1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:02,600 Good to see all who are here tonight. 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:05,900 Good to have many from Brundage here this evening as well. 3 00:00:06,500 --> 00:00:10,000 And I'm thankful that what we have to share this evening is 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,200 from God and not from me, I'm so thankful for that because the 5 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:19,300 word of wisdom and the word of men, does it really bring about 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:23,500 being pleasing with God? But if we reflect our knowledge 7 00:00:23,500 --> 00:00:26,500 of his will, then we know what pleases him and we know how to 8 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:28,600 please him. There are so many people who 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:30,700 think if it pleases me. It must please. 10 00:00:30,700 --> 00:00:33,500 God and that's not necessarily the case. 11 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:37,200 We find that we have to know God's Will and be familiar with 12 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:41,600 it to know what pleases him and that is our desire to know what 13 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,000 pleases are gone. One of the things we learned 14 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,400 this morning that pleases our God is the need for us to change 15 00:00:48,500 --> 00:00:52,800 in some way, some aspects of our behavior and our attitudes. 16 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:56,900 And most of all the the fact that the essence of the 17 00:00:56,900 --> 00:01:00,100 Christian Life Is Calling ourselves to not follow. 18 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:02,600 Ourselves. But to follow him who died for 19 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,600 us, that is to be imitators of Jesus Christ. 20 00:01:06,100 --> 00:01:09,300 We talked about acts 17, verse 30, this morning where God is, 21 00:01:09,300 --> 00:01:13,400 commanding all men everywhere. That doesn't mean men gender. 22 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:18,800 That means all mankind, all everywhere to repent, to repent 23 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,100 that word. Repent means to change to change 24 00:01:22,100 --> 00:01:26,100 direction to change some aspect of our Behavior. 25 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,600 God doesn't want us if we're good to be bad, he doesn't want 26 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:31,600 just Change for change sake, speak. 27 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:36,500 He wants us to be able to identify what part of our Lives 28 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:39,600 is not conforming to the Life of Christ. 29 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,400 And that's why we wrote this part of this passage on our 30 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:45,600 board. This morning, the Bible says, 31 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:50,000 it's the Christians purpose to be conformed to the image of the 32 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,600 sun. We've read this from Romans 8, 33 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,000 chapter verse 29. If you're taking notes, this is 34 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,800 a very important. Verse in the scripture notice it 35 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,900 says For Those whom he foreknew He also predestined to become 36 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:05,000 conformed, to the image of his son. 37 00:02:05,700 --> 00:02:08,000 That is what our Christian life is all about. 38 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:11,100 Now, this doesn't mean externally as we already talked 39 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:13,900 about this morning, it doesn't mean that we're all supposed to 40 00:02:14,100 --> 00:02:18,300 wear robes and and, you know, like so many did in the 60s wear 41 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:22,200 sandals and long hair and look like Jesus on the outside, it 42 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,500 doesn't mean that we're supposed to be trying to perform Miracles 43 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:26,900 like walk on water and and different kinds of things like 44 00:02:26,900 --> 00:02:30,100 that people who try to imitate Jesus externally. 45 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:35,000 You missed the whole point. Jesus came here to be an exact 46 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:40,200 representation of the father. Not Father's external 47 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:45,500 attributes. This character his morality his 48 00:02:45,500 --> 00:02:49,300 ethics, his righteousness. That's what Jesus came and 49 00:02:49,300 --> 00:02:52,200 personified. That is literally lived out 50 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:55,000 through his life. He was the exact representation 51 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,500 of his nature. The Bible says, and whenever God 52 00:02:58,500 --> 00:03:02,100 calls us to follow, Jesus. It's not externally. 53 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,300 It's that internal. The character of Jesus that 54 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:07,400 we're supposed to meet him at 80, you know. 55 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,700 But there's a lot of people who don't follow the character of 56 00:03:10,700 --> 00:03:13,800 Jesus don't act like Jesus, don't talk like, Jesus aren't 57 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,600 interested in the same thing. Jesus is interested in yet 58 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:20,100 there. How is that? 59 00:03:21,100 --> 00:03:24,800 So many people have this disconnect between living in a 60 00:03:24,808 --> 00:03:29,100 Christian country, or living it going to church. 61 00:03:29,100 --> 00:03:32,600 And they believe that that that makes them a Christian. 62 00:03:32,900 --> 00:03:37,200 Or they'll say I've been baptized as if just going in and 63 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:42,000 out of water is all it takes to be a follower of Jesus Christ. 64 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:47,200 No, my friends. No Bible more often 03:00 time. 65 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:51,100 It's this morning. Uses the word disciple, 66 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,900 disciple. Which means pupil, which means 67 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:57,500 follower of Jesus Christ in the sense that he is a master 68 00:03:57,500 --> 00:04:01,800 teacher, and we are his students, we're supposed to be 69 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,000 like him. The Bible says, we looked at 70 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:05,600 that. Passage this morning, a 71 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:09,800 disciple, excuse me, a disciple when he is fully trained, will 72 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,600 be like his teacher. That's what we're supposed to 73 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,500 become. Luke 6, and verse 40, a disciple 74 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:20,200 when he is fully trained will be Like his teacher. 75 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:24,000 So this idea of being conformed is the essence. 76 00:04:24,300 --> 00:04:28,300 This image is an external but inwardly, the Bible says, we're 77 00:04:28,300 --> 00:04:32,300 going to be like our teacher, not externally, but inwardly. 78 00:04:32,300 --> 00:04:36,200 We're supposed to have the heart of God, the mind of Christ, his 79 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:41,200 compassion, his desire to obey and glorify his father in 80 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:43,600 Heaven. That's what it's all about. 81 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:45,500 And we're going to talk more about that tonight. 82 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:47,200 I'm not going to re-preach this morning's sermon. 83 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:52,000 That was just That was just the preview to bring us up to 84 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,100 tonight a little bit. We talked about how God 85 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:56,900 required. This isn't an option. 86 00:04:57,300 --> 00:05:02,500 God requires all everywhere to repent, acts 17:30, if we're 87 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:06,500 going to be a Christian, what aspect of our life does the 88 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:10,200 word, repent, apply to, what aspects of change. 89 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:12,000 Does God want to bring out it to us? 90 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:15,600 Well, before we go into some specifics, please turn to 91 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,500 Hebrews 2:12 chapter right quick and The twelfth chapter of the 92 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:23,600 Bible tells us that our transformation comes from the 93 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,000 inside to the outside. As we noticed this morning, now 94 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:30,800 with this little chart right here is really taken from 95 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:34,900 Matthew 23, and verse 23, if you're taking notes where Jesus 96 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:39,000 challenged the scribes and the Pharisees, you know, the 97 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,700 Pharisees were obedient to God and a lot of things, but they 98 00:05:42,700 --> 00:05:46,000 did it heartlessly. They did it without any internal 99 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,400 motivation. They tied me. 100 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:52,600 Mint and come in the Bible says Dill mint and coming but he says 101 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:56,000 it wasn't right. They needed to clean these the 102 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,400 inside of the cup, they were like a whitewash, sup liqueur, 103 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:01,700 the indeed outwardly, they peered pure and white. 104 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:04,400 But inside they were full of dead, men's bones and all 105 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,800 uncleanness. And he told them that was a 106 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,900 false form of religion. God wants the real thing. 107 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,900 He wants us to clean the inside of the cup and the outside will 108 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:16,200 be clean. Also as we notice this morning 109 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,900 we must worship God in spirit and in truth John 4, verse 23, 110 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:22,300 and 24. Well, here in Hebrews 12 111 00:06:22,300 --> 00:06:25,800 chapter, notice what it says. In verse 1. 112 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:31,100 He In this passage, he's talking about fixing what we're supposed 113 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:33,200 to do in order to run the Christian race. 114 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,000 Notice? Therefore, since we have so 115 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,500 great, a cloud of witnesses surrounding us let us and he 116 00:06:38,500 --> 00:06:44,900 begins to talk about the change. He says, let us lay aside every 117 00:06:44,900 --> 00:06:46,700 encumbrance. Here's some change. 118 00:06:46,700 --> 00:06:49,600 There are some things in our life that are encumbering us 119 00:06:49,700 --> 00:06:53,000 that are hindering us from running the Christian race from 120 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,700 being successful at the image of Jesus and getting it into our 121 00:06:56,700 --> 00:06:59,200 hearts and our minds. And so one of the things that 122 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,700 we've got to do in order to bring about change, I'm not just 123 00:07:01,700 --> 00:07:05,100 going to get up here and say change and not talk about how to 124 00:07:05,100 --> 00:07:07,900 do it. It's easy to tell somebody stop 125 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:11,000 it. Parents mothers do that to kids 126 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,500 all the time, but sometimes you have to tell your children what 127 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:17,400 to do, instead of what you're telling them to stop doing, you 128 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:19,500 have to tell them how to be constructive instead of 129 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:22,000 destructive. And so, he says here. 130 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,600 First of all, here's what I want you to do. 131 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:28,500 I want you to lay aside every encumbrance, if you're having a 132 00:07:28,500 --> 00:07:32,100 difficult time following Jesus Christ, maybe it's because you 133 00:07:32,100 --> 00:07:36,100 haven't laid aside incumbrances laid aside things that are 134 00:07:36,100 --> 00:07:40,500 hindering you from being what You need to be. 135 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:46,000 You don't, nobody is born, just imitating Jesus. 136 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,200 I listened to a sermon one time that was so helpful to me in my 137 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,400 Christian Life and brother Linwood Smith still preaches. 138 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:54,800 It it's called why rivers are crooked. 139 00:07:55,500 --> 00:07:59,200 Why are rivers crooked? Because often they take the path 140 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,500 of least resistance. That's why rivers are crooked. 141 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:04,300 They take the path of least resistance. 142 00:08:04,300 --> 00:08:06,400 Why are people crooked same reason? 143 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,400 A lot of times it's easier to just go with the flow instead of 144 00:08:10,407 --> 00:08:14,700 sometimes. Go against the environment is 145 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:18,300 telling us, we need to do or be or what they want us to do, 146 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,000 who's in control of your life? Are you in control? 147 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,400 Are you going with the crowd? You like to be proud. 148 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:26,500 I'm in control. That's why I go with the crowd. 149 00:08:28,100 --> 00:08:29,600 That doesn't make any sense at all. 150 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:34,700 I remember in the late 60s, early 70s boy that dates me. 151 00:08:34,700 --> 00:08:37,799 I'll tell you that right quick. How I wanted to have long hair 152 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:43,200 and musicians I wouldn't have some longer I want to add Y and 153 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:45,900 I said, Dad, I want to be an individual just like everybody 154 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:50,000 else. That makes a lot of sense. 155 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:53,800 You want to be an individual and the reason why you're feeling 156 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:57,300 pressure to wear long hairs because everybody has it, that 157 00:08:57,300 --> 00:08:59,900 doesn't make sense. But a lot of times, that's what 158 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:02,400 happens in our lives. We want to be an individual just 159 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:07,700 like everybody else. Is that the what it is, God 160 00:09:07,700 --> 00:09:11,300 tells us that there sometimes whenever we have to go against 161 00:09:11,300 --> 00:09:14,200 the flow, whenever we're going to have to stand up, and we're 162 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:18,200 going to have to be different, because that's what Jesus would 163 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,200 do if he was here. Notice he says here lay aside 164 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,800 every encumbrance and the sin which does so easily entangles 165 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,100 us and let us run with endurance. 166 00:09:28,100 --> 00:09:31,800 The race that is set. Before us notice verse to fixing 167 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:38,400 our eyes on Jesus the author. You know, if you fix your eyes 168 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:40,800 on, anybody else, you're going to be disappointed somewhere, 169 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:45,300 sometime you're going to find hypocrisy, you're going to find 170 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:48,600 inconsistency, you're going to find somebody who fell short, 171 00:09:48,700 --> 00:09:52,100 you're going to find somebody who's human, but when you fix 172 00:09:52,100 --> 00:09:56,900 your eyes on Jesus, then there's no disappointment there, no 173 00:09:56,900 --> 00:09:59,600 disappointment at all. How many times have you talked 174 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:01,100 to? Somebody who's quit the church 175 00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:03,300 because of salt, 1 sub brother, or sister? 176 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:05,900 Did somebody in the church is a hypocrite. 177 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:09,900 Somebody in the Corrupt correctly, and so they'll quit. 178 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:13,300 And I'll go to the Masjid who you Worship in, you Worship in 179 00:10:13,300 --> 00:10:15,500 the church or him about the church. 180 00:10:16,500 --> 00:10:19,000 Who are you looking at, where your eyes focused? 181 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,500 My friends. If you look at other people in 182 00:10:21,500 --> 00:10:24,300 church here and I'd be disappointed but stop it. 183 00:10:24,700 --> 00:10:26,900 God didn't tell you to focus on them. 184 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:31,700 He said focus on him fixing our eyes on Jesus. 185 00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:34,400 That's supposed to be the one you're supposed to be measuring 186 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,800 yourself do and comparing yourself to not other people. 187 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,000 Not other people. You'll always, if you compare 188 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:42,900 yourself with the other people, you know, what's going to find, 189 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:45,200 you're going to be disappointed, some and you're going to become 190 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,100 arrogant because you're better than somebody else. 191 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,200 And it's all not going to work the righteousness of God. 192 00:10:52,700 --> 00:10:54,800 God does it say don't compare yourself among yourselves. 193 00:10:54,900 --> 00:10:59,400 If you do, you're not wise, he says fix your eyes on Jesus. 194 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,000 Now, that is the one we're all supposed to be following. 195 00:11:03,100 --> 00:11:05,000 He's the one we're supposed to be following. 196 00:11:05,500 --> 00:11:08,500 I don't care if you're better than everybody else church are. 197 00:11:08,500 --> 00:11:11,900 You better than him? Are you coming up and measuring 198 00:11:11,900 --> 00:11:13,900 yourself to his stature of maturity? 199 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,600 Are you coming up to his character? 200 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:18,700 Are you coming up to his morality? 201 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,600 Are you, do you have his heart? Do you have his eyes? 202 00:11:21,700 --> 00:11:25,000 That's the question. I don't care how better, how 203 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,200 much better you are than anybody else in the church. 204 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:30,000 How fewer times you sin than anybody else? 205 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:33,400 That's not the point. It is not the point. 206 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,700 We're not here to worship the church. 207 00:11:37,500 --> 00:11:39,900 We're here to worship Him. Who purchased the church? 208 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:44,200 So fix your eyes on him. That's the point. 209 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,400 Then you won't be disappointed. Then you won't lose. 210 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:53,200 You won't lose your enthusiasm. Because Jesus always always 211 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:59,300 inspires me, and always should inspire you fix your eyes on 212 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:02,600 Jesus. Notice the Bible tells us, 213 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,600 there's something happens. Whenever we do this, please go 214 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:10,000 to Romans 12 chapter. In Romans 12 chapter notice what 215 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,300 he says here, Romans 12, starting in verse 1. 216 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,500 Therefore, I urge you Brethren by the mercies of God, to 217 00:12:16,500 --> 00:12:19,900 present your bodies, a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable 218 00:12:19,900 --> 00:12:23,300 to God, which is your spiritual service of worship or reasonable 219 00:12:23,300 --> 00:12:27,300 service is what the King James says, and believe it or not, the 220 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:29,600 original Greek is pretty accurate on this which is your 221 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,400 reasonable or rational service very accurate, New American 222 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:34,700 Standard didn't do good on this one. 223 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:37,100 I'll tell you the truth. Both ways. 224 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:41,400 It means reasonable or rational service. 225 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:43,600 Notice? What it goes on to say and do 226 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,800 not be conformed to this world. But be transformed, how? 227 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:55,100 By the renewing of your mind. Oh, there's how I bring about 228 00:12:55,100 --> 00:12:58,100 real and Lasting change become transformed. 229 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:01,000 He says by the renewing of your mind. 230 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:06,900 So that you may prove that is demonstrate, you can demonstrate 231 00:13:06,900 --> 00:13:10,700 for absolute proof, you prove that which is good and 232 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:15,800 acceptable. Whenever we transform our minds, 233 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,200 then we are transformed to be conformed to the image of. 234 00:13:19,208 --> 00:13:22,300 I don't Mean that to be a tongue twister but we're transformed 235 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:26,100 into conforming by the renewing of our mind. 236 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,000 How do we get our mind? How do we make sure that we have 237 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,100 the proper image up here? My friends, there is no way to 238 00:13:32,108 --> 00:13:34,500 be transformed into the image of Jesus Christ. 239 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:38,600 If you don't know him, if you don't know him, you can know a 240 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,700 lot of facts about him but did not know him. 241 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:43,200 You may know a lot of facts about the president. 242 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,900 That doesn't mean you know him, you know, him intimately. 243 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:51,300 You understand how he thinks and how he feels There's a in the 244 00:13:51,308 --> 00:13:53,700 Greek, there's a, there's a difference between what they 245 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:57,500 call experiential knowledge and just external knowledge and it's 246 00:13:57,500 --> 00:13:59,700 sometimes difficult to get into our language. 247 00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:02,700 But there's a difference between knowing about somebody and 248 00:14:02,700 --> 00:14:07,300 really understanding someone are knowing someone and that's what 249 00:14:07,300 --> 00:14:11,700 the Bible's trying to say here. You can be transformed by 250 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:15,200 getting the knowledge of Jesus Christ into our hearts and into 251 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:17,700 our minds. That's how we're really changed. 252 00:14:17,700 --> 00:14:21,400 That's how change comes about, and as We ask ourselves as we 253 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,800 continually examine ourselves every Lord's day not only just 254 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:28,500 that but we examine ourselves as we partake of the bread and 255 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:32,400 drink of the cup. But as we day-by-day examine 256 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:36,100 ourselves to see whether we're in the faith as we day by day 257 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:39,700 our humble, before the word as we read it, then that message, 258 00:14:39,700 --> 00:14:42,700 then those words get into a hearts and into our minds and it 259 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:47,200 transforms us. We become ones who understand 260 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,700 and know God. By the Revelation that he gave 261 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:53,500 us. That's how we come to know him. 262 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,200 That's how we know. Jesus Christ, there are many 263 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:59,600 Christians who haven't got a clue about how Jesus Christ 264 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:01,300 lived. They call themselves Christians 265 00:15:01,300 --> 00:15:03,800 and they don't think they don't Focus. 266 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:05,900 They don't fix their eyes on Jesus. 267 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:10,500 How can such a thing be? Well, as we talked about this 268 00:15:10,500 --> 00:15:15,400 morning, Doing good. Just doesn't automatically make 269 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,900 us good. In Matthew the 23rd chapter, 270 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:22,900 they were doing good by tithing dill and cumin, but the point 271 00:15:22,900 --> 00:15:24,100 is, is that didn't make him good. 272 00:15:24,100 --> 00:15:27,700 God said they were dead. And so a lot of times getting 273 00:15:27,700 --> 00:15:30,600 good, external habits and having a good relationship, a good 274 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:32,600 relationship with everybody. We think we'd be, we think we 275 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:36,500 must be pleasing to God when God knows within our hearts that 276 00:15:36,500 --> 00:15:40,800 maybe we are not right with him. We talked this morning about the 277 00:15:40,800 --> 00:15:44,200 church at laodicea and Revelation, Third chapter, how 278 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:46,100 that they thought they were rich and increased with goods and 279 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:50,000 have need of nothing but God said you don't, you know, you're 280 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,100 poor and blind and naked you haven't got a clue how I view 281 00:15:54,100 --> 00:15:59,100 you as opposed to how you boo view, you They thought they 282 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:02,200 didn't need anything, but God said that they did. 283 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:06,100 Well, we need to be able to identify what it is in our life 284 00:16:06,100 --> 00:16:09,100 that needs to change. And so, let's go on, I promise. 285 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:12,100 All my introductions aren't going to be this long as we go 286 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:14,200 on down, but we do have to focus. 287 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:15,800 We do have to get the concept here. 288 00:16:15,900 --> 00:16:18,500 That's what we're going to try to do this week is talk about 289 00:16:18,500 --> 00:16:22,100 real authentic, Christianity. Not a form of it, not a form of 290 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:24,300 godliness. But the real thing, what is the 291 00:16:24,300 --> 00:16:26,900 real thing? Please turn to Colossians if you 292 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:31,000 will, no Me, I want to go to Colossians, but first, I want to 293 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:35,400 go to Ephesians Ephesians 4:22, please turn over to Ephesians 4 294 00:16:35,600 --> 00:16:39,000 and there's a few verses that I really want you to write down 295 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:41,000 and this is one of those passages. 296 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:45,500 I want you to write down, Ephesians 4 and verse 22, 297 00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:51,300 because here he specifically gives us a list of things were 298 00:16:51,300 --> 00:16:54,600 supposed to put on and take off or we're supposed to get rid of 299 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,100 lay aside. We've already talked about how 300 00:16:57,100 --> 00:16:59,300 Hebrews 12 tells. Us to lay aside some 301 00:16:59,300 --> 00:17:03,300 encumbrances, but now we get a list of those encumbrances, we 302 00:17:03,300 --> 00:17:05,700 get a list of things specifically, to get out of our 303 00:17:05,700 --> 00:17:08,500 hearts and out of our lives. But notice what he says here in 304 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:12,500 Ephesians the fourth chapter, we're going to assert well. 305 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,000 Let's go to verse 17, to make sure we got the context. 306 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:19,900 This I say our firm together with the Lord that you no longer 307 00:17:19,900 --> 00:17:22,700 walk just as Gentiles walk in the futility of their mind, 308 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:28,200 being darkened in their understanding excluded from the 309 00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,900 life of God because of the ignorance that is in them. 310 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:32,800 That's what we've just talked about. 311 00:17:32,900 --> 00:17:35,700 They're excluded because of the ignorance that is in them 312 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:40,000 because of the hardness of their heart and they having becomed 313 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:43,900 callus have given themselves over to sensuality. 314 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,500 For the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 315 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:54,200 Just a side note here, the word greediness doesn't mean that 316 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,100 he's talking about money here in this. 317 00:17:56,100 --> 00:18:00,400 Passage the word greediness means somebody who is insatiable 318 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:04,400 are unsatisfied and contextually probably the word should be 319 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,000 translated. In other words, they've given 320 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:10,700 themselves over to kind of every kind of impurity with with a 321 00:18:10,700 --> 00:18:13,900 desire for even more is what he's trying to say and other 322 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,300 Words there is there is no satisfaction. 323 00:18:16,500 --> 00:18:19,300 They're never full there. Never satiated. 324 00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:22,000 In other words, every sin leads to a desire for more and more 325 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:24,100 sin in. There's never a barrier at all 326 00:18:24,100 --> 00:18:25,900 in their lives. That's what he's talking about. 327 00:18:25,900 --> 00:18:28,000 But anyway, let's go on down verse 20. 328 00:18:28,300 --> 00:18:30,200 But you did not learn Christ in this way. 329 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:35,500 I want you to notice that meant that the imagery that's being 330 00:18:35,500 --> 00:18:38,800 taught here. Instead of Christianity being 331 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,500 the word named here. He says you didn't learn Christ 332 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:44,800 in this way. Yes, That the essence of 333 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:48,200 Christianity whenever we're talking about our manner of 334 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:51,000 life, the way you and I live, and the way we act, the way we 335 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:56,200 behave, and the way we have relationships, he uses that to 336 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,300 say you didn't learn Christ in that way. 337 00:18:58,900 --> 00:19:01,700 Isn't that talking about all of Christian doctrine? 338 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,600 Yes, he's using it as a synonym for all Christian doctrine. 339 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,700 He says, whenever you've learned it, then you've learned Christ. 340 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,200 Isn't that interesting? He says, but you didn't Learn 341 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:15,600 Christ. In this way, notice what he 342 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:18,900 says, if indeed you have heard of enema taught him just as the 343 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:23,700 truth is in Jesus that in reference to your former manner 344 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:28,600 of life. Oh, this was something before 345 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:35,000 repentance or, as one brother said it was BC before Christ in 346 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:38,700 my life, this was BC. He says, here's what it was 347 00:19:38,700 --> 00:19:40,700 before, Christ came into my life. 348 00:19:40,900 --> 00:19:43,900 He said, this is what I supposed to lay aside then Informer. 349 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Reference to your former manner of life. 350 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:51,100 You laid aside the old self, the old self which is being 351 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:55,000 corrupted in accordance with the lusts of Deceit. 352 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,000 And other words, this was the kind of life you lived before. 353 00:19:59,300 --> 00:20:03,000 It was your former manner of life, it was a life which led to 354 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,300 corruption. It was a life full of Deceit. 355 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:11,200 Stop that you laid that aside whenever you became a Christian 356 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:17,900 and that you be renewed verse 23 in the spirit of your mind. 357 00:20:18,300 --> 00:20:21,500 Now, that's not Holy Spirit there he's talking about the 358 00:20:21,500 --> 00:20:24,200 spirit of our mind. In other words, what kind of 359 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,500 spirit aren't you? What, what is the spirit of your 360 00:20:26,500 --> 00:20:28,700 mind? What kind of attitudes do you 361 00:20:28,700 --> 00:20:31,200 have? You need to be renewed in that 362 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:35,900 renewed, right here. Conform transformed by this 363 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:40,300 renewal. Has and put on the new self. 364 00:20:41,500 --> 00:20:45,800 which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness 365 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:49,800 and Holiness of the truth, He says, this is the likeness of 366 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:52,200 God, The New American Standard translates, this verse very 367 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:56,000 well. This new self is in the likeness 368 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:00,200 of God godliness. When was the last time we talked 369 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:01,900 about that in our manner of Life? 370 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:04,600 Oftentimes when we talk about Christianity, it's just whether 371 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,600 we're saved or not, not whether anybody's living a Godly life or 372 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,500 not how unfortunate, because that's not the way. 373 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:13,100 The Bible talks about it. Whenever he talks about, you 374 00:21:13,108 --> 00:21:16,700 didn't learn Christ in this way, he's talking about God likeness 375 00:21:16,700 --> 00:21:20,700 godliness in our matter of life and he said, some people are 376 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:23,200 unable to attain it because of the ignorance. 377 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,600 It is in them, my friends, we need the word. 378 00:21:27,100 --> 00:21:29,800 We need to get that knowledge into our hearts and into our 379 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:35,000 minds because only then can it transform us only then can we 380 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,800 know what we need to do to conform to the image of Jesus? 381 00:21:39,300 --> 00:21:43,200 Only then can we conform to the path that Jesus would have 382 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,700 turned and made the decisions Jesus would have made notice and 383 00:21:46,700 --> 00:21:48,800 that you put on the new self which in the likeness of God is 384 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:51,900 being created in righteousness. No Lie is of the truth and then 385 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:59,700 he makes a list. therefore, Laying aside falsehood speak. 386 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:02,300 Truth. Each one with his neighbor for. 387 00:22:02,300 --> 00:22:05,400 We are members one of another. Okay. 388 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,200 The first thing he really delineates here is as a 389 00:22:08,208 --> 00:22:09,700 Christian. If you're going to transform 390 00:22:09,700 --> 00:22:13,800 your life, the first thing you work on is the tongue. 391 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,700 That's right. You laying aside lying, you put 392 00:22:18,700 --> 00:22:21,800 it out of your life, you've laid that aside speak the truth, each 393 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,500 one of you one with another, where your members one of 394 00:22:24,500 --> 00:22:27,700 another, your parts of one another, you know, that is the 395 00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:30,300 hardest thing, whenever you work with people out in the world and 396 00:22:30,300 --> 00:22:32,900 you study with people as Frankie, probably knows whenever 397 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:35,600 you study with people, a lot of times, a lot of times they're 398 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,500 intimidated by the Christian Life. 399 00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:40,000 I know one guy who said, who told me he didn't want to be 400 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,500 baptized right then he was a truck driver and Placerville, 401 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:45,500 California. He said Glenn I can't come to 402 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:48,200 church, I'm a truck driver. I use language all day that I 403 00:22:48,208 --> 00:22:51,600 can't use in the church. He said I would feel like a 404 00:22:51,608 --> 00:22:54,700 hypocrite coming to the church with my mouth the way it is. 405 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:58,200 I said listen you give Jesus your heart and the mouth of come 406 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:02,800 with it, you know. And and he later on a year later 407 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,200 he told me it's amazing. I never thought I could have 408 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,000 quit cussing. I never thought I could have 409 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,500 quit swearing like I did but he said it's amazing. 410 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,100 I don't have to think about it anymore. 411 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,700 I just try to follow. Jesus in my, in my life and it's 412 00:23:15,700 --> 00:23:17,500 amazing and I said, that's right. 413 00:23:17,900 --> 00:23:20,600 That's how it works. That's how it works. 414 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,100 You don't do it all at once and you don't get well before you go 415 00:23:23,100 --> 00:23:26,700 to the doctor, those who are well, do not need the physician 416 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,200 but those who are sick. And I'm here to tell you, if 417 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,200 your sin sick even though no matter what your habits are, no 418 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,500 matter how much you've lied, it may be easier for you to lie 419 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:38,500 than tell the truth. But don't give up. 420 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,800 If you want to come to Jesus you come and you bring it to him and 421 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,500 you start laying it aside every time it puts itself on you know 422 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,700 you lay it aside. You maybe unconsciously putting 423 00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:50,400 on those old dirty clothes that you once laid aside and every 424 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,900 time you recognize it, you put it on, take it off, lay it aside 425 00:23:53,900 --> 00:23:56,300 again, put it down, get rid of it. 426 00:23:56,700 --> 00:24:00,600 But that's what he says here. These telling Christians he's 427 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,400 telling Christians, delay, aside lying. 428 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,200 Evidently there were some Christians had trouble with it. 429 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,800 Members, one of another, he had to tell Christians to stop 430 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:12,300 lying. Did you ever think of that? 431 00:24:12,900 --> 00:24:15,500 Yeah, that's what happens sometimes. 432 00:24:15,700 --> 00:24:19,200 Sometimes we have to be consciously aware and force 433 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,800 ourselves to tell the truth. All the time. 434 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:25,900 All the time, notice notice verse 20, verse 26, he starts 435 00:24:25,900 --> 00:24:29,300 out with some be angry and do not sin. 436 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,800 Do not let the sun. Go down on your anger, on your 437 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,700 on, your anger. Is that your problem? 438 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,600 Perhaps, you're here it. You could say, you know, I'm 439 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,200 angry a lot. Well, the first question needs 440 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,700 to be as well. Is that following the image of 441 00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:48,700 Jesus? Are you behaving like Jesus? 442 00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:51,200 My friends? I want you to ask yourself for 443 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,100 just a question. When you were raffle whenever 444 00:24:54,100 --> 00:24:56,500 you're angry whenever you're impatient. 445 00:24:56,900 --> 00:25:02,700 Are you acting like Jesus? You know like one guy told me 446 00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:05,400 one time it's not the parts of the Bible, I don't understand. 447 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,200 That gives me problems. It's a parts I do understand. 448 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,400 That's it. This is a real specific thing 449 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:18,800 here, be angry, and do not sin, evidently some in Ephesus 450 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:22,600 needed, to lay it aside. I'm asking you brother and 451 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,900 sister, I'm not there in your home, which is often called the 452 00:25:25,908 --> 00:25:29,200 closet of secrets in, but I'll tell you what, if you don't 453 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,700 practice the presence of Jesus Christ in your home, if you 454 00:25:31,700 --> 00:25:34,400 think, somehow you left him here, when you went home, you 455 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:39,200 are sadly, sadly deceived. If you think Jesus is always 456 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,000 someplace else whenever you got mad whenever you spoke that way 457 00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:44,700 whenever you acted that way. Whenever you spit in whenever 458 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:46,700 you spewed whenever you lost your temper. 459 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,600 Don't you ever think that? Oh Jesus just wasn't there. 460 00:25:49,700 --> 00:25:52,200 He was just covering it up. He was just embarrassed and 461 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:58,700 turned away know he was there. And he said, listen, I 462 00:25:58,700 --> 00:26:02,100 understand what it is to be angry, but you be angry and sin, 463 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,500 not do not let the sun go down on your wrath. 464 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,400 Oh yes, God is righteously indignant. 465 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,800 But God is always in control of his anger. 466 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,800 Always, he never blows it, he never blows up. 467 00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:25,200 He never just lets it Fly and gives vent to all of his wrath. 468 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:31,200 Wrath means uncontrolled anger. My friend's child abuse should 469 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,900 never be in the church, but it is. 470 00:26:37,100 --> 00:26:39,900 I knew of a Christian one time that drop kicked his kids 471 00:26:39,900 --> 00:26:41,900 through the front screen door of his house. 472 00:26:42,700 --> 00:26:45,300 That's sad. You just got mad. 473 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,100 I know of other men who have hit their wives. 474 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:54,400 Fortunately, I've no other wives who have hit their men and I 475 00:26:54,408 --> 00:26:57,100 just want you men to be aware of a statistic. 476 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:02,400 More often than not, men will beat up a wife, but more often 477 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,400 than not, a wife will kill her husband. 478 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:12,500 She doesn't mess around It's scary, it's scary. 479 00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:15,300 Whenever you get into counseling situations and you hear what 480 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:18,300 happened? And you go. 481 00:27:19,500 --> 00:27:23,400 These people are both trying to be Christians, how can it be so 482 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,700 out of control. So out of control is because you 483 00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:30,500 failed to practice the presence of Jesus Christ. 484 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:31,900 We're going to talk more about that. 485 00:27:31,900 --> 00:27:33,800 This isn't coming week. We're going to talk about 486 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,100 specific tools. We're going to come back, but 487 00:27:36,100 --> 00:27:37,800 tonight, I just want to give you some list. 488 00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:39,600 Why do I want to give you some lists? 489 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,500 I have led you astray here just a little bit. 490 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,800 I want you to pick something to work on this week. 491 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,700 Oh yeah. Oh man. 492 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:52,100 I hate Glenn's meetings. He gives us homework. 493 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:55,500 That's right. Give you some homework because 494 00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:57,200 we're not going to go away and be forgetful. 495 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,400 Here's we're going to be specific. 496 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:02,100 Let's understand. God says specifically, this is 497 00:28:02,108 --> 00:28:04,400 something I want you to work on lay aside anger. 498 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,900 Let's go on down notice what it says. do not give the devil 499 00:28:07,900 --> 00:28:12,800 opportunity, he who steals must steal no longer perhaps your You 500 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:15,900 know, shopping for the new fall fashions without a checkbook. 501 00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:21,500 Five, finger discount. Perhaps you have a problem with, 502 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,700 oh we're not going to call it stealing, or just kind of call 503 00:28:25,700 --> 00:28:30,300 it shoplifting and it's a game to see if we can get away with. 504 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,400 There's some kids who think that that's nothing more than what it 505 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:34,400 is. It's a game. 506 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,000 It's not a game, it's stealing notice. 507 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,900 When it goes on to say he is steals, must steal, no longer 508 00:28:40,900 --> 00:28:43,300 but rather he must labor performing with his own hands. 509 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,100 What is good? So that will have something to 510 00:28:45,100 --> 00:28:48,200 share with him as need. Perhaps you need to get into the 511 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:52,600 discipline of work. For what you acquire, verse 29, 512 00:28:52,700 --> 00:28:55,500 let no unwholesome word proceed out of your mouth. 513 00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:01,800 Unwholesome word, we all know what that is an unwholesome word 514 00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:06,500 is a word that doesn't have any any teaching in it. 515 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:10,400 There's nothing beneficial in those words, they're just words. 516 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:15,500 Usually slung as a weapon in a conversation. 517 00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,500 The Bible says let no unwholesome word proceed out of 518 00:29:18,500 --> 00:29:21,200 your mouth notice. If he goes on down, but only 519 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,100 such a word as his good for edification, according to the 520 00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:28,100 need of the moment so that it will give Grace to those who 521 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:31,900 hear husbands wives parents children. 522 00:29:32,900 --> 00:29:35,600 When you speak to your mom and dad are your words, edifying 523 00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:38,100 are, they truly giving Grace. Are they empowering? 524 00:29:38,100 --> 00:29:40,300 Your parents? Are they just telling off your 525 00:29:40,300 --> 00:29:42,300 parents? What are they? 526 00:29:43,700 --> 00:29:46,400 What are they? You know, I was so thankful. 527 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:52,800 My dad there was six of us kids. I won't talk about what I know 528 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,600 about Terrier, right. Tracy. 529 00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:58,200 But anyway, the whole point is, you know, it's hard. 530 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,000 Taking care of six kids, especially when dad's up 531 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:07,800 preaching and it was, it was often tough and difficult and 532 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:13,500 The Bible says honor as well as obey your parents and it was 533 00:30:13,508 --> 00:30:16,600 awful tough. And oftentimes dad would say, do 534 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:17,900 what I told you to do and we would go. 535 00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:22,500 But and he would say now look now, look, I understand, there 536 00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:27,000 may be some reason, some reason why you can't do what I'm asking 537 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,800 you to do right now. And I'm going to practice the 538 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,600 rule of giving you one shot. There may be something to bore 539 00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,300 part. The reason why the kid may be 540 00:30:35,300 --> 00:30:37,500 saying, but is because Mom told him to do something, I mean, 541 00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:38,900 there's a logical reason. Reason. 542 00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:43,900 And so I'm thankful for my dad, he often said okay, if I asked 543 00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:50,700 you to do something, you get one but and that means but you had 544 00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:53,400 to make your words clear and concise because you only got one 545 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:59,900 shot at it and you had to give an answer And then after that, 546 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:04,000 the decision was fine, I understand, but, no, go do what 547 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,700 I ask is. Do you know, that's often what 548 00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:09,500 needs to happen. Whenever you, whenever you have 549 00:31:09,500 --> 00:31:13,200 a relationship with someone, then it works that way because 550 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,500 everybody understands the parameters. 551 00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:19,800 Well, so it is with God to, he doesn't say, don't blow out the 552 00:31:19,808 --> 00:31:21,700 Planters, Don't Break Down The Walls. 553 00:31:21,900 --> 00:31:24,100 I want you to let your words be edifying. 554 00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:26,400 Make sure they're helpful. If you're going to have a 555 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,400 criticism, make sure you have a help. 556 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:35,200 Suggestion, Let It Be edifying. Try to think of something 557 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:39,300 beneficial to say. Mom, you're a great cook 558 00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:40,400 tonight. Supper was great. 559 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,800 But, you know, at least give the compliment, let something good 560 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:47,300 come out of it, if you will all our relationships and our 561 00:31:47,300 --> 00:31:51,100 transactions in this way, if we would obey these passages, how 562 00:31:51,100 --> 00:31:54,600 much things would be better. But guess what? 563 00:31:55,300 --> 00:31:57,800 And following Christianity, we're commanded to behave in 564 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:00,200 this way. This isn't an option, these 565 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:01,800 aren't just words. Yeah, while it's a great 566 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,100 self-help. God says let no unwholesome word 567 00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:08,200 proceed out of your mouth. In other words, if you do it's a 568 00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:13,400 sin, that's what he's saying. If you do it's a sin you can't 569 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,300 call yourself follower of Jesus Christ. 570 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:17,600 If you let unwholesome word proceed out of your mouth, Jesus 571 00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:21,000 doesn't talk that way. How about that? 572 00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:26,200 Jesus doesn't talk that way. That's what we need to get back 573 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,500 to is, how would Jesus handle this? 574 00:32:28,900 --> 00:32:33,500 Notice do not grieve the holy spirit of God by whom you were 575 00:32:33,500 --> 00:32:35,500 sealed for the day of redemption. 576 00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:41,500 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be 577 00:32:41,500 --> 00:32:45,900 put away from you along. With all malice, now malice is 578 00:32:45,900 --> 00:32:50,100 that active ill will towards someone, but be kind to one 579 00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:51,400 another. Here's what we're supposed to be 580 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,800 like Be kind to one another tender-hearted forgiving each 581 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,700 other just as God in Christ. Has forgiven. 582 00:32:58,700 --> 00:33:02,000 You all. Look at the example, look at the 583 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,700 example. Just as God for Christ's sake 584 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,800 has forgiven, you does that list? 585 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:16,100 Describe the way you handle disappointment, describe the way 586 00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:19,200 you handle problems. There's some putting off and 587 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:21,600 putting on isn't there with our knowledge. 588 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,900 Now we need to have a transform our lives so that we can be 589 00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:26,800 conformed to the image of his dear son. 590 00:33:27,100 --> 00:33:30,000 I want you to think about that list and I want you to write 591 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:31,700 down what you're going to be working on. 592 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,300 Yeah, I know I need to change. What are you working on? 593 00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:36,600 I haven't got a clue. That's not supposed to be the 594 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:39,600 Christian way guys. We need to know what it is. 595 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,300 We're working on when you're working on. 596 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:42,700 A house. You don't just say, I'm working 597 00:33:42,700 --> 00:33:45,100 on the house. You have specific things in mind 598 00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:48,200 that you're going to do you have a list and that's what the Bible 599 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,500 gives us. He says, here's what to put off, 600 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,400 here's what to put on, I want you to think about these things. 601 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,100 I want you to ask, not how they apply to others, but how do they 602 00:33:56,100 --> 00:33:59,000 apply to me? What am I working on? 603 00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:01,000 Let's go to Colossians 3 verse 8. 604 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,600 This is another list right down this passage and look at it as 605 00:34:04,600 --> 00:34:07,800 your leisure and think about the things that brings about the 606 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,199 changes that it needs to bring about in our life in. 607 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:19,000 In the third chapter. Excuse me, Colossians 3. 608 00:34:19,100 --> 00:34:20,800 We're going to start reading verse 8, mmm. 609 00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:28,800 But now you also put them all aside anger, wrath, malice, 610 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:33,300 slander and abusive speech. I thought we just quoted that 611 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:34,800 passage. Well. 612 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,199 Maybe God sometimes needs to repeat himself because we 613 00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:39,800 weren't listening the first time. 614 00:34:40,699 --> 00:34:44,500 Evidently this is a pretty important thing to put aside 615 00:34:44,699 --> 00:34:48,400 notice. Now, put them all aside. 616 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:52,600 Put them all aside my friends. If you have this in your 617 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:56,699 character, In order to imitate Jesus, you're going to have to 618 00:34:56,699 --> 00:34:59,800 put it aside. Are you known for your hot 619 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,300 temper? Have you blamed it on your 620 00:35:01,300 --> 00:35:05,000 genetics, your Irish heritage? Have you blamed it on your 621 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,500 mother or your father or your grandma? 622 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,900 Well I'm just that way. God says you're not my way. 623 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,800 You lay it aside, notice do not lie. 624 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:18,200 One to another since you've laid aside the old self which its 625 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:22,300 evil practices and put on the new self which is being renewed 626 00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:26,400 to a true knowledge. According to listen the image of 627 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,400 the one who created him. It's being renewed into the 628 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,700 image of God. God doesn't lie. 629 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:38,900 And we're his children. How dare US law is your word 630 00:35:38,900 --> 00:35:42,200 trustworthy? That's what we need to have in 631 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,400 Christ. A real duel verse 11 in which 632 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,500 There's no distinction between Greek and Jew circumcised and 633 00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:49,600 uncircumcised Barbarian slave free man. 634 00:35:49,900 --> 00:35:56,600 But Christ is all and in all notice verse 12, so as those who 635 00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:00,600 have been chosen of God, holy and beloved put on a put on put 636 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:04,100 yeah Circle that little phrase out there put on because that's 637 00:36:04,100 --> 00:36:07,200 what he wants us to do to add to our lives. 638 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,300 That's a something he wants us to change and put on. 639 00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:17,000 A heart of compassion. Kindness, humility gentleness. 640 00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:20,900 And patience does that describe you? 641 00:36:23,700 --> 00:36:27,800 As a Christian, it's got to be what we're striving to put on. 642 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:32,900 Because this verse tells us to do that, put on these qualities 643 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:38,800 of spirit of heart, bearing with one another verse 13 for giving 644 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,800 each other, Whoever has a complaint against anyone. 645 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,600 Just as the Lord forgave you, are you a grudge holder? 646 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:47,300 Are you somebody that's irreconcilable. 647 00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:50,500 I don't care if they said, I'm sorry. 648 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:53,800 Really. That doesn't make you 649 00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:58,100 christ-like notice forgiving each other wherever it's because 650 00:36:58,100 --> 00:37:04,300 a complaint against anyone just as the Lord forgave you just as 651 00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:11,000 the Lord forgave you? So also should you Those of us 652 00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,200 who wears name beyond all these things. 653 00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:20,000 Put on, there's the keyword Circle it again, verse 14, put 654 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:25,900 on love which is the perfect Bond of unity put on love. 655 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:31,400 Yeah, What is love? It's active thinking of someone 656 00:37:31,400 --> 00:37:35,600 else's benefit, somebody else's welfare above your own. 657 00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:38,400 It first Corinthians 13 describe W. 658 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:41,500 Love does, but real love is found a Philippians 2. 659 00:37:42,500 --> 00:37:45,700 Real love is described the find if you will in Philippians 2. 660 00:37:47,100 --> 00:37:51,600 Notice what Philippians 2 says here, if I can get there verse 661 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:59,600 3, Philippians 2 verse 3. do nothing from selfishness or 662 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:04,400 empty conceit but with humility of Mind, Let each of you regard 663 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:09,300 one another as more important than himself, Do not merely. 664 00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:12,000 Look out for your own personal interests, but also for the 665 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:16,700 interests of others. This attitude in yourself. 666 00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:25,600 Which was also in Christ, Jesus. He hit it on the think of 667 00:38:25,607 --> 00:38:28,300 someone else's spiritual welfare, their welfare above 668 00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:32,000 your own, have this attitude yourself which was greist were 669 00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:35,600 called to imitate him. Have this attitude, how wouldn't 670 00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,100 it be wonderful? If everyone in the church had 671 00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:40,600 this attitude in themselves which was also in Christ Jesus? 672 00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,600 Although it's not just a great idea. 673 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,600 It's the the idea it's what we're supposed to be working 674 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,900 toward. We're really supposed to be 675 00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:52,100 caring for one another. And our spiritual welfare. 676 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,700 That motivates our correction, it motivates our encouragement, 677 00:38:55,800 --> 00:39:01,600 it motivates our instruction. We actively try to encourage one 678 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,000 another to love and good works. Do not merely look out for your 679 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:09,100 own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. 680 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:11,300 Let's look at another passage right quick. 681 00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:13,200 And we're just going to run down the Reeds, right? 682 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,300 Real quickly if you would in Luke Luke the 12th chapter verse 683 00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:22,100 22. Luke 12 verse 22. 684 00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,400 And he said to his disciples for this reason, I say to you do not 685 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,000 worry about your life as to what you shall eat, or what your 686 00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:33,200 body, what you should put on, is not life more than food and the 687 00:39:33,207 --> 00:39:37,200 body more than clothing. Consider the Ravens they neither 688 00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:39,400 sow nor reap. And they have no Storehouse or 689 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:40,900 barn yet. God feeds them. 690 00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:43,200 How much more value are you than the birds? 691 00:39:43,700 --> 00:39:47,300 Which one of you by worrying can add a single? 692 00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:50,700 There is a time. We're here at The New American 693 00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:52,800 Standard rates, a single hour to his life. 694 00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:56,100 An if you cannot do a lie, even a very little thing. 695 00:39:56,300 --> 00:39:58,700 Why do you worry about other matters? 696 00:39:58,900 --> 00:40:00,700 Consider the lilies, how they grow? 697 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,500 They neither toil nor do they spend but I tell you Solomon in 698 00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:05,600 all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 699 00:40:06,100 --> 00:40:10,000 But if God, so clothes the grass of the field and which is alive 700 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,900 today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace. 701 00:40:12,500 --> 00:40:14,000 How much more will he clothe you? 702 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,100 Oh you meant a lot of little faith. 703 00:40:16,700 --> 00:40:20,500 Do not seek what you will eat or what you will drink and do not 704 00:40:20,500 --> 00:40:24,300 keep worrying for these things that Nate's, the kingdoms of the 705 00:40:24,300 --> 00:40:27,000 world are the nations of the world eagerly seek, but your 706 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,500 father knows that you have need of all these things. 707 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:35,200 Listen, here's the culmination. But seek first or see, but seek 708 00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:41,700 his kingdom. And all these things will be 709 00:40:41,700 --> 00:40:45,800 added to you. All these things. 710 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,200 What does he tell us to see? You know, so many times people 711 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:54,400 spend their whole life on that, which will not Outlast it, but 712 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:57,800 he says, your Christians. God knows that you have need of 713 00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,300 these things. Seek first, his kingdom. 714 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:07,900 And all these things will be added unto you all these things. 715 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,500 Isn't that amazing? Please turn to Matthew 6. 716 00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:16,500 Matthew the 6 chapter. Verse 25. 717 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:23,900 For this reason, I do not say I say, I say to you do not be 718 00:41:23,900 --> 00:41:26,500 worried about your life as to what you shall eat or drink nor 719 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:29,000 for your body. As to what you shall put on, is 720 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:34,000 not life more than food and the body more than clothing. 721 00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:37,400 Here's that same thing found in Matthew, look at the birds of 722 00:41:37,408 --> 00:41:40,500 the air, they do not sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, yet 723 00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:43,700 your heavenly father feeds them, you're not where you are, are 724 00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:47,400 you not worth more than they and who of You by worrying can add a 725 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,300 single hour to his life. Why do you worry about Clothing. 726 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,600 Notice he once again, challenges these these people, but no doubt 727 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,400 verse 33, go down to verse 33. Listen. 728 00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,700 But seek first, his kingdom, if you were looking for the word 729 00:42:01,700 --> 00:42:05,300 first, it's because Matthew includes it in his gospel, but 730 00:42:05,300 --> 00:42:12,100 seek first, his kingdom, and his righteousness, and all these 731 00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:18,700 things will be added unto you. There's what we need to work on. 732 00:42:19,700 --> 00:42:23,700 Is seeking first the kingdom of God, and all these things, is 733 00:42:23,700 --> 00:42:25,800 that what we really have in our lives? 734 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:28,200 Seeking first, the kingdom of God, and looking, everything 735 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:33,900 else, as just supporting that, you know, some work in the 736 00:42:33,900 --> 00:42:37,400 gospel of the Lord of our kingdom, the kingdom of Our 737 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,800 Lord, in the field of the Lord. And yet, they are known by men 738 00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:46,900 as as painters as Builders as mechanics and everything else. 739 00:42:46,900 --> 00:42:49,100 But you know, when you ask them what their life is about. 740 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,000 Out or you ask their friends. What does that person live for? 741 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,500 They don't want their life to be defined by how they make a 742 00:42:55,508 --> 00:43:00,000 living. They are not a painter. 743 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,700 They are not a builder. They are not. 744 00:43:01,900 --> 00:43:05,900 They are a Christian and how they make their money is another 745 00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:08,300 thing. But their life is not what they 746 00:43:08,300 --> 00:43:10,300 do. Their life is what they are. 747 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,000 They're following Jesus Christ, they're Christians. 748 00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:17,700 You know, how wonderful it is to meet people who, you know, live 749 00:43:17,700 --> 00:43:19,800 for something greater than how they make a living. 750 00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,000 Doesn't that challenge you? When you look at them and they 751 00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:26,700 say, well, they do this on the side but how why they live is 752 00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:29,800 for Christ. That's the whole point. 753 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,500 That's where God wants us to be. He says seek first, the kingdom 754 00:43:33,500 --> 00:43:37,900 of God and all these things will be added unto you. 755 00:43:38,700 --> 00:43:46,000 Well, I didn't even get to my Last point tonight. 756 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,900 So we're going to save it for tomorrow tomorrow. 757 00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:50,900 Come back and we're going to talk about the importance of 758 00:43:50,900 --> 00:43:54,600 goals, but I will tell you this. I do want you to do some 759 00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:56,900 homework tonight. I want you to go home and look 760 00:43:56,900 --> 00:43:58,900 at the scriptures. If you have a concordance, look 761 00:43:58,900 --> 00:44:02,000 at all those passages that say put off and put on, I want you 762 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,100 to look because those are specific things that God wants 763 00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:08,000 us to do specifically what the word repentance means come back 764 00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,600 tomorrow night. Lord willing, and we're going to 765 00:44:09,607 --> 00:44:12,300 talk about how to bring about real change in your life. 766 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,500 If you want to change your tongue, if you want to change. 767 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,600 In your heart. If you have hatred, if you have 768 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,600 Envy, if you have any of these attitudes, if you have wrath 769 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,200 tonight. Oh yeah. 770 00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:23,500 Don't you know, I know people have problems. 771 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,200 You might say well they have problems with love problems. 772 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,400 They don't know how to love. Well, my some people come with 773 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,100 that problem, but I'll tell you, I've had it. 774 00:44:31,100 --> 00:44:33,400 I've counseled with a lot of people have trouble with anger, 775 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,300 frustration, frustration. They feel out of control. 776 00:44:37,300 --> 00:44:40,200 And so, what they do to get in control is they make everybody 777 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:43,600 fear them? And they dominate through fear 778 00:44:43,700 --> 00:44:45,800 and it's not what Jesus would do if he were here. 779 00:44:46,100 --> 00:44:50,400 So today is fear the main attitude Pete, that people 780 00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:56,400 describe your home as Have you laid aside all of that, anger 781 00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,800 and Wrath? Or perhaps you're working on 782 00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:01,700 other things. Perhaps people don't think that 783 00:45:01,700 --> 00:45:02,900 going to heaven and seeking first. 784 00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:05,800 The kingdom of God is what you're all about, for where your 785 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,300 treasure is, there will your heart be also, they see your 786 00:45:08,300 --> 00:45:11,300 heart in your car. They see your heart in somewhere 787 00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:13,200 else. They don't see it in heaven, 788 00:45:13,500 --> 00:45:15,100 they don't see you laying up. Treasures in Heaven. 789 00:45:15,100 --> 00:45:17,100 They see you get more emotional over. 790 00:45:17,100 --> 00:45:20,500 Something that happens to your car that over some brother or 791 00:45:20,500 --> 00:45:25,300 sister, who fell away, They see you getting more upset about 792 00:45:25,300 --> 00:45:29,100 some temporal thing rather than Eternal things. 793 00:45:30,700 --> 00:45:32,800 The real key to a transformed life. 794 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:36,800 The real K2 athletic Christianity is someone who has 795 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:42,200 fixed Their Eyes On Jesus. And recognize he is the 796 00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:44,800 embodiment of the mind of God In the Flesh. 797 00:45:45,500 --> 00:45:47,700 He is the exact representation of his nature. 798 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:53,000 He lived righteousness. He Illustrated what it was to be 799 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:57,100 Godlike. And being christ-like as being 800 00:45:57,100 --> 00:46:00,300 god-like. Now, you may want to act like 801 00:46:00,300 --> 00:46:02,800 God, but that's not being god-like. 802 00:46:03,700 --> 00:46:06,600 We're talking about being like our Father in heaven. 803 00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:12,300 And if there's a discrepancy, between what the Bible says, God 804 00:46:12,300 --> 00:46:18,500 is like And what you are. I are like, then there's where 805 00:46:18,500 --> 00:46:25,200 the change needs to begin. Stop accepting. 806 00:46:26,500 --> 00:46:30,300 Your shortcomings. Stop excusing. 807 00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:36,000 Your shortcomings and blaming it on your genetics. 808 00:46:37,300 --> 00:46:43,400 Blaming it on your environment, blaming it on your friends, your 809 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:47,000 wife, your husband, your children, your parents. 810 00:46:49,300 --> 00:46:55,700 We love to excuse ourselves. But God says I will no longer 811 00:46:55,700 --> 00:46:58,700 accept excuses the times of ignorance. 812 00:46:58,700 --> 00:47:03,000 God wants winked at, but his now commanding all men everywhere to 813 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:08,000 repent accepting 30, all that so tough, I'd rather have a form of 814 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,200 godliness. It's easier to practice some new 815 00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:16,500 habits than to change old ones. My friends, God wants you to put 816 00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:22,000 off the old man had to put on the new one and that takes work. 817 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,700 That takes effort. Come back tomorrow night. 818 00:47:25,700 --> 00:47:28,400 We'll talk about what specifically to do, but I want 819 00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,100 you to look over these verses tonight and I want you to write 820 00:47:31,100 --> 00:47:33,700 down something, you are going to specifically work on. 821 00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:38,000 I want you to ask yourself, how am I going to be measurably 822 00:47:39,100 --> 00:47:43,900 different next year? Next month than I am today, are 823 00:47:43,900 --> 00:47:46,000 you satisfied? If your self satisfied? 824 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,900 Then you've got more problems. If you're say sure, I need to 825 00:47:49,900 --> 00:47:53,500 change but I have no clue where I pretty happy with myself then. 826 00:47:53,500 --> 00:47:56,000 Maybe we're like the church at laodicea more than we like to 827 00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,300 ever think we're rich and increased with goods and have 828 00:47:59,700 --> 00:48:03,500 need of nothing. Are you one of those people who 829 00:48:03,500 --> 00:48:05,200 are sitting there tonight going? Yeah, I'm humble. 830 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,400 But I can't think anything I need to change. 831 00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:13,200 Sorry, it's not going to get it. We're going to have to need 832 00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,000 something specifically to work on. 833 00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,800 So please come back tomorrow with that in mind. 834 00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,100 And we're going to talk about how to bring about real change. 835 00:48:20,100 --> 00:48:21,900 In our life, we're going to talk about goal setting. 836 00:48:22,100 --> 00:48:24,800 We're going to talk about how businesses aren't successful 837 00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,600 without goals. We're going to talk about how 838 00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:28,800 Christians aren't successful without goals either. 839 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:30,900 So come back tomorrow night. We're going to talk about tools 840 00:48:30,900 --> 00:48:33,100 for Real Change in our life. Come back be with us tomorrow 841 00:48:33,100 --> 00:48:34,500 night. Bring your friends. 842 00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,400 Bring your friends, won't you tonight? 843 00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:40,500 If you need to start off on your path of change, if you're fully 844 00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:43,900 aware that you made by looking into the word of God tonight 845 00:48:43,900 --> 00:48:46,700 that you have not laid aside the old self, we're going to call 846 00:48:46,700 --> 00:48:48,800 for a crucifixion. Right here, we're going to call 847 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,000 for you to in faith. Repent of your sins Acts 2 verse 848 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:56,200 38, that means put to death the old man lay it aside, do some 849 00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,400 active taken it off. We're going to ask you to take 850 00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,600 it off right now. Somebody's got to make that 851 00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,200 decision sometime when he going to do it. 852 00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,200 Why not now why? If you decide to lay aside the 853 00:49:06,300 --> 00:49:08,700 you do not have to be the same person when you leave this 854 00:49:08,700 --> 00:49:10,800 building that you were when you came here tonight, you don't 855 00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,000 have to be you. Maybe you don't have to be 856 00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,000 tonight. You can leave something dead in 857 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,400 here. Bury it, you can bury it in a 858 00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,100 watery grave of baptism. If you're not a Christian, you 859 00:49:22,100 --> 00:49:25,000 can as Romans 6 says, you can take that old man and you can 860 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,200 bury him and be United with Christ. 861 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,600 And in the likeness of his resurrection be raised to walk 862 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:33,600 in newness of life. Romans 6:3 66. 863 00:49:33,900 --> 00:49:37,900 You could do that tonight but you must repent. 864 00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,900 You've got to put to death. God won't kill him for you. 865 00:49:40,900 --> 00:49:42,700 You've got to take it off, God's. 866 00:49:42,700 --> 00:49:44,200 Not going to rip it off your body. 867 00:49:44,300 --> 00:49:48,500 You got to take it off. You've got to lay it aside. 868 00:49:49,700 --> 00:49:51,400 My friends. A lot of people want to get 869 00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:54,600 baptized without repentance, will have friends that it with 870 00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:56,700 without repentance in our life. Like, we talked about this 871 00:49:56,700 --> 00:49:58,600 morning, you'll go in a wet Center, come out. 872 00:49:58,700 --> 00:50:00,600 Argo in a dry Center. Come out of wet Center. 873 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:06,000 Repentance is the key. So tonight you've got to make a 874 00:50:06,008 --> 00:50:07,500 decision. You're no longer going to live 875 00:50:07,500 --> 00:50:09,800 that kind of Life. Have that heart, you have that 876 00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:12,000 more Ally. You're going to lay it aside my 877 00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,000 friend, you got to come and you've got to bring it and 878 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,600 you've got to lay it at the feet of the cross. 879 00:50:18,100 --> 00:50:20,700 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 880 00:50:20,700 --> 00:50:26,500 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. Road in Bakersfield, if you 881 00:50:26,500 --> 00:50:29,600 would like any additional information, or you would like 882 00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,800 to receive a free Bible correspondence, course by mail. 883 00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:37,200 Please email us at info at her Church of Christ 884 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:41,200 Bakersfield.com. 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