The Sermon We must all travel the same distance by David McGee
Feb 13, 2011
We must all travel the same distance (29:14)
Referenced Scriptures: John 6:26-40
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John 6:26-40
26) Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.
27) Don‘t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For the Father, even God, has sealed him."
28) They said therefore to him, "What must we do, that we may work the works of God?"
29) Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
30) They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?
31) Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness. As it is written, ‘He gave them bread out of the sky to eat.‘"
32) Jesus therefore said to them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, it wasn‘t Moses who gave you the bread out of heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread out of heaven.
33) For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world."
34) They said therefore to him, "Lord, always give us this bread."
35) Jesus said to them. "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
36) But I told you that you have seen me, and yet don‘t believe.
37) All that which the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
38) For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
39) This is the will of my Father who sent me, that of all who he has given to me I should lose nothing, but should raise them up at the last day.
40) This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."
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The nearby was John chapter six. Beginning in verse twenty six John chapter six. Beginning in verse twenty six and read rumors boarding this is Anthony's. As I tell you the truth you're looking for me, not because you saw a miraculous sign because you ate the loaves and had your fill still work for food, that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you on him. God the father has placed his seal of approval. Then they asked him, and this is the universe is here versus twenty eight and twenty nine then they asked him what must we do to do the works of God, the God requires. And Jesus answered the work of God is this to believe in the one he has sent so they asked him what miraculous sign, then, will you give that we may see it and believe it. What will you do our forefathers ate the manna in the desert as it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. And Jesus said to them, I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my father. He gave you the true bread of heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world survey said from now on give us this bread. And Jesus declared, I am the bread of life issue comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you you have seen me, and still do not believe all that the father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. I have come down from heaven, not to do my will, but to do the will of him who sent me, and this is the will of him who sent me that I shall not lose that I shall lose none all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day for my father 's will is that everyone who looks to the son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. I think it's always interesting to see how Jesus is able to see through what people are saying a thing on this group of individuals that have found theater companies. To see Jesus. They they are in very a very inquisitive group, but many of them are there as we'll see, far for various reasons, but he's able always to see through what is going on. I was soundlessly misguided was the writing are saying his commentary on or his observations on a talkshow host and he said he's looking at listening to this talkshow host in the talkshow host as a guest. So there's three people here and on server a talkshow host and the guest while the talkshow host ask this woman. How do you keep a man, and the observers waiting. Why would he ask that of her. She remarried so many times she has rice marks on her face that I thought that was funny as if she has rice marks on her face that this is the only idea is that why you're sometimes we ask advice on the wrong people in were asking advised of the wrong individuals, and how can someone not see through the obvious. Well, Jesus can see through the questions that the people were presenting to him, verse twenty six says that you're not here+ you will be trained by Bob during here because of the low. Now if you could give me if you look at these verses. These individual were there because on the day before Jesus had said them know the all the five loaves and two fishes. Jesus had fed the five thousand with five flat pancakes into sardines and sold these people are very impressed, but they are following Jesus. There is around for a free meal. They have come to be satisfied in their physical and in their earthly life, but they weren't there just be satisfied in their spiritual life and Jesus tells them it's not because you're hungry spiritually that you come after me and follow me. But you are here because you think there might be some benefit to you and in the time of Jesus and even today there are those who use religion to gain their trust each other comfort for even the political gain, and generally these are self-centered motives and you can look at these individuals, and sometimes we become confused. Now we look at these individuals then you know sometimes people say that that while you know that church or whatever they are hypocrites. While I do a hypocrite is while the true meaning. The reason actor somebody who's pretending to be something not a hypocrite and this is another little joke there, so you'd be right. The laugh okay can be writing this if you are not publicized is laugh. Okay, so you okay every man needs a heckler in the crowd off. But anyhow they never created someone who complains about the violence, the promiscuous this the file language and the people and all those things that are on the movies that he watches on his own CD at home not a hypocrite to millions of movies and I saw him. I know don't quit my day job. Okay, I so life is 's a series of choices. Life is a series of choices and sometimes we complain about them, and sometimes we make fun of them. Sometimes we challenge them. As someone what did you know that winter is the geographical center of your whimpers a geographical state-of-the-art, because everything it the most is twelve thousand miles from here. Everyone of us have to travel the same distance. I do no one in Texas to you from that which is close to the Dallas of the geographical center of the earth because everything is twelve thousand miles from Dallas, Georgia were in Georgia Atlanta everything that is a rough rule said earlier everything is twelve thousand miles from Atlanta. What were saying is, everybody has to travel the same distance to get where they're going. Life is short. Everyone has to travel to say that you wanted a little bladder in taxes than it has in Georgia, and it's a little flatter Georgia than it is a waiver so some people have to go up hills and Don Mills, more than others, but it's all the same distance to where you want to go. You can pick up the guitar and I can play the guitar like Ethan. Because I've never practiced, and I haven't got a clue about music, so therefore he does not pick up any changes. It begins with practice. It begins with understanding. It begins with participation to begin medication, and we find that the hours and those are hours and hours of the Haitian turn in the something good time in the something unique with their own perspective. So each of us must travel our own distances to get where we want to go but we all must make the choice now. There are many reasons that will say we don't want to just like the hypocrites in the church. There are many people who are advocates in the church. That's why no one account. While there always a progressively annoying everybody complained about the hypocrites in the barroom. I just never hear anybody talking about you know I hang out some really big liars. The belt of the bars in all, I don't go to the barn to hear their librarian. I know people that you just talk about these people who live constantly like a word in and out while they knows that around us until a little while I edit the idea that somehow we had this perspective that we don't want to make choices were many sincere seekers of God are puzzled about what God wants them to do what is it that God wants me to do and all the religions of the world are man's attempts to answer that question. Jesus is replied to that question is very brief and simple. He says we must believe on him whom God has sent we must believe on him whom God has sent the first twenty nine, the work of God is to do this to believe in the one he has sent size satisfying God does not come from the work that we do, but satisfying God comes from who we believe it comes from, I believe the work of God is to believe the one that he is sent, the Scriptures that we read this is where no remain when Jesus gives this declaration. This is where fiber Jesus. If I were God, I would politely send lightning down the distractible that you know, because verse thirty, says Jesus said to them, I tell you the truth is not multitudes who has given you the bread from heaven, but as the father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. So they said from now on give us this bread was there's an inverse year old verse two verse thirty. That's what I want. So they ask and what miraculous sign, then we can, that we may see in it. Believe so. Jesus tells them you have to believe. Do your work is to believe the one in the essay and then they say what what oracular sign when you give us that we may believe I would question what are they doing there. They just solve the day before five thousand people, five thousand men plus women and children eating from five flat pancakes into sardines. They already had a miracle. That's why they were there and then they come up with it in Jesus as you've got to believe on the person. The godsend of anything. Can you show us the miracle can you continue to get some work some magic. Here again you show us, America will again so the week so that we normally have a right well how easy we discredit yesterday. How easily we discredit what God has done in our lives already and how do we approach our relationship with God, why all that were not hung up on hypocrisy, because if we were perhaps we would be Aaron, many I'm sure I'm not declaring God give me some kind of slide, although I wouldn't mind one off, but he already did give us one. We are sincere about the questions that we ask no God, what if things have bad things happen good people why things happen the way they do now. So what are the things that God wants us to do. Jesus answered the work. God wants you to do is to believe, on the one that did HHS and believing his Word and his relationship with us is the foundational principle of who we become. Because it's the same distance for every one of us at the same justice for everyone of us know we all have a measure of faith God has given everyone by Greg is saved through faith, not of works, lest any man should boast. Through faith through faith. Now I'm a very driven from here in Harrisburg on third-party bank on many here built the road. I know we did with taxpayers money out of paper that road. I will wait and we yell when I wrote already built and wanted Weigel if you go from here to Harrisburg to go through three tunnels. Yes, there's three of them are really close, but there's three of them, so you have to go from here to Harrisburg on the turnpike, you have to go through the tunnel while we can make those finals, but we go through them. Jesus Christ has given everyone about the measure of faith. We all have the same distance to travel, and we got not to use that faith that God has given us to take a the Reformation. When prompted for by grace you save for a Bay capture me by your grace capture me by your grace through faith. God touches our lives any as they were traveling. We are traveling a road of faith that God has already given us and we don't have to create it. We don't have to find it somewhere is already ours, because God has given to everyone. A measure of faith, and we all must travel the same distance. We all must travel the same distance to the place in our lives that will make a difference in what is it that we have to do what is that the guy wants us to do the work of God exists to believe in the one that he is sent to believe in the one that you sent to believe in Jesus and believe in what his Word tells us about our life about our hope about our future young, the public relations department of a beauty products company. This is a little story and fishing. I did make a right and somebody else. I only deal on your sometimes does not want to get lost because on the road. Sometimes I have some bypasses the neck and back, as if it saw the public relations department of the beauty products company asked its customers to send pictures along with a brief statement describing the most beautiful woman they knew thousands of letters came in one copy attention of the employer 's employees and was passed on to the president. It was written by a ploy from a broken home who lived in a rundown neighborhood with lots of spelling errors and excerpts and excerpts from this letter read beautiful woman lives down the street from me. I visit her every day. She makes me feel like the most important fit in the world. We play checkers and she listens to my problem. She understands me when I leave. She always yells out the door that she's proud of me. The boy ended his letter by saying this picture shows you that she is the most beautiful woman of the world. One day I hope to have a wife is pretty as her and trade, the president asked to see the woman's picture, the Secretary handed him a photograph of a smiling toothless woman while advanced in years, sitting in a wheelchair. Sparse gray hair was pulled back in the barn. The wrinkles that form deep furrows in her face were somehow diminished by the twinkle and crimes. We can't use this woman said the president she would show the world that our products are really necessary to be beautiful with all all. So what are the things that God wants me to do one of the things that God wants me to do much of our concepts of faith and church and religion is like the beauty company, unlike those in the Bible that need just one more sign is one more miracle we judge and we can only be judged. We are judged by performance. We have our own criteria as to what we think is of value. What is important and what is beautiful and but it it isn't posting. It is one more miracle. It's understanding the words of what Jesus said to us, and what he meant by them how do you minimize his life. How many is given us his word Word made flesh and dwelt among us, and how the descriptor impacts our lives. You see, when it comes to spiritual matters. We often want more proof, but you know the truth that we want is often a personal affirmation based upon a God within our expectations of what God should look like and if we set out and then put an article out. What does God look like when we end up with the with the boy in the picture of this woman would we end up saying that God looks like the person beside you, the people who comforted you, the people have encouraged you, the people that you see, what have we done we done the works of God. We believe in the one that God has set in. That has changed our life that when we look in the near of gods in the mirror of God 's word we see and hear a reflection of what beauty looks like we see and hear a reflection of what a godly person looks like as we look in the Scriptures we find, and we see a picture of what God looks like a disgrace of his mercy and how that affects our lives. Anything we have. We wish sometimes that once we may begin to believe in the industry says that we somehow go into another round that says I'm not good enough. So if I say there that we would create a stumbling blocks in which we don't understand God, and then we creators and once we began to understand his grace in his mercy to us you are saying when I met enough. The work that God wants you to do is this to believe I believe is a state of mind which trust which exudes confidence and his wife, the person I believe is also an attitude of the heart that gives us a perspective of ourselves and of life. We have a belief in God that he has provided salvation for us and through us in Jesus Christ. We believe in God and doing something to get Jesus to love us. His family to really understand what this belief is all about belief in Jesus as a package deal. If you believe in the one God sent you must accept his time in his terms are grace and mercy, his grace and his mercy. Religion is man's attempt to please God of grace is God 's terms for reaching down and touching us. Religion is based on doing and God 's grace is based on being doesn't matter to me but it doesn't make God love you more or less you being you belongs you for who you are is is unlimited. His love is unconditional. His longest lunch in his love is_ grace is God 's way of looking at us and telling us you can't purchase it. You can't work for it. You can't be good enough to merit it, but God is declaring everything he does for you to you in your are you every single blessing that he brings into your life is a gift is a gift from God and his gifts have brought us here, not our failures are not our sins. It is a gift that is brought to this place in our life. It is his gift of love that has brought us here where our hearts are open are minds of reset in our spirits are willing to receive him. What God has given to us with little opportunity with found opportunity in which his grace will capture our hearts and set us free to become the person that God has called us to be just as free to become that individual that doesn't have locations that doesn't have a perspective on life. The causes of the stumble and fall. It is a challenge of life that gives us an opportunity to say that God loves me gives us an opportunity to be that woman for that child that plays checkers and tells them how good that they can become somewhat less we do like one individual says what must I do to get to heaven, and the pastor says you're too late. The ideas you can't do anything to get to heaven. Jesus is already done. And all we have to at this point is believe on the one that Jesus has said that the one that God has sent. This is the work that God has for you to believe in the one he has sent believe in the one that he has sent. I believe in Jesus. I believe that the Christ who died and rose again from the dead. I believe in the one who has bike race looked upon my life and said I love you I forgive you. I have a purpose for you. I have a plan for your life by gracefully saved through faith, not of works, lest anyone should boast. So the path that we travel is a path of faith has already given us is a faith that every one of us have because God has placed in our hearts we all have the ability to believe you believe you can or you believe you can, but you believe that you will pass through that fully to your destination. But God inspires our hearts inspires us and he empowers us any challenges us that it's not all that happen overnight. Despite playing to get our writing that didn't happen overnight and out and it's like anything else that doesn't happen overnight. But if it's it it's the ability to challenge ourselves to change disability that we have to challenge ourselves to read into and to aspire to become due to look at our life. In saying this is not all there is there is more for me to become that if these things that challenge us from the inside out one individually calls it the automobile University Gillette automobile University is felt to the tapes and mostly books and everything we listen to on our and are caught as we travel, automobile, you were always learning were always growing and whatever we listen to whatever we read we will become. We will become so surround ourselves with God 's word surround ourselves with God 's praise surround ourselves with God 's love. Maybe someday we've already drive. If not here, we well and have and haven't neither was really like in heaven was having only like it's a place of celebration. It's a price of life. It's a place where love young as this was a solipsism love is as free as the air, and that Jesus is the light of heaven is a place where we are going to live forever knowing and being becoming what God has for we do not despise our past because our task. This brought us here. We do not hold onto our failures of the past because God will forgive us if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins. So let go of the past, the wrongs of the past. Let them go. We have hope for the future hope for the future that God has a purpose far life in the purpose of the work of loss is to believe in the one that God has sent. We have a home prepared for us. We have a future God knows what it is sold. Therefore we come back to the threat and in the presence we had our to change if the same distance for all of us to reach the same to reach destinations without a pass through. We travel through faith to those destinations. We have power in the present to make one choice of the time. The practice every day to practice. You know what other times our dreams don't did things we dream about. Don't have but the dreams change through the change things that we are doing change, but the dream never changes at all. I once thought what the college out of college and went to be a football player and enter the football coach Bob dream of working with people didn't change to the new checking on the football coach. I guess I'm a coach of a different color inspiring coach that makes life an opportunity and its remote is God-given and so our dreams while the things the things that we may look at, they may change but the character of the person is able to continue doing and dreaming for God gives us big dreams that you cannot fulfill on your own because we could do them on our own. We don't need God. So with God 's help we dream big dreams traveled the road of faith through the faith is given us to the destination. He has for us. Forgive the past hope for the future power to presentThe nearby was John chapter six. Beginning in verse twenty six John chapter six. Beginning in verse twenty six and read rumors boarding this is Anthony's. As I tell you the truth you're looking for me, not because you saw a miraculous sign because you ate the loaves and had your fill still work for food, that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you on him. God the father has placed his seal of approval. Then they asked him, and this is the universe is here versus twenty eight and twenty nine then they asked him what must we do to do the works of God, the God requires. And Jesus answered the work of God is this to believe in the one he has sent so they asked him what miraculous sign, then, will you give that we may see it and believe it. What will you do our forefathers ate the manna in the desert as it is written, he gave them bread from heaven to eat. And Jesus said to them, I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my father. He gave you the true bread of heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world survey said from now on give us this bread. And Jesus declared, I am the bread of life issue comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you you have seen me, and still do not believe all that the father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. I have come down from heaven, not to do my will, but to do the will of him who sent me, and this is the will of him who sent me that I shall not lose that I shall lose none all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day for my father 's will is that everyone who looks to the son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. I think it's always interesting to see how Jesus is able to see through what people are saying a thing on this group of individuals that have found theater companies. To see Jesus. They they are in very a very inquisitive group, but many of them are there as we'll see, far for various reasons, but he's able always to see through what is going on. I was soundlessly misguided was the writing are saying his commentary on or his observations on a talkshow host and he said he's looking at listening to this talkshow host in the talkshow host as a guest. So there's three people here and on server a talkshow host and the guest while the talkshow host ask this woman. How do you keep a man, and the observers waiting. Why would he ask that of her. She remarried so many times she has rice marks on her face that I thought that was funny as if she has rice marks on her face that this is the only idea is that why you're sometimes we ask advice on the wrong people in were asking advised of the wrong individuals, and how can someone not see through the obvious. Well, Jesus can see through the questions that the people were presenting to him, verse twenty six says that you're not here+ you will be trained by Bob during here because of the low. Now if you could give me if you look at these verses. These individual were there because on the day before Jesus had said them know the all the five loaves and two fishes. Jesus had fed the five thousand with five flat pancakes into sardines and sold these people are very impressed, but they are following Jesus. There is around for a free meal. They have come to be satisfied in their physical and in their earthly life, but they weren't there just be satisfied in their spiritual life and Jesus tells them it's not because you're hungry spiritually that you come after me and follow me. But you are here because you think there might be some benefit to you and in the time of Jesus and even today there are those who use religion to gain their trust each other comfort for even the political gain, and generally these are self-centered motives and you can look at these individuals, and sometimes we become confused. Now we look at these individuals then you know sometimes people say that that while you know that church or whatever they are hypocrites. While I do a hypocrite is while the true meaning. The reason actor somebody who's pretending to be something not a hypocrite and this is another little joke there, so you'd be right. The laugh okay can be writing this if you are not publicized is laugh. Okay, so you okay every man needs a heckler in the crowd off. But anyhow they never created someone who complains about the violence, the promiscuous this the file language and the people and all those things that are on the movies that he watches on his own CD at home not a hypocrite to millions of movies and I saw him. I know don't quit my day job. Okay, I so life is 's a series of choices. Life is a series of choices and sometimes we complain about them, and sometimes we make fun of them. Sometimes we challenge them. As someone what did you know that winter is the geographical center of your whimpers a geographical state-of-the-art, because everything it the most is twelve thousand miles from here. Everyone of us have to travel the same distance. I do no one in Texas to you from that which is close to the Dallas of the geographical center of the earth because everything is twelve thousand miles from Dallas, Georgia were in Georgia Atlanta everything that is a rough rule said earlier everything is twelve thousand miles from Atlanta. What were saying is, everybody has to travel the same distance to get where they're going. Life is short. Everyone has to travel to say that you wanted a little bladder in taxes than it has in Georgia, and it's a little flatter Georgia than it is a waiver so some people have to go up hills and Don Mills, more than others, but it's all the same distance to where you want to go. You can pick up the guitar and I can play the guitar like Ethan. Because I've never practiced, and I haven't got a clue about music, so therefore he does not pick up any changes. It begins with practice. It begins with understanding. It begins with participation to begin medication, and we find that the hours and those are hours and hours of the Haitian turn in the something good time in the something unique with their own perspective. So each of us must travel our own distances to get where we want to go but we all must make the choice now. There are many reasons that will say we don't want to just like the hypocrites in the church. There are many people who are advocates in the church. That's why no one account. While there always a progressively annoying everybody complained about the hypocrites in the barroom. I just never hear anybody talking about you know I hang out some really big liars. The belt of the bars in all, I don't go to the barn to hear their librarian. I know people that you just talk about these people who live constantly like a word in and out while they knows that around us until a little while I edit the idea that somehow we had this perspective that we don't want to make choices were many sincere seekers of God are puzzled about what God wants them to do what is it that God wants me to do and all the religions of the world are man's attempts to answer that question. Jesus is replied to that question is very brief and simple. He says we must believe on him whom God has sent we must believe on him whom God has sent the first twenty nine, the work of God is to do this to believe in the one he has sent size satisfying God does not come from the work that we do, but satisfying God comes from who we believe it comes from, I believe the work of God is to believe the one that he is sent, the Scriptures that we read this is where no remain when Jesus gives this declaration. This is where fiber Jesus. If I were God, I would politely send lightning down the distractible that you know, because verse thirty, says Jesus said to them, I tell you the truth is not multitudes who has given you the bread from heaven, but as the father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. So they said from now on give us this bread was there's an inverse year old verse two verse thirty. That's what I want. So they ask and what miraculous sign, then we can, that we may see in it. Believe so. Jesus tells them you have to believe. Do your work is to believe the one in the essay and then they say what what oracular sign when you give us that we may believe I would question what are they doing there. They just solve the day before five thousand people, five thousand men plus women and children eating from five flat pancakes into sardines. They already had a miracle. That's why they were there and then they come up with it in Jesus as you've got to believe on the person. The godsend of anything. Can you show us the miracle can you continue to get some work some magic. Here again you show us, America will again so the week so that we normally have a right well how easy we discredit yesterday. How easily we discredit what God has done in our lives already and how do we approach our relationship with God, why all that were not hung up on hypocrisy, because if we were perhaps we would be Aaron, many I'm sure I'm not declaring God give me some kind of slide, although I wouldn't mind one off, but he already did give us one. We are sincere about the questions that we ask no God, what if things have bad things happen good people why things happen the way they do now. So what are the things that God wants us to do. Jesus answered the work. God wants you to do is to believe, on the one that did HHS and believing his Word and his relationship with us is the foundational principle of who we become. Because it's the same distance for every one of us at the same justice for everyone of us know we all have a measure of faith God has given everyone by Greg is saved through faith, not of works, lest any man should boast. Through faith through faith. Now I'm a very driven from here in Harrisburg on third-party bank on many here built the road. I know we did with taxpayers money out of paper that road. I will wait and we yell when I wrote already built and wanted Weigel if you go from here to Harrisburg to go through three tunnels. Yes, there's three of them are really close, but there's three of them, so you have to go from here to Harrisburg on the turnpike, you have to go through the tunnel while we can make those finals, but we go through them. Jesus Christ has given everyone about the measure of faith. We all have the same distance to travel, and we got not to use that faith that God has given us to take a the Reformation. When prompted for by grace you save for a Bay capture me by your grace capture me by your grace through faith. God touches our lives any as they were traveling. We are traveling a road of faith that God has already given us and we don't have to create it. We don't have to find it somewhere is already ours, because God has given to everyone. A measure of faith, and we all must travel the same distance. We all must travel the same distance to the place in our lives that will make a difference in what is it that we have to do what is that the guy wants us to do the work of God exists to believe in the one that he is sent to believe in the one that you sent to believe in Jesus and believe in what his Word tells us about our life about our hope about our future young, the public relations department of a beauty products company. This is a little story and fishing. I did make a right and somebody else. I only deal on your sometimes does not want to get lost because on the road. Sometimes I have some bypasses the neck and back, as if it saw the public relations department of the beauty products company asked its customers to send pictures along with a brief statement describing the most beautiful woman they knew thousands of letters came in one copy attention of the employer 's employees and was passed on to the president. It was written by a ploy from a broken home who lived in a rundown neighborhood with lots of spelling errors and excerpts and excerpts from this letter read beautiful woman lives down the street from me. I visit her every day. She makes me feel like the most important fit in the world. We play checkers and she listens to my problem. She understands me when I leave. She always yells out the door that she's proud of me. The boy ended his letter by saying this picture shows you that she is the most beautiful woman of the world. One day I hope to have a wife is pretty as her and trade, the president asked to see the woman's picture, the Secretary handed him a photograph of a smiling toothless woman while advanced in years, sitting in a wheelchair. Sparse gray hair was pulled back in the barn. The wrinkles that form deep furrows in her face were somehow diminished by the twinkle and crimes. We can't use this woman said the president she would show the world that our products are really necessary to be beautiful with all all. So what are the things that God wants me to do one of the things that God wants me to do much of our concepts of faith and church and religion is like the beauty company, unlike those in the Bible that need just one more sign is one more miracle we judge and we can only be judged. We are judged by performance. We have our own criteria as to what we think is of value. What is important and what is beautiful and but it it isn't posting. It is one more miracle. It's understanding the words of what Jesus said to us, and what he meant by them how do you minimize his life. How many is given us his word Word made flesh and dwelt among us, and how the descriptor impacts our lives. You see, when it comes to spiritual matters. We often want more proof, but you know the truth that we want is often a personal affirmation based upon a God within our expectations of what God should look like and if we set out and then put an article out. What does God look like when we end up with the with the boy in the picture of this woman would we end up saying that God looks like the person beside you, the people who comforted you, the people have encouraged you, the people that you see, what have we done we done the works of God. We believe in the one that God has set in. That has changed our life that when we look in the near of gods in the mirror of God 's word we see and hear a reflection of what beauty looks like we see and hear a reflection of what a godly person looks like as we look in the Scriptures we find, and we see a picture of what God looks like a disgrace of his mercy and how that affects our lives. Anything we have. We wish sometimes that once we may begin to believe in the industry says that we somehow go into another round that says I'm not good enough. So if I say there that we would create a stumbling blocks in which we don't understand God, and then we creators and once we began to understand his grace in his mercy to us you are saying when I met enough. The work that God wants you to do is this to believe I believe is a state of mind which trust which exudes confidence and his wife, the person I believe is also an attitude of the heart that gives us a perspective of ourselves and of life. We have a belief in God that he has provided salvation for us and through us in Jesus Christ. We believe in God and doing something to get Jesus to love us. His family to really understand what this belief is all about belief in Jesus as a package deal. If you believe in the one God sent you must accept his time in his terms are grace and mercy, his grace and his mercy. Religion is man's attempt to please God of grace is God 's terms for reaching down and touching us. Religion is based on doing and God 's grace is based on being doesn't matter to me but it doesn't make God love you more or less you being you belongs you for who you are is is unlimited. His love is unconditional. His longest lunch in his love is_ grace is God 's way of looking at us and telling us you can't purchase it. You can't work for it. You can't be good enough to merit it, but God is declaring everything he does for you to you in your are you every single blessing that he brings into your life is a gift is a gift from God and his gifts have brought us here, not our failures are not our sins. It is a gift that is brought to this place in our life. It is his gift of love that has brought us here where our hearts are open are minds of reset in our spirits are willing to receive him. What God has given to us with little opportunity with found opportunity in which his grace will capture our hearts and set us free to become the person that God has called us to be just as free to become that individual that doesn't have locations that doesn't have a perspective on life. The causes of the stumble and fall. It is a challenge of life that gives us an opportunity to say that God loves me gives us an opportunity to be that woman for that child that plays checkers and tells them how good that they can become somewhat less we do like one individual says what must I do to get to heaven, and the pastor says you're too late. The ideas you can't do anything to get to heaven. Jesus is already done. And all we have to at this point is believe on the one that Jesus has said that the one that God has sent. This is the work that God has for you to believe in the one he has sent believe in the one that he has sent. I believe in Jesus. I believe that the Christ who died and rose again from the dead. I believe in the one who has bike race looked upon my life and said I love you I forgive you. I have a purpose for you. I have a plan for your life by gracefully saved through faith, not of works, lest anyone should boast. So the path that we travel is a path of faith has already given us is a faith that every one of us have because God has placed in our hearts we all have the ability to believe you believe you can or you believe you can, but you believe that you will pass through that fully to your destination. But God inspires our hearts inspires us and he empowers us any challenges us that it's not all that happen overnight. Despite playing to get our writing that didn't happen overnight and out and it's like anything else that doesn't happen overnight. But if it's it it's the ability to challenge ourselves to change disability that we have to challenge ourselves to read into and to aspire to become due to look at our life. In saying this is not all there is there is more for me to become that if these things that challenge us from the inside out one individually calls it the automobile University Gillette automobile University is felt to the tapes and mostly books and everything we listen to on our and are caught as we travel, automobile, you were always learning were always growing and whatever we listen to whatever we read we will become. We will become so surround ourselves with God 's word surround ourselves with God 's praise surround ourselves with God 's love. Maybe someday we've already drive. If not here, we well and have and haven't neither was really like in heaven was having only like it's a place of celebration. It's a price of life. It's a place where love young as this was a solipsism love is as free as the air, and that Jesus is the light of heaven is a place where we are going to live forever knowing and being becoming what God has for we do not despise our past because our task. This brought us here. We do not hold onto our failures of the past because God will forgive us if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins. So let go of the past, the wrongs of the past. Let them go. We have hope for the future hope for the future that God has a purpose far life in the purpose of the work of loss is to believe in the one that God has sent. We have a home prepared for us. We have a future God knows what it is sold. Therefore we come back to the threat and in the presence we had our to change if the same distance for all of us to reach the same to reach destinations without a pass through. We travel through faith to those destinations. We have power in the present to make one choice of the time. The practice every day to practice. You know what other times our dreams don't did things we dream about. Don't have but the dreams change through the change things that we are doing change, but the dream never changes at all. I once thought what the college out of college and went to be a football player and enter the football coach Bob dream of working with people didn't change to the new checking on the football coach. I guess I'm a coach of a different color inspiring coach that makes life an opportunity and its remote is God-given and so our dreams while the things the things that we may look at, they may change but the character of the person is able to continue doing and dreaming for God gives us big dreams that you cannot fulfill on your own because we could do them on our own. We don't need God. So with God 's help we dream big dreams traveled the road of faith through the faith is given us to the destination. He has for us. Forgive the past hope for the future power to present