Transgression, the third level, is when I actually take it.
The Bible says: “we all like sheep have gone astray. Each of us has turned to his own way; but the Lord has laid on Him the Avon of us all.”
God doesn't just forgive you for what you've done; God forgives you all the way back to where your eye hooked to the wrong thing. That's the yoke of our Rabbi.
I used to kick box; but don't anybody take me on - you'll win! I'm not mean enough to fight, I haven't hit anybody in 16 years, but I was quite good at one point; and when I thought about Jesus standing over the gates of hell, and saying: not even the gates of hell will prevail against Him - bring it on! Our yoke is so good, that not even this can win.
I used to kick box, and I actually got to fight in a US Open one year. I won the South Eastern Regional's two years in a row, got invited to the US Open three times in a row, got invited to the World Championships once, and I had these huge trophies.
All the neighbourhood kids were at my house, and they were looking at my trophies, and this guy came over. His name was Kenneth, and Kenneth was one of those kids that were about my size in the 8th Grade! This guy was shaving in the 4th Grade sort of guy!
He walks in, and in front of everybody he goes: Shane Willard, I think I could whoop you! I said: I think you're right. He says: come on, let's fight! I said: I'm not fighting you - you're twice my size, I'm not stupid! He said: I brought boxing gloves. I said: oh boxing gloves - let's go; because I knew if we put boxing gloves on, he couldn't grab me...
So we go outside and all of our friends made this boxing ring, and they're standing around it, and there's: fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
So I get in the ring with this guy, and I beat him to death. I'm talking - he couldn't touch me, I was too quick for him; just pow, pow, pow. I wasn't hurting him, he just couldn't touch me, and he started to get a little bit agitated.
So he finally got mad; and when you get mad, you do stupid things, because you become mentally retarded! And ya'll, he decided he was going to throw a punch to try to knock me out. Let me just show you how fast it came. This is in real speed, here it is... I actually had time to think: I'll move now. He left himself in about this position, so I thought: I'll end this now!
I bent my knees - ya'll, I've never hit a human being, as hard as I hit him this day. I came from down here, and it was one of those punches where your hips twisted at just the right moment, and just everything came up, and with all my weight, and with everything I had - I hit him right on the base of his chin!
His head snapped back. His knees buckled, and he stammered back three paces, then he caught his balance, and he looked up - and now he was mad! His face turned red, and he looked up at me, and he said: boy - is that all you've got! And it was!
How many of you know, when you take the enemy's best shot, and you're still standing - you win? He won that fight, because he took my best shot, and he took it and stood there, and came back at me. In my heart I said: he just took my best shot. I can't beat him. I can't beat him.
One day they came to get Jesus, and Jesus' way of life was so different. Peter, who didn't quite get it, he pulled a sword out and he cut the guy's ear off; and Jesus said: no, no, no! He picks the guy's ear back up, and puts it back on. He says: Peter, we're not going to live like this anymore. We're not going to live by the sword, and we're not going to die by the sword, one more day.