WEBVTT 00:00:04.800 --> 00:00:05.625 If you don't know who I am, 00:00:05.625 --> 00:00:07.275 my name is Nick Adams. 00:00:08.185 --> 00:00:10.193 Y'all let me be one of the pastors here, 00:00:10.193 --> 00:00:12.165 and I'm grateful for that. 00:00:14.305 --> 00:00:19.325 If you didn't notice by some of the songs they just sang, 00:00:19.705 --> 00:00:20.925 it's Thanksgiving. 00:00:22.985 --> 00:00:27.445 It's hard to be mad and thankful at the same time. 00:00:27.775 --> 00:00:29.755 When you sing songs of praise, 00:00:29.783 --> 00:00:31.763 when you remember who God is, 00:00:33.335 --> 00:00:34.711 it lifts you up. 00:00:34.743 --> 00:00:37.255 It brings you out of whatever you're in. 00:00:37.255 --> 00:00:39.215 And when I start singing, 00:00:39.255 --> 00:00:43.111 when I start remembering what God has done for me, 00:00:43.303 --> 00:00:44.647 it's hard not to be thankful, 00:00:44.647 --> 00:00:49.475 right? Because it's a response to a gift we've been given. 00:00:50.295 --> 00:00:52.275 And when you get a gift, 00:00:52.905 --> 00:00:55.545 do you just put it to the side? 00:00:56.065 --> 00:00:56.929 No, you open it, 00:00:56.929 --> 00:00:58.513 right? You have to receive it. 00:00:58.513 --> 00:01:02.041 And I love this time of year. 00:01:02.193 --> 00:01:04.825 I love the weather. 00:01:04.945 --> 00:01:09.977 I love that you reflect on everything this time of year. 00:01:10.081 --> 00:01:12.657 Holiday season is eating season, 00:01:12.761 --> 00:01:13.405 right? 00:01:16.185 --> 00:01:16.649 But no, 00:01:16.649 --> 00:01:17.777 it's my favorite time of the year. 00:01:17.777 --> 00:01:21.077 Just because there's a lot of gathering, 00:01:21.141 --> 00:01:22.269 there's a lot of meeting, 00:01:22.269 --> 00:01:23.919 there's a lot of reflecting, 00:01:24.037 --> 00:01:25.505 a lot of celebrating. 00:01:25.885 --> 00:01:28.305 And last week, 00:01:29.445 --> 00:01:30.645 Pastor Bobby, 00:01:30.805 --> 00:01:32.785 anybody remember what he talked about? 00:01:33.965 --> 00:01:36.265 He made a couple of slogans, 00:01:37.525 --> 00:01:38.621 the Grat pack, 00:01:38.653 --> 00:01:40.229 right? Said he was going to make a T shirt. 00:01:40.101 --> 00:01:41.465 It says grat pack. 00:01:42.445 --> 00:01:43.877 Your attitude. 00:01:43.981 --> 00:01:47.941 Do you have an attitude of gratitude or even said something like 00:01:47.989 --> 00:01:51.365 gratitude? Are you brat about it? 00:01:51.405 --> 00:01:53.385 Are you only concerned about yourself? 00:01:53.285 --> 00:01:57.261 Or do you reflect and have gratitude? 00:01:57.293 --> 00:01:58.943 Are you grateful for things? 00:01:59.069 --> 00:02:01.709 This is kind of part two of that. 00:02:02.205 --> 00:02:03.253 How to Thanksgiving, 00:02:03.309 --> 00:02:04.785 right? What is Thanksgiving? 00:02:06.325 --> 00:02:07.397 Giving thanks. 00:02:07.461 --> 00:02:12.245 Right? And we just talked about the gathering priorities over the last 00:02:12.285 --> 00:02:15.425 four weeks before last week, 00:02:16.645 --> 00:02:18.165 and loving God, 00:02:18.205 --> 00:02:18.837 living Jesus, 00:02:18.837 --> 00:02:19.605 walking together. 00:02:19.725 --> 00:02:23.355 I pointed out last time I got an opportunity to preach, 00:02:23.485 --> 00:02:27.077 all of those directives have ing on them, 00:02:27.181 --> 00:02:28.545 just like Thanksgiving, 00:02:28.845 --> 00:02:30.589 meaning it is ongoing, 00:02:30.637 --> 00:02:31.645 it is continued. 00:02:31.685 --> 00:02:34.185 So how do you be continually thankful? 00:02:34.645 --> 00:02:36.925 That's what we're going to talk about. 00:02:36.925 --> 00:02:40.431 Before I keep talking, 00:02:40.463 --> 00:02:41.255 I want to pray. 00:02:41.255 --> 00:02:41.927 All right, 00:02:42.071 --> 00:02:42.995 let's pray. 00:02:44.415 --> 00:02:47.595 Lord, thank you for this day. 00:02:47.935 --> 00:02:52.719 Help us remember that it's a gift and that's why you call it the presence. 00:02:52.519 --> 00:02:55.079 Help us to be present with you right here, 00:02:55.079 --> 00:02:55.915 right now, 00:02:56.495 --> 00:02:57.071 dear Lord, 00:02:57.071 --> 00:03:00.639 I just pray that your holy spirit would just fill this place, 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:01.555 dear Lord, 00:03:01.935 --> 00:03:04.943 and that you would pour out in a way that causes us, 00:03:04.943 --> 00:03:08.329 stirs us up to make a change, 00:03:08.377 --> 00:03:14.401 maybe to make a decision to hear something from you that stirs us up in a 00:03:14.433 --> 00:03:17.925 way that people see and come to know you, 00:03:18.745 --> 00:03:19.321 dear Lord. 00:03:19.321 --> 00:03:23.665 And I pray that we would just have eyes to hear, 00:03:23.825 --> 00:03:24.737 eyes to see. 00:03:24.737 --> 00:03:25.805 Ears to hear. 00:03:26.185 --> 00:03:28.705 And I just thank you for this time. 00:03:28.705 --> 00:03:33.519 And I just pray that you just go before me in a way that honor and 00:03:33.519 --> 00:03:34.767 glorifies you. 00:03:34.951 --> 00:03:35.875 Love you. 00:03:36.495 --> 00:03:39.223 Amen. We're in Colossians, 00:03:39.279 --> 00:03:40.235 chapter three, 00:03:40.615 --> 00:03:42.265 if you have your Bible. 00:03:42.375 --> 00:03:46.595 And we're going to read verses 15 through 17, 00:03:46.975 --> 00:03:49.775 and then we're going to kind of work this thing in reverse today. 00:03:49.775 --> 00:03:51.351 And I'll explain that in just a minute. 00:03:51.183 --> 00:03:53.035 But verses 15 through 17. 00:03:53.495 --> 00:03:55.319 Thinking about Thanksgiving. 00:03:55.447 --> 00:03:58.689 How to be continually grateful, 00:03:58.817 --> 00:04:01.353 thankful not just in this season, 00:04:01.409 --> 00:04:02.409 not just this week, 00:04:02.409 --> 00:04:03.399 not just Thursday, 00:04:03.473 --> 00:04:04.625 but every day, 00:04:04.665 --> 00:04:05.245 right? 00:04:08.025 --> 00:04:10.165 Verse 15 starts off by saying, 00:04:10.865 --> 00:04:16.065 and let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. 00:04:16.105 --> 00:04:18.265 For as members of one body, 00:04:18.305 --> 00:04:21.935 you are called to live in peace and always be thankful. 00:04:22.001 --> 00:04:25.961 Let the message about Christ and all its richness fill your lives. 00:04:26.185 --> 00:04:30.185 Teach and counsel each other with all wisdom he gives. 00:04:30.305 --> 00:04:35.245 Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts. 00:04:35.625 --> 00:04:37.393 And whatever you do or say, 00:04:37.393 --> 00:04:40.193 do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, 00:04:40.193 --> 00:04:44.725 giving thanks through him to God the Father. 00:04:46.265 --> 00:04:50.181 So how do you continually be thankful? 00:04:50.313 --> 00:04:50.845 How do you. 00:04:50.845 --> 00:04:53.985 Thanksgiving. It's funny, 00:04:55.085 --> 00:04:59.025 the answer to that is in the first 14 verses. 00:04:59.525 --> 00:05:05.437 So Bobby kind of gave you this picture of being grateful, 00:05:05.501 --> 00:05:06.829 your attitude, 00:05:06.957 --> 00:05:08.269 not being a brat, 00:05:08.269 --> 00:05:09.389 having gratitude, 00:05:09.437 --> 00:05:16.341 right? Not thinking about yourself or what can this do for me? 00:05:16.413 --> 00:05:16.957 Me, me, 00:05:16.957 --> 00:05:17.865 me, right? 00:05:18.405 --> 00:05:20.277 And in Colossians, 00:05:20.341 --> 00:05:21.421 in chapter three, 00:05:21.533 --> 00:05:23.843 it tells you how to do that. 00:05:24.165 --> 00:05:24.725 But before, 00:05:24.725 --> 00:05:27.035 it tells you how to do something. 00:05:26.613 --> 00:05:29.965 Because I can tell you how to do something. 00:05:30.045 --> 00:05:32.245 But if you don't have the heart for it, 00:05:32.245 --> 00:05:33.501 if you're not stirred up, 00:05:33.501 --> 00:05:34.861 if you're not infected by it, 00:05:34.861 --> 00:05:38.025 if you're not affected by it, 00:05:39.045 --> 00:05:42.685 you might feel motivated to do something. 00:05:42.725 --> 00:05:43.277 You might do it. 00:05:43.277 --> 00:05:44.965 But it probably ain't gonna last too long, 00:05:44.965 --> 00:05:45.705 is it? 00:05:46.675 --> 00:05:51.435 And so what I don't want to happen is me to tell you to do something, 00:05:51.435 --> 00:05:52.171 and you go do it, 00:05:52.171 --> 00:05:54.481 but you haven't been affected by something. 00:05:54.915 --> 00:05:56.235 And just like that, 00:05:56.267 --> 00:05:57.895 the songs we sang. 00:05:58.595 --> 00:05:59.227 Thank you, 00:05:59.227 --> 00:06:03.855 God, for your blood which was poured out for us, 00:06:05.315 --> 00:06:06.475 Paul, in every letter. 00:06:06.475 --> 00:06:08.785 So Paul is a writer of Colossians. 00:06:09.195 --> 00:06:10.531 And in verse 15. 00:06:10.723 --> 00:06:14.683 And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. 00:06:16.095 --> 00:06:18.405 It's hard to be thankful without peace. 00:06:18.775 --> 00:06:22.055 I'm not saying you technically can't do it, 00:06:22.175 --> 00:06:24.487 but I know when I don't have peace, 00:06:24.487 --> 00:06:29.035 when I don't remember who the Creator and source is of that, 00:06:29.415 --> 00:06:31.551 that even when I'm not thankful, 00:06:31.663 --> 00:06:33.007 I have somebody to go to. 00:06:33.007 --> 00:06:34.303 I have something to go to. 00:06:34.303 --> 00:06:36.231 I have the source of peace. 00:06:36.231 --> 00:06:39.335 So when I call out to them or I say Lord, 00:06:39.335 --> 00:06:39.995 I don't. 00:06:39.871 --> 00:06:40.799 I'm not thankful. 00:06:40.799 --> 00:06:43.035 I can't get out of this rut. 00:06:43.035 --> 00:06:43.387 I mean, 00:06:43.387 --> 00:06:46.835 I can't seem to not think about myself. 00:06:46.915 --> 00:06:48.851 When I go back to the source, 00:06:48.851 --> 00:06:53.735 right? And I remember that peace that transcends understanding, 00:06:54.315 --> 00:06:56.335 then I can do something. 00:06:57.555 --> 00:07:00.995 Let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. 00:07:00.995 --> 00:07:05.211 For we're members of one body and you're called to live in peace and 00:07:05.211 --> 00:07:06.375 always be thankful. 00:07:10.285 --> 00:07:11.605 So what is peace? 00:07:12.005 --> 00:07:14.315 What is that peace he's talking about? 00:07:15.165 --> 00:07:16.621 How can I have it? 00:07:16.621 --> 00:07:18.105 Anybody ask that question? 00:07:19.725 --> 00:07:21.045 I don't know any. 00:07:22.085 --> 00:07:23.585 Everybody in here thankful? 00:07:24.805 --> 00:07:26.445 Do you always feel thankful? 00:07:26.445 --> 00:07:29.745 Everybody always feeling having gratitude, 00:07:30.605 --> 00:07:31.469 right? You can, 00:07:31.469 --> 00:07:31.805 I mean, 00:07:31.805 --> 00:07:34.655 you're not going to normally answer that question, 00:07:34.695 --> 00:07:35.903 but a certain way, 00:07:35.903 --> 00:07:38.195 especially sitting in here on Sunday. 00:07:38.535 --> 00:07:40.845 But when you get out there tomorrow, 00:07:41.215 --> 00:07:43.195 back out there in the world, 00:07:43.535 --> 00:07:45.151 it's hard not to think about yourself, 00:07:45.151 --> 00:07:45.755 right? 00:07:46.895 --> 00:07:49.607 Especially when your circumstances change. 00:07:49.671 --> 00:07:53.063 Especially living in this fallen world normally. 00:07:53.239 --> 00:07:57.655 Especially if you've been getting short end of the stick for a long time. 00:07:57.655 --> 00:08:00.359 How. What's this piece he's talking about? 00:08:00.527 --> 00:08:02.177 Was a question I had. 00:08:04.495 --> 00:08:07.687 Majority of our time is going to be in verses 1 through 14. 00:08:07.687 --> 00:08:10.615 Because it's not only going to tell you how, 00:08:10.615 --> 00:08:12.367 it's going to tell you why. 00:08:12.367 --> 00:08:15.055 And that if you haven't been infected with the gospel, 00:08:15.055 --> 00:08:17.035 if you haven't been stirred up, 00:08:17.255 --> 00:08:18.767 changed from the inside, 00:08:18.871 --> 00:08:21.841 it doesn't matter what you add to the outside. 00:08:21.855 --> 00:08:29.223 I love that Paul always seems to tell you who you are before he gives you 00:08:29.239 --> 00:08:31.135 a list of things to do. 00:08:31.135 --> 00:08:33.095 So this is what he says, 00:08:33.095 --> 00:08:37.385 thinking about that since you have been raised to new life with Christ, 00:08:38.175 --> 00:08:40.815 set your sights on the realities of heaven. 00:08:40.615 --> 00:08:42.975 If you haven't been raised to new life with Christ, 00:08:42.975 --> 00:08:44.955 if you haven't been made new, 00:08:45.215 --> 00:08:46.865 you got to start there. 00:08:48.295 --> 00:08:49.583 If you don't know what that means, 00:08:49.583 --> 00:08:50.831 you don't understand what that means. 00:08:50.831 --> 00:08:52.865 I would love for you to ask me. 00:08:52.865 --> 00:08:56.401 I bet if you ask majority of people in here, 00:08:56.433 --> 00:08:59.097 they could tell you something. 00:08:59.201 --> 00:09:03.125 Something happened in my life and it changed. 00:09:06.505 --> 00:09:09.805 Do not think about only things down here on earth. 00:09:09.993 --> 00:09:11.973 For you died when Christ died. 00:09:12.105 --> 00:09:15.405 And your real life is hidden with Christ in God. 00:09:15.417 --> 00:09:19.785 And when Christ who is your real life is revealed to the whole world, 00:09:19.785 --> 00:09:22.055 you will share in all his glory. 00:09:22.055 --> 00:09:23.195 That's the peace. 00:09:23.695 --> 00:09:31.207 Why? Because we know as believers and receivers of the gospel that all 00:09:31.231 --> 00:09:32.047 this is temporary, 00:09:32.047 --> 00:09:34.275 right? My peace comes from. 00:09:34.695 --> 00:09:36.447 This is not my home. 00:09:36.631 --> 00:09:39.639 This is not my final place. 00:09:39.807 --> 00:09:41.199 So whatever happens here, 00:09:41.247 --> 00:09:41.791 guess what. 00:09:41.791 --> 00:09:48.227 I have Christ and I have a hope and a glory and a holiness to look 00:09:48.251 --> 00:09:49.003 forward to, 00:09:49.139 --> 00:09:52.643 right? That's why I can have peace. 00:09:52.699 --> 00:09:56.283 So even when things ain't going the way I want them to, 00:09:56.283 --> 00:09:58.593 I can always go back to that. 00:09:58.795 --> 00:10:02.935 And it always stirs me up to be thankful. 00:10:05.115 --> 00:10:06.175 He says, 00:10:13.445 --> 00:10:14.141 when Christ, 00:10:14.213 --> 00:10:15.157 who is your real life, 00:10:15.157 --> 00:10:16.429 is revealed to you, 00:10:16.429 --> 00:10:19.261 when he finally comes back and he's revealed to you, 00:10:19.261 --> 00:10:20.397 then we'll be in that. 00:10:20.397 --> 00:10:22.047 Then we'll be made whole, 00:10:22.125 --> 00:10:23.625 complete and new. 00:10:25.765 --> 00:10:26.373 Like I said, 00:10:26.373 --> 00:10:29.901 Paul constantly reminds us who we are in Christ and what he's done for 00:10:29.901 --> 00:10:34.781 us. And you have to be infected by the Gospel from the inside out, 00:10:34.813 --> 00:10:36.463 not the other way around. 00:10:38.055 --> 00:10:42.551 The infection produces something kind of like when you get the flu or you 00:10:42.551 --> 00:10:43.595 get a virus. 00:10:43.895 --> 00:10:45.031 You have symptoms, 00:10:45.063 --> 00:10:46.343 but the infection is already there. 00:10:46.343 --> 00:10:49.435 You might not know it and you have symptoms. 00:10:51.055 --> 00:10:53.695 You can't just add things to your life. 00:10:53.711 --> 00:10:54.567 And like I said, 00:10:54.567 --> 00:11:00.303 Paul is going to remind you who you are in these next 14 verses. 00:11:00.439 --> 00:11:02.095 He's going to do it twice. 00:11:02.095 --> 00:11:06.505 He's going to remind you who you are in Christ before he tells you. 00:11:06.505 --> 00:11:10.165 This is how you continually give thanks. 00:11:12.145 --> 00:11:16.265 Something's got to happen on the inside and what Christ has done for you 00:11:16.265 --> 00:11:17.065 should affect you. 00:11:17.065 --> 00:11:21.817 There should be some symptoms of being made new, 00:11:21.881 --> 00:11:23.057 being saved, 00:11:23.241 --> 00:11:23.965 right? 00:11:24.985 --> 00:11:26.889 Just like when you have the flu, 00:11:26.889 --> 00:11:29.113 you might have runny nose, 00:11:29.209 --> 00:11:30.875 cough, itchy eyes. 00:11:31.065 --> 00:11:33.623 People can tell something's different about you, 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:34.275 right? 00:11:37.735 --> 00:11:40.295 In verse five, 00:11:40.335 --> 00:11:40.735 he says, 00:11:40.735 --> 00:11:46.555 so put to death the sinful earthly things lurking within you. 00:11:48.215 --> 00:11:50.415 Now he's going to give you some things to do. 00:11:50.415 --> 00:11:52.711 Have nothing to do with sexual sin, 00:11:52.711 --> 00:11:54.255 impurity, lust, 00:11:54.375 --> 00:11:55.755 shameful desires. 00:11:56.215 --> 00:11:58.711 Don't be greedy for good things of this life. 00:11:58.711 --> 00:12:00.095 That is idolatry. 00:12:00.955 --> 00:12:01.945 That is coveting. 00:12:01.979 --> 00:12:03.739 That's wanting what other people have. 00:12:03.739 --> 00:12:06.855 That's putting other things before God. 00:12:07.835 --> 00:12:11.203 God's terrible anger will come upon those who do such things. 00:12:11.203 --> 00:12:15.171 You used to do them when your life was still part of this world. 00:12:14.819 --> 00:12:18.387 But now is the time to get rid of anger, 00:12:18.491 --> 00:12:20.099 rage, malicious behavior, 00:12:20.187 --> 00:12:22.055 slander, dirty language. 00:12:22.555 --> 00:12:23.859 Don't lie to each other. 00:12:23.859 --> 00:12:30.455 For you have stripped off your old evil nature and all its wicked deeds. 00:12:33.435 --> 00:12:34.655 Put to death. 00:12:37.395 --> 00:12:39.815 Kill the sin that is killing you. 00:12:41.035 --> 00:12:43.015 You have to take it off. 00:12:45.715 --> 00:12:48.175 Baptism is a picture of that. 00:12:48.835 --> 00:12:52.795 We got an opportunity to do baptism last week in the ocean. 00:12:52.835 --> 00:12:54.015 It was cold, 00:12:55.515 --> 00:12:57.895 but it was I love. 00:12:58.235 --> 00:13:03.443 We always like toe the line of when it's too cold and it's always toward 00:13:03.459 --> 00:13:04.779 the end of November, 00:13:04.995 --> 00:13:08.015 but I remember those very well. 00:13:08.355 --> 00:13:12.995 But baptism is a picture of Us being buried with Christ, 00:13:13.115 --> 00:13:14.395 we're taking off. 00:13:14.515 --> 00:13:15.403 You're doing something, 00:13:15.403 --> 00:13:19.695 you're taking off that old and you're being brought back up, 00:13:19.775 --> 00:13:20.671 made new. 00:13:20.783 --> 00:13:21.655 And it's a picture, 00:13:21.655 --> 00:13:22.175 it's a witness, 00:13:22.175 --> 00:13:22.855 it's a testimony, 00:13:22.855 --> 00:13:24.315 it's a statement saying, 00:13:25.335 --> 00:13:26.985 this is who I am, 00:13:27.023 --> 00:13:28.495 this is who I believe in, 00:13:28.495 --> 00:13:31.795 and I want everybody to know and I don't care. 00:13:33.535 --> 00:13:35.235 You have to take off, 00:13:36.855 --> 00:13:39.515 put to death sinful earthly things. 00:13:41.055 --> 00:13:44.755 There should be some symptoms of what has affected you, 00:13:44.795 --> 00:13:45.375 right? 00:13:47.915 --> 00:13:49.695 Once you do those things. 00:13:50.315 --> 00:13:51.115 In verse 10, 00:13:51.155 --> 00:13:51.699 he says, 00:13:51.699 --> 00:13:52.815 in its place, 00:13:53.315 --> 00:13:57.075 you have clothed yourselves with a brand new nature that is continually 00:13:57.075 --> 00:13:58.187 being renewed. 00:13:58.331 --> 00:14:00.971 As you learn more and more about Christ, 00:14:02.155 --> 00:14:06.335 who has created this new nature within you in this new life, 00:14:07.275 --> 00:14:09.347 it doesn't matter if you're a Jew, 00:14:09.347 --> 00:14:10.019 a gentile, 00:14:10.067 --> 00:14:11.467 circumcised, uncircumcised, 00:14:11.531 --> 00:14:15.251 barbaric, uncivilized slave or free. 00:14:15.363 --> 00:14:18.795 Christ is all that matters and he lives in all of us. 00:14:18.795 --> 00:14:20.445 So what he's saying there, 00:14:21.155 --> 00:14:23.135 you got to put it on. 00:14:25.195 --> 00:14:26.215 You don't. 00:14:27.035 --> 00:14:30.307 If I went to the gym and worked out, 00:14:30.491 --> 00:14:31.155 got shorts, 00:14:31.195 --> 00:14:36.949 T shirt and then I decided to put these clothes on and come in here, 00:14:37.077 --> 00:14:38.189 you would probably notice, 00:14:38.189 --> 00:14:40.305 right? I would smell different, 00:14:42.925 --> 00:14:44.173 I would look a little different, 00:14:44.173 --> 00:14:45.021 I'd probably be sweaty, 00:14:45.021 --> 00:14:46.565 I'd probably look like I just take a shower, 00:14:46.565 --> 00:14:47.885 I sweat a lot. 00:14:49.605 --> 00:14:51.269 You would notice something different, 00:14:51.317 --> 00:14:57.025 right? So you can't just add those things over the top. 00:14:59.045 --> 00:15:00.981 You can't just add Jesus to your life. 00:15:00.981 --> 00:15:02.975 You got to make them your life. 00:15:02.975 --> 00:15:04.791 You got to surrender your life and say, 00:15:04.791 --> 00:15:07.399 jesus, I want you to be Lord, 00:15:07.487 --> 00:15:10.135 ruler of my life because you're the Creator and the Source. 00:15:10.135 --> 00:15:14.615 And I know you know how to do it way better than I do. 00:15:14.615 --> 00:15:18.575 So we're all in the process of taking things off, 00:15:18.615 --> 00:15:19.195 right? 00:15:20.095 --> 00:15:24.463 He mentions that you're continually being renewed as you learn more and 00:15:24.479 --> 00:15:25.199 more about Christ. 00:15:25.199 --> 00:15:25.543 Guess what? 00:15:25.543 --> 00:15:27.415 I'm learning more and more about Christ every day. 00:15:27.415 --> 00:15:28.405 Just like you. 00:15:29.625 --> 00:15:32.925 The terrible thing we do sometimes as Christians is compare, 00:15:32.929 --> 00:15:33.525 right? 00:15:35.545 --> 00:15:38.685 Or we try to put on service, 00:15:39.345 --> 00:15:49.289 we try to put on attendance records and let that justify our sinfulness, 00:15:49.337 --> 00:15:55.795 right? We try to put it over the top of these things and then people can 00:15:55.835 --> 00:15:58.659 tell, you say you're, 00:15:58.747 --> 00:15:59.655 you're this, 00:16:00.235 --> 00:16:02.215 but I don't see any symptoms. 00:16:03.795 --> 00:16:06.495 If you're infected with this, 00:16:07.355 --> 00:16:08.535 where's the fruit? 00:16:13.035 --> 00:16:15.251 Christ is all that matters and he lives in all of us. 00:16:15.251 --> 00:16:15.683 And guess what? 00:16:15.683 --> 00:16:16.895 It's for everyone. 00:16:17.555 --> 00:16:19.945 He just listed every kind of person. 00:16:20.885 --> 00:16:23.585 It's for everyone to receive. 00:16:28.565 --> 00:16:31.165 I normally Read out a new living translation, 00:16:31.165 --> 00:16:32.669 but 12 through 14. 00:16:32.757 --> 00:16:38.145 I like what the ESV says and how it says it. 00:16:41.485 --> 00:16:44.901 Put on then as God's chosen ones, 00:16:44.973 --> 00:16:46.505 holy and beloved. 00:16:48.125 --> 00:16:49.637 So he tells you to do something. 00:16:49.637 --> 00:16:50.385 Put on. 00:16:50.725 --> 00:16:53.093 But before he tells you what to put on, 00:16:53.093 --> 00:16:54.965 he reminds you again who you are, 00:16:54.965 --> 00:16:56.381 who Christ says you are, 00:16:56.381 --> 00:16:57.785 you are chosen. 00:17:00.085 --> 00:17:00.965 In Isaiah, 00:17:01.045 --> 00:17:01.829 I think 41, 00:17:01.877 --> 00:17:02.341 he says, 00:17:02.341 --> 00:17:03.545 you are mine. 00:17:04.205 --> 00:17:08.717 To know that the creator of heaven and earth and all things says, 00:17:08.781 --> 00:17:10.145 you are mine. 00:17:11.405 --> 00:17:12.705 That affects me. 00:17:13.435 --> 00:17:16.075 When you stop and really think about it. 00:17:16.195 --> 00:17:17.535 You're chosen. 00:17:19.355 --> 00:17:20.575 You're holy. 00:17:21.995 --> 00:17:23.575 Holy don't mean perfect. 00:17:24.195 --> 00:17:25.935 Holy just means set apart, 00:17:29.955 --> 00:17:31.135 be loved, 00:17:31.795 --> 00:17:37.255 beloved. Beloved is just another way of saying be loved. 00:17:37.885 --> 00:17:39.741 Loved people Love people, 00:17:39.893 --> 00:17:40.553 hurt people, 00:17:40.557 --> 00:17:41.509 hurt people, 00:17:41.677 --> 00:17:42.613 forgiven people, 00:17:42.669 --> 00:17:43.825 forgive people. 00:17:44.125 --> 00:17:46.381 When you know that you are chosen, 00:17:46.381 --> 00:17:49.305 set apart and loved, 00:17:50.005 --> 00:17:51.069 it affects me. 00:17:51.157 --> 00:17:51.637 It's hard. 00:17:51.637 --> 00:17:56.541 Not when somebody loves you unconditionally and they just keep on and 00:17:56.573 --> 00:17:57.525 keep on and keep on. 00:17:57.525 --> 00:17:58.997 No matter how you act. 00:17:58.997 --> 00:18:00.373 It's hard not to respond to that, 00:18:00.373 --> 00:18:00.703 right? 00:18:00.605 --> 00:18:05.609 It's hard to respond with sin a lot of times. 00:18:05.657 --> 00:18:06.977 What I figured out. 00:18:09.465 --> 00:18:15.805 So you have to know who you are before you know what you need to do. 00:18:17.505 --> 00:18:18.833 God looks at you and says, 00:18:18.833 --> 00:18:19.845 this one's mine. 00:18:21.785 --> 00:18:24.289 So now that you know who you are, 00:18:24.289 --> 00:18:25.577 there should be some symptoms, 00:18:25.577 --> 00:18:26.165 right? 00:18:29.275 --> 00:18:30.547 If you don't know who you are, 00:18:30.547 --> 00:18:31.267 like I said, 00:18:31.267 --> 00:18:32.291 come ask me. 00:18:32.443 --> 00:18:35.815 I'd love to tell you who God says you are. 00:18:36.115 --> 00:18:37.451 Not because of anything you done, 00:18:37.451 --> 00:18:39.431 but because of everything he done. 00:18:42.995 --> 00:18:44.645 He goes on to say, 00:18:45.555 --> 00:18:48.255 put on them compassionate hearts. 00:18:50.195 --> 00:18:51.735 What's compassion mean? 00:18:56.285 --> 00:18:59.985 Nobody. Compassionate hearts. 00:19:00.885 --> 00:19:02.621 You have a longing for something. 00:19:02.621 --> 00:19:04.717 You are passionate about it, 00:19:04.901 --> 00:19:06.745 you can't live without it. 00:19:07.085 --> 00:19:11.105 You think more of that than you do you. 00:19:12.205 --> 00:19:14.077 And when you have a compassionate heart, 00:19:14.077 --> 00:19:15.421 guess what follows? 00:19:15.613 --> 00:19:19.585 Kindness, humility, 00:19:20.095 --> 00:19:22.351 meekness and patience. 00:19:22.423 --> 00:19:27.135 Those are the things you should put on men in here. 00:19:27.175 --> 00:19:30.475 How many of you want to be described as meek? 00:19:31.655 --> 00:19:35.711 The devil loves to try to take the world. 00:19:35.783 --> 00:19:41.115 The culture loves to try to take stuff and twist it. 00:19:42.615 --> 00:19:43.995 So that's your funeral. 00:19:46.625 --> 00:19:50.605 Would you like somebody to say Nick was a meek man? 00:19:52.585 --> 00:19:53.645 Probably not, 00:19:54.505 --> 00:19:58.153 because for some reason we think meekness is weakness. 00:19:58.209 --> 00:20:02.169 Probably because they rhyme and that's not what it means at all. 00:20:03.865 --> 00:20:09.165 If you look at the original word translation, 00:20:09.545 --> 00:20:14.255 meekness is described as like a bit a bridle for a horse. 00:20:15.155 --> 00:20:16.323 If you ever rode a horse, 00:20:16.323 --> 00:20:20.659 you know that little piece in their mouth controls. 00:20:20.787 --> 00:20:22.935 You have this huge animal, 00:20:24.435 --> 00:20:30.015 over thousand pound animal with all its power and strength, 00:20:31.075 --> 00:20:35.411 and it is telling you where to go and how to and what to do and when to 00:20:35.411 --> 00:20:35.955 do it. 00:20:35.955 --> 00:20:37.059 That's meekness. 00:20:37.227 --> 00:20:39.255 It's just bridled strength. 00:20:44.475 --> 00:20:48.575 Patience. Any of you ever prayed for patience? 00:20:50.435 --> 00:20:51.615 What happened? 00:20:52.915 --> 00:20:55.225 If you pray for patience right now, 00:20:55.315 --> 00:20:58.615 you probably have a flat tire when you leave here. 00:21:01.475 --> 00:21:05.563 God's going to give you an opportunity to be patient because he loves you 00:21:05.563 --> 00:21:06.979 enough and cares about you enough. 00:21:06.979 --> 00:21:08.875 He knows if it doesn't cost you anything, 00:21:08.875 --> 00:21:10.387 you're not going to value it. 00:21:10.387 --> 00:21:12.697 It's not going to get in here. 00:21:14.645 --> 00:21:16.955 So be careful what you pray for. 00:21:19.085 --> 00:21:24.035 But if you want to be infected and have symptoms and be able for people 00:21:24.037 --> 00:21:25.029 to come up to you and say, 00:21:25.029 --> 00:21:27.339 why do you got so much joy? 00:21:27.885 --> 00:21:29.573 You got this glow about you, 00:21:29.573 --> 00:21:34.545 got this gleam in your eye and your life isn't that great, 00:21:36.535 --> 00:21:37.875 what's wrong with you? 00:21:39.455 --> 00:21:40.795 Those are those things. 00:21:43.975 --> 00:21:45.151 Compassionate hearts. 00:21:45.183 --> 00:21:50.207 You begin to see people not as objects or projects, 00:21:50.271 --> 00:21:53.447 like what can they do for me? 00:21:53.591 --> 00:21:56.515 Or I know what they need. 00:21:58.375 --> 00:22:00.287 You begin to see them as a child of God. 00:22:00.287 --> 00:22:02.903 When you look at everybody as a child of God, 00:22:02.903 --> 00:22:06.815 a child of the living God who created all things, 00:22:06.975 --> 00:22:09.285 it changes how I look at them. 00:22:14.855 --> 00:22:16.175 Where are we at? 00:22:19.295 --> 00:22:23.075 13. Bearing with one another. 00:22:27.135 --> 00:22:28.595 Anybody ever do that? 00:22:30.295 --> 00:22:31.159 Another symptom. 00:22:31.207 --> 00:22:33.675 You should bear one another's burdens. 00:22:34.495 --> 00:22:35.775 What does it say? 00:22:35.775 --> 00:22:36.967 Love is patient, 00:22:37.031 --> 00:22:37.399 right? 00:22:37.487 --> 00:22:38.915 In First Corinthians. 00:22:39.455 --> 00:22:44.719 Anybody ever been to a wedding heard that patience is just long 00:22:44.767 --> 00:22:48.397 suffering. I'm willing to suffer with you for a long time. 00:22:50.495 --> 00:22:52.327 If we said it that way all the time, 00:22:52.327 --> 00:22:53.983 you'd think about it before you did it, 00:22:53.983 --> 00:22:54.555 right? 00:22:59.295 --> 00:23:00.575 Putting up with one another. 00:23:00.575 --> 00:23:05.959 I'm willing to put up with your stuff because I see you as a child of 00:23:06.007 --> 00:23:06.799 God, right? 00:23:06.887 --> 00:23:08.991 You're not just an object for me. 00:23:08.991 --> 00:23:11.301 You're not just something I can use. 00:23:14.335 --> 00:23:21.367 And if you have received Christ received that free gift that was free to 00:23:21.391 --> 00:23:23.041 us, but not to him. 00:23:23.525 --> 00:23:25.625 God considers you that. 00:23:28.045 --> 00:23:30.197 God considers you chosen, 00:23:30.301 --> 00:23:32.045 holy, loved, 00:23:32.125 --> 00:23:33.145 be loved. 00:23:38.925 --> 00:23:41.625 Anybody got a complaint about somebody? 00:23:43.205 --> 00:23:44.525 I know you do. 00:23:44.885 --> 00:23:47.525 Sometimes you put them on the prayer cards. 00:23:48.805 --> 00:23:50.385 You don't realize it. 00:23:55.575 --> 00:23:59.039 Guess what you're supposed to do when you have a complaint about 00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:05.463 somebody? He tells you bearing with one another. 00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:08.719 And if one has a complaint against another, 00:24:08.807 --> 00:24:09.903 forgiving each other, 00:24:09.959 --> 00:24:11.687 as the Lord has forgiven you, 00:24:11.687 --> 00:24:13.755 so you must also forgive. 00:24:14.495 --> 00:24:15.855 So what is he saying? 00:24:15.855 --> 00:24:16.875 He's saying, 00:24:17.355 --> 00:24:21.645 guess what you're supposed to do when you got to complain about somebody? 00:24:23.035 --> 00:24:24.171 You're supposed to forgive them. 00:24:24.171 --> 00:24:25.323 Just as for God gave you. 00:24:25.323 --> 00:24:27.633 How many times has God forgiven you? 00:24:29.115 --> 00:24:31.595 God's forgiven me way more than he needs to. 00:24:31.595 --> 00:24:32.255 Supposed to. 00:24:32.283 --> 00:24:34.495 God forgives me continually. 00:24:35.835 --> 00:24:40.125 I probably got some stuff I need to say sorry for right now. 00:24:41.915 --> 00:24:42.611 A lot. 00:24:42.723 --> 00:24:43.675 Everybody would say a lot. 00:24:43.675 --> 00:24:45.325 He's forgiven us a lot. 00:24:47.875 --> 00:24:52.825 Did you get it all figured out and cleaned up and then he forgave you? 00:24:54.875 --> 00:24:56.547 No, I don't think so. 00:24:56.651 --> 00:24:57.515 Not actually. 00:24:57.675 --> 00:24:58.939 He forgave me. 00:24:59.067 --> 00:25:03.451 And it is in his forgiveness that he's helping me work it out. 00:25:03.483 --> 00:25:05.463 He's helping me straighten it out. 00:25:05.331 --> 00:25:07.641 That's how you are to forgive others. 00:25:09.845 --> 00:25:12.789 The bad thing about challenging, 00:25:12.837 --> 00:25:14.917 thing about church is we're all sinners, 00:25:14.917 --> 00:25:17.305 right? And we're all here, 00:25:17.965 --> 00:25:19.605 and we're all trying to do life together. 00:25:19.605 --> 00:25:21.221 We're all trying to be one body. 00:25:21.221 --> 00:25:26.357 Well, when you put two things together and you have friction, 00:25:26.541 --> 00:25:27.549 it produces heat, 00:25:27.597 --> 00:25:28.185 right? 00:25:30.325 --> 00:25:33.625 Probably going to produce complaints after you get enough heat. 00:25:36.495 --> 00:25:41.159 One way a preacher described it that I like to think about is just like a 00:25:41.159 --> 00:25:42.063 car engine, 00:25:42.239 --> 00:25:45.951 you got all these moving parts that produce friction. 00:25:46.023 --> 00:25:48.663 And if you don't have oil in there, 00:25:48.815 --> 00:25:50.465 it's going to break down. 00:25:50.855 --> 00:25:53.279 And the oil he's talking about is forgiveness. 00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:55.275 If you can't forgive people, 00:25:56.335 --> 00:25:57.951 you're going to have a lot of friction, 00:25:57.951 --> 00:26:00.385 probably going to have a lot of complaints. 00:26:00.385 --> 00:26:06.953 And then don't matter how much we come in here and try to celebrate and 00:26:06.969 --> 00:26:10.145 try to learn that when you get back out there, 00:26:10.145 --> 00:26:10.809 people are going to be like, 00:26:10.809 --> 00:26:13.119 why do y'all even come in here? 00:26:16.585 --> 00:26:18.337 This is how you bear with one another. 00:26:18.337 --> 00:26:19.805 You forgive each other. 00:26:22.345 --> 00:26:26.895 Maybe you ain't giving it forgiveness because you don't have it. 00:26:27.275 --> 00:26:28.925 You ever thought about that? 00:26:32.315 --> 00:26:34.015 If you can't forgive, 00:26:35.675 --> 00:26:38.645 maybe it's because you don't realize you've been forgiven. 00:26:41.755 --> 00:26:42.883 Psalms 38. 00:26:42.939 --> 00:26:44.611 Taste and see that the Lord is good. 00:26:44.611 --> 00:26:47.363 Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. 00:26:47.363 --> 00:26:51.611 Maybe you haven't tasted and seen that God is good and you haven't 00:26:51.611 --> 00:26:52.883 accepted his forgiveness. 00:26:52.939 --> 00:26:54.115 Just like I said, 00:26:54.115 --> 00:26:56.215 forgiven people forgive people. 00:26:56.565 --> 00:27:01.661 So if you're constantly complaining about people or constantly thinking 00:27:01.693 --> 00:27:03.745 about, how does this affect me, 00:27:06.405 --> 00:27:08.509 we probably ain't going to be seen as one body, 00:27:08.509 --> 00:27:09.945 right? One big family. 00:27:13.245 --> 00:27:14.269 When you do this, 00:27:14.269 --> 00:27:16.249 when we live this way together, 00:27:16.685 --> 00:27:17.261 like I said, 00:27:17.261 --> 00:27:20.565 the world won't have such a hard time seeing why we come in here on 00:27:20.565 --> 00:27:21.145 Sunday. 00:27:25.535 --> 00:27:26.671 In those 14 verses, 00:27:26.703 --> 00:27:28.327 I know I went over them pretty quick. 00:27:28.327 --> 00:27:32.115 We could spend four weeks on this one chapter. 00:27:34.335 --> 00:27:39.035 When you can take those things off and put these things on, 00:27:40.055 --> 00:27:43.075 that's how you can continually be thankful. 00:27:43.375 --> 00:27:45.071 That's how you can be reminded, 00:27:45.071 --> 00:27:45.647 stirred up, 00:27:45.647 --> 00:27:49.699 because you've been infected by something on the inside. 00:27:49.747 --> 00:27:51.727 And it starts to come out. 00:27:51.875 --> 00:27:52.939 And as Christians, 00:27:52.987 --> 00:27:54.843 as brothers and sisters in Christ, 00:27:54.843 --> 00:28:00.707 we should be reminding each other that instead of complaining about all 00:28:00.731 --> 00:28:01.721 sorts of things, 00:28:02.675 --> 00:28:04.325 you feel in the blame. 00:28:04.995 --> 00:28:07.179 Instead, everybody's on a journey, 00:28:07.227 --> 00:28:07.815 right? 00:28:09.235 --> 00:28:10.771 If you just got saved, 00:28:10.771 --> 00:28:11.575 guess what? 00:28:12.845 --> 00:28:15.745 If you just realized disinfection, 00:28:16.285 --> 00:28:17.613 it's going to take a while, 00:28:17.613 --> 00:28:21.453 right, for the roots to spread and grow and come out. 00:28:21.589 --> 00:28:23.285 So as brothers and sisters in Christ, 00:28:23.285 --> 00:28:28.373 we should be encouraging each other and continually forgiving each other 00:28:28.549 --> 00:28:32.413 instead of waiting for somebody to offend you. 00:28:32.469 --> 00:28:36.173 So you can use it as an excuse as to why you don't come to church or why 00:28:36.173 --> 00:28:39.143 you don't live the way you're supposed to live. 00:28:41.295 --> 00:28:42.915 So, knowing all this, 00:28:45.615 --> 00:28:48.535 let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. 00:28:48.535 --> 00:28:49.783 For as members of one body, 00:28:49.783 --> 00:28:55.595 you are called to live in peace and always be thankful. 00:28:56.975 --> 00:28:59.119 That's how you can always be thankful. 00:28:59.119 --> 00:29:00.043 Philippians 4, 00:29:00.109 --> 00:29:01.015 6, 7 says, 00:29:01.055 --> 00:29:02.079 don't worry about anything. 00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:03.439 Instead, pray about everything. 00:29:03.527 --> 00:29:07.629 Tell God what you need and thank him for all he has done. 00:29:07.629 --> 00:29:09.785 Then you will experience God's peace, 00:29:10.365 --> 00:29:12.389 which exceeds anything we can understand. 00:29:12.477 --> 00:29:15.773 His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. 00:29:15.773 --> 00:29:18.145 It'll keep you from doing dumb stuff. 00:29:21.485 --> 00:29:22.437 Jesus in John, 00:29:22.437 --> 00:29:23.385 chapter 15. 00:29:26.205 --> 00:29:26.797 In John, 00:29:26.797 --> 00:29:27.705 chapter 14, 00:29:29.005 --> 00:29:30.621 he's talking to the disciples and he says, 00:29:30.621 --> 00:29:31.877 I'm leaving you with a gift, 00:29:31.877 --> 00:29:34.011 peace of mind and heart. 00:29:34.083 --> 00:29:35.339 And the peace I give, 00:29:35.339 --> 00:29:36.467 the world cannot give. 00:29:36.467 --> 00:29:38.267 So don't be troubled and afraid. 00:29:38.267 --> 00:29:40.907 I got stuff the world can't take away. 00:29:41.875 --> 00:29:43.563 And when you are reminded of that, 00:29:43.563 --> 00:29:45.873 it stirs me up to be thankful, 00:29:45.947 --> 00:29:47.175 to be grateful. 00:29:47.755 --> 00:29:49.027 And I don't know about y'all, 00:29:49.027 --> 00:29:55.855 but when you come in here and you have a heart and an attitude like that, 00:29:56.555 --> 00:29:58.835 and you're singing and praising God, 00:29:58.915 --> 00:30:00.135 it affects me. 00:30:00.445 --> 00:30:05.661 It's hard to not be happy when you see people responding to what God's 00:30:05.693 --> 00:30:06.683 done for them. 00:30:14.565 --> 00:30:16.345 One last thing I'll say. 00:30:19.165 --> 00:30:19.963 Verse 15, 00:30:20.035 --> 00:30:24.285 16, 17 is just how to be being reminded, 00:30:24.325 --> 00:30:25.505 to be thankful. 00:30:26.695 --> 00:30:28.047 The message about Christ, 00:30:28.111 --> 00:30:28.687 the gospel, 00:30:28.687 --> 00:30:29.799 the good news, 00:30:29.967 --> 00:30:32.195 all its richness and fullness, 00:30:33.135 --> 00:30:37.715 let the message about Christ fill your lives. 00:30:38.575 --> 00:30:41.855 What you put in is what's going to come out. 00:30:41.855 --> 00:30:45.207 Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom that he gives. 00:30:45.207 --> 00:30:49.167 Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts. 00:30:49.111 --> 00:30:53.605 And whatever you do or say in everything you do and say, 00:30:54.425 --> 00:30:57.073 do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, 00:30:57.073 --> 00:30:59.265 giving thanks through him to God the Father. 00:30:59.265 --> 00:31:00.915 That's how you be thankful. 00:31:04.065 --> 00:31:06.125 So in thinking about this, 00:31:09.305 --> 00:31:09.985 like I said, 00:31:09.985 --> 00:31:11.685 thanksgiving is an offering. 00:31:13.145 --> 00:31:17.575 What are you offering to others, 00:31:18.595 --> 00:31:19.615 to God. 00:31:21.315 --> 00:31:22.963 You can't just add God to your life. 00:31:22.963 --> 00:31:25.273 You have to give him your life. 00:31:25.795 --> 00:31:31.335 So I got three young kids. 00:31:31.675 --> 00:31:33.735 Anybody know about VeggieTales? 00:31:34.835 --> 00:31:36.155 So there's a book, 00:31:36.955 --> 00:31:39.227 and it might be an episode of VeggieTales, 00:31:39.227 --> 00:31:41.403 but there's a little song that says, 00:31:41.403 --> 00:31:43.713 a thankful heart is a happy heart. 00:31:46.675 --> 00:31:48.155 I don't remember the rest of the song. 00:31:48.155 --> 00:31:50.099 A thankful heart is a happy heart. 00:31:50.099 --> 00:31:52.415 Something, something. 00:31:52.715 --> 00:31:55.363 When you start for the love that he shares, 00:31:55.363 --> 00:31:56.499 I know he cares. 00:31:56.499 --> 00:31:58.809 That's why I say thanks every day. 00:32:02.195 --> 00:32:05.825 That is actually a verse they just reworded a little bit. 00:32:05.827 --> 00:32:07.459 Proverbs 17:22. 00:32:07.587 --> 00:32:08.717 A cheerful. 00:32:08.851 --> 00:32:09.945 Some translations say, 00:32:09.985 --> 00:32:12.409 a thankful heart is good medicine, 00:32:12.457 --> 00:32:15.097 but a broken spirit saps a person's strength. 00:32:16.025 --> 00:32:22.961 So I got about two minutes and thinking about all this last night, 00:32:22.993 --> 00:32:23.409 I was, 00:32:23.409 --> 00:32:25.719 what are some things I'm thankful for? 00:32:26.105 --> 00:32:28.085 And I just started listing them. 00:32:30.465 --> 00:32:32.445 And when you write stuff down, 00:32:32.473 --> 00:32:35.121 it hits a little bit different than when you just think of it in your 00:32:35.121 --> 00:32:41.443 mind. And I could list all sorts of things, 00:32:41.539 --> 00:32:47.375 but I'm thankful for Jesus and salvation. 00:32:48.275 --> 00:32:50.147 I'm thankful for my wife, 00:32:50.251 --> 00:32:52.891 who I wouldn't be standing here today without. 00:32:53.395 --> 00:32:54.667 I'm thankful for my kids, 00:32:54.667 --> 00:32:59.771 who bring so much joy into my life and remind me of just of how God looks 00:32:59.771 --> 00:33:00.187 at me. 00:33:00.187 --> 00:33:02.339 The way I look at them is how God looks at me. 00:33:02.211 --> 00:33:04.851 And that's why kids are such a blessing. 00:33:05.115 --> 00:33:06.467 My family around me, 00:33:06.531 --> 00:33:07.435 my mom, 00:33:07.595 --> 00:33:08.255 my brother, 00:33:08.291 --> 00:33:09.215 my uncle, 00:33:10.115 --> 00:33:11.747 they all live within 15 minutes. 00:33:11.747 --> 00:33:13.315 And my brother lives right down the street. 00:33:13.315 --> 00:33:14.659 My mama lives beside me. 00:33:14.659 --> 00:33:20.043 Like, y'all get the sanctified version of me. 00:33:20.139 --> 00:33:24.179 Can you imagine what you would get if I didn't have all that? 00:33:24.179 --> 00:33:25.575 They hold me up. 00:33:29.125 --> 00:33:31.105 I'm thankful for my in laws, 00:33:31.365 --> 00:33:32.373 Chrissy's mom and dad. 00:33:32.373 --> 00:33:34.683 Chrissy's dad's like a dad to me. 00:33:35.925 --> 00:33:37.253 I'm thankful for this gathering. 00:33:37.253 --> 00:33:38.585 I'm thankful for y'all. 00:33:40.925 --> 00:33:42.413 Y'all don't know it, 00:33:42.549 --> 00:33:45.849 but y'all get me up here a lot of times. 00:33:46.845 --> 00:33:47.925 The way you worship, 00:33:47.925 --> 00:33:49.305 the way you celebrate, 00:33:51.005 --> 00:33:53.317 the way you're in relationship with each other, 00:33:53.317 --> 00:33:55.357 that's what makes this gathering a gathering, 00:33:55.357 --> 00:33:57.185 right? That's what church. 00:34:01.325 --> 00:34:02.645 I'm thankful for Bobby. 00:34:02.677 --> 00:34:04.657 He's like a dad to me. 00:34:05.525 --> 00:34:06.845 I'm thankful for Charlie, 00:34:06.925 --> 00:34:07.825 my dog. 00:34:12.365 --> 00:34:16.077 I'm thankful for modern medicine that treats my daughter's diabetes, 00:34:16.141 --> 00:34:18.745 who 100 years ago would have died, 00:34:20.405 --> 00:34:21.485 treats my nephew, 00:34:21.565 --> 00:34:22.445 who has leukemia, 00:34:22.445 --> 00:34:24.725 who 100 years ago would have died. 00:34:26.825 --> 00:34:28.685 I'm thankful for air conditioning. 00:34:33.265 --> 00:34:36.895 We live like Kings and queens and don't even realize it. 00:34:37.905 --> 00:34:42.233 And sometimes it distracts us from things above. 00:34:42.289 --> 00:34:45.289 Right? I could go on and on and on, 00:34:45.337 --> 00:34:50.045 but when you start to realize just how richly God has blessed you, 00:34:50.894 --> 00:34:55.230 it stirs something up on the inside and it affects you. 00:34:55.382 --> 00:34:56.942 And you start to have symptoms. 00:34:56.742 --> 00:34:59.874 And those symptoms people see, 00:35:07.094 --> 00:35:08.878 can you continually be thankful? 00:35:08.926 --> 00:35:10.102 And when you can't, 00:35:10.102 --> 00:35:13.402 go back to the peace that is guarding your heart. 00:35:15.625 --> 00:35:18.425 And if you don't have that peace and don't know that peace, 00:35:18.425 --> 00:35:19.565 please ask me. 00:35:20.265 --> 00:35:21.915 It will change your life. 00:35:22.105 --> 00:35:26.485 It will change the rest of your life for eternity. 00:35:29.825 --> 00:35:30.765 Let's pray. 00:35:36.425 --> 00:35:40.605 God, thank you for a lot of things. 00:35:41.595 --> 00:35:42.611 Dear Lord. 00:35:42.763 --> 00:35:45.733 Help us not to be in such a rush, 00:35:45.771 --> 00:35:46.695 dear Lord, 00:35:47.435 --> 00:35:48.435 not only this season, 00:35:48.435 --> 00:35:49.283 but each and every day. 00:35:49.283 --> 00:35:52.187 Help us not to miss what you're doing. 00:35:52.331 --> 00:36:00.055 Help us to stop and reflect and remember what Jesus did for us. 00:36:04.275 --> 00:36:08.525 Help us to be thankful, 00:36:08.565 --> 00:36:09.465 dear Lord. 00:36:10.365 --> 00:36:13.995 Help us to remember that when we think less of ourselves, 00:36:14.093 --> 00:36:18.645 that you put more things in us that not only help us, 00:36:18.685 --> 00:36:19.745 but help others. 00:36:20.445 --> 00:36:25.781 And there's no greater gift than seeing and being a part of that, 00:36:25.813 --> 00:36:26.285 dear Lord. 00:36:26.285 --> 00:36:29.909 And I just pray that as we sing this last song, 00:36:29.909 --> 00:36:35.695 that if anybody hasn't received that, 00:36:35.775 --> 00:36:36.735 doesn't know it, 00:36:36.735 --> 00:36:38.335 don't even know what I'm talking about. 00:36:38.335 --> 00:36:40.735 They would just have the courage, 00:36:40.775 --> 00:36:41.223 dear Lord, 00:36:41.223 --> 00:36:41.991 to ask, 00:36:42.143 --> 00:36:44.453 to look to you and to say, 00:36:44.895 --> 00:36:46.545 I want what you got. 00:36:46.975 --> 00:36:48.567 I want to be chosen. 00:36:48.567 --> 00:36:53.447 Holy, loved God. 00:36:53.471 --> 00:36:56.871 I just pray that in these next few moments that we would just respond 00:36:56.871 --> 00:36:58.875 whichever way you ask us to. 00:36:59.225 --> 00:37:00.953 And I love you. 00:37:01.009 --> 00:37:02.485 I ask it all in your name. 00:37:02.905 --> 00:37:03.305 Amen.