1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,960 Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church. 2 00:00:12,960 --> 00:00:19,320 Did you get your envelope? 3 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,040 I'm going to give you another 30 seconds, man. 4 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,020 Fly back there, grab a couple envelopes. 5 00:00:25,020 --> 00:00:28,440 Get six, get seven, get ten. 6 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,960 Come on. 7 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:34,160 I was going to tell you, give till it hurts. 8 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:35,160 Amen. 9 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:40,580 Hey, while they're getting envelopes and kind of getting resettled, I know they're still 10 00:00:40,580 --> 00:00:43,600 checking some people in and getting some more coffee. 11 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,720 Just want to let you know, we sent an email out about this, but it's really important 12 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:52,640 for you to know and that we say it from the pulpit here, that the date for the new location, 13 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:57,600 the first service that we're going to have has changed to March 16th. 14 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:02,000 And the reason for that is some of the equipment did not come in as quickly as we would like. 15 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,520 I knew that on the front end. 16 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,560 We've been monitoring it all as we've gone along. 17 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:11,120 Nothing we can do about suppliers and getting equipment to us in a timely manner. 18 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:17,560 But we are now looking at March 16th for that launch date in the new location. 19 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:18,560 Things are happening. 20 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:22,420 There's stuff getting built, things getting put together and super exciting. 21 00:01:22,420 --> 00:01:24,400 It's an amazing thing that's going to happen. 22 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:25,400 We're excited. 23 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:27,320 We'll give you more details and instruction. 24 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:31,240 We want to give time to get everything in, get everything set and also to get everybody 25 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:33,760 trained that's going to be working in that area. 26 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,560 It's a lot different setup than what's here. 27 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,440 And we're excited about what's going to take place, but there needs to be some training 28 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:41,440 and we're going to launch well. 29 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:42,440 Amen. 30 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:43,440 How many are excited? 31 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:44,960 How many know we need the space? 32 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:45,960 Amen. 33 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:46,960 Amen. 34 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:47,960 All right. 35 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:48,960 You all been rubbing elbows for a long time. 36 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,520 You can have some elbow room when you get in there. 37 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:56,080 Well, I want to pray over God's word to get started this morning and then I'll take, introduce 38 00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:57,520 you to a scripture really quick. 39 00:01:57,520 --> 00:01:58,920 Father, we thank you for this day. 40 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,800 God, for your blessings, all that you're doing in hearts and lives. 41 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:06,280 Lord, we thank you, God, for what you're God speaking in lives. 42 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:10,560 We pray God that today you would guide and direct Lord, help us as we step through your 43 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,560 word, help us Lord through the week. 44 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:17,040 Lord, as we dive in deep through the week into your word and God, will life groups come 45 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:21,320 together and Lord, when we're studying on our own and God, those three that we're picking 46 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:27,600 out to speak together, God and to dive into your word together, God, bring it to light. 47 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:33,120 Lord, open us up, make us whole in all that we are doing and all that we are speaking 48 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:34,120 for you. 49 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,120 And we just give you praise and glory and everybody said together. 50 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:37,120 Amen. 51 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:38,120 Amen. 52 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,800 Well, listen, last week, last week we introduced this whole idea and I'm going to try to do 53 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,440 this and actually make this actually stick here. 54 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:46,440 This ought to be interesting. 55 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:47,440 Okay. 56 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,920 How many, if you were here last week, you heard us talking about we get to do this, 57 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:53,920 right? 58 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:58,640 Last week we introduced the whole idea of we get to, we really get to and that really 59 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:00,840 came from Mark 10 45, right? 60 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:05,360 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and give his life as 61 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,120 a ransom for many. 62 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,000 Jesus came to serve. 63 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,000 He's called us to serve. 64 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,720 It's not just an expectation or a nice spiritual idea. 65 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,160 This is what God's called us to do. 66 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,840 Once we're saved, once we've come to a knowledge of Jesus Christ and it doesn't have to take 67 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:30,720 weeks, months or years after that, he calls us to engage in serving and following him. 68 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:35,840 It's the minimal response for his maximum sacrifice that we serve, right? 69 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:37,100 We get to serve. 70 00:03:37,100 --> 00:03:38,960 We get to be a part of the kingdom of God. 71 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,120 We get to walk alongside of Jesus. 72 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:44,320 We get the privilege and honor to do this. 73 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:45,600 We get to do this. 74 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:46,600 Say it with me. 75 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:47,920 We get to. 76 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:48,920 We get to. 77 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:49,920 We get to do this. 78 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:56,240 And this is, listen, I know this is easy preaching and this is easy talking and I hope that this 79 00:03:56,240 --> 00:04:00,440 becomes a familiar motto with you throughout the year here at LifeHouse. 80 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:05,620 I hope you hear this ringing in your heart and in your ears and most of all, you know, 81 00:04:05,620 --> 00:04:09,260 in our mind and walking this out. 82 00:04:09,260 --> 00:04:12,200 It's an easy thing to speak. 83 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:20,000 It's an easy thing to preach, but we got to have the right attitude backing this up, right? 84 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,240 We got to talk about if we're going to talk about serving, we got to talk about our motive. 85 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,240 And I preached about this a little bit last week. 86 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:29,820 We got to have the right attitude. 87 00:04:29,820 --> 00:04:31,360 Last week was all about your tude. 88 00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:32,920 This week's all about your motive. 89 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:33,920 All right. 90 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,800 I want you to have a little Minnesota accent today and I want you to turn your neighbor 91 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,280 and say, we're talking motive. 92 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:40,280 Go ahead, say motive. 93 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:43,040 We're going to talk about motive today. 94 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:44,040 All right. 95 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,320 They just draw that M out a little bit. 96 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,720 What does motive have to do with serving? 97 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,520 It has everything to do with it. 98 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:57,120 Motive is the driving force for my action or my lack of action for Jesus. 99 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:58,120 All right. 100 00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:59,360 It's the driving. 101 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,480 Motive is the reason behind the do or not doing of something. 102 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,120 It is the driving force. 103 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:10,960 Motive is the difference between voluntarily doing something and not doing anything at 104 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:11,960 all. 105 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:12,960 Right. 106 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:16,440 Motive is the difference between you voluntarily taking out the trash at your house and not 107 00:05:16,440 --> 00:05:18,560 being shamed or begged to do it. 108 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:19,560 Right. 109 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:24,600 If my motive, my purpose behind that action is that I want a nice clean smelling house. 110 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,480 I don't want the garbage piling up. 111 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,760 I don't want that nasty smell when we got a drawer you pull out. 112 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:30,760 Right. 113 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,080 And if you leave that in there too long, how many know it gets gamey? 114 00:05:33,080 --> 00:05:34,080 Amen. 115 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:35,080 You pull that thing out. 116 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,920 Ooh, you know, and how many know when you do that, you got a dilemma in your head? 117 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,360 Do I take that thing out to the trash or I just close it, hurry up and hope somebody 118 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:43,360 else does it. 119 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:44,360 Right. 120 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,400 If your motive is that you don't things aren't all smelly and nasty in your kitchen. 121 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,480 If that's the motive, you just put you tied the bag up. 122 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:53,400 You take that thing out and throw it in the trash. 123 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:54,400 Right. 124 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:58,320 But if the motive within me is that I believe that this is somebody else's job to take out 125 00:05:58,320 --> 00:05:59,320 the trash. 126 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:00,320 Right. 127 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:01,320 This is not my job. 128 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:02,820 How many know you'll never take that trash out? 129 00:06:02,820 --> 00:06:05,280 You'll let that thing stick the kitchen up to high heaven. 130 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:06,280 Right. 131 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:07,280 You will. 132 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:10,560 Unless somebody forces you to or shames you into it, you'll let it there. 133 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,380 It's the motive behind the do or not doing. 134 00:06:14,380 --> 00:06:18,400 You got to know that if you're going to serve God, there's motive behind it. 135 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:23,600 If my motive is wrong, I'll never adopt the motto that I get to serve Jesus. 136 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,040 That we get to do this. 137 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:26,040 Right. 138 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:27,040 We'll never do that. 139 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:31,040 Matter of fact, if I'll just watch you take on that motto and I'll cheer you on while 140 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,040 you're doing it. 141 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:34,860 What causes me? 142 00:06:34,860 --> 00:06:38,080 What causes me to have a right motive? 143 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:43,240 What keeps me motivated and moving in the right direction and asking. 144 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:45,600 It's a good question to ask yourself. 145 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:47,320 What's motivating me? 146 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,640 What's motivating me to serve Jesus? 147 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,960 What keeps me serving Jesus? 148 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:54,800 What gets me charged up? 149 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:56,640 What gets me juiced up? 150 00:06:56,640 --> 00:07:00,280 What gives me revved up in the pursuit of Him? 151 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:02,000 Here's my answer this morning. 152 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,680 All we need to know is this. 153 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:10,160 We all need a spiritual alternator to produce right motives while we pursue Jesus. 154 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,440 All the mechanics said, amen. 155 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:13,480 All right. 156 00:07:13,480 --> 00:07:21,000 All we need is a spiritual alternator to change, to charge us up in the pursuit of Jesus. 157 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,800 Now you probably drove a car here to LifeHouse this morning because we're not in a real great 158 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:25,800 location. 159 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,240 If you're listening online and you're not sure where we're at, we're not in a great 160 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:31,080 location to walk to church. 161 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:35,920 So probably most everybody in this building drove a vehicle of some kind to this church. 162 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:40,480 And whether you know it or not, underneath the hood of your car is something called an 163 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:41,480 alternator. 164 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,760 And what the alternator does is when your car is driving, right, when it's going down 165 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:50,480 the road, when it's running at any point, it's charging, recharging the battery in your 166 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:51,480 car. 167 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,040 That's the alternator's job. 168 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:55,720 The whole time your car is running, how many knew you didn't know you were going to get 169 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,120 a mechanics lesson, right? 170 00:07:58,120 --> 00:07:59,720 Just recharging your battery. 171 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:06,240 But if your alternator begins to malfunction, your car will begin to lose power. 172 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:07,560 It'll start the first time. 173 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:09,200 Your battery will start it. 174 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:11,760 It'll start up, but you'll start going down the road. 175 00:08:11,760 --> 00:08:12,920 You're thinking everything's fine. 176 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,360 The radio is on, right? 177 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,000 You're just bumping down the road of life and you're going to wherever you got to go 178 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:19,160 in your car. 179 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:24,160 But all of a sudden what happens is if your alternator goes out, if it's not working properly, 180 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:25,880 you'll start chugging on it. 181 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:30,440 And all of a sudden your dash lights will start to light up like a Christmas tree. 182 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:34,480 All these crazy lights will come up and all the warning lights will come on saying there's 183 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,920 something drastically wrong right underneath the hood. 184 00:08:37,920 --> 00:08:42,240 You need to pull over because if you keep going, you're going to be sitting in the middle 185 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:43,240 of the road. 186 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:44,240 You're going to be broke down. 187 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:45,920 You're going to be sitting in the middle of the road. 188 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:47,600 You're going to be sitting along the road. 189 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:53,280 Your car will have zero motivation left in it to move you forward down the road. 190 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:54,680 You'll have a dead battery. 191 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:58,520 You'll have a dead engine and no spark in anything at all. 192 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:02,200 You'll have zero progress in your travels. 193 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,200 Zero, right? 194 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:10,160 And there must be a spiritual alternator feeding my spiritual battery, right? 195 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:11,160 It's true. 196 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,040 It's getting me moving forward in Jesus. 197 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:19,560 There's got to be a constant charge flowing in my life that keeps me serving or I'll come 198 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:20,560 to a dead stall. 199 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:22,160 I might start up and do it once. 200 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:24,360 I might even start up and do it twice. 201 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,280 But I'll putter out on my spiritual journey. 202 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:33,120 I need right motivation charging me up and moving me forward day to day, week to week, 203 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:34,880 month to month, year after year. 204 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:40,000 And if you're saved, but feel like you broke down somewhere on the Jesus highway, right? 205 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:41,680 It stalled out somewhere. 206 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:47,080 It could be that you got the wrong things feeding your motivation, charging your spiritual 207 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:48,880 battery, right? 208 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:53,040 Proverbs 16 to says this, all the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord 209 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,120 ways the spirit. 210 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:58,880 Commit your work to the Lord and your plans will be established. 211 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,040 God himself weighs out our motives. 212 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:05,360 He will weigh out our purpose behind the serve. 213 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:06,360 He really will. 214 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:11,200 And if it's an ungodly motive, right, it will leave us powerless and beside the road. 215 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:15,800 If it's an ungodly motive, you'll stall out in the pursuit of Jesus. 216 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:17,120 You'll somewhere along the way. 217 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:18,520 You'll just get you'll get waylaid. 218 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,720 You'll you'll end up by the side of the road. 219 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:25,760 If it's an ungodly motive, right, a selfish spirit will come on you and you're not going 220 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,320 to want to serve. 221 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,320 Motives important. 222 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:38,800 And what I'm telling you is what I tell myself, right, is what keeps my spiritual battery 223 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,360 charged or drained. 224 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,400 What I tell myself, it's kind of the alternator in your life. 225 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:51,640 What I'm telling myself will either keep your spiritual battery charged up, right, or drain. 226 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,520 What I speak, how many know you talk to yourself? 227 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,120 I remind you this all the time, right? 228 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:03,480 What I'm saying to me, right, the words that I speak to me, the self talk that I have will 229 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,640 either maximize your spiritual battery. 230 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:11,680 It will charge it up in the hot pursuit of Jesus, doing what God instructs you to do. 231 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:17,440 Or what I'm telling myself will drain my spiritual battery. 232 00:11:17,440 --> 00:11:19,240 It'll suck me dry. 233 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:21,880 I will be broke down somewhere along the road. 234 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,560 I'll go for a while, right? 235 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:25,800 I'm saved. 236 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:27,400 I'm redeemed. 237 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,480 But I'll get nowhere on the journey with Jesus. 238 00:11:30,480 --> 00:11:31,720 I'll get waylaid. 239 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:33,240 I'll get powerless. 240 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:41,440 It's what I'm preaching to myself that will dictate how I feel and how I move in life 241 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:42,440 and your spiritual walk. 242 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:43,440 It will. 243 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:46,440 How many of we love to talk about our feelings, right? 244 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:48,120 How many of you love to talk about your feelings? 245 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:49,160 Oh, you all do. 246 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:50,160 Come on. 247 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:51,160 All right. 248 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,320 You tell people all the time how you feel about something, right? 249 00:11:54,320 --> 00:12:00,120 Listen, have you ever eavesdropped on a conversation at a restaurant? 250 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,880 Somebody on the next table over is passionately talking about how they feel about something. 251 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:07,280 And the conversation seems to be more interesting than the table that you're currently sitting 252 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:08,280 at. 253 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:09,280 So what do you do, right? 254 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,680 Instead of leaning in, you lean out, right? 255 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:12,680 Come on. 256 00:12:12,680 --> 00:12:13,680 So you've done it, right? 257 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:15,600 That's why you're like, you lean out. 258 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:19,360 And whatever their feelings being expressed at the next table. 259 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:20,520 And here's the thing. 260 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,880 While they're talking, and I know you don't know them, you don't know who they are. 261 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:26,760 You don't know anything about them. 262 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,440 You don't know where they come from. 263 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:29,600 You don't know their past. 264 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:30,960 You don't know their present. 265 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:32,040 But I can tell you one thing. 266 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:36,320 If you hear what they're feeling, you know, it's express their feelings. 267 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:41,680 I can tell you, you can you can know some things about what they're saying to themselves. 268 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:46,960 Because what you're saying to yourself will be part of the motivation in your heart and 269 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:49,080 it will come out your mouth. 270 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:51,700 It will be you'll begin to speak it right. 271 00:12:51,700 --> 00:12:57,240 What I preach to myself right or wrong ends up in my motives and it starts to get expressed 272 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:00,980 in manifests in my feelings. 273 00:13:00,980 --> 00:13:05,680 So if you're listening, if you're eavesdropping at a table, you can start to know what somebody's 274 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:07,760 really talking to themselves about. 275 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:08,760 Right. 276 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:16,520 What I preach to myself is the spiritual alternator in my life charging my spiritual battery. 277 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:20,960 And what I listen, what you preach to yourself is either going to charge you up or it's going 278 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:24,440 to suck you dry spiritually. 279 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,920 If someone starts telling me how they feel, I begin to understand how they're preaching 280 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:29,980 to themselves. 281 00:13:29,980 --> 00:13:34,600 If I get in a conversation, I get to sit down and listen, you know, and they begin to unload 282 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,440 some of those spiritual, you know, some of those deep feelings that are taking place 283 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:40,160 right at that time. 284 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:44,680 A lot of times I can spend some not all the time, but a lot of times I start to know, 285 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:46,000 you know, where that's coming from. 286 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,160 I start to know how they're talking to themselves. 287 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,720 I start to know what they're saying to themselves. 288 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:54,420 I start to realize whether they're talking God's word, whether they're talking about 289 00:13:54,420 --> 00:13:59,600 God's truth to themselves, whether they whether they see their future in Jesus, whether there's 290 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:01,960 holiness being spoken to their life. 291 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:02,960 Right. 292 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:09,200 If they're giving faith to themselves, you can start to understand that because if not, 293 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:14,680 right, if they're feeling down and everything's down, right, you can hear the bitterness in 294 00:14:14,680 --> 00:14:15,680 the feelings. 295 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:18,480 And I know how they're speaking to themselves. 296 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:22,000 I know something about what they're preaching to themselves. 297 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:28,920 When I speak to myself, it will form the motives in my life and they'll manifest in feelings. 298 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,880 They'll come out in your verbiage. 299 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:36,640 It's beyond important to examine what you're preaching to yourself. 300 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:38,080 It's beyond important. 301 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:44,480 I should challenge, examine, determine everything that that I'm speaking to me. 302 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:45,480 Right. 303 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:49,720 I should not just what people are speaking to me, but what I'm speaking to myself. 304 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:51,280 What am I preaching to myself? 305 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,640 Is it truth or is it opinion? 306 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:54,640 Right. 307 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:56,160 What am I preaching to myself? 308 00:14:56,160 --> 00:15:00,120 Is it God's holy word or is it somebody else's unholy word? 309 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:01,120 Right. 310 00:15:01,120 --> 00:15:02,720 What am I preaching to myself? 311 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:04,740 What am I preaching to myself? 312 00:15:04,740 --> 00:15:09,360 Is it charging up my spiritual battery or is it draining me dry? 313 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:13,260 Is it sucking the spiritual life right out of me? 314 00:15:13,260 --> 00:15:18,000 This is why Paul tells us in Romans chapter 12 verse 1, he says this, I beseech you therefore, 315 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,160 brother, by the mercies of God. 316 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,120 This is a very familiar scripture for a lot of people that have been in church for a while. 317 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:27,720 Do you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your 318 00:15:27,720 --> 00:15:34,280 reasonable service, and do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing 319 00:15:34,280 --> 00:15:39,280 of your mind that you may prove what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God. 320 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:46,840 Renewing, regenerating, recharging my mind happens with the right self talk. 321 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,520 It's one thing to tell you to transform your mind. 322 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:51,880 You need to know how to transform your mind. 323 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:52,880 Right. 324 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:57,720 You need to regenerate from the inside out, not necessarily the outside in. 325 00:15:57,720 --> 00:16:03,520 What I speak to me will begin to show up and it will begin to regenerate how I think. 326 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:07,520 It will begin to transform my thinking and what I'm doing. 327 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:11,320 And this is a deep spiritual discipline. 328 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,620 This is something that we should practice. 329 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:16,560 This is why we talk about things like LH3. 330 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:20,960 We talk about memorizing scripture, familiarizing ourselves with God's word. 331 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:24,120 This is why we meditate on God's word. 332 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:25,120 Right. 333 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:27,140 Meditation is something we don't talk about much. 334 00:16:27,140 --> 00:16:30,840 This is why you should think through biblical concepts, not just read them. 335 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:31,840 Right. 336 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:32,840 How many of you can get your Bible out? 337 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:33,840 You can just start reading it. 338 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:34,840 Oh, cool. 339 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:35,840 Check off my checklist. 340 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:36,840 Right. 341 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:37,840 I wrote 16 scriptures. 342 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:38,840 You have no idea what you just read. 343 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:39,840 You didn't think about it. 344 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:40,840 You didn't meditate on it. 345 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:44,400 You didn't figure out how it applies to your life or anybody else's life, or maybe even 346 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,840 what God meant by that whole portion of scripture. 347 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:47,840 Right. 348 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,680 I'd much rather you read one verse and you just meditate on that thing. 349 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,000 You just park on that thing for a while. 350 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,640 You just start thinking about how this thing fits in my life. 351 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:56,640 Right. 352 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,560 And you begin to meditate because you'll start talking to yourself when you when you you'll 353 00:17:00,560 --> 00:17:04,920 start pulling that into your vocabulary as you speak to yourself like, oh, this applies 354 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:05,920 to me. 355 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:06,920 Right. 356 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:10,240 This is why we tap into the Holy Spirit's interpretation of the word, the revelation 357 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:14,040 that the Holy Spirit gives, rightly dividing the word of truth. 358 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:15,040 Amen. 359 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:16,280 It's true. 360 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:17,580 We get this right. 361 00:17:17,580 --> 00:17:22,560 We will spiritually charge up and nothing will draw us down. 362 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:23,560 Right. 363 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:25,080 But you get it wrong. 364 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:26,080 Right. 365 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:28,720 You'll you'll you'll need spiritual roadside assistance. 366 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:32,160 You'll be calling spiritual AAA AAA still thing. 367 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:33,160 I haven't had a long time. 368 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:34,720 Yeah, it's still a thing. 369 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:35,720 Right. 370 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:36,720 You'll be drained. 371 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,600 Your motors will be all jacked up. 372 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,320 Let me let me let me give you a little biblical example of what I'm talking about here this 373 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:43,320 morning. 374 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:50,120 Here's the thing, if I continually tell myself the lie that I am alone in life, right, if 375 00:17:50,120 --> 00:17:56,560 that is my self talk, if I start preaching this to me, if I keep feeding my heart and 376 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:03,920 my mind, the soul, my soul, the lie that I am all alone in this world, I will just I 377 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:08,440 will develop this destructive motivation and it'll come out in feelings. 378 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:09,440 Right. 379 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,560 If I keep telling myself that there's no one there for me. 380 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:13,560 Right. 381 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:14,560 Nobody's around. 382 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:16,760 I'm not worthy to be in a relationship. 383 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:18,660 I'm not all that lovable. 384 00:18:18,660 --> 00:18:20,360 Or maybe you're on the opposite end. 385 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:21,580 Maybe you're going, you know what? 386 00:18:21,580 --> 00:18:23,480 Everyone else in this world is just horrible. 387 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:25,640 There's nothing but horrible human beings around me. 388 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:26,640 Right. 389 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:27,640 They're rude. 390 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:28,640 They're self-absorbed. 391 00:18:28,640 --> 00:18:29,640 They got no time for me. 392 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:30,640 All I am is alone. 393 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,920 If you start feeding yourself this kind of self talk, right, it'll start draining this 394 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:36,840 your spiritual battery. 395 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,600 You'll never be motivated. 396 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:41,120 You'll not only not be motivated to be around other people. 397 00:18:41,120 --> 00:18:43,760 You'll never serve anybody. 398 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:49,160 And in fact, things like bitterness can become the motivational factor in your life and it 399 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,480 can thread into everything you do. 400 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:52,480 Right. 401 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:57,680 Hopelessness or despair can be the motivation behind the force that's manifesting in the 402 00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,440 feelings that are manifesting in your life. 403 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,280 I just heard of this this week. 404 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:06,520 I was talking with somebody else who's in an administrative position and they were telling 405 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:10,480 me about how they just rocked their world because it was a junior high student. 406 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:11,480 Right. 407 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:13,480 That was ready to take their own life. 408 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:15,920 They were talking to themselves this way. 409 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,160 They were speaking to themselves this way. 410 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,320 It changed everything about their motivation. 411 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,480 It changed everything about how they felt. 412 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:28,080 A junior higher in school ready to take their own life. 413 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:34,520 Listen, the enemy, Satan loves to chime in on this kind of self-talk. 414 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:35,520 Loves it. 415 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:39,640 If you get it started, he'll just he'll just turn up the amplifier in your life. 416 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:42,160 He'll make sure you just keep feeding yourself the garbage. 417 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:43,160 Right. 418 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:44,160 He glories in it. 419 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:50,440 He glories in destroying your thought life and the things that you're speaking to you. 420 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:53,760 And he'll get you started on that loop and he'll just let you run. 421 00:19:53,760 --> 00:19:54,760 Right. 422 00:19:54,760 --> 00:20:00,040 Don't let him talk to you that way and don't let him join in on a conversation with you. 423 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:01,040 You got to stop. 424 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:02,040 Right. 425 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,680 You got to take every the word of God says we should take every thought captive. 426 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,760 That means you got the power to grab a hold of it in Jesus. 427 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,560 You got the power to crush a thought. 428 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:13,960 Isn't that awesome? 429 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,040 Something comes in your head that is not godly. 430 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:17,960 It is not a God thing. 431 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:19,560 Crush that thing. 432 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:20,560 Stomp on it. 433 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:21,560 Amen. 434 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:23,200 He gives you the power to do it. 435 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:24,200 He does. 436 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,240 I tell myself the truth. 437 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:27,240 Right. 438 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:28,840 The truth of a holy and eternal God. 439 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:30,800 I don't know if you know this about the truth, but truth is eternal. 440 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,600 If you're going to talk to somebody and you want to get back to the truth of something 441 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,040 and they don't believe in God, they don't believe in this and they don't believe in 442 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:37,040 that. 443 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,920 You say, well, let's talk about what's eternal because the eternal God is actually the one 444 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:40,920 who gives the truth. 445 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:42,360 And anything that's true is eternal. 446 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:43,360 Right. 447 00:20:43,360 --> 00:20:46,480 Not my truth, not somebody else's truth, Jesus' truth. 448 00:20:46,480 --> 00:20:47,480 Right. 449 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,040 And I start preaching that to myself. 450 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:53,560 I start saying the words and you can do that all through God's word. 451 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:54,560 I'm going to take you all the way back. 452 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:56,040 We're going to go back to Deuteronomy. 453 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:57,040 Right. 454 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:02,000 When Jehovah is speaking to Moses, Israel's leader, he says this in Deuteronomy 31, 6. 455 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,000 He says, Be strong and of good courage. 456 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,040 Do not fear nor be afraid of them. 457 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:09,080 For the Lord your God, he is one who goes with you. 458 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:12,360 He will not leave you nor forsake you. 459 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:13,760 Amen. 460 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:17,880 You can take a hold of Moses' word and just take it for yourself. 461 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:19,120 And it wasn't just Moses. 462 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:25,160 If you go on to the next successor, the next leader in Israel, you can go on to Joshua 463 00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:29,440 and Joshua 1, 9 says, Have I not commanded you, be strong and of good courage. 464 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:31,220 Do not be afraid nor be dismayed. 465 00:21:31,220 --> 00:21:35,840 For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. 466 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:36,840 You're not lonely. 467 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:37,840 Right. 468 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:42,160 You might, you might be thinking, well, these are great leaders in the word of God. 469 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,160 Right. 470 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,080 These are, that's what God does that with great leaders. 471 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:46,920 Well, Jesus came to this earth. 472 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:50,720 He returned to the Father and he tells us in God's word that I'm going to send back 473 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:51,720 the periclete. 474 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:52,720 I'm going to send back the Holy Spirit. 475 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,080 I'm going to send back the counselor, the guide. 476 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:57,600 I'm going to send back the one who will teach you all things. 477 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:58,600 Right. 478 00:21:58,600 --> 00:21:59,600 And he's going to speak to you. 479 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:05,400 And how many know he sent the Holy Spirit back so you would never, ever be alone. 480 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:09,760 That he will live with you, that he will live in you. 481 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:15,720 In John 14, 15 says, If you love me, this is Jesus talking, obey my commandments. 482 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:18,480 I will ask the Father and he will give you another advocate. 483 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:23,120 Another word description for the Holy Spirit who will never leave you. 484 00:22:23,120 --> 00:22:24,720 It's what it says in the word. 485 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:25,720 Right. 486 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:27,600 He is the Holy Spirit who leads you into all truth. 487 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,840 The world cannot receive him because it isn't looking for him and doesn't recognize him. 488 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:38,080 But you know him because he lives with you now and later will be in you. 489 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:42,120 No, I will not abandon you as orphans. 490 00:22:42,120 --> 00:22:44,720 I will come to you. 491 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,720 Orphans are abandoned. 492 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,760 Orphans are left alone. 493 00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:50,720 Orphans are left to themselves. 494 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:53,920 But in Jesus, you're never abandoned. 495 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:55,720 You're never alone. 496 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,560 You're never ever by yourself. 497 00:22:58,560 --> 00:22:59,560 Right. 498 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:00,560 Psalms not. 499 00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:03,440 Preach these scriptures right back to yourself. 500 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:07,040 Psalms 94, 14 and the Lord will not reject his people. 501 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,000 He will not abandon his special possession. 502 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:11,880 That's what he thinks of you. 503 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:13,740 You are his special possession. 504 00:23:13,740 --> 00:23:15,040 He will never leave you. 505 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:16,480 He will never forsake you. 506 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:17,760 He will never walk away. 507 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:18,760 Right. 508 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,200 And listen, I'm not minimizing the need for human interaction. 509 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,200 I get it. 510 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:23,760 We're built to be an interaction. 511 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,640 That's why we say don't do what? 512 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:27,100 Yeah, right. 513 00:23:27,100 --> 00:23:28,360 You know, and here's the thing. 514 00:23:28,360 --> 00:23:32,680 If you understand that he is your king and that the Holy Spirit walks with you and you 515 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,160 are never ever alone. 516 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:38,600 And if you engage in what God says and you get in around the people of God and you engage 517 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,720 in the larger family of God and you get it. 518 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,100 How many know you got family right here? 519 00:23:44,100 --> 00:23:45,100 You should never be alone. 520 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:48,600 And matter of fact, you probably looking for you should be looking for some alone time. 521 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:49,600 All right. 522 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,640 This may be it should be so much family showing up. 523 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,220 You should be looking for some alone time somewhere. 524 00:23:54,220 --> 00:23:55,220 Please stop. 525 00:23:55,220 --> 00:23:56,220 Right. 526 00:23:56,220 --> 00:24:00,960 How many how many come on, you know, you turn to pull the shades down, turn the lights out 527 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,960 and put your car in the garage like you're not home. 528 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:04,960 Right. 529 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:09,760 We're never alone. 530 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,920 You got to be preaching the right stuff to yourself. 531 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,880 You got to crush what the enemy's trying to speak. 532 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:19,240 You are his special possession. 533 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:23,120 The word of God says that he'll never leave you. 534 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:25,120 He'll never forsake you. 535 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:28,920 This is the kind of self talk we got to pull in. 536 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:32,520 This is what we got to be speaking to ourselves. 537 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,680 This is what's going to charge your spirit. 538 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:35,680 Come on. 539 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:40,680 Your spiritual alternator will be spinning and it'll be charging you up and firing you 540 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:45,400 up instead of draining you dry spiritually. 541 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,160 And you might think, well, well, you know, pastor, this sounds like a lot of mental hoops. 542 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,080 It sounds like a lot of spiritual work. 543 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:54,800 You know, I got to get into Bible and I got to I got to read the word. 544 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:57,760 You know, I, you know, I'm already exhausted. 545 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,040 I got four kids. 546 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,920 I just want to die. 547 00:25:00,920 --> 00:25:04,760 You know, at the end of the evening, I just want peace and quiet. 548 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:05,760 Right. 549 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:06,760 Yeah. 550 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:07,760 Come on, Pastor. 551 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:08,760 This sounds like a lot of work. 552 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:10,800 Well, let me read you something else. 553 00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:12,940 As I get ready to close and worship, Dean comes. 554 00:25:12,940 --> 00:25:15,160 Let me read you something else straight out of scripture. 555 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:18,120 I mean, what we speak to ourselves should be God's word. 556 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:19,120 Right. 557 00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:20,120 Not my word. 558 00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:21,120 Not somebody else's. 559 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:22,120 But what God's word says. 560 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:23,600 Listen to what God's word says in Luke 13, 18. 561 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,800 It says this, then he said, What is the kingdom of God like? 562 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:28,280 I love when that comes up in scripture. 563 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:29,280 You see that all the time. 564 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:30,800 You know, what is the kingdom of God like? 565 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:32,960 And to what shall I compare it? 566 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:37,560 It's like a mustard seed which a man took and put in his garden and it grew and it became 567 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,560 a large tree and the birds of the air nested in its branches. 568 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:42,560 Luke 13, 20, right. 569 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:46,160 The very next set of verses says, and Jesus said it again. 570 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:47,160 Right. 571 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,400 To what shall I like in the kingdom of God? 572 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:56,840 It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal and it was all leavened. 573 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:00,080 What was Jesus saying in those verses? 574 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:04,520 You just start to preach a little bit of the right thing. 575 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:10,560 You just take a mustard seed of God's word and you put it into your spirit and you start 576 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,700 preaching that thing to yourself. 577 00:26:12,700 --> 00:26:14,280 And here's what will happen. 578 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,200 That thing will grow. 579 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,600 OK. 580 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,680 Letting things grow. 581 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,320 God's word is a living word. 582 00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:22,880 It is not just any word. 583 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:23,880 It is a living word. 584 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:29,920 And if you place a living word in your heart, if you place a living word in your mind, if 585 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:35,120 you just put a mustard seeds worth in there, I'm telling you, if it's God's word, it'll 586 00:26:35,120 --> 00:26:36,120 grow. 587 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:37,120 It'll take root. 588 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:39,200 It'll begin to put out its branches. 589 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,760 It's like putting yeast in dough. 590 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:42,760 Right. 591 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:43,760 That lump in your head. 592 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:44,760 Come on. 593 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:46,360 That lump sitting on the top of your shoulders. 594 00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:48,760 It's just like a big old pile of dough. 595 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:49,760 All right. 596 00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:52,280 Put some God's word in there. 597 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,880 Put a little and it will leaven the whole lump. 598 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,240 It'll it'll it'll spread. 599 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:03,360 One of the reasons we started talking about LH3. 600 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:04,360 Three minutes. 601 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:05,360 Right. 602 00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:07,280 You think, well, what's three minutes going to do? 603 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:12,240 You put God's word in your spirit for three minutes a day and you start to see what happens 604 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:13,360 every single day. 605 00:27:13,360 --> 00:27:14,560 You don't miss a day. 606 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:15,960 You don't skip a day. 607 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,560 You don't three minutes a day. 608 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:21,240 You start putting God's word and you just let it take root in there and you start to 609 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:22,400 see branches. 610 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,200 You start to feel the roots go down. 611 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:29,800 You start to feel the whole lump getting leavened and it'll change you. 612 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,920 I'm not talking about you don't have to sit down and do it throughout. 613 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,040 So now you should if you want to man, keep going. 614 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,040 Here's what's going to happen. 615 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,040 You're going to get three minutes. 616 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,080 It's going to start to transform your mind. 617 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:41,760 Your feelings are going to start to change. 618 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,680 Your motivations are going to begin to shift. 619 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,160 You're going to get this desire to serve God and you're like, why would I just take three 620 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,160 minutes of this? 621 00:27:48,160 --> 00:28:01,720 I think I'll have six today and you'll get in six or 16 or 26 or 106. 622 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:03,520 It's God's word. 623 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:05,360 It is living. 624 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:11,960 What you meditate on, what you tell yourself will, it will form your motivations. 625 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,920 It will change your feelings. 626 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,520 We always start at the feeling and try to work backwards. 627 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:21,920 You need to start at the core of what's fitting your motivations and your feelings because 628 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,000 it'll change. 629 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,560 I can't tell you how many times. 630 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:31,600 Anybody ever have a pity party for yourself? 631 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,560 I get having a pity party for myself. 632 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:39,040 Get in the corner of just little old me, poor old me. 633 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,720 You know, and then God's like. 634 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,360 Let me tell you what God, let me tell you what my word says. 635 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,680 And it changes my motivation. 636 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:49,120 It changes my feeling. 637 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,520 I got to confess usually and repent. 638 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:54,520 What are you speaking to yourself? 639 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:55,520 I'm going to ask if you'd stand. 640 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:56,520 Thank you for tuning in to this message from Life House Church. 641 00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:57,520 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 642 00:28:57,520 --> 00:29:16,280 If you have been personally affected by our ministry and you would like to partner with 643 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:27,920 us as we love God, love people every day, visit our website at www.lifehousecog.com.