The Sermon God's Character by David McGee
Oct 24, 2010
God's Character (32:20)
Referenced Scriptures: Psalm 143:1-10
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Psalm 143:1-10
1) Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.
2) Don‘t enter into judgment with your servant, For in your sight no man living is righteous.
3) For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
4) Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.
5) I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.
6) I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.
7) Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don‘t hide your face from me, So that I don‘t become like those who go down into the pit.
8) Cause me to hear your lovingkindness in the morning, For I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to you.
9) Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
10) Teach me to do your will, For you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.
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Turn your Bible Psalm one forty three and were specially malignant verse ten with Psalm one forty three beginning at verse one. The theme of this prayer is a prayer in the midst of hopelessness and depression, and in the introduction says that our prayer should fit into what we know is consistent with God 's character, God 's plan and when I what I think of our relationship with God. I am one hours like to think of it in the context of God 's character. Most of the time. You know the fleet. We know characters right seated by one and we know character, but in what is God 's character, what is God really like in most of the time we have a distorted image of God and of his character, because we tried it. We try to understand who understand God within the context of who we are and within the context of a human character, but whatever we whenever we look at the Scriptures, and we find the character of God. No, it be like asking asking you have had you forget. Have you ever had a bad plot of. Just wondering. I wasn't quite sure if you were God or not, have you ever had a bad plot, then the answer is yes. Well, guess what God has never had a bad thought about you never know what so you see, just, just the idea of father forgiving God. God knows all understands that it is one of my mind. God knows all this says that I never go to commit in my life the future and come back to this moment and logs me through. I am now in your new how bad somebody would want to trade you for their entire life and come back to this moment and you say you love me if I love you what you do to me in the future geologist to say to me, and I suddenly remember everything that happened in the past about none of those here in short, but the ideas near cell after remembering you know all the bad things would have a hard time letting go of the bad things that happen in our life together imagine knowing all of the bad things going on the future bad things and coming to this moment and saying honey, I love you. You like fellow is what I want time with her will. God doesn't so understanding the character of God is so important in understanding the character of God, because in understanding the character of God. We then begin to formulate our thoughts about God, and formulate our thoughts about who he is and what he is and how he works and how that I did yet but but we we we we have to have a formed formulae like I can imagine God when that's right. You can't imagine because that you can't weekend. That's why we have to use the Scriptures so when David is writing this all he's writing it from the context of the character of God. I saw someone forty three verse one and region free to verse ten, old Lord, hear my prayer list into my cry for mercy in your faithfulness in righteousness come to my relief to bring your sermon into judgment for no one living is righteous before you the enemy pursues me. He crosses me to the ground. He makes me dwell in darkness, like those long day so my spirit grows faint within me. My heart within me, as this may I remember the days of long ago I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done. I spread out my hands to you, my soul thirst for you like a parched land. Answer me quickly, a Lord, my spirit mail do not hide your face from me or I won't be like those who go down to the pit, but the morning, bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you shortly. The way that I should go for to you. I will lift up my soul rescue me from mine enemies, old Lord, for I hide myself and you teach me to do your will for you are my God, and may your good spirit lead me on level ground verse ten. Teach me to do your will teach me to do your will is something how that if you are going to school you are going there to be taught. You have instructors, teachers are that are hopefully skilled in their profession and are able to teach you about the new class. The subjects or whatever it may be that you're taking what about the will of God. What about the purpose of God, and how that God wants to teach us about being raised the mean like him now. We would think what I'm becoming how many possibilities on their doing good how many possibilities, either of doing good suit can you imagine God writing a book from the perspective. These are all the good things I want you to do, but in an and in reality we know that these conflict that and he has said, I've given you ten Commandments. I given you ten Commandments, the Commandments are to protect and provide for you and we know that for them deal with our relationship with God and sixty with our relationship with people. If you locate these base, if you will keep from doing these basic ten things wrong, he will keep from telling them your protect yourself when you will set yourself free to do all the limitless joy that you can do in your life is now sometimes I would look at it will give me a list of what you want me to do while when we think about loving and caring for someone and doing good for them. How much possibilities, either the possibilities of doing good for people aren't limitless. But we noticed that to do evil comes down to just a few basic principles if we if we stay away from them. We don't do them to hurt ourselves and the hurt others. Now in Proverbs chapter six verses sixteen to nineteen. It says there are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him. Hockey eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet I went to Washington to evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among his brothers and pretty straightforward and simple is that a problem with that, here are hockey eyes a problem and I was and I was. I was looking at this again, I'm not going to spend a lot of time is a long page. We do your will of God will. How is it that God is teaching us to do as well, and you're talking about these negative things while you see the will of God is so limitless and and that the possibilities are so great that there is no way I can even touched the scale of where we should go in this, but yet if we would just look at a few things in our life and stay away from them. We will find a way of just opening up endless possibilities. There was endless possibilities of what we can become envious. This seven things of God. God hates there all about lying, so please stay away from first before he was vital to talk about adult learners adult life. Ill come from pride. Pride is a of a false concept of visit. He let your waiting time. Pride is alive so unreal in the false pride is an unrealistic self appraisal basically lying to ourselves that, of course there is lying itself a lying tongue. I may need a definition of that. Then things up. I is the third one is hands that shed in what wine about now. The line about somebody's involvement or whatever so that you become angry at them aloud about a heart that devises wicked imagination. Lying thoughts. We want to do evil whine about the desires lies against another false witness, gossiping in the seventh, eight, a sow discord among the brother. So if you look at these things, what they do is they destroy relationships, and they destroy how that we can feel joined and connected the body of Christ is connected with would someone like to come up here in Liverpool on your arms -year-old tried to dislocate them, but I'm a volunteer State and not know why we do a thing like that. Well, how many ways in gossip and in line with these libertarian people apart whatever we just member someone are left with pieces and whenever you are left with pieces you generally dully Rinaldo back together sell the house that the constant fear that God is saying is that you stay away from a few of these basic principles and use that away from them and you will find yourself lenity and all-knowing, and for God to teach us his will. The Bible says you shall know the truth and what will happen whenever you know the truth will set you free. Then the opposite him, whining is binding Jeremy people to lie so much that on all the lies they told last in all they lie so much that they have to live to tell another cover-up the lie that they forgot that they call. I said this one individual, a new him very much truth and have a good story. They can recommend story on anything. There had to be very little, if not for them. The whole thing is needed to make up a story and it would sound while it's pretty good, but in our life if we know the truth of the truth of God 's word and what is the character of God, the love of God. The purpose of God, and we put that foremost in our life and we put in front of us and it's from that reservoir of who God is in his character, we begin to build our life. Teach me to do your will of God. And why would God teach us to be like him if there was something negative evil or wrong in his character. We won one in the wake that we would want become like that, so God 's will. God himself. His character is such that he desires only the best for us. He desires to separate us from our failures in our false forgiveness of our sins, he desires to separate us from the walls so that we can tap onto the very truth of our own purpose in our life so that we can become the person that God created us to be. And I and I say this a lot, but trying to get me to remember is that while we were yet the provinces while you are yet in your mother 's womb, God knew you informed you, people, and everything that was necessary for your success. Success in you. Now we have to tap them. The idea that we come along with our limited thinking and we say, while success and see what would problem is how do you define success find success from your own perspective, God 's perspective of success is that he created us for a very special part in his body and every one of us have a part in God 's body and that we are to be successful in carrying that out in a few New York a few fulfill. I fulfill my purpose God has a reward for us, will reward us. Why, because I have completed the purpose. Paul said, I finished the course, I've kept the faith. It's okay for me to go home now. So God has a purpose God 's purpose God 's will applies to every one of us. God has a will for every one of us and God has a plan for every one of us. Now I'm working on. This is the class. This class last euro. I know neither that would want to be a teacher, I would be in jail if I were a teacher, it is said that they would have arrested me and thrown away the key for child abuse that I think it was the layout. My purpose was not. I like to teach, but I think I like to teach kids I guess I got into how much I been in a classroom setting weekend. They can come forward and say that a lot all the various link is that Lucas was Lucas that when IBM and then he always knows when to come forward to sailing all churches over so I lastly think the words I have a purpose, Ray. I have a right I have a purpose. Do you believe in high tab. The purpose J Dwyer, Bridget inquire their gamma purpose the purpose do you believe you have a purpose. You sound like it did in the purpose better. But I say I have a purpose. Why, while allowing all I do. You told me I didn't do what you have a purpose, begin when I have a purpose because God breathed into us the breath of life. And we became a living soul figures out of Sunday school lesson in our Sunday school lessons when we talked about how that the whole Holy Spirit is is is is active in and out regarding the series on the Holy Spirit that will in creation. God created us and he breathed into us the breath of life. We became a living soul, our spirit given spirit spirit that now, when the spirit of God comes into our lives. It is a perfect match. It's a perfect fit because it matches the spirit that God created. And so whenever you combine the creativity of God, and the creative spirit of God that formulated us from the very beginning placed all the stuff inside of us that we need and that comes together with this paragraph if something goes wrong. The Bible says that his spirit will bear witness with our spirit that we are the sons of God they were children of God, God will make it real to us in our hearts this is really true. This is why this is life where I live, or whether I die belong to God, my sins are forgiven because I asked God to forgive me live within my heart see this matches. This is where the perfect match cups. But if we don't understand the character of God got a few things canceled on him are trying to force God into a mall that God isn't and that's why we understand the character of God, and the purpose of God. We put that together with who we are as an individual in our spirit and know that truth. It matches its rhetoric doesn't match is generally where the want to have a closed spirit to God spirit because we think will that's not what God is like, we don't understand the character of God, according to Scripture teach me to do your will teach me to know your will of God, teach me to know your will. We have a divine instructor limited by the instructor who knows exactly how you tick knows exactly how you think he knows exactly where you've come from how you got here in the great thing is, he knows where were going. He wants to prepare us, wants to prepare our spirit so that we can see that creative individuals that we can ignite. That's the bad DNA that those things going on in our brains and our heart, then, that can ignite all about the sentence of the uniqueness of his spirit, and that we find our special purpose that special that uniqueness right here. You are special. I'm in Berlin, David and Rachel were younger. While they were in college and in college so that younger you rituals in college. They were GCC noses storable using for the sister gives me straight on. So anyhow Rachels in college and wanted David Franks comes up to him, Rachel 's no no you to see Rachel for a little bit, but you know, she was always this vivacious, happy cheerleader personality it out, so she wasn't as the cheerleader in a cheerleading. She was just your leader and whenever she was working with special needs kids, she's their cheerleader because she's in all the stuff. So anyhow, since her know she did for me Jesus you know that there are enthusiastic that government is still under on Chili's too long. I saw anyhow, one night, one of David's friends comes up through two in one day and goes David is your sister special, but she's very special drums, not wanted special that you notice he was not altogether up there because you are the only black and, but it'll but what happens whatever the uniqueness of who we are smashed with the uniqueness of God 's Spirit cutting our lives. It ignites inside a mosque that person that we were created to be. I believe that Christians should be the most creativity will, because the creative spirit of God matches spirit inside and not uniqueness a nice what God has given us light of hiring off of the things in our brain electrodes while I stopped taking things gives all connected it all makes sense. We never seen a picture that nobody else sees because of the unique insight and you see that eagle backed on the will of God for our own plan for our wide Bible says in all things give thanks at the heart of all things give thanks visible of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. That's a difficult, how is it that we can give thanks because there is a uniqueness, apples of gold in settings of silver. There is a wisdom that comes to our life Paul in prison. Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice. There is the uniqueness of security it comes to wireless in the difficult places of life. There is a guilty community or will of God, teach me to do your will. How is God going to teach us if were not connected. What happens to a teacher who is not connected to their students. Just a lot of information and the student is left to process it and put it in their and their button whenever we look at our relationship with Christ. There is a connectedness that comes on why because Jesus was willing to die for us while we were yet his enemies while we were yet estranged from him while we were without hope and and lots didn't dive frosty loves us. He called us you do not choose me, the Scriptures as iTunes, iCal, you know, I called you I enjoy formula I formed you in your eight -year-old in the mother 's moment. I know you are I know exactly who you are on the inside and actually what you can become, and I love you for being you. I love you for being you. You have to be anybody else. Just, you that's the spirit of God connecting with our spirit that we are one with God, and that we will be one for eternity. And it's begun already begun. Now teach me to do your will, O God, teach me to understand and teach me to to understand your work to pray I don't pray as Christians we don't pray is someone directing God, we pray has someone connected to God and his Word comes to give us life and we are inspired by that word to pray for special needs in our life and nothing is selfish, but has to do with you. If your children come to you with it. Now, the Scripture says, if your child comes and asked for a piece of bread you go to get my scorpion are spelled out. While human beings are only know how to give good thing was your children, how much more so the drama with father know how to give give good gifts to those our hands. How much more so does God know how to give good into our lives so therefore whatever we ask for in a selfish guess what the note with women to be able to when asked why, because my father doesn't mind me talking to him. My father once did teach me about his will. My father wants to teach me about my purpose. My father loves me so much he can take his eyes off me. My father loves me more than I can ever match why because that's his character 's just two years. What if you want in return. Only my good what you want out of me only my best casinos was created for, and he knows that I will find my greatest happiness in fulfilling his will for my life. He knows that my greatest moments of fulfillment will come as a person when I'm connected to him. His word is life God has a plan. I have a purpose. While we say that I have a purpose again. The reason for that is, were connected to the one who breathe life into us and made us a little and then knowingly breach my sermon, I got the page to see that's where again is just the idea of a God has a purpose for us and we don't realize that purpose until were connected and when were connected. God has a way of working it into our lives. Teach me to do your will, O God, teach me to do, and that's why must know the character of the one that is teaching because I have a distorted view of the character of God. I will have a distorted view of what he's trying to tell me. That's why we cannot make God after our image. We are making allowing God to be by his word created after his own image, and his spirit in comes together to teach us his ways. The Bible says my ways are higher than your ways. My thoughts are higher than your thoughts high heavens are Bob Uris are my thoughts higher than your thoughts and your ways my ways in your ways. There is no way that we can attain unto that. But John is, what for to give us his life, and to inspire those thoughts in our hearts. Although we can so we can. Alameda. We are angry that we can get out of this where Barak and continue to grow in our personal growth and development. When lovely avarice Raleigh never really ever stop learning never win while I know it all, you do you already quit your already done that. I already know. Et al., JAMA 's life, but were all in a process of growth and development, and we will never stop growing. We will never stop maturing, we will never stop becoming the person that God wants us to be and will and every life experience. Every year, every no thing will come and teach us something different and will see it differently and only rough leptin rearranged, but that spirit that is connected and lost will always be our anchor and will always be our hope. Christ is a solid block upon which I stand and that security in that strength of that purpose of God in my life. Why will not be shaken. One story unfolds with the story about a sailor was use of this back in the old days with the sales on sailors and sales on both think it was his first first time out at sea, and when they came in counter to store, he was sent up the mast to trim the sale as he's going up the mask he loses his confidence and he begins to look down on us and on older sailor is watching him and says don't look down always look up because then you will gain your perspective and not lose your balance always look up because sometimes we begin to see the shaking of life in the storms. But as we look at when the sense of where we're going as were always as we are as we approach the sun. We never are caught in the shadow, Jesus Christ the son of righteousness will never abandon us to the shadows of lifeTurn your Bible Psalm one forty three and were specially malignant verse ten with Psalm one forty three beginning at verse one. The theme of this prayer is a prayer in the midst of hopelessness and depression, and in the introduction says that our prayer should fit into what we know is consistent with God 's character, God 's plan and when I what I think of our relationship with God. I am one hours like to think of it in the context of God 's character. Most of the time. You know the fleet. We know characters right seated by one and we know character, but in what is God 's character, what is God really like in most of the time we have a distorted image of God and of his character, because we tried it. We try to understand who understand God within the context of who we are and within the context of a human character, but whatever we whenever we look at the Scriptures, and we find the character of God. No, it be like asking asking you have had you forget. Have you ever had a bad plot of. Just wondering. I wasn't quite sure if you were God or not, have you ever had a bad plot, then the answer is yes. Well, guess what God has never had a bad thought about you never know what so you see, just, just the idea of father forgiving God. God knows all understands that it is one of my mind. God knows all this says that I never go to commit in my life the future and come back to this moment and logs me through. I am now in your new how bad somebody would want to trade you for their entire life and come back to this moment and you say you love me if I love you what you do to me in the future geologist to say to me, and I suddenly remember everything that happened in the past about none of those here in short, but the ideas near cell after remembering you know all the bad things would have a hard time letting go of the bad things that happen in our life together imagine knowing all of the bad things going on the future bad things and coming to this moment and saying honey, I love you. You like fellow is what I want time with her will. God doesn't so understanding the character of God is so important in understanding the character of God, because in understanding the character of God. We then begin to formulate our thoughts about God, and formulate our thoughts about who he is and what he is and how he works and how that I did yet but but we we we we have to have a formed formulae like I can imagine God when that's right. You can't imagine because that you can't weekend. That's why we have to use the Scriptures so when David is writing this all he's writing it from the context of the character of God. I saw someone forty three verse one and region free to verse ten, old Lord, hear my prayer list into my cry for mercy in your faithfulness in righteousness come to my relief to bring your sermon into judgment for no one living is righteous before you the enemy pursues me. He crosses me to the ground. He makes me dwell in darkness, like those long day so my spirit grows faint within me. My heart within me, as this may I remember the days of long ago I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done. I spread out my hands to you, my soul thirst for you like a parched land. Answer me quickly, a Lord, my spirit mail do not hide your face from me or I won't be like those who go down to the pit, but the morning, bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you shortly. The way that I should go for to you. I will lift up my soul rescue me from mine enemies, old Lord, for I hide myself and you teach me to do your will for you are my God, and may your good spirit lead me on level ground verse ten. Teach me to do your will teach me to do your will is something how that if you are going to school you are going there to be taught. You have instructors, teachers are that are hopefully skilled in their profession and are able to teach you about the new class. The subjects or whatever it may be that you're taking what about the will of God. What about the purpose of God, and how that God wants to teach us about being raised the mean like him now. We would think what I'm becoming how many possibilities on their doing good how many possibilities, either of doing good suit can you imagine God writing a book from the perspective. These are all the good things I want you to do, but in an and in reality we know that these conflict that and he has said, I've given you ten Commandments. I given you ten Commandments, the Commandments are to protect and provide for you and we know that for them deal with our relationship with God and sixty with our relationship with people. If you locate these base, if you will keep from doing these basic ten things wrong, he will keep from telling them your protect yourself when you will set yourself free to do all the limitless joy that you can do in your life is now sometimes I would look at it will give me a list of what you want me to do while when we think about loving and caring for someone and doing good for them. How much possibilities, either the possibilities of doing good for people aren't limitless. But we noticed that to do evil comes down to just a few basic principles if we if we stay away from them. We don't do them to hurt ourselves and the hurt others. Now in Proverbs chapter six verses sixteen to nineteen. It says there are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him. Hockey eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet I went to Washington to evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among his brothers and pretty straightforward and simple is that a problem with that, here are hockey eyes a problem and I was and I was. I was looking at this again, I'm not going to spend a lot of time is a long page. We do your will of God will. How is it that God is teaching us to do as well, and you're talking about these negative things while you see the will of God is so limitless and and that the possibilities are so great that there is no way I can even touched the scale of where we should go in this, but yet if we would just look at a few things in our life and stay away from them. We will find a way of just opening up endless possibilities. There was endless possibilities of what we can become envious. This seven things of God. God hates there all about lying, so please stay away from first before he was vital to talk about adult learners adult life. Ill come from pride. Pride is a of a false concept of visit. He let your waiting time. Pride is alive so unreal in the false pride is an unrealistic self appraisal basically lying to ourselves that, of course there is lying itself a lying tongue. I may need a definition of that. Then things up. I is the third one is hands that shed in what wine about now. The line about somebody's involvement or whatever so that you become angry at them aloud about a heart that devises wicked imagination. Lying thoughts. We want to do evil whine about the desires lies against another false witness, gossiping in the seventh, eight, a sow discord among the brother. So if you look at these things, what they do is they destroy relationships, and they destroy how that we can feel joined and connected the body of Christ is connected with would someone like to come up here in Liverpool on your arms -year-old tried to dislocate them, but I'm a volunteer State and not know why we do a thing like that. Well, how many ways in gossip and in line with these libertarian people apart whatever we just member someone are left with pieces and whenever you are left with pieces you generally dully Rinaldo back together sell the house that the constant fear that God is saying is that you stay away from a few of these basic principles and use that away from them and you will find yourself lenity and all-knowing, and for God to teach us his will. The Bible says you shall know the truth and what will happen whenever you know the truth will set you free. Then the opposite him, whining is binding Jeremy people to lie so much that on all the lies they told last in all they lie so much that they have to live to tell another cover-up the lie that they forgot that they call. I said this one individual, a new him very much truth and have a good story. They can recommend story on anything. There had to be very little, if not for them. The whole thing is needed to make up a story and it would sound while it's pretty good, but in our life if we know the truth of the truth of God 's word and what is the character of God, the love of God. The purpose of God, and we put that foremost in our life and we put in front of us and it's from that reservoir of who God is in his character, we begin to build our life. Teach me to do your will of God. And why would God teach us to be like him if there was something negative evil or wrong in his character. We won one in the wake that we would want become like that, so God 's will. God himself. His character is such that he desires only the best for us. He desires to separate us from our failures in our false forgiveness of our sins, he desires to separate us from the walls so that we can tap onto the very truth of our own purpose in our life so that we can become the person that God created us to be. And I and I say this a lot, but trying to get me to remember is that while we were yet the provinces while you are yet in your mother 's womb, God knew you informed you, people, and everything that was necessary for your success. Success in you. Now we have to tap them. The idea that we come along with our limited thinking and we say, while success and see what would problem is how do you define success find success from your own perspective, God 's perspective of success is that he created us for a very special part in his body and every one of us have a part in God 's body and that we are to be successful in carrying that out in a few New York a few fulfill. I fulfill my purpose God has a reward for us, will reward us. Why, because I have completed the purpose. Paul said, I finished the course, I've kept the faith. It's okay for me to go home now. So God has a purpose God 's purpose God 's will applies to every one of us. God has a will for every one of us and God has a plan for every one of us. Now I'm working on. This is the class. This class last euro. I know neither that would want to be a teacher, I would be in jail if I were a teacher, it is said that they would have arrested me and thrown away the key for child abuse that I think it was the layout. My purpose was not. I like to teach, but I think I like to teach kids I guess I got into how much I been in a classroom setting weekend. They can come forward and say that a lot all the various link is that Lucas was Lucas that when IBM and then he always knows when to come forward to sailing all churches over so I lastly think the words I have a purpose, Ray. I have a right I have a purpose. Do you believe in high tab. The purpose J Dwyer, Bridget inquire their gamma purpose the purpose do you believe you have a purpose. You sound like it did in the purpose better. But I say I have a purpose. Why, while allowing all I do. You told me I didn't do what you have a purpose, begin when I have a purpose because God breathed into us the breath of life. And we became a living soul figures out of Sunday school lesson in our Sunday school lessons when we talked about how that the whole Holy Spirit is is is is active in and out regarding the series on the Holy Spirit that will in creation. God created us and he breathed into us the breath of life. We became a living soul, our spirit given spirit spirit that now, when the spirit of God comes into our lives. It is a perfect match. It's a perfect fit because it matches the spirit that God created. And so whenever you combine the creativity of God, and the creative spirit of God that formulated us from the very beginning placed all the stuff inside of us that we need and that comes together with this paragraph if something goes wrong. The Bible says that his spirit will bear witness with our spirit that we are the sons of God they were children of God, God will make it real to us in our hearts this is really true. This is why this is life where I live, or whether I die belong to God, my sins are forgiven because I asked God to forgive me live within my heart see this matches. This is where the perfect match cups. But if we don't understand the character of God got a few things canceled on him are trying to force God into a mall that God isn't and that's why we understand the character of God, and the purpose of God. We put that together with who we are as an individual in our spirit and know that truth. It matches its rhetoric doesn't match is generally where the want to have a closed spirit to God spirit because we think will that's not what God is like, we don't understand the character of God, according to Scripture teach me to do your will teach me to know your will of God, teach me to know your will. We have a divine instructor limited by the instructor who knows exactly how you tick knows exactly how you think he knows exactly where you've come from how you got here in the great thing is, he knows where were going. He wants to prepare us, wants to prepare our spirit so that we can see that creative individuals that we can ignite. That's the bad DNA that those things going on in our brains and our heart, then, that can ignite all about the sentence of the uniqueness of his spirit, and that we find our special purpose that special that uniqueness right here. You are special. I'm in Berlin, David and Rachel were younger. While they were in college and in college so that younger you rituals in college. They were GCC noses storable using for the sister gives me straight on. So anyhow Rachels in college and wanted David Franks comes up to him, Rachel 's no no you to see Rachel for a little bit, but you know, she was always this vivacious, happy cheerleader personality it out, so she wasn't as the cheerleader in a cheerleading. She was just your leader and whenever she was working with special needs kids, she's their cheerleader because she's in all the stuff. So anyhow, since her know she did for me Jesus you know that there are enthusiastic that government is still under on Chili's too long. I saw anyhow, one night, one of David's friends comes up through two in one day and goes David is your sister special, but she's very special drums, not wanted special that you notice he was not altogether up there because you are the only black and, but it'll but what happens whatever the uniqueness of who we are smashed with the uniqueness of God 's Spirit cutting our lives. It ignites inside a mosque that person that we were created to be. I believe that Christians should be the most creativity will, because the creative spirit of God matches spirit inside and not uniqueness a nice what God has given us light of hiring off of the things in our brain electrodes while I stopped taking things gives all connected it all makes sense. We never seen a picture that nobody else sees because of the unique insight and you see that eagle backed on the will of God for our own plan for our wide Bible says in all things give thanks at the heart of all things give thanks visible of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. That's a difficult, how is it that we can give thanks because there is a uniqueness, apples of gold in settings of silver. There is a wisdom that comes to our life Paul in prison. Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say, rejoice. There is the uniqueness of security it comes to wireless in the difficult places of life. There is a guilty community or will of God, teach me to do your will. How is God going to teach us if were not connected. What happens to a teacher who is not connected to their students. Just a lot of information and the student is left to process it and put it in their and their button whenever we look at our relationship with Christ. There is a connectedness that comes on why because Jesus was willing to die for us while we were yet his enemies while we were yet estranged from him while we were without hope and and lots didn't dive frosty loves us. He called us you do not choose me, the Scriptures as iTunes, iCal, you know, I called you I enjoy formula I formed you in your eight -year-old in the mother 's moment. I know you are I know exactly who you are on the inside and actually what you can become, and I love you for being you. I love you for being you. You have to be anybody else. Just, you that's the spirit of God connecting with our spirit that we are one with God, and that we will be one for eternity. And it's begun already begun. Now teach me to do your will, O God, teach me to understand and teach me to to understand your work to pray I don't pray as Christians we don't pray is someone directing God, we pray has someone connected to God and his Word comes to give us life and we are inspired by that word to pray for special needs in our life and nothing is selfish, but has to do with you. If your children come to you with it. Now, the Scripture says, if your child comes and asked for a piece of bread you go to get my scorpion are spelled out. While human beings are only know how to give good thing was your children, how much more so the drama with father know how to give give good gifts to those our hands. How much more so does God know how to give good into our lives so therefore whatever we ask for in a selfish guess what the note with women to be able to when asked why, because my father doesn't mind me talking to him. My father once did teach me about his will. My father wants to teach me about my purpose. My father loves me so much he can take his eyes off me. My father loves me more than I can ever match why because that's his character 's just two years. What if you want in return. Only my good what you want out of me only my best casinos was created for, and he knows that I will find my greatest happiness in fulfilling his will for my life. He knows that my greatest moments of fulfillment will come as a person when I'm connected to him. His word is life God has a plan. I have a purpose. While we say that I have a purpose again. The reason for that is, were connected to the one who breathe life into us and made us a little and then knowingly breach my sermon, I got the page to see that's where again is just the idea of a God has a purpose for us and we don't realize that purpose until were connected and when were connected. God has a way of working it into our lives. Teach me to do your will, O God, teach me to do, and that's why must know the character of the one that is teaching because I have a distorted view of the character of God. I will have a distorted view of what he's trying to tell me. That's why we cannot make God after our image. We are making allowing God to be by his word created after his own image, and his spirit in comes together to teach us his ways. The Bible says my ways are higher than your ways. My thoughts are higher than your thoughts high heavens are Bob Uris are my thoughts higher than your thoughts and your ways my ways in your ways. There is no way that we can attain unto that. But John is, what for to give us his life, and to inspire those thoughts in our hearts. Although we can so we can. Alameda. We are angry that we can get out of this where Barak and continue to grow in our personal growth and development. When lovely avarice Raleigh never really ever stop learning never win while I know it all, you do you already quit your already done that. I already know. Et al., JAMA 's life, but were all in a process of growth and development, and we will never stop growing. We will never stop maturing, we will never stop becoming the person that God wants us to be and will and every life experience. Every year, every no thing will come and teach us something different and will see it differently and only rough leptin rearranged, but that spirit that is connected and lost will always be our anchor and will always be our hope. Christ is a solid block upon which I stand and that security in that strength of that purpose of God in my life. Why will not be shaken. One story unfolds with the story about a sailor was use of this back in the old days with the sales on sailors and sales on both think it was his first first time out at sea, and when they came in counter to store, he was sent up the mast to trim the sale as he's going up the mask he loses his confidence and he begins to look down on us and on older sailor is watching him and says don't look down always look up because then you will gain your perspective and not lose your balance always look up because sometimes we begin to see the shaking of life in the storms. But as we look at when the sense of where we're going as were always as we are as we approach the sun. We never are caught in the shadow, Jesus Christ the son of righteousness will never abandon us to the shadows of life