1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,080 Today we're going to do discipleship and my corny title, 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:05,400 which I'm actually kind of proud of. 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,600 I'm not very I'm not often proud of my titles, but work won't 4 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:14,760 work which as we get into it, you guys will see that and it is 5 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:16,320 really fun. We get into the study a little 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:17,920 ways. I'll point it out, but Aunt 7 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:24,440 Sherry and her the 1st 2 songs were definitely for this study. 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:33,120 And lastly, for lifting up Aunt Sherry and just not trying to 9 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,320 take her crown away. But people claim that their 10 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:39,960 biggest fear is public speaking. I bet you it's not. 11 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,640 Because if I give every one of those guys that say public, you 12 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,960 can either go public speak or you can public stand up and sing 13 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,840 without an instrument. I'll bet you everybody's public 14 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,920 speaking because that is hard to do. 15 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:58,360 And I appreciate her and her ability to to fill that gap for 16 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,920 us. Anyway, we're going to be we're 17 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,720 going to read in second Timothy chapter 3. 18 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:07,280 We are, we are literally going to be all over the Bible. 19 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:09,440 But we're going to anchor ourselves here. 20 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:17,720 But now, Oh, sorry, let me my new Bible. 21 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,480 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come, 22 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,600 for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, 23 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,640 boasters, proud, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, 24 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:33,120 unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers without 25 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:38,640 self-control, brooder, despisers of of good traitors, headstrong, 26 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,880 haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God having 27 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:44,480 the form of godliness but denying its power. 28 00:01:44,480 --> 00:01:49,840 Does that sound like anything from such people? 29 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:55,160 Turn away, for of this sort are those who creep into the 30 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,720 household and make up, make captivities of gullible women, 31 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:02,840 loading down with loaded down with sin, LED away by various 32 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:08,000 lusts, always learning, and never able to come to the 33 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:11,440 knowledge of the truth. Now as James and Jambreeze 34 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,680 resisted, sorry, Janice and Jambreeze resisted Moses, so do 35 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,480 these also resist the truth. Men of corrupt minds disapproved 36 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,920 concerning the faith, but they will progress no further, for 37 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:30,240 their folly will be manifest to all of their, all of theirs 38 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:34,920 also. But you have carefully followed 39 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:39,560 my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, purpose, faith, 40 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:43,040 long-suffering, love, perseverance, persecution, 41 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,920 affliction, which happened to me at Antioch and Iconium and 42 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:52,760 Lystra, what persecutions I endured, and out of them all of 43 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:57,200 the Lord delivered me. Yes, and all who desire to live 44 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:02,560 godly in Christ will suffer persecutions, but evil men and 45 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:06,160 impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being 46 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,120 deceived. But you must continue in things 47 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:15,040 which you have learned and been assured of knowing from whom you 48 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,440 learn them, and what from childhood you have known the 49 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:22,560 Holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation 50 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:27,280 through faith, which which is in Jesus Christ. 51 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:32,400 And then all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is 52 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,520 profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for 53 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:39,280 instruction and righteousness, that the man of God may be 54 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:42,760 complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. 55 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:49,560 And Lord, I just thank you for giving us your word, Lord, thank 56 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:59,360 you that it is true and profitable, Lord, that it guides 57 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:02,880 and direct us. And Lord, I just thank you for 58 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:05,320 everybody here. Thank you for this time. 59 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:09,600 Thank you even for the weather, Lord that Lord, as it's cold, 60 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,000 that there would just be some blessings in it somewhere the 61 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:16,120 the sunshine. And Lord, that you would speak 62 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,079 to me, Lord, that you would speak through me, and Lord that 63 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,440 you'd be in our midst in Jesus name, Amen. 64 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:32,840 So discipleship is just discipling someone to become 65 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:34,920 more like Christ. That's, that's Christian 66 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,920 discipleship. Christ, Christ discipled many, 67 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:41,560 but he was there. There's twelve of them that 68 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:44,560 would have said they were in his discipleship school, right? 69 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,360 And the goal of a disciple is just to become more like the 70 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:53,440 teacher. And when you look at Peter's 71 00:04:53,440 --> 00:05:00,640 life in Mark 117 and we've all heard the heard this one, I'm 72 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:03,440 sure. Then Jesus said to them, follow 73 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,560 me and I will make you become fishers of men. 74 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:14,280 And then Peter later understood his need to follow and learn, 75 00:05:14,280 --> 00:05:17,760 right? And there's a there's a part 76 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:22,200 where Jesus, a bunch of Jesus, says some hard things. 77 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,960 And then when people question him on his hard things, he 78 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:27,360 double S down and makes them harder. 79 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:30,760 And then he looks at Simon, he looks at all the apostles and 80 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:32,080 said, are you going to leave me too? 81 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:40,080 And John 668 and 69 it says, but Simon Peter answered him and 82 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,720 said, Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal 83 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:48,240 life also we have come to believe and know that you are 84 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:50,480 the Christ, the Son of the living God. 85 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:58,320 So as we disciple people, as we are discipled, the goal is, is 86 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:02,240 to teach someone who was dead to live the new life in Christ, 87 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:05,200 right, to become more like him every day. 88 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,160 And we don't do that in our flesh. 89 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:12,680 We do that through submission and and letting our flesh die, 90 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:18,240 right, and being less and less selfish every day and more, more 91 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,240 and more Christ centered every day. 92 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:27,480 Second Corinthians 517 And I'm kind of blowing through some of 93 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:30,280 these here just because they're the ones I use quite often. 94 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:33,320 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. 95 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become 96 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:43,200 new and the when we read that the world the new believers come 97 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:45,600 out of today is backwards, right? 98 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:51,080 And Jesus has a lot of old thinking to remove and refill 99 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,680 with his own. Our culture, of course, isn't 100 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:56,760 unusual. Rome. 101 00:06:56,880 --> 00:06:59,520 Rome was as bad, or at least no better. 102 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:05,040 And I know that there's there are lines out there that people 103 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,760 will say if God doesn't come and judge America owe Sodom and 104 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:10,920 Gomorrah an apology. But I'll tell you that when you 105 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:16,040 actually think that that thing, that statement through Sodom and 106 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:19,760 Gomorrah, we, we still have distance to fall, right? 107 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:23,760 I, I don't go visit towns and worried about worrying, worrying 108 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,200 about guys dragging me outside to have sex with me. 109 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:32,520 So that isn't we aren't there yet, but it is there is distance 110 00:07:32,520 --> 00:07:37,600 there to fall in our culture, but our culture is still we're 111 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:44,480 definitely on the we have a lot of darkness in our culture that 112 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,720 is confusing, right? Because it, I mean, we have, we 113 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:55,720 have made everything, everything is how I feel and what I think 114 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:01,520 and my need to be validated. And, and Jesus is not that he is 115 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:03,120 not going to validate your feelings. 116 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,120 He isn't going to bend to your thoughts. 117 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:09,200 He isn't going to, he isn't going to care about your truth, 118 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,560 right? Isaiah 55 verses 8 and 9 says 119 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:19,320 for my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my 120 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,760 ways, says the Lord, for as the heavens are higher than the 121 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:26,320 earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts 122 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:29,720 higher than your thoughts. So when we come to the Lord, 123 00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,440 when we are, when we are teaching somebody or guiding 124 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:38,840 somebody to the Lord, it is not from a position of what is 125 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:42,720 culturally acceptable, right? We're, we're going to teach him 126 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:47,480 what the Lord says and, and he says some hard things. 127 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:54,080 The world cannot comprehend Christ and the power he has to 128 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:57,840 bring things to life, right? I mean, and, and when we, when I 129 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:02,040 say that as Christians, we have to know that the God we serve, 130 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:04,920 right? We have to know that whoever is 131 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:09,440 in Washington, DC, we have to know who's in charge. 132 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:16,800 We have to know that when someone that can't be saved is 133 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,640 saved, that God has the ability to change them from the inside 134 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:24,360 out, right? We have to know the God we serve 135 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,800 in such a way that we, we understand what he is capable 136 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:33,240 of, right? He is, He is bigger than we, we 137 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:39,880 give him credit for. And as a Christian discipleship 138 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,880 is completely different than what the world would, what the 139 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:46,640 world even thinks it is, right? Because the world would tell you 140 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,160 that it's like self help books is that you're just trying to 141 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,920 make yourself a better person. Yeah, church is good for you 142 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:55,080 because you know you need that crutch. 143 00:09:55,400 --> 00:10:00,840 No, I need AI need a an EI need an ICUI don't need a crutch 144 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:06,040 right. I am I am always I'm the worst 145 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:08,680 part of my discipleship training right. 146 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:14,880 It is I am the one that is broken and I need Jesus to come 147 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:19,480 in and train me and teach me and show me every day of my life. 148 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:26,840 And when we're discipling others, that's what we are. 149 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:30,800 We are showing them is just we're guiding them to grow in 150 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:33,520 their personal relationship with Christ. 151 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:37,800 Right, guys? This isn't a Christianity and I 152 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,480 say it a lot Christianity. I don't want to be a Christian. 153 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:42,760 I don't want to act like a Christian. 154 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:46,680 I want to be 1 and to be one that is to what a Christian was 155 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,720 the first time they were called Christians is they were called 156 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,760 there was a mocking term that meant little Christ. 157 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:55,360 They were acting like these little Jesus is running around 158 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,880 right? That's what I want to be. 159 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,240 And the only way to be that is to spend time with the one that 160 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:05,320 can make me that. It isn't about anything. 161 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:08,920 I, I can, I can find a rule book, it's in here. 162 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:13,000 I can, I can check off all the rules that are in here and that 163 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,640 won't get it done right, That work won't work. 164 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:25,520 And but what I'm looking for is the living water of Jesus to 165 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,560 fill me up. And then when that fills me up, 166 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:34,680 I'm able to pour out into other people and it's an exchange of 167 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:40,640 my wants for his will. John 7 verse 38. 168 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:44,640 And this one is actually a life first for me. 169 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:48,720 And the living water line in Uganda is he who believes in me, 170 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,800 as the scriptures has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of 171 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,480 living water. And the idea there is, is that 172 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:02,160 when we, when we are in Christ, when he is filling us up, we 173 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,520 can't help but pour out into the, into the world around us, 174 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:11,760 into the, the people we work with, the, the people we shop 175 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:15,480 with. Just, we have a ability to 176 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:18,920 affect our community because of what Jesus has done in our 177 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,600 lives. Not because I've read my Bible. 178 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,160 I read, I read through my Bible twice a week, right? 179 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:27,240 Not because I'm, I'm like a speed reader. 180 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:34,320 I, I fast 14 * a month and I, I, I pray 5 hours a week, right? 181 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:41,440 None of that is point. The point is I am, I am so close 182 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:46,760 to Jesus that he that I reflect his light into the world, right? 183 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:52,960 And that is discipleship. As we get into discipleship, 184 00:12:53,400 --> 00:13:01,600 what it is not is a list of rules you have to follow in 185 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,320 order to follow Jesus, right? It is and and like I call us all 186 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:08,200 the time dirt, right? We were made from dirt and we're 187 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:14,240 going to return to dirt. Our bodies are and and we can 188 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,160 get it in our heads. And I imagine the angels sit up, 189 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:21,720 sit up above us and look down and just chuckle that as we go 190 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,960 through this stuff, they're boxes to be checked, right? 191 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:28,680 That that we do these things to do these things and we don't 192 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:33,280 everything that we do, we do to grow closer to Christ period. 193 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:36,960 And that's and that is well, like I've talked about for the 194 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:41,120 last three weeks, the get TOS right, which is reading and 195 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:46,160 meditating, praying, memorizing, fasting, giving, studying, 196 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:50,320 worshipping and witnessing are all things that and are all 197 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:53,280 things that can become work right? 198 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:59,280 They they can become a works mentality of I have to do this 199 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:03,520 in order for Jesus to love me and guys, there is nothing you 200 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:08,600 can do to increase Jesus's love for you, right? 201 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,800 He loves you. He loves you as much today as 202 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,840 the day you were born. How much do you love him right. 203 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:23,440 And as we get into discipleship, sorry if you are if you are 204 00:14:23,440 --> 00:14:27,680 doing them to build your relationship with Jesus, then 205 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:30,640 you're doing them right. I was just kind of poking at 206 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,080 Faye the other day and I said, you know, it's we get in our 207 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,640 heads that, that it's a works thing. 208 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:40,520 And you know, if, if being married, if I give you a, you 209 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:43,120 know, I go, I go to a guy. And I said, you know what, I see 210 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,880 you've been married for 60 years and I'd like to know how'd you 211 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:50,240 do it? And he looked at me and said, 212 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,920 well, I don't sleep with other women. 213 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:58,160 Now that is a should not right? You you shouldn't sleep with 214 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,400 other women if you're married, but I'm pretty sure that isn't 215 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,200 how he stayed married for 60 years, right. 216 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:05,880 It wasn't by the things he wasn't doing. 217 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:11,200 It's but we get it in our heads, right, that there is something, 218 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:16,080 you know the the reason all the things that I do with Faye, you 219 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:20,880 know, all the time I spend with her is to know her better, 220 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:23,880 right? It's, it's, it's not a 221 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:28,800 requirement that because I am married now, I have to sit next 222 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:34,240 to you on the couch. It's hard work, right? 223 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,120 Or I have to take her to dinner, right? 224 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,400 No, I get to take her to dinner. I get to watch movies with her, 225 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,360 right? I mean, I get to do this stuff 226 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:54,600 and my, my line where where I came up with work won't work. 227 00:15:55,520 --> 00:16:00,960 Matthew 721 through 23. And everybody knows this one, 228 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:06,560 but it's not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord shall enter 229 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,840 the Kingdom of heaven. But he who does the will of my 230 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:14,520 Father in heaven, many will say to me in the day, in that day, 231 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,040 Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, cast 232 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,040 out demons in your name and done many wonders in your name. 233 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:25,280 And then I will declare to them, I never knew you depart from me, 234 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:31,240 you who practice lawlessness. So this is this is a critical 235 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:40,200 point when we are asked why we should pass into peace, into the 236 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:47,720 peace and rest of Jesus, The only answer, the only answer is 237 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:51,960 by the grace of the King. That's it. 238 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,880 It's if any, and they, and that's where these people went 239 00:16:55,880 --> 00:17:00,520 wrong is they said, Lord, haven't I done this and haven't 240 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,240 I done that and haven't I done this and haven't I done that? 241 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:07,200 And he said I did him in your name. 242 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:13,359 He didn't do anything. If it was done, Jesus did it. 243 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:20,960 You know, I don't have anything to offer him except my reliance 244 00:17:20,960 --> 00:17:28,359 on him and Luke 1811 and this goes to my other one that I was 245 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:31,160 going to use was I could have used instead of instead of work 246 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,000 won't work. I was thinking I could use shall 247 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:38,800 nots shall not. But anyway, that's Luke 1811. 248 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,680 It says the Pharisees stood and prayed thus with himself. 249 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:46,760 God, I thank you that I'm not like other men, extortioners, 250 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:50,760 unjust adulterers, or even as this tax collector. 251 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:58,640 We won't be ready to meet Jesus if we think I am worthier than 252 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:04,800 other men, if we try to teach as we're doing discipleship, all 253 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:09,080 the things you shall not do. Now do I think that a good shall 254 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,720 not is I shall not sleep with other women. 255 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,200 That's a good. That's a good thing, right? 256 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:22,640 But I don't grit my teeth and, and try really hard not to sleep 257 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:27,680 with other women. I just love my wife and I spend 258 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:32,520 time with her, right? And so when we get into the, I 259 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:40,040 mean, I don't struggle with being an extortioner or being an 260 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:43,400 adulterer or even being a tax collector, right? 261 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:44,960 I, I don't struggle with those things. 262 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,240 I just, I just want to spend more time with Jesus. 263 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,200 And that really is our thing. And here's the here's the fun. 264 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,960 There is only one way, just one to get into heaven. 265 00:18:56,520 --> 00:19:00,520 And and Sherri sang a song and then she sang another song just 266 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:03,800 to send it home. And in that song was a chorus 267 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,920 that said, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. That's it, guys. 268 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:10,480 When you're discipling people, when you're, when you're guiding 269 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:15,400 people on what it is to be with, be a Christian, that's what 270 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,280 you're teaching them, right? You're just sharing Jesus with 271 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:22,120 them. It's Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, right? 272 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:29,440 And I shared last week. Acts 4413 says Now when they saw 273 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:32,280 the boldness of Peter and John and perceived they were 274 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:38,120 uneducated and untrained, they marveled and they realized that 275 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:41,400 they had been with Jesus. Because that's all I want to be 276 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:43,800 and that's all you should want to be, right? 277 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:45,760 And that's all that's all the time. 278 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:49,440 If you're spending time with younger believers and, and 279 00:19:50,040 --> 00:19:52,240 teaching them anything, what you should be teaching them is how 280 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,880 to how to be closer to Jesus. All right. 281 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:07,880 So how that how that growth works is as our character is 282 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:12,480 transformed. By spending time with Jesus, 283 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:17,680 then he changes the way I see things, right? 284 00:20:18,120 --> 00:20:22,160 It's like, for example, my, my character is not to love my 285 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,320 enemies. It's not right. 286 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:27,720 My my character is not designed that way. 287 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:32,120 But the character character of God is to love them. 288 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:38,000 So as our thoughts and minds are conformed to Christ and the Holy 289 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:42,920 Spirit living inside of us, loving our enemies takes care of 290 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,080 itself. It isn't something I try to do. 291 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:46,920 It's just something that happens. 292 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:51,840 You know, it's I imagine, I imagine there are people here 293 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,360 that have went through where they were going to quit cussing. 294 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:59,680 I'm going to I'm going to quit cussing and how that work. 295 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:04,320 Just, you know, I'm just going to quit or did when when you 296 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,280 actually quit, was it something that God just took away? 297 00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,840 Right. I can remember I was working a 298 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:15,680 job and probably probably one of my worst days I've had in 299 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:23,920 excavation for yeah, I still remember it pretty clearly and 300 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,520 it was like 12 years ago, so it was a pretty bad day. 301 00:21:28,120 --> 00:21:33,920 But at the end of it, I threw my hard hat probably like I got out 302 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,320 of the truck and the water line, it blew up and it was the end of 303 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,320 the day and we got to dig it all back up and I hooked my hard hat 304 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:44,760 probably to the water. I was, I was not happy and I was 305 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,520 in charge. And what blew up was my fault. 306 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:50,040 And I mean, this was just one of those days. 307 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:54,480 And I was, you know, then you're, you're diving in, 308 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,320 getting things running so you can get it open back up and get 309 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:01,480 everything shut down. And the water purveyor walked 310 00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:04,200 over to me about 10 minutes later after things had calmed 311 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:05,560 down. And he had my hard hat in his 312 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:07,560 hand and he handed it back to me. 313 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:09,840 And he's like, you didn't even cuss. 314 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:15,120 And that wasn't because I was trying, guys, right? 315 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:18,520 That wasn't, I was, I was as mad as I could be. 316 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:24,240 And I didn't cuss because it wasn't in there to do right? 317 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:28,440 Because he had taken that away, not because, oh, in this moment, 318 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:31,520 I need to not cuss. Trust me, that was not going 319 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,040 through my mind. I was mad. 320 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:39,480 But that leads us now we're finally to the discipleship. 321 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:42,000 And what is that? What, how do you disciple 322 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,840 somebody? What's a what's a road map for 323 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:49,600 that? Second Timothy 316 and 17. 324 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,200 All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is 325 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,440 profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for 326 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:59,080 instruction and righteousness that the man of God may be 327 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,120 complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. 328 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:11,840 So the purpose here is to equip but equipping sounds like once 329 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:15,360 again we're back into that works thing and the goal here is never 330 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:20,320 it's why are we doing it right? You know, when pre marriage 331 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:25,360 counseling, why do you why? Why do I, why would I tell you, 332 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:26,920 you should get pre marriage counseling? 333 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:30,640 Why did why before I got married did we have pre marriage 334 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,520 counseling? Why do why do you do that? 335 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:36,080 Right? Because I want to know my wife. 336 00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:39,360 I want to, I want to care for her the way she wants to be 337 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:41,680 cared for. I want to love her the way she 338 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,480 wants to be loved. I want to know her better. 339 00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:49,000 And that pre marriage counseling helps with that, right, But 340 00:23:49,120 --> 00:23:53,400 that's this kind of equipping is knowing Jesus better in what he 341 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:59,160 wrote down is beneficial to our relationship with him. 342 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:06,320 So Paul starts off with that. The word is first of all, it's 343 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:11,440 it's from it's inspired by God and it's in profitable for 344 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,280 doctrine and doctrine is just teaching, right? 345 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,840 Whatever is taught a principle or position in any subject 346 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:23,640 whatever is laid down as true by the instructor or the master. 347 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:28,520 And so that is once again we're in the word of God. 348 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:42,080 And John 716 through 18 Jesus answered and said to them, My 349 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,760 doctrine is not mine, but his who sent me. 350 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:51,880 If anyone wills to do his will, He shall now concern, He will 351 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:55,440 sorry, He shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from 352 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,320 God or whether I speak on my own authority. 353 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:02,840 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks 354 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:06,320 the glory of the one who sent him is true, and no 355 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,440 righteousness is in him or no unrighteousness is in him. 356 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:15,440 So when we're teaching doctrine, not my opinion, but God's word, 357 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,560 that's that is your you do not want to create. 358 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:21,640 I do not want to create a bunch of little Nicks running around, 359 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,360 right? Not at all. 360 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:30,800 That is a horrible idea. And the number one principle 361 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:37,320 that we are not guiding them into into me, but teaching them 362 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:42,800 to be like Christ, right and reflecting his teaching and his 363 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:47,360 doctrine. And that can only happen when we 364 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:49,840 are in his word and praying right? 365 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:58,800 We, I don't have, you know, the I don't have the skill set to do 366 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:03,320 what God asks me to do outside of God, right? 367 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:09,440 If I'm, if, if I'm ever up here teaching and I'm doing it on my 368 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:14,440 own merits and my own ability, you guys are all going to leave, 369 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:16,880 right? It's, it is. 370 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:24,760 I am not capable of sharing Jesus with people outside of 371 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:30,240 Jesus. And when we are teaching 372 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:35,320 principles and truths taught by the word, be sure that I'm not 373 00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,760 in it right? And that is, that is something I 374 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,400 struggle with you as I went through this study. 375 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:46,200 And that's one of the reasons I don't like doing topical 376 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,680 studies. As I went through this study, I, 377 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:52,280 I, I, I was done with this study on Wednesday. 378 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:56,600 Done put a fork in it. I now I can do, I can do some 379 00:26:56,600 --> 00:27:01,680 other stuff. And, and then Thursday I 380 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:07,600 reworked it and then Friday we actually, I didn't do it because 381 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,920 we ended up in Spokane at a they had some stuff she needed to 382 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,840 take care of. And then Saturday I spent was 383 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:19,320 here till I was here late last night and I had pretty much 384 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:21,440 crumpled it up, threw it in the garbage and started over. 385 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:27,960 And the reason for that is that I felt like I was in it, which 386 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:30,040 is not where I want to be, right. 387 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,400 I want to tell you what what he says. 388 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:37,280 And so one of the ways we do that, one of the ways that we 389 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:42,320 and that the church has done it for centuries is teaching 390 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:45,520 doctrine is by by the use of creeds, right. 391 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,160 And a creed is just a summary of what the word already teaches. 392 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,240 So it isn't the creed doesn't make up new things. 393 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,360 It goes to the Bible and says, what does the Bible teach? 394 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,160 And now we're going to put that in a summary. 395 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,760 So what does the Bible teach about being a Christian? 396 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:07,200 So, and I'm sure everybody has, not everybody, but many of you 397 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:11,160 have heard the Apostles Creed. And if you're a Christian here 398 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:16,160 today, this is what you believe. It's, it's concise. 399 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,200 It's, there's a lot more that you believe, but this is what 400 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,640 you believe. If you don't know what you 401 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,840 believe, I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of 402 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,640 heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his 403 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,600 only Son, our Lord. He was conceived by the power of 404 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,560 the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary. 405 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:37,880 He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and 406 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,880 was buried. He descended into He descended 407 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,640 to the dead, and on the third day he rose again. 408 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:47,120 He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the 409 00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:50,320 Father. He will come again to judge the 410 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,760 living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, 411 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:57,640 the body of Christ, the Church, the communion of the Saints, the 412 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:01,600 forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and 413 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:06,080 the life everlasting. So if you're a Christian, that's 414 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:09,800 what you believe. Now, if I'm, if I'm discipling 415 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:13,760 you, how I'm going to use that creed isn't by saying you're a 416 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,840 Christian and you believe that I'm going to start breaking it 417 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:22,520 down and showing you in the Word where it says that right. 418 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,160 You can. And it and it, it's just works 419 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,000 as an outline. It's it's a way to to go back. 420 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,720 And so you can teach each one of those bullets. 421 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,200 And then you can come back to the creed as often as as needed 422 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,840 to, to figure out what, what other questions they have, 423 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,520 because they're there are questions in there. 424 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,000 So did the did, did Mary really have to be a virgin? 425 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,520 Yes, she did right. Is is the Father, Son and the 426 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,840 Holy Spirit all God? Yes, they are. 427 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,960 Is there only one God? Yes there is right. 428 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:56,160 It's all there and I can show it to you in the word. 429 00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,640 I mean, the creed isn't the word of God, but the creed gives you 430 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:07,520 a a position, gives you a tool to use to go back and show 431 00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:15,720 people. So if we believe Jesus is God, 432 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:21,880 then we believe John 1 verses one through 3 which is in the 433 00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,520 beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word 434 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,840 was God. He was in the beginning with God 435 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:32,040 and all things were made through him and without him nothing was 436 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:37,680 made that was made. So if we come at the Word from 437 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:43,120 that direction, right, the Word was in the beginning and Jesus 438 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:47,920 is the Word, right? Then suddenly the Bible is not a 439 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:53,760 book to be debated, but a book to be believed and applied to my 440 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,840 life. And the word was given by 441 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,040 inspiration of the Holy Spirit. So when we are reading, 442 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:06,640 meditating and thinking about it or studying it, we should be 443 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,600 asking God what he would like to show us, right? 444 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:15,040 There's, there's nothing I can stand up here and teach you that 445 00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:18,800 you can't learn from the Holy Spirit by reading his word and 446 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:23,840 asking, right? That's, that is the, that is 447 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:28,040 what's a lot of fun. I've done mission trips for 448 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,200 years and years. And the funnest thing about a 449 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:35,240 Bible believing church and it's any Bible believing church is 450 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:39,280 that you can, you can go and you can listen to him because they 451 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:44,040 all have the same book, right? They're they're they're reading 452 00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:46,600 out of the same book. Now, do I think that there are 453 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,840 people that take take some liberties with it? 454 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,480 Yes, right. There is. 455 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,800 And, and I have a buddy that that says God Forgives me for 456 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:59,640 all of my sins, including my bad doctrine. 457 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,200 And that's a fact, right, because none of it, nobody got 458 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:06,360 it right. And when we get to heaven, 459 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,400 there's going to be things that I know that I know that I know 460 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:13,080 I'm right on, that I'm wrong. J Vernon McGee is my perfect 461 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,520 picture of that because anybody heard him on the Bible bus. 462 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,200 I don't even know if it's still on the radio anywhere. 463 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:23,800 But yeah, it's, it's five years. And he takes you from Genesis to 464 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:27,440 Revelation. And he's a really simple, crazy 465 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:31,160 smart, but very simple teaching through the Bible. 466 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:37,840 And when he gets to spiritual gifts, this man who can divide 467 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:43,320 the word with just perfection, like he, he can illuminate 468 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:44,720 Isaiah. I mean, he's great. 469 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,600 He gets the spiritual gifts and gifts and starts doing backflips 470 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,720 with his own rules, right? Because he doesn't want to 471 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:57,160 believe in spiritual gifts now, because God has because God has 472 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:03,720 a a great sense of humor. But so Bible bust was done and 473 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:08,600 then Jay Vernon got sick, I believe it was cancer, and then 474 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,360 he was healed miraculously. And he will say he would, he 475 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,440 would have said while he was still here that he was healed 476 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:21,240 miraculously, right? And so he went backwards on his 477 00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:24,240 view on spiritual gifts by the end of his life. 478 00:33:24,360 --> 00:33:28,480 But my point with all that is because he got spiritual gifts 479 00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:31,320 wrong, do I crumple up the Bible bus and throw the whole thing 480 00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:35,840 out? No, I read my Bible and I know 481 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:40,800 what it says, right? And and I learn, right. 482 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,440 You have to have your, you have to be Bereans. 483 00:33:43,440 --> 00:33:46,160 You have to dig in and know what it says. 484 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,800 And that's what when you're, when you're discipling somebody, 485 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,760 that's what you should be teaching them to do, is to be 486 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:57,120 digging into their own Bible and reading it for themselves, not 487 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:02,320 listening to do what I say. That is not discipleship, right? 488 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:10,040 Discipleship is guiding somebody into that relationship, like 489 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:14,000 more like a mentoring than a than a bossing, right. 490 00:34:19,909 --> 00:34:25,230 So another way to know that you're and when I guess how do I 491 00:34:25,230 --> 00:34:27,190 know that I'm teaching what the Bible says? 492 00:34:27,190 --> 00:34:31,230 You've got you've got multiple ways of doing that inductive 493 00:34:31,230 --> 00:34:37,400 Bible study and that, but you also just have is it read that 494 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:41,679 whole paragraph does as you're as you're looking at that verse, 495 00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:43,360 whatever it is, read that whole paragraph. 496 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:47,120 Make sure it's in context, context of what's being said. 497 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,440 Read the book. Make sure that the way you're 498 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,719 interpreting that paragraph makes sense in that chapter and 499 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,520 in that book, and then make sure it all makes sense in the in the 500 00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:01,240 whole counsel of God. So that's once again, that's 501 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:03,560 kind of like Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. 502 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,840 It's context, context, context, right? 503 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,960 Who was about who was it written to? 504 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:14,040 All of those things matter. One of my favorite ways to 505 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:19,760 interpret the Bible is using the Bible, which is is there 506 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,200 anything else that says the same thing right. 507 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:28,680 Second, Peter 120 through 21. And this would teach the same 508 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:35,440 thing as Matt as a second Timothy knowing this first, that 509 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,360 no prophecy or scripture is of any private interpretation. 510 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:45,840 For prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God 511 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,840 as they were moved by the Holy Spirit, right. 512 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:54,480 So that that backs up that that the words of God were were 513 00:35:54,480 --> 00:36:01,840 inspired by God to be put there. So doctrine or teaching the 514 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:05,200 Bible is the word of God and should be used to build a 515 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:10,800 foundation in Christ, right? And that is just build that help 516 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:15,960 them to build a relationship and let them know what know that 517 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:18,480 they know, right? I mean, that's when there are 518 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,240 many, many other religions out there. 519 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,080 The, the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses are the two 520 00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,800 that I will poke at today. There's, there's people in those 521 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,480 churches that have no idea what they believe, right? 522 00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:40,680 They there, they don't know, they don't know how dark their 523 00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,880 beliefs are because they just, well, well, Jesus, I'm a 524 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,120 Christian. But the problem is they don't 525 00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,080 know what they're being discipled in because they 526 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,520 haven't read their own books, right? 527 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:57,560 So how do you know what it is to be a believer? 528 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,360 And do you know who Jesus is? And when I say that I don't, I 529 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,200 don't mean like some special secret knock. 530 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:07,080 I'm saying, have you? Do you spend time on a regular 531 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:12,000 basis with your Lord? Because that's discipleship and 532 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,440 we all need it, right? Whether whether I am discipling 533 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,240 someone else or I am being discipled, right? 534 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:26,680 We we need to be about the Lord's business and then back to 535 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,560 second Timothy. The next thing Paul says it's 536 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:33,840 good for is rebuking and rebuking is showing strong 537 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:37,760 disapproval of someone because of how they are acting for the 538 00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,920 purpose of restraint or reforming them. 539 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:46,840 The Proverbs 27 five says an open rebuke is better than love 540 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:52,880 carefully concealed. So a rebuke is simply being able 541 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:57,600 and willing to call your brother or sister out when they are in 542 00:37:57,600 --> 00:37:59,800 sin and making justifications for it. 543 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,800 And that's the that's the one when you're rebuking somebody, 544 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,840 it's because they are doing something and they are good with 545 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:14,000 it, right? And the example of that is First 546 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,440 Corinthians 5, one through 5. And this is Paul rebuking an 547 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,680 entire church who thought they were being loving. 548 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,960 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among 549 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:33,920 you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the 550 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,680 Gentiles. That a man has his father's wife 551 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,880 and you are puffed up and have not rather mourned. 552 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:46,320 That he who has done this deed might be taken away from among 553 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:52,400 you, or indeed indeed as absent in the body, but present in the 554 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:59,960 Spirit, I have already judged as though I was present Him who has 555 00:38:59,960 --> 00:39:03,880 so done this deed in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 556 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,920 When you are gathered together along with my spirit, with the 557 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:12,320 power of the Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for 558 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:16,760 destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the 559 00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:22,320 day of the Lord. So he was rebuking them for not 560 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:29,320 rebuking someone, right? So that tells you that you need 561 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:34,360 to be willing and able to call sin sin, right? 562 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,520 You need to be. It is our responsibility, our 563 00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,880 duty. It's our obligation that we're 564 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,480 not supposed to be sin sniffers and telling people all the 565 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:48,960 things they're doing wrong. But if you see somebody that is, 566 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:55,880 I mean, this is a great example that is in sin and thinks they 567 00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:00,480 are perfectly OK, you need to confront them in love. 568 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,440 And I mean, this isn't Paul throwing these people out of the 569 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:04,760 church. He's telling them to get their 570 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:10,680 act together, right? And and then telling them to 571 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,440 rebuke this guy. And then in the second letter, 572 00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,120 if you guys haven't read it, but the second letter, the 573 00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:21,120 Corinthians, he has to rebuke them again because the guy, 574 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:23,320 they, they tossed him out of the church. 575 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:26,080 And then he repented and wanted to come back and they wouldn't 576 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:28,720 let him come back. So we had to rebuke him again 577 00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:36,560 because Paul. Paul had patience, right? 578 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:44,640 But our responsibility is Ezekiel 366 and seven says, But 579 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,800 if the watchman sees a sword coming and does not blow the 580 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:53,680 trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and 581 00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:58,200 takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his 582 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:01,400 iniquity. But his blood I will require at 583 00:41:01,400 --> 00:41:06,440 the watchman's hand. So you, son of man, I have made 584 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:08,360 you a watchman for the House of Israel. 585 00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:13,400 Therefore you shall hear a word from my mouth and warn them for 586 00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,040 me. So our responsibility, our 587 00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:22,120 obligation is to confront sin, to do it lovingly, caringly. 588 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:27,040 But there is a standard, right? And in that we're supposed to 589 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,720 bring people back. What God says here is if we 590 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:34,160 don't do that, those people, those people, sin will find them 591 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,240 out there in it. Their blood, his blood will be 592 00:41:37,240 --> 00:41:44,080 required, but it will be at the it'll be on my hands, right? 593 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,400 It'll be on your hands. If I wasn't willing to stand in 594 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:51,800 right places, you know, and I would say in the, in the culture 595 00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:57,120 we live in right now, there are hundreds, hundreds upon hundreds 596 00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:01,840 of of churches that would call themselves Christian in America 597 00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,120 that are going. The amount of blood they have on 598 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:10,640 their hands for not standing in right places and being willing 599 00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:15,760 to say that is wrong and that is right and not in a not. 600 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:22,000 We should never be judging somebody and saying I'm good and 601 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:26,480 you're bad, right? I'm supposed to shine light. 602 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:30,040 I'm supposed to shine Jesus into people's license and share with 603 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:37,000 them what what his standard is. You know, when I, when I think 604 00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:42,480 of, of my, my line of work as a supervisor, if I show up and 605 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:51,000 nobody is, is, if everybody is with everybody is using the 606 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,840 standard correctly. And let's say we're talking 607 00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,000 about PPE and everybody's got their hard hats on, their safety 608 00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,000 glasses on, their gloves on, their steel toed boots. 609 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,560 And then there's one guy, his name's Matt. 610 00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:06,120 No kidding. Sorry. 611 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:09,760 That that's standing there without a hard hat. 612 00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:15,080 He doesn't have, he's wearing flip flops and he, he, he has 613 00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,600 one glove on. And I woke up and I talk to 614 00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,680 everybody and I say, hey, how you doing? 615 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:25,320 And then I go, what if I just told the other five guys on that 616 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:29,680 crew that you don't need to wear your hard hat, that flip flops 617 00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:34,280 are OK and gloves are optional. I didn't say a word, right? 618 00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:39,440 All I, I just, I didn't confront someone who was not at the 619 00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:44,560 standard and I wouldn't do that. I mean, my goal in in 620 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,600 confronting someone in that is that they wear their hard hat, 621 00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,640 their safety glasses, their gloves and their steel toed 622 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:54,680 boots. And the reason for that for me, 623 00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:58,440 the reason is I don't want them to get hurt, right? 624 00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:01,880 And and that should be our heart when we're rebuking somebody. 625 00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,640 I don't for you, you know, I'm not rebuking you. 626 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,040 So I feel better because I will tell you that if you've ever had 627 00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:12,880 the joy of having to have that conversation with somebody, it 628 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,560 is not what you want to do if your heart's in the right place. 629 00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:18,960 It is an argument you and the Lord have been having for a 630 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,680 little while going, Lord, please don't make me do this right. 631 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:25,680 It's it's the ones that I really want to say this. 632 00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,840 I'm going to go tell them when I think about this and I'm going 633 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:34,800 to you should probably be quiet, but it's the ones that when it's 634 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:39,440 really hard, right, and how we know how we know when we're 635 00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:42,360 supposed to be rebuking somebody is we need to be in our word. 636 00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,600 We need to be listening to the Lord and we need to be learning 637 00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:50,600 from him, right? It's it's his wisdom that I want 638 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:54,120 to share with people and it the thing with his wisdom. 639 00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,240 When I do it with His wisdom and His knowledge and the words He 640 00:44:57,240 --> 00:45:01,960 wants me to use, suddenly it has power that I don't have. 641 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:07,640 Hebrews 5412 says For the word of God is living and powerful 642 00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,880 and sharper than any 2 edged sword, piercing even to the 643 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,840 division of the soul and the spirit and the joints in the 644 00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:17,720 marrow, and it is a discerner of thoughts and intents of the 645 00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:21,240 heart. So when we are, when we are 646 00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:24,440 rebuking somebody, make sure we're in the word right? 647 00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:27,800 We're not rebuking our feelings. I don't feel like I like how you 648 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,880 acted right at that. That has nothing to do with it. 649 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,840 Make sure that that rebukes come from the word. 650 00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:36,320 If it's if it's time to rebuke somebody. 651 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:41,520 Correction is the act of bringing somebody back from air 652 00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:46,160 deviation to adjust standard. It's an adjustment or a fine 653 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:51,440 tuning, right? When we correct somebody who God 654 00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:58,360 has put in our care, we use God's Word to adjust their 655 00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:02,960 thoughts. Very often believers, solid well 656 00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:13,080 meaning believers have have unbiblical thoughts like like 657 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:14,880 God helps those that help themselves. 658 00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:18,680 You ever heard that one right? Hey, you're going to struggle to 659 00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,240 try and find that in the Bible. It's it's not there. 660 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:25,640 But what I love is Paul groups all of the worldly wisdom, all 661 00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:29,560 of the self help books, all of the all the body hacks, all the 662 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,640 things. He groups them all together. 663 00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:33,280 He wads them up and he throws them out. 664 00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:40,160 Colossians 220 and 23. It says, therefore, if you died 665 00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:46,960 with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as 666 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:51,040 the living in the world, do you subject yourself to regulations, 667 00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:55,240 do not touch, do not taste, do not handle, which all concern 668 00:46:55,240 --> 00:46:58,240 things which perish with the using according to the 669 00:46:58,240 --> 00:47:00,200 commandments and doctrines of men. 670 00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:05,240 These things indeed have the appearance of wisdom in 671 00:47:05,240 --> 00:47:08,640 self-imposed religion, false humility and neglect of the 672 00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:13,600 body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the 673 00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:16,640 flesh. So it just kind of takes all 674 00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:20,280 those one liners that very many people use and throws them out 675 00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:25,160 right. What when we're correcting 676 00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:29,440 somebody, it's bringing them back into pointing them at Jesus 677 00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:36,640 right And and saying we're to walk in the spirit. 678 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:41,640 And I know that I'm going to I'm as I go through this, there is a 679 00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:43,800 point where we'll actually talk about the training of it. 680 00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:48,360 But it's important for us to understand that as a Christian, 681 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:53,680 what you are agreeing to the day you gave your life to Jesus is 682 00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:57,680 submitting and relying on him and his power to do his work in 683 00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:01,040 your life right now. You get to know him more and he 684 00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:03,720 gets to fill you more, but not because he isn't all there at 685 00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:07,280 the beginning, but because you're holding things back and 686 00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:12,360 as as a discipling somebody or even as being a disciple. 687 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:18,880 Our job is just to guide them in that submission to Christ, 688 00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:26,320 submission to his will. Galatians 516 and 18 says or 689 00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:30,440 through 18 says, I say then walk in the Spirit and you shall not 690 00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:34,160 fulfill the lust of the flesh for the flesh lust against the 691 00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,000 spirit and the Spirit against the flesh. 692 00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:40,520 And these are contrary to one another so that you do not do 693 00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,240 the things you wish. But if you are led by the 694 00:48:43,240 --> 00:48:45,880 spirit, you are not under the law. 695 00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:50,680 So corrections are just guiding or adjusting through the word. 696 00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:55,360 Corrections only work when you're in a relationship, right? 697 00:48:55,720 --> 00:49:00,720 I can't walk up to a stranger on the street and, and really give 698 00:49:00,720 --> 00:49:04,080 them a valid correction. I have to know where they're at. 699 00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:07,840 I have to know them. I have to, I have to have that 700 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:13,240 right and I have to have, I have to be in prayer through all of 701 00:49:13,240 --> 00:49:16,360 this. Paul, I would tell you knew more 702 00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:20,560 about the Bible than I ever will, right? 703 00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:25,960 He, he knew more about the word and the scriptures and how, how 704 00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:28,600 they are to be translated and, and interpreted. 705 00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,400 He is, he's better at it. And you know what he spent huge 706 00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:34,680 amounts of his time doing praying, right? 707 00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,240 He prayed for the churches that were under his care. 708 00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:42,560 And that's where that the ability to give correction comes 709 00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:48,480 from is you should be in prayer and and asking the Lord for 710 00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:53,160 wisdom in all the situations. And whenever you see someone 711 00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:58,320 that's in your care that that you have that relationship with 712 00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:01,160 that you can reach into their lives and you see them drifting 713 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:04,600 away. You know, correcting them is a 714 00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:09,240 thing that we do more Galatians 1/6 says I marvel and this is 715 00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:12,080 Paul speaking. I marvel that you are turning 716 00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:17,680 away so soon from him who called you in the grace of Christ to a 717 00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:21,720 different gospel. And this is Paul's intro to the 718 00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:27,160 church and it's a correction. And his heart was was to set 719 00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:31,560 them free from bad doctrine. If you read all of Galatians, 720 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:36,160 you will see a perfect example of a written out correction, 721 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:40,480 right? And so that's us correcting 722 00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:42,480 people. But it's when we're doing it, 723 00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,800 it's, it's correcting them into Christ, right? 724 00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:48,400 It's still never, never pointing at myself. 725 00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:55,240 Then there's training, which is just the act of teaching or 726 00:50:55,240 --> 00:50:59,720 informing, right, which is coaching, right? 727 00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:03,640 It's very often we talk about discipleship and this is the 728 00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:09,720 step we jump to, and it is an important step, but but the 729 00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,880 outward action of a Christian without giving that solid 730 00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:18,840 foundation of of doctrine, what we believe and and of rebuke, 731 00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:24,160 where a Christian stands on sin and correction, willing to 732 00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:27,920 adjust our thinking to his if we don't give that first 733 00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:33,720 instructions can puff up. It can get the actions in front 734 00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:38,000 of the Spirit right. I mean, I'm sure anybody that's 735 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:40,560 grown up in church or has been going to a church for any like 736 00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,040 time, you know, you should have a quiet time every morning. 737 00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,480 We should, we should read probably pray 5 or 6 hours a 738 00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:52,600 day. Sorry, dwelling, which we talked 739 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:55,120 about, you know, just meditating and and spending time with him, 740 00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:57,360 fasting and giving and worship and witness. 741 00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:02,760 And these are all things that are, that are crucial to A, to a 742 00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:08,960 vibrant Christian life, right? But not at the expense of not 743 00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:13,800 knowing Jesus, right? You do these things because you 744 00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:15,320 know him and you want to know him more. 745 00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:21,640 I do things with Faye because I know her and I want to know her 746 00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:26,720 more. That's why we do these things, 747 00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:27,760 right? It isn't. 748 00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:32,800 I have to do this so that I get a God's got this whole board up. 749 00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:35,320 It's a big board because it's got us all on it and there's 750 00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:39,160 little stars by every day and you know, and you need a star by 751 00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:43,000 your name today for doing, you know, check you check the boxes 752 00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,880 as that isn't it. They they unfortunately does 753 00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,760 have that box and it's you'll see it and it's got stars. 754 00:52:49,760 --> 00:53:04,680 My name misses a lot of stars, so I'm going to run through the 755 00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,120 things that we teach when you're when you're when you're teaching 756 00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:14,600 somebody, right? That first and foremost because 757 00:53:14,600 --> 00:53:19,600 of what he has already done, We submit to his will and plan for 758 00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:20,720 us. We teach. 759 00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:25,320 We are dead and live only in Christ as our center and that's 760 00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,840 Galatians 220. I've been crucified with Christ 761 00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:31,160 is no longer I live the Christ who lives in me this life that I 762 00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,320 now live in the flesh. I live by faith in the Son of 763 00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:36,440 God who loved me and gave himself for me. 764 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:40,360 And that's critical, right? That we we teach that that this 765 00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,800 is not a this is not a works mentality. 766 00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:49,720 I am dead and the only thing I bring is, is faith that he can 767 00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:52,600 somehow get life out of this dead body. 768 00:53:53,240 --> 00:53:56,920 We talked about Joshua 18 last week or two weeks ago. 769 00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:00,280 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but that 770 00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:03,160 you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to 771 00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,200 do according that all that is written in it. 772 00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:08,080 For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will 773 00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:11,400 have good success. You don't. 774 00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:15,560 You don't make your way prosperous and have good success 775 00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,240 because you got a Gold Star for reading the Bible. 776 00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,720 You make your way prosperous and have good success because you 777 00:54:22,720 --> 00:54:27,000 know what the Bible says and apply it to your life. 778 00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,680 And when you know the word better, you know the guy that 779 00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:37,000 wrote the word better, right? And that's that's that point we 780 00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:40,080 teach that we get to pray to Jesus, right. 781 00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:45,080 I did a whole study on the get to's, but that he wants to hear 782 00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,080 from us. It isn't a it, believe it or 783 00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,080 not, Faye answers my phone calls. 784 00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:53,600 I know, shocking. I wouldn't answer my phone 785 00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,760 calls, but she answers my phone calls and usually, maybe not 786 00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,240 every day, but usually she's happy to hear from me. 787 00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:06,600 But he wants us to talk to him. Be anxious for nothing. 788 00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,680 This is Philippians 46 and 7. Be anxious for nothing. 789 00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,720 But in everything through by prayer and supplication make you 790 00:55:12,720 --> 00:55:17,760 read, and with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known to 791 00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:19,440 God. And the peace of God, which 792 00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,840 surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds 793 00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:24,360 through Christ Jesus. Right. 794 00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:28,320 And we pray because we love Jesus and want to share our life 795 00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:34,680 with Him by hanging out with Him and dwelling in His presence. 796 00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,400 And then we do this. We come to church on Sunday. 797 00:55:40,400 --> 00:55:43,680 And this is something. One day my daughter's will all 798 00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,760 gang up on me and smack me for bringing them into my Bible 799 00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:50,560 studies. But for a long time, I had one 800 00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:55,080 that moved, moved away and they were looking for they weren't 801 00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,800 going to church. And then they have me every 802 00:55:58,240 --> 00:56:00,720 every week or so. You find a church, you find a 803 00:56:00,720 --> 00:56:02,840 church, you find a church, you find a church. 804 00:56:03,520 --> 00:56:07,080 And she, she would get exhausted of me saying it. 805 00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:08,800 And so then she'd go find a church. 806 00:56:09,720 --> 00:56:13,560 And they go for a little while and they, they bow out of it and 807 00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:15,680 back and forth. And then they finally got 808 00:56:15,680 --> 00:56:21,360 plugged into a church and and their life has improved 809 00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:26,680 immensely, but not because they're going to church, but 810 00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:30,040 because they're getting poured into and they're growing. 811 00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:33,520 Her entire family is growing in their relationship with Jesus. 812 00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:38,760 And that's don't that this is important guys, that we come 813 00:56:38,760 --> 00:56:42,160 together on Sunday and then soon we'll come together on another 814 00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:45,480 day of the week. But that we do this, this is a 815 00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:47,880 gift. This is not a requirement. 816 00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:54,280 This is a gift that he gave us that we get to come together and 817 00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,880 build each other up and you guys got to listen to me. 818 00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:02,120 But but before, before we get, we have to sing. 819 00:57:02,120 --> 00:57:04,320 We get to visit with each other. We get to build each other up 820 00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:06,440 and find out what he's doing in our lives. 821 00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:11,200 And lastly, if anyone desires to come after me, let him deny 822 00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:17,840 himself and take up his cross and follow me which is we follow 823 00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:23,560 the Lord and it is a joy to do. He is, He is. 824 00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:28,800 I wouldn't trade my life for anything compared to my life 825 00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:34,200 before Christ. When I went through the suck of 826 00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:40,040 of my life, at no point did I think that it was time to bail 827 00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:43,400 on Christ because the one thing I knew is He is all I had. 828 00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:49,720 Everything without Him isn't enough. 829 00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:54,440 Nothing with him is more than you can imagine. 830 00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:58,560 That's what we disciple. So Lord, I just thank you for 831 00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:00,840 everybody here. I thank you for this time. 832 00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:07,360 And Lord that you'd be with Aunt Sherry as she's coming up. 833 00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:14,520 And Lord, that we would just dwell with you and just lift our 834 00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:16,760 voices and our hearts to you. And I pray all this in Jesus 835 00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:17,480 name, Amen.