We found our way. We have lost God's way. We're doing just what people do. We have found our way. It's our way. It's man's way. It's the human way. We're still talking about the cross and resurrection. We're still talking about salvation.

But all according to chapter five of Matthew?

Number one, we live in a magnetic field polarizing the needle of our compass.

Number two is this, Christ calls us to recalibrate our

compasses to the kingdom of heaven. I am saying discern where we're going in the scriptures

based on up and down, not right and left. Because if you can walk out of here and go, oh, I reject every bit of that.

You're going right and left instead of up and down.

And so I leave that for you to work out.

I've had to work out a whole lot of things with Jesus.

But he is not asking our opinion on this.

He did not ask us to vote on it. He is not running a

democracy. He is telling us what his ethics are, telling us what his values are. And we don't

get to go, well, okay, I vote yay, I vote nay. None of that. None of that. We live in this world, but we are not of this world.

Our reasoning is supposed to be a whole different kind of reasoning. Our poll is the kingdom of heaven.

That's our magnet. That's our magnet. This is not, well, we'll think to

ourselves, well, this is, this is, this is theological, this is theoretical, this is philosophical.

Oh, no, no, no, no, no. This is actual. This, this is actual. That what, this kingdom of heaven

that he is telling us to reason by, that our,

that's where we get our true north, that's where our needle knows home.

This, this informs, is meant to inform our person, our priorities, our posture, our praying, our partying, our public witness, our politics, our platforms, our privileges, our personal relationships, all our social engagements, our work, our play, our pain, our pleasure, our fasting, our feasting, our

grieving, our rejoicing, and our living and dying is all according to this pole, this magnetic

draw of the compass straight to the kingdom of heaven, straight to the kingdom of heaven.

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