You Are What You Think

Well, good morning everyone today is March 1st this this is the

Lord's Day What a blessing and I know some of your hearts are heavy with Miss Teresa and being part of our body

But we're we're a people with Not without a hope And what a blessing we have

The Sun is shining this day What a blessing we have together I'm not a gifted speaker and I'm just called to be a carpenter, but I want to bring you the

Word of God Just share with you something real quick yesterday,

I went down to South Fulton to do a trim job and I bit off more than I could chew and I haven't been put in this situation in A while where I had to humbly say,

I'm sorry. I need to step back. I need to get help and come up with a plan You know in it, you know, it humbled me and I yesterday as I got back to the house and my wife hugged me and Said wow,

I haven't been here in a while. I've got my whole scaffold out yesterday my tools And started to try to do it and put in a 16 -foot piece of trim upside down on the slanting wall

And even though I had something to jam it into it would just fall and hit me in the head and I kept hitting me in the head hit me in the head and It was a humbling place because 30 minutes before that I said, oh this is go quick I'll have this done in no time

So here I was coming back to the house my wife hugging me trying to give me some encouragement and I go into the little office or little 8 by 10 room

And I receive a call from pastor And saying will you please? Bring the

Word of God And I go There's a reason for everything and he prepares me

So I needed to be humbled yesterday To come to this to bring you the word and humility because I am not fit to do this in my own stream but nevertheless

I've done everything I could to prepare this message and I pray they'll bless your bless you and encourage you

But first I want to give credit to someone Joe Novosin at a lookout Mount, Tennessee, he's a

Presbyterian pastor and he is gifted in illustrations almost like Charles Spurgeon a painting a picture that just grips you

It's like a hook So first I want to give you this tool to examine this scripture through this before we launch into this

Before we launch into God's Word in 1 ,500 Micah Michelangelo Made a sculpture

It's called Pieta Pieta spelt like pie in TA Pieta this was the only only

Sculpture that Michelangelo signed and put his name on it The only one he put his name on it

It's worth they consider to this day three hundred million dollars They actually brought it over to a fairgrounds on a boat and they made it where it would float if it fell off in a crate that it could be salvaged because it was

One of his greatest masterpiece and what it is. It's Mary. I'm not

Approving of this because it's the image of Christ But what it is is Mary sitting there with a crucified

Christ in her arm And the details of the veins and everything is so defined and it's it's

I mean, it's Wow, but nevertheless So they brought it over but now it's housed in the

Vatican City and it's in the Catholicism nevertheless in 1972 a delusional man was coming to see this

Pieta. I But they said he jumped the barrier

And had a hammer in his hand and struck this sculpture in the nose And beat it several times and they subdued him

But it took ten months to grab every single piece of that Fragment and it took over 20 times it knocked the nose off The eye had a hole in it and I had beans all over its head

And it took several several artisans Several attempts they were getting fragments from the hammer and it was all over the place

But you know this man jumped the barrier and marred the greatest one of the greatest sculptures best art piece and He signed his name on it

But you beloved are made in the image of God The only thing that God signed

The only thing God signed and there was one That jumped the barrier in the garden and marred

God's masterpiece There's only one That God has signed and one jumped that barrier and marred

God's masterpiece So setting the tone for this

What will God give? What will God do? To restore his masterpiece

That's the question What will God do to restore his masterpiece? Let us pray

Father in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth

Father your servants are listening. Oh Lord Will you speak unto us now?

Please Lord Father You have made us

Lord Father, sin has marred us

Lord have your way with us and please glorify thyself Your servants are listening in Jesus name.

I pray Amen The will of God is not a mystery

John McArthur said This this is the will of God a lot of times

It's we think it's like a cloudy thing and I just want to give you a quick I call it 30 ,000 foot

That's what commercial planes fly at So the will of God first number one remember these five

S's Number one is to be saved Number two to be spirit -filled number three to be sanctified number four

To be submissive and number five to be willing to suffer That's the will of God Oftentimes we get beyond that and we lean upon the arm of the flesh and we say what job should

I choose? What life should I choose? But beloved what the Lord has shown me through this the more we focus on his will he brings all of that into picture

So what I want to focus on is the third part the sanctification and this is coming from Titus if you will, please turn with me to Titus 2 1 and What led me to choose this scripture the

Spirit of God last week? I share with you all and acts About how the church the early church grew and it was by it because they walk in the fear of God walking in the fear of God, but also

Walking in the fear of God requires a certain character.

It requires qualities So what I want to look at is the qualities of a sound church coming from Titus and this is going to be a series because oftentimes

I feel like I jump around so much and now just you'll know when pastors out or we can

I'll just fill back in and I want this to be a series because we can just continue to work our way through this as a

As a early infant church ourselves and it's good to examine ourselves in light of what

God says and what is healthy so The last thing

I want to share with you Dr. Gillum McKeith in his book.

You are what you eat Titled you are what you eat. There's been over 2 million copies sold 2 million copies.

He's promising that you're gonna be slimmer healthier and happier you He says this plan would change your life and 2 million copies have been sold

We live in a time where people are fanatics about their bodies the outward Paying thousands of dollars for the newest fad of diets the newest gym membership

And you can just go on and on Nevertheless God is but God is concerned about the health of his church the spiritual body.

This is what God is concerned with So let us look at the chat

Titus chapter 2 verse 1 and what I want to focus in on is verses 1 through 10

But I want to land on verse 1 and it'll be enough for us Hear the

Word of God Titus chapter 2 But as for you speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine

That the older men may be sober reverent temperate sound in faith in love and patience

The older women likewise that they may be reverent in behavior. Not slanderous not given to much wine teachers of good things

That they should admonish the young women to love their husbands to love their children to be discreet

Chaste homemakers good obedient to their own husbands that the Word of God may not be blasphemed

Likewise exhort the young men to be sober minded in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works in doctrine showing integrity reverence incorruptibility

Sound speech that cannot be condemned That one it is an opponent may be shame ashamed having nothing evil to say of you

Exhort bond servants to be obedient to their own masters to be well -pleasing in all things not answering back

Not pilfering but showing all good fidelity that they may adorn the doctrine of God our

Savior in all things okay, so what I want to share with you is the background of this because Text without context is only pretext

So it's good to know the background and I want if you look at just verse 2 I mean,

I'm sorry chapter 2 verse 1 it has a word but as for you That's a contrast

What we have here is the Apostle Paul and he's older in his years and he's doing a handing of a baton off To Titus to young Titus on the island of Crete to set the teachings of God for the for the pastors and elders of the church to set these things in order because as I said one had jumped the barrier

One had jumped the barriers here in Crete as well And was leading people astray by false doctrine

So if you look at this look back in verse 10 and that will help us give a background of why this is starting off Chapter 1 verse 10 for there are many insubordinate both idle talkers and Deceivers, especially those of the circumcision whose mouths must be stopped

Who subvert whole households teaching things which they ought not for the sake of dishonest gain

One of them a prophet of their own said Listen to this

Cretans are always liars evil beast lazy gluttons

This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply that they may be sound in the faith

Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth

To the purest all things are pure but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure But even their mind and conscious are defiled

They profess to know God, but in the works they deny him Being abominable disobedient and disqualified for every good work

But as for you Speak the things which are proper or sound doctrine

Notice the contrast But as for you in the literal reading it says, but you

So here we have a young pastor, but I'll share this beloved In Christ as a redeemed child of God, you're all lowercase peas.

He said go therefore and make disciples We are all lowercase pastors Teach them

So what I want to share with you Romans 12 21 do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good

This is key Young Titus must give that example and also be an example because he's young So what are the means of doing this it tells us?

As for you speak speak Preaching is speaking preaching is speaking

But this speaking in this context is daily conversation Just in our daily

Toolbox talk just in our everyday Marketplace talk in our households.

This is daily conversation that we're focusing in on here Why speak?

Number one because God said it and I saw a bumper sticker one time. I said God said it.

I believe it and that settles it He commanded it speak

Why think about this thinking and speaking is a gift from God Think about John 1 1 in the beginning was the word the word was with God the word was

God So we get God spoke. Therefore we speak because we're made in his image.

So Be an image bearers of God Thinking and speaking are harmonious.

You cannot separate the two Proverbs tells us as a man thinks in his heart

So is he? So in a way you are what you eat you are what you think so Why is speaking what is proper and consistent with sound doctrine?

Because we're servants servants serve what the masters made. That's all he's to do.

I once heard one say There's no sloppy agape

Tighten up your apron and serve He's telling

Speak he's reminding Titus to speak this young pastor to speak

It's not going to be popular They're gonna hate you why to speak because we're prone to forget

We're prone to strain Don't you feel it within your own heart and then?

If you look at the end of verse 10, they're like bookends if you look at this It says that they may adorn the doctrine.

I'm sorry verse 15 speak these things again. I'm sorry. These are the bookends He reminds us repetition is our friend

Speak these things exhort and rebuke with all authority. He has no authority. He's saying Speak God's Word has authority.

That's who has all authority Jesus Christ because The carpenter shop is empty

The tomb is empty, but the throne is occupied and when he said he said it on the throne he has all authority so Romans 10 14.

Have you noticed this Paul? Let me think about this in the book of Hebrews chapter 11.

They didn't even have a Bible When you just read this it makes you just go lower and lower and lower and you just go.

Oh Me a little faith They had no Bible It says because they feared

God and they did not want to be Obedient they did not want to live outside of his will

And I think wow and then on the flip side of that you have Paul the most religious man

But you see how much he suffered for God's name's sake for his glory for his honor He said

I count it all dumb To the knowledge of knowing Christ that word no means intimacy

Intimacy because it said Joseph knew not

Mary So that's this is eternal life is to know to be intimate intimate

So I want to break this down to you real quick These things which are proper for sound doctrine.

I want to focus on that word sound Sound doctrine. Do you know the word in Greek context means hygiene?

Wow Hygiene to be cleansed and I thought The Word of God is so powerful

Just every little word. There's like nuggets of gold Hygiene what can wash away my sins?

Nothing, but the blood Hygiene is to be healthy. It means to be healthy

So if you look at this, these are qualities of a healthy church You see what what is number one?

They call it in baseball batting lead -off Batting lead -off How can you know

God outside of his word? Creation speaks which is general revelation But that will not save you if you will ever look at this look at Psalm 19

And if you want to ever ask somebody a question, how does God speak to us? You can go to Psalm 19.

He speaks through general revelation And then he speaks through special revelation and in the last couple of verses is man's response

So sound doctrine means healthy. This word is found in the pastoral epistles

God didn't leave it up to us to come up with the ways. He wanted to be worship Praise God.

I don't know about you. But if you ever looked at sheep or been around sheep, they are dumb They would just go right off a cliff

They would just go astray I've seen but I'll share this with you.

Sheep will follow but goats you have to push them They're stubborn

Sometimes I feel like a true sheep, but I feel like most of the time probably I'm a goat in Providence That's a hit me in the head with a two -by -four and humble me

But this is what I want to share with you all Why is doctrine number one?

A W Tozer said what comes to mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.

So Doctrine is our backbone repentance in faith remember in Hebrews it says

These are the elementary. These are the beginning stages, but move on you should be teachers by now

Desiring not just milk, but meat So in this what I'm going to share with you is repentance in faith.

The Lord showed me this it was like a sock You know a sock has no it just kind of goes whatever way it moves and it fits to whatever foot in it

But when a piece of rebar metal about a half -inch goes up through there. It ain't no more floppy

It gives structure it gives a firm foundation that you can stand firm and Beloved I want to share with you this

Christ is That foundation Christ is what gives you a backbone

Christ outside of Christ There is no he is sound doctrine

He is as John 14 6 says I am the way the truth in the life

He is your backbone Truth is everything So I'll share with you this as many of you have been through the acts the study of acts the

Berean But you know wherever the Holy Spirit is at work when you start to read more and And here's where he will attack you most the enemy of God is your prayer life

Start praying more. I challenge you today say I'm gonna pray more. I'm just gonna get along and pray more

And watch and see what happens It's coming. It's it's coming.

It's coming because I'm gonna tell you why because a good soldier I'm gonna share with you this we're not on a cruise ship right now.

We're on a battlefield We're at war and there's one seeking to kill you and he's a sick

Bastard of a father that will laugh while his children burn in hell. That's a sick father

That's a sick father But this is not a battle of equals

God won't just get the last little tug of war One little word will fail him one little word will fail him

And I'll share this with you below Where there's light there will always be bugs go turn on your spotlight outside your house and guess what happens

What will happen? But I love back in the day my dad had a bug zapper

The little blue light just like it just fries up you can hear him pop the word of God is the bug zapper

Let him fly into that Just open your mouth and speak will let the line out of the cage.

I don't have to say don't hit my line Just let him out So my

I want to share with you this and pastor Harris has taught me It's so vital and I thank

God for this man so full of the word Chapter and verse he challenges me every time

I speak to him chapter and verse Give me chapter and verse keep Give me chapter and verse

It's like I feel like I want to go down the secretary of state or wherever the department's inverse certificate and put my middle name

Keith chapter and verse Tyler because I hear so much But I'm thankful for this because it's like a constant tab

But what it does is it makes me familiar with the true weapons of God I'm thankful for this chapter and verse

First John 4 tells us to test the spirits Test the spirits Let's turn there.

I'm gonna read this scripture test the spirits

John, I'm sorry first John chapter 4. I apologize first John chapter 4

We're gonna read the first six verses This is key. This is taking it through your x -ray machine

This is a spirit of God. So what it is the spirit of truth in the spirit of error how to discern

What is true and what is false here it is first John chapter 4 beloved do not believe every spirit but test the spirits

Whether they are of God because many false prophets have gone out into the world By this you will know the

Spirit of God Every spirit that confesses that Jesus has come in the flesh is of God.

There it is So it's the origin. It's the origin your testament against the origin

And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God and This is the spirit of the antichrist

Which you have heard was coming and is now already in the world you are

Of God little children, that's such a precious little children such an endearment such a loving pastor and Have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world

They are of the world Therefore they speak there it goes right there. They speak

They speak but their mouths gonna be shut for good the truth shuts their mouth

Therefore they speak as of the world and the world hears them We are of God He who knows

God hears us and he who is not of God does not hear us By this we know the spirit of truth in the spirit of error

Wow so Test the spirits test the validity of this truth when somebody comes to you

I'm gonna go back to something How it all began? Did God really say?

Did he really say this? Did he really say that?

He's holding back something good from you He's holding back something good from you

Arab beloved is a disease It'll affect the whole body. You think the corona virus is bad.

This will kill your soul You're damned This will infect you and everyone that comes in contact with you

I'm gonna go ahead and say it is spiritual AIDS It's a spiritual AIDS era in Luke chapter 10 verse 16

Jesus is speaking here Gee I'm cool and Here our

Lord here our beloved the Lamb of God who learned the ways of God here in Luke 10 16 he who hears

You here's me He who rejects you rejects me and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me when someone rejects you they reject

God Titus 2 2nd 2nd

Timothy. I'm sorry 2nd Timothy 4 3 listen to this For time is coming when people will not endure what kind of teaching sound healthy wholesome teaching

That's what God is doing to his masterpiece. He's making us old He's making us old where sin has marred us.

It's the truth that sets you free. It's lies that keep us in bondage The truth sets you free for time is coming when people will not endure sound and Wholesome teaching but they will have itching ears

They will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions Do you believe we're living in this time?

I went to WebMD itching ears just from a worldly context Itching ears as the late

Leonard Ravenhill, he was a By fire brand pastor, he would just preach he would throw these one -line barbs out there and He was an evangelist.

He what I mean, he's a pastor in a sense, but he was an evangelist It's like a Jeremiah has these hard Callings and hard sayings that sobers us to the reality of the truth war that we're at That we're in right now.

And this is what Leonard Ravenhill. I'm quoting him. He says we live in a day of itching ears

But I have no commission from God to scratch them MacArthur said this

Beloved the world does not judge us by our theology but by our behavior Life changing truth ought to change your life 2nd

Corinthians 3 3 The Apostle Paul this also says you're a walking epistle.

You're a letter My question what are you telling the world?

What are you telling the world right now? Are we adorning the gospel when you put on adornments?

You just don't put it on you make it attractive You're making Christ attractive

And it's the goodness of God that leads man to repentance. Are we displaying mercy that he's

Displayed unto us in Matthew 5 verses 13 through 16.

He says you're the salt of the world Go therefore and be light of the world If salt loses its flavor, it's useless

But I'm sure you in your life as the Lord has taught you Being overly salty too.

It's not a good thing Eating too much food is not a good thing Beloved we live in a time right now

It's almost like spiritual blood Believe me what I mean by believe me we take the sermons we take these things.

We don't meditate upon it chew upon it And all we do is pass it on to the next person and we pass it out of the back door of the church

And we become bulimic. What's that mean is you take God's Word and you eat it and you eat it you throw it up Vomit it up and you were never nourished and actually it does more harm because the acid in your body

Listen to this quote by this German philosopher 19th century

German philosopher Heinrich Henne Quote listen to this Wow Show me your redeemed life, and I might be inclined to believe to believe your

Redeemer You want to say amen and as pastor says ouch

Amen and ouch Show me your redeemed life, and I might be inclined to believe your

Redeemer soul of script or Soul of script or this means scripture alone

Scriptures are our soul infallible Authority for the Christian faith and practice so if you look through most of the

Paul's epistles You're gonna see doctrine and duty. He's gonna tell you This is how you're to live doctrine and now go out and live it so doctrine and duty

And it's usually split divided within the pistols And it's a beautiful thing it reminds me of college you had theory and practicum

You go to go to class you learn theory now you gotta go to practice. I'm in a lab our lab is out here

This right here is our theory not just here, but every day

Jeremiah 15, but let me back up soul of script or a lot of times. I've heard this saying

I kind of cringe But you hear people say the church hinges upon one doctrine, and it's a doctrine of justification

How we justify before a holy God, but I'll share this before that this is what the church hinges upon is solo script or How do you know about justification without Scripture?

The Scripture stands upon everything everything stands or fall upon Scripture upon the

Lord Jesus Christ He has all authority the

Word of God has authority And I want you to look at something real quick if you flip back with me to Titus 2 1

I want to give you the purpose clause of why sound doctrine is so vital And it comes from chapter 5.

I mean verse 5 if you look at this.

This is It's gonna ring a bell, and you're gonna probably think of many other scriptures

If you look at this this is the purpose clause It comes at the end of verse 5 that the

Word of God may not be blasphemed That word blaspheme means reviled simpler terms to lack of reverence doubting the power of something

Doubting the power of something contempt So when we live before the world

And we sin openly we sin publicly but beloved please know this we fall in private before we fall in public

That the

Word of God may not be blasphemed. Do you remember something in 2nd Samuel when Nathan went to David?

Remember him saying this same thing the word you have given calls

For the Word of God to be blasphemed by the enemy of God Basically what he's saying is

You let the enemy behind our lines you let him into our camp They're in your tent.

They're in your tent the Prophet Jeremiah Jeremiah 15 16

I Found God's Word, and I ate them and your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart

For I am called By your name O Lord of hosts is this your praise is this your hearts cry

Is this the core of your being I found God's Word, and I ate it. I pull in this morning.

I looked at my wife You want a real food bank open up this word

Open up this word We must be

Bereans. We must examine the scripture daily the things I've shared with you examine it as Romans 3 4 says let

God be true But every man a liar So this is what

God will do To restore his masterpiece. He will send his beloved son into this world

To redeem a criminal one that's jumped the barrier

And struck the masterpiece of God piece by piece

Day by day moment by moment He restores us through his

Word Today, I beseech you this very moment to repent and believe in the name

Jesus Christ If this is not your hearts cry It doesn't matter who you say you are

To the world or to one another Because the Lord's hand is at the door.

We just heard And his sword is wet you cannot escape and you cannot hide

Flee to Christ this very moment and be saved He's promised to never cast us away that he that comes to me.

I'll in no eyes cast away hold him at his word One of the most beautiful things that transformed my walk with Christ is saying

Will you not honor your word Just pray his work back Pray it back.

You said if anyone lacks wisdom ask and I'll give liberally Will you not give me

I'm asking Not for my name's sake but for your name's sake. I don't know how to pray.

I don't even know where to start He chose 12 Think about this he chose 12

You know only one thing they ever asked was Lord teach me how to pray Why just think about this a good soldier on the battlefield doesn't say

Let me go to my commander -in -chief first That's what a good soldier does.

He runs to his commander -in -chief And lets him know where he's insufficient

He's sufficient the captain of our salvation sufficient This is the

God that created the heavens and earth And God is so good this creature from the dirt defiled a holy and living

God and he let man live another day Another day and another day do not rest upon any personal experience out of fear

Do not rest upon going down the aisle repeating a prayer as I'm gonna say it

Jerry Slate once told me and taught me God is a jealous God who will share his glory with no man and it'd be like swinging across the

Grand Canyon with a chain link and The one thing you think you had to do with your salvation

It's gonna fail at that one link and that one link is made out of paper mache God is a jealous

God and he will share his glory Let's think about this this will transform you when you understand you start chewing upon these doctrines

These sound teachings that a God Saw nothing in you to merit his love for you

Therefore there's nothing that you can do to cause him to stop loving you because it's not based upon you

There's only one that's been in the heaven because of good works Only one made it to heaven for good works our standard

Is the law and our example is Christ In the law of God we see his holy footprints as a child follows the

Sun As a child follows the father he sees his footprints in the snow

And last if you will flip back over I want to turn to a pastoral epistle and I want to end with this

First Timothy chapter 4 verses 15 and 16 first Timothy 4

Verses 15 and 16 This is

Paul telling young Timothy as well meditate on these things

God has a right to tell you how to think you don't belong. We don't belong to ourselves.

You've been purchased Meditate on these things give yourself entirely to them that your progress may be evident to all

Listen to this Take heed pay attention to yourself

Hold on. Hold on. Did it say you're oh, let me finish pay attention to your neighbor Pay attention to your co -workers

No, take heed to yourself first and to the doctrine the doctrine.

Do you see that? It didn't say a doctrine The doctrine the is a definite article.

There's no other doctrine How do we do that we take captive every thought and we test the spirit number one

What is its origin did it come from God or did it come from someone created by God?

That's that that that that's the axe to the tree That splits the wood right there.

Did it come from someone or something created from God? That's the axe that splits the wood right there and beloved, you know as I know that you've read the axe is laid to the tree

The axe is already laid to the tree So look at this

First before I'll continue on take heed to yourself and to the doctrine To the doctrine how many people have heard in this

I mean Doctrine is not important Doctrine is not important.

Just worship. We just want to praise Like a frenzy It's like a frenzy

I'm gonna share with you the hyper side of man because we're so prone So here's the extremes in religion.

I'm gonna share with you. This is where we're at in our country so ready good theology leads to doxology

The more we know about who God is rightly according to his word The more we'll worship and praise him and sing of him

So if we don't know much about him, he can't talk about it. If somebody asked me keep can you tell me? He told me you married to Fidesz What do you know about Fidesz?

I don't know that much, but I love her Let me tell you what the word is for love in this world.

I lust her I lust her because she just gives me what I want. But but what do you know about Fidesz?

I don't know I don't know much well

The Lord has told us this is eternal life is to know him true and living God know what he hates knows what honors him

Know these things store these things up in your heart that you might not sin against God Take heed to yourself.

What that means is personal holiness. Notice that that's first That's first and it's therefore a reason

Because why we're prone to fall in private and then we'll take whatever part of Scripture and make it a doctrine to fit our lifestyle

But getting back to something real quick. I don't want to get away from this. So this is how the mess we're in right now

Good theology leads to doxology and then that leads to worship and praise good theology leads to doxology

Doxo means worship and praise Ology means the study of Theo means

God so put these two together and that's worship Just like doctrine and duty they go hand in hand can't separate the two

Cannot separate the two so I'm gonna show you the extremes without the Spirit of God and being

Not born again Some will say all we need is good theology.

All we need is sound doctrine sound like Ephesus, right? Paul spent three years in Ephesus.

He poured out his heart to this church Poured out his heart so to whom much is given much is required.

That's why the Lord came to them first He came to them first and he had one thing against them

Listen to this. He says You can read it in Revelation You were few to the

Nicolaitans that was dealing with antinomianism cheap grace just kept sinning as if grace was something that you just You know, it's like somebody your parent giving you a gift and you kick it on the floor

And just pick it back up and think that parents willingly wants just to give you that back again You're gonna say you have to learn a lesson

You gotta learn this lesson Appreciate the value. I work hard for this. I don't have children, but I'm saying that from first -hand experience

Seeing a mother take off her shoes and her feet are bleeding and having three or four pair of new shoes. It's convicted

Not appreciating the gifts But the true gift is God himself He cannot give any more this as the hymn writer says what more can he give and what more can he say to you?

whom he has said personal holiness first and then doctrine because Our hearts are so deceitfully wicked

Our hearts are so deceitful. So in closing,

I don't I want you to look at this and this is

God is concerned about the health of his church. He's concerned about a Healthy church a chest and a pure virgin

God you're a love gift to Christ from the Father a love gift from the

Father to the Son And Christ will come back for his bride. His hand is at the door

His hand is at the door To God be the glory

Let's pray Lord, I thank you

That we have your word you're a holy

God You've made us in your image not angels, but your image we are your masterpiece and Sin has marred us in every way, but we thank you

Lord through the Lord Jesus Christ Who set before him the joy and endured a cross?

But ultimately Lord it was the cup it was in the garden

Lord, that's where our hearts go where we see the victory one Lord we thank you for this gift of life

Lord have your way with us Our cry is as the early hymn writer said

I need thee every hour Pass me not O gentle Savior Lord lead us beside the still waters

Lord soon you're coming Sober us to realize we're at war.

We're not on a cruise ship Lord help us to gird up our loins and to stand firm.

I thank you father that you didn't leave this to a mystery to us We're in awe of your sovereignty

We're in awe of who you are Lord we need wisdom to finish.

I think of this one verse and it's probably Lord It's it makes my heart tremble You're gonna say

Either of these two things Well done my good and faithful servant

Notice well done my good and faithful servant Lord what a blessing it is to be a servant of the

Most High God Or you're gonna say depart from me you worker of iniquity

I never knew you Lord I pray that no one in this room will ever hear this and these words will be used for the torment of their soul

Lord help us examine our own hearts this day Help us to I want to know

Lord What grieves your heart Lord I pray that every one of us in this room will ask is there anything within me that grieves you

Show me Lord what makes you sad What grieves your heart and help us to repent and turn from this and be healed be whole