The Sermon Predetermined Actions by David McGee
Mar 13, 2011
Predetermined Actions (37:20)
Referenced Scriptures: Romans 12:20-21
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Romans 12:20-21
20) Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him a drink. For in doing so, you will heap coals of fire on his head."
21) Don‘t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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All this morning we are speaking from Romans chapter twelve familiar chapter we been speaking on analysis of the third week you're keeping track, and it's been this kind of ongoing revelation ongoing study that is that I've been reading and hearing in the wildlife. So I just put on out there for all of us, so placing your life before God and his Romans chapter twelve, and descriptors are verses twenty and twenty one, we have we have spoken of the other Scriptures and by remember that taking your everyday life. Your ordinary life. There are your eating or sleeping. You're going to bed life and placing it before God as an offering that's verse one, but the last two verses up on this on this chapter of Romans chapter twelve is our Scripture tells us from the message Bible or Scripture tells us that if you see your enemy hungry go by that person. Lunch, or if he is thirsty, give him a drink. Your generosity will surprise him with goodness. Don't let people get the best of you get the best of evil by doing good now. Did you know that if you do not determine an action ahead of time, the chances are you're going to be swept away by the emotion. When the action is presented, and I've been using the idea of of stealing OR all, but no any any type of promotion are things when people are around you and let you know whenever you're with a group of individuals last night we were coming down the hill from Richland and about the spot where that young teenager was killed this last week to individuals for the probably doing a hundred miles an hour and I'm assuming that they were teenagers, but they could not. They may not of been. And the sad thing is, you know, the one person had the idea and another person agree that one person had the idea and another person agrees now that what happens is if you don't make up your mind for something is presented, chances are you're going to do it now. So if you are driving. We call it road race for us older people. If you don't make up your mind ahead of time that you are not going to get carried away with road rage that when somebody cuts you off, you're not going to get upset and William Blake and upset when people gradual but for some of you who don't know about it. But anyhow, so what you have to do is you have to predetermine that would suck because you're going to get cut off, people are going to cut you off. I know that allow you drive you know there's always somebody to do something that makes you upset if you know, make up your mind ahead of time that when somebody does something to me to get me upset. I'm going to respond by being good. I'm going to respond a certain way. I'm not going to get upset. You see if you know we don't. I don't make up my mind. Now that when somebody cuts me off when I'm driving my car and I know I'm not really get upset. I will not have a blog related predetermined decision about what an event liability when that event happens is that is that help yes about almost eighty percent of our responses are if we make up our mind ahead of time how were going to respond, we will happen. We will respond accordingly if we do not make a decision about what we're going to do. We are more than likely going to be swept away with the emotion of the moment. Now whenever were reading Romans chapter twelve begins to last a number of decisions that we are to me. I remember to get there in a minute. But this even if we don't never predetermine action and gives you a greater chance of staying away from it. Staying away from smoking, drinking, drugs, affairs, stealing, lying, gossiping, if you go it is other than that the list if there are things of you and you are caught in this with friends and all our people or places. Now, friends, and I use that term lightly, because if they are really your friends and friends are going to be encourages to encourage your life upward whenever you're with a group of individuals that take your life downward. They're not your friend, say they're not your friends. Friends are people who will know you for who you are and always be there. It's encouraging to take you up, not to bring you down. They will not be there to cheer other people down. If you're if your life is built around tearing other people down. We really don't have much of a life of your life is about tearing others down really good. Then, though, the principle is, if I cannot live up to working are I will tear them down to where I am, that's a credit. So the challenge is that it isn't that WordPerfect and I were trying to the idea is that we're always trying to take ourselves were always trying to build ourselves up were always trying to give ourselves an advantage in the advantage in an inning in a purely emotional centerfielder, psychological self help perspective, you're always looking to build yourself up. He always tried to add value to wall in the biblical perspective and the spiritual perspective, we have a spiritual way of being on building our life up no matter what happens to us in life. So if we're software for free to charming and action that we are going to respond a certain way that even if you use out in a purely self-help way which is you can read the books on that one and it will tell you that you've got to predetermine your actions before they happen. You make up your mind what you say what you do. I even do it if you don't, you're allowing yourself to be swept away by whatever comes and goes a double minded man is an individual who is driven by the wind and waves and cost will, which landed on a beaded added out which way the wind blowing what type of person are you are you what type of personality do you have a you long for the rider you are you steering the ship is he alternately is that as a Christian we are going to be responsible for our life. Whenever I fall overboard. Understanding for God and Morgan again account of our life and in all that the day when God saves you know Internet have ignored. Sorry I don't know you well so we will without will not always interested in heaven or hell. Now God 's given us an entire lifetime to achieve the greatness for which we were created, God has given us in Scripture that his wired to work in our life to take us to a point at this week in developing the person God intended us to be from when we were in our mother 's will, so that the whole purpose of God is doing inside of us and through us and in our minds and our hearts. It's more than just the spiritual thing. It has a mental thing, your people who are mental function didn't get it. Okay, integrity, the word integrity, integrity, it's about time I didn't know that integrity and did not. I wrote this integrity is a master that means whole now. Integrity is a whole number lowest made me a pie and it was very a reason. It was an integral part. It was whole, but it's not pulling more than a fast needed the so it is no longer not hire is no longer an integrated pie meeting whole life and it is kind and happen. But anyhow, whatever we have our as a person. We are to be integrated personal whole person. It was a whole person look like okay look at somebody besides, Wednesday's as a whole person. Now there's a few bricks shy below their their elevator only stopped crawlspace and something so leave a lot of our thoughts and our actions in someone will not allow our thoughts and actions after someone only got a model that you will know no one grew up in a perfect place. We all grew up in dysfunctional families is no perfect example. Now there's no one perfect. Sorry, no doubt we all have our idiot. It held whatever is a idiot in our family idiosyncrasies. Now if you look to the family tree. There's always somebody hanging from it now says it all. There is no perfect family. There is no perfect situational ideal in all of one guy had said he wanted all the perfect church that come the mind as we have a lot of imperfect people know and then another one says if you want a perfect church don't attend, you'll spoil into the overload now because there is no one that is perfect so they will model our thoughts and actions after someone so we must change the goal and the goal is to choose what is our immediate and long-term goals and remember I said that were going to be a lot longer than we are alive, so long-term planning is important and that I saw franchise go back to our friends and want to our friends encourages how do they encourage is what thoughts they put in your mind and what you know we all have influencers and we have to become all who are influences are and how are those people who influence us. Do they have biblical perspectives, do they have godly perspective. Do they really are they really looking out for your best interest, because a friend wanted friends don't manipulate friends. The guilt you into something injured in. I had to what is left. They build character. Life is about living up to the challenge, not living down letting up. Preparation is living up to the test today but just imagine a teacher that didn't didn't want to be in character pass or fail on its own in college but a but now I'm adding out what that runs are they doing that the SSA 's right hand and on the PSA this week. Your kids are having them they meant) running double note from one of her students at said thank you Mrs. McGee for preparing you for the task, you know, I now can take the test now and unfortunately God is preparing us for life, God is preparing us to take life as it comes in dealing with it. And if we don't set in motion. What a perspective on what is coming. We will fail one when it is why, because we will be swept away. Sad to say that this alarming development earthquake did happen and people were swept away the other was no time to prepare and of course there are in all, there's even a definition is one definition of sin to talk about being swept away by the emotion being swept away at the moment, but there is another type of sin which is deliberately planned and set out and accomplished a thought, a plan and action. See what we're doing this by trying to get rid of those types of setbacks in our life. So there's a poem that says living is giving your best self away learning is giving your best self away living is helping someone every day living is giving more than you get it's helping the handicap across the street. It's smiling at the new person at work that you need its respect for all nations, colors and creeds. It's sharing and caring for your neighbors means one of God 's greatest laws you can never live is me one of God 's greatest laws you can live and believe it is the more that you view the mortgagor receipt is safe that there is a purpose to what we do and there is a pattern to what we do, I decided I didn't do this, but I've thought about it. Someday I'm going to bring in one ear of corn. The good times brings coming off a one eighth what an idea, take something maybe will do this, but we won't know that you take money or porn, and you shall it put in. I put it in the container. I now how many ears of corn on many kernels of corn will that one ear, produce, and any idea she growing up on the farm we would have bushels of corn, C from those bushels of corn seed you have one. Chris full of corn silos, Shaw and full of porn from bushels of seed C one C can produce usually produces two ears of corn on the stock one to two years on the stock, and if there are one seed and there are one hundred kernels is more than one hundred on each. Each stock in each year, so you have one seed producing two hundred kernels a site will and and I have someone as Siebel produced two hundred kernels. That's the law of sowing and reaping. When you love the Allen and in Romans chapter twelve is telling about this process of which we are living by way of planting it, so the Scripture tells us that if you see your enemy hungry go by the person lunch. What you doing your planting season that person 's life. More importantly, you're not taking what they are giving you are giving what you have when you give what you have. It changes the perspective of what's going on around you. That's why whenever we are making up our minds before something happens that when somebody cuts me off when somebody wants me to steal when somebody wants me to live without it wants me to do something that is breaking God 's commandment gossip tear people down when you are when people want you to do those things and you do the opposite. You're doing what this scripture is saying when our Scripture tells up easier and inherent greed, gallbladder, personal lunch if he is thirsty, give him a drink. Your generosity will surprise him with goodness. Don't let people get the best of you get the best of people by doing good. And what happens is we are taking our seat in planning and in in their life rather than are taking their discouragement and their bitterness and their destructive characteristics and taken an enormous. You have a choice we have choices and what happened is that the Spirit of God is there trying to teach us about the gifts of God, in the presence of God and the love of God and how it will change your life so in your life if you were to write down your value on a four by six card, what would your values and how many values would have died into this, by which I did not always think of the sermons and I think you could do to make it better. They know that next week. Then again, maybe not. But so much in Romans chapter twelve. The backup woman I ever fly out why a small plane again and got into playing right out of the airplane ever fly the airplane to receive the people run around looking at the tick and the tired looking underneath it all at stuff that will make it. It's a free flight check. Now I'm a friend that has a nice playing very intelligent man, and any folded piece of paper out the ghosts are. I checked this turn this on& test to gauge my shorts working nonstop to go through every one of these things on his on his checklist 's preflight checklist and and he's already any as the things he's done outside. Forgot in the playing is an and major airlines. You always have somebody doing a visual check before they could draw no gasoline, JL airplane fuel running out the aisle, Cleo, waiting is not a good thing now feel an oil leaking out of an engine is not a good thing given the same thing. You certainly don't want to be blind, but anyhow never preflight checklist so I thought of Romans chapter twelve and a daily checklist before we take off for the day that you really like either downgrade like Apple does not get it to me. I will blame him off. If it's really good God, that in the thousands really terrible. My thoughts. I think I relish after twelve versus one one and two today and my everyday, ordinary life, place it before God as an offering. Statement of purpose. My statement of purpose Romans seven twelve verse one and were looking at as I'm taking it from the message Bible. Okay, so now I want you to know I wasn't what I would do was going to make this a pre- like checklist so that whenever we get up in the morning and we start our day. We could read this over and what is my everyday my ordinary life place it before God as an offering. So that's my statement of purpose now this is a checklist embraced what God does that for me in your essay. Check is a check about fifty times the real learn how to do this, I will embrace this is my check list for the day. I will embrace when God is best for me getting there slowly desire. I will fix my attention on God, and the change from the inside out. I will be ready for what God wants me to do and I will be quick to respond. He already had been slow. I will not be drawn down everybody's a check one two three I when I go like this that means say the word God will bring out the best in me today. Run verse three. I will live in the pure grace of God which means unmerited favor, God sees me and he looks beyond he loves me because he loves you because I'm something special, and we did that with you. I will not misinterpret my purpose for God brings out the goodness in me. I am part of the body of Christ. I find my meaning and function part of his body. I have been excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts of Christ's body. Some of you to believe what you see as part of the check. I'm going forward to be what God made me to be. I will not be envious or privately compare myself with others. My gifts to find preaching. I will proclaim the truth. Anybody ever blamed the preaching parents were ever blame the preaching to your kids when you preaching on setting up on the past. There is all not sure if helping. I will help and not take over if teaching. I will teach the truth and giving him him encouragement or not be bossy. It is a quite as this is a Roman Catholic love writing make this up fine men's hearts. I will not manipulate in Yemen, Yankton people in distress. I will be alert and I will be quick to respond in helping the disadvantaged. I will be call and not irritated or depressed with their. I will keep smiling. I will allow from the center of who I am and I will not be making. I will run from evil. I will hold on for dear life to that which is good. You need help now. One two three Sajak. I missed one. I will be a good friend and I will love deeply. I will not get burned out. I will keep fueled and ready to go. I am going to be alert on Sunday morning, which I sprang ahead and I now I was again here. I am cheerful and expectant. I will not let in hard times. I will pray I will help needy Christians. I will practice hospitality. I will bless my enemies and not curse under my breath and then there I will what is not cursed under my breath check. I will laugh when happy friend. I will share tears like tears. I will get along with others. I will not be stuck out. I'm losing my check here. I will make friends with nobody, I will make friends with nobodies. I will not get back I will discover beauty in everyone. Check I will get along with others. Check I will not try and get even that God 's business. He will help he will be the judge. Check if my enemy is hungry, I will see him lunch. Check if he is firstly I will demonstrate and the final one is, why do I do this because my generosity will surprise my enemies, and I will not let evil get the best of me. I will get the best of evil by doing purpose. Check to see these are our free flying checklist. These are our these are these are actions that we are putting in place that will help me see you all on our own lives. You see, and an adverse to it second changed after five Naaman was a general in the Assyrian army and name and had leprosy him one of his raise in the history and into Israel. He took captive high young girl and his young girl became a sermon to his wife. Now, name it has his leprosy, and he's young, getting pretty bad, and this young girl says while you haven't heard about the profit and Israel who can make people well well name and this is Syrian general says I want to know who this guy is so he goes to Israel to find him, and he takes along with him seven hundred fifty pounds of silver and a hundred fifty pounds of gold intends that the flow even if you so when he arrives at the Prophets house and he arrives at the Prophets house and Elisha the prophet says to his server, who often tell the Assyrian, the goal dip himself seven times in the Jordan River will be okay now this name, and in a him a name gets furious that he said that profit doesn't come out and see me. He sends his servant, and he wants me to go about it several times and dark, dirty, filthy Jordan River. We had cleaner rivers back in this area. I'm not good, and he walked away mad. It was Bono. It was like his gold and silver. He was going home and the start of the Bateman says to him, name and if the prophet had asked him to do something really hard and difficult. Would you have done it to you as well. What it basically what you got to lose. Go get seven times in the river and see what happens so namely, health, peace is not a leprosy, and if you die from it, and so okay well I got the loser goes out of the river and he gets himself downriver, five, six times, nothing happened, but he gives himself the seventh time he comes up these claims. Now, you see, sometimes when we have our checklists if they were things that were really, really difficult. We would look at them and we would say while this'll make me holy. This will really make me somebody that I'm not in reality it's the simple things that God is telling us that makes the biggest difference in our lives. The checklist you see how and why management is about the Holland leadership is about the why. Why are we doing this we are doing it because Jesus Christ has come into our life, the forgiveness of our sins, he is come into our lives to make us a new person from the inside out. He's come to our name. In his book of life in which we will live forever. He has come to love us unconditionally. That's why, and the management of this relationship with God. The management of this relationship is allowing the Spirit of God to work in our life through our referral of what you ion my own to go about this checklist that is listed there. In Romans chapter twelve. Do you think I can do that on my own if I could do it on my own but I don't think God but with God 's help, I'm going through the checklist, and I'm looking at these things and I am telling myself and I say that because God loves me. That's why in the management of that relationship I have with God is the checklist that I'm going through and as I go through this checklist. I'm finding out through God 's word. What God wants me to do in managing my Christianity that I will be the person God created you are the manager. The steward of your life God has given to us the responsibility of me. How do I make it easy to live with me. How do I make it easy to do life with me. That's a change of heart. Now, a close with this gem about the restaurant and whatever you're checking out the taken money. They say that you have a good service today. Have a wonderful day they got the checklist, but they don't have the wine they got the check be nice for people to like me. I will pray for those that don't need to be prayed for. I will not get upset with people who cut me off. I will not see we got the checklist, but we don't have a change of heart. The change of heart, gives meaning to the checklist people who really did you really think July your meal today, you know, I I got up I got up breakfast at Perkins on Saturday, Sunday morning, it Sunday morning and Steve's not here, but it is it is so sister-in-law that that she has waited on me since big boy, was that you remember and remember, big boy up with malware. The Weber medical behind, beside the is across the Burger King you add Jody has been my has waited on me since then. Angelica probably twenty five, thirty years and so she's the waitress up at the park body part. Perkins diagnosed and after all I have to do is go in since I'll be over. She brings my copies she brings the water. She brings in my oatmeal. My raisins and tells everyday and she makes, and it's just now. I enjoy going to have been because I like Parkinson's because I generally okay and and Jodi is Steve's distant, well then you go to check out counter and you get the money they'll always been served today. Would you like anything from the bakery no wonderful life, everything but the atmosphere. The food and the end and the people around. I told him that one Sunday I thought everybody I like everything but the food, the atmosphere and the people who work here and she goes on to recite everything was great. It's just on down because they just they know the will. The checklist, but they don't have it in the heart, and that's our relationship with Jesus Christ. We know the why and the why of the relationship is because he loves me and he plans his best for me. With that in mind, I do checklist of life that enables me to fly how they are ready to fly check that the maybe next week. I have always owned no checklist and even rather than put them in whatever and have a all right but we read a flyer may take check and not ready to fly that is like you have the students are listening and I really did you like the food and service. They would like toAll this morning we are speaking from Romans chapter twelve familiar chapter we been speaking on analysis of the third week you're keeping track, and it's been this kind of ongoing revelation ongoing study that is that I've been reading and hearing in the wildlife. So I just put on out there for all of us, so placing your life before God and his Romans chapter twelve, and descriptors are verses twenty and twenty one, we have we have spoken of the other Scriptures and by remember that taking your everyday life. Your ordinary life. There are your eating or sleeping. You're going to bed life and placing it before God as an offering that's verse one, but the last two verses up on this on this chapter of Romans chapter twelve is our Scripture tells us from the message Bible or Scripture tells us that if you see your enemy hungry go by that person. Lunch, or if he is thirsty, give him a drink. Your generosity will surprise him with goodness. Don't let people get the best of you get the best of evil by doing good now. Did you know that if you do not determine an action ahead of time, the chances are you're going to be swept away by the emotion. When the action is presented, and I've been using the idea of of stealing OR all, but no any any type of promotion are things when people are around you and let you know whenever you're with a group of individuals last night we were coming down the hill from Richland and about the spot where that young teenager was killed this last week to individuals for the probably doing a hundred miles an hour and I'm assuming that they were teenagers, but they could not. They may not of been. And the sad thing is, you know, the one person had the idea and another person agree that one person had the idea and another person agrees now that what happens is if you don't make up your mind for something is presented, chances are you're going to do it now. So if you are driving. We call it road race for us older people. If you don't make up your mind ahead of time that you are not going to get carried away with road rage that when somebody cuts you off, you're not going to get upset and William Blake and upset when people gradual but for some of you who don't know about it. But anyhow, so what you have to do is you have to predetermine that would suck because you're going to get cut off, people are going to cut you off. I know that allow you drive you know there's always somebody to do something that makes you upset if you know, make up your mind ahead of time that when somebody does something to me to get me upset. I'm going to respond by being good. I'm going to respond a certain way. I'm not going to get upset. You see if you know we don't. I don't make up my mind. Now that when somebody cuts me off when I'm driving my car and I know I'm not really get upset. I will not have a blog related predetermined decision about what an event liability when that event happens is that is that help yes about almost eighty percent of our responses are if we make up our mind ahead of time how were going to respond, we will happen. We will respond accordingly if we do not make a decision about what we're going to do. We are more than likely going to be swept away with the emotion of the moment. Now whenever were reading Romans chapter twelve begins to last a number of decisions that we are to me. I remember to get there in a minute. But this even if we don't never predetermine action and gives you a greater chance of staying away from it. Staying away from smoking, drinking, drugs, affairs, stealing, lying, gossiping, if you go it is other than that the list if there are things of you and you are caught in this with friends and all our people or places. Now, friends, and I use that term lightly, because if they are really your friends and friends are going to be encourages to encourage your life upward whenever you're with a group of individuals that take your life downward. They're not your friend, say they're not your friends. Friends are people who will know you for who you are and always be there. It's encouraging to take you up, not to bring you down. They will not be there to cheer other people down. If you're if your life is built around tearing other people down. We really don't have much of a life of your life is about tearing others down really good. Then, though, the principle is, if I cannot live up to working are I will tear them down to where I am, that's a credit. So the challenge is that it isn't that WordPerfect and I were trying to the idea is that we're always trying to take ourselves were always trying to build ourselves up were always trying to give ourselves an advantage in the advantage in an inning in a purely emotional centerfielder, psychological self help perspective, you're always looking to build yourself up. He always tried to add value to wall in the biblical perspective and the spiritual perspective, we have a spiritual way of being on building our life up no matter what happens to us in life. So if we're software for free to charming and action that we are going to respond a certain way that even if you use out in a purely self-help way which is you can read the books on that one and it will tell you that you've got to predetermine your actions before they happen. You make up your mind what you say what you do. I even do it if you don't, you're allowing yourself to be swept away by whatever comes and goes a double minded man is an individual who is driven by the wind and waves and cost will, which landed on a beaded added out which way the wind blowing what type of person are you are you what type of personality do you have a you long for the rider you are you steering the ship is he alternately is that as a Christian we are going to be responsible for our life. Whenever I fall overboard. Understanding for God and Morgan again account of our life and in all that the day when God saves you know Internet have ignored. Sorry I don't know you well so we will without will not always interested in heaven or hell. Now God 's given us an entire lifetime to achieve the greatness for which we were created, God has given us in Scripture that his wired to work in our life to take us to a point at this week in developing the person God intended us to be from when we were in our mother 's will, so that the whole purpose of God is doing inside of us and through us and in our minds and our hearts. It's more than just the spiritual thing. It has a mental thing, your people who are mental function didn't get it. Okay, integrity, the word integrity, integrity, it's about time I didn't know that integrity and did not. I wrote this integrity is a master that means whole now. Integrity is a whole number lowest made me a pie and it was very a reason. It was an integral part. It was whole, but it's not pulling more than a fast needed the so it is no longer not hire is no longer an integrated pie meeting whole life and it is kind and happen. But anyhow, whatever we have our as a person. We are to be integrated personal whole person. It was a whole person look like okay look at somebody besides, Wednesday's as a whole person. Now there's a few bricks shy below their their elevator only stopped crawlspace and something so leave a lot of our thoughts and our actions in someone will not allow our thoughts and actions after someone only got a model that you will know no one grew up in a perfect place. We all grew up in dysfunctional families is no perfect example. Now there's no one perfect. Sorry, no doubt we all have our idiot. It held whatever is a idiot in our family idiosyncrasies. Now if you look to the family tree. There's always somebody hanging from it now says it all. There is no perfect family. There is no perfect situational ideal in all of one guy had said he wanted all the perfect church that come the mind as we have a lot of imperfect people know and then another one says if you want a perfect church don't attend, you'll spoil into the overload now because there is no one that is perfect so they will model our thoughts and actions after someone so we must change the goal and the goal is to choose what is our immediate and long-term goals and remember I said that were going to be a lot longer than we are alive, so long-term planning is important and that I saw franchise go back to our friends and want to our friends encourages how do they encourage is what thoughts they put in your mind and what you know we all have influencers and we have to become all who are influences are and how are those people who influence us. Do they have biblical perspectives, do they have godly perspective. Do they really are they really looking out for your best interest, because a friend wanted friends don't manipulate friends. The guilt you into something injured in. I had to what is left. They build character. Life is about living up to the challenge, not living down letting up. Preparation is living up to the test today but just imagine a teacher that didn't didn't want to be in character pass or fail on its own in college but a but now I'm adding out what that runs are they doing that the SSA 's right hand and on the PSA this week. Your kids are having them they meant) running double note from one of her students at said thank you Mrs. McGee for preparing you for the task, you know, I now can take the test now and unfortunately God is preparing us for life, God is preparing us to take life as it comes in dealing with it. And if we don't set in motion. What a perspective on what is coming. We will fail one when it is why, because we will be swept away. Sad to say that this alarming development earthquake did happen and people were swept away the other was no time to prepare and of course there are in all, there's even a definition is one definition of sin to talk about being swept away by the emotion being swept away at the moment, but there is another type of sin which is deliberately planned and set out and accomplished a thought, a plan and action. See what we're doing this by trying to get rid of those types of setbacks in our life. So there's a poem that says living is giving your best self away learning is giving your best self away living is helping someone every day living is giving more than you get it's helping the handicap across the street. It's smiling at the new person at work that you need its respect for all nations, colors and creeds. It's sharing and caring for your neighbors means one of God 's greatest laws you can never live is me one of God 's greatest laws you can live and believe it is the more that you view the mortgagor receipt is safe that there is a purpose to what we do and there is a pattern to what we do, I decided I didn't do this, but I've thought about it. Someday I'm going to bring in one ear of corn. The good times brings coming off a one eighth what an idea, take something maybe will do this, but we won't know that you take money or porn, and you shall it put in. I put it in the container. I now how many ears of corn on many kernels of corn will that one ear, produce, and any idea she growing up on the farm we would have bushels of corn, C from those bushels of corn seed you have one. Chris full of corn silos, Shaw and full of porn from bushels of seed C one C can produce usually produces two ears of corn on the stock one to two years on the stock, and if there are one seed and there are one hundred kernels is more than one hundred on each. Each stock in each year, so you have one seed producing two hundred kernels a site will and and I have someone as Siebel produced two hundred kernels. That's the law of sowing and reaping. When you love the Allen and in Romans chapter twelve is telling about this process of which we are living by way of planting it, so the Scripture tells us that if you see your enemy hungry go by the person lunch. What you doing your planting season that person 's life. More importantly, you're not taking what they are giving you are giving what you have when you give what you have. It changes the perspective of what's going on around you. That's why whenever we are making up our minds before something happens that when somebody cuts me off when somebody wants me to steal when somebody wants me to live without it wants me to do something that is breaking God 's commandment gossip tear people down when you are when people want you to do those things and you do the opposite. You're doing what this scripture is saying when our Scripture tells up easier and inherent greed, gallbladder, personal lunch if he is thirsty, give him a drink. Your generosity will surprise him with goodness. Don't let people get the best of you get the best of people by doing good. And what happens is we are taking our seat in planning and in in their life rather than are taking their discouragement and their bitterness and their destructive characteristics and taken an enormous. You have a choice we have choices and what happened is that the Spirit of God is there trying to teach us about the gifts of God, in the presence of God and the love of God and how it will change your life so in your life if you were to write down your value on a four by six card, what would your values and how many values would have died into this, by which I did not always think of the sermons and I think you could do to make it better. They know that next week. Then again, maybe not. But so much in Romans chapter twelve. The backup woman I ever fly out why a small plane again and got into playing right out of the airplane ever fly the airplane to receive the people run around looking at the tick and the tired looking underneath it all at stuff that will make it. It's a free flight check. Now I'm a friend that has a nice playing very intelligent man, and any folded piece of paper out the ghosts are. I checked this turn this on& test to gauge my shorts working nonstop to go through every one of these things on his on his checklist 's preflight checklist and and he's already any as the things he's done outside. Forgot in the playing is an and major airlines. You always have somebody doing a visual check before they could draw no gasoline, JL airplane fuel running out the aisle, Cleo, waiting is not a good thing now feel an oil leaking out of an engine is not a good thing given the same thing. You certainly don't want to be blind, but anyhow never preflight checklist so I thought of Romans chapter twelve and a daily checklist before we take off for the day that you really like either downgrade like Apple does not get it to me. I will blame him off. If it's really good God, that in the thousands really terrible. My thoughts. I think I relish after twelve versus one one and two today and my everyday, ordinary life, place it before God as an offering. Statement of purpose. My statement of purpose Romans seven twelve verse one and were looking at as I'm taking it from the message Bible. Okay, so now I want you to know I wasn't what I would do was going to make this a pre- like checklist so that whenever we get up in the morning and we start our day. We could read this over and what is my everyday my ordinary life place it before God as an offering. So that's my statement of purpose now this is a checklist embraced what God does that for me in your essay. Check is a check about fifty times the real learn how to do this, I will embrace this is my check list for the day. I will embrace when God is best for me getting there slowly desire. I will fix my attention on God, and the change from the inside out. I will be ready for what God wants me to do and I will be quick to respond. He already had been slow. I will not be drawn down everybody's a check one two three I when I go like this that means say the word God will bring out the best in me today. Run verse three. I will live in the pure grace of God which means unmerited favor, God sees me and he looks beyond he loves me because he loves you because I'm something special, and we did that with you. I will not misinterpret my purpose for God brings out the goodness in me. I am part of the body of Christ. I find my meaning and function part of his body. I have been excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts of Christ's body. Some of you to believe what you see as part of the check. I'm going forward to be what God made me to be. I will not be envious or privately compare myself with others. My gifts to find preaching. I will proclaim the truth. Anybody ever blamed the preaching parents were ever blame the preaching to your kids when you preaching on setting up on the past. There is all not sure if helping. I will help and not take over if teaching. I will teach the truth and giving him him encouragement or not be bossy. It is a quite as this is a Roman Catholic love writing make this up fine men's hearts. I will not manipulate in Yemen, Yankton people in distress. I will be alert and I will be quick to respond in helping the disadvantaged. I will be call and not irritated or depressed with their. I will keep smiling. I will allow from the center of who I am and I will not be making. I will run from evil. I will hold on for dear life to that which is good. You need help now. One two three Sajak. I missed one. I will be a good friend and I will love deeply. I will not get burned out. I will keep fueled and ready to go. I am going to be alert on Sunday morning, which I sprang ahead and I now I was again here. I am cheerful and expectant. I will not let in hard times. I will pray I will help needy Christians. I will practice hospitality. I will bless my enemies and not curse under my breath and then there I will what is not cursed under my breath check. I will laugh when happy friend. I will share tears like tears. I will get along with others. I will not be stuck out. I'm losing my check here. I will make friends with nobody, I will make friends with nobodies. I will not get back I will discover beauty in everyone. Check I will get along with others. Check I will not try and get even that God 's business. He will help he will be the judge. Check if my enemy is hungry, I will see him lunch. Check if he is firstly I will demonstrate and the final one is, why do I do this because my generosity will surprise my enemies, and I will not let evil get the best of me. I will get the best of evil by doing purpose. Check to see these are our free flying checklist. These are our these are these are actions that we are putting in place that will help me see you all on our own lives. You see, and an adverse to it second changed after five Naaman was a general in the Assyrian army and name and had leprosy him one of his raise in the history and into Israel. He took captive high young girl and his young girl became a sermon to his wife. Now, name it has his leprosy, and he's young, getting pretty bad, and this young girl says while you haven't heard about the profit and Israel who can make people well well name and this is Syrian general says I want to know who this guy is so he goes to Israel to find him, and he takes along with him seven hundred fifty pounds of silver and a hundred fifty pounds of gold intends that the flow even if you so when he arrives at the Prophets house and he arrives at the Prophets house and Elisha the prophet says to his server, who often tell the Assyrian, the goal dip himself seven times in the Jordan River will be okay now this name, and in a him a name gets furious that he said that profit doesn't come out and see me. He sends his servant, and he wants me to go about it several times and dark, dirty, filthy Jordan River. We had cleaner rivers back in this area. I'm not good, and he walked away mad. It was Bono. It was like his gold and silver. He was going home and the start of the Bateman says to him, name and if the prophet had asked him to do something really hard and difficult. Would you have done it to you as well. What it basically what you got to lose. Go get seven times in the river and see what happens so namely, health, peace is not a leprosy, and if you die from it, and so okay well I got the loser goes out of the river and he gets himself downriver, five, six times, nothing happened, but he gives himself the seventh time he comes up these claims. Now, you see, sometimes when we have our checklists if they were things that were really, really difficult. We would look at them and we would say while this'll make me holy. This will really make me somebody that I'm not in reality it's the simple things that God is telling us that makes the biggest difference in our lives. The checklist you see how and why management is about the Holland leadership is about the why. Why are we doing this we are doing it because Jesus Christ has come into our life, the forgiveness of our sins, he is come into our lives to make us a new person from the inside out. He's come to our name. In his book of life in which we will live forever. He has come to love us unconditionally. That's why, and the management of this relationship with God. The management of this relationship is allowing the Spirit of God to work in our life through our referral of what you ion my own to go about this checklist that is listed there. In Romans chapter twelve. Do you think I can do that on my own if I could do it on my own but I don't think God but with God 's help, I'm going through the checklist, and I'm looking at these things and I am telling myself and I say that because God loves me. That's why in the management of that relationship I have with God is the checklist that I'm going through and as I go through this checklist. I'm finding out through God 's word. What God wants me to do in managing my Christianity that I will be the person God created you are the manager. The steward of your life God has given to us the responsibility of me. How do I make it easy to live with me. How do I make it easy to do life with me. That's a change of heart. Now, a close with this gem about the restaurant and whatever you're checking out the taken money. They say that you have a good service today. Have a wonderful day they got the checklist, but they don't have the wine they got the check be nice for people to like me. I will pray for those that don't need to be prayed for. I will not get upset with people who cut me off. I will not see we got the checklist, but we don't have a change of heart. The change of heart, gives meaning to the checklist people who really did you really think July your meal today, you know, I I got up I got up breakfast at Perkins on Saturday, Sunday morning, it Sunday morning and Steve's not here, but it is it is so sister-in-law that that she has waited on me since big boy, was that you remember and remember, big boy up with malware. The Weber medical behind, beside the is across the Burger King you add Jody has been my has waited on me since then. Angelica probably twenty five, thirty years and so she's the waitress up at the park body part. Perkins diagnosed and after all I have to do is go in since I'll be over. She brings my copies she brings the water. She brings in my oatmeal. My raisins and tells everyday and she makes, and it's just now. I enjoy going to have been because I like Parkinson's because I generally okay and and Jodi is Steve's distant, well then you go to check out counter and you get the money they'll always been served today. Would you like anything from the bakery no wonderful life, everything but the atmosphere. The food and the end and the people around. I told him that one Sunday I thought everybody I like everything but the food, the atmosphere and the people who work here and she goes on to recite everything was great. It's just on down because they just they know the will. The checklist, but they don't have it in the heart, and that's our relationship with Jesus Christ. We know the why and the why of the relationship is because he loves me and he plans his best for me. With that in mind, I do checklist of life that enables me to fly how they are ready to fly check that the maybe next week. I have always owned no checklist and even rather than put them in whatever and have a all right but we read a flyer may take check and not ready to fly that is like you have the students are listening and I really did you like the food and service. They would like to