:36:04.400 It's pretty hypocritical to

say, God, thank you for giving me eternal life and making me one of your children, but nah, you know, I'm just too busy. 00:36:06.719 --> 00:36:08.639 Don't ask me to serve. 00:36:11.920 --> 00:36:13.519 So I didn't come for all this, preacher. 00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:14.639 I'm sorry. 00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:18.239 Maybe we're sick next week. 00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:21.280 Here's one. 00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:28.800 God saved you, changed your life. 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:34.239 And you're blessed with all that God has done in your life. 00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.920 And you come here and you hear the great music, and all the ministries that we had. 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:39.199 We had a lot of ministries. 00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:45.760 Campus at Beulah, campus at North Pace, campus at Molino, we got the missionary family here today, the Wheeler family. 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:46.639 They're from Africa. 00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:49.280 We support them every single month. 00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:51.519 It goes on and on and on. 00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:55.599 I can name just lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of ministries. 00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:02.320 And you come and you enjoy the music, and you I'm not so sure you're enjoying this sermon, but you enjoy some of the sermons that we have here. 00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:06.239 And you and you get to suck it all in, take it all in, enjoy it, man. 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:07.920 You just soak it in, it's just awesome. 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:15.039 But you won't give a cotton picking penny to help out financially. 00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:18.800 That's hypocritical. 00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:22.960 That's hypocritical. 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:30.320 To get all the blessings and not be willing to help financially. 00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:35.360 So that we could have a student ministry, so that we can have these campuses. 00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:38.960 We're building a brand new campus out there right now in North Pace. 00:37:40.239 --> 00:37:48.400 It takes money to do this, to reach people, to send these missionaries overseas and pay them so they can go there and take the gospel to people that never. 00:37:48.719 --> 00:37:55.519 It costs money, and people come week after week after week and are not willing to help, not willing to give financially. 00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:58.719 That's pretty hypocritical in the way I'm looking at it. 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:04.000 Now I can tell you I'm not a perfect pastor. 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:04.800 I can tell you that. 00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:05.760 I'm not a perfect dad. 00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:06.880 I'm not a perfect husband. 00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:08.079 I'm not a perfect person. 00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:09.920 I can promise you that. 00:38:10.320 --> 00:38:14.480 But I can tell you this: you can mark this one down, underline it in red, circle it in your mind. 00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:15.280 Don't ever forget it. 00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:16.159 Remember this. 00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:18.400 My wife and I give. 00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:22.400 We made a commitment when we got married. 00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:26.079 We would give faithfully to God. 00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:28.880 And we give way and above our tithe. 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:32.559 And we give to the building fund and we give to the mission fund. 00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:35.920 And anytime there's a special offering we sacrifice and we give. 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:37.519 I'm not telling you that to brag. 00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:43.440 I'm telling you that because I want you to know I'm not going to ask you to do something that I'm not willing to do myself. 00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:48.559 We believe that it's important to be givers financially. 00:38:49.199 --> 00:38:55.679 And I believe that it's important for everybody in the church to be involved in bringing people to hear the gospel. 00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:59.440 It's important for you to find a place to serve somewhere in this church. 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:09.760 And over the six next six to eight months, you're going to hear opportunity after opportunity after opportunity where we're going to give you a little bit of time to serve or a lot of time to serve. 00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:11.760 We're going to ask everybody to be involved. 00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:18.000 And we're going to be asking you to step it up and give something to God financially to the church. 00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:20.559 It's hypocritical, but we don't. 00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:28.559 And then last of all, somebody helped you understand the gospel. 00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:29.920 Right? 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:34.000 If you're saved, somebody helped you understand the gospel. 00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:41.760 But are we not willing to share that with somebody else? 00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:46.239 To me, that's pretty hypocritical. 00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:50.800 When you heard the gospel shared with you, somebody explained. 00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:56.800 Everybody in here, basically, probably everybody in here, somebody shared the gospel with you and explained it to you. 00:39:56.960 --> 00:40:00.159 Maybe you heard it on TV through Billy Graham, but he explained to you. 00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:08.000 Maybe a small group leader helped you, maybe a student leader helped you, or maybe you heard a message from the pastor, but somebody helped you, right? 00:40:08.079 --> 00:40:08.639 Are you with me? 00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:10.960 Somebody helped you understand the gospel. 00:40:11.119 --> 00:40:19.039 How hypocritical is it of us that somebody helped us understand the gospel, but we're not willing to share it with anybody else. 00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:27.760 No, I'm not going to buy any Sportsman's Night out tickets and give them to my friends so they can come here, Hank Parker, give the gospel. 00:40:27.920 --> 00:40:29.039 No, I'm not doing that. 00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:32.800 What? 00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:37.039 No, I'm not going to be a witness at the word.

00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:39.519 You see what I'm saying? 00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:42.800 Jonah was that kind of hypocrite. 00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:55.840 He had been told about God and how to change his life and be a follower of God, but he didn't want to go and tell the Ninevites how they could have the same joy and salvation that he experienced. 00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:56.639 What? 00:40:58.159 --> 00:40:59.599 A hypocrite. 00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:04.639 You know, people say it's all about those hypocrites. 00:41:05.119 --> 00:41:06.480 I ain't coming to church. 00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:08.000 I'm not going to get saved. 00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:09.840 It's all about those hypocrites. 00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:18.000 Well, it's possible that we could become the hypocrite by living that way. 00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:24.000 Get ready, Evan. 00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:26.559 You go on and list me into the praise team, okay? 00:41:26.719 --> 00:41:27.519 Get ready. 00:41:28.239 --> 00:41:31.519 It's me, it's me, oh Lord. 00:41:33.440 --> 00:41:35.760 Standing in the need of prayer. 00:41:36.320 --> 00:41:39.679 It's me, it's me, it's me, oh Lord. 00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:41.840 Standing in the need of prayer. 00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:45.519 Not my brother nor my sister, but it's me, oh Lord. 00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:47.840 Standing in the need of prayer. 00:41:48.079 --> 00:41:51.679 Not my brother, nor my sister, but it's me, oh Lord. 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.320 Standing in the need of prayer. 00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:58.159 Not my mama, nor my daddy, but it's me, oh Lord. 00:41:58.480 --> 00:42:00.639 Standing in the need of prayer. 00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:04.480 Ah my mama nor my daddy, but it's me, oh Lord. 00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:06.719 Standing in the need of prayer. 00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:07.599 It's me. 00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:12.480 Standing in the need of prayer. 00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:13.760 It's me. 00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:18.559 Standing in the need of prayer. 00:42:18.719 --> 00:42:22.239 Not my pastor nor my staff, but it's me, oh Lord. 00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:24.800 Standing in the need of prayer. 00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:28.480 Not my pastor normal staff, but it's me, oh Lord. 00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:31.760 You know what, folks? 00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:33.360 It's me. 00:42:34.159 --> 00:42:36.079 It's me, oh Lord. 00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:38.719 Standing in the need of prayer. 00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:40.639 It's me. 00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:45.199 It's me. 00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:48.639 Standing in the need of prayer. 00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:50.719 Let me tell you something, folks. 00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:54.159 I can be just as big a hypocrite as you can be. 00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:55.440 It's me. 00:42:55.920 --> 00:42:57.039 And it's you. 00:42:57.679 --> 00:42:59.280 And why don't we decide? 00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:01.360 We're not going to be like Jonah. 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:03.760 We're going to take off that mask. 00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:09.599 Maybe you need to take off that mask and become a follower of Jesus, be a Christian. 00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:13.679 Maybe you need to quit living one way at work and another way at church. 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:20.880 Maybe you need to quit living one way when you're out on a date and another way when you're at church. 00:43:21.039 --> 00:43:21.360 Shh. 00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:28.239 Maybe it's one way at the ball team and another way when you're at church. 00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:30.639 It's me. 00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:33.039 It's me, O Lord. 00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:35.920 Stand in the need of breath. 00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:36.880 I need it. 00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:38.079 You need it. 00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:39.039 Today. 00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:45.199 If you need to take off the mask, accept Jesus as your Savior. 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:46.480 You can do that today. 00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:50.480 If you need to say, God, I've been living with a lot of grudge. 00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:57.199 A lot of unforgiveness. 00:43:57.920 --> 00:43:59.519 Take off the mask. 00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:03.360 You'll be so glad you did. 00:44:09.280 --> 00:44:13.039 Thanks for tuning into To the Point with Pastor Godfrey. 00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:18.400 We hope today's message encouraged you and gave you something to think about as you go through your week. 00:44:18.639 --> 00:44:24.639 If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to hit that subscribe button and share it with someone who might need to hear it. 00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:34.320 You can stay connected with us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube and find out more about what's happening at Marcus Point by visiting PensacolaChurch.org. 00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:35.920 We'd love to hear from you. 00:44:36.159 --> 00:44:39.599 Share your thoughts, questions, or prayer requests. 00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:41.920 Let's keep the conversation going. 00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:47.280 Have a great week, and remember, God's got something amazing in store for you. 00:44:47.519 --> 00:44:48.960 See you next time.