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church, I want to, acknowledge,

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my friend Pastor Freddy
sitting right back here in his.

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And, Freddy, I'm glad you're here, pastor.

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I'm glad you're here.

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But can you hear me, pastor?

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Yeah.

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Pastor Freddy is
is is leading the church that we started

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when, when we were three years old,

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we started a church
with a man named John Brown Koski.

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And, Pastor Freddy has taken that over,

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and he is leading that well in Fresno.

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Loving on people
that need the love of Jesus,

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serving people that are underserved.

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And he is with us this morning.

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And thank you.

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And, I'm going to ask on your behalf.

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Best, Freddy,
that some of our prayer people,

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certainly John and Laura
and Scott and Brenda and you,

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when this service is over,
you spend some time praying

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over, over, pastor Freddy.

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And I want all of you
to put him on your prayer list.

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He's going through
some health things that,

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we desire
to see God's hand move in his life.

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And so, pastor,

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would you allow us that honor
after the service of praying over you?

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Yeah.

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All right.

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We're in this study of first Timothy,

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and this letter from the apostle Paul

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written to Timothy as, as as Paul's
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was written from an older man
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Paul is in his probably early 60s.

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And for the first century community,
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That was pretty old.

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He lived a long life.

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It lived a hard life.

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the way we live adds years to our life.

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You know, as far as wearing us out,
you know what I'm saying?

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And so he lived a hard life, and he was
six years old, which was old anyway.

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So he's he's he's
he knows is he's coming to an end.

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He's in jail.

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He's going to be beheaded by, Caesar Nero.

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And so he's passing on some things
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after him that he's leaving in charge
of these churches, that he started.

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is is in charge of this

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church that Paul started in the place
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And Paul is charging Timothy
as a Christ follower and as a pastor.

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Here are some things
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to know and to do and to be.

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And what he says to Timothy
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title, Guard and Guide, Guard Doctrine
and Guide People into it.

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That's the whole theme of these letters
first Timothy, second Timothy and Titus.

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Two leaders, Timothy and Titus,
three letters guard

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good doctrine and biblical doctrine.

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Sound doctrine.

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Guard it
because people will drift away from it,

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and we'll start changing stuff
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And so that's what
this whole thing is about.

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And so what he started in chapters
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he said,
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They're paramount for the church.

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And the first things Paul says
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must be a place of grace.

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We have to be a church of grace.

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We have to be a people of grace
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how much we've been forgiven,
all that God has done for us.

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Not because we're worth it,
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not because we've earned it,
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and undeserved favor and blessing of God
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and then every spiritual blessing
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given to us. This grace is profound.

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Second thing Paul
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must be a place of doctrine.

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We have to teach good doctrine.

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We have to teach biblical truth
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It's everything that's contained in here.

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And we have to teach this.
We have to proclaim this.

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This is the church's job in the world,
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It's grace, doctrine, and then prayer.

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He says the church has to be
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And as I've been going through this study
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just thinking, Lord,
how are we doing as a church?

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I think we're doing

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pretty good on the grace part
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I we're we're a church of
we understand God's grace

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because we understand how rotten we are,

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right? I mean, we understand.

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I mean, just look to the person
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You'll understand
how rotten we are. No. I'm asking.

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It's just like.

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Like we get this part.

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We understand grace.

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And here's what I know.

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Like, we don't mind messy people
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Churches that don't understand
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We understand what the Bible says.

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That were sent abounds.
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We understand how sinful we have been
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the propensity, the magnitude,
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We are a very messy church,
a very messy people.

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That's why
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So you don't mind being here.

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We understand grace, and I think we do
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We. This is our standard.

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It's always been our standard,
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And it's rubbed people
the wrong way. Praise God.

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It's like whatever.

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This is our this our doctrine.

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But this third thing, prayer.

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And here's where I think we fall short
in the error of prayer in this way.

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We're
a church full of praying individuals,

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but we're not a praying congregation.

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We have prayerful individuals,
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That's just an honest assessment.

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Now whenever we look at Scripture,
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and it's intended to rebuke
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And to train for righteousness
as part of what's church supposed to be?

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I think we're a church

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full of of prayerful individuals,
but we're not a praying congregation.

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Here's my proof.

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We've, we've done this
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once a month, the first Thursday
every month for a long time.

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I've got about the same five people
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every month.

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It's an indictment on our church.

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You okay?

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Listen, today is not going to be fun.

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It's going to be informative.

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right up front, it's
why we're look at doctrine.

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Because if we're not careful,
we'll just drift away.

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And what makes us feel good
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And so I think with the grace
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We're it's not good.

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All of us pray.

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All of us pray a lot, which is fantastic.

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We're supposed to.

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I bear full responsibility for that.

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But so do you.

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he talks about godly
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And it is quite a qualified list
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elders and deacons.

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We talked about all those titles
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That list of qualifications
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But here's the thing that listed

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qualifications
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Like, we don't get to take a pass
just because I don't have a title.

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And when you look at the qualifications,
none of those are things

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that anyone would think, well, I can be
I can follow Jesus without that.

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I mean, they're like,
what are the qualifications

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we want to cross off the list
for someone who follows Jesus?

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None of them.

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really a list of look,
this is the standard.

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If we're going to call him I if I'm going
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and apprentice of Jesus, a disciple,
this is the standard.

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And that's what chapter three is.

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And then it gets into chapter four
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This is what the church is to be.

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This is the standard
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Then he gets to chapter four and he says,
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Here's what's going to happen
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You have to be careful
to faithful leadership.

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So the big idea for today in chapter four,
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to train like it matters.

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Now Paul is going to use the word train.

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And when we say train, well,
I say train like Paul does.

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It means training in godliness.

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So trained in godliness.

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Like it matters because what we're
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In a world gone soft.

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The world has gone soft.

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The church has gone soft.

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And so this is Paul saying, like press
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because everything around us
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So get hard about this stuff,

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you understand?

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So we're going to I'm going
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This chapter is one of those that gets my
like my competitive juices flowing,

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gets my coach juices flowing right now
because he's going to press into this.

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I, I coach obviously at the high school.

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I think this is year 14
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I've also started coaching again
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level, our junior football team,
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12 of that.

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And so I've done multiple years,
you know, with both.

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we had this little all the way up
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This week and I had these new coaches
I'm coaching with.

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And I told him,
I said, here, listen, here's think

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like I

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when I can translate spiritual truth
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That's when it really makes sense to me.

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And so I got my team together.

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I said, you know, hey, listen.

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I said, I read an ancient book.

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It's called the Bible.

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And that tells me that whatever I do

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to do with all my heart,
whatever I put my hands

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to do with all my heart,
because there's a word coming.

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So whatever we do.

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And I told him, whatever we do on the
football field, every practice matters.

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Every drill matters.

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Every rep of every drill matters.

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Do it like it matters. Because it does.

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Because if I can.

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And still this in them
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when we get to season time
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Right.

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You understand
you athletes understand this.

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I told don't waste to practice.
Don't waste.

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Don't waste a rep.

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This is what Paul sent.

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Light train for God.

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an opportunity to train

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for God

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because we live in a soft world.

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I mean, I get this.

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I told my boys

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you'll find a reason
or you'll find an excuse.

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Right?

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On the other, I mean, you have softball.

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you'll find a reason to get it done,
or you'll find an excuse not to.

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It's the same thing in faith. Okay?

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Same thing in faith.

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We got all kinds of reasons why we don't

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dot dot dot.

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If we wanted to, we'd find a reason.

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For what feels just like the faith world.

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So he's going to press into this.

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So let me just read. Here we go.

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Verses one,
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Now the spirit expressly says

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that in latter times
some will depart from the faith

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by devoting themselves to deceitful
spirits and teachings of demons

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through the insincerity of liars
whose conscience is our seared,

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who forbid marriage and require abstinence
from foods that God created

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to be seed with thanksgiving
by those who believe and know the truth.

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Let me just unpack this a little bit.

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He's saying this is what's

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going to happen in latter times.

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Now there's a difference in the Bible,
which in latter times, in the last days,

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latter times, the moment Jesus

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ascended to heaven
until now are the latter times.

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There will come a time of last days.

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The last days are the few days
of the latter times.

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Y'all follow.

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So we are in the latter times.

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We'll know when we're in the last days.

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It'll get real apparent.

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We're definitely in the latter times.

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He says during now there will be those

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who depart from the truth.

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That word depart literally means apostasy.

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It means they will walk away.

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They will abandon the faith.

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In latter times,
they will abandon the faith.

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It's going to happen.

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We call it deconstruction.

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I've deconstructed my faith,
and now I believe something different.

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I used to be a Christ follower.

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Now I'm, an atheist.

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Agnostic.

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Now I just don't believe
I used to hold these things as certain.

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Now I'm not sure.

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He says in latter times,
this is what's going to happen.

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And this is why says it's so important
for you to teach good doctrine.

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Because unless you have that foundation
and that anchor, you will drift.

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And here's what I know.

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And here's what you know.

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Drift starts with doubt.

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I used to believe everything here.

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Now I doubt it.
I used to believe Jesus was the only way.

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Now I doubt I used to believe churches,
but now I doubt.

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And drift starts with doubt.

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He says in the latter
days, there will be people

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who will drift

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and drift and drift.

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And it begins with doubt.

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So he says to you,
this is why this doctrine is so important.

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And they will drift from the faith.

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There's a lot of, of, of, of thought about
what it means to drift from the faith.

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And I'm not going to deal with the,
you know, can you lose your salvation?

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Can you not lose your salvation?

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What I want to talk about
is this drift from the faith.

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Paul, at the beginning of this letter,
has been so focused in hammering home

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the faith, meaning the doctrine,
teaching the doctrine of the church

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one Savior, one Lord, one

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faith, one baptism, one word of God.

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And he says
they will start drifting from that.

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That's why

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teaching and understanding good, solid
biblical doctrine is so important.

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So we don't drift from the anchor
that that's intended to be.

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That's why I wrote that book, essentials.

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It's in the it's in the welcome Center.

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Pick it up if you haven't got one yet.

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It's free for you, but it will help
you understand the essentials

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of Christian biblical doctrine

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to protect yourself from drift.

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You know, it's so interesting

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this from my younger
sons, their generation and younger.

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So I'm reading study after study
that said that generate

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these generations are so open
to the faith.

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They're open to the truth of Scripture.

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They really are

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more so than other generations.

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They just want something
that's real and authentic and trustworthy.

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We have such an opportunity before us,

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and I'm so thankful for Michael and Trish
and our youth and children's

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ministry team for the work they're doing,
because this generation now,

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they're ready, like,
like so few generations before them,

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for the reality of who Jesus is.

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And we have such an incredible opportunity
in this little community

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to have a profound,

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eternal impact on young lives.

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And guys, we gotta capitalize on it.

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Now, please understand.

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I have a real hard time

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with.

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People who are not passionate.

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I got a real difficulty

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with dispassionate people.

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Like they're.

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There's got to be passion

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for something,

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and it better be the right things. And.

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And I just struggle like

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when I'm coach, I got a real problem
with dispassionate coaches.

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Like, get off the field.

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And so when it comes to this,

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you want to talk about passion.

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Like they're.

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It's hard for me to be around

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dispassionate people.

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And we have such an opportunity

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to be so passionate about what
this provides for this younger generation.

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Like if we don't.

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We dare

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not neglect the opportunity
that's before us.

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I was talking to Michael this week,

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and we were talking to the staff
just about the summer program.

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There are some churches
and I just don't understand it,

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but there's some churches
that kind of give their youth team

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the summer off
because they've worked hard all year long.

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I think you're it.

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It's you're just it it's like don't like

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summertime is the time where you've been
running 80 miles an hour all year.

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Well, now it's time to go hundred
and 20 miles an hour.

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Load something like
you just press in an alley.

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Lauren all herself last year.

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Now you got used to working
with Michael. Like.

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Like they don't you out.

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You press hard in summertime, right?

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Jeff did a few years ago.

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He's kind of working them into this whole,
like, overwhelmingly work system

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that we have here
in the summertime with us.

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But we have to do it.

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And so I told Michael, come up
with the figure, how much does it cost

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us this year to run a junior
high and high school program?

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How much its cost is $10,000.

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This year we're going to spend ten grand

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in two and a half months on our junior
high and high school kids.

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It's a lot of money.

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I gave him the green light,
so now you got to pay for it.

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I mean, it's just worth doing right?

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I mean, there's going to be a time
when they're part.

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Let's let's not let it be on our watch.

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He says

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there's gonna to be time
when you start them,

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when they're going to depart from
the truth, from the faith is these core

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essential biblical doctors
and they're going to devote themselves

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to deceitful spirits
and teaching the demons.

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That sounds pretty nefarious, right?

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Well, let me tell you how subtle this is.

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Teaching of demons.

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You know where we first
see that Genesis three

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straight from the mouth of Satan himself

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when he told Eve, here's how subtle it is.

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Did God really say?

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You realize if you do this

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God's way, you're going
to be missing out on something.

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You can have happiness and fulfillment
in a way other than what God said.

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That's demonic teaching.

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It's Genesis three and it's so subtle.

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Because all the time

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we're told in our culture,
did God really say.

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Is that really the truth?

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When we start thinking,

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I could be more happy if I don't do it
God's way.

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You mean I can have more money
if I don't tithe?

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I'm not going to tithe.

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I got more money.

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In anybody? No.

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You mean I'm human?

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I could be more fulfilled.

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I mean, God says,
you know, sex is only for marriage

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and you shouldn't live with each other.

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But I could be more fulfilled
if I live with my boyfriend or,

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you know, girlfriend before marriage.

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That's okay. That's.

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That's a deceitful,
demonic teaching, right?

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You understand this is.

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It gets so subtle.

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Unless we're solid on doctrine,

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we're going to get to see by it.

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And this is

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taught through the insincerity of liars
whose consciousness are seared.

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You know what that tells me?

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That tells me that the the
the challenge to Christian

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doesn't just come from outside the church.

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It comes from inside the church,
because this is taught to God's people.

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It says by teachers
with whose eyes are conscious is seared.

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If you're burned, your your fingertips,
your brush, your fingertips,

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the nerves get seared right
and you lose sensitivity.

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He's saying
there are people who are going to teach

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deceiving doctrines in the church
who have their very conscience is seared.

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They're not even sensitive
to the Holy Spirit anymore.

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And they're going to diverge
from sound biblical doctrine

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and it's going to lead people astray.

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Is false sense of discipleship.

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And in their consciousness is these
people are going to forbid marriage

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and Christ absence from food

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that God created to be received
with thanksgiving by those

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who believe and know the truth. Here's
what he's saying.

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He's saying like there will be people

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who will add to what God has said.

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If you just do a little more than what
God has said, you'll be right with him.

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You know, when we add to Scripture,
it's called legalism.

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And he's saying, just like

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God has after this,
go a little bit further.

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If you just deny yourself
enough, God will be more pleased with you.

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That's a lie from the devil.

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And in this context,
when he says forbidden

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marriage and certain foods,
what he's literally talking about

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is not the contract of marriage,
but the intimacy in marriage.

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He said,
you can have the contract of marriage,

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but don't enjoy the intimacy of it
and you'll be more godly.

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That's a lie from the devil.

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And this food,
these delicacies in Genesis.

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And then with Peter on the roof,
he God says all food is,

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is is okay for you to eat.

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So go ahead, have a bacon sandwich.

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You know, it's okay.

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Like it's, it's
I'm permitting you the freedom of that

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and it's good for you to enjoy it
if you give thanks to God for no,

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it might not be healthy for you,
but it's okay to enjoy.

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That's what he's saying.

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He said, enjoy what God provides.

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Don't add to what he said.
That's legalism.

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And don't,
don't, don't go soft on what he said.

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That's liberalism.

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Be certain
on this and then enjoy all that.

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Now watch this for every verse
for for everything created by God is good.

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He pronounced it good in the garden
of Eden, went before the God like

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when he created all things, pronounce it
all good, and nothing is to be rejected.

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If it's received with thanksgiving,
for it's made holy by the Word of God.

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Emperor says, look, pleasures become holy
when received with thanksgiving.

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Everything that God's given you to enjoy,
it becomes

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holy when you receive it
with thanksgiving like, thank you Lord.

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God like whole.

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I don't know if it's a word holy.

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Is it?

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But here's what I want you to understand.

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Here's what he's saying.

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Gratitude sanctifies legalism,

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sterilizes, and liberalism neutralizes.

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This is what we have to understand.

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And so all these things
God has given to us for our enjoyment

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when we acknowledge
the giver of the gifts,

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God makes the enjoyment of it a holy act.

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Does it make sense to you
like he's so good

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he hasn't asked you to give up anything
that isn't sin?

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So the fact if you deny yourself
whatever, fine.

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That's between you and God,
it doesn't make you more holy.

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Like if his gift to you enjoy.

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That's what Paul saying,

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and I love what he says.

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He said it's made
holy by the Word of God in prayer.

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And he is specifically in his context
talking about

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especially when you sit down to eat,
when you sit down to eat, thank God for it

494
00:24:24,266 --> 00:24:27,500
because you're thinking of God
makes that time

495
00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:31,766
of community and communion
with God like eating holy.

496
00:24:32,366 --> 00:24:35,666
No, it doesn't mean
it makes it nutritious.

497
00:24:36,433 --> 00:24:37,966
I think we should.

498
00:24:37,966 --> 00:24:40,766
Every Christ
follower should pray before they eat.

499
00:24:40,766 --> 00:24:42,566
Whether you're by yourself or with people.

500
00:24:42,566 --> 00:24:43,833
Doesn't matter where you are.

501
00:24:43,833 --> 00:24:47,200
Every Christ follower
before you partake of the goodness of God,

502
00:24:47,266 --> 00:24:49,433
should acknowledge
the giver of the goodness of God.

503
00:24:49,433 --> 00:24:52,333
You follow
doesn't have to be a big showy thing.

504
00:24:52,333 --> 00:24:54,666
Probably shouldn't be a big holy thing
because then we,

505
00:24:54,666 --> 00:24:57,466
you know, we look like a bunch of gluttons
and we're don't have self-control

506
00:24:57,466 --> 00:24:58,800
because when we eat, we just shovel.

507
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,433
And so probably should be
a private prayer.

508
00:25:00,433 --> 00:25:02,200
So, so we don't give ourselves a bad name,

509
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,900
but we should like
the acknowledgment of God.

510
00:25:04,900 --> 00:25:08,800
But listen,
just because it makes that time

511
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,200
wholly between us and God doesn't mean
it makes the food nutritious.

512
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,433
So let's be smart. Prayers.

513
00:25:14,433 --> 00:25:18,033
It does no good to go to Handel's
Ice Cream.

514
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:19,600
And before you eat your ice cream,

515
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,566
say God bless this to the nourishment
of my body, that I may serve you more.

516
00:25:23,666 --> 00:25:25,033
God is going to say no,

517
00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:27,700
I don't do that.

518
00:25:27,700 --> 00:25:30,300
You can't say, God, thank you for this.

519
00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:31,900
Double, double and in and out.

520
00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:33,600
Bless it to nourish my body.

521
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,233
He'll say,
no, I'm not going to bless that.

522
00:25:36,233 --> 00:25:37,533
It's bad for you.

523
00:25:37,533 --> 00:25:41,433
You will be a holy moment
of having bad food, but your holy moment

524
00:25:41,433 --> 00:25:43,366
won't make the food bad. It's still bad.

525
00:25:43,366 --> 00:25:46,800
He will probably say, I will not bless
that for your nourishment,

526
00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,800
but at least you'll get to me faster.

527
00:25:53,933 --> 00:25:55,233
So let's just not be dumb.

528
00:25:55,233 --> 00:25:56,933
Prayers,

529
00:25:56,933 --> 00:25:59,933
you understand? Yes.

530
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:02,166
Give thanks to God

531
00:26:02,166 --> 00:26:04,600
and eat smart.

532
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,500
Verse six.

533
00:26:06,500 --> 00:26:09,933
If you put these things
before the brothers, you will be

534
00:26:09,933 --> 00:26:13,533
a good servant of Christ Jesus,
being trained in the words of the faith

535
00:26:14,233 --> 00:26:17,100
and of the good doctrine
that you have followed.

536
00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:21,600
Here's what I'm saying when he says,
put these things before the brothers,

537
00:26:22,166 --> 00:26:25,566
when he uses those
words, what he's saying here

538
00:26:26,566 --> 00:26:28,966
is to remind them.

539
00:26:28,966 --> 00:26:31,600
Just remind them

540
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,600
there are some things we just need
to be reminded of stuff, right?

541
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:38,133
Like, like but many of you,
you've been in church a long time,

542
00:26:38,133 --> 00:26:41,133
and some of you have sat with me
for 20 years.

543
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,100
Most of the stuff you know,

544
00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:46,633
but we just got to be reminded of it.

545
00:26:46,633 --> 00:26:49,800
Sometimes you hear it in a different way
and it just makes more sense.

546
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,500
And sometimes I say it in a way
that makes you okay.

547
00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:53,133
Now I get that.

548
00:26:53,133 --> 00:26:57,433
But much, much of this,
you know, just got to be reminded of it.

549
00:26:57,533 --> 00:27:02,266
Parents, please understand
your kids need constant reminders

550
00:27:02,266 --> 00:27:03,966
of who God is, of who

551
00:27:03,966 --> 00:27:08,100
Jesus is, of how trustworthy
the word is, of how right it is to live

552
00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:11,100
according to the Word of God,
of how much it protects them.

553
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:13,766
They just need reminders from you,

554
00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:15,400
of God's

555
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,466
goodness, of his sovereignty, of his plan

556
00:27:18,533 --> 00:27:22,900
to be patient and wait on the Lord,
that his mind is far above ours.

557
00:27:22,900 --> 00:27:25,400
His ways are different than ours.
They're better than ours.

558
00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:26,966
They don't need a sermon from you.

559
00:27:26,966 --> 00:27:29,033
They just need reminders from you.

560
00:27:29,033 --> 00:27:32,033
Does it make sense? Yes.

561
00:27:32,433 --> 00:27:34,400
They remind them.

562
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:39,100
I don't know how many times I've had
the privilege of reminding my sons

563
00:27:39,900 --> 00:27:42,633
of what they already learned

564
00:27:42,633 --> 00:27:47,366
in Sunday school, in youth group,
from their leaders, from their mother,

565
00:27:47,366 --> 00:27:50,100
from me, from the scripture
that they've read themselves.

566
00:27:50,100 --> 00:27:51,566
I don't know how many have had
the privilege.

567
00:27:51,566 --> 00:27:53,933
And remember, son,

568
00:27:53,933 --> 00:27:56,100
don't lose sight of this.

569
00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:59,100
I know you don't feel it right
now, but remember.

570
00:28:02,033 --> 00:28:02,433
Listen.

571
00:28:02,433 --> 00:28:03,933
And here's why it's so important.

572
00:28:05,300 --> 00:28:06,366
Because what we

573
00:28:06,366 --> 00:28:09,366
forget, we eventually neglect,

574
00:28:09,766 --> 00:28:12,000
even if we know it,

575
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,000
what we forget, we eventually neglect.

576
00:28:15,233 --> 00:28:18,233
It's one reason why it's so important
for us to be together on Sunday mornings.

577
00:28:19,266 --> 00:28:22,033
Because we remember together.

578
00:28:22,033 --> 00:28:23,633
And I get it.

579
00:28:23,633 --> 00:28:26,833
And Paul says in Romans, every day
belongs, Lord, every day.

580
00:28:26,833 --> 00:28:28,066
It should be a day of worship.

581
00:28:28,066 --> 00:28:29,900
Absolutely, 100%.

582
00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:32,066
Can you worship on days of him
Sunday? 100%.

583
00:28:32,066 --> 00:28:32,500
You can.

584
00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:36,266
And I understand people say, well,
because I can worship on any day,

585
00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:38,400
I'll worship with my family
up at the lake.

586
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,000
I'm like,

587
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,433
well, that's I mean, I get it,
and if you're going to do it

588
00:28:42,433 --> 00:28:45,433
as an act of worship to God, fantastic.

589
00:28:46,566 --> 00:28:50,700
But it's so difficult to be reminded
of these things in isolation.

590
00:28:52,466 --> 00:28:55,466
We're
reminded of these things in community.

591
00:28:56,866 --> 00:28:59,866
Do you understand and

592
00:29:00,366 --> 00:29:02,866
remind them of these things?

593
00:29:02,866 --> 00:29:05,500
What you forget you'll neglect?

594
00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:08,500
It's so good for us to be together
and be reminded.

595
00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:11,566
And then look at this seven and eight
I'm going to press into this.

596
00:29:11,566 --> 00:29:12,866
Have nothing to do.

597
00:29:12,866 --> 00:29:14,100
Is that all I want to say about that?

598
00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:16,866
I think it is.

599
00:29:16,866 --> 00:29:18,300
I know time

600
00:29:18,300 --> 00:29:21,333
for seven have nothing to do
with irreverent, silly myths.

601
00:29:21,333 --> 00:29:25,400
Rather, here's the option train yourself
for godliness.

602
00:29:25,666 --> 00:29:27,700
For all. Bodily training is of some value.

603
00:29:27,700 --> 00:29:29,933
Godliness is a value in every way,

604
00:29:29,933 --> 00:29:33,900
as it holds promise for the present life
and also for the life to come.

605
00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:35,633
Let me camp on this for a little bit.

606
00:29:35,633 --> 00:29:36,200
He says.

607
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:41,266
He's going to he's he's going to compare
godly training to athletic training.

608
00:29:41,466 --> 00:29:44,233
Okay? So make those those connections.

609
00:29:44,233 --> 00:29:47,433
It makes sense in my world
when he uses this train.

610
00:29:47,433 --> 00:29:49,433
Train yourself for godliness.

611
00:29:49,433 --> 00:29:53,066
That word
train is the Greek word gymnasium,

612
00:29:53,100 --> 00:29:56,200
which where we get our word gymnasium
or the gym.

613
00:29:56,700 --> 00:29:58,700
He's saying, work out.

614
00:29:58,700 --> 00:30:01,700
Go to the gym of godliness.

615
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,366
Train yourself at the gym for godliness.

616
00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:09,166
He's saying all of that physical training,
athletic training,

617
00:30:09,166 --> 00:30:12,166
physical strength is of some value.

618
00:30:12,466 --> 00:30:15,600
Godly training is of eternal value.

619
00:30:15,833 --> 00:30:21,300
When Paul says God, physical training
is some value, he means temporal value.

620
00:30:21,433 --> 00:30:23,166
It is good for us.

621
00:30:23,166 --> 00:30:28,033
But what's better for us because it's
beneficial both temporally and eternally?

622
00:30:28,133 --> 00:30:32,166
Is spiritual workouts
more than physical workouts?

623
00:30:32,366 --> 00:30:36,600
Not that physical workouts are bad,
but spiritual workouts are eternal.

624
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:38,200
That's what he's saying.

625
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:39,933
So here's let me press in here.

626
00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:44,100
Godliness is the result

627
00:30:44,700 --> 00:30:47,700
of hard spiritual work.

628
00:30:49,066 --> 00:30:51,900
It's great for us to be here, encouraged

629
00:30:51,900 --> 00:30:55,533
together, mutually edified,
mutually reminded.

630
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,800
But godliness doesn't happen by sitting

631
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,800
in comfortable chairs.

632
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,466
Godliness happens by hard, consistent,

633
00:31:07,266 --> 00:31:11,000
disciplined spiritual workouts.

634
00:31:14,733 --> 00:31:17,300
Every day

635
00:31:17,300 --> 00:31:19,933
when my sons were young and growing up,
from the time there were little

636
00:31:19,933 --> 00:31:23,400
in our way up all the way up
through college, playing football

637
00:31:24,533 --> 00:31:27,366
every season, the moment season ended,

638
00:31:27,366 --> 00:31:30,366
they would come to me and say,
dad, let's start training.

639
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,466
I didn't push it. I didn't ask them.

640
00:31:33,466 --> 00:31:37,100
I didn't tell them
because they had this internal drive

641
00:31:37,766 --> 00:31:41,333
that they understood that
to do what they wanted to do

642
00:31:41,333 --> 00:31:46,100
required constant, consistent, hard
freaking work.

643
00:31:47,300 --> 00:31:49,300
The moment season ended, boom.

644
00:31:49,300 --> 00:31:51,066
We're back at it.

645
00:31:51,066 --> 00:31:53,066
At their request,

646
00:31:53,066 --> 00:31:55,800
I need to make sure you understand
that I wasn't one of those dads.

647
00:31:57,933 --> 00:31:59,400
And every time they said, let's go,

648
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,400
I was with them.

649
00:32:08,433 --> 00:32:10,633
Most people want to be fit.

650
00:32:10,633 --> 00:32:13,633
A few people put in a work.

651
00:32:15,500 --> 00:32:18,500
Most people want to be spiritual.

652
00:32:20,866 --> 00:32:23,866
A few people put in the work.

653
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,800
I have a very difficult time

654
00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:32,100
with passionless people.

655
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:42,600
Physical training is of some value,
no doubt.

656
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,733
Spiritual training is more.

657
00:32:45,733 --> 00:32:46,200
Now listen.

658
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,566
I exercise

659
00:32:48,566 --> 00:32:51,566
every day.

660
00:32:53,266 --> 00:32:56,266
And I, I realized a few years back,

661
00:32:57,300 --> 00:32:58,133
and God gave me this.

662
00:32:58,133 --> 00:33:00,800
He said, Carl,
I think you put all my heart.

663
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,800
I want to preach, teach and coach
until I'm 80 years old

664
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,766
with energy and passion and

665
00:33:06,766 --> 00:33:10,633
and and and and,
you know, piss and vinegar.

666
00:33:10,766 --> 00:33:12,466
They say like,
I just want a president as tall.

667
00:33:12,466 --> 00:33:14,433
I'm 80 years old.

668
00:33:14,433 --> 00:33:15,933
And I realized to do that, I got it.

669
00:33:15,933 --> 00:33:17,466
I got to take care of my body.

670
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,266
And I
want to present time, and I don't want to

671
00:33:22,300 --> 00:33:25,433
I don't want to take care of my body
just so I can see my kids and my grandkids

672
00:33:25,466 --> 00:33:26,133
till I'm 80.

673
00:33:26,133 --> 00:33:27,600
That's a perk.

674
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:29,700
But you do understand something.

675
00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:32,666
I'm going to be with my kids and grandkids
through eternity.

676
00:33:32,666 --> 00:33:37,433
Yeah, and we're going to be
on a real earth together in bodily form.

677
00:33:37,433 --> 00:33:41,300
I get them for eternity,
so I'm good there.

678
00:33:41,766 --> 00:33:45,100
I don't get them as much as I want here,
but I get them for eternity.

679
00:33:45,933 --> 00:33:48,466
I know their salvation

680
00:33:48,466 --> 00:33:52,200
and so I don't want to live a healthy time
80 so I get more time with them.

681
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:53,700
That's a perk.

682
00:33:53,700 --> 00:33:56,033
I want to be healthy so I can preach,

683
00:33:56,033 --> 00:33:59,100
teach and coach till I'm 80
because I don't get to do that in heaven.

684
00:34:00,966 --> 00:34:04,100
You understand God and so and so.

685
00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:07,100
I have to exercise every day.

686
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,400
But when I exercise,

687
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,933
I listen to teachings,

688
00:34:11,933 --> 00:34:14,966
commentaries, sermons, worship music.

689
00:34:14,966 --> 00:34:17,966
So it's after worship
and go through my prayer list.

690
00:34:18,100 --> 00:34:22,433
So my physical exercise is attached
to my spiritual workouts.

691
00:34:22,733 --> 00:34:25,733
Does that make sense? Yes.

692
00:34:32,966 --> 00:34:35,966
I mean.

693
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:40,400
I don't want to talk about this
as the come to nation.

694
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,566
I just want to talk about it
as a as a caution.

695
00:34:45,033 --> 00:34:48,033
Would any of you at all

696
00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:51,033
think that

697
00:34:51,033 --> 00:34:53,566
you can lose weight and get in shape
because you're a pastor

698
00:34:53,566 --> 00:34:56,566
each right, and runs?

699
00:34:57,333 --> 00:34:59,600
Anybody?

700
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:00,733
Yeah.

701
00:35:00,733 --> 00:35:03,733
Yeah, it doesn't work that way, does it?

702
00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:06,766
So why do we think it works

703
00:35:06,766 --> 00:35:09,766
that way with this?

704
00:35:16,966 --> 00:35:19,966
So you okay?

705
00:35:20,366 --> 00:35:20,533
Yeah.

706
00:35:20,533 --> 00:35:20,800
Yeah.

707
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,800
Yeah.

708
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:25,300
Here's what I know.

709
00:35:26,466 --> 00:35:28,833
And again, not as accommodation,
just as a caution.

710
00:35:28,833 --> 00:35:31,900
The culture is set up against

711
00:35:32,100 --> 00:35:34,966
disciplined discipleship,

712
00:35:34,966 --> 00:35:39,166
and we experience it in profound ways
right now in this season that we're in,

713
00:35:39,366 --> 00:35:42,366
because it's called travel ball.

714
00:35:42,966 --> 00:35:44,100
And I talked to,

715
00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:47,100
David White,
who's a part of our leadership here.

716
00:35:47,533 --> 00:35:50,966
Loves the Lord, is
raising his family in the Lord.

717
00:35:51,300 --> 00:35:56,766
And he's one of the leaders of the
baseball youth baseball world out here.

718
00:35:56,766 --> 00:35:59,233
And he struggles with this.
And he and I had a conversation.

719
00:35:59,233 --> 00:36:01,600
I called him, said, David,
this is what I'm talking about on Sunday.

720
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,200
I want to make sure you and I are good,
because I'm gonna say some things that,

721
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:04,900
if you don't understand

722
00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:05,500
my heart,

723
00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:07,866
are going to seem like a critique
and it's not a critique,

724
00:36:07,866 --> 00:36:09,033
and you need to make sure you're talking

725
00:36:09,033 --> 00:36:10,900
to all these other families of ours,
right now.

726
00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:13,300
And I can count on both hands,
on both feet,

727
00:36:13,300 --> 00:36:16,300
how many families
we have doing travel ball right now.

728
00:36:16,700 --> 00:36:18,500
And so so
you need to translate this for them

729
00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:21,433
because I don't want them, you know,
thinking I said something I didn't say.

730
00:36:21,433 --> 00:36:22,366
But let me say.

731
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,800
The travel ball world where there's
baseball, soccer I don't care what it is.

732
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:32,733
The travel ball world is set up
antithetical to the discipleship world,

733
00:36:33,466 --> 00:36:36,666
because it's set up to condition
our culture,

734
00:36:36,700 --> 00:36:39,700
not to think twice about missing church.

735
00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:44,400
Now David does a good job

736
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,833
between games on on, on on tournaments.

737
00:36:46,833 --> 00:36:49,366
On Sunday, they'll watch the live stream.

738
00:36:49,366 --> 00:36:51,866
They'll gather our flip side people
that is with around the watch

739
00:36:51,866 --> 00:36:54,800
a live stream or you know,
they'll have the Bible study and pray.

740
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,266
And he's doing a great job at that.

741
00:36:57,266 --> 00:36:59,300
And I commend him for it.

742
00:36:59,300 --> 00:37:02,100
And he makes sure that the flip side,
people that he's traveling with

743
00:37:02,100 --> 00:37:04,600
are a part of the community.

744
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,533
And and so there's a

745
00:37:06,533 --> 00:37:10,100
there's a part of this that is his mission
field, as is the football field mind.

746
00:37:10,466 --> 00:37:11,566
But he's also real life.

747
00:37:11,566 --> 00:37:13,500
And that's part of his discipleship, too.

748
00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:16,800
And we have to be careful
about the standards that we're setting

749
00:37:16,866 --> 00:37:19,200
just to be that, well,
this is just what we do.

750
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:20,066
Acceptance.

751
00:37:20,066 --> 00:37:22,866
Rather than being driven
by the prompting of the Holy Spirit.

752
00:37:26,266 --> 00:37:28,233
And I was talking to David, said, David,
there's three ways

753
00:37:28,233 --> 00:37:32,266
we can approach this travel ball season
and where you can start discipling church

754
00:37:32,266 --> 00:37:36,100
people in this understanding,
because most people, most Christians

755
00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:39,433
in this travel ball world, go into it
without any thought whatsoever.

756
00:37:39,433 --> 00:37:40,300
That's just the culture.

757
00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:42,766
And this is just what we do
in the summertime. We just miss church.

758
00:37:42,766 --> 00:37:45,900
I'll see you in August or September
without any thought.

759
00:37:47,300 --> 00:37:49,500
There's got to be thought,

760
00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:51,400
there's got to be purpose behind it.

761
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,466
So I told David,
I said one thing you can do.

762
00:37:53,466 --> 00:37:54,600
And we did a some years back,

763
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,066
we held a Sunday night service
for our travel ball families,

764
00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:01,200
and the only ones who came
were our travel families.

765
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,400
And I did the whole message
all over again just for them.

766
00:38:04,966 --> 00:38:06,033
It's one way we do it.

767
00:38:06,033 --> 00:38:09,033
Another way we do
it is to have travel ball, church,

768
00:38:09,333 --> 00:38:11,100
you know, and do what David's doing.

769
00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:14,100
Yes, yes, we're missing here,
but we're still the church there

770
00:38:14,100 --> 00:38:16,600
and we're going to gather as the church.
That's fantastic.

771
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:17,900
How about it? Make sure you do it.

772
00:38:17,900 --> 00:38:20,533
It's a great testament,
a great discipleship.

773
00:38:20,533 --> 00:38:23,166
But the other way is the Eric little way

774
00:38:23,166 --> 00:38:27,166
back in the Olympics, I think in the world
that the 40s or whatever,

775
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,200
the 20s,
I don't when it was a long time ago,

776
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,200
and he was an Olympic sprinter.

777
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,966
And the qualifying for the Olympics
for his is his,

778
00:38:39,366 --> 00:38:43,300
meet or for his race was on a Sunday
and he went to Olympic Committee says.

779
00:38:43,666 --> 00:38:46,366
And on Sunday it's a Sabbath day.

780
00:38:46,366 --> 00:38:49,366
So he changed his entire, his entire,

781
00:38:50,033 --> 00:38:53,600
entry into a, an event
that was on Sunday is amazing.

782
00:38:54,666 --> 00:38:55,933
And God honored it with a medal.

783
00:38:55,933 --> 00:39:00,400
And I just wonder, I wonder how God would
honor it if the travel ball families

784
00:39:00,500 --> 00:39:03,866
went to the travel ball coaches and said,
we are all yours

785
00:39:04,366 --> 00:39:07,466
except for Sunday 8 a.m. till noon.

786
00:39:07,533 --> 00:39:09,900
I just wonder how God would honor that.

787
00:39:09,900 --> 00:39:12,900
I don't know, because I've never seen
any parent bold enough in this type

788
00:39:12,900 --> 00:39:15,900
of bold enough to do it.

789
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,700
All I know is this when it becomes

790
00:39:23,700 --> 00:39:26,700
the norm to miss corporate worship,

791
00:39:26,833 --> 00:39:29,766
and we don't think twice about it,

792
00:39:29,766 --> 00:39:32,766
something's wrong.

793
00:39:33,333 --> 00:39:34,533
What I know is what you know.

794
00:39:34,533 --> 00:39:37,533
Downfall follows distance.

795
00:39:38,666 --> 00:39:41,066
Downfall of faith

796
00:39:41,066 --> 00:39:44,066
follows distance of godliness.

797
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:49,066
And when we make excuses and find excuses
not to come,

798
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:53,400
not to serve,
not to lead, not to do, not to give.

799
00:39:55,866 --> 00:39:58,866
Downfall as soon to follow.

800
00:39:59,300 --> 00:40:01,800
And as parents, we have to be very careful

801
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,866
about what we're modeling
and mentoring for our children

802
00:40:05,933 --> 00:40:09,900
because we will mentor,
mentor and model them into a distance

803
00:40:09,900 --> 00:40:12,900
that will lead to their downfall
without even thinking about it.

804
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,800
You understand? Yes.

805
00:40:21,866 --> 00:40:24,866
You okay?

806
00:40:26,633 --> 00:40:28,133
We understand what you training is.

807
00:40:28,133 --> 00:40:31,900
You talk about physical training involves
two things nutrition and exertion.

808
00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:34,866
If we're going to train our souls
physically.

809
00:40:34,866 --> 00:40:37,466
Nutrition and exertion, nutrition.

810
00:40:37,466 --> 00:40:39,000
You gotta eat right?

811
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,000
It's been said
you can't out train a bad diet.

812
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,166
So nutrition what we take it

813
00:40:45,166 --> 00:40:49,200
and then exertion we
you got to push stuff right.

814
00:40:49,966 --> 00:40:51,266
You got to get the miles in.

815
00:40:51,266 --> 00:40:54,633
You gotta get the the strength
the strenuous labor in.

816
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:56,166
You got

817
00:40:57,433 --> 00:40:58,400
you nutrition.

818
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,633
You got to limit the saturated fat.

819
00:41:01,633 --> 00:41:04,700
You got to increase the monounsaturated,
the polyunsaturated.

820
00:41:04,700 --> 00:41:07,300
You got to limit the calories.
You got to limit the sodium.

821
00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:09,300
You got to limit
the all the glucose level.

822
00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:12,300
You got to limit you got to watch that
stuff, increase the protein,

823
00:41:12,766 --> 00:41:15,900
the lean protein stuff, the exertion.

824
00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:18,900
You got to get the heart rate up
to whatever that heart rate is for you.

825
00:41:20,233 --> 00:41:22,800
You got to get your,
you know, 30 minutes of exercise a day.

826
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:24,000
You got to get 10,000 steps.

827
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,033
Like, we understand that it's
the same thing in the spiritual world.

828
00:41:27,066 --> 00:41:29,800
Nutrition and exertion.

829
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,566
What is your spiritual intake?

830
00:41:31,566 --> 00:41:33,033
What is your spiritual nutrition?

831
00:41:33,033 --> 00:41:36,300
If it's one time a week,
spiritual nutrition and then the other

832
00:41:36,300 --> 00:41:40,166
six days are full of spiritual junk
fruit in the music, let's do.

833
00:41:40,166 --> 00:41:43,166
And what you look at online
and on the on the streaming stuff.

834
00:41:43,166 --> 00:41:44,566
What kind of diet is that?

835
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:47,100
If your

836
00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:50,333
diet that bad, guarantee
you it's adult diabetes right

837
00:41:50,333 --> 00:41:53,333
now, you're going to die that way
spiritually.

838
00:41:54,766 --> 00:41:55,600
The exertion. What?

839
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,766
Your exertion level spiritually.

840
00:41:57,766 --> 00:42:00,933
If our exertion level consists
of getting up on a Sunday morning

841
00:42:00,933 --> 00:42:02,666
because we're tired from sitting down
and sitting in the air

842
00:42:02,666 --> 00:42:05,666
conditioned room in a cushioned chair,
that's not much exertion.

843
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:11,266
Right.

844
00:42:11,266 --> 00:42:12,666
We're.

845
00:42:12,666 --> 00:42:15,666
You okay?

846
00:42:20,500 --> 00:42:22,100
Here's what I'm saying.

847
00:42:22,100 --> 00:42:25,900
Our Bible should be more worn out that
our gym gear and our running shoes that.

848
00:42:27,066 --> 00:42:28,800
Amen.

849
00:42:28,800 --> 00:42:31,800
That's what Paul saying.

850
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:32,966
Let me press through this.

851
00:42:32,966 --> 00:42:33,866
I know what time it is.

852
00:42:33,866 --> 00:42:36,600
You know what time it is.

853
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:38,566
Verse ten.

854
00:42:38,566 --> 00:42:41,566
For to this end we toil and strife

855
00:42:42,033 --> 00:42:44,633
because we have our hope
set on the living God,

856
00:42:44,633 --> 00:42:48,166
who is the Savior of all people,
especially of those who believe.

857
00:42:50,566 --> 00:42:53,233
We toil and strive in this

858
00:42:53,233 --> 00:42:55,400
life. We press into this.

859
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,300
We're passionate about this stuff

860
00:42:58,300 --> 00:43:00,466
because we our hope is in the living God.

861
00:43:00,466 --> 00:43:02,700
There's no other religion that ever

862
00:43:02,700 --> 00:43:06,566
in the history of man
that has a living founder of it.

863
00:43:06,700 --> 00:43:10,066
Every other leader
of every other religion has been founded

864
00:43:10,066 --> 00:43:13,166
by a founder
who's dead, decayed and worm food.

865
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:17,700
Except Christianity is the only one
whose founder died and rose again

866
00:43:17,700 --> 00:43:18,866
and is alive today.

867
00:43:18,866 --> 00:43:23,700
Nobody could ever disprove his death
nor his resurrection because it happened.

868
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:26,700
And that is what our hope is in.

869
00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:29,700
And we press into these things
because of that living God,

870
00:43:30,033 --> 00:43:34,200
because he is a salvation for all people,
especially those who believe

871
00:43:34,233 --> 00:43:35,466
this is what it means.

872
00:43:35,466 --> 00:43:37,366
He is a salvation for all people.

873
00:43:37,366 --> 00:43:41,666
Not that all people will be saved,
potentially the Savior of all people,

874
00:43:41,733 --> 00:43:43,833
actually the Savior of those
who will believe

875
00:43:43,833 --> 00:43:47,100
do you understand that
potentially the salvation of all,

876
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,266
but actually the salvation
of those who believe?

877
00:43:49,266 --> 00:43:53,200
And because I believe it, I'm going to
press into this because he's worthy of it.

878
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:54,166
Yeah, yeah.

879
00:43:55,166 --> 00:43:57,900
He says, come,
man, verse 11, and teach these things.

880
00:43:57,900 --> 00:43:58,700
When he says, come in.

881
00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:01,700
He said, this is,
this is as a military officer,

882
00:44:01,866 --> 00:44:06,100
you don't suggest these things to people
you don't politely encourage.

883
00:44:06,233 --> 00:44:09,566
This is a command
from a commanding officer to the troops.

884
00:44:09,666 --> 00:44:12,266
This is the standard.
This is what we'll do.

885
00:44:12,266 --> 00:44:14,733
This is the expectation. I've lived it.

886
00:44:14,733 --> 00:44:15,666
You live it.

887
00:44:15,666 --> 00:44:18,666
This is this is who we are now.

888
00:44:18,866 --> 00:44:20,800
You understand? Yeah. Yeah.

889
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:22,933
This this is this is the passion.

890
00:44:22,933 --> 00:44:25,933
A part of it.

891
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,366
Let no one despise you for your youth.

892
00:44:28,366 --> 00:44:30,300
But, set the believers

893
00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:34,633
an example in speech and conduct
and love and faith and purity until I come

894
00:44:34,633 --> 00:44:38,333
devote yourself to the public, reading
scriptures, to exhortation, to teaching.

895
00:44:38,633 --> 00:44:39,900
Instead said, looking.

896
00:44:39,900 --> 00:44:41,633
Don't let anybody down on you for your
youth.

897
00:44:41,633 --> 00:44:42,833
He's in his 30 years old.

898
00:44:42,833 --> 00:44:44,633
He's in his 30s. There's only 30s.

899
00:44:44,633 --> 00:44:45,966
He's not like a teenage kid.

900
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:48,766
But when it's an old man

901
00:44:48,766 --> 00:44:51,766
talking to a 30 year old,
he talk to him like he's a young man

902
00:44:52,900 --> 00:44:54,400
and he's saying, look at you.

903
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,233
Set the example.

904
00:44:56,233 --> 00:44:58,833
You become the standard in your speech.

905
00:44:58,833 --> 00:45:00,400
So let's translate it.

906
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:06,533
If you and I, if you think for yourself,
if you are the standard of what godliness

907
00:45:06,533 --> 00:45:09,533
is according to your speech,
how is that standard?

908
00:45:10,433 --> 00:45:14,100
If you are the standard
for godliness in your posts,

909
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:16,766
how is that standard?

910
00:45:16,766 --> 00:45:19,766
Set an example for everybody in speech

911
00:45:20,266 --> 00:45:23,600
and setting sample for everybody
and conduct in your lifestyle.

912
00:45:23,766 --> 00:45:27,066
If your lifestyle is the standard,
what's that say

913
00:45:27,966 --> 00:45:31,100
in speech, in conduct, in love?

914
00:45:31,100 --> 00:45:31,833
That's agape

915
00:45:31,833 --> 00:45:35,933
love, self-sacrificial love, giving
without expecting anything in return.

916
00:45:35,933 --> 00:45:36,566
Sacrifice?

917
00:45:36,566 --> 00:45:37,266
Well, either,

918
00:45:37,266 --> 00:45:40,966
if that you set the standard for that for
everybody is what he's saying

919
00:45:41,833 --> 00:45:44,166
in speech and conduct, in love,

920
00:45:44,166 --> 00:45:49,300
in faith that is actually faithfulness,
not just faithfulness to the doctrine

921
00:45:49,300 --> 00:45:51,300
through God's Word,
but faithfulness and what,

922
00:45:51,300 --> 00:45:54,366
like what we say we will do,
we're not going to tap out

923
00:45:54,533 --> 00:45:57,400
and we're not going to back away,
and we're not going to back out of

924
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,300
something
we said we would do. We're faithful.

925
00:46:00,300 --> 00:46:03,300
And you set the standard and impurity

926
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,400
says you set the standard for purity.

927
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:11,633
So just understand,
just think if I am the standard for this,

928
00:46:12,900 --> 00:46:15,900
what does that standard look like?

929
00:46:16,166 --> 00:46:19,900
And if we do set that standard
according to biblical doctrine,

930
00:46:20,900 --> 00:46:23,266
people can say
whatever they want about us.

931
00:46:23,266 --> 00:46:25,500
It doesn't matter,

932
00:46:25,500 --> 00:46:26,400
because that is.

933
00:46:26,400 --> 00:46:29,400
And Jesus set the standard for this.

934
00:46:31,133 --> 00:46:33,100
Devote yourself to it

935
00:46:33,100 --> 00:46:36,100
and to the reading of Scripture,
exhortation and teaching.

936
00:46:36,700 --> 00:46:40,633
The role here is to teach this

937
00:46:41,066 --> 00:46:44,066
and escort it to people

938
00:46:44,666 --> 00:46:46,533
like, let's be encouraged with this.

939
00:46:46,533 --> 00:46:47,300
This is our job.

940
00:46:47,300 --> 00:46:50,300
So what we do?

941
00:46:51,033 --> 00:46:52,866
I mean, just real quick here,

942
00:46:52,866 --> 00:46:55,866
father's day is coming up.

943
00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,566
Dads, please understand

944
00:47:01,566 --> 00:47:04,566
your life is your legacy.

945
00:47:04,666 --> 00:47:07,500
Your legacy is not what you leave
your kids

946
00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:09,600
and an inheritance.

947
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:11,600
Your life

948
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,600
is your legacy.

949
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,433
What your family sees in you.

950
00:47:18,433 --> 00:47:21,433
Your family will repeat. Or.

951
00:47:25,433 --> 00:47:27,400
And so if there's things that you prayed.

952
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:30,000
God, please don't let my family repeat
that part of me.

953
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:30,600
I get it.

954
00:47:32,100 --> 00:47:32,733
That's where

955
00:47:32,733 --> 00:47:35,733
you become the model of God's grace.

956
00:47:36,566 --> 00:47:39,566
Relying on the grace of God for you

957
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,266
and giving that grace

958
00:47:42,266 --> 00:47:44,100
to others.

959
00:47:44,100 --> 00:47:47,100
And let that be the legacy,
if nothing else,

960
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:51,200
what I'm saying is this.

961
00:47:53,233 --> 00:47:56,233
I don't want to say that yet.

962
00:47:57,166 --> 00:47:59,700
Yeah.

963
00:47:59,700 --> 00:48:01,833
Your godliness

964
00:48:01,833 --> 00:48:04,833
requires discipline, not just your desire.

965
00:48:07,100 --> 00:48:09,766
You understand that?

966
00:48:09,766 --> 00:48:11,633
Our godliness requires discipline,

967
00:48:11,633 --> 00:48:14,633
not just desire.

968
00:48:14,666 --> 00:48:16,033
What it means to be disciplined

969
00:48:16,033 --> 00:48:18,966
is that we choose what we want
most over what we want.

970
00:48:18,966 --> 00:48:23,266
Now, guys, if we could get that dialed
in, we'd be doing

971
00:48:23,266 --> 00:48:26,266
all right.

972
00:48:27,666 --> 00:48:28,466
What I know

973
00:48:28,466 --> 00:48:31,566
is what you know
that discipline beats inspiration.

974
00:48:31,566 --> 00:48:34,566
Every time.

975
00:48:34,566 --> 00:48:37,566
Discipline beats inspiration every time.

976
00:48:38,733 --> 00:48:41,533
Discipline has to do with the decision
in here.

977
00:48:41,533 --> 00:48:44,066
Inspiration
has to do with what you can provide me.

978
00:48:44,066 --> 00:48:47,200
And I don't want to leave
my God pursuit of godliness

979
00:48:47,266 --> 00:48:50,400
and my mentorship of my family to someone

980
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:53,500
else, inspiring me to be someone different
that I'm not in here.

981
00:48:55,100 --> 00:48:58,100
Does that make sense?

982
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,433
So to dad, certainly,
but also to all of us.

983
00:49:03,433 --> 00:49:05,933
But especially with the Father's Day
coming up. Just think about this.

984
00:49:05,933 --> 00:49:10,133
We have to like we we need to be
the sermon that our family remembers,

985
00:49:11,433 --> 00:49:14,433
not preach a sermon our family remembers.

986
00:49:16,033 --> 00:49:19,033
That's what Paul saying to Timothy.

987
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:26,200
Listen,
we can't lead if we don't follow well,

988
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,200
and we can't serve if we don't eat well.

989
00:49:31,766 --> 00:49:35,033
Your and my consistency will preach louder

990
00:49:35,033 --> 00:49:38,033
and more convincingly
than any opinion or post we can make.

991
00:49:40,100 --> 00:49:41,066
It's what he's talking about.

992
00:49:41,066 --> 00:49:43,766
Press into this,

993
00:49:43,766 --> 00:49:45,266
for to this end we store.

994
00:49:45,266 --> 00:49:47,700
We toil. Command him in these things.

995
00:49:47,700 --> 00:49:49,033
Don't let anybody look down on you.

996
00:49:49,033 --> 00:49:52,033
Be the example.

997
00:49:54,466 --> 00:49:57,000
I mean, as a coach, I understand
we can't play

998
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,066
well on Friday night if we don't practice
well Monday through Thursday.

999
00:50:01,300 --> 00:50:04,200
Spiritually, it's the same thing.

1000
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:05,800
Spiritually, it's the same thing.

1001
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,800
We can't lead well if we live sloppy.

1002
00:50:10,433 --> 00:50:13,433
Dad, do you understand that this

1003
00:50:14,500 --> 00:50:15,166
disciples.

1004
00:50:15,166 --> 00:50:18,166
You understand that?

1005
00:50:18,300 --> 00:50:21,300
So Paul's saying.

1006
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:24,900
14 1516

1007
00:50:24,900 --> 00:50:28,166
do not neglect the gift you have
which was given you by a prophecy

1008
00:50:28,166 --> 00:50:30,166
when the council of elders
laid their hands on you.

1009
00:50:30,166 --> 00:50:32,800
Practice these things,
immerse yourselves in them,

1010
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:34,800
so that all may see your progress.

1011
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,800
He's saying, prove yourself
by what you do, not by what you say.

1012
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:42,666
Let people judge your life by what you do
because you're doing it right

1013
00:50:44,033 --> 00:50:46,133
and nothing wrong with it.

1014
00:50:46,133 --> 00:50:49,100
Keep a close watch on yourself
and on the teaching.

1015
00:50:49,100 --> 00:50:51,833
Persist in this, for by doing
so you will save both yourself

1016
00:50:51,833 --> 00:50:54,266
and you and your hearers. Here's
what I'm saying.

1017
00:50:54,266 --> 00:50:56,100
He said, look, you follow Jesus.

1018
00:50:56,100 --> 00:50:58,433
You've been given a gift,
a spiritual gift.

1019
00:50:58,433 --> 00:51:01,133
That Greek word is charismatic.
It's a spiritual gift.

1020
00:51:01,133 --> 00:51:02,400
You've been given it by God.

1021
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:03,666
If you're a believer in Jesus

1022
00:51:03,666 --> 00:51:07,633
and you're saying, use that gift
to press into your spiritual workouts.

1023
00:51:07,633 --> 00:51:10,233
In serving
God's kingdom through his church

1024
00:51:11,633 --> 00:51:14,633
and ignored gift blesses no one.

1025
00:51:15,633 --> 00:51:18,200
If you're a Christ, for
you have at least one spiritual gift.

1026
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,066
And again, in the Welcome Center,
I got a little inventory there

1027
00:51:21,066 --> 00:51:22,766
so you can figure out
what your spiritual gifts are

1028
00:51:22,766 --> 00:51:25,766
and then places
you can serve in this church

1029
00:51:25,933 --> 00:51:27,666
so you can press into godliness.

1030
00:51:27,666 --> 00:51:30,666
Remember, you'll find a reason or excuse

1031
00:51:31,633 --> 00:51:33,000
right?

1032
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,833
Right. I

1033
00:51:35,833 --> 00:51:38,833
you got to do these workouts.

1034
00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:45,533
You just practice
immerse yourselves him when he says

1035
00:51:45,533 --> 00:51:48,533
immerse yourself in him
he says take a deep dive in them.

1036
00:51:48,633 --> 00:51:49,900
Don't make them cursory.

1037
00:51:49,900 --> 00:51:52,100
Don't make them well,
my my schedule clears up.

1038
00:51:52,100 --> 00:51:52,766
Don't make them.

1039
00:51:52,766 --> 00:51:56,700
When the when the schedule says
I don't make it a side thing like you

1040
00:51:56,700 --> 00:52:00,766
immerse yourself in this, you jump into
this stuff, you dive into this stuff. Why?

1041
00:52:01,066 --> 00:52:02,633
Because God is worthy of it.

1042
00:52:03,666 --> 00:52:05,433
How? No more reasons do you need?

1043
00:52:05,433 --> 00:52:06,500
Yeah.

1044
00:52:06,500 --> 00:52:09,500
How many more reasons do you need?

1045
00:52:13,433 --> 00:52:16,166
Keep a close
watch on yourself and your teaching.

1046
00:52:16,166 --> 00:52:19,266
Persist in this,
for by persisting in these things,

1047
00:52:19,833 --> 00:52:21,400
you will see both yourself in your.

1048
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,300
Here's here's what he's saying.

1049
00:52:23,300 --> 00:52:25,900
When we neglect these things,

1050
00:52:25,900 --> 00:52:28,900
we put others salvation at risk

1051
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,500
because we are the conduit.

1052
00:52:32,500 --> 00:52:34,300
It's always the work of the Holy Spirit.

1053
00:52:34,300 --> 00:52:35,400
Please don't misunderstand me.

1054
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,533
It's always the work of God,
the Holy Spirit.

1055
00:52:37,533 --> 00:52:41,400
But he's chosen to tie
his work to our hands.

1056
00:52:42,966 --> 00:52:45,333
When we neglect this,
it's to our detriment

1057
00:52:45,333 --> 00:52:49,100
and to those who are coming up under us
and our huddle around us.

1058
00:52:49,500 --> 00:52:52,833
Part of their salvation
is contingent upon our godliness.

1059
00:52:54,133 --> 00:52:57,166
Wow. Do you see this?

1060
00:52:57,700 --> 00:52:58,000
Yeah.

1061
00:53:00,500 --> 00:53:03,233
So what he's saying is that

1062
00:53:03,233 --> 00:53:06,233
your contribution
authenticate your calling.

1063
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:10,966
We're called to this.

1064
00:53:10,966 --> 00:53:13,566
And the fact that I'm called
to it's proved my

1065
00:53:13,566 --> 00:53:16,566
my contribution proves it
authenticates the call.

1066
00:53:16,566 --> 00:53:18,400
I have

1067
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:21,300
and yours does to

1068
00:53:21,300 --> 00:53:23,266
see, at the end of the day,

1069
00:53:23,266 --> 00:53:26,266
visible faith is what confirms
authentic faith.

1070
00:53:27,866 --> 00:53:29,466
Invisible faith

1071
00:53:29,466 --> 00:53:32,466
authenticates in authentic faith.

1072
00:53:33,366 --> 00:53:36,366
Faith is not meant to be invisible.

1073
00:53:36,566 --> 00:53:39,566
Visible faith authenticates faith.

1074
00:53:39,966 --> 00:53:42,966
And so Paul says, press into this.

1075
00:53:43,433 --> 00:53:44,166
He is.

1076
00:53:44,166 --> 00:53:45,300
God is so good,

1077
00:53:45,300 --> 00:53:49,866
and he's so worthy and is so gracious,
and he's so merciful and he's so loving.

1078
00:53:50,533 --> 00:53:53,566
He's the creator of your soul,
the crafter of your life,

1079
00:53:53,733 --> 00:53:55,433
and the secure of your destiny.

1080
00:53:55,433 --> 00:53:58,433
What other reasons do you need

1081
00:53:58,933 --> 00:54:01,800
to press into this?

1082
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,800
So in essence, he's saying,
ask yourself this

1083
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:06,933
if I am the standard,
what's the state of my church?

1084
00:54:07,966 --> 00:54:08,566
If I'm the

1085
00:54:08,566 --> 00:54:11,566
standard, what's the state of faith?

1086
00:54:11,633 --> 00:54:14,866
If I'm the standard,
what's the state of discipleship?

1087
00:54:16,866 --> 00:54:19,200
Press into this.

1088
00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,200
Train yourself for it.

1089
00:54:24,933 --> 00:54:26,800
To understand

1090
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:29,200
where.

1091
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:32,200
You okay?

1092
00:54:33,866 --> 00:54:36,866
Listen, it is a high calling,

1093
00:54:37,033 --> 00:54:39,433
and it's a worthy calling.

1094
00:54:39,433 --> 00:54:42,433
And then something
the Holy Spirit enables us to fulfill.

1095
00:54:43,566 --> 00:54:46,800
And as you press in, you will be enabled.

1096
00:54:48,100 --> 00:54:50,466
But if you tap out,

1097
00:54:50,466 --> 00:54:52,600
that's all on you.

1098
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,600
That's what he's telling Timothy.

1099
00:54:57,433 --> 00:54:59,100
You got enough for today.

1100
00:54:59,100 --> 00:55:01,233
You get.

1101
00:55:01,233 --> 00:55:04,233
I think I need to let off the gas
a little bit.

1102
00:55:05,233 --> 00:55:05,600
Father.

1103
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:08,200
Thank you.

1104
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:09,900
You're a good God.

1105
00:55:09,900 --> 00:55:12,333
You you're mercies are new every morning.

1106
00:55:12,333 --> 00:55:15,333
Your grace is sufficient.

1107
00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,666
And your forgiveness is

1108
00:55:19,666 --> 00:55:20,400
constant.

1109
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:23,400
Thank you.

1110
00:55:24,100 --> 00:55:26,900
Father, you know, as far as I'm concerned,

1111
00:55:26,900 --> 00:55:31,266
you know the times and seasons of my life
where I was just so apathetic

1112
00:55:32,633 --> 00:55:34,666
and so negligent and so arrogant

1113
00:55:34,666 --> 00:55:37,666
and so prideful and so full of hubris.

1114
00:55:40,166 --> 00:55:40,766
And I thank you

1115
00:55:40,766 --> 00:55:44,200
that in the midst of my own stuff
that you didn't

1116
00:55:45,333 --> 00:55:48,333
cast me aside.

1117
00:55:49,133 --> 00:55:50,100
You've been so good

1118
00:55:50,100 --> 00:55:53,100
and so merciful
and so gracious towards me.

1119
00:55:53,566 --> 00:55:56,066
I don't need any other reasons

1120
00:55:56,066 --> 00:55:58,233
to train hard
after you and to press into this.

1121
00:55:58,233 --> 00:56:02,266
I don't need any other reasons, you
to motivate me to be passionate.

1122
00:56:02,266 --> 00:56:05,266
I don't need any other reasons.

1123
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:08,200
And father, I feel like there's
a lot of people who here

1124
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:11,200
who could say the same
or should say the same.

1125
00:56:12,933 --> 00:56:14,000
Thank you for your mercy.

1126
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,966
Thank you for your grace for us.

1127
00:56:16,966 --> 00:56:19,200
You've already done enough

1128
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:22,200
for us to press in hard after you

1129
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,566
to be passionate about your things,
to train hard and godliness.

1130
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:30,000
You've already done enough.

1131
00:56:30,566 --> 00:56:32,666
Friends, I invite you
in the quietness of this moment

1132
00:56:32,666 --> 00:56:33,900
just to think for a little bit.

1133
00:56:33,900 --> 00:56:36,366
I would dare you

1134
00:56:36,366 --> 00:56:39,366
to just say to God, say,

1135
00:56:39,500 --> 00:56:42,500
father, forgive me for my apathy.

1136
00:56:42,833 --> 00:56:45,833
Forgive me for my lethargy.

1137
00:56:48,766 --> 00:56:50,500
Forgive me for willingly

1138
00:56:50,500 --> 00:56:53,500
sitting on the sidelines

1139
00:56:53,700 --> 00:56:56,700
for far too long.

1140
00:56:57,766 --> 00:57:00,066
I repent

1141
00:57:00,066 --> 00:57:01,000
of my lethargy.

1142
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:02,666
I repent of my apathy.

1143
00:57:02,666 --> 00:57:05,666
I repent.

1144
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:08,266
Of settling for far below mediocrity

1145
00:57:08,266 --> 00:57:11,266
in terms of faith.

1146
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:15,400
And father, I ask over those

1147
00:57:15,500 --> 00:57:18,600
who in repentance are coming to you
and saying, God, forgive me up.

1148
00:57:19,366 --> 00:57:22,366
You deserve more of me.

1149
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:24,666
I ask that in repentance, father,

1150
00:57:24,666 --> 00:57:27,666
that you would give them all
that your grace allows you,

1151
00:57:28,500 --> 00:57:30,966
all that your grace allows
the full measure

1152
00:57:30,966 --> 00:57:34,366
and magnitude of your mercy
and your grace, giving them

1153
00:57:34,366 --> 00:57:37,800
all the blessings that they don't deserve,
that I don't deserve.

1154
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:39,133
But by your grace, you give. It's.

1155
00:57:39,133 --> 00:57:43,500
Thank you in repentance, father,
give us all that your grace allows.

1156
00:57:45,500 --> 00:57:46,800
And I pray that we would choose

1157
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:49,800
discipline over inspiration.

1158
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,266
To value
and to press into that which matters

1159
00:57:54,266 --> 00:57:57,266
most over that which we want. Now.

1160
00:58:00,300 --> 00:58:03,300
That we would live as the standard,

1161
00:58:03,666 --> 00:58:05,033
not with pride or arrogance,

1162
00:58:05,033 --> 00:58:08,033
but with humility, out of gratitude
for everything you've done.

1163
00:58:08,266 --> 00:58:09,400
You're a good God.

1164
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,433
Good God,

1165
00:58:11,433 --> 00:58:14,433
help us to love you with our whole heart
and soul and mind and strength.

1166
00:58:15,666 --> 00:58:17,166
It's in the name of Jesus that we pray.

1167
00:58:17,166 --> 00:58:19,166
Amen.

1168
00:58:19,166 --> 00:58:22,166
Listen, I love you.

1169
00:58:22,266 --> 00:58:26,033
Please understand that
even if I came across it like I don't,

1170
00:58:27,966 --> 00:58:29,966
I really do.

1171
00:58:29,966 --> 00:58:34,133
I'm so thankful that God's chosen you
to be a part of this church.

1172
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:36,700
I value you,

1173
00:58:36,700 --> 00:58:38,900
please understand that

1174
00:58:38,900 --> 00:58:39,566
we love you.

1175
00:58:39,566 --> 00:58:40,633
Thank you.

1176
00:58:40,633 --> 00:58:44,466
Go this week and read first Timothy four
as if it's Paul's

1177
00:58:44,466 --> 00:58:46,033
letter to you through the Holy Spirit,

1178
00:58:47,300 --> 00:58:47,700
and read

1179
00:58:47,700 --> 00:58:50,700
chapter five and see where we're going.

1180
00:58:51,500 --> 00:58:53,400
And we'll get there.

1181
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:56,400
We are becoming all that God created us
to be

1182
00:58:56,566 --> 00:58:59,433
the image of Christ in this world.

1183
00:58:59,433 --> 00:59:02,366
And we're so further along now, the moment
we're a year ago.

1184
00:59:02,366 --> 00:59:03,766
Yeah.

1185
00:59:03,766 --> 00:59:05,666
And especially more than a decade ago.

1186
00:59:05,666 --> 00:59:06,900
Yeah.

1187
00:59:06,900 --> 00:59:09,533
So look at where we are. It's good.

1188
00:59:09,533 --> 00:59:12,266
It's good. Progress.

1189
00:59:12,266 --> 00:59:13,166
We're getting there.

1190
00:59:13,166 --> 00:59:16,166
We're being made into his image. It's
good.

1191
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:18,900
Let's just not get settled.

1192
00:59:18,900 --> 00:59:20,400
Right? Right.

1193
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:22,633
Got a championship to win.

1194
00:59:22,633 --> 00:59:25,633
We're like one game in.

1195
00:59:25,900 --> 00:59:27,233
Let's work hard.

1196
00:59:27,233 --> 00:59:28,066
Yeah.

1197
00:59:28,066 --> 00:59:30,466
And enjoy the doing of it.

1198
00:59:30,466 --> 00:59:33,166
Yeah. Somebody say quit preaching.