WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.419 Well, good morning. It's been a fun service, hasn't it? 00:00:07.500 --> 00:00:10.200 How many of y'all enjoyed the young people leading us in worship today? 00:00:10.700 --> 00:00:11.660 Wasn't that awesome? Yeah. 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:18.519 Jessica Longley does an outstanding job with them, 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:23.719 and we are grateful to every one of them who has a heart to serve the Lord and lead us in worship. 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:27.980 We have been in a series about new life, 00:00:27.980 --> 00:00:30.699 calling that a fresh beginning with Jesus. 00:00:31.859 --> 00:00:37.020 So much of this series, kind of a framework for it, 00:00:37.219 --> 00:00:43.000 I got from a pastor called Craig Groeschel up in Life Church in the Oklahoma City area. 00:00:43.980 --> 00:00:50.240 And last week, well, we've been focusing on this passage for the last two weeks, 00:00:50.539 --> 00:00:54.280 2 Corinthians 5, 17. Let's read it together off the screen, can we? 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:59.600 If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. 00:01:00.380 --> 00:01:05.799 The old has passed away, and see, the new has come. 00:01:06.019 --> 00:01:08.079 What an exciting, exciting thing. 00:01:08.180 --> 00:01:12.560 There are certain passages in the Bible that just are like a vitamin B12 shot for you. 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:19.700 Sometimes the Bible is an accurate mirror that shows us a reflection of ourselves, our sinful selves. 00:01:20.100 --> 00:01:23.820 Sometimes it reveals us and how weak we are in our sin. 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:27.799 Then sometimes God just reminds us how great he is in spite of that, 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:30.659 and says, listen, in me, you can get a fresh start. 00:01:31.099 --> 00:01:32.219 You can get a fresh beginning. 00:01:32.740 --> 00:01:33.859 The new has come. 00:01:33.859 --> 00:01:37.120 So that's an encouraging word for our church for this season. 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:43.019 Two weeks ago, we were in Isaiah 43 and 44, and we talked about this topic, 00:01:43.379 --> 00:01:45.780 God is doing a new thing. 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:46.900 God is doing what? 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:48.539 A new thing. 00:01:48.620 --> 00:01:48.959 That's right. 00:01:49.039 --> 00:01:50.039 Just seeing if y'all were with me. 00:01:50.739 --> 00:01:51.760 Do you see it? 00:01:51.780 --> 00:01:52.539 That's the question. 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:54.780 Do we see what God is doing? 00:01:55.019 --> 00:01:56.439 Well, we see it on Sunday mornings. 00:01:56.439 --> 00:01:59.159 We see it with the young people up here leading us in worship. 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:04.640 We see God doing something new, and oftentimes it begins with the younger generations, 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:10.139 and we see that happening here with this just parade of young people coming through, 00:02:10.259 --> 00:02:13.379 giving their lives to Jesus, testimony in baptism. 00:02:13.620 --> 00:02:15.819 What an exciting season for our church. 00:02:16.419 --> 00:02:20.719 And then last week, we were in 1 Corinthians 9, and we talked about this. 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:23.900 We need to stop trying and start what? 00:02:24.579 --> 00:02:25.139 Training. 00:02:25.300 --> 00:02:26.039 What does that mean? 00:02:26.039 --> 00:02:30.500 We can try, try, try to change ourselves for the better. 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:35.840 We can try, try, try to stop doing something that has been holding us back, 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:42.379 some self-destructive habit, and yet oftentimes we fail, fail, fail continually. 00:02:42.620 --> 00:02:46.819 And God wants us to stop trying in our own strength 00:02:46.819 --> 00:02:53.819 and start understanding that we are in training to be who he saved and called us to be. 00:02:53.919 --> 00:02:54.819 So that's a little recap. 00:02:54.819 --> 00:03:00.180 And then this morning, we're going to talk about the who behind the what. 00:03:01.099 --> 00:03:03.039 The who behind the what. 00:03:03.780 --> 00:03:05.639 It's not a Dr. Seuss sermon, okay? 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:08.500 We're not in Whoville all of a sudden. 00:03:09.299 --> 00:03:10.680 The who behind the what. 00:03:10.859 --> 00:03:18.419 Would you take the word of God with me and go move forward to Proverbs. 00:03:18.419 --> 00:03:19.619 Proverbs 23. 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:21.039 Proverbs 23. 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:25.119 We've been in the New Testament a good bit. 00:03:25.219 --> 00:03:30.679 Today, we're going to touch into the Old Testament and begin in Proverbs chapter 23. 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:34.219 We'll bounce around a little bit in the scriptures, but we're going to read verse 7. 00:03:34.579 --> 00:03:37.039 While you're turning there, I want to leave this truth with you. 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:42.419 Identity determines behavior. 00:03:42.419 --> 00:03:47.139 That's what we mean when we say the who behind the what. 00:03:47.819 --> 00:03:49.719 Identity determines behavior. 00:03:50.679 --> 00:03:52.139 What do we mean by that? 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:54.019 Let's break it down a little bit further. 00:03:55.379 --> 00:03:57.339 Kind of our tagline for today. 00:03:57.459 --> 00:03:57.639 Ready? 00:03:59.219 --> 00:04:03.439 You do what you do because of what you think of you. 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:14.439 When I heard this sermon, and this sermon series from Craig Urshel up in Life Church became a book that I'm in the process of reading. 00:04:15.819 --> 00:04:18.259 And when I heard this phrase, it stuck with me. 00:04:18.540 --> 00:04:21.800 You do what you do because of what you think of you. 00:04:23.060 --> 00:04:24.180 It's true, isn't it? 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:31.060 What we think of ourselves usually determines how we behave. 00:04:31.060 --> 00:04:37.920 If we think of ourselves as somebody important, then what do we act like? 00:04:40.019 --> 00:04:40.959 Y'all can talk. 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:41.280 It's okay. 00:04:41.660 --> 00:04:42.439 Somebody important. 00:04:42.620 --> 00:04:43.519 It wasn't a trick question. 00:04:44.980 --> 00:04:50.899 If we are down in the dumps about ourselves and we are depressed, what do we normally behave like? 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:53.959 Somebody who's depressed, right? 00:04:54.340 --> 00:04:55.579 Yeah, we're having a hard time. 00:04:55.579 --> 00:05:01.339 Sometimes we'll continue on in the very things that led us into that depression. 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:06.680 We do what we do because of what we think of ourselves. 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:11.539 So that's kind of a principle that I hope we can take away today. 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:13.120 Here comes Ella. 00:05:13.259 --> 00:05:16.259 I'm not trying to embarrass her, but let's give her a little clap. 00:05:16.459 --> 00:05:17.319 She just came back in. 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:17.759 Yeah. 00:05:21.599 --> 00:05:23.120 What a special day. 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:29.079 I want to go a little bit into the nerd side of this. 00:05:29.259 --> 00:05:30.659 How many of y'all love science? 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:31.719 Anybody? 00:05:32.819 --> 00:05:33.539 We got a few. 00:05:33.620 --> 00:05:33.959 All right. 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:35.699 How many of y'all love philosophy? 00:05:37.060 --> 00:05:39.579 How many of y'all love the study of human behavior? 00:05:40.860 --> 00:05:41.699 Okay, awesome. 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:43.079 Then you're going to enjoy this next part. 00:05:43.159 --> 00:05:45.319 For the rest of y'all, just grin and bear it. 00:05:45.379 --> 00:05:45.860 Here we go. 00:05:45.860 --> 00:05:49.840 Dr. James March, a primer on decision making. 00:05:50.020 --> 00:05:53.680 James March taught at Stanford University for many years. 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:58.520 He kind of wrote the book, literally, not just this one, but several others, on making decisions. 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:01.580 He was an expert in studying human behavior. 00:06:02.100 --> 00:06:05.520 Still alive today, but I don't think he's actively teaching anymore. 00:06:05.920 --> 00:06:08.160 But he said this. 00:06:08.540 --> 00:06:11.720 He created this identity model of decision making. 00:06:12.100 --> 00:06:15.699 Three questions we ask ourselves, usually subconsciously. 00:06:15.699 --> 00:06:17.800 We say, who am I? 00:06:18.740 --> 00:06:21.060 What kind of situation is this? 00:06:21.579 --> 00:06:24.819 And what would someone like me do in this situation? 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:31.319 And usually that's how we arrive at doing the things that we end up doing. 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:40.599 Is because in real time, hyper speed, we have calculated, our brains have calculated these three questions. 00:06:41.420 --> 00:06:42.740 Who am I? 00:06:43.300 --> 00:06:45.219 What kind of situation am I in? 00:06:45.719 --> 00:06:49.300 What would someone like me do in this situation? 00:06:49.300 --> 00:06:51.819 And then we behave according to that. 00:06:52.340 --> 00:06:55.699 So it's really identity determines our behavior. 00:06:56.579 --> 00:07:01.439 We do what we do because of what we think of us. 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:06.139 You do what you do because of what you think of you. 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:08.319 Proverbs 23, 7. 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:09.180 Let's read it together. 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:13.139 Would you mind standing with me just this one time in honor of the reading of God's word? 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:15.579 I'm reading this one from the New American Standard. 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:20.879 I'll kind of jump back into the Christian Standard Bible for the remainder of the sermon today. 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:26.000 But I loved this particular translation and how it lays this out for us. 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:28.600 So let's read it together on the screen if we can. 00:07:28.680 --> 00:07:29.100 Here we go. 00:07:29.180 --> 00:07:29.360 Ready? 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:36.139 As he thinks within himself, so he is. 00:07:36.259 --> 00:07:37.439 Remain standing if you would. 00:07:37.779 --> 00:07:41.040 God, I pray that you would teach us from your word today. 00:07:41.959 --> 00:07:46.259 God, there's all kinds of psychology and self-help and self-help 00:07:46.259 --> 00:07:50.819 and all kinds of people out there that will try to worm their way inside our mind 00:07:50.819 --> 00:07:54.539 and show us the path that they think we should walk. 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:57.560 But God, we want to walk the path that you have laid out for us 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:00.800 individually, in our homes, and in our church. 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.839 So I pray that we would see ourselves as you see us. 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:10.620 That we would do what we do because of what you think of us, 00:08:10.740 --> 00:08:13.519 not because of what we think of ourselves. 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:15.959 We'll give you all the glory in Jesus' name. 00:08:16.099 --> 00:08:16.299 Amen. 00:08:16.479 --> 00:08:17.079 You may be seated. 00:08:17.479 --> 00:08:18.279 Thank you for standing. 00:08:20.939 --> 00:08:22.979 If you'll keep your Bible open there, 00:08:23.060 --> 00:08:25.839 we'll go back to this passage for a reminder. 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:29.259 So if you'll keep a kind of keep a thumb note there, 00:08:29.359 --> 00:08:31.019 or if you have these little bookmarks, 00:08:31.379 --> 00:08:33.419 kind of stick one in there, Proverbs 23. 00:08:33.659 --> 00:08:35.659 We'll jump back there throughout the sermon today. 00:08:35.659 --> 00:08:38.100 But we're going to bounce around to a couple of other scriptures. 00:08:38.460 --> 00:08:41.799 And we're looking, reminding ourselves of this new truth 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:44.459 that many of us are kind of wrapping our heads around, 00:08:44.500 --> 00:08:46.019 like I was for the first time. 00:08:46.179 --> 00:08:49.579 You do what you do because of what you think of you. 00:08:49.879 --> 00:08:54.159 Trust me, there have been things I've been trying to shake my entire life. 00:08:54.379 --> 00:08:57.240 There have been bad habits I've been trying to shake my entire life. 00:08:57.559 --> 00:09:01.939 There have been things that I'm not satisfied with about myself my entire life. 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:05.099 And sometimes those things change over time. 00:09:05.100 --> 00:09:08.060 And then I unlock a new disappointment in myself. 00:09:08.920 --> 00:09:10.139 Anybody else ever been there? 00:09:11.019 --> 00:09:13.340 Like I achieved a new level in this game. 00:09:13.560 --> 00:09:16.220 And here's, oh wow, you're bad at this too. 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:20.080 Marriage is a wonderful thing. 00:09:20.180 --> 00:09:22.000 And sometimes as you grow together 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:25.259 and you enter into new circumstances or stages of life, 00:09:25.420 --> 00:09:27.420 all of a sudden you unlock new things. 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:29.240 Like, oh wow, I didn't know that about you. 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:30.940 And I'm not crazy about it, you know. 00:09:30.940 --> 00:09:36.500 But we do what we do because of what we think of us. 00:09:37.220 --> 00:09:40.660 Now, what does the Bible have to say about this? 00:09:41.180 --> 00:09:42.560 We read in Proverbs 23, 00:09:43.220 --> 00:09:47.500 as we think within ourself, so we are. 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:49.280 That is who we are. 00:09:50.060 --> 00:09:52.240 It's how we think within ourself. 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:54.160 And that determines our actions. 00:09:54.800 --> 00:09:56.120 Let's look at 1 John. 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:58.340 1 John 3 and verse 1. 00:09:58.460 --> 00:10:00.000 This is the key here. 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:00.180 Ready? 00:10:00.179 --> 00:10:03.699 See what great love the Father has given us 00:10:03.699 --> 00:10:07.039 that we should be called God's children. 00:10:08.139 --> 00:10:09.979 Sometimes we stop right there. 00:10:10.579 --> 00:10:13.839 But the next three words are so crucially important. 00:10:14.319 --> 00:10:15.799 And we are. 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:20.059 God is telling us that there's a pivot. 00:10:20.579 --> 00:10:21.819 There's a mind shift. 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:23.479 We talked about that a little bit last week 00:10:23.479 --> 00:10:25.039 when we said we're training, not trying. 00:10:25.319 --> 00:10:26.879 There has to be a mental shift. 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:28.679 It's right here in the scriptures. 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:32.819 God says we are called God's children, 00:10:32.959 --> 00:10:35.699 but we're called God's children because we really are. 00:10:36.479 --> 00:10:39.479 He says this is your new identity. 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:43.979 This is now how you should view yourself, 00:10:44.199 --> 00:10:47.000 that you are God's children. 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:47.059 God's children. 00:10:48.740 --> 00:10:53.940 So, when we go back to that identity model, right? 00:10:54.460 --> 00:10:55.200 Who am I? 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:56.259 God's child. 00:10:57.100 --> 00:10:59.259 What kind of situation is this? 00:10:59.500 --> 00:11:00.320 Doesn't matter. 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:07.120 Three, what would someone like God's child do in this situation? 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:11.700 That's got to be a mental shift that we get to. 00:11:12.659 --> 00:11:16.179 So, we do what we do because of what we think of us, 00:11:16.419 --> 00:11:18.779 and we are the children of God. 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:20.720 He doesn't just leave us that one verse. 00:11:21.100 --> 00:11:25.220 Colossians 3 and verse 12 is another reminder of who we are. 00:11:25.460 --> 00:11:27.700 As God's, what does that say? 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:29.120 Chosen ones. 00:11:29.980 --> 00:11:30.340 Wow. 00:11:30.340 --> 00:11:30.420 Wow. 00:11:30.940 --> 00:11:32.700 We're not just his children. 00:11:32.980 --> 00:11:35.500 He chose us to be his children. 00:11:36.139 --> 00:11:37.820 He handpicked us. 00:11:38.660 --> 00:11:44.540 He said, I want you, and I want you, and I want you to be my child. 00:11:45.379 --> 00:11:50.780 So, as God's chosen ones, holy and dearly loved, 00:11:50.899 --> 00:11:53.600 put on compassion, kindness, humility. 00:11:53.800 --> 00:11:56.879 He starts getting into this long list of behavior, 00:11:56.879 --> 00:11:59.519 of things that we should do. 00:11:59.740 --> 00:12:01.720 But why should we do those things? 00:12:01.899 --> 00:12:05.879 It's because he's telling us this is your new identity. 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:10.539 How you think about yourself is going to determine your behavior. 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:15.759 So, if you start behaving how I think of you, 00:12:16.700 --> 00:12:19.139 then you'll start looking like a child of God, 00:12:19.220 --> 00:12:20.820 like my chosen one. 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:25.100 You do what you do because of what you think of you. 00:12:25.179 --> 00:12:26.299 Let's say this together, can we? 00:12:26.460 --> 00:12:26.620 Ready? 00:12:27.179 --> 00:12:32.240 You do what you do because of what you think of you. 00:12:32.379 --> 00:12:32.899 There you go. 00:12:34.179 --> 00:12:36.039 Sometimes it helps us to remember those things. 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:40.559 Number one, you'll run out of motivation. 00:12:42.700 --> 00:12:44.500 Anybody ever run out of motivation before? 00:12:45.299 --> 00:12:45.960 Thank you. 00:12:46.580 --> 00:12:47.860 We got an honest one real quick. 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:49.519 She was just like, yep, me, right here. 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:50.860 You and me both. 00:12:50.860 --> 00:12:56.460 I think just about everybody in this room has undertaken 00:12:56.460 --> 00:13:00.160 a task that at some point you ran out of motivation for. 00:13:01.820 --> 00:13:04.500 Whether you just realized it really wasn't worth doing 00:13:04.500 --> 00:13:06.759 or it just got too hard. 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:10.939 Whatever it was, you ran out of motivation at some point. 00:13:10.940 --> 00:13:11.480 I'm telling you. 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:16.140 I'm telling you that will continue to happen in your life 00:13:16.140 --> 00:13:20.640 unless you change the way you think about yourself. 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:29.620 I will continue to run out of motivation when I continue to see myself the way I've always seen me. 00:13:29.620 --> 00:13:36.799 What's the definition of insanity? 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:37.440 Thank you. 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:38.940 All I could think was idiocy. 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:40.460 And I'm like, I'm not trying to be that mean. 00:13:41.419 --> 00:13:42.919 I'm not calling us all idiots. 00:13:42.919 --> 00:13:44.799 Just to whoever it applies. 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:48.000 But anyway, what's the definition of insanity? 00:13:49.699 --> 00:13:54.259 Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, right? 00:13:55.139 --> 00:13:56.439 But we do that, don't we? 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:03.319 And so time and time again, we try often the same things over and over again. 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:08.340 And our motivation tank, I think, shrinks a little bit each time. 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:14.520 And each time we try it, maybe for the 12th time, that motivation is pretty low. 00:14:15.740 --> 00:14:18.460 We think at that moment there's that initial spike. 00:14:18.900 --> 00:14:20.340 This time it's different, man. 00:14:20.780 --> 00:14:24.140 I heard an inspiring speech, and so this time it's going to be. 00:14:24.220 --> 00:14:26.840 I heard a song that really broke through to me. 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:28.500 Any of y'all ever heard this song? 00:14:28.560 --> 00:14:30.320 It came out, I don't know, 10 years ago. 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:32.620 This is my fight song. 00:14:32.820 --> 00:14:34.700 Take back my life song. 00:14:34.780 --> 00:14:39.879 Yeah, so it's energized so many people to jump in and take their life back and say, 00:14:40.020 --> 00:14:41.200 I got this this time. 00:14:41.500 --> 00:14:44.000 And then what happens when that buzz wears off? 00:14:44.740 --> 00:14:46.720 You run out of motivation again, right? 00:14:47.460 --> 00:14:49.660 What was that song that really got me fired up? 00:14:49.680 --> 00:14:50.900 I got to go listen to it again. 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:53.940 And it doesn't quite work as effectively the next time. 00:14:54.700 --> 00:14:56.680 We run out of motivation. 00:14:57.580 --> 00:14:59.660 Secondly, we run out of willpower. 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:02.720 We run out of willpower. 00:15:04.100 --> 00:15:08.560 Y'all, I can preach to you about this stuff because I know this in my own life, okay? 00:15:09.020 --> 00:15:11.960 I'm telling you, I run out of willpower, and y'all do too. 00:15:13.260 --> 00:15:17.660 Now, the thing that you struggle with might be different than the thing that I struggle with, 00:15:17.780 --> 00:15:19.240 but we all have our struggles. 00:15:19.520 --> 00:15:24.280 We're all imperfect people, and we all run out of motivation, and we all run out of willpower. 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:26.179 Sometimes you get tired. 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:28.459 You get physically tired. 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:32.600 And your willpower is the strongest when you're tired, right? 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:35.200 No, it's not. 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:39.100 Sometimes you're just tired of fighting. 00:15:39.980 --> 00:15:42.200 Sometimes you're emotionally drained. 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:49.700 Because maybe there's toxic presences in your life that are draining you, whether it's a person or a habit. 00:15:49.700 --> 00:15:53.540 Maybe you stay up too late. 00:15:53.680 --> 00:15:54.780 Maybe you get up too early. 00:15:54.900 --> 00:15:56.740 Maybe you burn the candle at both ends. 00:15:57.560 --> 00:16:00.160 And God talks all throughout the Bible about rest. 00:16:00.460 --> 00:16:05.180 And maybe you need to rearrange your schedule to get more rest so you can think more clearly. 00:16:05.179 --> 00:16:12.019 You can have more time to dedicate to diving into the Lord of God and prayer, and you can re-energize your soul. 00:16:14.539 --> 00:16:22.379 Whatever it is for you that's making you run out of willpower, that's not helping you. 00:16:23.399 --> 00:16:26.519 That's driving you to an early grave. 00:16:26.979 --> 00:16:33.679 Whether it's physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, death will be the result. 00:16:35.179 --> 00:16:40.839 But you do those things because of what you think of yourself. 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:44.059 Like, I'm the kind of person that stays up late. 00:16:45.079 --> 00:16:49.039 I'm the kind of person that's on my phone for an hour as I fall asleep. 00:16:49.699 --> 00:16:56.819 I'm the kind of person that sneaks around and looks at things on the Internet that I wouldn't want anybody else to know about. 00:16:57.419 --> 00:17:00.859 I'm the kind of person that is short with my family. 00:17:00.860 --> 00:17:08.339 You've developed these habits over time, and so now that has become the way you think about yourself. 00:17:08.339 --> 00:17:09.359 You don't like it. 00:17:09.959 --> 00:17:10.480 Trust me. 00:17:10.699 --> 00:17:14.259 The things that I know are my weaknesses, I don't like those about myself. 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:15.939 I wish those were different. 00:17:16.899 --> 00:17:19.859 Say, well, Pastor, you're the pastor, so you must not have any weaknesses. 00:17:20.019 --> 00:17:21.119 You must not have any flaws. 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:24.099 You've got great hair, as Mr. Bachman said earlier. 00:17:24.099 --> 00:17:28.980 I do believe that's the first time I've ever been told that in my life. 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:31.399 So, you are the man. 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:31.839 Anyway. 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:37.839 By the way, my wife gave me my haircut, so there you go. 00:17:39.419 --> 00:17:40.480 All props to her. 00:17:42.459 --> 00:17:48.859 But the things that y'all don't see about me, you wouldn't like those either. 00:17:49.819 --> 00:17:51.039 My wife doesn't like them. 00:17:51.139 --> 00:17:51.919 I don't like them. 00:17:52.439 --> 00:17:53.439 Y'all wouldn't like them either. 00:17:54.399 --> 00:18:01.479 And if we put a magnifying glass on any of your lives, there'd be all sorts of unattractive things about us that come to the service, wouldn't there? 00:18:03.459 --> 00:18:05.079 And we've tried to fix them. 00:18:05.779 --> 00:18:14.119 We've gone for years trying to get better, and maybe you get better in one area, and then, like we said, another fault pops up. 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:23.899 Because we are wrapped in sinful flesh, and there's a battle going on between the flesh and the spirit, our sin pulling us down that we're still faced with. 00:18:23.979 --> 00:18:28.859 We're still carrying, even though Jesus gave us the freedom, but we're still wrapped in this body. 00:18:29.419 --> 00:18:31.279 And so, we don't always exercise that freedom. 00:18:31.399 --> 00:18:34.059 We don't always walk in that freedom that we have in Christ. 00:18:34.679 --> 00:18:36.559 And we run out of willpower sometimes. 00:18:36.659 --> 00:18:38.459 We get tired in the fight. 00:18:38.539 --> 00:18:39.419 What does the Bible say? 00:18:39.420 --> 00:18:43.539 Don't grow weary in doing good. 00:18:43.660 --> 00:18:46.240 Don't grow weary in well-doing. 00:18:46.560 --> 00:18:48.980 Don't get tired in doing good. 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:49.480 Well, how? 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:51.440 How do you not get tired? 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:56.440 You run out of motivation. 00:18:57.220 --> 00:18:58.440 You run out of willpower. 00:18:59.660 --> 00:19:01.160 How do you ever change? 00:19:02.360 --> 00:19:03.380 Mark 10, 27. 00:19:04.380 --> 00:19:05.519 Gives us the answer. 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:12.960 With man and woman, it is impossible. 00:19:14.180 --> 00:19:14.879 You can't. 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:17.559 But not with God. 00:19:17.639 --> 00:19:21.500 Because all things are possible with God. 00:19:22.099 --> 00:19:23.379 What does all mean? 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:26.279 Everything. 00:19:26.579 --> 00:19:27.400 Everybody, right? 00:19:28.400 --> 00:19:33.819 My dad had a very distinctive definition of all. 00:19:33.819 --> 00:19:36.099 I heard this growing up. 00:19:36.220 --> 00:19:37.179 My dad's right over here. 00:19:37.259 --> 00:19:37.960 My mom and dad. 00:19:38.379 --> 00:19:38.899 Can y'all wave? 00:19:39.159 --> 00:19:39.639 Everybody looking. 00:19:39.879 --> 00:19:40.480 There's my parents. 00:19:40.879 --> 00:19:41.339 There you go. 00:19:42.819 --> 00:19:45.859 My dad would say, all means there ain't nothing left. 00:19:47.619 --> 00:19:49.279 There ain't nothing left. 00:19:50.179 --> 00:19:53.639 All things are possible with God. 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:58.059 Now, y'all, we're not going to get up here and preach health and wealth, gospel, and prosperity, 00:19:58.259 --> 00:20:00.480 and God's going to give you everything you ever ask for. 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:02.919 Because that is absolutely not in the book. 00:20:03.819 --> 00:20:07.139 But all things are possible. 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.119 There's nothing that's too hard for God. 00:20:12.099 --> 00:20:15.599 If God wants to give you something, you can, you will. 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:19.139 If God thinks you should have something, you will have it. 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:26.759 If God wants to help you break through something, you can do it through Him. 00:20:27.379 --> 00:20:29.279 With man, this is impossible. 00:20:29.579 --> 00:20:30.659 But not with God. 00:20:30.660 --> 00:20:33.400 Because all things are possible with God. 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:34.040 Number three. 00:20:34.560 --> 00:20:38.340 God will complete His work in you. 00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:41.420 God will complete His work in me someday. 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:44.000 He's taken me a long ways, y'all. 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:56.279 From when I was 15, to when I was 18, to 21, to 25, to 30, to 33, to 37, to now 39, and I'm about to hit 40. 00:20:56.279 --> 00:20:58.660 Except I'm just 39 and holding for a while. 00:21:00.399 --> 00:21:03.220 That journey has been drastic. 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:06.480 It has been dramatic change in my life. 00:21:07.299 --> 00:21:08.379 There's been... 00:21:08.379 --> 00:21:09.220 My mom's down here. 00:21:09.259 --> 00:21:09.960 She says, that's right. 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:10.819 Trust me, I know. 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:13.079 It sure has. 00:21:13.660 --> 00:21:17.279 Y'all, there have been sometimes seasons where that change happens fast. 00:21:17.379 --> 00:21:21.420 And sometimes that season where it slows down over time. 00:21:21.420 --> 00:21:25.640 But God will complete His work in you. 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:26.519 How do we know this? 00:21:26.620 --> 00:21:28.420 Because Philippians 1, 6 tells us. 00:21:28.740 --> 00:21:29.980 I am sure of this. 00:21:30.279 --> 00:21:31.440 I'm sure of this. 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:34.400 That He who started the good work in you... 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:36.660 Remember, it was God who started this whole thing. 00:21:36.960 --> 00:21:41.840 He will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:43.420 That's the day we all get to go home to heaven. 00:21:43.900 --> 00:21:48.580 But until that day, God started this good work and God will finish it. 00:21:48.579 --> 00:21:51.240 He will carry it on in your life. 00:21:51.299 --> 00:21:53.079 So don't get discouraged. 00:21:53.299 --> 00:21:56.539 Don't get depressed that you feel like you've run out of willpower. 00:21:56.679 --> 00:21:58.480 You feel like you've run out of motivation. 00:21:58.980 --> 00:22:00.740 But God hasn't. 00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:01.220 Amen? 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:02.639 Amen. 00:22:03.460 --> 00:22:04.460 Thank you, guys. 00:22:04.679 --> 00:22:05.199 That was good. 00:22:06.019 --> 00:22:10.859 And girl, we're talking about new life. 00:22:11.159 --> 00:22:13.079 A fresh beginning with Jesus. 00:22:13.079 --> 00:22:18.759 Y'all, there's no reason for a Christian to lose hope. 00:22:20.119 --> 00:22:25.559 When we feel like we've lost hope, in reality, it's because we're starving. 00:22:25.980 --> 00:22:27.500 In reality, it's because we're thirsty. 00:22:27.839 --> 00:22:30.240 And we haven't been drinking from the Jesus well. 00:22:31.259 --> 00:22:33.759 We haven't been walking on the Jesus path. 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:38.579 Because every day, His mercies are new. 00:22:39.299 --> 00:22:42.000 Every day, His love is fresh. 00:22:42.400 --> 00:22:46.359 Every day, there's hope for a new beginning with Jesus. 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:48.180 So I want to leave you with this. 00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:50.779 We've been going over it, man, since, what, December? 00:22:51.500 --> 00:22:54.019 We kind of started reminding all of this truth. 00:22:54.119 --> 00:22:55.400 Romans 12 and verse 2. 00:22:55.400 --> 00:23:01.920 Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you what? 00:23:02.600 --> 00:23:03.400 Think. 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:06.259 That's what it's about. 00:23:06.540 --> 00:23:09.240 God has to change our minds. 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:15.780 He's got to change the way we think about us. 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:20.200 Change the way we think about who we are. 00:23:20.200 --> 00:23:26.340 We see ourselves in a false way. 00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:31.200 We see an inaccurate view of who we are. 00:23:31.559 --> 00:23:33.740 We think we know ourselves the best. 00:23:34.319 --> 00:23:40.140 But the reality is, I'm 39 years in of deceiving myself. 00:23:42.360 --> 00:23:45.519 Some of you are significantly more than that. 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:50.339 But we deceive ourselves every day. 00:23:50.660 --> 00:23:52.119 We lie to ourselves every day. 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:54.319 We try to make ourselves feel better. 00:23:54.440 --> 00:23:56.839 Sometimes, we try to make ourselves feel worse. 00:23:59.180 --> 00:24:03.440 God must transform us by changing the way we think. 00:24:05.099 --> 00:24:06.900 So let's all try to do that, okay? 00:24:08.220 --> 00:24:09.059 It's a trick question. 00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:09.960 It's a trick question. 00:24:10.900 --> 00:24:12.039 We're not trying. 00:24:12.139 --> 00:24:12.680 We're training. 00:24:12.879 --> 00:24:13.400 Here we go. 00:24:13.400 --> 00:24:17.440 We are training to be who God says we are. 00:24:17.900 --> 00:24:19.519 We're not going to change this overnight. 00:24:19.900 --> 00:24:24.060 All of a sudden, we're not going to wake up tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. 00:24:24.060 --> 00:24:25.320 or whenever you get up and say, 00:24:25.420 --> 00:24:32.360 Man, it's going to be a great day today because I am who God says I am. 00:24:32.420 --> 00:24:33.920 Now, if you do that, I want to hear about it. 00:24:33.920 --> 00:24:36.480 I want a text message from you tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:37.320 if you do that, okay? 00:24:38.259 --> 00:24:39.420 Y'all are going to be blowing up my phone. 00:24:39.580 --> 00:24:40.140 Here we go. 00:24:40.140 --> 00:24:45.860 We are not trying to all of a sudden dramatically become this new person. 00:24:46.060 --> 00:24:47.540 We are in training. 00:24:48.020 --> 00:24:49.300 There's going to be ups. 00:24:49.420 --> 00:24:50.360 There's going to be downs. 00:24:50.560 --> 00:24:56.560 But over time, God is training us to be who he says we are. 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:01.120 And then we will do what we think we should do. 00:25:01.259 --> 00:25:01.480 Why? 00:25:01.480 --> 00:25:04.819 Because we think of ourselves how he thinks of us. 00:25:06.900 --> 00:25:11.039 You do what you do because of what you think of you. 00:25:13.140 --> 00:25:14.079 Let's look at that again. 00:25:14.680 --> 00:25:15.400 Let's say it together. 00:25:15.500 --> 00:25:15.759 Can we? 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:15.960 Ready? 00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:21.640 You do what you do because of what you think of you. 00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:26.640 There's a song that says this very effectively. 00:25:27.980 --> 00:25:33.300 June, would you mind coming up and you can go ahead and start playing the introduction to it while I talk about it to the folks. 00:25:34.300 --> 00:25:37.740 This song says, I am who you say I am. 00:25:38.540 --> 00:25:39.940 That's a wonderful reminder. 00:25:39.940 --> 00:25:44.440 Y'all, you might have somebody in your life who wears you down. 00:25:45.539 --> 00:25:46.539 Might be yourself. 00:25:47.420 --> 00:25:48.480 Might be your spouse. 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:49.460 Might be your kids. 00:25:50.100 --> 00:25:51.140 Might be a parent. 00:25:51.460 --> 00:25:52.080 Might be a neighbor. 00:25:52.220 --> 00:25:52.940 Might be an employee. 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:56.799 Might be somebody who you just crossed paths with. 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:02.680 In today's world, they might call it negative energy or something like that. 00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:05.759 But whatever it is, it just brings you down. 00:26:07.980 --> 00:26:10.360 Sometimes it might just ruin the rest of our day. 00:26:12.180 --> 00:26:19.360 God says, listen, you have got to stop letting everyone else determine who you are. 00:26:20.080 --> 00:26:27.060 You have got to stop listening to all these voices that are teaching you something that's contrary. 00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:29.620 It's opposite to what I'm trying to teach you. 00:26:29.619 --> 00:26:32.839 You are who I say you are. 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:38.739 Because if you're not, then you're lost in your sins and you're going to hell. 00:26:40.579 --> 00:26:44.439 But if you are my child, then you're saved. 00:26:44.959 --> 00:26:45.759 Then you're rescued. 00:26:46.299 --> 00:26:46.959 Then you're free. 00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:47.839 Then you have hope. 00:26:48.219 --> 00:26:51.399 And you are who now I say you are. 00:26:51.899 --> 00:26:53.359 You are valued. 00:26:53.739 --> 00:26:54.879 You are important. 00:26:55.799 --> 00:26:56.979 You are worthy. 00:26:57.819 --> 00:26:59.279 You are holy. 00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:00.559 You are righteous. 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:08.139 And so now you do what you do because of who I'm teaching you that you now are. 00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:10.200 It's going to be a lifelong walk. 00:27:11.019 --> 00:27:12.099 We're training. 00:27:12.379 --> 00:27:13.559 We're trending for this. 00:27:14.819 --> 00:27:21.180 But it's a mind shift that we all individually and together as a church must experience. 00:27:21.299 --> 00:27:22.700 What does that look like for our church? 00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:27.339 We do what we do because this is who we've always been. 00:27:27.339 --> 00:27:29.359 What about who God wants us to be now? 00:27:30.959 --> 00:27:34.199 What are the things that God wants our church to do now? 00:27:35.199 --> 00:27:41.639 Are we going to be the church that did the things, that does the things now that God wanted us to do in 1975? 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:47.900 Are we going to do the things now that God wants us to do in 2024 and 2025? 00:27:49.100 --> 00:27:50.820 What does God want us to be now? 00:27:51.060 --> 00:27:54.940 We do what we do as a church because of what we think of us. 00:27:54.940 --> 00:28:01.100 Imagine what could be if first package church of Henrietta, Texas. 00:28:02.519 --> 00:28:04.039 And that's not this building, is it? 00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:06.159 We don't just go to church. 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:06.920 We are the church. 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:08.379 Going back to the fall, okay? 00:28:08.819 --> 00:28:10.000 Some of you who have been around a little while. 00:28:12.500 --> 00:28:13.359 What would it be? 00:28:13.539 --> 00:28:18.960 What would it be like if our church said, I am a child of God? 00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:23.299 I am chosen, not forsaken. 00:28:23.440 --> 00:28:25.440 I am who he says I am. 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:28.759 What kind of impact could be made on your family? 00:28:28.980 --> 00:28:31.340 What kind of impact could be made on the school district? 00:28:31.900 --> 00:28:34.580 What kind of impact could be made at the community center? 00:28:35.019 --> 00:28:36.860 What kind of impact could be made in the neighborhoods? 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:47.299 Through the internet, as we call loved ones, we message each other, as we live our lives outside and online, 00:28:47.299 --> 00:28:54.059 what kind of impact, what kind of difference would be made if we see ourselves as God sees us? 00:28:54.059 --> 00:28:56.440 Let's sing this song together, can we? 00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:58.299 I think we've got the words on the screen. 00:28:58.379 --> 00:28:59.700 If y'all can jump ahead to that one. 00:29:03.659 --> 00:29:06.399 Who am I that the highest king would welcome me? 00:29:06.679 --> 00:29:08.819 I was lost, but he brought me in. 00:29:09.319 --> 00:29:11.099 Oh, his love for me. 00:29:11.980 --> 00:29:14.000 Would y'all mind joining me in standing if you can? 00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:15.359 Let's look up together. 00:29:15.659 --> 00:29:17.079 Let's sing this song together. 00:29:17.299 --> 00:29:19.679 If you need to take a moment to come pray at this altar, 00:29:19.980 --> 00:29:22.159 if you want to sit back down and just pray by yourself, 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:24.080 whatever you need to do at this moment, 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:26.240 or if you just want to lift your voice and join us in singing, 00:29:26.600 --> 00:29:27.600 let's sing this together. 00:29:27.600 --> 00:29:34.600 Who am I that the highest king would welcome me? 00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:36.200 I was lost. 00:29:36.820 --> 00:29:38.600 I was lost. 00:29:38.820 --> 00:29:40.759 And he brought me in. 00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:43.380 He is unworthy. 00:29:44.380 --> 00:29:46.600 He is unworthy. 00:29:47.340 --> 00:29:48.340 Sing it out. 00:29:48.339 --> 00:29:56.519 Think about these words. 00:29:56.519 --> 00:30:00.439 I'm a child of God. 00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:03.659 Yes, I am. 00:30:05.740 --> 00:30:10.919 Free at last, he has ransomed his grace. 00:30:12.339 --> 00:30:13.939 This is what I want. 00:30:13.940 --> 00:30:16.700 My heart is a saint. 00:30:16.700 --> 00:30:18.940 Jesus, I am. 00:30:18.940 --> 00:30:19.940 I am. 00:30:19.940 --> 00:30:22.940 Yes, I am. 00:30:22.940 --> 00:30:23.940 I am. 00:30:23.940 --> 00:30:25.940 Yes, I am. 00:30:25.940 --> 00:30:28.940 The sun sets me. 00:30:28.940 --> 00:30:30.940 Oh, I see. 00:30:30.940 --> 00:30:32.940 I am. 00:30:32.940 --> 00:30:33.940 I am. 00:30:33.940 --> 00:30:34.940 I am. 00:30:34.940 --> 00:30:35.940 I am. 00:30:35.940 --> 00:30:36.940 I am. 00:30:36.940 --> 00:30:37.940 I am. 00:30:37.940 --> 00:30:38.940 I am. 00:30:38.940 --> 00:30:39.940 I am. 00:30:39.940 --> 00:30:40.940 I am. 00:30:40.940 --> 00:30:41.940 I am. 00:30:41.940 --> 00:30:42.940 In my pocket. 00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:43.940 Yes, I am. 00:30:43.940 --> 00:30:45.940 There's a place for me. 00:30:45.940 --> 00:30:46.940 Yes, I am. 00:30:46.940 --> 00:30:47.940 Yes, I am. 00:30:47.940 --> 00:30:48.940 Wait for me. 00:30:48.940 --> 00:30:49.940 I am. 00:30:49.940 --> 00:30:50.940 I am. 00:30:50.940 --> 00:30:51.940 I am. 00:30:51.940 --> 00:30:52.940 Yes, I am. 00:30:52.940 --> 00:30:55.940 Yes, I am. 00:30:55.940 --> 00:30:57.940 Watch this. 00:30:57.940 --> 00:31:01.940 I am chosen, not forsaken. 00:31:01.940 --> 00:31:02.940 I am. 00:31:02.940 --> 00:31:03.940 I am. 00:31:03.940 --> 00:31:04.940 I am. 00:31:04.940 --> 00:31:05.940 I am. 00:31:05.940 --> 00:31:06.940 I am. 00:31:06.940 --> 00:31:08.940 You are for me. 00:31:08.940 --> 00:31:10.940 Not against me. 00:31:10.940 --> 00:31:11.940 I am. 00:31:11.940 --> 00:31:12.940 I am. 00:31:12.940 --> 00:31:13.940 I am. 00:31:13.940 --> 00:31:14.940 Sing that again, church. 00:31:14.940 --> 00:31:18.940 I am chosen, not forsaken. 00:31:18.940 --> 00:31:19.940 I am. 00:31:19.940 --> 00:31:20.940 I am. 00:31:20.940 --> 00:31:21.940 I am. 00:31:21.940 --> 00:31:22.940 I am. 00:31:22.940 --> 00:31:23.940 I am. 00:31:23.940 --> 00:31:24.940 I am. 00:31:24.940 --> 00:31:25.940 I am. 00:31:25.940 --> 00:31:26.940 I am. 00:31:26.940 --> 00:31:27.940 I am. 00:31:27.940 --> 00:31:28.940 I am. 00:31:28.940 --> 00:31:29.940 I am. 00:31:29.940 --> 00:31:30.940 I am. 00:31:30.940 --> 00:31:31.940 I am. 00:31:31.940 --> 00:31:32.940 I am. 00:31:32.940 --> 00:31:33.940 I am. 00:31:33.940 --> 00:31:35.940 You say I am. 00:31:35.940 --> 00:31:38.940 Now, think about these words as we sing this story. 00:31:38.940 --> 00:31:39.940 It's one last time together. 00:31:39.940 --> 00:31:40.940 Ready? 00:31:40.940 --> 00:31:45.940 Do the sun set screen. 00:31:45.940 --> 00:31:49.940 Holy spring in me. 00:31:49.940 --> 00:31:53.940 I'm a child of God. 00:31:53.940 --> 00:31:56.940 Yes, I am. 00:31:56.940 --> 00:31:58.940 There's a place for me. 00:31:58.940 --> 00:32:06.940 In my Father's house, there's a place for me. 00:32:06.940 --> 00:32:10.940 I'm a child of God. 00:32:10.940 --> 00:32:14.940 Yes, I am. 00:32:14.940 --> 00:32:15.940 Now, we believe that. 00:32:15.940 --> 00:32:16.940 Proclaim that. 00:32:16.940 --> 00:32:23.940 Sometimes we just have to speak that out there because you have spoken that over us through your word. 00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:31.940 That resonates with what your Holy Spirit inside of us is teaching us. 00:32:31.940 --> 00:32:33.940 Training us every day. 00:32:33.940 --> 00:32:36.940 That is the truth. 00:32:36.940 --> 00:32:38.940 That we've got to embrace. 00:32:38.940 --> 00:32:40.940 I'm not the old man. 00:32:40.940 --> 00:32:42.940 I'm not the old woman. 00:32:42.940 --> 00:32:43.940 I'm not the old guy. 00:32:43.940 --> 00:32:44.940 I'm not the old girl. 00:32:44.940 --> 00:32:46.940 I am new. 00:32:46.940 --> 00:32:47.940 I am a new creation. 00:32:47.940 --> 00:32:49.940 I get a fresh beginning with you. 00:32:49.940 --> 00:32:56.940 So I will do what I do because of what you think I do. 00:32:56.940 --> 00:33:01.940 Teach us what that means for us. 00:33:01.940 --> 00:33:03.940 For our church. 00:33:03.940 --> 00:33:05.940 What that means about tomorrow morning. 00:33:05.940 --> 00:33:07.940 About lunchtime. 00:33:07.940 --> 00:33:08.940 About the evening. 00:33:08.940 --> 00:33:09.940 About when we go to bed. 00:33:09.940 --> 00:33:10.940 When we wake up. 00:33:10.940 --> 00:33:13.940 Teach us what it looks like. 00:33:13.940 --> 00:33:18.940 To be a chosen, free, forgiven child of God. 00:33:18.940 --> 00:33:19.940 Child of God. 00:33:21.940 --> 00:33:24.940 We'll give you all the glory for you. 00:33:24.940 --> 00:33:27.940 God, if there's somebody here that doesn't know you as their savior. 00:33:28.940 --> 00:33:30.940 I pray that you would give them the strength. 00:33:30.940 --> 00:33:31.940 Give them the courage. 00:33:31.940 --> 00:33:34.940 To come back when this service closes. 00:33:34.940 --> 00:33:40.940 Grab me by the arm and just say, hey, I'd like to know more about becoming a child of God. 00:33:41.940 --> 00:33:45.940 Let them not walk out these doors without settling that most important thing. 00:33:46.940 --> 00:33:48.940 Church, I'm going to talk to you right now. 00:33:48.940 --> 00:33:49.940 If that's you. 00:33:49.940 --> 00:33:50.940 If that's what I just said. 00:33:50.940 --> 00:33:51.940 If that's somebody. 00:33:51.940 --> 00:33:53.940 If there's somebody in this house who doesn't know. 00:33:53.940 --> 00:33:56.940 100% certain that God is your father. 00:33:56.940 --> 00:33:58.940 That you are a child of God. 00:33:58.940 --> 00:33:59.940 Would you slip your hand up now? 00:33:59.940 --> 00:34:01.940 And I'd like to talk to you after the service. 00:34:01.940 --> 00:34:03.940 I'd like to pray for you. 00:34:03.940 --> 00:34:04.940 Thank you. 00:34:04.940 --> 00:34:06.940 Let me ask this follow up question. 00:34:06.940 --> 00:34:09.940 How many of you would say God's working on my heart? 00:34:09.940 --> 00:34:15.940 Maybe I've been seeing myself through my deceitful eyes instead of how God sees me. 00:34:15.940 --> 00:34:17.940 Would you slip your hand up and I'll pray for you as well. 00:34:17.940 --> 00:34:18.940 Thank you. 00:34:18.940 --> 00:34:19.940 Thank you. 00:34:19.940 --> 00:34:20.940 Thank you. 00:34:20.940 --> 00:34:21.940 Thank you. 00:34:21.940 --> 00:34:22.940 You can put them down. 00:34:22.940 --> 00:34:23.940 Thank you. 00:34:23.940 --> 00:34:24.940 Thank you. 00:34:24.940 --> 00:34:25.940 God, you know every situation. 00:34:25.940 --> 00:34:26.940 You know every heart. 00:34:26.940 --> 00:34:27.940 You know what's going on. 00:34:27.940 --> 00:34:29.940 You know the burdens we've been carrying. 00:34:29.940 --> 00:34:32.940 You know the struggles we've been carrying with us. 00:34:32.940 --> 00:34:34.940 God, lift those burdens. 00:34:34.940 --> 00:34:37.940 Train us in your steps. 00:34:37.940 --> 00:34:38.940 In Jesus' name. 00:34:38.940 --> 00:34:39.940 Amen. 00:34:42.940 --> 00:34:44.940 Y'all, thank you so much for being here this morning. 00:34:44.940 --> 00:34:47.940 Were you blessed by the service today? 00:34:47.940 --> 00:34:48.940 I know I was. 00:34:48.940 --> 00:34:49.940 I know I was. 00:34:49.940 --> 00:34:55.940 We've got more baptisms coming up next week for those of you, those who couldn't be here today. 00:34:55.940 --> 00:34:58.940 And we'll see a little recap video of Ella's baptism. 00:34:58.940 --> 00:35:00.940 But we've got more lined up. 00:35:00.940 --> 00:35:01.940 So don't miss a Sunday. 00:35:01.940 --> 00:35:03.940 You're going to miss something awesome. 00:35:03.940 --> 00:35:04.940 Okay. 00:35:04.940 --> 00:35:07.940 But if you do have to miss, be sure and go back and watch online to see what God's doing 00:35:07.940 --> 00:35:09.940 in our church. 00:35:09.940 --> 00:35:11.940 Any announcements for tonight? 00:35:11.940 --> 00:35:16.940 We've got Bible study at 6 p.m. for those who attend that Sunday night Bible study. 00:35:16.940 --> 00:35:24.940 But be sure to go out and this week, if you could, go out and try to find somebody, 00:35:24.940 --> 00:35:26.940 maybe who used to come and hasn't in a while. 00:35:26.940 --> 00:35:29.940 And just let them know God's doing some cool things in our church. 00:35:29.940 --> 00:35:31.940 And maybe come back and see it. 00:35:31.940 --> 00:35:35.940 And somebody who maybe hasn't come before, but you think maybe should, go out and just 00:35:35.940 --> 00:35:36.940 give them a warm invitation. 00:35:36.940 --> 00:35:42.940 And it'll take some time, but we want to see God continue to bring people in to see what 00:35:42.940 --> 00:35:43.940 he's doing here. 00:35:43.940 --> 00:35:44.940 I love y'all. 00:35:44.940 --> 00:35:45.940 Love being your pastor. 00:35:45.940 --> 00:35:46.940 Let's pray together. 00:35:46.940 --> 00:35:48.940 God, thank you so much for bringing us to this morning. 00:35:48.940 --> 00:35:52.940 Pray that you would go with us as we go out these doors. 00:35:52.940 --> 00:35:57.940 Let us be your hands and feet, your voice, your eyes, your ears in this community. 00:35:57.940 --> 00:36:03.940 And show the kind of love and grace and mercy and truth that this community needs. 00:36:03.940 --> 00:36:05.940 We'll give you the glory for it in Jesus name. 00:36:05.940 --> 00:36:06.940 Amen. 00:36:06.940 --> 00:36:07.940 See y'all next week.