Discernment in Sharing the Gospel: A Call to Wisdom

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In the text before us, Jesus is telling us there are people in the world that you need to identify as being pigs and dogs, and you don't want to throw your pearls before them. Probably nobody here would be ready to admit that that's what you are, and yet Jesus says that there are people that are just like this. [00:04:28]

What Jesus is doing in verse 6 is he's assuming that his people are going to have the ability to discern the dog from the not dog. I mean, that's, that's, listen, he's expecting that we're going to be able to say that guy over there is a dog. You say judge not, well wait, whatever his judge not means, it's gotta, it's, it doesn't contradict this reality. [00:07:27]

Brethren, one of the reasons that this text is so important in our day, it's just basically this, you know the church is the pillar and ground of the truth. There is a truth we have to be people that actually are willing to say there is a truth, and you hold to that truth or you don't hold to that truth or what you're teaching is not truth. [00:08:09]

Brethren, we need to be people of truth, and we need to be people that are discerning, and we need to be people that can actually say of a truth that guy is a pig or she is a swine, and you know what we need to be able to say it because that's what Jesus expects from us. [00:09:46]

Brethren, we, you recognize this, we live in a day where there is a massive lack of discernment, where people, it's, we live in a relativistic world. Nobody wants to hear that there is actually a truth out there. It's okay as long as you're searching for the truth or you, you never have actually gotten there, but as soon as you stand up and say I know what the truth is, then everybody hates you. [00:10:52]

Brethren, do you know, like Paul comes along, he says, you know what, you know what Christ said to him, you're kicking against the pricks. Something was happening in Paul ahead of time. Do you know, one of the things we really want is we want God to bring to us the people that he's at work in. [00:39:52]

Brethren, we do want to use our might, our resources to widely and universally spread the message, this glorious message into the dark places, but we can, that's what Paul did. Paul went out preaching the gospel. Where would he go? Into the synagogues, and once the Jews rejected him, then he'd go out to the Gentiles. [00:30:08]

Brethren, if people aren't interested in this treasure of all treasures, stop talking. That's what Jesus is saying. The gospel is precious and should be given to those who desire it, and listen, often dogs and pigs show themselves by their wanting to debate. Brethren, don't, don't debate. [00:37:34]

Brethren, people are perishing. All you have to do is stop once in a while and think about hell. Hell, the weeping, the gnashing of teeth, the eternal destruction, the pain, the sorrowing. Brethren, there's something within us that craves rest. You may just read across that they have no rest forever. [00:46:43]

Brethren, this is the most wonderful thing imaginable. This, this is unspeakable. I mean, if you really start to think about the gospel, it is, it is remarkable and amazing beyond words. It is the most unimaginably precious message that, that could be given to mankind. [00:48:41]

Brethren, I'm going to say this just as, as we end here, you need to pray, pray, pray, because we need God to change men's hearts, and we need God to bring across our path people that he is working in. That's what we need. We need God to do what he does. [00:51:14]

Brethren, it's important that we rightly value things. Let me tell you something, as precious as your mother, your father, your children, your grandparents, your aunts, your uncles, your friends, your neighbors, as valuable as they are to you, what Jesus is saying to us is look, there's a value in Christ and there's a value in his honor that goes even higher. [00:45:28]

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