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A highlight from Missions and Evangelism 101: The "What"
"Word of God. And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. By grace you have been saved, and raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace and kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God, not a result of works so that no one may boast, for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Thus far the reading of God's Word, brothers and sisters in Christ, you probably know that the word gospel means good news. You, most of you probably know this. When this concept is used in the Bible, it speaks of the proclamation that whatever was wrong has now been made right. And just a very brief survey of this in the Old Testament, perhaps the most famous passage and well -known passage for the concept of the gospel is found in Isaiah 52 verse 7. It goes like this, how beautiful upon the mountains, now keep a, put a pause on that phrase right there, how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who says to Zion your God reigns. It's upon the mountains. You get this picture that's there that the runner is taking his position on perhaps the tallest peak of whatever mountain is around Jerusalem and he's shouting to everybody your God reigns. In other words it's a very public thing. It's not a private thing. It has to do there with the announcement that the exiles are returned from captivity. Yay! It's a very public thing. He's got thousands of people right there right behind him or a couple hours they're gonna storm your city and it's a good thing. This is how we know that your God reigns. In the time of the New Testament it refers to a person who was designated to run or sail in front of an army that just won the battle against the enemy. And the guy would call out to the city in very similar terms, we've won! I don't know if he would fist pump or anything like that but this person who would bring good news, he was referred to in the New Testament times as an evangelist, the one who brings good news. He would bring good news of victory for the good guys, good news of defeat for the bad guys and there'd be this kind of nonverbal understanding that everybody okay if you're not a part of that city if you're not a part of that country there would be this nonverbal understanding that y 'all better get your act together right and get in line with this king who just won this victory. This message of victory would then bring confidence that you belong to the right king and he can defend you and he can fight your battles for you. I mean what a good news, what a sense of confidence that you would have in your king who just fought for you. We've been thinking about how the church heralds this gospel of Jesus Christ for a number of weeks now largely because of the Boardwalk Chapel trip and if you were here last week you kind of got a little snippet of what our students did out there. They sang the gospel, we showed a little program of a little bit of what we do there with singing of the gospel, they did skits that are based upon the gospel, you've seen how they've evangelized to me, even as I played the role of someone who they, an average person who they would normally find out in the boards and stuff like that, and how they led me to Christ. This is something of the product of what we've been meditating on for a bit now. Firstly we've seen the why of missions and evangelism. Why is it that we do missions and evangelism in the first place? We saw firstly that that it has to do with the mission itself. We also saw that it has to do with, which by the way the mission as we saw in Ephesians 1, it begins firstly primarily in the mind of God. Okay and then moving out a little bit farther we've seen this because of the mandate that that we have and the means that we have in order to do it. And then we moved on to think of the how of missions and evangelism, just how is it that this is to be done? Well we're to do it with confidence, with readiness and joy. Oh tonight we're going to be looking at the what of missions and evangelism, particularly evangelism for us. In other words okay pastor I get I get it. I get the philosophy of it. I get the theology behind it. I understand kind of the head knowledge that the conversion of the sinner is on God's terms and it's according to God's provision. It's according to his means. Okay I get I get this. And I also get the sociology. I also get the psychology of that it that I need to be confident. I need to be sure in the success of God's plan that I should be ready, that I should be joyful in doing this. Okay I get that. But what do I say? What is it that that I say or what are the basic kind of basal concepts that are in that that should be in my mind to inform me or kind of orient me towards evangelistic activity? Just what do I do? What do I say? Well that'll be on tonight's agenda. The what of missions and evangelism. And there's many ways to do this, many programs available. I suppose you could get kind of just pick one that suits you best. But what we'll be doing just tonight is to survey the most basic, the three most basic concepts that should be on your mind in the work of evangelism particularly. Firstly as it is written in your bulletin, the power of the law. Secondly the problem of the heart. And then thirdly the provision of the gospel. And to start our first point I want us I want to emphasize something to you. Take a look again at Ephesians chapter 2. I want to overemphasize this to you that Ephesians chapter 2 is my personal go -to location for whenever I share the gospel or whenever I have to think about something with a gospel lens. Ephesians 2 is my go -to. This is perhaps my number one passage that I most often go to for all things gospel related. So if you want to put a star on this page or perhaps put a perpetual bookmark here or whatever you will be very well served in knowing this passage, knowing the address of this passage. I've turned to this passage many times on many occasions with all manner of people coming from all kinds of backgrounds. Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Muslims, so -called progressive Christians, many many others. I found that this passage at least for me most sufficiently expresses the end the essence of the gospel. I've also found that it handles a lot of errors and misunderstandings about the gospel as well. We can say that Ephesians chapter 2, this passage that we just read out of just a second ago, gives us a fulsome and yet digestible survey of the entirety of the Christian experience which makes this passage fit the book of Ephesians rather well actually might I say. It fits the book of Ephesians as a whole very very well. This book, mind you, doesn't have a specified reason for it being written. It's about the basics of the Christian life and our unity with with Christ, our union with Christ, and our unity with one another. And so this passage fits this book very well. So all that to say that I highly commend to you this passage for your reference. There's other passages like this but please have this very passage for your quick reference memory. But for the power of the law, we're looking at the power of the law right now, we come to Ephesians chapter 2 verse 1, our passage which says, and you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience. Well the first order of business in terms of the what of evangelism, at least when I do it, is the exposure of a life that's lived in defiance of God. You got to expose, we got to expose a life that is lived in defiance of God. In other words, we start with what's most obvious, that there are trespasses and sins in which the unconverted currently walk and by which they are characterized. They're known in the Bible as those who commit trespasses, those who commit sins. Now the technical difference, mind you, between trespasses and sins is something of the knowledge and their wilfulness. A sin in the Bible is a missing of a target, that's what a sin is. It's when someone tries to do the right thing but can't quite get there because of some default, they fall short of what they're supposed to do, they fall short of the glory of God, they fall short of what they're striving for, it's a missing of the target. A trespass on the other hand is an overstepping of a known boundary, it's an overstepping of a known boundary. It's an awareness that something is right and yet they want to do whatever is opposed to it anyways and they end up doing that. In short, technically, sins are when people don't do what they're supposed to do and trespasses are when people do what they're not supposed to do. Now the authors of the Bible don't always bring this distinction out all the time, mainly because they're making other points. I'm thinking of 1st John 3 verse 4. John there says sin is transgression of the law, he doesn't make that distinction as apparent right there as Paul does in this this passage. He's making another point in that very passage but here in our passage Paul highlights the relationship between the two. Now the big question that underlies this very passage is the question, what determines sin? What determines sin? How do you know what constitutes a transgression? And this is where the power of the law comes in really handy. Just as in verse 2 you see you're following the course of this of this world, the spirit is now at work and the sons of disobedience. Just as disobedience can only rightly be demarcated by whatever obedience looks like, sins can only be known in reference to the law of God, specifically in the Ten Commandments. Okay, sins can only be known in reference to the law of God, particularly in the Ten Commandments. So what we have here is that any lack of conformity unto or transgression of the law means that something is sinful. And so how do you apply this to evangelism? Well we start with the power of the law that exposes sin. Usually I say something like this to someone, have you ever lied? It's a very cut -and -dry sort of question, have you both have told lies before? Okay, have you ever hated someone? Matthew chapter 2 chapter 5 verse 22, Jesus says that if you've hated anyone, as a matter of fact if you've even called them a fool, you've committed murder in the eyes of God. So we've lied, we've also committed murder in God's eyes. Have you ever used God's name in vain? God calls that blasphemy, right? So we've lied, even if it's a if the of use the name of God as something that's a throwaway statement. That's tantamount to blasphemy. It's taking the name of God in vain in the Hebrew literally means as though it were nothing. It were a thing of vanity. It's just like anything else. So using the name of God as a throwaway term, which our culture is very, it's a very popular thing to do nowadays, that's the essence of breaking that commandment to take the name of God, to not take the name of God in vain. That's called blasphemy. So we've lied, we've murdered, we've committed blasphemy in God's eyes, and we could keep going I suppose in order to show that we've done all manner of things according to the Ten Commandments. We've committed adultery, we've coveted, we violated the Sabbath, we've dishonored our parents and so on. The law of God is able to expose sins for exactly what they are. Now this is a tactic that I do. I kind of hang out there for a little bit, okay. I kind of hang out there for a little bit in order to drive the sentence of guilt to their hearts from the from the mouth of God himself, from the very law of God. I kind of hang out there in order so that they they know they come into personal contact with the sins that they've committed. So the law therefore is a base indicator that kind of equalizes everyone out and determines that all people everywhere have sinned, all people everywhere have transgressed the law of God, and all people everywhere are in need of grace and mercy. This is where you start with the power of the law. Secondly we move on to the next related point, the problem of the heart. Verse 3, here we see something of a progression of sorts. It continues from the previous verse where we read of the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind. In the last couple of verses that that we considered understand we that the law of God has the ability to call sin exactly what it is. The law of God has the power to call sin, sin. Therefore we know that our actions are sinful in some way. In other words we've either not lived up to the commands of God or we've willfully broken it. However I want you to see that there's a progression here in that verse 3 diagnoses the reason why we've acted in disobedience it's because it's what comes most natural to us. And the reason why it's most natural to us is because there is a problem with our hearts. That's the reason. There's a problem with our hearts, the innermost aspects of our being. God doesn't merely recognize us outside of Christ as quote people who commit trespasses and sins, right? Even particular ones. As much as he recognizes those outside of Christ as sinners, transgressors. In other words as Saint Augustine says we don't we're not sinners because we sin. We sin because we're sinners. Again we don't sin I'm we're sinners. In my version of it sin indicates that someone is a sinner. It's far worse to be a sinner than it is to have committed sin in God's eyes. And we can see this in our passage here. Namely that we all as the passage says once lived in the passions of our flesh. Now that doesn't mean that you know the body is a bad thing or you know to have a desire is is a bad thing or something like like that. He means when he says this this phrase he means that the passions of our flesh stand in stark contrast to the will of God. And it's the passions of our flesh that produce the transgressions and the sins in which we once walked. In other words the corruption of the heart is the very standpoint from which all actual sins take place. Most commonly we refer to this as original sin which is the problem of the heart. Original sin is the problem of the heart. That is we inherit or we are imputed with as the theological term the guilt and the corruption of Adam's first sin to us. His sin nature becomes ours by being from Adam's line under his headship. And this means that when we sin we sin out of our own sin nature. Again original sin is the position of the heart. It is the problem of the heart that all of us had which affects all aspects of all of our being. I say I usually say this that that sins are not as great as sin is. And this forms for us mind you one of the strongest standpoints that again flattens the whole of humanity out so that every single one of us are in one box. Makes really it makes things very convenient that sins the sins that are pointed out by the law of God indicates that we are sinners. The problem has never been any one sin. The problem has never been any one transgression that has kept us from the grace of God. It's our whole sinful nature that is itself the problem. And so long as the sin nature is there as long as verse 3 says as long as we are by nature children of identifies us as rebels and therefore we're we become worthy recipients of his wrath and curse. So how do I bring this to people? I'm glad you asked. How do we know what do we say? I begin something by saying yes if you've lied you've stolen you've blasphemed in God's eyes you've murdered you probably have done a lot more things and you've most likely done them knowing that they're wrong. You know why that is? You know why you've acted in this way? You know why you have done this? It's because that you have a heart that produces wickedness. Jesus says in Mark chapter 7 verse 21 out of the heart comes evil thoughts out of the heart comes sexual immorality theft murder adultery coveting wickedness deceit sensuality envy slander pride foolishness all these things come from within and they defile a person.
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A highlight from Guided Into Truth
"Well, as you heard announced this morning, today is a special day for our church. The air is getting a little bit cooler, a little more crisp. The rain is starting to come and fall kickoff is happening. This means many of our ministries and programs are getting kicked off, ending their summer hiatus and getting rolling for the coming year. Now in conversations I was having with the guys on our pastoral staff earlier in the summer about the different ideas for fall kickoff, themes to go with, emphases to put out there. We had a bunch of different ideas and I won't share with you the ideas that ended up on the cutting room floor, but I will restate our theme for fall kickoff this year is guided into truth, which I think is a theme that really encapsulates what we are to be all about as followers of Jesus Christ, right? I mean, when you think about it, for those of us who are followers of Jesus Christ in the room this morning, we have been guided into truth in the ultimate sense in that someone somewhere at some point in time shared the gospel with us. They shared the good news message of Jesus Christ dying and Jesus Christ rising and Jesus Christ saving sinners like you and me so that our sins could be forgiven and our hope of eternal life secured. And then we responded to that gospel with repentance and faith turning from the sin that once had its claws in us to put our trust now in Christ finished work on the cross. So we we have been guided into truth in that sense. Now. We're also called to guide others into truth. And if we're faithful to Christ and obedient to his Great Commission for his followers, we guide others into truth. That's what we do. That's what we're marked by we do so around our dinner tables as we teach our children about Christ and we do so at our family gatherings as we openly recognize that all that we have the roofs over our heads the air in our lungs the food in our tables the experiences that we get to share together. They are all because of Christ we do so at church whether we hold a formal teaching post or not. We give instruction and encouragement and exhortation from God's Word pointing other people people around us to Christ and then for a select few we guide others into truth by sharing the gospel message with the lost for some that means doing so through door -to -door evangelism for some that means at the Holmes Lake prayer tower for others. This happens more organically and the day -to -day evangelism that you've heard spoken of more recently where people are more adept at moving their conversations from more of mundane topics, you know, the weather and Husker football and the like to the gospel and getting to the hope that's found in Jesus Christ. Well today's message is going to have one aim and the bull's eye that I've been praying that this message would hit is to press in on this notion that evangelism is the territory or the realm of only that select few in the church. I'm going to throw the flag on the thought process that goes John Kerry is the deacon of evangelism and therefore John Kerry and his team. Those are the evangelists of the church. I'm going to challenge those of you who whether through fear or or laziness let's just get real here a lack of concern and love for those who are truly lost or abandoning your responsibility to do what Christ has commanded you and I both to do which is to share the gospel with the lost. I'm going to exhort you this morning to stop warming the bench and to get in the game. So last week we looked at prayer you might recall from Colossians this morning. We're looking at evangelism. I figured I could complete the trio of all topics that people like to hear about giving maybe next Sunday. No, but I'm going to say what needs to be said about being more evangelistically minded individually and as members of this body of believers to be more faithful in sharing the gospel not from a place of personal preference or desire because that really doesn't matter here. I'm going to speak to you through a text of scripture one that is very familiar to many of us and a text that is so rich in terms of the description it provides and the picture it paints of what it means to be guided into truth and what it looks like to guide another into truth turn with me if you would in your Bibles to Acts chapter 8 Acts chapter 8 Matthew Mark Luke John Acts book number five of the New Testament. We're going to hit pause on our series and Colossians this week so that we as a church body in keeping with our fall kickoff theme this week can zero in on this text where we encounter someone who was guided into truth and also see someone who is guiding another into truth. We're going to look at Acts 8 25 through 40 this morning. I'm going to try to take the whole bite. We'll see how I do this morning sermon has five points. They're all alliterated. We're going to see the context first in verse 25 in leading up to verse 25. We're going to see the command in verse 26. We'll see the contact in verses 27 through 30 the conversion in verses 31 through 35 and then the consequences in verses 36 through 40 now since today's passage or today's sermon is one of these one -off sermons before we just drop ourselves into this passage. It would be important and good if we establish some of the context. So as we look at the context here first point number one, let's look at some of the background here. The Book of Acts was humanly speaking written by Luke the same Luke who gave us the Gospel of Luke and what both the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts revealed to us very clearly is that Luke was a very detailed and meticulous historian. We see that over in the Gospel of Luke the very beginning verses of Luke Luke 1 3 where he says this to Theophilus who is the immediate recipient of the gospel. He says it seemed fitting for me as well having investigated everything carefully from the beginning to write it out for you in consecutive order. So we see how meticulous already Luke was and then here in the Book of Acts, which is really part 2 of Luke's writing the sequel as it were to the Gospel of Luke. He continues on and giving this very precise and detailed historical account of the early church. In fact, let's go ahead and take a few moments to do a real high -level flyover of the first seven chapters of Acts leading up to our text for today. In fact, go with me over to Acts 1 and you can do the flyover with me. In Acts 1 we see that the resurrected Christ appeared to his apostles and according to Acts 1 3 he did this over a period of 40 days and spoke of the things concerning the kingdom of God and then over the course of those 40 days and at the conclusion of those 40 days the Lord said to his apostles over in Acts 1 8 that they will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all of Judea and Samaria and even to the remotest part of the earth file that statement away in your minds, by the way, we're going to come back to it a couple of times this morning then in Acts 1 9 we see Luke recording the Ascension of our Lord to the right hand of the Father where he is seated today says after he had said these things he was lifted up while they were looking on and a cloud received him out of their sight then in Acts 2 Luke gives an account of the day of Pentecost one of the traditional Jewish feast days what was Pentecost and this is the day on which the Holy Spirit as Christ had earlier promised would happen descended and fell on that assembly there in Jerusalem. This is the day on which the Apostle Peter gave one of the most powerful sermons ever preached and according to Acts 241 about 3 ,000 souls came to Christ were converted through that preaching of Peter Acts 3 were told more about the ministry now of both Peter and John still in Jerusalem. We see that Peter heals a lame beggar in this chapter and then Peter also delivers a second sermon from the portico of Solomon and in this sermon the second sermon Peter gives in Acts 3 15 he calls out the Jews of the day as it says here in verse 3 15 for having put to death the Prince of life the one whom God raised from the dead a fact to which we are witnesses that in Acts 4 we see the arrest of Peter and John recorded and then we see their interactions with Annas and Caiaphas and other Jewish high priests and it's in front of those high priests that Peter filled with the Holy Spirit Acts 4 12 says this and there is salvation and no one else for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved then over in Acts 5 Luke gives the account of the second arrest of Peter and John and the other apostles we see that they were flawed and eventually released and after they were flawed and after they were released Acts 5 41 says they went on their way from the presence of the council rejoicing that they had been considered worthy to suffer shame for his name in the very next verse Acts 5 42 says while they were still there in Jerusalem every day in the temple they go from house to house and they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ in Acts 6 Luke tells us verse 7 that the Word of God kept on spreading in the number of disciples continue to increase greatly in Jerusalem and then the very next verse Acts 6 8 we are introduced to Stephen who full of grace and power was performing great wonders and signs among the people and then the remainder of Acts 6 we see that Stephen was then brought up for trial essentially before the Jewish leaders on charges of blasphemy then in Acts 7 Luke gives us this very detailed account of the the bold testimony and defense that Stephen gave which included him turning the tables and indicting the very people who were trying to indict him for having murdered their Messiah the Lord Jesus Christ and that doesn't go very well for Stephen because we see in Acts 7 54 says when they had heard this meaning Stevens testimony and indictment of them they were cut to the quick and they began gnashing their teeth at him and then the rest of Acts 7 records Stevens ultimate death by stoning Acts 8 now begins with these words in verse 1 Saul the one who would later become known as Paul was in hardy agreements with putting him meaning Stephen to death and then look at the very next words and on that day a great persecution began against the church in Jerusalem and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria and what does that remind you of what we saw back in Acts 1 8 where Christ himself said to his followers that you shall be my witnesses from Jerusalem to Judea to Samaria and then to the remotest part of the earth now take a look at Acts 8 4 we're going to work our way closer and closer to our text because Acts 8 4 here really sets up the immediate context where we'll be today says therefore those who had been scattered out of Jerusalem it means went about preaching the word Philip went down to the city of Samaria and began proclaiming Christ to them the crowds with one Accord were giving attention to what was said by Philip as they heard and saw the signs which he was performing from the case of many who had unclean spirits they were coming out of them shouting with a loud voice and many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.
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"verse 7" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"Chapter 17 begins as the burden against Damascus, which is the capital city of Syria, still to this day even. But we realize that it's really about the folly of Israel, and the folly of nations putting their hope in one another, instead of putting their hope on the board. You see the mixture of Ephraim and Israel, two names for the northern kingdom, with Syria and its capital city Damascus. In verse 3, God is punishing his people, and to throw your lot in with them as they are being punished, is to volunteer for punishment with them. And yet the Lord is merciful, even when he causes devastation that is like harvesting or gleaning. You notice he leaves them, a small remnant in verse 6. It's very small, the emphasis is on its smallness. The most fruitful branch has four or five olives in this olive tree image in verse 6. And yet you see that God leaving them the remnant in verse 6 is definitely in mercy, because look at what he describes spiritually of the remnant in verses 7 and 8, that God will use the chastening to turn the remnant of Israel from their idols. And yet it will be a severe chastening, and many will be lost, physically and spiritually, in this judgment, because, verse 10, they have forgotten the God of their salvation and not been mindful of the rock of their stronghold. Now that's a strong rebuke to us, isn't it? Don't we find ourselves very forgetful of God, even during our days we worship together, we hear the good word of God, we call upon his name together, we sing the praises that he himself has put in our mouths, and how easily we become forgetful of him and unmindful of him, even in the rest of our day. And so it's a mercy to us, we see here, that we serve a God who is merciful even to some such sinners, and we cry out to him to be merciful, praise God, he's given us Christ through whom to cry out, and we cling to him. And then we see it is a mercy, in verse 11, that he doesn't allow their forgetful of God plans to flourish, their harvest is a heap of ruins in a day of grief and desperate sorrow. And it's a mercy of God to us when we are forgetful of him, and he doesn't allow us to prosper, lest we come to a place of pride and arrogance in which we don't feel our need for him anymore.
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"verse 7" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"So we are now continuing on our study in acts we are in Acts chapter 13 and we're gonna be moving from verses 44 into 14 verse 7 now as you were if you were here last week and if not by way of summation what has happened is Paul has just finished his first sermon his first sermon that was an evangelistic sermon going from the Old Testament bringing it into the New Testament
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"verse 7" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"Psalm 49 verse 7 clearly states, None of them can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God a ransom for him. You and I must appropriate the bread of life as individuals in order to be saved and to live forever. I can't eat for you. You must partake for yourself. Now Jesus adds something that he's not mentioned at this point in the summary of his teaching. And that is, thirdly, that the bread that I shall give is my flesh. My flesh. Jesus will sacrificially give his life. His flesh to pay in full the price for our redemption. Our sins demanded death as the penalty. Either we had to die or someone else had to die in our place. And on the cross of Calvary, Jesus took our place. Our sins were placed on him. The Bible says, For he made him who knew no sin to be sinned for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree. Galatians 3, 13. Jesus Christ himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sin, might live for righteousness by whose stripes you were healed. 1 Peter 2, 24. For Christ also suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit. Since the wages of sin is death and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin, Christ became that sin sacrifice for us. For indeed he was the Lamb of God who took away the sins of the world. And so his death provides all that we need to those who believe and accept that gift we find in Christ. But Jesus did not offer his flesh as a sacrifice merely for Israel or for the Jews, but he gives his flesh for the life of the world. He died for all, all people, all races, all cultures, all ethnic groups, all social stratus. He died for everyone.
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"verse 7" Discussed on Abundant Encounters
"Notice it first? What's the first thing you notice? It's kind of fun to think about. So in Psalms 118 verse 7, it's David is speaking, he says, I've seen with my own eyes the defeat of my enemies, I've triumphed over them all. So this biblical concept, it's this idea that you step into your future reality, the promised reality, all your enemies have been defeated, and then you begin making decisions from that place. I'm going to read it one more time, I've seen with my own eyes the defeat of my enemies, I've triumphed over them all. Can you see your
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What Would Change If Your Problems Vanished Overnight?
"A question I think is a powerful idea, sometimes it can feel a little insensitive because we're dealing with complicated situations, but it is a powerful counseling tool that I want to spiritualize with you today for the sake of encounter, it goes like this, if you were to go to bed tonight and sometime during the night a miracle happened and caused your problem to disappear, what would be the first sign that things have changed when you woke up? So sometimes we get distracted, we're going to go through this piece by piece, I just want to make sure you're with me, but sometimes we get distracted by the miracle, like the everything I've ever wanted, but in a sense we need to know a little bit about what the problem is that's being solved, so let's think about that for a second. Picture Jesus, he'll help us with this, Jesus, what is the problem that needs to be solved in my life? Take your time, I want to give you some time here to consider, pull the pieces together with Jesus. Okay, I believe in the Holy Spirit is bringing a problem to mind, something that has held on to us for long enough, and so remember the miracle question, so you go to bed tonight, you wake up, that problem no longer exists, how do you feel? How do you notice it first? What's the first thing you notice? It's kind of fun to think about. So in Psalms 118 verse 7, it's David is speaking, he says, I've seen with my own eyes the defeat of my enemies, I've triumphed over them all. So this biblical concept, it's this idea that you step into your future reality, the promised reality, all your enemies have been defeated, and then you begin making decisions from that place.
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"verse 7" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"Said to them, Your blood be upon your own heads. I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles. Again, when it says that he's going to the Gentiles, it doesn't mean that he'll never preach to the Jews ever again. In fact, you're going to find the synagogue was the first place he went when he entered a new city every time that there was a synagogue there. It meant that he would not be re -entering the synagogue to preach the Gospel to them. They had emphatically rejected the Gospel. So Paul left the synagogue. Now, this leads us to the third reaction, which is softness. We've seen openness, we've seen hardness, we've seen softness. You know, my prayer for you, if maybe you were listening a minute ago and you said maybe I am a bit closed off, maybe my heart is hard, my prayer for you is what Jesus said about the heart in the parable of the sower, that your heart would be good ground, that your heart would be softened toward the Gospel. And for those of us who have received the Gospel, do you realize that's supposed to be the condition of our hearts, full stop? Look at verses 7 to 8. Now this justice fellow here, he's interesting. Both the Latin Vulgate, the old Latin translation of the Bible, and the Arabic translation referred to him as Titus Justice, or Titus, the son of justice. That's interesting. So there's a possibility, according to some Bible commentators, that this is Titus, the one to whom one of the epistles of Paul is written to in the Bible, which is an extraordinary little wrinkle if it's true. But either way, this man opened his house to Paul's preaching ministry. He opened his life to Paul. Verse 7 says that his house was next door to the synagogue. He invited Paul into his life, and by the fact that what happens next, we know this, that actually his house would have been connected to the synagogue, not just next door to the synagogue, the way that buildings were set up back then, his house was actually connected to the synagogue. So, literally connected. So imagine this,
Evangelism on SermonAudio
"verse 7" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"What is healed begins to walk John 6 Jesus feeds the multitude who is hungry and he tells them that I am the true manna from heaven not only that but Jesus later on in John 6 walks on the water after that John 7 Jesus provides a drink and he tells them that he was the rock of which the water came and he would give to them the holy spirit which will be in them a well that never runs dry John 8 I am the light of the world after Moses came down from getting the law what happened God gave him a cloud to lead him by day and a pillar of fire to lead him by night and Jesus was the light John 9 the man is born blind and yet he is healed and then guess what else is mentioned in the new Old Testament about this upcoming Christ he is the shepherd of his sheep and so here we are John 10 the shepherd last Sunday morning our first point was verses one to six and we looked how Jesus gathers the sheep we remembered that this man was put out by the Pharisees but yet Jesus heard about it and he came to him to bring him in we recalled in John chapter 6 that the Bible says all that the father gives to me will come to me and the one who comes to me I will never ever ever ever what cast him out and so Jesus comes to be compassionate and bring this man in he says if anyone ever comes to him he won't cast him out Isaiah said in Isaiah 40 verse 11 he protects his flock like a shepherd he gathers the lambs in his arms and he carries them in the fold of his garment he gently leaves those that are nursing that is what was true of the servant of God and indeed is true of Jesus Christ so not only did we see Jesus gathers his sheep but secondly this morning as we get to verse 7 we'll go to verse 7 to 10 Jesus his guards sheep so not only does Jesus gather his sheep but Jesus guards his sheep so let's look again at verse 6 Jesus gave them a figure of speech according to verse 6 and verses 1 to 5 this figure of speech Jesus spoke to them in verse 6 but they did not understand what those things were which he had been saying to them so Jesus said to them again so now he's going to tell them basically the same truth but in another way he's going to try to tell them the truth once again the first illustration in verses 1 to 5 Jesus told them that he is the shepherd to whom the doorkeeper opens but the second illustration Jesus is not just now the shepherd to whom a doorkeeper opens but rather he's the one who opens the door you can only imagine how tense the audience is becoming by listening to such you say well is there a comparison to what Jesus is doing well certainly there is as he's telling them and comparing to them and contrasting with them Jesus is a good shepherd versus these leaders who are abusive and hard on the people of Israel he is telling them who he is if you remember from last Sunday I read to you Jeremiah and 23 Ezekiel 34 but I'll just read one of them today but Ezekiel 34 verse 2 through 6 says son of man prophesy against the shepherds of Israel prophesy and say to them this is what the Lord says to the shepherds what are the shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves shouldn't the shepherds feed their flock you eat the fat and wear the wool and butcher the fatted animals but you do not tend to the flock you have not strengthened the weak healed the sick bandaged the injured brought back the strays or sought the lost instead you have ruled them
Elevation with Steven Furtick
"verse 7" Discussed on Elevation with Steven Furtick
"They're like the all -American or the all -Jewish couple. Like, he's the homecoming king, and she's the homecoming queen, and he's the captain of the football team, and they got it all going on. They got the right pedigree. And then verse 6, it says, They were both blameless in the sight of God. It doesn't mean they were above without sin. It means they were above reproach. It means they were living their lives in such a way that the ordinances and the commands that God had given, they were following them. They were observing not just they were coming from the right place, but they were doing the right things. What an example for those of us that claim the cause of Christ to run after. We want to be the kind of person who observes the decrees and the commands of the Lord blamelessly. And you would expect verse 7 to start with, And they all lived happily ever after. But you see, the Bible is not a fairy tale. It's the story of a great God that we were separated from because of sin. But God is longsuffering, willing that none should perish, and it set the stage for a Savior to come on the scene of the world in the form of Jesus to redeem us from our sins. But it's also the story of a broken humanity and the depravity of the human nature and the result of sin and what happens. This is a book of great faith. I think sometimes we open up God's Word wanting a fairy tale. And verse 7 shows me that this is not a fairy tale because it says, Sometimes the Scripture shouts. It says, here's the answer. And sometimes it whispers, but it's never silent. I think the whisper in verse 7 is the subtle sound of disappointment. You see, they had this deep desire to be parents, but. But they were childless. So but often speaks to a desire that's delayed or it feels like it's been denied. It's this place of disappointment. And it says they were very old. And when you read the original language, it means they were very old. It's like, you know, you've got hungry and then there's very hungry. You know, you're angry and then there's very angry. There's old and then there's very old. Zechariah is 90 and Elizabeth is 88. And the text is showing you a story that not only was Elizabeth not able to conceive, but they're past the age of biological reproduction in a reasonable person's eyes.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
"verse 7" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"And in verse 7, the first Chronicles 17, it says concerning Jehoshaphat that he took great pride in the ways of the Lord, and again removed the high places in the Yasharim from Judah. So he obviously is a man of God, he's taking great pride in the ways of God, and he even makes an effort to cleanse the land from idolatry. In fact, he even went beyond that, because it says here that when he found that the people were ignorant of the divine law, he actually appoints priests and Levites to travel around the land to instruct people. Look at verses 7 and 9, the next verse. It says, then in the third year of his reign, he sent his officials, Ben Hiel, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nathanael, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah. And with them, the Levites, Shemaiah, Nathanael, Zebediah, Azahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, Tobadonijah, the Levites, and with them, Elishamah and Jehoram, the priests, they taught in Judah, having the book of the law of the Lord with them, and they went throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people. So we're talking here about a very godly man who was concerned about the godliness of his subjects. And what happens as a result of this, the faithfulness of Jehoshaphat? Well, look at verses 10 through 13. It says, So notice, peace with enemies here, prosperity, all of this is following the godly leading of a godly king. In fact, Judah itself, the southern kingdom, was never more prosperous than under this man. But again, he had a problem. And what is that problem? He was not wise with respect to outsiders. Why do I say that? Well, during that time, remember, the kingdom of Israel has split in two. You have the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom. He is king over the south in In the north, the one reigning is Ahab, the husband of Jezebel. So you have real outsiders on the throne at this point in the north, right?
Evangelism on SermonAudio
"verse 7" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"Don't align with the politics or another gender that is not the way that God made you or you need to align with Jesus Christ and you do that by repenting of your sin. Repenting is forsaking your sin, confessing it and putting it away and that doesn't mean you don't sin ever again and that's what Romans 7 talks about where it's a struggle and that's why we're here at church because we're not perfect. We need help. Even pastor needs help. I need help and that's why we have Christ to look to as our model and so what does confession mean? It means to admit guilt. We need to confess to God. It also means to confess to others. I learned at school that sometimes to be right with God you actually have to say sorry to other people first. I have to go to other people and say sorry when I steal something or I sin against them and if I don't do that I can't be right with God and that's hard. It's hard to humble yourself but when you get right with God it's very sweet and it keeps you safe and it keeps you accountable. It's a box. It's safety and it's comfort. Don't you see that in chapter 40? But for those that don't repent there's wrath and you can see that at the end of verse 7 because he says oh generation of vipers and this is talking about every generation I believe but he's talking specifically here but every generation is full of sinners and vipers so if we have not repented of our sins that's really what we are. We are just sinners and vipers and what does it say? Who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come? They know in their hearts that wrath is coming. If we have not repented of our sin we already know that we're condemned and we know in And that's why the message comes with comfort. This isn't law. This isn't rules. This isn't just a bunch of strict. Your parents aren't being strict. Your church isn't being strict. This isn't a rule book. This is safety. It's love. The Bible's love. It's love. Your parents love
Evangelism on SermonAudio
"verse 7" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"What a powerful command. Like most people, I was initially sucked into this word go, and I emphasized it. But here's the deal. This isn't the main verb in the text. It's a verb, but it's a passive one. In English, this would be better translated, while you are going. While you are going, make disciples. And this throws a completely different light on the subject. This now assumes that the disciples will be going while you're going. It is their responsibility. It is their duty. It is their drive. So if we find ourselves not going, then it is fair to question, are we his disciples? And if we are, but we aren't going, if we are his disciples, but we aren't going, then we must ask the question, why not? Why am I not going? So think about go in this way. And I want to read a familiar passage to us, found in Deuteronomy chapter 6. And I think that this gives sense of the word go. Deuteronomy 6, this is the Shema. And think I verse 7 really, really helps us out here, for I think this is what is meant by the word go. And that is, it is an all -encompassing lifestyle. There is not a time in which this is not being applied in verse 7. It encompasses all of your life. So you see, this great commission is not a new concept. The Shema begins with here. Here, that is, it's a gospel call. Listen up. Then it says, oh Israel, it's a specific gospel call to the elect. And then catch this, it says, the Lord. And the first thing that is emphasized, the first thing that is brought to life within the dead heart is the person of Christ. It is the Lord. And verse 5, it tells us of a heart change, of a desire change. And the process doesn't end here, rather it begins, and it continues throughout all of life unto death. But this isn't just a process between me and God. No, it is not only commanded, but it is expected that these words and teachings, these words and teachings of Jesus be emphasized and reiterated to others. And most specifically, beginning with those in closest proximity to us. You shall teach them diligently to who? To your sons. Brothers and sisters, we need to reevaluate our definition of missionary. The consistent message of the Word of God is that every child of God is a missionary. And if you take Scripture seriously, if you
Evangelism on SermonAudio
"verse 7" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"A couple of major themes that we need to focus on that it would be helpful for us to focus on as we seek to learn from this portion of God's word. And one major theme is God's universal kingship, yahweh is king over all the nations is a truth that this psalm proclaims. Yahweh, the lord is not just God of Israel. He's not just a national deity who is limited in power and limited in his geographical sovereignty. No, he is the lord and king over all of the nations over all of mankind. Another major theme in this psalm is God's universal justice. In terms of the structure of this song in the first three verses, we have before us a universal call to praise the lord in song. And we'll focus on that call in just a few minutes. And then in verses four through 6, the psalmist gives us the reasons for this praise. Why should we praise the lord? Why is all humanity summoned to praise the lord? And then in verses 7 through 9, this universal call to praise is repeated in somewhat different language, but for emphasis, it is basically repeated. Verse ten is a proclamation of the good news of the lord's righteous kingdom rain and versus 11 to 13, which closed the psalm as a final call to universal praise where all of creation is called upon to join with the human race in rejoicing before the lord because of the good news of the coming of his righteous kingdom rule. So with all this in mind, let's dig in and to the details of our song for this evening. And we noticed, first of all, if you're following along in your sermon outline, if you happen to have a copy of that, the first thing to notice is the universal call to worship observed friends that God commands all the earth to worship him. Worship is a duty. We are creatures God is our creator and not only are we creatures of God like the animals, we are God's image bearers and we owe God as every rational creature owes God worship and praise and adoration.
Pray the Word with David Platt
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"John chapter 13 verse 7. Jesus answered him. What I am doing, you do not understand now. But afterward, you will understand this first has meant so much to me over recent years amidst challenges and trials of various kinds to use language from first Peter. And I just want to encourage you with it today, especially if you were walking through challenge trial in your life. In any way, this picture of Jesus washing his disciples feet and Simon Peter sang. You're in a wash my feet and he's resisting what Jesus is wanting to do in his life. And she just looks at him and says, what I am doing, you don't understand now, but afterward, you will understand. And there was a moment. I was a year plus ago, and I was walking through something in an older brother in Christ, I passed her for decades who I respect deeply. I was sharing with him some of the struggles that I was walking through and he looked at me and he just quoted this verse and he said, David, you don't understand now what God is doing. But afterward, one day, you will understand. I was talking to another pastor friend later that exact same day who said something very similar. He'd been studying heaven and he said David I just don't think based on what the Bible teaches about who God is, what heaven is like, that we're going to get there one day and God's going to say to us, you know that trial, that difficulty, that challenge you walk through. Yeah, I don't know what that was about. No. And one day, we're going to understand that God was working in ways we couldn't see and didn't understand. But all throughout that challenge and trial, he was faithful, and he was wise. He was loving toward you.
Evangelism on SermonAudio
"verse 7" Discussed on Evangelism on SermonAudio
"But the Corinthians were known not only to be lustful, but to be prideful. It was a lead culture that they were living in. But there was a lot of pride that inquiring. They prodded themselves and their wisdom and their knowledge and their rhetoric, and their speaking abilities, and this pride in the culture had seeped into the church, causing believers to glory and men rather than in Christ. You know, if you look in chapter one in verse 5, we can see that God bless this church. How did he bless this church? It says that with all utterance, they were enriched by him in all utterance. And in all knowledge, God had given them a lot of knowledge, God had blessed them acknowledged, God had blessed them with utterance with being able to speak, but rather than seeing these gifts for what they were, they begin to take pride in them as if they were not a gift from God. You know, I want to just look at chapter four 7. He says this in chapter four verse 7 for who might get to eat a different from another. And what hast thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst
Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"verse 7" Discussed on Discerning Hearts - Catholic Podcasts
"The power of the cross Tuesday of the first week of lent. The cross of Christ teaches us how to pray. Ask. How can my prayer better reflect what is going on in my life at this present moment? Seek. Try praying for an extended period of time in the orens position. Ask our lord to teach you this lesson from the cross. So that your prayer might always be heartfelt. Knock. Meditate on hebrews, chapter 5 verse 7. During his life on earth, he offered up prayer in entry. Allowed and in silent years to the one who had the power to save him out of death. And he submitted so humbly that his prayer was heard. How might your prayer become more like the prayer of Christ? Transform your life. Foster a sense of God's presence before you begin any prayer. Speak to God from your heart, then listen. God is the most important being with whom you will ever speak.
Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"verse 7" Discussed on Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life
"And here's the first principle. Verse 7 servo heartedly as serving the lord. I know the English says serve wholeheartedly as if you were serving the lord. But actually in the Greek, it says serve wholeheartedly when you're serving your masters when you're at work when you're working for your boss, it's actually working for the lord. All work is a calling. All work is a calling from the lord, all work serves the lord. Now, a little background again. I told you, perhaps, did I just say something about this, that many Greek and Roman writers wrote household codes. That is, codes of conduct for spouses for husbands and wives for masters and servants for parents and children, household codes. And that's what Paul is doing here. He actually has them in ephesians. He has them in first in Timothy. He has them in colossians. They're very well known. But what the commentators will tell you is that most when the Greek and Roman people addressed members of the household, they didn't even they didn't even talk to the slaves. They addressed the masters. What's amazing here is Paul addresses the slaves in fact, he addresses them first. In fact, he talks to them more than he talks to the masters. He's treating them with dignity. He's treating them as if they were responsible agents. See, the other writers said, well, what have you talked to slaves? If you want to regulate what happens in the household, you talk to the masters because the slaves just do what you're told. That's not how Paul sees it. Paul treats the slaves with dignity by even addressing them. Secondly, look at what he says to the masters. Do you realize how revolutionary this was? He says, and masters treat your slaves in the same way in the same way, what do you mean the same way? Do you know what that means? Almost commentators go crazy at that because you got the same way as what? And you go back up into the verses before and what he's trying to say with fear and perspective. You must respect them more than that. He says, do not threaten them. You know, the Roman, the great Roman writer, Seneca, said, always treat your slaves as enemies. That's all they know, power, fear, always treat your slaves as enemies. And Paul says, if you're a master and you're a Christian, don't you dare.
The Way (Audio Podcast)
"verse 7" Discussed on The Way (Audio Podcast)
"It wasn't just a little bit of water. It wasn't a speck. On one of what we would call one of our oceans that nobody would have picked up. His whole presence was over the earth. Holy Spirit is huge. And we can't possibly put our mind around him entirely, but he does give us many clues to go by, and this is what we're going to dig into today. Absolutely. And so let's go ahead and we'll go ahead and take a look at a verse that we're mentioning now just so we can understand it later, but it's in genesis chapter two verse 7 and it says the lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living being. So well, we want to lay out here is that the term ruak elohim that was used in the first verse in the Bible is not the same term used here in chapter two verse 7 where he says he breathed life into man. So obviously, God is the life giving power of all things a loving creator is Holy Spirit is a part of sustaining that and moving that forward. But here we see a term that's used Nash ama in the Hebrew and it means spirit of man or the soul of a man. And so we see God breathing. So yes, he probably breathed Holy Spirit or something like it, but it was something very unique that was different than the roux hoka dash or the ruach elohim that hovered over the waters because what was hovering over the waters definitely was not in the soul of man, I think. Right, right. This is different from being filled with the Holy Spirit. Absolutely. It's his spirit fills all of earth, and it says it right from the very beginning of time. If he's all earth and he gives life to all people, then he is even inhabiting those who do not know him and do not accept the lord God. Literally keeps us all alive and keeps us going. And so absolutely. The act of being filled with the Holy Spirit must be very different. Tangibly different than having him actually fill the earth and actually keep your body alive. Keep that keep people going. Absolutely. So all mankind got the right. We all have a soul. We all have a soul and God breathe that into us. And so everyone that is alive was created by God through the neshama. It doesn't mean that everyone who's alive is a children of God that has the ruach Ho kadesh. Right. And so that's a real important thing to remember there, but that's an indication of the grace of God. That's right. And when he feels you with his Holy Spirit, that's a spirit thing. All right, 'cause we are body soul and spirit. We were distinct different things. So there's a distinction there to keep in mind as we go on. Everyone has a national maw, but only the believers in Jesus have the ruach elohim. There you go. The power of the Holy Spirit. And we're going to talk about that and that role that place because it isn't just, I feel warm and fuzzy. Yes, the Holy Spirit will give you feelings that you will not feel otherwise because the spirit of God is in you moving your heart, convicting your soul and working with the insides of you as you move forward as a believer. That's right. He never sleeps. He never slumbers. He is always on the job. He's not on the no vacation. He's not interested in that because it's too important. Heaven and hell ride on everything he does. Absolutely. I love that..
The Burt (Not Ernie) Show
"verse 7" Discussed on The Burt (Not Ernie) Show
"Don't worry your life away don't wish your life away Don't let your not so great thoughts. Turn your emotions this way and that way hither and yon any piece any longer. No don't do that live your life and don't work your life. Don't work your life either. Some of us run from being still in his presence and waiting patiently on him trusting employees. We run from by working and working and working more. You are to live your life not to work your life. I think you know what i'm getting at there. if you have workaholic tendencies if you are the typical pull yourself up by your bootstraps kind of american. Even though maybe as christians we don't wanna be kinda can be. You know what i'm saying. You know what i'm saying. Are you living your life. Are you working your life. That's kind of my question for you today. Are you living in are working at. Are you living or controlling. Are you doing constant damage control. God does not need you to run interference for him. That's a news flash for some people. God does not need you to run interference for him. He's got it he's got it. What is it that you need to apply this to today. Whatever it might be. God has it. He's got it verse eight well. They're actually exclamation point to use tear. As i mentioned earlier so i think we need to take these words seriously. God is speaking to us. That's why the exclamation points are there but are we willing to really listen to hear him. Stop being angry exclamation point. Turn from your age exclamation point. I don't really need to expand on those statements. Right i mean. Are you angry. stop. It says the lord. Are you dealing with rage turned from it says the lord and then the last part of verse eight says do not lose your temper. It only leads to harm and remember. This is the new living translation. Other translations might say. Do not fred it only leads to evil also very true but in this case looking at do not lose your temper at only leads to harm fret. We can determine as worrying. Lose your temper. We know when we're losing our temper. We can excuse away that fretting and worrying because it's internal and other people don't see it when you lose your temper people see it and it leads to harm. You're reading it only leads to evil. That's super important to know your when you lose your.
The Burt (Not Ernie) Show
"verse 7" Discussed on The Burt (Not Ernie) Show
"For you may the lord help you to really fully here and receive. What he wants to sadio okay. The holy spirit wants to guide you direct you and give you a healthy way of thinking where your thoughts go your emotions. Also go in. If you're thinking in your emotions are going the same direction again and again and again. That's where your health is going to go if you're struggling with some health issues Maybe pray about this. And i'm talking about like stress related type of things you know. We can have back pain. We can have a stomach problems. We can have chronic headaches. We can have that tightness in her shoulders and neck. There's a lot of stress related health issues that it's just because it's not like i don't know like cancer diagnosis or something. It's still your health right. So don't ever shove it aside and say well. It's not that big a deal because it's not like a fatal diagnosis. It's not like you know i fell. Of course i hit my head. And now i went blind or something. It's it's still ridiculously important. And i say ridiculously because sometimes we marginalize things That are so important to the lord. He doesn't look at any of his children in. Say this one. I really care about their health problems with this one. It's just stress related. And so i don't care or care less you know not not like i could care less. Like he cares less than he cares about. Somebody else know he cares about all of his children. He loves us all fiercely and He equally you know. His love can't be given more to one child than to another. So i want you to recognize that your health may be going the direction of your thinking in your emotions And then the way you're thinking goes the way your emotions go the state of your health. Your physical emotional and relational health. Those are all things that are involved in your health. Yes your physical health but your emotional health how you doing emotionally how you feel emotionally relationship. How your relationships are they healthy or he just trying to keep it together argue the only deal on a surface level because if you do a deep dive..