The One Who Does Not

The Urgency of Hearing and Doing Christ’s Words

Well, we come this morning to perhaps the last formal part of the Sermon on the Mount, although next week we'll conclude Matthew 7 entirely with verses 28 and 29. And as I mentioned last week, we began last week by focusing on the one who does, that's really verses 24 and 25.

This morning looking at verses 26 and 27, the counterpart to this parable of the two builders is the one who does not. And then next week, as we marvel with the crowds about the one who never spoke words like this, we'll look at the one who did.

And I hope in light of the whole Sermon on the Mount, but especially these last few weeks, that that will all become very clear in the life of Jesus as reflected in the Gospels that we will see the fulfillment of the very sermon that He preached.

If ever there was a man who practiced what He preached, it was the Lord Jesus. And I hope even what I lay out this morning as far as the parable of the two builders, that we'll see in the one who did, a man who lived his life unto God and not unto others in the way that we are prone to do, but in living his life unto God, he was able to live his life for others.

Very big difference. He did not live his life unto others. He lived his life unto God. Because he lived his life unto God, he was able to live his life for others. So we're going to look at that a little bit next week, along with everything else that will hold Matthew 5, 6, and 7 together in the one who did.

But this morning, we want to set the tone in a much more solemn way. We come to really the conclusion of this sermon, and it's significant how Jesus ends this sermon. Of course, He's been warning us. He's been demanding a response to everything that He has taught, and He's warned us in the way that James would warn us.

We cannot be mere hearers. We cannot say, what a great sermon that was, Lord. Thank you for preaching it and go on our merry way, unaffected, unchanged. We have to actually carry out the things that we've received.

We must put into practice what has been taught to us. As Jesus said a little bit earlier in this chapter, many will say at the end, Lord, Lord. Though they did many mighty things in His name, they never knew Him.

They never did things unto Him. They never put into practice what He taught. And He will say of them, I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who have not done the will of My Father, you workers of lawlessness.

So the big focus from last week, as well as this morning, is doing. Doing what Jesus is telling us to do. These are the words of life. These are the words that lead to life. These are the words that if we fail to do them, we will not enter into the kingdom.

These are the words that if we do not do them, we are mere hearers only and we're deceiving ourselves. It's really easy to go to church week after week after week after week after week, deceiving yourself.

Demas departed for love of the world. There were so many things that he saw, so many things that he learned, so many things that he received. But because he failed to hide them in his heart, because he did not live them out unto God, in the end, he was a mere hearer only.

He had deceived himself, was deceived by the world. And so listen to Jesus' words. Again, these words of life, the conclusion to the Sermon on the Mount. And notice what Jesus is putting here at the very end.

If there's anything he wants to leave us with, it's this. Whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock, and the rains descended, the floods came, the winds blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall because it was founded on the rock.

But everyone who hears these sayings of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand, and the rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell, and great was its fall.

Well, very clearly, Jesus is giving us this contrasted image of two builders and two very different foundations. The foundation that stands is built on the rock. The foundation that endures the storm is that which is solid and stable.

And Jesus says, that's the one who's not only heard, but actually carries out the things that I've taught. And so essentially, Jesus is saying, what is your life built on? How is your life being built up?

All these things that we considered last week. Are you building on the sand of your own agenda, of your own desires? Are you building on the sand of what the world would say your life ought to look like and what it must be comprised of?

Are you building on the rock of what Jesus says your life must look like? The rock that is his own life, his own person in work. Are you being built on his doctrine, on his teaching, on his very person in work?

Is your life staked out on the foundation of Christ? Or is it being stilted up on shifting sands that will surely collapse, if not sooner, then ultimately at the end? Will our lives, in other words, in the context of the parable, will the house that we are building endure the winds and the rains and the storms of life?

And most importantly, will it endure the final flood to come? The storm to end all storms. There's winds and there's rains in life. There's seasons, there's moments in life that will press us and try us and shake us to the very core of who we are.

And some might skip some of those crises. Some might make it to the very end, but there's no one that will not face the storm to come. Jesus, as a prophet of God, is warning us there's a storm coming.

There's a storm coming for you. There's a storm coming that you cannot escape. Every aspect of your life will be rocked and beaten upon to its very foundation. And if your foundation is anything less than rock, your whole life, your whole soul, your eternal state will collapse upon itself and destroy you forever.

There's a storm coming.

One thing that we can notice here is how Jesus likens our life to a house. It's a whole structure. And what goes into a house? Well, there's many rooms and there's furnishings, there's decorations, there's passageways and thresholds, perhaps there's stories.

There's all sorts of things that comprise a house, just like there's all sorts of things that comprise our lives. Different rooms that we enter into and depart from, different furnishings and decorations, things that we've amassed in our lives, stories to our lives, we could say chapters of our lives.

And yet our life is viewed here as a whole, it's a whole house. I don't think that we think of our lives in that way, as something entire, as something whole. We like to sort of compartmentalize our lives.

We want to think of our life as one room, as one page, as one moment, as one label. We don't want to think of it in terms of its entirety, but Jesus wants us to think of our lives entire, not any specific step or time or period or season, not as I grew up going to Bible camps in the summer and always raising my hand, always going up to nail my name on a wooden cross or to pray the sinner's prayer.

I've done that dozens of times throughout my young life. I shouldn't think that that is what my life is reflective of, that one moment, that one encounter, that one act of sincerity. Jesus says, no, not one brick, not one moment, not one chapter, but the whole of your life, the whole house.

That's what the storm is coming for, the entirety of who you are, the entirety of what your life amounts to. Everything within it, every aspect of it, every part of your character, every word that proceeds from your mouth, the thoughts hidden within your heart, all that must face this storm that is coming.

Everything must be laid bare before the judgment seat of Christ, as Paul says in Romans 14. And so here we see this image of an impending judgment. And we're reminded that the Father who knows our needs, who cares for us, the Father that we've been pointed to, the Father that we pray to throughout the Sermon on the Mount will at the end also be our judge.

Hard for us to hold that together. How can we hold together the idea that God is my heavenly Father who cares for me, knows my needs, whose eye is on the sparrow, but also is the one to whom I must give account, my judge at the end of time?

Not for one moment, not for something I can give counter evidence to, but for the entirety of my life laid bare before Him. Things I did yesterday, things I did last Sunday, ways that I thought, acted, things I've desired, all that laid bare before Him.

We flock to relating to God as our heavenly Father. We're repelled from relating to God as our divine judge. And Jesus says, don't dull yourself. If you could put it this way, the Sermon on the Mount amounts to, do not be afraid, for you have your Father who is in heaven.

Do not be dull or fallen asleep because you have your judge who sits enthroned. That's what He ends the sermon with, is this glaring, unflinching focus on the judgment to come, the storm that comes for us all.

There's a storm coming. We recognize as the Lord reveals it through 1 Samuel 16, He does not see man. As man sees man, man looks at the outward appearance. The Lord looks at the heart. We're reminded that that's not a Valentine's Day fluttering image.

For Him to look at my heart, to see the hidden evils of my heart, that's something I cannot bear to see. What have we said in times past? It's one of the hardest things for us to do is to see ourselves in the mirror, see ourselves as we are.

Well, the day is coming where God will show us what we are. The storm will shake us down to the very foundation of who we are. How are we building?

What are we standing upon?

What are we staking our life, not just now in the present, but in the life to come, in ages unending? What are we building upon? We recognize that God is going to render us according to our work. What we're building upon matters as much as what we're building.

Are we doing the things that He told us to do? Why do you call me Lord? You don't do what I've commanded. I don't know you. You're not my servant if you don't follow my will. So we render works unto God that will be judged by God, or works unto ourselves or unto others that will be judged by God.

Either way, that storm will reveal exactly what the building is, exactly what it's built upon. And so throughout the Scriptures, we see this idea of God having no partiality in His judgment. He will render each according to their work.

We like to skip past that. We don't want to dwell upon it. We don't want to sit and contemplate on the reality of divine judgment. And this is how Jesus ends His sermon. He says, stare at it, reflect on it.

Don't blink, don't flinch, don't miss it. This is what's coming for you. This is what your life is hurtling toward. This little vapor that you have, this little moment in the sun, it's not for nothing.

It's not capricious. It's not arbitrary. There's an accounting. There's a reckoning. There's a storm to come. Jesus, as we'll see next week, Jesus had to live His whole life in that reality. He had to live His whole life with, as it were, rumbling thunders and flashes of lightning and storm clouds until that storm came upon Him at Golgotha.

He lived His whole life in light of that coming storm. And that storm comes for us all. God is without partiality. The book of life is opened in Revelation 20 and the dead who are raised are judged according to their works.

The earth gives up those who sleep in her breasts. The seas give up those who are buried in the deep. Death and Hades deliver up all those who are contained and each one is judged according to their work.

And as Peter says in Acts 10, God shows no partiality. Or as Paul says in Romans 2, we know the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice evil. And do you think this, O man, you who judge those participating in such things, doing the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?

Do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, longsuffering? Not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance but in accordance with your hardness and your impenitent heart, you're treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation of the righteous judgment of God who will render each according to his deeds.

For Paul, this is the reality that we live unto. For most Christians today, it's a reality we turn a blind eye toward. How different our lives would be if we could even barely be conscious of this reality.

There will be a judgment that accords with our house. Every part of my life laid bare before Him. Every thought of my heart, every intention, every desire. The movement of my will, the way that I've formed my character, the ways that I've given in and fallen in to the sinful patterns of this world.

That all has laid bare before Him to whom I must give account. And He will render judgment according to that house. Listen to how our confession puts it from chapter 32. God has appointed a day wherein He will judge the world in righteousness by Jesus Christ, to whom all power and judgment is given of the Father, in which day not only the apostate angel shall be judged, but likewise all persons that have lived upon the earth shall appear before this tribunal of Christ to give an account of their thoughts,.

Their words, their deeds,.

And to receive according to what they have done in the body, whether for good or for evil. Now that's simply language taken right out of 2 Corinthians. This is 2 Corinthians chapter five. Paul says, we make it our aim, whether present or absent, to be well-pleasing to Him, for we must all, that's we, must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things done in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

That's just the reality that you and I face this morning. There's a storm coming. There's a storm coming. Jesus is not so much warning about the occasional waves or the heavy rains, the occasional things that would cause our phones to begin to send out that national weather alert.

It's not the crises and the deep valleys and the darkest trials of our lives that Jesus has in view, so much as how those are all just microcosms of the greatest storm to come. Just like every time you go to bed at night, it's a microcosm.

It's a daily picture for you of what it's like to sleep your final sleep. And every morning you open your eyes and draw in breath as a microcosm of that resurrection yet to come. God is patterning into our experience a microcosm, a parcel of what is coming, and the deepest trials, the darkest distresses of life are just a shadow of the storm that's coming upon us all.

And Jesus says, when that storm comes, and it must come, if your life is not built on the things that I've taught, as you've built and practiced and done what I've commanded, your whole life will collapse.

Great will be your fall. That's how he closes his sermon. That's the last thing that Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount. Great will be that fall. Amen, let's pray. That's how he closes his sermon. Can you understand the urgency that he's putting before us to not be deluded, to not be distracted, to not live in some false reality?

At some point in the past, I must have given my life to Christ, and look at the hoops I'm jumping through. I must be okay with him. And Jesus says, no, you're not hearing me at all. You're not gonna be able to endure this storm.

Do you know me? Is your life built squarely upon me? Are you doing the things that I command? That's the urgency, that's the weight, that's the burden he's putting upon us at the close of his sermon. And of course, every part of me is dying to get to next week.

Every part of me wants to immediately footnote and qualify, and well, let's talk about justification, and okay, you're all feeling a little bit heavy now. Don't worry about it now. Here's why we can actually rejoice in judgment.

And I want to do that, but I feel like I'm missing exactly what Jesus is trying to get across. And so this morning, I'm not here to pull the teeth out of how Jesus closes the sermon, and to have only 10 minutes reflecting on what it means to endure this storm and face this judgment.

And then let's quickly move on to how we can feel a little bit better about ourselves, and go right on to our distracted way of living. That's not what Jesus wants us to do. That's not how Jesus closes this sermon.

What Jesus wants us to see is it does not matter what we profess. It does not matter what catechism's answers we can recite. It does not matter the things that come out of our mouth if our lives do not bear the fruit of that profession.

If our lives don't match the things we claim to believe, our house will collapse upon itself. The entirety of our lives will be brought to bear in that storm. Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, or as Titus 1 says, those who profess to know God, but in their works they deny Him.

And so He denies them. I never knew you. Now, why does Jesus warn us of this coming storm? Why does the flood come upon all of life? Of course, we're brought all the way back toward the beginning of Scripture, and we have the sort of type of God's judgment, the type of this world-ending storm, this life-ending storm, and that's the flood judgment in the days of Noah.

And if Genesis 6 emphasizes anything, it's that the flood is coming upon us because of the corruption, because of the sins of humanity. That's inescapable. No sin, no judgment. No sin, no storm. The storm only comes for one reason, and that's because of what humanity is like after the fall, because of the things that we do, doing the things we ought not to do, doing the things we hate.

And so God, beholding the corruption of sinful humanity, says, behold, I Myself am bringing floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under heaven all flesh, and which is the breath of life, everything that is on earth shall die.

That's the God whose eye is on the sparrow. That's the God who numbers every hair on your head. It's also the God who sits enthroned above the flood. The God who sends a storm that will shake the world to its core and harvest all that have died within her midst to be raised unto Him, unto that judgment at the end.

We don't need to wonder at the reason for the flood. It's made abundantly, tragically, repeatedly clear. It's the increase of sin on the earth. The Lord saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth.

Every intent of the thought of his heart was only evil continually. And the result of that is, verse seven in Genesis six, I will destroy. What a contrast to where Genesis had begun. The Lord saw that it was good.

Three chapters later, the Lord saw that it was only evil continually. Now, is this a God who's so abstract, the blind watchmaker who can see that some things are getting a little out of control and he kind of throws his hands up in the air and decides to send a judgment?

No, in fact, we see this grief in ways that we have to tread very cautiously upon lest we deform a right understanding of God as he's revealed himself. He, in very human-like language, anthropomorphic language, he bears his heart and says, I repent that I've made man.

I don't even know what to do with that. This is the one who breathed the breath of life into humanity, who sends the rain on both the wicked and the just. And when he sees the increase of wickedness on the earth, he could grieve to such an extent that in this manlike way of speaking, he says, I repent that I created man to begin with.

That's not something for theologians to explain. That's something for poets to stare at. That's for something to be silent toward. I don't even want to press in upon that. The point is simply this, we live in the midst of this crooked generation, this adulterous generation, and we're so deluded that even as Christians, we think somehow we're not that bad because we're a little bit better than the world.

And look at the verdict that God gives upon the world. It's not the verdict of prejudice. God's not partial. He's not bigoted. He doesn't have some slant or bias like we all do as human beings. This isn't some revelation that's written by primitive prophets.

This is not men and women with very limited knowledge and perspective trying to unload their own hatred and depravity for others upon holy writ.

This is the verdict of God.

This is the storm that came upon the earth. God looking inwardly to the thoughts and the motives and the secret intents of the heart, but also outwardly in all of the compass and detail and objectivity of His righteous judgment, He brings this verdict.

I must destroy.

I must.

He sees in ways we cannot see. He looks where we dare not look with a clarity we can never possess in infinity, in omnipresence, in omniscience. We see, as was even prayed earlier, we see the best in ourselves and the worst in others, but even that worst is outward and bound to our own blindness and partiality.

We don't actually see the worst that really is evident before God. And so we might be horrified as we read certain headlines or we see examples of the depravity of man, but we're not nearly as horrified as we ought to be.

If we could see as God sees, if we could know as God knows, if we could discern not only around us, but within us, within our own hearts, we would understand why Jesus closes His sermon in this way.

There's a storm coming.

God's grief in light of this judgment is a window that I think can build us some level of hope. God, again, is not some cosmic dictator who coolly presses a button. He's not one who somehow is less merciful than we would desire to be, less loving than we could hope for.

We don't know what love is. Our greatest acts of love almost look like hatred when they're compared to the way that God loves. We can't even begin to understand the depths of the perfections of God's attributes, not least among them His love.

And so when we find Him repenting in this way and sending judgment, we should neither see Him as wringing His hands and not really wanting to do it anxiously, but feeling obligated, but we should also not see it as something cool and abstract and dictatorial.

We should rather see a holy God, full of love, loving His holiness, and in holiness, desiring to rectify the things that are wrong. And He brings about this judgment, and He wipes the face of the earth clean.

Where do we see the loving kindness of God? And this is very important for where we're going in the Sermon on the Mount. We see the loving kindness of God upholding a world that is increasing in evil.

How many years was Noah given the task to build the Ark? Every hour of every day within that construction was God's loving kindness upholding a world that was rebelling against Him in hatred and spite, increasing in wickedness against Him and against others, giving days and weeks and months and years filled with holidays and gatherings and birthdays, harvests and sunsets and laughter around the dinner table, all good things to those who despise Him, whose actions degrade themselves as image bearers and degrade their neighbors as image bearers.

That's why Peter can say, when once the divine long-suffering waited in the days of Noah, You see, all the apostles look back to this judgment, this global judgment, as a foreshadowing of the storm to come, of the judgment to come.

The flood that God wrought upon the earth in Genesis 6 was just a type and a forecast of the greater flood yet to come, the eschatological flood. And so the New Testament writers are always looking at the storm imagery.

You think about the prophets take up storm imagery in terms of God's judgment, and Jesus is leaning right into that. Reminded that even in judgment, God shows forth His long-suffering. Listen, God is long-suffering with you that He's given you more days before the storm comes for you.

That is long-suffering. What a mercy it is to be warned, if we have ears to hear it. It's a mercy to be warned. Do you want proof of God's love to you? He loves you enough to warn you that the storm is coming.

Bare minimum, that is love. Bare minimum, without even getting to the good news of the Gospel. He loves you enough to warn you. To give you time to examine what you're building upon. To give you time to weigh out this structure and its integrity.

Have you actually understood the words of the Lord? Are you actually carrying that out in your life? Do you know a storm is coming? If you're living unto others, it won't matter. They won't be the judgment that you face.

They won't comprise the storm you're up against. It's His sight. It's His verdict. It's His calling. It's His command. That's what's coming against you. That's what your life must withstand. We see, if I could give you another example of Jesus showing us a judgment that must come, but giving us a divine insight.

As the world thinks of God as angry, violent. That's not fair. It's not just. I would be more loving than that. I would show mercy. Show us how ignorant we are. We don't even understand our own depravity.

Can't even imagine the long-suffering nature of our God. This is what Jesus says as He speaks in parables. He says, a man planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a place for the wine vat, built a tower.

Now, He leased it to vinedressers. This is, of course, a shot against a Sanhedrin. This judgment that's gonna come upon the leaders of Jerusalem. They're the vinedressers that are in lease. Now, at vintage time, He sent a servant to the vinedressers that He might receive some of the fruit of the vineyard.

The vinedressers took Him and beat Him, sent Him away empty-handed. So He sent them another servant. And at Him, they threw stones, wounded Him in the head, sent Him away, shamefully treated. And again, He sent another.

Well, that one they killed, and many others, beating some, killing some. Now, just pause there. What do you understand Jesus saying about the nature of this vineyard owner?

He's the creator.

He's the one who's built up this vineyard. He's given it over to vinedressers, and He sent servant after servant.

After servant after servant.

What is Jesus saying and reflecting upon when it comes to the judgment of the Father? He is long-suffering, long-suffering, swift to show mercy, slow to anger.

That would be enough.

I draw the line here. No more, you've killed my servants,.

You wicked vinedressers.

Look at the judgment that is wrought upon you. He doesn't do that. The parable keeps going. You get the idea that He's run out of servants. He sent everyone that said, here I am,.

I'll go.

We see your love, we see your glory, we love you, send us, we'll go. He sends everyone, and He has no one left except one. Therefore, still having one son, His beloved, He also sent him to them at the last, saying, they'll respect my son.

But the vinedressers said, this is the heir. Come, let's kill him. The inheritance will be ours. So they took him, and they killed him, and they cast him out of the vineyard. And Jesus asked this question, what will the owner of the vineyard do?

Now, the world wants to look at God's judgment. The world wants to see the close of the Sermon on the Mount and say, oh, all these Baptists in their hellfire preaching. Oh, all the Turner-Byrne rhetoric.

All we ever hear is judgment. You know, what we really need is a church of refugees. We need a church that's just love. We're actually never gonna talk about. We never use that word. That's the word we don't wanna use.

We don't wanna talk about sin. We certainly don't wanna talk about HE double hockey sticks. We don't want to actually cause anyone to reflect deeply on judgment. Is that how Jesus preaches? How does He close this sermon?

He wants us to stare at the very center of what's coming our way. He asked the question, what will the owner of the vineyard do? The world, because of the church, being unfaithful in these ways, wants to pretend there really is no sin.

We're really, all we just need to do is just be more loving. Let's form the circle and sing Kumbaya. We'll all make it to glory. That's not how Jesus teaches. They wanna begin here. Oh, this seems so harsh.

They wanna begin with the, the vineyard owner would destroy these poor vinedressers? What they miss is the overture of servants sent, and sent, and sent, and sent again, the warnings, the urgency, the giving of His own Son.

What more could He do to try to bring people out of wrath and destruction to come? And so when you come to that question, what will He do? What will the judge do when He puts the earth to right? You have to begin with what the judge has done all along.

Long-suffering mercies, good gifts upon good gifts, rain falling even to the wicked, good sunlight and harvest, glories given to image bearers that despise Him and deform themselves in others.

You begin there.

Only then can you rightly ask the question, what will He do? What will He do? If you're having any moral integrity or moral compass in your conscience, you must give the answer, He will destroy them. There's something that even though we repress the righteous revelation of God in unrighteousness, even sinners know something of the thirst for justice.

There is an outcry in this world for justice. We all might have it warped, might have it slanted, but every one of us knows something about a thirst for justice until it's God's justice against us. Well, what we see very clearly is Jesus asking this rhetorical question to Gedat, have you rightly understood what's coming?

He's saying it essentially to the Sanhedrin in this parable, what will the owner of the vineyard do? What's coming your way? Here at the end of Matthew seven, Jesus is saying to us, there's a storm coming.

And of course you can hear within this parable the echo of the owner sending his beloved son. He had one left, his beloved. That's the echo of Jesus at the baptism. That's the echo at the transfiguration.

That's the echo from Genesis 22 of Abram giving over Isaac to the altar, the one son, the son whom he loved. And that only heightens the drama, the sense of loss. We're almost shocked. Is the owner ignorant?

Is he aloof?

Why is he being so gracious? This is his vineyard. Why would he allow even a servant to be insulted, much less beaten, much less killed, and he would send his own son into that? What do you see of the nature of God?

We want to inwardly scream, don't do it. Don't give your son to these people. Destroy them.

Spare the son.

I said I wouldn't go gospel this morning, but I can't help myself. But instead he sends his son to be destroyed that they might be spared. The owner has lost his due, his right, what he's built with his own hands, all that he invested into it, all that it was meant to be.

He's lost all of his servants,.

And now he's lost his only beloved son. We would never love evil men like this, not even once, much less 70 times seven.

But then we're reminded,.

God did not send his son into the world, that the world would be condemned, but that it might be saved through him. So the son comes. He comes into the vineyard. He comes to see the hate-filled faces.

He comes to their murderous thirst. He comes to the shadow of that cursed tree, and he too is killed. And Jesus asks the question, what will the owner of the vineyard do? If we're reading rightly, we're thirsting for justice.

Rise up, O Lord.

Listen to what J .C. Ryle says. Men never saw God face to face, but once. When Jesus became a man and lived on earth, they saw him, holy, harmless, undefiled, going about doing good. Yet they wouldn't have him.

They rebelled against him, and they killed him. So let's dismiss from our minds the idea that there's innate good in our hearts. Let's put away the common notion that seeing and knowing what is good is enough to make a man a Christian.

We don't have to talk about judgment. We don't have to talk about sin. There is no need for repentance. We just need to show you how Jesus was good, and you try to be good too, and we'll all make it to glory.

That's not how Jesus preaches. That's not apostolic doctrine. That's not scriptural revelation. Those are deceiving words that deceive the hearts of the simple. You know, I remember years ago when we were outside Planned Parenthood, there was a woman on the sidewalk, and we were going up and trying to make conversations, trying to witness to her, you know, do you go to church?

You're a Christian. Have you ever heard the gospel? Oh, well, don't go to church, you know. It's just, oh, there's so many different views, so many different perspectives, and it would be so easy if Jesus would just come.

If he would just come, then it would be so easy to follow him, and so I just kind of have my own relay, and I said, ma 'am, if Jesus came, you know what would happen? We would crucify him. That's what happened when he did come.

That's the owner sending his son. The vineyard is us. We think, if I could just see the Lord,.