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If it isn't you Lord, my hope, if it isn't you Jesus, if it isn't you my life...

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If it isn't you Lord, my strength, if it isn't you Lord, my hope, if it isn't you Lord, my strength...

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And in you Lord my drink, and in you Lord my hope, and in you Lord for you my life.

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In the use of my strength, in the use of my hope, in the use of the new day, I'll praise you with all of my life.

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I'll praise you with all of my strength, with all of my love, with all of my strength, with all of my hope in the use of my strength.

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In the use of my strength, in the use of my hope, in the use of the new day, I'll praise you with all of my life.

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In the use of my strength, in the use of my hope, in the use of the new day, I'll praise you.

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In the use of my strength, in the use of my hope, in the use of the new day, I'll praise you with all of my strength.

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In the use of my strength, in the use of my hope, in the use of the new day, I'll praise you with all of my strength.

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I'll praise you with all of my life. I'll praise you with all of my strength, with all of my love.

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I'll praise you with all of my strength, with all of my hope in the use of my strength.

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My faith, my passion, all of you in my life. My faith, my passion, all of you in my life.

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I'll praise you with all of my life. I'll praise you with all of my life. I'll praise you with all of my life.

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I'll praise you with all of my life.

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Strength or rest, we wait upon the Lord. We will wait upon the Lord. We will wait upon the Lord.

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Our God, who is forever ours, our hope, our strong will, ever ours.

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To our God, our Lord, our God, who is our faith, who is our hope, our strength, our strength.

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You cannot defend the world from me. You cannot undo me. You cannot stop the one who is my hero.

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Strength or rest, we wait upon the Lord. We will wait upon the Lord. We will wait upon the Lord.

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Our God, who is forever ours, our hope, our strong will, ever ours.

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You are the everlasting God, the everlasting God. You do not fail to wander or feel free.

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You are the different God of the week. He is more than God and me. He is just so more than my King God.

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I know you wait forever. Our hope, our strong will, ever ours.

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You wait forever. Our hope, our strong will, ever ours.

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You are the everlasting God, the everlasting God. You do not fail to wander or feel free.

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You are the different God of the week. He is more than God and me. He is just so more than my King God.

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I didn't know that a brother of ours had a birthday yesterday.

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He came and volunteered his time on his birthday to work and serve. He doesn't get paid. It's not his job.

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I thought about that and I thought about how in the secular world a lot of times people want to quote take their birthday off.

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A lot of companies give you a paid time off for your birthday. A lot of times you get that as a holiday.

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Or you get a PTO day and the expectation is if you want to take your birthday off, you can.

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And then I was thinking and I felt like the Lord was kind of touching my heart and I was thinking about how Christians really, I mean we really don't forget the day off.

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Not out of seven days, not out of 365 days. You really don't get a day off. You don't get a day off from being a Christian.

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In fact, if you ever took a day off from being a Christian you'd really regret it because it would be harder and you'd have to get back into it the next day if you take my meaning.

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And I was thinking about that and Brother Larry and I were talking this morning and we were talking about illnesses like pneumonia and stuff like that.

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How you get a fever or diarrhea or vomiting and the expectation is that you will isolate yourself and that you'll not give your sickness to anyone else.

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And that is kind of, that's what you want. You don't want to spread that right. So if you're ever sick like that, no matter what age you are, you're sick like that.

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Then you either have to not come to church, not come to worship that day. You can watch online, listen to podcasts, whatever like that.

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Or you have to isolate. You have to literally stay away from everybody.

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One time during the COVID pandemic I had COVID but I was basically over it by that time.

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And I came to the building, I stayed away from everybody and I went and sat in my office at my desk and watched the Facebook stream and watched RTA Preach and everything like that.

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And I felt like it was, you know, the guy would want me to be here but I don't want to take a risk of making anybody sick.

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We talked about that and they were talking about the weather and he said I didn't know if he was going to come pick me up this morning.

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And I said well why wouldn't I come pick you up? And he said well because of the rain.

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And I thought well we never cancel church on account of rain. One time we had the sanctuary started leaking, the roof started leaking during the service but we didn't stop the service.

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And I don't know if you know this or not but we don't cancel our services for a level three snow emergency even though it's technically illegal for you to be on the streets.

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So we tell people, you know, use your best judgment, be wise, listen to the Lord and do. But if we only have four or five people who come to church that day, we still don't church.

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And so you can see where my mind's going with all this. And I preached a sermon recently about having no quit in you.

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And I was thinking about how the world has found all of these different ways to license quitting. I call something else vacation.

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Taking a break, right? A sick day, all these different, we license quitting in all these different ways.

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And the truth is even if you have a job that you're working, even if you take a sick day because you're sick because you don't want to make other people sick, even while you're laying, we all know what we do, right?

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We're all laying home in bed or you're sitting in a chair or climbing, watching TV or whatever and your mind keeps drifting to how, you know, the next day you're going to feel better and the next day you got to go back to work and what you got to do.

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And then you're, oh, I had that project due today at one and now it's not, nobody's going to do that while I'm off. So tomorrow I've got to do that, right?

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Take a vacation, come back from vacation and there's more work to do than ever. So you pay for your vacation up until your vacation and then you pay for your vacation after your vacation.

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But the world's got all these types and ways that it calls, it's like quitting. They don't call it that, but it's got all the different ways they call it. And there's no quit in us.

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Christians show up first, they leave last, they go the distance, they run the mile and then if need be, they run another mile. Jesus actually used that terminology. Somebody asked you to go with them a mile, you go with them two.

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And then there's no quit in us. We meet because we love the Lord because we want to serve like that. Last night we were, we're in the midst of a family dilemma, but we're pretty sure what the results are going to be, but we're still struggling because Ariana's December concert is coming up.

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Which is on Thursday, but her following concert is on a Tuesday night. And Ariana was like, well I'm not going. And then we have a problem because we committed her to be there and not realize most of Tuesday nights and now we're figuring it out.

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The world has all kinds of reasons not to do what it is they're called to do. You can't live that way, you just can't do it. When you start living, I know what I'm supposed to do and I'm not going to stop no matter what.

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Then you'll feel whole and you won't feel like you're burdened down and you're always like, do you want to get out of bed? Do you really want to get out of bed every day and decide whether or not you're going to wear clothes?

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Or whether or not you're going to eat food? No, those things are pretty well settled, right? You know you're going to wear clothes every day and they're going to eat food almost every day unless you're fasting or something.

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So it's when we take things and we stop making decisions over and over again, we just say that's settled, that one's done, we know this, this is a fact, we don't quit. Not even under seven other names.

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Right? Then you can live the way healthy, you can live strong, you can be who you're supposed to be.

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Well that was my inspirational one about the Lord speaking to me and I want to be that kind of person and you join me in that.

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I think that's what it means to be a Christian, certainly what it means to be a fanatic Christian.

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Alright, who else has got something that if not we're going to break?

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Thank you. Is it working? Yeah, alright. I would say it's not easy being cheesy. It just means corny, relatable, stuff like that.

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But anybody can do this. G-spoken parables, which not, you've got to talk about sheep and stuff, but a life lesson that can come back to something that's not just a parable.

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It's not like sheep and stuff, but a life lesson that can come back to something else.

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And so I sit in this chair right now and I'm thinking in this chair, I didn't make this chair, I don't know who made this chair.

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I'll never meet the person who made this chair. Whether they were friendly, unfriendly, doing it for a paycheck, whether they love God, don't care, saved, unsaved, I have no idea.

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But I sit in this chair because that person made that chair. No matter lack of concern, care, respect, time restraints, none of that stuff.

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I had no capability or power to make this chair because I didn't have the time. But someone made this chair.

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And so I think about that in everyday life with people every day.

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Is that we don't realize how God allows everybody to do what they do, whether they're safe, unsafe, friendly, unfriendly, whether they don't know what they're doing, why they do it, how they do it.

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Yet every day we all work together, whether it's at work or school or family or church.

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And then you've got your brothers and sisters in your family, you've got your Christ family, they're not perfect, they're broken as well.

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But at the same time, we all do this for the same reason. We do this for Jesus.

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And then, this is where you do what you call parallel, the Bible says, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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Jesus didn't die for anyone, whether they were friendly, unfriendly, loved us, cared about us, what we thought about Him, what we think about Him.

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Even today, if you're not heading the course, you're not living the way you should be, you're not doing what you used to do, get back up and do it again.

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Because here's the reason, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. And He didn't say after He died for us, we're not sinners anymore.

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By Christ's blood, by His mercy, we are no longer allowed to sin, continue to sin.

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Sin isn't a part of us anymore. Death has no hold on us. The power of sin has no sting on us.

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And so, that's the idea, while we were still sinners.

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The cool thing about this, and I was thinking about this, is I've heard someone say it, and I never forget what people used to tell me.

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Oh, I would die in the cross, I would die for anyone, and I couldn't take it no more. And I said, well, that would get you the hell faster.

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Because you're not the Messiah. You're not the Savior, you're not the one that loved everyone, you're not the one that willingly stepped off His throne.

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Even out of the throne, He was still God, but He didn't have to step out of the throne. He didn't have to die in the cross.

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And you could say, well, that makes Him unloving. He could be a brutal, hating God all He wants to be, but He's not.

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He loved us so much that He did get off that throne. He did come as a baby.

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Said before, He dealt with diaper rash, and didn't give up. I mean, I can't stand for a second of any chafing or something that bothers me and ticks me off that I just want to quit.

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And He died on that cross, willingly, blood on that cross, till He would actually die from the blood spilling.

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And then He rose again in victory. Because He had the power and capability to do it.

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So I just encourage all of us today, whether you're sitting on a chair, driving your car, putting gas in your vehicle, reading a book, whether you're at school looking at a book, you didn't do that.

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Because God gave someone else the ability to do that for you.

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So I recently started a devotional series on the Eversion Bible app called Living With Wisdom.

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And I've only known the first day, so I don't know what the whole thing's going to look like, but the first day was really good.

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And it starts with a testimony of an NFL player named Erwin Gray.

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And he's a former defensive back for the Indianapolis Colts.

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But I'm going to read an excerpt from his testimony. And the whole thing's really good, so I encourage you to read it if you get the time at some point.

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So he says, Eventually I came to know Jesus on August 2, 1997 in a small dorm room in Anderson, Indiana during a fifth year NFL training camp.

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It happened right after lunchtime when I was walking to my dorm room. I suddenly felt a giant chasm in my soul and I called my wife and said,

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I want to be more committed to you and I want to be more committed to Jesus. And that was when I was born again.

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He said, I felt divine love. He felt himself going from death to life.

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He's sharing everything he shares. And this is kind of referencing a little bit the beginning of his testimony as well.

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He says, Everything that I've shared is to say I never knew that there was a concept called the secular sacred divide, which obviously is not a good thing.

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I never knew when I played football I was expected to leave Jesus in the church building.

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I never knew I was supposed to go without him all week long except for Sunday.

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I remember one game in particular where I brought Jesus on the field. We were playing the Buccaneers and I came in on defense for what's called the safety blitz.

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He said, All you need to know is that my job was to sack the quarterback.

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When the lineman saw me coming in, he hit me pretty hard to block me. And he started cussing me out.

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At this point, I was recently saved. So as he's cussing me out, I'm running next to him saying,

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Bro, Jesus loves you so much, Jesus will forgive your sins. Let me tell you how much Jesus loves you, bro.

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On the cross, he took your place. And while I'm running next to him, he's cussing me out and kicks me in the butt.

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And as funny as it was, the entire experience goes to show, I had no idea that there were Christians who believed that Sunday was for Jesus and the other six days of the week were for secular work.

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The word secular means without God. And if I can reach inside my scholar bag, the idea that the secular sacred divide is a product of Western Enlightenment.

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The Western Enlightenment was started by a Christian named Rene Descartes, who famously said, I think therefore I am.

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He was trying to combat atheism, but what he did was make human beings the center of knowledge.

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And before the Enlightenment, instead of I think therefore I am, the prevailing idea was because of the great I am, we are.

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So as a result of the Enlightenment, a mindset rose to secular things were for the week and sacred things were for the weekend.

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Unfortunately, many Christians have bought into that deception.

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And the truth is, if you're a follower of Jesus, the Bible says you are the temple of the Holy Spirit.

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I'm going to stop there. He does speak more.

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He does go on to quote last year's key verse of EBS as well.

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So I really enjoyed the devotional.

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There are so many Christians, and I find myself falling into this in some days, that we go out in the world and we have a day where we don't pray, we don't read our Bible, we don't talk to anyone about Jesus.

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And that's just not right. It's disrespectful to God and the gifts that he's given us.

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So we need to cast aside that divide that we have in our lives on those days, those bad days, maybe it's one in a hundred days, but it's still too much.

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That really inspired me to step up a little bit.

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Sometimes I have that, I start to get a little emotional and start crying at points.

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I used to get chased home. I used to get bullied until finally, I couldn't imagine what it was like.

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And I started, you know, and every now and then, there's that part that ain't me.

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I know it has to be him, because the little things that I'm doing are good, are not wrong to make me cry.

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So I know that giving or doing something nice to somebody, taking care of Jack at home, me neither, is just being him and coming out of the way with no expectations.

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I heard they were yesterday, and my friend, he was really bad-tempered. I'm going to the store, I'm getting internal flu, I'm getting some 4L of this and just bringing it to him.

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And that's what I did yesterday, other than coming here and hoping I was in church. I love everybody in here.

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I joined this church, and the person sitting here was talking and had time to sit there and just listen.

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And everyone in here, everybody in here, the reason I joined it is because everybody in here acts like a family.

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They all are together, they all do different things, they all have different jobs, so I want to help.

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And sometimes the crying is good. I go up with my friends and stuff like that, and the love comes out, because I'm crying the same as he is.

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Taking out my friend's mom, or taking out my friends, and that's okay. I'm not perfect.

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Even 60%, I'm telling the truth, even 60% of what I'm doing is not me.

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That other part is I'm going to slip for a minute, and I want to be telling the truth.

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And they're a little bit, and I don't want to be that person. So I'm trying to be a better person.

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I'll leave you at this, you second, I'm 22 years old, and to give back, that will help.

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Like I said, I love every one of the people in here. Some people treat me better than my own family.

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I respect this church, and I love everybody in here. Thank you.

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Alright, so we're going to pray at this time, and then we'll transition.

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Oh, I'm sorry, do you have a word real quick?

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So like a few weeks ago at our house, we were doing this Bible study.

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And as I was listening to some of it, some of it popped out because it talked about the armor of God.

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And I didn't know what some of it was, because I didn't know the shield.

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I didn't know what it is for and what it was meant for.

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And then as I was reading it, it said, take the shield of faith so you can stop the firing arrows of the devil.

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And if we didn't have the shield, the devil would be on us all the time with his arrows.

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Alright, good word. Alright, let's pray and we'll jump back into worship.

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Brother Tim, would you read some prayer? Alright, we'll pray along with Brother Tim. Let's do that.

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Alright, I'm going to let my father continue to work with us for this week until we can meet again.

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We stand with your kind hands, with a joy unto the waters of the stream.

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We bow down as you worship Him now.

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I pray our bonds will be sweet. Together we sing.

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Everyone sing.

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Oh yes, the Lord, God is almighty.

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He is the only one who can teach me how to spill the wings of love.

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Alright kids, we're going to walk away.

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Oh my soul, oh my soul, worship His lonely name.

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Sing like never before, oh my soul, worship your lonely name.

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The sun comes up, it's a new day dawning. It's time to sing your song again.

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Whatever faith has and whatever lies before me, let me be singing with the evening hours.

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Oh yes, the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship His lonely name.

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Sing like never before, oh my soul, worship your lonely name.

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You rich in love and you're slow to ache. Your name is grace and your heart is kind.

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For all your goodness I will be unseeing.

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Ten thousand reasons for my heart to find.

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Oh yes, the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship His lonely name.

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Sing like never before, oh my soul, worship your lonely name.

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On that day when my strength is failing, the end draws near and the time has come.

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Still my soul will sing your praise unending.

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Ten thousand reasons that forever more.

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Oh yes, the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship His lonely name.

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Sing like never before, oh my soul, worship your lonely name.

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Oh yes, the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship His lonely name.

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Oh yes, the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, worship His lonely name.

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Lord, I worship your lonely name.

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Sing like never before, oh my soul, worship your lonely name.

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Worship your lonely name.

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Lord, I worship your lonely name.

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I'm going to take us through this text I believe that the Lord led me to today. As you can see, it is fairly short.

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I will reference a couple of other texts, but we will not go there and read them.

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Then it gets hot and heavy up in here. I'm going to ask you to help me finish the series.

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So I'm not going to do it all myself today. We're going to do it together.

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And by that I mean when we get to our third point, we are going to be looking at what it looks like to walk as a Christian.

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And then we will as a group, interactive handle a number of case studies, several for each one of the sermons.

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I believe I have written this in such a way that it will not take us all day.

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But I fair warn you, if we don't do it, it will take longer.

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So be ready when that time comes to be participatory.

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When I start asking those case study questions, it's not going to be a case where you're just going to sit back and wait for somebody else to answer.

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If you immediately know the answer, you're going to chime in or help me finish.

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Okay, so that's the plan. Now grab your Bibles if you would, if you're following along.

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And I am going to read from Romans chapter one. Come on.

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To be a fanatic might be in this place at this time to be excited about these three verses from God's word.

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It just might include that. And I think we'll even see that before we're done today.

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So let's try again. At least say amen. It is God's word. That means so let it be.

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Or hallelujah. That means praise the Lord.

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Or thank you Jesus. That means thank you Jesus.

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As we go to Romans chapter one. Thank you Jesus.

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Okay, about still about half of us actually participating.

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But I appreciate all of those of you who realize here we go.

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We're going in to God's word. Romans one fifteen.

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This is a topic that will not come as a complete surprise to you.

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Romans one fifteen. It says thus for my part. So my is Paul.

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Paul is writing this. And he's talking to the church at Rome.

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Hence the book is named the book of Romans.

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Thus for my part I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

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Now we could stop right there and say that a fanatic for Jesus, at least in Paul's life, he set this model.

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He set this design for us that a fanatic for Jesus is excited to preach the gospel.

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Now Paul wanted to preach the gospel in Rome which was a large church.

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Paul didn't found it. He didn't start the church of Rome.

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He didn't send an apostle there or a disciple there to start the church of Rome.

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And so probably believers came back from Pentecost.

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Which is that moment in time the Holy Spirit settled on God's people.

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And they probably started the church of Rome.

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But we don't actually historically know who the first members of the church of Rome were.

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Paul was excited to go there and preach the gospel to them.

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They were Gentiles by and large. There were Jewish people in Rome.

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But we know that there was a very strong Jewish presence.

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And in AD 70 much later the two of them conflicted so badly that both the Jews and the Christians were kicked out of Rome.

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They were forced to leave their homes and leave everything behind.

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And so it gets pretty bad for a while.

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Big strong presence of both the Jewish and the Christian church.

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Jewish faith and the Christian church.

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So he's eager to go there and preach the gospel to those Gentile Christians who are in the church in Rome.

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Verse 16 says, for that's because it's for.

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And this is a really common verse to memorize.

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I would encourage you if you have not done so already to memorize this verse.

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It's not even really hard.

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It says, for I am not ashamed of the gospel.

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For it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.

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To the Jew first and also to the Greek.

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So basically he's breaking it down.

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Who it should have come to first was the Jewish people because that's God's people.

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They should have been wanting to hear from God.

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They were chosen by God.

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And then to everyone else after them.

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But it doesn't matter the order so much.

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The phrase everyone who believes says it very clearly.

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It is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes.

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So if someone will believe the good news about Jesus they will be saved.

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And Paul again sets the example that we should not be ashamed of the gospel for that very reason.

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Because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes.

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It doesn't matter if they were a God hater a moment before.

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Or if they lived their entire life as an atheist.

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Or they proposed that they were a Christian when they were younger but walked away from the Lord.

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And have become what some might call apostolate.

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How do you say that word?

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Apostolate.

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Anyway walking away from the Lord.

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Do you got it Josh?

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Josh is my English guy.

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And so even if they've become that now they can truly become born again if they can hear the gospel.

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Okay?

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And so everyone who believes no matter what their previous condition was verse 17.

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For in the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written.

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For in it the gospel the good news the thing that we're supposed to not be ashamed of.

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In it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith as it is written.

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But the righteous man shall live by faith.

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And so basically if you're going to be right you're going to live by faith.

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Now we get our righteousness from Christ.

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Don't get too doctrine heavy on me here or theological right?

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We know that we'll only truly be righteous in Jesus.

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That's the only way to truly be right by God.

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Because we have sinned.

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And so you need forgiveness for that sin which is provided for by Jesus.

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Paid for.

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God is righteous so he delivers justice.

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Because he delivers justice he must.

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We'll get it one of these days.

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Because he delivers justice he must deal punishment.

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He must deal judgment to sin that he did on the cross.

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Otherwise we would have to pay for it ourselves.

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So Jesus' death becomes substitutionary for us.

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Right we talked a little bit about that so I'm not going to go back on it.

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These are the verses of the day.

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The first point that's clear and obvious in there is that fanatics as we have been discussing them.

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Want to share the good news.

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Why do we want to share the good news?

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Also very simple.

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Very obvious.

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It's good news.

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If you have good news you just found out you're pregnant.

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You just found out you got a new job.

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You just found out you got a promotion.

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You just found out you got a bonus check.

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You just found out that there's a supplement to deal with the pain that you had.

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Or the pain that your brother sister mother father cousin had.

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You found out about it.

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Of course you're going to jump right on the phone.

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You're going to go right there and push.

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You're going to do whatever is necessary and you're going to share that good news.

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Now I also know that there are people in the world who like to share bad news.

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I would not recommend being one of them.

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Even though people might be interested in hearing all the bad news all the time.

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And they have that kind of attitude that they want to know how bad the world is.

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You want to be a person who wants to share good news.

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And so we want to share the gospel because it's good news.

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Also because it's powerful.

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There's a lot of motivations that people have in the world these days.

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They want to change the world to meet their own standards of what they are.

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For example they want to do away with a sin that they think the world has.

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And it could be anything from you think abortion is a sin.

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To you think drinking to your drunk is a sin or whatever.

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And the bible may speak to the sin or may not speak to the sin.

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But because everybody feels like they want to make everyone around them adhere to their standard.

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They're looking for ways to do that.

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And your anger might be powerful.

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You might trick other people.

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You might force other people, manipulate other people to do what you want.

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By being angry at them.

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By using harsh words.

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Your money may be powerful.

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You pay somebody to do what it is that you want them to do.

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You give them discounts until they're so attached to you that there's no one else who can do what you can do.

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And then you can charge them whatever you want.

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And that is the world's standard Josh.

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And I just talked about this yesterday.

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Bottom line is you can find power in a lot of places.

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But the only power to truly change the world.

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To truly set people free.

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To truly overcome hearts of stone.

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And give hearts of flesh.

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To truly regenerate a person from the inside out.

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Is the gospel.

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It is the truth.

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The good news about Jesus.

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There is forgiveness available.

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God's Holy Spirit will come and live in you.

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If you are saved you can be born again today.

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And it is sad news that if you are not born again.

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You will go to hell for an eternity.

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But that is not our message.

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Albeit it's true.

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Our message is that God loves you.

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He made for your forgiveness and now wants to forgive you of your sins through his son Jesus Christ.

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It is powerful.

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And people accept that wherever they are.

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Whatever they have done.

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C.S. Lewis said this in one of those very same radio programs that I mentioned to you a couple weeks ago.

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He said that it's impossible to look at a man and compare him to another man.

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And determine which one is a Christian.

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To say he's a Christian because he acts a certain way.

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Or he's a Christian because he doesn't.

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Or he's not a Christian because he doesn't act a certain way.

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You can't do that. You can't judge that.

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The Bible says we're not supposed to do that.

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But it's impossible to do that because in order to do that you would have to judge that man who claims to be a Christian.

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Not on the standards of how he is living.

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But on who he would be and how he would be living if he were not saved.

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And if he is saved you can't see that person anymore.

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And if he's not saved you can't see the person that is.

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And so there's no way to do that.

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You cannot judge. A person could be the worst person you know.

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But claiming to be a follower of Christ.

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And they might actually be.

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They're living in sin. They're subject to wrath.

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They're facing all kinds of pain and difficulty in their life because they are not following the Lord the way that they promised to.

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But the bottom line is they might actually be saved.

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You look at another person who's the nicest person you know.

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Treats you with great respect. Gives you things on a regular basis.

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Always encouraging. Always kind words.

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Never vulgar. Never nasty in an intimate way at all.

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And yet they may be lost.

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They're only doing it for other reasons.

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The gospel is where the power lies.

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And so when someone embraces the gospel.

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If it is received. If it is believed.

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And I'll mention believed it again in a second.

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If it is received and believed it saves.

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Now Jesus is really the one right that saves.

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We understand it's really Jesus that does that.

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But the gospel is the road.

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It is the way. It is the understanding.

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It is the breakdown. It's the PowerPoint presentation.

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It's the song. It's the poem.

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It's the seven point sermon.

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To get people from not knowing to knowing.

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And it's actually very simple.

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It doesn't have seven points.

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It basically has one. God loves you and wants to forgive you.

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Through Jesus Christ his son and become Lord of your life.

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That is the gospel.

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Whether you feel like you're worth it. Capable. Able or not.

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That is the gospel. That Jesus did what he did.

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That you might be saved. That's the gospel.

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And it's powerful.

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Notice I said if they received it and believed it.

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It saves.

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Now in the world today.

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And this is a little bit what Erin was kind of touching on.

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In the world today there is a different understanding of what it means to believe something.

401
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:06,800
So you believe something. You compartmentalize it.

402
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:08,800
I believe it but it doesn't really affect who I am.

403
00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,800
That is a lie. If you believe it it affects who you are.

404
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,800
If you believe you are a Christian but go out in the world and act as if you are not a Christian.

405
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:17,800
That will always cause a problem for you.

406
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,800
There's always going to be a rift between you and God.

407
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:22,800
There's a question as to whether or not you're even saved.

408
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:24,800
And you will find that question eventually.

409
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:26,800
You will live in doubt, struggle, regret, worry.

410
00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,800
You will not be a fanatic for Christ because you will always have that wonder.

411
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:31,800
You will always be questioning yourself.

412
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,800
Because you say you believe but you're not living what you believe.

413
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:36,800
Because believing requires.

414
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:39,800
Nay. Is founded on.

415
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:41,800
Nay actually is the thing.

416
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,800
Of applying what you know.

417
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:46,800
It's one thing to know it and say you believe it.

418
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:49,800
It's another thing to know it and apply it in your life.

419
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:52,800
That's when you believe it. When you apply it.

420
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:53,800
It goes like this. I know it.

421
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:56,800
I believe it. It has started to change me.

422
00:41:57,800 --> 00:41:58,800
Because I believe it.

423
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:00,800
I've developed a conviction.

424
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:02,800
I believe it so deep in my core.

425
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:04,800
That now it's affecting every other belief.

426
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:06,800
Every other knowledge that I have.

427
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,800
Convictions are deep down in your heart and your soul for your decision making process.

428
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,800
And that's what we're talking about in this series of becoming a fanatic.

429
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,800
Is taking our beliefs or our knowing and turning them into convictions.

430
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:20,800
What does that look like?

431
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,800
What has God empowered us to do?

432
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:24,800
So the gospel is like that.

433
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:26,800
If received and believed.

434
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:28,800
Meaning if it is a knowledge that is applied.

435
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:30,800
They take that knowledge and apply it to themselves.

436
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:32,800
It saves.

437
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:35,800
The question is why would Paul be ashamed?

438
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:37,800
Why does he have to mention I'm not ashamed?

439
00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:39,800
Why would he be ashamed?

440
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:42,800
So the question we could answer first hand for ourselves.

441
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:44,800
If we look at why we didn't share the gospel.

442
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:46,800
And I'm going to submit to you.

443
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:48,800
And I'm not judging you in any way.

444
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,800
I can say to you with 100% certainty.

445
00:42:52,800 --> 00:43:01,800
That I have and that you have missed an opportunity in your life to share Jesus with somebody who was ready had you shared it to be saved.

446
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,800
Now there are many reasons why it might be so.

447
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:08,800
It might be because you judged that person or whatever.

448
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,800
But it all wraps under this one umbrella.

449
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,800
And that is that you were somehow in that moment ashamed of the gospel.

450
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,800
If there was a person in front of you and they were professing to be an atheist.

451
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:21,800
But if you shared the gospel with them they would have gotten saved.

452
00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:24,800
You might have said well I'm not going to share that because they're not going to receive it anyway.

453
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:26,800
I'm ashamed of what I have to offer.

454
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:34,800
And Paul was saying that there were many Christians in the world.

455
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:36,800
Or could be anyway.

456
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,800
Many Christians in the world who were ashamed to share the gospel.

457
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:42,800
But he was saying I am not.

458
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:47,800
As a fanatic for the Lord Jesus Christ I am not ashamed of sharing the gospel.

459
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:54,800
I submit to you that all of those other reasons that we might have when we say I don't think I'm good at it.

460
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:56,800
Or like Moses I'm not a good talker.

461
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,800
Or I'm kind of bashful or shy.

462
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:02,800
I'm just not I'm the behind the scenes person.

463
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,800
I don't know what I would do if they asked me certain questions.

464
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:11,800
All of those things are actually us being ashamed of the gospel.

465
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:14,800
Why didn't we do it.

466
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,800
Well to the world the gospel seems like foolishness.

467
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:21,800
In fact it smells bad to those who are dying.

468
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,800
Second Corinthians chapter two says that it smells bad to those who are dying.

469
00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:32,800
So when you share the gospel with somebody and they don't get saved they're not going to like what you have to say.

470
00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:34,800
That is the reality.

471
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:41,800
If you walk in the elevator after eating a big old bowl of beans and pass gas everybody in the elevator is going to not like that very much.

472
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:46,800
When the elevator door opens and you get out you're going to be like sorry about that.

473
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:49,800
I'm not really sure if you're a compassionate person.

474
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:52,800
The point is this.

475
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:58,800
People don't like bad fragrances aromas that stink or chase away and they don't like sharing them.

476
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:04,800
I imagine if you eat that great big bowl of beans and get in the elevator you're going to do everything you can not to pass gas until you get out of the elevator.

477
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:07,800
Why because you're ashamed of the smell of y'all and passing gas.

478
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:09,800
Right.

479
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,800
It's because you don't want that.

480
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:14,800
You don't want that feeling.

481
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,800
You don't want people to think about you as the person who stunk up the elevator.

482
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:19,800
And that's what we are.

483
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,800
We are human beings and we are concerned about what other people think about us.

484
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:25,800
And Jesus said knock that crap off.

485
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:30,800
You got to stop worrying about what other people think about you and start stinking like you're supposed to.

486
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:36,800
The gospel smells bad to those who are dying.

487
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:43,800
If we don't share it whatever our excuses may be we are not sharing it because we are ashamed.

488
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:48,800
We are belittling it not realizing that it is the sword that cuts to the quick.

489
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:50,800
It is the healing salve.

490
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:56,800
It is the prescription for the disease that ails the hearts of all human beings.

491
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,800
It is the gateway to filling the gap in the soul of a person who aches for everything.

492
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:07,800
I've got to have more of this that and the other because inside me there's an unfillable void.

493
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:10,800
And you have the solution.

494
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:17,800
And the only reason you would not share that with them is because of some reason you are ashamed of it.

495
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:24,800
We live in a world in 2024 where some people make certain garment choices.

496
00:46:25,800 --> 00:46:31,800
There are girls that wear halter tops and they show their stomach or they'll wear bikinis in the airport or at Walmart.

497
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:34,800
They get tattoos on their face or the back of their arms.

498
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:37,800
And they'll go out in public and have those things.

499
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:40,800
And they're not ashamed of what they look like.

500
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,800
They're not ashamed of their stomach and probably they know that they're distracting.

501
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,800
They know that they're disrupting society.

502
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:49,800
They know that there are men who will look at them and think certain thoughts.

503
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,800
And they don't care because they're not ashamed of the way that they carry themselves.

504
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:57,800
Political preferences.

505
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:06,800
I was talking with a woman on the phone this week and she was not ashamed to tell me what candidate she had voted for in every election.

506
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,800
And that it was a personal thing that she voted for one person because she liked them.

507
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:13,800
She voted for another person because she liked them.

508
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:15,800
She didn't say that she knew what they stood for.

509
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:17,800
She didn't say that she prayed even though she was a professing Christian.

510
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,800
She simply said, I voted for this person, this person, this person right down the line.

511
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:25,800
I was able to tell me every person that they voted for and she was not ashamed.

512
00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,800
Now my response was I prayed over every election.

513
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:31,800
I voted as the Lord led me to vote.

514
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:34,800
And guess how well that was received?

515
00:47:35,800 --> 00:47:36,800
Not very well.

516
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:41,800
She had her own version of the good news and she shared it with me.

517
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:44,800
And when I shared my version back with her, she was not happy.

518
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:51,800
There are a lot of people out there who are not ashamed to do a lot of things that probably shouldn't be done.

519
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:53,800
But why?

520
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:55,800
Because they're not ashamed to do them.

521
00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:57,800
It doesn't bother them.

522
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:01,800
I'm going to do what I want.

523
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:08,800
And Christian, you're alive today because Jesus Christ died on the cross for you.

524
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:15,800
Otherwise, you'd be dead in your trespasses and sins, never having been reborn.

525
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:19,800
How can you be ashamed of the one who died for you?

526
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:22,800
How can you be ashamed of the actions that he took to do it?

527
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:29,800
How can you be ashamed so that when you speak to somebody else, if they don't like what you have to say, you're going to go, well, I don't want to bring up that topic.

528
00:48:29,800 --> 00:48:32,800
There's an old saying that is a mixed crowd, a party, whatever.

529
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:34,800
You never bring up politics or religion.

530
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:36,800
Guess what?

531
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,800
That's fine by me because I don't have much of an opinion about politics.

532
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:42,800
I think God is the one who's in charge and I just let him tell me what to do in that arena.

533
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,800
And I don't have much of an opinion about religion except that it ain't going to get you to God at all.

534
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:50,800
You're going to get to God through Jesus Christ.

535
00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:52,800
It's a relationship with God through his son.

536
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:54,800
That's not religion.

537
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:56,800
It's trusting the Lord to do what the Lord has promised.

538
00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:05,800
You know there's not a religion on the face of the earth where the Messiah, the God in the flesh came down and lived a life, died on the cross and rose again and now inhabits his people.

539
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,800
There isn't one other religion where that is true.

540
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:14,800
In fact, that means there is no religion because truthfully what we have is not per se a religion.

541
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,800
A religion is a set of rules or steps or methods by which you draw close to God.

542
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:22,800
And there is only one way to draw close to God and that is if Jesus draws you in.

543
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:24,800
And he wants to do so.

544
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,800
And the gospel is that message that he wants to draw people in.

545
00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:32,800
It doesn't say it will make them perfect in this lifetime but it will begin to reform them.

546
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:34,800
And we can begin to reform people.

547
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:41,800
If you want to stop some crime, some sin, some violent thing, some nasty thing that's going on in the world, do so by sharing the gospel.

548
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:56,800
And if you don't share the gospel, then when you look at that violent nasty thing that's in the world or when your kid dies or your grandchild dies or your great grandchild dies not knowing Christ or knowing Christ but they're persecuted for their faith, then you can guarantee that you are 100% culpable.

549
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:02,800
Oh it's okay because Jesus died on the cross to pay for your sins so you won't go to hell because you didn't share the gospel.

550
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:13,800
But you can guarantee that if you didn't share the gospel that when somebody kills somebody you're just as culpable because you could have led somebody to Christ, you led somebody to Christ, you led that person to Christ and they could have been at church instead of robbing that bank.

551
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:19,800
They could have been sharing the faith themselves instead of selling drugs on the street corner or through the drug house.

552
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:32,800
At one point in time we had tracked four possibly five previous drug dealers who had gotten saved through the ministry of the Southside Life Station or somebody who got saved at the Southside Life Station and they all stopped selling drugs.

553
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:44,800
You want drugs to stop being sold to your great grandchildren? Share the gospel. The gospel is the solution. In it is the power of salvation to those who will receive and believe it saves.

554
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:53,800
And here we are as Christians today wrestling with the same concern that Paul had and I'm asking you, are you ashamed of the gospel?

555
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:58,800
Because if you are you will have trouble living as a fanatic for Jesus Christ.

556
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:05,800
Fanatics know, then this is the second point, fanatics know that righteous people live or walk by the faith.

557
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:13,800
This is a transitional point because to walk by the faith will be to do all of the things that we've been talking about for the last seven weeks.

558
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:25,800
It is what Jesus did. It is how he walked and fanatics know that according to what it's written here and elsewhere in 1 John 2 5 that righteous people live or walk by faith.

559
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:35,800
The Mark 1 story about Jesus leaving the house early in the morning for everyone else woke up to go out and pray and the disciples can't find him and they go out looking for him and say everybody's looking for you but we've found you.

560
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:46,800
Now let's go back and heal all these people are waiting to be healed and Jesus said no let's go over there, wait for it and share the gospel because that's what I came for.

561
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:53,800
That's what I'm about. He did not go back and heal all their burdens. He did not go back.

562
00:51:53,800 --> 00:52:03,800
And so Jesus walked and how does Jesus walk? He walked prioritizing the good news about God and Jesus and salvation that would be available about the kingdom come.

563
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:12,800
He prioritized that above helping people. He prioritized that above a job. He prioritized that above a house. He prioritized that above a family.

564
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,800
He prioritized that above everyone and everything.

565
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:29,800
The good news of God is the single most important thing on the face of the earth because as long as people have mouths and as long as people have ears one can speak to another who will listen and be saved.

566
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:39,800
How will they hear? Because someone will go and share with them and how will they hear if no one goes and shares with them? Well the answer will be they will not.

567
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:53,800
Jesus walked this way. Fanatics know that righteous people live and walk by faith. Faith in the gospel looks like an unashamed desire to share the truth about God and Jesus Christ.

568
00:52:54,800 --> 00:53:00,800
It also looks like living according to the principles that we have been discussing for the last two months. Get your thinking caps on because here it comes.

569
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:14,800
It also looks like living according to the principles we have been discussing for the last two months in this series. To that end we will now look at each one of the seven sermons and we will have a case study or more than one case study for each of those.

570
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:21,800
And I will ask you as I do when I'm running role playing games under that circumstance what do you do?

571
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:31,800
In other words I want to know if the people in this room and I believe it's so that we collectively know what to do in every one of these circumstances based on the sermons that we've heard.

572
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:37,800
Now it's a problem if I didn't bring a list because I doubt very seriously that any of you could name more than three.

573
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:52,800
Now I could and I was surprised that I could because I have the same problem that all humans have and that is we get so into doing what we're doing right now and what we're heading into that we forget what happened to us last week and the week before and the week before.

574
00:53:53,800 --> 00:54:04,800
But the sermons that we hear out of God's word they are meant to take up root as we heard about on Tuesday night we talked about how we have become the repository for the things that God has given us.

575
00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:13,800
It is your job as a Christian to receive from the Lord and then be ready to disseminate the information you have received out to the next generation.

576
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:27,800
Your great grandchildren's lives their souls their eternity in heaven or hell are bound up in whether or not you will learn what God is teaching you and share it back out with anyone who will listen.

577
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:53,800
Years ago I was at a conference and then we're going to go into the case studies I was at a conference it was actually the annual meeting for the state convention of absent Ohio and it was here in Toledo and we went out there as messengers and we had this long row about 15 20 of us and we all sat there kids included and we listened to them speak and a speaker spoke and he said this is what we know he said that as we live today as the gospel is being shared it is being shared that the number of people that are Christians the percentage looks like this.

578
00:54:53,800 --> 00:55:19,800
So in other words it's declining it is what it is now 10 years ago it was higher percentage 10 years before that it was a higher percentage and yes the world population is advancing and that's part of the problem but it shouldn't be a problem because any one Christian can share the gospel any number of times in any given day so it shouldn't be a problem but what's happened is Christians as we just talked about have become ashamed of sharing the gospel and so the percentage of people that are Christians is going down like this.

579
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:31,800
And he said what we need to do is we need to turn that around and we need to make it look like this so this is where we're at now we need to look like that if you're going to catch a ball you don't catch a ball like this.

580
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,800
Right here right here right between my fingers right you catch it like this.

581
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:42,800
The football is flying at you do like this because the tip would fit there with it like the tip of the ball would go in there and go I got it.

582
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:48,800
No that would look stupid you catch a ball and clutch it to your body because that's your greatest go ahead throw it.

583
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,800
Yeah perfect example.

584
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,800
Okay I'll try it again.

585
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:05,800
Okay I hit it in my head but all right whatever the point is the second way works better than the first way right it's a very good throw by the way.

586
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:13,800
Okay so what he said was we got to turn it around we got to open our arms we got to share the gospel we've got to make this this is what we want.

587
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:28,800
And by the way your grandchild your great grandchild your cousins kids they all live in that time the timeline goes like this and this is what it looks like what's the odds they're going to be in this ever decreasing.

588
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:41,800
So every generation of your family is getting more and more likely to be outside this because the numbers and percentage getting smaller and smaller so they're bored nobody shares the gospel and they live their life ignorant unsaved and go to hell.

589
00:56:42,800 --> 00:56:50,800
And the problem is Christians who are ashamed of the gospel don't give a hoot that their descendants are all going to hell.

590
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:56,800
Because you think well I shared it but I shared it my brother my sister my mother my father none of them will listen.

591
00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:02,800
But it might not be your brother your mother your sister your father whatever that shares it with your great grandchild.

592
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:15,800
It might be Sally Smith who works at the carry out and she shares it with her cousin shares it with her daughter who shares it with her son who shares it with your great great grandchild at school or at church or at an event right.

593
00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:26,800
So the line is not direct you share I shared it with all my family I'm done I got discovered no you have to share it all the time because it is the power of salvation and then when we start doing that we'll turn this into this.

594
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:40,800
And now what's the likelihood that your descendants are inside much higher you can take it from being one in it right now as we stand here we have the best chance because we're living as Christians or as we sit here we have the best chance because we're living as Christians right.

595
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:54,800
So we are sharing it some by the way we live at least by inviting people to church or whatever but then people who don't do that at all they have the worst chance right the atheist of this generation their kids are.

596
00:57:55,800 --> 00:58:06,800
Although it's funny because the atheist that sued the United States government to take prayer out of schools used to live down in Walbridge and then when her son who was not to be required to pray in school got older he became saved and now is a Baptist preacher.

597
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:14,800
So sometimes the atheist is their kids do get saved right but she didn't share it with him somebody else did.

598
00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:29,800
So what I'm getting at is this we've got to turn it around by sharing the gospel we've got to turn it around by living as fanatics in this age and when you do that as we're about to talk about in these case studies then you walk as he walked and then we'll come to our conclusions all right.

599
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:44,800
So here's the first one the first Sunday which was September 22nd preach the sermon and it was on dying with Christ we talked about dying with Christ and I said that getting an enduring level of commitment is about realizing who you are now hint you died with Christ.

600
00:58:44,800 --> 00:59:10,800
And I said that getting an enduring level of commitment is about realizing who you are now hint you died with Christ. Okay so here's the first case study there are threats of violence that are inhibiting the spread of the gospel so throughout America or wherever you live or wherever circumstances it starts to happen that there are threats of violence toward people who share Christ or who are Christians or who go to church or whatever threats of violence that are now inhibiting the threat of spread of the gospel.

601
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:22,800
What do you do? Continue spreading the gospel I would say up your game right. By the way how do we get to the point that there are threats of violence against spreading the gospel two things must happen.

602
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:38,800
First one spreading the gospel what's the other one? Somebody along the way failed to spread the gospel. That's how you get people who want to kill people who spread the gospel they have to be unsaved.

603
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:57,800
They have to be unsaved and they're unsaved by their own choice I understand that but if they had a grandmother or a brother or a friend who was saved they wouldn't be adamantly trying to kill anybody that shares the gospel so the further we get from this the more likely we are to get to this and now if you share the gospel you're under threat of being killed right.

604
00:59:57,800 --> 01:00:10,800
So the answer is share the gospel and don't worry about the threats of violence and what happens if you get struck by the threats of violence that's a different case study. So the riches of this world become a priority over service to God and learning.

605
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:18,800
Be careful because this actually is happening right now. The riches of this world become a priority over service to God and learning so what do you do?

606
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:38,800
What if we do if it starts to be in our church we start to say well I can't serve I can't give I can't study my Bible because I got to make more money because my investments are coming in because so and so said if I skip church this Sunday they'll give me a hundred bucks. What do we do?

607
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:41,800
Say it.

608
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:44,800
Okay that's good.

609
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:47,800
Share the gospel with the person offering you a hundred dollars.

610
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:52,800
That'd be good. Go to church anyway. Good. Somebody else said something back here.

611
01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:55,800
Your left hand is thanking you to say it.

612
01:00:56,800 --> 01:00:59,800
So in other words you need to turn into a fanatic.

613
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:02,800
Amen.

614
01:01:02,800 --> 01:01:13,800
Okay so we'll do one more on this sermon. You have stuff that you don't want to lose or stuff that you want to collect yet in this life.

615
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:16,800
What do you do?

616
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:19,800
Make sure that it's what God wants.

617
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:23,800
Okay good. Make sure that it's a godly thing. That would be good.

618
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:25,800
Pray about it.

619
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:33,800
Let's see if God puts a check on it and says you don't need that stuff. That desire to the Lord right. Go.

620
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:36,800
Ask yourself if that stuff is more valuable than God.

621
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:39,800
Ask yourself if that stuff is more valuable than God. Right.

622
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:45,800
And because we died with Christ the answer to those questions will be it cannot be.

623
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:49,800
If it starts to be it's got to go. Like I'm cut it off. It's done. It's got to go.

624
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:56,800
All right. So we have because we have died with Christ we know these things to be true. The second Sunday we did part two store up your treasures.

625
01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:02,800
And I said as a lightning point our identity includes discovering whether our family storehouse.

626
01:02:03,800 --> 01:02:04,800
I'm sorry where not whether.

627
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:10,800
Our identity includes discovering where our family storehouses are built. Hint not here.

628
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:16,800
The riches of this world become a priority over service to God and learning.

629
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:18,800
What do you do.

630
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:23,800
And we focus on.

631
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:31,800
Okay. He said repent and refocus on learning and drawing close to God and I agree 100 percent.

632
01:02:32,800 --> 01:02:36,800
If it is another believer you hold them to account. If it's you you repent.

633
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:38,800
Okay.

634
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:44,800
By holding them to account I mean you go there and explain to them look our treasures are not here on this earth they're in heaven.

635
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:48,800
And so all this that you're you're doing to pursue that it's it's not going to work.

636
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,800
It's not going to yield anything you're going to when you go in the casket you're going to lose it all anyway.

637
01:02:53,800 --> 01:03:01,800
Right. So you call them to account giving threatens your level of wealth or your lifestyle.

638
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:04,800
What do you do.

639
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:08,800
Change your lifestyle. That would be a good way to do it. What else.

640
01:03:08,800 --> 01:03:21,800
Give anyway give more push it right. I think a lot of times we come up to the edge of the line and we start to get oh gosh can't give that because if I do I'll have to cancel my streaming service or I'll have to not have as new a car or I'll have to whatever.

641
01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:30,800
And so we kind of just kind of walk that thin line always trying to say what we can still give without and in your storehouses are in heaven.

642
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:39,800
So every time you stop from giving to embrace and get something good in this lifetime you get something that is dying that is failing that will no longer exist at some point.

643
01:03:40,800 --> 01:03:43,800
So you invest in it for this lifetime and 50 years goes by then you go to heaven and it's gone.

644
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:46,800
And guess what you got there for the 50 years that you invested in that thing.

645
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:48,800
Nothing.

646
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:50,800
Because our storehouses are in heaven.

647
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:52,800
Okay.

648
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:56,800
Last one persecution.

649
01:03:56,800 --> 01:04:00,800
So persecution about being a Christian threatens prosperity.

650
01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:03,800
Now you probably can come up with a couple Bible stories about this one.

651
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:06,800
She said don't be surprised when they hear you do the hidden first.

652
01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:08,800
Okay. So what do you do.

653
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:13,800
You're going to lose your prosperity if you continue to be a Christian or becomes known to share the gospel. What do you do.

654
01:04:14,800 --> 01:04:15,800
You should.

655
01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:17,800
Suffer right.

656
01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:19,800
That's what you do.

657
01:04:20,800 --> 01:04:23,800
And God will take care of it ultimately even if you lose it.

658
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,800
And God will take care of it ultimately even if it's in heaven.

659
01:04:27,800 --> 01:04:29,800
Now that these are we're talking about being a fanatic.

660
01:04:30,800 --> 01:04:35,800
I understand that you may not be ready to embrace these action plans but the action plans that are being proposed are the ones that scripture teaches.

661
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:37,800
Okay.

662
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:39,800
Part three seek first the kingdom of God.

663
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:46,800
The lightning point was the kingdom is in us between us and among us as the gathered church.

664
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:55,800
So the kingdom of God is in you as a person and you need to seek that it is between you and other believers in relationship and also and especially in among us as the church.

665
01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:57,800
Okay.

666
01:04:58,800 --> 01:04:59,800
So here we go.

667
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:02,800
I apologize in advance if I'm stepping on anybody's toes but this is the way we're doing it today.

668
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:06,800
So external family members conflict with church relationships.

669
01:05:07,800 --> 01:05:08,800
Your family says no.

670
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:12,800
Your family has a problem with somebody in the church as you can't go there.

671
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:14,800
You can't do that. You can't do.

672
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:15,800
You can't.

673
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:17,800
What do you do.

674
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:21,800
For those who are under the age they have no choice.

675
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:23,800
That's not true.

676
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:25,800
They have a choice.

677
01:05:26,800 --> 01:05:27,800
They can still they can still believe in God.

678
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:29,800
They can still do their own studies.

679
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:34,800
So I said relationships not attendance.

680
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:36,800
Okay.

681
01:05:37,800 --> 01:05:39,800
So in other words let me ask you this.

682
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:47,800
If a teenager is friends with another teenager and their parents are not keen on that relationship what does that teenager do.

683
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:49,800
Haley what do you do.

684
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:52,800
Are you still friends with that person.

685
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:54,800
Be honest.

686
01:05:55,800 --> 01:05:56,800
Yeah.

687
01:05:57,800 --> 01:05:58,800
Yeah.

688
01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:00,800
See now they don't necessarily they can't necessarily spend the time with them that they would like to.

689
01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:02,800
Right.

690
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:04,800
But they don't give up that friendship just because mom or dad don't like that person.

691
01:06:05,800 --> 01:06:06,800
That's not what happens.

692
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:09,800
So then we say that's the standard that the church has to do.

693
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:15,800
So now the churches Christians have to give up their relationship with other Christians because their parents don't like them.

694
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:17,800
That's a double standard.

695
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:19,800
That's not fair.

696
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:25,800
Sometimes the family always corrects or in the right thing.

697
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,800
You've got to put your mind where you want to go.

698
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:31,800
Yeah.

699
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:40,800
Sometimes you just have to go you know if they don't like it or not they're going to see you when you have turned to the church.

700
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:49,800
I cannot tell you the number of times in the last 25 years that I have heard the story of somebody whose family was adamant against them serving God.

701
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:55,800
And the more they pushed the more they served God the more they stood up and acted exactly the way they were supposed to.

702
01:06:55,800 --> 01:07:02,800
The more their family began to realize that it actually was a good thing that they were a Christian that they were doing what they said their hypocrisy was gone.

703
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:04,800
Their relationship with God was real.

704
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:12,800
And then eventually some of those people came over to their side and they say you know what it is good what I see in you this faith thing is good for you.

705
01:07:13,800 --> 01:07:15,800
But let's be very realistic in the world.

706
01:07:16,800 --> 01:07:22,800
Isn't it kind of freaky that somebody that your kid or your friend or your or your spouse wants to go follow Jesus.

707
01:07:22,800 --> 01:07:28,800
I think about the movie case for Christ case for faith I think was first right.

708
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:34,800
Case for faith where Lee Strobel his wife becomes a Christian and he's totally freaked out.

709
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:39,800
He's like I don't want to do with that and he's like he's really shutting it down hard and he's like you can't do that.

710
01:07:40,800 --> 01:07:45,800
I want you to do that because he was afraid that she was going to become a Bible thumping fanatic which she did.

711
01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:51,800
But a Bible thumping fanatic is somebody that loves people and serves people and cares for people not somebody that hacks them down or attacks them.

712
01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:54,800
Right. And so she did become exactly what he thought she would become.

713
01:07:55,800 --> 01:07:56,800
But it was a good thing that she become that.

714
01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:01,800
And then he went OK well I'm losing my marriage so I've got to really explore this and figure out what's true about this.

715
01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:03,800
And then that's the story of a case for faith.

716
01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:09,800
He found out as a professing atheist he found out that the reason really is there the evidences that really are there.

717
01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:12,800
The story about.

718
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:15,800
He was actually an investigative reporter.

719
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:24,800
So external family members conflict with church relationships that you do not give up your church relationships you still do the things that the Bible calls you to do.

720
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:31,800
Now if your mom or dad for example is in the mix like are you saying you and they say you can't go then you don't go because you have to obey.

721
01:08:33,800 --> 01:08:35,800
So that makes it very difficult on some young people.

722
01:08:35,800 --> 01:08:44,800
But we don't want to limit this to young people what happens when you have an 18 year old or 20 year old or 25 year old and their family members are not into the whole Christian thing.

723
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:47,800
And they're supposed to have relationships with their church what do they do.

724
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:49,800
Say it again.

725
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:51,800
Do it anyway.

726
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:54,800
If every man be a liar.

727
01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:56,800
God is still true.

728
01:08:57,800 --> 01:08:59,800
If every man be anti God you still before God.

729
01:08:59,800 --> 01:09:05,800
I can only tell you because when I first got saved I got basically pissed off by more than half of my family.

730
01:09:06,800 --> 01:09:07,800
You are not the only one.

731
01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:11,800
So personality next case study got to move on.

732
01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:14,800
Personality conflicts interfere with commitment to one another.

733
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:17,800
In other words you've got somebody in the church you just can't quite see eye to eye.

734
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:22,800
It's kind of a problem but you know you're supposed to love them serve them be a brother in Christ.

735
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:24,800
So what do you do.

736
01:09:25,800 --> 01:09:26,800
Personality conflict.

737
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:28,800
Interfering with.

738
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:30,800
Amen.

739
01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:33,800
Brother.

740
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:34,800
Yes.

741
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:36,800
Absolutely.

742
01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:38,800
Your heart has to be going the right way.

743
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:42,800
You should be loving that person even if they don't deserve it even if it's difficult.

744
01:09:43,800 --> 01:09:44,800
R.J.

745
01:09:45,800 --> 01:09:47,800
You have to read this sometimes.

746
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:55,800
Read that the better the better goal of what you're trying to do.

747
01:09:56,800 --> 01:10:03,800
So if you have a dissuade one of the things that I always think of is that it was a story I heard about a church that had this huge division over the color of a carpet.

748
01:10:04,800 --> 01:10:05,800
Yep.

749
01:10:06,800 --> 01:10:11,800
And this thing everyone in the church was debating whether or not the carpet should be one color or the other.

750
01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:13,800
Yep.

751
01:10:13,800 --> 01:10:16,800
And it's like does it really matter.

752
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:19,800
What matters is what we are trying to do for Christ.

753
01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:25,800
So that's the answer and that's what he was getting at too as you put your focus back on what you're supposed to be doing.

754
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:30,800
And the old saying is if you take your eyes off the shepherd they'll always land on the sheep.

755
01:10:31,800 --> 01:10:32,800
Tim.

756
01:10:33,800 --> 01:10:34,800
Disagreement.

757
01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:46,800
Disagreement.

758
01:10:47,800 --> 01:10:48,800
Work it out.

759
01:10:48,800 --> 01:11:09,800
Yeah I will say by the way that the world's definition of agree to disagree makes that saying actually one of my least favorite sayings because their definition is you go do what you want to do and I'll go do what I want to do because I'm right and you're right.

760
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:11,800
And that's not true.

761
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:13,800
Most of the time that's not true.

762
01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:15,800
Somebody's in the wrong.

763
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:18,800
That is if it's sin not as a personal opinion it's like you have your opinion you like blue better.

764
01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:20,800
I like green better.

765
01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:22,800
We need to get back to serving Jesus.

766
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:24,800
Who cares whether it's blue or green.

767
01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:26,800
So yeah.

768
01:11:27,800 --> 01:11:28,800
OK. And then how about this one.

769
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:30,800
This is the last one under this topic.

770
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:33,800
We got to keep this moving professing believer in our church.

771
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:38,800
So this is at new heights in our church sins and you personally become aware of it.

772
01:11:39,800 --> 01:11:40,800
What do you do.

773
01:11:40,800 --> 01:11:44,800
Not you heard somebody say somebody but you know that they said what do you do.

774
01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:48,800
With another believer conversation about.

775
01:11:49,800 --> 01:11:54,800
You start with just just you then you go to another believer if if the conversation is not going in the right direction.

776
01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:59,800
Right. So Matthew 18 is one person you go and privately conflict talk with them.

777
01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:04,800
And then if they because they might repent and then it's all over starts there's it's over and they're protected.

778
01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:06,800
You might be the only person that knows about it at that point.

779
01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:08,800
Nobody's outed right.

780
01:12:08,800 --> 01:12:11,800
But if they won't listen then you go with another one or two people.

781
01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:13,800
You start by and that but you have to go.

782
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:18,800
And by the way what happens to a relationship when you go and you talk with somebody about a problem that you have and you work it out.

783
01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:20,800
How is the relationship after that.

784
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:22,800
Better.

785
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:24,800
Always better and better and better.

786
01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:29,800
So why does God let personality conflicts arise in the church or even some one personal sin and they need to be called to repentance.

787
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:32,800
Because we're being the church we're becoming the church more and more.

788
01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:34,800
Or put it back in context of the sermon.

789
01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:37,800
We're seeking first the kingdom of God.

790
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:39,800
OK.

791
01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:41,800
Next one. Part four.

792
01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:43,800
Worry not regret not.

793
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,800
God cares about you and he cares about your right now.

794
01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:49,800
That was the lightning point.

795
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:53,800
So fear of an upcoming medical procedure grips your heart.

796
01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:55,800
What do you do.

797
01:12:56,800 --> 01:12:57,800
OK.

798
01:12:58,800 --> 01:12:59,800
You pray about it right now.

799
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:01,800
Not later.

800
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:03,800
You pray about it now. So you had that fear.

801
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:05,800
You pray. That's a good step.

802
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:07,800
What else.

803
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:09,800
Right.

804
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:12,800
He's already there where you're in your sickness before you.

805
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:14,800
Right.

806
01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:16,800
He's got you back.

807
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:18,800
All right. So you trust the Lord in that circumstance.

808
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:22,800
And when we did the sermon on that Sunday we talked about you live.

809
01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:24,800
That's what you do.

810
01:13:25,800 --> 01:13:27,800
Right. Because when fear grips your heart it feels like death doesn't it.

811
01:13:28,800 --> 01:13:29,800
It feels like you're dying like I can't.

812
01:13:29,800 --> 01:13:31,800
Oh no. Next month. Oh no. Wednesday.

813
01:13:32,800 --> 01:13:33,800
Whatever. And you just can't function.

814
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:36,800
But God cares about you and he cares about you right now.

815
01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:38,800
So you stop that. You don't do that.

816
01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:40,800
You don't play that game. You remember God's got your back.

817
01:13:41,800 --> 01:13:43,800
You remember that he's already was there before you got there.

818
01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:46,800
He's already there. And then you live now.

819
01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:48,800
Because if you.

820
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:50,800
This is the kind of worst case scenario.

821
01:13:51,800 --> 01:13:52,800
You got a medical procedure next Wednesday at three o'clock.

822
01:13:53,800 --> 01:13:56,800
And all the way through now and then you live in fret and worry and regret.

823
01:13:56,800 --> 01:13:58,800
Then you go have the medical procedure and you die.

824
01:13:59,800 --> 01:14:02,800
So your last three to four days on the earth instead of following Jesus.

825
01:14:03,800 --> 01:14:04,800
You were in sin.

826
01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:06,800
That's like the worst case scenario.

827
01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:10,800
Now as I mean not going to go to heaven if you following Jesus then you're going to go to heaven.

828
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:14,800
But why would you waste those minutes that God paid so you can have them.

829
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:16,800
And the answer is you don't.

830
01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:18,800
Angst over.

831
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:25,800
Mistakes like your past mistakes things that you've made in the past keeps coming up in your daily life or when you are resting.

832
01:14:26,800 --> 01:14:30,800
So you keep thinking about how you did this bad you did that bad you made this mistake.

833
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:33,800
It keeps coming up in your daily life or when you're resting.

834
01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:35,800
What do you do.

835
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:39,800
Say it again.

836
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:41,800
Yeah.

837
01:14:42,800 --> 01:14:43,800
Yeah.

838
01:14:43,800 --> 01:14:47,800
Yeah.

839
01:14:48,800 --> 01:14:49,800
Good exactly.

840
01:14:50,800 --> 01:15:00,800
So you live in this moment and when it keeps coming up as you're saying you don't dwell on it you release it you send it away you rebuke it could be an evil spirit maybe even that's doing that trying to keep you from living right now.

841
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:04,800
And you say no I'm going to do right now what it is that God wants me to do.

842
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:08,800
Most of the time that happens is because we're not actively doing what we're supposed to be doing.

843
01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:10,800
Right.

844
01:15:10,800 --> 01:15:13,800
OK.

845
01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:15,800
Go.

846
01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:21,800
There you go.

847
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:26,800
Yeah which fits also with some of the other points and I kind of got a little bit ahead of me but that's OK.

848
01:15:27,800 --> 01:15:34,800
All right. So worry that someone that you trust will betray you causes you to play it safe.

849
01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:40,800
You're always keeping an eye on them or you don't you know you don't put yourself out there.

850
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:48,800
You don't give them a lot of access maybe to money or to yourself or because you're worried that they're going to betray you and you start playing it safe.

851
01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:50,800
What do you do.

852
01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:54,800
OK.

853
01:15:56,800 --> 01:15:57,800
Could you elaborate.

854
01:15:57,800 --> 01:16:03,800
It could just be they may not have any kind of attention and you might just be seeing shadows right there.

855
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:05,800
OK.

856
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:06,800
Good.

857
01:16:06,800 --> 01:16:07,800
Pray to God.

858
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:20,800
Yeah and I would emphasize that if worry is the what's going on in the moment that's more often true than not that you're making a mountain out of a molehill more often than not.

859
01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:24,800
Because right now in this moment you can't actually do anything about it.

860
01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:28,800
So you're you're sacrificing this moment on the possibility that in the future they'll betray you.

861
01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:29,800
So I think you're right.

862
01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:32,800
I think you check your heart and realize it most often you're making something out of nothing.

863
01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:36,800
Now could they betray you if you don't play it safe.

864
01:16:37,800 --> 01:16:38,800
They could.

865
01:16:38,800 --> 01:16:44,800
And in whose hands is that decision actually God's right.

866
01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:52,800
So when you when you are worrying about what someone else is doing and you feel like you're you're keeping them from betraying you by playing it safe.

867
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:54,800
Actually guess what you're actually doing.

868
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:56,800
You're playing God.

869
01:16:57,800 --> 01:16:58,800
You're playing God.

870
01:16:58,800 --> 01:16:59,800
That's what happens.

871
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:02,800
You need to trust that God is going to be there when that person needs them.

872
01:17:02,800 --> 01:17:05,800
God's going to call it especially if that person's a professing Christian.

873
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:09,800
And if they betray you this is what I found out a long time ago.

874
01:17:09,800 --> 01:17:15,800
If somebody would betray you because you didn't play it safe and you kind of let them in then they were going to get around to it eventually anyway.

875
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:23,800
So if you play play it as safe as you want you just wind up with 10 years before that horrible betrayer.

876
01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:26,800
And what does everybody say right after a horrible betrayal.

877
01:17:27,800 --> 01:17:39,800
Oh but for 10 years right this person was I trusted them I let them in I whatever even if you were playing it safe and you think about all the time that you that you had with them and it fills them with regret.

878
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:40,800
So worry leads to regret.

879
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:42,800
So the thing to do is don't play God.

880
01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:46,800
Live don't let go of the worry and regret and live in this moment.

881
01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:48,800
If you're doing those things are you not betraying them too?

882
01:17:48,800 --> 01:17:50,800
Yes I think you are.

883
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:52,800
Yes that's a good word.

884
01:17:52,800 --> 01:17:53,800
Okay last one on this one.

885
01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:59,800
Concern that someone will be mean to you makes you keep the gospel to yourself when they are around.

886
01:17:59,800 --> 01:18:01,800
What do you do?

887
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:03,800
Share the gospel.

888
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:05,800
Stop it.

889
01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:06,800
Right.

890
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:07,800
Repent.

891
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:07,800
Share the gospel anyway.

892
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:08,800
It's the power.

893
01:18:08,800 --> 01:18:12,800
If they would be mean to you it's probably because they're not saved and they really need it.

894
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:13,800
Right.

895
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:20,800
So that's the case or they're saved and they're straying and continuing to share the gospel will lead them back onto the right path.

896
01:18:20,800 --> 01:18:23,800
The power is there for them to receive it and be saved.

897
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:24,800
Good.

898
01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:25,800
Okay.

899
01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:26,800
Number five.

900
01:18:26,800 --> 01:18:28,800
We're working our way through we're doing good.

901
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:30,800
Having an answer for everything.

902
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:31,800
That was the title of the sermon.

903
01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:43,800
We were in first Peter three and the lightning point was your peace will often come as an insult to others but it's actually testimony to the hold of your anchor.

904
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:49,800
A very hard day quote unquote you have a very hard day and it makes you doubt your faith.

905
01:18:49,800 --> 01:18:51,800
What do you do?

906
01:18:51,800 --> 01:18:53,800
Read your mouth.

907
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:54,800
That would be good right.

908
01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:56,800
So where does faith come from?

909
01:18:56,800 --> 01:18:57,800
From hearing.

910
01:18:57,800 --> 01:18:58,800
Hearing what?

911
01:18:58,800 --> 01:18:59,800
The word of God.

912
01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:01,800
The word of God.

913
01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:02,800
That's a great answer.

914
01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:03,800
Right.

915
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:04,800
Say that again.

916
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:05,800
Silence and solitude.

917
01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:06,800
Silence and solitude.

918
01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:09,800
So you could probably extend that to most of the spiritual disciplines.

919
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:13,800
All I really like if faith is your actual issue.

920
01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:15,800
I really like the word of God for that.

921
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:21,800
And you could do that with other believers because what are other believers they're repository of the word of God.

922
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:23,800
So you could go to another believer tell them that you're struggling.

923
01:19:23,800 --> 01:19:27,800
They'll share with you what they know about God in that circumstance.

924
01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:28,800
Okay good.

925
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:29,800
So you could do that.

926
01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:34,800
Someone hurts your feelings seemingly on purpose and now you're angry.

927
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:36,800
What do you do?

928
01:19:36,800 --> 01:19:37,800
Talk to them.

929
01:19:37,800 --> 01:19:38,800
Okay.

930
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:39,800
Talk it out.

931
01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:42,800
That's a good possible solution.

932
01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:46,800
Preferably wait until you calm down and then talk to them.

933
01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:47,800
Preferably when you calm down.

934
01:19:47,800 --> 01:19:48,800
Okay.

935
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:53,800
That's a problem though because if it takes you an hour to calm down before you can talk to them you just wasted an hour.

936
01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:58,800
There's no lasting repercussions.

937
01:19:58,800 --> 01:19:59,800
Yeah I agree.

938
01:19:59,800 --> 01:20:04,800
I think the first step you have to determine is do you have a right to be angry.

939
01:20:04,800 --> 01:20:07,800
And you probably do if they if they clearly hurt you right.

940
01:20:07,800 --> 01:20:11,800
It hurts your feelings and it says seemingly on purpose.

941
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:12,800
So you're going to go to them.

942
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:13,800
Well it wasn't on purpose.

943
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:14,800
You go and ask them.

944
01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:17,800
Did you is this what you said and is it what you meant because this is what I'm feeling.

945
01:20:17,800 --> 01:20:19,800
And they say yeah I don't even like you.

946
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:20,800
You're stupid.

947
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:21,800
You know where you are.

948
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:22,800
Okay.

949
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:23,800
It's not on purpose.

950
01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:24,800
Now I have a right to be angry.

951
01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:27,800
And then you say out of your anger what do you do.

952
01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:32,800
Well I come back to you present the gospel you share the word you tell them why that kind of behavior is inappropriate.

953
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:40,800
Especially if it's a Christian and it's a lost person I'd go straight to share in the gospel if it's at all possible because that's the only way they're going to change.

954
01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:42,800
They could change temporarily for you.

955
01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:43,800
Otherwise it's not going to work.

956
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:46,800
Okay.

957
01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:47,800
Last one on this one.

958
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:52,800
You can't seem to find a solution to a significant problem in your life.

959
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:56,800
What do you do.

960
01:20:56,800 --> 01:20:57,800
Say again.

961
01:20:57,800 --> 01:20:58,800
Turn to God.

962
01:20:58,800 --> 01:20:59,800
Turn to God.

963
01:20:59,800 --> 01:21:08,800
Clutch on to Jesus with all that you are when a storm is blowing the anchor will hold when the worst is happening the anchor will hold.

964
01:21:08,800 --> 01:21:11,800
And the worst is when there is a significant problem with no solution.

965
01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:13,800
That is the worst.

966
01:21:13,800 --> 01:21:14,800
Hold tight.

967
01:21:14,800 --> 01:21:15,800
Right.

968
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:19,800
And the same as he's holding on to you tight you hold tight to him.

969
01:21:19,800 --> 01:21:20,800
All right.

970
01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:27,800
Part six we've only got two left part six wearing your insides on your outside and no quit in you.

971
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:35,800
The lightning point was we must be outwardly his just as we are inwardly his.

972
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:45,800
And the first action question is this you feel you can't be your Christian self around your friends or co group of coworkers.

973
01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:51,800
You realize that you can't be your Christian self around your friends or your group or coworkers.

974
01:21:51,800 --> 01:21:57,800
What do you do.

975
01:21:57,800 --> 01:21:58,800
What's that.

976
01:21:58,800 --> 01:21:59,800
Be yourself.

977
01:21:59,800 --> 01:22:02,800
Good.

978
01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:09,800
Yeah.

979
01:22:09,800 --> 01:22:15,800
You feel so it's more what you think not not that you can't point to exactly why it's true.

980
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:20,800
It's a feeling it's really a question about what's going on in you not so much about what they're doing.

981
01:22:20,800 --> 01:22:23,800
Go ahead Charlie.

982
01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:24,800
Yeah.

983
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:26,800
Worst case scenario I think right.

984
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:27,800
But yes find new friends.

985
01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:29,800
That is an option.

986
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:31,800
I think if they're your friends I told her out of this.

987
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:37,800
I think that if if they're your friends you can just ask them and say look this is how I feel.

988
01:22:37,800 --> 01:22:45,800
I love Jesus and Jesus comes up in my every time when I'm by myself when I'm watching TV when I'm cleaning my house Jesus comes up every time.

989
01:22:45,800 --> 01:22:51,800
But every time I'm around you I feel like I can't be my Christian self.

990
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:53,800
What do you think about that.

991
01:22:53,800 --> 01:22:54,800
Oh do whatever you want.

992
01:22:54,800 --> 01:22:55,800
I'm not going to become a Christian.

993
01:22:55,800 --> 01:22:59,800
I don't love Jesus or anything but just be whoever you are and it's fine.

994
01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:01,800
I'll let you know if it becomes a problem.

995
01:23:01,800 --> 01:23:04,800
That's what a good friend is going to say it even an atheist friend.

996
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:05,800
Right.

997
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:06,800
That's what they've always said to me.

998
01:23:06,800 --> 01:23:10,800
The worst worst one I ever had was going to say well just don't talk to me about Jesus.

999
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:14,800
You talk and say whatever you want but just don't talk to me about it because I don't want to accept Jesus.

1000
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:18,800
And it took two and a half years and I wrote him a letter and then he did accept Jesus.

1001
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:19,800
Right.

1002
01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:20,800
And I didn't have to get rid of him.

1003
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:22,800
He was a pretty nice guy about it.

1004
01:23:22,800 --> 01:23:23,800
He said you do whatever you want.

1005
01:23:23,800 --> 01:23:27,800
But as for me in my house we don't want nothing to do with Jesus for example.

1006
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:37,800
So you be yourself as the outer said and if your friends really comes right down to your friends really will not allow you then as Charlie said get new friends somewhere in between there.

1007
01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:38,800
OK.

1008
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:44,800
You feel hypocritical because you live differently than what the Bible teaches.

1009
01:23:44,800 --> 01:23:48,800
We're under we must be outwardly his justice we are inwardly his.

1010
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:55,800
And the question is if you feel hypocritical because you live differently than what the Bible teaches what do you do.

1011
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:59,800
Well ideally but let's be realistic.

1012
01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:00,800
Right.

1013
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:02,800
He said stop living differently what the Bible teaches and I agree with that.

1014
01:24:02,800 --> 01:24:04,800
That is the goal ultimately.

1015
01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:07,800
But who gets there like that.

1016
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:08,800
There's got so.

1017
01:24:08,800 --> 01:24:10,800
So what do you do.

1018
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:11,800
Try your hardest.

1019
01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:12,800
Say again.

1020
01:24:12,800 --> 01:24:15,800
Repent and do a little better each time.

1021
01:24:15,800 --> 01:24:16,800
That's all you do.

1022
01:24:16,800 --> 01:24:17,800
Just keep try your hardest.

1023
01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:18,800
Give your effort.

1024
01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:19,800
Right.

1025
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:22,800
I want to submit to you as broken as this because I've been there.

1026
01:24:22,800 --> 01:24:23,800
Right.

1027
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:31,800
If you know there is a sin in your life and you can't stop it then you're back to there's a significant problem in my life and I can't find a solution.

1028
01:24:31,800 --> 01:24:32,800
What do you do.

1029
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:34,800
Clutch on to Jesus with all your heart.

1030
01:24:34,800 --> 01:24:35,800
Right.

1031
01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:38,800
You clutch on to him and then he's going to lead you to do a little better a little better.

1032
01:24:38,800 --> 01:24:49,800
And it might be just one area like you might have three areas when I was when I was about two years a Christian I was laying in the bathtub and I came up with three things about me that were sinful that I was having a hard time fighting.

1033
01:24:49,800 --> 01:24:54,800
And they were they were pretty private like people wouldn't necessarily know that I was doing those things.

1034
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:57,800
And I was like but I don't know how I'm ever going to stop doing those things.

1035
01:24:57,800 --> 01:25:01,800
One of those was speaking vulgar language like using vulgarity.

1036
01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:07,800
And I had done that my whole life since I was a little kid and I couldn't imagine how I would ever stop doing that.

1037
01:25:07,800 --> 01:25:11,800
And I just began to pray about it and think it took a long time after that.

1038
01:25:11,800 --> 01:25:13,800
And finally I was able to mostly cut it out.

1039
01:25:13,800 --> 01:25:17,800
I just watched a show this week and there were like three cuss words in it.

1040
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:20,800
And then like two hours later I was doing something and something happened I didn't expect.

1041
01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:26,800
And I went and I was going to cuss like I had it on my mouth like was literally going to come out.

1042
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:30,800
So we're human beings right not human deal doings.

1043
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:31,800
Who are you with?

1044
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:32,800
Who are you in?

1045
01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:34,800
That's the key.

1046
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:40,800
And then if you don't have an easy solution I won't say easy if you don't have a solution you clutch on to Jesus and let him do it.

1047
01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:52,800
And I'll say this if Jesus allows you to continue in a certain sin then you have to trust him because you continuing in that sin might actually take you to where he's trying to take you.

1048
01:25:52,800 --> 01:25:57,800
Now he doesn't want you to do that but he's not also not going to abandon you.

1049
01:25:57,800 --> 01:25:59,800
He wants you to repent of it.

1050
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:04,800
You might have to repent 50 times and confess it openly before you can finally get over it.

1051
01:26:04,800 --> 01:26:11,800
But if you keep covering it up and saying well that's you know I'm going to be a different person on the inside than I am on the outside.

1052
01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:17,800
You keep doing that then you're not going to get that help that Jesus offers.

1053
01:26:17,800 --> 01:26:18,800
Okay.

1054
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:25,800
You feel like the standards of your parents friends other family coworkers fellow students are forever changing.

1055
01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:30,800
And you're tired of trying to measure up to these ever changing standards.

1056
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:31,800
What do you do?

1057
01:26:31,800 --> 01:26:41,800
You know this kind of comical but at the same time if that's it's a worst case scenario but that's not untrue.

1058
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:42,800
Right.

1059
01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:45,800
If your parents were doing that and you get there's nothing you do you find new parents.

1060
01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:52,800
He's not I mean can't biologically obviously but it is humorous to say but what did Jesus say.

1061
01:26:52,800 --> 01:26:55,800
He doesn't hate his parents.

1062
01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:59,800
So you got to love Jesus more is the point not hate them but love Jesus more.

1063
01:26:59,800 --> 01:27:01,800
Okay so back on it.

1064
01:27:01,800 --> 01:27:05,800
What do you do if you feel like the standard is ever changing in the all those other areas.

1065
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:07,800
What do you do.

1066
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:13,800
So where do you get the standard.

1067
01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:24,800
That's powerful.

1068
01:27:24,800 --> 01:27:25,800
That's it right there.

1069
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:29,800
The world's standards your friends your family members all those other standards.

1070
01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:34,800
They only matter if they are in line with God's standards.

1071
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:43,800
If you spend time any moments that you spend trying to meet the other standards of other people if they're not in line with God's standard those moments are wasted.

1072
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:45,800
Can't do that.

1073
01:27:45,800 --> 01:27:48,800
You're wasting your life trying to meet those standards and Joe you're a man.

1074
01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:50,800
What am I doing this we do you turn back to God.

1075
01:27:50,800 --> 01:27:51,800
What am I doing.

1076
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:53,800
I don't want to measure up to ever changing standards.

1077
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:58,800
By the way the world has ever changing standards and it's always going to and always it's just always will.

1078
01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:01,800
And so if you try to meet those standards you're always going to fail.

1079
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:06,800
But if you try to meet God's standards Jesus is going to be there with you and even when you fail for example to repent of sin or suffer.

1080
01:28:06,800 --> 01:28:07,800
He's with you.

1081
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:13,800
Last one focus and unstickable.

1082
01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:24,800
The lightning point was rebelling for Jesus and eyes on Jesus is about figuring out daily what it means to be born again into the royal family.

1083
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:25,800
OK.

1084
01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:37,800
You found a sport or a game that you really enjoy but to get good at it or to make good progress is going to take a lot of work even interfering with church life study or service.

1085
01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:38,800
What do you do.

1086
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:41,800
You don't want to interfere.

1087
01:28:41,800 --> 01:28:43,800
That's a very good answer.

1088
01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:48,800
I didn't say cut it out but you find a way to not let it interfere.

1089
01:28:48,800 --> 01:28:49,800
That's a very good answer.

1090
01:28:49,800 --> 01:28:55,800
Go Jason.

1091
01:28:55,800 --> 01:28:57,800
And that's a very disciplined way of doing it.

1092
01:28:57,800 --> 01:28:58,800
So that's also a good answer.

1093
01:28:58,800 --> 01:29:00,800
That's a way that you could carry out your dad's action point.

1094
01:29:00,800 --> 01:29:03,800
Go.

1095
01:29:03,800 --> 01:29:04,800
That would be very good.

1096
01:29:04,800 --> 01:29:12,800
If the thing can be about Jesus somehow then you get the best of both worlds.

1097
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:16,800
The danger of course in anything is that it sucks the life out of you if you're not careful.

1098
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:19,800
It's really really super hard to walk in any two worlds.

1099
01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:21,800
Jesus and something else.

1100
01:29:21,800 --> 01:29:22,800
OK.

1101
01:29:22,800 --> 01:29:28,800
So you've committed to do something but it turns out to be kind of boring.

1102
01:29:28,800 --> 01:29:34,800
So at some point you have access to your phone and could play games or scroll social media during the boring parts.

1103
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:40,800
What do you do.

1104
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:42,800
Tim said turn your phone off.

1105
01:29:42,800 --> 01:29:45,800
But what about the boring parts.

1106
01:29:45,800 --> 01:29:46,800
What's the boring parts.

1107
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:49,800
Well that is a personal opinion isn't it.

1108
01:29:49,800 --> 01:29:52,800
But let's say there are boring parts from your point of view.

1109
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:53,800
What do you do.

1110
01:29:53,800 --> 01:29:56,800
Is social media at that point acceptable.

1111
01:29:56,800 --> 01:29:58,800
Is the game on your phone acceptable.

1112
01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:00,800
You committed to do this.

1113
01:30:00,800 --> 01:30:02,800
So is the boring part waiting in the doctor's office.

1114
01:30:02,800 --> 01:30:05,800
If so.

1115
01:30:05,800 --> 01:30:06,800
I'm going to say no.

1116
01:30:06,800 --> 01:30:13,800
It might be while you're talking to the doctor for example.

1117
01:30:13,800 --> 01:30:14,800
Yeah.

1118
01:30:14,800 --> 01:30:16,800
That doesn't sound like a good idea does it.

1119
01:30:16,800 --> 01:30:19,800
OK.

1120
01:30:19,800 --> 01:30:21,800
Say again.

1121
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:27,800
OK. So are there things that you can do that do not take you out of the moment.

1122
01:30:27,800 --> 01:30:30,800
That's the question.

1123
01:30:30,800 --> 01:30:31,800
There are right.

1124
01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:34,800
You can be there even in the boring moment.

1125
01:30:34,800 --> 01:30:39,800
Has anybody ever taken a class and you have 40 minutes in your math class and you're bored but you don't have a phone.

1126
01:30:39,800 --> 01:30:41,800
So what do you do.

1127
01:30:41,800 --> 01:30:42,800
Nothing.

1128
01:30:42,800 --> 01:30:43,800
Just.

1129
01:30:43,800 --> 01:30:44,800
OK.

1130
01:30:44,800 --> 01:30:45,800
I suggest you come up with some things.

1131
01:30:45,800 --> 01:30:46,800
Go ahead Haley.

1132
01:30:46,800 --> 01:30:49,800
What do you do.

1133
01:30:49,800 --> 01:30:50,800
OK.

1134
01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:55,800
So you could draw your ears are still working to hear everything you're watching.

1135
01:30:55,800 --> 01:30:56,800
You could draw.

1136
01:30:56,800 --> 01:30:59,800
But if you get on your phone we all know what happens.

1137
01:30:59,800 --> 01:31:01,800
You're not really there.

1138
01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:02,800
You're breaking your commitment.

1139
01:31:02,800 --> 01:31:03,800
You're losing your focus.

1140
01:31:03,800 --> 01:31:04,800
Remember this is about focus.

1141
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:06,800
That's what the sermon was about.

1142
01:31:06,800 --> 01:31:21,800
I think it is an example of more gaming if you're not actively involved in the gaming and you have people doing different things and your character is not part of it then you find something that you can do to keep you active.