Whenever we travel by airplane there are pre-flight instructions reminding us that in case

of an emergency were to put on our own oxygen mask before we help others with theirs. Jesus

similarly exhorted leaders to address their own issues before they try to fix anyone else.

So what makes an effective teacher? That's what Alistair Begg is talking about today as we continue

our Encore 2023 series on truth for life. We're looking at Luke chapter 6 verses 39 through 45.

Every so often in a humerus way we've had the dreadful experience of being in a party or something

where there's a group of people walking around and they're all doing that small talk and everything

you come up and talk to somebody and they've got some dreadful smudge or something on their face

they're one of their glasses is out or whatever it is and you don't really know the person and

and you're trying to you want to say you know whatever it is and you can't bring yourself to do it

and yet you should because they're going around going hey and how are you and everywhere they go

you know that everybody can see what they can see and eventually they go to the restroom and they

must be burst into tears because they realize they've looked at like this for ages now they're

completely self deceived they think they look great they look funny now it is this notion that Jesus

then employs in his third picture which is the picture if you like of the twig and the plank

now the words are pretty clear actually the word for that is translated here a speck of sawdust

it's used in classical Greek usually in the plural to describe twigs or shrubbery or bits and

pieces the kind of things that you finally rake up after you've been working in the in the garden

the word that is used here and is translated plank is the word docos which is the load bearing

beam in a house or in a structure and so it is a massive piece there probably is not a larger

piece of metal if it is cast metal or wood in your home then in the places where you find those

beams and so here's the picture and there's a humorous picture people say well Jesus wasn't humorous

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