It's certainly a privilege to be here today.
It's good to see everybody smiling face.
It's an honor to stand before you and affirmation of God's.
Holy word. We trust that we will say
something that will benefit you. I want to talk a little bit
about attitude. You know, Talent is never
enough, In fact, numbers are not enough.
Education is not enough, a good job is not enough.
You got to have the right attitude.
In fact, really the right perspective is given to us as
Christians, if will allow the Lord to lead us properly, you
know, in the book of Philippians, the Apostle Paul
writes a lot about attitude and he writes all the things that he
writes there in Philippians while he's in prison, Now, if I
were Paul, it'd be pretty tough to Rejoice.
Well, I was behind bars. But he could do that and he
could do that because of his perspective.
Now he didn't do that because it was fun to be in jail, or he
liked being a prisoner. In fact, he was not there
because of Any wrongdoing, he did, he did, he was there
because doing, right? But the point is, it didn't
matter what his state was in this world.
His citizenship, his mind was set on heaven and Eternity.
He Is that Jesus had gone to prepare at home and that home
was now ready and all he had to do was get himself ready?
And so that's what he did. Well, Solomon said, a long time
ago as a man thinks in his heart, so is he?
Now, listen to me. Happiness is not something that
you decide to have at 5:00 in the evening.
It's not something you decide to enjoy.
Once a week, happiness is a state of mind and it's a
decision listen to me. If you're not happy, it's your
choice. See, happiness is the byproduct
of choosing to do the right, things for the right reason.
And then, knowing with Assurance, a peace of mind that
surpasses all understanding. So we're thinking about the
attitude of Our Lives. The attitude that is the
paintbrush of our minds. In Ecclesiastes, 10 verse 2.
The writer says, a wise man's heart is at his right hand, but
a Fool's harp at his left. Now that's a little bit
difficult for me to understand, so I like to read it from this
version. I want you to listen to what he
says. Why is thinking leads to write
living? Listen, stupid thinking, Leads
to wrong movie. Now, that's pretty plain.
And that's the truth. If you want the church to
change, if you want to change your life that you have to
change your mind, have to change your thinking.
See that's that's by Design. You know the Bible says
therefore If any man be in Christ he is a new creation.
God has designed the church, he has designed the spiritual life
that we're live to change our thinking.
Paul said, if you then be risen with Christ, Christ, he's just
spoke of baptism. The fact that we are buried with
Christ in baptism and he says we rise up out of that water.
He says if you then be risen with Christ seek those things
which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of
God. So thinking you know one of the
problems I think that I've had through the years, I didn't
think before. I talked, I didn't think through
what was going to happen before I acted.
And right thinking will lead us in a great way and will help us
be what we ought to be for as he fixed in his heart.
So is he Proverbs 23 and verse 7?
Now in Philippians chapter 4 verses 1 through 7 Paul tells us
he gives us gives us a prescription of how to be happy.
He gives us a prescription of how to have the right
perspective, the right attitude. Paul admonishes us on how to
live a fulfilled. Now listen to me some folks live
but they don't live. They can't see the forest for
the trees because they haven't ever learned.
What real living is all about, You know, there's a time in my
life when I worried about things.
And you little bible says be anxious for nothing.
You know what that means it just what the you know what he's
saying there. He's saying and language it's a
little bit couched with with the word anxious, don't be worried.
Now, that's a command none of us, as Christians should be
people who worry about everything now.
Paul, admonishes us on how to get rid of all that worried, he
tells us how it can be different in Philippians chapter 4, verses
1 through 7. He talks about his beloved
Brethren at Philippi. Why they were very close.
In fact, you know, that's the way it is.
Sometimes you're closer with other folks than you are with
other folks. It isn't because you're not,
Good person that I'm not all that close to you, Terry and I
grew up together. We spent I spent two nights in
his house at Cottage, Grove my grand parents live, it Cottage
Grove reads to see each other when we were kids.
So we're close. We got some, we got some
connection there that I don't have anybody else you know, wave
grew up. In my absence, I left California
25 years ago. How old are you Wade?
21 for see him born after I left.
So I hardly know way. Now I love wait because I love
his parents, but I'm going to connect it to wait now.
Paul loved everybody, he did everything he could to help
anybody, but there was a special relationship that existed
between he and the Philippian people.
He had lived there and had spent time there and they had
financially even helped him upon several occasions.
They had seen to his Necessities even when he was not laboring
with them. And so There was a very fast
closeness and he tells me says if you want your life to be
full, if you want to really live then the first thing you've got
to do is Stand Fast. You know my grandpa pointed out
to me what it says in Ephesians chapter 6 and number of years
ago just kind of stuck in my mind all these years here and
noticed how many times Paul says stand in Ephesians 6 Stand.
Therefore stand up. He tells us over and over again
our job is to stand at. What does he mean?
By that? He means Stand Fast in the
faith. Don't just show you ignorance
and stain on something that is not based on any truth.
But stand on the word of God. Now listen to me just because
you have a conviction. Does it mean it comes from the
work God. Because we're all biased, so be
careful. But when the Bible says,
steadfast in the faith, it could have said, Stand Fast in the
gospel. So when you stand fast on some
spiritual principle, don't just it may be a good wife strength,
but unless it's in the Bible that's not what Paul is talking
about. See?
and you can have personal script personal Scruples in fact,
that's what Paul is talking about, in Romans 14, when he
says, keep that Faith to yourself, But here, he's talking
about the faith that Jude says earnestly, we are to contend for
Jude verse 30, he says Stand Fast in the faith, you want to
fulfill life, then live, according to Bible, the Bible is
not written to plague our lives with restrictions.
In fact, sometimes when I sit in the, in the seat in the audience
and preachers, get up and preach.
It almost seems like the Bible is filled with all kinds of Thou
shalt not do this. And thou shalt not do that and
that's true. There are some places where it
says that but listen to me forever - there's a positive and
less you put some things in your app you do I remember and I bet
I bet you to say that Linwood did that very thing.
He wrote a bunch of zeros. You don't have not an adulterer.
I'm not a liar. I'm not Steve thief and wrote
all those zeros on the board and said what happens when you add a
bunch of Zeroes? He said that's what happens to
your faith. When y'all you all went all in
the mounts to is the negative things.
You see we did have to get some things out and we do sometimes
have to realize there are some things that we got to put away,
but listen to me. Christianity is not just - in
fact, Christianity is the greatest life that you will ever
live. If you live to the Lord and
dedicate your life to him, even if you die.
Today, it doesn't matter. Because you're going to live
forever. Jesus said, if you believe in
God believe also in me for my father's house are many
mansions. If it were not, so I would have
told you I go to prepare and he went, he prepared it's ready and
the decision is yours. You see, you got to have the
right perspective. sometimes we're guilty of say, oh Wallace
me and we get on our pity pot and we whale And we seem to
think that our faults, our problems.
Our difficulties are worse than everybody else's.
But you know what? I've come to realize.
Everybody has problems. I used to think.
Why do we have to have somebody problems?
Why do they have to be so many difficulties?
But you know what? I realized one day the Lord is
preparing me to go to heaven. In fact, there's an interesting
word found in Romans chapter 12 in the English Bible, it says
transform or it speaks of transformation will talk about
that in just a moment. So the first thing you got to do
is Stand Fast in the Lord. Now he says in verse 3 and
irons, you also True Companion. Help these women who labored
with me in the gospel with Clement also and the rest of my
fellow workers whose names are in the Book of Life.
Now, how can you really live Paul by adding value to others?
You see, first you stand in the gospel.
First, you stand in the word of God, but number 2, you add value
to others. You see no wonder.
Paul said in the second chapter. Let each one live for others,
see every day. When you get up you need to ask
yourself what can I do to help somebody else?
And then before you go to bed at night, you need to ask yourself
the question. What did I Day to help others.
I'm serious. The first thing, Jesus said, you
have to do, if you want to go to heaven, is you got to deny
yourself. It's not hear the gospel.
Now, hear the gospel is important, but that's not the
first thing you have to do. If you want to be a Christian,
you got to deny yourself. That's what he said.
Selfishness will not be found in heaven and unless we learn that
we have responsibilities to add value to others to pass on what
we had. And I listen, you can't give the
people what you don't have. one time, I went to a church and
tried to help him out and teachers, get up on Sunday and
tell about how important was to be at Wednesday night and then
not want them to come. I'm going to tell you something,
you can't tell people something to do, unless you do it
yourself. First.
That's why Paul said take heed of the doctrine and continue in
them. That's what he was speaking to
Timothy. He said continuing in them and
he says it was as a result of that, you'll save yourself and
those that hear you. You see, if you want to add
value to others, you got to learn to be valuable yourself.
And you know, you're pretty, you're pretty important.
In fact, your real important. The Bible says for God, so loved
Tina that he gave his only begotten son.
You know, I could go around this audience.
If I can remember everybody's name, what could do that?
But I'm not going to lie about it.
I can't. And we could put your name in
that verse for God, so loved Sandra.
For God, so loved Carl. For God.
So loved Chris. That he gave his only son, you
think about that, the god of the universe, the God, who spoke
everything into existence. Was willing to offer his love
and wants to save you. So desperately that he gave his
son. Think about that.
You're valuable and so because of the Great Value that Christ
is placed on us. We need to walk in his steps and
we need to add value to others. Now listen, you know, I can Pat
Terry on the shoulder. Might say Carrie I love you
brother. But you know what?
If he has a need And I see that need, and I have the ability to
help him. Pat him on the shoulder and says
I'm saying, I love you don't help.
See, that's not a guide people, whatever you have and all of us
have something. Now if I sit back and think like
the one Talent, man, I don't have much to offer and I use
that for an excuse and don't offer anything.
Jesus is going to pronounce Upon Us in the end of time.
Thou, Wicked, and slothful servant.
And he's going to catch this out.
So whoever you are today doesn't matter who you are.
If you're a subject to the king and you are, if you're Christian
If you're a subject to Jesus Christ, you have something to
offer and God has given you something to use.
Now sometimes we throw our hands up because we become discouraged
disillusion. We don't know what to do.
I'm going to tell you something, if you don't know what to do,
you got some breath in here that are experienced some that are
younger and they can help you if they can't help you shape along?
Yes, sir. If you can't help me, buddy
brother, shame on you. You see because we're all of
Great Value and if you're going to be a lot, you're going to
live a life that is fulfilled. You got to learn to add value to
others. Now Paul said in verse 4 rejoice
and he's in prison, how did he say that rejoice in the lord
always? Again, I will say rejoice.
But I want you to know Brethren that the things which happened
to me have actually turned out for the furtherance of the
Gospel. Now, think about that.
In fact, he mentions in the book of Acts that even the palace
guard or maybe it's in the book of Romans that says even the
guards in the palace now know about Jesus because of my
imprisonment. Now when you have a tragedy, are
you have a great trial or you have a problem that you're
dealing with while it's going on?
You can't rejoice when you lose your loved one, you know, my
dad, lost my mom, a couple of months ago and when he goes to
church is so hard. Because they went to church
together for 65 years. They sit together for 65 years.
And she's not that many more. I'll tell you something.
If my dad lives long enough, there's going to come a time in
his life when he helped somebody else.
Understand. That this world is not my home.
I'm just passing through. My treasures are laid up
somewhere beyond the blue. Doesn't have been grow sweeter
every day. Don't you get tired of all?
The hustle and bustle of this life, and all the problems.
I'm telling you. When you understand?
What Paul understood? Even while he's being beaten.
He could Rejoice not because of the whipping. but because of the
joy that set before him, the Bible says, even Jesus despised
The Shame of the cross. But he endured it.
Now, that means he hardly can in, ER, that can stand it, but
he endured it. Why for the joy that was set
before him, because he knew there was more to this life than
the physical life that he was didn't living.
And even when he died, he knew life would go on there.
That didn't always fix everything.
If you're Christian there, your emotions are not going to be
high all the time. Sometimes you're going to be in
the valley. but if you can tell yourself, even in the valley,
That there's a something better coming God's in control.
I don't understand. Everything is happening, I can't
comprehend why things are like they are.
My situation seems awfully gray, you know, our daughter and her
husband had five children under five, They're planning to have
forward with the fourth ones twins.
So they had five under five and she asked Lord one day.
She said, mom does God, is it possible that God sometimes
gives you more than you can bear?
Well Lori said, I don't think so.
But you know what? Someday you're going to have
five weddings. Probably one year.
In other words, it don't get easier.
If you think things are hard today, they can get harder
tomorrow. And what you have to do is
you've got to have the right perspective and you can Rejoice,
even in tragedy. Now, you don't Rejoice over the
tragedy. All sometimes, somebody will
say, well, hey, if the wife's going to be a better person,
going to get to be a better person.
I'm going to treat her me. I'm going to tell you something.
That's all. That's a terrible attitude.
You don't create or cause problems for anybody.
You won't be justified and you'll be judged for it.
But sometimes things come. Things happen.
And I don't understand why sometimes seems like some
families just face more than than any person should have to
bear. But listen to me.
In spite of it. You can get through and there's
glory in future. There's glory in the future for
you. The Bible speaks of member.
I mentioned a while ago. The word transform that original
term comes from the Greek word from which we get the word
metamorphosis. And you know it's kind of like
the worm that becomes a butterfly.
There's a transformation that's the way God looks at us.
We're worms, but he wants us to be a butterfly.
It's sort of like the great of sand in the Shell of moisture.
That grain of sand is an irritant that grain of sand,
would that or stir would like to remove and he works at it and
strives to remove it, but it can't remove it.
It remains there and it becomes a perv.
Girl, you see your suffering today because God wants you to
be a pulley. When you endure problems,
there's a reason for that. And that's why the inspired
writer. Use the concept of
metamorphosis. He's transforming you.
When you face trials, while you grieve, while you endure the
trial, it may appear. It may seem that you just can't
stand it anymore, but you hold on.
You hold on. and on the other side, you'll learn how to love
in a deeper way. You'll learn how to comfort in a
special way. You know, on somebody.
Loses a child. My heart goes out to them.
How he had handle that? How you deal with that?
It took Ed Daniel seven years. To even get to the point.
He could look at a picture of his son, he died when he was 17
in his sleep. but now, add Holds his head high and he can Comfort
like nobody else when somebody loses her spouse.
Are they lost a child? Because he'd been there.
He's done that. I would wish hardship on
anybody. I would wish problems on
anybody, but I'm telling you when you face trial, God's
working on your heart. He's working on your life and
you can keep from being angry. Now, listen to me, angers the
monster. If your child makes you angry.
If your problem makes you angry and you hold on to that anger,
it will grow and it will destroy you.
And bitterness But if you can control that anger, now you
might be angry for a while, but you can control that anger and
get rid of that anger. You can do like Joseph said, God
was there working in my life all the time.
I'm telling you. There is no life.
Worth living and the Christian Life.
And someday. We're going to go home, I'm
telling you. We need to keep that in our
hearts, we need to remember everyday this world is not my
home. Don't get so wrapped up in
school or, or a job or even your family that you forget that.
Because I'm telling you there is anything in this life.
That's not Temple and you're going to lose it sooner or
later. Some of it.
You might even retain till you die but when you die, you lose
it rest of it. But you're hoping heaven.
Your home in eternity. It's forever and ever, think
about that. You see, you've got to have the
right perspective. And if you have the right
perspective, God will make you perv.
God will transform your life, your attitude.
Everything about you, my brethren, count, it all joy,
when you fall into various trials, and he didn't mean to
that, that the trial itself is joyous but he says you count his
joy. In other words, you
intellectually. Remember You intellectually
remember that when this grieving process is over and you're on
the other side because of this trial, you're going to be a
better and a different person. And that will help you get
through the problem. Listen, be anxious for nothing
and other words, don't let your thought, take away your
strength, but in everything by prayer and supplication with
Thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God and the
peace of God, which surpasses all understanding will guard
your hearts and Minds through Jesus Christ.
He says, this is how you live the fulfilled life.
You stand fast in the faith. You follow the Bible, you live.
By the Bible, it becomes a part of your being becomes a part of
your thinking. If it comes apart here, walking
You add value to others, you reach out to others.
You rejoice even in spite of the problems.
And you never stop praying. Did you pray since Wednesday
night or last Sunday? Did you pray besides just
offering? Thanks for your food.
You know, sometimes we don't even do that.
When was the last time you just got on your knees and just
poured your heart out of the god.
You see, if you want to live a fulfilled life, you not only
have to know what God's word says because that's how he talks
to you through the Bible. But you talk to him in prayer.
Prayers, not only a powerful help, but listen to me, it's a
work. We need to be, we need to have a
Praying life. Paul is telling us how to live.
I want to ask you this morning, is your life complete.
Do you have the right attitude? Will Paul gives us the
prescription? Now I want to look at for more
things and I'm going to close I hope I'm not like Glee and my
wife gets on me sometimes, you know, Glen can tell you if he's
fixing the closing might be at our later.
Now, that's an exaggeration. I loved when I said that carries
benefit, but these are four things that you got to have.
Possess a teachable spirit. If you want to be you'll live to
live a fulfilled life. You never stop learning doesn't
matter how old you are, do no matter how higher education is.
It doesn't matter how many books you've read.
You've got to continue to learn and anybody can teach you when
you get to the point that you think somebody can teach you,
then you got bigger problems than maybe it you had before.
You need to keep a teachable spirit possess a teachable
spirit. Do you see a man wise in his own
eyes? There is more hope for a fool
than for him. Solomon said, without counsel
plans, go awry, but in the multitude of counselors, they
are established. Have you ever noticed how much
we talk? Sometimes, in fact, it's hard to
talk to others, because they're talking so much themselves or
it's hard for them to talk because I'm talking so much.
You see? But if you want to be a
teachable person, if you want to have that attitude, you have a
listen. You gotta be willing to hear
others. You know, we're guilty of of
listening to answer. But really, what we need to do
is learn how to listen. Just to hear, not the answer.
but to hear and sometimes when we're getting ready to answer,
if we had to sit and listen, The person might have answered
themselves, you know my children used to love to punch my
buttons. They knew just exactly what to
say and my son and I sometimes will getting such disagreements.
But you know, it was all said, and done.
He heard every word. I said he just didn't want me to
know that. Sometimes people talk out loud
because they need to be heard because they're really saying
something that you have to worry about.
They just need you to here. I'm telling you.
You'll never live a fulfilled life unless you, you remain
teachable. Because you say, I am rich and
have become wealthy and have need of nothing.
That was the attitude of the laodiceans and Jesus said your
wretched. Miserable poor blind and naked.
Well number to take responsibility for your
attitude, stop passing, the buck just a month or so ago.
Maybe maybe six weeks ago I was talking to a fellow that's was
renting my house about coming to church used to come to church.
At all, he had such a hateful attitude to the church, blame
everybody for everything blame God, because he's dad died,
blame God, because the people work friendly.
You know, he died with covid about 3 weeks ago.
And he died while he's blaming everybody else for his problem.
I will tell you something blaming people will not help you
or anybody else. What we have to learn if we want
to live a fulfilled, life is take responsibility ourselves.
You see with somebody even wrongs us.
Somebody says something sharp. Just our something ugly to us
when we get angry, that's our fault.
That's her choice. You see what we're doing.
When we get angry at how people treat us, is we're actually
allowing that person to make us have the wrong attitude.
Now I don't mean that people are justified in treating us wrong.
With the point is you don't have to allow that to influence your
head to you can live above that and if you want to, if you want
to be the kind of Christian that God wants you to be.
If you want to have the right attitude, then you've got to
learn to take responsibility for yourself.
Fill your mind with good things, meditate on, good things,
practice, good things. You must take.
Oil responsibility. You cannot change the
circumstances the seasons or the wind, but you can change
yourself. That is something you have
charged up and that's what you got to.
Remember, when you face difficulty in this life.
Well in Romans, it says that tribulations work, produces Pate
perseverance, and perseverance character, and character hope,
you know, one time I was talking to my grandma on and I told her,
I said, why do I have to be somebody problems?
Why is it when you try to do the right thing?
People who claim they're doing the right thing create such.
She said well son. Don't you want to go to heaven?
Well, I was going to take it back by that, of course I want
to go to heaven, the trying of your faith.
Worketh patience. You see you have trials.
And those trials have the power to change your life.
If you have the right attitude, one thing I learned when I was
Learning to Fly, I got a soldier on 16 and got my pilot license.
When I was 18, I don't fly anymore that I have my own
personal reasons for that, but but I love to fly.
And one thing that I learned, what when I slime is, there are
so many variables, and so many things coming at you, the wind
and, and up, currents and down currents.
You know, sometimes you're flying in the mountains that the
right place, the wind would be going over the mountain.
Pull you down into the canyon. You had to prepare for that
before you cross the ridge. When you flew from point A to
point B, you had to recognize if you if you had a crosswind and
you had to figure that your magnetic course.
Against that, we honor you drift off course.
Sometimes the updraft would raise you higher than you wanted
to be. Sometimes it would cause you to
be lower than you want to be. So what I learned was is if
you're going to fly and do well, you got to correct all the time.
Well, that's a little bit like Christianity. if you want to be
successful, you got to make Corrections all the time.
You got to keep at it. You got to stay on it.
The Bible says, if we walk in the light even as he is in the
light, we have Fellowship one with another and the blood of
Jesus Christ. His son cleanseth us from all
sin. The listen folks, Why did he
tell us that we need the blood of Jesus?
If you're walking in the light to walk her to the line, you're
not a sitter. But see the problem is, we're
human. And sometimes we're going to
fall. But Paul John says when you saw
you just get up, you seek forgiveness.
He said in verse 10 if we confess our sins he is just and
faithful to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. So that means as you walk in the
light you walk along, sometimes you may take a step to the left
or step to the right settings. You may fall flat on your face.
Well, what do you do? You get up You make a
correction. And the blood of Jesus Christ
continually cleanses you as long as you walk in the light.
You know, I guess, maybe it's preacher.
Some of the, some of us as preachers fault.
But people sometimes act like that they can just barely live
the Christian Life, you know. In fact I've heard people pray
Lord. If there's any signal him to
this prayer I listen to me just because you committed a sin
yesterday, doesn't mean your prayers here today.
The prayer that's hindered is the prayer that the person has
lived in Rebellion when he prays and knows he's a sinner knows
he's wrong, and he won't repent of You see if you're a Christian
you're a priest and the priest can go to God through Jesus
Christ and seek forgiveness. And one Sins not going to hinder
your prayer. It's a bitch will soon when he's
talking about, it's, if you're in, Covenant relationship with
the Lord, that's what he's talking about when he says, he
heard not Sinners. He's not talking about.
Just anybody who says we're all sinners in that respect, but
he's talking about those who are not in Covenant relationship
with the Lord. If you're in Covenant
relationship with there or you could speak to him at any time
and seek forgiveness, God will hear you.
But when you live in rebellion and you ignore his word, then
he's not going to hear you. He's not going to forgive you
unless you repent in your heart. So possess a teachable spirit,
take responsibility for your attitude.
Travel, the high road know what does that mean?
You see, if you travel to Lower Road, you treat people worse
than they treat you. Now, they're so people even the
church like that, I regretfully must say.
The middle row. Now there's a lot of us like
this treat people. The same way they treat me, you
know, that brother said people weren't friendly, well, we're
you friendly. Sure, people have responsibility
to be friendly to others, but tell me friend.
That does not excuse you from being friendly from your
perspective. Even if nobody talks to, you can
talk to me. And most of the time, almost
without exception, when you talk to them and smile, people enjoy
that and I'll talk back to you. We'll talk with you.
But the third roads where we need to be the high road, If you
want to be successful, if you want to live a fulfilled life in
Christ, then he got to walk the high road.
What's that mean? Treat people better.
Than they treat me. See it's easy.
It's easy. It.
Did he walks up to me after church and says you're fat?
Well, that's true. But I don't have to let that
bother me. Some folks have told me that you
didn't see, I really worried about it. but the point is, No
matter what, somebody says to you, you don't have to allow
that to destroy you or to make you negative.
Because you're not serving them, you're serving the lord.
The Lord's on your side. And I have false and I have
problems. And I have difficulties But the
Lord's Everett my side, you know, it's like that proverbial
poem Footprints in the Sand. The man said why I noticed there
were two Pricks in the, in the sand, all along till I had a big
problem and then the other one other set of prints disappeared.
He said, I want to know why you left my side when I needed you
most. Do you ever feel that way?
The Lord said why sir? That's when I was carrying you.
And there was only one set of prints in the sand.
I'm telling you, he don't need you.
You may feel forsaken. You may feel unappreciated, but
the Lord's ever at your side, listen to me friends.
When we live in this world, we need to treat everybody, like
they're the most important person on the planet, you know,
years ago, George Hogan? Well, maybe some of, you know,
him from Lubbock, Texas, sent me some tapes that Earl Nightingale
had made and one of the things that, that really Shook Me, is
he said you treat everybody, like they're the most important
person on the life, even the elevator operator.
And he said, first of all, because that's really what they
believe anyway. But secondly.
That's the way we're supposed to treat each other.
You know, I thought about that a lot. it's so easy to bite back
when somebody barks at you, It's so easy.
To treat others as they treat you. but, you know, if we would
treat each other Like the other propellers, the most important
person on the planet, how would the church change?
How about my home? You know what I found when?
I'm treating my wife, like she's the most important person on the
planet. We don't even have an argument.
The problem is sometimes, it'll treat her like that.
Then we argue. You see, we need to take the
high road, we need to travel the high road and finally we need to
understand the value of attitude.
Talent is Never Enough. Knowledge is not the all answer.
Now knowledge helps no doubt about that.
But knowledge is not all of it, you know.
Some people seem like sometimes there's too smart for the long
britches. Sometimes people are pretty is
pretty. Does, you know, my mom used to
say But all of that is nice. But it's not the most important.
It's not the all-encompassing answer attitude.
Attitude is the maker. Or breaker of Our Lives.
You see, if you could Master the right attitude, that will make
all the difference in the world Zig.
Ziglar said your attitude, not your aptitude will determine
your altitude. And buddy, that's true.
You want to live a fulfilled life, then change your attitude.
That's what it takes. That's what the Lord demands of
us your attitude. Teddy Roosevelt said your
attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little
thing that makes a very big difference. and you don't tell
you Roosevelt was crippled when he's a kid and doctors and and
people who are supposed to know, told me he'd ever amount to
anything and he became president In fact, he became one of the
Rough Riders. He became a man who could mix
and mingle with those New Yorkers too.
He became a lot and they said he'd be nothing.
I'm telling you, your attitude makes all the difference in the
world in conclusion. Listen to what this verse says.
Hearing take it home today and read it again, and think about
it. Talk about it.
Finally, Brethren whatever things are true, whatever things
are noble, whatever things are, just, whatever things are pure,
whatever things are, lovely, whatever.
Things are of good report. If is if there is any virtue and
if there is anything praiseworthy, praiseworthy
meditate on these things. Now listen, what Paul.
I said in the last verse there, the things which you have
learned and received and heard and saw in me these do and the
God of Peace will be with you. I'm going to tell you this
morning if you're not a Christian.
Then you're letting slip by the greatest life that you could
live. If you're in this audience
today, you never obeyed the gospel.
Jesus came and died for you. The Bible says the grace of God,
which is Jesus Christ, hath appeared to all men.
If you're in this audience, God's grace can cover your sin.
And the Bible tells us that by hearing the gospel, it is
necessary to believe that gospel vulnerable Hearts.
Jesus said he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.
You believe in Jesus? Surely you do repent of your
sins recognize that Jesus Christ died on the cross because of
your surname? And change your mind.
That's what repentance is. You see?
You got to understand what repentance is our you're not
going to be baptized, you just couldn't take a bath.
Repentance means you change your mind.
You turn about face as a result of repentance the change of.
Will you change your life? Then you got to confess him.
Now, I love this, this part. Jesus made a promise.
He said, you confess me and I'll confess you.
You think about that? Can you imagine?
Can you imagine Jack holiday be confessed to God?
The father and the Holy Angels. And yet, if you confess him with
your mouth, On the salvation. That'll happen and then we
buried him, baptism. Why you have your sins washed
away. Baptism saves you.
First Peter 3 verse 21, that's not the figment of some
preachers imagination. That's the inspired Apostle.
Peter, he says, baptism saves us here in this audience, you will
bait that gospel and you allowed to see him to come back into
your life. Don't let another moment pass
you by, get on your knees and seek God's forgiveness.
If you want us to assist you in that forgiveness, and you want
to make your wishes known to us while we stand while we sing
together won't you come? We thank you for listening to
our podcast. Put on by the Church of Christ
at 22:15 plans. Road in Bakersfield, if you
would like any additional information or you would like to
receive a free Bible correspondence course by mail.
Please email us at info at search of Christ.
Bakersfield.com, our service times are on Sundays at 10:30
a.m. and 5 p.m. and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. please make plans
to join us. We would love for you to be our
honored guest